#venting?

I wish people would be fucking decent to therians when they’re out in public. Just today I saw a video from my city/hometown which someone took of one of my therian friends out in public, and they posted it saying “[X city] is cooked”

you filmed a child without their knowledge or consent. That’s fucking weird and creepy and isn’t any more acceptable because the kid is wearing a tail. I’m so glad my friend was also wearing a mask in the vid because it’s got like, 100K views.

For systems grossly underqualified

until it’s a male. why has society dumbed itself down into thinking that males can’t cry? crying is a natural human response, and being expected to “not cry” just because of your gender, is stupid as fuck.

“why are you crying over the smallest things?”

Like, I know there's a whole lot of bad in my country right now, and it's not all right, but there's a whole lot of good, too, and I dont think that good deserves to go unnoticed and unrecognized in the presence of the bad

subnautica 2 the creatures..

not a fan, i'ma be honest

now i'm not sure how much this makes sense, but compared to the first subnautica games they feel less "authentically weird"

the creature that made me realize this was the sandspear i was already familiar with the sandspear before the game came out, i've seen the concept art for i think it was subnautica below zero??

i can't remember, but the point is that it was a concept originally for the first games

but then compare it to what's in subnautica 2..

the concept feels like in the style of the first games, so let's just use it as a base for this

the first game is authentically weird, it feels like it doesn't exist for the viewing of the player, just feels like an animal that happens to look kinda funky

but in the second game.. it feels like it was engineered to be weird, like they're actively trying to be "HEY THIS IS WEIRD AND FUNKY, LOOK AT IT!"

now i'm FULLY aware that.. these are creature designs made by humans, even if they seem more natural they're designed to be looked at, to invoke something but the point is that in my opinion.. the first games sold the illusion of authentic weirdness better

for more examples of creatures that don't feel "authentic", there is the collector leviathan and the great jaw leviathan

the collector cause.. *Gestures* it's just Cthulhu, and the great jaw cause of the eyes.. it would've been so much better without the eyes

there are more but i feel these in particular are like top tier offenders in my opinion

for exmaples of creatures that do feel "authentic" in the first games, the crab squid and the reefback leviathan

i can't quite pinpoint what about these feels more authentic, they just do, they don't feel like they exist solely for your viewing pleasure.. and can't really explain it

now just to be clear, i'm aware some of this is likely down to nostalgia so let me mention some creatures from the first game that don't feel "authentic"

the crashfish to i'm pretty sure nobody's surprise, and the reaper leviathan

the old games aren't perfect by any means, but i feel a higher percentage of them feel "authentically weird"

now, i don't want all of this to be negative, so i will give the new game some credit where it's due