#kris plays video games

[bruisedconscience-reblogs]

me looking at my

Miner that makes 30 iron ore

Smelter that takes 30 & makes 30

Constructor that takes 30 & makes 20

and it all goes into storage with mark 1 belt

and it’s backed up…???? 🤷🤷🤷

fellas. babes, lads, besties. i am being Tricked into learning maths and i don't like it

[kriscommitscrimes]

expect a full LONG character analysis on kris too but. after analyzing them its SO FUNNY TO ME how the fandom has kinda mixed up susie and kris' personalities to an extent??

like susie comes across as loud, intimidating and as a bit of an asshole, whereas kris comes across as quiet and such BUT

susie, yes while that does fit her now, shes not like that NATURALLY, she was quiet and nervous when she originally moved to hometown and the bully persona is something that she was shoved into, whereas kris is actually loud, seems to get some kind of joy or sense of validation from causing scenes and drawing attention to themself, and is a bit of an asshole, ESPECIALLY to noelle, but in that kinda friend way like current susie is. theyre also like. a master of flirting and they seem REALLY well spoken for some reason?? like they formulated a beautiful toast to queen just. on the spot. and all of the characters just are baffled by it. theyre also like insanely overdramtic its so funny to me

[ospreysstuff]

lmao

[crimsalwaysawake]

Ok so I'm thinking about making a ship chart/diagram for the deltarune kids because im bored but before I do I wanna get some thoughts out about berdly and noelle because my brain won't shut the fuck up

I've seen some people in the fandom portray Berdly as having an (extremely one-sided) crush on Noelle but I don't think that was ever the case??? It might have been the case at one point when she first met him but Berdly's actual "crush" fizzled out extremely quickly. HOWEVER, he was under the impression that Noelle had a crush on him (which also wasn't true) so he kept up a ruse of sorts.

Berdly thought Noelle had a crush on him (she didn't have one) so he pretended to have a crush on her (he didn't have one)

Berdly and Noelle are good friends who haven't had any sort of romantic feelings for each other and I love them :) They both have some shit they need to figure out getting into relationships I think.

btw I think they could be queerplatonic <3

also krerdelle underrated....

[lanternlightss]

undertale and deltarune fans refer to frisk, chara, and kris as “they” and acknowledge them as nonbinary challenge: impossible. failed multiple times

[viovio]

prev post phrasing makes it sound like I forgot collodi wrote pinnocchio like no I knew that I just thought it was funny that I said "yeah lampwick getting turned into a donkey was strange and cruel punishment on par for children's tales at the time" as the author having it out for that character in particular. when pinocchio was literally hung from a tree and bought back because people thought that was fucked/they likes the little wooden boy

[atwas-gaming]

When I did my UTDR marathon in October, a brief argument arose in chat at one point about whether you were supposed to get an item when you went back to sleep, and just exactly what that item did.

I completely forgot that I had recorded footage of going into the Dark World and getting the item back in 2021!!!

[krismatic]

Okay so I started getting back to playing fe path of radiance and like. I love these characters so much

[akanemnon]

Why must you tug at these frail strings of my heart. I know it's a reference to New Home, but still. Maybe we as the player were never in control.

This was very intentional.

I remembered watching THIS video by Schaffrillas that went into this and how much emotion this sentence carried after messing up his attempt at a genocide run.

Like... this sentence is POWERFUL depending on how you play the game. And in the comic's context that carries over. Frisk will be Frisk, no matter what happened. And Kris will be Kris, no matter how much they think they are nothing without the Player.

[wilwheaton]

Imagine my shock when I am sitting on the couch next to my son, who is playing on his VR, when out of nowhere, I hear a familiar voice! One quick google search later and I confirm, yes, that is indeed Wil Wheaton voicing the charming actor/villain my son was going against while playing I Expect You To Die 2! After a short geek-out session with him (we often talk about/gush when we hear familiar and favorite voices in our shows and games), my son says ‘He sounds like a really good voice actor.’ So know that your performance has gained the approval of at least one media-entrenched 12 year old. Thanks for making our day a little brighter.

AHHHH! I love that character, and I had the BEST TIME recording it. We did it during the lockdown, so I built a little booth in my bedroom (the only room in the house with carpet), and they sent me a microphone that costs more than my car, all the gear to set it up, and a laptop with Pro Tools.

I set it all up, and their engineer VPN'd into the laptop to run the session on the computer that was sitting at the foot of my bed. I had a zoom connection somehow, I think on my laptop that was sitting on the dresser, and Kris Brown, my favorite video game director of all time, directed me through it all in one session.

I still haven't played it (VR makes me violently motion sick) but I've only ever gotten positive feedback. Please tell your son I said thank you for letting me entertain him!

[lilybug-02]

Dang, I just had the wildest dream about Deltarune chapter 3.

The game had just come out, and as I started playing it, it seemed like the standard chapter. I was a little disappointed by that. It started getting quite bland until the story just got really really in-depth. There was tons of voice acting and this new character that kinda looked like goofy Haha. All the bosses were with similar names to Undertale bosses, adding to the mystery.

The cutscenes had all sorts of animations too. So much so, that I kept wondering why the heck Toby Fox included it. Don’t get me wrong tho. There was a really cool animation scene where a rat chewed on the soul, symbolizing the player destroying and hurting Kris’ state of being. Like something out of a Saturn eats his son type sh*t. Really wild stuff.

And then it kind of got out of hand with 3-D, and by the end of the chapter it didn’t even feel like a pixel video game anymore, just a (pretty cool) 3-D shoot ‘em up adventure game.

The fan base was pretty decisive, but most people didn’t like Toby Fox pandering to the 3-D soldier war game genre. 



[supercrazyangel4]

i think the thing that makes people mischaracterize and completely miss the point of chara is that theyre written to be two very different things concurrently that dont really mesh together.

from what we know concretely about chara as a character, they were a very mentally ill child and complicated person who simultaneously hurt and helped people around them, who held both a lot of love and hate in their heart. they are fairly vague but also have specific character traits such as liking chocolate and filling up water glasses to the brim to maximize efficiency. they take speaking patterns from toriel and an interest in gardening from asgore. if you believe in the narrachara theory, they even have a character arc that changes depending on the route you take. they are inarguably a character who haunts the narrative due to their decisions in life having lead to tragedy that shapes the very plot of the game inextricably; and arguably a character that haunts the narrative and shapes the story much more literally in being a conscious force and companion that accompanies our journey.

at the same time, chara isnt treated as a character at all and is instead a meta-narrative device meant to act as an in-universe player stand-in. in this way chara isnt actually a person with character traits, but a vehicle for toby to provide commentary about the people who play video games. they are a concept that represents the state of thoughtless exp grinding. in the no mercy route their main purpose is to be a reflection of you and your mindset, even more directly than flowey. the reason theyre named after you is because, for a number of aspects in the game, they are supposed to be you; with no notable separation like there is with frisk.

this problem also heavily applies to frisk, for who there is an effort to separate their identity from yours at the end of the pacifist route but who still ends up with no real character traits of their own. people compensate for this by using black-and-white thinking; which results both in assigning frisk and chara a sort of "good-and-evil" dichotomy leading to their early fan interpretations, and in thinking that frisk and chara can only be either fully fleshed out characters or mindless player inserts leading to people favouring option one and basically ignoring the player as a concept except to occasionally use it as a generic big bad.

i think toby prioritized meta-textual implications over actual textual characterization for the human characters in undertale. this left chara as a character feeling unclear, unfocused, and incongruent due to them trying to be several things at once with no real through-line; and frisk as a character feeling practically non-existent outside of being a vessel. there are effectively two different charas in undertale, the character and the plot device, which makes it hard to talk about them as one consistent whole. i think this is why in tobys second game hes been putting such a focus on kris as a character and their separation from the player, as to improve on what he didnt properly touch on in undertale.

[fallen-child-escapism]

(1/4)

I've been theory crafting boys but here's a little snippet of the comic I'll be posting over the next few days.

Basically ralseis "uncovered" self is a costume to better help his "role". Cus this guy KNOWS he's in a video game. He KNOWS he is supposed to be the lovable fluffy one cus that's how the story is written. So he has to play his part. Him and Kris are both exhausted.

[sportsthoughts]

In The Room Masterpost Seasons 5-7 Continuing on from Seasons 1-4 please enjoy my little reference post for the next three seasons of ITR:

Watch In The Room on Youtube here

All Season 5 gifs (2015-16 season) Episode 1: Home of the Penguins part 1 - part 2 - bonus Geno - bonus Sid Episode 2: Taking Shape - bonus helmet - bonus Sid Episode 3: A Season of Change part 1 - part 2 - beach trip - Duper's retirement - Sid's response to Duper's retirement Episode 4: Pulling Together part 1 - part 2 - bonus Kris and the puppy - Sid and Flower in the gym Episode 5: Forging an Identity - 2016 All Star Game part 1 - 2016 All Star Game part 2 - bonus team superbowl party Episode 6: Trusting the Process - Sid's Little Penguins - Kris takes Alex skating Episode 7: Embrace the Race - Night of Assists 2016 Playoffs Rounds 1 & 2 Playoffs Round 3: Games 1-6 - Game 7 (Penguins win the ECF) Episode 8: Just Play - Stanley Cup Final Media Day - Stanley Cup Final Games 1 & 2 - Stanley Cup Final Games 3, 4 & 5 - Stanley Cup Final Game 6 - Game 6 Celebrations - 2016 Stanley Cup Parade

All Season 6 gifs (2016-2017 season) Episode 1: Raising Expectations - training camp - White House visit - 2016 ring celebration - bonus coach Geno Episode 2: A Daily Endeavour - Kris, Rusty and co. play video games Episode 3: We Are Family - bonus Geno - bonus Sid - holiday video behind the scenes - Jake's NHL debut Episode 4: More Than Ordinary - bonus Sid and his stick Episode 5: The Constant - Sid at NHL 100 - Sid at the 2017 All Star Game - All Star Game part 2 - Sid's 1000th point - more Sid's 1000th point Episode 6: New Surroundings Episode 7: Finding a Way Playoffs Round 1 Playoffs Round 2 Games 1-6 - Game 7 Playoffs Round 3 (Pens win the ECF) Episode 8: Back to Back (Stanley Cup Final Games 1-5) - Pens win the cup in Game 6 - celebrating the 2017 cup - locker room celebrations - 2017 Stanley Cup Parade

All Season 7 gifs (2017-2018 season) Episode 1: A Beautiful Thing - cup ring presentation - flashback sidgeno - flashback Sid and the stanley cup - Sid plays baseball - Dumo's day with the cup Episode 2: Bread and Butter Episode 3: Sky's the Limit - bonus core Episode 4: Feel the Juice - bonus Geno Episode 5: One Shot at a Time - Sid and Kris at the 2018 All Star Game Episode 6: A Golden Ticket Episode 7: Enjoy the Ride Episode 8: Family

Sid highlights: Season 5 - Season 6 - Season 7 (coming soon)

Geno highlights: Season 5 - Season 6 - Season 7 (coming soon)

Kris highlights: Season 5 - Season 6 - Season 7 (coming soon)

Flower highlights: Seasons 5 - Season 6

Rusty highlights: Season 5 - Season 6 - Season 7 (coming soon)

Misc: Skates close up - Matt Cullen highlights - Patric Hornqvist highlights (coming soon) - Dumo highlights (coming soon) - Jake Guentzel highlights (coming soon)

[silly-salty-utdr-rants]

they're playing castle crashers probably :D (also kris is absolutely the level of creature that they play video games holding the controller like that)

[krispdreemurr]

At first, she's not sure she's even hearing the notes.

They're distant and quiet. Even with her earbuds out, she has to strain to hear anything at all. The notes keep faltering before she can be sure what she's listening to.

She sets aside her notebook and moves out into the hall.

As she starts the walk to the dining room, she can hear them more clearly. It's definitely the piano in the side room, she's sure on that now. But the song...

The song is just the first few notes and chords, again and again, played clumsily and haltingly. There's jarring dissonant edges, and the rhythm is unsteady.

If the tune weren't so familiar, she'd have no idea at all.

(In front of her, or with family, they'd play things she knew - classical music, adaptations of songs from video games or Asriel's anime, more than a few Rickrolls.)

(It was only when they were alone that they'd play the same few songs, simpler melodies that she never heard anywhere else before or after.)

She reaches the doorway, gazing in through the open door.

The room is dimly lit, the moonlight through the windows providing most of the illumination. They're framed against an open window, a silhouette bent over the piano. She watches, silent, as they drag their hand down the keys, press down too hard and get a jarring burst of sound.

She remembers how they used to play. Fluid, graceful. It was the only time she ever really saw them comfortable in their own skin.

That's gone, now.

"Kris...?" she asks softly, stepping through the door.

The next part, at least, is familiar. They stare at her, wide-eyed, looking half-panicked. Hands frozen.

Despite herself, she tries to smile, glancing at the open window. "You know, I'm pretty sure dad gave you a spare key."

They stare a moment more, then laugh, hoarse and tired. Some of the tension bleeds. "Yeah, but breaking in through the window is cooler."

"You're just lucky I forgot how to set up the alarm system..." She steps closer, hooves clicking on hardwood. "It's one AM, Kris. Why are you here? Not that, um, you can't visit, just--"

There's a long silence, where they just stare at their hands on the keys. They're shaking, she realizes.

"Sorry," they say finally. "It was a stupid idea. I just--miss it. And the hospital is closed to visitors. I just wanted to, to at least try... Even if I know I can't any more, not like this." Another ragged laugh. This one has less humor. "Sorry. I'll go."

She looks at them a few moments more.

Maybe she should push more. Ask them what they mean by "like this", demand explanations for why they've been so weird lately, reprimand them for breaking in. She remembers them nine years old and coughing without end, begging her not to tell their mom and dad. She remembers how they drew away in the days after the accident, and how quiet they've been ever since. She knows they shut down, hide, conceal themself. She knows.

But she's tired too, and if she pushes they'll run, and she's lost so much already.

"Can I listen?" she says instead.

They blink, once, then shrug. "Sure, yeah... You wanna sit outside like old times? Think I can handle an audience for the world's worst concert, but..."

"No, I'd rather stay." She goes to settle down in the corner, folding her legs. "I never got to see you play much back then."

"Well, you're not going to see much today," they say dryly.

Their fingers linger a moment more, shuffling uncertainly and stiffly, trying to find purchase--

And then they play.

It's still halting and awkward, marred by misplaced notes and stilted pauses. It's nothing like it was, back when they were something not quite like friends and not quite like family.

But still, still--

Still she closes her eyes, and she listens once again.