#i got into terraria once again

[statesidesnake]

sometimes i wish i could be more affirmative with my gender...

anyways i hate terraria harpies so god damn much, like fucking things just float around like WHORES and shed their fucking blue ass feathers while im trying to build a pretty sky base or a boss arena and my poor minion daggers aren't even able to stop them from ramming me off the edge into certain* doom. (*i have wings, i'll be fine but still its such a hastle.) and don't even get me started on wyvern (more like WHYvern) this fucker will not apear in two whole days while im trying to farm soul of flight to test diferent wings UNTIL i fight a fucking boss and happen to go up more than 2 blocks in height from my arena at which point he is LOCKED IN like the fucking sniper to kfc on his shitty ass roofless car (like why are you even ridding that AS A PRESIDENT?!) and then he thinks "oh yeah dw boss, im on it." like bro isn't dying in 2 seconds after hitting me once and doing half of my hp cuz i play sorcerer like a dumbass.

[thatpointything]

I got more ideas for crossover Limbus Company EGO stuff, this time for Yi Sang.

Also, while I don’t have the stats and attacks nailed down, I have the names of the EGOs and their associated quotes (both normal and corroded) nailed down below. Sorry if the quotes are terrible as I made them after waking up.

Nanohazard Yi Sang (The Walrider (Outlast))

Normal: "Maintain opsecs, everyone. We're due to go into the red."

Corroded: "Scout the perimeter, then isolate the target. We will have the truth."

What I imagine the EGO art would look like:

Imparator Yi Sang (God-Emperor of Mankind (Warhammer 40,000))

Normal: "No enemy shall be beyond our wrath. This is not the end of our struggle."

Corroded: "I shall not rest until the last stone from the last church is cast down onto the last priest. Only then will humanity be truly free."

What I imagine the EGO art would look like:

Art by TazMan!

Software Mind Yi Sang (The System (SUPERHOT))

Normal: "Too slow. Goodbye."

Corroded: "IN TIME YOU WILL BE ME. AND I WILL BE YOU."

What I imagine the EGO art would look like:

Forever Feast Yi Sang (Grey Goo (Tasty Planet series))

Normal: “That’s enough. Your journey ends here.”

Corroded: “…Yummy…”

What I imagine the EGO art would look like:

Suspicious Looking Eye Yi Sang (Eye of Cthulhu (Terraria))

Normal: “Locked on target. There’s no escape for you now.”

Corroded: “I see you. On the other side of the screen.”

What I imagine the EGO art would look like:

Art by MoleyMacaroni!

Miracle Matter Yi Sang (Exo Mechs (Terraria Calamity))

Normal: “Systems online. Time to get down to business.”

Corroded: “We have waited long for this moment. We live once again.”

What I imagine the EGO art would look like:

Art by DivergentDraco!

[arachnovolt]

ArachnoVolt's 2024 Game of the Year List

The time has come once more! As the minutes tick away and the final hour draws near, I wanna shout out the best of best from my extensive laundry list of games that I played this year before we're once again reminded of the inescapable march of time. Counting only titles that released this year, I've played a total of 27 games this year with two of them being early access titles. It was hard to narrow it down but here's my list of the top 10 games I played this year.

10: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Before I say anything about the game, I gotta acknowledge that Ubisoft sucks. Not only for continuously chasing NFT and crypto shit, but for also being complicit in the systemic abuse and harassment of their employees. So I normally avoid Ubisoft titles but I found this used in a GameStop and picked it up cause I was craving a new metroidvania experience.

What I got was singlehandedly one of the best metroidvanias I've ever played in my entire life. The only reason it's not higher on this list are the reasons above. With fast paced combat utilizing one of the most satisfying parrys I've ever used, stunning environment and character design, a great story, and a massive map to map out and explore, it quickly became a stand out title for me. But what pushed it over the finish line was the accessibility options. It had most of stuff you normally expect (high contrast modes, difficulty toggles, etc) but the true stand out was a map marker that displayed an image of the location, giving you a visual reminder of exactly why you marked that spot. I highly recommend checking this out if you get the chance. Even if it means hunting down a used copy, this game absolutely deserves to be appreciated.

9: Minishoot' Adventures

If there's one thing I love more than anything, it's taking the mechanics of one genre and blending them into another. And that's exactly what Minishoot' Adventures is. This game is a Link to the Past style adventure game where you'll be exploring dungeons, collecting upgrades, and slaying bosses on a journey to save your friends. What makes it special is that it's a twin stick shooter meaning that your mid dungeon pick ups will be things like a wide shot attack or a screen clearing bomb. If you're interested in a dungeon crawler with a unique spin, Minishoot' Adventures will sure to leave you satisfied.

8: Core Keeper

One of my most played games of all time has to be Terraria. I love that loop of diving into dangerous caves to explore, mining for resources, and slaying bosses. Core Keeper is a game that asks the question "What if you never left the caves?". I had been following Core Keeper throughout its early access period but I finally decided to pick it up when it had its 1.0 release back in August. This game follows that same loop as Terraria and while I haven't played all too much of it yet, it's one of the few games that have tried to hit that Terraria loop and succeed just as well as they did if not equally so.

7: Nine Sols

Yep. We got another metroidvania on the list. Nine Sols gets a lot of chat from people talking about its Sekiro inspired combat and, while I think it's phenomenal, that's not the main reason I put it on my list. For me, the game's main selling point is the setting and presentation. The hand drawn animations and cutscenes help bring the story to life and make every action look and feel great. This game is also my first exposure to taopunk and from the early few minutes of the game, I was instantly invested. Check out Nine Sols if you wanna get lost in a sci-fi fantasy world like no other.

6: UFO 50

If you're up to date on conversations in the indie community, you've probably heard of this one. If you haven't, I'm thrilled to be the one to introduce you to this gem. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 games developed by a small team of different devs all contributing different kinds of games to the project. What makes it special is the narrative premise. UFO 50 is presents itself as an archive for a fictional and now defunct retro game studio and all the titles reflect that level of quality. This collection contains everything from puzzle games, platformers, strategy games, and even a full length exploration platformer and JRPG. I can't guarantee you'll love everything in this collection, but UFO 50 absolutely has at least one game that'll be your cup of tea.

5: Animal Well

Okay! Top five time! And the last metroidvania on the list. Animal Well is definitely the most interesting metoidvania on this list primarily because, rather than having a strong focus on combat, Animal Well is a massive puzzle box broken down into smaller ones that take up each individual screen of its sprawling map. Every screen transition presents another challenge to solve. Whether it's activating a platform, dispatching an dangerous animal, or collecting something you'll need for another puzzle later, Animal Well kept me guessing and thinking the whole way through. With secrets upon secrets upon mysteries upon challenges, Animal Well is definitely the game that put my brain to the test this year.

4: Another Crab's Treasure

I really want to like soulslike style games but I tend to not vibe with them for one main reason: I'm real bad at soulslike. It's not that I can't play them. It's that I hit a wall (and by wall, I mean a boss that snaps into me like a Slim Jim) and I just get frustrated and/or bored and move on to something else. Another Crab's Treasure is different in that regard by being the only soulslike I've played with options to make the game easy enough to manage difficult combat encounters while still maintaining a consistent challenge without ever making me feel like I'm lesser than for having to utilize those features. Hell, it actively encourages it by making one of the trophies directly tied to using one. On top of that, it's incredibly charming. Both the spoken dialogue and the random text all over the human debris littering the sea floor is absolutely hilarious. The environments and characters are vibrant and colorful. I'm constantly having a blast with Another Crab's Treasure. It's the first soulslike game I've ever played that feels like it wants to be beat it and is actively encouraging me to do it.

3: Sonic x Shadow Generations

Long before I would come to truly call myself a Sonic fan, Sonic Generations was my absolute favorite Sonic game. I still have my working PS3 copy. So you can imagine my delight when this got announced. But Sonic Generations isn't why this got my number three spot. It's Shadow's portion that truly elevates this package into becoming the best Sonic game ever made. Building on the fundamentals from Sonic Frontiers and covering the story of the titular hedgehog, Shadow Generations is the love letter to Shadow that he rightfully deserves.

2: Balatro

Let's be honest. Do I really need to write a whole paragraph talking about this one? Odds are that you probably ended a run right before you started reading this, plan on doing a run after this, or you know someone who falls into the first two categories that won't stop pestering you about it.

And before the coveted numero uno, let's take a little break for...

Most Disappointing: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind

Now this is the third year I've done this list so I wanna take a step back to provide context on this entry. I don't put games here because I think they're "bad". I think that's a reductive way of looking at stuff. Rita's Rewind isn't a bad game. The dev team have been very active and responsive patching major issues since launch and adding quality of life features. It's honestly really fun to play. So why is it here? Simple: Compared to other beat em ups out there like Streets of Rage 4, TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, and Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Video Game, it's really bare bones. All of the Rangers play the exact same. Same damage, defense, speed, etc. They even all use the same basic hand to hand combos despite them being shown to have their weapons. If you're a fan of MMPR, you'll enjoy it for the love and attention to detail it pays to the original series. If you're not a fan of MMPR however, there's a laundry list of more compelling beat em ups out there worth playing.

Honorable Mention: Fields of Mistria

So a rule I have for my list is that only games that hit a full release are eligible for a numbered spot. So while Fields of Mistria isn't a full release yet, it did launch in early access this year so it's eligible for this spot and it's rightfully deserved. What it lacks in gameplay content it makes up for with vibes alone. The 80s anime art used to bring Mistria's inhabitants to life looks great and even in its current state, every NPC's dialogue is varied and unique, making Mistria feel like a living town. Whether you're willing to deal with its growing pains or you'd rather wait for the 1.0 version, Fields of Mistria is one to keep an eye on.

And now, it's time for the moment you've been waiting for! It's ArachnoVolt's Game of the Year! A game that needs no further introduction! Say hello to...

1: Astro Bot

If you know me from any Discord/Guilded server, you probably saw this coming. And I wanna highlight something. I don't have a massive love for PlayStation. Out of the 92 different Sips referenced in the game, I've only played 4 of them so I don't praise Astro Bot for the references. I love platformers and I've been playing them for years. This might be one of the best ever made. Every single aspect of this game oozes passion, charm, and joy. The soundtrack is one of the catchiest I've ever heard. The way Team Asobi utilizes the all of the I can't say enough positive things about this game.

[frustrationinexcelsis]

I've started playing Terraria just a couple weeks ago, and it's extremely addictive.

Keeping the villagers happy and getting the pylon network running has been a fun challenge. The pets and slimes have been a big help in getting starter villages padded out.

Also, collecting the different slimes is pretty fun.

Inventory management has so far been the biggest hurdle, because there's a ton of shit to make or collect and I am a huge packrat. The flying piggy bank helps, as has digging out a storage basement the size of a house.

Words cannot describe the depths of my loathing for the underground desert and all of its misbegotten denizens. I have learned to hate antlions like I never have before.

So far I've got the Eye of Cthulhu, Slime King, the Brain of Cthulhu, and Skeletor under my belt, in that order. The Brain was easier than I expected; the grass blade made pretty short work of the orbiting eyeball thingies. I'll probably need to fight it again to get my gear fully upgraded.

The bee, though.

My God.

The fucking bee.

The Dungeon is... a lot. At one point like four of the fucking magic skeleton guys spawned in at once and I swear that I almost shit myself.

At least I got the magic missile wand from the latest foray down there. That one's fun.

[thespianinthebackcorner]

deranged community post

video game relationship chart/family tree but it's solely based on their fandoms relationships and not bound by the laws of parent companies. Thus:

Mario and Sonic are exes but they're still buddies and chill together

Legend of Zelda is in this weird toxic yaoi situationship with Genshin Impact where they get into fights and don't talk for months but they'll be kissing again two days after

Wuthering Waves, Honkai, and Genshin are all siblings that get into petty fights and are all jealous of each other

Zenless and Tears of Themis are their cousins that watch the drama and drink tea together

Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Donkey Kong and Animal Crossing are all a weird group of siblings

You'd think Splatoon is also their sibling, but no they're the girlfriend Animal Crossing picked up off the street and now has a surprisingly wholesome yuri relationship with

Halo and Splatoon are siblings that constantly forget about each other's existence and only see each other at family reunions

Halo has gone through relationships with like every other shooter fandom out there and is Definitely Not Jealous of the wholesome yuri

Animal Crossing is considered a sister in spirit by Stardew Valley and Terraria, who are in a massive worldwide polycule with every indie game out there ever

Minecraft was also once considered an indie in spirit but got kicked out

Hatsune Miku is also here under the Project games and just kinda shows up, she's buddies with Sonic but less so than you'd expect. She's just kinda there for fun and doesn't mind the drama (doesn't really talk to anyone either)

This also leads to recounts of inter-fandom events that read like this:

A couple years ago Genshin and Sonic got into a huge ass fight at the family reunion and then by the next reunion they were absolute besties and no one, much less Mario and Zelda, has any idea to this day what the fresh fuck happened.

(I was planning to put more here but I pay such little attention to interfandom drama I don't have a single other occurrence to interpret with this lense)

This is all dependent on what I've seen of everyone so if you know any of these fandoms better than I do, (to which the answer is yes you do know better tell me what you think) feel free to edit or add things I missed in the notes

[dark-overlord-of-rainbows]

Drawn Sept 25 2024 (vs at latest may 2018) Originals were done on my phone so it wasn't exactly up to par with my usual stuff at the time (colours were off, and I just had trouble drawing the shapes, and used a stabilizer iirc) but I thought I could try 'em again.

As you can see, neither character's changed much design-wise. I've changed details of Diera's (red hair) face a few times but nothing really stuck 'til now, and she became more red in 2020, I wanna say? She always had the bangs but I used to struggle with them and apparently didn't draw them in this 2018 one. Liliam's (blue hair) outfit changed colours a little bit. She used to always have a black shirt, although I think she more often had gray pants (or at least that's what she had in-game when I first made her) since her outfit was ripped from nepeta leijon. her hair got more cyan, longer, and less straight, and her eyes match her hair now mostly in 2022 But overall these are relatively minor, most interesting is their faces ig. I've never really changed my characters when redesigning them that much, and while I've retroactively added meaning to character design choices (ie. Liliam being a scientist was an idea I first had in 2019 and didn't even stick til 2022, but that's when I made that coat thing into her "lab coat" and later fleshed that out) I've never (maybe once) redesigned them to add anything to these characters in line with their new personalities.. I might do that eventually but there's a couple other designs I want to do first Anyway as for these drawings I wanted to try doing different angles than I normally do to make these more interesting looking, so I got some reference for that the new Diera drawing looks less like she's taunting you and more like she's bragging to someone else. you're not even worth it. You may also notice that sword on her hip on the new drawing does not match with her at all because of the colours, and you'd be correct it is not hers, it belongs to Miles (which I should give a proper design to his sword as well, I didn't really think about it when I first drew it. I haven't actually posted that drawing on here). It is also kinda tacked on and the perspective is probably off but ignore that part I do not know why the old drawing of Liliam has this weird, choppy hair. I can't tell if it was intentional or I was that bad at drawing short hair (I do know earlier that year I avoided giving characters short hair for that reason). And I think it was just a screen colour calibration issue/colour filter I forgot to turn off but holy shit her face? "We found a fucking ghost and decided the best course of action is to badly paint on blush" I mentioned "in-game" earlier, these guys were originally made in Terraria. The thing Liliam is holding was supposed to be based on the Nebula Arcanum, although in the original I could not pull up reference. I just kept it pink here cause it would be kinda complimentary to her forest green/cyan

[unma]

hello im here to learn about the gideon naming reason

also yeah, machines are the coolest and I love them dearly 🤝

Okay so this is a rather simple one but one that gets a little laugh outta me when I think about it. Alright. Remember this guy?

Him. Yeah. Gilbert. The absolute monster that he is. We all hate him. Some of us hate hate him. I hate hate hate him, especially because Pholia and Echidna did not deserve the shit he put them through.

yeah.

I've mentioned it occasionally, but I am absolutely awful at remembering faces and names. I remember people more often by what they wear, their hair color and how they act and so on, and the same applies to characters. But this means that I will go "Oh, them," give an entire rant about why I want a character dead, and then proceed to not remember their name properly.

And because of that, I once called him Gideon. Specifically when @ashmonarch and I were discussing his Proud quest.

Ever since I made this mistake I have swapped between Gideon and Gilbert for him in my head, entirely by accident and also because I can't be bothered to actually remember his name properly. My hatred for him means I will never actually remember his name proper, and even if I do, I will swap out of spite just cause.

Anyway, my current laptop has been a pain in the ass ever since I got it (like, I literally spent an hour troubleshooting its audio the moment I got it) and is just... worse than my previous one in every way. No touch gestures, two charging ports and both are acting up, it also came with Win 11 which I despise (I never updated my older laptop) and seemingly runs worse than my previous laptop that had half the RAM. No, seriously. 16 gigs of RAM and I can't even play HI3 at a manageable framerate (and I played terraria for years at, like, 10fps, so I have low standards for that) if it even runs at all. Did I mention this thing has no touch gestures? That's so dumb. How am I supposed to use a laptop like that. Also, the function and control keys are swapped. Also, some of the keys have stopped working for no discernible reason, and I might have considered taking this thing to a repair shop or something, if I didn't just want it replaced in general. Oh yeah, no touch gestures. Did I mention that? Not only does that mean I can't use the touchpad as well as I did on my old laptop, the fucking right click button came off at some point and now I have to deal with awkwardly pressing the little circle button inside i. Which, again, wouldn't be a problem with the right click. Also the case is screwed in weirdly for some reason so I couldn't take off the back without fear of damaging it for a good while. Also this thing has bricked on me twice in the last couple of months. For literally no reason. Like it bricked a couple days ago because I tried to restart it. Literally fine 5 minutes ago and then that happens. Okay. Also the function keys are weird (I don't care about this one, it's fine actually, and useful in some places).

I think that large block of text of complaints says enough. I've been procrastinating getting it replaced, but only because I'm a tad busy atm. But in the meantime, having to deal with this hunk of junk means I've grown quite a dislike for it, especially because being a computer science major means I need a reliable computer. Also having it brick on me randomly when I want to write is not ideal.

I hadn't named laptops before, but then I saw someone I follow do the same and thought, huh, that's neat. So I bestowed upon this laptop the name that comes up when I think of things I hate. Gideon. I mean Gilbert. Well, maybe if Gilbert wasn't such an asshole he'd get his name actually properly used, but I hate him so it's Gideon.

And that's the story behind how I named this laptop Gideon.

Extra Gideon hate from when I was liveposting to discord about that arc (and a bit more from after) under the cut:

In general, my opinion on Gilbert comes down to this:

[belongsinthetrash]

What interesting things have you gotten interested in, in these past few interesting months, my interesting friend

Well, well-well-well-well, welllllll, a few thing-a-ma-bobs. But it's mainly been 4 fandoms that have come and intergrained themselves in my grey matterspace.

Disco Elysium is pretty obvious with some of my recent posts, BUT I've really only gotten 5 or so hours into my first playthrough so far and from what I can guess, it is nowhere near the end for me. I'm gonna try and get back to it sometime soon, but it's just been a case of notyet getting into the mindset to play a deeply written detective-human psychology-political story novel, to the surprise of myself. It's highly enjoyable, don't miscontrue my words, but it's an undertaking.

Speaking of politics, guess which underwater, steampunk, civil war simulator franchise I've played and has shot to the top of favorite games of all time? Yeah, Bioshock 1 and 2 had knocked my socks off with their presentation and story than I had first expected. I knew the games were classics, but I had just thought they wouldn't interest me since I'm kinda lukewarm on the steampunk genre admittedly. But Rapture as a whole had made me engrossed with every inner working and system in the sunken city, not withstanding the competing and aggressive interactions between the personification of political stances called Andrew Ryan, Sofia Lamb, and Frank Fontaine. Lovely games and my heart is sent to every Big Daddy and Little Sister down there, specially Delta.

Oh, and Infinite? ...i-it's fine. Like, I liked looking at the grim alternate history of Columbia (which is another reason Rapture had grabbed me) and I got used to the gameplay and feeling of being akin to Half-Life 2, but the ending kinda fell super flat on me and I wasn't a fan of how they intergrated parallel worlds into the story. And less said about Burial at Sea, I'll give you as many sugardoodles as need be.

Now back to our normal scheduled program, and by normal, I mean bizarre. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Good segueway, I know. But yeah, Jojo has occupied a lot of brainspace in me too recently, which is rare for an anime to do so for me. But fuck me, did the story grip me by Part 2. I had felt like it had finally start to get it's narrative grip by the time I had seen the Pillar Men emerge to be cool, strong, honorific yet bastard vampire dudes. It may have also been the gay talking and Joseph being iconic. But what sucks about my situation is that I'm not far into Part 3 because I've been watching through it on a friend's behalf and her schedule hasn't aligned for it for the past month, so I'm stuck in a purgatory of waiting to get the full context of scenes through the actual story while I tiptoe around spoilers when watching content made by Jojo fans, and it kills me more when I slowly feel like I'll fucking ADORE Parts 5, 6, and 7 when I get to it! Basille, you bitch (affectionate), WATCH JOJO WITH ME!

Ahem, sorry bout that, let me get to the last thing right quick. Risk of Rain was yet another thing recommended to me by a friend and I've had my fair share of enjoyment playing through both of the games. The first game's style is wonderfully Terraria feeling for a guy that knows that Terraria is not my speed in the slightest, and I had a fair bit in fun in completing the game with every survivor. Risk of Rain 2 has been even more fun but also more infuriating as another result, since I really like the transition into 3d and how the game feels much more smoother to play, but I've grinded myself at trying to beat the game even once after 30+ attempts that it has burned me out even when I get a good run. Maybe it's just because I complete stages too slowly, but I can't help but wanting to complete shit. I've gotten to Mithrix once and have been waiting to taste that wonderful feeling again. And what is another kick in the pants is how RIsk of Rain Returns has released but isn't on consoles beside the Switch and I want it!

Oh, and I don't know if I had said this outright, but I had seen Ultrakill about a year ago and have been still into that, but even moreso now, soooo I guess that counts?

[chaotic-and-mentally-ill]

Welcome To The Blog (Again)

I've remade this so many times at this point it's insane.

Greetings, my name is Angel (He/They) and I am the main mod of this blog (and also the main user). This used to be a ask blog run by two people, me and Bambi ( @pjofan10042 ). If they wish to reblog this and add onto it, they may. I come on here pretty often, and I have some pretty bad insomnia and sleep schedule, so don't be surprised if I'm on at 2am. I got off of Mountain Time zone, if that helps. Please respect that I will not be sharing my age publicly and I would like it if we can please keep it this way! If you know my age, keep it to yourself.

[More information under the cut]

- I am an artist and writer and I mostly write fanfiction for what ever my hyperfiction is. I post fanfiction on AO3 and post my art here. I also occasionally work with my hands and make things such as jewelry boxes, fairy bottles, clay sculptures and dishes, and many other things. - I own a lot of pets and have a huge love for animals and probably know way to many facts about them. - If you give me the chance I can and will info dump. But only if it's ok with you, of course. - I use headcannons as a way to get closer to my favorite/comfort characters. It can/is a coping mechanism. It's ok if you don't like my headcannons. -I use tone tags if I feel my tone is unclear, and I'd prefer if you use them back. Or use a different form of showing tone over text if possible. - I am an undiagnosed neurodivergent person (as far as I'm aware, currently working on getting tested for ADHD ^^") who struggles with server anxiety and trauma. I am a very socially awkward person especially online. Please be patient with me and inform me if I have made a mistake. - I am in multiple fandoms, although I don't plan to bring anything up anything past Pg-14, I may talk about Helluva Boss or Hazbin Hotel once in a while. Though that may be rare. - I love horror games, including phycological horror. Anything that can scare me I tend to adore a lot! Some of my favorite games are Sally Face, Omori, and Fran Bow. But I also enjoy simple games like Just Shapes And Beats, Placid Plastic Ducks, Wobble Dogs, Cult Of The Lamb, Stardew Valley, Terraria, The Henry Stickmin Collection, Goat Simulator, Sonic Adventures 2, The Murder Of Sonic The Hedgehog, Pokemon, ect

-I love cartoons and some of my favorites are My Little Pony, Bluey, 2012 and 2018 (Rise) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokemon (again), The Owl House, Amphiba, ect

Any questions? Just ask, I'd love to answer if it's not to personal! . . .

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☕ Do not act inappropriate or in mature.

☕ Inform the mod(s) if there is a problem, and be kind about it. Do not come kicking down my door and scream. That will only cuase lots of stress and anxiety.

☕ You can give collective criticism and input, but only to mod Angel! (unless mod Bambi says otherwise) ☕ Don't ship children. Period.

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☕ Be a respectful human being :] . . .

This next part will talk about triggers and DNI (Do Not Interact). Continue with caution.

DNI - T/cest supporter (or support in/cest in general), non/con, pro/con Pro/shippers, ya know what? anti/shippers you too, Homophobic/Transphobic/agents LGBTQ+ in general, racist, sexist, anti furry, NSFW, and anything of the like. Triggers - Self harm, Suicide, Eating Disorders

[psychodon525]

I organize it all by having separate windows for each thing. I have a window with 6-20 tabs open for each game I'm currently playing (And I don't close the windows because I'll be picking up the game again soon, and it's nice to just have the window open.) I also have one window that's just 10-20 tabs of youtube videos I want to watch (Since my Watch Later playlist has several hundred videos in it, and I'll never actually get to any of that.) And of course a general browsing window, with 5-20 tabs in it, depending on what niche deep dive I may be going through at any given moment. This window also sometimes winds up with tabs that SHOULD be in other windows, but which I think I'll be closing fairly quickly, and usually I do.

All in all, it would be an issue if I didn't have the Auto-Tab-Discard extension on Firefox, which "closes" tabs that aren't actually doing anything and haven't been opened for a certain amount of time. Having ADHD means if I close those tabs, they'll leave my brain forever, and I'll never be able to remember that I'm even forgetting about a website or tab I had open, let alone which specific one it is.

More under the thing.

You might say "Oh but Don, why not just 'bookmark all tabs,' then you can close the window, and get back to it when it's relevant" and you're right! Except that I've done that several dozen times, and now my bookmarks folder is full of folders and sub-folders of various tabs from various sessions, and I can never remember which ones are even relevant enough to want to check, let alone actually reopen.

Having windows of tabs is actually much better for my workflow and for my browsing, because I can quickly open one of the windows to remind myself of what I've been doing, and decide if I have the energy or desire to go back to it right now. You might look at the number and say "Holy shit, this window has 70+ tabs open right now? That's so many!" But what you don't understand is that each of those tabs are 'the items I'm missing in Terraria right now, and I can close each tab once I get the item, like a checklist, and also these tabs have convenient crafting recipes on them too.' Like, yeah maybe I don't need them RIGHT NOW, but I'm gonna need to refer back to them every once in a while, and it's good to have them all accessible, rather than trying to rely on my shit memory.

Each of those 70+ tabs barely actually means anything specific. You're seeing a really big number, but what that number represents is different in every window. And it's not like I have 70+ different websites all for completely different reasons. In this window, I've got 70+ for basically the same purpose.

And even if I did... so what? I've got thousands of bookmarks, I've got a couple hundred tabs open, and the frequency with which I need to open new tabs every time I sit down at my computer goes way down when I've just already got them open. And they don't bog down my computer, because auto-tab-discard has my back.

I just don't see the issue there. For myself, opening every youtube video I want to watch in a separate tab, then closing the tab when I'm done watching, is satisfying. For you, putting them all in Watch Later, then going through that playlist, is satisfying. Or maybe you just watch one video at a time, click on it, watch all the way through, then find another to watch. Everyone is different, and that's all valid in my opinion. You're just looking at a big number without understanding what the number means, and deciding that because it's different, it must be indicative of an underlying problem.

I'm sure OP is a perfectly fine person, but it just has that hiiiiint of ableism, which masks itself as "some people sure are WEIRD, aren't they!" A lot of people on the spectrum or who have ADHD got bullied for being weird and different, not because people identified that their behaviour was due to their neurodivergency, but just because things they did were "weird."

But like again, OP has clearly ALREADY done a ton of learning, just in making this post, and they are CLEARLY making a joke with things here. But I guess despite that, I still felt slightly misunderstood and attacked, and felt like I needed to defend myself. I hope that's okay, and I also hope I've imparted some amount of understanding of myself onto you. Thanks for reading <3

when you are done with a tab you can close it. every browser in the world has a feature that lets you open recently closed tabs. also there is browsing history. need to visit a webpage often? may i introduce you to the bookmarks feature. there’s no reason to leave your tabs open. hoarder behavior.

[d-tergent]

I was talking with my brother about live service games. And despite his (and to a lesser extent, my own) interest in getting into one of these, I think the kind of game he's looking for doesn't exist He's understandably frustrated at Valve's lack of content updates for TF2. I've told him about Deep Rock Galactic and Warframe, but he doesn't seem interested in either. FF14 fell off in our friend group a while ago, but I don't personally know why. He's played Splatoon but wasn't interested in getting into comp at all. Both of us wrote off Destiny. Risk of Rain 2 got borked by the corporate shift, and Returns didn't stick. Fighting games never stuck either (Rivals of Aether lasted the longest). Terraria got left behind. Sky didn't stick after beating the game once, but that one at least makes sense. SMITE couldn't escape enshittification. My friend group even played SRB2Kart for a while, and when I showed Ring Racers to the group, excited about a brand new free game with friends, all I got was silence. Minecraft ended up being pretty turbulent in our friend group, even when changed with mods. Some of the others insisted we have a permanent server, even having the members pay a portion of the server costs, instead of using something like Essential to host games for free. All this really did was have people (me and another online friend) who played almost every day, making heaps of progress where others would only play on the server a single time, or stop playing after the first couple days. Like really, I think during one period we did the entirety of the Twilight Forest mod (and a ton of building with Create) before a third person entered the server again.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, I think I've grown distant from my main friend group and it's made me a bit sad. Whenever I'm talking about games I'm playing and enjoying I simply am ignored, and it's not like the server has no activity ever. When I get into gamedev proper, I want to do what Hopoo did with risk of rain 1, which was make that hangout game for their friend group, whatever it may end up being. For now though, he plays Overwatch, not my first choice personally, but he's given me an invitation to join, so I'll roll with that I suppose.

[bulletsmustdie]

hello there.... welcome!

my name is BULLETS, i'm a 16 year old freak who likes music probably a bit too much for my own good. i go by any pronouns!! just preferably he/they. australian right here... and no. i do not ride kangaroos to school. no tone tags needed or used, if i really feel i should use them i will. thanks!

NOW!

what am i doing here on tumblr?

i am an artist. i draw things and sometimes animate things. this blog will also probably contain a lot random ass posts from me. like project designs and stuff, this'll be sort of like an art journal for me.

what kind of stuff do you draw?

i draw a lot of different things. im a huge bandom fan, i'm in tons of diffferent fandoms for bands, mainly my chemical romance. most of the art that i post on social platforms are rough sketches and 'memes'? if that makes sense. i do create official works and have done so for a while, they just aren't as frequent as i'd like them to be.

any warnings/other things we should know before following?

mostly just profanity warnings as in language, blood and gore might be present sometimes but not always. my art changes a lot, like a lot a lot, including my style and colouring patterns, so not everything i do is in concrete. thats why i dont usually make official pieces of work. i love experimenting with my work :)

cool! are asks/commissions/requests open?

yes! commissions are open at the moment, aswell as asks. requests are a bit iffy but if i feel like it i will. so lets just say asks are half half. if you want my commission info, dm me! i'm happy to answer any questions about it. i can draw just about anything but nsfw and extreme gore.

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i've got tons and tons. so many its insane.

bands im into: my chemical romance, brand new, nine inch nails, foxing, car seat headrest, born without bones, madonna, joy division, she wants revenge, modern baseball, soul asylum, paramore, pierce the veil, slipknot, jeff buckley, the smiths, frank iero, linkin park, radiohead, foo fighters, heart attack man, leathermouth, weezer, basement, fall out boy, the hotelier, new order, no doubt, pink floyd, the caretaker (💀), sports., the used and sooooooo many more........

games:

lethal company, minecraft, undertale, silent hill, terraria, phasmophobia, fran bow, and just a lot of random games you can find on itch.io are usually super fire

other random interests:

i play guitar, bass, drums and i sing. i absolutely love to jam and if you wanted you could check out my spotify profile if you were more curious as to my music taste :

@ bassdaddy07 @ (my spotify) .

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my dni list.

BASIC DNI STANDARDS!!!!! no weirdos. if your a weirdo get the FUCK out of here!!!

if i feel like youre creepy and weird, you're blocked. also just a quick clear up, i say like "youre done" and "yorue blocked" a lot as a joke, you'd be able to tell if i actually mean it tho. anyways.

thats about it!!! i think.... have a lovely day and once again....

WELCOME!!!

[moonoo-yaps]

since my friend was on holiday (so I havent opened the calamity terraria server) I've gotten back into the hades brainrot lmao

I've just tried a boonless run (only done it once before but it got ruined at the end bc I had bad rng and had to take one hermes boon in the last area :') and I died anyway so uh) and it's kinda fun idk if I'll do it again tho

in my casual runs (in general) I get sub20 and usually my time is maybe 15-17mins anyway (beat time so far is 12:55) so my boonless run was a little on the slower end (17:56 igt) but that's mostly just bc rng fucked me over at the end fjdjfkdjdj

I wanna try more challenges and stuff since now it's mostly just a grind to 100% everything else (already got max keepsakes, skellys prizes, + all the prophecies and achievements) but idk I don't really care for getting specific boons (like the all revenge build which does sound kinda fun in theory but idk) so probs will just mess around with trying to get used to playing on higher heat ig

[rapifessor]

As you might have guessed by my lack of Genshin-related posting in recent times, I'm barely playing the game anymore. Still logging in daily, but only for Daily Check-In, Expeditions, Daily Commissions, and claiming Battle Pass rewards, which takes all of about 15 minutes. And my dissatisfaction with the game's content direction has been made rather clear, I'd say.

Something I have been really into, on the other hand, is Skyrim. As a Skyrim on Switch enjoyer, I was really excited when Anniversary Edition came to the platform in September last year. At the time though, I was seriously bummed out by the frankly unacceptable framerate issues and dropped the game for a while. Those issues have since been fixed, however, so I got back into the game and have really been enjoying it.

The Switch version still has some somewhat significant problems, but thankfully they don't affect what I do all that much. There's an issue that, bafflingly, has existed in the game since Anniversary Edition was released that makes it impossible to gain ownership of the only player home on Solstheim, Severin Manor. It's the most convenient location for crafting endgame gear, but that's all I really used it for, so not having it just means that crafting endgame gear is a bit more annoying than before.

Since I got back into the game, I've completed an alchemist/poisoner character and have made significant progress with a stealth archer "kill every NPC in the game" character. The way I play Skyrim is similar to the way I play Terraria: several playthroughs with different characters using different builds. I tend not to do much after that, sadly, as by the time I've completed a build there's usually no more challenge to be had, even on the highest difficulty setting.

This stealth archer thing might be an exception though as I'm having loads of fun with it. Yes, I know, it's essentially the basic bitch of Skyrim character builds, but it's the one I have the most fun with. I enjoy being able to relax and play the game at my own pace with a build that rewards precision and careful positioning/planning.

So I think I’ll probably post some more about Skyrim in the future, at least until I get tired of it again, which hopefully won't be for a while. I've got other builds I want to try, one of which is an actual melee build for once. I've never taken one to completion because, frankly, early game melee sucks ass in Skyrim, but I should do one if only for the sake of not doing yet another stealth or magic build.

[unma]

3 8 25 :]

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

Three artists come to mind when I think about artists I found this year: mekaloton, KAT and tanger. I'm not sure who out of these three I'd say is my favorite, though tanger does have that recency bias helping her music lol.

Tanger's prefer not to say album is awesome, give it a listen. I specifically found it through womp womp (I actually posted it on here as soon as I found it, that was how quickly it got me hooked).

I haven't listened to mekaloton in a bit, because I'm going through that bit of time where I stop listening to much new music because I don't have the energy to give them the focused first listens I think they deserve. So I'm only going to bring up somewhat older releases. Their Coordinate Shift cover is fucking awesome. (Oh yeah, I love Ferry too, but I discovered Ferry a long ass time ago. Go listen to Ferry's music too though). Corpse Astronomy and Machina are great, but Only Game in Town is so fucking good. Oh wow I'm having memories of playing gbf just listening to it. I must've had this playing in the background a lot.

KAT makes great music, alas due to the previously aforementioned state I'm in, I haven't listened to their newest release. I have listened to Self Proclaimed Angel and Dizzy Paranoia Girl more times than is normal. It's really obvious why for the latter if you listen to it. Ha.

Mentioning here because it'd be a crime if I didn't: I recently discovered Utsu-P and yeah. Disappointed in myself for never listening to their music before now.

8. Game of the year?

When did I start playing Terraria again?

In all seriousness I don't play new releases enough to have a strong opinion on games and the like. Partly due to not having an income source of my own.

I'm looking through all the games I've talked about recently and wow. Uh. I don't get into new games often, do I? I'd say mouthwashing, but I've yet to actually watch the playthrough yet (I always remember when I'm busy) so I can't really say that. ...I've been watching copious amounts of Among US content! Money Monday's are fun. But that a game from like, 2020? 2018?

Yeah I don't know.

25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

Oh here's my excuse to talk about Observer!Frisk (henceforth referred to as Ai)! She's existed for a lot longer than a year, but I first put down art of her this year and only posted about them after so I'll count it.

Observer!Frisk is in simple terms a Core!Frisk swap. Of sorts. He's still a Core Frisk, but I refer to them as a swap because they came about as a result of me making Ink and Error swaps and realising I needed a Core!Frisk to accompany them.

I love Ai, there is something deeply wrong with them and they refuse to acknowledge it ever. Sure, your need to obverse literally everything and everyone you can doesn't come from your crippling worry about your lack of control. Granted, said worry comes from the fact that they once had that control (a la time powers) and lost it due to their own mistakes, so it's to be expected when they relied on said control as a crutch.

I mean, all their friends are in the void now, save for Sans, who by their own actions is now an Error, and his clone consumes alternate universes chasing a method to stave away his complete lack of feelings, so she's got a lot of baggage. God. When you put it like that I understand why he's like this.

Also doesn't help that they inherited the disattachment that one treats their experiments with from Gaster. I suppose it's easy to take up such an attitude when you can treat all the people you know like characters in a visual novel.

They make have done a paci-neutral route and done everything they did for the sake of reaching a happy ending, but I would hesitate to call them a good person, per se. They are driven by perfectionism (what they really wanted was a perfect ending after all), and now that their attention is turned to observing and telling stories, that does mean they're willing to do anything to ensure perfect endings and complete control.

Well, they're not the worst. Or they wouldn't still have the entire Underground backing them after what happened.

Don't ask them about their face. You'll get away with it once or twice, but push them on it and you might find out why you never mess with the smiling all-knowing types.

I have a tag for them too! Should be #observer frisk, I think.

[snooty-tooty]

There was this terraria challenge of like hide and seek but also trying to beat the game (the game was beaten once you entered hell.) I was a seeker, and I had the restriction of only using knife weapons. I ended up finding one of the hiders and killing them, meaning I won. Then it switched to the real world where I was showing off my collection of knives from the game.

We decided to play again, but this time my restriction was to only use balls. Instead of playing the game again, the game was to pop balloons in a Christmas dining room. I bounced (and floated with) a yoga ball but didn’t pop any balloons.

Then, a guy appeared, and helped me pop all the balloons by squishing them against the ceiling. I thanked him but then he was like “I have to secure the area,” and pulled a 2D Lego car out of his hammer space. He then summoned a giant Lego ancient Chinese battle ship for me to ride.

We arrived at his palace (a rundown wing of the mansion) and I knocked on the door. He told me that his entrance was actually the red plastic chair. When he touched the chair it changed into a blue slide going into the wall. So I got on the slide and slid into his lair.