#mechanic for the traveler

[inavagrant]

Underwater exploration is great and all. But if Mona does not remove her hat when she's underwater then what is the point.

#out. #mona is a god tier swimmer as well #will they have something to help them breathe underwater? #will some characters be able to last longer underwater because they're more used to being underwater? #for example miss mona and kokomi lasting longer underwater than lets say people like kaeya or jean and others #wanderer who doesn't even need to breathe in the first place #will we have masks that will help them stay down there for as long as they want #i be ou t here.... ..with my technical questions i know but listen #it's about the immersion for me #under the sea fr #people with heavy accessories or heavy wears would look silly underwater like wanderer and mona with their hats #i hope that like they can get them off #unless underwater exploration is just an exclusiv e #mechanic for the traveler #kinda like fishing #where it'll always turn into the traveler no matter what character you us e

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

#misc #I encourage anyone dyslexic to try rotating him in your mind. I can’t do that; which is why I’m asking you to. #also: a bunch of tags are surprised this isn’t ‘shopped #it’s the lighting. backlit by the sun (which is diffused through the water) but also forelit artificially #the artificial light - a flash pack or something - casts a hard shadow under the creatures arm #which normally wouldn’t be possible if backlit by the SUN; you’d see a less-hard/more-fragmented shadow above water #as light sources ‘compete’ in a sense - and since there aren’t any light sources which can outshine the literal sun #it looks a bit weird when the darkest shadow is being cast from any other origin point - which is what’s essentially happening here #I don’t know the mechanics of how light travels through water; but I know the effect is substantial even with relatively short distances #also: it’s been balanced and color corrected by the author of the photo - who made deliberate choices to bring out the full potential #so it’s not like it’s a fresh and untouched export #but the kind of ‘tacked on’ appearance of the creature is a result of the lighting conditions within the image

[penny-anna]

hear me out. Dark & Back to the Future represent exactly opposite ends of the Time Travel Media Spectrum.

#dark (netflix) #back to the future #bttf #ITS GOOD THAT BTTF IS A COMEDY BCOS ITS TIME TRAVEL MECHANICS ARE FUCKED UP

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

#not a shitpost #serious post #ask to tag #tw trauma #cptsd #c-ptsd #and if so we should TALK about it #because it means there are a whole group of survivors out there whose mental health regularly worsens during holidays #like i know i am most certainly not the only person who feels an undefined Dread hanging over christmas/my birthday/july 4 etc #bc too many shitty things happened during those times and now my brain is hypervigilant bc traditionally these are the Danger Times #and this seems like it would be particularly common for survivors of abusive/dysfunctional households (aka most people with c-ptsd) #because holidays/vacations typically mean 1) the whole family is together/being forced to interact #2) and undergoing external stressors e.g. travel/relatives aka 'outsiders' visiting/routines & coping mechanisms being interrupted etc #3) there is social pressure for this to be a Fun Family Bonding Experience which only highlights the cracks in the foundation #and exposes the common Everything Is Fine/We Are A Happy Family lie #4) the cognitive dissonance of feeling tired/anxious/stressed/afraid during a time when you are 'supposed' to be Making Good Memories #and then everyone is angry/tired/anxious/triggered and things boil over and something or someone goes Very Wrong #weird that i'm posting this in october when halloween is...sort of the ONLY holiday i have only good and happy feelings towards #i got lucky there #also i have positive feelings towards Labor Day but that's for socialist reasons

[qiinamii]

quite the poet, quite the inspo

#its a two parter but i'm not sure if i want to upload both bc the first one goes miles better and it was initially a standalone #bc twt format that builds the humor up lol but its still cute anyway so i'm putting both up #it's really sweet and sad Xiao hasn't much of an outlet to let things go and expressing thoughts than his coping mechanisms #the self destruction he's not aware about as it's veiled by reason of duty #so it's good that he's encouraged to use poetry as one of it #expression portrayed through words tailored in vagueness but also direct symbolism of something... just to encapsulate that meaning idk idk #qiiarts #xiao #lumine #traveler #paimon #zhongli #venti #hu tao #chongyun #xingqiu #diona #mika #noelle #genshin impact

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

*I'm going to look like an idiot if it's not about time travel

#indiana jones #indiana jones 5 #indiana jones and the dial of destiny #dial of destiny #indy #indy 5 #1969 #bingo #bingo card #indiana jones bingo #predictions #indiana jones predictions #Lucasfilm #disney #nostalgia #nostalgia poisoning #time travel #time machine #antikythera mechanism #antikythera

[queerfandommiscellany]

DC x DP prompt??? Worldbuilding??? Something???

Clockwork can and does stop time.

Not just locally, because then everything would fall out of sync. He stops time everywhere in the universe, all at once.

This is fine. Nobody notices the pause because they do not have the passage of time in which to experience it.

The Flash family can travel in time.

They do this by running fast, so fast they reach the speed of light and pass it, so fast that even atomic reactions do not have the time to occur.

This is fine. Nobody notices the pause because they keep accelerating, and after all, their speed only effects the runner. Only they have the passage of time in which to experience it.

...something is very wrong with the universe.

Wally was running, and now everyone else is stopped. Even for him, it's like running through molasses. Did he break something??? Did he go too fast??? Did he just do it wrong???

He's was only practicing, close to but not at the speed of light, and now everyone is frozen even as as Wally feels himself slow down.

What did he even do??? If he stops, will whatever he broke fix itself, or did he just end the world on accident??? For the first time in a long time, he desperately wants advice.

So Wally stops running.

He feels his experience of time snap back to normal, and-- so does everything else.

Like nothing ever happened.

...Wally might be done for the day.

He ignores the confused friends helping him train, maybe calls one of the older speedsters for advice, and has an existential crisis.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Clockwork watches while a scientist looks for the harnless little futuristic hairbrush that would have caused a wildly dangerous paradox had he not paused time to squirrel it away in his robes. Business as usual.

#dc x dp #clockwork #wally west #kid flash #time travel mechanics #dp x dc #danny phantom x dc #prompts

[odinsblog]

Holy crap. I went to open up a new browser tab and this popped up:

I never saw this before.

Imma digital pack rat. I never delete old text messages, emails, or voicemails and obviously I don’t close old tabs, in case I might “need” them later.

Fortunately, I’m nothing like that irl with my physical belongings. 😅

#lol #a post about me #500 tabs #pack rats #digital pack rats #actually im rly not that bad with physical things #but ​i used to be tho #i think its bc we moved around soo much when i was a kid? #i did and still do enjoy traveling #but holding on to stuff is a way to make things seem less volatile? #like ​a coping mechanism #im sentimental about text messages and voicemails

[goosterbold]

i like nick valentine a lot i think

#fallout #fallout 4 #nick valentine #sole survivor #the story sucks shit but it doesn't matter bc fallout 4 is my 'travel the land with nick valentine and show him things' game #also i have the romance mods. so it's fine. #my survivor is a giant mechanic who is big and tall and in my brain she patches nick up instead of using stimpacks

[spicyicymeloncat]

There is just something about Cole’s section of the six virtues of spinjitzu shorts. His virtue is balance. He learns how to find peace when overwhelmed, after years of running away, disassociating, feeling too exposed, feeling invisible and feeling like he had the weight of his team, his parents, the world on his soldiers.

He finally learnt how to balance that weight.

#cole’s arcs are everything #every single one was a banger #s1 him having daddy issues and running away #s4 running away from his team after falling out with his best friend #s5 feeling useless and disposable after going through a horrific body change #dotd feeling forgotten about and being able to emphasise with phantoms because of this #s8-9 being able to become give back to the person who gave him so much - but fatherly #s11 having to deal with his own self blame due to losing the traveller’s tea and being able to meet someone else who is also just trying to #the right thing #ALL OF S13 #my man was so hard on himself #I’m so glad he has coping mechanisms now #ninjago #Ninjago cole #ninjago analysis

[presiding]

you'll never guess which level we're up to in this dishonored 2 rewrite

#if i haven't stuffed up my timezones this post should land on thanksgiving so here's somethin' to read to go with your food coma #dishonored #dishonored shitposting #emily kaldwin #billie lurk #dishonored fic #interesting the way the resurrection was handled - rock up to aramis stilton's powerpoint presentation basically #does anyone else think it would have been cool if you had to do the duke's palace first. #grab delilah's mortality and give it back in the past. like while she's vulnerable #kind of makes sense too from an emily character perspective #because she shows SO much character growth in stilton's manor #and then goes to the duke's palace next and IMMEDIATELY says the dumbest shit she says all game re: her entitlement and obliviousness #stilton's manor: wow ive learned so much i finally get it now! #nek minnet. emily misunderstands class warfare so bad she thinks she needs to sharpen her dads folding blade. emily. no #and if you think about it the duke's palace would have made a lot of sense for an earlier level just from emily's perspective. #hes very clearly her enemy compared to meagan's vague idea of where sokolov might be. a darker timeline perhaps #lovely Off_Topic mentioned hating time travel as a plot device and i have to agree. here's my take on that level anyway #also big thank you to RoseEll (<3) for saying it parallels the limitations of the game's mechanics interestingly ♥ #using this meme template was like. 'oh hey lingering hatred for jeremy clarkson i forgot i had you' #making the badly photoshopped heads too big. my beloved. #ah crap rambling again

[qiinamii]

darkner Xiao, lightner lumine 👹✨

#qiiarts #xiao #lumine #traveler #kris #genshin impact #deltarune #finally the lil buddies i wanted to show!! i had so much fun doing it #though sad thing is that i didnt have time to play chapter 2 WAAAAA #after the undertale comics i wanted a deltarune twist too so i threw them into a dark world adventure #still a big fan of deltarune's designs and how the world has you in neon/bright colors and i had to simplify their designs too hehe #xiao's still a lightner considering he also doesnt belong there but saying hes a local darkner guarding the world from evil is also so cool #bonus info they have bits of their og powers but simplified to match the battle mechanic #but lightner lumine still wields multiple elements in its own category in low levels to prevent being op #so yea <3 lil buddies

[fluffyartbl0g]

I can't wait to see just how much Law remembers in the Speedrun AU! I'm also wondering if you had to change plans for certain characters after 1079 and 1080?

ooooo I also can’t wait to see how much Law remembers!!! Just thinking about the speedrun potential within his fruit is so funny to me!!! And no I’m not changing any plans for certain characters cause,,, ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ I had no concrete plans in the first place LOL.

I’ve had to change plans for like some mechanics though (well atleast in my head). Like I’ve been rereading the whole one piece manga cause I blazed through reading it within two weeks my first time and didn’t absorb as much of it as I would’ve liked. It was in the tags of one of my earlier speedrun posts so I doubt many people caught it, but I talked about me headcannoning haki being a completely spiritual thing so the crew could skip over training haki and just train like, idk their muscles or something. This is cause I wanted them to be stupidly op for my speedrun au ofc, but I’m rereading canon and Rayleigh is like, u cant train conquerers haki like the other 2 hakis, it’s more of a measure of ur character. SO BASICALLY, luffy and zoro wudnt have to train their conquerer’s haki to get back to it’s original strength, but the others would.

And then I literally just finished rereading through dressrosa and I can’t believe i missed doflamingo talking about awakening but I DID and I was so hyped when rereading that. But watching that battle and also remembering all the limits in the enies lobby battle is making me think about how weak luffy was. Idk if 15 yr old luffy could reeaaaallly handle doing this much… BASICALLY IM WORRIED ABOUT THE POWER SCALINGS OF EVERYTHING URGEHEHEHHEHEH!!!!

but then I realise that this is a SPEEDRUN au so like who cares amirite.

They all do this ^^^^ kind of running whenever theres danger. BOOM, powerscalings solved.

#ask #speedrun au #time travel au #ig ill just have to have my strawhats come up with a bunch of clever solutiosn to speedrun the grandline without being stupidly op #man i was kinda just imagining them powering through in my head ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #YOU MIGHT BE THINKING. hey this is ur au #you can do whatever you want #AND ID BE LIKE: NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND #I GOTTA FOLLOW CANON MECHANICS OTHERWISE ITS LIKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT UNIVERSE #me: having a war in my head about the logistics of the speedrun au #OH BTW I WAS SO PLEASED WHEN I SAW THAT RUNNING IN PUNK HAZARD #BAHAHAHAHAHA LUFFY’S NOT THE ONLY TOONY STRAWHAT BAHAHAHAHAH

[honey-beesknees]

I will never get over hnoc I think. Like,, they took Arthurian legend and made it polyam, gay, trans, AND WESTERN and then set it to some banger music thank you the mechanisms

#if you dont already listen to the mechs pspspspsps gay space pirates that tell takes of their travels.... #and they're twists on legends and folk tales #and the pirates themselves have lore too which they have two albums about #also if youre into tma the lead singer is played by jonny sims #the mechanisms #hnoc #its so late.... but the urge to listen.... maybe ill just listen to b+w #honey's waggle dance

[mossymeep]

do you still remember my touch

#octopath traveler II spoilers #octopath traveler II #temenos mistral #crick wellsley #when a ghost can't move on is it the living or the dead who refuses to let go #idc if it was a game mechanic and not a ghost......it was a ghost

[gravityandmomentum]

I Love Outer Wilds' Space Travel

Outer Wilds is praised for its story, creativity, and unconventional design, but NOBODY talks about how it has the best flight mechanics in video games. It's all physics based, there is no speed limit since there's nothing in space to slow you down! The unique gravity of every planet changes how the ship/jetpack handles! A planet's gravitational orbit can be used to slingshot yourself! Resisting the force of gravity and your own speed are essential for navigating while most games are just "press W to go forward, D to go backward"! If you hit a planet too fast, you'll start spinning out of control and might even be launched to the opposite side of the solar system! That is so much more fun than just losing all your speed and taking flat damage!

Honestly I think Outer Wilds is a textbook example of how to make flight fun and engaging. It has this constant push and pull where you have to consider a ton of dynamically changing factors. Compare that to No Man's Sky where really the only thing you have to do is steer around rocks maybe, or you point yourself at the next planet and just hit the "go forward" button. Not to say that's bad game design, but it's basically a loading screen without a loading, and that's just not as fun. (No Man's Sky is still good, though.)

(SPOILER: if you want to land on the Sun Station every single time, just enter the sun's orbit at the same speed or slightly faster than the Sun Station, and while flying above it, use the reverse thruster to match its speed, and downward thruster to stay in orbit. This feels so alien in comparison to conventional game design, but it is the best way to illustrate just how damn good the mechanics are.)

#outer wilds #game design #flying #flight #space #space travel #science fiction #physics #game physics #astronomy #video game #video games #game mechanics