#death mention //////

[prokopetz]

Concept: metroidvania with one of those "you begin with endgame gear and do a tutorial fight with it before losing all your stuff due to Plot" segments, except the player Hero and the Demon King "final boss" suffer mutually inflicted cutscene death at the end of the fight.

Now you're playing as the Princess you were meant to rescue, armed with whatever gear you could loot from the corpses, escaping the Demon King's Cursèd Citadel backwards – starting from the endgame biome – while the place falls apart around you thanks to the demise of its load-bearing boss.

The central gag is you notionally have endgame gear, but most of it has no obvious application to what you're up against, either because of the Citadel's ongoing collapse, or because the Hero's puzzle solutions on the way in were stupid, and you have to deal with the aftermath on the way out.

Though there'd be some gear progression, much of the map would be knowledge-gated by the need to figure out unintended applications of your existing gear. Any required interactions would be tutorialised, but you could freely break sequence if you know about them before you're "supposed" to.

[atomicpirateperson]

rob's static 📺

if you're not aware, rob's static changes with his emotions, so i decided to analyze it for fun in a stupid post with gifs <3

dark: rob's static turning dark is generally for negative emotions, but not exclusively so. it's most often shown when he's feeling grumpy or evil, but also can indicate sadness, guilt, pain, realization, physical effort, or just being theatrical.

bright: his static getting brighter is often for joy or confidence. it's associated with adrenaline like excitement and surprise, as well as distraction, confusion, and tension. in the case of intense, aggressive anger, his static turns bright instead of dark.

flashing: his static flashing quickly between bright and dark most often indicates intense anger. the static having a single bright flash can show sudden pain, especially if followed by darkness. a slower flashing can mean fear or panic, like a warning signal.

rapid: the static speeding up significantly is like a heart rate speeding up, and is another sign of intense anger. it also occasionally means fear, excitement or confusion.

okay so "dead" and this next bit aren't really emotions, but they are worth mentioning. when rob is dead (or at least paralyzed?) his static goes dark and very slow, and because he was literally turned off with the remote, a power sign is displayed.

as far as i know this only happens once, in the scene shown above, but his static can zoom in/out to display him tensing up and relaxing.

and that's nearly all i have to say about that! btw the animators don't do things with his static in every scene, sometimes it just stays, well, static LMAO

here are some extra examples from the show:

[podcastwizard]

ideal ways for me to die

1. old age, peacefully in my sleep

2. after a long and illustrious career i am at a rooftop gala hosted in my honor. i am wearing a beautiful gown, holding a glass of red wine, standing by the railing. a scorned lover approaches and, after a passionate spat, they push me over the edge of the building. the wine glass goes flying, splattering their outfit in red as a visual metaphor for the blood on their hands. as i descend my gown flies around me like two beautiful wings, a bird in flight. a photographer on the street manages to take a photo before i hit the ground and that photo wins the pulitzer. a new york times think piece is released regarding whether or not it's moral to profit off a photo of someone's death. the think piece also wins a pulitzer.

3. sex accident.

[prokopetz]

And that's a wrap, folks. Today's very busy batch of 45 submissions brings us to 284 entries in total, handily beating last year's total of 233.

I'll have an alphabetised index of this year's submissions put together presently. In the meantime, some fun statistics to tide you over:

The fewest entries per day was 2, shared with three different dates throughout the submission period. The most entries per day was today, with 45. There were no days with zero entries.

The first entry submitted this year was Gagic The Mathering by the speedy @isaac-dressen, posted at 00:47 UTC on November 1st. The last was @kavka--esque's appropriately titled Oh fuck, which came in at 23:59 UTC and some odd seconds on November 30th.

This year's most prolific participant was @pomrania, with seven entries, followed by a three-way tie for second place between @cavetalesz, @notsomeoneyouknow and @zastro-thebeholder with five entries each.

So far we've only had one person rename their blog in the middle of the event, obliging me to play detective to figure out where their submissions had gone, which if I recall correctly is actually a new record. I'm not naming names, but you know who you are!

200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

[ribghoul]

my girlfriend is able to take like a 20-min nap and bounce back with full energy. idk how she does that. when i lie down i wake up 12 years later in a hospital bed i rip the IV out of my arm and stumble into the hallway the whole building is littered with bodies, i make my way back to my house but my wife and children are long gone

[earhartsease]

we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

edit: since lots of people are still responding to this (we were amazed at the huge response over a just 24 hour poll), we want to make it clearer that we were never saying "of course nobody shrieks", we were railing against how on screen, women always do in an over dramatic way, and when men do it's made fun of like they've emasculated themselves by shrieking (so it's clearly a deliberate misogynistic trope)

meanwhile of course some people do shriek, as clearly demonstrated not just by the nearly 11% in the poll, but by all the tags we got inundated with - the main responses seem to be: gasp, swear loudly, vomit, grunt or make some other kind of other inarticulate noise, and shriek

anyway, thanks for playing

[kawaiijohn]

After the hurricane recovery is starting in the states and the damage is so bad in some places, they're either gone or don't have a single road left into town.

The power outage map for the states affected is honestly astounding. I actually know friends in southwestern Ohio that had a tornado/cyclonic thunderstorm from this system knock their power out.

Some places might not get power back for 2+ weeks.

The western half of North Carolina, where the Appalachian mountains are, is so badly damaged that some news stations are warning from any travel, and to consider every road closed until further notice.

Asherville is so damaged there seem to be almost no major roads left in or out of town.

The flooding from this storm is devastating and has destroyed entire towns and wiped some off the map. Damns and other infrastructure are failing all over the affected areas.

Until the flood waters recede sometime in the next few days, we won't have a full scope of just how badly people have been affected, nor will we have a final death toll.

Oh also, apparently the governor of Tennessee has not declared a state of emergency despite several places being catastrophically inundated. Instead he's done this, which is pissing a lot of people off.

[notalostcausejustyet]

Have faith friends. Faith in humanity. In each other. We are so much more than this. We are. We can be. We will be.

Remember this viral post? Wanda and Jamal and her husband Lonnie are the most wholesome people, this story brought tears to my eyes originally and I am crying once more learning from Jamal's social media that Lonnie has sadly passed away.

Rest in Peace, Lonnie :(

[fghniki]

shout out to technoblade for posting new videos from beyond the grave. commitment to the grind we should all be striving towards

[420technoblazeit]

has anybody else seen the bit in tommy's new video yet. where he asks mumbo jumbo if he can revive technoblade with redstone. bc that actually made my jaw DROP hol yshit. the pause just before he says it. you can hear the gears turning in phil's head as he realizes what tommy's about to say. the immediate psychic damage. truly horrid thank you tommy. ik techno would be losing it over that joke

[one-time-i-dreamt]

girl what

[silkeared]

“merfolk,  sure.”   ender  had  assumed  everyone  was  a  ‘mermaid’,  like  aquamarine  or  h20.  she  hadn’t  thought  that,  maybe,  the  male  fish  didn’t  take  too  kindly  to  being  referred  to  as  an  oceanic  housekeeper.  “he’s  always  a  bit  strange  though,  no  matter  the  moon  phase.  always  hanging  off  of  his  vampire  boyfriend.”  she  made  a  gesture  as  if  to  shiver.  portum  was  still  so  unfamiliar,  so  strange,  and  she  was  still  grappling  with  the  idea  that  vampires  didn’t  sparkle,  look  like  they  were  about  to  throw  up  when  they  caught  the  smell  of  blood,  and  play  baseball  in  the  purple  light  of  the  early  evening.  the  ghost’s  lips  tightened,  and  she  took  a  quick  breath  before  answering,  “new  enough.”  her  expression  soured  further  at  the  mention  of  the  little  boy  her  brother  had  been  making  friends  with.  “listen,  i’m  sure  they’re  cute,  but  they  make  koda’s  apartment  smell  like  a  doggy  daycare.  which  is  fine,  i  just  need  to  make  sure  i  pack  perfume  whenever  i  visit.”  her  hold  tightened  on  her  quickly  cooling  coffee,  something  that  she  couldn't  drink  but  still  bought  out  of  habit.  “i  died.  it  sort  of  limits  your  travel  opportunities.”

"yes , most  of  the  people  in  portum  are  affected  by  her  in  one  way  or  another  ,"  juniper  nodded  in  agreement.  "merfolk  are  creatures  of  the  sea  ,  and  what  is  the  sea  if  not  a  servant  to  the  moon  ?  i'm  sure  he  was  feeling  her  effects."  it  was  proven  ,  after  all.  merfolk  always  got  a  bit  more  intense  when  the  moon  got  fuller.  some  of  the  comments  made  by  the  woman  showed  her  ignorance  and  naivety  though  ,  and  juniper  was  nothing  if  not  an  educator.  "you're  new  ,  aren't  you  ?"  juni  asked  ,  already  knowing  the  answer.  "we  tend  to  have  a  more  open  mindset  to  our  furry  friends  as  you  lovingly  called  them.  i  think  they're  more  than  what  their  curse  make  them."  she  gave  the  woman  ,  ghost  ,  her  mind  supplied  ,  a  small  smile.  "what  brings  you  to  portum  ?"

[crabussy]

hi gang. reminder that we are some of the best sweaters in the animal kingdom (second only to equines) allowing us to stay cool and keep moving in hot weather. we have 10 times the density of sweat glands compared to other great apes.

we are ALSO insanely good at smelling rain (specifically geosmin, found in the soil and activated by rain) with the ability to smell 10 parts per trillion. this is speculated to have helped our ancestors survive!

we ALSO have absolutely batshit diets compared to most other animals. caffeine and chocolate are completely toxic to most animals but we can eat it without even feeling sick. even avocados are severely toxic to many animals to the point where it can be fatal to eat, but humans love it!!!

we are ALSO the best endurance runners ON EARTH out of ANY other species. we beat horses in endurance running. you know, the animals that gradually evolved away most of their toes in order to be the best runners?? yeahhh.

and to top it all off. our lifespan is unusually long for our species' weight/mass. typically, the bigger a species is, the longer its average lifespan (e.g. weasels live for 1-2 years, whales can live over 200) but we're very small for how long our average lifespan is. big cats like tigers live around 14-15 years, brown bears 25 years, yet here we are expected to live around 75-85 years. that is NUTS.

humans as a species are so extremely cool. it's not just our intellect that makes us amazing. we may not be the fastest or the strongest in the animal kingdom but we're super cool in many other ways. next time you sweat you can go wow!!! humans are so cool I'm able to keep moving because of my absolutely insane number of sweat glands! thank you evolution!

[demapatto-art]

the talk

[thebibliosphere]

Not to keep reliving trauma on main, but I'm getting weird deja vu from where my health was a few years ago and where it's at now. And most of it is revolving around Good Omens.

In May of 2019, we genuinely thought I was dying because I was dying. My organs were in the process of shutting down because my red blood cells were prematurely self-destructing and damaging my kidneys in the process, and I was rapidly coming to terms with the fact that I might not survive much longer. I'd fought the good fight, and I'd lost. Mostly due to medical neglect. And I was mad about a lot of things, but do you know what I remember from the traumatic blur I'm left with?

"I'm going to be so pissed if I die before Good Omens comes out."

I'd waited 20+ years at that point for something like a tv adaptation of Good Omens. Ever since I was a child and my dad read the book to me, and I fell in love with it. And here I was, mere weeks away from the TV release and on the verge of death.

Then like a miracle, a miracle that hinged on human compassion and a doctor being willing to listen to me, I was saved. Dragged back from the jaws of death by a relentless hematology department that refused to give up on me and ultimately saved my life. And a week later, I got to watch Good Omens propped up in my own bed, still weak, still ill, with my heart stuttering in my chest every time I laughed. And I remember thinking, "I did it. I got to see it."

That it's now it's 2023 and my health has tanked again. My organs are rebelling against me and no one seems to know why. But yet again, a few weeks before Good Omens is set to release, I find a doctor who listens to me and is doing all he can to help. Striving with the grim kind of determination that can only come from a place of compassion and care. Like my world is worth saving, and not just his.

Which is rather fitting, I think.

[prokopetz]

#why was riverdale like that (via @mindflayerinabathrobe)

The trick to understanding Riverdale is knowing that it completely changes genres at least three time during its run. Nothing in it is particularly beyond the pale for whatever genre it's currently occupying – it only seems so because of the incongruity of all of those genres being the same show. It starts out as a second-rate Dawson's Creek, and by the sixth season it's evolved into a very convincing pastiche of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – right down to the reveal that there's a Hellmouth under Riverdale – with a couple of entertaining formulaic detours along the way; it's unclear whether these genre shifts were always the plan, or whether the writers were just easily bored.

Gritty sci-fi webcomic where partway through the third major arc the protagonists get trapped in some sort of utopian false reality by a mysterious godlike being, except they never escape and the comic just changes genres to quirky coffee-shop slice of life until it's unceremoniously cancelled six years later.