Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

i feel like one of these days i'm going to get clocked very easily even tho reports are anonymous simply because i end up always starting them the same Whoops

the infinite sadness of having Sephora tastes but Ulta money

well okay apparently the dior backstage foundation is only 40 dollars for 50 mL.

"only".

Why Is Makeup So Difficult

i will say props to colourpop for getting a foundation range where i actually match one of the colors

...

it's just a shame it's a pretty poor performing foundation and if i want something that performs better it's apparently, like, dior or some shit.

anyway this is why i was really happy to find a bb cream that blends to match my skin tone because it may not be full coverage but it's also not 120 dollars a got dam bottle

i am just a simple wigglytuff yelling in the wilderness "no you don't understand!!! i'm not being all weird about having pale skin, THIS IS JUST HOW IT IS PLEASE STOP BEING WEIRD ABOUT IT, IT'S NOT A VIRTUE OR WHATEVER now can you please tell me about reasonably-priced foundations that might match my skin tone"

i mean the entire problem is that i am both very pale, and my skin seems to think that the color yellow is fake news. so if i put on the shade that should match me if-it-were-all-greyscale, the yellow undertones make me look like i am about to star in some horrific racist commercial from 1957 with mickey rooney reprising his role from breakfast at tiffany's and THAT IS NOT A GOOD LOOK! FOR ANYONE!

at BEST i look severely jaundiced like i'm about to keel over of liver failure or w/e

it is not exactly a super great thing, being this pale!!! i go from ok to lobster in about .2 seconds!! i'm sure that skin cancer is gonna come get me at any day now!!!

i just want some advice about foundations....

and to sound egregiously entitled still... ALMOST NOBODY MAKES A SHADE THAT MATCHES ME GODDAMN. i mean of course i have it so much better than poc, but like. it's nearly impossible. unless i want to spend money on fucking dior foundation. drugstore shit? nope not there

finding a foundation color is so goddamn hard for me.

and whenever i try to find resources, most of them are from ~suPerPaiL princEssEEsss~. i asked for help on /r/mua and i'm pretty sure this is why my post got deleted lol.

i realize that i am, of course, benefiting from centuries of colorism and so on, but I JUST WANT TO FIND THE CORRECT SPACKLE FOR MY FACE NOT PARTICIPATE IN THAT WEIRD BUSINESS OF PEOPLE TRYING TO BE SUPER-PALE

are y'all ready for an incredibly petty makeup whine

@lapis (not actually a proper academic myself since i ended up disabled right after graduation lol, but that's the gut feeling of the direction i'd go in. my dad worked in academia for a very long time and although he's retired now, i'm thinking of "what is something that'd he'd accept and consider a valid thing to cite".)

@lapis i would say yes but probably only if you are citing a thread/movement with some official involvement in the thing - e.g. the twitter of some rando not so much, the twitter of a professor who teaches subject at a university definitely yes. that i think will end up being your way in to "legitimize" the citation, just going on gut feeling.

(i'd assume that you'd cite a masto toot like a tweet. fortunately all of this shit has already been worked out - https://gouldguides.carleton.edu/citation/social )

@plausocks i feel like this is the start of a country song

@InspectorCaracal and finally, mentioned for total ludicrous parody, Saint's Row 3/4. 2 was still trying to conform to being a parody of a genre. i think in SR3 they fully embraced the silliness a bit more to make it moreso into its own thing.

i... think... that might be all i can think to mention at the moment.... for now LMAO

@InspectorCaracal Winter Voices is an oddball french game that is... very french? i don't mean that as an insult, but it's Very French. a unique direction of storytelling in games though. i think it has a demo still (or you can just buy the first episode to see if you like it iirc).

as a bioware thot i would be remiss in mentioning the Mass Effect series, because steam tells me i have put in 262 hours on Mass Effect 2 so far. 😅

@InspectorCaracal Oxenfree is one i haven't gotten around to playing yet that might be cool to consider.

i also think that FFXIV has some of the best story of any MMORPG, and a much larger story focus than most other MMORPGs. but, uh, idk if you have 80 hours to devote to it LMAO

Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy can be mentioned largely as a "here's how you can try to make a narrative-driven game and then crawl up your own ass so hard that it ends up a soggy pile of wank, DAVID CAGE."

@InspectorCaracal Witcher 3 is also in the "not played myself, seen it streamed though and it was quite enjoyable" bit. solidly written.

i think that games without much narrative of their own, but then explicitly invite players to make narrative as they play, are also worth a nod and consideration - The Sims, Creatures series, etc. the players writing about their chronicles playing these games is interesting to me, but off base from what you're actually trying to do, i'm sure.

@InspectorCaracal to shake my brain a bit and try to remember things i've forgotten from non-PC gaming -

the Ace Attorney series of course

Ghost Trick is also phenomenal!

THE YAKUZA SERIES. i've not played myself yet but i've watched friends stream it and holy shit. pick up Yakuza 0, you won't be disappointed. they are also MASTERS of managing tone between serious and silly so both are improved by it instead of either feeling out of place. REALLY GOOD WRITING.

@InspectorCaracal Syberia and Syberia 2 to represent another line of point and clicks - i think they're a bit more influenced by Myst than say the LucasArts ones. (but also fuck Myst it's boring and pretentious)

Undertale - because, y'know, obligatory, if someone hasn't played Undertale at this point idk what they're doing with their life

Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines

and to represent modern point n clicks, The Walking Dead/The Wolf Among Us from Telltale

@InspectorCaracal OK WE HIT THE S-ES THIS CAN ONLY CONTINUE FOR SO LONG

psychonauts is worth a mention! deffo a bit science-fantasy i think

remember me - is remembered as being a bit of a cheezy flop, but it's an interesting concept in playing with narrative-manipulation-as-gameplay-element

shadowrun returns, especially shadowrun: dragonfall! I LOVE DRAGONFALL.

star wars: knights of the old republic - honest to god probably my favourite game, absolutely in top 3.