#I wish we had more money

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

Randomly got surged with love for my dog, hug your dogs everyone <3

[hyakunana]

I hate the sewers . jpg

[fadetouchedsilk]

im not sure how to parse this exactly (probably since the thought hasn't marianted fully yet) but i wonder if the tone of veilguard's writing is less about appealing to a younger audience and more of a response to falling media literacy rates

kind of thinking out loud here but like.

i'm recalling the girl on booktok who proudly annouced that she only reads the spoken dialogue in her books, not the narration & the people in her comments laughing and agreeing (no wonder they can 'read' so many books per year, they're only reading 25% of the words). or 'starting to think some of you don't like media or characters, just fanfiction tropes.' you can hand someone like that a complex narrative, but what are they going to do with it aside from completely & happily misunderstand things that are very obvious context clues & themes? we can joke about the fandom mischaracterizing our blorbos & trying to be cool about just scrolling past but idk, personally i feel like i've seen an uptick in completely off-base takes in the last few years (probably some fandom bias there but this isn't my first time playing dragon age or narrative driven games in general so i don't think i'm entirely wrong)

it doesn't help that this group also loves to be loud online & the bioware devs (to their ongoing detriment) seem to be unable to distance themselves from fandom. we saw larian's response to this type of outcry, i wonder if bioware is just trying to get ahead of the curve. they make some questionable decisions, but they aren't stupid & i don't think people like that are especially hard to market to from their standpoint.

i don't think that older titles like dao are perfect or anything but i sincerely doubt that large swaths of current audiences would 'get' it. like, there IS a lot of narrative hand-holding in this game & i'm not talking about things like the map markers or accessibility features. 'do the companion quests!' you get told multiple times, more or less outright, & i'm still seeing people confused about getting 'bad' endings despite ignoring this incredibly obvious series of hints. there's a fair amount of information to be found in the codexes, but are people going to read them? we don't know, so we're going to repeat the relevant item name several times over on the off chance you might end up remembering it. like yes this is some people's first foray into rpgs, but you would think that progressing the story would be intuitive (especially given the structure & the journal itself).

the 'the curtains were blue!!!' crowd is unfortunately a very large audience these days, ea is a corporation who wants to make money & they do need that if they intend to keep making games. it might not even be intentional, it truly could just be the result of following market trends.

don't take this as me making excuses for bioware or anything, but there's definitely some sort of reason we ended up the way we did. i see the scaffolding of something interesting here with a lot of potential to be better than what the final product was, a lot of hooks we could have spent more time chasing & that leads to me wondering just what the hell happened.

[ispyspookymansion]

youre all fake car haters. its all We Need Better Trains!! and then you wont even get rid of your car in a POLL?? shameful

[helldritch6211]

If i re wrote red hood outlaws + arsenal n red would you want to see snippets of that or would you roast me on a pike?

[swan2swan]

Still bothered by the way the T. rexes move in the second half of Camp Cretaceous. It's too light...Rexy had good, solid movement, but some of the animators gave the Eaties too much bounce.

Not always, but:

I think she just takes the turn too smoothly in the second one. It doesn't really feel like an eight-ton beast. She should probably plant the right foot first, or not fully clear the ground at the start.

Compare to Rexy from a few episodes prior:

The weight is obvious there. The way the feet slam down with every step is a little more pronounced: she's stomping, not skating.

I assume this is just a matter of individual animations. Yu puts more effort into conveying the Rex's weight, while Juan just wants to get Big Eatie to turn left in the 1.5 seconds alotted to the frames. It's also possible that the editor was feeling rushed or not as concerned with the turning shot, while they looked at the log shot and said "Do that again" twice until they were happy.

Production isn't done in a vacuum, it's made by people, different people, working as a team, and I kinda love that.

[squisheebugdoodles]

Okay Here Is The Problem: everything costs money and yet money is something that i just literally never have. solution? kill the idea of money so that nothing costs anything Please. i'm so tired

[rhys-ravenfeather]

So you mean to tell me that not only could we have gotten a cute new (and potentially really interesting) Disney couple:

But the very first Disney villain power couple as well?!?!?

WE WERE F*CKING ROBBED! D:<

[lornasaurusrex]

I miss you Lorna… this is such a mess

This is an old message and I had several other similar messages, but I miss you guys and hope you’re all doing well!! I’m sorry to see nothing has improved.

I saw I was kindly mentioned by @awesomefringey and some other commenters the other day, so just wanted to log in and say hello and log back out for a few more months. 💕

Sending so so much love to all of you. Take care of yourselves and each other, please.

The video is still on YT.

[puppppppppy]

Atla live action 😐

[larphis]

There is something so absurdly funny to me about Taika being an executive producer on the show. It‘s adorable, it‘s amazing, but at it‘s core its just Taika Waititi sponsoring David Jenkins to continue being gay on screen. And that‘s beautiful.

[scopophobia-polaris]

1 - I love your drawing of the hero's shade in your style!

2 - What are your thoughts on echoes of wisdom?

AW THANK YOU 💖💖💖💖

OkAY Echoed of Wisdom I'm cautiously optimistic? I didn't like TotK at all and I gotta be one of its biggest haters for various reasons, I actually hate the fact EoW is getting released a little over a year after the damn game cuz it's feel....odd? Like it says a lot of things to me about devlopment and that looming question of like is this in response to people wanted to play as botw zelda and then they.....its a lot you know

Anyways if I hear good things about it from non critics I might just get it! Legally that is

[erospourfemme]

i'm a very don't tolerate bullshit kind of person and I respect and expect it so much when other people are real and straight up with me anyways whatever I say stems from my own thoughts and I cannot lie to you and tell you to do something I think is stupid if you ask for advice. anyways an acquaintance of mine who majored in English unless you want to work in primary school for a pay of barely 700 dollars complained how her parents want her to get a masters degree and she's thinking about getting one in marketing or something similar and then later on spreading into tech saying how she can work as a data analyst and I literally almost laughed out loud like it's absolutely insane how little university life prepares us for the future and how absolutely useless it is that you have university graduates here thinking they can work a job that requires a degree in either IT or economy as someone who read and talked about books for grades like please be so serious right now. I'm not upset with her for thinking this is possible just the general society for letting these young people down by telling them every career option is valid and it doesn't really matter what you study in university because it does

[stellardeer]

I can always tell who has and hasnt worked in the service industry before getting a white collar job cause if someone else who DOES work retail is complaining about their job they'll be like "that doesn't sound right, you should talk to management/hr/a lawyer" or whatever, whereas people who have been in the trenches before will be like "that sounds fucked up, we should bomb them"

[c0smiccom3t]

So..... regarding those news about Nicholas Kole's crash 5.....

I'm going to explode.

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

I do understand the temptation of the conspiracy theory that corona virus was designed in a lab for maximum damage. It really does seem like it doesn't it?

All the things in your body it takes advantage of, all the long term impacts, the way it triggers and reactivates other diseases, disabilities and viruses, the mechanisms it uses to evade and manipulate the immune system, it having mechanisms of action similar to other known greats [other deadly infections like Ebola and HIV], and even down to the fact that it spreads so easily, is so air-born, the way it mutates so quickly, has such a low infectious dose and quacks like nothing worse than the common cold during initial infection...

Like I do not buy into conspiracy theory thinking at all, but I see why it's tempting in this case. If I was playing a video-game and trying to design a virus to cause the most damage possible, and spread and infect as many as possible before anyone bothered getting too upset about it, and have as many unforeseen and devastating impacts as possible... If I wanted to wipe out or weaken a whole planet [or a set population provided I also developed a secret cure]... I would design this virus exactly.

And now we are seeing that it can go latent in the body and reactivate, so once you have it, you have it, much like herpes or chicken pox, and unlike other viruses and colds which are gone once your body clears the infection and can't reactivate.

Like we know that viruses like chicken pox can reactivate later and become shingles, we know what HIV does, and we know some of the initial symptoms and early long term symptoms can be disabling and even fatal to many as it is, but for all we know this virus causes everyone's hearts or brains to stop outright ten years or so after infection, or completely clogs your arteries, or outright shuts down your body's ability to make a vital protein, or just triggers mass cell death [during even my initial infection the body-wide tissue damage was so bad it nearly shut down my liver and kidneys like I had crush syndrome, I very much almost died]. It's already having impacts like this in the short term for some people.

We are not going to know the true impact of this and the longer term symptoms until it is already too late.

Please get vaccinated, wear fucking masks, and try to reduce spreading.