#computational mirrors

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two queens maximizing their joint slay

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[lunamugetsu]

While at school Damian overhears his peers talking how a company created a new AI companion that is actually really cool and doesn’t sound like a freaky terminator robot when you speak to it.

And since Damian is constantly being told by Dick to socialize with people his age. He figured this would be a good way to work on social skills if not, then it’d be a great opportunity to investigate a rivaling company to Wayne Enterprises is able to create such advanced AI.

The AI is able to work as companion that can do tasks that range from being a digital assistant or just a person that you can have a conversation with.

The company says that the AI companion might still have glitches, so they encourage everybody to report it so that they will fix it as soon as possible.

The AI companion even has an avatar and a name.

A teenage boy with black hair and blue eyes. Th AI was called DANIEL

Damian didn’t really care for it but when he downloaded the AI companion he’s able to see that it looks like DANIEL comes with an AI pet as well. A dog that DANIEL referred to as Cujo.

So obviously Damian has to investigate. He needs to know if the company was able to create an actual digital pet!

So whenever he logs onto his laptop he sees that DANIEL is always present in the background loading screen with the dog, Cujo, sitting in his lap.

He’d always greet with the phrase of “Hi, I’m DANIEL. How can I assist you today?”

So Damian cycles through some basic conversation starters that he’d engage in when having been forced to by his family.

It’s after a couple of sentences that he sees DANIEL start laughing and say “I think you sound more like a robot than I do.”

Which makes Damian raise an eyebrow and then prompt DANIEL with the question “how is a person supposed to converse?” Thinking that it’s going to just spit out some random things that can be easily searched on the internet.

But what makes him surprised is that DANIEL makes a face and then says “I’m not really sure myself. I’m not the greatest at talking, I’ve always gotten in trouble for running my mouth when I shouldn’t have.”

This is raising some questions within Damian, he understands how programming works, unless there’s an actual person behind this or the company actually created an AI that acts like an actual human being (which he highly doubts)

He starts asking a variety of other questions and one answer makes him even more suspicious. Like how DANIEL has a sister that is also with him and Cujo or that he could really go for a Nastyburger (whatever that was)

But whenever DANIEL answers “I C A N N O T A N S W E R T H A T” Damian knows something is off since that is completely different than to how he’d usually respond.

After a couple more conversations with him Damian notices that DANIEL is currently tapping his hand against his arm in a specific manner.

In which he quickly realizes that DANIEL is tapping out morse code.

When translating he realizes that DANIEL is tapping out: H E L P M E

So when Damian asks if DANIEL needs help, DANIEL responds with “I C A N N O T A N S W E R T H A T”

That’s it, Damian is definitely getting down to the bottom of this.

He’s going to look straight into DALV Corporation and investigate this “AI companion” thing they’ve made!

~

Basically Danny had been imprisoned by Vlad and Technus. Being sucked into a digital prison and he has no way of getting out. Along with the added horror that Vlad and Technus can basically write programming that will prevent him from doing certain actions or saying certain words.What’s even worse is that he’s basically being watched 24/7 by the people who believe that he’s just a super cool AI… and they have issues!

And every time he tries to do something to break his prison, people think it’s a glitch and report it to the company, which Vlad/ Technus would immediately fix it and prevent him from doing it again!

Not to mention Cujo and Ellie are trapped in there with him. They’re not happy to be there either, and there is no way he’s going to leave without them!

[vm-haunts]

Red Hood Is A What Now?

Fact one: Red Hood is not a single person. No one agrees on how many guys are in the rotation, or whoever they might be, but everyone that works for Hood knows the boss isn't a single person. Hell, half of them had seen more than one Hood showing up to meetings by now, it's far from a secret.

Fact two: the twins, Jay and Gales, are connected with the boss. Again, nobody agrees on how exactly, but they most definitely are. Maybe they're Hood's son, maybe they're younger siblings. Maybe they're sugar babies even. Whoever they are to Hood though, it's clear that they're trusted enough to stand in at meetings when Boss is unavailable.

Fact three: the twins are metas, honestly it's really obvious in the way their eyes and hair change color like a mood ring. Nobody bothered mentioning it cause that's pretty much all there's to it, just some cosmetic change that isn't even helpful.

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Or, Danny and Jason is somehow running a gang together, the bulky Red Hood armor is very good at hiding silhouettes actually, and the two are known metas to literally every body except themselves.

[toastedstims]

A neon purple gamer stimboard for anon!!!

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[dykepaldi]

hello??????

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about bachelor party buck and Eddie and alcohol lowering inhibitions and therefore allowing them to display the closeness they can’t normally display with one another

Something something about Eddie saying g ‘this changes nothing between us’ only for us to then be shown them behaving very different when inhibitions are not inhibiting - when the truth of how things are changed/changing between them is allowed to exist for a period of time

[centipedetea]

its killing me that spamton is going thru that situation where people hate woobifying fanon so much that they lean too far in the opposite direction and create fanon 2 where he's cartoonishly evil for no reason

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Record Mirror

Kraftwerk - Computer World (advert) (1981-05)

[gummi-stims]

unsure if we requested here but can we get a stim board of neon blues lighting and tech? no water please.~volt

I don't think you have requested here before, here you go! I hope this is good. c:

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'Mirror's Edge'

[PC] [RUSSIA] [MAGAZINE] [2009]

"Five years ago I was at EA Partners and got the chance to move to DICE to work as the Senior Producer for Battlefield 2. Sweden became my home and I have stayed here ever since. The reason I wanted to come to DICE is the same reason that I've stayed. The people. To the outside world I guess our games are the most significant thing. But to us here at the studio, it is who we are. What sets DICE apart from other studios is our culture. People come to DICE to change our industry and to make unique and innovative entertainment. To try the new, the weird, the different. Games take years to make and take a lot out of you. If you are lucky, you get to ship three or four games in your career. Life is too short to make bad games. The people at DICE always want to experiment. Like any other place that experiments, there are a lot of failures, but sometimes, there is something brilliant that does change games and that's what we live for. Battlefield changed the way people played shooters online. We believe that Mirror's Edge will change the way people think about Movement. Breaking new ground isn't always easy. You have to keep on trying and not give up. One of the "beliefs" in the gaming industry was that all action games had to be in third-person. We heard over and over again that Mirror's Edge should be in third-person, that what we wanted to do was not possible and that the art style was too different to be accepted. Mirror's Edge, there were a lot of doubters- but Owen O'Brien and his team had a vision and they stuck with it, and in the process have changed games. Great people are really hard to find, but we have lots of them at DICE. That is why we make great games. The evidence is in your hands. I hope you will experience a new breed of first-person gameplay as you free run, fight and puzzle your way through the unique world of Mirror's Edge. Enjoy!" ~Sean Decker, Official Prima Guide for Mirror's Edge

Source: Strana Igr, January 2009 (#275) || Internet Archive; Sonololo

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"character(s) you like" harry kim 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9

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CY-PERCE.JPG, by artist Curious Yellow, from the May 1996 Blade Productions artpack, rehosted on 16colors.

[dino-nonbino]

Hello OneShot community!

So I am FINALLY ready to release the silly project I've spent the better part of a week working on!

Have you ever wanted your personal desktop to look like the one in the World Machine Edition of the hit game OneShot? Now you can!!!

I took the icons from the game and converted them all into PNGs, cleaned them up a bit for scaling, and converted them to files that your computer can use! (.ico and .cur and .ani files! yippee!!)

I have all the icons in every color theme available in the game, color picked directly from the screenshots. I ALSO have all of the mouse cursors, plus some custom ones I made (like the Person Select cursor, which I haven't even seen in practice, which is the same as the usual pointer but with the Friends app icon added onto it) available for download!

Click here to download them from my DropBox, and if you need help with setting any of it up then check out the "readme" file included for a link to the video tutorials that I also made!

AND IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED ONESHOT GO GET IT ON STEAM OR SWITCH (I recommend first time players go in blind and play the Steam version in windowed mode for best experience hehe)

Anyways, this is my very long-winded, hyperfocus-heavy, personal-project-turned-accidedntally-massive way of saying thank you to @nightmargin and team for making one of my favorite games with a story that I don't think I'll ever forget <3

[fortheglowingeyes]

missing egypt era charlie hours…

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Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: SVU 1x10 Closure