@perpetual-moti
Amateur writer and full-time bird just trying to get by. Genderqueer, He/They, Ace, ΘΔ. I write a web novel about emotionally distressed ex-humans! Check it out here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98840/transliterated-xenofiction-isekai
I adore how all the pokemon made up of multiple individuals in this game will occasionally get dialog from specific members of the unit like this. It makes them way more interesting knowing that they'll just hold conversations amongst themselves sometimes.
Pokémon Pokopia is somehow one of the most species affirming games I’ve ever played because you’re repeatedly asked the question “are you actually human?” and are allowed to truthfully answer “no” and have that encouraged and reaffirmed by everyone you meet. Weird how that works.
Average Bluesky staff meeting
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What type of gym leader should you be? Normal type Pokemon.
You know, yeah. That tracks.
i kinda miss cohost
It’s something I have a rather confusing experience with, since I write post-tf character drama stuff and am completely asexual, but I’ll often find my work shared or bookmarked by people who otherwise almost exclusively engage with NSFW stuff. I take it as a compliment, but I really don’t get it.
peer into the void of my soul /pos
It was, actually. Or at least, it was very narrowly avoided. There was that one time they turned into lobsters to hide in a supermarket tank, got bought and taken home and stuck in a pot to boil. They had to traumatize the poor woman just trying to make a fancy dinner to escape.
Fantastic writeups from Doc here, and I'm super glad to find someone who shares my exact opinion on Dragon's Dogma 2. For all the narrative shortcomings of the game, it sets up the themes of its finale masterfully and really nails that final bit.
Happy 30th Threshold! I love you so much!!!!! Thank you for changing my life!!!
I know I'm already well past the "I'll make it myself" stage of this, but that doesn't mean I'm not still sad about how few stories I read with that premise really go for the existential xenofiction angle of it all.
"Clean and happy TF," is fine, but I live for continued struggles in the aftermath.
I need to find more "human turned into something else" stories with a serious xenofiction bent. I need humans reckoning with alien mentalities of other species and contemplate their own identity as their instincts and thought processes and body image clashes and struggles to mesh with something new.
An underrated feature of Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom: Putting on a monster mask, getting into Creature Stance, and going to hang out with the girls:
Silent Hill F, and SH3, for that matter, are a different beast entirely from guilt-centric horror narratives. In those stories, the horrors are an injustice that the protagonist overcomes through self-empowerment, not punishments for past misdeeds.
This kind of horror narrative, sadly, is rarer.
Like, Silent Hill 2 is great and all, but there’s not much you can do following in its footsteps thematically without retreading well-trodden ground.
This is specifically why I adore horror segments in otherwise non-horror games you get to indulge in the fear and tension and stress, maybe a bit of psychoanalysis of the protagonist, without having to drown an entire game in something extremely trite like “man is punished by ghosts for his sins.”
The Sunk Cost Fallacy's strongest soldiers.
Knuckles x Dale x Sandslash
something that i think is incredible about cave story is that the first third of the game is pretty straightforward, you've got clear motivation the whole time, a villain you're trying to foil, the recurring miniboss squad who you beat every time, but then you're too slow and everything goes wrong
Loved fighting this thing in NieR. It's name was Marx. Then they stuck two of them together as the arms of a combining mecha with a literal factory as the body and got a robot named Engels.
Yoko Taro knows writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
Whatever the hell we as the player have going on with Kris is already extremely plural coded between the alternating bodily control and the dialog options, so I could absolutely see this.
“That little guy’s still healthy, huh?”
“Yep!”
“…You’ve had that opossum for like four or five years, right?”
“Yeah?”
“And it was an adult when you adopted it?”
“Yes. What are you getting at?”
“Did you know that the average lifespan of an opossum is three years, even in captivity?”
“…Fuck.”
It makes me feel bad for being asexual, tbh. I don’t have anything going for me that could ever be considered freaky, so I’m stuck reinforcing the status quo and feeling left out at the same time.
It is what it is, I guess. Nothing anyone can do about it.
Shoutout to @patstaresat.bsky.social for recently having one of the funniest introductions to a playing a surprise game on stream I've ever seen. (The game itself is also great, go play it!)
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Of course, the thing that made that work was that Boat Time in God of War was filled with characters just chatting about random things as they traveled, fleshing them out more. Samus can't really do that.
I think specifically around the time development would have been rebooted on this, God of War (2018) was an extremely prominent example of a blockbuster game with an rather barren hub zone that required a vehicle to traverse and was sprinkled with a bunch of tiny optional things.
I'm not "supposed" to be able to do it on my own, but I don't have a choice. It's just the hand life dealt me.
