#death stranded

[lewalrus]

I know that Greek satyrs were only males, but hear me out!

I had to make a satyress!Deadma'am design, she just wouldn't leave my mind.

[prokopetz]

Fans spent decades claiming that Hideo Kojima is a creative genius who's being held back by the studio system, and then the first time a production gave him free rein to do whatever he wanted he promptly made a game where you have to play out using the bathroom in real time so the protagonist can collect his own urine to craft magic piss grenades. It's unclear whether this confirms the fandom's hypothesis.

[cheddar-baby]

Death Stranding 2 Reveal Trailer 4K | The Game Awards 2023

[monakisss]

unexpected visitor

[lousysharkbutt]

he is so...

[ellieabbyy]

details

[lakemojave]

I've said it before and we all know this but god the leadup to Death Stranding was hilarious. For like two years or so we get the odd trailer that shows us the weirdest shit we've ever seen and then every time we want elaboration we learn that Kojima was last seen passing a blunt with Mads and Reedus. And then the game comes out and it's about hiking through a mountain and pissing everywhere, delivering life saving packages to people shut in from an apocalyptic plague. And then Covid happened. You can't write this.

[ashesfordayz]

Drew the creatures in my mind 😊

[mistercrowbar]

I highly recommend playing Death Stranding if you got a system to play it on

it’s set in this post apocalyptic world where everyone turns into a nuclear explosion ghost after death and the rain makes you and everything else old and for 30-40 years no one’s been able to do anything to combat it except bunker down underground and incinerate the dead. People are isolated because, wouldn’t you be if your neighbour dying meant your city turned into a crater?

but in spite of this all there’s hope that we can connect people again. The NPCs are relentlessly optimistic that we can manage the explosion ghosts if we work together. So much of it is just, building up small contributions and having them pile up and before you know it, you got something big going on. You’re the big damn hero (a guy with insane core strength who doesn’t die) tackling the (literally) heavy stuff but the NPCs are all eager to contribute whatever they can. Here’s some custom boots. A protoype engine. A non-lethal ranged weapon. A place to stay. A bridge to cross a river. A parcel of materials to build with. A generator just as your truck battery is dying. A good luck charm. A remote operated surgical table. A sign that says Keep On Keeping On.

I think it’s important to remember that the small stuff matters. It helped me a lot during the pandemic. The world is heavy and not everyone can lift 100kg, but we can all do something even if it’s just some words to remind people we’re in it together.

Also, Trump canonically died in a ghost explosion and was utterly annihilated down to the atoms.

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

when the rain no longer makes you shrivel up and die

[billy-crudup]

First look at photo mode for DEATH STRANDING 2 ON THE BEACH (2025)

[emeeedee]

[prokopetz]

People sometimes try to picture "the opposite of Touhou" and come up with, like, a bullet-hell shooter where all the characters are boys, which is a problem for two reasons:

Boys are not the opposite of girls; and

At this point Touhou is barely a bullet-hell shooter franchise anyway; like, yeah, that's the foundation of it, but let's be real, a huge chunk of the fandom only ever engages with the supplementary media and has never helled a bullet in their lives.

If we really want to flip it turnways, it's not sufficient to invert the gameplay or the aesthetic trappings; there needs to be an ideological inversion of some description as well.

Basically, what I'm saying is that the opposite of Touhou is Death Stranding.

[conscydraws]

My first 15 hours in Death Stranding

[thelvadams]

most anticipated games of 2025 (and beyond)

[lousysharkbutt]

norman reedus sitting like that dot jpeg