Reblabble Town

I've seen visual novels unexpectedly swerve into famously beginner-hostile genres like top-down shoot-'em-ups, and I've seen precision puzzle platformers swerve into visual novels, but I've never seen a visual novel swerve into a precision puzzle platformer, which feels like a conspicuous omission. Like, you thought you were going to do some light reading, maybe see some titty? Fuck you – do this Kaizo Mario thing or no titties for you.

…Somebody please elaborate on this, I need to hear this argument.

Yay, thank you!

You know how medieval villages near disused Roman aqueducts would just gradually dismantle the aqueduct for worked stone rather than quarry their own? I want to play a tabletop RPG with a classic shitty-little-village-with-ancient-ruins-under-it dungeon crawling setup that's basically that. You're not going down there to loot gold and magic swords: you're looking for pieces of sorcerous infrastructure you can pry loose and repurpose to meet the village's everyday needs. Give me the fantasy equivalent of those rural English taverns that don't have indoor plumbing but do have flatscreen TVs.

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

The real reason some of y'all have trouble figuring out what a precision puzzle platformer is is that, checklists of tropes notwithstanding, the real definition is "games which are in creative dialogue with Maddy Thorson's Jumper (2004)", and none of you have played Jumper.

It's not "incorrect" to treat tabletop RPG character creation as a guided OC creation tool – heck, it's not even novel; the first published tabletop RPG to explicitly frame character creation as a standalone solo minigame came out in like 1977 – but you do need to recognise that each character creation system is tuned to produce a very particular Type of Guy. Yes, even the ostensibly "generic" ones. This isn't a flaw – obviously you want character creation for a game to strongly push people toward creating characters who are both willing and able to participate in the things the game in question is about – but it's something to be aware of when using tabletop RPGs in this way. If you're trying to use Dungeons & Dragons as a creative framework for a character who would never under any circumstances voluntarily go into a dungeon to fight a dragon, you're gonna have a rough time!

Based on the present contents of my dash, this week's relationship goals are a snarky witch and/or disgraced medical doctor with alt-with-a-hint-of-goth fashion sense who's older than you by just enough to make her hooking up with you a little bit eyebrow-raising and regards making you take unlabelled drugs as a bonding activity.

(For the "okay, this one is so oddly specific it can't be vagueing a broad trend" crowd, joke's on you: I've got Fields of Mistria, Tactical Breach Wizards, and an inexplicable resurgence of Persona 5 thirstposting on my dash as we speak – though I'll grant the age gap in the last one is more than just a little bit eyebrow-raising!)

there really is an xkcd for everything, huh

One of my favourite things in urban fantasy literature is when an author clearly likes the idea of wizard boarding school drama, but wants to avoid getting any Harry Potter stink on them and tries to accomplish that by simply bluntly inverting all the stuff they regard as problematic, and in so doing independently reinvents the X-Men.

Soulslike where as you complete various objectives it gradually becomes clear that your camp is accumulating conspicuously barefoot level up maidens.

Each has her own distinct advancement paradigm which would offer some truly disgusting cross-class builds, except how well they synergise depends on their relationship levels with each other rather than with you. Advanced buildcraft thus obliges you to play level up maiden matchmaker.

Each level up maiden also functions as the primary equipment vendor for her advancement paradigm's respective "class"; you begin to suspect that at least some of them are slanting the upgrades they offer in order to encourage you to put on specific clothing.

you know it's actually weirder that Fromsoft hasn't released this exact game yet.

Hidetaka Miyazaki isn't the right kind of pervert.

Tagging every drawing where an artist depicts two of their own OCs fucking as #selfcest on the basis that some theorists argue that all of the characters we create are in at least some respect a picture of the self, so, you know, ontologically

Canadian bilingual packaging is fun because you get to see how various slightly odd idioms end up being translated by people who don't give a shit. I just saw a tub of double chocolate chip ice cream where the English label says "death by chocolate", but the French translates literally as "chocolate until death", which has a somewhat different vibe.

Canadian bilingual packaging is fun because you get to see how various slightly odd idioms end up being translated by people who don't give a shit. I just saw a tub of double chocolate chip ice cream where the English label says "death by chocolate", but the French translates literally as "chocolate until death", which has a somewhat different vibe.

im not fucking joking i just found a women want me fish fear me hat on the ground

have you guys heard about cats

they go meow btw. not that you care

I care very much, keep going

ok so get this they have ears that go △