#thinking. thoughts

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

scar managed to outpace the wither because he was using his offroad wheelchair. that thing can go at like 15mph if i remember correctly, it could totally outspeed a wither.

Is this how he won the series. Moving so so fast in his offroad wheelchair he escaped death...

[tobnuuy]

getting the sense that it’s like…

deltarune is best played after undertale, but

undertale is best analysed in reference to deltarune—not the other way around

[p1nqu3]

fem shanks 😁😁😁😁😁😁 <- that’s me cheesing hard

geeking over my own drawing. but that means i did. ok. click see more to see diff backgrounds

one piece brain rot is in full swing #lol

[andoutofharm]

you were too good to be true, gold plated // our love has never had a leg to stand on

last of the real ones - fall out boy // old college try - the mountain goats

[clusterbuck]

me, one and a half episodes into severance: what if buck and eddie had to get the severance procedure and………….

[saltbind]

furrynatural but dean as german shepherd and sam as a high content wolfdog. cas is a borzoi but he still has the unnerving blue eyes. john as a king shepherd and mary as a laika.

[nearer-than-the-eye]

truly. started playing p1 for the first time and then gave into The Urges and started a new p2 playthrough. and. while they are both separate art objects ect ect p1’s atmosphere is oppressive very much on purpose from the get-go like. whew that cloudy sky and those grey grey houses and claustrophobic rooms do not endear me to the town in the first five minutes. and this is not a graphics thing—I have played older games than p1 with beautiful landscapes and buildings that lend a sense of freedom and peace to the player, it is certainly possible to do on a no-money budget. p1 chooses not to. (this is not a criticism.) yeah I can see why daniil doesn’t super love it here.

but p2 goes the opposite direction. I think the extraordinary beauty of p2 fundamentally changes the way you intellectually and emotionally approach the game world as a whole BECAUSE, even in the immediate devastating aftermath of those dreams on the train and killing those men, you look east—and over the warehouses is this perfect homeric rosy-fingered dawn. the morning mist clings to the grass. the town and the steppe’s beauty is so immediately arresting for me that I completely understand how shelling the town is never an option for Artemy.

Starting with Artemy instead of Daniil for p2 makes so much sense because it marries the player’s wonder at this beautiful new art direction, design, and graphics with artemy’s own love for the town and the steppe. (it’s all about love!!! something something that line from the design document about how his story is most about love). maybe it is my unfashionable love for the pastoral peaking through here but I truly think the fact that the game is so gorgeous in turn bolsters Artemy’s characterization because it’s so easy to empathize with him. Of course I want to save this place. the world is so beautiful, I want to do nothing but live in it. Though for Artemy, of course, the how to live is the tricky part.