#a game review place

[puhpandas]

when u think about it SB catered to the fandom fun silly character oriented side of fnaf and SOTM is catering to the og lore oriented checking cameras finding secrets side of fnaf

[shadowglens]

i do still think datv feels very … disconnected from the previous trilogy, and that parts of it don’t really Feel like dragon age to me. that being said, i’m still having a fun time

[artcalledtattoo]

I added a new blob I mean blog

You sexy uglies I see ur posts

I see ur wants for more

Will I comment or just heart

It’s all in my day

I play this game

It’s an app

And fun

And I’m not paid for

Pehaps I have

Following the wrong people or not the right ones!

I don’t follow those at random

I see great people I see lowly people

It can be found in the news

Perhaps in song

It happened by itself

I Play This Game I play this app of a game played around a World I try to think all shots forwards My que queue cue rectangular cubed table Place of cue ball afterwards So including All areas for the pocket so it places my cue ball where I want for next shot Force depended Bank shots are still trial and error or Pocketed! It’s an 8 ball / 9 ball game If you want to play with bankshots and control of ball Check Out PoolTrickshots I’m now a 58.8% win (really) Once I get banking research! Been playing since 2012 Some years more than some Just reviewing again It’s still great! 8BallPool by MINICLIP a now better with PoolTrickshots by MINICLIP My Rings, Trophies, My side table mat & cues from all over the World and thee Artistically creative cue’s & emoji’s or plain in your face writings text carvings on the table (mine are in English not sure if that matters) pains cries laughter love cool stuff One of my catch phrase’s MayTheForceBeWithYou

[landgraabbed]

i'm sorry but telling people to buy veilguard on every platform they own simply because the game needs to do well for the studio to survive and because you want it to do as well as bg3 is some of the most ridiculous shit i've seen

[faejilly]

Hey it's Monday! Let's try that

Week-In-Review?

I am definitely doing these more as an adulting accountability post I think, but regardless!

Reading:

Finished The Hollow Places, highly recommended, deeply disturbing and yet ultimately wonderfully comforting/validating/humane. Can't quite think of the word I want? But it makes you glad to be a People on This World of Ours! (If also very glad that the specific adventures in the book are fiction and you do not have to worry about them spreading to anyone else 😅)

Am currently re-reading a series I recalled from when I was, idk, 10 or something, called The Time Keeper which holds up pretty well. I'm enjoying them... they're VERY 80s-SFF-Juvenile Fiction, though, if anyone is familiar with that niche of a sub-genre. 😄

My mother and I had a weird conversation awhile back: do you remember those books with the time travel and the stepping stones when I was a kid? and did eventually figure out the series with only that! Then she found the ebooks re-issued by the author and got them for me. 🎉

Playing:

Murder by Numbers, which is a mystery VN plus a slew of those pictogram puzzle things, and I am enjoying it a lot. Though I got a low(er) score on the third case and am not sure what I missed, so it may be a bit before I go back to finish it... It goes gloriously hard with its 90s aesthetic/setting too, so that's fun.

Adulting:

I have not been making my bed or doing anything beyond the bare minimum of laundry, but the dishes are being held in check and I've been taking my meds and no one missed an appointment or starved, so that's pretty much a win, I think?

Creating:

I did work on the Current Cross Stitch, but it's a bit of a slog atm (and I think I screwed up a color) so that didn't last long...

No writing either.

Instead I made a Crochet Kit Piggie!

She's a little crooked, but I'm pleased by my first attempt. 💕 Next I'm trying an Elephant and they'll go sit on the picture book shelf with Thing 2's old Elephant & Piggie Books, since I still remember those pretty fondly myself.

And that's about it? We got a bit of snow today, which was nice, but otherwise it's been the same old around here.

What have you been up to, my dears & darlings?

[youssefguedira]

eight mountains is no 11/50 on the guardian's list of the best of 2023 <3 <3 for context some of the films it has been placed above:

napoleon (36/50)

wonka (34/50)

oppenheimer (32/50)

the fabelmans (23/50)

maestro (12/50)

[review-anon]

//So I know I have a bunch of character opinion asks to go through and I will do them, but first an update and a question.

//The 2024 Hunger Games will come out sometime this week. I already written the sketch for it, it’s just setting up the game itself that is a hassle you will see why soon.

//And with that while I work on the Valentine’s Day Review and hopefully have it out before Christmas, I do want to ask a question for y’all.

//Normally sketches are self contained stories with no Anon input them, but would you mind a Christmas themed story which Anons asks can be used for?

//There is a story but nothing serious as since when were Christmas stories serious? It’s just you guys helping our main character try to spread Christmas Cheer on the Voidship.

//And it’s not Review Anon. But still you guys interested?

[thanksvideogames]

vesperia screenshot dump no.4: i beat the game edition :)

check img descriptions for thoughts and context

[latenightswaudiobooks]

About Me!

Hi, I'm Savana! I'm a 24 year old who works overnights at a homeless shelter. I basically watch cameras for 8 hours out of my 9 hour shift. I have started listening to audio books to pass the time. I always want to talk and be able to talk about the books I am reading or have read. I'm way to awkward and anxious (Thank you Autism) to do it in tiktok videos like I'd really like to so instead I thought I'd try to write about them because I have always found so much joy in writing. Sooo hints forth comes this blog! A tumblr blog because I find familiarity in it from my nostalgia of reading fanfics and one shots on it from my middle school days. (Not that I don't still love a good fanfic and I go through phases where all I can do is read them). I read a little bit of everything, but I prefer my books to have romance in them I'm a hopeless romantic who is also a skeptic about true love? I am engaged to my first high school girl crush and she is the love of my life. I want to be with her forever raising our two beautiful terrors of children together. Deep down though I always believe I'm gonna mess it up. Anywho I'm gonna post some of my favorite books I have read. As well as my most recent books I have read within the next few days or maybe all today if I hyper focus enough. I do have a chronic illness as well as I struggle with mental health so if I am inconsistent I apologize in advance but I will try to make some sort of post at least once a week. That's enough with my rambling on with the books!

P.S. To get an idea of what I read there is a some genres, authors, and books I have read and liked in the tags!

[jils-things]

wait wait lemme babble MAN I AGREE. i was hoping they'd have that little... southern island inclusion? super heart broken over that, man. i wish they had that - i think it would be so cool to know what the southern island looks like in the manga ... it's one of those missed opportunities fr dude ouyghhh they could've easily plugged that bit where they bought that ticket pass to go there 💥💥 latios and latias were pretty active in the story too and i was literally waiting for a point where they're like. hey ruby wanna see our home ALSLDJAKDJSJD

[nyehilismwriting]

Hey! I wanted to ask for your advice. I was a minor part of the IF community, specifically the COG community, back in 2020. Mostly as a reader, but I dabbled in sharing some of my own writing too. For... reasons we are both well aware of, both in regards to COG, the larger IF community, and the start of COVID I eventually quietly left. Now, three years later, I've been quietly picking up writing IF again as a way to share my story with others. I was wondering if you think, in your opinion, it's worth officially re-joining the IF community on tumblr. On one hand, I feel like things have improved in that the larger community has matured (somewhat). I would like to make more friends, get advice, and maybe even share some more of my art. On the other hand, my project as it stands is... very non-traditional compared to a lot of other IFs (IE: No character customization, no romance, focus on a singular story with emphasis on worldbuilding, etc.). So I don't know if I would even be able to build a community around it even if I did officially rejoin.

I've followed your blog since 2020, including Project Hadea (although I think I originally started following you for your urban fantasy project, although I cannot for the life of me remember if that was you or another author!), and thought I'd come to you for your advice.

I chose to send this ask publicly so that you could choose to answer it privately, if you wished, since it is a longer ask. But I'm okay with you posting it publicly if you would like to! Additionally, no pressure or obligation to respond. Have a nice day!

hi there!! thank you for thinking of me - and welcome back! i'm glad to hear you've been writing again<3 it's such a good feeling, especially when you haven't been able to be creative for a while.

i think i'll start by addressing your game itself. personally, I think this community could do with some new blood in the form of games that are non-traditional; some of the best IFs I've played, ones that have really stuck with and inspired me, have been ones without romance, or cc, or otherwise outside of the typical format that gets popular on tumblr. honestly, i think we could all stand to get a little weirder with it. having said that, there is a very clear type of game that gets popular on tumblr (long-form, narrative-driven, usually with romance, usually with some kind of emphasis on character creation), so if you're a number-go-up kind of person (or someone who is susceptible to that mindset), I would be braced for your audience to remain small, particularly when you're just starting out.

that's not necessarily a bad thing. while I do agree with you that this community has grown and changed shape a lot since the late 2010s, and in a lot of ways for the better, it's definitely not perfect. I can't, in good conscience, say that this is the friendliest or most comfortable community: lots of people are absolutely lovely, and very very kind and enthusiastic; however, and this is absolutely not limited to IF but endemic to any online community, there are ongoing issues with Boundaries, and Respect, and the ways people interact with work and authors they're fans of. certainly, when you share your work you're giving up some control, but it's hard to predict exactly how that's going to go, and how the audience are going to react.

not saying this to put you off, but it's something I think everyone needs to be aware of before deciding to share. it's good to remember that you're not beholden to anyone. this is tumblr dot come, and you're quite free to start a blog, decide it's not for you, and delete; you're free to turn off anon, or asks altogether, or to never post anything save for updates; this is not a corporate space (and while there are considerations if you plan to open a patreon etc, but if we're just talking tumblr) and you are not obligated to do or provide anything you haven't promised.

my other bit of advice - and i think one of the ways to keep any interactions as pleasant as possible - is to be honest, and transparent, and manage expectations. if you make it clear what kind of game you're writing, you're less likely to get people who are disappointed that it's not what they were expecting and taking it out on you. likewise, setting boundaries is important.

i can't really tell you if it's 'worth' rejoining: i've definitely questioned if it's worth it, myself. i've seen some people, ostensibly in the same community as me, doing and saying things i find utterly reprehensible, and i've made some incredibly close friends who i adore and wouldn't give up for the world. and, after all, i am still here and answering asks, so i can't hate it that much. communities are made up of people, and like any group, there's gonna be people you can't stand and people you can. it's about finding your corner, and making it a bearable space for yourself.

i can't tell you if you'll have a positive or negative experience; I can't tell you how to control that. all i can say is that this is an online community, and ultimately you can control when and how interactions occur.

finally - again, i'm glad you're writing again! if you decide not to step back into the IF scene on tumblr, there's plenty of devs who keep purely to itch.io or the cog forums and seem to do fine; sharing your game does not necessarily mean sharing anything else. do what makes you most comfortable <3

[peridots-pixiwolf]

[Start ID. A drawing of two scavengers from Rain World, one labelled Sanic and the other one Shrek. Sanic's fur is light brown, with darker extremities, a messy row of pale green spines down its back, and bright blue eyes. They sit contentedly, staring at the screen, with a couple grenades by its feet. Shrek has pale fur, a green head, hands, and feet, and brown eyes. It's facing to the right, with their arms splayed out and an explosive spear on their back. Beside each scavenger are a few woefully-compressed screencaps of their in-game appearance. End ID]

An ode to these silly beasts, who accompanied me on my second visits to Industrial and Chimney

[wawhii]

Morrowind has me fucked up enough after tonight that I need the fucking Skyrim Tavern Music

[endyuro]

I'm really enjoying DD2 but there were a few quality of life features from the first game that are missing inexplicably. Like why can't I sell to vendors directly from my storage or equip my party from storage? Maybe a few other things I can't think of at the moment.

Also everything is more expensive than in the first game and it seems harder to make money. Maybe I'm just not far enough into the game to find money-making opportunities yet. I haven't found the game too difficult so far though.

[aggressive-almond-cookie]

Photos taken seconds before disaster

[anime-of-the-day]

Anime of the day: Random List

Sora yori mo Tooi Basho

Omae wa Mada Gunma wo Shiranai

Darwin's Game