#THATS the reason challenge runs are so big in those games--but what challenge runs don't tell you is that

[mommytimmy]

what do you mean people can make posts on the internet without knowing anything about what they're talking about? 🤯

[thefirstknife]

Getting real sick of a certain subset of Destiny players complaining that it’s a baby game and crying to Bungie to nerf exotics and abilities when their ENTIRE POINT IS TO BE STRONG in specific ways as if they are being locked into using them.

IF YOU WANT AN EXTRA CHALLENGE STOP BEING SUCH A DPS GOBLIN AND JUST EQUIP SOMETHING THATS NOT TOP TIER META AND STOP COMPLAINING JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

MOOD. Go off.

It's incredibly annoying to me. They always use the argument of "the game should FORCE me to do things, I should not SELF-IMPOSE challenges." And like. ? I'm sorry but what? It's a video game for a big audience, it's here to be playable and accessible to the widest possible playerbase. There are plenty of ways to make the game difficult for yourself, so knock yourself out if that's your thing, but don't force others into it.

Like, I enjoy hard content, I regularly at least attempt day 1 raids, I do master raids, GMs, solo and solo flawless content and all that. But only when I want to. Sometimes I don't and I don't want to suffer in a patrol zone or struggle in a seasonal activity I'm doing for the story. The majority of the players don't want that. Designing games for the professional gamers only has NEVER been a good idea and never will be. Fifty streamers can't sustain a video game. It needs casual players who will want to come back to the game instead of feeling defeated.

One of the reasons I really enjoy helping others is because I know that casual players tend to struggle in stuff that's basic activity for me. I've seen people unable to get through a strike. I've sat for 10 minutes rezing someone who couldn't do the jump in a seasonal activity. I want those people to be able to play basic content without feeling frustrated and I want them to know that there are people out there who will help them out.

And this doesn't apply just to basic content, although it should start with that. I think all dungeons and raids and everything should be things that all players can complete. Fine, doing a master raid with all challenges should be tough, but it should be achievable with time and practice, not impossible. What a lot of these "pros" want is just completely divorced from reality.

It takes days and days of practice every time a new master raid is out for me and my team (all with thousands of hours of playtime) to get comfortable to finally finish it. We're far from casual players and it still takes a lot of time to be able to finish hard content. Making it even harder is insane to me. Like, if something is so hard that my team full of people, each with 5000+ hours of playtime and a coordinated team that's been raiding together for years now can't finish it, that means it's absolutely impossible for probably 90% of the playerbase. That's wild to me. Raids and GMs should have more people playing them. If master raids are too easy for you, Mr. I-Play-Destiny-For-A-Living, that's on you buddy. Unequip the super god tier god roll meta guns and loadouts or play something else.

And ofc, another excuse they make is "if I don't use meta, I am not going to win a raid race!" Then don't. Idk. Let me play you the tiniest violin. This affects literally nobody except a grand total of 50 people. Run your meta in day 1, and play with random shit otherwise. Play raids with all white weapons. Play without mods. Play without a HUD. Do things solo only. I don't know, make up a way to spice things up for yourself. I'm not interested in that and neither are 99% of the players out there. The game is genuinely hard enough for the majority of the players. On top of that, I am here to feel like a powerful space fantasy superhero. I am NOT here to die to dregs in patrol zones. If there's ONE thing that I know for a fact that put people off from Lightfall (as in this year of Destiny), it's the difficulty changes. They're annoying, frustrating and for some a barrier to entry more than anything else.

[noblemalone]

I think im a pretty good artist i think I'm hot shit right so i feel like

Idk seeing artists online especially in the fanart and character illustration/OC department, seeing those newer artists who are maybe just getting in to digital art or drawing in general i feel like...

One like slooow down brother there's no need to be making stickers or doing commissions or having a patreon just yet, let's walk before we run ok? Of course you can do, people can do whatever they want with their free time but you have to understand a lot more about art, marketing online, self promotion, and social media trends to get the kind of traction you're expecting. I feel like theres this pressure for newer artists to legitimize themselves thru like, monetary means ("if ppl subscribe to my patreon, it means I'm good at art") and social media capital ("likes are nice, but they dont do much; please reblog!")

And like yeah everyone wants that but... If you're drawing solely for those reasons and are disheartened by lack of interaction or traction in the markets, what are you even doing? I been doing this a long time, 20+ years at this point. Not commissions or anything, just drawing. I been drawing a long time and I always do it for the love of the game. I do it because it keeps my mind and hands busy, it brings me joy, and i like to create. I enjoy translating the real world into lines, in stylizing, in pushing. I just like it and yk what, thats how I've had this longevity and thats how I've gotten to where i am. I have sketchbooks full of work no one has ever seen, not just studies but all kinds of work.

If your drive to to do the thing, or to improve at a craft or whatever is external, you can't keep it up. Thats nothing to say about learning to enjoy observation and the importance, even in stylized work, of learning how to look at something and how to just observe and notice the things we see. Idk so much of my growth and skill has come from an internal drive to improve for myself, because getting better is a challenge i want to overcome, and doing the less-exciting stuff like drawing a fuckin building. I've been to probably idk dozens of life drawing sessions because i wanted to grasp anatomy better. In university, i took courses where we looked at bones and skeletons so that i would by proxy have a better anatomical grasp. I learned to map my knowledge and the things I learned about applying making or working out back to drawing. Idk man i dont know how to tell you how to love something

And thats all not the point anyway cuz the point is

Two, i think some new artists don't really... They're not interested in finding a personal style? Or if they are they're not sure how to get there? They see the work that does numbers on insta and twitter and stuff and they wanna draw like that, so they do what those artists do. Admirable! But also they do it without understanding the underlying principals. This artists blocks their characters out like this, so i shall too. That artist uses lineless painterly style with heavy realistic rendering, so shall I. And idk everyone enjoys that style the idk Popular Style of anime realism or whatever its fine to look at but dont y'all ever want more??

And like idk do you enjoy the process or are you doing it that way cuz thats how your fave does it?

And idk like.... Two works can be of equal technical skill level, but the one that plays with style and understands underlying principals of lighting and colour and shape and line, the one that is bold with their vision, is always gonna be better than the one that's trying to be popular and do numbers yk?

Like if thats the style that speaks to you, go for it, but fuckin Go for it yk? Dont try and be like everybody else or the big time players cuz if you're trying to master someone else's style, you're not gonna be able to master the things that make art fun and interesting and challenging and engaging yk

And also a lot of art is about vibes and if you're not channeling the vibes its gonna look bad you gotta focus on the vibes not on being like your fave!!

And if i see one more person say "i spent so long rendering this 🥲" when its fucking cel shaded I'm gonna lose my frickin MIND I SWEAR BROTHER I'M NOT MAD I LOVE CEL SHADING BUT CHRIST ON THE CROSS USE THE RIGHT WORDS FOR THE THINGS YOU MEAN

[lovlettres-moved]

the twins' backstory is explored more in chapter 279... idk where to start. what i noticed first while reading this was despite everyone not wanting to be the receiving end of atsumu's ... idk what to call them, bluntness? maybe the right word, he says what's true... though he is a jerk about it. and osamu doesn't want to be on the receiving end of it either. but he does stick by his side. bc as i said above, even though atsumu annoys him to no end he still trusts him on the court. and not like osamu doesn't... he's just as bad mouthed as atsumu is, thing is osamu doesn't expect anything from anyone on the court, he plays to the best he can, enjoys it on the court and leaves, but also. he does compete with osamu out of the court too, hm what comes to mind first is them running lmao. also again he did say that he's "going to lead a life of kindness" because he doesn't want to be like atsumu. which is sure. he's just more close-mouthed than atsumu but with atsumu he's as brash and loud as him. that's what kita said too, they're carbon copies of each other.

and even after they both fight, they know they have to go back to their routine of competing with each other because they are their biggest challengers, they can't stay angry with each other for too long. thats not how it works for them. also if you have a sibling you know even after fighting for a whole day about some random stuff, the next day you've both forgave each other and returned back to what you always do.

also i often think about the arans narration in the beginning... i am paraphrasing it but it was smth along the lines of how everyone disliking atsumu would've left some emotional scars on him. idk how to process that, did it? or did atsumu know that he has his brother by his side no matter what, because even though a lot of people didn't like him he could always return back to challenging his brother. thing is i wonder how he handled this in timeskip, im trying not to look at timeskip now but i also see how atsumu has definitely changed (he's become more mellow. quieter in his brashness if i must say so) then it we look at it from a timeskip perspective it did leave emotional scars on him, to the point where he hated (perhaps feared too ... but also i read a lot into things. take everything i say with a grain of salt. there's no credibility in what i am saying) osamu leaving his side. dependency to the point of a fault, but i will discuss this later when it's actually addressed in the chapter's.

osamu-challenger atsumu. again take it with a grain of salt but this whole page (and the ones after this) is a very small foreshadow, most of those we see in the final chapters are those with this irrepressible hunger, this hunger for something more, reminds me of shtzw's coach's speech too. those who don't have height crave and hunger for something more, it's not exactly applicable to atsumu but we see aran saying that osamu is the more technically skilled, and that might be a big reason that atsumu hungers for more, to have something which he does not have. (see kitas speech for this too. not sure which chapter though, he explains this really well and the following two pages really make it seem like osamu isn't someone who would pursue a future in volleyball).

last line. do you think atsumu had a hunch that osamu might leave playing volleyball after high school? im not sure how to answer that. idk how atsumu would've replied either. i have understood a lot of the dynamics of these twins, they keep each other at their toes, running after each other to become the better one, they are each other's strongest challengers (nice inarizaki motto. fits here too), but they're both different in their levels of hunger, in their levels of love, levels of their life they can put into the game.

another question which is poking me is whether these both would've reached the point they have without each other? they're both vital to each others stories. osamu introducing atsumu to the position of the setter, atsumu seeing osamu as a challenge he has to get ahead of and vice versa, maybe even seeing the flame in atsumu made osamu realize that he wants to go on a different path, not because he doesn't like vb but because there's smth else he would like to do.

this panel pretty much sums up who the miya twins are. okay not totally but i rlly like the narration (plus where furudate puts it in the match)

aran's line is hilarious (also im pretty sure aran does not have a sibling...) because it basically sets up a whole thought process in osamu's head that atsumu is more of a pain in the ass who he can't trust fully because he ends up doing things which are so idiotic that even he's left surprised. but also the last part "i just know the ball is coming to me" because even tho he knows the worst parts of atsumu, he also knows the best part of him aka him on the volleyball court where he's putting in his maximum (more than that actually but that's a whole essay for another day) effort, that's why he knows that on the court atsumu is going to do his best even though off the court he can be like that (actually i am not sure how to put this lol like what is he off the court. im still trying to figure that out myself)

love two predictions here: atsumu setting to hinata in the future and also how it's emphasized that you won't be playing with the same players for your whole life, things change. atsumu won't be playing with his twin after high school.

idk random panel im just putting it here incase it's important sometime when im reading the future chapters

also i wonder who decided to make atsumu dye his hair that blonde (awful mustard colour) and osamu that gray ... and even if they decided themselves why the colours they have their dyed in? is it bc osamu wanted to be as much different from atsumu as possible

also another thing i noticed is that a lot of the time osamu is thinking about everything other than volleyball when he's playing (not all of the time though) and atsumu is almost 100% of the time thinking of the game and what's going to happen next, observing and making plays in his head ... hm foreshadowing?

also osamu wants to be different from atsumu but also ... this is def smth atsumu too would too