#Game that hates being a video game

[xenodile]

I have finished Cyberpunk 2077.

I do not like it.

[blackkatdraws2]

[Toon x Mobster] A tender moment.

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[AUDIO USED:] Chet Baker - Almost Blue Sound Effects edited by me!

[egophiliac]

Hello ! I positively adore the running joke of Idia unknowingly finding Lilia to be the coolest guy ever whenever he doesn't know it's him, like when Silver described his father, or obviously with muscle red. I can't say what'd be funnier, Idia finding out his online best friend is actually Lilia, resident spooky hyper fairy; or them both never finding out, and it'd become even more ridiculous as time goes on. How do you think it'll play out ? You're always so on point

(Also, though it makes sense, I'm still devastated bat boy didn't get a ticket for the Halloween skeleton train : ( does anyone mentions him at some point ? Like how he'd have fit right in with all those Halloween town little freaks, and how he'd have impressed them with his spooks and scared techniques; after all he's been every Briar Valley's children worst fear on Halloween for centuries. I'm on the eng server and I didn't wanna spoil myself by watching the whole thing on youtube)

Have a nice day !

you and me both, Idia and Lilia being oblivious online BFFs (+ Idia being incredibly intimidated any time Silver brings up his jock gamer dad) is my favorite running joke/subplot. 🤝 it's SO good, to the point where I also am unsure if I actually want it to ever be resolved or not...maybe, like, as a post-canon stinger or something? everyone's standing around covered in overblot ink, and Idia and Lilia's phones go off at the same time...

(legit I do think this is part of why Idia couldn't be present for Lilia's dream, because for some reason Lilia decided he was going to just. embody his past self online. he probably quotes his own battle strategies or whatever in the middle of boss fights. Idia didn't pick up on the whole "oh how weird that we both live on a super remote island" thing, but he would spend thirty seconds listening to General Lilia describing siege warfare and be like "w-wait")

all that aside, however it does end up happening, I do see Lilia being very blasé and all "oh! cool!" about it. y'know, taking it very much in stride! and Idia...very much not.

(can't tell if tumblr is going to chew this into illegibility or not, this will be a fun surprise ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)

as for Lilia sadly missing out on Halloweentown shenanigans...he does get one little mention as part of an offhand reference to the light music club, but so far no one has brought up how this basically is just Lost In the Book of Liliatown (Sebek's been too busy yelling about not getting to be in the same group as Malleus). 😔 honestly though, it's probably for the best that he got left out, because he would just settle right in and refuse to ever leave. canon would shatter. we would miss out on all the delightful angst of episode 7 because Lilia is too busy eating poisonous shrubbery inbetween practicing his very best screams, and no one can pull him away from it.

(I can hope for a sequel next year though...)

[batcavescolony]

I feel like comic writers and some fans have forgotten that Young Justice is mostly about the girls. The main storylines were about Secret/Greta, Cissie, and Anita. The boys were there but they had their own runs. Take Young Justice Dark Crisis, yeah it's all about the boys IF you only read the first 5 ish comics. After that it's either big comic events or about the girls. Really the girls are the main characters of Young Justice, the boys are there to draw people in.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Quest Continues...

(part 1- part 2)

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[rockaberryx]

I ask the dragon age fandom: please be normal about the veilguard companions and don’t horribly mischaracterise them (especially lucanis) I literally do not want a repeat of what happened in the bg3 fandom 😭

[707mg]

god alive, i saw my favorite streamer play mouthwashing. i wanted to see them play it because i just wanted more mouthwashing content. but i knew. i knew they were the exact person mouthwashing was talking about with their story. they were quick to accept curly crashed the ship. they were quick to dismiss all the strange things jimmy said (ex: coming at curly super inappropriately at the birthday party). quick to dismiss jimmy's cruelty to anya. quick to AGREE with jimmy that anya sucks. and even when jimmy was hurting curly with the way he was administering medication they STILL hesitantly started questioning if something was wrong with jimmy. even with the dead pixel scene it went right over their head. and as the chat started frantically putting it together they dismissed it. saying that they'll wait until the end of the game to see if that's true.

by the end of the stream they hated jimmy but had no thoughts on curly's actions. they recognized how messed up it was to take advantage of a physically disabled (cough man) person but... that was it. ironically they pulled up a "mouthwashing explained" video and the video ALSO did not understand the game. it got multiple points of the story wrong and dared to word anya's death as, "anya overdoses on the last of the little pain medication they have left for curly".

you could not make this shit up. how poetic this game is. and how it's lesson directly calls out the kind of person who allows a jimmy, who believes they're doing the right thing like curly. who thinks less of an anya for... you know why. of course everyone hates jimmy. but only when he goes full villian mode. it's beautiful. i love this game so much.

[sometimesanequine]

[hamofjustice]

nemona feels like an obscure blorbo instead of the main rival character from the latest pokemon game because to get to her really good content from people who really get it, you first have to wade through the ocean of yandere pervert obsessive stalker annoying punchable bimbo amazon goddess interpretations of...

... a neurodivergent and possibly disabled high schooler who's desperately trying to make any friends or get any support from her rich neglectful family - while everyone in her school is jealous of their own imagined version of a privileged asshole version of her they made up - who deeply and platonically loves and supports the one new kid who agreed to take the time to get to know and respect her and her special interest without having to hold back her true self

unlike her, it's not great!

kinda feels like she has the same problem in our world that she does in hers.

[gabagels]

i was gonna upload some cool lethal company pixelart i had made

but then at the last flippin second i start to think it needed better presentation and now im trying to figure out a cool rpg battle system and ui for this motherfucking game i hate u brain but i love you mua

yeah well anyways help me

[ratatatastic]

"Playing against a guy like Barkov too? It's gonna be a nightmare too, you know... so big and strong on the puck so... it'll be fun." when your beloved captain is such a defensive nightmare that you do celebrate extensively when you manage to get the puck away from him in practise but this isnt practise but a patriotic circus and he will collect his dues and also you have to be homoerotic about it too

"Any chance Tkachuk takes it easy on you?" "Absolutely no chance. He'll be running me over and chirping me. It'll be hilarious." once again... buddy dont look too excited about it we have to have decorum around these parts...

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and also on things that haunt me personally...

finnish reporter using this interview, attributing the comment about maffhew ("Absolutely no chance. He'll be running me over and chirping me."→"There is absolutely no chance that [Sasha] will play looser against me. He will come and roll me over and throw a punch.") to sasha

and now we can't say for certain who is being referred to in "I know his tricks to get under your skin and he knows mine. I won't tell you about them though." because the TSN video cuts off before he can say it (unless they collected quotes afterwards which also happens) so im gonna lose my mind at schrodinger's maffhew/sasha if you need me 👍

[genericpuff]

what people assume i'm thinking while i'm working on rekindled: "GRRR I HATE LO AND RACHEL!!! I HATE HER SO MUCH!!! THIS WILL SHOW HER AND HER FANS! THIS WILL SHOW ALL OF THEM! I HOPE RACHEL SEES THIS AND CRIES!!!"

what i'm actually thinking while i work on rekindled: "man i'm having a great time working on this but i can't wait to be done with this panel that's driving me nuts. i wonder how i can get that cool splatter effect rachel did in S1. bright colors make brain go brrrr. i can't wait to get to the part where hades clowns on himself. oof i'm hungry, i need to figure out what to have for dinner tonight. oh look, an 11 hour retrospective on the simpsons-"

[theageofsims]

I don't know what's going on, but I really wish that people would stop hating on Modders/CC creators. They're going as far as leaving terrible comments for no good reason.

I honestly don't understand what gives anyone the right in this community or any community to tell others what they should do and where they should do it. I don't understand this need for control it's like how about remember that before anything else -- people are humans first.

I could care less where people upload their content. Honestly? If I find that a modder/cc creator either exclusively or in addition to, uploads their content on CurseForge -- I choose to go download from their CurseForge and I don't even have it automatically set up for CurseForge to do the downloading for me. I still download the files individually and I put them in my Mods folder on my own.

I don't start judging them for why their content is there or why it's there quicker than other locations they upload to -- like, how many hands do people think creators have? Not to mention the energy it takes as well as the time.

I love a lot of modders / cc creators, but recently there's a modder that I love who I just found out is getting negative messages because their mods aren't being uploaded to their website at the same rate as them uploading to CurseForge.

I am currently using 338 of their mods -- that's right, 338 mods... currently. Without their mods I wouldn't be able to stand so much that automatically happens in The Sims 4.

I don't want to see any modder leave the community, but this is turning into something so pointless and unfortunate. Some of these modders / cc creators are even giving away their content for free without any early access (and I have nothing against people who choose to do early access on their content) -- but it's like... what in the literal hell more could people even want? The entitlement in the world (even outside of this community) is unreal. If you don't like something or someone for their choices then move on instead of trying to upset someone to the point they disappear and you end up ruining it for everyone else.

[thefirstknife]

New article with more details (from Jason Schreier who first broke the story). If you can't see it, I'll copy the whole text under read more.

About 100 employees were laid off in total (8%) and one of the main reasons listed is "underperformance," "sharp drop in popularity" and "poor reception of Lightfall."

So you know when for the last year and a half content creators have been shitting and pissing on the game as a full-time job and the amount of negativity and ragebait content became the only thing to make content about for them? Well they certainly won't take the blame, but I will let it be known. These people either don't understand the influence they have or they do and they're doing it on purpose, and I don't know which of these two options is worse, but I am 100% confident that their campaign of rage and hate contributed to this.

You don't base your entire community around constantly hating everything about the only game you play (despite clearly not enjoying it anymore) and somehow avoid galvanising thousands and thousands of people into perceiving the game negatively. Imagine being employees who have barely worked there for 2 years and the only community reception they've seen is 24/7 hate train for their work and then they get fired because of "poor reception" and "drop in popularity." How can they not take that personally? I am absolutely devastated for these people who delievered a banger product and who were met with an unrelenting barrage of toxic gamer children which ended up having more sway over their boss than them.

Which brings me to the next bit and that's FUCK THE CEO. He is now my mortal enemy #1. I am projecting psychic blasts directly into his brain. What an absolute spineless coward who is more willing to bow down to fucking gamers than to protect his own employees. This is absolutely rage inducing because this has happened before. From the article from 2021 about the toxic culture at Bungie:

Reading this shit from the new article absolutely fucking sent me into blind rage because I immediately remembered this. Another instance of employees suffering because of comments on reddit. And because of toxic players. And proof that leadership is not protecting employees and is instead siding with players.

Match made in heaven. Asshole gamer content creators and asshole CEOs, all of whom sit at home on piles of money made from someone else's labour. I hope they all explode. None of the people that worked on this game deserve this.

Another article with an infuriating comment from the CEO:

In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.

"Kept the right people." Really. Veteran composers weren't the right people? Die!

Bloomberg article in full:

Bungie’s decision to cut an estimated 100 jobs from its staff of about 1,200 followed dire management warnings earlier this month of a sharp drop in the popularity of its flagship video game Destiny 2. Just two weeks ago, executives at the Sony-owned game developer told employees that revenue was running 45% below projections for the year, according to people who attended the meeting. Chief Executive Officer Pete Parsons pinned the big miss on weak player retention for Destiny 2, which has faced a poor reception since the release of its latest expansion, Lightfall. The next expansion, The Final Shape, was getting good — not great feedback — and management told those present that they planned to push back the release to June 2024 from February, according the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The additional time would give developers a chance to improve the product. In the meantime, Parsons told staff Bungie would be cutting costs, such as for travel, as well as implementing salary and hiring freezes, the people said. Everyone would have to work together to weather the storm, he said, leaving employees feeling determined to do whatever was needed to get revenue back up. But on Monday morning the news got worse: Dozens of staffers woke up to mysterious 15-minute meetings that had been placed on their calendars, which they soon learned were part of a mass layoff. Bungie laid off around 8% of its employees, according to documentation reviewed by Bloomberg. Bungie didn’t respond to requests for comment. Employees who were let go will receive at least three months of severance and three months of Bungie-paid COBRA health insurance, although other benefits, such as expense reimbursements, ended Monday, sending some staff racing to submit their receipts. Laid-off staffers will also receive prorated bonuses, although those who were on a vesting schedule following Sony Group Corp.’s acquisition of Bungie in January 2022 will lose any shares that weren’t vested as of next month. The layoffs are part of a larger money-saving initiative at Sony’s PlayStation unit, which has also cut employees at studios such as Naughty Dog, Media Molecule and its San Mateo office. TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz wrote in a report Monday that “events over the last few days lead us to believe that PlayStation is undergoing a restructuring.” PlayStation president Jim Ryan announced last month that he plans to resign. Many of the layoffs at Bungie affected the company’s support departments, such as community management and publishing. Remaining Bungie staff were informed that some of those areas will be outsourced moving forward.

[iamnotyourgodsherald]

I will never forgive Dark Horse and Bioware for white washing Fenris in the comics.