#Pointman

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F.E.A.R Garry's Mod & Photoshop

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[azulso]

Kay Challis alters by

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UNTITLED COLLAGE BY FUTURA DURING ART SESSIONS FOR PSYENCE FICTION BY UNKLE (1998)

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Day 5 - Map.

Those two.

[pointman-2]

PointMan is an advanced utility mapping software that facilitates accurate underground infrastructure mapping, analysis, and reporting, from the convenience of a smartphone.

[weirdpunk29]

dwarven cleric

[williamrablan]

What I'm reading - Walking Point by Chuck Dean

A long time ago, I reported to Fort McClellan Alabama for basic training. At a place called the “Reception Station”, they cut my hair (not exactly a Patrick Stewart style, but close), issued me clothing that reeked of mothballs, and got all the paperwork done that said I was a member of the United States Army. But, while I looked like a soldier (I certainly had the haircut and the uniform), it…

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Cool

Tryin to keep the vibes high with all the virus activity. Here’s some shits of @zeek166th art and activities. It was middle name appreciation day on Tuesday at his school, flicks of Zeek rocking a train piece at the @bronxmuseum to celebrate the closing of @henrychalfant @artvstransit exhibit with the brother @futuralaboratories. Flick of futura rockin the bx museums blackbook with his iconic #pointman characters (yes that’s zeeks blackbook on the side). Good vibes all around! #teachthebabies https://www.instagram.com/p/B9odOc5Jfhd/?igshid=1hia7v9zdcyoj

[newarc]

"Lucky" O'Leary. Mackenzie wolf oc

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F.E.A.R

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[cthulhubert]

Reading the original Vampire Hunter D novels was a very fascinating experience that I can't actually recommend to anyone.

In most ways, they're very straight-forward pulpy adventure stories. Nothing about the plots or dialogue are compelling. The translation is competent at least.

But the world building is fascinating, rife with fun little details.It's like the author, Hideyuki Kikuchi thought of some off the wall stuff and threw it in for aesthetics, but then comes up with background to explains it, and then actually builds on that explanation, rather than leave it as a fig leaf.

The books are set post post post apocalypse. Humanity nearly wiped themselves out in a nuclear war, so the vampires and other creatures of the night came out of hiding and ruled for ten thousand years... and then started slowly but steadily declining. No longer strong enough to have total control over the world, but more than powerful enough to topple humanity's attempts to organize.

Humanity is in this weird pseudo-medieval state except they also have stuff like cyber-horses. Why? Because that's how the Aristocracy (the v-word is gauche) liked it!

Humanity has been genetically engineered with psychological blocks, such that if they ever learn about the vampires' great weaknesses (other than the sun: garlic, crosses, holy water) they'll immediately forget them!

It's ostensibly "pure sci-fi" because there's no magic. The story is clear about this. Vampires just have novel biology. That gives them telekinesis. (And hemokinesis too. I've always thought that should be a fundamental vampire ability. It's how they slurp every last drop of blood out of a human without needing to like suspend the body and let them bleed out. They also soak cloaks with the blood of virgins over the course of decades and end up with one they can control, to turn into shield or sword.)

D is your classic pulp-y OP protagonist (I compare him in my mind to Doc Savage). Made from the gametes of the Aristocracy's greatest scientist and genetic engineer (whose name also starts with D, wink wink nudge nudge), and his lover: humanity's greatest psychic. He was implanted with a parasite engineered to not take over his body and be helpful instead. He inherited an indestructible sword crafted by the greatest swordsmith who ever lived. He's equipped with a supercomputer in a pendent that can auto-hack most technological locks and defenses. He uses the same cyber-horses as everyone else, but because of his "ability to commune with their inner natures" can wring double performance out of them.

What started me thinking about this is the dhampir like protagonist of yet another forgettable Isekai story (actually, this was a "Returner" manhwa, a genre much more popular in Korea now, which involves people reincarnating back from isekai worlds, or traveling back in time, etc). This guy, like the protagonists of many stories, is so overpowered he is a geopolitical super-power embodied in a single person. That always takes me out of the story, because I can only think about how much responsibility that would entail in my mind, and these guys just use it to fuck around.

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@inception30daychallenge day 23: if you had to be stuck on a deserted island with an Inception character, who would you choose?

Well, the first person I thought of was Arthur. I mean, he's knowledgeable about all sorts of weird things and so very resourceful and has probably learned all sorts of survival skills, so I'm sure he's going to find a solution to our predicament and a way to not die in the meantime.

Alternatively Saito, who would have a team rescue him so swiftly and surely we wouldn't even get the chance to be worried but treat it as a little vacation far from annoying everyday problems, lol.

[friedfriedchicken]

TFRarePairingFest 2024

October 15th = Stranded In The Rust

Ft. Galaxy 'Questrian/Psychic Pointman

After a rough battle, Psychic Pointman goes looking for his partner, Galaxy 'Questrian, who had gone missing during the fight. A fanfic based off of the since lost Chinese Transformers game, Transformers: Online.

[fishmech]