#I wish things could be easy for once

[derit-s]

:(

[kooldewd123]

alola cafe guy is one of my favorite underrated pokemon characters and i'm not even joking

[moeblob]

Deacon loves two things: Ymber and digging himself a grave.

Fulj hates one thing: Deacon.

[rohirric-hunter]

I'm really glad they added in an option to return wraiths to single player instances. I know it's not what the servers are for, but when I decided to make a character on Angmar I was hoping for wraiths to interrupt all sorts of interesting moments, as that sort of shenaniganery is what gets the fanfic gears grinding in my head best. And of course the most interesting moments in LotRO are pretty much all instanced.

Also the first time I ever soloed a wraith (before they removed them from solo instances) was in my first class quest solo-only instance. It actually got me at first, and I wasn't sure I could beat it, but it was so exhiliarating and fun when I did. It added a whole other level to the regular gameplay, where I ended up taking out a lot of the regular enemies first so I would have room to maneuver (hoping I wouldn't spawn another while I was at it. No cooldown either back then.) This sort of strategic thinking is not usually necessary to LotRO, even with landscape difficulty. I roleplay it when I play on my Hathellang clones, using the stealth attacks extensively, but even the class designed to be dependent on stealth can still barrel through dozens of enemies without touching the stealth skill if you're in a hurry.

Honestly it brought me back to when I first started playing LotRO and had no idea how to build a character, never leveled my virtues, and outleveled all my gear. Of course as I learned new things and corrected them on my character, things becoming easier was an excellent reward. But the gameplay also lost a lot as it became less challenging. I'm thrilled that this kind of challenge is slowly being implemented into the game intentionally, through landscape difficulty and now the Veil of the Nine stuff.

[kavehater]

Chappel Roan saying she’s sad she’s demisexual and then there’s me being aroace as a whole like don’t you think I’m even more sad 😭

[thenwethrowitonthefire]

Shout-out to everyone who survived a "fun" easter with the family

[dandyshucks]

trying to tell other ppl about OCs is so hard and embarrassing, like yeah here's my automaton guy that I've been calling Empty Mask, yeah I nearly cried over the thought of him collecting broken porcelain dolls the other day, yeah he sounds kind of stupid but he's actually kind of a tragic character if u get to know his story,,,,,,

[anaalnathrakhs]

i just can't ever trust my feelings and opinions on anything because i'm always a broken clock and anything i say that ends up being right is completely divorced from the logic that took me there <3

[perilegs]

i pass pretty much all the time but hm. ive heard interesting stuff from drunk ppl i know who dont know im trans

[meltedhorror]

I always hoped we'd rot together, that the day the earth reclaimed my bones it'd be by the side of you. . . Maybe if I close my eyes and believe enough, it'll come true eventually. . .

[giverofempathy]

really wanting it back & dragging its dead weight forwards today girlies 😭

[embershx]

The weirdest thing about recovering from a long (long) term depression is that even as you note your behaviour changing in specifics you have a weird cognitive dissonance about yourself in abstract. I was talking to my boss where I volunteer about the tutors kinda fucking over one of the uni students in my class and I was like "If it were me I'd be in the office every day. I'd be turning up in other people's classes to complain. That man would not get a moments rest." And my boss said "Yeah, you're a spitfire" Nobody has ever called me that in my life And while I was there describing how I would make my tutors life fucking MISERABLE if I was in that situation, and being able to start the description with the phrase 'you know what I'm like', my brain still bluescreened at the suggestion because it was like 'Spitfire? No I'm anxious and introverted'

[fi3stazo]

I just saw some guy threaten some other guy in a spot-on Mickey Mouse impression???????

[fruitsofhell]

Last reblog has me thinkin a lot about Kirby remakes. You have Kirby’s Adventure and NiD where the artstyle is so glaringly different between the two it’s like you have to choose a side. And from what I’ve seen the fandom tends to (intelligently) show favoritism towards the original NES look. 

Then you have KSS and KSSU, the base of the last post, and I find the differences between the games to be slight yet substantial. Maybe I’m just blind and all 16-bit games look the same to me, but I couldn’t even tell the sprites were different the first time I played KSSU, but after actually playing KSS I could really feel the difference. The original has a much harsher and more gritty style, that I think a lot of people feel hasn’t aged well, but atleast I still think has tons of merit. For certain characters who need that darker or more expressive touch like Meta Knight and Marx I find the old sprites more flattering in a way. And I think the garishness of the pre-rendered backgrounds SHINES in Meta Knight’s Revenge because that sort of gross clash against the usual style is heightened for a mode about Meta invading with his war ship and foreign ideals.

But that actually brought me to our latest remake in RTDL DX. And like there is nothing really WRONG with the new style, it just makes me miss the wii game. The wii game looked basic in a really charming and balanced way that I think is lost in how bright and cell shaded the new game is. The worst sin being scenes that are meant to have more dynamic lighting - like inside Magolor’s ship or in the final cutscene as Another Dimension crumbles - where the more cartoony style just doesn’t gel. But like honestly, if it weren’t for very on the nose divisive stuff like Dedede’s redesign and the character outlines, it would be very hard to make a case for the merit of the original. Just cause to the average person in every sense of the world the new game looks like an upgrade graphically - Shinier, higher detail models, fancy new animations, and the ritz.

I hope over time people do come to really appreciate the wii version’s merit in it’s simplicity, mainly cause it’s another big comfort Kirby game so any change to it made in the remake rubs me the wrong way lmao. But also I do think it has some outside of my uber personal opinions.

[sillywebz]

we have now reached the stage of family vacation where i have a meltdown

[trans-phone-eater]

This website makes me feel lonely