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[th-chen]

10. Pushing limits...or not

Before running into the topic, I want to briefly talk about brand placement in video games. We all know brand placement as a kind of traditional commercial trick, a company pays or cooperating with film and television works like movies and animations to incorporate their product into the works to get public volume, there are some famous examples like the 007 series, James Bond is always wearing an OMEGA watch and driving Aston Martin. Especially in Skyfall, the company paid $45 million to let Bond drink Heineken, maybe you will doubt “Is it worth it?” “45 million sounds like a lot,” “but Bond is a global property. If you break it down into all the different countries that the company would be advertising in, anyway, it doesn’t seem so much. Heineken also knows that people will be watching a Bond film for decades, so it’s not as if they’re paying for a one-off ad. They’re paying to become known as a premium brand in the long term. It’s more about shifting perceptions than shifting products.”(Chris Sice, managing director of Blended Republic) We can tell although brand placement is an old commercial strategy for publicity anything, it’s still works! This strategy also works in the game industry, like Monster Energy in Death Stranding.

Fig 1. Monster Energy drink in Death Stranding as a consumable object(post by Gejzirowski)

We all know that making a triple-A game “A lot of money, A lot of resources, A lot of time” There’s never too much money and commercial support, while it takes so much time making games, having some income other from product selling itself is always something game company love to see. While game companies started using 3D or even VR engines to create games, there are research that discovered that brand placement seems to work worse on 3D and VR versions than on 2D versions!? “Presence was highest in the VR video game and lowest in the 2D video game, presence in the 3D game was in between.” (Johanna Roettl, Ralf Terlutter) It means the presence level varies inversely with how effective brand placement are, how’s that? “Brand placements suffer by an increase of the video game technology. We expect that performing the primary task of playing the game likely needs more cognitive resources (i.e. higher cognitive load) in the VR and the 3D video game as compared to the 2D video game, hence, these cognitive resources are no longer available for performing secondary tasks, such as processing and memorizing the brand placements in the game.” (Johanna Roettl, Ralf Terlutter, The same video game in 2D, 3D or virtual reality – How does technology impact game evaluation and brand placements? 2018) Just like some people will get dizzy playing 3D video games, not to mention VR games, I get dizzy after 3 minutes of racing in the VR world but I’m fine playing 3D games. Since technology keeps pushing our playing experience to a more “Realistic” level, the traditional marketing way might not work as well as it used to.

Bibliography:

Roettl J, Terlutter R. The same video game in 2D, 3D or virtual reality - How does technology impact game evaluation and brand placements? PLoS One. 2018 Jul 20;13(7):e0200724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200724. PMID: 30028839; PMCID: PMC6054385.

Barber, N. (2022) Does Bond’s product placement go too far? https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20151001-does-bonds-product-placement-go-too-far.

Fig1. Wiki, C. to D.S. (no date) Monster Energy. https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Monster_Energy?file=Monster_Energy.jpeg.

[cosmicshifter]

another reddit post ↓

kinda motivating as well, i’ve been detached from shifting for some reason, like i can’t find anything to do, i have free time but i also don’t have it 😭 please friends help me lol

[trubbishrubbish]

Kodaka's craziest gals are all here to kill you.

Commission by FtAngel

[sinister-flower]

My favorite spot in the library

[kiyo-cant-write]

Same Cinderella-anon, just with more ideas I forgot to add in the first ask! maybe with reader being Trein's grandchild, having to go to NRC because he needs something and asked reader to bring it to him and Silver and reader being surprised at seeing each other again idk. anyways, have a good day and thanks in advance again!

cinderella!reader is trein's grandchild ✧･ﾟ

Summary: The reader is actually Trein's grandchild. They visit NRC campus at their grandfather's instruction and run into Silver again.

TW/CW: This is a continuation of THIS POST, minor B7 spoilers

Notes: The reader is NOT Ramshackle Prefect/Yuu, they/them pronouns for the reader, pre-relationship, familial headcanons as well

Guest Stars: Divus Crewel, Sebek Zigvolt

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It would seem Professor Trein needs some help that only his dearest grandchild can assist with. They attend Royal Sword Academy, and Professor Trein, or rather, Grandpa Mozus, would like access to some historical documents from the RSA library.

Can [Name] help him?

Surely they can. They love their grandfather.

And it would mean getting to visit the school across the island again.

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Mozus Trein

Trein is very protective of his grandchild.

If he seems stern in class, it doubles when his grandchild is there.

He has a complex relationship with [Name]'s parents due to the strained relationship he had with his daughter towards her entry into adulthood. They do not hate each other, though.

He loves them, but his love is firm and strict at times.

Gawking at his grandchild earns you detention.

The other staff are all familiar with [Name].

Trein talks about them and how one of the reasons he had looked into teaching at RSA was to be closer to them.

He was worried about them.

They are an innocent spirit who is too trusting, too accepting.

He is strict with them because he thinks they will get hurt.

The outside world is a scary place where grandpa can't protect them from the monsters out there, the bad apples...

When his grandchild visits, which happens sporadically but more often than one might imagine, Crewel is also tasked with looking over them. As per Trein's request (read: instruction).

Trein believes that his grandchild would be less embarrassed if it were not him at every turn checking on them. He trusts Crewel.

Sometimes, Trein thinks about leaving NRC to be with his grandchild, but he always decides to stay for his students.

Trein wishes that [Name] went to NRC, but they aren't the type the Dark Mirror would choose; they are a might magic user with a pure soul, after all. The very image of an RSA student.

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Silver

Silver continued to think about [Name]. Who were they?

A student, but not from NRC. From RSA, then?

Why couldn't he forget them? What was this?

He chooses not to trouble his family with it.

He is nearly an adult; he can figure this out for himself.

That said, he didn't expect them to be related to Professor Trein.

Silver was not aware of the professor's personal life.

Why would he be?

It doesn't change his opinion of [Name] as a friendly person.

But he is more wary now. He has heard that Professor Trein is... protective. And he doesn't blame the professor.

But Silver does not want to bring any trouble to his Master.

Silver wonders if it is worth pursuing such a curiosity.

And then it happens, all because of the narrative.

Silver and [Name] have their SECOND Meet-Cute.

Silver can't say he expected things to turn out like this!

Silver was trying his best to ignore Sebek's words echoing in his head. He should focus instead of daydream about a stranger. Sebek was right about that much, but that didn't mean ignoring every other living person on his island. He was his Master's guard, but he was also a student, and students should engage with the community or something like that.

He sighed softly, and he continued down the hall, making the mistake of not looking ahead of him and crashing into the person ahead of him. While no one was injured, it did leave the load they were carrying scattered across the hallway floor.

"I'm sorry..." Silver said, "Let me help with that."

He reached down to pick up one of the large textbooks from the floor, hand brushing against theirs. Silver looked toward them to see... [Name]? The same person from before? The very person he had been thinking of. Was this some kind of fateful encounter? Others had mentioned these to him... He could think about that later.

"Hello again. I am sorry to... cause this."

He looked almost sheepish as they waved it off, trying to tell him that there wasn't any harm done to them or their books. Regardless, Silver helped them gather the books into their arms again, taking a few to carry himself so that [Name] could see what was ahead of them.

"It's really alright. I couldn't see over the books either."

They look a bit embarrassed.

"[Name]... Why do you have," Silver paused to count them, "...twelve textbooks?"

Their embarrassment grew as an awkward smile graced their lips.

"My Granpa Mozus wanted me to bring these over from Royal Sword," they explained, "So I came here with the Headmage's permission to deliver... all of these."

Though their arms were still filled with books, they managed to make a gesture toward the books Silver carried for them.

He nodded.

"I understand. I will help you take these to your grandfather."

[Name] wondered if Silver was aware of what their grandfather was. If he knew, he certainly didn't act that way. He said nothing. It was almost refreshing to them to not have a grand reaction about it all.

That said, [Name] noted that the louder boy who was with Silver the last time was not here. He seemed as though he might react if [Name] told him their lineage. What was his name again? Sebastian?

They brushed the thought away and continued to walk down the hallway with Silver, headed toward the classroom their grandfather had said was his. He was a history teacher.

Stopping at the door, Silver knocked instead of [Name] simply due to the fact that he could support his stack of books with one arm. This was something that [Name] was trying not to gawk at. This boy sure was strong, then and again, his arms were rather strong-looking.

Did he not say he worked for his "master" the last time?

They were thinking about it again. There wasn't anyone like that at Royal Sword. Sure, some students helped the dorm leaders... But that wasn't... master and servant? Right? [Name] felt their head spin.

A voice came from inside the room, but it was not their grandfather's. It was a masculine one, slightly teasing as if testing them...

"Whatever might you need from us now?"

[Name] recognized it as Divus' voice, the younger man, though he was still older than them, who worked with their grandfather. He was a teacher, too. Alchemy?

Wait.

Were they interrupting something?

"It's [Name]!" they called back to Divus, "Oh, and Silver is helping me."

"Alright then, pups. You may enter~"

[Name] walked into the room as Silver opened the door for them with his free hand. Instantly [Name] was greeted with the classroom their grandfather used, wooden desks, a chalk board, books on a shelf, and her dear grandpa sitting at his own desk front and center.

Divus had stepped back to let them get to the desk.

"Grandpa Mozus!" [Name] called, walking forward to set the books on his desk, "I got all the things you sent for!"

They smiled, an expression that Trein returned.

Silver's face paled slightly at the sudden realization; the boy always was a bit slow on the uptake with human relations that Professor Trein was "Grandpa." But he recovered quickly as he presented the rest of the books to Trein.

"Here you go, sir."

"Ah, the books. Thank you, [Name]," Trein told his beloved grandchild, "And you as well, Silver, for helping them."

[Name] grinned, proud of the fact they had accomplished the task. The look on their face made Silver smile as well. This earned him a sharp glare from Trein, much sharper than his usual expression.

They stared at each other for a moment as [Name] looked between them, unsure if they were supposed to intervene given their grandpa was his teacher... It was well within his jurisdiction.

"I trust you would never do anything untoward to my grandchild, Silver?" Trein asked the light-haired boy.

"Of course not, sir."

Silver shook his head and ignored the chuckle from Professor Crewel.

"That is good to hear."

Trein's expression softened as he turned back to [Name].

"I hope this was not too arduous a task for my youngest?"

"No, this was alright. I hope the books help," [Name] told him, "Thank you for... trusting me."

They smiled yet again, and Trein returned it, just slightly.

Silver felt as though he was intruding on a personal moment. And maybe he was. He had been thinking about [Name], but he couldn't speak about that in front of Professor Trein.... [Name] was heading back to Royal Sword after this... What a mess.

He held back the urge to sigh.

Footsteps could be heard approaching.

Oh no... Silver knew that sound anywhere.

"SILVER!"

He sighed this time, and those in the room turned to look at the doorway. [Name] was startled, whereas the professors just seemed... tired. Perhaps a bit annoyed.

There stood Sebek, out of breath slightly with furrowed brows.

"Hello, Sebek..." Silver attempted to greet but was cut off.

"WHAT HAS YOU SO BUSY? WHAT IF OUR MASTER NEEDS US?"

Silver tried to explain it.

"I was helping... a friend."

Sebek glared at [Name], recognizing them.

"THIS HUMAN AGAIN?"

[Name] flinched at the volume, and Trein decided to step in.

"Sebek Zigvolt, you will not address my grandchild that way."

Sebel was startled at the address from his professor.

"Ah, my... my apologies, professor," Sebek stammered.

There really is never a peaceful day at Night Raven College.

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Imagine the rest yourself~

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[codenameseance]

[kicks down the door] AND ANOTHER THING!!!!

why the FUCK did they include a shot in ep1 of Klaus pulling his dog tags out of the box of artifacts and staring at them longingly (why the fuck did he lose them in the first place? the same reason his tattoos disappeared? because steve blackman said 'fuck it'?) but then HE DOESN'T EVEN WEAR THEM FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON????

like, it's one thing to forget about a character's entire existence (rip Eudora Patch) but it's like. so unbelievably disrespectful to purposefully include an acknowledgement of one of the most important people in klaus' life and then just.......throw it to the wayside?? it genuinely would have hurt LESS if they didn't even do anything for Dave in the first place.

[lifemod17]

Hozier speaks about the charity and Elton John

🎥: getty images

Elton John AIDS Foundation's 33rd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party || 03/02/2025

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31.03.2025 [🙄]

🔖: 벌써 3월 마지막 날/ It's already the last day of March.

[moko-mojiro]

me when im the best fucking character in the game im in

[th-chen]

9. Gender in the virtual world

“By design, the femme fatale neither alienates men nor demeans and bores women. She is an erotic object but also an active subject— in fact, one of the most active female character types in film that could be translated into the action-based medium of video games.”(JENNIFER MALKOWSKI, Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games, 2017) We all know that in the early days of the video game industry, as player characters, female characters appeared in a particular role: Super charming, erotic, and strong, the best example of this character is Lara Croft, the protagonist of Tomb Raider(1996). But we can see how the female protagonist changed their role from time to time by the recent sequel of Tomb Raider(2015), the body type is more realistic and the costume is more practical that fit the mission she is facing.

Fig. 1 The box/cover art of TOMB RAIDER(1996) can or could be obtained from Core Design and Eidos Interactive.

Fig.2 The cover art for Rise of the Tomb Raider(2015). The cover art copyright is believed to belong to Crystal Dynamics.

However, as supporting characters, they are sometimes vulnerable and waiting for rescue. Like Princess Peach in the Mario series, she gets kidnapped most of the time.

Fig.3 This is stock art by Nintendo, representing Princess Peach in her normal attire

But there are also support characters that have femme-fatale way personas, like Ada Wang from the Resident Evil series, she is charming, mysterious, skillful, and definitely not a vulnerable character. From Resident Evil 2 (1998) to Resident Evil (2012), this femme fatale persona never changed and the public gave a positive response to this kind of characterization, but her appearance in Resident Evil 4 had been criticized for being overtly sexualized.

Fig.4 Ada Wong, in Resident Evil 4 (2005). copyright belongs to Capcom.

We can see those characters with strong “Female” stereotypes are mostly belong to the sequels that published around the year 2000, it’s hard to find some impractical costumes or certain kinds of stereotype missions in new release games, I’m not judging whether this is good or not but we can see the industry is changing.

Bibliography:

Malkowski, J, & Russworm, TM (eds) 2017, Gaming Representation : Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [31 December 2024].

Fig1. Wikipedia contributors (no date) File:Tomb Raider (1996).png - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_Raider_(1996).png.

Fig2. File:Rise of the Tomb Raider.jpg - 维基百科,自由的百科全书 (no date). https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rise_of_the_Tomb_Raider.jpg.

Fig3. Wikipedia contributors (no date a) File:Princess Peach Stock Art.png - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Princess_Peach_Stock_Art.png.

Fig4. Wikipedia contributors (no date a) File:Ada in Resident Evil 4.png - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_in_Resident_Evil_4.png.

[cosmicshifter]

i love when shifters that struggle to shift for a long time become master shifters like girl i’m proud of you but also how the hell did you do that 😭😭

[trubbishrubbish]

Hiruko is ballin.

[spidermansballs]

tims proud of his boyfriend

[sinister-flower]

Two weeks ago studying before my summer break

[luniviravosshipper]

Just finished season 4 of The Umbrella Academy. I’ve been looking all through the tags on it to see if anyone else has pointed this out.

Still can’t believe I’m only seeing people talk about Lila and Five and not how they used that horrendous trope of “we feel this powerful, magical connection between us which gives us an insatiable urge to just fuck so we will even though it literally adds nothing to the plot or storyline and we only have this urge because we’re a man and a woman and for some reason the writers think that our relationship needs to be inherently sexual then as a result” with Ben and Jennifer.