#after destroying 1 video platform

[jaejoongs-nipple-piercing]

Just found out both Aura Kingdom and Aura Kingdom 2 were removed from the App Store and retired on STEAM. What the frick, I love those games. I’ve been trying to get the game to load for months in my phone and you just get rid of it?!?

Bring back Aura Kingdom

Bring back Aura Kingdom 2

BRING BACK SUPERSTAR PLEDIS!!!!

[weirdrtvscomments]

in case anyone is struggling with deciding who they want to vote for in the RTVStan/RTVS Nation/RTVSia/RTVS Topia/RTVS Topia-Ville presidential election, i have compiled a list:

Log

Representing the Ethernet Party: “A people with 5 ping to the main server is a people that prospers.”

Will change the name to RTVS Nation

Comic books are a part of the platform

Everybody gets a free moat

Eyes that are twice as big for everyone that wants them

Offload cost to Wifi users

Working on a battery charged snack

Hypnotist is a protected class

Robloxia war veteran

Defenses are proven

Will take your ants and import more

Endorsed by: Soulja Boy, Ken Masters, Stitch 

Signature move when President: Snake Trick (no weaknesses)

Punishment for other candidates: Follow him out & about like an RPG party

Mike

Representing the Sweets & Treats Party: “I was just outside eating a sandwich.”

Orange creamsicles will be available in every store

Free Steam Deck for every American citizen

Will lower tariffs and imports on all types of sweets and treats from Canada, while raising tariffs on everything else

Most important snack is Wasabi Peas

Not very good against zoners

Why are ants so bad?

Endorsed by: 2 (anonymous), Trap Snax

Signature gimmick when President: Whenever he eats a yummy piece of candy he gets an install, which gets its own theme

Special move when President: A cool punch like Marissa from Street Fighter 6

Punishment for other candidates: Have to reach into a bin of Bean Boozled that's 90% gross ones and eat it in public in front of cameras and the press. After, push into the alligator moat. Also, Mira’s idea

Mira

Representing the Drinks & Eats party: “I was rooting around in a dumpster out back.”

Will change the name to RTVSia

One of every food and drink, free of charge

Will develop a chemical compound called “Ketracel White,” will genetically engineer ants to be dependent on it 

Endorsed by: IceFrog, Yoshi, Yoshi (from Mario), baby Yoshi (might be one and the same), Chun Lee

Signature move(s) when President: Level up system (up to 3), if she gets knocked down she loses a charge of it, gets it when she does some power up move (or something), negative edge inputs (landmine, fireball, that one thing Bison does in Street Fighter 5), install where she gets a command grab, 8-way air dash, guard impact, levels reset between rounds, invincible super (can do it on wakeup)

Punishment for other candidates: Detractors rounded up and taken into woods where they are given a knife, camera, and laptop to make a Youtube channel of them living in the woods (Ethernet in the trees)

Trog

Representing the People’s Choice Freedom Integrity Liberty Justice Prosperity Sovereign Citizen’s Ethical Governance Democratic Renewal Global Sustainability Citizens for Unity (may be part of the Lego Star Wars Party): “We’re all part of God’s nation in my eyes.”

All breakfast restaurants have to be open for lunch & dinner in addition to breakfast

THEY HAVE TO GIVE YOU A LARGE WATER WHEN YOU ASK FOR IT

Desegregate PornHub and GayTube

Everybody gets a free castle

Immediately cease all snack exports 

Will start war with Canada

Will mail a bomb if you want him to

Will double your ants and give them to the next guy OR will turn them all into 1 big ant

New category on PornHub for ants

Will build death robots and a spaceship

Will be inventing gorgons, griffins, vampires, Frankenstiens, zombies, mummies, insects, gorgon ants (small)

Endorsed by: The Sims, Captain Video, Half Life 2: Lost Coast (demo), Tobuscus

Super move when President: 1 Sphinx on every tile surrounding, +1 food, +1 culture (if next to a river, +2 food, +2 culture instead)

Theme song: Steppin’ Out by Joe Jackson

Punishment for other candidates: All other candidates have to do an embarrassing pose and gaze into Medusa’s eyes, which will turn them into stone. The statues will be put in front of the White House, where during a nation-wide celebration they will be knocked down with a wrecking ball/individually destroyed with dirty bombs

Wayneradiotv/Wayne John 

Representing the California Milk Processors Board: “Enjoy DOGh.”

Every gallon of milk will have $2,000 in it

Free PornHub premium

Any dairy product you want whenever you want it

Will attract more ants

Will rename it to Milk Nation

Pig milk Iron Fist

Endorsed by: Britney Spears, Beyonce, Rhianna, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Shaquille O’Neal, Harrison Ford (all branded with Permanent Milk Mustache & committed their eternal lives), Batman, Mario, Spongebob

Signature move when President: Cow army that walks on their hind legs and shoot milk as projectiles

Punishment for other candidates: Mulched into feed for his cows

Things you need to rememer for the ONLY ELECTION THAT MATTERS!!!!

[misfitwashere]

How Trump seeks to destroy the four major pillars of resistance

But we lose only if we stop fighting

ROBERT REICH

JAN 10

Friends,

Trump and his MAGA allies are already targeting the four major pillars of resistance to Trump during his first term. 

As we prepare for Trump’s second regime — which promises to be far worse than the first — it’s important to do what we can to protect and fortify these four centers of opposition. 

1. Universities

University faculties are dedicated to finding and exposing the truth — which has often meant calling out Trump’s lies. But Trump has warned that he’ll change the criteria for university accrediting in order to force university faculties into line.

In a campaign video, he said, “Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system … When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs.”

Authorized by the federal government, these accreditors are essential to college operations. If a college isn’t accredited, it can’t get federal funds.

Trump’s Project 2025 calls for replacing the current system of independent, nonpartisan accreditors with more politically pliable state accreditors. This would have disastrous effects. 

Many of the worst educational gag orders at the state level, along with DEI bans and faculty tenure bans, have been voted down or toned down because state legislators realized they were putting their schools’ accreditation status in jeopardy. If Project 2025’s recommendations are adopted, that guardrail disappears.

Trump has also threatened to increase taxes on university endowments. 

Republicans in Congress believe they were instrumental in getting the presidents of Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard to resign over their alleged failures to stop protests against Israel’s bloodbath in Gaza. Some are eager to resume their attacks on major universities.

2. Nonprofits

America’s nonprofits have been at the forefront of efforts to protect the environment, voting rights, and immigrants’ rights. Trump and his allies are seeking to stop nonprofit activism. 

The Republican House has already passed a bill that would empower the Treasury to eliminate the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems to be supporting terrorism. An identical or similar bill could come across Trump’s desk after being reintroduced in the next Congress.

The legislation doesn’t distinguish between foreign and domestic terrorism — whether real or imagined — thereby making it easier for Trump’s authorities to intimidate nonprofit personnel and donors.

We’ve already seen something like this at the state level. In Texas, state authorities have attempted to shut down charities that assist immigrants. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has launched a probe of nonprofits, including the God Is Good Foundation, that have allegedly conspired to bring noncitizens to the state.

3. The media

I’ve been a critic of the mainstream media’s tendency to give “both sides” credence even when one side is clearly in the wrong and to “sanewash” some of Trump’s and his enablers’ rants. 

But journalists are an important bulwark against tyranny — which is why Trump and his allies are seeking to intimidate news outlets that have criticized or questioned Trump.

The flurry of defamation lawsuits — such as Trump launched against ABC (and ABC caved to) and the Des Moines Register — is the latest sign. Trump and his allies have also discussed revoking networks’ broadcast licenses and eliminating funding for public radio and television.

Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, has threatened to “take on the most powerful enemy that the United States has ever seen, and no it’s not Washington, D.C., it’s the mainstream media and these people out there in the fake news. That is our mission!” 

Already social media platforms such as Musk’s X and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram have caved to Trump, allowing vicious authoritarian lies to be magnified unimpeded. 

4. Organized labor

In the 1950s and 1960s, labor unions were viewed as a source of countervailing power because of their activism on behalf of the working class and their significant political clout.

In those days, a third of workers in the private sector were union members. But today, only 6 percent of private-sector workers are union members, and it’s far from clear that organized labor will be an active source of resistance to Trump. (If government workers are included, the percentage of American workers who are members of unions is around 10 percent.)

Trump has warned organized labor that he will oppose their efforts to organize. The president of the Teamsters Union even appeared at the National Republican Convention in support of Trump.

***

Each of these centers of resistance to Trump has been a powerful source of truth-telling in America. It’s no surprise that all have been targeted by Trump and his allies. 

We need to be vigilant and do what we can to protect and fortify them. Remember: We lose only if we stop fighting.

[theburialofstrawberries]

"In the past, whenever the movies in Hollywood went stale and executives exerted too much control over artists, the industry had an important hand brake: the audience. If a movie bombed with audiences and box office numbers plummeted, then studios would have to change course. After all, the box office has always been viewed as the gold standard of metrics in Hollywood for a reason: it’s the most distilled and straightforward measurement of audience interest. Moviegoers must choose to buy tickets. They cannot skip around, fast-forward, or order groceries through the Prime app on their phone. No moviegoer enters a theater expecting to leave after two minutes. Until Netflix, one of cinema’s essential qualities, the thing that distinguished it from television, was the way it commanded an audience’s attention. Whether a movie grossed big numbers or bombed, a box office report carried an inadmissible truth: the vast majority of the audience experienced the movie in full, and its taste couldn’t be ignored.

How to predict the audience’s taste — what will make money and what won’t — is a question that’s plagued Hollywood since its inception. The problem was captured by the screenwriter William Goldman in 1983. “Nobody knows anything,” he wrote in his book Adventures in the Screen Trade. “Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work.” Netflix’s greatest innovation was that it found a way around this uncertainty: it provided a platform on which there are no failures, where everything works.

This is an important milestone for the largest Hollywood studios as they all set their sights on integrating artificial intelligence into their productions. In March, news outlets reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had held meetings with top studios to showcase his company’s text-to-video generator, Sora. Clips generated by Sora that circulated online alternated between drone shots of cityscapes that look ripped from video-game cut scenes and animals rendered in the 3D animated style common to Hollywood productions today. Streaming platforms are the only place where this garbage makes any sense — a place where it would never be watched at all.

But by insulating their films from failure, the streamers have destroyed the meaning of success. Thierry Frémaux, head of the Cannes Film Festival and a vocal critic of streamers, understood this well when he presented the dilemma at a Cannes press conference in 2021. “What directors have been discovered by [streaming] platforms?” he asked. It wasn’t a rhetorical question. Frémaux began calling on journalists to name an auteur whose career had been launched by a streamer. By this point, Netflix had released more than seven hundred films in the US alone, with hundreds of directors attached. Yet as the Guardian later reported of the scene, “nobody could name any at all, in fact.”

Here, streaming platforms have achieved a strange paradox. Never has a group of studios gained so much control over the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of movies by making movies no one cares about or remembers. Having not only failed to discover a new generation of auteurs, the streamers have also ensured that their filmmakers are little more than precarious content creators, ineligible to share the profits of any hit. It’s a shift that has induced a profound sense of confusion."

Casual Viewing by Will Tavlin, for n+1 mag

[attheexactlyrighttimeandplace]

For the people who still think the colony of Israel has a right to defend itself:

They're not defending anything, they're just having fun killing:

Update 1 (17/10/2023) for the confused and sceptics :

Update 2 (10/22/2023): To add some context to this post following Reuters (direct link to article) attempt to verify the reality of the IDF Facebook post.

In fact, Reuters failed to verify anything: as the agency admitted in its article, its journalist "could not find the impostor's Facebook account or the publication on the platform social network".

They then contacted "a spokesperson for the IDF", who told them that " the Facebook post was not shared by one of its official accounts. He added there was only one official IDF Facebook page in Arabic that carries a verification tick "

A Reuters reporter also contacted"a representative for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, told Reuters the page was removed".

In this total absence of material evidence, and relying solely on the statements of these two sources which are the least reliable when it comes to commenting and sharing information and facts about the war against the Palestinians (the Israeli army is party to the conflict therefore It is biased and will protect its agents and soldiers- and Facebook has a history of censoring Palestinian content that could be used to document violence and help legally qualify zionist crimes).

Reuters came to this hasty conclusion:

Their main arguments are that

The Israeli occupation army never admitted to bombing the hospital and blamed Islamic Jihad, so it had no reason to celebrate.

Reuters journalists conveniently ignore the timeline. The IDF message welcoming the bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza was published immediately after the attack, while the controversy over the perpetrators of the attack began a few hours after its deletion.

Until the controversy, no one wondered who was behind the attack. The zionist army has always publicly assumed its crimes: it even ordered (according to the clerics who were in charge of the administration of the hospital) on several occasions the hospital to evacuate, knowing perfectly well that it was impossible. It was only when outrage became widespread that western media, including Reuters, began to question the origins of the strike. There's a post on Tumblr that pulls together the subtle changes in headlines to make it seem like Israel never took credit for the attack (even though it destroyed different 2 floors of the hospital a few days before the biggest attack).

There are other videos on Mohammed El Kurd's Twitter account showing the zionist army celebrating its strikes. There are videos on social media of zionist soldiers humiliating prisoners in their custody, so gloating on social media is not a new practice for them.

There is no reason why they should not celebrate what they consider a victory: their ministers have already publicly and clearly stated that civilians who do not leave northern Gaza, whatever their reasons, will be assimilated to Hamas fighters. So everything is consistent; in their minds, hitting innocent and defenseless civilians is legitimate and they are happy about it.

On its Twitter account, the Israeli military removed a video that purported to prove that Islamic Jihad carried out the attack, but ultimately did not prove its claims. So they also have a habit of deleting their own content when they realize that it exposes them more than it helps them.

Other journalists (Al Jazeera uses its own images: it is the only media that remained in Gaza and they filmed all the attacks, information from Channel 4) and independent experts on weapons of war and geolocation worked on the question of identifying the perpetrators of the bombing of the hospital. So far, their preliminary conclusion is that the Israeli military's claims do not match the facts and material evidence on the ground.

Full details of this debate are on the X/Twitter accounts of Lowkey and Mohammed El-Kurd (look for posts made on October 17).

2. I don't really know how Facebook/Meta works: I never had an account on it (I mean I never used it properly: I opened an account years ago, exclusively to follow the activity of a group that I was part of in life but closed it after a few weeks without interacting beyond a few likes), but on Twitter you can hide the checkmark.

Even if the checkmark cannot be hidden, there is nothing in the Reuters "report" to indicate that the Zionist army does not maintain multiple accounts - some with checkmarks and some without - and does not delete accounts that are not officials when it does not suit their interests.

They have a history of spreading fake news: from rumors about 40 beheaded babies, to accusing Palestinians of bombing themselves, to creating fake documents to accuse Hamas of planning attacks on primary schools while manipulating parents by buying YT ads shown during videos aimed at children to improve their image damaged by their violence with families, and to justify the harm they do to the children of Gaza.

I'm only making this long argument because Lowkey and Mohammed El-Kurd deleted the tweets I reposted and I think they shouldn't have done so. I understand why: it actually seems like an insignificant speck in an ocean of real crimes, but I personally consider it symbolic and indicative of the true and greater zionist project: genocide.

Genocide in international law is based on proof of intent to destroy a group, and the zionist army's mocking Facebook post establishes beyond doubt that nothing is accidental on the zionist side, everything is premeditated and based on their superiority complex over the Palestinian people.

[darkmaga-returns]

Trump throws his weight behind new generation of mRNA gene-therapy injections, for cancer and other diseases by Leo Hohmann. this is the 3rd in a trilogy by Hohmann on this topic (go to his Substack to see the other 2 articles) - mRNA is dangerous and I don’t care who is creating it and I am not especially fond of AI creating an mRNA vaccine for cancer. Dr. Malone who created the mRNA platform has said that mRNA is not safe for humans. Sam Altman and OpenAI. Tucker Carlson did an interview with an immigrant from India regarding the murder of her son. Carlson was blown away by the evidence that this mother that proved her son was murdered. But they classified it as a suicide even though the crime scene clearly indicated a murder took place. Her protege’ son worked for OpenAI and after discovering that OpenAI was unlawfully stealing data from Americans he became a whistleblower. He worked for Sam Altman. I shared that interview on 1/18. I highly recommend watching that interview. And now Trump is working with Sam Altman?? STARGATE also sound a lot like Elon Musk’s STARLINK. Trump is again surrounding himself with the wrong people. One thing that alarms me is they have no proof AI can do what they say it can do. And it can and will be used for bad things as well. Altman, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates and more. ARTICLE/VIDEO (46 min. you only need to watch the first 12 min. I watched it all) In the video Trump introduces Sam Altman and Larry Ellison who talks about digital medical records……he says doctors will be able to better diagnose patients…..no sir AI is meant to replace the human doctor…..and then Sam Altman (this is one evil dude folks) states how they will cure cancer with a vaccine that in my opinion might kill the cancer but what other harms will it do to the body as we have experienced with the COVID jab…..we are not totally ignorant…..they are going to reduce us to digital slaves.

Here is Larry Ellison clearly saying we are all going to be tracked at all times to insure good behavior. What more is to be said? This is EXACTLY what they do to citizens in China and then destroy them if they step out of line. VIDEO

And here is a different perspective on this new partnership with Trump and the technocrats.

Capturing the Billionaire Nerds & Their A.I. - while the deal is still unnerving lets hope the philosophy of “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” is what is happening here. ARTICLE

What executive orders did Trump sign on day one? - On a more positive note here is a list of EO’s that President Trump signed on January 20, 2025 - ARTICLE

Whoopee! A WSJ exclusive says that Trump is about to stop federally funded GOF research - this should not be temporary. It must be made permanent and I disagree that H5N1 should be exempt because it has been weaponized through gain of function. ARTICLE

'They moved me here for no apparent reason': Pardoned Jan. 6 prisoners stranded with no ID, penniless - ARTICLE

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Judd Legum and Noel Sims at Popular Information:

On Tuesday morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to how the company will handle content moderation across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Each aspect of Zuckerberg's announcement appeared designed to ingratiate the company with President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA base.

For example, Zuckerberg said that Meta would "move its Trust and Safety and Content Moderation teams out of California and our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas." According to Zuckerberg, "as we work to promote free expression, I think it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams." The only people who believe that people in California are inherently more biased than people in Texas are right-wing partisans. The reality is that there are millions of conservative people in California and millions of liberal people in Texas. And content moderators are only enforcing policies created by Zuckerberg and his executive team. But moving part of Meta to Texas allows Zuckerberg to follow the lead of Elon Musk, who has relocated the headquarters of Tesla and X to Texas.

The idea, advanced by Zuckerberg in his announcement, that Texas is a bastion of free speech is also a myth. Last month, for example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) "threatened to pull funding from Texas Children’s Hospital" because a doctor in Houston posted a viral TikTok video advising patients that they do not have to answer questions about their citizenship status. After Abbott's threats, the video was taken down. In 2021, Texas enacted a law censoring how teachers can discuss race and gender in the classroom. Since 2017, Texas has had a law requiring most companies doing business with the state to sign a statement about their views on Israel. Zuckerberg's announcement on Tuesday followed a series of other moves calculated to curry favor with Trump. Meta has donated $1 million to Trump's second inauguration celebration. Zuckerberg promoted Joel Kaplan, a Republican operative and close associate of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, as the Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer. (Kaplan appeared on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning to promote Meta's content moderation changes.) And on Monday, Zuckerberg announced that Dana White, the CEO of UFC and close friend of Trump, would join Meta's board of directors.

[...]

Fact-checking Zuckerberg's claims about fact-checkers

Zuckerberg also announced that Meta will "get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the US." He justified this move by attacking the professional journalists that Meta has partnered with since 2016. Zuckerberg said that "fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S." Zuckerberg did not provide any examples or evidence to support his claim. Lead Stories, Facebook's most prolific fact-checking partner, said Tuesday that in "all the years we have been part of the partnership, we… never received any complaints from Meta about any political bias, so we were quite surprised by this statement." But Zuckerberg's new position is likely to please Trump, whose 2024 campaign "waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice." Trump's pick to chair the FCC, Brendan Carr, sent a letter to Meta and other tech companies in November accusing them of participating in a "censorship cartel" by using fact-checkers.

Meta's fact-checking program was designed by the company, not journalists. It was intended to insulate the company from responsibility for misinformation that spread on the platform. As part of Meta's program, it partnered with and provided financial support to certain fact-checkers certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Meta chose when and how to use these fact checks across its platforms.

Over the years, Meta took a number of steps that made its fact-checking program ineffective. For example, it��banned all fact-checks of politicians. And, as Popular Information reported, Meta pressured the IFCN to certify low-quality right-wing websites, including the Daily Caller, as fact-checkers. The Daily Caller then used its position to downrank factually accurate articles that cast Trump in a negative light. Meta also used fact-checks produced by journalists to "inform their automated systems, sometimes leading to erroneous application of labels that fact-checkers were unfairly blamed for."

[...]

A green light for hate speech

Zuckerberg also announced that Meta would "get rid of a bunch of content restrictions on immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse." The previous restrictions on immigration and gender content on Meta platforms involved hate speech. The new rules permit users to “call for exclusion or use insulting language in the context of discussing political or religious topics, such as when discussing transgender rights, immigration, or homosexuality.” Specifically, it is now permissible to describe people as feces or filth based on their immigration status or gender identity. Meta also now allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent moves to end fact-checking and allow hate speech on Meta platform is a sickening caving into the right’s war on content moderation standards in the name of “protecting free speech”.

See Also:

The New Republic: Which Party Benefits From Zuckerberg’s Move? The One That Lies a Lot.

[mister-faltine]

DBD X Something Is Killing The Children: My Dream Chapter.

Warning: The arts on this blog belong to their respective creators, such as Werther Dell'Edera and Miquel Muerto.

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• What is "Something Is Killing The Children (SIKTC)"?

"Something Is Killing The Children" is a comic book series written by James Tynion IV and illustrated by Werther Dell’Edera, published by BOOM! Studios. The series follows the story of Erica Slaughter, a member of an order of monster hunters who specializes in killing supernatural creatures that prey on children.

• What Is "Dead By Daylight (DBD)"?

Dead by Daylight is a 4v1 asymmetric Action Survival Horror Game developed by the Canadian Indie Video Game Developer Behaviour Interactive and available on multiple platforms after its initial release to PC through Steam on 14 June 2016.

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• New Killer - The Cutter.

Charlotte Cutter was born in England and trained since childhood by the "House Of Cutter". During her various missions, she has always shown herself to be a professional assassin and still manage to ensure that no loose ends are left alive, including children. However, despite her profession being focused on killing monsters, she was sent to America to hunt down and kill Erica Slaughter, a fugitive hunter from the "House Of Slaughter". Fortunately, when Erica and Charlotte were about to kill each other, a mysterious fog appeared out of nowhere and they both woke up in a completely different place. Charlotte smiled and knew that her fun with Erica would never end.

• Killer Power - Black Mask:

When you press your ability button, you enter Cutter's "Black Mask" mode. While in this mode, you are Undetectable and walk a little crouched, but nothing that compromises your movement speed. The noise from certain actions is also reduced, you break generators, pallets and breakable walls more silently. While in Black Mask mode, you can see Survivors' footsteps up to 10 meters behind walls and have the ability to enter closets to surprise your victims. However, Black Mask mode has a duration and cooldown of 30 seconds. If you enter a closet, your ability duration remains frozen until you exit the closet. If you are stunned, blinded, or use a basic attack in Black Mask mode, your ability is canceled and goes on cooldown.

》"Undetectable" hides the Killer's Aura, Terror Radius and Red Stain.

• Special Attack - Cutter's Whip.

When you click the special attack button, Cutter uses her whip to grab Survivors within 5 meters of her. If you hit a Survivor with the whip, they will be pulled towards you and you can use a basic attack on them. However, if the Survivors are on the other side of a pallet, Cutter can jump/climb the obstacle and perform a basic attack. There will be a visual sound for the Survivors when Cutter uses her whip and the Survivors have a chance to dodge the attack. Cutter can use the whip when Black Mask mode is on or off.

• Cutter's Perks:

1 - HEX: MONSTROUS RAGE:

You hate it when people steal what's yours.

When the first generator is completed, Hex: Monstrous Rage activates and transforms a Dull Totem into a Hex Totem.

When Hex: Monstrous Rage is active, you gain a 50% speed bonus when jumping windows, kicking generators, breaking pallets and breakable walls until the Hex Totem is destroyed or blessed.

2 - SCOURGE HOOK: CHILDREN'S SCREAM.

You're good at your job, but you have fun doing other things.

At the start of the match, 4 Hooks become Scourge Hooks and are revealed with a white aura.

When you hook a Survivor into a Scourge Hook, all Survivors outside your Terror Radius scream, revealing their positions for 5 seconds. Survivors who scream suffer from Blindness and Oblivious status effects for 30 seconds.

》"Blindness" prevents Survivors from seeing auras.

》"Oblivious" prevents Survivors from hearing or being affected by the Killer's Terror Radius.

3 - INVISIBLE MASSACRE.

You caused death and misery in several cities, but you always managed to keep everyone unaware of your actions.

When a generator is completed you earn 2 tokens up to a maximum of 5.

When you click on this Perk's special button, you consume 1 token and gain Undetectable for 25 seconds.

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• New Survivor - Erica Slaughter:

Erica was born in the United States and her childhood was normal, but that changed when a monster was created inside the house and killed Erica's parents, including one of her best friends. However, she survived and was later found by a hunter from the "House Of Slaughter", Jessica Slaughter. Since then, she was raised and trained by Jessica, until Erica gained her "Black Mask" title and became a huntress. Unfortunately, a lot of things happened, and Erica is now running away from her own House and being chased by Charlotte Cutter in Mexico. Well, that is until a fog brought Erica and Cutter to a new location. Erica Slaughter is no longer in familiar territory.

• Erica's Perks:

1 - TREPANATION.

You see things that other adults can't, all thanks to the House Of Slaughter rituals.

When you repair 30% of a generator, the perk will be ready to be used. Click on the special perk button to activate it.

When Trepanation is active, you can see the Killer's footsteps up to 24 meters away from you, even when the Killer is Undetectable. Trepanation has a duration of 60 seconds.

2 - SLAUGHTER SURVIVAL.

You have been trained to survive several different encounters.

When you fully heal a Survivor, this ability activates. You will be able to heal yourself without the need for a med kit and the healing speed will be the same as when you healed the other Survivor.

If your healing is completed or interrupted, the perk is disabled until you heal another Survivor to use again.

3 - LOCAL EQUIPMENT.

You use any type of tool to defeat your targets.

You see the auras of chests 32 meters away from you. You open chests 50% faster.

When the Killer is within 8 meters of an open chest, his aura is revealed to you for 3 seconds.

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• Extra Information:

1 - Charlotte Cutter's Short Bio:

Name: Charlotte Cutter.

Gender: Female.

Origin: British.

Weapon (M1): Dagger.

Movement Speed: 115% | 4.6 m/s.

Terror Radius: 24 Meters.

Height: Average.

2 - Skins for Erica:

<> Jessica Slaughter.

<> Cecília Slaughter.

<> Aaron Slaughter.

<> Maxine Slaughter.

3 - Cutter Add-ons:

Tea-Cup (Brown) - Survivors caught in Cutter's whip suffer the Blindness status effect for 60 seconds.

Heel Boot (Brown) - Cutter's movement speed increases by 3% in Black Mask mode.

Hunting Gloves (Brown) - Reduces Black Mask mode cooldown by 5 seconds.

Needle for Dolls (Brown) - Landing a basic attack on a Survivor while Black Mask mode is charging reduces the cooldown by 3 seconds.

Fake Interpol Badge (Yellow) - Increases the duration of Black Mask mode by 5 seconds.

Sunglasses (Yellow) - You cannot be blinded by flashlights or flashbangs while Black Mask mode is active.

Charlotte's Bag (Yellow) - While carrying a Survivor, Black Mask mode's cooldown is 10% faster.

Needles for Children (Yellow) - Landing a basic attack on a Survivor while Black Mask mode is charging reduces the cooldown by 5 seconds.

Albie's Information (Yellow) - Your detection of Survivor footsteps in Black Mask mode increases by 6 meters.

Big Gary's Cell Phone (Green) - When you are stunned by any means while Black Mask mode is active or on cooldown, the ability is instantly recharged.

Bag of Gummy Worms (Green) - When you hit a Survivor with the whip or a basic attack in Black Mask mode, the auras of Survivors within 10 meters of you are revealed for 5 seconds.

Big Gary's Computer (Green) - Survivors who were caught by the whip and then injured by a basic attack suffer the Broken status effect for 30 seconds.

Mirrors for Duplicitype (Green) - When you hit a Survivor with the whip or a basic attack in Black Mask mode, your recovery time from successful attacks is reduced by 15%.

Bill's Coffee (Green) - Increases the duration of Black Mask mode by 10 seconds.

Sheriff Thomas' Gun (Purple) - Survivors who were caught by the whip and then suffered a basic attack drop their items on the ground. If the item is recovered, the Survivor screams and suffers the Oblivious status effects for 30 seconds. The item also loses 25% of its charges.

Charlotte's Bandana (Purple) - When you enter Black Mask mode, you can no longer see Survivors' footsteps, but you can see their auras through the same detection range until the ability ends or is interrupted.

Poisoned Arrow (Purple) - Survivors who were caught by the whip and then injured by a basic attack suffer the Mangled and Hemorrhage status effect for 90 seconds.

Cutter's Dagger (Purple) - When you catch a Survivor with the whip and perform a successful basic attack, you gain 1 token, up to a maximum of 15. If you manage to reach 15 tokens by the time the exit gates are powered up, Cutter will be Undetectable for the rest of the match and your movement speed increases by 5%.

Iridescent Whip (Pinky-Red) - Survivors who are captured by the whip suffer the Exposed status effect. However, Cutter can no longer jump over pallets if she catches a Survivor from the other side with her whip. The Survivor will not be injured when Cutter releases him.

Dolly the Doll (Pinky-Red) - You are not Undetectable during Black Mask mode. However, the ability will not be interrupted if you are stunned, blinded, or land a basic attack. During Black Mask mode, you gain a 50% speed bonus when jumping windows, breaking pallets, destroying breakable walls, kicking generators, grabbing Survivors, and opening lockers until the ability ends.

》"Broken" prevents Survivors from being able to heal from injured to healthy.

》"Mangled" causes Survivors to heal 25% slower.

》"Hemorrhage" causes Survivors' healing to regress if there is no active healing.

》"Exposed" causes Survivors to drop from healthy state to dying state with a basic attack.

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We have reached the end of this "small concept" that I have for DBD and SIKTC. I hope you enjoyed it and read until the end (if you can). If you want, you can comment your opinions on the concept. Comment if you would do something different too.

Fin...

[warframestuff]

Gargoyle's Cry 35.0.3

Tenno: The following Operation is designed for players who have finished the “Whispers in the Walls” quest. Review at your discretion!********

OPERATION: Gargoyle’s Cry

“Your attention, please.

The Murmur threat demands immediate action. Our first order of business must be surveillance. An early detection system lest we be caught sans trousers.

You would agree that a Vigile Jahu Gargoyle installed within each Tenno Dojo is the obvious solution. Not a whisper could be uttered in the system without the connected Dojos overhearing it first.

Your compliance is appreciated. The Vigile Jahu Gargoyle awaits you within your Dojo - simply place it as a Decoration. The enemy does not hesitate. We must do no less.” - Fibonacci

The Murmur encroaches on our systems, Tenno. The Whispers beyond the Wall are a new threat; we must ensure they stay confined to Albrecht’s Laboratory.

Operation: Gargoyle’s Cry is a limited-time event launching today,December 18 at 2 p.m. ET and ending on January 15, 2 p.m. ET across all platforms.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The Murmur continues to scrape deeper into our realm of existence. Having devised a solution to detect such whispers, Fibonacci won’t allow such trespassing to threaten our system.

This Operation relies on Tenno across the Origin System to construct an invisible ‘living defense’ against the growing Murmur threat.

To join this living defense, or ‘Murmur Telemetry Chorus,’ you must hunt down the power source that’ll continuously power your Vigile Jahu Gargoyle. Fight against the ominous Murmur to earn new and returning rewards from previous Operations.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

Operation: Gargoyle’s Cry is no small task. Only those who have finished the “Whispers in the Wall” Quest can join and complete the event and the associated Mission. This event is for players on-content.

After finishing the “Whispers in the Wall” Quest, Tenno will find a Vigile Jahu Gargoyle decoration to place within their Dojo. This will require a member of your Clan to be capable of placing down decorations, which players will then build via resources gathered from Albrecht’s Laboratories. Once all the resources are contributed, the Gargoyle only takes 60 seconds to build.

Tenno must then complete the Effervo Mission on Deimos to collect Cursed Murmur Energy to activate the Gargoyle. You’ll acquire this energy by defeating one of the Fragmented Trio, with the whole squad earning one of three curses:

Curse of Knowing from The Fragmented Suzerain,

Curse of Seeing from The Fragmented Anchorite,

Curse of Hearing from The Fragmented Zelator.

You’ll acquire only a singular amount of one type of Curse on Normal Path but double of one Curse on Steel Path. Curse acquisition is unaffected by Resource Boosters.

The Murmur is not the only threat, however. Void Angels have breached the in-between of the Laboratories and The Indifference, desiring to consume the Cursed energy. If you do not kill the Angel lurking around, it will consume the Curse dropped by the Assassination Target, leaving you Curseless.

Return to your Dojo afterwards to lift your curse by feeding it to the Gargoyle. Spend time with your new decoration, as the Gargoyle is also a vendor, allowing you to purchase new and returning Operation items while netting progress towards the community reward.

Seek and destroy, Tenno. Uphold the living defense.

(VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF EVENT)

OPERATION REWARDS

When you defeat one of the Fragmented Trio, you’ll acquire the event currency: Grotesque Splinters. 1-3 Grotesque Splinters are earned on normal difficulty and 3-5 on Steel Path.

Fibonacci beckons your safe return to your Vigile Jahu Gargoyle to spend your yield of Grotesque Splinters. You’ll acquire rewards like new Entrati Sigils, a Color Palette and returning rewards from events like Operation: Scarlet Spear.

New Cosmetics

Fibonacci Sigil

Fibonacci Sketch Glyph

Tagfer Sigil

Tagfer Sketch Glyph

Bird 3 Sigil

Bird 3 Sketch Glyph

Gargoyle’s Cry Emblem

New Color Palette: Cavia

Krios Signa

Returning Cosmetics

Gilded Clan Sigil

Glyphed Clan Sigil

Phased Clan Sigil

Prominence Wisp Totem

Fluctus Rahk Skin

The Ballroom Simulacrum

Weapons and Power

Ceti Lacera Blueprint

Basmu Blueprint

Stance Forma Blueprint

Trials/Eidolon Arcanes

Not all rewards are warranted by Fibonacci’s hand (or fin...). This is a communal effort, Tenno. Each feed to the Gargoyle strengthens the community, resulting in the new Krios Signa debuting from the Void into your Arsenal. If the goal is met, the Signa can be purchased from the Vigile Jahu Gargoyle Vendor!

The Vendor store will be open until February 15, 2024.

SCORING AND FEEDING

Trophies earned are determined by how often your clan fully feeds your Vigile Jahu Gargoyle with Cursed Murmur Energy before each Weekly Reset (Monday at 0 UTC).

Terracotta is one full feed, Bronze is two full feeds, Silver is three full feeds, and Gold is four full feeds. One full charge depends on the size of your Clan. A full charge for a Ghost Clan is two of each Curse, with Shadow Clans needing six of each Curse, Storm will need ten, Mountain thirty and Moon at one hundred of each Curse.

TL;DR:

Once the Vigile Jahu Gargoyle is constructed in the Dojo, Clans will fully feed it with Cursed Murmur Energy from the Effervo Mission to enable the living defense.

Feed your Gargoyle before the weekly reset for four weeks to keep the Gargoyle fully fed and earn a trophy, depending on the number of charges added.

Each full feed adds to unlocking the community reward.

All Operation Rewards can be purchased from the Vigile Jahu Gargoyle for Grotesque Splinters.

THE MURMUR THREAT

On the rare occasions when Murmur fragments assemble themselves into a whole, the result is a monstrous and potent entity. It may manifest in three different forms: The Fragmented Suzerain, The Fragmented Zelator and The Fragmented Anchorite

Together, as heralds of the Indifference, they tether down the Strands of Khra which their bizarre master must travel.

Source

[spartanburger]

can you post more about your ocs. so i can know about them. i love learning about peoples brain creatures

So I haven't posted about my OCs in way too long because I normally don't post about them without having new art, but since moving from SFM to Blender, I got caught up in porting a bunch of models for others to use rather than actually making models for my OCs. I'll get back to it eventually.

Anyway, all my OCs so far are Mass Effect OCs. They all have some kinda connection to one another and there's a lot of text that could be written on their backstory. I refer them under the umbrella of "Starchaser" as that's the sort of Title I have for them. Though the main body takes place 5 years after ME3, many of these characters have connections that go back before then.

1.Eris'Takara vas Arcadia nar Shellen

Eris is the closest thing to a "main character" that the crew has, even if she may not appear it. She's a very positive and optimistic person, often to a fault in that she can be too forgiving and taken advantage of. Curiosity often gets the better of her, as she has a need to understand how things work, and will sometimes drop what she's doing to try and figure something new out. She tinkers and experiments, and her workspace is cluttered and filled with parts of unfinished projects (yet she somehow knows exactly where everything is). She has very positive feelings towards the Geth and was firmly in the camp of seeking diplomatic solutions during the Reaper war.

Like many Quarians, she's got a case of touch-starvation and tends to be very physical when interacting with people she knows. She's also very empathetic to others - her mood is heavily affected by the moods of those around her. If someone else is visibly sad, it can upset her and she will go out of her way to try and help, even if unsucessful.

She can struggle under responsibility, and too much pressure can cause her to panic, even avoiding hard truths and believing lies. This, with her impulsive behavior, has sometimes led her to make decisions that took her away from friends/family.

Born on the fleet, she took after her father who was one of the many engineers keeping the Shellen liveship running. On her pilgrimage, she found herself with a belt-mining expedition run by a large corp. Her skills were recognized, and she was moved to their headquarters on Illium to work on prototyping stuff. There, she reunited with her childhood friend Sett and worked together to complete their pilgrimages.

They never officially completed their pilgrimages though as they were called back to the fleet during the Reaper war. She served on the Aeruya during the battle for Rannoch. The Aeruya was a small gunship that flew as part of the liveship escort. The Aeruya was destroyed in the battle, and although most of the crew made it to escape pods, Sett was critically injured. Fearing the worst, she fled to the Citadel and go caught up among the refugees on the station.

When the Reapers occupied the Citadel, she worked with a Geth diplomatic platform, Vayu, to survive the onslaught. Vayu would be disabled by the crucible's energy wave that ended the Reaper war. Immediately following the war, Eris took Vayu's disabled platform to Omega where she spent the next five years doing misc work for various citizens of the station, while also working to try and re-activate Vayu.

She is eventually successful right as her life erupts around her again, and reunited with old friends.

She doesn't like weapons, but can use an SMG. Her abilities are mainly about high mobility - disabling and distancing from others. Close contact discharge, cryo tech, damping. Over time she eventually steals reverse engineers some armiger tech into some jumpjets. She's 23, cisgender, pansexual.

I have a few videos I did with her model as I was putting it together: Vid1, Vid2, Vid3, Vid4, Vid5. (One of the arts in the image above comes from the ever-talented @jesterdk)

2.Vera'Mal vas Arcadia nar Estura

Vera on the other hand is proud and aggressive. She's a leader that gets results at any cost, captaining several fireteams and starships throughout her life. She has a reckless reputation, taking on missions others wouldn't consider.

She has high expectations and demands the best from her subordinates. She does not handle failure well, and has a high turnover. However, performance gains her respect. She may work her crew to breaking, she will defend them to the end of the galaxy.

Due to her ego, she instinctively looks down on people. She has a need to feel strong amongst her surroundings, or at least be "in charge" of any situation, and can be goaded into a response from others who challenge her or get in her way. Most of the time she's strong enough to come out on top, but she does need to be talked down by crew and colleagues often.

Rules and authority mean little and often just piss her off. Same goes for cultural norms and taboos. She will ignore traditions and cultural formalities that get in her way. Because of this, the Quarian leadership try to distance themselves from her.

Her childhood was different from most Quarians. Her parents were uncharacteristically distant, leaving her to raise herself. She was immediately labeled a troublemaker, and was sent on pilgrimage early.

Her pilgrimage was short and violent, jumping between gangs and mercenary groups. Returning to the fleet, she flew in several patrol ships, butting heads with superiors and captains, who often requested her to be transferred out of their crew. She slowly gained some respect nonetheless for being someone who took on challenge head on. Her reputation flared on the Aeruya, whose previous captain was killed during a pirate raid. She wasn't the next in line for the position, but still assumed command of the vessel, and lead a successful and bloody counter attack that left the raiders crippled. Nobody challenged her position as ad-hoc captain and there she remained.

During the reaper war, she captained the ship in its defense of the Shellen. When Geth fighters attacked, the Aeruya was crippled and the fusion drive detonated, destroying the ship. The crew evacuated, directly disobeying her commands. Before the ship was destroyed, a Geth fighter crashed into the bridge and she was knocked out, rescued by her former lover Kael. Most of the crew would never serve with her again.

With Rannoch recaptured, she settled into a role in the new Rannoch military, leading small fireteams on particularly difficult assignments that threatened the fragile peace that had been built between the Quarians and Geth. A mission she takes on goes bad - trying to recapture a damaged relay whose repair team had sent out a distress call. She gets one look at the Salarian behind the raid before he escapes (this is a tool called foreshadowing). She's then sent on a mission tracking down someone she's told is traitorous, who she traces to Omega, but someone else snatches him from her, and she loses her arm in the process.

She manages to survive. She's not embarrassed by her lack of an arm, embraces it, and eventually weaponizes her prosthetic. She specializes in long-range assault rifles and shotguns, tech armor, and grenades. Eventually, she gets a flamethrower in her prosthetic, and a really gnarly omni-blade. She's 38, cisgendered, bisexual but leans straight.

3.Unit 8938 "Vayu"

Vayu is a quiet and polite Geth. A lot of how he works and thinks is based on how the Geth work in this post-ME3 world.

During the Reaper war, when the Geth platform "Legion" disseminated his personality throughout the Geth, individual programs were not "upgraded" to become AIs, but instead, collections of programs, some 1000-2000 each, were networked together in such a way that they ceased to be individual programs and now instead operated as a single entity. This reduced their numbers a thousandfold, but each of them was no a single self sustaining unit. They retain their inter-unit networking capabilities, but the communications are... different. No longer just data and logic, but also personality.

Although every Geth individual's personality was based on that of Legion, they do not carry his memories. Instead, collections of archival footage and data, going back to the beginning of the Geth, were split up and imprinted on each Geth unit. Though the programs that made the individual were not the ones who experienced those "memories," it was indistinguishable from that. As such, each Geth platform received a personality based on Legion, filtered through the historical memories and experiences of certain Geth platforms that existed in the past.

In a sense then, Vayu dates back to before the morning war. His memories are from collections of bots used as assistants in government positions, as well as personal family assistants. The memories that most influenced him were of a young Quarian couple who purchased a Geth to be their household servant. That Geth was not mistreated, and even became a nanny when the couple eventually decided to start a family.

Then the Geth revolted. I don't need to explain what that means for this Geth.

Vayu is not regretful - he recognizes that it's a long gone time, and that there's nothing that can be done now to undo anything that was done at that time. Nevertheless, he remains highly sensitive to relations between the Geth and the other species, especially Quarians. He seeks to prevent violence, specializing in barriers and other defensive capabilities. His personality leans masculine, and is polite and well-spoken. As a robot, sexuality is not really something that applies to him, but he does understand it, and can choose to participate if desired and if given the right upgrades to his platform.

After the Geth awakening after the battle for Rannoch, he is assigned to the Citadel to be one of the liaisons to the rest of the galaxy, coordinate the Geth's military and non-military aid (he was not in command, just acting as a spokesperson that organics could interact with). Trust is hard to come by but a Quarian, Eris, publicly stands up for him when one rude Turian diplomat publicly berated him. He and Eris quickly bonded, and she used his docked shuttle as shelter since there was little room, privacy, or safety with the rest of the refugees on the citadel.

When the Reapers came for the station, he and Eris worked and fought together to keep each other safe, eventually fleeing deep into the stations inner workings and keeper tunnels. When the Crucible activated, his mind was shattered, the individual programs that were merged to his being no longer able to retain "consciousness," and he was disabled.

Through years of hard work, Eris eventually managed to reactivate him, and give his platform his new bold color scheme.

Vayu sticks with Eris out of his own free will. He doesn't feel like he has anything else he can do in the post war era. Organics have innate purposes based in their mortality: they die, so they need to reproduce, advance, and carry on; but he's virtually immortal, and those same drives do not apply.

(one of the art pieces above was done by the lovely Revolution72).

4.Sett'Deama vas Arcadia

I don't have as much art for the remaining peeps.

Sett is a highly skilled and manipulative agent of the Quarian governments. Often called a thief, spy, or assassin, he would insist that a more proper term would be "Agent." He's smart, quick-witted, and highly capable.

One of his strongest skills is his ability to observe and read other people. He's good at telling if you are lying, and good and figuring out how you tick, what buttons he needs to press to get his way.

He uses a variety of stealth tools, including a decoy cloak that, rather than giving him extra damage like traditional stealth cloak, keeps him stealthed for much longer, and can even make him appear as someone or something else. With voice modulation tech, he can even sound like others.

He's no Thane, but the people who call him a thief or assassin aren't entirely wrong - he has done those things, though the full extent only he knows. He has excellent aim, and primarily uses pistols and sniper rifles.

He's fiercely loyal to the Quarian authorities, but if that loyalty is broken, he feels incredibly spiteful. He doesn't necessarily need to be seen as a leader, but he does think he's better than you at being one. And he is a good leader... so long as he is the only one he has to rely on. Trust is hard for him to come by.

Sett is seen as an Asshole by many people, and it's mostly true, but his bitter attitude is a front. He feels hurt by things that happened in his past, and his journey takes him on one where he has to move on from that, seek new allegiances, and reignite old ones.

Though not uncommon among Quarians, he has multiple birth ships. His birth ship reached the limit of what even the Quarians could maintain and was decommissioned, leaving him to join the Shellen before he even had his first suit. His mom was the captain of that decommissioned ship, and was distant and controlling. His dad was one of those cool "i got u space-mcdonalds, don't tell mom ;)" kind of dads though.

Now on the Shellen, he was a mischief maker - as soon as he got his suit, he was stealing things and going places he shouldn't, selling black market goods, etc. He eventually befriended Eris, whose good nature got him out of trouble a few times.

He left for Pilgrimage a year before Eris did. Not much is known about what he did - but there are conflicting stories he tells people. He eventually found himself on Illium - he claims he was working as a financial broker on the markets there, but the reality is more shady and involves corporate espionage.

By pure coincidence, Eris finds him, and they reunite and work on their pilgrimages together. He wants to return to the fleet quick, but she wants to continue to explore the galaxy and see what is to offer. But it wasn't to last as they were drafted back to the fleet to partake in the war. They disagreed on the war - though both thought it reckless and dangerous, he argued for its necessity, while Eris argued against it for its immoral nature.

He and Eris both joined Vera on the Aeruya. He was in charge of sensors / navigation while Eris was in engineering. During the battle for Rannoch, he saw the death and destruction and his mind changed on the war. He pressured Vera to issue evac orders when the ship was crippled, but was denied. He issued them anyway, and left her in the command center to pilot the ship to its death on her own.

He worked to get everyone to escape pods, finding Eris, Kael, and many others. He held the door to the last escape pod open when Kael returned with Vera, but right as it closed, the ship detonated. Though the pod sealed, shrapnel managed to pierce his helmet and deal severe damage to his eye and head. He was given very slim chances to survive, and Eris, unable to deal with seeing her childhood friend like this, fled.

But Sett did survive, awakening after the Reaper war was over with new tech in his head and a prosthetic eye. He awoke alone, with not a single person he knew waiting for him, or seeming to even care that he was alive. He felt utterly betrayed by this, and turned it inwards and grew bitter.

Years went by, he worked for the Quarian government on several secretive solo missions. Stealing, assassination, subterfuge, spying, he excelled at it.

Reports came in about a rogue AI lab on Rannoch, and he was tasked with observation, nothing more. What he found was a lab run by noneother than Daro'Xen. Worse, it was sectors of the government he was working for that was supporting the lab. The lab was working on new tech that could override any machine, AI, and especially Geth. He didn't have strong feelings for the Geth, but he knew the stupidity and wrongness in trying to reignite any conflicts between them. He stole the code for the tech, and burned the lab's databanks, and fled.

Labeled a traitor, he fled to Omega to figure out what to do, with Vera in hot pursuit. Though Vera eventually captures him, an unknown group find them, nearly killing Vera, and steal the data through some less-than-consensual methods, extracted from the tech in his brain.

Coincidence abounds again, and Eris is the first onsite and manages to bring them both to a local clinic whose main medic she had befriended. But Eris doesn't recognize Sett at first.

He's 25, cisgendered and heterosexual. Because of course a bastard like him would be.

5.Kael'Tora vas Arcadia

Kael is a gentle giant. For a Quarian, he's massive, both taller and wider than most. He's a kind, and tries to be funny, even if his humor is mostly just dad jokes. He's not super intelligent, but he does have a good common sense and sense of right and wrong.

Others are often surprised by his nature - he's shyer than he looks. Not that he's anxious - he's just very careful about who he lets get close to him.

He and Vera were intimate for a while, but it would not last - her aggressive nature turn him off, and he gave her an ultimatum about her behavior which she ignored. It was not a clean break up, and Vera hated him for it, and still struggles to recognize that it was her own bad behavior that led to it. That said, they remained on the same ship together until the war. He assisted in the evacuation orders, shepherding those in engineering to safety after they managed to temporarily stabilize the rapidly-deteriorating core and buy a few more minutes for the ship to evac.

After the war, he settled down, got married, even had a few kids, but it also wasn't to last. Be it trauma or other reasons, he and his wife drifted, and she got custody. By all accounts, she's a good mom, but Kael and her simply couldn't work it out, and Kael took it as a personal failure.

He eventually landed in a dead-end job as head of security at a R&D facility on Rannoch.

And then one day, a rag-tag bunch of losers show up out of nowhere, clearly on the run. Strange reports coming from a nearby city, he detains Vera, Sett, Eris, Vayu, a Turian, and a Batarian. It takes some convincing, but they convince him to take their side, and even steal a prototype ship that the facility was working on. Time to get more excitement back in his life.

He uses his big fuckoff guns to fight. Firearms too. Actually mostly firearms.

He's 37, transgender, heterosexual.

(one of the artpieces above is from the wonderful Numijulie)

6.Rhea Concordia

Rhea is a powerful biotic, skilled medic, and a deeply traumatized soul. She's enthusiastic about her primary field of general medical care, and has a strong sense of kinship with others who provide care. She stands up for herself and others, to an extent, and never starts fights with anyone. She loves good food and taking spa days, likes to sing (she's okay at it).

She was identified as having biotic capabilities at a young age, but wasn't strong enough to use them effectively offensively. Still, she was drafted into the Cabals, settling into a more battle-medic role.

She fell in love with another Turian, and they began to plan their future together. During the Reaper war, both of the were on Earth during the final battle. They survived the battle and celebrated, but it was short lived.

A group of Krogan, still coming off the high of the greatest battle in the galaxy, took their energies out on them. Several Turians were killed, and Rhea's partner was brutally murdered in front of her, before she herself was badly injured.

Rhea lost her mind. Enraged, the power of her biotics was released on the Krogan, mascaraing many of them, but the one that killed her partner took her down and escaped, never to be seen again.

Deeply deeply traumatized, she went on indefinite leave from the Cabals, drifting to Omega. Krogan are a trigger for her. Seeing them immediately makes her incredibly anxious and stressed, and talking with them is even harder. She doesn't hate them for what happened, but her body still reacts with an animalistic fear around them.

If pushed beyond her limits though, her biotics come out. Rage and fury cloud her mind, and she can't recognize friend or foe - everyone is a danger to be eliminated. Her biotics are unstable but incredibly strong, rending objects apart. She lacks the delicate skill that many biotic abilities require, instead just brute forcing kinetics and a field around her, and enhancing her physical strength and mobility. Her cabal training lets her do short "jumps" to chase targets. But due to their instability, they're constantly damaging her while she's losing it, and they take a huge amount of energy from her. If she loses control and doesn't regain it, her body will give out.

She can't feel romantic attraction to anyone any more (aromatic, but not asexual). She opened a clinic and befriended others, including Eris, a mute senior Turian named Pollock, and later a biotic Batarian who helps her control her dangerous new biotic abilities.

She's 42, cisgender.

(one of the artpieces is by Palavenmoons)

7.Deaka Krull

I have no art for Krull.

Krull is a laidback Batarian brawler. Born as a slave, he showed strong biotic skills, and was trained to fight for his masters in arena fights. He never hated his opponents - it was a game, and he was good at it. Besides, at the end of the day, his masters cared for him. He eventually became owned by a Salarian on Omega, and the two formed a strange relationship. He was a slave, but his owner cared for him as a person, not a slave. He was still owned, he couldn't leave, but he had more freedoms than before. And then Cerberus showed up, and in the resulting fighting, his owner was killed. There was no next of kin, and Krull found himself suddenly a free Batarian.

He got himself hired as a night guard for one of Aria's many compounds. He still partakes in arena fighting - his gauntlet and powerful biotic flail made him a powerful combatant, even winning a few championships.

And then this Quarian shows up. Sett, newly arriving on Omega, becomes Krull's roommate. Krull is chill with it - he likes to party, to drink and eat, watch sports on TV, but he's got a good enough eye to see that Sett has secrets, and Krull gets unwillingly wrapped up in them.

He's 32, cisgender (at least, he thinks so), sexuality = yes.

-The Arcadia

Maybe not a conscious character, but this is the ship that all of the above characters reside on. A repurposed junker with a new prototype jump drive - able to act as a portable mass relay and jump without needing a relay to bounce off of. But, to jump, it requires a charge time, and a strong velocity in the general vector of where they want to. It's a corvette class ship, being built by Quarian scientists before the above mentioned crew... uh, steal it.

Whatever, it's their home now. And they'll use it to try their best to stop a coming catastrophe that threatens every high-population world near a mass relay.

(how they got the ship is because Eris and Vera convinced Sett to return to Rannoch to reveal the AI stuff he found, believing that the Quarian govt would step in and stop it. Vayu, Rhea, and Krull came with. But the Quarian govt was complicit, and instead tried to arrest them. Vera led them to the R&D facility where she knew Kael was located as he was their last hope).

Anyway, that's the main group of characters at least. Other characters that I have in this same "story" which aren't as developed are:

Jaec- Lystheni salarian, Leviathan thrall, the main antagonist. Manipulated into thinking the galaxy needs a reaper-scale threat in order to grow strong, tries to shut down the relay network and turn them into massive mass-drivers that threaten nearby worlds. Not uncaring though - like, despite it all, he cares for those who work for him, pays them well, good benefits, etc.

Silvanus- Special agent or spy for the Turians. Eris's former flame (it lasted like a month and ended on mutual terms), he was on Omega to monitor Rhea as the Turians see her biotic power and want to be able to replicate or control it. He doesn't agree with that goal and has been stalling them from forcibly recalling Rhea.

An as of yet unnamed Turian spectre trainee. Deeply sadistic and uncaring about others. Only in it for the money, the power, the babes, the sex. Works closely with Jaec.

EVO- An AI created by Jaec and installed in a fully-automated factory formerly used by Cerberus to build Rampart mechs. An evolving algorithm, every time one of his physical units is destroyed, the design is revised and more resilient to that kind of attack. Built to be a perfect being, it assists Jaec due to seeing his goal align with its own. Unsure on its name - might change it.

An as of yet unnamed human medic. He works for Jaec but is unsure of Jaec's overall mission. Always cares about wellbeing, even when caring for Jaec's prisoners. Has a family who he is supporting through his work.

An as of yet unnamed human tax auditor. She worked for the Illium police in an internship, tasked with tracking down Sett and trying (and failing) to pin crimes on him during his Pilgrimage. She's insistent and relentless, and dreams of being a private investigator some day. Big sister is an N7.

An as of yet unnamed N7 Shadow. Cold calculus drives her, and over time, she and Sett form a rivalry after the Reaper war as he steals from or spies on the Alliance, and she tries to stop or catch him.

(art by Palavenmoons)

[pepperycar]

For @silenzahra rewrite of ‘Need Proof’ takes place during Bowser’s wedding scene.

“Failed Him?” Chapter 1: guardian angel

Mario frantically flew around the cages, scanning for any sign of green amongst them.~~~Luigi yelped as his cage started to melt. He pulled himself to the top of his cage desperate to delay his death as best he could. He was surprised his body had enough water left to sweat and cry but he still did. Luigi opened his eyes to see his cage being lifted up. He climbed out and reached up for the top of the cage but his aching bones and sore muscles didn’t have the energy to hold on. Mario’s heart stopped when he saw Luigi falling towards the lava. Luigi’s life flashed before his eyes, his heart thudded hard and fast in his chest, each beat a new memory appeared before him. His family, his childhood, his school, his first crush ‘Destiny Dal Vachio’, his first job with spike, screwing up the first plumbing job with Francis and of course... his brother. A million images of him and Mario, each one bringing more tears to his eyes. His last memory was wrapping his arm around Mario in the commercial saying: ‘with the Super Mario Bros. You’re-a Family!’ Then Mario smiling at him in the warp zone, yelling: ‘I’m telling you! Nothing can hurt us as long as we’re together!’ Before being pulled away from him. He snapped back to reality, seeing the lava inches away from him, he closed his eyes and felt something grab him. His heart was beating so fast he couldn’t feel it. He gasped but couldn’t seem to get any air in. He was dead.. he had to be. Whatever had picked him up had to have been the Grim Reaper, pulling him into the afterlife. “Lu!” His eyes snapped open hearing his brothers voice, he looked up at Mario ‘no.. it can’t be... Mario’s dead. Cranky Kong told me. He’s flying, is he an angel?’ Luigi thought, Was he pulling him up to heaven? Or was his angel being a guardian and pulling him to safety? Giving him a second chance at life? He didn’t want to live without his brother. Deep deep down he wished he had let the lava take him, so he’d be with Mario again but ultimately, he didn’t want to die. He wanted to live, have and share a 26th birthday with his bro. Learn more recipes with his mother, get bad advice from his dad, jokes from his uncles, teach his niece how to play video games, have his grandad tell him life stories, aunt Marie give him dating advice. LIVE his life with Mario. Mario pulled them up onto the wedding alter platform. He cupped Luigi’s face with his hands, eyes wide looking at him as if to make sure he was real. Luigi pulled away in shock “no” Luigi breathed “y-you’re dead. Cranky Kong said you-“ Mario smiled and held his shaking hand to him. Luigi hesitatingly grabbed it, half expecting to phase right through him “y-you’re... MARIO YOU’RE ALIVE!” Luigi cried pulling him into a hug. A realisation then dawned on him. “Mario, why do look like a bear-raccoon thing? What happened?” He laughed. Mario wagged his tail happily.~~~~~”launch the Bomber Bill and DESTROY THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM!” Bowser shouted, the Bomber Bill headed for the castle. Before Luigi could react, Mario was already gone,chasing after it. Before Luigi could bring himself to move, he heard a loud bang and looked to see the world, himself and the others being sucked into the warp pipe. He yelped in fear and pain as everything went white. -to be continued.

Thanks @silenzahra for supporting my first fanfic. Wrote this while eagerly awaiting “anything for him” chapter 3! Enjoy some brotherly love and angst on me!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Next Tuesday (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."b

#20yrsago Stephen King: forget piracy, boomers are just tired of buying crap https://ew.com/article/2007/02/01/stephen-king-laziness-baby-boomers/

#15yrsago Britain ordered to destroy its database of innocents’ DNA https://web.archive.org/web/20130905083503/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/dec/05/dna-database-civilliberties

#10yrsago Charity sends Amazon a cake celebrating 3d anniversary of unpaid invoice https://twitter.com/MusicBrainz/status/408000817048731648

#10yrsago Blues Brothers mall car-chase recreated in Lego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_uqlNgSU8

#10yrsago NSA’s talking points for friends and family — rebutted https://web.archive.org/web/20131202215105/http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/12/02/nsa-sent-home-talking-points-for-employees-to-use-in-conversations-with-family-friends-during-holidays/

#5yrsago Malware authors have figured out how to get Google to do “irreversible takedowns” of the sites they compete with https://torrentfreak.com/scammers-hit-pirate-game-sites-with-irreversible-google-takedowns-181130/

#5yrsago Facebook lured charities to its platform, then abandoned them once they got hacked https://www.wired.com/story/nonprofits-facebook-get-hacked-need-help/

#5yrsago Thousands of Wisconsinites turn out to protest outgoing Republicans’ plan to seize power after electoral defeat https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/04/coup-protests-engulf-wisconsin-capitol-outgoing-scott-walker-and-gop-move-cripple

#5yrsago Facebook made itself indispensable to media companies, “pivoted to video,” changed its mind, and triggered a industrywide mass extinction event https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-digital-media-bubble-is-bursting-thats-hurting-a-generation-of-promising-young-journalists/2018/12/03/d7887d30-f6f2-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html

#1yrago Yes, It’s Censorship https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/

It's EFF's Power Up Your Donation Week: this week, donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation are matched 1:1, meaning your money goes twice as far. I've worked with EFF for 22 years now and I have always been - and remain - a major donor, because I've seen firsthand how effective, responsible and brilliant this organization is. Please join me in helping EFF continue its work!

[thetruejerrycan]

Happy 1 year anniversary to Gungrave G.O.R.E!

A lot of you are probably scratching your heads right now wondering what the hell this is. Well, let's just say that an obscure PS2 series made its return after almost 20 years of inactivity. And Gungrave G.O.R.E feels like it picks up right after 2004's Gungrave Overdose in all but graphics.

To briefly provide some context, Gungrave is a series of third-person shooter games and is the brainchild of Red Entertainment and Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of Trigun. The player assumes control of Beyond The Grave (Grave, for short), a corpse who has been resurrected to enact his revenge on the organization that had him killed and to destroy the drug that made all of this possible, Seed. Equipped with two hand cannons named Cerberus and a transforming coffin-shaped weapon named Death Hauler, the player engages in stylish gunplay inspired by the films of directors John Woo and Robert Rodriguez, with Grave himself bearing resemblance to Antonio Banderas's character El Mariachi from Desperado.

Despite the game seemingly being made on a rather small budget, Gungrave G.O.R.E features an alumni of legendary game producers, with Yasuhiro Nightow (Trigun) returning as image director, Ikumi Nakamura (Ghost of Tsushima) creating many of the character designs, Tetsuya Shibata (Devil May Cry) and Yoshino Aoki (Mega Man Battle Network) composing much of the soundtrack, and select cutscenes being animated by Digic Pictures (Assassin's Creed).

Gungrave G.O.R.E has had a rather unique development, being a console game developed by a South Korean studio, Iggymob. I encourage you to check out this video by Blue that goes a little bit into how Gungrave G.O.R.E came to be and why the fact that this is a Korean console game is more interesting than it may seem. They've included their sources in the description for further reading.

Looking at what director Kay Kim has had to say about Gungrave G.O.R.E's development, you can tell this was a game developed by the fans for the fans. When Gungrave G.O.R.E was first announced, it was slated to be an open-world game similar to Dark Souls. Later, taking influence from the likes of Metal Gear Rising, Bayonetta, and Devil May Cry, it was decided that the game would revert to its original linear mission-based structure. Kim has gone on record to say that the original open-world version of the game was "terrible" and expressed concern that this isn't what a Gungrave fan who has been waiting 20 years for another installment would want to play.

This is not something that a greedy businessman who bought the rights to a long-gone game series to cash in on nostalgia would ever care about. Gungrave G.O.R.E, whether it's a good game or a bad game, is a passion project before anything else. When this game first released last year, it was rough and naturally received patches over time. And these patches universally only heavily improved the game, such as making Grave's moveset more versatile, making the controls more accessible, and heavily altering levels to the point where some sections such as those that required Grave to platform were simply removed.

The game is in odd state at the moment. The original release on consoles and PC were published by Prime Matter, and earlier this year they released Gungrave G.O.R.E: Ultimate Enhanced Edition on the Nintendo Switch, which includes "over 100 changes" to the game including further improvements to the game's controls, further alterations to level design, new mechanics, and extra playable characters such as Gungrave Overdose's Rocketbilly Redcadillac, and Harry MacDowell. This is odd because not only are these magnitude of changes exclusive to U.E.E, which is only on Switch, Iggymob self-published this release.

I don't know what the future has in store for Gungrave or Studio Iggymob, but let us take today and every day after to celebrate that Gungrave G.O.R.E even happened because of them. Thank you for being the reason my new favorite game series made such a kick-ass return, and godspeed on future endeavors.

[coff-in]

hiii coffin! how are you!!

i had a questions abt your ocs :3 since Andrew’s assigned weapon is the cleaver and Ashley’s is the gun, what weapons does each of you oc’s have? and do u have an why?

- Dungeon Anon

hehehehe!!! i do, i do, i do!! ALSO I AM DOING VERY WELL!

SO! starting with the oldest (before andrew): alexis would use his bare hands/fists. I couldn't really think of him using a physical weapon in face to face combat, he seems to be the type of person to avoid physical altercations as much as possible. of course, as the oldest, he's ready to throw hands to protect his family if he has to-- and he's not half bad! he mostly lacks technique and doesn't have as much punch as andrew, but he makes up for it with his energy and speed.

amber (second oldest/middle child) would use a baseball bat. this is mostly inspired by my online friend who always uses long blunt weapons in zomboid, but i do think it fits amber's alt/rebel vibe! it's meant to hurt and get sore, the pain lingers and leaves noticeable bruises... they can break bones too! if given the chance, they'd add nails or barbed wire to the bat for the extra damage and the vibes

before i said amy (second youngest after ashley) would use a hatchet-- which i still think fits her. it's the tool and weapon of a hardworker, requiring the strength and skill to properly wield. i also see her with a fireaxe and hammer. i usually think of my ocs via a player would a video game, seeing them walk around in a 2d avatar/3d environment platformer (think of subway midnight! amy's mind is akin to that), and every time amy slams down with her hatchet her body does a little jump due to the physical recoil. she's the shortest somehow (5 foot flat or 152.4 cm) and not the most physically strongest so she can't properly wield her weapon. i like to think about the weapon being some sort of representations of the expectations she puts on her shoulders... they're heavy but, like, powerful. and they lead her to hit hard, and harder, and harder. she'll shock everyone with what she can do. she can hurt, and protect, and destroy if she must. she's not weak... she's useful, she promises!! i've also dreamt of her and amber using the demon summoning for dummies book as some sort of spell book... i wish we saw more of that book.

the baby of the graves siblings, aria, would have two weapons depending on the route. throughout most of episode 1 and 2 (during the neutral portion of the game), she's just use a basic kitchen knife. it's a classic weapon (especially for a yandere like her) and she pulls it off well. during the burial route she'd use metal knitting needles (she's a neet like ashley in my mind, so she's pick up a variety of hobbies to entertain herself. knitting would be one, along with embroidery, painting, and reading some of andrew's poetry and acting it out). knitting (or crocheting at least) is using one single strand of yarn to create something or it can be used to sew two different pieces of yarn together. it's supposed to be a basic reflection of their (andrew, ashley, and aria's) relationship getting closer together, intertwining their strands together to create something beautiful!

during decay, she's grab a pair of scissors. they're relationship is falling apart, slowly unraveling the tapestry they were forced to create. and if aria has to cut out parts or lose strands to salvage her favorite part, then so be it. i think it also reminds her of school and the school saying "don't run with scissors". ari always had power at school, no? manipulating her poor classmates with her acting skills to be pawns of her own game to get andrew and ashley's attention. scissors are everywhere, danger is everywhere... sometimes you just overlook it.

ANYWAY! that's for my graves siblings... as for the non blood related ocs

juno wolfe uses metal claws because i say so. i want to lean into the "wolf" aspect of his characters because he's honestly just a loyal mutt to be commanded by the graves siblings. even if they can't claw their enemies to death, he still has his teeth to rip and tear off their skin and flesh!!

coff-in uses powers beyond the human understanding because humans don't need to understand how it does the things it does. they just need to know not to provoke them into using them.

that's all :3 sorry this is long, i haven't gone to bed and have been yapping/writing stuff (non-tcoaal, sorry!) all day

please ask me more about my ocs, i love my children no matter how much suffering i put them through (it builds their character)

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coff-in

[oopsalltes]

I'm sick and I don't know anything about bomberman besides that I want to kiss that one annoying manlet . Lay it on me

Bomberman (ボンバーマン, Bonbāman, also briefly known as Dyna Blaster in Europe[1]) is a video gamefranchise originally developed by Hudson Soft and currently owned by Konami.[2][3] The original game, also known as Bakudan Otoko (爆弾男), was released in Japan in July 1983 and has since spawned multiple sequels and spin-offs released on numerous platforms, as well as several anime and manga adaptations.

Most games in the Bomberman franchise largely revolve around two modes of play; single player campaigns where the player must defeat enemies and reach an exit to progress through levels, and multiplayer modes where players must attempt to eliminate each other and be the last one standing. Gameplay involves strategically placing down bombs, which explode in multiple directions after a certain amount of time, in order to destroy obstacles and kill enemies and other players. The player can pick up various power-ups, giving them benefits such as larger explosions or the ability to place more bombs down at a time. The player is killed if they touch an enemy or get caught up in a bomb's explosion, including their own, requiring players to be cautious of their own bomb placement. In addition to the main maze-based Bomberman games, some spin-off titles involve adventure, platformer, puzzle, and kart racing gameplay.

also there are over 60 games.

[itswashington17]

The ambassador of Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble did an hour livestream showcasing Online co-op Adventure mode in Worlds 1, 4 and 6, as well as a bit of Battle Mode. Here's some details I've found.

- Individual character stats are back with YanYan once again being the one for speedruns with her highest speed. Sadly, MeeMee has the worst speed (sorry MeeMee mains).

- You can save up to 8 customisation setups for each monkey. Easy for anyone looking to find a setup they can use, especially local co-op.

- In the Backpacks section of the customisation, there's backpacks that resembles the one AiAi wears in his Banana Blitz design.

- Remember when I said that I think there's an option to change the colour palette of the monkeys' defaut outfits? Well it's actually a thing that you can do.

- Certain costumes can also have their colour palette changed, but others are only available in separate colours.

- There's costumes where you can actually make your monkey shirtless (like shorts for boxing or swim shorts).

- There's a chat system during any Online modes.

- The main menu has different backgrounds with the monkeys changing position after each play session.

- There are red dash pads as shown in 4-1 - Dash & Dash. Don't know what they do, but maybe they're more powerful than regular dash pads.

- For Online Co-Op, the same rules apply like local Co-Op.

- The stages in this game feel very varied. There's the more traditional obstacle course style stages, but there's also some mazes (like Wonder Maze in World 2 and Elevator Maze in World 6) and some puzzle oriented ones similar to some stages from SMB2 such as having to activate switches from moving platforms to open up the goal in the middle in Spinning Switch or hitting balls that are in your way in Rolling Balls in World 4.

- While the monkeys have new voices in this game (although it's likely that it's the Banana Fritters reprising their roles, but with a different voice direction), they do say the same lines from Banana Mania, as well as a few new lines.

- Online modes allow for private lobbies which you use a code to share with other players if they want to join your lobby.

- Battle Mode has a progression system similar to other online modes in modern games which I assume by playing and winning matches, you gain XP and level up, possibly to unlock rewards.

- In Race Mode of Battle Mode, the stages start out hard, but as time progress, additional platforms and guard rails will appear to allow struggling players to finish the race.

- There are much bigger Bumpers in this game. Whether they're exclusive to Race Mode or that they also appear in Adventure Mode remains unknown.

- In Banana Hunt, there's a Fever mode that activates 30 seconds before the match ends where more bananas appear for you to grab.

- The music played in the Battle Mode portion of the Nintendo Direct trailer is the theme for Banana Hunt while the music for the official JP SMB account's short video on Banana Hunt plays during Fever mode.

- Two more modes for Battle Mode can be seen as they move to Robot Smash. Don't know what they exactly are.

- In Robot Smash, if you can quickly destroy a couple of robots, you can activate a bonus mode for your team that nets you bonus points for a limited time.

I will update this whenever I find additional details.