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big egg

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dnd au request

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I have a sudden urge for "undercover post-canon Zuko" fics (because the "hidden king" trope is one of my favourites). I'm going to go hunting on ao3, but please send me your recs for this trope if you have any 🙏🙏

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is this for anyone? or just me lol

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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As much as I loved Jayce promising to future-Viktor, I don't understand how that led to him trying to kill Viktor upon returning. It makes sense if he's trying to stop Viktor/that was the promise he made - but that didn't seem to be the case?

"Why do you persist, after all I've done" "Because I promised you"

When Jayce comes back, he seems very set on stopping Viktor - "my partner died in this room" and all. Not really acting like someone trying to talk/reconcile/get his partner back

Am I missing something? Can somebody explain? I feel like it'll make more sense with some distance from watching it, but atm I'm confused

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I feel like we should be asking more questions about Sky's project? Her vague project she couldn't explain in writing? Victor definitely wanted that notebook of hers - and I don't think it was entirely sentimental. I'm calling it as a plot point for Act 3.

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the Machine Herald

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God, if it WAS a timeloop, if Arcane Jayce has been experiencing version after version of The Horrors of not stopping Hextech, if him shooting Viktor isn't "killing" it's the final act of attempt after attempt after attempt at SAVING HIM I will walk of a ledge I swear, it's all coming together, I am a "Jayce was trapped in a time loop" truther now, I'm losing my damn mind. There is no way Jayce killed his partner unless another Viktor told him to do it or he has tried so many times over and seen the consequences of not doing so that he's completely broken, or he just knows from all those other versions that this is not Viktor or it's the only way to actually save Viktor... anyway I'm officially chewing glass and losing my mind I take back every version of "that is not Jayce" I am now a "That IS Jayce several decades of trauma later, trauma caused by trying over and over to save the world and save Viktor" I think we're going to be repaid for all of our "The goodbye was too brief" or "There was no emotion when Jayce killed Viktor" with an ENTIRE SEQUENCE that is just all the emotions Jayce has been pouring into trying to fix all of this any other way

Tune in next week at the end of my psychological breakdown to see if I was right or just ridiculous!

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i can't believe jinx and viktor finally met and it was the one time in his life viktor was robbed of his sass

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logan and laura

decided to post this here while im working on comms!

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“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

I've had this vision in my mind for ages so I finally decided to take a stab at drawing a cover for one of my favourite novels⚡

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The way every ep set it up to be Viktor who was changed by the magic, but Jayce was.

Viktor stayed true to himself and his beliefs.

The only thing that changed Viktor was Jayce…

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Additionally, this is why Viktor's ending monologue and shift to the Machine Herald mindset bugs me so much - the destruction of the commune wasn't an inevitable culmination of emotional choices, it was pretty much just cause something's up with Jayce. On a personal level, I totally understand that dying is going to mess with your worldview, I just don't understand why Viktor's shifted in this way - it feels rushed and undeserved.

I am also biased because I'm peeved we didn't get a slower doom spiral into Jayce and Victor from Lol - their personality shifts felt inevitable because they needed to match the game, not because they were inevitable within the story. Which sucks because I felt like there was SO much potential for addressing how a once-devoted partnership turns sour because of fundamentally irreconcilable worldviews - in a way where one of them isn't clearly in the wrong.

Obviously the writers don't have much time, and we still don't have the full story, but man am I worked up right now

Also - where the heck is Ekko?

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Ok because I have to talk about this somewhere:

Jayce clearly isn't in his right mind this act (See hallucinations, conflicted internal screaming while murdering, ect.) but because we didn't get to see the lead-up to why, it makes his killing Viktor feel incredibly unearned - almost like cheating.

I can't help but draw parallels to Jinx bombing the council that season - tragic because it was unneeded, because it was preventable, because everything would have been OK if not for this one event. However, with Jinx it felt inevitable - we watched her arc, and as much as the audience may have been rooting for her, I don't think anyone was surprised. In contrast, the last time we saw Jayce, Viktor was his number one priority. The shock of the sudden change in his behavior/mind can make the audience very aware of the hand of the author driving plot forward - even if there's a perfectly good explanation in-story.

I think to some extent, we are victims of the serialized release format - I am fully banking on Jayce exposition/explanations next Act, but for now all we can do is stew on a climax that can feel dishonest to the characters, because we don't have the full story yet.

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Arcane Act 2 Spoilers!

Ok because I have to talk about this somewhere:

Something has clearly happened to Jayce but because we didn't get to see the lead-up to why, it makes his killing Viktor feel incredibly unearned - almost like cheating. I’m sure this will get resolved later, but I just want to speak to the immediate gut reaction I had after finishing this batch.

I can't help but draw parallels to Jinx bombing the council that season - tragic because it was unneeded, because it was preventable, because everything would have been OK if not for this one event. However, with Jinx it felt inevitable - we watched her arc, and as much as the audience may have been rooting for her, I don't think anyone was surprised. In contrast, the last time we saw Jayce, Viktor was his number one priority. The shock of the sudden change in his behavior/mind can make the audience very aware of the hand of the author driving plot forward - even if there's a perfectly good explanation in-story.

I think to some extent, we are victims of the serialized release format - I am fully banking on Jayce exposition/explanations next Act, but for now all we can do is stew on a climax that can feel dishonest to the characters, because we don't have the full story yet.

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NO NO NO it wasn't supposed to happen like this - we were supposed to get more time - there was so much, right there - couldn't they have just let us bask for a bit? And for such a stupid, unforseen reason (though I bet we'll get more info later) (it just seems so stupidly unfair otherwise) (please?) They didn't even get to talk properly - and I know the pivot was coming but the reasoning this time just seems so senseless