#according to the dev

[galpalaven]

thinkin about... new blorbos...

#oisein feels empty after sex when using it for deals #according to the dev #but GOD can you imagine that first night with rori... the symphony that they make together #their magic flowing through both of them. everything is so much all at once and theyve never FELT like this #not even CLOSE and all they can do is press in closer #kiss her a little harder #dig in deeper #that first afterglow. the way that they'd only think about getting up and leaving for a second before they look back at her #and shes already looking at them and giggling #and god why would they want to be anywhere else #and then shes kissing them again and fuck what the high sheevra said fuck the cops fuck the government fuck everything #impossible or not this is real this is IT this is. this is so stupidly human of them but how can they feel anything else #they fall asleep with her carding her fingers through their hair and its the most at peace they have ever felt #the nameless #fjlkds #rori the sheevra #ig

[thanatika]

pathologic classic is all 3 at once depending on which npc you talk to

#though if i had to guess the overall intent it's probably the ''liberal'' pov #i do want to write more on the utopian=communism metaphor. it's canon according to a dev interview but overlooked i think #and there are some interesting interpretations of it #patho #mine #pathologic

[schneiderenjoyer]

Alright, hear me out.. As a small prompt, inspired by the April Fool’s puppet video: Schneider watching Vertin play the bass. I’m going absolutely feral over the mental image of Vertin completely shredding on a bass 🙏

#reverse 1999 #vertin #schneider #in a writing mood #timekeeper shredding on bass guitar...classical style #it's still funny that Vertin canonically hates rock music according to the dev team interviews. she's a classical music nerd #fun fact the bass guitar was invented in the 1930s!

[this-should-do]

Losing your identity in favor of survival

#gordon freeman #half life #was thinking about my headcanon on why gordon looses his mullet by hl2 in which he gets grabbed by the ponytail too many times and cuts it #of course in a very emotional manner before he hardens as he goes from gordon to freeman in accordance with my chracterization of him from #my fic which u should go read on ao3 #its called could gordon ever be clean #but yeah looove tying chara dev to hair and having it be so significant that gordon cuts his hair cuz i think he has a complex relationship #w his hair becuz hes so trans #i wont get into it cuz its kinda long but trust me its good #fun fact to get the subtle static texture u can barely see i used the sonic . exe static lol #eyestrain tw #<just in case these colors are kinda bright #anyways i love really messy haircuts cuz theyre having a breakdown and using a knife. it feels like in movies their hair always looks good #which is WRONG it would not look good like that u rlying to me #idoindeeddraw #anyways feeling artsy with the caption today lol #but thats like the theme of this comic and i wanted to ensure it was understood lol

[autism-corner]

im curious bc i realized envy & sloth are the ones i 'relate' to and levi n belphie are my loves

#obey me #obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmodeus #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphie #heheeheh #im so curious bc according to my current knowledge (me) its 100% yes #it this is a mostly yes answer the devs did a really good job imo!! #yay #sillyposting #polls

[ride-a-dromedary]

Tell me how it is that star boy says: "What you CANNOT do, is make my decisions for me." and yet I see that very thing happening in fandom whenever this character makes a decision surrounding how he is handling dealing with his trauma that people don't like, by *deciding for him* how he's actually feeling?

#BG3 Musing #not making a big deal just annoyed af that every. single. day. i see paragraphs and paragraphs #(And I'm not talking Ascension I'm talking like consenting to a foursome and realizing he doesn't like it #- which is....something you are allowed to do btw. healing isn't linear or fixed by one thing it's a bunch of little decisions) #this man is pixels - i promise the paragraphs and praragraphs especially on things of alternate interpretation are not needed #if you're going to quote back on singular lines but ignore others entirely in this conversation maybe y'don't know as much as you think #'he's lying though he doesn't really mean it!!' - how do you know he's not still lying to you then #'he doesn't want to lose *blank* so he's placating!!' maybe but as far as he is expressing and according to dev notes and post cazzy #he is not - he genuinely believes what he is saying so like...you're making that decision of whether he can consent?

[slink-a-dink]

Day 3 - Manta

#art #my art #sky children of the light #sky cotl #thatskygame #peeking postman #for a bit of context; according to a dev peeking postmans outfit has equestrian inspirations! #adding the rabbit = fast its likely they used to be a racer before retiring! #it also likely explains why theyre smal; since horse jockeys tend to be smaller #so manta jockey/racer postman :] #i wasnt kidding when i say i know sky lore you dont even care abt #skytober 2022

[self-loving-vampire]

Reaper in Ultima Underworld 2.

Reaper in King's Field.

Look who's back in Lunacid.

#at least according to the dev's tumblr #I don't remember if I actually found any of these while playing #anyway these are all ultimately descended from D&D ropers #which are better represented in games than you'd expect #recettear and tower of druaga had some weird monsters bearing the name too

[beantothemax]

Thought it would be important for all of you to see the official Pizza Tower Cum Comic (TM)

#ok so it’s not ACTUALLY a bodily fluid according the the dev #I mean still. cmon. #the implication is stil there.. #pizza tower #pizza tower the noise #the noise #peppino spaghetti

[tabithascarlet]

help theres a bug in coral island rn where talking to wakuu can crash the game LDSKFSDF

#fray.txt #according to devs theyre fixing it rn but omg thats so funny #if ur playing coral island avoid the boy....

[rohirric-hunter]

TBH I think a lot of the things people will just go on the LotRO forums and say to and about the devs fully qualifies as cyberbullying and while I understand why they don't I feel that they would be justified in just banning some people's accounts from the game after a while.

#ever since i have been playing #over five years now #instances and raids have not been released at the same time as expansions #thats just the way they do it #and yet people are going on the forums acting like the fact that they are not available now means they arent going to be #and this is some kind of long running scam from the devs #oh yeah #the scam where they... release things according to the schedule thats clearly posted on the website??? that one?

[midgardianqueenreturns]

Ivy and Zelestia’s Somniel outfits are way better than their default battle outfits and that really annoys me

#They really should have been their default outfits #But nooo Zelestia could only be a palette swap of Zephia according to the devs #Ivy Fire Emblem #Ivy FE #FE Ivy #Fire Emblem Ivy #Zelestia #zelestia fire emblem #fire emblem engage #Somniel #FE Engage

[randomnameless]

Considering that the English translation prettied up Caspar's endings for Flower (changing "often out of control to "sometimes reckless" and removing the text confirmed Caspar's career involves invading other countries), while vilifying his non-CF ending (saying he had victims), yeah. Same with turning Rhea restoring the Church to her rehabilitating it. There's definitely reason to side-eye the changes made by the translation team.

TBH,

(bcs i didn't enjoy FE14)

FE16 and Nopes (and all Fodlan content) seriously made me reconsider my stance on the localisation.

After FE Tellius I knew (I mean after FE10) that changes/omissions existed but never thought they were deliberately made to push one character by destroying others, the general feeling was the same at the end of the game (we are supposed to worship Ike, the localisation played it up to 11, but FE10 does it on its own).

Now, FE16 ?

I was pleasantly surprised with FE15's voice acting so I thought the dark eras of lolcalisation were behind us...

But then Rhage popped up.

And with Rhage, I started to notice all little tweaks here and there made in the localised (some at least) scripts, that added end up with the result that "maybe Supreme Leader isn't that bad" that is pretty different from the JP/og version.

When FE10's loc said "Ike is the most awesome dude ever" instead of the jp FE10 saying "Ike is the most awesome dude", the Fodlan lolcalisation tries to give a different meaning to the solution/story given by the game!

As you pointed out, Caspar doesn't invade countries and is "sometimes" reckless, instead of being "out of control while invading the rest of the known world", his non uwu endings are worsened, Rhea was swapped by Rhage, the church needs to be "rehabilited" instead of "restored"...

I don't want to be overly critical and dissect everything when I'm playing a game, I'm playing first and foremost to enjoy myself but when I listen to Leigh's voiced lines and see this :

or this :

even if you're not thinking about localisation too much, you can see there is an issue in voice direction, which leads to discovering issues in script localisation and then... you start to ask "why", and come up with sad answers.

So, because Fodlan verse really disappointed me lolcalisation wise, even if I made exceptions earlier for FE14 and FE15, I can't be assed to trust the lolcalisation at all, so if a game has audio but no dual audio, it will be a hard pass.

Even if a kind soul, like the ones who made the FE Datamine site, compile and upload the script with the different audios to compare, it's a big no-no.

I know jp audio will not solve everything (especially if i still don't understand the jp script lol) but at least when the localised script tries to sell me the apple that is orange in the original script is akshually purple I'd have some clues about something being wrong.

More power to you if you like purple apples, but if I was supposed to get an orange apple, I would like to get this orange apple (or maybe red or yellow if needed), and not another product.

#fantasyinvader #lolcalisation woes #lolcalisation issues #this verse is full of them #i often use rhage as an example because she's the most obvious one #but i think the sprinkles added here'n'there you mentionned are worse #it's not enough to warp a character #they have to edit the original script to support their new ideas/vision of the game #like dudes wtf #i don't give a crap about your vision you're not the devs #and again to reiterate just in case of sea life attack #I have nothing against voice actors who do their job according to the directions given by the voice director #it actually feels like Ms Leigh was given more freedom to voice Rhea in Nopes so we can see more range and emotions especially in #that paralogue #FEH's Halloween!Rhea on the other hand is a clear example of her voice direction not fitting at all the character she's supposed to voice #at times i wonder if Nopes!Caspar isn't an exaggerated version of lolcalised!Caspar #FE16 #3 Nopes

[emberdune]

So I've noticed that they went and translated "the dreamer" as "the dreamer unit" in French, the same way you would say "an Eule unit". While I'd love to speculate how there's hidden nuggets of information in different localizations (how the Dreamer is canonically a Replika in French, for example), I'm sure it's just the translation team taking creative liberties and/or working on assumptions based on context. Still, one can wonder.

Update: In the German version, they used the masculine word for dreamer; while in the Russian version they used the feminine one. Once again, it probably doesn't mean anything but it's interesting how in both languages they could have used either grammatical gender but each went with a different one, following some internal logic for what felt right.

#if i recall correctly the only languages the devs were involved in directly were the Chinese version and the German version. #and there is in fact some extra information in the chinese version #according to that one blog of cn players anyway #signalis #get ready for a heretofore unknown TRMR unit haha

[spookyowlman]

// I wonder, since according to a rumor I heard from a friend, dying in the BBU universe actually won't turn you like barnaby/into a ghost... does Barnaby actually just party with dead bodies???? QKWKEKAKA

#// (and thw barnaboos) #According to the devs he likes to seat the dead bodies at the party table #Ooc

[wolfpaper]

A glimpse at the details of how the system efficacy mechanic works, wherein you can divert power from, say, targeting systems to all remaining thrusters in order to increase evasion, reaction speed, and melee damage

#accord #game development #mocking up a text based version of the gameplay in c++ since godot is A Lot to get used to #the underlying systems should be easy to adapt #but implementing the ui and working with models and shaders is something that I'm not prepared to deal with this early in dev