#life is just an RPG

[crownhate]

for someone who is neurotic and irritable most of the time, letting go of control is like the number one most powerful thing you can do to curb your anger. it’s really hard to do but I’ve been practicing it lately and it’s helping so much. just being able to recognize when something is out of your control and choosing to slow down and let it pass instead of fighting with it. it’s so freeing.

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[sublimerences]

Baton Pass!

[fantasy-life-fan]

"What's the plot of Fantasy Life?" The plot? THE PLOT? Who cares about the plot. You have 12 jobs. The economy of Reveria depends on you. You think we have time for plot in this game??

[kumzorg]

im finally done with translating this game and accidentally got autistically attached to these guys, lord help me

links below >_<

[probablybadrpgideas]

“I cast-“ *flips through spell book to find a spell I can cast at my level* “EAT DIRT” *gets on the ground and starts to shovel dirt into my mouth by the handful*

[basofy]

been thinking about this for a while but i think i mightve found a way to word it, idk if this is a hot take or if others agree with me, but it makes me sad when i see lisa fans speak as if the ridiculousness and the sadness of lisa are opposing to eachother instead of complementary

to me it feels like both have something to do with human primitiveness, which austin himself said once is something he likes exploring, say; the silly aspect is about being so true to yourself it makes you look stupid, and the sad aspect is the reminder that youre a human being, you get affected by things, you can do good and do bad, so you get characters who look and act silly while also having something deep going on with them. they live haunted by an unfortunate experience, and/or do horrible things themselves for reasons only they understand, or just out of being selfish but are aware that they are causing harm, etc

this does not go for everyyyy character but it happens often enough (for some characters it's easier to notice than for others) and i like it. i think it's sorta beautiful seeing these bunch of stupid people trying to survive while also dealing with some shit internally

[theshittiesttriangle]

it is fucking tragic that i will never get to experience watching this show for the first time again

one of the best shows ive ever seen, loved the shit out of it. need to find a place where i can watch it again

this is one of the few pieces of media i am comfortable rating at an 8 or 9/10, up there with prince of egypt

[the-blossica-fan]

I have this friend and he doesn't even play Reverse 1999, all he knows is what I post on WhatsApp but he's absolutely SO into Isolkania. He loves it.

He's been making drawings, theories and begging me to tell him everything after I play 1.9

This is the power of Doomed Yuri

[askblueandviolet]

Ah, two valiant warriors on a quest. Pray tell, have thou arrived to slay, or to be slayed?

[rox-of-iu]

bought "immortal life" as a gift for myself and I'm immediately obsessed

it's stardew valley style farm sim but xianxia (said by someone who never played stardew or farm sims this is guesswork lol)

anyway it's early access now but it will come out as a full game in Jan 2024! and I guess there is a possibility that the price will go up once it's a full game cuz that happens sometimes so if ur interested now is your chance hah (its on sale rn for 11,19€)

[aw-colorcat]

Mack is very touchy over the loss of his pogo-sword. Try not to mention it! But… where is it, then?

Jack designed by @missd476 in this post! (Drawn with permission!)

AU tag

[vvitchering]

I have never been able to get into the dragon age games for one reason or another but I took a chance on Veilguard and I am having so much fun!!!

[artemx746]

Yeah Queen Qi Gu's death actually broke me so much

[thatsbelievable]

[basofy]

god this was so cringey shut up all you've ever seen regarding women has been a smelly rat in the mirror and distorted photoshopped images of women with big boobees you know nothing