Design of me and my friends as slugcats. Various details that are not justified by the plot of the game are present only because these are the distinctive features of our OC :P
What the Heck is a mushroom?Well let me tell you… its like a plant… but stop right there…Its not a plant… its nota planet and not an animal.. Its something else… Something fucked up that we havnt ever seen before… You can eat it on a steak but its not an animal or a plant… So what is a mushrom? Its a fungits
Too tired to draw but I still need everyone to be aware of this bizarre interaction I had at work this morning
Worth mentioning is that I’m in Iceland and the store I work at only accepts icelandic króna so like even euros wouldn’t have worked in this case
On the one hand I refuse to defend Americans and this behavior is kind of embarrassing but on the other hand dumbasses enraging Europeans by not caring even a little bit about their funny little currencies is absolutely hilarious so I’m conflicted here
I think I’ve decided it’s time to topple the dollar as a world standard
I propose we switch to Chilean Peso
I think we should go back to harvesting seashells
I can’t do this anymore I am seriously at my limit here
Idk I’m in full support of forcing the English to accept my green construction paper
Could you do me a quick favour and point out where England is on this map?
Everyday I check Bisan and Motaz’s posts, the comments are full of people saying variations of, “we love you! you’ve changed the world! you’ll go down in history!” and there’s nothing wrong with that, necessarily. however, I wish people would think about what Palestinian reporters actually want from people when they post about what’s happening. I can’t imagine its a consolation to motaz or bisan or any Palestinian reporter trying to survive their people’s genocide that they will go down in history. They didn’t ask for any of this. It’s not pity or consolation or premature eulogising about how they’ve made history that they want. Palestinians need whatever emotion you feel harnessed into action. Yes, leave a comment to boost Palestine content against these Zionist algorithms, but be mindful of the comments you’re leaving. Be mindful that you aren’t relegating living breathing people to the past. Be mindful of the superiority that might be underpinning your pity. And above all, prioritise ACTION. go to protests, call your politicians, sign petitions, donate if you can, keep paying attention, and demanding action. You serve no one with pity. You serve no one by acting like the future is already history. Anyone who cares about Palestine has a duty to do everything they can to help Palestinians gain the freedom to live their lives.
The bullet hell minigame style battle window in undertale and deltarune occupies a very similar narrative role to the songs in a musical film and would translate very elegantly to such, does anyone understand what I mean
Yes! They further the narrative and flesh out the characters through sequences of nonliteral imagery, and often these communicate things the literal side of the work could not have expressed as easily, just as a musical character’s singing style reveals facets of their personality
If it were an animated musical, the fight against papyrus would be a symbolic sequence of the main character surviving a zany roller coaster obstacle course of bones while he sings about himself.
This can possibly be said of boss battles in various other games, but most of those take place in what represents a more literal environment. Think of when characters like spamton actually mess with the bullet hell window or break its established laws; what would that even represent without that gameplay format? What “real events” could even capture the impact that’s meant to have? Well, I think that’d be a lot like a villain suddenly interrupting a musical sequence and using the song itself to attack a hero, for instance, breaking the usual division between what’s “real” and “just part of the song.”
AAAAAH I wrote my master’s thesis on this phenomenon and it makes me SO HAPPY to see people talking about it because (at least of 2018 when I was handed my degree) no one in the academic world is TALKING about this and I think its SO IMPORTANT to recognice mechanic design as important to video game art. The closest is Ian Bogost’s theory of Procedural Rhetoric but it always seemed sort of divorced from art and character, and plus I think there are more games now leveraging mechanical design part of the narrative for lack of a better term then when he wrote that theory.
Yeah these games are an extreme example but there’s so much emotion and meaning game mechanics can convey differently from any other medium. The amount of control the player has is important to the story at every moment for example. You can’t do that with anything else.
that halfway stage of oc creation when you’re closing in on the design or the personality or both but the other half of the character’s still a nebulous concept and they don’t even have a name but now they’re alive and they demand to be heard. agonizing
nothing will ever amaze me the way fanfiction authors do. like, you wrote silly little stories about my favorite little guys? and i can read them?? for free??? that’s fucking wild.
you poured your heart and soul and very being into your writing and then put it out there for anyone to read? insane.
you spend a truly incredible amount of time writing novel-length, high quality stories, again, FOR FREE, that anyone can read, again, FOR FREE??
shoutout to every single fic author in existence, you guys are fucking incredible and i love all of you so much
Extremely funny forever how “pee is stored in the balls” got turned into wholesome shit like “love is stored in the cat” or whatever. Like do you guys even realize. The balls
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