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PRESS RELEASE: Second Annual ‘Marvelous Game Showcase’ Delivers Exciting Updates on Fan-favorite STORY OF SEASONS and Rune Factory Series; Reveals NARUTO: Arcade Battle for North America, and More

Second Annual ‘Marvelous Game Showcase’ Delivers Exciting Updates on Fan-favorite STORY OF SEASONS and Rune Factory Series; Reveals NARUTO: Arcade Battle for

North America, and More

New Looks for Additional Titles in Development Include Opening Animation for

Monster Farming / Action Title Farmagia and Striking New Teaser for DAEMON X MACHINA: Titanic Scion

TORRANCE, Calif., — May 30, 2024 — Marvelous USA, Inc. and XSEED Games today shared a localized version of parent company Marvelous Inc.’s second annual ‘Marvelous Game Showcase,’ which debuted today at 3:00pm PT. President Suminobu Sato hosted the showcase and was joined by key members of development teams to provide updates on titles announced in last year's event, and announce new regional and global initiatives for the Marvelous family of companies.

Farmagia (formerly Project Magia): Product Manager Takehiro Ishida revealed the official title of the project, Farmagia, and presented the game’s opening animation, giving gamers an action-packed look at the cast of characters and powers they wield. Ishida-san also shared details on key characters in the game, designed by popular artist Hiro Mashima, including Ten, the protagonist who often acts before thinking; Arche, his childhood friend who balances both kindness and a competitive nature; Chica, another childhood friend with a more reserved demeanor; and Lookie-Loo, Ten’s sidekick and de-facto mascot. The title is planned for a global release in 2024.

STORY OF SEASONS: The next, as-yet-untitled entry in the beloved franchise continues its development as the team focuses on improvements to the visual presentation and natural environments. Series Manager Hikaru Nakano joined to debut a fresh look at the results of their efforts, highlighting how aspects such as updated natural lighting and festival fireworks have been improved to enhance immersion and atmosphere. The project remains in active development and will be fully revealed at a later date. In the meantime, Nakano-san confirmed new gameplay features including a player-controlled glider and the return of fan-favorite pets.

Amusement Section: Marvelous Inc. supports more than just PC and console entertainment and announced a number of new arcade initiatives including NARUTO: Arcade Battle, which will be available in North America this summer. Players will experience the world of NARUTO on a massive 50” screen, where they’ll engage in intense ninjutsu battles and collect plates to reach the highest rank they can! Arcade titles for Japan release only were also presented.

Indie Partner Lineup: The Marvelous family continues to invest in helping creative and exciting visions from smaller indie developers become a reality with global support for titles! Titles introduced for worldwide release include Bitsummit 2023 Grand Prize winner Death the Guitar, where players become an electric guitar fighting with the power of death metal to avenge their owner, planned for a 2025 release; and Moonlight Peaks, the supernatural-themed vampire farming/life sim title from Dutch developer Little Chicken, scheduled for 2026 release. One additional title, Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus, was also presented for release in Asia and Japan by Marvelous on July 28, 2024.

Rune Factory: Following a brief history on the evolution of the Rune Factory series and how it has grown across nine titles released over 18 years, Rune Factory series Director Shiro Maekawa joined the stream to reveal a new video for Rune Factory: PROJECT DRAGON sharing a look at the title’s protagonists. Players can choose to play as either Subaru or Kaguya, two new Earthmates with a twist; they will use the power of dance, rather than farming, to communicate and interact with the world around them. This new approach to interacting with the world comes with non-combat tools, including parasols and drums; series staple weapons like swords; and brand-new weapon types to experiment with, including bows and talismans.

DAEMON X MACHINA: Titanic Scion: First revealed during last year’s Marvelous Game Showcase, DAEMON X MACHINA: Titanic Scion once again closed out the show, where President Sato-san shared an evocative look at Marvelous’ First Studio’s mech-action sequel.  Additional details including platforms and a release window will be announced at a later date.

To celebrate the Showcase, select STORY OF SEASONS and Rune Factory titles will be on sale for up to 60% off on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch™ through June 7, 2024.

More information about XSEED Games’ products can be found at www.xseedgames.com Fans can also follow XSEED Games on Facebook, X, Instagram, Twitch, Threads, get in depth info from their developer blog, and join the discussion on their Discord server at: http://discord.gg/XSEEDGames.

About XSEED Games

XSEED Games is the independent-minded publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Marvelous Inc., which is a publicly traded company listed in the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Formed in 2004 by a small group of industry veterans, XSEED Games is headquartered in Torrance, California and publishes video games on PC and consoles in North America. The publisher's diverse portfolio of over 100 titles includes releases from Marvelous Inc. including STORY OF SEASONS (Bokujo Monogatari), Rune Factory, and DAEMON X MACHINA, titles from third-party partners including AKIBA’S TRIP, Corpse Party, and Granblue Fantasy: Versus, and titles from independent developers including Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Potionomics and Cuisineer. XSEED Games has grown its reputation among global gamers with its critically acclaimed localizations and commitment to fans, remaining ever dedicated to its “indie spirit, player-first” approach for quality games.

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What if springtrap x reader but I write it from springtraps POV idk I wanna study him this is rlly similar to another thing I wrote btw if it feels familiar :P idk why but I love writing this exact scene lmao

God, how long has it been? Months? Years? Decades? How was I supposed to know? I haven't spoken to anyone since I was left in here, and I probably never will again. I'm still trying to figure out what to do to pass the time. At first my methods were a little more about escaping, but clawing at the walls and slamming my self against the door was both very painful, and was also not doing anything for me, so I stopped doing those pretty quickly. Then I remembered there were arcade machines in this room! But then I remembered that this is the parts and service room and they were out of order. And very unplayable. But that didn't stop me, I ended up disassembling and putting them back together a few times.

That got boring, too.

Now I'm not really sure what to do. I spend a lot of my time either fidgeting with loose wires or pacing around like some kind of scared animal. After I stopped having the indescribable dread of realizing I was trapped here, it changed to craving something. Anything, really. Whether it was hearing music from outside, seeing a color other than pitch black, feeling anything other than the freezing cold tile floor and my own pain.

I think I mostly craved company, though.

I was never into psychology, but speaking from experience, I'm pretty sure that completely depriving a human of any communication or entertainment for years (decades??) will fuck someone up.

There's some sort of noise around the door. It's happened a few times, usually someone who broke in trying to get into the room before discovering it's boarded up. I don't know who boarded up this room, but I'd like to have a talk with them. Only a little murder included. So I don't get my hopes up too much. They're not going to get in.

So maybe I get a little excited when for the first time, I actually DO hear the door crack open and light pour in.

Holy shit, it's happening.

I can finally get out of here.

I felt nearly manic at the sight. So imagine my thoughts when someone walked in.

I freeze. What do I do?

There is so much I want to say.

Can I even talk?

I don't know anymore.

Who is this?

I try to look at them without moving. Nobody I recognize. That's probably a good thing.

If I move, I might scare them.

On one hand, then I'd be able to leave.

But on the other hand, I need to talk to someone, ANYONE, so bad that I can't let then leave already.

So I stay still while they approach.

They must not be deterred by the sight of me, surprisingly, because they crouch down beside me like I'm not... like this.

"What the hell are you?" They laugh under their breath. Wow, okay. First words spoken to me in this long. I deserve that, though.

I need to talk so bad but how am I supposed to talk to anyone now? I don't even remember how it works, let alone if I physically could. I pray they'll ask a yes-or-no question soon.

They stand back up.

No. No, no, no, not already. They can't leave. I have to risk it.

I try my best to tell them not to go. It comes out as more of a noise you'd make on your deathbed, but it's enough to get them to stop in their tracks.

"No. Nope, I am NOT being your horror movie protagonist who dies first, nope. Not today." They turn to run out the door. This time I'm prepared. Kind of.

"No-" I manage to choke out before realizing how much it hurts to speak, and very pathetically falling against the wall in pain. I have to get the message through, though. "Don't go."

"Hooly shit." The person stares at me in horror. "I have so many questions."

Talking hurts so bad, but nothing hurts worse than my indescribable loneliness, so I'll just have to deal with that later. I have to say something.

"Me too."

[blushroom20]

r/tipofmyjoystick

See the Reddit version of this post, it's updated more frequently.

A subreddit where people describe games they vaguely remember and need help identifying. I have helped a handful of people on there before, but I also started making my own posts. I will list the titles here and link the corresponding Reddit post that leads to more details. If it has been found, I will also list the game.

I'm using this Tumblr post to both advertise and keep track of my own posts. The Reddit equivalent of this post will be updated more frequently because if @videogamepolls has shown me anything, you guys don't play games.

[PC][LATE 90s-EARLY 2000s] Ice Cream Truck Management Sim

[PC][Early 2000s] Game where you manage a Movie Theater (but NOT make movies) - FOUND: Cinema Tycoon Gold

[PC][MID 2010s] Mediocre Post-Apocalyptic Tactics Game with Number in Title

[PC] [Early/Mid 2000s] Top-Down Alien Adventure game with Best Buy Branding?

[DSiWare][Early 2010s] Strategy Game with Cavemen?

[PC / Website?] [2000s/2010s] Puzzle Game with Colorful Blobs that Merged Together and had Physics - FOUND: Gluey (Found this one myself lol)

The following I have not posted on Reddit yet but are currently sitting in my drafts; hey if you find this post and know one of these let me know:

[PC] [Early/Mid 2000s] Top Down Alien Adventure game with Best Buy Branding?

[DSiWare][Early 2010s] Strategy Game with Cavemen?

[PC] [Early/Mid 2000s] Two Button (?) Music/Rhythm Game - Had the song: "Chopsticks"

[WEBSITE] [Early 2000s] Racecar game where you speed depends on solving math problems

[Website/Y8] [Early/Mid 2000s] Archery game with Stick Figures; Shoot the apple on the stick figure's head, blood would spill out if you hit the other stick figure

[PC] [2000s] A "Modernization" of Supaplex with better graphics and a subtitle mentioning Murphy

[PC] [2010s?] Simulator where you manage a (American) Football Stadium

And here's some games I would have made a post for but was able to find before I did:

The Snowy the Bear series - [2000s] [PC] 2D platformer games with bipedal white bear protagonist. I specifically remember playing the one set in space.

Super Candy Crusher - [2002] [PC] Candy themed puzzle game where the goal is to move around candy get the same type in a row/column to clear them. Got way harder to find due to the existence of Candy Crush. The "One more to go!" voice line has stuck in my head for years.

Air Strike 3D - [2003] [PC] 3D Vertical Helicopter shoot em' up that my dad and I used to play.

Platypus - [2004] [PC] Horizontal shoot em' up with a claymation artstyle.

Turtle Bay - [2004] [PC] Game you play as a turtle and swim around, try to clean up the sea while avoiding mines (fun fact I had to find the game again for this post lol).

Magic Ball Deluxe - [2004] [PC] 3D Breakout type game where the structures you destroyed had verticality.

Burglar X - [1997] [Arcade] Top-down 3D game where you grab gold and attack with farts(?). A guy laughs when you lose a life.

Block Hole - [1989] [Arcade] Shoot blocks, make large squares to destroy them before the reach the bottom of the screen.

Geo Land RPG - [2007] [Flash Game] Top Down RPG featuring basic shapes as characters (Squares, triangles, circles). The main battle theme uses a remix of the Boss Theme from Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. I don't know who made the remix but the original version of the song is here for reference.

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Random anime recs !!

I get bored really often and I look up for anime/manga rec lists so I thought I should make one in case someone needs it too :p I'll try my best to avoid the really popular ones!

Orange | Drama, Romance

Everyone has regrets in life. So who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter tells her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him. But why? Naho must decide what to make of the letter and its cryptic warning, and what it means not only for her future, but for Kakeru's as well.

Personal comment: If you like tear-jerkers then this is definitely a good anime for you. I really appreciate animes that make me like the entire cast rather than just the protagonists and that was a case with this one too. Suwa best boy!

Fukumenkei noise | Music, Romance

It tells a romance story with the themes of "music x one-sided love." Nino, a girl who loves singing, made a childhood promise with her first crush Momo and song-composing Yuzu to someday find her voice. The three went their separate ways, but Nino kept her promise and continued to sing. Years later, the three are now high school students, and Nino is drawn into the world of band clubs.

Personal comment: This anime was so fun to watch that I completed watching it in a day and I really liked the music too. This is one of those animes that make you feel like you wanna get up and grab a guitar too. The anime ending was satisfactory but I felt kinda attached to the characters so I'm reading the manga now.

Mikagura school suite | Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Yuri

It revolves around high school girl Eruna Ichinomiya, who enters the Mikagura Academy dreaming of a boarding school life filled with beauty. However, Eruna finds out that in the culture clubs, there is a rule that battles that are fought with special powers decide a club representative's treatment. Through various circumstances, Eruna becomes a representative of a club, and is thrown into the fray.

Personal comment: 😭 Eruna really picks a school just because of a girl that she saw in the pamphlet and pretty uniforms. Also she's gay as fuck.

Sakurasou no pet na kanojo | Comedy, Romance, Slice of life

The first time he saw her, it was love at first sight. Unfortunately for Sorata Kanda, "she" was a cat named Hikari and his school's rules forbid keeping pets in the regular dorms. As a result, Sorata is banished to the infamous Sakura Hall alongside other troublesome and unusual students like Jin, overzealous playboy, Ryuunosuke, the reclusive hermit, and Mashiro, a brilliant artist who's so unfocused and clueless about the real world that dorm supervisor Ms. Sengoku assigns Sorata the task of taking care of her along with his ever-growing collection of stray cats!

Personal comment: It's a really fun watch and also deals with topics such as the difference between normal people and prodigies. The characters are really likeable!

Wonder egg priority | Drama, Horror, Fantasy, Psychological

This is the story of Ai, an introverted girl whose fate is forever changed when she acquires a mysterious “Wonder Egg” from a deserted arcade. That night, her dreams blend into reality, and as other girls obtain their own Wonder Eggs, Ai discovers new friends—and the magic within herself.

Personal comment: It is an ongoing anime but it has really managed to impress me with just 2 eps. It's visually stunning and touches on topics such as bullying and abuse and facing your trauma in a really unconventional way.

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Bound to each other (ch.III)

genre: angst, ennemies to ???

pairing : Kuroo c reader, Bokuto x reader

WC: 1220

ch.II | Masterlist

Rain pouring down could be heard from his bedroom; there was not much surprising to it as it was late April. Kuroo was laying in his bed, facing the ceiling. Not much happened since the start of the new school year, just like not much happened during the last two terms of his second year. Oh yes, one thing happened. 

He started treating you like he treated the other team members -after all, you were their manager. He had stopped making group chats where you weren’t included. It was just a thing he did so he could hang out with the others without you, thinking it would be too awkward since you ignored each other.  Spending time around you was something he found himself enjoying. You brought some other kind of light to the group  -it almost felt surreal, felt like the sun would have stopped shining upon them if you were to disappear. Was it the way you held yourself, the way you laughed, or even the way you never hesitated to hold out a hand to anyone? 

Your group hangouts allowed him to discover a new you -whether it was the afternoons and evenings spent at the arcade, the park, at one’s house. He had grown to learn some habits of yours - the way you liked your pizza, your taste in movies, the way you could talk so passionately about your favorite authors, and how you always tried to match the color of your shoes and your shirts. And truth to be told, he quite enjoyed it, wishing he could have made you a friend. 

Discomfort seemed to always find a way to intrude itself amongst the two of you whenever you were left alone -it was barely noticeable, but it was still there. He did his best to lessen it, or even get rid of it, making sure to pay attention to even the smallest things about your body language. He had brought you a book you favorite author wrote once, told you he had read it and wished to be able to discuss it with you. “I didn’t think you would enjoy this kind of books, but thanks, that’s very considerate of you, I’ll make sure to read it by the end of the week,” you responded with the slightest smile. Considerate of him? He was no fool, he was under no illusion. He hadn’t expected you to miraculously forgive him, and he wasn’t mad that you didn’t.

Spring symbolized renewal - a wild guess he could make was that there would be plenty of occasions to make you at ease with him. He thought of the Cherry Blossom Festival -it would have been awkward if it was just the two of us though, it would have looked like a date or just something romantic- so he asked the whole team to come.

Waltzing through the sakura trees, a smile adorning your face, he thought you looked like you belonged in a movie -one where you would be the protagonist, one where you would get your own happily ever after. He hoped he would not just be an extra on your movie.You plucked a flower from the trees, tucked it behind your ear and you went back to dancing amongst the tree, surrounded by flowers. And at that moment, Kuroo could have sworn you were one yourself.

It made him remember a haiku he had found after making some research on a poet you talked about. 

さまざまのこと思い出す桜かな*. Various things, they call to mind, ah, cherry blossoms! )*

Yes, all of this was definitely because of the cliché of the romantic set-up made by cherry blossoms -maybe he could have had a better idea than going to Ueno Sakura Matsuri.

The sun was setting down when the group left the park. The colors of it brought out your features in a way he had never seen -it kissed your skin as if it was a first kiss, in the most grandiose way. When the group split, it didn’t take long to start raining -maybe about thirty minutes, but Kuroo was already home. He wondered if you were,or if you had found something to shelter yourself. He hoped you did.

Kuroo rolled around in his bed one last time, deciding that the day he just had was quite odd, but still a good day. It was 11:47 now, he decided he should try to sleep now.

It was 7:45 when Kuroo’s alarm clock rang. He woke up grudgingly -the first term already ended, but he still had to wake up early to go to the summer training camp. The whole team -you- would be here.  A part of him couldn’t wait to introduce his friends from Fukurodani to the team -to you-, because it had been five years since Nekoma last took part in one of these, so many of his teammates -you- didn’t know them yet. Another part of him was reluctant about that idea, what if the team -you- and the other teams didn’t get along? He decided it didn’t really matter, because at the end of the day, he was Nekoma’s captain, so he would have to side with his team -with you.

Yukie and Kaori were the first to greet you -telling you they were from Fukurodani. Meanwhile, Kuroo was busy catching up with Bokuto: “So she is the manager you told me about? You sure it’s the same person that you told me about? Come on man, she can’t be that bad, Yukie and Kaori seem to like her!” a shocked Bokuto exclaimed loudly, before slapping Kuroo on the shoulder and jogging towards you so he could introduce himself. Ah yeah, he hadn’t really updated him on you. Maybe he should have. 

“HEY HEY HEEEY! I’m Bokuto Kotaro, Fukurodani’s ace and captain,” the spiky haired boy exclaimed, pointing at himself with his thumb. “ And you must be (y/n) if you’re Nekoma’s manager!” 

“Yes, that’s my name,” you giggled, amused by the ace’s antics,”but can I ask you how you know that?” Oh no. Kuroo hoped Bokuto wouldn’t be blunt enough to tell you, especially with all the things he used to say about you. Oh he should have definitely kept him updated about you. Kuroo gave a silent prayer -that’s all he could do at this point.

“How could i NOT know about Nekoma’s manager? As the amazing captain that I am, I must know about my enemies !” 

Ah yes, what Akaashi called “Bokuto’s sixth weakness”, he liked to show off. It made Kuroo remember it -and it made him think that the Gods heard his prayer.He could breathe again; you would not learn about all the things he had said about you. 

He sighed in relief, and closed his eyes for what felt like half a second, but when he opened them again, he saw you laughing at Bokuto’s manners.It made Kuroo happy, thinking that if you made a friend of another one of his, he would get to spend more time with you, and you could become real friends. But he felt like he was shining upon you, brighter than the sun, and like he was blinding you, that you couldn’t see anything but this newfound sun.

A/N: Hi!! sorry for not updating earlier but I have been kinda busy these last few days :// So, about the haiku (*), I find it while looking for Japanese festivals, and i found the Ueno Sakura Matsuri, which is, from what I’ve understood, a cherry blossom festival in Ueno Park, in Tokyo. The haiku was written by Matsuo Basho, and you can read about it here -it’s where I got the traduction. I was thinking about starting an SMAU because I have an a idea, but i don”t know which characters i should pick so :CC. I think it could train me to write ‘dialogue’ even if i think im better at writing messages than dialoues (that introduction was weird AS FUCK, but clearly i can’t even introduce myself so how could i introduce someone else????)

[walters-tampon-string]

Holotape Night

Fandom: Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout

Rating: G

Warnings: None.

Characters: Arcade Gannon, Courier Six, Rex.

Relationships: Arcade Gannon/Courier Six (though it’s light). 

Description:  After watching a few holotapes, Arcade thinks seriously about his childhood.

Arcade Gannon never understood why Six had an affinity for exploring random buildings. At best, their explorations of such places would lead to them scrounging up a few bottle caps, stimpaks, and bottles of purified water. At worst, they were facing mutated creatures so horrific-looking they made deathclaws look like cute puppies in comparison. And unfortunately for them, finding such creatures, or at the very least, unpleasant people, was much more common. How they weren’t dead now was beyond him. Hell, they <i> wasted </i> half of their found stimpaks trying to survive these experiences half the time. 

Sometimes though, they wouldn’t find hidden treasures or mutants. Instead, they’d just wander around some dusty, dilapidated pre-War building that was completely void of anything interesting.

In his mind, it just wasn’t worth it. But whenever he tried to talk sense to Six, he was only left feeling like he was trying to argue with a brick wall. Six would just insist that Arcade needed a sense of adventure and that they were making memories. Every time, Arcade was always left wondering if the bullet that hit Six had scrambled the courier’s brain a little too much. But then again, Arcade still always reluctantly went along with whatever crazy misadventure Six suggested, so maybe he was no better.

Thankfully, the building they were wandering in now was one of the boring, safe ones. It was an old schoolhouse. It was obviously a pre-War building, given it’s utterly decrepit state. Not that the current buildings that got used in the Mojave were exactly architecturally great, but at least Arcade could walk on the floor of most of them without feeling like it was going to collapse out from under him. Most of the time, anyway.

But despite how piss-poor most of the conditions in here were, some things actually managed to keep somewhat intact, protected by a thick layer of dust. Arcade admired some of the old posters and devices in the building.

Unfortunately though, as far as anything useful went, there was nothing in this place. The place had obviously been found by others before them and pilfered through by Fiends or other characters, judging by the occasional sleeping mats or empty Med-X needles he found lying around. The most Six had managed to find was a measly five bottle caps. Not exactly enough for a good meal. Arcade sighed, glad he and Six always made sure to bring food with them.

They were about to give up ever finding anything good, Six lamenting about his bad luck, when suddenly, something caught Arcade’s eye.

“Is that a projector?” he asked, excitement creeping into his voice.

“Hm?” Six asked, looking at the machine that Arcade was indicating. Then shrugging, he said, “I dunno. Admittedly, I’ve never seen one myself, so I couldn’t exactly tell you.”

Arcade approached the machine curiously and began wiping the dust on it to inspect it closer. Excitement beginning to take over, Arcade exclaimed, “It is! I haven’t seen one of these bad boys since I was a kid.” He was giddy.

Six clearly didn’t understand why he was getting so excited, but supportively, he leaned down and said, “Does it work?”

Reality suddenly hit Arcade hard and he deflated just a tad, saying honestly, “Probably not.” This thing was only God knows how old and chances were it ran on electricity, which this building most definitely didn’t have anymore.

“Well, it doesn’t hurt to try, right?” Six asked with a shrug. He pressed the button on top of the machine and Arcade was genuinely surprised when he heard the machine begin to whir to life. When the light formed on the chalkboard across from them, Arcade felt his elation grow again.

Looking at Six, he asked, “Do you think they’d have holotapes here?”

Six shrugged, “Maybe. I think they would be in the desks over there.” He nodded towards the large desk across the room, which was probably intended to belong to a teacher. Arcade nodded and walked over to said desks. Rex padded close behind, no doubt to see if he could sniff out tasty morsels from the contents inside the desk. He’d already seen the dog munching on random bugs crawling around in the school.

After a few seconds of rummaging, Arcade was surprised and delighted to see that there were indeed holotapes. Most of them were educational in nature, but he saw a couple of fictional ones in there as well, some of which he recognized.

Turning to Six he said, “We’re spending the night here.”

Six nodded and grinned, “Holotape night?”

Arcade nodded immediately.

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Arcade was lying on the dirty sleeping mat they had found, watching as the protagonist of the film he was watching struggled to escape from a death trap he had gotten himself caught in. The scene was an intense one, but it had kind of lost it’s stakes since he had seen this film probably a hundred times when he was a kid.

Six and Rex were long since asleep, Rex snoring somewhere above Arcade’s head and Six lying on Arcade’s stomach. Rex had fallen asleep as soon it went dark, seemingly not interested in movie plots, but Six had actually stayed up for a surprisingly long time. Arcade had been delighted to see Six enraptured in the same clips that had given younger him a thrill. Apparently, Six had never seen a holotape in action before, not even in Vegas, so it was a whole new experience for him.

And seeing Six’s reactions was more amusing than the films themselves had the time. Six staring wide-eyed at the screen and cheering the protagonist on. At one point, Six had even jumped to his feet, so involved in the action he was.

Arcade had only intended for them to watch one holotape that night, but they wound up watching three holotapes whole and were now on their fourth.

Unfortunately, this one had ended up being Six’s downfall. The courier had tried to fight against his drowsiness, but eventually, he lost, and now he was asleep.

Arcade knew he should probably go to sleep himself. It was rather late after all. But for some reason, he couldn’t find himself feeling drowsy, too wrapped up in his thoughts. Too wrapped up in memories of his childhood.

He always liked to remember his childhood somewhat fondly, thinking of his mother and books and holotapes. But it wasn’t only great. There had been a lot of things wrong.

He had never gotten to meet his father. He wasn’t sure he wanted to. Why would he work for the Enclave if he was a good person? But then again, why had any of the Remnants? Their past and his current ideals still caused him trouble at times.

His mother had been kind and sweet, but always ill. She was bedridden most of his life.

He had to constantly be on the move or fleeing for crimes he never committed.

He had to live in secrecy even now, just for baring the same name as his father.

He never had a place he could call home.

No… life hadn’t always been easy. It was part of the reason he liked books and holotapes. It was not only an escape from his real life, but it let him see adventures of people who were perceived as ordinary, but went on grand adventures and did heroic things. That even when the odds were stacked against them, they managed to succeed and get a happy ending.

And as cynical as he had become over the years, he still found meaning in a message like that.

He looked over at the Courier. He still wasn’t sure how he would react when Arcade told him about his past… <i> if </i> he told Six about his past… but he hoped it wouldn’t be as bad as some of the possibilities Arcade thought up. Because he liked Six. He really did.

He felt like he didn’t have to hide most of himself from Six, that Six liked him anyway. And even though Six was crazy and reckless at times, his adventurous nature and heroism was admirable to Arcade. This little adventure they had gone on so far would be enough to fill any holotape movie… and it was still continuing.

Six made him feel like it was possible to be a hero.

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Bummer Anime 2018 Part 2: shoujo to the rescue

It got better, mostly because it could hardly get worse. That doesn’t mean it was a smooth ride, of course. I would like to state, for the record, that I’m not trying to be the funny guy who hates everything here; the season’s just that unusually bad. As before, the source for the ad copy at the end of each block is this.

Asobi Asobase

What: A bunch of assholes play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

✅ It’s another exuberant comedy, and unlike Chio-chan, I can’t catch this one on the execution: It has the technical chops and honestly good comedic timing.

❌❌ Initially wants to make you believe it’s a pleasant cute girls doing cute things show, but what it actually is is a brutally annoying and ugly explosion in the reactionface factory. Since the production values are there, it’s rather too good at that.

❌❌ I was trying to compare it to something, and the best I could come up with was rage comics. Yeah, it’s anime rage comics. It’s that bad.

❌❌ I would feel more benevolent towards it if it were shorter, but at full length its high energy screaming based assault is mostly just tiresome.

♎ This is one of those rare shows where even I will say your mileage may vary. It’s really good at what it does, but I hate everything it does. Hooray for the subversion, but at the end of the day you’re still annoying and ugly.

ANN sez: “It's this exact mix of stupid crassness and innocent naiveté that I think truly defines high-school life, and Asobi Asobase nails it perfectly. “

Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria

What: A smartphone with a light novel protagonist attached time travels to the bronze age, establishes a incest-fascist harem regime with the power of Wikipedia.

❌❌ read the synopsis again please

❌❌ there’s more idiocy than that, believe it or not (ex.: smartphone hotline to his actual imouto, for the feels), but I haven’t got all day.

❌❌ Basing your isekai shit on “history” (i.e., a LN author’s idiotic idea of history) instead of an MMO or whatever only serves to piss me off even more.

❌❌ Actually not better than Isekai Smartphone, which makes it one of the worst anime episodes I have ever seen. Congratulations. The only thing it has over Death March is that it doesn’t spend 80% of the time in menus, but it makes menus look pretty good so it’s a wash.

ANN brainfarts: “Yuuto also seems to be limiting his phone searches to historically accurate things as well, which shows that he's really thinking about the fact that he's in the past – no one's inventing the rocket here, they're just learning to grind grain and use the phalanx formation for battles.”

Phantom in the Twilight

What: Chinese girl travels to London, inadvertently inherits her great-grandma’s vampire harem. 

✅ Step 1 of every otome harem appraisal is determining how much of a wet blanket the protagonist is; Ton here is pretty spunky and even gets to kick some ass, so well done on that.

✅ Some of the right kind of nonsense for my taste, stuff like chav goblins and Jiangshi with miniguns is always appreciated.

✅ Random shows ending up with bizarre minimal techno soundtracks is still something that I approve of.

❌ Still not the glorious kind of nonsense that Dance With Devils had, nor the disregard of actual romance in favor of comedy that Dame x Prince exhibited. It’s an otome-ass otome harem and that’s not inspiring confidence for the long term.

❌ Looks cheap, and that won’t be getting any better.

ANN sez: “The fantasy worldbuilding here also felt far more sturdy than in many similar shows; this isn't a world where the Good Fantasy Guys fight the Bad Fantasy Guys, this is a world where creatures like goblins and spriggans and werewolves all exist, all possess their own cultures and priorities, and uneasily rub shoulders with each other.”

Jashin-chan Dropkick

What: Demon snake girl wants to murder the chuuni gothloli that summoned her, gets owned right back.

❌❌ It’s the second coming of Dokuro-chan, with every punchline being torture. Quite literally for the characters, and consequently for the audience as well.

❌❌ Needless to say, the entire cast (there’s some additional supernatural babes, none of which make much of an impression) are jerks and the show being wantonly mean-spirited towards them does not cancel that out. 

❌ Somehow the second anime about eating reptile ass in recent memory. But Maidragon, as lame as it was, wasn’t as terrible as this. Jashin-chan won’t get into insipid family feels any time soon, but the alternative is worse.

ANN sez: “If this is your taste in humor, it may be worth giving a second episode to see if it starts pulling that off.”

Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes

What: Handsome genius antique dealer appraises old pottery and his assistant’s soul.

✅ I have to admit that if you somehow decided to make a otome version of Sherlock without anything so crass as murder, this is how you’d do it. It works.

✅ The leading pair has simple but effective chemistry.

✅ The studio behind it has mostly done porn OVAs before, which is the kind of meta-humor I can get behind.

❌ Based on a series of novels, so naturally the talkytalk gets out of hand.

❌ Doesn’t have the highest budget, tries to make up for it with rainbow-colored garishness. Not a dealbreaker but it could get tiresome.

ANN sez: “While Yagashira cuts a handsome figure as the bishonen, Aoi has more of an ordinary appearance – perhaps deliberately so, since I suspect that the source novels were originally aimed at female audiences.”

Shinya! Tensai Bakabon

What: Showa-era gag manga gets on air again after decades, repeatedly points out how hilarious that is.

❌ Beat-for-beat the same first episode concept as Osomatsu-san.

❌ The main difference is that Bakabon is more willing to look old as fuck, but when they arrive at the non-ruse look at the end of the episode, it’s the same as the non-ruse look that Osomatsu-san ended up at the end of its own first episode.

❌  So guess what, constantly takes potshots at Osomatsu-san, despite being a blatant ripoff of it.

❌❌ When it doesn’t reference Things You Know (if you’re a middle-aged Japanese salaryman), it references its own sorry showa-era gag manga self.

❌❌ I didn’t even like Osomatsu-san but this is an embarrassment.

♎ On the bright side, not as likely to provide fujos with incest shipping material. I fully expect to be proven painfully wrong on this.

ANN sez: Nothing. Way too Japanese for them, I suppose. 

Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki

What: Historical action show wherein a bunch of misfits in medieval Japan fight the Mongols.

✅ Fairly decent action and animation thereof.

✅ Characters seem alright for this sort of thing. Maybe a bit too tryhard violent for my tastes, but that’s still within acceptable parameters.

❌❌ The looks are ruined in postproduction. I could live with the heavyhanded color correction, but what really kills it is the same omnipresent static paper texture over every single shot. It’s bad when it doesn’t change between shots but it’s devastating when it doesn’t move along with zooms and pans, which this show has a lot of.

❌❌ Seriously, I haven’t seen anything as senselessly destroyed by a single AfterEffects layer since Garo: Vanishing Line’s Parkinsonscam, but at least that only affected impact frames. Here it’s literally every frame. Delete that PNG you damn fools.

❌ So yeah, it’s okay-ish but that’s not enough to survive one boneheaded executive decision that’s impossible to ignore. It just comes out as a net negative.

ANN sez: “From its beautifully animated, choreographed, and directed fight scenes to its generally dynamic compositions and keen understanding of visual economy, Angolmois is a visually stunning production.”

Lord of Vermilion - Guren no Ou

What: Tokyo gets enveloped in red mist which raptures most of the population and turns the rest into JRPG characters. They start fighting, we promise.

❌ Has the shape of an obvious Persona clone, but isn’t one; it’s actually based on an arcade CCG. So the source material isn’t very classy to begin with.

❌❌ Haphazardly thrown together so it’s hard to care about anything, especially not the characters.

❌❌ Opens with a flashforward to the climax, so we know this will just end up as overdesigned dudes and dudettes having allegedly epic battles that the show can’t afford to make look good, but can afford to make very red. Thanks for the heads up, I guess.

❌ So it’s quite bad, and not even funny-bad like Caligula was.

ANN sez: “There are always a few action shows like this every season, and they're always entirely overshadowed by that season's versions of shows like My Hero Academia and Banana Fish”

Grand Blue

What: City slicker moves to a beach town expecting to end up in Amanchu; ends up in Animal House instead.

❌❌ Say it with me: Every punchline is the protagonist making a shocked face at dumb meatheads doing something stupid.

♎ For something that I feel like I should hate every second of, I actually didn’t hate it all that much. I even thought it was mostly sort of enjoyable. I don’t really know what exactly does it but I can offer some ideas:

✅ While the punchlines (well, punchline) may be bad, the jokes themselves aren’t. This is a real sitcom with larger-scale comedic setups than you usually see in anime, jokes build upon each other and keep escalating.

✅ Sleazy fratboy humor about partying hard and drinking like an idiot isn’t very profound, but rare at least in anime. And it’s amusing that the overall conceit is that it’s preventing iyashikei from taking place. Novelty counts for something. 

✅ Manages to build awkward comedic situations about buff dudes with their dicks out without resorting to the same old gay panic jokes. Just regular panic, no homo.

✅ Makes a good Friday beach bum combo with Harukana Receive, which incidentally also got better by embracing its more prurient side.

ANN sez: “If Grand Blue Dreaming has a major Achilles heel, its that it isn't self-aware enough to recognize when a joke has run its course. ”

Happy Sugar Life

What: Yandere sociopath adopts a preteen girl (from a parking lot). It’s cute, only not.

✅ Is fully aware that everyone in this show is an asshole and is honestly trying for subversive. At least on the surface.

✅ Goes all on on the imagery, which works. At least on the surface.

❌❌ Simply exploiting the contrast between cuteness and insanity got old about a decade ago; this cranks up the presentation on both sides but doesn’t really add anything new.

❌❌ About as mean-spirited and unpleasant as Mahou Shoujo Site, while having even less to say. 

❌ Doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere; it’s just going to be the main character pwning other people that are just as flamboyantly fucked up as she is, but not as good at it. Starting with a flashforward to the (very edgy, of course) ending like Lord of Vermilion doesn’t help either. And even if they end up rusemanning what is implied there it won’t be much better.

ANN sez: “Happy Sugar Life was on my list of most-anticipated anime this season because its combination of disparate elements seemed so utterly perverse that I was curious to see how they could possibly fit together.“

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

What: Girls slowwalk in an academy for stage arts by day, get into metaphorical superbattles by night.

✅✅ What can I say, it’s Love Live x Marimite with a glossy coating of Ikuhara-style operatics. A total deltabait concept if I’ve ever seen one.

✅ Clones the storytelling approach of Ikuhara but not many of his specific directing mannerisms; Since I’m tired of the latter but a sucker for the former, this is a good thing.

✅ In a similar vein, this trades Ikuhara’s functional ciphers for actual characters and his enigmatic arthouse plots for something that obviously makes sense. 

✅ How gay? So gay.

❌ Has the opposite problem of Grand Blue: This is a show that should blow me away, but doesn’t. In fact, if it didn’t bring the big damn musical theater complete with one of the best and most appropriate henshins I’ve ever seen near the end, I’d say it was fairly lame.

❌ Probably has something to do with that in the course of casualizing Ikuhara, the “real” world ended up too bland and the characters too generic. I get that it’s for contrast, but it can be done far better (see Yorimoi for an example).

✅ In any case, it still seems easily worth watching even if it’s not as good as it could be. Maybe it’ll even get better.

ANN sez: “All I can say for certain is that it comes completely out of nowhere, and that it raises all kinds of questions about what kind of series this is going to be.“

Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san

What: Impoverished ghost hunter checks into a haunted hot spring and interacts with the harem that happens to live there.

❌ As generic a 90s ecchi harem comedy as they come; my correspondents tell me that this is extremely reminiscent of Love Hina. Shockingly it’s actually based on a 2016 manga, but you wouldn’t be able to tell.

❌ As such, an abundance of accidental boobplants and other saucy accidents makes up the bulk of what’s going on this show.

✅ The main ghost girl is fairly cute; The main dude is also relatively bearable and has at least one good joke in his backstory (which I won’t spoil), so the core dynamic is surprisingly fine. If the rest of the harem weren’t there, this wouldn’t be such a bad setup. 

❌ Features those dastardly breast-hiding light rays, reportedly even in the AT-X version. This doesn’t affect a large part of the show (the majority is more like the cap above), but boobies are probably still the only reason anyone cares about any of this.

♎ Certainly not good, but the lame shit of yore is not what I’m going to spend energy getting mad at in 2018. The 24 minutes I’m ever going to spend with it felt more nostalgic than anything.

ANN sez: “Ninja girl Sagiri comes off the worst from the situation, with nearly all of her dialogue spent promising to beat the crap out of anyone who doesn't measure up to her moral code. I imagine there must be more to her and the rest of the supporting cast than what we've seen so far, but at the moment they seem an awful lot like stock characters.”

Sirius the Jaeger

What: A broody werewolf and his team of assorted bad dudes hunt vampires in 30s Tokyo.

✅✅ Looks ace, this is an action show with deluxe everything. It better, because being directed by Masahiro Ando is pretty much the start and end of this show’s unique selling points.

✅ Interwar Tokyo with a bit of a gothick twist is a cool setting, and this show can afford to portray it properly.

❌ Seriously though... edgy vampires and edgier werewolves. Come on, son.

❌ Just like Banana Fish, this is a highly polished implementation of something that fundamentally isn’t very interesting to me.

✅ I’d still take it over Fanana Bish because this doesn’t seem to take itself so bloody seriously and is far more comfortable with just being moody action schlock. It’s also less showoffy, believe it or not. What else are you going to watch? Sirius the Jaeger is what you’re going to watch. Sorry.

ANN sez: They only have a preview from Anime Expo, and that boils down to “The second episode is where things start to get interesting.“ I sure hope so.

Well, we got a few acceptable shows in if nothing else, I’ll leave it up to you to figure out which ones those are. I’m cutting my losses here, see you in three months for a hopefully more bountiful season.

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At Xbox, from game development to hardware design, representation and the diversity of our teams positively impacts the way we create and bring products to life that make gaming possible and accessible for everyone. As a community, we believe our pledge to inclusivity relates back to our roots. Where we come from and how our families and communities have contributed to our growth is reflected in our work, and we bring that lasting commitment with us wherever we go, with whatever we do. What unites our culture is our sense of belonging that spans the diverse regions and languages we all come from – Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and beyond. We are united in what we share and strengthened by how our unique contributions can impact the world around us.  

Growing up as enthusiastic consumers of U.S. pop culture, media and content, it has been so rewarding to see more Hispanic and Latino creators be recognized for their work, and see increased representation in media, movies, TV and, of course, games. One example is Xbox Game Studios’ upcoming Forza Horizon 5, which authentically creates a vibrant and diverse Mexico that celebrates the culture, beauty, and geography of the region.

Members of the Hispanic and Latino community are becoming a stronger part of the tech industry and we are increasingly able to tell our own personal stories through our work. We want to encourage future generations to pursue careers in the gaming industry and continue this meaningful journey of creation and authentic storytelling.

As we honor Hispanic Heritage Month at Xbox, it is our hope that we can showcase our unique voices and our endless pursuit of inclusion, representation, and community. Below are a few ways that Xbox is celebrating and how you can engage and make impact.

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Microsoft Rewards members in the United States can earn points for donation in support of Latinx in Gaming, a nonprofit that connects Latinos across the gaming industry, promotes cultural appreciation and representation in games/game-related content, and provides a platform for the Hispanic and Latinx community to elevate each other and themselves. Rewards members may also choose to contribute their points to CARE, an organization that works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice in 100 countries including Latin America and the Caribbean. As part of its humanitarian work in the region, CARE is currently responding to the devastating aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti with cash support, food, temporary shelter, and other services.

Xbox gamers can earn Microsoft Rewards points in various ways, such as playing or purchasing games after downloading the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox. Earn points and redeem them for real rewards. Join today and donate through Xbox.

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During September and beyond, we are highlighting games, movies, and TV selected by Hispanic and Latino communities at Microsoft that bring focus to Hispanic and Latino creators, experiences, protagonists, and more.

Check out a few highlights from the full games collection featuring games made in Latin America, games with audio, interface, and subtitles translated in Spanish and Portuguese, protagonists, playable characters, and games inspired by Hispanic and Latino locations and culture.

Forza Horizon 5 (Available for pre-order now) – Explore the vibrant and ever-evolving open world landscapes of Mexico with limitless, fun driving action in hundreds of the world’s greatest cars. Releasing November 9, 2021 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC on Windows and Steam, and Xbox Game Pass including console, PC and Cloud Gaming (Beta). And available on November 5, 2021 via the Forza Horizon 5 Premium Edition Early Access.

Cris Tales – Cris Tales was developed by Colombian development studio, Dreams Uncorporated. Cris Tales brings to life a charming fantasy world inspired by the cities and culture of Colombia. Peer into the past, act in the present, and watch as your choices dynamically change the future — all on one screen as you play!

Gears Tactics – Play as the defiant soldier Gabriel Diaz (the father of beloved Gears 5 protagonist, Kait Diaz), in this fast-paced, turn-based strategy game. Players can enjoy this title with translated audio, interface, and subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

Retro Machina – Retro Machina follows the adventures of a small robot looking to reclaim the past across a vast world. This game also won “Best Game from Brazil” in Brazil’s Independent Games Festival.

Forager – This exploration sandbox game from Argentina includes puzzles, crafting, fighting, and resource management, all in an adorable 2D world.​

Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break – Developed by ACE Team in Chile, is a competitive tower defense and arcade action game rolled up with quirky, Monty Python-esque humor!

Standouts from the full movies and TV collection featuring creators, movies with Spanish and Portuguese audio, leads, educational views, and family entertainment include:

“Dora and the Lost City of Gold” – This film features a talented Latino cast and follows Dora’s quest through Peru to save her parents while exploring the history of Incan civilization.

“Pose” – MJ Rodriguez plays one of the main characters in this Golden Globe-nominated drama and her Afro-Latina identity is also reflected in the show. Following the iconic house mothers of New York’s underground ball culture, this show also features the largest recurring cast of LGBTQIA+ and trans actors for a scripted series.

“La Llorona“–Written and directed by Guatemalan Jayro Bustamante, La Llorona is based in Latin American folklore and explores powerful themes relevant to Indigenous culture.

“Book of Life” – A colorful tribute to Mexican culture, this beautifully animated, family friendly movie follows a love triangle through the trials and tribulations of going against family expectations, unrequited love, and even coming back from the realms of the dead.

View the collections on the Microsoft Store on Xbox and the Microsoft Store on Windows in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. Visitors to both the Xbox and Windows Stores can find Hispanic and Latino community picks at any time by searching for “Hispanic”, “Latinx” and related terms. Content is subject to availability by country.

Forza Franchise Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

The Forza team joins Xbox in celebrating the rich cultural history of Hispanic and Latino communities.

Join us by using #ForzaHHM to share your livery designs inspired by Hispanic and Latino heritage. We’ll feature our favorites in-game (both @ForzaMotorsport 7 and @ForzaHorizon 4 are eligible), and featured designers will receive in-game credit rewards. Entries close on September 29 at 11:59 PM PDT.

Xbox Ambassadors Share Their Stories

In the Xbox Ambassadors community, we are dedicated to sharing and amplifying community voices. So, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we are spotlighting stories about representation in gaming from Xbox Ambassadors that are of Hispanic and Latino heritage. Here are their stories.

Xbox Plays

The Xbox Plays team will continue to integrate cultural moments into our content in September and October by celebrating all the various communities represented during Hispanic Heritage Month. We will feature games connected to these communities, as well as invite prominent live-streamers and content creators onto our channels.

Each week will feature a different theme:

1st week – Hispanic/Latino Game Creators

2nd & 3rd week – Hispanic/Latino Community Streamer Takeover

4th week – Hispanic/Latino Protagonists

5th week – Hispanic/Latino Characters

Join the fun at https://www.twitch.tv/Xbox!

Celebrate with Xbox Avatars Hispanic Heritage Gear

Xbox Avatars celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with new collections! Show your support with these festive and free t-shirts, hoodies and more! Get your free Hispanic Heritage Avatars gear now.

Xbox Community Game Club Celebrates Hispanic and Latino Creators, Lead Characters

The Xbox Community Game Club is a weekly way to play, share, and discuss games together as a community. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re featuring games by Hispanic and Latino creators and those with Hispanic and Latino characters in leading roles! Check in weekly to discover your next favorite game and use #XboxGameClub to tell us about some of your favorite Hispanic and Latino characters in video games and their impact on gaming. Discover Xbox Community Game Club!

Play. Connect. Impact: Learn more about all that Xbox and Microsoft are doing in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at the Xbox Hispanic Heritage Month Community Hub and Microsoft’s Hispanic Heritage Month hub.

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[eddiegotdatassma]

Prince Charming

Hello everyone~ This is my first fic on this blog! I hope you enjoy it! This was a request from this prompt list!~ I’m still taking prompt requests for the Losers Club, and you can ask for however many prompts as you’d like! I’m excited to see what you guys send in~ Thanks so much for reading~ AND JUST FYI THEY’RE OBVIOUSLY NOT THIRTEEN IN THIS,,,PROBABLY LIKE SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN SO KEEP THAT IN MIND LMAO

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Pairing: Bill Denbrough x Reader

Genre: Angst/Fluff

Word Count: 1,705

TW: Depression, Swearing, Mean Exes lmao

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"God dammit!", she yells desperately, "I was this fucking close to beating the level!"

Bill smiles at her smugly, "Yeah, b-but now it's my t-turn, so move o-over." She scoffed at him as he gently elbowed her in the ribcage to make room for himself, grabbing the joystick of the arcade game she had just lost, and inserting a quarter before she could protest, pressing 'Start' swiftly.

She crossed her arms and stood in watch as Bill passed the first level with ease, moving on to the more difficult second level. She took note of the adorable way his eyebrows creased in concentration, but quickly shook the thought from her mind. 'He's my best friend', she thought, 'I don't think of him that way. I can't.'

She turned her back to Bill, taking to people watching while she waited for him to complete the level he was working on. There was a small group of nine-year-old boys there for a birthday party, as well as a couple of lone stragglers, but other than that the arcade was mostly empty on this quiet Wednesday evening. Her eyes shifted to the door as she heard it open, their chattering becoming audible as the pair stepped into sight. Her heart nearly leaped from her chest when she recognized the two, and she quickly spun back around in an attempt to avoid their gazes, turning back to Bill, still too focused on the game to notice who had come in.

The night had started like any other had for the past two weeks. When she got home from school, she flopped onto her bed, unmoving all night, moping over her lost love, wondering where she had gone wrong, what she had done to lose him, et cetera. That is, until Bill Denbrough came into her room. He entered it as casually as he would have entered his own, throwing open the door and tossing in his book bag.

"You need to g-get out of the house", he'd said, “Y-You can’t solve your p-p-problems by hiding in bed all day.”

"Yes I can," she mumbled into her pillow, barely acknowledging his presence aside from the clear response to his statement.

"Come on! You've done n-nothing but mope in bed for the past two w-weeks. You need to get out of t-the house," he moved and sat on the edge of her mattress, careful as to not make contact with any of the things on it. It was a simple gesture, but it's the small gestures like these that show a person's true colors. And if you could see Bill's true colors, she's sure they'd be so beautiful you may go blind. But she'd never say that out loud.

She groaned in response to what he'd said, flailing her limbs on the bed in a mock tantrum. He smiled slightly, making note of how she always makes him smile in the most serious occasions, one of her many talents, but probably his favorite. "What if I g-go to the arcade w-with you?", he suggested.

She peeked up at him, he never lets her take him to the arcade, insisting if someone saw him there he'd never live it down, saying he outgrew it back in eighth grade, but she was never as easy to let go of her childhood, and her childhood was mostly spent in the dark corners of their local arcade, trying to forget the world around her. "I'll even b-buy you a slushie," he offered, and she rolled over with a groan. "Fine, you win Denbrough, let's go."

He smiled again, excited to see his best friend starting the road to recovery. He was sure this breakup nearly killed her, and seeing her that upset nearly killed him in turn. He'd do just about anything to bring a smile back to her face, and if it takes a hundred days at the arcade, he'd gladly join her. Reputation be damned.

It nearly worked, too. And if it hadn't been for her ex walking in with his arm around a girl she'd been told not to worry about the month prior, she might have forgotten all about him. But here they were, sliding into the booth she and him had their first kiss in nearly a year ago, and it took all of her strength to not either break down sobbing on the spot, or march over and punch him dead in the face. Instead, she grabbed Bill's shirt. Fisting the cotton in her left hand like a scared child, feeling her chest and stomach become heavy once more. Bill felt the desperation in her grip, and allowed the protagonist in his game to be defeated, turning to her with concerned eyes, and being met with hers peering into his with sorrow.

"The couple that just walked in. Are they looking over here?", she asked him in a whisper.

He peered over his shoulder to find the couple she was talking about, spotting a boy their age and a blonde girl seemingly choking on each other's tongues, and he quirked an eyebrow at them. "I think they're f-far more interested in sh-shoving each other's tongues down their throats th-than staring at us."

He said it in a joking manner, trying to lighten her mood a bit, but when he looked back at her, he saw her jaw clench and a fire light in her eyes. 'Obviously that's not the answer she was hoping for', he mentally slapped himself.

"That’s my ex. Make out with me and make him jealous.”

He choked on his saliva at that, eyes tripling in size. Of all the things he thought she might have said, that was the absolute last on the list. "W-what? Y-You want m-me to w-what?", he spoke once his lungs were cleared of fluid.

"You heard me, make him jealous."

He thought for a moment, sweat forming on the back of his neck. Sure, he'd had a crush on her since they were embarrassing preteens, but he knew she was in crisis mode. She didn't actually want to kiss him, she just wanted to get back at her ex. If he kissed her, he'd probably do something stupid and reveal his crush on her, and subsequently ruin their friendship. And just friends was enough for him. He couldn't ruin what they had over something as trivial as getting revenge on an ex. So, rubbing the back of his neck, he managed; "I d-don't think th-th-that's a very g-good idea."

She rolled her eyes, groaning as she stomped off to get a soft pretzel. She ate in silence, feeling a strong melancholy beginning to consume her thoughts again. She nearly stood from her seat, deciding to head home and sleep for the rest of the night, when she felt someone slide into the spot next to her. She was expecting Bill, coming to cheer her up, and she felt a smile twinge at the corners of her lips, but then she registered the musky scent radiating off of the man next to her, and she scowled at the all too familiar stench. Bill's cologne was a hundred times more pleasant than this one, hell, the sewers smelled better than his cologne. "Hey beautiful," he sneered, words thick enough to make her cringe at the sound. "Hi Ryan," she replied flatly, looking down at the leftover salt on her paper plate.

He put his arm around her, leather jacket creaking with each movement. "I saw you out there with Buh-Buh-Bill, and I thought you might enjoy the company of a real man."

She grew angrier at his words than she thought she'd ever been in her life. She grabbed his arm and threw it down to his side. "He's ten times the man you'll ever be," she growled.

He laughed for a good time, wiping fake tears from his eyes; "You’re so fucking hot when you’re mad.”

She scoffed; "Aren't you here with some girl? Go bother her instead. You made it quite clear you wanted no part of me anymore."

"Oh please, she's so easy, it's almost not even fun. You always played hard to get."

"Is that why you broke up with me? Because I wouldn't sleep with you?"

It was his turn to scoff; "You just expect a man to stay with a girl for over a year without a good fuck once in a while? Grow up, sweetheart."

"You're an absolute pig."

He laughed again, silence soon following as he stood from the seat next to her with an ugly smile, and she felt like the seat next to her was dirty simply because he'd sat on it. He turned as he was about to leave, "So are you and Buh-Buh-Bill fucking now?"

She began to yell something at him, feeling rage overcome her as she stood from where she'd sat, but she looked over his shoulder suddenly and saw her best friend coming to her rescue once again. The rage subsided to a mild annoyance, and she realized how much his presence calms her, simply being around him was hot chocolate by the fire on a cold winter's night.

Bill pushed past Ryan confidently, and without hesitation he grabbed her face with one hand, pulling her into a kiss, fuelled by passion and intensity that neither of them had felt before. In that moment, everything made sense to the both of them. She realized that it was him she'd loved all along, that her Prince Charming wasn't in a castle, nor a disgusting man in a leather jacket, but instead he was the sweet boy with a stutter who lived down the road. She wondered how she'd been so blind.

As their kiss furthered, the pair expressing everything once unsaid, her ex stormed off with a grumble, realizing that she was no longer his to trick into loving him. He grabbed the poor blonde girl's wrist, pulling her out of the door with him roughly. But in that moment, nothing existed outside of the two of them.

After what seemed like forever, and yet no time at all, the two separated, her leaning her forehead against his, the both of them panting. "Bill?", she muttered, out of breath.

"Yeah?"

She smiled, "Your hand is on my ass."

[cynthiaandsamus]

Custom Toonami Block Week 59 Rundown

Code Geass: Oh boy we’re at THAT episode, the episode where everything’s going fine (sort of) and then Lelouch makes an off-handed comment at the wrong time that destroys history forever. What struck me about watching this again aside from twisting an old knife even deeper was how the original Japan zone is very much not a good thing for Lelouch or the people proposing Japanese independence, the more cruel-minded Britannians see this as a pacifying force to take the wind out of the terrorists sails and it very much works. Euphy’s obviously not trying to do that but it is an effect of it and Lelouch just kinda gives in because he feels like maybe her good intentions can somehow pull something good out of this mess even though it probably won’t. Ironically what ends up happening is basically what Lelouch’s plan was just on a much larger scale. Lelouch was going to have her shoot him to taint the special zone and her reputation (because his plans always hurt him first before he goes to hurt anyone else) and his accidental Geass essentially does that except to a far greater degree with much more bloodshed and damnation of Euphy’s image than he’d ever wanted.

Inuyasha: So this is a fun episode, last week we had the conclusion of Tsubaki’s arc in the manga but this time we get her to stick around for a few more chapters which is a smart move I think, we flesh her out a little more, see her as an innocent child and see her conflict and corruption being born. The manga tends to have parts that feel like filler where we pull a villain out for a couple chapters and smack them back down, the ironic thing is this part IS filler now but it makes Tsubaki feel like a much more realized character. Also I just love Momii and Botan’s antics like they’re terrible at being priestesses but they’re terrible in a specific way that does give Inuyasha’s group trouble in a more annoying way than a powerful way, basically they’re the Feudal Era Team Rocket and what’s not to love about that?

Yu Yu Hakusho: We’re starting off the Genkai arc this week and this is the part of YYH that feels the most like Hunter x Hunter, or I guess I should say Hunter x Hunter feels the most like this. Togashi loves him some random games and qualification rounds to flesh out colorful characters with rule-bending challenges with secret messages. Can’t really blame him, it’s always a fun rump and watching Yusuke and Kuwabara bounce off each other in a dopey competitive way while rooting for each other is a lot of fun. I also really like Genaki’s video game arcade of doom that secretly tests your spirit power and how the Dark Forest (creative name, wonder if it got its name from the Tournament of the same name) is basically lifted wholesale from similar things in Naruto and Hunter x Hunter and a bunch of other anime but it’s brief enough that it doesn’t feel forced or disingenuous.

Unlimited Blade Works: This is the episode of the bad guys standing around calling the good guys idiots for being good guys. Archer gives his “Shirou sucks and I know because I fucking am Shirou” speech about how helping people is stupid and Shirou’s like “Nah bro I’mma keep wanting to be superman and die from it because I’m the protagonist and shit” and they really are the same person because they’re equally stupid. Meanwhile Priest Alucard ends up being Lancer’s dude and is like “Hey Lancer, did you catch the feels?” and Lancer’s like “So what if I did? Not gonna let Shinji reenact SAO on us” and then Lancer dies for being a simp because grail and reasons and it’s probably terrible to mention that some people think the “holy grail” was a woman because it’s a receptacle and vaginas and shit so yeah this reminded me of that, what a fucking weird episode.

Panty and Stocking: So first we have a Transformers parody which while a neat animation shift feels like it would’ve been a lot funnier right after Michael Bay’s first movies came out and it kinda didn’t go anywhere but it’s still okay. The second bit about Panty and Stocking finding ways to make money and inevitably whoring up every job they fall into is far more funny, lots of neat animation shift shots and of course the Daemon Sisters start their Team Rocket stint at this point, complete with terrible disguises that no one can see through, and they kill the Illuminati money ghost but stripping naked and fucking things up so badly they become millionaires, probably one of my favorite shorts to be honest.

FMA Brotherhood: Ling’s group is dealing with the aftermath of Fuu and Bucaneer’s sacrifices and manage to wound Bradley and take him out of the picture only for Ling to punctuate losing one of his best friends by getting shot in the head and going Greedinator and murdering a bunch of people. Ed and Izumi are transported down to Father who now has Hoenheim inside him and put him in there upside down to make it extra humiliating while they try to speed things up a bit with Mustang and yada yada his way through a tragic gate-opening backstory to get their last man.

Attack on Titan: Grisha flashback and Eren’s recounting of Grisha’s flashback kind of collide here and it kinda goes back and forth for the rest of the episode, but you know how it goes now, yadda yadda, nine titans, paths, hashirama cells, everyone’s racist and horrible now,  Eren’s going to die in eight years and Armin has thirteen, fun times.

[isisdreamweaver]

Some Music I Associate With My XCOM Fanon

I should probably make actual playlists for these (I’ve got several for other stories on YouTube), but I can’t be bothered right now dfkhnkhn.

Anyway, here’s a taste of some music that fits my fanon + plenty of rambling!

Enemy Unknown/Within (FYI, the working title of this fanfic is currently The Devil’s Toys; it used to be Trails of Blood)

Final Fantasy VII - Trails of Blood OFF - Endless Hallway OFF - Not Safe Metroid Prime - Space Pirate Ambience Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Scared Phantasy Star Online - Revolution to the Origin Part 1 Phantasy Star Online - Revolution to the Origin Part 2

As this incomplete list shows, I associate eerie/atmospheric music with The Devil’s Toys, mostly because quite honestly I found Enemy Within pretty damn creepy when I played it. And in general, The Devil’s Toys will probably also be creepy if I can manage to write it properly.

I associate Trails of Blood with Operation Devil’s Moon, which I’d like to make a bit longer and creepier than the actual in-game mission. I also associate both Revolution to the Origin tracks with the Temple Ship. The others, at least for the moment, are just for... normal missions, at least in my mind.

XCOM 2/War of the Chosen (I don’t have even a working title for its fanfic, unfortunately)

Xenoblade Chronicles X - Melancholia Arcade Summer - Tunnel Run Position Music - Enjoy the Silence Sons of Pythagoras - Elysium Calling Metroid: Other M - Biological Experiment Floor Braid - The Darkening Ground Starset - My Demons

So this incomplete list of music I associate with unnamed XCOM 2 fic shows that my playlist will be a bit more varied. That’s good I s’pose. I got more of a cyberpunk/fight the power vibe from the game, rather than the atmospheric horror vibe I got from Enemy Within. So there you go.

I see Melancholia as the ‘theme’ of the fanfic itself, although My Demons might take its place (maybe they can share). We’ll see whether or not that changes. Tunnel Run and Elysium Calling, in my mind, fit missions taking place in ADVENT cities, so yay. Biological Experiment Floor gets the dubious honour of being associated with the Blacksite mission. Lucky it.

The Darkening Ground? I decided I’d probably need a theme for a desolate city filled with Lost, and it came to mind and I think it will do the job. Probably.

I have no idea where Enjoy the Silence fits but it gives me Emotions.

One of these days I’d also like to make a playlist for Takashi Lund herself, because the main protagonist needs her own playlist, obviously.

For now I only have a few songs:

Starset - Satellite Chvrches - Lungs (I would like to thank @companionwolf for this one) Starset - Monster (linking to a post I already made with the song because context and anyone who hasn’t seen yet will get bonus Metroid rambling absolutely free

So anyway pretty much every Starset song, I associate with XCOM fanon, a consequence of me discovering Starset around the time I started playing Enemy Within.

[savetopnow]

2018-03-30 16 GAME now

GAME

Attack of the Fanboy

New Uprising Event in Overwatch Dated For April 10th

Life is Strange Episodes 4 and 5 Come to iOS Devices

PS4 Update Brings New UI for TV and Video Content

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Finally Arrives for Xbox One Backward Compatibility

No Man’s Sky is Heading to Xbox One with Major Update

Brutal Gamer

No Man’s Sky Next in development, will expand the original and bring the game to Xbox

New Jurassic World: Evolution screens arrive with launch date

Nintendo Download: Why Did Toki Tori Cross the Road?

Westworld Season 2 Returns To HBO This April

The Fantastic Four to return to the Marvel Comics U this August

Game Banshee

Path of Exile Skill Revamps, Part One

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr Action-RPG with Tabletop Roots

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones Update - New Features

Conan Exiles Interview - Early Access, Launch, and Beyond

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden Gameplay Reveal

Game Informer

Lindsay Lohan Likeness Lawsuit From Grand Theft Auto V Dismissed In Court Of Appeals

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Joins Xbox One Backwards Compatible List

Life Is Strange Comic Adaptation Announced

GI Show – Far Cry 5, Jurassic World, Jeff Goldblum Interview

FoxNext VP & General Manager Talks Working With Marvel And Getting The X-Men License

Game Watch

New Trailer for Pathfinder: Kingmaker reveals features for the upcoming cRPG

Far Cry 5 - How To Find All Vietnam Lighters

Far Cry 5 - How To Find All Easter Eggs

Railway Empire releases Transcontinental Content Update DLC for free

Batman - The Telltale Series Season 2: The Enemy Within Review

Gematsu

Arc System Works to announce new, seemingly RPG project on April 1

Dragon Quest Builders 2 Japanese subtitle, protagonist, and setting revealed

My Hero Academia: One’s Justice adds Stain and Shota Aizawa

Record of Grancrest War game second Japanese TV spot

Nobunaga’s Ambition series tops 10 million shipments

IGN

Sea of Thieves: Prepare Your Voyages With Our Interactive Map

Where to Find Every Vietnam Lighter in Far Cry 5

What to Do First in Far Cry 5

Sea of Thieves: This Is What Happens When You Become a Pirate Legend

Sea of Thieves: Xbox Game Pass Access Issues Fixed

Niche Gamer

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Hands-on Preview – Of Kings and Kobolds

Mark of the Ninja Remastered Also Coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One

PS4 Pro Support is Still Planned for The Witcher 3

Square Enix Confirms PAX East 2018 Lineup and Events

New Features Trailer for Ambitious CRPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker

Nintendo Life

Psyonix Reveals Details Of The New Graphics Update For Rocket League

Not Tonight Is A Post-Brexit Role-Playing Game With A Healthy Dose Of Political Satire

Infernium Will Scare Its Way Onto The NA eShop Next Week

Nintendo Download: 29th March (Europe)

Review: Penny-Punching Princess (Switch)

PC Invasion

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1.4 released

Blizzard tease something for Overwatch on 10 April – Uprising returns

Not Tonight takes you to a dystopian UK where Brexit talks have collapsed

Spec Ops: The Line free on Humble for 48 hours

Battlezone: Combat Commander assets released free for modders

Playstation Blog

PlayStation Blogcast 286: Triple Preview

Introducing a New TV & Video Discovery Experience on PS4

Take to the Skies with Guns of Icarus Alliance, Out May 1 for PS4

PlayStation Plus: Free Games for April

Gran Turismo Sport Patch 1.15 Out Today, Adds VR Time Trials

Reddit Gaming

How it feels playing Fortnite

This must be that "dynamic AI" Ubisoft was talking about

Sad but accurate

Well i guess the AI is more capable than i thought.

Trapping Bugs Bunny style

Xbox News

Snake Pass Arcade Mode Update Out Now with Xbox One X Enhancements

A Way Out: Discover a Unique Co-op Adventure on Xbox One

Xbox Insider Spotlight: Earning Achievements with Beard

New Preview Alpha 1804 System Update – 3/29/18

No Man’s Sky Coming Soon to Xbox One

[architectnews]

Barozzi Veiga designs Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne with ridged brick facade

Slender grey brick walls protrude from the front of fine arts museum Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga created in the Lausanne city centre. 

The studio won an international competition to design both art museum the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne (MCBA) and the masterplan for the city's new art district, where the museum is located, in 2011.

The art district, Plateforme 10, was established near Lausanne's central train station and covers more than two hectares.

Photo by Simon Menges

"Since the beginning we have been thinking about a design for the new art district to be not just a detached entity in the city but also as a trigger project for the redevelopment of the abandoned area by the railways," Barozzi Veiga co-founder Fabrizio Barozzi told Dezeen.

"Our approach pursued the intention to transform and give back to the city that central large urban space that at, that time, was unused and fragmented."

Photo by Simon Menges

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which holds more than 10,000 works of art, was built on the site's southern edge, parallel to the train tracks. The 145-metre-long building features a distinctive ridged facade that is meant to reference its industrial surroundings.

"The project carries and expresses the memory of the site, echoing the former industrial condition with pragmatic forms, rigorous geometry and hard, sharp lines," the studio said.

Photo by Matthew Gafsou

A 19th-century train hall previously located in the space was demolished, but Barozzi Veiga preserved its arched window for the art museum – which is longlisted in the cultural building category for Dezeen Awards 2020.

"The old arched window becomes the main protagonist of the building façade from the railway and, once within the foyer, it reveals its full role as a substantial structuring component of the new building's sequence of spaces," Barozzi said.

Photo by Matthew Gafsou

The building is "relatively hermetic" in order to protect the museum's collections. An almost closed facade faces the train tracks to the south while opening up more towards the northern side, where there is a new public plaza.

"We decided to implement a brick facades which could offer a texture, a vibrant pattern to the blind monolithic elevation and, simultaneously, it could evoke the industrial history of the site," Barozzi explained.

"On the square, the vertical blinds' rhythm breaks the massiveness of the monolith and reveal the openings," he added. "At night, these brick blinds serve as a canvas to diffuse the interior light coming from the museum."

Photo by Matthew Gafsou

Inside, the studio used terrazzo for the floors and plaster for the walls, both in a light grey hue, with the ground floor functioning as an extension of the public space outside. The upper levels, which house the exhibitions, have been given wooden floors.

Barozzi Veiga aimed to reach "the highest sustainability standards" when constructing the building. The architect said it "follows the Swiss label Minergie ECO, the SMEO procedure and the grey energy calculation, according to The Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) 2023".

Photo by Simon Menges

"The compactness of the form, the use of natural light to light up the interiors and the high flexibility of the spaces, which allows for different public events to take place within the walls of the museum, are among the essential architectural features that contribute to make the MCBA a sustainable building," Barozzi added.

Lausanne's two other major art institutions, photography museum the Musée de l'Elysée and the museum of contemporary design, Musée de Design d'Arts appliqués Contemporain, will also open in the art district in 2022.

Both museums will be housed in one building designed by Aires Mateus, which won a 2015 competition.

Barozzi Veiga also recently completed a trapezoidal riverside arcade for the Tanzhaus dance centre in Zürich.

Photography is by Simon Menges, unless stated otherwise.

Project credits:

Authors: Fabrizio Barozzi , Alberto Veiga Project leader: Pieter Janssens Project team execution phase: Claire Afarian, Alicia Borchardt, Paola Calcavecchia, Marta Grządziel, Isabel Labrador, Miguel Pereira Vinagre, Cristina Porta, Laura Rodriguez, Arnau Sastre, Maria Ubach, Cecilia Vielba, Nelly Vitiello Project team competition phase: Roi Carrera, Shin Hye Kwang, Eleonora Maccari, Verena Recla, Agnieszka Samsel, Agnieszka Suchocka Local architect: Fruehauf Henry & Viladoms Project manager: Pragma Partenaires SA Structural engineers: Ingeni SA Services engineers: Chammartin&Spicher SA, Scherler SA, BA Consulting SA Façade consultant: X-made SLP Lighting consultant: Matí AG

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[thatsnotcanonpodcasts]

Bionic Eye, Miquela & Manchester United

Congratulations SpaceX for their sucessful manned Crew Dragon mission to the ISS.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. It's not as great as Steve Austin's bionic eye from the Six Million Dollar Man, but it's pretty cool. Scientists have made a bionic eyeball inspired by the actual working of the human eye. This cool tech isn't ready to go in a human head yet, but when it is we can only hope it's cheaper than Steve's eye.

Robots are here, and they're coming for your jobs. Now even actors don't have job security. Miquela is a CGI replacement for advertising models is now leaving Instagram and breaking into acting. Which raises a concerning question. How long until they replace the podcasters?

Football manager is one of the most popular management simulators. Recently they've come under fire from Manchester United for copyright issues. Despite letting it slide for almost 30 years, Man U have decided it's time to sue.

This week in gaming DJ jumps at shadows in Alan Wake and Professor goes full Groundhog Day in Into the Breach.

Bionic eyes giving sight

- https://bgr.com/2020/05/24/bionic-eye-human-prosthetics/

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2285-x

The Rise of Virtual actresses: Miquela

- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/25/are-virtual-actors-about-to-put-hollywoods-humans-out-of-work-miquela

Man United suing Football Manager

- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/22/manchester-united-sues-football-manager-makers-over-use-of-name

Games Played

Professor

– Into The Breach – https://store.steampowered.com/app/590380/Into_the_Breach/

Rating: 4/5

DJ

– Alan Wake – https://store.steampowered.com/app/108710/Alan_Wake/

Rating: 4/5

Other topics discussed

Sailor Moon Redraw : Jar Jar Binks edition

- https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1854154-sailor-moon-redraw

Cochlear Implant (A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthetic device to provide a person with moderate to profound sensorineural hearing loss a modified sense of sound. CI bypasses the normal acoustic hearing process to replace it with electric signals which directly stimulate the auditory nerve.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant

Why some people turned down a 'medical miracle' and decided to stay deaf

- https://www.insider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-cochlear-implants-2016-12

Lil Miquela Instagram profile

- https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/

James Dean will be digitally resurrected for a new film. Is it movie magic or dark arts?

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/11/07/james-dean-will-be-digitally-resurrected-new-film-is-it-movie-magic-or-dark-arts/

Peter Cushing CGI resurrection in Star Wars Rogue One

- https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/dec/16/rogue-one-star-wars-cgi-resurrection-peter-cushing

The Drip: having a large amount of swag typically used in the context of clothing

- https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20drip

Adobe Voco (Adobe Voco will be an audio editing and generating prototype software by Adobe that enables novel editing and generation of audio.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco

Detroit: Become Human (Detroit: Become Human is a 2018 adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit:_Become_Human

South Park – They Took Our Jobs

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-kgb1QtSnU

Football Manager ((also known as Worldwide Soccer Manager in North America from 2004 to 2008) is a series of football management simulation video games developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Manager

P90 (The P90 or ES C90, as it was previously known, is a submachine gun featured in the Counter-Strike series. They are based off FN P90.)

- https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/P90

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90

Generic Trademark (A generic trademark, also known as a genericised trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance, has become the generic name for, or synonymous with, a general class of product or service, usually against the intentions of the trademark's holder.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

An introduction to YouTube Copyright in United Kingdom

- https://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre/articles/an-introduction-to-youtube-copyright

Pro Evo Soccer (More experienced gamers often use "patches", editing the actual game code and modifying the graphical content to include accurate kits for unlicensed teams, new stadiums, and footballs from Nike, Inc., Puma,Umbro and Mitre, as well as more Adidas balls. Most patches also contain licensed referee kits from FIFA and the official logos of the various European leagues.)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Evolution_Soccer#Gameplay

Quantum Break (From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.)

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/474960/Quantum_Break/

Control (After a secretive agency in New York is invaded by an otherworldly threat, you become the new Director struggling to regain Control in this supernatural 3rd person action-adventure from Remedy Entertainment and 505 Games)

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control/

Elvis the Alien (Elvis (real name: Aelphaeis Mangarae) is an alien from the Maian race. He is a 'Protector' (bodyguard) for the Maian ambassador who travels to Earth at Daniel Carrington's request.)

- https://perfectdark.fandom.com/wiki/Elvis

‘Labyrinth’ Sequel: New Director revealed

- https://deadline.com/2020/05/labyrinth-sequel-scott-derrickson-director-maggie-levin-write-script-doctor-strange-1202943188/

‘Labyrinth’ Sequel idea : Jennifer Connelly’s Sarah grows up to be the Goblin King.

- https://twitter.com/kaytaylorrea/status/1265493556988387328

Love, Stranger (TNC Podcast)

- https://thatsnotcanon.com/lovestrangerpodcast

Shout Outs

22 May 2020 – Pac-Man turns 40 - https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/pac-man-turns-40-seven-secrets/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web

The yellow dude with the insatiable appetite for power pellets is turning 40, having racked up everything from sales records to a breakfast cereal. And there is no gaming icon who is more recognizable — or who has done more to bring gaming to the front of the collective cultural mind. Pac-Man’s raison d’être is chomping dots. And Iwatani says food was central to the design of the character. As he thought about how to design a game that would attract female players, he thought about how much his wife loved to eat dessert. That verb — eat — began the thought process that led to the game. The original name for Pac-Man in Japan was Puck-Man. Midway Games, which distributed the title in the U.S., changed it to Pac-Man so vandals wouldn’t cut out part of the P to create something that didn’t fit in a family-friendly arcade. The name Puck came from the Japanese expression “puck puck” which loosely translates to “munch munch.” When Pac-Man made his debut on May 22, 1980, video games were largely considered a boy’s club. Creator Toru Iwatani, in a panel presentation at GDC 2011, said he wanted to create a game to change that. “The reason I created Pac-Man was because we wanted to attract female gamers,” he says. “People had to go to the arcade center to play games. That was a playground for boys. It was dirty and smelly. So, we wanted to include female players, so it would become cleaner and brighter.”

22 May 2020 – Perfect Dark turns 20 - https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/perfect-dark-20-years-old-fans-want-new-game/

Rare Ltd's Nintendo 64 classic Perfect Dark turned 20 years old. Released on May 22nd, 2000, the game was Rare's follow-up to GoldenEye 007. Rare originally intended to make another Bond game, but was outbid by Electronic Arts. Instead, Rare decided to develop their own franchise, introducing the world to protagonist Joanna Dark. The resulting game was a massive success, and a prequel was released on Xbox 360. Although critics widely praised its graphics,artificial intelligence, and number of multiplayer options, they frequently criticised its occasional frame rate drops. The game received the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Moving Images Award for 2000 and theGolden Satellite Award for Best Interactive Product in 2001. The game is occasionally cited as one of the greatest video games of all time. A remaster, also titled Perfect Dark, featuring enhanced graphics and online multiplayer, was released in 2010.

22 May 2020 – Berlin WW2 bombing survivor Saturn the alligator dies in Moscow Zoo - https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-52784240

After hatching in Mississippi, Saturn was soon brought to Germany, residing at the Berlin Zoological Garden. It was here that his association with Adolf Hitler originated, as Hitler reportedly enjoyed visiting the zoo and especially liked the alligator. It was from this period that the popular rumor emerged that Saturn was Adolf Hitler's "pet". This may have originated with the author Boris Akunin, a Russian writer who hypothesized in an article that this may have been the case. In actuality, he was not Hitler's personal pet, as he was on public display at the zoo. However, some sources report his display at the zoo as being part of a personal menagerie of Hitler's, while Dmitry Vasilyev, a veterinarian at the Moscow Zoo, contends that while Saturn was not Hitler's pet, the two certainly came into contact, as Hitler was known to have visited the Berlin Zoo on occasion. During World War II, much of the Berlin Zoo was destroyed. Of the zoo's 16,000 animals, only 96 survived. When the aquarium building was destroyed by a bomb on 23 November 1943, 20 to 30 alligators and crocodiles were killed. Press reports documented that the streets near the aquarium were littered with alligator andcrocodile corpses, but that some, including Saturn, had survived and were wandering through the city in search of food. Saturn was discovered by British soldiers three years later. The British then gave the alligator to the Soviets in 1946. He lived at the Moscow Zoo until 22 May 2020, when he died of old age.

23 May 2020 – Lost series finale turns 10 - https://observer.com/2020/05/lost-series-finale-the-end-jean-higgins-jeff-pinkner-damon-lindelof/

The 10-year anniversary of its series finale, “The End,” was a grippingly divisive chapter in modern pop culture history. Although the final strokes of its conclusion were not set it stone when that pilot first aired, consideration to the endgame had always been brewing. To unpack how the series navigated the minefield of fan expectations while battling the network for direction, Lost‘s conclusion was rockier than most fans at home realized. From the very beginning of the show’s development, the Lost title was meant to have a double meaning. Yes, the characters themselves were physically lost in the world on this mysterious island. But, more crucially, they were each spiritually lost in their own lives. The show always tried to remain true to the characters and, by the end, to some spiritual outlook about life and our purpose. It also edged open new doors into its story even as the show approached its very end. Lost often felt artistically bold, but that didn’t come without drawbacks. “The End” polarized audiences deeply. Several critics named it among the worst series finales of all time, while others called it an underrated masterpiece. Regardless of the ongoing debate that still ensnares “The End,” Lost as a whole remains one of the most acclaimed television shows in history.

Remembrances

25 May 1939 – Sir Frank Watson Dyson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Watson_Dyson

English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. In 1928, he introduced in the Observatory a new free-pendulum clock, the most accurate clock available at that time and organised the regular wireless transmission from the GPO wireless station at Rugby of Greenwich Mean Time. He also, in 1924, introduced the distribution of the "six pips" via the BBC. Dyson was noted for his study of solar eclipses and was an authority on the spectrum of the corona and on the chromosphere. He is credited with organising expeditions to observe the 1919 solar eclipse at Brazil and Principe, which he somewhat optimistically began preparing for prior to the Armistice of 11 November 1918. Dyson presented his observations of the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 to a joint meeting of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society on 6 November 1919. The observations confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of the effect of gravity on light which until that time had been received with some scepticism by the scientific community. Dyson died on board a ship at the age of 71 while travelling from Australia to England in 1939 and was buried at sea.

25 May 1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Payne-Scott

Ruby Violet Payne-Scott, Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy, and was the first female radio astronomer. On 18 August 1941, Payne-Scott joined the Radiophysics Laboratory of the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). During World War II, she was engaged in top secret work investigating radar technology, becoming Australia's expert on the detection of aircraft using Plan Position Indicator (PPI) displays. After the war, in 1948, she published a comprehensive report on factors affecting visibility on PPI displays. She also made important contributions to prototype radar systems operating in the 25cm microwave band, achieving significant improvements. Payne-Scott's expertise as both a physicist and an electrical engineer distinguished her among her colleagues, most of whom lacked a formal physics education. From 1946 to 1951, Payne-Scott focused on these 'burst' radio emissions from the sun, and is credited with discovering Type I and III bursts, and with gathering data that helped characterise Types II and IV. As part of this work, together with Alec Little, she designed and built a new 'swept-lobe' interferometer that could draw a map of solar radio emission strength and polarization once every second, and would automatically record to a movie camera whenever emissions reached a certain intensity. In 2018, the New York Times wrote a belated obituary for her, detailing how her work helped lay the foundation for a new field of science called radio astronomy. In 2008, CSIRO acknowledged Payne-Scott's contribution to science, and established the Payne-Scott Award, intended "for researchers returning from family-related career breaks". She died from complications of dementia at the age of 68 in Mortdale,New South Wales.

25 May 1981 – Fredric Warburg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Warburg

Fredric John Warburg, British publisher best known for his association with the author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th century and ending in 1971 Warburg published Orwell's Animal Farm as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four, and works by other leading figures such asThomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Other notable publications included The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa, Pierre Boulle's The Bridge over the River Kwai, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Warburg started his publishing career in 1922, as an apprentice at Routledge & Sons, where he came under the tutelage of William Swan Stallybrass, a man he regarded as "the greatest scholar-publisher of his day". After Stallybrass died in 1931 Warburg became increasingly dissatisfied with Routledge and in 1935 he was dismissed. Later that year he and Roger Senhouse purchased the publishing firm of Martin Secker, which had gone into receivership, and renamed it Secker & Warburg. The firm became renowned for its independent left-wing position, being both anti-fascist and anti-Communist, which put it at loggerheads with many intellectuals of the time. He died from Congestive heart failure at the age of 82 in London.

Famous Birthdays

25 May 1865 – Pieter Zeeman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. In 1896, shortly before moving from Leiden to Amsterdam, he measured the splitting of spectral lines by a strong magnetic field, a discovery now known as the Zeeman effect, for which he won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics. This research involved an investigation of the effect of magnetic fields on a light source. He discovered that a spectral line is split into several components in the presence of a magnetic field. The importance of Zeeman's discovery soon became apparent. It confirmed Hendrik Lorentz’s prediction about the polarization of light emitted in the presence of a magnetic field. Thanks to Zeeman's work it became clear that the oscillating particles that according to Lorentz were the source of light emission were negatively charged, and were a thousandfold lighter than the hydrogen atom. This conclusion was reached well before Thomson's discovery of the electron. The Zeeman effect thus became an important tool for elucidating the structure of the atom. He was born in Zonnemaire.

25 May 1889 – Igor Sikorsky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, Russian–American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition as well as F.A.I. license number 64. HisS-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won for its young designer, builder and pilot first prize in the military competition at Saint Petersburg. After immigrating to the United States in 1919, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in 1923, and developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-crossing flying boats in the 1930s. In 1939, Sikorsky designed and flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the rotor configuration used by most helicopters today. Sikorsky modified the design into the Sikorsky R-4, which became the world's first mass-produced helicopter in 1942. He was born in Kiev.

25 May 1944 – Frank Oz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Oz

Frank Richard Oznowicz, American actor, puppeteer, director and producer. He began his career as a puppeteer, performing the Muppet characters of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in The Muppet Show; and Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover in Sesame Street. He is also known for the role of Yoda in the Star Wars series, providing the voice for the character in several films and television series. His work as a director includes Little Shop of Horrors , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Score and Death at a Funeral . Oz has performed as a Muppet performer in over 75 productions including Labyrinth, video releases, and television specials, as well as countless other public appearances, episodes of Sesame Street, and other Jim Henson series. His puppetry work spans from 1963 to the present, although he semi-retired from performing his Muppets characters in 2001. Oz is also known as the performer of Jedi Master Yoda from George Lucas' Star Wars series. Jim Henson had originally been contacted by Lucas about possibly performing Yoda. Henson was preoccupied and instead suggested Oz to be assigned as chief puppeteer of the character, as well as a creative consultant. Oz performed the puppet and provided the voice for Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back , Return of the Jedi , Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace , and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Oz had a great deal of creative input on the character and was himself responsible for creating the character's trademark syntax. He was born in Hereford,Herefordshire.

Events of Interest

25 May 1895 – Oscar Wilde arrested for indecency - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oscar-wilde-is-sent-to-prison-for-indecency

Writer Oscar Wilde is sent to prison after being convicted of sodomy. The famed writer of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest brought attention to his private life in a feud with Sir John Sholto Douglas, whose son was intimately involved with Wilde. Homosexuality was a criminal offense and serious societal taboo at this time in Britain. Wilde had gone back and forth between hiding his sexual orientation and attempting to gain some measure of public acceptance. At Wilde’s first criminal trial, he was cross-examined extensively on the “love that dare not speak its name.” Wilde managed to secure a mistrial when a lone juror refused to vote to convict. The second trial began on May 21. Although many of the potential witnesses refused to betray Wilde by testifying, he was convicted. The judge remarked at his sentencing, “It is the worst case I have ever tried. I shall pass the severest sentence that the law allows. In my judgment it is totally inadequate for such a case as this. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for two years.

26 May 1897 – Dracula goes to sale in London - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dracula-goes-on-sale-in-london

The first copies of the classic vampire novel Dracula, by Irish writer Bram Stoker, appear in London bookshops on May 26, 1897. It earned him literary fame and became known as a masterpiece of Victorian-era Gothic literature. Written in the form of diaries and journals of its main characters, Dracula is the story of a vampire who makes his way from Transylvania—a region of Eastern Europe now in Romania—to Yorkshire, England, and preys on innocents there to get the blood he needs to live. Stoker had originally named the vampire “Count Wampyr.” He found the name Dracula in a book on Wallachia and Moldavia written by retired diplomat William Wilkinson, which he borrowed from a Yorkshire public library during his family’s vacations there. Vampires–who left their burial places at night to drink the blood of humans–were popular figures in folk tales from ancient times, but Stoker’s novel catapulted them into the mainstream of 20th-century literature. Late 20th-century examples of the vampire craze include the bestselling novels of American writer Anne Rice and the cult hit TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The 21st century saw the wildly popularTwilight film and book series. 

25 May 2010 – Fireball was released in Italy

-https://www.scifihistory.net/may-25.html

- https://www.betafilm.com/en/product/d/fireball.html

- https://horrornews.net/559/film-review-fireball-2009/

On this day in 2010 (in Italy), Fireball burned up the charts of the home video marketplace.  The feature starred Ian Somerhalder and Lexa Doig, and here's the plot summary : Tyler “The Fuse” Draven is a former pro linebacker who has finally hit rock bottom. Draven has been caught using steroids and is no longer allowed to play pro football; if that’s not enough he has a news reporter constantly harassing him waving a camera in his face. After attacking the news reporter Tyler is sent to prison and one would think that would be the end to this mans story however a fire erupts in the prison and melds with the steroids in Draven’s blood stream causing him to suddenly be able to control heat and fire, now somebody is gonna pay!

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Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)

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