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Hot take but if I buy something I think I should own it :/
#Yes this is about digital vs physical media.#I hate digital games and movies I hate subscription services I hate not having a physical tangible disk#If I buy something I don't want a license to use it I want an actual copy of the product!!#No I don't want to subscribe to clip studio to keep getting updates! I hesitated buying the damn thing digitally! I wanted a fucking disk!!#I don't want to subscribe to a game or anything I just wanna buy it (and it should work without needing to download half the damn thing!)#I want disks and cartridges and boxes!!!#I want to own what I purchase without a company threatening to go offline and make me lose access to what I got!!#I want to go to best buy and buy software in a box!! Please!!#ok rant over#I just get mad at the current state of technology sometimes.#Rant on planned obsolescence likely coming soon lol
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why are printers so hated? it's simple:
computers are good at computering. they are not good at the real world.
the biggest problems in computers, the ones that have had to change the most over the time they've existed, are the parts that deal with the real world. The keyboard, the mouse, the screen. every computer needs these, but they involve interacting with the real world. that's a problem. that's why they get replaced so much.
now, printers: printers have some of the most complex real-world interaction. they need to deposit ink on paper in 2 dimensions, and that results in at least three ways it can go on right from the start. (this is why 3D printers are just 2D printers that can go wrong in another whole dimension)
scanners fall into many of the same problems printers have, but fewer people have scanners, and they're not as cost-optimized. But they are nearly as annoying.
This is also why you can make a printer better by cutting down on the number of moving elements: laser printers are better than inkjets, because they only need to move in one dimension, and their ink is a powder, not a liquid. and the best-behaved printers of all are thermal printers: no ink and the head doesn't move. That's why every receipt printer is a thermal printer, because they need that shit to work all the time so they can sell shit. And thermal is the most reliable way to do that.
But yeah, cost-optimization is also a big part of why printers are such finicky unreliable bastards: you don't want to pay much for them. Who is excited for all the printing they're gonna be doing? basically nobody. But people get forced to have a printer because they gotta print something, for school or work or the government or whatever. So they want the cheapest thing that'll work. They're not shopping on features and functionality and design, they want something that costs barely anything, and can fucking PRINT. anything else is an optional bonus.
And here's the thing: there's a fundamental limit of how much you can optimize an inkjet printer, and we got near to it in like the late 90s. Every printer since then has just been a tad smaller, a tad faster, and added some gimmicks like printing from WIFI or bluetooth instead of needing to plug in a cable.
And that's the worst place to be in, for a computer component. The "I don't care how fancy it is, just give me one that works" zone. This is why you can buy a keyboard for 20$ and a mouse for 10$ and they both work plenty fine for 90% of users. They're objectively shit compared to the ones in the 60-150$ range, but do they work? yep. So that's what people get.
Printers fell into that zone long, long ago, when people stopped getting excited about "desktop publishing". So with printers shoved into the "make them as cheap as possible" zone, they have gotten exponentially shittier. Can you cut costs by 5$ a printer by making them jam more often? good. make them only last a couple years to save a buck or two per unit? absolutely. Can you make the printer cost 10$ less and make that back on the proprietary ink cartridges? oh, they've been doing that since Billy Clinton was in office.
It's the same place floppy disks were in in about 2000. CD-burners were not yet cheap enough, USB flash drives didn't exist yet (but were coming), modems weren't fast enough yet to copy stuff over the internet, superfloppies hadn't taken over like some hoped, and memory cards were too expensive and not everyone had a drive for them. So we still needed floppy disks, but at the same time this was a technology that hadn't changed in nearly 20 years. So people were tired of paying out the nose for them... the only solution? cut corners. I have floppy disks from 1984 that read perfectly, but a shrinkwrapped box of disks from 1999 will have over half the disks failed. They cut corners on the material quality, the QA process, the cleaning cloth inside the disk, everything they could. And the disks were shit as a result.
So, printers are in that particular note of the death-spiral where they've reached the point of "no one likes or cares about this technology, but it's still required so it's gone to shit". That's why they are so annoying, so unreliable, so fucking crap.
So, here's the good news:
You can still buy a better printer, and it will work far better. Laser printers still exist, and LED printers work the same way but even cheaper. They're still more expensive than inkjets (especially if you need color), but if you have to print stuff, they're a godsend. Way more reliable.
This is not a stable equilibrium. Printers cannot limp along in this terrible state forever. You know why I brought up floppy disk there? (besides the fact I'm a giant floppy disk nerd) because floppy disks GOT REPLACED. Have you used one this decade? CD-Rs and USB drives and internet sharing came along and ate the lunch of floppy disks, so much so that it's been over a decade since any more have been made. The same will happen to (inkjet) printers, eventually. This kind of clearly-broken situation cannot hold. It'll push people to go paperless, for companies to build cheaper alternatives to take over from the inkjets, or someone will come up with a new, more reliable printer based on some new technology that's now cheap enough to use in printers. Yeah, it sucks right now, but it can't last.
So, in conclusion: Printers suck, but this is both an innate problem caused by them having to deal with so much fucking Real World, and a local minimum of reliability that we're currently stuck in. Eventually we'll get out of this valley on the graph and printers will bother people a lot less.
Random fun facts about printing of the past and their local minimums:
in the hot metal type era, not only would the whole printing process expose you to lead, the most common method of printing text was the linotype, which could go wrong in a very fun way: if the next for a line wasn't properly justified (filling out the whole row), it could "squirt", and lead would escape through gaps in the type matrix. This would result in molten lead squirting out of the machine, possibly onto the operator. Anecdotally, linotype operators would sometimes recognize each other on the street because of the telltale spots on their forearms where they had white splotches where no hair grew, because they got bad lead burns. This type of printing remained in use until the 80s.
Another fun type of now-retired printers are drum printers, a type of line printer. These work something like a typewriter or dot-matrix printer, except the elements extend across the entire width of the paper. So instead of printing a character at time by smacking it into the paper, the whole line got smacked nearly at once. The problem is that if the paper jammed and the printer continued to try to print, that line of the paper would be repeatedly struck at high speed, creating a lot of heat. This worry created the now-infamous Linux error: "lp0 on fire". This was displayed when the error signals from a parallel printer didn't make sense... and it was a real worry. A high speed printer could definitely set the paper on fire, though this was rare.
So... one thing to be grateful about current shitty inkjet printers: they are very unlikely to burn anything, especially you.
(because before they could do that they'd have to work, at least a little, first, and that's very unlikely)
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Tron Deadly Discs
Greetings Programs!

Today we'll be taking a look at the first of 3 Mattel video games published the same year as the original Tron movie: Tron: Deadly Discs. Originally released for the Intellivision console, it was also made for the Atari 2600 (under Mattel's M Network label) and the Mattel Aquarius (although this was actually ported in 1983). Each version has different aspects that will be covered in a bullet list down below.
The Intellivision version was programmed by Don Daglow and Steven Sents. I couldn't find much on Sents unfortunately. Daglow, however, programmed notable games like "Utopia" and "Dungeon" and even went on to found the now defunct studio Stormfront Studios Inc. They were responsible for games such as Neverwind Nights and several Tony La Russa baseball games. The Intellivision version came with the cartridge, an instruction manual, 2 overlays for the controller, and a nifty little flyer with deals for the movie.


As far as I can find, the Atari 2600 came with just a cartridge and an instruction manual. The Aquarius version came with the cartridge, instruction manual, 2 controller overlays, and a keyboard overlay.


All three games follow the same premise: you play as Tron, locked in the game grid and forced to fight against endless waves of enemies. Intellivision Master managed to get 19 million points, which I believe is the current world record! The enemies will appear through doors around the edge of the arena and you can keep them "jammed" open by throwing your disc at them. You can use said doors to travel to the opposite side of the map if there's a corresponding door. Basic enemies will attack by throwing their own disc; they're not harmful if Tron touches the enemies themselves (an exception would be the Guards in Intellivision and Intellidiscs). You have the ability to recall your disc in mid-fight, but it'll be rendered harmless as it returns.
During my research I stumbled upon Intellidiscs- a fan conversion of the Intellivision version for the Atari 8-bit/5200. It was published by Phaser Cat Games in May 2021 and programmed by Ryan Whitman, with sounds by Bobby Clark. At the initial release, you could actually purchase a physical cartridge that came in a custom box with an instruction manual and custom controller overlay. Wired-Up Retro has a great unboxing and playing of it. According to the site, this cartridge could be played on North America and NTSC TV sets. Don't worry, you can download the ROM for free from their site as well! This version also features battle mods, where you can battle up to 4 players. The enemies follow the same format as the Intellivision (shown below, just with different names). There are developer diaries if you wish to see some behind the scenes -> here.
What’re your thoughts? Were you able to play it during its glory days?
Here's link for a side by side comparison of gameplay for each version!
Want to try it out? Here you can download a ROM of the Intellivsion or Atari 2600 version, or try the Intellivision version out on archive.org!
Intellivision (review with gameplay)

Distinct enemies, each with own abilities:
Warriors- light blue, 1 hitpoint
Leaders- appear after 10,000 points, dark blue, special disks, 1hp, can increase other warriors' skills. Introduces brown (double damage) and white discs (lock-on)
Bulldogs- purple, move slower, 2 hitpoints, less accurate
Guards- orange, white paralyzing sticks to immediately end the game, 4hp, appear after 1 million points
Recognizers: will take out the usable doors in between waves after a certain amount of doors are jammed, 1 touch is instant death, will fire a stun attack to freeze Tron for duration of knocking out doors, can disable it by attacking the "eye" when it turns white causing it to leave at the bottom offscreen. Exclusive to this version.
3 different speeds for the disc
To play, you can use both of the controllers- one for disc direction, other to move Tron around. Otherwise the typical controller would be with one controller and the number pad would control the disc direction [insert pic of instruction manual]
Start out with 3 hitpoints, 1 life, move slower if got hit, restart at each wave
Progression- 20,000: increase HP to 4, 100,000: increase HP to 5
Warrior point value increases with your score
Tron is red for some reason
Features 16 directions (very fancy for the time)
Atari 2600 (review with gameplay)

No recognizers
Doors close after 1 use
Enemies only have difference in color and each color is assigned a specific point amount (for instance, the basic light green warrior is worth 10 points, while the gold warriors are worth 800 points)
Everything controlled with joystick
Once a warrior is defeated, another will spawn in 10 seconds unless you defeat the last warrior of that wave
Have 5 hp, regained at the end of each wave. Only 1 life
Mattel Aquarius (gameplay)
Similar gameplay as the previous- tossing disc to derezz 3 enemy soldiers at a time in waves
No recognizers
Doors situated in specific spots that can be left open if you attack them, will close once you use them
Tron can gain a shield- can use 10pts to gain it (from what I can tell based on gameplay)
Enemies worth 50pts, only one type (red colored)
Atari 8-bit/5200 fan game

Published under the name "Intellidiscs" by Phaser Cat Games
A fan conversion of the Intellivision released in May 2021, for North America and NTSC TV sets according to their site.
Can download the ROM for free and used to be able to buy the cartridge (came with instruction manual, custom overlay for controller, actual cartridge) -> here on their official website
Complete with a 4 person battle mode
Programming by Ryan Whitmer, Music/SFX by Bobby Clark
Game plays similar to original Intellivision version- recognizer (identifier in this one) takes out the doors, can go through door multiple times, different colored enemies with different abilities
Can block/crouch
Difficulty ramp (enemies come faster)
References under the cut!
- https://www.myabandonware.com/game/tron-deadly-discs-eah
https://archive.org/details/intv_TRON_Deadly_Discs_1981_Mattel
https://thecoverproject.net/ (covers for both games)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/8889/tron-deadly-discs/screenshots/ (in-game screenshots)
https://intvfunhouse.com/games/disc.php (box manual, overlay, flyer)
https://videogamevariations.com/AtariCompanies/MNetworkGames/TronDDManuals/trondd_manualA.htm M Network manual
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(video_game) Utopia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_(video_game) Dungeon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowS8TypH94 side by side comparison of all games
https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Mattel_Intellivision/Manual/formated/Tron-_Deadly_Discs_-_1982_-_Mattel_Electronics.pdf intellivision instruction manual
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/320634-intellidiscs-now-available-for-the-5200/ forum with box art
https://www.deviantart.com/atariboy2600/art/Atari-5200-Intellidiscs-921972194 official art from the instruction manual
#tronblr#tron 1982#classic tron#tron#tron deadly discs#classic games#video game#apologies for this taking forever lmao life just kept getting in the way
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So in MK11 you can name your custom variation and I happen to own Robocop so I wanted to name his variation "ACAB Includes Me" because RoboCOP, and the game immediately denied the name because of "profane words or terminology" .... But I named some other kharacter " ChalengedPisser" (spelled like that to fit the 16 character limit) because his default intro animation is him pissing on the floor. And a DEFAULT variation name for Baraka's first kharacter slot was "Hell's Teeth" so clearly they ain't afraid of profanity (however I couldn't name D'Vorah with the word bitch and for context she killed TWO of my FAVORITE kharacters and I hate her for it) So imma try and find a different way around this because I am stubborn.
-🦕🏁 (I still play Mario kart don't worry but I burnt myself out and forgot how much I loved playing mk11 before mk1 was released) (also both mk11 and Mario kart are physical copies and admittedly I get stuck in this loop of I don't wanna take the cartridge out no matter how badly I wanna change to a different physical game) (oh yeah the other mk is Mortal Kombat I just never type it out but I do if I need someone to know which of my two fave games I'm talking about)
That’s fair they both have the same initials but I know there’s not a Mario Kart 11.
That’s ruuuude.
There’s a social media app I use where swear words are censored including “queer” which is… :/
I haven’t really played anything recently on console. The last thing I played was finishing up the Indigo Disk DLC. I haven’t really touched my switch since then. I have a case that carries cartridges that my switch is in so that isn’t packed but the actual cartridge game cases are already packed in a box, same with my Xbox games so I can’t really play anything I have a physical copy of on my Xbox, which is fine.
I’ve just been play Pokémon Go and now Mario Kart on the mobile app mostly. Sometimes I’ll pick up Candy Crush or PUBG Mobile but I’ve really just been focusing on Pokémon Go and Mario Kart Mobile if anything.
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Another rare instance of me sharing my writing on here! This time, a proper backstory for my Sonic.EXE retake…
Cliché.EXE
Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 are considered some of the best games in the Sonic Franchise. And with the new movie coming out this year, I wanted to play through them. I already had SA2, as I played it as a kid, but I never had the original Sonic Adventure. So, I set out to find a copy of the first game.
I wound up in my local Cartridges Galore, with a friend (who happened to work there), and in the back room, looking through boxes of various games. I eventually found something interesting, a blank GameCube disk with something Sharpied on it: “Sonic Adventure: Beta Test. DO NOT THROW OUT.”
While we did find a copy of Sonic Adventure, I couldn’t help but be curious about the beta copy. “Do you mind if I take this?” I asked Martha (the friend who works at the Cartridges Galore). “I don’t see why not,” Martha replied.” “How much do you want for it?” “You can have it for free, I doubt anyone would wanna buy a beta version of a game.” I proceeded to pay for the actual copy of Sonic Adventure and went back home.
Once I was back home, I loaded the beta disk into my GameCube. Instead of any sort of intro, I’m immediately booted to what looks like the very first zone of the level. That was to be expected, this was the beta test, after all. What startled me was…Sonic. He was facing away from me and looked very different. His quills were curled up and he only had three of them on the back of his head. When I moved the camera to get a better view of him, I was startled again. He looked like a non-machine Metal Sonic. His muzzle was a pale blue, his eyes were black holes with red irises and white pupils.
He wasn’t scary, per se. In fact, he looked…sad. He suddenly looked up at the camera and a text box appeared on the screen: “Will you play with me?” I looked around the area. It was clearly unfinished, some of the pieces of the set still having the black-and-magenta checkerboard pattern that untextured 3D models have. “I’m sorry, bud,” I thought aloud, “but….I don’t think I can. Where would we even play?”
Sonic looked up at the camera again. Having read my fair share of Sonic creepypastas, I braced myself for a jumpscare. But instead, he just…started crying. I could practically hear my heart break. This little hedgehog (whom I can only assume is a sentient piece of AI at this point) has been stuck in this disk for almost three decades, and just wants someone to play with. As I was processing what was happening, the TV shut off.
That night, I had a very vivid nightmare involving Sonic Adventure. I can’t remember it entirely, but I do remember just wandering a Fallout-esc Green Hill Zone, almost like the one in the beta test. Upon waking up and realizing it was just a dream, I realized I had to make a decision: What do I do with this disk? I didn’t want to break it, as it would then become lost media, but I also didn’t have the heart to throw it out or put it up on EBay.
I decided to revisit Sonic. When the game started up, Sonic was sitting on an untextured rock, still crying. A new text box appeared: “I woke you up, didn’t I? I can’t help the nightmares I cause…” Once again, my heart broke. I realized that I had to figure out some way to help this poor guy out. I haven’t figured it out fully yet, but this is what I’ve done so far.
I bought a new PC monitor (a used one), a second GameCube (also used), and a capture card. I hooked the capture card up to the GameCube and the GameCube to my PC. After some tweaking and multiple tests, I finally managed to get this contraption to work. I put the disk in the GameCube and booted it up.
Sonic was still sitting on the rock. He looked at me. “Will you play with me?” “I will, bud. I can’t do it right this minute, but I promise I’ll play with you.” For the first time, the hedgehog perked up a bit. “You will?” I nodded, “I will. I promise, Sonic. Although…I don’t think that’s a fitting name for you anymore…” “Then…what should my name be?” I thought about it for a few moments before responding. “Cliché. Cliché the Hedgehog.” “Cliché?” “Yeah. I found you, or well, your disk, at a second hand video games store and got it for free. That’s a classic cliché in video game creepypastas.” “What’s a creepypasta?” I chuckled, “I’ll explain it later.”
I’m a college student studying engineering and computer science, so hopefully I can make a more compact version of my current contraption at some point. I also hope that I can eventually modify the beta copy I have so I can actually play with Cliché. So to whoever left this guy at the Cartridges Galore, don’t worry. Sonic, or rather, Cliché, is in good hands.
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I wasn't gonna say anything but I've seen this post too many times now.
Although the aesthetics of having a bunch of tiny ssd cartridges with movies and shows is excellent and very appealing, I cannot stand for this slander of the optical media!
Yes, optical disks are slower (for data transfer) and a lot more expensive BUT they last so much longer.
Optical media is the longest lasting medium currently in production. It can reliably hold onto your data for 50-100 years without power or cooling, and without the worry of magnetic degradation. Using recordable optical media such as DVD-R is perfectly suitable for long-term archiving because it is write-once, read-many, meaning it is physically immutable—cannot be changed—so the data on it is tamper-proof. (source)
I also saw some folks in the notes talking about Micro SD (it really would look super cool to have mini boxes of micro sd, like dvd boxes but tiny, I love the concept), but I gotta say: BAD IDEA!!! Micro SDs are not made for long-term storage!!! You will loose your media!!!
Its basic architecture is part of the problem with storing data on an SD. The gate can hold the electrons for some time. However, this group contains the pieces of data that make up the whole files you want to store. Some electrons leak out of the gate and get lost as time passes. If they do, you may have to deal with missing or corrupted data that could be difficult to get off the card later. [...] In short, it may be fair to say that SD cards can store some data for a few years. However, many factors could shorten that period. For example, a brand new card will keep data longer than an older one. Flash memory also has no error correction. Therefore, the chances of getting your data corrupted or unreadable are high. An SD card is practical if you need to store non-critical data for only a few years. However, this kind of memory isn’t your best choice for crucial data you want to keep safe for a long time. (source)
I don't know about you but I'd like to keep my favorite movies, shows, albums, etc, for like decades! I want my children to have them! And my grandchildren!
And I also saw some people in the notes talking about cassette tapes. They are very easily erased, guys. They are written magnetically and can be corrupted super easily. I still have a bunch but I have to be very careful with how I store them, and even so I've had the surprise of popping a few in the VHS only to see that their content is gone :(
Lastly, the SSD:
- SSDs are temperature sensitive. If you put it on a shelf of a storage room with high temperature, the memory charge that defines bits in flash will fade quickly over time. When the charge is gone, so is the data. - SSD’s speed and reliability are much relying on the firmware’s house cleaning work. Yet, when unpowered, the firmware is unavailable. - Since the SSDs make use of chips to store data while the chips can only be written for a certain number of times before they fail, there is great chance of SSD failure under too much writing work - SSDs store data on flash memory, which needs to be charged with electricity to keep the data stable. [...] In summary of the above concerns, the most important factors that affect the lifespan of an SSD are the temperature, the read/write frequency and the power charge. (source)
So yeah, SSDs are good! They work much better than normal HDs. But optical disks are still better. They are the best!!!
PLEASE DON'T LET DVDS DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want owned physical media back, but I'm not sad to see DVDs go – optical media was always a transitional technology, and suffers from a number of intractable drawbacks. I want them to start selling movies on indestructible solid-state cartridges the size of a quarter, so I can keep my entire media collection in an unsorted pile in a random cabinet drawer and have to go rummaging through it like an amateur chef trying to find the lemon zester every single time I want to watch something. Do you understand? I want to lose the entire Star Wars trilogy between my couch cushions.
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Expansion Pack
Back in the day, before the internet, or even when we had the internet but it wasn't doing anything other than Slashdot and gay Star Trek erotica, you could not update your software. You went to the store, bought a box with shrink wrap around it, (unless you had the millions to commission something custom), put the disk into your computer, installed it, and played it. If a game was published with problems, they were permanent.
We literally had shareware, which were disks that you were explicitly told you were allowed to spread, in order to get information passed around through Sneakernet.
Sneakernet is another story.
Anyways. So, the game was published, and initially, you only one two options, tell the player how to fix your game, or sell a new game.
If we take DOOM, DOOM 2 was basically an expansion pack, but the concept didn't exist yet. It was decided afterwards that an iteration of a game, a full version number increase, should have mechanics built from the ground up.
Reminder this is what happened with Super Mario.
Left: Super Mario Brothers 1 (released 1985)
Mid: Super Mario Brothers 3 (released 1988)
Rght: Super Mario World (released 1990)
This is how fast computers were developing back in the day. This was called Moore's Law.
But, there was a middle ground. You could make an Expansion Pack. Xpacs were normally priced at half a normal game, and would add a full new campaign plus a few new units or weapons.
And life was good.
With the proliferation of the internet, games could now be patched. Initially, what they did was either:
Bug Patch: Fixing problems.
Balance Patch: They change the small numbers in the background to improve the playability of the game.
Content Patch: Free content.
But then they figured out that with the internet they could make patches as often as they wanted. Instead of a the great sigh of relief being able to fix the one major problem from the game, it turned into routine. Games no longer had work out of the box, to the point that it sometimes takes years of patches before a game is video game is viewed as even playable.
And then they realized people could pay for individual content. Instead of paying $40 for a whole new campaign that was as good as the original, and a few new playable classes, and a whole new set of items, you could now charge $2 for the dozen items, $10 per character, and $20 for an extremely short campaign that can be beaten in a few hours. Instead of paying half the price for the same amount of content as the original, you pay the full price, if not more, for much worse content. Each item and character is completely separate and not meant to work together, the campaign is about as long as the tutorial was, and every - single - separate piece gets fucked over the next time Microsoft updates their DLLs, and has to be patched, individually.
And we get WoW, that carved out 95% of the original mechanics to make the game easier for casuals, and destroyed the world's lore from the very first expansion pack, that you have to pay for, along with the monthly fee, and then if you want to have anything good, you need to pay real money for it.
For the record, Vanilla WoW spent ridiculous amounts of time and effort to stop any real-money transactions. If you got caught even offering, your account would be banned.
Back in the day, if you had a disappointing expansion pack, (usually on the third+ one), you just... uninstalled it.
to put this into context, the only reason I got rid of my NES/SNES/N64 was not because the games didn't work, and was not because the games were less fun then current names, but because I had played them through so many times that I wasn't even thinking while playing. If you get a working console and working cartridge, (because barbarians cannot take care of their electronics), THEY WILL STILL PLAY.
The only reason I can't play my Windows games, (other than giving them away), is because I realized how much superior Macs are.
And now we have governments discussing how loot boxes are casinos for kids.
#yesteryear#video games#expansion pack#dlc#I turn off my mac once every few months#or when the power goes out#take 2#now with proof reading
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Galactic Acid.
The new Mike Dawes album arrived.
I listened to this on Apple Music quite a few times. I was actually getting familiar with the tunes and the cool sounds. Got those boxes checked off.
Mr Dawes is a musical magician. He is an acoustic guitarist, but with a caveat. His instrument is hot rodded and he uses "pedals" and internal microphones and pickups to trick the thing out.
He is an audiophile, as he loves finding interesting and cool sounds. I have no idea if he has a nice stereo, he just plays with intricate sounds for fun. If it takes an electronic reverb well that's fine. Even as an acoustic artist he needs a PA system to perform in venues. He gets a good mike and plugs his rig in and off they go.
I ordered the LP version (surprise!) and it just arrived from the UK in the post.
It is a translucent blue vinyl disc with dark smears, my wife says it looks like denim. Before I get to the sound I have a criticism. It is just a heavy disk in a nice jacket. It begs for liner notes. How was it recorded? Who or where was it mastered? I have a heavy geek thirst for info like that. I know from the Apple Music Stream that two tunes were with collaborators. No mention of that on the jacket. I know he IS the record label and it was probably a cost thing and basic modesty not wanting to brag about it. Still you should credit other artists.
OK what about the sound.
It is FN amazing. These are not small differences to the stream. The stream is full bandwidth APPLE LOSSLESS and my DAC doodle uses the fanciest ESS chip. The stream sounds good. The LP is totally better. It is not preference here it is just damn better!
I was actually a bit shocked. I did not have to listen long or concentrate at all. The sound hit me with surprising impact. The same speakers, and amplifier. The Audio Technica Cartridge is pretty flat in frequency response which I take to mean uncoloured. Yes there is one little additional vacuum tube in the preamp, but it must only be a modest contributor. The power amp has 12 more in the line!
The LP sound is far bigger. What was a brilliant guitarist on the far side of my living room wall is now a giant spread in front of my fire place. When he taps the guitar body for percussive sound it is wood finely crafted. String plucks are metal of fine caliber and clear as a mountain stream.
Strangest to me is the stereo mix. This is one guy with two hands and some sounds are on the left and others on the right and some in the middle. It sounds like a big wonderful room, but I know he uses a battery of strange effects boxes and stuff. The guitar is miked inside and out but somebody did magic with tracks. I want liner notes!
Whoever did the mix and the master kudos and hats off and all that. I could not help but speculate that much of the differences I hear are from the mix. I know it is the same basic recording as the stream, as there are a few clues like the count in on the last track. But this is far far better.
The recording sounds far more alive and more real. It has whatever voodoo the stream is missing. There is no such thing as lossless. The stream definitely lost something.
I listen right through twice. It is music at a high level. Part is reminiscent of those American Gramaphone releases of Mannheim Steam Roller and Chip Davis, But those guys had a band and multi-track. This is one person's vision and real time performance. This is ART.
BUY THIS ALBUM if you care about sound. I heard zero flaws in the pressing. It desperately needs liner notes.
BUY THIS ALBUM to support a worthy artist who works hard and deserves rewards.
ARC SP14 preamp.
ARC CL60 amplifier.
AT 7V / 440 mla stylus cartridge
linear tracking Turntable.
#mike dawes#galactic acid#vinyl rules#vinyl lps#vinyl records#audiophile#high end audio#audioblr#hi fi stereo
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Look, I get the whole reason why some retailers only display a games box but not put the games inside while keeping the actual games disk or cart locked behind the cash register is to stop people from stealing, but good lord did I have a bad experience today relating to it.
So basically, today while I was out after seeing some family I caved and decided to actually buy the Nintendo Switch remake of Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door at Target and naturally I had to take the box to the counter to get it's cartridge. So I did, paid for it and... they didn't get the game cart out despite the fact that I literally handed them a box that had a "Game not inside. Please see counter" sticker on it. So when I opened it to show the girl there she went "...oh." And only THEN did they get out the little tub with all the games in it. And guess what? They struggled to find the correct one! The games were not organized by alphabet and despite the fact they had the case for the game I wanted they still asked "Sorry, it WAS Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door you wanted right?" Umm, YES!? Why else would I off picked that one.
Eventually after five minuets they found the correct game in a protective case and guess what? They couldn't open the case the game was stored in to get it! They had to leave and get the correct key to open it which took another couple of minuets until they did, THEN they got it opened and finally I got my game. Seriously, what the Hell is Target paying it's employees that it took this much effort for a single game!?!? A game I only brought because I know if I didn't I'd never hear the end of it!!! Is THIS the reason some people prefer buying games purely digital!?
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Mario Artist Communication Kit
This was released before Polygon Studio. Its main purpose was to link Mario Artist creations with Randnet service.
A lot of the thread will depend on the Communication Kit's manual. Since we haven't yet recreated the service behind it, the best I can do is provide what I understood alongside screencaps.
The main menu has: Save & Load, Net Studio, Capture, and Options...?
Save & Load
Save & Load is basically where you copy your Mario Artist creations to the Communication Kit disk so you can upload them via the Net Studio. If you plan to do a lot of uploads at once... this might be painful as you need to swap disk for every copy.
Net Studio
Net Studio is basically your service access. This is where you put your Randnet ID and password (...which are sent plaintext) and of course dial to the service via the Modem Cartridge. From there, you can Upload, Download, and use the Print Service.
In an interesting manner, you can register up to 5 nicknames (called pen names here, accessed by the P button) as your own, and even then, it's actually optional. You can still upload as an anonymous person.
When you upload or download, you have 3 choices:
Net Gallery, where anyone can freely upload and download creations.
Exchange Box, where you can send creations in private to someone else.
Event... which I have things to talk about.
Uploading your creation is pretty simple, just select your creation from the Communication Kit disk, select your nickname (or not), and you can write the title and description. Fairly standard.
When it comes to Event... something definitely wouldn't hold up today. Of course you can upload your creation for an event, but sometimes, you may have a PAID event. As in, you have to pay to upload your creation.
Ever heard of Rand Cash? Well me neither until now. One rand is equivalent to one yen. I don't think paid event uploads would be expensive but that wouldn't fly today for sure, not to mention like, Randnet is already a subscription service!
Downloading from Net Gallery offers more options, Recent, Best, and Recommended, and then after that, what type of creation you want for Paint, Talent, Polygon Studio... From there, you can finally see thumbnails of creations and start downloading.
And of course, you can download Event creations... WHICH CAN BE EITHER FREE OR PAID. UGH.
The Print Service is also a paid service. You upload your creations for Randnet to print and then ship to you.
Sticker Print was one of the options, where you can put up to 16 pictures on a sticker on a seemingly pretty easy to use interface. Paper Craft was then added later to print your 3D models as a papercraft.
Capture
The Capture option is much more robust than Paint Studio and Talent Studio, this time you have options that can actually remind you a bit of the craziness of the Game Boy Camera photo shoot options...
Then it has a few secrets of its own. Here's the full main menu. Bonus Creations and Game Boy Printer were hidden the whole time!
To access bonus creations, even though the icon is invisible, you can still select it! It contains a bunch of creations that you can save to the disk to then import in Paint Studio, Talent Studio and Polygon Studio!
Game Boy Printer
Game Boy Printer is pretty much unused, because not only it requires the unreleased 64GB Cable (read N64-GB, shown here), it requires a special Game Boy Printer cartridge to plug it to! It was also hidden inside Paint Studio, unlocking when it detects the hardware.
Basically it allows to print your picture on the Game Boy Printer, you can print it either in small or split it in several parts to then put it all together later.
However if you might think it might look pretty shitty on the Game Boy Printer that we know, this also fully supports the unreleased Pocket Printer Color! It works just like the Game Boy Printer, but in full color. We don't know much about the hardware.
And this about covers the entire Mario Artist suite. Just know this, I'm interested implementing ways to share Mario Artist creations, I know the person who bought randnet.ne.jp, who I'm sure might be down to do something with it if something is ready to use.
At the same time, I'm not too keen on the lack of security of this. But someone has to figure out how the N64 Modem Cartridge works, which it's not my specialty.
Mario Artist is genuinely a fascinating suite of games, made with love and care, only to come up on an addon destined to fail. Dolphin was already talked about since 1999, and the Dreamcast already came out worldwide, just to give an idea.
Maybe I'll make other threads showing off odd titles like the Mario Artist suite... perhaps I could talk about Sound Fantasy next? If the final build ever leaks, maybe?
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A Personal Rant before Sword and Shield comes out
I’ve sat idly by for months, tried to weather a few negative responses but given that it’s now 6 days from release and I’m hearing that devs are getting literal death threats I’m going to put my foot down
If you’re already shitting on a game that hasn’t been released yet, you are all juvenile bitches, and I’m about to tell you why.
Before we begin, I’m not saying that you’re not allowed to dislike a game, that happens, but usually it happens after you play a game, not before.
You are viewing this game through a keyhole and judging the room and what you’re seeing is not worthy of this much hate. Let’s start with the big one Dexit: Not as Big as You Think Having No National Dex is of course not ideal, but it doesn’t ruin the game. Let’s Go has no National Dex, all it had was Alola forms and nobody whinged about it. Ruby and Sapphire didn’t have a National Dex until FRLG, and nobody whinged about it. Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Moon do not have a National Dex And Nobody Whinged About It Do you know why? Because it’s not actually a big deal. People who complain about it are bandwagoning because ‘Dexit’ is a meme, its name literally parodies an event in current Britain that many people don’t actually want to happen. Now currently, the anger of Dexit is that Bulbasaur and Squirtle are not in it, which frankly is hilarious because the last wave of bitching was ‘Kanto mons are getting all the new stuff’. You wanna know how many main series versions Bulbasaur and Squirtle have not been in? Seven, only way to get them is trade and event. The other complaint is that there’s ‘only 400′ Pokémon. Remember those days where people were fine with 150? 400 is huge, in fact it’s 3 less than USUM and it’s not accounting for the Gigantamax forms Don’t let headlines fool you either, Sun and Moon had 302 Pokémon, it’s far from the ‘lowest dex number since 2003′. Do your own research with these things. Kalos’ regional dex was 151, BW2 was 300, BW 153, Sinnoh 210, RSE has 386 and GSC had 252 Don’t get me wrong, it smarts that some Pokémon isn’t there, but it’s not a dealbreaker, like let’s be honest here. For a good year and a half all your pokémon are gonna do is sit in an unused cartridge or a PC box, you’re literally whining about the fact that you can’t move your perfect IV Pokémon from one box to another. You could simply just let them stay in Let’s Go or USUM, you don’t have to use Bank or Home on continued subscription for that, so your complaints are only set on the foundation that you feel like you have to continually pay to not transfer your Pokémon, Finally, people act like these Pokémon are deleted forever, they’re not, this is for spacing to make sure this game doesn’t break down from the sheer mass of models and textures it has to maintain in a massive open world space, the local and online camping and battles. Just use the Pokémon that are there! There’s new Pokémon don’t you wanna try those? You can also look at FRLG or Emerald and consider that maybe more Pokémon will get patched in once the game proves to be stable. I don’t think you’ve noticed, but the Nintendo Switch isn’t as powerful as the other consoles out there, sometimes it runs like shit. Believe me on that one, Switch is still in a very buggy development phase. Let’s Go was kept small to test it’s capability and Sword and Shield can’t just fly in and give you all 1000 Pokémon just so one of the ones you want can be in there
You have to be much less obtuse with this, I mean this was a long time coming. You’re gonna have to live with the fact that not every Pokémon ever can be supported on one game alone. Disk, Download, Cartridge and Patch Sizes have limits in Compliance, you can’t just throw everything at it. Waah, the New Pokémon Don’t Look Good They do, you’re being petty. It happens every version, the people dislike the starter evolutions or just one in particular. Remember all the Oshawott hate? This all comes and goes because people have simply gone on the first instinct that ‘new and different is scary and should be shunned’ You’re that Simpsons meme when young Homer accuses Grandpa of not being ‘with it’ I won’t spoil to those who haven’t seen it, but I like the new starters, and some of the new Pokémon will need some growing but not every Pokémon looks good at first glance. If Mr Mime, Hypno or Gastly came out nowadays they’d be crapped on so much for lacking creativity or for looking weird. Look at Drampa as well, thing looks like Falkar from The Neverending Story, when I first saw it I thought it look weird but now I like it. You should offer these things time And actually fall back on past experience, you’re reacting like this isn’t the same thing that happens every version; the dex gets leaked, people whine about the evolutions, people get over it and accept that they overreacted. hIgH QuAlItY aNiMaTiOnS I’ve seen that video, 2 clips and you judge a whole game how classy of you? If you don’t see improvement you’re blind. You can’t shit on a game for keeping the battle animations, you can’t expect every Pokémon to move their own unique way to the exact position of the body part the opponent needs to get hit by, that’s just unrealistic. You’re also failing to equate to the new moves and all the new movesets. You have to ensure that each Pokémon is capable of calling this animation as well. The second clip in that video was Hop and Hau having the same rigging, and once again, that’s not abnormal. Rigging is not easy either, do it wrong and it sticks and deforms texture. There’s nothing wrong with Hop having one animation that matches Hau’s, you’ll probably find that many models actually have similar rigging as previous games. Because it’s not that big of a deal and it saves money, as an example look at Disney they copied hand-drawn motion and stuck a different character on them, Robin Hood’s Little John dances just like (animated, for those too young to know otherwise) Jungle Book’s Baloo The thing you’re also ignoring from that clip is the graphical improvement of Hop compared to Hau, Hau looks like a balloon with a smiley face but Hop’s face has depth and his mouth actually moves like a normal person, his clothes have far more contrast and complexity, but no just zero in on one fighting animation and one rigging that’ll surely be worth abusing a game that’s not even out... B-But Charizard I’ve already explained this before but Charizard is Leon’s main, it’s obviously going to have a Gigantamax, ergo it’s also going to be in the Dex. Does Charizard get a lot? Yes, but the reason is because Charizard is popular. One of the rarest cards is a Charizard Hologram Card, Charizard is one of the first version mascots, it is one of the most recognized Pokémon Ash has in the anime Reality of the matter is that like Pikachu, Charizard is a recognized Pokémon for all ages, it appeals to a demographic that’s not playing In Layman’s Terms: that part is not for you A reality you really need to face. Pokémon is a game for all ages, so elements of the game are not always going to be tailored to your age range. The gimmick of Dynamax and Gigantamax is for merch sales and young children because it’s got an audience there, you can’t expect the Biggest Entertainment Brand in the World to simply shut out a large fraction of its demographic just to appeal 100% to you And again, it’s not a big deal, so there’s a Charizard there, just save a Stone Edge and be done with it, if you hate Charizard so much this’ll be catharsis, but in actuality you’re complaining because it’s something to complain about Kanto are getting Everything That went down like a lead balloon didn’t it? Reminder that the first Gigantamax forms were Galar Pokémon, so you can’t really say that anymore. There are Galar forms from non-Gen I Pokémon too I assure you, but the reason Kanto gets a lot of them is because Kanto is the oldest. Let’s not pretend that other gens don’t get love either Or should I remind you of Mega Ampharos, Scizor, Heracross, Houndoom, Tyranitar, Blaziken, Gardevoir, Gallade, Mawile, Aggron, Medicham, Manectric, Banette, Absol, Garchomp, Lucario, Abomasnow, Steelix, Sceptile, Marshtomp, Sableye, Sharpedo, Camerupt, Altaria, Glalie, Salamence, Metagross, Latias, Latios, Rayquaza, Lopunny, Audino and Diancie? It’s true that the Johto starters could use something, but I don’t think they’re being purposefully ignored, perhaps the right design hasn’t come along. Rather it be done right than poorly wouldn’t you agree? The Devs Should’ve Done <Insert Thing Here> People who say this kinda stuff have no idea how a game is made. I have a First Class Bachelor’s degree in Computer Gaming and Animation Technology and I can tell you that none of the stuff you want them to do is easy. Even getting grass right is a complete hassle. You want small insights you should watch Corridor Crew react to Good and Bad VFX, they tell you about the mechanics of CGI a few times on those vids. This is what annoys me with the prior swipe at the Battle animations and rigging, even with 2 years this is a heavily massive workload and Game Freak have only recently expanded the team that work on Pokémon which makes communication much more widespread and difficult to manage, likewise they are working on other games too they are not just Pokémon, currently their next IP is why Toby Fox was able to do a bit of music for Pokémon, because he’s collaborating with them on another game. The work doesn’t stop, most of these people are overworked and still doing overtime, they bring out a good product and all it gets is ‘but it should have this’, and unless it’s a huge part of the game that’s needed to function then that’s really disrespectful Before you start critiquing on what the people making this game ‘should’ve done’ perhaps you should try to make a game yourself, because it is not easy even for pros, I call back to Toby Fox because creating Undertale took 32 Months to create, that’s 2 years and 8 months for those slow with math, it also took 3 years before it could be ported to Switch because the Engine couldn’t support the platform, Pokémon has less time to do that, greater graphical and animation quality to achieve and more characters to battle, attacks to animate and more songs to compose. Conclusion: You’re All Just Bitter I’ve already seen it happen recently but this group of people senselessly bashing something because of ridiculous demands, expectations or arguments based on a lack of understanding all combine into something I’m simply calling the ‘Bitterness Fandom’. It’s people hating for the sake of hating and trying to bring something down just because it’s been a popular force for so long, and it’s not just Pokémon that’s getting it It’s already been happening to Star Wars. The Last Jedi and Solo were great films but the Bitterness sank its fangs in and act like neither are as good as the original trilogy (like killing Snoke without knowing anything about him and Phasma before she could do anything is any different to killing Sidious and Boba Fett in Jedi or Maul in Phantom Menace and Grievous in Revenge of the Sith), a lack of awareness to reality and the desire to complain for the sake of complaining continues to infect Star Wars. We even have a thing called ‘Star Wars Fatigue’ Star Wars can’t release a film every year because of ‘Fatigue’ but Marvel can release 5 MCU films a year and nobody bats an eye. Those frustrations aside, I refuse to let the Bitterness sink in without me calling them out, because you are not Pokémon Fans. If you were you’d know that having no National Dex isn’t new, you’d know that the graphics have improved and leaks of the game happen every time, you’d know why Charizard is popular and that some features are not intended to be targeted at you Shock and Horror to the heavens above but games can’t do everything And if you’re that naive to think so then you’re clearly not doing your homework So let’s throw out an absolutely WILD suggestion shall we? Let’s decide our opinion on a game After playing it? Because shitting on something you don’t even have hands-on experience with it is a fragile pedestal to put yourself on. If we all think it’s bad then, so be it, but I sincerely doubt that is the case When my copy of Pokémon Sword gets delivered to my house I am going to enjoy it because I will not let petty and incorrect statements sway my feelings and I swear to Arceus if you think the Bitterness will bring down Pokémon that easily then you did not see the queue to the London Poké Center that had been amassing since midnight and was forced to stop taking more people when the doors opened What should matter is how you enjoy the game, play it before you judge it And honestly, don’t send death threats, why we need to tell you that is beyond me, the ones who made these games are people who have worked their asses off day in and day out to provide something you aren’t even going to play because one Pokémon isn’t in it, the irony is not lost on me when I say this but deep into the very bottom of my heart: Grow Up. If you don’t like the game, don’t play it, don’t bother people about it, we don’t need your shit here Enjoy the Game People
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Paroxyism (Leon Kennedy X Reader) Report 4

Last Chapter <> Next Chapter
"There was another officer... I-I couldn't... I couldn't..." Leon sputtered out. He looked down in shame. You eyes softened as you realized the man he was referring to was probably Elliot.
"Here," Branagh held out his hand. Before Leon could grab it, you stepped to the lieutenant's side.
"You need to keep pressure on your wound," you softly stated. "You'll bleed out at this rate."
The officer saw the concern in your (E/C) eyes. He quickly pushed his hand back to his bleeding side and walked back to the main room. You turned back to Leon.
"I'm sure you did what you could, Leon," you gave him a small, reassuring smile.
Following Branagh's action, you held your hand out to the blond. You watched as he stared at it for moment before grasping his near your elbow. Pulling up, he stumbled to his feet. You swiftly grabbed his other arm to keep him balanced.
"You okay?" you asked.
He gave you a small nod in response, and you dropped your hands. Turning around, you walked back to the main hall. As you walked pass the lieutenant, you pressed the knife he had gave you onto the table. Heading back to the receptionist desk, you grabbed your flashlight and promptly turned it off. Sliding it back onto your belt, you glanced back to the two. Both of them quietly whispered to each other an occasionally looked at you. You decided it would be best to ignore them and unloaded your magazine. Seeing only several cartridges left, you let out a quiet groan.
As you searched for more bullets, you noticed the large, army green container hidden from view. You unclipped the latches and lifted the lid. You gazed inside to find several boxes of handgun ammo. Smiling to yourself, you thought, Hey! Maybe I could be the next Indiana Jones! After snickering to yourself, you quickly reloaded your almost empty magazine and placed extra in an empty pocket. Leaning inside, you reached for the other boxes and grabbed them. Before shutting the crate, you set the ammo off to the side. You quickly double checked the area around you and found nothing. Grabbing the boxes once more, you walked around the desk towards the statue. As you walked pass the fabric dividers, you failed to notice Leon changing into his police uniform. Almost doing a double take, you saw him slip on his undershirt. Unfortunately for you, he noticed your stares.
"Like what you see?" He flirted.
Oh, so that's how this is going to go? A smirk graced your face as you placed some ammo on nearby table. Turning back to face Leon, you sauntered towards him. You leaned in close to his face and glanced at his lips and back up to his eyes. Taking a moment to observe him, faint freckles lined his cheeks and his eyes shined like the ocean. You heard his breath hitch. Taking the opportunity, you quickly dug your hands into the sides of his stomach, tasering him.
As he leaned over in shock, you sprinted away. A colorful array of words decorated your mind. Darting up the staircase, you hid behind a lion statue. After catching your breath, you peaked over the pedestal to see that Leon didn't follow you. A sigh of relief escaped your lips. Slowly, you stepped out of your hiding place and wondered towards the wooden railing. Leon glanced up at you, and you gave a cheeky grin in response as you crossed your arms over the railing. You watched as a small smile fell on his face while he rolled his eyes.
"Hey, (F/N). Come down here," the lieutenant yelled out.
You stepped towards the top of the staircase. After sitting on the railing, you promptly slid down it. At the last second, you hopped off. Landing with a soft thud, you walked towards the black man.
"Here," he told you as he held out his hand. Glancing down at it, you saw a CLIF Bar.
"Are you serious?!" You protested. You wanted to jump off a building or even slam your head into a concrete wall. The man in front of you, who was going to turn into a zombie god knows when, was giving you food that he promised to get over five hours ago. You wanted to hit Lieutenant Branagh, but he was already injured.
"Just take the damn bar."
Caving in, you took it with a sigh. You took a seat on the couch next to the one Branagh sat on. After wiping your hands on your jeans, you ripped the package apart. Quickly taking a bite, you watched as Leon struggled to adjust his bulletproof vest. You readjusted the wrapper and walked towards him.
"Let me help," you told him.
"I can do this myself," he replied quickly.
"You've been fiddling with the same strap for the past five minutes," you retorted as you placed your hands on his right shoulder.
After fixing one strap he asked, "How do know how to do this?"
"She works for the state police, Leon," Lieutenant Branagh spoke. The blonde rose an eyebrow. Leon looked down at you as you moved on to another strap.
"You're a cop?" He questioned.
"No, I'm a forensic scientist. My friend is one though," You quipped. "Also, it's velcro. It's not that hard to figure out."
"Oh, right." He gave you a shy smile and scratched the back of his neck.
Checking the straps on the sides of his body, you found them already done and that they didn't need adjusting. You gave him small pat on chest as a sign of being done. Grabbing your protein bar, you went back to nibbling on it. After seeing the living dead, your appetite was almost nonexistent now. You set the bar on a nearby table. Out of the corner of you eye, you spotted Leon fidgeting with his elbow pads.
"Does anyone know what started this?" Leon inquired.
"Not a clue," Branagh replied. "But honestly, all you need to know is that this place will eat you alive if you aren't careful."
"Yeah... well, I was supposed to start a week ago, and I got a call to stay away. I wish I'd come here sooner," he stated as he loaded his gun.
The lieutenant turned his attention to the small notebook in his hands. "You're here now, Leon. That's all that matters. (F/N) was worried about the same thing early."
"Better late than never," you interjected.
"Okay, lieutenant. I'm ready," Leon announced.
"Hopefully, you'll be able to find a way out of this station. That officer you met earlier- Elliot. He though this secret passage might do the trick," he replied. He held up the notebook up, handing it to the blond. Leaning over Leon's shoulder, you saw that it led to the garage.
"This is good news. We can get you to a hospital," he sighed in relief.
"No," Branagh quickly stated. "No, i am not the priority here."
"Lieutenant, I'm not just going to leave you here-"
"Leon," you muttered softly. He didn't realize that his superior. He didn't know he was going to turn.
"I'm giving you an order, rookies! You save yourselves first. I'd come with the both of you, but I'd only slow you two down..." the lieutenant explained. An exasperated look graced Leon's face. He looked towards you for help in convincing Branagh otherwise, but you glanced to the floor in response. "Now... take this."
"I can't take-"
"Stop." As Leon shook his head and went to grab it, Branagh tugged him close. "And don't make my mistake. If you see one of those things- uniform or not- you do not hesitate. You take it out, or you run. Got it?"
Leon slowly nodded his head as he digested what Lieutenant Branagh said. "Yes, sir."
You watched as the officer sat back down on the couch, letting out a groan in pain. Leon glanced to the melee weapon and back to his superior.
"Let's go," Leon told you.
He went to walk away, and you grabbed one of his hands. Surprisingly, his hand was soft. The blond turned his attention towards you and noticed the light grip you had on him. Realizing you were probably making him uncomfortable, you dropped your hand.
"Sorry. Can I see the notebook?" You asked.
"Uh, sure," he replied and grabbed it from his back pocket.
After handing it to you, you quickly flipped through the pages. You stopped as you reached a page with roughly sketched statues. The medallions were marked in red and their codes laid in an ellipse underneath them. What caught your eye was the small sketch of the lion statue.
"There," You pointed to it. "That's located right at the top of the staircase."
You signaled for him to follow you as began to move. Jogging up the staircase, the two of you soon reached the lion statue. The medallion was placed in the center of the shield. You checked the notebook to make sure it was right. The code read a lion, grain, and a bird.
"That's it all right," you stated as you stood at the base where the code was supposed to be input. It kinda reminded of those toys at an old playground where you would hit it and it would spin. You went to move the first disk, but you were met with resistance. "A little help, please?"
You heard Leon shuffle behind you and soon saw his hands be placed next to you. With both of your strength, you two managed to turn the first disk. When it landed on the lion, a click resonated in the air. You both turned to look at each other in shock.
"Two more to go," he announced.
You nodded your head in acknowledgment. Quickly, the two of you moved onto the other disks. You quickly reminded him of the two images that were suppose to be used. Once the last disk was in place, you both heard a loud groaning noise and rumble come from within the statue. The two of you took a step back in caution. You watched as small slivers of stone twist and move away from the medallion. Handing the notebook back to Leon, you grabbed the medal from its spot. Taking the opportunity to look at it, tarnish sprawled all over the golden metal. You hands traced the surface, from the roaring lion to grain pattern surrounding the animal. You sensed Leon over the shoulder and gave him a chance to look at this.
"This isn't a police station, is it?" He asked.
"No, probably not," you replied.
No building you have ever been had puzzles like this built into it. Sure you have seen secret passages within the one month your worked for the state police but nothing like this. Leon handed the medallion back to you as you both began to walk down the staircase. Turning to the empty slots in the large statue, you placed the lion medal into the far right one. After pushing it in, you heard a large rumbling noise. Leon grabbed your arm and pulled you back as a large section of stone slid down into the ground. The hall was suddenly filled with silence. Only the sounds of Lieutenant Branagh's labored breathing could be heard.
"So, Elliot was right," he remarked.
"Yeah, but the passage isn't open yet," Leon replied.
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A/N: Happy Valentines Day! I bet you weren't expecting an early update! Remember to tell all of your friends and family you care for them! Your homegirl has been single since birth, so that's what I'm doing! I may update again this weekend. Who knows? Thanks for reading! (Please respond Oppy)
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Experiential design has largely become lost in psychical video game presentation and that presentation has become more reserved for merch and conventions. Instead of allowing every person who purchases a physical copy— a lovely little collectors item that will allow one to engage with the game so fondly and deeply before even playing the game, as was previously pointed out— we now have reserved those meaningful experiences for those who are already invested and want to spend *more*.
But I remember that experience of being on my way home from the Game Store opening my box and pouring over the manual and reading everything. I remember looking at the art I couldn’t find anywhere else and seeing the tips. Seeing that REAL PEOPLE worked on this in the credits and that it didn’t just appear into existence— something that looking back on, that’s huge for the video game industry! Devs used to have to hide their names within the game in order to receive credit! It made me think: I can work on something cool like this when I grow up!
I think things like this, as well as physical strategy guides, helped me find my creative passion for art and design. I admire so deeply how they all worked together with the game itself to create a singular experience and I take that with me forever.
And I hold out hope every time I get a new physical game that more will be in the case than the blank side of a single-side printed flimsy piece of paper and a cartridge or disk.
#🍀#video games#graphic design is my passion#I also want to quietly acknowledge the environmental impacts of all this#costs have gone up and all that as well#it’s expensive and people didn’t appreciate it nearly enough it’s time I guess#that or it got prohibitively expensive in a way that was not sustainable#for publishers#i am thankful to fangamer and serenity forge for being small publishers that care a lot about this though#I like having physical copies of games to be able to lend out to people#sad that most of my games are digital tbh#but like I get that it’s better for saving space and backing data up and stuff like that. I get it I get it.#ennui
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Message In A Bottle
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen
Fandoms: Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures - Various Authors
Relationships: The Doctor & Yasmin Khan, Thirteenth Doctor & Graham O'Brien, Thirteenth Doctor & Ryan Sinclair, Thirteenth Doctor & Yasmin Khan, Melanie Bush & Seventh Doctor
Characters: Yasmin Khan, Thirteenth Doctor, The Doctor (Doctor Who), The Doctor's TARDIS, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Melanie Bush
Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels, POV The Doctor (Doctor Who), Mentioned Past Companions (Doctor Who), Angst, Heavy Angst, Hypervodka (Doctor Who), Thirteenth Doctor Era, Everyone Needs A Hug, Past Character Death
(CW: Alcohol Use)
Summary:
The Doctor gets a bottle with a message from a past friend. The trouble is with as much past as the doctor has, it can all be a bit much
The TARDIS was meandering in the Time Vortex. They had a rough few days of action so they were taking a day in The Vortex where almost nothing could really attack them. She might have told them nothing could hurt them they looked tired.
The Doctor did too, of course, The Doctor did need sleep. Honestly respected sleep, it was a good thing. But it was also a bad time for her, in general life had been going pretty good but when it got quiet, it all got very loud.
Nightmares, she actually had them for her whole life. Afraid of the dark, not to mention never being loved by her family and not being good enough for the Academy, the Time Vortex, the Cloisters and that was just on Gallifrey. Of course, life had not exactly stopped giving her nightmare fuel, Daleks, Cybermen, forced regeneration, human experiments, genocide, war, her friends dying, planets burning, universes collapsing. In other words, she never got a good night’s sleep.
So instead of sleeping, and inviting in the past, she was messing with the console. The TARDIS was making little noises at her, telling her thief her opinion on everything, as she always did.
The Doctor smiled at this, the TARDIS was her best friend. The one thing that had been with her for most of those nightmare-inducing events, always the place she wanted to run to and run with. Her friends were the best of her, every single one of them, but the TARDIS was her home.
The TARDIS stopped its friendly wheezing and a knock sounded on the door. The Doctor felt her eyebrows do the scrunch thing and she pulled up the view screen, it was a bottle, like just a glass bottle how did that work? Now she wanted to know,
“What we think? let it in?” Thirteen said rubbing her hands together.
She didn’t wait for her box to respond, this was weird, she loved weird.
Swirling space filled her view as she plucked the gas bottle in. Inside was an old disk, from a few consoles back, but TARDIS compatible. Not to mention turning it over she saw a wisp of paper reading “Doctor”. So, for her, exciting. Two bits of mail very close together must be getting popular.
The Doctor went to the console and was keenly aware she no longer had the hardware on her counsel, so this was an old message. Now she’d have to go digging.
Wandering the halls she looked for either an old desktop backup or a spare parts room, had plenty of those. Doing so she remembered something, or almost remembered something like it was on the tip of her tongue. The message was old so was being addressed to one of her older faces. But it was still making her head spin and old memories and thoughts come up.
‘Oh you really are thick’ her thoughts supplied, making her mutter “stupid Doctor” at herself and the voice of judgment that always sounded a step out from her.
‘Really can’t remember anything anymore, typical’ her mind supplied.
“Too much in my head.” The Doctor muttered again
“Doctor!” Ryan shouted
The Doctor jumped out of her skin and turned around, all three of her current companions were apparently following her, wondered for how long now.
“Oh hi,” The Doctor said smiling at her companions as best she could.
“What are we looking for?” Graham questioned.
“I have a bottle,” The Doctor said waving it around.
“I can see that,” Ryan said with a shrug.
“So I have to find one of my old console rooms, one with the round things in white.” The Doctor explained and kept walking.
“Doctor, did you happen to drink the contents of the bottle?” Yaz questioned stepping in front of her.
“I’m not drunk” The Doctor defended
“Right, well wandering in circles talking to yourself, being drunk is kind of the best explanation,” Graham replied leaning against the wall.
“I’m trying to find things, help me?.” The Doctor said, more to the TARDIS than anyone else. And of course, now that she had made a fool of herself the door opened.
“Found it,” The Doctor said proudly and spun showing off the console room, from before the eighth body at least.
“Wait this is like the front room yeah?” Yaz said walking to the console.
“Yes, and can be functional again if needed but right now we just need to be able to read an older file format.”
“So the main room is an updated version of this?” Ryan asked.
“Basically, though to be fair most of it is cosmetic, from her getting a feel for us, or just wanting to show off.” The Doctor explained pulling some wires around to get it to play to the view screen.
As she got it out of the bottle, she noted it was not a normal bottle. It could open up big enough to get it out. Cool, never seen this before.
“Message in a bottle” She explained handing the bottle to Yaz who placed it on the ground. The Doctor took the drive, and Graham interrupted.
“That’s like an old school game cartridge.” He laughed.
“Don’t diss it, this is Gallifreyan tech.” The Doctor said putting it and hitting play.
“What tech?”
But Graham got no answer, the screen was filled with an older red-headed woman in a bright pattern dress.
“Hello Doctor,” she said wiping tears from her eyes.
The Doctor stumbled back and the words, “Mel Bush”, tumbled from her lips.
“It’s been such a long time now, or not, guess member a really long time.” Mel laughed, “I really do miss you, even after the last time going a bit pear-shaped. I was angry, you played mind games with me. But I know the man I knew, and I know you’re still him. I hope you have someone with you, keeping you safe, keeping you together. And remember sweets aren’t a meal, not sure what the version of you now is like, I heard you face change again, a few times now I think.
The grapevine seemed to pick up after 2010, not sure why. Heard from a few people who knew an even older you. But that doesn’t matter. I promised you’d I do this, so I am. Because I hope you’re out there turning worlds better, saving lives, changing them. Hope you don’t let it keep making you harder, loosen up and have fun.
Even if the universe can be a cruel and mean place, don’t be a Valeyard or master right? You’re The Doctor." The girl bopped the lens with her finger,
"And be nice if someone’s there with you, for me okay? Make them want to stay.
Oh, I do love you Doctor, goodbye.”
The screen clicked off
Doctor you okay?” Yaz asked placing her hand on The Doctor arm, brown eyes warm with concern.
“Yeah, I think so, you know.” She shrugged.
“Who was that?” Yaz asked,”
“Melanie Bush, she travelled with me way back, thousands of years back.”
“Wow, always forget you’re so old,” Ryan commented, earning him a glare from Graham and Yaz.
“I am so old Ryan, so so old.” The Doctor agreed.
“She seemed very nice.” Yaz gave her a reassuring smile.
“She was, very nice. To me and most people.” The Doctor held in her hands, “I always mess up how do I always mess it up?” she said more to herself than the others.
“What happened Doc? ” Ryan asked, “You know if you want to share.”
“The last time we really saw each other, she told me she never wanted to travel in the TARDIS, because I’d lied to her about what was coming, why I wanted her to leave the first time on the Iceworld. And I got her roped into this mess with prisons, Eternals and creations of consciousness.”
“Oh well, not sure I understood every word of that. But you ended on a bad row, it seems she was okay in the end, forgave you.” Graham asked, “Isn’t the good though, closure and all.”
“She was good, spent a good portion of her life doing charity work. Saved her from some rough Sontarans, wanted revenge, don’t know why they went after aid workers but whatever didn’t have time to figure it out. Just wanted to see her.”
“She fought with you for that?” Yaz asked.
“No, I said the last time we really saw each other. That was when I was dying, wanted my ‘reward’ it was, I was in pain. Wanted to see everyone I’d loved before, I was vain, selfish didn’t want to go.”
“No one wants to die Doc, when I thought I was dying, all I wanted was people I loved,” Graham said.
“Wanting to see your friends isn’t selfish.” Ryan agreed.
“Thanks, guys, it’s just like a ghost talking to me,” The Doctor said walking towards the monitor, “Mistakes and good times. But I guess Mel was dependable, wanted to care about me, she’d keep her promises.”
“Yeah Doc, remember the good stuff.” Graham said, “The best right, keep it with you. What you told us.”
“Of course’ The Doctor turned to them with a smile, “Can you give me a minute though?”
“Sure Doc” Graham nodded.
Yaz came up to her and gave her a hug, The Doctor was a bit startled they hadn’t really become a hugging fam very much.
Yaz gave nodded and followed the boys out.
The Doctor turned to Mel and smiled, she took the cartridge putting it in the discarded bottle and took it in to her room for companion’s things, mausoleum, museum, or whatever it was. Passed the recently replaced Corsair message and walked to Umbrella’s friends. Noticed a place that had one of Mel’s bows and placed it in there. Under Peri, above Ace, she had a rather large drawer for her large life. Ace McShane, what had she made of her?
The Doctor looked up and down and broke. Being good, and kind, and laughing it had been her goal. But right now she didn’t care about being The Doctor she wanted to be old and sad and bitter. And guilty, ashamed, wounded. Just an old battered TIme Lady.
She walked from this room to her counsel room, she started banging on panels till one opened and River’s whisky was there, but she shut it. Not River, not now, and definitely not the Lethbridge Stewarts. That was so much guilt and sadness, to mention the last time people drank it she had been contemplating Time Lord equivalent of suicide. Not going that dark tonight thanks, stuff those thoughts way to the back.
So she wandered to a room that functioned as a liquor cabinet, Bowtie hadn’t liked the stuff, usually going for destroying property and/or putting himself in danger on bad days. But a bottle of hypervodka met her eyes and she smiled. She grabbed to bottles and went to the console room, it had so many ghosts they all blanked each other out, not personal to any of them.
She downed one whole bottle all alone, Time Lords had fast metabolisms and high tolerance. It was all the heart beating and thinking. No thinking, or at least not remembering, not working.
The second one disappeared as fast, maybe it would make her sleep, just at least sleep with nothing in her mind.
Not working, not enough. She thought and poured on more glass but her hand was caught causing her to flail out and saw it was Yaz’s hand.
“This bottle I did empty on my own.” She joked
Yaz did not seem to find her funny.
“What?” The Doctor asked.
No answer Yaz just stared at her with a look of judgment, with her other hand on her hip like a judgmental parent. Why was it Yaz’s business?
” I can drink my own vodka, in my TARDIS, by myself if I feel like it. I’m old enough to be your messiah, I can make my own decisions. So just go. Go away where you won’t get hurt.” The Doctor’s voice hit a tenor that made her age creep into the auditory world. Even if the power was dampened by the slight slur.
And Yaz looked hurt and very sad, she let The Doctor’s hand go her eyes growing wide.
“Doctor, what are talking about?” Yaz asked her hands hit the floor sitting next to The Doctor.
“What are you talking about?” The Doctor mirrored.
“You say your fine and next thing I know you’re trying to drink yourself to death.”
“I’m not as fragile as you, I can handle this.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m sure.”
“You could have talked to me, or Ryan, or Graham.”
“You don’t understand.”
“We don’t understand loss?” Ryan snapped from the dark.
“Yes!” The Doctor stood up, “Exactly. When were you one of two people standing in the ruins of the universe, watched hordes of people die in Dalek fire, had your friend turned into a cyberman, and another, and another. When did you walk a woman into the hands of a nutcase who took her ability to have children? Have you sat in a field of blood that you made, known people see you as a monster? Seen a child sacrifice himself for the world! When were your friends torn from you by your own people more than once? Did your children burn with all of your family? Don’t pretend you can ever understand” The Doctor’s tone went from angry, to despair, to just bitterness and scorn.
They all stared at her in that way she hated like she was something otherworldly, but not a magic hero. A vengeful creature.
“Doctor?” Graham said, ton and body neutral.
“Nope, Not The Doctor right now. Not sure who I am, but guess I’m just me. Huh, guess that’s why she’s been using that name.” Tears rolled down her face hot and Then The Doctor collapsed on the floor the world going dark.
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She woke up with Yaz sitting next to her.
“How mad are they?” The Doctor said to the ceiling.
“You told them, losing their wife and mother didn’t count as a loss. Then kind of told us you’ve killed people. We’re all a bit miffed.” Yaz said sarcasm dripping.
“Yeah, that makes sense.”
“Doctor I know you were in pain, but you can’t lash out at us. We’re your friends, you said we were your family.”
“I know I did, you are my best friends. I mean that I do. I shouldn’t have said what I did, it was wrong.”
“If you talk to me before it got too big to handle maybe it would be better.”
“Right try that next time.”
“Not to mention you lied. You said that one bottle was nothing but you blacked out.”
“That wasn’t just the drinking, it was that I hadn’t slept in way too long.”
“Why?”
“It’s louder when I sleep?”
“What is?”
“The screaming.”
After resting on Yaz’s orders she found Ryan and Graham using a gaming machine and library book respectively.
“I’m sorry.” The Doctor said, “I’m so, so, sorry.”
“I know that loss can make you act like a jerk Doctor, but you’re the one who says to let it make you a better person,” Graham said.
“Yes, I don’t follow my own advice enough.”
“Like using weapons when you say we can’t?” Ryan asked.
“Rule one, The Doctor lies.” The Doctor muttered to herself.
“That's not a good rule, I prefer don’t wander off,” Ryan said, looking pointedly at the screen.
“It was what my Bowtie face always said, Well more so what River said about me. But I was unfair, and I’m sorry. I know losing your wife hurts Graham, all of mine are dead. One comparatively recently and I know it hurts.”
He nodded she turned to Ryan, “ My people don’t have mothers in exactly the same sense, and the people I call my grannies it’s wasn’t the same as yours. My family weren’t exactly my biggest fans either. I should never have pretended it didn’t matter. I'm so sorry”
He nodded.
“I didn’t lie when I told you I carry them with me. I didn’t say that sometimes it’s too much. And I’ve done things I'm not proud of, but I have to be better than that, I have to try my best to be The Doctor. And I can't let it hurt the people I care about when I fail.”
They both nodded.
“If you want me to take you home I can” She offers pointing her thumb behind her.
“No Doctor, we had one fight.” Ryan said, “that’s not the end of this.”
“Doc, you're stuck with us for a while yet. But I think we should talk more yes?”
The Doctor nodded and turned around. She couldn’t help going to Bill’s room, and Nardole's saying her silent goodbyes again. Turning off the ache and noise was hard, she would just have to hide it better again.
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What is each of the creeps' biggest pet peeve?
Slender - littering
Splendor - The sound of popping balloons
Trendy - Weird stains on carpet
Offender - Being ignored
Zalgo - Not having what he wants
Jeff - Being called ugly
Liu - The smell of smoke
Jane - .Rain
Sally - Being followed by the Rake
Lazari - The sound of people arguing
Clockwork - When there are multiple clocks in a room and each of them are ticking off-time
LJ - dud fireworks
Helen - Dried up paint tubes
Jason - missing parts to his toys.
Puppet - Watching a movie on a scratched disk
BEN - Broken cartridges on old game consoles
Toby - Being called just “Ticci”
Tim - When people try to take off his mask like cmon Jeremy fucking get the fuck out I don’t want these assholes to know what I look like I’m going to drop kick you in the head of the penis if you try to touch my fucking mask I know I know I also hate my mask because its a dehumanization of who I actually am Because I was forced into slavery by a giant tentacle fuck in the goddamned wilderness what the frick I will actually kill you if you touch this mask I don’t want them to know who I am fuck off you total dickweed you dicknugget you fucklamp you you you asswipe.
Brian - People eating all the cereal and leaving the box
Eyeless - Getting something in his eye socket.
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Emergency Situation.
Hello all I do not enjoy writing this journal, in all honesty im disgusted. But this is a serious situation. TLDR: Dad's a fucking ass, shitton of debt he's in, if anyone can spare anything...i literally beg of you, even if its 50cents! Anything your willing to safely give to go towards food, electricity and gas meters can be done here; paypal.me/DarNara If you want something tangible in exchange for your money then please see below. If anyone wants to discuss this in private, my Discord is Dar'Nara#4818 My unending thanks to those who have already helped, i have made sure its been used wisely to get nessecary items (Food, electricity and gas meter top-ups etc...), so thank you very much! ;-; =================== The long version; An emergency situation has arisen. As some of you who i talk to regular will know, my dad has been an absolute asshole and got himself into huge sums of debt that he clearly has no plan to pay off. He's maxed out all his accounts, and almost dragged my mum down with him and had her in debt too. When i found out about this, i tried to help them both out. £3000 or so i used between them both and now mum is back in the green, accounts suspended whilst her credit rating goes back up and she gets things in order. Dad was in the green at least, still in debt, but not over-limit but now he's just spent what he was given and is back in the red. Waaaay in the red. >_< The emergency situation here is that, because he has done this there is now little to no disposable income for even the basics, like food. Dad has quite proudly said he will tell debt collectors 'he doesnt live here'. I cannot comprehend this logic. It is on a whole other level of stupid. From him saying that alone, after i helped him, i definetely got burned here and so would my mum have been too as he evidently doesnt even want to pay this debt off and is quite happy to spend everything and try and tell the law that 'he doesnt live here'. I've had a long chat with my mum about dads actions and made sure that when her accounts are un-blocked that she doesnt let him anywhere near them. His debt total? Near £10,000 now. Over 5 or more credit cards and a few catalog accounts. All likely with 49.9+% interest. And thats just what we know about! All over-limit and demanding their money immediately. This is an absolute clusterfuck and i'm at wits end here. Dad's been getting final notice calls and letters and we're at risk of having our stuff taken away by debt collectors! I've recently been made aware that i can get around that so long as i can prove whats mine and my mums, but what we wont get around is if the creditors want to take the house! Which they can! I've tried going through official channels, reporting this and hoping to at least get his ability to keep getting credit blocked outright as clearly he is a risk but nobody wants to listen yet clearly places are still readilly borrowing to him. His credit score i am 99% sure is <100. Not even a shady payday loan company would take that on surely?! But someone is.... I am out of money i can safely provide to keep things going. So here i am. Having to beg for money so we can keep the lights on and i can get food for everyone because dad sure as hell isnt buying it. He's also made it very clear that he wont be contributing anything more than £35/month to the electricity meter.....we go through about £59/week and he says if it gets shut off that he just doesnt care. And, i dont even know where he's getting this £35 either or how he's paying other bills like the internet and water bills, or his own phonebill. Though in all likelihood, he probably isnt. If your willing to give anything, doesnt matter if its just 50cents, it is highly appreciated and you can use this link; paypal.me/DarNara For those of you whom have already helped, you have my undying and unending thanks and appreciation. It really does mean alot and will have helped in some way! I feel so horrible about all this, you dont exactly expect your own father to do stuff like this. And as much as i'd like to just up and leave. I cannot. In the UK thats called making yourself 'intentionally homeless' since im not being 'physically abused'. I would not qualify for emergency housing and receive no aid from the local Council or police. Family who know about this have all taken a dim view on this but have said they're not going to help and i dont expect friends to put me up long term either. I do also have commitments to my mum and my sister who live here as well so just ditching them is not really an option and would only cause further issues. Anything given will be put in the following priority order. Food, then electricity meter, then gas meter (both are prepaid meters we use for electricity and gas/hot water meaning that money gets put onto a special card thing at a shop, it then has to go into the meter and credit gets added to it that gets used as you use the service its providing), then trying to save anything else incase any other shitty problem arises here. Again im really sorry to be asking at all, but this is such a bitch of a situation. If anyone wants something tangible for any money they give, i have got some stuff to sell in order to try help with this situation and will be happy to exchange this for money. The following things are available; 1.) Apple MacBook Pro - £200 (2012 model, 256GB Samsung SSD + 500GB hard disk - few dents around casing but nothing that affects performance - Comes with charger (UK plug)) 2.) LS240 SuperDisk Drive £55 (new) or £30 (used) (2 of these, one is brand new in box - Each will come with 1x new sealed disk to use with it) 3.) Official Mass Effect 3 signed Prothean Lithograph (61/500) - £50 (no frame) or £65 (with frame) 4 ) Official Mass Effect 3 signed Prothean Battle Lithograph (89/500) - £50 (no frame) or £65 (with frame) 5.) Official Mass Effect 3 signed Anderson Lithograph (103/500) - £60 (no frame) or £75 (with frame) 6.) Official Mass Effect 3 Reaper Attack Lithograph (44/500) - £60 (no frame) or £75 (with frame) 7.) Iomega Jaz 2GB Drive + 1 2GB cartridge + SCSI cable - £50 8.) Iomega REV Drive 35GB (Have 2 of these, 1 is Firewire connection and the other is IDE/ATAPI) - £50/each + 1 35GB cartridge with each drive. 9.) Various old computer parts - £30 for whole box (500GB-1TBhard disks, cables, etc...whole mix of things. Cannot garuntee working however. Just thrown into box and left.) If anyone wants any of these, kindly send me a private message and lets arrange something. Please be aware that shipping IN the UK is £11 via Special Delivery (no exceptions). Shipping OUTSIDE the UK - This STARTS at £19 and can go up from there. I will not send anything un-tracked.
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