#big wave riding

[grandboute]

Annaelle challenge, ça continue !

Bodyboard - riding the big

[deoidesign]

someone asked me what if adam and steve switched vampire and werewolf...

And then since my monsters are purposefully not much visually different because of metaphors, I went more traditional vampire and werewolf...

and then I got carried away...

[kittykatninja321]

I’m so glad Kendrick called out Drake for being a culture vulture before he could enter his afrobeat era

[arcane-vagabond]

It’s been 84 years since a girl last did her makeup…

[pokemonranch]

Blog Hiatus

//Hey! Mod here. I haven't been posting in a while, and it'll probably be like that for a few weeks. I have a full-time job and I have to focus on my art commissions in my art account, so the free time I had to manage this blog has banished for the time being (you could tell because of the lack of art lately, honestly).

//So, yeah, that! It's not abandoned by any means, but I need a bit of time to focus on my own stuff. Take care <3

[neopuff]

I’m having scroldie flashbacks with all these percahlia edits lol

i havent been this inspired to edit a ship over and over and over again since ducktales was airing so that is very fair

[robotpussy]

Orville peck is a white south african.......... 😐

[zehrbear]

YALL IM COOKING

[lars-canyon]

KOF XV – 06-30-24 – Fennel [SHI-LUO-KIN] vs plastic women (BLU-KIN-VAN)

Ride the Big Wave! on the Beach Resort KD-009q on Beach Resort -Sunset-

[roughentumble]

what do you mean venom the last dance comes out tomorrow. im still in a full logan kinshift how am i supposed to appreciate the grandeur of the venom finale when im Some Guy who only got symbioted once

[grandboute]

Surfing spirit

[sinnerista]

A man who has saved 3 consecutive match points against Novak Djokovic, the only man in history to do so, who then proceeded to defeat said opponent, who then went all the way to win the championship not only for himself but for a whole nation…

what can this man possibly fear on a tennis court? Absolutely f0king nothing

[waitineedaname]

Autistic Kageyama Ritsu is an actual tag on ao3 now and has eleven works in it. nature is healing.

[despair-tea]

"should fighting games remove motion inputs" has always been the wrong way of looking at things. Should there be different input styles? of course! diversity for the genre is a good thing... and there HAVE been games without motion inputs for a long time.

But you look at a game like SSBM (an insanely popular, well-selling game that's still played today*), and it turns out that that game is way hard to play at any competent level for reasons that have nothing at all to do with inputting a quarter-circle.

Even if the special moves are easy to perform, there are going to be techniques that are difficult. Even basic things like "dash into up-tilt" (you have to turn around and make sure you don't get dash attack or up-smash, both of which will get you whiff punished) or "shorthop into back air" (you jump a little and hit back + A. or back-C. but actually hitting a moving player with it is another thing entirely! and whoops, you accidentally did a full jump so silly) are barriers from controlling your character the way you want. Meanwhile more traditional fighting games like DNF Duel or Pocket Rumble get passed up by exactly the audience that says they want simpler-to-input fight games.

Ultimately, I don't think the ease of use alone will make for a lively game that "casual audiences" will get more invested in (and if they get more invested, they're not casual anymore, right?).

That said, I think games like DNF, MBTL, and SF6 are extremely fun to play with Baby Beginner** players. The rules are more clear, they can use more of the tools immediately, and it's easier to see how they can have fun the next time.

This part is the most critical, to me. It doesn't matter if they're hardcore or casual - the moment a player decides to give up on your game forever is the moment they stop growing and their part of the game stops growing. 'Coz fight games are living things. They only live while we play them; simply acknowledging their existence without getting your hands dirty and playing the game does nothing for the game itself.

Personally, I want every game to thrive. That's why I play everyone's game. If I want other people to indulge me and help keep my games alive, then I need to pitch in and help bring their game to life, even if it's just a little bit. Are you playing your game in the corner of your locals and no one wants to challenge you? I'll fight you. Hit me up any time.

I'll accept any challenge, especially the ones I'd lose. All is for the sake of the culture!

*: nintendo may have deleted SSBM from the culture so sorry if no one's playing melee tomorrow **: a player who has just gotten their hands on the game or who has never put any serious effort in. maybe they "just want to mash buttons" or maybe they're picking up a game seriously for the first time ever and have just started their journey. at any rate, an important part of the community. not to be mocked.

[diabelskoga]

The faith Sanji has for his captain has no limits--

[bforbetterthanyou]

One of the things that’s annoying me the most about TWP is how PGregs writes Elizabeth’s thoughts on the whole Perkin Warbeck situation. Like, in PGregs canon, he actually is Richard and apparently Elizabeth knows this

But like there’s no internal conflict…there’s just nothing interesting about the way PGregs writes. Like you have a situation where Elizabeth’s actual brother is coming to claim his throne while at the same time Elizabeth is married to the current King and her son will be the next king. There’s so much potential there for Elizabeth to struggle with her loyalties, struggling between her love for her brother and her love for her children and the real psychological distress Elizabeth must’ve felt. But there’s none of that. There’s a brief period where she says she actually loves Henry but that disappears pretty quickly. So like the way that it ends up is that basically Elizabeth supports “Richard” and doesn’t really give a shit at all about her Tudor family.

Like people complain a lot about the inaccuracies in PGregs books but completely ignore the fact that she’s just not a good writer. Take away the historical aspect, her stories are trite and cliche, her characters are boring, and her writing style is clunky.

She obviously has a really good publicist because her books should not be as popular as they are