#[plot: the big game]

[helicrazy]

The bigg boss wants a quick report. You've got the touch: you know how to deceive.

The tone in his voice changes to partially match the mech he just took out in this area. It's not special but it'll be enough to do the job and not raise any alarms.

:: Nothing to report. All is quiet here. ::

#photobombingcryptid #Plot: The Big Game

[egophiliac]

my absolute delight at seeing that the riderboys DO in fact have special magical girl transformation sequences --

(now if they really wanted to commit they would go full sailor moon with the ribbons and bubbles and sparkles, hint hint toei)

#art #ride kamens #the most important thing to come out of the op bar none #'but what about the plot reveal and the villains and the --' BAR. NONE. #wait no they also showed that kamui does have the dangerous zombie spine on his back so that's two important things #(i am worried about leon though. w-why did he get a big glass crack effect over him. leon are you gonna be okay) #(the game hasn't even started yet and i'm already worried about him)

[psudopod]

Snufkin quotes for the tumblrtrolls

#snufkin: melody of moominvalley #snufmin #moomins #snufkin #it's a bit of a baby game but sometimes the puzzles have more steps than “move forward interacting with each thing” #and the area maps are windey enough to feel big #teety-woo is the tutorial goblin as they deserve for being a SIMP! #they big-upped Sígur Ros' contribution but I'm not sure there's more than one or two songs from that #I'm like 2.5 hours in and maybe ⅔ done with the plot? there's mild sidequest and collection as well #i guess since I've not talked to snorkmaiden maybe I'm less than ⅔ done

[river-of-wine]

A long way from home

#red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #molly o'shea #sean macguire #kieran duffy #rdr2 spoilers #I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about these three and their positions as Irish immigrants #or the child of Irish immigrants in Kieran’s case #and how all of them have different backgrounds and are in the gang because of different circumstances #I went into the game not knowing about any of the Irish immigrant plot lines #with them or the o’driscolls #and it hit me very hard #I will make a big post discussing it someday #and the layers of tragedy it adds to their characters #but I’m very tired and I love them very much #fanart #digital art #my art

[cellgatinbo]

the qsmp is such an interesting project, like just listening to everyone in a call all theorizing about everything going on as well as we all are. you can see how invested everyone is in it and it's <3

#qsmp #i constantly think about some post i saw months and months back about how the server runs more like a dnd campaign #that we're just watching the members play through #they're playing their characters in this big expansive world against a game runner who's leading the main plot #but is still more than happy to let them branch out on their own with their characters and embrace any wild consequences they could cause #and also as a lil dnd nerd myself. i fuckin love it >:D

[t00thpasteface]

you skip bethesda rpg dialogue because you don't care about plot or writing in games. i skip bethesda rpg dialogue because i DO care about writing and i can't stand hearing so much stilted and generic fluff that was obviously just hashed out to feed information to the player as bluntly as possible. we are not the same

#playing eso rn but really all tes games are just doll dressup house decorating big-game hunting collectathons to me #they're like animal crossing but with more thievery and murder. approximately equivalent plot depth to me #shebbz shoutz

[bogkeep]

[in stars and time spoilers]

something i really really appreciate about the worldbuilding in ISAT is that being queer or trans or polyam is just, baked into the worldbuilding in a way that feels very natural and interesting and makes perfect sense for the setting. like don't get me wrong, all of these things ARE natural but the way *we* talk about these things in this world and our languages can often be very awkward to translate into the worldbuilding of a fantasy story - especially because a lot of the vocabulary and culture we have for queerness is as something that has been Othered, while cishet is the Default, and if you want a world where being trans is just a normal everyday thing you have to do a whole overhaul of how it's treated, right. it's tricky to make it feel natural!! though i DO think a lot of stories do it well, and ISAT is 10000% one of them. BUT HERE'S THE THING THAT'S FASCINATING. vaugarde is really chill with all this - but amatonormativity is still an issue. but the story *addresses* this!!!!!! which makes it a deliberate and super interesting part of the worldbuilding!!! you have the exposition about the bonding earrings (WHICH I THINK IS A FANTASTIC PIECE OF WORLDBUILDING) and sif pointing out that most vaugardians seem to be wearing earrings from a young age and wondering if maybe they're being primed to bond with someone early on. and of course mirabelle struggling with her faith, feeling perfectly comfortable with her aroace self but feeling pressured into dating. like i think the change religion rules and i LOVE that there's aspects of it that are Flawed, even for some of its most loyal followers. SO GOOD.

so here's what i really super appreciate - all the characters have very different relationships to romance. i love mirabelle with my whole heart, and i ALSO love that odile does experience romantic feelings and has just decided it's not a priority for her(!!!!!). isabeau is very clearly super romantic and into romance, and while he's definitely struggling a lot with the confession part - and it does get exceedingly heartbreaking as the loops go on - i do actually really like that he's like. you know what! the confession is not that important right now, you'r every clearly distraught, there will be time later (HERE'S WHERE I WOULD PUT A ""LATER""" IF I HAD ONE), my big romantic moment is *not* top priority. like none of these characters treat romance as the Most Important Thing in the world!!!! WILD!!!!!! i mean it's pretty clear that the focal relationship of the game is the found family, just like straight up spelled out for us, and i just... i think it's lovely. i love the romantic plot thread and i love that it's just one of many threads. (hear me out. hear me out............ queerplatonic mirabelle & siffrin..............) like this game chose to portray amatonormativity but the *game* is dismantling it. A TASTY MEAL FOR ME. GIVES THIS GAME A BIG STAMP OF AROACE APPROVAL

#in stars and time #not any big Plot Spoilers just musing about portrayals of romance #but since so much of the plot is character interactions it is in fact plot spoilers.................. #I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS #there's so many things i adore about this game and this is just one of them

[hyakunana]

Things had not changed so much. He could be patient. He would tell Osiris this story, too, when they were face to face once more.

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny the game #bungie #destiny art #saint 14 #fanart #saint14day #HAPPY S14 DAY PPL 8D #this year my contribution is simpler bc of my low mental energy #im also catching up on commissions and organizing my ideas for this season #you all have no idea how harder it got for me to do the europan seasonal update #i feel like anything i do might mess up w actual plot so I just..... wait........ #but lets focus on big best boy day <3 #lore taken from the techeun regalia gloves! #i 1st planned to make a single comic page w the ending but - again - low brain energy #hopefully this will suffice <3

[toadstool32]

“Do you want to play a game?” “Are you talking to me?”

for a LONG time ive been wanting to draw something for @arinrowan's fic Let the darkness bring us into the dark and i finally did! even if they look a lil more baby than i wanted to.....thats ok!! they both r small its ok dont worry about it-

#v quick n dirty cause something possesed me i think #ft yugis very big game bag #yugioh #my hero academia #midoriya izuku #yugi mutou #read the fic btw yes this is a plot to get you to read my fave fic is it working yet- #ddd #fics

[corseque]

this is like the first conversation scene of Dragon Age: Origins, and if we'd paid attention to it, we would have seen it was clear foreshadowing that the elven gods were "wrong" in a way that the Dalish don't expect. I've seen people claim the elven gods plot is some annoying new direction in the story that is made up to throw the series off track from what it's really about. so let me repeat myself

this conversation happens in the first ten minutes of Dragon Age: Origins

also I figured out how to use the Origins Toolset to look at the dialogue trees so you're all in a world of hurt

#the elven gods plot was always a big underlying current #Dragon Age #playing DA:O #DA replay #elven gods are so terrifying #I genuinely think that all of these ancient big plots are the same thing and they all will coalesce to be one story #so it's not elves are important - it's just all this old shit with the titans and the blight origins was always important #'I miss when we didn't talk to ancient gods all the time - I wish they were more mysterious like in DAO and DA2' #me: thinks about flemeth appearing in the first 30 minutes of both of those games to talk to the player

[helicrazy]

Their gait is just not right. Their frame is just not right. The way they speak in the comm line is just not right. Take care of them.

The copter slants his helm from side to side as he watches the stranger. This hide-and-seek game of finding the undercover guards will be too dull if they keep being so obvious.

He gets closer while pulling out a small blade and the moment the mech is done speaking on comms he comes in very quickly to take them out without so much of a struggle.

#photobombingcryptid #Plot: The Big Game

[existencebringsonlypain]

I love hyperfixations. you can be playing a video game and there's a character you can interact at most twice, and you only see them in ONE scene, and they are of no significance whatsoever, and everyone who plays will be like "oh yeah that's jockington, he love sports. one time when they didn't give Catti a hoola-hoop during gym class she just used him instead" like we have NO REASON to know that. WHY do we know that

#that's also partially because Toby is such a masterclass writer #his characters are endearing and memorable #and we know details about them even if they're people you talk to once #his npcs and side characters aren't flat billboards with a face on them. they're characters #they have personalities #and THAT is a big part of what makes all of his games so GOOD #the characters may be made for the story but they are not plot devices. they aren't props #they are people #and it's SO GOOD #like. you can imagine a world where we befriended catti instead of susie. she says next to nothing to us and yet we know her #it's. so. good. #nutdealer posting #deltarune #utdr

[ganondoodle]

is it too much of a reach to say that zelda being reduced to basically an object to farm items from in totk just kinda adds more salt to the wound of how badly shes treated?

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #i know im nitpicking #but i have talked about the big problems alot already #and now i start to see the smaller thingy that dont feel good #i guess you could see it as well if she wasnt farmable for items it would be weird compared to the other dragons #or that you are supposed to realize that you have been farming items from your best friend the whole time is to mean something #or maybe its just a game mechanic #i knew super early that the dragon was zelda #and when i saw i need items from her to upgrade my armor i was like .... im not gonna shoot out heR TEETH WTF #good thing she remembers nothing i guess #so she doesnt have to cope with the fact that link kept shooting off her scales - claws - teeth and horns #god i just want to see her have agency for once #and no i dont count begging unnamed faceless champion mcguffin guys to do a swear or dragonfying herself when she had no other option #thats not a character moving the plot but the plot shoving around a character imo #i want to see her go around HER hyrule and talk to people- solve mysteries- get more competent at defending herself- actively doing anythin #gnawing on wood as we speak

[fiery-emblems]

I really wish people would stop claiming that Fates/Awakening/ect. are the WoRsT wRiTiNg EvEr while propping up 3H as some kind of modern masterpiece. Houses is JUST AS WILLING (if not more so) as any other Fire Emblem game to pull random details right out the butt, or bring up seemingly important details just to forget about them in the next scene and never bring them up again, or introduce details that directly contradict something you learned about previously.

Houses just gets away with more because the first half of the game puts half an effort into making it seem like the characters backstories are tied to the main plot (only the BL though lol), and because OoH tHe StOrY iS sOo DaRk.

#honesty i suspect that a big reason fates gets more hate is because corrin is a naive prince/cess who gets to make mistakes #while byleth is a naive mercenary whos always super cool and awsome and can do no wrong #yeah 3h has such great writing #as long as you ignore 1/3 of all the events that happen!! #and especially if you ignore everything having to do with the mole people!!! #you know #the guys who drive most of the plot forward #frustrated having to constantly read about how great this game is #fire emblem three plot holes

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

I just rewatched 02 x 07 for the first time since finishing all the books and I can't stop thinking about it. I feel like everyone is either on the side of (1) it was all a big ploy, or (2) that's it for Moiraine and Siuan they can never come back from this--but I really don't think either of those are true.

I think the most in character thing Moiraine could possibly do is forgive Siuan, for the following reasons:

Moiraine knows that she would do the exact same thing that Siuan did here--namely, sacrifice anything (even their relationship and their trust in one another)--for the sake of the world and their mission. And this shared goal, these compatible values, and this mutual understanding is literally what has kept them together despite 20 years of distance and secrecy from the world.

[MINOR BOOK SPOILERS] We see in one of the books that Moiraine believes she and Siuan have made their beds and will lie in them one day by becoming involved in the quest to find the Dragon -- I believe the way she phrases it is about payment coming due for all the rules they've broken and the secrecy etc. that they needed for their quest. If this is her attitude, she is not only willing to give up everything, but expects to give up everything. And she expects it of Siuan as well.

Siuan has already proven how much she would give up for their quest. She became Amyrlin despite, as we learn this same episode, how much she did not want to be trapped in the tower and could not see her future there. She gave up any semblance of a happy life (how she would picture it both with and without Moiraine!) for this quest.

In some ways, if Siuan had just let Moiraine take Rand through a waygate to Falme, it would have actually been a betrayal of their mission. Their mission wasn’t “get Rand to Falme.” It was “protect and train the dragon reborn.” Siuan feels the need to do that as acutely as Moiraine does--and critically, Moiraine knows this about Siuan.

This goes quadruple if Siuan actually did think Moiraine could be a dark friend. Siuan thinks Moiraine lied to her!! And Moiraine knows this too, since Siuan does at least have the chance to say "You lied to me!" Moiraine would understand that if there was any chance Moiraine had been turned or was compelled, Siuan had to try and stop her from taking Rand off to god knows where.

Literally just a few days earlier Moiraine had threatened to have Alanna take Lan’s bond by force if he stood in her way--aka, the way of her mission. At this very moment, Moiraine herself has spent days (weeks?) contemplating what it would mean to betray the autonomy and trust of those she loves most if it means saving the world. And she knows what side she's on.

When Moiraine says, “if you have ever loved me don’t do this” my heart shatters into a million pieces. But that line is not just ,“it will be a betrayal of our love and trust if you compel me." It is that, but it's also a call for Siuan to see Moiraine for MOIRAINE. She’s saying “you know me.” She’s trying to get her (Siuan) to see that what she (Moiraine) is doing is not about her shame and pride but about the mission. Because it is ALWAYS about the mission, Moiraine IS the mission, and Siuan loves her because of that, and Moiraine knows Siuan loves her because of that 

Moiraine clearly hesitates before going through the waygate. Her character isn't one to linger out of shock and betrayal. She lashes out and she puts up distance--we've seen this all season. Moiraine moves forward. So I read her looking at Siuan here as far more "I love you and I'm sorry [I can't help you? it's come to this? we can't reconcile?]" than "How could you?" or "You're a different person to me now." I’m not trying to minimize the violation Moiraine is also feeling in this moment, I just think that if the violation was her primary emotion she would likely behave differently. And if she can have this messy a set of emotions even in the heart of the moment, I have faith she can similarly hold multiple emotions later when reconciling.

The flashback scenes are so heartbreaking but they don’t have to mean that Moiraine and Siuan feel so betrayed and far from those versions of themselves that they will never be together again. Those flashbacks can also be saying “remember when we were those people?” Holding onto those versions of themselves is how they hold onto their love despite this scene.

Those flashbacks also remind us that their relationship in the show is like 50 years old. It is deep. People don't throw away 50 years of relationship without a conversation, even if there is a deep betrayal involved. And that's normal people--not even people who have given up absolutely everything for a cause that the relationship has now gotten wrapped up in. In the books, they are together for a few years and then seemingly go their separate ways when the Dragon is reborn. I don't think the show would have gone out of its way to deepen and lengthen this relationship just to end it so quickly and unceremoniously.

#anyway maybe I'm delusionsal #but it just seems absolutely impossible to me that they would spend that long building up their relationship to just be like okay poof bye #but I also think them working together and having this all be a big plot sort of cheapens the moment #plus that just isn't the type of show this is #and the episode titles have been more applicable to the following episode in season 2 for whatever reason #so daes damar can refer to the games everyone is playing in the finale #although I remain confused how siuan knew where to go and where the waygate is #ANYWAY I get why people are so distraught by what siuan does here but I just don't think moiraine will see it that way #moiraine is a morally complicated character despite being so sure of right and wrong and I just have to believe she sees that in Siuan too #wheel of time #moiraine damod #siuan sanche #siuan sanche waits for only one woman

[grayintogreen]

I feel like the Otohan situation on a viewer level is very much not taking into account the fact that maybe she was boring to us, the audience, but I KNOW INTIMATELY that feeling of dread on Marisha’s face every time she yelled TRESHI SCRY BALL, like you have not experienced true fear like barely escaping an encounter with an OP Mook that’s going to take your ass down and how exciting/terrifying it is every time they show up no matter how unimportant to the plot they are. Like that was for THEM.

Anyway I swear I’m done having opinions on something I don’t actually care that much about because whatever it was, it was good and the players were emotionally compromised by it in the best way, but lol it does seriously remind me of my gaming days. I have been in that fight with that asshole and I was scared and had fun and had some of the most epic moments from it.

#shout-out to Anderson from my home game who was nowhere NEAR the big bad of the campaign #and in fact had less to do with the main plot than Otohan does and yet EVERY TIME that asshole showed up was my favorite moment in the game #except the time I failed a spot check and arrived to the fight with him late and didn’t get the killing blow myself #shit HAUNTS me #critical role #cr spoilers