#penpen word vomit

[penpinetree]

I will never forget In Stars and Time

i just completed it, it was, a really good and fun experience, the writing was pristine, the world building had so much care put into it, and... i dont really want to make a really long post about it right now, i just have to sit with it for a minute, you should play In Stars and Time

[penpinetree]

This remains as the only funny April fools joke

since i only ever send rick rolls to ppl i figured id just post one for all my followers for april fools day this year to save myself the effort

happy april fools y’all

[penpinetree]

Vague Phoenix Wright Spoilers

im sorry but watching Edgeworth start to work together with Wright to catch the murderer at the end of Turnabout Samauri was the most romantic tension i've felt between two men in a courtroom ever

[penpinetree]

I need him dead

[penpinetree]

Rhythm Doctor's tutorials are perfect and why subdivision beats are my favorite mechanic (SPOILERS FOR ACT 5)

before we get into spoilers: Rhythm doctor is a one button rhythm game where you apply defibrillation to numerous characters who each have their own tempo, mechanics and stories as to why they're at middle sea hospital, the game has a great story, amazing characters, and a simple (at first) gimmick, push the button on the 7th beat. its a good game, you should totally play it, and I recommend not reading this post if you haven't, if you have played it, then listen to me word vomit for a minute.

Act 5 is about subversion, even before the act officially starts the game tricks you into thinking it'll be a fun little baseball themed act

the entire act takes place in a new (to you) ward where you've overheard from two other patients that a popular baseball player has just been admitted there.

immediately you'll notice that this is not a ward in a hospital, this is a baseball field, strange, but whatever, doesn't matter. this song introduces a new gimmick, subdivision notes, which are a type of SVT beat (i realize i didn't explain those, basically you're given a get, set, go count and have to hit the beat on go) subdivision beats are simple (at first) where all you need to do is listen for a queue and hit more than one note.

they look like this (it was so hard to time snipping tool to get these). the top image is for a double subdivision and the bottom is for a triple subdivision the tutorial for these notes is really good at getting you used to these types of notes being matched with each other and regular notes respectively and you'll have a good grip on them by the end of it.

the song starts out in the same field that going into the physiotherapy ward brought you to, and the music is nice, mostly just a test to see if you have the subdivision beats down by now.

that is until you reach this point and a baseball suddenly flies into the screen, putting the song to a pause and pulling away the curtain.

it was a dream, this is lucky, the baseball player who was admitted to middlesea hospital for tearing their rotator cuff during a game. after a quick cutscene the song starts again, cutting back to the baseball field, except it's no longer a dream, it's a nightmare, its pouring rain, baseballs fall from the sky in larger and larger amounts, every now and then you can see the eyes of Lucky's fellow teammates staring at you from the dugout. and then it happens, my favorite part of act 5, the one queue that made me fall in love with this game for a third time.

FOUR! TONK-TONK-TONK-TONK

all of the sudden you're hit with a quadruple subdivision beat, they didn't teach you this, lightning strikes in the background as its called out, normally this would be bad game design, throwing something at you out of nowhere without explaining how you're supposed to deal with it. but you hit the notes anyway, because by now you've learned to ignore the visual cues and go based off of the game's rhythm, because the queue's "Tonks" are also in tempo with how quickly you have to hit the divided notes, so without making a sweat you hit the notes perfectly, even while the nightmare sequence starts to fall apart, telling lucky to wake up, you still hit every note perfectly until the end of the song

at the end of the song the screen zooms out from lucky, and you're shown the real physiotherapy ward, this room will no longer look like the baseball field unless you go to it on a new save, act 5 is such a good example of why this game is so dear to my heart (haha) and if you still somehow haven't played it, please, just buy it, give the developers your money.

[penpinetree]

sans among us

YES YES YES YES!!!! I CAN KILL PEOPLE WHILE DRESSED LIKE PAPYRUS

Edit: I looked at it in game and it's the kind you can buy using beans which you earn FOR FREE by playing, SO IT'S BASICALLY FREE COSMETICS

[penpinetree]

Been playing in stars and time recently and I just have to say that this game’s world building shows such careful, planned, effort, so much love was put into every single brick, the fact that with the information I’ve been given so far (only in act 3, no spoilers!), that I’ve been able to make connections that haven’t been pointed out yet, the importance of the country that vanished, picking apart the rules of the time loop, these beautifully written characters with so much history with each other that is mostly left as a mystery to the player, they feel so natural, they really feel like friends, the culture, religions, history, the fact that MASSIVE LORE DROPS just happen??? (Gonna start spoiling stuff)

You find a book about color theory, and the characters are like “what are colors lol” and you’re just supposed to accept that the game’s art style isn’t for the aesthetic, but a actual part of the world???? Not just that, but at one point there WAS color, but now there’s no color, and the world is actually just black and white, and they just move on like “huh ain’t that weird anyway let’s keep going” and there’s an entire COUNTRY that just.. vanished, and no one can remember what it was called, or anyone who lived there, like it was erased from the timeline of the entire universe, and whenever someone tries to remember anything about it they get a headache, and then you realize that there’s books written in a language that no one knows how to read… that makes their head hurt when they try to read it… and the main character can’t remember their family, and when they happen to remember a moment with their parents… they get a headache… and OH SHIT THE MAIN CHARACTER IS FROM THE MISSING COUNTRY AND THEIR ENTIRE FAMILY WAS POSSIBLY REMOVED FROM EXISTENCE AND WAIT THERES ALSO EVIDENCE THAT THE KING COULD BE FROM THE MISSING COUNTRY AND THATS WHY BOTH CHARACTERS HAVE A STAR MOTIF AND WHY SIFF SAYS “STARS” LIKE HOW ODILE SAYS “GEMS” AND THE OTHERS SAY “CHANGE” ALSO WHY ARE THE STARS SUCH A MYSTERIOUS CONCEPT TO THE OTHERS COULD THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF RESEARCH ON STARS AND THE SKY IN THE MISSING COUNTRY AND THAT WAS JUST LOST TO TIME AND EVERYONES MEMORY????? AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[penpinetree]

Finished watching Breaking Bad and El Camino

it was good

[penpinetree]

FINALLY beat outer wilds

[penpinetree]

thank yooouuu very sweet :)

Shoutout to @penpinetree and @lordofthesillystraws my besties yippee gonna bonk you on the head like a cat headbutt

[penpinetree]

please please please play rhythm doctor, please play it holy shit this game is so fucking good, it is my number one favorite rhythm game, even if your rhythm is awful theres plenty of accessibility options to make it easier, everyone needs to play this game i am honestly the most normal i have ever been

[penpinetree]

Watch scavengers reign

watch it, its beautiful, its stunning, its absolutely heartwrenching, watch it now dont keep reading this post go watch it, theres lesbians, will you watch it? please watch it

[penpinetree]

hello yes i want more larger than life stories, i want to go from standing up to my highschool bully to fighting the shell of a long dead god, i want to lose myself in another realm as we exchange blows and i want to win and look back as the gate to my own world has closed meaning that i may have saved the world at the cost of the small life i originally had, i want my only reasonable course of action to be picking up the throne of the previous god to run things in his place and hopefully fix whatever went wrong when they were originally the higher power

[penpinetree]

Hi can someone with more media literacy than me explain Walter's whole thing with the eye of that pink teddy bear?

to pinpoint what im talking about, the bear that lands in his pool during the final episode of season 2

i keep trying to figure out what the plane crash, the teddy bear, and the eye are supposed to symbolize but i keep drawing blanks

[penpinetree]

I love it here

Feat: @lordofthesillystraws @tottymatsuuu @borderline-purrsonality and mayday ray

[penpinetree]

hellooooooo hi picayune dreams altered my brain chemistry go play it its a fun game :)