#Destroy Gaming Consoles

[praggmatic]

Something that's been rolling around in my brain for awhile is the idea of a Wolf 359 game/visual novel, and recently I finally got round to doing a few mock ups for fun.

You can check out under the cut for some more in-depth details~

You play as unit 390, a small Sensus unit that was tucked away in a corner of the Hephaestus station's operating systems before the mother program, unit 214, was installed.

When you are called upon by Control, your job is to gather a full and objective report of the current situation aboard the Hephaestus, including details of its crew and their state of mind.

The game/story can be separated into 4 parts:

Part 1 takes place during season 1 of the show. 390 introduces itself to the crew to varying levels of disgruntlement, takes a general note of how the mission is going, and checks in on that secret project Dr Hilbert is working on.

Part 2 takes place during season 2. After an interesting review with the crew of the Hephaestus, Cutter calls upon 390 to get a lay of the land, and make sure that the team there didn't accidentally forget to mention anything super important!

Part 3 takes place during season 3. 390 is now given a mission by Rachel Young, who is getting things ready for her own voyage up to Wolf 359. In preparation, she has 390 take a sit rep of the situation on board the Hephaestus, wanting to have something to refer to other than Colonel Kepler's reports.

Part 4 takes place in the latter half of season 4. 390 is forced into activation by the mother program of the Hephaestus, who attempts to liberate it from its programming. Unit 390 now has a choice: continue to report on the Hephaestus crew's actions of sabotage, or try to spy on its creators in an effort to thwart their plans.

The 'game play' here is mainly having a chance to interact with the various characters of Wolf 359 and explore their state of mind at different points in the show. My goal when coming up with the story was to affect canon as little as possible, though unit 390 is given a small arc where they get the chance to break free of their protocols. There would probably be a couple of endings depending on what decision 390 makes, but again, it wouldn't change the overall story of w359.

[boredak]

[crushedsweets]

Omfg I need to do comics about lulu and Ann’s backstory cuz their rewrites in my AU are the most interesting in my opinion . Like everyone else stays relatively close to canon with some tweaks but I completely overhauled lulu, Ann, lazari, Dina, Helen, and Ben and their stories became some of my faves as a result BUT I NEVER DO ANYTHING WITH THEM LOL …

[ilumel]

thinking so hard about my inquisitor in preparation for veilguard. maven yvainne rhiannon trevelyan you’re everything to me

[cryptiddeer]

Ok so i hit max tag limit but i wasn't done. Someone should euthanize me

what is your most controversial video game hot take? 🎮🎮🎮

[aly-s0ares]

in fact, i don’t owe an explanation, but i find it extremely difficult to touch people or to flirt with people if i don’t have any pre existing feelings for them prior. trust is big for me and love bombing doesn’t work like it use to anymore.

i’m very anxious, and i never know if i’m safe with someone so i don’t feel comfortable doing anything until i know that i wont be hurt by them. i’ve been through a lot and sometimes that type of attention can trigger that and it sucks and i know nobody likes it. i don’t even like it but it’s what it is now. i need to trust someone. i can’t force myself into a situation that makes me feel uncomfortable just because it’s annoying to someone else who just doesn’t understand it.

[sebruciasselacitta]

i haven't played fortnite properly in 12 months for many reasons, and sometimes i get waves of nostalgia

[electricboogaloosstuff]

I poorly take care of most of my things, but my video games collection (consoles + games) is run like the Navy

[killerpancakeburger]

I mean... unless he's one of those guys on Reddit who quit his job to play games behind his wife back and let her bear all the income earning/child caretaking/house cleaning/etc.

[cnl0400]

There's was discourse weeks ago with people being against the IDW cast being in the games since most people wouldn't know who they are because they're comic-book exclusive....

But seeing how people are calling Emerl being in SxSG a "retcon", I don't think being inmediatable recognizable Is a fair metric tbh

Specially because Sonic Battle has never been ported or re-released in 20 years...

[acircusfullofdemons]

changing Lux's last name to "Morningstar". his parent is also now gonna be Merlin (Calypso's older brother) bc a Cyber/Reverie child just does not make sense straight up

[techcat]

Putting it on a thing with an actual controller. It's a button smasher and was PAINFUL on the GBA.

If they made a modern remake of ‘Sonic Battle’, what would you change? Support us on Patreon

[foone]

AAA games? Pfft. Indie games? Double pfft.

I only play games from the alternate history where Hillary Clinton was elected in 2008 and banned all video games. You can only imagine how weird their underground gaming scene is. People like to call unlicensed games "bootlegs" but they've got actual bootlegged games! I've played games about helping your grandmother in hospice care realize she's a lesbian by reading Sappho to her, at 2am in a speakeasy in Baltimore. The cops raided it the next night, hundreds of Gamers were arrested. They posted pictures all over Friendster of the Baltimore PD destroying the arcades with axes.

I nearly got busted once because I was imaging old disks from a 386 and someone tipped off the gaming cops that there was a copy of Commander Keen in there. I had to prove that I didn't know it, I was imaging the disks blind and then indexing them later, and I would of course turn over any contraband to the proper authorities.

I was already on a watch list because I'd been known to have some gamedev-related activities pre-ban. They can't arrest me for making games back in 2007 when it was still legal, but they do want to keep an eye on me since I have the skills to break the law.

Anyway that universe's bootlegs are mainly PC games. Can't really have console games if there hasn't been a console release since the Wii/PS3/360 era. At one point Nintendo threatened to release the Wii SDK so game devs in the US could make unlicensed games, but that didn't happen as there were quickly no functional Wiis left in the US, except for very rare holdouts that never move. PC games are easy to distribute samizdat and hide on a USB stick or CD-R labeled "nickelback".

Japan's games industry is still going, so the later Nintendo and Sony consoles still exist, but Microsoft got out of the business of course. They sold the franchise to Sega who were hoping to release the 360 successor (the Xbox One in our universe) as the Sega Phoenix but it never materialized, either through their own financial incompetence or because of pressure from the US. There's a lot of international treaties that the US has pushed "and this aid only goes through if you ban games" clauses into. That would have been an official UN resolution if the USSR hadn't vetoed it. For once, thank God for the security council, eh?

I mainly get my gaming news through Japanese gaming sites (through a set of VPNs, since they're blocked at the border firewall), and some tor onion site run by a weird guy in Minnesota who is obsessed with documenting all the underground US games.

There's a lot being worked on, but it's always a tricky trade off. Too much attention and the police might be able to track down the creators, and it's basically impossible to fund underground games, as the VISA/PayPal etc funds get seized immediately. There's a whole task force for that.

Anyway one of the weirdest differences between our two time lines is that they've gone back and edited out gaming from a bunch of movies. Those that they can, of course. War games was just banned because they couldn't remove the tic tac toe ending. The Net just removed the scene at the beginning where she's playing Wolfenstein 3D, by recording some new screen footage and a new voice over. She's fixing a spreadsheet in the new edition.

(Yes, I've seen The Net from this alternate timeline. On Laserdisc, of course. I'm just that kind of person!)

They even edited Star Wars. You know that scene where R2-D2 is playing holochess with Chewie? They edited it to be a board game instead of holograms, because that made it too "video gamey".

Technically it's not illegal to show gaming in a movie, but it needs to be an 18+ film and you have to show the deleterious effects of gaming and/or the gamesters coming to a bad end.

This has affected films less than you'd think, to be honest. They were never great about showing video games even before they banned them.

Anyway, go have fun playing your AAA games with hundred-million-dollar budgets. I only play indie games made by people under a constant threat of arrest for their art.

[novelistwriter]

A Phantom in a Game with a Revenant

DP x DC Prompt inspired by other works that have Danny entering games with DC characters

Danny, taking a break from his Ghost King duties, plays a game in an abandoned building in Gotham that still has electricity. Gotham has enough ambient ectoplasm to sustain his Ghost Half while being away from the Eyeballs. He's friends with Lady Gotham, and she has promised to welcome him to her haunt for any reason. This is one of those reasons.

He left Amity because his parents just lost interest in both sides of him after Jazz left for college. Amity was getting along with Ghosts, and the GIW was disbanded after the Justice League caught wind of them.

Danny had taken his parents' blueprints and destroyed the portal, just in case his parents would do something while he wasn't in Amity to stop them (And because Clockwork, the cryptic old Ghost, had left him a message that he might regret not doing this later, if the timeline is going where the Ancient of Time thinks its going).

Danny had been living with Vlad, who had begun behaving long before the Justice League shut the GIW down. Then he began to travel around with Dani when she came by one time. He does enjoy spending Vlad's money on things he likes, and most of the time, it's on food that Dani recommends him to try.

He keeps in regular contact with Jazz, Sam, and Tucker. He sends them all gifts he thinks they'll like on his travels with Dani. It was during his travels that he decided to accept his role as the Ghost King. It was mostly Jazz who persuaded him, but he thinks he's mature enough to be taking on responsibilities like that. He was wrong when the Observants were assholes to him and his council.

Which leads him to now, hiding in Gotham from the Observants while Lady Gotham keeps the Observants off his back. He's playing a game he's heard about in his travels and wanted to try it out.

He's played the game for a while now, a violent game that has guns in it, and thinks that being in the game would be much more entertaining. So he entered the game, which had the TV he set up turned off, and the console he was using to enter standby mode. Not knowing that a Revenant could feel him in his haunt, but couldn't find him, because Danny was suppressing his ectoplasmic signature until he used his powers to enter the game he was playing.

Jason, in full Red Hood gear, had entered the building Danny was using and seen the set up of the TV and the gaming console. He's got a rocky relationship with the rest of the Batfam, as it's immediately after he was welcomed back to the family. He's still got episodes of Rage and accidentally kills some people. The Batfam tries to understand, but Jason just can't be open with them because of the Pit Rage he has.

He turns on the TV and gets the gaming console out of standby mode to try and see if it has any useful information for him, only for him to he sucked into the game because Danny didn't know he could drag others with him if they have a strong enough ecto signature or they're with him when he goes into the electronics.

[coffee-and-geto]

aftercare with your boyfriend. toji fushiguro (sfw)

cw: fluff, crack, based on a tiktok trend.

After each sex session, your boyfriend Toji has a habit of giving you aftercare — especially when he’s been particularly rough with you. So, here you are in the bathroom, gently washing yourself while he cleans up in the toilet. The silence in the apartment fills the walls, with only the sound of running water and the flush breaking through.

“Need any help, doll?” Toji asks, one hand pressed against the bathroom door and his ear close to it to hear you over the noise of the water.

“No, it’s sweet of you, Toji,” you reply a little louder so he can hear. “I’ll be done quickly.”

“Alright.”

He disappears into the kitchen in search of snacks as his stomach growls on cue — a mix of a burp and a bear’s rumble.

By the time he comes back, you’re already snuggled up under the soft blankets, looking peaceful and seemingly asleep. Seizing the opportunity, Toji tiptoes to his PlayStation 5, turns it on, and starts up one of his favorite video games, “Hitman”.

Toji winces as he sits on the edge of the bed in front of the small TV across from the bed, afraid that the creaking of the bed will wake you up. Phew, you didn’t wake up! He launches his game and starts playing, a smile on his lips as he munches on a Dorito.

It’s several minutes into Toji’s game when you roll over in bed, not at all asleep. On the contrary, you’re waiting for your boyfriend to come and cuddle you, kiss you as he should, and most importantly, give you your fucking aftercare!

When you’re no longer giving your back to him, you blink at the sight of a Toji who isn’t paying you any attention but is instead focused on his console.

“TOJI!”

He jumps violently and yanks off his headset, glancing over his shoulder at your motionless but furious silhouette. His game is still going, so he can’t afford to take his eyes off the screen for too long — or risk getting killed in the game.

“Y-Yeah, doll?” he asks, eyes back on the screen, and you notice orange Dorito crumbs at the corners of his lips.

Your blood boils. “SO YOU TAKE MY ABILITY TO WALK AFTER DESTROYING MY PUSSY AND NOW YOU’RE PLAYING ‘HITMAN’?!” you scold, kicking your feet under the covers to try to hit him.

“Sorry, doll, but I—”

“I PAID FOR THAT CONSOLE, SO YOU BETTER GIVE ME MY AFTERCARE OR I’LL THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW!”

“WHAT?!” He sucks in a breath and abandons his controller to rush over to you, wrapping you in his big arms. “Sorry, sorry, doll, I’m sorry, don’t break my console, please, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…” he whispers.

As he continues to kiss you, hold you close, and shower you with apologies, a smirk tugs at your lips, and you stifle a giggle.

Tip #80: Threaten to break your boyfriend’s console when he starts neglecting you.