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boring mech pilots: I'm a dog, I'm part of this metal machine that will become my tomb one day, I have nothing to look forward to but carnage and bloodshed with the reward of more combat stims

my ass: the girlies down at the comm station said they'd buy me a six-pack if I can ramp over this gorge with Big 'N Beautiful here without crashing so don't tell Naomi down in Repairs alright YEE HAW

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one of the best things about uma musume is how all of the horses are kinda weird or dumb in an endearing way. like even the most determined and serious horse will eventually be found somewhere on campus staring at the vending machine looking confused and when you talk to her she'll say "where do these drinks come from? there's no clear sign of entry... could it be divine providence?" or have a training event where she says something like "how do hot dogs survive in the wild with no limbs or eyes? the urge to survive must be strong... i want to get stronger too, like the hot dog." (strength went up!)

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playing bloodborne for the first time and having Thoughts

will have more to say (and perhaps write) when i finish this playthrough

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LGBT+ games need to be better man i dont want to play gay dating sim/rpg maker game #48174 i want someone to make max payne with gay sex in it

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Rhystic Studies rarely misses, and they are right on the money with this one. I’d recommend anyone giving it a read.

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You mean you *don't* find Guy in Chair and Taxi Driver inherently interesting and thrilling additions to the world of mtg?

like okay. the way you are introduced to any 'story' in magic the gathering is when you pick up a card. the card has a name, and rules, and maybe some flavor text, and some art. and so by looking at more and more cards from a set, you get to learn about a place (lands) and the people and animals who live there (creatures), and the things they have (artifacts) and the things they might do to each other (sorceries, instants). like, okay, let me show you some cards from the recent in-universe set tarkir: dragonstorm

so, y'know, just looking at these eight cards, we can understand what tarkir is about, right. there are different cultural groups, some of whom are nomadic, some of whom have fortifications, with names like Abzan and Mardu. people identify strongly with these groups: they build monuments and produce culture and history and legendary figures. the groups go to war with each other, and raise banners. there are dragons about, and sometimes they'll kill you, but they can be fought and taken down in turn

this, more than any nonsense about jace and loot and ugin on the meditation plane, is the narrative of the set of cards collectively referred to as 'tarkir: dragonstorm': the vast majroity of people who ever come to learn that such a place as 'tarkir' has been imagined are thsoe who have found these cards and played with them. and note that my selections are, like, arbitrary--and that the set of the whole collection of cards that someone comes into are also arbitrary. someone might never see 'dragon sniper', but there are other cards in the set which imply, through their names or flavor text or art or even rules alone (if you are fluent in the rules of magic: the gathering) the fact that the people of these factions fight dragons sometimes and have sometimes won. many cards all tell the same aspects of the story: there are different 'siege' cards for several potential combinations of the factions. this is good, necessary even, because--again--most players will only ever come into contact with a fraction of these cards. they are getting--not quite a random but an arbitrary snapshot of all this information about this fictional place and what happens there.

meanwhile, spiderman does not live in a fictional world in the same way that the subjects of all previous ub products have -- it's actually like, pretty core to the appeal of spiderman that he lives in ''real'' new york! "the world outside your window" used to be marvel's whole deal, & i think this makes it like critically ill-suited to being a magic the gathering set. because 'spiderman isn't showing up enough' is a genuine concern--because spider-man doesn't make sense without spider-man, in a way that hasn't been true of any individual character or element of any previous mtg set, ub or not.

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making universes beyond a central inescapable tentpole of mtg's business model seems ill advised for longevity. like, sure, the data shows it brings in new fans. that's good! but how long are those fans gonna last when the thing that broughjt them in isnt gonna hapepn again. like if you're a new magic fan and you came in on a ravnica set and you really liked niv-mizzet then you could keep playing and be reasonably assured you would see niv mizzet again, and more dragons and wizards and guilds and shit. if you're drawn into mtg on the spiderman set because you love spiderman then tough shit buddy because after Marvel Block is over we're doing the The Office set and youre never seeing spiderman again

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You'd think "Soulslike miniboss whose equipment drops have paragraphs and paragraphs of attached lore making them out to be a big hairy deal in the setting's recent history, yet literally nobody else has ever heard of this guy" would be a parody thing, and yet.

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this isn’t the first time the DHS has tweeted literal nazi propaganda but uuuhhhh I feel like things are going to get Very Bad unless we do something. about the nazis. who are running the US government

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I get that sex and drugs are fun but even im like. at least have a 3rd thing. at least one more hobby. you can have a 3rd hobby. this isnt a purity thing this is a some of u are fucking boring thing.

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Messmer is what happens when a tgirl has mommy issues and is forced into a hypermasculine role she is obligated to fill but simultaneously shamed for. Gwyndolin is what happens when a tgirl has daddy issues and is forced into a third-sexed role that recognizes her feminine inclinations but is still othered from conventional womanhood. Either way you are full of snakes and estranged from your family

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you aren't getting me on board with the egg prime directive i'm sorry it's stupid

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