#have you read their dialogue in game

[angry-bacon]

I am seeing none of you are shipping mirrorverse Elsa with mirrorverse woody.. I am disappointed.

#elsa gets paired with everything #is this where the line is drawn #not even ironically #have you read their dialogue in game #mirrorverse #disney mirrorverse #mirrorverse woody #mirrorverse Elsa

[bubblingsteam]

#disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #kim kitsuragi #harrier du bois #harry du bois #this is probably one of my fav conversations in the game... #sad that not many people get to see it(?) cause you need like 7 in empathy? #comics #comic art #trans #cw blood #blood #cw smoking #my first time making a comic i hope it looks okay lmao #ough i have so many thoughts about kim and his complicated relationship with his name #im interpreting the dialogues in a very transgender way but its definitely about his racial identity too #cause its a *seolite* name #another factor of him not being seen as a revacholian #and its one of the only things he has left of his parents too #i wonder if the name kim is seen as more masculine or feminine in seol and in other isolas? #im definitely *not* projecting haha #i read once in a fic that kim *attempted* to translate his parents' letters when he was young #10/10 fic made me cry #thats why i decided to add the seolite dictionary - i dont think kim would have *tried* to learn seolite otherwise #he definitely has some kind of internalized racism he needs to get over #sorry for rambling #my art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Smell Check [Easy: Failure]

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 1 (part 2 - part 3)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #disco elysium #MDZS Disco Elysium AU #So sad I didn't manage to get this comic out on the 15th (pd-mdzs's 8 month anniversary and DE's 4th year anniversary) but I'm here *now* #I have a very extensive and detailed MDZS Disco Elysium AU that I am Not Normal About. #I've seen a few other people point out the potential in a crossover (true) but they make the mistake in having it be set in 51! #A true crossover would take place closer to The Antecentennial Revolution! #Disco Elysium did not go that hard on its cool lore for people to only make surface level crossovers!!! #One day I'll write the fic or post my notes. I don't know who would read it but it tickles *my* brain and that's enough. #No spoilers for DE (here or in comments (please)) but please consider....Magpie Wei Wuxian B*) On his way to be an innocent. #I do think there is a good chance a chunk of the MDZS readership would enjoy DE but...it's also not a game I easily recommend #It's more of an experience you have to marinate over. It's dark in ways that are off putting to some people. #It makes you feel like a very bad person all the time. It gets extremely personal if you allow yourself to be honest in your answers #and it's also the game that saved my life. My life was truly forever changed after playing disco elysium. #If I recommend it to people it's a badge of the trust I have in you to appreciate something dear to me B'*) #If you decide to play: PLEASE go in as blind as possible. You will regret spoiling yourself. #edit: this is based on real disco elysium dialogue. HDB has many canon kinks but this is not one of them

[hyakunana]

The traditional seasonal visit to the Beyond to report the news of this timeline.

#destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny art #bungie #the young wolf #hunter guardian #exo stranger #elsie bray #elisabeth bray #d2 lightfall #d2 lightfall spoilers #season of defiance #d2 pouka #fanart #comic #the hidden bonus I didn't have time to work on: 'pls when will you stop with that joke?' 'in three years' #after the success of the petition to dr elisabeth bray have one (1) good time thanks soseraph and camrin dialogue #petition to our guardian teach dr elisabeth bray how to strand since she taught us stasis #i'm writing these tags while reading again the tags of soHaunted visit and omg the lightfall showcase... #aND SHE WASN'T EVEN RELEVANT IN LIGHTFALL EVEN HAVING A POUKA WTF #elsie was present in energy and by energy i mean osiris going full WE DON'T HAVE TIME GUARDIAN!!!!!!!!!!!! #is2g if he dropped the line i would-- i don't know but i would do something #past me: i'll name the fish the winnower / present me aware pouka has sth w darkness: oh no— #fun fact i adore my strand loadout and i gotta draw alfa the hunter more with that dfghj

[skyward-floored]

Did people who don't see any zelink in hyrule warriors even play the same game as me

#like no offense #please nobody take offense #BUT #my friend. have you seen the way those two goobers look at each other. #they were making lovey-dovey eyes at each other literal minutes into the game #the smiles they give each other! #their dialogue when they're in the same battle!! #that end bit with the master sword where they both put it back together!!! the way their hands touch!!! AAAAH #I mean whatever read into it however you like I won't police #but i don't get it #rambles from the floor #zelink #hw zelink

[curiosityschild]

I did a Deaf Chell Portal playthrough (no sound and no subtitles) and it totally works.

My two questions were 1) would it be plausible for Chell to survive to the end of the game? And 2) would Chell have any idea that GLaDOS even existed at all?

And the answers are 1) Yes and 2) No.

Basically, Portal is a very good game with very well designed puzzles. At no point do you need any verbal instruction from GLaDOS. All the information you need to progress is given by the actual design of the level itself. For instance, the companion cube level. I was initially worried that this level would rely very heavily on GLaDOS's dialogue. I was thinking that it probably wouldn't be obvious to Chell that she had to destroy the cube to move on and that it probably would take her some time to stumble upon the correct course of action while trying whatever she could. But no! The fact that you have to incinerate the companion cube is made very obvious. There's literally a couple of those hazard warnings on the ground in front of the incinerator that tell you to throw the cube in.

IMO it would be pretty apparent to Chell what she needed to do and how to move through the facility. She may not understand WHY but she would know what to do. Even the end of the formal testing part where she is about to be incinerated. I don't know if Chell would know if this part was purposeful or accidental but regardless, she would be able to escape. The long and short of it is at any point in the game Chell's only option is to move forward and there's only ever one way forward.

There is basically no indication of GLaDOS's existence if Chell is Deaf. Here are the clues you get:

-no other humans in the facility

-once or twice the door to a level doesn't open until she's done monologuing at you (Chell of course has no idea she's being monologued at)

-one of the scribbles in Rattmann's hideout says "She's watching you" (Chell would not be too surprised by this. The cameras and observation rooms are obvious)

That's it. That's all you get up until you open the door to GLaDOS's chamber.

And even then! Even then the conclusion she's going to draw won't be more complex than "this computer must be the thing keeping the facility running and it is currently trying to kill me".

Now the GLaDOS fight itself is probably the biggest stretch of plausibility. At first, before the neurotoxin, GLaDOS does nothing that indicates she wants to hurt you. A piece of her falls off. It's pretty obvious that you can pick it up and put it in the incinerator (again, level design) but why? Just to do something? This is the weakest moment in the whole theory. AFTER that though, the continued destruction of GLaDOS makes more sense. Chell sees the countdown timer. She sees the neurotoxin even if she doesn't know what it is and she probably feels it too. There is now one of those eyeball turrets shooting at her. It is reasonable for Chell to draw the conclusion of "this huge robot is controlling the facility" at this point. And if the robot is making things shoot at her it makes sense to destroy the robot.

So she does. And she gets spit up onto the surface with absolutely no idea that GLaDOS had spent the entire time insulting her or even that she was sentient in the first place.

Which is very funny.

#portal #if you're reading this please know I have very little knowledge of portal lore #I just thought this would be fun #wayyyy too long of a post tbh it's really not that deep lmao #I'm kind of curious about Portal 2 but I really don't think it would fare as well #I think you get a LOT more info in that game through dialogue #and I'm really reluctant to play that whole game without sound so...I probably won't #maybe one day #anyway VERY funny #Chell “wtf is even happening rn” vs GLaDOS “nemesis doesn't know she exists”

[marshmalleaux-queen]

people who think BOTW/TOTK Link is flat/expressionless or has no personality did not play the games, I think

#just saw a comment on a post asking what the next zelda game could improve on #and it was like 'give link an actual personality and not going 😐 all the time' #like excuse me sir. have you never seen this man after cooking a meal #have you not seen him get dipped in dye or smooched by the great fairy #did you not read any of his many witty and adorable dialogue options #they also said they don't want him to be a player insert anymore #which. is kind of like. his whole schtick. since day 1 #botw #totk #link

[wizardysseus]

[holds him in my heart]

#baby boy!!! baby boyyy #one day i should do a little project where i rate every blue beetle 06 issue by how sophisticated scarab's dialogue is #issue before this? all random phrases copied from the prior issue. 0/10 #& sometimes they must have just put 'scarab speak' in the script and it got into the final copy literally #of course early on most of scarab's dialogue is just 'alert' or 'enemy' #but by end game you have entire sentences. sarcasm. communication. #'this is going to hurt.' #jaime reyes #captain's reading log

[v-arbellanaris]

here's the thing, right. like. okay, let's take everything up to the title showing up as the 'origin' style opening for dai, where you establish character. but like. literally what about that opening establishes character. you get brought to the chantry in haven where they briefly discuss executing you before declaring the inquisition. you can either begrudgingly support the people who have actively threatened you repeatedly or you can go uwu i'd love to help you guys out im so excited to be working with you. like. hello.

#throughout most of the haven stuff you don't get to develop your own opinions on anything. key information is shoved into codexes with #no other information or dialogue contradicting what was said. if you do express an opinion the game goes out of it's way to have every #single companion hammer you over the head with the 'correct' opinion. and for some reason they're almost ALL on the same page. #for example. DORIAN advocating for the circles so southern thedas doesn't ''become like tevinter'' like hello what. WHAT. #magic dangerous. apostates bad. blood magic evil. wardens bad. tevinter evil. qunari evil. dalish bad and stupid. ferelden bad and stupid. #chantry good! templars good! seekers good! orlais good! colonialism good! #like somehow. ALL OF THEM. #when it's to that extent like it's clear they're trying to push you towards some kind of conclusion. rather than letting you make your own. #or even be able to express it. AS AN ACTUAL CIRCLE MAGE I CANNOT EXPRESS COHERENT ARGUMENTS TO SUPPORT THE REBELLION. #like HELLO??? #sorry but there IS no moment or period in time where the herald gets to establish their character. they're immediately thrown into #the deep end of the plot. you get IMMEDIATELY THROWN into the resolution of the mage-templar war. with barely any info except what you #get from your advisors and companions. and some codexes if you go out of your way to read them. which. considering they push you to go to #val royeaux as soon as possible. is just. #like come on. let's be real here. #tbd #dai critical

[carlos-in-glasses]

Dialogue Day

I was thinking it would be fun for us to share a section of dialogue that we like from our own work! It can be funny, sad, ridiculous, mysterious, plot-centric or just characters shooting the breeze…anything! And it can be from a WIP or a posted fic! It can be short or long! Let’s celebrate our beloveds having a chat. ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 I shall start with something cute/stupid (cupid!!!) from a WIP:

Carlos curves his hands around TK’s neck. “TK, Look at me.”

“I can’t.” TK breaks, looking anywhere but at him. This being dazzled thing – it’s mutual. And maybe this is the emotional equivalent to how Carlos feels about being physically naked in a public space. He just wants to swim away. “And I won’t.”

“What? Why not?”

“Your eyes are too big.”

“Excuse me?” Carlos scoffs.

“They are too big.”

“Nobody’s ever told me that they’re too big before.”

“They’re so big they see everything,” TK tells him, a little snarly.

“That scares you, huh?” Carlos runs a hand through TK’s wet hair, pushing it up from where it’s flattened against his scalp.

“It would scare you too.” TK wafts a hand at Carlos’ face, feeling foolish and vulnerable. “If it were the other way around.”

Carlos kisses TK’s forehead in a motion that hushes him, and then nuzzles his own forehead against it. The bridges of their noses touch, and they both shut their eyes. “It is the other way around,” Carlos says, “Sometimes I can’t look at you, either. And I mean that as a compliment.”

And I’m going to tag (with no pressure!): @heartstringsduet @goodways @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut @reyesstrand @paperstorm @strandnreyes @welcometololaland @liminalmemories21 @ladytessa74 @alrightbuckaroo @rmd-writes @howlingsaturn @tailoredshirt @chaotictarlos @lightningboltreader @meditating-honey-badger @taralaurel @bonheur-cafe @freneticfloetry if you want to share!

Please do tag others if you want to, and send it around!

#I appreciate I have no clout in terms of starting a tag game lol #I just want to read everyone's good dialogue because you are all so talented #Dialogue Day #Tag game #What am I doing? Is this going to die on its ass? #Should I move to a bothy in the Outer Hebrides where I can't access the internet ever again?

[obrienpolycule]

Hey unironically i think i should be hired by streaming sercives to fix their subtitles. I think there should be a way for viewers/streamers to report bad or inaccurate subtitles or ways they could be improved. I think they should be able to ask for better translations or ask to be told what language is being spoken if they switch languages. I think this should be an option for big blockbusters and random indie movies and international shows/movies and i think streaming companies should stop paying for the cheapest fucking options for their captioning

#this post brought to you by Highlander (1986) on Amazon Prime having the shittiest subtitles ive ever seen #un-synced #when it wasn't dialogue it just said Noise & Music constantly #and also that post about netflix not saying what language is being spoken and that effecting your understanding of the story #and also that one time prime had a show that just had a character saying Speaks Cantonese so you didn't get half the conversation #and the english subtitles for Squid Game not having any captions when anyone spoke english but they were all masked so they were muffled and #i couldn't read their lips so ironically i only understood the korean in that show #feel free to add on to this post

[despair-tea]

Man who has not even considered reading a book this year: Why would I want to read a VISUAL novel? I don't need the pictures! I'll just read a regular book The girl who is desperately trying to crack his egg because "she'd be so fuckable you don't understand":

#shitposting #but seriously #i hate when i talk about a vn and someone pulls the “i'd just read a regular book” line #like #they're not meant as a replacement for the medium???? #it's a different medium with different strengths #able to convey emotions in a more tactile way while being generally more limited in terms of prose #a multi-faceted discipline that combines character art + music + voicework with the prose & dialogue to create works that stand apart #but also #you don't just strip em #you screw em too!! #just like #idk where you get off on saying shit like this. just say you're not interested and you have a small mind whatever i won't be mad #no you will NOT “just read a regular book” #i know what you are #oh yea? you're going to just “read the regular book” version of tsukihime #the romance visual novel originally released as a doujin game and still talked about today

[llitchilitchi]

people always complain about a story not making sense because they refuse to read the notes and stuff found around in the world and call it bad game design, but when a story has a lot of exposition in dialogue its bad writing because its exposition dump, and when the notes and dialogue are made to be minimal so people can only learn the lore they feel like learning the story is "badly delivered" because it was not spoon-fed to us? just say you hate spending time learning the lore and go

#litchi.txt #I am soooooooooo tired of this #every single game review bitches about at least One of these #if theres a game review that talks about any of these positively I am subscribing to the person immediately #'my adhd doesnt let me read long notes' thats nice but you also skip the dialogue like HOW do you want the story delivered #i am starting to understand why 'STORY EXPLAINED' youtube videos are so big #because I always open those hoping to learn some subtle stuff I missed but they just recap what is directly in the game #and Im like 'what is the point like why would anyone need the story explained to them after watching/playing thru it' #and just. yeah #before anyone comes at me about being ableist with the adhd comment I have adhd and I just kinda accept it #like I either suffer through stuff or I skip it and then Im like 'oh shit I shouldve actually paid attention' #i wish there was a better way to go about it (and I think oblivion does a p good job at summing up 10 page books into 2 sentences in the #character journal) but theres honestly no way to go about this without the player putting some time and effort into learning the lore

[sunbedo]

last night i dreamt i held you (stardew valley 1.6 update for console) in my arms.....

#HALEYS WINTER CLOTHES LOOK SO CUTE!!!! MY EWIFE IS HOME MY WIFE #and if you can have up to three pets.... i can have all three of my kitty cats that i have irl!!!!!!!! yippee!!!!! #compensating for them getting their collars off all the time by putting silly hats on them ingame >:)))) #oh wait i should probably #stardew valley 1.6 spoilers #therw we go #and as soon as i saw that one of the new festivals was squidfest i was like. LIKE IN SPLATOON????????? NO WAY #i!! cannot!! fucking wait to see all of the new dialogue!+!!!!!!!! aaaaa #ALSO!!! FUCKING BOOK SELLER AND BOOKS???? HELLO???? MY LIBRARIAN DREAMS IN VIDEO GAME???.???? #and i like how one of the things in the changelog is just. 'golden animal crackers' like. okay????? swag???? #theres alot of concerning things on there (like... baby toss crit-ing?? hello??? mr ape???) but thats just funny #it might just be somtging to increase your animals' or pets hearts toward you but. i kinda hope its just the snack kind you can get in a box #ALSO JUST LIKE. DEHYDRATING FRUIT. SMOKING FISH. MOSS!!!! BROCCOLI AND SQUASH AND CARROTS. FORTNITE LOOT CRATE MYSTERY BOXES??????? #mr. ape you have truly outdone yoursf #cherry chortles #only one day till spring break!!!!! #me and my mom are going on a cruise so i wont be arlund for a few days. bro i am going to read and draw so mucb >:))))))))

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

i wonder how much bg3 companion banter I miss bcuz I can’t hear it and don’t have the camera focused on the companions to see the subtitles over their head or don’t have the log open (or do but the dialogue is drowned in random npc chatter and actions)

I was going to be like damn I wish my companions talked more but then I realized they probably do and I just can’t tell

#can you guys have louder conversations or smth I’m trying to be nosy but I’m HoH #you know something I hate about video games sometimes is the mouth animations while speaking aren’t accurate enough to lip read #are my companions talking about how me and Wyll are betrothed? are they talking about the city? do they have friendship with each other? #who knows not my ass #i mean i can read the dialogue files if i want I suppose

[kakusu-shipping]

You’re all getting another unpromted headcanon dump because I’m very personally tired of the “Mario would hide his struggles and trauma post Movie from Luigi because he doesn’t want to look weak and keep up the appearance of the Strong Older Brother” take. Don’t Eldest Daughter Syndrome Mario. He and Luigi are a team. A pair. He would tell Luigi everything.

Anyway here’s everything I think Mario personally struggles with and would rely on Luigi for

The Mario movie put it very blatantly on the table that Mario’s a little touchy about his height. It’s probably more so because he’s use to being picked on as The Short Guy on the sports team rather than it really actually bothering him all that much. He’s just assumes someone calling him short is an insult. The only personal problem he has with it is being shorter than Luigi. They spent a lot of their childhood the same height, and Luigi being taller still messes them both up from time to time

This is another left over from Highschool; Mario and Luigi (accidentally) kind of fell into the trope of the Smart twin and the Sporty twin, with Mario being the ladder. This messed with his head in a way he couldn’t really articulate, being expected to be a Meathead like the other guys on his sports teams did actually cause his grades to go down, especially in Math which use to be his best subject, which of course caused a lot of concerned backlash from their parents, especially his dad. Now he has it locked in his brain somewhere he’s stupid when he’s not.

He’s bad with people. Luigi’s a lot more of a people person than he is. He has a hard time connecting to people, or making simple small talk. He can be pretty blunt, or awkward, and maybe a bit aggressive sounding, especially to someone not use to how loud and confidently he speaks. As he gets older he gets quieter, speaks less, falls into a much more comfortable selective mute life style, and it suits him much better than trying to fumble through talking to people. He prefers to listen

He’s definitely a workaholic, he’d gotta be busy busy busy all the time. A lot of people will see him run from one project to the next, never turning down a request for help with something, constantly juggling tasks and working on something in his spare time and think it’s all because he’s such a nice, hard working guy. But no. It’s the stress of not doing enough. Or because he anxious being alone. Luigi’s the only one who knows Mario will keep going till he crashes, and is the one to always stop him and remind him he’s doing enough, he’s enough. Take a break.

Mario’s always struggled with separation anxiety. He’s never been one for the whole concept of “alone time”, he’d much rather be near people he loves and trusts and can relax around. He use to joke it stems from being born first, those few moments before Luigi was born was more than enough alone time for a life time. He tries to wave it off occasionally, but it really is a problem. If he is ever left alone, say Luigi goes off on some grand adventure without him, he finds things to work on until he passes out, and then just sleeps and lays about until Luigi comes back.

#Mario #Headcanon post #Emile's Writing #I forgot to tag my last few random headcanon dumps with that oops kfdjgkdfjkg #Also included of course is any insomnia and nightmares the movie and other such adventures would inflict #My personal Mario timeline is the Less Mario talks in any given game the older he is #Minus the first 3 2D platformers where there's barely any dialogue #Those are early adventures to me as well just also with Luigi #So we start at like 23 Movie Mario and eventually get to Early 30's Super Paper Mario #With any game with Jr in it being later in the timeline as well because Jr was born After Mario showed up personal headcanon #and is like 6 in Sunshine so kfdjgkfdgk #I do NOT have the mental energy to be talking about a purely headcanon based Mario Timeline actually #Here's all my personal ideas for Mario's mental weaknesses because to me he's a 3D human person with flaws and struggles #While also being just a Really Good Guy #I love him #Aight it's 2am I should be off to bed now I GUESS #Thanks for reading if you did #Lemme know if you ALSO have any Mario personal struggles would LOVE to see more headcanons from people #And Luigi too I know we all have a MILLION headcanons for Luigi Insecurities