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Moving, and taking advantage of that to make things a bit more casual given I only managed to rack up 10 followers anyhow, because Tumblr is trying to kill itself:
https://discord.gg/7gTc9s2
@endarkculi I havenât seen you in a while because your tumblr was moving way too fast and cluttering up my entire dash so I donât know if youâre even on discord, sorry if you arenât. We should catch up some time though.
already a bunch of posts on my secret porn blog that doesnât exist and never has shut up got flagged for violating the guidelines so I guess this is it. insert that one gif from titanic of the band playing as the ship sinks here.
welp I guess thatâs it for social media.
Day 59 AV
Vento Aureo is confirmed.
Date of confirmation: June 21st, 2018
Air date: October 5th, 2018
Guido Mistaâs birthday is confirmed, too!
Happy 36th birthday, Mista!
is is she pointing a gun at the cameraman
god, GOD Freddie Mercury was such a fucking badass
The man made music to the end. Literally.
In the song Mother Love, the final verse is sung by Brian May because Freddie passed away before they could finish recording it together.
He powered through it as best he could because he loved making music.
Go ahead and tell me im wrong
THIS IS LITERALLY ASH KETCHUMâS ROOM IT IS THE SECOND SCENE OF SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 OF THE POKEMON ANIME FROM 1997 CAN FAKE NERD BOYS PLEASE GO
Also consider: sports fans.
Pokemon is like if sports and cats were blended into the ultimate all-consuming marketable thing
Thatâs⌠actually the best explanation of PokĂŠmon Iâve ever seen.
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Letâs Play The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories p.6
Nothing like a meal at a diner before heading for a night of bowling at the local alley. Assuming that there was any food to be had at the diner or that the bowling wasnât going to end with J.J. reduced to a head.
this is absolutely the most controversial and bravest thing any one has ever said about zombie land saga iâm losing my mind
GO WATCH A MOVIE
Next up on Worth Reading: The other team should just fucking let me win when I play baseball.Â
well this isnât necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who donât necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional âcakewalkâ modes arenât that bad of an idea.
what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode
iâm a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat
honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like âyo do you just wanna skip this bit?â the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. itâs why i always put a game on easy/casual when Iâm replaying unless iâm specifically going for difficulty based achievements. not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes itâd honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether
Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK IâM ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE.Â
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.
Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: âChoose Your Experienceâ, showing the options âactionâ, ârole playingâ and âstoryâ.]
âActionâ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. âRole playingâ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And âstoryâ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a âcasualâ difficulty setting thatâs a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And Iâve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games arenât always about winning, or being good at it. Itâs about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.
Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldnât games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldnât there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you donât want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just donât understand the resistance at all. What weâre talking about is simply having more options for gamers. Youâre adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and youâre not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
LikeâŚdo youâŚnot want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that youâll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??
I am *horrifically* bad at gaming, but itâs a genre that Iâm intensely interested in and very desperately want to be more immersed in. I would HAPPILY buy so many more games if combat was a skippable option.Â
Not to mention one of the best indie games out right now is pretty much telling you if you want the best ending, donât fight.
Yeah, I hate the elitist mentality that only those ~*~*hardcore*~*~ enough should be allowed to enjoy video games. I mean, gaming should be an experience to be had and not just an obstacle to clear, right? Then again, my poor mental health situation and chronic pain+mobility issues on my right hand means that my gaming options are severely limited nowadays. So Iâm all about making gaming accessible for everyone in the first place. Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.
Anyone who thinks gaming will be ruined by making it more accessible need to realize that they have already ruined gaming for many.
Iâm so grateful for things like story mode and being able to skip if you die a couple times. Like, I have a lot of experience playing games and have no disabilities that would hamper me doing so, but I still really appreciate the ability to skip or make things really easy. Sometimes you just donât want to play the same mission 50 times to finally beat it. Sometimes folks just need a frickin break. And thatâs okay.
Iâm just amused that the second commenter is totally confusing single-player with PVP.
AnywayâŚ
Games are for fun.
Games have lots of ways to make playing them be more fun than tedious, starting with the option to save and going on to tutorials, multiple or infinite lives, instant healing, unrealistically large inventories, automatic mission notes, autocompleting maps, in-world GPS, hints, highlighting interactive objects, key prompts, ability to replay dialogue, buffs and power-ups, undiscardable mission items, easy to parse HP bars for the player AND the enemy, blocked friendly fire, selective damage from weaponsâŚ.the list goes on. This is all to enable FUN via INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY. Yes, the term applies to everyone, not just the officially disabled. You want to strip your average game of all the stuff I mentioned above?
No, you donât, because while insanely difficult games with permadeath and no save points used to be the standard and are a valid subgenre, they are not what most people want to be limited to when choosing their entertainment.
So, really, an option to skip combat or puzzles youâre not able or willing to do is not exactly out of line with the concept of making a game enjoyable, is it? Which would be the priority, since itâsâŚyou knowâŚa game?
Skipping gameplay is not accessibility.
So, really, an option to skip combat or puzzles youâre not able or willing to do is not exactly out of line with the concept of making a game enjoyable, is it?Â
Those make playing the game easier, by skipping youâre not playing the game.
video games are for fun, but theyâre also the artistic vision of the people making it and they have a specific gameplay feel and goal of the game overall in mind when itâs in development thanks for making me realize why single player games keep getting worse over time lol
That artistic vision can and often does include accessibility. It doesnât have to be elitist to be good. You can also campaign for the option to turn off things that make games easier for you. :)
What about games where the way people play affects the story and game world?
What about integrating gameplay and story?
You canât do any of those if the gameplay is skippable.
Why not? You can program your game to allow this, itâs up to the creator to figure out how to do it. Roll a virtual die to see how the character did and how that affected the outcome, for example. As far back as Heroes there was the option of fighting battles automatically (with no guarantee of winning if your army wasnât clearly superior, mind) and doing it step by step on your own. You could make a mode that slows the action down or has different mechanics. Just like Easy mode makes enemies more vulnerable and Hard mode makes you more vulnerable. And there can, of course, be games that donât allow the skipping of gameplay at all, but the point is, thatâs as much a creative choice as permadeath or no save points, for example. Itâs something you do if you want to make your game harder. But itâs not necessary for a game to be good, and for soooo many games itâs not necessary at all. I mean obviously you canât skip fighting in Overwatch, but you CAN pick a character thatâs easier to play depending on your needs. It could stand to have a single player mode, though, thereâs really no reason to limit it that way. You canât skip gameplay in Super Mario because thatâs all itâs about, no story, just agility. You canât skip it in mobile gamesâŚor rather, you can, you just have to pay for it.
You can skip fighting in Witcher, and you do get that option. It doesnât make the game worse. Thereâs games where it will work and games where it wonât, but thereâs just no reason to insisting that accessibility always conflicts with gaming, especially since games are using selective accessibility to make gameplay more enjoyable already.Â
Lol.. RDR2 has LOADS of skippable gameplay that doesnât impact the overall experience of the storyline. Theyâve solved it beautifully in a way that lets you skip things without it making holes in your experience of the story. Itâs ALREADY BEING DONE BY HUGE AAA GAMES Y'ALL ARE PLAYING. and us disabled folks are having tons of fun with them. But I guess thatâs whatâs making all these pissbabies so angry. They canât hang their entire personality on video game achievements anymore, and are forced to see them for what they are. Trivial play time. âOh noesâ âď¸
âŚâŚbut it does make holes in the story. skipping sequences just, from what i understand, plops you down on the next checkpoint without telling you how you got there. thereâs no connective tissue of whatever chase or gunfight put you there.Â
and alternatively, this means thereâs no motivation except from within the development team themselves to make the gunfights and chases FUN and actually functional.
frankly, RDR2â˛s âaccessibiltyâ options are laughable. you still have to tap the sprint button with precise timing to go fast without tiring your horse rather than be able to toggle a âhold to springâ option.
also, as a disabled person myself, I really REALLY hate it when a developer talks down to me in that way, and you should be offended by it too.
disabled people have been playing video games since day one and have always been there, and have even reached the highest spheres of gaming accomplishment professionally, like numerous disabled fighting game professionals, including Brolylegs, one of the greatest Chun-Lis in the world, who PLAYS USING A CONTROLLER IN HIS MOUTH.
gameplay is NOT optional in the experience of being in video games. itâs even in the fucking name!
To all the people saying they only want to watch cutscenes, and donât want any annoying fight sequences and only want scenes:
go watch a fucking movie.
NO REALLY, GO WATCH A GOD DAMN MOVIE.
PEOPLE ON YOUTUBE PUT UP CUTSCENES AND SHIT ALL THE TIME, GO THERE INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING THAT A VIDEO GAMEÂ ISNâT EXACTLY LIKE A MOVIE.
"video games are the artistic expression of the person who made them and therefore I should be allowed to skip huge chunks of that artistic expression in order to be able to see the pretty lights"
friends deep lore: the reason chandler is so bad at generally existing in the 90s/early 2000s is he actually died in 1843 of lead poisoning and now heâs been reanimated by dark wizard ross (a homophobe) and the only way to break free of his curse of living undead is to find love. luckily he shares a flat with friendly modern man joey who teaches him the ways of the world and maybe, just maybe, he also teaches him the meaning of love. 200k, slowburn, fisting
NEW JONTRON
HOLY SHIT
i can't believe jontron isn't fucking dead
itâs important to remember that isabelle has canonically killed and will kill again.
Okay to make up for that last one, hereâs a proper Smash Bros Isabelle post.
