Bugbrained and prolly insane

They/He | Currently Pokémon and Bug Fables pilled | Hey don’t feed my art into the soulless AI machine thanks :D

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Hello! Intro post time!

My name here is Crypt (They/He), but you can also call me Lucky. (old user.)

I was really addicted to Cookie Run for more than a year, but I only play Ovenbreak as of now. I still know a lot about the lore and mechanics of CRK, so you can ask away about that. My main interests as of now are Pokémon, Bug Fables, Hollow Knight, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.

BYF:

I often cursed in my older posts. Trying to reel it in but forgive me for my guttermouth

I SUCK at maths, but will occasionally use it to try and prove a point. I'm always open to corrections for my maths AND my knowledge of lore/game mechanics. I'm only human

I don't really bring up political or religious beliefs here but to clarify to weed out idiots, I am agnostic. I support women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and I am pro-choice; if you believe against these three parts of my identity, you will not find solace or agreement on my blog.

This is not a political or religious blog, though. Please keep political comments and religious comments to blogs where they are welcome.

My posts can be LONG.

I'm always open to asks, since I love debating and discussing topics, but I might not answer/take a long time to. Be patient.

Sometimes I'll post OC content, since this isn't a fandom blog. All OC posts will be tagged #script of the crypt, so block that if you're not interested in my OCS.

Please keep NSFW, even slightly suggestive content away! I am very easily disturbed by this content!

You can check out my socials in my links, so remember those. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy my content and ramblings! And if I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!

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Why I Don't Recommend Unvale

And as someone who's been using the site since 2024, I think I'm allowed to speak on it. Also, I'm only a casual user, if there's any Unvale backstory stuff that explains the poor stuff, lemme know.

Recently they added THIS glorious gem to the site. Aha, yes, subscriptions.

Now as far as I know, Toyhouse doesn't have any subscription services. If they do, they're pretty damn good at keeping them away from your eyes.

Unvale's is front and center. I feel like a site designed entirely for creatives having obvious paywalls is kind of stupid. I know things like this exist everywhere, but for a site you'd think is for archiving your characters it certainly feels odd having all these features paywalled + worse for free users. It is an impasse for new creators.

A lot of people on the site are minors as well, from what I've seen. A site chock-full of minors having paywalls, especially like these, is really difficult for them.

While I mainly used the site for archiving, which is what I thought the consensus was, it's really not. So much of the site has social-media aspects of it. I don't disagree that featured creators and likes and trending should exist, but it really just turns it into a glorified social media.

I wouldn't mind the paywalled features if the site allowed more customisation. You only get what the site gives you, which is limited even with subscriptions. You can't make your own themes. Even with 'Pro', you can only change colours.

While sites like Toyhouse allow for full HTML, Unvale feels very restrictive.

Their ToS is miserable. I understand censoring language but even nipples feels very extreme and evokes this idea that the body is naturally salacious, which makes me think of dealings with religion rather than 'internet site for OCs.' Original characters are sometimes reflections of their creators. Censoring things that are real experiences and real parts of life because they aren't palatable is idiotic. Life isn't palatable.

It is up to parents what they think their child is ready to learn, but if a child ignores warning signs and accesses explicit content, that should fall onto parents for not enshrining protections upon their child. Not the child for finding the content, or the site for having it.

If the reason these protections are here is because they are acknowledging the minors on site, then why have paywalls and inaccessibility if you want to pander to all creatives, including minors and those stressed for money?

If having this site so clean isn't for the sake of pandering to young creatives, then is it to pander to big corporations?

A site that is staunchly anti-ai is one I don't expect to pander to big corporations, but if it isn't that, then what?

It isn't a site designed for kids, due to its inaccessibility and paywalls.

It isn't a site designed for big corporations, since they try to seem like they are anti-ai and stand beside the little guy.

It feels like Unvale just... exists, not for the sake of anyone.

It's an echo chamber of nothing, since it's so hard to get seen.

Just find a Toyhouse code or make your own site. I PROMISE it's worth it.

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Imagine if Team Snakemouth went through the Underworks. Imagine if they met Loam.

(Ask from December I'm so sorry anon ;-;)

Ooo!!! That one's an idea that keeps me up.

In my crossover, I usually make Team Snakemouth arrive to Pharloom in Act 3. But I love thinking about them getting there earlier as well, because it allows for even more suffering!

Someone like Loam is probably an enigma to Team Snakemouth. Everyone in Bugaria seems to have fair working conditions, considering you don't really see anyone complaining about pay or jobs. It's pretty difficult to compare Berries to Rosaries, but we can definitely assume that the economy of Bugaria is stable, and since Pharloom is dying, that their economy isn't (there is a time to talk about wage inequality in Silksong, but this is about Loam.)

So seeing someone who gets paid so little and treated so unfairly is probably confusing and terrible!

If in this scenario, they meet Loam before Hornet, we can expect him to think they're from the Citadel to release him based on his first dialogue to Hornet - ["Me see you now! So clean, so lively... Surely you did come from above! Me time has come at last! Me work is done. You come to bring me up! Up, up! Hrrr!"] Team Snakemouth probably look even more lively and clean than Hornet, so this'd most likely happen.

It's a story that would definitely pull at heartstrings. I bet they'd try to convince him to leave, but he wouldn't, which would hurt and confuse them. Then finding him dead later on... he'd be free, but it'd still be so much.

The Underworks in general? Just as horrifying. Seeing all these people working in such horrible conditions just for a false promise of salvation - that's even worse than the way Hoaxe treated the Wasps!

It's stuff like the Underworks and Loam that would never leave Team Snakemouth's heads, I can tell you that much. All of Pharloom is one big trauma show.

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(Massive yap incoming)

Something I've always found interesting is how in CRK, they seem to avoid taking their time lately? I've been skipping out on recent updates because of just how BAM! BAM! BAM!

NEW LORE! NEW HIGH RARITY COOKIE! LIMITED THIS! DIFFICULT THAT!

It's just too much! I consider the last true 'filler' update we got to be the Farers of the Faraway Seas update. And that released July 30th last year! It's nearly been a full year since the last filler update! Now, one could make the argument that Premonition of Doom was a filler update, but I consider a filler update to be a story that has little to no narrative significance after it's over.

(Note - The KPop Demon Hunters collab also counts but I'm currently referring to filler updates that give us new characters designed for the game or crossed over from other games in the Cookie Run universe. I do not consider collab special cookies or guest cookies new characters in that sense since they are either non-playable or from a different franchise.)

Premonition of Doom played a major role during the Dark Enchantress War! Without the lore it set up we'd be missing huge chunks of the main story for the finale of Arc 1.

Meanwhile over in Ovenbreak, the most recent update as of this post is the Summer Party at Marine Soda Bay update. Another filler update would be The Great Pâtissier Battle update back in February. Now, I'm pretty sure the next update will be a Nova Cookie update, considering the 2026 roadmap, but that still makes for... two legendary cookies released so far in 2026! (Well, I suppose three if you count Bamboo Blade Cookie, since most of his update came out in 2026, but its initial release was in 2025.) And next to those 2-3 legendary cookies is the release of 12 epic cookies! So about 25% legendaries, and 75% epics. And that's IF we count Bamboo Blade Cookie and discount Allulose Nova Cookie. If we only count Halite Gauntlet Cookie, then that bumps down to roughly 8% legendaries, and 92% epics!

Back in Kingdom, we've gotten 6 cookies above the super epic ranking and 4 epic cookies. (The two dough cookies + ash salt and croissant.) That is 60% high rarities, and 40% epics. That is insane!

One might say that there are more Cookies overall in Ovenbreak being released so far than Kingdom, so they must be harder to level up than cookies in Kingdom. But that's simply not true!

For the new updates to how legendary cookies upgrade, you need 520 soulstones to get them to 6 stars of promotion + initial pull. That is 26 dupes! When the odds of pulling them from their banner is ~2.2% (I think, corrections if I'm wrong please) per individual draw. The expected amount of pulls is 1,182! (Please please correct me if I'm wrong I suck at maths)

And in Ovenbreak, usually you get the cookie once and use crystals and cookie potions to level them up when they're a new release. You can get 10,000 crystals a week just from the gold gem shop, and a ton of cookie potions basically everywhere...

oh right, this was about filler updates, not about how unfair CRK is. Yeah, Ovenbreak just handles its stories better. Not only does it have multiple different main stories at once, which allows for more variety, it has more filler updates, which allows time to rest in between lore drops.

While the Timeline of Fate does have branching paths and POVs, they're all connected. While the main stories of the Nova Cookies and the Martial Tarts are not really connected.

If you're not interested in Kingdom's main story, you're really out of luck. In Ovenbreak, you at least of have options.

Please not I'm not referring to Ovenbreak as a paragon of gaming or Cookie Run in general, I have my gripes (the Story Key system...) but it's a bit more digestible than Kingdom imo.

I can't really consider myself a casual Ovenbreak player, but I can consider myself a casual Kingdom player. Consider these just some gripes and confusions at Kingdom. I'm not saying I'm the paragon of Cookie Run opinions either.

[virtuedoll]

everything after silent salt's update never happened.

[funkymossbug]

screenshot from my pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of darkness playthrough!

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I've never done artfight before so I'm really excited!!! :D

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"Why are you crying?"

Maybe it's because I went to a pride event and over 1,000 people showed up. People I knew showed up. People I didn't think would.

Maybe it's because with every milestone it's a reminder that I'm still here, and I'm still me.

Maybe it's because I had people tell me to my face I was wrong about myself, my identity, and my emotions. But then they turned around and said they were wrong and they see me.

Just remember - you are you. No matter what others tell you, no matter what others say or do, you know yourself. And if you don't think you know yourself now, I promise here and now -

you will someday.

[cilantrhoes]

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Sighs my favorite Pokemon is Durant. Its funny because whenever I look it up I have to look up 'durant pokemon' so I don't just get bombarded with photos of Kevin Durant, who is (as far as I'm aware) not a pokemon

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I adore Cookie Run but I hate the fact that CRK, in my opinion, USED to be the easiest-to-explain Cookie Run game and now I have to explain to my friend YES the fact one of Croissant's eyes being yellow in the live has a lot of lore significance and also GingerBrave taking White Lily's place in that one scene from the trailer means a lot, and YES we can tell about Shadow Milk's existence from the start since in Forgotten Academy there's plants that have a similar eye theming and also when you look at Shadow Milk's first update title screen it foreshadowed all the later Beast-Yeast updates, and we can tell that during GingerBrave's scenes with the Ultimate Cookie that back in Crispia 10 when he- oh, you missed The One of Darkness Absolute and the Millennial Advent? Well, those two updates included important foreshadowing and lore for the SIX HOUR FINALE, as well you didn't remember that Little Giant Cookie from Bravery Hill was actually foreshadowed all the way back in Dragon Hill, it's ALL FORESHADOWED IF YOU LOOK AT IT FROM THE RIGHT ANGLE-

I literally sound like a lunatic trying to explain it now. (I still stand by Ovenbreak is harder to explain, but. Still.)

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Ovensmash glitches are objectively the funniest things ever because I was playing Ice Pop Cookie and a Red Velvet Cookie's attack clipped me into a wall. I was stuck between the wall and the field, so I could attack but not move. The String Cheese on the opposing team took this opportunity to shoot me down into tomorrow while the Fruit Punch Cookie on my team kept desperately trying to knock out the String Cheese. I forgot to take screenshots, but that was genuinely the funniest experience I've had playing a game.

Gonna reblog this with a drawing of this, it'll be funny lol

[autistobrat]

this too shall pass but the fuck was that for

[royalvorpal]

[pj-was-here]

At Least You are Kind

@cheesecakemermaid1048 og poster of this image

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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Hey if you're having a bad day just remember that you can go to the CRK wiki and watch Healer Cookie spin

I don't know if this helps but I hope you have a good day. Keep on spinning champs, I'm proud of you