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Explaining Ace Combat lore to people who don't play the games is great. Like yeah, Plane Jesus is real and he fights the French

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@ spidey anon: you’re honestly more able to assemble a CoD:M/MW Roach than the classic Roach as what was used in the OG game models is likely discontinued production of chest rigs and clothing. That and not a lot of what was used is distinctive and identifiable given the relatively low poly counts for the models. Detail was sacrificed for performance, especially for the time it was released.

If you’re trying the urban/favela stuff, the vest used is an Eagle Industries MBAV plate carrier in black. Flyye did do a clone of it, but they are near unobtanium these days…

The woodland/desert rigs with the jackets I honestly struggle with identifying, but the reboot homage skin added in 2019 as a bonus for the MW2CR preorder bonus is a Condor Rapid Assault Chest Rig, with additional pouches added for extra storage.

Hope this helps!

SIGHING.

No matter how much I avoided it... my cosplay looks more like codm Roach than mw2 Roach 😔😔😔/lh

RahHh sorry for late replies I am doing sidequests rn,,

-spidey anon

Awh 😭 I mean, they are pretty similar and whatever U do it's gonna look like Roach at least :3 and that's perfectly okay! I just got back from a work meeting and I even got a award :o

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I made it to ten (nyeh-nyeh 😛🤣)

Top Gun: Maverick

Stealth

SWAT

13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

The Big Short

Ocean’s 11

Remember The Titans

The Gentlemen

Mr & Mrs Smith

Extraction 2

Tagging @sleepyconfusedpotato & @cordemente if they’re up to it!

Fav movie tag game

rules: without naming them, post a gif from 10 of your favorite films, then tag 10 people to do the same

I could only think of nine 😂 thanks for the tag @efingart @islandtarochips . In no order!

Star Wars: A New Hope

Maze Runner (+Scorch Trials and Death Cure)

Top Gun (+Maverick)

Pacific Rim

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Shrek

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

Tagging: @whitewolfmystery @welldonekhushi @alypink @revnah1406 @imagoddamnonionmason @cloudofbutterflies92 and whoever else wants to join!

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Welcome to the barracks, and I feel humbled to know that I was a contributing factor in your signing up and getting immersed into the community!

Hearing remarks like this just helps reinforce that all my hard work in researching and publishing those guides was worth it.

Really appreciate the shout out!

You know what, to start the year off, Imma make this lil appreciation post.

Now it's only been like, less than a year since I joined Tumblr about, I've been writing and drawing for years before this point, but the community here, especially the CoD community which I am mainly apart of just made me feel amazing. Everyone I've met here are some of the nicest people.

I have gotten my old hobbies back, giving me reason to write and draw again which have majorly helped with my own mental health, and now I just wanted to give the amazing people a shout out to start the year off, to hopefully make peoples days, and to just let them know that I appreciate yall!

In no specific order :3 and if you don't wanna be pinged again by me, please let me know and I won't!! No harm done, I hope this is okay :) and this is prob gonna be cringe or smt.. all sappy but like.Yeah here yall are lmao-

Putting them under the cut as there are a few :3

@gomzdrawfr - You've been a massive influence since I joined the CoD community, I adored your art from the very start, and your just such a sweet and kind person, one that I'm so thankful to have met, and so proud to be able to call you my friend. You're the first proper friend I've made here, and I can't tell you how much our talks make me smile every single time. And I'm also so thankful for the community you have sorta helped me get into, you've helped me feel comfortable interacting with more people here :3

@shadeops21 - You were honestly the person that got me to join Tumblr! I was looking for something to try and make my own Konig cosplay (that's been given up on bc motivation and Tik Tok just. yeahhh) and I found you, and all your amazing work! I basically made my account to see if you'd make any more, cause I just love what you do so much, it's got to be so helpful for so many people!!

@sleepyconfusedpotato - After Shadeops, you were the very second person I found here! And oh my gosh how much I obsessed (and still do) over your art, especially Jade. You inspired me to write my first ever fic on here, actually, where I made my first CoD oc ship with Soap, your art and what you do honestly helped me feel comfortable making something like that for myself, cause some of the toxic people on Tik Tok made me uneasy and unsure about that lol- And now, I finally have an OC I'm working in depth on, and you're my biggest reason to thank for that.

@soaps-mohawk - Your writing has inspired me so much, and I couldn't thank you enough for making your wonderful fic. I may not be like, a OG, but I've been there since around chapter 20 I think? I could be wrong, but half way through sorta. You are the biggest reason I started writing again here, you just create masterpieces. And this is the first time I've ever been hooked into a fic so much, and what got me into liking the Omegaverse (you hooked me and I can't let go of it now...) Thank you for taking your time with your writing, and thank you for all the inspiration you have given me.

@on-a-lucky-tide - Oh my gosh how much you have yanked me into the Nikprice community. I adore every single one of your writing pieces, and honestly, you are another who has helped inspire me to write more. All your writing is so filled with emotion and love, I want to be able to do that as well. Your a wonderful person, I've seen you interact with this community and everyone, and I just adore you as a person and all the hard work you put time and effort into creating.

@rainyrambles-overcod - I adore your oc's and rambles so much!! And I couldn't tell you how happy it makes me to have a friend that is okay with the tag games, I never know who to tag for those sorta things, but I actually feel okay tagging you and they are so fun and always brighten my mood :3 Keep creating, I can't wait to see what else you come up with. Thank you for all the tag games and fun!!

@nekrosmos - Yet another that has helped drag me into the Nikprice community or cult ig that too. Your art is absolutely amazing, I truly want to be able to draw like you do. Just everything about your art has me in awe, the emotion, the style, the love everything. Seeing your art brings me so much happiness! Oh and your writing is BEAUTIFUL. That also brings me joy to take a little time out of my day to sit and read the time and effort you put into everything, and how kind of a person you are. I always hope you'll keep creating, and always remember how much joy you bring both myself and others.

@daredaredoodles - I know we don't interact a whole lot, but you honestly mean a lot to me still. You were my first ever mutual on this site, and I will be forever grateful for this. Personally its anxiety that stops me from barging into peoples Dm's and talking, but yeah. Thank you for that, even if it is only a small thing.

@cricricorner - you were my first follower, and I still see you in my notifications from time to time, which always brings me joy! It's wonderful to see your followers still interact with your content, and I couldn't say how grateful I am. I couldn't tell you how happy I was to gain my first follower here, so thank you for taking your time to read my writing and see my art.

@daydreamsareallineed - You were pretty much the first person to show so much interest in my main fic!! And oh my gosh I couldn't ever tell you how much joy it brought me to read your comments, to have someone so interested in my writing, that personally I didn't even think was that good. I haven't given up completely on the fic dw, I'll hopefully update it soon! Motivation just go brrr. Thank you so much for all your support, it means the world to me.

And another shoutout to everyone who supports me, who follows me, and to every single one of you that like and reblog my content. I look through every single note I receive, I assure you none of you are left out.

And my final shoutout to everyone that creates on this site. The community here is like nothing I've ever experienced before. I adore scrolling through everyone's art, it all makes my day. I've never felt so comfortable and unjudged before. Thank you to everyone who contributes to this, you all make my day <3

This turned out a lot longer than I meant it to be- but I just wanted to share how I felt with this new year. I'm sorry if you'd rather not be pinged-

But have a lovely day :3 I love you all!!

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Occasionally as an Australian you'll be talking to someone from overseas, and you'll discover a common phrase you took for granted is, in fact, not universally known outside of our country.

Turns out casually dropping "fuck me dead" into conversation will give unsuspecting Americans an aneurism.

The more you know.

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Cosplay Guide Update

So I know what you're all probably thinking.

Where's the update? How long till the next release? You said you'd be working on it.

Well about that.

It turns out that I'm an absolute fucking moron.

Peaking behind the production curtain here, but I generate my images for the guide using extracted/ripped assets from the MW titles, importing them into blender, converting and assigning textures to the relevant objects, and then generating still image renders in Blender at relatively high resolutions.

It was that last component that was a major time sink, as with my older rig it was taking anywhere between 30-60 mins to generate a single image. And then while I was doing that, I wasn't able to do anything else on my system as my performance would tank.

I just thought it was because I was using an old GPU, so I only recently (read: within the past month) upgraded from a 1050 to a 3060 TI.

I did a test render with the new card, same result. Ages to render.

Wtaf did I get a new card for then, aside from being able to play games released in the past couple of years...

So I finally caved and did a bit of research... and well...

... guess who forgot to configure Blender to use GPU rendering instead of CPU rendering....

Yeaaaaaaahhhh, not my proudest moment. I did another test render with a completely different set of assets, as I was kinda knee deep in another 3d modelling passion project:

Imagining what our MW boys would look like as Spartan IV's... That's Soap btw.

That took five minutes.

SO ANYWAY

Now that I'm not giving my computer a simultaneous heart attack and stroke trying to render a picture of a plate carrier, I can now expedite production on the MW3 kit breakdowns. Honestly, the product of the renders was becoming a chore with how long it was initially taking and the performance hit preventing me from doing something else while I waited (like reseaching pieces of kit, adding text to a breakdown page, formatting, etc etc)

Now that I've worked that kink out? I should be able to condense my production pipeline and timeframe considerably.

Can I give you an ETA for 1.2? Fuck no.

How long is a piece of string? Honestly, with how my life is atm and how fast my fixations are shifting, I can't guarantee being able to do this for long spurts of time like I initially managed.

I will say that I will expand the scope slightly to feature notable NPCs such as Shadow Company operators from that one mission in MWII, and also going back to MW2019 and adding breakdowns of character loadouts seen there, to provide an all encompassing campaign character guide.

Once all that's done, I'll be hanging up my guide hat for the time being until another major FPS drops that has everyone running to cosplay... could be a Battlefield, could be another MW, might be another IP entirely. Who knows, we'll have to wait and see!

Thanks for sticking around for the ramble... felt good to get something out.

Until next time!

Jesse

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Joining in courtesy of @kaitaiga

Last Song: Chris Rain - What I'm Looking For

Favourite colour: 50/50 choice between Ranger Green (#454B1B) and Regent Grey (#8D989E)

Last book: Last _book_ book? Honestly, it was the sixth re-read of Generation Kill by Evan Wright

Last Movie: 13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Last TV show: NCIS Season 19

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: 50/50 sweet and savoury

Relationship status: Single

Last thing I googled: Two-sided velcro callsign patches

Current obsession: Current hyperfixations are on Arcane, RWBY, Helldivers 2, and a clothing project for DAZ3D that I voluntold Kai to beta test for me.

Looking forward to: Finishing said clothing project, as well as completing my cosplay guide now that I've figured out how to make Blender use my GPU for renders and not my CPU...

Thanks for the tag @fw-priyanshu !

Last Song: Waterfalls - TLC

Favourite colour: navy blue

Last book: Forged in Fire - Scott Ryder

Last Movie: don’t remember 🤔 Might’ve been ‘Boys in the Boat’.

Last TV show: Mm I think it was ‘Masters of the Air’

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: It depends on how I feel 🤔 I think sweet -> savoury-> spice (I can’t handle spice but sometimes I crave it LOL)

Relationship status: Single

Last thing I googled: Opening hours of a café here

Current obsession: Callum Turner……..and my ocs. Always my ocs 😂 coconut water too.

Looking forward to: Nothing much, just going with the flow this year. Maybe taking some jiu-jitsu classes for the first time or other things I’ll accomplish in my life/art.

Tagging: whoever else wants to join!

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Absolutely stoked to see how well this turned out, being the initial test for these assets.

Just y’all wait though, because I have only just begun to cook.

#roadtorealisticloadouts

Damien, but he’s actually accurate

So, the absolutely wonderful @shadeops21 shared with me the AMCU that my aussie ocs wear and I had to do a little test render with Damo 😍

Seriously look at how good it looks!! I’m so happy 😭✨

Be prepared for so many renders this year oh my goooooooood. Thanks again Pix!!

Taglist:

@alypink @efingart @revnah1406 @eccentrcks @welldonekhushi @islandtarochips @breadtheend @sleepyconfusedpotato @deadbranch @mortal-kombattore-115 @justasmolbard @imagoddamnonionmason @mossnesc @itsastronxmy @cloudofbutterflies92 @alexa-mwll @shinmiyovvi @walder-138 @cynicvice @fire-bug @ctxinari

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The Archive is currently down and we are looking into it! We'll update you when we know more.

Posted: 02:05 UTC December 27, 2024

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For the purposes of this poll, do NOT count the following:

Your own birth (unless there were complications/urgent concerns)

Routine check-ups or scheduled-in-advance appointments that just happened to be at a hospital

Visiting or accompanying someone else to the hospital

Use your discretion as to whether to count visits to urgent care.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺

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That one SM-6 fired by the USS Gettysburg clearly didn’t get the memo…

Happy The Missile Knows Where It Is Monday

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I think we are all legally entitled to at least one (1) local mutual. As a treat.

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Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

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Do yourselves a favour and PLEASE check this band out! Relatively new, my research shows them active for about a year or so in terms of being on my algorithm, but THEY ARE SO GOOD.

They catch the vibe and aesthetic of the 2000’s post-punk rock sound, similar to Sum 41, Blink182, early Avril Lavigne, etc.

I absolutely love their music, please don’t sleep on them!