#there are easier version you can play

[sleepylink]

I saw people not liking how the Hero of Hyrule has a Blood Curse-

But like, there are literally 2 main plot points in Zelda 2! 1) To awaken the sleeping Princess Zelda, Link needs to obtain the Triforce of Courage.

And 2) Ganons minions are hunting Link for his blood, so they can revive Ganon.

For those who haven't played Zelda 2, In NORMAL RPG's when there are random encounters, you can just stand in one place, and you'll be fine. BUT IN ZELDA 2, They will STILL Appear and Attack you! There is a built in pause EVERYTHING button (Not a menu button, it literally freezes the game until you press it again, even the music) because the enemies NEVER Stop hunting you throughout the game.

ITS THE REASON THE GAME IS SO HARD.

Another little thing about Zelda 2 is the fact theres no money system. The Villagers give Link whatever he needs, because they know him (From helping them previously (It's in the game plot, he's been rebuilding the Kingdom with Zelda)) THEY LOVE HIM!

[theevilcactus]

i miss poptropica so much

[kinokoshoujoart]

cora’s bad time hell simulation steps or how to play “sprite station for girl” “harvest moon ds cute” the wrong way

(all ways are wrong this game is Accursed)

ok so here’s what my disorganized “guide” to myself for harvest moon ds for girl (aka indecipherable notes i wrote to myself as i played and revised as i tested various things and restarted due to mistakes) looks like. at some point when i become a real gamer i will write a legible guide meant for eyes to look at but uhhh this is how i play this accursed game personally

i’m not sure if anything i wrote will make any sense since i wrote it as notes to myself so probably definitely use fogu and fc2 jonason wiki (may not work but some pages should be archived) instead

ALSO if you’ve never played or barely played the game it won’t make sense at all! hmds was my first harvest moon so i am used to various horrors!

my play style is probably not fun in general HOWEVER if you are a grinding hell goblin like me then it’s GREAT!!!! if not you may still find it amusing that the game gives you permission to play like this

(it’s a great background task game while doing like productive stuff but otherwise playing this way would probably be unbearable)

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anyway after that the days go a lot faster, you’ll get the island on summer 1, so on spring 30 i put all my money into million G tickets and sell 200 of em, do the 5x money thing, and save the rest. so when thomas comes the next day to sell you the 900 million G island you can just sell 180 tickets and do the 5x money thing again with like ~600 million G tickets left over. it takes up inventory but you’ll get the shelf in a few days. basically you just need to remember to order from the TV shopping every saturday and place orders with gotz and gray whenever they finish stuff.

random tips

after unlocking the fuckass hot spring sprites (the ones that require you to spend a total of 700 1 hour sessions in the hot springs) i usually grind grazing points— if you put your animals outside for 5 hours you get a “Love Point”, but if you interact with them after they earn that LP then the timer switches over and you can get another LP after 5 more hours. if you wear the time ring the whole time it’s 2.5 hours. i’m not very good at explaining this but basically if you’re super efficient you can get way more animal LP than you realistically should, which is great because the touch glove petting minigame is Bad!!!!

i usually wait on getting the rest of the purple sprites (the ones that require you to hire the purple team and ask for healing) until i’m totally done with the indigo team, cuz i wanna get HG’s purple heart event asap, but you can switch the order if you want

by summer y1 you’ll basically have a feel for everything. aside from Skye, Leia, HG and WP everyone can be married early-mid autumn if you want

if you want to Gay (in the japanese version only) keira is the quickest to marry. leia is the quickest to max affection but it’s impossible to get leia year 1 because the bottle you need to fish up can only be caught in spring. you have to wait until at least year 5 for WP and iirc year 6 for HG.

[bmpmp3]

holy FUCK IA's voisona 2.0 is OUT

[maddymoreau]

[sesamenom]

someone has probably asked this before or you've said that before but what instrument do you play??

just casually, but violin and piano (mostly piano right now)! seitz is one of my favorites to play on violin (i also love vivaldi music but sixteenth note scales are. not very relaxing) right now i'm playing around with changing the chords and tempo on a modified version of Canon in D for piano to convert it to what I call Canon in Dragon :)

[killjoy-prince]

Project Diva X's way of getting outfits via rhythm game gacha makes me wanna run it over with a truck

[usahanna]

Imagine being 12-13 years old and being so obsessed with a crackship and a specific set of characters from different videogames that you make up an entire storyline filled with drama and slowburn just so your ship can bang

[piss-bong]

rlly want other ppl involved in my creative process but don’t have anyone irl atm so if anyone wants to write shitty emo music w me uhhh messages are open

[whimsybrain]

I feel like gender and romantic love have a lot of similarities, in that

A. Both of them are heavily emphasized, publicized, and politicized in our society, though the reality of them is extremely personal

B. They are equally real and social constructs

C. The majority of people seem to believe that you can’t go your whole life without one, or that you can’t have multiple at once, though these things are very natural and possible

D. People have a lot of trouble giving an exact definition of either

[castleinthemist]

Ys 1 dares to ask the question: what if your final boss was a dvd screensaver with bullets flying at you in an 8 direction pattern?

[nexus-nebulae]

just realised that the first media we consumed that made us REALLY sympathetic for the monster was that fucking point and click Mystery Case Files Ravenhearst game. bc that entire game i was legitimately fucking TERRIFIED of the ghost lady in that game but the second i found out her husband was abusive i doubled down on trying to help her escape. and the ending of that game Did make me cry out of fear but hey at least i did in fact help her escape

[1tsjusty0u]

honestly. as much as i do like the remaster (new puzzles and bgs!)… i think the ds version as A Game is better (ghost trick)

[the-acid-pear]

damn just remembered the joe teaser in DT. AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[clownkiwi]

hiiii, kinda woke up from a horrible nightmare

[alertarchitect]

The other part of it is that you have to keep in mind the majority of people who are on TikTok. Most of them likely don't have much experience with this sort of narrative-based meme outside of a few Goncharov posts that made their way onto other platforms, and because of that they're treating it how people new to collaborative storytelling would - by saying something, asserting that it is what is happening / is what happened, and hoping it doesn't either get shot down or overwritten by some other person's take being more popular.

The best way I can put it is like bringing people who are used to doing roleplay stuff on forums or Discord servers into a TTRPG game and expecting immediate adjustment to something they're unfamiliar with. Except the people on TikTok don't even have the rulebook, they just saw it happen from the outside and are trying to emulate it without necessarily knowing what made Goncharov work in the first place or the value of building off of other posts instead of just making your own version. Instead, each of them has their own idea, and they're fighting to be at the top of the pile to have their idea be seen as the best one - and so, everything comes off as disjointed and it doesn't trick people as well as Goncharov did, which was part of the fun for a lot of people.

But you know what? At least they're trying. YouTube couldn't do this, even with YouTube shorts being a thing, because someone would try to make it real and ruin the joke. Xitter (pronounced shitter, picked it up from some friends lol) sure as HELL wouldn't do this, even before it was owned by Musk they would just get mad at anyone trying to do something like this and try to ruin their reputation for "decieving the public" or some shit like that, and now you'd deal with a bunch of fascists trying to take it over, assuming you could even do much with the post size limits. Reddit could maybe do it, but it has the same, if not a worse version of the fascist fuckhead issue that Xitter does. Mastadon and BlueSky aren't popular enough for this kind of meme to gain the traction it needs. And yeah, as mentioned, the format of TikTok's posts is not the best for this kind of thing to take off in the first place - but at least they're trying, and while it's kind of a mess, it's more of a "first time doing this kind of thing" mess than a "ruining the joke" kind of mess like you'd see elsewhere.

listen i didn’t even participate in goncharov but how is tiktok’s fake movie already so much worse. there’s like eighty named characters and no discernible plot. despite being an 80s horror movie it is het. no analysis just “guys that one scene got me fucked up” or “i think (new character i made up) deserved better”. personally i think they’re not committing hard enough