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So a single person wanted more so I guess I’m doing more, my goal was reached so here we go

A “koumei” who’s a recovered gambling addict, being forced back into her addiction to help others, the very thing that’s saving lives is the thing that Ruined hers, a woman who knows she’s so close to relapsing, and can do absolutely nothing to stop herself

A woman who can indulge in her vice whenever she pleases, lucky her

A “Grendel” who was suffering from an eating disorder, (arfid) now forced to eat anything… or anyone that gets in his way, his body fighting to hurl every moment somethings in his gut and due to the injection, with disastrous results

Who Wouldn’t make more room when the world’s their buffet

A “Titania” whose razor-flies constantly scutter beneath her skin, cutting their way out when called upon, slashing and gnashing at her skin to dig their way back inside, but at least it’s better than them finding other… “entrances”

Look at her, a living swarm, those little things fly so fast, I wonder how fast they are when they’re in their breathing hive,

A “dagath” who was a professional horse rider, their face plastered on every magazine and newspaper in Höllvania, although, you wouldn’t recognise her now, well, there isn’t anything left to really recognise anymore, not like anyone cares, everyone’s eyes were never on her face anyways

Here comes the pale horsewoman!! She may be first, but she’ll never be “a head”

A “banshee” who was always such a quiet girl, always overlooked, always ignored, always forgotten, always singing to herself, a shame really, she had such a beautiful voice, but now all she can do is scream

They always ignored her, used her, forgot her, ignored her, but now all she nobody can ignore her

A “Qorvex” who was always such a gentle soul, always being a shoulder to cry on, someone in your corner, a hugger, ready to share the warmth in his heart with others, but after the injection, his concrete heart emits warmth too bright for others

A lighthouse of a man, his light leading the way to the light of their future, if only they listened to Daedalus’s warnings

That’s it for now I guess, if you liked these leave a note, and I take suggestions now, I guess, maybe, who knows

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So what I’ve been seeing a lot of protoframe oc’s around lately and my minds been working in OVERDRIVE thinking about how each character fits their “batch” personality and characteristics wise… but what if they didn’t … and what if they did, but not how they wanted

(TW? Don’t know how these work tbh)

A “Baruuk” that isn’t an old monk, but a young, volatile bundle of Rage, angry at Scaldra for not helping, angry at the Tech-rot for ruining so many lives, angry the hex for not doing more, angry in general about hows there’s not enough supplies for the never ending flow of civilians that they’re holding in the mall, angry at the fact he KNOWS there’s nobody he can be actually be angry at, their all doing the best they can and he knows that, cause the thing that angers him the most, is that he let himself get tricked by entrati,

All the fight in the world, against a problem he Can’t

A “Dante” that follows that similar train of mind, instead of a wise old warlock using the void as a weapon, a frail young mental patient being used by the void as a weapon, a boy that never stops muttering secrets only he understands, a boy whose a danger to everyone around him, who fires at anything that moves indiscriminately on the field, which would have led to massive numbers of friendly casualties if not for the over guard he gives his “allies”, a boy teetering on the edge of insanity like a tightrope, whose one gust of wind from letting hell come loose through that CURSED book

That day he took the old man’s medicine, the boy realised something, and he kept realising till his mind broke

A “jade” who was a beautiful woman who miscarried her baby after losing her husband, magically given her child back to her only to realise she’ll never meet them, never be able to hold their child cause they’ll never give birth, stuck being 4-5 months pregnant for the rest of their lives, expecting a life changing event that will never happen

She just wanted her child back, now they’ll never leave her

A “xaku”, a horrid fusion of three separate people, from three separate races, ages, backgrounds, genders, lives, who only met each other MOMENTS before being turned into a MONSTER by Entrati, each struggling with the fact that only one of them has full control of the body, dealing with having to learn how to walk, talk, hell, even stand, being bed bound cause all three try to walk out of sync, causing them to collapse onto the ground like a broken toy every time they try to get up, they can’t even FEED themselves anymore, just a rotten, broken, doll

They say 2’s the loneliest number after the number one, but these three will never be alone again

A “Sevagoth”, a young man who had his whole future ahead of him on the high seas, now refusing to leave his room cause he’s haunted by some abomination that attacks anyone and anything that gets near him, his room is destroyed,, claw marks the length of his forearm cover every surface as the beast calls him one. Mocking. Word….. “captain”

He always wanted a first mate, but he didn’t specify they had to be mates

A “gauss” who wasn’t fast enough to help anyone, after the loss of his family due to a techrot outbreak in his apartment building he was devastated, purely because he was supposed to be dead aswell, if only he made it to the station in time, now after the injection? He’s always first to the scene, first to fight, first to help, first to witness the horrors of war

He’ll never be late again, but is it already too little, too late

A “Hildryn” who was a frail woman, too weak all her life, struggling to even lift her bags, after failing to save the ones she cared for because she was too weak to get the door open, entrati gave her the option to never be weak again

She can now lift the weight of the world with one hand, but can she lift her failures

These were fun, I might make more, might not

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Eleanor accidentally making a rat experience cosmic horror is really funny to me. I doubt Lettie was too pleased about it, though...

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???: denji ...

Denji: WHA--WHO ARE YOU??

???: i'm the gayness devil, Denji

Denji: WHY ARE YOU SMALL

???: not enough people are homophobic anymore … i need you to spread homophobia, Denji. You need to spread homophobia

Denji: i… um… i don't think i can do that

???: i'll show you a boob

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Okay I don't even go here but this fucks. This fucks SO hard. I am so hype for body horror infested boy band. I can't wait to watch my partner play this holy shit

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1999 is the best Warframe update because they let me kiss my beautiful wife on (in game) new years

But also because of a bug Y2K actually happened for like 15 minutes and everyone was distraught in global chat because they couldn't get their kiss

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a closer look at the technocyte coda from the devstream!

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my personal rough attempt at trying to figure out what the hell these guys look like. shared for the world to see

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good evening, tumblr user @morning-st48. or should i say... bad morning? because i think you are the one spreading misinformation about my big beautiful daughter.

but i will not hold this against you. i am a big man with a big daughter, and i would like to use this as a teaching opportunity.

i will teach you about my daughter.

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I've sometimes seen this sentiment, especially among reviewers, that SOMA's WAU ""monster plot"" contributes nothing to the main game's story, and that the storyline would infact benefit from the WAU's removal. If you ask me, that couldn't be further from the truth. The WAU is at the root of everything. Frankly, it's the main reason the game's moral dilemmas are.. well, dilemmas at all. If the WAU wasn't making monsters, wasn't there to warp the life around Pathos-II as it saw fit, the game wouldn't have even started. Pathos-II would've just remained dormant forever. Simon wouldn't be there, and neither would any of the obstacles he faces on his journey to preserve humanity. The main reason the WAU isn't directly beneficial to Earth is exactly because its understanding of "life" is so skewed. Its not just bringing things back - its bringing them back incorrectly. Every single "monster" we meet builds a case both against and for the WAU's continued existence.

The Construct shows the WAU's failure to understand humanity in the physical sense, shoving a Human brain scan into a misshapen robot body and calling it a day, leaving it to babble to itself as it aimlessly wanders the halls of Upsilon.

The same could be said for Carl Semken and the other Mockingbirds, though to a lesser degree - though capable of speech, they're still very delusional and oftentimes end up going insane. Still, in some ways you see the WAU's understanding of human psychology progress with each new mockingbird - they become increasingly coherent and increasingly sane, Catherine and Robin Bass being great examples. While the Construct has lost so much of itself you can no longer tell who it used to be, the other Mockingbirds have their sense of self intact. With the WAU's unreliable nature cemented, we move on to its attempts at preserving humans physically, with Amy Azarro being the first proper example Simon gets to witness.

She's kept alive in what seems to be a perpetual state of discomfort, and judging by the structure gel slowly overtaking her I believe the WAU may be slowly converting her into one of the Fleshers. Its keeping her alive, yes, but its doing so at any cost necessary - it doesn't matter if she's in constant pain as long as she doesn't flatline. Its treatment of actual organisms is practically an inversion of its treatment of the Mockingbirds - instead of prioritizing the mental wellbeing of the subject, the WAU prioritizes their physical wellbeing with little to no care for the mental state its "patient" is in the entire time.

Fleshers live and breathe, but they seemingly aren't "all there" at all. The lights are on, but no one's home anymore. All they do is wander the ruins of the CURIE and lash out at anyone who enters their territory - the WAU has basically reduced them to animals.

Terry's been driven insane from all the structure gel infesting his insides, and though his goal was "technically" benevolent (putting everyone into a permanent dream state where the WAU could make them live the best possible versions of their lives), he achieved it through incredibly violent means, conducting what was basically an attack on Theta and causing its downfall. So far, its attempts at preserving humans physically have simply resulted in increasingly grotesque and violent monstrosities - but I would argue you see that begin to change when Simon reaches Omicron.

When you reach it, you see the aftermath of a particularly gruesome procedure WAU had carried out - everyone's blackboxes have exploded, turning their heads to mush. We find out that one of the employees, with the help of someone particularly close to the WAU, had figured out how to poison it. They have been receiving "visions" and "messages" from a comatose Johan Ross - the WAU's "AI psychologist", someone it desperately tried to restore from a comatose state by manipulating structure gel with electromagnetic fields. Either the WAU deliberately retaliated when it figured out the poisoning plot, or it had simply overdone it when restoring Johan Ross - sacrificing an entire station's worth of lives to bring someone back. Either way this shows a tremendous amount of intelligence on the WAU's part - and also paints it as either exceptionally cruel or exceptionally empathetic depending on the perspective you view it from. Either it considered Johan so important to it that it was willing to sacrifice most Omicron staff, or it was willing to violently retaliate in order to preserve itself. Either way, Omicron houses what I believe to be a sign of the WAU's steadily improving understanding of humanity - Dr. Johan Ross.

He has been restored with both his physical health and mental faculties (relatively) intact. He isn't violent, and he perfectly understands what condition he is currently in - but despite that he doesn't seem to be physically suffering. He is still driven to eliminate the WAU, but it seems to be less out of personal suffering and more out of fear in regards to the suffering its other creations may go through. I believe he's an example of a semi-perfectly restored human - both him and Simon himself. They're both cases of, as Catherine puts it, "a sound mind in a sound body". But although the signs are there, there is no outright definitive proof that the WAU's creations will only continue to get better.

And that's what makes the game's final moral dilemma so compelling to me. The whole game has been providing us with both evidence and counterevidence towards the WAU's idea of restoring humanity. Now, it's up to you to act as its jury and executioner. By killing it you either stop it from torturing the memory of humanity, or you doom humanity to extinction in all senses of the word. By keeping it alive, you either doom the remnants of humanity to an eternal torturous existence, or you give the WAU a chance at creating something new. There is no way of knowing what choice is correct - because you don't know what the WAU is thinking. You never get to. You don't know its plans, you don't know if it even has the capacity to actually learn from its mistakes, hell, you don't even know if its capable of thought - but here it is. Making things. Terrible things, but there's a chance that it'll only get better with time. Simon himself is evidence of that chance. It has already managed to make what could be classified as a "complete" person. And if you kill it, Simon's going to be the last "complete" person it managed to bring back.

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ok i have a murder mystery game idea. you play as a detective in the afterlife who is hired by dead people to find their murderers

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had this idea for a fighting game where the characters are all horror movie monsters/killers. here’s some sketches for one of them

i’m not smart enough or well versed enough in horror movies to make this idea in any way clever but idk i have some funny ideas for it

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THE PRISONER

also alt color palette i ultimately didn’t go with

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stripes 

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P.I.E.C.E officers of purgatory

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My dad was dealing with some mixed feelings so I told him "In therapy when something is too complicated to do a simple 'pro and contra list' we sometimes do an excercise where you imagine all these mixed feelings around a table in some kind of conference, letting each tell their bit and you leading the debate."

and my dad didn't really respond and just stared ahead so I kept preparing lunch. Until a few minutes later when he suddenly piped up: "I am having a bad time at the conference"

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I feel like this needs to be said

ATOMIC HEART IS A VIDEO GAME NOT PROPAGANDA OR ANYTHING ELSE

Look I’ll admit the “conflict”( how I’ll be referring to it) is horrible an unjustified and PUTIN AND SOME SOLDIERS has gone to far but THEY ARE NOT RUSSIA, RUSSIANS ARE NOT AT FAULT Putin is.

I’ll be the first to say A.H’s release was really unfortunate but there’s no propaganda (based on my experience and I’ll edit and adjust this post as such ps only at “a glass darkened” ) and sorry if this is wrong isn’t a Russian guy breaking Russian stuff because of Russian bad guys a good thing. I “think” it “proves” that not all Russian soldiers and civilians agree with Putin like not all nazis agreed with Hitler, “most nazis didn’t know about what was happening with the Jews”( not sure will fact check and change accordingly)

I have not done research on this topic but pls keep me updated if u choose to and pls be nice in comments? (No idea how tumblr works still) and I thank u for at least reading this

(Edit v1 nothing to do with above but stuck on mission a glass darkly keep clipping through elevator floor and when it works door won’t open HELP also fuck Putin)