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pastelgrungecity · 2 years ago

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i dunno if i trust those altmer

#this is not sober posting #the video game experience

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pastelgrungecity · 5 months ago

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@jj-exe

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sweetberry-roebuck · 24 days ago

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There's something to be said about Mouthwashing's weaponization of the video game medium. The game is very easily comparable to a movie, between its runtime and cinematic framing and focus on narrative, but the fact that it is a video game, that we play as Jimmy for much of it and take on his actions ourselves, is I think really effective in its usage.

You are the one given the all caps RESPONSIBILITY, the disproportionate power of the captain, and you are the one failing miserably to use it well. You have to scan the codes, you have to give Curly his medicine, the first action you're presented with is to turn the ship in the wrong direction. No other option available. The experience it gives you of realizing again and again that you, that Jimmy, is not doing the most sensible thing, that he's being stupid and cruel and spiteful, is really effective in forcing you to contend with the excellently written character study on a personal level.

Waking up in the middle of the night and hearing Curly groaning in pain, and then going to bother Anya about giving Curly his meds only for Jimmy to INSIST on doing it himself, I thought to myself "c'mon man why wouldn't you just give him the meds to begin with," only to realize over the rest of the game exactly why he didn't do that. By putting the player in the role of this character, carrying out his actions step by step without choice in the matter, the irrationality of his decisions is made personally exasperating. You notice the patterns.

#mouthwashing #mouthwashing spoilers #mouthwashing jimmy #idk if other ppl had this particular experience with it but i thought it was worth sharing #jimmy is such a well written piece of shit and like #a lot of video games give you moments of exasperation with the protagonist like cmon there's gotta be a way easier way to do this #you don't have to be that dramatic about it #or whatever #and that can kinda take you out of the experience sometimes because the character you're supposedly embodying is thinking about things in #a way contradictory to how *you* are #but that effect is weaponized so effectively in mouthwashing i think

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couch-house · 1 year ago

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I think sonic had a really good time not being playable for once and just being supporting cast for his friend shadow. i just know he was soooo excited to explain the controls and not worry about rings and cheer on his friend (and sometimes be a final boss :3)

#sth #shth #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the character #fanart #id in alt text #i have. another batch of shadow (game) drawings after this #bc im having a really good time with it #it is definitely somewhere in the top 3 sonic games for me. it's good! and anyone who says otherwise just hates fun #sonic in this game soooo funny he IS so annoying but it is so cute truly #im really bad at the hero mission in space gadget but sonics dialogue is sooooo cute in that..#he's just having fun racing with his friend again 🥺#shadow is having the most intense and miserable experience of his short life and sonic is just like yaayayayay video game yaaay!#anyway. return of my adventure-era sonic design. even tho shth canonically takes place A While after sa2 #whatever. they r the same to me

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junewild · 4 months ago

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Watching Sam & Brennan talk about the beauty of frivolity, of adults playing silly games just as seriously as they fight to survive, and... yeah. There are some things that keep us alive, and there are some things that make life worth living, and I think games are one of those things that fall into both categories. Games make our lives better and they make us better at being alive. I think that's pretty cool.

#k talks #adventure academy #dropout tv #sam reich #brennan lee mulligan #and i say this not in an evopsych way. never. but in a historian looking back at the infinite intricacy of human experience and crying #i know i'm not really saying anything that anarchist philosophers haven't already said but it just hits me every time. it's so good #(& when the lich heard brennan quote graeber we had to pause the video while he had a little philosophical squee)#i feel for brennan not being able to play mafia bc he's too busy hosting it tho. bc. mood #i am rarely allowed to survive a mafia game these last few years #i wish i could invite everyone else who went 'oof. yeah. same' to join my decade-long group of assorted folks #who've been playing increasingly complicated week-long games of mafia over forum & then facebook & now discord for a decade or so #bc oh boy. those games are fun as HELL & we always love new players #especially the kind who will play DEADLY seriously :)

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is4belle · 8 months ago

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#incelcore #anime #serial experiments lain #edit #4chan #2014 tumblr #elliot rodger #femcel #girlblogger #negative xp #video games

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rambles-about-minecraft-ocs · 8 months ago

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one of my favorite things about zedaph is that on a server full of people that find strange and oft-overlooked minecraft mechanics or rare events and then see just how far they can push them in the name of spectacle or efficiency or world-breaking, zed is over here finding these mechanics in order to do the weirdest things he can think of in as entertaining a manner as possible

like i 100% have faith in zedaph's theoretical ability to be just as efficient or spectacular or world-breaking. if he wanted to do that stuff, i trust that he absolutely could. but thats so far from being his priority. instead, hes going to spend around a week of irl time focused entirely on eventually having the good luck to spawn in something insanely rare so that he can convert it into something even rarer, the result of which being something that 99% of the server reacts with complete and utter shock that it even exists in the first place, just because its zany and funny and he wanted to. and i love that

#zedaph #hermitcraft #genuinely i adore the clucky few project im not even done watching the episode and i had to pause and make this post #i saw impulses video first and went ''that HAS to be some sort of datapack or something-''#only to immediately go ''no. no it cant be. because this is zed #and its practically a trademark of his to push the limits of the game as far as possible in the direction least expected #not for the purpose of efficiency or spectacle or intimidation or whatever like some players who push limits #but purely for the purpose of making something so funny you cant help but laugh at whats going on #and maybe being a bit impressed that he ever thought of it in the first place''#at which point i went ''holy shit. since its zed doing this. somehow he ACTUALLY got a villager on a chicken. with no cheats. thats INSANE'#i was relieved when i checked my subscriptions to see what the next video i had to watch was and saw he would be next in line #bc if i had to sit through 19 other hermits videos before i could watch his and find out what the fuck he was doing i would have been so sa #sidenote but i feel like a zed video where he interacts with this many other people all in the same video is so rare #idk i didnt watch season 9 and i know he started collabing a lot more w/ other hermits then #so maybe its not nearly as rare these days #but like the last one that *i* saw where he interacted with this many people at once was towards the end of season 8 #when all the people he experimented on earlier in the season came back to experiment on him #and like i would like zeds videos with or without the collabs. but its a lot of fun to see him interact with people #so its very cool to me when he does it with a lot of people all in the same video

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pastelgrungecity · 11 months ago

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@jj-exe

"Y'all are stupid" transparent version because i am more then a little bit messed up about this loser

#welcome to the meme page #the video game experience

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prokopetz · 10 months ago

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So does that mean they have it, or

#gaming #video games #steam #ux #user experience #not available #double negatives

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unionizedwizard · 7 months ago

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ffxiv is not a video game it is a disease. brain fungus of some sort. makes you stop wanting to kill yourself repairs your relationship to god and also makes you inordinately fond of catboys and shit. IF! you are exposed long enough. that's why the free trial is so generous. it's like getting addicted to a drug that genuinely loves you and makes you a better and stronger and happier person. and who loves catboys also. unreal

#genuinely life changing experience. what the fuck. video game that makes you transgender and a double bass player. for some reason

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littlecrittereli · 9 months ago

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Doodle suggestions? Gotcha The crew in some comfy PJs because WHY DON'T THEY HAVE ANYYYYY

I was just going to do a quick doodle but I ended up liking it so much I made it into a full out drawing um...

They are having a silly game night :)