the end of #guildwars2 secrets of the obscure was awful. i hope anet knows how limp that whole expansion was. good lord.
i wish there was a game that was as fun to play to me as gw2 is, but unfortunately there isnt so i just have to choke down whatever boring content they feed us.
@socks At its core, I think the appeal is the combination of fast reaction tests to keep speed up, and flinging yourself blindly into dangerous situations.
I personally think Freedom Planet perfected the Sonic formula by simply removing contact damage from enemies; as long as you maintain a high speed, you are past enemy encounters without having to engage, which rewards moving fast rather than punishing it.
Told one of my normie semi-friend co-workers that Friday would be my last day at work, and he gave me his Steam info for gaming and keeping in touch. My profile page on Steam is much more sanitized than here, buuuut... I'm still furry trash, I'm not going to hide games in my library, and I'm kinda looking forward to the, "Uh, Desiree? What is [insert smutty furry TF VN here]?" conversation if it comes up? :mouse_blob_peek:
@Astia I mean, of course it isn't likely, but at the same time, I'm the sort of person who speculates about and rehearses future potential social interactions as a way to relieve social anxiety. The odds that those scenarios I build up in my head will be useful is close to nil, but having done that prep gives my brain something to latch onto as a way to feel more capable and let go of some of the anxiety.
@pixel Cannot get my computer to boot at all anymore, let alone to an external device, and the motherboard battery is hiding beneath the video card enclosure, and I am completely out of spoons for this tonight. Thank you for the help, I will try to tackle this again tomorrow.
Long time no see, Mastodon! Who's ready for an old-fashioned #TFtuesday post? This week's featured artist is Carousel Cat, who has a fantastic art style that is clearly anime-inspired, but which goes a step further to be distinct in its own right.
So... kinda fishing for general anecdotes, thoughts, and advice from the #otherkin, #therian, and #furry communities (though anyone else is of course free to chime in with thoughts and opinions).
I really only came into identifying as a furry roughly seven or eight months ago, and designing my 'sona was a lot of time and effort spent on introspection and expressing myself in a way that felt right and natural to me.
More recently, over the past three or so months, I've been having occassional feelings of proprioception ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception ) associated with non-existent parts of my body that would correspond to my 'sona: mouse-like ears, muzzle with whiskers, a tail, etc. My partners have been supportive of exploring this, which has been really, really affirming... and also leaving me a fair bit confused about identity and label issues.
I am not typically a spiritual person, but even so, I'm open to all perspectives on this. Thanks for reading, boosts always appreciated.
@pixel Oh, I completely agree with respect to self-perception. And I totally get being satisfied with "This makes me comfortable and feels good, so why explore it further?". But at the end of the day, I have been exploring myself a lot lately, and this is a new avenue of exploration for me, so I want to follow it and see where it leads me, I suppose.
@desiree hey friend I pinged u on discord a few days ago but I just wanted to check in, I remembered you posting you weren't doing well so I just wanted to see if you were holding up and doing alright 💕
@pixel Sorry I didn't reply at the time; life has been busy and hectic and I just haven't been on the internet lately. Things are... less rough these days. Doingy best, though.
B (not his real name) is a flake. He gets off on the fantasy of being an abused boyfriend. He's exploited by his extended family in un-horny ways. We've chatted off and on for over a decade, and met only a few times out of many potential rendezvous. I've given up on him several times. He still randomly messages me anyway, because he's 56 and has never sucked anyone else's cock. A lot of the time I just leave him on read, which feeds into his scenarios anyway. 1/
@gray17 Not really my kind of scene, but I really enjoyed your write-up. It was pleasant to have an earnest window into this other life at an interesting and complex--if hopeful--moment in time. Thank you for sharing.
today in #twine porn, I'm procrastinating on writing three interrelated cruel sex endings by thinking more about "already seen".
the limited form of seen-marking is working pretty well, I think it improves playability quite a bit, but it doesn't help the problem of "it's hard to know if I've playtested every meaningful path".
so I'm thinking of adding a milestone system. initial version will be only for playtesting, because it's going to be hard to make it work well for players.
It also isn't necessarily a purely playtesting thing; a lot of VNs track how many routes the player has seen, and after the first playthrough, provides a way to visualize and more easily re-explore other variants. A checkpoint system like this could be tweaked to store which checkpoints were hit on a given playthrough and track player progression through various permutations.
Hey Fediverse GMs! Players always get excited about talking about their favorite PCs they've played, but I want to hear about your favorite NPCs you've run. Be it the big bad, the goblin your party adopted, or the streetcorner florist who had one small moment, let's share those imaginary people that stuck with us.