#Jeffu talk

[bainhardt]

watching Shrinking because it's been a long time since I've seen Jason Segel. I thought the theme song sounds like The Postal Service but it's not

[cryptids-and-muses]

Post canon homestuck crew play Dungeons and Dragons

Karkat and terezi

Co dms

Unstoppable when actually working together

Terezi will get sidetracked messing with karkat

Karkat trying to write a deep and well fleshed out campaign that’s thematically resonant vs terezi’s desire for chaos and traps and trying to “trick” her players FIGHT

Terezi believes in karma and will make the world bend to this

Karkat is trying to set up romance arcs and argues about how it adds to the theming

Dave draws them fanart of their characters. Terezi loves it while karkat argues about accuracy before admitting yes he also appreciates it

Calliope also does fanart and karkat praises her skill and accuracy unlike some people

John

Arcane trickster rogue

Forest gnome

Just a goofy little guy!

Mostly just playing to have fun, starts off with a fun but simple character who develops over time

Ends up SUPER invested and taking this so so seriously

Karkat worked a dramatic reveal into the, in his words, “bare ass bones two paragraphs that a fucking wiggler could have written backstory” and John did not see it coming and loved it

Goes head to head with terezi a lot on her various traps she designs for them. She is getting more and more absurd with it. Karkat had to talk to her about breaking the world building with things she’s introducing. He is the only rogue. Send help.

Rose

Drow warlock

Tries to justify picking drow as anything other than she just thought it was cool

Nearly went old ones for patron but settled on archfey for story reasons

Has a 10 page lore document detailing her tragic past and her toxic relationship with her patron

It became 15 pages after going back and forth with karkat for a bit and adding even more

Only her and one other person are taking the romance arcs seriously and they become karkat’s favorite players

Tries playing morally ambiguous but terezi can be annoying about that and claims it’s just “the consequences of her actions”

Her and karkat both get very very into the scenes between her and her patron, the drama! The acting! Dave is uncomfortable and karkat brushes it off, it’s not like him role playing as his sister’s abusive girlfriend is weird. It’s in fact very important to the plot Dave

Has written fanfic of the campaign

Jade

Dragonborn barbarian

Path of the beast

Don’t ask me I just know

Her GLEE when she says “I’m gonna rage :D”

ANIMAL COMPANION! She nearly went ranger just for that but knew she wouldn’t have as much fun. Found a way to get one anyway.

It was harder naming her animal companion than her character

Having fun and likes the problem solving side of things, but likes breaking things with her massive strength just as much

Terezi likes to throw stuff at her, both traps and encounters, and finds it funny if she can just wreck her way through

“See John that’s how you deal with a pressure plate trap”

Takes the rp side of things very seriously

Once argued with Karkat over if her favorite npc would do that and cursed him out

Has read roses fanfic of the campaign

Dave

Plays a teifling with grey skin and orange horns

“What are you talking about karkat this is just my dude, don’t you like him?”

Hellus Jeffus

He’s a valor bard, eventually multiclasses paladin

Starts out just trying to mess with people but like John starts getting into it, though he tries to down play it

Have hellus more of himself than he realized and it’s making him face things about himself

Eventually hellus self sacrifices to save the party in this deeply intense moment. There were tears, Dave was wrecked, they went on a whole quest to revive him. It was touching and karkat is smug

Dave might have worked through some things

Jane

Halfling cleric

Her and John are small buddies!!!

Started out life but wasn’t having a lot of fun with it so with terezi’s permission switched to war or tempest with later s few levels in fighter

Her John and Jade are the biggest front liners, John’s character ends up really close with both of them as it’s easier for the rogue to bond with the person giving them sneak attack

Jade and jane’s character have an in game arm wrestling match

Took a bit to get into the rp side of things but eventually got the hang of it

Roxy

Tabaxi, easily, it’s so obvious

After much deliberation settles on glamour bard (though wizard and rogue were tempting for the joke, she wanted to branch out)

So many horny bard jokes but very little actual follow through, karkat gets frustrated by this as she’s all this talk but isn’t pursuing any of the romance options he’s giving her

She has SECRETS! She is HIDING THINGS!! Her cheery persona is a FASADE!!!

Cue complaining to karkat about how hard it is to wait to tell the others about her secrets and him threatening violence if she tells anyone before the in game reveal

She tells jake

Lots of egging on Dave and helping him with his fucking around

The BOND between her and Dave!!! They are the duo to end all duos. Team rocket type shit. There is nothing stronger than the bond between the bards of the party. My theory is it has to do with trading bardic inspiration.

Dirk

Half elf Druid circle of spores

Wildfire seemed fun to him but wasn’t as good

Wasn’t originally planning on being a Druid but after going over all the classes he liked all the customization and decisions that go into Druid like prepared spells and such

Didn’t really think about his backstory much, just improved something. He keeps improving new additions and it’s getting more and more elaborate and complicated. He has multiple hidden and long lost siblings by this point. Still doesn’t write any of this down. If he messes a detail up he justified it with more improv.

Yes his character has spiked up red hair and sunglasses. Don’t question how the Druid got sunglasses karkat.

Really likes the tactics side of things, he’s even pitched a few things to terezi she updated and later worked in

Sometimes works on plans and strategies out of game or making a million back up characters that play off the others in interesting mechanical ways

Is considering becoming a dm some time

Jake

Needed some help making his character, he just didn’t know where to start

Eventually after much discussion settles on a teifling bladesong wizard

Wanting to get away from his usual adventurer style Roxy helped with the backstory and they came up with this evil scientist raised in a cult who’s good hearted but was never taught right and wrong

He gets very into playing him and his moral struggle but can lean a little too good for his backstory, karkat points this out and Jake swears to get better at it

Dave pitched a lot of names for them and it was eventually settled on “Bernard Gunn” even though he has a sword. Jake just likes how it sounds

“Why is he blue jake?” “…..uhhh” “why is he blue?”

Calliope

SHE LOVES THIS SO MUCH

Teifling Druid with a focus on healing

Circle of shepards

Not a troll color pallet like Dave though, honestly it might get a bit trickster

Beautiful backstory that she coordinated with one of the others to make joint. The most obvious choice is Roxy but I think it was actually jade, Jane or John.

She gets so into it you guys, like so into it

Gives at least one dramatic speech completely on the fly

The other character who takes karkat’s romance arcs seriously and his other favorite player

Has also argued with terezi about world building and consistency. This may put her above rose in karkat’s eyes

Was also allowed to read rose’s fanfiction and offered full on reviews

Also considering going into doing but for the opposite reasons to Dirk

Vriska

Fairy artillerist artificer with a dip in war magic wizard

Min maxxed to hell and back

(Technically there was a better race, but fairy has its own advantages and she couldn’t resist)

An elaborate backstory too with some secrets of her own, I’m thinking full on lost princess

Yes she is That Player, you know the one

Has nearly been kicked multiple times and now won’t leave on principle

Not the best at sticking with the party and not just doing whatever she wants, but suprisingly Dirk has been able to talk her into it with his talk of tactics and playing smart

Second most effective is John who just looks at her like “vriska you’re not making this very fun :(“

Kanaya

Fire genasi ranger

Really tried to get into it but this just isn’t her thing so eventually decided to leave the group

Karkat came up with a fun story reason for her to leave and eventually brought her character back as an Npc

Did help rose make a cosplay of her character, after which John, Calliope, and Roxy wanted to make ones too

Vriska eventually tried to “manipulate” into helping her make one for her character

[saturfied]

jeffs 17 cats after the mens folio photoshoot- 💅🏻

they also want to show their, probably clipped nails just in solidarity and in fun for their big sweet lovely meow meow, yes i am talking about jeffu

[dabihaul666]

no weeb i just wish i could cuss ppl out in jp and talk to qina and also that anticult/rightwing coverer mr jeffu and spot anti-lgbtq bullshit in every language but also literally u call urself rotten and vulgar and draw a gay fictional character ship and there's been onnagata since the 1600s OR LONGER in ur culture and there's fucking shitty stereotypes about okama in ONE PIECE and ur out here seeing fuck trans ppl theyre not real and people being gay in public or god forbid anyone mentioning anything other than cis hetero marriage with child is turning children gay and trans i hope u get the shinzo abe doohicky next!!!!!

[bainhardt]

last year I marathoned all the Saw movies. was thinking about marathoning the Purge movies this time but the first movie was really forgettable, so idk

anyway, the thing that stood out to me the most in the movie was their fridge with two bottles of ketchup

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oh yeah earlier this week I watched Bones and All and I didn’t intend to hyperfocus on only one particular detail coming away from a movie I enjoyed pretty well overall but if the movie suggests his father was his first “bones and all” then that kid definitely ate his dad’s dick and balls and everything right? wouldn’t that have to be what that means? did the director or scriptwriter or anybody realize that was in the movie? did he do that on purpose? write a kid who eats his own biological father’s dick and balls?

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why are all fruits so much fun to throw

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the ancient art of playing random dumb shit found on Steam with your friends

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my HUD at all times

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Something I found interesting: I just received an email from Amazon offering me $6 of credit to buy something on Prime Video, even though I basically never have a Prime subscription or shop on the Video service (unless two purchases over 10 years still qualifies me as above the curve, which would be pretty funny). And in fact it's one of these prior purchases that immediately came to mind seeing the email - because it was prompted by this same free offer. Almost.

Back in 2018 I had been meaning to watch Get Out, and after receiving a similar email (for the first time ever, completely out of the blue) I decided to buy the movie for convenience's sake. According to my email receipt, the movie cost $7.99 at that time, and $7 of it was credited - showing that this offer in the present day has reduced in value.

Checking the current prices for Get Out, it's exactly the same a whole six years later, and even then only because of a supposed "discount" on the average price! So we have a situation where movies are not depreciating in price whatsoever many years after their immediate relevance, alongside discounts worth less than before. And people wonder why piracy is always the go-to. Ridiculous.

Anyway this post is about how six years makes all the difference between impulse buying Get Out for 99 cents and not buying Whiplash even though you've really been meaning to watch it.

[bainhardt]

is it a midlife crisis if I can't stop thinking about how much I'd absolutely fuck up a technicolor dreamcoat if I had one

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I think that's partly why I'm drawn to retro games at regular intervals too. you lower your standards by default because you assume they must have only barely been able to achieve what they did and then you're more than likely pleasantly surprised with something or other in the experience

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the more I decide to try out indie and other low-budget/doujin style games the more I am reinforced in the belief that the biggest filter in gaming is always UI design and menuing

I've lost count of how many games I actually wanted to play but something awkward about getting them to work made them feel like more trouble than they're worth. which is a shame because smoothing out that aspect of player experience is such a distinct discipline from making an interesting or fun game in the first place that I don't think anyone can really blame smaller or amateur developers for not nailing it

it's a balancing act in a way. there are games I've tolerated more jank from if something core in their experience was very appealing or addictive to me. but it always feels like an unfortunate compromise. and it's also one of the hardest things to anticipate before trying a game

[bainhardt]

I don't know how exactly to label it but I'm making an Exodia of films and the three pieces assembled so far are

The Entire Bee Movie Vocoded to Gangsta's Paradise

COG

Minecraft but I survive in Parkour Civilization

[bainhardt]

by which I mean I keep trying to grind repeats for my PB time on a stage in CHAIRS and I haven't been able to get it again so I don't even know what I must have done right the one time

[bainhardt]

speedrunning is like that episode of Rocket Power where Otto does a trick because his neighbor's lawn mower shoots a tennis ball at his skateboard midair and he keeps wanting to try the trick again even though Squid's computer simulation tells him it's mathematically impossible