#macrohard

[kakeklawar]

our man X would never do this irl unless this raises his trust value, lemme be delulu tho

[thehappyloaf]

My favourite Excel formula is CUMPRINC()

Because I am the CUMPRINC(rate, nper, PV, start, end, type)

[fugu-in-f]

[call-of-duty-incorrect-quotes]

Exfil thoughts with Soap MacTavish.

Soap: The opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire.

[drenosa]

Weiss: *Just enjoying her day off*

Yang: *Leans into view* Hey, Weiss! The opposite of Microsoft Off-ice is Macrohard On-fire!

Weiss: *Momentarily shook, sighs before taking a deep breath*

~~~~~~~~~~

Ruby: *Lighting another fire* I thought you learned already not to bother Weiss on her days off.

Yang: *Encased in ice up to her neck, surrounded by multiple bonfires to try and melt it all* Still worth it...

Blake: *Chipping away with a hammer and chisel, baps Yang on the head* That ice Dust is coming out of your own pockets. Your antics are already straining our allotments.

Yang: Slightly less worth it...

[angelhareincorrectquotes]

Jonah: The opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire.

Zag: It’s too early for this…

Gabby: Let’s hear him out.

[nameless-brand]

Thank you to Nata for giving me a clone of my phone except it has direct Tunglr access. I have difficulty using the Daydream, and so long as Lillian is outside of the Nameless City, I can't use it anyway.

I guess people want a bit of an update from my side of things.

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The mana density in the world has increased. And it's been discovered that similar to how mana congregates around subway stations in a city, it also congregates in caves in the wild.

This has manifested as increased intelligence and strength of wild animals. Some have even gained abilities similar to a meta-gene, except magical in nature. Fortunately, powerful animals affected by mana tend to be territorial and stay in their territory.

It's why we haven't really heard anything for the past couple months. They don't particularly care about humans. Those animals are too busy hunting their own kind in order to devour and increase their own strength. So those that actually attack humans are very rare - usually it's a hunter that's pissed them off in some way.

The ones in the Appalachian mountains have been particularly agitated as of late. Part of it is the army bringing hundreds of loud kids in the mountains.

But really, it's them bringing one very specific kid whose presence is actively ticking off the wildlife - and likely driving off whatever powerful creature was in the area, causing a chain reaction.

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Also, the Free States, The Lone Star, and the United States of America are working together to create their own oligarchies. It isn't completely confirmed, but given how each one has sent me incredibly insulting offers for my company, there's not really much else it could be.

The Free States located at the West Coast is primarily run by the major Silicon Valley companies including Googol and Macrohard. Lone Star is controlled by a large congolomerate of Health Insurance companies and Hospitals as well as Big Oil. And United States of America is controlled by the current federal government who is a shill for Edison and Jungle. I've heard they're going to combine together in a conglomerate any day now.

The internet companies are special in the sense they're already combined into one entity known as DynaNet. And all three countries in America have passed laws requiring real-life ID log-in to be done as soon as possible - tied into an active SIM card and government ID.

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As for Lillian, we're going to visit her this weekend. I'm busy forging documentation as to why Lillian would be unfit to join the army - despite the fact that she probably is the best fit that the army has ever seen. Particularly her love for routine and her tendency to simply obey orders that aren't absolutely jarring to her. I haven't even talked about her more anomalous abilities.

I'm crossing my fingers that no one's noticed much.

...Our back-up plan is that we lure one of these super-monsters from the mountains and have Lillian pretend to be severely wounded and in needed of more care.

I know a doctor who would probably be sympathetic to our cause. The fact she's NC's premier neurosurgeon helps.

[asknarashikari]

Aruto: The opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard OnFire.

Ace: *groans heavily* Please just stop it, senpai... just stop.

Sento: Now I can't fucking sleep. Thanks, Aruto.

Riders reaction?

[the-real-google]

The opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire and that says a lot about society, in this essay I will—

You got a chuckle out of me. Are you proud of what you have done? Will you sleep tonight satisfied that your joke made the user behind Tumblr blog @the-real-google do a little chuckle?

[catherine-clover]

Once every year, the dying creative soul of Mojang lets out an increasingly loud scream before going back to being suffocated and impersonated by Microsoft.

[catxolotlquoise]

Welp, I'm royally screwed. Windows decided to eat itself :D

Macrohard FUCKING Windows decided to doesn't want to do its job anymore and fucks off. Leaving me high and dry with no way to get my shit

Translation:

Windows OS files corrupted to the point it 'deleted' itself. Causing the painful "total identified windows installations: 0" that even system restore could fix. APPARENTLY, Windows can just decide to do this shit whenever it fucking wants everytime you turn off your pc. Like. THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN??????

Now I have to go and reinstall windows. Hope and pray I can still save my files

[lastcompact]

These random encounters with assholes are getting a little too frequent. People are really getting into the apocalypse shit and are literally living like there's no tomorrow which includes randomly accosting people on the street.

I scared a couple off just brandishing the bat, but there were some that were more persistent.

Ironically, the city's probably the most stable out of other places. Some smaller countries are in complete government collapse because of rioting and revolution. America's ironically starting to become one of those smaller countries with the new president starting to significantly decentralize power - and having a full legislative and judicial branch aligned with him to pull it off.

Unsurprisingly, companies have started to pick up the gap. California and the West might as well be Jungle and Macrohard territory, promising money and housing for talents to move there. Particularly, metahumans. Kaibacorp's making the same offer for people to immigrate to Japan.

The northern lights seems to have moved off above the Nameless City and towards the waters. I don't know why. But that brings me a sense of relief. And then I'm nervous again since these northern lights are popping all over the place.

[burning-brightly]

So, after hearing Lils butcher about how much actual drama is going on here, I feel like I need to intervene.

Everything started with the Portals. They're kinda changing people - not in the Italy-zombie-apocalypse-way - but people who are near a portal tend to get some sort of benefit from it. Like improving health and vitality. Old people are getting rejuvenated and stuff. But it only happens with certain Portals. Yes, you probably heard that Portals also had valuable resources, which they do, but old rich people nearing death will sacrifice their fortune just to get a couple extra years of life.

The Portals I'm mentioning almost seem to reverse aging if you're around them long enough, sooooo they're a really big deal.

The BIG companies like Jungle, Edison, Macrohard (not sure why they made the name change recently), and Pear made a move on these specific portals all over the nation. And because of some loopholes in the law and the fact Companies can effectively have a standing army in the form of a "security force", they took many of those properties by force. This naturally led to several disputes between Companies.

As for Cassiel Manufacturing, we practically own Wisconsin so we didn't really have to lift a finger. None of my family needed to fight. And companies who tried to start one - cough, Edison and kryffin Musk - got run out of town. Their Cybertruck plant in the area, after it was abandoned, suffered an explosion. They're trying to sue my dad, but my dad made the argument that Musk's stuff tended to fail explosively anyway and the argument stuck.

However, the whole fighting across the globe by companies and governments translated to worsening civil unrest, which meant more fights between superheroes and so-called supervillains.

Companies start hiring more meta-humans to act more of a military arm, which the government responded to by barely passing an emergency meta-human registration act. It's currently under appeal. I asked my dad to do something about it cause it's going to mess with Ava, but apparently there's so many interested parties involved that he can't pull strings to just get the law repealed outright.

The Nameless City is taking the brunt of the chaos, even compared to capital cities like D.C. or Seattle. Because there's always been a huge superhero - supervillain scene, popularized by the rumored Batman and his sidekick. Except now the rumored Batman hasn't been seen in months aside from some imitations. The chaos got so bad that Blackgate Prison was broken into and taken over by a bunch of supervillains - and that the supervillains themselves are amassing an army of their own.

At least until a good number of them couldn't control their own ego and ended up splintering the army apart. One of them destroyed a bridge on the way out, which led to the food shortage because the port is half-capacity - and the other bridge has been broken from the start.

There's a lot of secret fighting involving the Eastside Ports between companies, because whoever controlled the port essentially controls the City.

Sato's retainer already shut down most of the supermarkets in the city because of the very real danger except for the one near the Inn, which got converted to a food bank. They're also using it as a means to distribute seeds to other people for their own planting.

I got permission from the retainer to add another building for my little Cult aspirations - 57 people! - after the people who got displaced from being "laid off" from the supermarkets joined. I suspect people aren't taking our setting as seriously as they should, but they're at least wearing the Sun-Moon-Star, so I can't complain lol. We've started farming on the rooftop and side areas.

And that, my friends, is the city's current situation.

[harry--vincent]

The physical is becoming lost, only tokens of what was remain. Devices conjured from the scraps of now, display a relic. A shadow. An etched effigy of the past. Like a snow globe, the encapsulated is being unto itself.

𝘈𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 DiSC “ST. MARY’S CHURCH” on AMBER STASIS DEVICE 01.

[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]

TRANSCRIPT:

[device clicks] Location: 51 degrees, 32 minutes 55.9 seconds North. 0 degrees, 42 minutes, 20.9 seconds East. Thread: biological parents’ wedding consummation. Documentation Date: 9, 7, 1994. A path begins here in the destruction of two others. One lineage continued. One lost. Will this hybrid usurp the existing? Or is it doomed to continue the thread? Signals suggest the former. Life, however, has other plans, we- [radio static] [device unclicks]

‘Bespoke Acrylic info-coded disc-like sheet render inserted into a composite of existing imagery, forming an AMBER STASIS DEVICE.’

IMAGE SOURCES: Device Body: iStock 92019028. Grill: iStock 527515345. Button and Ridge: iStock 452100979. Lights: iStock 185858156. Acrylic Sheet Mock-up: by Harry Vincent.

TYPEFACES: [Disc Logo] ‘Times New Roman’ by Stanley Morison. ‘Arial’ by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. [Information] ‘Arial’ (Various weights) by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. [MacroHard Logo] ‘Helvetica Black Oblique’ by Max Miedinger.

REFERENCES: “I’m in.” Opening sequence from ’The Matrix Reloaded’ (2003), by The Wachowskis. SAMSUNG SPH-N270. Acrylic Business Card, by Dan Barkle. Microsoft Windows 95 Software 3.5" Floppy Disk.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A portrait image of a Red and Orange Acrylic arched window-shaped sheet with engravings on it, plugged into a Blue-ish Grey device, with small buttons on. The device glows when connected together, and all on a Black background.

[kennykoo]

Totally didn't forget about Tumblr or anything... some random doodles in Macrohard paint

[lunaremerald21]

The opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire