20+ y/o || Nonbinary, they/he || Aro Ace || This is the main blog so there is no theme and a lot of reblogs || Adorer of media you need a chart for || In the process of realising the weakness of my flesh, might start to crave the strength and certainty of steel || why is every female character so sexualised I'm tired of this || TAGS that you might wanna blacklist: #suomeksi for Finnish posts, #på svenska for Swedish posts, #food mention, #cw food or #tw food for food related posts, #spiders, #bugs and #bug type for bugs and bug Pokémon
I have a Ko-Fi store for various fandom stuff, including shaker keychains of all playable Warframe characters and stickers of the Elder Scrolls Tribunal as bunnies, and with more ideas brewing!
So I happened to feel nostalgic for Enchanted Arms, and I went to look up its OST. It has been a long time since I've seen such a divided comment section:
Here's the song in case you're feeling like making up your own opinion on the song:
i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me
i especially chafe at the way "cozy games" just seems like a "woke" way to say "girl games" and conflate certain game mechanics or aesthetics with a non-cis/het/male identity (to equally useless effect from a buyer's pov). gender stereotyping by any other name is still gender stereotyping. i'm not cis het or male, but i've spent decades enjoying pvp shooters and feel bored to tears by cutesy cottagecore farming sims. and i find those pvp shooters very "cozy" to play, too! @_@;
there's also the issue of handwaving away the political implications of the in-game world, where the most egregious example of this happening recently was the cozy airport security simulator.
So your recent Lance posts have made me go down the bulbapedia rabbit hole, and i didn't realise just how deep the cape obsession ran
His dragon wings </3
Not even a therian reach if you take his LGPE design into account. Text above the Dragonite says "The design is inspired by dragon wings". And yes I Will give him this fit eventually
(would that they give him more character traits instead of pushing the handful that were written over 20 years ago...)
Earthquake? That is THE ground move. The ground quakes beneath you.
Surf? A giant wave of water that your pokemon can ride. A thunderous tide. Invokes the ocean.
Thunderbolt? Arcing flashes of electricity zap you.
Flamethrower? Fire breath, fire throwing, an arc of propelled flame is classic.
Ice beam? It's a beam. Of ice. Could've been a gust of frigid wind, or a frost incursion, or being entombed in a glacial slab, but noooooo it's a beam. Of ice.
a thing about me is i basically never notice a wig or other kind of hairpiece in tv/movies. it has to be party city territory for me to even twig it. people will complain about characters' wigs looking bad and i will nod along but there is like a 90% chance i did not notice for a second while watching. i consider this mostly a blessing.
Today i offer you some amateur worldbuilding! i came up with a bunch of ayleid headcanons while designing my ayleid oc and im eager to share bc theyre cool and also i dont see a lot of ayleid related stuff in the fandom so contributing what i can.
this is part one out of uuuhhh idk, but next time i'll be covering clothing and then maybe architecture if this one interests ppl enough