Being hyperfixated on both Portal and The Stanley Parable at the same time is driving me nuts omg-

Life-Saving Minecraft Tips that I almost never see anyone else using (am I just bad at the game...?)

Always carry a bucket of water in your hotbar, especially if you're going caving.

Keep a Warped Fungus handy when traversing the Nether. Hoglins can't attack you if you're standing near a Warped Fungus. I also like to keep a Flower Pot on me just in case I run into a pack of Hoglins somewhere I can't place the fungus directly on the ground.

Use potions. Idk if it's just the kinds of lets-players I watch or what, but I can't believe how many people are sleeping on these.

Night Vision for the Deep Dark (Nether Wart + Golden Carrot). Keeps you from waking up the Warden with a single careless torch placement, and also negates the Darkness effect if you activate a Shrieker.

Invisibility Potions for death runs back to your items (Night Vision Potion + Fermented Spider Eye)

Slow Falling for the Ender Dragon fight (Nether Wart + Phantom Membrane)

Fire Resistance negates like 85% of the danger in the Nether (Nether Wart + Magma Cream)

Adding some Redstone Dust to any potion will increase the duration of its effects to 8 minutes. Three max-duration potions will keep you covered for a little more than one full day-night cycle.

Wool blocks are soundproof (but carpets aren't 😕). Completely covering a Skulk Sensor or Chest with wool blocks before interacting with it will prevent chain reactions from other Sensors.

Set up a safe base with a bed at world spawn (usually around coordinates 0, 0) so that you don't have to sprint buck naked through the night if you lose your respawn point.

I actually like to put my main base near world spawn because I easily get disoriented when trying to navigate by coordinates alone, and it's much simpler for me to just follow a Compass back home (I think that's an exclusive-to-Niki problem tho. I've never heard of anyone else wanting to do this 😅).

This is only tangentially related, but I can remember a time when Zombies dropped Feathers instead of Rotten Flesh. You'd think I wouldn't die so often, having played this game for almost 13 years...

Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.

For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do “what Lou Jitsu would do” and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.

And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi Yōroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws “Skully” as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.

I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes they’d love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the “Face” of the group and shoulder the attention even if it’s potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.

"Well actually the quests in Skyrim are quite lacklustre compared to Oblivion because you see blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"

My brother in Akatosh then go play Oblivion and leave me alone

the universe of saturngalore 🪐🌈

nora darling. what the fuck did you mean by wanting to scrape off the second pov. jeremy's pov is the sweetest and most enriching part of the book, it creates contrast and sort of reminds us of what's normal-ish bc one can very much get used to the calamity inside jean's head. jeremy pov grounds us as readers. like touching grass. getting five minutes of sunlight. having a tea. thanks for coming to my tedtalk.

i think one of the funniest things ive seen recently is the dev who made Iron Lung and The Pony Factory is so fascinated and interested that Turnip Boy Robs a Bank is trending more than The Pony Factory

[The City of Dunwall - Rothwild Whale Slaughterhouse]

I think Slay the Princess is so popular partially because the *gets stabbed* "I'm in love" reaction is both intentional on the part of the developers and then they completely follow through on it.

HI JESPER, here's the Talbot portrait. I'm obsessed with side profiles so I hope you don't mind. I also hope you had a good vacation!! ^^

CRYING omg it looks so good

honestly i admire your ability to do side portraits so well, i really struggle with them askdh

really though this is so cute i love it

OMG VINCENT SMITH HI

Naur because the choking scene in the movies terrified me as a kid because of how violent it was and going back to what you said about their book heights……. the real fear katniss having ab peeta maybe not being someone she can trust for the reason that he was bigger than her :( so sad so tragic I love this series so much

katniss pretty much spends half of the first book and some part of the games constantly assessing how peeta can kill her and the main two things she focuses on are his physicality and his people skills. in the books, katniss is described as quite small at several points (obviously because she’s malnourished) whereas peeta is usually described as broad, stocky, very strong. he’s someone she’s physically intimidated by, and it isn’t until he saves her from cato that she starts to see him as someone she can actually trust. honestly, i think katniss’s paranoia is something we could’ve seen more of in the movies. she’s quite literally suspicious of everyone that isn’t prim or gale (or peeta during and after the games), and while i love jen and josh’s portrayal as katniss and peeta, her fear of him kind of gets lost because she seemingly has no reason to be. he’s much nicer and of an equivalent size to her. peeta in the books is much sassier and witty, and there are points where her suspicions of him seem valid because of how dubious his motivations can appear. he’s still very personable with her but he’s not afraid to snap back at her either. add that with his physicality compared to hers and her distrust of him appears reasonable.

i’m so emotional over this ;v;

Just finished the game and I agree with Muu, Rhok'zan x Stardust forever. They're going to make the greatest songs of all time, for all time.

also!! y'all!! if you enjoyed caldwell and nathan on game changer and happened to go whoa i need them on d20, caldwell DMs a D&D adjacent game called Drawga with the drawfee cast– and various guests including ally beardsley, rekha shankar, and zac oyama– so if you want to see that, i would highly recommend!

Playing Dave the Diver and it's really hitting that spot that was left behind by Dredge's game loop 👌

Somehow I'm into fishing games now