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bucksbisexual · 4 years ago

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so....... i watched ep6 since apparently i like pain now and oh my fucking GOD

first of all, INKORN!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!

but also, INKORN TTTTTTT_TTTTTTT

TEARS PEOPLE. T EA R S

okay let me start from the beginning because what an episode yall

so . we start with a flashback and it was cute ! if only the last one was too HAHAHAHAHimcrying

team being like “hm...... manaow and del are really close lately......... Are They........” after i literally said it out loud was the biggest shared braincell moment i’ve ever had in my life and mind u i have a big sister who i’m very close with lmaO

(also, women are gay too pharm smh)

win being a little bitch with his I’m An Adult Bitch You Can’t Tell Me Shit to team god i love him sjfhksjf

DEAN HOLDING PHARM’S HAND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

pharm just going into cardiac arrest after dean interlocks their fingers is the biggest mood ever

also manaow baby that’s- that’s not how you check if someone is sick JKSHFSJHS

“don’t forget to eat your lunch” “don’t forget to swallow it too” “beware of choking” THEY REALLY- FHSKGFSLJJFKS

yes i went back to the episode to write that i have no memory whatsoever

i was so scared when dean had his flashback while driving like i was praying to every god in existence for him to not crash,,,, the flashback was cute though

that tear though........ that shit Hurt

but korn saying “like” !!!!!!! half of my brain was like “HE!!!!! LIKES!!!!!! HIM!!!!!!!!” and the other half was just “omg like ram” lmao

pharm calling manaow beautiful ;; yes she is she’s the most beautiful girl ever i love her with my whole heart

that mf guy who doesn’t know the meaning of no can CHOKE (also i heard the actor’s problematic or sumn???? so fuck him too bYe)

thankfully pharm is That bitch and shut him up not once not twice but a shit ton of times in like,,,, less 2 minutes

that’s my mans man hell yeah

apparently everyone in dean’s faculty knows pharm?????? lmaoooooo but when those 2 (and later 3) tried to flirt with him i was like???????? get tf out?????????? out here abusing of pharm’s niceness smh

thankfully dean came to the rescue jsfhsk

bro when pharm picked a thread and it led to dean i was like....... oh my God they actually did that

the FORESHADOWING bro

also that kiss scene......................... perfect i loved it even though i hate their outfits so much but i can get over it if it gives us this amazing scene

dean just ;; being patient with pharm and asking if he’s okay and just asking him until he gives oral (is it vocal? girl idk) answers to the questions he makes just to be sure ;;

god why can’t men be like dean why do u have to be Assholes smh

AND THE RED THREAD!!!!! BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!

dean making pharm wear his jacket sjfhksj u couldn’t be more territorial bro literally (and apparently) everyone knows you’re into each other theres truly no need jfshkf

“if it doesn’t invade our privacy too much, i think it’s okay. also, i think it’s a good way to let that person know that he shouldn’t mess with someone who isn’t single”

first of all, DEAN U ABSOLUTE SWEETHEART

second of all, the shadeeeeeeeeee lmao yes bitch drag his ass

and last, SKJLFHGLJKHSLKHKSJG

thank u for listening to my tedtalk

i will repeat myself, why can’t all men be like dean

also, a bonus: i of course went to the episode to get the dialogue and i saw the name lemon lemon and i was like “wait..... is that manaow???” so i google translated her name and it does mean lemon omg thats SO cute i love her even more rn

okay i don’t know if it’s only me but the girls from the cooking club? the best girls ever me thinks

okay we’re approaching the last part of the episode yall i felt so many emotions in like 13 minutes

we start with the worst, a Flashback.

i literally saw the outfit and started crying. like. no joke.

the mother??? sister?????? aunt?????? being hella worried and in being like “it’s okay i’ll be back in like . 2 seconds”

THIS BTICH NEVER CAME BACK

the little girl please i’m legit going to cry again thinking about her and imagining her waiting for in to come back home and just.... not really understanding whats happening when her mother (im guessing here) starts sobbing when she picks up the phone

OH MY GODDDDDDDD

also according to like,,, timeline and shit inkorn were from the 60s or 80s right???? which means she’s still alive if nothing has happened to her..................

HAHA so much fun in this blog! just joy laughter and happiness!

also it was in’s birthday.............. oh my goodness

okay moving on to something that hurts less! team being the dunk boy on the booth omg win this is not how u flirt

also i realised that the open house thing happens like... mid first semester so it hasn’t been that long since deanpharm know of each other/have been talking damn bro

win teasing pharm is like,, one of my favourite things lmao i might do a gifset of these moments when i finish the drama if i’m not too lazy

deanpharm holding hands in public tho ;;;;;;; ok bitch call me single and ugly a little less louder

win though SJFKHS *looks at team’s hand* team: no. go away

oh god oh god oh godddddddd here comes the thread talk

the moment team said suicide i stopped the episode because i thought Something would happen to pharm but oh GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING WHAT HAPPENED

THE STARES!!!!!!!! THE REALISATION!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE “PROMISE” AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHUT THE FUCKUGISFUIKGJHSLGWJ

i will literally never recover

also i paused that scene so much just to scream into my comfort stuffed toy and i’m so sorry for her

i also couldn’t help but think of how the others at the table were like because if that was me idk what i’d do

i might cry or be like “wow u guys are such great actors” but inside my head because i’m an introvert

but god that was,,,,,,, yeah

and when they of course showed The flashback scene and i saw in’s outfit i cried because he truly never went back home

okay i think that’s it i literally took almost an hour to write this because i tried following the episode while having a thousand thoughts in my head + make lots of typos lmao

i hope these aren’t too bothersome to u guys ;; i post these because i need to share my thoughts somewhere but if someone doesn’t want to see them u can mute the tags i use in these posts or something hhhhh

i might use an specific one for these tho because if i gotta make 17 of these at least let’s make them be organised some way,,,,,

alrighty that’s all byebyeeeee

#until we meet again #uwma #uwma ep6 #tw suicide #i mention it and it's only once but better be safe than sorry!!!

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literalite · 5 years ago

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@s4simomo xoxox ty for the support dude ♥♥♥

hHAHAHA also i drew that mf cracker all on my lonesome and i dont rlly draw all that seriously... like i rlly went hard to make it look ea(esque)

sometimes ppl r just Blind to the shit they get spoonfed and dont realise its not the same for everyone else. like we’re supposed to be teaching them otherwise but sometimes they just Don’t learn!

ty bro... ur a real one

u aint bothering.... i love u xox

its ok dude!!! and i wrote that to try help yall understand and im glad it worked ♥

it’s so fun and funky of u that u tried to bullshit up a whole ass argument and it was cohesive!! but then u totally clowned it by thinking u all all about my life and then by calling me the most unnecessary slur! nice work anon. ur an idiot

@sunnytannersims xoxox its alright im not like that heated by it tbh. like they’re annoying sure but they could be worse. thanks!!!

anon are you done painting on ur clown paint? u got ur balloons ready? u ready to perform for the children? i write a whole ass lecture on why im tired of you misinterpreting shit we say and u come here to be a clown i

i don’t need the validation or the permission (if all of yall hated me this would still be happening tbh) but i think its more to set an example for how yall are supposed to treat this: rationally and without hurling insults n shit

#racism tw #hitler mention tw #yes that happened i'm enjoying today. it smells like theres gonna be a high chance of fool behaviour #ask #reply #s4simomo #sunnytannersims #anonymous

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crankywhenprovoked · 6 years ago

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SandersSidesSmutMonth. Roman week Day 7 (November 4th). DLAMP

Warnings: Deceit

Prompt: Roman is very needy after spending a week with his cock locked up in a cage and denied an orgasm. The others figure he’s been so good for so long, so, they pick him out one by one and have their way with him until he’s come multiple times and is exhausted.

@sanderssidessmutmonth

“Come on, that’s it, so good.” Patton praised, chest hitching as Roman rolled his hips again, taking his cock deeper again.

Roman keened softly, panting as he grasped at Patton’s hands, holding them to his hips as he moved. It had been a week, a long and frustrating week, with his cock in that wretched cage, keeping him from coming. The others had no problem using him during that week, ignoring his pleadings and whimpers, but never asking. That would have just extended his stay in the cage.

“You want me to touch you, wrap my hand around that pretty cock?”

“Please, please?” Roman nodded fast, moving his hands to rest on Patton’s chest.

“Such a good boy, earned this.”

Wrapping his hand around Roman, Patton moaned at how hard Roman was in his grasp, the way his cock twitched as he started moving his hand. Roman earned his stay in the cage, but he took his time with no complaints, well, at least in words.

“Come for me, Ro. You earned it.” Patton coo’d, Roman’s moans growing louder before he was spilling over Patton’s fingers.

Patton followed him over the edge, filling him as he pressed his hips up into the prince, moaning his name. Roman smiled happily, resting his head against Patton’s shoulder, his breath still coming out in pants. A shiver ran down Roman’s back as Patton’s cock slipped from him, come dripping down his balls. Though when he tried to move, Patton wrapped his arms around his shoulders, holding him in place.

“Uh uh uh, not just yet, my pretty prince.”

“Sir?” Roman asked.

“Isn’t this such a sight.” Virgil’s voice washed over them, making Roman jump a little, more come dripping out of him as he tensed.

“Hi there, love.” Patton smiled over Roman’s shoulder, as Virgil climbed on the bed.

“Filled our prince up so well, didn’t you?” Virgil asked, pressing two fingers into Roman, making him whine.

“Master.” Roman breathed, his cock twitching back to life as Virgil fingered him.

“Hand me the lube will ya, Pat?” Virgil asked.

Handing him the bottle, Roman wiggled his hips a bit as Virgil pushed his own pants down before lubing himself up. Pulling his fingers out, Virgil pulled Roman back a little, before sinking into him. Roman whined softly against Patton’s chest, as Virgil pulled back before sinking in again.

“Taking me so well, aren’t you, Ro? Wanted this for a week now, huh?” Virgil groaned, holding Roman’s hip with one hand, the other pressed to the middle of his back.

“Yes, Master. Missed you, missed all of your cocks so much.” Roman gasped, fingers clutching Patton as the other ran his fingers through his hair.

“And I’m sure if you ask your other loves, they will give you the attention you want too.” Patton purred to him, his free hand sliding between their bodies to wrap around his cock.

“Mhm, your mister really missed you riding him, coming just from that.” Virgil teased, making Roman jerk.

“Y-ea?”

“Mhmm, fuck, are you going to come again for us?”

Roman nodded his head the best he could, fingers tightening on Patton’s shoulders as he started coming, adding to the mess on his sir. Virgil cursed, letting out a loud moan as he started coming too, filling Roman more. Pulling out slowly, Virgil moved to fall on his side next to Patton, leaning in and giving them both a kiss.

“Why don’t you go find your mister, and don’t forget the lube.” Virgil said, smacking Roman’s ass lightly.

“Yes, Master.” Roman nodded, kissing them both again before climbing off the bed, letting out as soft whimper at the wetness sliding down his legs.

Picking up the lube Roman left the room, heading downstairs at Virgil’s suggestion, looking for his Mister. The two on the bed sliding under the blankets, Patton resting his head on Virgil’s chest. Heading into the living room, he smiled at the warm look on Deceit’s face when he saw him.

“You don’t look like you’ve had fun already.” He said, wrapping his hands around Roman’s hips when he got close enough.

“Yes, my Mister. But I want to ride you now.” Roman said, watching the shiver run through Deceit.

“I would hate that.” Deceit gasped, pressing a kiss to Roman’s stomach before leaning back in the chair, undoing and pushing his pants, and underwear, off.

Roman handed him the bottle of lube, which he took and got his cock slick, before setting the bottle to the side. Reaching around Roman, he rubbed the excess on his hole before pulling back and guiding Roman to his lap. Wrapping one arm around his waist, Deceit helped move Roman down onto his cock, both males groaning at the feeling.

“Don’t start riding me, my love.” Deceit moaned, holding Roman’s hips as the prince did as told.

“Missed you, so much, love this feeling.” Roman moaned, trying to ignore his shaky legs, as he moved.

“You’re not my good boy.” Deceit gasped, mouth hanging open slightly as Roman swirled and moved his hips, taking him deep.

“Mister, so good.” He whimpered, hands clenching hard at the back of the chair, cock twitching against Deceit’s stomach.

He was so close, feeling so good, yet couldn’t get fully hard, coming twice already, tears springing to his eyes.

“Shhh, don’t cry.” Deceit whispered, pulling Roman closer, tucking Roman’s head into his shoulder; his double speak melting away as his concern grew.

“I-I’m sorry, I can’t come for you, how you want.”

“It’s ok, does my cock feel good?” Deceit asked, pressing kisses to the side of his head.

“So good, so so good.”

“Then just enjoy, my love, if you come for me, you come. If not, you’ll come another day. This is about you and feeling good, a reward for taking your punishment so good, not the start of another one.” Deceit soothed, Roman letting out another sob, but nodding none the less.

“Thank you, Mister. I-I still want you to come in me.” Roman shivered, feeling the jerk of Deceit’s hips at his words.

“Don’t worry, I will.” Deceit groaned, pressing kisses to Roman’s shoulder.

Holding Roman still, Deceit took over the thrusts, groaning at the soft whimpering moans Roman was making. Pressing his mouth against Roman’s neck, Deceit let out a long moan as he started coming, pressing harder up into him.

“So good for me.” Deceit breathed out, pulling Roman back to press a kiss to his lips.

Roman sighed happily into the kiss, wrapping his arms around Deceit’s shoulders and letting him hold him until the others cock slipped out. Another shiver ran down Roman’s spine at the feeling, as he pulled away, Deceit smiling up at him as he yawned.

“Such a good boy, now why don’t you go up stairs and see you Professor and let him reward you, then you can sleep.”

“Yes, my Mister.” Roman nodded, kissing him once more before climbing off his lap and heading upstairs.

Logan was sitting at his desk when Roman knocked, telling him to come in, moving over to him when he was in the room. Soft kisses were placed on Roman’s lips as Logan lead him to bed, lying him down before getting himself undressed.

“You were good this week, so good for all of us.” Logan praised, grabbing his lube and making sure Roman was still stretched.

“Thank you, Professor.” Roman gasped, his cock jerking against his stomach as Logan’s fingers pressed against his prostate.

“Now I want you to keep being good, you can come once more tonight, right my prince?”

“I-I can try.” Roman whined.

His cock was slowly filling back up, as Logan slid his fingers out and possitioned himself between his legs. Pressing in slowly, Roman arched off the bed as Logan fully seated himself in him.

“And you’ll be good next time too won’t you? Won’t make us put you in a cage and leave you there, my prince?” Logan asked, pulling back slowly before thrusting in again, starting a slow rhythm.

“I’ll be good, the best.” Roman nodded, moaning softly as Logan leaned over him, pressing his legs up to his chest.

“That’s what I want to hear, so good.”

Logan slotted their lips together, kissing Roman deeply as his thrusts grew faster, each one rocking Roman slightly. Between them, Roman’s cock throbbed and leaked onto his stomach, each thrust against his prostate making it twitch.

“Touch yourself for me?” Logan asked, pulling back only to press kisses and nips to Roman’s neck.

Sliding his hand down to his cock, he jerked as he touched the sensitive flesh, working himself in fast movements. Logan’s mouth on his neck and the near constant thrusting to his prostate finally pushed him over the edge, making Roman moan loudly. It didn’t take long for Logan to follow him over the edge, filling the prince for the fourth time that day.

Letting Roman’s legs down slowly, Logan pulled back, running his hands over Roman’s hips as he pulled back and out. Climbing off the bed, Logan grabbed some wipes and cleaned Roman slowly, making sure to be gentle. Once the prince was clean, Logan climbed back into bed at Roman’s grabby hands.

“Do you want me to call the others?” Logan asked.

“I think Sir and Master, were already going to sleep.” Roman said, his eyes fighting to stay open.

“Ah, do you want your Mister too, then?”

Roman nodded, and Logan used the smart technology in his room to send a message to Deceit, who showed up a few moments later. Crawling on the other side of Roman, the two cuddled close to him, both giving him a few more kisses before they all fell asleep.

Tag list:

@sanderssmutsides

@karmels-stuff

@jaybingu @pandagirl0730 @pansexual-cat @neko-ereri @hanramz-the-fander @supreme-succ-overlord @ansfwcollection @nightlovechild @hoodie-bros @sorrythomas @trashypansexual @crankywhenprovoked @allthemetalsoftherainbow @k9cat @thought-u-said-dragon-queen @spacenerrrd @starlightlogan @justmyshitandmoreshit

@vanitasequilibriumsmut

@roxiefox24

@justanotherpurplebutterfly

@razalin

@nightlovechild

@mr-rectify

@cover-your-eyes-children

@greeneggsandham1998

@vulnerablevirgil

@secretlygeneralperson

@officialpattonsander

#deceit #Sanderssidessmutmonth #DLAMP

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geek-gem · 7 years ago

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The Ramirez Do Everything Meme

That is a actual meme a joke because in the game and on the wiki whether it's true or not. But from my experience with Modern Warfare 2 of the Call Of Duty series. Is that theirs 56 scrpited sayings of Ramirez.

Also because I was listening to Cliff Lin's extended version of, "And Your World Will Burn" and....two Ramirez videos

Honestly I've seen quite some funny examples of the meme. Yet how I've been seeing it these days. Is that instead of Ramirez getting annoyed or tired of the orders. It doesn't fucking matter how ridiculous the order is. He gets fucking shit done and the shit he's able to do and.... weirdly I imagine the moment Ramirez is ordered to do something. He becomes an unstoppable badass and will get that shit done.

Including on Deviantart I had made a big post but so big not all of it fit on Tumblr so I deleted both the Tumblr version and DeviantArt version. Basically and some of my own things.... including some I've forgot when making the original. I just wanna make these and these apply to fandoms of my own.

All said by Sgt Foley.

RAMIREZ! GET DISNEY TO BRING WANDER OVER YONDER BACK SO WE CAN HAVE A SEASON 3!

RAMIREZ! TELL LORD DOMINATOR STOP BEING A BITCH, KICK HER ASS, AND TELL HER JUST BE FRIENDS WITH WANDER!

RAMIREZ! GET RESPAWN ENTERTAINMENT AWAY FROM EA BEFORE TITANFALL 3 EXISTS AND EA FUCKS IT UP BECAUSE THEY BOUGHT RESPAWN ENTERTAINMENT NOW!

RAMIREZ! TELL DOOMGUY HE'S AN AWESOME PERSON AND IS AN INSPIRATION TO MANY OF US FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS! GIVE THAT MAN A THUMBS UP!

RAMIREZ! PUTTING ON THIS LIST WHOEVER IS READING THIS YOUR VAILD AND YOUR FEELINGS ARE VALID!

RAMIREZ! TELL DISNEY TO STOP BUYING EVERYTHING!

RAMIREZ! GET THE SNYDER CUT AND TELL WARNER BROS TO STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH THE DCEU!

RAMIREZ! TAKE ON THE GEM HOMEWORLD! BEAT THE DIAMONDS! BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF AQUAMARINE! AND TELL THE DIAMONDS TO STOP MOANING YET TELL THEM THEIR MOANING IS ALRIGHT!

RAMIREZ! TELL THE CRYSTAL GEMS AND STEVEN AND EVERYONE AT BEACH CITY STOP FUCKING LYING TO EACH OTHER AND BE POSITIVE TOWARDS EACH OTHER!

RAMIREZ! TELL SU CRITICAL'S TO SHUT THE FUCK UP, STOP WATCHING THE SHOW IF YOU HATE ON IT SO MUCH, AND MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIVES AND BE ACTUAL FUCKING CRITICS BUT MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIVES!

RAMIREZ! BE THE BEST BIG BROTHER TO THE LOUD SIBLINGS THEY EVER HAD! ALSO TELL EVERYONE AND EVEN PEOPLE THEY KNOW STOP FUCKING LYING AND STOP ACTING LIKE ASSHOLES! THAT GOES TO YOU LOLA, LISA, AND LUAN!

RAMIREZ! GET MANY OF THESE IMAGINARY FRIENDS A HOME TODAY AND EVEN SAVE SOME AND PUT THEM AT FOSTER'S!

RAMIREZ! TELL FRANKIE FOSTER SHE IS AN AMAZING WOMAN, HER WORK IS VAILD, AND EVERYTHING SHE DOES FOR EVERYONE SHOULD BE APPRECIATED AND SHE NEEDS A WELL DESERVED BREAK!

RAMIREZ! TELL BLOO TO STOP ACTING LIKE A SELFISH PRICK!

RAMIREZ! REMEMBER THIS AND I HOPE EVERYONE IS READING THIS IN KEITH DAVID'S MAJESTIC VOICE MY VOICE!

RAMIREZ! TELL HAROLD AND HOWARD MCBRIDE THEIR GREAT DADS! ALSO THAT CLYDE IS A GOOD BOY!

RAMIREZ! TELL KO HE'S A GOOD BOY AND HE WILL BE A HERO IN FACT HE'S ALREADY A GREAT HERO!

RAMIREZ! SHOW THOSE BOXMORE ROBOTS HOW A ARMY RANGER GETS SHIT DOWN! KICK THEIR ASS!

RAMIREZ! TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T GET INTO WORLD WAR 4! MAKE THE RUSSIANS QUIVER IN FEAR BY US AS I SHOW THEM THIS BEAUTIFUL REPRESENTATION OF AMERICAN!

Ramirez: What kind of video!

This one. Yet Tumblr with this other edit I can't link videos on text posts with my phone which is why I took out the other links. Basically and have a YouTube screen. It's a America Fuck Yeah video using Battlefield 3 footage it's amazing

Ramirez: Beautiful.

RAMIREZ! YOU DESERVE A WELL DESERVED REST TOO AFTER ALL THAT CRAP!

Ramirez: Sweet thanks.

Okay I was putting tags like Wander Over Yonder, Steven Universe and was gonna do The Loud House yet terrified just of people like in the Doom tag and it might bother people. Including just having a OK KO tag might not be worth it.

Yet hope you enjoy. Including told.....@simonxriley about well...that the last video inspired me and linked her that video.

I like this meme edit fixed some stuff like put back and us the first joke and the world war 4 one

#call of duty #modern warfare 2 #james ramirez #pvt ramirez

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crying-saeyoung · 8 years ago

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Can you write the RFA and minor trio reacting to MC's little brother (around 12) who is very attached to his older sister and does not like the RFA? (All men/women are wolves MC!) How would they win him over?

I’m so sorry this took so long, anon!! I hope you read it even though it’s been awhile since you asked;; It’s been in my drafts forever and I haven’t ever been able to write the minor trio for this request, and i’m so sorry for that!!! I might make a separate post for them later? I hope you like this.. -Green

Yoosung:

-you brought up one day that you weren’t going to be really available because you were going to babysit your brother for the day

-he didn’t know you had a brother!

-he asks if he can join you, and of course you say yes.

-you two drive to your parents house and Yoosung briefly talks to them before they leave, and you two are alone.

-then suddenly you shout from the TOP OF YOUR L U NGS,

-SHOVE AN OREO UP YOUR ASS AND GET DOWN HERE

-yoosung is.

-he doesn’t even know.

-but suddenly your little brother is dashing downstairs and you guys are wrestling so???

-what does he do help him

-once you guys had your little. reunion? ??? yoosung still doesn’t know what happened but is too afraid to ask

-you tell both him and your little brother what you have in store for today so you all don’t get bored. You’ve planned a movie, arcade, and fast food for the night and Yoosung thinks it’s great!

-but he can’t help but notice your brother hasn’t said a word to him?? and won’t even look at him??

-o h g o d

-then he sees overall that your brother. does NOT appreciate him here

-Movie: he tried to run ahead with you in the dark theater so Yoosung couldn’t find you and had to sit alone

-I mean, it didn’t work, but what the F U Ck,

-Arcade? Your brother will not let him play any games with you and constantly hogs your attention and literally tries to get you to ditch him and go back home

-you don’t even NOTIC E?

-MC HELP HIm???

-kind of takes it personally and is super done with this fucker by the end of the night

-when you go and tuck him in bed Yoosung just can’t wait to go home and cuddle with you, get back all the attention he lost today

-but then you come down stairs and you bring him to your old room and he’s like. what.

-”oh, did I not mention? we’re staying for another two days.”

-NO YOU DID NOT MENTION

-”I’m sorry I forgot to tell you! You can head back home if you want?”

-HELL NO,,

-he’s not about to LOSE so easily.

-talking about losing, he hasn’t played LOLOL all day….

-he feels bad about asking to play but you’re chill with it so. you know.

-he plays literally all night

-and into the morning

-suddenly your coming out of the room to make breakfast ?/

-he sees your brother come down and he’s about to shut down the game before your brother D A S H ES FOR HIM

-Yoosung is ready to scream .

-before your bro stops and starts babbling nonsense about LOLOL and how

-”OH MY GOD YOU’RE RANKED SECOND??! LOOK AT ALL THE LEGENDARY ARMOR YOU HAVE HOW DID YOU GET THAT!!!!”

-oh.

-oh y e s.

-yoosung is literally praying the Gods above as he shows your brother all his cool stuff

-after that, breakfast is super nice and now your brother won’t stop talking to Yoosung

-he thinks it’s amazing and is so happy he got your brother to like him even if he really didn’t even try

Saeyoung:

-It’s at a family reunion you practically beg Saeyoung to go to that he meets your brother

-right away Saeyoung is like

-lolololololol

-he knows.

-he k n o w s

-THAT DOESN’T STOP YOUR BROTHER FROM TRYING, THO

-all night. literally all night he is trying to trick Saeyoung and play pranks

-and he happily indulges in all of them, KNOWING that yes, a bug is in his drink

-but does he care? NO

-HE LOVES IT

-he knows your brother hates him and Saeyoung finds it hilarious

-and then randomly your brother takes his hand and looks him right in the eye and is like

-”you better not hurt her all right? you’re pretty stupid, but you shouldn’t be stupid enough to hurt MC!!!”

-fucker doesn’t even acknowledge him

-instead he brings out a DS and is like

-”i bet I can beat your ass in super smash bros”

-YOUR BROTHER TAKES THE BAIT THANK THE LORD

-he was about to start crying from stress you have no idea

Jumin:

-family is important!!!! that saying is literally EMBEDDED into your brain

-so better believe your ENTIRE family is invited to the wedding

-which includes your brother

-and you have never been so nervous in your entire life

-Jaehee notices it at the wedding and thinks your having cold feet but then you just take her hands

-”you don’t understand. my brother. will r u in the wedding. he’s a little BRAT??? Jaehee please god help me”

-at first she’s confused because like MC what

-but when she looks outside and sees your brother practically boiling in his seat she understands

-so instead of Jumin’s father walking you down the isle you have Jaehee

-you discussed it with Jumin’s father but not with your husband so when he sees this he is HIGH KEY STRESSED

-W H A T

-how D A RE,, his FATHEr???

-he makes a mental note to scREECH later

-now is not the time, Jumin

-you’re shaking like a leaf and holding onto Jaehee for dear life

-you almost want to make her stay with you as you exchange vows

-you almost do, she has to rip you off of her arm

-Jumin now sees how worried you are and the whole time he’s whispering to you not to worry and how happy he’ll make you

-JUMIN THAT’S no T IT

-finally the rings come out and you’re more relaxed now because your brother hasn’t been a BITCH so far

-but then you see him start to stand

-before Jumin can put the ring on you your brother yells

-”WAIT JUST A SECOND!!”

-are you serious

-AT THE LAST MOMENT?!

-BROTHER WHY

-you’re literally groaning and throwing your head back in agony, about to fall to your knees as your brother makes his speech that you are completely sure he was thinking of all day

-you can see Zen nodding his head and silently agreeing with your brother and you’re going to have to talk to him later oh my GOD

-once your bro is done you’re so humiliated like. p l ea se just put the ring on me and go

-but surprisingly Jumin is totally calm

-and gives the snarkiest and best reply ever to your brother and now you’re blushing because aww babe

-your brother never said anything bad about your marriage after that

-little brat you love him tho

Jaehee:

-this one is a little more ,, tame

-your parents were actually coming to see the coffee shop you had made with Jaehee, and happened to bring your brother along.

-he was pretty chill the entire time, but Jaehee noticed his little glares and snarky comments

-she didn’t really pay it any mind, because 12 year olds will be 12 year olds.

-but after awhile… it was really starting to get on her nerves how rude he was to her.

-she had asked you what your brother would like to eat or drink, and you gladly told her what his favorite snack and drink was

-it was so sweet of her to get something!!

-bitch u thought

-she did make the food, but didn’t offer it to him.

-she just sat it on the counter and waited for him to come to her.

-she had to wait practically an hour

-but eventually YES he did come up thank god

-”do you want a snack? your sister told me what you like.”

-she could see him trying to make a fuss. she could SEE it.. but he didn’t

-he tried to just grab it and leave

-nnooononono not in my house

-she literally grips his hand so tight that he lets out a little squeal

-”do you have a problem with me, little man?”

-he’s shaking his head so hard oh god please Jaehee don’t kill him

-she let’s him off with the food because Jaehee figures she’s scared him enough to leave her alone

-just kidding now he won’t leave her alone

-wants to know how she got so badass and cool

-she guesses… this is better than before

-not really the outcome she was looking for?? but okay??

-recommends her judo studio to him and the next time they come over to the shop he shows her his new moves

-now they’re judo buddies

Zen:

-so you invite the family over for one of Zen’s performances! yaaayyy,,,

-oui…

-your brother is just flat out complaining the whole time

-he reaaalllyyy does not want to see your boyfriend

-he also reaaaalllly does not want you to see your boyfriend

-you just grab his ear and tell him to shut up so he does

-you all go over to the performance and head backstage; you want to wish him luck!

-when Zen sees you all he politely introduces himself and gives your parents handshakes

-and when he sees your brother Zen kind of like… just knows

-silent agreement. All men are wolves. Instant respect

-which kind of throws your brother off with how cool Zen is him

-you all leave for your seats and your bro is still like. wut..,

-the play is amazing!! you weren’t expecting anything else!!

-you greet him after the show and he’s flooded with compliments from your parents which of course Zen totally gobbles up into his rat tail

-the more his ego grows the longer that fucking thing gets. 100% canon

-and then Zen straight up goes for a handshake with your brother with some kind of gay admiration in his eyes so your brother takes it feeling so conflicted because his performance was really great and he was actually pretty cute?

-oh god i think Zen made your brother gay

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blindingechoes · 8 years ago

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SIM QUESTIONS TAG

I wasn’t tagged by anyone lol, I rarely am, I don’t know why. Am I scary guys? I swear I don’t bite, I mean, unless you ask and even then only if you’re legal ;P Anyway, I’ve seen this around for a while and on my dash a couple dozen times so I decided to do it anyway XD

1. What’s your favorite sims death? In Sims 2 - Flies & Satellite. In Sims 3 - Meteor, Thirst (Vampires) & Jelly Beans. In Sims 4 - Any emotional death & poorly made Pufferfish Nigiri death.

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? Maxis Match

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? Not really, but I don’t really make heavy set Sims usually. My ass is big enough in real life, allow me to live my escapism my way.

4. Do you use move objects? Yes, constantly.

5. Favorite mod? Probably MC Command Center, I doubt I could play without that at this point. It’s kind of like all of Twallan’s mods for Sims 3, they’re just needed to make the game playable.

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? I think the first Pack I ever got was Late Night for Sims 3.

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? Live as in aLIVE, which is apparently weird. It’s like going ‘live’ on television, you know ‘3, 2, 1 and we’re live!’ and have no idea where people are getting this LIV thing from. But then again, that could just be because I’m in the older range of Simmers, because there’s a lot of grammar that is apparently considered normal by today’s standards that just boggles my mind.

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? That’s easy, Tessa, duh. And probably Maggie as well, but only in Sims 3 since I’ve yet to make a decent Maggie in Sims 4 and I have basically given up on it.

9. Have you made a simself? Yes, although I haven’t updated her in forever and hate her and should probably lock her in a gated swimming pool >_<

10. What sim traits do you give yourself? Loner, Geek.... and I don’t freaking remember the last one, that’s how much I care about my Simself.

11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? Orange red, dark brown & black.

12. Favorite EA hair? Probably the shoulder length loose hair that came with Romantic Garden Stuff.

13. Favorite life stage? In Sims 2 - Toddler, Young Adult & Adult. In Sims 3 - Child, Teenager & Young Adult. In Sims 4 - Toddler, Teenager, Young Adult.

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? I certainly enjoy building, but in no way am I a builder. But at the same time, I have the attention span of a gnat with a hyperactivity disorder, so the gameplay doesn’t hold me for very long either. Essentially what I’m saying is that I’m shit at both.

15. Are you a CC creator? I’m wouldn’t call myself a creator so much as a ‘throw things at the wall and see what sticks...or’ and not a very good one at that.

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? I most certainly don’t have a ‘squad’ because I’m over the age of 21, but there are a couple people that I’m fond enough to talk too and could call friends if we were comfortable enough with that moniker.

17. What’s your favorite game? (1, 2, 3, or 4) I don’t have a favorite, they all are fun to me for different reasons and in different ways. I play them all (okay not The Sims because I can’t find my base game disk!) at different times depending on my moods. I also love the Sims Medieval and the Sims Stories series.

18. Do you have any sims merch? No.

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? I did for a hot second back like five year ago for The Sims 3, but I didn’t have any of the equipment needed to record properly or a decent enough computer to run the game without hiccups so I just gave up and allowed it to die.

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? A lot, back in the early days of Sims 3 I never turned aging on and I would play in a rotational sort of way, jumping between many households in the world. I’d have entire families intertwined and married off, I made sure everything and everyone was exactly under my thumb, autonomy was almost always turned off. Now the quicker they age up and die the better, the less I have the care for them the better. Basically I went from a strict yet caring God to a malevolent God with zero fucks to give in a matter of six years.

21. What’s your Origin ID? BlindingEchoes, what a concept, I know.

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? Come on now, that’s just a loaded fucking question.

23. How long have you had a simblr? Est. 10/31/2011

24. How do you edit your pictures? In Photoshop CS6

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? Like one that’s already out or one that I’d like to see next? Because the only one I don’t have it Luxury Stuff and pfft to that one, the furniture is ugly, I have the BGC clothing, hair, shoes & accessories already and the dumb chocolate/drink fountain isn’t worth ten bucks. I guess I’ll see about getting the Fitness stuff because I do like making deadweight gym bro dudes, so that’ll help with making those kinds of Sims. I’d really like to see a Stuff Pack just for toddlers, kind of like Kids Room Stuff was focused on just kids. I’d like a Stuff Pack for just toddlers and one for just teenagers.

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? For Expansions, I guess Get to Work, although to be honest, all of the Sims 4 Expansions have been major letdowns for me so meh. For Game Packs, I really like Parenthood, Dine Out, Vampires and Spa Day. As for Stuff Packs, I like Kids Room Stuff and Perfect Patio.

#text post #wall of text #the sims 4 #ts4 #saviorhide #I got real chatty #sim question tag

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daleisgreat · 8 years ago

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Dale’s Top 11 Videogame Experiences of 2016

Greetings! It has been awhile since I did one of these top 10 of the year lists. It felt right to place my list on my long dormant Giant Bomb blog where a few of my past lists reside and because I always enjoy the wealthy amount of game of the year content from the Giant Bomb crew each year. This is not a ‘Top 10 games of 2016,’ but more of a ‘Top 10 Experiences’ of 2016.

As you will see, a lot of my games listed will be from prior years. Also you will definitely notice I cheated on most of my entries and included multiple games on most entries. I tried to make each number on my list a theme for each experience, so I hope that suffices for you. If you take a liking my ramblings, please check out my movie blog where I recently ran down my favorite and worst movies from the past few years. I may post this on my movie blog as well since I have a ‘Top 10’ label there too, so if you are reading this blog there, greetings again! *Edit* I saw after I finished editing this I screwed up my numbering and actually had 11 items, not 10, but it is too late now to remove an item after working on this for so long, so onward with my top 11 experiences of 2016! 11) Finally acquiring current gen consoles Yes, that is right, three years they debuted I finally picked up both PS4 and Xbox One. My gaming backlog grew out of control because I do not have nearly enough time to game as I use to so I wanted a few years to get caught before I got the current systems. I first jumped on the Xbox One shortly after they released the S model in September and caught a good sale on the 2 TB version that knocked off $100. It took me six weeks though to get around to hooking it up and playing it however, but I have gamed a fair amount on it since.

The PS4 I got a couple months later on Black Friday weekend when retailers were having big sales on the Uncharted 4 500gb bundle, and I was able to stack a couple other discounts to get it for $190. An awesome friend gifted me a 2 TB hard drive for Christmas shortly thereafter. I have since hooked it up and got all my cross buy games from PS3 and Vita transferred over, but have yet to find any time to play a single game on it because of all the other games I am trying to catch up on. I think one of these weekends I should do nothing but binge on Uncharted 4 because it is one of my favorite franchises and it is a crime that I have yet to play the latest installment. I also want to squeeze in here two other platforms that kind of meet the criteria of this subject: the Retron 5 and the NES Classic. The games I have tested out on the Retron 5 have worked great on my HDTV, and results in my classic games running flawlessly in HD, with none of the fuzziness that would result from hooking up my classic systems with RCA/composite cables into an HDTV. Like everyone else, I hate the Retron 5 controller, but am thankful the Retron 5 is compatible and works well with my classic controllers. The NES Classic I lucked into getting one morning right when a retailer opened and I was not even looking for it, but happened to hear the store had them. I brought it over to play with the family after Thanksgiving dinner and it was a big hit that night. My brother-in-law kicked my ass in Tecmo Bowl that evening. Later on I let my six year-old niece, and eight year-old nephew play the system for a bit and took in their reactions to experiencing classics like Bubble Bobble and Super Mario Bros. 3 for the first time. I have since busted out the NES Classic a couple more times with my nephew and we made a lot of progress in Bubble Bobble since, and have also had good times playing the original Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong with him. My nephew loves Minecraft and other tablet games, and I feared him playing these older games I grew up with would not jive with him, and I was delighted he took a liking to many of them. 10) Arcade Racers! I love me some arcade racing games! Racing and pinball games are the perfect way to start off a gaming session. I like to invest about 30-45 minutes and knock off a few races from a career mode before moving on to whatever game I am working on in my backlog. Going through my gaming journal I realized I have invested significant time into five racing games in 2016, and have completed the career modes in three of them. I first finished off Blaze Rush, an excellent downloadable racing game that is essentially the old school Micro Machines games, but with crazy weapons. The career mode is filled with a ton of variety, and while I had a few hair pulling moments trying to win certain races, I very much enjoyed my time with it.

Toybox Turbo is from Codemasters, the same people who made the aforementioned Micro Machines games and this is a contemporary follow up to them from a couple years ago. You still race in crazy environments like kitchen tables and workbenches, and the racing is still as quick and fun as the 8-bit classics. The third career mode I finished in 2016 went to Dirt Showdown, also from Codemasters. This is an arcade spinoff from the sim-heavy Dirt rally racing games, and Showdown is more of demo-derby racer in similar fashion to Destruction Derby and Flatout. I love that style of racers, and they do not make enough of them! Dirt Showdown is a welcomed addition to the genre, and I had a blast doing both races and last man standing demolition derbies! It is pretty fun, but not quite perfect, but establishes a good foundation I hope Codemasters builds on with future sequels. Road Redemption is the contemporary take on Road Rash I have wanted EA to make for many years. These guys are getting it right, but it is still in Early Access on Steam so the developers are constantly building upon it. It controls how I would imagine a Road Rash game would evolve into today, and they thankfully took out having to run out back to your cycle so you can get back into the race quicker. I had some friends over for four player couch play, and we had a blast and it convinced them to get it too. If you have played old school Road Rash give it a look! Mantis Burn Racing is another Steam game I put a decent amount of time into that offers up a similar isometric perspective and has a good arcade/sim hybrid feel to it complete with drifts and turbos. It recently hit consoles so give it a look there too. Finally, I have lately been making a lot of progress into Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed. Sega really stepped up their game with their second kart-style racer a few years back. I really dig how the karts morph into planes and hovercrafts during the race and how some tracks transform during the race to keep me on my feet. The roster features a ton of Sega favorites and the racing feels great and is right up there with Mario Kart! 9) Pinball!

Anyone who knows my gaming habits knows I am a pinball nut. Ever since Pinball FX on 360 I have spend countless hours on various pinball games. As I stated in the previous entry this is another one of my go to games to start off gaming sessions with. In 2016 I played a lot of Pinball Arcade, Zen Pinball 2 and a little known indie game on Steam called Hyperspace Pinball. I love nearly the entire Zen 2 roster of tables and spent a good chunk of the year trying to replay each table on my PS3 at least a couple of times. I am all caught up now with the exception of the recently released Bethesda pack that offers up tables based on their Doom, Skyrim and Fallout properties. Alternatively, the real life translations in Pinball Arcade are also up my alley, and I always find myself coming back to tables in attempts to best previous high scores and knock off all the preset goals for each table. I recently busted out the spinoff Stern Pinball Arcade disc on Xbox One, which offers up a couple exclusive tables that are not yet in the standalone Pinball Arcade hub and have been eating that up a lot too. Hyperspace Pinball is an under-the-radar game that got buried in the plethora of indie games on Steam and it is unfortunate that it has gone ignored for this long. It features simple-yet-groovy futuristic graphics and a very fitting soundtrack. The primary mode is like a addicting version of pinball-meets-Asteroids and every several levels there are unique boss battles to vanquish. It took several runs before I got use to the physics of this pinball game, but once I did I was glad I mixed Hyperspace Pinball into my rotation. 8) Road Trip gaming!

This past October I went on a week long road trip to hit up some attractions I have always wanted to see and hang out with some friends who have moved out of town over the years. I visited my friend, Dick in the Twin Cities. We have a history of playing many hours of our favorite wrestling game, WWF No Mercy together and we could not resist busting it out again. We had some intense matches where we teamed up against the computer on expert difficulty, and then a few more grueling one-on-one encounters. Later that day, we checked out an game shop that had an arcade machine with a ton of games built in and one of them was for a Japan-exclusive sequel to Saturday Night Slam Masters I had no idea existed until that point. Slam Masters was Capcom’s take on wrestling meets Street Fighter II, but the sequel, Ring of Destruction, is a straight up fighting game that plays as good as any Capcom fighter back in the day. After that, we traversed to a recently opened arcade in the Cities called Up/Down, which is an arcade bar loaded with arcade and pinball games and has a full service bar. All the hits from 80s and 90s I grew up with were there such as classic brawlers like TMNT, X-Men and Simpsons to the hits Midway dominated the 90s with like NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat I-4 and NFL Blitz. There was even old school Nintendo games like Excitebike, Donkey Kong and a version of Fix-It Felix straight out of Wreck-It Ralph I had no idea was a thing until I saw it with my own eyes. There was also around a dozen pinball tables there, with a good mix of classics like Funhouse, Terminator 2 and Adams Family to more recent Stern releases like Ghostbusters and Metallica. I guess this is a slowly expanding chain, so if you happen to run across one, make sure to check it out as you will be guaranteed hours of fun.

The next destination on my road trip was to visit my brother in a smaller town a couple hours outside of the Twin Cities. I had a great time hanging out with him, and like my friend in the Cities, we also have a history of beating the tar out of each other in WWF No Mercy. After telling my brother about experiencing the awesomeness of taking on expert level AI opponents in tag mode and proceeding to have another close match with the AI where we emerged victorious, we proceeded to take on each other in about 15 one-on-one matches. I consider myself a pretty darn good No Mercy player and can hold my own with any other seasoned player, but for whatever reason my brother has always had my number and is the only one I know that can outplay me (that link is a clip of us squaring off in a tournament final from several years ago for proof!). Of the roughly 15 matches we played, I only had one victory out of them all, and I made sure to savor every moment of it! 7) Awesome Local Coop! This is where I will give a shoutout to my local friends in town, Ryan, Derek and Brooke! Last few years we have had recurring couch multiplayer game nights every several weeks! I always look forward to them, and we are constantly rotating in old favorites like Mario Kart: Double Dash, Mario Party and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect with newer games for a constant fresh variety of multiplayer goodness. I will give props to some of my favorite moments I had with them this year. One awesome early multiplayer night in 2016 involved a NES theme night, and me busting out my four player adaptor which led to many hours of Gauntlet II and Super Off-Road fun.

For a couple weeks we were into slaughtering zombies and we played through a couple levels of Left 4 Dead 2. I forgot how awesome and frustrating that game is as I experienced both soaring highs when our teamwork was flawless and devastating lows when we ran into trouble a couple of times. Either way, it was still a blast re-experiencing Left 4 Dead 2 for the first time in years. That led us to a couple days of long sessions of Dying Light. I loved the first Dead Island and this game is from the same developers and plays just like it, but mixes in an awesome parkour system. That resulted in all kinds of crazy running dropkicks and being on the lookout for next great weapon that would turn up in our endless piles of loot. Just a few weeks ago we had another great session where we played Drawful and Fibbage out of the Jackbox Party Pack. Both are awesome social party/trivia games from the same people who made the also-excellent You Don’t Know Jack. These games make great use of cell phones as controllers so anyone could play, and we had way too much fun guessing at what the heck we were drawing in Drawful. It brought back classic memories of staying up all night in another similar multiplayer game on the DS, LOL!

We followed that game up with a random game I got for Xbox One since I heard so much good buzz about it online called Overcooked. This simple four player Root Beer Tapper-meets-cooking game featured some of the most fun I have ever had in a multiplayer game. When your teamwork is firing on all cylinders it is a blast, when it is not it led to us playfully shouting at each other until one point a few of us had to drop the controllers because we were uncontrollably laughing so hard. It was a moment I will never forget. There was one other multiplayer night between us that usurped these moments, but I will save it for later. 6) Extra Life 2016 Extra Life is the annual 24 hour gaming event where we game for a day straight in order to raise funds for our local children’s hospital! These last two years I traveled down to my friends, Chris and Lyzz’s house to game for 24 hours straight. I always attempt to beat WWF No Mercy’s 100-man Survival mode, and just like all previous attempts, I failed about halfway through. There were two main takeaways from Extra Life 2016. One of them was binging through Gears of War 4’s campaign from start to finish during the 24 hours. I love me some Gears, and Extra Life happened not to long after I picked up my Xbox One, so Gears 4 ended up being one of the first games I played on it. I had to take a break halfway through Gears 4 because I signed up to run a local 10k in the area, which was actually a nice breather to get out of the house and get some exercise and fresh air! I came back revitalized and had a great time playing nonstop until I finished. Chris and Lyzz were playing their own Gears 4 campaign in split-screen coop and we both did our best to look away from each other to avoid spoilers. Turns out you cannot have a split screen system team up online with another player on their own, but we found a way to get through it on our own without spoilers! Gears 4 turned out awesome as expected, and was a return to form after the experimental game in the series that was Gears Judgment.

The other game I played later on in Extra Life I want to make sure to recognize is Mega Man 2 off the Xbox One Mega Man Legacy Collection. I never gave a Mega Man game a serious chance before. I recall trying to play the first one a couple times long ago and getting frustrated many times and not beating a single stage. In the Legacy Collection however, it has save states which I made sure to exploit to the fullest. I was saving every screen or two in Mega Man 2. I decided to start on that one since I usually hear that is the best, and it had a firm, but fair challenge level to it. I died many times, but wanted to try out different techniques in order to progress and beat each boss. I did not finish the game, but did complete three stages, which will go down as the first three levels I ever finished in a Mega Man game! One day I will return to at least finish Mega Man 2, mark my words! 5) Firewatch After finishing Dear Esther and Gone Home a couple years ago, I have become a huge fan of the genre that has become known as the walking simulator! Firewatch hit out of nowhere early in 2016 and became a much talked about indie game throughout the year. I finally played it towards the end of the summer, and relished every hour of the six or seven hours it took me to finish. The graphics are superb and perfectly capture the solitude and beauty of being a fire ranger in the vast wilderness. I could get lost out there forever, and spent many moments just pausing in the game and taking in the sublime surroundings. The score is not always present, but knows when to kick in to amplify the moments that need it.

I could not help but get immersed in the narrative between the two fire rangers, and the mystery that the two found themselves in as the summer unraveled. Reading other game of the year reactions in recent weeks I found myself in the minority that liked the twist towards the end and was not thrown for a loop by it. I really loved the final days in the game, and it all culminated in an impactful moment for me when I could tell my summer with Firewatch was coming to an end. I got lucky and managed to get in on the Limited Run release of the physical copy of the game on PS4, and look forward to replaying it sooner than later with the newly added developer commentary. 4) Objection, dedicated handheld gaming is here to stay!

I try to dedicate a couple hours a week to traditional handheld gaming. I am not talking smartphone games, but good old fashioned DS/Vita/3DS gaming! I grew up playing a ton of my various versions of the GameBoy and still try to cram in a little bit of the current stuff too. I am a huge Ace Attorney fan and spent a good chunk of my 2016 handheld gaming getting caught up in the series. I finished off Ace Attorney Investigation: Miles Edgeworth early on in the year, and spent a good chunk of 2016 gradually chipping away at the first 3DS entry in the series, Dual Destinies. The last couple weeks I finally put my first few hours in the most recent release in the series, Spirits of Justice. If you have played one Ace Attorney game before you know what to expect, and that is a ton of crazy over-the-top characters you meet investigating crime scenes and cross examine on the witness stand as you try and clear innocent names from murder cases. There is a ton of reading involved in these games which is why they take forever to get through at my rate, but they are worth it in the long run to me since I find myself craving what kind of adventures the Wright Anything Agency are getting themselves into next.

There was one other non-Ace Attorney game I snuck into for a few hours at a time in-between my travels in and out of the court room. That game was the PSone version of Final Fantasy VII on the Vita. I have started FFVII a couple times before, but never made serious progress in it, and I guess I did not make a ton of progress in it this year either, but barely set a new record for time and progress! I originally was trying to keep up with Game Informer when FFVII was a part of their Game Club feature, but quickly fell behind. I came back around to FFVII in December for a few more hours, and am glad to say that I finally got out of Midgar and into the overworld for the first time in FFVII! I went on to get through the portion of the game in the village of Kalm, and then failed a few times at trying to kill off that big serpent by the Chocobo farm outside of Kalm. I think I need to grind by there for a bit in order to proceed. While I know I am nowhere close to finishing the game, I plan to periodically pick it up and eventually beat it in 10-15 years! 3) Nintendo Sixty-Fourrrrrrr!!!! If you have somehow stuck with me through this dreadfully long top 10 blog, you might recall that I stated I had one other awesome local coop gaming night I wanted to elucidate on later. That brings us here to where my brother was visiting from out of town and he joined me, Derek and Ryan for an N64 themed night of gaming. I knew Derek and Ryan had a bunch of N64 games, and I brought a bunch of my favorites to play also. I was a little taken aback when Derek asked me to bring the N64 wrestling game I loved so much because I did not associate Derek and Ryan to be much of wrestling game fans before. Turned out that WWE 2K16 was a recent Xbox Live Games for Gold free game of the month and both of them spent a bit of time suplexing and powerbombing the heck out of each other in recent weeks and wanted to give the N64 game I raved about the most a whirl as a result. Derek and Ryan picked up the controls for WWF No Mercy in no time and we spent at least a good hour tearing each other up in intense tag team and Royal Rumble matches. I am still befuddled that Derek and Ryan had a legit good time playing wrestling games that night, and it will probably be the only night that will ever happen with them, but I will forever remember it! The night did not end there because we went on to spend hours in other four-player hits like NBA Hangtime and New Tetris. I was surprised New Tetris went over as well as it did, but the timeless puzzle game was the right breather we all needed after some heated rounds of basketball and wrestling. It would not be an N64 night if we did not bust out the Giant Bomb favorite, Mario Party 2, and we proceed to complete a 20 turn game where everybody won!

The highlight of the night however was breaking out the original console FPS multiplayer hit, Goldeneye 007. I have read many times online how this game does not hold up in modern times, but I beg to differ! Play it on a big TV and play for at least 10 minutes, and trust me, you will be conditioned to like it was 1997 all over again! That is what happened to us that night. Sure the graphics are obviously last-century, and there is a bit of slowdown in four-player split screen when the explosions start rolling, but if you are on a big screen TV after about 10 minutes, you get use to it because the core gameplay is still that damn good. We played all kinds of variants including old favorites such as Grenade Launchers in the Temple, Rocket Launchers in the Complex, Proximity Mines in the Archives and a random map incarnation of Slappers Only with Golden Gun rules so that each slap meant instant sweet death! These five games for about five-to-six hours that magical night combined for nonstop greatness and hands down my favorite multiplayer game night 2016! 2) MGS 2/3/Peace Walker Since the fall of 2015 when Metal Gear Solid V released. I swore to myself I will get around to playing through all the Metal Gear Solid games in order. Up until that point I only finished MGS4 and gave up on MGS2 after just a couple hours. I somehow have found myself still determined to meet this goal as I plugged away and finished The Twin Snakes GameCube remake of the original MGS by the end of 2015. Throughout 2016 I managed to finish MGS2 and MGS3 and got through around the first 15 story missions of Peace Walker off the HD Collection on PS3. I even dabbled a bit with the first hour of Portable Ops through backwards compatibility on the Vita, but decided to stick to playing on consoles and moved on to Peace Walker instead. So what do I make of the series thusfar? I have absolutely enjoyed the core three games immensely so far. I am probably playing these games completely wrong, but I played through all three MGS games on very easy difficulty. I have no shame, but for what it is worth I try to play stealthy, and if I blow my cover and fail to retreat that is when I bust out the AK-47 and go guns blazing. That works OK most of the time for me in very easy. In Peace Walker there is no difficulty setting so that involves a bit more trial and error, but thankfully that game’s missions are shorter since it was originally designed for the PSP so failure does not mean a ton of backtracking there.

I really enjoyed my time with the first MGS, and the updated graphics on the GCN made it much more pleasant on the eyes. By the time I finished it, even all these years after its release I could tell I finished something special. Playing as Raiden did not bother me in the sequel….unless it came to saving which sometimes resulted in a few raised eyebrows. It still had the same unique, great gameplay as the original, and managed to tell another memorable chapter in the MGS universe. That said, I still rank it at the bottom of the core trilogy I liked the least, but not by as much one may think. I am probably going to give the slight edge to MGS3 to being my favorite so far. The gameplay seemed to have hit its stride there by finally giving the ability to move and shoot simultaneously, and I actually did not mind the healing/wound treatment system in MGS3 either. The Cold War-era story is probably what I will give the nudge to me liking MGS3 the most. Each MGS game got to gradually become more bonkers in nature, and wrapping the Cold War narrative around it seemed like a perfect fit. I also loved the boss battles the most in MGS3, especially the final battle with ‘The Boss’ and the beauty with how it is presented in MGS3 will easily rank as one of my favorite moments in videogames. 1) Oxenfree When it came down to it, I only finished three games in 2016 that were released that calendar year, and Oxenfree was one of them. It is a walking simulator like Firewatch, and also like that game the small development team at Night School Studios has members that worked on the critically acclaimed first season of The Walking Dead from Telltale Games. Unlike Firewatch though, Oxenfree has far simpler 2D graphics that are watercolor-esque in nature. Do not let these simple looks deceive you, because the narrative that surrounds these four coming-of-age teens out for a night of fun on an island quickly transforms into a night of sci-fi spookiness that I will never forget and left me wanting a sequel ASAP. I am heads over heels for the script and dialogue that unloads throughout Oxenfree. One moment the cast is trying to come together to figure out the grand mystery of this island, then the next they are taking quick asides to find out more about their personal lives that encapsulates the everyday life of teenage drama. Night School Studios make tremendous use of certain camera tricks and jump cuts that do not necessarily equal out to jump scares, but sure as hell something close that had my skin crawling with goosebumps as the adventure played out.

There are several pivotal decisions that will affect gameplay, so naturally I had to play the game a second time telling myself no matter what I am going to play the game differently. A lot of the dialogue choices in the game have positive, neutral and snarky response options so I spent a good chunk of my second playthrough being a snarky jerk and it was fascinating seeing the responses I would get in return. When it came down to bite the bullet in the end and make one of the big game-changing decisions, I had to pause the game and step away from it for a few minutes to think it over. Even after doing that, I could not go back on my natural instincts and I went with my original decision in one of the most frantic moments I had in playing videogames. Shortly after I finished Oxenfree a second time I was caught off guard by the developers patching in a remixed mode for people who have finished the game that offers up a slightly new gameplay experience. These changes were minor, but they did add a few new wrinkles throughout gameplay and the dialogue would unexpectedly change at random intervals to keep me constantly alert to see what tricks Oxenfree had up its sleeve next. I think it goes without saying if a game can manage to convince me to finish it three times within a year, especially at a time when I have just a fraction of the time to game than what I use to, then Oxenfree easily walks away from 2016 as my favorite videogame experience of the year! Limited Run has a physical release for PS4 set for later this month, and you can bet your booty that I will be attempting to pick up a copy and experience this game a fourth time!

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smokeybrand · 5 years ago

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I kind of really, really, want a Mass Effect trilogy remake on the next gen systems. After seeing the Lumen in the world of Nanites tech demo, my brain was a-tizzy with possibilities. We know that the next Sony Spider-Man game is going to run on the PS5. We know there is going to a next gen version of Cyberpunk and Ragnarok Creed. The power of these consoles is stupid and you can do so much with them going forward. Why not remake Mass Effect with the current tech? It’s been 13 years since the franchise was first released. Two console generations have passed since it’s started. Plus, a remake on this new hardware could rinse the bad taste Andromeda left in people’s mouths.

I’s be dope to revisit a retooled Mass Effect. I have all of the games and they’re some of my favorites in all of games, but that first title was sh*t in the mechanics departed. I owned a PS3 so i didn’t get the first game until after i beat the second and third, so imagine my f*cking surprise when the damn thing didn’t play at all like it’s sequels. That sh8t was infuriating. But, as i understand, the actual game mechanics took a backseat to the “revolutionary” dialogue tree, even though Jade Empire, Dragon age, and KOTOR had already done something similar, years before ME was even a thing. Still, the seeds were planted and an entire world was born. The narrative, world building, and character development were definitely the strengths of that first game and i approach it like an errant pilot that’s not as good as the production show but dope enough to sell the franchise.

Mass Effect 2 is a goddamn masterpiece and legitimately one of the greatest games ever created. This sh*t saw Bioware in their final form, hitting that stride into legendary status. I loved everything about this game and that’s saying so much because i f*cking hate shooters. I bought ME2 on a whim and it sat in my pile of games fro a long ass time. It wasn’t until ME3 was announced that i decided to actual play through it and, holy sh*t, my world was blown wide the f*ck open. The combat was completely different than the first, a fact i would find out much later, but the story gripped me almost immediately. That opening sequence? yeah, i felt that and i hadn’t even played the first game. all o knew about Shepard was through culture osmosis and sh*t. ME2 was my first foray into that world and i was immediately impressed. I found the story, itself, to be an incredibly interesting narrative but it was the characters that made this game. They make the franchise. I immediately fell in love with Tali the second she spoke for the first time. I wanted to wrestle Jack all over the Normandy just to see her laugh a few times as she thoroughly wiped the floor with my ass. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Miranda grow from icy b*tch into a stunning, espionage, queen who may or may not be a little morally dubious. I can sit here and gush all day about my adoration for Mass Effect 2. This sh*t is a classic and absolutely deserves a next gen treatment.

Mass Effect 3 is an interesting case. I enjoyed the game for what it was but there’s a lot to be desired toward the end. It has some of the best storytelling and fan service in the entire franchise but, f*ck, did they whiff that landing. Look, i love ME3, don’t get me wrong. Tali is still best girl but i absolutely adored revisiting my other relationships to see how they matured over time. Just a note, Liara’s romance in 3 is f*cking dope. Tali all day but f*ck if Liara didn’t worm her way into my heart just a bit. The problem with ME3 is that it’s the first game to really get the EA sabotage. If you;re a gamer, you know what i mean. EA bought Bioware just as Mass Effect 2 was getting underway. They’re the reason the entire franchise was soft rebooted during the second game. For the most part. EA left ME2 alone but these motherf*ckers dug in immediate;y when the third title began production. The story didn’t suffer but a really, really, unnecessary multiplayer component was shoehorned in. They tried to tie it to overall narrative progress but that only lasted for a few months. An update that “fixed” the ending that ES mandated, too, made the multiplayer mute. Hell, if you play like i do, you didn’t even need the f*cking thing to get the best ending. Rise and grind, man. Years of JRPGs forged me for that fire, bro.

And then there was Andromeda. F*ck, dude. Look, i like Andromeda. I like Andromeda in principal. There are a lot of great ideas here. I was interested in the new galaxy and where the narrative was going. That said, literally everything about Mass Effect: Andromeda is less than the original trilogy. Sh*t’s not even bad, it’s just less. Sure, there were bugs all over the place and the facial animations were outright bunk, but all of these issues can be traced back to EA and their meddling. See, unlike ME2 and ME3, EA was straight f*cking over Bioware from before the start. They moved all of the A-team over to work on the absolute bust, Anthem, instead of making the best ME game they could. That left the b-team, the motherf*ckers who made the absolutely lackluster ME3 multiplayer add-on, to make an entire Mass Effect game. Big Yikes. Okay, benefit of the doubt. Bioware Montreal is still Bioware. Okay. This thing was in production for five years. EA forced an engine on them that wasn’t optimized for the type of game Mass Effect is so, literally, Bioware spent the bulk of that production time tweaking the engine just to get the motherf*cker to work. The game, itself, was rushed to completion in just two years. That is NOT enough time to create a proper Bioware game, let alone a mass effect. EA literally crippled a mainline mass Effect title before it even had a chance, which sucks ass because i was mildly infatuated with Cora.

The next gen allots Bioware the opportunity to give the original trilogy, the FFVIIR or REmake2 treatment. I’m not saying remake the titles exactly as they were, i’m saying make the game you wanted to make back in 07. Build the worlds you wanted. Make them as dynamic as you pitched all those years ago. Create a uniform gameplay style through the entire franchise. Incorporate what you learned from Andromeda while tossing out more problematic additions. The Unreal Engine 5 is more than powerful enough to render the world that was originally envisioned and the systems, themselves, can definitely power through the content like champs. Hell, revisit the narrative and give us that Dark Matter plot that got shelved in favor of that weirdly unattached Reaper climax from ME3. The world has caught on to EA’s bullsh*t. The combination of Battlefront 2′s complete, worldwide, loot box, throttling and the rampant success of the micro-transaction deficient, single player, story driven, Jedi: Fallen Order has shown that the market for dope, narrative focused, games is thriving. This sis some sh*t Sony has known for years as that’s their bread-and-butter but this turn in culture has positioned Bioware to recapture that glory they once had, by revisiting the franchise the really gave them their shine. And, oh, how shiny a next gen ME trilogy remake would be.

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