#I am just Very Bad at maps

[coyoteclan]

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Thought I'd share some territory concepts I've been working on! Both for Coyoteclan and a second clangen blog I've been debating, which is set in the wild west :)

I'll write a little blurb for each little area under the cut for those curious about these locations (and separate images)

Coyoteclan

Fallen-Tree Coyoteclan's Leader den and clan meeting place. The tree is ancient and hollow, the entrance coated in the scratches of long-gone cats. The Leader calls meetings from atop the tree, while the deputy sits on the rocks below.

Thunder River A small collection of waterfalls that eventually lead to the sea. From here, you can hear an ominous, melodic sound coming from the beach.

Graves of the Fallen The resting place for Coyoteclan cats. Coyoteclan prefer to commune with their dead here, but still go with the other healers during halfmoon.

Sweetwater Wilds

Trail of Blood Untamed land filled with bandits and danger. Not only are there plenty of predatory animals living here, but it's a popular hiding place for many outlaws.

Canyon of Stars A place for communing with the stars. Sheriffs and Healers visit often for guidance, though some bandits are known to come here in secret.

Hareshade's Dawn Not really a place but this is the Sheriff of Sweetwater Wilds lol I really like her but she's SO TRANSPHOBIC she is BULLYING the only trans cat in the clan and I cannot stop her

[hana-bobo-finch]

spent the evening drawing a little something to commemorate my first time playing hollow knight

just entered greenpath and I LOVE the ambiance of it, i really couldn’t do it justice here

[zuliuli]

i’ve been thinking about little mode all day all night i was wondering Lmk if this is dumb If you could give little personality analysis?? Esp for maya and gill because they have Like no personality to begin with sadly? I just wanna know so i can ramble about them more giggle

Like im sure theyre the Same as they are in mcsm But just. Little☹️. but does anything huge change ? Im so invested sorry

Of course I can :D

Jesse - He's a bit of a crybaby. He's quite bashful, curious, loves to share and take care of others, and doesn't get as irritated and angry as older Jesse does. The kind of kid to go around picking up the most random objects and asking you what it is. (More often than not, that's followed by a "Where and how did you get that???") If you ask him vague questions, he'll respond with vague answers, so you have to be pretty specific. He's really attached to Reuben, a little excessively, I might add. What I mean by this is that if Reuben is washed and dried with the laundry, he will not eat or do anything but sit in front of the machines waiting to get his best friend back.

Jess - She's a bit of a creature. She doesn't quite have a grasp on her own emotions and lacks a bit of impulse control. More often than not, she'll copy what others are doing if she finds it interesting enough. She finds Aiden and Petra very interesting, which isn't always good for a very impressionable child. She also shares quite a few traits with Jesse (except the crybaby part, she's sworn off crying for reasons I will reveal in the future) ((the urge to write twin headcanons rn just became so strong, for instance they have synchronized sneezes, it was some random thing i thought of that made me laugh (prone to change at any time))) She's got a stuffed Fox toy (pixie), which she often misplaces and forgets about for extended periods of time. Her attachment to it is very complicated (also will be revealed in the future)

Axel - He's the kind of kid that sees something he likes and just grabs it. (Doesn't quite understand why that's so wrong yet) He gets away with it more often than anyone would like ,too. He's a little insecure about being bigger than the other kids, mostly because he's afraid he might hurt someone close to him on accident. He's very overprotective (this one isn't new, lol). Little Axel is absolutely terrified during thunderstorms. :( They bought him some noise canceling headphones, but sometimes he forgets about them. Sure, he gets some dumb ideas from time to time, but they're pretty well thought out to a point you'd think they'll actually work.

Olivia - She's much more confident and outgoing than her older self. If you have a problem, she will find a way to fix it, even if it is unconventional. She talks to herself at times and even talks to herself about others in front of them at times. (This can lead to some problems. Nothing that Axel can't fix 😎). She's very crafty, and her ideas are endless, even if some of them are a bit over the top. She tries to stay out of trouble, but that never really work's out for her.

Petra - Very much a lone wolf, that much isn't new, but it's mostly a facade. Lukas and her are besties, and she absolutely adores spending time with him. They have a movie night at her house every week. She has too much energy and often times rushes headlong into things. She may or may not have tried to bite Aiden on numerous occasions 👀. Does not abide by the rules whatsoever and goes out of her way to break them as much as possible.

Lukas - He just really enjoys being around everyone. May be a little shy at first, but getting to know him does wonders. He has a clear understanding of right and wrong and often scolds Petra and Aiden for acting too out of line. He really ✨️Really✨️ loves playing it cool. Jack was his introduction to leather jackets and motorcycles. He has sworn to get himself a leather jacket ever since. Those movie nights really add to his cool persona as well. He often quotes scenes from certain movies when the occasion calls for it. The reactions he gets to them are quite comical. So far, he doesn't really have any issues. His parents are doing a fine job raising him... (at the moment at least...)

Aiden - Wants attention 24/7 (a problem deriving from neglect). He has genuine anger issues and, oftentimes, feels bad about getting angry afterward. That doesn't stop him from feeling like he's the boss of everyone. It's part of the reason why he doesn't like Jesse and his friends at first. They don't abide by his rules, and to him, his rules are facts and must be followed to a T. He's actually a really sweet boy he just needs a lot of work, I promise. Would quite literally die for his friends (Jesse, watch out you have a competitor). He's scared of a lot of things a kid his age shouldn't be scared of, and I mean really adult things, like the future.

Maya - Quite the critter. She has a short attention span and often gets sidetracked. She rambles often about the things she loves, even if her friends don't quite understand what she's saying sometimes. Aiden, more often than not, always has to reel her back into the moment. She's quite cheerful, and I beg of you, don't try to make her sad. It ends terribly for everyone. When Lukas proposed the idea of making their little cat club, she was so quick to agree, no thinking involved, Aiden and Gill never had a chance to say no (not that they would).

Gill - Oh, this poor, sweet boy. Not a thought behind those eyes half of the time. He often just goes along with whatever Maya and Aiden are doing. He gets very confused sometimes, but his friends love him for it. He gets on Aidens nerves a lot even though he doesn't mean to. He is surprisingly good emotional support, always very calm and collected. He's never one to go out of his way to cause serious trouble. Idk why, but I imagined him having a big, easy-going family. Like he could disappear for a few days and then show up back home, and they'd be like, "So did you have fun?" (They do get notified of where he is, I just wanted to clarify). The minute you break his big little heart, it's over. He'll never look at you the same ever again. His trust is very important to him. I promise you 🥺

(Note: Came back and edited some stuff. Had a new perspective on some things after a while)

[jrueships]

I HATEEEEE DYSPEXIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[imflyingfish]

Me watching the industrial and commercial demand go up while there is low residential demand knowing that this will cause a labour shortage.

[vvelegrin]

i'm really enjoying pathologic 2, actually. i mean, i didn't think i wouldn't enjoy it as much as i was worried it would just, i don't know, muddy the water. and maybe it will, but i'm not really bothered by that anymore. that said, i do think patho 2 took a fairly unsubtle game and increased its unsubtlety by about tenfold.

well. calling og pathologic 'unsubtle' doesn't feel quite right, but i'm not sure what word would feel right. maybe it's 'distinct in its sensibilities'. I think og patho felt more obtuse, whereas patho 2 is like. here. take it. do you get it. here is the information. do you see the themes. i am announcing them to you in such a way that you know that i am saying something thematic. i'm not far enough into the main story of 2 to be able to say that there's less reading between the lines, but it feels very much so far like there's less reading between the lines. whereas the original had a somewhat different... i don't know, affect? it felt like a hostile workplace where everyone recited shakespeare about even the mundane. in patho 2 nothing feels mundane in the first place, everything feels loaded in a way that og patho was but didn't feel, if that makes sense.

but i think that's okay. at the very least, it feels very much like leaning into the 'theater' aspect of it, which is enjoyable. pathologic 2 feels to me more like... bonus content? not to be Stuck Up For Pathologic HD but i enjoyed the feeling of grinding my face against a cinderblock, having to tease out information and conclusions. it felt like a game that you had to figure out, but you actually weren't really doing any ground-level figuring out of much; you're not a doctor, your character is, so the puzzle of Solving the Plague belongs to The Story, whereas the question of What the FUCK is This Town's Deal is your job. it's a very linear game in most respects, but all three playthroughs come through as a thematic package deal.

i so far get the impression that pathologic 2 can be played on its own and be enjoyed in its own right! however it exists to me as like. director's commentary. i'm really liking the playing with different character relationships and alternate things, the expanding of steppe language and the kin, love my worm guys, but i like it because of how it enriches my eternal mind rotation of og pathologic. sorry guys i played the original pathologic and it broke me and remade me in its image. sorry.

[musical-chick-13]

The problem is. When I go, "Oh, this system is bullshit" and try to live outside it. My choices are still defined by that system. And that makes me feel really weird.

[butchdaredevil]

finally actually finished signalis (i immediately quit the game after the fake ending thinking that was it bc i'm a coward when it comes to horror games, but wanted to know what the story was actually about so i watched a breakdown. didn't think i'd be that interested but was hooked within five minutes. watched the whole thing and realised i never properly finished it. put off finishing it and watched more videos) omflllll this game is insane. it's so quickly become one of my favourite games of all time, like a game hasn't deeply impacted me and made me feel so much since i first played nitw back in 2020

[istoleludwigsbaumkuchen]

Annoyance canceled, Shout haters can hate me too, but Please Please is so good and fills me with joy and whimsy (the lyrics aside, it's silly)

[deltastorm101]

i miss the old beatsaber days, man. i remember when we had to manipulate the game files to change the colour of the notes and sabers, and then the first mod came out that did it for you, mindblowing. i remember the first forays into wallmaps. i remember the 'step back' wall, and the mod to bring it back. i remember the mod that replaced the title screen with HECK HECK HECK HECK HECK HECK. i remember watching someone's replay for the first time, and then one of mine, and losing my shit because what the hell that's so cool. i miss the smell of new VR headset. i miss the screenshots i accidentally deleted when i formatted a drive i thought was empty but had leftover steam data on it. i miss the time when i played so often i got myself a tennis elbow from it. hurt like hell, and when i came back to the game it wasn't the same.

this screenshot i took from a multiplayer round earlier describes this mood pretty accurately

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

doing so bad on the states quiz and having flashbacks to 4th grade social studies

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

this is a very venty post don't mind me :D

that nintendo direct was so horrible.

it was literally like 80 percent remakes and remasters.

never in my life have i seen an announcement video exist just to say "every game you've ever known since the 90s is being remade/remastered, sorry, we ran out of originality".

literally like all the video game market is anymore is remakes and the movie industry is just as bad.

the nso releases are fine because they're not like, remakes taking up full game slots. they're old games that are being made accessible and that's great... but there's no need to remake this many games when they can do that. remakes used to be rare. remember stuff like the wii u shop and stuff? with all the games they had on those things? now it's a tiny selection and everything else is a remake :/

also I feel like a lot of new rpgs are just like... lowkey fe knockoffs now instead of original rpgs.

i'm happy for like... two existing remakes, but one of them is mario rpg which people wanted waaaaAAAAAYYYY before the remake and remaster era, and the other is baten kaitos which im not actually happy about remaster-wise (the updated ui is trash, they took out very specific charms of the original ui), just happy that it will get more recognition/notice from people since it was never popular.

they also completely removed the english voice acting which like okay yeah it wasn't always that great but the voices fit perfectly and it wasn't as bad as fans meme on it for! it just sounded like they were talking through a tube and that was actually the worst part of it lol.

someone suggested to me that they may have just lost the data for it, but idk. i wish they'd just admit that somehow if it was the case, because it bugs me that the english audio is just completely gone when ultimately i really liked it. i wanted the game to be accessible to newer players, sure, but i also wanted the english audio there. ig that's because i grew up with it and i liked it, but it's still such a bummer for me!

paper mario being put on the nso and tyd getting a whole remaster does make me sad tho bc it feels like they're leaving the original in the dust when it was so good. if you're gonna do tyd, at least do them both.

good for innersloth though, i'm sure they never imagined being on a nintendo direct. they're the real winners here.

[loregoddess]

best part of drawing fantasy map: you will have a cool fantasy map for your fun fantasy project

worst part: labels

[orcelito]

Sometimes I REALLY hate this game (aka. Fire emblem in general)

I've been going through all the training battles before I go onto the main thing for chapter 12. For completionism and also bc I fucking Need the training, holy shit

Anyways I got one for the rainy map from chapter 11. Aka where I was running my life. It was awful then, but WAY WAY WAY WORSE now. Bc they skattered my army across the entire map, some of whom are Very squishy, and gave us over twice as many enemies as I had units, almost all flying, and All of them advanced classes

It was a massacre. Unit after unit falling. Me desperately trying to get the survivors across the map so they could help each other survive. Hiding in the woods in hopes of them missing me, bc being out in the open is a death sentence.

One by one, my units fell. My Healers all fell. My Mages all fell. A few lingered through luck alone... but then it was down to 3. From an original 12.

Me, Alcryst, and Louis. I'd been trying to protect Alcryst bc he's my archer and there were SO. SO SO SO many fliers. I never did get him over to me. I sent Louis over to assist me bc my ass kept DYING & that gets a game over lol. So imagine a dragon princess just guzzling potions in the woods as her armor friend throws javelins over her shoulder. I made it work.

Poor fucking Alcryst though. Stuck in the woods alone, having watched the 3 around him all fall, clinging to his mini bow bc he was literally SURROUNDED and couldn't attack anything otherwise. Also guzzling potions. The literal only reason he didn't fucking die was luck alone. Those fucking woods, man. They made all the difference.

Not that it stopped me from dying like 4 times from like 13% chance hits :) I used that time reversal feature more in this battle than I have Ever before in this game.

[kavehayati]

I lowkey give up with Genshin entirely tbh

[arolesbianism]

Whenever I watch someone play oni I always get so caught off guard when they cut and it's like 100 cycles later but then I remembered that most ppl actually use the fast forward buttons and I'm the weirdo who sits there at normal speed just watching large scale constructions slowly inch forwards while also pausing every other minute to plan out the next 3 projects I wanna work on next