#but. ill say this: it was a good game.

[fadewalking]

I did it. I finally beat this game.

[skrrtscree]

burn my dread 💀💙

[redraw of sorts of official art, the og under the cut]

[neonhellscape]

Happy Mechanicus everyone I can be trusted with tech priests

[the-heron]

congrats 2 henry peglar for being the only bitch confirmed as to be Fucking That Old Man

[xxplastic-cubexx]

his fuckass loafers im losing it

[krotiation]

i'll genuinely never stop thinking about codependency in rhack and how it's mostly coming from jack's side. both jack and rhys treat their relationship like rhys is the one who needs jack to not just survive but also thrive, but it's really the opposite and i think that REALLY adds to how much jack twists the narrative to make it seem like rhys can't do anything without him just to keep giving rhys a reason to keep him around and trust him

[akidachi]

breaking a creative drought to say go play The Talos Principle! (it's on sale)

Ps. Kaa, if you're reading this, check steam :)

[pcktknife]

I didn't wanna say anything cause I didnt wanna upset ppl but I'm glad folks realize that curly mouthwashing is also not that great a guy

[cinnaminstar]

GO TEAM FUTURE!!!

WE SUCKED!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💪💪💪💪

[diddlesnap]

Autistic girls sound off jn the comments

[oliviawebsite]

being a tranny sportsliker can feel alienating sometimes but what can i say i love beautiful games of skill and movement and my support is vital

[thesquidgame]

I was originally gonna post the In-ho fic in one long post, but I just finished the first 2k words and they are so intensely angsty and end on such a good cliff hanger that I kinda low-key wanna post it now and let y'all read it as I write a second part. What do y'all think.

[squuote]

comparing dialogue once again as you do. anyway. this cut dialogue from the other games ending vs the the 2011/ultra deluxe final game dialogue is interesting. frying my mind a bit.

no deeper meaning to this post i just think it is. intriguing. i love dialogue comparisons sorry </3

[hsslilly-blog]

rehashing an old post but i think a lot about how in trying to absolve hunt instead of seriously addressing the power imbalance/impropriety of the relationship between him and the mc, pixelberry chose to make it so it’s the mc “pursuing” hunt and being really forceful about it. in this case, it’d be okay because it’s not him being weird and, well, the mc really, really wants this! this was not an well thought out decision because 1. it doesn’t remove the need to address a professor dating his student, and whatever that means for both parts + the story they’re in, and 2. in the process they make mc a person with no respect for boundaries who quite literally stalks this man and assaults him under false pretences. not to mention how the writing in these quests is confusing and contradictory (the mc is written in two different ways at different times, whatever the plot is in need). just… really bad on all fronts

[azureblooet]

Separate cotl opinion/headcanon

The fight with Nari was not close. The Lamb kicked his ass.

thats all thanks for coming

[cogentranting]

The Hunger Games succeeds (and more so achieves sort of mythic effect) because it approaches dystopia through the timeless-- it (and Ballad) brings these universal ideas to a very personal lens and asks questions like "how do we begin to excuse evil in our lives" or "how do you hold on to goodness in the midst of oppression". And because it is so invested in the transcendent it lends itself to very powerful symbols, which give it that mythic feel.

Orwell's books (Animal Farm and 1984) both succeed through a very different approach to dystopia (Animal Farm isn't really a dystopia in the traditional sense but it has a lot of the elements). Orwell succeeds through real perceptive insight into the inner mechanisms of the subjects of his critiques. Orwell has vision that can cut deep into the way that things like propaganda or 'controlling the narrative' work and then, having dissected them, hold those tactics up for all to see.

And I think a lot of dystopias fall short because they get tangled up in the Idea of their story. The "what if" they've created. Either focused too much on the Issue-- too narrowly to be universal, too broadly to be revealing-- or too disconnected from anything genuine. And because they get stuck at that particular point they don't have much more to offer than "wouldn't this be bad?" And if you get a pretty good writer they can make that feel insightful but really it doesn't have much more to offer than whatever absurd YA book comes to mind first when you hear "bad dystopian novel".