#gadgetter

[techstevehd]

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[lobie-the-cartoonist]

saw a couple of artists doing anthro puffles and wanted to take a crack at it myself 👀

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Gadgett⚡️🔮⚡️@gadgettgames

[wholelottatransbians]

Green Valley Chat: Discussing the pros and cons of their classmates’ costumes?

Miss-Direction: Okay, quick rule: No mentioning Yaoyorozu or Hagakure. Low hanging fruit. SparkleOn: Wait, I like Hagakure's costume... HighPriestess: Alt universe thing, don't worry. SparkleOn: Fair, I guess. FashionVictim: Can we talk about Kirishima's lack of shirt? I get his Quirk makes him nearly invulnerable, but still... NotADeku: Or, on the opposite end, the armors. Iida, Aoyama, and Shoda to a lesser extent. The lack of range of movement gets me. Witchs-Apprentice: ...Love them to death, but Yanagi and Komori's bare legs make me... nervous. Trying to talk them into leggings for a while. TheCoolerBnuuy: Kendo's corset. Like, what? SonicBoom: All the skintight costumes. Not just from the girls either. Gadgetter: All the boring ones. Todoroki, Awase, Kuroiro, Tokoyami to an extent. AmazonPrincess: Are there any costumes that are flawless? AmazonPrincess: And no one say Bakugou. I understand where the point is coming from, I just refuse to accept it. SonicBoom: Honenuki. Tanuki: Pony. SonicBoom: You fixed the problems with hers. Biased.

[inhcritance]

I'm slowly writing a tiny "what if all my Goblins fought each other", and while it's still a WIP, I can say:

Main (Insomniac) Harry is the strongest Goblin in terms of raw strength, durability and potential, but the second least experienced. He becomes a credible threat to a very experienced Spider-Man in a a relatively very short time, but isn't as used to fighting different enemies and still struggles to be rational when in the middle of battle.

MCU Harry is the most experienced Goblin, and the second strongest. He's the one who has fought the most vigilantes and heroes, who has been the Goblin for longest and knows his limits the best, and who has a better knowledge of both the underground and not-so-underground social spheres of his New York.

TASM Harry (@inhcursed) is the least experienced Goblin, and the least inexperienced fighter period. He's not used to his suit nor to his Glider, nor to his enhancements. He is, however, the most dangerous Goblin if given time to plan, the means to do so, or if encountered outside of battle.

Gwen (@recklesstech) is the most agile and adaptable Goblin, but also the least strong and durable (she's not enhanced, like the others). She's the one who is most in sync with her technology, however, so it cannot be used against her, while also being a technical genius and gadgetteer.

So far MCU Harry seems the strongest contender in an arena-style fight, and TASM Harry would have the most odds in a city-wide battle... but depending on how they schemed against each other it would be far from set in stone.

[chatgroove]

you know i'm just gonna flip the script on the valentine's ask meme lmao, sooo how about Gadgette and Octo for it? -Aria

YEAH hell yeah I'd love this!!

Octo loves meeting anyone with as much enthusiasm for creating and science as him, so he and Gadgette would get along probably too well lol He'd love to show her all his inventions and get another engineers viewpoint on stuff. I feel like they'd get along really well and be good friends!!

[gholateg]

#What#Who's this king?#Why so many faces?!#What expansion even is?!?#(⁠☉⁠｡⁠☉⁠)⁠!

Final Fantasy has a few recurring characters regardless of the plotline/worlds of each game being different.

Cid is nearly always some kind of tech heavy mentor or gadgetteer. Most times he's also the one who builds/pilots the airships that you travel on.

They go back and forth a lot on making him either a gnomish granpa or a lil thotty. Or both at once.

11's Cid leans more into the bara then most of the others, and has canonically had sex because he has a son.

14's Cid is basically a lil baby twunk who dresses like either a pizza parlor stripper or Cruella de Vil. to this day I say he's at least bisexual, being both a disaster, and having a taller snarky boyfriend.

Ah shit, here comes Cid. (This is the funniest thing they'll ever do)

[c1rcuitb0ard]

GADGETT do you know Eclipse? Or Prot?? Or Samson?? Or uhh... BUCK.

I don’t fully recall all of these names yet, my memory is still quite fuzzy, but I do know Eclipse, they were one of the first members of the cult that I met, and took on the role of my caretaker when I was young. They are one of the only members of the cult I seem to get along with, for whatever reason.

Im not sure who this “prot” is, ..do you mean paschal? I ask that you do not refer to her by that.. lesser name. Paschal is her true identity. If this is who you mean, yes, I was assigned with the task of bringing her here, I had constructed a robot to lure her in, and it worked quite well.

Samson.. I don’t recall. Hm, it was not important enough to me for me to really recall anything about it.

And as for buck. Do you refer to the youngest among our ranks? Buck waxing? I have not gotten a chance to meet them yet.

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[sloppypears-ash-sg]

The Shop Lifters (HHGregg OCs)

So I drew my hhgregg OCs in place of the HH silhouettes in an hhgregg TMNT (2003)-styled intro.

From left: Circuit Gear, Teko, Gadgett, and Greeny (the latter two are - aka Gridgett and HHGreen)

[gaillol-13]

The thought that Inspector gadget could canonically use the mario power ups gave me too much power and spawned things...

[hubedihubbe]

“C’mere!”

[gogogadgettes]

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— The GoGo Gadgettes (@GoGoGadgettes) March 11, 2020

[media-burns-deponia]

aw poor guy, someone let him out

[gadgettous]

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[hellomynameisbisexual]

It’s great being single. Nothing stands in the way of you hanging out with your amazing friends, doing whatever you want, and generally enjoying your independence.

If you do decide to embark upon a quest to find a significant other half - or even a quick hookup - there are also plenty of dating apps out there to help you.

Unless you're bisexual, that is.

Even though the majority of dating apps have diversified to accommodate gay or lesbian users, people who are attracted to both genders are still forcibly missing out.

Many apps simply don't have a button that lets you browse "both" when it comes to gender, and other non-heteronormative groups, like people who identify as transgender, are even less catered for. It's simply not on.

The bisexual problem

For straight people the biggest concern with online dating is often simply choosing the right bio, or the most flattering photo. A straight man or woman won’t ever have to give a second though to the idea that when they select ‘man seeks woman’, or ‘woman seeks man’, they are enjoying a privilege that many don’t.

“Despite being part of the very well-known acronym LGBT, the B is very frequently forgotten,” said Holly Brockwell, the editor of women's tech publication Gadgette.

“Bisexual erasure is a real problem and one I've seen repeatedly in dating apps.”

“Usually they just leave us out entirely," she told The Memo. "They know they'll get in trouble if they don't cater for gay people (as eHarmony found), but since they're acting out of fear of reprisal and not out of a genuine desire to be inclusive, they don't think of anyone else.”

Brockwell is far from the only bisexual person to feel overlooked.

“Some apps seem to forget that bisexuality and pansexuality exist at all,” says Elizabeth Varley, Founder and CEO of TechHub. “The biggest mistakes are having a binary choice of people or 'matches'," she adds.

"Sometimes you can choose men or women, but not both.”

New dogs can be as bad as old ones

It wasn't until 2014 that Match.com created a 'bisexual' option (and even then it wasn't that simple), while other sites like Plenty of Fish, still don't have one. Last year, Tinder, known for its persistent threesome-seekers, even managed to ban Transgender users by default.

But it's not just long-established apps that remain behind the times: new, up-and-coming services have resulted in some of the worst experiences.

“With Once, I was presented with two buttons: Straight and Gay. Nothing else," recalls Brockwell. "I was furious and emailed them to let them know, at which point they said they'd build it into an updated version of the app. They did, but the damage was done."

“I was made to feel like my sexuality was a weird, niche, non-mainstream choice. Like some kind of exception.”

The journalist had a similar experience on Lovestruck: "I emailed them about this and their reply was (it's so comical it's almost untrue), that their database couldn't handle it and I would have to sign up once as straight and again as gay. They offered to give me the second, superfluous, ridiculous membership for free as they're a paid service. I declined.”

Varley told The Memo of similarly eye-rolling experiences: "Newer entrants Inner Circle and Coffee Meets Bagel which seem promising in many ways don't appear to allow gender choice at all," she explains. "It assumes heterosexuality, or doesn't allow for changing gender preference."

"It makes you roll your eyes at the lack of basic flexibility and recognition of bisexuality or pansexuality as genuine ways of life."

Who else is alienated?

Despite their own far-from-golden experiences, both Brockwell and Varley expressed concerns that other sexualities are even more overlooked than their own.

“Apps tend to assume cisgender and can be completely exclusive of people who don't identify as either gender, who are gender-fluid, or who want to communicate or search for people who prefer to identify their transgender," Varley said.

"This isn't about both genders as that's no longer the world we live in. This is about focusing on all.”

“While we're constantly overlooked and forgotten about, there are other sexualities that have it worse,” echoes Brockwell.

“Pansexual people are often excluded from even the more progressive apps, or forced to sign up as bisexual which isn't the same. There are also issues for transexual, asexual and intersex people, and who they're shown to. Ideally all apps should ask about your own sexuality and gender identity, AND the sexuality and gender identities of the people you'd like to meet."

What the dating app developers say

Robyn Exton, who is bisexual herself, founded the women-only dating app Her.

“The main problem I’ve experienced from apps is more of a user one, particularly on the straight apps," she told The Memo.

"As soon as you mention that you are bisexual on your profile, you open yourself up to the ‘unicorn crusaders’ (couples looking for a threesome), which gets a bit annoying if that's not what you're looking for."

"Society seems to think that being bisexual means you waiver from someone who can’t make their mind up, to a hookup fiend, to someone who’s bound to cheat on their partners,” she explains.Unlike the apps previously mentioned, Her accepts acknowledges a host of different sexual identities, and at present, you can use the app to identify as lesbian, queer, gay, bisexual, bi-curious, fluid, pansexual, flexisexual, polysexual, aesexual, TBD [to be decided], questioning, straight - or simply leave it blank.

According to Exton 30% of the Her user base identify as bisexual.

Obviously however, a bisexual user won’t find a male match on Her’s all-female user base, but Exton says the app is a product of her own personal experiences.

“My personal experience and one shared by most of my friends had been finding a great way to meet women to date,” she explains. “There were already some great products for straight people where I could easily get a date with a dude, but finding women in a product I wanted to use was much harder. So I wanted to make a way for women to meet each other."

“We don’t cover every eventuality of what everyone is looking for, we focus on a specific set of problems and try to help solve them, problems experienced by bisexual, lesbian, queer, asexual, pansexual and many other sexualities for female identified and non-binary gendered people,” she adds.

Apps with bisexual search functions

At another end of the spectrum, Javier Gomez Acebo, developed his London-dating app Clocked so that you can search for “men”, “women” or “both” from the one dating profile.

“We tried to make Clocked as inclusive as possible,” said Gomez Acebo. “For that reason we gave all our users the option to search for both sexes should they so wish.”

However, for the Clocked app to work you have to self-identify as either a man or a woman, which inherently excludes any genderqueer people. The simplest function is clearly not always the most inclusive.

“We didn’t include trans or intersex options,” says Gomez Acebo. “We didn’t include the option of JUST bisexuals, as we wanted to keep the experience as simple as possible.”

"From the app point of view you need a frictionless signing up and options system otherwise you risk having a drop in sign ups."

Gomez Acebo acknowledges that bisexual and transgender people are often overlooked by dating apps. “Definitely, but probably due to a lack of awareness,” he says.

"For most people when you talk about LGBT it usually gets translated to Lesbian, Gay and 'The Others'."

According to Gomez Acebo, scale can also stand in the way of diversification.

"A few of the legacy dating sites have big enough databases and have all options to include all gender identities or preferences available - not only including bisexuals but Trans and non-cisgender - but I wouldn't say that it has been properly catered for," he says.

So what’s the answer?

For Brockwell and Varley creating an inclusive dating app is about offering different options and simply setting and inclusive tone. Both women call out OkCupid as a progressive frontrunner, while Brockwell also drew attention to the beard-lover app Bristlr for declaring they wouldn't add gender options at all until they knew they'd got it right.

“Some apps are especially inclusive, and that's wonderful,” says Varley. “OkCupid is excellent in very many ways, and in their flexibility of self-identification and search it's leading the way.”

“It's a huge miss from dating apps in not recognising the much greater acceptance of varied and fluid sexualities and gender identities."

"Millennials especially, are hugely open about gender and sexuality, and these things are only becoming more and more accepted as part of mainstream life,” she adds.

“I'd like us to be included on par with gay and straight,” says Brockwell, “I'd like to see support for other identities too. And I'd like bisexual people to not be shown to couples unless they explicitly agree to it first.

"Newsflash: I'm not a sex toy to spice up your marriage. I'm a person.”

"Human sexuality goes a long, long way beyond gay and straight," she says, "I'd have thought software engineers would relish the challenge to tackle this in their UI."

[strengthofmayhem]

ffxv roleswap… many thoughts almost none of them coherent. i want the core of this to be A Noct And Ardyn Roleswap but i think for coherence fun and profit the retinue + regis gets swapped around too. anyway incoherent stream of thought:

it’s like. okay. i know what nocts backstory is (regis does what he… more or less canonically does and raises his lamb of a son as best he can before sacrificing him at the gods behest as a starscourge vessel. with like. an emphasis on how cruel that kindness is and noct not understanding what any of it meant until he was trapped and screaming and regis not being capable of going back on it because, the hell of it is it works and the starscourge almost completely recedes for over a thousand years like it does in canon btw. the king vs the father). but i’m not sure how he plays as a villain given ardyn’s kind of incoherent as an antagonist as it is and i want noct to still feel like… noct.

as a protagonist we get to play along with ardyns fantasy catholic redemption arc— no i’m joking. okay. OKAY.

potentially the pov character could actually be the young prince somnus with ardyn’s meta-narrative role in canon as basically a walking talking mcguffin carrying over. and he’s like. reluctant young (idealistic, even!) king ardyn with his younger brother the crown prince somnus and ardyn gets captured after a sham peace treaty. ??

definitely we’ve got gilgamesh (sword stealing running gag) entering the core cast w/ aera and her unnamed but presumably existent canon sister i think (lol. stella?) and then somnus and ardyn. maybe. VERY jokingly besithia is also a main token evil cast member.

meanwhile all of the chocobros get to be cool Legendary Boss Battles i think. for various reasons and in separate capacities. i’m thinking… ignis is the only one who is technically still entirely present as like. a cursed soul. he tried breaking noct out and very nearly succeeded. gladio is a daemon in a revised enkidu boss battle…? prompto lived and died a very normal human lifespan (if heartbroken) and his gadgetteering tendencies were played up, posthumously he was known for his incredible magiteknical advances and ironically besithia is the result of a misbegotten attempt to revive prompto’s bloodline (clone. lol.). his old workshop has LONG since been overrun and gets to be a rad dungeon.