Rose Thorne(She/Her)

Being pedantic, but it’s beyond that.

To grok is to know or understand so completely, it becomes a part of yourself. To know something fully. You can understand the concepts of astrophysics, but you might not grok the concept.

My father frequently used “That’s low on the scrotum pole” for an issue he didn’t care about. I’ve been thinking about this for a terrifyingly long time.

Draw faces, and have them positioned by importance.

Embrace the Rot by Endless Tavern.

Just avoid Australia, you’ll be fine.

His crippling meatball addiction. She can never know he fell off the wagon. I’ve seen it before. You think it’s a safety food, the easy pick off the menu. Then you hear something messing with the trash cans late one night, go out to check, and there’s your neighbor, in their underwear, six cans deep into a Chef Boyardee overload.

“Can’t expect me to train my replacement if I don’t remember how I did it!”

This is what happens when you take things away. Used to be you’d just levitate yourself wherever you needed to go.

Then there’s Fallout. Who needs horses? Courier can carry themself and 400 pounds of Sunset Sarsaparilla up a damn near vertical cliff face if you do the side-to-side.

Good on them. $7500 for all future royalties is an absolute rip, especially coming out of Rockstar.

This is probably the dumbest thing, but how would someone even go about putting in a request for that? Petition your government to petition theirs? A series of letters that begin calm and professional but by the tenth round of back and forth have devolved into “And I will ‘accidentally’ take down some armament above your home in return”?

I feel like that’s the calling card of every David Cage game.

“This chunk is actually pretty good, but everything after this? A flaming boulder rolling towards an orphanage”.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R fans are a strange breed. You either bull through it and walk away with a “Okay time, never going to boot it up again”, or you’re 2 hours deep and already halfway through the bottle of vodka, chewing on hard bread, and singing along with the NPCs.

We live and die by the Zone.

With survival/crafting, I tend to lump them in with tension-builders. Even in the calm ones, it’s that extra bit of time, that little effort that only takes seconds but builds up into your whole day. It fits the experience, you’re facing time as much as your own needs and desires.

Whoever decided that “hold to interact” was to be the new default needs shot.

It works when building tension, or even for showing a character putting effort into an action, but when I need to hold a fucking button for 5 seconds just to have random junk magically teleported into my pockets, it kills my want to interact with the world.

Fuck you, David Cage. I don’t think you’re the progenitor, but you certainly abuse the shit out of it as a mechanic, and your reign of terror shoulda ended with Indigo Prophecy.

If you were lucky.

I remember when people figured out the invisible characters glitch and BG chat was just a wash of shit talk all s p l i t u p l I k e t h i s.

Saw some people also use that for good, but a majority in my experience were just heinous.

Jim Carrey wore it better.

And all contained in the palm of your hand.

So much swapping back to that damned flashlight, I will never understand that decision. It didn’t build tension, it just made me get really good at beating things to death so I didn’t have to keep switching out.

They’re doing a service.

Reminding men that it’s never too late to schedule an appointment at the proctologist.

“Nuke Jeep”? Put some honor on that name, it looks to be a Davey Crockett! A portable nuclear suicide, given the firing range!

They were an absolutely awful idea, and so was my birth, so that’s the Jeep for me.

Pre-wetting in case of fire. He knew the dangers of the grilled cheese.

You picked the wrong person. I can picture Danny DeVito drunkenly driving a tank through Siberia now.

In fact, I’m not entirely convinced he isn’t doing that at this exact moment, and you’re just trying to distract us from the awesomeness currently going on.