#Mod likes to think they are funny. They are not funny

[psin314]

Hello darling! I just wanted to ask... what would genderswapped Murat and Lucanis look like? It has been itching my brain and I need to know~~

hehehehe here you go anon. :D murata and uuuhhh idk honestly. lucia maybe???

some funnies under the cut

she's big.............. someone's gonna break her neck............

ALSO. last year i had a dream... i was playing datv. i installed some mod for this crow outfit the invitation i think. and for some reason this mod made a fem version of my rook. ... WITH HUGE FUCKING TITS. THEY HAD PHYSICS. physics like in some porn anime game idk. like when the character was moving the outfit failed at hiding them and they just were jumping around. omfg brain why and maybe thank you???? i dont know!!!!

[grammarpedant]

#WATCH AS MY EYES LIGHT UP RED#VERSO WHERE DO I SIGN UP #what if when repo happens the SecUnit player loses control of their character #and has to watch as their POV subdues and captures the other players #OOHHHHHHHHHHH. DUDE. #you dont understand. im. im freaking out #video games are a medium built on agency. they work because the player can choose their actions #pairing that with the psychological horror of the governor module/combat override modules/etc #the detail of breaking the gov mod being possible but the secunit has a piece of the information needed to do it…………… #how you need to keep all the players alive otherwise you lose #but you also cant let them succeed otherwise you lose #and the players need the secunit otherwise theyll probably die #but the secunit is also actively working against them #im actually. i need to lie down. #what if asymmetrical gameplay was 4d chess #what if you needed each other but also couldnt rely on each other #im unwell #the murderbot diaries #lethal company (via @broken-risk-assessment-module )

Oh yes absolutely <33 you get it bram!! The question of how to incentivize nuclear amounts of tension between the two types of players is my favorite thing to think about here and if I ever made this game real, it would be SUCH a fun and tricky thing to balance.

(Fun tidbit: in my vision of the video game, Surveyor players' scan function shows them the location and value of items much the same as it does in Lethal Company. However, SecUnit players literally do not see the value of items when they scan- a subtle way to incentivize the mindset we see from MB of "why the fuck are you squishy humans risking your lives and safety for stupid material STUFF? stop making my job harder.")

Because if the players already know that the way to win the game is to pull a PresAux, then the game is too easy, isn't it? You may as well just reread All Systems Red if you want to know how it goes. And it would trivialize something that makes the themes of the books genuinely radical- that it's hard to react with clear-sighted trust and compassion in the face of danger. So you have to give the players real reasons to behave in ways that would interfere with each other and generate resentment and distrust. But at the same time, the point IS still that pulling a PresAux is the only way to get out of the prisoner's dilemma.

I think currently the SecUnit player not getting to fucking communicate with anyone At All is maybe too brutal tho, tbh. It seems like it might be too isolating- it might just be me, but there's something about the way that you can laugh things off with your friends, or even just use basic tabletop safety tools when you can communicate clearly with them, that turns scary and frustrating moments into funny or at least tolerable ones, and the opposite isolation kind of scarring oops. In a tabletop rpg, I guess it would be mitigated by giving the SecUnit player GM powers, or making the human players the GMs who can communicate freely with the SecUnit out of character.

Thinking about the Murderbot Diaries x Lethal Company x Among Us crossover game idea. posting for today's whumptober. some stream-of-consciousness notes:

the goal of the Surveyors is to rack up enough Credit that they can pay off the Company and leave the planet. they get Credit by completing certain tasks, making certain discoveries, collecting evidence thereof, etc

the goal of the SecUnit is to stop them from doing this by reporting infractions that incur fines, because it loses if the Surveyors win. (the game implies that the SecUnit will be killed at the end of this contract, maybe because of bad performance stats? or it's at the end of its warranty? idk)

Surveyor lose conditions: if everyone dies/is in cryostasis. SecUnit lose condition: if it dies, or if the Surveyors win while the governor module is still active.

the Surveyors are normal-ass humans in a horror game, i.e. they are distressingly susceptible to death by alien fauna and small injuries can be fatal. the SecUnit is OP by comparison, with a tankier health bar, built-in weapons, and increased speed, jump height, dmg resistance, and the ability to insta-heal when returning to the base's Cubicle station.

However, there is only one SecUnit. It can't be everywhere.

Additionally, the SecUnit cannot meaningfully communicate to the other players. It cannot speak in voice chat or emote. It can only trigger buffer phrases to play, and the game AI picks which one seems appropriate: "Please use caution," "Danger," "Get clear," "It's safe," "I don't advise that course of action," random excerpts of Company protocol, etc.

"That is a violation of contract" buffer phrase automatically triggers when the SecUnit reports an infraction that fines the Surveyors. The Surveyors' HUD will show how much farther back that set them from escape and winning the game.

The SecUnit's HUD shows tags for the location of all players and their distance from it. It tracks a distance limit: remain outside this limit for too long, and the governor module will start shocking you to death.

The SecUnit will die if all Surveyor players are dead.

Surveyors will not automatically die without the SecUnit, but death is likely. There are no places in the game where death is impossible- monsters can spawn almost anywhere, environmental hazards require clear and precise communication to navigate, and even in home base it is possible to fuck up somehow and die.

Daily quota: It's not a quota per se, it's the daily cost of living- of paying the Company for food, water, power, breathable air on an alien planet. Equipment can be bought, debt can be incurred, and the Company repo's you if you lose too much. Meanwhile, you are trying to build up enough to buy escape.

Oh god what if when repo happens the SecUnit player loses control of their character and has to watch as their pov uses unique voice lines and pathing AI to subdue and capture the other players.

Alternately, players must complete a certain number of objectives from a list in order to win the game by the end of contract cycle. If they don't, they are stuck on the planet until next contract cycle is up, or until they die. Surveyors may have secret objectives that the SecUnit will be mandated to prevent or punish.

The best ending is possible if the SecUnit's governor module is broken before the full quota is met. The govmod break conditions are different every game, and one of the crucial pieces is known only to the SecUnit- who again cannot easily communicate with the other players.

The game has hurt/comfort mode (Surveyor players do not die, but rather their suits enter cryostasis and they can be retrieved and revived later) and whump mode (Surveyor deaths are permanent).

I wonder if this would be better as a video game or a ttrpg

[eulaliasims]

Round 7: Midwife 5 / 12

Meanwhile, Angus has passed the herbalist guild's exam in Evervale. He's now earned the physician trait and can sell potions to other sims like Helenet does.

Though, since I started playing Veridia, the Sun & Moon team have released their own potion mod and I'm planning on trying it out with Angus. Probably he'll use that mod and Helenet will keep using Jellymeduza's herbalism bench.

Angus has been collecting seeds and cuttings to establish his own herb garden when he moves out. Some plants he and Helenet use, they collect from the forest, but some things are handy to have a stock of in the garden. Rosemary and hyssop and so on.

Congrats to Lune for autonomously going back to finish her homework. 👏 Or maybe she's just going to feed it to Snow.

River: Haha, you and Orla are both huggers, aren't you?

Helenet: I s'pose it runs in the family. Now, let me introduce you to my… hmm. Elmet and I don't really have a word for him, do we? Anyway, he's a bit eccentric. And kind of a grump. Don't take it personally!

River: He can't be worse than Maddan, and I managed to live with him.

Helenet: ...Oh no.

River: What? What?

Helenet: I'm suddenly realizing I have a type. Ugh.

River: Um…

Arturo: Before you ask, I am not a faery, or elf, or whatever other creature you humans have conjured up.

River: Okay. I was going to say, it's nice to meet you.

Arturo: Ah.

River: Helenet said you've been having frequent nightmares, and they might be magical in origin? I'm only familiar with oneiromancy in theory, but, um, I can see what I can do. May I touch your head?

Arturo: Fine.

River: Oh! You have a curse on you.

Arturo: I know. It's just lycanthropy.

River: No… well, yes, that too, but no. This is something else.

Helenet: What? I thought we broke the curse!

River: It's sort of hidden under the newer curse. It feels very old. I think it has waned since it was first cast, but there's still some sort of… tie. It's like a woven belt where some of the strands have broken. Um, sorry, I can't describe it better than that—this stuff is more abstract than people think…

Arturo: I suppose I should have realized breaking it completely would not be so simple.

River: If something is stalking your dreams... maybe you should confront it. Try to scare it away. Um, if you push back, it may leave you alone.

Arturo: They are dreams. How am I supposed to do such a thing while asleep?

River: There are herbs and other things, mushrooms, that alter your mind's perception or abilities. Some of them can affect your dreams… Helenet would know more about that than me.

Helenet: Hm… mugwort, I suppose. Maybe with a pinch of some sort of sedative?

River: It would be safe enough if you did it here. With those wards around the property, it would have to be a very powerful magic user to trespass them physically. More powerful than I've ever met, anyway. Who placed the wards?

Arturo: Me.

River: They're very good.

Arturo: Thank you. Helenet thinks it is very funny to trip them to summon me as a sort of dinner bell.

Helenet: It's that or go shout at the woods and hope you're nearby, love.

Arturo: I suppose I wasn't sleeping anyway. Shall we practice your walking?

Fiona: Yeah!

[honeyhonest]

I've been thinking about how some of the twst guys are either discovering (by coming at nrc) or shall never ever know what porn is and it's very funny in my head; from what I've been told by friends who were in my highschool's dorms, poor Riddle and Azul definitely got unwillingly exposed to it while doing room rounds; the tweels are freaks and unlimited internet access once on land means it probably took them less than a month to find out that wow humans take videos of themselves doing that huh; kalim probably has a childproofed browser; Malleus, Sebek, and Silver are NEVER ever in a situation where they could find out and shall go back to briar valley and remain blissfully ignorant their whole lives; meanwhile Lilia found out while downloading mods and texture packs, did a hard double take on the adds, clicked because he didn't know yet what internet scams and viruses are, and also had the same revelation that Wow humans take videos of themselves doing that. Then proceeded to spend his evening giggling, looking it up to check how freaky humans could get. Probably never watches porn after that, unless he's curious about specific kinks he learns of later on while hanging out on game forums, anyway it's always only to learn/giggle at it. These are my headcanons

wait can I do headcanons for all the third years!!! and fellow and crowley. I might actually have something to say about this

trey - stumbled across it while looking for recipes online (googled "cream pie", forgot to add the space), didn't stick with him. imagination user. could probably do scary masturbatory things with his UM. knows of porn, doesn't need it, not curious. not for moral reasons, it's just... again the magic thing

cater - I agree with every single take that he jerks off to magicam model's swimsuit pics. yep, the airbrushed filtered shit. stuff that idia (our resident femcel enjoyer) would shudder in fear at the very thought of. no taste for porno, watched some with old friends but didn't get into it. I don't think caycay has much of a libido so he mostly jerks off to let off steam

leona - leona is a rational guy, from the moment he figured out sex and figured out the internet he could put two-and-two together. does he watch it? no. thinks it's unrealistic and tacky. he has CLASS, thank you. he also doesn't really have a high libido, IMO

rook - actually, same as leona. power of deduction! likes amateur porn but doesn't actually get off to it. just sort of... enjoys watching it? reads erotica and commissions a lot of bizarre RPF fetish art in his spare time

vil - accidentally put on one of the X-rated movies his dad produced (HE WAS NOT IN IT), decided he'd seen enough of THAT! jk lol, he probably gets antsy watching the occasional very well-shot softcore sex scene in movies. can maintain an air of indifference, though. secretly enjoys whatever the twst-equivalent of 50 shades is

idia - idk, you know I'm going to say it's hentai and weird deviantart fetish stuff, there's nothing more to add. he's been online for a loooong time. he's like the opposite of cater: (irl) smooth, airbrushed, clean women freak him out, he can't get hard to that

malleus - has never seen porn and has no intention to. I DO think he knows of it (he goes to an all-boys school, after all) but he has no interest in watching two or more people he doesn't know have sex. it just doesn't make sense to him

lilia - will answer this in the next ask!

rollo - almooost the same as malleus, BUT he has watched a few videos out of curiosity, got aroused, felt sick to his stomach, and then quickly repressed the guilt of that by knitting for six hours straight or something. he comes back to porn every once in a while; he likes solo masturbation stuff because it feels less intense

fellow - who even knows how he found out, not even he can remember. he likes the magazine kind, less of a hassle for him, more fun to jerk off on the toilet with

crowley - one time saw a half-naked woman in a vintage drawing and almost passed out

[heartorbit]

happy halloween! 🎃🐈‍⬛👻🐇

[masky-the-unmarked]

@chessboardalliance-meeplemadness

LOL but seriously release the hounds

[nerves-nebula]

i love to see people who are like "you can talk about csa but not around minors that's gross!" like idk how to tell you this but. who do you think is getting csa'd. i'll give you a hint: the first letter in csa does not stand for "adult"

[bacchuschucklefuck]

space sweepers but they're delivery people and are at no point on screen through the entire movie

[daily-basil]

Let your blood wash me clean for I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm a rotten...girl...

[a-star-of-galaxies]

okay so, there's this thing that happens to me whenever i fight tenna, but doesn't happen to anyone else. At the end, when he's rapidly flipping through channels until eventually powering off, i've always gotten this weird screen effect overlaid.

video demonstration:

and some stillframes, in case it's hard to see:

Literally no other playthroughs i've watched seem to have gotten this, and i'm pretty sure it's not a youtube encoding issue or dropped frame, as it lasts for multiple frames. I've seen this on multiple devices, so it's not a device issue. And it's not due to using violence, i got to 1000 points my first playthrough and i think it still happened.

I always had thought it was a unique glitch effect or something, and brushed it off. But when i started looking at it closer, i realized it's not that simple.

It seemed, from my squished and warped screenshots, it was a collage of multiple sprites. Like, I could see the big ones, like the Undertale "GAME OVER" text, cooking show backgrounds, two versions of Kris's room, etc. But there were also smaller ones, like a Lanino sprite, Zapper sprites, the Knight, the "TEARS" word art doubled, and off in the corner, Spamton's shop sprites.

This was almost a week ago, and after not finding anything of note, i shrugged it off and assumed it was some weird collage of a bunch of random sprites.

Then, a few days ago i got UndertaleModTool. Unrelated, i had just wanted to see if i could figure out modding Deltarune. But yesterday, i was just scrolling the "default" texture pages, or the giant texture sheets with every sprite and sprite component in the game. And guess what i found.

the fucking collage

It was just?? a texture sheet???? squished to fit 4:3??

Like, I'm posting this mostly because im happy i solved my dumb little mystery. But also i'm now more confused cause like, why does the game render a whole ass texture sheet in place of some static? And why only me??

If anyone else has insight on this, or has experienced the same thing, i'd love to know if there's a connection, or what the reason behind this is. I can't think of it being anything other than a bug, but what would casue this??

[in-tua-deep]

I saw a murderbot daemon au where ART built murderbot a drone to act as a daemon and implies constructs are severed and yall know im a sucker for daemon aus?? But also like. daemon au where every secunit automatically comes with a minimum of one (1) drone, and at least one drone is essential to functioning. why? folks don’t know, maybe it’s storage or something. If units have multiple it’s usually as decoys for the important one

anyway obviously this drone is a daemon by another name. they don’t change shape partially bc they don’t know they can, partially bc the gov module will zap em dead if they change

It is making me think that after murderbot goes on the run it discovers its beloved drone has like. Idk. Multiple settings? Little spider drone that can skitter. Little lizard drone that can stick to walls. It can even do things like, lil cat drone that can claw up someone’s face real good (:

Ignore the people who think that this apparently means murderbot’s drone is a daemon. those people are stupid bc humans have daemons and murderbot is a CONSTRUCT and this is its DRONE thank you

but anyway yeah in a daemon au murderbot has the best and coolest drone and has its hands over its ears and is LALALALAing at top volume whenever anyone suggests it might be a daemon

[aashidoodles]

A boy and his dog

[mechazushi]

The thief better get this guard pregnant before I do.

[avenin7]

I cracked myself up repeatedly with this one xD I couldn’t stop laughing the entire time I was drawing it

[ra-vio]

this blog is 11 years old now 🎉

I drew the siblings ever to celebrate as usual

[bsptourist]

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