#gamer time baby

[asskylosaurus]

Winning an epic fortnite battle royale while wizard high makes me feel like the demon trucker pizza delivery girl I'm playing as.

[blorbocedes]

live britney react from Abu Dhabi 2021 pre-race interview

[melonlthawne]

Cathartic baby bart before I bomb my exam. The flash thing is supposed to be like a squishmallow looking plush but idk if I managed to make it look similar. If not maybe a sock monkey type thing. Still featuring those adorable rabbit/bunny paw pads on the feet of the onesie

[aterfish]

Quick sketch because they always live in my head rent free.

Feel free to color it, if you want! Dont forget to tag it tho, i wanna see it

[hazeybabe]

Hi. I like men into feet now I guess.

You made me feel so lil 🫠

[glngrbred]

Hot take, Elden ring is a really good souls like, but that doesn't mean its actually a good game.

within the subgenre, souls-likes have always had really huge issues with accessibility, and i don't mean for disability alone. Elden ring especially had extremely horrible performance issues at launch, which they did eventually fix. Even then you still have to get a 400 dollar PC. Aside from that there are some strange decisions made with teaching the player, like the tutorial is just a hole that players had to point out to each other, and On my barely stable first 20 minutes, i couldn't even find (my b i guess). Obviously alot of extremely experienced gamers would be able to handle themselves super well in Elden ring even without a tutorial. But there's another issue there with accessibility.

2 last things on accessibility. The game's audio is mixed like a movie, (so barely audible or ripping out your eardrums ;-;) witch is another accessibility issue, that you have to put a lot of work in to fix. And the graphics range from maxing out the brightness, to being completely black on bad screens. obviously an issue. I'm not going to go into the issues with explanations and the general tell don't show nature of alot of souls likes, because people have already complained about the text tunnels enough

I do really appreciate the artistry and just beautiful atmosphere Elden ring has, my only issue with the graphics is the performance requirements for them. Also if you never turned the graphics all the way down, it used to cause bit lag spikes just because it wanted to i guess :")

So, my argument is that a game can be a good version of the predecessors it bases itself off of, but if it doesn't actually deliver on playability and accessibility, I really don't think its deserving of the praise it gets. here are examples of games I think are flawless Unraveled/Unraveled 2 Hades Minecraft (Java edition only [cuz bedrock is completely broken somehow???) Never alone (a cool 2 player co op platformer that me and my brother played through when we were 6 and 8 or smthn, it was incredible, and i still think its worth playing as an adult) Spelunky 2 ***Monster Hunter (except for the extremely slow RPG elements) [takes 3 months to get 1 armor set built fully :)]

So i actually have some great news for the difficulty purists, You can actually do a hardcore game well, So long as you make failure quick and readable, Make trying immediate, and Make learning a part of the design. Spelunky is not my cup of tea, i have a bad time with reaction time, but spelunky is really great, in that your goal every attempt is simply to get as far as possible. In elden ring, you have the opposite problem, where instead of completing the objective being extraordinarily hard, getting from point a to point b is tediouse, saving the game takes time, occasionally you can be attacked without knowing why, and you dont get a clear read on what went wrong, ETC. If Elden ring was only the boss fights, I would say its almost a great game. Which is why I included Monster hunter on that list, despite its insufferable grind. Also BTW spelunky 2 has four fun minigames. a requirement for any game to be truly perfect is for there to be appeal for casual gamers, and i don't think adding casual elements makes a game worse, like, ever.

Anyways, last little thing, I really dislike it when People praise games for not catering to the needs of some players. Like everyone has heard dudebros or their friends be like "It doesn't have any difficulty settings! that's so sick!" But, like, Have you ever met someone with a motor function disability, or like, just someone who doesn't play games for 30000 hours every year? Difficulty settings and the ability to control your experience are important. and this isn't about Elden ring, But if you care about being an ally you should want your games to have accessibility features, they only benefit people. and if you're so worked up about about an extra tab being in the settings window, maybe you should like, go to therapy or something.

Also Elden ring's UI is so ass it gave my design teacher a heart attack and they hired a Pe*o as our sub.

[stinkrascal]

sometimes you post about sucking at a video game on tumblr and you get the most encouraging msgs imaginable from complete strangers who are just really into whatever game u talked about and wanna see u thrive and its so wholesome. and sometimes you post about sucking at a video game on tumblr and randos who you have never talked to in your entire life will write comments on your text post from august of last year about how you're dumb as shit for struggling on this level, not realizing that i posted that text post in august of last frickin year. pardon ive actually beaten this game 3 times since then but thank you for being mean to me and calling me naive for no reason??? 😭

[tenebriism]

// The biggest hit to my pride today was having to switch my gameplay level on Metaphor: ReFantazio to ' easy ' because this ONE boss kept kicking my ass. >:c A boss I HAVE to defeat to get the KEY so I can finish this blasted quest!

Anyways, Strohl... I'm getting a vibe from you. A very particular vibe. Are you...? // eyebrow raise

[randomminty]

Wadermelin duo

[trubbishrubbish]

So far, playing DR1 in japanese text and voice has been quite interesting. Sure I can't understand what's being said but I still remember what was said in the english version Plus I'm playing the vita version in english as a guide for class trials so I am not completely lost in what to do. I don't think I'll run into any complications with this set up.

Oh.

[earthymama95]

Not my usual content but I had fun making it 😅

[thejacketscloset]

letting my 8 year old sister play ln2 RAHHH!!! TEACH EM WHILE THEYRE YOUNG !!!

[foolishbuilders]

Still brain rotting about the au where Finley and Junior survive the nukes and end up on quesadilla island (tentatively calling it baby totems au)

2 bits of word building/background

First, totems can form bonds with each other, and form/break surface level bonds very easily. If they’re physically close they can pass words through the bond. If it’s a deep bond, they can feel emotions and track direction and distance towards each other, though distance makes these weaker.

Second (inspired by a detail from @cobythinks fic Fools Gold and Silver Tongues, that totems need to eat gold to be healthy) Totems need to regularly eat gold to function. They’re made of gold after all, it has to come from somewhere. They need to eat gold to heal, children need to eat a lot more gold than adults because they’re growing.

What this means:

(Part 1) Finley and Junior end up at quesadilla island because they were following their bond with foolish. Finley and Junior were only able to feel it over such a distance because they were together. Foolish assumes it’s just a phantom bond, like how you can get phantom pain from missing limbs.

It’s just that he wants his children to be alive, anf they’re not, they’re gone forever. It’s just that he’s longing to form a totem bond with Leo, with anyone because he’s surrounded by friends and family but he’s still so alone. It’s just that he sees Finley and Junior in every interaction between the eggs and he just wishes that was enough, that the eggs, that Leo would fill this gapping whole in his heart. So he ignores this fake bond that only reminds be of what he can’t have.

(Part 2) By the time Finley and Junior reach quesadilla island they’re…not doing great. They’ve been swimming for several months, and there was a steep learning curve for catching fish. While they were able to get better at hunting they haven’t had an access to gold. So by the time Finley and Junior arrive at quesadilla island they’ve gone from gold to silver to a dull gray color, and aren’t immediately recognizable as totems

[superchat]

ive just been rllyyyy loving the vibes of the otherworld. the entire time james is in there im just soaking in the experience, its so good

[fletchfeathers]

today after three years of playing on and off (as in having a good run for like 3-5 days at a time and then putting it down for six months lol) i finally beat a realm reborn and bro i am genuinely so hype about it fr fr

i get mega anxiety playing things with strangers so i did most of the dungeons with npcs, but i had to do a bunch of dungeons and raids with strangers to complete ARR and i did it scared and didn't beef it! or at least if i did no-one yelled at me in chat lmao

so let's go heavensward bring on the ✨ trauma ✨ i am excited !!

[gender-euphowrya]

something about when gamer men do the whole "ugh women just don't get why we love gaming so much :(". Well. maybe if women were actually treated seriously as gamers and gaming stopped being seen as a Male Activity where they get yelled at and harassed in voice chats or made to feel like the only games they're allowed to touch are the sims and stardew valley played on their pink computers

maybe women would 'get' gaming if gaming 'got' women