#Robert Road 96

[danieesketches]

Art imitates life

[sampoststuff]

Alex being told by John and Robert that they knew his parents

Based off the clone high meme

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

today i am bringing you niche memes that incorporate 2 of my fandoms. tomorrow? who knows. Anyways this is Road 96 characters as things that Julian The Arcana has said.

Bonus three:

[kingcrim]

[globodamorte]

ohh my god now I know why Roberts so stupid he's an anarchist. holy shitt I was thinking man this "revolutionary" movement/organization really doesn't seem to have a lot planned or organized at all!! and it's because they're not communists.

I mean it was quite there huh. w the B symbol and all...

[macrolit]

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

NYT Article.

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Q: How many of the 100 have you read? Q: Which ones did you love/hate? Q: What's missing?

Here's the full list.

100. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson 99. How to Be Both, Ali Smith 98. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 97. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward 96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman 95. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel 94. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 93. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel 92. The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante 91. The Human Stain, Philip Roth 90. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen 89. The Return, Hisham Matar 88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 87. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters 86. Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight 85. Pastoralia, George Saunders 84. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee 83. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutat 82. Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor 81. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan 80. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante 79. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin 78. Septology, Jon Fosse 77. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones 76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 75. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid 74. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 73. The Passage of Power, Robert Caro 72. Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich 71. The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen 70. All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones 69. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 68. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez 67. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon 66. We the Animals, Justin Torres 65. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 64. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai 63. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill 62. 10:04, Ben Lerner 61. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 60. Heavy, Kiese Laymon 59. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 58. Stay True, Hua Hsu 57. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich 56. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner 55. The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 54. Tenth of December, George Saunders 53. Runaway, Alice Munro 52. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 51. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson 50. Trust, Hernan Diaz 49. The Vegetarian, Han Kang 48. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 47. A Mercy, Toni Morrison 46. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt 45. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson 44. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin 43. Postwar, Tony Judt 42. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 41. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan 40. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 39. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 38. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Balano 37. The Years, Annie Ernaux 36. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 35. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel 34. Citizen, Claudia Rankine 33. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 32. The Lines of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 31. White Teeth, Zadie Smith 30. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 29. The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt 28. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 27. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26. Atonement, Ian McEwan 25. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 24. The Overstory, Richard Powers 23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro 22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo 21. Evicted, Matthew Desmond 20. Erasure, Percival Everett 19. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe 18. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 17. The Sellout, Paul Beatty 16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 15. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 14. Outline, Rachel Cusk 13. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 12. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 10. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 8. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 7. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead 6. 2666, Roberto Bolano 5. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones 3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel 2. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 1. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

[pyrovverse]

THE MILITARY MAN .

Brian Thomas was something of a social butterfly, a mans man. He raised by his father, Robert Thomas, in Auburn, Alabama. In his early years Brian was a friendly, outgoing boy who took on a lot of Roberts ideals and values.

Robert was a veteran who served 10 long years in the military. He had a wide range of knowledge on topics such as weaponry, cryptography, and was a rather disciplined man. As an excitable young boy, Brian would sit by the elders side as stories of war, brotherhood and triumph encompassed his developing mind. The strict, yet good man his father was paved a clear road of friendliness, assertiveness, and firm handshakes for the boy. Cryptology was an interest that Brian picked up from Robert, learning morse code and phonetic alphabet by heart.

In high school, he would begin to develop a keen interest in psychology, interested in how the mind works and how to guide patients through hard times. Deep empathy for others came natural as he would stay true to his fathers teachings of respect, kindness, and maturity in all situations. Brian was an outgoing, charismatic boy with a witty sense of humour. He was the type to light up a room with a clever one-liner or a bright smile. The boy had a good head on his shoulders, and his good grades proved he had a remarkable grasp on the world and his place in it.

After graduation, Brian moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he began working towards a bachelors degree in psychology, and minoring in video production. It was at the University of Alabama where he met Tim Wright, and later an ambitious man named Alex Kralie. During the summer of ‘96, when Brian was 18 years old and in his first year of university, he and his friend Tim joined a cast for a student film called Marble Hornets, filmed and directed by Kralie himself.

Brian would spend 7 long, torturous years falling into the hands of a deep, unshakable sickness from that point on. It started out with a boy blinded with innocence, such a hopeful view on the world, a future to strive towards. His memorable grin would soon fade as he fell victim to a series of gruesome and violent incidents between the unfortunate cast; the main perpetrator being an entity far beyond the groups comprehension. It strung Brian and his peers up and forced their bloody hands like a parasitic puppeteer.

At the end of those seven torturous years, Brian was left alone with a horribly bruised spine from a fall, two dead friends, and blood on his hands. Life would never be the same, and now he was nothing more but a conduit for the strange entities motives, if it had any to begin with. As far as anyone, including his father, was concerned, Brian Thomas was dead. And while he still walked the earth as nothing but a shell of a man, he certainly felt that way.

His optimism and boyish enthusiasm faded through years of torment and harsh lessons from unreality, to be replaced with a much colder, vengeful side. Brian would dance with criminals, tango with killers. He would put on a face, the Hooded Man, or Hoodie, to protect his real identity and possibly to make the cruel persona a bit more real. He did what needed to be done, and a good, friendly person he was no longer.

Brian Thomas continued his life holding the values of his father close to his nearly unbeating heart. And while now he was a monster by any definition, he stayed true to his word, and his handshakes were always firm. This is the life the man would make for himself, carrying the weight of the sickness and the underground on his sore back. This was all that was left after the war, if he ever had gotten out of it.

[kirain]

Have you played Road 96? If so how many of your teens made it? If not, you really should! It's a fantastic game!

I have and I absolutely loved it! Such an underrated game! I even made Picrew profiles that matched the silhouettes on the missing posters, so I could grow more attached to my characters as I played.

Five of my teens made it. Tripp paid to cross, River took the tunnels, Wanda hid in the trucks, Skye climbed the mountain peak, and Terra escaped during the revolution. Cruz unfortunately got arrested after Stan and Mitch f*cked me by stealing my car. It was honestly the worst luck, as it was the first area and there wasn't really anything I could do. I also started out with low energy and collapsed right when the next area loaded. A cop immediately picked me up. Godspeed, Cruz. I hope you escaped The Pits. I'm choosing to believe you did.

North sadly got shot and died helping Zoe cross the border, but that was more of a conscious sacrifice on my end. I knew it was going to happen, but I felt like it was more important to help Zoe escape, since she could potentially start a revolution that would help more teens in the long run. RIP, North. You died a hero.

I didn't know there were so many endings when I played, but I was pretty happy with what I got on my first playthrough. John, Fanny, and Alex escaped and lived a happy life, Jarod captured Robert and locked him in the trunk of his car (which was kind of funny, even though Jarod should also be locked up... probably in a mental institution), Florres was elected president, Tyrak was overthrown and tossed in jail, The Iron Pits closed down, and the wall was demolished. The only downside is Zoe got killed, and that stung, but she knew the risks. Vive la révolution!

[thegameoflovemindberries]

Top 100 Best Beatles Songs warning:this is my opinion and it may not coincide with yours and this is completely normal. So please don't get mad at this list.

(I decided that it would be fair to include in this list not only songs from albums but als songs from anthologies)

100) dig it

99) free as a bird

98) three cool cats

97)my Bonnie

96) across the universe

95)yes it is

94)Anna (go to him )

93) Your Majesty

92)a taste of honey

91)money (that's what I want)

90)thing we said today

89) when I get home

88)because

87) Mr moonlight

86) no reply

85)golden slumbers

84) boys

83)sea of time

82) hey bulldog

81)dear Prudence

80)wild honey pie

79)Martha my dear

78) pigges

77)if I needed someone

76)Michelle

75)you won't see me

74) blue jay way

73) blackbird

72) yesterday

71) one after 909

70) I'm the walrus

69) strawberry fields forever

68)dig a pony

67)everybody's trying to be me baby

66) I will

65) the word

64)yer blues

63)glass onion

62) back in the U.S.S.R

61) birthday

60)happiness is a warm gun

59)why don't we do it in the road?

58)I saw her standing there

57)love me do

56) please please me

55)it won't be long

54) you really got a hold on me

53)little child

52)if I feel

51 ) I'm so happy just to dance with you

50any time at all

49) baby in black

48)hello goodbye

47) the night before

46)nowhere man

45) I'm looking trough you

44)I'm only sleeping

43) here, there and everywhere

42)good day sunshine

41)doctor Robert

40)Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

39)getting better

38) fixing a hole

37) Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!

36) lovely Rita

35)only a northern song

34)yellow submarine

33) two of us

32)Maggie Mae

31)for your blue

30) she loves you

29) I want to hold your hand

28) now and then

27)maxvell's silver hammer

26)sun king

25)baby it's you

24)too much monkey business

23) young blood

22) to know her is to love her

21) I got a woman

20)get back

19) you're gonna lose that girl

18) misery

17) you're really got a hold on me

16) fool on the hill

15) good morning good morning

14) Eleanor Rigby

13) twist and shout

12)octopus's garden

11)the ballad of John and Yoko

10)oh! Darling

9) do you want to know a secret?

8)and your bird can sing

7)Lucy in the sky with diamonds

6)all you need is love

5) within you or without you

4)Norwegian wood

3) something

2) love you to

1) It's Only Love

[helloquotemyfoot]

Book Backlog Busting Reading Challenge!

Had a productive week this week and three books were finished!

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer. FINISHED. Really enjoyed this one. For some reason, the period descriptions here felt more vivid compared to the other books in the series. Great detail as always.

The Great Cities in History by John Julius Norwich (editor). FINISHED. This was a quick and easy read as each chapter about the cities was only 3-6 pages. That said I was a bit disappointed. The breadth was incredible but the depth shallow and there was no sense of "world history" in terms of linking anything together or analysis. Still, I will be combing through the bibliography for choice picks, and it introduced me to cities/cultures I knew nothing about before.

A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time #7). FINISHED. I can sense the series is starting to drag a bit here - it felt particularly egregious that the weather plotline resolution was put off for yet another book. I'm still enjoying the series though and especially the Rand/Min interactions in this book, which were adorable and actually felt like a normal relationship.

Upcoming books!

A History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott. Sticking to the world history and "rummaging through the bibliography for good finds" theme... I'm also trying to get through some of the shorter books on my list - this one is under 200 pages.

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson. I've read lots of Bryson's works and really enjoy his ability to convey his enthusiasm about learning new things and his sense of humour, so I'm sure I will enjoy this one too.

Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time #9). Not sure if I will get round to this one as I haven't gotten that far into Path of Daggers yet, but Path of Daggers is very short by WoT standards, there's a fairly good chance.

96 books remaining!

[danieesketches]

“I do believe there’s a role, a very big role, waiting for you in the Brigades.” … “Do you understand what I’m offering you?”

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

[jams-sims]

Okay I finished Road 96 Mile 0- An I have a couple of an issues with the way it's played. First off I hate rhythm games my depth perception is bad. So I kept running into shit and two the little mini games did not need to be in there. I felt like they needed to stick to either the roots of their first game or steal the pacing from the Life is Strange or at least the game play. I was so pissed by the end of it in lessin the impact of said ending.

I have problems with Kaito and Zoe. Zoe should have not left with the files in the "good ending". If you fight her as Kaito, because it would make no sense for Robert to spar Kaito family. Without those papers but i guess Robert isn't meant to have them either.

The dynamic is also complicated, Zoe is very much the privilege white girl who ends up getting her eyes opened by her POC friend. But Kaito does beytray her trust and because you the player are playing her. She of course would not snitch. It feels like with the whole situation the narrative is saying Zoe would snitch. Even though I feel like every interaction with her proved she was a good friend an ally.

As a POC myself I can't bring my self to hate Kaito but I am openly frustrated with him. He kept hammering away at the fact Zoe was his one and only friend. (An he did her so dirty.) An asked all the time "canI trust you" etc. It felt like because of the ending he never truly believed that. An imploded his relationship. I mean homie not even in the wrong. Zoe is a liability, she is the oil Miner daughter. So I'm just it leaves me wanting to eat my fist and scream.

Finally Mile 0 contradicts the first game, Zoe didn't have any files. She was given info which then lead to her changing her mind in the game. It was all conspiracy to her at first, but then she gets files that she then takes with her over the borader.

Also she told us the MC that her dad thinks she's on a hiking trip or something along those lines. Yeah nah, either she lied or something. (but I feel like the Father actually confirmed Zoe lie saying "ohmygod my daughter is off doing some traveling or something.")

Anyway first game amazing I loved it. Prequel will not a fan of it, but it adds character depth.

[ey3-5t1tch]

Work in Progress

Ghost of Tsushima: - TomoexOriginal Character: Tomoe has opened her luxurious guesthouse in Kyoto and makes sure the scented oils, rich lighting and opulent textiles of her rooms only lure the finest upper class clientele. Sooner or later someone truly precious will follow suit.

-JinxLord Shimura: It's been 5 years since the jitō has seen his nephew, and the memories haunt him just like the wind incessantly sweeps the hardened walls of his castle. An old menace resurfaces. Will they be able to reconcile?

The Sea Beast: - Sarah SharpexOriginal Character: Before the events of 'The Sea Beast.' From a shipwreck, The Inevitable rescues Dido. She chases a mirage of her own, as cold and unforgiving as the southern ice floes. But Sarah is so warm, she is like nobody Dido's ever met, and makes life worth living instead of running from. When Gwen Batterbie offers to make each and every one of Dido's dreams come true, will she accept her offer?

Hotel Del Luna: - Original Character & Grim Reaper: After attempting to take her own life, xx reaches the Blue Moon Hotel. Suspended between life and death, she has a chance to reflect on her past. Will she fall back in love with life?

Road 96: - Bob WintersxOriginal Character: Wanted Black Brigade leader Robert Winters has a pattern of recruiting young teens to do the dirty work. You're one of them. It's about time he got what's coming for him. (tw SA) Red Dead Redemption 2: -Original Character & Van Der Linde gang: Minnie observes the gang's downfall from within while seeking her own redemption.

-also working on what a possible RDR3 might look like CROSSOVERS: SKY Children of the Light x V miniseries (1983-1984) "They appeared not long after the invasion. It's said they are bringers of death, and they sure look like it. But it seems more like they're seeking shelter from the war, just like the rest of us. I wonder who they really are?" The aliens' appearance already ended decades of scientific and philosophical debate... These moth people, their existence, it wasn't so hard to accept after that. Still, people cower in fear at the whirr of laser beams and wings alike... -this was meant to be a comic but it's taking wayyy to long to draw!!

[globodamorte]

there is so much to be said about the real politics going on in road 96. as much as I love this game it feels so shallow now that I'm more educated. let's just replace the guy in charge and everything will be fixed. it kind of uses the horseshoe theory (which is absolute BS) to justify things? like. hmmm. idk. crazy shit. can u imagine btw I'm gripping your shoulders rn. can u imagine if road 96 was made w a Marxist Leninist lens. I'm gonna throw up.

I always found it so silly that when you get the revolution ending, it's still Florres that takes over??. like wtf? lmao . a literal revolution happened but the person who takes charge still needs to be one of two presidential candidates. lmao??

watching mile 0 confirmed this for me. kaitos ending for if he's "too much of a revolutionary" just sits bad w me. he trusts John. in the end what he is fighting for IS right. why should he have to think "this is a trap actually", when he doesn't know Robert or how shitty he is. like. idk. in the end "ahh too much revolution is actually bad!!! let's settle for whatever the fuck"

I guess in mile 0 the horseshoe theory really gets put in practice, as zoe is in one end of the "spectrum" and kaitos in the other. Zoe can either become enlightened or a fascist while kaito can either become enlightened or a... revolutionary? ok I guess

but I wonder what lies in the middle . you got

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zoe gets the light to chauvinism while kaito gets light to revolution. what lies in the light I wonder. is it perhaps. voting for the right person? as if that would fix anything? aiaiai...

Robert also seems to me like the kind of revolutionary that hasn't learned anything ever and is just coming up w shit. and maybe that reflects on the devs but ok.

for them to use a Mish mash monstrosity of "dictatorships" alluding to the DPRK and the USSR but also trump! !!!1 is... ignorant to say the least. like just spilling propaganda at this point while looking subversive and, even worse, combative.

the fact that I still love this game should be an indicator of how good it is. even though the politics of it are very uhhh. like that.

[youraveragedeltafan]

First book spoilers ahead! (please tell me there's prequel book fans, I can't stop thinking about it)

The first Road 96 prequel book is the most interesting thing in the tri-state area to me because of Robert, John, and the fact that it's kinda left up to interpretation whether or not Jarod was a good dad. There is a scenario in which he slaps Lola. Was it just that one instance or a pattern? (and a reason why Robert, a former teacher, could manipulate her into running away)

It's clear that Robert looks for vulnerable people to take advantage of, like Kaito's family and the Kims later on after they join. Notably, we know for almost a fact that both Naomi and Stephen were having second thoughts about the "plan" (I feel like ppl forget that the Brigades didn't cause the attack in '86 but they did try). It's clear that all the adults with Lola were self aware too, as they bring up their concerns about her being in danger at least once.

But here's the interesting part-it's not all Robert (In fact, he's said to have gone missing in dialogue, right before the attack too. How convenient). I know that it's said in the game that John used to be like him, but I think it's in a whole other lens reading it in the prequel. To me, it almost adds more to his guilt in the game when seeing him be kinda mean to Lola or manipulate Naomi and Stephen (who legit have a 5 year old with them) into going through with their mission despite everything.

Anyway, that's why the book is very funni and good and adds to the game. Read it if you haven't. Yes I'm talking to you random person who doesn't care about spoilers and read this because new post in the road 96 tag (Me. I am calling myself out)

Oh, also Stan and Mitch can potentially do the stupidest thing in the world, and they BOTH do it no matter who you side with so it PROVES that they share one braincell depending on who you're nice to. I know I like to write Stan as if he never has done a violence in his life, but he shoots his gun at the most random crap in the book and at the worst times. He is responsible for at least 2 game overs that I know of and it's funny every time

Side note: I really want to add the wacky misadventures Florres had in the book into the wiki but I am too distracted by other stuff atm and also are the books even canon??