#video games terminology

[shatterdome-underscore]

Reminder to everyone who spent the last several years just hanging on long enough to outlast Mitch McConnell, he is only a disc 1 boss. You gotta stick around long enough to see them all go down or you won't get the achievements.

[0bsequi0us]

Reload

Tiny FranCoyle fic

“You’ve got the fuckin’ gun! Shoot the chickenshit bastard, goddammit!”

“What the fuck you think I'm tryin' to do?!” Franco’s fingers were shaking more than usual as he hurriedly reloaded his Lupara— he couldn’t pinpoint why he was so shaky, but regardless of the cause it was infuriating and embarrassing. The Reagent was already disappearing around the corner, into the darkness at the end of the long police station corridor.

When a reagent hit the darkness it was like a drop of water hitting the ocean. He was as good as gone.

Coyle growled with frustration, panting as he gave up the chase.

“Christ sakes!” Coyle’s voice cracked with sheer rage. “They give the boy a fuckin’ gun and he can’t even god damn use it.”

“You think guns just fucking reload themselves?” Franco blustered, raising his voice to match Coyle’s energy.

“You got all the time in the world to reload! Why the fuck you choose the worst gotdamn time is beyond me.”

"I've only got two shots at a time," Franco seethed. "I miss, I gotta reload. Don't matter how fuckin' inconvenient it is."

"Christ, the boy's out here missin' shots. Jesus take the motherfuckin' wheel," The singed cop pinched the bridge of his nose wearily, sighed. "Fuckin' embarrassing."

“I’m doin' my fuckin’ best, alright dad?” Franco snapped hotly, without thinking.

There was silence between them for a moment, and Franco froze mid-reload.

Coyle’s ears pricked up like a police dog, and his fury melted away. He grinned.

“Pardon, son?”

“Ah, fuck you,” Franco grumbled, dropping the last shell into the chamber. “You know what I meant, fuckin’… fuck you.” His pale complexion made the pink creeping onto his face immediately obvious.

“Do I remind you of your daddy, boy?” Coyle pressed, his tone dripping with schadenfreude. He wrapped his arm around Franco’s shoulders, but it felt more like a headlock than a hug.

“Aw. ’S kinda cute.”

“So I fuckin’ misspoke. Very funny, you redneck motherfucker. Get off me.”

Coyle only obstinately tightened his grip, chuckling.

“Now don’t you worry, cupcake, daddy Coyle’ll show you how to handle that thing proper if you just hand it over like a good boy.”

“Yeah, over my dead fuckin’ body.”

Coyle pinched Franco’s cheek, and it was hard enough to hurt.

“We can arrange that, sweet pea.”

[antirepurp]

i should be used to youtube people misunderstanding petscop at this point but like. are you really calling it an ARG. there is no ARG it is a story a kind of creeepypasta petscop is unfiction you can't call it an ARG what are you doing

[shouyuus]

So I have a question. I'm writing a fic for a sports anime and I feel like weird that it's following Canon but I ignore the games. Like I'll just write that a games coming up and then after the game. Is it weird to never write anything during the game? I'm not even sure how to write something happening during a game. Have you ever had experience doing that?

And one more thing. How many scene breaks do you think are too many in a chapter? I try to do three a chapter but I feel like it shouldn't matter. But then again I'm not sure if it'll be all over the place if I have so many different things happening in a chapter

hi hi ! hmmmmm i think it depends on what the plot is and how big of a presence the sport has in the characters lives that you're writing about?

personally, i like to do a bit of research for whatever sport/hobby/career will be in the fic (i knew zip about hockey or rugby for instance, so i went and did a good old youtube/reddit deep dive to try and at least familiarize myself with the basic terminology) but if you're writing about a sports anime, then the anime itself should provide a decent amount of basic knowledge (at least i hope so??? LOL) so you can use that to at least not sound completely off base?

otherwise, if the sport really has no bearing on the events you're describing, then i don't think it matters much? i've def written entire haikyuu fics where like... not a volleyball game was ever played, but i do feel more comfy writing in a genre if, again, i have a basic understanding of at least like... the parameters???

it really is to do with your own comfort levels and the story you wanna tell!

and in terms of the scene breaks per chapter -- i don't think it matters LOL. do whatever you need to pace the story the way you want. that's really up to you and how you think the story is best told/read.

usually when im writing, the scene breaks naturally kind of "present" themselves, if that makes sense. like i'll get to the end of a scene and feel it like ah yeah, that's a good place to end, and then the next scene will start. does that make sense? sdlkfsjd im sorry if it doesn't

im truthfully not the most... technical writer? usually i just kinda write whatever feels right and hope that it makes sense later LOL

but yeah! thats my very... uh, unprofessional advice HAHAHAH

[coockie8]

that anon got me wildin like i feel like askin if ray knows hes a bad person is like askin if Zeus knows hes a bad person my guy hes not a person at all to begin with i dont think he cares lmao

Okay no, I'm glad you said that though because literally. It's the exact same concept. Sure, by human moral standards, he's a "bad person", but he's also not human, so human moral standards don't really apply here haha

You are to a Voidling (or any adjacent being really, like a God) what a video game NPC is to developer/modder, and I can guarantee 99.9%, if not all, video game developers/modders, are not thinking about whether or not it's morally right to set that NPC on fire. It's a creation, and they can do whatever they want with it because it's just a creation. That's how a Voidling looks at you.

[sirithesilly]

Being in the ii fandom is always a surprise because once a week you discover a random pairing thats so rare its an epicpair

[thesuperawesomeaarpong]

Video game terminology question:

What does the term "CRPG" mean to you. Give examples.

[icewindandboringhorror]

sleepy mr baby + other random misc images

[asmo-cosmetics]

Hc that Leviathan invites Lucifer to game, and Lucifer grabs the joystick the other way around. They stay still for a solid 5 min. Lucifer knows he fucked up because at first it felt confusing. Like, how do you press the buttons this way? And then he Knew. He knew it was the wrong way, but did Not Know how to fix it. Leviathan simply took the controller, said "here" and gave it back in the correct position. He did not beat Levi in Mortal Kombat that day, nor in the next hundred years. He did win, once, because Leviathan got distracted by a button not feeling quite right, and still holds that win like the highest trophy regardless

They had fun playing coop games though. The cheesy, colorful, beginner-friendly ones.

HC that sometimes Lucifer likes to watch Leviathan play the more complicated, hardcore-difficulty games, because of how skilled Levi is (and lowkey because strategist, highly competent when he puts his mind in something Levi is hot af)

alternatively: lucifer grabs the controller upside down, does not realize anything is wrong, eventually says, out loud, something to the effect of "ah, i see. the controls on this machine are counterintuitive." and starts playing like pretty decently well for a beginner actually, feeling proud of himself for "realizing" that down makes you go up and left makes you go right. levi cannot bring himself to correct him because it's simultaneously hilarious and kind of impressive

[akkivee]

the game he’s so excited to play is ‘spray gun 3’ and i’m not going to forgive them for the lack of fantasy outfits for 3gumi but i am going to appreciate the based splatoon 3 reference lmao

[pitagain]

Dream: The Dream Collector?

From: May 20th, 2023

Although I remember other parts of the dream, they were uninteresting, aside from one where I was playing a massive multiplayer rally car racing game (In which there was a 100 players online on a desert mountain, two people with red and blue cars teamed up to sabotage me and wasted lots of time, so I pushed them off the racing course with my white-and-green car when I caught up to them, which they’d bitch about as “illegal” with the swearing you’d expect from such sore losers), cuz then I “woke up” and had “memory” of that “dream within a dream”.

I was walking on ordinary concrete with the usual blue sky in the atmosphere, to an ordinary school/business building to visit a chubby human with a stereotypical “cartoon chubby boy” voice. He wore a magician costume, with black surrounding a dark blue vest underneath (Which may or may not have had some seemingly useless buttons on it), and a wide red tie. The top-hat had a thick red ribbon wrap around it, as did the area around the waist as if it was a belt. His arms had either black or blue sleeves, with white gloves covering the hands. The pants were about as black as expected for the magician attire, with either black or brown shoes. He had no beard either, just a humble looking person who never said his own name, although I addressed him during the dream as “Mr. Dream”, feeling some sort of excitement to finally meet him.

(This is an approximation of how his face looked, just with a more pronounced chin and a more orange skin tone; probably not of American descent. His top-hat covered up all semblances of hair, except his black eyebrows, so his hair color is likely black unless dyed)

We sat on a gray couch within the building after walking alongside a blue rug decorating an otherwise ordinary interior, and from our friendly talk, it sounded like Mr. Dream collected many documents from the many clients he visited, and could change the world with magic based on fortunes and misfortunes. I consciously brought up the aforementioned “racing game dream” I just had as if this dream was reality.

The dream seemed to “freeze” at this moment, or perhaps skipped to a part where I was told to wait until Mr. Dream returned, as I walked outside to notice a metal post near the entrance I came from, containing a document containing terms I thought I was familiar with, some terms being either highlighted in yellow or crossed out with a straight line. In hindsight, I must’ve been mistaken, but Mr. Dream stopped me from touching this document, saying something about his way of handling information being part of his creed. I seemed to have forgotten the “racing game dream” at this point.

Back at the gray couch next to Mr. Dream who was standing upright not on any couch, I decided now was the time to ask Mr. Dream to activate a fortune/misfortune based on his evaluation of my mind, which may or may not have anything to do with his whole dream schtick. As soon as he obliged to my request however, the whole world shaked up n’ down endlessly, not smoothly at all. Soon after, he seemed to say “oops” or “whoops”, before claiming that the world is going to end as a result of my misfortune. I did feel somewhat scared upon hearing this for a brief moment, but became even more half-conscious in the dream and saw this as an opportunity, as I put my hands in a begging pose with all my fingers crossing each other, asking him: “When I die, please make me a Pokémon in the Pokémon World!”

He looked very confused by this suggestion, so I repeated myself with more clarity: “When I die, please make me into a Pokémon in the Pokémon World!”. Whether Mr. Dream understood the request or not, I never knew, as the shaking got even more intense as my head bobbed up n’ down once before the dream came to a sudden end.

[koukouture]

the way into my heart (and my pants tbh) is neatly documented video game lore all in one place

[woundedheartwithin]

I can see why it might be confusing that this is a video game blog but I routinely post gifs and pictures of a clearly real human being, and the only thing I have to say in my own defense is that he’s video game adjacent because of Judgment so it counts 😅

[mysticdragon3md3]

Fighting Game Archetypes For Dummies by GekkoSquirrel

Funny thing about being a fighting gamer back before there was easy access to a Fighting Game Community, is that I never learned all these terms.  Like, I was independently discovering strategies that I didn’t know a whole community had been sharing amongst each other and had already decided names for.  So nowadays, I keep trying to learn the FGC’s language, even though my memory is terrible. Saving videos like this for reference.

[kqltlc]

"Content" = Derogatory, Corporate-Coded, Dehumanizing, Minimize or Reduce to nothing.

"Media" = Complimentary, User-Friendly, User-Made, Uplifting, Meaningful in some way.

[prokopetz]

"You shouldn't call video game genres [thing]likes because" buddy, it's a natural transitional state. Lots of video game genres started out being named after their most notable entry or entries. FPSes used to be called "Doom clones" before evolving their own terminology. Some genres never do, and people just forget about the original game and keep the name. How many roguelike fans are familiar with Rogue? How many adventure game fans even know the genre is named after a game called Adventure?