#rocketbeagle

[f0xx0rzz]

@rocketbeagle and I did Elder Scrolls jack o's this year!! they did the Black Hand and I did the Imperial Dragon!

#i freehanded the dragon so its a lil sloppy lol

[gamingofkenna]

rocketbeagle i really needa play that game

i'm gonna use this as an excuse to ramble about Hades because I have so many thoughts

mostly that i was sorry worried this game wouldn't work for me, and it really does and i'm relieved. I love the first two Supergiant Games titles but the third one was a huge flop for me because the pacing was so bad (it's like all the combat of Hades, separated by like an hour of slow visual novel-style cutscenes, and that's just the ten-hour-long intro that i didn't bother to play past)

but in every one of their games Supergiant does an amazing job at mix-and-matching modifying elements? like mostly which weapon to use, and which improvements to add to which part of that weapon? and there's dozens of different combinations (Hades has at least hundreds) which makes each approach to combat feel fresh

in the first two, i could build up combinations that I liked best that were radically different from combinations another player would choose, but in Hades it's all randomized since they've made it a rogue-like, so i find myself making a run without any of my favorite add-ons... and often still doing OK, with the alternative add-ons I picked up only out of necessity??

the repetition honestly feels a lot like the repetition in Outer Wilds, because as much as i gain during a run, i need the run to start over to use most of it. so I'm not frustrated by the repeats so much as able to use them to move forward still? even though i WOULD like to be able to skip past the sections of the 'dungeon' i've completed multiple times now *sideeyes Meg*

(also there IS an easy mode i could turn on but i haven't needed to yet? I don't think I turned it on in any of the previous Supergiant games, i hate dying over and over but Hades makes dying over and over literally a part of your advancement which is fun)

ALSO to get back to the FEAT of coding that this company accomplishes?? the voice actors must have had to record HOURS and HOURS of dialogue and I'll never hear half of it because they're lines that only occur if X and Y just happened while A is true but B is false or so on - like, its super complicated keeping track of all of the variables and even AAA companies ignore it sometimes, but none of the NPC lines feel poorly placed (yknow the way video games sometimes do, where someone's coded to say 'hope you kill that enemy!' even though you already have, because there's no variable to change the line)

the other thing Supergiant does well is having something going on in the world that the player can see peripherally but can't do anything about - for Hades, it's the fact that something's wrong in the underworld, possibly even the regular world too, and I don't know what. also it doesn't change the fact that I'm just trying to get Zag out of the underworld. like I'm seeing these hints and there's more clues in the dialogue and i'm so freaking anxious to get to the surface and see how it's not what i expected, but it doesn't change what i'm doing. it just adds tension and it's delicious

also, important, Zagreus sometimes makes snarky comments and half the time I have made that same comment seconds before he does so we're basically twins

#rocketbeagle #replies #about me #txt #hades #supergiant games #in Bastion it was the tension between the two nations in the world before the calamity? #like slowly over the course of the game you learn about the pre-calamity world and where the characters sat in it #and it's like reading about the leadup to the calamity while sitting in the ruin of that world #in transistor it's the weird fact that the whole world maybe IS a computer?? #it was never clear so you spend the game trying to reconcile the digital reality with the humanity of the characters #especially in the face of all of the death around you #and it makes what you have to do at the end either more bitter or more sweet depending on where you landed #in Pyre it was the way in which you learn about the world you came from while on your journey to get back #I obviously didn't get very far so I'm desperately curious about where that worldbuilding ended up #the friends you're helping are trying to start a revolution against the world that exiled you... but you're not part of it #other than in how you help your friends rejoin the revolution #or something like that i really should read a plot summary

[violetfoxsketches]

Commission for @bananadumbledore.

A gift of @rocketbeagle‘s D&D boy, Vacio.

#commission #bananadumbledore #rocketbeagle #D&D5e #my art #What's this boy's race or class hmm #it is a mystery #but a super fun character concept to work with #thank yall for your patience while I took forever to finish this

[sealcontent]

rocketbeagle replied to your video “HAPPY SPRING TO OUR HOUSEMATE WHO LIVES UNDER THE PORCH!”

is... is that a beaver??

@rocketbeagle i mean u did see where it said “GROUNDHOG” in very large letters right there in the video right friend

#rocketbeagle #i understand where ur coming from tho #on some level big chubby bois r just big chubby bois

[whitehareknits]

@rocketbeagle get REDDIE!!!!!!

#it movie #it chapter 2 #it chapter 1 #eddie kaspbrak #losers club beanie #losers club #wip

[ineffably-good]

The Bet (3/4)

For those of you who have not read the previous 2 (or eight, depending on whether you’re reading the whole series) chapters, Frederick is Aziraphale’s emotional support snake who he got while Crowley was taking one of his extra, extra year-long naps. You can read more about the whole thing in the Serpent and the Seagull series on AO3. 

Also check out this great fan art of Frederick from RocketBeagle! 

Chapter 1  /  Chapter 2

Chapter 3 . . Frederick was not, in general, a worrier. Most snakes were not. But he had to admit, he was beginning to feel a strange sensation that was not unlike concern about the two large creatures he lived with. They appeared to be deliberately antagonizing each other almost to the point of distraction, and it was interfering with his nap schedule.

He became particularly worried after the soft, fluffy one yelled loudly at the hard, pointy one and then stormed out, jacket in hand. It was unlike the fluffy one to yell, after all. Frederick was used to viewing him as an almost endless source of good will, snacks, and head boops.

The pointy one also appeared to be not his usual self. After the pale, rounder creature left, Frederick noted, his dark, brimstone-smelling friend wandered around the shop touching things and looking significantly more slouchy and bedraggled than usual.

He eventually sat down on the stool next to Frederick’s perch beside the cash register and began talking to him quietly.

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“Do you think I overdid it?” Crowley asked Frederick. Of course, he knew the snake couldn’t talk back – he was, as far as he knew, the only talkingserpent in the world.

YES OF COURSE YOU DID, YOU GIANT PILLOCK, Frederick tried to convey through body language. From Crowley’s perspective, this came off as a simple tightening of various coils and loops.

“I didn’t mean to upset him,” Crowley admitted. “Just playing the game, is all. Thought he was going to smite me for a minute, there.” He thought for a few minutes while the snake flicked his tongue at him impatiently.

APOLOGIZE TO THE GIANT FLUFFBALL, Frederick shouted psychically, to no avail.

“Perhaps I should apologize. Get him a little gift. A book usually helps when I’m in the hot seat,” Crowley said. “Where did I put my laptop when I moved in?”

He usually did his shopping on Aziraphale’s ancient desktop computer, which he would miracle to work faster than normal, but for this he wanted his own computer with its processing speed faster than a team of snails pulling a sledge. He dug for a good forty-five minutes through various boxes he had never quite finished unpacking, and eventually pulled out his top-of-the-line, high-powered laptop with a flourish.

“Aha!” he said. “Now I’ll just see what’s on the market in terms of highly impressive rare books, and I’ll be back in the angel’s good graces in no time!”

He sat down at the kitchen table, opened the laptop screen, hit the power button, and waited. And waited. And continued to wait.

It took him a full five minutes of staring at it in confusion before realization dawned, all at once.

The power cord. He had thrown it away with the packaging because, to date, none of his electronics had ever needed a power cord to function. They just functioned without batteries, cords, and chargers because he willed them to.

With a groan, he slammed the screen shut and tried out a few of his favorite curse words. Frederick, sensing his distress, supportively joined him by hissing at the offending metal box.

“Ok, fine,” he shouted to the room at large. “I’ll just go out and shop like a normal person! You won’t break me!”

Crowley headed out into the neighborhood on foot, badly needing to burn off some energy and tension. He sorely missed the ability to magic a bit of mischief on various people he passed on the street. He made up for it by committing random acts of civic disobedience – crossing against the light, dropping his recyclable coffee cup in the trash bin, and giving incorrect directions to tourists. It cheered him up just a little bit.

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Read the rest on AO3 -- it’s too long to post all of it here! 

#good omens #good omens fics #aziraphale drives the bentley #ineffable idiots #ineffible husbands #competitive demons #frederick the snake #the bet #my fics #my writing #serpent and the seagull #serpent and the seagull series

[f0xx0rzz]

hey yall this is my newest blorbo for an upcoming dnd campaign. hes a Tabaxi (maybe?) rogue boy named Lefty. feel free to ask me abt him!!!! (he's a homebrew race by @rocketbeagle !)

#he is void black! and has glowing eyes! and a split tail! #strange sneaky catboy!

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle sounds similar to dming lmao

YES i dont know how i became this person but i am very comfortable improvising, love to make things up on the fly, do not ask me to prepare ahead of time i will not, this treasure chest has been a mimic this whole time i swear

#rocketbeagle #replies #i do like prepping worldbuilding stuff ofc but like. encounter design who? do not know her #idk yall this is what the talk says. what did y'all think about it? i liked this one like #my lesson went pretty good btw #lolol

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle: for me the little dots you click on to show this are there for me sometimes, and sometimes not. so sometimes i can interract with an ad and say i dont want to see it and others i cant do anything about it

agh that's frustrating. i only accidentally stumbled on it and tested it on one other ad so i assumed it was just always there. there was a post going around last week about a bad ad and how we needed a feature to be able to report ads, so I though maybe there WAS a method and it was just hidden (like the way tumblr hides useful features yknow?)

#rocketbeagle #replies #i'll keep testing on my end #also 100% it might be an android vs apple situation #and i cant even test on my desktop because my adblock blocks all of tumblr ads so idek what they'd look like

[pagesofkenna]

@rocketbeagle you didn’t have a Valentine’s box so I’m just gonna leave this on your desk at recess, OK?

(taped to the valentine is a note that says ‘Sorry, the lollipops that came with the pack got smashed... so I got you a better one, too!’. Taped to the note is a small lollipop that’s broken in a few places, as well as a large lollipop shaped like a heart. Fashioned around the stem of the large lollipop is a shrinky dink charm that looks like a small solar system.)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

#rocketbeagle #your submission box was closed~ #but I think the little roleplay scene I've constructed makes more sense when I post your valentine's like this anyways?

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle: subnautica 👀

that actually sounds perfect....... except I just got Subnautica for free on my Playstation because of Sony's Play At Home thing....

i mean. it was free so technically it's not like I would be paying for it again or anything since I didn't pay for it the first time..... so i still could.........

#rocketbeagle #replies #i cant actually PLAY it yet because my brother's had my playstation....... for almost a year.. #but eventually he will bring it back to me........i have to believe...

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle i kinda like seraph

I'm leaning that way too, I'm just not liking knowing that I'd probably end up shortening it to 'Sarah' because, as pretty as I feel that name is, I did want something a little more... weird?

so I could elongate it to "Seraphin' but I could also make it more hard, and go 'Serif'? basically pronounced the same way but then I think of typefaces when I say it, which is still computer related?

idk liam i'm overthinking this

#rocketbeagle #replies #i have such convoluted naming schemes that I use #if I spin out too much I get too far from the origin #which for this is a computer that's white that I want to light up green and that has a diamond design on the case

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle: im so sorry you got injured! hope it gets better soon...!

thank you Liam for the well wishes from days ago that I forgot to ever reply to! it actually IS better you can hardly tell I'm injured at all? when i first took the bandaid off i thought it was gonna look so gross but... it looks almost fine?

also there's kind of a funny homestuck story i want to tell related to my injury! but I want to prelude by saying i hate hearing about peoples injuries, so if anyone reading this does too this is your content warning

basically what happened, in the cleanest terms possible, is i lightly pierced my fingernail with the needle on the machine. it bled but not that much, and it's obviously scabbed up under the nail but it should be unnoticable after a few weeks. this is also like the most common sewing machine injury, and the least painful/damaging version of that injury, so i'm super lucky

the part i find funny, though, is that i got to name these sewing machines at work, and i named them 'Rose' and 'Mary' after the Homestuck lesbians (since Kanaya sews and Rose also works with textiles with her knitting). so of course it was Rose, with her needlekind strife specibus, that I got hurt on. stabbed by Rose's needle. it was inevitable

#rocketbeagle #replies #if Mary ever hurts me it will be.... idk theres no chainsaw inside a sewing machine?? #i was trying to fix something in rose and i did it in a very stupid way like literally the one thing youre NOT supposed to do

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle replied to your post “what should i bring with me for when i’m sitting in the hotel room for...”

the pain was really only bad the first couple of days, and the narcotics really helped. then it died down. my surgeon did the surgery in a way that meant i didnt have to use drains, so i dont know how those will affect the recovery process

i honestly dont know if i’m getting drains and im kinda anxious about that?? because i read one (1) comment from someone whose surgeon DIDN”T give them drains, and it like messed up their recovery or something, so automatically now i’m like ready to get drains if thats what i need (nothing can go wrong) but also drains=painful?

anyway ok yes, i’ll bring the switch

#rocketbeagle #replies #now im also thinking of bringing a pack of cards and some dice cause ive got a BUNCH of pen and paper games to play too #though i imagine video games would be a better physical distraction than paper games

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle replied to your post: i am once again asking for your support...

cemetary!!

ooh that actually... might work too...

i was kind of thinking of, like, a slightly-haunted cliffside trail? based entirely on reading about japanese road yokai recently - it would be a dirt road surrounded by trees on this narrow cliffside, with decorations to suggest yokai and spirits visit often? but idk what those decorations would be

#rocketbeagle #replies #ive done a LOT of work on my island since you last saw it #but i still need to find more decor stuff that's really effecting what i can even build

[pagesofkenna]

rocketbeagle replied to your post: on day 2 of my animal crossing adventure my friend...

i think maybe each bamboo plant gives one shoot? so it can still grow like crazy but less so than previous games where they gave shoots every couple of days. but idk, i cant find anything online about it. maybe my bamboos just weird

huh well that tracks with what’s been going on so far (i have three right now - one that made one that made one). I was worried that where I put them didn’t have enough room (they’re right between a pond and the edge of a cliff, and technically have one square all around but only one inbetween each)

#rocketbeagle #replies #also with those new bushes they announced today........ #i dunno where im gonna put them all.....