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A blog dedicated to my love of videogames, complete with my own tag for honest reviews of games I've played past or present. Everything from AAA games to MMORPGs to little indie games and beyond. I am a huge nerd, so you will come along for the ride as I jump from hyperfocus to hyperfocus. I also want to help continue the circulation of art posts and artists on Tumblr regardless of if they are based on a videogame or not! I have a tag to navigate directly to the reviews. I also roleplay in FFXIV as a fun little hobby! It's probably the reason you even saw this blog in the firstplace! If you would like to contact me about any of my charcters, send a message! I keep anon on, in case you are too shy.

[alatolagahrd]

teleport animation skin type b......

[scorpio-system]

AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

[cindermetalheadgw2]

Thinking about icebrood again. I think Smodur's downfall could have been really, really good if they had presented it slightly differently. I think Smodur was so terrible a war criminal because he was so good a charr. The legions are at a turning point where they're not fighting against everyone anymore. They've made peace and now allied with humans. They've reunited with the flame legion. The nature of their society is changing in ways that are, historically, very un-charr-like, and Smodur is pretty much the model for a perfect charr. Instead of having him be reckless and aggressive in a way that doesn't quite fit his earlier characterization, it would make more sense if he was coming from a place of "We've never shown mercy to our enemies before. Why should that change just because the enemy is other charr? It's standard in the legions to kill your superior to take their rank. Killing our brothers and sisters is nothing new. Didn't you yourself just attack Bangar at the all legion rally, Rytlock?" It's not that he changed for the worse, it's that the world is changing around him. The only thing separating him from the dominion isn't a difference in ideology, just that the dominion happen to be traitors to the legions, and traitors get executed. It's his job to execute them. "Why do you all look so horrified at me now? I'm just doing what we've always been doing. You do it too. Don't act like you feel guilty." There could have even been unique dialogue for charr commanders challenging them, for example if they chose to execute their father in the personal story

[bunniboiz]

"it's ok to show (x) in fiction as long as the bad guy gets punished!" the bad guy doesn't have to get punished. in fact the bad guy can win altogether. the bad guy can entirely get away with it. hope this helps

[bunniboiz]

and this part might make some people's head explode but: characters can be written to forgive things you personally wouldn't ever forgive. not everything is written as what you'd perceive to be the right choice. not everything is a self-insert & protagonists don't have to be relatable.

[skinny-dipping-sasquatch]

Reblog daily for health and prosperity.

[mightier]

quietude Just breathe, love. Just be.

[nikoanesti]

Big fan of when old jrpgs would do this

[blackheartbiohazards]

I'm gonna say it.

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.

[blackheartbiohazards]

I promise you it is still getting me death threats in 2024.

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[utopians]

the avatar movies are crazy bc "what if colonizers literally inhabited and puppeteered the bodies of indigenous peoples in order to exploit their homeland" sounds like the premise of some sort of anticolonial horror film, like specifically the kind of thing that would be commenting on self-indigenization among white settlers, but because it's James Cameron his whole takeaway from that premise is "it would be preddy cool"

[utopians]

actually sorry. the takeaway is also "the white settler possessing an indigenous body would actually be extremely good, perhaps even The Best, at being indigenous, and he would become their Leader"

[julieoverjuly]

Here they all are!! It’s finally done💫

[hubedihubbe]

Josie Dunn, smelly desert dwelly gunslinger Day/night versions cause I couldn't decide which one!!

[mx-macintosh]

y'all need to relearn the word erratic and stop using schizophrenic/bipolar/psychotic as a replacement

[mx-macintosh]

y'all need to relearn the word particular and stop using ocd as a replacement

[weresoul]

People need to relearn the word "egocentric" and stop using narcissist/narc as a replacement.

[thatpreciousthing]

People need to relearn the word "impulse" and stop using "intrusive thought" as a replacement

[answrs]

People need to relearn the word "lying" and stop using "gaslighting" as a replacement

[cobyart]

✨ART✨

Finished up that Kingdom Hearts picture I started on stream last week! I need Riku in the next trailer 🌙

[destiny-islanders]

🐖🎶🐖🎶

[analytically]

Can astrologers use astrological charts to understand people's character and lives? Our new study put astrologers to the test

Astrology is very popular — both Gallup and YouGov report that about 25% of Americans believe that the position of the stars and planets can

Astrology doesn't seem to work.

[intimate-mirror]

[performativezippers]

Some highlights:

Astrologers helped design the study

No one did better than random chance, even though they only included people in the study who are experienced with astrology and stated that they expect themselves to do better than random chance

They gave every astrologer a set of 50 things about a person and 5 birth charts to choose from. They weren’t even coming up with the chart themselves!

After taking the test, most thought they nailed it. Zero out of 152 did better than 5 out of 12. None nailed it

Astrologers who rated themselves highly experienced (“world class experts”) did the same or worse as those who said they have limited experience. Both performed the same as random chance

This is hilarious

[o-craven-canto]

That's got to be the funniest graph ever published in a paper

[mightier]

sundae-sweet Born to eat ice cream on summer vacation with your boyfriend but forced to prog ClownTown instead. Life is suffering.