Silk-Wrapped Renolethyn @Edelwood@dragon.style

it came to me in a fever last night
https://dragon.style/media/ivtcflgIFr3jMz1xk0U

i got your new, real big dick energy here:
say "I'm <your name> and there's nothing you can do about it" out loud

if you think your armpits might be stinky, you can always just dab to check them. No one will suspect anything--except for thinking "Oh christ, they're dabbing, ugh"

I got in an extended discussion on Twitch about "hard modes" on games and, in general, difficulties.
Largely my gripe with them is that the first way anyone adds difficulty is just by making the numbers bigger--you die faster and kill slower (or whatever, as applicable). Which I get, because doing more complex things is a LOT of work.

Making the hurdle taller is totally fine, when jumping hurdles is the point.

I made the analogy then about Mario games--imagine if EVERY enemy took one more jump to kill. It's not harder, now everyone feels spongey. That's bad--Mario isn't actually about stomping goombas. It's about getting from A to B. The goombas are in the way, is all.

The hurdle isn't taller here, now there's just two hurdles real close to one another which means you have to lift one leg real weird and it's not actually more difficult. Just...pointedly uncomfortable.

The person I was speaking with asked how, then, you make a Goomba more difficult for Mario and that's simple: You put it in a different spot! The goomba's never been difficult and nothing ever will MAKE it difficult, the difficulty is now the person controlling Mario has to develop a new solution, because the old one has a goomba obstructing it somehow.

Moving on to The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion I was talking about how a scaling world isn't good difficulty either, because everything just stays AS difficult unless you do a few narrow things. Focus too much on Athletics or Speechcraft and the enemies get stronger and all you got was a few extra one-liners--unfortunately none of those things stop an imp from playing Connect Four with your entrails! You hit the book and the demons lifted weights, oops. Swing swords or lose.
This is why I still like Morrowind more than Oblivion or Skyrim. Things gets harder with you in Morrowind...a bit. But a Scrib is always a Scrib, and if you go back to Seyda Neen there aren't suddenly bandits in full Glass equipment. It's just scribs.
This lead me to the attached image I doodled out, this Highly Exact And Scientific Do Not Look Behind The Curtain image. It is just a personal take on linear progression, especially in an RPG. Never having a point to enjoy a new level of power sucks.

It doesn't always come up, mind. There's plenty of times where it SHOULDN'T come up. Where, in fact, constantly being outmatched is the point of the experience.

(Darkest Dungeon is my first thought here. You can become strong, but should remain worried. This isn't a game where you outlevel and overwhelm--the point is to be /strong Enough/ which doesn't always mean coming away unscathed).

My end point is that scaling a game into rocket tag feels like the first and last approach to implement difficulty, and I'm grumpy and green and want another option for that.

https://dragon.style/media/XIVRc5Qo0JFSXU3rfyU

I used to think the Level Up thing in Wildstar was sort of stupid, but I think there's maybe more merit to occasionally getting told how totally cool you are than I thought
(I just got the line "You're gettin' to be a real badass! Not bad on the eyes, either," and I think my first impressions with the big light show and guitar riff were possibly too hasty)

Hey, the internet bill had a $5 credit on it. Not much, but we take those.

I came up with a name for the chua https://dragon.style/media/Qza4eNtaG0rWBi1z3IY

It is happening.
https://picarto.tv/EyelessArtpad https://dragon.style/media/xxPmaQEAyYq-dWZrmKI

I have done nothing but draw chua for three days

he's upset about the recent overwatch hero announcement
sure hamsters with mechs are cool NOW...turn me into a hipster why don't you.
https://dragon.style/media/FnrwmsUB0Qzpp7gC5sg

I don't grow facial hair on my cheeks at all, it's basically all below my jaw. And my beard doesn't connect to my mustache. AND my mustache is kind of thin. The result? This is the only facial hair arrangement I can manage. https://dragon.style/media/SP--vY82QMOAUDzR894

My fingertips started tingling so I am. Pausing the stream for a bit. ha ha

https://picarto.tv/EyelessArtpad come one come all, enjoy yourself or don't

Snippet of my inner monologue:

"Man, it's so nice to not have bugs in my room 'cause I let the spiders hang out in here.
...
Wait a second"

Weird habit I picked up/developed without any actual outside influence: People say hi and wave and I say hi and throw up the horns in response.

Mmmm omelet, and natto

This stylus is actually STILL charging wow.

My stylus died mid stream so now that's on hold until it recharges. i kinda forgot it needed to have that done to it.

plork https://picarto.tv/EyelessArtpad

buying the fabric to make sarongs was the best pre-emptive thought i had for summer yet