i have a lot of earnest love for the cast from HSS all the way through the first Luofu visit but it's completely tempered by the knowledge that most of them don't really matter

part of why i dumpstered HSR is that i realized it was doing this super egregiously during Penacony, already a fairly bad arc to begin with, and i've never been back

except, of course, to appear for like five minutes in a future filler event so people who've latched onto them can come crashing back into the game, only to swiftly vacate because the event itself exists to shill a character design they cooked up for a previous arc but never got to use.

i feel like people who don't play games using The Mihoyo Formula realize how miserable it is for a story. when you need to hash out like 10~ or so characters every new arc, you basically end up with a bunch of personalities written on a card that're swiftly discarded once the current arc ends.

"you should aspire to a format where you can only give like 3-4 characters focus because you need to burn through a gristmill of new characters to make money, and structure the entire plot around this" isn't quite sage advice

viewing games entirely through a metric of "success" and "failure" is how you get brain poisoning that makes you pretend things like the Mihoyo approach to games - which is almost anti-art in how destructive it is - is at all desirable

before Haam and Maah, my brain would be like "okay. two days no seroquel. let's craft an escape plan where you ignite all your relationships and disappear into the void".

after Haam and Maah, my brain instead says "okay. what if they went to space and met alien equivalents to dollies."

i don't have time to spiral i need to think about Haam and Maah going on dungeon crawler adventures, but their "enemies" have 0HP and the goal is to raise their Happiness Points so they stop feeling bad

normnally at this point in No Meds i would be freaking out, stress-eating by the gallon and generally just feeling terrible

fortunately, my rabbits + my two imaginary friends have kept that from happening. i hug the former, and imagine the latter going on little adventures

:)

i just need to hang on until Friday for my meds refill

<---- barely hanging on

future venison

holy SHIT

117~ here and same.

i never even paid money for Starbound (i got a key from the dev via Reddit AMA before it went into closed beta) but whenever i think about it i get an overwhelming feeling of "i want my money back"

real fucking videogames

i'm glad the sale goes until may bc i REALLY want to hop on this expeditiously

little man is chuffed :)

i had more fun with the 2-3hrs i spent on the demo than i have out of basically every similar game not named Monster Train 2 or card-en-ciel, so

and that demo is still up!

god. please. i'd hop onboard their dumb crossovers to make Harm do /sossyroll

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it came out today, even

vampire crawlers!

incredibly good draw on my first ever run of the detail version

serial killer eyes, the most nakedly artificial smile i've ever seen in my life, and he has the same cadence of a finance bro (but one who's failed at it and knows this)

i absolutely believe you i'm just ungodly stingy when it comes to recurring bills lmao

i'll probably never buy a dropout sub but every clip i see of Game Changer involves Sam Reich being an absolute charisma reactor, which makes Jimothy D. Beast's utter inability to have any charisma whatsoever stand out even more

[ear-piercing hiss]

can you imagine looking up to a guy who you would've bullied on the playground for struggling to say a word as simple as "literally" if he were your age? horrifying

the most fascinating takeaway from both of those Folding Ideas videos is... how did mrbeast ever take off when he has worse oration skills than a 6yo telling you how cool roblox is

"what about Suery and Bura Bu" i never actually finished their unique movesets so i relegated them to the secondary characters folder in shame despite being, you know, Miri and Aina's wives

here come some special girls...