:)

Strangely I've *also* considered the "what-if" of vehicle/limb upgrades. Like really specifically as they're depicted here. I've imagined some sort of event where you end up maimed, and based on Ariral rep you either wake up with an upgraded limb, or have to struggle to craft a lesser prosthetic yourself. Seems like the sort of thing that would happen.

And yeah, a vehicle upgrade would definitely be some sort of warparrow-like hovercraft. Preferably it wouldn't catapult you 5 miles away if you hit something at slightly-higher-than-average speeds.

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TIL that there are fully modelled and textured stealthsuits for the Arirals and that they have not, in fact, been skulking around the facility in the nude.

(kerf for scale)

This was pretty much the exact impression I got just naturally playing the game. After an extremely rough day, I just shambled my way over to the ariral camp and flopped onto one of their cushions for the night. An absurd amount of sleep-yogurt ensued.

And man. I sure was feeling that 'wet cat' energy that night. Some unwashed, exhausted, injured, starving dork keels over at your place. His base? Powerless and left unlocked for a worryingly long time. His ATV? Missing. His robot cat? Exploded somewhere. His inventory? Just some shrimp, because he was 'just going to be out for a minute to deliver them real quick'

Honestly wouldn't have been surprised if an ending played out like "And then the arirals adoped Dr. Kel as an exotic pet because just watching him trying to live on his own was getting way too sad."

Hi, i have no clue how this site works but that one other site said to ask you stuff and i wanted to ask what does it mean in the ariral lore document that dr. kel is a wet cat of a person, thank

dr kel is a pathetic little man. he's a twink. a sopping wet cat. the arirals probably feel bad for the hungry little guy. if i was an ariral and i saw that fucking thing sleeping on my bed, i would be treating that boy like a cat.

Following a rumor I heard, I decided to check out if this easter egg was real. Words can't do it justice.

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TTYD is a wild ride

The recent remake got me to reminisce about this game. There's just something so wonderfully out of place this game is in regards to the Mario franchise as a whole. In summary: Prologue: Welcome to this absolute hellhole of a city! Experience assault, gang violence, and robbery within mere minutes! Interludes: "...TTYD Peac, who gets naked 10,000 times per scene, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted." Chapter 1: Local dragon amasses absurdly high kill count via appeals to greed and foot fetishism Chapter 2: "Were... were they intending for this to be a metaphor for...?" (See: WoolieVS playthrough) (insights that make you go "oh no" 😬) Chapter 3: Mario is on the wrong side of the class divide, and needs mafia connections to proceed. Also, surprise! There's murders happening! Chapter 4: Mario's adventure suddenly becomes an allegory for gender dysphoria! ...You don't remember that? That's because the Gamecube-era localizers were COWARDS! (Remake-era, not so much 👍) Chapter 5: Don't worry about the fact that you released a murderous pillaging ghost-pirate out into the world for your own benefit. It's fine. Probably. Ch. 5 Bonus: ...What do you mean you also gave an endangered species brain damage???? Chapter 6: A nice, low-impact story arc to unwind and- OH GOD THEY'RE EVERYWHERE AAAAAGGGH Chapter 7: Mario reactivates an old Cold War-era Soviet weapons system. By now this sort of thing feels par for the course. Chapter 8: funny bing bing wahoo man fights the harbinger of the End Times

Blursed anomaly of a Mario game that shaped my youth, 10/10

So my takeaway is that the people who DID notice that something was off are pretty evenly split on the matter. So I guess I'm just never referring to compass directions in this game, since there's a good chance that people will head off in the opposite direction of what I mean.

Interpreting VotV's Weird Maps

The map is a detail in Voices of the Void that always seemed kind of weird to me. Is it some cultural difference? Eldritch geometries? Alternate Earth with inverted magnetic field? Hostile cartographers? Trolling dev? Like what's going on there?

me living the adhd life:

existential dread jumpscare