#VR Ready

[gadgetsinfotec]

https://gadgetsinfo.tech/2023/04/13/lenovo-legion-7-gen-7-amd-ryzen/

[antiquechatterbox]

feeling funny after eating the big anchovy ⚠️⚠️

[kingkatsuki]

Anyway, while I was gone I was thinking of this stupid idea with Bakugou (as usual)

Imagine your eighteenth birthday is when you find out who you’re bonded to, and this bond is created via telepathy. A connection opens between two souls, and you’re able to communicate with each other no matter where in the world you are. A connection that only becomes stronger as your relationship with your soulmate grows.

But of course, connections can be broken. The same way those dreamlike fantasies of meeting your perfect soulmate don’t always work— especially when your soulmate is Bakugou Katsuki.

The first time you try to communicate with him, he brushes you off. Telling you to “piss off”, that he doesn’t “need a fuckin’ soulmate”. It’s a time in his life that arguably he needs that connection with someone more than ever. But the feelings of inadequacy and inferiority he holds inside are at an all time high as he pushes everyone away, including you. Shutting the door on any hope you had of ever having a connection with him, of finding your soulmate.

You try again a few times after, watching all your friends develop their love and even meet their soulmates. Hating the green-eyed monster that appears when you realise how bitter you actually are— to be paired with someone that has no interest in you. Cursed to be one of the ones without a soulmate, to try and find a love with another broken person like you.

The conversations are always the same— his irritation for your very existence no match for the conversations you try to start. Making it abundantly clear to you that you’re a distraction, that he doesn’t have time for a soulmate. And yet amongst his complaining that you’ve opened the link at a bad moment, or that he doesn’t need you— he always answers.

So over time you find yourself starting to give up, wondering why you’ve wasted so much time on a man that clearly doesn’t want you. The connection going quiet as neither of you try to open the link.

Radio silence.

And what makes it worse, is your friends who have perfect connections pity you. One of the lost souls without a soulmate— which is why you’re prepared to join a special program. A program that can realign your connection— to tie your soul to another.

It’s unorthodox, an extreme measure that has an endless list of side-effects. You could end up with the more undesirable members of society, who’s connections have been severed before, or the ones that abuse the system for their own benefit— and if the second connection doesn’t work out you’re unable to claim a third. But craving that special bond with someone, picturing the perfect smiles and pickett fences it’s more than worth the risks. So you plan to do it— to sever your connection with your soulmate, and find a new one.

Someone who will actually love you.

But it isn’t until one night that you hear something at the back of your mind, barely a murmur as you shoot up in bed. Squinting as you try desperately to focus on the sound— another whimper. But you can’t seem to make out much else, as you realise that it’s the same connection that you thought was completely shattered all those years ago.

“Hello?” You feel almost stupid calling out, wondering if he even realised that you could hear him again— that you were there.

“Long time no talk, hah sweetheart?” He scoffs, a choked cough spills from his lips after as he winces in pain.

“You sound like shit— is that why you reconnected our bond at four am?”

“Must’ve called the wrong number, sweetheart.” He sneers, but you can almost hear the humour in his tone.

“Well luckily for you I’m going to break our bond.” You bite back as you’re met with silence on the other end, “So you won’t have to make the same mistake again.”

“You can do that?” He whispers.

“Yeah, they can reconnect me with someone else.” You murmur.

“They won’t be as good as me.” He manages to get out before another cough wracks through his body.

“I wouldn’t know, would I?” You scrunch your nose in irritation, “But at least they’ll want me.”

“Who said I don’t want you?”

It’s not until a month later that you find out the real reason he reconnected the bond that night. That it was the night that his heart stopped beating as he almost lost his life, his body shutting down as the only thing he could think to do was to call out for you.

[zroem]

Sketch to finished VR drawing comparisons for the first two characters I did for @schnoodly’s commission! Here’s some process clips.

3D model | twitter | instagram

[dicks-o-clok]

"A mechanite cries." Fuck you, Austin. Just gonna rip our hearts out like that??? Fuckin step on em too, while you're at it. A mechanite isnt the only one crying. Fuck

[idlejet]

"Her bedroom is the saddest thing She dreams of places she's never been Under radium glow-in-the-dark stars Sticking to the ceiling"

[seven-stars-in-his-palm]

ok, mscm au pitch idea i won't ever write but is cool to me. i always wondered what happened to jesse in the worlds where they were "made useful" by pama with the headset on and now i'm thinking about how damaging being absorbed into a VR world that knows your every waking thought would be. so: au where the headset plan is not successful, but instead of making jesse "useful", pama traps them in a nightmare VR world while ivor and petra/lukas save crown mesa without their psudo leader.

here's what i'm thinking. 1: jesse is about to save harper, but is found out by pama. 2: pama realizes "well i can't get u from where you are and i can't make you useful without a chip, soooo i'm gonna lock ur body down until i find a way to get you out. yay!" and then locks jesse's consiousness from the outside. 3: jesse is now stuck in VR World while their body is just dead in the Real World. ivor and petra/lukas freaak the fuck out, but like, what can they do?? nothing!! all they can hope for is to keep jesse's body safe down there while they head up and face the Horrors. so they leave jesse in harper's bed, take the water buckets, and head out. they can only hope to save this world, or they're fuckedddd

so adventure ensues. they go out, but since its mostly canon compliant, what we'll focus on is jesse. i can't decide between a fucked up Time Loop (i love time loops, mmm) and have the horror be subtle or have each of their deepest fears just WHAMMED at them without pause. i feel like pama would do the former, since its just subtle enough to keep them busy and not make them realize the fakeness--time loops are weird enough. i guess it'd be something like...hmmmm. actually?? there could be a lot of possibilities. could be a world where killing the withee storm goes wrong, a dimension in the portal network killing them leaving beacontown to rot, SEEING beacontown be succumbed to monsters in jesse's absense, and such like. something just fake enough for them to believe there's something else going on that isn't VR (but just as terrifying).

and at some point, pama comes up with the brilliant plan to MINE up to the surface, because PAMA KNOWS WHERE THEY ARE. so they then pilot jesse's body to make it upside and join in just in time for the climatic battle at the redstone heart--a sort of added pizzaz. so ivor fights one and petra/lukas fights the other...and the whole time, jesse thinks it sjust another illusion in their VR World, so they fight HARD. and, ofc, no one can really beat jesse in a fight, its Plot Armor, so the person fighting them JUSTTT lives. like straight up almost gets fucking murdered.

so redstone heart is yanked out. petra/lukas is unchipped. but pama won't get away that easily, because guess what, the headset isn't a part of pama's whole network. they can hack into it, yes, but the programming is harper's. so then there's a Jesse (Not Really) vs Everyone Else fight lmaoo sorry i have to do it. its so very emotional to me. the solution will be simple ofc (knocking off the headset) but that's HARD since they have to get through JESSE to do that.

and in that minute or so fighting, the rest of the gang truly begin to see past the surface of totally confident and brave jesse. they're vulnerable, they're scared, and pama keeps flitting between full control and none since they're dying, but jesse keeps fighting anyway, bevause they think its fake. they seriously believe they're in a whole other situation than what they're really in, and like. that's pretty important. to finally see through the shell of your friend, your leader, reduced down to their very, very scared core. petra will finally understand why jesse feels the need to be the one call the shots. lukas will finally understand that jesse is not the perfect and epic hero that he found himself to believe, and will love them even more for it. ivor will finally understand that gabriel's predecessor is both just like and nothing like him, and damn it, he needs to stop holding that shit against them. and harper will learn that jesse needs to get the fuck home, because wow, they really are just a scared kid trying to get home. fucking hell im making mcsm angst someone save me

[mxkitchimera]

Rebelle 7 tiny test

ID: a digital painting that mimics a small gouache and colored pencil painting on dark paper. A seated figure with pink hair, cat ears, and tail is facing away from the viewer. Their body is covered in plain clothing: a green scarf, a blue jacket, and red-brown pants. The figure is sitting in sparse grass and rim lit in orange as though they are facing a campfire out of frame.

[ame0nis]

guys.,…. im cooking up a sideblog.,,.. sideblog for my gf’s hlvrai au.,,,,, its not done yet like. at all but trsut me im making it

[thepolterghast]

Wasn't the whole point of the movie to be, ya know, a huge fucking warning against this type of shit? Media literacy is so dead istg.

[girlboss-enthusiast]

Transhumanism sounds great until you think about the megacorporation formerly known as Alphabet-Meta-Apple-Amazon paywalling the memories you uploaded onto their servers, or repossessing your cybernetic eyes bc you couldn't afford the Shrimp Vision subscription anymore, or what might happen if you try to jailbreak/root your neural uplink and brick it instead. It's like these people read Neuromancer and didn't realize it was meant to be a dystopia.

[fizzytoo]

astarion leg push is on the dash again…..

[louisianimal]

Tehehehehehe

[dat2ndaccount97]

Ok so you know how we're slowly starting head into the Ready Player One Style VR Future but there's no Oasis style super game to go along with it. I'm starting to realize that Fortnite might end up being that game, which is insane think about.

[guillotineman]

Ready Player One

(2018, dir. Steven Spielberg)

[idlejet]

"Her bedroom is the saddest thing She dreams of places she's never been Under radium glow-in-the-dark stars Sticking to the ceiling"