#I spend years wanting to play a Splatoon game and this was the first I could play….

[venuss0605]

I don’t want Splatoon 3 to end…

[cru5h-cascades]

(play this in the background while reading this post plz it'll enhance your reading experience I think)

Wow... 2 years flew by fast, huh? To think that just two years ago we finally got hands on the 3rd funny cephalopod activities game after a year plus of waiting...

I remember watching the S3 direct live 2 years ago. Boy did I go crazy when they showed off the splatana wiper for the first time (I really wanted swords in Splatoon and then they finally became real!) and laughed my ass off when they showed off the Big Shot. And then there were the few days or weeks of dodging spoilers left and right because people ended up getting the game early.

And then I finally got to play the game myself. And I loved it. And would play it every day after school.

And soon enough Side Order got announced. Boy did that teaser send chills up my spine. Y'all if I had a nickel for every time Nintendo made a freaky teaser for a game that had a bunch of cryptic imagery and was accompanied by music box music that really got me asking wtf I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice AND WITH GAMES THAT I LIKE BTW (people following know damn well what that other trailer I'm talking about...). And then I'd spend the next few months posting about datamine whenever they came out. And then last September (a year ago at this point if I remember correctly)...

THEY GOT ANNOUNCED TO BE IN SIDE ORDER. TO SAY I WAS EXCITED WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT. I WAS ON CLOUD 9 FOR THE ENTIRE DAY.

A few months later Side Order came out. I played the first 10 levels the same night I finally got access to the DLC and was searching everywhere online for the music that played in Marina's boss fight shortly afterwards. Man... to think that was just a few months ago...

And then July rolls in. I was vibing to the Death of Slim Shady and my blog was filled to the BRIM with posts about Emio the Smiling Man 'cause I just wanted to figure out what tf is up with that funny bag man. One morning I woke up to my phone blowing up with Tumblr notifications. I check out Tumblr and somehow my random ass final fest concept PREDICTED THE FUTURE MONTHS IN ADVANCE. I post about my amazement about predicting the grandfest theme and resume posting about Emio shortly afterwards.

And then that brings us to now. Waiting for the grandfest results.

It was an honor splatting with you guys. I've been a Splatoon fan ever since I saw an ad for the 1st game on TV. This game means a lot to me and this splatfest was a lot of fun. To think this might be the last new splatfest theme for a while (I say last new theme and not splatfest in general since there's some stuff in the game's code pointing to the possibility of rerun splatfests)...

I can't wait for what the Splatoon devs have in store for us next. Next year marks 10 YEARS of Splatoon. We're definitely going to be getting some new Splatoon stuff next year. A milestone like that can't be ignored.

Anyways, I hope you guys liked my rambling about the silly cephalopod game (with a side of bag man and Eminem). Stay fresh, off the hook, and keep dripping ink you guys!

[conkreetmonkey]

Splatoon 3 really should have had a better thought out food ticket system. It's pretty well known that if you play Salmon Run or Shell Out at all, you're going to accumulate them far faster than you can use them up without wastage.

It's weird because every other "currency" is pretty well thought out, and most are annoyingly grindy to acquire as opposed to the frankly overly-generous Crab-N-Go system.

Shelldon Liscenses can be converted to Shell Out tokens once you've unlocked everything in the shop, a feat that would require you to have absolutely no life at all outside of the game. Super Sea Snails can be acquired after Splatfests have ended by leveling up, as a contingency for after the game inevitably stops receiving updates. A lot of edge cases are accounted for, and yet food tickets piling up with no way to spend them without deliberate wastage is the norm.

My solution? Well, first let's establish the problems:

1. Food and drink tickets build up faster than they can be spent

2. Lesser tickets are flat-out less valuable than greater tickets with no redeeming qualities, and due to the previously mentioned issue, rarely see use as a result.

3. It's too hard to get the drink tickets you want, and once you do they often don't make enough of a difference in ability rates to feel worth foregoing a food boost for.

How would I solve this? I'll start with more obvious, common sense solutions I think would flat-out fix everything wrong here:

- Allow an amount of lesser tickets to be "combined" into a greater ticket of the same type, with some "wastage" to keep them from just being a stepping stone (for example, perhaps three 1.5x tickets for one 2.5x tickets).

- Allow players to have both a food and drink boost active at the same time. There's no real reason you need to choose one or the other, the effects don't interact with each other.

- Boost drink effect efficiency.

This would solve everything, I'm sure of it.

NOW for some less-advisable bonus ideas...

- A system for conversion of tickets into cash or other currencies (Splatoon doesn't really do this for any currency, and it would be weird if only tickets were affected, but then again they are by far the most expendable currency, and in-universe would definitely be sought after due to being exchanged for food, something practical alongside the boost... after all, is the xp/cash/ability boost not just a gameplay representation of a post-meal energy boost? I've thought this for years, and even used to have an OC who bought and sold tickets for cash (and also allegedly did just a smidge of ticket forgery) back in the days of Splat 2)

- LET THE EFFECTS STACK. ENDLESSLY. (Definitely a bad idea, but it would be so goddamn fun. Leveling up wouldn't mean anything anymore. Cash would flow like water. It might come under fire from concerned parents for promoting overeating, to which I say look at my character, he's thin as a rail, he probably needs this)

[componentcables]

Splatoon and its effects (on me)

Obligatory post about how this series permanently changed me as a person. TLDR: This series is good, play it if you can/want to. kinda miffed that i never got to even look at the grandfest thanks to grinding out Big Run a week prior (i never recovered).

Splatoon 1 drops in 2015, I'm around 12 or 11 at the time. I was only recently getting into videogames with upgrading from a Wii to a WiiU. I didn't really have much perspective on the other consoles other than whatever episode of AVGN I was watching. I didn't really see the point of games being 'realistic' why actively try to look like Real Life when other games who don't tend to age much better. And cost significantly less Enter Splatoon, a game that is unashamedly stylized. The music being in some made up language, the loud and proud colors fully on display with some unique character designs…everywhere. I all but begged my mother for this game, watching the trailer dozens of times and absorbing whatever information I could about the game from ZackscottGames, to listening to rips of the music until I finally had it in my hands.

The music specifically just…works. yeah I can't understand a word of it, but in a sheer musical standpoint..it's just good. It's weird and obtuse in a refreshing way.

I have some vivid memories of replaying the single player levels, the Amiibo challenges, getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter and exploring the Hub World dozens of times over. Attending and playing every single splatfest with my weekend off from school. Not to say it was perfect, Nintendo online was..and still is a joke. But it didn't have to be. It was just fun and basically the one shooter I could see myself playing since it was just so unashamed at being different and not trying to simplify things because of it.

I basically hard committed to every splatfest, being a young teenager with infinite time after homework, I hyper focused hard into the game and milked every second into the online gameplay, and it was fun. I wouldn't really want to do that a second time but I'd still say it was worth it.

Cut to Splat2n some time in 2017ish. I was around 15 or 16ish going through high-school. I never really 'left' splatoon. I'm still active around the subreddit but due to my WiiU dying out on me, I couldn't really play the game. At least to me. Splat 2 feels like more of Splat 1. They were clearly trying new things that could have still worked in the 1st game while experimenting with some unique concepts. Especially in regards to the music. Splat 2 has some much needed diversity with its bans groups that nobody really complained about. But that's neither here or there, the series still stands head and shoulders above basically any shooter at the time.

Including the looming shadow of Early Fortnite. I never really saw the interest in fortnite so I never touched it.. still remains that way to this day but for more palpable reasons. The game (splatoon) didn't feel like it was chomping at the bit to make you spend money, despite having frequent content updates it never FELT like a drip feed. Moreso that the device realized that these other ideas can work here too and added them in. It never felt like it was trying to be the endless moneymaker that literally every other shooter is.

To me, the splatfests here were the best in the series due to Shifty Stations. The fact that they brought in the unique elements from single player always tickled my fancy since they were such a different experience from the normal grounded levels. I never got the chance to participate in Order VS Chaos (something that eventually echos into Splat 3) but the ones I did participate in where definitely enjoyable.

Onto Splat 3, 2022 and I'm in between jobs at age 20. I couldn't really will myself to get Splatoon until a year later. In my head I couldn't ration myself playing it since 'I should be getting a job first' so I eventually picked it up at a gamestop during one of the first few Seasons. Again, toy get the gist. This series at least to me, is some of Nintendos best work. They've put a shit ton of effort into the art direction, music,animation, QOL, and it makes it into an overall smoother experience.

Kinda sucksyou have to pay for online..but three dollars is honestly such a low price (especially compared to Sony and Microsoft) that it's worth my time. I happened to dislike how fast the game had become. The other two games had a manageable pace that didn't rely too much on reaction time. Something about Splat 3, weather its Tacticooler, the movement options, the specials, it makes things feel a little too fast for me sometimes. I feel like an idiot saying I might be too old, but for me it's a coinflip weather or not I'd be able to win an encounter against a dualies or shooter aince..they're so fast.

Personal gripes aside, the game is still pretty solid for just pure gameplay as long as you're just trying to enjoy yourself and not taking it too seriously.

The splatfests are…interesting. I wasn't too much of a fan of tricolor battles especially since the stages weren't that different. But it didn't stop me from participating when I could.

Sadly, i Never really got the chance to experience the final fest. I'm the insane person who has work on Friday and Saturday, combined with life itself and my general video game playing mood being at an all time low (i put..way too much effort into the Big Run), I experienced the Cochella like event through screenshot and Twitter clips. Hindsight is a son of a bitch since it clearly looks cool as hell with all the idols on a literal stage with a crowd and actually USING the two other d-pad buttons. People are saying that you're still able to go back to the venue as long as you have an Idol amiibo which is…really nice, it looks like Nintendo really put in so much effort into the animation,modeling and music. Would really such if you could never see it again just because you had work or other plans.

Regardless, Splatoon over its..nearly 10 years of existing has been head and shoulders above most games when it comes to the sheer commitment and creativity. Throughout the 3 games I never felt like I WASNT playing a splatoon games they really stretched themselves out without compromising the visual and audio feel of the series.

[emilee-has-legs]

that one really cool sim tag thats been going around.

wasn't tagged by anyone in particular, but @loafysims and @ravensccfindss both mentioned me in this tag recently so i thought i'd give it a shot. also my need for attention is a bottomless pit so.

1.) What’s your favourite sims death?

honestly, the classic, putting a sim in a pool and then taking out the ladder. theres no common sense to the action it's just genuinely so funny.

2.) Alpha CC or Maxis Match? 

technically im maxis mix, but i tend to lean very hard to maxis match clothing.

3.) Do you cheat when your sims gain weight?

no not really. if i want them to loose weight i'll have them work out

4.) Do you use move objects?

if you dont use moveobjects, i think legally we can consider you clinically insane.

5.) Favorite mod?

this is so hard... ummmmm, probably like better build buy. i spend a good amount of time in build mode and use debug/live edit objects a ton when i build, so it's pretty useful.

6.) First expansion/game/stuff pack you got?

i think it was get to work, i even bought it in a physical case thingy and i still have it lying around somewhere. (as well as seasons.)

7.) Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing?

LIVE mode.

8.) Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

you're asking me to pick a favorite? out of all my children?? i honestly can't pick a favorite, but here's layla, and i love her.

9.) Have you made a simself?

yeah, i've tried on multiple occasions, but none of them have ever really captured my essence all that well. eventually i gave up and just started using my mascot sim, Nellie, for my quote-on-quote "branding"

10.) What sim traits do you give yourself?

im gonna go ahead and give myself five traits assuming we all have the "more traits in cas" mod:

creative, goofball, loves-outdoors, squeamish, foodie.

11.) Which is your favorite EA hair color?

the darkest brown swatch is my go-to.

12.) Favorite EA hair?

ima be so real rn i dont use EA hairs at all.

13.) Favorite life stage?

young adult. might be biased because that's around my age-frame

14.) Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

builder. i have the most fun in either buildmode or cas.

15.) Are you a CC creator?

not offically, but i've converted defaults and skin details for personal use before, and i've even released some load screens.

16.) Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad?

yeah baby, check these amazing people out.

@loafysims

@inspiredsimmercc

@pikaburr

@rhdweauni0

@dizzyscabiosa

@ravensccfindss

@gabrielle-kl

@nihilismtrcit

17.) What’s your favorite game?

i cant decide, it's between the sims, halo 3, minecraft, stardew valley, and splatoon. i want to play zelda: tears of the kingdom as well, but its just not in the budget rn sadly.

18.) Do you have any sims merch?

no.

19.) Do you have a YouTube for sims?

yeah actually, if you can ignore my 13 y.o sounding voice, check me out

20.) How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing?

omg so much. here are some side by side comparisons of my different eras/progression.

(its the way the first sim looks like she could be a trademarked lego piece that gets me)

21.) What’s your Origin ID?

pretty sure its just emilee-has-legs. i have a couple of builds on the gallery if you wanna check me out, i just never posted them on here because that was before my simblr era.

22.) Who’s your favorite CC creator?

dogsill, softerhaze, greenlamas, ceeproductions, sentate, serenity and simstrouble take the cake for me

23.) How long have you had a simbIr?

i've had my blog for a minute but i only became an active simblr like a couple months ago.

24.) How do you edit your pictures?

i dont really edit except for a few touchups in picsart, and also srwe.

26.) What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next?

probably get together, never got around to purchasing that pack and there's a couple things i want from the ep.

tagging: anyone who wants to have some fun. it was nice to chill on call with friends and fill this out. cya besties ily.

[sputnikodin]

3, 8, 11, 19!

thanks so much west :D

Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year? oh this one's HARD -- my music taste exploded this year!!! i got into ambient and IDM and industrial and a lot of other stuff that was previously far beyond my palate. although i love aphex twin and my favorite songs i discovered this year came from him, i'd have to say autechre -- i've listened to tri repetae so many times i feel like it has its own dedicated cluster of neurons.

Game of the year? NEW VEGAS ....... AGAIN!!!! just kidding. i haven't finished it yet but i really loved roadwarden. very innovative and engaging game, i need to get back into it. i also have to say splatoon 3 cuz my little sister nudging me to buy it so i could play with her got me back into splatoon in a big way & it brings me almost daily joy

Something you want to do again next year? go to minor league baseball games at the park near me!!!! holy shit!!!!! i only got to go to one before the season ended this year but it was a transformative experience. i'm planning on spending most of my weekends at the ballpark this year since tickets are so cheap and it's like a 40 min train ride away.

What’re you excited about for next year? event-wise, i'm planning to visit mar during the baseball season so we can go to a giants game together :+) it'll be my first giants game and my first MLB game, and it'll also be with my beloved, so i'm really looking forward to it. more broadly: just continuing to settle into who i am. the last two or so years have been a lot of hard work & adjustment & growth and while that wheel never stops turning, i'm hopeful that in 2024 i'll manage to push myself less and enjoy the fruits of my labors more -- in the sense of just fuckin chilling out for a bit and getting to know this shiny new version of myself. Al's Year of Having Fun

[stovetoast]

i know this is my art blog but i can do whatever i want. agents posting GO (WARNING THIS IS MESSY)

agent 3: lake. 19 (11 in splatoon 1), they/them

i dont have a lot on lake!!! they actually didnt get recruited at all, they just kinda... stumbled into the battlefield while the octavio fight was happening and insisted on sticking around afterwards because they had Way Too Much Energy. they dont really know a lot about their past before that, even less after oe. they now spend a lot of time researching turf game strategies (theyre not legally allowed to play because their special limiter is broken) and trying to push through the chronic fatigue. oh, and theyre in a qpr with 8.

personality . uhh basically lake likes to pretend theyre still silly but its Not working. they cant really speak above a certain volume either without it hurting. im so bad at describing personalities heeellllp hellllp help meeee helllllp

agent 4: mari(elle). 21 (15 in splatoon 2), any

the child of two splatlandian grizzco higher-ups! like... they work with the bear himself! they worked under the company at the inkopolis location for a while, including while the whole callie disappearing fiasco was happening, at least until the company got big enough where he could quit and her parents wouldnt notice. they didnt. cool! there may or may not be a reason that they didnt (wink) but i havent decided yet.

mari is kinda uhhhm. well. ive described it as theyre working on being silly without being mean. and hes been getting better :] + toni kensa fan oh heeeeelllllll no

agent 8: august/kass. 19 (13 in oe), he/him

oh god yeah i dont have a lot on him either. basically baby kass and baby lake met a few weeks before the Oe Incident and became fast friends. but then the metro happened and uhhhyeah you can imagine what happened to that. they both know they were close but dont really uh. actually i explained this better in another thing let me grab that.

"the key difference between a normal playthrough and this is that, not only did he run into agent 3 a few times in the metro, he… lost an eye when they were sanitized. the same eye, in fact. plus, his memories weren't entirely… restored, like how it i assume its implied to in oe. the contents of the mem cakes were merely evidence that there was a life before this, something to evoke feelings, and something to keep him going. that isn't his life anymore."

anyway. oe happens and now were here. present day kass is SILLY okay? but in the way that like. he dunks bread in pepsi and stares at mari (roommate) with the most blank face imaginable when they look at him weird. i dont know where im going with this hes just weird. he also has a strange fixation on death as a coping mechanism for the fact that his first memories are pretty much of zombies but hes respectful about it dw

new 3: clementine "kit"/patch. 16, it/its

basically it was forced to take on an unhealthy amount of schoolwork (+ a few extra years of school) because its parents live all the way in calamari county and didnt want it doing stupid shit. its primary guardian is its older sister, whos a lot nicer about this stuff yay! but yeah uhh splatoon 3 basically happens because it wanted to escape that. why it actually went in the manhole is up to interpretation .

through the nss bonanza business it made a friend, my friends oc ball :] together they are agent 6 and agent 9 (dubbed by lake because they knew itd get confusing) and theyre Siblings Yaaay. its smallfry friend (agent 3) is dubbed sen, short for baby sensory video, at least while kits learning their language. it doesnt know a lot about sen but is in the process of learning!!

its generally very quiet and soft-spoken to most people because of how it grew up, but in more of the ^_^ way ig??? despite that its also known to not have a sense of self preservation, again because of how it grew up. it goes out in the scorching hot desert for random junk. it ended up with severe facial scarring because it dove into danger so much in alterna. im describing this very badly im so sorry.

[raidenfanclub]

Here's a list of things I've been obsessed with at one point or another/still am obsessed with

inspired by a post made by my bitc*-as*s-sister @deargodhelpmeaaaaaaaaa

this is like in order of when I was obsessed, going from elementary school to today (late high school)

There's so many lmao- the ones showed above are like the most impactful interests I've had- I've liked other things, they just didn't rewrite my goofy brain like all these did

ok explanation time

Pokemon- absolutely loved these games as a kid. I gaslit my older sister into thinking pokemon were real when we were really young. Almost my entire elementary school life was defined by this series and I adore all my pokemon plushies.

FNAF- ok so my sister liked it, so then I liked it. Our neighborhood friend and us had a whole club centered around the characters and we kinned assigned ourselves with all the animatronics. I was Mangle/Foxy btw.

Zelda- Probably one of the most influential games of my entire life. I played through so many of them in the later part of my elementary school years and cherished my toon Link plushie. I literally considered myself ThE gIrL lInK and pretended I was him. Breath of the Wild came out when I was deeply obsessed with the games and also when I was having an extremely awful time in my life. Botw may have unironically saved me. This series is a cornerstone to my identity.

Undertale- My sister liked it, so then I did too. Me, her, and her best friend, kin assigned ourselves characters without knowing what kinning was. I was temmie and muffet btw. I loved this game- then hated it because thats what was considered cool. But nowadays I just love it because its truly an amazing game and I dont care about its fandom reputation anymore.

(ima mention mincraft- even tho its not listed- minecraft was another cornerstone of my happiness and identity)

Hatsune Miku (and just vocaloid in general)- another "my sister liked it, so then I did" i liked the characters and the music. Me and my sister went to an event for the Miku expo one time, and it was so much fun. (it was an event where everybody drew miku and itd be scanned for the "Blue Star" music video, i remember it vividly) was an amazing time. I still like some vocaloid songs and love miku. Some of my school friends say I'm the real hatsune miku because I own a miku cosplay lol.

Splatoon- Everybody in middle school knew me as the girl with the squid bag and zelda jacket. I adored splatoon with the release of splatoon 2. I played it with my friends, I played it on my own, I made big deals out of splatfest (to the point where my parents were like "oh its splatfest? that's ur favorite!!) this game also really pushed me into becoming an artist. I would spend hours trying to recreate the artstyle and for like 2 years, all i ever drew was splatoon art. Another cornerstone series like Zelda.

Persona- oh no another cornerstone of my identity series... I look back at these games very critically and nowadays am not a huge fan of the writing choices. But in middle school, when I first played these games- omg they made me a better person because of how much I wanted to be like the protagonists. I wanted to be a reliable friend like them, so I worked really hard to try and become a better person. Despite the problems in the writing, these games really did help me- also they were my introduction to shin megami tensei) I should also note, THE ART! Playing persona encouraged me to shift my cartoony splatoon style into a more semi-realistic anime style like persona. My art improved monumentally from how much I studied Soejima's illustrations. It really inspired me.

Evangelion- I actually read the manga first. I reread it a bunch because covid started up and I had it checked out from the library. We couldnt return them with covid restrictions so I just reread them a bunch. Then I eventually watched the show and just loved it. I got my sister into it a year after I did, and we made a tradition of watching End of Evangelion once a month. Also a major influence on how I view writing and my artstyle.

Shin Megami Tensei- OK ANOTHER CORNERSTONE BUT these games made me realize the depth video games can have. Even though some of the games are really on the noise with their themes- games like Nocturne and Strange Journey blew me away with their creativity. I have so much to say about this series but I will keep it concise and say that this may be my all time favorite series (though its a close contender with Metal Gear)

JoJo- First off, I adore the art so much. But my friend encouraged me and my sister to watch it, we really enjoyed binging the series- and then I read the rest of the manga (SBR MY BELOVED). But i think why i especially love jojo is the friends I made from it, I joined the Fandom wiki community (and although it had its toxicity) I met one of my best friends there and had so much fun drawing things for my online buddies and chatting. Im not on the wiki anymore, but i still talk to some friends from it- and I still really enjoy the series itself PART 9 IS SO FUN SO FAR!!

Monster Hunter- really mh rise, I havent gotten to playing the other games (YET) but me and my sister play thsi game together, its awesome, I love the monsters, I got really good at drawing dragons because I would constantly draw the creatures from this series. I own the mh world artbook and that thing has got to be the best artbook ever- its my bible.

NieR/Drakengard- the same friend who recommended jojo to me recommended nier to me (he's such a real one, absolute bestie) We were gonna play replicant together but he got grounded so he let me experience it on my own. And I adored replicant, it was so fun to play with zero expectation of what it was. the Nier games may have my favorite sort of aesthetic but also I love its characters and its writing. Of course, when I got into Nier I went and played Drakengard also!!! Me and my sister played all these games together (tho she didnt play replicant with me, she just walked in on the most crucial plot points) But we played Drakengard 3 together, (ultimate sister bonding experience) and even though drakengard 3 IS SO FLAWED, we had a lot of fun. The Final Boss (which took me 3 weeks to beat btw) was so much fun for us (i still refight it sometimes) ... We of course played Drakengard 1, we spent $130 to get it actually, played it all (i suffered thru obtaining ending E) and we though it was awesome. Still havent played Drakengard 2 yet, but one day. I love this series for its writing, characters, aesthetics, and being able to discuss it with my evil sister.

Genshin- i dont wanna talk about it. I played it with friends, made me happy to become closer to ppl by playing it. I like some of the characters. ok bye...

Metal Gear Solid- My sister says I had the ultimate character arc by going from being obsessed with Genshin to being a die-hard Metal Gear Fan. I played all the games in late 2022, and it's probably the most brainrot I have ever experienced for a series- absolutely a cornerstone series. Everything about it is just awesome. I could go on for hours. I HAVE GONE ON FOR HOURS (to my poor friends) I literally made my tumblr just to look at metal gear fanart. The games inspired me to finally get better at drawing realism, and some of my most iconic art has come from my fanart for the games. I love my friends in the fanbase too, its awesome. I think about Metal Gear every single day. Never missed a dose of my metal gear fangirlling pills.

Silent Hill- My sister and I were playing sh2 together, then didnt play it for 6 months, and then I played the entire game without her (sorry maddy) Im still going through the 1st game and have the 3rd one in my backlog- but the atmosphere and psycological horror in these games is everything to me. The creature design and lighting choices have inspired my art, and I think about these games all the time. The latter half of sh2 actually terrified me a bit, and horror games dont really scare me.

Resident Evil- I have no idea how I got into the games but I played re4 over winter break this year, and realllly liked it- I adore Leon and I don't care what anybody else claims, HE IS MY MAN. But after re4 I played re2r and re7, and I just love the gameplay and the characters. Even if the games are really goofy and not really scary (I have balls of steel, re7 didnt scare me, but i loved the tension) But i love the goofiness and how campy they are. Me and my sister played re5 together and made a bunch of silly jokes- making resident evil multiplayer was the best decision ever. I can't wait to play the rest of the series.

Trigun- My most recent obsession (although it coincides with my silent hill and resident evil hyperfixations), I had first watched the show like 3 years ago- REALLLY LIKED IT- but didnt finish the anime. And then never touched it until I saw stampede's first episode. I went a watched the 1998 anime and read the manga. I can't describe how much this series has come to mean to me and it literally won't leave my head. I don't like stampede. I love the animation but I just can't. It's a-ok if your a fan, i genuinely see the appeal but you'll only catch me talking about it if its either about peak quality animation or a 3-hour rant about my problems with the writing. THE ORIGINAL SERIES HOWEVER! means the world to me. I reread volume 10 like 6 times and cried eachtime. My friend explains things to me in "trigun" terminology" as a joke when we have personal conversations. I love trigun so much.

Ok there's def more things I really enjoy, like Nijisanji, Ghost-n-pals, Chainsaw man, Death Stranding, Honkai Impact, Sailor Moon,,, the list goes on. But Everything I wrote essays about are my most physically obvious obsessions

Nijisanji actually deserves its own paragraph but im tired lol.

[journalofsorts2]

i've been a lot quicker to tears as of late. i'm not sure why. i've been told over and over again that starting testosterone makes it harder to cry, and for the first couple months that was definitely true. but now i feel like i'm crying over everything. or i guess everything non important. i've cried while playing video games at least ten times this past week. i cried when i was listening to music, nothing sad even, it was splatoon. i cried when i was looking at art i really liked. i cried when i got a package in the mail. i cried when i took a shower. i cry at the stupidest things lately and i'm not sure what's wrong with me. i haven't been crying over the big things either. i just wrote that whole post about the way i feel towards my mom and not even a sniffle. normally something like that would've had me crying like a year ago. even the smallest hint of fiction-induced emotion has me crying but when i try and remember the actual real-life abuse i went through i'm so extremely neutral and it maddens me to no end. i want to cry when i talk about my mom, i want to sob thinking of how my mother utterly ruined my self esteem. i want to stop awkwardly laughing and smiling like an idiot when i try and recount how my first ever memory is of her abuse. i don't want to cry over fictional characters and their relations in the narrative. i don't want to cry when i put on a splatoon cd. what i want more than anything is to not be so medication and therapy resistant. my body chemistry doesn't mix with a whole bunch of antidepressants and the ones that won't genuinely fuck me up have little to no effect. i have tried therapy over and over again and everytime i can't fucking bring myself to actually say anything of importance. i know what's wrong with me and i know what caused it and i spend too much time successfully introspecting for therapists to actually do anything im not already doing myself. i want therapy and medication to magically bring back my memories. i want to remember all the things i forgot and then i can handle the rest from there. maybe if i could remember the full picture i'd be able to actually cry about it.

[zaptap]

so i played splatoon 1 for 57 hours when i came back to it in the last couple months. that puts it at 440, just under splatoon 2 (which is at 450)

really makes me realize how little i played splatoon 2, relative to how much content it had and how long it was the newest game.

after a year or so of splat1, basically ignoring every other wii u game i got after that to play splatoon more (3ds escaped this only by being portable) i went into splat2 resolving to not leave a trail of unfinished games behind me again

buuuut that just created a different issue. new game comes out, i'm like ok i'll get through this and go back to splatoon.... then another new game comes out before i can do that. and i still didn't even finish most of them. probably the bulk of my splat2 activity comes from the first 3 months before mario odyssey released, and the month or two after octo expansion, and the rest is just keeping up with the new content, splatfests, and hitting the salmon run checkpoints and dropping in for special rotations. i could've played more. i should've played more

i'm taking a different approach with splatoon 3. yeah, they're still making games i want to play that aren't splatoon. but i like splatoon more. so it should have priority. and i've discovered the secret to not feeling bogged down by a lot of unfinished games i've bought is to just... not buy a lot of games. in the past i'd buy stuff if i got a good deal or if i just wanted to make sure i got it when it was available (since i prefer physical). and spending money on that means i feel more obligated to play it and i feel bad if i don't fit it in

but, welllllll, when i got the splat3 oled i hacked my launch model switch and so now uh. i'm not worried about missing out on switch games. if i wanted them i could get them whenever. and it removes the whole "i paid for this i should get my money's worth" obligation. (and yeah i prefer physical but getting a good deal is a good tradeoff to go digital. especially if the deal is free). anyway i haven't actually done anything with my hacked switch beyond setting it up but the option certainly is there. i'd still end up buying games i intend to play online though (which is pretty much just splatoon and pokemon, the latter just for trading and home compatibility)

so yeah in the year and a half since splatoon 3 released literally the only other games i've gotten are pokemon violet (and its dlc) and totk. im not even done with either of them (though in violet all i have left to do is get the rest of the post-dlc legendaries). probably will buy the ttyd remake too. other than that it's just been splatoon 3

i kind of don't want to play it too much though. i burned myself out playing splatoon 1 a lot ahead of the last splatfest (which is why i pretty much didn't touch it again until this year), and it took until splatoon 2 for me to want to play again.

but the issue there was i decided i wanted to hit level 50 during the last splatfest, and i was far enough away that i'd need to get a ton of exp each day to make it (i think something over 200? you get 5 exp for winning and 2 for losing so if that was 200 exp exactly, it'd be over 3 hours a day at BEST. i tended to win about 2/3 to 3/4 of the time in splat1 those days so it was at least on the shorter side, but still, you can imagine the strain this put on the fun i was having playing the game).

this is also why i don't particularly care about leveling up in splatoon 3 (especially since other players can't see your level this time). i recently hit level 50 after over 800 hours, probably about double how long i took to get there in splatoon 2 (i'm in the low 50s in there, maybe 54 at most). if salmon run gave exp though i'd be way higher (it should) (when are they updating it to do that) (seriously if they can add wandercrust support to it they can add exp too)

i do think i really need a break from splatoon at one point. there's enough that i want to do that i'll probably continue after content updates stop, but i don't want to keep playing daily all the way until splatoon 4 (whenever that is). i need to at least turn it into a weekly routine after that maybe. forget the first victory of the day bonus (catalogs wouldn't have anything important at that point i assume? mystery boxes like the extra catalogs i'm thinking), maybe at least catch each salmon run rotation's superbonuses for the cash drops (that's not a once a week thing though. that's like 4 days a week i think. better than daily, but still)

i would totally be fine if the next splatoon game didn't come out for like a decade. there's enough in 3 to last that long. but of course if they're making a new console, they're going to put splatoon on it. it's only a matter of when. would we be looking at 3 years after splat3 content stops, like last time? longer? shorter? who knows. may depend on whether some of the devs will have to do an animal crossing game in between again

[sykomuffinrulez]

I agree. It was so stupid. Judd had a reason to be a mammal that was still alive, he was cryogenically frozen! And Lil Judd is an evil clone of him lol. All other mammals on the planet have been extinct for millions of years... except this random ass bear with sentience I guess. Even worse, one of the old SRL posts said that Mr. Grizz was neither good or evil. He didn't care for chaos or order. He's just in it for profit. So how come out of nowhere with zero foreshadowing or hints, he has suddenly done the most intense face-heel (heel-heel?) turn of all time and decided that he wants to destroy all of his employees so he can... have friends? Who are "mammals"? AKA functionally the same except they have hair now. I remember pulling an all nighter to play the game when it first released so I could experience the story mode and see who the true villain would be! And then it was a literal bear. Why??? I'm not the hugest fan of Splatoon lore who rereads sunken scrolls a million times and spends hours translating things from Japanese to find out what a background character's favourite food is, so maybe if you do, this makes total sense to you and I'm the dumb one. i don't know.

If fights are open still: Mr Grizz being an actual mammalian bear was stupid and it would’ve been more interesting if the bear was a persons.

(My first idea was that one guy from dream daddy BTW)

[undertale-encyclopedia]

As an apology for yesterday, let me give you an update on what's going on with this blog.

So first and foremost, my computer is broken. Laptop's hard drive is completely fried. Didn't lose any data, but I won't be able to work on posting the remaining stuff like i promised... but NOBODY has thrown rocks at my house yet so I guess that isnt too big a deal.

As of right now, my plans with this blog are to post the remaining Mad Mew Mew dialogue, post the Dog Casino dialogue, and finish that index post that has had papyrus with a cone on his head for years.

And for what's NOT on this blog yet... There is some FUN value stuff on console that i have not posted here, i don't know what I'm going to do with that because i am NOT going to try and get it myself haha. Maybe I'll steal it from someone else, nobody would know... Deltarune-Encyclopedia is not on my to-do list either, one because its a lot more linear of a story and you can realistically see all its dialogue in 2-3 play throughs (as of now), and two...

I'm just not in the zone to be working on this blog rn! I get these spikes of motivation and i blast through a hobby i really like for a week and then i go back to playing video games for another 2 years. I'm kinda just hoping i get another pang of motion but i think if i want to get this done (which i do!) I'm gonna have to just force myself through it. When i get a new computer, of course.

So thats whats up with this blog! And you know what, while I'm in a talky mood let me tell you about ME! THE (co)OWNER OF THIS BLOG! I'm Cally! I work as a freelance photographer, I enjoy playing a wide variety of video games (currently splatoon!), and I also like cross stitching and making pixel art. Recently i have been spending a lot of time hanging out with my friends who i love very much, and a couple days ago i was appointed as a moderator for the patreon discord of Youtube Woman Bizabizow! Go check her out she does cool video game stuff and also her fnaf plushie design videos get crazy views maybe youd like them :)

Okay thats it for now. Thank you for sticking around, and sorry for scarring you once every couple of months, it makes me just as uncomfortable as you and i SWEAR i have fixed the issue! Anyways, keep on Undertaling and let get to the Undertale World Championship! Wooo Undertale!!!!!

[enkidurgas]

December 16, 2022

Lately my whole household has been sick.

I saw Maneskin at the end of November and came back with a sore throat from screaming my head off. That evolved into an actual cold. (Maneskin was worth it though).

Last week both of my parents came down with covid. Initially, I was worried I gave it to them, but I had tested while sick and had come up negative. Dad got his while taking care of Mom. I'm not sure where Mom got it.

Thankfully everyone is doing much better.

I'm very behind on my holiday shopping. For my parents, I haven't bought anything outside of their respective lists. They're getting too hard to shop for and I hate cluttering holiday giftings with cheap junk...

My past month has mostly been video games. I've been enjoying the new Pokemon game despite its glitches and weirdness! Though I've mostly been playing Splatoon. I think next year I want to spend a lot of time playing through my (large) backlog of games. It felt nice completing story modes for the first time in ages. Maybe since the release of Octo Expansion? Or was it Pokemon Shield...?

However! Yesterday I got hit with a sudden urge to watch a Love Live anime I haven't seen yet. I barreled through Superstars in one sitting!

I really like Keke.

[splatsvilles-fashionista]

I did say Splatoon 2 specifically as it released in the first half of 2017, which is when lootboxes were trending at an all-time high before the Star Wars Battlefront 2 controversy, the backlash of which I'd argue was the beginning of the end for lootboxes in AAA games (mostly, last I heard they're still in FIFA and doing fine there).

That said, I assume your original response was made with the Shell-out Machine in mind? If so then I do want to make clear that it is not a lootbox system, or at least I don't consider it as such.

When I refer to lootboxes it is specifically a randomized microtransaction, either bought with real money or with a currency bought with real money. The danger of lootboxes is that they are built to encourage gambling behaviour and impulsive spending, and going "just a little more" is a trap that is really easy to fall into. Hell, I've done it myself back when I played Overwatch in 2016-2017.

And in fairness, the Shell-out Machine can encourage that kind of reckless spending as well, but you are not using your actual real-life money to buy them. If you spend all your money on the Shell-out Machine you're not going to be broke, you'll just have to play the game more.

I'd also argue that it matters a lot that the game hides none of its most valuable purchases, weapons and gear, behind the Shell-Out Machine either, which makes it clear to me what its purpose is: to be a money sink for dedicated players who aren't spending their coins on anything else. And that makes sense when you consider that the same kinds of player in Splatoon 2 were literally capped on coins for years because they had bought all the weapons and gear and suddenly had nothing to spend them on. The Shell-Out Machine, alongside gear leveling and locker customization, is meant to alleviate that, ensuring that coins are always a valuable and desirable reward no matter how much you play.

Being published by Nintendo gives Splatoon all kinds of unique problems that other major multiplayer games don't run into, but despite that, I wouldn't trade them for anyone else because good grief could you imagine how unbearable this series would have been if any other of the big AAA publishers were responsible for it.

[songbirdcrow]

Hello all!

This is my first time making a writeblr and while I’ve been posting my art here for years, I was never really involved in artblr. I’m really looking forward to sharing more of my work as well as meet new people and their work! :3

My dream is to publish my writing and be able to live off that and my art one day.

This is a sideblog and I follow from @illuminatedmoth​

About Me

Call me Wasteland or Z, I’m in my late 20s

Queer; gender is a fuck, sex is cool

Mentally ill and neurodivergent

A furry :3c

I spend a lot of my free time playing video games including Splatoon, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Stardew Valley, Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout New Vegas, DOOM (new and old), and Persona 4 and 5

I'm bad at watching movies and TV because ADHD, but I've recently been into The Owl House

I've listened to a few podcasts like The Adventure Zone: Balance, The Magnus Archives, and Welcome to Nightvale

I don't read as much as I want to and I cannot wait to see what other writers on Tumblr have made or recommend.

Fun Fact: Some of the poetry I wrote in school was published in a book compiling a bunch of student writing

About my Writing [#songbird.txt]

I favor fantasy settings and non-human characters, I also really like steampunk and cyberpunk. I also like dystopias, post-apocalypses, horror, and mythology. I'm planning to work more elements into my writing as I expand my skills

I got my start in sharing writing attempts as a fanfiction writer when I was in middle school, though I had been attempting to write stories from when I was a child.

Being queer, mentally ill, and neurodivergent flavor my writing. I'm unlikely to write something without these elements or themes.

I'm balancing a few WIPs at the moment, though most of them lack solid titles.

Afterglow Electric [#afterglow electric] an adult, science fantasy, cyberpunk dystopia novel. It’s focuses on the power of community against the threat of hypercapitalism and companies that would try to crush people into being machines to make them more money. The people who band together and lean on each other for support, deeply flawed as they are and for all they fail or all weak. It’s not about focusing on how each person fails but how they can be there for each other. Deeply queer and personal and political. Focus of NanoWriMo 2021, first draft incomplete. Currently also working on a proper intro and blurb

Blood Magic (title definitely changing) a fantasy story about the lengths a man who go as a father and for love. A path lined with betrayal, magic, and loss.

Apart from these I plan to also write one offs features the same or unrelated characters and maybe some poetry

About my Art [#songbird.png]

This blog is new but I've been posting art to Tumblr for years; more of my art can be found here

I make a decent blend of original and fan content. My art leans towards non-human characters and has a lot of queer and neurodivergent themes and characters just like my writing

I tend to do character art though I am branching out and being experimental

I have an art heavy WIP also

Bitter Bark [#bitter bark] is a webcomic is a sort of urban fantasy setting revolving around a cast of young college age characters. The cast is largely non-human, heavily anthro. It's a bittersweet tale by design that's meant to explore self-worth, long lasting regret, oppression, and of course it features a lot of magic. Despite being my oldest wip, it's the one I feel least ready to start writing and drawing.

If you like my work consider leaving a tip! <3

For anyone interested I’ve got Commissions and a Patreon

[suuupermetroid]

jess’s 2021 games masterpost

just stuff that has kept me company this year :) 

red dead redemption 2

a genuinely incredible game, and i think it takes the spot as my new favorite game ever. it helped me through a really tough time earlier this year, and even after finishing it i find myself back in the game time and time again just to explore the scenery and ride around the mountains :]

death stranding

ok so i never actually got very far through this, i just look back fondly remembering nights of playing this at 1am so my parents wouldnt know i didnt eat lunch for 2 weeks to afford this game. also shoutout to the guy who is now my coworker for selling this to a 17yo me without asking for id

uncharted: the nathan drake collection

all 3 of these games are just a good time. shooting army mfs while nate says funny one-liners. what more could you want. so glad my friend persuaded me into playing this series. started 4 too, which btw, absolutely fucks <3

gta 5 (fivem)

it’s ridiculous, but i actually became good friends with a couple of my coworkers through grinding for drugs and money when i first started at my job. we all made so many trips to pillbox together after wrecking cars or tackling each other to the ground and then we dragged more friends into it all and i made memories i think i’ll keep for a very long time :)

the last of us

it’s so hard to put into words why i love this. joel and ellie, i would die for you. spoilers, but at the end i did not hesitate when i walked into that surgery room.

the last of us: part ii

this game is yet another reminder of why naughty dog is my favorite game studio. the gameplay and visuals make it feel like perfection and the combat makes me feel like a god damn maniac. i dont know any other aaa game that has prominent lgbt characters, and although it has flaws it really does mean a lot to me. i watched someone stream the entire game last year before i got a ps4 and even though i knew the ending i still cried so hard my nose bled for an hour lol

splatoon 2

this game is one of the best multiplayer shooters currently available and you cant tell me otherwise

forza horizon 5

this was my my most unexpected videogame love this year. i may not be a good racer like my friends, or be invested in much of the story, but i’ve enjoyed just spending my time speeding over hills in off road cars like a maniac while listening to the in game radio

kirby’s dream land 3

started playing this on my commute to work every day and it’s just delightful. i grew up with kirby’s dream land on gameboy so having this game to play in the mornings on switch has been lovely :]

animal crossing: new horizons

feels good to play this at last! i’m a long time fan of the animal crossing series so playing one on a current gen console instead of cracking out my 3ds feels great

metroid: dread

whaaat a fucking masterpiece of a game. this is my favorite thing on switch so far, the whole thing is delightful and very difficult, and as always samus feels so badass to play as. looks very visually impressive for the switch too. absolutely my favorite new release of 2021.

resident evil: village

i watched this game about 5 times over through streamers this year so i built up the balls to play it myself over christmas. maybe i overestimated myself because it’s still terrifying to me and im still stuck in the cellars of castle dimitrescu

pokemon: brilliant diamond

my first new pokemon game :) i think the most recent proper game i owned before this is for gba, so it’s been really interesting to play through. sure, it’s not known for being the most high-quality remaster ever, but i’ve been enjoying it.

there’s a bunch of stuff i didn’t add to this list, like super monkey ball bbhd and red dead 1 :] but i just added my favs that i discovered this year and the ones that hold the best memories!