A little tribute piece for a local bookshop's anniversary, not my usual thing but they were nice enough to support us for the event so I wanted to draw something for them

i know i shouldntve expected much but why is AUH's implementation of ph so ass pfft

October has been fuckin hellish
"Kate its been one week"
Did I fucking stutter

if you want Skyrim 2 then good news: you can mod Skyrim to your heart's content

if you want an action RPG about trauma & redemption & imperialism & prejudice in a vibrant fantasy setting, then Avowed may be right up your alley

it's like this in Skyrim too, btw. the thievery side of things is completely at odds with the core gameplay loop

and that's fine, because encouraging players to spend 80 hours not touching the main quest is classic Bethesda design. but Avowed *wants you to play the story*. that's the game!

a more serious answer is that adding theft & reactions & consequences and items worth stealing is an enormous amount of work for what is an insular behaviour

if you're stealing, you're not engaging in the strengths of the game: exploration, fighting, dialogue. it's an actively dissonant mechanic

reading the Steam reviews for Avowed is a solid reminder of why i do not give a shit about the opinions of internet randos

"the game should have a theft system!!!" your desires are utterly alien & incomprehensible to me
"i don't like guns in my fantasy RPGs" what are you TALKING ABOUT

i wish that with the way a lot of larger scale video games tend to skew heavy on your pc that more of em would like release a sort of benchmarking tool of some kind, like they do for the ffxiv expansions? im not in the video game industry so i dont know the logistics of pulling it off but-

The kuglung (also spelled kuglong or kuglung) is a traditional two-stringed boat lute used by the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, particularly among the Manobo, Bagobo, and other Lumad groups in the Philippines.

These are the one of the many instruments that resonate the sounds of home

And at last Gubat Banwa Quickstart+ is here, heralded by the face of the game, the iconic Mangangayaw Sam'baha Dimantag herself.

NOW AVAILABLE ON OUR ITCH ❤️‍🔥

gubat-banwa.itch.io/gubat-banwa-...

A looot of our local languages and cultures gets swept under the rug or sidelined in favor of the constructed, reductive and homogenized "Filipino culture", so Im very glad there are people out there fighting to celebrate and preserve our rich diversity. Makagana pud para sa among paglimbasog

The host of one of their shows was like, we cant stop our sugbuanon language from evolving, incorporating more tagalog and english words, but we also have to take care not to leave behind what's ours. And that really stuck with me

Its been a welcome surprise to listen to the Radio again these days, there's a new local channel that exclusively plays artists from the Kabisay-an with a lotta songs in Sugbuanon Binisaya and honestly I wish that for every region in the PH.