[corhore]

I love Dishonored, but I always hated the chaos system. 

You have a game that promotes freedom and all kinds of playstyles and yet they slapped on a morality system that basically forces you to play it one way if you want to get the good ending.

Whats worse is the game gives you a bunch of cool shit to use to kill and cause chaos, but barely gives you any tools for nonlethal takedowns. Its like the game wants you to go nuts and kill, but also doesn’t. 

[ellihiguchi]

As far as I remember, having a lack of non-lethal options was supposed to represent the players conscious choice to remain ‘good’. Corvo (the player) could very easily take all the power they are bestowed and use it to fuel their hatred towards the corrupt, killing indiscriminately. Non-lethal being harder to achieve is symbolic, because Corvo is fighting against his anger to prove that he is better than those who killed to get to the top. (As I said this is as far as I remember the Devs saying)

It’s supposed to echo Daud, who was given the exact same level of power as Corvo, and who used it to gain revenge through the murder of an empress. Corvo saw the devastation caused after Jessamine’s death, an empire being led to ruin by greedy power hungry men. And in the non-lethal path, he decides to gain revenge in a different way.

And it is worth mentioning that the ‘non-lethal’ options as you say are not good endings for any of the characters. They all pay for their crimes with their lives, but that decision is made by the universe and not by the players hand directly. But again, to gain these endings, it comes down to the players choice. The game is significantly easier if you play in high chaos because all you need to do is stab, shoot, or grenade your way to the main target, there is really no need for stealth. Where as with low chaos, often you need to plan your journey through the levels, and really get to know the terrain, listening for clues while spying on the people who still inhabit the city.

Being ‘good’ and holding fast to non-lethal ‘morals’ is something you have to keep choosing. It gives the game weight, and a sense of reality to it.

Now neither ending, technically, has any merit over the other, it all comes down to personal taste. And your dislike of low-chaos is perfectly valid. But Low-Chaos being harder to achieve or play does have reasoning behind it, and is not just ‘slapped on’. And rarely does killing lead to good things irl, so an immersive sim playing by rules of morality makes a lot of sense. :D

[frulleboi]

Haven’t drawn some httyd for a long time now! so here we go-

[sugajimin]

Permission to Dance - Teaser

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[ellihiguchi]

Hey quick Q for the achievement hunter fans. I stopped watching last October for.....obvious reasons. Would anyone mind telling me if it's safe to watch them again or if there is still fall-out from the events?

[mistressvera]

[changan-moon]

钱维城 Qian Weicheng

[arnieinthesky]

Visit Original Link

[doktorpeace-deactivated20251208]

[thegunlady]

bird twitter is lighting up

[floridensis]

my mom said her sister would insult people by calling them bird names such as “yellow-bellied sapsucker” and “red-headed woodpecker” (last one reserved for people with red hair)

[aomine-dajki]

1.08 || 2.07

[apathetic-revenant]

favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:

Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)

Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”

Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”

Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”

John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!” 

Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings

Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.” 

Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other

Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.” 

Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him

[fandom-frenzy]

#i literally hold every film up to the standard of lotr#including the quality of extras#and literally no other film will ever compare#fucking legends

[glorious-spoon]

the lotr cast interviews are literally the real life version of that trope where you cut between characters telling wildly divergent accounts of the same event, each of which paints the other as an incompetent buffoon, and it’s hilarious

[bisexualclint]

Some more wild shit from the extras:

Viggo kissing Billy Boyd square on the mouth during the filming of Sam’s wedding

The whole thing where Viggo and the stunt men would smash their foreheads together as a greeting and then one time Viggo did it to Orlando Bloom and left a giant mark

When he filmed fight scenes Johnathan Rhys-Davies would hit every single stunt man consistently

Viggo would LITERALLY just go and fish in the river while they were filming

That one video where I think Billy and Dominic are comparing their dicks

During the fight with Lurtz at the end of fellowship that knife that gets thrown at Aragorn is a Real Knife and Viggo just fucking hit it away with his Real Sword and the sound that’s in the movie is the actual sound it made

[sleepingreader]

The new Zealand extras did a haka to honor Viggo Mortensen after the film was done

[aaziraphales]

How are we forgetting Dominic Monaghan putting on a fake accent to conduct an incognito interview Elijah Wood and asking him when he will wear wigs

Oh and also the hobbit actors making up a fake game called ‘tig’ just to mess with Elijah who fully believed it was a real game and tried to learn all the increasingly dumb fake rules

[kameiroz]

sugawara and his eternal babies

[susuwatori]

[plainpainn]

from 402

[milubee]

a day off they spent together.

[yuyuunon]

Spring Stroll

[ellihiguchi]

I'm ready for practice 🏐