JUNE 5TH IS THE DAY IS THE DAY I WILL SEE THE LIGHT OF THE ANGEL’S HEAVEN
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dear fellow Outer Wilds fans,
i know we all like to evangelise about the best game ever made, but when you do so, please don’t advertise it as the bestest, most special, unmatched, life-altering, mind-blowing, thought-shattering experience ever concocted by human hands.
almost every day i see people on the outer wilds subreddit — who maybe have one or two hours in the game — asking why they haven’t seen The Light of God yet, if they are doing something wrong for not having witnessed The Revelation™.
hyperbole aside, setting such extremely high expectations will only hamper the experience of new players. instead of focusing on the game and its mystery, they will wonder when The Big Moment is going to happen, and whether it was already supposed to happen and they just failed to witness it.
when recommending the game, do so without such high praise, so whoever you recommend Outer Wilds to can discover its greatness on their own.
also, can we call games similar to OW "wildlikes" or smth instead of "metroidbrainias" please?
dear fellow Outer Wilds fans,
i know we all like to evangelise about the best game ever made, but when you do so, please don’t advertise it as the bestest, most special, unmatched, life-altering, mind-blowing, thought-shattering experience ever concocted by human hands.
almost every day i see people on the outer wilds subreddit — who maybe have one or two hours in the game — asking why they haven’t seen The Light of God yet, if they are doing something wrong for not having witnessed The Revelation™.
hyperbole aside, setting such extremely high expectations will only hamper the experience of new players. instead of focusing on the game and its mystery, they will wonder when The Big Moment is going to happen, and whether it was already supposed to happen and they just failed to witness it.
when recommending the game, do so without such high praise, so whoever you recommend Outer Wilds to can discover its greatness on their own.
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i made a dumb little animation to understand the basics of aseprite
also, here's only the blast without the intro
(this increases berdly's death per hour count drastically)
fun fact: due to this being a reblog, we now have multiple parallel timelines per minute of him dying. fuck berdly.
You know what fuck the Berdly hate. To celebrate the non-binary blast reaching 5,000 notes, here’s some berdly love effectively breaking the timelines
THIS IS HOW I FIND OUT I HIT 5K??
but fr, the berdman is cool
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for a game that delivers all of its dialogue via text boxes, deltarune’s fan base seems to become strangely (media) illiterate when it comes to Kris’s pronouns.
"i thought their pronouns were for me to decide."
kris is their own person separate from you, the player. also, the game doesn’t give you the option to decide that? every character always uses they/them to refer to kris. that’s like saying kris’s hair colour is for you to decide.
"does it really matter?"
yes, truth matters. especially so when it is (tangentially) plot relevant.
(the same basic principle applies to other characters like frisk, chara, monster kid, etc. too of course)
Ok, I knew about Kris, but I genuinely thought Frisk and Chara were up for interpretation? Or am I misunderstanding? /genq
it has been quite some time since i played undertale, so my knowledge there is admittedly a bit murky.
i guess you could make the argument that since frisk is a stranger in the underground, the monsters only use they/them to refer to them because they don’t know what to actually call them. however, this is the case no matter how close frisk gets with the monsters throughout their journey in the underground. if the intent was truly to have frisk’s pronouns be up to personal interpretation, i feel this should/would have been better communicated to the player.
generally, i think there should be a sufficient reason given in the game as to why the player should view any part of the game’s text as a placeholder before doing so, and i don’t think this is the case with frisk’s pronouns.
chara on the other hand lived in the underground with the monsters and is also only referred to via they/them pronouns. the case there seems pretty clear cut to me.
Undertale is literally set up on purpose to bait and switch you into thinking frisk’s name & gender is up to you and then the plot twist is that it’s not. Did we play the same fucking game or????
i was presenting a possible argument against my position in order to argue against it. i agree with your position.
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for a game that delivers all of its dialogue via text boxes, deltarune’s fan base seems to become strangely (media) illiterate when it comes to Kris’s pronouns.
"i thought their pronouns were for me to decide."
kris is their own person separate from you, the player. also, the game doesn’t give you the option to decide that? every character always uses they/them to refer to kris. that’s like saying kris’s hair colour is for you to decide.
"does it really matter?"
yes, truth matters. especially so when it is (tangentially) plot relevant.
(the same basic principle applies to other characters like frisk, chara, monster kid, etc. too of course)
Ok, I knew about Kris, but I genuinely thought Frisk and Chara were up for interpretation? Or am I misunderstanding? /genq
it has been quite some time since i played undertale, so my knowledge there is admittedly a bit murky.
i guess you could make the argument that since frisk is a stranger in the underground, the monsters only use they/them to refer to them because they don’t know what to actually call them. however, this is the case no matter how close frisk gets with the monsters throughout their journey in the underground. if the intent was truly to have frisk’s pronouns be up to personal interpretation, i feel this should/would have been better communicated to the player.
generally, i think there should be a sufficient reason given in the game as to why the player should view any part of the game’s text as a placeholder before doing so, and i don’t think this is the case with frisk’s pronouns.
chara on the other hand lived in the underground with the monsters and is also only referred to via they/them pronouns. the case there seems pretty clear cut to me.
for a game that delivers all of its dialogue via text boxes, deltarune’s fan base seems to become strangely (media) illiterate when it comes to Kris’s pronouns.
"i thought their pronouns were for me to decide."
kris is their own person separate from you, the player. also, the game doesn’t give you the option to decide that? every character always uses they/them to refer to kris. that’s like saying kris’s hair colour is for you to decide.
"does it really matter?"
yes, truth matters. especially so when it is (tangentially) plot relevant.
(the same basic principle applies to other characters like frisk, chara, monster kid, etc. too of course)
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i made a dumb little animation to understand the basics of aseprite
also, here's only the blast without the intro
(this increases berdly's death per hour count drastically)
fun fact: due to this being a reblog, we now have multiple parallel timelines per minute of him dying. fuck berdly.
What did bro do? Is he just Ben Shapiro but for autistic people?
nah, he’s just annoying and a bit obnoxious (the gravest sin a fictional character can commit). personally i think he’s somewhat endearing and a generally interesting character once you get to know him better.
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(this probably should've been a reblog instead, but the above comment was made on this other animation of mine)
