#don't hate the player

[wellfine]

I mowed him sorry (← guy who thinks buzzed heads are handsome)

#one piece #roronoa zoro #baseball player-lookin head..... #descriptions in alt text #was talking with a friend about this and we decided ace went thru a stage of hating hair cuts/brushing as a kid #so when it got too tangled dadan would just shave it all off for him bc it was less uncomfortable in the long run #and luffy now has a cain instinct to slap the shit out of any bald head he sees #which is bad bc now he's a million times stronger so zoro nearly got OHKO'd #don't worry he ate a handful of walnuts and recovered (they're good for the brain)

[danndesigns]

Hate the Game Master

#captain n the game master #nintendo #90s #cartoons #don't hate the player #hate the game

[only-frann]

I wanna propose some silly ideas for the final sketch about the "Anthony's death" arc, just because Christmas it's in 2 weeks and I love the old smosh holiday sketches.

Ofc this one it's about a sad lonely Ian who's only wish is to have his bestie back.

The Christmas morning...

This final part it's mostly my desire 🤝

#smosh #ian hecox #anthony padilla #ianthony #ian and anthony #smosh fanart #anthony padilla and ian hecox #look this is Ian unconscious speaking #Don't hate the player hate the game #smosh christmas sketch frfr #☀️🔎

[front-facing-pokemon]

#chatot #now this is the guy. this is the little man that deprives the hero & partner of food because they “failed to bring back the perfect apples” #even though they were literally fucking sabotaged. we all know punishment doesn't work and is a negative reinforcement but holy shit even i #the world of “punishments” not letting them EAT FOOD??? i kinda think that's genuinely cruel. and it made me despise this guy for a while #i think everyone's either in the camp of loving this guy and being a chatot apologist or like. hating him because he was unnecessarily hars #to the player and partner team. and always seemed to take team skull's side. i think he's a funny little guy but also yeah that was some #bullshit and i don't. trust him until he apologizes. he's a suck-up to the guildmaster and that's like. it. he's not a good father figure #even though the game seems to want him to be

[can-of-slorgs]

Completed the Shenkuu Stamp collection some time ago, so it was only fair to draw my girl Mirsha

#neopets #neotag #neoart #vin doods #gnorbu #drawing this was actually really fun in a way that when i was looking for references i didn't know she was such a lesbian icon #not surprised but hey lets cheer for the lesbian alpaca! #I'm not as happy with the colors as I thought #I'm a bit rusty in just really warm colors without it looking burnt for some reason HJSD #but looking at pictures of AC teams have made me really fall into my old virtupets fix #i love everyone so much on that team and not really that many ppl play for it #i still remember winning a long long time ago and was completely blown away as it was basically just 5 ppl in a forum going mad #i just really love the designs of most of the players on all groups?? #i don't even like playing in the AC that much i just love the characters LMFAOO #i think i still remember I drew fanart of Sela and the gelert from the darigan team when i was like 8-9 and submitting in onto deviantart #and getting hate comments probably like 8 years later because i missed his wings or i made them too small or sth #that was hilarious thinking about it now but it did made me hate the darigan team for that year SDHFKSD #ok this is too long it always ends up wit me just rambling #I love my boy XL Striker 3.8 and Sela #ok nobodys reading uhhhh #send me an ask with the weirdest emoji out of context if you've read this far tbh nobody cares by this point HJSKSFD #idk if ill draw someone for the AC team everytime i complete a stamp collection but if i'm feeling like it maybe #or if they're requested tecnically #thats it bye

[utilitycaster]

You know what's interesting to me? For all people keep claiming at every juncture that perhaps Bells Hells will come around on the gods and see the harm they do (which, as discussed extensively, is, half the time, simply not intervening) not only have they never done so, but also they never quite cross the line into saying the party should join the Ruby Vanguard or aid them - and indeed, they defend against it - so what does this achieve? It feels like they're asking for a story in which the party stands idly by, which isn't much of a story nor, if I may connect this briefly to the real world, a political stance anyone should be proud of.

That's honestly the frustration with the gods and the "what if the Vanguard has a point" conversations in-game. What do we do then? Do we allow the organization that will murder anyone for pretty much any reason that loosely ties into their goals run rampant? The group that (perhaps unwittingly, but then again, Otohan's blades had that poison) disrupted magic world-wide, and caused people who had the misfortune to live at nexus points to be teleported (most, as commoners, without means of return). While also fomenting worldwide unrest?

Those were the arguments before the trip to Ruidus; with the reveal of the Vanguard's goals to invade Exandria, the situation becomes even more dire. Do you let the Imperium take over the planet?

And do the arguments against the gods even hold up? If Ludinus is so angry at them for the Calamity, what does it say that he destroyed Western Wildemount's first post-Calamity society for entirely selfish means? (What does it say about the validity of vengeance as a motivator?) What does it say that Laudna told Imogen she could always just live in a cottage quietly without issue before the solstice even happened? (Would this still be true if the Imperium controls the world?) What does it say that when faced with a furious, grieving party and the daughter she keeps telling herself was her reason for all of this, Liliana can't provide an answer to the question of what the gods have done other than that their followers will retaliate...for, you know, the Vanguard's endless list of murders. (That is how the Vanguard and Imperium tend to think, huh? "How dare your face get in the way of my boot; how dare you hit me back when I strike you.") She can't even provide a positive answer - why is Predathos better - other than "I feel it", even though Imogen and Fearne know firsthand that Predathos can provide artificial feelings of elation. Given all the harm Ludinus has done in pursuit, why isn't the conclusion "the gods should have crashed Aeor in such a way that the tech was unrecoverable?"

Even as early as the first real discussion on what the party should do, the fandom always stopped short of saying "no, Imogen's right, they should join up with the people who killed half the party," it was always "no, she didn't really mean it, she just was trying to connect with her mother." Well, she's connected with her mother, and at this point the party doesn't even care about the gods particularly (their only divinely-connected party member having died to prevent the Vanguard from killing all of them). So they will stop the Vanguard; as Ashton says, the means are unforgiveable. As Laudna says, it's not safe to bet on Predathos's apathy. As Imogen says, she's done running; the voice that she used to think of as a lifeline belongs to someone she doesn't trust. So I guess my question is: if they're stopping the people who are trying to kill the gods (and defense of the gods isn't remotely their personal motivation)...do you think the next phase of the campaign is Bells Hells personally killing the gods? Reconstructing the Aeor tech and hoping none of their allies notice? How does this end? Does your ideology ever get enacted? Or is this entirely moot and pointless and the story ends with Bells Hells saying "well, I'm really glad we stopped the people who [insert list of Vanguard atrocities from above]; none of us follow the gods or plan to, but honestly, the status quo we return to is preferable to whatever nightmare Ludinus had concocted in his violent quest for power and revenge"?

#i've got a lot to do today so I think I'm done posting but #cr spoilers #i called that this particular cohort of fans had empathy only for those like them and were terrified of player agency like. 18 mos ago #and i have never been proven wrong. zero analysis just a constant demand that everyone coddle their feelings and confirm their biases #literally will straight up fabricate lore and cry you're disrespecting a pretend person for not including it in your considerations #absolutely SHIT understanding of actual lore. utter incapacity to follow a logical throughline to its conclusion #it's like. wow. wonder why you're so focused on hypocrisy and you overreact to the word selfish #the reason they hate or fear orym (they say they don't...but that just means they want him to go to a reeducation camp instead of die) #is bc i think they are truly terrified of the idea that people can not just hold opinions that are against theirs but stand fast by them #easier to stan the villain because then they die and you can feel wronged and betrayed and wallow in a sense of continual victimhood #than to like a character who might last long enough to call you the idiot and asshole that you are #but it's also funny bc literally if orym weren't there in the latest convo the conclusion is the same. #ashton's had the same opinion of the vanguard the whole time (and it's not positive) but that's not under scrutiny #probably bc it doesn't allow people to be ghoulish in the most cringeworthy way possible

[jomprowley]

ross save some for the rest of us goodness gracious 🙄🙄 greedy as hell

#tally hall #ross federman #he is hungry #don't hate the player hate the game #court is in session #hi rossy

[mrgaretcarter]

Sassy + Asking after Ted

#tedlassoedit #ted lasso #sassy collins #ellie taylor #tvedit #tvgifs #my stuff #don't hate the player hate the game

[cheval-grand]

Old nostalgia sso players when the game they constantly hate on, harrass the employees of, and refuse to support financially starts being developed for and catering to new players after they find a new excuse to be mad the game has progressed by a decade and threaten to quit for the millionth time

#sso #star stable #star stable online #like the latest wave of complainers isn't even trying to sugarcoat it anymore #“its not that it doesn't look good. its just that its not the hollow woods anymore. i hate toxic new players saying that its good” #i say it everytime and i will keep saying it #if you don't like it then quit #you can whinge all you want about how “the game is fine” and “no one wanted this” #but sse running in the red and the huge new uptick in new players says otherwise

[tavshortfortavern]

The "You looked into our cages and saw people not monsters." line from Sebastian's epilogue letter kills me.

That single sentence alone means i'll NEVER ascend Astarion.

Sorry it's no longer about you bby. Its about those spawn who never deserved this. Who really deserve a second chance like you did. Sebastian was innocent and I can still see that through his letter. I like to believe while he still hates and resent Astarion for doing that to him, can break the cycle. Those children too. How the Gur used their recipes for monster hunting to help their turned kids feel better.

You cant even argue its a risk to release 7000 spawn. They take care of themselves. Sorry Star, I live outside your approval. Something something love and kindness don't cheapen it with your realism

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 tav #astarion #bg3 astarion #don't hate on players tho #everyone gets to play how they want to

[eydika]

drew this fella out of spite and also as a little gift for @chissgendered 👍

#star wars #swtor #star wars: the old republic #hunter #art #illustration #i BARELY draw blorbos from this game (that aren't player characters) #and personally i think it's very funny that one of the rare times i draw a swtor character it's one that just ... exists to me asdjkdjfka #(to clarify: i do not hate hunter i simply don't have any strong feelings or thoughts about him) #my art #p: procreate #@ask if u made it this far through the tags #think of arexxar getting the neutral face of disappointment

[wine-dark-soup]

"give us fat people in bg3" you guys can't even handle the conventionally buff women in bg3

#YEAH the karlach hate mostly happens outside tumblr but still #and i still have to see another player using a buff model for their female character #don't get me wrong everyone is suspciously thin in bg3. it sucks. the witcher 3 had fat people 8 years ago.

[wearevillaneve]

I feel ya.

#killing eve #eve polastri #villanelle #eve x villanelle #sandra oh #killing eve is a comedy...with murder #jodie comer #she's the best #killing eve edit #don't blame me #you're not the boss of me #don't hate the player hate the game

[fear-ze-queer]

genuine question: where in the monty cutscene thing (with all the cardboard cutouts & everything) does it reveal that monty became the band's bass player because he killed bonnie?

i've heard a lot of people saying "bonnie giving monty his guitar and retiring is a cover up for what actually happened" and that's totally understandable!!! but that on its own doesn't say it was monty who got rid of him, just that he took bonnie's place in the band. it doesn't tell you what actually *did* happen.

i've seen so many people saying that scene revealed that it really was monty's fault, but i genuinely don't understand why?? if anybody has an answer please let me know i'm so confused

#i'm on team 'monty looks up to bonnie and was honored to take his position in the band when bonnie disappeared but monty didn't cause it' #at least that's my takeaway from it #we don't ever really get confirmation that monty dislikes bonnie in the first place!! all we know is bonnie disappeared in gator golf and+ #monty just so happened to end up the bass player bc he wasn't already playing an instrument #and ppl say 'but monty has the claws' yeah the ones he doesn't get until he BECOMES BASS PLAYER???? aka AFTER bonnie disappears? #i don't think the claws could've been enough to decommission bonnie anyway. these animatronics are fucking RESILIENT #and another argument is 'he hates freddy so he went after his closest friend' but. why wouldn't he simply go after freddy??? #fnaf security breach #security breach ruin #fnaf ruin #security breach ruin spoilers #fnaf ruin spoilers #ruin spoilers #glamrock bonnie #monty gator #montgomery gator #security breach monty #idk if this comes off as passive aggressive or not but i AM genuinely asking

[yourplayersaidwhat]

I’m the DM, and I have an awful habit of just coming up with new characters, making them in DNDBeyond and then not being able to use them. So they’ve shown up as npc’s in my current campaign. None of the PC’s have noticed that they’ve been around extremely powerful npcs this entire time… until this evening. 

Me: Alright you arrive at this tavern. It’s… Well pretty run down and not too exciting. You can tell this is the local’s dive bar of choice. There’s a drow man behind the bar, talking to a half-elf woman. A group of other adventurers in the corner and some guy sleeping at the table. 

*Party does it’s usual thing of food and booze* 

Paladin: I don’t like how those mercenaries are talking so I’m going to go talk to them. 

Rogue: I’m going to try and pickpocket the barkeep.

Druid: I’ll be the distraction by wild shaping into a horse!

Bard: I’ll just play a song. 

Barbarian: I’m going to pick a fight with the sleeping man!

Me *thinking*: This isn’t going to go well.

Rogue: I just rolled a nat 1. 

Me: So. Chaos, y’all are going to cause chaos? Ok. Well then. 

Me *Thinking*: Ok, got two level 20 characters just chilling in this bar, and neither would like this chaos. (Scales them down to the party’s level). 

Me: Well everyone. Roll initiative, because you pissed off a drow monk, a half-elf blood hunter, and a pack of goons. 

#shit my players say #dnd #rpg #submission #shareable #why npcs hate pcs #don't mess with the dm

[awsok]

something about like. frequent complaints in the fandom that bell's hells don't feel as close as vm and m9. then this episode being full of sweet moments between the party as they express their love and trust and commitment to each other. and then in the very same episode ashton very very nearly getting themself killed and bh only barely being able to keep them alive and being rightfully fucking furious.

yes in a way bell's hells aren't as close. but that's the appeal !! they love each other so much but they often feel like they're on the verge of breaking apart. there's a lot of conflict. their goals and intentions often don't align. at any moment any one of them could snap and kill everyone.

they aren't just ticking time bombs as individuals. but collectively!!

anyway bell's hells keep up the good work you're doing amazing sweetie

#sorry but i like drama! i like conflict!! #the reason it hurts so much isn't because they don't love each other. it's because they DO!! #cr's greatest strength is that even with the exact same makeup of players and dm each campaign is so different #critical role #bell's hells #bh #* #rip to all of you who hated tal's decision but i fucking loved it #*meta