JoeV9

I do fan art and also think that Metal Gear would make a good opera

[supercantaloupe]

redraws of some really old onegin doodles of mine lol

[outoftoucherlocksholmes]

#mypolygons

[josiev9]

I love neoliberalism. It’ll be like: you may feel spiritually drained but at least you can watch tik tok videos of people eating 40 gazillion varieties of Oreos, upgrade your phone, and drive fifteen minutes try out the fourth chipotle that has opened in you area. But yeah you can’t do things like go to the theatre and see a live show or make prints at a public studio that isn’t two hours away from you. On a very personal and petty level, living in my area is like: “here are a bunch of meaningless choices you can make for your comfort and instant gratification, but god forbid there are any institutions where you can make art and be in a real community”. One of the main neoliberal defenses is “look at all of the variety when you go into the supermarket!”. At this point I feel irrationally ill whenever I walk into one because we have Dubai chocolate and 20 flavors of takis instead of health care or functioning artistic institutions that can be accessible to normal people. Anyways, I’m just tired and sad and this is my rant where all of these things have been said before and in better ways, but ugh.

[josiev9]

The godlike companions from Deadfire for some drawing practice!

[derring-do]

Kaspar Holten, Simon Keenlyside, and Krassimira Stoyanova rehearse Eugene Onegin (source)

[josiev9]

What an amazing video! I watched this channel a lot a few years ago, but it’s really interesting to learn that that they are a food historian. Anyways, regulation is cool and good/ it’s always good to think about how reenactment sometimes idealizes history rather than going into the deeper problems/tensions/uncomfortable and politically charged aspects of telling it.

[clouds-of-wings]

Eugene Onegin, the opera that teaches that the real tragic ending isn't everybody dying... it's the continued existence of patriarchal oppression.

[josiev9]

Just saw Eugene Onegin, and holy shit what an opera. I was tearing up????? Idk things about regret and bad decisions and mundane tragedy really do something to me. I also was not prepared for how loud the gunshot was.

[josiev9]

Thinking up how to do a Readceras pillars ttrpg campaign as a fun little challenge. Like tbh there is probably a bunch of protestant reformation type stuff (e.g. different types of puritans and anabaptists (thinking about the whole Munster rebellion thing specifically and the puritans in 1600s England etc) that could provide some inspiration for how I would construct Readceran society and political systems. I might also bring the campaign into other nations in the Eastern Reach (White March in the Dyrwood maybe). I am also thinking of doing something lower level/small scale and personal. Idk I think there is alot of interesting stuff to be explored with a newly formed nation that is theocratic and somewhat decentralized existing right next to a nation like the Dyrwood which had been modernizing/is fairly progressive but is recovering from hollowborn-inflicted trauma. Anyways. Those are my pillars ttrpg shower thoughts haha.

[imhereforotasune]

Meryl is the only person who pronounced Otacon's name like the actual Ota-Kon, and didn't even have to be told that that was the proper pronunciation. She even said it that way after hearing everyone else use a short-O sound. Hal was not the only otaku on Shadow Moses that day.

[dinoclawsz]

Morning after Shadow Moses ☕️🌥️

I’m not the proudest of this one but I needed to finish it to realize my vision of otasunes first ‘date’…imaging rubbing butts on a snowmobile w some engineer you just barely met for hours before u finally reach a small town where u spend ur last bit of money on civilian disguises and shit food at some run down diner and ur a wanted criminal so every glance from the other patrons makes you nervous but the scientists unwavering gaze makes it even worse and ur lowkey gay and in denial but still thinking about spending the rest of your lives together ❤️awesome

[merrilynoblepriest]

God, I hope they will be able to pull it off. Long live Eora!

[josiev9]

Just to be clear, I think that it’s bad that Xbox is locking Obsidian in the dungeons to make another Fallout game instead of working Avowed/ less well known own IPs. I’m much more of an Eora person than a Fallout person, so I definitely have bias here, but it’s not good either way. It’s bad for art to make people work on a popular IP as opposed to the thing that may be less popular but was already in development.

[jinglyjangly]

anyone who thinks it’s a “win” that obsidian is working on Bethesda’s fallout while having to cancel their IP projects is just… really short sighted

does it not feel like a weird situation? Is there a plan to shutter obsidian until there’s nothing left and the devs go work at other studios or get laid off? Then they can right it off in taxes or whatever? Isn’t this just the beginning of their “overhaul”? I just can not see it as a “win” and can only see it as a bad omen

fanboys would cheer as obsidian burns to the ground if it got them their precious fnv 2 I guess

[themojaveexpress]

Oh fuck off.

Just fuck right off. Look, I love fallout. But I would rather have Avowed and The Outer Worlds. I would rather have devs working on projects they WANT to work on, not forced to at gunpoint.

The time to capitalise on New Vegas, was fucking 15 years ago. You know, when the company was still entirely the same employees.

[lesbworth]

how it feels to blorbify an opera buffa servant except we are literally objectively correct

[lesbworth]

i've always wanted to make one of these annoying banners

[merrilynoblepriest]

Avowed Memes

Because why not?