#not that there's anything wrong with the b&w thing i'll probably keep my main as a sideblog because it's fun and really soothing

[thedragonscribe]

A: Bonebreaker, that guitar has me weak

B: Not really anything I can think of except maybe more stuff to do in the safehouse

C: Honestly Locke, though Vlad is close second

D: I've mained nothing but Sydney for the past few years and even tried to make her gun good so hers, though if I owned anything new it'd probably be one of those heists

E: Any. Stealth in any mission feels so good when you get it right

F: That being said, Saint Martin bank is still on my shitlist for that time I lost because I failed to answer a pager. Of the guard on the roof that my friend intimidated. From the second floor. We didn't even know that guards could be up there

G: Sydney's pager lines used to give me a "pardon?" almost every time before I got used to them, though I don't remember anything specifically. Maybe that time she claimed her pet rat was mauling a coworker

H: Honestly trying to think of one since I've mostly been doing crime sprees. I think it's less about the heists for me and more what I can pull off in each map

I: Favors are a map-by-map case, though I normally always use a few unless I've had to restart a few times and just want to speed through set up

J: Jimmy (affectionately). There's nothing negatively dumb about it, though I still find it funny that the whole thing runs on the engine of a driving game

K: Idc how many times I get told to build turrets last, I like being able to walk into a room that's supposed to be swarmed but isn't

L: Wolf, anything Wolf does. Especially the secret ending. Him and Hox are just

M: I almost always use Le Castle Vania, one pattern for stealth, one for loud, but Leshy from the Winter Ghosts dlc is a close second. The whole reason I bought the pack, even

N: I don't feel like I'm in touch enough with the community to really answer this other than to say I have no idea why people find Sydney annoying

O: Tbh, not much of a risky player, though there was one time I basically walked through a guard and didn't even go into the red

P: I just hope it doesn't go the way other large games have been going lately.

Q: Repeating a mission for a few hours is fine if I have someone with me, but if I'm playing alone and keep having to restart, more so if it's a loud mission, I get overwhelmed and have to tap

R: I consume very little other media so it's hard to say

S: Leech even though I don't fully know how to use it and don't really play with anyone anymore

T: The whole story is a bunch of surprises, though I'll never forget the time I played Henry's Rock out of context and saw the room behind the glass for the first time

U: We need to lock him in a room with Locke more often, the only redeemable part of San Martin Bank

V: If I'm reading this right, Dentist. It's just something about his voice

W: Overkill for loud because I play alone, though I've been slowly trying to bump it up. Death Sentence for stealth because I don't see why not

X: I think it being incurable, while it sucks, would curb an issue that a lot of media has in that any big emotional or character loss is usually reverse by the end. I don't mean in a "oh we found someone else and bonded" way, I mean in a "oh turns out it wasn't that serious" way which just makes the stakes feel empty.

Y: I try to when I can. I need all the shinies

Z: I'm not sure. I can definitely feel something whenever I boot it up, but it's not completely the gameplay. I want to say it's the aesthetic or the premise. The game, masks aside, is darker, dirtier, and has a grit that other games I've played either don't have or don't keep. On top of that, just the idea of a group of social outcasts coming together in something just shy of a found family and just doing whatever the hell they want in every sense of the word tickles my brain in a way no other game has. In a weird way, if I'm not completely fed up with missions going wrong, it just makes me feel safe when I play, not because of the guns but because of the characters, as sad as that might sound.

The ABCs of Payday - Q&A edition

You can either answer all of these yourself & tag people to also complete it, or you can RB and your followers can pick a letter and you answer. Or you can just do nothing that's cool too ig.

A is for ALESSO: favourite track?

B is for BALDWIN'S LAMENT: any regrets or things you wish were different about the game/story?

C is for CONTRACTORS: favourite contractor and why?

D is for DLC: favourite DLC you own?

E is for ECMS: favourite stealth/stealth-only heist?

F is for FUUUUUUU: most-hated heist?

G is for GENSEC: favourite pager line?

H is for HEIST: all-time favourite heist?

I is for ILIJA: are you a favours lover or do you prefer the challenge of going in without favours?

J is for JOKERS: dumbest thing/moment about the series?

K is for KILLKILLKILL: favourite/best way to kill cops?

L is for LIVE-ACTION: favourite live-action/web series moment?

M is for MASKS: favourite mask/s?

N is for NO MERCY: hot take/unpopular opinion about the games?

O is for OVERKILL: best/coolest thing you've ever done in-game?

P is for PAYDAY 3: hopes for Payday 3?

Q is for QUIT: what makes you rage/quit?

R is for RESERVOIR DOGS: cross-overs you'd like to see in Payday 3?

S is for STOIC: favourite/most-used perk deck?

T is for TASER: most surprising moment/thing that happened in-game?

U is for UKRAINIAN: favourite Vlad moment?

V is for VILLAIN: favourite baddie and why?

W is for WE CALL THIS A DIFFICULTY TWEAK: preferred/most-played difficulty?

X is for XENODIAGNOSIS: would you want Bain's disease to be curable and why/not?

Y is for YULE: do you typically play seasonal updates and why/why not?

Z is for ZEAL: what makes you excited about Payday and keeps you coming back to play again and again?

[glorfindels-archive]

hi :] i'll make a proper announcement if/when i decide to go through with it, this is more of a heads up and me thinking out loud but i'm considering leaving my main account and with it my half a dozen sideblogs including this one that go with it and remaking them all as one merged multifandom colour blog. i'll definitely be keeping the url, tracking the same tag etc etc and i'll still be posting tons of tolkien and occasionally making original content, the only difference is that you're going to have to put up with other fandom content as well and my tagging system is probably going to be a little less thorough.

i'll probably make the switch sometime during this week or the next, until then i'll obviously still be around on here and try and catch up on tag games, messages etc, i don't want to leave anything 'unfinished' and after that... see you on the other side!! thanks for understanding 💚