#i didnt care until i found out other games existed and i couldn't play them. or like a ds...i wanted one growing up AND I STILL WANT ONE

[manebioniclegali]

for the video game asks!!! how about 1, 4, and 15? :0

Video game asks!

I'm gonna do these out of order for a reason

1. Name a game that is really important to you.

Lego Star wars 2 the original trilogy on the ps2 no question. It was the first modern game we ever owned, and my brother and I have beaten it either 2 or 3 times. Technically we played Lego Indiana Jones first I think, but this was the first one we had (and then we went to game stop and bought all the LEGO TT games available at the time for the PS2 lol)

15. Name a game you liked better than you thought you would. 

I'll put Inscryption and Undertale in this answer, bc I knew I'd like them, but i underestimated by how much. Inscryption especially, bc I REALLY like that game. One part card game, one part not (I won't say too much cuz idk how much you've seen, and I encourage you to go in blind if you wanna play it yourself), this is actually the first game I've ever bought as a result of Markiplier playing it. And it was definitely worth it; I don't think I bought it on sale, either lol. I've finished the main game, and now I'm stuck on the challenges and getting the achievements (I also haven't been able to play in months :( I can't devote an hour in the evening most of the time).

Alternative answer would be Just Dance, but SPECIFICALLY for the Kinect. That's the truest iteration of the game, and I wish I had a Kinect or that another console could truly replicate forcing you to actually get up and dance as opposed to being able to cheese it by sitting down (which peeves me to no end bc I feel like it's not worth it at that point...)

4. Name a game that everyone else loved that you didn’t care for.

HOT TAKE TIME I've stuck this under a read more so people can ignore it if they want.

I don't really have strong opinions in this category...except for balder's gate 3 😭

I WANNA LIKE THE GAME SO BADLY!! But I hate that the romance is created with sex as the end goal 😭 I wanna be able to romance the characters and enjoy what otherwise sounds like an awesome game, but the fact that sex as the default really is annoying, cuz that's not now I go about things, especially when it's at the culmination of realization of feelings and not much later?? Like bro, you barely know me at that point. And idk if there's a mod that could change it sufficiently bc that would probably require rewriting a lot of stuff and I know there's "ace" mods out there but I get the sense it might mess with the romance...and if i dont do the romance at all, then that's half of the gameplay gone. It really bums me out :( I wanna play this so so badly. There should have been a real secondary option available for the demographic of "I want romance but not sex" which I know is out there thanks to Tumblr (if bs3 does have this option, nobody's ever talked about it....)

[echoequinox]

my life story

at 18 i moved in with my girlfriend into a one bed apartment. i was going to college in the city until i messed that up and stopped going to school.

i pushed carts for a while. i tried to be good but sometimes i talked to people. i found out there was a name i liked better.

christmas eve i left, drove an hour and a half to some other girl's house, one who called me a name that felt good. one that said i was a good girl. i didnt go back to my girlfriend's apartment again.

i moved in with a friend from high school. he didnt get it but he loved me as a best friend. that was enough. a girl i used to date was at college in iowa or something, dating some guy from the military. it all made her want to die. i told her to leave. she did.

we lived in that spare bedroom with my rabbit for a while, and then into her mom's house. not for terribly long, only long enough for her to pick up drinking, finding a guy at the bar that she barely liked and wouldnt stay with but at least he "made her feel something". she misgendered me anyway.

so then i went home. to my mom and her abusive boyfriend. i was out a lot, with friends, running around, not wanting to be home.

i met a boy who worked at a taco shop. he'd work at a starbucks later, and when we lived in the halfway house he was in because he was kicked out by his parents for being trans, he'd bring me tea from work. my introduction into the wonderful world of tea.

that was the happiest i was for a while. sleeping at his place, playing games, fucking when he got home and drinking tea. we went to restaurants and pride rallies where i met my other boyfriend.

the three of us moved into a new place together where i lived in the basement. i got alcohol poisoning there after drinking 20 shots of whiskey in a row on an empty stomach. i was miserable then, too, i think. at least they both took care of me.

first boy got another bf. he told me once when he got me drunk to have sex with me (which failed, got me too drunk) that he had to find someone else because id stopped fucking him enough. that was what i was there for.

me and the second boyfriend left. we went back to my mother's. the second time i had returned. we were actively getting kicked out when he proposed to me. i said yes. we went to live in an abandoned motel that had electricity but no heat in the middle of one of the coldest missouri winters.

a girl id reconnected with offered me a place with her and her husband. told me my bf at the time was using me for comfort and affection, didnt actually like me. that made sense. i left.

alabama. it was better there. the housewife's live in girlfriend to a wealthy programmer. he was very sweet and kind and cute. she was very familiar with what she wanted.

it was a few years and a few houses in alabama, getting on new medications and starting to put out applications when she told me i couldn't stay there anymore. the third home i was forced out of.

a friend in florida had a job opportunity for me. i lived with their parents because id fallen in love with them. it was never reciprocated, not in the way i wanted. but we did become quickly codependent in ways that relationships usually never got to.

we moved out and into an apartment. we bought a cat. we decorated our home together. we made meals. the pandemic hit. non-essential workers meant stipends. we made art. we learned new skills. we started working out.

the pandemic ended and i got fired. no job, no income, i was once again a burden. i couldnt do the one thing required of me - previously sex, here rent - and so i was nothing. what we had ended in a matter of weeks. love crumbled to ash in my hands and I was cruelly reminded that unless you serve a purpose to others, you dont deserve to exist.

i got into school, got some loans, and lived off campus in florida. the dream school, the one id wanted since high school. THE programmer school!! THE place that would teach me to make games!!! finally!!!!!

it fell through. classes became harder and harder to attend, and the few i did i felt ostracized and discarded. i remembered why I hated being around people.

it ended too. not the school, thank god for covid for forcing online schooling to become the norm. one thanksgiving, visiting friends, i had them help cosign on a car. i would drive back to florida and doordash to keep myself afloat.

the car broke. stranded in illinois. i had to find somewhere to go. a friend helped me for a time, and then finally when my mom and her horrible husband separated, she let me back in. the third return.

we had to drive to florida to get my stuff, a 20 hour drive both ways while we both had covid, but i survived. everything i owned fit in the back of an suv. anything that didnt got thrown away.

and now im here. back in the house i grew up in. in a house ive come to hate. i hate it here. this is where i live, but it isnt home. i desperately want to go home, but i dont have one.

[dooplissss]

more oc shit bc i'm feeling feelings about them

Ethel Merriweather: ok so i prob will never actually play this pc bc i specifically made her out of spite against someone bc im a shithead. but i still really really love her ngl. she's a mean motherfucker, apparently her Joy was Stolen from her by her former friend who visited Ethel in the Feywilds often and regularly. One day she stopped showing up and Ethel found she couldn't smile or laugh anymore and blames her. What happened to the friend? Did she die? Did she really steal Ethel's joy and msile? Or is she a metaphor for the grief/loss of unresolved friendships? we may never know but i love her anyway, she sucks so much.

Aaron Chadwick: another motherfucker but in a totally different direction. Complete loser shithead who wants to kill all monsters because he wrongly thinks it'll get his family's approval, and is also just a general idiot. His brother is a sweet guy trying to turn him around but nothing gets thru his badly dyed head. Played him briefly for a lasers and feelings teen wolf off-shoot game, it was fun while it lasted.

Gabriel Barlow: REALLY REALLY HOPING TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER IN THE NEAR FUTURE. His backstory has changed a lot but i really like where its at now.

He's basically a country rock vocaloid in a cyberpunk future, often used by christian rock enthusiasts as well. A young fangirl is working on a dating sim fangame and downloads plugins to write his dialogue for her bc she's honestly not a huge fan of his character, but when she checks in on how his programming is going it turns out he's gained sentience and is quite a bit scared and begging to escape his cyber realty. The fangirl downloads him into a temporary mini bot, and later they upload him into the body of a cowboy animatronic and he really lives up to it, lots of johnny cash in his playlist. He's enjoying his new sentience and freedom, but the company that owns him isn't too happy about this development.

Originally there was going to be a lot more religious trauma, with a sister soundalike a la rin and len kagamine that continued to work as a christian rockstar despite Gabriel's pleas to come with him, but it didnt sit right with me and i like this backstory a lot more. I really should draw him, i think he's so fun.

Ceclia Hawthorne: Still working on this character a bit and she's kinda standard but I still think she has a lot of room for nuance. She's a pretty typical vampire who doesn't care about anyone but herself; her only goal in life is to turn her favorite cat immortal so they can live together forever. But I think that shows a lot about who she is, someone that is terrified to connect with others on a basic level bc she refuses to get attached to mortals anymore. She doesn't even want an immortal companion she can talk to, just an animal that she feels safe enough to bond with. and even that, when i played her for a Vampire: the Masquerade game, I kept forgetting the cat existed and I want to lean into that more. She has a thrall, a goth named Damien, that she seems to care about, to the point that she demands everyone to sing happy birthday to him, but she still keeps him distanced and below herself, even if she does eventually turn him. I made her long before I watched WWDITS but theres a lot of inspo from that in her, and I hope to play her long-term someday and have her overcome her fears and be vulnerable.

Reese Bennett: Not sure if this game will ever pick up agai but god i hope so. Reese is truly someone who never left their midwestern hometown, choosing a job at their parents failing home improvement store rather than make something of themself. They thought they were going to spend the rest of their life just getting high and working the cash register until their best friend Charlie from childhood came home and asked them for help on their documentary about rust belt poverty. The two have always got along and Reese doesn't begrudge Charlie for leaving for film school, but Charlie starts acting weird and drags them to unsual shoots that don't make sense, and Reese pulls away for their own safety. They regret it once Charlie goes missing and the police don't care enough to investigate, but Reese finds their camera and a note leading to a darkroom tucked into an abandoned warehouse that shows pictures of strange and bizarre creatures and things, things Reese had no idea existed til now. Reese is hellbent on finding Charlie, alive or dead, and I really like the idea of them find polaroids on their quest to further the mystery. My murdered in the darkroom playlist was made long before this character but its very fitting

i would like to know about the ocs 🫴🏽

bless you

ok I have way more than just these but these are the current standouts, maybe I’ll do a part 2 tomorrow bc i cant stop talking about my silly little guys

Emmett & Marasmus: Newest oc for dnd, pact of the undead warlock. Emmett was just living his life til he ate the wrong mushroom for dinner and it revealed itself to be a god named Marasmus that wants people to praise it, so it took over poor Emmett’s body and puppeted him around, turning his hometown into a cult. Emmett broke out of his stupor and escaped after nearly feeding a spore to his brother and he’s been running ever since, his body slowly being eaten by the monster that inhabits him. Also they bicker constantly, real Beacon and Duck Newton vibes.

Emmett is truly just some guy who doesn’t deserve to have this wannabe god parasite stuck to him but that’s how these things go. He’s so sweet and ofc he loves his family bc I’m predictable and make that a trait for nearly all my ocs. I tend to avoid family drama or at least do it in a different way than most people, in that I prefer my characters to be striving to get back home or avoiding going home because they feel they don’t deserve to be a part of their family anymore, but always always always they are loved despite everything bad they’ve done/think they’ve done. I really hope the game goes long enough to see Emmett get to hug his brother again and forgive his mom for not being able to help him, he’s the only one of my ocs who’s been wronged by his family and even then its neither of their fault. God he needs a hug so bad

Salem & Erin: god this guy is so fun. Salem is a skellington who started as a rich brat that got peer pressured into a ritual that makes you immortal, 40 years later he had a heart attack, died for a second, and then started rotting alive. He spent decades alone in his big mansion haunting his own halls, bored out of his skull. Occasionally people would come thru, be terrified by him or try to kill him, but largely he was just left there. It took him years to work up the courage to enter his son’s room and reminisce about him; he was married a long time ago, but as soon as he floated the idea of having his spouse and child go through the ritual too they up and left him.

Eventually a realtor, Erin, comes to the house to sell it, and she’s the only person who isn’t scared of him. It’s the first conversation Salems had in years and they become friends, her daughter Olivia makes clothes for Salem to disguise his form and help him gain the courage to leave the house more and more. Salem lets more people into the house, especially artists he really loves art, and eventually lets people live there while he moves in with Erin and Olivia once he feels safe enough to live among people again.

Originally Erin and Salem were supposed to just be friends but ofc I started shipping them and ughhh they make me insane. They’re both divorcees and have talked at length about how they’ll never make that mistake again, but Salems been in love with Erin since the beginning. And he’s the least subtle person on the planet so ofc everyone knows, including Erin and she’s just patiently waiting for the day when Salem admits how they feel, however long it takes. I made Salem for dnd and his quest is basically to find a way to undo his immortality, but tbh every time he joins a campaign it dies soon after so I think I want to try making a comic or a series of vignettes or something for him anyway, especially since I’ve had a lot of time to think about plot hooks and stuff.

this is the only fic i have them but i really love it please clap

Tillian & Somlen: The OCs of All Time. I literally have a tattoo representing them, they mean so goddamn much to me its hard to put into words like they changed me as a person. Somlen isn’t my oc, he belongs to my dm, but the two are so tied together and influenced each other so much it all kinda blends together.

Tillian is a haunted one bard who grew up in the town of Winslow, a little prairie town that had something Wrong in the well that caused all the sounds to warp. The crops whispered, the blueberries gossiped, her mom echoed, her dad sang, her brother spoke backwards, and when Tillian herself spoke everyone would hear something different (I had a d100 list for what they would hear). After someone disappeared while doing recon inside the well, the town boarded it up and went their separate ways. When Tillian’s family went to stay with her aunt, she said hello to her cousin and instantly killed him with her voice.

She went to bard college to help get her voice back, and as the game started she was simply looking for answers to why this happened and what caused it. She meets with the group, starts adventuring, and one fight goes so bad she gets fully 3 failed death saves killed. Something picks her out of the river of death and brings her back to life, and that’s when she buys a haunted doll, a homebrew item from TAZ that takes that final death onto itself.

As the adventurers leave town, she feels her bag moving on to find oh fuck the doll is alive and its an asshole. The doll says his name is Somlen and he was cursed after he slept with the wrong person. Tillian HATES this guy at first but ah fuck, if she dies he’s going to die in her place so she has to be more careful. And as she talks to him more, she starts to warm up to him. He cheated on his girlfriend and he’s the perfect picture of the horny bard trope, but he wants to do better and become a better person.

Things happen, yadda yadda, Tillian finds out the location of the hag that cursed him and they kill her, taking the curse away but Somlen is still stuck in the doll body, they need powerful magic to get him polymorphed back to human. The group decides to go to a city but, as a lark, one of the npcs decides to try her luck to change him back and she rolls a goddamn nat 20. Somlen is human again and oh god he’s in his birthday suit. While Tillian is in total shock, the group gets him clothed, Somlen jokes around and plays it cool up until he gets back to Tillian, who just. Wordlessly takes her signature scarf, the one her dad knit for her, and wraps it around him and hugs him. And it hits them both like, they did it, he’s safe, and Somlen would do anything for her and vice versa.

They go into the city where they get a clue to visit the outskirts where Tillian’s aunts house is, except its old, like really really old, all that’s left is a hole down into the basement. And when they get in, Tillian can feel something trying to communicate with her, and she learns this place is over 2000 years old and so is she. That night, when she sleeps, she wakes up inside the well surrounded by hundreds of faces and she knows every single one of them. The thing that lives in the well tells her to bring her friends back for it, and that’s when it hits her: This thing, the Uvuuduam, has been sending her out every hundred years to go collect a group of adventurers and bring them back to feed them to this monster. It controlled her into tracking down every villager of Winslow and throwing them down into the well, including her mom and dad and brother. She is as much the thing haunting her home as this awful creature is.

She wakes up, silently collects her things, and leaves everyone behind to spare them. They catch up, ofc, but she is desperate to spare them from this fate. She offers them a anti-scrying necklace so they can leave her and be untrackable, but no one agrees to take it, they’re all in it to save her much as she begs them not to. She is absolutely broken by this revelation, but the group and especially Somlen are there to hold her together.

They send some time leveling up and preparing to go to her town, and finally the day comes when they arrive. They go into the well and face the Uvuuduam, it’s a tough fight (we had a irl sleepover to play it all the way thru), but they do it and she severs this horrible things neck as she screams, her voice finally returning to her after all these years. Everyone in the well wakes up, she reunites with her family, and (this part always makes me cry) when she sleeps that night, it’s the first restful sleep she’s had in 2000 years. She and Somlen stay behind in Winslow, finally home.

Like. They are truly everything to me. They are foils in so many ways but it just makes them stronger. Tillian is an aromantic bard, helping me realize I myself am aro, and it always gets to me that she loved so fiercely and so much and it was used as a weapon against her, that the monster knew it could depend on her to make connections strong enough to make people willing to do anything for her and therefore bring back its food. She loves too much for her own good, but she’s safe now, she’s with her family and the people she loves and god forbid anything try to take advantage of her ever again.

Also these two are just funny. Two halves of a whole idiot. Tillian is a neurotic mess at all times, Somlen is full of himself, they’re life partners and also an inseparable comedy duo. They’ve seen each other at their very worst and choose each other without hesitation over and over. They’ve both had their free will ripped from them thru curses and manipulation and they vow to break the hold others have on them, they would tear the world in half if the other asked. And just. Tillian wants nothing more than to return home while Somlen runs as far away from his past as possible, but he finds a home in her and he helps her win back hers. They love each other and they are best friends forever :’) also I’ve written so many fics about them and I still have so many more I want to write lmao

[soliduslion]

Just wanted to put my thoughts here since there's no bettee place to put them. I finally beat Legend Of Zelda Majora's Mask today. It was a game I started years ago probably in early middle school. I had just beaten Ocarina Of Time and absolutely loved it. I remember putting in the cartridge in my dusty N64 and immediately smiling as that main menu music started. I remember being in absolute awe at the fact that Link would now do flips through the air as he jumped, and being amazed at becoming a deku scrub. I played for hours on end and loved every moment of it. But then i reached The Great Bay. And I was heartbroken as i tried for weeks on end to try and figure out where the eggs were. (I never knew about the entire fortress section) So I gave up. And played the game on and off for a few years. Until I just took a hiatus from it. But a few weeks ago I returned. The memories came rushing back to me and I was just so happy to hear that main menu music. I started up a new save file and told myself, "I will get through this." As I walked into Clock Town and saw it burst with life. couldn't help but smile as I heard its iconic theme.

I went through the parts of the game i previously completed relatively quick, getting myself the bunny hood as soon as possible (Wasn't gonna pass on the chance to go fast as frick) I went through the swamp, the mountains, upgraded my sword, collected masks and pretty much any other thing i could do to procrastinate on getting to The Great Bay. But eventually, I decided i couldn't wait any longer and hopped the fence with Epona. I turned into a Zora and immediately started swimming around just for the fun of it. And by complete accident, I found the fortress that escaped me all those years ago almost instantly. At that moment I knew with no doubt that i could finish this.

I finiahed The Great Bay and moved onto the Ikana Valley. And I was just so happy. It was an entirely new world i didnt even know existed in Majora's Mask, and it was mine to experience. I loved the dark yet silly vibes the skeleton army gave off, and was excited to see the Song Of Storms make a return. And then I climbed the cliff side and saw a house surrounded by bandage covered redeads on one side and a big door on the other. I walked past bpth of them into a cool looking cave in the back. (No way i want to go near any redeads after Ocarina Of Time) After leaving the cave i had brought flowing water back to this place, and made the music box that was the top of the house start working. And u just laughed a little to myself as i made the comparison to Super Mario 64's ghost house music, because they sounded so similar, but unlike its Mario counterpart, this one kept the ghosts away. I saw a scared little girl outside the house, and after a few attempts I was able to make it inside. I explored the house and saw what looked like a monster in a closet in the basement. But upon closer inspection, I realize, this isn't a monster. Its a man in pain. I play him a song to heal him and he's cured. His scared girl who was outside runs in and goes into her now cured Father's arm. And they're both there for each other. They were both put through so much pain, but they didnt care about in this moment. They were together now and that's what mattered to them. And watching that, i couldnt help but cry just a little.

I continued what may have been the hardest section in the game, but had a fun time doing it. There was even a cool giant monster fight where Link got to turn huge, and just like that, I was fully set to do the finale of the game. But i knew i couldnt do it yet. I had two more masks to get. It was time to do the famous Anju And Kafei quest.

I could speak for hours on this quest. (Kinda like how i spent hours figuring it out) But ill just basically say, it was a beautiful culmination of all the major townsfolk in Clock Town. It was great seeing more than the basic single side i saw in so many of them when i first started playing. I got the postman his happy ending of getting to leave town and got my second to last mask. Then I restarted the 3 day cycle and helped Kafei get his wedding mask back on the final day. I teleported back to town as the final countdown appeared at the bottom of my screen. As I waited for Kafei to get to his soon to be wife, i wandered around town. This was my first time actually comprehending what was happening to all these people. My heart dropped a little as I felt the dread for their world's end. They knew the moon was coming and there was nothing to do to stop it. I spotted Kafei and followed him to Anju. They had a heartfelt moment together and gave me the final mask. As this moment happened my sister was in the room. She asked why they dont try to escape the moon with the minute they have left. And it hits me like a punch to the gut. How much they love each other. That theyd rather spend their last minute alive just being together and accepting death, than to try to escape it. With this all in my head i played Song Of Time for the final time. I knew I had to prepare for the final battle.

I spent most of the last 3 day cycle filling my inventory and just messing around. As the clock struck midnight on the final day, I was already standing firmly in front of Clock Town's clock tower. I walk into battle and immediately summon the giants I freed throughout the game. They stop the moon and Majora's Mask falls from Skull Kid. All looks well and it looks like we can laugh it all off at first, but we see Majora's Mask rise with evil energy into the moon itself. Link decides to plunge head first into the moon to stop this evil. Inside the moon are children playing, who ask for the masks i collected throughout the game. I happily agree and am put through a series of mini dungeons. My reward for this is one last mask; the Fierce Diety Mask. I walk into the final boss with Majora and utterly destroy it with my new transformation. And like that the game is finished.

Skull Kid is shown to be who he always was; a lonely kid who missed his friends the giants. Anju and Kafei get their wedding. And Tatl gives Link a final farewell as he rides off on Epona.

I ussually dont do this kind of post, but I could go for hours on why i loved this game (I guess I sorta just did with how long I spent on this post.) The great combo of dark and light elements, the fun attitude of Tatl, the challenging and fun gameplay. Just how emotional the game could get without the beautiful cinematic cutscenes we have today is amazing. I beat it today. But the way it was beaten felt very special to me. Like a younger me passing the torch to the me of today. But anyways, i feel like ive rambled long enough and its getting late. Thanks to anyone who read this far, it means a lot.