#Nocturne 360

[akaanuar]

MUTEK.MX 2022 Edición 18: Nocturne 360, la reconexión con la tecnología y el arte digital.

MUTEK.MX 2022 Edición 18: Nocturne 360, la reconexión con la tecnología y el arte digital.

Después de tres años del último encuentro presencial de MUTEK.MX en su Edición 16 y dos de una Edición 17 híbrida/virtual en conjunto con MUTEK.JP, el Festival Internacional de Creatividad Digital MUTEK regresó este 2022 a la Ciudad de México para reunirnos y reencontrarnos nuevamente con la tecnología y el arte digital durante una semana intensa de vanguardia y experimentación audiovisual en su…

[christec]

Indoor Cam P1 test de la caméra d'intérieur d'AOSU : Intelligente, compacte et polyvalente

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[another-lost-mc]

having a brainrot about how it would be if the characters turned into their animal type (is that what that's called?)

like imagine a shady sorcerer happen to accidentally cast a spell that changes them into their animal type how fucking cute and funny that would be

-🪶

a/n: that's so cuuuute. I went with the symbolic animals from their banners.

the wild side | the demon brothers + karasu

0.5k words | sfw | fluff + humor

related: the dateables' version

The Peacock (Lucifer)

How he responds to you vs. how he responds to everyone else:

He can't keep his feathers fanned out on full display as much as he wants to because he keeps getting stuck in doorways.

He walks around the house in a slow strut. Sometimes he spins around to show off all 360 degrees of his exquisitely-feathered beauty.

He doesn't notice that sometimes he smacks you in the face with his plumes if you're nearby.

The Crows (Mammon and Karasu)

They both bring you gifts and intimidate the others that try to get too close.

They're even more clingy than normal too.

It's surprisingly easy to tell them apart: Mammon's feathers are tipped with white, and Karasu's eyes have a deep scarlet glow.

The Snake (Leviathan)

He desperately wants to curl himself around your arm or leg. He'll try to keep his space if you're visibly creeped out by snakes though, he doesn't want to scare you.

An alternative you could try is wearing one of his oversized hoodies: he'll curl up inside the pocket and every once in a while he'll poke his head out and flick his serpentine tongue at you.

If you don't like that either, he'll curl up in the bottom of your closet or under your bed, somewhere dark and warm where he can still be close enough to keep an eye on you.

The Unicorn (Satan)

The House of Lamentation wasn't designed for horses or horse-like creatures.

He's the only one Lucifer won't try to chase away, his hooves look deadly.

Satan doesn't fit in your bedroom easily but he'll follow you in the hallways or inside the larger rooms with more space.

You are definitely going to recreate this movie moment at some point before the magic wears off:

The Scorpion (Asmodeus)

He's a bit bigger than most scorpions which means he's even more cute or gross depending on how you feel about them.

He's careful not to hurt you with his pincers if you pick him up.

He must be powerful even in this form because he releases sweet-smelling pheromones when he senses you're nearby.

He curls in the makeshift bed on you place on your desk for him. He's surprisingly calm even though scorpions are usually nocturnal.

His eyes have an eerie pink glow. You didn't notice it until you turned off the lights at bedtime.

(He stares at you until you fall asleep.)

The Fly (Beelzebub)

He's a bit larger than a normal fly.

He's restless and his wings are so noisy when he buzzes around you.

Most of the time you can hear the faint sound of his wings coming from the kitchen.

When he's not eating, he's usually hovering on or near Belphie.

The Cow (Belphegor)

He barely fits in your room and he snorts irritably when you raise your arms up and remind him that he is definitely not allowed to sleep on your bed like this.

He's even more annoyed because he can't go up to the attic like this either.

He just happens to plop down in front of your doorway to sleep instead. The others can't climb or go around him easily. He flicks them away with his tail when they try. He doesn't mind if you climb over him though.

read more: obey me masterlist

[azucar-skull]

Rabbit Facts

I was reading about rabbit facts the other day for a particular samurai rabbit in an upcoming comic and thought I'd share my findings.

Disclaimer: I'm going off memory so please fact check your own research.

1) they stomp their foot really loud when mad

2) they do a little jig when happy (called "binky". it's better if you just search it up)

3) they groom to show love/dominance. the more dominant partner would groom the other more.

4) they got a smelly thingy on their chin and so they like to rub their chins on stuff to claim it.

5) they HATE being picked up.

6) stroking their back can be traumatizing for them. (I forget the specifics but like putting them on their backs and stroking their hind legs leaves them in a state of paralysis used to play dead when predators are there and the results leaves them with genuine PTSD)

7) they got pretty great vision (which makes sense cuz...prey). their eyes are basically go pros that can see pretty much 360°.

8) their ears can turn 180° for good surround sound.

9) carrots are a lie.

10) they're ✨️crepuscular✨️, not nocturnal (most active/awake at dawn and dusk)

11) they have sensitive stomachs

12) but at the same time they can chew through ANYTHING (they even got banned on some ferries cuz they would chew through the hull and sink the boats, killing several sailors)

Do with this what you will. =)

[skopostheorie]

My actual CVC headcanons written as I trudge through episode after episode in the hopes that I might see him for twenty glorious seconds (LONG)

Cookie Monster is his bestie, they hang out and act Strange together

He has phases of enjoying counting in certain ways. There are some days when counting zero of something is like hell to him, and others when it's all he wants to do.

His memory is borderline photographic; that's both how and why he keeps his counting diary. It helps him empty his head and show he's able to keep track of countable things that would otherwise be forgotten.

He moved to Sesame because he was getting sick of the same-same life of back home, restricted by whatever more ancient relics of count life were supposed to be; especially having to spend time talking to other Important People. On Sesame he gets to do what he wants and be like everyone else, even if he is different. It's also why he says his name is because of his hobby and not, like, the actual reason

He went to an international/accelerated school, where Matilda also went; it was indeed maths oriented, but the Count is exaggerating a bit when he says it was a "counting school".

He did actually catch a bit of an Australian accent from Matilda as a child, as she was his main source of English speaking, but it faded after she moved; all the teachers were either American-accented or had accents like his

He actually has no negative physical reaction to sunlight, he just doesn't like it because of the 'tism

He actually needs the monocle, it's a glasses lens, he read way too much in the dark as a kid

He didn't realise that hyponotising people for his counting purposes could upset people and had to be informed of the fact; but of course, this happened quite quickly, which is why it only happened a few times.

He loves watching sports and pays a great deal of attention to the stats. He especially loves sports analysis shows with "360" in the title. Book keeping etc has also, of course, always been of great interest to him, as well as anything else stats-based in pop culture, such as the census (as we know), elections, algorithms, and so on.

However, he isn't some sort of betting wizard. He is certainly good at counting up things, but putting them into practice and making an analysis of them takes more effort for him, especially if it's a synthesis of a variety of factors.

While he doesn't need a steady job these days, he does do odd accounting jobs during tax time to get himself something nice

He can do all sorts of mathematics, but he simply finds the most interest in counting (and by proxy smaller multiplication tables). He can help you with more challenging maths if you ask him; however, it isn't very interesting for him and he only knows it because of his time at his cute little special boy school

He and the Countess do speak Hungarian reasonably frequently, but not all the time

They knew each other before they met on Sesame, but only vaguely, through friends of friends of friends as children

He was nocturnal for a pretty long while but after he made more friends on Sesame he started to change his sleep schedule for convenience

^ In general, a lot of his vampirisms started to naturally go away after he made friends, and a healthy dose of counting every day keeps him hunky dory.

34,696 was only his favourite number on the day they asked; it changes constantly

He has one of those birthday cake books which teach you how to make numbers for kids' birthdays and we frequently bakes them for friends' birthdays as well as for whenever CM comes over

I'll add more later

[6ad6ro]

top 5 games from every console -nes- -game boy- -pc engine- 1. ninja gaiden 1. castlevania ii 1. castlevania rb 2. river city ransom 2. zelda la 2. ys book 1 and 2 3. akumajou densetsu 3. wario land 3. lords of thunder 4. mario 3 4. pokemon red 4. r-type 5. zelda 2 5. kirby's dreamland 2 5. galaga '90

-genesis- -snes- -neo geo- 1. streets of rage 2 1. earthbound 1. garou mow 2. castlevania bl 2. zelda lttp 2. windjammers 3. sonic 3ak 3. chrono trigger 3. king of fighters 99 4. contra hard corps 4. super mario world 4. metal slug 5. sonic 2 5. super metroid 5. king of fighters 2001 -sega cd- -ps1- -saturn- 1. snatcher 1. final fantasy vii 1. vampire savior 2. sonic cd 2. castlevania sotn 2. street fighter alpha 3 3. final fight cd 3. resident evil 3 3. virtua fighter 2 4. lunar 4. rival schools 4. virtua cop 2 5. monkey island 5. final fantasy ix 5. castlevania sotn (really) -n64- -dreamcast- -ps2- 1. mario 64 1. jet grind radio 1. silent hill 2 2. mystical ninja 2. shenmue 2. gta vice city 3. zelda oot 3. thps 2 3. smt nocturne 4. banjo kazooie 4. crazy taxi 4. we love katamari 5. mario kart 64 5. ecoo dotf 5. dragon quest viii

-gamecube- -xbox- -gba- 1. resident evil rm 1. jet set radio future 1. castlevania aos 2. f-zero gx 2. shenmue 2 2. castlevania hod 3. zelda tp 3. morrowind 3. metroid fusion 4. killer7 4. fable 4. river city ransom ex 5. mario sunshine 5. guilty gear xx #ac 5. metroid zm -nds- -psp- -xbox 360- 1. castlevania ooe 1. castlevania dxc 1. dead rising 2. castlevania dos 2. gta vcs 2. deadly premonition 3. castlevania por 3. ffvii cc 3. half-life 2 4. tingle's balloon trip of love 4. persona 3p 4. skyrim 5. phoenix wright 5. power stone 5. gta iv -ps3- -wii- -wii u- 1. dead rising 2 1. mario galaxy 1. zelda ww hd 2. sfiii 3s oe 2. no more heroes 2. mario kart 8 3. yakuza 5 3. okami 3. tekken tag 2 4. gta v 4. wii sports 4. zelda botw 5. 3d dot game heroes 5. castlevania rb 5. nintendo land -3ds- -vita- -ps4- 1. smt iv 1. persona 4 golden 1. ff vii rm 2. zelda oot 3d 2. undertale 2. elden ring 3. zelda mm 3d 3. jet set radio hd 3. persona 5 4. star fox 64 3d 4. hotline miami 2 4. resident evil 2 rm 5. river city rs 5. spelunky 5. dragon quest xi -switch- -steam deck/pc- -virtual boy (forgot)- 1. mario odyssey 1. half-life 1. vb wario land 2. sonic mania 2. unreal tournament 2. mario's tennis 3. smash ultimate 3. dead cells castlevania 3. galactic pinball 4. metroid dread 4. lba2 twinsen's odyssey 4. teleroboxer 5. mario wonder 5. bomb rush cyberfunk 5. jack bros

[randomgathering]

Bloomburrow³ - Cube

360 Cards for Draft

Mythic 13, Rare 60, Uncommon 110, Common 177

Creature 214, Artifact 16, Instant 52, Sorcery 33, Enchantment 26, Land 19

White 55, Blue 56, Black 56, Red 56, Green 57, Multi 45, Colorless 16, Land 19

Full list below the cut. I'm not fully decided on this list yet, and I would love feedback. My primary construction rule on this was to solely be Bloomburrow. My only stretch on this was to include one of the Calamity Beasts from the Commander set. But I'm already thinking I might replace it with Cruelclaw. It will be readily apparent that I doubled up (and tripled) heavily, that was primarily to support typal builds. My next step will be to read up on the story to see if there's any flavor elements that I want to also include that I missed.

I'm also going to start tracking my acquisition of the needed cards.

[MYTHICS] 13

[Creatures] 8 - (2)

1 Beza, the Bounding Spring ✅

1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest

1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

1 Maha, Its Feathers Night

1 Rottenmouth Viper ✅

1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw (BLC)

1 Ygra, Eater of All

[Sorcery] 5

1 Season of Gathering

1 Season of Loss

1 Season of Weaving

1 Season of the Bold

1 Season of the Burrow

[RARES] 60

[Creature] 42

1 Alania, Divergent Storm

1 Azure Beastbinder

1 Baylen, the Haymaker ✅

1 Byway Barterer ✅

1 Camellia, the Seedmiser

1 Clement, the Worrywort

1 Darkstar Augur

1 Dour Port-Mage

1 Dreamdew Entrancer

1 Emberheart Challenger

1 Essence Channeler

1 Fecund Greenshell

1 Finneas, Ace Archer

1 Gev, Scaled Scorch

1 Hearthborn Battler

1 Hired Claw

1 Iridescent Vinelasher

1 Jackdaw Savior

1 Kastral, the Windcrested

1 Keen-Eyed Curator

1 Mabel, Heir to Cragflame

1 Manifold Mouse

1 Mistbreath Elder

1 Mockingbird

1 Muerra, Trash Tactician

1 Osteomancer Adept

1 Pawpatch Recruit

1 Salvation Swan

1 Scrapshooter

1 Sunspine Lynx

1 Tender Wildguide

1 Thornvault Forager

1 Thundertrap Trainer

1 Valley Flamecaller

1 Valley Floodcaller

1 Valley Mightcaller

1 Valley Questcaller

1 Valley Rotcaller

1 Vren, the Relentless

1 Whiskervale Forerunner

1 Wick, the Whorled Mind

1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

[Artifact] 1

1 Wishing Well

[Instant] 1

1 Dawn's Truce

[Sorcery] 5

1 Coiling Rebirth

1 Cruelclaw's Heist

1 For the Common Good

1 Portent of Calamity

1 Starfall Invocation

[Enchantment] 8

1 Artist's Talent

1 Caretaker's Talent

1 Festival of Embers

1 Innkeeper's Talent

1 Kitnap

1 Lunar Convocation

1 Scavenger's Talent

1 Stormchaser's Talent

[Land] 3

1 Fabled Passage

1 Fountainport

1 Three Tree City

[UNCOMMON] 110

[Creature] 54

1 Bark-Knuckle Boxer

1 Bonecache Overseer

1 Brambleguard Captain

1 Brambleguard Veteran

1 Brazen Collector

1 Brightblade Stoat

1 Burrowguard Mentor

1 Bushy Bodyguard

1 Clifftop Lookout

1 Coruscation Mage

1 Curious Forager

1 Daring Waverider

1 Downwind Ambusher

1 Driftgloom Coyote

1 Eddymurk Crab

1 Fireglass Mentor

1 Flamecache Gecko

1 Flowerfoot Swordmaster

1 Galewind Moose

1 Harnesser of Storms

1 Harvestrite Host

1 Hazardroot Herbalist

1 Heartfire Hero

1 Hivespine Wolverine

1 Honored Dreyleader

1 Huskburster Swarm

1 Jolly Gerbils

1 Knightfisher

1 Lilysplash Mentor

1 Long River Lurker

1 Mindwhisker

1 Moonstone Harbinger

1 Mouse Trapper

1 Persistent Marshstalker

1 Plumecreed Escort

1 Plumecreed Mentor

1 Quaketusk Boar

1 Reptilian Recruiter

1 Seasoned Warrenguard

1 Seedglaive Mentor

1 Shoreline Looter

1 Shrike Force

1 Splash Lasher

1 Star Charter

1 Starscape Cleric

1 Starseer Mentor

1 Stormcatch Mentor

1 Teapot Slinger

1 Thought-Stalker Warlock

1 Three Tree Scribe

1 Tidecaller Mentor

1 Vinereap Mentor

1 Wandertale Mentor

1 Wick's Patrol

[Artifact] 6

1 Heirloom Epic

1 Patchwork Banner

1 Short Bow

1 Sinister Monolith

1 Starforged Sword

1 Tangle Tumbler

[Instant] 15

1 Blooming Blast

1 Consumed by Greed

1 Feed the Cycle

1 Hazel's Nocturne

1 Into the Flood Maw

1 Long River's Pull

1 Mabel's Mettle

1 Overprotect

1 Parting Gust

1 Pawpatch Formation

1 Peerless Recycling

1 Rabid Gnaw

1 Repel Calamity

1 Spellgyre

1 Valley Rally

[Sorcery] 11

1 Calamitous Tide

1 Dewdrop Cure

1 Fell

1 Hop to It

1 Otterball Antics

1 Playful Shove

1 Ruthless Negotiation

1 Splash Portal

1 Stargaze

1 Wear Down

1 Wildfire Howl

[Enchantment] 14

2 Bandit's Talent

2 Blacksmith's Talent

2 Builder's Talent

1 Feather of Flight

2 Gossip's Talent

1 Hoarder's Overflow

2 Hunter's Talent

1 Stocking the Pantry

1 Sugar Coat

[Land] 10

2 Lilypad Village

2 Lupinflower Village

2 Mudflat Village

2 Oakhollow Village

2 Rockface Village

[COMMON] 177

[Creature] 108

2 Agate-Blade Assassin

2 Alania's Pathmaker

3 Bakersbane Duo

3 Barkform Harvester

2 Bellowing Crier

2 Bonebind Orator

3 Brave-Kin Duo

2 Cindering Cutthroat

2 Corpseberry Cultivator

3 Daggerfang Duo

2 Druid of the Spade

2 Finch Formation

2 Frilled Sparkshooter

3 Glidedive Duo

2 Head of the Homestead

2 Intrepid Rabbit

2 Junkblade Bruiser

3 Kindlespark Duo

3 Lifecreed Duo

3 Lightshell Duo

2 Mind Drill Assailant

2 Moonrise Cleric

2 Nettle Guard

2 Nightwhorl Hermit

2 Pileated Provisioner

2 Pond Prophet

2 Raccoon Rallier

2 Ravine Raider

3 Roughshod Duo

2 Rust-Shield Rampager

2 Seedpod Squire

3 Skyskipper Duo

2 Starlit Soothsayer

2 Steampath Charger

2 Stickytongue Sentinel

2 Sunshower Druid

2 Tempest Angler

2 Thistledown Players

2 Thornplate Intimidator

2 Thought Shucker

3 Three Tree Mascot

2 Three Tree Rootweaver

3 Treeguard Duo

2 Treetop Sentries

2 Veteran Guardmouse

2 Warren Elder

2 Waterspout Warden

2 Wax-Wane Witness

2 Whiskerquill Scribe

[Artifact] 9

2 Bumbleflower's Sharepot

2 Carrot Cake

3 Fountainport Bell

2 Heaped Harvest

[Instant] 36

2 Cache Grab

2 Conduct Electricity

2 Crumb and Get It

2 Dazzling Denial

2 Dire Downdraft

2 Early Winter

2 High Stride

2 Might of the Meek

2 Nocturnal Hunger

2 Polliwallop

2 Rabbit Response

2 Run Away Together

2 Savor

2 Sazacap's Brew

2 Scales of Shale

2 Shore Up

2 Sonar Strike

2 Take Out the Trash

[Sorcery] 12

2 Agate Assault

2 Diresight

2 Longstalk Brawl

2 Mind Spiral

2 Pearl of Wisdom

2 Psychic Whorl

[Enchantment] 4

2 Banishing Light

2 War Squeak

[Land] 6

3 Hidden Grotto

3 Uncharted Haven

[jeweledstone]

Deino (Psychic/Flying), Zweilous (Psychic/Flying), Hydreigon (Psychic/Flying), and Iron Jugulis (Psychic/Bug)

Dreinmo -(lvl 50)-> Zweilucid -(lvl 64)-> Hypdreigod

Iron Projection (aka Hypdronegod)

Battle Info:

NEW ABILITY: Lucid Dream (pokemon can still attack normally while asleep, Snore and moves used via Sleep Talk have their power doubled)

^ Sp. Defense

v Attack

Dreinmo, Zweilucid, Hypdreigod

Weak to(x4): N/A

Weak to(x2): Rock, Ghost, Electric, Ice, Dark

Resistant to(x1/2): Grass, Psychic

Resistant to(x1/4): Fighting

Immune to(x0): Ground

Iron Projection

Weak to(x4): N/A

Weak to(x2): Flying, Rock, Ghost, Fire, Dark

Resistant to(x1/2): Ground, Grass, Psychic

Resistant to(x1/4): Fighting

Immune to(x0): N/A

Info: Dreimo are a nocturnal species, only becoming active at night. They will seek out sleeping people and Pokémon in order to feed on their dreams.

The face on the front of Zweilucid’s head only feeds on good dreams, while the head on the back only feeds on nightmares. It can swivel it’s neck a full 360 degrees to make easier for each face to eat its fill.

Able to control and enter the world of dreams via its psychic powers, Hypdreigod are often trained and used by Unovan psychiatrists to help patients who suffer from frequent nightmares or sleep paralysis.

A bizarre machine resembling Hypdreigod, the mysterious gas emitted by Iron Projection instantly causes those who inhale it to fall into a deep sleep. In extremely high doses, said gas can cause people to become trapped in their own dreams, never able to wake up.

[asta-daily]

Tarsier

Introducing the stars of Bohol : Tarsiers!

I'm just gonna leave you some facts that speaks for themselves:

They are the size of your fist, no more.

They're not marsupials but primates.

Their brain is smaller than one of their eyes.

Since they cannot move their eyes, their head can do a 360.

They're nocturnal, sleeping during the day; hanging on the same branch.

Not a tree, they always return to the same specific branch. For life.

That simplifies the conservation efforts: just put a fence around to protect them from cats… and that's all.

They can't stand others tarsiers near them, except for a small reproduction period.

They eat insects, and they hunt by jumping up to three meters!

They cannot stand loud noises and camera flashes. Heart attack.

They cannot stand to be put in cages, and will commit suicide by banging their little heads on the bars :(.

They are a testimony to the True Secret of survival: just be cute to humans eyes.

/* Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook - Porte-mine sur carnet A6 */

Voici la star de l'Île de Bohol : le Tarsier !

Au sujet duquel je vais juste vous laisser avec ces quelques faits qui parlent d'eux mêmes :

Ils font la taille de votre poing, sans la moindre exagération.

Ce ne sont pas des marsupiaux, mais des primates.

Leur cerveau est plus petit qu'un seul de leur yeux.

Comme il ne peuvent pas bouger les yeux, leur tête est capable de tourner à 360°.

Nocturnes, ils retournent le jour venu dormir sur la même branche.

Pas le même arbre, la même branche, spécifiquement. La même, toute leur vie.

Remarque ça simplifie les efforts de conservation : mettez juste un grillage autours de leur arbre pour éviter les chats… et c'est tout.

Un tarsier ne supporte pas la proximité d'autres tarsiers, sauf quelques petits instants pour la reproduction.

Ils mangent surtout des insectes, et sont capables de faire des bonds de 3 mètres en chassant!

Ils ne supportent pas les bruits soudains et les flashes d'appareils photo. Crise cardiaque.

Ils ne supportent pas d'être mis en cage et se suicident en défonçant leur petits cranes contre les barreaux :(.

Ils sont un témoignage du secret ultime de la survie : Être mignon aux yeux des humains.

[yakushining]

I think neji can turn his head 360 degrees like an owl

i agree and i also think he is nocturnal. and that he would eat a mouse if given the chance

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

For the Skyrim ask meme

Dog, Hagraven Claws & Windhelm ☺️💙

Hey! 👋🏻

Dog: Do you have any hobbies?

Writing, for one! 😆 I enjoy reading, writing, listening to music, and playing Skyrim. I also enjoy painting! I use an iPad and procreate most of the time, but I used to do lineart traditionally. Should probably go back to that because I don't like making it digitally. I don't create art as much as I want to, but I do a lot of graphic design and that's fun!

Hagraven Claws: Favorite Daedra quest/weapon?

So I may have already put The Only Cure in the random category — it was purely for stealth archer reasons, you understand, so as far as Daedric quests go, it's not my favorite. Does the Thieves Guild questline count as one long Nocturnal quest? Just kidding! I like The Mind of Madness: even if that's watered-down Sheogorath, he's still funny. Plus he mentions Martin! Not that I count the references to Martin in Skyrim or anything. But my favorite weapon is definitely Dawnbreaker. Even if ESO apparently made it depressing.

Windhelm: Which follower does (OC's name) have?

Hmm, I'm going to assume you're asking about Leara since she's our current starlet. Does Leara have a follower (who, presumably, isn't the guy in my fic)? Not usually, no. Well, in-universe, she and my Dunmer thief, Jolinar Aren have done a lot of work together: Leara is the hero, but Jolinar is the one who knows Skyrim. In-game, on the other hand . . .

So fun story: I've made Leara four times: Original Leara as my first Skyrim character on an Xbox 360, PC Leara when I played Skyrim for five whole minutes on desktop, New Leara when OG Leara's savefile got corrupted and I missed her, and Switch Leara on my sister's Nintendo. OG Leara was all about followers! She got Lydia killed on the Throat of the World. She spared Cicero and took him to Fort Dawnguard, but Serana didn't like him. She then somehow lost Serana on Solthiem? Frea didn't seem to care, so that was sus. She also murdered Marcurio for Boethiah BUT SHE DIDN"T KILL ERANDUR OKAY

I guess, uh, Leara doesn't have a follower because they have a habit of dying around her.

[cvrsedbody]

BEST SHARK BRACKET

Tiger sharks are nocturnal, typically solitary sharks that are particularly inquisitive! This inquisitive nature, though, tends to result in explorative bites. When it comes to spear fishermen and photographers, it's best to try not attracting their attention because they can get very aggressive. Considered the most dangerous tropical shark, the Tiger Shark is an indiscriminate feeder and should be regarded with a great amount of caution at all times.

Hammerhead Sharks are a very unique species with near 360 degree vision due to the bizarre placement of their eyes! Their snouts posses even more electroreceptors than other species and are frequently used to stun and pin down rays. Behavior can vary but they're typically not aggressive and migratory.

[g4zdtechtv]

Cinematech: Nocturnal Emissions - Dead or Alive 4 (360)

In which Leifang has quite an awkward subway ride, that gets referenced next game (except it's Jann Lee that does the beatdown!).

[primordialsoundmeditation]

**Rabbit Totem**

Symbolic rabbit meanings deal primarily with abundance, comfort, and vulnerability. Traditionally, rabbits are associated with fertility, sentiment, desire, and procreation. Rabbit meanings are also closely linked to the seasons, the changes of Mother Earth, and specifically Springtime. Have you ever heard the term "madder than a March hare?" It has to do with rabbits going bonkers around this time of year. They feel the call of spring just as strongly as everyone and everything else - perhaps moreso. Creatures of all kinds feel the tremors of springtime's return and respond to it in wild courtship. It's a celebration of life, and bunnies bounce right back into the swing of spring.

All of us know the power of population the rabbit has - they are legendary for their ability to reproduce fast and furiously. For that same reason, the rabbit is a perfect symbol for this spring which is fertile with themes like: New life, New beginnings and the undeniable current of growth. The rabbit is also a symbol of Ostara, an ancient fertility goddess whose symbols are rabbits, various flowers and eggs (more life/growth/fertility themes!).

A mother rabbit can have forty or more babies a year. That's symbolic of the cycle of life, and they way life carries on generation after generation. This could hearken to our ideals of ancestry. Indeed in many cultures (Asian, for example) the rabbit is a symbol of longevity and a long family line. Rabbits' renowned ability to have large litters of babies is also symbolic of creativity/creation.

Some general symbolic rabbit meanings include:

Love

Luck

Shyness

Speed

Growth

Rebirth

Creativity

Harmony

Family

Awareness

Perception

Abundance

Esoteric Knowledge

Rabbits love to chew, and their teeth never stop growing. Symbolically, chewing implies repetition, contemplation, and breaking concepts down into component parts. Their diet is light and green, which implies symbolism of health and prosperity.

Rabbits are burrowers and their deep, maze-like tunnels symbolize connections with primal energy as well as Mother Earth energies. The rabbit encourages us to retreat within, get warm, and collect ourselves. They also prompt us to connect with the Mother in deeper ways. Rabbits prefer to be on the ground; they are true earth element animals. We cannot help but be reminded of groundedness in their presence. Rabbits and hares are nocturnal and share the same lunar symbolism. The moon is often depicted as a rabbit in many cultures, thus lending associations of deep intuition and emotionality. For sure, the rabbit symbolizes reflection.

Rabbits are highly social animals, displaying genuine feelings of happiness and affection. Vice versa, they can display aggression, jealousy, and hostility in their social environment. These kind of behaviors are common in every family and community and as such, the rabbit is a symbol of working out social differences and getting along with our fellow society members.

These animals are about body and soul. Consider the amazing perceptive abilities of the rabbit. Radar-like hearing and near 360 degree vision speak of sensitivity. The rabbit reminds us to examine and utilize the tools we have within ourselves. Although our instincts are innate, they also need nurturing and development.

If you've held a rabbit, you know their hearts beat very fast and hence they are often associated with people who have highly sensitive, extremely alert, and very cautious personalities. Rabbits are all about hopping and jumping, in fact, they are known to leap over nine feet high! As children, we appreciate and embrace these playful movements. As adults, we should herald the frivolity and enjoyment of such a relaxed and uplifted spirit.

Rabbits are magical and mysterious and those relating with this animal totem are full of life and possess a deep connection with the sacred, eternal spirit of the earth. Rabbits are diverse creatures, packed with symbolic potential. Thus, there's tons more rabbit meanings available to us, if we just tap into their energy, and add a little more research in getting to know them on a deeper level.

(Rabbit totem information taken from whats-your-sign . com/Photo from google images)

Words of Wisdom by the Lit Messenger

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Not my first creation so far but it's the only one I have on my new devices :( but yeah I'm not good with names so this one is called the Homovorous Chameleonidae, Man-eating Chameleon

Despite its name, it's much more closely related to the monitor lizards since, these bois are my idea of if an animal evolved to be an apex predator in an urban/ suburban environment, one that mainly hunted humans, and monitor lizards are the ones I know live closest to those kind of environments though plenty of subspecies wander away from main species soooooo...

Anyway these guys evolved specifically to hunt humans while not being caught so, they are nocturnal hunters. The problem is they're HUGE, like bear-sized, with huge bones, thick skin and all, though with much narrower bodies to fit and hide between alleys and trees. But in order to make up for the size they have camouflage, I was kinda scared about camouflage because an animal kinda needs to be intelligent to use camouflage effectively, and lizards aren't known to have the biggest of brains sooo. I came up with this: they have the same kind of 360-degree eyes that chameleons have except they can fully retract the skin over their eyes, allowing them to see as much as possible, then they take the colors from their environment and they automatically change the colors of their scales to those colors and patterns so it's sorta infinite-camo.

Then, for the other general stuff, they got super huge bones and muscles to carry bulky bodies and to move fast, claws that can retract so it can climb after food, massive jaws and round teeth for crushing things like bone, wood, or stone, webbing around their ears that can open up and rotate like cat ears so they can select where they hear the best, also intimidation, salivary glands that also produce a fast acting neurotoxin so anything that gets out of its mouth won't make it far, camera lens-like eyes so they can both observe either as much of the area as possible or focus on one thing, I was planning on giving them a sorta snake tongue so they can sense extremely small changes in the air in order to change prey they can't see, but maybe it would be better to give them a extendo-tongue like frogs for easy ambush, idk someone can gimme advice

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Remasters Shouldn’t Be Lazy, Broken Ports! Why Have So Many Been Like This?

When a new video game console releases, one of the inevitable questions that will be asked is "how the hell are the older games gonna play on this thing?". It seems that backwards compatibility is becoming less and less of a thing these days, but at least PlayStation and Xbox still embrace it (the latter WAY better than the former). But if there's some cases like the Nintendo Switch where backwards compatibility just isn't possible, what do you do?

Port your game over and sell it at an inflated price, of course!

...No, that doesn't happen ALL the time. In reality, when companies are put in a position like this, they take the effort in to port the game to newer hardware. They can take this opportunity to make it prettier, implement quality-of-life fixes, bump the frame-rate up, or even include some extra story content!

What happens when just the bare minimum is done, though? Well, you end up with some sorry excuses that don't deserve the "remaster" title. These are their stories.

I think it's best that we just jump straight into this, with the first game I would like to talk about: Persona 3 Portable.

A modern, playable version of Persona 3 has been speculated about and rumored for years. Some thought it would be a port of Persona 3 FES, the enhanced version on PlayStation 2. Others thought (and still think) it will be completely remade in Persona 5's engine. But what happened in reality is that the PlayStation Portable version, released in 2009/10, was the version ported to modern consoles and PC.

This is a very competent version of Persona 3, mind you... for the PSP. What baffles me is that this is the version Atlus chose, when they have shown that they're already capable of remastering PlayStation 2 games like Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. It may have a female main character and controllable party members in battle, but the game itself has been simplified to all hell to fit on the PSP. There's no FMV cutscenes or fully-explorable world, and all the cutscenes just play like a normal visual novel.

But something like this should be easy to port over, right? Well, they screwed a PSP game up, somehow. The audio is compressed incredibly hard, and backgrounds and character portraits look TERRIBLE. The latter in particular is especially unacceptable. It's like they put everything in an AI upscaler and called it a day.

This is a screenshot taken of one of the "explorable areas" in the game. You can see the poor job Atlus did at making the assets HD.

It's "playable" in a sense, but this should have been handled much better. A mod team is already working on remaking the assets in a true HD format, so I would definitely pick the game up once they are finished.

Next is a game I'm not as familiar with: Tales of Symphonia.

This game released for the GameCube in 2003 in Japan, and over the years has gotten ported over to the PlayStation 2 and 3, PC, and most recently- the Nintendo Switch, Xbox series, and PS4. There have been a few issues that popped up in the subsequent ports to newer systems, more notably the PS3 version. It seems that a lot of the bugs in this version carried over to the latest remaster.

It's currently rife with UI bugs, long loading times, jaggy character portraits, and skipping music. The remaster is even stuck at 30fps throughout the game, when the GameCube version had 60fps battles in comparison. Thankfully the remaster team has apologized for how poor the remaster has been, and promises to release patches in the future.

Something that our next game has done time and time again- and still ends up with a poor experience.

Life is Strange is a 2015 episodic story-driven game made by Dontnod that released for PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, along with mobile releases. It focuses on Max Caulfield as she tries to solve mysteries about a missing girl with her childhood best friend- and her new ability to rewind time. Its 2017 prequel, "Before the Storm", launched on all the platforms listed already, minus the PS3 and Xbox 360.

So when Deck Nine, who handled the prequel, decided to remaster the two games for those same exact platforms (minus Mac and adding the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series systems with the Switch coming later), this... confused me. It's not uncommon to see this kind of thing happen, of course. The Last Of Us Part I is available on a system that can already play the original PS4 remaster. But that's a remake with some enhanced controls, new options, retooled enemy AI, and an uncapped frame rate setting. These are quite literally the exact same games but just made buggier, on systems that can play the games in their original form just fine.

The remastered collection is full of animation bugs, freezing, missing subtitles, buggy audio, blurry visuals at certain points, file names being in place of subtitles, flickering textures, scenes that are way darker than the original game, and LOTS OF LOADING. ESPECIALLY on the Nintendo Switch.

Patches have been released many times ever since the launch of the PC, PlayStation and Xbox releases on February 1st, 2022- with the latest patch releasing today as of this writing: March 6th, 2023! It has been over a year since this collection released and it is still getting patches to try and fix this broken mess.

My question is- where in the world has the effort gone? What happened to developers taking their time with developing these remasters of beloved games, and not having their player base be their QA team? Atlus especially has had more than enough time to make their remaster good, and they just slapped everything in an upscaler and called it a day.

This isn't to just slander these poor jobs, this is a call to action- a call for developers and publishers to stop rushing things like this out the door for a quick buck. Don't promise to fix it later, have it already fixed by the time it releases! It disappoints the customer and does not give them hope for any future remasters being released.

I hope that part of the gaming industry will soon realize that, and put time into making sure that their products are in tip-top shape. A happy customer means more business yada yada yada capitalism bullcrap and whatever. We're all slaves to it. Go read a book or whatever.

Thanks for reading, everyone! I have hope that remasters will be good once more, but for now it seems not at all likely. Well, except for Metroid Prime. Good on Nintendo for that one.

Next up: Sonic Origins Plus Is Real!! Were My Predictions Correct?