#Pippin Games

[tamberwoof]

OKAY! SO-

Was looking around desperately for any way to see what Pudding looked like, when I came across this concept art:

I saw the fact that Pippin is so small compared to their Dimetrodon friend that I had to draw them together.

I do not often draw humans since I tend to get overwhelmed when I struggle too much at drawing. But Pippin was the exception I was willing to make here, and they turned out to be really easy to draw, actually.

So here's these two having a nice nap under a tree.

It's hard to see here, but I did aim to make Pudding a bit chonky, just because I read that he eats leftover treats:

And that's all!

Thanks for looking at my silly fanart for paleo pines!!!

[violecov]

Melkor, in order to be forgiven, was forced to join the fellowship of the ring. It looked like a good idea, until he realized it was definitely not.

Hobbits are worse than elves.

Inspired by this amazing post of @skaelds .

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Figure Fridays #12:

TLDR: Not much to report - had a migraine hit me like a bus that has lasted most of the week (barometric pressure had a huge spike sending us from mid-70s to 90s). Today was the first day this week I didn't have a migraine, but instead was just exhausted from them. So I managed to pick up the brush & get some secondary colors going on the Gondorian Warrior, and a set-up of base colors on Pippin.

[skykid-nadir]

If I had a nickel for every indie game dev who made the player canonically genderqueer to explain why their gender expression varies from player to player, I'd have three nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's super cool that it's happened thrice!

[itrunsdoom]

The Apple Pippin? Yeah, it runs Doom.

The Pippin was one of those many failures of '90s Apple before the iMac-led revival - a game console manufactured by Bandai running MacOS classic off of the game CD, with the aim of being a multimedia box like the wildly successful Phillips CD-i. It failed to reach those lofty heights and was snuffed with a terrifying immediacy with the return of Jobs and the end of the "Mac clones" program in 1997, just a year after launch.

This project hooks up a "fake mac-formatted" hard drive that the Pippin was able to recognize, allowing for the Mac port of Doom to be run.

Incidentally, the Mac port of Doom's source code leaked out the other day. Interesting stuff!

Thanks to DeathEgg for hipping me to this!

[pippins-place]

would this have saved them

original

[doyouknowthisgame]

[way-too-addicted-to-fandoms]

I am unfortunately not immune to a man with curls😔

[starsilversword]

....I just spent 3 hours playing the Wii Lego LOTR game. I am devastated that the game doesn't have the famous "I shall take the ring to Mordor" line. Anyways, stopped playing just as the Fellowship leaves Rivendell. Hope to play more tomorrow.

[aqpippin]

six sentence sunday -

[untitled fake relationship/enemies-to-lovers goodecox fic]

“There’s clearly a disconnect between how Jackie sees you and your perception of that. Can you explain what makes you feel that way?”

All at once, it’s like the air is sucked out of the room. No more easy spinning of stories, no more teasing each other about their fictional first date. Gigi had said that back when she’d had no reason not to be brutally honest, and the truth of it is haunting her now. It would be easier, safer, to fall back on lies to better serve the relationship story.

[frodo-with-glasses]

I have question!

So have you seen this tumblr post about Merry and Pippin's memory of Frodo beginning to fade as they get older after he leaves for Valinor? Okay, now you have.

So now in the Magnolia AU, what do you think their relationship would look like with Frodo choosing to stay in the Shire, in Middle Earth? How often do they see each other? Do they feel sort of distant from him, wanting to reach out and help him but knowing there's nothing they can really do for him, since they don't really know what he went through, not the way Sam does? I just- OUGH I get emotional about this either way 😭

“Of course we did not get so far as they did, but we have heard the stories. We know something of what they saw. Merry helped to slay the Witch King, after all, and I…well, I…”

“And Pip met Sauron himself, in the Palantir. We’re not ignorant. Of course Sam was with him the whole way. That has well earned him his place as Frodo’s dearest friend. But after Sam, no one else in the Shire understands what he’s endured as well as we do. And we do what we can.”

“That’s right! We’ve our own business in Tuckborough and Buckland, after all, and we cannot go to Hobbiton as often as we’d like. But we know Frodo will be ill in October and March, and we put forward our best efforts then. And—and they do the same for us, when they can.”

“I—er. Well, it’s not…”

“Speak up, Mer, they can’t hear you.”

“I…I recall that last year, Sam came to visit Brandy Hall just before the anniversary of Pelennor, and he saw to it that Estella and Theo were cared for while I was ill. I feel I’ve yet to repay him that debt. That is what it’s like. We four Travellers, we look after one another.”

“Precisely. If Frodo is thin during his ill spells, it is not for the lack of food or drink in Bag End. I shall always see to that.”

“Perhaps our memories shall falter as we age. Such is the lot of old-timers. They have much to remember, and cannot keep it all in, sometimes. But we are not yet old, and we shan’t forget a friend. Not one for whom we have sacrificed so much.”

“That’s right! We love him dearly, don’t we, Mer?”

“That we do.”

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MAGNOLIA AU ASK GAME!

[izzy140105]

Oh man... This hit me right in the feels 😭✋

[fluorescent-black]

Marathon - Bungie - Joseph Cross

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Figure Fridays #13:

TLDR: Got a fair amount done, not for the best reasons, but you do what you gotta do to keep moving! Got to play with three new paints and a new paintbrush – Pro Acryl Jade, Warm Flesh, Shadow Flesh, from Monument Hobbies; and the brush is my first sable/hairbrush from Rosemary & Co… Both were absolute game changers in terms of how smooth and how much easier the color can be moved around compared to my current supplies. Finished the Gondorian Warrior from The Last Alliance of Men and Elves, as well as Pippin, and started up on the Nazgul.

The Long Rambley:

After last week’s migraine hit me hard, I was leery as to how far I’d get along this week. I had ordered my first sable brush from Rosemary & Co. a few weeks back and they arrived last week – so this was the first session I was able to mess with them. On top of that when I went into town for groceries I chose to stop by a game supplies shop and grabbed a couple bottles of Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl – Jade, Shadow Flesh, and Warm Flesh – as my white does make things a tad chalky and honestly I wanted a short cut on skin tones. :P

And holy cow both the new brush and paints made me realize how much the paint and brushes can make a difference. The smoothness of the paint is absolutely wild, and the fact that my brush could HOLD paint and keep its point…. Just wow. So, I think I’ll be looking to slowly build out my paints by just replacing the colors I use most with legitimate miniatures paints.

I finished up the Gondorian Warrior from The Last Alliance of Men and Elves – matched his base to the Elven Archer from before. Also finished up Pippin and the Jade really came in clutch here for his jacket. Words still can’t express how much smoother Pro Acryl has been compared to my current paints from Josonja.

I started on the Nazgul and really wanted to play up the usage of green/blues that were used both for the scene at Weathertop, but also mirrored within the shots of Minas Ithil/Morgul. Likely before the end of the weekend I’ll have him finished up.

Then it’s onto some good ol’ Fallout with ‘The Ghoul’ Cooper Howard, and CX404!

So, thanks for checking in, and hopefully see y’all next week!

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Gundam 0079: The War for Earth

Mobile Suit Gundam is one of the most influential anime series ever created, establishing many of the conventions of the mecha subgenre. In the forty-plus years of its existence, there have been dozens of series and spinoffs, but they generally boil down to political drama involving Earth and its space colonies, featuring a super powerful giant robot called a Gundam. Among the many, many video game tie-ins, one of the most unusual is this CD-ROM FMV title, a co-production between Japanese studio Bandai and American developer Presto Studios, the team behind The Journeyman Project titles. It was originally developed for the short-lived Apple Pippin platform, which Bandai was an ardent supporter of, but was also ported to Windows and Macintosh platforms, as well as the Japanese PlayStation.

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[doctorslippery]