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Today in blaxploitation / action-thriller movie history: on April 6, 2008 Three the Hard Way was screened at that Night Visions Film Festival.

Ed Sanders/ Robert Crumb  OZ Magazine 1972

NORMAN DEC 25 1968 IM LOOKING FOR A KIND WOMAN WITH A HEART OF GOLD AND GOOD TO ALL PEOPLE WITH A JOB SOMEONE TO TAKE CARE OF ME AND KNOW HOW TO READ AND LISTEN TO ME AND KEEP HER MOUTH SHUT OK WE ARE FROM YELLOWSTORE RIVER THE BLACK CROW INDIAN NATION YES IT WAS HARD LIVING THERE BEING HAFE WHITE WITH A BAD HEART BUT IT MAKE ME STRONG I LEARN HOW TO FIGHT THEIR WAY OK MY FAMILY HOME BURN DOWN LAST YEAR SO I TOOK THEM IN WITH ME I WORK FOR MY UNCLE JUDO SCHOOL IT A LITTLE SCHOOL THE MONEY SUCK JUST A ENOUGH TO PAY THE BILLS IM SO TIRED OF GOLDIGGER ASKING ME FOR STUFF ALL THE TIME GET A JOB YOU BUMS OK FOR I GIVE YOU A RKO OK I LIKE THE WWE WRESTLING SHOW AND LUCH UNDERGROUND WRESTLING SHOW AND GOOD FOOD MY ATTITUDE IS LIKE WWE RANDY ORTON BUT FOR REAL OK LIKE I SAID MY FAMILY WILL COME FIRST NOT YOU THAT HOW I FEEL IN MY HEART SO IF YOU LIKE TO MEET ME IN PERSON YOU PAY YOUR OWN WAY I WILL NOT OK FROM NORMAN DAGUE OF INTERLACHEN FLORIDA 32148 [email protected] DO NOT GO IF YOU DO NOT LIVE IN MY TOWN

Time to go over the part of the AU that I've been avoiding - Octo Expansion!

I've mostly just wanted to set up more of the AU before talking about it but I'm so excited about it I can't keep it in any longer!

Okay, so it starts off with octarians going missing - not the normal amount (aka the deserters who hear the calamari inkantation) - but like entire platoons are going out and not coming back.  At first the Octarians think it's the Crabs, but... because of the short time the Octarians had the zapfish they were able to push against the crabs fairly well and the places the platoons are disappearing aren't anywhere close to where they'd pushed the crabs. At first, DBK hid the fact that octolings disappeared at all, but with so many going missing in such short amounts of time now it's difficult to ignore. Red son, not being one to simply just ignore his people going missing, plans to go investigate on his own after his parents refused to let him send out a search and rescue mission for the missing octarians.

So Red son goes to play detective and actually makes some head way in his findings...only to hear this weird tune (a phone tune perhaps?). That's weird it doesn't sound like the music that normally plays in the underground. He shouldn't of let that song distract him because next thing he knows he's been attacked and the world around him disappears.

Red son doesn't remember anything really when he wakes up. Well sure he remembers his life as an octarian but....how did he get in this place? it's undeerground but now the same underground he knows... where are his shades? everything's blurry - at least he brought his back up glasses, though they're not as cool as his shades he's supposed to be wearing - and who's this stupid cloaked figure prodding at him anyways? Red son may not know whats going on but he plans to find out, starting with demanding answers from this weirdo that poked him with that mangy stick. so welcome to Red son's redemption arc everybody! yup, octo expansion is Red's redemption arc and it is so very fun :)

So of course we know the hooded stranger is Macaque. He found Red son passed out in the metro and ended up bringing him to the metro platofrm, where they both meet the phone. They both find the phone rather...annoying but if it says that there's a way out then Red son isn't complaining. except when he finds out there's over 80 tests he has to get through first...then he starts complaining. Macaque isn't much of a help either. He explains how no ones ever gotten out so doing the tests and getting his hopes up is a waste of time. so, out of spite and the need to prove Macaque wrong, Red decides to go through with the tests.

And then it's pretty much Octo expansions story from there - Except y'know how in the game Marina and Pearl get into contact with agent 8? Well,,,since the idols are Yin and Jin this go around - you can see how they'd fit into octo expansion :) Is it obvious I want this villain team up to happen? because I REALLY REALLY DO.

Now a little lightning round of fun facts:

Macaque and Red are supposed to be paralleling Wukong and MK in this AU so they get a fun little mentor/student relationship going too.

Yin and Jin don't really do a lot tech wise but they give tips to Red when they can. Red set up a link between their laptop and the CQ-80 so they know whats going on.

There is no Agent 3 in this AU so instead of Agent 3 breaking the blender, it's Macaque. The story shifts in that The phone (LBD) ony wants octarians and since Macaque didn't complete the test and isn't an octarian he gets left out of the blender.  He soon realizing what the blender is tho and ends up breaking it in an attempt to stop Red from getting blended. He basically throws his staff and knocked the phone off the top, which in turn also causes the glass above to break for their escape.

again, because there's no agent 3 that means there's no agent 3 boss battle. (but maybe something else...I’m still deciding the route i wanna go with this one)

Yes, Macaque, Red son, yin, and Jin all team up to save the world! LBD ends up leaving the phone and possessing a random Octoling in which she uses to get to the statue and boot it up. Red comes up with the plan on how to stop it.

Yes the plan does play out the same as in octo expansion - but in this AU i like to think the twins can merge their attacks together to make them stronger. So in this version the twins both have killer wail specials that they end up merging to send the final blow to the statue.

In this AU when the statue is destroyed, LBD actually gets away and goes back underground...I mean she still has all those sanitized octolings she cant let them go to waste. besides, she's pretty sure she knows someone down there who would be a good help.

And that’s what I got so far! I’ll probably add more to this post if things change. sorry if this is a little all over the place - I tried my best to condense it so I wouldn’t end up writing an entire fanfiction in one post haha!! If anything is confusing I can try my best to answer questions or explain more.

the legends playing minecraft

Bangalore: plays hardcore survival. Dies a lot and has to start over, goes to the nether. Fights every enderman, zombie, and drowned in a 300 ft radius

Octane: plays survival just to create a giant map-wide dick. Intentionally blows up creepers, accidentally pisses of enderman. Also has a love of the chickens. Has a chicken farm.

Lifeline: plays creative, tames a lot of cats. Makes a ton of free form art based off of things she's seen. Hosts a server for fans to play with her. Octane is banned from both her worlds.

Gibralter: also plays creative, creates a lot of fancy houses. Plants a lot of trees and flowers, grows them with bonemeal to make the trees big. Lots of tradional art from his homeland

Bloodhound: hunts EVERYTHING. Keeps chest upon chest of memento. Plays hardcore survival and beats the game in like 2 weeks. Owns like 5 parrots and a cat.

Pathfinder: tames every single animal he can. Plays survival with mirage, accidentally dies a lot. Plants a lot of flowers. Makes things for mirage that he doesnt need. Also is insanely lucky with his drops.

Loba: she mooches off of other poeples worlds, doesn't have her own. Has a dog in every server shes gotten in to. Enjoys stealing from villagers and starting raids.

Caustic: only llays the game when Natalie asks him to. Is very minimal in his ownings. Likes to put lava around his house. Has an abundance of redstone for some odd reason. Mine carts around his house.

Wattson: owns like, 5 cats. Plays with caustic and wraith. Is very lucky with mining, finds a lot of lapis and diamonds. Isnt very good at killing monsters but she likes survival. Builds a conduit so she can play under the water

Wraith: plays with wattson and occasionally caustic. Once had to fight 2 charged creepers at once and swears Never Again. Still prefers farming at night and just generally living underground. Accidentally got stuck in the nether one time, hates going there

Mirage: plays with pathfinder on survival. Gets frustrated the bot dies, but doesnt get too mad. Likes to farm treasure maps and mob spawners. Generally pretty decent all around at the game. Has a giiiiaaant map of his home base and surrounding area in the front hall.

Crypto: has an Extremely secretive world. Base is hidden way underground in a cave system only he has memorized. Regularly farms potatoes and wheat for his undeerground farm. Melons are his main source of food. Avoids villagers.

Revenant: Lives in the nether. Fights endermen and zombie pigmen and ghasts all the time. Lives in the wild, carries a bed around with him. Has left little dirt huts all over the place. Kills illgers to start raids just to see what happens

Interactivity Research - Game playing in Rachels lessons

In the 1 hour Tuesday lessons with Rachel, we played various different multiplayer and story based games. We were told to, overtime, analysis the interactivity and the audio of the game. 

Bioshock Infinite:

Bioshocks interactivity was very generic in the sense that it was pracitcally a first person shooter, similar to that of call of duty, however there was more story based free roaming at the beginning. This gave the player the chance to explore and learn about the world that they find themselves in. After playing a bit of the story,the sinister and dark nature behind the “utopia” world thats been built is very much real.

Fallout:

Fallout gameplay was similar to that of Bioshock Infinite, however there was much more exploration and an open world to it. The prologue was quicker, and once the prologue was over, you just went straight into the open sandbox that was the world of fallout. Unlike Bioshock infinite, you had a choice to proceed with the main storyline or not. You could’ve gone off and done other storylines or missions, or just explore until your hearts content.

Injustice:

The game Injustice was much different to Fallout and Bioshock Infinite. The gameplay was merely multiplayer combat. You fought your opponent until one died. The game’s layout was in a sense 2D, but with many 3D features - the background could be interacted with for example you could throw a crate at your enemy or drive a motorbike into them. The game was very violent and the interaction with the background was jsut very intriguing - you could throw your player through the wall behind them and it would extend further - creating rooms and areas that aren’t able to be seen in the actual combat area. This can be said for the sky and undeerground to - some chaarcter special attacks involved going into the sky, going underground or to a new world in general. it really was diverse.

This will help me with my game by potentially adding a breaking-the-4th-wall perspective into it somewhere, whether it be transparent walls that you can walk through but look like any other wall, or enemy that cannot be killed like any other usual enemy.

If paybacks a bitch, gravity’s a bastard.

Self Portrait, Blue Scholars