#it's a game meant for children.

[calypsolemon]

You know. Maybe the gems were/are emotionally immature people because the majority of them were born in a society where having emotions and personal desires was literally considered a privilege for the elite, and even the elite could only express them in extreme circumstances. Nobody ever really taught them how to regulate anything they felt whatsoever, and that gaping hole in their development followed them even thousands of years after they defected from their shitty society.

#I think the gems of homeworld have literally stunted themselves in something equivalent to a childlike mindstate #they keep unlocking new abilities and stuff after getting character development because they are actually MEANT to grow #the default settings they are born with are litearlly just a guideline to get them started #and not intended to be a permanent unchanging life direction #at least thats my game theory #NOT to say they are literal children mind you #but rather they still require experiences and guidance and currently their society has decided thats just not true #which has concequences in the long run

[halfsixwakeup]

Here's a question for my fellow sky enjoyers:

How do you interpret this image of Megabird?

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #that sky game #sky:cotl #I have no idea what this image is meant to look like

[cheesebearger]

a lot of people will play dragon age 2 and they'll be like... whoa.... anders is truly a grey character who does both good and evil......

when in actuality anders blowing up the chantry was not only good but based, sexy, and inspirational and he has never done wrong a day in his life

#dragon age #anders #i refuse to believe the non-game added lore by dave gaider - via his tumblr blog - placing several hundred orphans in the chantry #there are no fucking kids in that building in the game. if we were meant to care about a bunch of fucking exploded orphans they'd be there #if we go just by who we the player see in the church a bunch of fucking shitty pastors got blown up #and given the chantry is the nonviolent part of a military org #theyre not like blameless or innocent bystanders lol #any attempt to put children in the chantry is simply an attempt to justify the violent oppressive theocracy they represent #by adding 'innocent bystanders' for anders to additionally kill #thus making him look more violent compared 2 the banality of the true horror enacted by this military theocracy's oppressive violence

[angrybatart]

Sibling stuff.

#fanart #quick comic #Sky: Children of the Light #Sky: CotL #That Sky Game #Performance Guide #Rhythm Guide #siblings #meant to do more with this #but I've been feeling like crap off and on today #20 dollars is easier to draw than 20 candles

[moeblob]

I unfortunately picked up Bravely Default 2 again (I bought it back when it released) and then started over since I last played it in June 2021. And. You know what. I like these silly beans. And then I saw concept art for Dag's expressions and I am not the same. Why did they decide to give him huge fangs in it.

(also I'm trying so hard to avoid spoilers less for plot but more for characters so if you know anything that happens to characters shhhhh. also the expression concept is below the read more so you can see what I mean.)

#bravely default 2 #dag rampage #selene noetic #i only just recently reached ch2 in the game and i may have a problem #someone was like wait how have you not gotten farther in 25 hours #and im like im sorry its a problem i have an obsession you dont understand #and then he found out i had three of the four party members with two jobs capped at 12 #and then the fourth only had one capped but a bunch high up #and then i told him i was trying to get the gambler asterisk and that meant i had to play a childrens card game #and then i had to do side quests when they popped up #and he was like wait at that point you probably dont need jobs at 12 omg #and im like i know its a problem i cant stop it #so anyway chapter 1 took me forever because i committed to the grind too much #the emotions i feel for silly lil side characters ................ its too real #like even the fact that you beat these two up in the prologue im like teehee funny lil blonde guy #then you dont interact with them in a ch1 quest but they show up again at the same time doing the same quest #and guys i am FEELING EMOTIONS theyre just funny lil mercenaries doin funny lil mercenary things #also please do not tell me anything about the game past ch1 because i want to continue to enjoy experiencing it #which is why i have my ask box closed bc its a game from 2021 and i know im really behind the times #but i managed to not know anything until now and i wanna keep it that way #also i dont really know how to properly draw noses especially when i doodle #but his nose is important and i already struggle with his big jaw so i had to include it somehow #and in the concept art it looks like he has a lil stubble but in game i dont see it so im like ... squinting at he

[bright-one]

Not to be a killjoy I know but saying super inappropriate things in crowded commons areas in a game marketed to children is a little. Cringe. Like if you're in an instance with friends who cares but talking about vibrators and masturbation in the ambrose commons? Have some decency.

#dannytalk #w101 #wizard101 #i WILL report it sorry #this coming from a guy with a w101 blog thats 18+ only #i just think when in game maybe be a little considerate to the children this game is meant for! #kids dont have many online spaces these days can we not

[couslande]

once again reminded that the reason talking about anders is such a pain is that people just straight up make things up that directly contradict what the game says just to make a point

#how are you meant to actually talk about the chantry explosion if every time it comes up #there's a seven year tangent trying to explain that 'no the chantry in hightown wasn't housing orphans or refugees #and the game reinforces this point several times in many different ways' #text #you do not need to make up orphans and children that the game says don't exist to acknowledge that the chantry explosion #was a dangerous course of action. but if you do you're going to look like an idiot #and no one will take what you say seriously

[carlyraejepsans]

with toriel and asgore it's like. they're both flawed and their flaws parallel one another, but they're not EQUALLY flawed... like..... come on......

#let's be serious here. just say you don't like toriel and move on. but don't pretend her hypocrisies were in any way comparable #in size in subsequent damage or in blame to asgore's own #the game goes out of its way to show asgore's actions as wrong. both towards his people and towards toriel. noble yes. sympathetic. tragic. #heartwrenching. narratively impeccable and capable of genuine chance. but fundamentally the wrong choice made by a good man #toriel may not have made the best possible choice at every turn but her final intentions were the morally correct ones #she just did what she KNEW was right. even when it meant leaving her entire life and people behind to live in isolation. #asgore backed toriel into that corner just as much as he did himself #he was a good man who was in a world of hurt and that decision hung over him for the rest of his life but it WAS. HIS. DECISION. #you cannot take that from him. you cannot take the teeth out of his character like that #and you cannot take toriel's role as the person who challanges and refutes his decision from her #her entire character was created as a subversion of rpg motherhood. and how it had so little of motherhood in it. #letting children venture out into the wilderness to face god knows what god knows where #WHICH IS!!! IN ITSELF!!!! A NARRATIVE PARADOX. because it's something that the genre requires for the story to exist #you can't play the whole game on tutorial. the contradictory nature of her stance between morality & ut's genre is built into her character #that's what makes her so freaking interesting to begin with!!!!!! like. #OUGH #undertale #toriel #asgore #entry log

[comchan]

#u guys remember that one post i reblogged with the sad looking yellow bear fella?? this is the game theyre from!! #its an educational game meant to teach japanese children how to speak english :] its very cute #smile town #gakugei #computer games #upload #3D

[starchildghost]

#lindsay horan #uswnt #nwsl #people trying to justify it like ‘fans are dumb everywhere’ #or ‘it was better in context’ #or ‘most Americans only watch the uswnt once every few years when the big tournaments are’ #like. sure #but a player. a captain. who’s meant to be an ambassador for the sport #and is meant to be captaining the uswnt through a pretty temultous time #should keep this shit to herself #(her carli lloyd number 10 bullshit is showing but we been knew) #and people who are saying go to any nwsl game and the stands will prove her right like #idk what experience you are cultivating for yourself but I have had a good time every time I’ve been at a Gotham game #last time I was there was Kriegs’s last home game and we were seated near families who were there with their little girls #who were players #and the dad or whatever to these children heard my gf and I talking about the games that were ongoing #and he and the little girl would ask us questions #like #perfectly pleasant people #grow the game do not fucking bash people who would otherwise be your fans #lindsey horan #just discovered I spelled her name wrong idc she a bitch

[clownsuu]

Oh god how many DJs even are there now

I- have an addiction-

#And that doesn’t include aus and robot versions JDHHCHDHD #Forget aus iv forgotten half of em JDHHFHFUDDJ #And I need to make robot ones more the only designs iv made that iv really enjoyed is Dj Sun/Moon and Sigma JDHGFHHDJS #Mostly cause dj sun and moon are inspired by that one womp character from paper Mario that did that lil quiz game #And are still spooky LMAO they aren’t meant to look cute and quirky whatsoever #And sigma cause he’s a gentle giant 2.0 JDHFHHFDHHD #Accidentally commits arson cause nobody put fuckin safety measures on his pyrotechnics #And also has his lil ant marching band of mini music men #Anything that has to do with those lil cracked ipad Cheeto children gives me joy JDHFHHDHDH #edit: I need to limit my keyboard spamming my brain is so fried from doing it it’s basically a default action #edit two: I almost did it again while typing that

[girlbob-boypants]

Sometimes people make story claims about WF and I get so...confused math lady

#girlbob.txt #warframe #someone said umbra was one of the last frames created #but the story leading up to him talks about how the original frames were too sentient and feral #which is exactly why umbra was destroyed. but ballas being a vain creature couldn't destroy the plans for umbra #thus giving us a way to create a frame #that is too sentient and feral and filled with emotions #and it was only after we understood him as the operator. as the tenno. #that we were able to calm the storm within him and face ballas #the story of umbra in game is meant to be a mirror of the story of the creation of the frames and how the tenno children came to be soldier #right? #am i wrong #does someone have a source i'm missing that explains this please

[blueskittlesart]

wait wait wait, I get oot being a narrative about being forced to grow up early bc literally everything abt kokiri forest, but how is it a narrative about adults failing children? Link in particular? I'd think if anything they failed Zelda by not taking her warnings seriously so she had nobody to help her prevent it except Impa and a kid she met less than a week ago, which in the end was their ruin that Link had to deal with...oh ok that sums it up doesn't it. but I'm. Actually struggling to recall concrete, on-screen adult characters lmao.

Ok ok recap, the Deku tree didn't actually send for Link until he was Literally Dying (and given that it was too late to save him from the curse and some kokiri had noticed something wrong with the forest, he must have stuck with it WITHOUT saying anything for a while) and given that literally all the kokiri are kids he didn't have much of a choice pick. Can't remember if Darunia actually asked Link to clear the dodongo cave or if he did it on his own...but yeah the Zora king was useless—dude, don't ask the nine year old to crawl in the belly of a giant fish and GET OFF YOUR BUTT. Sage of Light was a BITCH like, shut up and don't blame the 9 yo for opening the sacred realm, ganondorf would have gotten there eventually and hurting a lot more people in the process, where the hell were you when it happened given that this is YOUR temple. And then when he was 16 most ppl wouldn't know that he's still 9 inside so I think I glazed over from there? Maybe I shouldn't have, but I get the feeling that kids come of age and are trusted with adult responsabilities earlier in their world—I mean, in wind waker Link came of age at 12.

OK that's like 4 adults who failed to deal with their own problems but I really think the Deku Tree tried his best until the curse forced his non-existent hand. Honorary mentions for useless adults include Malon's lazy father and the greedy stable hand (poor Malon) and the castle patrolling guards. And the windmill guy not checking the well after u play the song of storms bc HOLY SHIT. And whoever sealed the well in the future nor sealing the top too, are you ASKING for someone to fall down there

oh this is great. more people should come into my asks and then literally make my entire point for me

#also just because the deku tree didn't INTEND to cause link harm doesnt necessarily negate the harm he did. #i dont think ANY adult in oot was TRYING to hurt link or zelda (aside from ganondorf obv) but that's the point-- #the adults in their various attempts to utilize the children--to keep them away from the conflict to use them as tools in the conflict etc #end up hurting them and failing at their fundamental duty as adults: to protect and raise these children. #and yes this isn't necessarily directly stated in game but so much of oot is implied narrative! you're meant to come to these conclusions #yourself. #asks

[spacetrashpile]

so i just realized i never posted this…

uh hi i made my first ever animatic/pmv/thing?? so that’s pretty cool! ive been rotating this song and third life jimmy and scott for over a year and a half and i finally said “screw it” and put at least the last part of the song on digital paper. maybe one day i’ll do the whole song but no promises lol.

#third life smp #scott smajor #solidaritygaming #flower husbands #3lsmp #also pls don’t say anything about the hands #this was done over two days at 12AM-2AM both days and it was meant to be quick not pretty #i do actually have a proper third life hadestown au but the fates are always my problem children #for the sake of this i had them be the three people who brought jimmy down to red #scar and grian with the trap and jimmy with his lava game #skizz appears in the version of this animatic where i did the whole song which is why he is not a fate #but yeah i did a thing!!! for the first time ever!!! isn’t that cool!!!

[dreampearls]

the thing about nahida is that while she is very obviously purposefully depicted as childlike in image & childhood in general is an extremely important symbol of hers. she's Very notably Not literally a child

#sorry this is just like a fandom pet peeve of mine to see her infantilized #because it just feels like. Like okay her whole thing was how her agency was taken away from her because people automatically assumed #that her lack of knowledge meant they could assume near proprietary control over her entire life #and this being a one on one allegory for how children & childhood in general is treated #the loss of autonomy under the guise of protection being such an insidious form of abuse #so with nahida specifically treating her as a child even though she looks like one feels. Wrong #because her infantilization in fandom just kinda. runs diametrically opposed to what the entire point of her character is #that she may look like a child but is in fact this world's greatest source of intelligence and wisdom #who is literally several hundred years old #BUT THE ACARY FLIPSIDE TO THIS ARE THE PEOPLE WHO USE THIS ARGUMENT #TO DEFEND THEIR LOLIBAIT AND ITS LIKE #YOURE NOT ANY BETTER IN FACT THAT IS MUCH MHCH MUCH MUCH WORSE #THAN THE PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT NAHIDA TO BE CYNONARI OR KAVETHAMS WEIRD BABY THING #AND ITS LIKE IM CONSTANTLY TEARING OUT MY HAIR BECAUSE #THE FUCKING GAME ITSELF DID ALL OF THIS WHILE KNOWING THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LIKE NAHIDA #NOT FOR ANY OF THE REASONS AFOREMENTIONED BUT BECAUSE SHE IS LOLIBAIT #SO IN THE END ALL OF US LOSE

[badgirlcoven-official]

Thinking about the takes I've seen that act like the Collector is a badly written character because he has a "complete personality shift" between King's Tide and For The Future and it makes me a little crazy cause it's just like... That is quite literally the point just cause you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad writing.

I think it's really well done that we saw the Collector as this intimidating and vengeful figure BECAUSE we only ever saw them from the perspective of people who were either afraid of him or manipulating him and then once we see him from a new perspective it becomes clearer that not only is this a scared child but also that this is an innocent kid who literally just wants to feel accepted and to goof around like yeah we got Belos' propaganda that the Collector was a terrifying/manipulative powerful god-like thing that's only motivated by their own needs and we sort of fell for it just because the other characters all did, they had no reason not to in the context of what they saw

Then we see them from a new perspective and the crux of his character is revealed and we see things from HIS perspective and it doesn't change his actions or what he's said but it recontextualizes what we've seen and heard from them before this point.

Like no the shift in how the Collector is portrayed was done very well imo it's just not done super obviously

#the collector toh #like it's also one of those things where it's like. you gotta remember this is a show for children #maybe an adult won't be able to immediately connect and resonate with the collector when our first introduction is him dehumanizing #the grimwalkers but a kid is going to be much more likely to think 'oh they're just playing around and going along with belos' game' #at least the intended audience that's meant to connect with the Collector is more likely to pick up on that #because adults work on the framework of being responsible for themselves and having the level of freedom required TO be responsible like #that but kids still can pretty easily piece together having to mold themselves to the opinions of any adult who has sway in their life or #at least to tolerate/go along with them to a degree like most kids can get 'huh this characters a little mean cos' he's #stuck with belos who is mean' and then once hes not with belos anymore and becomes more willing to listen to people and want to do good #(however misled his initial attempts are) that's going to make a lot of sense for a kid who's done similar #like just cause it seemed jarring for you doesn't mean it would be for the intended audience