#like it's just childhood nostalgia lol

[teenagefeeling]

poll just for funsies

[snackugaki]

one orrrr

two?

[goldensunset]

‘the children yearn for the mines’ is a little too real to me bc when i was a kid and my older siblings were trying to get me into pokémon i really never cared to try playing. BUT. i was obsessed with the underground mining minigame in dppt. i used to beg my sister to let me take a turn playing and set it up for me bc i didn’t know how to so i could go mine for gems nonstop until i cleared that entire cave section of glittering wall spots which always made me so sad bc i was having such a great time. i didn’t even understand the significance of what i was doing but 7 year old me was high off of it

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[tropicalcontinental]

So what if Andrew and Nicholas went to same college and met, what then? (Blabbering below)

My thought process was that I rewatched those FST videos and started to wonder if Nicholas just repressed the whole AI Builds thing (since Mr. Eye is telling him to wake up so like he lost control of Nicholas somehow) and yeah his mental health and experience during game development was pretty heavy for Nicholas so he just, uh, blocks it out. Again.

And I was thinking about Lethe Protocol and how that basically made Andrew forget about his old videos and partially about Chris (as a way to prevent him from going down the same path Chris did and to try and mitigate the Call of the Well.)

So uh... What if Lethe Protocol just happens post “Into the Mind?” Chris does it again because the distress this is causing Andrew doesn't seem to be worth it anymore. He changed his stance. The easier way out is better. Being persistent shouldn't lead to pain. Andrew's happy memories shouldn't be tainted with Chris' death.

But like last time, this Protocol isn't as clean as it should be (Andrew was a lot further into the Well than before.) Just like how Andrew eventually remembered and subconsciously followed the Well's call, it will happen again. Delaying the inevitable, yadda yadda.

But for the time being, Andrew forgets the channel, which actually leads to it being abandoned. RIP. Completely forgets Chris (which fucks with his memories a lot.) Wells and Minecraft in general become weird for Andrew (they bring up strange and splotchy memories that hurt) and he doesn't know why.

And Nicholas is just grappling with his dissociation issues in general. Trying to look forward when his past is so blurred and spotty. What ambition does he have if he doesn't even know who he is. Struggling with creation and trying to connect with people and so many other things. Just trying to understand how other people make living look so easy.

So yeah both of these guys meet! IDK what the hell they would do if they met (maybe make music together.) Or how they meet. Maybe Andrew is just strumming on his guitar aimlessly and Nick just so happens to be in the area. Manage to strike up a small conversation.

Maybe they talk about butterflies and wells and how they both have weird reactions to these mundane items (If they even get that candid to other people in real life.) Then Nicholas asks Andrew to play Wonderwall.

[lucc4-luck]

Why doesn't childhood come back? Grow-up life is bad and boring

I don't want to grow up anymore

I want everything to go back to how it was before, I don't like the new

Change is boring, growing up is boring

I hate changes

[hekateinhell]

I'm sad. I miss Lestat.

I'm usually saying I miss Armand (and I do, every day of my life). But like even when I was on a VC hiatus for most of my twenties, I'd still follow Anne on Facebook and it was the most ridiculous experience.

Imagine you're young and in college, okay? Embarrassing yourself in front of your ex and his grandmother on main, and in between all of the small town drama and dumbass memes and shitty recipes no sane person would ever attempt, is Anne freaking Rice posting about how she was just slow-dancing with Lestat on the dance floor to '60s soul music.

Agonizing over an exam? Let's see what Lestat is up to. Heart broken again? It's okay, Lestat's breaking hearts right now and that's so much more entertaining. Need random, surprisingly insightful life advice administered live via social media? Lestat's got you.

Truly inspirational and honestly it's still sometimes crazy for me to think I'll never get random Lestat roleplay directly from the source herself again. I mean, I can't believe that happened in the first place, but I sure got used to it. <\3

[aahsoka]

i watched barbie and it is very silly to talk about it like its a feminist masterpiece it is truly just a comedy movie playing on nostalgia and the real world is also a parody and while it is genuinely funny its not really saying anything much lmfao.

also the ending of her having genitals now is . deeply silly.

[verkele]

I guess I've got aphantasia lol. Like my imagination can't generate imagery for shit. I wonder how much that has affected my art skills and such with my hands having had to pick up the slack from my dysfunctional headmeats in order to illustrate myself anything. Like the best i can do is more or less limited to like structural analysis of what I can already see, like some sorta 3d blowup diagrams or potential wireframe topology and measurements, kinda like that one silly comic with 2 girls interviewing a distracted ass angel if you know what i mean. And even those aren't really anything "visible" but more like a conceptual level "I know what's in there" kinda thing.

Also I just got another new pair of cheapo glasses I grabbed online for a little experiment adjusting the values a little cause my left eye astigmatism is a tiny bit askew compared to right so I did a little 10 degree adjustment to match that. Also for some extra context that I forgot to ramble about earlier, I had ordered another different shaped set a while ago, which unlike the first pair, actually made me feel like 10-20 inches taller than normal while the first pair had the opposite effect. I also had the cheapest set ordered for work use back then that didn't really have a noticeable effect like that, sort of acting like a baseline between the wacky ones. Anyway, the newest pair with the adjusted angle happens have the exact same frame and shape as the cheap baseline glasses, but somehow they made me feel even shorter than the first glasses did. Like a whole knee height shorter lol

Also I still got one extra set i grabbed from aliexpress for even cheaper price with more stylish design and much different shape. Will see what sorta effect those might have :v

[kn11ves]

emotional support group for autistics who got called condescending and rude as kids just for responding to things directly and still not knowing how they were being mean

[risingsunresistance]

1. three songs that come up when you put your phone on shuffle

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12. three favourite songs from video games

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21. three songs of your childhood

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:DD (any or all ! yippeeee)

1. three songs that come up when you put your phone on shuffle

heaven, iowa - fall out boy

famous last words - my chemical romance

empire ants - gorillaz

12. three favorite songs from video games ... man 3 is NOT A LOT for someone like me 😭 gonna give these ones categories

i already used this one but. song im currently obsessed with: unsconscience - splatoon 3 side order DLC

song that reminds me of childhood in some way: sacred somnom woods : mario and luigi dream team

obligatory skyblock slot: journey in the sky

21. three songs of your childhood

prelude 12/21 - AFI thank you emo cousin for giving me your decemberunderground cd <3

onerepublic - all fall down this was my favorite song from my first digitally-owned album! nowadays i wish i had bought a cd but i was a kid with a new ipad and a gift card kjhfgjk

low - coldplay have very distinct memories of being at [friend]'s house and blasting this album and mylo xyloto through his speakers so that we could hear it in his yard

[probablyaseamonster]

Hey so this happened to come up on my feed seemingly randomly but for once I'm not complaining /enthusiastic because I did in fact have a Wreck it Ralph phase last month! Helped me feel better when house became hostile lol. I wonder if I forgot I had the tags saved or something, cause I don't remember what I did to have this pop up on my dash lol. Sorry for anyone who has to see it, but honestly, this was the best way y'all could've found out, lmao. I have Seen Shit, and I made a Spotify playlist about said shit. It is, mercifully, only 8 songs long lol

Anyway, remember I said "topical times do exist, but never feel embarassed to like something years after everyone else seemingly moved on! It's both valid to grow out of something, as well as valid to keep it in your hearts! I mean, that is the basis of the retro genre after all..."

Happy 10th Anniversary to the movie that fundamentally changed my brain chemistry and made me unbearable to be around in 2012!!! <333

[cheweycats]

sometimes i think about him.... ahhh memories....

[furiouser-and-furiouser]

A recent poll going around, in my opinion, lacked some important categories. The result was more than half of respondents answering "Other." Let's see if we can get a little more specific.

[eggmeralda]

listening to christmas songs in september. 12yo me will claim "im so random lololol" do not listen to her

[dreameasel]

thinking about how xavier was raised on shit like puppet master, hellraiser and atla like.... it really does explain a lot about him....