#Computer Coding Franchise

[oh-meow-swirls]

it's kind of weird to me that they didn't bother releasing sushi and tempura internationally at all but at the same time i'm kinda glad they didn't cuz like. yo-kai watch was financially failing in the west by the time 3 released. i feel like if they had released sushi and tempura the franchise would've completely tanked before we got sukiyaki which would've sucked. honestly if anything i feel like it's more surprising that we got all three versions of 2 instead of them just releasing psychic specters but tbf i think yo-kai watch was doing well in the west when 2 released. 2 is just inexplicably what killed the franchise despite being a masterpiece-

[roachrotting]

BEN!!!! I always kind of dread turning my ideas into art, especially if it's my first time in a while trying to draw a specific character. Thankfully, my version of BEN Drowned is insanely easy to draw! Woo hoo! Some headcanons under the cut:

Benjamin Lawman, born 1984, was a prospect computer engineer, studying his undergrad at Oregon Health and Science University. In 2003, at the tender age of 19, Ben was brutally bludgeoned to death, and his body was tied to bricks and sunk to the bottom of Smith Lake in an attempt to hide the act. The reason behind his murder, and the person (or people) who carried it out are unknown. Lawman's murder is one of the most widely known cold cases in the Western United States.

Seemingly unrelated to this, in 2003, a virus known as Stillwater starts corrupting random devices, from personal computers to gaming consoles. Rates of self-harm, extreme violence, cruelty towards humans and animals, and suicide in households with an infected device are sky-high. The only reason it wasn't declared a national emergency was its relative obscurity, and the fact that infections seemed to happen within small clusters of people, or in niche communities. Most local police departments had no interest in exploring the root cause of any of these clusters of crime, and any that did were quickly overtaken by BEN's demonic influence.

BEN does not have a tangible form. Rather, his ghost is entirely contained in the haunted code that spreads the virus. The one exception is his hold on his victims - BEN is a cognitohazard, which in his case, means that the more a person thinks about him or interacts with him, the more power he has over their thoughts and actions. Still, though, he is unable to hurt people directly. What BEN is able to do in the real world is limited by the amount of devices he has access to, as well as the people who know about him.

A typical Stillwater infection starts on a personal computer, then moves throughout all devices within a household, such as TVs, kitchen appliances, and eventually, your power source. BEN is able to control these devices with the virus, and he uses this control to wreak havoc on a person's life. Draining your online finances, stealing your identity and publicly confessing to horrible deeds under your name, directing power throughout your house in a way that creates fire hazards or blackouts...none of this is off the table for him.

Once Stillwater has infected all of the devices within a household, BEN attempts to gain access to the minds of his victims. They will start to see BEN's face in any surface capable of having a reflection. Mirrors, glass windows, glass cups, actual glasses...it grows to be a living hell in a startlingly short amount of time. The more of a grasp he has over your mind, the closer he looks in the reflections.

The most common direct cause for Stillwater-related deaths is suicide, followed by electrocution, burning to death, and car accidents. It seems that, while BEN is able to enact a huge amount of control over his victims, he is unable to gain ultimate control over their bodies and minds, and his attempts to do so usually lead to his victims' deaths. It doesn't stop him from trying, though.

BEN looking like Link from Majora's Mask is due to his prehumous fixation on the franchise - Stillwater's first infection was on Benjamin Lawman's own GameCube.

[cretaceous-if]

“WELCOME TO CRETACEOUS ISLAND.”

DEMO: TBA

NOTE: While I am training as a palaeontologist, I do not claim to be an expert. Therefore, although I will be conducting research into portraying more accurate dinosaurs, there will be possibly be discrepancies or inaccuracies either due to my own research or the lack of (accurate) data available.

-> SYNOPSIS <-

Cretaceous Island is based on the Jurassic Park/World franchise. You will step into the role of the head T-Rex keeper.

You’ve been working as a T-Rex keeper for over ten years now and every day is as interesting as the last.

Unfortunately, not even looking after some of the deadliest creatures in the world was enough to prepare you for the carnage that was about to unfold.

When the system goes down and the dinosaurs escape with evacuation impossible, it’s up to you and a ragtag team to restore order and protect both man and dinosaur.

-> ROMANTIC OPTIONS <-

GRAY/GRACE COLLINS [M/F] - Your big boss is cool, calm, and ruthless. It is well known that they’re not someone to cross, however, they seem have a soft spot for you which some might consider strange considering they also happen to be your ex-fiancé(e). [Poly with Nikolaj available].

LEE MIN-SUN [M/F/NB] - As Operations Manager of the Island, Lee is no-nonsense, grumpy, and has no real time for the corporate side of things that xe’s forced to deal with, but xe has a heart of gold under all the bluster and would do anything to protect those that xe cares for. [Poly with Aija available].

NIKOLAJ OLESEN [M] - He’s your best friend and the embodiment of the term ‘golden retriever energy’. He’s also the head raptor keeper. You’re not entirely sure how those two things go together, but it seems that you’re about to find out. [Poly with Gray/Grace available].

CIERRA DE LA ROSA [F] - A tourist that is vacationing on the island for the third time. You’ve met her a handful of times during those visits, but you haven’t found out much about her beyond her name and the fact that she’s one of the most beautiful women you’ve ever seen.

AIJA MISHRA [NB] - Highly intelligent and more at home among computers than people, Aija is a techie who works in the control room. They’re one of the friendliest and sassiest people you’ve ever met, but, in a crisis, there’s no one you’d rather have on your side. [Poly with Lee available].

-> FEATURES <-

Customise your mc (gender, pronouns, appearance, personality, etc).

Five romance options to fall in love with and two poly options.

Story-driven IF coded using Twine.

Interact with staff, guests, and most importantly, dinosaurs as you look after the T-Rexes and attempt to deal with the biggest crisis the park has ever dealt with and try not to get eaten in the process.

Cuddle with some baby dinosaurs.

-> STATS <-

Personality stats are pretty similar to most other IFs. They will include kind/grumpy, bold/shy, reckless/cautious, genuine/sarcastic, reserved/energetic, and friendly/stern. If you have any suggestions, feel free to lmk.

Skill stats will include intelligence, charisma, marksmanship, agility, and science and technology,

-> WARNINGS <-

This is an 18+ wip due to blood and gore, character and animal deaths, explicit sex (optional), explicit language, medical procedures, violence and injury, and potentially body horror.

[zahri-melitor]

So I've read the opening story of Tim Drake: Robin.

The opening issue is solid, highlighting a lot of Meghan Fitzmartin's skills as a writer. She picked up threads neatly from her earlier stories, showed her hand to the audience, and did do a fair amount of subtle character work. If I'd picked it up with no background knowledge of the fandom conversation about the title, I'd have been very excited for where it was going.

I liked the links back to how part of what prompted Tim to move out was Bruce being fussy over Tim having been shot in the throat in Batman #125. That felt realistic and a nice little link between titles.

As far as a story goes: I didn't mind it. Parts of it were very obvious, especially when you clued into the themes - if I'd actually been reading it as it came out and had a month between issues for things to soak in, I probably would have been tapping my toes over the reveal of who Moriarty was disguised as.

I would like to specifically dunk on both Meghan Fitzmartin and Moriarty for the detective novel writer selections, because...hmm. Kinda misogynistic there. Fitzmartin uses 6 writers for this, and 6 specific stories/franchises:-

Edgar Allen Poe – Murders in the Rue Morgue

Mark Twain – The Stolen White Elephant

Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes

Raymond Chandler - Goldfish

James Gelsey – Scooby Doo

Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone

What do you notice about this list, that I immediately noticed? They're all men. Who is an immediate name that comes to mind, who even had public domain stories as of 2022, who probably should be on a list like that and who also has incredible influence over the direction of the genre? Oh, I don't know, maybe Agatha Christie? (Also Dorothy L. Sayers is also right there and available, but skipping Christie?)

And once she'd built up this "it's all the detective stories" premise, Fitzmartin then went for a book code (cool!) from non-existent books (not cool). If you've just spent all this time glorying in how this is all related to Specific Classic Detective Stories, why not...use a real book code and refer to their actual stories? You've already done it for the plots! Commit to the bit!

Also I spent a good chunk of issue #4 staring at the page going "Carol Donovan? You mean Deb Donovan's judge daughter who recently appeared in Mariko Tamaki's 'Tec run? Tim, how are you missing something this straightforward? Also she's dead?" and then it never came to anything. Maybe do a quick check if anyone else has been using the name you just invented for the story.

"I even tried making a new costume for myself. It doesn't fit." - I did find it interesting that Fitzmartin was once again playing with the "is it time to move on" themes for Tim that were popping up around here in various conversations. Especially given she had Tim and Dick relitigate their conversation from Urban Legends #10 and similar themes in DC:YJ. It does suggest to me that she was working her way around to getting Tim into a new identity, but cancellation has once again left that in the 'not happening' basket.

In terms of the art: Riley Rossmo was the wrong pick for the title, but I do see the thought process that led into him getting the nod for the opening story, given the whole claymation villain set. It was very 2D animation style. I don't mind Rossmo (and interestingly he's developing a whole line up of detective stories he's done art for, given he's also had a Martian Manhunter book and got Wesley Dodds, he did one of the Batman/The Shadow crossovers...) but his highly malleable art style loses a lot of background detail or makes what is there harder to parse.

I did very much appreciate the way Rossmo drew Tim's detective work, though. I liked the technique for highlighting details and clues, and it actually very much reminded me of how some computer games present clues (including how it's done in Gotham Knights, in fact).

I know everyone has said this, but Bernard needs to develop a personality AND to commit to whether or not he knows Tim is Robin. Because sort of hinting that he knows, while Tim worries about hiding things from him, but not actually confirming either way is only really acceptable if you actually do build up to a big reveal moment where the whole drama has been paid off.

I did appreciate that MegFitz had clearly taken feedback and returned one of Bernard's two pre-existing personality traits (conspiracy theorist who thinks the Bats are urban legend cryptids), because one of the weaknesses of using Bernard, a side character with 6 preboot appearances, is that at lot of his existing personality was sketched in. He was a conspiracy theorist, and he desperately wanted to be popular but wasn't, so he presented himself as having a Cool Guy's Personality (see: 'your step-mom is hot'). Now, Meghan Fitzmartin wants us to read into that second trait as a facade that Bernard was putting up to deal with the fact he was gay and hiding it, probably even from himself, at the time. Which, fine, it's a perfectly reasonable reading of Bernard (and to her credit, MegFitz has Bernard spell it out a little on page in TD:R), but the problem is...you've just lost one of the two identifiable traits of 'Bernard' and it hasn't been replaced with anything else. And while 2004 in comics was still trying to hold onto the Urban Legends reading for the Bats to an extent (though it was failing), 2022 comics has so long since abandoned it that Bernard having kooky theories about Batman's connection to Mothman or whatever is very...why?

And because both of these pre-existing personality traits are under strain from the context, it really is sort of necessary to give Bernard something else about him for people to latch onto for his personality. And it doesn't really seem to be there yet (as of #6). It's the same complaint that people have about Jon/Jay and a whole host of other partners for recently out superheros: they're generically pleasant, supportive and bland, with about the depth of a mirror. Give me some of the toxic drama the 30 year old lesbians are allowed. Where is my breakup over custody fights with an ex and one of the two getting seduced by a vampire.

[ceasarslegion]

I know gamers have never been the most accepting nor liberal lot in the world but the response to AC Shadows has legitimately been some of the most vile, racist, misogynist, and downright disgusting shit I've ever seen.

Like you guys don't suddenly care about the historical amendments the assassins creed series makes for the sake of their narratives, because they've been doing that since the first one and no one's said anything. You guys don't suddenly care about the race of the characters being accurate to the area they're in, because no one said anything about Henry in Syndicate (oh but he's a side character, so you still get to be white, right?). You guys don't suddenly care about Ubisoft's developer crunches or their CEO's comments about people not owning their own games, or you wouldve stopped playing after the Ezio trilogy. You guys don't suddenly care about Asian representation in video games, because you LITERALLY CAN PLAY AS A JAPANESE PERSON IN AC SHADOWS, SHES JUST A WOMAN AND YOURE MAD ABOUT YOUR TWO OPTIONS BEING A BLACK GUY AND A WOMAN.

Yasuke was also a real person who actually existed, so... don't even get me started on all the bs claims about "historical accuracy." I never heard anyone screaming to the heavens when they wrote in Pericles's throat getting slit by a cult leader or yknow, all the gods made of computer code, or Anubis himself coming up to earth from the underworld to beat the shit out of you in post-game Origins.

You guys don't actually care about any of these things. If you did, you wouldn't have played this franchise since AC1 dropped in 2007. You're using all these bs excuses as a smokescreen to disguise how much you already hate a game that hasn't even come out yet just because the main characters are a black man and a woman. That's the only reason you hate it when it hasn't even come out yet. Just fucking own up to it for once instead of trying to use all these ubiquitous CausesTM to justify it.

[astercontrol]

So there's always some unfortunate tropes about which characters die in a movie. Usually rooted in some sort of prejudice.

There's "bury your gays," of course. And the movies where the Black characters die first. Or the wife who exists only in happy memories of laughing together under a blanket or something. Or the guy who's planning to retire to the countryside right after this and buy a farm. Or the sweet naive young newbie who shouldn't be in a war in the first place. Or, in pretty much any Disney movie, your mom.

The TRON franchise is... hit-and-miss on this.

Legacy and 2.0 both jumped right onto that dead-mom thing. And Legacy didn't surprise me even once in terms of which characters were clearly destined to buy the farm. The original 1982 movie did an impressive job at avoiding cliched plot elements on many fronts... but as far as "who dies," it's a mixed bag.

It avoids killing any Black characters by pretty much not having any. Same with moms. Same with openly gay characters-- although Flynn himself comes awful close to fitting that description, giving his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend what's basically a striptease and some extreme bedroom eyes (in his actual bedroom, which also just happens to be chock full of rainbow decorations). He's not exclusively gay, but he's got pansexual polyamory written all over him as clear as a 1982 Disney movie could get away with. And not only does he survive, he's the actual main character!

On the other hand, poor Ram does double duty as both "sweet young newbie who shouldn't be in the war," and a seductive little twink who reads as very queer-coded to me. You win some, you lose some.

But one win especially stands out to me.

And that's Dumont.

Of all the character archetypes that are likely to end up as Movie Deaths, one of the really common ones is the Old Person. Older characters, often, are basically just there to teach the young characters stuff, inspire and encourage them, and then die.

Which I guess I can sorta see the reasoning for. After all, none of us in the real world live all that long past the threshold we call Old Age. If a child of Disney-movie-age has already experienced someone in their life dying, it was likely an older relative. So, for characters beyond that threshold to be the ones sacrificed to the Narrative? It probably just feels... natural.

But it does get sadly predictable after a while.

Which is why Dumont's storyline was such a breath of fresh air.

His role in the plot is being a helper and perhaps a mentor to Yori and Tron. By profession he's a sort of temple priest, already very in tune with spirituality and the mysterious World Beyond. In short... he's exactly the sort of old guy who would be killed off.

And the narrative even seems to be going that way, for a while! Yori and Tron know they're putting Dumont in danger by asking him to let them into the Tower. They seem to think it's worth the possible sacrifice, and once the situation becomes clear to him, Dumont also seems to resign himself to that risk.

And he does get caught. And taken prisoner by the secondary villain (Sark). And tied up, and tortured, and mocked, and handed over to the main villain (MCP). And put inside a big spinny death-machine with a bunch of other elderly temple priests, and tortured some more. And threatened with getting Absorbed into the MCP to make it even bigger and eviler and more powerful.

But it doesn't happen. He gets rescued.

They ALL get rescued.

The only old (or old-ish) characters that die are the two villains. Dumont lives. Dumont is there in the very last scene inside the Computer World, standing beside Tron and Yori, happily pointing out all the Towers lighting up again.

I say it all the time, but I love that movie largely because it's weird. Because it does unexpected things. Because the people are as chaotic and unpredictable and sometimes downright stupid as real people, and the plot is as messy and weird-paced and all-over-the-place as events in the real world.

Forget foreshadowing. In the Computer World people don't have shadows.

And that's beautiful.

[theology101]

People need to stop Bitching About Fallout Retconning Lore

I'm going to be honest - I'm sad Shady Sands, a town i have saved multiple times, and a fictional Nation I have helped build, is gone. I'm also sad that NV is now probably non-canonical.

But so the fuck what?

This is just SO "baby's first media franchise" to me.

Guess what? New Vegas was a one off deal when Bethesda, a Corporation who owns total rights to the Fallout Franchise, allowed another Company to use their IP. Not only that, but basically just... gave their ENTIRE Engine, Code, and DevNotes for Fallout 3 and said 'go nuts, we know how much you love fallout.'

That is such a wildly unprecedented move. I literally can't think of anything similar beyond Sony and Disney agreeing to split Spider-Man but even THAT is different because they share publishing rights to the Same Character, but only in different mediums. Imagine DC just... letting Image Comics publish canonical stories about Batman because Bob Kane happened to be working there at the moment.

It was a great, lightning in the bottle experience, that now exists in its own continuity. Now let's move on.

This is SO common in media and storytelling, especially with these massive franchises with decades of lore and baggage they carry around. It's why DC has a reboot every six years (and why marvel comics needs to lowkey), and why Disney scrapped the Star Wars EU. No one likes having to work off of someone else's script or outline - people want to make their own thing with their own take and influence.

New Vegas is also... still a video game you can play? Todd Howard didn't go into all your houses and shoot your copy. Your computer and xboxes haven't been purged. New Vegas still exists - it just won't influence anything going forward.

Big, fucking deal.

There is so much shit in the world right now that just sucks, thats sad and is an absolute bummer. Fallout has always taken that bummer world, cranked the bummer and the fun up to 30 and let it go wild. The very unique vibe and energy of the Fallout Show feels like it came DIRECTLY from the games!

When Lucy walked into Filly, I felt like how I did the first time I stepped into Shaddy Sands and Megaton. Cutting off the head of a person you sorta know and just... doing it? because its easier to carry? Finding a vault, immediately getting sidetracked by whatever weird shit they have going on, then leaving with a 'Huh.'

It's just SO Fallout.

Be Happy that you're getting new, genuinely interesting and engaging content, be sad that the content you love won't be going forward but take solace that you still have it. And don't fucking rage post about it on every single social media for christs sake.

Just have fun.

[azzysecondary]

Azzy’s media log#2

(as of now to give everyone a little insight into stuff I’ve been getting into/ consuming as of late~)

Still isn’t everything but more bigger over arching ones!! (Honorable mentions smaller stuff).

Please see the bottom of list for the stuff I plan on getting to soon!

Slight and vague spoilers for all media in tags(only reason I tagged this~)

( hello Charolette section has the biggest ones tho for episodes one and 2 (have not finished 2 yet tho)!!!)

Code Realize:

Victor……. Victor makes me so ill….. he and Cardia together make me so ill… note to self I need to draw them again- (I just got to chapter 12 of his route, and have completed Impey’s, Impey also makes me ill-) highly recommend so far!

bug fables:

chapter one finished!! I love silly bug game!!! LIEF IS AN ELDRITCH BEING YOU CANT CHaNGE MY MIND!!! (Lief is also my favorite so far~) highly recommend silly bug game so far! (I also have fanart I have yet to post too!!)

ENA: Dream BBQ

Just finished this one tonight OHhhHhh I’m SO hyped for chapter 2!!!! GUH this game is genuinely just amazing both visually and surrealism wise!!! Highly recommend both this and the webseries (for those who haven’t watched it) with my whole heart!

Hello Charolette:

Currently on episode 2! I AM ONTO YOU C AND BENNET >:((!!! But I very much am enjoying!!! Episode one is a fun time I really like Charolette!!! Plus the lore is very fascinating thus far (totally not me spending 2 hours analyzing the use of to be or not to be for one specific scene030-) highly recommend!! Also have fanart I just haven’t posted!

Zeno:

we uhhhh….. we know how that’s been going- watched the first ten minutes of daily life at like three am the other night, idk if I’ll get back on that soon- for my full thoughts please read my review on this blog.

Xenoblade 2: 

Uhhhh….. I’m kinda a honorary knower so I know most spoilers for this entire franchise teehee~ but it has still made me feel things despite this!!! I like Nia and Poppi a lot :> (technically have not played one, and this one is more like watching a play through). (Also have doodles for this one!!) Morag and Bridghid are definitely wives too btw trust me, I was in the board room when they were written/silly

Detective Beebo:

Teehee, Ive already posted stuff for Beebo already (and have some live blogs here) I love it so much!!! Genuinely amazing please play it if you haven’t it’s so charming and makes me violently ill ( only ending I haven’t seen is one still…… then after that I get to read train comic!!!) (oh yeah Angèl is my favorite…. *stares at Noel and him*…. Same picture/silly. Also Vivi is such a cutie and the absurd voice I did for Simon during friend play Throughs has genuinely put him in there as one of my Beebo faves!!!

Cryptid Crush

Really need to get back to this one…. Ive only played dead air and I ADORE atlas!!! Genuinely wondering where this one goes!!! (Also tested acrylic paint markers with fanart for this one!) also mad house gives me mad beetle juice vibes- love the TTRPG vibes of this one too!!! 

Honorable mentions

Lilly’s well, vivid stasis, kinda started end roll??, same with Wadanohara, started watching a friend play Breath of the wild and sky ward sword (of which Ive never played nor watched any gameplay of a Zelda game), mouth washing, web fishing, football 1000 years in the future , trapped

FMA has now been started as of tonight! I like:3!!!

To Consume soon list

Hatoful Boy friend

Great God’s Grove

Rainworld (if Noel wins round two of his timelooper tourney poll as promised)

Saihate Station

Coffee moon(I have the first manga I’ve been sitting on!)

Some day I’ll get to murder drones-

I still need to play all of the project moon games…. I have them all…. Lobo corp just crashed my computer instantly;w;

Off remake when it comes out !!!!

[nullen-void]

On my Discord recently, someone was attempting to pitch a crossover idea for The Amazing Digital Circus.

Crossovers are my thing, see, and I've made a small name for myself on Spacebattles jamming together wildly different franchises and somehow making them work.

And it's my opinion that The Amazing Digital Circus is incredibly insular. See, some settings are easy to work with; for Star Wars, all you've gotta do is say that your crossover setting of choice is on a random planet in the undiscovered regions. For Danny Phantom, he falls through a portal in the Zone and ends up somewhere else. Easy.

But TADC is entirely self-contained. It's a simulation inside an implied larger world, connected to between six and twenty people randomly distributed across that world (as far as we know).

But crossovers aren't impossible, and if you don't just want to stick to the method of having (Insert Character Here) put on the headset and forget everything that makes them themselves, here are a few settings the Circus could coexist with with minimal justification.

Sword Art Online

Five Nights at Freddy's (from Help Wanted onward)

That original Yu-Gi-Oh! storyline where they end up inside virtual reality for a bit

Wreck-It Ralph

(ugh) The Emoji Movie

TRON

Scooby-Doo (and the Cyber Chase, specifically)

ReBoot

That Kingdom Hearts game where the whole thing is a simulation for some reason

Code Lyoko

Digimon

And probably more. You'll notice these are all settings where there's cyberspace that people can actually physically visit, with the logic being that, as a computer, Caine might be able to connect with other computers and send the gang on adventures to them. Whether he's aware that these aren't part of his own game or not is author's choice.

[archoneddzs15]

Super Famicom - Lemmings

Title: Lemmings / レミングス

Developer/Publisher: Sunsoft / Psygnosis

Release date: 18 December 1991

Catalogue Code: SHVC-LE

Genre: Puzzle Action

Your task is to rescue the Lemmings across 120 levels of fast-paced puzzling. These creatures simply walk blindly through the world in the hope of reaching safety at the end of the level - unfortunately, these levels include steep drops, gaps in the ground, barriers, and rivers amongst other hazards.

Lemmings is a series of puzzle action games originally spearheaded by DMA Design who are these days known as Rockstar Games North. Since then, Sony now own the Lemmings franchise rights. The variety of lemmings at your disposal is just right - not too many, not too few. Just when you've gotten into a habit of sacrificing the little dudes, along comes a level where you've got to save 90% or more of them. There are hundreds of levels but amazingly, the game never gets tedious, as there's enough variety of different challenges to keep you interested.

There's literally nothing to dislike about Lemmings. As close as I can figure, it's a perfect game. The lack of Super Famicom Mouse support may be a bit of a downer though, considering that the 3DO and PC Engine Super CD ports already include that functionality. This game began life on a slew of computers, after all.

Super Famicom owners can search eBay for this strongest overall adaptation. The solutions give a great sense of accomplishment, and the multiplayer makes the SFC version a must-own for Lemmings fans. Every skill is important, and the ways they need to be used become more creative as the levels progress. It's a thinking person's game, and the Lemmings formula never gets tiring. A masterpiece of rich, compelling gameplay, great use of colors, cute little animations, and fun happy music. A must play for anyone who calls themselves and old-school gamer.

[yanderes-galore]

OOOO could I request selfaware yandere funtime freddy and a player darling?? like how he might change the game or how he might try to reach out to his darling?

I can try my hand at it, sorry if it's not that long :(

Yandere! Self-Aware! Funtime Freddy with Player! Darling

Pairing: Romantic/Platonic

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Obsession, Self-Aware AU, Manipulation, Stalking, Forced companionship, Violence.

Like most self-aware yanderes they usually can't do much.

They're aware of another presence in their world, maybe they even see you at times.

When it comes to Funtime Freddy I imagine the only way he could keep your attention is keeping you stuck at his part.

Maybe you happen to play Sister Location multiple times, maybe it's even one of your favorite games in the franchise.

Freddy would become aware of your presence and existence through all of your playthroughs.

He knows he's destined to become Ennard like all the rest, he's gone through the process multiple times.

Yet maybe he wants to spend more time with his Cupcake... ALONE for once!

Like most Self-Aware yanderes it takes time to develop sentience one way or another.

Once he does he tries to think of ways to change the game in his favor.

I'd think code that has the ability to become sentient has power over components in the game.

They develop and become something more than just a game.

Now the game's code is theirs to manipulate, be it adding or removing certain assets or factors/triggers.

I'd imagine one day the game just changes.

You'd have no idea of Freddy's sentience until he decides to reveal himself.

Once he does this game becomes his playground.

If he really wanted to he could make himself the only character, then it would just be you and him.

He'd make games of his own design, all sorts of different ways to spend your "nights" with just him.

Anything from the traditional sense of surviving to games he managed to code in.

Freddy will never have to get bored now!

There's always the fun of killing your player character over and over again... but sometimes he likes to talk to you from behind the screen.

So much for playing Sister Location, now you're forced to play his game.

He encrypts the code in the game to keep himself safe and drags you into playing when you don't want to.

There's no way to leave the game or turn off your device... he's disabled it all.

Even when he lets you leave and you promise to never click the game again, he forces it open.

Soon, your computer becomes his home.

The more he develops he tries to find other ways to communicate.

He loves his sadistic games with you but it isn't the same when he's torturing you through a false coded character.

Freddy wants the real thing.

He thinks you two would have so much more fun if he could bring you two together.

For now playing with you in your computer will satiate his desires.

Play well with him and he gives you a break, rambling about how much he cares and adores you as his Cupcake.

For now, everything's fictional.

The blood, violence, and sadistic games are merely simulations...

Perhaps someday he'll manage to make it come true....

[hashimasims]

Simblr Bingo question!

When did you first start playing The sims? Any sims!?

OMG you're going to make me show my age lol I've been playing sims since SimCity lol though that wasn't until 99ish maybe 98 and then I somehow conned a grandparent to get me sims when it came out 2000 (I think?) Hang on let me look up . . . yes 2000 feb 4th 2000 to be exact lol though I don't think I got it until christmas that year and I think the sims franchise has gotten WAAAY too much of my money because when I was a kid I'd save any allowance money I got and begged for birthday christmas easter whatever for any expansion packs until I got my first job became an adult etc. I still have 99.9% of ALL the sims 3 DLC discs and sims store items - don't think I'll EVER get rid of 3 - though it's not downloaded on this computer (have to have room for my insane amount of CC lol) but I have everything saved on like 3 different flash drives - for security that I have it somewhere and EA app shows I still own them just not downloaded I didn't play 4 until there was a random download for free option in 2018 maybe 19 (before basegame became free anyway) and a ton of expansion packs were randomly on SUPER clearance at my work I think I spent $100 on all the expansions game and stuff packs that were out up til that point (I don't know why they were on clearance unless that was around the time Sims decided to do away with selling in physical stores because none of the boxes had discs just a piece of paper with a download code and it was a HUUUGE waste of plastic like WTF). 2019! Because then Covid happened a few months later and before that I was only playing a little and then with my daughter out of school I started playing A LOT and now I'm back to being just as addicted to 4 as I was 3. Really long answer that could have been a simple "A very long time" kind of answer lol sorry

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| User Malware label : « v.1.ckt0r »

| Creator : [UNIDENTIFIED]

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| Location : « The Tulpar systems »

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1.) No crude/overly nsfw asks (Detailed asks about topics like gore, sex, etc. will be deleted + Also, please refrain from attaching photos related to the things listed above. Suggestive is allowed.)

2.) Basic DNI

(No homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc. This is a safe space, don't make others uncomfortable.)

3.) Anyone can rp/send asks

(OCs and characters from mouthwashing, along with other franchises, can interact.)

4.) Don't get personal

(Don't ask about the mod's personal life, it bothers them. V.1.ckt0r doesn't have a personal life, it is a computer virus.)

| Orientation : « “ 1 5w1ng 1n 3v3ry d1r3c710n, v10l3n7ly. ” » (I swing in every direction, violently)

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» v.1.ckt0r has an involuntary typing quirk caused by a malfunction in their code due to an antivirus.

» Appears in any nearby screen whenever they're able to.

» Communicates through intercoms or any speaker they have access to.

» No physical form/body yet. (has a hologram though.)

» Has a bit-crushed/glitchy voice (think of lolbit from fnaf)

» Will Wood fan.

[ariidis]

realising i never did a host intro so here it is [most info is directly from our simply plural, "ariidis" feel free 2 add us]

meet the host (＾Ｏ＾☆

hey, i'm the host of the augmented relay interface, also known as "a.r.i." :] i don't really have a name, i've never really been big on them, but you can call me engineer, nir, or n1r.

read more below ... 🔬

i am one of the older alters in this system, i'm pretty sure i came into consciousness some time in the 8th or 9th grade of school [for reference we are currently in year 11] .

originally i wasn't an introject, but since watching alien: promethius in june 2024, i've incorporated aspects of their species into my 'database'. i am not human.

my interests include: computing/code, cybercore aesthetics, biology & alien life, and of course the alien franchise.

if anyone has any questions, i would love to answer them !!

[cetaceanhandiwork]

Hey, party animals. I'd like to make my pitch for you to back "Free Stars: Children of Infinity" on Kickstarter.

This is a sequel of a 90s-era DOS classic (Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters), developed by an indie studio composed of many of the original game's creators (who managed to regain IP rights). The franchise was a favorite of mine, growing up, and I'm excited to see a proper continuation of its story finally on the horizon.

You may be confused as to why I'm suggesting you back a game that Kickstarter claims is already "fully funded". Isn't that just a preorder with extra steps? Isn't "never preorder a game" a lesson we've learned painfully, hard knock by hard knock?

The reason is: if we fund this game enough that the developers don't have to worry about how they'll afford to make their next game… then two years after release, they'll open source it.

…we talk plenty about game preservation on this website. About the necessity of "circulating the tapes", copyright law or no, to avoid the creative works we love becoming lost media.

But the other side of that equation is that, for a video game, you don't just need to preserve the game itself; you also need to preserve something it can run on. You either need an emulator for the kind of computer that existed back then, or a port to modern hardware. And the best way to ensure that "a port to modern hardware" is possible… is to have the code available, open sourced, and replicated across all the dozens of Linux package managers out there.

Backers may have already funded the development of Free Stars: Children of Infinity. But we haven't bought the game yet. To fully buy it off? To free it for the world? 10% funded.

I'd like to ask you to consider backing the game – even just as a $30 preorder – to help get that number to 100%.

Thanks for your consideration.

[commenter2]

What if an Omnitrix had Markazian DNA?

I wanted to do one more pic for Talwyn Apogee Day before the official day ended so I want to talk about a recent idea I had of what I think a Markazian transformation would be like if it was in not only in the Omnitrix but if the race was in the Ben 10 series. Hey after watching The Ink Tank's Ben 10 themed "And Beyond" series (which I highly recommend) any species can exist in Ben 10.

I could see Ben either getting a sample of Markazian DNA during a Ben 10 X Ratchet & Clank crossover, correction Ratchet & Clank X Ben 10 crossover, when interacting with Talwyn Apogee OR in an alternate universe the Polaris Galaxy coincidently exist in the Ben 10 franchise and during one of Ben's adventures outside of the Milky Way galaxy he ran into one of the species (maybe that universe's version of Talwyn) and thus got a sample for his Omnitrix.

Markazians come from the planet Markazia, a arid hostile planet that an ancient race once tried to colonized but had to leave when it became to hostile, and I wouldn't bland them as it is filed of natural pools of dangerous acid. This fact makes me think that Markazians are immune to acid and other corrosive substances to a degree.

However I think a key power Markazians have is enhanced intelligence, admittedly not on the same level as Grey Matter's or Brainstorm's species but still very intelligent. The species has shown to good in maybe fields like

management and archeology, but it seems like they really specialize in linguistics as canonically the Markazian language has 600 characters! This makes me think that a Markazian form would be good at translating all kinds of languages and codes including computer coding as Talwyn Apogee once had to decrypt such stuff in Tools of Destruction.

I wonder what Ben would call his Markazian transformation. What do you think he would call it?

Happy Talwyn Apogee Day!

Talwyn Apogee is owned by Insomniac Games

Omnitrix is owned by The Ink Tank

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