#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.

[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

[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.

[she-toadmask]

I swear my vocabulary has been ruined by this place

Bug annoys me? "I will eat you"

I really enjoy something someone wrote? My first instinct is "I'm eating this/I am consuming this/something similar"

Also earlier I texted saying a Slowbro set for the Cinderace event going on in SV fucks and my friend said, and I quote: "I am begging you to never word things like that again I am not young enough for new slang"

Edit: I don't know where I went in the tags it's late

[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?

[boysnberriespie]

Trying to figure out what makes some certain types of fantasy fiction feel off kilter when they allude to specific Christian concepts lol