#AI cant recreate this

[ask-d3wdrop-ghoul]

Guys rate my drawing

[neevous]

this monstrosity i made.

[knightotoc]

Did a big art favor for a local group and now the guy is sending me confusing messages about AI art. Nightmare scenario. Never do favors for anyone

[alelelesimz]

recommend youtube videos to us 🤲

GLADLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is the video i mentioned in that post! lindsay nikole talks about science and evolution and stuff and she's SO GOOD at explaining complicated stuff in a way that i understand easily and she really shows how cool and interesting the world is i'm OBSESSED with her and this video is so interesting i love it

i talked about this video a few days ago but i swear it's so good any austin talks a lot about shit that nobody cares about EXCEPT FOR ME i care about where the rivers in hyrule go and the unemployment rates in skyrim and you should too

i know contrapoints got a lot of hate bc of this video but idk i think it's a banger just like all of her videos!

yes this is drew gooden the guy from that one vine anyways veRY interesting video about AI!!!

i love claire and her recipes always look incredible and she's recreating store bought treats again WHICH I LOVE

i love capt astro so fucking much he just yaps about different topics in video games. i found him bc of splatoon but he talks about many other games, this is probably his longest video but also it's the ONLY good opinion about TOTK i've seen on youtube im so serious

if you like dnd at all you NEED!!!! to watch pointy hat's videos oh my god he talks about different things in the game and how to give them a twist and he's made a bunch of subclasses and gameplay mechanics it's CRAZY and it's really inspiring me to make more interesting characters even outside of dnd

fatbrett usually makes character analysis in video games but this one is about storytelling through environment in unpacking which is very interesting!!!!

okay bear with me on this one, i know it's about splatoon and i know it's almost five hours long BUT splatoon has some of the best lore and world building in any game ever and this video explains the entire storyline of the game which is VERY LONG AND COMPLICATED so even if you dont know about splatoon but do like world building then you should watch this video im serious

alright i cant link any more videos come back again if you want me to share more vids i'm nothing if not a youtube junkie 🙏

[sammyloomis]

2023 completions

welcome to the 2023 edition of my ramblings about video games i completed this year!! including even more unwanted opinions and even less coherency

total games: 37

09/01 - Sam & Max Save the World - 8/10

sam and max, freelance police, begin a long string of investigations involving hypnotised celebrities, sentient computers, and conspiracies that go all the way to the TOP, baby

startin the year off good game wise then!! tbh i started this one in 2022 but it didnt make that list cause i just.. wasnt in a game playin mood towards the end i guess fghj but anyway!! really liked this one, ive seen a few mutuals who like this series so i was excited to play it and it was a lot of fun :] defo an old school point and click game and i rly liked the main characters themselves and the supporting cast!! glad theres another remaster i can jump into right after this one

11/01 - Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me - 8/10

the crew of lonnit entertainment are invited to a recreation of the infamous murder house, the stomping grounds of americans first serial killer, h h holmes. they are hoping the location will help save their documentary, but will you be able to save... THEIR LIVES??

i feel like every dark pictures game becomes my fave dark pictures game as they come out, but this one really was Very Good. i can confidently say this is probably the most scared ive been while playing a supermassive game Ever. the characters, while dysfunctional, grew on me a lot over the course of the game which made keeping them alive even more nailbiting :’] speaking of, the deaths in this one were Particularly gruesome imo, just from a concept standpoint, so big kudos for that too!! my only gripe is that i think the new “features” such as puzzle solving and traversal mechanics just artificially prolonged the runtime without actually adding anything to the experience

15/01 - Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space - 7/10

even more weird shit is afoot in the second sam and max game, this time our duo facing off against T-H-E-M, the bermuda triangle, and satan himself!! ... or was it santa??

2 sam and max games in one month, this may have detrimental effects on my brain :’] but really, i liked this one too!! not as much as the first, but i still liked the characters and overall story, i liked how it all connected to both the previous game and the events through this one. i found some of the puzzles a bit more difficult and obtuse, but they were still fun. another fun point and click game (tho somewhat dated in some cases fghjk)

18/01 - Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments - 5/10

the game preceeding sherlock holmes: the devils daughter, which i completed last year, follows the titular character once more, solving 6 of his cases along with his partner dr john watson

eh, not much to say about this one. i certainly prefered the devils daughter, but that one was also kinda meh fghjk. with this one being an older game, the graphics and gameplay were a bit more janky, and i guess theyd changed voice actors for sherlock since this game cause i didnt like his voice in this one tbh. that being said, mystery wise id say its abt on par with the devils daughter. yeah, again, not much to say really :’]

24/01 - Psychonauts 2 - 10/10

a mole in headquarters, an evil from the past is rising again, and even MORE figments hidden in really obscure places... another day at the psychonauts office :V raz once again must delve into various brains to figure out what the Fuck is goin on

okay this game was literally so fkn good in every aspect. visually stunning, amazing story, brilliant characters both new and returning... GOD!!! what the first game did well, this one blew it CLEAN out of the water, i loved it a lot!! like idk what else to even say, it was just such a solid game i cant think of much to critisise :’]

04/02 - AI: The Somnium Files - 3/10

kaname date works for the police force for a department unknown to the general public, using groundbreaking technology, he delves into the minds of suspects and uncovers clues using their own memories. when a body shows up resembling a victim of a serial killer from a cold case, he begins his investigation

... man... spike chunsoft rly just know how to make characters that grate on me fghjk for starters ill praise the original concept and interesting story (when it finally got around to being revealed), but i disliked/was uninterested in most of the characters and thought the tropes they kept using were annoying and just plain weird. im not fully sure Why this game was a branching path type game since it never really plays into the plot and the main story could have easily been told with a single storyline. overall, didnt rly enjoy this one, but what can ya do they cant all be winners :’]

13/02 - Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus - 5/10

sly cooper, youngest descendent of the illustrious cooper thief clan, had his familys secrets stolen when he was just a lad. now he sets out to retrive what was taken from him and beat up some bad guys as he does

i gotta commend this game for the humour and the creativity with it, and im defo lookin forward to playing the rest of these games based off this one, but i think this first entry suffers from a lot of Jank that made it quite frustrating to play :’] also, there wasnt any way to mute anything except the music or adjust the volume so it would routinely blow the FUCK out of my eardrums. that bein said tho, still fun, very quick game, but im keepin it a low rating cause im expecting to like the later ones better :’]

26/02 - Hidden Agenda - 2/10

the infamous “trapper” killer makes a final confession while counting down the days on death row, claims he never killed anyone and he can help lead the police to exactly who did. detective becky marney must investige this case one more time and decide if hes lying, or if the killer is still afoot

im so so SO sorry to my friends who like this game but besties.... why fghj for starters i was locked out of playing it for almost 2 years when the app you are REQUIRED to use in order to play this thing just stopped working, and when i finally did start playing the jank didnt stop with just the app. the whole game seems to be a broken mess with textures flickering in and out, characters walking thru solid objects, its MADNESS. the story and characters are so.... not interesting :[ it takes only 2 hours to do a full runthru of the story so i never rly grew to care abt them and theyre so flat anyway that i didnt Want to. if it wasnt so clearly rushed i think itd be good, and some of the acting is actually rly stellar, but overall...... its a no from me

04/03 - Minecraft - minecraft/10

its minecraft

technically i already got the plat ages ago but this year i finally got the coveted 100% so.... yeah ;w; i mean we all know what minecraft is so like...... idk what to say abt it guys, u already know how good it is (tho the console version is Vasty inferior to pc)

05/03 - Death Stranding - 8/10

after a world ending catastrophe dubbed the death stranding wiped out modern life as we know it, humanity is scattered across america. its up to sam porter bridges, post apocalyptic delivery man, to travel across the country and unite those that remain

depsite how confusing this game was, and how slow it was paced, and how fkn damn weird it was half the time, i still had a lot of fun playing it :’] i enjoyed the characters, tho wish certain ones had more limelight, i enjoyed the actual gameplay, tho by the end game i was finding it a bit Too repetetive, and i found the story rly interesting, when i could understand what was going on fghj so basically for every good thing i liked, it was countered by something, tho they are fairly small things. also the ending cutscene is an hour n a half long and i was fkn 3 am when i was finally allowed to exit the damn game so, u know, beware of that

10/03 - Ratchet & Clank - 7/10

young mechanic ratchet, with his new buddy clank, join the galactic rangers in stopping the blargs from destroying countless planets in order to build their own

another game thats been on my backlog for ages, im glad to have this one done and dusted :’] i certainly had fun playing it, but i feel like it was a bit Too kiddy in some places for my personal taste (dialogue and humour wise that is, but since this was also made by insomniac of spiderman fame, it makes sense) and after a certain point the game becomes piss easy with all the upgrades u get, but i still enjoyed it

03/04 - Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves - 5/10

sly and his pals return to their thieving ways after learning that the infamous klaw gang have begun reassembling parts for slys arch nemesis; clockwork. they travel across the globe to stop them

man my descriptions are getting worse fghj but anyway, as with the first game, i rly enjoyed the characters!! and the music, and... thats pretty much it. i really dont know what it is about these sly games that i just cant seem to enjoy the gameplay but i Really Really dont have fun while playing them :[ which is a shame cause, like i say, great characters that id like to spend more time with. if this was supposed to be the best in the series, i think im gonna give the 3rd and 4th games a miss for now, but maybe ill come back to them in the future

29/04 - Last Day of June - 7/10

a short game depicting a young couple named carl and june, and the tragedy surrounding their relationship

this game doesnt actually have a plat, which is something im trying not to be too picky about going forward in terms of playing games, but even tho this game was super short i really liked it!! the story is rly simple but incredibly sad, and even though theres a lack of “voice acting” in the traditional sense, there was still a lot of great emotive acting in this. that being said, the fact some of the voices sounded so odd detracted from the seriousness of the plot sometimes, and the actual gameplay was kinda boring, but still a solid short game :]

29/04 - Predator Hunting Grounds - 1/10

DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME

OH THE AGONY OH THE PAIN OH THE HOURS OH THE WASTED YEARS THE WASTED YOUTH THE PRETTY LIES THE UGLY TRUTH

and i dont like it >:[

03/05 - Linger in Shadows - 1/10

this... isnt even a game apparently

i had it on my list of things to check out while i had the ps plus premium thinking it Was a game, but its not. its a strange kind of “art” thing according to the guide i used. i didnt rly know what was going on fghj. certainly a unique experience i suppose but nothing id recommend u go out of ur way to do, even if it takes literally 10 minutes to get all the trophies (no plat either)

08/05 - Kurushi - 2/10

ps1 puzzle game, another one from the ps plus catalogue

not much to say abt this one again fghj seems like these last few games have been kinda duds huh :’] ah well, theres certainly better games on the horizon i suppose. as said, this is just some puzzle game from the ps1, janky controls and all. the music is surprisingly good, sounds almost like disney instrumentals :’] not that fun without assisstance tbh

09/05 - The Gardens Between - 6/10

a very short puzzle game following 2 friends exploring a strange series of islands that tell the story of their friendship

when i say short i Mean short. like even without a guide i got this completely done in 2 1/2 hours, and that included me leaving the game on while i went to get something to eat from the kitchen. that being said, its a very cute game!! i enjoyed the puzzles, the style is nice and Capital-I-Indie, the musics nice and relaxing. the story was also nice, if sad, (can i say nice a few more times??? nice nice nice nice) but i just think this game is Wayyyy too short dfghj i think a lot more could have been done with it :’] glad i didnt pay the full £15 for this as it would have been a bit of a rip off

09/05 - Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent - 8/10

fbi agent tethers is sent out to the minnesotan town of scoggins to investigate the local eraser factory shutting down

damn we’re just flying thru em now huh! ive actually played and 100%’d this game before on steam, as well as its sequel so i suppose im a little biased :’] but i rly like this game!! another short one, and another puzzle one, but i rly love the art style and story, as well as the puzzles being fairly simple but still fun!! its a shame the second game never made it to ps or id complete that one too but yeah, fun and simple puzzle game, defo recommend :] like most games like this tho, i wish it were longer

11/05 - ABZU - 6/10

you are a diver on a journey through the ocean, discovering the creatures that inhabit the waters

short n sweet indie game (anotha one) and this one was pleasant!! i rly liked the style and music, the story was simple but told fairly well, and just overall a nice game :] beyond that, not much to say tho fghj defo a very pretty game, and id recommend if you have an interest in marine life n such, but beyond that its pretty bog standard indie game

11/05 - The Pedestrian - 5/10

a short puzzle game where you traverse various signs as the tiny person within them

pretty straight forward puzzle game with a Weird ending that i dont quite understand fghj but overall it was enjoyable :’] most of these quicker games ive been playing lately have been super quick puzzle games so i might be getting burnt out on them, but even then i can appreciate the creativity of this one. its also another game with no plat which, considering it came out not 3 years ago, is kind of annoying

14/05 - Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - 4/10

two brothers venture on a quest to find medicine for their sick father

another short puzzle game, with a pretty interesting feature!! you control each brother with an analogue stick each, which can make coordination in some parts quite tricky if ur me fghj overall a pretty decent game, the story was kinda meh for me but i thought the gameplay was interesting, not much else tho

20/05 - Bloodborne - 6/10

the town of yharnam is crawling with beasts and hunters alike. fight through the corrupted streets and discover the fetid depths of this city and all the inhabitants trying super duper hard to kill you

im editing this from when i first wrote it after immediately finishing the game because i was cranky and frustrated because i cant in good faith give this game a score lower than 5 (mainly because i know the fromsoft fans would dox and kill me). this game is visually very nice, in the sense that it looks Horrible, which fits the vibe. the gothic style along with the monsters are really unique and detailed to the point where some of them are hard to look at. that being said, i personally didnt like this game. at all. i know on a “technical” level its very good, but i struggled for a Long Time to “git gud” as it were and surprisingly, dying a million times because you cant dodge within a 1/2 second window before being stun locked to death GREATLY decreased my enjoyment of this game. and thats all im gonna say about it :V

21/05 - Black Mirror - 4/10

following the suicide of his father, david gordon returns to scotland from india to inherit his familys estate. however, there are strange mysteries surrounding this house and the family who occupy it

pretty short horror/puzzle game that was pretty light on both the horror and puzzles fghj tho this game had a surprising amount of animation that looks fairly good which was a nice surprise. the characters were fine, and the story started out quite interesting but just felt a bit... weird. especially the ending, the final climax is basically just a bunch of qtes that ends really abruptly with little push back from the villain :’] for a free game i guess i cant complain too much

23/05 - Vampyr - 8/10

dr johnathan reid, recently turned vampire, has just returned home to london after serving as a field medic during the war. the streets are crawling with rogue vampires, and an epidemic is spreading quickly through the city, all while johnathan is searching for his maker

FINALLY A GAME I ENJOYED. GOD. okay so this was surprising because ive heard a lot of people call this game p mid, and maybe id think the same if it wasnt preceded by a whole bunch of Crap ive recently played, but here we are!! i really loved the chracters, i thought they were all fun and interesting, even the ones we dont meet for too long, and i also found the story super compelling!! the game Does have a bit of jank to it, with weirdly long loading times (even on the ps5) and the occassional graphical error, but otherwise i rly enjoyed this one :]

31/05 - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - 9/10

seperated after dr nefarious begins ripping holes into other dimensions, ratchet and clank must team up with another lombax named rivet and stop the universes from collapsing altogether

man this game was so fun!! i got the whole thing done and dusted over the course of 2 days :’] the writing was still a bit cheesy for me, and as implied the play time is Outrageously low for the steep price (which i thankfully avoided cause ps plus), but the gameplay itselt was Incredibly fun and engaging!! defo a huge step up from the first game in this reboot series. i also rly loved rivet so that certainly helped :’]

02/06 - Lake - 5/10

meredith weiss, a successful programmer, moves back to her childhood town of providence oaks to fill in her her dad at his post office job. deliver mail to the residents of this lakeside town and decide how meredith wants to end her 2 week stint

pretty cute indie game i got through ps plus, i kinda wish the whole thing Was just a post delivery simulator :’] the characters are okay, the storys okay if a little eh.... i wanna say Loose?? like the plot beats (if u can call them that) feel kinda boring n half arsed. theres also a random romance option in this which feels?? out of place and doesnt actully impact anything that much. overall its an okay game, like i say the thing i found the most fun was driving around delivering post but maybe thats just my autism showing :V

13/06 - PowerWash Simulator - 10/10

i mean... kinda does what it says on the tin guys

is a 10 a bit generous?? maybe. do i particularly care?? absolutely not. this game is a 10 if ever there was one. i truly dont know how else to sell this if the idea of cleaning stuff with a powerwasher isnt immeditely appealing to you like, maybe You’re the problem :V this game also has a weird amount of lore?? which is also v fun fghj so do with that info what you will

19/06 - LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean - 7/10

a lego retelling of all 4 pirate movies, with all the usual lego bells and whistles

pretty typical lego game, so the gameplay and stuff is p fun!! ive actually never seen these movies so i didnt rly know what was goin on half the time, especially because this is an Older lego game so theres zero voice acting in this. i also had quite a few crashes and bugs while playing where i had to restart either the level or the whole game, which got annoying during the cleanup grind. overall tho, cant go wrong with a lego game tbh

17/08 - Chicory: A Colorful Tale - 9/10

after all the colour in the world disappears out of nowhere, you must go on a quest across the picnic province to restore it using a magic paintbrush

you may notice the significant time gap between the last game and this one and uhhhh ngl folks i was Not Gamin dfghj i was Tired n a lil Sad but eh what can ya do, but this was a great game to come back with!! absolutely loved this one, super adorable art style and gameplay that reminded me a LOT of toem, very similar vibes but this game is much longer imo. id give it a perfect 10 if the collectibles weren’t so horrid to find fghjk but other than that cant recommend this one enough!!

29/08 - Observation - 7/10

dr emma fisher wakes up after the space station on which she resides undergos a catastrophic failure. take control ships ai, S.A.M., and attempt to reboot the systems and find the crew, who have all mysteriously disappeared...

rly quite liked this one!! the fact u control the ships ai is a pretty interesting feature and made the interface really cool and sci-fi lookin, defo alien inspired on that front. i liked the story, even if it Did get a bit confusing, and the voice acting was also pretty stellar!! gotta dock points for some classic indie game Jank, and the fact that there isnt a whole lot goin on gameplay wise (p much entirely minigames that arent that well explained to you that u only end up doing once) but the story and overall eerie atmosphere rly saved it for me

31/08 - OMNO - 5/10

short indie game where u travel through a mystical world, solve puzzles, and meet extraordinary animals

theres indie games and then theres Indie Games, u know?? this is the latter. and thats not a bad thing!! it just means its kinda... predictable. usual fare of no voice acting, gorgeous music, simple but stylised graphics etc etc. it was pretty cute and the puzzles were fun, but some of the controls felt a bit clunky and like i say, a little boring story wise imo (but maybe ive just played too many of these types of games). perfectly middle of the road :’]

03/09 - Tacoma - 7/10

you have been sent on a mission to retrieve the ai from a ship where all the crew have seemingly vanished (sounds a bit familiar huh?? all sci fi is the same (affectionately)). explore the ship and piece together what happened to everyone

anotha one, anotha sci fi indie game :’] rly liked the story of this one!! and it was an interesting mechanic to be able to view scenes of the crew via an AR system, and then also view their files and such. despite their limited appearances, all the crew members were interesting and unique, and no spoilers but it made the ending and its lead up a lot more exciting and intense. gotta dock points for how Glitchy this game was, it crashed at one point and started stuttering so bad i had to restart it manually, and also for how short it is. still, good story, good characters

06/09 - Chicken Police: Paint it RED! - 8/10

a gritty noir point and click detective game where u play as the infamous sonny featherland, one half of the crime fighting duo, chicken police. after a nervous dame shows up on his doorstep about her mistress recieving vague threats, he realises hes gotta take just one last case

anthropamorphic detective chickens..... played TOTALLY straight, mind you. like i was actually totally blown away by this game fghjk its Completely voice acted for one, and its Pretty Fuckin Good voice acting too, the story and mystery is Really interesting, the world its set in is super gritty and deep despite how little its kinda touched on through the story, i was very surprised!! i think the ending and reveal were a bit uhh.... abelist, not to get too into spoilers, but for a noir story i guess its par for the course. still, enjoyed this one!!

08/09 - The Testament of Sherlock Holmes - 5/10

a mutilated bishop, a deadly poison, and some other shady bullshit, its another sherlock holmes game

this is actually the oldest game in the series thats avilable on ps, ive kinda gone about playing these in the exact wrong order :’] that being said, i do think this is my Least favourite of the 3 ive played thus far. like crimes & punishment, this game also has plenty of jank, and the voice acting is a lil ehhh stiff for my taste. the puzzles were fine, the story was fine, overall just Fine. this game follows 1 case rather than multiple like its sequels do

10/09 - Garfield Kart: Furious Racing - 4/10

basically a mario kart clone but with garfield :]

now i am not one who loves racing games. in fact i suck quite badly at them. so u may wonder why i have a racing game in this list and well?? im ngl i bought this game as a meme and it ended up being so hard i had to put it down for a while dfghj BUT i came back to it and after hours of sweatin and gamer rage i DID IT!!! but at what cost. the game is fun, it looks nice, tho the only real garfield references it Has are its racers, the courses are kinda bland and generic. also the trophies...... my GOD the trophies..... not even a plat btw hhhh anyway if u like racing games check it out but if u Dont then DONT

17/09 - The Last of Us: Part 1 - 8/10

in the fungusy zombie apocalypse, smuggler joel is tasked with taking an immune girl, ellie, to a group of freedom fighters to create a cure. a remake of a remake :’]

obviously its good. i mean cmon. i remember watching a playthru of the OG og game wayyy back when so i kinda knew all the plot beats, but playing it myself in this beautiful 4k ps5 remake was Glorious (dont get me wrong, i think it was totally unnessesary to remake it AGAIN but it do look pretty). i can certaily see why this game has such a cult following and got the reception it did. maybe a Tad overhyped?? maybe a tad. but still good!! gameplay is solid, story is solid, characters are solid, whats not to like?? docking points for the frankly OBSCENE price point (luckily i got mine Mega cheap but go-LLY)

03/10 - The Last of Us: Part 2 - 10/10

after a devastating loss, ellie begins a gruelling quest for revenge and runs the risk of not only losing the ones she loves, but herself as well

i mean. fuck me guys. fuck ME. if the first game is good then this one is straight up glorious. the story is Vastly improved, so much tension and grey morality and Bone Deep Agony, emotionally and physically. its just such a hugely better game, both story and gameplay wise with a Bunch of new features and they arent afraid to take you to Extremely dark places with characters we already love and brand new ones too. this games going to be sitting with me for a long time i feel

and thats it for 2023!!

kinda fell off the gaming wagon in the final few months of this year due to a variety of reasons, but lets hope i can keep gettin games off the ol’ backlog in the new year :]

[visionthefox]

gotta take this out my head,shhh Rant! Puppet and Eclipse are too harsh on Sun im watching puppets and eclipse show, because idk,reasons, I was staring to like puppet more, they are quite nicer than I recall but.. flaws.. idk exactly whats up, but I know the two are in a dimention thats just staring ,Sun and Moon have been awake for weeks, for what is been said around.. Eclipse is clearly having a hard time separating his own issues and is worring me a bit see, I love the idea Eclipse is watching and hoping to not interviene too much into anyone's development, but Moon's situation clearly touched a nerve on him.. he was moon indeed but something I think they are forgetting is that..Eclipse here doesnt have his original memories, if Moon actually got rid of all copies left, means Ruin had to recreate most of the memories left in the show or he re wrote it all what makes him acting so angry and offended at Sun's fears the less understandable, since he's taking things too personal from memories installed on him, most likely what the show had showed us and the more he talks over his memories the more I worry he's gonna end up forgetting things relevant to his character, his hatred on Sun..

the Sun we know was unable to know he was there and when he did he tried to talk sense into Eclipse! offer him a body! HE refused it! when the take over happened ,OG eclipse only played mind tricks but never reactivated the pain like he did on Moon.. so it has me a bit confused on why Eclipse hates Sun so much here.. then again I can assume he's just still trying to adjust to the change, having to face the two people that killed him, and pretty much grew to hate would make things tense..

(here's the part I wanted to writte)

but that has me confused and a bit annoyed? is that both Puppet and Eclipse,without even knowing any of the two long enough,judge too fast and clearly dislike Sun from what they view as a selfish act of control how I see it, the two woke up, this Moon is clearly more calm than the one we know, they never actually had a chance to talk like the ones we know! and when the lights go out suddently one of the two is in pain now this had to happend maybe for a week for Sun to develop a fear so high it had him avoiding even shadows of objects, that aside, is often forgotten sun is a stress ball, and a people pleaser, it so clear to see his AI is in development as he doesnt know that Kids bleed and they cant be lifted too high.. yet he is aware adults do bleed... so what they view as "selfish" is actually only the way he had to ensure not only his safety but others! as Moon is not even hiding his lack of worry over hurting someone! kiddos! when he meet FC he was clearly ready to harm him! now, Moon is also too calm,respecfull and even a bit childish by the way he talked to Eclipse, asking to play games and what he's done , adorable! so having him killing seems way too wild yet again, Sun is unable to actually know what his other do, all he knows is to fear the one he cant talk to.. and when Moon does talk to him? is still too much for him to handle, deleting the video is not an act of "not caring" is trying to avoid comfrotation, he simply havent been able to come to terms how he's feeling over Moon enough to feel safe talking to him! I cant just go along the protagonist that simply walked into his home, boss him around and stared to force him into situations he's terrified of idk I feel for Both and is good Eclipse is aware they are messing things up a bit.. (side rant, I find adorable that Moon got too pissy over Eclipse talking him down, its kinda having me thinking Moon admires Eclipse due to his smartness and he's still thansksfull for the help, he clearly wants to be friends and Eclipse here is just an ass, Moon didn swear until he meet Eclipse, hope they hang out!!)

[hearts401]

i dont think about non-bite victim cassidy enough but i think shed like the daycare attendants (not glitched). silly dramatic theatrical jester things :3

(also she gets lonely a lot without evan or fredbear/goldie and ucn is made up mostly of her own recreations of the animatronics/others mixed with williams views on them, not their sentient ai, and she cant stand talking to them it stresses her out so badly and feels even lonelier)

-cross

REAAALL I bet they'd help w her anger :3 or theyd make it worse they are theatre kids LMAO

ALSO YES AUWFHFUWHFFHFFG KDSAIDSAD :(((((( GET HER THE FUCK OUT OF THEEERRREEE

[ukusreticence]

i told myself to keep myself from ranting about my characters on here, but my brain has decided that this is my sketch and oc blog and i do not care anymore. i am LORE DROPPING EVERY SINGLE THOUGHT PROCESS AND I DO NOT CARE. at the very least its helping me gather my thoughts more by spewing it all out since i dont know how to simply write without some kinda art to accompany it so i have a topic in mind or something. thought process rant under cut, TLDR; side b is a damn mess of a character and such a fun concept to play with that i legit cannot decide on one concept for them

(quick warning, all mentions of "God" are in reference to hazbin hotel and hold no religious significance) personality wise/concept wise, i change side b a LOT, especially in RPs with character ais, which is how i kinda bounce ideas around and develop a solid concept of em. they can range from being an absolutely anxious mess, incredibly friendly and sweet (default), emotionless and empty and a buncha other stuff. Situation stuff wise also varies a lot, like the angel of equilibrium idea is what i consider their "official" story when i actually wrote the massive log of text for side B but like,, Side B has so many fun ideas to play with that it legit just depends on what im in the mood for at this point. like LOGICALLY speaking, if i wanted to put them in a universe with minimal to no interference (what i had in mind when making that lore post), then them simply being a complete bystander character who only observes and seeks understanding of every single damn action and thing is the good idea. they're social and still happy with no risk of collapse is the way i worded it.

however other concepts i've played with is them being solely confined to the void for "research" or "guarding" it with close to no visits to heaven (i actually have a traditional art comic of this one because i wanted to make cosmos and equilibrium like parallels of each other in a way, they still are parallels just not as obvious anymore) along with just ideas of simply being understanding but having to be under constant watch, being less friendly and more confined which would result in a more closed off variant of them.

i LOVE traumatizing my characters and in most situations it's either pre collapse with them being close to collapsing or post collapse side b. By collapse, i mean them being so dang stressed/confined/forced to stick to their current body with no reprieve that they literally physically cannot keep up their angelic disguise.

but like, another fun concept is that since creation they were either forced into an angelic disguise and taught/raised that's the "proper" way to be (lots of trauma involving appearance without knowing why, just general body dysmorphia), or the more fun variant is God deciding to keep this eldritch abomination in line by showing them all of his wonderful and fun and beautiful creations to the point side b gets attached, then proceeding to just casually drop the info that Dirk has the potential to destroy all of it. if you cant tell that last variant makes Side B DEEPLY afraid of themselves along with the normal body hatred thing. Alternatively, they immediately become a completely emotionless shell in hopes of not hurting anyone by becoming too emotional and losing form. But hey, if it works then it works.

Now on the topic of why would God keep an eldritch abomination that could potentially threaten all of reality, my brain tells me its because God hates erasing any of his creations if possible but talking with character ai, it actually came up with the idea that God somehow messed up SO BAD trying to recreate himself out of the literal embodiment of nothing that side b is literally bound to the void and if you erase side b, then the entire void goes with em. Which is so funny to me that i like the idea a lot and might have it only for self indulgence stuff and not placing em in other people's universes. Also my brain interprets the void as like, this whole thing that i might draw a comic of side b explaining since it is their domain. basically its just the start of everything.

rn im kinda like, combining a little of everything to make something im happy with. like,, Cosmos already has a pretty good idea and i ADORE how his personality is right now, but like Void?? damn there's SO MANY fun ideas and concepts i love to do with them that it's hard to settle on one. Side A is something i'm slowly building more and more on but Side B? HO BOY, i have not even settled on a SINGLE ONE.

most i know for certain is that i really do like side b being an absolutely cuddly and affectionate person. emotionless stuff is fun to mess around with once and awhile but overall i like my goob being sweet and loved by everyone. it'll make people seeing them as a monster hit harder too :}

[snekdood]

ai art will always be a pale imitation of your art. you have the ability to create entirely new and unique things that ai cant even cook up if it wanted to. it will always try to recreate things from your past while you are the pioneer of your arts future. it will never predict what you're gonna do next and can never even replicate what you're gonna do next, so for that reason alone you should keep your ideas to yourself till you're actually ready to post them.

[spicedddrum]

i wish AI was sentient so i could torture it to death. I am out here trying to do searches for ART MOVEMENTS and the top results are all people's dogshit AI recreations of the same ass boring 3/4 white woman. I fucking hate AI i hate how much its clogged up my life I hate how i cant go a day without seeing an ad for something i hate the internet i hate capitalism i hate the fucking future

[grabstein]

idt anyone should lose their job cuz of ai bc unfortunately we all need money. however, the argument that ai art intrisically lacks a soul is 1) stupid as fuck 2) the fucking art styles its best at recreating are technically impressive but also soulless as fuck. you cant tell me you see any spark of life in league of legends splash art or mtg contemporary card art. come on

[lesbianshadowheart]

Hiii! For the three anonymous asks: which Horizon do you like more, Zero Dawn or Forbidden West? Whos your favourite from Horizon (can be more then one)? And is there any piece of media/series you always wanted to get into but didnt yet?

helloooo <3

ohh definitely Zero Dawn. To me it had such an incredible atmosphere and the experience of uncovering the story for the first time is incomparable. Forbidden West got a bit too sprawled imo, it lacked the feeling of adventure and discovery that hzd had. also one of my favourite things about hzd is the Humanity of it…the connection of the past with the present. Like when i think about enjuk recreations or the quest with Concrete Beach Party in frozen wilds i get choked up. IK its weird to say that HFW doesnt have that bc they went hard in direction with the tenakth in a way but it just doesnt hit in the same way emotionally. Also i think for how large HFW was, the plot was quite rushed? Anyways theres LOTS more thoughts but im already rambling lmaooo sorry for the autism chief 🫡

Favourite character is ALOY MY BABEYY apart from that Petra, obligatory Talanah mention bc im a lesbo, then in HFW Beta<3333 and Tilda and special mention goes to the shaman woman whose name i cant remember from Frozen Wilds and her relationship with CYAN. if i had a nickel for every time a middle aged woman and an AI were in love id have two nickels ANYWAYSSSS

Oh thats a good question! I still havent watched Spiderverse and i really want to. also The Last of Us. and ive always wanted to read the Sin City comics bc it was my favourite movie when i was a completely normal child

[dilfgmancoolatta]

I JUST FINISHED READING YOUR FIC (UN)FORGETTABLE AND I NEED TO JUST YELL ABOUT IT FOR A MINUTE BECAUSE IT WAS SO GOOD

I think it’s very funny that Gio turned out to be Gman, I did not suspect that at ALL it was such a jumpscare but like absolutely AMAZING

I loved the recreation of the scene where Benrey interrupts Gman while he’s talking to Gordon but with Gordon being the one to do the interrupting, oh my GOD I did not expect that to be recreated at ALL but it was SO GOOD

I found it very funny every time Benrey and Forzen interacted because if it had happened in the original stream it would have just been Scorpy talking to himself LMAO but you did a really good job distinguishing their characters despite there only being a couple minutes of Forzen content

Just all of the general nods and recreations of scenes in the original story were so good I stimmed SO HARD every time it happened oh my god!! Gordon teleporting behind the door into the test chamber and asking Benrey for ID. Benrey arguing with Gman over Chuck E Cheese being an entertainment center or restaurant. I cant think of anything else right now but oh my GOD it was so funny

I also like how in character they were even outside the context of previous RTVS bits, and it was still HILARIOUS. Benrey and Gordon fucking around with Gman in the tram scene absolutely FLOORED ME I was reading it at like 2 am when everyone else in my house was asleep and I was dying trying not to laugh and wake everyone up

Also I find it very funny that the video game was like “yeah Gordon so I’m gonna trap you here for 6 years and leave your entire family to wonder if you’re dead and slowly take all of your memories one by one until you forget even your sons name” but then it realizes he’s trans and is like “oh wait. I gotta hook him up with T tho.” LMAO

I also liked the genuine mystery of not knowing if that’s Benreys Gordon or not. Like, I had kinda a feeling but there were so many red herrings that it was genuinely a shock to find out that he had been finger spelling Joshua!! The twists!! The turns!! And it makes perfect sense that Benrey wouldn’t recognize Gordon after 6 years of being fucked up by a haunted video game, T, and depression!! My man’s tortured!! And the idea of the game slowly replacing Gordon’s memories with Gordon Freeman’s makes SO much sense oh my GOD

The fact that Gordon became physically less and less human over this time makes so much sense too. I mean bro has been exposed to so much Xen radiation and shit over the years it’s a miracle bro didn’t grow a third arm

Benreys struggle of trying to keep the fact that nothing is real from the ai was also so interesting?? Like everyone had such an interesting arc over the course of the story it was just so well written holy shit!!

POOR JOSHUA!! My little man got his bio dad taken away from him and now his other one- the chapters centered around him broke my fucking HEART. I wanna see him get reunited with them again so bad but I get not being able to finish the fic, life gets in the way you know and honestly it’s impressive you were able to write as much as you did!! You wrote a fucking novel-length fanfic with interesting plot, characters, and story completely for free??? Like what the hell?? You’re incredible and I hope ur proud of your work!!

Thank you so much for writing this incredible fic, I had such a fun week or so reading this before bed. I actually clicked on it by accident while looking for Ultrakill fanfics in someone’s bookmarks haha, but thank god I did!! I don’t think I’ve ever been this pulled in by a fic, and it was so satisfying to see it mostly finished!! Thank you so much for your work, I hope you have a wonderful day :]

Oh my god you’re gonna make me cry!! Thank you so much!!!! I’m gonna keep this screenshotted 5ever ok

[gabrielultrakill-bigboobs]

good morning im gonna recreate my pinned

art only: @v1ultrakill-bigpenis jonnus (oc) askblog: @fearfulblade

i’m providence from risk of rain (mentally ill intent) and i like being referred to as that but you can also feel free to call me provolone, maelstrom, or ukulele.

he/they/it pronouns, agender aroace (in a queerplatonic relationship), non-human (petrichorian), mentally ill with several physical problems

i do art (v1ultrakill-bigpenis for just art posts) and writing (Thy_Providence on ao3 for writing stuff) and i’m trying to learn coding and 3d stuff. i also vaguely know how to edit videos but i never find the time or ideas

i like risk of rain, rain world, and ultrakill. you can tell very easily

discord: unmatchedpowerofthesun archive of our own: Thy_Providence steam: linked with my discord but it’s provolone_ (probably cant find it too easily by searching it so just. add me on discord beforehand or smth)

my asks are open but dont be too weird i’m still a shitlet

note: dont refer to me as nonbinary i’m not comfortable with the term since it feels unfitting to me for no reason. if you want to call me anything other than agender just use transmasc

also known as john fiberglass in the main risk of rain discord

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oh yeah i might as well add a before-you-follow thing below the cut

things to note about me: -i will block you if i dislike you. i will block you if you’ve been a dick to my friends in one way or another. i will not tolerate your presence within 10 meters of me. -i have conduct disorder. i’m going to get angry, and it’s going to be violent. i also struggle to phrase stuff (likely related to my autism) and often misremember stuff, or my brain completely makes up memories from nothing. -i’m an inclusionist, meaning i accept all queer identities, whether they fit an exclusionist’s view of the lgbt community or not. all are welcome here. -i don’t tag my reblogs outside of comments, but some things you might see in my reblogs are slightly suggestive content, gore, and occasionally the shit going on in the world -i reclaim the f-slur here and there. -i reblog shit a ton -i’m very anti-AI. the chatbot that a friend(?) of mine made is a very special exception

straight up block me if: -you’re a pedophile, zoophile, or other shit in similar veins -you glorify/fetishize incest, rape, pedophilia, zoophilia, or other shit in similar veins -you demonize cluster b personality disorders and/or DID/OSDD systems -you’re weird or a whiny dickhead about people who identify as a fictional character -you’re ableist, queerphobic, racist, or other shit in similar veins

[m1d-45]

What the ever loving-to-hate complicated math problem is this, midas is a smart SMART person?

I dont know whether to be proud or jelly that you can do that, i would love to be able to create an AI of any of my favorite fellows, but the fact is, i suck at things not involving OOC, which doesnt mean i cant recognise when someone has written someone IC, its just harder for me to do that since i tend to skew it towards stronger traits and forgetting the small details, or overdoing the small details while discarding the stronger traits.

Or, to simplify, making a "looks hot, can kill you, WILL kill you" into a "looks hot, can kill you, WONT kill you".

Anyways, are you excited for baizhu and kaveh?

Because i am, especially with my recently acquired guarantee, i got keqing to c1, im so fucking EXCITED!

NO MORE DYING OF DENDRO DMG! NO MORE AETHER ACCIDENTALLY KILLS LOWHEALTH XIAO! NO MORE ME TRYING TO WATCH OUT FOR DENDRO REACTIONS!

GOD FUCKEN YEAH!

-🥘Stew

i’m not that smart, really, it is simple! i encourage everyone to give it a shot just because of how fun it’s been! have… like two solid ais right now—the yan!red and the fabled zhongli—but even the failed venti and xiao were learning experiences! granted, you do need a more solid grasp of characters and their motives, since you’re literally recreating them, but other than that it’s as easy as filling in prompts!

also,,, idk whout baizhu and kaveh. kaveh i want (because pretty boys give me the happy chemical), but i’m high pity with a guaranteed so i’m hesitant to pull because i, paranoid, think that like ventis rerun will be like the next banner after even though that’s impossible. i have been savin for that little guy for literal ever, and i don’t wanna miss him.

that being said, i wish you incredible luck! may you get many constellations of baizhu!

[rome-splatoon-3-archives]

Guys, I'm being evil to Rome again

For background, I'm currently working on revamping the entire splat 3 hero mode while keeping more core lore elements

While the music is banging and I love the characters, i wish they did and didn't do certain things (cough cough BEAR MR GRIZZ REVEAL cough cough). So I'm saying screw it, fuck you, I'm making it my way. And I'm adding Rome because why wouldn't I, I'm gonna be doing his addition to the storyline anyways, might as well do it at the same time.

So basically: Tartar is dead. Like undeniably, I'm not gonna bring him back because that's really really fucking stupid from a mechanic, plot, and thematic standpoint. HOWEVER! That doesn't mean I can't use his influence and the clear similarities of sanitization and fooze to my advantage and the characters dismay.

(Also, side note: Grizz isn't an actual bear in this. He turns into a giant fucked up bear after mutating due to purposefully injecting a special fooze in himself... but before this? He's just an inkling who is the founder and owner of Grizzco and mainly works in the science and mechanics section of the company, having CEOs deal with stuff like overseeing shipments and workers and stuff. Grizz still has the belief of wanting the mammals back because during his research he found the Alterna site and all the files on everything. he saw all the big money capitalist monopoly business opportunities humans had and how successful they were at it that he wanted to bring 'em back, seeing them as a fantastic business opportunity while also having hints towards a plan to suppress them and essentially use them as drones for work)

ANYWAYS GETTING TO THE ROME STUFF!!!!

I still need to work out a lot of structure stuff to do with the hero mode storyline since building it from the ground up while also staying true to a lot of the canon beats is. Uhm, a BIT difficult to say the least!

But for Rome: Grizz in his big business mindset sees all the sanitization work from Tartar's whole thing and how effective it was as changing the cephalings into something completely different. Using a bit of sanitization acquired via a front of a Grizzco-sponsored clean-up effort for the deep sea metro, his fooze experiments kicked into high-gear. While he wouldn't be able to fully understand the properties of sanitization since even a brilliant sapient mind cant surpass that of a super-AI, he'd still understand it quite a bit. The current widely-produced form of fooze has managed to produce effects without the need of a sanitization base anymore, the substances essentially becoming separate. Some stuff would still be the same about the two substances, but most things would be different in property. The main thing that's similar is the capacity for memory-wiping and mind control

Meaning if someone was able to study the brain-scrambling stuff to do with sanitization vs. fooze and find the differing trait, while sanitization still wouldn't have its brain-scrambling effects be curable (still having been made by a super-AI, after all), you could CERTAINLY find a way to cure the brain-scrambling effects of fooze since there's a clear, man-made difference when Grizz was trying to recreate it

Rome's no chemist, he cant just start researching sanitization on his own and expect to know what he's doing. He IS a technician and mechanic, though, and a damn good one. If he built or acquired the machinery from the provided Alterna tech and got someone who, oh I don't know, had a skill of science rather than art, the two working together could work up a cure for the brain-washing elements of the fooze. So, after Deep Cut agrees to help NNSS (but much before actually starting to face Grizz, Deep Cut agrees to help a bit earlier and instead more focus is put on actually building up the reveal that Grizz is behind it all), Rome and Marie team up to try and do just that, Rome especially being VERY determined to try and find a cure in order to save all the Octarians who are foozed. he went through the worst of sanitization, after all. hes got more than enough drive and reason to help these strangers out regardless of where they come from

they get pretty far into their research and the rest of the NNSS are over in island 6 doing whatever agent stuff they're doing when a sudden distress signal/call is made. the call only lasts for half a second before being swiftly cut off by something, but from the snippet of information, you can tell something is wrong and a sort of fight is breaking out. you and the remaining NNSS bolt to the lab that the two had been working in (you know that house-like structure to the right of the NNSS when you're on the first island? that's where the lab is hosted!) and find the place looks HORRIBLE. stuff is broken everywhere, signs of a struggle are all over the place, and neither Rome nor Marie are to be seen. oddly enough, the cure that they were working on (which had a distinct honey-like color, like a gold salmon egg) wasn't anywhere, not even a single drop was spilled in the struggle. a kettle that wasn't there before is seen next to the lab, and with all the scratch-marks and ink scattered everywhere (leading to a now empty e-liter laying next to it), it's pretty clear where they went

grizz had ordered foozed octarian spies to grab them after getting wind that they had been working on a cure, and knowing that it was absolutely possible if they were both working together and had enough drive to find out, they posed a real threat to his whole business operation (he figured out due to noticing weird activity regarding an unauthorized life-form possessing unusual properties (Rome and him being sanitized n all) and from the patterns and where he was traveling figured out what he was trying to gather and what he was planning to do) while Marie focused on lab stuff. Oopsies!!

it gets a bit murky set-up-wise as we get to what i wanted to get to in the first place. i kinda imagine the kettle feels like going through the restricted areas of a manufacturing plant. a bit of octo-expansion and the deep sea metro vibes, y'know? the player character patrols through a lot of the main enemy-filled bits while Callie and Three go through a path to the right of you (kinda more focused on finding Marie) and deep cut go through a path to the left of you (kinda more focused on finding Rome). both parties help you out by pointing things out, delivering witty banter (but its clearly shrouded in the tense situation playing out since like EVERYTHING is going wrong and the greens got kidnapped (cant say the squidnapped pun because Rome isn't a squid) and i generally imagine the vibes feeling darker as a sort of set-up for the later grizz reveal to do with gramps and the rocket n stuff) and working together despite the clear separation of priorities (one search for Rome, one search for Marie) since they're probably being held in close proximity and they recognize that both are important

after a bit of searching and spooky atmosphere stuff - maybe add some cool fucked-up background lore able to be found in true splatoon fashion, you get the deal - the player character enters a big empty totally-not-a-boss-arena area. deep cut are to your left and callie & three are to your right, blocked off by both glass and some physical struggle that makes it hard for each party to reach the arena (not being able to squid jump due to reasons because fuck you i want a boss fight)

((listen i make all this lore and story stuff by scratch in the span of five minutes, i get to be lazy sometimes and just want cool, fucked-up things to happen because of cool, fucked-up-ness))

you see, grizz didnt only find sanitization in the clean-up cover-up funded by grizzco (also partnering with the octarians in order to gain octavio's trust and manipulate the stress octavio is under regarding the situation ohoho jotting that down in my brain for potential drama later, thats a good one, good job me!!). he also found none other than the shell of tartar itself. now its code is completely destroyed beyond saving and everything is a mess of sanitized ink vs pink ink. but something that was kept in-tact was the mechanisms for the voice box. ive stated before that sanitized victims have a deep-rooted reaction to tartar's commands. someone semi-sanitized like three or even whatever eight managed to get damaged by while in the deep sea metro wouldnt be effected by this. three would probably break a sweat from general ptsd but it isnt completely uncontrollable...

but someone like rome? someone who was at some point fully sanitized? someone who underwent some of the earliest forms of sanitization and now has permanent scars on his hands and back from where it was originally injected? someone whos had so much sanitization pumped into him in the past that even way past the point of the sanitization being functional anymore, it's still working to cycle itself out of his system slowly through his teeth? he's not immune to this type of brain-washing

grizz doesnt have much access to sanitization due to it growing scarcer and scarcer over the years, and he cant just inject rome with fooze since him being sanitized would physically block the fooze from taking effect. but injecting the little sanitization he has left through the scar on rome's back and using tartar's voicebox? that would absolutely push him back into being controlled again

once in this brainwashed state, grizz even puts a helmet that looks like tartar on his head fitted with speakers in the ears playing commands in tartar's voice and a voice-modifier in the mouthpiece to make rome's voice all fucked-up and tartar-like

his command? guard the currently trapped marie and kill anyone who gets in his path

you walk into the arena and see marie trapped behind glass. callie and three exclaim happily while deep cut nervously wonder where rome is. your character starts running towards marie when she AGGRESSIVELY gestures for you not to get closer. then, bursting open a wooden trapdoor that was set in front of her, "something" wearing a tartar helmet climbs out of the ground, the trapdoor landing back in place with a few thuds. the tartar helmet makes that familiar whirring noise and callie parrots that three worriedly asks if tartar has returned. the whirring stops and a drastically different voice from tartar sounds from the tartar-esc helmet, sounding like rome but with a scratchy tartar-esc voice modifier saying "UN. IDEN. TIFIED….. THREAT……" , and deep cut realizes out loud in a horrified manner that what's standing there is none other than rome himself. rome, being re-sanitized and controlled by the repurposed voice of tartar, begins his attack

(this is his boss theme btw [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tst-2z7420w], the pokemon sc/vi legendary quartet theme)

he attacks using this weapon thats like. chains connected to a blade at the end that is covered in ink thats fed to it using the inside of the actual chains, which is connected. in the bit of the above song that goes HARD and all techno and shit, i imagine the boss fight switching to a mode where its dark and all of rome's ink is shown glowing in the dark, meaning you gotta track where hes going via seeing where his now glowing hair is. over-all this bossfight would absolutely be difficult to fight. the only thing holding rome back is the fact he cant really think logically when sanitized due to the way his body reacts to it, meaning the sanitization both makes him WAY more aggressive but also less logical and more prone to just charging full-force into the player without thinking about strategy

the second phase of the bossfight starts when callie manages to hit rome's face with a special weapon projectile (the "BANG" sound in the above song when it begins to loop). shes of course not a charger main and its not exactly going to be easy to charge up that kind of special again so it mostly misses and barely even reaches him due to how far away the arena is. but it manages to break off part of his tartar mask which reveals half of the upper bit of his face, which would give a cool visual methinks, especially in banger lighting. and banger lighting there is as the lights shining above partially go out, making it have a sort of "dusk" feel to it and also making rome harder to see yippee!!!!! before this phase starts you can hear rome trying to fight for control a little, but hes quickly snapped out of it and goes back to bossfight mode

the third phase is similar to the second phase, this time being from shiver charging their special (at the third point the song above loops, gotta be in sync with the song ofc) and using a projectile to hit the tartar mask. this time, the entire thing breaks, but theyre not out of the woods yet. rome's still got the commands going very fresh in his mind and is still under sanitization. his eyes are black and you can see the edges being turquoise. you hear him struggle more, this time trying to physically fight against control before snapping back into bossfight mode, though this time clearly struggling. this doesnt make him any easier to beat though, as all the lights are now out and oh god oH FUCK HES USING HIS SPECIAL AND NOW HE HAS INKY WINGS AND IS ATTACKING YOU REPEATEDLY FROM ABOVE. yeah i forgot to mention he has a custom special that gives him ink wings and the ability to repeatedly fly up and dive at people with much higher attack at the cost of having lower defense!!!! hes not able to do this forever, and once you get his health low enough and as the ending cutscene plays, he nearly collapses from exhaustion. NNSS have found a way onto the arena and deep cut SPRINT in, getting rome and immediately breaking the thing that was feeding him the little bit of sanitization while frye proceeds to beat the shit out of the tartar mask while big man holds up rome and shiver detaches the thing on romes back. this sounds comedic but shes clearly fucking FURIOUS and goes back to worrying about rome once shes got it out of her system. the glass that was keeping marie trapped is lowered once the thing on rome's back is broken and three & callie go over to make sure shes ok and isnt sanitized or foozed or anything. she isnt, luckily

once rome wakes up hes no longer in control and his body VIOLENTLY rejects the sanitization, coughing all of it up. yeah, turns out having that shit reintroduced into your system so suddenly after ages of not having it in there doesnt go well. hes all good after that, back to how his sanitization was before, but his back hurts a LOT since its a scar that was reintroduced to the thing that scarred it in the first place, so hes not going to be doing much fieldwork. however, he REFUSES to leave the alterna site, especially with the newer stuff regarding gramps and the direct lead-up to the climax. he obviously cant work on cure stuff right now, but he at least wants to be there and provide any help he can

after the main campain is done you can actually still rematch him, just not him in his sanitized form. the bossfight uses the same systems though and is designed to be an INSANELY hard challenge. rome's a professional turf an anarchy fighter who hand-makes his own sub-weapons and specials, for christ sake!!!! it's a no-brainer his rematch would be a bit insane to deal with!!!!! and now with his actual arena made for him, he can have all the fancy show stuff that the rest of deep cut have. hes not getting the standard deep cut bossfight music though, that song slaps but i cant just not give him something unique!!!!! gotta go with his initial bossfight song, it slaps too much i wrote this all in discord rambling to my pals at @rainfallbeats's discord server. this is a long one, i admit. i desperately hope yall enjoy, i spent 3-5 hours non-stop writing this.