Send this to your friend with absolutely zero context.

I think I was interrupting something.

and another oc photo dump since i remembered how to use my enb

My Ass Rly Be Like "Oh Shit, Here's 10 Cool Mods I Wanna Add To My Skyrim And They All Work Together"

All Fuckin Mod Pages, Basically: "IF U INSTALL THIS, START A NEW GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT MID PLAYTHROUGH!!!!!!!!!!"

My Stupid Ass: "What's The Worst That Can Happen :)" <- Clueless

Every time I see a fucking "AI Machine learning upscale" mod that aims to make either a 20 year old game with low res textures or gods forbid a game with pixel art "HD" I die a little inside before going a absolutely feral.

I'm eternally fucking infuriated with how the ever growing movement of "graphics = quality/value" chokes the life out of art within the video game landscape. Modern conceptions of art have cheapened certain things to a frankly disgusting degree, so much so that I've genuinely heard someone say "it feels like they couldn't afford real art so they used pixel art" with their real human mouth. The idea that the more high fidelity something is the more value it inherently has both as art and as a project is reductive at best and fucking stupid at worst.

So many of these fucking mods and texture packs and filters and "remaster" projects create vapid facsimiles of whatever they're trying to "improve" or just flat out look like shit. The 20 year old texture you tried to replace with something a shitty AI site you paid for threw up has things like depth and shading built into it to assist with the limitations of its time as well as to match the game's art direction. All you've done is take a fucking butter knife to it and made it a flat confusing mess that barely looks like what it's supposed to anymore.

Look, I'm not against giving beloved old games new coats of paint. Texture packs and overhaul mods have always been a thing. But until recently they were made by people who fucking understood the inherent value of the art they were working with, and either aimed to give a new angle on it or change it all together into something new. And that's good! It's creativity! It's expression! What ISN'T either of those things is smoothing out all the beautifully placed pixels on a sprite from a super Nintendo game and going "ah yes now it looks like real art! So HD! So smooth!"

You cannot reduce the value of such a complex piece of art as a video game down to "well it's got 4K textures and 3D models with tons of polygons" to do so is insulting to the entire medium and the history of technology and skilled developers and artists who created them.

lola blackvale 🐇🖤

genuinely wish bg3 had more camera options b/c i get hella disoriented and it turns into nausea and headaches while i play. feel like an old woman orz. it's frustrating - you can zoom in all the way but your camera is still far enough away at an awkward angle to make your field of view feel off. ik it's meant to simulate the ttrpg exp but i fucking hate it LMAO

freak (affectionate)

not even close to done modding yet but I'm chipping away at copying the shit out of my sister's sk.yrim mod list and during one of my tests I lost my shit at the concept of REAL LIGHT FROM WINDOWS AND MY CHARACTER CASTING A VERY DETAILED SHADOW IN SAID WINDOW LIGHT

welcome to the bell parade

7  6 2 5  4 7 3  2 5 1  4 4 7 4  7 6 4 (when i was a young boy) 6 74 6 7 67 4 53 (my father took me into the city) 6 7 6 54 3 (to see a marching band) 4 5 7 4 764 (he said son when you grow up) 674 6 7 67 4 53 (would you be the savior of the broken) 6 7 6 54 3 (the beaten and the damned)

(notation is only somewhat reflective of timing lolz). the limited palette necessitates a bit of wrongness.. for instance the first B (third note) is supposed to be higher than the other notes but adapting to the lower B sounded better than using the only other higher note - the A7. alas, tis the nature of shits and giggles 🖤

naoto appeared on tv and now he's not coming to school, UH-OH!!!

hmmmm how do you make a custom follower aware of modded content. Either with or without a patch 🤔

me, yesterday, when finishing this picture: hey i should play morrowind one day instead of browsing uesp since 2015

me, today, after 3 hours of playing: oh welp

Inks used: Diamine Ash and Deep Dark Red, Pelikan Smoky Quartz, KWZ Old Gold, Sailor Nekoyanagi.

Playing the Sims 2 would fix me

I'm gonna play stardew valley 1.6 sometime this week with a new farm. I hope the easier fishing mod is still compatible. 🤡

started my durge and i already feel bad being mean to shadowheart :(

i love dragon age. would love to play it some day