My soul is in ashes, but metal won't burn @emstargazer - Tumblr Blog

After giving NuMarathon a shot during its Open Play Week I can now say with full confidence that any skepticism I had toward it is gone. Albeit it still annoys me that it's a live-service extraction shooter, it works. Not in spite of being what it is, but because of it. At least when it comes to the extraction shooter part.

#i'll be frank and clarify i didn't play the og trilogy (yet)‚ but through listening to friends and doing some research of my own #i can't in good faith say this doesn't seem like a spiritual successor in many ways #(it being a live-service extraction shooter not being one of them)#and even if it wasn't it stands on its own as an experience made with an undeniably clear vision #that targets a specific niche instead of a wide audience which i respect.#it's a vision that i wouldn't call an ideal choice for this franchise like many others‚ but it works.#there's also a pve mode coming up which i didn't expect to hear but i am very much pleasantly surprised by.#still‚ a single-player campaign could've worked so well but they just had to make it into a live service...#despite the annoyances i have with the game the sheer vitriol i see toward it feels bitterly undeserved.#most important of all‚ it's fun! i say this as someone who's generally not a huge fan of extraction shooters.#it's brutal in a way i personally find thrilling‚ though it most certainly won't be everybody's cup of tea.#the lore and the world it captures immediately have me hooked.#finally‚ my favorite aspect is its BOLDLY GORGEOUS art direction that i REALLY can't fathom how so many people find ugly or uninspiring.#it especially fits as an evolution from og marathon considering how the ogs were called too colorful and odd during its time.#em yaps

transfemgabbro

commission for @echoes-of-the-shadows!

salami and rock <3

#theyve become besties your honor #<PREACH OP #OUTER WILDS SPOILERS #outer wilds #solanum my dear solanum #project hail mary #art

lewadny

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

lewadny

Listen

LISTEN

I'M SCREAMING THE MAIN SEQUENCE *IS* THE AROACE FLAG WHAT

#oh that is SO cool #project hail mary #art

sallllltywater

#warhammer #art

flamingopudd

Don't forget to take care of your sinful employees

#THOSE WINGS...#ultrakill #gabriel #ferryman #art

clockwork-comets

and the universe said I love you because you are love

#WAS HOPING TO SEE SOME FANART OF THIS GAME!#control‚ i'm not coming back #outer wilds #art

yellowlartdump

I animated this in like 5 days nonstop, I'm about to pass out Not TADC related but still an animation that took me a lot of time

#ARTIFICER!?#took me some time to realize it's them #rain world #art

ittybittymattycommittee

#raise your shields #because you’re about to get wrecked

jewishgarygreen

#this is the star trek i wanna see#like when somebody asked gene roddenberry why piccard was bald#because wouldn’t they have found a cure for male pattern baldness by then?#and he was like ‘no by the 24th century no one will care’#i wanna see that attitude with disability and neurodiversity#it’s not that we’ll have a magic cure for everything#there’ll always be something new#but disabilities and neurodiversity will be celebrated and seen as part of the norm#it will be accomodated#so blind people can serve in star fleet#and so can people in wheelchairs and autistic people and people with prosthetics and people with chronic illnesses (via @hunterinabrowncoat)

kiapet2

This episode ends with Geordi saving the planet by using something derived from the technology found in his visor (an adaptive device that lets him sense things around him). So a disabled man literally saved the lives of an entire culture that wouldn’t have considered his life worth living, using technology they would have never deemed necessary without the presence of his unique needs.

scholarlypidgeot

I don’t watch Star Trek, but I can’t stress enough how important this message is

fictionadventurer

My favorite thing about this episode is that, while the rest of the characters are taking a more Star Trek philosophical approach to this situation, calmly debating the good and bad points of this colony built upon eugenics, Geordi is just seething. Troi is having a romance with their flippin’ president, but Geordi never hesitates on his morals. He’s always aware that this world’s supposed perfection is built upon the despicable philosophy of killing people like him. He barely even bothers to hide his anger as he has to work alongside their scientists. He’s snappish and short-tempered and bitter, clearly only working with these people because lives are at stake. When he discovers the solution is based on his VISOR, he is viciously triumphant, his joy at saving the people boosted by a bitter sense of righteousness that these people were only saved because someone like him was allowed to survive.

And even though this anger and bitterness are very un-Star-Trek-like approaches to diplomacy–it works. The scientist who works alongside him is the first person who decides to jump ship and leave the colony behind. She sees the stagnation of their bland “’‘‘‘‘utopia’‘‘‘‘‘ and realizes that diversity and adaptation create a much better society. And while the other Enterprise crew members have some wishy-washy lament over how this will destroy this planet’s ‘‘‘culture’‘‘, Geordi never waffles. He has far too personal a stake in this to lose sight of the fact that peoples’ lives are more important than any high-falutin’ philosophical justifications. The episode might waffle over the Prime Directive points of this society’s decline, but Geordi’s perspective is the one showing clearly why it needs to die.

#star trek