#BONE CRUNCHER

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[soulsty]

Today I offer up some doomed lovers, who are also gay old men… now, do you have any idea who these characters are?

I’m sure you don’t!

These two are from Frogger: The Great Quest. Do you have any idea what that game is?

I’m sure you don’t!

If you know, you know. And if you don’t know… you’ll probably never know.

Uhh the green one is named Hiss the Cat Dragon, and the purple one is named Bone Cruncher. There is no canonical love between these two in game, they don’t interact a single time, sorry to disappoint(?)

[user211201]

The Pence Protocol

--- Original author: realhankmccoy ---

Not that I get into math in the same way anymore, but it was in year three of the Pence administration that our high school really started to change. Perhaps it never would have happened if Trump hadn’t passed away – he had his bone spurs, right? He had no emotional connection to films like Rudy or Hoosiers, right? I betcha Indiana Pence sure did. Whatever Pence’s reasoning, he started unlocking and implementing new technologies that had previously been only under the purview of DARPA. The world had come a long way since Al Gore helped unleash the internet, and so before we even really had a say in the matter, as part of the America Strong program, after-school athletics became mandatory.

Some of it was in school, too, of course. The whole school seemed to be taking it to the next level. Aaron and I selected wrestling, thinking maybe we could just avoid the more popular sports, do stats, and stay in the lower weight classes, which worked as first… but soon they were pushing us harder. My body packed on twelve pounds of muscle before I knew what hit me, and they told me that was just “a good start”. Aaron, too, increasingly no longer even resembled himself, with a shaved head and a wild-eyed look to him that told me he wasn’t the same gentle number-cruncher we’d both been before. “Dude, I don’t even feel like my head’s right anymore,” he confessed to me one evening in the locker room, slamming his locker shut. “I know I should go do pages 112-125 of Calculus tonight, but I kind of don’t really want to.”

“I hear ya, man,” I said, my voice still surprising me with the deeper register it seemed to be falling into. “I kind of just want to take a shower and watch some porn.”

Was I really confessing that to my best friend? “Yeah dude,” Aaron laughs. “I could go for some of that too, actually.”

I washed my face, looking in the sink. Already I had a bit of a five o'clock shadow on me. They really had my hormones running, I thought, as before I’d gotten involved with the team I wasn’t even shaving at all. Now I had to at least every other day. I didn’t even fit in my favorite shirts anymore. I’d gone up a couple of shoe sizes. I was doing sets of 25 pullups by this point, whereas I wouldn’t have been able to do a single one before…I used to just dangle from the bar helplessly. What were they doing to us? This was totally the wrong thing to be doing when we should be focusing on scholastics. Fuck Pence, I thought, but part of me, a smaller voice that I never really seemed to have before, always telling me to not be so sure of myself… that side of me had to admit that this wasn’t so bad.

[smalldumbpigeon]

I think a lot about the magic sets I give to my ocs, how it fits with their personalities and how they decide to utilise it. But thinking about it now I hadn't given a particular oc any unique magic. But you know what? she's so large and buff that if she threw a hatchet it might as well be casting a spell. forget the Fae who can decay things by touching them this Fae can cast "bone cruncher" where she squeezes you with her hands and your bones get crunched

[bella97starcandies]

I Was Right, by Paper, The Safety Inspectors, Bone Cruncher, Chad BrockChad, Pencil, SandPaper, Potato, Lou Zer, The Rat Bros., Some Cheerleaders and Rock.

[kinderfunk]

i made a mix 8~}

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

me and my shadow • peggy lee

babylonian pearl • can

no gold • cardiacs

poor moon • canned heat

lord god love • peter iver's band with asha puthli

there's no blood in bone • the poppy family

the floppy boot stomp • captain beefheart & the magic band

mr. motion • t rex

earthman sam • eowyn bennett

the supermen • david bowie

sadman • molto brutto

sleepy sweet • pram

examination of what • digable planets

stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again • the seattles

biological speculation • funkadelic

hippie boy • the flying burrito brothers

the breather • zoogz rift

i hear voices • screamin' jay hawkins

butterfly mind • arcesia

memories • red dirt

green bubble raincoated man • amon duul ii

you and your sister • tender cruncher

sparkling world • ann steel

about a quarter to nine • the electric prunes

blue • kevin ayers

end of the night • the doors

[yandere-fics]

Is Kassien… sweet? Like if Darling is willing and complacent, is she gentle and kind? Can she and Darling go to the theatre and go to Sawyer’s for dinner and stuff?

Sawyer and Kassien are close but not enough to go see eachother for dinners and yeah Kassien can be very sweet, sure she might be a bone crusher when her darling tries to escape but she wants to be able to be sweet to her darling and they just won't let her with all their escaping which is what makes Kassien mad. Kassien is my favorite for a reason, I wouldn't make her just a bone cruncher.

[spider-artdump]

Bone Cruncher - BugWorld

[msburgundy]

bone cruncher today...

[sunsetcity-centre]

Fang themed system names for; Anon!

The Sharpest Fang System , The Shining Fang System , The Fanged System , The Biters System , The Bitten System , The Canine System , The Cuspid System , Those With Pointed Teeth , The Snarling Fangs , The Bone-crunchers , The Gnawed System , The Devour System , The Bloody Fangs System , The Fanged Gods System

~Thank you for requesting! I hope these hit the spot!

[blimbo-buddy]

So!

I was talking with some friends and I just thought about Bloodclan having a more unique naming scheme than just one word names.

One word names would work better with just Loners and Rogues.

Bloodclan name ideas I had was like;

Instead of just Bone and Scourge what-if we got. Bone-Crusher or Scourge-Giver?

Taking some Clawguard and Toothguard names from Tailchaser's song but

Shredfang, Skinwretch, or Slitbelly. Grotesque sounding and unnatural names. Something to further more differentiation and make Bloodclan cats unique and you can tell like the difference between a rogue cat and a bloodclan cat from not just the name.

More ones I came up with; Brick-Cruncher (They pushed a brick onto a cat terrorizing them down below), Live-Wire (Survived an electrocution), or more!

Thoughts?

This idea really rocks, I love the idea of Bloodclan having this gross version of the Clan names. It'd be neat if those names were often gifted to higher ranks or just trusted members but it'd be cool if all Bloodclan cats had those names.

I Fucking love Brick-Cruncher and Live-Wire and the meanings behind their names this idea fucking rocks

[unofskylanderspages]

Listed below are the different types of Chompies seen throughout the Skylanders series:

Crunchers

Purple Chompies

Black Chompies

Enfuego Chompies

Frigid Chompies

Red Chompies

Bone Chompies (Bonehead Chompies)

Armored Chompies

Chompy Bot 9000s

Chompy Rustbuds

Chompy Powerhouses

Chompy Frostflowers

Chompy Blitzblooms

Chompy Pastepetals

Chompy Boomblossoms

Clockwork Chompies

Goo Chompies

Chompy Worms

Mega Chompies

Hula Chompies

Sand Chompies

[ljaesch]

English Cast Announced for The Imaginary Anime Film

Netflix has announced the English cast for The Imaginary anime film: Louie Rudge-Buchanan is Rudger Evie Kiszel is Amanda Hayley Atwell is Lizzie Sky Katz is Emily Jeremy Swift is Mr. Bunting Kal Penn is Zinzan LeVar Burton is The Old Dog Jane Singer is Granny Downbeat Ruby Barnhill is Aurora Roger Craig Smith is Snowflake Courtenay Taylor is Cruncher-of-Bones Miles Nibbe is John Ian James…

[firyfox]

The one thing I'll be ok with bones cutting out is shigirake manhandling Bakugo with his foot . I wouldn't rlly mind if bones kept his nasty corn crunchers out of Bakugo's hair tbh

[hootenanie]

Inside they squinted through crisscrossed tent pole shadows to the high freak platforms and all the world-wandered aliens, crippled of face of bone, of mind, waiting there.          At a rickety card table nearby four men sat playing orange, lime-green, sun-yellow cards printed with moon beasts and winged sun-symbolled men. Here the akimbo Skeleton one might play like a piccolo; here the Blimp who could be punctured every night, pumped up at dawn; here the midget known as The Wart who could be mailed parcel post dirt-cheap; and next to him an even littler accident of cell and time, a Dwarf so small and perched in such a way you could not see his face behind the cards clenched before him in arthritic and tremulous oak-gnarled fingers. [...]         There stood Monsieur Guillotine, black tights, black long stockings, black hood over head, arms crossed over his chest, stiff straight by his chopping machine the blade high in the tent sky, a hungry knife all flashes and meteor shine, much desiring to cleave space. Below, in the head cradle, a dummy sprawled waiting quick doom.         There stood the Crusher, all ropes and tendons, all steel and iron all bone-monger, jaw-cruncher, horseshoe-taffy-puller.         And there the Lava Sipper, Vesuvio of the chafed tongue, of the scalded teeth, who spun scores of fireballs up, hissing in a ferris of flame which streaked shadows along the tent roof.

Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

[francostrider]

‘The Last of Us’ Was Not the First of Anything

With The Last of Us the Game the Series released, the conversation of whether or not this is the greatest game that ever gamed has come up once again. Its position was called into question due to the mixed reaction of its sequel in 2020, and while it still had defenders, people were a lot more open to discussing the original’s flaws. But there are still those who call it the greatest game ever, and award shows (a cancer upon entertainment) love to push that narrative.

As I maintain, this is subjective, and declaring anything the greatest is a shallow viewpoint of any medium and only serves to invalidate the whole rainbow of other works that are, ultimately, not comparable. The sequel was incredibly divisive for that simple fact. You cannot compare The Last of Us, a cover shooter with some expensive cutscenes, to more complex RPGs like Divinity Original Sin 2, or high octane action games like Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, or investigative titles like The Return of the Obra Din. Comparing them is like comparing a lawn mower to a cookie tray. I have not played The Last of Us, and while it may be a competently made game, it holds zero value to me. I’ve heard the praise (the cutscenes), and the criticisms (Ellie not being a factor in gameplay, gameplay is pretty derivative, etc.), but I’m not going to rip into it because it’s not part of the my world.

And fans of TLOU, don’t take that personally. Final Fantasy VII Remake also holds no value to me. As does Lisa: The Painful RPG, most Final Fantasy, Valkyrie Profile, Call of Duty, Fortnite or a lot of other popular franchises of today. I am occasionally surprised by something out of my usual repetiore, like Dawn of War, but with my limited time, I want to put my time to something I am interested in, and I’m well past the point of caring about hype. The games I criticize are the ones I wanted to care about (Fire Emblem Fates) and wanted to do better.

But let’s make something clear: The Last of Us was not a first on any given level.

We all know the meme of someone on Twitter saying that Video Games have been nothing but coin crunchers until TLOU. From my research the “showrunner” quoted (who had been left anonymous) does not exist, and the post was a joke to anger people. But I have gotten into arguments with people who claimed that The Last of Us was the first to be really “narrative focused”. Sadly, this was not the only example.

And, say, aren’t we forgetting a few? If you want to go back to narrative driven games, the earliest I can think of are adventure games, like the Monkey Island series. You know, back in the 80s, early 90s. RPGs (both western and Japanese), have been playing with dialogue and settings and character arcs since the NES days. But the one that comes to mind for myself is a little old game on the PS1 by Hideo Kojima.

Metal Gear Solid for a lot of people (including myself) was the first to put a lot of effort into its cutscenes. Not only that, but it was the first I played to put the voice talent onto center stage. When introduced to a new character, you are given the name of the character and the name of the voice actor behind it. As a kid, I did not think of the voice talent much before that game. Kojima not only wanted you to know the characters and their story, but the voices behind them.

On the shoulder of that game, you have Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. I was more aware of the voice talent coming into this game, but there are some significant details that marry gameplay with the story. Raziel is a fallen vampire, turned soul devouring lich. The bones were torn from his wings and he was cast into an abyss, killing him before an ancient being brings him back. In this form, he needs to devour souls to maintain himself in the living world, or else be forced back into the spectral realm. His torn wings can be used as an impromptu parachute to glide. Devouring greater vampires leads to new powers to allow him to progress further. The vampires need to be killed in specific ways, like water or fire.

The point is Soul Reaver matches the gameplay and story with very little segregation. You feel the world and Raziel’s character in ways most games neglect. There is no forgetting the narrative during its gamplay. This is not the only example of this, but it is one that will always stand out in my mind. And this was all the way back in 1999. This is a classic example of a narrative driven game.

The Last of Us was basically a logical next step of the trends of the time: cover based shooting, refinement of cutscenes and voice work, graphical touches, and so on. It did not break trends or set them. Spec Ops: The Line is very often compared to TLOU, and that came out the year prior, specifically to deconstruct the modern military genre of shooters. We’d seen zombies before, we’d seen main characters fall apart, we’d seen character arcs and we’d seen some real downers up to that point.

This is not to say you cannot enjoy The Last of Us or that the game itself is toxic. By all means, have fun. But what is toxic is the narrative surrounding it. Calling it the greatest does nothing for the gaming industry except decide an arbitrary standard (like the Oscars) of which games are worth looking at. It decrees that only when you’ve worked your animation staff to death will you draw the greater collective’s attention. It implies that every other kind of game is a waste of time. It erases gaming history for the sake of Oscar fueled spectacle.

And most of all, it harms the legacy of The Last of Us itself. This myopic, elitist attitude toward gaming does nothing for a game about the desperate and downtrodden. Because the buzz and hype has become so important to the game, it muddies the message. We do not live in a vacuum: Timing and exposure of a piece is important. One of these days, we’re going to look back on this game more soberly and call into question the culture around it.

Maybe we can finally quit this Oscar bait nonsense and spread the attention around. That would be a first.