#I'm sure there are things to do that are cool and powerful

[leidensygdom]

Okay, we all know about the usual warlock-patron dynamics. Creature with god-like powers tries to do their bidding or further their plans through a mortal, who is often going to be troubled by the pact. But, I'm here to propose some alternatives, specially for warlock deals that aren't inherently very harmful to the warlock themself:

This one is pretty typical, but the patron is a family member. If sorcerers can get cool powers from having a dragon grandpa, your fire genasi can have an auntie who is a big fire elemental who is trying VERY hard to connect with her family now, so she gives her nephew an allowance in the form of a Genie Pact

Your patron is undead (and your pact is Undying), but this person is not some power-hungry lich. This is someone you knew in life: A friend, or perhaps a partner. You had fought for a common cause, and they met their death trying to see the end of it, but they refused to leave you alone. Now, within you, their stubbornness has kept them from moving on, and they lend their newfound powers to help you in your common cause.

It's an eldritch entity, a creature beyond your comprehension. Your pact is that of a Great Old One. However, this creature doesn't quite have very concise plans to bring the end of the world- You're actually pretty sure it isn't even from your world. As time goes on, and as you realize their whims seem erratic, you realize that this thing you get powers from is... Probably the cosmic equivalent of a child. Maybe it's still cocooning in the depths of a distant dying planet. And it's incredibly bored. Someday, maybe, they'll terrorize the universe, but right now, they just really want you to be their eyes on another world. Call it enrichment.

Okay, this one is a fiend. Unequivocally so. But truthfully, they couldn't care less about your world, and you're not particularly concerned about what is going down in theirs. They kinda need few things done in your plane, few resources gathered, some people talked to, and between the lines, you realize that your newfound... ally is actually trying to oppose their boss or whatever. This one is a deeply legal-minded fiend, as far as you know: The hellish equivalent to a bureaucrat, after really digging around. Your party is convinced they will turn on you sometime, but eventually you realize you're just helping something that, for a lack of a better word, has to be an infernal-equivalent of an union effort.

That sword you picked was definitely cursed, and the voice within it has been calling to you. Eventually, you lend them your ear, and now you have an Hexblade pact. But this creature isn't bloodthirsty, nor talking to you about soaking their blade with your foes' guts. Truthfully, they hate being a sword. Trapped there as part of a vengeance, perhaps, this thing longs for freedom. And it has been used for evil in the past- Maybe the overabundance of skull motifs in their physical vessel didn't help. But this creature just wants to be able to experience a life that has been robbed from them. Your party may raise an eyebrow at you getting friendly with the possibly-malignant sword, but y'all are just making plans to get them to your favourite restaurant once they're freed.

This Archfey is the descendant of a powerful entity in Feywild side of things. The heir of some great lineage, or whatever is going on within their realm. You frankly don't know, because they're a bit of a... brat. One that kinda longs to escape their situation and get to live something more normal. You only find out this over time, when you realize you're kinda that friend their parents frown about. This entity, powerful beyond comprehension, just really wants to hang out with you and have a board game night with you. They'd love to meet your besties-- I mean, your world-saving allies. And you'd love to give them the opportunity someday, truth be told, but pissing off a fey court seems to be a high price.

You got stranded far into the ocean as a kid, and the rest of the people involved in the shipwreck did not make it out. But you attracted the attention of a group of merfolk, who had barely ever had the chance to meet someone like you. People had told you tales of how they'd drown and eat anyone coming into their territory, but these creatures were instead cooing about you. You're now grown up, and you can call them for power. Your party frowns at the idea of "I kinda got adopted by a sea polycule and I got a cantrip and few other boons about it", but you know they'll have to eat their words when you bring them for dinner- If you can find a way to table them in the middle of the ocean, that is.

the celestial patron is still a dick tho

Feel free to add onto these if you'd like, I'd love to hear concepts >:3

[divineturtle]

Bothers me when I'm reading a fanfic and they make Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy just like. A mean asshole? MY Doctor McCoy introduced Spock to baby talk. MY Doctor McCoy bounces on his toes and has a smile bright as the sun. MY Doctor McCoy knocked Kirk *and* Spock out with a hypo to sacrifice himself for them even though the aliens said he was almost for sure going to die, and the other two would probably live. MY Doctor McCoy was like, hey, sure Spock committed mutiny, but do we really gotta arrest him? Yeah he's grumpy sometimes, but have you considered the fact that he's stuck on a ship in Space with two assholes that literally never listen?

I just watched the Abraham Lincoln episode and I stg it's a miracle McCoy isn't actually a huge asshole, because wym "this planet WAS deadly but Abraham Lincoln says it's cool so we're going" "hey, don't do that, you could beam down into lava and literally DIE" "Ugh shut UP McCoy we're following Abraham Lincoln onto the Lava Planet That WAS ENTIRELY LAVA until two minutes ago" dude I'd be swinging at a mfer. Especially if I was their doctor knowing it was going to be my job to sew them back together. They're absolute menaces to him and he still loves them and is willing to die for them every other episode.

And I don't ever want to see another "ahh he hates Spock" when he so obviously does not. In the last episode, he wasn't even sure that Kirk and Janice had swapped bodies and yet again, he was ready to commit mutiny with Spock and Scotty (why does Spock love mutiny? 🤨) He does like to rib Spock and get reactions out of him, but Spock likes to do it to McCoy just as much. He's been around humans his ENTIRE life, his mom is a human, he's half human, "I have no idea what you mean, Doctor, I'm just a simple little logic machine," you cannot convince me it's not a game.

And every time I feel like McCoy is being hurtful for actually no reason, the next scene is Spock taking action because of whatever McCoy had said and allowing himself to tap into that human part of him. He has a way of speaking Spock. It's not always nice but it's a way that gets through. Do you think asking Spock to use his Vulcan powers to permanently alter his friend and captain's memory so he forgets his grief over this chick he fell desperately for and then also she died in the span of like four hours is a great idea? No, he'd probably have some moral or logical issues with that. but just speech at him about love and feelings and stuff, throw something in there about how great it'd be if he could just forget, and he'll do it himself.

ANOTHER THING. When he's an asshole, he apologizes. He's not an asshole often, but when he is, he apologizes. Leonard McCoy is a lot of things, but he's not really a dick.

I think he deserves to be represented for the guy he is. He has SO many nice and good moments, he's just subtle about them. Remember when Kirk was like, "Bones, why didn't you tell me she was blind?" And he was like, "Idk Jim maybe because that'd be rude? Have you considered it's not your business?" REAL. Honestly, real.

This is a much longer rant than I meant for it to be and somehow I still have more I could say so imma cut myself off right here ❤️ If you read all that, thanks, you're just as weird as I am, even if you don't agree with my lil character analysis. If you didn't read all that, then you're not reading this ✨️

[sunshinemoonrx]

Hey There Sure Was A Lot Of International Espionage In The Funny Car Robot Show

AKA Boonboomger overall thoughts!

...it was kind of a weird one?

Like, odd helmet designs aside, when it was first coming out the main reaction was "oh hey, a relatively normal sentai after a few years of out-there experiments". And then it...kind of was that, and kind of wasn't? Compared to an anniversary season where 4 rangers are suit characters, Toshiki Inoue's 50 episode dick smasher, and 2.5D soundstage romance of the three kingdoms for baby, it is much more like a normal sentai.

But then the second half of this show ostensibly about a bunch of racing car drivers fighting a bunch of evil racing car drivers is increasingly about even the ostensibly benevolent powerful in society's willingness to collaborate with evil to squeeze more out of the people, and our heroes fighting the police, the government and major corporations, all while, let's not forget, still fighting the main threat this is all revolving around, which is gay alien Michael Jackson and his gang of evil racing car drivers (although to be fair, none of this would be out of place in a Fast & Furious movie at this point).

This is...more cohesive than it should be--at least, as a tokusatsu fan, I'm more than the usual level of primed to expect serious pathos from a silly car robot named Boondorio Boomderas--but I definitely was more excited about the show early on when it was in full silly baby chaos show mode than later on, as much as I think it's extremely sick when your sixth ranger is dropkicking SWAT guys. But that might be less to do with the tone change itself and more character-related?

Like, I see what they were going for with Taiya. He's kind of aloof and catty but with a heart of gold, he's got this unconventional hands-off leadership style where he gives his team a lot of independence and freedom...but they needed to go way harder on either the aloof bitchiness or the supportiveness because it all ends up a bit weak and muddled. He never gets close to the full potential of a tsun hero who needs to open up a bit more because he's also, like, an angelic friend to all children; and if he's just nice with a little sarcastic/soft-spoken tinge...look, the whole "supporting his team by being hands-off and subtly doing things for them in the background while letting them run free" idea is inherently harder to do in a show of this level of writing complexity (low!) than just, you know, showing he cares by having him obviously do things for them, and support them, and be there for them, and not just sorta stroll in at the end like ah! it all worked out just like I thought! sorry I was busy cranking it

So, I enjoyed the early episodes where he was still just kind of a funny weird cat, and equally Mira was so much fun early on. She was doing all kinds of genki red ranger bits, making weird noises, bashing things with the wrong end of the sword, loved all that. And she didn't stop being like that later on, but that stuff felt kinda crowded out by the plot and (relatively) more serious tone, so she just becomes more generically peppy. I think another thing that made it hard for them to pull off the serious stuff is. okay. this might sound like nitpicking, but the "having your own hands on your own steering wheel" metaphor catchphrase thing. I get it, I get what it means, it's a theme, it's cool. but it's kind of long enough that it's not just a word you flexibly throw into a sentence, it becomes the whole sentence, so now when you're trying to recall iconic lines and moments, half of them are just "the time they dramatically said 'I've got my hands on my wheel now'", and it becomes hard to distinguish between them. Scale it back a bit!

With all that SAID I still happily tuned in every week. Even if it was a bit less dynamically rocket-powered, I still like when we're fighting the government. I love Robot Team Rocket (I love Yarucar being a little toy they wiggle around to emote for dialogue so much), I love the world's most pathetically whipped househusband blue ranger, I love all the yaoi between cars, I love the robotfucker secret agent, I love the funny ending dance.

So yeah! It's pretty good! I liked it! But either I think they could have thought out a couple elements better to make it really support the epic serious plot stuff, or those could have not been such an issue if they just went full-on for being funny silly antics car show of all time.

oh yeah hey what was up with the literal plastic disco ball taiya dug out of the ground that was the manifestation of the earth's energy or whatever

[the-edge-of-great]

Are there any other interesting tidbits/changes in the Sonic movie novelization?

I’ll be honest, I didn’t read the first book lol I was really only interested in whether the writers had given Tails more of a backstory (which they did… kinda), so that’s why I read the second. However! I did read reviews online that said the first developed Tom & Sonic’s relationship more than in the movie.

Notable mentions in the 2nd book:

•Sonic 2 takes place 8 months after Sonic 1

• Tails spent many months seemingly looking for Sonic… He built those weapons Maddie & Rachel used at the wedding to account for the “natural disasters, dangerous adversaries, and booby traps” he encountered. (I mean!! That’s a whole tv show in itself!!)

• He also built a gun that atomizes things and he’s afraid of it, but he keeps it in his arsenal as a last resort. The text says that he isn’t sure it should be used, which is so interesting to me.

• I think he originally set out to look for the Master Emerald, but the Miles Electric (not what it's called in this universe but that’s what it is) kept picking up its energy across different planets... and somehow he knew that energy belonged to Sonic?

• Earth is the planet the rest of the galaxy is warned about lol

• Knuckles calls Sonic a Child of Mobius. Tails says that's "the traditional home of our kind".

• Tails is looking to find Sonic before “their enemies” do (weird that they have common enemies when they’ve never met?? WHO has Tails pissed off?????? Paramount!! I need to know!!)

• He was ready and willing to prepare Wade's garage for a siege attack (in exchange for stealing the police cruiser and driving it off a cliff). So, again—who has Tails pissed off?

• Instead of "The Master Emerald? That's just a bedtime story!" "Well, he believes it's real," it's "That's just a bedtime story!" "No, it's real. I should know. I think I’m one of the few still looking for it.” (What if one of his ‘enemies’ is Rouge? 👀)

• Tails runs the red light, and Sonic takes the wheel. Meanwhile, Tails climbs in the backseat of the cruiser to build speed boosters mid-chase 'cause Sonic was complaining they were going too slow xD. (This is where the "Promise? Promise you won't go anywhere?" happens :'))

• Tradition among the echidnas was to do an organ swap to make an alliance. Knuckles just breaks Eggman's hand instead, but that's… a part of the lore now. (edit: this is in my Top 5 favorite things from this book. I can imagine someone pitching this idea & the writer’s room going “what the fuck this is a kids movie” lmao)

• Tails offered to help Sonic in Siberia. No "I'm not a field guy!" protests here!

• Short Tails vs Eggman on the mountain (with very Sonic Raised Tails vibes 🥹; the text even says "Tails mocked the villain, almost like Sonic would have")

• Sonic doesn't believe he can fight Eggman and Knuckles alone after the wedding. Tom actually gives him a pep talk.

• Eggman's full name is Ivo Gerald Robotnik (Is that canon in other sonic medias?? I tried looking it up, but I don't see his name like that anywhere, yet I swear I already knew before I read it… *Is his full name canon, I mean. Ivo Gerald Robotnik.)

• Book Sonic reminds me of Modern Sonic more than his movie counterpart sometimes tbh

• There are multiple holograms of Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails at the start of the robot fight instead of just Tails.

• Maddie and Tom literally run through fire to reach Sonic

• Tails names Super Sonic!

• Instead of summoning a chili dog to prove he's not been corrupted by the Emerald, Sonic makes a fart noise with his armpit that has the "decibel of a bomb blast"

• Sonic recreates the Master Emerald, not Knuckles

• "Gotta go fast!" (when Sonic is running across the ocean to meet Eggman and Knuckles at the temple) and "Way past cool!" (post-battle when Tails introduces Knuckles to the power bump)

[opreaadriann]

Help with Revenge Ideas

So, right now I'm writing the plans that the MC can choose to make his presence known and make the targets unnerved.

I was going to tell you all about it in the weekly update but I know a lot of you got ideas for revenge and subtle, petty stuff, so I would be grateful with some help if you guys got ideas.

So, here's how I went with it: You can either choose to do 3 small things to unnerve your targets, do a big thing to announce their comeuppance, or do nothing.

For the small things, here are the ideas I came up with:

Dylan 1 - Make him find a copy of your favorite statue (not the original, fixed one) from childhood with its mouth broken (cause he's a snitch, ya know?)

Dylan 2 - Create a fake account with your childhood nickname (added this to chapter 1 to fit) and comment on his live stream of the dance how you remember the Tragedy

Olivia 1 - Make the presenter who talks before the Fighting Rooster performance use the same words uttered between you and Olivia before the dance (best friends forever, sad because this is the last year together).

Olivia 2 - Make someone spill punch on her and mention that they heard she likes it (I don't like this one, I feel it's weak and would be better for Haley)

Michael (if crush) - Make the opposing fans jeer "Ew" every time Michael is at-bat during the homecoming game

Cecily (if crush) - Make the opposing fans jeer "Ew" during a ceremony where she leaves her crown from last year for the homecoming royalty successor

Michael and Cecily (if not crush) - Disclaimer: this one is kinda fucked up, I don’t know why I went so hardcore. Make them find a fake prosthetic head of their dog, Godfather-style

Vivian 1 - For the photobooth at the homecoming dance, add a filter that adds bloody broken glasses on your face (this is from the bullying content added in chapter 1)

Vivian 2 - Stamp “creep” on her dress

Isaac 1 - Stick a poster on his locker with his face and a target over it with darts stuck into it. How Isaac announced his lamb every week, MC will announce him as their target.

Isaac 2 - idk, kill him? Jk jk. Or am I?

Connor - Not sure yet. Something about him being two-faced.

Haley - Probably something with punch. Still thinking here as well

For the big thing I want MC to write with invisible ink “Creep” all over the walls, all creepy-like, and on the homecoming royalty crowns as well. After the homecoming king and queen announcement, power goes out and everyone sees the “threat.” It works pretty well if you’re homecoming royalty as well.

So, yeah. I wanna know if you guys have ideas for the smaller annoyances to unnerve the targets. I’ve made another poll where you can input your own ideas and I’ll see if I can work with any of them! If you had some petty cool way of scaring the targets in mind, this is your moment to shine!

[unluckywisher]

If this is totally outside your realm of comfort to write then that's cool but I figured there's no harm in shooting my shot. Your small chested reader with Caleb piece was delightful, and I was wondering 👉👈Might you consider writing a little something about a trans reader who's dealing with chest dysphoria?

While this isn't my field of expertise, I would love for my fics to comfort all kinds of people so I shall try my best!!! <3 🫡 Constructive criticism is appreciated since this is my first time writing this kind of stuff!! :D

Caleb was the first person you told about your transition, both because you consider him your closest friend, and because you knew he would support you. And he does!

At first he didn't know much about what he should do or how he should act, but being the resourceful man he is, he immediately looked into it so he could be as supportive as possible and anticipate any needs you might have.

Of course one of the first things he learnt about was how you could feel uncomfortable and insecure of your own body. Not on his watch.

Prepare to receive lots of binders in different styles because he just has to make sure you're comfortable and you look how you want to look. All the while saying and reassuring that you don't need these to be a man, you already are, but he figured you would appreciate them.

He would show you his favorite clothing stores and encourage any and all styles you might want to try, trying to be objective with you so you'd know he means it if he says that you look how a guy would look, without being condescending.

If you keep tugging at your shirt or wearing baggy clothes because you're not comfortable with your body yet, he will just. Take your hand and make you feel how big his chest is. He'll joke about how he might need to wear a binder too by your standards.

He'll invite you to go exercising with him and encourage you to wear tighter sports clothes, biggest hype man there ever was.

"You keep complainin' about your chest but I only see it getting flatter and mine getting bigger. I think I'm absorbing your energy and getting more powerful." And such memery aplenty.

Insists that the human body isn't even that representative of anyone. He uses Viper as an example. Then he uses his arm as an example. Then he worries a lot that you'll take it as an idea and go to Professor Lucius to get your body modified.

No even a question but he would pay for any surgery you'd want to have, if you want to have it, and get actually good doctors.

[tapakah0]

do u know cass personally? or is this a tumblr friendship? cuz its the most wholesome thing ive seen in my life

I don't even know their real name ~ But if I will be told that I have an extra liver, I will know at the exact same second to whom give it.

[famdommcfanface]

One of my favourite things about the Magnus archives is how much Jon just straight-up sucks.

Like, you watch/read/listen to fiction and you can generally assume that whatever the protagonist does, they'll do the right thing in the end. You at least assume they'll end up doing something that benefits them. Jon has never once done something that benefitted him. And it's not even because he's evil or stupid or anything. Everything just always goes wrong for the guy. He has never once improved a situation. The world would be better off without him and I think that's beautiful.

[miodiodavinci]

(single loud AA) (the forest goes silent immediately after) (birdsong returns moments later)

[zhanael]

Okay! Let's break this down, then. I'm not sure if anyone ever sat down with y'all for a discussion, so fine, I'll do it.

This game have just turned into another Yandere Simulator where any real development to the game is non-existent. Each new update to the game is just utterly broken and all the majority of new content to the game is just easter eggs and random shit for the sandbox mode.

In what way is it broken, may I ask? Are you playing the test versions? Because playing the stable release of 0.8.2 feels very polished! A game can never release without any bugs; that's the nature of programming. There's a long-standing joke:

99 programming bugs in the code / 99 programming bugs / Take one down, patch it around / 111 programming bugs in the code

VotV is amazingly well-done for a game still classified as pre-alpha stage. This feels more like late beta, if not release. This is as done as any other game I've played.

VotV is already at 8.2 yet nothing has changed in game's basic gameplay, mechanics and horror element or anything to make the game more interesting. Sure the redesign is cool n all but the game is a hollow shell of it's former self. And it's pretty clear that the developers don't care about actually finishing the game.

0.8.2* We're not even at 1.0 yet.

Now, that said, a question for you. Do you know what a "core gameplay loop" is? If you don't, this site goes into more detail, but in essence, it defines the entire game and how it plays, from batting a bunch of pixels back and forth in Pong, to shooting zombies and players in Call of Duty, to running, jumping, and squashing goombas in Super Mario Bros.

In VotV, the core gameplay loop is "find signal, download signal, refine signal, send out signal," enhanced by "go get hash codes." It was, after all, inspired by Signal Simulator. It could have very well just stopped there and been a fully-fleshed-out game. Simulator games were never really meant to be more than that, though some do put silly twists on it, like Goat Simulator or Power Washer Simulator. They're usually just meant to be actual simulations of real-life things, like American Truck Simulator or Microsoft Flight Simulator. As it is, VotV has Ambience Mode, which is exactly that. You don't even have to fix servers and satellites.

But MDN decided to put his own twist on the Signal Simulator model, and is adding and refining his own touches by adding the spooky stuff. He also chose to tie it to his other games by adding the Rozitals and Antibreather. But at its heart, it's a game where you work your job while spooky stuff happens around you; that's it. That's all it needs to be.

You might find it boring at this point because you've played it so much. I myself have 300+ hours in it. But the core gameplay loop does NOT need more iteration; it's very solid.

For every "big updates" they add at least 12% of new events and special signals into the game, but everything else added is just easter eggs, memes, self-inserts and bullshit features and content that serves 0 purpose shoved into the game. It's pretty clear that the developers have zero idea on what to actually add in term of making the game more interesting so all they do is throw any useless features into the game to see if it works. Now the game is no longer a signal hunting horror game and is just a shitpost G-mod sandbox game.

Are you certain about that? Krampus was pretty damn fun, especially since I just recently learned that he can shoot fireballs at you if he can't reach you for whatever reason. That was fun to discover! And the whole Christmas event was great, I was quite impressed.

Now it's over, but I'm still enjoying myself building up KerfO the new way, building a new garden, decorating with the new neon signs (fun fact: the ASO neon sign fits exactly over the faded painted logo on the outside of the base, that's pretty clever), all on top of going though the usual. This is, after all, Kellin's home for... however long a canary in the coal mine may last. May as well make it that way, especially while the horrors persist.

And what self-inserts? Erie does not actually have any impact on the story at all. She's a plushie you can make if you know what to do, and she's on a couple neon signs, but that's it. Very easy to ignore. Do you then mean that Rozital bird thing at The Hole for one day? The Rozital that washes the ATV one day? Esraniki???

But it seems your problem is the existence of references to other games and people at all, which is, frankly, weird. Developers reference their own games all the time; just look at how many StarCraft and Diablo references there are in the whole Warcraft series, or how often FFXIV references previous Final Fantasy games (hell, this latest expansion is just one big Final Fantasy IX reference). Hell, there's a taxidermied chocobo in New York City's Museum of Natural History in Parasite Eve, a 1997 Playstation horror game. References are not a bad thing, and no, they are NOT a majority of VotV.

(Also, touching briefly on the streamer/YouTuber plushies/easter eggs: It's just a cool thing for him to do as thanks to those streamers/YouTubers for helping to spread the word about the game. It's still not a bad thing.)

MDN likes his characters and his games. At the end of the day, he's making what he wants to see in the world; if people enjoy it, that's even better. But he's not specifically making it for other people--he is not obligated to listen to anyone but the team with whom he's working. That includes you, me, Kaiden, or anyone else outside the individuals on the left side of the title screen (NOT the Patreon subscribers). He doesn't owe us anything, and the sooner y'all realize that, the better.

The horror aspect of this game is not there anymore. The eerie atmosphere the game once had is completely gone as nothing in term of horror of any kind is there. Really how can you take this game serious anymore when there is this you can find IN GAME.

And here you insert an example of a pair of statues that one has to noclip past the hard barrier to find.

Noclip, which is only available on Sandbox Mode.

Sandbox Mode, which you have to play 30 Story Mode days to unlock.

...yeah, that's not the gotcha you think it is, buddy.

Anyway, I've been going out of my way to watch new players streaming VotV on Twitch, and for them, the horror is alive and well. None of the decor mean anything to them when Red Sky makes its appearance, or when the superfog brings a thunder wisp, or when Black Fog rolls in. They remain ignorant of those statues when there's things creeping around and banging on their vents, or yellow wisps are tearing off their limbs. Who cares about Erie, when something is stealing meat from the meat locker for some unknown purpose?

Again, all of this is probably old hat to you... but you're jaded. So am I. But new players? To new players, yeah, there's definitely plenty of horror. One needs only browse this tag or the category on Twitch to see that.

Or the fact you can befriend the catgirl aliens.

Man, the idea of contact with alien life has been the dream of humanity for decades. You don't think a real-life scientist wouldn't jump at the chance to do so?? What the fuck kinda sci-fi have you been reading??

Of course, that's assuming a new player even knows who/what they are and how to befriend them. Your average player is definitely not gonna know not to take the stuff from the picnic, or to not mess with the cool tech at the campsite. They're definitely not going to know to bring their new neighbors shrimp. Except for the occasional graffiti that may or may not appear, there's nothing in the game--still--that indicates that's what players need to do to impress their new neighbors.

All the actual horror and scary stuff in the game have gone completely stale as they're not that scary.

Playing through the game a second time will just be completely boring as all the cheap jumpscare attempts are just plain dumb.

I reiterate: You're jaded.

As someone who has not only wiped her saves, but deleted the VotV appdata folder countless times now for the purposes of starting completely fresh... I'm still having fun even though I know what's coming. There are still signals I haven't seen yet, events I haven't gotten, and some things still take me by surprise--the arirals' catapult prank, for instance. The deep reverberation of the yellow wisps still sends a chill up my spine. I literally made my own isolated version of the Bad Sun alarm because it's just that cool.

It does sound like the game has lost its charm for you, though.

The Arirals were not scary and never will be.

Says you. I think the average player who's never actually seen them before the posters go up on the treehouse, but who has probably had a few encounters with them already (picnic, the construction site by Yankee, messing with the cooler/beds/heater/etc.), will more than likely think otherwise!

The Rozitals, although very awesome and underrated, are just not scary.

....yeaaahhhhhh. Let's see what we've got, hmm?

Giant pyramid bot with massive scythe arms, which can crush you like kibble without a second thought.

A squad of octopods, as tall as the trees, who obliterate you if they think you're running away from them, but otherwise pin you down to make sure you're not a threat before dismissing you like an insect.

Massive Borg spaceship flyover that shakes the very earth you stand on.

A silent bird-like creature, very uncanny-valley, surrounded by very hostile and very mobile creatures that will shoot you without a second thought.

Depending on if you get the Life Crystal signal, shoots down a beam of light that lights up the night, and later sends a mysterious piece of tech exploding into the sky.

Yeah, none of that is at all scary to anyone who hasn't read other sci-fi. /s

All the Aliens in the game are just dumb and/or not even scary.

The only exception I can make are the Greys and yet they are the most undeveloped addition to the game and it's lore.

The Greys were clearly never planned to be in the game, as drnose have said many time before that they wouldn't be the game. But that changed because of Joel and his fear of them.

Joel is the only large youtuber who gives this game attention.

The Greys are the best part of this game, however they do not have the same spotlight as the Arirals.

The Greys have barely any lore due to how undeveloped it is since drnose care more about his 6 tiddie catgirl aliens the arirals.

The Greys were actually the only good redeeming addition to the game after 6.2 and they are unfortunately not going to be expanded upon.

Oh no, someone enjoyed a part of the game and MDN decided to expound on it as a result, how terrible! /s again

Greys take up the entirety of Days 40-52 now, my man. After the Rozitals do their thing, the Greys are, aside from dumping their trash on the base, now sending cyborg boars and fire tanks to absolutely destroy things--including the player. There's a massive battle by the ariral treehouse involving more boars and fire tanks than Kellin alone can handle, near the end of current story mode--which now ends at 52 days, IIRC.

And yet... that's not scary, huh?

Like I said... jaded.

The game is already losing its relevance as many former fans are leaving the fanbase because of how scummy the developers are and how disgusting and degenerate the fandom is. And any new videos about VotV, especially from Joel, have dropped significantly in viewer counts.

[CITATION NEEDED]

Like holy fuck dude, that's the complete opposite of objectively true. The Discord server alone has almost SIXTY-TWO THOUSAND (62,000) individuals in it, and I can guarantee that that's only a portion of the actual playerbase. Possibly a big portion, but not the whole of it by any means.

I can't speak to viewer counts, but frankly, that doesn't mean much. YouTube has been getting especially aggressive with their advertising, as well as with their demonetization of anything that isn't *family-friendly," so I'd imagine view counts have actually dropped across the entire site. Add to that the efforts to restrict Internet access across the world in the guise of "save the children" (age verification laws, content bans, etc.), and yeah, there definitely is a drop in viewership.

Note that none of that has anything to do with, quote, "how disgusting and degenerate the fandom is."

(Tangent: Please read this page and realize the term "degenerate" in the context you're using it has roots in white supremacy and Naziism and stop fucking using it, for fuck's sake.)

Anyway, I have no idea when this ended up getting posted instead of saved in my drafts, so I'm cutting it here. But Voices of the Void is nowhere near dying, and in fact, I'd say it's thriving. Have a good night, kiddo.

The progression of VotV's development is garbage. Pt. 1

This game have just turned into another Yandere Simulator where any real development to the game is non-existent. Each new update to the game is just utterly broken and all the majority of new content to the game is just easter eggs and random shit for the sandbox mode. VotV is already at 8.2 yet nothing has changed in game's basic gameplay, mechanics and horror element or anything to make the game more interesting. Sure the redesign is cool n all but the game is a hollow shell of it's former self. And it's pretty clear that the developers don't care about actually finishing the game. For every "big updates" they add at least 12% of new events and special signals into the game, but everything else added is just easter eggs, memes, self-inserts and bullshit features and content that serves 0 purpose shoved into the game. It's pretty clear that the developers have zero idea on what to actually add in term of making the game more interesting so all they do is throw any useless features into the game to see if it works. Now the game is no longer a signal hunting horror game and is just a shitpost G-mod sandbox game. The horror aspect of this game is not there anymore. The eerie atmosphere the game once had is completely gone as nothing in term of horror of any kind is there. Really how can you take this game serious anymore when there is this you can find IN GAME.

Or the fact you can befriend the catgirl aliens. All the actual horror and scary stuff in the game have gone completely stale as they're not that scary. Playing through the game a second time will just be completely boring as all the cheap jumpscare attempts are just plain dumb.

The Arirals were not scary and never will be. The Rozitals, although very awesome and underrated, are just not scary. All the Aliens in the game are just dumb and/or not even scary. The only exception I can make are the Greys and yet they are the most undeveloped addition to the game and it's lore. The Greys were clearly never planned to be in the game, as drnose have said many time before that they wouldn't be the game. But that changed because of Joel and his fear of them. Joel is the only large youtuber who gives this game attention. The Greys are the best part of this game, however they do not have the same spotlight as the Arirals. The Greys have barely any lore due to how undeveloped it is since drnose care more about his 6 tiddie catgirl aliens the arirals. The Greys were actually the only good redeeming addition to the game after 6.2 and they are unfortunately not going to be expanded upon.

The game is already losing its relevance as many former fans are leaving the fanbase because of how scummy the developers are and how disgusting and degenerate the fandom is. And any new videos about VotV, especially from Joel, have dropped significantly in viewer counts.

The only thing keeping this game alive is the multiplayer mod that is currently in development, but yet it still won't save the game from becoming dead before it gets into Alpha.

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than functionally no rares

Made some Duskmourn cards and also thought about the upcoming set currently known as "Death Race" and got in a vehicle mood

[seaofreverie]

So I actually finished listening to the whole Sparks studio album discography today, with Plagiarism, which I probably would have put off still for an indefinite amount of time, but since that was the last album on the list and the new Sparks era is now imminent... felt fitting to sort of finally listen to that. So I've been thinking of making a (short-ish? lol) post and talking a (little? lol) bit about all the albums I've left off from my Sparkstember writeups because I wasn't familiar enough with them yet at the time. So that the essay collection is completed at last yay. But well yeah, big day I guess, I'm officially all caught up, after... A year and 10 months?! I take my time with things... even if I'm super into them, or maybe especially??

[oozeandgoo-art]

everyone is sooo in love with vakori on account of le is so cool and smart and deeply pragmatic and is also completely batshit insane

[apricote]

i'm pretty sure it's not smart of me to absorb the tadpoles like they're breadsticks or some shit but i just wanna see what will happen okay

[h4zardousch3micals]

*holds her up like a long cat * Everyone look at the creature that's been infesting my brain

+ Versions with gay and cool armour

[simptasia]

personally i don’t think anything should cost money. if it were up to me, we’d star trek this shit up and do away with that needless cause of so much suffering

however. bare min? we should at least make it so things that humans (and animals) literally need to live? that should be free. so that would be: food, water, medicine, housing, and the means for temperature control

those five things, at the very least, should be an undeniable right to all living beings. the fact that so many people can’t wrap their minds around that baffles me. and tells me my dream of No Money is a long way away