#even if u don't play the game

[kiisaes]

apple of my eye 🔪

[aprivateplace7]

Right??? Like look at the Nier Automata ost, most of its vocals are in a made up language called Chaos language that doesn't even have a translation! Doesn't stop it from being nothing but bangers.

ngl i think the most ignorant thing you can say about foreign music as an english speaker is that you ‘dont understand the lyrics’ as an excuse to not listen to it.

if you dont like the vocals, fine. if you dont like the instrumentals, fine. if you dont like the beat, fine. those are legit reasons based on your personal taste.

but saying you ‘dont understand the lyrics’ just tells people that you arent willing to expand your horizons beyond your immediate and base understanding.

do you understand every english speaking song? do you understand the meaning behind every english lyric & harmony choice? do you understand every double meaning of an english phrase?

unless you’re the composer, you will never fully ‘understand’ any song, english or not. to remain willfully ignorant of foreign music on that basis is to deprive yourself of the beauty and fun of other cultures, and to stay in your own little bubble where nothing can challenge you and what you ‘understand’.

…it also tells ppl that you’re a lazy fuck who can’t be bothered to do a simple google or youtube search for translated lyrics.

[ryllen]

I MISSED THE WAY YUU RAISED HER VOICE TBHHH she is very sweet when she does that and gets mad~

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Elden could have been actually good if it had like 50 bosses that were unique instead repeating the same ones again and again

[front-facing-pokemon]

[brynnmclean]

saw a post questioning shipping Senua and Thórgestr and started to reblog it with a tag novel-- felt weird about doing that since this is lengthy and potentially derailing, so making my own post instead. Spitballing under the cut:

First off, any time someone is like, "the real reason people ship this is because they find the dude attractive," this is SO funny to me as someone who doesn't find men attractive IRL and has fiercely loved Senua since I played the first game, like-- actually I find the dynamic between those two characters to be compelling and interesting precisely because of all the baggage between them re: their backgrounds, the rough (put mildly!) beginning of their relationship, all the things they don't talk about, and them finding a common enemy/common ground to work with. The explicit parallels between them stated in-game scratched an itch in my brain. The minute they pointed out the dark rot on his arm, it was like, "oh! hello there! NOW I'm interested in whatever your whole deal is" for me. Also, idk man, I too would follow Senua around after she knocked me into the dirt and then showed me a way to fight the giants that I very much wanted to fight instead of appease.

The idea that Thórgestr was part of the Orkney Raid that killed and mutilated Dillion is VERY interesting food for thought, even if I don't personally have that headcanon (surely there are more viking raiding groups than just the Bjorg). I think the Furies or the Shadow said something similar about Fargrimr (his kin murdered yours, you shouldn't save him, etc.) so I completely get that line of thought, but I think the game left it ambiguous enough that it's up for interpretation. Would I read fic with that premise? Yeah, I'd check that out. Could Senua forgive Thorgestr if his people were involved? Sounds fun to explore.

If (ha, when?) I write fic, I'd have to think more about it especially wrt timelines, like when did the Bjorg start specifically raiding for slaves for giant food sacrifices vs. killing people for resources and wealth? How far off are we from the old gods "dying" and the volcano erupting? Was it indeed a different group of raiders who made a deal with Zynbel, attacked Senua's home, and made the sacrifice at that time to Hela?

At the very least, I think there's a time jump between the end of Hellblade I and the beginning of Hellblade II since Senua wasn't alone on that slave ship and at least one of the (brief) survivors knew her by name. I wouldn't mind exploring that gap of time, too.

In any case I do agree that it would take a VERY long time for Senua to consciously catch feelings for anyone let alone Thorgestr with all their collective baggage. The idea of them having a relationship beyond friendship in the far off future of an AU where he survives is the only one that can make sense in my brain, personally. It would take time! Time they didn't get in the game! But I think there are a lot of different roads that could take, and some of them might be healthier than others. Shipping them certainly isn't forgetting or excusing what happened to Dillion-- or even mutually exclusive from still shipping Senua and Dillion. Or, frankly, also shipping Senua and Astridr, because I can see that ship too.

One of the nice things about all the details Ninja Theory didn't expand upon and that they left that ending so open is that the sky's the limit. I'm VERY interested in seeing fandom tackle this game as we get farther from the initial release.

[antirepurp]

pmd explorers with composite video shaders hits different if im quite honest with you

[jimmyspades]

[camzverse]

i could probably like or even love william afton if he made any fucking sense to me as a character

[ridl]

why is it so hard for some ppl to understand that you can genuinely enjoy games they deem difficult, frustrating, outdated etc, and you don't have to be a "masochist" to enjoy them. "umm i play games to have fun, not like yall masochists who like to suffer 🤪" well i'm indeed having fun experiencing different games that are difficult/frustrating/outdated, why are you having such a superiority complex over it

[residentialsinyomakai]

Oh yeah, updated yokai collection (minus my shirt and poster ahfoejc)

Not too much, but I love all my yolk eye stuff!!(○^▽^○)/*•☆▪︎※

[ryllen]

FINALLY, the closure to my stardew life !

[byanyan]

need y'all to know that some time ago xeno brought it to my attention that jesus of suburbia is an incredibly byan-coded song and i haven't stopped thinking about it since

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

i know that when carlo suddenly decided that he needs to marry guy made a whole list in his head n like had a deadlines n shit. like it was some kind of a task he needed to do

[singharit]

BALDUR'S GATE 3 + my ocs :)

[cardi-c]

seasonal depression is hitting so hard this year