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[laerugo]

@loneprairies replied to your post:

how are you liking this so far? also potentially weird question: how is the first person pov? i want to play but i'm wary of buying a game that's first person only bc of motion sickness. :x

i actually havent had a chance to play outer worlds much as i want since i was home for thanksgiving, but what i’ve done so far i like. it feels like a mix of bioshock and mass effect to me but if you’ve played fallout i’m told it’s similar to that too (which would make sense since i believe they made a fallout game).

i’m not a huge fan of 1p pov but i can handle it for something i like. bioshock, portal, and overwatch are really the only 1p pov games i can compare outer worlds to. i much prefer 3p pov for exploration and rpgs. with portal and ovw there’s little interaction w the maps, but in bioshock and outer worlds you’re encouraged/you often need to explore and look for small and numerous things in an open environment. that abundance of visual data in a 1p pov can be a little overstimulating for me so i just play outer worlds in short bursts for maybe an hour or two at a time before my eyes/concentration gets tired, whereas i can play 3p pov games for longer. maybe because it takes less effort to move the camera and i get more surrounding data from one screencap of a 3p game than in three different angles in a 1p game. or at least that’s my best guess why 1p games tire me out.

but i have never dealt with motion sickness brought on by 1p pov, before so i can’t vouch for if it would upset you that way. i am admittedly playing on easy so maybe if i had to jerk the camera around to keep fighting enemies i would feel differently

[mutuallyassuredmoved]

some john marston braindump:

was born to an ashkenazi jewish mother & father in new york - his mother died during childbirth which left himself and his father to their own devices. he was born in new york but his father emigrated to chicago due to transient railroad work.

john's name at birth was jonathan markowski, but his father started going by marston once they moved to chicago for the sake of finding work. after his father died in a bar fight on their tenement floor when he was 8, john simply started going by john and the records at the orphanage he lived in for several years (from when he was 8 until he was 12, aka when he ran away) have him down as john marston.

john wouldn't be in touch with his jewish identity until being taken in by dutch, who helped/encouraged him to celebrate high holidays as much as they could. that fell off as the years went on until beecher's hope.

john and arthur are the epitome of the golden child/scapegoat (respectively), until john became dutch's scapegoat. john's never been academically inclined but has always been cunning and skeptical. have lots of thoughts but i do definitely think that the stark age difference between dutch and john (dutch is 30-ish when he takes john in vs being only mid-20s when arthur is taken in) + the fact that dutch is quite literally the only father john has ever known makes this even more apparent. dutch is arthur's father-figure but he's always had hosea; while john has always had hosea as a father-figure, there's always been an intrinsic bond between john and dutch. dutch taught everything john he knows about gunslinging and hunting and fishing, areas where john excels compared to arthur.

as for high/low honor, my john is probably medium, teetering very close to low honor. while i think arthur's story and arc is about redemption, john's has always been about survival. he's never quite believed he's had a choice. some trees flourish, others die. and he's done whatever it takes for his family, whether it's the van der linde gang, arthur, or abigail and jack, to live and thrive even if it's all been in vain, and even if it's involved doing the worst things a person can do. also a habit he's learned from dutch, lmao.

speaking of which - so many of the toxic, manipulative habits and tendencies he's taken on as a father are learned from dutch and somewhat unlearned in beecher's hope with jack. will elaborate more l8r.

also -- my john is blind in his left eye, with some light perception, and by 1911 regularly wears an eyepatch to aid in gunslinging and hunting. the visual impairment occurred as a result of being attacked by wolves in 1899; it also means he has no depth perception and is susceptible to being ambushed by those who know about it (looking at javier for throwing that box on top of him in rdr1, lmao).

[mutuallyassuredmoved]

ROSTER & TAG DROP.

michael myers / he/him / #humanshaped

john marston / he/him / #loneprairies 

bruce wayne / he/they / #vespectral

joel miller / he/him / #sundownpromise

clarice starling / she/they / #lambtales 

villanelle / they/them / #hairpins

isaak sirko / he/they / #whitewolv

gustavo fring / he/him / #porsangre

frank castle / he/him / #goldenbook

claire temple / she/they / #sutures

billy butcher / he/him / #scorchedearth

[laerugo]

yo just as a heads up: the kitty litter post gave me a Weird Feeling so i checked it out, and apparently it doesn't work as advertised and is pretty expensive to boot. not detrimental to a cat's health or anything as far as i can see, but people are better off just using their regular litter and monitoring their cat's health/behaviour themselves if they suspect something is wrong.

oh damn. looks like you’re signing up for a monthly subscription when you buy and customer service is p much non-existent. thanks for looking out