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yolowritter · 5 days

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Tag game! nine people you'd like to know better

I was tagged by the most universally amazing, awe-inspiring, metaphysically fascinating and biologically impossible critter to ever exist on this wonderful website, @nicodemoon! Thanks buddy, I appreciate you! So, first time doing one of these but here goes nothing!

Last Song: No One Will Save You - Aviators

Favorite Color: Great question! It's mostly a roulette wheel, because it honestly depends on what symbolism/metaphor I can pull out of Color Theory that week! Uh...red? Sure, it's say red!

Currently Watching: Miraculous Ladybug! Obviously, what else would I be doing with my free time? Productivity? Never heard of her! But yeah considering I'm working on two very long Miraculous AUs...I need to re-watch the show.

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Sweets! I love sweets! They're awesome! Tbh my favorite, but Savory is a really close second! I don't do spicy food tho. My taste buds and stomach vehemently resist any and all attempts.

Relationship Status: Maidenless. Meaning painfully single. Imagine overflowing with love and being unable to share any of that. Tbh I'd be happy to settle with a close best friend, it's more abt the emotional connection for me than the romance itself.

Current Obsession: Bloodborne. Without any semblence of a singular doubt, it has to be Bloodborne. It's a perfect mix of gothic and cosmic horror, the atmosphere is breathtaking when you first walk into the city of Yharnam, and it was the second Souls game I played right after Elden Ring. Bloodborne does everything story and lore related right. Chilling tones, gruelling questlines, every major progression is a punch to the gut held back only by the player's own ability to pointedly ignore the consequences of their actions. The themes of it's storyline are incredibly twisted, in the best way possible. Every moment is a fight for survival, and not only to avoid the "You Died" screen FromSoftware are so famous for. Yharnam is a phenomenal setting, and from the get-go it's obvious that whatever civilization once thrived here cannot be saved. There is no "good ending", only kill or be killed. I love Bloodborne, and it will always be my obsession. Also it's Victorian Era, so that's another major plus!

Last thing I Googled: Word definitions. That's literally it. I'm an Ao3 Author, what do you expect? The vibe of words comes naturally as breathing, right along with the urge to double-check if it actually means what I think it does before putting it in a fic. There is no escape from this process, believe me it will get you as it always gets me...

Tagging a few people I don't know very well, because I admire their work and wanna learn more: @coffeebanana @buggachat @bigfatbreak @zoe-oneesama @generalluxun @gabrielagresteofficial @hartwign @visenyathedarksister and @jedi-starbird You guys don't have to answer, it's completely voluntary! Have fun!

#finally a tag game #never done this before #it's really fun #also tagging people is anxiety inducing #but i like it #anyway enjoy

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fareehaandspaniards · 6 months

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You asked me about Patches recently, but how do YOU feel about him? I've noticed that his Bloodborne portrayal stands out not just because he becomes a monster, but it is the uhhh... idk, delivery? I did not even realize it was him until much later when I could recognize the voice actor ;-; Which version of Patches is your fav? (I personally don't think DS3 version could be bested, but ALL Patches are good)

Sorry it took so long, Kat! I had 1 hour of free time a day for a few days in a row :'^)

Patches caused me and my spouse a lot of conflicting emotions, because we started with DS3, and there he was, well… Not the best character xD I was genuinely amazed at how game developers could make THAT kind of asshole. My spouse killed him right away on the first playthrough xdd It was a shame not for the player character, but rather for Siegward of Catarina - a real sunshine! And then we found out that Patches really cares about Greirat, even though he hides it, and we started changing our opinion. As it turns out, they're friends, and Patches might even save him during the questline! Also, in the DLC, he shows up quite suddenly with memory loss, and gradually comes back to himself. It's so cute that by losing himself he becomes something of a knight, but the mean version of him is cuter still!

Then in Elden Ring we realized he's a king! xd No really, his character there is something awesome, he has his own, full questline and the way you get the "Extreme Repentance" gesture from him is divine! He gives hints, is simping for Tanith, and is overall a very cozy character that is something very nice to meet! And his gesture "Patches' Crouch" - oh my!!! xdd That's adorable!

In ds1 he shoves us off a cliff, but that was even cute! I accidentally killed him then because in my favorite location, I had giant skeletons running after me and I lost all bearings and got lost. He's very charismatic, actually, and his voice actor does double duty in making you love the character.

Well in BB his line "Oh Amygdalaaaaaaaa, have mercy on a poor bastard" is so SO HOT. So well said. I fell in love with it then. xd And the spider with the bald man's head is just a sample of what I want to see every day lol It's very interesting to imagine his place in BB's lore, but I can't do that. Not enough mana for that

And he's also Miyazaki's avatar in the game (I don't know where this info comes from, but it says so in the wiki and some articles! xd It must be just a theory, but it is sooo funny) So we have developed a local meme with my husband, like "everything is clear, the author is Patches" (все ясно, автор - Лоскутик. Так звучит лучше! хд) when any publication seems like a hoax, stupidity or something to us xdd

I haven't played DS2, but so many people are shipping him with Creighton? It looks hot and cool but I don't understand the background but shipping them sounds good xdd

He has something so cool in his character. Like he is completely fictional, but he is so "human-like"! Not because he is mean and lying, but because he has a balance of good and bad! He is easy to befriend actually, soft and nice, but also soooooo bitchy I can't xD He is that charismatic ass of a character, that is pathetic, but does nothing bad actually (almost???), but actually has a strong humanity... I can't describe! ;_; love him

Patches is a king (sorry for this sketch)

(Oh look! He caught another greedy bastard (no))

#mutuals #ask #patches #fromsoftware games #my art #elden ring patches

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adirtnap · 1 year

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game tier list twenty twenty two

2022 was the year of every video game being five or more video games at the same time. games were deckbuilding AND basebuilding AND roguelite AND fishing AND farmingsims. i don't think this worked out TOO well but i can see the appeal and i hope we can make a good one sometime!

game of the year 2022:

celeste!! the best and only video game. video, space, game. this is the peak of the genre, which is understandable because it is also the only game that exists.

it's just so FUN. like, first i play celeste as a vocation AND THEN when i'm exhausted i turn off celeste, sit for a sec, and think, "ah, time for some light fun. let's play a bit of celeste."

S tier (video games of all time)

mm rando ("Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask Randomizer, allsanity settings") this shit is so fun?? it's so fun. i will play this every year

inscryption ohhhhh man did someone have fun making this game and it SHOWS. some guy that i bet really likes and appreciates magic the gathering made a video game about: what if you played magic the gathering and it mattered SO MUCH. what if everything in your world was to enable you having a good and terrible time playing (original and realllly well-designed?) trading card games. and he was RIGHT and i had a good and terrible time

dwarf fortress!!! i first played dorf fort in 2012. i learned to play it alongside a guy i'd just met on study abroad because we were bored nerds. he is now my best friend. i have loved this game for TEN YEARS!! i once met derek yu (spelunky etcetera) at a very nice party and extremely embarrassingly trapped him in a conversation so i could talk about how good dwarf fortress is. he was very gracious and understandably uncomfortable. i like this game a LOT a lot. but, for every year i've loved dorf fort, i haven't really been able to recommend it to anyone. "hey, do you want to play a game that is so fucking hard and annoying to learn?" the answer is not usually "oh yeah for sure"

everything about the new UI-remake is good. they took the "impossible to learn" out of the sentence that i have so many times said, "this game is brilliant and enchanting and also impossible to learn." (the game is now fully "and also.") they did a good one.

A tier (delightful games)

elden ring my computer was too sad to keep playing this, and i am sad about that. it was GREAT, everything about it was as delightful as the darksoul and more. i can't wait to finish it (and probably give it s-tier) when computer good

fortnite they finally made a good battle royale and it is fortnite. good job i like my friends and this game is what i did with them a lot.

super mario sunshine perfect nintendo-y game. filled with little guys of all kinds. i will play this every year

the barnacle goose experiment horror abiogenesis autoclicker!!

sayonara wild hearts GOOOOD soundtrack good game

B tier (really fun games)

vampire survivors this is the most video game ever. i've heard it described as "the best video game of 2003." i've also heard the developer used to program gambling-machine animations. i would have played this on the school bus on the way to highschool. it rules

neon white really fun, zøooomy. i don't have the patience to find microoptimizations in levels to beat my friends, but DANG is playing each level for the first time fun. the writing was cringe AND free, it made me smile

C tier (games i liked)

citizen sleeper to paraphrase shannon: a dnd-videogame except for friends at the table enjoyers. i really liked that every choice felt limited but intentional, rather than disco's fuck-you kinda dice rolls. but, the sell was: "things… are happening. hmmmm what could they be?" which was not strong enough to keep me deeply invested. i'll keep going back and playing little by little

helltaker it's like eight minutes long and it's full of newgrounds drawings of demongirls. it's not a good game. i liked it a lot

D tier (games i did not like)

loop hero. backpack hero. slice and dice. dicey dungeons these are all the same game and they are all different variations of boring

cult of the lamb ANOTHER five-games-in-one that added up to… one-half of a good game? the fighting is like worse hades, the farming sim is like worse dontstarve. the minigames are ok. it was fine

subnautica LOVE a shark! but the game was brought down by the "you have to find a tiny item in a huge ocean and if you do not you cannot progress or you will miss major parts of the story" and also "find that tiny item on a short clock with constant danger." i ended up using the wiki, and shortly after ended up reading the plot because that was more fun than playing the lategame

however, many good moments of "oh wow yikes that's a fuckoff big shark huh" which i DID enjoy

death's door not a bad time but not for me. i think i'd rather play tunic (i haven't played tunic)

F tier (i hate it)

deathloop THEY BIOSHOCK-POISONED THIS GAME SO BAD

the concept of a majora's-mask-plus-dishonored-problem-solving-shooter? quite good. this game? really sucks. this game is the sum of every boring-but-sells lesson internalized by marketing departments on the success of "the genius of environmental storytelling," but instead of genuinely funny bits (like left4dead2's graffiti!), they went for an utterly bland "THIS UTOPIA? DIDN'T WORK OUT HUH"

also the core mechanic just wasn't very fun, was it, it just didn't work. they made it a pretty good fps and also a ~nothing else~

the upside was the art direction which: was good enough to do environmental storytelling with! it makes me mad that some goooood art got wasted on this game

hon. mentions

madness in square garden, for having a good name watching someone else play outer wilds

#posting

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akinosenoragami · 10 months

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Team W plays elden ring

A Blackstar theater starless fanfiction written by me. Tldr I got inspired by a discord convo between me and my friend.

This was written during W's Diety's game event but I had to put I off because of assignments. Apologies for having to finish this so late.

Summary;

Taiga invites Team W to play Elden ring. That's it. Enjoy.

"Is the camera on?" Taiga asks as he checks the Webcam, "It's working." Takami replies.

"Good. Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of gaming with Taiga~. With your host Taiga."

"What kind of an intro was that?!" Akira questions

"Anyway, today I'm here with my team. Team W~, now please introduce yourselves. "

"Team W's top, Kokuyou."

"...that's it? Nothing else?"

"Yeah so?"

" Aw~ C'mon man you're no fun!"

"Akira you're next."

"Hey y'all what's up! Team W's singer Akira! Nice to meet you pretty ladies on the internet."

"And that's how you do it Kokuyou."

"Shut up. Who's next."

" I believe that would be me. Hello everyone my name is Takami and I'm Team W's no.2"

"HA! Takami did it better."

"Now now you two don't start a fight here. Sin its your turn now."

"There is a good level of maturity in your words which attracts a lot. I'm Sin."

"I'm sorry what? Takami translate."

"What Sin is saying is that it's nice to meet you."

"Ok whatever I guess…so anyway today we are going to be playing some Elden ring."

"Whoo! I don't know how to play this game but let's fucking go!" Akria shouted in excitement.

"Why did I agree to this…."

"Kokuyou it's for our team PR, to promote our upcoming show."

"Oh yeah, Diety's game is gonna be showing soon! And you should all be there!"

"Alrighty…..should we play the game now?"

"Yeah. We should."

"OK for the record 3 of us aren't really gamers per say. So we're gonna start off in easy mode just so they could get the gist of it."

"Is everyone in?" Taiga asks

"Yea I think so." Akira responded

"Shit. How do you control this? How do you go forward?" Kokuyou said as his character starts spinning all over the place.

"Ahahahahaha kokuyou you suck at this!"

"Shut the hell up Akira."

"In the sense of things, Sin and I have both entered the game."

"Alright, so whose the easiest boss to fight…how about the soldier of Godrick?"

"Yeah sure, why not?"

"Aight. Let's go."

They get to the location of the soldier

"Time to take this thing down…what are you guys doing?" Taiga questions

"How do you run straight in this?!" Kokuyou starts spinning.

Takami starts looking up the players manual, "So is this how you punch?"

"Take that!" Akira shouts as he's faring quite well.

Meanwhile Sin. Does nothing.

After 30 minutes or so they finally beat the soldier.

"H-how the fuck are you guys so bad at this?!"

"This is stupid. If we have time to play this, shouldn't we be rehearsing?" Kokuyou says

"Bitch! This is free marketing for our show alright."

"Now now, calm down Taiga."

"Right…*inhales exhales* say Akira since you're doing quite well, you wanna try beating a harder boss?"

"Yeah, bring it on!"

"Alright…let's see here…who is..How about Malenia, Blade of Miquella?"

"Sure thing."

Taiga and Akira make their way to the Haligtree while the other 3 take a little break.

When all of a sudden disaster struck.

"Ah shit…my controller's out of battery!" Taiga said as he shakes his controller

"What?! How? I thought you had it charged yesterday?"

"I did but this one is somewhat faulty."

"Well shit man…what am I supposed to do?"

"I don't know, Solo Her!"

"Aight then, imma solo her! Wait her?!"

The boss fight begins. [...Heed my words. I am Malenia. Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat. ]

" ZOO WEE MAMA! She's HOT!" Akira just screams.

"Akria what the fuck-?" Kokuyou said, startled when he turned around.

"Well I must admit, her character is quite attractive. " Takami said in a calm tone.

"...." Sin just stays quiet.

[Waterfowl dance occurs]

"NoNoNoNo…"

[Akira Dies]

"Ah…damn it."

" A loss is a loss, but those who rise above the initial failures are to be crowned the victors."

"Sin please, that is not helping the fact I lost to a HOT babe."

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"And that's it for today's gaming with Taiga, tune in next time to see us prank the other teams."

"What?! Oh no We ain't doing that!" Kokuyou said as his face looked like he was about to beat up someone.

"Kokuyou...Stay." Takami tried calling him down.

"L-Like, Comment and S-Subscribe if you wanna see me live and don't forget to come to our show…fuck RUN!"

| to be continued >

#blackstar theater starless #fanfiction #Hoo boy...this took me a while #Team W #bsts kokuyou #bsts akira #bsts takami #bsts taiga #bsts sin #mentioned Elden ring #uploaded like really late #imma post this on Ao3 later #might be slight OOC #Please dont kill me this is my first fanfic for this game

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stephicness · 10 months

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Hey haven't seen you around stranger, I moved back to Tumblr from Twitter so I wanted to see how you were doing. It's been a long time since we last talked (we were in the ffxv server back then, boy time flies) just wanted to wish you well and hope to see you around! - Ness

Ah! When was this sent??? It's been a million and five years, but why they no tell me when I get an ask from folks! Tumblr, please-!

But hello, friendo! I too have been MIA from most social media things, as moving and life events kept me away. Got soaked up with Code Vein and Elden Ring for a good portion of time. Been REALLY big on Dungeons and Dragons lately, because the stories with friends have been a delight. I'm moving again here soon, trying to focus on rebuilding my portfolios. I wrote for a small couple of indie games too, so I've been really proud of that!

Oh! And I got a dog and a cat. :D Goodest boys.

But beyond that, I'm here and lurking about again! Like FFXV before, I surface onto Tumblr because I'm not just stoked about playing FFXVI, but I'm ready to meme the hell out of it. It's going to be delightful! I just gotta wait for a little bit because I don't wanna be that jerk that spoils things beyond out of context posts about butts and crying, you know?

I hope you're well too! Sorry for the late response! I'll be lurking about here more, so feel free to come by anytime to say hello or drop an ask! :D

#asks #zayzl #stephic thoughts

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fallout-lou-begas · 2 years

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i uhhhhhh got elden ring for free. you know. cus i didn't wanna waste £50 on a game i might not have liked. so i haven't experienced the sheer terror of the multiplayer invasions bc i can't play online and honestly i think i would have given up faster if i was constantly getting gooned by some fromsoft nolifer who picks on da little guy. sure it also means no co-op but honestly it's making me rely more on getting better so its win win tbh. also update: the ancestor spirit is so cool....

(cont. from this post) Yeah it's not always that bad but when it's bad it's real bad. For every one invasion I've experienced that's well-balanced, interesting, or otherwise just, y'know, actually a fun encounter whether I survive or not (on either side), I've experienced a half dozen others that are a complete curbstomp to where I can't imagine what's in it for the other party besides sadistic pleasure. It's just griefing, plain and simple: getting off on intentionally ruining the game for other people.

That's not to say invasions are inherently griefing, like I just said, sometimes they're a great when everyone's a good sport. But for example, I created a new low-level character the other night to help out new players in the starting areas (since all my other files have weapons too highly upgraded) and multiple times we would get invaded by the same overpowered individual at the same place. You've got these people with high-powered weapons and spells that deal severe blood loss, frostbite, scarlet rot, and other status effects that low-level players literally do not have the tools to deal with, and they only have them because they've either played through the whole game very carefully to remain in the low-level multiplayer pool despite their progress or have just had a friend give them to them. And these people just camp out in the Weeping Peninsula just to invade low-level players trying to get through Castle Morne, or whatever. It just sucks the moon clean out of the sky, especially when you're playing with someone specific and intentionally using the password system, because ultimately Elden Ring co-op is just extremely fun, and people want to have fun, and getting invaded by someone so much more powerful than yourself ruins that fun, so it's a no-brainer why the seamless co-op mod has been as well-received as it is and why it's stolen so much of the playerbase from vanilla multiplayer.

That being said, I keep going back to vanilla multiplayer, because as I've said in a previous post, the combination of nonverbal communication, character customization, and sense of spontaneity reminds me at its best of fucking around in Team Fortress 2. Much like TF2, it's a machine for memorable moments with people you'll only ever know ephemerally. On my aforementioned low-level helper file (btw his name is Hamburger, because he's a helper), I got summoned to help a very obviously brand new player with Fort Haight, funnily enough because he'd intercepted the summon sign I'd left for my husband. When we got to the top of the fort, decided to gift her my character's Reduvia dagger since I wasn't using it myself, and the host picked it up. She switched to dual wielding it with her own Reduvia immediately and started playing around with the dual-wielding moveset, and I could sense her joy and disbelief innately, and then she repeatedly crouched up and down in one of the universal video game gestures of positive emotion (since it's only teabagging if there's an enemy under you). It was amazingly cute! I probably made their whole day! And that's the kind of thing you won't ever really get in the seamless co-op mod, which is much more structured and restricted by design, but it's a shame that invasions are in such a state to where evenly matched invasions are so rare ("evenly matched" even when accounting for the power difference of a 2v1 or even 3v1 in the host's favor, and the invader retaining all of their flasks and not drawing enemy aggro).

And also yes the ancestor spirit is one of the sickest fights in the whole game. I went into it the first time too underleveled to do a lot of damage but too skilled to get hit by its attacks too much, so it was a very long and drawn-out spectacle, and with that music and the whole presentation of the arena and the fight, it truly felt meaningful.

#elden ring #asks

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gaymgrl · 2 years

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lesbian asks: 6, 25, 31 ❤️

🌸 𝟔. 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠? My friendship bracelet I got from my BFF if that counts ( ♡ ´ ˘ ` ) I either wear it or have it all the time with me; I’m quite attached to it and it gives me comfort whenever I’m feeling down.. Aside from that my favourite item of clothing would definitely be long blouses generally speaking! They’re timeless, workplace-friendly and versatile.. I especially love combining them with a waistcoat; they look even more elegant this way!

🌸 𝟐𝟓. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧? Having longer satisfying sex and orgasms as opposed to straight women <3 haha no seriously just....being solely attracted to women thank godness. I’m goldstar so I don’t have a direct comparision what it’s like to be in a hetero relationship, but from what I’ve seen so far I’m just so glad that I never ever have to deal with all of these stupid gender roles and expectations that are imposed on a woman in a straight relationship, or having to deal with a man altogether..

🌸 𝟑𝟏. 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬! Oh I have so many interests I would love to talk about in detail! ♡ ♡ I’d say my favorite pastime activity is still drawing and painting, although I’ve been having an art block I can’t seem to conquer for quite some time now. It’s hard to really get into it when my free time is so limited honestly..I just wish to find my passion for it again so I can continue working on my portfolio... Despite that I started journaling more regularly! I’m also trying to learn french right now but it’s been a while since I revised and I’m still a beginner so T_T I love reading, mostly sci-fi.. I managed to persuade one of my friends to read Animal Farm by George Orwell with me together; we’ve been both neglecting reading and I thought doing it this way is a great motivator since we can discuss it afterwards! Speaking of friends I recently bought an instax camera to capture moments together and it’s so much fun!! I also love playing video games...my favorite genres being survival-horror and action-adventure but honestly not limiting myself here!!! I play everything wah.. The last game I completed is Resident Evil 4! Currently playing Horizon Forbidden West and I have Fatal Frame 3 on hold on my PS2 :’3 I also want to get into Elden Ring and replay the Zero Escape series because it’s been a while but god. I really have zero time I’m also still a weeb at heart....although not watching anime that regularly anymore; the last anime I’ve watched is Higurashi Gou! I also love cosplay..it’s been a while but the last character I’ve cosplayed is 2B from Nier: Automata! Really want to give crossplay a try though and cosplay 9S sometime!! <33

#I think.....I went a bit overboard haha I'm sorry!!#thank you for the ask! I hope you have a great day so far ₍⑅ᐢ.ˬ.ᐢ₎♡#💌

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seldnei · 2 years

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Got tagged by my fellow Dream Lord, @julcheninred ...

Relationship status: Married. Not currently plotting murder.

Favorite color: Green!

Favorite food: Any combination of bread, tomato, and cheese.

Song stuck in your head: I have music playing, so that’s drowning out whatever’s in there (current song is “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol)

Last thing you’ve googled: “Elden Ring dungeons list.” I’m stuck on the fucking Elden Beast fight, so I’m taking a break and running through all the dungeons I’ve missed or skipped.

Time: 12:48 PM

Last book you read: When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire. I’m prepping for the new Toby book that’s coming out at the end of the month.

Last book you enjoyed: Not a re-read? The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison.

Last book you hated reading: I no longer read books that I hate. Like, I’ll finish a “meh” book, but if I find myself actively hating the book, I just quit. I believe the last time this happened, it was 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. I was hoping for something better than the 1am honors dorm room pontificating I got (do not get me started on the section on science fiction).

Favorite thing to cook/bake: I like the process of baking chocolate chip cookies, especially with fresh brown sugar. I like to have baked bread, because I make good bread, but the process is loooong.

Favorite craft to do in your free time: I don’t really craft much--most of my free time is spent reading or, at the moment, playing Elden Ring. I do want to learn to make my own notebooks, though.

Most niche dislikes: Jazz? I hate jazz. My coworkers find this weird. Oh, I am also not fond of Chicago citation style. I think its bibliographies look weird and crowded.

Opinion on circuses: Love fictional circuses. Fantasy circuses (MirrorMask’s, as an example), horror circuses (I am quite fond of the Circus of the Other in Magnus Archives), a dusty, 30s-era circus as a setting for a novel. Have no desire to go to a circus in real life. (side note: I got lost at the circus when I was small, which was not traumatic for me but was pretty traumatic for my mother.)

Do you have a sense of direction and if not what’s the worst way you’ve gotten lost?: Yeeesss? Okay, I can’t label my left and right. If you say “go left,” there are 50 50 odds that I will turn right, honestly thinking I am turning left. However, if I, say, know I am facing north, and you tell me to go east, I will do it. I am pretty good at knowing where the main roads are from where I am in areas I’m familiar with. I’ve successfully navigated people who thought we were lost back to civilization in my hometown and current city.

That said, the worst time I got lost was coming back from a friend’s place in another town where I’d only been once, with the hungry three year old in the back seat. Ugh.

Last song I listened to: The Mary J. Blige cover of “Stay With Me.”

Last show I watched: She Hulk, Attorney at Law.

Currently watching: I guess that? It’s coming out once a week.

Currently reading: Nothing, as I just finished a book yesterday, but I’m going to re-read Paladin’s Hope by T. Kingfisher next.

Current obsessions: Sandman has made a triumphant return to my obsessions list. Still obsessed with the album The Horror and the Wild by The Amazing Devil, but it got interrupted by a desire to deep dive into Panic! at the Disco’s discography. Elden Ring, god help me. And the cozy fantasy romance refuses to leave me alone, despite the two sets of revisions I need to be working on.

I am tagging @lookninjas, @silver-stargazing, @kaoticspoonie (if you want to, no pressure) and anyone else who wants to do this.

#meme #pure silliness #read all the books

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kamoe · 2 years

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I’m honestly not sure how I should be coping with my life right now. I’m fucked, I have no job, no skillset to get a job outside of shitty retail, I’m insanely overweight to point where just walking outside to the car is exhausting. And the cherry on the shit cake is that I know all of the answers to fix my situation but I don’t have the energy or motivation to do it. Every time I make an attempt to get better, I thwart it on my own. I genuinely don’t know how to get myself out of this slump I’ve been in. All I have to look forward to day after day is logging into discord and talking to my friends, which I’m thankful for, but I’m worried by my sudden lack of interest in my hobbies.

I played Elden Ring through, it was a really great game, but now I’m done with it and there’s just nothing there. Final Fantasy XIV’s been a dead zone for me for a long while now, but I still play it out of obligation, more or less. Any time I try to start playing a game, I just lose interest nearly immediately.

I lost interest in almost everything I derived joy from. I hate taking rides, I don’t want to clear my table off to build a gundam kit that I’ve had sitting on my desk for over a year now. My hobbies are all expensive and require income which I don’t make, and every time I help someone with a computer problem that I expect or ask for payment for, I get fucked out of that, too.

That mixed with the absolutely FUCKED state of the world right now, it’s been extremely hard to not fall into a complete doomer mindset. I think the only thing that’s even kept me alive so long is the fact that I honestly think I’m even too lazy to kill myself. I almost find myself wishing that something out of my control would happen to me so I wouldn’t have to take matters into my own hands.

I’ve started doing the bare minimum for my mom nowadays because I just can’t be bothered. It’s selfish and wrong of me to do that, considering I’ve been basically living here for free since I quit my job, but at this point I simply don’t care enough. I don’t care enough to do anything other than exist in the simplest way possible. I wake up, I eat a meal or two, I sit in my computer chair and talk on Discord all day, and I go to sleep once I eventually feel tired enough. I’ll stay awake for 20+ hours sometimes and sleep for 8, my days and nights are mixed up to the point where I don’t even know what day it is sometimes. The only thing that really makes me happy is talking to my friends and listening to music on Spotify.

My motivation to do anything but the bare minimum is just gone. I can’t even muster the energy to take a shower regularly. I don’t remember the last time I took one, I just do it whenever I feel gross enough to decide the effort is worth it. My room’s a mess. I just don’t know what I should focus on, every time I think about taking stock of what I have to do to fix my life I just don’t do any of it and I don’t know why. The only reason I’m even making this post is because I have to say something and there’s no one I can reasonably talk to, so I’ll just yell into my blog and delete this post in a day or two when I find it again and get embarassed. I don’t know. Fuck.

#venting

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ssg-nagareyn · 27 days

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Nagareboshi

Smooth as a cactus flower

Cold as a supernova

A shooting star among dragons

Nigga I was always the jack of odd balls

I'm sorry, all trades and master of one-of-dones

Life really hasn't been a rave considered fun

It's a game that's pay to win

Pay your debts bitch

Money talks

Cash is king

Credit don't mean shit

You're too far in it to quit

I am nothing without my れ

From a time when all I knew

Was a name that stained my soul

As permanent as the tears I've cried

The night I learned too young

What it was like to stain your lips

From an overly curious boy

That you had called your family for hours

And you were deathly afraid of the consequences in telling anyone

Because “Heaven Knows” it was more of a crime “if I turned out gay” than if I was SA’d

Well it's no fun when you're the one tasting the bitter blade

I weep for my previous name because he

Never had a chance but I am thankful

For him because he birthed me

A birth that I spent too long hiding behind the same mask that I was born in.

I was never him, I never knew what me was.

What I saw on my computer screen were friends being free

Guys wearing skirts who would eventually become beautiful women

Bro I wasn't thinking of any of that I was too busy trying not to get picked on for being a weirdo

A quiet MF who stayed in the corner of the class playing on his Gameboy in lunch breaks

Told that piece of shit called my father that it was the village who raised me from a teen

Some of my best homies I met at one-thirteen are still a touch away if I need them

But not even they know the real me

Because I never knew who that bitch was until the eve of losing my life.

My mother. She was my life.

It has not been be same since that eve.

It's ironic isn't it? I spent two years of my life feeling the most liberated I felt.

The one person who I would be terrified and curious of seeing me like this is not here.

How would you feel? What would you react?

You'd tell me to clean my fucking room first off

You'd gasp and have a heart attack for seeing how I treat your wig

You'd see my photos and those focal points of anger would melt away

Even close confidants of us say that we look alike

Heck, we always did even when I was him

And when I told you I was non-binary you still accepted me even though you didn't get it.

I think you would have been a big help in my path of knowing how to use makeup

How to present myself

I've been going to lounges and open mics, bars and house shows with my friends

Isn't this what you used to do during The Garage and Roseland era?

I find myself protecting my homies much like a guard on standby

But I have fun because I know I'm protected.

So what did you do when you didn't feel protected?

When Jeannie passed, what went through your mind?

You left the apartment in a storm, grabbed your Newports, and I stayed up

I had school the next day but I had a stomach virus

But I didn't want to leave your side the following day and nothing you said was going to get me to go to school

I lied, you woulda forced me but promised me you'd be okay

I couldn't face Jeannie on her deathbed. I couldn't face you with the sheet over your body.

This wasn't meant to be a letter to you!

But…you are me, are you not?

When someone asked if my new name is my birthday, I said, I wasn't sure if I could call it.

But when you gave birth to me, you said it was a second birthday to you, right?

So, maybe, this whole Flow thing…was…like a second birthday for me.

When I lost you… Flow was born…

She…and you…became my second birthday.

That is in my name.

Malik was the middle name given to me by my mother.

My father gave me Naquan. In her words, he felt the name sounded cool.

But Malik had meaning. It meant King.

You looked up to Malcolm X.

That was his name. Malik el-Shabazz

I played Elden Ring two years ago

The main antagonist, her name was Marika.

There are no “Ls” in the Japanese language

So you can see the correlation, Malika, which means queen.

A tragic tale as antagonists don't really exists in that game

Just people with their own duties to fulfill.

But even that felt too similar to my old self.

Reyna was the result of weeks of sitting alone after work, high out of my mind

Because it is the only way I have solace these days.

It means Queen but it's so fucking versatile! Reyn sounds close enough to Nay

Reyna is Re:Nay. Rebirth of Nay

And to emphasis that

The middle name’s Renée

The last name’s Nagare

Because that's just how it flows.

No, seriously, 流れ means Flow.

But if you take the れ away…

It becomes 流 (In person imagine me saying Ryu)

And this is also a part of me because there are many Flows to my essence.

I got many styles, all this time this was a poem

But I'm having a conversation with you

On some crazy stream of consciousness shit

Streams and flows, that's what it means when you take away the れ

But the “Re” is what makes me, me!

Without the Re, I'm not Reyna, a sovereign

I'm Nay without a birthright.

Renée without the Re is stillborn, much like how I spent two-thirds of my life

I can be a shooting star among dragons

But that's not my true calling,

That's like in the Street Fighter movie

Where they gave “Ryu” the name “Ryu Hoshi”

He is not a “Shooting Star” he a “Rising Dragon”

I am the Spark to your Soul among the stars

And my Soul is a fucking Satellitare

Pardon my Italian tongue

But I'm as beautiful as a Rose

And I almost fucking forgot that.

If only I wasn't staring at the Torii gates mentally

Mix my soul with the Spirit Realm

Walking around with a halo over my head

Even Lazuli got caught lacking among the Z-Fighters

No one is wasting a prayer on me with the Dragon Balls

It was a good run but all stars fade.

#i lost everything #i lost my mind #i lost my entire will #protect trans kids #protect your friends #this is a cry for help #please...i don't want my star to fade...

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hospitalterrorizer · 2 months

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diary161

2/22-23/2024

thursday - friday

day after tomorrow , i workkkkkkkk.

and omg, next week i'm working 3 days, that, like, blows kinda. whatever, not long shifts especially. tomorrow i'm gonna get bank stuff set up i think, too, so i'll finally be able to order my dumb clothes and whatever else i think i need and stuff.

anyway, today, today was busy and weird. i recorded vocals for 2 songs, i haven't listened back i think maybe i should wait a bit. i have to listen to the song i was having an issue w/ last night just to see what i might wanna do about it tomorrow, and if maybe i want to record vocals tomorrow for another song.

the problem song rn just has a weird guitar tone but i like it, maybe i keep the narrow frequencies i'm liking in it, as a bandpass, and have another tone as a layer w/ that? have that one i like that's got this kind of idk, squelchy organic-ish sound to it, as organic as it is synthetic, it's very like, it's got a lot in common with a guitar's strings and that brightness /shimmer on the attacks of notes but it also sounds very uhh, resonant and weird, it's good. i just keep that maybe and have that panned wide and then another thing that's more normal maybe in the middle-ish. that'd mean 2 guitar layers for much of the song and 3 at certain points, which could get to be too much, so i might have to fool around w/ that, but hopefully the bandpass idea would remove a lot of the volume / give more headroom so the other tone could have more presence, and then maybe i have that other tone lacking whatever the freqs i like in this one i have are. the new tone should be something a bit, idk, like this:

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ideally there'd be enough weird no-wavey character coming from the other tone, so it might add a nice squeal beside this more regular sound, but idk, this kinda sound also happens w/ power chords and this song has weird chords making up the main riff, it does have power chord bits though.

i'll just have to figure that out when it comes to doing it i suppose.

seeing my friend was really good, we kind of talked a while, as i played elden ring for him, i beat a boss he was stuck on and went and found stuff for him around places he missed. we showed eachother music, he wanted to show me what's going on w/ his album but we didn't get to. my gf and his gf went out to dinner together and hung out in town square, which is like, a goofy shopping zone in vegas. it's very okay but apparently the ramen place they went to was rlly good, i'd like to try it one day.

when they came back, we went to this rave that was going on, my friend wanted to go and could cuz band practice was cancelled for him, because the other 2 members of his band wanted to go, we got to see another friend and while everyone (but me) got drunk in the parking lot, off mixing soju w/ like, sprite, perrier, and coconut pedialyte (that's at least what my gf did (it smelled like cum (specifically the cum of guys who say they just eat pineapple and drink pineapple juice all the time to 'improve the flavor' and probably tasted like that)). my friend's gf got sugar free soju, and apparently it was awful, i said to her that if you want 'diet alcohol' you're just better off not drinking cuz it seems like all alcohol is just going to blast you w/ unwanted and pointless calories (i'm not above pointless calories (i drank some soda tonight...feels sort of awful tbh i hate soda mostly but it tastes good sometimes and i guess tonight was an indulgence or whatever. i like candy too but little handfuls feel more manageable to me than like soda idk). she was like, yeah, but, you know, basically, and like, obviously yeah. if you wanna get drunk you wanna get drunk. so my advice = worthless, but it was just me being 'catty' for fun, as a bit, i guess. idk why i'm going so into this, it wasn't a bad interaction for either of us, i guess it's just funny to look at it this closely. anyway, they all got drunk and my other friend and i wandered into a smith's grocery store, right before closing, in the middle of construction, very strange. and when we got to the doors of the venue, my gf and the other 2 had already been let in and we weren't gonna be able to get in for free so easily, we walked into a nearby casino, which we'd been kicked out of in the past but nobody cared while we were there this time and we were just kicked out because another rave in another nearby venue was using that place to piss. anyway, we sat in there a bit, my friend gambled 2 dollars away because we knew if we looked like we were doing something we'd not get kicked out, i'd just like, look like some girl(thing(ish(whatever))) with some kind of gambler, like i was a good luck charm.

obv, he won nothing, he was reduced to 12 cents, from 2 dollars. so we just were out of the cold for a bit until my gf got us onto the list, and we waited in the karaoke place/venue (lol), eventually being let in by our friend who was putting on the show, and when we got into the venue the first thing i noticed was how bad the sound was, it was like, blown out, and quiet, too bassy, and too much high end, basically cuz of this really violent limiting on all the speakers which cuts off at the exact same point across all frequency bands, it was an awful sound, you couldn't really make anything out, the kicks were so puffy and weak sounding and the high hats really didn't have the high end to connect but were obviously shrill and peaking around like, 3k, i'd guess. it was insane.

anyways, the party clearly sucked, and there were almost no people even there, it was low turnout, the crowd had no energy, which makes sense when the music 1) sounds the same as always and 2) has the novelty of now sounding horrifically bad. people were kind of dancing and acting like it was awesome, but it was not.

basically we just kind of hung around, kind of just absorbing this awful thing, and then left, but as we were being driven home, my friend realized she left her phone at the place, so we had to go back, she drove a little crazy, but we had people there still who went and got it for us as we returned, when we got back her bf went in to get it for her, and as we waited in the parking lot, this guy who irritated me earlier in the night (by calling me a nickname which i hate/always hated, some people don't offend me when they do it, but i never like it, anyways when he did i just kind of said 'don't call me that' and withdrew my hand from a handshake we were abt to commence, when he asked why i just said i don't like it, and then shook his hand (maybe it was too much but he just irritates me so much honestly)) and he bothered my friend by just like, when my friend ran out to return the phone and then ran back inside, he took the phone and asked my other friend to play rock paper scissors for it back. he is a drunken child.

when my other friend came back from inside/saying all the long goodbyes he was trying to avoid, he was like, mad, because the guy who ran the thing was like 'oh we were gonna ask you to play, and like, you have a right to do it but like, you need to play different stuff, you know, you can't play the same stuff every time,' which came as a shock to my friend who has never heard this before and all these people play music that sounds identical to itself and the sets sound no different from any other, he's the only one who you can really tell has any personality when he performs stuff, and it's because largely he spins his original music, which he keeps in rotation yeah but it's all stuff that works, and he brings new tracks and tests them on crowds to see how they take it/like it, they usually always like them, he has grown fans from just doing things how he does. but idk, this really pissed him off, obviously, it bothers me even, idk why these rave people take this shit seriously to the point of mostly playing the most monotone and boring shit ever, they've really just kind of made all the kind of hardcore dance music less fun, even in home listening, it just reminds me, when it's good, of what i could hear on the dancefloors, but i never do, it's just the same sounds all the time. breaks feel so fucked to me, they just put up some kind of guard in me now whenever i hear them. it's sad but idk, it at least means there's something i can imagine in myself about another way out/around what these people are spinning.

ultimately they just dig thru soundcloud, find identical sounding songs, and play them to keep a vibe up, it's irritating, none of the interest in the dancefloor as transformative, instead it's about making the space something solid, reifying/writing what it is w/ signifiers like 'cold techno' and 'clattering hihats' or even '10 seconds of acid before the song becomes nothing again'. very boring stuff at the end of the day.

anyway, i am tired, i need to sleep now, tomorrow is errands day but since we don't have to do laundry anymore, it won't be bad, it'll be nice even.

so,

byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#Youtube

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safetypads · 1 year

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On souls games

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Introduction: This was a small blogpost/rant I wrote in july of 2022 trying to make sense of my experience with Elden Ring.

I like souls games. I’ve thought they’re great ever since I saw a random dude play a deprived build in a department store somewhere around 2015. Having only barely scraped the huge cultural footprint these games had already left on our gamer hivemind through memes and casual but over excited reviews from my friends, I knew these games were good, I knew it without even having tried them. Hell, the fact that I hadn’t tried them was only because they seemed too good for me, or too hard, but whatever, the ethos of souls games seemed to be that hard equals good, and these games smelled like concrete. My first attempt at actually playing one of these games was with Dark Souls 2. I was living with a group of roomies I barely knew, I had recently dyed my hair green and I also had recently started taking hormones. I was on my way up, feeling unbeatable, so I tried my hands at these seemingly unreachable goals of playing some of these games. And, well, Souls 2 was the cheapest one. By then, I knew that the whole point of these games was struggling, a concept I quite enjoy in art, but decidedly avoid in real life. I had interiorized that it was all about doing those stupid dances to avoid the swomps and the doinks just so that you could be the one swomping and doinking the bad guys after you. I also knew these games had some insane story that boiled down to, well, greed bad -I agree-. I had seen the amiibos, I had glimpsed at the unknown in the form of youtube lore analysis thumbnails and, as stated before, I had acknowledged the memes. But then again, none of this mattered to me when I entered one of the very first areas of Dark Souls 2, Heide's Tower of Flame, a place that I could only describe as ominous. The floating staircases, the music, the lighting and the vast emptiness of the background of clouds transported me to somewhere I have been before, once in dreams but many, many times in video games, a headspace, if you will, that feels as alien as homely and as tangible as otherworldly, a place I still don’t know what to call, but that I feel like I’ve felt enough for it to be describable. I think it has something to do with the same feelings that churches give you. My first instance of this feeling must have been when I was a kid. I was raised catholic and I would have a hard time arguing I’m not anymore. Still, I used to get super bored at mass, so, as a distraction mechanism, I’d try to check how much time was left of the ceremony by learning each bit of it and how much they usually took. Still, I’d also fall semi-asleep a lot of times, times in which I would just stare at the ceiling of the chapel we usually went to and absorb the magnitude of the painted stars and the holy images. It was a blue and purple mass of eternity that hung right above me. I’d try to channel this same feeling when I would be falling asleep on the backseat of my dad’s car at night, trying to capture a vivid image of the place I was then and then focus on the seats, avoiding the ride completely, making the act of travel some kind of mystic ritual in my head. On christmas nights it would be extra special, cause I could stare at the chapel ceiling while also being in this state of sleepiness. It was magical. I’d think of the gates of heaven, the loooong queue to get in, the intensity of a land that could be eternal and unknowable. Who cares if god exists, who cares about reality, when the unknown makes me this happy. But then again the unknown was also scary. A few years older I’d hack my Wii and install free roaming mods for Super Smash Bros Brawl, so that I could take back the camera and see where exactly the world ended. Seeing an ever expanding black maze that these characters couldn’t escape. It would make me cry. It was a similar reaction to when I was even younger, and I would wake up anxious as hell after dreaming of constantly growing shapes, triangles that didn’t feel safe to stand on, expansive squares that would imprison me. I’d wake up sweaty and distressed and then stayed up for hours.Recently I had this feeling again playing Elden Ring. It was at the point in the game when you go through the Siofa River Elevator and you see the underground sky, when you gaze into the infinite potential of this underground world that seems to be huge and unreachable but that you als know is just a space inside a bigger world, where you come from. I don’t think Elden Ring is a perfect game, I’d struggle to call it great, but for some few moments it took me back to that thrill, to the fear and solemnity of the eternal.

#dark souls #churches #elden ring #personal #texto

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belongsinthetrash · 2 years

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Alright, with Elden Ring around the corner and my Soulsborne hyperfixation threatening to take over when it releases (apologies in advance to my Omori mutuals), I feel it is time for me to say my thoughts on how I envision a crossover with two favorite medias would be like:

Omori characters in the Dark Souls universe

(As it is said, I may be cringe, but I am free.)

Sunny and Mari would hail from the Far East, with both knowing some basic sorcery. But while Sunny would be alright with just being a shinobi/ninja with access to stealth spells, Mari would pursue higher knowledge of sorcery, somehow earning herself a invitation to the Vinheim Dragon School despite its gatekeeping and snobbery. She becomes a sorcerer of some renown before she leaves the college because of the environment, but while she wanders the ruined kingdom she and her party of friends find themselves in (most likely Lothric), she may or may not get pulled into the allure of the dark and may or may not become a witch~.

Kel and Hero are Jugo-born, but are Undead refugees that had found their way to Melfia, with them enrolling within the Magic Academy, Hero majoring in sorcery, Kel in pyromancy. Kel has made the academic purists mad with willingly using a weapon along with magic. Hero plays a bit more safe by focusing purely on his magic studies. When he finally meets Mari in the group's combined travels, he is enamored with not only her, but knowing another sorcerer who is well accomplished (not to mention deadly with a curved sword). They both compare teachings they've learned in their tenures of sorcery and even teach their exclusive spells to the other.

Aubrey and Basil have teamed up before their run in with the rest, but Aubrey is from Forossa and Basil is from Astora. Aubrey's life in the kingdom taught her to fight at a young age and she slowly went up the ranks in the Forossan militia, even becoming a famed Lion Knight to fight off outside aggressors. Basil, meanwhile, was born a noble within one of Astora's elite families and was forced against his will to pick up a sword and learn to become a knight so his parents would get some praise for their offspring being a well regarded Elite Knight, which worked out in the end, because of how quickly he was disowned and banished after he became cursed with Undeath. Despite their personality differences, they get along quite well, but Basil always is intrigued when he hears Aubrey talk about her god Faraam, like he's heard of a god of war similar to him from his kingdom before.

All of them are part of one big group out to slay the Lords of Cinder and send them back to their thrones, with all of them being Unkindled Ash that can't find peace until their task is done.

They come across other strange characters across their journey as well, including:

- An excitable young lad from Zena that's own little shop is full of funny little trinkets to trade and talks of his beast of a sister, but clarifys not an actual beast.

- A towering yet quiet miss from the Great Swamp that has become in tune with the nature of the world and would like to teach some pyromancies to help you become in tune too.

- A shady and arrogant miscreant from Lindelt that offers miracles at frankly absorbent prices but is also apparently hiding away from his Archdrake siblings that wish for him to come back home.

- A pair of jovial Catarina Knight siblings that find playing a few pranks to be fun and good for bonding with other travelers, usually compensating them with sweet delicacies that they've accrued.

- A timid but otherwise friendly mage from Vinheim that undermines her teaching skills, but finds the willingness of others to learn to give her enough strength to do it for them.

- An amicable and soft spoken lady from Lanafir that has a fascination of the seas of the world and offers grand rewards to warriors for the collection of shells to her covenant.

- And an ominous, grim, dead-eyed boy from Londor that offers the group a way to wrest the control of the cycle from the gods, but at a price that not a lot are willing to pay; it's not helping that he looks all-too-familiar to one of the people within the group.

And I don't know how the hell to end this post except... thanks for reading the most self-indulgent shit I've ever made I guess?

#omori #omori game #dark souls #soulsborne #not gonna tag the characters because im already clogging enough tags as is #this thought burned inside my head for months on end so its great to get this out there #i know this isnt gonna get many likes from the conflicting fandoms but i dont care about that #and if you read this and are even reading these tags like the masochist you are #ill just say im free to any asks about this au crossover thing if you want more of this somehow #btw that reminds me i should atleast put this here as well #omori au

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teaandgames · 5 years

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The Tea Times - June 2019

It’s June now and that means I have to do this column a bit differently. I could do the usual news stuff but then I’d be ignoring the nine-thousand foot elephant in the room: E3. So, instead, I’m going to devote this section to going through some choice announcements. There are a lot, so I’m only going to mention the ones that interest me directly. In other words: I’m not going to talk about Madden.

You can check out the full list of everything announced here.

The Cast

Microsoft

Bethesda

Devolver Digital

The PC Gaming Show

Ubisoft

Square Enix

Nintendo

Microsoft

“Project Scarlett”, Holiday 2020 - Microsoft are bringing out a new console it seems, which will probably have a snappier title by the time its released. It has the usual marketing bumpf, talking about setting the bar for performance and so on. It does have a few confirmed moves, including an SSD and 8k capability. Presumably, the cost is going to reflect that.

Halo Infinite, Holiday 2020 - “Project Scarlett”’s flagship title, the trailer shows us a man in a spot of bother on a spaceship. Things have gone south but before long, Master Chief is awakened to try and sort things out. I’ve not played many Halo games but the prospect of a custom built engine is very interesting. More exciting, from my point of view, is that it will apparently be coming to PC as well. Maybe it’s time I looked back into the series, eh?

Borderlands 2 Gets Some Free DLC - I’ve talked about Borderlands 3 before, so instead I’ll quickly mention that Borderlands 2 has gotten some free DLC called Commander Lilith & The Fight For Sanctuary. It’s small and fairly slapdash but it’s free and bridges the gap between Borderlands 2 and 3.

Cyberpunk 2077 Launches 2020 - The long awaited CD Projekt RED title has a release date: April 16th 2020. It’s now available for pre-order. Included in the package is one (1) Keanu Reeves, who is a breathtaking man.

Blair Witch, August 30 - One of my favourite films is getting a video game, yay! It’s made by Bloober Team. Oh. They are the makers of Layers of Fear, which was resoundingly ‘meh’. No doubt this game will be force fed jump scares and the trailer does not give me hope. The Blair Witch Project probably shouldn’t be a game in the first place, to be honest, and the less said about the remake the better. Still, Bloober Team did well with Observer, so you never know. Worth a look, maybe, but don’t expect too much.

Gears 5, September 10 - Another series I’m not really into (and actively disliked in the case of the first one) but if it’s your cup of tea, the fifth installment is coming later this year.

Elden Ring announced - FromSoftware’s new Pain-Em-Up has an interesting twist - it’s co-created by George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire. Presumably so he can put off writing the series some more. It’s an interesting mashup and the announcement trailer doesn’t give too much away. One to watch.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps, February 11 2020 - A sequel to the wonderful and beautiful Ori and the Blind Forest (which I actually need to play more of) is coming out next year and the trailer opens with a big, scary spider. Not entirely what I was expecting but I'll be damned if it doesn’t look good. The movement, and animations, look great too. One to look at if you’re into your platformers.

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Psychonauts 2 - I never played much Psychonauts but the trailer does a good job of emanating its signature humour, with some tuned up gameplay. It’s 3D platforming, which may be a bit awkward, but it’s Doublefine back where they belong.

Tales of Arise, 2020 - The latest in the Tales series is coming out next year and is coming to PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One. An extremely popular series, which I’ve had some fun with over the years, this one is apparently going to ‘mark a new beginning for the famed JRPG franchise’. It remains unclear what exactly that means.

Bethesda

DOOM Eternal, November 22 - My biggest ‘must buy’ this year. I’m not sure why it really needs a ‘story’ trailer of all things but it looks fun as hell and I cannot wait to jump back into hell. Looks like Doomguy might be having a bit of a humanity crisis but as long as he can still shoot and hit things, we’re good.

GhostWire: Tokyo - An unusual name for an unusual looking game, featuring disappearing people and a cool looking man with a bow and arrow. Not entirely sure what it’s going to be about, but you need to face down the occult with some spectral abilities. And attack the unknown of course, whatever that means.

DEATHLOOP - An interesting looking game about two assassins that are caught in a loop, killing each other over and over again. Not entirely sure whether this is single or multi-player or what, but the premise is fantastic. Time will tell, I guess.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood, July 26 - A co-op Wolfenstein was a bit of a shock but not unwelcome. Set in 80s Paris, you play as BJ’s twin daughters who are trying to find their missing dad. It’s apparently supposed to be pretty open and it looks just as mad as the previous games. Plus the trailer is set to Carpenter Brut, which is a huge positive in my book.

Fallout 76 - Nuclear Winter - Bethesda are jogging after the departing train with their own Battle Royale game. Not sure who asked for it, but here it is. Given that it’s likely using the same engine, I wouldn’t expect too much from it. It is free though, so you can’t give it too much flak.

Devolver Digital

Carrion, 2020 - There was actually only one Devolver Digital game that interested me and it was this one. It’s a ‘reverse horror game’, which means you control a strange amorphous creature, consuming hordes of screaming scientists, while trying not to be shot. The premise has a lot of potential.

The PC Gaming Show

Shenmue III, November 19 - The kickstarted sequel to the franchise has become the latest to be snapped up by Epic Games, as it’s now an exclusive. This, understandably, annoyed kickstarter backers who were expecting a steam key. I can’t say much on the game itself, as I know nothing about the series, but the sheer amount of ire against it probably isn’t going to do it any favours.

Chivalry 2 announced, Early 2020 - coming Early 2020, the first-person medieval combat game is launching first on the Epic Games store, because what isn’t these days? It looks very pretty but otherwise it’s usual Chivalry fare. For the order, indeed.

Midnight Ghost Hunt - One of the most interesting titles for me, it looks reminiscent of Prop Hunt from Garry’s Mod, only now the props can fight back. Having a chair launched at your head seems like it would be a common risk when you’re a Ghostbuster. It looks very interesting and I do hope I get into the alpha when it launches.

Age of Wonders: Planetfall, August 6th - An interesting looking 4X game that has a faction that rides dinosaurs, which means I’m down already. I have a love for 4X games and this one seems to be a bit more action-packed than most. Definitely one to check out, once I can meet the price tag.

Valfaris, 2019 - A heavy metal infused platformer is one of those things that seems so simple in hindsight that you wonder why it hasn’t been properly done before. The trailer looks decidedly old school and appropriately exciting. The pixel art style looks great and it looks like it’s going to have a cracking soundtrack.

Songs of Conquest - Another game that deeply interests me because of its similarity to the Heroes of Might and Magic series - which is currently being mishandled by Ubisoft. The trailer has a weird poem/song being read over it, which was unexpected, but it looks very promising.

Maneater - Truly, who wouldn’t want to be a giant shark? Maneater appears to give us that opportunity, with a trailer full of shark destruction. Just an announcement at the moment but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look fun.

Ubisoft

Watch Dogs: Legion, March 6th 2020 - The new Watch_Dogs set in Blighty has a name and a man with a pig mask on. It opens with a shot of Big Ben too, so you know it’s London. It’s also post-Brexit too by the looks of it, given how everything has broken down. The narration is also perfectly British. ‘It’s all gone a bit shit’, is something I’d say. While I’m not a great lover of the franchise, the setting and narration are making me a lot more interested. Plus it features an old woman with a sailor’s mouth and a pistol.

Rainbow Six Quarantine, Early 2020 - In a not-so-strange move, Rainbow Six has gone cooperative again. More strange is that it’s trying to be a horror game, having you and two friends fighting against a mutated alien parasite that infects human hosts. Apparently it will give an unpredictable player-versus-enemy experience, which makes me wonder if it’s a bit like Left 4 Dead’s AI director. We’ll see.

Gods & Monsters, February 25 2020 - An interesting title that gives absolutely nothing away. It’s set in Greek mythology as you fight mythological creatures to save Greek Gods. It looks bloody beautiful but we have no idea what it actually is.

Square Enix

Oninaki, August 22 - There wasn’t much Square Enix-wise that interested me but Oninaki caught my eye. It looks fantastic for one thing. The story also has some interesting notes, being about someone who ushers in ‘Lost Souls’ into the next world. Combat looks fun too, very fast paced and, once again, very pretty.

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers - While I’m not really a fan of the series, I can’t really just skip past Square Enix’s flagship series. Not knowing anything about XIV, the trailer doesn’t give away too much but it does look remarkably pretty. Watch and see for yourself.

Dragon Quest Builders 2, July 12 - Only played the demo of the first one, but it was interesting. A blend of Dragon Quest and Minecraft, of all things; it all worked rather well. The sequel is bigger and better too, as the very excitable man yells at us in the trailer. While the art style has always struck me as a little creepy, and the narration isn’t doing that any favours, the core gameplay is interesting. You can build things, craft things and hit things. Plus, cars! A demo comes out on June 27th.

Nintendo

Breath of the Wild is getting a sequel - Breath of the Wild set the world on fire, so it was only natural. Less natural is the seeming darker tone of the sequel, which the series has occasionally delved into. As a fan of darker tones, I’m all about this. Hey, maybe I should actually play more of the original.

Luigi’s Mansion 3, This Year - I loved Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, so I’m happy to step back into the shoes of the world’s best Ghostbuster. He’s invited to a hotel, which looks nice but quickly gets full of ghosts. Gameplay seems broadly the same, with a few new moves. You can slam ghosts around as well as fire plungers. And of course, there’s ‘Gooigi’. He’s made of Goo. Why? God knows. It’s professor Egad after all. It does make for co-op, however.

Fire emblem: Three Houses, July 26th - The latest in the Fire Emblem series marches on to the Switch this summer. The story trailer shows old school friends going at it, against their wishes, by the looks of it. It’s all extremely anime. No actual gameplay yet, but I imagine it’ll be usual Fire Emblem fare.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons, March 20th 2020 - This one turned a few heads, being the premier chill-out video game series of all time. New Horizons looks fantastic, and high definition Tom Nook is still fleecing you for every penny you have. You can relax in a tent and craft up tools to help you change your island getaway into an island paradise.

Empire of Sin, 2020 - For a complete change of tone, we have Empire of Sin. Set in 1920s Chicago, you can probably guess what you’re going to be doing. It’s a strategy game where you carve out your own criminal empire, fighting back other bosses while you do so. It looks interesting and comes with turn based combat for when you need to get your hands dirty. I can’t wait to use those Tommy guns.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, November 11th - There’s a lot of potential in Star Wars games and Fallen Order certainly looks the part. Just moving around looks entertaining before you get to all of the lightsaber and force power stuff. Of course, your enemies are about as accurate as they usually are but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look fun.

Sims 4: Island living, June 21st - Sims 4 has come out with its new big pack which features things such as Mermaids. They make actual dolphin-esque squeaks, which is rather unnerving. My other half has been playing it and it does look rather fun, if seeing mermaids lounge in the bath is your kind of thing.

That’s all for this year’s E3. Join me in July to see what kind of fallout we’ll be getting from these announcements!

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