boat goes in, bint comes out

[kweza-deactivated20221020]

you and the worst person you can think of are both undeserving of God's grace. and yet He gives it freely to both. to all who accept His Son. not to all excluding the murderer. not to all excluding the rapist. not to all excluding the politician you hate. that's the whole point. stop talking about being redeemed and then wishing death and violence and basically eternal damnation on the other "worst" sinner.

[mei-q]

i can only think of one story that does something like this but "the twist is that your, the reader's, perception of events was wrong (because that's how we purposefully presented it to you) and this does not actually affect the world or characters at all" is maybe one of the stupidest "plot twists" i've ever had the displeasure of witnessing

[mei-q]

it's the game ai the somnium files: nirvana initiative. explanation under cut because it's a bit long

so there's two protagonists, character a and character b. there's a chapter flowchart that splits into two paths, and you're led to believe that character a's path takes place 6 years in the past while character b's path takes place in the present.

except, surprise! half of the chapters on character a's path are actually in the present. the explanation for this is that he's gone insane in the present and doesn't realize what year it is. and half of character b's chapters are actually in the past. the explanation for this is... the character b in the past is actually the older clone sister of the character b in the present. they have the same name, outfit, weapon, and personality, and have somehow never met. it's exactly as dumb as it sounds (even dumber, because character b is a returning character from the first game and this retcons several aspects of her character).

the game has to explicitly tell you about all of this by breaking the fourth wall and changing how the flowchart looks because there's really no way to figure it out by yourself. any plot holes or inconsistencies you notice before this reveal just seem like bad writing; this really comes out of nowhere. and this is only a "twist" for the player; characters obviously aren't aware of things like flowcharts or the order you're experiencing events.

[letterful]

[martyred-conquered]

Local man discovers thinking

[itsmissing]

ice cream truck blasting gymnopedie no. 1 while a bunch of really forlorn children chase after it

[mei-q]

i can only think of one story that does something like this but "the twist is that your, the reader's, perception of events was wrong (because that's how we purposefully presented it to you) and this does not actually affect the world or characters at all" is maybe one of the stupidest "plot twists" i've ever had the displeasure of witnessing

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

literally nothing and i genuinely mean absolutely nothing in this world quite encompasses corporate detachment from the consumer quite like peggle_2_ode_to_joy.gif

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

upon its release to the xbox live arcade in 2009, peggle was THE top selling game for two solid weeks. within a month, more than 100,000 players were on the leaderboards. before it got to live arcade, it had been downloaded 50 million times.

and when it released for ios? holy fuck were they DROWNING in money. when they took a weekend to put the game on sale for a dollar, down from five, a couple months after release, they made as much in that one weekend as they did since its release. it was among the top paid apps for weeks.

with critics, peggle was among some of the top downloadable, mobile, and general best games of all time at the time of its release in 2007 and onwards, and it only shot up in popularity as they made it more accessible to more people. and this was in a time before candy crush.

the thing about simple addictive puzzle games is that they make you feel competent, confident, smart, and cool for being good at them. not everybody can learn how to aim in a shooter or the best strategy in an rpg. but anybodys grandmother or baby brother can play a simple puzzle game, and the nature of these games and the way they make you feel only makes you want to play more and more.

however very very fucking few people who play simple puzzle games that you can master on the toilet would be going to E3 in the early 2010s. remember in 2012 when every ~hardcore gamer~ would screech about ‘fake gamers’ who only play candy crush? thats what peggle was. it was THE crack mobile game from the pre-candycrush era.

no one who was excited about peggle was going to E3. the hundreds of thousands of people who played peggle were not the type of people who would consider going to (or even giving a shit about) E3.

but it sold like hot cakes, and candy crush was churning out content like a madman, and EA owned popcap now, so because the game sold amazingly, and because they wanted to keep cashing in on it, and because corporate drones who controlled the scripts didnt comprehend that their consumerbase isnt one homogeneous mass, they decided to announce peggle 2 at E3 2013.

but not just “oh by the way peggle 2”, no. peggle sold like skyrim, it sold like black ops, clearly they should be saving the best for last, they should announce it like it was the craziest most incredible announcement of the night!

thus:

but in all honesty it doesnt quite have the same impact without hearing ode to joy overtop of the deafening silence of the crowd. so heres a link too. timeless.

[bugfossil]

this is one of my favorite calvin and hobbes strips ever and i just need to preserve it on my blog

[whyenn-reader]

"ingredients you can pronounce" i can pronounce anything

[eizneckam]

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[teretteeen]

世界樹の絵

少し前に描いたらくがきです　描いたことのなかったキャラで選んでたと思います

[video-game-jams]

Visit Original Link

Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth - Labyrinth IV - Lucent Hollows

[anoldwishbone]

ok i'm done for now 😔 the boss is angry that i've put off now ~2 year old to-do's for a second time in favor of old woman angst

[anoldwishbone]

Marty and i have drawn Gutrune like 5 times between the both of us, so could we get some appreciation for these guys :)

[anoldwishbone]

KILL 👹🥤

[mtnsnhr]

[toskarin]

made a horrible mistake and decided to check the tvtropes page for utsuge. this is operating on so many levels