Every few years I pick up Pillars of Eternity 2 again. It's still one of my favourite games of all time due to its detailed and mature approach to worldbuilding and multi-faction intrigue. Anyway here's something silly I drew in 2019 and never posted for some reason!
Since the world first begun, I was never once seen, Tho’ ev’ry one knows, in their presence I’ve been. No sooner I’m born than I give a loud cry, And your noses inform you, I presently die.
A Fart.
Apollo 15 (1971), mementos left on lunar surface to commerate fallen astronauts
problem: bluetooth mouse stopped working in the middle of a game of solitaire! time to look for solutions on the internet.
first: "try fucking with ur bluetooth settings!!" no dice, it says it's "paired" but the bluetooth is "turned off" (author's note: no it Was Not.)
next: "oopsies, maybe ur drivers r bad?? see if windows needs a update!!! ♡" oh hey look at that i guess it does! let's update it then.
but: "ruh roh!! windows did a fucky-wucky!!!! can't finish update, maybe try searching the internet for this reason why: *string of numbers and letters*" ...okay, let's look that up. oh, it says it's something about not being able to download the update packet? that's weird. it said it downloaded 100% of the update, but it keeps stalling out at 20% through installing it. and restarting my computer doesn't help. um. it says here i can manually download and install the update though? let's try that?
and then: the update i downloaded won't manually install either. i don't know why.
to recap: my mouse stopped working and my computer says it's the bluetooth, but i can't fuck with my bluetooth settings because windows isn't updated all the way, and when i try to update it, it can't for Some Reason.
and so: apoplectic rage (exacerbated by the fact that this whole time i've been troubleshooting this horseshit i've had to alternate between using my keyboard and my spare mouse, the Shittiest Mouse in the Universe, to navigate around my computer/the internet)
solution: go to the store and buy a new, usb fucking god damn mouse
Okay. Reblog this and tag with a numerical response for how many of these artists you listen to. It’s stereotypical “tumblr user” music.
- Lemon Demon
- Tally Hall
- Death Grips
- Jack Stauber
- Mr Bungle
- King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
- Devo
- Oingo Boingo
- Aquabats
- Weird Al
- My Chemical Romance
- 100gecs
- Talking Heads
- They Might Be Giants
- Mitski
- Girl In Red
#being generous: 8#being conservative: 6#i have listened to and enjoyed lemon demon and the talking heads#but i don't listen to them regularly#unlike mr bungle and king gizzard and devo and oingo boingo and weird al and tmbg (who i love dearly)#honorable mention to death grips and the aquabats (heard a little bit; not bad i guess)#dishonorable mention to mitski (heard a little bit; don't want to hear more)
" 13 - Death"
Custom commissioned tarot card for client on Twitter
I believe you have said that if Obsidian made Pillars of Eternity 3, you would probably push for it to be full 3D rather than 3D characters on 2D maps. If that happened, would you allow full rotation of the camera or continue designing the maps for a fixed perspective ? It seems to me that this limitation, when you know how to work with it, can be really helpful to clarify exploration and combat.
I would probably use a fixed perspective with scripted sequences that break the common convention. As a player, I don't really like playing with the camera as an element of gameplay, especially in "iso" view games. It's okay in close 3rd person, but in a Pillars-style view, I think it just makes busywork for the player to find the things that the designer hid (intentionally or unintentionally) because they can't design for a fixed perspective.
However, I do think there's a benefit to the designers and artists scripting a change in camera perspective for specific sequences when it makes dramatic/artistic/gameplay sense. If you want the player to go around a long curve, you can script the camera to rotate around the terrain as the player moves the camera's position. You can even change the FoV, pitch, etc.
In the end, I think that designers and artists create the best experiences for players (in terms of performance, gameplay, and vibes) when they design for a "known" camera, not one that the player can (and often must) rotate manually.
#this isn't really what's being discussed here but#my first thought when i read 'scripted perspective change' was a cutscene from final fantasy tactics#wherein two characters are talking and one very strongly implies that he knows the other killed his own father#and at the end of the scene the camera rotates 180°#and reveals the patricidal character's good-hearted but narrow-minded brother on the other side of the door listening in#i always really loved that#anyway yearning for a fft-style turn-based strategy game set in eora while weeping and gnashing my teeth forever
Hello friends and please behold my own personal masterpiece, an as-comprehensive-as-I-could-make-it "Which character are you?" quiz for Pentiment with thirty-six different possible results.
Please be warned that there are spoilers for the game within, in both the structure of the quiz and some of the descriptions in the results! That said, I have poured a lot into this and I am so curious to see what results people get, so I would love if folks gave it a look.
for added context, here's exactly what the ttrpg says about these special abilities:
(not sure the exact measurements of a hex; Death March is an aging mechanic and characters with a Death March score of 10 or higher are considered Pretty Old and usually infirm)
my homunculus just wasted like $60 in ink printing out all these fucking soyjack edits of me. how about 'that feel when i dont feed you for a week' you little asshole
I don’t know what’s going on here but I’m in
girls night
holy shit your new icon is SO CUTE
tee hee thank u ♡ i drew a cute lil axa and vaargys some time ago, and i wanted to change up my header and title so i figured i'd change my pfp too! i've posted them before but here they are again because they are p cute and i like showing off:
I wish wizards were real so bad imagine coming out of a wal mart and seeing some guy with long robes and a big hat in the parking lot surrounded by wacky particle effects screaming some shit like "By the moon and the starlight, by the shield and the sword, I summon to me, my Honda Accord!" And then just getting into his car and driving off
Not incorrect!
party per chevron offset argent and tenné, a kittycat sinister rampant sable.
accidentally clicked on r/frugal and this is the top post and i’m losing my mind
