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I was thinking about starting Dark Souls again since my last save got deleted. I'd probably play on PC this time around for convenience. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend. :)

I've got two tattoos and both are kinda related to soulslikes. The first one are two koi fish circling a sunflower against a backdrop of waves. While not originally intended as such, I do love Sekiro a lot, so the koi also represent the big carp in Sekiro who's just really cool.

My second tattoo is quite clearly inspired by soulslikes. It's a blue butterfly with two white lilies under and over it. The butterfly is in reference to the butterflies found in Lies of P as well as a direct nod to Sophia while the white lilies can be found in Gehrman's boss arena in Bloodborne. Love both games, so I was looking for a way to incorporate them both into one tattoo.

Do you have any Soulslike-inspired tattoos? Would you like to share if you do?

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[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ty :)

It's definitely a unique arrangement. My tattooist was also surprised to get such a request but liked it a lot.

The background is a good point. It kinda looks like machine cogs, so it fits Lies of P. But I kinda got talked into using that as a background because I didn't have any other suggestions and just went along with it. The second thing I noticed specifically about that pattern is that if you just focus on the white lines between black dots, the patterns look like swastikas 😭 I have to really focus on it, but when I do notice, it annoys me so much. And the third thing is that the way the butterfly is shown is not nature-like. All depictions of butterflies show them this way: wings spread wide apart with their bodies in the middle comparatively lower than the wings themselves. But the only time you actually see butterflies that way is when they're taxidermied 🥲

I still love the tattoo, and no one I show it thinks it looks bad or anything. Probably natural to have a couple things to nitpick about a tattoo.

Sounds good! A feeling for what cards accomplish is good to develop.

I play on beta because I like to see all the new changes implemented since the game is updated quite regularly. I'll play on live when the game is fully out - until then, I want to see what the devs cook up :)

Still Defect on A8 I think. I haven't played too much recently. And yea, I've heard about the Chinese players having a crash out because of some changes. They specifically bought into an early access game - of course it's gonna be changed :D

[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Okay… when I squint really hard it kinda looks like that… maybe. But none would say that when they just see it on your arm.

I actually think that the way the butterfly wraps around the curve of the arm mitigates the taxidermied look and makes it look more natural, imho.

Still fantastic tattoos. Even more so now that I didn’t look so much at them as individual tattoos on two arms but a combined look.


Yeah, StS2 is still super fun. Everything before A9 was kinda manageable especially for Regent, but the more damage of A9 kinda throws of my gameplay feel.

As stupid as it was for the Chinese players to crash out and mass downvote for slight balance changes in the beta branch of an early access game (the feedback button is right there…), what happened later was even more stupid: some idiot people found Anita Sarkeesian credited as a consultant in the credits and lost their minds. I mean the Gamergate harassment campaign was l over a decade ago… And some sad individuals just wanna continue to harass… The Chinese players at least played the game, but some nitwits who don’t even play the game have now mass downvoted.