Leigh

the world if FFVI had the cultural impact that FFVII has in ours

hollowbel the forest fairy in doll vessel form.

a peaceful mossy creek hidden within a human city.

dollowbel

😌

I almost also did this but had an even older name to go by that I'd chosen as a kid, so it won out

speed wizard reporting in

WOW HOLY CRAP THIS IS AWESOME

I mean your form not being trapped, being trapped is awful! let her out!!!

I'm also interested in salon recs :3

Individually, a person who plays fighting games may have a bunch of different complicated nuanced motivations and emotions that are served by different parts of the fighting game experience — not limited to the game itself on their console, but the broader journey of mastery and connectivity. The high-minded ideal FGC stuff I mentioned above is real and does exist! It just doesn’t exist enough to sell the millions of copies that go into funding the next Street Fighter or Tekken. At scale, building and selling games as a service looks a lot more like making a theme park or a casino, where you have customers entering at a given point, you give them choices on what kind of experience they can have in your game, and you give them clear signs and paths to choose from in order to make it easy for them. In the above section, we established that people play video games because they want to feel something specific. It’s a brief moment of agency in a day where you were otherwise probably at the mercy of some stupid bullshit at your job, or at school, or in your family, or on the bus, or whatever. We spend most of our day pushing the boulder up, and the brief moment of rest we get is choosing the video game we play in between eating dinner and going to sleep, where we get to act like the person we imagine ourselves to be as the boulder rolls back down the hill.

"Why ranked sucks and we can't get rid of it"

Wrote about how fighting games rely on ranked matchmaking to retain players even though it often makes the experience worse. Read this to learn about friction, addiction, motivation, and how you can Ranked responsibly.

www.patreon.com/posts/152427...

immortalizing Slashh Madtough here

lash seems like if "ggs shake my hand" was a guy

trans people are amazing it turns out!!!!!

Yeah, mine too. Had to pull myself away to get ready for RCR lmao

shoutouts to having an xrd local again. not only do I get to play peak in person on the regular, I also get to hang out with all my awesome and gorgeous friends 😌😌😌

seriously. whole squad is SO hot. it rules.

selkie bc I think the darker green and denser tail add more to the character design

you're doing important work my friend

Oh fuck yeah!! That's fuckin amazing!

Whatever else happens with sts2, I feel good about supporting the efforts of netrunner players 😌

brackets are the thief of joy and create so many awful feelings for no reason

StS2 having a netrunner card in it makes me more willing to play it because I fuck with anyone who has played enough netrunner to make a reference like this

nintendo sending players post purchase surveys asking "why does it look like this?"

chipp moment sadly. take care of yourself, dear genin o7

okay but how else are you gonna build tokyo-3

no need to get up, herododicus always makes sure the people of the future know that the sultan had an ass fat as the sun and wider than the Gyre itself

DUSTBOWL TONIGHT!!!

not much, what's magnolia with you

"Why haven't fighting games died yet?"

I wrote about the unique strengths of the fighting game genre that have allowed fighting games to survive multiple generations of evolution intact, and why you didn't fall in love with a product. Warning: This is a long one.

www.patreon.com/posts/152148...

sesame street is goated as usual, this is so cute

got to explain the origin of "roguelike" to my boss yesterday for real work reasons. new job still going great, internet 😌

I think you underestimate the joy humans find in sorting things properly. being able to categorize and sort is one of the hallmarks of advanced cognition that lets us do all the fancy shit we do with our brains!

AWWW YAYYYY IT'S OUR BOYS

spring breakers OT3 forever

yeah! I'm mostly motivated by knowing at least one of my newbies has been getting games in RRC and a Seattle player having to get games in the EU server is very silly