Wait, do people know about the Before I Play wiki?
I have used this for..... at this point easily over 6 years. It's a wiki where there will be low-spoiler/non-spoiler hints about just stuff you would want to know before playing a game.
It's always stuff like.... "Vitality in this game is useless, put your points in everything else first" or "Don't leave the second hub town until you buy X item, it'll become unobtainable."
Lemme pick an example almost everyone will know. From the Animal Crossing New Horizons page, the first tip is:
Nearly everything on the island is movable later, including all buildings and even cliffs and rivers. The main things that are fixed are the stuff on the border of the island (river mouths, beaches, rocks/peninsulae, the dock and the airport) and the resident services plaza, so picking your island layout should be based around that primarily.
That's stellar advice, tbh, given what you'll know about the game 30 hours in instead of 30 minutes.
Not every game is covered obviously and not every piece of advice is good, it's all subjective, BUT..... I look up almost every game I play for the first time, just to keep stuff in mind. The SMT4 page had top tier advice imo.
Send a symbol and I’ll answer the question about my muse. (Or answer in character. Whatever works for you!)
⛔️ - How does your muse react to others breaking the law? If they would do it themselves, what is their reasoning?
🚑 - If your muse was the only person around and someone was injured, would they help? Would they have the experience needed?
💸 - What does your muse think of wealthy people? Do they resent them, or do they believe they earned what they have?
🆘 - What does your muse think of poor people? Do they think they’re a waste of space, or do they want to help them?
📩 - Does your muse prefer to physically write letters or send them online? What is their reasoning?
📢 - Does your muse have a loud personality or a quiet one? Do they enjoy being the center of attention, or would they rather watch and listen?
📊 - How does your muse feel about the state of the world? Could it be better? Could it be worse?
👨 - What is your muse’s relationship like with their father? Is it good, bad, or complicated?
👩 - What is your muse’s relationship like with their mother? Is it good, bad, or complicated?
👧 - What is your muse’s relationship like with their siblings? Who do they get along with best?
👶 - If they have any, what is your muse’s relationship like with their children? Do they feel like they’re a good parent?
👻 - Does your muse believe in an afterlife? What do they think it’s like?
⏰ - Does your muse feel like they need to do things quickly or do they take their time?
⌛️ - How often does your muse think about death? Do they think about it at all?
🔗 - What are your muse’s standards for meaningful relationships? How quickly do they form relationships like these?
🚹 - How would your muse react to losing their father? How would they cope?
🚺 - How would your muse react to losing their mother? How would they cope?
🚼 - How would your muse react to losing a child? How would they cope?
💧 - How would your muse react to losing a best friend? How would they cope?
💔 - How would your muse react to losing a romantic partner? How would they cope?
🐜 - How does your muse feel about animal lives? Do they treat them the same way they’d treat a person, or do they feel they’re inferior?
🌎 - Does your muse want to change the world? How would they go about it?
🎭 - How does your muse handle their emotions? Do they bottle them up or pour them out as soon as they start to feel?
💋 - How does your muse feel about people who cheat? Do they see a reason for it, or is it completely immoral?
🌠 - Would your muse make a wish on a star? If so, what would they wish for?
🎁 - Does your muse celebrate their birthday? If yes, how do they celebrate? If no, why not?
🍟 - How does your muse feel about their body? Would they change it if they could?
💅 - How does your muse feel about gender roles? Do they conform to them, or do they play by their own rules?
🌺 - Does your muse have a favorite flower? Why do they like it?
i can't lie to you i loveee bad endings sometimes. what if nothing worked out. what if the characters gave into their worst instincts. what if they became worse. what if there's truly no hope left. what will they do out of desperation? who will they become as their worst selves?
It should be illegal to require that any device or software connect to the internet just to run. I shouldn't need to log in with microsoft to open any of their programs on my local computer. All games should be playable without access to an online server. All media you pay for should be downloadable to local disk as a raw file and if they don't like that because they know you'll share it and upload it, tough shit. They took your money already, they'll live.
My solution for bloatware is this: by law you should hire in every programming team someone who is Like, A Guy who has a crappy laptop with 4GB and an integrated graphics card, no scratch that, 2 GB of RAM, and a rural internet connection. And every time someone in your team proposes to add shit like NPCs with visible pores or ray tracing or all the bloatware that Windows, Adobe, etc. are doing now, they have to come back and try your project in the Guy's laptop and answer to him. He is allowed to insult you and humilliate you if it doesn't work in his laptop, and you should by law apologize and optimize it for him. If you try to put any kind of DRM or permanent internet connection, he is legally allowed to shoot you.
With about 5 or 10 years of that, we will fix the world.
psst, tumblr just quietly rolled out collaboration with ai training models, and it's opt-out, not opt-in, go into your blog settings to fix it [on desktop, anyway, dunno where you'd look on mobile] keep fighting the good fight <3
I don't see an option for it now, so it may not have rolled out for everyone yet? Unless I'm just missing where it is
characters that hide utter ruthlessness behind a veneer of amicable friendliness are actually the best. Especially if the later isn’t entirely an act.
why yes, they do genuinely think of you as a good friend. Unfortunately, no, that will Not stop them from embedding a knife in your back if they feel the situation calls for it.
Reblog and put the video game location that makes you feel an unparalleled, aching serenity, the video game location where you go there and just walk around without doing anything because just being there heals your heart a little bit
For me it’s the orphanage beach in yakuza 3