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inposterumcumgaudio · 3 months ago

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They Came From Below: Q4

Q4_SaveTheVillage: War of the Worlds

Objectives:

Defeat the Robots {Count}/{MaxCount}

What's Happening in the Village?

Kill the Robots {Count}/{MaxCount}

(Optional) Save at least 3 Citizens {Count}/3

Save the Village

Find Moo

Re-Enter the Facility

Quest Notes:

Poor Viv! I must avenge her!

From the sounds of it, the village is under attack!

My god! These robots are running amok and killing people! I've got to stop them!

I should save as many people as I can!

All right then. More robots. Suppose I don't have a choice.

James! Is he all right? I've got to make sure he's all right!

This seems a bit rash, honestly. Considering how things went the last time. But Moo insists.

Dialogue:

0019600 WellF Citizens! Stay away from this Headmistress! It's gone rogue!

0019700 WellF Everybody! Stay away from the robots! They are alien and extremely dangerous!

0019800 PC_Rog I knew it!

0019900 WellF William Robinson! You're in danger! Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

0020000 WellF I'll let you know when I've regained control!

0020101 PC_Rog James!

0020200 PC_Rog James? James? Moo?

0020300 PC_Rog Are you all right?

0020400 WellM Thank God you're okay, Pup. I was going out of my mind.

0020500 WellM I'm going to go back down there.

0020600 PC_Rog James, that's suicide!

0020601 PC_Rog Did you happen to notice the robots massacring people in town???

0020700 WellM She needs us. You saw her. She's in trouble and she's doing everything she can.

0020800 WellM Look, you did your part. Now you stay safe and I'll find her.

0020900_1 PC_Rog That's not called for, James. You're still hurt, so I'm obviously the one going in.

0020901 WellM Damn it, Roger, I'm the soldier!

0021100 WellM It just goes down and down, doesn't it?

0021200 PC_Rog Nothing wrong with that.

0021400 PC_Rog If these are alien robots, then where are the aliens who built them?

0021600 WellM Thank God Dr. F was here to put a wrench in their little invasion or where would we be now?

0021650 PC_Rog Yeah.

0021700 PC_Rog Yeah. Where would we be.

0021700 PC_Rog Where would we be.

0021300 WellM Shut up, you.

This one's pretty short, but I figure Q5 is not going to be so it's better to go ahead and post this one by itself. Also tells you I am working on the They Came From Below post and trust me, you're gonna want the cut content for that. It changes things.

Anyway, not too much cut from this quest. The objectives and quest notes show no edits far as I can tell. Dr. Faraday has a Lost in Space reference that got taken out. Funny, but the reference is American and it woulda detracted from the tension in the scene so I geddit.

One thing that is notable is that Roger has a lowbrow rejoinder to James' comment about how the facility just "goes down and down", which was cut. Instead, it was subbed out for a James line (reused from his greetings?) that was apparently added in late enough to get its own "scene". The change creates a scene where you, as Roger, presumably make a face at James that conveys that statement without saying it and he responds to it, which is a very neat little trick when you are stuck in first-person and can't see your own dumb sex joke face.

The last time I did this, I didn't have the ability to see the organization system as well as I do now and I assumed the scene was written as is and Roger's line was just cut out, not that it was replaced to create that moment. Ultimately, we still know that Roger is not too educated to make a dumb hurrhurrhurr joke so we didn't really lose much in exchange for that cool little moment of game dev playtime.

Also that the exchange apparently was written at the beginning of the second elevator ride, rather than the first where it appears in game. Possibly meant to break the tension at that moment and then - like Faraday's line - thought better of. Good move.

#poedit #cut/unused content #roger bacon #james maxwell #dr. helen faraday

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sobdasha · 4 years ago

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i’ve been rereading a lot of my favorite stuff for months now

since I'm lacking in spoons for library trips

And when I was cottoning on to the fact that I have, in fact, been autistic all along, one of the things I realized is that the connecting thread between the kinds of stories and kinds of characters that I like is in fact that they display autistic or autistic-adjacent traits. I had realized this, come up with a lot of examples. I knew this.

Haha yeah as I'm actually rereading the things the evidence is damning that I did not come even close to understanding the full depth of it.

~ Taucris Ithesta is Autistic and Other Adjacent Things re: Leckie's Novels ~

Actually let's start with The Raven Tower because you can't actually argue with me about autistic Siat.

Siat actively avoids eye contact, is """shy""", speaks too softly, has an excellent grasp of humor, likes rocks as a special interest, likes to collect rocks, likes to sort rocks, likes to line up rocks, has one (1) bff to conduct social interactions for her, notices patterns, is good at learning, and is considered disabled by society's standards.

Ughhhhh all that talk about rocks makes me sad all over again that I pitched my rock collection when I moved out (I saved the best fossils, though).

(ETA: I have since bought more rocks because polished gemstones with carvings on them make for great stims, I am very pleased with me)

Okay so now that that's been established, let's talk about Strength and Patience of the Hill.

Because this rock gets me. Originally I figured it was probably, y'know, like with Ancillary Justice Leckie's given me an ace-aro main character and I can identify with that as an ace-aro. But unlike Breq, who very much loves people and wants to take care of them and found family etc, Strength and Patience of the Hill doesn't give much of a shit about people. With some exceptions of people that are it's people, how dare you mess with them, Strength and Patience of the Hill will kick your ass. Although even then I'm not sure Strength and Patience is all that great at taking care of people. Also Strength and Patience of the Hill is very much absorbed in its own selfishness, very much consumed with his own internal world, and I am also a jerk like that so it was very relatable.

(Yes I am using multiple pronouns because one of my many favorite parts of the book signing was watching everyone scramble over pronouns for a rock because "It never came up so I never figured it out" and I'm pretty sure Strength and Patience doesn't even use pronouns because why would you need a gendered pronoun to refer to yourself??? You don't even need a name to refer to yourself, actually I'm pretty sure Strength and Patience doesn't actually consider itself to have a name.)

So it made sense that this rock just really gets me. I know it's bad when the majority of representation for ace-aro characters is stereotypical robots or rocks or aliens (oooh or sentient space rocks wait wAIT now that I've said that I've just realized the Myriad is the definition of a Crystal Gem, pffft) or whatever but honestly I don't care because I just really identify with the robots??? So I really liked it, YMMV.

(It's probably also bad if the trend for autistically-coded characters is just stereotypical robots or rocks or aliens or whatever too but like honestly a big autistic #mood is feeling like you are a robot or an alien or whatever so maybe that's why I'm not offended???)

My point being that Strength and Patience of the Hill displays a lot of autistic traits and is therefore very relatable, in this Ted Talk I will.

Strength and Patience of the Hill processes things slowly. She will come up with the perfect retort and tell you 5 years later with absolutely no context.

It loves daydreaming, staring at things, noticing patterns, and enjoying quiet and solitude. It loves thinking about why things are the way they are. Look I have fantasized about what if I could exist as just a pair of eyeballs and a mind floating around in space, observing things, thinking things, and not having to actually interact with the world, and I'm pretty sure this rock is living that life. (Until y'know it gets told life doesn't work like that.)

Despite his slow processing speed, and taking a while to learn language, Strength and Patience of the Hill is good at learning things, and I feel like it's the kind of sort-of-sideways, context-based accumulation of knowledge that I learn through as well.

Strength and Patience of the Hill has one (1) friend, and through the Myriad it benefits from the fact that the Myriad has an actual social circle, without having to put forth any effort of maintaining friends on its own, which is 100% the way to do it.

Strength and Patience of the Hill tends to attract the other "quirky" kids--that is, my impression is that the people who become his priests tend to be those people who look at the world a little differently, those people on the fringes. Trans people, autistic people, people with other disabilities.

Strength and Patience of the Hill trying to explain the state of affairs in Vastai to Eolo: "Okay so my first memory I can recall is…" No, okay, no, I know, it's just literally how the narrative has to be told, I'm not criticizing, but that doesn't make it any less reminiscent of "autistic person trying to explain a simple thing but starts in with 10 pages of context first to ensure the over-explanation makes sense" (haha that's why I consistently got stuck training endless new hires, I'm literally so bad at it that I'm the best in the department and I hate life).

Difficulty understanding other's feelings/points of view/circumstances (I know it's because he's a rock and a god but that doesn't make it any less relatable), hmmm what else…

Oh right, a typical interaction with Strength and Patience of the Hill:

Person: (gives offering) Strength and Patience: (offering is accepted because the transaction literally occurred, no need to respond) Person: "(asks petition)" Strength and Patience: ... Strength and Patience: wait Strength and Patience: what Strength and Patience: wait was I supposed to do something else Strength and Patience: did you ask something of me? Strength and Patience: I don't understand what you asked????? Strength and Patience: it's been an entire year now it's too awkward Strength and Patience: i'm sure it's. Fine. Strength and Patience: It's fine. (rinse and repeat)

Like I said, this rock gets me.

(Haha I was reading through my notes from the book signing and I found "Strength + Patience doesn't give a shit about balance, Strength + Patience is just selfish, which it manifests as apathy, which is why this rock gets me. All of my best interpersonal traits also spring from not giving a fuck and waiting ppl to go away faster lol" and why is that, oh because ~I'm~ ~autistic~ pfffft)

I started this post a while ago and this was as far as I got and I don't remember if I had more??? Time to talk about Taucris probably!!!

(I'm skipping Ancillary Justice etc for now because I do want to make a post about that but like there's just. So much. In those books. It's masking all the way down. So it can be its own post. One day.)

Because I waited so long I forgot what I was going to write so I'll just grab the book and flip through and comment as I see things.

To start off with: Taucris and adulthood. I've seen other people pick up primarily on the gender aspect of it--that Taucris waited until almost 25 to take her adult name because she she never figured out what her gender was (non- uhhhhhh what's the word for binary when it's three and not two? Non-tri-something Taucris in a society with 3 options but all 3 options are gendered? I'll go with that.) What really resonated for me was that Taucris waited until almost 25 to take her adult name because she never felt like an adult. And I get that ~everyone feels that way~ but I feel like it's Different for Taucris in the same way it's Different for me. Anyway I feel like no matter which aspect you choose, it's probably an autistic vibe.

Also Taucris seems to have a bit of a flat affect? She seems very serious (both in body language and in speech), and kind of intense sometimes when she talks, and Ingray notes how Taucris usually doesn't smile (she smiles with Ingray because Ingray makes her comfortable) and has always been """shy""".

Also Taucris...talks strangely? I am not sure exactly how to explain it. It's not written badly or anything, it's...you know how sometimes you suddenly sit back and look at dialogue and go no one speaks like this and it throws you out of the story because you dropped your suspension of disbelief? Taucris kind of gives me that feeling, and only Taucris. Almost like her speech is a little bit stilted? Awkward? She's very serious and matter of fact and says things like "You've always been so kind to me" with a straight face. But it doesn't feel like a """bad writing""" (quotation marks for subjectivity) thing. But I notice it every time I read her dialogue… I think it's just that Taucris is autistic and awkward and that's how she speaks. Also I think she's adorable.

Police work is Taucris' special interest. So much so that that's the entire reason she became an adult, so she could engage in her special interest better. She's ~weird~ for her single-minded interest and her interest in a job below her ~status~ and she doesn't care, she set her heart on this anyway, volunteering and interning so on.

Oh that was something else I was going to talk about--Taucris mentions feeling like she doesn't have her shit together, not like Ingray (who also doesn't feel she has her shit together. Kind of like "no one really feels like an adult). But Taucris seems quite calm and capable in Planetary Security. I don't know if this is just masking, but...I really hope that she does feel that way in her job. That because it's her special interest, that helps balance out the stress of being alive and simultaneously employed full-time. That because she's been volunteering and interning here so long, she's been familiar with the office and it wasn't a stressful transition. That she acts confident because she feels competent and respected. Taucris may look calm and cool and collected on the outside and be screaming on the inside but I hope she actually feels pretty good on the inside too.

I would also like to say that I like Taucris' nother. Despite what Danach implies, I get the picture from Taucris that e is supportive of Taucris' personality and interests even when e doesn't get it. E indulged her interest in police work, e didn't understand why Taucris wasn't taking an adult name but tried to be patient about it...so I assume that also means that e was understanding of all of Taucris quirks and stims and particularities. E's been a good support system while Taucris' peers have not.

(Except for Ingray, Taucris' one (1) friend.)

I like Taucris' relationship with Deputy Chief Veret too--the way Taucris quietly manages breakfast so e doesn't have to think about it or be put out (this is The Love Language to me, not being inconvenienced, and I feel that this is part of my personality because my personality is autistic, so). I don't know why specifically Taucris does this, but all the reasons I could come up with feel very wholesome. Taucris respects Veret as her boss and as a person. Taucris is empathetic and thoughtful (she doesn't like Danach but she tries to consider and understand where he's coming from; Taucris isn't Hatli but she considers Veret's fasting etc to be valid rather than a choice of superstition). Taucris' situation is different but she knows that it doesn't feel good to be treated as weird, to be sneered at because you don't act the way people expect you to. Taucris, being autistic, maybe has a lot of experience with "perfectly good foods" she won't eat. Taucris strikes me as someone who observes quietly, and considers carefully, and maybe takes a long time to make up her mind but when she moves it's deliberately and not carelessly. Which is, to me, a masking trait.

In the quantum version of this post I was going to write everything so polished and lay out my points so nicely but clearly that didn't happen and I don't know where to end this and I'm sure I didn't even explain things that well so I'll just say, I feel it was very autistic of Taucris in the last chapter to just be like "well IDK what you want from me and rather than expending massive effort trying to suss it out and guessing wrong I'll just be direct: I know you can't talk about what happened so I won't ask you about what happened unless you want me to ask you about what happened in which case you should say so and I will ask but I think maybe you just need to watch a movie with me instead."

#sobdasha fic adjacent #al provenance #the raven tower #HAPPY AUTISM MONTH #look i actually did a thing while it was still april #all my faves are autistic #also is this not showing up in the tags as punishment for my sins or like can I not see it because dumblr

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supernova1us · 4 years ago

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TF: Astray-The Trailer

I know, its weird. So this is a breakdown of trailer makeup of one of my many series ideas, the idea of a trailor for the series was what originally made me even think of the plot/cast. below the breakdown is more info on the series itself. the designs are meant to be based on TFA designs but not strictly supposed to be them exactly(the cast pic is just for fun since all the cast i could find in that style). please give some feedback. We see a shot of a female human teen stumbling back in shock, a spinning shot around her reveals Hot Rod, Bulkhead and Ratchet transforming into robot mode. Seaspray is also walking over and Blackarachnia is present but lurking in the shadows. “Oh my god” she gasps. We then see a shot of her looking up at Major Convoy sitting in a chair, badly damaged and attached to medical equipment. “Why are you here?” she asks. A flashback shot shows Convoy at the helm, then a shot of their ship maneuvering through a chaotic, unstable landscape. It then switches to a wide shot from space as Unicron sinks his toothy maw into cybertron’s surface. The shot then cuts back to the damaged Convoy, looking depressed. “That is…a long story” He answers her. There is then a shot of hot rod ducking and weaving through a dense forest, avoiding blaster shots from behind him. “You will have to be my field commander for the time being” Convoy says, reluctantly. “I won’t let you down” Hot Rod responds, with a mix of humility and enthusiasm. A shot of ratchet shaking his head with a frown then another shot of him talking to Hot Rod, poking at his Autobot insignia. “Time to earn that badge lad; hope you’re up to the task” Ratchet comments. “This planet is peaceful and quiet, what’s there to worry about” voice over from Seaspray. During this line we see a shot of Scorponok’s base mode settled on earth’s moon, a close up pan across his/its decepticon symbol and switch to a shot inside as a group of triple-changer drones come online. “Trust me, that’s never a question worth asking” Blackarachnia’s voice answers Seaspray. We then see multiple shots of Sixshot training with a sword and in some cyber-ninja moves, then another of him angrily taking his tank mode and destroying two battle-damaged drones. There is then a shot of the multiple triple-changers under Sixshot’s command as he addresses them. “The time of our kind has come. No bot will ever look down on us again after we make this world our domain. A new Decepticon homeland…where our superiority is law” He declares. Over the latter part of his speech is multiple shots of the triple changers switching from their flying modes to ground modes and decimating a human military base. “The decepticons are here; this may not be the great war…but we have to stop them from hurting this planet” Convoy declares. “Why?” Blackarachnia asks skeptically. A shot shows Hot Rod produce his energy bow and draw back a bolt, then switches to him leading his team as they speed out of a tunnel in vehicle mode. “Autobots, let’s roll!” his voice is heard as they do. Another shot shows Bulkhead jumping onto the front of the charging form of Astrotrain’s train mode, clinging to its front. Astrotrain suddenly takes off into the sky in his shuttle mode, leaving Bulkhead to weakly grip to him, spinning through the air. Another shot shows hot rod held up over a cliffs edge, his throat tightly held by Sixshot. “Your wisdom requires some improvement, Autobot” Sixshot declares. A shot shows some of the triple-changers firing when they are struck by blotches of sticky webbing, disabling them. A previously pinned down hot rod and ratchet look up to see Blackarachnia’s spider mode crawl down a wall from above. We then see a close up shot of an angry Blackarachnia addressing her teammates in their ship. “You’re never going to trust me are you?!” she shouts in anger. We then see the whole team, including Flipsides and Blitzwing, on guard and surrounded by human military vehicles and soldiers. It then switches to a shot of Convoy attempting to stand but partly collapsing, then another of him banging the floor in frustration. We then see the human teenager running in slow motion as she’s chased by Apeface and Snapdragon in their beast modes. Another shot shows Sixshot lingering outside a cell holding an unseen horned bot. Another shot shows Ratchet, Skidz and Nautica examining data on a screen, while Nyx hangs from the ceiling in her bat mode next to them. “This world is too valuable” an unseen voice speaks up. As it does, there is a shot of three shadowy bots floating in space looking down on earth. There is then a shot of massive aerial dogfight between the decepticons and Spacewarp. Then there is a slow motion shot of the team being chased by an explosion; Hot Rod and Blackarachnia are fleeing in their alt modes while Bulkhead is running, carrying Ratchet and Seaspray under his arms. We then see a dark underwater shot from behind a group of mysterious merfolk approaching Seaspray, Nautica and Riptide. The next shot shows a close up of Seaspray and a female member of the merfolk drifting closer and touching hands. We then see as Hot Rod unearths a strange cybertronian weapon. “But what if we fail…what if…I fail?” his voice echoes over the shot. “That’s incredible…I’m terrified” Bulkhead says bluntly with a smile. We then see a fast montage of action shots; Bulkhead struggling against being grappled by Blitzwing and Octane, Blackarachnia ripping the head off a triple-changer drone and jabbing her back-mounted legs into another, Seaspray awkwardly running and tackling Shatter and Dropkick, Ratchet jumping a broken bridge in vehicle mode as three alien jets strafe him, Apeface and Snapdragon rampaging like kaiju through a human city, autobots and decepticons alike swept up in the oncoming wave of destroyed dam, Skidz and Snowcat driving into the large legs of Astrotrain, toppling him and Convoy tearing a large piece of machinery from a wall and throwing it at an unseen assailant. “Unable to locate compatible mode; no earth made terrestrial vehicles capable to contend with Decepticon designated Sixshot” A computer declares to Convoy As the computer speaks, a brief scene of Sixshot expertly shooting human jets out of the sky with his blasters is shown. Convoy slumps and sighs in response to the computers conclusion before turning back to it with interest. In a large room, Hot Rod and his teammates are surrounded by and in a standoff with the decepticons when all react to a sudden booming metallic trumpeting sound. Dropkick approaches a large door and peers through a slot only to panic as a loud thumping is heard approaching. He dives for cover as Convoy smashes through the door and wall in his robotic mammoth alt mode, destroying the nearby drones as well. Sixshot takes his wolf mode and a wide shot is seen of the two beasts charging each other and the scene cuts to black and the title just as they are about to clash. Transformers: Astray

The panicked masses and factions of Cybertron evacuate as the looming threat of the world eating Unicron rapidly approaches. Military commander Major Convoy breaks from his post to take a ship and rescue a group of trapped refugees; Hot Rod, Ratchet, Blackarachnia, Seaspray and Bulkhead. They barely escape the cataclysmic chaos of unicron’s arrival and consumption of cybertron. The group is all knocked into stasis as their damaged ship is thrown into a random warp.

Arriving in the vicinity of earth, convoy alone awakes and attempts to take control of the ships crash landing. He manages a controlled crash that saves the others, but he himself is badly damaged and is forced to remain connected to a life support system. Hot rod, eager to prove himself, is appointed Convoy’s proxy and the groups field commander. The crews hope is to remain hidden on earth until able to contact other cybertronians for help. Unfortunately for their plans, also present on earth are the decepticon triple changers, under the command of super solider Sixshot. The refugees are forced to remain hidden from the humans and thwart the decepticons efforts to begin a calculated conquest of the world for themselves. Major Convoy-a distant but decorated and experienced military leader in the elite guard Hot Rod-a gung-ho and eager young soldier looking to show his merit as an autobot leader Blackarachnia-a decepticon and criminal who remains aloof and untrusted by some of the other refugees (TFA design) Ratchet-a grumpy older autobot medic who tries to keep peace among the crew and monitor Convoy’s health Bulkhead-a large and clumsy but good natured civilian constructibot; he’s close friends with seaspray Seaspray-a awkward and nerdy aquatic specialist and scout who enjoys being on earth Sixshot-the infamous six changer and ninja master, he seeks to prove the superiority of multi-mode bots and make earth their new domain. Triple changers-Scorponok(base), Astrotrain, Blitzwing, Octane, Shatter, Dropkick, Apeface, Snapdragon, Flipsides Megaempress-a powerful, dangerous and devious decepticon commander long imprisoned within scorponok (look/colors mostly based on armada galvatron) Skidz, Nautica, Riptide, Snowcat, Nyx- a team of cybertronian explorers currently wandering earth Tidal Wave-a titan serving as the guardian and foundation of the underwater city of atlantis Spacewarp-a transformer pirate that frequents earth Sideways, Soundwave, Lyzack -mysterious rogue agents attempting to manipulate both sides of the conflict Nemesis-a dark, pure evil copy of Convoy of unknown origin

#transformers

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doodle-mole · 3 years ago

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Once again entirely out of the blue, a series of mostly cohesive comments about the third and newest (so far) season of Love, Death & Robots. Once again, they are presented in the order I watched them as per Brazilian Netflix, for whatever reason.

Three Robots: Exit Strategies: This is probably the only sequel so far, and I guess if they're intending to make sequels for any of these shorts it might as well be Three Robots. It's a fun ordeal, as expected, composed of a few humor skits on the subject of post-apocalyptic survivalism. To be honest, the anti-capitalism sounds hollow coming from a series distributed by Netflix, of all people, but fine. It's funny and fine.

Bad Travelling: This is a damn good one that leans on the horror of this series (you know, the Death in Love, Death & Robots), with an art style reminiscent of last season's The Tall Grass. The story itself is really good psych thriller involving one man taking control of a ship housing a deep sea abomination crab after being thrown into the basement to be used as fodder. It's really great to root for this surprisingly gold-hearted asshole.

The Very Pulse Of The Machine: Very psychedelic, by narrative itself -- a story in which a stranded astronaut gets herself dosed with potentially hallucinogenic analgesics to try and survive until she can get help, while holding a conversation with her dead colleague, now a vessel for the voice of Io, the moon of Jupiter itself. The hallucinogenic angle makes it so the story is open ended and even from within the dream itself it's not clear if she survived or not her final struggle. Very trippy, very gorgeous, great voice for a satellite trying to speak through a person.

Night of the Mini Dead: This is the absolute comedy short of the season and it is kind of... pointless? What I think is notable about it is that it's animated and produced in a way that looks like it's all animated with dioramas in stop motion, which I'm almost sure is not the case, but that doesn't pay off in any way. It is just a zombie apocalypse that starts in the most edgy funny way and keeps escalating and ends not with a bang, but with a whimper fart.

Kill Team Kill: Honestly good animation and art, features possibly the best bear attack since Annihilation, but otherwise the plot and concept of this is nothing to write home about. It's well made, so it's still good.

Swarm: Gorgeous and very engaging, it's disputing the title of best of this season together with Bad Travelling up there and the two last ones. It is also based on a short story that I should track down because it absolutely sounds like my jam -- and also sounds like a story I read in an anthology, except in this one it was an AI ship instead of a giant alien swarm... Anyway, for a compelling narrative where humanity's hubris leads to its inevitable demise in the hands of a more peaceful and yet still equally fearsome version of the Zerg... dive right in!

Mason's Rats: This one is not quite comedic, but absolutely having fun with the concept of a near future where farm pests start to evolve to respond to human technology. I really like that it does not go into an escalating arms race like I was expecting, but instead the war escalates so quickly that the side that's supposed to be unsympathetic realizes that it's just not worth it. And, honestly, the character modelling in this one is quite charming, too. Great flick.

In Vaulted Halls Entombed: Another gorgeous horror piece with amazing graphical fidelity. Interesting enough, the horrific stuff starts not with the cosmic horror itself, but with the measures taken to contain the thing, and that's very twisted. At this point I feel like expanding on it isn't going to get anything more interesting out of me, the animation is standard good, the plot is very good, the horror is well executed... it's just really good.

Jibaro: The closing piece of this season is, also, a flagship of the season's trailer, and oddly enough it has a very subdued soundtrack which kept me waiting for that slow and bassy remix of Fur Elise to start playing at any moment... Anyhoo, it's a creepy story about a golden spirit being encountered by a group of what I assume are conquistadores, all the death that ensues and the twists and turns that come from one of those being deaf. The graphics on this one are so weird I can only describe them as being hyperreal, a very realistic style that subtly hints at some kind of augmented synesthetic reality. And, too boot, it's a pretty good mystic story of the dangers of greed.

#love death and robots #review #spoilers

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ofstormsandwolves · 8 years ago

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the aftermath of arrogance

Post-TGiTF

10th Doctor, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith

After everything that's happened with Sarah Jane and Reinette, Rose finds herself feeling more than a little fragile and upset about how Mickey and the Doctor have treated her recently.

AO3 (account needed) | Whofic

EDIT: This has apparently been made into a prompt for @doctorroseprompts so tagging them too (I’d been meaning to write something like this for a while, aka about Mickey’s School Reunion line, and saw someone talking about it yesterday so I wrote this, which is also how the prompt came about)

“So. Are you gonna forgive him, then?”

Rose didn’t look round at the sound of the voice in the galley doorway. Instead, she ignored Mickey and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge, sparing a brief glance at the contents of the fruit bowl before turning away.

“Rose?”

“I don’t wanna talk about it, Mick,” Rose countered as she made to push past him and out into the corridor.

He stopped her though, pulled her back, a frown on his face. “Look, babe, you know you can talk to me, right?” he asked, looking concerned. “I know the Doctor’s been a right idiot today, but I’m here for you-”

Rose scoffed at that, cutting him off abruptly, and startling Mickey.

“Are you though?” she asked, shaking her head. “Just a day ago you were making snide comments, and now I’m supposed to believe you’re here for me? You’re only ever here for me when the Doctor’s messed up, when you think it’s gonna make you look good.”

Mickey blinked at her. “Babe-”

But Rose pushed past him, breaking out of the galley and into the corridor, bottle of water in one hand as she shook her head and stalked off down the corridor.

“Rose! Just wait-” Mickey called after her again.

By then though, Rose had turned the corridor and was out of sight, so Mickey hurried after her... Only to find that the corridor was a dead end.

~0~0~

A couple of hours of fruitless searching later, Mickey returned to the galley unable to locate Rose. He was starting to suspect that the finicky time ship was hiding her from him, although he wasn’t too sure why. It had been the Doctor who had left them on that spaceship to run off after that courtesan, it had been the Doctor who had almost got them killed by nutty robots, it had been the Doctor Rose was angry at, not him. So why was the TARDIS hiding her from him?

When he entered the galley, though, he saw that someone was already there. But rather than Rose, it was the Doctor. He looked at Mickey over the rim of his grey mug with a frown. The Time Lord and the human surveyed each other in suspicious silence for several long moments, before finally one of them spoke.

“Isn’t Rose with you?”

“No,” Mickey shook his head. “I’d ask if you’d seen her, but I think you’re the last person she wants to see right now.”

The Doctor quirked his eyebrow. “Oh?” he asked, and he sounded ever so slightly smug. “So that means you’d know exactly where she is, then?”

“Yeah,” Mickey responded, straightening his back a little as he tried to bluff the Time Lord.

“And that means you’ve not just spent the last few hours looking for her? And that the TARDIS isn’t hiding her from you?”

At his words, Mickey’s shoulders slumped. Then, he frowned. “Hang on,” he asked. “How’d you know the TARDIS is hiding Rose?”

The Doctor flushed a little at that, and set his mug down to rub at the back of his neck instead. “Well,” he said after a long moment, “I might have, sort of, been looking for her too.”

Mickey’s lips quirked a little at that. “So the TARDIS is hiding Rose from you? Not me?”

The Time Lord sniffed, and met Mickey’s gaze calmly. “I think she’s hiding Rose from both of us, Mickey.” He paused. “Let’s be honest, neither of us have been particularly great to her the last few days.”

But Mickey instead just snorted. “Nah, mate,” he retorted, shaking his head. “That’s just you. Me and Rose are fine.”

The Doctor looked at him, expression unreadable, and Mickey pointedly ignored him. Instead he crossed to the freezer and started rooting about for something to eat. He had just found himself what seemed to be a burger and chips when there was a sound in the galley doorway. Both men looked round to see Rose in the doorway, looking more than a little awkward and like she would much rather flee than talk to them.

“Rose!” the Doctor grinned. “Everything alright?”

She nodded, but didn’t particularly look alright.

“I’m gonna do some dinner,” Mickey told her, holding up the burger and chips. “Want some?”

Rose’s eyes narrowed momentarily, before she shook her head. “I ate earlier,” she responded. “The TARDIS gave me some pasta.” She paused, watching Mickey carefully for a moment. “Was that meant to be a joke?”

Both men blinked at her, and then at each other.

“Why would it be a joke?” Mickey frowned. “I just wanted to know if you wanted something to eat.”

Rose nodded slightly but didn’t look convinced. Instead, she crossed the galley and pulled out a chair to sit at the table.

“Babe?” Mickey prompted again. “Why would it be a joke?”

She bit her lip, shrugged, stared at the table. “I’m still angry about earlier,” she said at last, voice quiet but audible.

“What?” Mickey asked with a frown. “I didn’t do anything earlier.”

The other side of the galley, the Doctor sniffed. “You obviously did, or the TARDIS wouldn’t have kept her from you.”

At his words, Rose’s head shot up. “And don’t you go acting all arrogant either!” she snapped at him, eyes suddenly blazing. “Both of you, you’ve treated me like... Like nothin’ the past few days! An’ as if it wasn’t bad enough Mickey trying to make out he was suddenly on my side earlier, now that you messed up, now you’re doin’ the same!”

Both the Doctor and Mickey blinked at each other, clearly baffled.

“I’m just saying that Mickey maybe isn’t admitting that he upset you,” the Doctor spoke over the other man’s spluttering.

“And you are?” Rose countered.

At that, the Doctor flailed. “I didn’t... I mean, I haven’t upset you. Have I?” He frowned. “Is this about, you know...” He jerked his head towards Mickey.

Rose just blinked at him. “Are you really that oblivious?” she asked after a long silence.

“ ‘Course he is, babe,” Mickey broke in, looking a little smug. “He’s an alien. Dunno why you put up with him. Come on, we’ll go hang out in the media room.”

He abandoned his food on the galley counter, made to cross the room and grab Rose’s arm, but she jerked away.

“You do know that you’re just as bad as him, yeah?”

Mickey faltered at Rose’s words. “What’ve I done?” he asked, a little indignant. “I’m the one who’s been here for you, all through that rubbish when he ran off with Sarah Jane yesterday and the day before, an’ Reinette today-”

“Yeah,” Rose nodded, getting to her feet and folding her arms across her chest, “an’ you made snide comments while you were doing it. What did you say to me in the cafe, night before last? Do you even remember?”

Mickey stayed silent. Rose clenched her jaw.

“Do you want me to refresh your memory?” she asked tensely after several seconds of silence. “Which part are you having trouble remembering? The part where you gloated about me not knowing about Sarah Jane, or the part where you told me to ‘lay off the chips’?”

Mickey shifted uncomfortably at that, and across the room the Doctor stiffened.

“You did what?” he all but growled.

Rose, however, just rolled her eyes. “And don’t you start,” she told him, spinning on her heels to face him. “You’re no better than him! Running off and leaving me on a spaceship to chase after some rich girl!”

“Rose,” the Doctor protested, wide-eyed, “it wasn’t like that-”

“I didn’t mean it,” Mickey said suddenly, speaking over the Doctor’s protests. “It was just a joke, babe. You know that.”

“But that’s the point,” Rose sighed, looking between the two men, who both, at least now, looked a little sheepish. “I know that you went after Reinette because you had to preserve the timelines, Doctor. And I know that you only really meant those things as a joke, Mickey. But that’s not how any of it felt to me.” She frowned at Mickey. “How do you think I felt with Sarah Jane turning up out of the blue? And then the first thing you did as my best friend was to brag about how it meant that you were right the Doctor’s just a normal bloke. An’, an’ not only that, but you then thought it would be funny to insult me. Mick, you’re one of my best friends, but when a guy tells a girl she should lay off food, that’s usually less a joke and more a comment on her appearance. No matter how funny it seemed to you, that’s not how it seemed to me.”

Mickey sniffed, and said nothing, but looked more than a little guilty at Rose’s words.

“An’ you, Doctor,” she said with a sigh, rounding on the other man. “How do you think I feel? Two days after suddenly finding out I’m not the first person you’ve travelled with, you invite my ex-boyfriend on board and then leave me stranded on a spaceship to run after a posh prostitute. I know you had to save her life, an’ I’m not blaming you for that, but you could’ve at least spoken to me. You could’ve told me your plan, I could’ve helped more. An’ it would have made me feel a whole lot better if I knew I could trust you to come back to me rather than stay with her.”

“Rose, I’d have always come back,” the Doctor protested weakly. “I would never have just left you-”

“But you left Sarah Jane,” Rose interrupted quietly. “You said you wouldn’t ever leave me behind, and then less than two days later you did just that. How do you think I felt when you sent me to Reinette? How do you think I felt, seeing her with her posh dresses and perfect hair, while I’m there in jeans and a t-shirt?” She sighed. “How could I see Reinette like that and still think you’d choose me?”

There was a long and heavy silence then, neither man quite knowing what to say and Rose feeling like she had said far too much already.

“You’ve both been so... Arrogant the last few days,” she finally said, voice quiet and tired. “And you’re both such oblivious idiots. Both of you, you do all these things and make these jokes and comments, and you never put yourself on the other side of them. I’m expected to just accept that you’ve had other companions, Doctor, and not want to ask questions, or not want reassurance that you’re not just going to leave me. And I’m expected to just accept all the jokes you make, Mickey, even if I don’t find them funny, even if they hurt me a little, because you’re always making those sorts of comments. An’ I’m stuck in the middle of it all, not knowing what to do, or where I stand, an’ I’m just expected to take it all!”

Another long silence. And then, the Doctor was across the room and wrapping Rose in a hug. She sagged in his arms, exhausted from the events of the day, from the troubled sleep she’d had the night before with everything that had happened with Sarah Jane, and from the emotional onslaught she’d been battling the last few hours.

“I’m sorry,” the Doctor sighed, squeezing her gently. “I’ve been stupid. I should have told you about Sarah Jane, and I’m sorry I didn’t. But I really did mean what I said to you outside the cafe, Rose. I’m not going to leave you. You’re stuck with me, I’m afraid.”

“Could be worse,” Rose mumbled against his chest, cracking a small smile.

The Time Lord let out a small, pleased sound at that, before somewhat reluctantly releasing her as Mickey drew near.

“I’m sorry too, babe,” he mumbled, looking a little embarrassed. “I’ll make it up to you.”

Rose smiled. “You’d better.”

He pulled her into a hug then, which Rose gratefully accepted, leaning close to her best friend and breathing in his familiar scent. After a long while they finally pulled apart, turning to see the Doctor with his hands shoved in his trouser pockets as he rocked on his heels.

“Don’t suppose you two fancy a movie night?” the Time Lord asked, looking a little embarrassed. “Give us all a chance to relax.”

Rose looked to Mickey, who just shrugged, before nodding.

“Go on then,” Rose said, heading for the galley door. “You two can bring the snacks. You owe me.”

And with that, she was gone.

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July 1, 2019

1. A Facebook group for current and former border patrol agents erupted with anger after Ocasio-Cortez compared border facilities to Nazi concentration camps. She and a Texas congresswoman, both Hispanic, plan to visit a border station near El Paso. Another proposed a bounty, collected on GoFundMe, for any agent willing to throw a burrito at the pair. Group members posted Photoshopped illustrations of AOC engaging in oral sex with a migrant man and being forced into another sex act with Donald Trump. One member suggested a news photo of a father and child who drowned crossing the Rio Grande was faked. AOC responded on Twitter, “This isn’t about “a few bad eggs.” This is a violent culture,' she said, insisting that she would still visit the border patrol station Monday afternoon. 'They’re threatening violence on members of Congress. How do you think they’re treating caged children+families?' she wrote. Ocasio-Cortez said in a separate tweet that the reported 9.500 members of the 'racist & sexually violent' Facebook group represented 'almost half' of the Customs & Border Protection agents in the United States.

2. Taylor Swift, 29, said on Sunday that she was devastated that her master recordings had been sold off to Scooter Braun when he purchased Swift’s former label in a $300 million deal. “Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,” Swift wrote in the lengthy post. “Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it. “For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work,” Swift wrote. “Instead, I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. ”She also claimed she learned of the deal “as it was announced to the world,” but Big Machine company founder Scott Borchetta claimed Swift misrepresented the truth in her letter. Borchetta said that Swift’s father was a shareholder in Big Machine, and therefore found out about the deal on June 25. He also said he “personally texted” the “Me!” songstress on the evening of Saturday, June 29, so that Swift would hear the news prior to the rest of the world. Swift hasn’t publicly responded to any comments, including Bieber’s, since initially posting her letter on Tumblr.

3. Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright married over the weekend. Every single Vanderpump Rules cast member was a part of the wedding. Well, except for James Kennedy, Raquel Leviss, and Billie Lee, who were not invited, obviously. Other than that, Kentucky was full of Bravolebrities. Katie Maloney served as Brittany’s matron of honor with Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz sharing the “best men” title. Stassi Schroeder, Scheana Marie, Lala Kent, Kristen Doute, and Ariana Madix were a part of the bridal party. SUR manager Peter Madrigal was a groomsman in the wedding along with Lala’s man Randall Emmett. Randall was the one who brought Lisa Vanderpump and Ken Todd to Kentucky for the weekend, via private jet, of course. It was uncertain if Lisa would attend so soon after the death of her mother, so her appearance was a welcomed surprise for sure. Lance Bass officiated.

4. The scenes currently airing on 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After went down just before Ashley filed for divorce a second time in April 2019. Last week’s episode was particularly rough since Ashley discovered that Jay had intimate relations with a client at his work. So who could blame her for taking some time off? The question is, where did she go? Ashley did announce that she was heading to a wellness center in North Carolina on June 17th for a women’s retreat. This information started to make rounds on social media. Instead, internet users claimed that she was actually in rehab for depression. Ashley was quick to clarify, and Screenrant reported her statement. She said, “I’m taking the steps to better myself and to live a more peaceful life. I have a lot of ways about me that need to change before I can genuinely be happy or hold a happy relationship. I’m struggling more than any of you will ever know. I put on a good face for people.” Ashley revealed that she never got help after her terrifying ordeal at 19 years old. She said, “I was kidnapped and raped in 2005. I am always in fight or flight mode, I am always on edge and I have never ever gone to therapy over it.” As for Jay, he is currently in the country illegally. Ashley withdrew his Adjustment of Status application. Perhaps he should be the one traveling back to the tropics.

5. With more and more lonely people turning to increasingly sophisticated sex dolls for companionship, some employees at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada, now argue that this particular fetish might be good for their trade.In an interview with the Daily Star, Lily Lovecraft, a courtesan at the establishment touted by the newspaper as the "world’s largest brothel", described the possibility of catering to the needs of "robot fetishists who have been waiting a lifetime for sexbots to be available" as "terrific". "The future will be an exciting time for the kink community", she said, adding that their establishment is known for "providing a nonjudgmental community with regard to all fetishes and erotic proclivities". "[This means we can add] technosexuality, a desire to have sex with humanoid machines, to the list of fetishes we offer would be a natural progression in my opinion". However, another sex worker, Allissa, did not seem thrilled by the prospect. "A man who becomes too comfortable with a sex doll may alienate himself from healthy sexual experiences with real women, and distance himself from any possibility of a healthy sex life", she argued. "I agree that, under the supervision of an experienced sex worker, sex robots, like other tools, may be helpful to some clients. But it’s a technology with a slippery slope and will require a lot of deliberation before a brothel like Sheri’s Ranch embraces the technology and actually offers sex robots as part of our services". Earlier this year, another courtesan plying her trade at Sheri’s Ranch announced that she started offering "digisexual therapy" to people who are more attracted to sex robots than to other human beings.

6. A woman's review of a vibrator she purchased on Amazon has garnered the attention of thousands of social media users after it was shared to Twitter, causing many to purchase the product to see what all the fuss is about. Twitter user savvvvyd shared a screen shot of the hilariously detailed five-star review that had been written about the Tracy's Dog Clitoral Sucking Vibrator, which retails on Amazon for $52.99. Within the review, the woman revealed that the product 'met and exceeded' her expectations. 'I'm pretty sure i levitated. It was an unending orgasm,' she said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7200889/Womans-enthusiastic-review-50-vibrator-Amazon-sends-social-media-users-frenzy.html

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fuckyeahoutsidexbox · 8 years ago

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Show of the Week - CS:GO Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Second Show of the Week transcribed and giffed! Once again, if there are any mistakes please tell me!

(Mike)

Hello and welcome to OutsideXbox’s Show of the Week. Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated as have rumours of my lucrative life insurance policy it turns out, Jane.

(Jane)

Yes, well, I mean it got us this moderately priced new studio so don’t knock it deado.

(Mike)

Our game of the week this week is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or if you prefer the syllable saving CS: GO. A Valve game that shuns storyline in favour of action, it’s a… [interrupted]

(Jane)

Woah, woah, woah what do you mean it shuns storyline? It’s a Valve game. It’s got to have story.

(Mike)

It doesn’t have a storyline, it’s a straight up multiplayer.

(Jane)

No, no, no it’ll be in the world somewhere. It’ll be emergent storytelling Valve style cause they’re clever like that.

(Mike)

If you say so. Super-secret hidden storylines aside. Here’s what you need to know about CS: GO. CS: GO is a multiplayer only team based shooter in which a squad of pretty non-specific terrorists go up against a squad of noble counter terrorists. Terrorists mostly want to plant bombs and hold hostages while the counter terrorists want to defuse bombs and rescue hostages. Also, each side wants to kill the other side. And that’s the entire fictional premise for Counter-Strike Jane, honestly. It’s also a game with a long and storied past. Counter-Strike began life all the way back in the last millennium, if you can believe it. When PC gamers like me fought off dinosaurs by day and scored headshots by night. The game started out in 1999 as a multiplayer mod for Valve’s seminal sci-fi FPS Half Life made by modders Minh Lee and Jess Cliffe. It took the torch from straight up death match multiplayer shooters such as Quake 1 and 2 to lead the burgeoning field of online multiplayer gun shooting. It arrived with new and uniquely cool ideas, not least the cycle of earning cash at the end of each round and spending it on weapons and equipment at the start of the next. And it made huge waves in pro gaming. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, out now on Xbox Live Arcade, is only the latest in a series of iterations on that Counter-Strike formula. A long line of updates, revisions, community mods and even the odd boxed game. The no perks, no unlocks, no regenerating health, no instant respawns and no iron sights and there is friendly fire, in some modes. In short, it’s a pure bracing shot of something different and demanding in a crowd of me too FPS multiplayer and that’s why it’s our game of the week.

(Jane)

Who’s that guy?

(Mike)

That’s a terrorist.

(Jane)

And who’s that guy?

(Mike)

That’s a counter terrorist.

(Jane)

Right. And how do they fit into Aperture Science and Black Mesa?

(Mike)

They don’t. So now that… [interrupted]

(Jane)

Okay, erm, but what does it say on that wall there? That one. Is that a newspaper article?

(Mike)

No.

(Jane)

Aw.

(Mike)

So, now you’re excited about CS: GO, here’s how to play it.

(Jane)

That guy’s not talking, maybe he’s Gordon Freemen.

(Andy)

It’s possible to do well at Call of Duty and Battlefield by playing like this. Play like this in Counter-Strike: Global offensive however and you’ll be doing a lot of this. So, if you’re not a long-time fan of Counter-Strike, you’re going to have to adjust your tactics. Luckily, we’re here to help like heroes.

First up, and most importantly, you run faster with a knife. Not entirely sure why. It’s like the head of Valve is in love with knives or something. Oh, yeah. Right, right. Still this is a core Counter-Strike skill. Bind the knife to something like up on the D pad and switch to it after buying your weapon at the start of the round. With the extra speed, you should be able to reach critical choke points ahead of your enemies until all the new players wise up to it and do likewise. The downside, of course, is that you might also reach these chokepoints ahead of you own team and turn up to a wall of enemies on your own having literally bought a knife to a gun fight. Make sure you can switch to a shooty weapon quickly.

Next, you’re more accurate if you walk or crouch and you also move silently whereas you may as well be wearing a hat made of claxons if you’re running. Crouch is bound to left trigger by default, the same as iron sights in Call of Duty and you should use it the same sort of way for increasing your accuracy. If you’re the last person left alive on your team, you don’t want to give up your position unless it’s absolutely necessary.

On Xbox, you can control your horizontal and vertical analogue sensitivity independently in CS: GO. Headshots make a big difference to how quickly your enemies go down, due to that being where their brains are. There isn’t a huge amount of verticality in the maps either. Because of all that, we tend to go for a high horizontal sensitivity with a lower vertical one so that even when we’re spinning around wildly to target someone, panicking and crying, more of our shots will go in the chest to head kill zone.

If you’re playing on competitive servers, buy Kevlar and the diffuse kit whenever you can. It will keep you alive and save you precious seconds while defusing a bomb if the terrorists manage to plant it. And it’s also totally on trend with this autumn’s military inspired look.

Short tip this, but it’s as true now as it was on LV426.

(Corporal Dwayne Hicks)

Remember, short controlled bursts.

(Andy)

Thanks, Hicks. Sorry about the rubbish way you were killed off at the start of Alien 2.

Next tip, the Desert Eagle pistol is a monster. If you can afford it, buy it. It’s ridiculously better than all the other pistols and you can have it in additional to your main weapon.

Next, and this may seem obvious but it bears repeating, learn the maps. Most of the maps in Counter-Strike are pretty well balanced with certain areas that favour sniping, close quarter shoot outs or middle distance machine gunning. If you know the maps, you can predict what a lot of enemy teams are going to do and then plan your strategy accordingly. For example, if you’re playing against a terrorist team on Aztec that favours the bomb site overlooking the swamp, try getting a sniper rifle and hanging out by the big double doors behind it, picking them off as they charge your way. Fun.

And finally, don’t flash bang your own team for pity’s sake. I said don’t! Argh, I needed those retinas.

[music plays]

(Andy)

Is she alright over there?

(Mike)

Yeah, yeah, she’s just working on a theory that the Zeus X27 taser is actually a piece of sentient designed by GLaDOS to test the terrorists and counter terrorists who she believes are robots sent from Black Mesa to infiltrate Aperture Science and steal her research.

(Andy)

Probably leave her to it then.

(Mike)

Yeah. I’ve got the feedback if you want to do that.

(Andy)

Great plan.

(Mike)

So, it’s that time where we share the words you’ve been writing at us in comments, on Facebook and on twitter.

(Andy)

In regard to last week’s Show of the Week, Ben Borthwick write “Mike died and you didn’t use the Channelling the dead pun? Awww.”.

(Mike)

My bad. Actually, your bad. I was dead.

(Andy)

You were dead. Good times. Peter meanwhile takes issue with your pronunciation of Boba Fett saying “There are only two Bs in Boba, not three Channel!”. Then he links to this helpful pronunciation guide.

[Pronunciation guide repeats “Boba Fett” three times]

(Andy)

Well, what do you have to say for yourself?

(Mike)

I say that is the last time I pronounce anything from straw was.

(Andy)

Onto Mark of the Ninja now, of which we posted a preview earlier in the week and which comes out today if you’re watching on Friday September the 7th or in the past if you’re watching any day after Friday September the 7th.

(Mike)

Sam Williamson commented “This is looking really cool, like 2D Tenchu with a draw distance. After something of a dry spell it’s a good time to be a stealth fan, with this, Dishonored and Hitman: Absolution out in the next few months.”.

(Andy)

And in response to the OutsideXbox survey on the plural of ninja, Richard Cadman responds “Ninji obviously”.

(Mike)

Totally incorrect.

(Andy)

Finally, the user known only as TheMansuraj asks “Any chance of an OutsideXbox podcast?”.

(Mike)

To which the answer is yes there is every chance of an OutsideXbox podcast! It’s right at the top of our to-do list and when we do get round to do it, we’ll let you know right here.

(Andy)

That’s all for this week guys. Thanks for watching, don’t forget to hit like and subscribe on YouTube. We’ll see you next week. Did you figure out the story then?

(Jane)

Yeah, yeah I did. It’s amazing, it would blow your mind if you knew.

(Andy)

It’s not something stupid like this is all one of Cave Johnson’s tests or something, is it?

(Jane)

Uh no.

(Andy)

Wanna play some DOTA 2?

(Jane)

What now?

#outsidexbox #jane douglas #andy farrant #mike channell #show of the week #transcript

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