#Java's cool i love her

[moonfurthetemmie]

Java (She/they)

The older versions asked Error if she named her clone after coffee or the coding language. Error will not answer, she thinks it’s funnier to keep it a mystery.

Java doesn’t have as bad touch issues as Error, but they do have some verbal tics from their glitching. Apparently being a glitch can do odd things if you try to clone yourself. The tics get a lot worse when they’re stressed or flustered.

Error taught her how to use the strings, but also many fiber crafts. Xena tried to learn too but she didn’t have the patience for it, and Java teases her about it. It’s not that hard girl you just have the patience of an angry rhino.

Java can use a staff, should she need to get in closer, but she’s also very resourceful and will utilize just about anything in her environment to help her and the others in a fight.

Between her and Xena, she’s more likely to try to mediate in a conflict. She’s also more likely to resort to violence than Error. Mostly because Xena keeps picking fights she won’t commit to and Java has to save her fool ass. Error keeps trying to get her to do that Less but with no success.

Cross & Error

These two probably did about second best in terms of parenting. At least, Xena and Java still consider them family. They treated the clones more like little siblings than their kids, though. They were the ones who suggested the parenting support group. 

They are some of the worst role models of everyone. ‘Do as I say not as I do’ but Cross in particular feels really hypocritical so she’s very lenient on it. Xena got her habit of stirring the shit from Cross. And Cross is like ‘listen either commit to the bit or stop goading people into trying to kick your ass’

Error tries to set a better example but she’s only slightly better.

They both try to make up for it by hanging out with the kids/clones and spend time with them. Xena and Java tend to call them their aunts.

Other Stuff:

I somehow forgot error's eyes were different colors and at first made Java's blue. i think i was thinking of Koroit. I realized what I was doing and immediately had flash backs to that one person who thought Byte had blue eyes

Java's alignment is chaotic neutral

error doesn't Big Stick as well as Java, but she does okay. Well enough that she can help Java with their training. She thinks it's a good idea to have an extra weapon skill just in case, anyways.

Xena and Java have matching tattoos on their lower shins! It was Xena’s first one and she was scared to go alone and asked Java to come with her. 

Java has a pretty long scar over their chest from a sparring accident with Xena. It’s an old scar, and the initial wound wasn’t as bad as it looked, but Xena still feels horrible about it.

Also Java’s hair is actually really long and in a big bushy ponytail

[obitinenovelwhen]

Obitine Week 2025

Day Three - Nostalgia

“You may open your eyes now, Duchess.”

The words came from Obi-Wan, who’d been leading Satine by the hand through a bustling lower level of Coruscant. At Obi-Wan’s urging, she’d had her eyes closed ever since since they’d dismounted his speeder bike, impatient to see the “surprise” he had promised her before the Coronet took her back to Mandalore. And despite the temptation, she hadn’t peeked—not even when she’d nearly tripped over a dent in the ferrocrete, held upright only Obi-Wan’s grasp on her waist. So when she opened her eyes to take in a vibrantly colored diner—and to see a large, four-armed Besalisk grinning broadly at her—her surprise and delight were truly genuine.

��Dex!” Satine exclaimed, rushing forward to give him a hug.

Dex’s four arms reciprocated with a firm, but not crushing, embrace. “It does this old Besalisk’s heart good to see ya’, Sat’ika. I’ve been dancing with joy here since your Ben told me you were on Coruscant, you know!”

She turned just in time to catch Obi-Wan flush slightly at Dex’s use of their private pet name. “I remembered how well you two got along, when Dex was ferrying us between planets during the war, and I thought you might wish to catch up.”

Dex’s arms released and rested on his large belly as he let out a hearty laugh. “Get along is one word for it, eh! I’ve been hopin’ all these years you two would come to your damned senses and settle down someplace together.”

Now it was Satine’s turn to flush as a few of the diners looked up from their meals. Given that she wasn’t in her regalia and was dressed rather simply in a plain blue blouse and skirt, she was unlikely to be recognized. But the sudden attention from random onlookers made her uneasy. “Perhaps we should sit for a moment, get something to drink.”

Seeming to realized that he’d put her on the spot, his mirth faded a bit. “Of course, Sat’ika. Sorry to be so blunt with you right off the start. We can all have us a booth and get some nice, cool Java Juice.”

As she and Obi-Wan moved to seat themselves in the booth Dex had indicated, Satine gave the Besalisk a smile. “You remembered?”

“Of course I remembered! Your Ben here has been a stranger to Coruscant of late, what with those damned Clone Wars and all, but he still stops by every week he’s here for my Java Juice. He’d well deny it, but I know he does it because a particular Duchess was always partial to it.”

Obi-Wan regarded Dex with a slight frown as the larger man eased himself into the booth seat across from them. “That’s the second time now you’ve used that name. I’d forgotten that you were…privy to that information.”

Dex showed them a wide, toothy grin. “Your old master and I played fools, but anyone who’d have spent five minutes watching you two would’a known you were smitten for each other.”

“We tried to keep things discrete,” Satine pointed out before Obi-Wan could argue, hoping her flush this time around wasn’t too apparent.

“Well, you see, the word there is ‘tried,’” Dex said, scratching at his stubble. “But I don’t think what you two have can be hidden for long, Sat’ika.”

Obi-Wan raised an eyebrow in what she knew had to be attempt—and not a very successful one, not to someone who knew him as well as she did—to appear nonchalant. “Have?”

“Yes, ‘have,’ old friend. Anyone watchin’ you two now can see there’s a spark between ya’ brighter than the suns of Jakku.”

Satine let his words settle in as a server droid set down their drinks and a plate of something warm and savory-smelling. She risked a glance at Obi-Wan, keen to gage his reaction, only to find that he was also peering at her. Their shared gaze didn’t last long—perhaps a few seconds, nothing more—but in that time she could see in his eyes the same question echoing in her mind.

Is he right?

Just a few days before, Satine had disclosed as much to Obi-Wan, let him know she’d still loved him despite all their years apart. And he’d let her know, too, in his own way, that he’d once felt the same. But now? She knew in her heart she’d love him until her dying day, but the only hint that he shared her sentiment was that she saw something shift in him when he looked at her, or when their hands accidentally brushed while reaching for their cups.

Dex, perhaps detecting the shift in her mood, lifted his cup of Jawa Juice and held it out in a toast, his wide smile returning. “To you two crazy kids! Here’s hopin’ you’ll always have each other.”

Obi-Wan and Satine shared another glance as they returned the toast. Obi-Wan didn’t say anything, just looked at her with the same look he’d given her on the Coronet, after Merrick had been killed and before they’d parted to attend to their separate duties. The same look he’d worn when they’d said farewell on Mandalore, all those years ago.

The look that said he wanted to tell her something, but couldn’t.

As they all tucked into their drinks and food, laughing and reminiscing about old times, Satine hoped that someday, somehow, he finally would tell her.

@weekofobitine

[invisibleraven]

5. “Quick, kiss me again, they’re coming back—” – Carrie and Reggie

Also for @innytoes who asked for the same prompt and pairing!

If there was one thing Carrie hated most in the world, it was stakeouts. It meant long hours, stale coffee, and trying to stay awake while the people she was watching did nothing.

"Ugh I'm so bored," Carrie moaned. "I need to get out of this van."

"Go and stretch your legs if you want," Kayla offered. "I think Peters is going on a coffee run if you wanna go with for a break. Bring me back a cruller."

Carrie saluted, groaning as she stretched the ache from his limbs, hopping out into the cool night air. It was such a relief from the stuffy non descript van she had been stuck in for most of the evening. Thank goodness this would clear her from stakeout duty for a bit, if she survived the night anyways.

"Hey Wilson, breaking free?' Peters asked her. "You wanna join me for a java run?"

"God yes," she replied, the two of them heading a few blocks away to the nearest coffee shop. "How's the other van treating you?"

"Blech, I had to get out before Burke's boiled ham sandwich smothered me," he replied. "You're lucky to not have to suffer through it."

"Imagine being stuck in a car with it," Carrie replied, her nose crinkling at the vivid memory. "Plus he insists on listening to the game the whole time, and if there's anything more boring than stakeouts, it's baseball."

"He's watching the Mets game as we speak."

The two of them laughed at that, continuing their walk with the odd piece of office gossip or chit-chat. Carrie liked Peters-Reggie-she really should use his real name. He was a good agent, not afraid to think outside the box, quick on his feet, and she found him easy to talk to, whether it be about a case or the reality show they both enjoyed. Plus he was pretty easy on the eyes, and that was a relief when most of he people she worked with were middle aged and balding.

They took their time sipping their coffee, feeling the blessed caffeine fill their veins. "Any plans for the long weekend?' Carrie asked.

"Going home to see the fam," Reggie replied. "My sister is due next month so we're all getting together to throw her a shower." He showed her his phone, showing a glowing Latina woman and presumably her husband, then another of the same woman with an older man and younger man, Reggie grinning right next to them.

"You guys look really happy," Carrie commented.

Reggie smiled softly at the picture, then pocketed his phone once more. "Yeah, I lucked out when they chose to take me in. What about you?"

"It's just me and my dad, and we don't see each other much," Carrie replied, evasive as ever. She didn't really want to get into the Trevor Wilson of it all, even if he was more washed up than anything now, there were plenty of people who still remembered and loved his music. "Might just take some me time the weekend, go see a show."

Reggie nodded, and given he had revealed that he had been taken in, she figured he might know something about fraught family dynamics. "Another for the road?"

"I'm good, but I promised Kayla a doughnut," Carrie said.

"Well I suppose someone has to live up to the stereotype," Reggie snickered, but got himself a pastry as well. "Anything to cover the smell of ham."

They were a block away from the vans when a voice came through their comms. "Attention all agents, suspect is on the move. Do not engage, keep out of sight."

"Fuck," Carrie swore. There was nowhere to hide and there was no way she was getting accused of borking this mission. "We gotta look inconspicuous."

Reggie turned her around, pressing her up against a tree, lowering his head. "Ready for maneuver 73?"

Carrie nodded, looping her arms around his neck, pulling him down for a kiss just in time as a couple of tough looking men passed. She heard them snickering but otherwise they ignored them.

The kiss was supposed to be pure business-Carrie had taken enough acting classes to pull off a professional smooch. But it was still a kiss that made her want to melt against the tree from how sweet and soft it was. And she could feel how Reggie's hands tightened on her hips for a brief moment before he pulled back.

"Gotta say, you know your way around that maneuver," Reggie stated, smiling at her, then swore. “Quick, kiss me again, they’re coming back—”

Carrie didn't even hesitate, pulling Reggie back down, putting some oomph into the kiss.

"Break it up lovebirds!" a jeering voice chuckled.

Carrie eased up on the kiss but didn't let Reggie go until the guys got into their car. She activated her comm. "Suspects are in a '75 Silverado, dark blue. Should we pursue?"

"Negatory, Burke is in a unmarked, he's trail them. Get back in the van and we'll regroup."

"Acknowledged, Wilson out."

Reggie stepped back, rubbing the back of his neck, a faint blush on his cheeks. "Thanks for making my night better."

"Because I got rid of the ham?" Carrie joked.

"That too, sure," Reggie replied.

Carrie blushed, the two of them stopping by her van. "Well thanks for breaking up the tedium of the stakeout, we should do it again sometime."

"Maybe the weekend before I head home?" Reggie offered. "Get some tapas, go make fun of the latest action flick showing at the Odeon?"

"Throw in a coffee and it's a date," Carrie replied, leaning in for a final peck before hopping into the van, smirking at his dopey looking expression before closing the door.

'Good coffee break?" Kayla asked with a smirk, motioning to Carrie's smudged lip gloss.

"Eat your cruller and shut up," Carrie grumbled. But smiled when her phone pinged with a text from Reggie containing a smiley face. And wondered if just maybe she had been wrong about stakeouts all along.

[quitealotofsodapop]

HiB Spider Sisters idea:

I mentioned the 7 Spider Sisters in a few previous HiB sequel/au posts and I had a cool idea of how they'd work, inspired a bit by the 1999/00's cartoon + LMK's spider gang.

Gonna put these lovely ladies in one photo set to reduce arachnophobia.

Sister #1: Black Widow Spider - the leader of sisters. Not the largest but definietly the one with the biggest ego. Based on the Spider Queen

Sister #2: Joro Spider - thin and spindy, and obsessed with her beauty. Likes short men.

Sister #3: Signature Spider - the more bookish of the elder sisters. Enjoys caligraphy and decorating her webs.

Sister #4: Huntsman Spider - Frustrated middle child. Is a pursuit hunter rather than a web weaver. Ends up having a crush on Sha Wujing. Based on the Huntsman from LMK.

Spider #5: Chinese Fawn/Bird Eater - A lazy web maker who nonethless has a massive heart. Based on Goliath/Strong Spider from LMK.

Spider #6: Ant Mimic Crab Spider - An amatuer actress who takes on most of the chores around the home.

Sister #7: Java Yellow Jumping Spider - Youngest sister. Barely a teenager by demon standards. Can leap great distances.

The HiB gang encounter these fine gals and immediately are on edge about having Liuer or Fa Ming near them (cus demons + monks = bad), only for the seven arachnid demons to crowd around the kids and coo;

Spider Sisters: (*pinching Liuer's cheeks and fussing over him*) Spider Sisters: "Oh he's so short!" "Barely a hatching!" "And he's so chubby, look at these cheeks!" "He's so cute I could eat him up!" Liuer, terrifed cus of what the adults warned him about: "Dasheng! They're gonna eat me!" (;﹏;) Spider Sisters: (*immediately give him more space and make sad aw-ing sounds*) Spider Sisters: "Oh no sweetheart!" "We don't want to eat eat you!" Spider Sister #4, joking: "Yeah, you're not ripe enough." Liuer, sarcasm failed: "....WAAAAHHH!!!" ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡ Other 6 Sisters: (*disapproving glares at #4*)

Because an aspect of the Sisters from JTTW thats often glossed over; is that they are described as the adoptive mothers to seven baby bug demons.

These broody spiders take one look at Liuer and Silly Girl and start cooing at how much they want one of their own. <3

After the confusion is cleared up with the HiB gang, they quickly gain some new friends in the form of seven giant spider demons. The eldest three sisters do flirt with Fa Ming though - so the monkeys gotta keep on eye on that. And the fourth one has a crush on Sha Wujing. The only one of the demons that show any interest in Zhu Bajie is the youngest jumping spider having a bit of a puppy-crush on him, and that rightfully freaks him out a little too much.

[red-viscountess-emika]

a Tridaily Dose of Emika

(because of exams)

programming languages I use

I do programming, sometimes. I will list the languages I know, chronologically.

Scratch (when I was 10 or something)

Processing/weird combination of a Java library and a very shitty integrated code environment that comes with it, or whatever that word is. (when I was 14, maybe??)

Python (I dunno, used it for the first time at 16, I would guess)

C (when I was either 20 or 19)

HTML, CSS, Javascript (when I was 20??)

Haskell (when I was 20 (I am still 20))

So Scratch is just adorable, right??

Processing?? I dunno, it helped me learn the concepts????? It was really weird looking back at it. I feel like I was very shitty, but it had a library to make visual stuff easy, so it worked. I wouldn't know how to use actual Java, though, because classes were an advanced concept for me back then, and I forgot it since, and I don't ever use classes with the other languages I use.

Python sucks so bad, I hate it, but school coerces me into using it sometimes.....

C is my favourite, and the one I'm the best at. It's just very satisfying, I guess. I've been building a datastructure library lately.

HTML and CSS are kinda funny, Javascript sucks, but you need it I guess

Haskell is so cute, I love it, but I suck at it as of now. I had a month orso of using it and then went back to C, but I do plan to learn more of it later on :3 now, I will tell you more about these languages

Scratch is just some little kid who is throwing paint around (they are fine??? like they're a kid.... you can't judge them)

Processing is some friendly old white dude (he is fine)

Python is some 30-year old in lower upper management of some multinational who thinks very highly of himself and stuff (we hate him)

C is a 25-year old non-binary cool person (we like them)

HTML is not a person

CSS is not a person either

Javascript, we don't know enough to tell, and with we, we mean I

Haskell is a 16 or 17 year old alt girl (we like her)

[ghostofnuggetspast]

Cats are cool, misogynists drool

John hasn't seen Harry in a few months now, and it's just gotten cold enough to dust him with snow while he trudges to the coffee shop. He's got on a new scarf and hat that Mrs. Hudson hurriedly pushed into his arms a couple days ago saying "I just finished these at my knitting club, and I thought, oh! Wouldn't that blue look good with John's eyes? So here."

Who is John to say no to hand-knit warmth from someone he likes? Loves? Besides, she's a good knitter, and he fancies they do look good on him. He'd thanked her profusely and silently promised himself to get her something nice this year. He pulls the coffee shop door open, hearing the little bell tingle overhead, and stomps off the bit of snow that's stuck to his boots. He looks up and... hahahah There's Harriet slouched comfortably by the window, in a hat too. Only hers is bright pink and has ... cat ears? Looks like they'll have something to talk about over java.

Pussy Hat

My sis has a thing on her hair That stands out. She smiles when I stare. It's fluffy and pink And cat-like, I think. It means kitty's got claws, so beware.

The Pussy Hat Project is for promoting feminism and humanism through peaceful protest and civil discourse. They state on their website that they are inclusive of all women, regardless of biological specifics and personal history. The term "pussy" was used for shock value, not for exclusion. They're cats, and cats can be quite shocking when they want to be. Especially on a dry day when they've been rolling over the carpets.

[goron-king-darunia]

Annon-Guy: New Characters announced for Sonic Racing: Crossworlds! Any thoughts? I also put my personal thoughts on their inclusions in the Polls.

Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid)

Joker (Persona 5)

Ichiban Kasuga (Yakuza/Like A Dragon)

Steve, Alex and Creeper (Minecraft)

Sonic The Werehog (Sonic Unleashed)

Rusty, Nine and Dread (Sonic Prime)

Hatsune Miku: 10/10, everybody loves Miku. It'd be especially cool if some of the tracks had her popular songs (or rather song's she's featured in and known for) as background music. Joker: Don't actually know much about the Persona series other than disjointed snippets from secondhand info, but he seems like a rad dude. 9/10. Ichiban Kasuga: I don't know him at all other than I know people like the Yakuza games. Reserving judgement but he seems fun. 7/10 until I learn more. Steve, Alex, and Creeper: 10/10 would crap my pants if I was racing down the track and some square thing in a minecart started coming up behind me only for it to go "TSSSSSS." Creepers are the bane of my existence. I usually wear a custom skin on both Bedrock and Java, but my main skin on Java was based on Efe and Kais skins because Like their outfits. But Alex and Steve are classic so of course they'd be there. 10/10. Me like dumb block game. Sonic the Werehog: Screaming and crying and throwing up. Sega really said "The furries love our game, let's make this beast even more furrybait and made Werehog Sonic. Absolutely insane move. 11/10. Love when a character "got that dog in him" as they say. Make 👏 him👏 feral👏! Rusty, Nine, and Dread: Inner child is biting them with my teeth (positive). Loved pirates and Knuckles as a kid, so Pirate Knuckles stares directly into my soul 20 years ago like "I was made for you." Nine had to be there of course. Everyone loves our cute and kinda cowardly hairball who has to slowly warm up to Sonic again. I'm also surprised Thorn didn't make the cut but Rusty IS the fan favorite version of Amy, I think. And since it seems like they were trying to limit picks to 3, it makes sense that they went with the 3 most popular picks. 11/10.

[toph3r-marshmell00w]

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Hewo!! ���

I'm topher! I also go by toph, tophie or marshmellow :33 I'm a British, scemo, furry artist! Also a self proclaimed, nerd and geek! I will post my art, reblog, moodboards, random opinions, maybe even use this blog as a little journal! Another thing, I am the biggest tophfucius shipper, I will defend them with my life 🙏

My pronouns are he/thon/they/ze/xe + any neos ^^ do NOT use she/her or it/it's on me. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable.

I am genderfluid + xenos! I am pansexual as well as aegosexual!! :3 I am ambiamorous ^w^

I am in many fandoms, for example we haveeee my fav rn, clone high!! Then we have others like fbacc, fnaf, yfm, eddsworld, sandersides, furry, vocaloid, total drama(minor), MLP, South Park, SML, Invader Zim, FRED figglehorn, welcome home(minor), super Mario, smiling friends, hunter x hunter, rick and Morty(minor), tally hall, horrible histories, football (+ 442oons, I'm also a Bayern Munich supporter!!:33), and probably more I can't remember!! XD But I'll mostly be posting about clone high!! ^^

If you'd like to play games with me, I'm up 4 it but i don't play roblox (srry roblox players) , I used to but I'm more interested in minecraft ^w^ I play both java and bedrock! :DD

My music taste mostly consists of scene music of course as well as emo! Sometimes I like to listen to hyperpop, rock, metal, fangame/fandom music, music boxes(mostly the fnaf music boxes), game soundtrack, vocaloid, music from the old internet and sometimes weird al!! :DD I also have a soft spot for shakira (aka my wife/hj <33)

WHOOP WHOOP!! I'm also a juggalo! :33 my fav song from ICP is confederate flag! ^_^

I have quite a few favorite youtubers! These include, FRED (ofc) , memeulous, Danny Gonzalez, drew gooden, Kurtis Conner, tomska, markiplier, jacksepticeye, saberspark, Flamingo, one topic, TUV, messyourself, imallexx, willNE, James marriott and MUCH more!

I am very very VERY interested in history, I love it so much! Everything from the stone age to the 2010s! I love it!! I do hours of research, make powerpoints, factfiles, read about it etc!

I am also quite interested in things like world cups (precisely the 2014 world Cup), Maned wolves and lop bunnies, graphic novels and space! I love doing research about them and picking up random facts + key info about them! If anyone would like to hear me ramble about em please dm I AM BEGGINGGGG <33 I'll also listen to you ramble aswell :33

In total, I have 6 collections: badges/pins, posters, plushies, figures, stickers and cans! ^^

Other random stuffffzz!!

I'm a multi shipper and I ship like anything except proships :3 Though for clone high, I don't really like joanabe, Joanfk, candidworth, jfgogh (I don't get this ship I'm sorry) and harrucius (I mean it's cute but it's just not 4 me ^_^) My fav ships are tophfucius, tophabe(pls don't bully me 😭), joanrriet, Vanceaser, jfabe, butlertron x scudworth (I dunno the ship name 😔), kahlopatra, tommatt, paultryck, poly Martians, scutters (Scott malkinson x butters, one of my fav rarepairs <33), tophdi, jfucius, harold x leshawna, harold x Ezekiel, Ezekiel x Justin, Noah x Cody and like so much more ships that I can't even remember TwT

I'm a copinglink! My copinglinks are topher bus(CH), benatar (YFM) and tom(EW)!! Copinglinks are a coping mechanism to deal with stress, trauma, or other issues by identifying as someone / something knowingly, willingly, and actively! :3

Kinlist!! :

Top kins: Topher bus, Gandhi(CLONEHIGH!!) , pip pirrup, benatar, puff puff, tom (EW), Confucius(CLONEHIGH!!), pinkie pie and Heidi Turner!!

kins: Matt, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, axel chains, joan of arc(CLONE HIGH SEASON 1), van Gogh(CLONEHIGH!!), JFK(again CLONE HIGH!!), stan marsh, Cody and harold(TD) and Kyle(fbacc)!!

Forgot to mention but Im a shifter :3 (current DR is clone high :D)

OHHH ANDDDDD my birthday is 27th Feb! ^^ so erm that's cool :DD

Here's some of my art!

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・people who bully/send death threats over ships..

・Anti-xenogenders.

・n@z1s

・ableists

・People I know irl.

・AI artists

・anti-furrys

BOUNDARIES!

・ Idm how old you are, you can interact but if you are above the age of 21 please don't dm me or become close. I have bad experience with people 20+ but idm if they interact or reblog or whatever just as long as they don't try to get close.

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・If you need someone to talk to/vent to I'm here! ^^ but please ask before venting. Also remember that I am not a therapist and I won't be able to respond to all your vents. Another thing, don't just use me to vent. I'm not your own personal therapist that will help you with your problems :/ if venting is all you want to do with me then you are blocked.

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[distort1xn]

my kitten’s vet has a very cool secretary. idk how to translate her name into english from my language, but it roughly translates to ‘colourful cat’ (which is funny bc my kitten’s name is ‘colourful’, but in finnish).

anyway.

WHAT A WOMAN.

i was maybe a little teary-eyed when the doc looked java (my kitten) over. he has a tummy thing. wdk what’s wrong exactly, but he’s not metabolising any food and subsequently has no energy and is always crying of hunger (he also lost weight, according to his weigh-in today). so, as i was crying, kitty secretary came to wind herself around my legs. i gave her some love as i sat on the side, watching them treat java.

then, when we were walking back the front desk to pay, kitty secretary was walking us out. we passed a pup on the way, not tied down or in any pain, according to the doc, or even upset. he was just yowling bc he figured out he could. i have NEVER seen a cat tell someone to stfu, but i saw it TODAY. an honour, truly.

i love you, colourful secretary cat.

the vet: this is her liquid form.

[our-reality]

can we please hear about. the s1 or s2 plot please i love your little guys so much

no ^_^

BUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS agh it wouldnt make sense to explain the s2 plot without s1 but s1's plot is . im only proud of it in my head but i guess i can try to explain it LAWL sorry if this makes no sense

so season 1's plot revolves around this prophecy. that the highest gods of the universe (swift and python) will split apart but be rejoined by The Chosen One (its not immediately revealed who this is for Reasons) in order to stop the evil guy (vysel) but in the process the high gods will die and the chosen one will take their place . sounds pretty simple right. uh yeah thats the last time itll be simple

swift and python. really never took the prophecy seriously before their fight. they had long lives ahead of them (or so they thought), and besides thinking about their horrible demise doesnt really . do a whole lot for them. other than make them depressed. but when the split happens (and python leaves swift behind) swift suddenly starts to take the whole thing MUCH more seriously. it doesnt say how long it'll take for the chosen one (that's not what the prophecy calls them but its okay) to bring them together so swift just kinda. holds out hope for a while. but eventually they lose faith and only adhere to the prophecy because it predicts sky's gonna die early. which becomes the only thing they care about.

FAST FORWARD TO THE MODERN DAY python's a human and he's an old man and it ends up in this little town called overgaard and he (literally) runs into these two girls named ruby and java!! and within a second of shaking both of their hands it's like oh. they're The Ones huh. (keep in mind he barely remembers anything about the prophecy so like. yeah sure theres two chosen ones. why not. and it n ruby n java hit it off really well!! (ok more so like ruby and python hit it off java kinda hates him initially LOL) but eventually python knows that like. even though he hates responsibility he should do something about. this. like this is kinda important

now python's been on earth for a while. and they know there's exactly one (1) place here that swift can occasionally be found on. and that place is called purity's garden!! and it just so happens there's a gateway to it in overgaard!!! but uhhh unbeknownst to him two humans unexpectedly FOLLOW him into this place that very few, if any, humans have stepped into for the past couple thousand years. but uhhh swift does end up being there and python basically walks up to her and is like "hey girl so i know we havent talked since i abandoned you without saying goodbye hundreds of years ago but i think i found the two kids from the prophecy ^o^"

now swift has been studying the prophecy for AGES. she KNOWS that there's only one chosen one. and sky also knows that the shitbag who honestly ruined her life just came bsck without any kind of explanation or apology for doing so. AND he's just wholeass lying to them on top of that. so she's not very happy until lo and behold !!!!!!! thw two kids from the prophecy come to intervene!!!!!!! and at first swift is like "python these are just normal humans you fuckinf loser". but python INSISTS tjeyre the chosen ones, swears it on every bone in his body. amd she's like "i'll literally prove it to you ill SHOW you the prophecy" but!! when they get there!!!! the prophecy suddenly says there IS two chosen ones!!!!!!!!!!! and swift is losing it because sky's literally spent every day of python's absense memorizing that shit down to the SPECIFIC INFLECTION OF EACH WORD and somehow she mustve fuckijg forgotten that the prophecy calls for two people. ok. Fine. she can be cool about this . itll be Fuckinf Fine. so she reluctany trains these two alongside python in order to become skilled enough to defeat this evil demon thing that threatens. the fabric of the universe actually.

and BADABING BADABOOM that's most of s1 :-) everythinf just kinda follows that plot. and by that i mean the prophecy keeps fucking changing because it turns out having two people instead of one kinda changed everything WAY more than it fucking should. but its okay.

uhhh other than that the negative spirits take vysel as their pawn on the 200th anniversary of his death amd start rebuilding his prescence in the cutural consciousness only to make him like. the most hateable person ever. because negative actions and emotions make them stronger. and vysel's cool with it because he's a shallow asshole who only wants fame and attention even to the point of sacrificing his identity and personality both to the internet gods and to. the kinda demon things possessing him

although the whole training arc is going on (which does get some episodes dedicated to it tbf) most of the episodes in s1 are actually moreso slice of life stuff. a whole year passes between java and ruby finding out they're "chosen ones" and the end of s1 so they still have a lot of time to like. interact with their families or reconnect with old friends (as two conpletely nonspecific examples) . and about halfway thru the season vysel shows up proper and the story has urgency now yippee!!!!!

anywhoozle like i said in that one post. and i should probably explain how this happens so im gonna do that rq . but basically i've talked about this thing called imprisoned rogues before? they're basically intergalactic super criminals . if you do something that endangers an entire planet or more the gods will come up with some sort of unique enless trap for you to stay in for all eternity. like for example an endless staircase you never stop climbing or your consciousness being transferred into an inanimate object. shit like that. and all these rogues are kept in sectors that only gods can make portals to. but the collection of negative spirits within vysel have become so strong they can collectively create one giant portal to send everyone through. where they would presumably die (except for swift who they're now confident they can kill if she gets singled out ^_^). which is much safer than trying to kill them directly. and of course thats the one day java and c+ actually decided to hang out with each other for the first time in 3 years so uhhhh get fucked jobs georg you and your girlbestie get sent to the hell dimension !!!

and yada yada emotional turmoil happens and they eventually decide that letting java die out there isn't a particularly great idea and they save her but by then the endgame has pretty much started. the other gods finally start to help when they realize that this is actually. yk. a big fucking deal. and the prescence of two people is actually enough to cause the prophecy to change so much that both swift and python get to live in the end WOOOOOO (well. they live in some timelines that is. but dw about tjat its Not important ^_^) vysel dies in the process and everything is hashtag awesome the end . oh my lord that took so long to explain sorry LOL

UHHHHH S2'S PLOT ISNT NEARLY AS COMPLUCATED THANKFULLY. basically another year passes after the end of s1 and everyone's hanging out and being friends and whatever. but even after that time swift couldnt shake the feeling that something was wronf with the prophecy. she figured out it was changing but she couldn't understand why. but it wasn't really worth worrying about because they had to stop vysel. but after all was said and done she decided to visit one specific imprisoned rogue in particular, who sought to gain all the knowledge in the universe. so to punish xem the gods GAVE xem infinite knowledge but also put xem in a pitch black, inescapable room, so no one else can possibly hear xyr knowledge. which was what xe wanted in the first place. how fun ANYWAYS xe's not at all important ^_^ the point is that swift finally caves and asks xem what happened and xe's like oh!! some human kid fucked it up lol :) now can you free me now that i told you that and swift's like . sorry buddy its kinda hard to take back your knowledge now that you have it . but we'll figure out something for you !! (sky never does /J)

ANYWAYS the point of all this that swift figures that the human that altered the prophecy is the REAL chosen one. and even after all this time there's still no one to take the place of swift and python (which. swift being the god of all energy is a major reason why they're so unhappy in the first place. so of course they dont wanna put this burden on ruby or java or python.) but they figure that if this humam is old enough and experienced enough to be able to change the future in such a drastic way, then with some more experience and love for the universe they'd absolutely be able to take up this role. right ?

SIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE KID THAT DID ALL THIS IS SOME SHITTY 15 YEAR OLD SCENEMO KID!!!!!!!!!! GET PRANKED LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so they kinda have an issue. cuz swift absolutely Cannot handle being a god anymore . but this kid (named requiem) doesnt wanna do it either. and also said kid is way too powerful to just. stay let loose. so they're like hey man!!!! you can like. change the future and shit isnt that cool. and this kinda freaks requiem out they're like THATS WHAT THE PROPHETIC STRESS DREAMS ARE ABOUT?????? ALSO WHO ARE YOU so automatically they're even worse now

and the main 4 are like. hey. ik we really stressed you out before and were sorry but we can also get you out of here because youre very obviously depressed. and requiem's not great rn but they also Are Depressed and Have No Plans For The Future so they're like. okay. their parents are okay with this btw because theyre. aghh

so basically s2 is about trying to get requiem to appreciate life. because we dont want this child who can change the future to be sad all the time. or angry. or yk. evil. which sounds kinda shallow but they develop into really good friends!!! and they found family each other ....... bless. so they travel the world and see things from so many other perspectives and this is the season where i kinds go creazy with the worldbuilding ....... its for me to have fun . win

and uh . funny story i STILL dont have a proper ending for s2 .......... i have ideas i just need to think of how such a thing would happen. but i will get back to you when i come up with something ! dw

and erm thats kinda it ... there's also a side story with themes and motifs AND two blokes who do fuck all. but i dont talk about that one as much but its okay!!!! i will soon.......... stayyyyyy tuned ^_^

[yandere-isopod]

Thank u I would live for them !! What are their names? Also do you know the exact species like what kinda chicken each one is? I've seen there are like many kinds and they're so cool

All the white ones, and the two black ones are Easter eggers. They lay blue eggs and are easily my favorites. That could be because they were the first 5 birds I got. Bonus photo of my favorites Onigiri and Torchic. Onigiri is the one with cross beak. She ended up being a sort of indoor chicken for a while. The other white one in that group is Chocobo. Hyrule is the brownish one and Hanako is the all black one. She had like 5 extra toes. Hyrule jumps on my shoulder now every time I go outside. I work from home and my coworkers love it when I work outside cause she always just chills on my shoulder for calls. She’s a very hard working lady~

The one with the strawberry in the other pictures and her sister are faverolles. I think so far that’s my next favorite. They just talk a lot and I think it’s cute. They also like to cuddle, not as much as the Easter eggers but the Easter eggers are the only ones I raised from chicks. Their names are Maha and Skittle.

The big round ones are silver laced red Wyandottes. They were actually retired show hens and they both acted like it for sure. I like to think they talked like retired broadway actresses. Their names were Madame and Chunk. They weren’t very friendly but they kept peace in the flock very well.

The red ones, I’m not really sure honestly. They were an impulse buy because a raccoon got into my coop and I lost a lot of birds. I got them at a farm auction. They’re kinda skittish and would sell your soul for a slice of bread but I love them. Java and C# are their names.

I really recommend everyone get birds! They’re so sweet and I love them so much!

[windsorbay]

THE CHARACTER.

FULL NAME: Lila Mendoza

GENDER: Cis woman

PRONOUNS: She/her

AGE + BIRTHDAY: 25 + February 27, 2000

LENGTH OF TIME IN WINDSOR BAY: Just arrived

HOUSING: Downtown

OCCUPATION: Part Time Barista at Java Junction - Will be enrolling as a mature student in Windsor Bay Community College come September

THE INTERVIEW.

What’s it like, living in Windsor Bay? Did you ever picture yourself settling down here or did you always know this would be your home?

"Honestly, I was born in San Diego and didn't even know this town existed until my brother moved here. I haven't been here long enough to decide if I actually like it here, but at the moment I am happy with my decision to move here. I made some dumb choices that I never intend on making again, I'm getting my life back on track and I have my brother nearby for support. I don't think there's a better place for me to be at this point in my life."

If you could recommend one hidden gem around town everyone should try, what is it? What makes it so special?

"The Bell Tower. I love history, and I think it's so cool that a piece of this town's history has been preserved in that way."

What’s your family like? Are you still close, or have you blocked all their numbers?

"My parents are great and my mother is the reason I’m so passionate about art, but I don't think I can face them right now. I can’t deal with the parent lectures about how dumb it was to elope at 18 and skip out college. I know. I don’t need to be told. At the moment, my brother is my favorite person. I don't know what I'd be doing without him right now."

If you could have any three guests come to dinner, dead or alive, who would they be and why?

"Vincent Van Gogh - he is easily my favorite painter. His style is so vibrant and unique. Leonardo da Vinci - he is just undoubtedly a great. And Claude Monet, just because I really like his paintings."

Top five songs currently on your Spotify?

"Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan. BIRDS OF A FEATHER by Billie Eilish. Flowers by Miley Cyrus. Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter. Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi."

Would you say you’re easy to get along/work with? Why or why not?

"I keep my head down and do my work. That's all that matters, right?"

We’ve all had our fair share of shit hit the fan and moments in the sun — tell me about a defining moment in your life, good or bad.

"When I kissed a boy aged 14 at a party on a dare. I knew I was attracted to girls before then, but that was the moment I knew for sure that I wasn't attracted to boys. I've always been unapologetically myself, so I've been an out lesbian since that moment."

Do you have any regrets? What are they?

"Getting eloped at 18. That was fucking dumb."

Are you a leader or a follower?

"I used to think of myself as a leader, but I've been spending some time reflecting on the things I've done which led me to where I am now - I'm tragically a follower. Maybe I can work to change that, though."

It’s the little things in life; tell me three things that bring you a great deal of joy or put a smile on your face.

"Art, history, and period dramas."

THE PERSONALITY.

— + Loyal, Pragmatic, Determined — - Blunt, Proud, Petty

LILA IS PORTRAYED BY ISA BRIONES, AND WRITTEN BY BETHAN.

[creamteamdreams]

Long Time No See

My friends have the best home. Next to the University Market where the homeless are congregating now on their bikes, sharing cigarettes & talking enthusiastically. Across the street are multiple ethnic restaurants that I never see anyone in. The glass windows tinted a dull brown. They connect to this strange apartment you can only access via a stairway covered in rich green moss. Today is brilliant. The Sun is shining softly and the world is filled with noise. Not an overwhelming amount but enough to know that you're not ever alone. not really. someone is always out there for you. in some strange apartment or talking outside a university market. having the same thoughts, experiencing the same emotions. I love the noise. I love sitting on their porch, the concrete patio painted a rusty red. An airplane flies south and cars rush past the road to my right. what a beautiful world to immerse myself in. I took a different route today, led astray by a house painted a rich teal green. The richest color I've seen in my life. The white trim emphasizing the depth of blue. I walked past a group of college men playing some drinking game. It's 3pm on a Thursday. But hey it's 5pm somewhere ! I love days like these. I love love love love love them. When the sun is out and I walk to my friends house. I ran into so many awesome people today! so grateful for everything that led me to these people. I got to see Clara a little this morning. I need to hangout with her more. A deep pang resonated realizing how little time we spend with each other now and the love I have for her. Then I talked to Calvin for awhile. HE IS SO COOL! and easy to talk to. The first man I literally can't say a bad thing about. Wow, what a great person. Then Jonah and Aeris and Bennett! I NEED to see aeris soon. I need to dance with aeris soon. we had such an awesome time together Thursday. then Bennett and I got to talk a bit on our way to classes. then I saw TAYAH. the love of my life. so grateful to have met her oh my god. she is so funny and easy to talk to and lit. idk she's just mother dearest. then I saw HAZEL and sat outside of java chatting about art and break and what the core of our soul is and how we can find it and announce it to the world. because there's your surface level interests and all your likes and dislikes that can change whenever you desire. there's your environment and how that builds your personality, something out of your control. I feel like there is something that resides deeper within. anyway then I had recitation and saw Christina. another beautiful shining soul. then on my way to this beautiful house I saw Ella! got to talk to her for a little bit. wow she is gorgeous. and so interesting. I want to get to know her better. literally all the girls in that friend group I need to know. I NEED IT. my head has been a whirlpool. thoughts circling and circling. ive been a bit more socially anxious. but that's because I caring so much about what others think. I trust myself. I trust that im growing and learning how to better express myself. i trust in the people the universe puts into my life. I trust that people will flow in and out and I need to appreciate people for as long as I have them in my life. basically nothing is that serious. nothing is as complicated as I make it. I just like talking to people. Im hella hungry.

[umichenginabroad]

Victoria en France: Week 5

Helloooo from Portugal! I am officially on my 2 week break, so my next couple of posts will be mainly travel focused. Get ready to hear all about my adventures in 6 cities in 4 different countries!

Classes

This week, I had my first advanced French class. I know I am going to learn a lot in this class, because it's already more of a challenge in a good way. We are doing interview prep, so my homework is to answer common interview questions in French, such as "Tell me about yourself," "Why do you want this position," and "What are your strengths and weaknesses." My teacher asked me if I read anything in French, and I told her that I want to, but haven't been able to yet. Later that evening, she emailed me a collection of short stories that apparently aren't too difficult to understand. I downloaded them onto my Kindle, and am hoping to read them over the break (hopefully on a beach somewhere). My French has improved so much since coming here and I really want to be able to consider myself fluent in May.

In my Java class, I finished my first project, which was to code a little game. This is my first time using Java, so I was really proud to have succeeded. Here is a screenshot of the finished product. You control the sprite with the arrow keys, and it won't move through obstacles.

Study spots

In my post last week, I wrote about going to my first coworking space, which was a super cozy cafe. This week, I went to a coworking space that doubles as a rock climbing gym, and these are actually super common. My friends and I went and spent some time working on the Java project, and then we went over and rock climbed! This was my first time climbing, and I really loved it. It's really gratifying to make it to the top of the path, and you have to get creative with your maneuvers. My arms were sore the next day but it felt really good. Obligatory picture:

Things to do in Paris

My Paris activity recommendation for this week is to go to a jazz club. I went to one called Caveau de la Huchette on Monday, and it was a super fun time. Downstairs, there is live music, and the group performing was very talented and entertaining. Everyone was dancing to the music, so there was a super fun atmosphere. It was a really cool place!

ENSEA

I want to share a little bit more about my school, since I'm still learning more about it all the time. Firstly, it's very small, with the student population being around 900 or 1000 students. From what I understand, this is pretty typical of French universities. Secondly, I bring up the fact that classes are 2 hours and labs are 4 hours a lot. I want to clarify that there are breaks built into the day. They are:

9:50-10:10

12-1:30 (lunch)

3:20-3:40

5:20-5:40

There are never classes scheduled during the lunch break. If you have lecture around the coffee breaks, it will either start 10 minutes late or end 10 minutes early (sort of similar to Michigan time). If you have lab from 8am to 12pm, for example (like me the past few Tuesdays), there is a pause during the break for you to go get coffee, talk to friends, etc. Everyone mainly gathers in "La Rue," which is the central hallway/entrance area, to talk with friends and get snacks from the vending machines. They sell croissants and sandwiches here for cheap, but you have to pay with cash, and the sandwiches sell out really quickly as soon as lunch starts.

Porto!

I flew into Porto, Portugal late last night, and today was an amazing start to my break. Stepping off the plane, I immediately noticed how fresh and clean the air was, and the air quality warning that always haunts the top of my weather app in France disappeared. It's also a solid 20 degrees warmer here. It's so nice to be by the ocean! I missed smelling the salt in the air and seeing the waves. We walked along the river at sunset, and it was so gorgeous.

During the day, we went on a 10-hour excursion where we were taken on a bus through the mountains. We started in Porto and ended up in Duoro Valley. The views were absolutely stunning. We had several stops along the way, which included seeing a gorgeous church and a boat ride. Pictures DO NOT DO IT JUSTICE. But to give you an idea of what I experienced...

Portugal is a beautiful country, and I am beyond excited to keep exploring tomorrow. And the rest of the next 2 weeks are going to be just as amazing! I will be in Morocco, Spain, and Prague, and I can't decide what I am looking forward to the most.

À Plus,

Victoria Vizza

Electrical Engineering

IPE: FAME at ENSEA in Cergy-Pontoise, France

[ratralsis]

I will always love Dragon Warrior 3

Dragon Quest III has a new HD-2D remake. I don't love the HD-2D style, if I'm being honest. 2D sprites on a 3D background never look right to me. They looked bad all the way back when I played Xenogears over twenty years ago.

In fact, I googled it: Xenogears came out on PS1 in 1998, so it was actually over twenty-six years ago. Pretty old fuckin' game, Xenogears.

Anyway.

I'm a big Dragon Quest fan. In 2018, I went to a Java One conference in San Francisco for work where I met a developer who worked for Square Enix. He'd just given a presentation discussing their use of Oracle technologies in some Final Fantasy mobile game or another that I'm sure has shut down by now. I approached him and his interpreter afterward to tell him that, because of the company I work for, security is our #1 priority when it comes to our data. How does Square Enix ensure that their databases are secure? Do they do automated testing? That kind of thing.

I got a pretty vague answer, but I wasn't unsatisfied with it. I shook the man's hand and told him, "実は、ドラクエのほうが好きだけど、" and he and his interpreter both laughed.

I'd just told him, "The truth is, I prefer Dragon Quest games, though," using the Japanese abbreviation "Dora Kue" instead of "Doragon Kuesuto." That way, he'd know I was actually a fan. Because I am, and that was a true statement. That's the kind of weird shit you learn when you spend time living in Japan. You can also learn it from the internet, of course. Maybe you just did, from me, earlier in this paragraph. I would be alright with that. Learning things on the internet is fun and easy and cool.

The first Dragon Quest came out in the US when I was very young, though it was called Dragon Warrior, of course. I was too young to be any good at it, because I lacked patience or a mind that could understand how to strategize even in a game where there was only one playable character. My dad played it, though, and I watched him. He played on weekends, because he didn't have time during the week. He named his character "Punky," as in "Punky Brewster," because he thought that was funny. It took us (that is, him) weeks to finish the game, but we (that is, he) eventually did.

I remember being terrified at the final boss battle. The Dragon Lord, the ultimate villain of the game, offers you half the world if you join him, and a Yes/No prompt actually appears.

Now, earlier in the game, you rescue the princess from a green dragon, and she asks you to take her back to the castle. You get a Yes/No prompt there, too, and if you say "No," she says "But thou must!"

"But thou must!" has become a cliche in the world of gaming for this reason.

So my dad assumed that the same thing would happen if you agreed to take half the world from the Dragon Lord. Thing is, it doesn't. Instead, he kills you, and the game ends. Decades later, that ending was used as the basis for the Dragon Quest Builders games, but, as a kid, it terrified me. Keep in mind that the game came out in August of 1989 in the US. Thirty-five years ago. I was five years old then. I might have been six by the time my dad played it, but come the fuck on, that's still pretty young.

We never played Dragon Warrior 2. We never had it. It wasn't until I was a teenager, and NES emulation was possible, that I played it. I never finished it, though, to be honest.

Dragon Warrior 3, though. That came out in 1992. I was eight. I already had an SNES, and Final Fantasy 2. But even at eight years old, Final Fantasy 2 was too much for me. I played it, but I didn't get very far. I literally couldn't find the entrance to one of the game's early dungeons. I won't say which one, because it's kind of embarrassing. It wasn't until I went back to it a couple of years later, at age 10, that I pushed through and finished the game.

I remember very clearly that I was in fifth grade, aged 10, because there was a snow day and I was all dressed to go to school when we found out about it and I went back to the TV to play Final Fantasy 2 instead. I was in the underground, going to the dwarven fortress.

Anyway. I didn't beat the first Final Fantasy game, on NES, until much later, too. I just wasn't good at RPGs when I was that young.

But in 1992, Dragon Warrior 3 was right up my alley. It's a simple game. It's a stupidly simple game. It has a plot that goes so far beyond simple that it's just plain stupid.

You start off at home, sleeping in your full armor, with sword and shield in hand, when your mother wakes you. She explains that it's your sixteenth birthday, and the first time that you'll go to the castle.

You go to the castle, and the king tells you that he's heard about your dad, who died, and how you're going to go die, too.

"It is said that the father Ortega met his end when he fell into a volcano's crater at the end of a battle." "We do hereby accept your petition to follow in the footsteps of your brave father."

He further tells you to get allies at the "eatery," hands you some money, and sends you on your way to kill Baramos, the archfiend, whose name most people don't know, and who is, somehow, going to conquer the world, I guess. And so, off you go. You can recruit three random dipshits from the "eatery," if you want, and you go save the world.

That's the plot.

There are a couple of twists once you kill Baramos. It turns out that there was a bigger Archfiend, Zoma, but he doesn't exist in this world. You have to find a big hole to jump into and find the world of darkness where Zoma lives, and then, once you're there, you find and kill him, too.

That's the end.

At eight years old, though, I loved it. The game came with an incredible manual that contained a walkthrough all the way to the ending, and a giant poster that showed illustrations for every single piece of equipment. I used to spend hours as a kid dreaming of how cool it would be when I finally had the best equipment for all my characters. I would try to find, looking over the poster, what all the best equipment even was. For example, the Zombie Slasher was the best sword for a Sage, as far as I could tell. Better swords existed, but Sages couldn't use them. And the Iron Mask was the best helmet for the hero. And the Magic Bikini was a surprisingly good piece of armor despite clearly being a joke armor.

You can find the poster at https://www.woodus.com/den/games/dw3nes/posters.php if you want. It's fucking excellent. My personal favorite is the Giant Shears, a weapon only Soldiers could equip, because of the utter (dare I say, sheer?) absurdity of imagining a character coming at an enemy with big scissors. Good luck finding the Giant Shears in the later re-releases! Someone realized how fucking stupid they were, I guess!

As a child, I struggled a lot with the game. I took a long, long time to get anywhere. I would grind and level up for hours. I tried a few different character classes, but I decided to take the advice from the manual and used a Soldier, a Pilgrim, and a Wizard as my main party.

The Soldier was Adan. The Wizard was named Matthias. Those were their default names. I named the Pilgrim Joel, after someone I knew from school. It was an all-male party, so I never got to use the Sword of Illusions or the Magic Bikini on my main party.

The hero? Oh, he was named for myself. I hated seeing the first four letters of my name, which is longer than four letters, in the battle menu. Matthias simply became "Matt," but Adan and Joel were untouched.

Adan leveled up faster than the hero did, which made me feel like he was the strongest in the party, and so he stood in the front for most of the game. It wasn't until much later, when I started swapping out characters to level up others, that the hero caught up. But when I first went to the town where you have to send a character solo through a dungeon, I sent Adan. That was a bad idea, it turned out. Adan, as a soldier, couldn't cast any kind of healing spells, so he just couldn't last long enough to make it through that dungeon. The hero could. The hero's meant to. You're meant to send the hero through there. I wound up sending the hero through it enough times to get him to the same level as Adan. I wound up going back later to do it again.

There's a point early on when the king of Romaly insists that you take his crown and become king. You can't refuse him. You have to do it. You have to track him down once you're the king and demand that he take his crown back, which he will, because it's an order from the king, that is, you.

You can go back and become king again later if you want. There's no point. You can't leave town when you're the king. You can't even access your inventory when you're the king. There are little joke responses to every menu option when you're the king that say you have no need to check your inventory or your status because you're the king.

But I was a little kid, and I thought it was funny as hell to go back and tell the king I wanted to borrow his crown and walk around being the king every so often. The only thing I could find that was of any use was that there's one NPC who will tell you that you can use certain weapons in battle to cast spells for free. He won't tell you that normally. Only when you're the king.

I remember visiting the home of a friend of mine and bringing Dragon Warrior III over. I don't remember how old I was then, but I met that friend in sixth grade, so it has to have been when I was, at the youngest, eleven years old. I'd been playing the game off and on for three years by then. I'd probably made it to the end of the game, but I'm sure I hadn't beaten it yet.

We killed an entire afternoon at the monster arena in Romaly, gambling on monster fights. It was fun. We probably lost more than we won, but I didn't mind. It was trivial to reset when we lost too much, and save when we won.

About a third of the way through the game, you unlock the ability to change the classes of anybody other than the hero. There aren't a ton of advantages to doing this in the original game.

Okay, let me break it down. There's the hero, but only one character, your starting character, can be the hero. The hero can't change classes, and nobody else can start as or become a hero. So let's not consider the hero any more when discussing class changes. In the original, there were six character classes you could pick from at the eatery when recruiting random dipshits:

The soldier: High HP, very strong, levels fast. The best at fighting. People often say that the soldier has the disadvantage of being expensive to equip, but that's stupid. Invaluable. You should have one.

The fighter: You'd think the fighter would have some kind of advantage over the soldier, but not really. People often say that the fighter's big advantage is that you don't have to spend so much money equipping them, but that's stupid. Later versions of the game included many more weapons and armor for the fighter that would close the gap between them and the soldier, but in the original, the Iron Claw was the best thing you could give the fighter to use as a weapon.

The merchant: Complete garbage. Can't cast magic, and isn't as strong as a soldier or a fighter.

The pilgrim: one of two classes who can cast magic. Casts healing spells and some buffs/debuffs. Can eventually revive dead characters. Invaluable. You should have one.

The wizard: the other class who can cast magic. Casts attack spells and some buffs/debuffs. Can eventually cast the "open" spell, rendering all keys meaningless, and the "day/night" spell, allowing you to make it nighttime whenever you want instead of having to fuck around walking outside. Invaluable. You should have one.

Goof-off: a joke character. Weakest in every way. Sometimes spends turns doing nothing. No value whatsoever. I mean it. None. Nobody can change to a goof-off, not even someone who used to be a goof-off and who leveled up and changed classes. You should never use a goof-off.

There comes a point later in the game when you need to bring a merchant to a place called New Town and abandon them there forever. They permanently leave the party. They never come back. That's the only use for a merchant as far as I am concerned. Some people will tell you that merchants are actually quite strong in the early game, and thus you should use one until you reach the temple where you can change their class into something else. I am telling you not to do this. I am telling you that there are exactly three good reasons to change a character's class.

One: you have an extremely high-level wizard or pilgrim who has learned every spell, and now you want to make them into a soldier. This will let them keep all of their spells, even though they will be terrible at casting them. See, changing your class cuts all your stats in half, so the new soldier's MP will only be half of what it was, and their spellcasting stats will be, too. They'll be bad at it.

Two: you have an extremely high-level wizard or pilgrim who has learned every spell, and now you want to make them into the spellcasting class they weren't. That is, you want your wizard to become a pilgrim, or you want your pilgrim to become a wizard. This will allow them to learn spells from both classes, and their spellcasting stats and MP won't be utter shit.

Three: you have a pilgrim or a wizard of any level and you want to use the one and only special book that exists in the game to turn them into a sage. The sage is a class that nobody can ever start as. They can learn every wizard and every pilgrim spell, and they can equip more weapons and armor than either wizards or pilgrims. They are the best class in the game. Choose wisely. My suggestion is that you turn your pilgrim into a sage.

Some people will tell you that there is a fourth good reason. Let me explain something to you. They were wrong.

They will tell you that you can level a goof-off to 20, the minimum to change classes, and then, when you go to change your goof-off's class, the option will be there to change them to a sage. This allows you to have as many sages as you want. This is stupid. Don't do this.

Here's the thing. Goof-offs don't gain MP when they level up, but they do gain intelligence, the stat which determines MP gain. See, when you level up in Dragon Warrior 3, the game looks at your character's level and determines, based on their class and their level, what their stats "should" be. If their stats are already above that level, they only gain one or zero points. So your level 20 goof-off becomes a level 1 sage, but has the intelligence of a level 10 goof-off. Until they surpass that point, your new sage won't gain intelligence.

But that means they also won't gain MP! Characters ONLY gain MP when they gain intelligence in Dragon Warrior 3! So your sage will NEVER have as much MP as they would have had if they'd started their life as a pilgrim or a wizard. They'll be a shitty sage.

You might think, well, it's better to be a shitty sage than no sage at all! And to that I say, FUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU

As a kid, I never knew that goof-offs could become sages. Nobody tells you that in the game. You're just supposed to figure it out, or read a guide online, which I eventually did, many years later. I thought goof-offs were just fun little dudes. I created one and named her Goofus, because I thought that was funny.

I leveled Goofus to something like level 40. Because she was the only female character I regularly used, she got all the female-only equipment I found: the Sword of Illusions, the Magic Bikini. That kind of thing. I loved Goofus! She was great! Especially once she put on that bikini, because it actually changed her character sprite to make it look like she was suddenly a sexy bikini babe!

Sexy!

As a high schooler, I got access to the GameBoy Color remake via emulation. That was basically a crime, but hey, let's pretend it wasn't.

The GBC remake included a lot of new features. Among them, the merchant and goof-off classes got new spells that only they can use, and the new thief class was added. This means that, if you want a character who can cast every spell, you can't just use a sage.

There's only one thing you can do. You have to become a goof-off, then a sage, and also a merchant and a thief on top of that. Obviously, this is the right and good thing to do. It's the only smart thing. Doing anything else is simply dumb as hell, and you shouldn't do it. Also, all your characters should be female. There are female-only equipment items, but there no male-oonly equipment items. Your hero should be female, and so should all your party members.

They should end as thieves. Thieves increase the chances of items dropping from enemies, including the stat-boosting seeds, which means that you can, with a little patience, have a team of four level 99 characters, all of them with maxed-out stats, three of them thieves who can use every single ability in the game.

This is the only smart thing to do. This is what I did. Twice. Once on the GameBoy Color ROM I had as a high-schooler, and again as an adult on my Android phone when playing the mobile release.

Doing that makes the final bosses, even the postgame superbosses who didn't exist in the original game, pretty easy to beat. That's really what it's all about.

Some people might say, hey, that sounds very boring. You don't need to do that. You could beat the game with a merchant and a goof-off in your party if you want. You could beat the game solo if you want. But that's not the smart thing to do. The smart thing is to max yourself out.

I haven't played the HD-2D remake yet. I'll get my copy tomorrow. I wanted to wait until it was out for a few days before I ordered a copy. I honestly kind of wanted to wait even longer, until it was cheaper, because I don't have a lot of money right now. But I love this game.

I've loved it many times over the years. I credit it with my lifelong love of RPGs, and, honestly, a big part of my love of fantasy in general. Final Fantasy, the original game on NES, included warp cubes and robots and a fucking War Mech who could attack you with an ability called "NUKE." It was fantasy, but only on the surface. It eventually became sci-fi. But Dragon Quest never did. It stayed fantasy from start to finish.

You rummage around in a horse field in Dragon Warrior III to find the material you need to sell to a merchant so that he'll forge the Sword of Kings for you. It's the strongest sword in the game. Only the hero can use it. It didn't exist already. You have to make it exist. And then you go and you kill the strongest bad guy with it, and that saves the world.

There's a twist, at the end, that I didn't see coming as a kid. Maybe you know about it. Maybe the fact that Dragon Quest 3's remake is coming out before Dragon Quest 1 and 2, due to the fact that Dragon Quest 3 takes place first chronologically, gives you a pretty big fucking hint. As a kid, though, I didn't know that. I thought that it was really cool that I could go around gathering, and creating, my own legend as the strongest fucking guy around, even if I also had three other guys with me.

As an adult, I wonder what happened to those other three guys. I guess they didn't get to be legends. They just died in obscurity. So it goes.

But tomorrow, I'll play the game again. I'll name my female hero Nester, because Nester can be a girl's name, too, and because I made a promise 30 years ago to always name the main character of any offline game I play "Nester."

I will never explain this beyond what I just said.

My other three characters will be a Monster Wrangler, a Priest, and a Thief, because that's the best party I can think of. I could potentially make a Wizard instead of a Priest. Wizards can do more damage, but Priests can heal more damage. When I can change character classes, I'll make the Priest/Wizard into a Sage.

Eventually, they'll all become Gadabouts, and Merchants, too, to get all the abilities in the game. That's the goal. That's the only smart thing I can do. I'll have to find out if they all need to become Monster Wranglers, and decide if I want to have all of them end as Thieves or if I want one of them to end as a Monster Wrangler while the other two end as Thieves.

There's only one smart thing to do, and I'll find it, and I'll do it.

The game itself? Dumb as hell. I love it. I'll always love it. I have a sad feeling that I might play it again in another twenty or thirty years, when I'm an even older man, or retired.

The idea of sitting down at seventy years old and starting up the newest version of Dragon Quest III and naming my hero "Nester" honestly sounds kind of nice. I hope it happens.

I don't think anything I've said here would convince anybody in the world to play this game, but I wanted to explain myself when I had this rare opportunity.

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Last one I can recall was Wannacry

Then there was that java exploit with arbitrary code execution that people were spreading via Minecraft

Generally speaking, I love my putter, please don't hurt her. Only viruses I want are the cool looking falling text one.

the modern internet needs a new mega virus. weve gone too long without having a named virus that takes out a major % of computers