#lara your pixels

[mephostophilis]

finished playing the tomb raider 2 remaster... this diva

[jadegretz]

D.VA: Pixel Powerhouse by Jade Gretz

D.Va felt the familiar weight of her mech, the Meka, settle around her like a second skin. The cockpit screens flickered to life, displaying the treacherous lunar landscape that stretched before her. Tonight's mission on Luna Base One was a solo operation – retrieve a data core rumored to contain classified Overwatch intel, and get out before the base's self-destruction sequence detonated.

Easy in theory. But D.Va, the youngest member of Overwatch and resident gamer extraordinaire, knew better. Luna Base One, once a beacon of human progress, now stood as a crumbling monument to a forgotten war. The Omnic Crisis, a brutal clash between humanity and its own creations, had left the base riddled with dormant traps and automated defenses.

Taking a deep breath, D.Va slammed her fist on the control panel. "Hana Song reporting for duty," she chirped, her voice laced with a bravado that masked the gnawing anxiety in her gut. Tonight, the playful streamer persona she projected to the world felt like a flimsy shield against the encroaching darkness.

The initial leg of the journey was uneventful, the Meka crunching over moon dust as D.Va navigated through the skeletal remains of lunar rovers and collapsed buildings. But as she reached the base's central hub, the silence shattered.

A bloodcurdling shriek echoed through the comms, a sound that sent shivers down D.Va's spine. It was the digitized voice of a Bastion unit, a mangled Omnic killing machine notorious for its relentless aggression. The screens flickered to life, revealing a horrifying sight – a horde of Bastions, their rusted hulls reactivated, lumbered towards a squad of terrified Overwatch agents.

The playful tone evaporated from D.Va's voice. "Alright team," she muttered, a grim resolve hardening her features, "Looks like we're changing the plan." With a flick of the wrist, she unleashed a barrage of Fusion Cannons, the Meka roaring to life.

The battle was a whirlwind of explosions and molten metal. D.Va, relying on her reflexes honed through years of competitive gaming, weaved her Meka through a hail of enemy fire. Her Light …(see the rest of the story at deviantart.com/jadegretzAI). For more supergirl, chun li, batgirl, tifa, lara croft, wonder woman, rogue and much more, please visit my page at www.deviantart.com/jadegretzai - Thanks for your support :)

[laurarolla]

Finally Tomb Raider Remastered is out, so Tomb Raider 1 playthough is underway. I do have a couple things to say right after finishing the training exercises and the first stage, though.

First, positives, game looks great, runs great, the switching between original and remastered graphics is pretty awesome in gameplay areas (in pre-rendered cutscenes it's best to stick to remastered as it's just the cutscene without pixelization), the trio of games has 269 achievements so achievement hunters are in for a real treat/struggle (which seems to be the same thing to achievement hunters XP ), and the tank controls work great with the D-pad on my Xbox 360 controller. All around a great opportunity to play a game I missed in my childhood the way everyone who has nostalgia for the game probably remembers it in their memories.

Now I have to address the problems, namely the lack of graphic options of any kind on PC and the control remapping problems. First off, Tank Controls remapped fine, no issues I can think of, I swapped Action and Jump because the default was the opposite of what I wanted them to be. The issue comes from the modern controls. Now, the control stick movement and cameras are really nice, but the ability to remap buttons might be a lie actually? I tried remapping the action button and got stuck in Lara's pool because it wouldn't actually work. Then, I couldn't actually get out of the pool until I switched to tank controls AND swapped the graphics to original. After messing around with the controls in Caves, I discovered two issues with modern controls that will keep me playing with tank controls for my playthrough: button remapping the action button seems to break it for me, and guns are hold instead of toggle when drawn. Maybe for newer players that's not an issue, but I do have a little bit of experience from a demo of TR2 from my youth, and held draw for guns doesn't feel right to me.

The fact that gun draw style is not a toggle option in the menu is connected to how few menu options actually exist to adjust in the game. There's some important things in there, like sound, subtitles, control remapping when it works, the action indicator (figuring out how close you need to be to an item to interact with it is a quirk of the trio and the indicator is a great addition), and even dead zone adjustment for the stick, but no graphics options of any kind are there. Game is full screen, no windowed mode, no resolution adjustments, if your system has problems with the graphics for whatever reason you're SOL without some outside programming help.

I'm very early in the game, and I don't expect these issues to be in any way a deal breaker for me. I'm excited to play through this game and I am having some fun already even with the early PS1 jank, but it could have been just a bit better in certain options. Maybe some of these things are specific to my computer for some reason, maybe some of these issues will be fixed later. Overall, for the price I paid for the game, I think I'll very much get my money's worth.

[wierdaesthetic]

Stop hating on cod simps

Wait, because this thing has been sitingon my mind for the past couple of days. Why the fuck do men hate on women for simping for Ghost and Konig and stuff like that. I see them in tiktok comments like bruh cod simps ruined them for me and I just wanted to play them like normal. Like bitch,first of all you a grown ass man and a tiktok changed your mind about "the boys" game, come on who is buying that. Second of all, just because men's sexualisation of women on games is normalised that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Yall sit here and complain about Ghost and Konig being Gen Z sex simbols when back in your age when Lara Croft finally got trianglular tits yall would beat your meat to that everyday for weeks. Dont even get me started on Mortal Kombat, which is one of my favourite games but oh my just type mortal kombat female character. At least we as women like some gear/protection on our fighter, you bitches said Fuck it, lets give her realisticly 0% chance of living because she is practlicly wearing a bikini BUT we aint stopping lets take that to minus where SHE HAS TO WEAR HEELS!! WHY? Cause it sexy, duh! Mortal Kombat isnt suppose to be realistic yeah nor Call of duty CAUSE THEY ARE GAMES!! LET PEOPLE FUCKING LIVE AND WANNA FUCK THEIR MONITORS!! ITS THEIR OWN PROBLEM!! Yall have been fucking waifu pillows and getting of to bayonneta and shit, so now that women found someone to simp over now sexualisation of game characters is weird? Also your itsy bitsy Ghost opperator isn't getting offended or humilated from such coments, you know why? Cause he is pixels on a fucking scene! He doesn't have emotions... also he hasn't been throught the shit that you say, you want to know why again? CAUSE HE IS NOT A REAL PERSON. But oh yeah, men they are complitly normal for spamming their horniness under Kylie Jenners or Zoe Kravitz posts, yeah thats totally normal, for say "I would pound her so hard he scoliosis would fix" or "I fuck her so hard we would demolish from existance" YEAH THAT TOTALLY NORMAL. But 2 teen girls say he is so fine or hear me out under a post? NONO THATS WEIRD AND UNCOMFY. I just think that your toxic masculinity is getting over your head cause you know that if you come across and actually attractive woman that has a Ghost or Konig type, you would never ever be able to bag her since you could never reach the type of atractiveness they exude EVEN WITHOUT SHOWING THEIR FACE? On that topic I have seen a lot of girls being asked why do they like masks on me. Bitch, lets rewing you remember mortal kombat? Do you remember what do ALL females have in common in there? MASKS? Have you ever asked a man why did they do that? To interperte the face of them how every they imagined but cod men yeah no war criminals dont yassify them. That all enough. I am tired. Fuck off (to anyone that disagrees) and Good night.

[mass-convergence]

Remembering the time when I was a diehard fan for Edward Elric from FMA. I mean I still am a fan but I think this had escalated into “minor crush” because I was apparently gay except for when it came to dudes with long hair. Still kinda do have that exception. I just think long hair (and maybe a bit of scruff) on a guy is aesthetically pleasing. I think it’s the rugged outdoorsy look they’ve got going.

But that’s not remotely the point of this post.

I was a fan of Edward Elric back in high school. Talked about how cool he looked, pretty sure he was my desktop background at some point. Just generally a tick above a “normal” level of fan for it. Friend of mine kept being like “pixels, Mass, he’s pixels”. (Look this was over a decade ago, I’m over it and I’m sure they were just like repeating shit they’ve heard - I don’t think they were intentionally being malicious or a dick)

And I’m just thinking about that today. Because it’s not like the fact that they’re pixels but the fact that they’re pixels that represent something. I know Edward Elric isn’t real. More recently: I know Soma isn’t real, I know Wonder Woman isn’t real, neither is Lara Croft, Eivor, Prentiss, Moiraine, etc.

They’re all pixels or polygons or words on a page or lines in a drawing. And it’s like “your point?”

I still can’t watch that cutscene in AC Valhalla (y’all know the one) - I can barely look at the gifsets. But Eivor and Soma got me through the hell year that was 2021.

I cried when Moiraine lost her connection to the source and cried when she got it back - she showed me that I could lose everything and get knocked to rock fucking bottom and come back up swinging. I connected with Mat Cauthon because I perpetually felt like a fuck up my entire life. Seeing him succeed gave me hope.

Lara Croft and Wonder Woman both got me through most of undergrad. Just because they were kinda chill imaginary friends for me in a time where I felt desperately alone and in a dark ass place. They gave me confidence and strength.

You know what got me through most of the pandemic? Dragon Prince and a very specific YouTuber’s play though of Bannerlord. Both of those got me to start HEMA which the physical activity and socialization helped me out immensely. Led to me getting involved in medieval shit and eventually the SCA. But on a more basic level: I could pretend I was not stuck alone in an apartment in Reno a country away from my family. Was definitely on an epic quest of some sort … was just currently stuck because the snows had made the mountain passes inaccessible for like a year.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: “they’re pixels” … yeah … and? Turns out our brains are real great at pretending they’re not pixels. It can sometimes go a little far - you can sometimes define your life by them and I personally think that can be maladaptive (but I do it too). Like sometimes you see something in fiction and your brain can log it as an IRL example of something - see why transphobic bullshit in movies can be super fucking harmful.

But like characters and stories and stuff? They’re meant to appeal to our emotions, they’re meant to get us invested as if they were real, and that can help people.

They’re pixels.

So what?

[racheljsk]

Week 10 Face Filters

Yassifying Oneself

Face filters comes in many shapes and forms, ranging from those Instagram beauty filters that gives your face a flawless, airbrushed look to those TikTok filters that tells you what book troupe you are (I want an enemies to lovers trope so bad). In this post, we are going to be focusing on beauty filters. Now, what are beauty filters?

“A beauty filter is a function that can be executed using an app. It is used to add a filter to a photograph or a video, placing this over the body of the person (or people) depicted and thereby changing their appearance.” (Opitz 2020).

Now that we know what beauty filters are, let us discuss the impact that beauty filters have on our lives. A good example of how much of impact beauty filters have on us is the video below.

In that video, Dr Lara Devgan, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon stated that 5 or 10 years ago, patients would take a picture of a magazine cover supermodel but now instead of doing that, she stated that patients will give her a picture of themselves but in a slightly optimised way whereby a Facetune or Snapchat filter will give them better facial features. In my opinion, this is so much healthier compared to comparing oneself to a supermodel and then getting something done so that you will look like someone else. The reason why I said this is because by using your own pictures, you can see what looks better on your own face rather than following the footsteps of someone that does not have the same face as you. However, like in every story, there is a good side and bad side.

The bad side of beauty filters is that it promotes an unhealthy and unrealistic standard of beauty. Using the video shared earlier as an example yet again, the girl in the video, Marla, told everyone that the reason why she got surgery is that she is tired of editing her pictures, so by getting surgery plastic she can become the image that she really wants, and this can help save up time when it comes to editing her photos. This is what I consider something as bad. This is because people will be happy when they use the beauty filters at first, but the minute the beauty filters come off and it shows one’s natural face, people are often times will become more self-conscious and have higher tendencies to have low self-esteem.

In conclusion, I think beauty filters have their own advantages and disadvantages, but in the long run, if used in an excessive amount to the point of obsession, it will then turn into a disadvantage.

References

Misman, N 2023, ‘Augmented Reality (AR) Filters’, MDA20009 Digital Communities, Learning materials via Canvas, Swinburne University of Technology, 1 June, viewed 13 June 2023.

Opitz, S. C. 2020, ‘BEAUTY FILTERS WHEN BEAUTY IS STANDARDISED’, From Print to Pixel, 5 June, viewed 13 June, < https://www.fromprinttopixel.ch/en/my-networked-images/beauty-filter>.

VICE Life 2015, I Got Surgery to Look Like My Snapchat and Facetune Selfies, 7 December, viewed 13 June 2023,

< https://youtu.be/5ZOpLpSNW6c>.

[thebasedgamer]

Blast from the Past: RIQA Resurfaces, Unlocking Nostalgia for Nintendo 64 Fans

Unreleased N64 Game, RIQA, Leaked Time is a cruel mistress to the video game world, relentlessly burying treasures deep within her vaults. But hold onto your controllers, because today is a frickin' joyride for all you Nintendo 64 aficionados out there! The long-lost gem, RIQA, has emerged from the digital depths, thanks to a recent reveal by the YouTube channel Hard4Games. For those of you who’ve been in the dark, RIQA was hyped up eons ago before it got axed faster than you can say "Game Over." This leak isn’t just a trip down memory lane; it's a full-blown resurrection party. RIQA, crafted by the folks at Bit Studios, was once dubbed the "Tomb Raider for the N64," featuring a badass female protagonist among its trio of characters. Forget the comparisons to Lara Croft, though; RIQA is more like Jet Force Gemini had a baby with every action-packed adventure you wished the N64 had. Screenshot of the Game Flashback sixteen years, and you’ll find Unseen64 spilling the beans about RIQA, complete with screenshots and juicy deets. It strutted its stuff at E3 1999, promising to be the N64’s next big thing. Alas, it never escaped the prototype phase, and whispers suggest its soul might’ve been repurposed into Rogue Ops in 2003. We may never snag official confirmation, but that’s the kind of conspiracy that keeps the forums buzzing. Craving a slice of this vintage pie? Thanks to the wizardry of Twitter’s Yakumono (you might know him as LuigiBlood), there’s a patched RIQA ROM floating around that’s ripe for the playing on modern emulators. Got a flashcart? Then get ready for the ultimate nostalgia trip. Gear up, game on, and let’s dive into the pixelated past that's finally been unlocked for us to relive. https://twitter.com/LuigiBlood/status/1777392245265604997 https://twitter.com/LuigiBlood/status/1777681774979526662 Read the full article

[gertlushgaming]

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft Review (PlayStation 5)

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft Review, Discover Lara Croft's Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored. For the first time, play the complete experience with all expansions and secret levels on modern platforms in this definitive collection. This collection includes: Tomb Raider I + Unfinished Business Tomb Raider II + Golden Mask Tomb Raider III + The Lost Artifact.

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft Review Pros:

- Two graphic styles - original and newer HD filtered-up polygonal graphics. - 4GB download size. - Six sets of trophies - one for each game and one list for each game's extra content. Over 100 trophies. - You get Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider 2, Tomb Raider 3, and exclusive never-before-released content for each game - Unfinished Business, Golden Mask, and the Lost Artifact. - Adventure gameplay. - With a press of a button, you can swap graphics from original to new. - Central game selection menu. - Each game lets you go into Lara's home to practice and explore. - Controller settings - remap buttons, dead zone slider, action indicators, walk to action, tank or modern movement, Invert axis, and sensitivity sliders. - The controller settings are seperate in each game. - Each game has its original menus and music on the game selection screens. - The additional content can be accessed from the game menu on each game so you don't have to unlock it or earn it. - You can even change the graphics style in cutscenes. - FMV cutscenes. - Keeps all the original cheats for each game. (disables trophies but what did you expect) - Uses the touchpad as the pause button. - Weapons use automatic lock on for shooting. - Many secrets to find and it makes a classic noise. - An excellent collection of arguably one of the greatest characters in the adventure genre. - Even as default the controls feel familiar to older returning players. - Makes excellent use of music. - Save when you want. - An amazing nostalgic trip full of memories but also for new players creates new memories. - Takes you back to a time when music was used sparingly, the scenery and location were a character in itself and the story was always there but not shoved in your face. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft Review Cons: - No Platinum trophies. - The controller settings are seperate in each game. - Parts of the cutscene's original filter just feel like it's a simple overlay rather than the original original. - The camera lock they use to show points of interest etc is very strong and cannot be tweaked. - No manual to help learn the game which is a bit rough for new players as the game doesn't have a tutorial in the game outside of Lara's home but even then it's not straightforward. - New players will struggle to initially learn how all the jumps and grabs work like you jump but then have to press a different button to grab etc. - The lock-on is not always good, especially in the first game and it can struggle to lock on. - When using the modern controls it makes doing pixel-perfect jumps harder and returning players will lose all their balance and muscle memory. - The biggest issue across all the games is the camera and I mean when the game takes over. - Some of the atmosphere is taken away when you swap between filters as one is bright and one is dark. - Lining up jumps and grabs can be a real pain. Related Post: JUBILEE Review (PlayStation 5) Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft: Official website. Developer: Aspyr Publisher: Aspyr Store Links - PlayStation Read the full article

[iiyno]

Hello beautiful people.

To those who this may offend, its just ramblings of a total beginner.

What do you think of this idea for a game?

I remember assassin's creed games for buttoned phones back then. Also pixel games. Think about expanding on them. There are these games that caught my attention, Lara's 'something'. Also children of light, I think. I really have this belief that pixel games can be more than they are rn. But its just my imaginations running wild. I am still cracking at Python using 'Automate the boring stuff with Python ' as a guide. Stuck on Conan's game of life recently.

But hey a guy can dream, its never going to come if we don't reach for it. So pixel game dev any insight? What are your thoughts on renovating the present mechanisms of the game?

I have an example:

Maybe add more battle moves, with portions of the screen to swipe accordingly.

What would you say really bugs you about pixel games...?

[mister-reborn]

Short story with AI

Felix had never felt so out of place before. He looked around the neon-colored world, filled with digital pixels and flashing lights, and felt completely lost. That was until he saw her. She was running and jumping, dodging obstacles and collecting coins. Felix couldn't take his eyes off of her.

"Hey there, old timer," Lara said, breaking Felix out of his trance.

"Excuse me?" Felix replied, taken aback by Lara's confident tone.

"I said, hey there, old timer. You're not from around here, are you?" Lara said with a smirk.

Felix shifted uncomfortably. "No, I'm not. I'm from a different era, a different world entirely."

Lara's expression softened. "I know the feeling. It can be tough to adjust to a new world."

Felix was surprised by Lara's empathy. He had assumed that video game characters were all about flashy moves and high scores. He was starting to realize that Lara was different.

"Would you like me to show you around?" Lara offered.

Felix was hesitant, but he couldn't resist the chance to spend more time with her. "I would like that, thank you."

As they explored the world together, Felix and Lara found that they had a lot in common, despite their different backgrounds. They talked about their past adventures and the challenges they had faced. They laughed and joked, and Felix felt like he had finally found someone who understood him.

But as the days went on, Felix realized that their relationship was more complicated than he had thought. He struggled to understand Lara's world of video games, while Lara found it difficult to relate to Felix's old-fashioned ways.

One day, as they were wandering through a bright, digital landscape, Felix couldn't take it anymore. "I don't understand your world, Lara. It's so different from mine. How can we ever make this work?"

Lara stopped and turned to face him. "It's not about understanding each other's worlds, Felix. It's about respecting them. We don't have to be the same to be compatible."

Felix pondered Lara's words, realizing that she was right. He didn't have to understand every aspect of her world to appreciate her as a person. They could have a complicated relationship, but that didn't mean it was impossible.

From that moment on, Felix and Lara's relationship grew stronger. They learned to appreciate each other's worlds and found a way to blend their different styles together. They continued to have light-hearted conversations, but now they had a deeper understanding and respect for each other.

[hopeless-deerie-fanfics]

Obey me videogame headcanons:

Belphie

A minecraft hoe, this bish is up at 4am in the mine with full diamond gear and you kno it

hitman, his favourite item is the homing briefcase, has definitely killed everyone in Sapienza before

resident evil, outlast, and indie Horror Games esp pixel horror Games, really cos these games keep him awake, if he's scared he can actually pay attention without falling asleep.

Asmo

Girls Go games, dress up and makeup games, he likes trying to make them super pretty and judges poor makeup looks, is a well known reviewer of these games and his criticism genuinely improves gameplay so he is valued in the community by Devs, often gets early access because of this

Character creators (always trying to create a copy of himself but never satisfied)

secondlife, club penguin, He's a social guy so anything that lets him network is a bonus, plus customisation options are his jam

mystery games solely for the drama, he lives for it, murder mystery especially

Lara croft,

Animal crossing (he has a perfect town but throws a fit if an ugly villager moves in), a master at landscaping and island design.

Mammon

cookie clicker games, his DDD is full of them and casino games,

untitled goose game, he gets to cause mischief and he thinks the goose is adorable but he'll never tell you that,

guitar hero and he's REALLY good at it, also great at beatsaber, second only to Levi. Rhythm games he really likes, and DDR

Pokémon (he gotta catch em all but doesn't really get all the move types so he isn't all that great in battle, boio loves the game tho),

I'm sorry but fortnite. He likes fortnight.

Levi

dating sims are his strong suit, he knows how to get every ending including the secret ones

dance dance Revolution, BOI is unbeatable,

kingdom hearts, final fantasy, he loves anything where he can ge tinvested with the plot/lore so he'll also go for story heavy games

castlevania, cuphead, bendy and the ink machine, a bit of everything really,

overwatch, destiny, world of warcraft

COD too, and I see him really liking doom for some reason?

Satan

Mario kart, I dare you to challenge him he will waste your ass. He mains Rosalina and takes no shit

stardew valley, stress release but hates fishing in game so he never does it

skyrim (boi just loves the khajit they are all he plays), any cat themed game, he got Nintendogs and cats solely for the cats

harvest moon, professor Layton games

Also he is a ride or die Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning fan.

Beel

overcooked, papas pizzeria, cooking mama, breath of the wild (likes making the recipes),

Kirby (he relates),

Undertale (he loves the music but he didn't know you could pacifist run at first and feels really bad),

Lego versions of games eg Lego Star wars, lego Harry Potter, his favourite is Lego lotr tho.

I also see him liking harvest moon games,

He plays night in the woods and weeps

Lucifer

the Sims (meticulous gameplay and to make them suffer on occasion. Definitely has a diavolo sim who is his in game double's bitch),

fable games (he likes going full evil and having his pet dog reflect that),

shadow of the colossus, a tale of two brothers (these two make him cry like full on WEEP but devildom forbid anyone dares catch him),

taiko no tatsujin, rhythm games (he has to get a perfect score, diavolo bans him from playing them cos he gets one and can't stop, full on addicted. Worse than mammon with gambling games.)

Surprisingly enough animal crossing, stress relief and achievable goals, when work stresses him out he goes fishing in game. He has fully completed his museum. He prefers the GameCube version tho cos he likes it when the villagers are kind of mean, he will put pitfalls outside of the houses of the ones he doesn't like

Lemme kno of you want me to do the undateables too!!😁

[cheeryfairygender]

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Names

Rabbit

Bunny

Alyx

Chamomile

Pastel

Aurora

Peach

Zelda

Autumn

Spring

Dahlia

Tifa

Amoura

Samus

Lara

Pronouns

tech/tech/techs/techs/techself*

by/byte/byte/bytes/byteself

byte/byte/bytes/bytes/byteself*

bit/byte/bytes/bytes/byteself

game/game/games/games/gameself*

game/game/gamer/gamers/gamerself

gala/gala/galas/galas/galaself 

gala/omega/galas/omegas/galaomegaself

gala/omega/galaomega/galaomaegas/galaomegaself

pix/pixel/pixels/pixels/pixelself*

pink/pink/pink/pinks/pinkself*

hope/hope/hopes/hopes/hopeself*

AI/AI/AIs/AIs/AIself

arc/arcade/arcades/arcades/arcadeself*

arcade/arcade/arcades/arcades/arcadeself*

on/line/ons/lines/onlineself

online/online/onlines/onlines/onlineself*

*(Any pronouns with * were not coined by me)

Genders

Dousteleuic

Pastelgender

Hopegender

Spesgender

Hoffigender/Hoffigirl

Crossinggender

Gamegender

Kirbygender

Missingnogender

Glitchcoric

Cybergender

Genderglitched

Pinkgender

Genderpastel

Tenderic

Cottoncandygender

Genderfleur

Tayvirine

Purplegender

Degender

Nebbiagender

Foggender/Foggirl

Genderfog

Sleepygender

Dreamycoric

Gendersleepy

Somnigender

Putenain

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[shigure]

what about chrono trigger personally resonated with you?

honestly difficult to say anymore - i first played when i was like 12! i think the depth of the story and mechanics was very surprising and inspiring for me at the time, as well as the beautiful pixel art designs and literally all of marle's sprites lol. when i first played it i got to the future and was unable to progress because i didn't notice the hole in the floor i was meant to crawl into, and i'm not sure what inspired me to restart the game after that, since everything i love about it really kicks into gear after that. but! i love the way your choices DIRECTLY impact the world, and you can create a future/present you can be proud of without even fighting lavos, or you can just show up and rock his shit and let everyone sort themselves out. i also feel lucky to have played the ds version, because there's so much more content in postgame that really adds to everything.

i love schala. she is very dear to me. i also love masa and mune (i used to go by mune online and my best friend went by masa and we called ourselves this at school. found out mune can technically mean boobs and felt weird and stopped. regret this slightly because it was cool). i really like the forest restoration quest even if it is a pain in the ass to fight the boss; it really solidified lucca and robo's characters for me. also LARA is a silly password lol.

overall the two worst parts of the game for me were the trees at the start of death mountain that you cannot be a single pixel's amount of incorrect on, and my innate compulsion to fill out the lower screen map until it becomes Fully Rendered. i am sure some would disagree and have other issues, but from my perspective if not for those it would be a perfect game!

[anti-porn-unicorn]

Is it wrong to feel upset and insecure if your partner admires and is more attracted to literal pixelated women than you? 👉👈 all he looks at is drawn naked photos and barely looks at me. I feel so ugly and undesirable because my boobs aren't comically large and I don't magically have abs and am also thick. I feel like he won't even be attracted to me truly. Porn brain rot most likely. :( These beauty standards to look like lara croft kill me.

You are not in the wrong for feeling like this at all. It’s unfair of him to be more attracted to something on the internet than his own partner. Have you talked to him about this? If he hears that you are struggling but doesn’t change, dumb his ass. If he changes, that’s great.

[medeafive]

Blood and Stone - 22

Masterpost

"Where'd your friend go?" Tony asks, grabbing the chips. "Turned around and he was gone."

 "I don't know, I'm not his babysitter," Natasha returns, nibbling on a carrot. "Can I ask you something?"

"You mean, whether it's bad when your boyfriend finds out you're pregnant and disappears without a word?" Tony specifies, licking his fingers. "Yeah, it is."

Natasha snorts. "Fuck off, that's not what happened. Who's Lara Croft?"

Tony snorts, dropping onto the couch. "Oh, great, so you just pretend to be asleep the whole time. Do you actually eat or is that also some magic trick?"

"Answer my question, you coward," she returns, picking up cucumber slices.

Tony sighs. "Well, that's not exactly up your alley but- it was one of the last video games that came out, couple of years ago. Nobody really cared, because of vampires and all, but I think it would have fared much better otherwise. She's an archaeologist, but the cool kind, looking for hidden treasures, fighting mummies and tomb raiders- actually, that was the name of the game. Yeah, and she's animated but- she was always wearing tank tops and shorts and all."

"Oh God," Natasha remarks with amusement. "That is horrible ."

"Was just a joke," Tony defends. "Yeah, and the lady from Resident Evil fights vampires, in similar garments. You get the picture."

"Have you ever seen me in shorts ?" Natasha questions. "That's ridiculous. So you were just hitting on me while I was asleep."

"Not that asleep, apparently," Tony points out wistfully. "Nah, just pointing out the archetype, extra tough sexy badass and all. And, well, looks really cool from a distance, not sure it's as cool when you get closer."

"You were totally attracted to me when I got here," Natasha recalls. "But then you tried to set me up with your best friend and- I don't know, I never took it seriously. Also, you were with Pepper and I'm really not a homewrecker."

"So vampires are cool but taken guys aren't?" Tony prompts. "Also, if you'd let yourself be set up, you wouldn't be in this mess."

"Yep, and I'd also be either dead or a vampire right now," Natasha returns. "Doesn't that sound great."

"I think you're well on your way to being dead but Bobbi seems to disagree, so what do I know." Tony rubs his forehead. "But- Barton ?"

Natasha snorts. "You're really blowing this way out of proportion. And don't give me that shit that he's older than me, you're all older than me except for Sharon, and I already got that from the vampire."

"The fuck does he think he can tell you," Tony remarks. "When he's basically a hundred years old."

"Eh, don't worry about it," Natasha returns, picking up another carrot. "I mean, he went pretty hard to our side. A traitor of all vampirekind or whatever."

"You just enjoy making people do radical stuff, don't you?" Tony grins. "Manipulating people, having that power. Don't think Lara Croft was like that."

"Yeah, maybe stop comparing me to pixel women in shorts," she counters. "Just trying not to get killed, thank you very much."

"Hey guys." Bobbi turns the corner, yawning. "How are you? Don't listen to Tony."

"What'd I do to you?" Tony complains.

Bobbi snorts, crossing her arms. "Is he telling you you can't be a hunter? Cause that's what he used to tell me."

"Not true," Tony objects. "I said you weren't ready to be a hunter. And then you went out anyway and promptly got hurt."

Bobbi shrugs. "Learning by doing. Honestly, Pepper would have started going out much earlier if you hadn't told her it's too dangerous."

Natasha follows the exchange with amusement, nibbling on her carrot. "It is dangerous!" Tony defends. "And I built her the suit, don't act like I wasn't supporting her."

"Y'all can't deal with loss, is what I'm saying," Bobbi returns. "You only built her the suit because she was about ready to break up with you. Different kind of loss."

Tony snorts. "You know what, I really didn't miss that argument."

"You guys seem fun," Natasha throws in. "I'm good, by the way."

"Yeah, I actually came down so we could do some prenatal prep," Bobbi replies. "Because you only got two weeks."

"What the fuck is that?" Natasha asks.

Bobbi grins, gliding her hands into the pockets of her sweatpants. "Pushing and breathing. Not much more. Certain muscles you need. It's pretty awkward, though, so let's better do it downstairs or somewhere else private."

"I thought you'd just do a C-section," Tony suggests.

"Not if I can avoid it," Bobbi replies. "Not sure we have the equipment for that. Risk of infection, risk of strong bleeding, I'd rather try the vaginal route if it's possible."

"...I'm just gonna keep that joke to myself," Tony suggests.

"Thanks," Bobbi replies. "Very generous of you."

  "Tony said you were doing lady stuff," Pepper remarks, putting her helmet down. "And we want in on that."

"What, you also want prenatal prep?" Bobbi asks, spinning in her chair like she was born in it. "How was patrol? Quiet night?"

"Quite the opposite," Sharon replies, hopping onto a table. "Saw three vampires. One got away. All fledglings, they must have come in from outside town."

"Three?" Natasha repeats with worry. "We haven't seen a single one in weeks ."

"Maybe that was your friend's doing," Pepper suggests, pulling off the shoulder plates. "You should ask him. Where is he, by the way?"

"I don't know, guess he left," Natasha admits. "He'll come back sometime."

She hates how vague that sounds, but she really doesn't know. "He ran into Steve, didn't he?" Sharon suggests. "That probably scared him."

Right. Completely harmless explanation. "Oh, but this is great," Pepper remarks, brushing through her hair. "I haven't met so many friends in a long time."

"Yeah, tell me everything!" Bobbi encourages, giggling. "How are things with Tony?"

"Pretty good," Pepper replies, also leaning against the table. "Really good actually. I still have to kick him once in a while but not as often. So I'm pretty happy."

"Kicking him sounds kind of fun, though," Sharon remarks. "Am I wrong?"

Pepper snorts, crossing her legs. "Sometimes. Mostly, it's annoying."

"Still sounds better than when I left," Bobbi insists, crossing her arms. "Honestly, I wouldn't have bet on you two making it. You know, Tony being Tony. Reason enough to dump him."

"He's really improved!" Pepper returns. "Anyway. What about your new guy?"

Bobbi sighs. "Eh, he's fine. Drives me nuts. In the good ways and the bad ways. But it doesn't have to be perfect and it doesn't have to be forever, so it's fine."

Sharon shrugs. "I don't know. Dating someone you hunt with sounds like a hassle."

"Oh yeah, why not date someone you hunt?" Bobbi interrupts. "Like a vampire?"

Sharon giggles. "Oh, come on! No offense, Natasha."

"No problem," Natasha replies, even though this whole situation freaks her out. Like, what is she supposed to say? She's sitting there, stone-faced, just listening and waiting-

"That has to be really weird, though," Pepper states. "Physically weird. Just their body temperature, and everything they smell… and the fangs!"

Bobbi chuckles. "Why not ask? Hey Nat, come on, we want to hear something."

Shit. "Oh, we won't tell," Sharon promises. "Ladies' room promise."

Natasha groans, rubbing her face. "Fine. The… what was it?"

"Body temperature, fangs, weird dick, anything," Bobbi repeats. "The juicier, the better."

Natasha snorts. "His dick's perfectly normal. Though- nah, I'm not sure I wanna tell you that."

Bobbi groans. "You motherfucking tease."

"That bad?" Sharon encourages, smiling way too nicely.

Urgh, fine, she's gonna die sooner rather than later anyway. "Not bad. Just, he always has two orgasms. One with just a little bit of stimulation and then he's still hard, you know, second orgasm a while later, everything normal. But it's always two."

"Oh my God, tell me more." Bobbi swirls in her chair, crunching up her face. "But he ejaculates both times?"

What an ugly word. "Yeah, but not very much. Anyway, I think that's all the vampire stuff."

"But he's cold, isn't he?" Pepper questions.

Natasha sighs, letting her head drop back against the pillow. "Sometimes. Just, when you touch him, he gets warmer? In the beginning, it took a while but now, he's basically always warm around me, even before I touch him. And softer, too, just more human, you know? And it worked on the other black cloak, too, not just on James. I don't know."

"The fuck," Bobbi remarks. "Just around you? No one else? That's creepy."

"I don't think anyone else really touched him," Sharon throws in. "So we don't know. Maybe it's psychological, you know, because he's only attracted to her."

"Yeah, we should test that," Bobbi suggests. "Just hold his hand for a while, see what happens."

Natasha snorts. "Well, ask him. When he comes back."

There's a knock on the door and it takes them all a moment to realize it's not the door to upstairs but the one in the back. Sharon hops off the table. "Is that the room with the ice block?" Bobbi asks. "Is that where you put him?"

"Steve," Sharon replies tensely. Pepper walks to the door. "Yes."

Pepper pulls the door open. It's indeed Steve, steadied against the wall. He doesn't look good but he never really does. "Hello," Pepper starts in her professional secretary voice. "I think Sam is still asleep but maybe we can help you?"

Steve blinks at them slowly. Sharon's knuckles are white against the edge of the table. "Oh, no, I really don't want to bother you, I don't need anything, just- do you mind if I join you?"

"Oh, sure thing." Bobbi gets up and pushes her chair towards him. "Here, sit down. No need to exhaust yourself."

Steve drops heavily into the chair. "Thank you. Uh, you're… you're not Sharon, are you?"

"Nope," Bobbi replies cheerfully, pointing to her right. "That's Sharon. That's Natasha, that's Pepper and I'm Bobbi. You're Steve."

Steve smiles as soon as he sees Sharon. "Oh, hey. I saw you- I don't know how long ago that was. Maybe a few days?"

Yeah, and he talked to Natasha yesterday but maybe he already forgot that. "Hey," Sharon blurts out. "I'm- Grandma is- I'm Peggy's granddaughter. She's my grandma."

Steve just blinks for a while. "I'm sorry, I'm still- oh, the- Peggy? Peggy Carter? From Britain?"

"Yes!" Sharon exclaims. "Sorry. Well, after the war, she got married and had my mom and- well, my mom had me and here we are, I guess."

Steve smiles again. "Oh, I see the- the resemblance now. Is she- How is she?"

Sharon giggles. "Oh, good. I mean, she's getting old but still holding on as always, you know her. I haven't seen her in a while, though, travel is very difficult."

"Oh, I absolutely remember that," Steve replies. "She was so determined and disciplined and smart, of course- oh, but she has to be very old now, the- what year is it again?"

"She's 78," Sharon says. "It's 1999. December 1999."

"Wow." Steve rubs his swollen red face. "That- I won't get used to that anytime soon."

Bobbi chuckles. "Uh, should we let y'all work that out alone or…?"

Steve turns. "Sorry, Ma'am. Are- You sound Southern."

"Georgia," Bobbi confirms. "But I'm not related to anyone. And I don't live here anymore, normally. Transferred to Florence, Italy."

"Oh, and I talked to you- was that yesterday?" Steve turns to her lying on the bed. "Was- It was Natasha, wasn't it?"

"Yep," Natasha replies. "Still very visibly pregnant, so I guess you won't confuse me."

Steve blushes, remembering. "Right. Is- is Bucky here?"

"No, he left," Natasha tells him. "Guess he needed some space, after running into you."

Steve groans. "Right, sorry. Does- wait, he would remember Peggy, too, wouldn't he?"

"James doesn't remember shit," Natasha returns. "Sorry. Not Peggy, not you, not anything before he turned into a vampire. Maybe it'll come back slowly but not right now."

"That's- unfortunate." Steve sighs. "That's probably why he- well, I guess he doesn't want to see me then."

"Natasha is a little harsh," Sharon admonishes. "I'm sure he'll remember eventually and it'll all work out."

"Yeah, after the vampire baby bullshit, nothing surprises me anymore," Bobbi remarks.

Steve blushes again. "Uh, so- what are you guys doing here? You're not from here, are you?"

"Oh, I'm Czech," Pepper replies. "Little village in Southern Bohemia, near the Austrian border. Came to Prague to get a job, ended up at this American company that was just getting started over here- with a really, let's say, eccentric boss- yes, and then the vampires. Let's say it really didn't go the way I planned."

"I'm Russian," Natasha adds. "Or I was."

"British American," Sharon states.

"But-" Steve coughs. "Pepper?"

"Oh, that's not my actual name," Pepper replies. "It's Jindřiška. But none of you can say that, so Tony called me Pepper and that stuck."

"And Tony is the-" Steve prompts.

"You saw him already, he was working on James' arm yesterday," Natasha remarks.

"He used to be my boss," Pepper explains. "He's sort of an engineer, an inventor. His company, the one he inherited from his father, used to produce weapons but he's moved it to energy production, reactors and the like, all of it renewable. Though it feels like he really worked on everything at some point, just like Bruce."

Steve rubs his temples. "Oh man. Who is Bruce again?"

"Our resident doctor," Bobbi replies. "He's brilliant, really. Fury recruited him. He used to study biochemistry somewhere in Sweden but when you break your arm, he'll fix that, too."

"Bobbi is a doctor, too," Pepper points out.

"Yeah, different kind, though." Bobbi shakes her head. "I got a medical degree, too, but I specialize in women's health. That's actually how I got here, because I volunteered in the early nineties when they didn't have enough experts in that around here, a lot of them had emigrated. Well, the thing is, babies tend to get born in the middle of the night, so I had to make spontaneous visits while the vampires are out in the streets. Clint started to accompany me, to convoy me so I could do my job without getting killed and… yeah, I wanted to be a hunter, too. So now I'm both."

"People really have a lot less babies now," Sharon remarks. "Not the world you want your child to grow up in."

Steve coughs, swallows. "Right. Uh, so… what did you do, before, Sharon?"

"Nothing," Sharon replies, smiling. "Just finished school. I've always been a hunter."

"Oh yeah," Natasha agrees. "Me too."

"Oh, but Natasha is probably the best tracker in the world," Sharon points out. "Really. She's been doing this longer than any of us."

How she wishes she hadn't. Maybe then she wouldn't be so tired from it. Steve looks confused once more. "What's a tracker?"

"That's a kind of hunter, someone who's very good at finding vampires," Sharon explains. "In the early days, they traveled, following specific vampires and hunting them down, but these days, there are just too bloody many. It's still useful, though, on patrols. I'm a tracker, too."

"Well, I think now we've got everyone," Pepper remarks. "Except for Clint, he's the one with the bow-"

"The- sorry for interrupting," Steve interjects. "With the bow ?"

Bobbi snorts. "Yeah, the bow. Gotta say, it's efficient because you only need to make the tip of the arrow out of silver, instead of the whole knife. But mostly, he just likes to be special or he'd use a gun. Oh, we used to date, if you didn't notice already."

"And Fury, of course," Pepper adds. "Fury is- well, Fury. You'll know when you see him. Rumor is he was a CIA agent stationed somewhere in the Eastern Bloc, and he just stayed around after. And this is not the first station he's run. But really, we don't know, he's not one to share."

"Could you- tell me about Sam, too?" Steve asks.

"His parents were from Angola," Bobbi tells him. "He came here very young. His dad was- was it agriculture? I don't know, he was some technical expert. They came here as refugees, from the civil war, and his father went through East Berlin to West Berlin to the US, trying to get a green card there. Of course, that took years, so Sam mostly grew up here. Yeah, and then he moved to the US, joined the Airforce, all that. Came back when vampires were starting to become a thing here."

"Oh yes, he said it- there are more here?" Steve states tentatively. "Vampires, I mean."

"Yeah, it started in Russia," Natasha remarks. "And you can thank your buddy for that."

Bobbi snaps around. "Wait, what?!"

"He told me," Natasha admits. "Schmidt sent him and he bit four people in Moscow, four in Saint Petersburg. Eight in total. There were others sent to other countries but those were the first ones."

"That motherfucker. " Bobbi snorts, crossing her arms. "I'm definitely not holding his hand anymore."

Steve blushes. "Uh, were you going to…?"

"Oh, we thought about doing an experiment," Sharon explains. "We were talking about that, actually, before- Well, vampires are usually cold, you know? But Natasha said her friend's not cold when she touches him, so… we just wanted to find out how that works."

Steve blushes even more, probably every time he's reminded his old buddy-new vampire knocked her up. "Oh. Didn't think about that."

"Only eight people?" Pepper repeats. "Really?"

"He thought that was enough," Natasha replies. "And boy it was."

"Wait, just so I get that right," Steve interjects. "Bucky caused a global vampire epidemic?"

Well, calling him Bucky really doesn't help. "Pretty much. He didn't know much about the others. I should mention there's some form of mind control involved, from a vampire to the vampire that bit them, though not in every case. Schmidt bit all of the black cloaks, so…"

"Mind control, too?" Bobbi snorts. "Oh, fuck that. That's bullshit."

All that cursing doesn't appear to be good for Steve, blushing and coughing. "But we don't really know how that works either, do we?" Sharon adds.

Natasha shakes her head. "Well, that's going to be an issue if Schmidt shows up."

"Uh, why would Schmidt- he's the Nazi vampire, right?" Steve asks. "Why would he show up? And what are black cloaks?"

Bobbi groans, rolling her head. "Oh man, we're going to be here for a long time, aren't we?"

  They don't get a lot further until Steve is so overwhelmed and tired he goes straight back to bed. Natasha eats a huge amount of pasta and then falls asleep quickly. She's always so hungry and so tired now, though it got better with the vampire blood. She wakes when someone sits down on her bed. It's dark. She blinks. Oh, right. The warm stone touches her shoulder. She yawns. "Oh, you're back."

He sighs. "Yeah. Sorry I ran. It wasn't about you."

"He was here," she remarks. "Earlier today. And man, you really have to explain that guy everything ."

He chuckles, rubbing his ear. "Yeah. I don't know, I'll figure it out. I mean, I'll have to, whether I want it or not."

"You'll figure it out," she agrees. "And you don't have to become best friends with him at all, just clear the air a little."

He shrugs. "Somehow, yeah. And… I'm sorry, I'm sure you didn't want that reaction from me, about the pregnancy. You must have hoped I would be happier about it."

She sighs. "I don't know. There's no right way to feel about this. I didn't expect you to cheer for something that was really bad for my health."

He takes her hand and rubs it. "You smell better, by the way. Less dead, more vampire. I- I can't smell the baby, I think."

"Maybe that's part of the vampire smell," she suggests. "Look, I thought about what you said, that you can't really do this, and- it's okay. I still want to have it. You're enough as you are. Just love me, and support me. That's all I need."

He smiles, golden streaks flashing in the dark. "Always. I will try to look forward to it, then."

She snorts, placing his hand on her rounded belly. "Oh, yes. I also look forward to when this is over."