#nerdcrest

[dailybtvs]

Would it be possible to place a request? Unless you've made it already, a gifset of Buffy drinking and immediately being disgusted by alcohol when she hung out with Spike? 6x05, I think. If you don't take them then sorry for bothering you! :)

yep, we’re always open to requests! did you want spike’s reaction as well or just buffy?

[mikey-hunter]

RE: Video Game Ask, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30

5: Games based on movies - in your experience, good or bad?

Sticking strictly to tie-in games made to come out alongside the film, I remember enjoying the first two Harry Potter games for the PlayStation, and Spider-man 2: The Movie: The Game for the GameCube still holds up, but I know a lot of much worse examples by reputation.

If you loosen the definition up enough to include the Kingdom Hearts games, the average level of quality shoots up considerably. But I suppose that’s cheating.

10: Do you tend to stick with one genre, or do you play a range of different game styles? 

Somewhere in between. I’m not a one-genre man, but I definitely have my comfort zones; 2D platformers, 3D beat’em ups, RPGs, Action-Adventure games, turn-based strategy, the occasional first-person action-RPG in the mold of Skyrim…

15: When was the last time you played a game for the first time, and what game was it? 

Fairly recently, it was God of War I. My initial impressions are… Not that great. I’d be really appreciative if I found out God of War II had a dodgeroll button instead of using the right analog stick.

20: Is there one video game series that you’ve been playing for a long time and a have a ridiculous loyalty towards?

The Legend of Zelda, currently (Although Skyward Sword did a lot to beat down the ‘ridiculous loyalty’ part, and I’m worried that Breath of the Wild might knock it into the same pile as Final Fantasy for me, that of “I really love these old games but am completely apathetic about the series past a certain point”), and Mega Man before that (Although Capcom really needs to hurry up and make a new one of those before too long. Either that or put out a Legacy Collection for the Battle Network games.)

25: Is gaming your favourite hobby? 

It’s certainly the easiest one to put hours into.

30: What aspect of a video game is most important to you - eg graphics, storyline, soundtrack, controls? 

In order of least to most important, in my honest opinion…

A great soundtrack is good. A mediocre one is fine. A soundtrack has to really grate on my nerves before I’ll consciously note it.

Games are a young artistic medium, with a wealth of untapped potential for telling stories in new, more immersive ways than before, and it’s great when they manage to do that. That being said, a low-effort or even bad story isn’t enough to get me to stop enjoying the game, unless it makes some pretty specific, glaring mistakes that I can’t enjoy.

Graphics don’t really matter. Aesthetics, on the other hand, absolutely do. The best video game story in years won’t do a game any good if it’s not visually compelling enough to get me to want to play it in the first place.

Back when I actually used to regularly watch the Angry Video Game Nerd, I remember he would make this recurring statement: “What’s the most important aspect of a game? Being able to fuckin’ play it!” And really, he’s right. A game with an amazing soundtrack, an award-winning story (And not just some token “best story” award in a wannabe “The Oscars But For Video Games” show, I mean something legit, like a Pulitzer) and visuals so beautiful they routinely bring actual tears to the eyes of it’s audience isn’t worth a wooden nickel if you have to wrangle with the controller to get your character to do what you want them to do, or if it just doesn’t feel good to play. See, for example: I still haven’t beaten Kid Icarus Uprising, I probably never will, and I liked the music, the writing and the aesthetic. The one area where it fell short crippled the whole experience.

[emmagoodall]

Now I'm curious, how many side blogs do you have? :)

@erniesbrainfreeze

@dcomgifs

@scoobycloos

@dailyrileymatthews

@prettyandpowerful

@dailyvictoriagifs

@rainbowlinegifs

@dailycisco

:)

[emmagoodall]

nerdcrest replied to your post “name 5 ships you love from different pr seasons and pass on the meme! ...”

Number 1 is my favorite ship. It's so good omg

MY OTP 💛 💙 💜  JANUARY IS MY FAVORITE MONTH! 

also you should so do the meme too! i’m gonna ammend my post to tag you, i just couldn’t remember any mutuals on my main who liked pr lol

[mikey-hunter]

"#I'm the psychic" this is why we're friends.

Pardon me while I go get this Ask framed.

(Related reading)

(Gimme a second to manually edit this, because it turns out that not only can you not tag Ask posts, you can’t do things like insert links either. Or maybe you can using HTML tags, but I don’t know what those are for Tumblr off the top of my head, and I shouldn’t need to. Fucking Hell this site is terrible.)

[mikey-hunter]

Siren: *singing* I have MaLink fan work!

Me: “If this turns out to be something I’ve seen before, I am going to die so pissed!”

[emmagoodall]

Happy birthday! :)

aww, thanks doll!!

[mspumpkinqueen]

Once June rolls around I bet there'll be a gifset that has "WAS" with "GONNA BE" scribbled out like that

haha yeah I can see someone doing this. And I can see myself reblogging it as well