#correctly handling

[tom4jc]

September 4, 2023 Verse Of The Day

[hood-ex]

Dick and Duke and their "forget about Batman, I'm figuring out my parent problem myself" mentality.

Batman: Dark Victory #10

We Are Robin #1

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I think what particularly annoys me with the "zelda was always gameplay before story" is that... it's not true? At least I don't think it's true in the way people mean it.

Zelda games were always kind of integrating story based on the standards of the time. When game stories were in game pamphlets, Zelda's stories was in the pamphlets. ALTTP tried to tell a pretty complicated stories with the limitations of the time. OoT was actively trying to tell an epic, cinematic tale packed with ambiance and expand what 3D could offer that 2D games struggled with. Majora's Mask is deeply character-driven in many, many ways. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are both pretty concerned about their stories, down to the point that some people were bored by TP's cutscenes in particular. Skyward Sword, from what little I have played it, is very very invested in its characters and their journey (and 2D Zeldas have Link's Awakening, Minish Cap... None of them are visual novels, but they are concerned with emotional journeys, character arcs, mysteries about their own world...)

What is true is that the narrative wraps around the mechanics, and not the other way around. The mechanics drive themes, aesthetics, emotional beats and character journeys; and that's great. The world is a puzzle, and the world is delightfully absurd when it needs to be, full of heart when it calls for it, dark and oppressive when it suits the player experience.

That does not mean the games aren't invested in their stories. Even BotW has a pretty complicated story to tell about an entire world rather than one specific tale or legend --all of it at the service of the gameplay, which is exploration and mastery of your environment.

So. Yes, none of the Zelda games are million-words long visual novels that care deeply about consistency and nuance; but stories don't need consistency or deep lore to be meaningful and serve an emotional journey. Again: gameplay is story. The two cannot be so easily parsed from each other.

And Zelda as a franchise obviously care deeply about story, characters and setting (and still does right now --otherwise there wouldn't be a movie), even if it doesn't try to imitate prestige narrative-driven games, which is great and part of why I love this series so much. Doesn't mean it couldn't have done better in the past, it obviously could have, but I feel like pretending that nobody ever cared about story or character is just... false? It's a huge disservice to the devs too. Some of them obviously cared immensely.

The "gameplay above story", at least in the extent to which it is paraded today to defend TotK, mostly, is a really recent development. And I think it's one that deserves to receive some pushback.

[densewentz]

[crow-eyed]

panel redraw of a baby kon- just hatched!

[ouaw-facts-i-just-made-up]

Frost and Kremy are metamours

Don’t ask me who’s dating who to make that happen but the one thing that is certain is that they are *not* dating each other

This is a true fact.

With my personal home-baked lore it's probably Gideon. Kremy doesnt seem like a guy who can stand dating that many people. Frost and Gideon have canonically slept together. Gideon has two hands and for some reason he chose the gator and the cat.

Frost and Kremy don't have a rivalry about it but it's more like they are so far from each others type that it's comical. But they are otherwise good friends who happen to share Big Fire Man

[skyrim-forever]

Possibly controversial post but I deeply don’t want tes vi to focus on a war between the Empire and the Dominion. Because I can see it as either going one of two ways:

1) The Empire wins and colonizes another land

2) The Dominion wins and continues their colonization

And quite frankly I don’t really wanna play a game of pick the colonizer from between two terrible empires. Mer getting slaughtered sounds awful but the Thalmor also have incredibly insidious plans so them winning is just as bad.

I really hope the next game is over a hundred years in from the events of Skyrim. Perhaps the war has already happened and is in the history books (would prefer if the Dominion pulled out of mainland Tamriel and the Empire just focuses on Cyrodiil but that might be too much to ask for). I don’t want it to be within the games living memory, because I don’t find that kind of conflict fun.

I would like the story to be something fresh and new, like the war becomes like oblivion crisis where it’s mentioned and important historical event but the plot is something else. Let’s brainstorm ideas! I’m cool with a Daedra attack (again!), evil wizard is always cool, more involvement from the Aedra, idk the Dwemer return???

Literally anything but having to pretend I care about a war again. Especially when everyone involved sucks and there’s no way to opt out.

But I am likely asking for too much

[h3adph0nez]

Luke is so good at handling hecklers it's actually very admirable and awesome

[fleariddenart]

Leona sleeping during his cooking class.

Normally I don't bother with the Culinary Crucible events because I'm very bad at them but this time I caved because the one feline beastman is featured with the recipe lineup where everything requires milk.

Leona is not beating the kitty allegations.

I actually got Leona's card but now I'm out of keys lmao

[theanonymousninja247]

✨ Star Friends ✨

When I found out that @chessman-protocol boy Crit liked Astronomy, let’s just say I was beyond estatic and immediately planned this little comic. Here’s to my boy Vincent doing his best to make friends with folks who share similar interests 😅💙

Funny enough, I didn’t realize I put this in Vincent character’s until I looked at the whole thing, but Vincent very much shares the lack of stranger danger the way I did/ I do to this day. To quote one of my past managers I’m “abnormally friendly” or whatever

I can’t tell you how many times even as a small child (drove my parents nuts) that I saw a cool person with whatever connecting factor and I just straight up walked to them and was like “Ok cool. We’re friends now.” And nobody’s really stopped me? So apparently I have friends now. 😆

Vincent however is just a wholesome baby boy who doesn’t realize he’s actually an intimidating hunk of a turtle and randomly walking up to strangers and not saying anything can be taken the wrong way.

Like I said, he’s trying his best. He wasn’t exactly the most socialized if you can’t tell, but he does love dearly and is certainly a boone of a friend to have once you get past the inevitable social awkwardness. He’s loyal to put because he really doesn’t know better, and I adore him for that. Anyway, dunno if Crit knows any ASL or not, but either way Vincent is just excited to meet somebody else who likes space ✨🌌 💙

[weaselle]

how did this happen. this is bad.

this is now i have to buy a gun and be prepared for a literal civil war bad.

the next four years are going to be so bad we might not wind up with a whole country at the end of it. There is going to be so much more violence and oppression and militarized bigotry.

anyone who voted for trump or withheld their vote or voted third party is dead to me.

[spine-buster]

THIS IS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lesbian-phoenix]

gonna watch potp with the family tonight …….. terrified …… will let u know if I come back alive

[thegreatyin]

"hey yin why do you call caeru a catboy-" because he is one. next question

[huesofvioletandpurple]

[ID: Ace Markey from Danganronpa despair time, saying "What is this, some sort of "Devil's Pubes?" in annoyance. End ID]

holy shit umineko reference ?!!!?!??

[that-disabled-princess]

Okay, but where is Runaan's binding. Where is the binding. WHERE IS IT.