#still the best demo imo

[goldduststevie]

Stevie's essential demos and outtakes:

 J-K - songs.

* indicates unreleased songs.

Joan Of Arc * - an unreleased song from the Tango in The Night sessions, better than some of her songs that ended up on the album....

Julia * - this song was tried for both Bella Donna and Wild Heart but remains unreleased so far.

Juliet - this is from the Tango In The Night recordings, it wasn't used instead an instrumental version ("Book Of Miracles") was used as a B-side for one of the singles. Stevie recorded her solo version for the Other Side Of The Mirror album.

Jimmy Come On Back * - a bit of RAL-madness, but such a fun song (and killer background vocals by Marilyn Martin, who still tours with Stevie)

Knocking On Doors/Lady - this is an early Buckingham Nicks demo from 1971, Stevie rerecorded it in 2014 for her 24 Karat Gold album. It's one of the rare cases where I actually prefer the newer version but the vocals on this early version are beautiful.

Kind Of Woman - One of Stevie's best songs imo. This haunting piano demo is from 1976 but instead of Rumours it ended up on Bella Donna. This is another awesome outtake from the BD recordings that I also had to share.

[blubushie]

blu i need to bitch because this discourse pops up every two months and the tf2 fandom is pissing me off as usual.

someone on twt was bitching about medicpauling because people still take a joke tweet by pinkerton to mean that pauling is a canon lesbian even though valve has never stated that anywhere in the source material whatsoever.

they even said that medic is "heavily implied to be a gay man" and i feel like im going insane bc how did u even come to that conclusion. heavily implied gay where??? who told you this lil bro. if anything he is implied bisexual because the official comic artist drew him with a wife but funny how people always choose to conveniently ignore that. it's giving bi erasure.

ppl just rlly hate bisexuals in general but no one is ready for that conversation.

It's just bi erasure yeah. People do not like us and prefer to pretend we just don't exist. This is coming from a bisexual man who on some days (and quite often) swings full into gay and feels no attraction to anyone who isn't a man. If you're bisexual you're something tainted—look at the concept of gold star lesbians. You're not considered "pure" unless you're a man who's never slept with a woman, or a woman who's never slept with a man. Bisexuals are too close to heterosexual and the queer community hates us for it, so at worst they're extremely biphobic (see the "Straight+" discourse from a few years back where people insisted that bisexuals were just straight people experimenting or some shit) and at best they pretend we don't exist at all 🤷‍♂️

In my experience gay men don't seem to care much if you've slept with a chick. Lesbians can be fucking vicious though. A lot of them REALLY hate men and any woman who's ever slept with a man is now tainted somehow, even if she's had to sleep with a few men to decide she's a lesbian. It's just radfem/terf shit (you know these are the same lesbians bitching about trans women). To any lesbian who's faced this shit, I am so sorry. Sleeping with men hasn't invalidated you, don't let those kinds of people get under your skin cuz they're not worth your time.

I don't reckon the tweet by Jay was necessarily a joke tweet—I think it's more that he'd like her to be a lesbian, said as much, but he's just one writer on a group project and doesn't speak for Valve. The tweet was deleted and I imagine that was done for a reason—imo it's most likely he caught some flak from Valve for it, whether because it was spoilers on their project or because he was speaking something as canon that they hadn't green-lit.

Medic is implied to be at the least bisexual though yeah—Demo mentions his wife in-game. Artists can draw what they like though, so I'm not taking non-canon art from an artist as canon unless Valve confirms it.

Honestly wish people worried less about "waaaah muh labels" and just enjoyed their ships or shut the fuck up. It's annoying lmao

[slowfae]

Games to use for face claim + designing dr houses, waiting room, etc

Life Simulation are great to well…simulate your dr and offer visuals for your shifiting script. I did a post like this in the past, it was one of my very first one, so I thought I would update it.

-Inzoi

I just tried it and it’s kind of what prompted this post. it’s great, more on the hyper realistic side, except the eyebrows colour on the female character wouldn’t change colour in my game but for the male model, it was working fine ? I have no idea how it works, but this is just a demo, not the final game. For some reason I couldn’t change the features on the child model either, I tried to do my younger siblings and nothing was moving.

The different life stages are here (no teens and no toddlers though but there are three adult life stages) and i thought the elderly looked really great. I definitely encourage you to try while the demo is on. You can see below my attempt at my dr Dad and grandma (I did try to do me, but the dark eyebrows are throwing me off, especially because I have close to no eyebrows irl)

The demo is just the character creation but I think the build mode for apartment and house might just dethrone the sims 4 for me. Although i love making fantasy houses with the sims so maybe not.

But I saw a video about the build mode and apparently you will have the ability to scan in 3D objects in your house and put them in the game, which sounds absolutely crazy !

I will also just mention paralives here, who looks interesting especially the building mode, but it’s not out yet when I’m writing this.

- the sims 4

As long as you are ok with the cartoonish style, I think it’s still a good option. Especially since mods exist and there is a way to make your sims look hyper realistic with them. Normally I don’t like alpha ccs personally , but If the goal is to make a face claim/ body claim and you don’t care your sim looks off with the rest of the game, why not?

I love building in the sims 4, i didn’t build anything in a while though. I always recommend downloading the base game since it’s free and download cc, there are tons of good one. The expansion packs are so expensive and often not worth the full price imo, especially if you’re like me and not really interested in playing in life mode.

I do think it’s a fun way to channel your dr though, by seeing how your dr sims interact with each other ( I did it for a little bit, got a lot of unexpected things happening)

- Life Makeover

The game is free, as long as you’re not weak with gacha games. I don’t spend too much, because I feel like there is enough possibilities with the outfits you gain by playing, so I’m fine not finishing limited sets. The last mermaid set was a close one, ngl but the universe heard my prayers and I got the mermaid tail with the gems I already had, so I’m not paying to pull more.

Anyway, the character creation is the best one I know. The style is in between realism and cartoony. My profile picture is made with that game. Bigger, animated like eyes look better on the character in my opinion, but I definitely saw very realistic looking characters made by people more talented than me lol. It’s one of the only game I own where I can make myself pointy elf ears and it’s very important to me lol.

Only down side for face claim is there is no male model. Then again, there is always way to work around it by making the character look more androgynous (kind of unrelated but I think there would be a market for male dress up games, they should think about it)

The big plus though is to get inspiration for your dr wardrobe ! I might have spent a whole day screenshotting my favourites piece of clothes + styling some outfits to put into my script 😂

I think it’s especially great for idol / K-pop or even celebrity dr with the style of the outfits, there is also things that would work for a fantasy/royalty dr.

Since I am talking about my addiction for dress up games once again, for fantasy outfits I also use Shining Nikki, but it doesn’t have a character creation which is why it’s not officially on this list.

Life makeover on the right, Shining Nikki on the left

Surprisingly, there is also a house building mode, which looks really great imo but definitely more limited than the sims (doing cool roofing is a nightmare in this game because the roof doesn’t disappear inside a room like it does in the sims 🥲) . Here is one of my waiting room as an exemple, my mermaid retreat:

- Baldur gates

Now, I’m starting with games I haven’t tried yet. Baldur gates is on my list but I’m waiting to have money to spend for it, and to have time to spend hours obsessing over a new game, which I don’t really have either right now 😂

The character creator looks incredible for fantasy drs. This is the kind of game where you spend a whole day in the character creator before you actually play.

literally any fantasy races you could think of is there, I think there are mods that add more too. I love how versatile it looks, there are a lot of skin tones, horns, lizards guys (I’m not familiar with dnd races, I’m sorry) I saw wings too but that might have been mod

- Once human

I found about this game in this post from @elizabethhearts-shifts : https://www.tumblr.com/elizabethhearts-shifts/758372410780221440/once-human-for-face-claims-hey-shifters-i

I don’t have a computer, don’t have the money for the kind I would need, the steam deck was a much more affordable option for my games, but unfortunately the steam deck doesn’t take in charge this particular game, I don’t really know why, it wouldn’t even let me try to download it anyway, like I had to do with Inzoi.

In any case, you can see the face claim of Elizabeth on her post, and it looks incredible so I still wanted to include it in the list ^^

I realise this is a post for the gamer shifters x)

Personally, Pinterest is not enough for me. I think it’s my autistic brain but I need to have a clear idea of the space I live in my drs, and find that having a 3D representation of the space really helps. When I get into meditation, I then get very real images about my drs in those spaces. Same goes for people, I create a representation and then can get vivid images about them in my head.

So as usual, I hope this helps and inspire,

Happy shifting 🧚🏻‍♀️

[runawaymun]

*kicks down the door* So. Green haired medic with white Serpent. Lovely. Does he have a leitmotif? Is it as pretty as he deserves? (I know two (2) things about Genshin and that is a) that it has good music and b) there is allegdely a ship called Chili???) Also please, feel free to rant about him, I enjoy watching developing cases of ambulant blorboitis. *Puts door back on its hinges*

AHHHHHHH

Thank you so much for this ask!! The music in Genshin Impact really is something else.

So he DOES have a theme: “Curing the Root Cause” and it’s fucking gorgeous and has one of the best beat drops in the entire OST imo.

Also if you’d like to see him in action with his theme as the backdrop, his character trailer is so well made and it’s only three minutes long and it gives huge context to the emotional beats in his theme. It’s just so good.

Re, ranting about Baizhu as a character let me just explain the most crucial thing about him: he is chronically, terminally ill. Why? Because he signed a contract with a minor god (Changsheng, the white snake you always see him with) many years ago, passed on to him by his teacher, that allows him to heal any ailment at the cost of his own life. The more people he saves, the sicker he gets. The game tells us that he has days where he can’t even get out of bed because of how much pain he’s in. Yet somehow whenever he’s seeing patients he’s cheerful and kind to the point that everybody loves him, and he has never turned away a patient, no matter who they are or how much money they do or do not have.

Beyond that, Baizhu is looking for a way to end the contract. One way or another, he is determined for it to end with him. His life mission is to find a way to gain immortality purely so that he can continue healing people. That won’t fix his illness, and he will still be bound by his contract. He’s stuck that way forever. He just wants to make sure that a) the contract never passes to someone else, and b) he can continue saving lives forever, no matter the cost.

The line from his character demo spoken by Dainsleif (another major character), haunts me. “People chase immortality for countless reasons, most of them selfish in nature, but Baizhu defies the norm. I know of no one else who yearns for eternal life as a means to endure limitless suffering.”

I’m just…….. I’m…..

The kids in Liyue call him “Mr. Bai.”

He’s not perfect. He has his own selfish reasons for doing some things, but he’s honest about it. He just gives and gives and gives and it’s not exactly healthy, but that’s part of what makes him so compelling to me. His selflessness is both his greatest strength and his fatal (literally) flaw. It will kill him, except that he is determined to upend the laws of the universe so that he can be the caretaker of all the lives in Liyue (and really, Teyvat— because now people come from all over the world to get help, and he always helps them, he barely charges a dime for special cases, too…). And he knows it’s impossible. He knows that more than likely, he’ll die. But he’s so goddamned stubborn that he’s still trying against all odds to find a way.

And alongside that, he keeps healing people, even though it means he is going to endure even more unimaginable pain, because that’s just who Baizhu is.

[sopuu]

Sorry if someone’s already asked this but what’s your opinion on undertale yellow?

ooh UTY!! well-deserved title of being one of the best ut fangames out there imo. wonderful designs, character backstories and the MUSIC. hooo the music. they went so hard on that i cannot tell you how many times i’ve listened to Guns Blazing and all the flowey fight tracks lmao

speaking of flowey (wonderful segway there) the neutral run has gotta be my favourite route because they absolutely Nailed his character. the fact that they implemented his trauma into his attacks is so smart and to top that with the different art styles??? their mind??? it also felt like he was experimenting with how he’d want his actual omega flowey fight to be like which is so so cool

i still remember the first time i saw him go from “why won’t you give up??” to slowly looking straight at the player. since clover doesn’t exactly have determination the meta aspects of ut won’t be as prominent, but in that short moment you get a huge blow of it- just flowey acknowledging but not quite confirming your presence, a second of vulnerability on both ends and then it’s gone. chef’s kiss gave me all the chills 👌🏻

that said tho although it is the yellow soul backstory i don’t really see it as a ut prequel? not in a bad way just that it doesn’t quite give the same energy as undertale yknow. some parts like the character designs are actually too good to fit into ut’s aesthetic (like ceroba and starlo’s whole gang), while some npcs felt like they were there just to deliver a gag instead of being a part of the world. ik undertale is guilty of that too at times but i felt like uty had a lot more of it,,

it would’ve also been interesting if they tied in the geno route to canon ut instead of having clover releasing the souls. it was kinda sudden to me especially with all the buildup of how asgore will definitely kill him but in reality he just got KO’d not even in battle. you’ve got the player rooting for the monsters and you’ve got a successful geno run in undertale already, so why not do something different here and have clover fail? see how the underground deals with the aftermath of it all while still developing into the ut we know?

BUT despite that it’s no doubt this is a phenomenal fangame! loved the demo when it came out, love the final even More, and the passion of everyone in the team really shines through- it’s so cool to see what this community can come up with :)

[every-single-day]

8,13,21 🤪

8. How did you get into The Outsiders?

My best friend and I do Spotify jam sessions whenever one of us wants to listen to a new cast album and the 3 demo songs conveniently dropped the same day we were listened to The Notebook so he made us listen to them after. The Outsiders was the only book he read in high school and is still his favorite to this day so he advocated for it HEAVILY. Even when the cast album dropped I didn’t like it very much aside from Great Expectations and Little Brother but he told me I wasn’t allowed to form a solid opinion until I listened to the whole soundtrack twice and uhhhh yeah he was right. After my second listen-through I bought the book, read it in one day, watched the movie, and then somehow I ended up where I am now. I’m more in love with this musical than HE is 😭

13. Who do you think is the most well-written character?

I guess Ponyboy! Makes sense since we’re seeing the world through his eyes. I don’t know that I really trust his depictions of anyone else (aside from Johnny) knowing how much of a Grade A Hater he is.

21. Unpopular opinion/s?

I don’t really like book Cherry. Musical Cherry IS the moment. I am so glad they gave her a solid character that actually enhances the story. Book Cherry is kinda just ✨there✨ imo. Okay yeah she’s important because the main conflict wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t been talking to Ponyboy, but if they swapped her for any other girl it wouldn’t change a damn thing. Book Cherry mid sorry 🤷‍♀️

[three--rings]

In music, sophomore albums (i.e. second albums) are generally seen as very tricky and often disappointing.

Because a band/artist has their entire lives up until their first album to write those songs, to perfect them, to play them live, and then they get an opportunity and make an album and put the very best of themselves into their first album.

And then, if that is a success, they get to make a second album, and they have a very limited time under pretty significant pressure to produce album #2, and it almost invariably feels disappointing. Less polished, the songs are more bland, not every one is a banger, etc. Because they were basically the first draft of the first songs that the artist came up with to fill an album.

And a lot of the time, artists learn from that mistake, and decide they need to take more time for their next one, be more selective, have a better plan, or figure out a new way of working to produce quality in this new environment of Being a Successful Professional Musician.

So I think a lot of seasoned music fans, when presented with a lackluster sophomore album are like, well, let's give them time and see what they produce next time and only then will we decide if their first album was a fluke or not.

Why am I thinking about this? Come on, if you follow me, you probably have guessed I'm thinking about OFMD.

Because that's exactly what OFMD s2 feels like to me. A lackluster sophomore record.

The first outing was spectacular, really blew me away with a new sound, unexpected mashups of genres, satisfying themes...

But the second one felt rushed and pressured and like it hadn't finished cooking. It hadn't had enough time with the songs being played and having the rough edges rounded off, the empty spaces filled in. It felt a little like a jumble of vaguely good ideas thrown together without a cohesive through-line or thematic elements tying it together. A collection of demos, not a well thought-out album of strong songs.

And look, don't ask me to fully flesh out this metaphor. I don't know how it applies to making television exactly, because I don't really know that much about how to make tv. Did the writers really have more time to plan out S1 than S2 or was it purely the reduction in episodes and budget that hurt things. Was it the pressure of following up something quite successful that nevertheless got cut budget from the network? IDK.

But this is how it feels.

I don't hate OFMD now. But I am perhaps less inclined to call the people behind it geniuses. Because they've proven themselves very fallible and capable of producing kinda a hot mess. But they can still pull it back with a third album that reminds you why you fell in love with the first one.

Or they can prove they were hacks and that was a fluke. It's up in the air. IMO.

And it kinda depends on how they handle making something that isn't universally popular. How they can handle criticism. Can they be honest with themselves and say "yeah that was rushed and sloppy and I see why people didn't love it" or are they gonna pretend it was fucking genius actually because it sounded better in their head.

And hopefully we'll get a chance to find out. But unfortunately TV is harder to get made than records, so you get fewer chances.

[cathartidae]

ok ill bite. what is ultrakill

OH MY GOODNESS I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED.

ultrakill is a singleplayer first person shooter currently in early release, using old graphics and mechanics for extra charm. it's also (imo) a huge step forward for disability in gaming just due to the sheer amount of accessibility settings- if you want to play the game just for the story, you can. if you need to change the colour of an enemy? you can.

it has some vaguely christianity & some greek mythology based very homoerotic lore, robots, robots in gay love, secrets in every level, secret levels, and more. i won't go too into the lore for spoilers but it's genuinely one of the best games ive played.

even if you fucking hate shooters (like me) i still think it's worth a try because of the fantastic gameplay and lore. plus- it's still in development! so in addition to 38 levels, there's still plans for more. no game can be a shooter, dating sim, fishing sim, dating sim AGAIN, bible fanfic, and gay sex like ultrakill can. HIGHLY highly recommend. it's 25$USD on steam, and there's a free demo still released here so you can even just try it out. :D

[greetings-inferiors]

Currently sighing and looking off wistfully into the distance because of the potential a days remake had/still has.

So obviously the story is, in my opinion, the best in the franchise, and having a proper (no the cutscene collection doesn't count) modern way of experiencing it would be invaluable, but the gameplay being touched up (I'm not just clamouring for a remaster, I'm clamouring for a REMAKE.) would help the game MASSIVELY.

It's got so much going for it - every weapon having a unique combo is such a cool idea. The mission based game loop is incredibly immersive into the experience of being an organisation member. Every individual organisation has a completely unique moveset. It essentially has a battle mode. The grid system for abilities, spells, and items, is FANTASTIC. Genuinely one of the best ability delegating systems the series has.

It just has so much potential, what with the already laid groundwork of a great story, and the building blocks for great gameplay. It was just held back by being their first attempt at a ds game. Re:coded, while having a lot worse of a story sure, has some of the best combat in the series outside of the numbered titles (I am not making this up).

If days was a later ds game, or hell even if it was for a better console to begin with, it very well could be the greatest kingdom hearts game. I'm Not kidding, there's just do much here that works, if given more time, resources, and processing power.

And that's also true for a remake!

It is THE most needed remake imo - 1 and 2 still hold up so well. CoM and Coded already got remakes. BBS and dream drop are too recent, they just don't need it. The mobile games could use a way to officially experience their story, but legitimising damo279's fandub would honestly be the best way to do it, I just don't think a remake of those games would work.

It's also the only game never to get an updated rerelease except for 0.2, a bundled in tech demo, and melody of memory, the most recent released game. Even 3 got remind.

AND NO THE CUTSCENE COLLECTION DOES NOT COUNT. IT IS NOT A GAME. IT ISN'T EVEN A GOOD WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE STORY I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.

And for those who say "but recoded also only has a cutscene collection!" Shut up, recoded IS the rerelease, what do you think the RE MEANS

Days is one of my favourite kingdom hearts games and it breaks my heart that newcomers statistically just won't experience it. I was only able to because on my second replay of the series I decided to dig out my old ds and buy the game from cex.

Actually, while we're at the end I want to try something:

I'm the second option btw.

[raytorosaurus]

I think Demolition Lovers gets forgotten a lot, or gets dismissed as just “the ballad” from Bullets but it has always been my favourite of theirs and imo the most emotionally impactful (right up until the day I heard Foundations haha). The slowdown into “all we are” has never ever lost its impact even after all these years.

oh see this is interesting because demolition lovers is probably my favourite ever my chem song (even tho i don't think it's their best), but i thought it was pretty popular around here as a sort of cult favourite like desert song...except now that you mention it honestly i think that might have been true like a couple of years ago but isn't now? i reckon i saw wayyyy more hype over desert song (obvs there's extra ~symbolic significance with that one but still) and a couple of others being played live than demo lovers, when it was by far my ideal scenario never-gonna-happen pipe dream live track...hmmm

[bulletbilltime]

Pikmin 4 verdict: Ok this is gonna be the best game in the series isn't it

Stray thoughts below:

SPOILERS FOR THE PIKMIN 4 DEMO BELOW

The caves are... actually interesting and well designed?? no more half-assed roguelike random cave attempts (sorry pik2 fans but that game's caves just cannot compete IMO)

That being said... I'm a bit disappointed so far that we're only seeing the same styles of caves as Pik2. They do look gorgeous though, mind you.

Industrial Maze was such a cool cave, simply by virtue of actually having a proper puzzle it's already my favourite cave in the series not named Submerged Castle.

Oatchi my beloved!!! he actually works way better with the game flow than I expected when I first saw him in the trailer. He doesn't feel too overpowered; he's basically an upgradable super pikmin but he doesn't ever particularly feel like he truly outshines the actual Pikmin. (Maybe he could if he gets all the upgrades but

YOU CAN FUCKIN MOVE BASES I'M FSBGFJKSHSAJKDLHS I WAS PRAYING TO THE GODS WE'D GET AN OPENWORLD PIKMIN GAME WITH MULTIPLE BASES AND IF THIS IS AS CLOSE AS WE GET I'M FINE WITH IT

The 20 pikmin in the overworld thing might feel super limiting after being used to squads of 100 piks in the previous games... But honestly I think it's a very inspired design choice! It makes it so the early game stuff can still wreck your shit if you're not careful. You can't just easily roll up with a squad of 100 piks on day 3 and destroy everything in your path. It allows for your in-game character to become progressively more powerful which I think is more satisfying in the long run

I love how you don't just automatically get the onion upon finding new Pikmin types. Makes them feel more precious. Basically: the wild pikmin mechanic is really neat! And it could allow for the return of Purple/Whites without feeling too unbalanced.

"Olimar is the fuckin leaf boy" basically confirmed. Question is: what's with Moss? My current theory is parasite pikmin are involved.

And speaking of... the wild pikmin mechanic means we could possibly get overworld bulbmin if they add them... if this happens, I imagine the entire fandom will go nuclear (in a good way)

If you look through the controls, the Form Line controls basically confirms that you will obtain some form of SWARMING as an upgrade!!! C-STICK FANS REJOICE (The text mentions cardinal directions only but I feel like the odds are high that you will be able to actually swarm your crew with this mechanic. I'd say 70-30 odds of it being true. Don't quote me on that. But if true, then fuck yeah)

Honeywisp is back 🥹

Collecting raw material is so much fun, and

I feel like this game is really leaning on fan service, but also manages to balance it with new things to make it feel fresh!

Someone said it felt like all 3 previous games mashed together and yeah I absolutely get that feeling

Very disappointed that they only have the co-op star bits thing. This game in genuine co-op would rule.

So far the music of the game doesn't quite strike me quite as strongly as the themes from the previous games. Hopefully this will change with time.

Is this game like... an alternate timeline to Pikmin 1? Moss was definitely NOT in Pikmin 1, and the story segment seems to hint that Olimar met Moss during that first crash... Giving the "bad ending" theorists more food IMO.......

This game really, really drags out the wait between Y/N landing on the planet and the first Pikmin huh. It felt a bit too much that you went through the first cave before even getting a single pikmin IMO.

I really like the crew in this game!! They're fun, though they do talk a lot and I could see that bothering some ppl.

Honestly I was super disappointed when I thought there were only 6 crewmates to find in the entire game... but then I found the first castaway and I was back to being excited

I like that you have a little base to meet ppl and discuss tasks!

One of the castaways I saved wrote notes on the Treasures I collected. This implies that we will probably get a biologist who will make notes on the creatures 👀

TL;DR: July 21st can't get here fast enough. The 2 hours or so I've played of this game is already my GOTY and it could genuinely challenge for GOAT (game of all time) if it sticks the landing with the rest of the game.

[shipcestuous]

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley (Episode 2)

@dragomer: We got canon future incest in The Coffin of Andy and Leyley now in chapter 2.

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Anon #1: Hiiiii! Have you heard of the game The Coffin of Andy and Leyley? It’s mainly a horror game about cannibalism and murder, BUT it’s centered around two siblings who have a toxic, insanely codependent relationship. They’re really weird about each other but still so very much like your typical pair of bickering siblings. If you have heard of it, it’s FINALLY (yay!!) in early access right now, and part 2 (of 4) is released! Also, (SPOILERS? But it’s technically all over the Steam page reviews) canon content is 100% confirmed to contain explicit, undeniable incest in one of its routes! Like. It’s not subtext anymore. Not even sugarcoating this; it’s depicted pretty straightforwardly. And imo it’s arguably one of the “healthier”—for lack of a better word? bc I don’t think they’ll ever really be healthy by conventional standards—routes for the siblings’ relationship. If you haven’t played it yet, or haven’t checked out the newest installment, definitely recommend! The first ep was great but the second is FANTASTIC

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Anon #2: Hi, this is the anon who was so enthusiastic about the Coffin of Andy and Leyley a couple of months ago. The full game is now in early access and can be bought on Steam, as the creator has decided (after a community poll) to release the rest of the game episodically. Currently episode 1 (which was the demo) and the shiny new episode 2 are available, with episodes 3A and 3B (different routes based on the choices made previously) being slated for release somewhere in 2024. So, we still have to wait sometime before the full game is finished. But for now, what does Episode 2 – ‘Graves’ offer us? (Warning: some spoilers) The answer is: pure gloriousness. It’s even better than I could've imagined in my wildest dreams. The relationship between Andrew and Ashley is just that amazing. Over the course of the (horrible, awful, and darkly hilarious) events comprising episode 2, we learn a lot more about our favourite pair of cannibalistic siblings. Their not-too-pleasant childhood is explored through multiple dreams and flashbacks, and for the first time we also have segments where we play as Andrew, providing the reader with direct access to what he actually thinks (and feels!) in regards to his beloved sister. And oh boy are his thoughts interesting! A lot of people who picked up on the interesting vibes between them in the first chapter assumed that they were mostly the result of Ashley’s obsessiveness, but this chapter contains an infinite amount of hints that Andrew is actually the one whose feelings towards his sibling are the most ‘romantic’ in the classic sense of the word. The way he physically touches her, the jealousness and protectiveness which was already present in the first chapter but whose full depth we actually see now for the first time, the fact that he regularly shares a bed with her to stave off his nightmares and panic attacks, but then it is revealed that he sometimes fakes them! In one flashback he asks his ex-girlfriend to tie her hair up, which would very obviously make her look even more like Ashley than she already does! At one point he literally thinks this about his sister: “You're struck with an odd urge to pull this broody bitch into your arms, and force her to stay until she smiles. But you push such an idea to the back of your mind. Where it may fester with all the other thoughts you wish you never had.” Ahhh, It’s almost too much, and that’s not even the best part yet of the episode! Depending on the choices you make, a situation can occur in which the siblings have a prophetic dream together (after falling asleep while holding hands! This game is just too much...). The contents of the dream? Well... I don’t want to spoil too much but let’s just say that a canonical incest route has now been 100% confirmed. I’ve already seen the artwork from that scene floating around on tumblr so people who have been following the TCOAAL tags might have seen it already. I could ramble about this game for hours on end but I feel like I’ve been writing and potentially spoiling way too much already. This game has completely taken over my brain and I just wanted to share that. I regret nothing!

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This is such great news that you all bring! It does sound better than we had any reason to hope for. I will definitely have to play this, but I may wait until it is complete and officially released.

I'm so excited that the creator went full tilt on the incest, and that those of you who shipped it so hard after the demo are being rewarded with such glorious developments.

[lilyvalleygames]

I found your demo through 14dwy and I'm so glad I did :D I enjoyed playing it and now I'm left patiently craving for more

If you're still answering questions- did you have any inspirations in mind when creating the characters? If thats too much to answer then perhaps just Johann specifically? He is giving Mr. Darcy in the best way

Hello! I am absolutely answering questions, and thank you for asking one! I told myself that I would take two weeks off of dev stuff but here I am, already plotting out how Day 2 is going to go haha

As for character inspiration, there have been a LOT of characters that have inspired me! I'm a big Pride & Prejudice fan myself, and while Johann wasn't intentionally pulling Mr. Darcy (I'm a longtime fan of the 1995 BBC mini-series adaptation) I can definitely see where you're coming from!

Before I started on CC, I had a few different OCs floating around my brain that eventually coalesced into the Johann we know today! Johann actually really solidified in my mind while I was sketching out his different expressions way earlier in development. I wanted someone who was deeply obsessed with the MC (naturally) and willing to do just about anything to get them. At first, I was imagining a more moody, taciturn version of Johann, who desired power for power's sake, and believed that acquiring power would eventually let him marry whomever he chooses-- like getting so OP that no one can really tell him who to marry anymore, given his status.

From there, I started thinking about how that might work in high-class social circles. Moodiness isn't exactly a great trait for making connections in business, so I did some reworking and decided that he'd be the type to maintain composure in almost any situation. Frankly, I find that kind of personality to be more frightening.

Later, I started developing characters that would eventually be his school chums (they'll be revealed in Day 2) and I realized that the composed persona crumbling in front of the right people could be super entertaining!

I am a longtime P&P fan but Jane Austen's characters tend to be (imo) less conniving and more... gentle, I guess? There's an element of comfort and decency that I find in Austen's characters, and I love that about them! But my characters are distinctly a little more... Brontë adjacent, I'd say? I'm definitely going for something more gothic and tangled.

TL;DR Johann has more social skills than Darcy but much fewer scruples lol

[bluesdesk]

Hello and sorry for being late again. Here's round 12, we have 5 games left! I've been busy with uni stuff :"D Skyward Sword lost to botw and Majora, I could see how this was going since round 10, but honestly I'm really sad it went like this. SkSw is my favorite after all, followed by Majora, and I think Majora or botw are going to lose this round :( There's still wind waker I'd like to yeet, I played the gc version and left out of boredom tbh.

A little off topic: I and a group of friends are making a video game for an exam! It isn't related to Zelda but it's an action-adventure. I'd love to get some feedback on the idea, and I made a survey. It's anonymous so you won't be tracked in any way! I mostly need people from 12 to 18 years old but really anyone is fine. When we have a demo, we'll most likely share it to get more feedback. I'd be really glad if you take a moment to take the survey! Thanks in advance :D

So, about SkSw! I really feel like people need to play it, and with motion controls if they can (mostly because I played it on the wii). With the motion controls I felt like I was really in control of Link's actions, movements, and story, it felt way more "real" and personal than any other game. The music is the best imo, you can really hear the orchestra! Also Zelda isn't a princess but a knight academy student, she can fight! And we have character development with Groose and an unlikely enemy that's Ghirahim. Yes you go to the same area more times but each time it's a different zone. In OoT you visit each area 2 times, and nothing has changed in appearance. Also SkSw is one of the few games in which Zelink can be considered "canon", the others being Spirit Tracks, TotK, Hyrule Warriors.

Back to the poll, remember to vote the game you think is the worst out of these in the list! Please don't vote a game if you don't know it! Knowing means having played the game (even not completed), watched a gameplay, read the wiki! Having read the manga is ok too, I can't think of any other things rn but I hope you got what I mean :D

Reblogs are appreciated, since for obvious reasons I won't tag this as Linked Universe, but the majority of my interactions come from that fandom!

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Zelda 1

Four Swords Adventures

Four Swords

Oracle of Seasons/Ages

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1.11.2024

the time has come, frens.

we just presented our demo for the project we've been working on! i'm proud of my team for wrestling through the struggles yet still delivering a working web app on time.

however, i wish we had more time to develop it because the time crunch was, imo, what lead to a lot of chatgpt usage :/ one of our project's requirements was the use of a new technology we hadn't used before, and i decided on using chart.js for data visualization. i had integrated it to our html files pretty quickly, and was soooo close to figuring out how to retrieve our user's data from the database we created. unfortunately we were running a bit short on time, so *that one* groupmate literally prompted gpt to give us the entiiiiire code for it. 🥲

i lowkey died but whatever. i tried my best 🥴

unrelated but texas is boutta feel a cold front next week, so i'm prepping for no power and no water. yeehaw 🤠❄️

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

srry if this is a weird question but what batman stuff would you recommend to someone with no real prior knowledge of it? followed you bc of kirby knowing nothing about batman but it looks like a lot of fun and ive considered getting into it. im not sure where to start with it though. do you have any favorite stuff thats like. "oh if you're new to the franchise you GOTTA check x out first"?

The best thing about Batman is it has absolutely no consistency. Really the characters tend to change depending on the writers and artists. So go apeshit! I got into it by getting sick and binging every Scarecrow comic i could find online in my brief periods of consciousness LMAO

Also keep in mind I am still very much bullshitting my way through Batman and DC in general EFGUIEWWEF

But the ones I would recommend aka the ones i started with:

The Long Halloween

13 Issues. One of the most iconic Batman stories, and one of my personal favorites. Specifically it centers around Harvey Dent, Carmine Falcone, and Batman all trying to identify stop a killer called "Holiday" from offing another member after member of Gotham's biggest crime family.

The art is absolutely gorgeous and captures tone perfectly. It also showcased a handle of the Batman rogues on the side and is REALLY fun trying to guess who the killer is alongside the characters. It also has a sequel: Dark Victory!

Here's the link to read it

Batman: The Audio Adventures

This is my personal favorite Batman media. It's an official podcast focused on the 60s Batman! Which means its a lot goofier than a most of current Batman.

It's a dark comedy podcast, but don't let that fool you. It knows when to take itself seriously, and features a small handful of the Batman Rogues! Also my favorite detail is that it takes the guise of a radio show- complete with fake ads that hold foreshadowing and funny gags! It does a great job of capturing the chaos of Gotham with the constantly interchanging multiple storylines, but keeping it understandable.

Also this podcast is entirely free. You can find the entirety of it on Youtube, HBO Max, and Spotify.

Arkham Series

If you prefer video games or playthroughs instead of comics, I highly recommend the Arkham games! There's Arkham Origins, Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight. They all have VERY interesting and well done versions of the characters and are a blast to play.

I recommend starting with Arkham Asylum, since its the first released of the games and is much easier to jump into than the others, imo. You basically play as Batman dropping off Joker to the asylum as usual, but everything goes wrong and ends with all the inmates taking control of the Asylum, leaving Batman to uncover Joker's newest plan and fighting through the Asylum hes been trapped in.

Arkham Asylum is normally $20 on Steam, but it has a free demo you can play. Also the games tend to go on sale pretty often and you can usually get the whole series for less than $10

Batman: The Animated Series

I have to recommend this one. It is the most iconic Batman media and has done so much for the characters and series. It's a fun series with lovely animation and surprisingly heartfelt episodes.

It has some of my favorite interpretations of the villains and one of my personal favorites of Batman! It doesn't pretend Bruce Wayne is heartless and beats the shit out of criminals for the hell of it. It's a great watch!

You can watch it on HBOMax with a subscription, but since streaming services are a parasite, you can also find it on PrimeWire.