#i would play then for the nostalgia

[honeysickledream]

i love the idea of soap having a big family but…he’s not all that close with them nowadays. in fact, it’s been ages since he’s seen the gaggle of cousins he used to play pretend with in the back garden or even in the woods. family reunions aren’t commonplace anymore because everyone is so damn busy or spread too far apart. his favorite cousin is living in the U.S doing something, Soap’s never tuned in to the technical speak, and the rest are all busy getting their degrees, focused on being part of the workforce, and/or making their own families.

Soap’s closest to his Ma and Pa. they video call at least twice a week when Soap’s not deployed, and he spams his parents with stupid memes and goofy videos at odd hours of the night. He’s close with his older sister, too, talking to her about once a week for a short amount of time. She updates him on his nieces and nephews, the cat he rescued but can’t keep on base, and any shocking gossip from their hometown. He’ll send her pictures of the animals he sees, occasionally will send her a funny post, and maybe once a quarter they meet up to have dinner and see a show.

He can’t remember the last time he hung out with his older brother, though. Maybe a year or two ago? Soap will text the fucker only to get a reply a few weeks or a month later, then it’s radio silence. His brother is like that with everyone, so Soap doesn’t take it personally (most of the time).

At first, Soap hated the change, hated the distancing his family went through. He thought he was losing everything and everyone, but he came to realize it’s not like that for the most part. The people he has in his life are there solidly and that’s what’s important. And when he brings you home for the first time, you’re not overwhelmed by his 16 first cousins, 12 second cousins, 3 aunts and 6 uncles, his Ma and Pa and sister and brother and all their kids. It’s a mellow evening, the closest adults in the family able to relax and get to know you while you do the same.

He wants that tight knit family with you one day. He wants your kids to know all the cousins, yes, but he also wants them to have the security of solid relationships with those closest to them. He wants them to know that even as family members pull away or seemingly vanish off the face if the earth, that there are still people who exist and love them, who share a million memories with them and will happily make a million more. He doesn’t want them to struggle with the feeling of losing security and love like he did.

[tricoufamily]

i wish ts4 packs would stop making such a huge part of the gameplay “this makes this part of the game easier! gain skills 10x faster! never get hungry! make $5000 every minute!” the game is already too easy please i don’t want a magic tree i want a clinically depressed man in a band who lives in the world’s shittiest apartment in gotham city i want him to suffer

[front-facing-pokemon]

[generallyunskilled]

God, there’s nothing funnier than the universal switch that happens when you’re like 12 and you still wanna play games like tag/hide and seek but you also think you’re too old for it, so you invent a NEW game. It’s not hide and seek anymore, it’s MANHUNT and it’s COOLER and you play it at NIGHT because you’re a BIG KID that can be out after dark.

[telluricdog]

kingisle whenever they need to coax older players back: HEY YOU PERSON WITH A WALLET!!! REMEMBER DRAGONSPYRE?!? REMEMBER HOW SAD THE LAST ACT MADE YOU FEEL? HERE'S SOMETHING REFERENCING DRAGONSPYRE!! ISNT THAT YOUR FAVORITE?!

[bowowark]

Thinking about when I first found out about Minecraft.

It’s a very vivid memory. My family were visiting some family friends, I was probably the youngest of the kids there, my sister wasn’t far off though. One of the kids around my brother’s age was on the computer so naturally we were all tuned in to what he was doing. Someone suggested playing “that Lego game.”

Now as a kid I loved legos, still do, but at the time they were such a huge special interest for me, so I was pretty psyched.

But the kid instead opened up a game I had never seen before, and a game that looked nothing like Lego, or the types of graphics you’d see when you play your standard Lego computer games.

Specifically what he was building was some kind of pyramid made up of a whole lot of different blocks, at least that’s what I remember. I was very interested in the game and later found out it was this small building game called “Minecraft”

So naturally when I got home, me and my sister asked our parents if we could buy it, and eventually we were able to play on our dad’s laptop. The moment we opened up a new world we were being attacked by a million mobs because we had spawned in the forest in the middle of the night, you know, early Minecraft things. That scared us bad enough to stop playing for a bit.

Later on we found the online communities for the game, the YouTubers, the different mods and parody songs, and at some point we had gotten the game on our family Xbox 360.

I have very fond memories of trying to glitch into the castle while playing the demo world, mixing up what side my character was on while using the split screen format, building the ugliest structures in creative mode, and of course crying my eyes out when my pet dog would die.

I feel like Minecraft’s just one of those games that will always stick with you. At least it did for me.

[askchilchuck]

Rip Chilchuck Tims, you would of loved the Beatles

We have beetles here too, you know. Also, quit telling people I’m dead.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

I think people who write de-aging kid fics about DC characters are great because it's all like "oh my god! Through totally random and unpreventable circumstances X character has been hit with magic/sci-fi bs and is now an adorable lil guy who needs the love and support of family and friends!" And that's 100% my kryptonite. I love it.

I do think people are sleeping on speedster controlled aging though.

I would kill for a fic where Kon gets deaged to five and Bart just shrugs and deages to five as well because it looks like fun. Then the two of em get into shenanigans and enjoy the childhood they never had.

Or if Hal gets turned into a child and Barry joins him so that Hal has company. And the two of em get to interact as kids and just have fun for once in their lives.

Or if Dick gets hit with a magic spell and shrinks back down to nine and Wally's like "Oh god, we were terrible as kids! I don't want to get stuck babysitting him..... 💡! I CAN'T GET STUCK BABYSITTING IF I'M ALSO A CHILD!!" And then it's just gremlin Dick and Wally running around together being the absolute worst.

I just think their selective aging thing is nifty and the fact that they can manually switch their ages is a fantastic plot device that rarely gets used.

[theleanbean]

Arcade Monsters Oviedo

[raccoonnutella13]

why are ppl always so mean about taz :(

[sudoscience]

So true, video game from 2003

[sysig]

Party (group) party (celebratory)! (Patreon)

[parasitoidism]

ramblings of insane person

[puppppppppy]

what if i snapped and made an oc carrd

[deus-ex-mona]

sometimes i still think about how honeypre (rip) took a hiyori mv and somehow made it aiyuu

[yoosung-ah]