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One Nice Bug Per Day
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we're not kids anymore.
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
68-69
70-72
73 or higher
No preference
What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
68-69
70-72
73 or higher
No preference
Anon you fucked up so bad
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REALLY, AGAIN? THE FUCKING REBLOG BUTTON WAS RIGHT THERE JESUS CRUST
jesus crust
Official graveyard post
But the last post is from a blog that isn't deactivated
REALLY, AGAIN? THE FUCKING REBLOG BUTTON WAS RIGHT THERE JESUS CRUST
jesus crust
Official graveyard post
Sand pipers running very quickly together as it is their typical behavior. They stick together because they are small but together they are a swarm and swarms can be speedy; it is their greatest trait apart from their uncanny ability to find treats in the sands
saw on pinterest
actual picture of ME
Hey so like omen wise how are we doing. Are we doing okay
Could mean good things!
Hey @evilwizard. So, you up to anything new lately?
haha it’s funny you ask
I think this means a new Space Pope has been chosen
Hitting you with my heavy killing you attack
It has a 5s charge up, so please stay still
I would never make it as a bird. The stress of keeping the eggs warm all the time would be too much for me.
There's a robin nest in my backyard right now (right in the middle of my $50 fuschias lmao) and the Mama Bird gets soooo flat to cover all her babies (three of four have hatched) and I wonder
is she having to hold a squat over them
Like now that they're hatched presumably she can't just sit on them??? They need room to move around??? But maybe the feathers are enough room and they can kind of swim through it? Anyway she's been doing a great job sitting even through the recent wind and rain storms and every time I walk past I tell her good job
A picture of our pidgin, Aubrey, who has been dutifully sitting there for weeks and I'm not even sure she has an egg but by god this is her nest and she will sit on it.
Mr Aubrey also takes a turn sometimes. We can't tell them apart really. But they swap over a few times a day.
It may take you a moment to spot her, but the strip of white on her neck gives her away :)
Took me a while to find her, so I'm circling her for everyone else's benefit (apparently my gallery app doesn't let me set the circle sticker's colour)
i’m on that weird shit. i’m jacking odd. disturbating. creeping my meat
*scared* what’s gonna happen on june tenth
I seem to be living a very expensive lifestyle called eating food regularly
cherry bomb voice Hello tumblr hello blog
There are to my knowledge a few dungeon crawler CRPGs out there that make "the party got wiped on level Fuck but instead of there being a Game Over the player is now encouraged to make a new party that can then recover the corpses of the previous party for resurrection" a part of the gameplay. Same can apply for characters getting petrified and idk I guess in a theoretical example I just came up with a character could end up in Orc Jail (that's jail run by orcs, not jail for orcs) and be in need of breaking out.
And that's neat, but to me it also begs the question of: short of the game not allowing for loading back to a previous state and only having one save slot per run, what incentive is there for the player to pursue this? From a player's point of view "just reload the save and don't die this time" will always be preferable to this, especially since many dungeon crawler CRPGs assume an "everything is the dungeon" type of approach where you also kind of have to tackle the dungeon sequentially level by level. This is not like losing a single mission in XCOM where you can still probably recover and the campaign isn't entirely lost due to one loss: this is the equivalent of having to start with a fresh party who are probably squishy and will have to grind at least to some extent to be able to survive whatever it is that the previous party already had to survive to make it to level Fuck in the first place.
Anyway I don't design dungeon crawler CRPGs but I think there's some potential here for gameplay that embraces the fact that the player is unlikely to complete the dungeon on their first run and that makes this part of the gameplay. I am imagining something with roguelite elements where reaching certain objectives in the dungeon unlocks persistent upgrades for that save file that the player can make use of even when they need to replace party members. Honestly, maybe I should be designing shit like this.
This is an interesting thing to think about. So and idea I got would be to have some kind of system similar to Wildermyth's relationship system, which in short works like this. Characters can have three types of relationship: Friends, Rivals, or Lovers, which confer certain bonuses in battle. Characters who are friends get a bonus to blocking when standing next to each other, characters who are lovers will get a bonus to damage against any enemy that attacks the other character, and when a character who has a rival performs a stunt (Wildermyth's equivalent of a critical) the other will get an increased stunt chance until they perform one too; with the exact magnitude of these bonuses depending on the strength of the relationship.
So in a CRPG with a similar system, a way to incentivize the player to go through this process instead of just reloading a save could be to have each recovery event strengthen or even develop new character relationships. So for example two characters become rivals or lovers after having spent time in Orc Jail together, or a character from the old party becomes friends with a character from the new party after being recovered and resurrected, stuff like that. That way it would feel like you're getting a long-term mechanical bonus AND a little nugget of emergent narrative out of playing through these events instead of just reloading.
Things like Sims eugenics and creating ghettos in Animal Crossing will always be more horrifying than 90% of the attrocities committed in games like Rimworld and Stellaris for the simple reason that they were never intended by the developers
Games like Rimworld and Stellaris have dedicated mechanics created to facilitate crimes against sapient life, but the developers of the Sims never expected that people would start selective breeding programs and lock their ugliest children in the basement art sweatshop
War Crime Simulators give you the horrors, but with these games, you had to look at the tools given to you and construct the horrors yourself
I think what makes it worse for games like Stellaris is that it's hard not to commit war crimes lol.
No matter how benevolent and kind you want to be, it's usually a necessity to bomb worlds, and yeah, you can choose the limited bombardment stance but you're still bombing the whole fucking planet.
Purging of whole populations, or at least, heavily reducing them or editing thier genetics are also both common and almost required if you actually want to win the game, some pops are used as weapons! They'll intentionally have bad traits so when conquered, they immediately cause cascading penalties to your economy.
The Sims? Nah you have to just want to do that shit.
When i used to play the Sims, I NEVER DID THAT??? NONE OF MY SIMS DIED??? (maybe the pets did, but idk)
