one of my favorite tidbits about speedrunning that comes up every time the games done quick marathons come around is how Wind Waker speedruns are about five hours long because of the giant wall in Hyrule that actually forces the runner to play the game because they’ve been throwing shit at this wall for over a decade and still can’t figure out a way past it. the wall in hyrule is entirely unglitchable and the only way past it is to play the game properly. the speedrun would be like one hour if they could get past this wall but nope, it’s five hours. fuck the wall.

and the comedy of this situation is exponentially amplified the more you know about skips and glitches in speedruns in general

as examples of how broken WW is elsewhere, you can clip through walls and go out of bounds to skip entire dungeon sequences pretty much anywhere with a ledge, use the Wind Waker to enter a state where you ignore physics and swim at 5000 miles an hour, and even fly infinitely into the sky after dying like some kind of helium zombie. do you know how many games could be broken wide open by an infinite height trick? TTYD would shave off 3 or 4 hours.

but this fucking barrier around Hyrule Castle, against all odds, is just completely insurmountable with any of this. Ganondorf is literally the most successful and powerful villain in gaming history and this Super Extendo Fuck You Shield™ is a shining testament to it

This is the kind of information I want on my dash

Okay but do you have any idea just how big the Super Extendo Fuck You Shield™ actually is?

Try approximately four times the height of the castle itself.

And not only that, but even if you get over the invisible wall, there’s another barrier that causes damage and knockback. So even if you managed to get over the invisible wall part of the Nintendo Containment System™, there’s still an additional, cylinder-shaped barrier that will do damage to you and knock you back out, even if you try to get in from the top or bottom.

That castle has more security measures than Fort fucking Knox and it’s all to give a middle finger to speedrunners wanting to finish the game in an hour. It’s fucking wild.

https://youtu.be/7XBPrFYN1MU

As of July 2019, the barrier has been defeated in all versions of the game, and the current World Record is 1hr 04m50s. The current method is to give yourself seventy invisible grappling hooks, which corrupts so much of the game’s memory that there’s not enough left over to load the barrier (or a lot of other things, like enemies or cutscenes. It’s amazing). You can just walk right trough where it’s supposed to be.

an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

its so weird coming back to tumblr after being gone for like 6+ years because the culture is exactly the same but i also remember being on here with that same culture when i was like 15

The fact that you have to call places you're applying to sometimes and be like "hey btw I applied. any news?" to supposedly "let them know you're interested" is like... so fucking stupid. like I fucking applied. call me back. I don't need to be the one to fucking take initiative because I took initiative by applying in the first place. you need someone in the job. I applied. call me. or tell me you don't need me. fuck you and die. everywhere that has ever hired anyone, I hope you burn down

- I could watch her on this blanket for hours.

- Hire her for video game map designing.

the fundamental difference between twitter and tumblr

The wildfires have been turning the sun red where I live.

(There's a story that goes with this. Read it here.)

Vega: How's Shepard to work with?

Garrus: What have you heard? That bad guys would rather confess than be interrogated by them? That their steely gaze can cool a room by five degrees? That they can only be killed with a silver bullet, like a werewolf? They're all true, except for the silver bullet part. It might give them indigestion or heartburn, but I don't think it'd kill them.

ask me “are you into ____” and I’ll say yes or no

gotta give credit to gravity falls for having a cartoon explicitly set during the summer but going

“hey we wanna do a halloween episode”
“but it’s summer”
“the town has a regional not!halloween called summerween fuck you”