#game keeps crashing though

[m0ckest]

trying to get the BFFs going with the cozy celebrations event ☃️

[sanasanakun]

I guess I find the shipping discourse a little funny because fandoms are gonna create ships regardless of the subject matter. I think really heavy, depressing media creates a need for people to see human connection. It’s like a way to cope, you know? More importantly and specific to this game (Mouthwashing), I also find it a little funny just because the devs themselves seem to be leaning towards ~one~ “ship” by retweeting artwork that depicts them as pretty close and protective. They even did an edit of them on that Florence Pugh and that one white guy romance movie with a “what could have been” caption. Sooo tldr the ship drama is kind of dumb. Please block and move on cause the discourse is taking up space on my feed when I’m trying to look for more art of Daisuke lmao

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[lockhartandlych]

mouthwashing post ending fic where curly gets found, rebuilt, and ultimately heals from the horrific trauma he was subjected to at the hands of his once companion

[solid-six]

Speaking of replaying things...got it in my head recently about maybe playing Death Stranding for a second time. Played it through once a few years ago and didn't think I'd want to do it over again.

So last night I thought I'd watch some of a YT playthrough, see how I felt about it. And after about and hour or so, I stg I've oscillated back and forth between...

Oh hell yeah! I can remember there was a lot here I really liked that was enough for me to finish the whole thing the first time; and

Bluhhhhhhhhhhhhh I also remember why I haven't wanted to play it again until apparently now lol

...like 20 times.

[calpalsworld]

april said hes me but underfell AU

[fakin-friendos]

The ending to pikmin 4 was so bittersweet....I can't believe nintendo made me emotional about a cartoon dog

[hazelplaysgames]

state of the Hazel: not doing too great. general summertime sadness combined with a recently passed cat of mine is not great for the mind. i'm gonna miss that big dope.

i'm getting a good sense for how i'm also feeling gameways, though it ain't much good news. getting back into Persona is feeling rough because i feel like i "have to" play it more than i "want to" play it, generally never great. i still really want to have played it and post the clips here, but given the whole moderation issues of this site, it feels like there's added pressure to do it before it's too late, whether or not "too late" is something i actually need to worry about.

as for more immediate issues, sticking to just Splatoon for so long is getting me into burnout phases. i can understand why, in the past few years, i've usually finished at least one or two pokemon monotype runs by August, maybe visit another game for a good while, but i've done neither this year.

i think playing a new game is probably the best way to get out of this funk right now, though. precisely, i think something i never posted here could work best, to help enjoy the posting process a little bit more too.

i did a whole shopping list in the tags sitting on this, but that'll do for this one. give myself a little time with something new, should be be fine.

[fionnaskyborn]

for the longest time i was a loss as to what to bring to the potluck because i thought i should bring something good and of high quality but then i realized that i was supposed to be having fun and that the whole point of the event is to have fun. so here i am, smiling at you, handing you a doodle of Guys From My AU because, let's face it, if i were to make a full illustration for any of them i'd only be able to participate in Potluck 2027. look at the itty bitty bastards :)

(the lineup is missing the team's AI but he was too darn itty bitty to draw next to the already ittybitty-fied Big Dudes)

[bitegore]

i'm doing that ask game thing but also speaking to your mind as someone else who has the same brain disease: make art that makes me wanna throw up. make art that people actively hate. make art with real blood (don't actually do this no one appreciates it) and dirt. my goal has been to create art that's noise and makes people feel bad and you should too imo

this is really funny because i had an actual irl real life phase where i enjoyed mixing blood into my watercolors. it's fine, honestly. nice shade of brown. good for certain things. and the entire field of postmodern art would be so sad if they couldn't use blood

i love making art that is so sucks and no one likes though. i loooove making art that pisses people off. i have so much fun with it

[grey-wardens]

new kisses are working....... :)

[ilikedetectives]

How's Forspoken running on your pc?

It runs SMOOTHHHH like butter, so far not a single lag/jitter and I was playing on 4K Ultra High everything + ReShade during my 3-hour gaming session, maintaining around 40-60fps (DLSS off). Now tbf my gaming rig is EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3, i7 9700K, 64GB DDR4 RAM, and the game is installed on a Samsung 870 EVO SSD. Besides my old CPU (recommended for Ultra settings is i7 12700K, mine is 3 generations behind), everything meets the Ultra settings. What I'm surprised is even though I max everything on graphics, the game only uses ~5.5GB of VRAM which is surprisingly low (RE Village can eat easy 13GB). I'll go explore the map more and see how the game runs with 50+ enemies and more magic combats + fast parkour (was going to do that but then I run into a calico cat guest so I got distracted). I tried the demo on PS5 and it runs just as smooth, though the textures aren't as good as PC (which makes sense). The world seems a bit empty, there's some good spots in between but mostly it's quite bare like FFXV. I haven't seen something Altissia-equivalent to make up for the empty spaces yet.

Maybe I'm used to dealing with Ubisoft's signature optimization so I'm more lenient, but Forspoken runs WELL. For context, my PC with a RTX 2080 Super (also 64GB RAM) that exceeds AC Valhalla's recommended specs for Ultra (x) and guess what? I can't get the horse go too fast or the game would crash or game crashes instantly when I get to Ravensthorpe; for an entire 6 months I couldn't play the main campaign because the game simply croaks upon entering England. Same deal with Far Cry 6, the clothing and tattoos textures are still soup, despite HD textures mod pack (there's a reason my photos of Dani I have to make the outfits out-of-focus asdasdassa). FC6 textures are ok on Xbox Series X and PS5 though so it's obvious that PC optimization got shafted. One last thing I want to add is Forspoken has a demo, so people can try it out and see if it's for them. imho it's way better than hyping a game, provide no demo, and then the game turns out to be an optimization disaster upon launch, which then you have to wait a couple weeks or months for a fix *shrug*

[dryfrooot]

list 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore ʚ♡ɞ

(don’t know if you’ve done this yet but i thought i’d give it a try🖤)

AWW i adore your sims tooo🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ this is my first time doing this so ty for the ask!!

here's one of my favorite sims, kyra :P

she's reeeally awkward. During game tournaments she usually barely uses vc, she used to crack some atrociously unfunny jokes, and she was humbled each and every time... The only two people who are truly comfortable with and are used to her awkwardness and her inability to pick up on social cues are her best friends Salem and Benson, and her sister, Lea. They consider themselves as the best trio ever and Salem loves her dry, corny jokes.

Oswald (its a rlly goofy name im sorry) is the landlord of where lea and kyra live. Before her grandparents passed, she would visit them in Copperdale with her dad. He they weren't close but she had interacted with him pretty frequently since he lived on the bottom floor and was friends with her grandparents. After running away with her sister, Oswald accepted them with open arms, and they would often celebrate holidays together. He gave them the upstairs apartment where their grandparents used to live in, and although it's in poor condition, she considers it home than just a place to stay.

Kyra's childhood was really confusing and messy because of her mom's erratic behavior and her father's passive demeanor. Even though her mother is family oriented, her narcissism and struggle with regulating her emotions, has strained Kyra's relationship with Kyra. In one of her mother's fits of rage, years of pent up rage and frustration lead Kyra to gather everything she could, along with Lea, and run away. Since then, Kyra has been doing her best to protect Lea from the painful past. Lea doesn't remember much, but she has a sense of longing for her mother. Once in a blue moon, their father, torn btwn his his inability to confront his wife's destructive behavior and loyalty to his kids, comes to visit and provides them with clothes or leftover food, but he's the only one who knows where they are, being the only shackle to the life they left behind.

Kyra currently works at a local coffee shop, also taking a few odd jobs here and there to make a quick buck. Her coworkers are Lou Howell and Vanesha Cahyaputri. Her and jacob don't really get along too. everytime they're on a shift together he's never on the register to make sure he doesn't steal any money. He likes to poke fun at her whenever he's bored because of her slow, and pretty pathetic (😭) comebacks. She's on good term's with Vanesha due to the fact they both have immigrant parents where they'll share stories they laugh/gossip about together during their lunch break.

Kyra's also saving up to major in computer science and aspires to become a game dev and implement her and her sister's drawing skills to design the characters and other thingamajigs. They go to the library or the boba shop to whenever they can to catch up and talk about their dream game. Salem and Kyra struck up a conversation with a musician performing at the romance festival, (where Kyra also got played by Akira Kibo but that's a whole 'nother thing…) Benson, and he quickly became apart of their friend group. As they hung out more, he soon got tangled in her with her love and passion for this game, and wants to help that game come to fruition and be a music composer for her game.

[kindacreepy-kindaugly]

I wonder if I'm makin things better or worse for the collective bein like this. On one hand I'm not happy or makin any progress towards it, but...I can't rly even imagine that. I can't imagine a life without him. It's not that I don't want it, on some level I know it'd be better for me, but...I can't even dream about it cause I just can't imagine it at all.

On the other hand I make a great decoy. He's basically dropped all interest in Angel cause now he knows I'm the one who still wants him n loves him n can't exist without him. So at least one of us will make it out this time, I think.

[theophagie]

You win some (you find the 1.5+2.5 kh rm) you lose some (it crashes every 20 minutes)

[selvnite]

I might have to write a post about Theia, I have so many thoughts about them and their past...