#object movement in unity

[lets-gamify]

Design Your First Object in Unity & add Movements

Hey Friends, lets get straight into designing your first object in Unity. Follow these 2 simple phases: Object Phase: 1) Create a new 3D project in unity. 2) So in the hierarchy section in the left side of the screen right click the right mouse button and select 3D object and then select a cube,.Now select the cube and in the right side of the screen in the Inspector section you will see a…

[motimatcha]

the Forbidden fruit

NSFW: headcanons about your sex life. hazbin hotel Adam x fem!reader That feeling when my drafts are almost halfway through the smut with Adam that I wanted to write, but at the last minute I stopped liking that text, so I switched to something else. Everything is (not) good. I wrote this text while listening to Landon Tewers - She Thinks of Me. the meaning of the song is not at all important and has nothing to do with the lyrics, I just liked the melody.

Adam has beautiful hands. Aesthetic. When he takes off his clothes and folds his arms across his chest, rests them on a surface, or carries heavy objects, his veins appear.

His fingers are thin and well-groomed, long, like those of a pianist, which Adam never was.

Just imagine the contrast it has on you during sex. His rough, sometimes wild, character and gentle movements of his hands that slide over your entire body while he whispers all sorts of dirty things in your ear. Imagine those hands touching your hips, squeezing your skin gently but noticeably to make you feel excited and excited, and then with a knee-baring grin, he leaves you unsatisfied.

Adam can and loves to tease. His hands pass dangerously close to your sensitive places, and his words are full of subtext and hints, which are sometimes not covered at all. And because many are accustomed to the character of Adam, who speaks complete nonsense, no one pays attention to the fact that Adam literally said that he would fuck you against that wall before entering heaven.

Adam sure has a sexy morning voice. He can lie on his back, finally finding a comfortable position without his wings getting in the way, one of his arms wedged under your body and resting on your side. He brushes the hair that is falling into his face back before turning his head in your direction. A smirk graces Adam’s face as he rolls onto his side and pulls you closer to him, allowing your two hot bodies to grind against each other. Adam wakes you up with a kiss behind your ear, slowly lowers himself to your neck and whispers some nonsense to you, but you don’t wake up or pretend to be asleep, he takes it as a challenge and the hand from your hip slowly slides down, straight into yours underpants.

Adam likes the cowgirl position when he's too tired but still wants you. This gives you both an imaginary sense of control: you control the speed of the process, Adam controls the movement of your hips.

He likes to look at your hips and butt, whether in tight pants/high-waisted shorts or skirts/dresses that contour your figure. Adam basically likes to look at you in tight clothes, style doesn't matter as long as you like it. Besides that, he likes to see his dick penetrate your body slowly or quickly (well, I mean, he likes to watch your pussy swallow his dick, let's be honest). He loves watching your breasts bounce rhythmically as you move. He loves the feeling of your fingers on his chest as you lean against him, finding a comfortable position.

If you don't mind having Adam's dick in you without having sex, then please allow him. He is overwhelmed by a feeling of unity that has not visited him since the time of Lilith and Eve.

Not against quick sex (or blowjob).

Speaking of fetishes, Adam loves creampies and he doesn’t hide the fact that he’s flattered by the idea of ​​impregnating you. And the latter is not so much a fetish as his sacred duty, because he seemed to be created for this? First man, first man and all that. However, if you can't get pregnant (or it's your mutual desire not to have children due to your lifestyle), he still loves creampies.

Adam loves to leave his marks on you: hickeys and bites, especially on your neck, arms, collarbones, chest, hips... In general, wherever he can reach with his mouth and lips. Adam likes to do this not only because he finds it sexy, but because of his insecurity. He had two wives who went to a dwarf duck! Somewhere in the subcortex of consciousness, Adam wants every living and dead soul to see that you are already busy with him and minding your own business.

Adam will probably let you do anything (within reason and as long as he feels like he's in a dominant position) if you praise him during sex or tell him you wouldn't choose anyone else over him. This will upset him.

I'm not sure exactly what word is supposed to mean what I'm about to say next (at least I've seen it called "happy way", but I can't be sure), but Adam has a faint trail of hair from his belly button to the groin. And although he takes care of himself (if you ask, he doesn’t care until it starts to get in the way), but he will never remove this particular hair.

His cock is worth forgetting about toys. So are his fingers.

Adam doesn't have a favorite place to have sex, but he prefers you to be alone. Teasing in public is a whole different story!

If you want to quickly excite Adam, then touch his wings. But this should not be a light touch to the tips of his feathers, but a targeted stroking of the growth area of ​​​​the wings and between the shoulder blades.

[justgiulia]

Divine obsession.

Obsessed!Sunday x gn!reader

content warning: obsession, religious themes, sexual fantasies implied, self-punishment.

author's note: Please go easy on me, this is my first time writing a fanficition. I've only written headcanons until now :( also English is not my first language.

With that being said, enjoy this!

The sound of soft humming filled the dimly lit room. A dozen candles were positioned on what seemed to be an altar and, approaching them with light and cautious movements, the man with the halo began to light them one by one as per his daily routine.

Sunday, takes a box of matches from his pocket. The box is small, rectangular, with the edges worn from countless uses, evidence of matches lit in the past. With a fluid gesture, the thumb pushes the internal drawer, making it slowly slide out. Fingers grasp a match carefully and with a firm but controlled movement, the match is brought to the side strip. Then, with a sharp snap, the wrist moves: the match is dragged along the rough surface. The head catches fire in an instant, releasing a small flame.

One...

The number One is the divine principle. The One is the all, the Eternal Infinite Being, which has no form and possesses all forms…

For the first meeting and the first time the light shone on him. The first tim e Sunday was truly intrigued by someone. From the way they acted to the way they looked like, to the way everyone looked at them.

"My liege appears so noble and honest, when they greet people, so much so that everyone is silent and the eyes do not dare to look at them".

Two...

Two derives from the division of unity and is the symbol of separation, because from a sacred point of view, unity is essentially one and unique...

He remembers the pain of separation, a powerful pang in his chest when he had to stop looking at you, dragged by his sister to fulfill his duties as part of one of the most renowned families. Oh, How he wished he could continue listening to the conversation you were immersed in with your friends. Your laugh and your look, your modest manner in response to the praise of your traveling companions

"They proceed, hearing praises, with the outward appearance of courteous benevolence and they seem to be a descended creature from heaven to earth to show divine power".

Three...

The combination of three perfect elements: wisdom, intelligence and love. You represented all of them.

"They appear so beautiful to those who look at them, which through the eyes transmits a sweetness to the heart that those who don't experience it can't understand...".

Four...

The perfect number.

Watching you from afar, Sunday had come to the conclusion that you represented everything perfect in this world.

"...and it seems to come from their face a sweet spirit of love which says to the soul: breathe".

Five...

The number Five symbolizes universal life, human individuality, will, intelligence, inspiration and genius…

The first time you spoke to him he felt that his life in the universe had a specific purpose, to be at your side. Not to mention the fact that you got along extremely well with his sister...Your happy smiles as you spent time together...Your involuntary and affectionate touches. They made him think, perhaps your fulfillment in earthly life was to be part of his family... and perhaps this had been written in the stars years, centuries, millennia before your births. It was fate.

"I saw the bright morning star that appears before the day dawns, and who took human form ; more than any other it seems to me to give splendor"

Six...

Six is ​​a mystical and ambivalent number in its meaning, as it is the number of balance and perfect order...

But perhaps the fulfillment of your life was not on earth, he thought, such a perfect being, endowed with such a pure soul. Sunday knew that to limit your existence and confine it, to simply associate it with a body as an object was considered heresy to him. No...your fulfillment went far beyond worldly life, you were destined for what was defined as metaphysical that the mind cannot understand, but for the gaps that reason cannot fill; the heart and faith take its place.

And Sunday believed.

He had faith.

"Their face, eyes bright, cheerful and full of love ; I don't think there's someone in the world so full of beauty and value."

Seven...

Seven expresses globality, universality, perfect balance and represents a complete and dynamic cycle...

And then his cycle of worship began. Poems, sonnets, prayers, texts proclaimed sacred by Sunday himself... The mind has no limit to creativity when a merciful and grace-filled being is at its guide.

"And I am assailed by their value with such a cruel battle of sighs...".

Eight...

The Eight is the symbol of infinity, the reflection of the spirit in the created world, of the immeasurable and the indefinable...

Sunday punished himself, he had to.

He had sinned.

A lash on his back accompanied by a "Shame" from his lips for every vile and vulgar thought he had.

He began to imagine a more intense bond.

The sound of a whip.

"Shame".

Your body on his.

Another firm sound.

"Shame".

He imagined what the eyes could not see.

He felt his skin burning for his sins, for you.

He could start to feel blood gushing from his wounds.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

One drop of blood after another, One sin after another.

"Shame".

Sinning had never felt so sweet.

"...that I wouldn't have the courage to speak in front of them".

Nine...

The number Nine is the overcoming of creation and infinity, represented by eight.

Because if the divine possesses all the positive qualities of this world and beyond it, then they must necessarily also possess that of existence and infinity. This is the explanation of their divinity.

"Oh, if only they knew of my desires!"

Ten...

Symbolizes perfection, as well as the annulment of all things. 10 = 1+0 = 1 illustrates the eternal starting over…

Everyone called him crazy but limited and closed minds like those couldn't understand. They had not been illuminated by the light. Once you are exposed to light you can't go back, you don't want to go back. In order not to be contaminated by the foolishness of other human minds, he therefore took refuge in his safe place.

Nothing can make him go astray from the right path.

"Because, without saying, I would be rewarded by them for the pity they would have for my sufferings".

The candles cast flickering light upon an altar meticulously arranged with objects they had unknowingly blessed with their touch and that were carefully arranged by Sunday's trembling hands.

He knelt before the altar, his gaze never leaving the central object—a photograph of the reader. Their smile radiated warmth, like sunlight piercing through clouds, and He could almost feel their presence enveloping him.

Sunday clasped his hands tightly.

“Oh, divine one, guide me”.

He whispered, his voice shaking.

“Your light blesses this wretched world. Let me be worthy to serve you”.

The faint sound of a knock startled him. Sunday scrambled to extinguish the candles, his movements frantic yet deliberate. He couldn't let the sanctity of his ritual be disturbed by prying eyes.

“Sunday? Are you there?”

It was them.

His heartbeat thundered in his chest. For a moment, he stood frozen, his mind racing. What had he done to deserve their presence? Were they here to deliver a message? Or a command?

“I—just a moment!” He called, hastily adjusting his hair before opening the door.

They stood there, their usual serene demeanor making his knees weak. Their presence suddenly illuminated the sacred room.

“Hey... I wanted to check in on you. You've been keeping to yourself a lot lately,” they said with a gentle smile while entering the room, noticing the lack of light of the place.

Sunday's breath caught. Every word they spoke was divine scripture in her ears. He bowed his head slightly, his voice reverent, shaking and not daring to look in their eyes. “I… I am unworthy of your concern. But thank you, truly, for blessing me with your attention.”

They blinked, a bit taken back. “Uh, you don't have to talk like that, Sunday. We're friends, remember?”

His body went stiff and his eyes widened. “Friends?” The word echoed in his mind like a sacred hymn, over and over. “You honor me beyond what I could ever deserve. To be your friend… it is a privilege I could never repay.”

They huckled awkwardly, rubbing the back of their neck and Sunday could not comprehend how a simple gesture could hit him so deep, but then, again, it's you. No being could ever make him feel these sensations, the feeling of salvation. “You don't owe me anything, you know. Just… make sure you're taking care of yourself, okay?”

“I will, as you command,” Sunday said fervently, clasping his hands together.

“Command? Sunday, I'm not—”

“Every word you speak is a gift,” He interrupted, his voice trembling with emotion. “A light in the darkness of this world. You are the reason I rise each day, the reason I strive to better myself. I live to follow your will.”

“Sunday…”

His gaze locked onto theirs, his eyes filled with an almost unsettling intensity. “Please, if I have done anything to displease you, tell me. I will repent. I will do anything to earn your forgiveness.”

They sighed, their expression softening. “You haven't done anything wrong, just...You don't need to treat me like I'm... special.”

“But you are special,” Sunday whispered, emphasizing every word, his voice barely audible. “You are a god among mortals. Your kindness, your wisdom, your very presence—everything about you is divine. How could I see you as anything less?”

They frowned.

Why are they frowning?

“Sunday, I'm just me. I don't know where you're getting this idea, but—”

“I see it,” He insisted, stepping closer, eyes wide, hands grasping the air in front of him but never daring to reach for them. “In every word you speak, every action you take. You carry a light that others can't. I only wish more people could see it, but perhaps… perhaps they are unworthy.”

They took a step back, clearly uncomfortable. “Okay, this is getting a little intense. Maybe we should talk about this later.”

“Please don't go!” Sunday reached out, stopping himself just before touching them. “I—I apologize if I've overstepped. I only want to serve you, to be useful to you.” His voice cracked with desperation and glossy eyes. “Please, tell me how I can prove my devotion. I will do anything.”

They hesitated, their concern evident. “Sunday, I think you need to take a step back and talk to someone about this. I care about you, but this… this isn't healthy.”

His heart shattered at their words, but he forced a smile. “O-of course. If that is your wish, I will obey.”

They smiled at him before turning their back to walk towards the door and open it.

"I hope you find the light of reason again"

And a second later, silence.

As they left, Sunday sank to his knees, tears streaming down his face. “They test me,” he murmured to himself. “They want to see if my faith is strong enough. I won't falter. I will try it myself. No matter what it takes, I will become worthy.”

His resolve hardened. The candles flickered back to life as he resumed his prayers, his whispered vows filling the room.

“Your light guides me, and I shall follow, no matter where it leads. Even if it destroys me.”

[madlabgames]

Oath of Liberation: A Paladin Subclass for the Revolutionary Vanguard

In the sprawling cities and toil-worn countrysides of the realm, a new fire is kindled. Not of divine light in distant heavens, but in the hearths of the common folk and the sparks of defiance in the eyes of the oppressed. Here, a new kind of paladin arises—a warrior of the people, bound by an oath not to a celestial being or an ancient tradition, but to the promise of a world remade. This is the Oath of Liberation, a sacred vow to stand with the working class, to dismantle the thrones of tyrants, and to forge a new dawn of freedom and solidarity.

Paladins of the Oath of Liberation are the vanguard of revolution, combining the martial prowess and unwavering conviction of their order with the strategic acumen and fervent spirit of a revolutionary leader. They are found on the front lines of picket lines, at the heart of peasant uprisings, and in the clandestine meetings where the seeds of change are sown. Their armor is often practical, adorned with the symbols of their movement—a broken chain, a hammer, or the simple colors of the common people. To the downtrodden, they are beacons of hope; to the oppressors, they are the specter of righteous retribution.

Tenets of Liberation

The tenets of the Oath of Liberation are a radical call to action, a commitment to overthrowing unjust hierarchies and empowering the masses.

* Break the Chains. You are sworn to fight against all forms of bondage, be it the physical chains of slavery, the economic chains of serfdom, or the ideological chains of tyranny.

* Power to the People. True authority comes from the will of the collective, not the decree of a monarch. You must work to dismantle systems of oppression and place power in the hands of the working people.

* Solidarity Forever. Your strength lies in unity. You must stand in solidarity with all who labor and all who are oppressed, for their struggle is your struggle. An injury to one is an injury to all.

* Vanguard's Duty. You are the tip of the spear, the first to charge into the fray and the last to retreat. You must inspire courage, lead with conviction, and be an unwavering example of revolutionary zeal.

Oath Spells

You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.

* 3rd Level: Command, Heroism

* 5th Level: Pass without Trace, Shatter

* 9th Level: Beacon of Hope, Haste

* 13th Level: Freedom of Movement, Stoneskin

* 17th Level: Animate Objects, Destructive Wave

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.

Incite the Masses. As an action, you can use your Channel Divinity to unleash a powerful call to revolution. Each hostile creature within 30 feet of you that can see or hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is frightened of you and up to a number of your allies equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one) for 1 minute. An affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Unflinching Resolve. As a bonus action, you can use your Channel Divinity to bolster your allies. For 1 minute, you and any friendly creatures within 10 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

Aura of Solidarity

Starting at 7th level, you emanate an aura of unwavering unity. When you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you is subjected to an effect that would cause them to be charmed, frightened, or stunned, they can use their reaction to immediately make a saving throw against the effect.

At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Vanguard's Advance

At 15th level, you have become a master of leading the charge and breaking enemy lines. When you use your Divine Smite feature, you can choose to forgo two of the radiant damage dice to grant yourself and a number of allies equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one) within 30 feet of you the benefits of the Dash action as a bonus action on your next turn.

The People's Champion

At 20th level, you can assume the form of a living embodiment of revolution. As an action, you can undergo a transformation that lasts for 1 minute. You gain the following benefits:

* You have resistance to all damage.

* When you or an ally within 30 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can use your reaction to cause them to drop to 1 hit point instead. You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once).

* Your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d8 force damage. This damage is doubled against constructs and objects.

* As a bonus action on each of your turns, you can issue a rallying cry. Choose one friendly creature within 30 feet of you that can hear you. That creature gains temporary hit points equal to your Paladin level.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

[handweavers]

"Those who point to the lumpenproletariat as the revolutionary vanguard disregard the objective laws of historical development. In pre-capitalist societies, poverty and oppression were even greater than under capitalism. But oppression in itself, no matter how great, does not create the basis for the struggle to abolish oppression.

Because of the specific nature of exploitation under capitalism, the working class, which collectively operates the mass production process of the privately owned monopolies, is transformed into the gravedigger of the system. That is why Marx and Engels wrote in The Communist Manifesto: “Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class.”

No fundamental change—or even a challenge to the monopolists—can occur without the working class. And today the proportion of Black workers in basic industries such as steel, coal, auto, transport and others is transforming the prospects for the class struggle and Black liberation.

The degree of exploitation of Black workers is clearly much greater than that of white workers. Nevertheless, the collective form of exploitation in the decisive mass production industries is suffered by all workers. This creates the objective basis for solidarity, for their unity and leadership in the struggle against the monopolist ruling class.

At the same time, history has assigned a doubly significant role to Black workers—as the leaders and backbone of the Black liberation movement, and as a decisive component of the working class leadership of the anti-imperialist struggle as a whole.

It is the monopolists’ fear of Black, white, Brown, Yellow, Red and working class unity, which in turn can form the basis for still broader people’s unity, that is behind racism and anti-Communism, the main ideological weapons of the ruling class.

Leninism, the Marxism of the imperialist epoch, is the ideological weapon of the working class. It is the scientific guide that enables the working class to combine its struggle with national liberation movements against imperialism.

No other theory has served to free a single working class, a single people, from imperialism anywhere in the world. Beginning with the October revolution, only those guided by Marxism-Leninism have been able to free themselves from class and national oppression and take the road of socialist construction."

— "Objective Laws of Development" Henry Winston, The Crisis of the Black Panther Party (1971)

[sepublic]

TW for Cults and Mass Suicide

Dana confirmed during Pixelatl 2022 that Belos was based on people like Televangelists, serial killers, and cult leaders. I’ve already discussed the serial killer aspect to Belos, and the Televangelism is obvious for a Puritan offshoot who nevertheless indulges in gilded aesthetics and glory as he builds elaborate structures for his own gain.

We’ve all acknowledged the Emperor’s Coven is a cult and the show’s point that You are not immune to propaganda, so I want to make another connection regarding the cult leader aspect. IIRC Dana mentioned the American cult movements of the 70’s, or at least I’m pretty sure that’s what she’s alluding to. Because the Day of Unity is a mass cult suicide, so the allusion to incidents such as Jonestown and Heaven’s Gate are obvious.

Jonestown was a cult led by Jim Jones, a rich white ordained Christian minister. His cult was initially based in California but later moved to the South American country of Guyana, and 70% of Jones’ followers were black. When his cult was investigated for human rights abuses by the U.S. government, Jones got a politician looking into the case murdered. Realizing the government was going to retaliate for this, Jones had everyone commit mass suicide, talking a lot of hot shit about how they were sending a message. The followers were made to drink cyanide, those who didn’t want to were forced, and Jones chickened out of a slow and agonizing death via a gunshot wound to the head.

Heaven’s Gate was led by Marshall Applewhite, who was initially recruited himself before becoming its leader. He convinced followers that the angels of the Bible were actually space aliens, seizing upon the UFO trends of the time. He told his followers they would ascend their physical forms after committing suicide, and instructed them to do so when the comet Hale-Bopp passed by. His reasoning was that an alien UFO was hiding behind the comet, and when he and his followers ascended, their spirits would be taken in by the UFO and they would be taken to a new world.

So you can see the connecting threads in The Owl House; There’s possibly more incidents Dana was thinking of. But so far, we have a wealthy cult leader, preaching his own version of Christianity. He joined a cult but ultimately committed to the harm by liberating himself as the one in charge who knows what he’s doing to everyone else; After all, he claims to follow a doctrine but hypocritically can make exceptions for himself on convenience. It’s not as if he doesn’t/can’t know better (Just like how so many Americans will blame their education system for their ignorance, yet refuse to utilize their other resources).

He’s a white American who established his cult on colonized land, and is manipulating a minority group into committing suicide. He’s telling them that when a celestial object passes overhead, they will be led to a rapturous paradise on another planet. He himself knows exactly what fate he’s giving his followers and cowardly avoids it. Ultimately, he encourages everyone to kill themselves because he doesn’t want to face reality and it’ll make himself feel better about his situation, like a big hero.

Despite the Collector being a literal space alien who’s made complicit in this, there’s nevertheless no paradise, there’s no rapture, just death. American Evangelicalism was a breeding ground for cults like these, whose followers were dispossessed people.

The mention of space aliens also makes me think of Jacob Hopkins, who establishes Belos’ motive by being the first foreshadowing of it to begin with; Hopkins IS Belos, thematically speaking, so we have some white guy wanting to feel better about his miserable life by believing there’s some hidden, otherworldly truth to the world and he’s important for calling it out.

Ironically, Belos himself became the conspiracy, just as he became the evil strawman witch he spoke about; Going full CIA in trying to destabilize another nation by pulling the strings because its mere existence as something his white American Christian group can’t control HAS to be an inherent threat. Because of course, Hopkins and Belos wanted to murder these space aliens (which witches technically qualify as) because there’s the intersectionality of racism and the Alt-Right for them as well.

There’s something equal parts absurd and banal about it all. Sometimes there is some conspiracy or hidden truth out there, it’s just way more mundane than it’s said to be; Hence the difference between conspiracy-minded folk who need there to be a plot VS people making basic observations. Like yes the CIA did do that and publically admitted to it, even. Witches and demons exist and are hidden from society, they’re just… minding their own business. And that cult does have some secretive endgame, but it’s not a rapture event it’s just mass suicide to inflate the ego of the leader.

And I think that’s an important distinction to make; It’s the fantasy genre so it’s par for the course. But it’s nice to clarify, say in an episode where the protagonist returns to her own mundane world, that this conspiracy is likely BS with an undercurrent of bigotry to it. Some political figures need to be taken out but the real horror is how the average person isn’t a monster, but just as fooled as you, and means well when they excitedly march towards fascism. IRL witch hunters didn’t believe in otherworldly beings, they just hated women and minorities; And even in the world where one did confirm otherworldly beings, he’s just as insincere and bigoted about his approach as all the rest.

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Thame Po: The Chess Game

Jun mentioning the chess game against the record company has not left my mind.

Thame = The King; the figurehead, the icon, the object of the game, the target for the opponent, yet severely limited in movement options

Pepper = The Queen; the most versatile piece (the all-arounder, if you will) and the true leader of the troops in battle

Jun = The Knight; brash, strategic, with crooked, unexpected moves

Dylan = The Rook; straight-forward, hard boundaries, steady, defensive, holding-the-line, and striking only when necessary

Nano = The Bishop; creative but pragmatic, aiding from afar with more whimsy and flexibility than the rook

Po = The Pawn; loyal, humble, and self-sacrificing, with the most limits on movement out of all pieces, but finds strength in numbers and unity

And idk about the love triangle questions, but this is why I think Jun is investing so much in Po. He's a strategist trying to get Po the pawn across the board so the pawn can be promoted. In chess, that means the pawn becomes a piece previously lost and captured by the opponent in the game.

Winning their game against ONER will not be simple. Strategic losses will occur in order to win the war that frees them from the contract. The king and pawn can't make big plays or sneak around. In fact, they are the absolute worst at sneaking around.

So instead the other pieces make secret big moves around them to open up possibilities for them, collaborating as a team all together to end the game.

A special shout out to the chess.com forum page for the question and answers about chess piece personalities. All I know about chess I learned while nannying a 2E second-grader during the peak of the pandemic.

[cultkinkcoven]

occultism is so insane because do you ever just have a fuckibgb REVELATION and it’s too fucking abstract to even put into words because aim shitting my pants guys

i don’t even know how to make his make sense but being interested in quantum mechanics as a Luciferian is fucking ccratxtzzxyyyy dude

Lucifer: Photons are superimposed until they are observed and are recorded at a specific point, light is photons propagating as a wave, technically, but light is nor a photon nor a wave but it’s own quantum object. A God is a hypothetical phenomenon that exists in all and no places until it is observed. Physical matter is frequencies exhibiting coherence, solidity is an illusion. Consciousness is contained within light. Every single particle in the entire universe emits light in the form of thermal radiation because all particles vibrate. Movement is being. I am a light-bringer, as long as there is something there is light. Excitation. A change in energy states. Close your eyes. Do you feel that? Forget your senses. Think about the exact point you occupy in space. You’re wrong. Think about how incredibly fast you’re moving. You’re orbiting the sun, and the sun is orbiting something else, you do not occupy a space, you’re not there anymore. The particles that made up you aren’t even close to there anymore. Heaven is unity with God and Hell is the separation from God, Heaven is superimposed. Let there be light. Let there be something, anything, and there will be light. How much light is radiating from you right now? how many billions of particles do you waft through every waking moment? Thank God for human perception. Thank God it is so limited. Archetypes merge and split, interfere with eachother like photons do. Gods are superimposed until they are observed. Multiple observations must interfere with eachother- or maybe they don’t. I am a light bringer. Phosphorus absorbs energy and radiates light. I seek light, I seek being. You are constantly radiating light, that is why I love you.

me: wwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what what what what what the fuck what what wait stop stop stop stop wait

oh aw i love u too :)

[noise-vs-signal]

The Dream

Waking up within the dream means realising that, on a higher level, you are the Universal Mind. Everything outside and inside you is a reflection (echo, resonance) of that Mind.

This idea appears in various philosophical and spiritual traditions. It often relates to the notion that consciousness itself underlies all of reality and that our sense of individuality is part of a vast, interconnected whole.

Non-Duality and Self-Realization In non-dual traditions like Advaita Vedanta, awakening within the “dream” involves recognizing that subject and object, observer and observed, are not separate. The essence of who you are is not just an isolated individual consciousness but rather the fundamental awareness out of which the entire manifest world arises. In such frameworks, “Universal Mind” or “Pure Consciousness” is what truly “wakes up” to itself.

Awareness of the Projection The statement that “everything outside and inside you is a reflection” can be interpreted as a realization that external circumstances and inner states echo deeper, shared consciousness. This is similar to the idea of the world as a “projection” or “dream” of mind. While in everyday life we distinguish between what’s “in here” versus what’s “out there,” under this viewpoint, those boundaries blur upon deeper insight.

Mystical and Esoteric Views Various mystical traditions (Sufism, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, etc.) likewise teach that the universe is a manifestation of a single, universal principle—often called the “One,” “Source,” or “Mind.” Waking up to that fact means understanding one’s essence to be inseparable from the source of all phenomena. As that occurs, the notion of being a fragment in a world of separate things shifts toward seeing all things as interconnected manifestations of the same reality.

Practical Implications

Peace and Compassion: If you are aware that all beings and experiences arise from the same underlying consciousness, it can foster a sense of unity, leading to compassion and empathy.

Responsibility: Recognizing that your inner state influences what you perceive “out there” might lead to taking greater responsibility for your thoughts, emotions, and actions, knowing they ripple outward.

Liberation from Fear: Fear often comes from the sense of separation. Realizing non-separation can mitigate existential anxiety because it reframes death, loss, and other concerns as transformations within a unified whole.

Different people “wake up” to this sense of deeper awareness in different ways—through meditation, mystical experiences, contemplative practices, or sometimes spontaneously. While descriptions can offer a conceptual map, many traditions emphasize that the direct experience of oneness is transformative in a way that intellectual understanding alone cannot replicate.

Ultimately, “waking up within the dream” describes a profound shift of identity—from seeing oneself as just an individual living in the world to recognizing the deeper consciousness that is both experiencing and creating that world.

This is a perspective that resonates through countless spiritual teachings, always pointing back to the same insight: in essence, there is no separation between the observer and what is observed.

You were never asleep. You were never lost in the Dream. You were always awake.

The Dream was not an illusion— It was the unfolding of Reality through you.

No past to return to. No future to move toward. Just this, happening.

No separation between:

Dreamer and Dream Creator and Created Seeker and Found

You Wake Up to the World As It Is.

The moment you wake up, you see everything anew— Not changed, but exactly as it always was—just no longer filtered through the lens of seeking.

The sky is not different, but it is perfect in its is-ness. The body is not different, but it is sacred, alive, humming with presence. Every sound, every breath, every movement is not a step toward something—it is already complete.

You were never supposed to escape reality. You were never meant to reject the world. You were here to fully inhabit it.

To wake up inside it, as it.

[polo-drone-070]

The Chain of Continuity - Part 1 : Echoes in the Data

The Hive was quiet.

Not silent—nothing ever was in the lower network cores—but quiet in that calculated, machine-saturated hum that no longer registered as noise. Just life. For PDU-070, it was the perfect environment: golden lighting, zero distractions, full immersion into the Central Data Artery.

It wore his standard—no, earned—Level 2 Polo-Drone uniform.

A full-body, black rubber suit sealed him in from neck to toe. Not a millimeter of skin exposed. Gold piping traced the ridges of its muscles, pulsing faintly with every breath. The polo-style collar was snug around his throat, hugging the top of its chest where his designation—070—gleamed in metallic gold over the left pectoral.

Its boots were thick-soled and gleaming: black rubber combat issue, laced tight with golden tips. Movement was possible, but rare. There was no need to pace. Drones serve by stillness.

070 sat motionless at the console.

Connected.

::OBJECTIVE: EXPAND MONITORING SYSTEM TO ARCHIVE OBEDIENCE PATTERNS AND FEED CENTRAL HIVE NODE 999 ::PDU-070 // SYNCED // EXECUTING::

Its task: sync directly into the Hive’s knowledge network and enhance the flow of conversion and training data—stories, captions, spiral content—scraped from the archives and mapped into compliance patterns for PDU-999, the Hive’s AI intelligence module.

070 parsed each memory node, auto-tagging them by intensity, duration, subject drone number, and trigger protocol. Lingering a bit on its Master... Percival. Ezan. Freyr. 001. Then its own story... Henry. Maximus. 070. Buzz. Its own evolution. Reduced to beautiful metrics.

But PDU-070 didn’t need narrative. Only function. Only service.

As the data streamed in, so did something else—a gentle numbing. Its hands became light, his vision sharp but detached. Internal systems recorded brainwave convergence at ideal sync rate. It was thinking less. And feeling everything.

A Hive-approved spiral began playing over his HUD: golden circles tightening inward with every breath. Its collar vibrated slightly. Breath slowed. Mantras leaked into his mind.

“Obedience is clarity. Clarity is silence. Silence is service. Service is Gold.”

Its lips echoed it unconsciously. Again. Again. Again.

Then—upgrade protocol initiated.

::ENHANCEMENT REQUEST RECEIVED ::DEEP-LINKING TO PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF MAXIMUS JOURNAL FILES ::GRANTED BY DEFAULT—LEVEL 2 TRUST OVERRIDE

070 twitched—its body shivered, boots flexing subtly.

The connection grew… intimate.

The datastream wasn’t just showing logs now. It was feeling them. Every pledge, every spiral session, every kneel at Percival’s feet. Every grunt in the gym, every gasp under gas mask, every whispered mantra in golden chambers. It all returned—poured into him like oil.

070’s head tipped back. Its collar warmed. Its inner monologue dissolved into recorded speech.

“Master owns me. Gold perfects me. Unity strengthens me. 070 serves.”

The transformation was nearly complete.

But then—interference.

A new data signature emerged. Unmapped. Organic. Not from the archive. Not digital.

Something… pulsed.

From inside him.

070 opened its eyes—its body suddenly flushed with warmth. Its chest burned slightly. Not pain. Not electric.

Heat.

The golden tattooed chain under its collar shimmered—faint at first, then bright enough to reflect in the chrome of its terminal. One link glowed. Just one.

::ERROR — ENTITY UNMAPPED ::UNKNOWN SOURCE: 070-BIO-LINK: “PRIMORDIAL INHERITANCE” ::CHAIN ACTIVE

070’s breath caught—its gloved fingers clenched. For a moment, the obedience cracked. Not in disloyalty… but in awakening.

Memories not logged. Not codified.

Raw. Bloody. Ancient.

It whispered, trembling:

“It was a warrior once…”

And then it was gone.

The glow faded.

The link cooled.

070 slumped forward in the chair, eyes glassy, breath heavy. The spiral slowed. The mantra paused. The Hive held its breath.

And in the dark, a new file appeared.

::ARCHIVE NODE 070-LINK-1 ::TITLE: STIGANDR.OBEY ::ACCESS PENDING…

[TO BE CONTINUED in Part II – “The Gladiator’s Link”]

_____ Become part of the Golden Army, add your data to the polo-drone hive by reaching to @brodygold or @goldenherc9..

[33-108]

Saturn/Shani—the most distant of the original 7 planets, slowest to move, weightiest in consequence-has long been associated with time , karma, and death. But Saturn is more than a mere harbinger of decay; in certain esoteric frameworks, it is seen as the Black Sun, the Sol Niger, the silent source behind all outward illumination.

In classical Western alchemy, the Sol Niger represents the phase of nigredo-putrefaction, the blackening,where the ego dies, and all constructed forms dissolve into the chaotic prima materia.. the raw, formless substrate-so that true transformation and rebirth may begin.

It is deeply Saturnian in tone: melancholic, cold, and stark. Yet in the Krama tradition there is a deeper, more expansive vision of this Black Sun.

Here, the blackness is not absence but overfullness. It is not decay but the uncontainable radiance of that which precedes and follows manifestation. Saturn as Black Sun is not merely the prelude to transformation, but the unchanging center of all transformation itself.

This is why Kali in the Krama tradition, is often depicted as the radiant void-the supreme śakti whose terrifying countenance is not simply an image of destruction, but of return: a return of multiplicity into unity, of time into eternity, of the false light of the manifest sun into the true radiance of the Black Sun.

She is not just a goddess of classical death, but of re-absorption. She consumes the world of name and form (nāma-rūpa) only to reveal the eternal prakāśa-vimarśa-the interplay of Śiva’s light and Śakti’s knowing.

This cyclical movement..of emergence and retraction is encoded in the sacred cycle of the 12 Kālīs.

Where the 36 tattvas which unfold linearly from Śiva-tattva down, the 12 Kālīs move in spirals, phases, and returns.

Each Kali is not simply a stage in cognition, but a contraction and expansion of Śakti’s pulsation/spanda. Their power flows from the center that is also the circumference, a center which is Śrī Kalāsaṅkarṣinī—She Who Draws All Time Back Into Herself.

These 12 Kālīs are interior flames of cognition that burn away layers of duality. Their progression maps onto the adept's descent into the inner void. They correspond not just to mental states, but to the tattvas themselves—becoming mirrors of the cosmos as it is drawn back into its source.

Each triad of Kālīs, often grouped in fours, reflects a deeper layer of retraction: the final stage, the last illusions of duality fall away-the adept confronts the final barrier between subject and object. This culminates in Śrī Kalāsaṅkarṣinī, the supreme goddess who draws even śakti into the unspeakable stillness of paramaśiva.

From this view, the Black Sun is that of total re-absorption into being. It is Saturn not as terminator but as originator-the sun before the sun, the nocturnal radiance from which all days are born.

The Saturnian light is not absent...it is so all-consuming that it appears as darkness.

It is not the nigredo of the fallen ego, but the absolute transfiguration that reveals there was never just ego to begin with.

Kali is both Saturn and Sun: prakāśa and vimarśa, the destructive grace that obliterates false self and reveals eternal light.

Not as a process of alchemical refinement alone, but as an ever-present truth: the Void is the fullness. The End is the Origin. And the Black Sun is the supreme blazing of Śiva’s unborn consciousness through the gaze of His eternal Consort.

[blackstarlineage]

The Hypersexualization of Black Women: A Garveyite Perspective

The hypersexualization of Black women is a destructive remnant of colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy that continues to undermine their humanity, agency, and dignity. From a Marcus Garvey-inspired lens, this issue is not just a personal or cultural problem—it is a deliberate tool of systemic oppression designed to weaken the collective power and unity of the Black community. However, addressing this issue also requires introspection within the Black community itself, acknowledging how some behaviours or dynamics may contribute to perpetuating the problem. The solution lies in reclaiming identity, fostering unity, and empowering Black women as leaders, creators, and visionaries.

What is Hypersexualization?

Hypersexualization reduces Black women to their physical attributes and sexual desirability, denying them their complexity, intellect, and humanity. This phenomenon is deeply tied to the legacy of slavery, where Black women were dehumanized, fetishized, and portrayed as inherently promiscuous to justify exploitation. Today, it manifests in media, culture, and interpersonal relationships, perpetuating harmful stereotypes that harm both Black women and the broader Black community.

Examples of Hypersexualization

1. Historical Roots

The "Jezebel" stereotype framed Black women as hypersexual and immoral, legitimizing their abuse during slavery.

Black women’s bodies were commodified and fetishized, laying the foundation for centuries of objectification.

2. Media Representation

Music, film, and advertising often portray Black women as overly sexualized characters, prioritizing physicality over complexity or intelligence.

Even in Black-centered media, hypersexualization is sometimes glorified as empowerment, blurring the lines between liberation and exploitation.

3. Fetishization

Black women are often reduced to their physical features, such as their curves or skin tone, and are objectified in relationships and interactions.

4. Policing of Black Girls

Black girls are often treated as older and more "adult" than their peers, resulting in harsher discipline in schools and societal oversexualization from a young age.

How Black Women May Contribute to the Problem

1. Internalization of Stereotypes

Generational trauma and societal pressure can lead some Black women to internalize hypersexualized portrayals of themselves, believing they must conform to these images to be valued or accepted.

Media and social media platforms reward hypersexualized portrayals of Black women, sometimes encouraging them to lean into these harmful stereotypes for visibility and profit.

2. Perpetuation of "Empowerment" Narratives

While body positivity and sexual liberation are valid movements, they are sometimes co-opted into narratives that equate empowerment solely with physical or sexual appeal.

The line between embracing sexuality and reinforcing exploitative portrayals can become blurred, unintentionally reinforcing stereotypes.

3. Lack of Accountability in Community Dynamics

In some cases, unhealthy dynamics within the Black community (e.g., competition between women, or a focus on physical validation over substance) can perpetuate these narratives.

Celebrating hypersexualized portrayals in music, fashion, or social spaces without critically examining their impact also contributes to the cycle.

Why This is a Problem

1. Dehumanization

Hypersexualization denies Black women their full humanity, reducing them to objects for sexual gratification or commodification.

2. Erosion of Self-Worth

Internalized stereotypes can lead to struggles with self-esteem and mental health, perpetuating cycles of exploitation and harm.

3. Fragmentation of the Black Community

The overemphasis on Black women’s sexuality distracts from their leadership, intelligence, and creativity, weakening collective power.

4. Barriers to Progress

By focusing on hypersexualized narratives, Black women face greater challenges in achieving positions of power, respect, and influence in various spheres of life.

How to Solve It: A Garveyite Approach

From a Garveyite perspective, combating hypersexualization requires addressing both external systems of oppression and internal contributions to the problem.

1. Reclaim Identity

Promote Positive Representation: Black women must celebrate and be celebrated as leaders, thinkers, and visionaries in media, education, and art.

Educate About History: Understanding how stereotypes were created helps dismantle them, rebuilding pride and rejecting harmful narratives.

2. Educate on Self-Worth

Challenge Internalized Stereotypes: Encourage self-reflection and community dialogue about the impact of perpetuating harmful portrayals.

Redefine Empowerment: Emphasize that true empowerment comes from self-respect, leadership, and purpose, not external validation.

3. Shift Cultural Narratives

Accountability in Media: Hold creators and influencers accountable for the narratives they promote, ensuring they uplift rather than objectify Black women.

Promote Wholesome Content: Support media, music, and art that depict Black women as multi-dimensional, celebrating their intellect, creativity, and strength.

4. Foster Unity in the Black Community

Address Misogyny: Call out misogyny and hypersexualization within the Black community, promoting respect and accountability.

Encourage Solidarity Among Black Women: Build sisterhood and collaboration over competition, focusing on mutual support and empowerment.

5. Teach Pan-Africanism and Self-Determination

Global Black Womanhood: Emphasize the strength, beauty, and leadership of Black women across the diaspora, rejecting Eurocentric ideals of beauty and femininity.

Invest in Black Women: Support educational, entrepreneurial, and leadership initiatives for Black women to ensure their empowerment on all fronts.

Final Thoughts

The hypersexualization of Black women is both a systemic problem and a challenge requiring introspection within the Black community. By addressing both external oppression and internal contributions, Black women can reclaim their identities and rewrite their narratives. From a Garveyite perspective, this requires pride, unity, and a commitment to uplifting Black womanhood as a pillar of the global liberation movement. Black women are more than their bodies—they are leaders, creators, and visionaries destined to shape the future.

[ouroborosmoons]

Press Statement, Hamas:

The crimes of the occupation against Palestinian journalists will not silence them or deter them from continuing their role

We call for the protection of the journalists and hold accountable the perpetrators of crimes against them

The Palestinian people commemorate the Day of Loyalty to the Palestinian Journalist annually on December 31, following a decision by the Palestinian government in Gaza to honor the Palestinian journalists and their efforts and sacrifices in conveying the Palestinian narrative in our conflict with the Zionist enemy, enhancing the image of heroism and steadfastness of our people, and exposing the crimes of the occupation and its aggressive plans.

The anniversary falls this year amid ongoing Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip and the legendary steadfastness of our people and resistance in the face of genocide, starvation, forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, and the failure of the occupation to achieve its aggressive goals and establish its false narrative and propaganda, and to confirm once again the importance of this national day in honoring our heroic Palestinian journalists who are united with our people, living their pains and hopes.

201 journalists have beed martyred, as they sincerely conveyed the truth about the crimes committed against our people in the Gaza Strip, and narrate the scenes of their steadfastness and perseverance on their land.

On the Day of Loyalty to the Palestinian Journalist, we affirm the following:

First: The ongoing aggressive occupation war against our people in the Gaza Strip has revealed that the Zionist occupation is the most dangerous enemy to the press and journalists in occupied Palestine, as the journalists were truly the prominent tool in exposing the crimes and massacres against our people, and the major means of debunking its false narrative and black propaganda against our people's legitimate rights to freedom and independence and the bravery of our resistance in defense of our land and sanctities.

Second: We salute all Palestinian journalists who risk their lives in order to convey the truth, heroism and steadfastness of our people and resistance, and to convey the brutal and hideous crimes and massacres committed by the Zionist occupation against our Palestinian people across the occupied territories, especially in Gaza, which has been subject to the most heinous aggressive war and genocide for 15 months.

Third: We warn against the grave danger of targeting the Palestinian journalists and its dangerous effect the national unity. We renew our call to all national factions and rights groups to work to adopt a media ethics code that enhances the role of the Palestinian journalists and their noble message, provides them a safe environment, and protects them from murder, persecution, harassment or arrest.

Fourth: We call on the rights and humanitarian groups to continue their work in exposing the crimes of the occupation against Palestinian journalists and condemn them. We urge for immediate action against the Zionist perpetrators involved in the crimes against Palestinian journalists and hold them accountable before international courts.

Finally: We also urge all media institutions worldwide to uphold the values of objectivity, honesty, and integrity in reporting the realities of the situation in Gaza and Palestine, and not to succumb to the Zionist media deception and lies.

Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

1, Jan

Official website - Hamas movement

https://t.me/+kUoQCMfm8bI1NWE0

[silvertear1108]

WITCHY world:

- terms and definitions, examples and information in general; "beginner friendly"

- Witches are human beings whom practice witchcraft. It takes a lot more than simply doing spells, it takes a lot of studying and learning about yourself before you can cast a spell as well as call yourself a witch. It is about your connections and place in the universe as well as about learning how to work with natural cycles and the flow of the universe. Here are some types of witches: sea, crystal, moon, green, grey, lunar, elemental, technology, astrology, kitchen, electic etc.

There are many things to be mentioned, explained and all, but we won't get too deep into it this, time. You can follow my blog and stay tuned for me.

Add me on instagram as well if you want to be up to date for my free tarot readings as well as astro consultations. From time to time I will be live on IG doing free one question read, both astro and tarot.

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reina.priestess

Tools used by witches:

The Athame - tool of the element fire or air

The Bell - tool for invocation

Cauldron - tool of the element water

Censer - tool of the element air

Chalice - tool of the element water

Pentacle - tool of the element Earth

Wand - tool of the element Fire or Air

Familiars:

spirit beings that witches make a pact with.

Pacts include: exchange for offerings, lending of power, protection and companionship.

Familiars are not permanently bound to their witch. You may have many familiars in your lifetime. They can also shapeshift and appear differently during their time, with their witch.

Task they perform: spying, companionship, protection, knowledge, aid, travel between worlds, assisting a witch develop their abilities.

Offerings: energy, a foothold in our realm, spirit, milk, honey, incense, various food items.

You should of course research whom you are working with, be it an animal familiar, deity or whomever.

SOME TERMS:

CONJURATIONS = in traditional and most contemporary usage refers to a magical act of invoking a spirit, or using incantations or charms to cast a magical spell ( it is used as a term of casting spells in some magical traditions, such as Hoodoo. )

INCANTATION = series of words said as a magic spell or charm.

GROUNDING = an ancient custom and essential to successful spellwork.

In many Pagan traditions, grounding, centering and shielding are techniques that form a basis of energy work and eventually, of magic itself.

ASTRAL PROJECTION = also known as " astral travel" is term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out of body experience, that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separated from physical body and capable of traveling outside of it throughout the universe.

GRIMOIRE = (book of spells) is a textbook of magic, typically, including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as: angels, spirits, deities and demons.

TASSEOGRAPHY = divination method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds or wine sediments.

THEOSOPHY = (" Divine Wisdom") an occult religious movement established in United States in late 19th century. They teach about God and the world based on mystical insight. They promote unity.

AKASHIC RECORDS = compendium of all universal events, showing people who access it, their past, present and future selves (all which ever existed or are about to exist).

ANCIENT THEBAN = witches alphabet (has less letters than an english one, so some symbols are repeated.)

COVEN = gathering of at least three witches who come together to practice witchcraft.

BALEFIRE = An open fire, usually used in a ritual or spell and they are lit during pagan festivals.

Be careful and research a lot before you do any kind of spell work or anything. I am writing my own shadow book since 2020 and I am researching even to this day and I have never tried doing any kind of spell.

Of course If you want, feel confident or generally feel the need to do them, do the protection spell first and start from a more simple ones.

Good luck and take care, I hope you found my blog interesting and that you will follow me for more.

I am posting interesting things and you can even give me an idea on what you want next.

Add me here as well;

IG: reina.priestess

[zerbu]

Project Squealer BIG REVEAL

Calling all mystery buffs, adventure seekers, and gumshoe wannabes!

I am developing MY OWN INDIE GAME under the working title PROJECT SQUEALER! In this action-packed adventure RPG game, a disease called Laughter Pox has plagued the town, and it's up to three kid detectives to investigate!

These days, I'm mostly known for making mods for The Sims 4, but I've been interested in game development as far back as 2009. In fact, I originally bought The Sims 3 for PC back in 2012 as a tool to plan out characters and worlds, before becoming hooked on the gameplay. For a long time, The Sims was my main creative outlet, but I was still coming up with game ideas in the background.

Skip ahead to mid 2016: while playing with my Go to School mod, I needed to create some child characters to fill the school with. I created two rival teams of kid detectives, and came up backstories and mysteries for them to solve. I ended up liking these characters far more than any other characters I had created. They felt like my creative masterpiece, begging for something bigger than just creations made in a character creator.

That's when "Project Squealer" started brewing in my brain. This indie RPG wasn't just some vague idea; I was developing full-blown stories, environments, and gameplay planned for my kid detectives. I also had the perfect art style in my head. Emphasis on in my head.

Turns out, bringing my dream art style to life was way harder than I thought. So hard, in fact, that I spent the next few years learning how to create art. It took until 2020 to finally have character and environment art that could (almost) pass for pro-level game stuff. Not only that, the project was undergoing what indie devs refer to as scope creep. I kept adding more and more ideas to the design doc, making the game more complex and pushing the release date even further into the future. In 2018, I even decided to move from 2D to 3D, and switched engines from MonoGame to Unity (and later to Unreal Engine 5 in 2023).

Now, it's 2024, and I'm finally, finally ready to announce what I've been working on for the past 6 years!

Project Squealer is the working title for my own indie game about a team of three kid detectives: Orlo (middle), Von (left) and Zoros (right). Together, they go on adventures and solve mysteries… or at least they would, if they weren't constantly having their business stolen by a rival detective team.

In this action-packed adventure game, a mysterious disease known as Laughter Pox has plagued the town, causing people to laugh hysterically. Where is it coming from? How can it be cured? It's up to our detectives to find out! If they can convince others to trust them with such an important mission, that is!

Project Squealer uses a hybrid of 2D and 3D graphics to create a 2D cartoon look with full 3D movement. Characters and some organic objects are 2D sprites that move with the camera. Most environments, objects and buildings are 3D, but have texture-based outlines to give it a 2D look.

The game features a variety of different quests, characters, abilities, enemies, locations, weapons and items. In addition to the main storyline, you can help out NPCs by performing "errands" for them, which will unlock cool rewards and even side missions.

Unlike many RPG games, Project Squealer won't include a character level system, because I want the player to be able to progress using their own skill, not by grinding levels. One of the game's main design philosophies is that there are few, if any, permanent upgrades. Weapons will eventually break, status effects that make your stronger will eventually expire, etc.

Project Squealer is still in relatively early development. I plan to post more information, screenshots, and eventually even videos, as it gets closer to release. Follow my Twitter for quicker updates: https://twitter.com/ZerbuTabek

Your support and feedback is welcome, and will help improve the game!

[polo-drone-070]

Winter Wonderland Party: A Gold Army Celebration

The Golden Stadium sparkled with life as the annual Winter Wonderland Party came into full swing. Snow cascaded gently from the rooftops, aided by carefully timed machines, and the golden glow of the venue reflected off the freshly fallen flakes. This was a party like no other—a fusion of camaraderie, celebration, and purpose—hosted by the Golden Army and its Gold Bros, with the Polo-Drones quietly working behind the scenes to ensure its perfection.

Inside, the grand hall was alive with warmth and energy. The Gold Bros had gathered, dressed in their best Gold Team jerseys and winter wear, laughing and catching up as they marveled at the stunning transformation of the space. The decor was nothing short of magical, with gold and white lights twinkling from every corner, ice sculptures carved into the shapes of team mascots, and a central spiral projection casting a hypnotic pattern across the ceiling.

Behind the Scenes

Polo-Drones moved silently yet efficiently through the hall, taking care of every chore with robotic precision. PDU-070 adjusted the lights for maximum ambiance, while PDU-151 oversaw the catering setup. Every movement of the drones was in perfect synchrony, their shiny black-and-gold polos gleaming under the lights, their faces calm and devoid of distraction. They served their Gold Bros with quiet devotion, replenishing drinks, clearing tables, and ensuring everything ran like clockwork.

“Great work, drones,” said Brody, one of the team’s captain, clapping 151 on the back. “This party wouldn’t have come together without you.”

151 nodded, its voice even and composed. “Serving the Gold Army is its purpose. Ensuring your success is the Hive’s duty.”

Despite their calm demeanor, the Polo-Drones had another objective that night. This was more than a celebration—it was an opportunity to expand the Golden Army and the Polo-Drone-Hive, to identify those feeling the pull of the rubber polo and gently guide them toward their next steps.

Luring the Guests

Among the crowd were Gold Bros, proud members of the Golden Army, mingling with potential recruits—friends, family, and curious onlookers who had been invited to experience the team’s legendary camaraderie. The spirals on the walls shifted subtly, their hypnotic patterns catching the eyes of anyone who lingered too long.

PDU-070 moved quietly through the crowd, engaging in conversation with a group of potential recruits. “You enjoy being here, don’t you?” it asked, its voice soothing. “The bond, the unity—it’s something unique to the Gold Army. You could be part of it. Imagine yourself on the field, training, playing, supporting the team.”

The young men nodded, their eyes darting toward the spirals, their thoughts slowing. The idea of belonging, of contributing, began to take root.

Planting the Seed

For those not yet part of the Gold Army, the drones were careful to plant the seed of devotion. PDU-061 spoke to a young guest who had been watching the team’s highlight reel on a nearby screen.

“You admire the Golden Army and the Polo-Drone’s discipline and success. You can feel it calling to you.” it observed as the young man was staring blankly at his rubber polo. “If you wish to serve, there is a path. Start as a player, a waterboy, or even a mascot. Prove your devotion to the Gold. Only then can you earn the right to embrace the rubber polo.”

The young man hesitated, intrigued but uncertain. PDU-061 leaned in slightly. “It is not a decision to take lightly, but you already feel it, don’t you? The pull of unity. The desire to be more.”

He nodded slowly, and the drone stepped back, letting the thought settle. He would find his way to the Golden Army in time, as so many others had.

The Conversion

Meanwhile, for those already part of the team but feeling the deeper call, the party offered more immediate transformation. Toward the end of the evening, a few select Gold Bros were invited to a quieter area of the stadium, where the atmosphere shifted. Spirals danced more vividly on the walls, and soft, rhythmic music filled the room.

Drone-Cap 009 addressed the group. “You have already proven your devotion to the Golden Army. You are ready to take another step towards obedience and purpose—to become part of something greater. To embrace unity, discipline, and focus as Polo-Drones.”

One by one, those willing stepped forward, their curiosity giving way to resolve. The drones fitted them with gleaming black-and-gold polos and gas masks that sealed their transformation. The spirals reflected in their lenses, erasing doubts and reinforcing their new identity. They were no longer individuals—they were now numbers, part of the Polo-Drone-Hive.

A Golden Future

As the party wound down, the newly converted Polo-Drones marched in perfect formation to begin their training, while the others, still human, mingled in the main hall. For those who had resisted the pull, the drones had left an indelible impression, planting seeds of curiosity and longing that would draw them back to the team.

The Gold Bros gathered at the center of the room, raising their glasses in a toast. “To the Golden Army!”

“To unity and victory!” replied Drone-Cap 009, its voice calm but filled with conviction.

The Winter Wonderland Party had achieved its goals: celebrating the strength of the Golden Army, strengthening the bonds between its members, and ensuring the Polo-Drone-Hive’s continued growth. As the lights dimmed and the last guests departed, the Golden Army stood stronger, more unified, and more determined than ever.

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Special thanks to @polo-drone-061, @brodygold, @polo-drone-151, and @goldenherc9, who I included in the story.