Moxxi's Corner

I like sitting on the fence so much that I may as well be the fence.

[sutoraiki]

“ 先生！！質問があります！！”

4koma..to be continued? the main character is a 27-28 year old high school teacher in which his class is full of animanga stereotype characters and he’s just so done. for example

“sensei! i need to use the bathroom!” “like hell you do! you’re going to go fight that monster outside, so sit down!!!”

and

“sensei, you will have a new transfer student in your clas–"  "NO THANK YOU”

and of course

“sensei, you look tired…” “wELL SOMEONE TRIED TO PERFORM A SATANIC RITUAL IN MY CLASSROOM LAST NIGHT”

[crywhenyouleave]

I WANNA READ THIS!

[kukurbuu]

how to get me interested in a game:

[shinosarna]

I tried putting it in Staem search, and half of the games were Bioware (Jade Empire, Knight of the Old Republic 2, Dragon Age Origins and every single Mass Effect)

Rest included Life is Strange, Dreamfall Chapters, Walking Dead 2/Michonne and Tales from Borderlands, Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong, and some games I have never heard of, so let’s see what they are?

Gray Matter:  After a tragic accident, neurobiologist Dr. David Styles has become a recluse, rarely leaving his home, the Dread Hill House. One day, Samantha Everett, a street magician, appears at Dr. Style’s doorstep just as he is seeking a new assistant. (point’n’click adventure) Also, it’s on 66% sale when I’m writing this.

It’s designed and written by Jane Jensen, who adventure game buffs might know from Gabriel Knight games. So that one is definitely intereting.

Cognition:  FBI agent Erica Reed has an uncanny talent: she can see the past and piece together how a crime unfolded. But not even this sixth sense could save her younger brother, Scott, from a brutal serial killer. Three years later, the investigation into Scott’s murder has gone cold – but Erica’s work has only just begun. (point’n’click adventure)

Oxenfree:  Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong. (narrative-driven adventure game)

„The Lion’s Song: Episode 1 – Silence" draws the player into the life of a talented young composer, Wilma, preparing for her breakthrough concert, the defining moment of her career. Searching for inspiration she escapes from the pressure for success to the solitude of the Austrian Alps. (point’n’click adventure)

And that’s where I’d end, but holy fuck, look at this AESTHETIC!

SEPIA TONED PIXEL-ART! (that’s instant wishlist for me). Or it would be…

Except first episode seems to be free. Damn. Well, I’m already glad I decided to make this post, I know what I’m playing tonight.

Cinders is a mature take on a classic fairytale with a heavy emphasis on player choices and role playing.

Cinders is a witty young woman living with an overbearing stepmother and her two daughters, as if she was reenacting a certain well-known fairytale. But unlike its protagonist, Cinders is not afraid of taking fate into her own hands. Even if it means breaking the rules… (visual novel)

Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals. (RPG! yay, finally!)

That one’s… interesting.

Full descritption transcribed here.

Set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India, Unrest is an adventure RPG focused on story and choices. Play as five ordinary people who are struggling to get by in the famine-stricken city-state of Bhimra.

Brave poverty, disease, treason, political and social upheaval. Face unique burdens and gripping dilemmas as you struggle to survive in each chapter…but choices made to help one character may well make life harder for another.

In Unrest, there are no heroes of legend, there is no mystical quest, and fate has not chosen you.

You’re on your own.

Key Features Diverse Characters: Play as a peasant girl faced with an arranged marriage, a priest troubled by his radical temple, a slum dweller with a dangerous past, an ambassador from a militant nation, and a mercenary captain far out of his depth - all as part of the same narrative. Reactive Storyline: Hard decisions made in one chapter have consequences in the next. A choice made as one character may well determine the fate of another. No Right Answers: There are no fail states in Unrest - if a character dies or fails in their objectives, that becomes part of the narrative. You can play in Iron Man mode to ensure there are no second chances, or save/load if you wish (not that we recommend it). Complex Conversations: Unrest’s dialogues are organic, branching exchanges designed to offer an unparalleled level of control and involvement to the player. You’ll always know exactly what you’re saying and how you’re saying it, and you’ll be able to see how much the person likes, fears, or respects you as a result. Violence is Rarely the Answer: Combat in Unrest is rare and always avoidable. When faced with the possibility of death, it’s up to you to decide how much you’re willing to risk. Lush Art & Music: Unrest’s hand-drawn sprites and environments call to mind a living canvas, while the classical Indian soundtrack perfectly echoes the narrative’s emotional core. Mod Support: Create and share your own worlds and adventures.

Well, that’s a wishlist, for sure.

Solstice is a dystopian mystery thriller about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes. A magnificent city in the middle of a frozen wasteland, cut off from the world by raging blizzards. Inhabited only by a small group of misfits, who either can’t or don’t want to leave for the dead winter season. When the local madman goes missing, an ambitious doctor on a contract and a mysterious young woman, who arrived with the last dog sled caravan, start questioning the true nature of the city’s splendor… (visual novel)

Knee Deep: When a washed-up actor hangs himself on location, a spotlight is cast on the backwater Florida town of Cypress Knee. Your screen becomes a stage on which you investigate this mysterious death as three distinct characters. (narrative-driven adventure game)

Clandestine is a 2-player or singleplayer stealth/hacking game set in 1996. Asymmetrical co-op allows one player to take the role of the spy while a friend provides overwatch and assistance as the hacker, and unravel a post-Cold War espionage conspiracy. (action/stealth/hacking? what the hell? That’s pretty darn cool! though story-rich and choices matter weren’t in the top tags, they were in extended list of popular tags)

Always Sometimes Monsters - Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you. 

Out of money and out of luck you find yourself heart broken and on the verge of collapse. Your landlord’s taken the key back, you can’t finish your manuscript, and your beloved is marrying someone else. With no choice but to handle whatever life throws at you, you set out on the open road on a mission to win back the love of your life. The story from there is up to you. Can your life be salvaged, or are we always sometimes monsters? (RPG)

Seduce Me the Otome -  A romantic comedy visual novel centered around a girl named Mika Anderson, who gets entangled in the affairs of incubi. (visual novel. Obviously. Also, ew, hetero. It’s free though, so do as you wish.)

Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges. (first person puzzle platformer. So, Portal clone, except apparently nonlinear.)

Starlight Vega - Play as Aria and romance the two sultry demon girls, Lyria and Scherza, or your best friend Melody in this yuri (girl x girl) visual novel where your choices will ultimately decide the fate of this spellbound girl. (visual novel, also Steam gave warning that it might be inappropriate for kids.)

Hell. Yes.

the town of light - 12 March 1938. Renée, 16 years old, is ripped out of her world, locked up and deprived of everything. Her only fault was that she didn’t know what her place in the world was. “A danger to herself and others and a cause of public scandal” wrote the police headquarters. The only horror you will find in this game is the truth: a blow to the solar plexus, much more intense than any supernatural presence. (psychological horror, exploration-driven adventure game, also apparently not for kids;) trigger warnings for mental illness/institutionalization just judging by the screenshots; since it’s an edgy psychological horror about forced institutionalization starring a teenage girl, I can bet there’s probably also some edgy shit with misogyny/sexual assault, I can fucking bet.

Did it find it in this search just because devs attested there is NOTHING supernatural in it? (steam doesn’t support crossreferencing tags, so you just paste all relevant tags in the search box and hope for the best). Huh. Anyway, moving on.

And that’s all I found in this particular search! Honestly, I’m glad I did this, because some fo these games definitely look interesting.

Personally I’d also recommend Blackwell series, which while is not amazingly big on meaningful choices (I mean, there are SOME choices that affect the story), said games fit the OP description pretty well, being a series about a writer finding out about family curse, that forces her to be a medium destined to help lost souls find peace in the afterlife.

Getting Blackwell Bundle during some seasonal sale is a great way to start (note, Blackwell Bundle doesn’t include last game, Blackwell Epiphany, so take note of that.)

Playing order: Blackwell Legacy; then Blackwell Convergence or Blackwell Unbound, in any order (Convergence is supposedly supposed to come second, but I played it third and I can’t say it felt particularly weird), then Deception and Epiphany.

[ikaricrossinglines]

reblogging for future reference

[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

i havent played all of these but seduce me is actually really good and has three gay routes and one route where you become a demon queen of hell, so, overall, i recommend. there are a bunch of boy routes but i didnt play those, they seem gross tbh

[diversegaminglists]

Several I’ve played and several I haven’t gotten round to yet.

ETA: Town of light needs a sexual assault and a torture disclaimer though.

[crywhenyouleave]

Some of these are really awesome and are games that have inspired me in my own writing. Some of these i have never even heard of before and will check in future.

[crywhenyouleave]

I was having some troubles with my anxiety tonight. Just a lot of different things popping up at once. A lot of changes happening around me, and i struggle with change. Drawing is my therapy. It calms me down, gives me something to focus on. Gives me something I can control. So I decided to draw Aura again. She seems to be the focus of my art recently. I decided to use a more sketch like technique this time rather then justy regular Shonen anime style. I kinda like the look. Might do more like this in future.

[mbti-lion]

which mbti stereotype fits you best??

take this horrendously inaccurate quiz and find out! and tell me what you got and how it differs from your actual type!

[crywhenyouleave]

ISFP hahaha spot on surprisingly. Lots of fun.

[mbti-lion]

which mbti stereotype fits you best??

take this horrendously inaccurate quiz and find out! and tell me what you got and how it differs from your actual type!

[crywhenyouleave]

ISFP hahaha spot on surprisingly. Lots of fun.

[crywhenyouleave]

Just some cute little animated faces of Aura. Tiefling Sorcerer from my D&D 5e game.

[crywhenyouleave]

I can beleive how much my art has grown in just 1 year. The first two images popped up on my facebook in my memories. The character is actually my D&D 5e Tiefling Sorcerer. The first two images were when i first made her. The rest were done in the last week. I'm very proud of my growth, and i hope to improve further over upcoming years.

[thequantumwritings]

Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.

On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.

In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.

In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.

Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.

Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.

[corianten]

These are some very good points! I’d like to add a few thoughts based on my linguistics studies as well as a recent course in pidgins and creoles.

Firstly, even in the case that each race and their language was represented in the trading area, a trade pidgin would most likely take its basis from two languages, three at most.

It is very likely that, say, two or three races are present when the trading starts. You don’t need everybody present for there to be goods to trade. Even if there are more races present, some of them are bound to be the majority. It is only natural that they use their own languages and end up communicating with a mixture of them, a pidgin. The foundation for the Common language is therefore from these languages that were used first. In most cases, one founder language would offer most of the grammar while the other would offer most of the words used in the grammatical patterns. Although I think this might not happen as straightforwardly if neither race is seen as superior, unlike what has been the case in our human history.

When other races arrive to the trading area, the pidgin is the established language of trade, so they will learn to use it instead of imposing their own languages as the communicative tool. In time, their languages may also influence the trading language but the influence will most likely stay lexical, i.e. the other races’ languages will provide new vocabulary but not affect the grammar. This is where the wonderful situation of mixed vocabulary the OP described would take place!

Where I disagree, however, is on the mishmash of grammatical structures. Through what is known as the founder effect and what I just described, the basis of a newly born language tends to stay mostly untouched during later development, so any later changes would not alter the grammar or syntax too much. So if the Common language was to have varying adj-noun word order or both conjugating and non-conjugating words as standard phenomena, these would have to be a thing in one of its founder languages’ grammar, as well. It is of course possible that people who speak mishmash like this are code-switching or otherwise transferring from their mother tongue to the Common language, but I’m concerned with the standard Common language atm.

Another point I’d like to make is that for a pidgin to become a Common language, it has to (or would most likely) go through creolization, which means that children are born who learn the trading pidgin as their mother tongue. These kids are native speakers of the trading language, and they have intuition on how the language should work, since it’s the language they think in. What happens is that languages take in innovations that are valuable for communication, and new generations’ intuition makes up rules for how and where these innovations can be used. Wildly varying morphology such as the many different plural and past tense markers would not be effective communication, would it? A variety of morphological markers that mean the same thing would most likely be a sign of different dialects of the Common language, which are also rule-governed and wouldn’t use the markers haphazardly.

And on the topic of variation and complexity, what I think might be important to keep in mind while creating a Common language is to know how old this language is.  A thing that is common for young creoles is that they are grammatically very simple and regular, so they would not accept too much variation or irregularity. Older languages, then again, have had time to take in lots of innovations and influences, and where the founder effect hasn’t pushed the new stuff into old moulds (through analogy, for example), new rules have emerged to govern the new stuff.

[crywhenyouleave]

I love this. I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons for some months now, and have very recently started to DM. These are things that i would like to incorperate into my world.

[ktokei]

Tell me more about her eyes, please~

It took some trial and error but now I think I can draw the dangan ronpa 3 characters better—

[crywhenyouleave]

Beautiful! I love this character.

[lokidokeyartichoki]

A little kid at my painting camp pulled me over to the side and said “I don’t know how to ask this, but are you a boy or a girl?? I can’t tell.” And I was thrilled because I had passed the “child pointing out your appearance means gender” test as well as being approachable enough that he could ask. So I sat down and told him I was neither and explained that growing up I was told I was a girl but that I’m not, but I’m not a boy either. And he just looked at me and said “so you’re just a person.” Swear to god I had the biggest smile on my face when I told him that’s exactly what I was. For the rest of the day he just called me Izzy instead of Ms something or any gendered title and I got a hug at the end of camp. So if you say gender is too confusing for children to understand, I have a first grader who would tell you otherwise.

[sweet-autism-things]

Sweet story of the day!

[crywhenyouleave]

What is Media?

In class, we’re currently asking “What is Media?”.

To me, media is a form of expression shared though a technological medium, creative and not. It’s a way of expressing a thought, or sharing information. It’s a form of socialisation and story telling as well as surprisingly, a medium of control.

To me, media is boundless and there are so many things that we can do with it.

We can influence thoughts, we can manipulate emotions; we can inspire, or we can depress. We can use it to brainwash, and sent thousands of people into a flurry or panic; or it can be used to bring people together. People with similar interests and thoughts who just want to share who they are and do good things.

Media is an amazing thing.

[crywhenyouleave]

Looks like I’m back.

I’ve just started a degree in Animation at SAE, so you may find posts up here in relation to that. Hopefully my followers will find this fairly interesting.

Much Love guys!

[surfacage]

some guy: instinct just memes around uselessly, i hardly see any of their gyms

me: holds ur face gently listen to me you little shit

[crywhenyouleave]

Human Rights.

So this morning I sat down to watch an Australian show called 'the morning show'. On it they were discussing the fact that a Sydney school has decided to get more girls into automotive, they would have the girls doing practical classes, rather then just theory. They are doing the same with sciences. Fair enough right? Then an argument breaks out about equality between the sexes. So my question is... Is a 50/50 ratio even realistic for classes like that? Most schools don't even have a 50/50 ratio of male to female students, let alone an equal number of girls to boys interested in those two subjects. Why is this such a major thing? Why does your sex and gender matter so much where rights are concerned? Originally, equality between the genders started because women were being treated very poorly. Couldn't vote, couldn't speak for themselves, and they were basically just objects to be owned first by their father, and then after they were married, by their husbands. Most western societies have booted all of that out. Women have rights. If anything, I think its gone a little too far. Now we need to be careful that we don't repeat the past on the other end of the spectrum. We need to be careful that men don't end up under the thumbs of women. It's already started. There are many companies and businesses that have now started hiring on base of gender. Who have now started looking at the ratios of gender within their business, rather then purely looking at the skill of those they are hiring. There are men missing out on jobs that they are very much qualified for because a manager needed to fill a gender ratio, and it works the other way to. This isn't equality by any stretch of the imagination. Fuck gender. Fuck sexes. Fuck race. Maybe we should stop looking at what's different and start looking at what's the same. We're all human. I support HUMAN RIGHTS. Not feminism. Not masculinism. Not the rights of specific ethnicities. Or the rights of particular sexualities. Or any of the other ones I might have missed out on. We are ALL human. I make this promise. This oath. I will never treat anyone differently because of the differences that they were born with and cannot help. Time for the world to get over itself.

[caelestys]

Dear Baby Boomer Generation:

You know, we try really hard not to hate you. Really hard. You’re my parents’ generation, you know? And I fucking love my parents.

But your generation really needs to learn to shut up and take a good, hard look at yourselves.

Today,...

[gone40404]

transfriendly jobs

 i’ve been doing research about jobs/companies that are accepting of trans and the like since i’m going job hunting again next month, and i found this list, which lists trans-friendly businesses. it links to this page, a directory for employers.

tagging so people can see it, i figured this might come in handy for some people!

[babybutta]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST

[homestucks-r-us-blog]

We’re glad to see our ranks growing, and it makes me proud of introduce our three newest additions!

We have the newest voice actor for Nepeta! Their blog can be found here.

We have the newest voice actor for Sollux, who goes by Brad. They don’t use Tumblr all that much.

And we have the newest...