#someone make me a helpful guide

[imminent-danger-came]

Lady Bone Demon: "I've seen it countless times before your meager existence. I've witnessed cities rise and fall. I've seen the world suffer famine, disease, war, and endless turmoil—an eternity of needless pain. I thought if I helped someone with real power, guided you to be better, I could make a true difference in the world! But I now see the only true way to create the perfect world, is to start with a clean slate."

(3x13 Time To Be Warriors)

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Azure Lion: *laughs* "I'm flattered, truly, but...were it not for Sun Wukong bringing us all together, I- without you, none of this would be possible! Your courage to stand up to the celestial host has inspired us to finally take a stand, to make a true difference in the world! And I can think of none other more suitable to lead us on our conquest than you brother."

(4x02 New Adventures)

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Make a true difference in the world.

#oh my god oh my god LBD and Azure just wanted the revolution and they didn't want to work on making a better system #Don't look at me don't look at me I'm on the floor #THE MOST CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME. TO ME. #LBD and Azure my favs. Truly. God. I love them #The twitter leftists #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk parallels #lmk LBD #lmk Azure Lion #lmk theme: better than we found it #I THOUGHT IF I HELPED SOMEONE WITH REAL POWER. GUIDED YOU TO BE BETTER. #I COULD MAKE A TRUE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. #THAT'S LIKE. That's kinda Azure @ Wukong. Tbh. #I don't feel like explaining how I got here but. You just gotta trust me

[toasteaa]

"You have to study to get better at art" TRUE BUT CONSIDER: I don't wanna 🫠

#toast talks #studying art is amazing and extremely helpful HOWEVER #I want to be good at art NOW!!!! #something that I have to keep reminding myself of is that I wasn't really supported when I wanted to be an artist when I was younger #so I feel like I'm playing catch up a LOT. #But I'm friends with some amazing artists that are always there to help m out and guide me when I need it and like #It makes a world of difference to have someone actually give constructive criticism instead of 'why are you drawing that weird shit' #idk how I got on that topic. I just wanna go draw rn and not be at work

[sebbyisland]

guys I’m literally so excited I can’t give analysis my brain is just !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I lied see commentary in tags)

#WASAASUGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHEN AKANE FIRST STARTED SHE HAD TO LEARN TO ADJUST TO THE AUDIENCE BECAUSE SHE WAS CAUGHT UP IN THE ART #NOW SHES SO CONNECTED TO THE AUDIENCE AND THE CRAFT SHE HAS TO GROUND HERSELF TO THE HER ROLE AS ZENZA FOR HER MENTOR #SHES MAKING HER OWN NIN BUT WILL SHE REMEMBER ITS NOT JUST HER ? #I LOVE HOW HER StrENGTH AND WEAKNESS IS CONNECTING WITH OTHER PEOPLE THROUGH RAKUGO #AKANE BANASHI #THE TANUKI RAKUGO SPIRIT GUIDE RAHHHGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE TANUKI MOTIF MAKES ME CRAZYYYYY #A LIL SCRAPPY A LIL CLUMSY BUT MAGICAL AND TRUE. #THE WAY TANUKI ARE ASSOCIATED WITH GOOD LUCK!!!!! SIMILAR TO HOW AKANE TAKES HER CHANCES AND LEAPS BEFORE SHE THIBKS BUT THINKS ON THE GO #AND OFC HER MENTOR FOR THIS ARC ISNTHE GAMBLER? AND AND THE WAY HER FATHER RETURNS SOMEONE WHO #WAS REJECTED!!! BECAUSE HE APPEALED TO THE AUDIENCE BUT NOT TO THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SHINUCHI #THIS ARC IS A DIRECT PARALLEL TO THE PERFORMANCE THAT DEFINED AKANE’S CAREER #HE EVEN SAID HIS KIMONO SUITS HER HIS….!! HOW DID I NOT SEE THE PARALLELS UNTIL NKW #IM SO SICK #SEND HELP #Seb out

[shima-draws]

Also kinda related to my last post but. When I went to get my orthopedic consultation it was in this HUGE medical building with a whole ass physical therapy division. I can’t really describe what I felt when I walked into the gym and saw all these people working with specialists to help train their muscles or to walk again or to strengthen parts of their bodies that had undergone trauma from an accident or whatever else. It was kinda sad but also very hopeful to see?? Idk I just felt really emotional seeing that nfjkandvnj

#Shima speaks #It's about the human nature of wanting to help others. You know?? #It's about seeing all those people work so hard and being like. Yeah. You guys are AWESOME. You went through smth to get to this point #Probably a lot of pain and suffering #And now you're doing smth to make it better and there's someone with you to guide you on that path #It gave me the warm fuzzies. I wanted to give a hug to all the people in there and tell them they're doing so so fantastic and great #People are amazing!! Humans are really very resilient creatures!! Smth bad happens and we fall down but we get back up again! #Sometimes with a bit of help!! And that's okay too!! Bc that's part of our nature! We help people!!! #Catch me being emo on a Friday morning about the PT division. Pshh

[skyburger]

"fnaf is the scariest game ever" "no its silent hill" "well i think its resident evil" everyone shut up!!!!!! youre all wrong. its actually zack & wiki quest for barbaros' treasure (on the nintendo wii) but only the level "keeper of the ice". that level scared me so bad as a kid and you can tell because its the only individual level i remember the name of off the top of my head. like there is nothing scarier than a) being chased and b) being on a time limit. and you know what this level has? BOTH OF THOSE. this level is still scary to me im like AHHHHH!!!! and then i die

#i had to google horror games after i thought really hard for silent hill and fnaf #because like. resident evil is just not a horror game in my mind... its just cool zombie game... #to be fair though. the only one i actually played a portion of was re6 which is probably the least scary one in the whole series #anyway do the kids still find silent hill and fnaf scary. i dont know. #well the former id say yes given how prevalent ps1 horror has been in recent years #fnaf i have no idea. im a massive wuss so its scary when i play it for myself #but watching someone else play them especially when i know them well isnt scary #and ive watched fnaf videos for YEARS #so i dont know. (old man voice) these damn kids... back in my day we watched markiplier scream at freddy fazbear and we LIKED it! #anyway its objectively a horror game and thata literally fine thats all i needed for this post #MY POINT HERE. my point here #IS THAT HIT ZACK AND WIKI LEVEL KEEPER OF THE ICE. IS SOOOOO SCARY #its not that scary but i see tjat level and im like 3 years old making my mom play this level for me again #and for the record yes me and my sister really did make our mom help us with z&w #she remembers helping us with frost breath the most because we like did notttttt get that one at all #and she could never remember how to do the mirrors based on what combination of stands is there (because tjeres like a few variations) #so she always had to look up a guide 😭😭 #my poor mother on fucking gamefaqs or something in like 2010... legends only #anyway if you have no idea what level im talking about (any of my oomfs reading this that isnt end) (hi end) PLEASE look up this level #and i need you to think of like a 5(?) year old making her mom play this game. #this aforementioned child is still a massive wuss as an adult btw. some things never change #anyway watch that level and think about how someone like me. whos already a scaredy cat! #imagine how someone like me felt at age 5 possibly younger playing this level #I WISH I COULD LIKE CONVEY EMOTIONS OVER TUMBLR. why cant i attach a .emotion file to this post #anyway ramble over <- hes said that like a million times today #scariest level in a game ever...!!!!! FUCK that keeper of the ice bitch im GLAD he died #muffin mumbles

[chthonicillness]

its too bad the education system wrings the absolute life out of u and then if u go back for more it twists u and twists u like a dry rag until you start to fray because i really was invented to teach people things

#so many times after ive guided someone thru something they thank me for being patient with them #and confess that theyve been afraid to ask for help because in the past theyve been made to feel stupid for not knowing how #or for not understanding the way someone is explaining something to them #and im like. haha yeah #because its nicer than saying oh my god please dont thank me for NOT shaming u and making u feel stupid. oh my god.

[taliaglitch]

a short summary of impulse's path through act two

#FOUR TIMES. four times they have illithid mind controlled someone or talked them into killing themselves #only one of them was even an enemy #(it was the big demon guy raphael wants you to kill/part of astarion's quest) #(the others were the goblin you meet with the convoy and the two ketheric was judging) #what the fuck is your problem impulse #(they're starting to enjoy petty sadism. that is their problem) #(you can only partially blame it on astarion's bad influence) #(and only partially on the tadpole) #(they may have evolved into a generally crueler person over the course of their life even without any of the plot happening) #(idk i still don't have that much for their backstory & characterization) #personal ramblings #oc: impulse #i'm gonna have fun doing a second playthrough in however long #with a clearer vision for their story & character and also plenty of walkthroughs and guides to help me make informed decisions #as is i'm just flying blind

[taegularities]

mmh...

#y'all am i broken or smth pls guide me through this #why do i find it so hard to have crushes or date or meet someone new #like i instantly panic when someone gives any hints or someone close to me talks about 'knowing' #someone #like my mom told me about a guy she/her friend knows and asked me if id like to meet him #and nothing about him seems wrong but my mind just instantly goes 🚨🚨🚨 like WHY #like i feel it in my throat #also i do not like those 100 rituals that desi parents fall into the moment their kid tells them they like someone #that whole tumult around it and the 'NOW Y'ALL GOTTA MARRY' bs #but it's not just that i rlly dunno what it is about meeting ppl or relationships like i just wanna be alone and #write my shit and live my life yk #but also i want love #LIKE HELP WHYYYYYY #actually i honestly feel like ive written too many stories about romance and ruined reality for myself LOL #but yeah idk.. this makes me anxious but maybe ill still meet him #bc you never know #yk

[vampiiric]

i loved the new spiderverse but miguel is so funny when you think about it. yes hes sad but the whole reason he's an antagonist at all is that he assumes miles is a good person and gets REALLY mad about it. like hes not wrong but he's very angry about it

#he's a well written antihero imo and i hope we see more of him #like i really love how much he's guided by his past mistake and how he wants to protect people from the guilt he feels #but he's guided by that guilt !! and because he can't undo what he feels he did he wants to prevent it in the future #but he knows people are good and spidermen want to help people. thus why he's mad at miles. because miles doesn't know #so he just.... saves someone. #he doesnt know about canon events or timeline stability or anything he just sees people in need of help and someone who can't #help everyone. so he joins in. and he doesnt even think twice. #and one selfish action from miguel- one he thought would have no consequences- caused all of his guilt and his lashing out. #but miles didn't disrupt anything selfishly. sure hes not perfect hes 15 he wants to be independent. he wants a lot. but he's a kid! #as spider-man though- when he's being spider man instead of miles morales #there's not a selfish bone in his body when someone needs help. he saves someone he's never met just because he could. #i subscribe to the theory that the spot is causing the dimensions to break down instead of canon event disrupton #which informs a lot of my thoughts #but miguel seems to me like someone who is genuinely by all metrics a good person #who does what he thinks is right and if given the chance would sacrifice himself to save the universe he saw dissolve #but that doesnt make him right. that makes him someone who wants to fix something unfixable #who knows he can't #so in trying to 'fix' it by preventing it from ever happening again he becomes so obsessed with it it never leaves him #like we only see a bit of this and i'm extrapolating #and everyones interpretations are gonna be different #but like. he's an effective antihero because he is a good person who thinks that to cause overall good you have to do bad things #which is a really interesting mentality! #and he's someone who has allowed himself to become trapped in guilt. and he's lashing out about it. #honestly i want to see him and earth-42 miles interact. i want to see more earth 42 miles tbh. like that's the same miles! #but his circumstances were so different that he had to grow into someone entirely new. #i hope earth-42 miles gets to do good in his dimension and change things for the better #because. and im not a comics fan so feel free to correct me. #something at least movie miles has is so much passion and dedication to a cause. he's creative and smart #and earth-42 miles. i am entirely confident. has those too!! i want to see him flourish. i want to see him be his best self #thanks for coming to my tag ramble

[arisaur]

welp. I finished project ultra and released my 26th reagent. I officially “beat the full release game” (again?). I feel sad and empty. :3c

#playing: outlast trials #my offer to help you/guide you always stands! #someone said there was a third/new canon ending but I didn’t get it #the menu music is making me emotional lol bc I’m probably not gonna play again until next trial comes out #like everything feels so final yk? never liked endings #outlast trials

[bevydev]

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(cannot find post i saw this morning and didnt save to drafts, any help would be much appreciated 😭)

#in all seriousness i did see this comic (more like piece of art with how much style was put into the comic) about a silhouette figure #helping a crow that said it had lost its flock by placing the crow on their shoulder and (i think) saying that theyd be happy to guide it #until it found its flock again; then theres this artwork at the bottom of the comic with the silhouette holding a bloody sword #they were tall wore a cowboy hat and was completely covered in shadow with only white eyes and white sword with blood on it having any colo #i think they said other things at the end of the comic but i honesty cannot for the life of me remember what it couldve been #all i remember is the figure standing with the sword; the hilt in their hands the tip in the ground and the crow sitting on its shoulder #it should be from someone i follow since i dont follow tags like art comic or artwork so it wasnt a recommended post #and sorry to out myself as someone who uses the 'include likes' feature but since its nowhere it on my dashboard anymore #very very likely it mustve been a liked post instead of a reblogged one so theres no searching for it on other blogs either #so sorry to out myself as someone who uses that but bc a lot of time people will just like a piece of art to save it #even if its really cool instead of reblogging them and i would be none the wiser about it (to be fair im keeping my likes open from now on) #okay..im done; im gonna go make some spaghetti or something 😔

[deadpanwalking]

i did a regular support group after my asshole father died, and Evil Mourning is so real. i stopped going and tried to explain it to my friends who referred me..they didn't argue but i could tell they thought it was silly to worry about traumadumping to a grief support group

Oh man, those groups are such a great resource—I have attended regular degular group therapy and was generally able to find common ground with people who weren't from Circumstances, but there were always a few awkward moments where I'd blurt something out and look up to see everyone looking back, quietly horrified. I do know that my trauma isn't actually toxic, but also can't help but feel that people who are grieving loved ones should be able to go somewhere safe to sit with their sadness and...not get quietly horrified.

#vagina monologues voice my grief is the corpse of someone who died of a contagious disease & needs to be buried outside the city walls #to reiterate those other groups were helpful up to a point and everyone did do their best to make me feel welcome #but like. people from Circumstances deserve to bond over Evil Grief in a discussion guided by a trauma-informed therapist. as a treat. #adventures in c-ptsd #anonymous #assbox

[rxttenfish]

im about to start beating people over the head with horror genre staples and quite frankly im not apologizing for it

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #girl help people keep trying to tell me shit about the horror genre like they know ANYTHING about it #or even fucking communities within it!!! the history of my own damn preferred genre!!!!! #like i hate to call people posers but yeah i am kinda feeling that impulse #the other day someone said that zombies were originally an allegory for rabies and I SAW RED #im just!!!! fucking!!!! tired of people acting like they know anything about horror!!!!! when they havent put the work in!!!!! #just entirely judging a wholeass genre and making broad statements about it when they dont know shit #and disrespecting the people who do and who have been here!!!!!! AAAAAAAAA

[fischiee]

y’all I am drunk as fuck but i am fed the fuck up. i am like hopelessly into this guy in our friend group bc he is so kind and wonderful and attractive and unfortunately he has decided that i am the one person to trust abt his love life and so i must apparently sit through him explaining his struggles with another girl while i am SUFFERING

like he is just so sweet and kind and YES it is a crush and yes i am putting him on a pedestal but he is nothing but kind and sweet to me and it definitely seems like he is flirting with me sometimes but i definitely cannot tell and he does talk abt this girl that he is very into OFTEN (she is for sure not me) and it’s driving me crazy i am so heart broken

#ignore this #ignore me #anyway yeah im fucking wasted so sorry pals you get me being emo abt a boy who simply doesn’t care about me #and who i am telling all my friends that i don’t care about #but he sits next to me!!! #and draws doodles on my papers!!!!! #and smiles and looks at me and tilts his body towards me and like ajdbfb #all night he let me loop my arm in him and helped guide me but then he literally told me abt the girl he’s in love with #and he was giving me a ride and being. so kind so I gave him advice about how to like date/get w/ her but it simply hurt my heart so bad #im literally bawling my eyes out AUGH #sorry team this is what happens when you follow a theatre manor who has t even graduated #you get someone so horrendously dramatic and emo #AUGH #i can’t even make up my mind abt him but i do know i want him so bad #we were enemies now we just need to get to the lovers part #it’s just so sad that he had decided that he can tell no one else abt his love life and his secret crush except for me #bc like.. girl i want you to fail (just kidding he’s so wonderful and i want him to be happy) #but it does definitely hurt but also bring me such joy for him to be like “oh i only trust /you/ with this. im attracted to someone else. #he literally let me loop his arm in him and let me touch him all night #but the second he was drawing home he asked abt a situation which her and her inviting friends to a hang out with him #and it just brown my hearT #i just #agony #sorry team im feeling emo

[peachyykira]

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#the idea of someone wanting to guide me and help me become the best me i can be #looking after me #protecting me #making me feel truly safe #makes me so sad but also so happy and hopeful #idk. #yearning girl hours i guess #but i just... want to be loved and cared for so well that all the things that scare me about the world become easier to face #this probably sounds so sad. #idk. ill shut up now. #talking peach #but im probably gonna delete this later

[polkadotsunshine]

maya's doom guide

playing "oldschool"

i've played a lot of doom and it is my opinion that Doom (aka doom 1 aka doom 93) is a Good Game that you Should Play. there's a lot of different ways to play it on modern machines so this explains my personal preference. my general philosophy is to add minimal quality of life features to an otherwise original 1993 faithful experience.

i think "newschool" stuff like GZDoom and gameplay mods are best for people who already like the game and want to push the engine to its limits. however, for people who are just getting into the game and want to know what makes it interesting in terms of game history, i recommend playing "oldschool."

here's how i think you should play:

source port: Crispy Doom

https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom/releases

a source port is how you run the game on modern machines. in the above link, under the assets section of the latest release, download the doom zip for your system. it should be something like crispy-doom-6.0.0-win64.zip. extract the folder; this is where your game is effectively installed.

Crispy Doom is a fork of the incredibly vanilla-faithful Chocolate Doom with a few modern differences. i recommend it for its WASD key rebinds, resolution settings, and framerate settings. otherwise, i think you keep all "crispiness" settings as default for a vanilla experience. if you're interested in completionist runs where you get 100% secrets, you may set "report revealed secrets" to "on" and/or set "show level stats" to "in automap". do not enable free look, do not disable autoaim, and do not enable jumping.

iwad: Ultimate Doom, The

https://archive.org/details/2020_03_22_DOOM

an internal "where's all the data" file aka IWAD is the game that runs via your source port. download Ultimate Doom, The and put it into your source port directory. if you want to play a different game, like Doom II, download that IWAD instead.

The Ultimate Doom runs the final 1.9 engine and includes the 4th episode "Thy Flesh Consumed." the 4th episode has an interesting development history; it was released after Doom II was released and it has a more eclectic set of level designers including American McGee's infamous e4m1 Hell Beneath and John Romero's divisely beloved e4m2 Perfect Hatred. i do not think you have to play e4 to "get" Doom.

pwads: DAR's DOOM Marathon

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/89263-dars-doom-marathon-music-mod-updated-070322

a patch wad aka PWAD is how you mod an IWAD. i recommend this mod to change the game's soundtrack. first download DAR's DOOM 1 Marathon and put it into your source port directory. now we have to run it.

imo, the easiest way to run PWADs with Crispy Doom is to write a batch file and include your PWAD via command line arguments. create a new text file and paste: .\crispy-doom.exe -iwad doom.wad -file "DARs_DOOM_Marathon.wad", save it and rename it to doom.bat (make sure you overwrite the .txt to be .bat). instead of running your .exe, run the .bat instead.

while i'm very far on the vanilla end of the oldschool-newschool spectrum, i find Doom's midi music underwhelming. DAR's soundtrack is faithful to the original composition but recreated with more depth than midi could ever achieve. music is a massive factor in my enjoyment of video games and i think this PWAD makes the game strictly better. compare the youtube links from the forum post to uploads of the vanilla OST online and decide if this is for you.

how to play: the story and the controls

a regular part of any old game is to read the [fucking] manual. you don't actually have to, but it's debatably faithful to have this knowledge going in. here's a scan: https://archive.org/details/doom-doom-2-final-doom-scans/Doom/Manual/img001.jpg. as previously mentioned, Crispy Doom has key rebinds which add controls in addition to those described in the manual. the changes are detailed here: https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom/wiki/New-Controls

skill: Hurt me plenty or Ultra-Violence

i am a Gamer with a capital g. i get it. do not play the maximum difficulty.

episode 1 was made with HMP in mind though vets tend to play everything in UV. Nightmare is a literal joke added after release to respond to complaints that the game was too easy. it makes enemies infinitely respawn and gives you 2x ammo. do not play on Nightmare! if you want the game to be harder, limit how many saves you do per playthrough. typical completionists try to "uv-max" a level, meaning they get 100% kills and 100% secrets on UV. getting 100% items is boring.

hungry for more:

if you liked episodes 1-3 so much that you played Thy Flesh Consumed and liked that, play Doom II (Doom II - Hell on Earth (v1.9)! DAR made a soundtrack for it which i again recommend (DAR's DOOM II Marathon). after this, there's a gajillion community mods and level sets to play. this is outside of my realm of expertise, but conventional wisdom is to check out 10 Years of Doom (1993-2003) and The Cacowards (2004-present). i also like https://doomwads.tumblr.com/. hell, go newschool and play stuff like MyHouse.wad!

#doom #since myhouse.wad is making everyone interested in doom i figured i should give my 2c #the 4chan guide that i originally used freaking sucks and other online guides were too confusing for me #hopefully this helps someone but this is mainly to get past the 2k char limit on discord #best of #maya talks games