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[itslilacokay]

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[malsmind]

➸ hacker!matt telling popular!reader about coding & hacking ❥

you and matt sit at his computer, the glow of the screen casting a soft light over his face. his fingers flying across the keyboard as he explains something about networks and firewalls.

“so, basically, if you know what you’re doing, you can find vulnerabilities in a system and exploit them,” he says, his voice full of excitement. “but, like, ethically, you use it to test security. penetration testing, you know?”

you hum, only half following along, more focused on the way he talks—his voice animated, hands moving as he types, the slight furrow in his brows when he’s focused. you shift slightly in his lap, and he tightens his arms around your waist, absentmindedly resting his chin on your shoulder.

“okay, look,” he says, adjusting his glasses. “i’ll show you something simple.” he pulls up a window full of code, and you squint at it, trying to make sense of the seemingly random letters, numbers, and symbols.

“this looks like gibberish,” you say, and he lets out a soft laugh, shaking his head.

“it’s not! this—” he points to a specific line— “is a script i wrote to check for weak passwords in a database. like, if someone uses ‘password123,’ i can see it’s vulnerable.”

you raise an eyebrow. “so you can just hack into anything?”

he smirks. “technically? yeah. but i wouldn’t. it’s illegal.”

“right, because you’re such a law-abiding citizen,” you tease.

he rolls his eyes but grins, his hands settling on your waist. “i just think it’s cool. like, understanding how systems work, breaking them down, and figuring out how to make them stronger.”

you watch his screen as he types out a few commands, explaining what each one does. you’re still not fully grasping it, but you love hearing him talk, love how passionate he gets about this stuff.

“you’re kind of a nerd,” you say, resting your head against his.

he huffs. “and yet, here you are, sitting in my lap, listening to me ramble about hacking.”

you smile. “yeah, because i like you.”

his hands squeeze your waist, and he tilts his head slightly, pressing a quick kiss to your jaw. “lucky me, then.”

you watch the lines of code scroll across the screen, feeling his warmth against you, the steady sound of his typing filling the room. you might not understand everything he’s saying, youprobably never will, it's just not your world. but you don’t mind. as long as it’s him talking, you’ll listen.

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[neragufetta]

That is a code, your honor

I stayed away from Link Click in order to avoid any spoiler, to the point I only discovered today that episode 1 of the Yingdu chapter was released last friday.

There is a long frame by frame rewatch already waiting for me but, at this moment, I only want to focus on this frame in the opening:

I don't know if anyone has already done it but I've cracked the code and I wish to share it with you.

Yes, that is a proper code and is fully decipherable, if you want to solve it yourself I'll share some hints on how to do it, otherwise you can just skip to the actual message section down below.

Have fun!

HOW TO DECIPHER THE CODE, step by step

The message is in English, lucky for us non-Chinese viewers;

2. the code uses a substitution cipher, which means every symbol corresponds to a specific letter and that letter only.

With these two clues alone I think you can already approach the message, but if you wish for more hints, here they are:

3. I could think of two different ways to decipher the code, one takes longer but it requires only one cipher; the other one is easier but there is a twist to keep in mind.

4. The longer method consists of classical substitution cipher solving approach: symbols, or set of symbols, that occurs more often in the message can be correlated with letters (E, T, ...) or words (THE, AND, ...) that occurs more often in the english language.

5. The easier way is to recognise that the symbols belong to a well known cipher: the pigpin cipher! You can google it, see the pic below

or just check my solution:

-XLI LIEVX SJ XLI JSVIWX E WYHHIr- -MG WTVIEH EQSRK XLI ERMQEPW JSB- -VIGXMRK IPITLERX XS HSYWY XLI JPEQI- -MJXPC WTVIEHMRK QIWWEKIW SJ YVK- -SAIZIV SRPC GEVIH EFSYX JPIIMRK- -XLI JSVIWX WYGGYQFIH XS XLI JMVIW-

HIXIVQMRIH XS TVIZIRX WYGL XVEKIH- LMVIH E HIXIGXMZI XS YRGSZIV XLI- HMWGSZIVIH AEW FICSRH XLIMV AM- MQEKMREXMSRW

LI FIPMIZIH XLEX XLI OIC XS- XS IPMQMREXI EPP TSXIRXMEP- MKRMXI XVSYFPI

Wait what?! That is not a solution! True, and that is the twist: pigpen alone doesn't solve the code, you need one more step, another substitution cipher.

6. This is a Caesar Cipher with key 4!

from: E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C D

to --: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

THE ACTUAL MESSAGE

-(t)he heart of the forest a sudde(n)- -ic spread among the animals fox- -recting elephant to dousu the flame- -iftly spreading messages of urg- -(h)owever only cared about fleeing- -the forest succumbed to the fires

Determined to prevent such traged(y)- hired a detective to uncover the- discovered was beyond their wi- imaginations

He believed that the key to- to eliminate all potential- ignite trouble

THE BLABBERING

Already many interesting things everywhere!

This message implies the existence of 5+ people: the writer of the message; the target of the message; the hired detective; the "He" mentioned in the third paragraph; the "all potential" trouble igniters (at least 2, I'd say) that should be eliminated. The blond woman seems to be the target, since the message is under her cup of tea; Liu Xiao could be the detective but I bet he is the "He"; the trouble igniters are definitely Lu Guang, Cheng Xiaoshi and the whole gang. The other two characters are way less obvious, we can only assume their identity based on which one is missing; I can only speculate that Vein could be the detective, but he could also be your basic assassin; Finally, Xia Fei could be the writer of the message, if we accept the idea that he and the woman might be somehow blood related.

Then, we have the proper content of the message: a burning forest is mentioned and we know from S2 that a forest appears in Lu Guang's memory of CXS dying (and in the opening as well). Why so much emphasys is placed on the forest?

The next sentence "determined to prevent such traged(y)" might be the most revealing: what is the tragedy? The forest on fire or something else? If it's the former, how can the fire be prevented it it has already happened? Either, they dive back in the past and change it, which we know is no-go option, or the forest on fire was a vision from the future and there is someone (Liu Xiao?) with the ability to either foresee or actually dive in the future, completing the past, present and future pattern.

And this is all coming from just one frame. One Frame.

Welcome back to the delightfully hellish Link Click.

Edit: Guys, I'm so silly, a few second later the cup is removed and the code becomes visible almost entirely...a part 2 is required.

[jadeyarts]

Hi there :3 I'm just here to say that I really REALLY love your design for Delight and I think that she's my favorite cupiddissimo child :D I think that she's really adorable and that would be great if she was a canon character 💖 I really wanna hear more about her :3

(and also I can't stop thinking about her singing to Irep "out for love" from Hazbin Hotel idk I just think that this song really fits her)

and I'd love to hear about her relationship with others like Peri, Irep, Goldie, Sammy e.t.c.

Ok that's all have a good day :3 ☀️ 💖

aww thank you so much! it means a lot to me you like Delight (link for newcomers) so much!!! i'd love to tell you more about her since you asked so niceys!

Delight is loosely inspired by and based on the daughter of Cupid and Psyche in Roman mythology - Voluptas, goddess of pleasure. delight is derived from an english translation of voluptas - so while she isn't literally the goddess Voluptas, she's based around the concept of Voluptas. she can be sweet and personable, but also oblivious and selfish - her defining characteristic is that she's a party animal who prioritizes her idea of fun. as a baby this manifests as being hyper all of the time and constantly wanting attention and play time. but as an adult this manifests in being... Girls Just Wanna Have Fun coded. Pinkie Pie in a blender with Kesha, maybe a dash of Mabel Pines coded. I Just Wanna Party All The Time coded, even.

I honestly never really thought of a potential dynamic for her and the spellementary kids because I was originally planning on having her be a decade younger, so she wouldn't have really known most of them. I did eventually decide that she'd be closer in age, but she'd still be younger by a few years though - so Poof and Foop would be like 4 or 5 when she's born, and it impacts the dynamic she has with them all.

one things for certain - she's basically Poof's annoying little cousin. they're probably* not biologically related, I do think they do basically see each other as family. (*i have a crack theory about cupid and wanda being cousins but i haven't been actively incorporating it into my work so it doesn't count) she was kind of overbearing and overly nosy and in his business so she annoys him sometimes, but he does ultimately care about her - this barely changes once they're adults. at least she grew out of being blunt and uncompromising about it!

Foop would think she's annoying and invasive, and snarks about whatever nonsense she's up to. but he doesn't have to deal with her usually, so he can tolerate her to some degree.

in ANW's continuity, I think their relationship gets more adversarial. he's even more annoyed by her, and she might actively go out of her way to piss him off in passive aggressive but seemingly playful ways.

but in my specific post-canon I think she might have grown on him a bit as she gets less... annoying. but not by much if you ask him.

[thepersonperson]

Little Details in JJK

I've decided to put a couple of minor details I noticed and thought were neat in one place to keep track of them. They're all basically like this:

They never patched that hole up but they removed all the talismans lmao. Planning how to kill Sukuna in the room Yuji was almost executed with the finger that made that hole goes hard though.

Notes before we start.

1) This features Miguel Oduol, Yorozu, and Sukuna.

2) I will be mainly using the TCB scans for the manga because of their accessibility. 

3) Raws are from mangareader(.)to.

(Click images for captions/citations.)

Miguel Oduol

We all know Miguel Oduol is from Kenya, however what you might not know is that he appears to be from the Maasai tribe specifically! I'm going to link a lot of resources about this, so keep in mind that sometimes they can be incidentally racist. (Aka a minority is tribe is discussed like an alien species.)

Cursed Technique Origins

I know a lot of people criticized Miguel's Cursed Technique (CT) for being a dance, however, it is directly related to him being Maasai. Adumu is the Maasai jumping dance practiced by warriors to show off their strength and agility. This is the dance Miguel appears to be doing when he first activates his CT against Sukuna.

(Read more on the Maasai Jumping Dance here!)

If you noticed, Miguel's baldness also appears to be based it being a common hairstyle for the Maasai regardless of gender. It should also be noted that his CT, Hakuna Laana, is Swahili for No Curses. Swahili is an official language of Kenya and is spoken by the Maasai even though they have their own language (also called Maasai or Maa).

Other Details

Since the Maasai are nomadic and move around based on the weather, their dwellings reflect that lifestyle. This appears to be why Miguel is drawn outside of a hut in that one flashback—it's just how Maasai homes look.

Another thing done right was the local flora. It's super easy for creators to mistakenly apply foreign flora to the wrong region. (Take for instance, the iconic Saguaro cactus being included in settings based on Chihuahuan Desert in Texas, when this cactus exclusively grows in the Sonoran Desert, which is basically just Arizona and Baja California.)

The trees in the background are called Baobab trees and they do in fact grow in Kenya.

Why Maasai?

I think Gege picked the Maasai tribe in particular for Miguel because of their belief in curses. See from the following sources:

"While generational curses are normal within the Maasai worldview..."

"For the Maasai people, death does not traditionally hold any secrets of the afterlife. Once an individual has passed, their journey has ended. All of their possessions and any of their sins are transferred to the loved ones who survive them."

"Social control among the Maasai rests ultimately on the general belief in the power of elders to bless and to curse..."

(Please note that the word they use for curse (engooki) appears to be sometimes translated as sin.)

So when Miguel threatens to curse Geto in JJK0 if he dies?

He really fudging means it. (Could also explain why he's so particular about not dying. He doesn't believe he'll be reincarnated later, that's just it for him!)

The only thing about Miguel that didn't seem to fit with Maasai practices is the black rope. This is a stretch, but it might be based on their well-known bead work:

"Black– Symbolizes unity and solidarity. It also denotes the struggles the Maasai endure, which bring them together as a people."

Miguel certainly struggled when using that on Gojo.

Yorozu

This is mostly me complaining about what got lost in translation. Yorozu is basically a bug and I cannot wait for her weird insect shtick to get animated.

Best Bug

The first instance of her speech being bug-coded I noticed is when Yorozu yells 斬って (Kitte) 7 times total (7.5 if you count the modified 斬 (ki) at the end.

The Japanese is objectively funnier because Yorozu is screaming "CUT ME!!" over and over like cicada. The English translation gave her a poetic flair she doesn't have.

This also happens with her Domain Expansion 三重疾苦 (Shikkushikku Shikku) where 三重 (Shikkushikku) means triple and 疾苦 (Shikku) means suffering.

Additional context shamelessly stolen from the JJK wiki:

"The kanji shikku (疾苦 (しっく) ) refers to the suffering brought on by illness, affliction, or simply hardship in life. Akutami uses the pronunciation shikku as a pun of the borrowed English word "sick" (シック shikku).

Given Yorozu's excessive love for Sukuna, it is likely that the domain's name references "lovesickness", and specifically a song by Japanese VOCALOID producer PinocchioP (sung by Hatsune Miku) called "Sick Sick Sick" (シックシックシック), which is about how love can be a sickness."

(Btw シックis read as Shikku.)

My best attempt to carry forward the puns and repetition for this domain would be Triply Tristful Tribulations. (Someone please come up with something better.)

Yorozu's death is also bug-coded. Mahoraga literally swats her like a roach.

There's also something to be said about Sukuna refusing to touch her in battle and using anything but his actual body to kill her. That's kind of how most people are when it comes to killing bugs.

Not Bug Related

The thing Yorozu is lounging on in the Heian flashback is a "pillow" called a takamakura. It's a special headrest that was slept on to keep fancy hairstyles intact since they would take hours to prepare.

Since Yorozu's hair is down and she just kind of runs around pussy out while ignoring all the social rules, it speaks to her non-noble heritage. (Remember she was recruited by the Fujiwaras and is from Aizu.) She also has a bad habit of biting her fingernails when she's concentrating.

Another fun detail is that when she declares that she's going to be the one at Sukuna's side. Yorozu directly points at Uraume who is already standing there. This of course, is called back to in the epilogue where Uraume remains at Sukuna's side.

What I really like about this is that Yorozu seems to believe that only a romantic relationship will ease Sukuna's loneliness, and she's proven wrong. The platonic/familial bond with Uraume winds up being the one Sukuna chooses and it's good enough for him. I may be biased, but I appreciate when non-romantic relationships are considered just as satisfying as romantic ones.

I also have to shout out Yorozu for not seeing Uraume as competition. She still wants them around even if she marries Sukuna. It's so easy to have an obsessive character like her be irrationally jealous, but she's basically willing to adopt Uraume which is adorable. (This also goes for Hana, who in a worse manga, would see Tsumiki as competition for Megumi.)

Sukuna

This is just a compilation of my favorite Sukuna girlfailure moments.

Self-Depreciation

"The bough that bear most hang lowest." comes from a proverb that means "those who have the most to offer are often the least boastful, much like tree branches that bend under the weight of their fruit."

When Sukuna tells Jogo that his "head doesn't bear much" he's warning him about his lack of humility (aka not bowing enough) and calling him worthless at the same time. Pretty clever, right?

What makes this a girlfailure moment is that by this logic, Sukuna is inadvertently declaring that he's worth less than the ones he's looking down on and that his arrogance is a sign of posturing. If you pointed this out to him, he'd probably kill you, but it's kind of funny he overlooked the implication.

Manji Kick

When Yuji tries to throw hands with Sukuna after being killed, he tries to kick his gruncle in the face and misses.

This doesn't stop Yuji! Eventually he pulls off a successful Manji Kick against Mahito.

This means that even though Sukuna has dodged this move before, even though he has witnessed Yuji landing this move...

...he somehow managed to get with it in his "strongest" original form.

He Might Be Autistic

I promise I'll elaborate more on Sukuna's autism in a different post, but he's on par with Yuji in taking things at face value sometimes. Here is my favorite example.

He really took his nephew at his word and got punched in the face for it...

The Knives

When Sukuna's technique is first properly introduced, 2 knives represent it. The one on the left is a sujihiki (associated with Dismantle) while the one on the right is a burja (associated with Cleave). Uraume winds up using a burja when cutting the curses for a bath.

The thing about the sujihiki is that it's primarily used for scaling and filleting fish. You know, like for Gojo Satoru, the fish he scaled then bisected with Dismantle. The burja is used for percision cutting which is probably why Uraume uses it for the special preparation of curses. (Burjas also aren't that big, so I'd like to believe that's Sukuna's knife they're using.)

Anyways, I leave you with a panel comparison of Gojo punching Uraume like he did Hakari and Yuta. (Sukuna dodging their flying body will never not be funny.)

Gojo and Sukuna have really questionable ideas about guardianship.

[blackstarchanx3new]

What theme songs would suit the characters of Four Swords? This includes songs that reflect their personalities, relationships, and dynamics with each other. Because I'm curious what you think suits them.

Bro basically asked for my personal playlist lmfao. Link:

Haunted House - After School Surf Club Notion - The Rare Occasions Sugar Pills - IDKHOW Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand Double Life - Pharrell Williams still feel - half alive Ghost - Mystery Skulls Dead Inside - Younger Hunger Why Did I Say Okie Doki? · The Stupendium Ghost Town - Trickle Losing My Mind- Mystery Skulls Dr. Gaster - Shadrow

Green: the perfect pair - beabadoobee Mr. FEAR -SIAMES Vending Machine of Love · The Stupendium Blue: Cold Cold Cold - Cage The Elephant (lmfao) Wild Side - ALI My Way - SIAMES Dancin - Aaron Smith Red: Copycat - CircusP/VocaCircus (This song could also fit Dark haha) The Red Means I Love You - Madds Buckley Wonderful Nothing - Glass Animals I Only Paint in Red Now - Lydia the Bard / Tony Halliwell Don't Come Crying - TryHardNinja Vio: Out of My League - Fritz and The Tantrums Lone Digger - Caravan Palace A Tear in Space (Airlock) - Glass Animals I’m So Sorry - ImagineDragons Ghost Town - Veorra & The Tech Thieves

Shadow Link: Love Away - SIAMES 505 - Arctic Monkeys Do It All The Time - IDKHOW Rasputin · Majestic Freaking Out - Mystery Skulls GRRRLS · AViVA TERRIBLE THINGS · AXIE Wolf In Sheep's Clothing [REBORN] - Set It Off Alone In The Darkness - SIAMES

Dark Link: Gladiator - Jann Digital Silence - Peter McPoland My Love Mine All Mine - Mitski Christmas Kids - ROAR Loverboy - A-Wall 4:00 A.M. - Taeko Onuki ECHO - Crusher My Ordinary Life-The Living Tombstone Tongues and Teeth - The Crane Wives Villain Stella Jang Cover) · Umbratic Forest

Vaati: Lay all your love on me - ABBA The Wolf - SIAMES How I Learned To Love The Bomb - Glass Animals Enemy - imagine dragons

Ship/dynamic Specific songs:

Vidow: Pork Soda - Glass Animals Heat Waves - Glass Animals Hold Me Tight or Don't - Fall Out Boy The Bird Song - Noah Floersch Sex With A Ghost - Teddy Hyde Neovaii - Crash Snuff out the light - Eartha Kitt Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You - Arctic Monkeys  (Greenvio and Darkblue also fit this) GreenVio: GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE - Cover by Justine M. Vidoween: Jenny - Studio Killers GreenBlue: No lullaby - SIAMES (Not romantic but symbolic of them both dealing with Link's BS lmfao)

DarkBlue: Knee Socks - Arctic Monkeys (Arctic monkeys just IS their vibe tbh) Dissolve - Absofacto Horns - Bryce Fox This Is Hardcore - Pulp DarkVaati: Too Sweet - Hozier Take me to Church - Hozier Church - Fall Out Boy (IF YOU WERE CHURCH I'D GET ON MAH KNEEES- 😏) Soul on Fire - Mystery Skulls Paralyzed - Mystery Skulls Hide Away (feat. Holly) · Synapson · Holly (We damn well know who's hiding lmfao) Flowers - Dj Quads (Lmfao this one is sad as hell but I can't at all elaborate on why due to spoilers X'D) Toxic - Britney Spears rewrite by Lydia the Bard Me and the Devil · Soap&Skin (Could also be Vidow) DarkVio: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend - Cameron Hayes (This just is THE DarkVio song as far as I'm concerned, the intense as hell almost manic pining specifically haha.) Mixed Messages - Tom C (The question is who's "Dad" is getting punched in the dick...)

DarkShadow: From the Start - GoodKid Cover (One Sided on Shadow's part.) Brothers -SIAMÉS

FSR In general coded songs:

The Walker - Fitz and The Tantrums Rhinestone Eyes - Gorillaz A Good Song Never Dies - Saint Motel The Future - Mystery Skulls Goya no Machiawase - Hello Sleepwalkers Kick back - Kenshi Yonezu Plastic Love - Mariya Takeuchi Blink Gone - BL8M, AKUGETSU Hammer Song To Itami No Tou · BUMP OF CHICKEN Tame Impala - Borderline Stay With Me · Miki Matsubara Curses · The Crane Wives The Rules - Hoosiers dumb dumb · mazie Coffee · Jack Stauber's Micropop Who Is She ? · I Monster Very Good Bad Thing - Mother Mother

This one's straight up Four Swords Returns Again coded but I'd be a fool not to include: The Fine Print · The Stupendium

Okay I'mma stop there for now haha. but I'm sure I'm missing stuff. XD

Hopfully I introduced some people to their new fave songs!!! I'd recommend all of these.

[snoozykazoo]

happy springtime allergies! 🌸

The flowers at this time of year are so lovely! sniff sniff sniff… They’re pretty enough that I’m THIS close to forgetting the pollen up my nose. So it goes. Regardless of springtime allergies or not, it’s Snoozy Devpost time!

If this is your first time seeing us, hey! We’re Snoozy Kazoo, a game dev studio of six guys who make dumb, silly, and fun games. We made the Turnip Boy games, and we’re currently in the midst of working on our latest game, Hobnobbers!

This month, we're getting into our task management workflow to help all you fellow indie devs out there!

What's Snoozy been up to?

Ah…! We’re so, so close to being able to announce something really exciting…! But you have to forgive me. I can’t say anything yet. Keep your eyes peeled — there’s going to be a LOT of exciting Snoozy News™️ come May. Even if I can’t say the big deets yet, I can at least drop this link right overrr here for you merch heads out there…

Cool Makeship Link 👀

Buuuut since we can’t talk about our projects, let’s talk about the next best thing: Project Management! This past month, Snoozy switched from our old task-tracking system to a new system called Codecks. Imagine if you could track your project progress with a deck-building roguelike, and that’s what Codecks is! It’s a nifty little tool specifically made for Indie Game Developers, which we just happen to be.

And to clear the air: no, we are not sponsored in any way by Codecks. Though if Codecks is reading this — we’d totally love to be!

We wanted to share how this system has been working for us, so any aspiring indie devs out there can see if this system is appealing to them and potentially benefit from it!

How it works

What’s made Codecks click for us is how it blends structure with playfulness. It doesn’t just let you organize your work — it encourages you to think about it in terms of clear progress paths, visual layouts, and deck-building metaphors.

We kept falling off of our past task systems because jugging a game’s worth of art, code, design, writing, marketing, and bug-fixing while ALSO needing to come up with constantly updating organization methods is. Hard. Codecks simplifies that process!

Codecks organizes itself into Cards, Decks, and Projects. Cards are tasks (like “Animate a Hob’s death!”), Decks are chunks (animating a Hob would go in our ‘Art’ Deck, but you could split it up further into a ‘3D Animation’ deck while also having a ‘3D Modeling’ Deck), and Projects are, well, projects! (‘Hobnobbers’ is, well, our project!)

What we like

Myyy personal favorite bit of Codecks is how it handles Conversations. Conversations can be had on any card, which makes it really easy to find discussions and notes on particular topics. In the past, we’ve used Discord to talk about ideas, critiques, and problems as they’ve come up. When notes are discussed quickly, they don’t necessarily quality for opening up the whole task itself, which has made remembering clarifications like “Wait, what resolution did this sprite need to be, again?” as simple as pulling up its relevant card.

Other people on the team love the ‘Required Effort’ settings, which allow you to set an amount of effort for each card and then see how much total effort a single person has. Basically, all of us adore the fact that you can use Markdown (which I, Yukon, am currently converting this post into for the Snoozy website haha). There are just a ton of little quality of life features that really feel like this tool was made by indie devs, for indie devs, and it’s really smooth to use!

But I’m just a little guy. Just a Small Man. With Few Dollars?

Codecks is free for up to 5 users on a team! If you’re a solo developer working on a project in your spare time, it’s probably more than suitable for you.

Aaaand that was our non-sponsored shilling of this tool we really like! There’s only so much we can say without going too into the weeds of it, but we hope that giving you a peep into our processes helped you out!

Team Corner!

It’s back a second time! Almost like it’s always going to be here!

This week we’ve got… badadadum, Jake! Our musician and developer!

What are you most excited for in Hobnobbers?

I’m most excited for the physics. Some of my favorite games have really robust physics simulations like Gang Beasts, Motor Town, and BeamNG.drive. I love sandbox games that have fun and unexpected environments to explore in a tactile way.

What’s something you’ve worked on in Hobnobbers recently that you’ve found particularly frustrating?

Audio Volumes and spatialization. In a 3D game, each space needs to sound different, and sometimes dialing that in just right can be a pain. Large open rooms and tiny little tunnels sound different in real life, and they will do the same in Hobnobbers, after lots of tweaking and iteration. Coming from 2D development, this literally opens up a whole new dimension of sound design.

What kinds of feelings do you hope for the Hobnobbers’ music to bring about?

I really want to mix dreamlike folktale and plastic consumerism. I am super inspired by I spy books, grimms fairytales, folk/americana music, and toy instruments for the Hobnobbers musical palette, and the music comes very naturally when the inspirations are so vivid. A lot of Hobnobbers is about simulating something tactile and physical in a digital space, and I hope to channel that into the music.

Yay! Thank you for your time!

Andddd we’re all wrapped up!

As a reminder, feel free to send in questions for us to answer right here on our Tumblr, or join our Discord and ask questions in the “ask-the-devs-❓” channel!

Keep your eyes peeled for this upcoming month in particular — we’ve got a lot of cool announcements coming up!

As per Devposts, see you next month!!

[receptorconsuming]

I know you recomended some video essays a while back, do you have any favorite people who post them?

hi! i definitely do! i'll link them, along with a few of my personal favorites of their videos.

Video essay channels with an educational/academic thread to them:

Jacob Geller (What's the Point of Taking Apart a Body?/Why do Horror Games Sound so Beautiful?/Four Short Games about Pain, Control Anatomy and the Legacy of the Haunted House)

hbomberguy (Pathologic is Genius, And here's Why/ROBLOX_OFF.MP3/Fallout: New Vegas is Genius, And Here's Why)

Leadhead (What Makes a Great Team Fortress 2 Map?/ Portal, Cracks in the System/The Sims and Suburban Hell)

MertKayKay (The Most Disgusting Game I Have Ever Played/How to Miss the Point of Silent Hill)

Video game reviews with essay commentary:

Grimbeard (Michigan: Report From Hell/The Vampire Diaries/Nocturne)

RagnarRox (World of Horror is a Dream Come True/Haunting Ground is a Psycho-Sexual Horror Masterpiece/A Love Letter to Vampire: The Masquerade)

DungeonChill (That Time Robert de Niro Made a Game/The Weirdest Time Travel Game on PS2/Are You Afraid of the Dark?/The Scariest Educational Game Ever Made)

MandaloreGaming (The Mystery of the Druids/Limbo of the Lost/Anonymous Agony: An Extra Edgy Adventure Game/The Penumbra Collection Review)

The Sphere Hunter (Haunting Ground: The Hidden Horror Gem/Parasite Eve, the Cinematic RPG in Video Game History/Why RE7's Opening is So Effective)

Video essay channels that cover specific aspects of games:

TBSkyen (Channel focused on character design, animation, and art -- A character design hot take for every League of Legends character/The Animation of Arcane/The Many Meanings of Bloodborne)

Scruffy (Channel focused on audio design -- How Audio Enhances the Horror of FNAF/Sound Intensity in FNAF/Proximity Chat and Horror)

Tech Rules (Channel focused on coding and game design -- Ruining FNaF by Dissecting the Animatronics/Ruining Baldi's Basics by Dissecting Baldi's AI/Ruining DDLC by Revealing Every Trick)

Hope you enjoy any that you check out!! ^^

[no-future-mudwasps]

[the following is an excerpt from a (slightly sketchy) Omninet forum discussing non-human avatar and experimental subjectivity-enhancement experiences, purportedly written by an ex-Constellation architect:

Modal Heuristic Mapping is your friend in any case where somatic data is conflicting, or simply doesn’t exist for one reason or another. Direct volitional impulses are good at relating commands with basically no lag, but what if you’re trying to execute a command you can’t immediately envision? MHM bridges that gap, because it takes advantage of the fact that your brain is pretty damn plastic and doesn’t actually need to store everything it needs simultaneously.

It gets complicated fast, but the basic framework is this: Create a fixed input schema that can respond to VI, map it to the avatar or some persistent actor, and then create a sloped differential within the schema with your volition on one end and a null state on the other.

Sounds like it would just return nothing, right? Well, your brain gets the first hint that *something* is going on from the high-volition initials— it’s usually useful to link these to something specific and noticeable, like a ‘trigger’— and then by the time it presses up against an empty buffer, it’s ready to receive new information from the schema and makes up the output as it goes. You’re basically letting parts of your brain pretend they’re an infant again, so they learn the new base assumptions from the ground-up. Cycle or repeat the impulse quick enough and you basically reinforce the modal switch immediately; one framework for baseline reality, one for whatever body or sense translation you want this other body to map to.

Naturally, the end result tends to be at least a little different for everyone since you didn’t actually code one, but that’s the point; it works out like they imagine it should. You would not believe how easy some people’s minds settle into having, like, an animal or drone body for a bit. All kinds of shit like that on-campus.]

[shiftingdisaster]

H2O; Just Add Water DR: Intro ᨒ࿔˚⋆

rippling water as a young girl steps into the pool of water alone. soon, the moon will pass over, and their life will forever be changed.

Basics.ᐟ.ᐟ ࿔˚⋆

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ᨒ Name: Alvaro Willow

𓂁 Nicknames!! Alv, Ro

ᨒ Age: 16

𓂁 Pronouns!! She/They

ᨒ Nationality: Mexican-American

𓂁 Birthday!! Aug. 24, 1994

ᨒ Lives in: Oceanus, Australia.

𓂁 Born in!! California

ᨒ Year: 2009

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Past.ᐟ.ᐟ ࿔˚⋆

Born in Southern California, with a family that lived for fishing and going to the beach. Parents, Aura and Gene, and an older brother Evan. Also included in the direct family majority of the time with how close the families were, A cousin and uncle.

6 years old is the age Alvaro Willow became a mermaid, in a large cave with a big tidepool and the moon above. With an active imagination, riddled with memories of novels upon novels with people used for their magic, thoughts of being a experiment or otherwise kept the young mer from telling anyone the truth.

At 11 years old, Gene, Alvaro’s father passed. And in turn, Alvaro was adopted by their Uncle.

Around 13 years of age, a fellow mermaid named Odette. The two only knew each other a short time, but clicked almost immediately. Odette was born a mermaid, and Alvaro made one. Each wanted to learn of each other’s worlds. But, with seasons changing Odette had to leave. She left, but not without leaving behind a stack of books and a charm imbued with magic to contact her.

When Alvaro was 14, her adoptive father got a job offer to be a Coast Guard Captain of a bit of sea off the coast of an Australian city; the very same that their grandmother, and Uncle’s adoptive mother, lived for a decade of her life.

Presently, Alvaro and their now-adoptive family have lived in Australia for two years. Alvaro goes to school, has a band with their friends, a crush on one of her best friends, and frequently goes for swims in the nearby ocean. Overall, Life’s peaceful.

Well, right up until these girls from her school stumbled upon the moon pool.

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Powers.ᐟ.ᐟ ࿔˚⋆

While I started off with controlling water, after a while I learned about how I could turn it to ice, solidify water into another form, and heat anything with water in it.

Later, after meeting Odette, I learned basic magics too. Enchantments, Telekinesis, just straight up magic. Along with that, I learned I had a siren’s voice. Siren voices, normally, make your singing voice just sound more compelling, but if you sing a specific song, usually a lyric-less tune, it captivates people and makes them listen to anything you tell them.

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Love Interest.ᐟ.ᐟ ࿔˚⋆

Danielle Jones

sarcasm running deep in her bones, a peculiar fashion style, and smarts to give sherlock a run for his money.

16, She/her, & bisexual

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Details.ᐟ.ᐟ ࿔˚⋆

𓂁 Did you know Leopard fish are commonly spotted near California? That’s why my tail has some markings like them. Mer’s tails are often attributed with features of the other aquatic animals in the place they were born, or created, to help them camouflage and protect themselves.

ᨒ With much practice, it is possible to control when and where one changes into a mermaid. With much studying and practice one can gain the ability to change or not change, at will.

𓂁 A few months after I turned 13, living with my adoptive family, is when I decided to tell them about my powers. They were extremely confused to say the least, but ultimately accepted me and kept my secret.

ᨒ Much like the ‘moon rings’ of mako mermaids, mermaids in my dr take use of the gemstones of the moon pools around the world. Most are used for communication, rather than magic. jewelry is made containing these gems, and when linked, one can tap on them to send a message. The gemstones will blink with a small light to convey messages, much like morse code. Personally, I have two rings like that. One for my older adoptive brother, and another for my adoptive father. Later, I’ll gain a bracelet like it for communication with the girls.

𓂁 In the past, instead of the trio, there was a quintet. 5 girls who had turned into mermaids. Louise, Julia, Gracie, but also Mary and Janet. Mary was my grandmother, and I have her locket which was given to me by my dad as a kid. Later, when Bella arrives, She’ll get Janet’s locket.

ᨒ Two pets of my own, Luna and Gale. Luna’s a tortoiseshell cat, around 7 years old that I’ve had since 12. Gale is a 4 year old bernese mountain dog I got at 14, after my arthritis diagnosis, to be my service dog.

𓂁 My band’s name is “The Sirens”, a little on the nose I know, but it consists of myself as the lead singer and rhythmic guitarist, Danielle on drums, and two of my scripted in friends on the keyboard and lead guitar. Everyone does vocals, it really just depends which song we’re singing at the time.

[neverchecking]

Welcome to the Rabbit Hole~

Hello, Darlings~ I know most writers don't do this, but I can understand how frustrating it can be to go to a writer's page, read about a specific AU, but have no way of getting to the beginning to join the fun. So, here we are! Welcome to Cinder's Navigation of my current AU's!

Sweet but Psycho AU:

˚ ✦An AU where the Reader is not only aware of the boys' tendencies, but encourages it.

The start (This is kind of where the idea bubbles up)

How does the Chain feel? (Short version)

The Rewards (Ft. Bozai)

Sage figures it out (I love this sm honestly-)

In what order does the rest of the Chain find out?

Thoughts on the 'Sit on my Face' request with this Reader

Just this. All of this. (If nothing else read this one.)

Dom! Sadistic Reader punishing a Link (Also this one.)

Thoughts on Ganon.

Reader who loves giving affection

A new kind of punishment (Og starter)

Holy Grail AU:

˚ ✦An AU where Reader is not only their God(dess), but an actual god(dess), and now has a soul bond with every Link after saving them.

The Start

Cal gets some attention

Possible reasoning for the Soul bond?

The problem with Hylia

Mostly general Sage and his Zelda tidbit

More Zelda slander and why Reader is good foil against her.

Zelda and Reader meet.

The Chain gets a Baby bit Renamed: THE BABY CHAIN (>:D):

˚ ✦Not an AU, but this took off and I want it accessible. Basically, Poly! Chain with Pregnant! Reader, and the children that come of it.

The post that started it all

Who's getting a baby first?

Baby looks like Reader?

Sage and the Twins that aren't his.

Fierce Daddy-ity

Cursed Link. That's it. That's the Tweet.

The start of the debate.

The boys are dolphins.

TWO DADS

The debate PART 2 INCLUDING REBUTTALS

Let's talk genetics :)

BIG BROTHER WIND and Dad! Four ig

Sky is a baby leash parent

Wind as the best big brother while the others fight over who the bd is

Fierce Deity Baby Daddy

Sky as a dad :)

The chain with kids hghgg READ THIS ONE

Sky is perfect. Thats it. Thats the tweet.

Househusband sky

Dad Warriors

Four's daughter also splits

The colors vs Their Mini-me's. Take one. (Take two)

Dad! Ravio

The Fierce kiddos shenanigans

The triplets fighting over if the kid is theirs. (Me bs-ing why it's all of theirs)

Lightbulb baby.

Four needs to learn to wrap it b4 he taps it bc this is getting out of hand- /j

Universe switch

˚ ✦Keep up with me and @my-insanity-is-an-artform 's ocs and if their universes got switched! Tia belongs to them and Aaliyah belongs to me!

Tia introduction

Tia's first moments in Sage's Hyrule

Tia looks at a feral man and decides he won't bit. (Yes he do)

How're the links handling the switch? (This just in; not well)

Tia is kidnapping someone. Even if they go willingly.

The start of it all (Go read this right now)

The Hateno home and The Sheikah

How's Sage doing?

When does the Switch happen?

The chain makes an appearance.

Merging Hyrules

Sage Vs. Fungus

Sage + Fungus Vs. everything else.

Sweetpea is enough.

Fucked around. Found out.

Wild and Cal make their reappearance.

Fungus is gonna be courted, Saaagge.

Sage and Aaliyah are good with kids (And the consequences)

Aaliyah is Regina George coded.

Found Family

Family and getting your back blown out (Those should never intertwine <3)

There are so many parents going around and yet Sage and Aaliyah still act fatherless </3

The Story:

Part 1: Something

Part 2: Portals

Sage acquires a baby

˚ ✦Sage acquires Baby! Reader and just. Takes them.

The acquisition.

Baby is a crawler

The acceptance

Baby's first Lynel attack &lt;3

Mama Wild

Co-parents Sage and Wild

Reader's real parents?

Custody battle Take one

Wild is trusting with child. More on this at seven.

Papa bear sage

Baby has a triforce?

Emotional support animal wolfie

Soft Sage dad

First steps

Monkey.

Dink makes an appearance

Baby Real mom

Baby goats

Navi

Sage and Wild Vs. Legend

Mastermind child

Menace child.

The Gerudo gain momentary custody

Wind is brother coded

Wild took back his custody

˚ ✦My Rules

˚ ✦My Masterlist

˚ ✦Main Navigation

[izicodes]

Hii ! I’m in a bit of a problem rn and I’m wondering if you could help ( sorry for bothering you )

So school just finished and I’m on vacation for like 3 months so I really want to learn how to code ( I mainly want to make cool websites and stuff ). So I started to learn html and css but it just seems so overwhelming especially seeing all the ressources and tutorials online, could you please help me know what to learn first ? 💖

Hiya! 💗

Yeah, I can help! It can be overwhelming at first, but it's best to break it down into chunks and tackle them bit by bit.

For now, as a complete beginner, use these 3 resources:

HTML and CSS course video - LINK

W3School (for extra help) - HTML LINK | CSS LINK

MDN (for even extra help) - HTML LINK | CSS LINK

After that, work on projects to test your knowledge:

List of 11 projects to tackle - LINK

Here is the list of things you want to cover in HTML:

Basic structure

Tags and elements

Attributes

Forms

Semantic markup

Tables

The same but for CSS:

Selectors

Box model (margin, padding, border)

Typography (fonts, text properties)

Colours and backgrounds

Layout and positioning (floats, flexbox, grid)

Responsive design (media queries)

Transitions and animations

Now that you have a list of what you need to cover, tackle them one by one, making sure you understand the topic before you head over to the next. The video tutorial covers all of this and more. If you don't understand a bit in the video, stop and look on W3School and MDN for further understanding and then continue on with the video. Also, tackle the video slowing. Don't rush, don't do it, it'll just make the learning process even longer if you getting not understand things.

The resources I listed are my complete go-to. After that, as you've noticed, there are hundreds more. Go through the ones you need for the specific project you're working on or the topic you're studying only.

Hope this helps and good luck! 💻💗

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Hello, do you know why salmiak is considered an allele of KIT if it's actually located on a different gene? Idk much about genetics so I'm asking you.. Would it be possible for a salmiak cat to be e.g W/W or Ws/wg or whatever on KIT, but still be salmiak if its actually a different gene? Or maybe I just misunderstood the article and its the same gene 😅 I just get confused when it says salmiak is ' downstream' of KIT?

Another genetics question I just thought of, is it possible for an allele to actually be a combination of two- so let's say hypothetical allele 1 is a deletion somewhere, and allele 2 is a virus insertion. Can there be a new allele combining both the deletion and insertion?

Sorry if these questions are stupid or obvious ! I am very new to genetics and still learning. But thank you for any answer!

Yes, the salmiak mutation is outside of the coding region of KIT. But it's less like 'salmiak is located on a different gene' and more like 'salmiak isn't located on any gene'.

You can see it on this figure from the original article describing the salmiak mutation. The wide blue stripes are the actual genes: KIT on the right and something called KDR on the left. Note that there's a ~258 kb long "empty" DNA sequence between them in the wild type allele: this area probably doesn't code any proteins but it still can have important functions, for example in transcription regulation or RNA-coding.

But since this region is so close to KIT, and we know that mutations here cause similar phenotype changes as mutations in coding KIT in several animals, we can probably safely assume that this region is an essential part of the transcription of the KIT gene.

But does this mean a salmiak (wsal/wsal) cat can be for example W/ws at the same time? Yeah, actually it does. It's possible. But you have to understand one very important thing about genes: they all work like this. (Except if the mutations are in the exact same position, like coincidentally full white W and white spotting ws are.)

Let's take color restriction (TYR) for example. We have several identified alleles here: sepia, mocha, point and a couple of mutations causing albino. They all have different positions in the gene:

sepia: c.679G>T (the 679th base changes from G to T)

mocha: c.820_936delinsAATCTC (deletion of the bases between 820 and 936, insertion of AATCTC)

point: c.940G>A

albino: c.975delC or c.1204C>T

So theoretically one single chromosome could carry any combination of these mutations, even all of them at the same time. (I'm pretty sure tho that that would count as albino.)

So why do we treat them as one gene then?

So far we used the word gene as "a DNA region that codes a specific peptide", but it can be and often used in a slightly different meaning: "the unit of inheritence". KIT or TYR are clearly genes based on the first definition, but what about the second? Are they still genes by this definition?

The answer is yes, but a less unequivocal yes. In this meaning a gene is a part of the DNA that's short enough to safely ignore the possibility of a chromosomal crossover when its inheritence is considered. Crossovers can happen anywhere, they don't care for gene (as in peptide-coding region) bounderies. In terms of inheritence, there is no real difference between a single gene and two very-very-very-very thighly linked genes.

The feline chromosome B1, where KIT is located, is 208,212,889 base pair long. To get a chromosome with the salmiak and another KIT allele, a crossover must happen in the ~66 kb long region between the salmiak deletion and coding KIT. I believe that's approximately 0,000317 part of the chromosome; crossover here will happen rarely. Salmiak will behave basically allelic with the other KIT mutations.

(Since gloving is in a different position than white spotting, crossover can happen between them too. They are closer, so the probability is even lower, but it's possible.)

This starts to get very long, so i'll put a cut here, and under it i'll write about two relevant examples: the brindle allele in dogs and hotot rabbits.

Brindle

Brindle (kbr) is an allele of the K locus, it's recessive to black (KB) and dominant to wild type/yellow (ky). It's gives an intermediate phenotype between those two: the dog is black and yellow striped.

The most interesting thing about brindle is that it's incredibly hard to test for. As this page says:

At the moment there is no commercial test available testing for brindle. Instead, KB/kbr, kbr/kbr or kbr/ky will all be reported as KB/ky since elements from both alleles are present; kbr orignated from a recombination event between a KB and a ky allele. So the brindle allele essentially is a duplication of the K-Locus on one chromosome.

So seems like here happened something like what we were talking about! Once, a long time ago, there was a crossover exactly on the K gene.

Hotot and broken dutch

Rabbits have two types of white spotting: english and dutch. These are two very tightly linked genes (or maybe even both are mutations of the KIT gene), with a very low crossover rate. (This article says 1%. For not linked genes the rate is 50%.)

(Dutch has two alleles, dark dutch (dud) and white dutch (duw). Dark gives generally less, white more white.)

Hotot is a rare, desired pattern that is the combination of (usually homozygous) english spotting and (usually homozygous) white dutch spotting (EnEn duwduw). Breeding hotots is considered very difficult because of rarity of the english-dutch crossover.

If there are less white spotting alleles present, the pattern can become a broken dutch:

[report-rqs]

Still setting shit up but this is my sideblog for some specific things:

Collecting sourced receipts of radqueers/their supporters sui baiting, encouraging undeniable IRL* attraction to children/animals/corpses, producing/distributing CP, and anything similar to that

Writing tutorials for how you can report people who post these things to the appropriate legal channels

Posting well-written resources relating to how radqueers harm people

Basically, I'm tired of the way Tumblr/Discord/DeviantArt/etc can make it hard to get rid of radqueers and I feel the only way to eliminate these predators' access to the internet is to go straight to the appropriate legal channels. Please feel free to @ my URL in any posts with receipts but please know that actual Tumblr posts or web archived links are very preferred over screenshots.

*I'm noting "IRL" here because so many people think that fictional child sexual abuse material is perfectly fine, although I would like to note that I do not support/endorse "fictional CSAM" and it is recognized as being equally harmful to IRL CSAM/CP by places like MissingKids.com (organizations dedicated to stopping child abuse). But I'm not dedicating this space to arguing about that, so don't send me asks or w/e about it.

To all radqueers who are considering leaving the community: There is a safe space for you in the anti-radqueer community. Radqueers are not the only ones who will accept you. You can find a better place to feel safe. This is a safe space for you.

My to do list and some tags/links you might find useful are underneath the cut:

Write a step by step tutorial on how to report online content listed above to https://report.cybertip.org/ and the other websites I have

Make sure to include somewhere in my guides why it's wrong to sui bait or generally interact with RQs

Tags:

general receipts tag | radqueer flags | emoji codes (dedicated Carrd) radqueers being pro harassment | radqueers sui baiting | radqueers sexually harassing (anti radqueers) | radqueers telling others their trauma doesn't matter radqueers encouraging/producing/posting CSAM | radqueers encouraging/being in inc*st relationships | radqueers encouraging sexual assault | radqueers encouraging adult/minor IRL relationships radqueers encouraging zoophilia | radqueers encouraging sh radqueers being racist | radqueers being ableist | radqueers disrespecting IRL celebrities strange radqueer labels what the law says positivity for former/leaving radqueers IMPORTANT LINKS: My guide: Stop debating with radqueers, report them to the cybertip hotline Archive.org (extension), Archive.is (extension) (another extension) Cybertip.org Ic3.gov Iwf.org.uk Tips.fbi

[harperd]

I probably should've done this ages ago, but here is a little master post about me!

I am fairly new to tumblr and tumblr etiquette/culture, so please me patient with me when it comes to things that generally fly over my head!

My name is Angel/Harper

Please use They/Them on me!

I speak English, Lithuanian, and Norwegian!

I post mostly art or short rambles, I'm a very passionate person! Sometimes I link some ao3 drabbles I've written, I've been writing for around 3-4 years so far and it's a little hobby of mine.

My main interests: (Main highlighted)

-Fullmetal alchemist (Of its entirety)

-Homestuck

-Undertale

-Radiation (in general but I do love researching nuclear warfare and Chernobyl the most.)

-Old quirky visual novels

-Pathologic (I have both games.)

-Fear and Hunger (Both, but I only own Termina sadly.)

-Dinosaurs (The BIG one in terms of interests)

-Code Geass

Some side interests that don't really pop up too often

-I've seen over 150 animes, so if you tell me a reccomendation I've probably already seen it.

-You And Me And Her

-Subahibi

-Ultrakill

-Project Zomboid

-Bluey

-Kekkai Sensen

-Animals (Specifically felines)

-FNAF (Fan games to be precise)

And a lot more..

Dni list:

-Basic criteria

-Proshippers

>.>

As stated previously I am a very passionate person, I do not mesh well with people who are unable to handle my rambling or ranting, I've gotten a lot of negative reactions previously because of my passionately fueled rambles, I type with A LOT of emotion and that certainly doesn't get me a lot of nice comments from other people on more mainstream media sites. If it's possible, do not reply if you have nothing nice to say to me. This does not mean to not reply if you have a different opinion, please go ahead! Just don't mock me for being too emotional or that I get riled up easily.

This is a multifandom blog I just post art or drabbles of all my interests

Thanks for reading!! <3

[steviewashere]

One of my biggest (and admittedly nerdier) fascinations/special interests is lost media. Doesn't matter the type of media; it could be a TV show, animated children's movie, a commercial that premiered once and was subsequently vaulted, a religious show on a local public broadcasting channel, a misprint copy of a book, etc. etc.

I just love it all. Anyway. I want to share a lost media thing of my own that I remember interacting with at one point in my childhood, but has little to no attention on it. More on it below the cut, if you're interested.

If you were a kid (fuck it, any age) in the late '90s and into the 2000s/early 2010s specifically, you might've had one of these:

This is a Baby Bottle Pop. They are a sucker/sugar combo candy. Basically acting similar to FunDip; you suck on the lollipop top (the part that looks like the nipple for a baby bottle) and then dip it inside the bottle, where there's flavored sugar. Typically, the sugar is flavored something like strawberry or blue raspberry, something fruity. These are still produced; although, I haven't seen them on a grocery store shelf in years—seems like they're sold at special confectionary stores in malls now, like Lolli & Pops, but I haven't seen them next to Kit-Kats at the checkout stand since I was a kid.

Anyway.

Back in the early 2010s, Baby Bottle Pop had this promotional thing going on. Where, if you bought one of these candies, you'd be given an exclusive online code. (The cultural zeitgeist of late 2000s/early 2010s internet.) The online code gave you access to this MMO game, much like other exclusive online codes on products at the time—functionally similar to Webkinz, though you weren't redeeming a virtual pet to take care of.

You'd make an account via Baby Bottle Pop's website, babybottlepop.com, once you had access to the code. You needed a code from a purchased product in order to get in. (If the product wasn't purchased and you tried to use the code, it would be immediately invalidated as it hadn't been activated. Y'know, think of it as an inactive gift card). (Also, this is what really separated BBP's MMO from other advertised children's MMOs. Webkinz, you didn't have to purchase a pet in order to play, but it was cooler if you did. BBP required that you purchased a product or you couldn't play. Shitty, I know.)

Once in the game, you'd design an avatar that looked exactly like a baby, and then you'd have access to mini games, other player's avatars, and a point and click free roam world (highly similar to how Club Penguin functioned).

There is one commercial that I found from the Baby Bottle Pop campaign I'm thinking of. It's circa 2012, advertising the candy (of course) and then telling you that if you redeemed the code given to you, you could make what they called a "Crazy Baby."

That's it. It's a fifteen second commercial. The live action kids turn into Crazy Baby counterparts, the art style similar to that of the game. Featuring them complimenting each other on the way they eat their Baby Bottle Pops.

And, also, I don't even know if this commercial is advertising the MMO. It could just be advertising the exclusivity of making an online avatar. This commercial mentions nothing about roaming around a virtual world and making friends with other Crazy Baby players. But since it advertises something that could be similar or even exact to what I'm talking about, I'm bringing it up.

The only things I've found that mention or are on the same lines as this game/avatar creation are one article from 2008 (when the website first launched, I'm assuming?), this commercial, a post made on the r/LostMedia subreddit, and a singular twenty-five minute YouTube gameplay video.

Speaking of the gameplay video, it's from user, Crawler929. It's the only gameplay video I found. It's the only one other people have even mentioned. And while I'm a little skeptical of the commercial I linked, it's worth noting that this gameplay video and that commercial are from the same year, 2012. It's highly likely that those things are connected. Though, there was a promo campaign for another online game called Baby Bottle Pop Message in a Bottle from the late 2000s—probably 2009, as that is the posting year from the person who shared it. (And considering how the main child actress looks similar to Hannah Montana, the character from the show of the same name that was on air at the time, this year could be accurate).

Visiting the BBP website on the Internet Archive via the Wayback Machine is basically one huge error. You'll reach a turquoise and orange-accented screen with a load up bar with the word "Ruffle" on it, and then be met with a black screen. Scrolling up and down on the black screen leads you nowhere, it's basically just a void.

There's nothing else. No other part of this MMO shows up on the internet. The original site no longer exists, now replaced with something called Candy Mania. I'm assuming BBP is owned by the same company or is made by the same manufacturer as Push Pop, as Push Pop has a game on this site. BBP, though? There's barely anything, possibly nothing.

Honestly, I just wanted to share this because it's kinda crazy and kinda sad that stuff like this is just gone. But it's worth saying, too, that this game will most likely never exist again or be resurfaced. Games like this made for promotional events for products never last. They're around for like a year and then get shut down when the event is over. It's sad, but true.

These games also don't have the same sort of fanbases as other big MMOs for kids did at the time. They won't be remade like Club Penguin, ToonTown, or even The Pirates of The Caribbean Online were. Lost to time and also conglomerate company greed.

Anyway, this is just some nerd stuff that I'm into. And I have so many other lost media stories that I like talking about, but this is the only one that I actually have ever interacted with. A game I never thought I'd lose.

Protect all media types and archives, as you never know what could become lost media next.