#Since I did an overhaul

[buttercupshands]

mixing is in progress...

[pastelroyce]

turns out i do not, in fact, have it in me to replay DA to refresh for Veilguard so I will just look at pictures and try to absorb whatever the fuck I planned and try to keep it sensible after the newest game.

Boy you're gonna look so fucking good in Veilguard.

[gabbertrapmix]

A deceptively powerful and ancient creature... who likes sparkly bows :)

[kibellah]

new pathfinder dlc fun🏄‍♀️

[ashenberry]

woaw that’s so cool you made mgs3 except now I can see the dirt particles!!! anything else? no?

[blarrghe]

On god I hate matchsies

[scareqrowbranwen]

//kind of want to make a rwby verse for one of my ocs cause I think she'd fit in well in Vacuo lmao

also I want to write her but I don't want to fucking overhaul her whole universe again which is kind of what I have to do

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[shmorp-mcdurgen]

May I ask. Why dose Seth think 90% of things that goes wrong are his fault when their not?

It’s a subconscious thing. Like 1. He thinks he’s just a bad person in general, and 2. He has this tendency to just find a small reason he might be at fault and fixate on it.

He doesn’t think everything’s his fault, and knows when someone else is responsible, but specifically with people he actually cares about, he tends to blame himself before them.

[waratteiru]

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[tevintersoldier]

so during my bachelor two years ago i used to be the leader and editor of the uni student magazine. i joined again now as just a contributor and after our first meeting the current leader came up to me and said she had a lil fangirl moment seeing me???? so i guess im famous now hahaha

[audiovisualrecall]

Art specific things I want to do:

-finish illustrating steph's book

-open pet portrait commissions (paintings)

-finish unicorn painting

[existentialflirt]

god tumblr is being fucking stupid tonight.

[brainbesplit]

renamed iron golem to "iron guard", renamed snow golem to "snowman", renamed cod to "fish", changed zombified piglin to "ziglin" and zombie villagers to "zillagers", renamed smooth stone and its slab to polished stone because it fits better with the other stone blocks, changed a few subtitles, redid my bluefish textures and made the totem of undying into a little creeper. i have WON

[anguis-sapphire]

what if I went three for three on my saved Reborn URLs by making this blog use one too

[orteil42]

some undifferentiated thoughts about my Starfield playthrough as i have them. i am a game developer with a strong interest in procedural generation and i've enjoyed a bunch of other bethesda games so this might get pretty mean sorry

(this is a long one)

starfield dialogue is already exhausting me "oh you must've been living under a moon rock ;)" get it! because they're in space! this would've been too corny for the Jetsons

there's a kind of cheap dusting of space theme over everything. the food isn't salmon but alien salmon. it's not seaweed but alien seaweed. cooking alien stir-fry. come on

cannot get over how clumsily the theming is handled. books, board games, weapon names revolve heavily around space. these people have been living on alien planets for hundreds of years yet have this unending sense of novelty about it. the game takes itself completely seriously but feels like it's attempting to parody itself

people's EYEBALLS are CLIPPING THROUGH THEIR EYELIDS

a woman is speaking to me in french. her accent is about as believable as her haircut

these are some of the worst reflection maps i've ever seen

next to nothing is interactive. you can sit in chairs and sleep in beds and that is about it. can't even drink from people's toilets. disgraceful

game helpfully crashes 5 seconds after i decide i should get some sleep. very handy!

my character has not said a single thing since i started playing. not one peep. this is an unmitigated improvement over Fallout 4 i'm so glad honestly

the more i poke around the big city the more the NPC quips feel like something out of gen-1 pokemon. can't get enough of this coffee :) this city is where it's at :) spacesuits are comfy and easy to wear

very strange sense of altered reality from the quest dialogue too. has anyone at bethesda met a person before? i move on to some mission that has me scanning wildlife on a faraway planet hoping this will, somehow, feel less alien than human conversation

just as with No Man's Sky, every planet is uniformly dotted with equidistantly-placed points of interest that you slowly make your way to (no vehicles besides your jetpack) which always turn out to be some cave or building identical to those you've cleared before

unlike with No Man's Sky, the seamless exploration is faked and the biodiversity is nil. you do get an impressive amount of raw loading screens however

the prefab bases and power stations found everywhere on planets seem to have very sparse, very specific slots for spawning consumables, which results in encountering some giant industrial installation in the middle of nowhere with, i don't know, a loaf of whole-grain sandwich bread just casually sitting next to it all proper. there is no breathable atmosphere here. who is eating this

planetary traversal is a CHORE. i am saying this as someone who loved Death Stranding

heinous "hold to confirm" buttons sprinkled in various flow-breaking places throughout the interface

enemy AI is abominable. nobody is pathing their way to get my ass. "must've been the wind" taken to the next level. an infant playing peekaboo has more object permanence

hoisting yourself up on ledges when jumping is…nice

companions randomly nowhere to be found. persists through multiple fast-travels and loading screens until, just as randomly, they pop back up

storage space is now limited! unlike in Fallout 4 and virtually every other bethesda game, your containers now hold a finite item capacity. god forbid we let the player have fun

baffling inventory UI. i imagine there's a mod out there that completely overhauls it the way SkyUI did for Skyrim. this should not be needed! how are your UIs getting worse a decade later!

scanning the precious few species inhabiting some dusty planet; one of them is this arching red root i've already seen several times before. my job done in this biome, i travel (read: teleport with a loading screen) to the polar region to find some other species. the first one i catalogue is the exact same red root again but this time it's named "boreas root" todd howard is a genius

some alien horror comes at me full fangs out. i hop on a pebble. obscenely, i am safe

procedural terrain generation beyond dull, impossibly unimaginative. these people have not had one critical thought on what makes a procedural world interesting. beginning to feel validated in my belief that only i should be trusted with proc gen. along with perhaps tarn adams

jokes aside this is making me feel genuinely insane. there have been excellent procedural generation techniques that produce compelling explorable maps for decades now. bethesda absolutely has the budget and know-how to do miles better than this yet somehow they just…do not? the same way Pokemon has decided to just no longer bother with their mainline games despite being the highest-grossing media franchise in history? hello? what is for real going on

some of the most cynical breadcrumbing i've seen in years. approaching some random cave and this person in space gear, who in the vast immensity of the infinite cosmos just happens to be snapping pictures right here, tells me more-or-less verbatim "if you like this place, you should see this other place" [other random cave has been added to your map.]

i do not like how good this makes No Man's Sky's gameplay look. it depresses me how much i have to hand it to No Man's Sky for at least not fucking up this bad. please stop making me wish i was playing No Man's Sky instead this is grotesque

i think i've exhausted my interest and patience for this game at the moment. i'll get back to the main story at some point and try some other systems ie. crafting and base-building to see if there's any engagement to be found but so far, my god. my god