#Battle Born

[pressure-machine]

the slut drop™️ for @hotfuss

[jesteriajunovix]

Battleborn Ramble Before Bed. (No I will not be taking responsibility or criticism for anything I say in this post its 12 AM).

Sometimes I just put on battleborn voice lines in the background while I do stuff. It makes me think about what could've been...... Oh Orendi. Your annoyingly high-pitched voice and deeply 2016 voice lines will forever be left to the past.

Honestly lets talk about it. What if I lived in a world where they fleshed out Orendi and she had more traction in what would be a heightened battleborn fandom. Like she was kind of swaggin. I mean I'm already coping as hard as ever so I'll just say I REALLY REALLY wish I could grow more investment in this character through story and fanart. Like ya there are many other characters that fit her archetype better in present day while delivering more as a character already, but I feel like the character of Orendi is a dead chicken kind of just constantly rotting out of the corner of my eye. Like her design is cool. Her voice lines a lil cringe, but could be tempered with time and more story. She already had some stuff goin on with the other characters that seemed pretty cool.

Like it annoys me how overwatch killed this game considering how uninteresting recent overwatch characters have looked comparably. Its like comparing a Cybertruck to a Beetle Car almost.

Gearbox (Or Arc Games or whatever) and Blizzard both pretty shitty as companies so I won't argue anything on that between the two really.

Just specifically with the characters I feel like the fucky experimentation of battleborn was way more out there and less afraid to pull weird, but interesting punches that have been lost in overwatch due to like a shitty higher-up in staff cannibalizing another coworker or something and needing to cover it up by dangling keys via the Diversity Point giving Robots (Bosses/Managers) ability to hover over artist and tell them to make the most milk toast designs ever seen in FPS history, but with representation built in.

Not that anything is wrong with representation. Its just that an actual artist's and the abacus-fiddling dinosaur moneymen that are thinking of how to lay off and ruin more peoples lives at the company have different Ideas of representation and how it should be approached. One has soul and the other doesn't put simply.

"Oops! my anarchy Symbol"

Another thing that is more personal than it is critical is the fact that like..

Overwatch Character: "I am bathed in the sun of Ra!!! Death be up-"

I don't care being real. Like I get it. You're a cool mighty person on the side of good or "the syndicate" or you're homeless or your mentally disturbed or other by some dumb sci-fi research experiment shit. None of their lines I think i really fuck with, because the most fun they really have with it is maybe just a little cheekyness or other. It feels soft serve and generic marvel shit.

Battle Born Character: "Ew you're fucking poor. Kill yourself you FREAK!!! Your brokenness might rub off on me."

Lowkey I might be on some "Thing, Thing Japan" type timing, but with overwatch and battleborn. I just honestly feel like theres more heart when Marquis kills you and tells you to get your fuckin money up you POOR lowly InsIgnIfIcant weirdO AliEn FREAKAZOID.

Also Battleborns gameplay was more fun. It just had a confusing upgrade system that was actually pretty cool.

To end this ramble lets look at some more characters I wish had the time to get fleshed out and gain fandom momentum.

I love this corny nigga bro. Reminds me of like that one corny black coach/gym teacher you had in high school, but is still like a cool dude.

Marquis. Nough Said. He's a Poor Hating Robot made of gold with a silly lil sniper & he talks shit to you in a hammed-up German accent.....Literally perfect. Grow up.

Literally the most fun gameplay and across the board just cool as shit. If I had one criticism I wish he flew a little looser in game.

Proper British Representation. Tracer could never. I've seen at least 100 British people who look and sound exactly like this.

A lil more generic voiceline wise, but I like her energy and twang. More butch than any overwatch character I've seen. Lost Soldier.

Last, but not least I just want you to know the 7 other people wallowing in the ashes of the battleborn "Fandom" do not condone the words and actions of Ultra kid. Sick Fuck. I'm sorry and all the families affected you have our deepest condolences. We'll get through this.

[oldschoolfrp]

“Jump and die with Battle Born, a complete ‘armored merc’ RPG” by Joseph Hilmer and George Rahm, featured in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer, Vol 2, Issue 1, Sept/Oct 1992, with Todd Pickens cover art.

The Space Gamer was created by Metagaming in the 70s, then continued by Steve Jackson Games who eventually dropped the “The” from the title. SJG also added Fantasy Gamer as a separate magazine before folding fantasy topics back into Space Gamer. Several other companies later took over the titles for brief runs. Hilmer and Rahm published 9 print issues as Better Games, starting with the issue above.

[snazzystarlight]

This came out so cool! This is "Battle Born" by The Killers as I see it because of synesthesia!

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[hotfuss]

the killers in room 100 spring 2013. photos by frances tulk-hart

[vino---delectable]

November is the time for my killers hyperfixation to start up again.

[strokingbooks]

Here's the finished results

etsy

[cru5h-cascades]

Legend has it that when the Battle Born, the Silver, the Mining, and the Sage unite, the four will usher in a new era of hope for the people and perhaps, one day, usher in a new era of peace for the world...

Well, it might have taken almost a year to figure out but I finally made art inspired by the promotional vids for Battle Born (even though this piece clearly has a bunch of Hot Fuss imagery but hey at least I snuck in the thunder bolt from Battle Born)

These are the vids I'm talking about btw v

[angelmaldonado]

maybe a thief stole your heart.

[monitorchakas]

No matter what planet galaxy, world you are from "people do love cat videos"

[ace-sher-bi-john]

In my previous Killers post, I was still unfamiliar with the band's influences and stated that Where Is She? was their last song with British influences...

Then I learned that all of my favorite songs on different albums are influenced mostly by British bands. The World We Live In off of Day & Age, Life To Come off of Wonderful Wonderful and In The Car Outside off of Pressure Machine to name a few.

Only The Killers could make a British country song.

Time has passed and my top favorite albums are Battle Born and Day & Age, although I still love Hot Fuss!

[tanker-yanker-123]

Battle Born

[altumferitas]

The boy with the eager eyes ✨

Sketch vs final, by yours truly

[poprocklyrics]

Long may your innocence reign Like shells on the shore And may your limits be unknown And may your efforts be your own

Be Still, The Killers

[pealeii]

this song fucks me up so bad if anyone cares 😫✌️

[hotfuss]

the killers in vegas rated, september 2012. photos by williams + hirakawa

scans found on the killers italia website