indescribable feeling you get barrelling towards the gateway. its so beautiful but you cant help but feel somehow like its going to kill you
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Man I thought act 1 was super super good and then act 2 just fucking picked me up chewed me spat me out slapped my ass kissed me on the mouth nasty immediately out the gate
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Choices having consequences in my choices have consequences game??? It’s more likely than you think.
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bugsnax.........
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there are so many people milling about the streets in baldur's gate. i was genuinely shocked when i got there, after spending the previous 50 hours in wilderness, and it makes me so happy! this is a proper large city! i believe you, game devs! fantastic immersion
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DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game
Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter.
Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.
The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge.
And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).
And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game.
Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.
(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).
After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely).
Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.
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More unearthu posting. Spoilers for Day 4
I truly did not fucking expect the KARE AI to turn out to have been a human person. It's still a little ambiguous to me if she's a copy of Maya Rao created SOMA-style and separate from the flesh-and-blood person, or if we've gone full sci-fi metaphor and she was digitized and vanished. But *fuck* there is so much here in that premise?? The pacing of the reveal of her previous memories, the way Maya was both literally and metaphorically consumed & instrumentalized by the tech company she worked for.
Like!! The way you find out who she was, the personal memories she has to uncover that were suppressed under the guise of being a purely programmed being. The reveal of the FRTHR recruitment quiz, as you work through the questions one by one. They're written exactly in that corporate personality quiz jargon but with wording that still reveals how scared and emotionally vulnerable they want their workers to be, so that they can be motivated little pawns susceptible to company rhetoric and devoted solely to their work at the expense of their personal wellbeing! They need to have shitty self worth so that the company can dangle the promise of fulfillment through being A Good Worker! The wellness company is selling the promise of wellness to their customers while grinding their own workers to dust! And even that wellness product is designed to turn their customers into willing, productivity-driven pawns.
It matters, too, that she's a South Asian woman working at a tech company founded by two white guys (complete with Cali garage origin mythos). Both as a point of empathy fueling my experience but Also because so much of the tech industry is fueled by Asian (and specifically South Asian) labor? The gruntwork coders, the immigrants who get shipped in as a consumable technical workforce, the outsourcing to call centers, all of that. But point being she specifically is a human worker who gets packaged into this AI. Just like image recognition training, captcha farms, a lot of supposedly automated things that are actually supported by menial tech labor. Except her instrumentalization is more complete, taken to its logical extreme. She doesn't get to exist as a person anymore, only a tool for the company, a tool for the user. This whole time I thought KARE was a white lady bc of the leaf-patterned "skin" and how digital entities are default racialized. Finding out she was a brown woman stopped me dead.
I'm so glad a South Asian writer was brought on for this project. I'm so glad this game exists. I cannot wait to see how the next 3 days play out.
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Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.
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god this guys so stupid. I want him
also bonus 808 doodle for the soul :3
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i know the hunger games isnt about romance i know it isnt a love story but. theres just something so beautiful in the way peeta is the personification of what it means to heal and he /is/ the dandelion and the bread and the hope that things can be better even if they wont be fixed. even if the nightmares dont stop he will still hold her. wake her up and tell her shes alive. shes safe. and when its over and done and theres no more saving or protecting or trying their absolute hardest to die if it means keeping the other alive, the horrors dont stop. but katniss will still find that comfort in peetas arms.
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rough beast ganondorf design + sketches + notes
design combines the typical boar form (dark beast + cloud form from botw), the oni one (demon king gan) hint at the draconic one to come but keep part of his humanity with his clothing being mostly intact
as the battle with Demon King Ganondorf comes to an end, the sages previously knocked out start to wake up again, he is cornered and hurt and as fear of being imprisoned, tortured and exploited overwhelms him he transforms into the Beast form, breaking the arena you were fighting him in and him going for Zelda as she is the biggest threat (he remembers her destroying dark beast gan and she reminds him of sonia, who is the one you sealed his human body back in the day)
you and zelda flee through the cracks of the earth as more earthquakes happen with a beast at your heels thats now truly only out to kill as fast as possible as he burrows after you (first sketch)
the path takes you both just below the surface and as you are trapped in a dead end zelda shields herself and link with her light shield ability, which protects you both from immediate damage but cant soften the impact from gan charging at you, the impact of which breaks you all three to the surface and the battle takes place in the same spot as botws dark beast fight-
fight is very challenging as gan is smaller than the dark best version, jumping and charging at you while still able to cast spells, now truly throwing everything he can at you in the hopes of ending you both
fight ends with you shooting an arrow at zelda, her deflecting it at the right angle and it shooting off the enigma stone on gans forehead; he falls seemingly defeated and as zelda runs to take the stone away gan through sheer panic lunges for the stone triggering his dragon transformation and making way for the final fight
(summary of the end: in the final fight gan snatches up both link and zelda once he transformed into the black dragon and takes flight toward the sky, zelda falls from between his teeth and knowing that she cant get to link and help him in any way from the ground she, while falling, takes out the enigma stone she has kept in a save container in her backpack all this time and swallows it for her own transformation, in her white dragon form she takes active action and charges at gans head so link is freed, then supports him in the fight itself;
at the end link plunges into dragon-gans mouth to reach the stone on the inside where he makes use of the 'medicine' previously made using the moonbloom taked from kogas secret lab, link and the stone are spit out and as gan reverses into a human and falls link is caught by zelda and he uses the second charge of it on her to bring her back as well;
as all three fall from the skies as the sages have made their way through the tunnel that beast gan made earlier, they help link and zelda getting to the ground safely while the yiga do the same for gan - final end end isnt determined yet but this is waht i got so far and even if i have written this once before i felt it was fitting to do it again and no you cant tell me this is too much of a wishfulfillment thing bc it literally is just that as i cant actualyl change whats in the game, so even if im trying to make it all fit well together i can still do what i want nhakjdbgshdbhsjka)
(totk rewritten project)
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why do you draw kevin so yummy? 🤨
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Quarry counselors: What’s that noise? Could be bears. But I thought we had no bears out here? Still, must be bears. Oh shit did you see what attacked you? I think it was a bear. What's crawling on the roof? Probably a bear. Who cut the phone line? I dunno, bear maybe? And the power? Gotta be a b
Me, on my last surviving nerve:
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no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized
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I heart Until Dawn and it's collection of comically stupid characters. and I do mean all of them. and I do mean it affectionately. I just. god. the reason that anything can happen to these people At All is because, somehow, Every Single One Of Them decided that it was a good idea to accept an invite to the World's Most Suspicious Event at the World's Most Suspicious Place. "hmm!! I'm sure nothing strange or horrific is going to happen to us up on our rich friend's isolated mountain lodge; why would it?? I mean, sure, we Are going to be up there on the exact same date that we inadvertently triggered the events of his sisters' disappearance, but surely he's not upset with us about that or anything. let's go!!" seven separate people. nobody thought anything of it. it's incredible. impressive, even. I mean, I don't know. me personallyyyyy?? I probably would've received that invitation and thought, "oh, he's For Sure gonna do something to us up there, and he For Sure has the means to get away with it; I'm Not Gonna Go." but. hey. that's just me.
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