#hope this helps :0

[junkyardisles]

@dragonlegendantique (making a separate post so it's easier to save) 1. it's the emulated wii game on dolphin! with the graphics bumped up so it's not toaster quality 2. on dolphin custom textures are rlly easy. in the graphics config there'll be a dump textures button, and any textures that get loaded in once the setting is enabled all textures that get loaded after will be put into a folder with the game's id(?) nested inside the dump folder. there'll be a lot of random ui textures but as long as you know what you're looking for, it should be pretty easy to find. skylanders, npcs and enemies' textures will look like this

there should be a load folder inside dolphin as well (if there isn't just, make one) and inside that make a folder with the game's id. put in the custom texture and then click enable custom textures in the graphics config the game knows which textures to override by the png's name. if the custom texture doesn't share the same name as the original texture, it won't replace anything textures-resource has some of the skylanders' textures on the website, but to my knowledge doesn't contain the texture names so you'd still need to navigate the dump folder

[bread-is-my-life]

@tekitothemagpie hey what if I said that I spent 6 hours drawing it because the post you made is absolutely canon

[mephoj]

taco and mephone have fascinating parallels more people could explore if taco haters weren't biased cowards

[ottosbigtop]

as an outsider. can u sum up the tragedy. of the stream. i am curious

so imagine. If you will. Big internet series everyone really liked. From 2021. And fans have been either hoping or losing hope for a possible continuation. (Or directly and obnoxiously pestering the cast but I don’t count those ones)

Two years later. Two weeks from today. Vague but very pointed teaser video drops on YouTube. It can’t Not be the thing everyone thinks it is, because the creators have dealt with people being obnoxious about this long enough that they would probably say something if everyone was getting their hopes up, right.

hours before the stream. Vague confirmation from other people working on the stream that it’s A Big Thang. You wait in anticipation. You clear your schedule. You make a day out of it.

breaking bad gmod roleplay.

it’s breaking bad gmod roleplay for 30 minutes. 1 hour. 2 hours. 4 hours. It’s all breaking bad gmod roleplay. You’ve been lied to. Scandalized. Bamboozled and kerfuffled. You’ll never recover from this.

and then. After a lot of people who were either disinterested in the stream or actively feeling like they’ve been duped have left. Apparently they drop an actual teaser for the actual sequel. I wouldn’t know. I was in my feels about concept of parasocial entitlement and the ethics of the funny that I left the stream. But apparently . Psychic beam of fucking half life 2 funny will be real in t minus whenever.

[spinjitsuburst]

ramble about ur favs i wanna hear abt ur thoughts -zaptrap

HAN’S INFODUMPING ABOUT JAY... START!!!!

so like sgdkdhdkdhd I say Jay and Lloyd are my “favorites” but honestly it’s so hard to pick favorites out of this skittles squad like I love EVERY character for a variety of different reasons. I was going to also infodump about Lloyd but then I started talking about Prime Empire and then this post got. Long. So. it's just Jay I may infodump about Lloyd another day especially since I'm very Conduit Brained Rn but yea yea!

this is long so i'm putting most of it under the cut so y'all don't kill me for making a huge long post

I considered putting Zane and Sora on here as well since I’d also consider them my “favs” but like this is already gonna be. A lot of. Infodumping (also i typed THIS part before I even started and decided not to yell about Lloyd because this already got long enough). Maybe I’ll make a separate post for those two hmm hmm much to consider but for now MY (technically) FAVORITE NINJAGO CHARACTER: JAY WALKER

THE SPARKPLUG WHO INVADED MY BRAIN LIKE A PARASITE

so hey his name is a pun this makes me laugh ridiculously hard every time I remember he is named. After a misdemeanor HSKSHDKFH

Jay is such an interesting case of a character for me because I started out the show not liking him. Which is. Stares at my entire account I think my feelings have changed somewhat

Jay starts out as an asshole I don’t think anyone can disagree with me there (although honestly they’re all assholes in early ninjago they bullied a ten year old and left him dangling several feet off the ground) but over the course of the show you can see him start developing into a much more interesting character. He goes from being so insecure he's faking everything about himself to someone who knows who he is and is so genuine about it

now yea we could argue about whether his character was too uwu-ified post-season 10 but this is the FUN HAN POST SO WE'RE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT the point is you can SEE the growth that Jay has gone through and I am going to show you that growth through what I call

✨ The Skybound to Prime Empire Effect ✨

I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THE IDEA THAT PRIME EMPIRE WAS WRITTEN TO BE A DIRECT PARALLEL OF SKYBOUND AND WAS CENTERED ON SHOWING HOW THE NINJA ESPECIALLY JAY HAVE GROWN THROUGHOUT THE SEASON

when season 12 rolls around we are at the point in Jay's development where he is CONFIDENT in who he is. He's a fun-loving jokester with the power of lightning and the drive to help people whenever he can. He uses jokes and humor to help alleviate tension and get people through whatever's happening. And when on his own what does he do?

BECOME AN ENTERTAINER BABEY

i like to think jay's club in prime empire was a safe haven for anyone stuck in the game who figured out hey. we Can't Leave and felt freaked about it. Also Jay would generally try and spread the word that hey something ISN'T RIGHT HERE which would lead people to want to stay with him

(totally plugging my friend's fic but this kind of thing is explored in would you like to enter prime empire by @finn-m-corvex y'all should check it out cool cool)

also the prime empire shorts which i watched all of in the midst of typing this video cuz i love them go watch them please please please jay was publically fighting the red visors which I imagine may have raised some red flags for some players

THIS SOMEHOW TURNED INTO PRIME EMPIRE INFODUMPING LMAO ANYWAYS Jay's confident! He becomes an entertainer because it's who he knows he is! And it's something that will get people hyped and having fun, which is very in-character for Jay to do! He uses those kinds of things to mask the Bad Things going on and get people remembering what's good

I've talked about this sort of thing before but that's Jay's whole philosophy as early as season 9! Which is a DIRECT contrast to how he views it in season 6, as Nadakhan puts it scarily accurately

"You make jokes to mask the fact that you're afraid"

(i was gonna grab a screenshot for that like i did with the hunted scene but netflix has bloCKED THE ABILITY TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS THE WAY I USED TO and i don't have them already and i'm too lazy to grab them from elsewhere so alas trust me he says it)

making jokes to hide your fear and using humor to remind yourself of what's good and coping with the bad are two VERY different outlooks on it

so I think this outlook is what drives him to make this glamrock persona in the first place - this is a bad situation, one he's in with other civilians, and what better way to keep him and themself safe until the others get there than throwing a big performance at a safe place!

also it's just so gender okay I want to look like Superstar Rockin' Jay so badly

it's also interesting to see his outlook on his parents change over time! In season six he finds out Ed and Edna aren't his birth parents and feels upset about it, not understanding why his birth parents would've abandoned him. In season twelve, that outlook changing is EXACTLY why Jay's able to get through to Unagami

"I was abandoned by my parents, too!... I never understood why, and I never had the chance to even ask. But I always hoped there was a good reason. What if there's a reason?"

(again curse you netflix i wanted SCREENSHOTS whatever whatever)

It's this scene that gets Unagami to calm down long enough for Milton Dyer to get there, and presumably is what stops him from just. Flattening him and Jay like a pancake.

to piggyback off of this i absolutely adore how Unagami and Jay consider each other adopted brothers in that one book I still haven't read and I hope he's in Dragons Rising at some point Unagami is my favorite "villain" (no longer a villain) in the whole show he deserves more screentime

like this is where i found out about this and it's plagued my mind ever since. i need to read. this book just for them

SO YEA OKAY Prime Empire is "Who is Jay as a Person Post-Skybound" to me also it opens up so many fascinating things about Jay. I rest my case

so backpedaling a little bit. JAY CARES SO MUCH ABOUT HIS PARENTS GUYS IT'S SO SOFT AND I'M sobs

like yea the first episode with Ed and Edna in it has Jay avoiding them like the plague but this gets explained very easily when you remember he was bullied for his home life before he became a ninja. It makes a lot more sense why he wouldn't want them around his new friends, assuming they'd react the same way. Also how was he supposed to know literally all the rest of the groups parents were either dead, presumed dead, or had a toxic relationship with their kid lmao

(Cole calling his mom kills me. Cole's mom is dead. I know they probably just didn't think that far ahead when writing the dialogue but it's so funny mans pretended to call his dead mom to get on Jay for not appreciating his parents iconic behavior)

anyways literally every episode Ed and Edna are central to (except like the one in skybound) Jay stops at nothing to protect his parents and it means the absolute world to me he's so much like them!! They raised an inventive little nerd and he will stop at nothing to make sure they're safe and it's. It's SO IMPORTANT TO ME OKAY

ALSO this is an excuse to clip my favorite piece of dialogue possibly in the entire show. Except Netflix won't let me now. So you just get the text dialogue

Jay's just fallen from the sky with a messed up eye and is incredibly distraught that all his friends are captured. And his dad just. The woRLD IS FALLING APART AND HE'S EATIN' SOUP-

Ed i love you

anyways

anways anyways this just turned into me rambling about prime empire and then Ed and Edna and a lot of disjointed other stuff but thank you for this opportunity i was going to also ramble about lloyd but i put this post in a word count and

yea i think that's enough for a tumblr post anyways! If anyone wants any like. More logically thought out and direct thoughts about characters feel free to send me asks this was fun thank u @zaptrap for this opportunity to scream about jay

[bobendsneyder64]

Wilco Zeelenberg, teammanager of the trackhouse racing motogp team, just heard last week that he will be fired after this season. Again (just like with Bo Bendsneyder) this didn't went down in a good way. There were no signs that he didn't do his job right and also Miguel Oliveira doesn't agree with the decision. Because Wilco has raced for 15 years himself, he knows what the racers need and understands them.

Wilco told ziggo sport in an interview how it went. He lost his father just before the Austrian GP and because of that he wasn't there in the race weekend. When he came back everyone suddenly had a new contract, something that is normally his job to do, and he didn't got one. So exactly one week after losing his father, the team told him he was fired. The weekend in Aragon and last weekend in Misano were very hard for him. He is comitted to finish this year and give his all for the team, but he is very disappointed that the trackhouse slogan ("We are trackhouse") doesn't seem to be as true as the team made it out to be. He hopes he can continue to work in the motogp paddock next season

[skunkes]

i keep feeling more ok with driving and then set back by a New Situation and/or my dad freaking me out

[hivepixels]

ayy glad to hear that (even tho i consider my depiction of his hair really generic hfhaha)

but all styles have their good vibes, i like the variety of sollux

[majorpepperidge]

the phantomposting starts NOW

[the-apocalypse-is-upon-us]

Mukuro Ikusaba,they could never make me hate you

[floydsteeth]

To celebrate finishing Gils route Saturday!!!

>:3

[tincture-overcast]

Wicked the Musical is a flawless masterpiece and here’s why

it touched my heart as a child and so no flaw it has means anything to me or my everlasting love for it

[basketsys]

Hands you a flower crown tallulah made and runs away

-🧃

WHY R U RUNNIN

NO COME BACK :(((

Thx for the flower crown btw, bet if I gave it to Wil he will find a way to put it in the fridge door, but finders keepers

[ottosbigtop]

i think it can be really hard to discuss writing critiques sometimes because sometimes you’ll be talking with someone who can’t discern in-world reasonings for author intent.

when you bring up a critique of something and someone responds with “umm but ☝️ there’s actually an explanation for why it’s that way in the story” like yeah okay cool. But there was a person Outside of this story Deciding this needed to be here. I don’t care how much lore surrounds the concept if the concept sucks.

I remember seeing it tossed around a lot when people talked about the over sexualized costume design of Momo from bnha. You’d go “hey I think it’s weird that this 16 year old character has to have a very revealing outfit that consists of a boob window that’s meant to be intentionally revealing for the audience” and people would be kicking and shouting to talk about how it actually Makes Sense because well her power is making things and it comes out of her body so she needs easy access ☝️. Like okay! That’s not what the solution needed to be though! There’s an entire writer behind making That Decision and that writer could’ve also Made a Different Decision. You know.

[fisherrprince]

i really am happy to be back in school but I keep having these dreams where I peer into the Bad Timeline and I keep forgetting my schedule, I have math and history classes, the weather is always insane, I’ve never done my homework, I have to catch the bus, I’m worried about IB, and my classmates are weird. I have a bachelors degree

[remusbuzzcutt]

NEW THEME AGHHH okay but like...e please drop your how sunkiller got together thoughts I NEED TO KNOW

i read this fic about two years ago and it’s always been stuck in my head. if i was answering about a muggle au, though, i’d have to go with a pub/beer garden meet-cute-ish thing?? they’re just so painfully british i’m sorry.

imagine a pub full of men, who are basically on the edge of their seat because the football score was nil-nil all throughout. in the last minute or so, the team they support only just scores a goal and the cheers of pure glee are nothing short of deafening. everyone’s happy, drunk and talking to people they dont even know.

eventually, the group outside of the stuffy, crowded pub to sit in the beer garden instead. everyone is just too happy to fixate on any feuds or grudges so they all actually to get along (which is extremely rare). james and barty somehow end up in conversation and realised they shared similar intrests, humor(ish), disorders etc and gradually got closer.