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[icedragonlizard]

Marx and Susie would get into heated arguments about clockwork stars.

In my opinion, Susie would be an adamant skeptic for clockwork stars considering the baggage she has associated with one (since Star Dream is a clockwork star). And Marx would.... well, you know.....

"Way to spread your corporate propaganda, killjoy! Of course clockwork stars can people what they want. They've done so for a long time. I can attest to that. Why do you have to be so audacious as to ruin the fun for others?"

"Then go and try to explain how there's a clockwork star that was well known for malfunctioning to an extreme level and decided to try to kill everyone! That proves there are a ton of risks when meddling with this ancient technology that we don't know much about, like shown with that one."

"If you're talking about Star Dream, that was an incomplete clockwork star. Don't use that one as a generalization to try to say that all clockwork stars would be like that. Geez. What a hysterical move from someone that takes pride in how smart she ostensibly is!"

grunts in irritation "I'm not generalizing, I'm telling people to think twice before going out and trying to mess with something that could hurt them and cause horrific damage across the cosmos! Stars damn it, Marx. You really don't know when to quit, do you? And even if clockwork stars were assured 'safe' to use, I find it really curious that you're going out of your way to persuade people into making wishes to them!"

"Hahahahahahahahaha! What's this, are you insinuating that I'm up to something? As if I'd do something that would make Kirby kick my ass again. I wonder what this is about? Did Star Dream sour you so much that you're desperate to project whatever trauma you got from it onto people that I tell about clockwork stars to?"

snaps as she then throttles him "Shut up! SHUT UP! You make me want to obliterate you sometimes! I swear to stars, your insufferableness must not know any bounds. Whatever it is you're doing, you should really stop trying to get people to summon these things that could potentially make a catastrophe. And I'm still baffled as to how you didn't die when Pinky blasted you onto Nova." then lets go of him and storms off, basically done with this conversation lol

^ That's an example, lol. And I think Susie would absolutely not fall for it if Marx tried to persuade her to summon a clockwork star and have it revive her dad. I think Taranza would be a lot more likely to fall for it if he was told that he can bring Sectonia back by wishing to a clockwork star. Unless if Susie was nearby, then she could shut that idea down and tell him the dangers of trying to do that.

[dinoserious]

baby arc bigger. the arcs/wheel will connect where they typically do, eventually, but this is a not quite mature design. i like to roll w "pla protag is dppt protag" bc i think it is fun, and this arceus went with akari when she went back to the future. they are wearing akari/dawns survey scarf :)

[saltlog]

[borzoilover69]

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[duoduotian]

i would not pay for that tbh

[skydigiblogs]

ykw, i just realized i never posted these here! so i'm fixing that!

i got into 3D printing last weekend and wanted my first full print to be a digivice model i got from thingiverse (retooled digivice by boardernerd / thing:2695824)

i'm making more with the variety of filament i have, and eventually i'm hoping to also learn how to make my own models heheh

also i'm lumping all the image IDs into one place here at the end because as nice as these shots are, at the end of the day It Is A Digivice bsdfjhsbfsd

[Image ID: 9 photographs of a 3D printed Digivice from Digimon Adventure. The body is printed in a bright, semi-translucent magenta filament, while the screen, buttons, and antennae are printed in a semi-translucent royal blue. The print pattern is slightly visible through the topmost layer, overlaying a hatched texture on a gyroid fill reminiscent of damascus steel. Each photo highlights a different angle of the device, from the front, back, sides, top, and bottom. There is a visible seam between the front and back shell. Other miscellaneous items including test prints and other desk accoutrements are visible in the background.]

[megaera-of-pigeon]

Ok I’m guessing the answer will be neither actually but which would be more fun to set the open world game in, year 680 with the LN characters or year 0 with the SN characters 🤔

[waxwing-pilled]

I recorded a clip of a terror bird trying to attack Jewel and just. spinning frantically in circles. Of course I can't even sit still long enough to do my homework but I somehow can spend like an hour making a shitpost.

Audio came from She will NOT STOP spinning by Ncs Artist on YT

[orcelito]

OKAY i fixed the most glaring canon inconsistency for ITNL that i discovered last night

which is. the fact that i fully thought the final battle happened in December. but turns out it happened in Octovern!

idr if they mentioned it outright that they were heading there, but they mentioned "humanity's last stand" in December so. i just. fully thought that's where everything happened. but then Meryl mentions Octovern at the end & i double checked and. yea it sure says Octovern on the wiki lmfao.

i'll have to read thru it more carefully (i wasn't exactly reading too closely for details yesterday) to figure out Exactly what the fuck is going on with the locations here. but for now, every reference to the final battle in ITNL has been changed to Octovern

sigh.

[antirepurp]

Been thinking a lot about Part 5 characters with Digimon, and I think Lucemon would be a very fun partner for Giorno. Lucemon is typically an antagonist in Digimon media, so I think it'd be interesting to give a partner like that to Giorno, who keeps them in check with his strong moral compass.

Also the angel symbolism is just really neat and it works pretty well with Giorno being the son of "God" (aka DIO).

i could see that working too yeah! it could present an interesting dynamic where lucemon's ability to evolve depends entirely on how well they work with someone like giorno, and if he's partnered with a lucemon who doesn't share the same vision as him it would present an opportunity for an arc where one or both of them have to compromise on their views and act beyond strict ideas of good and evil to grow stronger. the only problem that comes to mind is the satan mode that's both visually and thematically the opposite of giorno in many ways, i guess it could make for a nice contrast but it might be a bit much for my tastes lol

also i may have mused about these jojo digimon shenanigans enough to have pucci partner with a lucemon as a way for him to create his new world oop

[icedragonlizard]

Kirby AU talk: "Memories Still At A Halt"

Susie stumbles upon an active clockwork star that then invites her to make any wish that it'll be more than willing to grant.

This was by complete accident. She didn't at all plan on activating a clockwork star. She was just taking a vacation on Planet Popstar, and when she ended her vacation and flew across the cosmos on her way home to the Haltmann Work Company's headquarters, this clockwork star seemingly comes out of nowhere.

Some planets definitely had their energy used to activate this comet somehow, but it's not known who did this, or if it was even anyone that intentionally did this because they wanted to make a wish.

Regardless, Susie would've never expected this to happen in a million years. She's completely astonished and bewildered by this occasion.

READY. ->

I WILL GRANT YOU ONE WISH... ->

OK. -> 3... 2... 1... GO! ->

Susie is initially a bit reluctant, but she then decides to make a wish.

At first, she's unsure what to have her wish be. She still takes a minute to fully fathom the situation at hand, as her bewilderment isn't very quick to fade.

But she eventually thinks it up. She's made the decision on what she wants her wish to be. She decides that it's at least worth a try.

"I wish for Max Profitt Haltmann to be brought back to life!"

There's a huge amount of nervousness behind her wish. Deep down, she fears that it may go horribly wrong, but she still takes up the chance to finally be potentially able to fix things with her father.

The clockwork star grants her wish. It revives Max Haltmann.

At first, he's comatose. Susie gently grabs him with her mech's arms, and then carries him with her as she makes her way back home.

When he finally wakes up after they get home, he...

.... He still doesn't recognize her as his daughter.

This is why she was nervous while making that wish.

And it still makes her feel incredibly disheartened.

It also appears that he had no ghost in the afterlife and merely popped back into existence in his perspective after the clockwork star brought him back. And the last thing he remembers is Susie having stolen the Star Dream helmet from him when he tried to use it.

This comes off to an absolutely horrible start. After Max Haltmann processes the fact that he was dead and was then brought back, he then snaps at Susie and calls her an "insolent traitor" for getting him killed in the first place. She immediately swears that she never intended to kill him and she was just trying to get him to come to his senses, because Star Dream caused him to go off the deep end.

But he doesn't listen. In fact, he doubles down on his anger towards her. He complains about the "lack of infinite prosperity" because Susie reworked the HWC's practices and policies, as the company is no longer mechanizing planets. He accuses her of being a complete embarrassment that "ruined everything" about the HWC and "turned it into a shell of its former self". He's extremely harsh and rude to her.

Susie doesn't take it sitting down, though. Previously, she'd capitulate and yield to his demands, but now it's different. She now refuses to yield to him when he makes his vehement exclamations. She stands her ground and fights back against every single smear he flings.

The HWC can't even mechanize planets without Star Dream's presence anyways. Susie rebuilt the HWC without it. And she's refused to build another machine like Star Dream to make that possible again because she didn't want to deal with the risks that it'd bring. Plus, she's now friends with Kirby and wants to stay on his good side.

Initially, despite having internal anger at how rude and grating his voice is during his exclamations, she tries to be as calm as possible when she makes her counterarguments. But she eventually loses her cool as he then says something that's especially vile and disgusting.

.... He straight up calls her a wild savage at one point.

That right there caused her to lash out and attack. Immediately after he called her that, she then punches him in the face. There was more than enough strength behind that punch to knock him onto the floor.

Susie asserts her power over him as she's the current CEO of the company, and she has absolutely no interest in giving that up. It's so much easier for her to fight back now as he's not in a position of power to mistreat her. And he can't take back the CEO position because every employee in the company thinks Susie is a much better boss than he ever was. He will need to bend to her now.

Fortunately, things get better after that atrocity of an introduction. Max Haltmann eventually gets some sense knocked into him as Susie is able to convince him that Star Dream was a bad influence and that the company is in a much better place with her practices instead of the ones that were in place from before. He apologizes for being so vile to her as he comes to accepts the HWC's new practices.

... But he's still entirely unable to recognize her as his daughter.

This continues to distress Susie on the inside. It reopens old wounds for her. But at least she doesn't have to steal a supercomputer for him to get him to look her way. At least it's easier to reign him in.

At one point, she tries to explain everything to him. About how he's supposed to be her father, that she was trapped in Another Dimension for a long time and eventually came back, and she deduces that Star Dream tampered with his memories somehow. That the machine somehow caused him to forget about her. She doesn't know that he was trying to use Star Dream to bring her back, however.

How does Max Haltmann react to the revelations? It's... sadly not what Susie was hoping for. He's initially in utter disbelief. Although he does slowly come to understand that it "might" be the truth, but he's still incredibly reluctant to treat her like his daughter because he still legitimately can't recall ever having a daughter at all to begin with.

It's clear that he still doesn't actively remember.

He does become a lot nicer to her after the revelation, but she's still unsatisfied. Especially when he's still not willing to accept hugs from her yet. He awkwardly pats her back to try to comfort her when he catches her being sad, but he clearly still doesn't act like her dad yet.

When Susie left Another Dimension, all she wanted was a hug from her dad while reuniting with him. She still doesn't get that even now. It makes her feel heartbroken. And it also makes her feel awful for him as she's increasingly convinced that Star Dream stole his memories. Even as he gradually becomes nicer, he's still stubborn, easily confused, clumsy and easy to lose focus. It saddens her to see it.

She takes care of him. She's his caretaker. She gets her employees to work on necessary treatments for his health problems. With how much he's struggling, she's pretty much having to babysit him. Imagine a young woman babysitting her own father. That's lowkey what's happening here.

She puts a lot of time and effort in taking care of him.

But he just... seemingly doesn't reach the line. They're able to have a good relationship, but he's still unwilling every time she tries to lightly gesture for a hug. He seems to view her more as a friend much younger than him than as his daughter. That's... not what she wants.

Susie tries to keep it to a minimum around Max, but she's internally depressed over this. She finds herself weeping at times when she's alone, worrying he's never going to remember her as his daughter.

She vents this to her friends: Taranza, Magolor, Kirby and the Mage Sisters. Her father is back and alive again, and she's still having to get hugs from her friends because her senile father is still not willing to accept hugs from her. It makes her friends really sad, especially when they meet her dad in person and see it for themselves that he's still not acting like a real dad to her. Magolor was the first one to see her dad brought back when he visited the HWC's headquarters by getting there with the Lor Starcutter. He was initially excited to meet Haltmann and humorously even try to insert himself as a nephew figure, but that fell apart after he saw how the man acted.

The Mage Sisters, alongside their patriarch Hyness, especially feel terrible at this. Even when Hyness was in his bad phase of madness, he never forgot his daughters entirely. It made him feel bad for Susie for still not being recognized by her dad, and it also made him feel bad for Haltmann as he agrees with Susie's claim that Star Dream wiped his memories, as he was able to deduce that's what happened.

Susie's friends try to comfort her and tell her that at least her dad is still alive again, and they're proud of her for at least being able to make amends with him at all even if he can't wholly remember. They all admit they can't be sure whether or not he'll ever come around to truly remember, but they tell her to not give up. She doesn't give up, although it's still internally hurting for her.

There are moments where it seems like he's so close to finally remembering, with the more recent kind-hearted interactions that the two have. But sadly, he just doesn't ever seem to get there. She is at least happy to see him being nice to her and that they're able to get along perfectly well, but it's just... not enough. She wants more.

It's probably greedy on her behalf, but he's supposed to be her father.

Is it possible him to ever remember her? He does come to "understand" that he "might" be, but he doesn't take it too seriously. At least for a long while. It still truthfully doesn't sit that right for him.

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Thank you so much if you've taken the time to read the synopsis for this AU! This is yet another Kirby AU that I've had in my mind for a bit.

It's also funny because... don't I literally have another AU where Max Haltmann gets brought back? That I literally wrote into fanfiction? "Lost Miracles That Finally Become"? Indeed! But that one's completely different. In that one, Haltmann gets brought back alongside Sectonia, as they both come back in their right minds.

But in this AU, it's different. Haltmann is brought back not in his right mind. At the beginning, his mindset is exactly the same as he was at the time of his death in Planet Robobot, and while he does become nicer to Susie over time, he doesn't ever truly get to remember her as his daughter like she hoped, much to her grief and disheartenment.

I'd like to point out that I normally headcanon Haltmann having a ghost, despite seemingly having been erased from existence. I just like having that as a headcanon so he can feel grief and misery by watching over Susie without being able to interact with her. But this AU fully goes through with the "erased from existence" thing, as it mentions that he had no ghost and just popped back into existence after the clockwork star grants Susie's wish to bring him back to life.

Morpho Knight let the whole thing slide. At some point, it shows up to Susie and tells her that she was lucky to bring Haltmann back, because he wasn't a soul in the afterlife beforehand. Otherwise, Morpho Knight would've stopped her from bringing Haltmann back.

Allow me to link another Kirby AU that I made a synopsis for; Dark Stormy Matters, a story where Kracko goes off the deep end and makes a wish to a clockwork star to revive Dark Matter and then fuses with it to cause wide-scale destruction. Unfortunately, it seems like that post is not viewable in its respective tags when clicking on them and looking at the recent ones! I don't understand that at all. That's partially why I'm linking it here so it hopefully gets seen more.

But anyways... thank you for reading! See you all later.

[malwarechips]

pretty moschops

[realwomenofgaming]

Vaughn's Top 10 one-handed video games (updated)

@vaughnHellspawn shares his updated favorite one-handed games! #GamingAccessibility #OneHandedGaming

Now that I’ve been exploring video games even more as a disabled gamer, I’ve found even more games that can be played using just 1 hand. For those of you who don’t know, I currently only have functional use of one of my hands, so I had to change how I played video games. One way that I changed was changing how I select the games I play. PC games must allow for keybind changes or have a mouse only…

[purusadivine]

I see everyday how the governments just like fuck the hood with the level of resources & accessibility they provide. It’s really like here, crumbs. Now go & be prosperous.

[nylusion]

Today Xycor brings you ridiculous news headlines from the past week in the Xycly News! Today he covers the news on the ASA delay!

[eyes1nthewoods]

ark ascended better fucking change the way flying mounts work.