I've been playing slitherio these past few days, and after some time messing around with nicknames and my own experience with the stuff, I've realized anger is something very easy to weaponize. On my second attempt of having "trans rights" as a nickname I killed a huge ~5k point worm as a teenie tiny 200 point worm simply because it was so desperate to kill me specifically. Anger makes your life harder, but it also makes people really unwise. I fucking bet this is in "the art of war", even though I haven't read it.
finally got beat the elden ring dlc after playing it for like 4 days.
all in all I can safely say it's peak elden ring. (spoilers below the cut btw)
the soundtrack is great, voice acting and characters are amazing, the new weapons and spells I got to play with were pretty fun even if some of them aren't all that great. I have no complaints for the time and money I spent on it.
save for one thing.....
Promised Consort Radahn feels just a bit too overtuned. I think I get what they were going for to be fair. It really does feel like you're getting double teamed by a god and his consort. I just felt that the hp you have to chew through is a *smidge* too high for how much the game is asking you to do all of the sudden. Unless you have some crazy fucking damage set up that can kill him super quick, you are going to be fighting him for a long ass time.
Roughly 3 minutes and 43 seconds for me and my catch flame build doing about 1500 damage per cast. Just under 4 minutes may not sound like a long time but once you're fighting him you can fucking feel each second crawl as he keeps on the pressure.
Otherwise I think he's an amazing sendoff to an amazing dlc.
anyway here's my victory lap on Placidusax after completing the dlc
SO the local bar is having goth prom and I've already bought a dress online, but I want to buy more things in case it doesn't fit right or doesn't work, but I also wanna be careful not to drop like. $100 on clothes on this thing in one week
like over time sure I can spend that much on what barely counts as clothes I can wear in public, but over the course of like...a few days? YEESH. it's so tempting though and I would look so good in it...and it would be an outfit I could wear out again and again
Alright while putting tags in something I rebloged I thought of a real fun sibling dynamic thing between pre-tadpole Durge and Orin that I found funny enough that I'm making it a separate post too
(Keep in mind I am imagining my Durge in this, but hopefully overall it's general enough that it can apply to other Durge's)
I like to imagine Durge and Orin having some sort of sibling bickering and annoying each other dynamic but more demented and violent even if Durge may be a lot older than her depending on the Durge. Like the two attempting to attack (maybe kill) the other as a greeting, like throwing knives at the other when they walk into the room. Then laughing at the other if they don't dodge on time or dodge clumsily
Orin purposefully leaves her art/"corpse dollies" in the way and in places she knows will irritate or inconvenience Durge. Durge retaliating by just starting to eat them right in front of Orin. Orin yelling at Durge to stop and maybe even trying to stab them or something to get them to just drop the corpse.(maybe Orin tries to grab the corpse and pull it away from Durge but Durge won't let go so it's like they're playing tug-of-war with it or something)
Maybe they leave random organs hidden in the other one's pillow or bed in ways meant to be uncomfortable just to irritate the other. Orin hiding some of Durge's vivisection tools and making them have to bribe her for the location or spend a while looking for them.
But then occasionally they give each other tips or pointers about various things. Maybe one of them will randomly discover a new weapon that the other one definitely gave them but it's never brought up
Maybe Durge sometimes will give Orin a corpse or person for her to play with while just not directly addressing what they're doing. Maybe both of them will go on hunts in the city together, where one sets up an ambush while the other lures an unsuspecting victim towards the other that they can kill together.
Maybe they sometimes had peaceful moments where Durge may have attempted to do Orin's hair, or would help her brush and wash it. Maybe Orin would sometimes follow Durge around because she admired/admires them and wants to be more like then, but whenever Durge questions what she's doing she'd just say something about making sure Durge doesn't fuck something up or that she's just happening to go the same direction.
I just really like the idea that the two of them were at least sort of close
Hi!!! I Saw your illustrations about console repairs and I found it very beautiful, and wanted to tell you that :))
I also wanted to ask; can I use the text you wrote (with credit of course!) in another ilustration? Not for comercial purposes or anything, just some sketches to post here on tumblr! Also, what were your inspirartions for the prose?? Or the small zine in general?
YES THAT ALL GOOD WITH ME!! im flattered c:
personally i just have a huge love for the console repair / modding / homebrew scene, i've been following it for a few years now and have done some work on a wii and two 3ds models, plus one of the latter i had to do a notoriously hard screen replacement on. i'm very much a novice but i just really love the idea of keeping check with these machines not only to improve its usual functions but to have it do stuff beyond it's intended use. like you're working very close with it, i'm sure i'm reading too deep into but i think that's pretty cool.
this zine is a putting just a small tidbit of that love for the work and it's community, mostly just focusing on the people that do some simple upkeep with their consoles, especially older ones they've had tons of memories with throughout their lives. it's really sweet to me.
Randomly remembered the half-reason i call my oc-verse by the name it has while laying in bed. One-half of the reason i still knew, but I had forgotten what had truly, really cemented it jointly until now
(it was a song from my favourite band I haven't listened to in a while.)
(the song fit so well at the time, still does, that i needed to hold onto it for the main protagonists forever, by partially naming their story in reference.)
Does this explanation make any sense? Does anyone know why I'm tearing up remembering this. Aahh
every fall tumblr is like "oh m*ke fl*nagan makes horror for gay people" as if every horror film from the 80s through the 90s wasn't horror for gay people. do u think those two wet losers in scream 1996 weren't making out sloppy style behind the scenes or what. grow up
Hello! I saw your post - how did you start teaching English in Japan?
Hi there! I looked at a few jobs on Go Overseas and reached out to a couple of recruiters. One of them got back to me and after an initial phone call, a video submission of why I wanted to apply, a video of a mock lesson, that same mock lesson over Skype and then an interview, I was offered a job. The recruiter then helped me sort out all the paperwork (visa etc).
If you want to know more about specifics (the recruiter, the company, any other details), feel free to send me a DM (I've temporarily opened them up!)