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[wereh0gz]

The Minecraft movie would've been so good if they'd just. Made it in earnest

[annieqattheperipheral]

flames head coach ryan huska on teaching:

aaand THIS is why old school asshat babcock, sutter type coaches aren't effective anymore. why mackinnon said these types of coaches are short-term bc you really can't scare ppl into playing well for 82 games over eight months. fuck yes. (see "communication" here)

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

So we all have a general consensus that Ghost will only let Soap say his name yeah?

Now what if, Soap gets angry with Ghost and does that classic “Simon fucking Riley you better explain yourself!”

And Ghost just kinda blanks and doesn’t know what to do with himself. It’s not a bad reaction (far from it actually) because he knows Soap would never, in a million years, actually harm him in anyway so the anger in the man’s voice is more just concerning than it is actually frightening.

But while it is concerning it’s also weirdly (wildly) arousing for him and he doesn’t know how to deal with it. He has never had such a reaction to his name being said, even less of one when it’s said in anger. But for some reason the way Soap says it is just hitting different for him.

So Soap’s going off his nut at him, angry beyond belief about something or other and Ghost is just staring blankly because he’s so fucking turned on at the moment from the way Johnny said his name at the start of the rant. He doesn’t understand it to save his life but fuck if he’s not gonna do something about it.

But maybe after Johnny’s calmed down cause he looks like he’s about to cark it from how red in the face he’s getting.

[ganondoodle]

I was at first in love with totk, and I still think mechanical wise, its quite impressive

And when I collected all the tears and saw the "story" I genuinely got upset in a good way (at first), because man! Did they really got the balls to go that far? Is there nothing I can do for her? Now I MUST do all the temples, see how it plays out and --oh, I've got this cutscene already. Why are all the people so dumb about Zelda, I KNOW where she is, Link say something-- Link??

After finishing all the temples and almost falling asleep, I stopped playing the game, looked up the last boss and remaining cutscenes and went "Thats it?"

Watching other people (including you) being critically about so many things, both character and mechanical wise, I've almost startled myself with a realization what the gnawing feeling I constantly had, actually was.

Totk feels like a fanfic.

And don't get me wrong, I love fanfiction, I think its great and important, I adore fanfic writers, I love finding gems, I love reading self indulgent stories, see new spins and interpretation of characters. I love the casual, the passion, the creativity!

But totk gives me the same feeling everytime I am reminded that Fifty Shades is a Twillight fanfic.

The world is there. The faces I know and grew to love are there. But everything is ever so slightly different, uncannily so. Just how some characters talk, how they act, how they were placed in the story. The Zonai appearing out of nowhere, but no, they always had been there you see, they were these super magical advanced people but they all died, the king is so tragic. And you see, the king is super cool and powerful and-- oh I dont get to interact with him outside of the tutorial. Did they try to do another King Rhoam-- but wait, that only worked because we didn't knew he was a ghost-- totk wait stop why do you take him out of the story, why couldn't he be a companion, he IS ABLE TO TALK THROUGH THE ARM LET THE OLD GOAT COMMENT ON STUFF?? If you bring up all this ancient stuff and you still got a ghost lingering, let him talk?? (I never ended up getting Mineru but I smell wasted potential as well)

Im not even mad, I am disappointed. It feels like the devs saw what all the lore hunters got attached to and talked about and then just... took the "cool". All the Zonai stuff could've easily been Sheikah tech, but got just reskinned to look more exciting instead of being its own thing.

Like... at this point I prefer what fans are doing over what Totk gave us. The characterization of Rauru (and everything Zonai), projects like you do of what totk couldve been, the little nuggets of actual highlights and details of love fans find in the game. I found much more enjoyment in these concepts than I got from a 70bucks game. And thats depressing.

I love fanfiction. I dont love it when my corporate 70 dollar, six year development, console exclusive game feels like a story that passionate fan couldve written miles better in a week (and I've already seen much cooler and interesting rewrites and ideas).

Zelda has been a huge part of my childhood and its depressing seeing it treated like that. It always was about the story, the epic, its The Legend of Zelda for crying out loud. To be courageous to enter a dungeon, to be wise and solve all the riddles. To become powerful over the journey you embarked on. Zelda to me is the campfire story you tell to others and go into the woods or the beach and imagine what monsters you would slay. Zelda is not the sandcastle you build in the sandbox and then add dinosaurs and star wars ships because you didn't had any other toys, and just stumble into and over some story to entertain yourself until lunch is ready.

I'd have an oracle of seasons over another totk any day at this point. They should've just make the mechanics of totk its own thing, but I guess they were scared it wouldn't sell if it doesn't have a Mario or Zelda skin straped over it.

Anyways, sorry for the mini rant - love your art, love your thoughts and insights, and I am looking forward to see more of it - Zelda related or not (your original characters look amazing, I adore your style sm)

Hope you have a great rest of the day!

*nods along through this entire rant*

idk how many of my rants you have read but yeah ... yeah ... and the further you think about it the further it all falls apart, the wasted potential of it all and the goddamn audacity of them to do those interviews in which they make it EVEN WORSE is just

i know the expectation for a direct sequel to botw was huge and understandbly so but i really REALLY think it would not have been that hard to make it a good follow up even taking into account that totk was originally a DLC, pretty much all of botws aspects could have been developed further, i dont know what could have happened to make totk have turned out like this .. literally it feels like something had to have gone wrong, its like someone who doesnt know zelda nor botw at all was given a few prompts and then just made some generic fantasy story while the rest worked on ultrahand for 5 years

the technical impressive things ARE technical impressive, but i dont think it was necessary nor served the game well in any way (and i LOVE building games- however totk is neither a building game nor a story game nor a zelda game nor an exploration game nor a sequel imo) but zelda, this zelda, is not made for that and i cant help but think it was mainly to encourage people to make some ridiculous mechs so it can go viral on tiktok (not trying to discredit them, it IS cool what they are doing but i .... have my doubts if zelda is the right place for that)

ill stop there bc i have ranted so much about everything i dont wanna repeat it here again; it just doesnt feel like a real game (derogatory), it feels extra bad bc i was not really into zelda when botw came out and while i did get it as soon as i could (months after release since i just started a minijob and didnt have the money) i only over time grew to love zelda this much again, devouring any theories and anything about it bc i loved it so much- i was never into it like this when a new title was announced and dont own any special editions so i bought the totk collectors bc i was just so damn excited for it after the 2019 trailer dropped (god i want that time back ... it looked so much more like it was going to be an actual sequel) even if i was already worried it wouldnt be good at that point given how much i started to sense stuff i dont like about the newer trailers

i recently sold it at our local gameshop bc it was like a thorn in my side given how expensive it was and how dissapointed i was in the game, i genuinely think that, technical impressiveness aside, totk is the onyl zelda i truly cannot stand (for alot of reasons) and im genuinely worried for the future of the franchise

i bought an Oki (Okami) figurine for what i got back and i feel much happier with that :3

(also on a note, i did finish the game two weeks after release but stopped playing it right then and hadnt touched it since, i also streamed all of what i played and its still up if you want to see my slow descend into madness fjkdhkdhjk though its been a long while since then and i by far did not talk about everything back then, just what my most immediate frustrations were while still playing)

(also the gameplay isnt as good as people make it out to be, so much is so frustrating and punishing to use i am kinda baffled it got through like that and most people call that its best aspect ..... though i guess if the rest is so much worse even mid gameplay can seem good ooooooooh how dare i)

also thank you for liking what i do!!! <3 it means alot to know it is appreciated by someone :D

[dramaticallytrue]

having big "did anyone try the salad (the quicker fic)? i heard the salad (touching grass) is lovely?" feelings about the tag today

[mokeonn]

I think the frustrating thing about Spotify recommendations is sometimes it really does introduce me to lots of cool Indie Bands that I really vibe with and allow me to try some new stuff and sometimes it keeps telling me that I need to Listen to Mother Mother (I have not listened to Mother Mother ever and at this point I never will because it is a pride thing.)

Or a random unfunny tiktok joke song from 3 years ago/ a viral YouTube song from over a decade ago.

[yael-art-den]

The other day I was invited to a TTRPG event thanks to a mutual friend in a board game store, Summer Solstice themed (think oneshots about spanish witches, aquelarre, that sort of things) and it was amazing and met some really cool people! My friend was DMing but otherwise I played I a table full of strangers and it was a first time for me. Did wonders for my anxiety tho

when the game ended, at around 8:30PM, we had a bit of time to spare and started talking about the game and I asked for tips and tricks, since I'm still learning to DM and the people around me were WAY older and more experienced in any TTRPG I could think of

Anyways I asked them if they had any tips on how to get better at making stuff on the fly and improv, since it's been extremely hard for me to create interesting NPCs or events on the go. And one of the guys straight told me to "just have Chat GPT open and write what your players want/did and let it create a hook for you" and i shit you not I felt like

[nero-neptune]

idk, i just think that (to a point) Everyone's a product of the media they consume. that's why certain media is called 'formative', esp if you watched it young. one thing you watched/read could’ve lead to an interest which could’ve gotten you to learn/participate in/avoid something you wouldn’t have otherwise. take away all the books you’ve read, movies you’ve watched, music you've listened to, etc etc- you’re likely a totally different person. which is neither good nor bad, that's just called being a person who lives on planet earth.

[automatonknight]

i hope u kno i think ur tf2posting is awesome because i am too scared to play it (pvp....) but really love tf2 anyway

AWW THANK YOU SO MUCH I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR GENUINELY!!!!!!<333 i love sharing honestly it feels so special...not to get sappy again but this is my first video game experience like that, since tf2 is the first like. multiplayer shooter i've ever played and it's just. so nice when someone teaches me how to do silly stuff like the "intel funny" or when i have the honor of participating in a server-wide dance party. it's just so!!! well. nice and really cool honestly :]

[nintendont2502]

The pissmobile FINALLY got a working stereo today

[nightcorecarseatheadrest]

The cool thing about splashdown being back is that I get to splashdown cancel again

[4ragon]

I am just gonna say, I think people should play aa 5 and 6. Not even because I like them, but because I feel like new players should get the chance to form their own opinions. Who knows, maybe they’ll find something meaningful in there.

[invinciblerodent]

i am once again on my hands and knees begging Larian, Bioware, and every single video game company in general for a romanceable dwarf dude companion, so I won't have to make my own and fall in passionate love with my own goddamn character

i mean look at him, he's such a nice sweet lil bloodsoaked cleric boy; always just trying to do the right thing

he's babygirl, he's malewife, he's an adult man in his fifties whose head comes up to roughly nipple-level

a compact fella built like a boulder but also just a nice blue boy with so much love to give

[arnold-layne]

played the guitar for the first time in 1,5 years

felt good :)

[johnandrasjaqobis]

dnd is such a funny game like

one day, for One PC in my game tonight involved

paying 5gp to a wary shopkeeper to just let him hold a 150gp sword

using Command to steal a 150gp sword

getting into pvp with the Moral Compass of the party when that was discovered

nearly dying because the druid didn't want to leave her breakfast to come heal him when he lost the pvp

getting the entire party banned from that shop

praying at the little shrine in town, asking Tymora where his luck was in all that, and being told essentially "boy the fact that you are alive to ask me that is way luckier than you have any right to be, you're really funny tho, do you have a god, do you want one"

becoming an official paladin of Tymora apparently??

and next session they get to go to his home and the players are scheming and I am so thrilled

[freebooter4ever]

ignoring everybody in my phone, sorry not sorry ;_;