#super 4 redux

[hlootooart]

Just realized I never posted these. Remember to see these in my video! X

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Reblogs are appreciated! Do not repost or trace etc. anywhere.

[wario-land]

Damn right

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[k-hippie]

SIMS 3 WORLD - LOST COVE 2025 ( bold redux )

First, few words related to howto with Lost Cove ;)

There will be 2 posts : one general about the World itself, the ANTS ( Absolute Necessary Things & Stuff ) - the CC used - the stories around Lost Cove - the DL link ... And then a second post related to Lots ( both residential and community ) - the credits - our own CC we made ( yep ... we made some xtra stuff for your eyes only ) <- incredible isn't it ? :D But let's start with some pictures ;)

No way to avoid it, this is a boldy bold update for the 10th anniversary, of Lost Cove, because it has been completely remade from scratch, based on an alternate Isla Paradisio, with new textures, new lots, new ( almost ) everything, and old cc fully remade to be sure to not loose anything this time ;) We tried to re-compose the old Lost Cove. But this time, we cleaned everything which had to be and left the Hidden Lots, the Dive Spots, 4 Ports, and even the Smuggler's Lair :D

Lost Cove has a whole story. And Lost Cove IS a whole story in itself ;)

Lost Cove is born in 2015, from a simple picture posted by SimCookie of their world : the famous and fantastic Sunset Died, an apocalyptic Sunset Valley world, 12 years ago. At this time, I never approached CAW and sims 3 worlds creation before. And frankly, I had no time for this. But the picture of the broken Twinbrook Hall was like an appeal … to do more with the best Sims franchise :D

I wrote to SimCookie to ask them if I may use the same way to place the Twinbrook broken Hall but into a complete different kind of world. They agreed. And so, I began working on Lost Cove during my vacations, based on an empty Isla Paradisio maxis world. I called it the Red Path project.

6 weeks long, I learned intensively the basics of CAW. My world was not intended to have a lot of lots, so I concentrated my efforts on textures, trees and objects. I failed a lot of exports. I used both CAW and Super CAW. I woke up at 6 in the morning each day, and worked on Lost Cove hours and hours, all days long :D And then, on a summer hot day, Lost Cove was there. At last ... May we say proudly Lost Cove is the natural child of Sunset Died ? YES !

Lost Cove is a post-apocalyptic world, swallowed by nature, forgotten by time. It all began 28 days after the Sunset Died event : no more electricity, no more roads, no more comfort. Just ruins, silence … and survival.

Like in every sci-fi book or movie, the Sims went too far. Maybe. It was an experiment gone wrong. Or a slow, quiet collapse under the weight of pollution and hubris. A virus ? A comet ? Nuclear fire ? No one really knows. The old world didn’t end with a bang, just a thousand overlapping catastrophes. And Before was over.

The world cracked open. The sea rose like a hand closing around the archipelago. Bridges collapsed. The downtown core sank. Entire neighborhoods vanished underwater. Only one broken road remains now : winding, overgrown, half-erased by time. The islands are no longer connected. No ferries. No cars. Just water, and what courage it takes to cross it. Most Sims never dared.

But nature didn’t wait. It took back everything. Technology ? Forgotten. Trees pushed through asphalt. Ferns choked stairwells. Roots claimed living rooms. Earthquakes opened old wounds in the ground, and storms swept away what was left standing. Power grids failed. Satellites went dark. Digital voices fell silent.

And amidst it all … the Sims adapted. They hid. They learned.

28 weeks later ... By 2020, we released a small and quick update. Nothing fancy just a nudge forward. Something had shifted. Sims weren’t just scavenging. They were rebuilding. Lost Cove had once been a small, tightly-woven community before the Fall. When the end came, many fled inland. They disappeared into the continent in search of family, safety, a future.

But others stayed. Maybe because they couldn’t leave. Maybe because they wouldn’t. A few were stubborn. A few were hopeful. A few were just too tired to start over somewhere else. So they stayed and planted seeds, literal and otherwise.

They started small. A gathering spot. A drink shared under candlelight. A warm body next to yours by the fire. The Bloody Way Bar came first. A place to talk, argue, cry. A spark in the dark. From there, ideas ... Rebuilding, on their own terms. No rules from the old world. No pretense. No mayor, no tourists, no schedule. Just something real. Something possible.

The Nature School came next; rough, messy, entirely unorthodox. A place to pass on what they remembered, and maybe invent something new. Nothing is like it was, but it was a start. And in Lost Cove, a start means everything.

28 months later ... And here we are, present day ;) Life is ( just barely ) better in Lost Cove ... Some homes have been patched up with scrap. The Dispensary is cleaner, stocked with whatever tinctures, herbs or bandages locals could gather. The Nature School is functional, if improvised. The streets ? Still nonexistent. The power grid ? A dream. Forget supermarkets. Forget cars, Forget comfort.

Your Sims hike, every time. Miles of forest, frost, or scorching sun between them and their destination. Every trip is a decision. Every hike is a risk. There are no easy visits, no casual get-togethers. Lost Cove is beautiful, brutal, and endlessly wild.

Winter hits hard. Snow blankets everything. Lakes freeze. Frostbite is real. Wander too far and you might never come back. Even summer, with its open skies and lush overgrowth, hides its dangers. There are forgotten places in Lost Cove — old ruins, sealed bunkers, silent islands — waiting to be uncovered. Not all of them should be.

Some Sims dream of electricity returning. Of clean water, instant noodles, digital music. Others say that dream is over. That the future lies not in recovery, but reinvention. A new way to live. One that belongs here, to this broken place. Tensions rise. Power is shifting, slowly. Questions are whispered in every fire-lit home : Can this fragile community hold together? Will the lights ever come back ? And what will the children of Lost Cove believe in ?

This 2025 Lost Cove update is more than just a patch: it’s a 10th anniversary redux ! As we previously said, we rebuilt Lost Cove from scratch using a heavily modified Isla Paradiso map. New terrain textures. New routing. New or remastered lots. More than 3500 hand-placed trees and plants. All previous custom content has been reworked, nothing lost this time ;D

Lost Cove has now 30 lots : 15 community lots ( + 2sheep fields ) and 15 residential lots. And there are still empty lots here and there :) Lost Cove is unpopulated. But we provide 2 save games :)

1 unpopulated file with very minor details change

1 populated file with different kind of families

The map retains its soul : the hidden islands, the dive spots, the collapsed downtown, and the iconic broken Hall. But there’s more. More decay, more discovery. More survivor hubs, weird spaces, overgrown secrets. We added new spots, simple gathering places for Sims to talk, dream, share — maybe even rebuild something better than before.

Play Lost Cove your way :

Long summers, short winters — for a gentler survival game ...

Harsh winters and sparse supplies — if you want full-on post-apocalyptic realism.

No libraries. No grocery stores. You want to eat ? Grow your own food or barter for it at the tiny Freshy Market. You want to learn ? Grab any rare books at the Oldy Flee Market. You want to live on water ? Build a houseboat. You want to live in the wild ? There’s plenty of space. You want to change the future ? Start now.

You want a more grungy despair ambiance ? Uglify the world.

Lost Cove is yours to rewrite ... In Lost Cove, every journey is different ... Will you build a peaceful village ? A cult ? A commune ? Will you try to bring back the old world ? Or bury it for good ?

Freeze it, evolve it, change it. Make it breathe. And have Fun !

LOST COVE : ANTS & CC YOU NEED

We made a folder with everything which improve the Lost Cove gameplay :)

the ANTS are :

Cyclonesue | Airlock Doors, Windows and Decor

Cyclonesue | Banged Up! Prison Build Set

Cyclonesue | Barbed and Chickenwire Fences

Cyclonesue | Decor for Factory Windows

Cyclonesue | Factory Windows

Cyclonesue | Industrial Tanks and Silos

Cyclonesue | Porta-Potty portable toilets

Cyclonesue | Scaffold-Truss and Steel Columns

Murano - gazstation fuelcan

Murano - gazstation gasbottle

Murano - gazstation gaspump

ATS3 object_festival counter

ATS3 object_festival general register

ATS3 object_julesvernepark stairs

ATS3 object_uglifyyourtown concrete bench

ATS3 object_uglifyyourtown concrete barrier

ATS3 pattern_metal destroy

blackysimszoo-Fischnetz

blackysimszoo-Fischstaender1

blackysimszoo-Fischstaender2

blackysimszoo-FishermansDekoZaun1

blackysimszoo-FishermansDekoZaun2

blackysimszoo-Ruderboot5

blackysimszoo-Ruderboot6

BuffSumm LineaNatura Arch

Cemre PoorandHappy-OldSofa

Gosik Bordeaux Standing Glasses

Murfeel TW3 sheep pack

Granny Zaza Metro Floor1 by GZ

Granny Zaza Metro Floor2 by GZ

Granny Zaza Metro Walls4 by GZ

Granny Zaza Metro Walls5 by GZ

( we put both .sims3packs & .packages for those ones )

Store : AlFrescoMarketSet

k-hippie square Rabbit Holes

1 CC folder with packages to put into your mods/packages folder

( this one is not mandatory or ANTS since many things are encapsulated into the world and every lot via .sims3packs, but we strongly recommend to use it. It's almost the one we use in all our worlds :) Very useful indeed ! )

Due to the difficulty sometimes to get the good links for many things related to the Sims 3 stuff, most of the whole cc stuff is included into the cc folder provided. Some others are just links for a direct download :) So, always thanks the all mighty creators who made a fantastic work for our pleasure since 2009 :

Awesims - Blams - Bluefunk - Gamefreak130 - Jynx - Misty - Nilxis - Qahne - SimAddix - sweetdevil

A quick word for those who are used to play our Sims 3 Worlds : we almost always use the same cc. So you won't have to replace the whole cc ! Just have a quick look ... in case ;)

Inside the packages folder : there are our UPDATED patterns : they are not mandatory at all. We modified the old Lost Cove lots to be free cc compliant BUT ... We made a bunch of 46 walls and 2 floors in a full destroy/metal/oldstone style :D Have fun to use them to recolor containers and houses :D

Oh ! Almost forgot !!! Lost Cove ( and our other worlds ) have now their OWN loading screen ( see the related post ) ... We included the file into the cc packages folder. It's really really great :)

Gamefreak130_LoadingScreenOverhaul

And now ... Welcome to Lost Cove ! :D

Download Lost Cove ( World )

Download Lost Cove ( CC )

Download Lost Cove ( Save Games )

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[jitsauce]

23. All Games I Beat in 2024

Note: This year I decided I'd try to play a lot more compared to 2023, and I feel like I did alright, 36 games, 21 100%ed and 15 finished, this was a bit of an ordeal.

The first two icons were made back in january when I finished those games, but the rest I had to do throughout the entirety of December and went nearly crazy.

Amongst these, Pizza Tower, Disc Room, Wario Land 4, Rhythm Heaven, Super Meat Boy and Lego Batman were replays.

Hoping I dont finish any other games by the end of the year, I'm currently playing Majora's Mask, We Love Katamari, Dragon Quest 11 and Strange Journey Redux Also separate thing, I'm thinking of using a tag of my own to organize my art due to how many things I'm currently reblogging.

[scoonsalicious]

Unwanted: Chapter 29, Unarmed, Redux - Pt. 4

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Avenger!Fem!Reader

Summary: When your FWB relationship with your best friend Bucky Barnes turns into something more, you couldn’t be happier. That is, however, until a new Avenger sets her sights on your super soldier and he inadvertently breaks your heart. You take on a mission you might not be prepared for to put some distance between the two of you and open yourself up to past traumas. Too bad the only one who can help you heal is the one person you can no longer trust.

Warnings: (For this part only; see Story Masterlist for general Warnings) Language,

Word Count: 741

Previously On...: Steve made some confessions.

A/N: Finally, resolutions!

NOTE! The tag list is a fickle bitch, so I'm not really going to be dealing with it anymore. If you want to be notified when new story parts drop, please follow @scoonsaliciousupdates

Banner By: The absolutely amazing @mrsbuckybarnes1917!

Thank you to all those who have been reading; if you like what you've read, likes, comments, and reblogs give me life, and I truly appreciate them, and you!

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You sat there, staring off into space for several moments. You couldn’t believe that had just happened. Was there no end to the number of times a super soldier would betray you?

Bucky cleared his throat after a few silent minutes. “I’ll… I’ll leave you alone now, doll,” he said. “‘M sure I’m one of the last people you want to see right now.”

He made to leave, but you called him back. “Buck, no,” you said. He turned around and looked at you quixotically. “Stay. We’re not done.”

He swallowed, then nodded, coming back to sit in the armchair next to your bed. “Yeah, okay,” he said. 

“Did you mean what you said,” you asked, looking up at him. “Back in Atlantic City? When you said you were self-sabotaging?”

Bucky narrowed his eyes at you in confusion, as if that was the last topic of conversation he expected you to bring up right now. “When, uh… when you broke things off, for good, after Russia, I started seeing Raynor a lot more frequently. Like, two hours a day, every day,” he offered. “I needed to understand why I kept ruining things, especially when you make me so damned happy. It didn’t make sense to me.”

You raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, didn’t make much sense to me, either,” you told him with a smirk, but he didn’t catch it.

“She told me, and I’m paraphrasin’ here, that, despite all the progress I’ve made, I still haven’t forgiven myself for the things I’ve done as the Winter Soldier,” he said, fidgeting with his metal fingers. “And, because I haven’t forgiven myself, I can’t see myself as being worth being loved, being happy. So, I did things, behaved in ways that proved I shouldn’t be. Like a, uh… ‘self-fulfilling prophecy,’ she said.

“She said that I created a loop, a cycle, where I kept makin’ fucked up decisions because I kept expectin’ to fuck up,” he continued. “Like, of course I hurt you, because I was scared of hurting you, if that makes sense? She said Carthage was like a mirror. When I sought validation from her, I was really seeking it from myself. I don’t necessarily know if I buy that,” he chuckled humorously. “Feels like it lets me off the hook too easily, but the doc seems to think it makes sense.”

You nodded, considering his words. “I thought you said she was a shitty quack,” you said after a moment. Bucky looked at you questioningly. “I did.”

“Sounds to me like you owe her a ‘thank you,’” you said, smiling at him. “What did she tell you to do about it?”

Bucky shrugged. “She called me a fucking dumbass, to start. Told me real love isn’t about whether or not you think you’re worthy of someone; it’s about working to be worthy of someone, to keep striving to be the best version of yourself for them. She said I needed to learn how to be honest, with you, and myself, to let you know when I’m struggling, to open up so we can help each other carry our burdens, and not hide mine away because I’m afraid.”

“She sounds a lot smarter than you’ve ever given her credit for,” you teased gently.

Bucky snorted. “Never let her hear you say that,” he said. “I won’t hear the end of it.”

“Can I ask you a question?” he said, after a moment of silence. You nodded. “Did you mean what you said, in front of Carthage, that you wished we could start fresh? Build something new? Something better?”

You nodded again. “With my whole heart,” you told him. 

Bucky seemed to take a moment to contemplate your words before he stuck out his hand. “‘M Bucky,” he said.

You scoffed playfully. “What the hell kind of name is ‘Bucky’?” you asked with a grin.

“I dunno,” he said with an answering grin of his own. “What the hell kind of name is Pocket?”

You grabbed his outstretched hand and pulled him to you, slotting your mouth over his and feeling his smile against your lips. “POCKET!” you heard Tony shout from behind the closed door. “He’s been in there long enough! The people demand to know! What the ‘F’ Is It?”

You and Bucky broke apart from your kiss, foreheads pressed together as you both laughed. Yeah, you thought with a smile, the two of you were going to be okay.

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[pianokantzart]

Seeing @keakruiser making AUs in a bullet point storytelling format inspired me to take a crack at my own AU that I've been thinking about for a bit. What would happen if, in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, after Mario and Luigi are separated, Mario was the one who ended up in the clutches of Luigi’s eventual arch nemesis, while Luigi teamed up with some of his own close allies to go rescue him? Essentially The Super Mario Bros Movie, but with the brothers' roles reversed. So, without further ado...

The Super Mario Bros. Redux (Pt. 1)

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 ________

The beginning is much the same as it was in the original Super Mario Bros. Movie until they are separated in the warp pipe, with two exceptions: 1. When their van breaks down, Luigi's first instinct is to take the tool kit and try to fix the motor (mechanic Luigi, my beloved). But before he can get a good look, Mario insists that there's not enough time, and heads to the job on foot. Luigi closes the hood of the van and follows him. 2. After Mario leaves the dinner table, the focus goes to Luigi's conversation with his dad rather than Mario holed up in his room.

"What did I say?" "''You're bringing your brother down with you'?" Luigi asks, finally able to get a word in now that his uncles have shut up. "Why would you say that?" "Luigi, be honest. How much did that commercial cost? How many new clients has it gotten you? Huh?" "It's only been a day! And Mario'll figure something out. He always does." Luigi insists, taking his brother's plate of pasta and picking it free of mushrooms. "I just want to help him out along the way."

Pio sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. "You can't hide in your brother's shadow your entire life, Luigi. One of these days you're gonna have to man up and start making your own decisions." Luigi doesn't answer, he simply finishes removing the mushrooms from Mario's plate, and gets up from the table to deliver the food to his despondent brother.

After Mario and Luigi attempt to save Brooklyn, after they end up in the warp zone, and after they are ripped from each-other's grasp, Mario is dragged into an unsettling looking pipe surrounded by purple smoke and overgrown with gnarled branches.

Luigi flies onward, emerging from a pipe inside what looks to be another sewer, not too different from the one back in New York. No sooner does he regain his senses does he find himself dragged away by a powerful blast of suction. Flying backwards through the air, he stops suddenly as his back clogs the nozzle of a strange vacuum-like contraption being carried by a little old man.

"Oops! Sorry, Sonny! I thought for certain you were gonna be a ghost!" the old man apologizes, releasing Luigi from the vacuum's suction with a flip of a switch. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small device that loosely resembles a hand-held vidoegame console, reexamining the numbers flashing on the screen. "When my readings showed that pipe 983 had suddenly reactivated, I thought for sure King Boo was trying to use it to send his band of ghosts to Sarasaland!"

Before Luigi could ask one of the thousands of questions on his mind, the old man introduces himself: Professor Elvin Gadd (E. Gadd for short.)

Luigi introduces himself in return, then asks about his brother. He tells the professor about their situation in detail, describing the warp pipe that Mario had disappeared into.

E. Gadd tsks sadly and shakes his head. He explains that particular pipe leads to "Evershade Valley," and though the valley used to be perfectly habitable, ever since King Boo shattered The Dark Moon nobody who has set foot in that land has ever returned.

"Wait, what do you mean? Who's King Boo?" Luigi asks "Well! You truly are out of the loop!" E-Gadd chuckles, "Then again... I remember how little I knew when I first arrived in this world." He continues to talk while leading Luigi through the underground, casually clearing a path for them with the powerful blowing and sucking functions of the vacuum. "King Boo is nothing less than the lord of ghosts! He is the master of illusions, the reigning tyrant of the undead, the loather of all living flesh, and– at the moment– the sole ruler of Evershade Valley."

This description unsettles Luigi. He retorts that if that's the case, he has to get to Evershade Valley as soon as possible. As frightened as he is, he's never been so frightened that he couldn't help his brother out of a tough spot, and he knows Mario would do the same for him in a heartbeat.

"Well! In that case I suggest you stick with me for a bit. And keep those tools with you." The old scientist gestures toward the tool bag Luigi had dropped on the ground in the mayhem, "I may have a few uses for them."

Just as Luigi comes to the question of where they are currently, Professor E. Gadd opens a sewer cover and leads him out into the middle of a big bustling coastal city in Sarasaland. Think the Daisy Circuit from Mario Kart, but way larger and more crowded (and missing the romantic statue of course.)

Luigi struggles to keep up with the elderly scientist, who weaves his way effortlessly through throngs of turtle men, snake monsters, insect soldiers, giant sentient heads made out of stone, and a vast array of other strange and fascinating pedestrians.

"Stop your dilly-dallying, youngster!" E. Gadd eventually calls, getting fed up with Luigi's slow, bewildered pace, "I've got a meeting in The Birabuto Kingdom, and my train– our train– leaves in fifteen minutes!" "Birabuto Kingdom?" Luigi asks, allowing himself to be shoved along, "What's that? What about Evershade Valley?" "So impatient! Do you think I'd send you into such a place unprepared??? No no, first I'm going to perfect my equipment, then I'll help you find your brother."

E. Gadd purchases their tickets and they board the crowded 64 Express. Once seated, Luigi's eyes are immediately drawn toward the window. He stares out, deep in anxious thought as the train chugs along, traveling from the coastal city into a desert landscape.

Then, we switch over to Mario. Standing up and dusting himself off, he looks around to find himself in the gloomiest place he'd ever seen... for the little he is able to see. There is a thick purple mist hanging in the air, and the path before him is shrouded in the branches of a forest long dead.

Loudly calling out his brother's name on the off-chance he was somewhere nearby, Mario follows a light in the distance until he stumbles across a lone boo. More confused than frightened, and feeling a little sorry for the white specter shyly covering its face, Mario bends down for a moment to examine it, assuring "hey, don't worry! I won't hurt you, I'm just a little lost is all."

Suddenly, he is ambushed by a colorful trio of ghosts: a greenie, a slammer, and a hider. He tries to fight back, but every time he attempts to shove them off or swing his fists he phases right through them.

His attackers knock him around a bit until Mario succeeds in slipping away. Now in a panic, he continues rushing toward the distant light, far faster and more recklessly than before.

Eventually, he gets close enough to discover the glow was coming from the lit windows of an old mansion. He enters and – for the little good it will do – shuts the door behind him.

He wanders the halls for a long time, roaming from room to empty room, all the while haunted by the shadow of something following him. Something big.

At last, he reaches a towering portrait room. Unlike the rest of the mansion it is teeming with life, full of frightened faces pressed against picture frames, begging for help.

Mario is frozen in a moment of fear and confusion, but quickly snaps out of it. He rushes to the nearest portrait– an image of a strange little mushroom man– to ask what is wrong and what he can do.

Before the toad can give a coherent answer, the eerie presence that Mario had felt when he first entered the mansion casts a looming shadow over him.

He turns around and raises his fists in helpless hopes of defending himself. The candles of the surrounding sconces go out all at once, and in the pitch black darkness a cacophony of cackles fills the air....

[softergloom]

this guide is specifically for my friend mel <3 but of course anyone is free to reference it x

𖡡 you've downloaded the game, played around a little bit, and now you're looking to add mods and custom content (cc) into your game

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this game is basically nothing without mod and cc creators, so all credit and love to them ♡

step 01: setting up your mods folder

open file explorer, go to documents, and find the folder labeled electronic arts. then click on the sims 4.

you'll see a folder labeled mods - pin it to quick access [this will make accessing it easier]

step 02: downloading mods and cc

you can find cc and mods so many ways!! tumblr, youtube, pinterest, instagram, etc. there are a lot of blogs on tumblr specifically for cc finds too

make sure you're downloading things from a reliable source. for example - a creator's patreon/tumblr or website, simfileshare.net [often linked as sfs], google docs, curseforge, itch.io, and *unanimously hated* thesimsresource.com → the sims resource is hated because of all of the fucking ads lmaooo

you'll be downloading package files and zip files. you'll find them in your downloads in file explorer

step 03: installing mods and cc

navigate to downloads in file explorer

package files can be simply dragged into the mods folder

zip files need to be extracted, then you can drag and drop the unzipped folder into your mods folder → whatever you put into your mods folder can only be one extra folder deep or it won't show up in your game

when it comes to mods [not cc], creators will often have instructions for you. follow those exactly

step 04: mods + game updates

sometimes mods break when there's a game update. it's just a very annoying part of the game at this point lol

some mods will have a pop-up in the game letting you know it needs to be updated. but if it doesn't and you notice something is fucked up, you can google 'broken mods' and usually someone else will be having the same problem and can let you know to update it

if a mod is broken, remove it from your mods folder and go download the new version from the creator → a lot of mod creators update very quickly [like the same day or within a couple days] but sometimes they don't. just be patient and check for updates periodically

recommended: the sims 4 mod manager // dl here → the mod manager will allow you to see and deactivate or remove mods and cc from your game [it's automatically connected to your mods folder and can be helpful when you can't find broken mods or cc]

gameplay mods i recommend

mccc by @deaderpoolmc // dl here ✧ gives a you a lot of control of your game

tool by @twistedmexi // dl here ✧ place and size things however you want

better build/buy by @twistedmexi // dl here ✧ gives you easier access to things in build/buy that you'd normally have to use cheats for

relationship and pregnancy overhaul by lumpinou // dl here ✧ more realistic gameplay [this one is essential!!]

lgbtqia+ by lumpinou // dl here ✧ gender identity, gender affirmation and transition, self-discovery, coming out, dating apps and lot traits [i love this mod so much!!]

healthcare redux by adeepindigo // dl here ✧ adds illness, injury, chronic conditions, allergies, medical emergencies, etc

childbirth mod by @pandasamacc // dl here ✧ good for family gameplay

snbills by @simrealist // dl here ✧ bank accounts

also want to mention milk thistle & sunblind by @softerhaze ✧ the lighting with these mods is *essential* pls check them out!!

create-a-sim [cas] mods i recommend

cas backgrounds // you can download mine here but i also love vyxated ✧ these are just extra fun!! you can find a lot on tumblr or youtube to download. it's a super easy drag and drop into your mods folder. but when you want to change it, make sure you remove the current one or it won't work!!

gentle cas lighting by northerin siberia winds // dl here ✧ replaces the ea lighting in cas with a softer glow and shadows

any cas lighting by helgatisha // dl here ✧ i like the colors they have!!

custom content [let's make your sims hot!!]

cc creators i love: @kumikya @dogsill @aladdin-the-simmer @arethabee @imvikai @jius-sims @northernsiberiawinds @oakiyo @its-adrienpastel @daylifesims @twisted-cat @madlensims @miikocc @obscurus-sims @evoxyr @powluna @pralinesims @simandy @sentate @simstrouble @christopher067 @aharris00finds @bluecravingcc @crypticsim @gorillax3-cc @gegesimmer @frzrbunny @greenllamas @lisatrait @joshseoh @liyahsim @thatonegreenleaf @trillyke @waterlily0210 @clumsyalienn @johnnysimmer @lamatisse

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anyways mel, i really enjoyed making this for you and i hope you enjoy the game!! <3

[simminginstars]

YOUR TS3 SIMS??? gorgeous😭 do you have respurces for your ts3 mods somewhere? Or evem a cc finds blog? I really want to set this game up again😅

THANK YOU! i played ts3 many years ago and i had all these sims saved on a random usb so i have their old cc hehe.

there is a discord server that can be super helpful if you want to ask questions, find cc links etc.. or speak with other ts3 players it's by hemerasims you can find the link to it on their insta

my game also looks this way because i use reshade, i just use the same one as i do in ts4 though i've tweaked it a lot for this game. selcouth 1.0

i don't use a crazy amount of mods i use:

Nraas master controller

Uranesia lighting mod (GreenSunrise+BrighterWater+BrighterNight)

cmomoney pose player & Lyralei's Pose Addon

invisible limelight mod

sliders

genetics:

smallsimmer [makeup, eyelids]

brntwaffles [eyebrows, nose shine]

sk-sims [makeup, eyebags, eyebrows,eyes]

skins i use:

mango smoothie

candy crush skin

noir redux

cc finds:

emily cc finds

llama cc finds

sims 1, 2 & 4 conversions to sims 3:

xto3 conversion finds

poses:

heaven's pose database

poses by bee

[pepperacity]

Dead Code: Redux Chapter 2 is doooone!

It took me 3 days this time, but it's finally complete (served as a good break between my main fic since I had reached a bit of a slope oof). I- This chapter made me want to cry while typing it. But I bet maybe this is just me and anyone who reads it will be like, "this isn't even that sad bruh, what you on about??" 😅 Whatever! I'm an emotional gal I suppose haha! Here's one more teaser before I re-read, edit and see if I can make something for this one as well before posting it. So, God willing, I presume it should be posted either later today (4/21) or tomorrow (4/22) It is also a bit longer than I expected. Here's another small preview! And if you haven't already, you can read the (super short) chapter 1 on my AO3 account HERE!~

Toodles!~ (also, these damn sad songs are not helping my sorrow lol)

[dryococelas01]

Power Poll Question 2 Re-do

Apologies everyone for this, but apparently the way I posted the power rating category poll meant it wasn't shown to everyone.

As such I feel it neccesary to re do it.

I apologise to everyone who voted on the first and was pleased with the result.

To remind everyone of the current poll results

Q1: our power belongs to 2 categories

Q2: mover/Stranger- cancelled redone

Q3: mid tier strength, rating 4-6.

So

[freshestsploontournament]

character list so far

under the cut are all the splatoon characters ive written down so far. please tell me if theres anyone missing! id be happy to add them

also, it seems 3 members of Riot Act dont have official names yet. it may very well be that their names get revealed before i start this tournament due to my general slowness. if not then ill just add them as "unknown riot act member" or smth similar, if thats okay.

Agent 3/Captain

Agent 4

Agent 8

Neo agent 3

Callie

Marie

Pearl

Marina

Shiver

Frye

Big man

Craig Cuttlefish/Capn Cuttlefish

DJ Octavio

Little Buddy

C. Q. Cumber

Judd

Li'l Judd

Mr. Grizz

Great Zapfish

Zapfish

Mini Zapfish

Iso Padre

O. R. C. A.

Sheldon

Annie

Moe

Jelonzo

Crusty Sean

Spyke

Flow

Craymond

Jelfonzo

Bisk

Murch

Gnarly Eddy

Nails

Jel la Fleur

Mr. Coco

Harmony/Paruko

Shelly

Donny

Fred Crumbs

Telephone

Nami

Ichiya

Ikkan/Quinn

Murasaki

Clash

Orion

Sid

Taka

Kuze

Nishida

DJ Lee Fish

Bob Dub

Turquoise October (the entire band i guess)

Mizuta Ahato/Dedf1sh

Keaton

Mizo

Ryley

Neil

Candi

Bertie Feeder

Murdoch Feeder

Finn Feeder

Tangle Feeder

Jawn Feeder

Yoko

Karen

Bibi/Zuzu

Oonie

Maya

Kitamura

DJ Real Sole

The Firstborn Child of Alkyne, the Hidden Blade of Yakiharas

The Valiant Green Flame Born in Jigo

The Faithful Servant of the True Salmon Emperor Hizunamasu

Karla

Ryu Chang

Myron “Ronnie” Swamps

Paul

Mashup/Warabi

004Clam

Beika/Baker

Kikura/Kiki

Uotora/Walter

Shy-Ho-Shy (Squid Sisters’ producer)

Barry C.

Sally (graffiti artist)

Hara Wataru (graffiti artist)

NILS Statue

human scientist

Glen Fiddler

Sea angel

Ping-pong tree sponge

Deep-sea jellyfish

Predatory tunicates

Gulper eels

Flashlight fish

Birdbeak dogfish

Siphonophores

Blobfish

Garris

Vinny Mack

John Goose

Octolangelo

Octotrooper

Shielded Octotrooper

Octodiver

Blobby Octotrooper

Octohopper

Twintacle Octotrooper

Shielded Twintacle Octotrooper

Rocket Twintacle Octotrooper

Twintacle Octodiver

Octoball

Octosniper

Octocommander

Octostamp

Amped Octostamp

(enemy) Octoling

Tentakook

Octohurler

Octoballer

Octocopter

Rocket Octocopter

Octobomber

Rocket Octobomber

Octostriker

Missile Octocopter

Speedy Missile Octocopter

Octomissile

Octozeppelin

Octodisco

Squee-G

Industrial Squee-G

Flooder

Octopod

Oversized Octopod

Octorpedo

Octostamp DX

Octowasher

Octoseeker

The Octostomp

The Octonozzle

The Octowhirl

The Octomaw

Octo Oven

Octo Samurai

Neo Octostomp

Octo Shower

Octo Oven XXL

Octo Samurai (sanitized)

Octostomp Redux

Octo Shower Supreme

Sanitized Octoling

Fuzzy Octoling

All of the other octarians again but sanitized/fuzzy but im not writing those down

Chum

Smallfry

Cohock

Snatcher

Steelhead

Flyfish

Steel Eel

Maws

Stinger

Drizzler

Scrapper

Fish Stick

Flipper-Flopper

Big Shot

Slammin' Lid

Griller

Goldie

Chinook

Mothership

Mudmouth

Cohozuna

Horrorboros

Megalodontia (Joe)

Marigold

Super Sea Snail

Master Mega

Frye's Moray Eels

Fresh Fish

Monkey Crab

The Professor

Ammoses Shellendorf

Baby Jelly

Cool Jelly

Aggro Jelly

Acht

Asynchronous Rondo

Pinging Marciale

Parallel Canon

Cipher

Lionel

Cory

Tao Blu

Tosh

Martin

Jessika

Oonie

Kitamura

Swarming Languendo

Marching Andante

Battering Lento

Portal

Drizzling Capriccioso

Panicking Alla Mambo

Whirling Accelerando

Springing Spiccato

Gushing Trionfale

Spawning Accordo

Homing Arpeggio

Towering Nobilmente

Smollusk

unknown riot act member #1

unknown riot act member #2

unknown riot act member #3

no particular order

[hlootooart]

I love drawing this girl. And I couldn’t miss an opportunity for a good pun.

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[gravitasdeficits]

Big Signalis spoiler post because I finished it and have feelings

Again, really glad I had read things like A Memory Called Empire and Ancillary Justice before playing this. What an incredible game. Mildly disappointed that the endings are status dependent and not choice driven (I missed out on the ending I would have chosen by finishing 4 minutes of play time ahead of the timer RIP). These status gates are MILES better than the Cyberpunk "YOLO Solo, Matrix 1 redux" ending being gated behind three lines of dialogue that have no indications as to their significance and 0 logic behind not thinking to do it yourself without Johnny mentioning the option?

Anyway: Signalis. There are a lot of things that cut short relationships, things that can tear relationships apart, and things that can make relationships seem less real, but you have the memories of what you loved. I think that's the main bit?

I have only glanced at a single fan theory to try and square a particular circle (ending Ariane is a transformed Alina which I agree with) so if the community has a consensus I've not seen it.

On the Promise ending: I think Original Ariane is far, far away on some distant rock persisting through her bioresonance amidst the song of stars and whatever cosmic entity or entities or force that is. Ariane-who-was-Alina is being rewritten, as bioresonance can shape reality from afar, and killing her as promised grants Ariane death through the resonance.

Is that what actually happened? That's just my theory, there's a ton of wiggle room in basically everything because reality, time, and personality/volition/souls are malleable in this game.

I think this is the basic chronology?

Ancient Civilization (possibly related to Grand Empress) unearths something terrible on Leng beneath the Red Eye of the gas giant, learns from it, deeply regrets this, and tries to seal it all away

Empire develops

Empire develops Replikas with bioresonance

Nation develops as revolution against, coincidentally near Leng and the Red Eye of the planet

Nation develops stronger bioresonant super soldiers and "things learn to walk that ought to crawl". Lots of references to using a power they don't understand. But nothing cosmically terrible is happening yet, "just" authoritarian revolution terrible.

Nation conquers Leng, its people have a long, long history of trying to ward away supposedly imagined evil from the Red Eye. They are aware or semi-aware of cosmic horror, via The King In Yellow text.

Ariane lives with her mother and develops her own individuality in the remote radio station

Ariane's aunt uses the power of the state to remove her from her mother's care and bring her to Rotfront

Ariane finds her doppelganger in Alina, mentions this to her mother

Ariane is discovered to be bioresonant, but this discovery is either not left in her file (for the military to see) or she subconsciously uses her bioresonance to shape a reality that has her accepted into the Penrose program (side note: the Penrose program may also be a "send the troublesome people who want to be individuals away on a mission that may or may not succeed but permanently removes the person" program)

Ariane and Elster meet and being the mission on the ship (year 1)

Ariane and Elster fall in love (year 2 ish?)

Ariane and Elster live an incredible life, in contrast to what they would have had in fear of re-education torture or decommissioning respectively, for 5-7 years. 5-7 years of loving, compassion, and support.

They do not find a planet, and the ship begins to fall apart, this would have normally been the endpoint of their love, but Ariane is bioresonant and she is now out among the Song of Stars, dreaming

Elster places her in the cryochamber and unfortunately dies of radiation/cancer before fulfilling the promise of killing Ariane so that she isn't alone and possibly suffering

Penrose crashes on a distant, icy place (or alternatively is subsumed entirely by the Song of Stars) and Ariane becomes The Dreamer

A bioresonant created Elster awakens on the crashed ship memory, leaves, and finds the Gate/threshold on the planet it is on. This Elster (possibly realizing what's happened) gives up when reaching Ariane's room, losing herself but not able to fully disintegrate like the Gestalt's do later.

Something (possibly Ariane? Her mother, longing for her daughter, trying to hear her through the radio? Maybe the created Elster interacting with the planet, gate, and memory of a room?) links Leng to where the Penrose is/has crashed. Or it links via Ariane's bioresonance and longing. Or some other thing.

The workers in the mine discover the Nowhere, Falke investigates

I think Falke kills something within the Nowhere and, as the adapted Nuclear Waste Repository warning states, a path opens within, the gate and threshold (I don't think there was a lore entry to directly support this)

Falke goes into the gate and Ariane's bioresonance tries to overwrite Falke with Elster, this is not entirely successful.

Falke returns, the downfall of S23 begins, each time loop iteration causes further corruption to reality as "the Dreamer turns and the flesh of the dream turns and is smoothed out around it" (or however that lore piece went), Alina begins to become Ariane

The Dream eventually reaches an LSTR unit (tragically, it appears to have had a friendship or more intimate relationship with the Ara that repairs your flashlight, but that relationship isn't Elster and is overwritten, and that Ara is sad afterwards ;_;).

Many many many cycles happen, filling the elevator with LSTR bodies as Elster slowly overwrites that mind

Elster begins to move through the main game, Alina is fully overwritten by Ariane, who comes to the representation of the Penrose on the Path, and enters the cryo pod, and Elster brings the Dreaming cycle to an end by killing Ariane via Ariane-who-is-Alina in resonance, fulfilling the promise.

And then I cried a bit, because goddamn the look of anguish on Elster in the promise ending. Fuuuuuuuck.

All these relationship are incredible for being a few lines of lore text and environmental objects.

STAR Hunter and STRCH Seven. They were paired together for stability but had a genuine connection (and maybe an intimate one, based on the "incident involving a certain STAR" note? Which also means that this was accepted by the staff and they made allowances and modifications to support it and aaaaaargh my heart). The pinup poster Hunter signs for Seven. Seven holding onto Hunter's bullseye markers (I think there were four items there with the poster? Plus Seven's stun prod and shield make 6, so maybe Seven was a nickname the Eule's give with Hunter being another, forbidden seventh thing she has in her life?). Seven outshooting some of the other STARs.

Falke and the Eules. The Eule's try to save the last Kolibri I think, by locking her in the library and then hiding the key in the Owl box, kept safe under Falke's arms. Hearing the Swan Lake bit almost got me crying there with the implications of affection they must have had for each other, Falke, and the Kolibris.

Kolibri's and Falke, knowing that something had gone wrong but being both unable to stop it and extra screwed (I think Ariena shaped their fate worse than general inadvertently, remember the little "Caul-ibri" cauliflower head sketch in the middle Penrose memory? I think she must not have like Kolibris due to their super-Gestapo powers and so the Kolibris had a more tortured existence as the Song of Stars overtook them and the flesh folded over itself in each cycle of the Dreaming)

The Eule's giving people nicknames, and dancing, and loving music

KLBR and KNCR at Rotfront. I think that Kolibri was the Imperial "spy" or perhaps just a lone Kolibri who was disillusioned with the Nation and was letting things slide, which is why the people of the block were friendlier to her (the book store owners letting her in, knowing that it was her safe space while alone from other Kolibris). The KNCR unit I think knew, and cared for her, and tried to tell her to turn someone else in. But the Kolibri ran into the Bioresonant Ariane and decided to book it instead. This is also an indication that maybe the Empire isn't, like, terrible? Or just differently terrible to the Nation (which seems fuck awful).

Adler having the right intentions (though, uh, generally being bad by being a tool of the Nation's cruelty) but not having enough puzzle pieces to do anything right, becoming a tragic figure who just wants his Giant Woman commander back that he adores, and eventually just wanting to halt the destruction of the whole planet (even though this is the final loop but he couldn't know that).

Itou and her sister. I'm not entirely sure what happened, I think the time loop business must not have spread evenly as Itou's family has her photo in a frame with what I assume is a signifier of death (a black ribbon across the bottom corner). So she is a resonance creation like all the other gestalts who gave up earlier than her, as the flesh turns on itself as the dreamer turns on herself. She survives the tortures of S-23, escapes the madness of that facility, makes it all the way to Rotfront, and then is beaten by the realization that everyone has died, and possibly died many many times already.

The Aras all trying to find a place to hide and find comfort in tunnels and maintenance accesses

I think the Mynah boss is particularly tragic? She is, from the lore bits, the most stable of Repliaks, motherly, protective. So she sees you and decides to let go (the same animation as Itou when she lets go), but the armor is corrupted and snaps shut, keeping her "intact", where she will occasionally be able to continue escaping that fate until you kill her (I wonder if you can also let her finish the task herself by dodging around a lot but that seems cruel).

So many systems to erase individuality! The Nation's treatment of Gestalts, Replikas, the process of making and "stabilizing" Replikas. Ariane overwriting individuality through the Dreaming. The fears of the people of Leng, who seem to harbor some partial awareness of the Song of Stars. And the Song of Stars, that sea of commingling where individuality is lost, which the Kolibris uniquely dreaded, knowing what was coming.

And the ways to escape, like the Penrose. Thinking at first that this was better than anything, than it actually being better than anything via love, and then ending too soon and a yearning for more despite the initial reaction on leaving of, "anything if it's not the Nation, even death and being alone". The small relationships and individuals who developed in small ways the Nation wouldn't obliterate at S23 (which doesn't obviate the horrific things perpetrated there). The Gestalt who managed to thrive where they could (with their banned books at distant radio installations, for example).

Just an incredible game. 10/10. And all of the above just one of however many possible reads on the whole thing.

[cassatine]

Things that are interesting (to me) politics-wise in Brave New World, and by interesting I mean. Well. 'Not great'.

Thaddeus Ross elected US President on a platform of togetherness. Slogan: ‘Together.’ Hilarious. Very relevant to the times — as in, it’s not, obnoxiously so. But also: talk about about a nothing-platform. It’s the exact sort of political slogan you’d expect from the MCU: bland, meaningless, ideologically empty in a way that lets you project any sort of meaning onto it. It doesn’t gesture at change, or a specific set of values, or a political program, or a vision of the future, or any of the things politics are theoretically actually about. It has no substance but it has an aesthetic, that of the smug center.

Ross’ acceptance speech: “We’ve recognized the urgency of this moment, from the disappearance of half of mankind to the emergence of a celestial mass in the Indian Ocean, the threats we face show no signs of slowing down, but the only way we can overcome them is together.”

1) Cmon dude all those threats are overcome by Special Super People TM (and sometimes also caused by those same Special Super People TM), what about the sort of stuff a head of state actually could do something about, like oh I dunno the post-blip refugee crisis — wasn’t there a whole show about how politicians were fumbling the ball on that one? What has Ross done to help the blipped back get loans despite their five years without income? How does he feel about borders?

2) MCU catastrophes are science-fantasy nonsense, but this boils down to listing external threats and pretending they can be solved by the in-group closing ranks. That tends to be not great for the people on the periphery.

3) I can imagine a version of that speech going ‘from the climate crisis to the rise of extreme political divisions, the threats we face show no signs of slowing down, but the only way we can overcome them is together.’ Don’t like it.

4) Perversely, it makes sense that the MCU’s winning ideologue —its US President— is a dude who stands for nothing. After all, in the MCU (and superhero films in general), people with actual political convictions tend to be the baddies: the desire to change the world, even when rooted in the desire to fight injustice or make the world better for those that suffer most, only ever seems to lead to supervillainy. It stands to reason, then, that in such a universe a good politician would be someone who, like superheroes, cares to maintain the status quo and not upset it.

On the news: Captain America described as a leader on par with the US President (“two of our nation’s most important leaders”), and I can’t believe I’m on Thaddeus Fucking Ross’ side on that one but one of these two people was elected and the other very much was not.

Also on the news: Ross’ critics point to collateral damage during the Hulk & the Abomination’s Harlem Rampage, which they believe was caused by his relentless pursuit of the Hulk. But Ross shifted the narrative and silenced critics by… apprehending the man responsible for the Abomination. And like, okay, but what about the collateral damage, were the critics suddenly fine with the collateral damage, wasn’t the collateral damage was kind of the problem.

Title card! I don’t like it.

What follows is very TFATWS ep1 opening redux: Captain America is working with the US military in a country that is not the US (Mexico, this time). Joaquin Torres is there, for some reason (and now he’s Falcon 2.0). A local man thanks Captain America, who gets to show off his multilingual chops. It’s all very formulaic. TFATWS at least had a nod to the fact that the US military was not welcome in Libyan airspace (if only for the added tension); BNW has Captain America, Falcon 2.0, and a whole SEAL team stomping around and no room to wonder whether the Mexican government is maybe less than enthusiastic about it.

Mentioned during that sequence: “Cap’s gear was a gift from the Wakandans for helping them out,” implied it’s made of vibranium. Weird choice — afair Wakanda was not big on letting foreigners get their hands on vibranium, and while Sam wouldn’t fuck them over, I don’t think anyone would say the same of the US. This probably just boils down to Rule of Cool, but still. Was the previous suit not special enough or what.

Enters Isaiah Bradley. Joaquin is there, meeting him for the first time, and calls him “the forgotten Cap”. Adds “your missions in Korea are legendary.” Doesn’t know what happened to him after. Isaiah: “The United States government threw me in prison for 30 years. They experimented on me for decades.” Joaquin: “Yikes that sucks.” If it’s not public knowledge that Isaiah was experimented on and imprisoned and fucked over by the US government — that seriously undercuts the moment in TFATWS when Isaiah get his own statue in the Captain America museum exhibit, and the sort of reckoning with the past that whole thing tried to be about (it was rather lacking imo, but BNW is worse). If all that’s been disclosed about Isaiah is his Korean War record as a super soldier, then there was no reckoning, just a red-white-and-blue-washed picture. And that could have been a perfectly valid narrative choice: if that non-reckoning was framed as a wrong, as an actual failure or a meaningless gesture, it would be saying something. And instead: “Yikes that sucks.”

Isaiah tells Sam it doesn’t sit right with him, “Captain America answering to the President”. To which Sam says, “the President of the country who stole your life?” It’s not just that, tho, says Isaiah: it’s that it’s Thaddeus Ross.

Everything has to be personal in the MCU: again, only the villains have anything resembling real political convictions. Isaiah’s resentment being deeply personal makes sense, of course: the US did fuck him over, after all, but BNW is uninterested in having that resentment cross from the personal to the ideological, or to be directed at a system rather than a person.

Isaiah points out that as long as Sam works for Thaddeus Ross, “Captain America stands for people like him,” and I guess that as close as we’ll get to a systemic kind of criticism (ie not very close). Says Sam: “You see what’s going on out there? The country is lost. Standing next to the President, even if it’s Ross, it gives people hope.” I don’t even know what to say to that. Hope for what? Hope on its own is, like Ross’ togetherness, a nothing-burger. It sounds good, gives you the warm fuzzies, but it’s empty. It doesn’t herald change. It doesn’t better anyone’s life in any material way. Sure, hope can be a good thing, but hope is also what you give people alongside the bread and the circus. As to “the country is lost”… boohoo can you imagine the US being lost. What’s that even look like. For a minute Americans didn’t feel like the center of the universe? World’s tiniest violin. Alexa play Despacito.

Sam says he has a friend in the White House, and that she’ll let him know if “Ross starts acting out of turn,” and. Urgh. I can’t believe I’m on Thaddeus Fucking Ross’ side again, but who the fuck made Sam Wilson responsible for a) deciding the elected leader of a country is acting out of turn, b) doing anything about it.

(But Cass, you may ask, you don’t think Captain America should answer to the US President, and you don’t think that Captain America shouldn’t answer to the US President, aren’t you being kind of inconsistent, and to that I would say no, because I don’t think there should be anything like a Captain America. I don’t think the Super Special People TM should be tools of the state, and I don’t trust them to exert their power independently either.)

President Ross / Captain Samerica meeting. Ross wants to rebuild the Avengers. Sam: “with all due respect, when you passed the Sokovia accords you tore the Avengers apart.”

That seems very revisionist to me, sure Civil War gestured at being about an ideological rift over UN oversight of Super Special People TM but that’s not really what caused the Avengers break-up. Also my man Zemo worked hard to make it happen, thank you very much.

Anyway. Ross says he represent all Americans now, and “the country needs this.” What happens when we disagree on how to manage a situation, asks Captain Samerica. “We figure it out together,” says Ross. What happens when you two chucklefucks still disagree tho!! The initial difference of opinion (“how much latitude enhanced individuals deserve,” in Ross’ words) is not a small matter, and while Ross does say what Sam accomplished gave him reason to reconsider, he’s going to change his tune in like. Five minutes.

From the mouth of Ross: “Work with me Sam, we’ll show the world a better way forward.” Urgh. Nauseating. Also really fucking funny, in a bleak way, considering that irl what the US seem to be showing the way to is like. Fascism.

Sam, on the prospect of restarting the Avengers: “I don’t know man, we’d have to work for [Ross]” which. Cmon. Aren’t you already? Ten minutes ago you were telling Isaiah your standing next to The President gives people hope, and fifteen minutes ago you were in Mexico with a SEAL team on what very much seems to have been Ross’ orders.

Ross speech again. “When the celestial mass emerged in the Indian Ocean, we did what we often do. We squabbled over it. Countries rushed in to claim it as their own, setting up research facilities to exploit its resources.” That’s mainly adamantium, which as a metal is even more special than vibranium. Amazing to hear that stuff from the man representing the US, a country not at all known for extractivist imperialism. Amazing to hear him say that adamantium (unlike vibranium) is “not controlled by an isolationist nation,” which afaik at this point in the MCU timeline isn’t quite true, since Wakanda’s no longer fully isolationist. Retaining control over vibranium, sure, and powerful enough to not be bullied into letting the US /American corporations strip mine their country, also sure. Also amazing to see: Ross championing a treaty about producing “enough adamantium to fairly and equitably distribute it around the world. No nation left behind.” This movie is so removed from reality it’s embarrassing. Like I can suspend my disbelief when it comes to celestial islands and magic metals and whatnot, but an American President being like let’s all share in on the spoils of this magic metal instead of squabbling over it? Fuck off.

I don’t expect a MCU movie to say anything interesting about US imperialism but BNW looked at the ‘pay lip service’ option and went nope, what if we glossed all that over and did Team America World Police paternalism instead, and through Ross framed the US as the father forcing squabbling child countries to share their new adamantium toy, wouldn’t that be cool and relevant to the times and not at all tone deaf.

Captain Samerica: “Isaiah sacrificed everything for this country, he’s a soldier, a patriot, he had no reason to do this,” twenty minutes ago we were talking about how the US had stolen Isaiah’s life but okay whatever. Obviously Sam’s trying to defend Isaiah here, but the fact that what he jumps on as a defense is sacrifice-soldier-patriot ribs me wrong idk.

Ross has a Zoom call with his Indian and French counterparts and he is really into making that adamantium sharing treaty happen. “We made a promise to our people. We made a promise to the world. We must prevail.” This movie sure is in love with the idea of the US enlightened leader of the free world, which. Embarrassing.

Like at this point shit is so offensively removed from reality I wouldn’t even be surprised if Ruth Bat-Seraph, Ross’ security advisor, turns out to be ex-Mossad.

Captain Samerica has an headquarter now and there’s a big Captain America star on the giant window this is cringe as hell. Glass eagle tchotchke & American flag in the corner only makes it cringier. You get a zero in superhero lair, the only personality this place has is bland patriotism. The ‘US Air Force’ stenciled on a wall sure screams independent operator who does not work for the US President.

Ruth Bat-Seraph was born in Israel and trained in the Red Room is this worse than Mossad or not I don’t even know anymore. Wasn’t the Red Room an USSR/Russian thing. Am I missing something here??

Ross at it with his baby treaty again: America remains committed to sharing, the world needs this treaty, yadda yadda, and to that Japanese Prime Minister Ozaki says: “diplomacy must be hard for you, a man in a country so used to take whatever he wants by force.” Ross makes a classic what did you just say to me face, and for a second I’m on the edge of my seat, thinking oh shit maybe that’s it, maybe someone’s going to point out the hypocrisy inherent to the US playing the now children let’s share our toys card, but noooo. “How else to explain your theft of our adamantium?” Of fucking course Ozaki is just talking about the one (1) specific incident in which the US are (probably?) actually innocent. Boring.

In Camp Echo One, quickly pegged as a military black site prison type of place by Sam (“a place they send you and you never leave”), Captain Samerica and Falcon 2.0 find Samuel Sterns, the mastermind behind everything. All in all a bit boring as a villain but I support his quest to fuck over Ross, who is the real bastard here. You imprison a man for 16 years, without a trial, all to exploit his gamma-warped brains to become US President, you go back on your word to free that man, you deserve to have the rug pulled under your feet.

I’m not saying Sam should be making friends with Sterns, who indeed hurt a lot of people with his overly complicated revenge plan (he could have just used his mind control trick to get someone high-up to leak everything, he had options), but still you’d think Captain Fucking America would have some reaction upon learning Ross has basically been illegally keeping his personal one-man think-tank in a black site to further his political career. But nope. The one thing that does get a reaction is Sterns telling him that Ross knows Isaiah’s innocent, because everything has to be personal.

Later on it’s revealed that Ross could have had the gamma removed from Stern’s blood, and instead upped the dose, so I think we can add human experimentation to extrajudicial punishment. “[Ross] made Sterns his own personal think tank, creating technology and weapons for the state." That's not great.

Meanwhile, Japan is doing the first move because someone has to provide a justification for the US to escalate. “Ozaki just decided to advance his navy on Celestial Island. He intends to secure the adamantium for himself. France and India are drawing up occupation strategies.” It’s happening!! Finally, finally, now that his dream treaty failed and the children are squabbling, Ross is moving in to take unilateral control of the adamantium supply: “I’m not going home empty-handed. If only one country is going to control adamantium it’s going to be us.”

How to spot a Pentagon-funded movie with one easy trick: 1) the politicians may try to stop the hero from doing The Right Thing but you know who won’t? one helpful SEAL team. 2) military hardware up the wazoo.

A lot of movies boasting Pentagon involvement are not especially kind to the US government or politicians, and not so rarely even to higher up military officials, which may lull people into thinking these movies can’t be propaganda — this is simply because when the Pentagon approves a script, it’s the military as a whole they care to make look good, not the government at large. It’s very frequent for military-entertainment complex movies & shows to depict the people in charge as obstacles: assholes, idiots, naive would-be do-gooders, bad apples or plain villains. They don’t know what it’s like in the field, or what it’s like to get your hand dirty. They can’t make the hard calls, they don’t respect the troops or they try to use them for their own ends. Often they are ultimately proved wrong, outmaneuvered, defeated, whatever.

BNW regularly comes back to the question of whether Ross has changed for the better, and the narrative leans towards yes. Ross himself says his daughter doesn’t believe he’s changed, really changed. Ruth says about the whole Sterns thing that “Ross is not that man anymore, none of us have to be defined by our past” and as an ex-Black Widow, it makes sense she’d want to believe that, but in context? By the end of the film Ross does reach a point where he appears to earnestly want to try to change, but for most of the runtime he is that man: he was still keeping Sterns prisoner, five months after making it to the presidency. His whole sad story about having to do it so he wouldn’t lose his heart pill supplier before proving to his daughter that he’s a good dude, no really, he is — that’s not really a man looking to change for the better. That’s a man interested in projecting the impression of having changed because he stands to profit from that, both personally (the daughter thing), and professionally (the presidency thing).

The last interesting / noteworthy thing (forme) is “Future Congressman James Buchanan Barnes,” and nope, I can’t. It’s stupid, it makes no sense, it’s hilarious. I’m done.

Initially I meant to do a real themes wrap-up kinda conclusion but now that I made it to the end, I don’t wanna. My conclusion is that this was not a good movie. The last MCU thing I watched for the politics was TFATWS and 1) TFATWS politics were bad but BNW makes that show look stellar in comparison, 2) TFATWS was actually fun to watch. BNW was not fun to watch.

[turtlemagnum]

NINTENDO DIRECT PREDICTIONS !!! 4 2MORROW !! ! !!

new smash brothers game with only male characters and it's yaoi so it's smash brothers yu'knw

super mario 64 2 redux dehydrated HD

mario kart 7 rerelease where every character is birdo, except the mii which has been replaced by Fucked Up And Evil Birdo. it's called mario cart trans flag except instead of being the words "trans flag" there's just a trans flag in the logo

the switch 2 is confirmed to get a physical release of every arcade archives that's flooded the switch eshop

koikatsu party 3

vampire: the masquerade: bloodlines is confirmed for the switch 2 despite the fact that it could run fine on the switch 1

every good call of duty game is confirmed to release on switch 2, meaning zero call of duty games are gonna come out on switch 2

zelda 2: the adventure of link gets an HD2D remake and it's the most gorgeous thing anybody's ever seen, blinding everyone fortunate enough to see it as their eyes know nothing else will ever compare

silksong is determined to be a switch 2 exclusive

super mario party 64, a new mario party game intentionally styled after the N64 aesthetic

UNDERTALE DX, a rerelease of undertale that removes the 30 FPS framelock and combines all console content into one edition

nintendo finally starts putting their games on PC, but they fuck it up somehow

the nintendo switch 2 has a romanceable virtual assistant named waria, she's wario's bisexual loser sister who only got the job because of nepotism, she's really mean to you and is openly racist against spaniards

Skyrim Super Special Mega Awesome Edition For Nintendo Switch 2, it's like normal skyrim but even more epic !!!!

super hornio bros reboot

and finally.... cock reveal of Every Nintendo Character.... ganondorf's will Surprise & Shock you ! ! !

[pianokantzart]

The Super Mario Bros. Redux (Pt. 8)

What would happen if, in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, after Mario and Luigi are separated, Mario was the one who ended up in the clutches of Luigi’s eventual arch nemesis, while Luigi teamed up with some of his own close allies to go rescue him?

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 ________

Following the map on his Dual Scream and going deeper into the mountain, Luigi stops when he encounters a giant metal facade shaped like E. Gadd's face, whose mouth forms a shut door that blocks his path.

"H_ld on," the static-muffled voice of E. Gadd assures over the DS, "I'll g_t th_ do_rs open."

Sure enough, the metal mouth opens up, but as Luigi walks down a long, dim hallway, he grows nervous about the worsening signal between him and the professor, and he begins slapping the side of his device to try and fix it.

"Easy th__re son_y. Just k__p f_llowing the map. The s_gn_al sho_ld clear up right ab_out.... now" E. Gadd's crackling voice assures. On cue, the professor's voice and picture becomes crystal clear as Luigi emerges from the illuminated tunnels into a large laboratory.

"Normally, signals can't travel that far underground," the professor explains. "Luckily, I built a frequency booster into my lab. If I hadn't, all communication and teleportation in and out of Thwomp Mountain would be impossible."

"Teleportation?" Luigi asks while prodding at the large satellite dish in the corner– what he assumes to be the frequency booster.

E. Gadd chuckles. "See that large green monitor on the east end of my lab?" Luigi's attention shifts enormous glowing green tv screen on the opposite end of the room. He approaches it as the professor continues: "That's the Pixelator, Kiddo! And that's exactly what we're gong to use to get you into King Boo's mansion.

"How do I use it?" Luigi asks, looking around in awe of all the technology around him. E. Gadd replies: "Just stand in front of the monitor. I'll use my Dual Scream's remote access to set its destination. Give me one second."

While Luigi is waiting for Professor E. Gadd to activate the Pixelator, he notices the atmosphere in the room begin to change; the lights dim, and the air grows cold to the point that Luigi can see his breath.

"Professor, I'm not one to tell you how to use your own technology, but I think you accidentally turned off the lights... or the thermostat?" The professor responds to this comment with a long moment of thoughtful, anxious silence.

"Luigi, did anyone follow you into my lab?" E. Gadd eventually asks. This question intensifies Luigi's growing fear. He pulls out the Poltergust flashlight and looks around the darkened lab while saying that he didn't see anyone following him, to which E. Gadd shakes his head. "Just because you didn't see anyone, doesn't mean you weren't followed!"

Suddenly, glowing etherial bars block off the doors and the exits. Three greenies, a hider, and a slammer materialize and start wreaking havoc, frightening Luigi to the point that he runs off to take cover behind a lab desk.

Pulling out his Dual Scream, Luigi tries to ask E. Gadd what to do, as he has never seen these types of ghosts before, but to his dismay the professor's voice and image have been replaced with an alert that reads "signal lost."

Luigi peeks out from his hiding place, and sees the greenies are egging on the slammer as he tears large chunks out of the frequency booster.

Luigi, yelling for the ghosts to stop, leaps into action with Poltergust in hand. A fight breaks out, and while Luigi gets knocked around at first as he struggles to figure out his attackers, he eventually makes effective use of the strobulb and gets the upper hand.

Soon, the atmosphere of the room returns to normal and the bars disappear from the doors, but this brings little relief to Luigi. With the frequency booster broken he has no ability to contact E. Gadd., and E. Gadd has no control of his lab. Even the large metal door out of the lab refuses to budge, leaving Luigi trapped in the heart of the mountain.

Luigi sits down amidst the wreckage, struggling to hold it together. Bruised and exhausted, he takes off his hat to wipe the sweat from his brow, when who should appear but Polterpup who... seeing the hat up for grabs... snatches it away and runs off.

Luigi impatiently chases the dog around the lab until he trips over an overturned cabinet full of journals and schematics, scattering papers everywhere.

After finally retrieving his hat, Luigi begins to pick up some of the scattered documents, when he stumbles upon a file for the frequency booster, filled with blueprints and schematics.

Luigi thumbs through the file curiously. He looks at his useless Dual Scream, then at a box of tools in the corner. He takes a deep breath, and gathers up the broken pieces of the machine to see what he can do to repair the damage.

A montage ensues of him slowly and carefully fixing the frequency booster. With polterpup overlooking his progress in mindless, playful curiosity, Luigi manages to get the machine running after after a few tries.

Opening his Dual Scream back up, Luigi is pleased to see the "signal lost" alert has disappeared, but as he tries to call the professor he is surprised when Princess Daisy answers the DS in his stead.

"Hey! The Green Wonder lives!!!" the princess laughs, "What happened, man!? E. Gadd said he lost contact!" "Ghosts." Luigi said with a meek shrug, "they damaged the machine that lets signals leave the mountain, but I got it fixed."

"Brains and brawn? You're just the whole package, aren't ya!" Luigi smiles shyly at the complement, but before he can thank her he is interrupted by a heavy thud and the sound of commotion on Daisy's end of the line.

"Are you okay?" Luigi asks. "Oh yeah! We just entered Evershade Valley airspace and there's this stupid purple mist that makes it impossible to see." Daisy explains, "Luckily, The Professor has pinpointed the main locations of The Darkmoon fragments, so that should make navigation a little easier. Oh! Speak of the devil-"

E. Gadd suddenly arrives, and interrupts by pulling the Dual Scream from Daisy's hands. Luigi overhears a brief scuffle between the princess and the professor, but E. Gadd eventually wins out on the argument that Daisy needs to focus on the controls before she drives the entire ship into the side of Snowcap Mountains.

"Luigi!" E. Gadd says once he has hold of the Dual Scream. "You had me worried!" "Sorry. I–" "It's okay Sonny, what matters is I've regained a signal connection with my mountain lab! I assume you made quick work of those ghosts?" "Y-Yeah! I–" Luigi tries to explain, but the professor impatiently waves him off. "Well, we've lost too much time as it is. Get back to the Pixelator so I can get you out of there!"

Luigi goes to the Pixelator, and though he remains mesmerized by the machinery he grows a little nervous upon reconsidering the idea of being teleported. "You' sure this is safe?" he asks.

"Well, none of the mice I tested it on had any complaints!" E. Gadd. says, "however, you might want to hold as still as possible, just in case." Before Luigi can reply, the machine activates. With a terrified yelp Luigi flies apart into pixels and is sent hurtling through the vortex of a shining green TV screen.