#Nightshifters

[loud-whistling-yes]

My current favourite pattern is waking up in the morning to see dream situation trending, then disappear from the page, then trend again at night when everyone on the western hemisphere wakes up

[katherinehoughtoncastle47]

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Nightshift (2024) Ezra Berrnico

[crustaceousfaggot]

I think it's so funny that people are behaving as though all the Disco Elysium spiritual successors are effectively equivalent.

Cause Dark Math's press releases are all along the lines of "We're making a super cool edgy detective RPG. It's gonna be just like Disco Elysium, except with less words and more bullets, because who likes reading, am I right? Anyways, it's gonna be sooo cool and way more fun than Disco Elysium 😎"

And Longdue has said "uhhh yeah we're not really ready to talk about specifics yet. There's probably gonna be some weird psychological dream stuff going on. Idk. It's gonna be fun trust us"

Meanwhile Summer Eternal has hardly done any interviews, and if you read their manifesto and blog entries they're all like "Capitalism and insatiable corporate greed have irrevocably damaged the infant medium of video games. Workers in our field are treated as commodities at best and entirely disposable at worst. We intend to do everything in our power to create an uncompromised, complete, and unapologetic work of art, or we will do down trying. This isn't about making the next Elysium, this is about making something entirely new and revolutionary."

[byjove]

some will never understand the sacred bond between a NEET with a fucked up sleep schedule and the world’s most harried nightshift worker that they entertain over DMs every weeknight

[aridatinas-art]

Night shift as a student really gives you time to sit and think abt important things (Ford) and do important things (drawing Ford) at 4:50 in the morning 😀👍

[estherax]

So... what do we think about XXX Nightshift? I just saw the trailer and I'm not so sure about it

The user interface, the dialogue box and the skills are carbon copies of Disco Elysium, the only significant difference is the skill portraits (they could be placeholders)

Game description from the trailer is quite something: "Set in 2086, you play a Patrol Op, Dinorah Katz, who is stranded at a luxury Ski resort in Antarctica. This original science-fiction setting lands you in a resort that shouldn’t exist with people that you shouldn’t know with the endless polar night covering a multitude of sins."

The studio being connected to Kaur Kender also raises some questions...

I'm hoping at least one of these "Disco Elysium spiritual successors" will be half as good as the original.... am I being too harsh or are the vibes just off??

[baji-sideblog]

Doodle Rider and the beautiful @2-dsimp boy Nokka hanging out together

I give this to them as sacrifice lol

The two look pretty in dresses

[bloodfreak-boyking]

...huh so they aren't even trying to deny the allegations anymore. He really just admitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that they're like this on the reg

[belzebubsofficial]

Good news! The calendars are currently on their way from print, meaning they should start making their way into your mailboxes early next week or so. Thanks so much to everyone who’s ordered a copy, hope you like them. 🙌 We made some extra copies just in case, too, so if you still want to grab one, please check out Backstage Rock Shop or our North American store Night Shift Merch, thanks!

[cart-coll]

all of my social outlets are full of fucking inniters im gonna kill myself actually

[multifandom-nerds-blog]

I'm rewatching Trollhunters in the background right now, and the disfunctional mother son relationship between Jim and his mom is making me crazy.

Like, he's taking care of the household and his mother for years as a teenager and before probably. She is sometimes giving half hearted comments about him not having to do so much, but very obviously she's not gonna make him stop do all the cooking and cleaning. Y'know. Both because they've been living like this for years, and because it's obviously also very comfortable to have someone do all the house work.

Then Strickler comes into the picture, and if we ignore the whole Troll and changeling side of the story, Barabara gets very offended cause Jim doesn't want her to meet him privately. Again, ignoring the whole magic and trolls stuff, STRICKLER IS JIMS TEACHER. If Jim hadn't figured out that Strickler was a changeling he probably wouldn't have a problem with it, but the fact that he does, no matter the reason, should be enough for Barbara to put a stop to the relationship. Her child is clearly uncomfortable with her seeing/dating that guy, for whatever reason, and even clearly vocalized it. But she doesn't care about, or rather, she tells Jim that she "wouldn't expect something like that" from him. Obviously not, cause she may see him like her child/teenager he is, BUT DOESN'T TREAT HIM LIKE ONE.

And then Jim, unknowingly to Barbara, becomes the Trollhunter, and his behavior changes. He's suddenly doing reckless stuff, sneaking out, getting bruises, landing in detention and even at the police station, barely avoiding a police report. What does she do? Asking him what's going on? If everything's alright at school? If he has any other problems? Maybe trying to lower his workload around the house, which again, he's doing most of that as a teenager and longer probably.

Nah. She doesn't do anything until he lands in the hospital. Except for again, dismissing him rather negatively at the one topic he's openly expressing any negative opinions about (Strickler). And after he lands in the hospital she now starts not asking questions, but demanding answers. Demanding answers from a teenager in a difficult situation who is also now acting much more like a teenager than he ever did before, from her point of view at least. Except she obviously doesn't know how to deal with a teenager, cause she has never had to raise or live with a teenager. She instead lived with a child pretending to be an adult for years, that was partly much more of an adult than she was, who did way to much work even before Jim became the Trollhunter. So she throws punishments at him and grounds him, but does he listen?

No. Cause why should he? Not only is he dealing with things much more important than being grounded, yknow, saving the world, he's trying to protect her from the sheer knowledge of the supernatural and physically protecting her from getting harmed. And again, for the majority of the time since his dad left he pretended to be an adult. He was and is the main adult in the household, dealing with important things she doesn't even know about.

The only one's treating Jim like a teenager are teachers, other children and Blinky and Aaargh sort of when they're not in the middle of Troll business. Strickler, in the first episodes where Jim doesn't know about his true identity, is much more of a parental figure to Jim (also after his redemption later on tbh) than his mother.

In summary: Barbara is treating her son like an adult, almost like a partner, instead of a child/teenager. And when that isn't possible anymore she doesn't know how to properly treat him. She also doesn't really care that her son is uncomfortable with her being around Strickler, or Strickler in general. And it takes Blinky telling her (when Jim is 16) that Jim might be affected by his father leaving when he was five years old.

Jim meanwhile is treating his mother more like a child/teenager instead of the adult and MOTHER that she is. Seeing her as his responsibility. Cooking for her. Cleaning for her. Telling her to rest and take breaks.

They obviously love each other other. And their relationship might not be toxic, but it's very much disfunctional. In a way that is mostly negative for Jim.

[rottmnt-residuum]

Hello, sooo-are you alive? Do you live? How you doing? You haven’t uploaded anything in a while, just want to check if you’re ok

im alright (<- coping lmao)

[rambunctioustoons]

wrong hall, maintenance..

[n30b1nary]

bouncing on it in a way that is a spiritual successor to disco elysium