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I just watched

So for context, someone in my Dungeons & Dragons group has been lending me Batman comics to read every week, and I'm genuinely really into it. So naturally the next step was to watch what many Batman enthusiasts consider to be the gold standard for animated superhero media.

And DEAR LORD I CAN SEE WHY.

First of all, the man himself. Kevin Conroy does a stellar job as Batman. And Batman as a character is the perfect balance between aura farming and genuine heartfelt moments, even with his villains! You can tell he genuinely cares for these people and wants to rehabilitate them, and I could especially tell that with Two-Face (which makes sense, since Harvey Dent was a friend of Bruce Wayne's before the burn).

B:tAS was also my first introduction to Clayface, who I quite liked. I'm not exactly the most insecure about my physical appearance, but Clayface feels almost like a commentary on modern beauty standards, especially in spaces like Hollywood.

Overall, I love this show and can't recommend it enough.

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Fallout-ifying random video game characters, part 2

Here's another one!

Cloud Strife

Background/Story

Cloud was born in the Capital Wasteland and from infancy was experimented on by the Enclave. They had seemingly created a new strain of the F.E.V. (Forced Evolutionary Virus) that would have many benefits of being a Super Mutant and none of the drawbacks. Cloud was regularly injected with this new strain through childhood - and to the Enclave's credit, they were not entirely wrong. Cloud kept his human form and gained the enhanced physical brawn typical of Super Mutants. These enhancements led the Enclave to grant Cloud some amount of military power.

Being what the grunts of the Enclave would call one of the higher-ups, however, had a downside. While not heard firsthand, Cloud had a decent idea of just how horrible the Enclave was. It was during the battle over Project Purity that he deserted the fascist paramilitary and made a temporary alliance with a local chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel. He was among those who helped set in motion the activation of Liberty Prime and the ultimate destruction of the Enclave.

He, too, left his homeland and set off for Appalachia. There he would have a home for over a decade until he eventually met a certain scientist arriving from the northeast...

Equipment

Apparel: Enclave Power Armor/Helmet (Formerly), T-45 Power Armor/Helmet (Current) Weapon: Super Sledge

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Strength: 10 Perception: 5 Endurance: 8 Charisma: 2 Intelligence: 4 Agility: 3 Luck: 6

Notable Skills

Melee Weapons: 100 Unarmed: 65 Repair: 75

Notable Perks

Fight the Power!

Toughness

Center of Mass

Bloody Mess

That's right people, I'm connecting the crossover characters to each other too!

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Fallout-ifying random video game characters, part 1

So I'm into Fallout and I got this idea recently where I turn random video game characters into Fallout characters! I'll include a story for them as well as their gear and any notable skills/perks, mixing elements from different games (for example, a character living in New Vegas may have a perk from 4). I may also have them connect to existing Fallout characters, too. Here's my first one, dedicated to someone I did an rp with a while back!

Sucrose (Genshin Impact)

Background/Story

A former scientist at the Institute, she was led to believe all her life that she was a Synth. Sucrose, whose name is simply a moniker for her sweeter-than-sugar personality, wholeheartedly believed that she was made to be a new and beautiful generation of synthetic people that would soon populate the Commonwealth, and eventually the greater United States.

However, this all turned out to be a ruse - an experiment created to see how a regular old biological being born and raised within the Institute would react to being led on like this. Upon finding out, Sucrose became greatly disillusioned with the Institute and fled, hoping that she would be able to expose them one way or another. It was she who led a certain Vault Dweller from the nearby Vault 111 to locate the Institute. Such was how the Sole Survivor found their child and decided to wipe out the Institute for the Minutemen to take over the Commonwealth.

Despite seemingly knowing now that Synths would never be able to populate America over humans, Sucrose decided she wished to travel beyond the Commonwealth. She parted ways with the Sole Survivor and headed southwest to Appalachia, where she would eventually make a home in Burning Springs.

Equipment

Apparel: Reading Glasses, Lab Coat Weapon: Institute Laser (formerly), Laser Rifle (current)

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Strength: 2 Perception: 6 Endurance: 5 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 8 Agility: 5 Luck: 5

Notable Skills

Science: 90 Energy Weapons: 70 Medicine: 85

Notable Perks

Computer Whiz

Robotics Expert

Educated

Entomologist

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So I Just Played: Fallout New Vegas - Old World Blues DLC

This DLC was definitely...not what I was expecting. But I loved it!

I've always liked when games that seem not too focused on technology go full sci-fi, and that's exactly what this DLC did. It's like in Dying Light when you're going to meed Dr. Camden and you go from a semi-destroyed city into a pretty functional science lab, except you go from a destroyed Mojave Desert to a scientific complex in a crater (which was originally the base of a mountain that got blown open in a failed experiment, fun fact!).

I was pretty intrigued by the story. Why did Dr. Mobius harass the Think Tank? What's the deal with all those robo-scorpions. Why in the Kentucky-fried fuck can home appliances talk!?

I went with the ending in which the Courier gets all their original organs back and spares Dr. Mobius while destroying the Think Tank. Seriously, they nonconsensually cut out parts of my body, did you really think I was gonna take that standing? I don't see Dr. Mobius doing that to people!

In summary, this DLC, like all four of them for New Vegas, is something I consider like a required reading. The base game already slaps but the DLCs all build upon the existing world beautifully!

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So I just played: Terraria (+ Calamity mod)

THIS. GAME. SLAPS.

Terraria is quite easly my favorite PC game of all time. So much so that I wouldn't say I just played it. In fact, I've been playing it since before version 1.3! And my god is it fun!

It's on most consoles these days, but I firmly believe the PC version is superior because of one thing: mods. There's a lot of mods for this game, from simple quality of life stuff (my favorite is Ore Excavator, lets you just instamine ore veins and it saves SO much time) to mods that add a whole slew of new content. Like the second part of this little review, the Calamity mod!

I'd only recommend playing Calamity once you get REALLY good at movement in vanilla Terraria (or if you have goated friends who can carry you, like I did when I first played lmao) because holy shit is Calamity challenging. But boy is it a fun challenge. It's one of those mods that just adds a lot of stuff. Biomes, weapons, items, enemies, soundtracks (seriously the Calamity soundtrack is just a lineup of bangers), and of course bosses.

My personal favorite is the Devourer of Gods; one, that name is RAW; two, the music SMACKS (phase 1 is called Scourge of the Universe, phase 2 is Universal Collapse, both are heavenly), and it's just a fun as hell endgame challenge that really tests your mettle. But I'm doing my first solo run and I'm not at that point yet. In fact, I only just killed Moon Lord the other day, and just earlier I did the first post-Moon Lord boss, the Profaned Guardians.

And the weapons are some of the coolest fucking things on the planet. My personal favorite is the Ark of the Cosmos, a melee weapon that you build up throughout the entire game, starting with the Fractured Ark early on and building it up to the Ark of the Ancients, Ark of the Elements (which I currently have in my solo run) and then of course Ark of the Cosmos. My other favorite is the crafting tree with the Pwnage Hammer, which I've currently made into the Stellar Contempt (can you tell I'm a melee enjoyer?).

As for biomes, don't really have a particular favorite. Sunken sea is very calming, but it's tedious to explore and you don't even need to go there. Sulphrous Sea is fun because it has the storm event and the Aquatic Scourge boss (which ALSO has a banger theme) but the Abyss below it is just straight ASS to explore. I guess I'd say the Astral Infection because it's just straight vibes, and Astrum Deus is both fun and useful to fight.

But yeah, overall, I rate Terraria a 9/10 (it has some minor issues but it's damn near perfect) and Calamity a 8/10. Both of them slap.

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So I just played: Fallout New Vegas

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

No but seriously, this game SLAPS. There's some rage-inducing moments (I swear to God I wanna kill whoever designed those Ghouls outside the Repconn Test Site) but oh my god it's great other than that. I'm a sucker for westerns, and this is basically "what if western but post-apocalypse" and it's great.

It's like ten bucks on Steam, and the summer sale is going on right now so it's probably even cheaper! And I have to say TEN BUCKS FOR PEAK OH MY GOD WHAT A BARGAIN.

Overall, I love New Vegas. Post apocalyptic western with Big Iron by Marty Robbins in it.

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So I just played: Kid Icarus: Uprising

YOUR HONOR.

IT'S PEAK.

For context I downloaded an emulator for 3DS games onto my laptop, mostly to play Tomodachi Life (which I'll make another post about because I'm addicted), and I decided to finally try out this game, which I've been dying to play because of that dialogue.

Speaking of the dialogue, peak comedy. That's it. Fourth wall breaks like a deadpool movie (the funny part is that EVERYONE does it, no one is out of the loop they all know they're in a video game), jokes out the wazoo, Viridi being a tsundere (I lowkey ship her and Pit tbh), Hades just in general, it's just the best.

The gameplay is good too, but the controls are a little...weird. I maen it was designed for a 3DS and I'm playing on a PC, so it makes sense. But I've made it work. Basically I use a USB controller in my left hand to move Pit around and shoot, and then my mouse is a substitute for the stylus.

Also the music fucking slaps, That First Town and Dark Pit's theme damn near made me jizz myself with how good they are.

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Hear me out

Someone should make a FNaF-style game called Five Nights At Eggmanland where you're a nightguard at Eggmanland and some of his robot minions try to get into your office.

Like Metal Sonic has a mechanic where he starts getting aggressive early in the game and then gets pissed off that he's not getting you as the game progresses, and he transforms into Neo Metal Sonic and starts hiding in blind spots unseen by cameras, meaning you have to gauge his location by hearing his voice (since Neo Metal can speak, regular Metal can't) like you do with Freddy in FNaF 1.

Some kinda evil demonic versions of Orbot and Cubot can act like Bonnie and Chica, and Sage can be a kinda secret thing like Golden Freddy.

I might have to make this a crack fanfic.

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So I just played: Sonic Frontiers

I haven't beaten the game yet, still working on the third zone, Chaos Island. But it's pretty fun.

It's not really all that cinematic until you get to the boss fights, which I'll get to in a minute. But it's still just fun running around the island killing things and getting those little memory tokens to have those cutscenes with Sonic and his friends (I loved the Amy and Knuckles ones). And the cyberspace levels aren't too bad. They're kinda just remixes of old Sonic levels, maybe made to satisfy the old-school fans, but they're short and sweet, not too heavily emphasized.

But the boss fights...

Oh my FUCKING GOD. The boss fights are just PEAK GODDAMN FICTION. That fucking metal soundtrack (seriously, LISTEN TO UNDEFEATABLE, it goes SO HARD). And the way Super Sonic just fucking wallops these Titans is crazy. He grabs Wyvern BY THE FUCKING JAW and HURLS THAT BITCH INTO A WHOLE MOUNTAIN.

But overall, it's a modest 6/10. Just kinda lawless fun running around in the open zones, which I'm fine with, and absolute cinema for boss fights.

Also, this is kinda becoming a series of posts, so as I play new games, I'll post a review on them! I'll do one for Dying Light 2 soon, since I just beat it.

Finally, have this meme:

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So I just played: Dying Light

It's phenomenal, that's all I'm gonna say. Just a beautiful zombie/parkour game. The combat is simple yet fluid (and SO satisfying oh my god them zombie heads fly), the movement is just so damn fun, and the story is very enthralling. I generally enjoyed the side quests more, just running around Harran helping people get shit done, but the story with Rais and the GRE and Dr. Zere and Doctor Camden was super fun too! Definitely give it a try, Techland always has some sort of sale going on Steam for it. There is a bit of gore in it though, so if you can't handle blood and guts I don't entirely recommend it.

I also played its DLC campaign, The Following! That wasn't quite as fun as the base game with a lack of parkour, but the parkour was still there and driving around the countryside in my beefed-up dune buggy was absolutely baller.

As for Dying Light 2, I've started it and...eh, it's good. Not quite as good as Dying Light 1, though. I haven't gotten too far though, so I imagine it'll get better once I'm in the Central Loop.

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BABE WAKE UP NEW SONIC 3 MOVIE TRAILER DROPPED

THEY GAVE HOMIE A STRAP I FUCKING CAN'T WAIT, HE'S PACKIN HEAT JUST LIKE THE GAME

edit: just made it my new pfp lmao

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I have another fanfic idea, though this one's more serious

I've been reading this Genshin comic on Reddit (it's by junebuart) centered around Furina receiving her Vision and learning to use its power. (It's called Gift of Waters and it's fucking peak)

See, in the comic, Furina only learns how to use her Vision. In the game, she uses a sword. But where did she learn to use a sword, you might ask?

In the fic, Neuvillette will send her to a faraway kingdom called Hyrule, a land way off the map of Teyvat. There she is to seek out a strong swordsman, word of whose deeds has been spreading throughout Fontaine recently.

Furina eventually would travel to Kakariko Village, and then suddenly the village would be attacked by monsters, who are then thwarted by the Hero of Twilight - Link. Link then meets Furina and agrees to teach her the way of the sword, passing on the skills he learned from the Hero's Shade.

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So I just beat Sonic X Shadow (PAUSE) Generations

I'll be brutally honest, the Sonic side of things was a smidge underwhelming. The Time Eater was hella confusing for me and I didn't know what in God's name I was doing half the time. Then again this is my first 3D Sonic game so that might get better once I have more experience with it.

Again, the Shadow side left me impressed. Chaos Island from Frontiers was a fun level, really enjoyed swinging around with Doom Morph like freakin' Spider-Man.

The final boss was also just a little underwhelming story-wise. It's just Black Doom but again, Shadow already bodied his bitch-ass in his own game. Honestly, though, it was some nice character development for Shadow. Pretty much SEGA and Sonic Team just saying, "Yeah, character's done. He has no need for development, no more Potential Man, he's got fleshed out abilities with explanations for them, and a fully established story and personality." The Doom Powers are overall cool though, seeing Shadow with wings was something I never knew I needed. Hopefully if Shadow appears in maybe like the 4th Sonic movie (assuming we get one) he'll be able to use them!

Overall, solid 5/10 between both games. It was aight. Maybe once I play Frontiers I'll be better with 3D Sonic stuff.

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So I got Sonic X Shadow (PAUSE) Generations

So far I'm digging it! The Sonic story so far is a little tedious but that's just because I'm not used to the movement. I've only played the older Sonic games via emulator and that was just out of boredom in high school. Overall though, it's pretty good.

But the SHADOW side of things...

Holy crap I love it. The music goes SO god damn hard! I'm only a few levels in and I'm about to unlock the second boss (which I'm suspecting is Metal Overlord since I already fought the Biolizard and its fire remix of Supporting Me and I just unlocked the surfing ability, which the trailers showed Shadow using to fight Metal Overlord. I'm closing in on that What I'm Made Of remix!) So far my favorite levels are City Escape on the Sonic side, and both Kingdom Valley and Sunset Heights on the Shadow side.

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After multiple unsuccessful attempts to find a good replacement for Raphtalia, I decided "Fuck it."

She's out of retirement bitches

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Alright so I modded Nilou into Left 4 Dead (here's a picture)...

And this combined with another mod somehow gave me a fanfic idea. The other mod in question is my Witch mod, which turns the fucker into Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie.

Now, you know Grunty's whole bit, right? She kidnaps Banjo's sister because she wants to be beautiful by siphoning the beauty from Tooty (that's Banjo's sister btw) into herself.

Well what if she built a lair in Sumeru and tried to do that to Nilou?

Now I'm just imagining Aether and Banjo jumping her witch-ass (pun intended) and Aether burying her under a Geo construct like how Grunty gets buried under a rock after Banjo beats her lmao