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[megoap]

i really really love toichiro and sho together they're hilarious but it's a "TOICHIRO give Sho EVERYTHING he wants OR I'LL SEND YOU TO SUPER HELL!!!!!!!!!" kind of situation.

GO PLAY WITH HIM OLD MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET THE CRAYONS!!!!!!!!

[didireadthisright]

I think the most frustrating, traumatic, and overall exhausting experience you can put yourself into is to talk to or debate someone who lacks emotional intelligence.

[ahollowgrave]

We'll see if I can keep up the screenshots for both Odette and Prudence this month! If not I'm not sure who I will focus on which means I'll bounce between the two because I've been really enjoying building Prudence via screenshots and daydreams.

[papaiyatree]

i wish i had a good batman growing up, the batman i grew up with whatever zach snyder was doing with his character 💀

[rjalker]

Book 1: All Systems Red.

Fearmongering about SecUnits being inherently murderous and scary to the point that even Murderbot agrees with the slavery apologism, dehumanization of non-protagonist SecUnits to being nameless things we shouldn't care about that can be killed without second thought, and/or demonization of slave revolts: 11

Pushback against that slavery apologism: 0

Slaves murdered by the protagonists: 5/6

Slaves murdered by the antagonists: 1/6

Slaves who are not Murderbot who survive to the end of the story: 0/6

Slaves who are enslaved but are not supposed to be seen as slaves by the audience because they have "nice" owners: 0/0

Use of Murderbot's pronouns literally at all, either in its own internal narration, or other characters talking about it like it's not in the room: 34

Times literally any character tells another character their pronouns through literally any means at all, or asks another character what pronouns they use: 0

Usage of even the word "pronoun" itself: 0

Dramatic wounds that exist purely for cheap drama that magically get cured before the scene or section is over with literally zero lasting impact in any form: 3/4

Dramatic wounds that exist purely for cheap drama that magically get cured before the book ends: 1/4

Wounds that are not magically healed: 0

[hyah-lian]

do u........ do u ever ............... want to finish thing know u need a break but know if u take a break its not gonna get finished?

[marcusrobertobaq]

I actually ain't against the option of "remaining a machine", i don't blame in Connor remaining a megacorporation dirty work dog like the android he was made for, after all, people in the world blindly believing and following an entity, group and leadership propaganda to the point of devotion without questioning or questioning but believing it's the right thing to do ain't uncommon at all.

(no shade at the android rebels, they just wanna be free... even if they don't dare questioning 'em leadership but in the less of 2 evils u fight for something that u think will be good to ya. It's the rule)

Even tho "opening eyes" and seeing beyond the "program" is one of the metaphors for deviancy in the game i really don't blame mfs that wanna remain in the comfort zone where they know where they're walking - even if they know they're being played like a piano fucking with "their own kind" thinking they're different anyhow or even the lack of "giving a shit" about being something besides a tool.

He got the right of thinking androids shouldn't rebel and be hostile against humans (damn, Daniel it's the perfect propaganda) and that this rebellion gonna be bad for humans - it will. The issue starts when u believe in CyberLife and that they're just even tho it's literally busine$$ and intere$t$, they don't care about "humans" and some situations mfs are now is 100% 'em own fault to begin with - including an android like this that can literally bypass AA just cuz they're obeying orders from Cyber motherfucking Life itself directly, that can hurt humans.

But in the end everybody is doing something cuz they think it's the right thing to do according to 'em values of general advantages vs disadvantages, also called morals to some people although i'm taking a more gray approach in this 9 vs 6 bullshit cuz that's how i roll.

Well, u do it, u like it or regret about it. But androids ain't people, they shouldn't worry about things like that, right? Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Wrong would be a gun saying to 'em user "no, i won't shoot >:@". Problem is when the user is aware the gun got the possibility of sayin' this cuz they made the fucking gun.

[meltygears]

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[luluhtk]

Us: omg I can't wait to read the books so we'll find out what happened to Kevin in the nest, what kind of relationship he really had with Riko and how they grew up there! Finally we'll know more about him and his feelings 😊👏🏻🫶🏻

The things Kevin will tell us during every single nest scene while he dissociates: this random player called Ramon from the random team of south-whatever is a backliner, got recruited 4 months ago, weighs 67kg, is right-handed, has celiac disease and his stats this season are blahblahblahblah he will probably be unremarkable. This other random player called Oswald from the random team of--

[rjalker]

Story 0: The Future of Work: Compulsory. (Read free online. it's super short)

Word count: I forget. I can't find the post I made where I listed them all out.

Fearmongering about SecUnits being inherently murderous and scary to the point that even Murderbot agrees with the slavery apologism, dehumanization of non-protagonist SecUnits to being nameless things we shouldn't care about that can be killed without second thought, and/or demonization of slave revolts: 2

Pushback against that slavery apologism: 0

It's not like I haven't thought about killing the humans since I hacked my governor module. But then I started exploring the company servers and discovered hundreds of hours of downloadable entertainment media, and I figured, what's the hurry? I can always kill the humans after the next series ends.

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"Those things make my insides creep." That was Sekai, looking at me. Nobody likes SecUnits. Even I don't like us. We're part-human, part-bot constructs, and we make everybody nervous and uncomfortable.

Use of Murderbot's pronouns literally at all: 1

Use of Murderbot's pronouns that make it clear those are the pronouns it actualy wants to be referred to as: 0

She shook her head as her friends steered her toward the access bridge. "No, it talked. I heard it."

Times literally any character tells another character their pronouns through literally any means at all: 0

Usage of even the word "pronoun" itself: 0

Dramatic wounds that exist purely for cheap drama that magically get cured before the scene or section is over with literally zero lasting impact in any form: 0/0

I already counted all the inherently ableism in dehumanizing people with prosthetics at every turn I'm not doing that again. Search my blog for "pie chart" to see those results.

[transgenderization]

im actually. still thinking about that. 3mana to get out the card. wait a turn so you can tap it. make sure you have a card in your graveyard to use it on. pay another. 3 mana to use the ability. and it doesnt even go onto the battlefield or anything it goes into your hand. no ward. no haste. statline of 1/2. it's so. even if it was like. tap: you may cast a artifact or enchantment spell from your graveyard and you may use mana of any color blahblahblahblah itd be useable right. rather than paying 6 mana to recover your. pall myr on turn 5 or whatever. and then having to spend another 3 to get it back out.

[riza-jes]

More specifically the horrors movie AU & One piece

In general individually each of the asl brothers can be the perfect victim for interaction or cursed toys/entities/objects.

So we can start with the most precious brother in the trio...

Scene 1: Luffy

Gramps after a long time shows up and gives him some weird toy, and disappears again after handing out a portion of apologies(fist of love well painful as hell).

And everything seems normal and usual, Ace comes back from his part-time job, Luffy plays with this toy, but then he must have bedtime, so Ace in being his strict older brother mode checks in on Luffy and his homework (which he did because he was bribed with meat), after what he calls Luffy to take a bath, brush his teeth, and go to bed.

And Luffy... he doesn't want to, but he has no choice.( Ace seems too exhoausted for usual challenge).

And so, resentful, clean and in bed, after a loving and familiar slap on the forehead from tired Ace with a promise to make up for it tomorrow, Luffy settles down in the comfort of his bed with the creepy toy that Ace had taken a fleeting glance at and a quietly doomed 'Kusojiji”.

Luffy frowns, unable to sleep, and suddenly there is a voice in the room.

A voice from the toy's side

- He's such a bummer.

- Yeah, - still in a foul mood due to the extremely rare skipping of a bedtime story, midnight cuddles and time to play together, Luffy agrees

- blahblahblahblah, you think so too?

More interested, Luffy grimaced, and looked at the creepy kusojiji's toy without sleep in his eyes.

- Don't you think it would be better if he's... just gone? - With a hint of something very very very wrong toy says.

His creepiness and coolness evaporates drastically with spoken words. Luffy doesn't like where this conversation has wrapped up, and he needs to be more specific.

- What do you mean? - With a very obvious to close people, and not-so-close unpleasant acquaintances threatening indifference, Luffy asked again.

- What if in one day... that Ace was gone? Wouldn't that have been better? You could do whatever you want! And no one would tell you what to do!

For, abruptly, Junior Monkey D.'s entire thought process slowed down and sped up at the same time.

Because how would Ace be gone?

“are you glad I'm around? Do you want me to live?”

“Yes!”

He wasn't going anywhere. He made Luffy a promise.

He promised he wouldn't die.

He promised Luffy and he gave his word to Sabo that he wouldn't die.

( he gave his word and he's doing well, he's no longer chasing death, the wounds on his arms are finally healed and the trepalia or whatever is working like Sabo has shared with happy news)

Ace is, was and will be.

He'll be there in the mornings, when he comes in with “wake up, breakfast is waiting,” when he pulls Luffy to brush his teeth together and starts tickling the still sleepy Luffy, he'll be there every day, when he goes out with his brothers for a walk or to explore another interesting place that will definitely be a great adventure, who is always there for him, who always loves him, who always protects him from grandpa, attacks, unpleasant words from passersby, and who is there for him and Luffy is never alone.

Therefore...

What do you mean Ace would be gone? How would that be better?

The look on Luffy's boyish face, which until five minutes ago had seemed like the perfect bait for Chucky to kill and revenge cop Garp, was unexpectedly heavy.

It was overwhelming. The doll suddenly felt fear.

Like snakes, tenacious, long and so deadly, the boy's hands wrapped around the toy in a very tight grip.

In one hand the supposedly goofy little boy held a pipe. A child's version of a police baton.

It showed signs of fracture.

Luffy won't tolerate that kind of attitude in his house.

The killer Chucky met his end with a piece of scrap metal.

What horror or cliched enough scenes in the horror genre do you think would imagine the ASL brothers in? What about Sabo? Ace?( for Sabo I have an interesting thought with the burning and skull smashing) what about Garp?

[lokisasylum]

Armys harassing anyone who praises Jimin: "JIMIN ONLY KNOWS ARMY! SOLOS DON'T EXIST, SOLOS ARE ANTIS, HE'S DOING WELL THANKS TO THE COMPANY PUSH AND ARMY--BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH!"

Meanwhile, Armys INSIDE their secret GC:

Oh so NOW they admit that it IS thanks to PJMS/Jimin Solos only that Jimin is doing well because the rest of the fandom aren't moving for any of the members??

OH? What's this?? Dragging other members for not doing well on the charts, knowing damn well its because armys themselves DONT support them fully like they claim? That's not very "bora-hae-apobango" of them.

ANNNNDDDD WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT CAUGHT AND CALLED OUT 🤣🤡

[mariariley]

i’m thinking abt dad!könig omg. i came across this video last year where this girl was showing text messages with her european dad—his english wasn’t the best and that’s what made them so funny! i can’t find the video but imagine könig being like that with his daughter, their text messages would look something like this:

🧔🏻‍♂️: Do not bring that boy back in the house.

read at 12:37 pm.

🧔🏻‍♂️: Come eat

read at 3:45 pm, august 6th.

🧔🏻‍♂️: Come eat

read at 10:30 am, august 8th.

🧔🏻‍♂️: Clean

read at 7:41 pm, august 21st.

🧔🏻‍♂️: What did you spend on apple card

🧔🏻‍♂️: What is $76.89!????

read at 7:41 pm, august 21st.

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LMAOOOOOOO

Considering he's in his 40s (from what I've heard- or late 30s?), this is so good hahahaha he would probably be a single dad too

And when you come back home he starts scolding you, mixing Austrian and English, telling you how you spend money on stupid stuff.

When you show him you bought a nice pair of shoes or idk a piece of jewelry he'd be like:

"...ah. Oke. Zhis is... Zhis is nice actually. Ja." and then he'd admire the expensive thing you bought and apologize and call you his beautiful princess and tell you you deserve the world hahahaha

Definitely overprotective and HATES boys. Would scare all of them off, tell you how all of them are stupid, how you need a soldier boyfriend, how he's gonna find you one from his unit and blahblahblahblah hahahaha

And yes, definitely bossy. Will spoil you but will also teach you discipline and manners.

Don't be surprised if you inherit his short fuse lmao

We love dad König <3

cries in fatherless

[kayinnasaki]

Hi I'm not a bot. =[ Awhile ago, you mentioned something about how powerups in modern day metroidvanias, particularly in the indie ones, weren't good enough compared to the classics. Could you elaborate on that using some concrete examples so I can maybe get what you meant?

I don't remember exactly what I said but it was probably more along the lines of modern powerups being overdesigned. It's not that they're not good enough. In many ways they're arguably better. But pragmatically they miss the point.

The general modern pattern (that DOES slowly seem like it's becoming less "modern". We're going to see a post Hollow Knight shift for sure) is that you have some abilities, that ability is attack, the attack is a color, that attack breaks a certain type of block. The most extreme cases of this are like Guacamelee and Ori. Something like Metroid Dread doesn't quite do this, but it focuses on SO many different types of "keys" for the various locks (there's like… what, something like 11 or something kind of 'doors' in that game and every ability is a way to open a door?)

The problem that arises in these modern designs is that they treat the "lock and key" nature of metroidvanias as literal locks and keys. The point of the game is get the green move, look on you map, find all the greenblock places you haven't done yet, then go break a greenblock. This SEEMS like the right, sensible design evolution, but it turns what is supposed to be exploration into a checklist… and in a weird way everything suffers for it too. The cool dash can't just be a good dash, it has to be some weird hitting thing, and maybe a whole boss is built around it's movement, but now it's actual use case doesn't feel emergent, it feels planned, even if the older games were just as planned, blahblahblahblah.

So we go back to super metroid. The progression is 100% "lock and key", but it's designed not to feel that way. Some early stuff is (you need missiles to open a missile door and immediately find missiles) but it is instead presented as "PROBLEM AND SOLUTION" design. You need to go into norfair. Norfair hot?? What do??? Oh you found the Varia suit, you can go back to the hot place!

You don't need a color coded map to mark all the "locks" you can now open on the map, the thing that powerup solves is largely centralized in one sensible area. Every time you're opening a literal lock with a "key" like super missiles, the lock and the key are within rooms of each other. Meanwhile when you get a fun power up, you go back to certain PROBLEMS you remember, not the long gate rooms, or ice beam to escape the red tower area. You want to move through water, or grapple. You rarely have to remember "there was a colored door all the way back there", so there is no need to label it on the map. Sure you can go back and open the powerbomb door in the big pink room in Brinstair, but that's for bonus items, not progression. You are rewarded for exploring, not for completing your map-completion-pokedex. As such the powerups can behave a bit more naturally. They don't have have some weird dual purpose.

Compare this to Dread and everything is shoehorned into a type of door, with those cringy ass stealth doors and like pressure plate doors. None of the rooms are organized with the same type of purpose where you know where you want to bring your new item. Instead of letting you solve the problem by taking your solution to where it's needed, it just railroads you there. Powerups barely feel like powerups, they're just another part of illusion. You're just playing your part as he cog in the machine.

In games about exploring, you don't want to formalize the abstract design philosophy behind the games into system mechanics. The point is to try and maintain a plausible illusion!!! I was like "Should I tag this as Game Design" but I'm super scared of what Game Design Tumblr must look like

[elegyofthemoon]

"i suspect you don't know your innocence well enough" oh allen...buddy --

squints oh. guilt complex next to saviour complex. i see jots down notes