#and garland as bowser

[whumperofworlds]

Me: Kidnapping.

My tired ass brain: Kemenapping.

Me, laughing till I have an asthma attack: KEMENAPPING.

[imagine-darksiders]

What about Bowser and a preggo Y/N?

And why not? :)

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The frantic sound of bare feet slapping unevenly against cold, unforgiving stone echoes down the hallway, ricocheting off vast, stone walls and filling the oppressive space with the proof of your desperate escape.

Lungs heaving like a set of billows, you try your utmost to focus on throwing one foot out after the other, clutching an arm around your swollen belly in some futile attempt not to jostle the tiny life growing inside it as you lurch down the corridor, wincing with every step that pounds against the unforgiving stone beneath you.

Somewhere far behind you, from deep in the bowels of the fortress, a thunderous roar erupts into the air, chasing you through the doors that you've left swinging in your wake.

“Well-!” you puff down to your stomach, skidding around a corner and lumbering towards another set of enormous, stone doors, “He had to wake up eventually.”

It's always dark in the Dark Lands, but the lack of activity in the twisting hallways clues you in to the fact that night must have settled its oppressive weight over the fortress, driving the koopas into their barracks to sleep. You'd only dared to make this escape attempt hours after their ruler laid his mighty head down and filled his chambers with the deep, rolling melody of snores.

If anything, you're lucky to have made it this far, to have put as much distance between you and your captor as you already have. Any extra progress you happen to make is a delightful bonus.

It's been six months since you fell pregnant, and only two months since you fell into Bowser's clutches. Two gruelling months of trying to hide the growing bump beneath your dress's garlands. Two months of escape attempts, all in an effort to get your unborn child to safety.

So long as you're still here, in the fortress of a tyrant, the baby is at risk.

Every day since Bowser discovered he'd kidnapped a pregnant human, your future offspring seems less of a blessing, and more of a ticking time bomb sitting in your womb.

They're leverage. They could be used to control you.

Worse still, they could be hurt.

At the back of your mind, a tiny voice reasons that your assumptions are, so far, utterly baseless.

Much as it stings your pride to admit, you've yet to come under any fire from Bowser, or his troops. You're only too aware that a Koopa of his stature and power could have done far, far worse than keeping you here under lock and key, although that in itself you consider an unforgivable crime.

In actual fact, if you were questioned under extreme duress, you'd have to concede that he's been infuriatingly accommodating.

Even more-so after he finally used his brain and realised that you weren't diving into the bathroom to throw up because he'd accidentally over-salted the food he brought you.

If you thought he was overbearing in the first few months of your imprisonment, you were rather unpleasantly surprised to discover that he could get a whole Hell of a lot worse...

Another roar shakes through the corridor, powerful enough to nearly send you toppling off your wobbly feet.

There are plenty of aspects about Bowser you find troubling.

His unchecked jealousy, for one. The possessive rigidity of his hand when it's wrapped around your wrist. How he stubbornly deafens himself to reason and rationality if it doesn't align with his interests.

But there's one trait of his – one terrible, frightening quirk in his biology – that turns your blood to ice inside your veins.

It's that very same 'trait' that's chasing you through the endless hallways right now.

You know you only have yourself to blame for drawing him out.

The giant.

You can picture it now – Bowser, laying in his chambers, curling his tail up to feel the open air around it where once a warm body had been occupying the space. He must have woken to find you missing from his side and promptly lost what little self-control he's already barely in possession of.

You can feel it in the way his fortress quivers around all you now, as if afraid of its own king.

You once thought Bowser was already indomitable enough.

Then you saw what he can become, what he's capable of turning into with enough rage and power feeding into his temper.

You've only seen it happen once, and ever since, you've hoped with everything in you that you wouldn't have to see it again.

Yet judging from the way the ground trembles and the distant 'boom,' 'boom,' 'boom,' of gargantuan footfalls begins to draw closer, you fear you're about to be reacquainted with the very worst aspect of the self-proclaimed King.

Swollen and sore, your feet hum with a heat that stings at their soles, but still you push forwards, gasping for air that wheezes too thinly down your throat.

You won't let him take back to that room.

To that... that detestable nest.

Not least because you can't bear the humiliation of being fawned over and coddled for another, mortifying moment. At least before your pregnancy was discovered, you'd been allowed the illusion of privacy.

You were given your own bed chambers, you could sleep without the weight of the King pressing in around you like a slumbering mountain. You had time to yourself, albeit a few hours, where you could be free from Bowser's boundless attention.

Then, of course, you were found out.

Within less than a moment, what little 'freedom' you were so graciously handed was swiftly snatched back.

Much to your chagrin, you were removed from your chambers and moved straight into the King's.

Instead of simply watching you eat your meals with that daft, adoring grin stretching his muzzle, he started trying to feed you directly. The silver spoon always looked so ridiculous clutched inside his meaty paw. His big, bottom lip would stick out childishly each and every time you snatched the spoon away from him and reminded him sternly that you're only pregnant. You're not bed-ridden.

A sudden agony swells in your stomach and ripples outwards along each of your limbs, slowing you to a gasping stagger, as if your tiny passenger has finally decided to take umbrage with your lumbering motions.

Before you can gather your wits, you've opened your mouth to release a strangled cry, nearly falling to your knees as you grasp feverishly at your belly, eyes bulging in their sockets.

So much for only pregnant....

“Ah! Shit!” you hiss, stumbling sideways until your shoulder collides painfully with the solid, stone wall, “Gah! Not now, kid.”

Raking a hand through sweat-soaked hair, you grind your teeth together and suck a hissing breath between them, glancing at the path ahead of you through eyes bleary with tears. Another towering, stone doorway stands in front of you, large and tempting. You have no idea where it leads – this wing of the castle looks much the same as all the others that Bowser has tried to show off to you – but right now, forwards is vastly preferable to backwards.

You have to press on, even though your ligaments feel as though they're being wrung out, even though there's an invisible knife twisting into your side and causing you to cringe away from nothing, you have to press on.

Escape could be just behind those doors. Today could finally be the day you slip between Bowser's grasping fingers and reclaim your freedom. You might see Captain Skip again. She's loyal, oftentimes to a fault. Surely, surely she's still waiting for you on the docks, hatching a daring rescue attempt, knowing her. It's been one of the most troubling prospects that's been on your mind daily since you were first brought here. To see Skip storm Bowser's fortress with her crew, only to be cut down by the vastly superior numbers of troops heaving behind the walls.

You sailed across vast oceans with Skip and those sailors for months. They're good people with families and loved ones waiting for them back home in your kingdom. You'd do anything to spare them the fate that awaits them here, even if it means invoking the wrath of Bowser's colossal counterpart by trying to rescue yourself.

Setting your jaw with a firm click of teeth, you suck down a long, noisy breath and shove yourself upright off the wall, tottering forwards on your bare feet until you reach the door and slap both hands around the silver handles.

Shoulders braced, you move to throw the doors open, itching to get to the other side-

'WHAM!'

There isn't enough self-restraint in the galaxy that could have kept the startled yelp from bursting out of your lungs. It's only half a second later that you cram a hand over your mouth, as if to stuff the sound back down into your chest.

A swell of scorching, hot air surges into the corridor behind you, reaching you in a terrifying matter of moments and rolling up the nape of your neck.

Blind terror seizes your mobility away from you and turns your feet to lead.

You're still facing the doorway just in front of you, stiff-necked and bug-eyed with one hand clenched like a vice around the handle.

In the reflection, a huge, distorted shape raises its fiery head.

Eyes of fire blaze hot within the cool, silver surface.

There's something inherently paralysing in realising you've been spotted in a game of cat and mouse. The tendency to freeze overwhelms you for a few, crucial seconds where you hold perfectly still, bound by some misguided hope that if you don't make a single movement, the predator behind you won't be enticed to pounce.

You don't remember how to turn and glance over your shoulder.

You know what you'll find if you look.

You can tell by the crashing bellow that rattles your brain in its skull that you're out of luck. There are no more barriers between you and your pursuer.

You'd moved too slowly...

The walls around you begin to tremble in a fast, unsteady rhythm, and the ground shudders under your feet, and still it feels as though someone has turned a key in your spine and locked your limbs up tight.

It's only when the shadow of two, pointed horns fall upon you and rise up the door that you finally burst back to life.

Kicking off the lead weights attached to your ankles, you tug at the doors with all your might. But stone is heavy. Heavier than you recall it being.

The doors scrape open an inch, and all of a sudden, they're struck from above with the force of a siege machine as something huge smashes into them, wrenching the handles from your grasp and scaring a strangled yelp out of you.

An all-too familiar burst of moist air breathes down on top of your head, billowing at the collar of your night dress. The moisture from his maw mingles horribly with the sweat that trickles down the nape of your neck.

Swallowing thickly, you crank your neck back, shoulders hunched, until your eyes land upon the underside of a mammoth wrist, bedecked with a silver-spiked cuff that glints menacingly when its points catch the meagre firelight.

Attached to the wrist is a mountainous hand sporting its own set of spikes. These however, occur naturally, in the form of terrible, foot-long claws that perch at the end of each monstrous fingers.

The palm is taller than you are, and sits flat against the stone doors, sealing them shut so firmly that nothing short of an explosion could ever hope to shift them.

God... You can hear his almighty chest heaving raggedly overhead, immense lungs straining to pull in enough air just to refill them with the oxygen he'd expelled hunting you down.

It's him.

Bowser, but not quite. A King who has temporarily sacrificed what little brain he possesses to give himself a massive boost in brawn.

Despite the inherent need to see the rest of the titan bearing down upon you, you lower your gaze to the stone at your feet with a shaky gulp and keep your belly pressed to the door, curling around it with a fierce if futile determination to put yourself between the baby and any supposed danger.

As if a few, scant inches of flesh could stop the King from getting to them if he really wanted to.

Regardless of your noble effort, a second paw – equally as enormous as the first - presses urgently in around you. Claws almost as long as your forearm slip around the front of your night dress, and with a hesitant care that you don't notice in the ensuing fright, you're carefully eased away from the doors.

You immediately have something to say about it. Predominantly, “No!”

It hurts you to twist and wriggle, but you do your best to try and slip free of Bowser's fingers as they curl around your legs and torso, leaving your arms and fists free to beat uselessly at the hard, yellow scales on his knuckles. “Put me down!” you spit in an attempt to sound authoritative, dismayed that the crack in your tone belies the effort.

As if in direct defiance of your demand, the monstrous King instead lifts you up, twisting his wrist around slowly until, at last, that massive, protruding maw rises into view, swallowing up the world around you with its inescapable vastness.

Slitted nostrils flare open and closed at a frantic pace, pulling and pushing at the sweat-dampened hair sticking to your forehead. Without skipping a beat, the colossus leans his snout in close, bringing you towards the sharp fangs that are too large for his maw to contain.

Your eyes flash down to them as your pulse starts to thrash, pounding at the walls of your skin as if your heart itself is trying to abandon ship.

Bowser has never hurt you...

Yet...

It's that 'yet' that flashes through your mind as you squeeze your eyes shut, bracing yourself for whatever punishment the King has in mind.

Surely he's reached the end of his fuse. Surely you've pushed him over the edge and he's at last going to do something so terrible, so painful, all of your misgivings about him will be justified.

So it comes as a shock, when, rather than fire or jaws, you feel the soft press of a snout against your cheek.

You'd open your mouth to gasp if it wasn't also being smothered by Bowser's thick, rubbery lips as he begins to snuffle gently at your face, checking you over for injuries...

Secured in his surrounding grasp, you toss your head from left to right, trying to escape the hot breaths that are puffed out across your head. All for nought, of course. The gigantic snout follows your thrashing and gives your mouth a last, hearty sniff before suddenly, it starts to move south, skirting over your dress until it comes to hover just inches from your belly.

Gradually, like the bars of a cage being pried open, his fingers uncurl from around you and he tips his hand back so that you're left laying prone in the cup of his palm, your feet just barely dangling over the edge.

All at once, you freeze in place, your eyes growing wide and round with alarm.

No... Not them... They don't deserve to be punished because of what you did... You'll take his retribution on any other part of your body, if he'll just leave your stomach alone.

“Please,” you whisper, wetting your lips and swallowing the acrid taste that builds on your tongue at the abhorrence of begging for the creature's mercy, “Please, it's not their fault I ran... Don't... don't hurt them... Leave them alone.”

The King gives you a look, then, his blood-red eyes flicking up from your belly to squint at you, brows of flaming orange drawing into a tight, indignant line across his forehead.

Bowser doesn't talk when he's like this. His vocal chords have been twisted and stretched out of shape, but he doesn't need the ability to speak to convey his message quite clearly through expression alone.

He's offended. That you'd... what? Assume that your kidnapper might be angry enough to make you face retribution for your actions?

Hell, the baby's own father had smacked you dizzy for the mere crime of expressing a desire to keep the poor child. How can Bowser think it's such a stretch for you to expect similar from the Koopa who took you captive?

Like a mountain pressing in all around you, the titanic turtle closes the distance between your belly and his nose. For a second, the alarm of having a jaw so large approach the baby growing inside you is enough to make you raise your hands as if you could stop him.

And then, with a care that doesn't at all befit his size, Bowser slowly lets his eyes slip shut and presses the very tip of his snout against your swollen stomach, the barest pressure, the lightest touch, warm and soft and entirely careful, as if he's aware of his size and knows the damage he could inadvertently cause with the tiniest effort.

“What... are you doing?” Bewildered, you can only gape up at him as you blink away the stinging behind your eyelids, brows twisted up in disbelief.

This behaviour is... a far cry from what you'd been expecting after he caught up to you.

Ever so gradually, the King's chest stops rising and falling like a maddened bull, his bristling mane flattens down slightly and his shoulders slump in apparent relief.

After a long, silent minute spent in apprehensive silence, the Koopa peels his eyes open once more and draws his snout away from your stomach, tipping it up towards your face instead.

Heavy-lidded, his smouldering gaze holds yours for some time whilst you busy yourself trying to catch your breath, hating how much your body is already relishing the rest.

Regarding you from beneath softly drooping eyelids, the King's dark pupils expand like apertures. A rumble works its way up from the bottom of his throat, more of an exhale than a growl, though the deepness of it still sends quakes through the hand you're laying in, sending tingles all the way up your spine.

You nearly jump out of your skin when the Koopa abruptly raises his head.

“Ah!” you exclaim as the world around you rocks, though it soon occurs to you that he's only turning himself around, a motion so mundane to him, but for you, standing a fraction of his height, even the most casual movement is dialled up to eleven.

Throwing out an arm, you reflexively grab onto one of his scaly knuckles, though he's quick to curl each finger securely over you once more, tucking you securely against his chest as he plods down the corridor, rattling the overhead chandeliers with every, thunderous step he takes.

It isn't long before the giant Koopa is shouldering his way through the doors to his bed chambers again, which have since become less of a chamber and more of a nest.

The silly sod must have gathered every pillow and blanket available in the castle and plopped them all down in an ever-growing pile at the centre of the room.

The worrier in you can't help but wonder if his koopa troops have been left with enough for themselves.

The King's bed, meanwhile, has been shoved to one side of the room, apparently no longer serving as an adequate resting place. You can barely see a solitary inch of floor beneath the mass of cushions and soft beddings.

This is where you've been holed up for the last month or so...

You can't rightly say you know how long it's been, you stopped counting the days after a while...

Your leaden heart sinks down to the soles of your feet at the sight of the colourful mess welcoming you back once more.

“Home sweet home,” you grumble under your breath.

Issuing a heavy grunt, Bowser drops like a lead weight onto one forearm, watching carefully as he lowers you down into the centre of the cushions and blankets, sliding you from his palm with a wordless croon of contentment.

“You're impossible,” you complain wearily, throwing a sharp glare at the King as he pulls back and settles onto his hands, a pleased smile stretching his maw, “Just how long are you going to keep me in this stupid den?”

Predictably, Bowser ignores your grousing and instead lowers his snout to nose at some of the pillows, those that have escaped from the greater mass, nudging them back towards the centre, towards you.

Rolling your eyes, you lay a hand over your belly and sink back into the nest, feeling the mountain of cushions shift and dip under Bowser's weight as he snuffles around the pile, ensuring everything has been placed back in its correct position before he finally pulls away, sitting back on his bulky haunches and giving the nest a last once-over, bobbing his head in a decisive nod that bounces his mane like fire in the wind.

Lifting his gaze to you once more, he chuffs at you, something firm and strict, drawing his thick, bushy brows into a frown.

The message is clear.

'Stay.'

“Like I'd be able to get anywhere now, even if I wanted to,” you mutter bitterly, wincing at a pulse of pain that rocks across the balls of your feet.

For a moment, Bower's furrowed brow eases apart and he casts a look at your face. You know he must see the weariness settled there, judging by the gentle croon he emits in your direction, bulbous shoulders slumping despondently.

Several times, he casts glances between you and the door, enough that you furrow your brow, tilting your head to one side and wondering why he isn't trying to lay down on the nest himself to resume your previous arrangement, the one you'd had before making a break for it.

At last, with a final groan in your direction, Bowser heaves himself about and hurries from the room as best as his cumbersome legs will allow, his spikes scraping chunks from the door's stony frame as he leaves.

At once, you perk up, staring agog at the open entrance.

Your heart nearly leaps in anticipation, astounded that the possessive koopa has just presented you with yet another chance to escape so soon after he's plopped you back inside his nest.

Thumping footfalls trail swiftly away from the room, but never quite disappear entirely.

You're torn, anxious. Your feet hurt something fierce.

“It can't be that easy...” you murmur aloud.

… Can it?

Despite your body's feverous protest, you grit your teeth and start to drag yourself laboriously across the cushions, inch by tantalising inch, never once taking your eyes off the door.

Sadly, you've only just managed to scoot yourself a few yards closer to the edge by the time you feel those pulse-jumping footfalls approaching the room again.

Heaving a defeated sigh, you slump into the blankets around you, your heart sinking like lead in water as Bowser comes thudding back into his chambers. This time, however, when he pokes his enormous head through the doors, you're taken aback by the sight of a very sleepy Junior dangling by the tail from his father's gentle maw.

“Oh, come now,” you cluck before you can catch your tongue, “You didn't need to wake the poor boy. He's had a busy day.”

Bowser merely huffs while the koopaling in question rubs at his eyes with a pudgy, little fist as his father slowly bends down and deposits him into the bed of pillows at your side.

“You tried to run again, didn't you?” he yawns, wriggling around on his belly until his head is pointed in your direction, blinking lazily up at you.

Grumbling under your breath, you retort, “And nothing to show for it but aching feet...”

“Maybe you outght'a stop runnin' then,” he suggests, and had it been anyone else, you might not have been able to bite back a sharp reply. As it is, Junior... Well. He's not a bad kid. You wouldn't be stuck here in his father's fortress if it weren't for him, of course, but you can't bear grudges against children, especially not those who are the product of their upbringing. You can't imagine Bowser has ever taught him that kidnapping is inherently wrong, after all. It took you many, many years to shake the 'lessons' your own father had tried to instil in you. By that time, you were older and wiser than Junior is now.

In time, he'll learn... You hope.

Before you can offer up a protest, the youngster grabs a fistful of your silk skirts and tugs himself towards you, dropping his round, yellow chin in your lap with a huff.

The bitter expression on your face contrasts the gentle hand you lay upon Junior's head, idly rubbing at the scales between his stubby horns.

“Still,” you add, softer, “At least I got some exercise at last, hmm?”

A soft whuff of air ruffles against your leg, all the response Junior provides before he promptly buries his face into your dress and devolves into an exhausted, clingy lump of koopa.

“Tired?” you hum.

There's a long pause before he huffs out a muffled reply. “No.”

Bowser must have plucked him out of a very good sleep. And, you suppose, it is the middle of the night... You'd have to be heartless to try and remove the boy now...

An almighty presence rumbles at your back, and the bed of pillows shifts as Bowser lowers himself onto his belly, curling his neck and head around to your right whilst his tail coils to your left, enclosing you in a semicircle of living, breathing scales.

Like the flip of a switch, the softer expression you reserve for his son hardens to something stern and unamused as you toss a withering glare up at the giant.

He's peering back at you through heavy-lidded eyes, and to your dismay, his nose is scooting closer and closer over the pillows, pausing every few seconds as if you'll conveniently forget to notice what he's up to. With Junior still settled in your lap, you can't rightly move away.

“Well,” you sigh, blinking over the expanse of the King's snout to meet his gaze, “I suppose you must be very pleased with yourself.”

As is typical when he's like this, the Koopa doesn't reply with words.

Instead, he softly bridges the gap between you both by pressing his doughy nose into your side, forcing you to raise your arm to grant him better access lest it become trapped against your body. Appeased, Bowser lets out a contented rumble, rustling the cushions and blankets underneath you.

Pulling a face, you mutter, “You're lucky your son is here to stop me from moving.”

You can't be certain, but you think you hear the quietest snicker emerge from the koopaling in your lap.

Then again, it could have been nothing but a snore...

[freakattack]

This is silly but imm doing it anyways

Mario: Mario tennis ace

Luigi: Gay Luigi? and a little genderfluid with it too

Peach: Gay icon but in like a judy garland way

Toad: It is a mystery

Yoshi: Straight yoshi saturday BITCH!!!!

Wario: Aromantic & aromatic, bisexual + transgender (wario is his legal name)

Bowser: So long gay bowser

Kamek: Gay

Ludwig: Transgender (he named himself after beethoven) and gay (he thinks he's sapiosexual)

Lemmy: Transgender (he let bowser rename him after motörhead) and aroace (but he likes the pansexual flag)

Roy: he thinks that he is straight. 

Iggy: Agender + aromantic on paper but in practice he just doesn't give a shit

Wendy: Extremely not looking for a relationship

Morton: Straight but in a normal way

Larry: Straight but in a xbox way

Daisy: Lesbian (used to co-beard with luigi)

Waluigi: get a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend hes bi. Nobody want him fr 😂

Toadette: Transgender MtF (mushroom to female)

Toadsworth: Transgender FtM (fungus to male)

Birdo: Transgender and bisexual married with yossy

Rosalina: Has long since transcended (LOL) the mortal coil but she would have been a lesbian if she stuck around

King Boo: Virgin

[lunarsilkscreen]

Redesigning the mechanics of FFIX

Final Fantasy 9 is a return to form for SquareEnix. Leaving behind all the sci-fi additions and returning to an era of SteamPunk. This is before SteamPunk was a standalone concept. So it's not so heavy handed.

Noting the flaws they had with the Materia system in FF7, and not wanting every character to be caster; equipment now has levels that allow you to learn abilities from them.

Each piece of equipment having unique abilities for characters to learn.

Each of the main characters has a concept that closely aligns with a classical class concept; Zidane is a thief, Garnet a White Mage, Steiner a Knight, Vivi a black mage, Eiko a Summoner, Freya the dragoon, Quina the Blue Mage, and Amaranth a Monk.

This gets muddy when Vivi and Steiner form Team Dark Knight, giving Steiner the ability to en-element his attacks with Vivi's black magic at the cost of his own MP, and Garnet actually being a much stronger summoner than Eiko despite being the White Mage.

I think that this "Team-up" mechanic that Steiner and Vivi showcase early on, and subsequently forgotten should have had a more central role in this game's mechanics.

This would allow combo and team attacks that are very flavorful and visually interesting. It would also make the Alexander summoning seem more interesting because despite Garnet and Eiko teaming up to summon him the first time, Garnet just Solo summons him afterwards.

Combining Amaranth and Zidane to create a long range attack (throw back to Mario RPG with Bowser/Mario) would also have been an interesting way to use Amaranth's throw skill (which is limited to tossing coins at your Witcher, and junk items you were gonna sell anyway.)

FF9 is also the game that introduces the "Trance" ability. Unlike the previous iterations by having a set time period where your characters attack power is upgraded and your main character abilities temporarily upgrade.

I say "Introduced" because it's not the first time we've seen something like this, but it's the first time it's mechanically significant. An earlier version was given to [Ryder/Rydia/Lidia?] after living with moogles for a bit.

*I'm not gonna Google her name.*

And Trance an ability that one of the main antagonists figures out how to use perpetually. With the party having to fight him while he's doing so.

OThere's also Auctions, the return of the Chocobo Forest (with hot and cold mini-game,) several sprawling kingdoms to explore, the Library of Alexandria having been spirited away by Leviathan and who makes the books all soggy, and ultimately facing off against Garland and the original 4 fiends of the original game before flying off to the red moon. (Planet 9, possibly cocoon)

I'm stopping to consider the equipment/ability linkage added in order to increase the difficulty for speed runners (and the subsequently addition of Excalibur2 specifically as a reward for to speed runners)

In retrospect it's a neat little ability used to replace the Materia system we saw in FF7, as this game seems to predate man-made materia, while still having a proto-materia included with certain items.

And these "Decorations" seem to be what gives the characters their extra abilities. Basically, still referencing the slot system, while taking it away as a core mechanic.

In hindsight it limits the user to wear equipment for a certain duration while simultaneously forcing them to grind if they wish to keep the ability.

Seeing as the latest FF games have started going away from the old paradigm of grind, and feeling more *Milestone* unless you're a try hard player, this system *probably* should be updated. But to what? I'm unsure.

Maybe it should just be a list of equipment and you can equip any of a handful at a time as long as you have the AP to do so? Then you can both limit the amount per player team AND avoid needing to grind it out.

Regardless; I just really like the *team* mechanic and wish it was expanded more.

[leafnincosplay]

Updated Bowser's Cape! Added a new drape to look more haphazard and conceal the undergarments plus a bone chain detail in the back.

I've used most of a Halloween garland at this point for all this bone decor! The bones on the cape swing when I move.

It's getting there, y'all! It's really getting there! And it's covered in Halloween decor lololol

[divulgacion-alternativa]

Información Interesante 11 de Abril de 2022

Fuente: benjaminfulford.net

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Los líderes de la mafia jázara son detenidos sistemáticamente

La revolución mundial contra la mafia jázara se está acelerando con la redada sistemática de los principales agentes de la mafia jazara en todo el mundo. Al mismo tiempo, la mafia jazara está tratando de cerrar Internet, provocar una crisis de hambre y promover una invasión alienígena falsa mientras lucha por sobrevivir.

Comencemos con un vistazo a todos los destacados agentes de poder de EE.UU. y Occidente que recientemente "han dado positivo por Covid", es decir, han sido arrestados:

Principe Carlos

nancy pelosi

Procurador General Merrick Garland

Christine Largarde – ¡Presidenta del Banco Central Europeo y títere del FMI (Fondo Monetario Internacional)!

Hillary Clinton

barack obama

Director de la CIA William Burns

Debbie Wasserman Shultz

Adán Schiff

Jen Psaki

Doug Emhoff, esposo de Kamala Harris

Alcalde de Washington DC Muriel Bowser

“Es curioso cómo ciertas personas contraen COVID al mismo tiempo”, comenta una fuente del Mossad.

Esta es una clara señal de que el grupo Rothschild/Rockefeller que organiza las falsas operaciones psicológicas de la presidencia de Biden está siendo eliminado. Como resultado, “Biden” está funcionando mal en estos días, diciendo cosas como: “Estaba en las estribaciones del Himalaya con Xi Jinping, viajando con él, fue cuando viajé 17,000 millas cuando era vicepresidente. No lo sé a ciencia cierta.

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También hay una gran pelea sobre Hunter Biden y su computadora portátil incriminatoria. Esta campaña de computadoras portátiles se está ejecutando fuera de Suiza y la camarilla de Rockefeller en los EE.UU. se resiste. Fuentes de la CIA dicen que “Hunter Biden sufrió una sobredosis hace 5 meses y está fuera de escena”. Esto significa que no tienen a nadie a quien llevar a juicio, y así es como los demócratas intentarán evitar que la evidencia quede registrada. Es una última batalla de la cábala.

Al mismo tiempo, ahora estamos viendo acciones legales concretas para anular la elección robada que puso en marcha todo ese régimen de pesadilla. Por ejemplo, el Fiscal General de Arizona declaró públicamente que “se cometió fraude” en las elecciones de 2020. Ahora hay que hacer justicia. La soga se está poniendo más apretada.

Sin embargo, no significa necesariamente que Donald Trump será reinstalado como presidente de los Estados Unidos, señalan fuentes de la CIA. Eso es porque el “Trump” que ahora aparece en público es un actor y no está claro si el verdadero Trump todavía está con nosotros.

Lo más probable es que Joe Biden pase a la historia como el último presidente de Estados Unidos y que el país sea reemplazado por algo mejor con un verdadero héroe estadounidense a la cabeza. Los acontecimientos dejarán esto claro más temprano que tarde.

Por supuesto, la mafia jazara están luchando con uñas y dientes por su propia supervivencia y están lanzando amenazas cada vez más terribles. Klaus Schwab Rothschild, del Foro Económico Mundial que impulsa a Covid, pinta un “escenario aterrador de un ciberataque integral que detendría por completo el suministro de energía, el transporte, los hospitales y nuestras sociedades en general. La crisis de Covid se vería a este respecto como una pequeña perturbación en comparación”.

Klaus Schwab_ Ciberataque peor que la crisis de COVID-19: caída de la red eléctrica, banca fuera de línea (odysee.com)

Ahora hay una amplia evidencia de que la mafia jazara también está haciendo un gran esfuerzo para diseñar una escasez mundial de alimentos.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geolytics/20-facts-about-emerging-global-food-shortage-should-chill-you-core

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-health-europe-united-nations-fe2cc912195478f0dd861e6252c8f3b3

La mafia jazara también sigue tratando de manipular la opinión pública mundial con eventos de asesinatos en masa de los que culpan a otros. Por ejemplo, la inteligencia alemana nos advirtió que grandes cantidades de mercenarios extranjeros en Odessa vestidos con uniformes del ejército ruso están planeando un ataque terrorista masivo para culpar a Rusia.

La agencia de noticias rusa Tass está de acuerdo diciendo que “Kiev está planeando, con el apoyo de Occidente, provocaciones con la masacre de civiles para culpar a los militares rusos.

https://tass.com/defense/1435463

El evento planeado de asesinato en masa intentará distraer la atención del público de los horrores (torturar a niños esclavos para cosechar adrenocromo, etc.) expuestos en la base subterránea masiva en Mariupol, dicen fuentes de la CIA.

En cualquier caso, los reporteros sobre el terreno que realmente hacen su trabajo y verifican los hechos están descubriendo que todos los ataques terroristas contra civiles se originan en el lado ucraniano. Se ha demostrado que este ataque con misiles atribuido a Rusia, por ejemplo, es ucraniano.

“El cabal satánico está yendo a por todas. No conocen otra forma”, advierte una fuente del Mossad.

También vimos la semana pasada lo que parecía un intento desesperado de resucitar a Barack Obama como un antídoto contra el mal funcionamiento y el despreciado Biden. Tenga en cuenta que tanto Obama como Biden dicen "en broma" que Biden es vicepresidente.

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Por supuesto, incluso traer de vuelta a Obama como el avatar presidencial de EE.UU. no cambiará el hecho de que este régimen es ahora un paria internacional.

Por ejemplo, los gobernantes de los antiguos estados títeres de EE.UU., Arabia Saudita y Abu Dhabi, se han negado a recibir la visita de Biden o incluso a atender sus llamadas telefónicas.

https://www.debka.com/oil-gulf-states-pivot-toward-china-amid-sharpening-standoff-with-us/

México también está cortando sus lazos con el falso régimen de Biden. La inteligencia mexicana también nos envió un informe detallado sobre su visión de los Estados Unidos y su Agencia de Importación de Cocaína (CIA). Este documento ofrece una visión de la historia muy diferente a la que nos han enseñado. Por ejemplo, afirma que el presidente estadounidense Franklin Roosevelt y el dictador ruso Joseph Stalin conspiraron desde la década de 1930 para conquistar

documento mexicano.

el planeta Tierra. Dice que Stalin y Roosevelt planearon invadir Alemania, Francia e Italia mucho antes de que comenzara la Segunda Guerra Mundial. También tenían la intención de apoderarse del imperio británico, China y el resto del mundo.

Obtuvimos confirmación parcial de esto de una fuente de la CIA que admite que Rusia y Estados Unidos han sido aliados desde la época del presidente Lincoln.

http://american_almanac.tripod.com/russcwar.htm

Los mexicanos dicen que la familia real británica se enteró de este plan y compró a los estadounidenses ofreciéndoles el control de su negocio global de opio y drogas. Así fue como la CIA se convirtió en la mayor operación de tráfico de drogas del mundo, dicen.

Los mexicanos concluyen que “Estados Unidos es la organización narcotraficante y terrorista más peligrosa en la historia de la raza humana”. (Este documento en español ha sido publicado en su totalidad para aquellos que deseen los detalles).

He aquí un típico crimen de guerra estadounidense (en Irak) del tipo al que se refieren los mexicanos.

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La familia real británica, por cierto, ya se disculpó con los asiáticos por las criminales guerras del opio y ahora está trabajando con las sociedades secretas asiáticas para hacer un mundo mejor.

Mientras tanto, la parte controlada por la mafia jazara de la CIA está luchando desesperadamente para mantener en funcionamiento su negocio de opio en Afganistán tratando de derrocar al gobierno de Pakistán.

Usaron el mismo libro de jugadas que usaron para hacerse cargo de la Junta de la Reserva Federal en 1913, una votación de medianoche de políticos sobornados para derrocar al primer ministro Imran Khan. Por supuesto, el terreno se preparó de antemano con sabotaje económico. El mandamás farmacéutico de la mafia jazara, Bill Gates, claramente desempeñó un papel clave en este movimiento.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2351152/bill-gates-busca-reforzar-los-lazos-con-pakistan-sobre-intereses-compartidos

Sin embargo, las manifestaciones masivas en todo el país dejan claro que la lucha está lejos de terminar. Además, en una señal de que es inminente una represión contra los políticos sobornados, la Agencia Federal de Investigación de Pakistán dice que los líderes públicos necesitarán un certificado de no objeción si desean viajar.

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/asia/pakistan-government-officials-not-allowed-to-leave-country-amid-political-crisis

En cualquier caso, el intento de instalar un régimen amigo de la mafia jazara en Pakistán es parte de un intento desesperado y condenado al fracaso de cambiar el rumbo en todo el mundo.

Los líderes mundiales que aún son aliados de la mafia jazara ahora se pueden contar con los dedos de una mano: Justin Castro de Canadá, Emanuelle Macron de Francia, Fumio Kishida de Japón, Boris Johnson del Reino Unido y Vladimir Zelensky de Ucrania.

Por supuesto, todavía hay muchos pseudo-líderes que han sido sobornados con cuentas bancarias del Vaticano para apoyar toda la arquitectura "Global" falsa de la mafia jazara. La carta en este enlace, por ejemplo, muestra una lista de políticos estadounidenses y sus participaciones en bancos del Vaticano.

http://www.tomheneghanbriefings.com/48273126-Falcon-2-2.pdf

La mayoría de los llamados líderes que votan en la ONU tienen cuentas de soborno similares. MI6 dice que la ONU es una empresa privada con sede en California y no es un representante real de la gente del mundo.

Los rusos están de acuerdo. No hay duda de que con el lanzamiento de la operación especial de Rusia en Ucrania llegó a su fin toda una era histórica. En medio de la creciente confrontación entre los actores principales, está surgiendo una nueva línea divisoria entre Oriente y Occidente, dijo el presidente bielorruso, Alexander Lukashenko.

https://tass.com/world/1433923

Las actuales sanciones sin precedentes contra Rusia provocarán un mayor colapso de todas las instituciones internacionales... sobre todo de la ONU, está de acuerdo el vicepresidente del Consejo de Seguridad de Rusia, Dmitry Medvedev.

https://tass.com/world/1434967

Por supuesto, la lucha aún no ha terminado.

Por ejemplo, parece haber un intento serio en China para derrocar al gobierno. Esto se está viendo más en Shanghai. Aquí hay información que nos envió sobre esto la CIA East Asia:

Según un “experto” de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) de China, los nuevos protocolos de cierre de Shanghái están destruyendo la ciudad y llevándola “al borde del colapso”.

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El esquema de prueba de PCR por sí solo está creando un caos masivo, ya que nadie parece saber qué está haciendo o por qué. El CDC de Shanghái tuvo que emitir un aviso exigiendo que los miembros del personal respondieran a las consultas públicas "de acuerdo con la política" debido a información contradictoria.

Los residentes del área también se quejan de los resultados de sus pruebas, que son "negativos" en sus teléfonos móviles pero "positivos" en los CDC. No parece haber ninguna rima o razón de por qué los resultados son inconsistentes.

https://newstarget.com/2022-04-06-shanghai-covid-lockdown-pushes-city-in-shambles.html

Esto tiene todas las características de un movimiento ordo ab chao (orden del caos) masones P2 para crear una revolución haciendo que la gente se sienta tan incómoda que no tengan más remedio que derrocar a las autoridades.

La mafia jazara también utilizará su vieja táctica de ser amable y presentar pastores benévolos para calmar a las ovejas.

Observamos, por ejemplo, un intento continuo de utilizar a Elon Musk y su toma de control de Twitter como una forma de crear una oposición controlada y una nueva narrativa. El problema es que incluso si Elon compra el 9% de Twitter, el resto todavía está controlado por los frentes de Rockefeller/Rothschild.

Hablando de cambiar las narrativas, también notamos a la agente masónica de Mónaco, Greta Thunberg, quien ahora dice públicamente que "el cambio climático no existe".

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Finalmente, esta semana, estamos recibiendo más y más señales de que la operación Bluebeam se está moviendo a toda velocidad.

En este frente, el Pentágono publicó 1.500 páginas de documentos secretos sobre el oscuro programa OVNI. Dice, entre otras cosas, que los encuentros con OVNIs han dejado a los estadounidenses sufriendo quemaduras por radiación, daños en el cerebro y el sistema nervioso, e incluso "desaparecidos embarazos".

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5053632/us-government-releases-1500-pages-secret-documents-ufo-programme/

https://www.livescience.com/ufo-report-human-biological-injuries

También hay más y más avistamientos de ovnis extraños. Por ejemplo, una fuente del programa espacial secreto de EE.UU. nos envió este video con el comentario:

“¡Hola, estos son los Arcturianos y los Sirianos! tienen este tipo de naves-faro que pueden ir al fondo del mar y salir al espacio en cuestión de segundos, ¡como si calculáramos el tiempo!”.

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Mientras tanto, una fuente en la base aérea de Thule en Groenlandia (los mexicanos dicen que EE.UU. arrebató Groenlandia a Dinamarca en la década de 1930) nos ofreció una explicación para el extraño incidente de Lazy Mountain, Alaska:

https://mustreadalaska.com/contrails/

“Esta fue una nave interdimensional que entró en nuestro mundo 3D. Fue una invasión de controladores fuera del mundo. Fue eliminado por la Fuerza Espacial de EE.UU. en Thule. El ejército estadounidense tiene el área contenida. No se permite que nadie se acerque al lugar del accidente”

Mientras tanto, esta explicación se le dio a la oveja:

“Según el Departamento de Seguridad Pública, el espectáculo en el cielo el jueves por la mañana sobre Lazy Mountain fue una combinación única de estelas de un avión que pasaba, las condiciones atmosféricas y el sol naciente. Las fotos circularon en las redes sociales, mientras la gente en el valle de Mat-Su se preguntaba sobre lo que parecía ser un extraño rastro de humo con partes oscuras que parecían ser restos de algo”.

Nada que ver aquí, amigos. Seguir avanzando. Al igual que el incidente de Roswell en 1947. Era solo un globo meteorológico.

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[arcadian-legacies]

𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: Spyro the Dragon

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬: Pete (real name), the Purple Perfection, the Champion of Dragonkind, Hero of Artisans, Eon's Finest Skylander

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞/𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞?: He appears to be 15-16, but is rumored to be 34. Dragons age differently from humans.

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫: Male.

𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬: Dragons, Reptiles, Elements, Size, Magic

𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫-𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: Intermediate God

𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥: A collection of orbs and dragon eggs along with a crystal dragon

𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Neutral Good

𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Artisans

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧: Doesn't care.

𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨: Cute asskickers, Purple Is Powerful, Kid Hero, Being powerful despite small size, Various elemental breaths, Averting Reptiles Are Abhorrent

𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬: Unknown, was likely born to an Artisan mother and Peace Keeper father.

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Brash. Eager to defeat villains. Loves to trash talk enemies such as Ripto. Strong-willed. Young at heart. Vaguely heroic.

𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐬: He loves the Dragon Elders, but dislikes how they treat him like an ordinary kid. He want to prove himself to them. 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬: Doesn't mind them, as long as they do good in the world. 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬: He dislikes other heroes, he doesn't like how they steal his thunder. Often butts heads with Mario, Sonic, and Crash. 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬: Trash-talks his own enemies, and other villains from different worlds. He wants all evil-doers locked up.

𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦: Spyro wishes to see all baddies locked up in Cloudcracker Prison, no matter how strong and powerful they may be. He wants a universe free of evil running rampant

𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬: Common, Draconic, and Elvish

𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬: Sparx, Nestor, Hunter and Bianca, Sgt. Byrd, Agent 9, Elora, Crash Bandicoot and the rest of Team Bandicoot, Ratchet and Clank (his successors), Sly Cooper, Sora, the Warrior of Light, Parappa the Rapper, Sir Daniel Fortesque, Donkey Kong, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Rivet, Aqua, Kairi

𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬: Gnasty Gnorc, Ripto, The Sorceress, Malefor, Dr. Neo Cortex, N. Trance, Polygon Man, Bowser, King K. Rool, Dr. Eggman, Dr. Nefarious, Zarok, Master Xehanort, Ansem, The Emperor of Palamecia, Garland/Chaos

𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬: Being a hero, vacations, napping, jamming to hip-hop and grunge music, his friends, kart racing with Crash, skateboarding with Hunter, chasing sheep

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬: bad guys, politics, seeing his friends hurt, racism towards dragons, Ripto, religion, giant spiders, blue thieves, giant noisy beasts

𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬: Nothing

𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧(𝐬): His flame breath

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: Single

𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦: Himself

@the-purple-hero @trondopeacekeeper @villains4hire @allstars-apt​ @crownedroyal​ @timelessmouse​

[smallmariofindings]

Sticker from the 1988 Nintendo Official Sticker Album, featuring Bowser offering Mario a garland of flowers.

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[skyphile]

grahams big holiday gift post aka “ITS BEEN YEARS SINCE IVE DONE THIS pwease go easy on me”

so while graham and the beautiful wife spent most of the holiday season living in luxury and getting pampered at grahams dad’s, graham had plenty of time to amass a collection of gifts and baked goods to give his friends upon their return home!

heres the list of them

@morbidkind kes - a lot of fluffy scarves and knitted things to keep them warm at work, pretty glass and clockwork trinkets and jewelry shaped like bugs and eyes, horribly misshapen bug decorated sugar cookies

@velcrounit colin - a whole family of crochet mushrooms AND a needlefelt figure of stan from spiritfarer bc im sure the household played it and sobbed over it. graham would also love to try his hand at a bunch of greek desserts and use colin as his guinea pig dfkhdsf. horrible plant decorated sugar cookies

dad - a hat, oven mitt and scarf set, a few short music compositions that are heartfelt and sweet. aardvark decorated sugar cookies that do NOT look like them at all

mom - also a music composition, along with a ton of cosy planters, knitted stuff to hold her art supplies, and a warm scarf to share between her and her gf. sugar cookies that completely bastardize a landscape

neighbours - cookies for everyone!

baradisers - aside from a sexy holiday bonus, they are probably going to hold a feast next saturday that anyone can attend around a HUGE table

cat - a whole collection of small indie games. horrible looking sugar cookies in a sad attempt of drawing ornstein and smough

@nemorialex alex - tiny needle felt figurines of snow and ash, a whole bunch of knitted things with needlefelt details on them, and also a TON of knitted stuff for the baby… sugar cookies with abominable decorations that vaguely resemble dragons

@stakehammer johnlal - needlefelt figurines of moths, a stupidly large tentacle, and sugar cookies with poorly done cute black kitties on them

@agreste-image adrien - a short musical composition that evokes feelings of motivation, support and hope, a bunch of silly knitted things with black cat motifs, a needle felt plagg for plagg, a platter of nice stinky cheese for plagg, a whole tray of assorted passion fruit pastries, sugar cookies with disastrous black kitties

@gho2ty ghosty - a whole music composition done in 8bit that evokes tenderness, softness and determination, a bunch of needlefelt alternian bees, a set of entrelac knitted sweaters, scarf and gloves, sugar cookies with a shameful attempt of a minecraft bee drawn on them

@vulcaniq jim - a cover collection of striking star trek tracks, graham would also legit get a tamagochu pair to split with her (as an excuse to hang out more and bc theyre so silly and cute), and make a few floral/fruit crocheted hats. jims sugar cookies were supposed to look like spock but the ears did NOT turn out well and so did nothing else

@thatsillyjohnkid jay - he gathered as much appropriate wool as he could and needlefelt the biggest alolan exeggutor he could manage... his sugar cookies were similar and TERRIBLE

@liliumsunshine hinata - graham goofed around and tried to emulate a heavy metal style in his silly piano set up and covered somebody that i used to know for her in an attempt to mock the band u know. he used up a bunch of his purple and light lilac yarn to make her pretty winter set of warm accessories, and needlefelt soft creatures. he tried to make sugar cookies with horns but they all cracked and fell off

@trainstoppin furry john - he got the fluffiest yarn he could find and turned it into a hat with earflaps, a thick scarf and chunky mittens. he made him a needlefelted creeper. his sugar cookies were supposed to look like the moon but. the icing sort of meshed and oozed everywhere….

@daviscatessen davis - he needlefelted a bunch of flowery figurines for him, and turned the mamma mia soundtrack into an 8bit cover collection. his knitted hat has a flower crown needlefelted into it. his sugar cookies were made with flower cookie cutters but they got too Thick

@gardencracks aria - a whole series of plant, leaf, flower and fruits crocheted into a long garland. a big tray of parisian pastries. her sugar cookies are covered in ivy that looks like Big Blobs

@turntechgarchomp pokemon dave - a needlefelt pokemon team with blaziken, pikachu, togepi, riolu, gibble, dragapult. pikachu shaped sugar cookies, but the red icing from the cheeks bled EVERYWHERE...

@immarcescible feferi (I KNEW ID FORGOTTEN SOMEONE OFF MY OG LIST) - needlefelt octopi! a crochet sushi set! sugar cookies shaped like fish (the colours are A MESS)

@endoosteologist coco - a small collection of sanrio needlefelt figurines. a BIG cake but the decorations could be…. better. hello kitty sugar cookies from hell….

@emberoops ember - a small set of cute needlefelt firebirds. sugar cookies with melted off fire coloured icing

@thedoomtrout max - I WISH IT WAS REAL but imagine this loser giving u a bunch of needle felt furries, including ur fursona, and bowser shaped sugar cookies that got all messed up…

graham is a HORRIBLE dessert decorator but all food items would be fricking delicious and decadent… he wouldve also written cute little notes with everyone, appreciation for friendship, general good wishes and a dad joke

[news-of-the-day]

1/7/21

Sorry, I was following what happened at the Capitol so closely I'm meager on international news. I'll cover anything I've missed tomorrow.

Capitol Riot (BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, The Hill, NPR, NYT, USA Today, Washington Post)

As congress convened to certify Biden's win, Trump held a rally near the White House at about 10AM. During the speech, he asked his supporters to head to the Capitol Building to make their views known. Thousands then walked down the Mall to do so.

Starting at about 1PM, they began to pierce through the perimeter and at about 2PM they were entering the building. Staff and congresspeople were evacuated from the chambers as the mob walked through the halls, entering both chambers and offices. One woman was shot by law enforcement and died. Three others died after suffering from "medical emergencies."

A few hours later Pence, not Trump, mobilized the National Guard and helped law enforcement remove people from the building. At least 52 were arrested.

Trump did tweet at about 4:15PM a video saying the rioters’ feelings were valid but for everyone to go home. His later tweets talking about fraud and praising the rioters got both Twitter and Facebook to lock his account, with Twitter threatening a permanent ban. Zuckerberg just announced Trump is banned from Facebook.

A pipe bomb was found at the RNC HQ and a suspicious package was found at the DNC HQ, which led to both being evacuated.

Mayor Bowser ordered a curfew that evening. A state of emergency will be in DC until the day after Biden's inauguration.

Congress met again that evening when everything calmed down. 127 Republicans challenged Arizona and Pennsylvania's results, but they were rejected. At about 4AM, Biden's win was certified. Trump issued a statement there will be an orderly transition.

Some members of the White House staff resigned in protest and more are considering it.

There are rumors that members of Trump’s cabinet and Republican leaders are thinking of invoking the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office.

Other news:

Current cases of COVID are ~87.8M, current deaths are ~1.9M. It was the deadliest day for the US with almost 4,000 deaths. (Worldometer)

Raphael Warnock (D) beat Kelly Loeffler (R) in the Georgia senate race, giving the Democrats control of congress and the White House. Loeffler was originally going to protest Biden's win during the certification process but backed down after the riot. (Washington Post)

Biden is planning to nominate Merrick Garland to be Attorney General. If you remember, back in Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2016 when Justice Scalia died, but the Republican-controlled Senate refused to consider him, saying it was too close to the election. (NYT)

Two officers involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting were fired: Detectives Joshua Jaynes and Myles Cosgrove. (NPR)

[crossoverheaven]

FAVORITE FICTIONAL VILLAINS OF ALL TIME

Been thinking of the major fictional villains who most resonated with me or stuck with me throughout the various points of my life. As you can see, there’s been quite a lot of them.

Akane Shinjo (SSSS Gridman) Akihiro Kurata (Digimon Data Squad) Akio Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena) Akito Sohma (Fruits Basket) Aku (Samurai Jack) Alexis Kerib (SSSS Gridman) Anabelle (The Conjuring) Andrias Leviathan (Amphibia) Andross (Star Fox 64) Angelus (The Buffyverse) Antonio Fabiani (Nadja of Tomorrow) Antonio Salieri (Amadeus) Archibald P. Snatcher (The Boxtrolls) Ardyn Izunia (Final Fantasy XV) Art the Clown (Terrifier films) Ash Delgado (Elena of Avalor) Askeladd Olafson (Vinland Saga) AxeKnightmon (Digimon Fusion) Bane (Batman/the Dark Knight Rises) Beelzemon (Digimon Tamers) Ben Solo/Kylo Ren (Star Wars) Bernkastel (When They Cry) Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) Bill “The Butcher” Cutting (The Gangs Of New York) Black Battler Ushiromiya (When They Cry) Bob Ewell (To Kill A Mockingbird) Bowser Koopa (Super Mario Bros.) Brainiac (Superman) Br’er Fox (Uncle Remus Stories) Bradford Buzzard (DuckTales) Brother Blood (Teen Titans) Briar Harvestar/The Hooded One (Bone) Buddy Pine/Syndrome (The Incredibles) Cain Madhouse (To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts) Canute the Great (Vinland Saga) Capricorn (Inkheart) Captain Hook (Peter Pan) Captain Vidal (Pan’s Labyrinth) Carmen Sandiego (Carmen Sandiego Series) Caroline/GLaDOS (Portal) Catra (She-Ra & The Princesses of Power) Cedric The Sorcerer (Sofia The First) Cell (Dragon Ball) Char Aznable (Mobile Suit Gundam) Charles Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons) Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter x Hunter) Cipher Admins (Pokemon) Clay Puppington (Moral Orel) Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe) Colonel Muska (Castle In The Sky) Count Dracula (Many Works) Count Olaf (A Series Of Unfortunate Events) Cruella De Vil (The 101 Dalmatians) Chucky (Childs Play) Dabi/Touya Todoroki (My Hero Academia) Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney) Dark Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!) Darkseid (DC Universe) Darth Maul (Star Wars) Darth Vader (Star Wars) David Xanatos (Gargoyles) Demona (Gargoyles) Demon God Demigra (Dragon Ball Xenoverse) Derek Powers/Blight (Batman Beyond) Dewey Novak (Eureka 7) Dick Dastardly (Wacky Races) Diego Armando/Godot (Ace Attorney) Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) Don Karnage (Tale Spin) Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) Dom Claude Frollo (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame) Douglas Powers/Dr. Evil (Austin Powers Films) Dr. Albert Wily (MegaMan franchise) Dr. Drew “Dakken” Lipsky & Shego (Kim Possible) Dr. Emilia (Kipo & The Age of Wonderbeasts) Dr. Fu Manchu (Fu Manchu Series) Dr. Grace O’ Connor (Macross Frontier) Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb) Dr. Ivo Robotnik/Eggman (Sonic The Hedgehog) Dr. Regal (MegaMan Battle Network/NT Warrior) Duke Igthorn (Adventures Of The Gummi Bears) Edmond Dantes (The Count Of Monte Cristo) Edward Nygma/The Riddler (Batman) Ego The Living Planet (Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2) Elijah Price/Mr. Glass (Unbreakable and Glass) Emperor Griffon (Dark Chronicle) Emperor Pilaf (Dragon Ball) Eren Jaeger (Attack on Titan) Eric Cartman (South Park) Erika Furudo (When They Cry) Erik Killmonger (Black Panther) Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (X-Men) Erik the Phantom (The Phantom Of The Opera) Eris (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas) Ernesto De la Cruz (Coco) Esteban Flores (Elena of Avalor) Eua/Featherine Augustus Aurora (When They Cry) EVA-Beatrice (When They Cry) Evil Emperor Zurg (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) Fagin (Oliver Twist) Fat Cat (Chip N’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers) Felix Graham De Vanily (Miraculous) Fire Lord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender) Francis Dolarhyde (Hannibal Series) Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare On Elm Street) Freeza (Dragon Ball) Gabriel Agreste (Miraculous) Gabriel May (Malignant) Gakuho Asano (Assassination Classroom) Ganondorf (The Legend Of Zelda) Gargoyle (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water) Garland/Chaos (Final Fantasy) Gaston (Disney’s Beauty And The Beast) Gendo Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) General Lunaris (DuckTales) General Woundwart (Watership Down) George Wickham (Pride And Prejudice) Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda) Ghostface Killers (Scream series) Gollum (The Hobbit/Lord Of The Rings) Gothel (Rapunzel/Disney’s Tangled) Grand Admiral Thrawn (Star Wars) Grand Moff Tarkin (Star Wars) Grigori Rasputin (Anastasia) Griffith/Femto (Berserk) Gruntilda (Banjo-Kazooie) Gul Dukat (Star Trek) Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad) Guzma (Pokemon Sun & Moon) Hades (Disney’s Hercules) Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal Series) Hans Gruber (Die Hard) Harry Roat (Wait Until Dark) Harvey Dent/Two-Face (Batman) Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya) Head/Tokio Tsunashi/Reiji Miyabi (Star Driver) Hector Barbossa (Pirates Of The Caribbean) Herman Preminger (Nadja of Tomorrow) Hexxus (Ferngully: The Last Rainforest) High Priest Zagato (Magic Knight Rayearth) Hisoka Morrow (Hunter x Hunter) Homelander (The Boys) Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) Hordak (She-Ra & The Princesses Of Power) Horde Prime (She-Ra & The Princesses Of Power) Hugo Oak/Scarlemagne (Kipo & The Age of Wonderbeasts) Hugo Strange (Batman) Iago (Shakespeare’s Othello) Injun Joe (The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer) Inspector Javert (Les Miserables) Invader Zim (Invader ZIM) Isabella (The Promised Neverland) IT/Pennywise (Stephen King’s IT) Ixis Naugus (Sonic The Hedgehog) Jafar (Disney’s Aladdin) Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth) Jervis Tetch/the Mad Hatter (Batman) Jinx (League of Legends) Joffrey Baratheon (A Song Of Ice And Fire) Johan Liebert (Naoki Urasawa’s Monster) Johanathan Crane/the Scarecrow (Batman) Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) Junko Enoshima / Monokuma (Danganronpa) Kanade Otonokoji (Danganronpa) Katsuhiko Jinnai (El Hazard) Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI) Ken Ichijoji/Digimon Emperor (Digimon Adventure 02) Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde (Split and Glass) Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek) Kilgrave/The Purple Man (Jessica Jones) King Candy/Turbo (Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph) King Ghidorah (Godzilla) King Piccolo (Dragon Ball) Kinzo Ushiromiya (When They Cry) Kirei Kotomine (Fate series) Koba (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes) Kuja (Final Fantasy IX) Kurumi Tokisaki (Date A Live) Kuvira (The Legend of Korra) Kyubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) Lalo Salamanca (Better Call Saul) Lambdadelta/Witch Satoko (When They Cry) Lelouch Vi Britannia (Code Geass) Lex Luthor (DC Universe/Superman) Lila Rossi (Miraculous) Lionel Luthor (Smallville) Light Yagami (Death Note) Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Universe) Long Feng (Avatar: The Last Airbender) Long John Silver (Treasure Island) Lord Darcia III (Wolf’s Rain) Lord Ilpalazzo (Excel Saga) Lord Maliss (Happily Ever After) Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda 2) Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter) Lotso Huggin’ Bear (Toy Story 3) Lucemon (Digimon Franchise) Lucifer/Satan (Biblical Lore) Lucy/Kaede (Elfen Lied) Lusamine (Pokemon Sun & Moon) Luxor Spawndroth (The Bibleman Adventure) Lysandre (Pokemon XY&Z) M. Bison (Street Fighter) Macbeth (Gargoyles) Magica De Spell (DuckTales) Majin Buu (Dragon Ball) Majora’s Mask (The Legend of Zelda) Makoto Shishio (Rurouni Kenshin) Maleficent (Disney’s Sleeping Beauty) Manfred von Karma (Ace Attorney) Marik Ishtar (Yu-Gi-Oh!) Marluxia (Kingdom Hearts) Martin Brenner (Stranger Things) Master Asia (Mobile Fighter G Gundam) Masquerade (Bakugan Battle Brawlers) Maximilian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) Mayor Richard Wilkins (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) Megabyte (Reboot) Megatron (Beast Wars) Meruem (Hunter x Hunter) Mewtwo (Pokemon) Michael Myers (Halloween) Mikado Sannoji (Danganronpa) Minene Uryuu (The Future Diary) Miyo Takano (When They Cry) Mojo Jojo (The Powerpuff Girls) Mok Swagger (Rock And Rule) Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) Monsieur Thenardier (Les Miserables) The Moon King (Kubo & The Two Strings) Morgan(a) Le Fey (Arthurian Lore) Morty Maxwell (Super Solvers Series) Mozenrath (Disney’s Aladdin: The Series) Mr. Dark (Something Wicked This Way Comes) Mr. Hyde (The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde) Mr. Potter (It’s A Wonderful Life) Murmur (The Future Diary) Myotismon (Digimon Adventure) Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) Namor the Submariner (Marvel Universe) Nana Hiiragi (Talentless Nana) Nathaniel Essex/Mr. Sinister (X-Men) Necrozma (Pokemon Sun & Moon) Negaduck (Darkwing Duck) No Heart (The Care Bears Family) Noatak/Amon (The Legend Of Korra) Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man (Invincible) Norman Bates (Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho) Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin (Spider-Man) Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man) Oswald Cobblepot/the Penguin (Batman) Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy (Batman) Percival McLeach (Disney’s The Rescuers Down Under) Pete (Classic Disney Shorts) Peter Pan (Once Upon A Time) Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish (A Song Of Ice And Fire) Pharaoh Ramses (The Ten Commandments & The Prince of Egypt) Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos (The Owl House) Piedmon (Digimon Adventure) Pinky & the Brain (Animaniacs) Pitch Black (Rise Of The Guardians) President Coriolanus Snow (The Hunger Games) Prince Lotor (Voltron: Legendary Defender) Princess Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender) Professor Coldheart (Care Bears) Professor Hojo (Final Fantasy VII) Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes) Professor Pericles (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated) Professor Ratigan (Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective) Queen Jadis/the White Witch (The Chronicles Of Narnia) Ragyo Kiryuin & Nui Harime (Kill La Kill) Randall Flagg (Stephen King) Ransik (Power Rangers: Time Force) Ras Al Ghul (Batman) René Belloq (Raiders Of The Lost Arc) Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) Rezo The Red Priest (The Slayers) Richard III (Shakespeare’s Richard III) Roderick Kingsley/The Hobgoblin (Spider-Man) Rosemary Applefield (Nadja of Tomorrow) Rufus Shinra (Final Fantasy VII) Rumpelstiltskin (Fairy Tales/Once Upon A Time) Ryoko Asakura (Haruhi Suzumiya Series) Sakyo (Yu Yu Hakusho) Saruman the White (The Lord Of The Rings) Satou Matsuzaka (Happy Sugar Life) Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad + Better Call Saul) Sauron (The Lord Of The Rings) Sayo Yasuda/Beatrice (When They Cry) Scar (Disney’s The Lion King) Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Batman) Senna Wales (Everworld) Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) Seymour Guado (Final Fantasy X) Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Star Wars) Sheldon J. Plankton (Spongebob Squarepants) Shere Khan (The Jungle Book & Tale Spin) Shinobu Sensui (Yu Yu Hakusho) Shinsuke Takasugi (Gintama) Shion Sonozaki (When They Cry) Shiragaki/All For One (My Hero Academia) Shiro/Yanagisawa (Assassination Classroom) Shuriki (Elena of Avalor) Silco (League of Legends) Simon Laurent (Infinity Train) Sin (Final Fantasy X) Sir Crocodile (One Piece) Sir Mordred (Arthurian Lore) Sir Isaac Westcott (Date A Live) Skeletor (Masters Of The Universe) Slade Wilson/Deathstroke the Terminator (DC Universe) Slappy the Dummy (Goosebumps) Smaug the Dragon (The Hobbit) Solego the Chaos God (Disney Afternoon) Sofia Falcone (Gotham) Sonia Reed (Fire Emblem) Souichi Tomoe (Sailor Moon) Souji Mikage (Revolutionary Girl Utena) Spinel (Steven Universe) Suigintou (Rozen Maiden) Suzaku (Yu Yu Hakusho) Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber Of Fleet Street) Tao Pai Pai (Dragon Ball) Tara “Terra” Markov (DC Universe) Taurus Bulba (Darkwing Duck) Team Galactic (Pokemon) Team Plasma (Pokemon) Team Rocket (Pokemon) Thaddeus Blinn (The Wish Giver) Thanos of Titan (Marvel Universe) Thales (Fire Emblem Three Houses) The Anti-Monitor (DC Universe) The Beagle Boys (Disney Comics) The Beast (Over The Garden Wall) The Big Bad Wolf (The Three Little Pigs) The Black Moon Clan (Sailor Moon) The Bonne Brothers (Mega Man Legends) The D-Reaper (Digimon Tamers) The Dark Kingdom (Sailor Moon) The Dead Moon Circus (Sailor Moon) The Demon/”Toby” (Paranormal Activity) The Devil Gundam (Mobile Fighter G Gundam) The Grand Duke Of Owls (Rockadoodle) The Grinch (Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas) The Headless Horseman (The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow) The Horned King (The Black Cauldron) The Joker (DC Universe/Batman) The Lich (Adventure Time) The Masked Mutant (Goosebumps) The Onceler (Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax) The Overlook Hotel (The Shining) The Sharptooth (The Land Before Time) The Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) The Toguro Brothers (Yu Yu Hakusho) The Wet Bandits (Home Alone) The Wicked Witch Of The West (The Wizard Of OZ) The Xenomorph (Alien) Tirek (My Little Pony) Toffee Of Septarsis (Star VS The Forces Of Evil) Tomura Shiragaki (My Hero Academia) Touga Kiryuu (Revolutionary Girl Utena) Trigon the Terrible (Teen Titans) Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII) Ultron (Marvel Universe) Uncle Gumbald (Adventure Time) Ursula the Sea Witch (Disney’s The Little Mermaid) Vaati the Wind Mage (The Legend of Zelda) Valmont And Metrueil (Dangerous Liaisons/Cruel Intentions) Valak (The Conjuring) Van Pelt (Jumanji) Varian (Disney’s Tangled: The Series) Varrick (The Legend Of Korra) Vecna/One (Stranger Things) Vegeta (Dragon Ball) Venom (Spider-Man) Vicious (Cowboy Bebop) Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze (Batman) Victor Von Doom (Marvel Universe) Volo (Pokemon Legends Arceus) Walter White (Breaking Bad) White Diamond (Steven Universe) Wile E Coyote (Looney Tunes) Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin (Marvel Universe) XANA (Code Lyoko) Xehanort/Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts Trinity) Xellos Metallium (The Slayers) Yukio Oikawa (Digimon Adventure 02) Yuno Gasai (The Future Diary) Yuri “Yurippe” Nakamura (Angel Beats!) Yzma & Kronk (Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove) Zaheer (The Legend Of Korra) Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super) Zant (The Legend of Zelda) Zhan Tiri (Disney’s Tangled: The Series) Zhao (Avatar: The Last Airbender) Zofis & Koko (Zatch Bell)

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Top 10 best first bosses!

The first boss of any game has an important job. They are meant to set a tone for what is to come and serve as a tutorial for players who are still adjusting to the game’s mechanics. As such first bosses tend to be quite easy, laughably so in some cases. Sometimes games can go astray and have a first boss that is far to challenging in an unfair manner, such as Deus Ex Human Revolution’s first boss. These first bosses that I bring to you are not bad. They all serve a purpose and serve it well, whether that be easy, a challenge or serve a more passive role in the series, these are my top 10 first bosses that I think are the best.  One rule is that no two entries can come from the same series.  Finally, as always, this is my opinion, you are free to agree or disagree, but respect my opinion and I will respect yours in return.

10 - Garland - Final Fantasy

Garland is a very simple boss. Being the first ever final fantasy boss is what gets him a spot on this list. Inherently there is nothing special about Garland. He is simply just a hard-hitting physical attacker with decent hit points for the point of the game he is in. Once your party’s average level exceed level 5 Garland is a pushover. He has no special abilities to speak of. What makes him special is that Garland was the start of a legacy, a first impression for the many bosses to come. The original Final Fantasy was going to be Square’s final game, luckily this was not the case. So, Garland has secured the number 10 spot not for a intense or unique fight, but for being the start of one of the game industries largest franchises.

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9 – Doctor Robotnik’s Flame Craft – Sonic 3

Another simple boss. This boss was the first boss fight I ever fought. After setting the entire first level on fire and pursuing Sonic with a massive airship, Robotnik chases Sonic and Tails down to a cliff in front of a waterfall. Robotnik will destroy the bridge to the cliff and then proceed to shoot fireballs at Sonic and Tails. He will duck behind the waterfall to move around, only emerging to fire. He leaves plenty of windows to hit him and is overall a very easy boss. If Sonic has the flame shield this boss becomes almost impossible to lose against. What puts this boss on the list is its nostalgic impression it has left on me.

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8 - King Bomb-omb – Super Mario 64

The first boss of the first 3D Mario game. King Bomb-omb is a simple foe. In fact, he has no direct means of harming Mario other than throwing him off the mountain. This boss serves as a tutorial to fighting larger enemies and has a weakness similar to Bowsers. All you need to do is get behind him, pick him up and throw him. Just make sure you don’t throw him off the mountain or the battle resets. Yeah, its ok for him to throw you off but you can’t throw him off, what a villain. King Bomb-omb falls into the same category as Garland does, as in it was the start of something. Being the first 3D Mario boss, king Bomb-omb secures a spot on this list.

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7 – Darkside - Kingdom Hearts 1

The first boss of kingdom hearts is the giant Darkside Heartless. The Darkside is one of the most recurring bosses in the series. What puts it on the list is that it is a great tutorial boss. The Darkside is not very difficult to defeat, even the souped up end game version is not very hard either. Its attacks are simple and easy to read and avoid. It does not have a complicated or many dangerous moves and those that are dangerous can be seen coming a mile away. The Darkside is a great way to introduce the combat mechanics of Kingdom Hearts and also serves as a lesson on how to deal with big bosses.

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6 - Cleric Beast - Bloodborne

The Cleric beast is an optional boss but can be the first boss the player will encounter in Bloodborne. Most players who are aware of the beast will opt to challenge it first, as the other boss, father Gascoingne is INCREDIBLY difficult for new players. The Cleric beast is not easy, but it is forgiving in some ways. It serves as a tutorial for players to get used to fighting big monsters. The other boss serves as to how to fight human foes. The Cleric beast has a dynamic entrance and an intimidating presence. It will howl and trash about on the bridge. Luckily, it is not extremely strong, you will be able to survive a hit or two from this thing in the early game. Its limbs break easily, and it can be stunned for massive damage. The Cleric beast is one of the easiest bosses in Bloodborne, but it is no cakewalk so be prepared.

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5 - Gohma - Ocarina of Time

Gohma, like Garland and King Bomb-omb is a historically critical boss fight. Being the first 3D Zelda boss, Gohma does a good job in setting the standards for what’s to come. Gohma is a simple boss with only a few moves and is overall not very difficult. In fact, a more skilled player can down her in a manner of seconds. What makes her great is that her boss is a solid early game fight, pitting the young and small Link against a much bigger foe. She has a specific weakness that can be exploited to stun her, and she is moderately built up before the actual fight. Gohma is by no stretch difficult, and yet she can be a pretty fun boss to fight against.

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4 - Iudex Gundyr - Dark Souls 3

Gundyr is arguably the hardest boss on this list. He is fought very early in Dark Souls 3 and sets the stage of what is to come. He is encountered so early that the player will not yet be able to level up. This means he must be fought at the default starting level. Gundyr is a two-stage boss fight, with his first phase he is essentially a large human foe. His attacks are slow, and he seems to be a bit sloppy, but will punish players who overextend their attacks. He has a long reach as well, so he will test a player’s defense. If there is a flaw in your defense, he will relentlessly pummel you. His second stage involves him transforming into a large black mass. In this form he is even fiercer. His attacks cover a wider range and he does more damage. This boss will test you severely and may cause some to quit all together.

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3 - Poseidon - God of War 3

Poseidon is a very cinematic boss. He sets the stage for God of War 3 nearly flawlessly and pulls out all the stops. The first boss is the god of the sea, a giant made of water riding upon a watery horse like creature. Armed with his signature trident, you fight him upon the moving body of the titan Gaia. Multiple stages and an assortment of lesser enemies to pester Kratos. After multiple stages and some brutal beat downs, Poseidon is finished off in a very over the top manner and it sets the tone for what is to come. You know I would feel sorry for Poseidon if he were…well a good person.  But let’s be honest, Poseidon was NOT a good person.

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2 - Metal Gear Ray - Metal Gear Rising

Now this is a cinematic boss fight. The whole Metal Gear line is designed to be nearly unstoppable war machines, with Ray being introduced in the same game as Raiden. So, for a metal gear to appear in the opening level was crazy, what’s even more crazy is how it is fought. Within the first 10 minutes of the game you are throwing a 70-foot-tall robot into the air, jumping on it and slicing its arm off to the amazing song ‘rules of nature’. Eventually it returns to defeat Raiden after seemingly being destroyed, and the epic battle continues. Raiden rides a missile and runs down a vertical wall to ultimately cut it in half. This boss perfectly sets the stage of the truly epic gameplay that is Revengence.

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1 - Toriel - Undertale

Toriel is the first main boss of Undertale. She is not fought immediately, and in fact she serves as a mentor of sorts to the player. A bond is formed and depending on what type of run you are going for, she will either be killed or sparred. Many players killed her on accident, not understanding the games mechanics. What makes this boss great is that unlike all the other bosses on this list, this boss has an emotional connection with the player. She is surprisingly difficult for new players, with a somewhat sporadic pattern. If she is sparred, then she will let the player go. If she is killed she will show sorrow… However, if she is killed in a no mercy run, she laughs manically and dies. So, what will you do? Spare her or not? FYI – Napstablook is a mini-boss, Toriel is the first main boss.

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Well, those are my top 10 personal favorite first bosses. They all served their purpose well. Tune in next time when we will be looking at some more weapon specialist! See you then!

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Hamlet Mariofied Act 5 Scene 2 (Final)

Bolded names refer to the Mario characters playing the roles. The character role names remain the same in the context of the play and its dialogue. 

Mario = Hamlet

Luigi = Horatio

Foreman Spike = Osric

Boss Sumo Bro = Lord

Bowser = Claudius

Peach = Gertrude

Larry = Laertes

King K. Rool = English Ambassador

Tatanga = Fortinbras

King Totomesu = Norwegian General

Act V, Scene 2

Elsinore. A hall in the Castle.

Enter Mario and Luigi. Cue Chai Kingdom music from Super Mario Land.

Mario. So much for this, sir; now shall you see the other.

 You do remember all the circumstance?

Luigi. Remember it, my lord!

Mario. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting

That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay

Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes. Rashly-

 And prais'd be rashness for it; let us know,

Our indiscretion sometime serves us well

When our deep plots do pall; and that should learn us

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will-

 Luigi. That is most certain.

Mario. Up from my cabin,

My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark

Grop'd I to find out them; had my desire,

Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew

 To mine own room again; making so bold

(My fears forgetting manners) to unseal

Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio

(O royal knavery!), an exact command,

Larded with many several sorts of reasons,

 Importing Denmark's health, and England's too,

With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life-

That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,

No, not to stay the finding of the axe,

My head should be struck off.

 Luigi. Is't possible?

Mario. Here's the commission; read it at more leisure.

But wilt thou bear me how I did proceed?

Luigi. I beseech you.

Mario. Being thus benetted round with villanies,

 Or I could make a prologue to my brains,

They had begun the play. I sat me down;

Devis'd a new commission; wrote it fair.

I once did hold it, as our statists do,

A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much

 How to forget that learning; but, sir, now

It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know

Th' effect of what I wrote?

Luigi. Ay, good my lord.

Mario. An earnest conjuration from the King,

 As England was his faithful tributary,

As love between them like the palm might flourish,

As peace should still her wheaten garland wear

And stand a comma 'tween their amities,

And many such-like as's of great charge,

 That, on the view and knowing of these contents,

Without debatement further, more or less,

He should the bearers put to sudden death,

Not shriving time allow'd.

Luigi. How was this seal'd?

 Mario. Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.

I had my father's signet in my purse,

Which was the model of that Danish seal;

Folded the writ up in the form of th' other,

Subscrib'd it, gave't th' impression, plac'd it safely,

 The changeling never known. Now, the next day

Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent

Thou know'st already.

Luigi. So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.

Mario. Why, man, they did make love to this employment!

 They are not near my conscience; their defeat

Does by their own insinuation grow.

'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes

Between the pass and fell incensed points

Of mighty opposites.

 Luigi. Why, what a king is this!

Mario. Does it not, thinks't thee, stand me now upon-

He that hath kill'd my king, and whor'd my mother;

Popp'd in between th' election and my hopes;

Thrown out his angle for my proper life,

 And with such coz'nage- is't not perfect conscience

To quit him with this arm? And is't not to be damn'd

To let this canker of our nature come

In further evil?

Luigi. It must be shortly known to him from England

  What is the issue of the business there.

Mario. It will be short; the interim is mine,

And a man's life is no more than to say 'one.'

But I am very sorry, good Horatio,

That to Laertes I forgot myself,

 For by the image of my cause I see

The portraiture of his. I'll court his favours.

But sure the bravery of his grief did put me

Into a tow'ring passion.

Luigi. Peace! Who comes here?

 Enter Foreman Spike, a courtier.

Foreman. Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.

Mario. I humbly thank you, sir. [Aside to Horatio] Dost know this

waterfly?

Luigi. [aside to Mario] No, my good lord.

 Mario. [aside to Luigi] Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a

vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile. Let a beast be

lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess. 'Tis

a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.

Foreman. Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should impart

 a thing to you from his Majesty.

Mario. I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit. Put your

bonnet to his right use. 'Tis for the head.

Foreman. I thank your lordship, it is very hot.

Mario. No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly.

 Foreman. It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.

Mario. But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.

Foreman. Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as 'twere- I cannot

tell how. But, my lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you that

he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the matter-

 Mario. I beseech you remember.

[Mario moves him to put on his hat.]

Foreman. Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith. Sir, here is

newly come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute gentleman,

full of most excellent differences, of very soft society and

 great showing. Indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card

or calendar of gentry; for you shall find in him the continent of

what part a gentleman would see.

Mario. Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I

know, to divide him inventorially would dozy th' arithmetic of

 memory, and yet but yaw neither in respect of his quick sail.

But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great

article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make

true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

Foreman. Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.

 Mario. The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more

rawer breath?

Foreman. Sir?

Luigi. [aside to Mario] Is't not possible to understand in another

tongue? You will do't, sir, really.

 Mario. What imports the nomination of this gentleman?

Foreman. Of Laertes?

Luigi. [aside] His purse is empty already. All's golden words are

spent.

Mario. Of him, sir. 

Foreman. I know you are not ignorant-

Mario. I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it would not

much approve me. Well, sir?

Foreman. You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is-

Mario. I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in

 excellence; but to know a man well were to know himself.

Foreman. I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on him

by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.

Mario. What's his weapon?

Foreman. Rapier and dagger.

 Mario. That's two of his weapons- but well.

Foreman. The King, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses;

against the which he has impon'd, as I take it, six French

rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and

so. Three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy,

 very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of

very liberal conceit.

Mario. What call you the carriages?

Luigi. [aside to Mario] I knew you must be edified by the margent

ere you had done. 

Foreman. The carriages, sir, are the hangers.

Mario. The phrase would be more germane to the matter if we could

carry cannon by our sides. I would it might be hangers till then.

But on! Six Barbary horses against six French swords, their

assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages: that's the French

 bet against the Danish. Why is this all impon'd, as you call it?

Foreman. The King, sir, hath laid that, in a dozen passes between

yourself and him, he shall not exceed you three hits; he hath

laid on twelve for nine, and it would come to immediate trial

if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer.

 Mario. How if I answer no?

Foreman. I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.

Mario. Sir, I will walk here in the hall. If it please his Majesty,

it is the breathing time of day with me. Let the foils be

brought, the gentleman willing, and the King hold his purpose,

 I will win for him if I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my

shame and the odd hits.

Foreman. Shall I redeliver you e'en so?

Mario. To this effect, sir, after what flourish your nature will.

Foreman. I commend my duty to your lordship.

 Mario. Yours, yours. [Exit Foreman.] He does well to commend it

himself; there are no tongues else for's turn.

Luigi. This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.

Mario. He did comply with his dug before he suck'd it. Thus has he,

and many more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes

 on, only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter-

a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and

through the most fann'd and winnowed opinions; and do but blow

them to their trial-the bubbles are out,

Enter Boss Sumo Bro. Initiate Room Before Boss jingle from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island.

Sumo. My lord, his Majesty commended him to you by young Osric, who

brings back to him, that you attend him in the hall. He sends to

know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you will

take longer time.

Mario. I am constant to my purposes; they follow the King's pleasure.

 If his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or whensoever, provided

I be so able as now.

Sumo. The King and Queen and all are coming down.

Mario. In happy time.

Sumo. The Queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to

 Laertes before you fall to play.

Mario. She well instructs me.

[Exit Boss Sumo Bro.]

Luigi. You will lose this wager, my lord.

Mario. I do not think so. Since he went into France I have been in

  continual practice. I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not

think how ill all's here about my heart. But it is no matter.

Luigi. Nay, good my lord—

Mario. It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gaingiving as

would perhaps trouble a woman.

 Luigi. If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their

repair hither and say you are not fit.

Mario. Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in

the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be

not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come:

 the readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves,

what is't to leave betimes? Let be.

Enter Bowser, Peach, Larry, Foreman Spike, and others. 

Attendants with foils and gauntlets.

A table and flagons of wine on it.

Bowser. Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.

Bowser puts Larry’s hand into Mario’s. Giant Bowser Battle tune from Super Mario Galaxy 2 begins to play.

Mario. Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong;

But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.

This presence knows,

 And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd

With sore distraction. What I have done

That might your nature, honour, and exception

Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.

Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet.

 If Hamlet from himself be taken away,

And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,

Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.

Who does it, then? His madness. If't be so,

Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;

 His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.

Sir, in this audience,

Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil

Free me so far in your most generous thoughts

That I have shot my arrow o'er the house

 And hurt my brother.

Larry. I am satisfied in nature,

Whose motive in this case should stir me most

To my revenge. But in my terms of honour

I stand aloof, and will no reconcilement

 Till by some elder masters of known honour

I have a voice and precedent of peace

To keep my name ungor'd. But till that time

I do receive your offer'd love like love,

And will not wrong it.

 Mario. I embrace it freely,

And will this brother's wager frankly play.

Give us the foils. Come on.

Laertes. Come, one for me.

Mario. I'll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance

 Your skill shall, like a star i' th' darkest night,

Stick fiery off indeed.

Larry. You mock me, sir.

Mario. No, by this hand.

Bowser. Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,

 You know the wager?

Mario. Very well, my lord.

Your Grace has laid the odds o' th' weaker side.

Bowser. I do not fear it, I have seen you both;

But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.

 Larry. This is too heavy; let me see another.

Mario. This likes me well. These foils have all a length?

Prepare to play.

Foreman. Ay, my good lord.

Bowser. Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.

 If Hamlet give the first or second hit,

Or quit in answer of the third exchange,

Let all the battlements their ordnance fire;

The King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath,

And in the cup an union shall he throw

 Richer than that which four successive kings

In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;

And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,

The trumpet to the cannoneer without,

The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,

 'Now the King drinks to Hamlet.' Come, begin.

And you the judges, bear a wary eye.

Mario. Come on, sir.

Larry. Come, my lord. They play.

Mario. One.

 Larry. No.

Mario. Judgment!

Foreman. A hit, a very palpable hit.

Larry. Well, again!

Bowser. Stay, give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;

 Here's to thy health.

[Drum; trumpets sound; a piece goes off within].]

Give him the cup.

Mario. I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.

Come. [They play.] Another hit. What say you?

 Larry. A touch, a touch; I do confess't.

Bowser. Our son shall win.

Peach. He's fat, and scant of breath.

Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows.

The Queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.

 Mario. Good madam!

Bowser. Gertrude, do not drink.

Peach. I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me. Drinks.

Bowser. [aside] It is the poison'd cup; it is too late.

Mario. I dare not drink yet, madam; by-and-by.

 Peach. Come, let me wipe thy face.

Larry. My lord, I'll hit him now.

Bowser. I do not think't.

Larry. [aside] And yet it is almost against my conscience.

Mario. Come for the third, Laertes! You but dally.

As the duel heightens, Yoshi, Toad, and Daisy attempt to leave the premises, but are soon interrupted by the crowd, who have also become tense in the proceedings. Daisy and Toad are bombarded without hesitation, while Yoshi is haplessly dispatched by a famished Magmaw as he attempts to leap out of a window

 Pray you pass with your best violence;

I am afeard you make a wanton of me.

Larry. Say you so? Come on. Play.

Foreman. Nothing neither way.

Larry. Have at you now!

 Larry wounds Mario; then in scuffling, they change rapiers, and Mario wounds Larry. Final Bowser Battle orchestration begins winding as Tatanga’s army marches toward Elsinore. In the audience, Bowser Jr. frantically wreaks only to be compressed by Whomp, who in turn is subdued by a stricken Thwomp, who dies after a blow from a large wooden column.

Bowser. Part them! They are incens'd.

Mario. Nay come! again! The Queen falls.

Foreman. Look to the Queen there, ho!

Mario. They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?

 Foreman. How is't, Laertes?

Larry. Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric.I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

Mario. How does the Queen?

Bowser. She sounds to see them bleed.

Peach. No, no! the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet!

 The drink, the drink! I am poison'd. Dies. Several bystanders are killed by a panicking King Boo and Petey Piranha, who both die as they are inflamed by wayward fire bars

Mario. O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd.

Treachery! Seek it out.

[Larry falls.]

Larry. It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain;

 No medicine in the world can do thee good.

In thee there is not half an hour of life.

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,

Unbated and envenom'd. The foul practice

Hath turn'd itself on me. Lo, here I lie,

 Never to rise again. Thy mother's poison'd.

I can no more. The King, the King's to blame.

Mario. The point envenom'd too?

Then, venom, to thy work. Hurts the King.

All. Treason! treason!

 Bowser. O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt.

Mario. Here, thou incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane,

Drink off this potion! Is thy union here?

Follow my mother. King dies. An unstable spiked skewer kills Birdo, fellow players, and others. Smithy Phase 2 from Super Mario RPG: Legend of The Seven Stars.

Larry. He is justly serv'd.

 It is a poison temper'd by himself.

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.

Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,

Nor thine on me! Dies.

Mario. Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.

 I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!

You that look pale and tremble at this chance,

That are but mutes or audience to this act,

Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death,

Is strict in his arrest) O, I could tell you-

 But let it be. Horatio, I am dead;

Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright

To the unsatisfied.

Luigi. Never believe it.

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

 Here's yet some liquor left.

Mario. As th'art a man,

Give me the cup. Let go! By heaven, I'll ha't.

O good Horatio, what a wounded name

(Things standing thus unknown) shall live behind me!

 If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,

Absent thee from felicity awhile,

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,

To tell my story. [March afar off, and shot within.]

What warlike noise is this?

 Foreman. Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,

To the ambassadors of England gives

This warlike volley.

Mario. O, I die, Horatio!

The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.

 I cannot live to hear the news from England,

But I do prophesy th' election lights

On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.

So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less,

Which have solicited- the rest is silence. Dies. Music comes to a blistering halt.

 Luigi. Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! Foreman Spike, Rex, Bramball, Geno, and Fryguy are killed by King Bill and Boohemoth, who both burst upon touching another, razing the castle edifice in the process  

[March within.]

Why does the drum come hither?

Enter Tatanga, King K. Rool and others, with Drum, Colours, and Attendants.

 Tatanga. Where is this sight?

Luigi. What is it you will see?

If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.

Tatanga. This quarry cries on havoc. O proud Death,

What feast is toward in thine eternal cell

 That thou so many princes at a shot

So bloodily hast struck.

Rool. The sight is dismal;

And our affairs from England come too late.

The ears are senseless that should give us hearing

 To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd

That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Where should we have our thanks?

Luigi. Not from his mouth,

Had it th' ability of life to thank you.

 He never gave commandment for their death.

But since, so jump upon this bloody question,

You from the Polack wars, and you from England,

Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies

High on a stage be placed to the view;

 And let me speak to the yet unknowing world

How these things came about. So shall you hear

Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts;

Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;

Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause;

 And, in this upshot, purposes mistook

Fall'n on th' inventors' heads. All this can I

Truly deliver.

Tatanga. Let us haste to hear it,

And call the noblest to the audience.

 For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune.

I have some rights of memory in this kingdom

Which now, to claim my vantage doth invite me.

Luigi. Of that I shall have also cause to speak,

And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more.

 But let this same be presently perform'd,

Even while men's minds are wild, lest more mischance

On plots and errors happen.

Tatanga. Let four captains

Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage;

 For he was likely, had he been put on,

To have prov'd most royally; and for his passage

The soldiers' music and the rites of war

Speak loudly for him.

Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this

 Becomes the field but here shows much amiss.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

Cue Game Over melody from Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins as Tatanga and his adherents readily proceed to repurpose Elsinore and dispose of the laden bodies. Exeunt marching; after the which a peal of ordnance are shot off.

THE END

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Texas and Arizona Send Migrants to D.C.

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Aug. 6, 2022,--Shipping busloads of South-of-the-border migrants to Washington D.C., 64-year-old Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and 58-year-old Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey hope to make a point that the southern border is out of control with 79-year-old President Joe Biden’s open-border policy.  Whether the policy is more open than former President Donald Trump or not, the same Latin American migrants continue to flood over the Mexican border.  Wall or no wall, the immigration flows remain a constant, something 50-year-old  D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser or 61-year-old New York Mayor Eric Adams can do nothing about.  Abbott and Ducey can’t pass the buck, shipping undocumented migrants to D.C. and New York City, but it doesn’t address longstanding border problems, not something solved by Republicans or Democrats.  Dumping migrants in D.C. or New York City other is outrageous.

Bowser asked the Pentagon for National Guard troops to handle the immigrant flows into her city, simply dropping them off at Union Station near the Capitol.  Bowser said she asked Biden to approve 150 National Guard troops a day to deal with a growing humanitarian crisis.  Whether admitted to or not, there’s nothing Biden can do to stop flows of asylum seekers and migrants crossing illegally into the United States.  Bowser wants help but 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should file in D.C. District Court for injunctive relief against Abbott and Ducey.  No state governor, dealing with migration problems, should pass the buck to another state or municipality.  Bowser doesn’t know why Austin rejected her request but a crisis exists that must be stopped.  Abbott and Ducey have no right to dump their border-related problems on D.C. or NYC or any other state or city..

Whatever Biden did to stop a Trump-era pandemic restrictions on migrant flows into the U.S., the border problems predate the Covid-19 pandemic or any other health crisis.  Bowser wanted the White House to find a suitable location to process some 5,200 undocumented immigrants shipped from Texas and another 1,300 from Arizona.  Texas and Arizona officials pay Greyhound and other bus companies to ship migrants to D.C. and New York City.  No federal judge would allow such and irresponsible practice, knowing that immigrant flows have nothing to do with political parties or federal immigration policies.  Bowser said, on reviewing asylum seeks shipped to D.C., that they were duped by Texas and Arizona authorities to take busses back east.  Austin should file immediately in D.C. district court for injunctive relief against the states of Texas and Arizona, a cease-and-desist order.

Rejecting her request for National Guard troops, Bowser said the Pentagon was  concerned “about the open-ended nature of our request,” not certain how long Texas and Arizona would play their bussing games.  “We want to continue to work with the Department of Defense so that they understand our operational needs and to assure that political considerations are not part of their decision,” Bowser said.  “We need the National Guard, if we were a state, I would already have done it,” pitching for D.C. to become its own state.  But it’s not a state issue to manage the current migrant crisis in D.C.:  It’s Texas and Arizona politicizing the immigrant crisis by illegally shipping asylum-seekers to the D.C. and New York.  What does D.C. or New York City as municipalities have to do wit the current border crisis?  Governors of Southwestern states cannot arbitrarily send migrants to other cities.

Atty., Gen. Merrick Garlands, 68, must step in to file suit in federal court to stop Texas, Arizona or any other state from passing their border problems on to any other city.  Abbott thinks it’s perfectly OK to send undocumented migrants to New York City to underscore Biden’s failed border policies.  But New York City has nothing to do with federal immigration policies, nor should they be singled out by Abbott, Ducey or anyone else.  Adam’s spokesman Fabien Levy tweeted that Abbott’s “continued use of human beings as political paws is disgusting.  NYC will continue to welcome asylum seekers w/ open arms, as we have always done but we still need support from D.C.”  Bowser and Adams should forcefully seek injunctive relief from the federal courts to stop Abbott and Ducey from shipping off their problems to other cities.  Federal immigration authorities must ultimately deal with the crisis.

Abbott and Ducey have no leg to stand on in federal court, shipping illegal immigrants to any other part of the country.  “In addition of Washington, D.C., New York City is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Erick Adams has boasted about with the sanctuary city,” said Abbott.  Abbott’s actions are easily challenged in federal court, knowing that no state governor has the right to pass the buck to any other state or city.  Abbott and Ducey are completely off-the-wall shipping Latin American migrants to any other state or municipality.  Whatever problems exist on the southern border, it’s no up to governors on border states to pass the buck to other governors or mayors.  Any federal court would stop Abbott and Ducey in their tracks, they have no valid legal argument for shipping illegal migrants to any other state or city.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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CBN Reports: Senate and House Lawmakers Call for Investigation into Deaths of Five Aborted Late-Term Babies in DC

CBN Reports: Senate and House Lawmakers Call for Investigation into Deaths of Five Aborted Late-Term Babies in DC

GOP lawmakers are calling on Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Robert Contee, and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate reports of possible late-term abortions at a clinic in the nation’s capital. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) was joined by 17 Republican senators and five Republican House members in sending a letter demanding an…

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Third Game’s the Charm

by Antonio Garland

    Like before, this game was nonexistent to me until I was in my teens and played it at a friend’s house. This, too, was played on Super Mario All-Stars on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I found it similar to the original game, though with a few additions. At the time, I also found it extremely difficult. However, I did have fun with it. I have bought and beaten it several times since, though this is still one of the more difficult games in the series. It’s Super Mario Bros. 3, originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988 in  Japan and 1990 in America.

(image source: Moby Games)      The plot is one that should be familiar. Bowser kidnaps Peach again and it’s Mario’s job to rescue her. This time, however, Bowser brought backup in the form of his seven children, the Koopalings. Bowser has also taken over the seven sections of the Mushroom Kingdom, stealing magic wands from the seven Kings and turning them into animals. In addition to rescuing Peach, Mario must also get back the wands and turn the Kings back to normal. The gameplay should be recognizable by now. Hold right until you reach the end of the level, while jumping over obstacles and defeating enemies. Koopas and Goombas are back as the default enemies. Certain variations of Goombas now have wings and drop smaller Goombas on the player for an additional hazard. Buzzy Beetles also return, though they can now climb walls and ceilings. They drop on top of Mario and attempt to spin into him when he’s near. This game also introduces the Boos, ghost-like enemies in castle levels who are still when Mario is facing them but come for him when his back is turned. Another new enemy is the Thwomp, sentient stone spike-covered blocks with faces that attempt to drop on top of Mario when he’s underneath them.

      Returning from the American Super Mario Bros. 2 is the ability to pick up and throw enemies and items. Certain blocks can be picked up and tossed as projectiles. Koopa shells can now be picked up; however, if the shell is held for too long the Koopa will reemerge and harm the player. A new move Mario can perform is the slide maneuver. While going down a slope, pressing down on the control pad will allow Mario to slide down for both faster travel and to attack  enemies along the way. He can also swim and climb vines. There’s also now a speed bar. The longer Mario runs, the faster the bar will fill until it reaches the P at the end indicating Mario’s max speed.

    Speaking of new moves, Mario gains quite a variety of power-ups. The mushroom, fire flower, and starman return with the same mechanics. Some new power-ups include the frog suit, which allows better control in the water and a higher jump. The leaf which gives Mario raccoon ears and a tail. It allows him to spin when pressing B. When the speed bar is full, the leaf allows Mario to fly for a few seconds by rapidly pressing A. The Tanooki suit is the same as the leaf, though pressing down and B turns Mario into an invulnerable statue that can harm spiked enemies and fire.

      A special item only available in one level is the Goomba Shoe (a.k.a. “Kuribo’s Shoe”), a green boot-like item that Mario rides inside of, and allows for attacking spiked enemies. Another usable but rare item is the hammer suit. This item dresses Mario like a Hammer bro. and its function is like the fire flower, only it can defeat normally invincible enemies such as Boos. It also protects Mario against fire attacks when crouched. There’s also a P leaf, which allows Mario to fly infinitely during a single level, afterwards functioning like a normal leaf suit. Extra items can be stored in the inventory on the world map screen. They can be selected before the next level for use.

      This is the first Mario game to feature the world map system. Instead of automatically being taken from one level to the next, the player has the option of going to various levels from an overworld map. Outside of levels are a variety of other places to visit on the world map. There are toad houses which allow for playing matching minigames for bonus items and extra lives. Sometimes Toad will give Mario a choice to choose an item from three different chests. Castle stages are done at the halfway point on a world map. At the end is a mini-boss called Boom Boom, a rather large Koopa who races back and forth attempting to hit Mario. He sometimes jumps and grows spikes on his back when attacked.

      The world map also features enemies, specifically the Hammer Bros. They are fought the same way as before, only they come in pairs. After beating a level, they move around randomly on the world map until they encounter Mario. There’s an item called the music box which puts them to sleep to make bypassing them easier. Defeating a Hammer Bros. duo will yield an item, including the rare hammer which breaks blocks on the world map for alternate routes. Returning from Super Mario Bros. 2 is the world variation. There’s a desert world, an ice world and a pipe world, among others. There’s actually a world that changes in size depending on which pipe you go down. Just as before, there are eight worlds in increasing difficulty. At the end of each world is a castle where Mario meets the resident Toad and transformed King. He then boards an airship which is home to the game’s boss, one of the Koopalings. The airship levels are done similarly as the castle levels of earlier games. The airships move automatically and sway up and down for difficulty variation. At the end are pipes where Mario goes down to fight the boss. Each Koopaling is different visually and in how they attack. They can shoot projectiles at Mario and attempt to hop on top of him. If Mario looses on an airship, he’ll be kicked off the ship, which will go to a different location on the overworld map. After defeating the Koopalings, they each drop a wand and Mario returns it to the world’s King, causing him to change back to normal.

      Just as before, there are warps that can instantly take the player to later parts of the game. They come in the form of Whistles, a rare item hidden in some of the earlier levels. When used, a tornado appears that scoops up Mario and takes him to a world select screen similar to the overworld screen. The Whistles only take Mario a few worlds ahead, so another whistle is needed to reach the final world. Also, they only allow transport to the beginning of a world and can’t skip levels.

      The final world is the Dark World, where Bowser resides. There are a lot of airship-like levels with tanks and water ships, along with occasional mini-boss battles. This world also doubles as the fire world as it does have an underworld feeling. Once Bowser has been dealt with and the Princess is saved, the player is treated to a new game where all their inventory slots are stocked with P leaves. Other than that, there isn’t a variation with the enemies or other bonus features.

      Upon its release, Super Mario Bros. 3 received widespread universal acclaim and is hailed as one of the best Mario games to date. It featured innovative new features that new Mario games today use, such as the world map and varied power-ups. The Koopalings would also go on to become reoccurring enemies. On your first playthrough, there will be so many things to experience as you never know just what will appear. Lots of levels feature secret areas and bonuses that reward you for thinking outside of the box. If there was one Mario game to play, this would definitely be it. The game was so popular that it spawned a cartoon series, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. The game has been re-released several times. It’s been featured in Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and for various systems that support Virtual Console.