Splendid Palimpsest

Gamer, Reader, Talker, photographer. I like reblogging things. You're welcome to send me asks, hit on me, message me, or @ me. Oakland, CA

[drethelin]

this is what it's like to get anon asks on tumblr

[drethelin]

decided I wanted to make a gif version

[greatestlittlegiant]

always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

[greatestlittlegiant]

song of the summer!!

[owenbroadcast]

so i learned that if you let a tiny stray kitten into your house it doesn't understand rationing food, so if it finds the other cats food it eats until it triples its weight and passes out like this (i only let this happen once)

[estrogenpatchnotes]

My job? I’m the bat enemy in 2D games that flies at you from a diagonal angle you can’t shoot in, it’s an under appreciated role but really serves to test the player’s understanding of the mechanics leading up to harder challenges. I also receive an intense smug satisfaction when they can’t hit me.

[lowpawly]

this is my impression of what it would look like if the toddlers at my job could make traumacore edits about me

[lowpawly]

alright by popular demand here is more toddler traumacore

[herpsandbirds]

Bornean Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron schleiermacheri), male displaying to a fine ass female, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Borneo

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Megh Roy Choudhury

[calebwittebane]

you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for an amazing reason

[anasabdin]

The last pour

[alexanderwales]

Assassin's Creed has this wonderful scifi conceit of traveling back into the genetic memories of your ancestors in order to uncover secrets, and largely wastes it. The more recent games have the modern world as largely an afterthought, and the series-level writing on this game is not good, mostly because it's meant to be an eternal franchise that never has any kind of conclusion, so can only spin its wheels and occasionally have a reveal that doesn't make sense and will surely have no further impact on the series. And the conceit is also at odds with the open world collectathon hyperactive distraction gameplay, failing to leverage the idea that this is what the ancestor character actually did, or that you're trying to be "in sync" with them.

Anyway, my dream Assassin's Creed game goes against every principle they must be working under to make such disappointing, buggy slopfests. And my desire for storytelling goes against the (weak) exploration the series has become so preoccupied with. And some of the things I want, like a proper modern day storyline that you spend actual time in, would probably not be budget-friendly because of the assets that you wouldn't be able to reuse.

But how cool would it be to switch between medieval Berlin, modern Berlin, and Cold War Berlin? To weave different interlocking stories together? To trace the past with the tool of the Animus? To have storylines that comment on each other both directly and through contrast? And one of the things that I don't recall the games ever doing is that you can have a conflict between past and present, where the person using the Animus hates the person they're trying sync with. You have to relive your grandfather's sins to get the information you need, and then his memories and personality start bleeding through, altering you. Think of the tension inherent in having to play out the memory of your ancestor killing someone you've come to like.

Absolutely no way Ubisoft ever does anything interesting with the franchise, sadly.

[alexanderwales]

Budgetwise, I don't think you could do it, but I would love to have Nazi-occupied France as one third of the game, France-occupied Vietnam as another third, and then a modern day story to tie them both together. There are people who went almost directly from fighting for their homeland to asserting colonial control. The central thematic preoccupation of the Assassin's Creed games is control vs. freedom, and here you can have a great case study in what people actually believe, how nationalist ideals inform what a government does, and you can do this with the same characters.

I don't exactly know how this would tie into the whole Templar vs. Assassin conflict the games are so focused on, as these ideologies often seem to be all-consuming above and beyond any other identity. I guess in my perfect world, I would do something with that and examine how these identities aren't absolutist, or how this thinking about the world is shaped.

[the-quasar-hero]

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

[drethelin]

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[yesornopolls]

Have you experienced the Tetris Effect in any way?

Have you experienced the Tetris Effect in any way?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 5 hours

The Tetris effect occurs when someone dedicates substantial time, effort, and concentration to an activity and thereby alters their thoughts, dreams, and other experiences not directly linked to said activity.

[charl0ttan]

to be honest i do have beef with some microbes

[yoshspace]

shoulda cooked it longer that gets rid ofem

[nicoletteolivier]

Deciding not to follow a blog turns your ass into Werner Herzog so quick, I'm so serious. "Despite this being perhaps the only true and unaltered expression of the life of a person who senses death, yet chooses to pursue beauty, it does not move me."

[uncommontart]

This is the Conure of Confirmation Bias. Reblog so that you may later ascribe anything good that happens to you after reblogging him to doing so in subsequent reblogs.

[mapsontheweb]

Full isometric game map of Portal 1 video game.

by VGCartography

[vgcartography]

decided to make a tumblr blog when someone pointed out my Portal map has nearly 9k impressions on here from a maps account, my original post had like 16. maybe there’s more of an audience to discover here.

[dickstolebyanalien]

Walk Like No One Is Driving

[drethelin]

Drive Like No One Is Walking