#I JUST PLAYED THE UPDATE AND I LOVE???? THE BIG MURDER CAT SLIMES???

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Lore: Ambush and Rush + Their kids (not including rooms gang)

Rush (Its/Its)

Fluffy RUSH Fluffy RUSH!! Has a big mound off fur that trails around it like fog/smoke.

The silly to Ambush’s serious. That big smile is often genuine.

ITS SMILE IS A FAMILY TRAIT!!! LIKE.. HALF OF ITS KIDS HAVE IT.

Silly Boston accent “Hey!! I’m walkin here!!”

Occasionally needs to be brushed but doesn’t like it. Also all that spare fur goes to Timothy because it knits.

Has cartoony-ish hands.

Impulsive as heck.

Actually pretty good friends w/Seek tbh

Mouth filthier then a gutter.

HATES BUGS HATES HATES HATES THEM once had mites and needed to be shaved.

Frequent napper and sleeper extraordinaire.

Has..memories that it can’t fully recall/ remember, but still experiences hypervigilance + a bit of anxiety from.

Can’t really remember much of its past at all and that’s a great source of frustration for it.

Really likes food and can be swayed with it.

Ask it to find out more stuff i'll update this later.

Happily married to Ambush and parent to Window, Dupe and the rooms gang.

Ambush (It/Its)

Sorta same accent as Rush but Mafia-ish "Ice em boys" kinda vibe.

Less fluffy and more do just h a i r y and wirey static mess that it keeps much more well kept then Rush does.

Steps are murderously silent and loves to sneak up on people.

Out of the two, it’s the more tactical and calculated.

Also pretty messed up by something but refuses to elaborate like Rush.

Definetly more experienced in the hunting field then Rush is and it frequently gets into small competitions with it.

Rue 🤝 Ambush: Parents with chronic pain. Ambush has serious jaw OR back pain that just flares up sometimes and it can leave it pretty cranky.

Is medicated though so it ain’t often.

‘Rush’s kisses are the cure <3’

Has a tail!! It’s sorta siren-like but unlike Depth it’s much more sharp and bladed and has fluffy tips that Rush likes to playfully bite or tug when teasing/flirty.

Ambush’s ancestors come from a reeeeally king lineage of swimming/watery entities.

Siblings with Depth!..oh..she’s missing.

Still has paintings of it..though it’s hesitant to talk to people about it.

Married to Rush and parent of Sally/Window, Dupe + Rooms gang. They’d have more but their energy is depleted-so..

Window/Sally (It/Its)

HOLLY SHIT SALLY GOT A FUR MULLET

Well sorta, it’s like that patch of fur going down it’s body like a little cheetah does.

Femby <3 Rush and Ambush are so proud when it came out!!!

Has two names due to being a femby too. Dupe also wanted two names and that’s how Dupe got its nickname. :)

Impulsive like Rush

Got Rush’s infamous smile like it’s siblings.

Rush’s lil girl fr

Likes to watch people through windows like a lil weirdo.

Also likes to float in the hotel pool and pretend it’s dead. Scares the ‘everloving SHIT’ out of its parents.

Also has a little tail that’s sorta like a stingray’s but no venom yet. (Yet)

Twins with Dupe.

Wants to heal ppl so it hangs around the infirmary. Actually getting really skilled.

Doesn’t hunt yet though and mostly just sticks to warning it’s parents.

(Duplicate) Dupe. (It/Its)

Has soft fur like a little kitty.

L o n g and stretchy like a cat too.

Immense fear of water but ironically probably have fur that if fluffed up will make it float.

Artistic!! Face is covered In paint or slime or blood just there’s something on it’s face always.

Arts and crafts are the way to its heart.

Has lil paw-like gloves that can turn into straight up talons.

Sneaky like Ambush and actually really clever.

Loafs and purrs like Rush.

Also has Rush’s smile :)

When it’s parents are either mad or scared they say it’s full name usually. “DUPLICATE!!!!!” “Uh oh-“

Likes to play pranks a lot.

Has a little crush of Screech???? It’s complicated but they are most just friends 4 today.

Once bit Snare and made it cry and then Snare bit it back and then all their parents came running.

Fun fact, the rooms gang would absolutely deck the everliving shit out of anyone who’d try and harm their siblings.

Rush also had a crush on Ambush they were both kids. <3

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“If you haven’t heard of this game already then that’s okay, but if there’s room under that rock what’s the rent like?”

Minecraft Review - Perfectly crafted

Originally created by Markus Persson in 2009, published by his own company funded by the game's huge success Mojang in 2011, and bought out by Microsoft in 2014, the original Minecraft is a far cry from the most current release. Having been in constant development for a decade it's safe to say that Minecraft has only grown mightier as the years have gone by.

The charming pixelated sandbox has gained a following akin to other gargantuan franchises like Star Wars or Disney, striking a flame with the first Minecraft convention dubbed 'Minecon' in 2010. The game itself is very much a love child of the now billionaire Markus' favourite games of the time, and what started out as a passion project has since become a staple of the gaming world.

Story: As a completely open world experience the 'story' of Minecraft is entirely in the players hands; Want to spend the next three weeks farming? Go for it! Want to focus on finding that sweet spot to build your next house? Build away! Wanna murder some tall purple-black dudes who steal your stuff and then use their eyes to find and jump into a portal to then fight a massive dragon? Yeah, me too! The story of Minecraft is non-existent; it's a truly open 'sandbox' experience where the player has total freedom.

As time has gone by however there have been updates that add end goals, such as the aforementioned dragon, but there's no “Nice one for completing the game!” screen so to speak. So what is there to do in Minceraft if there's no story, no tension, no drama or purpose? Well...

Gameplay: The gameplay can be stripped down to four basic functions: kill, eat, build, sleep. At least that's what the alpha version could have been described as. Now, however, you can ride pigs, plant wheat, breed animals, fly, enchant weapons, fish, that's right I did say fly, kill under water zombie dudes, ride horses, keep cats, ride carts, and of course mine AND craft.

It isn't very telling from the list, but there is a lot to do in Minecraft that I haven't even mentioned. So much so that if you leave the game for a few months you could come back to entirely new items and features that seemed inconceivable in the past. I mean the fact that you can fly now? I don't even know how to do that I just saw a friend do it and I've already poured the last week into trying to find out how.

I mentioned that you can enchant weapons, but you can also enchant yourself, albeit temporarily, through the use of potions. Get some glass, make a bottle, and you're one step closer to being able to see better in the dark, jump really high, do more damage or even swim faster under water. The amount of stuff to do in Minecraft can be dizzying, but part of the fun is trying to figure out how to do everything as hard as you can before turning to the wiki.

There are of course baddies in the game outside of dragons and block stealing weirdos; zombies, creepers (the green thing that go boom), skeleton archers, drowned (wet zombies), slimes, blazes (hot shooty boys), spiders, baby zombies and drowned (the worst), Ghast (big white screamy memey shooty boys) and of course other players, the latter of which is one of the best ways to experience the game.

The world in which you inhabit in any video game is just as important as the baddies you slay. Some games push you down linear corridors, some games even tie you to a single path and all you can really do is aim and shoot, and while some games give you large sprawling maps for you to explore at your leisure, in Minecraft, well, the world is made of “chunks” as we pros call it, and it never ends. No, really, it never ends, the game world is procedurally generated, which means you can pick a direction and keep going until you find the perfect mountain to make your home.

There are also a variety of landscapes in the game: taiga (snowy bois), deserts, giant mushrooms, dark woods, regular woods, birch woods, mountain ranges, swamps, igloos, flat plains, and sometimes it's just a lot of water. Whatever your favourite flavour of the real world is, Minecraft has it, and with the ability to pick your seed (the combination of numbers generated when a world is made) you can customise the world you inhabit.

The following of Minecraft also came with game altering mods that can add new blocks, features, animals, bad dudes, good dudes, currency, heck you can even mod in completely different game modes which have since become easily accessible outside of the modding community.

All of this is wrapped up in an easy to learn control scheme with hit, not hit, jump, other not hit, crouch, move around and change your characters perspective between first and third person.

Graphics: Imagine really cool pixel art. Just loads of squares dude.

Sound: The sound design in Minecraft is just so good. Open a door? Mm chunky door sound. Walking on some snow? Crunchy snow sound. The sound effects for items in the game are top notch, but the game really shines with the sounds of the enemies, specifically the creepers. Casually mining and you hear that hissing sound? Well, you were mining.

The music in the game is, as it always has been, gorgeous. Subtle tones that chime in from time to time, gentle piano as the rain starts to fall, ominous noises that can only be described as “bwam” while exploring the depths of the world, all of it works together to create a cohesive sound scape that peacefully fits to whatever you're mining, crafting or slaying. Every thing sounds as it should, and the music has a mind of it's own so it never feels noisy or excessive.

Personal experience: My first real experience with Minecraft was after I 'legally' downloaded it with 'money' on 'my' computer in my own home with my 'hands' on a 'keyboard.' It was an early alpha build and I remember running away from zombies and the hissy green boys by hiding in a mountain. I figured, y'know, wait until day, hang out, then dig my way back to the real world. Only, I'd forgotten which way was out, I wasn't paying attention and ended up spending half an hour punching my way out of an endless wall of dirt.

Between then and now I'm only slightly better at building a 9x9 wooden house, and the green boys don't scare me (as much) any more. Minecraft has been a game that I've left and returned to multiple times, and now as I write this review I find myself playing online with a friend and more invested than ever; when do we fly I ask, I don't know maybe after the dragon my friend replies, and we continue to routinely murder the same bloodline of cows until we're both wearing pink boots and hats. I'd say play it with friends, but sometimes going it alone is just as fun.

Score /10: To be honest I was going into this review with a number in mind, but now that I've finished it I have to say I'm going to keep the number: it's a 10/10. From the timeless gameplay, to the addictive nature of mining and crafting, and figuring out how the hell to fly, I find myself captivated by the simplistic depth of Minecraft, the allure of dying all my sheep the same colour and making all my tools shiny. Definitely leaving my Minecraft world in my will/10.