#me when there is a robot in a video game

[spiderdotexe]

i like metal sonic (i havent beaten a single sonic game)

[froggymug]

"IT'S!! TV!! TIME!!!"

Naturally, I am hopelessly bewitched by the Deltarune CRT............. I need him so bad-

Ahem. Yearning aside, wanted to doodle my own take on his design! If I draw him again, will definitely go for something simpler, but this was fun!

(Bonus variations include a "base" nekkid design and a Sphinx Tenna! He so kitty cat :3)

[lambda-core]

I am way too tired/jetlagged to make this post right now, but the reason Armada Starscream is so specifically well done to me actually isn't just the way he's got more depth than just wanting to take over Megatron. It's the way he falls back on this image he has of himself as someone who is solely focused on Megatron. And he is obsessed with Megatron, but the disconnect between Starscream and his image of himself is what gives him actual depth.

The reason this is so cool to me is like, that self-image--that he is single-mindedly obsessed with Megatron and will sacrifice everything else for that goal, no matter who gets hurt--is pretty close to what every other Starscream is. (The selfishness you associate with Starscream is a little more subtle, but it's there in the "no matter who gets hurt" clause imo.)

So if you go into this as a Transformers fan, you're already expecting Starscream to betray Megatron and try to best him and rule the Decepticons. But so does Starscream, even when he's demonstrably proven to both his peers and the audience that he's more than that. It's almost like his past incarnations--or the audience's expectation of him--haunt him. It turns his own internal man-versus-self conflict into this really cool man-versus-narrative conflict.

And what's crazy about this is, through the last moments of this arc, Starscream does grow beyond the narrative we'd expect from other Starscreams! But he never admits that to himself, because it's easier for him to cling to the idea that he's laser-focused on his hatred of Megatron. Every time he helps the minicons--every time he helps the humans--even in his last words, he LIES to himself and everyone around him that everything he did was always about Megatron. Because it's easier to simplify himself than to grasp that he might be a complex character. Because he's a person and he has all the messy conflicts that come with that. He falls back on the same ideas every single other Starscream did, and THAT is his undoing. Not that he is self-centered because he's Starscream. Not that he is obsessed with Megatron because he's Starscream. That he THINKS he is all of those things and he will not LET himself be anything else.

I would argue that that's a bigger theme in Armada, as well. Optimus and Megatron more or less spend their final fight coming to terms with their story roles in Transformers. I really feel like if you sneezed on them, they would realize they do this in every universe and in every timeline. Starscream's is the most interesting example to me, though, because he's such a departure from other versions of Starscream; hell, he acts (and looks, lol) a lot more like some incarnations of Thundercracker. But he's still got classic Starscream in him in this roundabout meta reference. He's like an homage to his namesake. It's so cool! And it works perfectly with the story he's a part of.

[chimerahyperfix]

You’re looking for something— no, someone, too, aren’t you?

(I can’t comprehend how you understand what’s going on, with your lifeless shell. Craft as you are.)

[blueskyheadleft010]

Murder Drones, Voltron, Portal/Portal 2, Motorcity, Bionicle, Symbionic Titan, Daft Punk, Video Games & Consoles, Tetris, TRON, 3D polygons & geometry

Nononononononono it’s always been about machinery hasn’t it?!?

[astral-scout]

brother watches youtube shorts on the living room tv and it comes from inside by the living tombstone seems to be one of the trendy youtube shorts songs ? and every time i hear it my fnaf phase twitches from its place buried deep in the back of my mind . i feel like watching a matpat video

[friedpunster]

Clown to clown communnication

Clown to clown conversation

[krispshep]

The Constant Battle of Will

[asterdeer]

i had really hoped that sonic heroes would be an easier game to play than sa2 and in some ways it is (no! chaos emerald! hide and seek stages!!!!) but it's still very frustrating that it takes me so many tries to beat just one stage - i think i'm just used to games where they make it so it's conceivable to win a level or a combat situation the first time around if you're good enough, whereas with sa2 and heroes it feels very much like you have to fail a handful of times to see what you're actually up against and to prepare for the next time, and that's extremely offputting to me. and the homing attack is somehow Even Worse than it was in sa2, which is SAYING SOMETHING.

however tonight i realized that my gamecube controller joystick has a weird thing where it sticks to one side sometimes in a way that is hard to notice when you're locked in the game, so it's possible that i've been playing these games with a significant handicap. in which case i don't feel quite so bad for sucking so spectacularly at an easy game for babies.

[teethsmoothie]

i wasn't sure abt putting alla this in the tags of the post i just rbd but, i think the biggest thing about mascot horror, to me, is that not much of it can successfully impart the feeling of being a Small Child near a Thing that you are Scared Of and you don't know Why .

and everyone around you is laughing about it, the adults that are in charge of what's going on around you. telling you, oh you're so silly. for being scared of chuck e cheese wanting a hug. or, from your perspective, the gargantuan rat that wants to Fucking Grab You .

& they're telling you not to be scared but you Are and you don't Know Why so in your scared little childmind you've decided that this object of your terror must be Fucking Evil. which in the moment the logic tracks because in the moment you are In Fucking Hell

[hydrasaura]

i love how chiro spends the entirety of ep 1 trying to impress jinmay with his powers and the robot/monkeys only for her to return as a 10 story tall mecha. Chiro should've just said ''ok you win, you're way cooler''

[totally-not-a-fae]

all fictional robots are so sad :(

[oasis-j]

Sad bc the game I made up in my head just now doesn't exist

[supermacaquecool]

I never finished Metroid Samus Returns (3ds Remake), but the insectoid Metroid were so fucking cool, I remember wanting to draw them

[lesenbyan]

I really do honestly love that despite the Sci Fi, Star Rail, inarguably, now has, three physically disabled characters, including two 4* ....amputees? Missing arms, anyhow, and one 5* cane user who is also Main Cast (when will Welt come home to me)

[snekdood]

ppl used to try to make fun of me for using zoo tycoon as a reference for animal shit and idk man like.... the game is literally built off the idea of educating you, it literally has an encyclopedia that tells you not only about the animals but also about the plants too. yeah its a tycoon game but thats only if you focus on it in that sense, personally i dont, I've always liked playing it to learn more about the behaviors of animals. sure things are generalized here and there and not 100% accurate- partially bc it was made in the early 2000's and we've probably acquired more info since then, but regardless its still pretty solid and taught me a lot about certain animals growing up, which other tycoon games dont really offer... anything teach-worthy.