Level 10 Super Schmendrick

Hey, I'm Benedict Ide. I make jokes in the tags and sometimes draw stuff and I work on programming computers to make do be video game. 31, he/him, check my About for more.

[itsbenedict]

I should have a pinned post, probably

Hi! I'm Benedict Ide, sometimes called SC- a programmer, writer, and sometimes gamedev who makes Various Things. You might know me for:

Star Seeker in: the Secret of the Sorcerous Standoff, a short comedy murder mystery game about solving wizard crimes

CORDYCEPS: Too clever for their own good, a sort of psychological horror novel about people with amnesia in a mysterious facility

One of various Tumblr posts that got a gajillion notes for one reason or another

TWAITB or STFSTF, an Overwatch fic and a Steven Universe fic respectively that aren't really ratfic but got popular in those circles

Teen Jail Squad, an Epithet Erased/Teen Girl Squad parody video, or other voice posts frequently featuring my Strong Bad impression.

I have a lot of irons currently in the fire! Ongoing projects include:

Datasouls InFinite Secret Ending Walkthrough, a fake walkthrough for a game that doesn't exist, and its supplementary anagram quest Lost In Hearts

A visual novel adaptation of Lurina's The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere

Justice/Arcana, an expanded sequel to Star Seeker

Medallion Works, a content management engine and game implementation for Fire Emblem-style SRPGs, and a currently unnamed game codenamed Thrall (or sometimes "Izuka Simulator") being built with it

all of which I'm juggling with various life maintenance and self-improvement tasks like learning Japanese, practicing guitar, drawing stuff, exercising, modding for various discords, and staying afloat with a kind of volatile day job as a contractor in web development. I try to post daily to-do lists to keep myself on track- if you don't want to see those, you can block the tag "#sc accountability".

[w0nd3r1ngw4nd3r3r]

One of Windom Earle's many disguises

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

the staccato trumpet trills from the end of TANK! but they just keep going

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

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[rose-blumen]

Visit Original Link

I have been prepared for this moment for like 2 months

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

holy shit i am in tears

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

This insane update from Neocities

[lumsel]

(oh, for the record neocities is back now)

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[ladygrinninghole]

obsessed with star trek repeatedly writing themselves into a corner by creating alien races that are supposed to be The Bad Guys when that explicitly conflicts with their previously established notion that no group of people is inherently good or evil.

first it was the klingons—they’re originally supposed to be this cruel, bloodthirsty, war-obsessed people—and then tng comes along and it’s like wait no maybe war and violence is a part of their culture and actually ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies so we have to be woke about it.

hey these are the ferengi and they’re supposed to represent everything we hate about capitalist society; they’re greedy, scheming, profit-obsessed, and they look like ugly little trolls to emphasize how much we fucking HATE capitalism. oh wait fuck here comes deep space nine and we have to recognize that they’re PEOPLE. okok what if the pursuit of profit is actually part of their culture and ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies. so we have to be woke about it.

this is the borg, they’re a hivemind race of cyborgs who have no sense of individuality and their only motivation is assimilating people into their society. they want to assimilate humanity and we are completely defenseless against them because their technology is eons ahead of our own and they’re incapable of being reasoned with. oh sweet we have a borg prisoner this is the perfect opportunity to commit genocide against them. fuck actually we can’t commit genocide we’re woke and communists and in space.

hey these are the cardassians, they’re part of a cruel and vicious empire which is supposed to be a representation of fascism and authoritarian regimes, they’re a cold, bloodthirsty people with no sense of empathy or compassion, their society literally references 1984 on multiple occasions, and they’re known for the insanely cruel and inhumane methods of torture they use against their prisoners of war. we hate the cardassians…….. except, here’s a cardassian kid who grew up on bajor, and……. fuck. he’s a person. now we actually have to consider his humanity. and being racist is actually……. bad.

this is the jem’hadar, they’re genetically engineered soldiers who have no sense of individuality and only live to defend the state. they’re all born addicted to a synthetic drug that’s manufactured by the state and administered by their masters—this is how they’re kept subservient. they’re ruthless and powerful and they’re incapable of being reasoned with because their only motivation is violence and killing. so we should kill them all, right? FUCK….. what if they’re actually people. goddamnit. now we have to consider their humanity.

hey these are the romulans. hey these are the founders. the list goes on. i just find it really interesting

[writergeekrhw]

Mission accomplished!

[ncc-42069]

(For those that don't realize, the previous reblog is one of DS9's writers.)

[daphrona]

This game rocks man.

[kingdomoftyto]

Happy Pride to these two specifically

[snitchanon]

The Byzantine Empire or, as I like to call it, The Romestuck Epilogues...

[itsbenedict]

[cpericardium]

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

Goose Shit by Evil Mary Oliver Who Lives in Your Head

You do have to be good. In fact, you have to be perfect. Having even one perturbation will disqualify you from going to the grocery store. You are obligated to walk on your knees  for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting, backwards, in underwear made of red-hot puff adders. You can't let that soft, fallible animal of your body love what it loves.   Are you kidding? Tell me about despair, yours, and keep telling me, and don't stop, or you'll completely explode and go to jail, and then hell. Meanwhile the world goes on without you. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of hailstones are beating down on your head, pouring into the buildings and deep gutters, the corpse-laden mountains and the rivers-- did you read that article about the one that turned bright yellow from pollution? Meanwhile the wild geese, hissing and shitting everywhere will not leave your yard. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, you can always get lonelier! And I can help. I call to you like the wild geese, harsh and intimidating, over and over announcing your place-- oop, sorry, never mind, someone else took it.

[ponett]

unsurprisingly mina the hollower and its soundtrack are incredible. jake kaufman, as always, one of the very best to ever do it. listen to this castlevania blues from the bayou level

[femmenietzsche]

A mustache twirling villain has me suspended above a vat of bubbling green acid and he says if a thousand people don't unfollow me in the next 30 minutes he's dropping me in 😨😨😨

[femmenietzsche]

Just to make the logistics of this clearer - I dictated this and the above post to him after giving him the code to unlock my phone (which seemed prudent given the circumstances) and he typed them out and posted them. Also I'm wearing sensible jeans so there's no upskirt going on, but there are a few strategically placed rips so I'm also not like completely dowdy up here either.

[femmenietzsche]

Died btw. But it was mostly just setting up the bad guy's villainy - I wasn't the main character or anything - so it wasn't overly dramatic. The camera panned away before you could see anything too gory

[janmisali]

pick whatever option the person you follow who reblogged this post appears to NOT want you to pick. if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random. if it's unclear which option the person whose reblog you're seeing wants you to pick, pester them until they give you a straight answer then do whatever they don't say. reblog at your own risk.

first option

second option

Remaining time: 2 days 22 hours

[elexecution]

there are too many things happening this summer that i'm thinking we are going to need an extra 6-12 months of june and possibly another 3-4 months of july. probably no extra august as the problem should hopefully sort itself out by then. we are also looking into extending the day night cycle to 55 hours and extending the human lifespan to 10000 years.

[lumsel]

Writing a twist that everyone predicts is no fun at all. That's predictable! But writing a twist that nobody predicts is dangerous as well-- that's a sign that it doesn't follow naturally from the story you've written. What you want is the middle ground: a twist that exactly one person predicts, and nobody believes them. We call this the cassandra factor.