Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@InspectorCaracal AND. UNLIKE SKYRIM. your horses won't run off without you to kill something. AND if your horse dies you can go revive it at a special shrine. but honestly none of mine have died yet.

the one black mark against botw is there are dogs and you cannot pet them. but you can feed them treats and then they follow you around happily or maybe show you where some treasure is, so it all works out

@InspectorCaracal after all, the environments are basically "the kingdom got all but wiped out 100 years ago, so now there are lots of ruins. but there are still villages, and even in the ruins you can see how nature is rising up to reclaim them, and life goes on." there's that line of like... comfort yet loneliness, loneliness yet comfort in it all.

also you get a hang glider which means climbing up shit and jumping off is fucking rad

also you can tame horses

@InspectorCaracal IT'S A REALLY FUCKING GOOD GAME.

gameplay wise like. i never really understood people who were all "omg i can play skyrim for HOURS" because it quickly loses its shine for me.

breath of the wild tho.

botw is what skyrim wants to be when it grows up. they have done really canny gameplay shit to make exploring be addictive and rewarding.

also there's this sort of... quiet melancholy to it all that's very tender and emotional.

@InspectorCaracal is it majora's mask where you're stuck in a time loop trying to get the moon to not crash into the earth? i think so

anyway, link is screaming at the moon At This Moment

@InspectorCaracal honestly the awful fic idea is already tied to the moon cycle, which in-game means every time there's a full moon all the enemies respawn and the princess is all LINK WATCH OUT

i feel like between that and majora's mask, the inevitable conclusion is that a small elf muscle twink goes out to scream at the moon a la https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA

@InspectorCaracal see this is the first one i've played and it literally starts with him waking up in a bathtub of healy goop 100 years after he tried to defend all of hyrule and couldn't quite hack it, so got chucked in magic healy juice after being 99.9999% of the way dead,

and now wakes up with zero fuckin memories of this past life

but it's 100 years of the entire country going to ruin

it's just endless screaming. we all know what's in his head. just. endless. screaming.

@InspectorCaracal listen you can't look me in the eye and tell me that botw link is not just in a continuous existential crisis of one point or another

there he goes, hero of hyrule, disassociating his way across the plains,

@InspectorCaracal nope as sadly i just got done saying this all on discord but i CAN say EXCELLENT choice in thought experiment we are on some sort of wavelength let me know if you get a big whopping mood of This next (see picture)

then they dig up good-guy-ganon and so they are joined by a lanky gerudo man who *also* has existential breakdowns

as you do.

...

listen, it's a Theme, okay,

even though at that point everyone involved in the polycule is over 100 years old

please do not pay attention to link as he pulls out his powerpoint presentation, "REASONS I AM UNLOVEABLE, PART 1: i hope you're all familiar with the Ship of Theseus as part of your reading for class"

the rest of the fic is just sidon looking on worriedly at two hylians having existential breakdowns. as you do.

well i just got the final memory recovered in botw and i am FULL OF FEELINGS. ot3 shippy feelings.

also now that there's firm dates i'm fully resolved to commit to an asspull if i write this fanfic of "oh hey look zelda's finally in the physical world once more instead of holding ganon in place, and what do you know, she's definitely 19 now instead of 17. for reasons."

i remain On My Bullshit, and have finally written the SW-style lore entry for my bunny alt - https://archiveofourown.org/works/19402957/chapters/47757970 so please have that to browse if so inclined, #ffxiv tag

(it ended up being nearly as long as all the previous combined Whoops)

@sourcookie@playvicious.social wait until it's not summer for atlanta

not-summer is probably going to be late September at earliest lmao

@InspectorCaracal I KNOW RIGHT

massive Bless Your Heart. moment

i realize that it's a tough needle to thread in delivering such news, and it can get real NIMBY obnoxious real quick

but i am kinda encouraging my fellow mods on this one to look at just booting the dude

i usually like to wait for a Clear Incident, but at this point at least 80% of moderator time and effort is spent smoothing out and cleaning up after his messes. this is just too much time and resources.

i have no idea how this fucker lives with two whole brain cells to rub together and the self-awareness of a box of coconuts

"but drag is so OTT!"

I HAVE BAD NEWS ABOUT THE ENTIRE LOLITA FASHION MOVEMENT IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT BEING "OVER THE TOP"

thankfully he backed down and was all "oh i didn't mean to imply drag was gross" (and i responded with a rather snarky "Be mindful of what you 'eww', then") but This Dude, Y'all.