#april ryan

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The Longest Journey (1999) ↠ Border House

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by Ana aka zuzursuz

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Day 7 - April Ryan and Crow in Pink

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april ryan

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All the games I have on Steam with a female protagonist (that involve combat), rated by how cool their weapon is.

'Combat' is a very loosely defined term here, as is 'protagonist'. 'Female' would be too, but it never really came up. That said, characters must have a name to be considered.

If I missed any game in my library that you know I own and yet didn't include, then let me know, I suppose.

Alice: Madness Returns

Alice has a knife (good start), a pepper mill / Gatling gun, a hobby horse, and a teapot that fires blobs of hot tea.. Pretty nice selection, honestly. Of course, all of these only exist in Wonderland; in plain old London she has only her ability to shove people. This is sometimes effective though. 8/10 - points deducted for not existing.

Before people ask; the first American McGee's Alice is not on Steam for some reason. It does not count for this list.

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

This is the only game in the The Longer Journey / Dreamfall series that involves combat, and if you've played Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, you'll understand why.

April fights with a staff. Not the fanciest of weapons, but it does the job. She can beat people with it, she can block with it. Really, that's the minimum a weapon needs to do. 3/10 - it's a stick

Zoe is a kickboxer, so I guess her weapon is her whole body. I'm going to just consider it to be her fighting skills though; rating all the female characters by their body is a different type of list entirely and not one I really jive with. 5/10 - she mostly does short jabs but gets some sweet kicks in there too.

Kian uses a sword, but he is male and doesn't count.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

Kena also uses a staff, but hers is a lot cooler. For one thing, it's got a big blue crystal on the top, that's neat. Second, it's more than just a wooden pole. It's a bow, it shoots energy blasts out the top, it's pretty sweet. She can also summon bombs, but they're mostly used to make objects levitate. 9/10

Left 4 Dead / Left 4 Dead 2

Neither of the two female protagonists (Zoey and Rochelle) have any weapons unique to them, but there's a wide variety of guns to use. None of them really stand out as especially cool to me, though I am fond of the classic Zombie-killing shotguns, or the classic Everyone-killing grenade launcher. 4/10 for guns.

Now the mêlée weapons, that's where it's at. Machetes, fire axes, rock guitars. The classic Zombie-killing chainsaw? All cooler. 5/10

Phantasmagoria

Does Phantasmagoria have combat? No, not really. But you can throw drain cleaner into a rapist's face, and I can't hate that. 10/10 - burn, burn his face

Portal / Portal 2

Chell's only weapons are her wits, her unbreakable spirit, and a machine that opens spatial distortions. So in the context of the game then she's a formidable foe. If she happens to be in a situation where her opponent does not have any rockets, bombs, lasers or tall pits in the area for her to actually use against them, then she's kind of at a loss. 9/10 for the idea but 1/10 for lack of any real offensive abilities.

Raft

Like Left 4 Dead, there are no weapons specific to the female characters here. And the weapons aren't as cool in general; some spears, some swords, a bow that feels really slow somehow. And while the swords do more damage than the spears, they're actually slower to use and often less practical. Very strange. 2/10, honestly.

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In some cases, the original is even better)

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I was reading Tome of Balance again and remembered my old idea of doing something like a redesign of the original low-poly characters from The Longest Journey.

Here's Zack Lee and Burns Flipper + a repurposed piece of an old April Ryan illustration. Most likely these are not the final versions of the pictures, but I really want to share them. Or something, anything. I had a difficult few years and I missed the hell out of Tumblr and pictures (:

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans never liked Social Security. They'd love to hand over all the money in the Social Security fund to their buddies on Wall Street.

Thanks to Elon Musk and his DOGE plutobrats, the Social Security Administration is in a state of crisis. Watch the vid for details.

Social Security affects more people than any federal program Trump is trying to demolish. Even if it's not your favorite issue it is the one most likely to derail the MAGA-DOGE extremists.

Chile privatized its pension system under dictator Augusto Pinochet. Although Pinochet is long gone, Chile is still trying to repair the damage.

Here’s a Cautionary Tale of Pension Privatization From Chile

So even if you are 40 years away from retirement, this is something you should not stop talking about. Do you want to have to end up supporting your parents because Trump and Musk crashed the system?

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social Security