#OP Dating Sim project

[halfbakedprojects]

Y'all know how I'm trying to make a One Piece dating sim that very early in the works? No? That makes sense. Anyways, here is the work in progress synopsis:

MC is a well known author in a little village on Unnamed Island. They make a living writing a variety of books, using a false name to publish their books. Their life was mundane to say the least. However, the introduction of some pirates is sure to change that.

[gracefireheart]

Random silly TF2 Modern Highschool AU HCs that I just wanted to throw out there for fun:

Even tho' Soldier and Demo look like they would be the ones to play shooters or battle royal games, they mostly play (and sometimes stream/make let's plays of) chill games together. Like Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, and Minecraft. Sometimes Sniper joins them when they play Stardew Valley 'cause a part of him misses that life back home.

Engineer and Medic would very much be weebs and will randomly do those magical girl poses together when they announce to the others that they've just finished their project or something. They also tend to do cosplaying with Spy and Pyro (sometimes Medic is able to drag Heavy into cosplaying as well).

Scout is very well versed in the world of dating sims. Ofc, he started playing these types of games at first to try and get better at picking up ladies, gents and enbys. But eventually, he played dating sims just for the fun of it (and sometimes these dating sims just have really good stories, alright? He definitely isn't crying to some of these games. Nope. Not at all).

Pyro has a huge following on Tiktok where they do different arts and crafts, edits, tips on baking (maybe they something similar to that chocolate guy), showing off their cosplay, and so on. Scout is often featured during art challenge videos.

The gang definitely have [irl] DnD nights together. Although Heavy isn't that huge into the roleplay and dice rolling and whatnot, he does think it's very satisfying to carefully paint the figurines and set up the maps that Pauling had planned for them to use for the night, and then watch the others get awestruck over the maps when they're shown.

Spy is the one that makes the cosplays for him and some of the others to use. Sometimes it takes longer than it should because Engineer and Medic can't sit still for the life of him, but he always comes around by the end when it's finished, feeling proud of himself for doing such an amazing job. He will not take compliments from the others however.

Sniper- along with Scout- is a huge Hatsune Miku fan. When he eventually visits back home to his parents, Sniper wants to figure out if he could get tickets to a Hatsune Miku concert at the same time. And maybe bring Scout with him as well.

Heavy and Medic often play co-op games together, especially of the puzzle kind. While Medic may overthink certain puzzles, Heavy will see the obvious and point it out. And when Heavy can't quite figure out what to do, Medic's there to brainstorm solutions with him and try it all out until it's solved.

[icarianarts]

do you have any suggestions for making second life characters n models?

OKAY! So basically in terms of pricing it is much cheaper and more accessible to be a furry than a human in second life, usually with people you gotta hunt a bit more but I’ll list you some basics that I think are a good start. Here's a couple things I have off the top of my head, there is a TON of stuff out there on second life but here's the ones I use!

THIS WILL BE LONG SORRY. I REALLY LOVE RAMBLING ABOUT STORES YOU CAN USE IN SECOND LIFE I broke the links by spacing after the colon so if you want to copy and paste it just delete it! You know how tumblr gets with a lot of links LOL

FURRY STUFF: 

If you want to be a pony, the Open Pony avatar is free and extremely customizable. You’ll start with only two basic mane and tail items and will probably have to spend some money if you want more stuff, which typically for the pony ranges from 200-600ish lindens depending on where you shop. This is about 3usd, but you can also customize the hair by selecting individual faces in the editor to get the colors and textures you desire.

MAJOR DOWNSIDE TO BEING A PONY THOUGH IS THAT THIS AVATAR WAS MADE BY *THOSE* KINDS OF BRONIES. THERE IS REALLY GROSS STUFF ON THE SECOND LIFE MARKETPLACE FOR THE PONY AVATAR :( USUALLY YOU CAN FILTER ADULT CONTENT BUT SECOND LIFE SEARCH ISN’T ALWAYS SO SEAMLESS. It is extremely unfortunate that this is like, the only up to date my little pony avatar we currently have on the marketplace but we make do, there are a lot of normal horse people out there it just is heinous if you go to my little pony sims.

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OP-OPEN-PONY-Basic-Pony-Avatar/22771877 

Some of the free manes/tails/outfits/etc. I know currently exist are here:

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OpenPony-Shadowbolt-Suit/22790327

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/HMART-Summer-Dress/23599366

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/NX-Short-Bob-Mane-Add-Me/23761577

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OP-mesh-brows/24547847

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OP-I-LOVE-MOM-TATTOO/23808113

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/HMART-Izzy-Mane-Tail/22786915

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OP-rainbowshine-kit/24806876

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/NX-Rainbow-Bright-Mane-Add-Me/23671728

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OP-mail-set/24794285

For FURRY furries, like if you want to be an anthro animal, there is a lot of body mods out there for standard human avatar bodies (which I’ll get to in a moment) but for the most bang for your buck, I would recommend the SugarCult Regalia body. It is the easiest to customize if you ever look to wanting to make your own custom skin textures and is also modded a ton in the community so there is a load of content at the ready for it, the body link is here:

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Sugarcult-Project-Regalia/18217485

This one costs money, but it is pretty good for the price deal, you’ll get multiple body shapes that you can customize and tweak to your liking. When/if you want to shop for custom textures, make sure you look for ones that say are BOMR or BOMR compatible for the best results!

Really good beginner furry heads that have great animation quality and accessible prices are the Happy Paw heads! The link to the Happy Paw store is here:

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/175788 These heads often have a ton of textures made for them, and you also get a developer’s kit with the purchase of them! I use these heads a lot.

Another good store is Anima, though it recently disbanded. Their products are still available on the marketplace and are good if you want a less toony and more oddball looking furry, the prices are a bit higher but they are also pretty easy to custom make textures for too! And like Happy Paw, a lot of mods are available on the marketplace for them!

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/244580 Here’s the store link for Anima!

HUMAN/HUMAN ADJACENT STUFF:

You can still use the Regalia bodies for people, but Regalia tends to be more specialized by the community in furry texturing, so finding human skins will be harder if you don’t make your own. There are a LOT of human bodies to choose from, and usually I say the best thing to go with are the ones with a ton of mods for on the marketplace so it is easiest to shop. The ones I use are Belleza Jake and eBody Reborn.

Belleza Jake usually goes on sale pretty regularly while eBody is kind of a fancier body model and costs more LOL it is so pricey to be an up to date human model in second life. Ugh okay I’m like writing this whilst looking at the second life marketplace right now and for whatever reason I literally cannot find the belleza jake bodies. -_- I’ll keep you posted if I can find a link to it because that’s annoying idk why SL does this sometimes. 

The body I use aside from jake is the eBody Reborn, and the downside to that is they only allow like, known store owners to get the texture kits from the eBody Reborn if you want to make it, for that you’ll just have to go to the eBody inworld store to get it LMAO it’s pretty pricey though, I got it because it is kind of on sale right now but it’s still probably about ~10usd. There is literally so many mods for it on the marketplace though. I use it because literally everyone and their dog has stuff on sale that’ll usually fit the ebody and it’s perfect if you want to have a billion fun outfits.

ANOTHER downside to the ebody is that the ass is so big, you have to find a good deformer that’ll fit it if you want to make a smaller body that doesn’t have a huge ass. Second Life creators are usually all insanely horny!

HEADS I KNOW OF AND/OR USE: 

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/101160 Raven Bell is what I use for my people avatars, and here is the whole store since it also sells hair that usually is pretty good too! The heads are about 2,000L and more expensive than the furry body entirely though… but! I have wound up using it a ton to make other avatars. There’s an older model of head they have that they no longer support though since it’s old that still has more mods than their more recent stuff from other developers, hilariously enough. If you don’t care for all the fancy new animations you can go to their inworld store and get the old head.

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/210372 This store has two free anime styled heads that are better than most the anime heads you’ll run into on the marketplace purely because it’s free to use and there’s a texture and developer kit that comes with it. I think it was ripped directly from that pixiv free to use avatar? It’ll say it’s one linden on the marketplace but if you go to their inworld store you can get it free of charge. 

Some hair stores that are typically unrigged and can fit most heads with minimal editing (just stretch/rotate/reposition to fit):

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/167897 This one has some genshin impact hairstyles LOL

https: //marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/68045 this one by far has a TON of random hairs that I use.

Overall, with human avatars it’s much more vast and hinges on what you’re looking to make. Let me know if you or anyone else has any further questions! I usually know a few stores off the bat that can fit specific looks people are going for haha

[thelonglist]

Masterlist - BNHA fan fic recs Part 7

Hello again! My friend was looking for fics in my bookmarks the other day; I have never felt so honored.  Make sure to leave a comment and kudo on all these lovely works. Enjoy!

Here are the links for Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five & Part Six

For reference:

L - longer fic (50,000+ words)

O - One shot

& - ongoing

# - Complete

! - favorites

Thank you!

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Various Non-Canon world AUs

Rebuilding with Shattered Components - O # Android AU tododeku

The Great Royal Abduction - O # Fantasy AU Dragon Izuku

Boats Against the Current - & 1920′s AU

One out of the Hoard - O# zombie apocalypse au

Finding Life During The Apocalypse - & zombie apocalypse

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DFO

All the little things  - O#

Birdcage - # demon au Second/third/first

All for One: AWOL Villain and PTA King - O #

Project: Disaster - H

Left To Rot - O# lots of pain here would be in whump if it wasn't dfo

! I have decided that I'm a ghost now - O# AI Yoichi & Izuku

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Crack

Mr. Underground Takes Over - O# Aizawa takes over Mic’s radio show

Alien BFF - O # crack Aliens Ashido & Izuku

Vending Machine - & Izuku has a dating sim quirk

Please Be A Hero (Series) - O # Villain Izuku Crack

! A man's best friend (Series)- O #/& Izuku has a Noumu dog

An Unconventional Reunion - O # Crack fem Izuku & Shigaraki

"Headline: 'Villain' Izuku Backed By Idol, Hero All Might" one shots (series) - &

Weaponized competitiveness - O # Rody & Deku

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Whump with happy endings

lose it all (with eyes wide open) - O # Bakugo/Midoriya kidnapping

! but somehow i'll see it through  - O # long shot obedience quirk

Some Die Young - O # Iida centric dead midoriya izuku

Don't Be Afraid - &

Boost  - O #

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Whump with sad endings

Crack in the Wall - O # Izuku can see through the 4th wall

once one begins, there are only endings - O # MC Death

Gomen'nasai  - O # MC Death Izuku & shigaraki

! Oh Jailbird, Sing Me to Sleep - O # Quirk!Izuku & Hawks

! Friendship is a Fickle Thing  - O # quirkless Izuku & Shinsou Hitoshi owch

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Whump with inconclusive endings

I'm So Sick of Myself - O # Nomu Izuku

A Pretty Heavy Covenant to Make With Someone Powerless - O # human trafficking

Blood Stains The Skin Red - # Midoriya and Bakugo patricide

! for want of a nail - O # longshot human experimentation

anniversary - O # Dead Izuku Bakugo-centric

Singularity - O # Eldritch Izuku

! A deal is a deal - O# Demon Izuku & Iida Tenya

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The obligatory time travel corner

How the Other Half Lives - # dimension travel villain Izuku & hero izuku

! do not weep for me, for soon i will be gone - & time travel fix it

Puzzle Pieces - & post-apocalypse dimension travel izuocha 

New Game Plus (Ultra!)  - &

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Quirky fics (miscellaneous)

Yoichi Shigaraki: The Sociopathic Hero - O # 

If All Might Was Marginally More Self Aware - O # 

Alone for 10 thousand years. - & Quirkless OP Izuku 

Thoughts Are Loud - & hit by a truth Quirk

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Quirk!Izuku

The Dream Rover - O # Dream World

More Than One - & Izuku has a sentient quirk

Izuku Dislikes Quests - & gamer quirk Izuku

In for a Dollar, In for a Dime - & probability quirk Izuku

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Crossovers

A Hero Anywhere - & AOT Dimension Travel

In a world, other than our own. - & AOT Dimension Travel

! Black Rabbit: Villain with a Crush - & Pure Villain AU tododeku

Home with full of secrets and patches, you know?  - # SpyxFamily AU

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Haunted OFA

The Quirk Singularity - O # possession

Excitation (series) - O #/&

! Candor - # L HPSC Sucks Psychological Trauma

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Shippy Shit 2.0

The Dragon, the Knight, and The Maiden - O # fairytale au Izuocha

The Great Sports Festival Seduction - O # Tododeku

courage to spare  - O # Izuocha

you‘ve always worn your flaws upon your sleeve (and i’ve always buried mine deep beneath the ground) - O # Personality Swap Tododeku

A Mission of Bad Luck and Tangerines & Quirkless Izuku Izuocha 

When The Silence Grows Too Loud And The Singing Stills (When All Is Left To Hear Is Your Heart Beating Next To Mine) - # Soulmate au Shindeku

Rebuilding with Shattered Components - O # Android AU tododeku

! Black Rabbit: Villain with a Crush - & Pure Villain AU tododeku

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Ghost AUs

Ashes, Ashes(We all Fall Down) - & Ghost Deku

Death Can't Kill a Hero - & Ghost Deku

Lie still and break (For a dream’s sake)  - & Comatose Izuku & Aizawa

[a-dotrivenitupontop]

why you should vote for david brittlesbee in the @epicdivorcemantournament. a powerpoint presentation (tumblr post) by me:

•in just the pilot episode of mythic quest david gets excluded from company meetings, has his assistant abandon him for another guy and calls one of his workers ‘mom’

•he’s the boss at a video game company but the divorce fucked him up so badly no one accepts that he’s even a boss (this kinda shifts in s3 but eh. spoilers)

•oh yeah his parents also got divorced. so. y’know double whammy innit. just one divorce after another for this poor little meow meow

•“are we at your divorce trial right now? because i just watched a hot asian chick rip out your heart”

-brad bakshi, s1 e10

•my man CONSTANTLY uses divorce to project onto his workplace. whenever the main characters fight david always draws comparisons to his divorce (especially in s2)

•to score david a date the aforementioned brad had to train him to talk to women using a simulator called ‘divorcee dance party’

•he did score a date though. only he forgot her name and the relationship lasted like six episodes. the reason they broke up? he got down on TWO knees and BEGGED for marriage. slay queen

•also before using the dating sim david used pictures of his wedding day on his dating app profile. and a video of him reviewing bikes. that’s a crucial piece of information too

•his ex wife kicked him out of his own home forcing him to live in motherfucking cerritos (op in br*tish and has no idea what a cerritos is but assumes it’s something to describe as ‘motherfucking’)

•“you know who didn’t have trouble finding a man? your ex-wife”

-poppy li, s1 e2

•in an episode where each character got given a workplace animal personality thing david got wolf and spent the episode bragging about it. only he did the test the wrong way and turned to be a butterfly. this isn’t directly related to divorce but i do think it’s pathetic of david

•when two of his employees (amongst a couple others but they’re irreverent rn) quit to work at a new company in the basement david was so fucked up by this that he was implied to have almost attempted suicide. we stan a depression-ridden mess who would rather kill himself than lose his found family and relive the trauma of his divorce. heart emoticon

•anyways here’s a compilation of david being Pathetic for your entertainment

[rjalker]

K. Remaking this post because the OP is deactivated so I can't click on any names to add image descriptions or plain text.

trender-typhlosion (deactivated) said:

Neopronouns are not a “tumblr fad”. Gender neutral pronouns other than they/them have existed in the English language for actual centuries. They are not harmful to the trans community.

To those who are against neopronouns, you’re acting against the evolution of a language and acting against something that’s been around for far longer than you’ve been alive.

To those who use neopronouns, your pronouns are not harmful. You do not deserve to be made to feel ashamed for your pronouns.

boobless-wonder said, August 10th 2019:

Op you can’t just drop this and expect us to not ask what the old school gender neutral pronouns were!!! How on earth are all my nb friends gonna pick the dapper pronouns????

fallon-has-opinions (Deactivated? Now an empty blog) said:

I found these doing very minimal research:

Ey/Em/Eir (1975, created by Christine M. Elverson) E/Em/Es (1890, created by James Rogers) Per/Pers/Perself (1976, Used in a novel by Marge Piercy) Thon/Thos/Thonself (1858, Created by Charles Crozat Converse) Ve dates back to 1980 Xe dates back to 1973 In 1789, William Marshall confirmed the use of both“a” and “ou” as a replacement for he/she/they and even i. Co/Coself (1970, created by Mary Orovan) Ne (1850, appeared in print in 1884) En (1868, mentioned by Richard Grant White) Han/Hans/Hanself (1868) Un/Uns/One (1868) Se/Sis/Sim (1884) Hesh/Hiser/Himer (1879) Hi/Hes/Hem (1884) Le/Lis/Lim (1884) Hersh/Herm (1884) Ip/Ips (1884) Hae/Haes(Hais)/Haim (1884) Tha/Thare/Them(Thon) (1885) Zyhe/Zyhe’s/Zyhem (1885) Ir/Iro/Im (1888) De/Der/Dem (1888) Hor/Hors/Horself (1890) Ith/Iths (1890) Sources for these as well as many others that I didn’t add due to the list getting too long can be found here. [[Unfortunately, the original link is broken, and no version available on the web archive :( ]] An interesting note is that in the modern language a lot more people use neopronouns then you would expect! Yo is a majorly African American pronoun coined in 2004 and used by Middle School students In Baltimore, Maryland. Fae/Faer, coined in 2014, is used by 4.3% of participants in the 2019 Gender Census. Plus a vast variety of newly coined pronouns that you will have seen commonly floating around! Neopronouns have existed and been recorded for a long time, they are not a new concept, nor are they MOGAI or a tumblr concept. They are not modern, there have just been many modern adaptions to already existing pronouns.

As another addition from me, Ae/aer pronouns are from 1920, from the scifi/philosophy/??? book, A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Linsey.

You can download it or read it for free here on Project Gutenberg:

"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1329"

[byfurries4furries]

Echo (Horror Visual Novel)

I'm sure most gaming nerds have heard of Doki Doki Literature Club. It's a horror-styled satire of dating sims. The problem is that its dating sim and horror sides sorta don't work together, even though each side works on its own. They're too disjointed and the horror really only works if you're not expecting it. The horror isn't incorporated into the world or the characters. If anything, it detracts from the characters and de-immerses you by making the characters feel less real.

Echo is very different. It does not bury its lead at all. The first few lines already hint at its horror edge before you even get an idea of even the basic elements of the premise, and while it's clear they will be important later on, those hints at the horror don't immediately affect anything for a long time. The horror is also incorporated into the world better, as Echo's horror primarily works by taking characters you get attached to and makes you worry about what will happen to them. It's also a better satire as the subversions of tropes are used to inform characters. Rather than presenting normal tropey characters and then adding on a ton of disturbing stuff with very little buildup, Echo ops to take some common dating sim tropes and interrogate what a person who fits those tropes would be like on a deeper level. I wish I could be more specific and give examples, but many of them are spoilers.

But really we should know, what is Echo about? Well, Chase is a journalism student who's planning a trip to his hometown of Echo, picking up his childhood friends who have since moved away, Jenna and TJ, to visit his childhood friends who still live there, Leo, Flynn, and Carl, for a little reunion. He's also going there to do a project about the town, in particular on a mysterious supernatural hysteria that happened over a hundred years prior, which definitely won't return during the game, I promise. At first, they hang out a few days. They eat some sandwiches, go to an amusement park, etc. Leo confesses that he still has feelings for Chase, revealing they used to date in the first place, and wants some closure to the messy breakup they had when Chase left for college. Later on, Chase suggests going to Lake Emma, the local lake, for some footage. But Leo says Flynn would have a lot of major problems with that, so they settle on a stream that's near the lake. However, Flynn is nonetheless pissed and when Chase comes back from getting his footage, you find out why. You see, there was a 7th member of their friend group, Sydney, who died in a mysterious drowning incident at the lake. Flynn seems to be the one who was closest to him, and TJ was the only one who witnessed the incident, but he refuses to say what happened. Eventually, the confrontation escalates to the point that Leo violently hits Flynn, which causes TJ to run and hide, Jenna to scold Leo over resorting to violence as he storms off, and Flynn to just bail. And this is the moment you pick your route. Fortunately, Flynn gives you an overview of each character besides himself, particularly their problems. Leo is obsessed with Chase, Jenna thinks she's better than everyone else, Carl is a spoiled fat kid mooching off his rich parents, and TJ is definitely hiding something about Sydney's death.

Now this does unfortunately bring us to some issues with Echo. The most relevant one here is route order. This game was built primarily one route at a time and some of the routes have major reveals that can affect how a player will perceive other routes. The common consensus for the ideal route order is:

Carl > Leo > Jenna > TJ > Flynn

However, when the route selection screen pops up, they're in the reverse order, with TJ and Flynn at the top even though they're intended as the two last routes of the game.

There's also a lot of jank as well. Echo had a very long and turbulent development due to technical issues, art overhauls, issues with proofreading, and growing pains with just learning to write for VNs. This was the first VN of the main writer, Howly, and he left the project to another pretty inexperienced VN writer, McSkinny, midway through, who only wrote a few side stories and a side game of Echo, Route 65.

Still, despite that, I highly recommend it. Although there's some jank to wade through, the underlying appeal is strong. The characters are written fantastically and even in the worst routes, they can make it all worth it. Carl is a great example as his route is really bad compared to the others, but that's because it was the first one written. And despite that, Howly's strength at character writing still shines through and the horror is still really effective, even if it is campier and less psychological. Carl is also really well written and his arc as well as the themes of his route are really well done. He's the most realistically written character and his romance with Chase is probably the closest it gets to real, sincere chemistry with any of the love interests. I could still easily recommend his route on its own and there are still 4 other routes better than it.

That said, if you're not sure if you wanna play 5 entire routes of this game, then please play TJ's route. It's the most gut wrenching and masterfully written route of the game. It was actually so emotionally intense that its ending, on top of overwork, caused its writer to suffer an emotional breakdown so intense that he left the project for his own health. If you want to see a truly masterful deconstruction of the toxic nature of dating sims, TJ's route is one of the best.

Regardless, even though the game is janky, it is still important for helping to start the rise of more dramatic furry visual novels that's still ongoing, which I think makes it worth trying out. And on top of that, there's still a lot to love despite its jank. It's why I consider it my favorite game of all time even though I know there are plenty of technically better video games and even other furry VNs, because it has this amateurish charm and drive to it. It was a huge creative risk to make and even when it did finally wrap up, it was such an achievement, especially since only a small handful of the VNs created in its wake have ever accomplished that, one of which was made by the same creator. I plan on talking about more of those projects too as they are very numerous. Until then, keep on yiffing (I wish I had a sign-off catchphrase)

Link

Itch.io

[zayadotnet]

*dated september 2023*

i am here to post more things individual to me! this time, it's my top 25 video games. i am honestly not remotely content with this list and will update it around september of this year, and make it a tradition going forward. i never realized how hard it actually is to put this out on a chart/list. i always knew what i held dearly to my heart, but god when it came down to it, i had to REALLY think. imagining how this list will look by the end of this year is currently challenging. this chart is in no order besides grouping series. certain games will ALWAYS be on this list, most definitely the red dead series, and grand theft auto series. those are masterpieces, or damn near. red dead redemption ii is 100% the best game i've ever touched. the first redemption game i still highly regard to be one to stand the test of time. i have a fondness for fallout, there are many things to love, and things to not love, and that's all i'll say there for now. grand theft auto iv has one of the best stories i've played, and it's so played out but the VIBE of that game, the darkness, grittiness, it's great. san andreas is one of my childhood games, i owned so many copies because i was a stupid child. moving onto guitar hero, i still remember my first experience with it at my sister's, i remember getting my first copy of the game from fred's of all places. i mainly play clone hero nowadays, and am mostly average. i play expert, still have never got past that ttfaf intro. i got into wwe pretty early on in my life like most of these games, being able to watch the show weekly and hop in the games after school was special. cozy survival crafting is definitely one of my favorite things ever, and it's funny to call terraria cozy but it is to me LOL. i will never EVER understand terraria hate, how can you hate something so good? i have fallen out of love with minecraft over the years to the (in my opinion) underwhelming updates and odd direction the game has taken. with that however, the new auto-crafter and trial chambers look so sick. i want to say i got into stardew valley in 2018 and have loved it ever since, still haven't gotten through the beginning of ginger island though, maybe someday. ever since extremely late 2017 or early 2018, my main game has been fortnite: battle royale. at one point, i wanted to go pro and make a living streaming, but sadly i am NOT built for that. i've always loved zombies, first experience was probably like season 2-3 twd, and been hooked ever since. project zomboid was such an insane experience in february of last year. such an eye-opener. easily the best zombie game ever made. 7 days to die is also a great game, the impending doom you feel every week is fun and refreshing from what i normally play while still have that survival crafting i love. i grew up on tony hawk games and wasn't sure which ones to put but these were the standouts, and i didn't want to load the list up with a ton from one series. i remember spending all my savings as a kid on saints row: the third and i still wonder if that was a good decision or not. i have played tons of call of duty in my day, although i stopped at ghosts, and have dabbled in and out ever since. black ops is easily my favorite, the campaign, and multiplayer, agh. zombies even. modern warfare 2 is a classic and one i cannot ignore. ghost looks cool. i have played HELLA sims 3 in my lifetime, yes i have played the sims 4 and i can confidently say the sims 3 clears with ease. i dumped crazy hours into the console ports and the pc as well. around this final stretch of the list is where i really struggled so i went for nostalgia with atv off-road fury 2. that series and mx vs atv were definitely a blast to 10 and below me, and might even be today. i'm not quite sure. if anyone actually finishes this, i am sorry, for i am the rambler.

[polandspringz]

Poland’s Personal Anime Awards 2022

So, I saw people doing this back in January when the Crunchyroll Awards were releasing, and I meant to publish this at the end of January but got busy. So I’m releasing it now! This list will include the categories that Crunchyroll uses, but will not be limited by their nominations, and will also include some of my own categories at the end. This list is based on what series I started and finished watching last year to be a fair judgement (except for the one category I give to Chainsaw Man. I haven’t finished the anime adaption yet but I know it belongs where I put it).

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Anime of the Year: Spy x Family

Best Original Anime: Gunjou no Fanfare/ Fanfare of Adolescence

Best Character Design:

Original Project: Do it Yourself!

Adaption: Dance Dance Danseur

Best Animation: Chainsaw Man

Best New Series: Ya Boy Kongming!

Best Continuing Series: Ousama Ranking/Ranking of Kings

Best Opening:

Musically: Mixed Nuts by Official Hige Dandism (Spy x Family OP 1)

Visually: Naked Hero by Vaundy (Ousama Ranking OP 2)

Best Ending:

Musically: Feeling Good by 96Neko (Ya Boy Kongming!)

Visually:  “Heart wa Oteage” by Airi Suzuki & “My Nonfiction” (Kaguya-sama S3) (Tied)

Best Score: Spy x Family

Best Song: Dream Fanfare by LipxLip (Heroine Tarumono/Heroines Run the Show) I was waiting so badly for this song to be in the anime

Best Director: Bocchi the Rock!

Best Main Character: Arimura Yuu (Gunjou no Fanfare/Fanfare of Adolescence)

Best Supporting Character: Kazanami Shun (Gunjou no Fanfare/Fanfare of Adolescence)

Must Protect At All Costs Character: Kotarou (Koutarou Lives Alone)

Best Action: Ousama Ranking/Ranking of Kings (Cour 2)

Best Comedy: Ya Boy Kongming!

Best Drama: Dance Dance Danseur

Best Fantasy: Danmachi S4

Best Romance: Urusei Yatsura & Call of the Night (Tied) Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout! (Just kidding)

Best JPN Voice: Yoshino Aoyama as Bocchi (Bocchi the Rock!)

Best ENG Voice: Nick Wolfhard as Toto (Goodbye Don Glees)

Best Movie: GOODBYE DON GLEES!!!

Additional Categories!

Best Sports: Salaryman’s Club

Best Isekai: Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout!

Best Slice of Life: Heroine Tarumono/Heroines Run the Show

Guilty Pleasure: Tokyo Mew Mew New!

Biggest Surprise: Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs

Best of Winter 2022: Ryman’s Club/Salaryman’s Club

Best of Spring 2022: Spy x Family (Cour 1)

Best of Summer 2022: Danmachi Season 4 (Cour 1)

Best of Fall 2022: Bocchi the Rock!

Favorite Manga of 2022 (Something I discovered and started reading in 2022): Koroshi Ai/Love of Kill

[taylovelinus]

it’s literally not racist to criticize the portrayal of women in anime and japanese media. no one said “japanese women are childlike”, YOU (OP) projected that onto a perfectly reasonable criticism about women in Japanese media. I’m someone who plays a lot of otome games in addition to other dating sims and JRPGs, I’m familiar with how male characters are portrayed and how they are sexualized, it’s nowhere NEAR similar to how women are sexualized in these games (and in anime and manga). It’s not equal, and these women are often drawn and written in such a way that it 100% reads as pedophilic.

It’s pretty well known that in Japan, outright pedophilic content can be allowed, generally as long it’s in a drawn medium/hentai. Consider the original, uncensored Japanese releases of Made In Abyss, which include — and I’m sorry for anyone who has to read this sentence — explicit depictions of sexual torture done to literal children. The series is also written by an actual pedophile. But honestly, the sexualization of young girls in Japan goes far beyond manga/anime: gravure didn’t come out of nowhere, and it’s still quite common for underage girls to model for these mags. There was an infamous incident last year in which a JAV actor, who is a legal adult but VERY much passes for a 12 year old child, starred in a pornographic film where the entire premise was that she was being raped by her father. I’m glad that these things experience backlash, but the mere existence of occasional backlash doesn’t mean that this isn’t a common, widespread occurrence.

And none of this means that Japan or Japanese people are inherently bad. Literally no one said that. This is a criticism of something that is by no means exclusive to Japanese media, but does tend to be more prevalent in it than in other media. We can’t pretend like loli/lolicon wasn’t incredibly popular, both in Japan AND in the west, for years. I’ve been going to anime conventions for almost a decade; Do you have any idea how common loli was at anime conventions in the US as recently as 7 or 8 years ago? It’s not a problem exclusive to Japan, but it IS a common problem in some of their media exports.

We are criticizing the way women and girls in a certain kind of media. That’s it. Why do you think criticizing pedophilic portrayals is racist? Why are you defending it?

this was the best take about anything revolved around BG3 and it got SOME attention but ultimately was shuffled past and everyone moved on

[btflglitch]

ROADMAP 2020 - NEW IP

After #monstercamp we need to keep working on more #monsterprom games; but we should also start working on a new IP.

The project most likely going next is a co-op narrative game (with many similar mechanics to MonProm even if not a dating sim) around the them of an intergalactic k-pop band,

Travel through the stars while looking for inspiration for your next big hit.

We also have more IP ideas we want to explore. Lately I’ve been working on an IP around a super elitist magic school for people from the wealthiest and most powerful families from the magic world. Again, think people in their early twenties.

The player or players (unsure if this should be multiplayer or not) are new students chosen from a new fund letting people from humbler backgrounds but great magic skills to become students. Ofc this won’t be of the liking of everybody...

Not sure the mechanics of this game (other than ofc being a narrative dialogue-based game); but lately I’ve spent time building the char roster and dang it looks good!

Excited?

After this post next we will start focusing on sharing content and promo of Monster Camp as we draw closer (hopefully) to its release.

Gaaaaaah!

[sickeningradiances]

just saw a post talking about gender nonconforming character who dates another man and uses he him and it had like. tma and tpp tag (and wtnv but cecil isnt important here) and i just thought. you guys are insane to compare jon sims to juno steel he WISHES he was juno just because everyone draws him in skirts and very Gender i would urge you to relisten to first two tma seasons and like compare it to any tpp episode THAT is gender .

(no shade to the op of the post i know fanon jon is pretty concrete and everyone likes to project and imagine him certain way but it really feels so different i got taken away)

[kwbaker]

The Big Chicken by K Baker Via Flickr: 12 Cobb Pkwy. N, Marietta, GA https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlantas-originals-visit-landmarks-that-are-unique-to-our-city/ locations.kfc.com/ga/marietta/12-cobb-pkwy-n

https://www.kfc.com/menu/promotions

The Big Chicken is a KFC restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, which features a 56-foot-tall steel-sided structure designed in the appearance of a chicken rising up from the top of the building. It is located at the city's biggest intersection of Cobb Parkway and Roswell Road and is a well-known landmark in the area. Constructed in 1956, it was rebuilt following storm damage in 1993 and underwent a $2 million renovation project in 2017.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chicken

The restaurant was built in 1956 at 12 Cobb Parkway, on the newly constructed stretch of Highway 41, the first divided highway in Cobb County. Taking advantage of the prime location on the new and quicker route for travelers on U.S. 41, Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck and Shake owner S. R. "Tubby" Davis erected the 56-foot (17-meter) tall structure over his restaurant in 1963 as a method of advertising.[2] The novelty architecture was designed by Hubert Puckett, a Georgia Tech student of architecture, and fabricated by Atlantic Steel in nearby Atlanta (of which Marietta is a suburb). Davis later sold it to his brother, and it became a franchise of KFC.[3]

In January 1993, storm winds damaged the structure, and rather than tear it down KFC was forced by public outcry to re-erect the building.[2] Among those who complained about the Big Chicken being torn down were pilots, who used the building as a reference point when approaching Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Dobbins Air Reserve Base.[4] The new Big Chicken includes the original design of beak and eyes which move, although this time the vibrations which plagued the first structure (even to the point of breaking windows) have been eliminated.[5] Pieces of the original structure were sold to collectors as souvenirs. In early April 2006, the structure narrowly escaped a small eastward-moving nighttime tornado, which overturned a tractor-trailer at a Kmart across the street, and damaged another building nearby.

The Big Chicken is commonly used as a landmark for driving directions. Locals will often include "make a [turn] at the Big Chicken", or "it's about x miles past the Big Chicken". This is referenced in music video game Rock Band 3's "Road Challenge Mode", when the player is told "Don't be alarmed if you're asking for directions in the bus and the locals tell you to 'turn left at the Big Chicken'".[6]

It has also led to a small cottage industry of sorts, selling souvenirs emblazoned with the monument, including one sweatshirt showing Big Ben in London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Colosseum in Rome, and of course, the Big Chicken in Marietta. A board game featuring the Big Chicken and other local landmarks was also produced. There is a barbershop-style singing group called the Big Chicken Chorus, formed in 1986, which gives concerts throughout the year.[7][8] The Big Chicken was also featured on a promotional card in Sim City: The Card Game. The Big Chicken has also appeared in the comic strip Zippy the Pinhead as a part of artist Bill Griffith's fascination with roadside icons.

Ratings and reviews

3.5

45 reviews

#31

of 56

Teresa M11 reviewsReviewed September 8, 2020

No Stars If I Could

This location NEVER gets their orders right! And you can't call to complain because nobody answers the phone.

Date of visit: September 2020Helpful?

James C568 reviewsReviewed February 22, 2020 via mobile

Lunch

Great KFC at a land mark the place is clean the service was excellent if in the area need to stop by and try this place

Date of visit: February 2020Helpful?

mistyraine76 reviewsReviewed November 14, 2019

its kfc it is what it is

I do enjoy the dark meat meals the best, the mc and cheese bowl is also very good, What i don't understand is why the manager always parks in the best parking spot, Manager used to psrk across several handicap spaces but now only parks...More

Date of visit: November 2019Helpful?

camista270 reviewsReviewed April 5, 2019 via mobile

Eat inside a true original

This building is truly unique - has its own Wikipedia Page! Great photo-op with the family - Huge Chicken on roof with moving beak and eyes. Inside is spectacularly clean, with historical photos and a gift shop. The restaurant itself is a KFC - just...More

Date of visit: April 2019Helpful?

Staciajc123 reviewsReviewed March 19, 2019

It's THE BIG CHICKEN!

I am born & raised in Marietta, GA. And if you need directions to anything in Marietta - folks will tell you to go to the BIG CHICKEN and turn...LOL....what would we Mariettians do without it? We would literally be lost! It's a KFC inside...More

Date of visit: February 2019Helpful?

Bbqman33411,801 reviewsReviewed February 21, 2019 via mobile

Good meal despite tourist attraction

The chicken was fresh, hot and delicious. The real draw is this massive 100 foot tall tin chicken perched smack dab on highway 41. It’s been there near 60 years and only been remodeled a time or two. It’s cleaner now than it had been...More

Date of visit: February 2019Helpful?

olaf s56 reviewsReviewed February 10, 2019

Always good to eet at KFC

Well the choice of menu's and burgers are way mor than in the Netherlands. Did take the variety menu with the 3 different marietta burgers. they where good

Date of visit: December 2018Helpful?1  

joannereed5 reviewsReviewed December 23, 2018 via mobile

Horrible service

Walked in with my family at 8:30 to eat and a very rude worker told us the lobby was closed and we had to go through drive through. We apologized and wall out but on the way out we looks at the posted hours and...More

Date of visit: December 2018Helpful?

Bbqman33411,801 reviewsReviewed December 11, 2018

there is only one

and it's large, really tall and tight on the roadside. the food inside is about the same as most other KFC's but just the notion of parking your can underneath such a huge facade and looking up as you walk inside is worth the stop...More

Date of visit: December 2018Helpful?

GrandTour43417117 reviewsReviewed November 26, 2018 via mobile

Bad food

The building is fun to look at and it has cute souvenirs, but that’s it. The food was horrible. Staff was friendly, though!

Date of visit: November 2018Helpful?

[a-diners-call-gfdatingsim]

Hello! It is I OP!! I decided to make a blog dedicated to the Dating sim and any other gravity falls projects like it (more details on that later) Applications are still open! And if you interested in following along with this project or others give this blog a follow!!

Calling Gravity falls artists!

Firstly, I love you all your art is so scrumptious mwah mwah mwah mwah!!.

Okay now to the casting call?? Listing?? Idk the term BUT! I am in the process of scripting out and designing a 80s Stan pines Dating SIM bwah bwah!

I'm planning to do the sprite work as I'm pretty good at replicating the gravity falls style.

But! For CGS, the Game Cover(?) (and / or backgrounds, maybe still deciding), I'm hoping to find an art style with a bit more - Pizzaz!!!!

**I am more than willing to pay! Your art is beautiful, and you deserve to be compensated!!!!**

Now some details about what it would look like:

- I will come to you for a few different cgs for both a Ford and Stan route in a stretched out period of time (meaning not all of once, not only because I don't want to overwhelm, but so that I can fully decide on a scene make sure it's fully what I want before coming to you for the CG for it, I don't want to think I know what I want then fully change my mind and then ya know this CG your either working on or finished now doesn't apply)

-We can talk through DM's , email (Tho my email rarely gives me notifications, so if I respond late, I'm sorry), Discord. Wherever makes you the most comfortable, artwork probably should be shared through either Drive or Email, though since Dependant on Size, most sites will kind of crunch them.

-You will receive FULL credit!!! This one feels like a given, but the internet is wild, and I've seen this misconception happen. Just because I'm paying for your art doesn't mean you don't also get credit. Credit your commissioners' kids.

-You get to set the price on your own art! Far be it from me to tell *you* what your time and effort is worth.

-communication is very important, I do work full time, but if I'm free and you need to talk to me, I'm more than open! If I don't get back to you within a day or so, feel free to give me a friendly little reminder that the notification has been lost.

-I will provide reference sheets that don't follow the canon (like other outfits or hair styles or whatever)

- as part of talking out each piece, I'd like a quote on price and a rough?? Idea?? On when it may be completed (Note: that is not like a strict deadline or anything. I understand things happen! Like i said, just pop me a message saying it can't be finished by 'blank', maybe 'blank' or just that you don't know! I won't bite! I'm an artist! I get it!

And I think that's about all of Note at the moment? If you have any more questions feel free to ask them!

If you'd be willing to be my CG artist please send me a DM with some gravity falls art examples, your rough prices (which again I understand will change from piece to piece buy just like a idea of how your prices for scenes normally are) and your prefrence for how we would communicate about the game ^^.

Thank you very much for reading! And again I love your art so much! Mwah mwah!

(Note, game might get it's own blog once I fully decide on a title, right now im thinking 'The Diners Call' but idk for sure)

[jtmercronin]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

It's a rotating door of Manchurian Candidate and Project MKUltra with anachronistic weapons.  David Goyer probably more Brent Friedman have penned a narrative more based and engaging than a Daniel Craig James Bond film let alone compared to No Time To Die. I wish they reached out to consultants Sonny Puzikas, Jonna Mendez, John Stryker Meyer & Patrick Watkins allude to the usual stomping grounds and Angola & Tony Mendez specialized in U.S. security organization in the USSR then.  Campaign is inspired by real events from Vietnam Era to 1981-1985.  Wherein a Robert Redford/Nathan Muir Spy Game (2001) looking Special Agent Russell Adler and Hid team of Alex Mason, Frank Woods are after Qasim Javadi and Arash Kadivar for their roles in the Iran hostage crisis. You play as Mason, occasionally hallucinating hearing number and seeing red briefly. After interrogating Qasim, the team tracks Arash to Turkey. Arash kills Him chauffeur and escort at the airport leading into a gunfight-plane chasing/gunfight. afterwards Arash boasts that a Perseus orchestrated the hostage crisis then is executed. Adler's 1968-1981 investigation of the soviet agent Perseus debrief to Ronald Reagan. Reagan authorizes a black operation to find Perseus.  Overseen by a General Scott C. Black, Handler Jason Hudson and Adler recruit Mason, Woods, Lawrence Sims stand-in for Bowman, Mossad operative Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay, MI6 agent Helen Park and a creatable custom character, codenamed Bell, with options for different skin tones, ethnic backgrounds and genders, as well as different personality traits that provide in-game perks.  They discover that Perseus infiltrated Operation Greenlight and that Greenlight itself is a top secret plan of a neutron bomb in every major European city as a thermonuclear contingency for a Soviet invasion of Europe.  Establishing the events of Call of Duty Black Ops as Cold War canon, the team infiltrates KGB Headquarters to keep Perseus from activating and using Dragovich's sleeper agents using a mole. The mole, Bellikov, crosses paths with Colonel Lev Kravchenko and seemingly a PSYOPS Officer Imran Zakhaev to help Adler and Bell the facility's sublevel bunker and server farm. despite the actual mission objectives- level, design, character design, character interaction, plot & Easter eggs are all honestly the best of Treyarch and Raven Software's work to date. They learn that one sleeper agent has been activated who is a an Operation Greenlight scientist in Cuba.  Throughout evidence is gained in every mission to support on succeeding missions, shed insight on the Perseus/Soviet double agent spy ring hopefully leadding to the extent of Perseus' network and it's destruction and information for the Perseus-Operation greenlight investigation at large.  The team raids the Cuban facility to stop and apprehend Perseus. They learn that Perseus has the access codes for all of the Operation Greenlight neutron bombs. Lazar, Park & Bell hold their ground awaiting exfiltration by SKYHOOK. Bell has to choose one to save. Canon Bell saves Park and are extracted by Fulton recovery system. In triage, Hudson and Adler argue the viability of Bell as an asset revealing  Bell as a survivor of Aresh's escort at the airport. Bell was stabilized and entered into the MKUltra program to apprehend Perseus. Going through a series of dream and programming sequences for bell to regain lost memories of Perseus' location in Solovetsky.  The team assaults the Solovetsky facility, destroying the AA guns so air support bomber s can destroy the long range telecommunications so Perseus cannot detonate the the neutron bombs. Bell is caught in the bombardment blast but survives.  Concluded, Black informs Reagan of the success but Perseus has eluded capture. The Soviet government is in disarray, suggesting that Perseus was rogue and not acting toward their interests. The CIA team rescue Bell, thankful for their assistance. Later Hudson orders Adler to kill Bell. Adler lures Bell away, entraps in conversation, they draw guns, cut to red-a gunshot & fade to black.