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Hi I'm working on webserial about multiverse traveling lesbian magical girls and im super proud about it, please check out what i wrote and leave a comment
Story about multiverse traveling lesbian magical girls. Only four full episodes are out yet.
it would suck being a new immortal. like itād be 2109 and people would go,Ā āwhat was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?ā and iād just be like,Ā ānoā¦no i was born in 1991. so like, wow iām gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean iām not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. donāt think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.ā
even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff.Ā āWhat was it like seeing the pyramids being built?ā āFuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.ā āOh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?ā āI fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.ā
And now, a lesson in biases:
We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We donāt even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.
Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a āprecursorā ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascarās current population.
The point is, we do not know.
So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascarās human history?
Oh, buddy, you better go and make a bunch of anthropologists and archeologists really happy RIGHT NOW instead of feeling bad about missing everyone elseās pet Major Event.
Itās been a decade since we left that comment and you have the best reply anyoneās left to it.
shiomi x NOBODY. she hates ALL OF HER PEERS...(for good reason though.. screw rien genuinely)
I just made this image last night
Heathcliff bday art
I know it's a bit late but I really liked the one fit he had in his bday art so I wanted to draw it ^^
So with the recent... news regarding the pink and yellow cat I've seen speculation that Spamton was on the run from and terrified of Friend (or rather the hunting pack of Friends). Let's take stock of what we know.
All of the armor items which are associated with Spamton defend against both Puppet AND Cat attacks.
During the Undertale 10th Anniversary live stream Spamton gets incredibly nervous and frantically looks around when Frisk says "catsup."
The first sighting of Friend in the entire game is in the basement of Queen's mansion where the NEO body is housed. Likely it was down here waiting for Spamton to make a play for it so it could kill him (if we're assuming that's what the goal here is).
What many assume is another encounter with Friend (or I guess a Friend) is the vending machine in the backstage area of TV World that sells you a smile and vaguely gestures at quoting the message to dataminers in the v1.001 update of Undertale.
Based on the presence of Spamton's phone in the Z Rank changing room we can assume this was a place he frequented. Of course, Spamton doesn't come around there anymore, but what was it Pink said about cats?
Perhaps one of the friends stuck around TV World on the off chance Spamton would come back, or maybe they mistook the paper mache effigy of Spamton for the real thing.
Finally, if we look at the vocals heard in Big Shot we can find...
The "it" that's coming for him could be in reference to a Friend, but regardless I think this at the very least confirms Spamton felt he was being stalked or at risk of someone coming for him. But who was it he was being to answer the phone? Well... it's Mike. The very first mention of Mike comes from asking Spamton about "Friends."
"But isn't Mike and Friend the same?" Well, maybe. The existence of Pluey seems to imply that. But let's look at Pink's new dialogue again.
The Friends aren't acting on their own, they're under the command of someone; a someone I think is the real Mike. But even if that were so, why would Spamton be trying to contact Mike if he was being actively hunted by Mike's cats? Well, let's check the Spamton Sweepstakes page about Tenna.
Spamton apparently held no ill will toward Mike and does not hold them at fault for their present circumstances. Perhaps Spamton never connected that Mike cutting contact with him and the sudden appearance of the hunting pack of cats were correlated. But what exactly connects Mike to the Friends? Because right now I'm running the risk of pulling one of these...
Since we're already in the Mike room why don't we- hey wait what's that?
A bomb in the Mike room in the shape of a cat. Hm. Does that show up anywhere else?
Huh... well okay, but how does that lead back to the Friends? Pink's bombs explode in a cross shaped pattern in her boss fight. Does something like that show up anywhere else?
It's all a bit... conclusion-jumpy for my tastes, but there's clearly a lot going on here. Pink seems to know more than she's letting on (a common theme with the characters in this game) and maybe she'll have more to say in Chapter 6 when we see her again in Castle Town. Until then though... Yeah Friend has gotten all of it's aura back all of this is crazy.
I saw someone say that the way Friend deals an amount of damage equal to your first item is very similar how Missingno worked in pokemon, with the value being glitched so it just kind of borrows another number for its damage, and that genuinely made friend 20 times more interesting for me
I feel like the main stumbling block to understanding the plot to rusty lake is interpreting everything that happens onscreen literally like... just because it's a game doesn't mean it's all in-universe real... the surreal horror elements of rusty lake exist in a limbo, sometimes you're looking at a metaphor, sometimes you're looking at aesthetic flair to build up the sort of story you're in, sometimes you're looking at a supernatural event, sometimes you're looking at the video game equivalent of the poems at the end of house of leaves. the second stumbling block to understanding the plot to rusty lake is believing its all planned beforehand and not that the writers are making stupid shit up as they go to justify the following 5 hours of flesh mutilation and maggot puzzle
to use a visual staple in the rusty lake series as an example: sometimes a disembodied hand will crawl out of a crevice where realistically nothing bigger than an earwig would fit, and this serves more doylist than watsonian reasons. you want an unexpected place to get an item, or deliver a puzzle, and since these are horror games you want it to be scary. you also want to train a long-time fan to expect a human hand to shoot out from a hole in a keyboard, a crack in the wall, or from the other side of a window, as if nothing was connected to it, and still be unnerved by it. the only time these mysterious Crevice Hands actually belongs to a person and has plot relevancy is in the well area in Rusty Lake Roots where it's Albert's but in every other game the hand might as well not exist- it's a dreamlike element meant to add to the atmosphere. its a reference to the original Addams family tv show also, I think.
like rusty lake is constructed upon making the player as unnerved and weirded out as possible so that basically clicking lights on and off or matching cards or trimming an old man's nose hairs all feel like they could go wrong. im frantically rummaging through boiling hot porridge trying to catch an insect that logically shouldn't be alive in boiling hot porridge lest my boss eats it because who knows if eating the bug would cause him to fire me and/or make his head to fall off and become a bug and I won't know if that's a visual metaphor for something, a twin peaks reference, or a literal actual bug head transformation that's happening in real life and the bug head kills someone
like if you want my two cents on just how rusty lake moves plot-wise, you have to understand this is the game series that celebrated its tenth anniversary with a free game where it's revealed halfway through you're actually playing as a play tester at the irl rusty lake office and the rest of the game is solving fucked up surreal horror puzzles around an existing location as the actual honest to god members of the dev team, including the creators of the original cube escape series, look on extremely amused at your player character rummaging through their stuff and making them lunch out of shit they find in the vents and every now and then one of them will go "haha bro yeah I love Vent Shrimp" before eating said vent shrimp like it's a tape going into a vcr player because that's what characters in rusty lake games do. and its awesome
iirc there's also a visual gag where your character sees a dark shadowy silhouette through a door which. in the rusty lake series, if you haven't played it, means you're being haunted by the angry, spiteful spirit of a person who died, or almost died, a miserable death, usually via suicide, or got their head fucked with enough either before or after their attempt for them to resent life to the point of leaving rotten blood everywhere. so you brace yourself horrified for the irl, actual, straight up office full of very nice dutch game devs to get fucked up to all hell, and you click on the door, and it opens, and it's a normal alive guy going "hey buddy why are you hyperventilating". you were just looking at him through smoked glass.
reasons i havenāt replied back:
- iām socially exhausted - i donāt have the time right now - i donāt know how to reply - i have a bad memory and got distracted - iām having a depressive episode and donāt have the energy to socialise
not reasons i havenāt replied back:
- iām ignoring you just because - i hate you - iām fed up with you - i donāt want to be your friend anymore
reasons i havenāt replied back:
- iām socially exhausted - i donāt have the time right now - i donāt know how to reply - i have a bad memory and got distracted - iām having a depressive episode and donāt have the energy to socialise
not reasons i havenāt replied back:
- iām ignoring you just because - i hate you - iām fed up with you - i donāt want to be your friend anymore
I am assembling a team
Idk how many people would even get this
She got released in the wrong game
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.
op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality
Being Transmasc is wild because first youāre a girl and youāre weak whiny emotional irrational annoying and uppity and āon your periodā and youād be prettier if you smiled and stopped making everything about feminism all the damn time
and then all of a sudden youāre a man and youāre āthe problemā and you just want to oppress girls and talk over women to validate yourself and make it all about you because all men ever do is take over the conversation and be abusive and use their toxic masculinity to bludgeon everyone around them and like
The whole time youāve always just been you
Hate to tell you this teaboot but it's the same in reverse for us trans femmes
Solidarity in always "doing it wrong", eh?
Masc spectrum š¤ Femme spectrum
Being reduced to the worst gender stereotypes when we just want to be human people
Itās not that a prison canāt be nice sometimes, itās just that you canāt leave
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
The ways that exist to break this game that simultaneously do absolutely no damage to how this game functions are ASTONISHING.Ā Ā
Did you weaponize the chickens?
You hurt cuccoo? You hurt cuccoo like the link? Oh! Oh! Death for molduga! Death for molduga for a hundred years!
Punishing Bird - TETH
ā People have been committing sins since long ago. āWhy do they commit sins, knowing itās wrong?ā ā
Canto 5 or something. I donāt know, I canāt read, Iām a Project Moon fan.
(I say like I totally havenāt been reading Moby Dick latelyā¦)
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Queen Bee - WAW
ā If you feel an abdominal pain and a tingling sensation in your neck, the best thing you can do now is look at the great blue sky you'll never get to see again. ā
