#changeling talks

[changeling-rin]

I made a fun discovery the other week.

With the release of the Switch 2, a lot of stores seem to be... very quietly... marking down... their games for the Switch 1. I know this because I found a Switch 1 copy of BotW for $49.99. I've been stalking this game's price for almost two years. It has been solidly set at $64.99 for as long as I've been looking.

They're not telling me that their prices are marked down but I know. I know what these games used to cost. I know what they're doing.

Go forth, be sneaky, and get yourself some Switch 1 games for significantly reduced prices, my fellow gamers.

[changeling-rin]

Thinking about Oni’s eyes and the genuine lack of pupils. By technical definition of how eyes work, he should be blind. And by gameplay this is obviously not the case but what if???

Imagine a Fierce Deity who relies on, I’m spitballing here, aura sensing or something. He’d be a fashion disaster but you’d never be able to hide from him, ever. He can find you through twenty feet of rock and some trees, but ask him what shoes go with his hat and he hasn’t got a single clue.

Doesn’t even need to be that fancy either, he could just be out here bouncing echolocation off stuff. My point is this has possibilities

[changeling-rin]

Chapter 35 of Dimensional Links is up and titled "This Is My Time-Loop Detector, It Goes Ding When There's Stuff" On AO3 | On FF.net

Have fun!

And for the interested, a snippet:

“...Is he not here?” Steam wondered, glancing around with mostly-disguised curiosity.

“No, he's here,” Mask sighed. “But he probably wants to-”

A soft, amused chuckle sounded right in his ear and Mask only avoided startling because this had happened to him several times before. The rest of the group wasn't so lucky. Several of them flinched, Sketch actually managed to clear a full three inches, and Tetra, in a move that Mask was starting to suspect was a reflex of hers, tried to shoot the Salesman in the face. Emphasis on tried - she missed, because the man suddenly and simply wasn't there anymore.

“-be dramatic,” Mask finished, resignedly. “Hello sir, pardon our intrusion.”

The Happy Mask Salesman (now suddenly there in a completely different part of the Tower) was comically thin in comparison to the backpack he carried, which was at minimum three times wider than he was and stuffed to the seams. His hair was red and rigidly fixed into place, his eyes were creased shut in a facsimile of cheerfulness, and his mouth was stretched into an unmoving, bulletproof smile.

He gave off the impression that he might go for the throat if anything happened to break his friendly customer-service mask.

[changeling-rin]

Y'all I just realized that I never confirmed what Echoes of Wisdom Link's nickname is gonna be. Like, I threw around possibilities, but I never made anything official.

Anyways! Obviously, Zelda herself is Echo. To pair with that, Link's new name is Tacet!

From Latin, literally "to be silent", but also used in music to indicate that no sound should be made. I thought it was a fantastic juxtaposition to the meaning of 'echo' and also sounded good as a duo. Everyone say hi to our newest Sequel Link!

[changeling-rin]

Chapter 34 of Dimensional Links is live and titled 'The Problem With String Theory'! FF.net Version Here AO3 Version Here

Heeeheheheheheheheeheeeeeehehehehehehehhehehe~

[changeling-rin]

I think that Wind would be torn between showing off the pictures of the fish he catches in PH, and never showing them to anyone ever. Because genuinely, some of those fish are just out there defying physics.

“How did that not capsize the boat,” Vio says disbelievingly, looking at a pictograph of the Neptoona.

Wind can only shrug. Can you imagine. He can’t even call on Linebeck for backup because that man has never had an honest reputation in his life.

He’s literally got a ‘my fish was this big’ story.

[changeling-rin]

Question for the readership!

If I start uploading the DL chapters to Tumblr (insofar as the size of the post will allow, some chapters would absolutely have to be multiple posts) would y’all be into that?

And obviously I’d link the actual chapters too, just to be nice. I have no doubt that some folks can’t stand Tumblr’s textpost format, and I do attempt to be a crowd-pleaser on occasion.

Thoughts?

[changeling-rin]

Now that Hyrule has (re?)discovered cheese and subsequently pizza, I wonder when they’ll devolve into pizza wars.

I don’t know about other places but where I live - the eastern part of the U.S. - there are fierce opinions about how you should eat pizza. Specifically, there’s a main triangle of factions, consisting of Chicago-style, Detroit-style, and New York-style.

(For reference, most chain pizza places use New York-style. Marcos, Papa John’s, Dominos, Pizza Hut, etc. It’s generally the quickest and easiest way to make a pizza, though arguably not the best.)

How long will it take until a Gerudo decides that this thin slice isn’t satisfying enough and invents deep-dish? How long until a particularly adventurous Goron decides it’s not hot enough and adds Goron Spice to the sauce? How long until a Zora decides that this thin slice isn’t thin enough and makes crispy crust?

I give them ten years, tops.