#theres more but im drunk

[emlos]

hey why you're into/not into dd?

THANK YOU FOR ENABLING ME

preface: those are my unordered impressions as a ~2017-2022 dd1 player

soooo my darkest dungeon TWO thoughts are:

FIRST OFF WHY NO NATIVE LINUX SUPPORT??? i personally know unity can compile for linux, though im not sure how its quality is for more elaborate games, i WISH theyd upload a native linux build like dd1. im complaining cause the game does not SKIP frames but slows down to 10 fps for me, which makes it super slow and basically unplayable, unless i close everything else and frankly lobotomize most of my laptop functions. this compared to dd1 (which I KNOW was a different engine and 2d, but still) is a massive performance downgrade

secondly the gameplay loop is just... unenjoyable to me? gone is the safety of retreat to my home base (hamlet) and the choice of whether press on or return. the paths have too little variety to me, with exactly one possible event between them. tacking onto that, i feel the one combat item per character is just too restrictive, especially considering how much debuffs get applied to my heroes during even the first act

hero death: means basically nothing? like skills stay unlocked due to the backstories (which i ADORE BTW! thats a really fun thing to add!!!) so when you get lucky the first act your second act is a breeze. ad to that the fact that you have to unlock EVERYTHING, making the first runs awfully frustrating and the latter frustratingly easy, it feels unrewarding all in all

and its the little things too, like every enemy applying block and me just spamming aoes without a thought to whittle it down, less useful healing skills, the relationship system that actually made me excited for the game having either no influence on my gameplay or screwing me through rng...

oh yeah, the fucking tooltips on skills being just symbols though there's space to write the word out, now that i think about it the ui is just cumbersome, holding alt or ctrl for every little thing isnt very accessible :(

i know red hook wanted to make this experience distinct from dd1 while retaining the same feel an universe, but i genuinely prefer dd1 to it, because of the little quality of life things I GUESS the animations are SO BANGER tho i LOVE how they translated the 2d into the 3d!

[liquidstar]

Oh fuck tomorrow I'm going to be a little birthday boy I keep almost forgetting

[somethingsomethingcomic]

beware my wine rants

[bulkhummus]

top 5 cecil moments. top 5 carlos moments.

Cecil

1. cecil apologizing to steve and explaining their history

2. cecil getting a package from the delivery man

3. Cecil brushing over earl when he mentions the time gap

4. Cecil annoyed by team having fun slack messages and being a brat the whole episode// cecil hating on the moon with john peters stupid moon

5. Cecil being a dad in recent episode

Carlos

1. Delectable 10 year speech

2. carlos putting on cheers instead of dealing with his phantom ocean trauma

3. the phone call where hes so desperate for cecil to remember him or anything about their life

4. carlos dropping off lunch for cecil during his chen friends podcast

5. “Hi sweetie! um um so i have just been arrested but no biggie no biggie”

[obitv]

pd sekai au. throwing spaghetti at a wall

it's not until he's sat down somewhere in the woods that william even notices the new song in his playlist. he isn't even sure where exactly he is, honestly, but he'd picked a direction and kept walking until he was tired enough to collapse against the nearest tree and pull his headphones on.

untitled. no listed artist, which is weird, but maybe one of his friends had sent him a download and he'd forgotten. nothing else in his library is really calling to him, though, so it's not like there's any harm in giving it a go....

of course, nothing is ever that simple for william fucking wisp. as soon as he presses play, his phone starts to light up far more than it should be able to, completely blinding him in the dim moonlight. and then, worse still - when he blinks his eyes open again, he's not sitting aginst a tree in the familiar woods anymore - he's standing in a graveyard that seems to go on forever.

it's... jarring, for sure. sitting in the woods and standing in a graveyard are very different things! but something about this place is... comforting. like he belongs here? familiar in the way his childhood bedroom is: nostalgic, designed around him, like he's been here a million times and would recognise it blind.

which is weird. this graveyard that shouldn't exist because he knows what any nearby graveyards look like should not feel as familiar as somewhere he's lived his whole life. he still doesn't even know how he got here-

"hi! you're william, right?" a voice calls out. william whips around to where it came from and sees. standing in front of him. completely real. hatsune fucking miku.

this is the moment where william decides he accidentally tripped off a cliff and died and this is his afterlife. hatsune miku is talking to him. she's not in her usual outfit though, instead she looks a lot more... modern? far more punk-emo aligned, the sort of aesthetic william would love to aspire for if he wasn't so attached to his relative invisibility in everyday life. her hair is the strangest part - while it's in her signature pigtails, the ends fade out into wispy blue flames, with more blue wisps floating around her.

william stares. and stares some more. he's staring very intently, honestly, trying to find some proof she's some post-death hallucination come to, ha, wisp him away to the afterlife.

"william? hey, william!!" she says, because she's still talking to him. surely things can't get worse than sudden death, right? it's ok to talk back to her?

"that's... me? uh, miku? miss miku? ma'am?"

"awesome, you do know me! luka was worried, ha. welcome to SEKAI!"

this is a dream, william reminds himself. or hallucination or... something. maybe going with it will get him out faster...?

he looks around. the graveyard seems to go on forever, but also has wrought iron walls in the distance? the graves are varied, but none of the names on them are legible. "where... what is SEKAI?"

"it's a world born from your feelings! i'm here to help you discover what those feelings are ♡"

how did she do that with her mouth, he does not ask. instead, he goes with the potentially less confusing "are you... actually hatsune miku?"

she nods, the wisps bobbing with her. "yes. other virtual singers can be here too, but this place is very real. we cater to the SEKAI's emotions, which is why i look different!"

"and... you want me to find my true feelings?"

another nod. it's honestly fascinating to watch how her hair and the wisps move, and he notices then that they're scattered throughout the graveyard - the SEKAI - not just around her. "you can come here by playing the song on your phone, and leave by pausing it. i'll be here whenever you want to talk."

ok. ok. this is... good, actually. going out to the woods is dangerous, william knows, but nowhere else is quiet enough. while he's contemplating, a wisp floats ober to him, and he absently statrts playing with it, wiggling his fingers around to watch it dance. all of a sudden it changes from a cool ball of fire into an ethereal blue pen, and another zips over to transform into a notebook and- yeah. ok. he can work with this.

songwriting isn't something he's done in years, but... well. miku clearly isn't going to judge him, and it's not like anybody else can get here.

he puts pen to paper, and william wisp starts to write.

[passumstars]

The hot new thing is googling old art memes and using whatever image search gives you

[elkkiel]

DREAM IS THE FUCKING COOLEST EVER BARKBARKBARKSJSLDJFJDIDIDK

[six-of-ravens]

Okay, I have about 100 pages left in Veniss Underground, so I'm going to shut my phone off, set a timer for an hour, and try to finish it. It's a quick read once I get into it. Might also try to read while pacing the apartment bc my neck/jaw hurt and I think sitting scrunkled up on the couch is making that worse lmao.

My goal is to finish Veniss and then have zero reading obligations for the rest of the year. I need a break. I'm so burnt out that sometimes thinking about the books I want to read makes me a little nauseous, no matter how little pressure I put on myself goal-wise (this is the Year of Burnout for sooooooo many things). I might pick up a manga or comic between now and new years, something quick and light that can be read in a few hours, and I've actually been reading fanfic again recently which is a nice change, I fell off the bandwagon with it for a while bc I didn't have any fandoms I was passionate enough about to look up fic.

But! No novels! None! Braincell Recovery Time Only!!

[thecherrygod]

Swap au Kim gets drunk and there's a sweet spot in which he's having the time of his life and manages to forget all that's fucked up in his existence just going with the flow and everyone besides him no matter who they are and how the treat him, but less drunk than that and he'll get sober too soon and everythings gonna hit him all at once making him feel twice as miserable, or he'll get even more drunk to the point it completely switches and the happiness and getting along with whoevers nearby morphs into over trusting and sad and as soon as someone is like "look man you're not fine you should go home" he takes it too personal and won't be against getting into fights

[minglana]

i keep thinking im gonna get SO wasted tonight but: 1. i dont know who im gonna sit with during supper. if im uncomfortable w the ppl (so the majority of my class) i will probably not drink that much and 2. i have to get back by 1am and i have to appear to be sober when i get in the taxi AND when i get back in the dorms

[jacob-lockley]

"be the change you want to see," i mutter to myself as i write completely self-indulgent Bruce Banner-centric PTSD fic after finding Ao3 Severely Lacking

[bigendershadowthehedghog]

they should invent a stepdad who is normal and says normal things

[sp3llboundgirl]

Omg omg omg. I just learned someone burned down my abusers car!!!! This made my fucking day 😂😂😂

[roaringheat]

Sorry for NDE posting sm just out of fuckin nowhere lmao but this is the cosplay prop I was talking about in the tags of my last post!! This little guy has been with me since 2017

[biillys]

crazy that billys dead and the only time both him and max were on screen together and interacting was when max was hallucinating him yet this season really really hit the they're SIBLINGS vibe so hard. the amount of times max was doing something on screen and i was like oh you know billy's her brother like you know