#Anyways. This quest was pretty fun.

[ruby-static]

Anyways. Arcade's dork-ass 'heh'.

#Static screams into the void #Static plays FNV #Fallout #Fallout New Vegas #FNV #Arcade Gannon #Hi yeah I'm very normal. #(Shaking him violently by the shoulders out of cuteness/dorkiness agression) #Anyways. This quest was pretty fun. #I have a few funny art/animatic ideas for Riley and Arcade in this quest that I still really need to do. #(But in short- Riley is constantly 5 seconds from vaporizing Fantastic.)

[fore-seer]

had another one of my gaius dreams; this time it was a little transistor-style futuristic awakening spinoff set on a series of floating islands and the impression was that each character had their own little quest but it focused mostly on gaius’. he went on a little date with robin separate from the quest also

#it was a really cool fun dream tbh. the aesthetic of it was really nice #also there was possible new gaius lore to incorporate into my headcanons? #bc his quest started with him going back to the island where he grew up and discovering that everyone was gone/dead #nothing to do with him of course but it was pretty cool and i might keep it #this is getting into my headcanon lore thats been marinating in my head for 10 years but like #when he left his village he probably wasn’t planning on going back ever. thieves outstaying their welcome and all #but there’s a difference between deciding you won’t go back and finding out that you CAN’T go back. yknow #it appeared to me in a dream so it must be true. anyway #the floating island setting has also gotten me thinking about a speculative evolution project about valla’s ecology. could be fun! #tactician's log #awakening #gaiusposting

[s1ithers]

re: baldur's gate's setting limitations: I've read a Lot of shit set in the Forgotten Realms and yeah, I agree. I mean I think it's interesting with the Legend of Drizzt (which are objectively bad although I love them dearly) to see an author clumsily *trying* grapple with sociological cycles of violence, and even that's being really deprecated out of more modern D&D to make it brighter, shinier, more Marvel, and more approachable. Like that's certainly the more marketable approach and in a [1/2

setting increasingly dictated by TTRPGs as played by people who expect videogame logic, /or/ parasocial slice of life, it's not surprising - it also avoids a lot of the pitfalls of "what the fuck were you thinking" that LoD itself is a great example of when it comes to clumsy allegory and sexual assault played for titillation - but honestly I prefer the clumsy trash that contemplates gore and consequence happening on a human level than something that wants to be approachable and friendly but [2/ [3/3] has no problem with the concept of ontological evil which is always more fundamentally regressive than clumsy allegory tbh. But I mean we both prefer DA and DA started /as a reaction to/ the fundamental limitations of the Baldur's Gate series, so it's not surprisingly that a game that sort of ignores the entire DA-digression, and the risks it took with form, doesn't have that spark.

haven't read LoD but agreed, my clumsy allegory tolerance is probably /too/ high but do ontological good and evil at face value & i'm right out

i think what hits weird for me about bg3 is almost some version of the uncanny, like on the one hand it's trying to do psychological realism in a pretty earnest way, but it's also set up this world where like. a character's hair changes from black to white when she chooses Good. yknow. there's some lovely sensitive character writing, but it rests on this substrate of world-logic that's just fundamentally not how people work. ahistorical, like you've said before. so you can only drill down so far before it rings hollow or just comes off kind of pat

#realizing how closely my declining enthusiasm tracked along with shadowheart's quest #maybe i'd ve liked it better if i romanced lae'zel u_u #to be clear while i'm being a hater i did like a lot about it lol #entertained me for 150 hrs so i got my money's worth & all that #just got annoyed by enough things to knock it down from a 9/10 to smth i have pretty mixed feelings about #now we enter phase 2: bitching for fun #now i'm thinking abt it i wonder if the weirdly moralizing tone of some of the dev commentary has to do with writing in ontological good & #evil mode #or just. separate choices #bg3 #anyway. the dnd alignment chart is my enemy

[worldsquietestjojosfan]

computer graphics is my passion

#does anyone know how to make 3d models #we can team up and make something cool #ill do the coding and you do the art #it will be fun i promise #now avo wtf is this. this. my friend. is called passion #im gaslighting you. is it working? #yea so i replaced my neocities homepage for this uhhhhhh. 3d scene of nothing. #ill be building it. somewhat. not really. kinda #should i start learning 3d drawing ? i dont even know 2d drawing #drawing is hard #i dont want to. but YOU want to. please please please please #please you definitely wanna. and then you want me to code with you. please #three.js is my favorite #all hail the three lib #wanna recreate baldis basics with me? pretty please #but anyways yeah the camera works you can view any angle zoom outwhatever. clip through objects. its shitty but im just adding functionalit #i dont know how to make things beautiful. i need an artist's help for that #oh btw i can also rig models. 3d or 2d or 2.5d #remember when i made a vtuber model and threw it away bc i got bored #well. i expanded. and threw all that away too #side quests because drawing scares me

[prismatoxic]

i am for sure approaching the finale of the first level in p5t, where the only spoiler i know about will happen, presumably. i've decided i'm going with ryuji. i fucking love yusuke with all my heart and soul, and i'm sure his version of whatever this plays out as is great, but...

well, pegoryu was my first p5 ship, and remains one of my faves. ryuji is special to me. if i can't have akechi for this then ryuji is equally good (but in a very different way).

...admittedly i also have no idea where or when or how the akechi & yoshizawa dlc comes into play. i bought it before i even started the game. i assume they're not just inserted into the main story or anything, but i kind of assumed they'd be available as just team units. i guess that could be right still; the whole first level is about re-assembling your team, so it'd probably be weird to just give you two free guys when the structure is about building up your power and strategy. so maybe after this part...?

i could look it up of course, but i haven't gone into a persona game blind since strikers, and it's more fun that way. i'm sure i'll figure it out.

#i did look up a guide for the second optional quest bc i couldn't wrap my head around the solution #...it was pretty simple though. i could have figured it out eventually probably #i like how the quests are kind of puzzles while the main missions are about your technical skill #also fwiw don't let the cutesy style fool you. they still swear and there's been more blood so far than i was expecting #but i mean... pq was also more severe than the art style would lead you to believe. so #like these ARE persona games. with all the baggage than entails #anyway. i love erina. and toshiro also he's very fun #considering how i was kind of annoyed by the p4d cast additions and find marie insufferable #i like how royal and strikers and tactica have only added new people that i genuinely really enjoy #what i wouldn't give for zenkichi to show up again. #but i'm reasonably sure strikers happens a year after tactica does #and while strikers is a sequel... tactica is a spinoff #the distinction is somewhat important #but i'm enjoying it and i'm excited to see where it goes #tox.txt

[corviiids]

also my copy of the labb murder case book finally arrived so i got to read it but it took longer than normal because i kept pausing to take notes so i could solve it first

#it wasnt that satisfying to solve because im pretty sure it's designed to be solved anyway. #but thats ok. i still had fun. and b is a little freak and i appreciate that about him. #the quest to consume all death note media continues #rookposting #i was kind of hoping there'd be a bait and switch at the end because it just seemed a little too obvious like just clue upon clue #but im just being a sulk at this point i still enjoyed it

[zelda-posting]

tears of the kingdom could have been so good if it were built around like, its story or its characters instead of being a clunky shell to show off the mechanic no one asked for that it forces you to use

#* #text #totk #mechanics #i had fun scuttling around in the depths for a while but that got old eventually. for obvious reasons #what i liked about zelda games was always the atmosphere and character interactions #like. one of my favorite games is twilight princess. which is. deeply unserious in many ways #bit it COMMITTED to its setting and what the writers went ham making sure #that it was still full of whimsy and affection. #totk doesn't have that. the characters are all 1) instruction manuals or 2) vehicles for what small and disparate semblances of plot #survived whatever disaster must have happened in development that made them cannibalize several different ideas #and stick them into the shell for the fucking. arm #totk plays like a gallery or again just an engine for the building thing. #it's pretty. the music is good. the building thing is well made. but as a zelda game totk Fucking Tanks #i HATE overinvolved mechanics. i HATE having to stop and rely on a Whole Process that i have to keep stocked #to get anything done. i've always liked loz again bc of characters and whimsy but also bc it's always been mechanically vert streamlined #and accessible to someone like me who is disabled and finds fiddling EXTREMELY tedious #you have one required tool per dungeon and they're QUICK they're SIMPLE they're A GOOD TIME #totk. to me. is just clunky and has no redeeming qualities outside of again being pretty and still sort of nominally letting you run around #collecting things. some of the side quests were cute. but even then the characters were very. #THE THING ABOUT ZELDA GAMES IS THAT IM used TO THEM BEING ABOUT. NOT JUST THE FUNCTION!!!!!! #there were things— many of them! sometimes most of them even!!!— there just for fun. again almost especially The Characters #totk is so goddamn UTILITARIAN on all levels ITS. CLUNKY and BORING i don't WANT to have to do 30 things just so i can do something else. #hey nintendo. if you have to force people to play your game. like if you specifically have an ''open'' game and then subsequently have to #manufacturer MANY blocks and caveats to the idea of ''do whatever have fun!!'' so that it's''but only how WE want you to''. maybe thats bad. #maybe you've done a bad job. if again. you have to FORCE players to go about things in the way and order that you want. it's no fun. #like even zelda games where you have less options and linear progression feel less restrictive bc like. they don't fucking punish you. #for. playing the game. you just can't do things. totk really punishes you for going off script. which like. why even do that. #anyway. this is all probably incoherent. i'm right tho. #wow there are so many typos. pretend there are not <3

[oh-meow-swirls]

i think my favorite gate of whimsy bizarre room is probably the phantomart one solely because hailey can also get it which means that you can get some pretty good items as her since you can buy stuff normally. but also because jibanyan still rides in the cart. best oversight i think-

#puppy rambles #yo-kai watch #yw3 #this playthrough i've just gotten boring gates of whimsy. and also an expert room where i fought unkaind once #had all my yo-kai oneshot and then promptly left #10/10 would recommend- /j #i just wanna match the comedy of my last playthrough where during one of the parts in nate's story where buck follows you on the overworld #i went into a gate of whimsy. greatly amusing to me. normal bestie activities #i don't know why it's so funny to me but it is. but i have shit gate of whimsy luck honestly 😔 #i've found more as hailey than as nate. gate globes are literally useless as hailey and i'm not at chapter 6 yet- #tbh wouldn't be surprised if chapter 5 takes me all day. grumbler's grotto sucks #n hailey's chapter 5 is hard. it's fun but it's also hard #you have to fight meganyan and doctor maddiman in the same chapter. and there's a third key quest but i don't remember it rn- #oh god that's when you can start the pop star photo quest too isn't it. hell #in my first save files i only have two left i'm pretty sure and idk which ones i've found so guides aren't helpful 😔 #anyways. haven't even played 3 yet today i'm just hyperfixating <3

[collegeoflore]

god we deserved a high society party quest….. i want to see the upper city so so bad…. let me into duke portyr’s manor i’ll be so normal about it

#obviously i want this for wyll reasons. i think the wyll/xar bonding on this quest would be so much fun #BUT ALSO it would have been soooo much fun for xarrai reasons #bc like. they are pretty cagey about who exactly their sex work clients are and who exactly they have/had influence over in the gate #at least like during the game (i think their relationship with portyr at the very least is an open secret in the upper city lol) #and obvs this comes out after the coronation when everyone is dead bc the ppl gortash chose to kill Just So Happened to be largely ppl in #xar’s pocket #but imagining a party/ball scene before that where they’re trying to walk the line of like #They Know Everyone In This Room Intimately And Their New Friends Are Not Aware #would be so much fun to write #i recognize i could write it myself anyway but we all know im too lazy for that #i’m more of a vignettes that take place during/between canon scenes girlie than an Inventing New Quests girlie #but we can all imagine how silly the dawning realization everyone would have would be #as they start to see how deep those ‘connections’ they’re oh so cagey about run LOL #also i think they would have had to give us some real fucking good outfits for that quest. #漫言 #oc. xarrai

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <3

#think it's time to start one of the world quests today (since i have like two areas left to explore & both are quest related ^^) #got to about 74-ish% so doing pretty good #though i would like it if my shoulder would stop hurting irl #have a heating pad going and it seems to be helping so *shrugs* :3 #anyway i did manage to start the hsr quest last night so that's fun :3 #we're also getting breakfast this morning so looking forward to that~ #:3 #i hope you all have a good day/night! <3 #morning rambles

[torgawl]

slightly disappointed - just slightly - that they didn't include fischl in the windblume event because she would fit the legend/fairytale category of the charade so much?!

#how did they not remember the person that actually lives in one? #logically it would make sense okay 😂 #i hope we get to see the other mondstadt characters even for a second at the end #jean barbara fischl kaeya diona and diluc the excluded ones ✌️ #like i don't care about timmaeus and his crush sorry give me characters i care about (mona was so real for interrupting him yes queen <3) #okay sorry timmaeus i hope you succeed in romancing her 😔 #i think you're a great addition to the synthesis thingie when i need to make materials the game wouldn't be the same without you 😔 #on another note!!! i love when genshin's events or quests are like therapy sessions like yes thanks for teaching us about anxiety and #struggles with self identity and how sharing our problems with others isn't a burden and how being vulnerable will allow us to create #meaningful connections and relate to others around us that only through connection and being able to see other people we are able to #fight the feeling of alienation we had in the first place and gain a new found confidence!!! like yes. trauma holds us back and can #influence the way we interact with others around us and follow us for so much time but we can also thrive regardless!!!! #genshin lore is so good but also the way this game helps us find peace regarding so many things we all struggle with is beautiful methinks #a lot of the struggles the characters face in the game are related to the fantasy world their inserted to sure but they're also still #incredibly relatable to the most common person if we strip down that fantasy layer #i think it's about being seen and understood feeling less lonely and also seeing others through less of a 1st person lense about finding #beauty and significante in diversity #but anyways rant over #i'm having fun with windblume and i love events like this where we just get to revisit characters and see them have a good time with each #other!!! it's so comforting plus mondstadt looks so pretty

[0fps]

HOYO-MIX DROP THE LUOFO ALBUM ON SPOTIFY GOD DAMN PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

#I NEED ALL THE TRACKS IN THIS UPDATE STAT #anyways yeah did the main 1.2 quest i'll be honest i feel like they were just saying a lot and like i knew what was going on #but at the same time i also didn't really know what they were saying. does that make sense #like i didn't hate it but i also didn't leave it feeling much? all the cutscenes were fun though #hsr writing and i guess hyv writing in general has a need to say the simplest things in the most convoluted way #but remove all the jargon and you realize they're not really saying much at all LMAO #i was honestly more distracted by all the pretty people and the ost jaklskjsfd that's what i'm here for at this point #like they put almost all my hsr faves in this update they really made the luofo for ME #0.txt

[devotedlystrangewizard]

i dont want zenos to have a redemption arc so much as that i want him to do good things because its convenient. no moral 180 he just realizes he won't get attention as long as there are bad things happening so he helps get rid of the bad things

#IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FUN IDK #'my friend spar with me' 'i cant im trying to find a dragon in the void' 'oh ok' and then he speedruns the plot for you #gaius has the nuanced wellwritten redemption my dearest Elder Blorbo but zenos deserves to be adopted. #my poor little meow meow quite literally. hes a spoiled cat #i love him so much. sorry. fucked up little guy in my screen #3 forms of redemption arcs. gaius actually Literally going forward trying to be better. nero's quest to remarriage. and whatever the fuck #zenos was doing between the bit with alisaie & the end of ew #is it...bad of me that theyre some of my favorite characters... #uhhhhhhhhhhh #aymeric pretty ? #IM JOKIGNG IVE HAD WORSE FAVES 😭😭 #nero is still my favorite character in the game not really for any reason other than he amuses me and #sometimes forces me through recognition of the self through the pixels of my screen #i love the main characters very much but hmrhmhrhgmh moral complexity.... #anyway im going back to nanowrimo i was putting valerian through the mourning process again for the um. 5th time #6th??? #idk how many aus i have at this point that still follow the general plot. valerian forever doomed to mourn his loved ones or whatever #in one au his husband survives but their kid dies which is arguably worse #not to ramble about my ocs but some of val's strong attachment to luca (the kid) is actually just because of the torment he went through #to have them. like as a trans man with severe dysphoria. he worked way too hard to let them just. leave #lmao #this guy has suffered so much. hell be fine tho. i love him too much to make his suffering endless #poor little meow meow of the ocs

[medicinemane]

You know what I wish?

I wish there was a story mode of Genshin, cause like the writing is pretty good and all the personal character quests are cute and endearing and you've got a lot of good characters

In theory that's just the game, you can just play it normally to get the story mode, but like... come on, we all know how much gacha and battle passes mess with games

It's a fun game, it's a good game, but it's as a "live service model" game filled to the bring with microtransactions

#like in Ganyu's quest you learn she liked to have her horns petted when she was a little kid #and she learns how to try to take time for herself instead of feeling obliged to always be available for everyone since she's #kind of like a demigod to put it in a quick easy way to explain it #it's a good quest and it's a cute quest and pretty much all the characters are good and cute #and they're good and cute and well written part just to try and make you want to roll on them in the gacha #and that's why it's not the same as a genshin story mode #despite getting memed on it's a good game with good gameplay and good writing #and you probably shouldn't play it just cause it's a constant fight against microtransactions #even I spent $10 on the battle pass to unlock a sword with life steal so Keqing could just tear through stuff #and it worked but also like... I rarely spend on these kinds of games so if anything that's a real warning sign #anyway I really do love all the characters and the game play is fun but man... yeah

[hua-fei-hua]

thank you for all the sweet tags fei fei 🥺 (may i call you that?) it literally made my day haha you're too kind <33

ah, i typically go by "hua" online actually! :D

but yes ofc you're welcome to the compliments!!!! your art is so cute i wish to hold it gently, like hamburger <3 and then eat it LOL

#lotus-pear #asks #i think i have more of your posts in my drafts to be tagged up and queued bc i am a post hoarder but also wander off easily #your colors are always so lovely and vibrant and i am truly nothing if not a magpie immediately enchanted by pretty colors #i saw this ask when i came back from doing the dishes a while back and then was like 'oh! how cute! will answer Soon' #and then immediately went to taking care of my genshin chores n i had Thoughts(tm) abt what i wanted to say #and then they vanished like a wisp on the wind <3 smth smth if you wanted to play together or w/e then like #hehe *hides my face w/a fan but in like a mafia boss kind of way as i hand you a business card* here's my uid-- 628363596 #a while ago this rando at-the-time ar40 person in china added me bc my genshin name is 小白雪花 so i get strangers in china sometimes #and i habitually let strangers in anyway n it's always very sudden and embarrassing opportunities to practice my chinese (:monaanguish:) #but this was the first time a lower lv rando added me and so i talked abt it w/my bff nat n she was like 'they're probs looking for help' #n i was like 'mm you're right. i'll let them in and give them 24 hours' and then five minutes later they were like 'hi' #n i was like 'hi~ do you want me to help?' (all in chinese) n they were like 'yes with fighting artifact domains' #i could tell they were popping fragiles bc finally a carry! but i didn't know how to tell them to wait for ar45 for that </3 #i don't know if they think i'm quiet or just illiterate but they hit ar45 the other day and asked for help again #n so i went in again and was very impressed to find that i could carry them with just mona+yanfei #like yanfei i am not surprised my quest to min-max her never ends but at one point she died n i had to finish it w/just mona #and so widsith passive was out bc it triggers upon switching in n i Truly Did Not Believe i would make it but i did somehow! #i was pretty devastated when i first got her by accident my first week of gnshn but now i have the most highly-invested mona of my friends #gnshn meta is so fun to think abt it makes me feel like a highly enriched squirrel... hehe went chatterbox in the tags here

[songofdefiance]

cyberpunk 2077: this is a Serious Game about living in a capitalist dystopian hellscape

also cyberpunk 2077: here's a sidequest where you drive a dude with faulty junk to the doctor

#amaya talks #cyberpunk 2077 #tbf the animation for if you fail the quest #is pretty gruesome #anyway the game takes a little while to get going #but once it does it's pretty fun