#I love video games okay

[xinyuehui]

△ THEY ARE THE OPTIMAL WEAPON FOR DESTROYING ONE ANOTHER. * THIS EXPERIMENT IS NEVER TO BE RESTARTED

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Quest Continues...

(part 1- part 2)

[pheroyyay]

i have 2 confess sometimes i quite like dapg as an actual gaming channel because the sheer nonchalance and whimsy with which they approach every game they play makes me remember that actually you can play games however you want. and its okay because the point of them is to have fun and not to follow a certain set of rules that make you 'officially good'

[dendroaspis-viridis]

I'm begging you, BioWare... Learn from the mistakes of Baldur's Gates past...

[mustasekittens]

poncho ginger coming at you live

[yourgoddessethereal]

[cheriafreya]

Splendid performance. It's almost time for the final bow, but... the symphony between us... has only just begun its overture.

[lilybug-02]

Artfight against @ejsuperstar ft. The Mad King and Chip. They're both so evil. I hope they have the most extravagant downfall of any onscreen villain.

This interaction is based on a little fic writing >:)

[snoffart]

the man in sunglasses. more like. man in. m. man in. in. GRRR GRRRR GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[heatherchasesyou]

So let mercy come and wash away What I've done I'll face myself To cross out what I've become Erase myself And let go of what I've done

(late) Goretober Day 6 - Execution

lyrics from here

[kirby-the-gorb]

[xinyuehui]

⁺˚⋆｡°✩ Celestial ₊ Message ✩°｡⋆˚⁺

[an-internet-introvert]

Top or bottom ............of the Snake

[shannonsketches]

Sometimes you and your kid take a training break so he can enthusiastically walk you through the plot of his favorite niche janitorial-based video game

his interests make no sense to you, but you're glad he's happy

[moons-among-distant-stars]

so i've been lurking through the lancer rp tag for the past couple days and can i say? HOLY SHIT!! you are all so cool oh my stars!!! like wow!! the stories you all tell!! i'm captivated!! and like they're so involved and complex and so rich!!! and it's all collaborative storytelling!!

and stars above the dynamics, stars... don't get me started on Zero and Khione's dynamic because.... wow.... the tenderness, the fondness that leaks through every word... the grace and like ugh every word feels perfectly chosen... and just ugh ugh ugh it's so good!! actually in love with the story you two are telling...

so shoutout to literally the entire lancer rp community on here y'all are doing the coolest thing ever actually

[volitioncheck]

nvm this is still on my brain. kim does not like to watch harry suffer… to say that kim takes satisfaction in harry’s pain is a huge misconstruing of his character.

the “getting thrashed like a schoolboy” line comes from a board game, lol. it’s a tease, not a cruelty. there’s never any line that implies that Kim enjoys seeing Harry taking actual morale damage.

he can be amused if you fail a check, but the check is always relatively inconsequential, and again, Harry isn’t taking damage in these.

Failing to pry the trash bin open:

Failing to shatter Ruby’s lorry window:

(also in both of these examples he only responds smugly if you choose for Harry to stubbornly dig in his heels. if Harry gets huffy, Kim teases. If Harry backs down right away Kim won’t rub it in, which feels significant to me! it reminds me of that recent post goin around about Kim meeting your energy!)

and here’s some reactions to failed checks where he does take damage.

Failing the jump to get your cloak:

Failing to break down Plaisance’s door:

he’s not laughing if Harry’s taking damage because he’s not a dick lol.

aaaaand here’s some other instances of morale/health damage and kim’s reactions.

alternate dialogue for failing the harbor jump:

after the call with precinct 41:

seeing bullet holes in the wall:

most significant examples to argue this point for me come when harry has done something to jeopardize the RCM’s image. which kim goes on and on about the importance of maintaining— and yet even here, he still extends worry and assurance.

telling Billie about her husband and handling it badly:

hardie authority check failure cock carousel:

aaaaand the car. this line is one of the most mask-off kim moments we get in the game in my opinion, honestly.

tying this back to the schoolboy line— that line doesn’t show up if you have a negative reputation with Kim. if you have <1 rep, it gets replaced with him calling it “about four hours of our lives that we'll never get back,” lol.

it’s affectionate ribbing!! twisting it into anything else is bizarre 2 me lmao!

anyways. kim is a foil to every other cop we meet in the game specifically because he doesn’t view harry as a punching bag or a lost cause. gottlieb does nothing but sling jabs and glib jokes about harry’s health. torson+mclaine and the others laugh at harry’s panic attack over the radio. in response to harry’s suicide-by-car attempt(!!!!) jean yells about RCM budget. all kim’s lines in response to harry’s check failures and health-damage are consistent, explicit textual contrast against the callousness of the rest of the RCM. twisting kim’s character here requires a bad faith interpretation of the whole game.