#this game is so incredible fr

[roaringheat]

It's been a couple days and all I can think about is Lenny's death oh my goddddd. I just can't get over how the whole game up until that point, everyone especially Arthur talks so highly of him and says shit like how he'll outlive everyone else and how smart he is and how much potential he has like.....good fuckin lord. It kills me how badly Arthur didn't want to leave his body behind too. God he should've lived. I will say tho the game does an incredible job making you attached to his character. It's also very interesting the timing of his death if you look at it in a story tone way. I'm not good at putting my thoughts into words but that mission feels like such a huge turning point and killing off this kid with so much potential is for sure gonna create a tone of dread and hopelessness if not in the gang, than in the player. Same thing with Sean's death tbh. Killing off a young character that brings so much joy and levity to the gang changes the tone SO much.

[pizzagame4000]

we all know human vigilante… but what about… slightly human vigilante

[elfsyellowflowerzart]

take two of yesterdays little doodle, using the ref this time

[gil-notskajla]

every time i watch that final shape zavala cutscene with safiyah statue im speechless over how good it is. Lighting (Danny o'hailey i owe you my life)?? Expressions and animation?? It has movie worthy cinematic value to me i would DEVOUR a series like this cutscene.

[incorrect-league-of-villains]

Just like to let you know that 'one of the guys that's been in the basement with me for the past four hours' is an incredibly ominous thing to read in the tags without context. Thank you, brave basement dweller 😔

LMFAOOOOOOOOOO

[gala-xyzz]

all i'm saying is i never thought my kingdom hearts au would get so complicated that i now have to write up a document to keep everything in order. what happened. am i becoming the next nomura. somebody either stop me or help me

[ozlices]

that squid game reality show genuinely & sincerely makes me so irrationally angry & the stupid ass takes surrounding it make it so much worse.

i actually sincerely cant handle it. it makes me so irate bruh

[rationalisms]

been thinking a lot about this specific phenomenon that's hard to put into words (so bear with me) where the technological limitations of the medium at the time a work of art was created are sometimes exactly the thing that helps lend it the atmosphere that makes it so compelling. and how sometimes superior technology is, despite the progress that's been made in so many ways, entirely unable to capture that same atmosphere for a multitude of reasons.

like, there's that brian eno quote ("whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature") that gets at some of what i mean, but not all of it.

i'm thinking about video games in particular, the way the forward march of technology does open new avenues but at the same time it inherently disappears older technologies and their aesthetics in the process, which is so tragic to me. and of course there's always nostalgia-driven attempts to recreate them, but those recreations inherently can't ever be entirely faithful to the specific charm of those older technologies and their drawbacks. (pixel art is a good example because sure, there's pixel art games being made now, but on modern LCDs they just won't ever look the same as they did on fuzzy CRTs; the fuzziness of the image made the pixel art come alive in a way modern TVs just can't.)

and this is extra amplified if games are set in a specific real world period or trying to emulate a specific real world aesthetic. because there's a little golden window of time where a game's technical limitations and the resulting art direction, and the period of time the game is meant to be set in, can perfectly compliment each other, like some sort of time prism. and any games made after that point can still do a good job at capturing the aesthetic of the era, but they won't ever be able to harness the inherent authenticity and atmosphere that e.g. noughties games and their 5 polygons can lend to a game set in the noughties.

there's no real solution to this and i'm obviously not advocating that we should be stopping any and all technological progress in favour of preserving certain aesthetics in amber, but it's still really melancholy that this is all so transitory. but i guess on the other hand we do get to enjoy those moments when technology and art/narrative can converge in the exact way they need to.

anyway, this was all just a really longwinded way to say that persona 4 is actually the best video game of all time. sorry if you thought this was about literally anything else

[sulphur-and-honey]

in constant hell fr fr (can’t decide which Thicker Than RO is my favourite)

[politemagic]

hi hello!! letter o for the songs ask ☺💛

hello darling!!! here are my favorite "o" songs:

overcome - nothing but thieves

o my heart - mother mother

one step - camila recchio

ode to sleep - twenty one pilots

out of the black - royal blood

give me a letter and i'll tell you my 5 favorite songs starting with that letter

[ahalliance]

graduated from the étoiles school of qsmp related vocal tics to the étoiles school of headbangers related vocal tics

[pirateborn]

i love writing roger he rly is just a fun guy to write,

[sonic-adventure-3]

these are both sequences where shadow is on a mainly hero/neutral path until the end where he betrays sonic. what the fuck do you mean “destiny for two” and “a pair of shooting stars” what do uou mean by that

[megkuna]

sometimes i like to think abt what it'd be like not to be deeply weird and neurotic abt sex. sorry but the idea some and probably most people just are casual about sex and experience sexual attraction to people is like so insane to me

[lochroma]

who up tearing their kingdom rn? 😂

[im-literally-just-sitting-here]

Quackblr4Ethogirls still the best thing to come out of this poll btw.

(also, guy whose thumbnails are just stills and who was entranced by a silly star transition + guy with funniest editing style ever, literally the most striking thing about quackity to me is that i like his editing)

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