#sorry the quality sucks on mobile

[aru-art]

two-headed calf by laura gilpin

[spookygarmr-fr]

I can't find the post rn asking about it but for anyone wondering, this is the largest user count I saw today

[stranger-rants]

Billy + Being An Aries

Bonus for All Y’all Who Think Billy Has A God Complex:

[evandered]

girls who punch! 🥊

[notatypicalhumanatall]

GUYS LOOK AT ALL THE BOOKS I GOT ON SALE TODAY AAAAAAAH

Plus a freebie:

[hallasimss]

— surprise 모두 기립 박수 (hala, hala) | ( 🎧 ) ( an introduction. click photos for better quality. )

it's patch day, everything has gone to sh*t for those who don't play vanilla (read: me, i refuse to update until my essential mods are back in working order) and somehow i figured this was well overdue since i've been mostly lurking in the community and spam liking (plus i uh. may be lacking in simblrs to follow). time to stop being creepy and make sure the rest of you know who i am sksksksk

* about me, or; an overview.

halla. non-binary, they/she, they/them preferred. bi/pan. xviii. neurodivergent. afro-carribbean with south asian ancestry. islamic christian and religious pluralist. tired high school senior, video editor/translator volunteer and k-pop/indian cinema stan in their free time. (mostly) wcif friendly, stick to the inbox when inquiring. (if i see you in the comment section it's going to be very hard not to convince me to soft block you i'm sorry) currently tracking #hallasimss. follow from my main @theinfinitedivides.

* what to expect.

mostly cas and lookbook edits since i suck ass at sticking to legacy gameplay—will try to share shots here and there from my current playthrough, but do not be surprised if three months in there's another sim that is getting the main spotlight instead of the one before them. also trying my hand at converting a few illustrations into cas tattoos for personal use, so we'll see how it goes on the cc end

* where to find me.

i don't want to make it seem like i'm chronically online but i am chronically online in a way? if you can't catch me here or on my main you'll most likely find me on my pinterest or the deepest recesses of mydramalist if you're lucky and i'm back in my k-drama phase voluntarily (no, i'm not leaking my username. take a wild guess and tell me if you're right). discord invites are for mutuals only—otherwise, stalk me on spotify to get a glimpse into my mental health!!! you will however be asking yourself why i have a specific song on loop for six hours and i will not be able to answer that

* simblrs i recommend.

@softerhaze (sunblind is one of the only reasons i am able to make this post, ty) ∙ @cinamun ∙ @simelune ∙ @rhdweauni0 ∙ @tau1tvec ∙ @farfallasims ∙ @wildmelon ∙ @literalite ∙ @kadelyka ∙ @miilkymoonsims ∙ @kashisun ∙ @gunthermunch ∙ @bananasplit-sims ∙ @pralinesims (when i tell you that most of my mods folder is just their content i am not lying. absolute godsend) ∙ @puppycheesecake ∙ @glimersims

* fin.

and that's it, ig? i'm terrible at these sorts of things but hopefully all of this made some kind of sense—if you are an active simblr pls interact or say hi so i can follow you back, otherwise how tf am i supposed to find y'all if i'm now stuck in this community for the foreseeable future sfjsfdnkjsdnj (mobile navigation post coming soon-ish. if i can get more of my sh*t together. tbh that's highly unlikely but we're trying to be optimistic)

[iasmelaion]

Briefly surfacing from my new farm in Pelican Town (Greenwoods Farm, already in Summer and I am on that community center completion grind!!!) because new Stardew Valley update time is when I'm most reminded of the many and varied ways people play this game, since this is when I actually check the subreddit/tags/etc, and see the diverse ecosystem of SDV players:

Min-maxers who simply must make the most money as quickly as possible, and get the community center completed and achieve perfection in the most speedy and efficient way. Spreadsheets are involved. Schedules. Detailed calculations of the most profitable way to process a crop. (YES i have a SDV to-do list right now, and yes i am eagerly awaiting starting my ancient fruit wine empire [$$$$$], but I assure you I am NOT a minmaxer.)

People who like the fishing minigame. (I don't mind it, it's just that after 1000+ hours, I think I deserve to skip it. For my hand and wrist's sake, if nothing else.)

The people who take the Role Play part of Cozy Farming RPG seriously, and have whole detailed backstories for their Farmer and their interactions with the world and characters and the romances.

The people who take the Relaxing part of Cozy Farming RPG seriously and play a bit at a time, just vibing, not too concerned with making money or progressing.

The people who just restart over and over. (Don't understand it, tbh! lol I am Struggling on my new save without luxuries like the return scepter and obelisks and iridium sprinklers.)

The people who simply cannot function without their 103028 aesthetic mods that basically make the game look entirely different.

Relatedly, the people who are intense and detailed about decorating their farms or achieving the ideal, prettiest layout. (I care about this, I just kind of suck at it.)

The people who simply cannot function without their 158440 quality of life and expansion mods. (It's me. I'm in this picture. Tractor Mod and Automate, my beloveds. Stardew Valley Expanded, you are canon to me. I've done the game fair and square already, let me have this. also pour one out for PPJA, but at least we have cornucopia now. idky having frankly ludicrous crop variety pleases me so much, but it does)

Console/mobile players. thoughts and prayers, but seemingly every third post on the subreddit is console players asking when the update is coming out for console, does being a console player impact your literacy or something. like. someone JUST asked fifteen minutes ago. it is in the pinned post. sorry, that's mean, it's just very tedious and happens with every single update.

People who cannot play the game without the wiki (hello, it is me again, me and my dozen open SDV Wiki tabs. no, the Look Up Anything and UI Info Suite mods do not curb this behavior)

People who never check the wiki and simply. Muddle through?? (couldn't be me)

People who go the Joja route???? (i will NEVER do this, not even for the Steam achievement. the guilt and the shame would be TOO MUCH)

[minsungies]

Second Chances

Pairing: Chad x male!reader

Summary: You were one of many people who had a crush on Chad back in Woodsboro. You were definitely more Mindy's friend, but her brother was just so....nice. So you confessed. He gently rejected you. Half the town gets murdered by ghostface, and somehow you both meet again in college.

Author's note: hi I'm Oz and I'm gay and this is MY indulgent reader insert. Hope y'all enjoy tho. So sorry to Tara for stealing her man but she should have a girlfriend imo. No read more cuz I'm on mobile oops. Also it's 6am and I haven't slept so I'm certain the quality showcases that. Also I'm taking requests so if you got some Chad x reader ideas u want unleashed unto the world, hmu

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You weren't super close to Mindy and her group of friends, but well, you and her were the only Not Straight people in Woodsboro (that were out, at least. And you always kinda suspected that Wes was, well, not as straight as he claimed. But that was none of your business) and gay people had to stick together at least in some capacity.

So you sometimes went to her house to study (aka watch horror movies until your brains rotted) and sometimes you would get to hang out with Chad.

Chad wasn't like the other jocks at Woodsboro. He was nice. Sweet. He never treated you like you were different. Like gayness was a disease he was going to attract by talking to you.

You always appreciated that.

And sure, maybe sometimes your eyes wandered a bit whenever he was working out or swimming. You're only human, after all.

But other than that, you did consider him a friend. Y'all joked and said hi in the hallways. You weren't permanent fixtures in each other's lives, but you wanted to be.

So one day, you confessed. And he rubbed his neck, like he was embarrassed or maybe just sorry to have to turn you down, but he just smiled. A soft, sorry thing. Patted you on the shoulder, and told you that you were a good friend.

And so you swallowed down the hurt and smiled back. You cracked some sort of half hearted joke to show that there was no hard feelings and you both moved on with your lives.

You stopped hanging out with Mindy at their house.

And then the Woodsboro murders happened. Again? And for an awful moment, you were glad you weren't that close with Mindy and Chad anymore.

Then suddenly, college was upon you. You picked New York. Figured why not.

And then, surprise surprise. Chad was in your polisci class.

He hugged you, in his friendly and enthusiastic manner. As if you hadn't ghosted him after his rejection. As if he hadn't rejected you at all.

You hated that your heart still sped up a bit at touch of his arms around you.

But he started asking you for help with studying, and it was like nothing had changed. His roommate had always given you two a wide berth, plus a weird look at your pride pin. Almost pitying? Maybe homophobic? You hoped it wasn't that last one, but you also really didn't hope he saw you as yet another lovestruck groupie of Chad's (okay, you kinda were, but you didn't want other people to see it.).

You were frustrated that your feelings hadn't quite faded even in the face of rejection, but the heart wanted what it wanted.

And then the murders happened again.

Chad had told you to leave, you weren't wrapped up in this. And sure, you might not have been a part of their "core four" but that didn't mean you were going to let them go through this alone again.

It wasn't just for Chad either. Mindy had still been your friend. Tara too, though you hadn't been that close.

Sure, you weren't the strongest or the smartest, but an extra body that the killer wasn't expecting certainly wouldn't hurt.

You and Chad both got stabbed trying to protect each other, which. Fucking sucked. Ten out of ten would not get stabbed by a psycho in a mask again.

There was a tilt of the ghost face killer's mask as you had pushed Chad out of the way and got a knife in your shoulder for the trouble. Almost pitying. And then they stabbed you again and you proceeded to not care how they were looking at you.

You were actually on the train with Mindy and Ethan when Mindy got stabbed. You were with Ethan, as she told you to "keep an eye on him". And well, you certainly weren't going to argue with her.

You should have.

Because suddenly she was on the floor, bleeding heavily. You and Ethan helped her off the train and she looked you in the eyes and told you to "get your ass back on that train, dumbass. I don't need two people to get me to a hospital. Make sure my brother is safe."

Now you definitely weren't going to argue with that.

So you hauled ass to the theater. You managed to catch up just in time for Sam to tell cute boy to dip. Fair.

You were honestly expecting the same speech, but Chad just squeezed your shoulder. "Woodsboro, right? Gotta stick together."

It had felt so, so good to be in his arms like that, but you weren't stupid. The way he was looking at you wasn't special. You were just his friend. Important in the way all his friends were.

He was straight. He didn't want you.

And also, there was a masked killer hell bent on making sure y'all knew very intimately as to what your insides looked like. Not exactly the time to be ruminating on your gay yearning for your straight friend.

It seemed like there was a moment between Chad and Tara and you thought you were going to feel your heart break all over again. But both of them just, awkwardly shook their heads and laughed.

"Lots happened in such a short time." Chad had said. "Somehow what we both wanted changed, I think."

And Tara had nodded. "You just, seemed safe. But that's not fair to either of us, is it." It wasn't a question.

And you just watched this and Chad moved to look at you and then suddenly hell broke loose.

You, Chad, and Tara fought against the fucker but the bastard had managed to beat the shit out of your skull with god knew what. Then they stabbed you. A lot.

But not as much as they had stabbed Chad.

As much as they had both stabbed Chad.

You tried to move, to reach towards him but he just looked at you.

The quickest of looks.

No, he mouthed.

And then he crumpled to the ground and they both left you and him for dead.

And it all went black.

You woke up in an ambulance. Frantic, trying to figure out what had happened to your friends. To Chad.

They didn't give you anything but a sedative to get you to calm the fuck down.

You woke up again in the hospital and thankfully Mindy was there.

Chad was stable, she had said, though beat to all hell.

Eventually, after a long while, you were both deemed fit enough to have short visits in each other's rooms.

"So, uh, I owe you an apology, I think." Chad had said. And you stared at him, confused.

"What the hell do you have to apologize for? Nearly dying? I think I can forgive you for that."

He laughed a little bit, rubbing his neck in that telltale way of his. "No, no. For what happened in high school. The whole...you know."

Now your look was just incredulous. "Dude. You're not apologizing for being straight. Like, I knew you weren't gonna say yes. I just, I don't know, wanted to let you know? Maybe that was selfish of me, but it's nothing you have to apologize for. In fact, I'm the one who ghosted you and Mindy. I should be apologizing, not you."

Chad shrugged a bit. "Yeah, that sucked. But I got it. You needed space. And honestly, it worked out for the best. You weren't directly involved when Amber went psycho killer on us."

You pretended to look offended. "Are you saying Amber would have killed me? I'll let you know that I am very scrappy."

You both laughed a bit.

"I just don't want you to be in anymore danger than you have to be."

And suddenly the atmosphere changed to something more serious. More charged.

"Well. We can protect each other now."

"Yeah. We can."

And he stared at your lips. And you stared at his. And you're left wondering what the hell is going on.

And then he spoke again. "I don't know what this means for me, and honestly I don't really care? All I really know is that I really, really want to kiss you."

You took in a sharp, surprised breath. But you let the feeling settle and nothing but sureness is left behind.

"Then kiss me."

And he does.

[pinkieismybabypie]

Omg, idk what possessed me to draw this, but whatever it was, it low-key ate.

Ft: biblically/final form angel dust. Thinking about somehow turning him into a lust/drug overlord (yes, both, I already have a shitton of lore made up alr) lmk if yall (being the few followers I have) want one 🩷 sorry if it's blurry/low quality or confusing, android quality kinda sucks 😁👍🏾

Info-

He's an actual spider, all eight legs (his arms r legs 7&8 technically) and six eyes, (i think they have eight? Idk how many I drew) he produces highly toxic venom, and he is very territorial, he never signed the contract with val, but in my (maybe) au, val has been trying to recruit him in the same way vox tried al,

He's also 11 feet tall 🩷

Ignore my dirty paper 😭 should I trace this digitally? (It might not be the best: as I draw on mobile)

Turn screen, outlined version

[bloodbot-brian]

hi sorry this may be kind of a weird question, but do you have any sources on various mobility aids? i want to look into different things because it just hurts to exist at this point but i have no clue where to start

thank you <3

Hello! Not a weird question at all! I’m not sure if you’re looking for a shop or resources on which ones to buy for different issues, so I will say that I cannot help you for the former :-( I got mine at a local mobility shop down the road, so I wouldn’t know any online stores

But as for which ones to get, I’ve just looked for a couple of websites that talk about their use! Some may be more reliable than others, as I just did a quick skim ^_^;

I will say, in my use of my mobility aids: my cane is either for very good days where I don’t need much or for really bad days where I can’t carry a lot. It just helps with my knee, on the opposite side than I am holding it.

My forearm crutches are for more active days, where my arms aren’t in pain but my legs are. I don’t use them when my back is hurting because I have to wear my bag and it can be a hassle. They can hurt my elbows and lead to muscle soreness in my arms, so I try to generally not use them as much, but they can be helpful.

My rollator is for more fatigued days where I need to sit down more, and he lets me do that anywhere. Also for days where my back hurts, because I can put everything in his storage.

Anyways here’s the websites I found :3

These are what I could find in ~15 minutes :-) if any of the mobility aids pick your fancy, I’d suggest looking into each one that your interested in separately, as you’ll find more in depth resources!

Finding a mobility aid for you is quite hard, and I hope your days get better <33 being in pain all the time sucks, and I do truly hope that you’re able to find the right mobility aid for you, and that I was able to help in your starting point

[rhythmmortis]

Hi first i want to THANK you for your KH Masterpost. Literally a blessing.

Second I wanna ask if you have this photo it a bit better quality? I'm struggling to read it 🥲🥲 IF NOT ITS OK I WANTED TO ASK AND TY OP FOR THE ENTIRE POST ONCE AGAIN LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE

hopefully this should be a bit better in quality!! im sorry if it isn't, my screen capture isn't working very well right now but i can always add alt text/image descriptions if there's anything that might be illegible! if you're on mobile, try clicking it and zooming in for better quality, if you don't click it then it shows the compressed version which sucks

and i also apologise for the overall quality of the images, a) they tend to look really bad on mobile for some reason and b) even their normal quality (as viewed on desktop) isn't the best, my main priority when doing it was the text of the book but the images are important too!! i should update them someday thank you for reminding me! the epub versions of the novels have the original quality so if this doesn't work i would recommend using those if you're able

and thank you!! im genuinely always incredibly happy to hear how much people enjoy the kh novels post, i'm so happy that effort was worth it and that more people are able to enjoy them!! i hope you have fun with them :)

[shuro]

(posting from mobile, sorry if the quality sucks!)

i’m posting a watermarked, rebloggable version of these for feedback gathering purposes! (though i’m not sure how many live2d artists are on tumblr;;)

i started working on some basic live2d separation guides yesterday, and i’m looking for feedback on them!

i also posted these to the live2d subreddit and here’s some of the feedback i received and plan on incorporating in them:

separate the lineart, shading and flat colors layers for the head specifically

separate the boobs into two separate parts

remove the note about omitting the hips in models wearing skirts

separate the blush layers from the face and divide them into individual left/right layers

include notes about separating the hands specifically for hand tracking (which is entirely optional)

include notes about separating the arms and legs layers being completely optional and not necessary

include note about merging the mouth skin and their respective mouths (an option if you don’t feel like rigging and animating them separately)

separate sclera shading, tip of the eyelash, top eyelashes, nose highlight/shadow on the face guide

create a separate guide for specific parts such as clothing and animal tails/ears

[yourpalghost]

Sorry im chatty this morning but

Yall sometimes

Sometimes its SO hard to accept that I’m sick.

Like, I know a lot of it is shame and what not. Most of it is. Some of the problem is imposter syndrome and stuff of the likes. Downplaying my own issues, thinking im doing it for attention, etc.

Like. Im not important enough to be sick. I SHOULD be able to do XYZ. Oh its not THAT bad, people have it worse. Does that REALLY hurt or are you just faking? Afterall, thats also just normal.

So like, I have chronic fatigue so i’m always tired and since my baseline moved, i don’t notice how tired i am until its even worse and sometimes the worse isnt an extra sleepy feeling, its my body feeling heavy, brain fog, and often times being more prone to crying (i call this the sleepy weepies).

I have a connective tissue problems which lead to constant pain so my baseline moved so I don’t notice the pain until it gets worse but sometimes the “getting worse” is just feeling like im gonna vomit for no clear reason, feeling dizzy, or sweating all of a sudden(also brain fog but I usually attribute that to the fatigue). (Not to even mention the literal excruciating periods I have that literally leave me shaking and in so much extra pain Im regularly on the verge of blacking out AND STILL GO ABOUT LIFE. Thats its own additional bullshit)

And these two things are going on together at all times

Those questionnaires that are like “where is your base level of pain”? I cant answer them because the pains so constant my brains blocked it out so its at a zero. Its like how your brain blocks out your nose or the sound of your heart beat in your ears. How it sometimes blocks out the feeling of certain things against your skin and just registers it as pressure.

My finger is fucking shattered right now(its healing up well) but like aside from the initial SURPRISE of getting it fucking crushed, it “doesnt hurt”. Because i regularly experience worse pain than BREAKING A FUCKING BONE. The pain is at zero but i feel sick. If someone else who wasn’t an experiencer of chronic pain jumped in my body, they would be on the ground in agony. And like I know im IN pain because painkillers when I do use them jusy dull itfrom distracting to noticeable unless im fortunate enough to have been granted the big boy pain meds that make you silly. That shit? Works. When it wears off, my whole body aches and hurts and it sucks.

AND WHILE ALL OF THIS IS TRUE, I STILL FEEL LIKE IM NOT SICK ENOUGH TO BE CONSIDERED SICK.

I hurt all the time and im so fucking tired all the time but I just keep going because “its not that bad” and while I need various aids (knee braces, wrist braces, honestly a chair or scooter, migraine glasses, and more) I just dont use them or cant justify getting them.

God the way that a mobility aid would improve my quality of life is astounding and I recognize thats enough of a reason to then say “then I need it”, brain also wont let me! Because idk man? I just gotta “push through”.

I started this forlorn and now im mad. Mad at me and my situation and everything really. Im so fucking tired and in lots of pain and I just wish it didnt suck so hard. I just wish i wouldn’t push myself. Yall I have to have other people tell me “you dont want to go to the store, you want to go for a walk” so I dont push myself to be productive on my days off. I had to convince myself to stay home from classes today instead of pushing myself through it to then have to recover wednesday and not vane enough time to recover and then push myself through thursday and then have to push myself all the way back through again to start the damn cycle over next week.

Im working on accepting that im sick and its hard and we all have days where we relapse into “no im not im just xyz” but gdi. Im sick im sick im sick. I am disabled, my shits debilitating, its chronic im sick IM SICK I AM SICK

[alolanrain]

Can we have more Aurafangshipping with Ash's plants/babys

My beloveds. Also sorry for the red tint recently on mobile. I have dark screen option and the text are all black now instead of white which SUCKS.

\ Ash absolutely has a garden at their Alolan house. It’s taken cared of by the team and the class as Mallow also uses it for special stuff like nectar and stuff from other regions. This is the one plant thing Raihan can do without hesitation and do it right because Mustard and Honey taught him, Leon, and Gordie how to garden. It’s his escapism while Ash is still figuring how to run a new league. It takes years to set up and Kukui had definitely rushed despite doing what he could. Now Ash is just filling in the wholes because he’s familiar with the orange Island. Nothing gets approved without his consent in the matter no matter how tiny legality wise. Like workers pay but not vacation, health is important.

\ there’s a set type of group of Pokémon, mixed from both their teams, that reside either in the kitchen or the garage. Back in their main home in Galar.

\ Raihan’s little entourage is Charizard, who mains Raihans furnaces and smelter when he decides to delve into metal to make specialized hooks and such. He could seriously become a private carpenter if he wanted to white being a gym leader, his shit is of really good quality and Ash had been bragging almost to everyone about it. Then there’s Buizel who’s just Raihans number one fan besides Ash and he chills out in the desk with all the plans and bolts. Asleep and tucked into a little bed in the corner of the wall and some shelving unit Raihan made special for just this. Goodra is also there and sits in a kiddie pool. She’s to help strip paint of off wood or varnish, it’s a pretty effective way of wiping away mistakes while keeping the wood perfect.

\ Pikachu is Ash’s main lad so he’s in the kitchen 80/20 of the time. It’s like that bc sometimes ash gets angry and needs everyone out and away to process. But sometimes Pikachu would just lay on Raihans shoulder while he’s bent over a pause of wood for a long time. Flagon is also in the kitchen despite being one of Raihans main Pokémon. Typhlosion is a good Pokémon during winter when the house gets cold no matter what happens. The two Torkoals chill in the adjacent slightly open living room so their apart of Ash’s crew as well. Dewatt likes to help make sushi and it’s all sanitary because he washes his razor sharp shells carefully.

\ their shared dislike for HOA come from hearing their friends stories and both agreed not to join one. Their house wasn’t listen as in an HOA area but surprise surprise. They don’t sign any papers and basically just entertain the people that try.

\the monstera lives in the bedroom. It’s the main piece of decode in the light gray room. The colors of green and gold popped amongst the almost dork ish rendition of inside a fairy cave. It’s all Ash’s creation and Raihan genuinely likes all of it so he’s fine for the Kantonian to do his thing.

\office is off limits though. Raihan has perfected the best office in his opinion to help him with his productivity because he’s a NERD

[slimefox]

I love ur new background wallpaper and ur new profile pic!!! It’s AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

Thank you!!! Nothing on mobile will ever hold up to my desktop theme tho, I spent weeks animating my sidebar and making a cursor and fuckin with the code, rip Tumblr desktop blogs being accessible

Sorry the quality sucks but I put so much love into my theme, I've had it for almost ten years and still treasure it ♡

[lecliss]

You and tales of crestoria 🤝 me and final fantasy record keeper

I think they killed mine bc it was unprofitable (it was so so so ineffective to put real money into <3<3<3) and unpopular, but they really should've considered that i, the most important bird in the world, enjoyed it. Or some other reason that i could probably google *shrug

I miss it every day 💔💔💔🐦

Duuuuude, I played Record Keeper for a bit when it was new!!!!! I heard it was just the global version that shut down but the JP version is still going, so yeah, global probably just wasn't making enough money to be worth running. So, ya know. RK's still kinda alive but ToC is dead and buried. Lmao, not to diminish the RK situation cuz I'm sure restarting on JP would just absolutely not be worth the hassle so definitely still kind of a Lost Lenore.

I kinda wish Opera Omnia would consider adding characters from the other FF mobile games cuz there's untapped potential there. Like add Tyro at least for RK rep. And Wol from Mobius FF, which I also miss a lot!!!! I don't want Mobius to ever be forgotten. Plus the BE crew, but that's the only one that's shockingly still going strong. Meanwhile Square's adding TikTok influencers to Be:WotV, so :/

Man this sent me down a rabbit hole of other Square mobile games. I played both Valkyrie Anatomia: The Origin and Star Ocean: Anamnesis without knowing anything about the original series but I loved those games and they didn't really last longer than 2-3 years. Plus the global server for SINoALICE either shutdown within the last week or is shutting down real soon. Even the JP server is being rumored to shut down relatively soon, but idk if that's willingly or not cuz they're supposedly taking their time to wrap up the story at least.

Both Square and Bamco just seem so bad at keeping most of their gachas alive. And years of constantly having good gachas I like getting shutting down has really given me a fear for all of them that I play. I genuinely don't believe Ever Crisis is gonna last more than a year and everyday I play Star Rail I'm afraid it's suddenly gonna bomb suddenly and get shut down. Tho Hoyoverse seems real good about that not happening with their games, but still when I see people say HSR is dipping it makes me a little paranoid and I gotta remind myself they just got bored and wanna find a reason to justify it.

Like honestly, I know mobile games get a lot of shit for how many of them are low quality and the massive amount of gachas that want your money from your gambling addiction, but I love the genre so much. I've found so many good games that are gachas and it sucks that the state/economy/whatever of the genre is so so fragile that the slightest dip in sales means it's existence has to be ripped out of the universe regardless of how good it may be. It's not like they stop selling it but you still have your copy like it's a console game or you can just emulate it once it closes. When it's gone, it's gone. People can record cutscenes and rip models and assets, but you can never play it again. At least thank god for those one-in-a-million games that leave up offline versions when they shutdown, but in all my life of mobile gaming I've only seen two, KHUX and Tokimeki Idol.

Anyway sorry to ramble on about the topic, I'm just feeling mega sad now about it all and I don't know what could possibly be done to like, make the mobile game scene better? At least about this issue. But I doubt anything ever would be done in terms of not losing games forever anyway.