#the +2 AC was worth it

[aceacebabes]

My baby boy Dusty got engaged last session!

Did they just meet 2 in game days ago? Yes! Was it literally just for the one week +2 AC buff? Also Yes! Does Mama approve? Surprisingly No (who'd've thought a succubus would be such a believer in the sanctity of marriage...)

[yellowtrinity]

trying to shake myself out of an art slump

[madbunsy]

Based on @xamaxenta post about watches, very fun read :3

[shsl-simp]

calisto

havent finished aai-4 so pls kind abt spoilers,,

[discopoweredcatboy]

X-02S

another few edits to kickstart your heart

[emiibunny]

for those whom also simp for ezio...I got caught in 4k simping over 51/52 yr old ezio by:

THE ASSASSINS CREED TIKTOK ADMINS.

please let me peacefully pass

enjoy my embarrassment, someone should lol

and then a few friend's responses

[jinxedshapeshifter]

Actually hold on. I know I said that probably Klavier doesn’t greet people unhinged in canon, but his first meeting with Phoenix involved getting him disbarred, so there are actually two points of evidence in favor of that being canon. Maybe more I haven’t played it yet.

This had me curious about how he greets people when he first meets them canonically, so here's how he greets people canonically:

"I was just thinking, is this what all the fuss is about? Bit of a buzz-kill, really." is how he greets the judge at the start of Zak's trial. sir this is a murder trial

"I know what you're thinking: 'You're out of your league, rock-boy.'" is implied to be how he greets Phoenix; it's not exactly made clear if he's referring to Phoenix specifically, but Phoenix does think "You're out of your league, rock-boy" right before Klavier says this so

"I must say I'm used to being inspected by the ladies… But this is the first time I've felt this way with a man." is how he greets Apollo when he first meets him

"Ah, Fräulein. What is a sweet morsel like you doing in such a dismal place? Can I help?" is how he greets Trucy when he first meets her. I don't know if it's relevant but this is immediately after he greets Apollo

"Why, I do believe we have a fresh face here. Greetings, Fräulein. I am Klavier Gavin. Some know me as a prosecutor, but I'm most famous for my former rock band. We were quite popular you know, but regrettably, the band went kaput. Perhaps you've heard of us? The Gavinners? I was the lead vocalist." is how he greets Athena when he first meets her. Athena almost immediately asks for his autograph so I guess they're equally unhinged (Apollo even points out that she's asking for his autograph despite having met him "like three seconds ago"). Klavier then proceeds to tease Apollo about Athena being "his type"

I would personally say how he greets Apollo is the most unhinged and every other way he greets people is slightly less unhinged. Like honestly Klavier's just a bit unhinged generally. I think it's funny to imagine the most unhinged possible ways he could greet people he never canonically meets even if he doesn't canonically greet people in the most out of pocket way possible though lol. I'm thinking if he ever had the chance to meet Clay he'd greet him with a space pun or something

[arttsuka]

I want to play the ace attorney trilogy again but it's only been like a year and a half since I played it for the first time and I remember everything. How to beat the game, where to 'go' etc. Plus I haven't even played the apollo justice trilogy yet

[dangoulains-devotion]

on this late night i am thinking incredibly hard about how, when faced with a choice between preventing a new friend from harm + clearing up a misunderstanding and choosing the path that would potentially find him a cure for his catatonic friend, zack recalled marlene's words of saying that aerith liked cloud, and of course she did, because he (zack) wasn't there. hadn't been there for a long time

and after recalling these words and grasping at the ribbon tied around his hand, zack ultimately decides that by taking the right-hand path he can, with some luck, fulfill two of his own desires - 1) potentially seeing his friend cloud healed and healthily awake again, and 2) making sure that aerith will be able to be happy when she wakes if he succeeds the first part. he has not and will not let go of his adoration and love for her, but if cloud is seemingly what makes her happy in this bizarre world he's found himself in, he'll choose that option in a heartbeat, because her happiness means the world to him even if it means accepting that he's not the focus of it anymore. he just loves her so much . oh i'm in pain. zack fair the man that you are

[hellishqueer]

god i miss DGS

[altruistic-meme]

i didn't get the specific one i was after, but i DID get a k-cup coffee maker!!! fuck yeah!!! and it came with a coffee filter too, so i can still make regular coffee in it :D

[bryverros]

im so hot rn haha (down with a fever)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

truly lmao 2024 lambda literary award finalist wynnstannery

[psalmsofpsychosis]

Some Batman: Telltale thoughts

[this is a Batman Telltale critical post, ye be warned.]

So. There are perhaps no words in the english language to describe with how stupid i feel right now.

I started Telltale Batman because i thought that it's one of the more distinct unconventional Batman narratives that would let you have a more interesting, complex and nuanced relationship between Bruce and Joker— the game even lets you bring all of Bruce's sincere hypocrisy and sentimental selfishness to the surface and have him admit that yes, he can fight the rogues gallery because it takes a madman to know a madman; to love a madman. For a moment i geniunely thought that i can escape the everpresent shadow of DC hays code in the freakshow funhouse that is Batman comics, i thought Telltale had done something different.

But telltale's approach to The Enemy Within is so flaky and flimsy and timid at best— such noncommittal twist on themes of pain and grief. They take on a hefty plotline, "what does it take to actually fight through evil and be surrounded by it? How long does it take before your resolve and your selfhood cracks? When you lose the mask, which one did you truly lose— The ideal persona, the superhero, the crusader, or the person underneath, the casket that holds all your humanity and your heart and your hopes? How long can you stare onto the abyss before it stares onto you?" It's indeed a very Nietzsche approach to Batman— except that a good Nietzsche narrative takes a lot of intentional plot points and honesty of thought and of heart. And Telltale doesn't commit, not to Bruce's characterization, and not to any other character, and definitely not to Joker's journey in any variation of it. The existence of the Vigilante route is useless on every front; Joker is going to turn into a villain anyway, just with a different hello kitty eyeshadow palette and an extra bland consolation lollipop. No good choice Bruce makes on Joker's behalf affects anything whatsoever, and i particularly love the "community and friendship and sympathy do not help the mentally ill and all that ever works is punishment and shock therapy and confinement and loneliness" message the vigillante route puts on the table, charming charming status quo commandments from DC as always.

Telltale Batman could only be revolutionary if it had dared to break comic convention and let the vigillante route play out like Selina and Bruce's relationship always does; very grey morality, irrational, full of tension and trust, unstable, intriguing, inexcusable, irreversible, unavoidable and heartfelt, human. But we can't have nice things in batmanverse, so both Joker routes run on stuck gears and topple and fall into a predictable narrative hole that neither Bruce nor Joker can claim out of.

And on the predictable front? this story is too lukewarm to be a good time for me personally. When you get 84 Batman comics per minute every other Tuesday, all ending the same way no matter whatever the fickity happens inbetween, you have to pull no punches. This is my 53368532th Batman-with-tragic-batjokes-implications read of the week, say something new or forever hold your blue-balling silence, i dont care.

[theradicalace]

i hate going through art slumps so much. like wdym i barely want to draw and i don't like anything i make and i get radio silence from half the places i share my art to these days and and and

[dreamlit-wanderer]

as time passes i realise im 100% a charisma build