#what is a video game

[piratesexmachine420]

My personal defintion for 'video game':

Has some notion of a 'game state', where some number of these possible states are more desirable for the player than others. (These may be intrinsic or extrinsic values judgements.)

Transition between game states is accomplished by an interaction between player input and software/logical electronic game systems.

The primary means of communicating game state is through video.

Related, and often synonymously-used categories include: 'computer games', which does not have the video requirement; and 'electronic games', which does not have the video or software requirements.

There are, of course, many titles which are marginal. I won't weigh in on where the exact line is; it is not difficult to discuss a non-video game through that lens regardless, and vice vesa. Things are how we consider them.

[just-lukis-luck]

(yes i know my definitions aren't watertight, but it gets the idea across)

not planning on doing anything with this, just thought it would be fun to make a poll for it! here's the results summary page, for those who are curious.

[blueskittlesart]

knowledge long forgotten

got really into reading item descriptions on this playthrough. anyway did you know the silent princess is one of the only raw materials with a cooking effect to not explicitly list that effect in its description

[eridan-ampora]

baby animals move like theyre playing a new video game & havent figured out the controls yet

[nochnye-vedmy]

a video game is any game which is on a video

nightmare the video board game is a video game

[just-lukis-luck]

I made this in a fit of inspiration

What's a video game?

Watch the new episode now on Dropout

[sybeez]

evergreen

[taxbywaxworth]

YOU play video games to feel powerful. I play video games to feel new, previously undiscovered shades of grief and sadness. we are NOT the same.

[wanderingibon]

anya deserved so much better

[notebooks-and-laptops]

I'm being DEAD serious here guys. Make problematic ocs. I'm telling you. It's so much fun. And easier to get invested in them sometimes because they really STICK OUT in your brain. You fall in love with them.

For help developing problematic ocs try out these two methods

Method one: think of a problematic choice your oc will make. This could be; abandoning their children, killing a sibling, siding with the oppressor whatever. Work backwards from there. What are the implications of someone who would make that decision.

Method two: give them a motivation and work forwards from there. For example; they have the motivation to survive no matter what, they need to be the ruler of their society, they will not go against a specific religious/moral code etc. now make sure every decision they ever make is in line with that and crucially put things in their way that'll make them make fucked up decisions to get what they want.

Now! You have! A fucked up oc! And you will love them! I promise

[klaipeda-witness]

POV: You're on a fetch quest for Kira and you give her a jumja stick instead of the 85645 self sealing stem bolts she asked for, forgetting that she doesn't like them.

[glowingghosty]

people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.

what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.

you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.

[r-h-e-t]

(Deltarune Chapter 3 Spoilers)

So. About Ramb.

Excerpt from the "Grillby's Rogues' Gallery" Newsletter comic:

I can't even begin to guess at the implications of this.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[henryscapon]

like, okay, i'm sure this scene has been talked about and dissected to pieces already in this fandom but. BUT. i need to put my two cents in or i will explode.

so, your lord and best friend has just admitted to you that if you die, he will be so beside himself with grief that he might just die too.

the game then gives you THIS option in response.

and you, the player, know how video games work. you know this is the press x for romance button. you expect henry to admit his feelings—a culmination of all the hints he's dropped from the heart options we've chosen before—and kiss him as soon as the button's been pressed.

except henry doesn't kiss hans.

instead, henry places his hand on hans' hand. it's the first moment of physical contact between them in the whole scene...but it's not a kiss. it's gentle. it's intimate. it's tiptoeing the line between comforting a friend and something more...

...but henry leaves it at that. and he gets up and goes to leave.

and in that moment of panic. in that split second of 'this might be the last time i'll ever see you again, please don't go' — it's hans that kisses henry.

and it's henry who pushes hans away.

this is—for all intents and purposes—the opposite of what we, the player, chose.

and to add insult to injury, henry looks conflicted.

he looks SO conflicted that hans believes he's fucked up royally.

that he has completely tarnished their final moments together by acting on impulse—by giving into temptation and desperation and feelings he can't even put into his own words—and henry must be disgusted by him.

and hans believes this because he watches henry turn his back to him. refusing to look at him. and head for the door.

but henry stops before he opens it. and i keep thinking back to the heart option we chose.

the player is not making the choice for henry to kiss hans. we are not forcing his hand.

the player is reminding henry what he's been telling himself throughout the entire game.

don't run away, henry.

kiss him. kiss him back.

so henry does.

[wiltkingart]

wilt thou be taken in the jaws...