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Tharsis (2016, I told you most of the games I play are older) is basically a single player dice & card game, except everything is managed by your computer instead of with actual dice and cards.
Time for another rambling game rec!
A bizarre transmission, not from any known source, originating from the Tharsis crater on Mars, instigates the first manned mission to Mars. The Iktomi, enroute to the red planet, encounters a micrometeor shower that severely damages the ship. One of the crew is killed, the ship's pantry is destroyed, and the remaining crew have to survive the trip to Mars as systems continually fail.
Each week, new systems failures occur in one of the seven remaining modules of the ship. Your crew each have a certain number of dice, up to five, to resolve the issue by adding values together to meet a specific "repair" target goal. Dice can also be assigned to crew member ablities, which have an immediate effect, ship module abilities, which affect stats that carry over from one turn to the next, or research, which can be spent on randomly drawn projects for an immediate effect ranging from regaining dice to massive repairs to a module or the ship's hull.
After assigning your remaining crew to repair these modules, the week ends and any remaining emergencies have their effects applied (damaging the hull, reducing everyone's dice pool, injuring everyone) unless the effect is to disable the pod itself, which is an ongoing effect until it's repaired.
After damage is assessed, it's time to prepare for the next week.
Your crew is divided on how to prepare for the next week, and you have to choose what plan to follow. Every plan has a positive effect and, depending on the stress level of the crew proposing it, a negative effect that gets applied to the other option. You'll see here that if I pick the first option, I get one food, but those two crewmembers become more stressed. If I pick the second plan, everyone's stress reduces, but ship's hull takes damage.
The things you have to track from turn to turn:
HULL: If the ship's hull reaches zero, everyone gets to experience the joy and wonder of the cosmos close-up! Game over.
ASSIST: You can hold up to three ASSISTs. At the end of every week, you gain one, up to that maximum. Every time you roll a penalized result (Stasis, Damage, or Void) when repairing a module, it removes one ASSIST instead of doing that effect, until you're out of ASSISTs. You don't get to choose which effects get canceled by an assist.
FOOD: At the end of each turn, crew lose a single die from their dice pool, to a minimum of one. A single unit of food can be spent to restore three dice to a single crewmember's pool, to a maximum of three.
MEAT: You start the game with three meat. This meat can be substituted for food, HOWEVER - the meat is sourced from dead crewmembers. Committing cannibalism permanently lowers a crewmember's max HP by one. Crewmembers who have committed cannibalism have their dice permanently bloodstained to represent this. Once you run out of meat, you can choose to sacrifice a crew member in order to get three more meat at the cost of some stress and OH YEAH A DEAD CREWMATE.
HP: Each crewmember has 1-6 HP. Leaving a damaged module costs 1HP. Some damaged modules do HP damage to all crew at the end of the week. Rolling a DAMAGE result on a die does 1HP. If there are two damage dice in a module with the same number, rolling that number does 2HP damage. Found that out the hard way.
DICE: Every crewmember has 1-5 dice to roll to resolve an emergency, use their or a module's effect, or commit to research
STRESS: Every crewmember has a stress level. The more stressed they are, the worse their ideas at the end of the week are, the higher the penalty for not choosing their choice is. Managing stress is important to avoid cumulative penalties as you go.
RESEARCH: You can store up to 6 dice in research. Each must have a different roll on it, so you can allot a 1 to the 1 slot in research but as long as that's there, you can't allot any more 1s. There are three research projects at any time, with costs anywhere from 1 to 6 levels of research. These have immediate effects and can be huge game changers. Selecting one removes X number of dice from the research pool starting from the lowest value up (from left to right, essentially), or you can burn one level of research to reshuffle your choices.
That's it.
Keep the crew alive and the ship intact until they reach Mars and you win the game! In the main story scenario, you have 10 weeks until you reach mars. Other scenarios, under "Missions" have different objectives. At the end, win or lose, you're scored based on what actions you've taken, how many events are left unmanaged, whether or not you've committed cannibalism (and how many times), etc.
The story, parsed out before each week of gameplay in the main story mode, is easy to predict, but it's not the reason I play. I don't play to find out what's on Tharsis, I already know that. I play to find out how badly screwed I can be and whether or not I can come back from it.
oh shit
please please please please please
oh, I am SO screwed now
It's very highly chance-based, but there's a fair amount of strategy to it, as well. Just... don't get attached to the concept of victory.
Really.
just don't
just...
...don't.
*sigh*
welp.
This is fun.
#tharsis#losing is fun sometimes#holy shit what a shitty run to demonstrate the game with#wow#just#WOW
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Sweeping away his competition with a constant lead and a final victory by 22%, Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu has officially beaten Qi Rong and been crowned the MXTX character that was/would be most insufferable if given access to the internet!
In the end, it turns out that this whole elaborate tournament was for naught. Even Qi Rong, the man voted more annoying that 63 other characters, cannot hold a candle to the sheer degree of insufferable that we know our dear Peerless Cucumber was and would be. Absolutely nobody can compare to Shen Yuan's canon keyboard warrior antics.
Thank you all for joining me on this journey! I hope everyone had fun voting in this tournament, as I know I had a lot of fun running things and watching everyone's hot takes. Shen Yuan may have rendered all but the very final round of voting moot with his sheer loveable obnoxiousness, but maybe the real most insufferable people online are the friends we made along the way :).
#whoopsie doodle about posting this a full day later than planned#sometimes you spend an evening fixating intensely on an art project and listening to your friends play dnd over discord#and you forget that you're supposed to be posting the results of a week-long tournament#but that aside. this was fun!!#It was great to see so many people weighing in. so thank y'all for joining :)#I voted for qi rong. but I win either way because this result is vindication for me leaving SY out of the main bracket in the first place#the house never loses ;p#mxtx#svsss#ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong#the scum villain's self-saving system#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#peerless cucumber#mxtx insufferapoll#ID in alt text
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belobog trailblazing
#honkai star rail#hsr#hsr dan heng#hsr march 7th#hsr trailblazer#hsr stelle#honkai star rail fanart#fanart#digital art#digital artist#artist on tumblr#for people saying oh but dan heng left us for the sketchy fight club so he should be on leash too#he's a single mom who works two jobs#goes to have fun One Time while the kids are asleep#and suddenly everyone is VERY JUDGEY#but like yes sometimes he loses their single shared braincell too
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i think he deserves the therapy dinosaur
ft. lyra’s own ominous ass chikorita
#pokemon#pokemon hgss#trainer silver#rival silver#trainer lyra#meganium#chikorita#millidrew#art#my post#this came about because I REALLYY wanted to give Ethan a cyndaquil#this was before I included lyra in my brain so kris as the protag got totodile#and silver got chikorita. I think the difference between him going >:((( strong pokemon#and this very calm and happy to be here bean sprout dinosaur is very fun#now about lyra’s chikorita#it end up fitting really well by completing the protag trio#she chose the starter weak to her brother’s but effective against her brother’s rival (who will also become her rival)#(that’s kris btw)#…but despite the type advantage she still loses every battle they have.#and she matches with that angsty guy they see sometimes!#success!
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taskmaster is such a funny concept though they really said "okay we force five comedians do increasingly pointless, humiliating, and hilarious tasks, while the host bullies them all mercilessly. also the host's assistant is in a slightly concerning psychosexual dom/sub relationship with him, and gets off on the humiliation. and despite all of this it somehow feels wholesome and not Actually Mean. sometimes a swedish man is there"
#taskmaster#sometimes i say something on discord and then i go 'this isf unny enough to me that i shall post it upon hte blog'#no but really this shit is hilarious. the show i mean not me#and what i really appreciate is it balances the mean humor/humiliation with like. genuinely it never actually feels#distressing/or like. anything that isn't genuinely in good fun#like you never get the sense that its not a good time or that any of them are actually hurt in any way#more than like. you know. losing#you know what i mean?#taskmaster uk
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I’ve discovered my favorite genre of Bagginshield art is where Thorin is a lovesick idiot who is Losing It and Bilbo is unbothered or oblivious to Thorin’s suffering LMAO
#thorin oakenshield#bilbo baggins#bagginshield#if anyone has more please send it to me I have like four rn#I know I made a post a while back talking about how I wish there were more posts that focused on each of their lives outside of each other#and I still stand by that but I also can’t deny the fun in a Important Dwarf like Thorin turning into an idiot around Bilbo#tbh this works even platonically. this guy has friends bc he’s lucky not bc he’s actually friendly#so I can imagine becoming friends with Bilbo is like ‘fuck now I have to be nice bc he WILL actually leave. uh. oh god’#love men who are grouchy and offputting <3#and Bilbo is oblivious not as a flaw but bc he’s just not wired that way and he’s just accepting that Thorin is weird#bc he has no basis of which to assume he isn’t just Like That sometimes same way the dwarves don’t know shit abt hobbits#and it’s not as like. Bilbo being extremely innocent either he’s just not thinking about it LMAO#and Bilbo Also doesn’t have a ton of friends (different reasons but he IS also grouchy and petty) and he’s just ‘?? ok’#they’re both fucking stupid and everyone around them is dying and in anguish#I particularly enjoy when a character who is emotionally constipated and stoic and whatever just starts losing it#not even necessarily in a sappy or angsty way just. those emotions gotta come out eventually#so for a guy like Thorin who takes himself seriously and is very closed off emotionally it’s fun to just imagine that facade cracking#meanwhile Bilbo is just like ‘you ok??’#Bilbo himself has some emotional issues so it’s double the entertainment
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He came out to his parent company (they did not accept him)
#tadc#the amazing digital circus#caine x pomni#pomni x caine#sometimes I hate myself for laughing at my own shit#and this one takes the cake with me absolutely losing my EVERYTHING#whatever it just means I'm having fun#pomni#caine#tadc caine#tadc pomni#tadc fanart#tadc art#digital art#memes#pride month#happy pride 🌈#BEEEEEEEE WHOOOO YOU AREEE FOR YOUR PRIDEEEEEEE
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heres a scribble of these guys again smiles grins
#this was just a doodle before and after work smiles#not like. explicitly renga but u can tag it as them#i dont . like how some people write their relationship in a romantic lense sometimes they lose sight of the actual dynamic#which CAN work in a romantic setting dont get me wrong im a hashtag renga warrior esp like. thinking about langa being gay#and like. all my brainworms aboht that#and reki and his whole deal. oh BROTHER#maybe its bc im very fresh off of watching the show. lol#ANYWAYS YEAH I HAD FUN W THIS THEYRE SO FUN TO DRAW#sk8#sk8 the infinity#reki kyan#langa hasegawa#my art
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These days Poldine gets to go out for a little walk every day at apéritif time, because she's a good llama who doesn't bother my guests (too much) (she does ask for baby carrots and kisses) and she always returns to her pasture without a fuss. It's become a nice little summer evening ritual.
And it happened several times that Pampérigouste didn't see me open the gate for her daughter, and, when she realised Poldine was out, became genuinely puzzled as to how her prim and proper kid found a way out that she hadn't.
Pampelune would be allowed to go out too, but most of the time she's content to stay in the pasture with Pirlouit; it's only Pampe who (once she realises her daughter can't possibly have escaped on her own and I must have facilitated it) is like
#crawling along#i occasionally let all the llamas out but in this case i halter pampy and/or poldine#and keep pirlouit in the pasture and pandolf in the house#pampe tries to flee but once she realises she can't lead other animals down the path of evil she often loses interest#and comes back#''you guys are no fun''#the strategy only has a 75% chance of success. it's a gamble. sometimes pampe leaves on her own#''i don't even care i'll have an adventure all by myself then. it'll be JUST AS FUN''#but you can tell her heart's not in it
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honestly you can say anything about the ravens (and you'd be right to) but you can't say the concept of them isn't delicious. a group of collegiate athletes in their intimidating raven motifs and their black uniforms who are basically bred to become the best of the best in a bloodsport. the adrenaline rush of every game being a competition between yourself and your teammates. knowing you're not just gearing up towards court but following in the footsteps of the alumni before you. the parties and the victories and the mindless sex and the way everyone around you somehow seems to always be thinking the same thing as you are. you are never alone and you will never be again if you just do as we say. who knows the kind of relationships that can happen in a place like that?
#<- her ass would be easily sucked into a cult#BUT SERIOUSLY THEY FASCINATE ME. delicious as a concept#i think we as a fandom have a tendency to take the piss on them because theyre theatrical enough to be noticeable#and because neil himself does not respect them nor riko#but it is easy. i think. to lose sight of their humanity#of their morning classes and their college parties and their personhood beyond what the cult stripped from them#yes its fun sometimes to oversimplify the ravens#and they were terrible whenever they could#but i dont know. i dont know really where i was going with this. just musing i guess#its interesting to me#all for the game#aftg#kevin day#jean moreau#riko moriyama#the foxhole court
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*colors your kiseki part 2: rainbow edition*
me when i see literally any kiseki scene: you are not immune to being color corrected. and given skintones. while Maintaining Pretty. 💝 (pt 1)
...i love working with this show ngl. & to the people who leave kind words on my sets: i love you too. 🫂❤️🥰🥰🥰
#julian watches kiseki#kiseki: dear to me#kisekiedit#kdtm#flashing gif#the amount of grain i have to work with based on how washed out details are by the color... but its woorth iiiit#biggest pain in the ass sometimes but the BIGGEST ego booster when i see the end results#honestly it's just fun#and i get to look at my guys in the meantime theres really no losing#some like the fourth are sooooooo drenched in color that all i can do is pastel-ify it#but i tend to like those results as well as long as the grain isnt too bad. bc you can see more details after and brighten the deep shadows#bc like. tbh i love the way things are lit around chen yi and ai di#i loooove how colorful their half of the show is#i just also like. to make. it prettier.......#pdribs#uservid#userspring#usernik#userjjessi#userspicy#userrain#ai di x chen yi#chen yi x ai di#*mypost#again no pressure to rb im just out here
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I'm gonna be shitting and screaming and starting fights if Sera becomes a villain. I can't take sibling angst, Sera loves Emily I swear guys believe meeee.
#im making a fanfic of two and a half halos and the mc is Emily and it focuses alot on her and sera's dynamic#ill probablg send it here when im done. in 100 years because i havent finished a fic in 20 centuries#hazbin hotel sera#seraphim#hazbin sera#emily hazbin hotel#hazbin emily#hazbin hotel emily#emily seraphim#hazbin hotel#PLEASE DONT MENTION HAND PLACEMENF PLEASE /S#I WAS DRAWINF THIS AT 3 AM AND I KEPT BLACKINF OUT BUT I KNEW ID LOSE MOTIVATION IF I DIDNT FINISH#I DIDNT NOTICE UNTIL I WAS DONE SO PLS JST- IDK. JST LOOK AT MY BABIES#i headcanon Sera as trans. for pride month i have the idea of putting every ship and character under their pride flags#sooo sera is gonna be covered with a trans flag and emily... also trans becauze everyone is trans becauze o said so#charlie is ALSO trans because i said so#i came up wit trans sera on my own(idk if it existed be4 but i jst thot of it and got all happy cuz she is so trans idc) but#i freaking love trans emoly and trans charlie so for a bit i felt wrong for hc so many characters as trans#rhen i woke up one day and was loke. yeah idgaf they all trans cuz theres not enoigh#like im not gonna ALAAYS depict them as trans except sera(she is 100% trans to me) i like the other hcs for fun. im so srs for sera i 💜 her#sera just wants to hug her huggable sister sometimes and thats ok! 💜💜#art#fanart#artists on tumblr#digital art#*in stupid egg boy voice* i wish Sera would hold ME in her arms... 😔#gave them snouts because i cannot deal with the no noses. it genuinely disturbs me. have yall SEEN velvettes side profile omfg 😨#my babies... i just want them to be happy. why must there be sibling angst... they jst want to do whats right ☹️#im gonna fight to protect Sera from spme of yall fr fr cuz she do not deserve to be SO hated. JST. JST GET TO KNO HER I SWEAR SHE COOL#like i get it. what she doin is wrong. but if you was in her shoes you know you would do the same dont even lieeee 😨
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Hi guys heres the first edit i have made ever, also fun fact this idea has been in my head for *checks calendar* a month and seventeen days and only have i just gotten around to making it two days ago 🥳
#yes i know the song is about losing ur virginity#but cant i have a little bit of fun sometimes????#zero day 2003#zero day#andre kriegman#calvin gabriel#cal gabriel#caldre#zdblr
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As promised, there it is ! 17k words lighthearted NikPrice fic <3 These two have been circling around each other for twenty years and are finally doing something about it.
Summary: Things have been different between John Price and Nikolai as of late. The two men have always been close, but something changed. Now, Price is forced to go on medical leave after a disaster of a mission. Nikolai offers a fishing trip, something he knows his favorite captain enjoys, a nice way to relax, and maybe let their relationship evolve.
#Nikprice#cod nikolai#nikolai cod#john price#captain price#captain john price#nikolai x price#cod#okay WOOOO it's posted#oh I'm stressed out about this one#Sometimes I think my 15 yo self would lose their mind if they saw me write entire stories in another language#anyway I like older men acting like teenage boys around each other#it's pretty lighthearted but there is some talk of homophobia / internalized homophobia so just watch out for this#also alas the sleeping bag action didn't stay in the sleeping bag as long as I thought it would ..........#my writing#oh also I should mention that this isn't my main headcanon for them#and I do picture Price to be older than his canon age#for fun
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my mind has gone FERAL for GG's glorious future. BUT, I must know... What convinced Lae'zel to try an extra serving of calamari?! did Emps have to plane shift to save GG and just *Destroy* a bunch of enemies or something??
Oh man, That question brought out the big muse-a-lot hammer. But for like. Different answers. The Bad News: I have NO idea! Absolute zilch what specific moment would make Lae'zel go "Open-Minded-flayer Take #2". Maybe it's not even an exact moment. Maybe it's more like a very long and arduous slow-burning process. A very enemies to rivals to mutual allies to friends-who-won't-admit-they're-friends to I'll-think-about-it to count-me-in. A very 3-4 character developing campaign arc. The Good news: I know what starts them down that path.
Oh the shenanigans. Oh the things that can exist in the Far Realms where time doesn't exist and endless AUs do.
So what if Greygold accidentally meets their evil ending self and gets in an unfortunate predicament where Babe and Squid bud have no choice but to...Partner up to rescue them?
More shenanigans below:
Stakes are set. Maybe Greygold escapes, but can't return home without Grey following and is in hiding. Maybe they're bait and traps are set. Maybe they're dead (temporarily???). Maybe they're both having an intense therapy debate about redemption arcs until they're rescuers arrive. Greygold Mind Games Go.
The long story explanation: Greygold had never invested more into the marketing strategist business mindset than to turn their favorite romance novel, Tusk Love, (comic inside joke) into a pop culture hit. Emps lost a bet that they could succeed and now is following through with their not-so-innocent deal to use Greyg's trusted "adventurer" as their official public disguise.
Since the romance novel Tusk Love is now a popular theater play, Emps' public disguise keeps getting mistaken for that " one pretty tusked fellow on the bestseller novel (which recently updated their book cover with an anonymously commissioned illustration which looks suspiciously identical)" and never fails to receive an abundance of compliments. Emps has reserved the right to remain silent about the whole matter, but is pretty sure Greygold pulled a 'get praised, squiddiot' prank.
Lae'zel is gonna catch up on a lot of Squid Bud facts on this trip. Much to Squid Bud's dismay.
The irony is if Emps asked Minsc for help first, this adventure would have been solved within a day tops.
#bg3#bg3 spoilers#baldur's gate 3#Bg3 au#or bg3 throwing wild magic idea darts; very hit and miss; grain of salt sillies ( I had fun with the thought at least)#Greygold#squidgold#lae'zel#Bg3 the emperor#Bg3 emperor#emperor x greygold x lae'zel#I worry those two might enable each other's no mercy murder spree involving anything endangering Greyg's life#But something something this is probably a metaphor for would you be able to love the worst of me? Would you kill them or save them?#Evil Greyg definitely did not meet that charisma save with Lae'zel#Like what if reload doesn't destroy the world where you failed your check#; you the player just move to different world with more satisfying outcomes. but the failed check world continues on. schemes.#sometimes it's a game over. sometimes they find you in the far realms to remedy their losses. one way or another.#Anyway Greyg finds out they have bad coping mechanisms when losing their loved ones.#“I'll get you my pretty; and your pina colada too”
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you mentioned the arrows stealing tim from the bats and i just had the hilarious idea of that + jaytim
poor oliver would lose his mind bc he goes and saves tim from the bats and then tim brings one of them home
put it back tim you don't know where that's been
i'm CRYING this is so funny. it's even funnier given what Jason did to Mia. like of all the morally questionable mob bosses Tim could've dragged home, he had to pick *that one*? Oliver is trying to be supportive of Tim and give Tim more agency than Bruce gave him, bc Oliver worked *hard* to steal this one and he's not going to lose all of the progress he made. and it does seem like Tim's doing *somewhat* of a decent job of making Jason less murdery. and Jason agrees to the rule he'll keep out of the Star City scene, but Gotham's still his fair game. and honestly, that makes Oliver like him just a *little bit* because if he's going to make Bruce's life more difficult, maybe Jason is alright.
it also does *not* help that when Oliver goes to Roy for support bc Roy agrees that Jason is untrustworthy as hell. but Roy is *also* the guy who had a daughter with Chesire, so the best he can do is give Oliver a shrug.
also think it's fun if Tim is sort of tense, expecting Oliver to put his foot down and tell Tim no. like he's not used to a vigilante parental figure who's actually good at the parent part, so it's weird having this level of freedom, esp when he knows Oliver does disapprove. but Oliver lets Tim figure out hs own love life and make his own mistakes, even if he's ranting to Dinah about Jason until two in the morning. it doesn't help that Jason makes no move to try to get along with Oliver. he's just a shit to be a shit. at this point Tim is pretty sure Jason enjoys driving Oliver up a wall more than he enjoys dating Tim. who's to say if it's true.
#necrotic answerings#jaytim#crack#this verges on ooc#but sometimes we deserve silly lil ooc things#and this is just so funny anon#oliver losing his mind bc why can't his kids be normal.#he says that in passing and tim bluescreens bc wdym he's considered one of oliver's kids.#he did not mean to stay longterm.#i think it's fun if bc of issues with bruce tim stays with the arrows “just for a bit” partly to help with a case#and partly bc oliver offers the space for tim to clear his head#and oliver has the obvious ulterior motive of just stealing tim. and it works.#tim insists he's going to leave. he is a liar.#i really want a tim and mia friendship. i think they'd be fun.#and she'd rib him for dating jason. more lgihthearted than oliver but she gets her jabs in#i need to read more arrow comics to write stuff with them#i feel *bad* bc i know fans of other super families hate when batfamily fans invade the tags#so i feel i owe it to be as canon accurate as possible.#i do not view these characters as props for the bats i swear </3
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