#sekiro snake

[pawthko]

ive never hugged a wall harder in my life

[lea-khena]

Casual first time experience with The Snake ✨

(For context this is the video of a video which has been compressed lol which explains the low quality sorry!! So I've been playing sekiro for the first time and i managed to catch a clip of my encounter with the snake which i then decided to videotape it with my phone with added voice to express the thoughts i was having at the moment which i then sent my friends but i thought the video was funny enough to share so here we are x'D)

[shibuya-111]

[eghostsofdeadchildren]

Yes. Yes it is.

[sweetmapple]

Get centipeded, idiot

Never ever ever gonna convert this to digital. I HATE Trad to digital conversion sm

[shame-kink]

*the softened yet punctual thwack of wood being swung violently against flesh*

[tlgtw]

"Yeah I've had them this whole time, what do you mean?"

With Birth Month over, the next episode of my show to which this lovely woman belongs, Elden Ring Explained with Snake-Eyes Teieruji, is now in production.

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[punk-63]

[wispythreads]

Alright, just defeated Owl. I actually really like how his mechanics worked, and whenever I was doing okay-ish at least, it brought about that same flow and rhythm I felt while fighting against Lady Butterfly, which I really enjoyed. It also just sort of made sense, with the two being so close to each other, of course fighting against him would in some way feel similar to fighting against her.

It seemed like it really was going to just be Lady Butterfly's kind of struggle again, where I'd just need to learn the steps and hopefully get my timing down well enough to dance.

But then I did learn the rhythm, and the steps, and would try to do the dance, only for my computer to decide it was no longer going to be accepting any input. I'd know I hit shift or the right mouse button at the right time to avoid a strike, only to watch poor Wolf stand there and get pummeled into oblivion. Because, again, every time I get hit once the staggering effect seems to be so bad that I can't pull him out of it in time before he's getting hit again. (Is there a latent skill I can find somewhere that would help with this...? Am I just underleveled in general? I have six prayer necklaces right now, and 5 healing gourds, but I don't know I feel like I've fought every miniboss I could find at this point... maybe there's some more hidden around...)

So that was very frustrating for a while, knowing I could do this fight and that it should be finished already but. I don't know my computer is kinda janky so I'm not sure if maybe there was a problem receiving the input or if somehow the information from the input lagged so badly that it didn't get processed in time.

But I don't want to be frustrated because it was a cool fight! Emotionally devastating! Poor Wolf! Owl also turned into dust so I'm. Somewhat under the belief that he's not coming back again. I'm hesitant to commit 100% to that belief considering I was pretty sure he was dead last time we saw him.

[gypsybiswa7]

Sekiro Snake Eyes shirafuji boss be like

[zhimaqiu]

Can I date her?

[tibialtybalt]

I am SUCH a gamer dude

[lscholar]

A SEMI-REASONABLE 40 CHARACTER SMASH ROSTER

An exercise in indulgence and egoism, and posted as the same.

THE RULES:

1. Characters shall be semi-reasonable! Beatoriche I love you but this needs to be a roster composed of characters who could conceivably actually make it into Smash. They should be from video games, and ideally ones people care about.

2. Characters shall be gender balanced! I separated my picks into four categories: GUYS, GIRLS, and CREATURES AND CHARACTERS, TYPICALLY PLAYER, OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER (like Pikachu or the Animal Crossing Villager). the number of GUYS shall be EQUAL TO OR LESSER THAN the number of GIRLS. I set this restriction on myself and so should you.

3. Characters shall be 40 of them! but you could tell that from the title.

GUYS

MARIO - You have to have this guy. also like it's been like 20+ years since Sunshine can we not give him something other than FLUDD?

DONKEY KONG, LUIGI, NESS, BOWSER, FOX, WARIO - You also have to have these guys. I cut Captain Falcon, as we already had Fox as a Smash original character.

LINK - Someday we will be able to put Link in the CHARACTERS OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER list, but not yet.

KING DEDEDE - Sakurai made this so his faves get a little extra attention. I claim that same right.

SNAKE - Updated for MGSV, naturally.

SONIC (Palette Swap: SHADOW) - I really really don't care about these guys. I kind of actively hate them actually. but they deserve to be here, even if all their moves are the same (turning into a ball and the ball flies at you).

CLOUD - The iconic Final Fantasy pretty boy. Would I prefer Lightning? yeah. but this is the semi-realistic roster.

PHOENIX WRIGHT - I know, preaching to the crowd here. This guy is a tumblr darling behind only his boyfriend Miles Edgeworth. But they've put him in fighting games before! And he totally has a moveset, right? Presenting his badge as a jab, shooting OBJECTION and TAKE THAT! (HOLD IT! is a grab!), submitting paperwork and random items hoping and praying that they'll be accepted as evidence...

Barely missed the cut: Sans Undertale, Sekiro, Shulk, Solaire, Paper Mario, Sora.

GIRLS

SAMUS - You have to have this girl.

PEACH/DAISY - Ideally Daisy would get Luigified (this is the very technical term for when a Smash character starts out as a clone and then gets differentiated) as the Mario Sports Game Representation. But that probably wouldn't happen. Peach is fine. kind of

ZELDA (Breath of the Wild/Tears Of The Kingdom) - The opposite of the Smash Ultimate dynamic. Smash Lscholar Link is old-school Link; Zelda is newer Zelda. Like in Hyrule Warriors she fights using runes on her magic ipad/wii u pad/nintendo switch game console. Bombs, Ice Block, Ultrahand - and the ability to Recall all of them, sending them flying backwards along their trajectories when the attack is reinput. An evil zoner but let's be honest: she already is. Maybe she has a "take a picture" that can stun?

ISABELLE, ROSALINA - both need reworks. Isabelle in particular has the potential to be a Kirby for new players - but hitting with her is so hard that most try her for a round and play Toon Link instead.

BAYONETTA - No notes.

HORNET (Hollow Knight: Silksong) - Clear moveset, fan favorite, zero questions.

D.VA (Overwatch and, fine, Overwatch 2) - The single most popular Overwatch character by far, and a much needed female heavyweight character. Would translate pretty well to Smash as a pushy zippy tank-type.

EDELGARD VON HRESVELG (Fire Emblem: Three Houses/Three Hopes) - big smashy axe, avowed militant atheist, Vriska, Fire Emblem rep. Smash Lsclr's Ike. Slow but dangerous, with surprising range, much like Byleth; unlike Byleth she is an actual character. also her axe twirl has to be a taunt. Also she's canonically bisexual. which would make her the second bisexual smash character after Snake, and the third in my heart after Cloud Strife (Byleth isn't real).

REIMU HAKUREI (Touhou) - Iconic rep from possibly the single most important indie game series.

CHUN LI (STREET FIGHTER) - Honestly surprised they put Ryu in Smash. I feel like if you asked anybody to name a Street Fighter character Chun Li would be first?

UNDYNE (Undertale) - Fine. Susie (Deltarune) is also acceptable.

VI or JINX or SOME LEAGUE OF LEGENDS GIRL (LoL) - as with Sonic I don't care for these but they have undeniably earned their places. Arcane was better than it should have been and I really hope Mel Medarda survives into s2.

SABER (Fate/Stay Night) - It's Saber! I know this seems like a meme pick but I really do think she deserves to be here.

Barely missed the cut: Karlach or Shadowheart, The Silent, Arle Nadja, Vriska

CREATURES AND CHARACTERS, TYPICALLY PLAYER, OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER (like Pikachu or the Animal Crossing Villager)

PIKACHU - You have to have this thing. Brand recognition on par with Santa Claus or Jesus. A creature for sure, even if its tail indicates biological gender.

KIRBY - This is technically a Guy but in practice this is a creature. also I have one less Guy than Girl so I could put him there, but I chose not to.

YOSHI/BIRDO - Put a trans woman in Smash. She's just a Yoshi reskin and that's fine.

MARTH/LUCINA - The other Fire Emblem rep. Why does Awakening get like three characters? may have to make Marth a bit less floaty to make this work but they really should consolidate these two.

POKEMON TRAINER (Charizard, Ivysaur, Squirtle) - good on nintendo for making it possible to play pokemon trainer as a guy or girl.

POKEMON TRAINER 2 (Gengar, Gardevoir, Lucario) - We have so many pokemon and here's three more. swap out one of your choice for Jigglypuff or Mewtwo or Mimikyu or Greninja or whatever, as long as your substitution isn't from Kanto. This pokemon trainer is a bit more of a tryhard, and wears darker clothing. also their pokemon are category balanced: one is a guy, one is a girl, and one is a creature.

INKLING - Kind of a creature and definitely not of either cardinal gender. these kids squids are nonbinary. A good addition to smash; may they goop and bloop for many games to come.

Wii FIT TRAINER - Mix in Wii Sports and Ring Fit and whatever else.

ANIMAL CROSSING VILLAGER/MINECRAFT STEVE AND ALEX/PACMAN AND MS PACMAN - CHARACTERS OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER

NOAH AND MIO XENOBLADE (XENOBLADE 3) - Like Pyra and Mythra but less gross. Mio has faster short range chakram attacks and mobility; Noah has slower harder-hitting moves.

THE ASSASSIN (Assassin's Creed) - Snake represents Solid, Naked, and Venom; why can't The Assassin be Altair, Ezio, and whoever else?

Barely missed the cut: Duck Hunt, Toad/Toadette.

if you got mad at me about removing your favorite character reply and I'll tell you why I took them out. probably because I didn't care about them.

[beesmygod]

a while ago there was a blodoborne lore guy who i was like "ugh! this guy doesnt know what hes talking about!" over some statues he argued were depicting people looking up at an unknown astrological event but now i think he is kinda right. after watching the shetani's lair video, which argues pretty convincingly that a meteor severed the "divine realm" from the rest of the world of sekiro.

like, first of all: fromsoft loves to repeat itself. if something has appeared once in a game, its probably appeared prior or will appear again. they love to iterate on a theme over there. they also love to lightly reference japanese cultural knowledge that is lost on my dumb ass. but prior to this, the importance of an external, extraterrestrial force flying in and suddenly up-heaving the balance of the known world had not occurred to me.

in bloodborne, this is explicitly referenced but in the classic fromsoft "saying without REALLY saying it" way: the burial blade and the blade of mercy were forged from meteoric iron. oh my fucking god are you kidding me right now. sorry i just did a google search and realized something else lol. fuck hold on. look i can't find like a plain english wiki page about forging swords with meteoric iron in japan so youll have to take it from this nasa abstract. it was an uncommon practice due to scarcity and i think the swords kind of suck lol. however, the thing about iron from space is that its magnetic, which is how the first "trick weapons" operated: the blade of mercy is two blades magnetized together and the burial blade is just a magnet that flicks loose.

dude what in the hell. i have learned so much useless shit from this game. okay: japan wasnt the only nation to forge with iron meteorites; the indian (esoteric buddhism/shugendo/vajrayana buddism is also a recurring theme, for real) kris is famous not only for it's uncommon snake-y shape (....snakes are also a recurring theme) but the patterning of the metal, called pamor. this unique pattern is achieved by use of meteoric iron during the forging process.

now look at the weapons used by the ancient race of pthumerians

def proof that multiple meteors have landed in yharnam.

[spicylove4ever]

A snake so big that a whole city.... is on its back.......

So we are talking.... this big?

.... but in a snake body....... and Makkaro killed and puppeteered that. THAT. And the Guardian survived fighting that. Not to mention Makkaro transported the body of that huge thing.

What are the size/height of the Titans on MoTH?

Shee Khan is the Titan Snake, and it had a whole city on its back. That should give you an idea.

[the-damnable-fool]

After playing through Sekiro a couple of times, I find myself wondering, would things have gone better for Genichiro if he'd just fucking left Kuro alone? I mean let's think about it. By pissing off this one shinobi, Genichiro manages to lose: - At least three generals - Three of the Seven Spears, including Gyobou - Two of Ashina's elite samurai - The giant fucking snake that guards Ashina's depths - Two red eyed giants - And, last but not least, the respect of his Grandfather And that's not even taking a second to ponder how many samurai, regular soldiers, nightjar, and taro troops that Wolf canonically killed. You have to wonder if Ashina barely lasting the day when the Ministry attacks is a product of the Ministry's superior technology and better fighters, or if Genichiro's decision to draw the ire of this one specific immortal wackjob might've just cost him the entire war.