#psudopod

[goldkirk]

Gregor the Overlander fanfiction?! Gregor the Overlander mention!?!?! Tbh it's been so long since I've read it I barely remember it. After Hunger Games' success they need to make a Gregor the Overlander adaptation.

GREGOR THE OVERLANDER WAS SO IMPORTANT TO ME friend I was OBSESSED.

I very genuinely wrote a letter to Disney as a 10 year old asking them to make an adaption and consider casting my new baby nephew and me as a gender-reversed Gregor and Boots I shit you not. I refuse to be embarassed by that, it wasn't cringe, baby me was just That Fucking Into It and wanted to share it with the world lol

My first fanfic was Code of Claw post-series fix-it fic written on a legal pad my mom gave me to use when I was bored silly partway through a day of errands. Complete with fanart of Gregor climbing into a sewer drain and all.

Frankly your excitement bouncing off of my excitement is making me think I need to read it again too, it's been so long. At my peak I could chant every prophecy in the books and tap and scratch messages to myself in code bc I had for some reason memorized the whole Tree of Transmission better than I ever managed to memorize Morse Code.

I'm so overjoyed to talk with someone who was also in love with that series. I completely agree that they need to make a Gregor the Overlander adaption, but also I'm 100% sure they NEED to animate it and never, ever, EVER fucking do a live show. I don't think there's any way to capture the depth and scale of the world/creatures and the differences between adult and kid perspectives of what's going on in the Underland and a lot of the unique features into live action stuff without weakening it, and for me, I felt as a kid like these books were the first and only series for KIDS (not teens) that really really made me feel known as a kid-who-knew-adults-in-charge-can-lie-and-be-bad-sometimes AND as a kid-who-still-defaults-to-believing-the-best-anyway and how those intersect.

I feel like The Underland Chronicles, Ender's Game, and The Hunger Games all are in a specific category of story and boy is that category important. The Gregor books additionally take kids more seriously than any of the others, which was extra cool.

Sorry for the wall of text and the rambling all over lol, thank you for the ask!!!! I hope you have an awesome day and an enjoyable time next time you reread the Underland Chronicles <3

[heinousactszx]

Do you got games on ur phone? Are they any good?

The only game I really play on my phone is one called nonogram galaxy. it's just a picross game I paid like 8 bucks years ago but it has hundreds of puzzles on it. Whenever I feel the need I can just play a few puzzles. got relaxing sounds in it too which is nice

scrolling through apps, i can see I still have among us (lots of fun with friends during the craze but haven't played in years), super mario run (i bought it solely because it was daisy's first playable platformer, not worth it) and pokemon go (which i still have fondness for but also have not played it years)

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Snowdrop by Psudopod

[heinousactszx]

Have you seen that baby video with the Pikmin

I did, yeah. both with and without the pikmin. It's... fine. it's cute enough. i know it's mostly just nintendo reminding everyone that they have an animation studio. but if i can be a hater for a second...

what is with the humans? what happened to the post-apocalyptic trappings of the original game? why can't they see the pikmin, what? what? why are they trying to do it like they're fairies or something? when has that ever been what this series is about? they don't grant wishes or have their own fae world or whatever, they're the bottom of the food chain on an incredibly dangerous planet! how did we get to this point???

The first pikmin game has this very specific tone to it. it's not dark or edgy about it, but it is a game with a very grim premise. Olimar is marooned on a hostile planet with a month to repair his ship or die. The pikmin that are his only allies are so weak that only by expertly managing your troops and your time can you possibly survive in this dangerous world, that you can't help but notice looks a lot like our own. there is a tension that is inherently woven into the game that you can't escape, only get slight respite from at the end of a day. it's the kind of atmosphere a game can only achieve when gameplay, characters, and world are all working in perfect sync. it captivated me greatly as a child and still compels me now as an adult.

and they've just never gone back to it. Pikmin 2, 3, hey pikmin, and i'm sure 4 are all good games, but none of them have revisited the specific gamespace that pikmin 1 occupies. they all seemed to get a little softer, to sand off a few extra edges, to make that push towards more marketability. and hey, maybe pikmin 1 was lightning in a bottle that couldn't be recaptured anyway, and they were better off going in a different direction. you can't know. but i can't help but be sad that they never even tried

[lostsemicolon]

It was fairly popular among fediverse people. Tumblr felt like it could have been a big player that didn't have an embrace-extend-extinguish mindset about joining. Unlike Meta, who's attempt to join the fediverse with Threads was roundly rejected by most fedi instances for that reason.

However, I think abandoning it was probably the right call. The culture clash between Tumblr and fediverse people would have been a nightmare and possibly site ruining. Genuinely could have been Photomatt's Elon moment in retrospect.

[heinousactszx]

What's a unique feature on a game controller you like the most?

the pressure sensitive shoulder buttons of the gamecube are awesome, and super intuitive. it's way easier to use than any kind of tap/hold dynamic, especially because it basically lets you "hold" a tap. not every game used these buttons to the full extent, but the ones that did were excellent. i can't even imagine playing super mario sunshine on anything but a gamecube controller

[heinousactszx]

Pokemon ask meme; 25 (ball) 32 (career) 38 (gym leadership)

i forgot what the other two were so i'll just do ball.

of course it's the dusk ball

not only does it look cool, the animation for it opening has a cool darkness effect. i played a lot of gen 4 at night and let me tell you, the 3x catch rate at night and caves comes in useful, especially when i was trying to complete the pearl dex. it's the perfect ball to catch a misdreavus in

[heinousactszx]

What's your favorite item in Minish Cap? Items were one of my fav things in that game.

yes, the items in minish cap are excellent. multiple uses for all of them, which makes puzzle solving that much more involved.

I'd have to go with the gust jar. it's simple and fun and used for so much, and it's a jar full of gusts that link aims like a cannon! gust bellows could NEVER. i also love the roc's cape just for the novelty of being able to jump in a zelda game, this game had remote bombs waaaaay before botw, and the mirror shield is great, shame it's a post-game item? why do it like that?

playing through these zelda games has made me realize how much i enjoy games that let you use items the way they do. i know plenty of games let you switch weapons, but that's not what i'm talking here, i mean supplemental items that give you additional angles to attack or movement options in addition to your "main" attack, not to mention other utility options. really, the only other series i know of that does this in the way i'm describing is the mega man platformers