#i haven't played any of the dungeons

[aparticularbandit]

If I like a game enough, I will end up pouring thousands of hours into it anyway. (Looking at you, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Banjo-Kazooie (and Banjo-Tooie), all of which are comfort games.)

...even if those thousands of hours aren't necessarily game play. (Looking at you, Doki Doki Literature Club, and the hours of theories and other people's let's plays and headcanoning and writing.)

Reviews of soulslike-type games can be tricky to interpret because a big chunk of the soulslike fandom can't seem to distinguish between "difficult" and "time-consuming", so you basically have to guess whether "the bosses are too easy" means they actually pose no execution challenges, or whether it just means it doesn't take twenty fucking minutes to wear down their health bars.

[neriyon]

For the FFXIV ask thingy: 8, 14 & 20~

Ohh nice, a triple~

8. Biggest Accomplishment?

This is a hard one since I don't do any savages or extremes or any of the "hard" endgame content people usually say as their big accomplisments haha. So I guess uhh, idk, getting all jobs to 90 during EW? (six to go till all jobs at 100) Or that 5000th commendation I got last month? Figuring out how to do old content (and maps) with just the 3 of us? Still playing this game after 5 years?

14. Favorite Raid?

Alliance one? One of the Nier raids, probably Copied. Ridorana, Orbonne and Aglaia are good too, but there's just something that sparks joy whenever I see Nier raids come up in roulette.

8-man ones? Uhhh..... Pandae 9 (Kokytos) or 11 (Themis)? P4 (Hesperos), 6 (Hegemone) and 7 (tree) were nice too, and I kinda still like getting Eden Titan on rouls.

20. Favorite Limit Break?

Hmm, summoner one is very neat! Not that you get to use it that often, but it's fun to finally become Bahamut.

Fav tank one is drk, melee on is ninja (*angrily does really fast hand signs at you*), ranged is bard (its the bow at the end) and healer is whm. Almost all of them are good tho, only ones I'm meh about are the more "boring", non flashy ones (pld, mnk, sam)

[sunlitmiracle]

smashes my current interest together with my old interest (aka yet another "what Dungeon Meshi but Gamers?" AU)

Once when I was a child I had a complete crying meltdown over Creatures, because the manual insisted that the complicated AI of the Norns made them truly alive and 10-year-old me was freaked out at the idea of being solely responsible for making sure these real animals wouldn't die. The funny part was that this was the Playstation version of Creatures, which has no biochemistry and very basic AI compared to the PC/Mac games where players actually were debating whether or not it was true artificial life. A PSX manual gave me existential dread and it wasn't even telling the truth.

Anyway, kid!Marcille would also have a meltdown over the Creatures series, especially if she had the computer games and got to see how vastly different some breeds' lifespans are. Like in C2 where you have Norns that live for around 5 hours and Norns that live for 10, both of which are vastly more than Ettins who don't even live for 1.5 hours (and usually less due to radiation or starvation).

Lucky for her, having the computer version means she could download modified genomes made by other players that make creatures live longer or even outright remove certain death triggers. However I think she'd have more fun learning to read and edit the genomes herself, to get a better understanding of how the game works and how to change it to suit her own tastes. And because she could pretend she's one of the mysterious ancient Shee who created the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and then vanished, leaving behind relics of their old society.

(Speaking of Grendels, she would unfortunately dislike them because they're the Designated Evil Species and she'd hate how they harass and attack her Norns. I think she'd also pity them though, because they get sick a lot and have short lifespans. Likely she'd just end up downloading/creating a genome without the aggression towards Norns. Ettins she'd like except for in C3 when they dismantle her meticulously-placed gadget setups, so she might mod out their hoarding compulsions too. Both of them would of course also live for however long her Norns would live.)

Also. While standard creatures' lifespans are counted in hours, if you modify the half-lives in the genome editor you can increase it to centuries. Or even just over a millennium if you set the half-lives to their max length (assuming you also leave the old age death trigger at its vanilla value).

and I like to think that elven Creatures players would pass around copies of what they consider a template genome that's appropriate to their own lifespans. Something that would make their creatures live for weeks or months of continuous play. I also like to think the Creatures DS Warp is still active in this AU because of the hilarious frustration when these long-lived Norns travel to worlds run by short-lived players whose Norns have vanilla lifespans, and vice versa.

(Most of the time in Creatures, offspring of parents with different lifespans will just have one or the other, but there's a chance the genes cross over right in the middle of the various age triggers and cause unstable aging rates. Like a Norn that goes through the childhood stages in hours but then has a very extended adulthood. Or a days-long childhood followed by suddenly dropping dead of old age once the vanilla adulthood genes kick in. Or, if the child has one parent's half-life decay rate and the other parent's age triggers, all sorts of odd things could happen. I once had hybrid Norns who lived for 20 hours and would die of organ failure before reaching the old age threshold!)

(Now that I think of it, Marcille would absolutely hate fast-agers. The first time she watches a creature hatch, turn old, and die in just one brief minute of life, she would be sobbing for days. One of the first things she'd learn to mod out would be mutations that cause the Ageing/Life chemical to decrease unusually fast.)

On a lighter note, while I don't know what her favorite designs would be I think she'd love choosing cute breeds to use in her world. Once she figured out how to give her creatures the comfortable life she wants them to have I can see her redirecting all her gene-editing efforts into changing color expressions. She might even learn to sprite or model her own custom designs.

[lovely-v]

it's crazy how skyward sword is becoming my favorite zelda game despite the fact that I've spent 2/3 of my time playing it suffering unbearably

[marble-running]

One of my favourite things about Hades is how they gave Theseus those pro wrestler vibes

[maareyas]

ok im actually rly sleepy so ill make my pmd: gti thoughts quick.

For reference, I played the first 2 pmd games on the DS when I was younger. Explorers in particular I played 2.5 times with Time, Darkness (a bit, to see version differences), and Sky (obsessed, changed my brain chemistry)

Overall, I think GTI is a decent game but it is heavily bogged down by how uneven the level balancing is. And maybe also the dungeon maps, but I don't remember enough about the maps from the previous games to say if it's a valid criticism of gti specifically.

GTI's greatest strength is its narrative and themes imo. I think it handled its themes really well, and boy did I feel targeted ✨ (in a good way!)

I also think gti has the strongest characterization in the series when it comes to the Partner Pokemon ✨ They feel more compelling and solid than the Partners in the first two games. GTI actually made me feel separation anxiety during a certain point in the game, and its ending hurt me more because it felt more personal 😭

[its-fjori]

Forcing myself to learn the Narcissus addon just to appease the monkey in my brain who won't shut up about Dungeon Meshi

[possumkingluca]

So I've realized something... Because my party's kind of base of operations right now is my character's house (because where else are we supposed to keep all these fucking people when the DM STEALS OUR AIRSHIP ☹), my character's parents have had to watch their only son come home many times after months of being away... with wounds that vary in levels of severeness, with scars that he's probably pretty reluctant to elaborate on how he got them, and also watch as he just progressively appears more and more upset and angry and tired all of the time. Hell it seems like if he's called that old childhood nickname one more time he might just break down into tears. And it's not like he's going to talk about it. Azazel would frankly rather drink until he's blacked out then even think about the possibility of him considering telling someone he might be unhappy... Despite it being pretty obvious he is, and despite him constantly very clearly losing it, or at least being on the verge of losing it. He'd rather claim everything's perfectly fine and get away from the conversation as fast as possible. And yeah, he's never been one to really open up, but this seems extreme, even for him. And I mean yeah, his friends have had to watch this take place too, multiple of which witnessing the fights in which he gains those scars and wounds... but also you have to consider that they went to Strixhaven with him. These people have witnessed Azazel at some of his lowest and highest points, this isn't really that new. "Oh Azazel's losing it again? Yeah no shit." I mean of course it doesn't mean they don't worry about him. I think Rubina is damn near ready to shove the little fucker in a psych ward, but, y'know....

[starlight-miraidon]

MIRADONSONA/PMD OC LES GOOOO

(Lineart is by my pal @tooni-the-demon-thot, I just colored it)

[pmakuma]

09 / 08 / 23

i needed that win goddammit

[jetravenex]

I don't think I've ever been as hype for a game as I was when the first pokemon mystery dungeon dropped. The excitement at playing a pokemon for some reason thrilled me to my core. I remember looking at the promotional materials for it (and I can vaguely recall the trailers) and just how hype the concept was. Also PMD Red Rescue team was the first pokemon game that fit my real name (my real name was too long to fit in any pokemon game prior so I always had to shorten it) I spent many late nights as a kid playing Red Rescue Team, and I remember how grateful I was that they released Red Rescue team for Gameboy advance as at the time I hadn't gotten a DS. (though once I got my DS lite, I was immediately excited to play Red Rescue Team with the DS lite's backlight) Red Rescue team will always have a special place in my heart. But Explorers of Time/Sky just hit different. That story was just *chef's kiss*. I loved everything about it. Dialga is one of my favorite legendary pokemon (one of the first ones I caught successfully in a game, I think I might've only succeeded on catching a few of the legendary birds prior (I basically played gen 1, some of gen 2 I may have gotten stuck behind the sudowoodo when I played gen 2 and then skipped ahead to gen 4) I think also it just had mons I really liked. I adored playing as piplup in time, and then I got vulpix in sky (with riolu as my partner). The update to the portrait images. The updates they made in sky (those episode were so much fun, the new partners, the cafe, shaymin) were amazing. ALSO THE POST GAME IN EXPLORERS. While the ones that came after it didn't quite hit the same highs as Red Rescue Team or Explorers of Time/Sky. I still really enjoyed playing through Gates to Infinity. Super Mystery Dungeon was also fun, but since you could recruit every pokemon once you beat the game I know I got very bored with it unfortunately. I do like that they made all the mons recruitable and definitely early on you're like 'ooo cool I can recruit these mons' but one of the things I did like in gates to infinity was the ability to go on adventures with your teammates without partner and hero. In my head it was fun to just have Volt the Joltik and Muse the litwick go adventuring together on smaller missions and be their own little duo just taking care of the smaller tasks while the hero and partner were off gallivanting. IT was like having the ability to play some little side characters, and they're pokemon you recruited so they're just more the merrier. Which I think was something sadly lost in super mystery dungeon with the sheer abundance of members you can wind up with. I do like that it was a push to allow you to get every mon but also, woof that was a lot of pokemon. Plus if you just got the evolved forms, it kind of defeated the purpose of training up the pre evolutions because it was like 'well why bother evolving them, their evolved forms are already in my team' But the additions of wands and other stuff were fun little features, that I am glad to see carried into DX. Speaking of DX WHERE IS THE EXPLORERS OF TIME/SKY REMAKE. Gosh give me that game with a fresh coat of paint. I do love the pixel style of the time with that, but I would still like to see it get the DX treatment and jsut see how it plays with all the series improvements. I just want more Pokemon Mystery Dungeon T.T

I would be interested to know that your favorite part is PMD (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon), mine would probably be Sky and PSMD both are equally good in my opinion and I find it difficult to choose.(but basically I like all games of PMD)

I hope everyone enjoys the survey.

[carcharsaur]

decided to try limbus even though videos of the gameplay looked completely unintelligible to me and it's surprisingly good actually. I'm addicted to color matching... everything goes in the square hole.

[isolationstreet]

Can I ask what was the tender moment that happened last session?

Putting it under the read more becuase this got pretty long

So much happened with them last session . Cecily especially has been going through a lot lately coming to terms with both how shes both been treated and how shes treated other people after she was imprisoned after being forced to murder her sister.

Arnoud rescued her the session before and they had a couple much needed conversations the first of which happend after she was entirely rejected by one of her former friends when she offered her condolences for the death of his partner. He rejected her because he forgot they were friends becuase her father erased everyone in their party's memories together except for hers. So shes just seen as a monster who commits atrocities by the world at large "for her own protection"

She and Arnoud stood by each other in silence for a while just taking in each other's company. Then she opened a conversation I won't get into all of it but for the first time openly took responsibility for some of the ways shes abused him in the past. He'd already forgiven her a while ago because she's obviously grown as a person and put his well being before his own more times than he can count as hes done with her and honestly some (only some) of the abuse to a small extent was to his benefit. Though the gesture is greatly appreciated.

She also asked his advice on how she should move forward with her life becuase she genuinely values his opinion. Which coming from her is extremely high praise and I can say with certainty that there isnt a single other person on the entire planet she could honestly say that about.

He didn't have an immediate answer becuase it was still very early in the session and a lot of things and plans were still in flux. Which she understands but as she steps away he kisses her hand. Shes bewildered but grateful. While they both have become increasingly close for a while and clearly care deeply for each other and have shared close tender moments the past. This is the first overtly romantic gesture shes received from anyone in over a century. She squeezes his hand affectionately in response before slinking off into the shadows.

Cut towards maybe 7 hours play later and he finaly had an answer and an opportunity to offer his advice.

He tells her about how he was entirely alone before he met her. She forced him into situations where he had no other options but to open himself up to the vulnerability of trust and making friends or die trying. Not everyone will be accepting and things are going to be even harder for her than they were for him becuse of her very well earned reputation of being one of the cruelest and most violent people on the planet but all the conviction in the world will not make up for the lack of genuine support

He offers her a place with him but she says she isnt ready and needs more time to figure out who she wants to be now that shes away from her parents manipulations and has no place else to turn other than the only person in the world who turns to her.

But she does ask if he's willing to wait for her which of course he is because he loves her and wants her to find happiness.

She thanks him and she brushes her lips against the side of his so only he will know and as she does he passes her a sending stone keyed only to them so when she feels the time is right, or is she ever needs or wants him. She can easily contact him and he will be there.

[c00kieknight]

Honestly surprised I haven't seen any head cannons that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is the ST:AOS bridge crew playing D&D

[eclecticmiasma]

Hello! Good evening!

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Mithrun and I had a small scenario pop up in my head, and it would be lovely to see your vision on how this would play out, please and thank you 💕:

AFAB!Elf!reader is a member of the canaries, very soft spoken and rather kind. The nicest, most likely. Against her better judgement she’s down bad for the captain and everyone else is like “pls no I’d rather you not”. (She can fix him/jk)

Mithrun realizes she has feelings for him and in a very subtle way treats her a little more gentle than the others. Lets her spoil him a tiny bit more. Listens to her a bit more.

Reader can only hope one day maybe…just maybe…the captain can show a little interest in her too 🥺 and is oblivious that he lets her get away with a little more than others

Just very soft feelings all over

I won't spoil it for those who haven't read the manga, but there are instances where we see Mithrun treat Kabru rather favorably and opening up in great detail about his past. In a side story, we also see that younger Mithrun cared for the other canaries quite a bit. I imagine that even without his desires, Mithrun would appreciate care shown to him in his own Mithrun-y way.

SFW

Mithrun might be adverse to you at first, because when he really looks inward you remind him of his younger self.

However, Mithrun would soon come to see that you don't have the same...pitfalls in your personality that brought him where he is today. He might even come to somewhat admire your ability to stay genuinely kind in a world like theirs.

The other canaries start to notice that you have a much easier time getting their leader to take an ounce of care in his own well-being than any of them ever have. Some of them think it's entertaining while others (Pattadol) think the favoritism is unnacceptable.

Cithis might tease him about it if you aren't around, "We don't want to worry poor [y/n] by getting all dehydrated now, do we captain?"

Even the mention of your name is enough to motivate Mithrun, though you remain completely unaware. In your mind, the captain regards you as nothing more than a subordinate.

You don't notice the way his good eye trains on you as you talk about life before the canaries. You don't realize how fast he falls asleep when you're near. The magnitude of the fact that one night he voluntarily tells you a story about when he and his brother were children slips by you completely.

Pattadol is the only one to ever bring it up to you directly, and you truly have no idea what she's talking about. None of the others help her either, preferring to sit back and watch how her face reddens with frustration.

Mithrun isn't oblivious to the situation, however. He knows that there's something about you that...calms him, at the very least. He's sharp enough to know that you feel the same way about him, perhaps even stronger.

He likes having you around. It's not something he wants when you're gone, but it's something he enjoys while you're there. Because he knows you have some type of feelings for him, he indulges you at every turn. He even lets you wash his back and massage the scarred tissue built at the tips of his ears- though you're terribly relieved he can't see the heat rising on your cheeks as you do so.

One day, long long after the dungeoneering is done, perhaps you might even be able to help Mithrun find his desires, find himself again.

*do not post elsewhere without explicit permission. please consider reblogging, as Tumblr tends to hide adult content!

[RULES] [MASTERLISTS] [AO3] [KO-FI]

[yamujiburo]

kind of an odd question but do you have any tips for getting into/enjoing pokemon as an adult? my partner really loves pokemon but our family was like comedically poor growing up so ive not seen a game console like. in person until i was firmly way older than the optimal entry point, and

man the onboaring for the games is rough for an adult. i felt like i was at the dmv last time i tried one. like, i get it why they have the accursed habit of Skip All Dialogue Forever. are there ways to alleviate this at all or idk, people always talk about pokemon as this big important thing that was a formative fixation and everything and id love to 'get it' but like, is that possible or is it one of those things that only really Hits at a certain age?

I feel like if you don't like the games, you don't like the games and that's fine. Luckily Pokemon's a massive franchise and isn't limited to that.

There are spinoff games that might be more fun for you. Mystery Dungeon's great, Pokemon Ranger is one of my favorites, Pokken's there if you like fighting games, Pokemon Conquest's a game that exists and is more of a tactical rpg and I'm assuming is a little less kiddie (i haven't played that one).

There's also the TCG which is also fun, albeit expensive depending on how into it you get. The game itself is a good time and I play very casually but I prefer just collecting them and looking at the pretty illustrations.

There's the 1000+ anime episodes to watch which is more up my alley than anything. Still a kid's show but I think it's very charming and fun to watch. I feel like as an adult the original series is a bit more easy sit through LOL.

Then of course there's Pokemon GO! Easily accessible to everyone, plenty of people play it, it's just a mobile game but also gets you to learn about the many Pokemon that exist

There's also just a massive fanbase and people like myself constantly creating stuff. Just liking fanart or fanfics other fandmade projects is another way to get into it~