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#citizen sleeper#My Life as a Gormless Wage Slave Robot#the last problem is really “I am a dumbass” because the quest progression was literally right there and I somehow never noticed
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god i am obsessed eith the tonal shift between ahlf life 1 and 2 in regard to the sense of success at ur accomplisments
in 1, nothing you do ever gives u a sense of success or accomplishment, u killed people, u killed aleins but u have so much more to do. its an empty feeling, oh u killed the tentacles? cool go down the hole, dog urself deeper into this mess. oh you killed the gargantua and turned on the railway? go down deeper into the water and blood deeper into the bowels of the beast you created of the facility. you kill the nihilanth and u look up at the fireworks knoeing you are going to die, you cannot escape the explosion and the mess youve created. ur pulled from the mess and you are told you have guranteed urself a future of killing and endless battles or a battle u can never win. mothing you do matter none of it is worth anything. you are cold and alone and soaked in blood and people are only getting more scared
but in 2 the mood shifts, the smallest battles give people hope for a future. you can kill even a few soldiers and even if you do have to go deeper, the people around you cheer, if only for a moment, theyre alive and breathing and so are you. so many things yo do youre asked to do them again and again and each time these people are excited, thwyre grasping for a semblance of hope til thwir nails bleed and they cheer becuz they are alive and in the sun and watching their breath freeze as they cheer in the cold air of the mountains. the grass is green and growing and its more life than uve seen since before you moved to the middle of a desert to work in a concrete prison far from the warmth of the sun where it bakes all that it touches.
do you think gordon feels the happiness of the rebels? feels a sense of accomolishment in even the smallest thing he does? is he satisfied or fullfilled for helpjng these people? can he feel the sun warm the skin of his face and the bite of eastern european chill on his nose the way the rebels do? does he relish in that he is alive still? is he coming back? or do you think he still feels dull as he sinks deeper and deeper into the recesses of his mind and the concrete cage of balck mesa where his old life died?
#judt thinking about how often citizens and rebels in half life 2 cheer at wven pulling down a sign ir killing a robot#and how joyous and gleeful they sound at the smallest accomplisment#compared to how the guards and scientists get more and more grim the longer the game goes on in half life 1#things get worse and worse in both games in the forces they face but the world seems brighter in 2#maybe its becuz things in hl1 can only get worse when ur in the middle of losing ur way of life#vs things can only get better when uve got nothing to lose and every small win is more than uve had for the last 20 years#but its still just so beautiful and tangible#and i love to think about how gordon fits into it all#hes a relic of a different time a different battle where nothing he did mattered#the whole time was a battle against a derivative of nihilism a foreshadow of torment to come from the combine#and he coukdnt win that battle withiur self destructung#is it a sign of whats to come#has he changed? will he change? cna he survuve or is he stuck in a loop of the same battle over and over again#killing himself with everylife he takes as punishment for dooming hjmanity#iwillspeakincessantly#sorry#thinking
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A pixel art mock up loosely based on one of my favourite games of all time, citizen sleeper.
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What about the crew members?
I cannot get over this line from the black trailer for a few reasons:
1. This is a world where there's fully functional soldier robots and AI. Why is the train manned by people in the first place? Jacques clearly motivated by money, so the less people he has to pay the better
2. We never see these supposed crew members, so there's no chance of having a visceral reaction to either their safety or demise. The only SDC workers we ever see iirc are the ones from the Adam short who smirk after throwing a smoke bomb. If we were meant to sympathize with them, it would've been better to make them shaking and scared because they're maintenance engineers instead of security (because having two types of security is expensive and stupid)
3. The SDC is enslaving and branding people, and everyone not fighting it is complicit. Blake has rescued Faunus from literal cages in SDC factories and has seen Adam's face, so she knows this intimately. Why does she care if a few accessories to slavery get blown up? Does she care more for complacent humans than suffering Faunus?
What about the crew members? Fuck em, that's what
#rwde#we have no idea where all the combat robots and dust were going too#they could have been going to the schools just as easily as local law enforcement or a private citizen with an agenda#there's no way to gauge how necessary this mission was bc there's LITERALLY NO INFO ON IT#and considering its a cargo train im guessing its currently manned by like. 4 people max#tragic for them but in the grand scheme of things theyre unimportant#and fictional so whatever#anyway thanks hbomb for kicking my depression^2 hard enough to let me get back into essay mode#i swear im working on it#life is just kicking me in the balls rn
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A moodboard gift for @citizenoftmrrwlnd with themes of Tomorrowland, space, and vintage futurism!
A gift for Astro, who is a fantastic person and has wonderful kincare blog. Co is who inspired me and Mod Scar to make our own kincare blog, and co is just an all around lovely person from what we’ve seen of com blog!
Thank you Astro for being such an inspiration and for helping so many people!
#🪶falling feathers ~mod grian#🏜️sand delivery ~gifts#tomorrowland kin#tomorrowland citizen kin#robot kin
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Hewwo guys! Perhaps some of you think that I don't care about the Unigang and the Unikingdom citizens, but I don't, because I have a couple of original characters, and I also developed some existing characters in the show.
Rexflex (Dino Dude and Kickflip's son) and Fleur (Flamurtle and Owlamander's daughter).
They are young stuntmen and like to compete in a friendly way, but Fleur is much more aggressive and sometimes envies those who are younger than her, but everyone adores her and really wants to be friends.
Dylan and Teresa (Ted Butter's kids)
They are teenage twins who talk normally, unlike their father (who deliberately quacks at everyone, and does not talk), go to high school, like different jokes and dye their hair in the colors of their favorite characters. They may seem toxic, but they actually want a little attention.
Older Nostromoo, Lil Bean and "Jenny" (original Unikitty! characters)
Guys who are somewhere 7-8 younger than Unikitty, but also managed to interact with fankids.
Nostromoo is the same age as Lil Bean, identifies himself as a nonbinary with the pronouns it/they and geek, is good at physics and likes a series of films about "Alien" and "The Predator".
Lil Bean is a cool guy and an awesome bass guitarist who has the nickname L0Я4 and they say that he wants to free the Cult of Stickers, and so unsuccessfully. Likes to eat and watch movies, and also doesn't like to lose.
"Jenny" (Robot Kid) is older than them, but this is not a reason not to communicate. A little older, she decided to work as a waiter and for this she attracted attention in various ways. She loves listening to music, fast food and roller skating, her favorite animated series is the one where MC (main character) is also a robot and she is her namesake. Good engineering skills, but they don't always come in handy.
And, good gals and friends
Oldstyle (Old Timey Moustache Guy's daughter) and Croissant (Toaster, Toast and Bagel's relative)
Oldstyle works for Father Time, but cannot pass on the rights to operate her personal Time Machine, but soon she finds out that her versions from the future have already traveled through time, so she does not lose heart and trains. Croissant is originally from France and she likes to stretch out their family "Ooooh" as "Oooooh-la-la".
That's all characters now. See you more later! Bye!
#unikitty#unikitty au#master jacob au#unikitty oc#unikitty!#unikingdom fankids#unikingdom citizens#dino dude x kickflip's fanchild#flamurtle x owlamander's fanchild#unikitty lil bean#unikitty nostromoo#unikitty robot kid
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Citizen Sleeper
What if Disco Elysium, but in space, and you're an escaped robot instead of a cop?
I just got finished binging through Citizen Sleeper again to play the free DLC stories, and wanted to recommend it here because I think it deserves more love. It's a narrative video game that I think would really appeal to a lot of you - Disco Elysium is a good touchstone, I think, in that it's very much about game mechanical interactions revealing the story, being a stranger in a fascinating and complicated place, questions of identity and belonging, and different forms of struggling communities trying to exist together.
More ramblings about why you should play this below
So first off, it's relatively short - six to eight hours, so it's easy to get the whole story. Mechanically, you're getting a number of dice each 'day' to put into activities, and getting a bit of story back with the results. One of the major themes of the narrative is chronic illness/disability; your robot body is slowly (intentionally) falling apart, and so not only do you have to get money to eat each day, but you have to constantly source the medicine you need to keep yourself together - if you don't, your condition degrades and you have fewer and fewer dice to work with. But this also eats into the time you have for understanding the space station you're on, and making the connections with other people that will get you better opportunities and support when you have a day where all your dice are low and nothing is going to go right. It's a frustrating spiral that will feel very realistic to anyone who's trying to live with a chronic condition. (Although, because it's a game, there's some good hidden tricks it uses to make it feel frustrating without actually locking you out of progress.)
The other characters that you meet in the world are good; there are some longer storylines where you get to know them over the course of events, but also some of my favorites are the ones you see only briefly, but repeatedly - the mushroom seller that kept me fed, the barkeep at the place that I could reliably pick up tips, the stray cat outside the apartment you gradually put together for yourself... you don't have a constant companion, and the game doesn't provide romantic opportunities (because you're a robot? because you're a stranger passing through? because there's only so much writing they could put in?) but there's still some good connections to be made, queer and disabled bodies are everywhere, and if I had one regret for the game, it's that there weren't more ways to spend time with people once their arc of the story had 'closed' but the game was moving on.
And then there's the story itself, about an exploited and abandoned space station, and the ways people try to survive - by exploiting others in turn, by trying to protect themselves and what they have, by escaping to new communities, or just trying to get through the day. It is very much a story that believes the only way we'll make it is by helping each other, but also it's realistic about the obstacles in the way of that. It's very good, and I love the way all the choices you have to make are reflected back by the characters around you.
Anyway yeah, go play Citizen Sleeper - there's a set of free story expansions that came out too, so if you went through when it originally came out, there's a bunch of new fun stuff for you to look for as well! (I do wish some of the systems made more of a reappearance, but also, game design is hard. :)
#Citizen Sleeper#games#recommendations#reviews#Disco Elysium#robots#bodies in scifi#disability#just good stuff
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Yknow i often think about the eroticism and bliss that would come from forsaking my mortal flesh and becoming machine or if i was assimilated into an esoteric and nebulous state of being
yeah that'd be rad
but every time i think that 'being human sucks' i stop myself and correct myself. being human is pretty awesome. being a humanoid fungal monster of the void would be beautiful and freeing and euphirc but
i often think about that one scene in citizen sleeper
where you're given the option to ascend to that pure digital state or leave it all behind in return for a dying body that constantly sucks or isnt working right. how being able to feel someone squeeze your hand as you woke up back to the land of the living was a reminder. that there is worth in the stupid sucky bodies we have. the taste of stew and the friends you made along the way. that scene made me cry.
anyways my tits are sore but having them fudgin rocks <3
#so yeah i prefer eroticism of the flesh#ovee eroticism of the machine#living breathing bleeding beauty#though technically you are a robot in citizen sleeper so#yeah just eroticism of the material <3#citizen sleeper#eepy#im tired#and emotional
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fashion for : a citizen of tomorrowland metropolis (disney world) with cyber, techwear, and shiny/glowy items in an androgynous style inspired by retrofuturism
not a request, just me being self-indulgent
bodysuit | bag | boots | jacket
gloves | choker + pendant | belt | goggles
#💫for me#💫fashion#💫red line | skipping the queue#💫astro chatter: if you reblog please don't tag as me perhaps? unless you are ALSO a citizen in which case hello!#disneykin#disney kin#disney parks kin#tomorrowlandkin#tomorrowland kin#theme park kin#alienkin#alien kin#spacekin#space kin#cometkin#comet kin#android kin#androidkin#robotkin#robot kin#💫wishing on a star | favorites
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God blizzard political lore has the worsssst depictions/analogies of literally any type of conflict or oppression ever. Like you can’t even try to have a nuanced discussion about a single characters ideology (let alone a group of them) because the entire thing is too much of a mess
#like I can’t even begin get into ramattra’s like ‘beliefs’ in the overwatch universe like holy shit I wish blizz would hit the reset button#on ALL lore and have someone rework the same general character ideas into a world that isn’t… what it is#‘these robots are an oppressed group of second class citizens and how they’re treated is wrong’#while also going ‘these robots are also enemies and active terrorists that you’re supposed to fight’#I hate blizzard for a lot of things but holy shit their writing is atrocious#overwatch is the first blizz game I’ve ever played but afaik this is how all of their writing is#blizzard. hire me. I’m not a writer but if you give me a reset button I can fix this. sorta.#c talks
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i need more robot media. i need to fill my mind with funny robots. but only if its good..
#i want stuff that thinks about robots the same way i thibk about robots#which is not 'oh my god. what if cold heatless machine took over the world!'#or 'oh my god. what if cold heartless machine learned how to love.. and its soo crazy and has no personality'#robots are more than thatt to ME#but the only robot stuff that ive really been into has been portal and citizen sleeper#i need moreee i need food
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Scars are something you have learned to value. They are what marks out your body from the hundreds (maybe thousands, who knows?) or similar models that rolled out of Essen-Arp's biolabs. You find yourself rubbing one on your forearm, a rough little split, something that on the good days you might think of as a mark of defiance.
#citizen sleeper#is it repetitive to draw these robots over and over?#Citizen Sleeper: hey there are like a thousand of them#Me: Cool I am gonna stick them together in one picture then#3 of the 10 that tried to escape#The Sleeper's little blurbs of life at Essen-Arp fuck me up#like the one about the sleeper who is like just lets go of the asteroid and disappears into the void#my guy (gender neutral) that's a really heavy story to share over mushroom soup!!!#YOU NEED A HUG#does Essen-Arp give them chairs#IDK I don't wanna draw chairs
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Stellaris: Your people have completed the transition into robotic bodies.
Me: yay!
Stellaris: they are now free of aging, pain, and disease.
Me: yay!
Stellaris: also, you can now create "virtual worlds" that specialize in research, trade, and unity.
Me: yay!
Stellaris: on these worlds, you can commodify people, effectively killing them and leaving a deposit worth 8 trade value.
Me: ya-oh...
#stellaris#this is modded btw#empire of sildoria is the name#and industry is the game#the worst part is my robots can build very fast so this might be a viable strat#i am essential minting peoples souls into nfts#and to think this all started with a lost human colony ship colonizing a stable gas giant#become hardened and almost cruel in their fight for survival#they wanted to give their citizens a good life but even a stable gas giant is an unforgiving environment#so they set out to find resources in the stars to assist them#and they found they had been twisted into something that only knew how to survive and take
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oh no
the facade of mental health i've built over the past year from vicariously living through fictional characters
it's broken
#ya boy may or may not have realized that they have a very unhealthy attatchment style#so im going to try to work on more original stuff#i will still probably thirst over senior citizen robots#but like#im actually obsessed#clinically#and i need to take a break#fiction lag#is a bitch#and something i am ESPECIALLY prone to#it's the tism#it's the tts thing all over again smh
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Are they related or is it a coincidence?
#Jerry#unikitty show#unikitty!#unikitty#unikitty robot kid#unikingdom citizen#and this gal IRL can be related!#same color palette#were shown in one episode!#we need know it#crewnikitty gimme answer!#or Careen Ingle please!!!!
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Hro. Sweet being the phantom who had lost her humanity to Hlr. Steel being the android who had gained his humanity just before they became an Antigod ( that had made them feel more lost than ever as their status of who and what they are )... Hro. Sweet and Hlr. Steel being in this cycle of, respectively, haunting and hunting ( the violence towards self vs. violence towards others ) that they were able to break themselves free from before they became an Antigod... Hro. Sweet and Hlr. Steel being made by humanity yet humanity can't fully control either of them, and now that they're an Antigod, they're even stronger that shows even the Narrative can't control both of them...
#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ THOUGHTS. ›#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ SWEET . ›#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ ONCEHAUNTED . ›#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ STEEL . ›#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ ONCEHUNTED. ›#[ ✨ : in this essay we will write about how ghosts and robots are basically the same--- ]#[ whew okay brain go brrrrrrrr over them ]#[ St. Sweet and St. Steel are part of one of the Hierotrinities with Micah / St. Cry as they're part of the Gen. 12 Saints ]#[ working for the Break Beyond of Force ]#[ Hro. is Hero and Hlr. is Healer while Hnt. is Hunter ]#[ GOD we can talk about why ]#[ Sweet being a Hero ( saving citizens from Metaeide and leading their respective Hierotrinity ) ]#[ and Steel being a Healer ( healing both citizens their hiero partners ) are so important and meaningful ]#[ all day long ]#[ but basically these roles let them be even more free from the violence they held and endured for so long ]#[ let them be reminded that they are so much more than the pain and violence they had pre Antigod evolution ]#[ whew whew whew okay ]#[ STARS we fucking love Sweet and Steel so much they deserve only the best for fucking REAL ]#[ Micah / the Starwake System loves them so much too they'd do anything for 'em <33333 ]
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