#sanity 1.0

[sanityisforthesane]

I got a good look at the eclipse today! Safety first of course 😎

[4giorno]

yesssss. aventurine works perfectly with ratio :')🫶

[wannabanauthor]

What if Buck's new haircut is to piss off Gerrard?

If Gerrard is really going to be the interim captain despite having complaints filed against him by the 118, here's a funny take on what could happen:

Buck gets his new haircut to show Gerrard a glimpse of Buck 1.0. Men, women, and nb folks flirt with him on every single call that Gerrard gets sick of it and makes him stay behind on calls.

Buck turns into Clipboard Buck and:

Tommy drops by the 118 during Buck's lunch to give him a sanity break.

Before he can even call out for Buck, Gerrard runs over to him in a panic.

"I apologize for my outburst at the medal ceremony, so please take your boyfriend and leave for the rest of the shift. I can't take it anymore."

Tommy frowns. "That would be time theft."

"I don't give a fuck. I'm willing to pay for him to leave early. I've already set it up in his time card, and here's it in cash if you don't believe me," Gerrard says and pulls out a huge wad of cash.

Tommy is very confused until he hears Evan's voice.

"Oh Captain Gerrard! You weren't in your office when we were supposed to have a meeting, so I took the initiative to make sure everything in was up to code and regulation, and you wouldn't believe all the mistakes I found!" Buck nearly sings in a happy voice from across the station.

Gerrard shoves the cash into Tommy's hands and looks at him with terrified eyes. "I was never here!" Then he takes off running into the parking lot and around the building.

Tommy smiles when he sees Evan approaching him with his own smile. He pulls his boyfriend in for a kiss and a hug."

"I found this huge wad of cash under my car," Tommy says with a huge grin then gives Buck an appreciative once over and runs his fingers through Buck's curls. "I was thinking we could get you a specialized clipboard. Maybe one with your name embossed, maybe a calculator or mini smartphone device embedded into it. Hell, we could even order you custom note paper."

And then Evan nearly mauls him with his mouth right there in the station then drags him off to one of the supply closets for some happy fun time.

Tommy does buy Evan a custom specialized clipboard with the money along with custom paper that he got approved by the LAFD.

Gerrard must have been stupid as hell to think Tommy was actually going to help him.

[poomphuripan]

exclusive picture from the hint item google form yyds posted this week. what about my sanity yyds (⁠ ⁠；⁠∀⁠；⁠) imagine this being joe 1.0's lockscreen ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

edit: indeed, it WAS joe's lockscreen... joe loved ming so much... joe going to work and smiling at his cute couple lockscreen 💔

[becausebuckley]

i'll show you mine (will you show me yours?) | buddie | explicit | 5.8k

when buck feels insecure about his nudes, he asks eddie for help. for 911 kinktober day 27: non-penetrative sex!

“Well, we ended up exchanging some, ah, some pictures,” Buck continues, the words tumbling out faster now. “And at first it seemed fine, but then he started making these comments. Like, laughing about my poses and how I looked and stuff. He even said my dick looked weird.” Eddie’s free hand clenches into a fist at his side. “What an asshole,” he mutters. He doesn’t need to be experienced in the art of nude photos to know that that’s a dick move. Like, how could anyone say those types of things to Buck, of all people? Buck is gorgeous, a real work of art. Eddie has no doubt that the same applies to his nudes, as much as he tries not to think about those for his own sanity. “You should stop talking to him.” “Yeah, I guess,” Buck says, sounding deflated. “The conversation died out pretty soon. But now I can’t stop thinking about it.” Buck’s voice drops even lower, almost a whisper. “What if... what if he's right, Eddie? What if my nudes really do look weird and everyone’s just been too polite to say anything? Cause, like, I used to send them a lot, you know? Before we met, when I was still Buck 1.0? What if I’ve been sharing really bad pictures with everyone? Shit, what if my dick really does look weird?”

read the full fic on ao3 here!

[doubledeadstudio]

Hey I just got into your games and I am loving them so much! I just had a few questions cause as I was playing I was a lil confused

For Reanimated hearts, it said that 1.3 was finished and released to the public but the files on itch said it was 1.0. Is 1.3 a patreon only thing or am I missing something? (Also how long is 1.3? I am seriously liking how things are going and I will literally cry if I hit a sudden cliffhanger like it’s sooo good)

I’m trying to get all the endings in PF but there’s no option to torment Florentin to go into the woods. Did I miss something here as well?

Will you make more yandere games? I seriously like what you’re doing here and the art is so pretty!

Thank you, anon!!

Oh, for RH, this is a bit hard to explain... The folder that we code the game in is named 1.3.0, but when we build Distributions for the public, Ren'Py renames it to 1.0. And it's such a minor thing that I don't even care to change the name. So, basically the version out in public is 1.3.0, everything is up to date.

For the yandere games thing, who knows, probably! Tbh I don't actually set to make "yandere" games specifically, it's just I get tantalized by a certain concept, then I make the game, lol. It just happens to be that things I prefer to write falls in line with the popular yandere genre in fortunate ways, so I take advantage of the zeitgeist while the iron is hot HAHAHA. But horror and fucked up love has always been a thing I'm into since I was a teenager.

For the PF question, it's spoilers, so I'm putting it under a cut.

During the Florentin shower, you have to pass the first Grab the Scissors health check with extremely low sanity (like, as close to 0 as possible). Then you will have the option to Torment him.

[hermioneismyrealname]

My Stand in Ep 11. Ah the curse

OK. So this felt rushed. Do I care? Kinda. My entire rant below

Joe's mum got a letter exposing his relationship with Ming. I cringed. But then it was supposed to be resolved. "We'll go and see her this afternoon?" Did that happen off screen?

Then we have May being an absolute queen who deserves none of this shit.

Then the Mum. She was the one who sent the lawyer. I cant defend her but I do understand her desperate actions. But then she relents to the man when he gets to feed Ming. Love her dreaded face cause there was still hope in her face when that idiot gave Ming an ultimatum.

Speaking of that dinosaur. HAH! his face. His face. That was it. The conflict in his face. The fact that he wants his son to be happy but in HIS way is interesting. When Ming pulls two up on him and WINS is hilarious. He was so sure that Ming was the one who exploited his wealth the most (he isn't wrong), so to him, it WAS clear what the simple choice would be.

Oh YOU! older brother. I cannot wait for you to bring the secretary to the dinner table and give that geizer a heart attack. Please. But HIS ENTIRE CHARACTER IS CONSISTENT BUT HIS CHOICES ARE NOT! He was reluctant to let Joe near him. But relents when he hears what happens with Joe mum. "As an apology"? My guy, if you didnt do it why are you apologizing? Then it goes to him not believing Ming's belief that this is Joe. Ming hasnt eaten and has proven to be psychotic sober and stupid when drunk. I dont blame him for not believing him. I would have called quits if he didn't. Then one vomit spill later and he consults the wise cryptic man for advice. May i remind everyone how vague his answers are? How the hell did he get a straight answer that he was convince that was Joe 1.0 in Joe 2.0 body?

Next. Tong. Fuck you.

Following this was Sol. I do not like you. You give me an ick. You are the "Kawaii" but add the "-sou" and that is you, sol. But he is a friend.

Joe. Hey Joe. You good? Hah. You go into the light, man. You deserve it. And how was the cryptic man? did he save you from making a dumb mistake? Perhaps but why you had a montage in the third person in a cinematic lens, i'll never know. Also you getting shot? Predicatable. He is a heart of gold. But when Joe fell down the stairs, I cackled like a sanity deprived witch. PFt.

Now finally, Ming. YOU PSYCHO. YOU BRILLIANT LOVE SICK PSYCHO. So far, you did good. Kept beating your father at his own game. Won his mum over. Got his brother to break laws. Broke his sister's rose coloured glasses. He asked good questions like when will Joe stop being the good person. Then, he puts himself at risk for this stand-in. No notes, apart from that he should have punched Tong when he saw him at the studio.

That was a rushed episode. But i think with the run time they had, this was the best we would have gotten. There is still so much to cover in the 12th episode and not having a preview is a wild choice. A good one. This raises the stakes and keeps people on edge. Perhaps they will release it but it would be wise to keep things as a mystery since the trailer is already out there. This series has drastically changed from the book and I appreciate both separately. I've always had the opinion of keeping the book and the series separate. Pepsi is brilliant in keeping the beauty of the story while Up and Poom portray the characters with such detail. A whole series cannot be judged on a single episode that only lacks in a certain attribute - in this case, pacing.

I cannot wait for episode 12 and May's signature on the divorce papers. One thing though, if Tong gets to apologize, i want Mek to pull off so much patheticness that you can only feel pity. And if Joe does end up in a wheelchair, I want him to be drowning in money. Nope. None of this stuggle in poverty. Enough of that in real life. If switching souls exists, i want infinite money for the afflicted, too.

Welp thats my take.

[hippolotamus]

Song 44 for a spotify inspired drabble please? If possible to Buddie? If not any ship is good!

Hello, friend!!!!! I thought for sure yours would be sad but the words took a very different direction. Also it's not even remotely drabble length... *shrugs*

Buck doesn’t remember exactly when the dreams started, just that it was sometime during his 1.0 phase. Like his subconscious realized before he did that sleeping around wasn’t cutting it. That he craved something deeper and more complex than purely physical relationships.

The first time he brushes the experience off as odd, but not necessarily unwelcome. He remembers “waking up” in his dream, laying in his bed. The thing that makes this different is the sense of calm and belonging. The feeling of being wanted. As far as he can tell, he isn’t imagining anyone else with him, yet he still feels like he’s being held. Truthfully, it’s nice. 

Night after night the dreams continue whether he’s at home or the station. Then, when he least expects it, they suddenly change. The entity cocooning around him begins to take on more shape, progressing with every sleep until there’s a fully formed person. 

The revelation, however intriguing, is frustrating because he isn’t allowed to see them. Whoever it is has strong arms, is about the same height, and holds him so close. Like Buck is the most precious person to exist. Sometimes he swears he can feel warm breath tickling the back of his neck. 

And then Buck begins dating Abby. As he spends the night more often, the dreams stop. He would be lying if he said that didn't bother him. Buck is happy with Abby – she’s sweet, beautiful, and the sex is nothing to complain about – but there’s something missing. It creates a persistent longing. An ache for a person who only exists in his dreams. Kinda pathetic when he thinks about it. That doesn’t stop the flood of relief when Abby leaves and the dreams begin again as if they never stopped.

Now, though, Buck gets more details. This person – man – has soft, chestnut hair; cheekbones that could probably cut glass;  thick, dark eyelashes; and a hint of stubble Buck longs to trace with this thumb and have it be real. He’s beautiful. A term Buck’s never really considered in terms of the guys he’s found attractive, but it fits here. 

The man always appears peaceful and unburdened, though not completely. As if there’s an undercurrent of worry that only leaves when he’s asleep. 

Buck starts to question his own sanity when he finds himself longing to soothe whatever is bothering his… person. If he didn’t think it would get him sent straight back to the department therapist he would say something to Bobby. And he’s not sure if he can take it to Hen either. So he keeps it to himself, researching anything he can find. Needless to say the results are disappointing. Every promising article or forum posting leads to an eventual dead end. He begins to consider that he may never have an explanation. 

~

“Now that is a beautiful man,” Chim exclaims.

“Where’s the lie? And I like girls,” Hen adds. 

Buck whips around to see who they’re talking about, nearly dropping his phone in the process. 

“Holy shit,” he murmurs. “It’s him.”

send me 1-100 and i'll write you a drabble based on the corresponding song

[feckinhaggis]

lastfm Monthly: November

• Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration

• Septage - Septic Worship

• Curta'n Wall - Yr Gwyddbwll

• Dystopia - s/t

• Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction

• Ploho - Бумажные Бомбы

• Brutal Truth - Need To Control

• Defeated Sanity - Chronicles of Lunacy

• Dystopia - Human = Garbage

• Axegrinder - Rise of the Serpent Men

• Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation

• Grief - Dismal

• Agalloch - The Mantle

• Total Fucking Destruction - Compact Disc Version 1.0

• Deathless Void - The Voluptuous Fire of Sin

• Sijjin - Sumerian Promises

• Alement - Banished Sphere

• Immortal - At The Heart of Winter

• Leaving Time - I + II

• Subscum - s/t

• usedcvnt - ultraviolet

• Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times

• Andreas Rönnberg - Train Tracks

• Hulder - Verses in Oath

• Repulsion - Horrified

• Skaven - Flowers of Flesh and Blood

• Amebix - No Sanctuary

• Iniquitous Savagery - Edifice of Vicissitudes

• Kino - Группа крови

• Ministry - KE*A*H** (Pslam 69)

[swallowtail-ageha]

I was thinking yesterday about all the speculations about where the workshop umbilical cord came from, and i have suddenly rembered a post where someone tried to argue that it came from Maria and it was the cause of her suicide and. I mean. I do think its an awful theory because it would cheapen by maximum her entire storyline and would just thread Arianna's again, but i do think that something like that might have been planned in the early stages of developement.

Maria, likely, never existed as part of the original plan of bloodborne and was just a dlc addition. There *was* the subject of Gehrman's disciple, but due to them being ambiguously gendered in the main game and maria herself having zero other proof of being a thing in game files, i think they just took the apprentice, the doll whom they didnt explain the origins of, and conflated the characters to create her.

Anyways, this established, i have been looking at cut content and well. We do know that the doll and the vilebloods had a serious connection even in the early stages of development, not through Maria, but through Annalise herself . In very early in-game files, some of Annalise's voicelines are dubbed by Evetta Muradasilova, the Doll and then Maria's voice actress (source under the cut). I do think it was likely that Annalise was supposed to be the woman the Doll was based upon (and Annalise herself in those lines acts more meek and sweet), whom had an unspecified type of situationship with Gehrman.

The last piece in this puzzle is the Workshop Umbilical Cord itself, which in the 1.0 description of the game is said to originate from "The Child Of The Vilebloods", implying it was Annalise's kid and the reason why the Church raided Cainhurst.

So likely Protomaria was supposed to have had the cosmic impregnation and (supposed) death due to it which caused Gehrman's spiral as a plotline, but due to Cainhurst losing most of its in game importance and cut storylines, they decided to split her into Annalise and Maria, and honestly (aside from Cainhurst being main plot irrelevant now), i can't even complain too much about it

I... genuinely don't know where i want to go. This is just heavy speculation, but i do think it's fun in general to analyze what made it in game, what didn't make it, how things changed and what was the original vision of the game. Its a fun exercise

As a final note, it is interesting how in canon maria, who arguably (if her bossfight is to be used to extrapolate the powers she had when alive and it wasn't just kos fucking with her) looks to be more attuned power wise to the pthumerians compared to all the other cainhurst women, seems to be completely estranged from the cosmical impregnation storyline herself. Its almost as if she, trying to distance itself from the gendered violence that she would have been doomed to by her sheer existance as a cainhurst woman, threw herself into the byrgenwerth research first and then healing church research, wanting to find another method to contact great ones that didn't mean selling one's womb (and sanity) to them, only to end up inflicting that same bodily autonomy violation on kos and the patients of the research hall

(Thank you val for giving me the link)

[theothermorganh]

I haven't talked about my Mannequin OC in a hot minuet.

And updated drawin with some info.

Text:

The Mannequin Age: 15 He/Him Height: 5',3"

Abilities: Eats rocks Can mend clothing for health Specialized weapons and armor Can switch body parts for new ones- Each body part has durability and will affect speed. (Arms- Crafting speed and attack speed/dmg. Legs- Walking speed. Head- No durability. Torso- Over all health.)

More info if you want it under cut: (And sketches :3)

Full sets of upgrades (Parts):

-Base: (You start with it and you go back to it once your other parts break) (They are under the new parts) Health: 150 Sanity: 150 Hunger: 200 Speed: Normal Durability: Infinite

-Marble: Health: 200 Sanity: 150 Hunger: 200 Speed: + 0.5% (From base) Durability: 100 health

-Thelucite: Health: 250 Sanity: 180 Hunger: 200 Speed: + 1.0% (From base) Durability: 250 health

-Dreadstone / Moon shard Health: 280 Sanity: 200 Hunger: 200 Speed: +1.5% (From base) Durability: 300 health

Weapons:

-The Mannequin's sword: Dmg: 80 Durability: 150 Debufs: If a survivor that isn't the Mannequin uses it they have less atk power and a chance for it to slip out of their hands (It is smaller than regular swords and unwieldly to the non stone-like hands) Crafting: 1 gold, 1 thelucite, 4 sticks, 2 marble

Armor:

-A new coat: Health: 150 Protection: 99% Debufs: Mannequin has no plus wearing it but other survivors will feel warm and comforted. (+ Heat, +Sanity) Crafting: 2 Beefalo wool, 3 silk, 1 thermal stone, 2 nightmare fuel

-A fashionable hat: Health: 90 Protection: 40% Debufs: No sanity drain but no sanity gain.

-A New Mask?: Health: ??? Protection: ??? Debufs: Inflicts 100% of health to wearer. (Instant kill) (Decoration piece but you can end everything by taking off your old mask.)

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Full list of abilities:

Eating rocks gains health and hunger, normal food do nothing but gain sanity. They eat by mushing it into cracks in their body. Marble gains extra hunger and health.

Sanity doesn't go up or down by normal means.

Every 5 days makes one glob of nightmare fuel.

Drops rock and marble when hit.

Can't 'eat' Fish.

Looses extra health in the dark (Charlie hits him extra hard) (About 20-30 extra points of damage.)

Gains speed in the dark (Adrenaline does wonders. Also fear.)

Can't carry the large marble statues.

Mends clothes, armor and weapons with health.

Ghost wears everything at death, doesn't drop your stuff.

Takes more damage than usual. (Except to boss creatures)

Deathly scared of Nightmare creatures (Can't fight them)

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Back story:

His mentor had made Charlie's dress (Her favorite one). His mentor died and Charlie wanted another dress so she dragged him into the constant to make her another one. He did but saw what she was doing to the survivors so he destroyed it. She got angry at the act and had mutilated his face so no one could even look at him. She sown a mask into his skin where nightmare fuel seeped in and keeps it there. He had tried to take it off but died from blood loss. Nightmare fuel leaks from the mask slowly. His body slowly fell apart and so he made new parts from stone so he could move.

He sticks with Maxwell because Maxwell was a familiar face and could relate to being ostracized by the group. He doesn't know why Maxwell is being hated and he never told him due to the fact that it would make the boy shy away from him to.

He is scared of Winona due to her looking like Charlie but is warming up to her since she helps him make new parts when he breaks his old ones.

Sketches: Body horror (Kinda) TW

I believe I have more notes on him but I have to find them...

[nikatyler]

Zeph 1.0 ✨

Surprise. I wanna archive my very first bg3 run over here also, because it's pain in the ass to revisit it on twitter. I didn't quite live tweet this one, but I tweeted it a bunch too. The usual applies, spoilers are inevitable*, do with that what you want, and as per usual, if you haven't played this game yet: Go. Play. It. NOW. 😡

*but also this one is wayyyy less spoilery than my livetweeting of later runs haha

So let's go back to the beginning, March 7. Little Nika had no idea she's about to unleash her greatest hyperfixation since her Winx Club days.

I'm feeling like. Proper shy about this game 💀 It's just a game these people are fake no need to feel shy you'll hurt no one's feelings dammit

(it's still installing btw, because apparently my internet hates me today of all days)

Still about 80 minutes to go 💀 my own stupid ass anxiety will kill me before that

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nice

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FIVE MINUTES UNTIL I LOSE THE LAST SHRED OF MY SANITY BESTIES

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friends i'm too shy to click the play button

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See this is why I have zero friends because I'm too intimidated to even open a game with people who DON'T ACTUALLY EXIST alright alright i'll go do it you know i want to and i know i want to but i'm gonna sit here blushing like a fool the entire time

I also need to yell before I do a new thing

I'm in

Being a complicated asexual means I have no ducking idea if I want it or not Eh we're going with it

Yes I suppose this will now be the live thread of my initial thoughts and shenanigans, welcome welcome, or use that cute little mute button if you don't care ✨

I can already tell I'll have only two facial expressions playing this game: 👁️👄👁️ and 👁️🫦👁️

That was some fucked up asmr right there in the beginning. 10/10

Fuck it whomst do we create now chat Do we do it Do I do that thing we talked about

I'm overwhelmed by the amount of ways I could go about this, I think I'll create a random character at first and then when I play some other time I'll bring my boi in when I know better what to do and how 🫣

Girl help I don't know what kind of character I want to play with

As someone who dropped out of university I kinda feel like I need to have this hair 💀

them need a name (idk why i said it like that but i'm keeping it my brain is mush ok)

aintnoway it's been 15 minutes and i still haven't picked a name, am i possibly overthinking this? does anyone get the vibe that i'm overthinking this because i certainly feel like there may be a chance that i'm overthinking this

BUT I AM HAVING FUN I PROMISE

I'm still playing I just have nothing to say, I'm learning, and I'm waiting to meet you know who

Here we go 😗

Had dinner irl and I feel like I should take a break but so far I'm loving this! I'm a bit dumb but eh we'll get there. Would love to try out the multiplayer at some point (but don't count on it, I say that now and then I'll be too anxious to play with you 💀)

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I just realized my guy Zeph (they/them) looks like a yassified Ladislaus the Posthumous and idk what to do with that information

here's a slightly better look at my guy. do i need to say i'd die for them

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babes the minecraft hole will be abandoned for another game i'm afraid

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That little thingy that tells you the character approves will ruin my life. Pathological people-pleaser reporting for duty 🫡

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Y'all weren't lying this game is addicting

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i'm so fucking weak already he just lays there like that and i fgjklsdfsjkljdsf thoughts i will not handle this game well

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i'm so schoolgirl with a crush coded at the moment it's so embarrassing

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I haven't played bg3 since before lunch

Midnight and I still haven't played it's been like almost 12 hours at this point I'm completely normal abt this

I'm too tired but I want to play but it would be a bad idea but I mean I'm dumb at this game anyway so what's the harm but I don't want to mess up but ok bed first ig

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did someone ask for homemade niche memes that only apply to me

(he would get it though)

wait that picture is even funnier than i intended for it to be bc like this happened canonically in the nsb legacy, he burned because i was too busy doing something else

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I killed my character 💀 whoopsie it's reload time sorry bud

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Teehee won a battle and knew what I was doing most of the time, maybe I'm getting better at this

I'll go put some lasagna in the oven and continue playing

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Chanting "eat shit, eat shit, eat shit" in a very squeaky voice every time an enemy goes down

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all too well you say?? wind in my hair i was there i remember it all too well?? did you leave your scarf at his sister's house???

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lemme tell you how to make my simple bi ass happy

i'm bi first and people pleaser second. or vice versa. dunno

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Oh yissss the bite scene here we go :3

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oh don't you worry i will so be on my vigilante shit for you

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Not to be weird again but this game is unlocking emotions I didn't know I had

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You know how I thought I was getting better 💀 yeah nvm it's reload after reload today 💀

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Oop I'm already on 14 hours 🫢

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Okay I'm gonna play for just like five minutes and then go to bed If I'm still online at 2am you're allowed to yell at me

lord save me I said five minutes

I'm showing great restraint right now

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Oh something is happening ohhh something is happening can my laptop catch up and stop lagging pls

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You know it's gonna be so jover for me and I'm gonna be so beyond saving when I start putting together detailed information about my boi Zeph

(they/them btw, I call them boi or bud but in a nonbinary way)

Also can't decide what Zeph is short for. Was their deadname Joseph and they kept just half of it? Is their full first name Zephyros or something? What's their full full name? See it starts with little things like this but give me an hour and I'll have their full history 💀

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Big spiders...big fucking spiders ;----;

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hELLO

fuck that's not the best screenshot i could've taken 💀 I PANICKED OKAY

live nika reaction

Why do I get the feeling *everybody* wants to have fun with me

i didn't click it yet guys i'm 💀💀💀

so do i torture myself and leave it to tomorrow or do i go back in the game now? 👀

Fuck it let's go asexuality leaving my body as we speak

Oh boy

👁️👄👁️ gnight

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My sibling: *sends me a picture of their blorbo* Me: THAT'S NEAT, ALSO I F🤭CKED MY BLORBO YESTERDAY

And yes, those are our first messages today. No "good morning, have a nice day", more like "so this fictional man dammit", straight to the point 😌

Asking the real questions (abt their blorbo)

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Having an Annabeth Chase in Mark of Athena moment (and I don't mean that I'm doing something smart, I mean there's spiders)

FUCK YEAHHHHH WE WON (and almost died) (and in Zeph's case literally died) (but we're so back) (seriously though why do I always manage to kill just my character) (this was the worst battle I hate spiders I hate spiders so much)

I'm still shaking 😭

Having a real dummy day, besides the spider fight I'm not doing well 💀

nvm we got the pwetty book, it only took me like an hour to get here, it's fine😂

the blood, i like it 😌😏

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Oop I've got over 24 hours in the game already 🤭

btw I don't think I ever told you, my savefile name is "girl help"

Also I just quickly hopped in again now but I didn't really do much, I'm too tired to think at this point, I'll probably go to bed soon. I thought I figured something but nah not really and then I accidentally crashed the game oops 💀 my bad

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bi panic intensifies

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Something about me forgetting there could be traps and letting Zeph run straight through them over and over again…no wonder they're always on the verge of death 😭🤣

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um yeah i guess we weren't supposed to do that huh 💀

Don't worry, I reloaded 💀

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I miss my boi Zeph I wish I could be playing rn

They are so getting a backstory and like actual development once I get more into the lore and everything, just watch. And then we'll come full circle and I'll create them in ts4

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we are here

sorry not sorry but also occasionally i'm too self aware so i will be sorry but most of the time i will just not be sorry. sorry about that. but actually not sorry. sorry --

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[kazamajun]

tagged by: @queenaeducan back in 2018 lmfao

favorite game from the last 5 years? ‒ god of war, bg3, tekken 8, lethal company, hades (if I count the version 1.0 release date)

most nostalgic game? ‒ it’s gotta be tekken 1 the og, first time I ever saw an irish videogame character

game that deserves a sequel? ‒ eternal darkness: sanity’s requiem ✨stares into the sun✨

game that deserves a remaster? ‒ skies of arcadia, onimusha 3 (lmfao I’d originally written here ‘the first 3 silent hills getting a proper remake’ boy did the monkey paw curl!!)

favorite game series? ‒ dragon age, onimusha, mgs, tekken, dmc, god of war (silent hill and final fantasy used to be here but it’s more accurate to say i love what they used to be)

favorite genre? ‒ rpgs 

least favorite genre? ‒ point and click investigative stuff I always get stuck on them

favorite song from a game? ‒ i’m glad you asked here’s a playlist of some of my faves

favorite character from a game? ‒ rn I gotta say ms jun kazama herself 

favorite ship from a game? ‒ I’ve fallen for kazjun and I can’t get up

favorite voice actor from a game? ‒ idk I don’t do that parasocial shit

favorite cutscene? ‒ bahamut vs alexander in ff9

favorite boss? ‒ the boss/joy at the end of mgs3 i cry every time

first console? ‒ sega master system

current console or consoles? ‒  ps5

console you want? ‒ none tbh i just want pc upgrades

place from a game that you’d like to visit? ‒ the lab in nebraska that gcorp kept kazuya in bc i wanna steal a microscope 

place from a game that you’d like to live in? ‒  cannot think of any bc the majority of them i would simply die immediately

ridiculous crossover that would never happen but would be super fun? ‒ tekken chapter for dead by daylight please

book that would make a good game? ‒ the way of shadows by brent weeks has amazing potential i think

show/movie that would make a good game? ‒ idk

games you want to play? ‒ slay the princess, dragon age 4

have you gotten 100% completion in a game? ‒ i’ve 100%’d quite a few games, hades, the newest gows and the tekken games are the first ones that come to mind

have you cried over a game? ‒ mgs, god of war and dragon age have made me cry. i know there’s been others. 

what power-up or ability would you want in real life? ‒ super healing! i heal so slowly and my body being able to recover from anything would be amazing.

not tagging anybody, but steal it if you want!

[holyscream]

That voice inside your head that says, “Hey, you should write an AO3 skin that fully replaces the default. It will be fun :D”?

Yeah, that’s the devil talking.

I don’t want to know how long I spent on this, even excluding the year-long break where I gave up after realizing I couldn’t use flexbox, grid, or calc. The only reason why I decided to finish it this week was because I forgot that was the case and then I was too stubborn to stop.

Oh, and you bet it’s responsive. Well, responsive in the way that AO3 allows you two breakpoints and no custom media-queries.

It needs a bit more tweaking in some places, but for the sake of my own sanity I want to say that version 1.0 of this skin is finished now.

[flyingcookierambles]

Praying to rngesus in genshin artifact domain ugh. I hate then so much.

In other news I went from a childe/zhongli main to a scaramouche/venti main. In game lol. But seriously I like. Really focused on just. Grinsi g the desert pavilion domain city of gold or whatever its called bc it's easy and fast to do. And I got scara / I named him Yuto as decent a set as I could before my sanity ran out and then leveled them all to 20 and like. I'm looking at it. Like. Oops. I surpassed my childe. Now tbf, I was in the midst of replacing childe and zhongli's sets. Childe bc I learned that the hydro set for nilou is decent for most hydro characters so some of his current stuff is not lvl 20 yet so he's kinda accidentally nerfed. Zhongli bc I am dumb and thought that his kit scaled to defense like other geo characters. It was his hp. Oops. So his old gear had really high def and hp (about 60k?) But I'm going back for him to get better hp stuff. I gave some of his defense items to Noelle.

However I also was replacing Barbara's set from the ransom wanders troupe and maiden beloved to like. The actually good sea dyed foam artifacts that are good for all healers. But accidentally thought her heals scaled with attack like qiqi and Jean combat medics....

It's also her hp...

My Barbara currently has higher raw attack Stat than childe lmao.

I finally learned the websites that ppl use to post character cards on genshin subdeddits for showcases and advice. It's really good actually I like them a lot. I like akasha more bc some characters have a literal chart of stats comparing you to the public leader board lol.

I think it's funny to look at my (underdeveloped) characters and look at the chart and actually built characters and just go. Haha I fucked up. Welp.

Under cut lol.

Also idk but scara / Yuto is like in the 28% high energy recharge group. Also I guess im the only one who uses the dodoco tales?? The only advantage of being sucked into this dumb game since basically 1.0.

Main dps childe and scara and neuvillette. Battery venti and Raiden. Sub dps/burst Xiao and zhongli. Shield bot zhongli (but his hp is so low compared to his off the charts crit and attack oops. Where did I go wrong? Lmao).

Only venti and scara have full level 20 artifact sets here, so everyone else is kinda. Nerfed lol.

This isn't all my characters either, just the mostly leveled up ones. I'm still leveling wrio and kaveh and stuff.

[jones-friend]

The New Player’s Survival Guide to Mill

If you’re a newer player to EDH there’s an archetype you’ve likely encountered at some point:

Mill.

At a certain point, you’ve sat down at a table to play against a deck who’s goal it is to turn your library upside down. And it probably felt bad the first time you watched your beloved cards get tossed into the graveyard before you even had a chance to draw them!

After playing for a while I feel lots of new players hit a panic button early without fully understanding the situation. I wanted to make this post to help new players gain perspective so they can better read the board playing against mill.

If nothing else, what I want you to take from this post is mill is an alternate wincon that makes the game twice as hard to remove even one player from the game. I feel its good to learn how this player is going to see the game so you can manage threats.

In a regular game of EDH, roughly four players at 40 life try to defeat each other. When you play mill life becomes irrelevant. You’re trying to mill them out. They will start with 92 cards in their deck and slowly chip down. Which means after 12 cards drawn they will have double the challenge to remove each player from the game.

When you choose mill, often you will be the only player working towards mill in the game. This is different from damage, where everyone is typically working towards beating each other’s 40 life down. So your cards have to do all the work in the game.

When you are being milled it becomes more of a test of deckbuilding. Some decks will always be a touch weaker to mill, but the ones that suffer the most are decks that play powerful, singular cards that can win the game on their own. It also hurts you if you can only win with 2-3 cards in your deck, and the rest supports that 2-3 card combo. If you run Ulamog 1.0 in your deck and my Lazav, Dimir Mastermind mills it you bet you’re gonna get a Hexproof Ulamog swinging at you. If your only plan is to drop huge cards you’re going to hurt, badly.

The way to counter this is by having a well made deck where no singular piece is going to win you the game. Synergy. For example tribal decks rely off synergy. Zombie tribal is a strong tribal deck. If I take your gravecrawler, that’s it. I can’t use your synergy like you can. That isn’t to say you can’t have large creature decks and fight mill, mill often has a poor board state. It becomes easy to trample all over them and murder them dead.

The important thing is to not panic when you see your cards get milled. When you get milled you will lose a random percentage from your deck. The rest of your deck after the mill should still all be good stuff.

What you DO want to watch out for are effects that double mill. Bruvac the Grandiloquent and Fraying Sanity can turn a “mill half your library” effect into a “mill your library”. When you size up mill decks you want to get a gauge for how fast they can mill you each turn, while lots of powerful mill cards will be sorceries like Mind Grind and Maddening Cacophony, there’s some mitigation you can do with combo pieces like Undead Alchemist + Altar of the Brood, Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank. Some permanents can lead to more effective mills that will put you out of the game, so keep an eye out for key pieces that accelerate the strategy.

If you’d like to give yourself some protection against mill there’s a number of effects that can restore everyone’s or your own library. Elixir of Immortality can reset your own graveyard. Psychic Spiral can give them a taste of their own medicine. Blessed Respite is a fog that resets your graveyard. Commit//Memory and Echo of Eons are graveyard resets that can be cast from your graveyard and reset everyone’s deck with a fresh hand of cards. Day’s Undoing is a cheaper version cast from your hand. Emergency Powers is an instant and if cast on your turn lets you drop a larger permanent. Game Plan can potentially be cast for one blue mana as you ask another player to cover the other 5. Struggle // Survive is a land based damage spell and resets all graveyards. Critically, if you’re going to use a graveyard reset try to make sure it serves a purpose outside just resetting your graveyard so if you aren’t playing against mill the card stays relevant.

The big thing to remember is mill is slow poison, it has twice the job to do and it will take time. You do have time to react and play against them. So keep your cool, play smart, and you can beat the mill deck.