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ur bg3 characters look so good 😭 can i ask what mods u use on em?
tysm <3333333333333 put together a list just for u. everything i use and love for character creation should be here, & i noted what i use for each tav i've posted in case there was someone specific u wanted the details for!
general: customizer's compendium | ghoul's customization | bobblehead begone
heads: toarie's presets (ophelia, velastra) | faces of faerun | vemperen's heads | xx's female head preset (verity) | ethereal heads | meadow heads | hgy heads | strong female heads | heads for tieflings | loulette heads
hair: tav's hair salon (ophelia, verity) | vessnelle's hair collection (ophelia) | de-accessorized npc hairstyles (velastra) | npc hair edits | ellian's hair (velastra) | dissidia's hair | yves hair gallery | long hairs | kay's hair mod (verity) | dreadlocs and curly hairstyles | neon's assorted hairs | mashed up hairs | horned hairstyles | harpy hairs | lara croft ponytail | honey's hair kitchen
colors: astralities' hair colors (verity) | more cc colors | astralities' skintones | p4 custom hair colors | astralities' fantasy skintones | p4 custom horn colors | darker black hair (velastra)
tiefling horns: alternate horns | horns of faerun (ophelia)
tattoo/makeup replacer: covenelf's collection (ophelia, verity)
cc accessories: trips' accessory collection (velastra)
armor/clothing: basket full of equipment (sfw) | modular equipment (ophelia) | ciri's clothes | extra gear | assassin outfit (velastra) | drow priestess robe (velastra) | noble trickster's garments (verity) | druu's clothes and armor | slutty menswear | weeviljester's accessories | simple gold necklaces | purchasable camp clothes | camp pants
yes i keep all this stuff in my game and (usually) nothing bad happens. sometimes certain hair packs don't show up due to load order but that's about it
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Thank you for making cryptid crush.. it is wonderful and all ive been thinking about the past few days../LH
The writing and voices are WONDERFUL, ALONG WITH YOUR ART!! I love it all, i love the characters so much, they are my blorbos as of recent and i shake them around like bobbleheads :]
Also i dont normally tend to replay games, but i absolutely adored replaying it, it is so fun and admittedly seritonin inducing to just see things i didnt realize before and all, sorry for buggin but i just wanted to let you know its lovely :]
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One thing I really want to see is movie! Vanessa with game!Vanessa's colourful hair extensions... :'D
And of course Elizabeth Lail wearing the Vanny costume would be so nice~
ABSOFRUITLY???? Literally the moment they bring back Vanessa’s rainbow hair extensions………………… the world as we know it starts healing. BRING BACK GAYASS VANESSA.
I hope to hell and back that they do a semi-redesign of the Vanny costume if they do bring Vanny into the movies. Because as much as I love that little furry, I cannot STAND the bobblehead and skin tight suit 😭😭😭 I feel like a hand-sewn, rudimentary baggy mascot costume would look infinitely creepier (especially in the games with how much it contrasts how clean and polished the rest of the Pizzaplex is). And bring back the OG Vanny mask oh my lord wait I’ve drawn this before
SORRY IM GETTING ON A TANGENT— ELIZABETH LAIL IN THE VANNY SUIT. Yeah I hope they redesign it because I cannot see the canon Vanny suit being as intimidating as the Springbonnie suit. Because she doesn’t look an animatronic, the Vanny suit is JUST A FURSUIT. GIRL IS A FURRY ‼️‼️‼️‼️ I just think a suit that’s better suited for like. An actual person wearing it without it looking ridiculous would be pretty epic.
As much as I love healing and all that healthy stuff, I NEED Vanny in the movies. Like you cannot do Vanessa without Vanny right??? For what reason would you include a modern FNAF character in an OG FNAF movie if you weren’t planning using her for a very specific purpose right??? AND Elizabeth Lail is INSANE AT PORTRAYING VILLAINS/UNHINGED WOMEN
(though i can’t see them doing Vanny as a killing children thing, that’s too against Vanessa’s character. I CAN see them doing it as a revenge arc tho. Vanny v. Springtrap)
I spent all of Dead of Summer episode 9-10 giggling and twirling my hair thinking about Elizabeth Lail’s Vanny. I TRUST HER. SHE CAN PULL IT OFF. I just want Vanessa to have a bigger role in the movies, DO HER JUSTICE AFTER THE GAMES ABANDONED HER 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
#fnaf vanny#fnaf vanessa#vanessa afton#vanessa shelly#elizabeth lail#five nights at freddy's#fnaf movie#woah accidentally had too many thoughts on this topic#but like#get elizabeth lail covered in blood again#she deserves it#its enrichment#SORRY TO ALL MY VANNY MUTUALS WHO LIKE HER DESIGN. I JUST CANT STAND IT !!! I LOVE VANNY AS A CHARACTER THO#I LOVE HER CONCEPT. NOT THE BIGGEST FAN OF HOW THEY ACTUALLY DID HER THO
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do you have any headcanon about simpbur's job? im a bit curious
here's some ones i came up with ^_^
he works in a boring office job. he hates it but he relies on it for being able to pay rent at his apartment
his cubicle is very bland, but he has a little anime bobblehead figure that sits next to his computer
he either takes the bus or drives to work. he's probably the worst at parking out of everyone at his job's parking lot
his cabinets/drawers are extremely unorganized, and occasionally you'd find crumpled up paper, random pictures of anime characters, e-girl photos, etc
he applied to many jobs, but this is the only one that decided to hire him
he's always a mess during job interviews and meetings
he relies on coffee and energy drinks to stay awake during work. he has been caught falling asleep multiple times
nobody at the office likes or cares about him, but at least he wouldn't have to worry about striking up any conversations with anyone since they all avoid him
the only thing he enjoys about his job is that he doesn't have to worry too much about social interaction, aside from sometimes answering phone calls (which make him horribly anxious)
instead of doing work, he's often playing random games or watching streams on his computer
it's hard for him to work in silence, so he usually brings his own earbuds so he could listen to music while working
his boss hates him, but he begs for them to let him keep his job
he secretly vapes in the bathrooms
he tries to force himself to have a "professional" tone around his coworkers (and fails horribly)
occasionally he'd be doing little dances around the office whenever he's listening to music and thinks nobody's watching him
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mc things that will probably never see the light of day/might exist behind the vaults of titmouse bc im curious abt them..
-more merch prototypes from disney. there was a video of an official mutt bobblehead on youtube from one of poms accounts.. were there more?
-outtakes/bloopers from the voice actors.
-possible concepts of the 3d game with valve(?)
-whole episodes of the dubs. WHERE ARE THEY!?
-the aftermath of the fanart wall. did they take it down? did any of the staff store it anywhere?? did they burn the body pillows?
-all of the assets. the screens of the holograms, the fully rigged heads, 3d models, the reused scenes. (i fully get why they shouldnt and wouldnt release them tho its just that theyve been untouched for so long..)
-the rest of the character turn arounds. we havent seen a full ref chart for chuck, texas, dutch, and a lot more. i think a release of the turn around for chuck was teased back when hq screenshots of the pilot were posted either by f-yeah mc or pom. it was only mentioned if they reached a certain amount of likes or smth.
-speaking of the pilot.. the actual pilot. not the recording including the audience reactions, the real video.
-the official disney xd pages for the show. theyre listed on the motorcity websites tab on the wiki, but i cant seem to find a capture on the wayback machine.. i cant click the link without getting redirected.
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munday on a not monday, what are your thoughts on the dlc so far? :0 that is if you’ve… GOTTEN far lmao
[I have plenty of thoughts on the DLC, hahaha XD And I've finally seen the one cutscene. But people really hate when I talk about my thoughts on canon and what it means and I don't really want that negativity in my life right now, so whilst I could say plenty about the Team Star part and the main section, I'm going to choose not to =T
I will say three things though, that hopefully won't be too controversial...
Firstly, something that made me sad... the generic NPC bodies they gave everybody but Eri (who looks like she had the most time spent on her, probably because their hands were forced), has given Giacomo a bobblehead look which is especially bad in Scarlet... I get it, they didn't want to model their unique body types 10 times since the outfits between Scarlet and Violet are more than just palette swaps, for a cutscene we'll see once and never again, for characters who aren't really fan favourites by a long shot. It's just a shame. He looked so sturdy and broad shouldered standing with his base game model, now he looks like his head is too big. <=(
Disclaimer; If you like how big his head looks and the way they did the bodies, that's cool.
EDIT; I've got both models and I've laid them on top of each other, interestingly it looks like the depth mostly matches (EDIT EDIT; I was wrong, it looked like it matched up, but it doesn't, not at the front or back), but his width doesn't(???), on the Violet outfit at least. They've also thinned out his legs(??) width ways but not depth ways(??) The Scarlet outfit is cut down even more(??). Conclusion; strange.
FURTHER EDIT; His neck is also considerably narrower from the front than on the base game model, so I feel like the assets haven't been thickened enough for him? As in the limbs etc don't match... But that's why his head looks too big, I imagine, his neck is thinner. His head itself is the same size and in the same place.
Secondly, something that made me happy... I like how his eyes look brown now, at least in this shot (to me, personally). I think it's obvious why that makes me smile!
Disclaimer; Yes, it's likely a lighting bug, a texture error, my "eyes are bad", if you want his eyes to still be black, that's cool.
Finally, congrats to Eri for her eyebrows!
(I really hope that last one isn't controversial...)]
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whos your favorite player on every team?
Ooh, this is a fun one! Under the cut :) Also not gonna use former Devils, and gonna try to stay away from just naming the most known player on each team... we'll see.
Anaheim Ducks: Lukas Dostal is doing a damn good job tending that net. I'm super excited to see where he goes!
Arizona Coyotes: Of course, our pride king Travis Dermott!
Boston Bruins: Look. I said I was gonna not name the most known players. But you can't expect me not to name a goalie for the Bruins! Impossible! I'm gonna give the edge to Jeremy Swayman.
Buffalo Sabres: Probably Jeff Skinner, honestly. Most cursed man in hockey. Does that make me old?
Calgary Flames: I don't follow the Flames much but I do really like Cody Taylor.
Carolina Hurricanes: Pyotr Kochetkov is, in my opinion, the only Cane with rights.
Chicago Blackhawks: All Star Jason Dickinson just seems like a funny dude. Well, for having to play for Chicago...
Colorado Avalanche: I am forgiving Ross Colton for that really shitty shift against the Devils because he's holding Woody's hand and they're cute. But I'm watching you, mister.
Columbus Blue Jackets: Alexandre Texier. He's French! And played in Switzerland last year! And is suffering!
Dallas Stars: Thomas Harley is carrying half my fantasy teams and he seems like such a fun dude!
Detroit Red Wings: Jake Walman, hitting the griddy, and getting a bobblehead after it.
Edmonton Oilers: I am not immune to Ryan McLeod propaganda. Just look at his smile!
Florida Panthers: Sam Reinhart, the highest-paid Panther, has no goals and one assist in his last six games and his ice time is declining. Where are the Sabres fans who told me how much they would miss him? When I hear of all the positive qualities the team lacked in the past, I think of Reinhart - lol nah that's just the Reino copypasta. Love him!
Los Angeles Kings: Long Distance Girlfriend Kevin Fiala and his hysterical wife!
Minnesota Wild: Mats Zuccarello is very short. This is always fun. Especially because his stick is very long. Also fun.
Montreal Canadiens: Juraj Slafkovsky is not only worryingly homoerotic with every single Slav he meets, he is also trying valiantly to overcome the bust narrative, and he's silly and goofy! What more do you want?
Nashville Predators: Roman Josi. I am not immune to a good-looking Swiss man.
New Jersey Devils: All of them. I'm in a Dougie Hamilton mood right now, though. (Aka, I miss him :'( )
New York Islanders: The Real Sebastian Aho, simply because it's funny there's two of them. Also, this one is prettier.
New York Rangers: There's a fic out there that makes me somewhat like Braden Schneider.
Ottawa Senators: I'm saluting Jacob Bernard-Docker for his services to my fantasy teams.
Philadelphia Flyers: The image of Known USNTDP Member Cam York fielding calls from Zegras on how to take care of his platonic soulmate is truly peak.
Pittsburgh Penguins: The Other Smitty, Reilly Smith. I am predictable. I have a type.
San Jose Sharks: Anthony Duclair! And his many sons on the team.
Seattle Kraken: Kailer Yamamoto. I just like him because he's short, okay? He also seems to have a very fun character, which I admire.
St. Louis Blues: Colton Parayko, for no other reason than it's a very good hockey name.
Tampa Bay Lightning: Brayden Point is another of those players that just eternally carries my fantasy teams.
Toronto Maple Leafs: I think Calle Jarnkrok is eternally underrated. And I'm right.
Vancouver Canucks: Stanley Cup Champion Teddy Blueger. He deserves it.
Vegas Golden Knights: I simply believe that if one does not at least admire Jack Eichel for his dedication to being a bitch and ruining all the narratives, one does not exist to me.
Washington Capitals: They have Dylan Strome from the fics! It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride, everything everything will be just fine, everything everything will be alright alright...
Winnipeg Jets: Nino Niederreiter. God, I hope he finds a home some day. I hope it could be Winnipeg.
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Pgs. 214-247
it’s her.
Rope Lalope.
icon for weird goths who for some reason decide to live in the Midwest, those who can somehow still enjoy Lovecraft while knowing the truth of his fucking cat, and
I don’t think WLW ships have ever been the same since the advent of The Rosemary from The Homestuck,
or if I want to sound like a fuckin goofy ass oldhead, femslash.
the thing is that I cannot identify any actual concrete change in general fandom and shipping post-HS, I just feel it. I can feel that something within the universe’s structure changed the moment grimdark gorl and sparkly gay vampire got together.
but I’m talking about a character that hasn’t even shown up yet.
also front facing Rose is fucking haunting stop please.
[insert dabbing joke here.]
the fucking haunting violin refrain flash is so good I love how her movements sync up with the song.
not gonna gush about Aggrieve the same way as Showtime because come on it’s fucking Showtime, but Aggrieve is still very much up there.
Since your good for nothing friend is obviously not going to bail you out in time, you issue words of parting fondness to dear, sweet Liv. Oh, if only Affleck could have been the one to make the final sacrifice instead of her stubborn, blue collar, salt-of-the-earth father. Then she would fall into your arms for consolation, and YOU would be the one to make the deceased Bruce Willis proud.
the crush on Liv Tyler is not explored enough in fandom, I need to know how much John imprints her on his other romance options. how much of a Liv Tyler is Vriska, these are the fucking questions people.
Your panoramic window offers a view of your yard below, and the mausoleum housing your dead cat, JASPERS, who died when you were young. Your MOM had the structure erected with a spirit of scornful IRONY in response to your youthfully innocent request to hold a funeral for the animal. At least, that is how you have come to interpret the gesture in retrospect.
compared to John’s struggle with the clownkind, Rose has a much more grounded strife with her parental figure.
I say that but Rose takes this shit to an 11.
regardless, a parent that constantly performs malicious compliance with a hint of irony isn’t unbelievable, neither is someone fooling themselves into thinking their guardian is operating as such due to a general disconnect and the feeling of not having enough attention.
with all of this established,
it’s still really fucking funny,
because Rose will stare down Mom with sheer contempt thinking “SHE’S FUCKING WITH YOU! SHE’S TRYING TO GET TO YOU! DO NOT GIVE IN TO HER GAMES!” as she stands around vacuuming jackshit, probably having no thoughts in her fucking head except for “I love household chores. :))))))”
WIZARDS.RAR.
genuinely the funniest story surrounding Homestuck, Andrew Hussie risked their entire PC for a bunch of fucking stupid wizard pngs.
the Egberts do high action cake forcefeeding, the Lalondes do drunken covert operations, the Striders DO MAD NINJA TRICKS.
GIRL IS DRENCHED.
early HS art is so fucking pretty. everyone’s always on about the kids looking like bobbleheads and that’s good but the environments are so fucking good as well.
iconic panel, banger panel. look at how her knees do the swirly thing.
CRINGE MAC USER.
you’re making the John nervous!!! Egberts only do this under high stress!!! help him!!!
TT: And the content of the card appears to be variable from session to session.
TT: In one instance it was described as an "eggy loking thign" [sic].
presenting without comment.
“John: Take bite of apple.” is a really good ending flash in which John takes a bite out of an apple
and then gets fucking nuked.
the act then ends there.
a marvel that the only reason John lived was because he did what looked like the goofiest option ever. did the apple even taste good? what the fuck is cruxite made of???? I guess it’s edible??? might be candy, is it candy??? do they come in different flavors???
after way too long, Act 1 is finally fucking done, yet the more I read it, the shorter it feels. I can’t tell if it’s because I don’t need to absorb the tutorial stuff due to being familiar with the comic already, or because I’m anticipating when shit really goes crazy later on. maybe a bit of both. it certainly preps me for the art style, the flowery language, the weird humor, and so on.
I can say that Act 1 is
fine.
it is of good quality.
nothing groundbreaking and not the best,
but enjoyable nonetheless.
I get that it’s a bit slow and nothing really happens, but I’m able to entertain myself with the page to page shenanigans and good character interactions.
honestly I don’t understand how people skipped this act at all, how the fuck do you skip the start of the story??? don’t you want to like
understand
what is happening
and who these people are???
especially the later part, so much Homestuck skipping was for the sake of immediately getting to the character interactions, but
there are character interactions here,
and
you learn who the characters even are.
like what the fuck, the introduction to the characters and their dynamics should be key to being invested in them, but I guess not because some people were able to just jump in the middle and grow attached while not knowing what the fuck is going on.
in conclusion: people who skipped Act 1 are cringe, and have doomed themselves. Act 1 good.
#homestuck liveblog#hs liveblog#hs reread#liveblog#reread#live read#liveread#homestuck#hs1#hs#home22tuck#Act 1#Flash#john egbert#june egbert#rose lalonde#Beta Kids#end of act
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Tf2 and 10th classes
The first 10th class we know of is the Civilian from Team Fortress Classic. He was in the VIP maps and was only equipped with an umbrella and had lower health than the other characters. The goal of the VIP maps was for bodyguards to protect the Civilian from assassins so he could get to an evacuation point.
The Civilian is not in Team Fortress 2 as a class, as it was never finished. The code was still in the game for some time but the player model was just an unanimated Scout with only 50 health, similar to the original Civilian.
The Team Fortress Classic Civilian does appear as a small cameo in Team Fortress 2 as the bobblehead seen in Sniper's van in "Meet the Sniper".
Next is the Guard dog, a fan made 10th class. Despite being fanmade, Valve has recognized it before by posting a letter from Saxton Hale evaluating the class and saying he looked forward to working with them in the future. But besides this, this has been the only time Valve has acknowledged this class.
In a Team Fortress 2 blog post from 2010, it was joking about a 10th class being rejected for not having any hats
In the Halloween Team Fortress 2 map known as Harvest Event, there is a gravestone with the text "RIP the tenth class"
In an interview with Robin Walker, a Team Fortress developer, he joked that Gordon Freeman from Half-Life could be a 10th class.
Robin has also said in past interviews that a 10th class is something Valve would like to add but at the time they were mainly focusing on game modes. In another interview he said that a new class would and up being too similar to existing ones. (I'm having to take this from the wiki as the interview pages do not exist anymore.)
And for now that's all I have! If I missed any information, feel free comment about it and I'll add it on!
(Links! ⬇️)
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#valve#valve games#team fortress#team fortress 2#tf2#team fortress classic#tf2 10th class#team fortress 10th class#team fortress civilian#tf2 civilian#tf2 guard dog#team fortress guard dog
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Framed Garden - 30 Hanging & 30 Leaning Houseplant Paintings
Happy Saturday y'all! <3
I have some more artwork for you today! I saw these adorable houseplants on Flaticon awhile ago and knew I was going to need these in my game, but I wanted a narrower mesh than my usual favorites. Luckily, one came along -- both hanging and leaning!
So here are 30 plants on the painting meshes from @anonsensicalsimblr's 4t2 Modish Stuff Pack conversion. I paired them with @franzillasims' Bobblehead Font (and then hand-kerned everything because Simlish has weird characters lol) and Fantasy Floss backgrounds, and also recolored the frames in The Woods are Lovely (separate subsets this time, hooray!).
I desperately wanted to repo these, but I haven't gotten that conquered yet and I was tired of seeing the art languish in my WIP folder. If When I get it figured out, I will update this post, but in the meantime I recolored both the leaning and hanging meshes separately. They're in individual folders, so you can easily keep just one if you'd rather.
Meshes are included (although I do recommend you check out the original post -- the whole set is fabulous, as is the original artwork for these meshes). There's also a numbered swatch in the download. If I messed anything up, please give me a shout. All the plants are from this House Plants Icon Pack by Freepik over at Flaticon.
DOWNLOAD (SFS)
Lots of love,
Spacey
PS: Just a quick and totally unimportant note, but #18, the pink flowers in the yellow pot, didn't come with a species name like the rest. I suspect it's not a real plant. I spent awhile searching for something that matched (or at least looked similar) and finally settled on Paphos Cyprus after the location of a Cypriot florist I stumbled across while looking. It sounded like a good plant name to me. :)
#s2cc#ts2cc#ts2 download#sims 2 download#ts2 custom content#sims 2 custom content#ts2 art#ts2#ts2 paintings#ts2 wall decorations
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According to Chris Wyatt, Playgor Cardquest isn't a member of the Gamer Geeks in the BotBots cartoon, but is instead a member of a squad of BotBots from a tabletop gaming store. Could you tell us more about Playgor's squad and its other members?
Dear Tabletop Talker,
Playgor Cardquest's fellow BotBots who also came to life in the board game store are:
Player the Handbook, a mischievous sort who'll push the rules to their limits to gain an advantage.
Monster Manuel, a hefty tome who enjoys pretending to be all kinds of fantasy creatures.
Snuzzlebeard, a plush wizard whose soft demeanor hides the fact that he's a rigid follower of the rules.
Snippy Clippy, a fastidious set of modeling sprue clippers, whose perfectionism could cut other bots to the quick.
Unit Mover, the squad's self-proclaimed ruler.
Dicebird, who believes in following the spirit of the rules over the letter. Curiously, her ursine/avian hybrid robot form resembles another universe's beast warrior, and her alternate form resembles the AllSpark—though I'm struggling to place the Cybertronian dialect of the symbols carved into its faces.
After the Goldrush Games, they were joined by D.M. Gold, who's constantly coming up with new games and challenges for everyone to join in with.
The squad has gone through several editions—calling themselves the Fantasy Force, the Dice Division, the Rules Lawyers—but they increasingly join the Gamer Geeks in gatherings, ever since the video game store diversified into general nerd-oriented products, such as tabletop games, action figures, and novelty bobbleheads of popular characters.
#ask vector prime#transformers#maccadam#botbots#playgor cardquest#gamer geeks#player the handbook#monster manuel#snuzzlebeard#snippy clippy#unit mover#dicebird#icebird#allspark
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Making Other Plans
Author: NEG85
Artist: DimitriRmy (@dimitrirmy)
No Major Archive Warnings
Tags: Friends to Lovers, Blowjobs, Hand jobs, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, Bottom Castiel/Top Dean Winchester, Face fucking, Fingering, Prostate Massage, Sex in/on the impala, Eventual Castiel/Dean Winchester
Summary:
Dean is set up on a blind date by his best friend, Charlie, and her friend who is best friends with Cas.
Preview:
Dean stands in Charlie’s Harry Potter themed bedroom with posters all over the walls, bobbleheads of her favorite characters and dark curtains as Charlie changes clothes in her en suite bathroom.
He picks at the corner of one of her Hermoine posters, holding the DVD box for the entire Lord of the Rings set in one hand. “Why can’t I come with you, again?” he asks through the door. “Anyway I was hoping we could re-watch Lord of the Rings again, we could do that instead of going to dumb old game night.”
“Because you weren’t invited, besides the girl I like will be there and I don’t want you embarrassing me in front of her.”
“Gee thanks. Is that how you see me? As an embarrassment?”
“Not at all. Okay, maybe… sometimes- like at the last D&D campaign we played where you wanted re-rolls for almost every one of your turns. You just take the game way too seriously and get upset. It’s not for everyone and in this case, ‘everyone’ being you. The good news is, I have a guy to set you up with.”
"But Charlie, I don't wanna go on a blind date." Dean whines, leaning against the doorframe.
Charlie swings open the door and puts her hands on her hips. "Why not?"
Dean full on pouts. "Because I don't know the guy for one. And I do know how to get my own dates, thank you very much.”
She gives him an incredulous look. “Meeting people at the bar and having a one night stand doesn’t count as dating, Dean. Plus you don't know them either."
Dean rolls his eyes. “Fine, what do you even know about him?"
Dropping her hands back down to her side, she sighs. "His name's Castiel and he's not a serial killer, that's all you need to know. Oh, but he’s cute. Dark hair and blue eyes - just your type."
"I don't have a type."
Charlie scoffs, shoving past him to grab her belt off her bed. "Yeah, okay. Sure you don't."
"Okay fine, you're right I have a type and apparently this guy fits it. You win. But you gotta give me more than that for me to agree to go out with him.”
Charlie sighs, “What if I told you he loves pie and burgers just as much as you do?”
“What else?”
“He’s also into westerns and cowboys. Good enough?”
“Fine, I'll go out with him. But once is all I'm promising though and just dinner."
"All I ask is that you give him a chance. Just talk to him." she pleads adjusting her belt.
"Fine."
"Fine."
Dean eyes her skeptically. “Wait, how do you know him, Charlie?”
“He’s a friend of a friend, okay? Just trust me. It’ll be fine- great even. I promise.”
POSTING BETWEEN APRIL 23rd AND MAY 6th, 2023!
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i like when games don't let you do every single thing in one playthrough of them. games like fo3 or oblivion feel like theyre designed for completionism, not actual roleplaying.
fo3 has a perk you can get at the lvl 30 - the max lvl cap - that straight up makes all your SPECIAL stats 9s. combine that with the bobbleheads, and you have perfect 10s across the board. that, and you can easily get 100s in all skills in the game if you know what you're doing. (tbf fo2 had an item you could get by beating the game that'd similarily max out your stats but shh)
meanwhile games like oblivion let you become the master of the fighters guild, arch-mage of the mages guild, gray fox of the thieves guild, grand champion of the arena, and listener of the dark brotherhood - all at the same time as the same character.
idk where i was going with this.
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[Review] Avatar The Last Airbender: Bobble Battles (PC)
A budget licensed RTS, it's about what you'd expect.
Frima Studio is a successful French Canadian developer: over the years they've done lots of casual, Flash, and mobile games, as well as some console stuff. I just found out they're working on a Risk of Rain spinoff currently. But one of their first jobs was making a tie-in Avatar strategy game in 2007, and they did it competently enough.
Based on Books 1 and 2 of the show, Bobble Battles takes its name from the "bobblehead" art style, better known as chibi or super deformed, which was employed in a few other spinoff projects like animated shorts, comics, and video games. It's an appealing look and helps a bit with readability of the characters when you're zoomed out (although character design could have differentiated common unit types a lot more), but you can't appreciate the look too well unless you're zoomed in, in which case the game is much less playable.
As a real-time strategy game in the vein of your Warcrafts and Dune 2s, it's been simplified and streamlined to the nth degree. There's only one resource, no upgrading, a handful of unit types that act identically between factions, and a basic control scheme. The limited nature of the controls hurt it as moving between the arrow keys to shift your view and the numbers for control groups is uncomfortable. Those are pretty much your only functions by the way; there's no attack-move or other specialised move commands, although hero units do have more flashy attacks.
I'm no RTS die-hard but even having played a bit of Starcraft and Age of Empires back in the day I couldn't help but find Bobble Battles wanting in gameplay. There's no rally points, few hotkeys, and just getting your units to do anything is a hassle. Selecting control groups instantly shifts the camera over to them, there's always a pause before they execute your commands, and they need to be heavily micromanaged to attack targets. Pathfinding in narrow spaces can be atrocious, with your guys often milling around or getting stuck on walls when you're on a city-based level. On the whole there's a lot of pain points in the micro scale, and little need for macromanagement at all. I understand the desire to create a game in this genre for younger audiences, but it's not just dumbed down, it feels shonky and shallow.
The game is structured in three campaigns. The first two more or less cover the heroes' journey through the first two seasons of the show, while the third has you playing as the Fire Nation trying to stop them. After completing these you unlock the Timeline mode, which rearranges the scenarios into chronological order... this seems superfluous. The missions do try to have some variety between small-scale hero exploration and production maps and to give you different kinds of objectives. They do a decent job at this, although the scope never gets very big. The most that will ever be demanded of you is juggling three control groups to defend three settlements that are pretty close together, but again this is baby's first RTS so I don't knock it for lacking difficulty.
As an Avatar game, it's kind of cool seeing events from the show reinterpreted into a new genre. You rarely had squads of people running around battling in the series, so there's some novelty to that. The characters having unique abilities is fun, and I got a kick out of seeing the designs of building and units between the nations. There's even one unique creature here, the goat-like mount that Water Tribe riders use. [EDIT: This beast does actually appear briefly in the North Pole episodes.] Only covering two-thirds of the show is a bit of a letdown, although to be fair it's an unavoidable consequence of the passage of time and when the game was commissioned. Can't argue with the immutable laws of time and space.
Bobble Battles is essentially fine. It works. There's even some creativity in how it's interpreting the source material and in the scenarios, but by attempting to simplify what is generally a complex genre, I think they went too far and actually hurt the playability. And that's before mentioning the dodgy behaviour of your units. It gets points for its uniqueness within the sphere of Avatar games, but it's hard to recommend except for completionists like me, and they would just play it anyway so it doesn't matter what I say about it!
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Hi! Hi! I haven't updated this blog in almost two years and I haven't rewatched Bones in even longer but I just listened to the Boneheads trailer and almost cried hearing Emily and Carla's voices so yeah I'll absolutely be doing a rewatch along with them and giving this blog some love again! How do I still have over 800 followers, why did you all not abandon me when I went inactive, why am I questioning this? Hi! I'm so glad to see you all again!
So some updates, I'm a gamer now, I'm obsessed with video games. I even started a Let's Play YouTube channel a few months ago (shameless plug shameless plug). I dabble in many different genres, but relevant here, did you know there's this thing called detective games? Where you play a detective and can solve murder mysteries like Booth and Brennan do, but yourself? I freakin love 'em. The Zero Escape visual novel series is one of my favorites, and @lightphieric is my dedicated sideblog to those games.
Fair warning that I feel I am a bit more... socially conscious, I guess you could say, than I was when I was last active. I'm still very willing to revisit Bones from an uncomplicated place of love and chalk a lot of things up to being a product of their time, but at the same time I find myself with a lot less patience for glorified depictions of law enforcement (to the point where I might have to change this blog's avatar, sorry Bobblehead Bobby!).
I'm also a lot more educated when it comes to issues of neurodivergence and mental illness, when it comes to both recognizing and understanding my own neurodivergence (I have autism, avoidant personality disorder, depression and anxiety) and learning about conditions that I don't have but which fall under the same brain-weird umbrella. I am so so SO excited to come back to the absolutely impeccable neurodivergent energy of the main cast of Bones, but I am also bracing myself to see and call out a lot of the demonization of people with mental illnesses that is typical of the crime genre. I have come to realize that the field of criminal profiling is, as a whole, utter ableist bullshit, and while I still love Sweets as, like, a character and a guy, I hate his job and can imagine myself getting mad at him a lot.
All that aside, I am so excited for this podcast and this rewatch and can only imagine it being a primarily positive experience. Welcome back to the blog! (And feel free to reach out if you wanna talk or anything, I was pretty resistant to making fandom friends before but my time in the Zero Escape fandom has loosened me up in that regard.)
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12 with wilson dont starve for the character asks! :3
oooo wilsom don't starve headcannons...I have not thought about the lil bobblehead in so long...
I think he's from New England & was the failson of his family. He's a really annoying edgy athiest. He was stupid in love with maxwell before he got betrayed & pulled into the constant.
i forgor so many of my HC's so im looking through discord messages and here's a really cool one about nightmare fuel in the game:
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