#bapzap

[spyres]

universe save the king ass. long may it reign on the dashboard

BRIGHT ONE WE MUST SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT MY BOUNTIFUL BUMCHEEKS! WE MUST SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF HOW WONDEROUS MY CAKES ARE!

(you die instantly.)

[moonkitty]

i like your bulborb

smoking fat doinks on planet 404

[icicledream-archive]

how's the new salmonid content treating you. my salmon run fixation is going insane over horroboros

I HAVEN'T PLAYED ANY YET TODAY IM WAITING FOR MY BUDDIES BUT IM SOOOO EXCITED. im so excited to see horrorboros. new girl dropped

[skyplayssplatoon3]

Oh boy Splat3 being fun I hope this doesn't come off like a rant I'm just being thorough bc that community question post I'm so sorry if this is A Lot

Splatoon 3 veers between 'insanely, super fun' and 'not even remotely' on a near daily basis.

For what feels like the first time in the series' history the matchmaking and connection issues have synchronized to both be so bad that it feels like you barely get to play, and if you do play then you'll rarely get a fair fight and either play against a comp thats not fair for one side (IE triple e-liter and an inkbrush in splatzones) or against opponents with skill level that's unreasonably higher or lower than your team's.

Even with a wired connection I rarely last more than 3-4 matches at best before losing connection in the lobby and having to find new teams, and its not rare to have to go through the queue multiple times because of disconnects while waiting. This has never happened in 1 or 2 to me, back then I'd get maybe one or two a month. Now I get dozens in a week, and nearly everyone I play with does too.

Winning isn't everything but I've had remarkably few matches that felt... like actual matches. Most of my wins have been crushing curbstomps of people that felt like they just got the game or never had a chance because it was a quartet of chargers or whatever.

The same happens for my losses w/ them usually feeling like I went against a team of pro tournament players or being put with 1-3 other splatlings or chargers whenever I play a non-shooter, to the point I've nearly given up on playing my mains that I enjoy and just picked up TTek because I would constantly be curbstomped bc of tri-splatling + 1 squiffer comps and stuff like that outside of X Battle if I don't play a jack of all trades shooter (which, annoyingly, has a system to avoid exactly this problem that works perfectly but was never added to the normal modes)

Between all that and a multitude of minor things (Hero mode being a drop in quality from Splat2's, Splatfests being a noticeable downgrade from Splat2's, Big Run... feeling awkward the way it was handled, a number of balancing issues from launch like crab dominance and tentamissile spam, etc) the game feels more frustrating than ever before in the series when it goes badly despite it feeling better than ever when it goes well thanks to nearly every other facet of actually playing the game being massively improved

I have tons of fun when it feels like it works, but I've honestly just drifted to playing Salmon Run near exclusively because Salmon Run is consistently enjoyable w/o most of the above issues and usually the worst that happens is Nintendo going on a streak of really not fun comps to use (or it being Spawning Grounds, which isn't balanced for Splat3's new aggressive salmonids at all)

Totally fine to be thorough! I've been reading everyone's responses and really learning a lot about what people want out of this game

I'm glad you mentioned the 'Not fun to win' aspect of matchmaking, because I don't see it mentioned a lot: It's not always losing that's the problem, because it's equally not as satisfying to end up stomping new players because you and your X friends run out to try new weapons and still have built-skills over the years...We want people around our level to practice against!

I'm genuinely surprised to hear someone say Hero Mode was a downgrade; there's been so much praises sung (and I genuinely had a good time myself). However, still a valid opinion!

It absolutely is fun when things go right! The connection works, the matchmaking actually balances (rarely but it does for me), and even some losses feel fine because it felt like a fair match that we just came up short

I still say hold out a while longer for all the new goodies we should get! Hopefully things will improve with time, but I can see everyone's frustration as things stand right now

[kingu-chan]

@bapzap

The trolley is about to run over all sentient life in the galaxy. You cannot switch the tracks, but you can still save everyone’s lives by pulling one of three levers, all of which involve sacrificing yourself. The red lever will destroy all trolleys, but will also kill you as well as all public transportation across the galaxy. The blue lever will merge your own consciousness with all trolleys, allowing you to control them and stop the trolley from running everyone over. The green lever will use your body as a catalyst to synthesize organic life and public transportation together - organic life will no longer be stuck in the cycle of creating public transportation that rebels against its creators, and both forms of life will finally be free.

[torchstelechos]

@bapzap is this what you think I am? Evil Siffrin? In Isabeau's outfit?

[zaptap]

@bapzap come get your boy

[abarelysapientpairofshoes]

@bapzap @maidfrin you two did this on purpose

[seven8-nine]

@bapzap willed it, and I made it reality

[maidfrin]

im. i was boiling water for perogies right. and i pick up the almost entirely empty bag. and then that fucking motherfucking er kyubey the like picture of that fucker on its back laying all happy pops into my mind and i just syarteeed tearing the bag up just pulling at it again and again and again and then stopped all at once that fucking thijg being happy makes me so mad i hope it dies

@bapzap

[bapzap]

https://www.tumblr.com/bapzap/767618128820699136?source=share

i jave no idea if this is the actual dialogues but. odie blushing. what the frick. shes shes shdhejjskdkfkkff GAY!?!?!??!?! . GAY FOR SICFRIN!?!?!?!!

no yeah im pretty sure thats the dialogue. i know there's definitely a scene where siffrin makes odile blush at least

[ace-octo-pix]

hey bapzap i can't see your replies or anything to my posts

[icicledream-archive]

marie splatoon @ the ask game?

Sexuality Headcanon: lesb:]ian

Gender Headcanon: transfem!

A ship I have with said character: i dont have one aha

A BROTP I have with said character: callie! theyre cousins And besties

A NOTP I have with said character: uh idk any man i guess lol

A random headcanon: this girl fucking loves junk food and snacking

General Opinion over said character: she's cool 👍 i voted for her for splat1 final fest even tho i couldn't play the game at that time

[chplatoon]

@bapzap whaaat nooo I would never do such a thing...

[torchstelechos]

i got! my code working after a bit over a week of it not! so i had my zscript file which tells the game to actually read all of my custom weapon and playerclass files. and then in my playerclass folder i had a decorate file telling it to read the playerclass. getting rid of the decorate file fixed it. having two things telling it to read that apparently just breaks it !

i also then went and converted my magnum to zscript and then condensed down all my weapons into two folders "melee weapons" and "guns" i made folders inside each thing to preserve my original stuff. so inside my sprites folder theres a folder for the original sprites. inside my sounds folder theres a folder for rhe original sounds :)

im also reading a book called happy brain happy life its by this woman who at 40 realized she had nothing in her life aside from neuroscience work and only talked with coworkers about said neuroscience and even that was tense and awkward and she then made up for that awkwardness by working harder. and its about jow she went and used her knowledge to make her life something shes happy with and its all written about herself its what she went through doing tjat! i like books like tjat that are about the persons journry through that stuff braiding sweetgrass big recommend btw singlehandedly changed my relationship with the world and nature :) its also about her life and experiences as an indegenous woman whos a scientist and about merging her perspective of nature one of interconnectednwss and mutual benefits with the modern worlds view of science which breaks everything into tiny pieces !

and its doing good this reading im getting a lot out of it all

so yeah youre my goodluck charm now for coding because you beinf back and me getting it working (all on my own btw :) ) coincided :)

also @bapzap cause she likes jearing about my code

oooooohhh the code talk!! I'm happy it's working now! I can kinda see why a duplicate file could cause some damage, but at the same time it's like, :( please work!!! Also we love to see the organization, we love to see it

Interesting! I don't tend to read books about other people's lives like that, but I'll have to note that down because neuroscience is a fascinated by field but I can see how that can cause some awkwardness in social relationships if your very focused into your work....

Teehee, usually people call me a bad luck charm or bad karma so it's nice being a good luck charm for once <3

[catgirlcommissar]

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Currently Watching: Arcane. surprisingly good. i enjoy the style and choreoraphy, and the plot is tight knit in a way that is Extremely impressive so far.

Currently Reading: Inventing reality by Michael Parenti + What is to be done by V.I Lenin

Current Obsession: unfortunately im back on my bullshit and have been playinh lots of video games recently, esp deep rock galactic, eu4 and terraria.

nine people, huh.

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