#gaming post

[rarehappiness]

Of course I’d totally romance the towering, four-eyed, leaf-haired autumn man. 🍂

[rileyandrogyne]

I have become obsessed with playing baldur’s gate 3 and romancing Astarion and being able to understand my own trauma that’s so similar to his has been incredibly healing. Maybe it isn’t the most conventional method, but for me, it sure does feel like it’s working. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But I’ll keep playing and keep relating to his story.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

One thing I’ve grown to appreciate about the “Red Dead Redemption” series now that I’m older is that you can tell Rockstar approached this project as an anti-western. It lures you in with the promise of Wild West, yeehaw goodness, but when you actually play the games, you get hit with the brutal reality of this world.

Examples of what I mean:

1) The Mexican Revolution arc isn’t romanticized. At first, you think it’s a simple tale of the evil fascist government fighting against the heroic rebellion. But then you meet the rebel leader and he turns out to be just as bad as the government. It’s a true “both sides are in the wrong” situation and, unfortunately, the ones who truly suffer are the peasants (such as Luisa Fortuna).

2) Frontier life isn’t just shooting and action. It was also watching over animals, building farms and ranches, and trading with towns. The games really make you feel the monotony of doing chores and yard work, especially when John was in his Jim Milton phase.

3) Outlaw life isn’t romanticized either. Although you start off as a happy family, it eventually devolved into backstabbing, despair, and self-destruction. Even before then, your group aren’t the greatest of people, especially with the whole robbing people at gunpoint and shooting up towns.

4) Good guys don’t always get a happy ending. Also, every action has a consequence. John Marston had to learn that the hard way.

5) The racism. I feel like a lot of Western-themed media tries to skirt around this issue, or even avoid the topic (such as the 2016 remake of Magnificent Seven, which had a diverse group of fighters). Red Dead doesn’t pull back its punches. You have the Ivy League professor who treated Native Americans as subjects for his racist research. Abraham Reyes straight up calls Chinese people an inferior race. Then there’s the Blackwater short film playfully talking about the massacre of Native American tribes.

6) Along the same lines as point 5, the sexism. For example, there was the propaganda short film about opposing the women’s suffrage movement. And, of course, Sadie Adler not wanting to be relegated to cooking for the group since she can shoot.

7) This is more for RDR2. You actually have to pay attention to the maintenance of the horses and the guns. I’ve never seen this in a Wild West movie/TV show, and yet it’s integral to someone whose life revolves around horseback riding and shooting people!

8) Not skirting around the issue of disease, especially when healthcare wasn’t as advanced as it is nowadays. You can see that especially with Arthur and Abigail.

[troythecatfish]

Here's the link:

Primeval Horizon

Short Films Thesis: Wordless creature-first stories that use silence, vast anomalous worlds, and raw scale to mix dread with wonder. Game i

[faranae]

Cat asked me to hook up the N64! Took a bit of tinkering but we managed to get it connected with the 'cube's RCA cable. :D

(Don't let the photo fool you, it looks C R U N C H Y but she is delighted!!)

[chibishortdeath]

Trying to play Bloodstained for the first time today but waaaaaa it’s got a 1 hour long download 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[gaming-thoughts-by-an-idiot]

*my shepard drinks a drink and get poisoned*

Garrus: oops, I should've told u not to drink anything that batarian gives you🤭 sorry🥰

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