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Joyful Rain
Searching for a mountain to climb. Things that inspire me: hiking trails, city lights, new friendships. Things only seem impossible before they happen. 5 1 3
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the only character in elden ring i would consider buying a plushie of is morgott
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lets all love lain ☆~
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I regularly have dreams I refer to as "Big Luca Dreams", wherein my dog Luca is very big. They are my favorite dreams.
This is how big Luca is in the Big Luca Dreams
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Ok, this art is STUNNING
Source: Yatagarasu anime's official account (art by Natsuki-sensei).
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this is dumb as hell but god i love music so much
i'm listening to an edm song from 10 years ago whose lyrics consist solely of sexual innuendos and crying my eyes out
imagine if i had actual good taste
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you join a discord video call at the request of your long time mutual and instead of the 23 year old art history student you thought you'd been friends with you are greeted by two dozen middle aged business men huddled around a conference table intently staring at you
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i have a proposal for the english language - the same way that "mid" refers to stuff that wasn't terrible, exactly, but disappointing and overhyped, we need a word that refers to stuff that is actually really good but nevertheless disappointing and overhyped. i can't call jujutsu kaisen or violet evergarden mid because i genuinely enjoy them! but i also find them devoid of truly interesting writing decisions. the closest i can get to expressing this feeling is saying "quite competent" in a dry british accent which doesn't work over text.
#just like 'mid' is 'one of the 5/10s of all time' we need a word for 'one of the 7/10s of all time'#anime#thoughts
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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but
Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?
Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.
#i have stories of being young and dumb but they aren't the usual kind#i don't really have fomo from not being stupidly drunk at 16 or w/e but this post makes some valid points
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at least if you search for the word "antisemitism" here on tumblr you mostly find call-outs, laments about activism going too far. it's difficult to read but it's honest and in good faith.
if you search for the same word on twitter you get... you get some pretty damn good examples that's for sure
#if anyone here wasn't already aware somehow tumblr is relatively sane by internet standards#antisemitism#i don't spend much energy worrying about the future but i sure hope these people straighten themselves out
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Haven't posted about Elden Ring in a bit.
I've been off on vacation for two weeks, then sick for a week. I hadn't played since I finished the game but basically the only thing I could focus on while sick was farming every single item in the game. The Magma Blade was painful to get.
It occurred to me that I really avoided getting good at Elden Ring combat (except for some specific skills). One thing I'm going to do before the DLC is try to fix that. I guess I could post this on somewhere like Discord or Reddit that has a lot more PvP tryhards, but I honestly find those communities pretty unpleasant. So here goes.
I played the game blind. Well, mostly blind - I gradually caved and researched more once I got near the end. This meant my understanding of the game's mechanics was poor at best. I beat the game with effectively 23½ Vigor (25 with a permanent debuff I didn't know about), fat-rolled through almost every fight, and depended on summons and Torrent most of the time. The skills I did develop (strategic aggro, stealth, crossbow shots) were useless in most boss fights. My reasoning was "well, I'm not getting one-shot...".
I play with mouse and keyboard, and always have. I never owned a controller as a kid (I wouldn't have thought to ask my parents, and they wouldn't have bought me one if I had), and since I've grown up I've played games seldom enough that it was never a priority. I vaguely know how to use one thanks to trips to friend's houses, but I still find it a miserable experience. On my recent trip I went over to a friend's and started Stray, the game where you're an adorable cyberpunk cat. I got to the very first action sequence, and attempting to turn corners with the controller was useless, it felt like the floor was slippery ice. I plugged in my mouse and beat it first try.
Aiming with a mouse is just so natural for me. You don't need lock-on (which is a necessary evil for controllers, but is at least a little immersion-breaking). Horse combat, which most Elden Ring players think is clunky and difficult, becomes easy.
The main downside of keyboard and mouse* is that the default keybinds are quite awkward. Sprint and dodge are the same key (and can't be separated). Switching equipped items uses the ARROW KEYS which means one of your two hands needs to leave its position for a second. The pouch keybinds are obscure and I never used it my entire playthrough.
So, after 200+ hours in Elden Ring, I changed all my keybinds. Shift is now sprint/dodge; space is now jump; the mouse middle key is now heavy attack and mouse 4th button is now weapon skill. Definitely taking some getting used to and I expect a lot of silly deaths but I can already tell it's so much better.
(*some absolute genius said they used controller and mouse to play the game, which is definitely superior but too daring for me)
I played the majority of my run with the Treespear, which it turns out was a rare good decision on my part - it's one of the best Dex/Fai weapons - but the main reason it's so good is something I didn't know, which is that you can buff it with Order's Blade for crazy damage, one of only two split-damage weapons that's true for. I never used Order's Blade... it requires 13 Int and my character was dumb as rocks, and proud of it. Plus I kind of want to use something different on my next run.
So after farming everything in sight this past week and trying them out, I found a weapon I'd never looked twice at - the Guardian's Swordspear (Keen affinity). It only scales with Dex but can still be buffed; halberds are absolutely the #1 mounted weapon class; and it just feels natural. Still unsure on which weapon art I'll stick with but for now I have Piercing Fang. It's a quick running attack that has lovely synergy with Wrath of Gold.
And yes, I'm still going to use incantations on the next run - how can you be a Faith build and not? - but disallowing lock-on means I'll be focusing on close-up magic and buffs. Hitting soldiers from across the map is funny a couple of times, but it doesn't have nearly the visceral joy of getting the timing down on a Fortissax's Lightning Spear or a Catch Flame.
Dex/Fai is a weird combination because it feels it doesn't get a lot of balanced, merely "very good" weapons. You have unique weapons that are downright broken (Blasphemous Blade, Sacred Relic Sword, Envoy's Long Horn) plus ones that are situationally good but not a great primary choice (Godslayer's Greatsword, Black Knife, Vyke's War Spear). I'm hoping my new Swordspear strikes a happy medium and gets me up to scratch on dodging, spacing, timing, and everything else. I'm still never going to join the PvP scene - I just want to git gud for my own sake.
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The Web is not for looking at processed ai garbage and scrolling short form videos endlessly. The Web is for old forums with debates over what the best starter album is for a new listener to an old band. The Web is for looking at grainy, black and white pictures of musicians. The Web is for downloading your favourite songs and sometimes entire albums. That is what the World Wide Web is for.
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