#anything for the gogs anything for the gogs

[grey-wardens]

fyi if anyone else's game is stuffed full of mods like mine is

[anemonet]

hi hi [waves hand] i am very interested in your reverse iterators au!! what’s it about :0

Hallo!! [waves back!!!] thanks for the ask :D And well as one might expect its a reverse iterator au! meaning instead of pebbles accidentaly killing moon, its moon accidentaly killing pebbles! - please note its not a personality swap or anything- im gonna expand on how it ended up like that in (this) post, because if i dont i this will be way to long :D

And well its mostly a silly au because my iterators are silly, with moon being up and running (with a mild mold problem) and pebbles being left suspended high in the sky after part of his structure collapsed - which isnt at all a result of my deep desire for a vulture free high altitude pipe parkour region while also having a collapsed metropolis ontop of pebbles creating a giant region of death pits!! -

Im gonna talk more about the map here!!

or if im honest its just an excuse to have silly iterator interactions, seeing as pebbles wouldnt have activated the no chit chat block its a free for all for the iterators to have opinions and gossip, so its mostly an au where moon chats with NSH while pebbles sends her malicious malware to kill her quicker - also this is totally based on my own stupid iterator interpetation, which is pretty different than normal fanon, so uh, keep in mind - anyhow its basicly this \/\/\/ for 43 trillion cycles

Also as you might suspect this would have an effect on the over all story and plot, but im not getting to into that unless someone asks!!

also pebbles is spending his time on top of the world looking at clouds, being cronicly online and sending moon viruses and hate mail, moon is in the meantime studying scav populations and their blossoming weapon manifacture, she sends him pictures :)))

also also you will always find one of suns overseers in pebbles broken can, because reasons ^-^

Anyhow while i have alot of random trivia for this au ima stop here for this post, have a pebbles for getting to this point!!! sorry this took so long i got more asks than i tought and panicked about it!!! also i got no clue what to say so uh, hope this was close? thanks for the ask i love getting asks its fun yup yup!!!

[mblue-art]

I love, LOVE how you draw the skelies especially Lust, it drives me crazy

GRAAAAAAURGHHH THANK YOUUU IT'S ALL THE LOVE I HAVE FOR HIM 🫶🫶🫶

[queen-scribbles]

I figure you've already seen this, but... thoughts? :3c

I MAY STILL BE VIBRATING WITH ANTICIPATION AND EXCITEMENT AND AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ALSO

[yondamoegi]

Larian stop fucking updating Bald Gate challenge

[datadegroove]

remember when there was like a legitimate debate of steam vs epic games

[chroniclin-aquarius]

hope you get an actual kismesis so you can stop being so desperate for random people on the internet to have any opinion of you.

wwhat the fuck evver noww im seriously done postin about this i wwasnt even being serious and now im some kind a pariah

[anatomicaltheatre]

TOP 10 SCARED AND AFRAID MOMENTS

[nomairuins]

ended up on a reddit thread of anti-piracy ppl and their brains are so fascinating to me

[oswednesday]

i dont want my posts to come of as penis delirium from a character but he and mammon are literally the only characters in the main cast that does not come from a position of privilege gdfgdfhhfdhf

[shera-dnd]

I am back on my bullshit, and with my bullshit I mean over analyzing small details in media

In this case the recent pages of Kill Six Billion Demons (read it! READ IT! IT'S REALLY GOOD!)

Specifically the framing and layout of the pages

so if you're familiar with Tom's work you know he's pretty much allergic to normal comic layouts and simple panels

and even when there are two panels side by side they're never the exact same size

but then we get to Wheel Smashing Lord, pages 77 and 78, where Gog Agog puts our protagonist, Allison, through the horrors of a talk show

and we got side by side panels, with the exact same size, evenly spaced, and with no art or anything between the panels

Of course this is partially done so as to simulate the framing of a TV show, so we get stuck in this TV screen format

buuuut I wouldn't be making a long ass post if this was the only cool thing this paneling was doing

Because what it does is also trap Allison in this neat little box of Gog Agog's influence

Bitch is literally controlling how Allison is framed. She's limiting Allison's range of motion and limiting how we get to see her

but then what happens?

Something that is outside Gog's control. Someone who she has no influence over

So they get to exist outside of the framing, because they're not part of her show

Then the very next page Allison decides she's sick of Gog's shit and how do we see that happen?

She breaks the frame. She gets up from the interview chair and just like that the TV format is broken, and with it Gog Agog's control and influence

Gog cannot contain Allison anymore and so neither can the frame

From this point on we're back to classic KSBD page layouts, except for one little detail

Now Allison gets to exist unbound by panel frames, while Gog Agog herself remains almost entirely trapped, because this bitch just managed to put herself into a corner

aaaaand that's all I got because that is literally the most recent page and it came out yesterday

So uh yeah this comic is really fucking good. Now go read Kill Six Billion Demons!

[queen-scribbles]

download initiated 😎

Scheming, plotting to start downloading Greedfall 2 early access before I leave for work tomorrow so it’ll be ready for me when I get home. :3

[marianchurchland]

I'm boiling inside my own flesh after that trailer, so please accept this old, maybe objectively too creepy Cole drawing while I find time for new DA art. I can claim that it has a Haloween vibe, at least...

The reason it's so weird, by the way, is because I drew it using the poem "Wodwo" by Ted Hughes as a prompt. My bff @klovharun gave me the whole poetry book at the height of my DAI obsession because she thought "Gog" had Solas vibes; and it occurs to me right now that this has to be one of the best examples of friendship ever. Not just "I was thinking of you", but one step further, "I was thinking of your all-consuming fixation". She also made a Solas breakup playlist for me, which I still listen to. That is love!

Poems below for anyone who might like them.

Wodwo

What am I? Nosing here, turning leaves over

Following a faint stain on the air to the river's edge

I enter water. Who am I to split

The glassy grain of water looking upward I see the bed

Of the river above me upside down very clear

What am I doing here in mid-air? Why do I find

this frog so interesting as I inspect its most secret

interior and make it my own? Do these weeds

know me and name me to each other have they

seen me before do I fit in their world? I seem

separate from the ground and not rooted but dropped

out of nothing casually I've no threads

fastening me to anything I can go anywhere

I seem to have been given the freedom

of this place what am I then? And picking

bits of bark off this rotten stump gives me

no pleasure and it's no use so why do I do it

me and doing that have coincided very queerly

But what shall I be called am I the first

have I an owner what shape am I what

shape am I am I huge if I go

to the end on this way past these trees and past these trees

till I get tired that's touching one wall of me

for the moment if I sit still how everything

stops to watch me I suppose I am the exact centre

but there's all this what is it roots

roots roots roots and here's the water

again very queer but I'll go on looking

Gog I

I woke to a shout: 'I am Alpha and Omega!'

Rocks and a few trees trembled

Deep in their own country.

I ran and an absence bounded beside me.

The dog's god is a scrap dropped from the table,

The mouse's savior is a ripe wheat grain—

Hearing the Messiah cry

My mouth widens in adoration.

How fat are the lichens!

They cushion themselves on the silence.

The air wants for nothing.

The dust, too, is replete.

What was my error? My skull has sealed it out.

My great bones are massed in me.

They beat on the earth, my song excites them.

I do not look at the rocks and stones, I am frightened of what they see.

I listen to the song jarring my mouth

Where the skull-rooted teeth are in possession.

I am massive on earth. My feetbones beat on the earth

Over the sound of motherly weeping....

Afterwards, I drink at a pool quietly,

The horizons bear the rocks and trees away into twilight.

I lie down, I become darkness—

Darkness that all night sings and circles stamping.

-Ted Hughes

[eightyonekilograms]

I went to the Apple Store yesterday to try the scripted demo of their VR headset. My overall impression is that it's the best possible execution of what might be a fundamentally flawed idea.

The passthrough video is pretty incredible. It's somewhat dimmer than reality, and the color accuracy is just OK, but it's more than good enough to feel like you're looking through clear displays at the real world. I'm told the passthrough on the Quest 3 is even better, but haven't tried that and can't comment. One thing is that there is a weird motion blur effect when you turn your head, I'm not sure if that's a display tech limitation or introduced deliberately by the software as a workaround for a different display tech limitation.

The resolution is 4K per eye, which, as mentioned, is more than enough for a powerful sense of presence in the real world. One of the nifty bits of the demo was when you turn the dial to tune out the world and suddenly you're sitting by a mountain lake, and the feeling of actually being there is overwhelming. The dystopian implications of needing a VR headset to sit at a mountain lake aside, it would be cool to have one just to have your office be anywhere you can imagine. Not $3500-before-tax cool, but cool.

Wow sports leagues are going to love this thing. I don't give a shit about sports and even I was thinking, "If the NBA put a stereoscopic camera courtside and sold you games for $50 a pop, I'd absolutely buy that"

But 4K per eye is not enough to do work, not even close. The experience of using normal computer-y applications on this was not unlike plugging your laptop in to a TV that's at the normal TV distance. You can do it, it works, but it's not anyone's preferred way of working. Text is amazingly legible, but only at sizes that are equivalent to having a single webpage take up your entire 4K monitor at normal monitor distance.

It is not particularly comfortable. Part of this might be that the store demo makes you use the "catcher's mitt" strap, which only goes around the back of your head and so gravity has to be countered only by the pressure of the thing against your face. Reviewers have said that if you use the other band that goes over your head the situation is better, but still.

A lot of early comments were making fun of Apple for having the battery be an external thing you put in your pocket and attach with a wire, but I think that's just fine: we all walk around with giant batteries in our pockets anyway, and anything you can do to have less weight on your head is a Good Thing. But then Apple took all those weight savings and spent them on making the stupid thing out of metal and glass instead of polycarbonate. It's nuts! It's like if you made a car that was 500kg lighter because you invented magical tech for keeping the engine somewhere else, and then went "great! with all the weight savings now we can build the body out of lead". Apple, you don't need to fear plastic. Plastic is good! Plastic built modern civilization.

You control it with a combination of eye tracking and pinch gestures. This is the main piece of evidence of my "best version of a bad idea" thesis: it works really, really well; so well that I can tell this is probably an evolutionary dead end. It's just fine— miraculous, even— for dragging windows around and doing the basic stuff the in-store demo has you do. It's amazing that you can more or less have your hands anywhere, including on your lap, and the recognition works perfectly (by contrast with the HoloLens I tried 5 or so years ago where the gesture recognition was total crap). But it's immediately obvious that you can never do serious manipulation of your computing environment with this.

The takeaway is that it's incredible for passive consumption of specifically-made media, assuming that ever exists at scale. But it will be a long time before we're gogged in like Hiro Protagonist to do our office jobs this way.

[g0g0mi]

I actually think this post is really important. If people don't learn to look critically at the content and credibility of stuff that sounds semi-academic and if they just blindly trust it because it lists a few fancy looking sources then misinformation like this will spread.

And there doesn't necessarily need to be desire or intent to spread misinformation - I really doubt that the majority of these amateur academics on tumblr who dig into queer history are consciously trying to spread an insidious narrative, but none of us are immune to misinterpreting sources to support common preconceptions that perpetuate real harm.

We have enough issues with the rewriting and erasure of queer history - especially queer media history that isn't anglocentric.  

We have to be so, so careful. If you aren't 100% sure about what you're writing, if you haven't checked it against multiple sources or gone through it with people who you know are just as educated or more educated than you about this history, you have to be VERY very careful about what you say.

Because even if your intention isn't to hurt or harm anyone with misinformation, there are people out there who will take your words and use them that way.  

folks see me get aggro in replies and are like "dude chill, what's your problem"

my problem?

my problem is some people want "queer porn artist saw the Errors of his ways and now only creates Morally Correct Family Friendly content™" to be true so badly they'll ignore everything that doesn't fit their vision

and cloak that in academic language and throw in an academic or popular academia source (that does NOT support their claim but sounds good) or two for credibility

and it gets reblogged 300 times

I'm not saying we need a peer review procedure for tumblr, but.

[blondbaddie69]

stuff ive uncovered about bookofbill/countdown website

so the first three pages are stuff about the uh website and i think the latter two are about the actual book

, while working on the code for pg 77, after i finished i found a post of people who decoded it 6 days before (kms.) alot of this is uncoverd on the official subreddit, i didnt look at it until after, the pages are kinda just rambling and stuff, passwords and such, the passowords "frame" and "container" didnt mean anything and were glitches fixed a bit later, turns out the capalized letters were not actually apart of the thing, just the way the doc. translated italic letters, before i had gotten the alchemy symbols with soos, i was looking through the source elements and found the thing for his eyes along with the countdown reading at 00:07:00, with the date and a "T12" wich in assuming means 12:00 pm for when it hits 7, also speculated it could be at 03:14:5 as soos mentioned something about "the end of math?" there were also spectorgraphs in the uhh lofi soos linked reading "remember eliclydia" and "free me" while working on it with jake, he said the lofi could have more (DEBUNKED DUMBDUMB!!) oh also the text above bill translates to "lost files" and the uhh alchemy symbols found with possesd soos read " So! Many! Questions! " the set used to translate said textbox is also used in code on the inside of the cover for the book of bill, listed above? i think idont rember if i put it, it read "praise ye fallen angle" there was also some text next to with symbols i have yet to translate (the symbols on inside of cover are in the front) and the other smaller text was in that one gravityfalls cypher (u know the one) it translated to "su remember" i switched the su around for us as su didnt make much sense, then flipped the rest of it getting "remember us", i have yet to decode the rest of it. another thing i had been stumped on for about 4 days was the numbering on page 77 (numbers underlined above) at first i thought if you put them together you could get quards and it would be another cypher hunt (thank gog it wasn't) it was a line up for episodes and seassons in gravity falls followed by a timestamp , as example ill use the first one "215 858" going to episode 15, in seasson 2 at 8:58 a character says a word, "twisted" and the rest of it yadayadayada the full thing is "Twisted out of shape after the kill, The ghosts of his family are haunting him" that kind of supports the heavily speculated theory of bill killing his family, and shortly after spending 4 days on that, i turned to the gravity subreddit to find, it had been decoded 6 days ago from today (the gun apeared under my chin guys!!) while turning to the subreddit as well, it mentioned a coffee stain code when you lined them up, (i did not do that shit at ALL) but from what I saw it brought up two different kinds of triangles (presumably bills sisters or mother and father) scaline and isocelce? i think i dont fucking remember anyways thats all i have so far, if i find more ill update