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They decided to get married on the tallest building in San Myshuno, the Stargazer Lounge skyscraper.
#originally wanted to get them hitched at the romance festival#buuuut they are on even-week Saturdays#and I'm currently on week 3 with these two#btw I downloaded this off of the gallery#it's like the most popular Stargazer Lounge build on the gallery iirc#honestly a stunning build for being no cc#Stormy Nessa Jones#Edgar Isaac Orson#random legacy challenge#sims 4 legacy#Orson family#Gen 1: Orson#san myshuno#sims 4 gameplay#gshade preset: gm lithium
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Thank you Larian Studios for providing the most tense experience of my recent gaming career.
It only took two attempts, the first one crashed and burned about eight hours in due to a softlock due to a bugged dialogue, and almost put me off trying again. But the second attempt flew past at breakneck pace.
My squad was Gale (Divination Wizard, for guaranteeing those critical CC spells), Karlach (Tavern Brawler Open Hand Monk, for quite possibly the highest DPR in the game), Shadowheart (Light Cleric Spell-Tank abusing Radiating Orb) and Anja, my PC (Halfling Lore Bard who talked their way out of every sticky situation Karlach couldn't punch).
Potential BG3 & Honour mode spoilers below:
Honorable mentions to Astarion, the incredible flying Owlbear (who helped me beat Grym by leaping from the top rope and doing an incredible 200 damage) and Jaheira, who helped me buff to avoid certain one-shot thresholds in the later game.
Honestly, I think I spent too much time prepping for this challenge. All the way back in Act 1, I was making choices to ensure I had access to certain allies and options later on in Act 3 to avoid difficult checks (like recruiting Yurgir for the Raphael fight) only to end up... not really needing them. Act 1 had some of the toughest fights by far, and making sure I hit the right thresholds for XP was really important. I remember tiptoeing through the Goblin Camp, hunting for shreds of XP to hit the right level to face the Goblin Leadership, only to end up being caught out and having to brute force my way through several fights. Inquisitor W'worgaz required a whole setup to ensure I could kill him in 2 rounds, but after he fell and I sauntered into Act 2 with the Blood of Lathander and Adamantine Scalemail for Shadowheart, I was feeling pretty confident.
I talked the three Thorms to death, fireballed some plants and blundered the portal fight (Sorry Halsin!) before finally rocking up to Catacombs and taking on the Trials of Shar. I cheesed Balthazar by using Knock on his door (and treating myself to a cutscene where the only member in range of the trigger was my Quasit, who looked very bewildered by the whole encounter) and the rest was a breeze. Even Ketheric fell over to Karlach's punches, and the final phase of the Illithid colony turned out to be pretty easy when I realised I could tank 99% of the Avatar of Myrkul's damage and negate his healing just by having Karlach stand in range with her Necrotic resistance and 20 AC, and having Gale haste himself and cast Bone Chill every round. Sucks to be beat at your own game, huh Myrkul?
Act 3 swiftly turned into a collect-a-thon as I scooped up the last few powerful items I needed to make endgame builds. Lorroakan never got a chance to cast a spell thanks to two characters with counterspell, and with Markoheshkir and the Weave set, Gale became the ultimate hobo wizard capable of blowing up pretty much any threat. Level 11 brought Globe of Invulnerability and turned some of my biggest fears (House of Grief, Gortash & Raphael) into steamrolls where I didn't even take a single point of damage, and never saw a single hostile action. Viconia De'vir spent her entire lifespan being Black Hole'd into a Wall of Fire/Black Tentacles/Silence combo that rendered her impotent, new Legendary actions and all. Gortash got one round of throwables in before Karlach turned his face into a grey paste with the aid of six attacks per round, and Raphael? Oh brother. Using all the explosives I could find in Felogyr's basement, I collapsed all his pillars and then stomped him into the ground with Stunning Strike and Tasha's Hideous Laughter.
Orin came close to ruining my run through my own hubris - She managed to out-initiative my party by quite a lot and land smack bang on top of my Danse Macabre ghouls... blowing them all up and causing a huge chunk of friendly fire to Gale, who went down to bleed before his turn came up. Fortunately, some well placed potion throws and a haste bottle brought both Gale & Globe of Invulnerability up, and upcast Magic Missile did the rest.
The walk to the brain didn't bother me, even though I did forget about Voss' ambush if you don't free Orpheus, because by that point I was so stacked with items anything without the ability to deny CC would just turn into oh-so-much chunky pulp whenever I looked at them. When the time came to fight the Netherbrain, I hesitated... the pressure of losing my run to the Brain's turn timer was terrifying, and I didn't want to take that risk.
So that was when the contingency I'd been planning from Day 1 came in.
I'd been romancing Gale. Primarily to get to see his scenes and how he was as a romantic partner, but also because it lowered the DC to persuade him to detonate the orb to a 25, with advantage. I had no re-rolls left, but thanks to my Halfling race, a natural 1 was unlikely. With all my buffs & stats, I needed a 3+ to succeed, and when that total came up with a 33 I knew I never needed to worry.
And just like that, Gale of Waterdeep sacrificed himself, and the golden dice were mine.
Thank you, Larian Studios. And thank you Gale. You're the best.
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some more observations i've made in my smattering of hunter runs:
once you get out of SI, it's. pretty smooth, actually. and if you know what you're going for, SI isn't too bad, provided you're prepared to have to fight a few cyans. i personally Really enjoy smack downs with lizards, and i have killed the entire yellow lizard pack in the one SI room near-ish the lower SI shelter, but that's just me.
on a similar note: rock and a spear is your best friend for fighting lizards, no matter what kind. rock to flip them and stun them, then follow up with a spear. you usually have enough time to regrab the spear and stab again until dead, but this is why i like to have the back spear handy too. the timing is also surprisingly lenient, i've actually lost my spears from throwing them too early. cyans have gotten Way less scary once i figured this out.
building on that: cyans are not that bad. they're big too, so you can knock them out of the air with a rock, then stab them. they don't take that many spears to go down either on hunter, and i think after the first spear they start trying to run away? but definitely by the second spear they'll be running, they're not that determined. staying calm and being ready to throw rocks really helps.
do NOT shelter in CC. ever. don't do it. i realized this while planning out my run before but Do Not Shelter In CC. if you have to karma grind, do it in SI, it is WAY easier. you Will hate hunting in CC. i adore the area, but it's a lot easier to deal with shit on survivor. don't subject yourself to your food falling into death pits on hunter. just hunt in SI. this includes getting the echo; leave your shelter in SI, pass the SI-CC gate, get the echo WITHOUT hibernating so you spawn back in SI. i got harassed by 5 vultures and a king vulture while trying to leave CC, if you get screwed over by rng you do not want to have to hunt in CC.
personally i've found having a vulture mask in SI to be detrimental because it reduces my hand inventory to only one slot, but for the wall it has been So so helpful. i imagine it'll be really good in the underhang as well. the lizards all run away, and that also makes them easier to stab (though i still prefer using rocks to stun). just be quick and even the cyans won't bother you.
the most consistent strat for getting out of SI for me was to ensure i have mushrooms on hand before trying to leave for the shelter near CC. i tried So many times to bring a squid to jump, which does make the jumps a lot easier, but honestly with the mushrooms it's really not that bad. first jump is easily clearable with just the mushroom, and then the second one gives you room to spare with a throw boost on top of the mushroom physics. i did notice that sometimes the mushrooms don't seem to spawn? so now i just cache them ahead of time in my shelter before i get the echo.
for the second set of jumps, definitely get a squid. much easier. lots of wiggle room with a squid. just beware the pink lizard lurking around that part of the bridge.
i'm a little nervous about traversing the rest of the exterior, but with any luck it won't be Too bad. i really hope i can get a clean run this time, but even if not, i think i've worked out a strategy for getting out of SI that i'm satisfied with. i'm too stubborn to give up so ✌️wish me luck i guess
#i know where to shelter in shoreline now if i have to karma grind#so. hopefully it will be okay#i just need to get into FS and shelter
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So...I know it´s been a moment since I posted anything on here (almost a year to be precise), and I´m sorry for just kinda vanishing like that. As for many people, this year has been kind of weird for me and that also affected my relationship with playing the Sims. The first few couple of months of this year I was just super uninspired and had no motivation whatsoever to build or create anything, so I just took a break from playing and did other stuff. And then, around early summer, I was finally starting to get inspired and motivated to start building again, and I actually did just that for a couple of weeks, but then...my laptop broke completely and I had to get a new computer. And while I had some backups of my builds and some of my (insanely huge amount of) CC, a lot was still missing, and I just couldn´t be bothered to search for and download it all again (not to mention with a lot of stuff not being available anymore), so there went my motivation, again. But apparently I didn´t loose it completely, because a few months back I decided to just buy a few of the packs I didn´t have yet and I just played the Sims like I haven´t done in a long time, and I had a lot of fun! I adored playing Cottage Living and Snowy Escape, and I realized that, with so many packs installed, you really have quite a lot of actual good looking and usable items to build and decorate with, so I just thought, why not try to build completely CC free and see how it would go.
Long story short, I had quite some fun making these builds without any CC, which I thought was impossible even a few months back (I always admired those people who were able to create absolutely stunning builds with just the in-game stuff, and still am honestly^^). And I know that these builds are completely different from my cyberpunk/sci-fi and urban asian inspired builds, which I probably won´t be able to do anymore, but I still want to share some of these new builds with you, see what you think, and if you like them, that´s awesome, and if you don´t, then that´s completely fine too :)
The pictures above are from a little house I´ve been working on over the holidays, and I will upload it probably tomorrow, so stay tuned if you´re interested :)
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I was just having a PM chat with another simmer about Sims 3 game performance, and I thought maybe it would be worth posting this stuff publicly. There are other game performance guides around the Internet, but this is mine.
Sims 3 is an old game. It’s enormously ambitious, and I wish they’d built a better data management engine in the beginning when they knew they were going to try to simulate basic behavior for an entire town over generations. When it runs like crap, it’s natural to assume that the problem is the computer, but the truth is that in 2021, the major reason that the game gets laggy is the GAME. It’s almost never the computer.
Sims 3 is a 32-bit game. That means that it has huge limitations on how much memory it can access. If you have the long-address patch (which if you have your game patched up to 1.67+ you will have), then the total memory the game can use is 4G. Before long addressing, the max usable memory was 2G, and the game stopped being able to function in that amount after about the 4th expansion I think.
It doesn’t matter if you have a 64-bit operating system, which you probably do. Sims 3 has to run in 32-bit backward compatibility.
There’s a lot of advice on how to improve performance. Some of it worked in the past but doesn’t now. Some of it never worked. Here are the things I know of that actually do make Sims 3 run better:
1. NRaas mods ErrorTrap and Overwatch: Even if you hate mods, you want these. They don’t change the behavior of the game. They fix bugs that bloat the game and corrupt save files. I honestly don’t know how anyone plays generational games without these. I’ve spoken to a lot of players over the years who don’t mod because they consider it dangerous to their game. I can see that reasoning, but not for these two mods.
2. An FPS (frames-per-second) limiter. This gets really technical, but the jist of it is that Sims 3 was written at a time when computers didn’t have nearly the graphics resources they have today. Because of this, it’s written to use ALL the resources it can get to generate the maximum number of visual frames it can. On a modern computer it’s likely to generate hundreds of frames per second when you only need 30 fps, and no matter how studly a computer you give it, it’s likely to chew up those extra resources generating more frames you’ll never see. When I added FPS limiting, suddenly the fan on my computer went quiet. It was stunning. I don’t see this issue discussed nearly as much as other ones, probably because of the confusing technical reasons, but it might be the biggest thing you can do for your game performance.
For certain graphics cards, you can limit the frames generated in the graphics config. I used Bandicam for years. You need to run it before you launch Sims and set FPS to 30 on the video tab. HOWEVER, I stopped using Bandicam when Smooth Patch (below) came out. You want maximum FPS of 30. That’s the maximum number that’s useful to the eye except arguably for first person shooters and virtual reality.
[Note: Other simmers are telling me that they think somewhat higher frame rates can be a big visual improvement for their games. I think I’ll try 60 for a while myself and see. A lot of games target 30, so it’s worth trying out some limits to see what you think. When you’re talking about modern hardware, 60fps is almost the same for performance as 30. Whatever the case, don’t set it higher than the refresh rate on your monitor. Anything over that literally can’t be displayed.]
3. Smooth Patch by LazyDuchess. This is some kind of runtime injection magic that updates the way some threading is done in the game. the biggest thing it affects is loading the catalogues in CAS and build/buy, but it can make games load faster tool. As an afterthought, the config file includes frame rate limiting, so you can just forget about #2 above and set FPSlimit=30 after installing Smooth Patch.
4. CC Magic. This is a cc organizer, which is very nice to have in its own right. The big performance deal is that it merges your cc into big packages for you. Merged packages are better for performance but a living hell to do manually.
So that’s it! I’ve done a lot of fiddlier stuff, but I think these things are the most bang for your buck.
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The list of names
*scary music playing*
Ok, guys, in the light of American Middle Eastern policy, that has once again brought me to tears, I decided to do something a bit happier (this is me trying to influence my followers to read the news and fight for the right thing and all that jazz). I’ve got a lot of asks recently, mostly from people new to the world of CC, about which creators are the best, so I’ve made this little list of the creators I download and use the most. This is not in any way a complete collection, I might have forgotten someone (and there’s also plenty of creators I haven’t discovered yet). Also, these are all build creators, mainly creating alpha CC. Please feel free to add to this list. Also also, the description I’ve used for the artists are totally my own making, so if you are a creator and feel like I am describing your work in an unfair way, go ahead and punch me in the face.
If I was a new simmer, I would check out these creators:
Retired:
MXIMS - Makes modern, real life furniture with the best quality. Has many downloads left on their website.
MINCSIMS - Similar to MXIMS (with some amazing collabs), also with a beautiful talent for doors and windows. Not many objects left in orbit, but google is your friend.
DAER0N - Done everything from noodles to palms, but the recent Daer0n I would describe as gold, dark and modern, with 3D modeling skills out of this world. Retired, and much of the old stuff is gone, but some can be found at bloomingrosy.
DOX - Similar to Daer0n with a slightly stricter, more wooden approach. The most underrated one of the retired giants. Has some downloads left on their website.
ANBS - Super clean aesthetic. Modern, real life furniture. Many downloads left on their website.
SLYD - Mostly known as a CAS creator, but has the amazing shoes and bags available as decor. All downloads left on the website.
HVIKIS - Wallpapers and wall art. All downloads left on the website.
VIIKIITA - Recolors to die for. Not many objects left in orbit, but google is your friend.
Active (I think. I hope. I don’t know):
ARSBOTANICA - Previously simshamlet. Does really lovely, vintage aesthetic perfume bottles and amazing flowers.
SLOX - A personal favorite. Modern, I’d say. And realistic. But often with objects you didn’t even know you needed, that ends up being the main inspiration for the whole build. Like some folded shirts, or a stack of books.
13PUMPKIN - A long with Artvitalex this is the best wood creator in the community. The sets are kind of like “small-lovely-family-home”-style, but can be used in big, modern builds with equally outstanding results.
WONDYMOON - My by far most used creator. The most organized one too, I’d say. All sets match eachother, and are easy to find (and are all named by elements, this guy is a rock star).
PYSZNYDESIGN - The Kilburn set is to die for.
MEINKATZ - Literally replicas of real life furniture, with their history and all. Honestly the coolest thing ever. Also, a really nice person.
PRALINESIMS - The best floor and wall creator, hands down. I don’t know if this is really the person I should tag tho, so I’ll tag @cross-design and hope for the best because I honestly still don’t know who is who. I love them both tho.
THE TSR GIANTS: SEVERINKA, KARDOFE, UNG999, SIMMAN123, PILAR, ARTVITALEX, ANGELA, DOT, BUFFSUMM, SHINO and NYNAEVE - Yes, a lot of the creators I mention here are active on TSR and a lot of my TSR giants are active elsewhere, but I still, maybe arbitrary, like to put these under the TSR flag because they represent that wonderful vibe of big sets, certain room types and signature colors.
PEACEMAKER - a true legend. Some of the CC is borderline MM, but that is what makes them so perfect. They go with both themes.
MIO - This is the first creator I downloaded from and they will always have a special place in my heart. Brilliant conversions, flower sets, seating, everything.
NOVVVAS - A way too humble person that claims she is not the best in the game, when she truly is out of this world.
RIGHTHEARTED - who I have been referring to as neiden my whole life because I am an idiot.
TINGELINGLATER - Does a lot of things but blessed all of us with windows and since then I am in love.
ANYE - Pinkbox Anye, to be correct. Lovely person. Lovely sets. Unique eyes. Adore this one.
FOREVERDESIGNS - Will literally transform your bedroom. And kitchen. And life.
BLACKMOJITOS - Build sets and sexy, stunning posters (and a basket every now and then). Also up for commissions, I just noticed. Go throw money at her. She is amazing.
KAI-HANA - Has a totally unique style, where everything is alpha, but still has a beautiful, clayish touch to it. Underrated.
AROUNDTHESIMS - A bit on the MM side, so if you’re looking for that MM/alpha mix, this is for you. Extremely productive. Does everything and more.
CHERRY-SIMS - A part from the CC, this is also the best picture editor I’ve ever seen. I am a huge fan!
CONCEPTDESIGN - Did someone say trees?
YUMIA - Soft flowers, old school touch, vintage
AGGRESSIVEKITTEN - Literally killed half the community with the recent brutalism set, which without a doubt will be voted best CC of 2020. Also, where else would you go for both beautiful, vintage objects AND a tarot card reading? Weirdly obsessed with seals. Makes amazing lots. I love you.
DSCO - I gave up trying to spell this creators full name after the sixth attempt. I would describe the CC as cute. But not in the condescending (that I could spell) way. More in a bad-ass-I-need-all-of-these-objects-kind-of-way!
KKB - My ignorant and uneducated ass wants to call it Korean, and I am sorry if this isn’t the right way to describe anything. Soft, pastel but at the same time very cool, with rattan and wood.
DR GREENIE - Former Green Girl. Mostly MM, but has made some of my most used decor objects.
HELEN - Extremely productive. Does everything.
NIKADEMA - Has made my favorite sink!
PQSIMS - Makes sets. Usually light wood.
LUNATICAVILLAGE (2SIS) - Another underrated favorite. Everyone should go here and show as much love as possible!
LAVI3ENROSE - A creator that entered my world quite recently. Art deco. Bronze. Gold. And the best wrapped Christmas presents of 2019.
DDAENG SIMS - Another giant that recently changed their name (used to be dreamteamsims).
FELIXANDRE - The best historical creator (as in making epic shit that would create the most wonderful castle). Sometimes a bit on the MM side with the furniture, and that contrast makes it, in my eyes, even better.
SIMCREDIBLE - Sets. Color matching. Often light and modern. I use their decor stones in every single one of my .
SOLORIYA - MM creator. But even for us alpha bitches there are wonderful stuff (I think this is the case for most MM artists, I just don’t know so many of them).
XELENN - Also does literally everything. One can scroll this blog for hours.
OWL-PLUMBOB - Amazing build objects.
SANOYSIMS - A long with MXIMS, I’d say this is one of the most “realistic” artists.
WINNER9 - To me, this creator is all about the amazing wall art. But of course they make other stunning objects too. Marble tables, anyone?
SJAMBOKSIM - My most used concrete walls (and I use concrete A LOT).
AIFIRSA - Totally different style from everyone else. Absolutely love this aesthetic.
VIVIAN STUDIO - This sounds weird, but their onions are the best object in my game. Don’t judge.
HEURRS - A quite new creator who blew my mind with some recent candles and earned my first reblog since 456 BC. Love you.
I am forgetting so, so many. Please, I sometimes can’t even remember my own name, so don’t feel hurt if I missed you. PLEASE comment your favorite creators below! Where would you advice new simmers to start looking for good CC?
Love you guys!!!
#sims 4#sims 4 cc#the sims#the sims 4#creators#sims 4 creator#sims 4 creators#sims 4 cc finds#the sims 4 cc finds#sims cc#sims cc finds#sims4#thesims4#thesims
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5e Zac, the Secret Weapon build (League of Legends)
(Artwork by Christian Fell. Made for Riot Games.)
No one:
Literally no one:
@tigerkirby215: “HEY FUCKERS WHO WANTS A ZAC BUILD?!”
Full disclosure: I watched Dorans and Dragon’s video for Zac and while it’s really well done (like really well done. I honestly suggest you watch it) I felt like it took a bit of an interesting direction. Ds&D and I have always had different ideas for our builds and I think with the release of Tasha’s there’s actually a lot of interesting new directions to take Zac in.
Also spoiler alert but this build is the most jank-ass fucking shit I have ever made but it strangely works really well? Like I literally sat on this build for two months debating if I should even post it. Also Zac’s a grappler, because of course he is.
GOALS
There's plenty of me to go around - Zac stretches and bounces and changes his shape more-or-less at will.
Why thanks; I do work out - Zac is one of those “hold you down for 10 seconds total in a teamfight” types of junglers.
I'm not as squishy as I look - Of course to be a big bundle of green goo we’ll need to be big. Like, really big.
RACE
END ME I’M MAKING A BUGBEAR! :D
Okay to be fair Bugbear hate is kinda overblown, especially by yours truly. You get +2 to Strength and a +1 to Dexterity as well as Darkvision and several other useful traits: you have a Powerful Build to carry more stuff, for one. You are also Sneaky and get proficiency with Stealth, which is nice because if you launch a Surprise Attack you can do an extra 2d6 damage.
But of course the main trait of a Bugbear is their Long-Limbed bodies. All your melee attacks have a 5 foot longer range, which is obviously important to make Stretching Strikes!
Custom Lineage: If you’re insistent on making a custom “goo creature” race with Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything rules here are my suggestions: make yourself Medium (yeah duh) and give yourself proficiency with the Athletics skill. Increase your Strength by 2 and take the Skilled Expert feat for Expertise in Athletics along with a +1 in Wisdom. You will have an uneven DEX score but I dunno just go for Athlete or something later in this build.
ABILITY SCORES
15; WISDOM - Braum isn’t the only champion who believes the heart is the strongest muscle, as if you’d read Zac’s lore he is actually quite a compassionate soul. Also we need Wisdom for our main ability.
14; CONSTITUTION - Zac is a tanky boy, so up the tankiness!
13; DEXTERITY - When you can stretch and squeeze like silly putty dexterity comes naturally. We need that dexterity to jump over walls, among other things.
12; STRENGTH - A lot of it is elastic strength, but if you’re going to throw Cho’gath into Shyvana you do also need upper body strength.
10; CHARISMA - He’s a nice guy when you get to know him, but Zac’s also a bunch of Zaun sewer goo.
8; INTELLIGENCE - Living in the sewers and then later being raised as a weapon means you don’t know any math, science, or history.
BACKGROUND
Zac did grow up in the streets, but the skills from the Urchin background don’t fit him well so we’ll be modifying it heavily. Take proficiency in Acrobatics to squash and stretch as well as Perception to keep those wards up. You can pick your choice of languages or tools because Zac kinda... doesn’t do much other than fight? I mean he’s literally called “the Secret Weapon” what do you want from me?
But your background feature of City Secrets is very useful for traveling the streets of Zaun, letting you find your way around alleys and jungle gank paths to travel through the city twice as fast as the average person! "Put some spring in your step."
(Artist unknown. Made for Riot Games.)
THE BUILD
LEVEL 1 - MONK 1
Been awhile since we’ve visited the good ol’ Monk class eh? Well you can grab Athletics finally, as well as Insight to know if someone’s worth clobbering. You also get proficiency with an artisan’s tool or musical instrument, and I mean... Zac still doesn’t have much lore.
But how about some class features? Monks get Unarmored Defense equal to their Wisdom plus their Dexterity, for 14 AC total. Would medium armor be better? Yes, but you can’t wear armor if you want to use Martial Arts! Martial Arts gives you a variety of benefits: you can punch with DEX or STR, your punches are now a d4 (and will scale as you get levels), and if you punch with your Action you can punch with a Bonus Action after the fact!
LEVEL 2 - MONK 2
Second level Monks get Ki points to use for a variety of features: Flurry of Blows lets you attack twice with your Bonus Action instead of once, Patient Defense lets you dodge as a Bonus Action, and Step of the Wind lets you Dash or Disengage as a Bonus Action. An important thing to mention about Step of the Wind is that it doubles your jump distance, for those big Elastic Slingshot jumps!
You can also put on some boots and get some Unarmored Movement. 10 more feet to be exact!
I guess I’m also obliged to mention Dedicated Weapon from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything which lets you turn any weapon you’re proficient in into a Monk weapon as long as it’s not Heavy or Special. This will be important later but it’s not exactly in-character for Zac.
LEVEL 3 - MONK 3
Third level Monks get to choose their Monastic Tradition and Way of the Astral Self will give you some long stretchy limbs! As a bonus action you can spend 1 Ki to summon Arms of the Astral Self. When you do so, each creature of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take force damage equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die due to your Unstable Matter.
Your arms will stay up for 10 minutes and give the following benefits:
You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength modifier when making Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
You can use the spectral arms to make unarmed strikes, which has the following benefits:
The reach of the arms is 5 feet greater than normal, which stacks with your Bugbear arms. 15 foot reach with extra stretchy arms!
The unarmed strikes you make with the arms can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls, and their damage type is force.
You can also absorb some blows with Deflect Missiles. When you are hit by a ranged weapon attack you can use your reaction to reduce the damage by 1d10 + your DEX mod + your monk level. If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missile. You can then spend 1 ki point to throw it back as part of the same reaction. You make this attack with proficiency, regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack, which has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everyone also gave Monks the Ki-Fueled Attack ability which pretty much doesn’t impact you in the slightest.
LEVEL 4 - MONK 4
4th level Monks get an Ability Score Improvement but we’re instead going to grab the Skilled Expert feat. You can increase your Wisdom by 1 and grab proficiency in Survival for optimal jungle clear. But what we’re mainly here for is to make our hands extra sticky with expertise in Athletics! Is the build starting to make sense now?
You can also land safely after an Elastic Slingshot jump thanks to Slow Fall, reducing fall damage by 5 times your Monk level. If you want to keep yourself in the fight then Quickened Healing (also from TCoE, because that book really likes giving new Monk features) will let you take advantage of Cell Division for 2 Ki points, healing you for a number rolled on your Martial Arts die plus your Proficiency bonus. It’s not much but in a pinch it might save you!
LEVEL 5 - MONK 5
5th level Monks get an Extra Attack, so you can punch twice with your action, and then punch some more with your Bonus Action! You can also bring some heavy CC into the party with Stunning Strike; if you hit an enemy in melee you can force a Constitution save or stun them! Yes actual honest-to-god League of Legends stun!
Oh and because Tasha’s Cauldron really wanted to buff the Monk you get Focused Aim, letting you use up to 3 Ki points to increase your roll to hit, at a 2:1 ratio. (1 Ki point = +2 to hit)
(Artwork by SemLimit on DeviantArt.)
LEVEL 6 - BARBARIAN 1
Jumping over to Barbarian, land of the true tanks. Barbarians get Unarmored Defense based on Constitution that we won’t be using but I’m obliged to mention anyways. Of course what we’re here for is Rage which will augment you in a number of ways: you’ll resist Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage and will do more damage with Strength-based attacks (which you probably won’t be making.) But the most important feature is this line right here:
You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
You know what’s a Strength check? Athletics! So even if you use Wisdom for it you’ll still have Advantage on top of Expertise! And Athletics is used for grappling! At least that’s how I’d rule it, but talk to your DM just to make sure they’ll let this dopey shit into their game.
LEVEL 7 - BARBARIAN 2
Second level Barbarians can let themselves go with Reckless Attack. Your Unstable Matter will give you advantage on your attack at the cost of giving enemies advantage to hit you.
You also get Danger Sense for advantage on Dexterity saves against effects you can see coming. Is a Jinx rocket heading your way? Slingshot out of there!
LEVEL 8 - BARBARIAN 3
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything gave Barbarians Primal Knowledge for a free skill proficiency from the Barbarian list, so take Intimidation I guess because you are a huge freaky slime guy.
Third level Barbarians get to choose their Primal Path and guess what? It’s Totem Warrior time! As a Spirit Seeker you can cast Speak With Animals and Beast Sense as a Ritual but we all know that’s not what we’re here for. What we’re really here for is the Totem Spirit of the Bear. You can now resist all damage while Raging, with the exception of Psychic damage. Hey there has to be %health damage to deal with tanks after all. (Now if only they’d nerf Grievous Wounds.)
LEVEL 9 - MONK 6
This will be our last Monk level; sad I know. But it’s worth it for the Visage of the Astral Self. You can use a Bonus Action and a Ki point to summon the visage. (And can do it while summoning your arms.) While the spectral visage is present, you gain several benefits:
Astral Sight lets you see through magical (and nonmagical) darkness up to 120 feet.
Wisdom of the Spirit gives you advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks.
And Word of the Spirit lets you either whisper in team chat to a creature of your choice that you can see within 60 feet of you, or shout in all chat so that everyone within 600 feet can hear you.
Your regular fists are also considered magical thanks to Ki-Empowered Strikes, and you get 5 more feet of Unarmored Movement! "Woohoo!"
(Artwork by Dragonflamebg on DeviantArt.)
LEVEL 10 - FIGHTER 1
Teamfight time? Team Fighter time! First level Fighters get a Fighting Style and since you’re punching people your only real option is Superior Technique, giving you a d6 Combat Superiority die to use on a Battle Master Manuever. That Manuever shall be Grappling Strike, letting you grapple as a Bonus Action after punching someone for some Stretching Strikes!
You can also heal with Cell Division assuming the enemy team doesn’t stack Grievous Wounds thanks to Second Wind; it’s a d10 plus your Fighter level. "Keep it together."
LEVEL 11 - FIGHTER 2
Second level Fighters get Action Surge for even more punching! This will be more important in like, two levels.
LEVEL 12 - FIGHTER 3
Third level Fighters get to choose their Martial Archetype and for some crowd control in a teamfight Battle Master is a great choice. You are a Student of War which means more tool proficiencies which make no sense because Zac has no lore woo! But of course what we’re mainly here for is Combat Superiority: you have four d8 Superiority Die (plus a d6 one from your Fighting Style) which you can use on a variety of Maneuvers:
Trip Attack is good if you want to bounce, forcing the target you hit to make a Strength save or fall over!
Distracting Strike is like stunning the target in the sense that it gives your allies an opening, but unlike Trip Attack you don’t have to force a saving throw. (Instead Distracting Strike just works after you hit them!)
And if you think your arms aren’t stretchy enough already? Boom; Lunging Attack for 20 foot reach!
LEVEL 13 - FIGHTER 4
4th level Fighters get an Ability Score Improvement: hey it’s everyone’s favorite feat Grappler! You have advantage on attacks against enemies you grappled, and if you’re grappling someone you can then pin them to hold them in place!
Now pinning someone you’ve grappled does take an action but here’s where Action Surge comes in: turn 1? Grab them. Turn 2? Pin them! Easy!
LEVEL 14 - FIGHTER 5
5th level Fighters get an Extra Attack... which you already have. "I hate it when this happens."
LEVEL 15 - FIGHTER 6
Hey more Ability Score Improvements! Want all the fun of a high Constitution score without the Constitution? Look no further than the Tough feat: it gives you +2 HP per level for some big gains!
(Artwork by GisAlmeida on DeviantArt.)
LEVEL 16 - FIGHTER 7
7th level Fighters get to Know Your Enemy: by spending a minute studying someone (IE looking at the scoreboard) you can learn if an enemy is superior, inferior, or equal to you in a number of areas described by the ability.
You also get one more Combat Superiority die and learn two more Maneuvers: Goading Attack will make it harder for enemies to hit your friends (and it works against Tier 4 enemies who likely resist fears), and Disarming Attack will let you stick your hand to your opponent’s weapon to make them drop it!
LEVEL 17 - FIGHTER 8
8th level means more ASIs and I’m starting to think ignoring all your stats was a bad idea. More Wisdom means better punches, better grabs, and better AC.
LEVEL 18 - FIGHTER 9
9th level Fighters get Indomitable, letting them reroll a failed saving throw once per Long Rest. Regardless of what you roll on the new die however you have to use the new result. This can be used on Death saves to try to keep alive a little longer thanks to Cell Division.
LEVEL 19 - FIGHTER 10
10th level Battle Masters get Improved Combat Superiority. Your superiority die are d10s now; even the one from your Fighting Style! You do also learn more Maneuvers but honestly? We got just about everything that we need already. If you’ve hit level 19 playing Zac League of Legends then you deserve to make some choices of your own.
LEVEL 20 - FIGHTER 11
Our final level is the 11th level of Fighter for an Extra Attack that does stack! That means you have 3 attacks total and one extra from Martial Arts!
FINAL BUILD
PROS
Beat up, or beat down? I'm flexible - No matter how you look at it 4 attacks per round is great, especially since you can give yourself Advantage and boost your damage output with Battle Master Maneuvers.
Pick on someone your own size - If everything goes well you should have a solid 200 health by level 20! Definitely nothing to sneeze at, especially with Rage giving you resistance to almost everything and Second Wind letting you heal yourself!
This is gonna get messy - You’ve got a +16 to Athletics checks for Grappling when using your Astral Arms, and can give yourself Advantage or add Superiority die to your Grapple checks. Do I need to explain that that’s really good?
CONS
Don't push your luck, champ - None of your stats are maxed out, and that’s bad. Your hit modifier isn’t great, your Battle Master saving throw is low, but most importantly your AC is really bad. Big health is nice but not being hit is also very helpful. Just saying if you have the chance to go for Point Buy I’d take it.
I never skip breakfast - A small pool of Ki combined with limited Maneuver die means that you’re running on some very potent fumes. Frequent short rests will be needed to make the most out of this build.
These jerks don't know when to quit! - Grappling builds have the ever-constant problem of falling off in the late game when most foes simply can’t be grabbed. This build honestly peaks around level 13 and just falls off from there. This is definitely one of my builds that I think works better in a low level campaign.
But if you want something unique that works well early here’s your build! Big reach to hold everyone in place so your party can beat them up. Playing the CC tank might not be that glorious but it’s a job someone’s gotta do. And remember: "It's not how much you can lift. It's how good you look!"
(Artist unknown. Made for Riot Games.)
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You are not a vanilla player by any means. Vanilla means no cc. . Even a small amount means you are a cc player. Maybe just say you are a Maxis Match player. Don't misconstrue.
I’m sorry, I wasn’t informed The Sims 4 had Vanilla Police. Please don’t arrest me, hear me out officer.
I’m a minimal cc user, but I’m damn near vanilla. I never advertise myself as a vanilla simmer, a lot of other simmer’s deem me to be vanilla or minimal. It doesn’t even say vanilla in my description nor my about me section of my youtube (which you should check out btw, I have vanilla game play up there since you’re so smart.) Anyway, if I post game play/portraits where everything is vanilla except for a sims skin - I’m going to still tag it ts4 vanilla. Why? I can’t wait to answer this.
Simblr is heavily flooded with custom content users. If THE only piece of custom content on my sim in a game play photo is their skin or eyes - I’m tagging it vanilla. Sue me. Especially if no mods, custom clothes or build/buy objects are used. A lot of people searching for vanilla simmers don’t care IF they just use defaults. They just want to see the game in it’s original form - clothes, objects, interactions, all mod free. And since we’re being honest here, some people just love seeing the aesthetic of a clean vanilla’ish’ game like @myverycoolnickname for example. She uses a skin, an eye shine remover and lashes. But her game play looks very true to game and her screenshots are stunning. Then you have @minicule who is 100% vanilla and has equally stunning screenshots. What they have in common? Their game play isn’t full of custom space buns and whicked whims. Do you get me, anon ?
At the end of the day I tag my photos ts4 vanilla because vanilla simmers are completely diluted and almost non existent up here. There’s not a lot of 100% vanilla simmers, so those of us who use custom defaults are going to show people you can still have fun with the game with barely any mods. Shout out to @vanillafreezerbuns for creating a tumblr dedicated to sharing vanilla simmers, which they’ve reblogged MY photos, even the ones with a skin replacement.
I’m not going to say I’m a maxis match player. I’m not going to say I’m any kind of player. I’m a simmer and it’s never that serious. The people that do what I do understand my posts and they love it. If you don’t , well.. honestly anon that’s not my problem. Now if you had the courage to show yourself, I wouldn’t have to come respond like this.. but since you’re anon.. well, I guess that gives me the right to be as defensive and annoyed as I want.
love, oshin.
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TINY LIVING STUFF - CAS REVIEW 🏡
Listen, this is a stuff pack about building little houses. Did I have any expectations that CAS would be good? Nope. Did it manage to surprise and delight me anyways? Absolutely. Do I still find a reason to rant about EA’s quality control? You bet.
I was provided with an early access copy of Tiny Living Stuff to review via the EA Game Changers program!
Let’s get my absolute new favorite thing out of the way right now - THEY CONVERTED THE HAIRS FOR ALL AGES Y’ALL.
I’m simultaneously really excited about this but also nervous. Converting hairs, and in a stuff pack no less, feels like a really dangerous precedent. If it can be done here, there’s no reason why it can’t be done in an EP or GP. This is great, but I’ll absolutely be looking for this in all future packs.
There’s no other content for these ages in this pack, and I’m honestly okay with it! I didn’t expect anything for the little ones, so four new hairs was a really nice bonus.
Speaking of really nice, the clothing options for female sims in this pack are stunning. The textures on the sweaters are amazing and the belt on those trousers may just be my new favorite thing ever.
A lot of times, I feel like things are too stylized and on theme for whatever pack we’re getting - looking at you Island Living. The pieces are super nice, but don’t necessarily lend themselves to being used for every day wear.
This pack definitely has options that I can see a lot of different sims wearing - all ages and play styles included.
Despite the fact that I apparently forgot to take pictures of all the male content, they actually get two more tops than female sims! We’ve always had such a shortage of quality male content, I really love that they’ve been stepping it up in recent packs. 👏
I always forget to put my sims in jewelry, probably because I don’t wear really wear it in real life. I don’t even wear my wedding ring most days. So while I’ll probably never use the new earrings and necklace, it doesn’t make them any less gorgeous. ✨
What I will use, however, are those new glasses! They’re not as fully see through as I would like, but they’ll still absolutely replace some CC glasses in my game.
Despite everything I love about this pack’s CAS, I still have a few pretty significant complaints.
Where is the quality control? The very first thing I noticed when entering CAS wasn’t the pretty new things, but the two bright red hairs. I’m sorry, but it’s just not hard to order your swatches the right way, especially when they’re always the same. But even aside from that, WHO MISSED IT IN TESTING? Even if you filter by pack, which I had done above, it’s glaringly obvious.
Listen, I’m fully aware that this may not bother everyone but it’s worth mentioning.
The specular, which gives content shine, is wildly misplaced. In attempt to make the buttons shiny, they made two random circles to the left of the buttons shiny... And decided that was fine to release?
As a content creator, I get it. Speculars suck and are weird sometimes. It happens. But as a consumer, this is massively annoying.
In my opinion, it all circles back to quality control. The last few packs have had some amazing content, and I’ll be the first to praise all of it. But if QA is this bad, I have some real concerns. Mistakes happen, yes. We’re all human, gurus included. But this is an issue that just keeps happening.
Literally in my last CAS review (Discover University), I said -
I feel like this gets said every pack, but who was responsible for QA testing these? They failed.
It’s absolutely got to stop. I’ll excuse a lot of mistakes from EA - like the missing door in RoM. Sorry, not that big of a deal. We’re all fully capable of adding our own door, whether we should have to or not. But when it comes to issues with CAS content, that’s not something most people know how to fix. And frankly, they shouldn’t have to.
Total CAS items in Tiny Living Stuff:
four female hairs, two male for all ages
one pair of unisex glasses, one pair of earrings, one necklace
four female tops, six for males
one female skirt, one male jeans, one unisex pants
one full body outfit for both females and males, one dress for females
As far as stuff packs go, even considering the issues, this is hands down my favorite CAS to date. I’m not a builder, so honestly the whole “tiny house” aspect of this pack goes right over my head. Even taking this into consideration, I would call the CAS from this pack a must have. 👏
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genuinely cannot figure it out. cann you please tell me what the fnaf series is about
OK OK so like we’re extremely off our shits rn but lets try to make this coherent
edit: this actually turned into a fucking wall of infodump bullshit so adding a cut lol
1970s. a gay furry dad named henry emily decides to make a furry restaurant cause he’s passionate abt animatronics and making kids happy. he opens the restaurant with a man named william afton as his business partner. henry makes animatronics and william handles idk being fucking creepy and handling money is my best guess. the restaurant is called Fredbear’s Family Diner, featuring Fredbear and Spring Bonnie (after a year or two it becomes popular enough for henry to have money to build bonnie, freddy, chica, and foxy too!)
ok so shits fine and normal until william billiam is like ‘hmm im gonna be a child predator now’
on a rainy night one of henry’s children, Charlie Emily, is locked outside the pizzeria somehow, where william finds and kills them. the security marionette that henry built to protect his kids drags itself outside to their body, and thus is possessed by their spirit
obviously henry is fucked up but no one knew who the killer was, so henry was able to reopen another location, this time under the new name of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, with the now familiar friends Bonnie, Freddy, Foxy, and Chica to join the original two! multiple locations are eventually opened, and things are going just fucking fine until WILLY billy does his bullshit again!!
this time he lures them into the back by wearing a Spring Bonnie suit, and kills four children and stuffs their bodies into Bonnie, FReddy, Foxy, and Chica, where Marionette (charlie) finds them and binds their souls to the animatronics
but even though willish addon was employed at the very location he killed kids at, AND he was even convicted as the killer, since police couldnt find the bodies (and are useless) he didnt go to jail which is honestly so accurate its the scariest part of the franchise
so like henry at this point i imagine is like “fuck this” and sells the restaurant line to—you know what? honestly? i would love to know who runs Fazbear Entertainment. with the way help wanted was going i rlly hope we get an expansion on that with them as the villians (destroy capitalism) ANYWAY–
“Fazbear Entertainment” becomes the parent company of this mess now and theyre like :)……oh lets hire that william guy again hes fine
and at this point wwillus is making his OWN fucking pizzeria and his OWN animatronics and is actively kidnapping, torturing, and killing children to steal life essence from their souls! during the process of testing this, he gets his own ‘daughter’ Elizabeth Afton killed!! yeah im not fucking making this up!! (ppl in the fandom really defend this guy lol)
1983. so as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzas are expanding, Willard Afturd somehow? got himself some children. like to raise. like as a “““father”““. personally i do like 2 think a mother was involved but honestly he totally coulda just fucking kidnapped some random children to raise as his own and im starting to think thats more plausible actually BUT ITS NOT GAME THEORY TIIME
one of these kids he is personally torturing! his own “son”! incredible! long story short this traumatized child ( unofficially named CC Afton ) is forced into the mouth of Fredbear by his brother Michael Afton and his friends, aaaand he dies ( and is guided by Charlie to possess Fredbear )
even after years of rumors about dead kids being hidden in animatronics, its this accident is the last straw for Fazbear’s Pizza and they are finally shut down. then WILL rubs his nasty hands together and tries to open his OWN pizzeria with his original OCs do not Steal™, Funtime Freddy, Bon Bon, Ballora, Circus Baby ( possessed by Elizabeth) , and Funtime Foxy and theyre all. probably possessedtoo cause theyre used 4 his kid torture fetish
uh ok so Aphton is like hey michael go clean up my child abuse for me anyway brb so his son Mwanders into his father’s Pizzeria to find his sister elizabeth . long story short…………he finds her and she does the “we’re brothers but closer” spongebob meme but also with her friends
ANd they leave! hooray! from then on the story is about Michael, whos zombified now after being used as a husk to hide an amalgamation of 5 animatronics fucking trying to find his shitty fuckass dad, and to help the anguished and vengeful spirits inside
but the first location to reopen after having been shut down, Wilson AAAAA is employed AND KILLS SOME MORE KIDS who would have guessed omg amazing..stunning.. and michael is employed there JUST a week too late like it happens RIGHT before he’s employed so Wumbo Man gets away again and Fazbear Entertainment gets shut down AGAIN, in 1987
not too many years later Fazbear Entertainment tries to open restaurants yES AGAIN and theyre still using the original animatronics that are still rotting and bloody on the inside . somehow this place stays open for a bit, and michael is employed there still looking for Worst Father Ever, and the children attack him due to rage and confusion, and when they kill another employee, the restaurant is shut down for like the trillionth time
but then for some reason Whenwillhedie Afton is like im gonna go try to dismantle the other haunted animatronics at the shut down pizzerias cause i dont actually even know i have shit for brains and also probably wanted to melt them down for life juice BUT
theyrelike FUCK OFF and the spirits of the children materialize in front of Wellington Well Done and force him into the old crusty spring bonnie suit that he’d murdured in before nd spring is like FUCKy ou and crushesAlton with their animatronic parts aand smush him. trapped now #springbonnieisgoodguy
the spirits go to rest in animatronica, the events of fnafworld happen when: 30 fucing years later in like the 2010s some jackasses thought it would be a good idea to mak e a haunted hoiuse attraction based on fazbear’s pizza and use actual shit from the restaurants and of COURSE this fuck shit up hardcore and disturbs the spirits from the rest that they were in ( until it turned intp the events of FNAF World ) and then they were ripped back into reality when Fazbear’s Fright was built
also! they found WWWacky smacky Acky all rotting away inside Spring Bonnie (now called Springtrap) and were like yeah this is good. definitely not a robot struggling to hold back the influence of a murderer predator and definitely wouldnt haev a problem with being set free
basically michael hears about this thing when it opens and is the first employee there and proceeeds to burn the whole place down as soon as he sees Willmont stuck inside ofs Springtrap
buuuut it doesnt work and Springtrap and other various spirits and haunted robots are still wandering the fuck around and Henry at this point is like Okay I Need To Do Something About This Cause This Is Entirely Out Of Fucking Hand and he reopens a Freddy Fazbear’s location himself, but advertises for a manager who wants to build their own pizzeria
you know who pounces on this like a purple cat? MIKE hes like FUCK yeah egg boys gonna kill his dad and be ann egg MAN today
with the help of Henry’s use of luring mechanics and michael’s endurance and survival skill they gather Scrap Baby (elizabeth), Lefty (charlie), Scraptrap (springtrap, unfortunately who has a rotton raisin inside him ), and Molten Freddy (the remaining animatronics that had jumped into michael’s skin lumped together)
soon as theyre all there ? boom . henry lights the place on fire just like mike had and THEY BOTH JUST SIT THERE AND DIE IN IT TOO LIKE ITS SO METAL and it burns everyone else as well
and all the kids are like
uwu
owo
and drag william afton into HELL!! and they get to torture him for a while together and get the revenge they deserve hell yeah tbh UCN is so iconic
BUT Fazbear Entertainment drinks the capitalism so theyre like…. :((( we’ve been so bullied we totally didnt haev an employee who killed countless children… .pleas,e,e,, buy our mehrch, , n,,jdn
SO they employ an AU version of scott cawthon to make, essentially, the games that we’ve all been playing, but like, in-universe, – so the company in universe has fnaf video games made in order to make light of and cover up the actual murders that happened in the canon. is this too meta yet?
okay i lied this is also the scariest part of the franchise bc of how accurate it is to corrupt business hGJFSKDLHDSS
therefore, they create Help Wanted, the recently released VR game (also a game in-universe) and they use salvaged circuitboards and shit from all the old animatronics to program the game, but of course that just ends up transferring everyone’s soul into the game – the kids, the animatronic AIs, and BASTARD MAN
spring bonnie, now called Glitchtrap, is in a deteriorated mental state and is weak to Afton’s influence, and the fuck is able to manipulate an unknown amount of people into helping him out of the VR game and into the in-universe real world. one of these people was jeremy fitzgerald, michael afton’s childhood friend and a former employee at Fazbear’s Pizza during 1987.
he was involved in a lawsuit against the company making the game, and we don’t know what has happened to him yet. but he’s very important. evidence points to him being one of the kids that helped michael put CC’s head into Fredbear’s mouth, and that in 1987 when working at freddys he was bitten and is somehow functioning without a frontal lobe (but like, michael at this point is functioning with insides made of pudding and rotting skin so . basically theyre both too gay to die )
but we DO know that theres at least one person communicating directly with Glitchtrap, who he seems to have convinced to help set him free, someone whos made their own rabbit mask but doesnt seem to be willingly doing this, and might be brainwashed
also, currently, (this is really weird because we are currently living in the same time as the fnaf timeline is at right now) Fazbear Entertainment is planning on a “service program” that is basically sending personal animatronics to peoples houses and GUESS how fucking well THAT works out bc theyre STILL ALL HAUNTED YOuf g
and it seems like theyre planning on opening a new location in 2020, and that might be when we can learn more about the reluctant follower of springtrap and who has the camera while everyone moshes on william aftons corpse
basically the games are about childhood trauma, recovery, the love of family and friends, and justice against many kinds of evils
also where the fuck is sammy
#.msg#five nights at freddy's#UH HOPE THIS MADE SENSE#literally this is the short version#i have to pee but we coouldt stop writing this HGJKFSDHFKJDHJ#theres literally so much left out its unexplainable in this format#we need like. a google doc or smth where we can write 57382972346758349674386543672 words#animals#ask to tag#my autism is showing#anonymous#timeline
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5. list all anime you have ever watched
So I’ve chosen to make this a separate post so I can hide the length. I’ve also included small reviews for ones that I like/dislike/have actual feelings about. This is just a list of everything I can think of that I’ve seen, whether I finished it or left it at one episode. Read at your own risk
Sailor Moon/crystal - Both fantastic. 10/10
Dragon Ball series - I mean, its Dragonball
My hero academia - Popular for a reason
One piece - Unpopular because people keep living in the passed of terrible dubs, but the series has come such a long way, the new dub cast was chosen by the creator, and even the filler episodes aren’t terrible! Its a series you can honestly pick up at any point and figure out whats happening and even if you cant, its so outlandish that you have a blast watching anyway. While the character DESIGNS are a little… eh, the characters themselves are absolutely stunning, and when it comes to LGBT issues Oda comes THIS CLOSE to GETTING it for a straight dude before it becomes mildly offensive in some cases, but overall its just so wonderful and adventuristic and fun and I can’t get enough honestly.
Inuyasha - Honestly good, but some bits are just so silly
Natsume yuujinchou/2/3/Shi - VERY GOOD, a little slow since it’s slice of life-ish, but its so sweet and endearing
Oofuri/BIG WINDUP - First sports anime, and it literally had my sibling and I at the edge of our seats screaming.
Ghost stories - Watch the dub and only the dub. The anime itself is pretty bad so they told the cast to go wild and it’s absolutely disgusting at times but hilarious.
BLEACH - Also honestly good, and unpredictable because the dude literally just writes whatever he wants with no plot. Also the art is amazing because he just wanted to be a fashion designer and for some reason that didn’t pan out.
Naruto - Very good but ends in betrayal. I will never watch Boruto.
Demonslayer - So much fun and filled with sweet familial love
Blackblood brothers - Vampires. I remember it being fun but it was simple.
Blood blockade battlefront - Very fun!! Music slaps, and its such a wacky ensemble cast its so sweet and fun.
Yuyuhakusho - An oldie but a goodie. The anime also ended in mild disappointment because they altered it for no reason? But overall fun
Gekkanshojo nozaki kun - A good one. Cute and comedic
Pokemon - it’s pokemon its great
Durarara!! - Fantastic series, honestly. One of the best out there.
Baccano! - My actual all time favorite. PRobably the best ensemble cast you’ll ever see. Unfortunately didn’t get good traction so it didn’t go anywhere besides this arc, but it’s Immortal New York gangsters in the Great Depression. What more do you want?
Xxxholic - I’m gonna be real, I pretty much hate all CLAMP anime adaptations except for CCS. xxxholic was ok, the art was kind of an abomination, but it wasn’t as bad as Tsubasa’s adaptation
TSUBASA reservoir Chronicles - TRASH just read the manga.
Cardcaptor Sakura/clear card arc - Sweet and sentimental, I do wish it followed the manga story more.
JoJo's bizarre adventure - I’ve seen like 20 episodes and I don’t understand a thing.
Claymore - A lady monster hunter for hire. Dramatic and fantastic,
Violet evergarden - WOW what a gorgeous series.
Haikyuu - Volleyball anime. All sports anime is just by default goofy as fuck but I always find myself screaming like I’m at an actual game.
Seven deadly sins - It’s fine, honestly the hype builds it up but its just. Fine. Maybe I’m just bitter and traumatized tho
Sword art online/gun one - Also fine. It would have been much better without the sexual assault bits and the isekai bits, but its alright
Ouran high school host club - Where is the rest of the series?!
Fruits basket 2001/2019 - Already liking 2019 better, more plot?! More explanation? But also the creator is so straight it’s ridiculous pay no attention to her and make it gay.
Kuroko no basket - Basketball anime, also ridiculous
Blue exorcist - Its fine. Demon boys its ok
One punch man - Lives up to hype we need more but also its perfect the way it is.
Soul eater/Soul eater not!! - a CLASSIC. Needs a brotherhood makeover because they kinda fucked it up, but good!
Death note - I mean what more do you want.
Castlevania - Fantastic. I’m glad this hasnt been completely ruined for me.
Attack on Titan - The plot is good, just ignore the imperialistic view of the creator.
Black butler - I cant do it.
Beastars - I’M GONNA BE REAL furry anime is actually one of the best new anime I’ve seen in a VERY VERY long time. Music slaps, cute plot, deals with depression and anxiety very well. The sexual themes surprised me but they were very well done. The overall Kids Dealing With Trauma plot is fantastic
Magi - don’t rememeber much of it
FREE! + Eternal summer - Ok I love swimming anime its bad but its so cute and stupid.
2018 devilman crybaby - Fucked up. Well done, but I’m sensitive so I was a lil fucked up after.
Your lie in April - It was pretty.
Fullmetal alchemist/brotherhood - I can’t really watch it right now, but honestly should get an award forbest of all time.
The irregular at magic highschool - Boring tbh.
Fumofu - I’ve never seen Full Metal Panic and my friend made me watch this. I had no idea what was going on but it was funny.
Escaflowne - A classic I’ve meant to watch for a while and my GOD what a beautiful show.
Ruroni kenshin - Also good, also classic, don’t look at the creator.
Samurai champloo - Wonderful and fantastic as well. Samurai hip hop show.
Cowboy Bebop - What are you doing if you haven’t seen Cowboy Bebop?
Space dandy - an absolute wild ride.
Carole and Tuesday - A sweet show about girls and music.
Fairy tail - It was ok.
Little witch academia - Girl witches, also good.
Kill la kill - Would have been better if everyone involved wasnt a creep.
Anohana - If you need to cry and have time, watch anohana
Nura rise of the yokai clan - Boring
Sirius the jaegar - Silly title, but entertaining.
The devil is a parttimer - I loved the concept of this one, the execution was ok.
Rage of bahamut Genesis - I get hooked every time I try to get through this, but never finish it. Very beautiful tho.
Toradora - Cute
Yugioh - ???
Dragon drive - Cute but the anime designs did them dirty
.Hack legend of twilight - I don’t remember much of this
Digimon/tri - Its digimon
Black clover - Cute, but also like every other shonen anime.
Chobits - Manga Is better
Case closed/detective Conan - If you like mysteries and Sherlock Holmes, the best show for you. Also its been running since 1993 so its funny watching the technology rapidly change.
K - Cute and the music is fantastic
No. 6 - the plot was confusing, but good
Trigun - LOVE AND PEACE
Excel saga - I dont remember a lot of excel saga other than its quirky
Amagi brilliant park - Its fine
AQUARION - Everyone needs to experience Aquarion
Beyond the boundary - Cute!
Black lagoon - Very good if you like crime and violence
Blood c - Its Alright
Buso renkin - Magic sport?? I think? I dont remember
Zatch bell - Ridiculous
Code geass - Egomaniac goes crazy with power. Whats not to like
Corpse princess - Zombie fighting. It cool
D. Gray man - I need to actually finish this. It was good
Dance with Devil's - Also ridiculous. Demon dating musical.
Darker Than Black - Genuinely very very good
Dimension W - honestly i dont remember what this ones about but I remember liking it.
Edan of the East - global terrorism. Its great.
Fire force - not his best work, but its fine.
Food wars - Genuinely shocked by how good this was.
FLCL - Classic
Dragonauts the Resonance - I remember watching this but???
Erased - Another genuinely fantastic one. GRoundhog dayish, but tragic
GANGSTA - Good.
Gurren Lagann - Confusing but good.
Axis powers Hetalia - no
Gargantua the Verdurous Planet - it was cute
Haven't you heard? I'm Sakamoto - bonkers
Hellsing/ultimate - Alright
The heroic legend of arslan - its fine
Ranma ½ - read more of the manga, but its ok.
Pretear - the manga is better, but this was fine. Opening slapped. Biggest gripe is they changed one character’s design drastically for no reason???
7 ghost - bad, manga is better.
Wedding peach - manga is better
Saint tail - manga is better.
Ceres, celestial legend - this never got dubbed, but we bought a chinese copy and it was ok
Hero tails - ???
s-CRY-ed - the one instance where I say avoid the manga. Its basically two different plost
Azumanga daioh - Fun silly comic shows
Tokyo Babylon - ok this one is alright because its a two episode ova
X/1999 - I never finished it but they changed the ending.
Shaman king - Its good ol shonen
Prince of sTRIDE alternative - Silly parkour anime, really.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - a classic
Sakura Wars - Good, but I don’t remember a lot of it i watched it when I was ten
Mob psycho 100 - i couldnt watch more than one episode because the funimation app kept cutting out, but it was ok
Shin Sekai Yori - Fucked up
Psycho pass - Also fucked up, but great.
Paranoia Agent - fucked up, but also fantastic. The opening theme constantly gets stuck in my head
Spice and Wolf - sweet.
Sgt frog - weird and hilarious
DN angel - read more of the manga but also wtf.
Puella Magi madoka magika/record - good, but also why men shouldnt write magical girls.
Princess princess - I forgot about this anime entirely until i saw a picture and was like “ok I did see a few episodes. The manga is still better i dont understand why they mess with the character designs.
Bungo stray dogs - Its cute
Dance in the Vampire Bund - I watched a few episodes because vampire, but i dont remember
Deadman Wonderland - Very very good. Prison hunger games, really.
Endride - Gay crystals??
Eureka seven - I don’t remember a lot I just caught a few episodes on toonami. It was ok
Metabots - I don’t remember anything about metabots just that i was obsessed for a brief period
Galaxy Angel - I dont remember the plot just the baseball episodes and theyre pretty aliens?
Gunam Wing - I’m sure I’ve seen more Gundam, Its just mecha dragonball
Kaze no Stigma - I remember watching this but???
La Chivalier d'Eon - Fantastic and weird
RomeoxJuliet - I hate Romeo and Juliet as a play (I love shakespeare, but specifically the culture around RJ) but WOW i loved this anime
Michiko and Hatchin - I couldnt get passed a couple episodes I got way too sad. It was great tho
Nabari no ou - Ninjas??? I think??
Noragami - It was ok.
Panty and stocking - Honestly wacky and fantastic
Rideback - One of my personal favorites. Ballerina gets injured and ends up being the face of a rebellion. Its so good.
Servamp - It was ok. Vampires but like? Slaves? I didnt understand it
Strike witches - I went into this thinking it was so cute looking but its all just weird pedophile shit. I hate this and anyone who watches it.
Tokyo Ghoul - It was ok. Not worth the hype imo but it was good.
Trinity blood - Vampire religious?? I remember a few scenes from watching
Tenchi muyo - a classic.
Wolfs rain - also a classic. I rewatched it recently it was still very good.
Witch Hunter Robin - I dont remember much
Mushi Shi - also dont remember much but the art is good
Kumamiko - also adorable!!
Mongolian chop squad - I remember not watching a lot because I got uncomfortable.
Pop team epic - Hilarious
Princess jellyfish - Drag queen meets nerds. Its great
Sekai ichi hatsukoi - One of my friends said I reminded her of one of the characters and I don’t know how to feel about it still
Yuri on ice - I love winter sports and this is delightful. My sibling and I were SCREAMING
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - It was ok.
Shigurui - Really violent. Good but I as too young to prepare for it when I watched it
Seraph of the End - its ok. Vampires.
Snow White with the Red Hair - Beautiful and fantastic. Fantasy slice of life
The Ancient Magnus’s Bride - Also beautiful
Bobobobobobobo - ??????
Bakemonogatari - Cute but??
My Love Story - Delightful!!!
Gravitation - Unhealthy gays, good for its time but wildly like ????
Tsuritama - fishing??? Cute
Marchen Awakens Romance - read more of the manga but!! Fantastic!!
Hamtaro - little hamsters, big adventures
This is not even a full list, I just can’t look at this anymore.
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3, 10 and 15! :)
3. Do you have any favorite simblrs?
So many. I know I’ll miss almost all of them out and forever want to come back and edit this, so let’s say to start with that if I follow you you are one of my favourite simblrs. I always feel awkward about this sort of question because I’m definitely of the ‘here’s a participation award’ mindset rather than a ‘winner takes all’ person, and don’t like playing favourites.
I will mention a couple of people though, not because I think they’re better than anyone else, but just because I tend to perk up more when their names cross my dash (for some of them I don’t know why, maybe it’s just that their gameplay has something about it that floats my boat, idk). If I don’t mention you please don’t think it’s because I think you’re the absolute worst, because I don’t.
Like a lot of people, I have to mention @jenba, because her builds are of a consistent high quality and give me so much inspiration, and she’s a really nice person who’s always got time and patience to answer people. She doesn’t go anywhere near drama, which is always a huge tick in the ‘yay’ column for me (some of you are so messy).
@paper-lioness is a sweetheart, she made me a birthday gift once and that made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
@fake-sims posts always bring a smile to my face. I don’t play TS2, but if I did this is what I would aspire to. In fact, I wish I could be like fake-sims in TS4, but I simply don’t think anyone could be.
If anything could come close to how fake-sims makes me feel in TS4 it would have been @napoleonfrost, whose sims are absolute goals. I’m also really fond of @midpoosimmer-deactivated2019030‘s sims (deactivated, boo) because they walked that line between realism and being stylised really well. @alcearosea-sims‘ game always looks absolutely stunning and I could look at it all day. Who’s the person who does a bunch of retro stuff? Begins with an F? Gah. That person. In love.
There are a ton of cc makers whose stuff I admire and will follow until the ends of time, and you’ll know who they are if you ever have downloaded any of my lots and looked at the cc lists. I hope @brazenlotus continues to separate and liberate items from packs, because honestly it does the community a service. @peacemaker-ic gives us consistently excellent sets, and his build mode stuff in particular has been a lifesaver. @budgie2budgie has been giving us excellent maxis match stuff since the beginning of time, and I will never be without all that art.
There are many more, many many more, and I know I’ll think “OH I FORGOT X, Y AND Z” as soon as I hit post.
Edit: I forgot an important person: @suspiciouslypinklady because we bonded over some personal stuff and I owe her a message atm, and she’s been very sweet to me
10. What expansion pack are you hoping for next?
I don’t think I have a specific preference for an entire pack, only particular elements I’d like to see at some point. I was really excited by the Off The Grid stuff when they were polling for Laundry Day, because I think it would enable such rich storytelling opportunities, so I’d love to see that explored, and it would be timely considering the state of the world – lead the way, Sims team! Show us how to save the world!
Other than that it’s more little things that I’d like to see that would make life more interesting, particularly as a some-time builder (*glares in spiral staircase*). And of course, I’d like to see a return to larger worlds with more neighbourhoods.
15. What is your favorite Sim World?
It used to be Oasis Springs. I really love The Spice District. I also love the harbour in Brindleton Bay. I’m very fond of StrangerVille (it scratches an itch Oasis Springs didn’t quite manage), but it’s simply too small to have a permanent number 1 spot. I haven’t spent enough time in Del Sol Valley but I love the overall aesthetic of it, but again there’s not enough to it.
One reason I like The Spice District so much is the way it’s set out: it has that large public space in the centre, and it makes it feel like a more lived-in neighbourhood than the other more linear ones where people just walk from one end to the other. In The Spice District people stop and play basketball, they eat at the food stands, they listen to performers, they take part in protests… it just feels so much more real and vibrant. The rest of the game is sorely lacking in that regard.
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APMA’s - Part 1 (Chapter 27)
Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was probably one of the most beautiful buildings I had ever seen, but finally being inside and feeling the cool air conditioned air caress my heated skin was heaven on earth. The girls and I followed the guys as they made their way to the massive hall that would be holding the actual ceremony. Thirty tables, 15 on each side, lined the floor that was surrounded by levels of seats, where fans could view the awards. The front held the massive stage where all the bands would perform and the presenters would announce who won what.
“I need a drink,” I announced after sitting at our designated table. The nerves were hitting full force and I needed something that would calm them.
“It’s 5 Syd, maybe you should hold off,” Charlie laughed out, “at least until the show starts.”
It took everything in me not to flip her the bird as my leg bounced up and down. My nerves were shot and each passing second had my anxiety ratcheting up another notch. I watched as Andy and Juliet headed down the walkway separating the two rows of tables, taking a seat at the table directly across from us. From the corner of my eye I saw MGK collapsing at the table to our right with the rest of his group, followed by Papa Roach and his friends, all loud and slightly intoxicated. Why was I not with them?
Then I saw him cross in front of me and my breath froze in my lungs. The girls and Jared had done a great job of keeping him out of my line of sight the whole red carpet, but now? Now he was walking in front of me looking perfect. Shannon’s 5’9 frame was covered in a soft dark grey v-neck t-shirt with a black blazer rolled to his elbows. His legs enclosed in a pair of light blue ripped jeans and his favorite black shoes. The only blight on his appearance was the gorgeous brunette attached to his arm. She was stunning in her black dress and exoctic features that screamed Russian model. They looked flawless together and I wanted to throw something.
“Fuck it,” I breathed out, “I’m getting a drink.” I announced louder before standing up.
My abrupt movement caught Shannon’s eye making him stop his trek to the table to the left of ours.
“Sydney,” his voice was low, almost a whisper, before he cleared it and moved to stand in front of me, “you look beautiful tonight.”
“I-umm,” I started my voice cracking and stuttering before I backed away from him and his girlfriend, “excuse me.”
I’m sure I looked crazy or at the very least rude as fuck, but there was no way I could stand there and talk to him like nothing had happened. Finally, I stepped up to the bar ordering the strongest Jack & Coke I could, before leaning against the wood to wait for my drink.
“Drinking alone?” A familiar male voice asked. I cut my eyes down the bar meeting Kelly’s too blue gaze.
“Stalker much?” I retorted before the bartender handed me my drink.
“Oh come on,” he defended, starting his way down the bar to stand in front of me, “that was just rude, it’s a public area with alcohol.”
“You’re right, that was mean.” His boyish grin had me smiling back up at him, god this man was tall. “I apologize, it’s not been the best beginning to the night.”
“I’ll forgive you if you agree to let me buy you a drink at the after party.” His silver fangs glinted from the lights above and I felt a shiver run down my spine.
“Hmmm,” I pretended to think on it for a moment before clinking my glass against his, “deal.”
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I felt eyes on me, from honestly every direction, as Kelly escorted me back to my table. After thanking him, I finally sat down facing the girls. Their expressions ranging from B’s completely open curiosity to Charlie’s eyes rolling so hard I thought they’d fall out of her skull to Ace’s barely disguised disgust.
“What?” I finally snapped, each of their eyes growing wide at my outburst.
“Nothing, nothing,” Charlie started, hands raised in defense, “absolutely nothing.”
“Somehow I don’t believe you.” I sighed out.
Soon the lights faded, thankfully halting any more conversation about me and Kelly. The crowd of fans grew louder as Alex and Jack from All Time Low took the stage, beginning their hosting duties of the night. We laughed and cheered on Tyler Posey’s appearances. We sang and swayed to Chris Carrabba’s acoustic performance of Hands Down, before singing and dancing to the combined performance of Mayday Parade and The Main. My 90’s heart skyrocketed when Stephan James of 3rd Eye Blind joined the stage and started singing Jumper. The girls laughed at my enthusiasm as I sang at the top of my lungs, letting the tension of the last month leave my frame, to hell with all this drama. I was going to drink, have fun and enjoy the outcomes of the awards, consequences be damned.
Jack and Alex took to the stage once again, announcing Savannah, Oliver and Masato, three lead singers who were presenting the award for Best Vocalist. I felt myself move to the edge of my seat as I watched the nominees flash across the screen, joining the screaming fans as Kellin and Patrick’s faces and names joined the rest of the nominees. I glanced around the room, locking eyes with Kellin across the way, his face was lined with stress as we waited for Savannah to open the envelope. I gave him my most encouraging smile before we heard Oliver’s voice ring out over the PA announcing Patrick had won, Kellin grinned wide as we all stood and clapped for our close friend. The night proceeded from there, Yellowcard performed next and watching Vic perform with them was beyond amazing, his grin was infectious and you could tell he was on cloud nine.
After Best International Band was taken by You Me at Six, Spencer from Ice Nine Kills and Matt from From Ashes to New took the stage to announce the winner of Best Bassist. We all turned to B who looked as white as a ghost, which considering how pale she already was, was a feet in and of itself. Ace slid her hand over to grab B’s unoccupied hand as we watched the nominees being announced on the screen.
“And the winner is,” Spencer started slowly.
“Skylar Accord, Issues.” Matt finished.
Pete leaned over and kissed the top of B’s head as Ace slung her arm around her slender shoulders.
“You’ll get it next time B!” Charlie said with a encouraging smile.
“Guys, really it’s ok. He definitely deserved it. I’m honestly just honored to be nominated.” Brook laughed out.
I laughed with my sister as the waiter rounded our table again and I waved him down, the girls looked at me warily as I ordered my third drink of the night.
“Dude, it’s a party, I’m going to enjoy my night.” I argued as the waiter left.
“Just don’t overdue it is all, I know why, but just careful.” Jared countered from between me and Ace.
I rolled my eyes but nodded to appease him. Issues performed next, followed by Stitched Up At Heart presenting Best Live Band which we lost to Neck Deep, but let's be real here, we knew there was no way we were winning against them. Their stage presence was off the wall and we happily cheered as they took the stage to accept their much deserved award. Good Charlotte performed after taking home Classic Album for Young and the Hopeless, which made me feel about 20 x's too old. The next award was for Best Drummer and if I thought Brook was tense about her nomination, it was nothing compared to how Ace looked as her name slid across the screen as Matt from August Burns Red opened the envelope. Sadly it went to CC, but Ace grinned and clapped as we watched him stand from across the walkway and hug Andy.
“Okay, now I need a drink.” Ace announced as she leaned against Jared.
Her stress of possibly having to walk the stage alone was released as soon as CC’s name rang through the hall.
“About time!” I yelled, “now I won’t be the only getting ugly looks.”
The girls’ rolled their eyes before ordering their first round and my fourth, soon I was going to lose count. I watched Alex and Jake prepare the stage as Set It Off joined them to announce Best Music Video and I froze in my place, eyes jumping straight to Andy, who’s eyes were already on me. I know it’s awful, but all I could think was ‘please don’t win, please don’t win’ as clips of the nominees’ videos played on the big screen. I blushed as Andy’s video flashed across with a snippet of us rolling around on the hotel bed. Glancing across the room, I caught quite a few people looking between Andy and I, making me want the ground to swallow me whole as I caught Juliet’s murderous gaze. Something about her made the petty side of me rear it’s ugly head, causing me to shrug at her before raising my glass in a mock salute, draining the last of its contents.
Laughter to my right had me briefly looking over to Kelly, who grinned as he watched my little display of bitchiness. He raised his glass before copying my salute, his grin never faltering, at least someone was enjoying my level of pettiness over here.
“And the winner is Andy Black for Beyond My Reach,” Cody’s voice announced and my head snapped back to the front.
“Please tell me I misheard him?” I choked out.
“If you had been paying attention instead of eye flirting with blondie over there,” Ace started sarcastically, “you would know, that no, you didn’t mishear him.”
“Why is everyone on my case about who I talk to tonight,” I grumbled as I slammed back in my chair.
“We just think he’s a bad idea Syd.” Charlie joined in.
“They, they think he’s a bad idea.” Brook chirped, clarifying her stance, “I think you do what you need to do.”
I grinned at my baby sister as Andy started his ‘thank you’ speech, god please don’t thank me. Thankfully he wanted to keep his head tonight cause not one peep was made about me or my involvement in the video and I praised whatever holy being was looking down on me.
Chapter 28
#warped tour#warped tour story#shannon leto#shannon leto story#shannon leto imagine#jared leto#pete wentz#trevor wentworth#andy black#mgk
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Fic Request: After sleeping together for a few weeks without really discussing their "relationship" CC realizes her feelings for Niles are more than just sexual when he’s the first person she wants to call for help/advice/to vent when facing a personal situation. After dealing with it / talking about the issue with him she hesitantly/self-consciously tells him her realization even though she convinced herself he doesn't feel the same
Here we are, my friend! Sorry it took a little while, I have essay work that I’ve been doing, and all kinds of distractions have been going on around the house. Enjoy!
@missbabcocks1 @holomoriarty
The front door slamming behind her was more than a relief. Notenough of one, still, but far better than staying at the house where all the happinessand good times went to die. C.C. couldn’t believe the way her mother had actedall evening! Putting her down at every turn she could, for not finding a husbandyet? Making fun of her in front of all her aunts, uncles and cousins for havinga job that she loved instead of some sprawling estate? Dismissing her opinionson everything because how could she know anything, being just an unmarried producer?
With both her father and brother out of town and unable toattend the get-together, there’d been no buffer and C.C.’s patience had wornthin quickly. She hadn’t even bothered to think up an excuse as she’d left.
She’d just wanted to be home. Not that home felt that muchlike home. Her mother’s words kept echoing in her head as she made her way intothe living area, and it made the penthouse feel…empty.
An emptiness that shethought she knew just how to fill, as she picked up the phone and dialled inthe Sheffields’ number.
Luckily, it was exactly the man she wanted who picked up. Theman she hadn’t been able to get out of her head all the way home, thinkingabout how comfortable it would be in his arms, instead of a cold, silentapartment.
“Hello?”
“Hey, Niles. It’s me.”
Of course it was her. Who else would it be? Ugh, why did shehave to sound like such a teenager?! This was Niles – she knew how to talk to Niles!She’d seen Niles naked, for Pete’s sake! They hadn’t been fooling around forall of this time just for words to fail her when she really needed them!
And she really did need them right now…
“Miss Babcock?” the butler sounded concerned, down the otherend of the phone. “You don’t normally call so late…! Is everything alright?”
He was worried for her, which made her soften up a littleinside. She was feeling less lonely already, weirdly enough.
“Uh…yeah, I guess,” she seated herself on the sofa, pullingoff her shoes. “I just got back from my family reunion, and I kinda…felt liketalking.”
“Oh!” that answer surprised him, but he seemed happy enoughto continue. “Alright. How was it?”
“Horrible,” C.C. replied, leaning back with a sigh. “Though Isuppose that should be my standard answer with everything, where my mother’sconcerned.”
“Ah, the Head Witch of the Coven. What did she do?” Nilesasked.
The producer bit back a chuckle at his insult. He couldprobably tell from her voice that B.B. had upset her, and was trying to makeher feel a little better.
“What didn’t she do, is more like it,” she said, getting himready for what was sure to be a long story.
She told him everything, only stopping when he absolutelyhad to interject or object about the treatment she’d been subjected to thatnight. He had plenty to say about the way her mother had behaved, in particular.
It made C.C. laugh when he fired insults back at B.B. (evenin her absence). It made her feel comfortable, and she forgot about theloneliness she’d felt before.
It was impossible for her to feel alone, when she had Niles.
She wasn’t alone, when she was with Niles. And she wanted to bewith Niles.
Her epiphany was so sudden it caught her off-guard, and she’dblurted out her next sentence before she could stop herself.
“If the two of us turned up together, she’d definitely havea word or two to say about that!”
There was a pause after that.
“Us?” the uncertainty in Niles’ voice put knots in herstomach. “I thought that…well, I wasn’t going to ask because you seemed socertain, but I thought that you wanted to keep this whole thing as more of acasual arrangement?”
“Yeah. That’s what I thought at first, too,” C.C. saidquietly, shifting in her seat. “But I was wrong.”
“Miss Babcock…what are you saying?”
He sounded…not upset. Just confused.
But she was going to set him straight. What else could shedo? She was starting to feel like she’d explode if she didn’t tell him, even ifhe didn’t feel the same way. She didn’t blame him for that, though – she hadn’texactly been open with what she wanted.
But that was because she hadn’t been sure, and now she was,so she was going to do something about it. And she could only hope that hemight consider feeling the same way.
Taking in a deep breath, she began, “I missed you not beingthere with me tonight, and my first thought the minute I got back was to callyou. I’ve been…thinking about you, more and more recently. And not just thepositions we usually find ourselves in.”
Niles apparently listened intently, before sounding asthough his throat was dry, “How…do you see us?”
“Going to movies. Taking long walks in the park and goingshopping in the city. Curling up with a glass of wine by a nice fire at the endof the day,” she told him, a few tears forming in her eyes. “I…I want us to trydating, Niles. For real. Emotions attached and all. And I know it’s probablycrappy of me to spring this on you with a phone call, but honestly, I had toget it out. It’s been building up for too long, and I can’t ignore it anymore.”
There was another pause, during which C.C. held her breath.
She’d probably been an idiot to even think he might want totry, and she was about to hear it from the man himself.
“I’m coming over,” he eventually said gently. “I think thisis something best done in person.”
Well, at least he was enough of a gentleman to not want toend it all over the phone. But in the time it took for her to agree, for themto say goodbye and for her to put the phone down, her stomach had knotteditself over several more times and she’d taken to pacing.
How long would it take? What would they say? What would theydo about seeing each other around the mansion once they were done?
Maybe she’d just leave. Truly quit this time, to go and worksomewhere else. It’d be better than having to look at Niles every day, knowingwhat they’d almost had, if only she hadn’t been such a stupid, snobby bi-
A knock at her door interrupted that particular self-deprecationsession, and she steeled herself before she went to answer it.
What she found there threw her off completely; Niles,dressed in his best suit (his fancy pants, as she affectionately referred tothem), and clutching a bouquet of roses.
He offered her a small smile, “Hello.”
“Hi…” C.C. was stunned, and her eyes darted all over hisframe as she took it in. “What’s all of this…?”
Niles cocked his head to one side a little, and held theroses out more, “Well, when a man is dating a woman, isn’t it a custom for himto occasionally bring her flowers?”
They were beautiful flowers – deep red, with soft petals. Theproducer went to take them, but hesitated. She had to know for sure that he wassaying what she thought he’d just said.
“So…you do want to date?”
The emotions in Niles’ eyes were hard to read, there were somany – confusion, uncertainty…but happiness, too. And that was starting to overwhelmall the rest.
“Miss Babcock, I wanted to date you before you wanted todate me!” he exclaimed softly. “Even back when we were rivals, I wanted to dateyou! That whole…marriage proposal incident…it was me trying to let you know howI felt! How…”
It was his turn to steel himself, and he silently gesturedto come in, which she allowed. He set the roses down on the side, before takingher hands in his and continuing.
“How I still feel.”
“You do?” C.C. couldn’t keep her eyes on him, she had todrop her gaze to the floor. “I thought that after the argument, you might’ve…changedyour mind. Decided it was best we kept it physical.”
She felt Niles let go of one of her hands, and soon warm fingerswere tucking themselves underneath her chin to make her lift her head.
“I only stopped myself from asking you out properly becauseI was afraid that you wouldn’t like it,” he told her, eyes never leaving hersfor an instant. “I don’t just want your body, I want all of you. I want to goto the movies, and take walks in the park, and go shopping with you in thecity. I want to curl up by the fire with you at the end of the day, with aglass of wine in my hand. I want all of those things, Babs, and so much more! Ilo-”
It wasn’t the first time C.C. had thrown herself at himbefore she could stop, but this time it wasn’t due to a lack of thinking. Thistime, it was because she’d thought about it exactly the right amount.
And the kiss was just as fantastic as any other they’d evershared, or would ever share in the future.
When she pulled away for air (she decided when they weredone), she rested her head against his, and relished in just being held by him.
The relief was magnificent. So much more satisfying thanshutting herself away from the world after that disaster of a party.
And all the added bonus of the one person whose company sheenjoyed the most.
“Y’know, it is the end of the day,” she breathed, cuppinghis cheek. “And there is a bottle of wine in the kitchen…”
“I like the sound of that, very much,” he replied, smilingagain. “Did you want to get the glasses while I make the fire?”
C.C. thought about that aloud, “Hm…”
Niles pulled his head away a little to look at her, a hint ofan amused expression on his face.
“Now, are you pondering the decision, or are you trying todecide between a serving zinger or a caveman zinger?”
The producer smirked at him.
“You know me so well, Butler Boy!” she pecked him on thelips again, before releasing him. “I’ll get the wine.”
The butler grinned back at her, and set about making a firefor them to cuddle up in front of, while she poured out the drinks. There hadbeen a lot of booze at the family reunion, but between the lushes that shecalled her aunts and her mother’s watchful eye, she hadn’t managed to have morethan one glass.
Not that it mattered – this little party of two might have only hadone bottle of wine for both, but she already knew it would be an infinitelybetter time.
And she couldn’t help but chuckle to herself at what hermother would say when she turned up at the next family reunion, hand in handwith a butler that she didn’t intend to let go.
#anon asks#the nanny#niles and cc#niles the butler#cc babcock#otp: always been bitter together#otp: butler bitch
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In which Businessman Rants about Azmodan changes for your entire dashboard.
According to this, Azmodan’s trait ‘build’ is getting some changes.
To put it simply, Demonic Smite is now baked into the demon dude (that’s good!) but the 25% damage aura they generate is now a talent at level 13 (that’s bad). You might be asking “well isn’t that a fair 1 for 1 swap?” Not really, similarly to Zagara’s infest, the 25% damage aura would help increase pressure from minions, while the (marginally stronger) pushing power of smite is appreciated later in the game. At least now you get the EXP from killing blows during objectives. But this is small potatoes.
The biggest changes are:
Cooldown 30 secs -> 60 secs
Duration 30 secs -> 20 secs
Reminder that Demonic Smite triggers every 7 seconds.
Forced Recruitment Talent (10 seconds lower cooldown, 2 charges): Removed
So yeah, you better make those demon dudes count.
A lot more under the cut-
So, what are we getting out of this? If Zagara’s going from early game bully and split push monster to “no split push allowed” teamfight monster with clunky abilities not made for teamfights, how will Azmodan transistion from choosing whether to passively push from the safety of your team or actively push and help your team with globes?
And what do we do with Azmodan now? Well, you’re going to want to save your passively pushing trait until both teams are fighting over objectives (or, more accurately, just have it ready to use) so you can continue to push as you go in to join them, as the cooldown and lack of damage aura make spamming it in the solo lane fairly weaker.
As for the specifics, I’ll start with heroics...
Black pool has been neutered, no, sorry, tide of sin. No additional charges, 10 second longer cooldown, only 50% (down from 75%) damage bonus that applies to one globe alone (no auto attacks, none of your summons, not your laser, none of your minions which worked great in tandem with the demon 25% aura). Originally, the reworked version was just going to be a 90% boost for one globe, which still doesn’t compare to the versatility of the black pool, but which they had to cut because it was melting people. So, instead of a lower cooldown or any additional functionality, they “balanced” the cut in power by 50% with a free globe! On a heroic that costs 100 mana. And has a 10-second longer cooldown. And can’t save a charge for the team fight while using another to push a lane.
Here’s one of the most well known Azmodan player’s kneejerk reaction to the loss of the pool.
Demonic invasion, in contrast, is now marginally less trash, as the demons explode when they die, meaning using it in a teamfight has its uses, but its use for seiging got weaker because the gremlins will explode after 8 seconds have passed.
Onto basic abilities...
For your laser, you need to make it last the 2.5 second duration, as every talent that works with it, and the bonus damage that replaces the ramp up, occur if the spell lasts the full duration. So, as per usual, be wary of stuns and tracers. There’s also a talent that makes the channel last only 2 seconds, making it a staple for laser builds. The problem? It’s at level 13, which means it directly competes with the 25% damage aura. Cooldown’s also increased, and the mana cost remains the same (if you channeled the full 2.5 seconds. If you lose the channel, you’re spending more mana). Also, no more burning unattended towers until your mana runs out.
What do we do with our lesser demon bitch? Well, it comes with passive AoE, making it actually useful if you can get it in the middle of a lane. Unfortunately, the inability to store charges makes it less useful for bush checking, as well as skillshot tanking. You’ll want to use this AoE damage to set up globes to help stack your Q early in the game. It’s better than it was in the past, but in the past, it was hot garbage.
What do we do with our Q? Stack it, though thankfully, there are talents that can help stack, most notably the level 1 quests. I would say the globe is harder to hit now, and you wont be able to surprise that tracer walking away from you in a straight line because they’ll see it coming. If you’re not stacking, wait for CC to land. Here are the changes to the globe:
Warning splat is now created earlier in the ability cast.
Range decreased from 35 to 30.
Cast time reduced from .75 -> .5625 seconds.
Talents that increase travel time + cast speed, as well as the quest to increase the range of the globe, have been removed.
Maximum bonus damage is +400, double that of seiging wrath at max, but 100 less than the (rarely achieved) max of taste for blood.
To get that last 100 damage, you need Pride, a level 20 non-heroic talent. “After reaching 400 stacks of Annihilation, Globe Of Annihilation’s area is increased by 15% and its damage is increased by 100.” (this bonus damage will not apply to the auto attack build).
Auto attack build?
You heard me right. One look at the seiging monstrosity that is Azmodan and the first thing that comes to your mind is auto attack build. Because build diversity! Except not really. Because the auto attack boosts are tied to landing your Q in close range and your stacks.After looking over the reworked talents myself, I’m thinking that the newly added auto attack (Really a Q) build is the best option. And remember Zagara, the specialist dependant on auto attacks for CDR, and whose trait has synergy with autoattacks? Her auto attack talents are trash-
After taking it all in, I can say that I completely hate this rework. ...personally.
I never played Azmodan to stack Q, Thirst for Blood was a hassle to stack, to the point where I never used it. So, all the benefits the stacking build got? I’m only mildly impressed. While I loved using Zagara to actively splitpush, I loved Azmodan for his ability to passively splitpush, which is all but dead with the removal of forced recruitment, the removal of the damage aura until level 13 (which you can’t use with the laser build because you need the channel to be shorter, or you risk being stunned out of it, or your opponent just walking away) and the painful 60 second cooldown. What is it with Blizzard and making abilites have cooldowns that are far too long for what they do? You need 2 minutes (and the change from losing part of the CDR on auto attacks) to charge up half of what is neccessary for Nydus network now, because Blizzard wanted to make her a monster in teamfights, which they did too well, but they were too proud of their work to scrap the changes, and now Zagara has to be present for every teamfight to be optimal, but she can’t splitpush and warp back to the teamfight when it occurs because she would need 240 seconds worth of Nydus charges to do that.
But I’m digressing. In the video highlighting the Azmodan rework, they mentioned the problem with Azmodan. You picked an ability, and you stuck with it, and never used the alternate. Globe or laser (and laser only worked at low levels). And that was completely true. But now, every Azmodan build is a globe build. Sure, you can pick up the laser talents, but you’re still centered around getting them stacks and the majority of your damage is tied to the globe. Sure, you can pick up the auto attack build, but guess what, you need to land a globe to proc your bonus damage, once again, based off your stacks. Hell they took a versatile heroic ability and turned it into a shitty amp that only benefits the globe. The worst part? Blizzard says it wasn’t their intention to make Azmodan so focused on the globe.
“Yeah, Azmodan has honestly become Globe of Annihilation which was not ever the design for him... Black Pool was never designed to be a “dunk enhancer”, so to speak. It was supposed to be for him to really ramp up his minions and increase his siege potential. But, as the community often does, they took the design and built it to what they wanted it to be.” Except, right now, a lot of people in the community are proclaiming their hatred for this proposed update in unconstructive ways, like myself.
So now, instead of a heroic that can be used to either seige or do a huge chunk of damage, we have a hero based soley around dunks. And there’s the main issue. The character of Azmodan has changed. He could have the fucked up 60% winrate Zagara had after her scaling buffs, but if it meant I had to play him as a shitter K’T (either of em) I just wouldn’t. In the past, Zagara was running around as the active splitpusher, while Azmodan was passively pushing by seiging near his team, and Nazeebo had transistioned from minion farming to becoming a monster in teamfights. Now all three of these heroes are Nazeebo (except Nazeebo gets to keep his decent heroics).
And, I will admit, landing clutch dunks feels great, fuck that one tracer I still remember it you laser juking arse.
But Blizzard’s gotten tunnel vision with this reword, and if there’s one thing you don’t want as Azmodan, it’s tunnel vision.
#Azmodan#Heroes of the Storm#Blizzard#Proposed Rework#The List#I decided to put it under a tasteful read more
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71 hours later – A Mass Effect: Andromeda critique
Et voilà! Since March 21, 2017, I’ve passed 71 hours in the Andromeda galaxy. Hated the first hour, because the Character Creator (CC) couldn’t or wouldn’t give me what I wanted. But as soon as I started the game with the default Sara Ryder, I could truly appreciate (and frown at) Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Here is a critique of the game. Let’s see what you scored, Andromeda!
I tried to make this review as spoiler free as possible. Hopefully, you won’t be spoiled. Fingers crossed!
The Game Engine
1. The Design - 9/10
All things considered, ME: A is a beautiful video game. The hardcore Sci-Fi fan in me is in bliss. All the planets are stunning; the ones you can land on and the ones you can scan only. The galaxy map and the travelling between stars and systems is pure delight. The attention was put in the details. The ships, the technology, the clothes, the outposts… Everything screamed Mass Effect to me. The Tempest is very sweet to travel in. And yes, the Nomad too. It resisted better to my bad driving than the Mako!
The design of the characters and most NPCs is on point. The turians and salarians look even more alien than in the previous games of the franchise. The asari bother me a bit, though. They all look alike, except for facial marking and skin color… And for PeeBee and T’Perro, both in the Tempest crew. I expected more diversity among the asari. For the rest, no major concern.
The visual of ME: A is a feast for the eyes, and even more since the release of the patch 1.05 (the character’s eyes are much better and the general coloring of the game too). My computer is old, I played in medium quality (in low quality, my eyes were crying because of the lack of details), and I can’t imagine how amazing it is in high and ultra high settings.
2. The Animation - 8/10
There were a LOT of complaints when the game came out. The animation was, to certain people, a complete disgrace. Honestly… I don’t get it. Fine, the animation is not perfect. But that bad? Come on! Some eyes or mouth movements were a bit weird, same for a couple of body movements and overall animation mechanics; LIKE IN EVERY FREAKING VIDEO GAME I EVER PLAYED. I don’t get the « animation rant ». Sure, Bioware will have to patch a couple of things, but in general, it’s quite playable as it is.
3. The Dialogs - 7/10
I liked the four dialogs options for Ryder. It gave enough versatility to the conversations and I think it’s a nice way to customize your character.
My game had some bad times with dialog synchronization, though. Sometimes, the background conversations would suddenly shut up for no reason; or two dialogs would embark on one another, making a real cacophony in my headphones. And fuck, SAM, stop telling me every 2 minutes, that I have new email… WHEN I DON’T HAVE SOME. So annoying.
4. The Sound Effects, Ambient Sounds and Soundtrack - 10/10
I think it’s one of the elements I prefer in Andromeda. Ship sounds, guns firing, the galaxy map, the scanners… Simply amazing and exactly what I expected. The new soundtrack feels even more cinematic than the Trilogy ones. We hear the resemblance, but it’s just enough to make us smile and want to travel more in Andromeda.
Bioware, you did extremely well on that one.
5. Combat Mechanics - 8/10
Three words: fun, versatile… complicated.
You can basically build your own combat specialist in ME: A, and it’s great. The thing is: I had to lower the difficulty for my first playthrough, because I was overwhelmed by the new fighting system. Combos, 50+ buttons to press on the controller, and all the other combat gear and perks hidden somewhere in the menus. It’s fun, lots of fun, spectacular, but a bit difficult to get around at first. In fact, after 71 hours in Andromeda, I feel like I don’t get the fighting system at all. Need to play again to comprehend it more.
A New Beginning
1. The Story - 7/10
Andromeda is clearly the first game of a new trilogy. Or, at least, there will be a sequel. The end of the game screams at you «THERE WILL BE A FOLLOW UP, GUYS». I’m still deaf from an ear.
The story is good (would not say extraordinary, though), and it leaves you with so many questions. I won’t make a list of the questions I have, because I don’t want to spoil anyone.
The Andromeda storyline was obviously built to pick the curiosity of the players and create a hype for a sequel or other promotional material (novels, comics, DLC). I must admit I had a moment of «That’s it? » at the end. Still, a part of me likes the wide opening.
I’ll be watching out for DLCs, books (already reading Nexus: Uprising), comics and other side stuff; which is a bit frustrating, because it cost a lot of money. But hey… That’s how Bioware/EA works. Not going to change. Must roll with it.
2. The Characters - 8/10
I could write a thesis on this topic, so I’ll be brief, and I’ll stick to the Tempest crew.
I love the characters. The Ryders have enough uncertainty and mystery around them to be interesting and I like the fact that your character, Sis or BroRyder, is inexperienced. It makes a distinct separation with Shepard.
The Tempest crew is nice. It doesn’t feel like it’s the same crew as on the Normandy. Vetra and Drack are the best squad mates; my favorites by far. Cora doesn’t annoy me. I get her; her sense of duty, her insecurities, her asari training who helps her focus. Jaal is sweet and emotional. PeeBee is a Liara on speed and I like how awkward she can be. T’Perro… I just want to marry her. Gosh, I love that doctor. Suvi is so sweet, curious and intelligent. I just want to hang out with her and eat her weird experiments. Kallo is skilled, yet so stuck up. He’s adorkable. Gill and Liam… They’re cool, but I must say they’re the two characters in the crew that don’t bring any reaction from me. I’m… indifferent. What I’m certain of: I want to get to know them better, so I can appreciate these two guys as much as the rest of the crew. I changed my mind about Kaidan Alenko, thanks to the fandom. I certainly can change my mind for Liam and Gill.
3. The Romances - 5/10
Ok. Bioware. *sigh* We need to talk.
I’m SO disappointed. And being disappointed romantically SUCKS.
I expected SO MUCH from the romances. Honestly, I wasn’t tempted by ANY of the romance options and Sara ended up with Reyes… Because her one true love, Lexi T’Perro, is not a romantic option (I’m still crying; Sara too). The sex is a subtext. Come on! And the Kerri date… FUCK. Can’t say more, don’t want to spoil. But... SO DISAPOINTING.
I’ll go on YouTube and watch all the romances, see if one is to my liking. Still, you’re not getting a high note on that one, Bioware.
4. Main Quests & Side Quests - 8/10
Lots of quests, but none that really annoyed me. They’re nicely integrated into the storyline. At the end, though, I was a bit tired of side quests popping every 5 seconds. What I liked is that the quest system makes Ryder be a pathfinder. For real. Stuff to do for your crew, the arks, the Nexus, the outposts. It represented well the extend of Ryder’s job.
My game has a lot of bugs in the quest system, though. I currently have around 10 quests (mostly additional assignments) that I can’t finish. Maybe a patch to help?
5. Hints to the Trilogy - 10/10
One word. P.E.R.F.E.C.T.
Really.
Not too much, not completely absent. Well placed, nicely explained or integrated into the storyline. Surprises, smiles, feels, joy… Only perfection.
Thank you. The fan in me is satisfied to the core on this point.
So, what did you score, Mass Effect: Andromeda?
80%.
Well, this isn’t bad! Because no, 80% doesn’t mean Andromeda is complete shit. It means 80% of the game is great, 20% not so much.
And you know what? It’s normal. It’s normal for a video game, or anything in life, to be imperfect. If it was 100%, there would be no place for headcanons or fanfictions or fanart. Where is the fun in that?
I’m also confident that the next patch, the DLCs and the side stuff will help Andromeda get better and better. Plus, if I recall my own Mass Effect experience, the Trilogy is not perfect either. It’s the whole games, side stuff and fandom that makes it amazing.
Now that my first playthrough of Andromeda is done, I want more; need more. I need more Mass Effect in my veins. That’s why all I want to do now is get along with my post-ME3 fanfic; and start a second playthrough of ME: A.
Next Ryder, here I come! Oh, and… I should try the multiplayer. Right?
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