#i was born for these games

[phoenixkaptain]

I love Etrian Odyssey as a series and I especially love V because “you” are a separate character from your teammates and you have no fighting ability whatsoever, implying that you apparently showed up to a famously dangerous, labyrinthine dungeon and convinced five explorers to come on a deadly journey through no less than thirty floors of uniquely difficult challenges, all because you wanted to make a map of the place.

The dedication to cartography is wonderful, it really feels like I am the character.

Also, it been almost a decade, I realize that, but I finally discovered that the way to get your maps accepted into the registry is just to draw borders, draw walls, you don’t have to walk through every green space, you just have to have boundaries drawn up. I searched for hours trying to find the answer, defeated so many FOEs, my Masurao died SO many times, and all I had to do was use my stylus to draw a little black line? I’m sharing this knowledge in the hopes that it will keep my fellow cartography lovers from going insane, why the fuck doesn’t the game just say this?

Anyway, 10/10, great game, hard as fuck but I like the character creator and I get very emotionally attached to the Wraiths and want them to stick with my party as my lil friend

#etrian odyssey #etrian odyssey v #the inane ramblings of a madman #have i ever posted about this game before? #i feel like i haven’t #i might’ve tho #anyway i love this series #v excited to learn there’s remakes of the originals coming oht #but i must be honest #i really honestly play the games #because i enjoy making maps #which is really funny for a multitude of reasons #chief among them being my family name #means ‘map maker’ #i was born for these games #i won’t let you down ancestors #my maps will be glorious! #i’m so tired even tho i slept for ten hours what up with that

[toyota-supra]

yeah once you're born you can only play new stuff. I tried playing playstation 1 games once as a kid and a guy showed up at my house with a GUN saying I could only play the xbox since I was born before it

#video games #before anyone says it I'm actually wrong about the Xbox #that came out a few months before I was born #in some regions

[hedgehog-moss]

I always underestimate how easy it can be to entertain a teenager. I have this preconception that small kids find everything fun even mundane stuff while teens are jaded and self-conscious and need elaborate or cool activities, but my teen cousins are visiting this week and when they arrived I was in the greenhouse having an issue with the filter in one of the tanks, so I asked them if they could catch all the fish from one tank and move them to the other tank, and they were delighted to be given little dip nets and sit on the edge of the tank to hunt fish for 20min. As I asked them to do it I was thinking, it’s like those duck-fishing fairground games from when they were toddlers, they’ll probably think it’s a bit cringe, and five minutes into it these jaded teenagers were like, hey it’s like duck fishing at the funfair when we were toddlers, I've missed it, it’s fun :D

#it's my mum who has preconceptions about teenagers actually and then her concerns rub off on me #i'm like [teen cousins] are visiting this week and she's all worried like what are you going to do with them so they're not bored? #are there any escape games in your region? #the answer is no. The only escape game around here is the one pampérigouste thinks she was born in #but i made them play go fish with real fish and they were enchanted #tomorrow we will go for a swim in the stream with poldine

[adamsrcnan]

i got this little headcanon that andrew likes to sit with kevin when he watches his history documentaries. it starts when kevin's miraculously got access to the tv one evening so he slaps on a documentary after night practice to unwind and andrew is fiddling about in the kitchen looking for a sweet snack and he overhears something about a roman legion (or what have you) and it piques his interest so he stands there watching for a second and kevin doesn't realise bc andrew is soo quiet. after a couple minutes he's invested so he walks over and plops down on a beanbag and kevin almost jumps because he wasn't expecting it and he keeps darting his eyes towards andrew thinking he'll tell him to turn it off or change it but he sits quietly and watches. and then he does it again. and again. sometimes he sits at the window and smokes. sometimes he slumps in the beanbag. but he's suddenly always there and then kevin starts offering up little facts and anecdotes he knows and andrew doesn't ever respond but then one day he offers up a quiet question and kevin answers all excited and andrew can hear the passion in his voice when he talks and andrew will insist it's lame and he doesn't care but it's a change from exy exy exy 24/7 so he'll take it. especially if it makes kevin sound like that. plus it's an added bonus bc it helps andrew unwind too and gives him something else to focus his thoughts around but nobody has to know that.

#idk it's just a Thing i thought about #i just want someone to care about kevin's love for history :(( #kevin day #andrew minyard #kandrew #all for the game #aftg #edit: it's just occurred to me this may be born out of my own habit of sitting with my sister while she watches her history docs #:(((

[spoopdeedoop]

magic (8 ball) mike

#i woke up in the middle of the night with this scenario in my head and couldnt do anything else until it was drawn #it was a very abstract idea so it was hard to give a shape ndjsjdj #but you know. siblings and their silly games. i figured they’d do something involving mikey going into his shell #like pretending he’s a drum or a ball #and so this stupid lil magic 8 ball thing was born #rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #turtle tots #yeah its messy i cant format comic strips hdhfhfh #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt mikey #save rise of the tmnt #my art

[moonsnqil]

tell me i'm not the only one who regularly has this thought

#like yes ik aftg is in 2006 yes ik andrew is 20 years old no i dont understand how that means he was born in 1986 #that makes him 38 years old present day #hes only 11 years younger than my mother #this actually keeps me up at night #im older than book andrew tho and somehow that adds to my late night thoughts #wait i think hes actually 37 present day since hes a november baby #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #andrew minyard

[batcavescolony]

I feel like comic writers and some fans have forgotten that Young Justice is mostly about the girls. The main storylines were about Secret/Greta, Cissie, and Anita. The boys were there but they had their own runs. Take Young Justice Dark Crisis, yeah it's all about the boys IF you only read the first 5 ish comics. After that it's either big comic events or about the girls. Really the girls are the main characters of Young Justice, the boys are there to draw people in.

#young justice 98 #young justice #young just us #anita fite #empress #cissie king jones #arrowette #wondergirl #cassie sandsmark #secret #greta hayes #superboy #kon el #impulse #bart allen #robin #tim drake #dc comics #comics #comic books #dark crisis #young justice dark crisis #dark crisis young justice #yj98 #i heard someone say that they couldn't make a YJ 98 show cus then id be all about boys. the storylines are Cissie and her stepping away from #being a hero. secret trying to find out who and what she is. Anita and her dads death/parents undeath and he relationship with yj. its about #cassie finding herself out and BECOMEING THE LEADER of Young Justice. hell theirs also Red Tonados daughter Traya who was born in another #country. the girls in her school hate crimed her for it. tell me that aint still relevant! Cissies therapist doied in a school shooting and #the news blamed it on video games and violent media so she went off on them... then tried to kill the people who killed her therapist. #these are the main storyline of yj!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #not art #fhjy spoilers #its!!! gods I will Be My Ass in the tags rn. but thats so like. deliciously setting typical #like porter's desire is to transcend and his contempt for the world he's in feels. idk Real #like he plays the game bc he wants to win and be done with it. how do I word this #yknow. being a god would like. be his win state. when he gets that happening thats it his story is done he checks out #meanwhile the bad kids do actually just like playing the game lmao. like they love adventuring! #theyre so solidly Of This World. they carry the values that can only be born of it and they like having mastery over it #its a meta angle that I think is very fun specifically for d20 being in such a unique position in the zeitgeist when it first started #the rat grinders are from DnD Writ Large. porter wants to escape. but this is the bad kids' home its Their Actual Play Show #which makes it so fucking excellent to me that porter's question is somewhat of merit! its their show and it tries very hard to punish them #and they just straight up dont listen to him here lmao bc they hate him but! since the moment the academic track ended its been clear #that they save the world bc they Like Playing. With Each Others #thats what riz thinks the core of adventuring is! thats why fig stayed! and I also think thats why this hovers over elmville now and #a dead god is coming back in the school gym. porter is a shit evangelist but even if hes a good one I dont think it wouldve worked like he #wants it to. the only way he couldve escaped is if he'd not involved elmville at all. thats where the bad kids met dude #its a shitty place that fucks with them but they all come back here bc they wanna play with each others #and in that regard I think thats what the stress tokens ultimately means. Is This Game Still Fun To Play. ITS A RAGEQUIT LIMIT #Im literally running from one end to another of this conspiracy board Ive pulled out of nowhere #Ill draw after this I just wanna get this out. gods this episode has done nothing but furthering my delusion of grandeur actually #Im the hottest smartest manthing on earth Im king fucking midas over here. anyways uh! great ep!

[kagoutiss]

the newly vassaled gerudo king is inexplicably handed a baby

#tloz #legend of zelda #ocarina of time #oot #zelda #ganondorf #i actually think he would’ve been a teenager or so around the time zelda was born but. this is just for sillies so #and no idea when he actually swore fealty to the king. i actually feel like it might’ve been a bit before the events of the game #in my head it’s like. the war just ended and impa hasn’t been assigned as zelda’s attendent yet #and newborn baby zelda is somewhat of an afterthought atm and whoever was holding her before suddenly had urgent business to take care of #and ganondorf is like the most visible person in the vicinity and also everyone is treating him like shit because he Just Lost The War #and no one takes him seriously anymore despite Everything so it’s like haha oh ok so i’m just demoted to Giant Babysitter huh #for the next 5-10 minutes or so. i’m not apoplectic or anything rn #already having one of the most humiliating depressing weeks of my entire life what’s one more humiliating thing #meanwhile baby zelda is like *has no object permanence or sense of fear yet* Holy Shit Its Boar From My Visions

[suntails]

7.3

#AGAIN!!! AGAIN!!!!! they are two sides of the same coin. the way their UM is the exact opposite of each other im screaming #silvers UM is so hyperspecific its FATE it feels like he was born for it immmmmm dying dyin dyign #i cant express how badly i wanna draw these two a billion times rn. the fucking RAGE from BOTH of them in the confrontation is so tasty #this book is meeting each and every one of my expectations and then some... already my fav book and it still feels like its barely started #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #malleus draconia #the. the parallels. the juxtaposition. light vs dark. a prince vs his own knight. their destiny. fae vs human. im SCREAMING #genuinely i shit u not. GENUINELY the most interesting duo for me to think abt in the game. theres so much fucking lore i just know it #suntails

[sonknuxadow]

anybody else ever think about how knuckles and shadow are both the last of their kind but how they ended up in that situation and their feelings surrounding it are completely different. idk i just think its interesting

#knuckles just being born into that situation and shadow wiping out the rest of his species himself ............................. #and by shadow being the last of his kind i mean that hes the last surviving member of the black arms #not that hes the last hedgehog. obviously hes not the last hedgehog . sonic and amy and silver are right there #before anyone goes ''Ummm black doom is alive actually havent you seen the sxs generations trailer/description'' #hes probably there through time travel shenanigans since shadow's part of the story still takes place during generations #so im just gonna assume that hes still dead. unless the game comes out and shows that he isnt

[onepiece-polls]

For Science, I need to know....

This is not about who YOU prefer. This is about who you think scores more dates/gets laid more often (if any).

#one piece #sanji #black leg sanji #heart pirates #penguin one piece #Shachi one piece #polls #I was jus thinkin about how in my mind Sanji is pretty cool but has no game #and Peng and Shachi are losers (❤) but might have some game (or not) #so this question was born in my mind #I'll go back to making tournament polls now

[stuffydollband]

Truly wild that people are like “Omg! Taylor Swift is including her new music as she tours!” Yeah, bestie. That’s what tours are. Literally it’s the whole point. What would be crazy was if she did the Wenis, because the Wenis is a dance and everybody is a genius who knows it in advance

#taylor swift #dropout #dropout tv #game changer #this joke??? #who is this joke for #me certainly #but like who else? #the tortured poets department #ttpd #ts ttpd #the wenis is a dance #Also if any of you try to come for me #just know that I’ve BEEN out here #I was a swiftie before some of you were BORN #I was there in the dark times #you summer child #do not cite to me the stories of the Old Gods #I was there when they rose from the sea and blessed us

[niinnyu]

Cursed.

Explanation for this below the cut heh [mild manga spoilers!!]

In ch181 (?) We see this one panel of her super focused very scary, like she meant business (i cannot find the panel tho im sorry). This happens right after Yuuta vs Takako and Ishigori.

I remember thinking ooh maybe Miwa and Yuuta would team up, but then also why??

Then I had this thought of Miwa now having Mechamaru as a curse and going to Yuuta for advice, but because for Yuuta it comes much more instinctively because of his relationship wih Rika,he doesn't have much to offer (mostly because I'd like her to not have to rely on someone else too much) and she has to navigate having a curse with her.

Her recent appearances do make her look like she still has her brand of nervousness, which I like about her, so I've drawn her like that too. I also gave her Kokichi's ear piece thingy, wonder if that's what created the curse oohh.

For Kokichi I've mixed his human form with the bandages and hair and his mech from his fight with Mahito, because I like to think that was his sorta freedom form compared to the usual metal/wooden mechamaru. It was after he got his body ofc but also after trying to right his wrong.

I talk about why I wouldn't wanna exactly see this in the tags tho lol I'm am my own naysayer ✌️(Miwa has to find her happiness!! And that doesn't have to be a person or romantic!!+ more!!)

#miwa kasumi #kokichi muta #mechamiwa #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk art #shibuya arc #culling games #muta kokichi #kasumi miwa #i do wonder if what they had was enough for a curse to be born though #because in my interpretation it seemed more like miwa was curious and mechamaru was fond of her #and ig thats a kind of love not everything has to be like stsg level for it to be real #but i just think it is an interesting concept #BUT EVEN WITHOUT A MECHAMARU CURSE I WISH WE GOT MORE MIWAAA #one of the few characters who's gone head to head with kenjaku (albeit not for long because she wasn't allowed it) and did give a fight #i also dont want her whole thing to be mechamaru? #she mentioned that she has siblings to take care of AND I LOVE THAT #as a motivation that is #but she's one of the few female characters who's connection with a guy is somewhat believable also at least by jjk standards #for my taste ig #anyway wow why're you still reading pff obsessed with me or something hah?? #jjk manga #jjk manga spoilers #jjk spoilers #no nickel for niinnyu's thoughts #niinnyu arts

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

i will never get over how FusionFall put those two together to be in a tutorial introduction, because they were both 'cool kids' of that era, but objectively Ben10 is a dorky overly dramatic cool kinda vibe while Numbuh 5 is just the coolest kid on the block but is chill about it vibe. they would indeed make a fun battle team-up

also why tf Ben just fistfights his way out of his battles when his watch aint working, use a bazooka or smth dude smh

#fusionfall #cartoon network #ben 10 #codename: kids next door #ben tennyson #numbuh 5 #abby lincoln #numbuh five #knd #codename knd #ben 10 alien force #ben 10 ultimate alien #ben 10 omniverse #is that an outfit redesign u see? yes. yes it is. im just having fun after remembering my delight for this game #now im brimming with ideas for outfits for my fav characters of this game #man if only i finished it in time for ff anniversary. that would have been cool lol. but i didnt even know it was anniversary! ;( #also just in case ITS NOT A SHIP its A FRIENDSHIP!!!! born on a battlefield for their world because they were thrown into a fight together #or more like ben is intimidated by this much younger than him knd agent because she is cooler than him and tries desperately to prove that #he is just as cool and abby is like: u might have saved universe several times and probably would have made a great knd operative but u #r such a dork mr ben 10. in other words ben wont survive the burns because abby would see through him in a second

[tavtime]

There is something skittering around in my brain tonight about the way that BG3 intends the audience to view mind flayers as individuals vs as a species, and the way that plays out in the player's relationships with Omeluum and the Emperor.

I mean, one of the primary gears upon which the story turns is that when a person becomes illithid, the soul they previously had is destroyed (but not their memories of the person they were). This is presented as an insurmountable wrong - literally socially aberrant - and it certainly is so from both the point of view of the gods concerned with mortal souls, and illithids' mortal prey concerned with keeping their brains in their heads.

The Emperor's storyline takes this to the conclusion that the condition of being soulless is, in and of itself, a complete destruction of the individual; that whatever it was before, the illithid will be invariably manipulative, inherently untrustworthy, and unable to reconcile its needs and desires into peaceful coexistence with non-illithids. It's certainly the conclusion you're intended to draw from Duke Stelmane's story, as well as numerous supporting texts, most notably from the creche.

But then... Omeluum offers the refutation to that. Here he is, leading a peaceful life because he just... wants to. Absent a soul or comprehensible mortal desires to operate as a moral compass, Omeluum still chooses to contribute to the Society of Brilliance. He voluntarily and at personal cost researches alternative food for himself so that he doesn't need to feed on sentient beings. He helps the player character multiple times, despite the fact that doing so carries variable risk with little promise of reward.

So clearly, being illithid in and of itself is not what makes someone manipulative or untrustworthy: it's not a baked-in species trait. The Emporer isn't Like That solely because he's a mind flayer; he's like that because... he's like that. That's who he is as a person. That's what he has become, in his current incarnation, and yes, some of it is certainly due to his transformation (having your soul shredded and your will broken would screw most people up pretty badly, I imagine), but not all of it! If something about his circumstances had been different, maybe he could've been different as well. Maybe his moral compass would have pointed in a similar direction as Omeluum's.

#this is a really long-winded way of saying 'i think I could fix him' lmao but actually I do. i do think he could be fixed. #I'd like to believe that the game gives us Emp's narrative mirror on purpose yk? #there's a reading here i think was intended about whether people are born evil or whether they choose to be #also a reading i don't think was intended but intrigues me anyway re: the value (or lack thereof) of empathy as a moral framework #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #the emperor #omeluum