#explosive damage

[techdriveplay]

A Short Guide to Helldivers 2

Welcome to the action-packed world of Helldivers 2, where the battle for democracy spans across hostile exoplanets teeming with alien threats. At first glance, Helldivers 2 might seem like your typical co-op shooter: drop into enemy territory, unleash havoc on alien foes, and extract before the peril overwhelms you. Yet, delve a bit deeper, and you’ll discover a complex game ripe with strategies,…

[siyelius]

jericrew pj party

(totally not just an excuse to draw hc body refs post-revolution and rant in tags)

[hijinxinprogress]

12 year old tim realizing robin’s not coming back to gotham and deciding that it’s Batman’s fault so he has to ruin the little bit of sanity and peace of mind Bruce has managed (read: struggled) to keep in his grasp:

[citycrows]

Captain Maki's special strike force (yes I'm still on this)

Someone is missing but I can't decide who.

[jgvfhl]

thus Owlie continues its track record of smushing fandoms into each other just for fun :) Image description in alt text.

@totally-not-fandom @cod-dump @worldseer come look pleaasse

[the-principality-of-sealand]

Can I please have explosives?

[venomgaia]

Detonation imminent

Based off something that happened in my first playthrough of act 3. a heads up would have been nice, Larian!!

ft. the winner of this encounter

[krotchyklok]

[hraeesvelgr]

explosions are loud

[mcybree]

okay honor system nobody who is intending on watching fishie’s next episode watch this because its spoilers for that. also honor system dont laugh at me

[ganondoodle]

so with echoes of wisdom .. i havent watched any of the trailers beyond the very first one and the thumbnails/screenshots and what others have said about it-

but with the world inside the rift being called "Welt des Nichts" aka "world of nothing/void" in german ('still' in english, for some reason) and demises title in french being "avatar of nothing" ... yeah my anxiety is shooting through the roof again

(hopefully you can be a little more forgiving for me being anxious/weird about it bc demise is my blorbo)

i had similar worries with totk, that werent proven true thankfully, but the darn book is making it all worse again with all those weird lore things the game doesnt even so much as hint at AND potential retcons- im in for a really rough time huh, not just stress in real life (more in tags.. its alot) but now about my specific hyperfixation from two things even (AND artblock still..)

weird as it may sound, i dont want demise to get more lore, partly bc i dont believe theyd do anything with him that i would like (given their track record) but much more importantly- the fact that he has this little lore about him is precisely one of the reasons why i fell in love with him, i tend to like characters that are neglected by the narrative, and his story being both so flat and already done meant i can be very creative with what i come up with for him without necessarily contradicting anything in canon (which is ... or was a big point of how i wrote destiny's story and lore, working with canon in a way that reframes it all without straight up ignoring it ... but i suppose i urgently need to let go of that and accept i spend alot of time working things that will go to waste :( ) AND not having to worry that there will be more stuff with him that would massively change not only what im writing but also potentially how i feel about him since the game he was briefly in was the oldest chronologically and ended with his death- i didnt expect them to mess with anything that far back and thought theyd just go forward and leave the timeline behind and wouldnt mess with it again, given how botw seemed to be a sort of 'fresh start' that seemingly regarded the past as the past that needs to rest and that the timeline was finally no longer a discussion if everythings unified through botw and one thing going forward

but i suppose i was very wrong with that .__.

right now the only thing that motivates me still is the left over determination and spite to work on my zelda comic, since i have never gotten this far and really want to get something done for once, but i cant lie that im feeling like i should pause all work on it too to wait and see waht the book and the new game will do .. either to determine if i still have the will to keep working on it after those things are out (my love for tloz has been taking alot of hits lately ..) or if i have to change stuff (mostly bc of my lore problem trying to not ignore it ..)

[ramblebramblefun]

Of course, right then, there's an ominous clomp of feet behind them, exactly where Kacchan was, and Izuku's heart may or may not skip a beat.

Before he can turn his head to see, though, the figure comes clomping past them to take up a position in front of Izuku and his fellow students and- Oh, it's big Kacchan. Not a villain that's outflanked them. Okay. Izuku can-

...

Oh, it's big Kacchan.

"Apologise to the Pussycats for me, would you?" Big Kacchan says lightly, and Izuku starts mentally drafting Aizawa-sensei's eulogy in his head.

There's a clink as Ground Zero's return mechanisms engage. Izuku would love to study his gauntlets at some stage, because he has no idea how big Kacchan activates them and he never appears in a time or place to ask.

Big Kacchan hand rises, tilted so as not to let his sweat drip onto the forest floor and make an even bigger mess than there was about to be.

...

The Wild Wild Pussycats really really won't take this well.

The villains in front of them start making noises, such as who are you and who cares? We'll kill him too.

Izuku takes the opportunity to throw himself at the nearest fellow student, dragging them both to the ground and squeezing his eyes tight.

(The safest place to be when an explosion happens is nowhere near ground zero.)

(The safest place to be in a forest full of villains that wanted to kill you was right behind the broad back of probably the most powerful hero their generation had the potential to produce.)

Hopefully Recovery Girl will be able to fix the hearing loss.

Just as whoever it was underneath him began to struggle-

The world.

Erupts.

For all of the lecturing that he gives Izuku to pass on to regular Kacchan, Ground Zero himself is not a man who cares about excessive force and collateral damage.

Those villains are almost certainly dead.

Izuku can feel bad about that later.

When the flash of heat has faded, but not the ringing in his ears, Izuku slowly makes his way back to his feet.

He's shaking.

Anyone would, he tells himself. He's got two broken arms and Kacchan's hurt bad, if big Kacchan has come out to play.

Izuku looks down. It's Asui that he has flattened to the ground. He should probably help her up.

Big Kacchan gently pushes Izuku out of the way and lifts Asui up himself, instead. Right. Izuku has two broken arms.

His ears are still ringing.

Ground Zero dutifully checks over everyone present, because he does take his role seriously and tries to set a good example for regular Kacchan in the areas that regular Kacchan struggles in, even when regular Kacchan isn't going to remember anything that happens after they swap places.

Hopefully regular Kacchan won't be in too much trouble for big Kacchan obliterating approximately half the forest.

...

Or so Izuku assumes. He's refusing to look in that direction.

There had been people there.

Villainous people, but...

Izuku can feel bad about that later.

"Um, Kacchan?" Oh, that sounds weird.

Big Kacchan might make a listening noise, but Izuku can't be sure. Eventually the man turns to look at him instead.

"Um. We should probably go back to the lodge."

The villains were after regular Kacchan and Tokoyami. Tokoyami is here, relatively fine, and regular Kacchan is currently big Kacchan, which means he's hurt, so it would probably be best for them all to get back to where the official pro heroes are waiting.

Big Kacchan nods, slowly.

They, the students, are gently but firmly bunched up and herded away from- from the scene of- of the crime. Attempted kidnapping. Maybe possibly on purpose murder.

Big Kacchan takes threats to regular Kacchan's safety very poorly.

Izuku should probably count himself lucky that big Kacchan views regular Kacchan and Izuku as a set. And that he's never been around to hear regular Kacchan disagreeing.

Then Izuku has to focus, because big Kacchan has shuffled him into taking point to lead the way back while Ground Zero takes up the rear. This is... Flattering? Big Kacchan trusts in Izuku's abilities a lot, even when Izuku feels inadequate to the task.

But! He does in fact know the way from here, and they all eventually straggle back into the lodge, to a chorus of worry and possibly shouts. Izuku can't tell.

Naturally, at that moment, wisps of familiar smoke drift past him.

He whips around, nearly wobbling right off his feet, to see the figure of Ground Zero rapidly, but carefully, lowering himself to the ground, just as regular Kacchan's bruised-up face comes back into view.

(They'll rush Kacchan to the hospital and blame the damage on a fire that one of the villains started.

They'll blame the deaths on the arsonist, too.)

[sammygender]

so many people can’t conceptualise emotional neglect as anything other than ‘my parents were cold and distant and never talked about feelings with me’, and this, while being just a general awful problem of course, is also what leads to so much john winchester mischaracterisation. in this essay i will

[lastoneout]

me trying to solve a problem in literally any fantasy game

[spotaus]

Fun awful doodle I did of New Age Nightmare and Error last night immediately after I posted their refs.

[wereshrew-admirer]

a smile from ms pickman (who knows she’s been sweeping every sexyperson poll that dares include her)