#this isnt difficulty just how fun i find them

[glassdragons]

Trial rankings by a pretty okay healer, in descending order:

Maw of Lorkhaj

Sunspire

Asylum Sanctorium

Cloudrest

Sanity's Edge

Aetherian Archive

Dreadsail Reef

Kyne's Aegis

Hel Ra Citadel

Halls of Fabrication

Sanctum Ophidia

Lucent Citadel

Rockgrove

[totallynotapsychic]

[⭐🍰] So what do you think i should bake first? Ive been wanting to try a new recipe and i wont mind anything

idk what difficulty level youre going for but heres a very brief list of things that could be fun to make. since youre baking im assuming jellies and other stuff like that are off the table.

castella - should be relatively easy but it has to chill overnight, im pretty sure. you probably already know what it is.

palmiers - also easy. theyre a lot like genji pies if not exactly the same

crepe cake - if you know how to make crepes or pancakes, this is a breeze, but its kind of tedious. this isnt technically baked either but i just felt like putting it here

anpan - takes a little more work but the result is worth it. hopefully.

cheesecake - more difficult to pull off but its very versatile. you can put anything in it or on it and itll still be cheesecake

macarons - maximum difficulty level probably. idk how into this you are

theres also a lot of foreign desserts ive wanted to try but its so hard to find them or the ingredients for them. i wont burden your hobby with my personal high-level tastes

[actualbird]

yknow, i really love the SR cards where the main plot is basically just NXX Boy Goes And Does A Thing, And He SUCKS AT IT!!!

vyn has SR Mercury In Retrograde where he does a fantastic job being absolute ass at household plumbing. marius has SR Overtone where he gets an A++++++ for being the last guy you wanna lend your guitar to, because hes really bad at playing the dang guitar. and at first i didn't know what artem's card was that followed this pattern but sam @samsspambox blessedly informed me that it's SR Thin Veil, the paywalled SR i dont have yet. and in that card story artem fucking SUCKS at PUPPETS

(sidenote: i generally weep at paywalled top-up cards but the concept of basically having to pay for artem's cringe is So Very funny to me)

but now here is where the injustice becomes apparent.....vyn, marius, and artem each have an SR Epic Fail: The Card Story

BUT WHERE IS LUKE'S?????????

to avoid any misunderstandings, here are the traits of what, to me, makes up an "SR Epic Fail":

one Main Thing is the thing our beloved nxx boy will suck at and what and it's also generally Main Focus of the whole card story (which then later leads to a sweeter core message about vulnerability and love and being okay with not being perfect etc)

our boy has to suck In The Moment. not in a flashback, not in a referenced past anecdote, no no. i want to have to tap through the entire excruciating scene/s of him failing at whatever hes doing

the story format has to be in a contained card story and not a recurring-but-brief theme in a personal story

with this criteria in place, it is IMMEDIATELY apparent that luke is the only one without an SR Epic Fail. the closest story instances would be the following:

SSR Through The Heavens (the skateboard card) since he fails at being a normal not-hypervigilant human being and also the NSB makes fun of him with memes, but this doesnt count because it wasn't the Main Focus of the story, there was a whole lot of other stuff going on and the Main Focus was the skateboarding which he did awesome at

some past anecdotes and flashbacks in SR How I Remember You (the luke blindfold card) about how luke sucks at drawing and sucks at charades, but this doesnt count because the drawing was just referenced in a few sentences and the charades fail was a brief flashback. it's also not the Main Focus of the story as well

his general inability/difficulty with cooking that is a recurring theme across his personal stories doesnt count because it's not a card, and thus isnt eligible

this is terrible. this is horrid. i love luke and i want a card thats all about him messing up at a minor activity. i want a full SR Luke Fucks Up At Cooking where the focus is what it says on the tin

i can even see the story so clearly in my mind's eye. it'd be so easy. maybe luke tries to make gingerbread man cookies but accidentally ends up with a gingerbread massacre.

luke mentions hes gonna bake and mc is excited about it because it seems he put a lot of thought and research and prep into it, maybe it actually starts with a scene of them shopping for ingredients together, and theyre both looking forward to luke's baking! but when it actually happens hes like "oh sorry a case came up, dont come over to my place anymore!!" which is sus

mc comes over anyway the next day to pick up some stuff she forgot and luke is there acting awfully nervous and his whole BUILDING smells of burnt gingerbread but there are no gingerbread treats to be found. luke keeps evading until mc finds The Massacre in a plastic container box haphazardly shoved into one of the kitchen cupboards

and it's an absolute baked-goods crime scene in there. none of the gingerbread men look like they were ever even men or homonids of any kind to begin with, it instead looks like all the dough just came together in the oven to create an amorphous Blob with the odd "limb" sticking out here and there. what luke has created is a gingerbread abomination.

mc stares at the gingebread abyss, and it stares back.

upon further investigation, mc even finds slight burn marks around the oven's door too and luke has his face in his hands, his shame is IMMENSE, just about as immense as the aroma of gingerbread treats everywhere. he was hiding it because he was worried that he got her so hyped up for the whole thing that it'd be SUCH a disappointment to her that he fucked it up!

and mc is like "hey no it's okay, as long as it tastes good, it doesnt matter how bad it looks!" and then she breaks off a piece from the gingerbread monstrosity and eats faster than luke can warn her "NO NO DONT DO IT---"

it tastes like shit

anyway they go out to get desserts from cafe instead and mc reassures luke that she obviously still loves him even if he created a baked treats atrocity and broke the genevabread convention. she tells him that if hes having trouble or if he fails, his instinct shouldnt be to hide it all and avoid her but to let her know and so she can help out, because she wants to be there for the wins and for the losses, for the good days and the bad. luke then goes all blushy grateful happy and they kiss and love is real.

the end. the post-story text conversation can go something along the lines of

luke: okay so i figured out why my gingerbread men went nuclear

mc: oh? why?

luke: i....misread "tsp" as "tbsp".........every time

mc: HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

luke:

[syrupspinner]

i just completed Hypnospace Outlaw

i sincerely love how much the sci-fi genre is just explaining how much sci-fi stuff would suck if it was real

the reason you play hypnospace outlaw is the aesthetic and presentation, just so were all on the same page. the reason this game got your attention is because its a passionate parody of web 1.0, and it does an excellent job of that. i can tell this game was made with a deep nostalgia for what made the past special without being blinded from its flaws (like the viruses and general difficulty to navigate).

the only problem is that im 24

well i shouldnt say thats a problem. just because i dont have nostalgia for what theyre throwing back to doesnt mean the game doesnt stand on its own. i didnt grow up with a ps1 or n64 but i still enjoy that specific form of lowpoly modeling, for example. its just unfortunate that i cant have the same hit of nostalgia that people slightly older than me can, yknow? i wish i could enjoy this game as much as them

again, the game was still very enjoyable. the puzzles start out very grounded, introducing you the the world and how it functions very effectively, before ramping it up with more abstract mechanics and compounding techniques needed to find more results. the only problem i found myself stuck on in an unfun way was figuring out how to decrypt sandwich files. its one of those puzzles that make you feel silly for not getting it earlier, but in my defence... who the hell would program something that esoteric

as an aside, i saw people discussing what genre games like this would be. by "games like this" i mean hypnospace outlaw, outer wilds, rain world, animal well, that kinda thing. i dont think applying one genre is effective, but instead its about how they combine the genres of exploration and puzzle. instead of having all the tools to solve a puzzle when youre presented with it, you have to leave and seek out the solution elsewhere. notably, if the game isnt build to accommodate/encourage this, itd be pretty unfun. these games and their open-ended design manage to skillfully mesh both genres together: the exploration is the puzzle

so yeah, i really enjoyed the game! there arent a lot of games where its just fun to explore the world as its presented, and HO does a fantastic job of that even without considering the puzzle design. i love just reading about the characters and their lives in hypnospace. this games greatest strength is just how charming it is, theres really nothing that matches it in that regard

i also found it really inspiring. i love how much personality all the characters fit into their webpages. maybe someday ill move this blog to neocities just so i can evoke something half as impact

oh no this was all a secret advertisement for neocities wasnt it! well, it worked, im not even mad (yes i know about the page builder)

anyway! the game is worth it for the vibes alone, and the puzzles are a really solid foundation that everything is built on. totally worth buying! the only thing is if youre going for completion, please use a guide to find all the pages, some are hidden way too well. totally worth it, though. if you know what the "thanked" achievement is named after, you know it makes it worth it. also, buzz was hilarious, i love pranks on the player

now im going to spoil the ending, stop reading this is you want to not be spoiled about the ending, because im about to spoil it now. after sasuke

oh my GOD dylan merchant is such a schmuck. maybe ive just lost too much sympathy for venture capitalist techbros, but i cannot spare any positive regard for this guy. like, okay, i get hes the bad guy, but outlaw 1.0 tries sooo hard to make you feel bad for him it wraps back around to being infuriating. the thing is that i have no idea if this is intentional? like, was a guy who let a teenager go to jail and think about how his prank killed 5 innocent people plus his crush apologizing decades later (*after* being caught) with an unfinished video game supposed to be a sincere tug of the heartstrings? "sorry i killed zane before he could stop being an annoying twerp" "sorry i killed rodney, his family smelled like walmart" "sorry i killed mavis, i think that was her name. i got nothing else to say about her" "anyway thanks for playing the 'final' version of the game that killed everyone. you have successfully absolved me of my sins and sent me to heaven. remember to subscribe and hit that bell icon" DUDE how emotionally shallow and self aggrandizing do you have to be you are a child murderer my guy

[phagodyke]

Would love to hear ur thoughts on Hades game sometime because I too loved but had beef with the game and I think we are the same ….

yessss, disclaimer I haven't played it for like 3 years and I only played 10 hours/got to the end once before I dropped it so i might be misremembering some things but I stick by my opinions! under the cut cuz this is long as fuck 🫣 my haterism has no limits

ok so basically my grievances w hades can be split into 2 main areas: gameplay + narrative, I'll break them down in that order.

firstly gameplay - roguelikes/lites are my fave genre so I was predominantly approaching hades from this angle + its failure here is the clincher for me.

I found the gameplay repetitive and stale. this isnt a criticism of its permadeath like ive seen some ppl make - I usually relish repetition/grind especially in permadeath-based games bc I find tactical challenge fun + love the learning curve, its soooo rewarding. but hades is ultimately just a glorified button masher. mob/boss movesets are boring + unoriginal, and can generally all be fought the same way. trying to do otherwise drags out fights; it actively discourages emergent gameplay so theres little variance WITHIN runs. the pool of rooms for procedural generation is far too small so theres little variance BETWEEN runs. there's no real challenge to combat, difficulty is mainly increased by heightened mob tankiness as you get further in a run. movement/combat doesn't flow well, its mechanically very weak, relying heavily on its permanent upgrade system instead of developing skill in the way you approach the game. all the weapons feel clunky and don't really offer any unique challenge/benefit so theres virtually no point switching between them and the grind to unlock them all is so pointless… god there are just SOOO many hack n slash crawlers that keep it fresh even for hundreds of hours and hades fails miserably at keeping it fresh for even 5 measly hours :^/

I didnt like the boon system either - its far too simplistic + shallow. its fine to rely on chance, this is part of the random generation, and I think it had a lot of potential in that it was a good way of combining aesthetic w gameplay itself. but this is pretty much the only form of resource management - and theres barely any management to it! theres no reward for exploring different builds, they dont really synergise BETWEEN gods in interesting or useful ways, so the game encourages you to just stick with one god throughout, and biases random generation towards boons youve already collected. part of the fun for me is learning HOW to design a build, and working with the randomiser to play flexibly, but hades just isnt interested in that at all...

also - I don't like the permanent upgrade system, I think this detracts from it as a rogue. every time you should be starting on square 1 - maybe you pick up health upgrades etc throughout each run, and maybe you unlock new weapons etc for the random generation pool, or purely cosmetic upgrades, but the point of permadeath is that it RESETS! zags base health + dmg should be the same 50 hours into the game as when u first open it. make a different genre of game if u dont wanna do that lol. I also think IF youre going to say fuck it and add a permanent upgrade system, you should also add unlockable permanent biome shortcuts bc ur just making it boring as fuck to have to waste time grinding thru earlier biomes with unskippable combat once youre op for them.

I GET that they did this to make the game more accessible* to players who dont typically enjoy rogues, but it just makes it really disappointing for those of us who DO love rogues, and it always feels cheap to me when games are like "well of you want challenge then set the difficulty yourself with these modifiers 🙄" like just make the base difficulty TOUGH up front and then add an easy/story mode and accessibility features* for players who don't want the challenge.. if you're gonna call yourself a rogue the gameplay should be the PRIORITY not a throwaway option

one of my biggest peeves with hades is how people now laud it as one of the best rogues - whenever I mention I like the genre I almost always get asked "oh, like hades?" and it pisses me off so much… its a rogueLITE not roguelike, ie. it has rogue ELEMENTS but its not a true one and imo, it does a pretty shit job implementing them! I would have a lot less resentment towards it if it wasnt marketed as the forefront of the rogue genre - frankly its a very basic rogue with very mid gameplay, its characters/design are by FAR its strong point and it should be sold as such. its misleading and makes me sad that this is what most people think of when they hear rogue :-(

*(side note - accessibility in this game is another major flaw. theres really no excuse for a game as popular as this to be so lacking in accessibility options. allow people to bind keys together or use coloured outlines or have colourblindness settings or alter font/text size etc - its not that hard! dead cells did a great job of this lol)

anyway... moving onto my second criticism - narratively, its also unsatisfying.

the hades plot is, loosely, about a cycle of abuse, so the 2 natural directions to go in with this are either: #1: escaping the cycle, or #2: continuing it forever.

#2 is the easiest to do with a rogue format - bc of permadeath the game is already cyclical, so all you have to do is create an ending which loops perfectly back to the start (smth like 'its impossible to truly defeat/reconcile with his father so even after zag beats him, hades drags him back to the start again). obviously this is a miserable story to tell, but tbh I think it wouldve been interesting + fitting - so much of greek mythos is about cycles and the unchanging nature of the gods, and they LOVED eternal cyclical punishments. plus theres smth rly tragic about zag gradually helping everyone else while no one else can save him from his family LOL

#1 is a bit harder to do - this is the story they WANTED to tell but I just don't think it worked… the driving force plot-wise is his desperation to escape. realistically for this to happen the game needs to be finite, which it can't be due to its rogue nature - somehow you have to end up at the very start again. the main solutions I can think of for this are:

a) after the final boss, insert some time travel shenanigans (easy to fit into the worldbuilding using a character like kronos) and all of zags progress with hades is unspooled. this can be completely out of his control, or it could be a choice the player makes (to end the game here or choose to go back and relive zags past in order to progress npc questlines). eg. what happens in dead cells. again, tragic but it makes more sense to me

-or b) bite the bullet and give the game a completely finite ending after beating hades. if players want to go back and play more to complete other npc questlines, they pick up play from before they beat hades. this isnt explained "narratively" bc the plot is already concluded and now theyre just playing for fun (eg. what going under does)

I also think for a character-focused story-rich game, roguelite was a really terrible choice of genre as it locks every interaction behind pure chance and hours of grinding - just really baffling why they decided to do this, especially when theyve had such success previously making games within different genres (transistor, bastion, pyre). the core of the issue for me is that the devs wanted to create a game that was both story rich AND a rogue - and these things arent mutually exclusive, but the best features of each contradict each other when you try to balance them in a way to appease their respective fans (ie. the challenge/complexity of the gameplay is heavily restricted by keeping it easy for ppl unfamiliar with rogues to pick up, but the strength of the narrative arc is simultaneously weakened by the fact that as a rogue it has to be perpetual bc of permadeath + you're working with procedural generation…)

I'm not going to beef with the artstyle or music bc I rly loved them both (even if I wish the body diversity was better!), or with the interpretations of greek gods bc literally every piece of media abt greek mythos has to decide how to interpret them and I think its silly to be like "this isnt CANON" - since we actually dont HAVE a strict "canon" for many of these stories bc theyve been retold/translated in so many conflicting ways lol. I've just heard ppl complaining abt that and I dont think its worth complaining about 🤷‍♀️

ANYWAY tl;dr: hades should've been an action-heavy isometric metroidvania… it wouldve made it far easier to focus on character questlines (ie. with respawn points + a fixed map), unified the story they wanted to tell with the gameplay SO much more effectively, and allowed them to reach the full potential of both, whilst also playing up to supergiant's previous game-making strengths. but thats my 2 cents!

[gremlins-hotel]

(sorry for being unhinged in your inbox)

Ok as someone who has put many things in my mouth that I should not have have, and if I scale it by say x 3 if we take Alfred strength (the average human bite force is 180 psi, so I'll make Alfred's 500 at the minimum) here is what he can most likely bite through

I've bitten through leather with some difficulty (dont ask) so I'll assume he can do that with like 2 good chomps.

I've also bitten clean through a plank of wood once, it took a while, but it is possible, so Alfred bites through it slightly faster than a beaver.

General cloth like linen or cotton isnt hard to break so with the right angle, and mind you this is with human shaped teeth so tearing isnt very good, he could probably bite it out in one go, or grind it and fray it very easily.

Hemp rope and burlap is significantly harder and much itchier, and considering how tightly everything is woven, it's kind of as hard to do as leather straight up, and the fibre makes it even slightly harder.

As for sheet metal Ive managed to dent it but never cut through it, I think because if how flat sheet metal is, hed be able to do this as we do with aluminium.

Most plastics are easy for people so hed have no trouble

I've managed to bite through a feldspar and flourite, but nothing harder, so I'll bet he could probably bite through quartz and maybe topaz if we're pushing it.

I may return with further findings.

Once again apologies

okay first off i'm glad i'm not the only one who's put weird shit in my mouth

second this gave me many thoughts. asdkjfh

tl;dr this man needs to be studied and also to never be let outside without a leash. don't let him bite things.

the human mouth is so lamely shaped for biting inopportune things because we have cheeks. big cheeks for holding food. biting stuff like rocks would be so much simpler if we could reach our flat, grinding molars with more ease. and while incisors are meant for tearing, you're right that human incisors are not meant for wood or metal, but rather for vegetal material (frugivory, folivory).

but also consider that human teeth can still very much break skin. the most dangerous part of a human bite, though, is the bacteria in our mouths rather than the puncture wound itself per se,,,

also was it you that put in the tags "mohs hardness scale but it's if alfred can bite through them"? because i loved this tag so much sldkfjhgsads i stan this new mohs hardness scale. also i am SO sorry to tag you again but @if-you-like-pina-colada-s made a very very wonderful addition to my ramblings regarding bite force. you postulate 500 psi at least (fun fact - that's 100 more psi than the grip strength of an average adult bald eagle, bc i'm silly and think about grip strength, too). piña got a number for the stronger nations at ~3,000 psi, which approaches a crocodile's bite force, and if you've seen what a croc can do with their sheer amount of closing power,,,, ough. i find this to be a wide range full of fun to play with.

also i think i went insane one night when i had to remember that in canon we see a probably 3-year-old alfred lift and swing a bison. if we assume your average three-year-old male weighs about 31.8 lbs (CDC) while a male american bison (Bison bison) can weigh up to 2,200 lbs. if we are to believe these shenanigans, that's 69.18x alfred's body weight if the bison is at its heaviest. even a female, which tops at 1200 lbs, is still 37.74x. he's the real ant-man fr!! because i'm telling you someone reminded me of that bit and i was sitting like bro what the hell,,,

this whole conversation is just making me want to compare alfred's skull and jaw to a robust australopithecine. like okay paranthropus robustus boy. gonna start calling him a gorilla fr. 1300 psi? 1500 like a jaguar? fuck this dude do NOT put your mouth anywhere near me. please fuck off immediately.

[nonclassyparty]

this chapter was so so good. i’m glad to see how well mc is handling the 180 her life had taken. i was a bit unsure about mingi. all of their moments together were super cute but i also couldn’t take my mind off of how they had ended a couple years. but hopefully they can get to talking about it with no difficulty (whys it so hard for everyone to just TALK omg 😔) and wooyo omg. he waits until the ending of the story to start showing his ass?? you like yeosang that much to come at your friend like that?you’ve known him for two business days!! 🤨 (i’m exaggerating, i know) i thought mc was starting to warm up a little bit to yeosang as well then i remembered all they’ve been through and then i thought hell i’d still resent his ass as well fuck both of them. and last but not least then the ending 😶‍🌫️… you’re telling me the mf has money now, while she doesn’t oh no i’m about to end it all. and judging from the last dialogue spoiler you gave us and how HE showed up in this current chapter i might just skip it the very last chapter to spare myself 🫠

i love how in your writing you never leave a stone unturned. i feel like other writers would’ve probably forced a happy ending but honestly speaking there’s still so much unsaid and unsolved idk if a happy ending make sense without addressing them bc it’d come up eventually in there lives anyway.

sorry i’m rambling but i love love this story and i hope you’re always well <3 💐💐

thank you very much first of all!! <3

second of all, the yn/wooyoung/yeosang stuff is like a direct parallel to boyoung/mingi/yn and at first i didnt think of elaborating more on it (yn was just supposed to walk in on wooyo and yeo and be angry but it was supposed to be funny in the end) but then i thought just making it into a comedic scene would be an insult to her character AND that it would maybe help everybody understand how boyoung would feel if mingi choose yn, understand mingi's predicament two years ago a bit better etc it's fun to play with perspectives sometimes so i took full advantage of that here lol

the relationship with yn and mingi well...that will be talked about in the last chapter but mingi is trying to fix what he's done with actions rather than words and yn is accepting it at a surface level no matter how much it bothers her bc she likes him that much but a good relationship just can't be built like that because the old unspoken problems you've pushed away will find a way to resurface sooner or later. i wanted to write mingi facing this shit head on and addressing it right away but it's just not in his character bc he does not like conflict, admitting he hurt someone or being vulnerable and revealing WHY he hurt someone and he'll avoid it until he's pushed to the last resort.

and san doesn't have that much money...yet but he is a lot more successful than his peers. it was always mentioned how he was a top student in all his classes so him finding success pretty fast after college isnt that surprising 😭

[princessdreamie]

DBH ending part 3

after Seth was born Lolly stepped up as his big sister and while c made sure that most of the requirements were met for his brother, he still asked for advise if their parents had a stressful time. Doesnt mean they were bad parents. But one being a ceo and the other being a bar owner was not easy to handle a baby in their environment. E eventually got along with ll to the point where he even tucks her into bed after the day was done. And even made sure she got to parties if there were kids alllowed. S was secretly happy for it, while she loved se and c the same she didnt want to give birth to another kid. One was enough. Especially after realizing what troubles they can cause at the beginning. S and ll had your typical mother-daughter relationship. They fight sometimes but they make up later on the day. C was liking her just as much. He was hoping for a sister when his mom was expecting but still is happy for a younger sib. So that all works out.

Back to the present XD

when se was starting to get hungry, he let his dad know. And we all know what tha means. Screaming until his belly is satisfied. E was calling for a maid to make some food for him. He was looking for his robot daughter but couldnt find her. He picked up se while he was checking his gps to see where she went. Normally she would jump out from the most unexpected places and await his orders. He was confused of the speed her little tiger icon went on the road but realized soon enough that she was sneaking out again. E was not allowing her to go out without his knowledge after all. After he saw where the tiger face was leading to he calmed down but made sure to remember to give her and Mitchell a scolding. by now she probably made herself known inside, so there was no way his assistant wasnt aware of the little cat girl being in the car. After he got se to stop crying and got him to eat, our fave ceo handed him to the nearest butler to lay him down. He was beaten and still had work to do. Alarm was set for 20 mins to give him a power nap. But he got woken up by his wife instead after 4 missed alarms.

Back in kindergarten

na was sitting with some of her friends, Milly(aka. mi), Tim (I guess just T XD) & Lena (Le). she was the one who came up to them to make friends and they had a good connection very early on. Mi was a wild child, climbing stuff was her favorite thing to do, even if she gave their teachers a heart attack. Tim was shy and had troubles making friends on his first few days in his class b4 he met Na. Le was deaf. She had an incident at an amusement park once at age 2, where the boxes for a show had difficulties and eventually made loud disturbing noise. Her parents were under one of those speakers and tried their best to cover her ears but she still got a lot of damage for her hearing. her hearing could be repaired but she needed to grow older for the operation to be a success.

the 4 kids played with gg and ll for a bit b4 bully and his lackey Loid (aka. lo) messed with them. Fyi, chance's school doesnt allow ai bots after some kids made pranks with them. So that was a new rule they had to follow.

Anyway, they would do that most days, the boys are either getting on their nerves or make fun of them. Na told n about her son's behavior, more than once. But every time bratty jumps in his defense. Saying he just wants to play. But he wasn't. He has been given the title 'baby bully' for a reason afterall. Although she and tim are older than him,the girls are around the same age as bully by a few weeks but this isnt saying much, he still does how he pleases in class. Their homeroom teacher, miss Trail, knew how bad he has gotten and made sure to document everything he and his friend have done in her class.

on their break, ms. Trail went up to na to comfort her, after her cousin got to her with his stupid comments. Her friends played on the slide while she stayed on the side. Gg was with her friends and ll was rebooting for an update. So she was sitting basically alone under the shades. She wasnt feeling well either and now had to wait for her meds to take effect. The teacher asked if she wanted to visit the big kids school. Her eyes lit up at her offer. The school they went to was the same where lv and c went. Their recess starts a few minutes later after they have had. Na put her little tiger friend in her jacket and they started walking to the school. The 2 waited by the gate and Ms. trail asked the little girl how her family was doing. Aside of telling her the usual things with her parents and and her aunts and uncles sometimes, she either talks her about a show she really liked at the moment or her time with the fergusons. The woman noticed pretty quickly that she wasn't very keen on her cousins. With the exception of Michael and levi, she wasnt getting along with n's kids and levis little brother was going to another school. And when asked why he is not with his big brother in the same school, he only answer was "i guess he wanted to be independent from cousin leaf". Her teacher just nodded not understanding the minds of those big wigs.

Thats why her idea to come to this school was so that whenever her little student had a hard time, they would visit her favorite relatives. She interacted with both boys occasionally and her intuition told her that the young ferguson really was looking out for her. Levi cared for her as well, but since his friend had no familiar relation to them other than his stepmom being a Stanton cousin they still treat each other as family. Thats why she had more respect for him than most other siblings she had encountered. As the time goes by Na finally felt her medicine working. Right on time for the big kids to run out. Levi was hanging with his friends while c was playing basketball with a few other kids.

One of c's friends told him that his girl cousin was visiting. When he finally saw the 2 on the gate, he waved at them and asked for a 5 minute break. Arriving infront if the girls he chit chat with both of them. Eventually her teacher tells her to tell him what happened today. And he knew from the moment he saw her face that it wasn't good. She looked sad and her eyes fell to the side. He had a feeling that it might have to do with bully. He never liked the kid. As bratty's brother was still young he witnessed his toddler behavior but didnt think much of it at that time. But now he was glad that r was back home with his own teachers his dad had chosen. Even tho he was alone with them, s made sure to let him meet kids his age in the nearby park on his lunch breaks, so that he wouldnt be to isolated.

If he met bully now, they cretainly would get into a fight. his dad made the right choice, he just wished na's parents would have realized it too. Then again, he was glad that she found good friends back there that go with her through thick and thin. He hadn't met them yet but the girl promised to introduce them to him at her birthday party next time. Her bd was coming up and invited her class and some of her other friends. She wished she could uninvite bratty and bully but her family didnt think it was a good idea since they are still her family. She wasnt sure if she feels that way still after knowing them for so long. Bratty threw her tantrums left and right and bully was making everything a nightmare.

The little grouo parted ways after she finally told him about her day, and c wasnt amused to say the least. He made himsrlf a feminder to talk to lv about this. After school, while waiting for the bus (c & lv wanted to drive with the bus for a while so they could keep chatting with their group of friends) c walked up to lv and told him what he heared from Na. Lv heared him out and tells him he will get to the bottom of this. B4 c could go back to his friends, lv asked if gg and ll were with her all the time. C just shrugged his shoulders and tells him that these 2 are never far apart of the kids normally.

Back at the Stanton's mansion

The grown ups had some tea time while they waut gor the kids to come back. N keeps talking about a problem they encountered at work. Some smuggeling i guess, make your own sense of it. Ct was sitting next to her looking at some files while the others give their 2 cents to this topic. The door opened loudly and they don't need to wonder who just came in. N's dad asked his daughter to teach her son manners. But n just retaliates thst he will grow out of it. Bratty was in her room doing homework and noticed the commotion as well. Soon after lv and na came around the corner and he had something to tell them

Flashback b4 this brat rushed inside the door

Na and lv were talking about their homework they have to do today until Bully rushed between lv and na as they walked the way to the door. He didnt even look back to see if they are ok. Lv kept his balance, his girl cousin unfortunately did not. She fell on the hard floor with her butt. she was about to cry from the pain but lv knew how to calm her down. He sang her fave part of chance's song and strocked her hair lightly. Sge still cried some tears but this song made her feel better. Lolly, who was already turned back on after her update, hugged her tightly and tigger looked back at the door, shaking his head.

Back on track.

Lv sat na on k's lap and started to inform them about her day with bully. Ct just tsked and was telling his nephew that the 'ferguson kid' might have Over Exaggerated. But gg & ll could confirmed it. Gg even showed recordings on their ipad. The speakers were on, and hearing the things her baby cousin said today again,made her feel even more upset. N called bu (bully) down to question him. B4 they saw those recordings all of them thought that he couldnt have been that bad. Bu even lied most of the time when he was asked if he was a good kid In school. Or if he played nicely with the other kids. Gg had a bad feeling whenever he answered those questions. And now he knows why. As he lied this Time again, gg replayed the recording, much to na's displeasure. His apology later didn't even feel sincere. Even ct noticed his son's annoyed undertone. N's dad again, tells her to watch his behavior. But br (bratty) heared that her brother got yelled at and came to his side to comfort him. In her opinion it is not his fault that na is so weak that she gets upset everytime someone said something bad to her. K had finally enough. He had to sit there, hearing those terrible things his daughter and as well as her friends had to endure. He was not having it with his niece's attitude. A fight broke out and na ran to her hiding place she found some time ago. It was a little cabinet with a secret hidden floor room. she would just lay there sometimes abd try to calm herself down. She turned on her little light on her watch and called c.

The ferguson parents already heared from their son and try to figure out if they should talk with them. Na might not like to be around ppl but she visited them enough to have a good relationship w/each other with their niece. While discussing it, c's mobile watch started ringing. He excused himself and answered the call after entering another room. c wasnt surprised seeing her with her barely seeing face. She would call him or her friends whenever she was in her hiding spot. Na was telling him what happened at home and ge assured her that he will be there to listen.

Their calls started once a few months ago where she had a crush on a boy in her class. She asked c for advise, even tho he never dated anyone b4. He went out with some, sure but they were obviously just after his family's fame. The boy turned out to be lo, b4 he met bu. At 1st he seemed nice. He played with her home or sometimes read books together. but one day she had to take her drops ver bad. As soon as she got her bottle out of her bag, sum1 snatched it away. And who else would it be but lo proofing himself to bu. Bc apparently being a lackey for the son of the lady of the Stanton family is better than being her friend. A teacher stepped in and lo's and na's parents were called in. And instead of saying that he wasn't alone in this, lo took all the blame so that bu could get out of trouble Scott free. Since then she hid in this place and be surrounded by dim light with sum1 to talk to that has time to hear her out. c tells ber that he will let ll stay with her for tonight and he will come pick the little tiger the next day.

At Kai' and julie's home

They bought a new home for them selves, a few months prior in her pregnancy, and the house was furnished fo their wishes. Slightly smaller than his dad's place bur still impressive nonetheless. The day b4 kai and his family left in a hurry as they still had their screaming match. Julie was not sure what to do anymore. She knows n was doing her best with her kids but after seeing the footage as proof she didnt know what to believe anymore. Na came out of her hiding spot when her parents called her name. She was secretly happy to leave but made sure to hide her emotions to not make her fam worry. Ll and gg were the only ones who said good bye as they left the house. It was not like her dad to lose his temper, with his family no less. Normally she witnessed ber dad being the butt of the joke but this time he had not pulled any punches.

Kai was still not over it what his sister and the family of hers did today. Ct was trying to calm them down in a half assed way. As if he was not even sure that there was a problem to begin with. As for their kids, they didnt even pretend to be sorry the whole time as they fought. J and k whispered to eachother on the ride home to not wake up their daughter. But ll was still awake. And she was sure enough to record their convo as well to show it to her parents. She thought that these 2 are the least 'brain dead' people she had met today.

Arriving home k brought na to her room and kept arguing with his wife. Not only over his daughter but how his family seemes to have gone off the rails lately after bu was born. There were times that they would visit e & s so they could only be around r. their son was not as arrogant as their other nephew. They didnt want to admit it but they preferred the Ferguson's home over staying with bu. c's parents felt the same way. They preferred to have their little kid stay with them than being with n's son a whole day. They even love having na around them.

On the next day

E came to k's place to pick up ll. E rejected the invitation to have some coffee inside since he was late for work anyway. Na was already talking w her friends about her up coming bd party. T was uncertain bc his parents werent in any of the circles. He got into this daycare bc his dad and the director visited the same sports bar and they got to know each other there. Na didnt care about circles anyhow. If her parents throw a party for her then they have to invite kids she actually likes. None of those business opportunities, like they normally do. Too bad that bu had the same idea as well but at the same day. Originally the Stanton's were thinking of doing his on his actual birthday but he ofc got his way. In the pretends of 'making up with his cousin'. in reality he is just a prick. K was not on board with this plan and decided to make her party at his house. The family fought about it until k and j couldnt take it anymore. Their dad was already mad about the whole fiasco b4 but now he was at his withs end.

As was as na feared. He invited most of her class to his party. And the ones he didnt invite were not close enough to either of them. Fortunately some of them didnt like bu so they gratefully accepted her party invites. The parties were on the weekend so many had time to come. But bu would just have this smug grin on his face when they drove home, thinking she will regret telling on his mom. basically, just some stupid revenge scheme of his.

Na was still bumped for the lack of guests on her list compared to her bby cousin. N felt bad for her, even try to talk about her problems with bu. But na didnt even try to listen, knowing that she wont do a thing about his behavior. Ct tried to reassure his wife that they will get over it eventually.

On the day of the party.

As expected most of her classmates came to bu's place. Even trying to show off in social media. But to their surprise E and his family arrive with some other kids that got bullied from n's kid. It wasnt difficult to check who else got ignored/mistreated by him. Their parents were ecstatic on his offer. and equally mad to know that they were still treated so badly, even after they got wind of bu's behavior. K & J were talking to some of the parents while mi and na played with her dancing game. Na was not really good at dancing. She would lose footing or even step outside the dancing mat. But mi was just loving it. Not only bc she was winning, but her energy was finally put in good use. When mi and the other 2 arrived at first, the wild girl would just jump up on furniture and dangle on the edge. A while later they got another guest at the door.

C and some of his buddies came as well. One certain friend of his was disguised with a baseball cappy and mask. When asked what his deal was, the friend tried his best to use a deeper voice but na recognized him immediately. He was one of her favorite actors in the show se likes to watch. Caught in the open, the guy put his disguise away and many of the girls at the party squeaked in delight. Fabian (Fa) played the best friend of the Heroine and he got as just as many followers/fans as his colleagues do. C was not aware of this bc fa barely talks about his work in the Media circle. But it payed off nonetheless.

Na was on edge. He favorite actor, at her party. She completely forgot about bu and his party and got the best birthday to date. Fa Even blogged about his friend's cousin and her party. The post got way more likes and comments than bu had by a long shot.

At the Stanton's

Bu was mad after seeing the new post from fa. Even his own guests saw it and some left right away to see him. N called her brother asking if it was his work. But he just laughted and tells her to not be too delusional. When she accused k of playing petty he just grinnted his teeth and answered, if it was petty to defend his daughter from a useless brat. And just hung up on her. He never talked to his sister that way, and he had to admit, it felt good.

After an hour their place was in full swing. Some older girls from c's class came to their house as well and started to flirt w him and fa. that didnt sit right with na but T dragged her to her cake. When all of the guests finally sat around her bd cake it got quiet. na made her with and the cheers got wild. Le asked if she had taken her meds yet. J was touched by her friends concern and explained to her that they gave it to he a few hours ago.

After a while the party eventually ended and aside of c & a work friend of k, the family of 3 started to get ready for bed. K's friend talks with him about an upvoming show while j gets some rest on the couch. C offered j to take na to bed, which the woman really appreciated. While the little girl finisehd her tooh brushing routine, c get a call from bratty asking what kind of friend he is. C learned over the years to not let his step cousin have her way, even if he had a little crush on her back in the day. But after bully got into the picture he noticed all the red flags of her and that she was not worth his efforts. He asked her if she really got so entitled to the point that she doenst see how her attitude affected her girl cousin's feelings forwars her and the family. Their bickering kept on going until he tells her how he really feels about her brother and wished he would have been abducted. He regretted saying that as soon as these words left his mout but by then that bitch was crying about how 'Selfish' he has become. (Like, we all know she would react that way, that's why every1 hates that bitch)

Na had her door closed so she couldnt hear everything what they talked about. But from the tone of theur voices she figured it wasnt pleasant.

Part 4 coming soon

[transflynnscifo]

i just realized that i actually dont know what the general consensus is with most tov minigames besides some form of contempt?(?) dislike(?) from repede snowboarding

so actually im kinda curious to hear what others think if anyone wants to weigh in on this post!

im going to try to recount all options for minigames, but please let me know if i forgot anything. anyway off the top of my head there are:

-the two dice games at the one vendor in capua nor

-resraurant serving

-the water cactus thing that you do exactly once

-warehouse sidequest should probably count even if you cannot play again once its complete

-dragon races

-repede snowboarding

-super chill (cold) rhythm game that you Also play exactly once

-nam cobanda poker

my opinions on how i feel about the minigames are under the cut:

-dice: i forgot that there were two options of games until i started typing the post lol. its extremely chance-based and in reality the only reason one would bother to spend time on it is to get a title for rita (doesnt even have a coatume with it!) personally is like a D or maybe even F tier

-restaurant serving: may be considered extremely tedious the harder the difficulties go. i know i got overwhelmed by it until i realized i could cheese it by writing down all the orders on paper because the dialogue bubbles only change if you press them. i think that aspect saves the minigame from being the worst. ultimately its funny because of how absurd orders can get but i can understand why people wouldnt be happy to play it. Personally, its B tier. at least you can get costumes out of them

-water cactus: this is a one-time game during the story so its hard to evaluate it. i think in concept its extremely interesting as its a brief moment to force the player into a rhythm to get through desier by making them manage the water in the party's canteens. its a shame it doesnt remain once you reach yormgen but i understand the choice behind it not being permament: if someone needs to fight gigantes or find materials in the dungeon, needing to manage the water at the same time could make the process less fun. C tier for interesting concept and wondering if it could have been possible to adapt this in a more fully-fledged minigame

-warehouse sidequest: in theory very fun, but its definitely not for me. i have to admit, i resorted to using videos to help me do them in the past, but i should try doing them by myself the next time i get the sidequest. the quest itself is cute and you get a really nice costume for karol. i think its pretty good especially because you dont need to do it all at once and hence take it at your own pace as opposed to brute-forcing it all like you can in the waiter minigame. high C/low B until further notice

-dragon races: now HERES a very fun and interesting mini game (imo!) the premise of it kind of expects you to have a good grasp of the world map, but it starts out easy enough to be doable with practice. its one of the minigames that feel worth coming back to because of the fact it 1) doesnt take too long 2) isnt convoluted in a way where you constantly need to write/pause/think. you just fly! plus you can get a very nice outfit for judy off of it. A tier, no doubt. the only reason it isnt S is that its not my absolute fave. im biased. however its still one of the best minigames the game has to offer

-repede snowboarding: hi. i love repede snowboarding. so much so that my sibling had me clear the courses on their save file of vesperia. i think admittedly the controls are a little bit janky, but at the same time, its because you arent expected to hold only to accelerate all the time. its a balancing act that requires some patience to manage. the reality is that there are two maps but with different weather conditions that change how hard the course plays. i ultimately enjoy playing it especially with the challenge of beating it under a certain time limit. using the overdrive dolls here as a means to get costumes for everybody is genius too. for me, this is S tier uncontested

-rhythm minigame: its another one that appears for exactly once and never again. in reality, the game could have made it happen 4 times in total and it wouldnt have been as confusing for why its even in there. i assume that by the time they were making it that the team was pressed for time and was unable to incorporate it the other 3 (possible) instances. i think its got a lot of potential but as it is right now it just awkwardly exists. honestly i feel bad for sticking it in C tier. but i also think i would have had put it into D had it not been my love for estelle. it certainly has more going for it compared to DICE

-poker minigame: HERE IT IS. the means of getting chips for nam cobanda. this is a very simple variation of poker, but in my opiniom, an engaging one. i think it says a lot that its possible to get sucked into playing it a while. its pretty straightforward and i think its actually the one minigame with most replay value because of the fact theres a chips vendor, whereas your incentive to do the other games are titles/costumes and those are finite. and while this is also somewhat chance-based like the dice, its less of a "guess randomly" and more of a "trying to predict the pattern and possible cards". S tier

ok thanks for reading id love to hear ppls thoughts too!

[danceintheskies]

hi sam, i was wondering if path of radiance is a difficult fire emblem game or not. i want to play it but i'm currently not in the mood to play very hard games (like fe5 or even fe6 level difficulty). would you say the game is overall on the easier side of a fire emblem game? i hope this isnt a hard question to answer 😭😔

hi anon e. mouse :)

Other people can give their opinion, but I don't think it's difficult personally! I think it's easy enough to be someone's first FE, even. It might be harder if you try to 100% it and go for all of the bonus exp goals, there are some hard/tedious ones off the top of my head, but a casual playthrough is very possible.

Normal mode is what I chose for my first playthrough, and I found it OK. Hard isn't unfairly difficult, but it definitely asks more from you strategy-wise. If you want to just barrel through, you can play on Easy mode, but I personally didn't find that very fun (and you can't transfer your save data to radiant dawn if you play on Easy!) At the end of the day though, it's your decision.

There's also bonus exp, so you can feed your favourites some exp outside of battle instead of trying to use them in a map that they won't do well in. You earn them from beating maps and can get some extra by having a low turn count and/or completing optional map-specific challenges. (I.e. having all your units reach the end of an "escape" mission, keeping NPCs alive, one map gives extra BEXP if you make it through undetected....)

And you don't have to keep two characters glued to each other to raise their support level; some characters have innate "bond supports" that grant them bonuses if they're near their friends, but otherwise regular supports are just unlocked by deploying two characters on the same map a bunch of times. So you don't necessarily have to build your strategy around which characters you're trying to make kiss.

Some parts of the game can be tedious, so use save states if that makes the game more fun for you. I personally recommend making one right after beating chapter 27/Moment of Fate because there's a very hard fight afterwards with varying outcomes depending on if you can defeat the bossman in a certain number of turns.... And (iirc) you can't save beforehand.

(you don't actually have to fight the bossman to progress the game-- it's a great story moment and unlocks a better unit if you win, but you can also just run from it if that's not your style. there are tons of guides online on how to beat him if you want to take a crack at it, they just require a bit of planning ahead)

Hope all this helped. TLDR I think you should be fine, have fun

P.S.: If you decide to play the sequel, remember..... Hard mode in Radiant Dawn is Maniac in the original japanese..... It's pretty unfair, so play normal or easy if you value your sanity 😔

[errorid-mt7lt7k7unfr9ttfua5]

i find it really annoying (and honestly, ableist) that options to make video games harder are seen as good, wheras options to make video games easier are looked down upon. this obsession with being a "pro-gamer" and only playing the most difficult games and looking down on games that are traditionally considered "easy" or "trivial".

some people (like me) enjoy games that are challenging. Thats whats fun for us, but a lot of people that only enjoy difficult games very much have the opinion that games that *Arent* difficult arent worth playing, or worse, that youre not a "real gamer".

there is a lot of joy in being really good at something that is difficult, but that isnt the only reason to play a video game. imagine saying that the only point of making art was to show off how Technically Skilled you were at it (oh wait, people Do say that ):

sometimes, people do things because it makes them happy. often, a game is great because of its story, art, music, characters, or message.

actually, im going to derail a bit, but it does defend my thesis so bear with me.

i think Undertale is a prime example of this phenomenon, as it has various "gamemodes" based on which ending you want to get, and each of these three gamemodes have, for the most part, very different gameplay. and guess which one is the "hardest"?

Genocide

now, if youre fairly familiar with Undertale, youll know that the game absolutely punishes the player for trying to do a genocide run. Though i have never done a genocide run and in all likelihood never will, i am familiar with it: the two actual bossfights that exist in the run are significantly more difficult than anything in the neutral or pacifist routes, and the rest of the gameplay is endless grinding for EXP. In addition, effectively every single fight apart from the two aforementioned bosses ends the very moment it begins: you run around aimlessly in the area youre in at the moment and wait ages to encounter a monster, and once you find one, theyre dead usually no more than three button presses later. it isnt fun, its just difficult, and the venn diagram of people who are elitist about game difficulty and those who have played the genocide route in undertale is probably mostly a vesica pisces.

youre allowed to like games that are difficult, but dont get mad when other people just want to have fun

[thegongoozlerreacts]

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Part 2)

so im playing the game for a second time!! after several days of leaving it untouched in my phone after its release lmaooo

so starting off the second(??) day at hogwarts with the aguamenti charm in the greenhouse

but i have one (1) question

why the fuck is Neville Longbottom here?? like,, im not sure what the timeline of the game is but it definitely takes place after the story of harry potter so hello?? Neville why r u here?? did u get held back or smth lmaooo

now onto actually doing the charm

OH WAIT I DIDNT READ THE OBJECTIVE PROPERLY

Neville's a professor!! he's the herbology professor okok that makes sense

lets go another successful battle!! and learned a new spell very cool

also became friends w the bowtruckle, cute!!

why r we gonna talk to the headmistress

oooh dance club

mcgonagall made the dance club?? oh cuz of the yule ball thats cool

i like the game's graphics but its really funny how the character's faces arent moving or changing and u can only get their emotion from their exaggerated body language and gestures

also the npcs faces have like,, a different texture to them lmao?? like it feels more 2d than my character's face

OOHHH I GET TO PICK WHO I CAN DANCE WITH

should i dance with mean girl cassandra or reserved but nice daniel

ok im gonna dance w daniel why is he just staring at the wall

YOOO THERES RHYTHM GAME

that was the easiest rhythm game ive ever played but it was only 1 star difficulty so

oooh there's a map!! (why did i just discover the map only now ??)

oh yeah ivy is missing ahh now's the start of a wild adventure

Objective: Look for Ivy and then there's like an arrow pointing in a direction LMAOAOOA guess looking for her wont be too hard

oh no wait it was just pointing to the door oopsies

ooohh so my chr isnt the only one looking for ivy nice its just the other supporting characters\

time to go on a search!! in one of the classrooms but i doubt ivy would be here

EWWW SPIDERS nice succesfully killed them all

the battles in the game are fun

is that peeves??? now we're fighting him

VICTORY!! i like my character's lil dance when u win a battle its cute

oh hi daniel

oh shoot its filch

no we're in a classroom

its the monster book

oooh ive got a character card for robyn cool is it permanent??

oh no we've lost her and kevin wtf where did they go

oh its that room!!! the uhhh i forgot what it was called but the room that shows up when u need it

IVY?????!??!?!?!??!

mysterious trunk SOMEONE IS INSIDE OF IT WTF

social club?? lol i just picked auto join

LOL its just so funny to see ppl talk in non-cutscenes

like there's my chr blinking and lip-syncing meanwhile the NPCs just have a blank expression, unblinking eyes and talking without their mouths moving

ok but like i know the main story quest in which we find ivy has been completede already but like,, what happened to robyn and kevin that night? and what was the teachers' reactions when ivy showed up again??

wait arent they first year? and didnt the year just start? why is robyn on the quidditch team??? first years arent allowed on the quidditch teams right??? wasnt it a whole thing that harry was on the quidditch team in first year??!??!?!?

well anyways now we're going to hagrid's hut

ah there's gnomes

ooohhh the bludger thing is cool!! i like it very fun

now doing some daily tasks

oooh i got daniel's companion card!! nice also got a buncha new cards from the gacha part of the game

LOL THE HOWLER CARD HAS THE MESSAGE THAT RON'S MOM SENT WHEN HE STOLE THE CAR LMAOAOOA

lol went to the duelling club and duelled the same person twice lmaoo

now im at the dance club and im gonna dance with lottie i picked the flamenco cuz i already did the waltz but its so funny how my chr and lottie was dancing the flamenco while the other students were doing the waltz LMAOAOOA

the rhythm game is fun i like it

ok i think thats enough for today, will play again tomorrow

[alicethepiper]

guess who made a bad decision and stayed up finishing the game last night

alright so first things first ive made some discoveries (although im sure im not the first one to make these discoveries, it's just fun finding shit out on your own)

okay so, if you have a golden egg and you give it to your partner during the item management screen - when you're in game, the egg becomes an infinite golden egg. when you eat it, it "disappears" and then your character goes back to holding whatever item they had last, but if you go back to the hotkey with the egg (or go back to your inventory) it's still there. which is wild. but if you give the egg to your partner, it stops it and it goes back to being just one egg.

idk the parameters of this. it worked on online co-op, idk how it works with an ai partner. im guessing this has to be a glitch because it goes back to being just one egg whenever you give it away, but who knows maybe capcom is just wildin. also im sure there's more info about this out there and that people already know i just feel like that one guy who thought he discovered america

also - the person who joined my game and then immediately left, and then i took their golden egg from my ai sheva (because sheva keeps their inventory) and then i went to my inventory and it was 90-somethings eggs; my theory is that MAYBE that was an "infinite egg" in their inventory and when i took it from ai sheva, the game just clocked it to the max or whatever and that's why it was in the nineties. idk though, i remember it being like 93 or something which seems too specific of a number for what im thinking happened. but idk. i want more golden eggs. ive sold so damn many of them to upgrade my weapons I NEED MORE.

okay some recent revelations as well (pun intended leave me alone) also spoilers for end game boss fights/encounters as well as a warning for the shit ton amount of complaining im about to do <3

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the first reaper encounter sucks

the mkono fight sucks

the excella fight sucks

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the jill fight goes on too long

the last wesker fight goes on too long

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SO i recently (like maybe a week ago) was replaying this game on the xbox 360. idk if versions have to do anything with this, but it was the standard version, not the golden whatever. the mkono fight lasted i swear maybe ten minutes. it was so damn easy in comparison to the forty minutes to an hour it took on my first playthrough (which was couch co op on 360). the same thing with the first reaper encounter. the same thing with all the reapers actually. also the number of reapers was different. the room with the shooting and stuff (yeah i know super specific) usually has three reapers, and then you have to turn on the power and then turn on the platform and kill the guys and get your partner across the platform and then those guys have rocket launchers and its such a slay. when i was playing here there were only two, so im thinking maybe re5 has a little difficulty measure where its like "oh youre struggling? maybe i can fix that" but idk. also.

having the first reaper encounter occur RIGHT BEFORE THE MKONO BOSS FIGHT is actual bullshit. capcom. what the fuck. this isnt a problem on a new game plus whatever but it is a fucking problem when im replaying the game on pc and i dont have any previous saves. god that is so lame. to use ALL my shit on the reaper. and then to have nothing for the boss fight. look, twenty minutes for a boss fight is a fucking stretch - so when it takes forty minutes to an hour for any of this bullshit - it HURTS me. dont do this to be capcom. not in my resi game. pleaasseeeee.

we used a rocket launcher on mkono because that was bullshit.

also - love the "explaining how the rocket launcher works on boss fights to someone who is relatively new to resident evil." sibling already had a rocket launcher i let them pick up from the marshlands so it was their job. and i was like "the MOMENT you see them, shoot." and they were like "nah but lets widdle them down a bit first" and i was like "NO LISTEN. THE MOMENT THE BOSS FIGHT STARTS. AIM AND SHOOT." and so they listened (luckily) and boom the immediate "boss dying" cutscene right after the "boss fight beginning" cutscene was very funny.

okay so for the final chapter, i played the entire thing online with a stranger who i think also relatively maybe didnt know what they were doing which is so fun actually because theres this like "fuck it we ball" energy that i love. and also - THE LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION HAPPENING WITHOUT EVEN ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO SPEAK TO EACH OTHER IS INSANE scientists should study this. figuring out how to work the first wesker encounter of chapter six? PERSEVERING THROUGH THE EXCELLA FIGHT EVEN THO WE DIED LIKE FOUR TIMES?! THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT WITH WESKER BEING THE BULLSHIT THAT IT IS (not as bad as 360, NEVER AS BAD as 360). that person is an absolute king/queen/nonbinary ruler of some sort. and i LOVE the comradery that was so fun.

my chief complaints about the final wesker fight and the jill fight: when you do the same thing and it goes on for a really long time (and it's just the same repetitive strategy) it makes me think "oh shit did the game glitch" and i dont think it should do that, that's just me. there's a charm to it and all, the game is fucking old and we love that, but damn after the fifth attempt to get the thingy off jill's chest, it really should've just worked. capcom don't make me think my strategy is wrong by edging me with success, only to be like "jk lol" because then that makes me not do that strategy anymore OR it makes me think the game glitched (which, unfortunately, is likely and therefore a believable explanation). like, shit, i've played the damn game before and ive already done the boss fight with jill and i knew the strat was right and i was STILL second guessing myself because damn that shit took a long time.

(also i got the heart of africa achievement thingy - it's no biggy just you know, success and all that. love beating the shit out of wesker and then him being like "u suck. ur actually so weak, you know that?" and it's like - homie you said seven minutes and it's been five and you're tapping out come on. i love this though. definitely not a complaint)

also my mods officially just stopped working at some point. i deleted and redownloaded the leon one to see if i could fix it, reverified game files and all that, and i still got stuck with buff shaggy most of the time and jensen ackles some of the time. sheva was in her cute bsaa outfit tho so it was fine. at the end though, neither worked, but the color filter mod thingy that removes the green worked - so that's all i can wish for honestly. that green filter is nasty af and idk who at capcom allowed that

alright you know what time it is

my girlllll my girlll my girlllllllll i love her have i made that obvious enough yet

had to incude these two because obviously

i know ethan says this: "They say that when one door closes, another opens. Well, a door closed tonight. And what a long night it was—but not just for me. Mia and I weren't the only victims here. So were the Bakers. It was that... thing, Eveline, who made them that way. But now Eveline's dead. And these guys are here to clean up the mess. I had just come to terms with losing Mia. But now she's back and wants to start over—put all of this behind us. Maybe this is where the next door opens."

but all i hear is "door-door-door"

ethan also says "you gotta give me your gun!"

and also "youre the one who's cursed"

and also-

im done. these are just the stupid fucking quotes you can say and like a sleeper agent it triggers something in me and then boom im saying them for the rest of the week

unfortunately i have a lot of photos of buff shaggy and jensen ackles - ima keep messing around with the mods but now that i can play as sheva i dont mind anymore mwahaha. i need to go get rich now so that i can get infinite ammo and never suffer ever again. i'll test out the egg thingy later cuz im curious if im right and also i want money

if you read this whole thing youre crazy and i love that

also. one more thing.

botox buddies :)

mods used:

Leon RE4 Definitive Edition - kreedyk

RE5 GE - Sheva BSAA SOU Outfit - EvTital

Resident Evil 5 - Awakening - True Colour - QTmodz

RE5 time babey lets gooo

okay so we did mods (of course we did)

i got rid of the gross green filter with a mod thingy (i will credit at the end) and the screenshots are so fun, they give me two copies of each photo i take? one with the green filter and one without?? absolutely wild to see them side by side idk why capcom put that filter blegh

look at that side by side !! wooooooo absolutely wild

look at this side by side !! woahhhhh

(i changed chris to leon because i dont want to play as chris but you dont get to play as sheva until its your second playthrough and so to manage i switched it to leon, it's slightly more bearable) (no hate to chris i just dont wanna play as him) (i love chris but i wanna play as sheva) (do you catch my drift) (when the option is between sheva and ANYONE and im forced to not play as sheva it hurts me) (love you mr. redfield no hate)

look at her look at her look at her look at her look at her (i had to point my gun at her to take these shots and it made me feel bad) LOOK AT HER UNIFORM SHE IS SO STINKING CUTE the lack of outfits for her hurts me (i love you modders, thank you for all that you do - this isnt a complaint aimed at you guys at all) IM ABOUTA LEARN HOW TO MOD TO GIVE THIS GIRL SOME MORE CLOTHES

also the leon mod is absolutely WILD - the people behind this are so cool, it replaces cutscenes and also his voice lines are in there?!? he calls sheva ashley which i think is fun, but when you throw out commands its leon saying them and i think that's so awesome

the mod didn't work for all of chapter 3 tho? but then boom chapter 4 and it worked again so that's fine. i also can't get long sleeve leon to work but im pretty sure its something on my side, re5 literally had an application error when i first tried to boot it originally (before the mods) and then i looked it up and apparently its a widespread problem so... let's blame capcom :)

okay now here's where i messed up the mods (this one was my fault 100% watch the order in which you download shit fellas)

leon head on chris body is scary it's like when shaggy drinks that potion in scooby doo 2 monsters unleashed and he gets really buff, this is like buff shaggy i dont like it

hi josh :3

hi jensen ackles :3

i have more photos to post so im just gonna add to this in a reblog?? and then it'll be one big long post - that's probably a bit hectic but it keeps it organized

also shout out to the amount of people that have joined my game love that people are still playing - that one person who showed me where all the fun treasures were, you're awesome sorry i got lost on the map

mods used:

Leon RE4 Definitive Edition - kreedyk

RE5 GE - Sheva BSAA SOU Outfit - EvTital

Resident Evil 5 - Awakening - True Colour - QTmodz

Josh Stone HD Textures - epicawesomemods

[give-soup-please]

can i ask for narrator with a reader who plays rhythm games? and is like really good at it. specifically games like project sekai and stuff, mobile rhythm games. the narrator will check on them and they’re just tapping away at the screen with complete focus on some vocaloid song at the hardest difficulty. I HOPE THIS ISNT TOO SPECIFIC i just am hyperfixating

Narrator with a Reader Who Loves Rhythm Games

Project Sekai is… surprisingly bright, compared to the office. It’s very cheery. There’s a lot of glitter and sparkly animations going on. He isn’t sure what to make of it. 

He stares in astonishment as you tap the screen faster than he can write. It’s honestly impressive. 

He’s surprised at how deep the lore is, considering it’s a mobile game. The amount of collectables too… How big is this game? How many unlockable costumes?

The narrator watches you tap away, utterly obsessed with this game. He feels a little left out, but then develops a fun idea.

If you’re so good at rhythm games, how good will you be… If he’s holding one of your hands? Consider it a self imposed challenge, if you’d like. It’s up to you whether you want to point out what a big softie he’s being.

He leans on your shoulder, trying to distract you. He feels a slight sense of petulance, but finds it amusing to see you rack up perfect combos while listening to him narrate the importance of paying attention to him.

His jaw drops as you score an excellent grade despite playing “the emperor” on the hardest difficulty. How is that possible? 

He makes sure you take breaks occasionally, not only so you’ll pay attention to him, but also your fingers and hands must be sore after all of that playing. He massages your hands and wrists, wanting to say something, but not sure what.

Overall, he’s confused as hell, but if you’re happy, then he is as well.  

(sorry it's short, anon. I did what research I could on the game, so I hope it's all accurate.)

[tachvintlogic]

Whats ur take on Klemper? Heres mine.

Klemper backstory- Died in the 60′s.  A lonely disabled kid(many people headcanon him to be special needs) . His parents were usually busy and none of the other kids ever wanted to play with him because of his disability and social awkwardness, didn’t help that at that time, there was a lot of stigma about those kinds of issues. One Christmas Night, the coldest year it’d ever been, when his folks were out for a party, he watched Frosty The Snowman and got the idea of making his own snowman friend to play with. He went far from his home and the town so the other kids wouldn’t try to destroy his snowman. As he was making his snowman he began to become affected by the cold conditions, to the point he even took off some of his snow clothes to give to the snowman, feeling extremely hot(some people have done this, its called paradoxical undressing I think, when experiencing hypothermia ) . He has absolutely no idea whats happening to him and isnt fully aware of whats going on, but is already quite far from home and still wants to finish his snowman. Before he could give him his hat, he fully succumbed to the cold and died that cold Christmas night. Now as a ghost he haunts, causing huge snow/ice storms, hoping to find a friend to play in the snow with him, forever.

  I’m thinking of making Klemper look like a snowman. Figure it fits the snow theme as well as his backstory. I wrote him to have died in the 60’s as thats when the frosty the snowman movie came out.

So, my take on Klemper is that I don't know what to do with him.

Now, I know what I'd want to do with him, just not how.

Like, we all know that Klemper is portrayed in a way that coded him as high support autistic or mentally disabled. And the show uses that to make fun of him. That's bad.

If I were writing a reboot, I would want Klemper to be portrayed very carefully and want the narrative to treat him with empathy and understanding.

So another thing about autistic representation is that when we're not portrayed as emotionless assholes, the other popular portrayal is the savant who is exceptionally skilled in a specific area. An example is the Good Doctor.

Now, savants are fine, but when they're the most prevalent representation that explicitly autistic, it feels like it's saying that we should treat autistic people well because they have a skill that will allow them to contribute to society that will "make up" the cost of dealing with them. (Even though most autistics aren't savants.)

Implying that whether or not a disabled person should get care and the accommodations they need is somehow tied to "whether they can be productive members of society." That's also bad. Disabled people deserve care, accommodations, empathy, and understanding because of their inherent worth as human beings. As people.

So for Klemper, I wouldn't want him to be revealed to be a savant that somehow "makes up" for his difficulty communicating and high support needs. Klemper deserves kindness and love and care because of his inherent worth as a sentient being, not because he can be "useful."

But I don't know how I would write that. He's a ghost that died of hypothermia and his obsession is making friends because he wasn't able to have friends when he was alive. I don't know where to go from there.

Now your take on how he died is just wonderfully and hauntingly tragic. I loved it. I can see it as the cold open for Klemper's first episode. No explanation of how it's related to the show. Just make the audience watch a kid die in part thanks to the neglect and abuse of the people around him. Beautiful.

[cynettic]

Hey so I just read the Laser Tag AU and maaaan, now I really want to play Splatoon smh aksksjjdjs

Anywayyy my point is: may I request more hcs but with the other boyos (Childe, Albedo, Bennett, Razor, Chongyun, Xingqiu and maybe Aether if you do him too xD)

Laser Tag ( genshin x reader )

Summary - Genshin characters playing laser tag with you their s/o.

Pairings - Reader x Childe/Bennett/Razor/Chongyun/Albedo/Scaramouche

Warnings - Mention of guns and shooting.

A/N - Added in Scaramouche- But I couldn’t think of anything for Xingqiu. I can surprisingly see the majority of the Genshin boys being good at wielding guns, even though they’d probably suck lol

Laser Tag

Childe

Childe is a beast.

Whether it’s in the terrain of his battlefield, or the streets of Liyue playing laser tag, Childe plays to win. He’s always been the competitive type, enjoying the thrill of battle, or in this case, laser tag.

He loves the game.

And of course, you just have to end up on the opposite team as him.

This game is the perfect setup for an enemies to lovers kind of vibe btw. With him shooting at your comrades and eliminating them from left to right, and you doing the same for his team. Very few people stand against him in this game, and his accuracy and sense of battle.

The two of you will spend the entirety of the game playing cat and mouse. Childe chasing after you while you simply escape his sights every time, taking down his teammates while you’re at it.

Childe isn’t as interested in winning, and once you prove to be worthy of a decent laser tag battle, he tries his best to force you to confront him.

Of course you on the other hand take his reckless behaviour to your advantage to turn the game in your favour and strike down his team. You know it’ll piss him off later when you win.

However, it Childe does manage to catch you…

The two of you will fight, that much is obvious. Dodging and attacking him, he will get very into it. Maybe a little too much, but you don’t give in, not until the very end.

Not until he’s on top of you, the two of you toppled over a bunch of hay that cushions your fall when he crashes into you. Not until he’s holding the plastic revolver against your temple, staring straight into your eyes with his signature smirk.

He might sneak a little kiss in there just to throw you off.

But in the end he will make sure he wins, or rather, he eliminates you. He doesn’t care if he doesn’t win the entirety of the game, taking you down was satisfactory enough, and he feels well accomplished and content after.

Would definitely rub it in your face.

If you brush it off as something you didn’t really try in, be prepared to be pinned against the wall and kissed until you admit that you were in fact, doing your best. And yes, he won fair and square.

Bennett

Omg this precious boy-

Bennett will try his hardest, stick by your side and shoot at any approaching target. Considering that the two of you are on the same team, he will promise to protect you.

With one problem.

No matter how well he aims, whether it is going to hit his target or not, the lazer disagrees. Rather, his terrible luck absolutely ruins it and somehow his lazer point ends up somewhere completely else.

“It changed its direction completely!”

Well… you never know, maybe it’s the gun that sends the lazers ray so far off, but considering it’s Bennett, you know it’s no coincidence.

So you end up protecting him.

Dragging him from place to place and shooting down your opponents, the two of you spend your time tripping over random large ass rocks ( with only Bennett’s terrible luck to blame ) and attacking opponents.

You make sure that Bennett is not shot, no matter what. And you give everyone else a terrible glare that basically screams that if they shoot him, they’ll face your wrath.

Nobody shoots Bennett.

By the end of the game, he’ll be grinning ear to ear. And even if he didn’t manage to eliminate anyone, he’ll boast about how his amazing dodging skills pulled him through the game. You’ll agree, lacing an arm around his shoulders and pulling him to the good Hunter to get a good meal.

Just to buy one though, the poor boy can’t cook for his life.

Razor

“Razor… very confused.”

The wolf boy has difficulty with the rules of the game, but the concept of pointing the gun at an opponent and shooting them with a lazer isn’t too hard to grasp.

You find out very quickly that Razor is actually pretty good with aim.

His hands don’t shake for one, and he is so adept to his surroundings that people struggle finding the source of their depleting health. Despite being overall confused at how to play, Razor easily becomes one of the main players taking opponents down.

As someone on his team, he makes sure to keep you by his side the entire time. He understands the elimination part, and he doesn’t want his lupical to get taken out, even if it’s a game.

He can be oddly affectionate at certain times, pushing your face against his chest as he takes out the remaining players in the field you both are in. He will carry you, and take no hesitation when pulling you out of the way, even if it’s a little too rough.

When the game ends, it might take a while to explain to the poor boy that your team won. And that it was a good thing.

Razor will begin to smile when he notices how content you are with it.

Chongyun

This man has the audacity to wield a gun while licking his ‘popsicle.’

Like goddamnit Chongyun, being good at shooting is already a flex, you don’t have to nibble at your popsicle while you’re at it.

You can’t really blame him though, it’s hot outside, and with the sun beaming down on the poor boy's head you know he can’t stand it. Especially with all the adrenaline and yells from opposing teams.

As someone on the same team as him, you take on the job of Chongyun’s personal popsicle restocker, and shooting anyone down once he gets tired. As good as the boy is at shooting, he sucks at keeping himself unknown to the other players.

So you take on the job to make sure they don’t shoot him down.

The two of you are a good team, and if it gets too hot, Chongyun might even let you have one of his popsicles. Of course you don’t have his talent of being able to shoot while having a popsicle in your mouth-

Your team will end up losing though, and even though Chongyun isn’t bothered, he will be slightly worried if you care. The two of you were obviously trying your best, and as long as you both had fun that’s all that matters to him.

But if it really bothers you that much…

He knows you feel comforted by physical contact, so he’ll hold your hand and offer a comforting smile. Tell you that you played well, and that he had fun.

That cheers you up right away.

Kiss him on the cheek please, even though he will flinch at the contact, his cheeks are flushed red and he won’t admit it. But he likes it.

Albedo

Why is it so easy to picture Albedo as a hot sexy stoic mafioso wielding a gun?

Anyways, Albedo is terribly good at wielding a gun. So good at that he only holds the plastic revolver with one hand, never missing a shot as he walks down the streets of Monstadt.

He knows the area well, so good luck trying to sneak up on him. The way his eyes so carelessly sweep the buildings, it hardly looks like he’s trying. Eliminating players with his lasers as he mindlessly strides past the fountain.

Of course, you’re against him.

Albedo isn’t really motivated to play, he’d rather be in his lab experimenting or recording down his discoveries. But he was dragged into this mess, he might as well play his part and support his team.

Albedo won’t hesitate to shoot at you and take you down.

As much as you may be important to you, he plays this game fair and square. He will take you down, or rather, he will try, because you get creative :)

He knows Monstadt well, but he can’t possibly keep his eye on all angles around him. So you’ll aim for his blind spots, throw yourself at him and tackle him to the ground. Simply eliminating him isnt satisfying enough, you need more.

So you turn this into a little game to fluster him.

Tackle him and pin him down, watch him scramble for the gun and then give him a peck on the lips. Watch as his grip loosens, and one of his hands instinctively come to nestle against your hair to pull you closer, and then you pull away.

Watching his idle confusement turn into a light blush on his cheeks is just too good, and how he grows even redder when you start laughing is even better.

Of course his team wins, not that he cares.

The minute the game ends he’s back in his office, conducting experiments. You can go interrupt him though, sneak into his office and press a kiss against his neck. He doesn’t often react or do much to it, but after your linger kiss at the game, he will pull you close and sit you on his lap. Have a proper make out session after you left him hanging with that peck earlier ;)

Scaramouche

This little man is ‘terrifying’.

It’s scary enough that whether you’re against him or on the same team as him, you keep your distance.

“Are you avoiding me Y/n?”

You play on the same team, and even if he’s your boyfriend, you know better than to stay too close when it comes to battle. He shows his cruelty, and you really weren’t looking forward to be put in the middle of that.

‘Unfortunately you didn’t have a choice-‘

Scaramouche will literally drag you, a hand looped around your waist to tug you to his side and take you along with him as he takes down opponents after opponents. He doesn’t ask for your praise, but you still give him it knowing he appreciates it. Mentally.

When he’s tired or bored, he will lean his head on your shoulder, wait there for a bit before jumping back up and shooting a random straggler on the sides. Heavens knows how the boy knows he was there, it’s like he has some sixth sense.

We don’t even want to get into his accuracy and precision, Scaramouche is born a mafioso.

At the end when your team wins, no surprise, give him a hug. Tell him he did well and even if he tries to push away, hold him tight. Even though he could easily pull your arms away if he wanted to, he’ll just pretend to give a little struggle and then give in to your warmth.