#detective chopper poll

[detective-chopper]

Welcome to All to the Blog of a mini-project series known as Detective Chopper’s Play!

In this au the audience’s choices and voices is needed! So be on the look out for when a poll for options is done, because it may lead to route changing effects in the stories to come!

This au takes inspiration from various medias from the Murder mystery, Horror, and Visual novel genres, so you’ll find yourselves in a familiar environment :]

I hope you’ll all be there when the first part is posted…

[moonelnone]

LUFFY WANTS TO FLY A KITE AU QnA!!! Thank you for supporting my mini comic, as a ty I compiled a bunch of questions below.!

it’s a long one, so beware!

Q (Anonymous): What inspired you to write this comic? Outside the horrors what are you trying to tell?

A: Inspiration would probably be the frequent hallucinations I have and my longing to go back in the fields... I miss my cows 😭 As for the story i’m trying to tell.. It’s a bit hard to explain without spoiling the story….

Q: (@oddity-txt): For your kite au- what do ace and sabo see when they look at luffy?

A: Clearly something that isn't Luffy, but it looks like Luffy

Q: (Anonymous): Since Vivi is introduced would she play a key role or would she appear for like just a few parts, would she have a blog like Sabo?

A: She's important to the story!! She's child of the pastor in this au-- Sabo and Ace used to be Altar servers for his church so they have history of working with her before... As for a blog.. No not really. Though if you look close enough you'll find that you can contact Vivi just before the events of the story to pry information.. But unfortunately whatever happens to her is set in stone •ᴗ• Q: (@washingmachineonfir ): Can you elaborate in religion topic in the city? About the house, why its like this? How many kids disappear?

A: The religion in ASL's neighborhood is simple, you know it already. Now about the house? You don't wanna know. As for the kids... hm.. Depends on how many kids can fill a school bus Q: (@courtroomac3): Hi

A: Get outta here boy Q: White boy Flavor of the month...

A: idk Q: (@humoofsegsual) Is there a possible ending in which everyone dies?

A: nods nods, when that happens everything disappears . Don't forget to say goodbye before it happens!!!! Q: (@plastirk): What kinds of trigger warnings are we gonna see?

A: everything in this list

Q: (Anonymous): Why does Nika go after Ace and Sabo?

A: Because Luffy wants to be with them . But Nika doesn’t want to let go of Luffy.

Q: (Anonymous): Does Nika hate Ace and Sabo?? all their interactions with them are with malice 😭

A: I wouldn’t say malice I suppose… I’d say maybe frustration?

Q: (Anonymous): Where are other characters in this? Like Garp, Dragon, and etc

A: They’re living their normal lives somewhere else!! Koby and Helmeppo are employees at the store Sabo often goes to. Vivi is a librarian, her father is a priest in the town’s church, she met Ace and Sabo a lot because they were altar servers back then! Law is one of the brothers’ neighbors, he frequently leaves though. (Copy pasted from my discord)

Q: (Anonymous): Is it true that one of the brothers might die ☹️

A: . Yes! Im cheering for their downfall! but you guys aren’t 😞

Q: (Anonymous): Are ASL biologically related here?

A: …No

Q: (Anonymous): What does the kite have to do with this au?

A: It’s something Luffy owns!!!! Don’t worry about it too much ;]

Q: (Anonymous): Is there a symbolism with the ghost costume? It makes me wonder what was it for other than to scare A and S

A: It’s by far the biggest hint in the first part 😵‍💫 I wonder if anyone caught it at first

Q: (Anonymous): Are Luffy’s friends going to appear? (Zoro, Nami, Sanji, and Ussop?)

A: mhm! You’ll see one or two of them sooner or later

Q: (Anonymous): What wouldve happened if we chose the other option in the first two parts?

A: The first poll would’ve decided on who runs the ‘blog’ ^w^!!

the one who wasn’t pick was cursed to run a tumblr blog lmao

Last Question:

Q: (Anonymous): Why are Luffy’s friends here if Nika just wanted him?

A: Luffy treasures his friends.!!

Bonus:

Q: (Anonymous): Will Detective Chopper have the same horror elements as the Kite au?

A: Yeah, but I suppose it’s more drama oriented

[the-babygirl-polls]

Babygirl Polls Lineup: Week One

Hello everyone! Here we have the lineup for the first week of the Babygirl Polls! Thank you so much for all your submissions!

Klarion Bleak (Young Justice)

Dante Sparda (Devil May Cry)

Ace Ukiyo (Kamen Rider: Geats)

Bro Strider (Homestuck)

Michael Schmidt (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Cole Brew (Rhythm Doctor)

Peppino Spaghetti (Pizza Tower)

Negan (The Walking Dead)

Todd (Not Me: The Series)

Dan (Not Me: The Series)

Sound (My School President)

Nuengdiao (Never Let Me Go)

Adolin Kholin (The Stormlight Archive)

Xue Yang (The Untamed)

Aaron Warner (Shatter Me)

Jean Descole (Professor Layton)

Curt Mega (Spies are Forever)

Klavier Gavin (Ace Attorney)

Ghost (Call of Duty)

Emperor Belos/Phillip Wittebane (The Owl House)

Wen Kexing (Word of Honor)

Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

Taichi Hiraga-Keaton (Master Keaton)

Akk Pipitphattana (The Eclipse)

Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Bruce Wayne/Batman (The Batman (2022))

Kenzo Tenma (Naoki Urasawa's Monster)

Jason Todd/Red Hood (DC)

Usami Tokishige (Golden Kamuy)

Char Aznable (Mobile Suit Gundam)

Harry Du Bois (Disco Elysium)

Vegas (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Barry the Chopper (Full Metal Alchemist)

Khatha (Midnight Museum)

Ronald Lynch (Home Movies)

Ballister Boldheart (Nimona)

Rex Dangervest (The Lego Movies)

Emmett Brickowski (The Lego Movies)

Knife (Inanimate Insanity)

Nickel (Inanimate Insanity)

Balloon (Inanimate Insanity)

Nona (Locked Tomb Series)

Laudna (Critical Role)

Ryu Suyeol (Bad and Crazy)

Paul Matthews (Hatchetfield)

Gregory House (House MD)

Ingo (Pokemon)

L (Death Note)

Elijah Volkov (Camp Here and There)

Kevin (Welcome to Night Vale)

Yuma Kokohead (Master Detective Archive: Raincode)

Alex Horne (Taskmaster)

Vash the Stampede (Trigun, Trigun Maximum, and Trigun Stampede)

Greg Davies (Taskmaster)

Byron (Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum)

Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat 1)

Garry (IB)

Homelander (The Boys)

Cardan Greenbriar (The Folk of The Air Trilogy)

Omega (Mega Man Zero)

Clive Rosfield (Final Fantasy 16)

Cassian Andor (Star Wars)

Ted Spankoffski (Hatchetfield)

Tang (Lego Monkey Kid)

Tomura Sigaraki (My Hero Academia)

Liam de Lioncourt (Monster Prom)

Matthew Patel (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off)

Ethan Winters (Resident Evil)

Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

Waver Velvet/Lord El Melloi II (Fate Series)

Dave (Dave and Bambi)

Yoo Joonghyuk (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

Akira Nishikiyama (Yakuza/Like A Dragon)

Eddie Diaz (9-1-1)

Simon Petrikov (Adventure Time and Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake)

Sanji (One Piece)

Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug

Romeo Montague (& Juliet)

Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

Lance Dubois (& Juliet)

Francois Dubois (& Juliet)

William Shakespeare (& Juliet)

Chesed (Lobotomy Corporation)

Cesare (Bigtop Burger)

Morris (Stardew Valley)

Kinger (The Amazing Digital Circus)

Estinien Varlineau (Final Fantasy XIV)

Frederick Chilton (Hannibal)

Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil)

Jaskier (The Witcher)

Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Radovid (The Witcher)

Trafalgar Law (One Piece)

Zagreus (Hades)

Shadow The Hedgehog (Sonic)

Sepiroth (Final Fantasy)

Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)

Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Reverend Rod Putty (Moral Orel)

[wackyrumble]

ENTER: SOME WILD WACKY GUYS

(competitors are also listed under the read more)

Round 1 polls begin on Saturday, 12 pm PST

it’ll be starting with the left side, and then the right side the day after (sunday, 12 pm)

it was tough, but i did my best to select the most absurd competitors. may the wackiest guys win.

and a reminder before the polls start, be a good sport! characters can and will be subject to disqualification if people get honest to god riled up over them. it's perfectly fine to be passionate, just remember to behave! let's all have a fun silly time

Left Side:

Joseph Coyne/Penny Plunderer (DC Comics)

Kosane Kiriha (Null Magical Girl)

Barry the Chopper (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Ik (The Upturned)

Mort (All Hail King Julien)

Sin Kiske (Guilty Gear series)

The☆Lukeman (Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens)

Roommate/The Comedian (Diary of a Tourney Kid)

Ballast McGee (Thrilling Intent)

San Marino (Real life)

Zaphod Beeblebrox (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Van Gogh (Fate)

Humphrey (Omori)

Johnny C. (Johnny the Homocidal Maniac)

Charisma House

Fusakin (MARIKINonline4)

Right Side:

Turnip Boy (Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion)

Ena

Momoi Taro (Avataro Sentai Donbrothers)

Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine)

Isaac & Miria (Baccano!)

Sheogorath (The Elder Scrolls)

Mukuro Rokudo (Katekyo Hitman Reborn)

The Ellimist (Animorphs)

Beloved Website Puppet Alpha (Crow Cillers)

Donkey Kong (Punch Out!! Wii)

Hildibrand Helidor Maximillian Manderville (Final Fantasy XIV)

Peter Sqliont (Just Roll With It Apotheosis)

Elizabeth (Gintama)

Tom Bombadli (Lord of the Rings)

Conan Edogawa/Kudo Shinichi (Detective Conan)

Howard the Duck (Marvel)

[raddest-hat-showdown]

Raddest Hat Redemption Round 2

Click here for Losers round 1 bracket post

Click here for the Major bracket's round 6 bracket

Finals and the poll for 3rd place will be posted May 4th 10am EST. Loser's round 2 will start 1 day after that. See below for matchups

Losers round 2 Side 1

Polls start 05/05 10am EST

Professor Layton vs Jezaille Brett

Rat God vs Charon

The Good Hunter vs Metallia The Swamp Witch

Guinan vs Greg

Losers round 2 Side 2

Tony Tony Chopper vs Puss in Boots

Polls start 05/06 10am EST

Issun vs Captain Hook

TF2 Mercs vs Go Dog Go

Ranni vs Big Hat Logan

Loser's round 2 side 3

Polls start 05/07 10am EST

Link's Rubber Helm vs Rincewind

Impa vs Rennala

Cassidy vs Link and Ezlo

Detective Rama vs Gabdalf

I won't be posting the Loser's bracket updates for round 3/4/5. In order for the finals to end on the same day, the polls for each round will be back to back to back, so there won't be time to update this. Just a heads up!

[xtsundere-princess]

Facts & Trivia About Brook

Brook's birthday, April 3, comes from his Devil Fruit's name since 4-3 can be derived from yo-mi.

Brook is the oldest member of the Straw Hats, being 88 years old when he joins them, over twice the age of the next-oldest member at the time Franky.

Brook is one of two Straw Hats that was a captain of his pirate crew, the other being Jinbe.

Brook's height and age before the timeskip, 8'8" and 88 years old, could be related to the usual number of keys on a piano, 88.

Before Brook fulfilled the position of musician, there was a running gag of the need for the position to be filled that was always being brought up by Luffy during important meetings with his crew on who should join next. Whenever the Straw Hats hold a serious meeting about a situation they are in that might require the addition of a new crew member with skills to aid in that situation, or anything similar like that, Luffy would always bring up the need of getting a musician. His reasoning is that pirates love to sing and a musician is essential to a pirate crew. Luffy's request however would always be turned down by his crew for more practical solutions to the situation.

Since the introduction of Brook's bounty, there was speculation of whether his 33,000,000 bounty was active or not. In Chapter 600, Marines declared that his bounty was still active, thus ending the speculation.

Brook's unique Laughter Style of "Yoho" is a stereotypical pirate line commonly found in various pirate related pop culture. It originates from “Dead Man's Chest”, the sea shanty from the book Treasure Island.

In the 6th Japanese Fan Poll, he ranked 19th.

Brook is the only known person to have a wanted poster that is not formatted in the uniform style, instead the World Government used one of his old concert posters, and added the standard "WANTED" and "Dead or Alive", and replaced the "World Tour" with his bounty and the paragraph at the bottom.

Brook's model sheets in TOEI are named "Blook".

The idea of a skeleton musician was first conceived by Oda in the year 2000.

In One Piece Blue Deep: Characters World, Brook's post-timeskip height is said to be 277 cm, 11 cm taller than his pre-timeskip height. This appears to contradict what he said during his fight with Ryuma; that it was important for him to protect his afro because his body had stopped growing.

Brook's favorite food is curry. His least favorite food is lemons because he has no cheeks to make a sour face.

Brook also likes ice cream, the same as Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, and Robin.

Brook's favorite dish to cook is churrasco.

Brook's favorite type of island and season is autumn on a spring island.

Brook smells like tea.

If the Straw Hat Pirates were a family, then Brook would be the grandfather.

If One Piece was set in the real world, then Brook would be from Austria.

Brook's thoughts are "Panties, Joke, Laugh, Tea, Tea", and like the rest of the Straw Hats, "Friendship".

When asked which flower Brook resembles the most, Nico Robin's Japanese voice actress replied he most resembles a rose.

Brook's blood type was X, the same as Nami and Chopper's when he was alive.

Brook bathes once a week, the same as Luffy and Zoro.

Brook represents the prefecture of Tottori.

Brook typically sleeps at 12:00 A.M. and wakes up at 5:00 A.M.

If the Straw Hat Pirates were not pirates, then Brook would be a detective.

If the Straw Hat Pirates had a 50-meter race, then Brook would come in first place and win. Oda clarifies that Brook win in a shorter distance race, because he is light in weight.

[puppyexpressions]

25 Fun Dog Facts

There are hundreds of official dog breeds in the world and even more mixes and mutts than we can count. Each dog has his own unique set of characteristics and personality. But one thing is certain – these loveable and wonderful companions are fascinating creatures.

Check out some of these interesting and far-out facts about dogs.

1. Is it a duck…or a dog? The Newfoundland breed has a water resistant coat and webbed feet. This dog was originally bred to help haul nets for fishermen and rescuing people at risk of drowning.

2. It pays to be a lap dog. Three dogs (from First Class cabins!) survived the sinking of the Titanic – two Pomeranians and one Pekingese.

3. A Beatles hit. It’s rumored that, at the end of the Beatles song, “A Day in the Life,” Paul McCartney recorded an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, just for his Shetland sheepdog.

4. Wow, check out those choppers! Puppies have 28 teeth and normal adult dogs have 42.

5. Chase that tail! Dogs chase their tails for a variety of reasons: curiosity, exercise, anxiety, predatory instinct or, they might have fleas! If your dog is chasing his tail excessively, talk with your vet.

6. Seeing spots? Or not… Dalmatian puppies are pure white when they are born and develop their spots as they grow older.

7. Dogs do dream! Dogs and humans have the same type of slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) and during this REM stage dogs can dream. The twitching and paw movements that occur during their sleep are signs that your pet is dreaming.

8. No night vision goggles needed! Dogs’ eyes contain a special membrane, called the tapetum lucidum, which allows them to see in the dark.

9. Pitter patter. A large breed dog’s resting heart beats between 60 and 100 times per minute, and a small dog breed’s heart beats between 100-140. Comparatively, a resting human heart beats 60-100 times per minute.

10. If your dog’s acting funny, get out the umbrella! According to a Petside.com/Associated Press poll, 72% of dog owners believe their dog can detect when stormy weather is on the way.

11. It’s not a fever…A dog’s normal temperature is between 101 and 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit. How much do you know about dog health? Take our Doggy First Aid Quiz!

12. Is something wet? Unlike humans who sweat everywhere, dogs only sweat through the pads of their feet.

13. Here’s looking at you. Dogs have three eyelids, an upper lid, a lower lid and the third lid, called a nictitating membrane or “haw,” which helps keep the eye moist and protected.

14. Americans love dogs! 62% of U.S. households own a pet, which equates to 72.9 million homes.

15. Move over Rover! 45% of dogs sleep in their owner’s bed (we’re pretty sure a large percentage also hog the blankets!)

16. Why are dogs’ noses so wet? Dogs’ noses secrete a thin layer of mucous that helps them absorb scent. They then lick their noses to sample the scent through their mouth.

17. Yummy! Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000 and cats have around 473.

18. Watch that plate of cookies! A Dog’s sense of smell is 10,000 – 100,000 times more acute as that of humans.

19. It’s not so black and white. It’s a myth that dogs only see in black and white. In fact, it’s believed that dogs see primarily in blue, greenish-yellow, yellow and various shades of gray.

20. Did you hear that? Sound frequency is measured in Hertz (Hz). The higher the Hertz, the higher-pitched the sound. Dogs hear best at 8,000 Hz, while humans hear best at around 2,000 Hz.

21. Express yourself. Dogs’ ears are extremely expressive. It’s no wonder! There are more than a dozen separate muscles that control a dog’s ear movements.

22. Growing up. While the Chow Chow dogs are well known for their distinctive blue-black tongues, they’re actually born with pink tongues. They turn blue-black at 8-10 weeks of age. 23. Why do they do that? When dogs kick after going to the bathroom, they are using the scent glands on their paws to further mark their territory.

24. No, it’s not just to make themselves look adorable. Dogs curl up in a ball when they sleep due to an age-old instinct to keep themselves warm and protect their abdomen and vital organs from predators.

25. Breathe easy. In addition to sweating through their paw pads, dogs pant to cool themselves off. A panting dog can take 300-400 breaths (compared to his regular 30-40) with very little effort.

[funkymeihem-fiction]

He Don’t Mean It - Chapter 4 (Meihem/Zaryahog)

(He Don’t Mean It won the fanfic polls by a few votes. So here’s the first update to the winner! Finally sat down and started finishing the rest of Chapter 4!)

***

“Mako, take care of yourself out there.” Those has been her exact words. She stood in the doorway, rocking the still-fussing bundle in one arm as the other reached up to loosely embrace him. He had assured her that he would, but could understand her worry. Tonight was the big night, after all. They had been losing ground steadily, but this night was going to change things. After months of planning, gathering supplies, avoiding detection, and calling in every favor from every corner of the Outback, they would finally strike back. They were going to reclaim their home. He had slipped on his pig mask once more. They wore the likenesses of animals; a combination of disguise, gasmask necessity, and (at least for him) a certain amount of suspicion that those animals might bring them luck. His fondness for pigs made that decision easy, although it had opened up an easy joke about his weight from the man who wore the dingo mask. A few gruff words and one blow of his massive fist had seen that nobody made that joke again. They called him Roadhog, or nothing at all. He should have kissed her before he left. Kissed them both. But he had had a lot on his mind. Instead he chose to focus, as he drove his chopper in the makeshift battle convoy they had put together so hastily. The electrical pulses from the fence had been easily disabled, the bolt cutters tore a path through the barbed wire, and when they were inside, Mako and the other enforcers of their band had made short work of the guard bots before they knew what hit them. He remembered thinking it was all going so well. They fanned out, just as planned, and the other group made their way deeper into the facility while they stayed to fight and block the way. Dingo had died in the first wave, but that had been expected. He had always been a bit of a fucker. But then Crocodile, Tas Devil, Lizard, Shark, Hawk, and others, he saw each of them fall one by one. He was going to radio it in, call for the retreat and regroup, but then… He remembered hearing a noise coming towards them. He had thought for one blissful, hopeful half-second, that the plan had worked. That despite everything they had sacrificed, the plan had worked and they had regained their homeland. That they had finally won. Then everything had turned white.

After that, all he could think of was that he should have kissed her. He’d left the others behind, no matter how they screamed for him to help them. Everything around and in him was burning, and he had to get back, had to make sure he could still kiss her, because he hadn’t had time before. The chopper beneath him was red-hot and painful to hold onto, but it had always gotten him where he needed to go, and this was no different. It bore him all the way home, all the way back to where the house was mostly collapsed and still smoldering on one side. His first instinct was to check the shelter below, throw open the doors and find them both there, afraid but happy to see him. But the chains on the cellar doors were still tied in place and had not been disturbed since when he’d left. So he made his way to the broken doorframe and pushed, heaved, and shattered until he was inside. Eventually he found them. The ceiling of the bedroom had collapsed, but had been propped up by the frame of the closet, leaving a little space between it and the mattress. She had always been quick and clever, and had tried to take shelter there, right by the overturned crib he’d built all those months ago. That was where he found what was left of her, recognizing the pattern from a tattered strip of her charred nightgown, wrapped around a body that was shrunken and red and black. She’d tried to turn her back on the white light, hunched protectively over the bundle in her arms. When he’d touched her, she had broken, and the inside of her sparkled with orange embers against gray. And when he tried to move the blanket-wrapped mass in her arms, ashes poured from the bottom, staining his hands. For days he simply sat there next to them, his head down, staring at his hands and nothing else. He couldn’t bear to look at their faces. Couldn’t see if they still had their faces. But as more of Mako rotted away, Roadhog remained, for lack of anything better to do with himself. The pig mask served its purpose, at least- it kept him alive and it covered his face. The pig face was all that mattered, anymore. He wore it always, aimlessly roaming the ruins of the tiny homestead, surviving off the food and water in the cellar. There had been more than enough for one person, after all. After the fires had stopped, the scavengers came. They came to desecrate his home and his territory, steal what was rightfully his. And sometimes at night, in the decrepit shelter beneath the house, he would wake up and hear them coming. He’d wake up, and things were dark and unfamiliar, but he could hear them, scrabbling and scraping like vermin, little unwary footsteps in the shadows, whispering between them. And he would get up, and go to kill them like he had killed all the rest. There had been two of them this time. A tall, lanky man missing some of his limbs (hardly unusual in the Outback), and the little squat woman that must have been his mate. The little fat one shrieked when he hurt her, in an amusing way that clearly affected the skinny man, and he thought that he should kill her in front of him. They had been clever, with traps and chains, but it had only slowed him down and delayed the inevitable. It was only when the other one had appeared…the woman with the pink hair, that he had been faced with an actual challenge. And Roadhog never backed down from a challenge… Not even when his head smashed into the concrete, and those strange thoughts had bubbled back up to the surface again. “Mako, take care of yourself out there.”

***

Roadhog awoke to the muffled sound of laughter…and this time, perhaps the only time he could remember in a long, long while, it wasn’t Junkrat’s laughter. “Hah! Haha! He fell down! Oooh!” It was a female voice, thickly accented, but it wasn’t Mei. He lifted his head, though it hurt to do so, and through the glass lenses of his mask, he could make out the blurry form sitting on his living room sofa. When he focused, the blurry form solidified into the pink-haired Russian woman. Why Zarya was sitting on his sofa, literally slapping her knee in laughter as the Japanese game show on the TV depicted two costumed men trying to race across an obstacle course covered in grease, he wasn’t at all sure. His head pounded, and he tried to move to cradle it. But he found his limbs unresponsive and unnaturally heavy, pinned to his sides due to the absolutely ridiculous amount of chains that draped over him, tying him to the column against his back. Struggling a bit against his bindings, he looked down and saw that both hands were thoroughly covered in blood and Junkrat’s missing golden tooth was laying on the floor a few feet away, glinting cheekily in the light in a shining puddle of red. Ah…Damn. “You are awake again?” Zarya took notice of his movements, lifting the remote to pause the gameshow. Twisting on the sofa, she scooted to the edge and sat with an irritatingly casual air, back slumped forward and her hands resting between her knees, just staring at him in a way he didn’t like at all. He didn’t bother asking what had happened. He knew what had happened, and only one question mattered. “Hmm…Where are they?” The question did not seem to impress her. Her eyes half-lidded at him and her lip curled to one side. “Ah, actually awake this time. And as for the others…They are away. After what you did.” She waited, still sneering, for his reaction. For a very long time he was silent, then simply grunted a low, “Good.” Zarya’s eyes narrowed further, and the scar on her forehead shifted as her brows furrowed. “Good? That is all you have to say?” “Mm,” he said in the affirmative. Judging by her words and tone, angry but not angry enough, both Junkrat and Mei were still alive. He’d gone back to that place again, where everything was still burning and where faces didn’t matter. And this time, it had been without warning. Usually there were little things to tell him it was coming; bad dreams, a tendency for his mind to wander, or a shortened temper as he felt the edges of his thoughts fraying more and more. But there had been a few times like this one; where he had simply woken up and not known where or when was. And it had happened again. For a moment he had wondered if he had killed them both. She stood, only to lean down over him. Roadhog, unused to having to look up to anyone, lifted his chin slowly and looked back. He had never paid the Russian much mind, just as he didn’t pay most people much mind. He knew that Junkrat hated her, that Mei liked her, that Zarya returned those feelings in kind, and that she was strong. He would never have guessed that she was strong enough to possibly beat him, but she was strong. He had always liked the brightness of her dyed hair and had once seen that she had a rare Pachimari keychain that he had considered stealing from her, for his collection. But with her looming over him, he began noticing other things about her; the scar across her forehead that must have nearly killed her, the bold stance with which she faced him as few could, and the incredible loathing in her gaze. Mostly he noticed that her eyes were green. Just like hers had been… “Give me a reason I should not hurt you like you hurt my friend, pig,” she said, voice low and almost gentle. Roadhog tensed slightly. He knew that kind of tone was always the most dangerous, and didn’t move as the woman curled her charmingly pink-nailed fingers slowly, into a fist. The outline of every knuckle could be felt as she brought it to rest lightly against his temple, the outline of her bones felt as sharply as the spiked metal he wore on his own knuckles. “Tell me why I should not hurt you. I know you can speak. Look at me and tell me.” The bound man said nothing, save for the low rattle of the air filters of his mask. His silence only seemed to frustrate the woman further, and he could feel the tremors of her knuckles as if they ached to rear back and strike, like the tension of a coiled serpent. But when she drew back, she did not punch him as expected, but went to grasp the edges of his mask and pull. Roadhog could feel the leather straps and buckles straining, threatening to give way as she snarled, “Look and tell me wh-” His vision blacked out again as he felt the mask slipping, reflexes firing as he reared back in what precious little space he had in his bound position, and then brought his head slamming forward. The swine’s forehead collided solidly with hers, their skulls both making a dully satisfying cracking noise as her legs went out from under her in her squatting position, falling hard onto her rear. She started to straighten, sitting in front of him as they faced off yet again, bringing her palm to her forehead and her green eyes alight with anger, but there was a low rumbling as he interrupted before she could say anything. “…Don’t.” He turned his face to the side as if trying not to look at her. The movement seemed to strike her as odd, and she hesitated briefly before her sneer returned. Her hands lifted as if she was going to make another go for his mask, concussions be damned. “You think I am afraid to look at the face of a murderer?” “No,” he grunted, and kept his masked visage down. “Don’t.” “Then…you are the one afraid. To show your face.” He did not answer. The way she was looking at him was still far from kind, wary and calculating, voice still low. “I do not know your face…but I already know who you are, Mako Rutledge. Mako Rutledge, the Roadhog. Jamison Fawkes, the Junkrat. We know you cause trouble for the police in Britain, Oasis, Numbani, Egypt, many more…And we were ready for you to try for the jewels in Moscow, we know when you were going t-” “No.” She looked at him. “What? Do not lie to me, pig. We know of the documents showing you were en route to Moscow. The historical czar jewelry collection is famed all over the world! We know you were both-” “Never was headed for Russia. He doesn’t like the cold. Hm. Russians has always been paranoid.” Roadhog shrugged before his head tilted up slowly, his mask a bit lopsided and only able to see from one lens. The woman tried to hide it, but he saw the way her lips thinned, clearly displeased at his answer. Not only the accusation of national paranoia, but the suggestion that the junkers hadn’t even bothered with Russia on their worldwide crime spree had perhaps stung her a bit. She lifted her chin, no doubt about to accost him further or proclaim that she didn’t believe it, but he interrupted her. “Where are they.” She folded her arms, but finally answered him truthfully. “Your junkman chased after Mei to the barracks. No doubt she’ll report it to someone there. Hopefully they get medical treatment too. You hurt them both, pig.” “…Bad?” “Bad.” “Hm,” he grunted, and rested back against the pillar once more. Zarya waited, then scowled when he once again showed no sign of response. Not an ounce of remorse or concern for his so-called friends, it seemed, not even after being told that he had hurt them both. Snorting derisively through both nostrils, she rested her hands on both knees before lifting upright, moving back to her spot on the couch. “They’ll be here soon to kick you out. And punish me.” “Why.” She paused with the remote half-lifted. “Why?! After what you have done to Mei! Your Rat Man, well, that is nothing new. But even then, you are a liability to the team, hurting them when you should h-” “Why would you be punished.” She paused a little at that before frowning and turning back to the television, clicking it on. The gameshow contestants began their newest jaunt across the grease-covered course and she tried to ignore the beastly man that was still staring at her. He was so tall that even sitting on the ground, he was almost as tall as she was, sitting on the couch. And he was just there, looming as ever, silent, and watching her, and waiting on her answer, with those irritating filters grinding away…breathing in, breathing out, breathing in… One of the women on TV, dressed in a yellow ducky tutu, fell off the greased pole and into the mud below. Zarya tried to focus her attention on that, even as her mouth moved. “Reprimanded. For knowing about what you have been beating and hurting the Rat Man for months when you are out of control. And…” Mei’s bloody, angry face flashed through her mind, along with a wave of guilt. “…I knew, and did nothing.” The grind of the air filters continued, and she hated it. Roadhog merely nodded slowly, and uttered another low, “Mm…” For a while they sat there, tension palpable from her end, while Roadhog remained inscrutable as ever. The gameshow continued to play, though she only half watched it with a far-away look in her green eyes. She barely noticed when the enormous junker began shifting slightly. But she certainly took notice a few moments later, when there was a creaking noise, a few metallic clinks, and then the lengths of chain that had been draped all around him began to drop away, snaking down his bulging arms and belly as they all shuffled towards the ground. Before she could even react, starting to rise off the couch, Roadhog was already painstakingly hefting himself to stand, shedding more and more chains into a pile looped around his spiked boots. “А, подожди-ка!” Zarya was on her feet within moments, both fists raised and aggression sharpening her every feature as she took up her stance to face him. “How did you get loose!” But Roadhog merely tilted his masked head, then leaned down to reach into the red puddle a few feet away, delicately pinching two fingers together to pick up Junkrat’s missing gold tooth. Holding it up to one of his lenses for inspection, he carefully wiped it on the side of his dirty pants, before tucking it into his pocket. “…Rat always ties them in the same spot. Keep telling him not to. But he doesn’t remember.” He stepped over the discarded mounds of chain, watching impassively as the Russian took a careful step back. Zarya did not relax for a moment, not even when he moved to the other side of the couch from her and sat down again. The poor furniture creaked under his weight, and she thought she saw her once-seat start to lift into the air as its opposite end sank into the ground. “…It’s a good show,” Roadhog said. He sat with his arms between his spread knees, posture slumped and far from aggressive. The man seemed docile enough and was back in his usual state of mind (mysterious as that was to begin with), though Zarya shot him another warning look before sitting back down as well. She weighed nowhere near as much as the massive junker, but more than both Junkrat and Mei combined, almost all of which was solid muscle. The couch positively groaned at the strain as it tried to support them both, sitting at opposite ends and giving each other wary glances. Another episode of the gameshow started up and Zarya tried to focus her attention on that, occasionally looking at the time on the bottom of the screen. Mei should have roused the whole base against them by now, or Junkrat had distracted her in some way. Why had the inevitable not come crashing down upon her yet? Apparently Hog wondered the same thing, lifting his chin towards the door and grumbling a low, “Mmm?” Zarya shrugged. “I do not know. The Rat Man went after Mei and did not come back. Either he is saying sorry, or he is trying to kidnap her and I will have to break his face even more.” Roadhog glanced down to where he felt the jagged protrusion through the cloth of his pocket. Junkrat’s missing tooth seemed to be trying to bite him for his folly, even if it wasn’t attached to its owner. Once more he looked at the drying puddles of blood staining the cement floor nearby. With a baritone sigh, he pressed his masked face into his palm. “Not actually break his face…It was joke,” Zarya offered, perhaps with a bit of guilt in her tone. “But he better not be kidnapping her.” “She’s tough,” the junker said. “Little, but tough. Bosses Rat around a lot. S’funny.” Zarya wrinkled her nose with a snort. “Still. I do not know what she sees in the Rat Man. Loud, deranged, evil, dishonest…very scrawny too!” “…Tell me how you really feel,” Hog replied dryly. “That may be fine where junkers are from. Where you are from. But Mei is not like that. She is a good woman, and deserves a good person. The Rat Man, too touched in the head. Brain is bad, misfires, ptchwww!” She made a little exploding gesture near her ears, pursing her lips. “Mad man. No good.” “Is that why you’d let me kill him.” Zarya froze. The gameshow continued playing and Hog’s filters kept grinding, but she was silent for a very long while, her gaze slanting dangerously to meet his blank lenses, and staying there. “…What.” “If Mei wasn’t there,” Roadhog said, his eyes hidden somewhere under the glass of his mask, staring at how green hers were. “You’d let me kill him.” Zarya’s jaw tensed and her brows furrowed, and Hog watched the way the flesh around her scars moved with it. She thought about her answer before saying anything- a rather refreshing change after so much time around Junkrat- and gnawed on her bottom lip for a moment before finally saying, “…Da. I would have. Maybe that is wrong, now. But at the time, I would have. I did the same before, when I heard you hurting him. I did not care.” She clearly expected a response, but lifted a brow when all she received was a very subtle shrug and a low, “Hmm,” before he turned his masked face back to the television show. “…Why do you try to hurt them, pig? The Rat man, yes, I understand, but Mei? You are angry at her, maybe?” “No.” “She was just in the way? You are angry at the Rat?” “No.” “Is it just because you are a bad man, Mako Rutledge?” Roadhog’s filters ground a few painful-sounding breaths for several moments before answering “…Maybe.” Zarya frowned.

[1lovedogrescue]

There are hundreds of official dog breeds in the world and even more mixes and mutts than we can count. Each dog has his own unique set of characteristics and personality. But one thing is certain – these loveable and wonderful companions are fascinating creatures 1. Is it a duck…or a dog? The Newfoundland breed has a water resistant coat and webbed feet. This dog was originally bred to help haul nets for fishermen and rescuing people at risk of drowning. 2. It pays to be a lap dog. Three dogs (from First Class cabins!) survived the sinking of the Titanic – two Pomeranians and one Pekingese. Source: Vetstreet 3. A Beatles hit. It’s rumored that, at the end of the Beatles song, “A Day in the Life,” Paul McCartney recorded an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, just for his Shetland sheepdog. Source: PBS 4. Wow, check out those choppers! Puppies have 28 teeth and normal adult dogs have 42. Source: About.com 5. Chase that tail! Dogs chase their tails for a variety of reasons: curiosity, exercise, anxiety, predatory instinct or, they might have fleas! If your dog is chasing his tail excessively, talk with your vet. 6. Seeing spots? Or not… Dalmatian puppies are pure white when they are born and develop their spots as they grow older. Source: Vetstreet 7. Dogs do dream! Dogs and humans have the same type of slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) and during this REM stage dogs can dream. The twitching and paw movements that occur during their sleep are signs that your pet is dreaming Source: Healthy Pet 8. No night vision goggles needed! Dogs’ eyes contain a special membrane, called the tapetum lucidum, which allows them to see in the dark. Source: Healthy Pet 9. Pitter patter. A large breed dog’s resting heart beats between 60 and 100 times per minute, and a small dog breed’s heart beats between 100-140. Comparatively, a resting human heart beats 60-100 times per minute. Sources: About.com and Mayo Clinic 10. If your dog’s acting funny, get out the umbrella! According to a Petside.com/Associated Press poll, 72% of dog owners believe their dog can detect when stormy weather https://www.instagram.com/p/BwUgBr9h82m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oy7noyu8r4h5

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Inilah Para Karakter Pria Yang Cosplay-nya Paling Ingin Dicoba dan Dilihat Penggemar!

Comiket musim panas hampir tiba, jadi pastinya kita dapat mengharapkan beberapa kostum menarik, dan meskipun kalian mungkin tidak bergabung di dalamnya, selalu jadi ide bagus untuk merencanakan event selanjutnya! Tetapi dengan adanya begitu banyak karakter untuk dipilih, selalu sulit untuk memilih salah satu. Jika kalian galau, atau hanya sekedar ingin mencari inspirasi lebih, mengapa tidak kita lihat apa yang dipikirkan penggemar lain?

Dalam menyambut event Comiket, Anime!Anime! mem-polling 37 penggemar dengan karakter pria yang paling mereka sukai untuk dijadikan cosplay atau membuat mereka ingin melihat cosplay-nya, dengan 80% dari penggemar sebenarnya adalah wanita. Tanpa basa-basi lagi, mari kita lihat siapa yang memperoleh suara tertinggi musim panas ini!

Jawabannya tersebar menyeluruh dari bintang lama hingga pendatang baru termasuk detektif ternama Edogawa Conan, Hattori Heiji, dan Kaito Kid dari Detective Conan. Levi dari Attack on Titan tentu juga sangat populer! Adapun karakter dari anime baru, White Blood Cell dari Cells at Work! sering disebutkan.

Cells at Work! Gambar oleh Otaku Mode

Ada beberapa respons yang memilih karakter yang agak sulit diperankan, termasuk karakter hewan seperti Chopper dari One Piece dan Nyanko-sensei dari Natsume’s Book of Friends. Tapi siapa yang menjajaki peringkat teratas?

Gintama. Gambar oleh Otaku Mode

Sakata Gintoki dari Gintama, tentu saja! Dari keinginan untuk memakai kimononya sampai yang sekedar mencintai karakter konyol tersebut, ada sejuta alasan mengapa penggemar ingin ber-cosplay sebagai Gintoki. Okita Sougo, Takasugi Shinsuke, dan Elizabeth yang muncul sebagai kandidat yang memungkinkan.

Beberapa karakter dari karya Weekly Shonen Jump lainnya juga ikut diperbincangkan, seperti Kusuo Saiki dari The Disastrous Life dari Saiki K., Hinata Shoyo dari Haikyuu!!, Shiota Nagisa dari Assassination Classroom, dan Gon Freecss dari Hunter X Hunter. Kirito dan Eugeo dari Sword Art Online juga disebutkan, yang tidak mengherankan mengingat season berikutnya akan tayang di musim gugur.

Apakah kalian menemukan beberapa inspirasi menarik dari daftar ini? Apa karakter yang paling ingin kalian coba cosplay-nya?

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25 Of The Coolest Dog Facts You Have Ever Heard

There are hundreds of official dog breeds in the world and even more mixes and mutts than we can count. Each dog has his own unique set of characteristics and personality. But one thing is certain – these loveable and wonderful companions are fascinating creatures.

Check out some of these interesting and far-out facts about dogs.

1. Is it a duck…or a dog? The Newfoundland breed has a water resistant coat and webbed feet. This dog was bred to help haul nets for fishermen and rescuing people at risk of drowning.

2. It pays to be a lap dog. Three dogs (from First Class cabins!) survived the sinking of the Titanic – two Pomeranians and one Pekingese.

3. A Beatles hit. It’s rumored that, at the end of the Beatles song, “A Day in the Life,” Paul McCartney recorded an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, just for his Shetland sheepdog.

4. Wow, check out those choppers! Puppies have 28 teeth and normal adult dogs have 42.

5. Chase that tail! Dogs chase their tails for a variety of reasons: curiosity, exercise, anxiety, predatory instinct or, they might have fleas! If your dog is chasing his tail excessively, talk with your vet.

6. Seeing spots? Or not… Dalmatian puppies are pure white when they are born and develop their spots as they grow older.

7. Dogs do dream! Dogs and humans have the same type of slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) and during this REM stage dogs can dream. The twitching and paw movements that occur during their sleep are signs that your pet is dreaming

8. No night vision goggles needed! Dogs’ eyes contain a special membrane, called the tapetum lucidum, which allows them to see in the dark.

9. Pitter patter. A large breed dog’s resting heart beats between 60 and 100 times per minute, and a small dog breed’s heart beats between 100-140. Comparatively, a resting human heart beats 60-100 times per minute.

10. If your dog’s acting funny, get out the umbrella! According to a Petside.com/Associated Press poll, 72% of dog owners believe their dog can detect when stormy weather is on the way.

11. It’s not a fever…A dog’s normal temperature is between 101 and 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

12. Is something wet? Unlike humans who sweat everywhere, dogs only sweat through the pads of their feet.

13. Here’s looking at you. Dogs have three eyelids, an upper lid, a lower lid and the third lid, called a nictitating membrane or “haw,” which helps keep the eye moist and protected.

14. Americans love dogs! 62% of U.S. households own a pet, which equates to 72.9 million homes

15. Move over Rover! 45% of dogs sleep in their owner’s bed (we’re pretty sure a large percentage also hogs the blankets!)

16. Why are dogs’ noses so wet? Dogs’ noses secrete a thin layer of mucous that helps them absorb scent. They then lick their noses to sample the scent through their mouth.

17. Yummy! Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000 and cats have around 473.

18. Watch that plate of cookies! A Dog’s sense of smell is 10,000 – 100,000 times more acute as that of humans.

19. It’s not so black and white. It’s a myth that dogs only see in black and white. In fact, it’s believed that dogs see primarily in blue, greenish-yellow, yellow and various shades of gray.

20. Did you hear that? Sound frequency is measured in Hertz (Hz). The higher the Hertz, the higher-pitched the sound. Dogs hear best at 8,000 Hz, while humans hear best at around 2,000 Hz.

21. Express yourself. Dogs’ ears are extremely expressive. It’s no wonder! There are more than a dozen separate muscles that control a dog’s ear movements.

22. Growing up. While the Chow Chow dogs are well known for their distinctive blue-black tongues, they’re actually born with pink tongues. They turn blue-black at 8-10 weeks of age.

23. Why do they do that? When dogs kick after going to the bathroom, they are using the scent glands on their paws to further mark their territory.

24. No, it’s not just to make themselves look adorable. Dogs curl up in a ball when they sleep due to an age-old instinct to keep themselves warm and protect their abdomen and vital organs from predators.

25. Breathe easy. In addition to sweating through their paw pads, dogs pant to cool themselves off. A panting dog can take 300-400 breaths (compared to his regular 30-40) with very little effort.

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Quahog Heat – Review & How Did You Do Poll

Hey there readers, it would appear the crime spree that wreaked havoc in our towns is over and I can once again waffle on about what I thought about an event in general. Yes, Quahog Heat saw us spend 4 weeks investigating everything from Robbers to Card Sharks, and there certainly wasn’t a dull moment. 

Well it all started with a teaser from TinyCo that some 80’s Detectives were heading to Quahog, and soon we were all speculating who might make an appearance. And I think I can safely say none of us predicted Pamela Anderson in their cast of potential characters, lol.

And I have to say when I saw Donuts and MacGyver I started to think I was in my other game, Tapped Out. But no, soon sadly my Quahog would be overflowing with donuts whilst my Tapped Out premium currency cupboard was bare, lol.

The game update unfortunately had some of the usual App Store delays, and I’m honestly not sure there’s an awful lot TinyCo can do about this, they are at the mercy of the various app stores when it comes to the updates appearing for our games, but I do get the there’s frustration when one set of players can play whilst another sits twiddling their thumbs. All we can hope is these delays get shorter and that TinyCo continue to acknowledge players who are starting events late through no fault of their own.

The event certainly started on positive note for me, as once again we were seeing an event with a link to the Family Guy TV show, Erik Estrada, MacGyver and Pamela Anderson had all made appearances, so that was a thumbs up.

I was also immediately delighted to see this was a 4 week event, I think this is starting to work well for events, I prefer it to the 6 week events.

This event also seemed to be about bringing back some more 80’s nostalgia to the game, as many do forget Family Guy was at one time just one big parody of the 80’s. It’s the comfort zone era of the show, and it’s therefore no surprise the game is pulling so much from that decade now.

I also decided to try a different kind of strategy in this event, purchasing the Week 1 premium character costume, Chopper Cop Quagmire, to see just how good a leg up it would give me going forward in the event. I rarely buy premium character costumes unless it’s a must have, such as Tai-Jitsu Lois. But with the rare drop on Police Tape I thought it’s now or never to try this strategy. And at first I was very disappointed in my purchase, he seemed only to be a little help at first, allowing me a cheaper room investigation.

It wasn’t until Phase 2 his true worth started to become apparent, as I kept pulling Kingpin Consuela from investigations at a high heart level and having Chopper Cop Quagmire helped me defeat her over and over, allowing me to build up loads of resources to exchange for Detective Badges, I ended up with not only enough to buy all the Phase 2 prizes but even had enough to see me through Phase 3 when it launched. So a worthwhile investment of clams that allowed me to relax a little during the event when drops went out the window and others started to struggle. But he wasn’t the only big help, the other was a freemium unlock Erik Estrada, only problem was many if you struggled to unlock him.

But now let’s take a mor in-depth look at the event, and yes I will say this from the off, a lot of players found the early Phases extremely tough going.

FORMAT: A 4 week event that brought back the dreaded timed characters. Now 4 weeks was fine, but the event started to show issues in the first days with the very early poor drops of Police Tape, this in turn impacted on player’s ability to unlock Erik Estrada within the 7 day timer period. Making handcuffs, essential for unlocking him,  a random investigation drop was never a good idea. And not unlocking him had a detrimental impact once you entered Phase 2, as you lost his ability to do cheaper Investigations and having him as a much-needed extra character to have for Police Tape drops. I honestly believe those who didn’t get him, or were delayed getting him, struggled with due to a knock on effect throughout the remainder of the event. He was probably the most valuable of the freemium unlocks, so I’m interested to see how many managed to get him, and if you feel you were hindered if you didn’t have him.

CONTENT: More Family Guy TV show linked content. As I said earlier Family Guy related content to keep us happy.

INVESTIGATION RESOURCES: I felt the task lengths were fine for drops but the rare frequency was a real issue at times, we just couldn’t get enough Police Tape to complete countless Investigations, this made the random nature of the Investigation prizes an issue, as nothing worse than grinding out tasks all day to get enough Police Tape to do an investigation to only find a worthless box of donuts at the end of it. This kind of random drop is ok if we’ve unlimited resources to use to investigate but not good when things are tight.

CHARACTER DROPS: With regards to gameplay it was good to see less characters have multiple tasks for different drop items, I know there was still some crossover but that will always happen as core characters that were unlocked in the early Districts are used in events to allow newer players to join in events. I really think TinyCo got the balance quite well in this event and used a good ratio of characters and buildings with drops. Also good to see more old characters being use for even just Donut drops, players have been asking for that for a long time..

CHARACTERS: What did I like, well we got quite a few new freemium characters as opposed to just a whole lot of costumes. Although we got load them too.

WEEKLY CHALLENGES: The weekly challenges were once again tough, and many struggled with the 1st one which meant their chance to get what seemed like a coveted prize, The B-Team van, gone. I think these challenges will vary between easy and very tough, and you never know what to expect until they drop.

STRUCTURE: For the most part there was no surprises, everything you needed to do in each phase was spelt out early by simply moving through the first few parts of the main Questline for each Phase. And we’d had a mini run of Investigation gameplay in the previous short event Undercover Gigg-Olo.

GAMEPLAY: They seemed for a while to be taking on board issues that derailed previous events, but seem to have fallen into bad habits again, the rare drop on Police Tape was an inexcusable error, but I have to say they seemed to slow down the amount of content as the event went on and the final Phase was very light and hopefully this allowed players to catch up some.

SUPPORT: There has been definite improvements in this area, but more work needs done, for a small company they are trying hard to have a good system in place. However there is still an over reliance on sending standard responses to players, which at times either appears to ignore their concerns or miss the nature of their complaint completely.

MYSTERY BOXES: It’s no mystery what my feelings on Mystery Boxes are, I’ve long despaired at the way TinyCo implements Mystery Boxes in events. But in one way they seem to be responding to concerns by putting returning characters in as potential prizes rather than too many useless decorations. But they also still have too many repeatable resources and the odds of winning the top prize can be brutal.

BOSS BATTLES: These weren’t too bad, freemium players could attack up to every level within the 24 hour time frame but it would see you lose a little sleep. But at least the choice was there if you wanted to go for it, in past battles there was nothing freemium players could do to attack never mind defeat at the higher Boss levels. Also was good to see few of the bosses were Family Guy characters. Just a shame they never brought back Bertram as a returning character.

QUESTLINES: Now the dialogue and tasks were fantastic, no issues at all there, but what I do find troublesome is having a character with a timer needing to be activated to be able to progress a Main Questline. This causes a delay in players getting new content if they delay activating the timer, or they panic and activate the timer too soon and end up losing out on the character.

DROPS: Rare drops on an essential item should raise concerns with the development team immediately, as should random drops you can’t control on a timed character. These really are errors that shouldn’t be being repeated 3 years after the game’s launch.

EXCHANGES: The exchanges really got better as the event went on, so there was some improvement in this area.

So fellow addicts, that’s just some of my thoughts, and I want to stress they are just my thoughts, they in no way reflect what Bunny or Lotty felt about the event, but before I ask for your thoughts I want to say one last thing about the event and that’s how fantastic the animation has been yet again, really top work from the guys at TinyCo.

Anyway that’s my ramblings, now I want you to tell me your thoughts. But please don’t turn this into a boiling hot What the Deuce post by releasing the your ire in your comments as Bunny will throw me head first into the nearest jail if you do. Please give us your feedback and thoughts in a fun in the sun sort of way. Tell us what you like, don’t like? What you’d like to see more of, what you’d like to see less off. Share with us everything and anything you think would improve FGQFS, as TinyCo do read this blog and of course Bunny also takes your feedback to TinyCo. And if you can please take a minute to complete the end of event poll at the end of this  I’d be very grateful.

And just incase you can’t see the poll or find it jumps about when you’re trying answer, here’s the direct link:

https://goo.gl/forms/ASrxG4eM6FJ4ovxo1

~ Russian Tigger

Quahog Heat – Review & How Did You Do Poll was originally published on Yatterz

[raddest-hat-showdown]

RADDEST HAT REDEMPTION ROUND

Click here for the Major bracket's post

Redemption round includes losers from the first 5 rounds and a few new hats that didn't make it into the major bracket. Polls will be during the finals of the major bracket, and start a little before so they end at the same time.

These matchups were randomized, not seeded because seeding takes forever 😅

Redemption round polls start 04/28 10am EST, See below for matchups

Loser's Round 1 Side 1

Polls start 04/28 10am EST

Jack noir vs Professor Layton

Timekeeper Cookie vs Jezaille Brett

Detective Sokka vs Rat God

Red Blood Cell vs Charon

King Julien vs the Good Hunter

Guinan vs Crocalor

Connecticut Clark vs Greg

Loser's Round 1 Side 2

Polls start 04/29 10am EST

Issun vs Merlin's Ceremonial Hat

Hector Rivera vs Captain Hook

Klinger vs Tony Tony Chopper

Puss in Boots vs Cad Bane

Celty Sturluson vs TF2 mercs

Doug Dimmadome vs Go dog Go

Ranni vs Finn

Big hat Logan vs Penguin

Loser's Round 1 Side 3

Polls start 04/30 10am EST

Link's Rubber Helm vs Perry the Platypus

Rincewind vs Mona Megistus

Impa vs Matoya

Rennala vs Moist von Lipwig

Dirk Strider vs Cassidy

Link and Ezlo vs Mary Poppins

Wirt vs Detective Rama

Elphaba vs Gabdalf

[wackyrumble]

ROUND 2 COMETH

Competitors have fallen. Round 1 has concluded.

Round 2 polls begin on Wednesday (left side) + Thursday (right side) 12 pm PST

in the spirit of all things silly and wacky, i may pull random shit in the polls from here on forth because like. it's the nature of this tournament. so there's your warning. it won't be too intrusive i pinky promise

Left Side:

Joseph Coyne/Penny Plunderer (DC Comics)

Barry the Chopper (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Mort (All Hail King Julien)

Roommate (Diary of a Tourney Kid)

San Marino (Real life)

Zaphod Beeblebrox (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Johnny C. (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)

Fusakin (MARIKINonline4)

Right Side:

Ena

Isaac & Miria (Baccano!)

The Ellimist (Animorphs)

Donkey Kong (Punch Out!! Wii)

Hildibrand Helidor Maximillian Manderville (Final Fantasy XIV)

Elizabeth (Gintama)

Conan Edogawa/Kudo Shinichi (Detective Conan)

Fallen Tributes:

Kosane Kiriha

Ik

Sin

The☆Lukeman

Ballast McGee

Van Gogh

Humphrey

Charisma House

Turnip Boy

Stephan Pastis

Sheogorath

Mukuro Rokudo

Beloved Website Puppet Alpha

Peter Sqloint

Tom Bombadli

Howard the Duck