#and also like. upgrade it as folks get older.

[inflagrante-delicatessen]

it's always "pull the pin, squeeze, and spray in a sweeping motion" but never "grab a mask" or "how to clean"

[nanenna]

Let's Wrap this Up, Folks

Sleepy King Masterpost

No editing, we die like Vlad (slowly, painfully, and unmourned). I'm so happy to say this is done!

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Danny held Cujo close as he scritched him behind the ears, nothing like stinky puppy kisses to help him feel better. And right now he felt pretty awful! Dark Dan had been Ghost King too, it’s just that no one ever told him so he didn’t know. Well, judging from how Johnny and Kitty reacted no one else knew either, and he guesses that was a good thing. Except now everyone does know, between Johnny and Kitty, and the whole of the Far Frozen he’s pretty sure gossip is already getting around.

“Alright, everyone ready to sit down and explain some shit?” Stinky trenchcoat man said. Danny had been introduced, he just didn’t care to remember Blondie’s name.

“Language!” Mom scolded.

“Yeah, yeah.” Stinky plopped himself onto one of the chairs. Wonder Woman sat elegantly in another while Batman loomed over her chair’s back. The not-a-ghost guy, Deadman, was hovering near Stinky.

Danny decided the safest thing to do was to squeeze himself between Mom and Jazz on the couch. Cujo laid himself out across their laps on his back, begging for belly rubs. Vlad seemed to take the Batman approach, standing off to the side and looking rather annoyed.

Stinky pointed at Danny, “Let’s start with the obvious, you somehow, and I’ve yet to figure it out but I will, are Phantom.”

Danny looked over at his parents. Mom smiled brightly as she patted his arm, “Why don’t you show them what you can do?”

“Yeah, Danno! Show them the Fenton gumption!”

Danny sighed as he transferred Cujo over to Jazz’s lap. Thankfully so long as he was getting attention he’d probably be okay. He stood up and moved into the middle of the room. “It’s kinda bright,” he warned before letting his transformation wash over him. “Tada,” he said lamely, arms held out as he stood in the middle of the room.

“Christ on a cracker!” Stinky yelled as he flopped back dramatically.

“You should see what Vlad looks like,” Danny said wryly.

“Daniel!” Vlad yelled angrily.

“Constantine already told us you two are the same form of being,” Batman said gravely.

“I would also point out that young Danny here has already accused you of some very suspicious activities,” Wonder Woman added.

“Vladdie was going through some things!” Jack stood and shook a fist at the Justice League.

“He’s working on reforming,” Maddie added with a smile.

“The biggest thing he was holding over my head was my secret identity,” Danny gestured as he spoke, then stopped and stared down at his hand. “Am I wearing armor? What? Where did…?” He looked down. He was covered in black armor with a white like loincloth, or whatever those are called, and some kind of white fur cape at his shoulders. He found the cape behind him and held it up: yup. White fluffy fur, kinda reminded him of the yeties. “Wait, I don’t have horns, do I?” He felt over his head, thankfully just finding his regular hair.

“No, Danny, you don’t have horns,” Jazz said with a giggle.

“Well excuse me, Pariah has horns! And so does Frostbite, this cape reminds me of him.” He patted himself, getting a feel for his new armor, it felt weird. “Where did this even come from?”

“Congrats, it comes with the title,” Stinky said with a hand wave.

“I don’t get it, the other ghosts said it wasn’t like a magical title or something, that Pariah just declared himself king and did everything himself. Why am I getting the magical girl outfit upgrade?”

“Pariah stole the crown, much like your weird uncle here tried to do.”

Danny snorted at Constantine calling Vlad his weird uncle.

“But the crown is much older than Pariah Dark, it decides who it belongs to.”

Well that was just great, he’s pretty sure Clockwork had something to do with this. “Ugh, this sucks! How do I get rid of it?” Danny asked.

“You don’t.”

Everyone just stared at Constantine.

“What?”

“Congrats, you’re the new Ghost King. Comes with a castle, an army of thralls, and a pretty significant power boost. Probably doubled since apparently you’re the king twice over.”

“No, I have school on Monday! I can’t go to school looking like this!” Danny waved at himself.

“Danny,” Jazz said while trying to hide a grin, “the armor wasn’t on your human form.”

“Oh… right.” Danny de-transformed and looked down at his hands, the rings were still there. “Um!”

“Sorry, kid, no such thing as a part time king, the crowns and rings are permanent now.”

“Noooooooo!” Danny wailed! His normal life! That he was finally getting back since his parents put better protections on the portal after finally telling them the truth! “I just wanted to graduate high school, was that too much to ask?”

Batman grunted, apparently in agreement.

Danny pointed at Stinky, “This is all your fault! If it weren’t for that spell you hit me with they wouldn’t be stuck.”

“Yeah, sorry about that.”

“Danny! Here you guys are!” Ellie came flying into the room, her backpack dragging on the ground. She stopped when she spotted the Justice League members all staring at her. “Uh….”

Cujo barked and scrambled out of Jazz’s lap, leaping for Ellie.

“Cujo! Who’s a good boy?!” The two began happily and loudly rolling around on the ground.

Sam and Tucker followed shortly after, both pausing in the doorway. “Uh… Danny?” Tucker asked slowly, “Why are Batman and Wonder Woman in Vlad’s living room?”

“More importantly,” Sam cut in, “why do you have the Crown of Fire over your head? Twice?”

“Turns out I’m the Ghost King, and so was you-know-who.”

“Which you-know-who?” Tucker asked.

“Nasty Burger explosion.”

Tucker still looked a little confused.

“Since Constantine said the second crown was from an alternate timeline, I’m guessing it belonged to an alternate version of yourself, one you also had to beat in combat.”

Danny sighed and deflated, “You really are the world’s greatest detective.”

Batman’s only response was a twitch of his lips. Danny never wanted to play poker with him.

“Danny, why haven’t you told us about this?” Mom asked in that very special tone of voice that meant she was Not Mad Just Disappointed.

“Well… he was evil,” Danny blurted out as his shoulders hiked up to his ears. “I don’t wanna be evil.”

Jazz came over and pulled him into a hug, “And we’re taking steps to make sure that doesn’t happen, part of that is getting you a proper support network. And look! Now we can ask the Justice League for help.”

“If you don’t mind, why hasn’t anyone called us before now?” Wonder Woman asked.

“What? So an overshadowed Superman can run amok and then there’s a photo of me punching Superman in the face on the front of the newspaper? No thanks.” That was the last thing Danny needed.

“What do you think the magic user branch of the Justice League is bloody for?” Stinky asked loudly.

“I didn’t know there was a magic user branch!” Danny defended.

“None of us did,” Tucker added. He moved to go sit on the floor and lean against the couch, Sam joined him.

“In all fairness, we do not advertise Justice League Dark,” Wonder Woman said with a gentle smile. “But now that we know our assistance is needed we are happy to help.”

“I’m not sure what you can do at this point, we’ve locked down the main way ghosts have been getting into Amity. Mostly it’s the natural portals now, and there’s not much anyone can do about those.”

“Can you get the GIW to back off?” Sam asked.

“Oh! I hadn’t thought about that,” Danny said eagerly.

Batman frowned, “What’s the GIW?”

“Hey!” Ellie came up to the side of Wonder Woman’s chair, “Can you teach me how to sword fight? That sounds so cool!”

“Why ask her?” Danny wandered over, leaving his friends to explain the Gits in White to Batman. “You can just ask Pandora.”

“I don’t have four arms like Pandora,” Ellie whined.

“So just duplicate, it’s easy!” Danny stuck his tongue out and furrowed his brow in concentration, sweat beading on his forehead before his arms split into a second pair. Then, just like Frostbite taught him, he made four ice swords, one in each hand. “See?”

Ellie rolled her eyes, “Oh, it’s so easy! Says the guy who can’t even make one whole duplicate.”

“It’s hard!” Danny defended. “And I can, I could do it with the exo-skeleton, just… not since.” He’d been trying, but duplication was hard, he didn’t seem to have quite enough power. “Wait a minute, I have a power boost with the crowns.” Danny took a step to the left, Danny also took a step to the right. Now there were two Dannies with a perfectly normal number of arms, each holding an ice sword. Each also had a pair of crowns over their head. “Huh, so that’s what it looks like,” both Dannies said in unison.

“Ew, stop it, that’s so weird,” Ellie said in disgust.

“Hey guys! Look what I can do!” Dannies both said with a grin as he popped out several more duplicates. This was going to be fun!

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Omake:

Danny trudged into school on Monday, chatting with Sam and Tucker, still wearing the crowns and rings along with his normal clothes. He went straight to his locker, getting ready for the day. On time for once!

“Hey Fenturd!” Dash jeered from down the hall, “Why’d you miss school on… uh… what’s that?”

Danny closed his locker and looked up at Dash, “What’s what?”

“What do you mean what’s what? What’s that above your head?”

Danny looked up, then back at Dash, “What’re you talking about?”

“Don’t play coy, there’s a crown above your head! It’s on fire?????”

“Dash, I think I would notice a floating, flaming crown above my head.”

Dash looked completely confused, he looked over at Kwan, who was also frowning. “Kwan!”

“I can see it too, it’s there.”

“Right! Hear that, Fentina?”

Danny just looked at Dash like he’d lost his mind, “This is a really weird prank.”

“I’ll prove it!” Dash whipped out his phone and took a picture, then held the screen out. “There, see?”

Danny looked at the phone, “I just see me and Sam and Tucker.” His friends also leaned in and looked at the screen.

Dash pulled his phone back and looked at it, sure enough the crown wasn’t in the photo. But it was also still floating above Danny’s head, and Kwan had also seen it. What was going on?

“Anyway, I’m gonna go turn in my homework, I don’t want to get stuck in summer school.” Danny turned and wandered off to first period, his friends in tow.

Dash was… very confused. He knows what he saw, he knows the other students saw it too!

“Isn’t that the crown the Ghost King had?” Paulina asked as Danny left.

“I… think so?” Dash said uncertainly.

“I think there were two of them,” Kwan added.

They all followed Danny to first period, they had it together after all. They arrived just after Danny, just in time to hear Mr. Lancer shout, “Sword in the Stone! Mr. Fenton, what is that over your head?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Danny answered calmly while Sam and Tucker, standing just a step behind him, were wildly shaking their heads and making various “Do not” gestures.

“I… You… that is…” Mr. Lancer glanced back and forth, clearly conflicted.

“I managed to finish that essay,” Danny said cheerfully handing it over. “Sorry about Friday, but it should be excused.”

“Yes, I was told about that… something about the Justice League?” Mr. Lancer stared at the crown.

“Yeah, I got to meet them! It was wild.” Danny smiled charmingly.

“Alright, yes, well… please take your seats, class will be starting soon.” Mr. Lancer looked at the crown one last time, then seemed to decide it wasn’t his business and to carry on like usual.

“Oh my god,” Danny whispered to Tucker and Sam as they went to their seats, “I can’t believe that worked!”

“Just your usual day in Amity Park,” Tucker said with a snicker.

Val came walking over once they were seated. She stared at the crowns over Danny’s head, then down to the rings on his fingers no one had noticed yet. Her eyes turned to narrow slits. Danny put a finger to his lips and winked.

[mionemymind]

Can you plsss do an imagine with Wanda (or whoever u feel is right) where reader is a formula 1 driver? It'd be so cool. But you don't hv to ofc. I'm a new follower and i absolutely adore ur works <3

Getaway Driver (Rewritten)

Summary: Based off my incorrect quote, Y/n is the getaway driver for Wanda's mission.

Warnings: Shooting, Cursing, Slight Blood, Fluff

A/n: Before y'all comment, I really suck ass at action sequences lmaoo. Please try to imagine something better. But this is for the folks that love F1 and Wanda (@thatdudeusimpfor @canyonyodeler @pikachooo3 @rayisaknight) also gif credits go to Redbull

I had rewritten this the very next day because I was so unhappy with how I did the action scene. Hopefully this is better :)

Word Count: 4.3k

Masterlist

“Lights out and away we go!” The rumble of engines passed by as cars zoomed past the start. The roaring cheers coming from the fans grew louder with each second. 

Starting in pole position, Y/n gets away unscathed from the mess in the back as well as her current teammate, Max Verstappen. They stay side by side through the chicane, protecting the front positions as many drivers behind them try to slip past. 

In between turns two through five, multiple close calls occur as the the Stake F1 team showcase breaking issues this early on in the race. Y/n hardly got out of the chicane without hearing mishaps from the back. 

“Fucking cunt,” George Russel stated to his race engineer, Marcus Dudley. The fans screamed and laughed as the message was played out loud for the whole broadcast to hear. 

To mediate the tensions, a commentator stated, “For this British Grand Prix, we have a total of 52 laps with a forecast of dry conditions.” 

Coming from the paddock, Will Button announces his guesses for the race today, “It will honestly be a close call for first between the young driver of Redbull, Y/n, and her older teammate, Max. I know a Redbull 1 / 2 position will happen but my money is on Y/n as they’ve been on a winning streak for the past three races. As for third position, Lando Norris in the McClaren would be my final guess.”

Will moved closer to the McClaren garage as multiple shots show off the engineers, mechanics, and leaders. “They’ve recently redesigned their floor as well as the front wing. This big upgrade in the middle of the season might be the break that McClaren has been hoping for since the start of the season.” 

Coming up on their first lap, Y/n still leads the race. “51 more to go,” she thinks to herself. Although her head should be in the race, her heart couldn’t help but wish for this race to be already over. A certain red head was all she could think of. 

Two hours away from Silverstone, Wanda listens closely for enemies. She could sense two of them guarding the very door she needed to be in. “On my signal,” Steve mouthed. 

Just as Steve gave the go ahead, the sound of F1 commentary started to play in Wanda’s ear. “Lights out and away we go!” Wanda walked through the hallway, incapacitating the guards, allowing Natasha and Steve to drag them to an empty room. 

Natasha gave Wanda an ‘are you serious’ look as the commentary also played in her comms. “Why am I hearing about a race right now?” They all stood outside the entrance to the headquarters room. Around five guys and one guard were currently there from the looks of it. 

“Sorry, I had meant to only set it to my comms.” Wanda brought out the hologram and changed the settings before looking at Steve for the next set of instructions. 

“Since when did you care about racing?” Wanda shrugged in response as Steve signaled with his hands on which people to take care of. 

“I’ll tell you later.” 

“Are you fucking blind?” Y/n yelled to her race engineer. Lance Stroll had almost hit her side at turn seven, almost costing her the race had they actually made contact. “If he keeps racing like that, he’s bound to hurt somebody.”

“Copy that. We’re already in contact with the FIA about that.” Y/n’s grip on the steering wheel hardened. It was only lap 19 of 52 and her nerves were getting the best of her. She knew the race was going to be easy but her excitement to see Wanda again was causing her to lose focus. 

“I hope she’s watching me somehow,” Y/n thought. It was stupid to hope though as the driver knew Wanda was currently on a mission. It would be highly unlikely that she would watch her race, there were more important things than watching cars go round and round. 

Regardless though, winning this race was important to Y/n. This was the first race as an official couple. While the media hasn’t found out yet, she certainly didn’t want to give Wanda a bad impression. After all, if your girlfriend was continuously saving lives, the least she could do was win a race. 

“This ones for you Wanda.” 

“That should be the last of them.” Steve tied up the last enemy on base and sent the coordinates to backup for retrieval. “Let’s get to the rendezvous point. It’s around 30 minutes west from here on foot.” 

Wanda pulled out her secured phone as they walked out the secured building. She opened up the F1 app and immediately tuned in for the last couple minutes of the race. 

“We have a battle between the two Red Bulls, Max Verstappen and Y/n Y/l/n, for P1.” Steve gave a disapproving nod as they walked through London, trying their best to blend in with the crowd. Wanda could care less of Steve’s approval for her antics. The mission was nearly over and she wanted to at least support her girlfriend from far away. 

“Oh God! There’s a crash at Luffield! It’s a Mercedes!” Wanda watched in horror as the car flipped through the gravel multiple times before hitting the fence, landing in an awkward position. Had the gravel not been there, the car would have surely gone through the fence. A safety car was brought out, allowing people to pit. 

“I believe that was George Russel’s car that had just crashed.” Wanda flipped through the drivers until she found Y/n. Although she knew that wasn’t her car, seeing her safe and sound brought Wanda relief. 

“Jesus, is George okay?” Y/n asked. Wanda smiled at her girlfriend’s natural concern. Although it was one lap away from finishing, it was nice to know that the safety of others was the first thing that Y/n thought of. 

“Wanda.” Looking up, Natasha gave a silent command to put her phone away. “We have people tailing us. When I say go, run as fast as you can. Make sure to stay close.” 

Slyly looking back, Wanda could point out the people that looked out of place. “Fuck me.” 

“Thank you all for the wonderful race! The car was practically a bullet and everyone did so amazing today.” Y/n slid into first place and did a mini celebration on her car. 

As the camera crew came closer, she jumped in front of them and grabbed the camera. Taking off her helmet and balaclava, Y/n yelled, “This win is for my beautiful girlfriend! Can’t wait to see you babe!” 

Looking at the time on the screen, Y/n rushed past the cameras and went straight into the paddock. She ignored all the weird glances and congratulations she got on the way, the race win still fueling her adrenaline.

“Y/n? What are you doing?” Christian yelled but Y/n ignored it. It wasn’t like Red Bull had the balls to fire her for not celebrating.

Her assistant, Niya, had followed suit as Y/n took off her helmet into her dressing room. “Is my car ready Niya?” She nodded as she typed up a statement on her iPad. The team was going to be unhappy at the lack of answers but she knew they were ultimately happy with the points she scored for the team.

In no time, Y/n was out of her race suit and in an all black attire. She ran out of her room, yelling a thank you to Niya. Up on the screens, it showed Max at P2 while Lando was at P3 just like Will guessed. Several news outlets tried to catch up to Y/n, but she was not having it. 

“For the first time in F1 history, we don’t have the P1 spot filled. It seems our winner of the race had an emergency situation to attend to. Regardless, congratulations to Red Bull for the 1 / 2 positions.” 

Y/n smiled at Will’s comment as she passed the gates. This was going to be all over the news ‘Y/n runs off after P1 victory’. Yet Y/n could care less for all the speculations. She had to see her girl and nothing was stopping her. 

Hopping into her jet black Ferrari, Y/n sped out Silverstone. It was around an hour drive to the rendezvous point, but knowing the country like the back of her hand, she was guaranteed to make it on time.

“Does anyone know who the getaway driver is today? Fury stated that we’ll know the day of the mission, but I was never briefed about it,” Steve inquired as the team finally got away from the enemies. 

Wanda glanced up from her phone, “It’s my new girlfriend.” Not a lot of things shocked the assassin and the super soldier, but that comment did. 

“Is she qualified?” Natasha quipped. She found it strange that Wanda hadn’t mentioned her new partner. In addition, the lack of information on Wanda’s girlfriend was also alarming. What if she was the enemy? What if she was an assassin? So many questions ran through her head, but kept her anxiety at bay. 

“More than qualified,” Wanda stated with a proud smile, “She’s a driver at her day job. Plus Fury gave the approval for it just for this mission only.” 

Natasha and Steve digested Wanda’s words and continued to walk. However, Natasha wanted to know more, even if Fury did approve of it. “How did you two meet?” 

“Funny story, I was actually running away…” 

Wanda was surrounded. At every single avenue and exit was a marked enemy and with no back up, she only had herself to rely on. “Shit.” 

Wanda hurried herself out of the hotel, still noticing all the eyes around her. Thank goodness that it was still broad daylight. The enemies weren’t that careless to attract a crowd. 

As if sending a silent prayer, all attention diverted to the red ferrari that pulled up to the hotel. Before the valet could go up, Wanda rushed to and opened the passenger seat. She hopped in and closed the door.

Turning to the driver’s side, Wanda fully expected some old man to occupy the seat, but when her eyes met comforting brown eyes, a pretty smile, and furrowed eyebrows, she was hooked. The red head was distracted for a couple of seconds, before asking, “Do you know how to drive?”

Wanda knew she looked ridiculous. Any sane person would immediately kick her out, heck even call the police. Furthermore, the chances of a rich stranger even offering help was little to none, but when Wanda reached for Y/n’s emotions, she was even more surprised to see that this stranger didn’t feel any of that. 

“I do.” The accent almost made Wanda forget everything, but the sight of enemies getting closer made her focus. 

“Then drive.” 

“So you hijacked your girlfriend’s car, asked her to get you out of a sticky situation, and then survived?” Steve chuckled at Natasha’s question. The story felt like something out of an action movie, but then again, they were superheroes, so anything could happen. 

“I don’t know how, but she managed to get me out of Spain safely. I even asked her to drop me off at our pickup location. Her car wasn’t bulletproof, but she was so fast, they could hardly get a scratch on her.” Wanda smiled at the memory of their first encounter. 

“At the end, she didn’t even ask why I needed to run away. I think she recognized me from the news and just wanted to help. But before I left, she asked for a date.” How crazy does one need to be to ask the very person that put you in danger on a date? 

“I said yes because why not? I liked her and it was the least I could do after she spent a whole hour driving.” It was Natasha’s turn to laugh at how made up the whole story sounded. But when the assassin could not pick up on a single lie, it made her chuckle more. 

“Well I can’t wait to meet her,” Steve remarked. They were 10 minutes away from the pick up point. 

“And she better knows how to drive,” Natasha added. Wanda nodded quickly, the nerves finally making its way to her head. 

“I promise. She’s good.” 

“Where is she?” Natasha didn’t mean to sound aggressive, but they were still on a mission, something she ran a tight ship on. The crew were a minute early to the pick up point and Wanda had forgotten to ask Y/n to share her location. Right now, the witch paced back and forth with her phone in hand. 

The assassin didn’t want to add to Wanda’s already nervous state but they needed to leave. Before Wanda could send another message, a loud car screeched to a halt in front of them. Once the smoke settled, Wanda smiled at the sight of the getaway car. 

Opening the car door, Y/n got out, wearing a suit similar to her driver attire but in all black. “Am I late?” The wide cocky smile on Y/n’s face was hard to hide. The driver knew she was on time but didn’t dare to comment. 

Immediately noticing her girlfriend, Y/n closed the door and picked Wanda up by the thighs, spinning her around. The giggle that escaped Wanda’s lips almost made Natasha barf at how love sick the two were. 

As Y/n placed Wanda back down, she pulled her in by the waist and gave her a long kiss. The two almost forgot that they were in front of a crowd as Wanda ran her hands through Y/n’s hair. 

Natasha wanted to grumble at the unprofessionality but Steve’s look stopped her. Wanda was in love. This was something Steve had never seen before, and he was not going to dare to ruin it. This wasn’t to say that the assassin wasn’t happy for Wanda. She really was, but the mission was still the priority. 

Breaking the kiss, Y/n mumbled, “I’m not too late am I babe?” Wanda shook her head no as a large smile was plastered on her face. 

While holding Wanda’s hand, Y/n looked at Steve and Natasha, “Hi. I’m Y/n Y/l/n. It’s nice to meet you.” Letting go of Wanda’s hand, Y/n reached out to shake their hands. 

Steve was the first to shake Y/n’s hand and said, “Nice to meet you. My name is Steve.” 

Natasha bumped Steve out the way and shook Y/n’s hand, immediately liking the firm grip Y/n had. “I’m Natasha. It’s nice to meet you, but I think we should get out of here.” 

Stepping back to Wanda’s side, “You’re right, let’s get y’all out of here.” Y/n stepped around to open Wanda’s door, something both Steve and Natasha mentally noted.

Once everyone was buckled in, it was like a switch flipped inside Y/n’s brain as she zoomed from the meetup location. 

“Someone is following us.” The rest of the group turned around at Y/n’s comment and noticed the entourage that was heavy on their tail. Y/n had barely driven for 10 minutes before enemies found them.

“I thought we got rid of them,” Wanda grumbled. She wanted her first mission with her girlfriend to have gone a bit smoother, but nothing is ever how she planned. 

The red head looked over her girlfriend’s suit, hoping that Fury had given Y/n a bulletproof suit. Last thing Wanda needed was for Y/n to bleed out. 

Blocking her anxiety away, Wanda focused on the mission at hand. 

“Do you think you can lose them?” Steve asked, ready to fight. Remembering the map she carefully studied, in 10 miles was a mountain with lots of turns. Right before it was a small village. 

“Get rid of the bigger caravans and I’ll take care of the two smaller cars. Do it quickly. There’s a village up ahead.” Y/n steadied the car as Steve nodded in understandment. Slowing the car down, Steve predicted his route as Natasha did the same. 

Once the enemies were close enough, the two hopped out of the car, each on a different caravan. Immediately, Steve used his shield to pierce the front left tire, causing the caravan to veer right into the woods. 

Steve hopped to the next caravan before it crashed. By now, multiple shots were being aimed at Steve, Natasha, and the car. 

“Keep us close. I need to help them,” Wanda stated. Y/n nodded as she tried her best to slow down at a safer speed for Wanda. Crawling to the back of the car, Wanda used her magic to fling a couple of enemies out of the cars. 

This ultimately assisted Natasha as she finally pierced her caravan’s tire. Instantaneously, the car crashed off the road, straight into a large pile of rocks. The assassin hopped off the caravan, aiming for the getaway car. 

Noticing the large gap, Y/n whipped closer to Natasha. Landing harshly on her side, Natasha groaned as Wanda held on to her arm, making sure she doesn’t fall off. “Are you trying to hit me with the car?” 

“It was the car or the ground, you choose,” Y/n quipped back. Had they been in a different situation, Natasha would have laughed but considering that the enemies were still shooting, she simply hustled back into the car. 

“Can Steve jump far?” The last caravan was close enough to continuously hit their back bumper. And with all the debris coming from the crashes, the sides were damaged. 

Before Wanda could answer, Steve jumped on top of the car as the caravan stopped into a halt, crashing into everything along with one of the smaller cars. Only one car remained. 

While Steve crawled back into the car and Wanda back in her spot, the village came passing by just on time. The mountain was right before them. 

Pushing the car into different gears, Y/n kept her eye on the rearview mirror as the car drifted through tight turns. The enemy car screeched behind them as it struggled to keep up through the turns. However, the straights were its friend. 

Up ahead was another set of turns, something Y/n already memorized in the back of her head. “Natasha, keep trying to shoot at them. I need something to distract their driver.” 

Pushing the getaway car to its limits, the turns proved hard for Natasha to hold on to, thankfully, Steve was holding on to her. “Aim for the driver’s view. It may be bulletproof but anything is better than nothing.” 

Natasha did as told, managing to aim perfectly even with all the wind rushing past her and the aimless turns up the hill. 

“We have a quarter mile left! Keep going at it!” Natasha emptied clip after clip as Wanda tended to her slight wound. Bullets came back towards their car, none created a single scratch on the car. 

Rounding the last turn, Y/n drifted perfectly to stall the car in place for a couple more seconds, allowing the enemy to catch up even closer. Keeping a couple seconds between them, Y/n pushed the car into gear, sending it through the last straight. 

“Get back in!” Y/n hardly gave Natahsa time as she pulled the car into the hard right. Before they knew it, Y/n had been driving backwards. In the next second, a grapple launched from the car, landing right on the enemy’s bumper. 

”Hold on!” Everything turned to a blur with how fast Y/n was reacting. Steve almost got whiplash and motion sickness from all the drifting and wild turns. Within the same second, Y/n used the momentum from the car to fling the enemy off towards the cliff. 

As the enemy hit the guard rail, it started to tumble through the air, pressing another button, the grapple released. Pulling up the handbrake, Y/n straighten the car back out onto the road. Driving away with a satisfied smile, Y/n was happy to see an explosion from the mirror. 

With a hand on Wanda’s thigh, the rest was smooth sailing for Y/n as she drove them to safety. 

The car arrived, smoke trailed from it’s path as Y/n continuously pushed it past its limit. While Steve was thankful to have arrived earlier than expected, the nauseous feeling in his stomach held his compliments back. 

The pair from the back quickly got out of the car, throwing a thankful smile to Y/n as they headed inside, ready to debrief about the meeting. 

Once they were out of sight, Wanda was quick to giggle. Nothing was particularly funny, but the redhead couldn’t help but laugh. Not really understanding what Wanda was laughing about, Y/n merely chuckled a little at how adorable Wanda looked. 

“Do you think your boss will be pissed about the state of the car?” Y/n joked. The driver could probably afford whatever car Fury provided, nonetheless, she wanted a good first impression. 

“I think,” Wanda placed a hand on Y/n’s cheek, a smile still evident on her face, “you did amazing today. I knew you were a great driver but I didn’t expect you to handle all the gunshots like it was nothing.” 

Y/n kissed Wanda’s palm, leaning in closer to her touch. “I think with all the superhero stuff happening, I’ve become immune to things like that.” Y/n shrugged as the pair got closer, faces nearly touching. “Plus it helps that I know my girlfriend would do anything to protect me.” 

Leaning in for a kiss, Y/n nearly groaned at how soft Wanda’s lips were. While this wasn’t their first kiss, the feeling of Wanda’s lips was something Y/n was never going to get used to. All the races, fast speeds, and fame was nothing compared to the feeling of kissing Wanda. Just the privilege alone made Y/n light headed with love. 

As Wanda slowly continued to kiss Y/n, her stomach grew with tightness, her mind numbing with stupid thoughts such as ‘what if I climbed over the console and I made out with her?’. While there would be absolutely no complaints from Y/n, Wanda knew they still had an audience. 

But god, Wanda couldn’t think when it came to kissing Y/n and they were hardly even making out. What was going to happen once they actually did have a heated make out session? Was she going to pass out? 

Regardless, the two pushed their limits on how long they could go without air. Soon, Wanda broke the kiss but she craved to kiss Y/n again. Not wanting to push her luck, Wanda pressed a couple pecks on Y/n’s lips, sealing the deal with one more long kiss. 

Leaning back in her seat, Wanda covered her mouth, enjoying the feeling of how plumped it was. Ultimately, she couldn’t hide the smile on her face as Y/n looked at her with adoration. “I’ve been wanting to kiss you this whole day.” 

Y/n grinned as she leaned over the center console, “We can still kiss all you want babe. Name the time and place and I’ll be there in minutes.” 

Wanda laughed as Y/n puckered her lips, ready to kiss again. Giving in to her girlfriend’s antics, Wanda cupped Y/n’s face and kissed her once more. 

Before it could go any deeper, Wanda broke it, causing Y/n to pout. “You can’t just hold your lips hostage like that.” 

“Well dekta, we’re still on a mission.” Y/n rolled her eyes at Wanda’s response. It was not a good enough reason to stop kissing. 

“Well babe, what if I told you I won my race today?” Y/n licked her lips, hoping it was enough to entice Wanda to kiss her again. 

“You won?! I’m sorry I couldn’t come and I tried watching the end but-”

“-just kiss me babe.” Y/n pulled Wanda for another kiss, not even caring that Wanda was unable to make it to her race. There were still multiple races to come and multiple opportunities for her to watch. But kissing Wanda was enough for Y/n. Everything else was just a bonus. 

By now, Wanda couldn’t hold back her moan as the kisses got deeper. Too busy in their own world, the pair didn’t notice Natasha approaching the car. 

The assassin rolled her eyes at the scene. Regardless, she knocked on the window. The two jumped from the unexpected sound. Their dilated eyes focused back at Natasha as Y/n rolled the window down. 

“Meeting starts in a minute. Say your goodbyes.” Without a response, Natasha walked back into the base. 

“Am I going to see you soon?” Wanda asked, feeling like a teenager asking when she was going to see her girlfriend again. 

“You will. I’ll make sure of it.” The blush on Wanda’s face deepened. She kissed Y/n one last time before exiting the car, knowing that if she stayed any longer, she would have been unable to leave.

Walking backwards to the base, Wanda waved goodbye. In normal Y/n fashion, she made donuts at the front of the base, before leaving. 

Once the dust settled, Natahsa came back out. “She was good.” 

Wanda turned around, giving Natasha a small smile. “Thank you.” 

“It’s gonna be nice working with her again.” The smile on Wanda’s face grew wider at the approval. 

As the two walked to the meeting, all Wanda could think about was her getaway driver.

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COMPUTERPICS! FINALLY!

3 photos and a buncha text underneath!

heres the tower of power aka my lovely desktop lovers. i dont have my own place so my cumputers are all stacked up in my very small bedroom i rent.

from the bottom up, here we have the black deepcool case from my first gaming pc build. rn it has an older gaming setup board in it that i took from work, and am going to turn into a NAS archive.

right of that is the strikingly handsome Compaq AP550 workstation, a dual Slot One CPU system ive populated with two Pentum IIIs but have yet to start up!

to his right is one of my two gateway G series desktops, a GP7-500, which i believe is sporting a Pentium II i shoved in there mostly for storage, and to use its Pentium III in the compaq, hahah. my second gateway tower is atop him, a G6-350 with a Pentium II.

to her left is another generic build, the newest among my vintage desktop computers, sporting a Pentium 4. i named her Nike after the very coincidentally formed mark on her front which i cant bring myself to wipe away =]

above her, obfuscated by the coyote prayer flags from artist CoyoticTroubles, is my Macintosh SE, Sarah! she was the first vintage computer i ever owned! i got her when i was a teenager from a flea market. she sports dual diskette drives and an ultradrive 80 Si hard disk with some interesting files on it. since i didnt get her from my work, i was able to keep the data on her disk. hopefully it hasnt all been lost, since i havent turned her on since highschool! heres a clear photo of her:

to her right you can see one of my many toughbooks, a projector, and a somewhat busted up tape drive. ill post some more individual photos sometime soon maybe! something more intimate. id also like to do sensual repair or maintenance or upgrade POV videos with them!

the rest of my computers in my room live on top of my dresser, demonstrated in the following photo featuring my partners spidergwen statue and a little playdoh sculpture they made me hahahah. here you can see my Dell Optiplex GXa holding up two generic builds from the 90s, and on the right my HP 700/96 terminal, who matches my HP D-Class 9000 server that i havent photographed yet. on top of the left tower theres a chip programmer box i found at work hahah its super cool looking i had to take it..

you can also see my appleCD drive on the far right!

feel free to let me know what you think about my harem collection of vintage computers in the replies or my dms or reblog or whatevs idk im new here and i just love chatting with folks! thnx for looking!

[vmures]

Just watched the first episode of the current season of Black Mirror. It has my mind spinning in that good analytical way, at least now that I've dried my eyes and breathed through some of the visceral horror and grief I felt by the end of the episode. (SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT)

"Common People" is a fitting name for the episode. It is a story about working class people, just plain folk as my dad used to say. The ones stories aren't often told about. It's apparently an odd episode in that it is explicitly set in America (by housemate mentioned that many episodes are set in the UK).

The episode is designed to make it clear that this is about everyday working Americans. The background elements all had an older feel. Lots of homespun type sweaters and looks that reminded me of the 80s and 90s. All the vehicles were from that era as well. The color scheme was warm but muted and brought to mind shows like Mister Roger's Neighborhood. A lot of the household tech and appliances were older. We're talking stuff like a coffee pot and alarm clock that could have been found in many households back in the 80s. However, there were also elements that made it clear that this was a very high tech society--smart phones, bee drones, laptops, apps, all those modern touches that we're so used to these days. The contrast felt very deliberate. It emphasizes that these are people who are getting by okay, able to afford a cheap vacation for their anniversary without too much issue, but not well off in any sense. Everything is designed to feel mundane, routine, including story elements (they take the same trip every year for their anniversary, worked at the same places for ten years, etc).

The horrors of the episode are equally mundane and are very familiar to a vast number of Americans--privatized health care in particular, but also corporate greed, desperation, human apathy, and worse human enjoyment of others suffering. It is a bleak episode and one with so many heavy themes. As someone who has chronic health issues, who is working class, and who lives in America and has to deal with the hellscape that is our health system, this episode hit hard.

Amanda, a teacher whose only chance to survive is through a neural implant that connects her brain to a cloud based server that holds her backed up brain. All offered through a private company (and not covered by insurance, of course). That alone should get your suspicions up that this is not going to be a happy episode. The cinematography, lighting, and music of the earlier parts of the episode will have you thinking that maybe this is one of the happier episodes. That feeling also mirrors the hope that her husband, Mike, has when he hears about this new treatment. And even better, he thinks, it's affordable. Free surgery and *only* $300 a month for the subscription.

And this, this is where anyone who has dealt with corporate scam artists and multilevel marketing schemes is likely to feel their hackles raise. Cause there is always a catch. Always a "new tier" and a "new premium". Always something you have to upgrade now for a low low price of [insert astronomical price here]. Combine that with the theme of desperate people that had already shown up via a scene with one of the husband's coworkers watching a horrifying streaming service where people pay others to do horrible things to themselves. Watching and laughing.

That lack of empathy comes up a lot and honestly felt like it mirrored some of the places I've lived. Places where people were more interested in the drama and gossip than in helping anyone else. Places where shunning is a thing and often for stupid reasons. We see that lack of empathy when Amanda starts spouting ads randomly with no idea that she's basically been given commercial turrets syndrome (a line from the show). She has no control over the ads, when the play, what their for, nothing. Turns out the company implemented a new tier and the one that they were on now had ads. They were struggling to pay for the original subscription, but she couldn't keep her job as a teacher if they didn't upgrade and the social stigma that came from that period of uncontrollable infomercials never went away. So she kept her job, but lost any support she may have had in the school and community.

All the while we see Mike desperately trying to earn enough money to keep the subscription going. Then Amanda starts sleeping more and looking more and more haggard. Guess what? If you guessed the corporation created a new luxury plan for even more money, while downgrading the previous premium plan, then you were absolutely right. But hey, you can buy little gift cards for this tier, for special treats. So of course, Mike ends up on the horrific streaming service doing increasing awful things (most not shown on scream, just heavily implied, but it's still fucking disturbing). Desperation clouds thinking, and in his desperation, Mike made a choice that cost him his job and also made him a pariah in the community.

By now, I knew exactly where this was going. These sorts of corporations always have a new tier, and that tier is usually something you desperately need until eventually the most basic tier offers you almost no benefit at all. Think of services where you get more and more ads until it feels like it's unwatchable. Now imagine that kind of service being involved in something you require to live. But there's only so much you can do and at some point you are no longer able to upgrade. So you make do as best you can. In most things, that means walking away and living without. But with something like this implant? It means sleeping almost all day and talking in ads more than not. Throw in complete lack of social and community support. I knew by this point this would like end in a murder suicide, and I was right. Absolutely horrific and horrifyingly mundane. This is a story too many Americans have lived and I fear too many more will live it.

For me that was the very power of this episode. It is a set of all too real circumstances and horrors in a near future setting. As someone who has seen and lived with the fallout of corporate greed and the American healthcare system, has seen "good and upright" communities turn against others the moment someone doesn't meet their community standards, this episode felt so poignant for me. Hit me in the feels like the Hulk smashing Loki, but damn was it spot on social commentary.

[mycroftirl]

Some stuff from my Runner Five, Oisín Moore’s history

Raised traditional Irish Catholic. Has a ton of trauma from it

Was on a camping trip with some uni mates when the zombie apocalypse happened. Ended up tripling and breaking his leg during their run from the zombies.

Because they were stuck in a cave for almost a month, they weren’t able to set it right so it healed wonky. Started using a cane

Ended up at the military base as a scientist since he’d been a bio major and figured he might as well put a degree he didn’t want into action

Has an older sister but the age gap between the two is about 10ish years and neither get along well. She was overseas in the US with her fiancé when the zombies happened. Oisín doesn’t know if she’s alive or dead (she’s alive, his parents are not)

When he first arrived at Abel, he kept to himself almost entirely. He was recovering from the helicopter crash that shattered his legs. Even with Maxine’s skill, they still weren’t able to set the legs properly. Becomes a wheelchair user

Sam and others ended up dragging him to a Demons & Darkness session because they needed a cleric and Oisín was free. He went unwillingly but ended up secretly enjoying himself. Everyone entertains his act of not wanting to go to D&D night

Same vein except he hates it: someone scavenged a karaoke machine. Abel proceeded to have a karaoke night. People found out he didn’t have a karaoke song and the mission that night became “we have to find Five’s song”. After about a dozen songs, he got assigned ‘You Soin Me Roung (Like A Record)’ and he hates it but damn if he can’t rock it when he’s drunk

Speaking of drunk, he’s a total lightweight when it comes to drinking. The first night that Abel was able to enjoy the cider they’d made, the Runners had their own separate party. He proceeded to get smashed after 2 or 3 drinks. Ended up earning the nickname Cider which is only used against him when people want to tease him

He also got two ear piercings on one ear that same night. The morning after, he was horrified and could feel his mother’s embarrassment and disappointment

For his first year and a half at Abel, he’d dye his hair black because he loathed the ginger. Because it had been black when he arrived, no one knew he was actually ginger until he couldn’t scavenge anymore hair dye. When his roots started showing, Sam was the first to notice and comment on how ginger suited Oisín

Voice in the Dark is when Oisín started to fall for Sam

It still took him 3 years to ask Sam out

During s3mis24 (the one with the teenagers running off), he and Sam ended up becoming paternal figures to a lot of the teenagers. It completely weirded Oisín out at first. Then the kids and little ones also began to look up to him (though they already had a bit of hero worship for him) and he got used to it. The little ones were his favorites, though

Jack, Eugene, and a couple folks in the maintenance and construction teams have helped make and upgrade a few wheelchairs to suit mission needs for him. They also craft him forearm crutches when he works up the energy and muscle to walk. The kids end up decorating his wheelchairs and crutches

He ended up taking in 2 kittens when he becomes Head of Runners and has his own little private shack. Sam has out a camera on both of them when they wander Abel because “I want to see what they see!”

Will use a gun, has a good shot, and doesn’t particularly mind using it, but his real area of skill is with a knife. He has a couple types of straps and sheaths for his favorite. Two fits his chest, one for his forearm, and another for his thigh

Holds grudges and does not forgive easily. This includes himself. He will EVER forgive himself for the Comansys ships incident

It took him nearly two months to agree to being Head of Runners. While he knows he’s the best choice and takes on the workload, it drains him in every way possible.

[goingghostcomic]

I can't remember if you ever confirmed it are not but will your the cast age during the course of the comic and if so and its not a spoiler to say by how much?like i know folks headcanon that by the time Phantom Planet rolls around danny and everyone else are about a year or 2 older and AGIT kinda confirms that so i was wondering if you'd go a similar route

Also will you add in any oc characters?Good guys, Bad guys,love interests or just random characters to fill in certain roles that aren't already filled by the canon cast

Time will pass and the majority of the story takes place over 2 years letting some of the characters graduate from Casper High. So all the characters grow and age. It’s not inspired by the characters in the OG show hypothetically aging (tbh I just think HC it has a floating timeline and takes place over 1 yr because Jazz never graduated and she’s 16 at the start but I get why people hc that they aged up and time happens lol) but because I really like the idea of my major story feeling some kind of full circle moment with entering high school and ending with many characters moving past it. Sure, Danny is still in HS at the end but he’d more comfortable and stable now. But Jazz and many side characters are going to college or entering adult life so there’s still big changes.

And yes, technically I have many simple OCs to fill in gaps. I view many characters that are canon functionally as OCs, characters that filled in classrooms, teachers that aren’t Mr Lancer, the Guys in White, the ghosts that got bit roles like from Circus Gothica, and so on. They’re often completely underdeveloped with nothing but vibes and aesthetics to go off of. (Not a complaint just an observation and opinion) But I do not plan on any OC being super upgraded into being as important as a love interest for the main cast. But I do plan on giving them spotlights and really fleshing out the world and making it fun and lived in past Danny’s main character pov.

[themissinglynx]

*Appears*

Okay so saw the TTRPG post and as someone who kind of want to get into it, are their any of them that allows you to play as animals and/ or mythological creatures, but isn't DND or Pathfinder? Preferably with the D20 system.

Thank you in advance, and sorry for yeeting this ask at you-

I am not immersed in to the world of TTRPG gaming, so I haven't played any of these games myself save for one. Listed in alphabetical order and linked to where you can find the rules, here we go:

Bunnies and Burrows

Watership Down, but a tabletop RPG. It uses the GURPS system, which my TTRPG buddy says is a solid system to use. It's fairly old, but I bet there's a charm to that :D

Maustritter

This is one of the games I know the least about, but my friend says it has very solid rules. Its digital rulebook is pay-as-you-want, but getting a physical book does have a pricetag. I do hope to obtain the materials for this game when I have a more expendable income!

Pokerole: Mystery Dungeon Module

This counts in my book. Even if you're only here for Mystery Dungeon, you'd still need the base module for understanding the rules. It uses a success-fail system with a ton of d6s, and is in sore need of an upgrade since it was built for the first edition of Pokerole and hasn't been updated. The lovely folks in the Discord server are willing to help!

Watch an unfinished Pokerole Mystery Dungeon campaign here

Root: the Roleplaying Game

If you've never heard of Root the board game, it's an asymmetrical war game where your faction of woodland critters fight for control of the forest (in most cases). One of the vanilla factions you may play as is the vagabond, a lone wanderer who's kinda just trying to get by on their own means. They're my favorite role to play as!

This TTRPG lets the players play as vagabonds, but I don't know much of anything beyond that. It's also one of the few games I know that's still actively in circulation and has one of the steeper price tags attached to attaining the core rules of the game, so maybe pass on this one if it's too much to ask for.

Warriors Adventure Game

The only one of these I've actually played and hoooo boy does it need some fixin' up before it's functional. There's no element of randomness, and when discussing it with my buddy, we thought we'd implement something like Pokerole's success-fail system. Initiative doesn't exist, which can be easily remedied by peering over another game's shoulder and copying their homework. I personally went as far as to change the Strength, Intelligence, Spirit stats to Body, Mind, Heart, Soul stats, and remixing the skills to condense all the sensing skills into a single Perception skill among other things, but there is just far too much broken stuff WAG has that needs to be duct taped together by any prospective game master.

Also if you want to play the pre-written adventures for this, they're present in the backs of older copies of books in the Omen of the Stars arc and Battles of the Clans.

That's all the games I know off the top of my head, but do know a lot of TTRPGs (DnD and Pathfinder included) often have beastmen as playable options for characters!

[cybertron-after-dark]

Folks, do we consider cheetor an adult?

On the one hand he's older than Tigatron, blackarachnia, airazor and anyone else who was only just made from the protoforms in beast wars, but nobody really has a problem with treating them as adults. He's also with the other maximals bc it's his job, implying he's fully independent, not to mention it's a job that trusts him with potentially deadly weapons, probably not something theyre trusting minors with.

On the other hand, hes pretty clearly a lot less mature than the others on his team, to the point where he gets called a kid pretty regularly, they refer to his transmetal II upgrade as "cyber-puberty" and blackarachnia rejects his advances primarily for that immaturity.

Like. Is he just programmed to be a ditz? Is it just his personality? Is he the equivalent of an 18ish year old young adult, still irresponsible and desperate to prove himself as capable to the others? Or was he created by a different method than the protoform way we see in the show that requires more time to mature because he didn't have all the same pre-loaded personality and information right off the bat? Do we treat him as an adult by technicality or is it irresponsible to ignore the show treating him as genuinely young?

These are the questions that haunt me

[the-fandom-crossroads]

Unity News Round Up!

So at the very end of last week sep 23 Unity backed off of SOME of the new policy. So my original post about what games will be affected is no longer accurate. Link I am making this post to summarize how things are now and kill a few rumors that are still floating around. So Please reblog this one instead of the older post!

What Unity changed back

Legacy downloads will no longer be counted towards the 200,000 downloads! So older games will not have their downloads counted towards the bill. The 200,001 download to happen after jan 1st 2024 is when the fee will activate.

Cult of the Lamb is NOT being removed from store fronts jan 1st. That was a joke tweet and now it is extremely untrue. But the studio is switching engines for cult of the lamb 2.

Also this fee is not being added to the 2023 version of unity or older nor the Personal plan version. (because a lawyer finally informed the execs that's illegal) It will ONLY affect the 2024 version of Unity. So as long as your game is coded on the 2023 ver and you don't update to 2024 when it comes out your game can be published in 2024 and still not have the fee!

HOLLOW KNIGHT SILKSONG IS SAFE! Seeing as 80 to 90% of it has been coded in the 23 version there's no reason they can't finish it in that version.

But if your game will take longer than a year to finish I still recommend switching engines now. It would not surprise me if in a few years they end service for 2023 or older versions to force people to update to the newer versions with the fee.

Here's a link to the open letter announcing the changes.

Mihoyo/Genshin's connection to all of this.

Mihoyo has not yet made a public statement about all of this. But any change to the international unity tos would not affect them. They are partnered with Unity China which is it's own separate company. Unity China would have to adopt the change for it to affect Mihoyo. Which they have not made any statement implying they would.

The reason Unity China is a separate company is because of China's strict foreign company laws. But convincing the Chinese government to allow even an off shoot of a foreign company to set up shop is hard. Nintendo is still fighting to get their foot in the door. The only reason Unity C got in was because Mihoyo backed them. Unity C owes Mihoyo it's very existence. They are in no position to make demands by changing the current contracts without warning.

There were a few rumors about Mihoyo hiring people to develop their own game engine and that is false. Mihoyo did post 5 or so job listings for folks specialized in game engine coding. But it was clearly for code optimization of their current engine Unity. If Mihoyo decided to start building their own engine from scratch it would require the hiring of at least 100 coders focusing solely on the new engine.

Genshin and Honkai will stay on the Unity Engine. When the 2024 engine comes out Mihoyo might upgrade to it. But they would have a customized contract with Unity China and it would not include the current fee plan.

What about all the other Live Service Mobile Games?

In theory their creators could keep using 2023 and not have to worry about the fees. But as I mentioned I can't see Unity keeping the 2023 version usable past 2025. All of these games will easily pass the download threshold as they are free to download and they will pass the profit cap too.

Pokemon Go, Pokemon Unite, Duel Links, Master Duel, Hearthstone, Fates, League of Legends Wild Rift, and Marvel Snap are all still getting updates and won't be closing anytime soon. I don't know how important updating to the newest version of Unity is for these development teams. But in theory all their parent companies can afford the increased fees, they just won't like it.

With Mihoyo off the table Pokemon GO is the big fish Unity execs are aiming for. It gets a couple million new downloads every year and goes well past the profits cap and definitely isn't made using Unity Personal nor is Nintendo/GameFreak allowing Unity ads to play on their mobile game (those are all ways to lower the bill). Pokemon Go can't be moved to a new engine and has too many current users for Nintendo to risk dropping the app entirely to start over with pokemon go 2 on a new engine.

Nintendo has not yet made a comment, but if they do cave and pay the fees. Then there's no way the middle tier games devs can argue against it. even if the couple 1,000s in fees hurts the indie dev more. Unity can point to the couple million Nintendo is forking over for all their mobile games and say "if they can do it why can't you?"

So keep an eye out for what Nintendo does because of all this.

What about Demos, Charity bundles, or game subscription downloads?

The Updated version described in the open letter mentions the game devs being responsible for recording the number of downloads. Most likely because there isn't a legal way for Unity to truly monitor it and so their numbers would never have been trustworthy. If devs are reporting the numbers it's very easy to say downloads before a certain date are only the demos or keep track of how many charity bundles are sold and not count those downloads towards their total.

For Subscription Services, Unity has started to intentionally keep the answer vague. The first time they said developers would pay it like the legacy downloads. In an interview before the correction letter above the Unity President said the subscription hosts would pay the fee. After the correction letter he clarified that he "misspoke". AKA Microsoft and Playstation said "hell no!" that's super illegal to charge us in a contract we never signed we'll sue you to oblivion if you do that. But Unity is being unclear on if that means developers are back to footing the bill for Game Pass downloads. X

To understand exactly how vague they are being. A Reddit FAQ says developers will not be responsible for the fee of game downloads from subscription services. While the site FAQ section answers the question "Are Downloads from Subscription Services required to pay the download fee?" with "Yes" and Nothing more.

TOS Changes and How bad it really is

So the reason we don't know who is paying in some of these situations is because the final version of the 2024 licensing contract is not yet finalized. All Unity did was announce this new fee would be in the 2024 contract. That is why they were able to so quickly go back on what they said. It's just back spacing on a google doc it's not redacting and adjusting an actual legal document yet.

That means this might not be the only change they put in the new contract. This is just the only one they bothered to mention. most likely to convince shareholders they were going to be boosting profits in 2024 even if 23's Q4 is really low.

There being more unmentioned changes is a bad thing because they removed the github extension that updated you on changes made to the TOS. They argue it was because "traffic" was too low. There reasoning for removing an archive of Legal documents was click through rate being too low. They also argued that the TOS was available the entire time on their website. But please understand that is only their current TOS. So being able to compare changes from past TOS's wouldn't be possible on that page. X

The Possibility of this all being a Stunt

One of the theories going around is that they knew this would go over badly to some extent. Not this bad, but still drop the stock value a bit. Enough that the company would look cheap enough for a buy out from another company. The possible buyer being Apple's Mobile Gaming division. So far Apple has not shown interest in buying them and no solid evidence of this happening on the back end has shown up.

But it is pretty well known that the CEO sold stocks the week before this news came out. Which is called insider trading and super illegal. Unfortunately it looks like he might get away with it, with the argument that the sale of those stocks was scheduled months before this announcement was planned.

But that doesn't change the fact that he's sold over 50,000 shares this year alone. Two other officials have sold 37,000 and 68,000 of their shares this year. It's very clear they see the writing on the wall and are trying to offload stocks before the final numbers for the year reach the shareholders and the value of shares plummets. X

If they truly believed in the chance of a buy out they wouldn't be offloading so much of their stock. Because when they are bought Apple would have to pay them based on the number of shares they have at the time of the buy out. So they don't believe they'll be bought any time soon but they do believe the value of Unity stocks are only going to continue to go down.

Even without this stunt the end of Q4 report would have shown losses and caused the stock value to drop. This was most likely their last ditch attempt to show their shareholders something that implied the possibility of future profits.

That's the important thing to remember. They didn't care about how the devs reacted. They knew there were going to be complaints but they didn't care because they saw how much money they could milk if they charged every game to ever use unity for every download of that game. And they knew that would show profitability and increase the value of the company. They only back peddled when it became clear the news was affecting the stock more than anticipated.

Even then the .20 per download was never removed they just pushed back the cap and the downloads counted in hopes that would shut protests down enough for the stock value to go back up. as of Sep 29 their stock value has still not recovered.

Conclusion

Don't trust Unity. Anything they say now is just PR to try in get the stock value to go back up. They did pull back on some of the worst parts of the original agreement and older and most indie games are now safe. But Mobile F2P games and Game subscription games are still at risk of getting hit with the bill. They have also kept things vague enough to allow them to change things in the future once the dust has settled.

So I would heavily encourage those in the early stages of their games development to look for a new engine. If you have any Unity Stocks and haven't already sold them for whatever reason I'd find the time to start selling them. Unity might recover for a bit but they are not going to last long with business decisions like this and even the board members know that.

Oh wow this got so long I am so sorry. But It's all important information and I tried to link to actual articles as much as I could. As of the end of September this information is as accurate as it can be. Nothing major should come up until Unity announces the finalized TOS rewrite or Nintendo comments on the Pokemon Go fees.

PLEASE reblog this one if you reblogged my initial post about Unity Games that were at risk. It's important for people to know those games are no longer at risk of being removed from store fronts. Oh and feel free to reblog with a summarized version.

[pixiemage]

I'll preface this by saying that I love Monty Gator. He's a HELLA cool character whose presence as an angry puppy dog in Ruin gave me way too much joy, and his boss battle in SB proper was SUPER fun! (I do wish Steel Wool had stuck with the stealing-Monty's-legs plotline rather than his claws, mostly for the sake of consistency but also so the excuse for his leg upgrade could've been so he could do some sick dance moves during shows - but I digress.)

I say this because I'm about to say something some folks might disagree with, but every time I see someone argue that Monty couldn't possibly have decommissioned Bonnie, the arguments they use sometimes make me want to just - throttle people for their lack of logic and their willingness to cling to anything that might help prove their point. There are some really well-thought-out arguments in there too sometimes (Bonnie being decommissioned pre-Monty's-claw-upgrade comes to mind, though I always wonder if the reason that was fucked up was due to the switchover from Monty's legs to his claws, and people assuming his lack of upgraded claws means he couldn't hurt a fellow animatronic without them, even though Moon seems more than capable of ripping apart Staffbots and the Staffbots are capable of wrecking Freddy in the Vanny endings - anyway) and I'm always down to see what alternate concepts folks have come up with! But sometimes - sometimes, not always - when I do watch those Monty-Was-Innocent videos, the folks making them are pulling in proof that feels more like they're grasping at straws, which unfortunately weakens the argument they're trying to make.

The popular one as of late is "the green paint around the claw marks on Bonnie's chest are definitely not from Monty's hands, and it's obviously an older coat of paint that we see because the blue layer was scratched away" which...I mean...good concept in theory, but. No?

Bonnie has never been associated with green. In the Pizzaplex, the Glamrock characters have set color palettes that are associated with their respective brands and merchandise. Bonnie's color set is blue, purple, and red, both in his Glamrock form and his Bonnie Bowl design. In all past games, he's been blue or purple. Even factoring in Springtrap, no version of Bonnie has ever been green, not even as an accent color. So why in the world would Glamrock Bonnie have an undercoat of green paint?

And even if he WAS green at one point, then wouldn't it have shown through in - I don't know - any of the other horribly cracked pieces of his chassis, rather than only being centralized around the claw marks cutting into his chest cavity? Every other crack or bit of damage outside of that chest wound is lined in either black or a darker shade of the surface color, not green. It's an extremely specific design choice on Steel Wool's part and I'm more inclined to believe they designed Bonnie's coloring that way on purpose.

Now don't get me wrong, when someone gives me an actual theory detail where something else left green residue behind, I'll give 'em kudos for thinking outside the box (especially when they're on to something solid). I love when people are able to put together clear puzzle pieces with enough proof to back 'em up. But the "old paint" bit feels so much more like Monty fans grasping for straws and I really wanna see people think harder than that. I want to see something concrete, because I get excited when someone finds something I haven't seen before!

In the Ruin DLC, Steel Wool dumped details in our laps to expand on the breadcrumbs they'd already left behind. They had a neon Bonnie sign be the thing that electrocuted Monty, the carpet Bonnie's body is on matches the carpeting in Monty Golf, and they went out of their way to line the claw marks with green. (And that's not even counting stuff that was hinted at in the base game). I'm all for theorizing alternate possibilities, but if someone wants to form a legitimate argument against Monty being the killer, then at least come up with something strong enough to counter what's in the games.

In truth, a few people have put out some really well-thought-out videos rallying for Monty's innocence, and I respect them for the work they've put into it. They've managed to really make me think! I just want to see more folks like that, people who think about what they're saying before positing their thoughts in a twenty-minute YT video trying to save their favorite boy.

Because let's be real, Monty is a fantastic character. I love seeing people who are passionate enough to fight for him. For me, I still lean heavily into the "Vanny made him do it" camp because people aren't wrong, Monty wouldn't have done something like that to Bonnie of his own free will...but the evidence Steel Wool set out for us to find is a bit too damning for me to think Monty was completely uninvolved. I'm just hoping we get some damn clarity from Steel Wool soon because I think, between Who Killed Bonnie and the disagreements over which ending Ruin takes place after, some minor wars and disputes are starting to break out across the fanbase that I reeaaally want to avoid lmao. Give us a hand here, SW! If you're gonna keep us guessing with everything else, then at least give us the answers to something!

[harrison-abbott]

I

The winds had quietened and they gambolled down the hill that

Had seen so many stories in atmospheres of hushed ivy and the

Night had an inky zone now on all that mattered most in the

Changing age. ………………………………………………….

In the old house that overlooked the hill the lights were still

Yellow from the strange isolated man that lived there with the

Shocked grey hair and the countless tales, too, that few were

Known about … only glimmer and glamour, secrets kept hard.

The foxes dallied across the roads by the nights and they

Were never going to be caught and they knew it and that’s

Why they even ventured out before midnight, why they muzzled

At the food bins outside the houses or the gardens in search

Of the cats or the mice, or whatever it is that these animals

Do – for you only ever see them within seconds and then nought.

The schools were back on in January nothingness; the mundane

Dreary walk up the motorway to the high school that

Looked like a building out of a true crime documentary …

The kids were angry that none of the storms had cancelled

The school days, yet; and thus they had to do the jaunts

In the lashing rain and blistering wind that had stopped the

Trains across the nation, had overlorded the news.

Christmas and Hogmany seemed like aeons ago even

Though it was only last month and there was little to go

On with 2024, as a year, save the casual mayhem that happened

On the radio or on one’s phone, with the occasional wowing

Event being one related to a soccer manager announcing his

Decision to vacate at the end of the season or some other

Thing that wasn’t nearly as important as war, except, was:

Only in a civilian way. …………………………………………….

Several of the trees had cracked and were destroyed by the

Storms and many of the folks would miss them because

There was nothing they could do about these giant shards of timber

Lying now on the fields of the park with their clear innards

Outside the gnarly bark and each of them wondered with ease

How easily such a brute branch could kill you if you stood under

It … if you’d been there during that moment in the carnage

When it quit the trunk and thundered down.

II

The cafes have slow businesses and there are various reports from

Week to week about restaurants shutting down, some of them joints

That have been alive for forty years in the city. And there’s not much

To rescue with such incidents, either. Oh, and even some of the

Watering holes, in this nation renowned for alcohol, have had to

Shut the doors also; and on social media these snapshots are met

With sad faces and what not, and it makes one wonder about

The fifty or so people that work in and around that particular

Venue and what on earth they will do for money now that their

Lives have changed. ………………………………………………

But the vans still hurtle buy delivering their parcels and folks

Still go to the supermarket in the busy times all the same.

Some of them even still stop to give the charity magazine seller

A coin or two outside of the revolving doors and when you go

Through said doors the heating in the building is ramped up full

And you sweat or your skin prickles because you’ve just come

Out of the cold and it’s fifteen degrees upgrade in here …

And there are young folks working in the market and there

Are older workers too who have been here, you know, for over

Twelve years. And they play pretty good tunes on the tannoids

High above and you can sing along in a civilian way as you

Go to get your stuff. And there’s this older chap who hasn’t

Worked in the place so long and he is always always always

Cheery and you wonder what gives him the zeal to be friendly

With other folks all the time. ………………………………………

Outside the supermarket the gulls are a bit twitchy and desperate.

And they have grown to picking on the gardens instead, up

In the suburbs, where the humans feed the seeds and bread to

The pigeons and blackbirds (the likable birds). But really it’s free

For any squirrel or rat, whomever, to come and rage at the output.

Following the latest storm, the wind has blown off the fencing

From several of the neighbourhood gardens as well and since

The residents are a bit older now they have hired other workers

To come fix it rather than try and hail up the fences themselves.

Which must be a sad fact to them, that they haven’t the physical

Verve anymore (although some of them are in their 70s, so no shame.)

Brave daffodils and bluebells poke from the fields and woods

In little miraculous pockets of colour, the way they always do;

And they are a cheerful sight indeed alongside the muddled streets.

III

The city is over half a million folks now which is quite a hefty

Number of people if you think about it and I remember when I

Was a kid it was about a hundred thousand less than that, and that

Makes me feel old and I suppose I am getting pretty old … and even

Though I’ve lived most of my life in a leafy suburb which is quite

Detached from Edinburgh, there even seethes this sense of quick-turning

Change, even here, in a place that never quite belonged to urbanity

From what I recall in youth. With the stark differences in the weather

And the way people act differently with technology, most things are

Moving far too fast and it didn’t move that way when you were a boy.

Or perhaps I’ve just come into the thirties with a shock, knowing I

Won’t live forever. Edinburgh is still alive, though, and I am too,

For now at least. Even though it’s night and black outside and lost

And changing, it still has an erratic pulse. ……………………………..

[twistedstoryteller]

I have a question i wanna ask :3

Sunny and mari, what are you Opinions regarding the RSA Students?

Both as "Idia" and "Ortho", and as yourselves.

Another question, sunny, were you always that good in gaming or was that a natural talent you got as "Idia"?

Royal Sword Academy?

I believe that’s technically the school that rivals Night Raven College or NRC that we both go to as “Idia” and “Ortho” respectively which also just happens on the same island as well

Oh. The one school that looks to have a bunch of shinning happy peppy hero boys in them?…………I mean Kel and Hero would have obviously fit with them I guess. Not me………I don’t exactly do “bright and peppy” despite my name

Yes that one Sunny, and I don’t think it’s that bad. I believe that school had their students resemble a lot of heroes and good guys from that one series of movies. In fact I believe two of them remind me of Snow White and the Cheshire Cat. Though I believe the one that reminds of the Cheshire Cat quite funny and enjoyable, while the one that reminds of Snow White well, very beautiful and graceful(Well of course no RSA student any more handsome than Hero!)

Yeah………I think you’re talking about Neige and Chenya big sis(also sis please don’t say stuff like that. It’s……oh it’s too embarrassing to even explain that). I mean Chenya alright but then again this is coming from me as “Sunny”. But Neige………

I think Kel, or was it Basil said that he kinda looked like me, but how do I even resemble that guy? I mean that guy smiles and is way more peppy than I am………plus I’m pretty sure I don’t come close to holding a candle to him

Sunny, don’t say that. Maybe Neige is technically a world famous celebrity but I still think you’re better than him. I know a certain someone would agree with that

Right, thanks Mari

Of course Sunny, your my younger brother!

Now before me and Sunny switch over to our forms as “Ortho” and “Idia” respectively. I should quickly mention when Sunny’s Idia, well………

You don’t have to sugarcoat it Mari. Unlike Mari when she is “Ortho”, I don’t exactly remember being “Sunny” when I’m “Idia” cause of some……stuff that happened(I’m sure you all can figure out which event was responsible for that) I can only find things familiar or deja-vu. But I’m sure I’ll remember more properly later, also before I forget that second question and or get confused by it as “Idia” well, Yes I always been good as gaming. I just got a lot better at it as “Idia”

Right……well, no use stalling now

>eventually both Sunny and Mari focused on their forms to resemble “Idia” and “Ortho” once more. Idia also completely forgets his talk as “Sunny” just now too

Uhh, Ortho. When and how did we get here? In fact in all of great seven’s name what are we doing here again?

>tries not to sigh but also tries to remind calm as to not make his older brother panic

Well Nii-san, we’re here to answer the question of “what our opinions are regarding the Royal Sword Academy or RSA students”

Oh, those guys……I don’t think I even need to start a full ramble on this one. Aside the obvious “RSA always wins against NRC in their 100 years win streak”. They are just so “bright” and “peppy”. Very much a group of sparkly and always eye catching to lots of people everywhere in the sparky white uniforms that are an eyesore for me. Like I wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out with them, no, no thanks. They’re like extroverts but more uhhh “cheery” and “happy like” but in the most cringe way possible, I mean who do they think they are? A bunch of high school idols or “cute” magical girls that preach the power of friendships and all that barf(besides you Ortho are way better than those cheery smily folk, they don’t have the awesome upgrades you have)?

I don’t think that might be it Nii-san(Besides thanks for the compliment Nii-san. But that aside) Besides, I don’t believe RSA students are that bad, sure it sucks that NRC hadn’t managed to secure a win against their rival in the last hundred years, they just see things differently compared to Night Raven College students. Like Artemiy Artemiyevvich Pinker or Che’nya for short. He’s a RSA student but he seems to be good friends with Riddle Rosehearts and Trey Clover. I even sometimes spot him sneaking into the Heartslabyul dorm around the time have their Unbirthday parties

I bet Che’nya-san came to see his two friends and have fun doing all sorts of fun unbirthday activities together

More like obviously steal and take some of the sweet treats at those unbirthday parties………

Oh and there’s Neige LeBlanche who’s a popular celebrity that’s both an actor and influencer just like Vil Schoenheit-san. Sure he part of Royal Sword Academy but he’s actually very nice and friendly that most likely make almost anyone smile

More like make me barf. I swear am I the only one who thinks on what happened in the VDC is purely rigged. Not only that it’s obviously NRC is way better at the thing, especially Vil. Vil much better than Neige 100%. Yeah I said it, Vil’s better than Neige. At least he doesn’t make me think that the other secretly some kind of undercover antagonist that’s steals the heroine from under her nose before she even aware of it! The heroine deserves someone obviously not so plain aka someone more amazing and worthy to sweep her off her feet, someone obviously dating matter like Vil, he’s obviously more attractive and beautiful than Neige. He’s in fact more my type. Point is Vil obviously the better choice of boyfriend/lover than Neige, plus I still think that whole personality fake and oh, did I mention again that song Neige somehow won with is garbage. Pure garbage and-

Uhhh, Nii-san. Let’s stop your rambling right there before you attract any angry Neige Leblanche fans to our location(Besides while Neige is alright. I’m with you on Vil being the better one between those two)

Fine……I’ll stop my obvious bashing/complaining about Neige LeBlanche(For now)

Better. Now I think we both talked about our opinions clear(Though I won’t hesitate to blast the RSA students if they are obviously mean to Nii-san). I believe we can-

Wait Nii-san. Did you mention that Vil somehow the better choice of being a boyfriend/lover earlier in your rambling?

W-W-W-What, N-No! I-I didn’t say that. I said Vil’s the better actor and-

Nii-san. Don’t lie to me.

I thought you had a celebrity crush on Vil Schoenheit-san. But hearing this now, your in love with him

N-No, it’s not like that. I swear it’s not like that! I mean yeah Vil’s pretty and all but uhh, oh great seven……

Don’t worry Nii-san. I’ll do my best to make sure you get together with Vil-san. It might take awhile but I’m sure we’ll get there! For now, I should go see when you and Vil can both hang out together!

>he soon immediately flies off to find Vil for Idia

No, wait come back! ORTHO NO! >he immediately runs after his little brother in a desperate attempt to stop him before said little brother accidentally embarrasses Idia in front of Vil

>the camera also turns off at this point

[manchineel-mistress]

Ok so I've been reading a lot of Yugioh Harry Potter crossovers lately. Mainly because they are the whole reason why I even started rewatching Yugioh dm (like I was not about to accept that this damn Harry Potter crossover fic had actually in canon characterization for the Yugioh characters because It Did Not Match Up with my memories from 13 years ago).

Anyway, I think Yugioh and Harry Potter has this great crossover potential because a) everything has good Harry Potter crossover potential and b) their timelines match up. Yuugi is like.... a month and some change older than harry, and that's something you can’t just leave there lying. They can bond!! Over not having normal high school experiences!! And almost dying constantly!! And Destiny!!

But also like would it not be hilarious for Umbridge to get shadow gamed seasson 0 Yami style. I think it would be hilarious, just, she starts seeing everything as pink or seeing the words she writes and/or hears being carved into her skin as her penalty game. I think it would be silly and funny teehee.

Back to the fics, usually they give the gang magic (either going shadow magic route or millennium items gets an upgrade again), but consider. What if. They don't. Yuugi finds himself in Hogwarts and Dumbledore or someone is convinced he can do magic, but he can’t. Poor baby just sits in charms class and tries to levitate a feather, only to be waving a stick and saying nonsense words. No, the person who can actually do magic is Yami, and that's why they got in this situations in the first place, so every time Yuugi needs to preform magic, Yami has to step in and figure out someway to make his half remembered-mostly-instinct-and-completely-different magic do the thing that the teacher wants him to do. Or it could be the route that shadow magic and HP magic are the same, just different branches, and the folks out in ancient Egypt only learned the shadow magic branch. Wouldn’t really help Yami as he tries his damnest to bluff his way through class, but it would be interesting world building wise. Yuugi does all the writing work though, because they’re partners who share th work.

“But Manch,” I can hear the nonexistent voice in my head that might also be you say, “why the hell would the gang be anywhere near the UK?” Well the Fics (tm) usually end up with shadow court or Bakura goes on summer holiday or Dumbledore and Voldemort are eyeing the millennium items. But like, what if Kaiba or someone just hosts a duel monsters contest in London and the gang just get invited for the summer. Then cue deatheaters and then cue the gang getting kidnapped into the wizarding world. Or at least Yuugi. Why did they invite muggle(s) into the wizarding world? Well damn that pendant sure looks useful in this war- wait what do you mean it’s now tied permanently to that boy- goddamnit I wanted to avoid possible kidnapping charge.

Also, I think that the millennium items could definitely just one shot Voldemort. Drag him into the shadow game, he has enough pride to fudge up and end with him yoinked into hell or something. It would be funny.

So yeah, I’ve been thinking too much about YGO HP crossovers, it's been a couple of weeks and I needed to get the Thoughts out. HP crossovers are my guilty pleasure, especially when they are just tearing the HP world apart or are just incredibly silly. Silly crossovers are my favorite.

[the-lady-bryan]

Okay but like, I literally just bought a refurbed business computer that's been upgraded to today's standards (it originally came out in 2012/2013).

Works soooooooo much better than any new laptop I've ever had, and still has room for further upgrades. Like, I only bought the lower-end refurb that the seller had available. DVD rw drive. Integrated graphics. Intel i5 core processor (I forget the specifics on that) and 8gb ram with 500gb HDD. But I can further upgrade it by converting to SSD using an adapter and have a few tb of internal storage and it handles up to 32 GB ram.

And that's before I get around to things like sound cards and GPUs. That's just the refurb stock model I've got.

The laptop I have from 2017 can handle only up to 16gb ram. And has 500gb SSD but the motherboard can't really handle more than that. Basic DVD drive, but it is cd rw just not DVD rw. My husband's 2020 laptop? 8gb ram but it's soldered in and can't be upgraded with 500gb SSD that also can't be upgraded. No DVD/CD drive.

Took a look at Walmart a few days ago, most affordable laptops are basically chromebooks with windows 11 on em. 250gb internal storage but with a Microsoft subscription you can have a TB of cloud storage! Also, 4gb ram, with the midrange models having gasp! 8gb ram and still only 250ssd internal storage! By the way the "affordable" price range at my local Walmart starts at $350ish. Not a single model available from any brand has a DVD or CD drive. For that you've got to drop nearly $1000 for the desktop tower alone. And that's for base models with 8-16gb and 500gb-1tb internal storage. Monitor, keyboard, mouse, gpu not included. But hey you get rgb decorative lighting I guess.

And this is just at my local Walmart in a rural-ish town where the only other place to buy a computer is Staples. And even then, they don't have nearly as much as Walmart.

The only reason I bought my refurb desktop from a discount seller was because my laptops are too old and costly to repair at the moment and I needed SOMETHING to be able to start streaming again and playing Minecraft with my husband. And I only paid $98 for it with tax. Free shipping. It came with a free keyboard and mouse and surprise internal speakers that didn't originally come on that particular model. It was cheap, better than any of the laptops I have, still fully upgradeable, and while it doesn't have fancy HDMI connector due simply to the fact the motherboard just doesn't come with one, I can remedy that with an adapter for under $20 if I choose.

So yeah, with the damn near unusability of newer model laptops in the market and the near unaffordability of even the bottom end models yeah, I can completely see a return to desktops. Especially with the ease of availability of upgraded refurbs on the market nowadays as many businesses are forced to upgrade to less capable machines with newer software that requires always online cloud computing in order to still function as a business. So their older perfectly serviceable machines are being sold off and or salvaged and resold to regular folks.

i give it scant years before desktop computers come back fashion a la record players and people talk about bringing back computer rooms, not taking your computer around the house, "intentional" computing, "it's really important to take the time out and just sit with your computer and really absorb the action of computing" it will be no different from the romance and nostalgia surrounding the notion of throwing on a vinyl

[digibizz]

The Smart Future of Food: AI Gets Personal with Your Plate

Guess what? How we eat is about to get a whole lot smarter! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is stepping into gyms, offering nutrition that's not just good for you, but good for you specifically. This isn't some far-off dream; it's happening now, and it's growing like crazy!

Let's Talk Numbers: The Booming AI Nutrition Scene

Alright, let's look at the cash. Back in 2024, the AI-powered personalized nutrition market was already worth around $3.66 billion.

Fast forward to this year, 2025, and experts are saying it'll jump to about $4.52 billion, that's a hefty 23.7% increase!

What's Coming Down the Line?

Hold onto your hats, because by 2028, this market is predicted to hit $8.51 billion, keeping up a super strong growth of 23.5% each year.

And by 2029? We're talking $10.5 billion, still growing at a solid 23.4% annually.

The Bigger Picture: Everyone's Going Personalized

Zooming out, the whole idea of personalized nutrition (not just the AI bit) is also taking off. This year, 2025, it's estimated to be a $17.9 billion market.

By 2034, it is expected to reach nearly $61 billion, growing at about 14.6% every year.

Why the Sudden Food Upgrade?

So, what's making everyone so keen on personalized gym AI-nutrition? Here's the lowdown:

We want what's right for us: People are increasingly looking for food and health advice that fits their unique bodies, from their genes to their lifestyle.

Science is getting cleverer: We're learning more about how our bodies and food interact, leading to more spot-on nutrition plans.

Tech is making it easy-peasy: Smartwatches and our phones are collecting data that AI can use to give us super-tailored advice.

Tackling modern health woes: With more folks dealing with things like weight issues and diabetes, personalized nutrition offers a real way to help, especially as we get older.

Big bucks are backing it: Lots of investment is going into health tech and smart AI that can create custom meal plans and suggest the right supplements.

Cool New Stuff in AI Nutrition

The world of AI and food is always changing. Check out these trends:

AI is teaming up with your smart home stuff to track your health and tweak your food in real-time.

Smart AI can now guess the best supplements and meals just for you.

Super smart AI can even look at your genes and gut stuff to give you ultra-personalized food tips.

The next big thing is combining AI, your genes, and what's trendy in wellness, with the market growing by 15-17% each year from 2025 to 2030.

A Few Bumps in the Road

Of course, with any cool new tech, there are things we need to be careful about:

Keeping your personal health info super private and safe.

Following all the complicated rules around health data, like GDPR.

Making sure it's not too expensive and that people understand why it's worth it.

The Final Bite: Smarter Eating is Here to Stay

The market for AI-nutrition in fitness and wellness is booming. It is set to more than double from $3.66 billion in 2024 to $10.5 billion by 2029.

This growth is thanks to smart tech like Nutrish.ai, with more focus on health and wellness. With AI getting smarter and working with other cool tech, we're looking at a future where food advice can be super tailored. This will help us all be healthier in the years to come. And the whole personalized nutrition scene? That's heading towards a massive $61 billion by 2034. The question is as a gym owner/fitness industry entrepreneur, are you ready to capitalize on this digital shift? Embrace AI-nutrition for gyms and build a sustainable future.