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idk, what do other ppl put here?

[wthtrancor-wthtpity]

What if the Mech is an Armored Core?

Idea/drabble below

Mecha Man Prime's suit wasn't originally an armored core. It was a boxy, yet somehow cute suit the pilot controlled with internal joysticks and buttons and screens. A little cramped, because it wasn't powered with something quite so sophisticated (or mysterious) as the astral pulse, but effective nonetheless, making him a beloved hero for years... until he died in the suit.

Mecha Man Astral wasn't an armored core either. With the introduction of the astral pulse the suit was bigger, more streamlined, more... experimental. But still not an armored core. Still controlled by joysticks and a computer screen, still sacrificing crucial seconds by moving joysticks and pressing buttons. Now, Robert Robertson II wouldn't dare experiment on himself, but his son? His son would know the suit in and out (except the astral pulse itself, no one could know any more about it besides it existed), and his son would operate the suit in and out until the day he died in it as well. Elliot, his best "friend" was incredible helping with that, seeming to find it fun just how far he could take the augments, how far someone could change and still remain human. He often implemented some of the same augments on himself after seeing how well they worked for the boy. Robert's only saving grace was that Shroud never installed the failsafes and remote controls that become standard during his later operations. (Shroud would come to regret this.)

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Robert's augments weren't done when his father died. They were never done, not since his mom left. Not since his dad quit listening to Chase. Not when Elliot was arrested for killing his father. Not when he got into the suit. Not when the door closed. Not when the suit registered his bio signal. Not when the cord plugged into the interface at the top of his spine and his world was filled with pain Pain PAIN then his eyes were 8 feet higher and legs were longer and he only had 4 fingers and and and- errors cascaded through his head until his vision went blank.

Robert woke up feeling electricity on the back of his neck and dried blood on his face from his nose and ears. The cord that had plugged him into the suit was sparking, his thrashing having torn it free, because of course his father wouldnt install a failsafe or emergency stop. He wiped the blood from his nose up with his sleeve. It was more intense then the tests he and Elliot - Shroud, he was Shroud now, he could only be Shroud - had completed on the small test systems. Connecting to a hand or eye or toy one at a time. Those successes the only thing that made his father happy. His father wasn't here anymore, neither were the test systems. The only thing left was a cavernously empty house, a garage of spare parts, and Mecha Man. Robert reached behind his head and plugged himself back in.

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To be continued?

[super-lazer-piss]

Trying to explain the plot of Fossil Fighters DS to someone is like that video of Tom Cardy where he watched all 6 Jurassic Park movies while being deliriously ill and starts talking about fake Jurassic Park sequels where they send the dinosaurs to space and then accidentally create robot-space dinosaur hybrids then the robot and space dinosaurs fight for marriage equality then the dinosaurs go back in time to escape the wrath of man but we go back too and kill them anyway and then do it again except there’s a multiverse now

[wthtrancor-wthtpity]

I just wasted 2 hours of my life on that trainwreck and I mean that most literally.

I'll admit I have a problem when I don't enjoy something, I will actively nitpick and point out every plot point to make it worse. But I need to vent, so leave now if you enjoyed the movie. And spoiler warning after this.

I will not be going to indepth into the personal relationships, no matter how much I just wanted Joe and Nicky to hold hands. Like, I didn't even need them to kiss. Just give them a scene holding hands in public and more than 5 minutes of screen time before they got kidnapped again please. The actors did their best with what they were given. Now onto the problem children:

Plot hole 1: the opening arc/conrad

I loved the interaction between Joe and Nicky. Really shows off the immortal husbands, inside joke vibes that made their characters the most multi-dimensional. But why for the love of mortality was Andy and Copley running into that house without any form of armor? The two mortals, leading the way into the house, without a stitch of armor. Idiots. You have a 20 something immortal marine driving a boat, and you let those two do the incursion part? And what about any form of stealth? Wasn't the whole previous movie about staying undercover so they dont become science experiments?

Plot hole 2: The Immortal Lore.

Fair warning i haven't read the comics, but based on the previous movie, I had the idea that Andy lost her immortality because she had given up on her purpose. Once she had given up, she had no reason to live, so her immortality was gone. This would fit in a little with Discord's character in the 2nd film. She ran out of her purpose somehow and drove herself mad about it. This fits much better with the narrative and can explain why certain immortals like the previous guy who died and Discord herself have lost their immortality. It also opens the door for many more immortal characters to have come and gone, so the fear of one day walking up mortal is more understandable as an actual threat... which leads to the problem. Nile. The "Last". With a mystical birthmark that matches with a 5000 yr old+ white lady ~woooo.

Now, is she the last immortal period, or is she just the last immortal that has been made at that time? The latter would allow for the myth about the last mortal being able to take away immortality to exist in the first place; if it was just the last immortal made, then this has happened before and was somehow written about and resolved (and also kinda implies that it couldve been Booker instead). This Does NOT explain how Andy was able to heal after that first cut in the first movie if all it took was a measly inconsensual scratch. And where did Andy's immortality go? Did she inadvertently give it to Copley? Or are we just conveniently having it vanish into the aether? Is it just going to become a "here have my immortality" "no, here have my immortality" until someone gets fed up? This lore is flimsier than my hold on my sanity.

Plot hole 3: the dreams and the library

If Nicky, Joe, and Booker have never met Tuah or Discord, then why the hell did they never dream of those two like Nile sorta was? What do the dreams mean then? "They help us find each other" my ass. And that library? Totally implied that there were significantly more immortals than was seen. Which just cycles back around to the dreams. What does it mean?

Plot hole 4: the entire final arc

Somehow, this bothered me the most out of every plot hole and it's the stupidest shit. This point can be partially excused by Quynh not knowing anything about modern technology, but that is not a fission reactor.

That shape is a tokamak. A Fusion reactor. One that doesn't have any of its hydrogen fuel with it no less.

Now, I'm not an expert in fusion/fission, so maybe I'm wrong, but that's not all that radioactive, not compared to a fission reaction. Also, that reactor is very much incomplete inside. If they obeyed safety and common sense. The hydrogen/tritium fuel wouldn't be anywhere near the incomplete reactor, and it still wouldn't cause untold suffering that leaves an entire city a wasteland even if something did go wrong. If anyone had double checked what that place was, they could've sat back and let it play out a lot differently after China made it dissappear off the map, but I'm assuming that the writers didn't care, and figured that anyone with an interest in energy generation and the future of nuclear energy isnt going to watch the movie (and holy shit don't-). Anyway, I was screaming at the screen the whole time during that part.

Plot hole 5: Booker

Have you tried beheading? I think that's supposed to work on immortals.

Suicide not aside, and as a product of the first plot hole, his death was impactful, but ultimately not as meaningful as it should have been. It feels like wasted character potential. Booker had a lot of flaws, driven by his sheer dislike of immortality, but that made him an interesting foil to consider Andy's, Discord's, and Quynh's newfound mortality and their reactions to it. He could've found a new meaning to live, or there could've been a different lore point to the transfer of the immortality that comes with an immortal truly not wanting to live anymore. Him dying because he got a boo boo on his arm and then wished really hard that his friend could live instead was almost as dumb as death stranding 2 (yes, I went there.)

To conclude, I was really disappointed in the movie, and the fact that it left in such a massive cliffhanger after such a long and fraught wait. It had little moments I'm sure where there were positives, but I was unable to overlook the sheer number of poor writing decisions made. I will be trawling for fanfic shortly.

[aliveaudiencegang]

you ever think about how we got a adaptation of a mediocre tween book series that retconned the one moment that fans unanimously decided wasn’t real in the books. like we can officially say yassen is still alive and that’s explicitly canon. love that for us. honestly the tv show is basically a canon fix it fic for the books if you think about.

[pavusprince]

Saw the new Sleep Token single finally dropped on the way home from grocery shopping and it’s been on repeat since then. I feel like this rn

[atostrent]

I didn't even want to draw today because wdym i have to go to school tomorrow and draw with charcoal for 5 hours are you crazy but yeah i did a quick Max i kind of hate it but I wanted to draw something to celebrate my last day of freedom this caption is getting long usually I'm a person of one word no punctuation marks either

[its-dean]

I’ve been posting on other online platforms about Fossil Fighters for a long time now, and most who are familiar with what I share know that a lot of my content has a heavy focus on original vivosaur ideas. With these vivosaurs I come up with, as well as the stats I create to go with them, I notice that there are often people questioning whether what I come up with would be balanced or not from a gameplay standpoint.

As I’ve gone on with developing this unique vision for my vivosaurs, I’ve also slowly refined my idea of Fossil Battles entirely. All of us are aware that both the original Fossil Fighters and Fossil Fighters Champions don’t have the best balancing in the world. There are certain cast members and even a few core game mechanics that allow so many otherwise memorable characters to fall to the wayside, and with the stats I was coming up with I was only further encouraging that type of hostile environment. The more I worried about whether something I was coming up with would feel realistic or balanced the more I considered the fact that the formula itself may have been broken in the first place.

There have been others in the community that have projected their own ideas of how to change things up regarding gameplay, things like adding new elements or even having customizable skills. Because the series felt like it had ended so suddenly there's become so much to dream for in a potential sequel. These are the people that inspired me to attempt something similar myself back when I was making my vivosaur last year. It inspired me to take a step back with my thinking and ultimately led to me creating a total re-imagining of the classic battle system we all know and love. 

That's the thing, the games may not be perfectly balanced, but I always find how these games work to be something that's just inherently fun in a very unique way. Above everything else, with this project I wanted the new system I was creating to still have the "feel" of having a good old-fashioned Fossil Battle. These games have incredible potential for an interesting competitive landscape, just if only some of those unbalanced mechanics were to be adjusted. This is what I strive to achieve the most with my ideas: an environment where every vivosaur has something practical to them, a format where you CAN win using your favorite vivosaurs. The only thing that should stop you is how well thought-out and unique of a strategy you can come up with.

Fossil Fighters Odyssey is a personal project of mine that I've technically been working on for over half a decade now. Still, I think it's most important to stress the fact that everything I come up with and will be talking about in this post is for fun. This shouldn't explicitly be seen as a vehicle for a potential fan game, I make these things for my own enjoyment and have no plans or obligations to turn any of these ideas into tangible content in the future. We all can pretty unanimously agree that it’s fun to dream about a theoretical continuation of this franchise, especially because of how it felt like it came to such an abrupt halt in a way none of us were really ready for. This project is simply meant to represent the changes I'd most want to see if that were to ever somehow happen, and that vision of mine simply might not appeal to your individual preferences.

But now moving to the fun stuff itself. I strive to be as in-depth as possible when taking into account how I would rework the gameplay, taking a comprehensive look at the entire series. To keep things feeling familiar while also feeling like an "evolution" of sorts, I found it most compelling to try and utilize standout mechanics from all three of the previous games. Yes, that includes Frontier because, while I can't defend its battle system as a whole, I do think there are some features it introduced that can really enhance potential team building and strategy (mainly referring to the boost system it uses).

Since there are far too many changes to cover in a text post, I created a PowerPoint to explain everything in a more presentable and organized way. The link to it can be found directly below this paragraph, with the presentation being separated in order of different areas of discussion, from how vivosaurs have changed to the differences in the battle system to new and altered abilities and so much more! Plus, attached to this post are the stat sheets for every single vivosaur, #1-300. My own vivosaurs as well as the 10 unique vivosaurs from Frontier are included in the lineup, and all the vivosaurs you're already familiar with have received numerous changes and enhancements to their skill sets so that they can thrive in this new Fossil Battling format.

Link to the PowerPoint (in case the picture quality is too poor to be able to read on this website)

FFO Mechanics.pptx

Link to all 300 vivosaurs and their stat sheets:

FFO All Vivosaurs.pptx

(Disclaimer: not all of the vivosaurs have artwork to correspond with their dino medals, but those will be hopefully trickling out down the line in the future.)

To round things out, I definitely want to thank the people that have already been supporting me and the things I create these past few years elsewhere. Without the level of the recognition and approval I see from the people who always respond to what I make, I definitely never would've come this far with developing my ideas. You guys are the ones who've been enjoying these things, from vivosaurs to characters to the overarching story I hope to one day be able to share with you all. I owe it to you for allowing myself to become as invested in my favorite series as I now am. And hey, depending on how people react to what I have here I may make another post outlining the more creative story and character elements I have in mind… 

Thank you to everyone who's been there for all this time, as well as anyone willing to read through everything I've been able to put together here, this project never could've been completed without you all for me to share it with.

[deep-space-lines]

IT'S FINALLY FUCKING DONE. I'M FINALLY FREE

UNTIL FRAUD COMES OUT

Tumblr shrinks it down pretty bad so please. please. I am begging you. look at the full sized image and zoom in. This art piece made my friends worried for my mental health I need someone to witness the amount of detail and effort I put into this

also the original sketch under the cut bc I think comparing them is really funny

[ianosmond]

Important safety information about the eclipse on Monday

You *can* remove the eclipse glasses during totality; not before or after.

If you find yourself falling apart instead of falling in love, turn around, bright eyes.

It is no longer considered best practice to cut the beating heart out of a human chest at the top of a pyramid to bring the sun back; nowadays, they just short out a LUCAS device.

If you are imprisoned by an evil bishop, break out, and look for a hawk and a wolf who are in love.

Most critically - No matter what, do not buy any strange and exotic plants which mysteriously appear during the eclipse.

[wthtrancor-wthtpity]

Ultrakill/Bloodborne crossover when?

[slutforpringles]

You dropped this, king 👑

ValtteriBottas: Meat pie warmer? ✅ Budgie Smuggler clothes line? ✅ Kookaburra horn? ✅ Your first car could NEVER… So we made a second car that could. Purpose built for an Aussie road trip.

[zoomsies]

How your email finds me

[wthtrancor-wthtpity]

You ever read something that you already know *how* it ends, but the fascination is in *who* it ends?

[humonculuss]

Midna & Wolf Link

gift for a friend

[haseoregious]

Eragon art from Stumite ❤

Read Murtagh last month and got dragged back to this series. I forgot how much I love this silly little goofy boy 🥺🥺 He could be the strongest killing machine out there but he is our sweet baby.

[inheritancetrain]

[kaijuerotica]

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