Rondus18

Photoshoping Metroids since 2008

[dankmemeuniversity]

[prolifeproliberty]

Which they also somehow can’t make kid-friendly.

YouTube kids has some WEIRD stuff. Do not leave young kids unattended with it.

[rondus18]

Don’t let young kids on the internet at all.

[aspiritualwarrior]

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

— Chögyam Trungpa

[calloftheancestors-deactivated2]

[calloftheancestors-deactivated2]

Boy does this ring true.

[stimstabbaskotch]

金 - Gold

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[officialsuhilover]

[officialsuhilover]

[wrathofgnon]

“Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.”

— Thomas Sowell

[rondus18]

Rondus18 turned 8 today!

[conceptblogfromaconcepthuman]

[rondus18]

Get on my level anon.

[rondus18]

It runs flawlessly (so far) on linux. Didn’t have to configure a single thing. All hail our new Steam Play overlords.

[rondus18]

Beauty redefined.

[sebastianstansjawline]

WHO??!?

Best Friends Play Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (Part 02)

[rondus18]

Let’s just get rid of film critics.

[memeluvr2-deactivated20200118]

every fucking fallout fan on reddit

“hey guys, just wanted to let you know that ive played 200+ hours of fo4 but it fucking sucks and will never top new vegas. fuck every game except new vegas. new vegas. new vegas. every other game is a piece of dogshit compared to new vegas”

[captainedbypalliddata]

Yeah but they’re actually right though

[rondus18]

Me: Plays a game for 2 hours and concludes it sucks.

Fan: “You didn’t play it long enough. You don’t know what you're talking about.”

Me: Plays a game for 100 hours and concludes it sucks.

Fan: “It must have done something right if you played it that long. You don’t know what you're talking about.”

You see, playtime really has nothing to do with quality. Compulsive design is a thing. Just look at people who play MMOs. They spend thousands of hours on a single game and they hate it and themselves for it.

Fallout 4 is designed around a shallow gameplay loop of explore, fight, and loot. It is basically the open world equivalent of opening one of those loot packs from some free-to-play game. You know like a card pack from Hearthstone or a lunchbox from Fallout Shelter. It’s the idea that maybe this time you’ll get something good that mobile games and casinos use to suck your wallet dry. It’s a psychological trick that feeds on the brain’s compulsion. You though Fallout Shelter was a spin off? It may have a different presentation, but at its core it’s using the same philosophy as Fallout 4. This is why neither game ends. If Fallout 4 was about roleplaying and storytelling then sure it should have an ending just like any RPG would, but Fallout 4 is about the compulsive drive to see what you’ll get next so it no more needs an ending than Fallout Shelter or MMOs do.

It’s not that you can never use this design approach without making your game bad, but when you design a game around it then you get two things: A shallow game and an inflated playtime. And people don’t want their Fallout games to be shallow. Hence: “I played it a lot, but it sucks.“

[rondus18]

Persona 5 is ok.

[splatoonus]

This is the Splattershot Pro. Developed for more advanced users by the team behind the Splattershot, it has incredible precision and solid range. Great for players who have a lot of faith in their accuracy and positioning. This set comes equipped with a Point Sensor sub, and you can cover your teammates with the Ink Storm special.

[rondus18]

Soon my, old friend.