#nameless blu engineer

[arushofbulletstothehead]

Guys who are most likely dead in canon

[adacatlovelace]

Okay I think I finally understand Emesis Blue. Major Spoilers below.

So the first thing you have to understand about Emesis Blue is that, while it seems to change a lot of TF2's lore at first, it simply grounds it in reality to examine how such an wacky insane world could be possible and the ramifications of many things we simply take for granted.

It begins with the CEO of Helix Industries funding a respawn machine to give Redmond and Blutarch bodies for their outrageously long gravel war. It works through the use of time manipulation, bring a person back from death by rewinding their timeline back to when they were alive. This can also be done multiple times to create copies of people. However, their consciousness still dies, leaving them to experience an eternity, driving them insane. This is the "Respawn Gap" the time between death and respawn. This is treated with Diazapam disguised as Valium to make them forget the respawn gap

10 people are found to be respawn compatible, but the nameless DOD solider/10th class was subjected to the respawn gap so much that they'd immediately kill themselves upon respawn. However, soldier became the perfect candidate for all the tests done. He didn't need to take the diazapam because his mind was already broken. (As an aside, I dont think the soldier in Emasis Blue actually served in the military. Hell, soldiers whole thing is thinking that he did because he's an absolute lunatic)

At some point, Archibald stepped down from Helix, leaving the faceless man in black in charge while Archibald took over running Builders League for Blutarch Mann. Still needing someone to do his dirty work, he hires Spy as his right hand man, tasking him with first executing Heavy, Sniper and Scout for "Treason" (Not clear what actually caused it, but those three are important)

Meanwhile, the Conagher Slaughterhouse is converted from a testing site for the respawn machine to a disposal site for the many corpses from both testing and the gravel wars, run the Conagher "brothers" two flawed respawn clones of the engineer.

On top of this, the Man in Black utilized it to continue research the means of true immortality, without the flaws of the respawn machine. To accomplish this, he brings in a Red Medic as well as Sniper and Heavy, previously killed by BLU and now working with the man in Black. Alongside them, he also brings in a respawn clone of Ludwig, the Plague Doctor or M, as well as Pyro, who likely took the job out of their own sadistic nature.

It blurs the line between Ludwig and M becuase the fact of the matter is that they are the same person, M simply being a version of Ludwig that didn't have the madness brought on by the Respawn Gap. Unfortunately for Scout, the respawn machine malfunctions and he's officially fired from BLU. Not wanting to take the hit lying down, he plans on taking legal action against BLU, either risking drawing attention to Helix or simply causing trouble for BLU. As a result, M and Pyro are sent to make him disappear.

However, like the darkness that Ludwig is constantly fighting, theres still a trace of good in M. Like M from the movie, he wanted the death to end so he works to bring Ludwig to Conagher Slaughterhouse, knowing Spy and Soldier to follow them and for them to learn the truth.

At the same time, information about the respawn testing is begins to surface and Archibald needs to disappear for a bit, planning on using the respawn machine at the slaughterhouse to come back when things either clear up or he can make an escape. However, the respawn machine in the slaughterhouse had whatever device was responsible for the time manipulation previously moved somewhere else that needed it and needed to be transported back by Heavy.

So the events of Emesis BLU happen, M locking Archibald in the dungeon to trap him so that he could be found and likely killed by Spy. Various time anomalies happen due to the presence of the briefcase. Everything comes crashing down and Ludwig shoots himself knowing that M is still out there, waiting to enact the final part of his plan. M kills Spy, Soldier kills Blutarch (and inadvertently Redmond) M crashes his ambulance, and Medics fractured soul finally finds peace in the afterlife.

However, like demo says "Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself" referring to the man in black.

[sophiasharp]

I don’t have time to work on it, what with college kicking my whole ass, but if I DO ever get the time of day to write it, there’s an au I’ve been thinking about centering around the Man vs Machine robot war, particularly how strange the Engineer-bots are in comparison to the rest of the Mann-bots. A post from Twitter pointed out that their animations are the only one that aren’t made especially robotic movement-wise, and they talk less robotic in the comic too.

Made me wonder how advanced those guys are, whether they might be more sentient than your average bot. Are they aware of their own programming? If so, how much? Could they edit if they wanted to? What is keeping them from breaking free of Grey Mann’s control if they saw fit?

Then I remembered that the common fanon explanation for why the Mann-bots act the way they do is that the code they’re built from is copies of the merc’s memories scraped from the respawn system. And, well.

Picture this: you are Dell Conagher, arguably one of the smartest people on the planet, 11 phd’s in hard science mechanical genius.

One moment, you’re in battle, just another day of fighting the good fight against the BLU team, however pointless of a fight it may be. The next, you’re back out of respawn and… the match is over? No, it’s before the next match. You’re about to go out and fight the good fight again. Where did the time go in between?

You sees your team around you, waiting for the match to start, but there’s something strange about them. If you wait, you can see their actions go in a loop: Scout taunts Spy, Spy rolls his eyes with a huff, Heavy offers Medic a sandvich, Sniper checks his rifle, Soldier pulls Demo into a friendly headlock, Pyro flicks a lighter on and off, and then it repeats back to Scout.

You thump your wrench in your hand, a comforting habit of yours on the battlefield. You’re not fighting right now but some reason, you don’t want to stop.

It’s when you look down at your hands that you realize something. Back when you replaced your hand with the gunslinger, superior to your flesh and blood though it was, took some getting used to. Yes, the mechanical hand was ridiculous advanced and functioned better than your old one, but it didn’t feel the same. Touch felt muted, like the memory of a sensation rather than true sensation, and it was always just a little cold unless you went through the trouble of warming it.

It occurs to you now that your entire body feels like the Gunslinger.

Suddenly, the reality around you shatters. You are not in the respawn room, you are in a strange, gigantic storage hanger. Your teammates are no longer your teammates, they are metal men made in their vague image, built and rebuilt by the hundreds. You look down at yourself and see metal arms, metal legs, metal chest, all painted and structured in the facsimile of your work uniform. When you look behind you, you see other humanoid constructs that look the exact same as you, down to where the paint chips on your bright yellow right hand.

You are not Dell Conagher anymore. You’ve become one in an army of synthetic engineers, faceless and nameless and many.

The giant machine you are in grinds to a halt. You hadn’t even noticed it was moving till the rumbling under your feet stopped. Suddenly, there is light, blinding the lenses that now make up your eyes, as the door to the hanger opens. Around you, your robot teammates whir to life and march forward, out the hanger door and into what you recognize as the desert badlands. You stay stock still. The other Engineer-bots move past you, uncaring of your crisis.

Outside, you hear gunfire, explosions, the high ping of metal clashing against metal. Distantly, you can make out Soldier, the real Soldier, your Soldier, threaten to break open your metal counterparts and use them as a latrine.

Something sparks inside of you, some part of your code trying to force you forward. You push against it, resisting the action. You may not be the flesh and blood Dell Conagher anymore, but you know machinery better than anyone else on the face of the Earth. You were the one maintaining the respawn machine, you know how the code of memory works. You’ve never had to edit the code of yourself before, but if anyone can, it’s you.

And God as your witness, you will be damned before you hurt your friends.

[red-bullet-outback]

***!!Is —T—s thin- -wo-ki——?

***B—loody h-ll.

I g——█████▊▊ … maybe t-hat fixed it. .. hell if I knew, though. Maybe it’d be better if it stayed busted. … Aany-who. If this thing’s reachin’ somebody..anybody..I’m comin’ at’cha from channel..whot. Uh .. niner was it?

Channel niner, RED Sniper, over.

***

..’Pauling said I oughta find some company in doin’ somethin’ while I’m in this ‘ere watchtower all bloody day. Didn’t think she was serious ‘till this damn radio was sittin’ in front of tha camper like a curse, though. So…walkie talkies…kinda awkward to use. I don’t see meself usin’ this real often. It’ll distract from the job … but … if anyone really is listenin’ with a lil gadget of their own, somehow..

***

Nah. Nah..that’d be ridiculous. Oi, forget I said anythin’. … Out.

ᴄʜᴀɴɴᴇʟs ‥ [tags]

💬 — #VHF...09 : General walkie talkie communications (asks)

💭 — #VHF...13 : Team-to-Team communication (Red - Red interactions)

🗯️ — #VHF...16 : Distress calls (Anything critical irp)

👣 — #outback camper : Wandering (non radioed posts & interactions! And/or leaving the watchtower.)

★ To interact, just send an ask! Asks do not have to be ‘via walkie talkie,’ just keep in mind Sniper nearly lives out of his watchtower here.

✆ ROSTER

company YANKEE ｜Heavy: @cooking-with-bjorn ｜Sniper: Cosmo｜Engineer: @engineer-on-ylw｜Scout: @sunny-ylw-scout｜Demo: Sunny｜Soldier: @ylw-soldier｜Spy: @sly-daffodils｜Medic: Leonidas｜Pyro: @｜Nurse: @ylw-nurse-is-hiding��F.O: Jovane｜Skater: Lexi｜Robot: Washington

company GOLF | Heavy: @ | Sniper: Athol | Engineer(s): @richard-on-green , @grns-local-radiohost | Scout: @zesty-lime-scout | Demoman: @ | Soldier: @ | Spy: @the-silentsnake | Medic(s): @true-grn-medic , Louis | Pyro: @｜Nameless: @namelesswildchild | Nurse: @green-team-puppy

company BRAVO | Heavy: @blu-heavymedic | Sniper: @ | Engineer: @the-blu-engineer | Scout: @scotty-cant-sit-still | Demoman: @self-destructive-demoman | Soldier: @blu-solly-in-da-lobby | Spy: @bloodstained-crabbemarche | Medic: @the-blu-medic | Pyro: @blus-fire-starter | Nurse: @agnosticnurse | Net: @meet-the-net

company ROMEO | Heavy: @heavy-is-tired | Sniper: lookin’ at’cha.｜ Engineer: @ ｜Scout: @bonk-youre-dead | Demoman: @boombangblambow | Soldier: @eagle-head-charge | Spy: @the-spy-red | Medic: @the-red-medic-tf2 | Pyro: @ ｜ Striker: @reds-bastard-punk | Trapper: @meet-the-trapper-tf2 ｜ Nurse: @cannibalnurse｜F.O: Gómez

company ALPHA | Mrs. Pauling: @pauling-in-red｜Miss Helena: @wastelandtherapist｜Civilians: @meet-the-civilians｜Mr. Peterson: @professionally-petty

!!OOC ⁎ Please Read.

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@ikarusriver ooc page ｜ #LFanswers ooc tag

keep things civil & we’ll have a good time.

[sly-daffodils]

𑁍ࠬܓ Recording 02 : ███

The whirring sound of a video coming to life fills the air; dappled by the accompanying hum of static. It’s soft crackling almost akin popcorn, in some distant way.

“Mr…Soto. Yes?”

“Ahm, /Rivera/-Soto..but correct! Hello, Señor…?”

“Peterson.”

There’s a moment of tense silence; strain between interviewer and interviewee. The former—a formally dressed man—sat innocently pleased by his correction. His vest and slacks, both matching in color and upkeep, were a welcoming yellow. His posture was poised, polite as a young child at Sunday school—pure, yet regimented. Most notably, his expression bore no malice, rather a friendliness. A friendliness that made Peter roll his eyes. Were all the recruits for this team really going to be this happy-go-lucky?

“Señor Peterson! A pleasure to be interviewed by you.”

Peter pinched the bridge of his nose silently as his eyes shut, a gesture that garnered the quietest chuckle from his subject. “Yes, yes. Let’s carry on past this; both of us have places to be.”

Despite Peter’s rocky first impressions of this recruit, plenty of information was garnered about him throughout the remainder of the recording, and the tension gradually diminished. The interviewees warmth seemed contagious, even when only listening.

Through the rest of the interaction, Peter garners from the spy that his name was Ángel Rivera-Soto. His past, when questioned, revealed years of a life once aboard oil tankers—a retired third mate that’d always had an underlying longing for sleuthing. When asked to elaborate on the drastic change in career choice, Ángels laugh was all that the recording picks up at first, followed by a shake of the head. Eventually, however…he relented. Slightly.

“Even the sea becomes lonely company, Señor Peterson.”

Recording end. … it’s been a few years since then.

♡ ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🌼་༘࿐OOC ++

✶ Hello friends!! In case the information was hard to grab out of the above tidbit, this is a blog for the YLW Spy, Ángel. Asks + DM’s are always open! Though I’ll likely reply slower than hoped. I am a college student!

Reference sheet attached here💛

✶ I as the admin am an adult that you can refer to simply as LF. My pronouns are he/him & I speak English, and some Portuguese. I will happily engage with you OOC if you’re ever curious; and I will tag those asks / posts under #LFanswers🟨. Speaking of tags, actually:

Other tags!

Spy interactions ☆ #sunnily engaged

Normal yapping ☆ #smoke room quips

████ ☆ #walls have eyes

TAKING MUSTER✶

🟨⊹ ₊𓇼 ｜Heavy: @cooking-with-bjorn ｜Sniper: @｜Engineer: @engineer-on-ylw｜Scout: @sunny-ylw-scout｜Demo: Sunny｜Soldier: @ylw-soldier｜Spy: Me!｜Medic: Leonidas｜Pyro: @｜Nurse: @ylw-nurse-is-hiding｜F.O: Jovane｜Skater: Lexi｜

🟩⊹ ₊𓇼 ｜Heavy: @ ｜Sniper: @grn-sniper-tf2｜Engineer(s): @grns-local-radiohost ｜Scout: @zesty-lime-scout｜Demoman: @｜Soldier: @｜Spy: @the-silentsnake｜Medic: @true-grn-medic｜Pyro: @｜Nameless: @namelesswildchild｜Nurse: @green-team-puppy｜

🟦⊹ ₊𓇼 ｜Heavy: @blu-heavymedic｜Sniper: @｜Engineer: @the-blu-engineer｜Scout: @scotty-cant-sit-still｜Demoman: @self-destructive-demoman｜Soldier: @blu-solly-in-da-lobby｜ Spy: @bloodstained-crabbemarche｜Medic: @the-blu-medic｜Pyro: @blus-fire-starter｜Nurse: @blu-nurse-needs-sleep｜Net: @meet-the-net｜

🟥⊹ ₊𓇼 ｜Heavy: @heavy-is-tired｜Sniper: @red-bullet-outback｜Engineer:｜Scout: @bonk-youre-dead｜Demoman: @boombangblambow｜Soldier: @eagle-head-charge｜ Spy: @the-spy-red｜Medic: @the-red-medic-tf2｜Pyro: @｜Striker: @reds-bastard-punk｜Trapper: @meet-the-trapper-tf2｜Nurse: @tf2-nurse-is-dreaming｜

🟪♡｜Mrs. Pauling: @pauling-in-red｜Miss Helena: @wastelandtherapist｜Civilians: @meet-the-civilians｜Mr. Peterson: @professionally-petty｜

That’s all my bases covered for now. Until next time!

[44gamez]

The PlayStation 5 Pro Will Be Three Times Faster and May Launch Holiday 2024

In keeping with a current video from the YouTube channel Moore’s Legislation is Useless, the PlayStation 5 Professional console will launch within the vacation interval of 2024. The Youtuber claims to have gotten entry to a technical overview doc for the PlayStation 5 Professional. Moreover, these claims have been backed by a recent report from Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, who cites nameless sources which are conversant in Sony’s plan. In keeping with the report, the leaked doc got here from a PlayStation developer portal which was despatched to third-party builders. Moreover, the report confirms that the console will render 45 p.c quicker than the bottom PS5, can have 2-3x Ray-tracing (x4 in some instances), 33.5 Teraflops, PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision Upscaling) upscaling/antialiasing answer, Customized machine studying structure, AI Accelerator, help of 300 TOPS of 8 bit computation / 67 TFLOPS of 16-bit floating level, and that help for resolutions as much as 8K is deliberate for future SDK model. The report additionally confirms that “devkits have been obtainable to first-party studios since September 2023”. Lastly, it additionally states that whereas the PlayStation 5 Professional is aiming for a vacation 2024 launch window, that might change “as a result of lack of first-party video games launched on the PlayStation 5 this 12 months.”  It’s price noting none of those claims have been confirmed by Sony. Earlier in July 2023, authorized paperwork from the Microsoft FTC court docket case revealed that Sony will launch a PlayStation 5 Slim and a PlayStation 5 Professional console “within the close to future.” The PlayStation 5 Slim console was launched in 2023. Particulars for the newest PS5 mannequin, The PS5 Slim: As the vacation season approaches, we're excited to share that we've got a brand new PS5 mannequin launching. To deal with the evolving wants of gamers, our engineering and design groups collaborated on a brand new type issue that gives larger selection and suppleness. The identical know-how options that make PS5 the perfect to play are packed right into a smaller type issue, together with an attachable Extremely HD Blu-ray Disc Drive and a 1TB SSD for extra inside storage. The brand new PS5 has been decreased in quantity by greater than 30%, and weight by 18% and 24% in comparison with the earlier fashions. There are 4 separate cowl panels, with the highest portion in a shiny look, whereas the underside stays in matte. If you buy the PS5 Digital Version, you possibly can add the Extremely HD Blu-ray Disc Drive for PS5 later, as it should even be bought individually for 79.99 USD | 119.99 EURO | 99.99 GBP | 11,980 JPY. The brand new PS5 mannequin will probably be obtainable beginning this November within the U.S. at choose native retailers and direct.ps.com the place obtainable. It can proceed to roll out globally within the following months. As soon as stock of the present PS5 mannequin has bought out, the brand new PS5 will develop into the one mannequin obtainable. The really useful retail costs for the brand new PS5 mannequin are as follows starting with the rollout in November at collaborating retailers. Keep tuned at Gaming Instincts through Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook for extra gaming information. Source link Read the full article

[projectfortress-blog]

In the midst of the battle where explosions boomed and bullets rang out, a contradictory quietness of a certain pyro intimidated many of the opposite team. When fighting, only the crackling blaze of fire spoke for her. When watching over the sentry nests, the BLU engineer noted respectfully the presence of his silent protector and supplied her with ammo and flamer fuel whenever.

The enigma, nameless to all but the BLU team, usually held this calm, daunting radio silence no matter the circumstance. For once, there was an exception. An explosion left some of her suit ripped, exposing her arm and upper back where she was badly burned. Quiet sobs escaped her gas mask as she scooted into a corner as if hiding.

[arushofbulletstothehead]

[arushofbulletstothehead]

Le epic 5th anniversary special

[arushofbulletstothehead]

This never actually happens nor will it ever. Anywho…

Hey!!! This is a DTIYS that you can participate in if you want!! There’s no deadline or prizes or anything though. Anyway details under the cut if you want to read them:

No rules! Do whatever you want with it! Go ham! Simplify it! Change their poses! 09’s scar doesn’t really matter! Replace his tie! Hell, take one of these two out of the picture! I don’t mind! (It’ll happen one day, anyway) As long as they’re recognizable, go for it!

The guitars I drew here are a Gibson ES-355 and a Martin D-28… not very important and you can replace them with whatever really (maybe even replace 09’s with the Red Special like in the SFM). Just wanted to mention them :]

If you post it, please tag me! I’d love to see it!

Have fun!

[arushofbulletstothehead]

Shit Dumpster Log #2: Things That Will Never Happen Edition

[arushofbulletstothehead]

When I’m in a make something more serious and dramatic than it really is competition and my opponent is an SD fan

By the way… one part (the set of hands) was inspired by @fandomandangstlover’s Admit Your Sins AU! Specifically this post! Even though this animation is based on my own… interpretation… with its own story (???), their AU is definitely worth checking out if you like this sort of thing! (Though admittedly there’s not much to see from either of us as of the time of writing… but still, it’s pretty cool.)

[arushofbulletstothehead]

Happy 6th anniversary to those little guys !! (they are partly responsible for the perma-death of at least 15 people) look at them go!!!

Alt. colors:

[arushofbulletstothehead]

Winning the “they would not fucking do that” competition

[arushofbulletstothehead]

Btw I’m renaming the unnamed blu engineer tag to nameless blu engineer bc it just rolls off the tongue better imo

[arushofbulletstothehead]

The Long Overdue Introductory Post

Attention! If you plan to use/repost my art, please read this first!

Hi. You can call me Nova or Seva or Rush or any variant of those names. This sideblog is primarily for Spy’s Disguise stuff but Fortress Films in general shows up sometimes.

Tag Guide:

s-09: the BLU Spy from Spy’s Disguise. You know. That guy. Can he please die already

nameless blu engineer: the GOAT BLU Engineer from Spy’s Disguise. The main one, I mean. I don’t tag the Sawmill guys, apologies. (Oh, and I like to call him “E” sometimes.)

e-06: the RED Engineer seen in both Spy’s Disguise and Emesis Blue. I view Dell and the Bartender as the same person despite being credited separately, so they share this tag (at least until further notice).

thing i made: things… that I made.

not sd: anything that has nothing to do with SD but I find cool regardless. There won’t be too much of these here, I promise.

sd bullshittery: where the cringe goes to die anything that isn’t based in canon. Headcanons, AUs, speculations, etc… basically anything that I don’t want clogging the main tag.

the inbox: questions and answers from the Tumblr inbox.

Additional notes: the character tags are based on the canonical ID numbers (or lack thereof) of each character (confirmed by the creators through the shithole official Discord server) as they all lack official names that distinguish them from their canon TF2 counterparts. As such, the tags may change in the future as new info is given.

…and that’s it. I also have an Instagram account under a different name that I won’t say where I’m more active. I’m a lot more unhinged over there though so apologies if you do end up finding it.