#and have the unused voicelines

[darks-romantical-corner]

Wow Bowsario is so strong even the DOS version of Mario Is Missing made it into toxic yaoi! (And it's not even a canon game....) Poor Little Mario also has to listen to Bowser ramble and whatnot....

I also had a screenshot of a news paper in which a koopa ran away eating salad and thought it was related but nope I re-read it and it was just a random koopa

And have bonuses because I spent my breaktime on this foking game (sorry for how the text I've written looks I was screenshotting from a phone):

[vivisols]

everyone makes vanessa evil in their fics but personally i think theres not enough nice vanessa content. she's trying her hardest!

[jovialsongdefendor]

"Sonamy is canon and sega confirmed it! So sonadow will never be cannon!"

No. Sonamy is not canon. And this is not saying like a rage fan that doesnt like the ship. I sayed it because the people on the fandom spread so many wrong information that it becomes so annoying, specially on tik tok where you say that the earth is flat and everyone believes that. "Sonic sayed that he would like to share a umbrella with amy!" Ian, the writer of the game, sayed himself that he doesnt even remember or even write those lines for sonic. Most likely someone on the team pushed it so it can be in the code of the games. and why is in the games and it shows voicelines of it? Simple, because the game can be coded so some unused lines can be show on some scenes. And what makes it that those lines are likely just pushed into it like forcing a line that ian never ever write in the first place?

[It is strange that the lines doesnt even appear on the same scenes, just on differents ones?]

I am just gonna put the information that sonadow wiki done: "In bullet points:

These lines are cut-lines and they never made it to the final version for any platform

Ian, the writer for Sonic Frontiers, didn’t even write these lines to be in the game

Since the lines are in the database of the game (but does not occur in the final version of the game), the lines can be modded into the game to make it seem official or that it’s in the final version of the game

“Proofs” showing these lines to be in the game have faults within them, such as not occurring on the correct island or weather condition

There are several factors to consider when acknowledging these lines existence. One of the main factors is that these are cut-lines that never made it to the official and final version of Sonic Frontiers. This goes for both the English and Japanese version of the game. These lines can only be found through datamining the game, which means to look through files deep within the game that don’t make it to the surface. So, these lines will never be activated because there is nothing to activate it, therefore it is not official lines.

Another thing to know about is that Ian, the one who wrote the story and dialogue lines for Sonic Frontiers, was not even aware of these lines existing in the game because he never wrote them or had anything similar be made for these lines to exist. Therefore, it wasn’t even planned to have these lines in the game whatsoever. Someone else, other than Ian, snuck the lines in and had it go against what the original story was in the first place; they tried to have their own story or vision be put in the game aside from what Ian wrote or how it was originally conceived. This makes the lines even more unofficial and not real. Many already acknowledge that these lines are not official and are cut lines." https://youtu.be/vGnN6Q7yo5c "One more thing to consider is that even if people show “proof” of it existing in the games, these lines and even text can be easily modded into the game for it to seem like it exists in the final game. But just because it is modified in, doesn’t mean that it was there originally."

"As it can be seen through this individual who is able to make unused conversations be put into the game in some manner through modification, it is also possible to put unused conversations lines in the game in some manner. These lines towards Amy aren’t the only lines that are unused in the game. There are many lines that aren’t used and that are still in the database of the game, but that doesn’t mean that any of them made it to the final game for people to see through normal means.

Another thing to take note about is that these lines towards Amy (the “Umbrella” and “Making up his mind” lines), are lines that occur on Rhea or Ouranos Island, but the first pictures shown in this thread show that the lines were randomly said on Kronos Island, the first island you go to in the game. That shows that this person modified the lines to be said in the game and that they are not triggered under normal means. Another way to figure out that these lines are modified is that the “Umbrella” line is supposed to only be triggered while it’s raining, but the line is said randomly while it is only cloudy in the person’s “proof” of it existing in the game.

On a side note, datamining and modifying games tend to be illegal depending on what company the game comes from. For example, Nintendo has policies that say that if you are to play their games, you cannot modify their systems or games that are played on that console. So this practice of modifying and datamining is not encouraged by the majority of game companies and isn’t welcomed, therefore it should become a common practice to not to try to do these illegal activity towards any game."

"And what about this proof of sonamy being canon?"

Japanese version:

Putting again what sonadow wiki sayed:

"The Japanese is mistranslated in the English translation when talking about Sonic CD in Sonic and the Secret Rings. In English, it may call Amy Sonic’s love interest, but that was never stated in the original Japanese, therefore the English translators mistranslated it on purpose or are pushing their own personal interpretations in the mistranslated English. In Japanese it simply gives Amy a description before stating that she appears in the game. Sonic’s name is never mentioned in the original Japanese.

What it says in Japanese: “A brimming with vigor, love to fall in love girl, Amy, appears.”

Or for it to make more sense in English: “Amy, who is an energetic girl that loves falling in love, appears (in this game).”

The sentence in Japanese: “元気いっぱい 恋に恋する女の子 エミー登場”

If you take the sentence apart (which you can see on this website) you will see each word on it’s own to see the direct translation.

元気 = Energetic; Lively

元気 いっぱい = Brimming with Vigor; Brimming with Health; Full of Vitality

恋 = (Romantic) Love (which is more closer to having an attraction towards someone)

恋する = To Fall in Love (with); to love

女の子 = Girl; Young Woman; Daughter; Baby (girl)

エミー = Amy

登場 = Appears"

And about the ask and question of the characters when they sayed that sonic has feelings for amy and is official: welp, I guess tailor swift and etzio are cannon on the sonics universe, and maluma too

[yuurei20]

Updated Sebek Facts Part 4: Various Facts and Cooking

Sebek is unimpressed by Trey's lack of consideration during the NBC Halloween event, scolding him for failing to help Sally to her feet after she has fallen to the ground.

Sebek refuses to participate in Fairy Gala IF, but it is possible that he would not have been able to assist even if he had wanted to: Silver says that as Sebek's grandfather and mother are both nocturnal fae, he might have frightened the diurnal fairies of the gala.

Lilia has a voice line about Sebek certainly complaining if the prefect were to visit Diasomnia, but they can just ignore him.

Sebek talks about potentially attaching pom-poms to his armor for added protection, and it is possible he has no interest in fashion: he has a voiceline of, "What clothes suit me best? You know, I'm not sure. I simply wear what I'm given."

Sebek struggles during the Master Chef course, slicing an onion into wildly varying thicknesses and scorching several bits by accident. The ghost chef assures him it is not unusable and he responds, “Not unusable? Rgh, that means it's less usable than it was before.”

Sebek is interested to learn that different kinds of pasta are used for different dishes and the ghost chef calls him an eager student, saying, “That’s my favorite kind to teach.”

Jack, his judge, gives him passing marks for his “standard, middle-of-the-road chicken noodle soup” and Sebek is scandalized, saying such a thing is impossible:

“This soup contains unevenly chopped and scorched onion slices! With such flawed ingredients, this was bound to be a flawed dish, regardless of who ate it!...How could THIS get passing marks? I don't understand it!”

The ghost chef observes, “Someone having standards too high can be its own problem.” The Master Chef course seems to successfully improve Sebek’s skill: during Book 7 he creates a stove for slow-roasting out of riverside rocks and magic, impressive Lilia with his dish.

[zeondraws]

Fellas, it's finally finished. I think it's my first "proper" video I've done, even if it's just voicelines. But this one took like 2-3 months in total. But dang, it's been a wild ride. I started out with ingame recordings and ended up datamining the game, to extract the soundfiles instead.

Huge thanks go out to @sgiansporran and @peace-comes-dropping-slow for helping me with identifying them/sorting them/exporting them etc. But very big thanks to Sporran for fixing my mistakes with figuring out what is being said in the unused soundfiles.

I hope you all enjoy! I have no clue if it's good enough, but best to sleep over it and start thhe next projects soon. I'll get a bit better with each video. Maybe in a year I'll have more knowledge.

Either way, I will work on other stuff for a while, before tackling the next video.

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[narklos]

Half-Life Links and Resources

I've put together all of the links I've collected over the years relating to Half-Life for you all to peruse and enjoy.

If you feel like I've missed something, shoot me an ask and I'll add it. :,)

Take a peek under the cut, and have fun!

Gordon Freeman's Bio

Raising the Bar (Book of HL1 and HL2's development)

Half-Life Magazine Archive

HL2's Original Opening Scene Script

TCRF's Proto HL2 Documentation

TWHL's Forums

My own collection of HL model references

My own collection of cut/unused G-Man voicelines

VCC Wiki (Treasure trove of unreleased Valve resources)

Project Beta (Archives HL2's development builds and art)

SourceRuns (Forum) (Wiki)

Archived City17 Forums

Leaked Beta HLA Ending (HLA basically had a hard reset on its development a year into the game's devcycle, that's a whole 'nother rabbit hole)

Cut HL maps in the Postal 3 Leak

HL2's E3 Presentation Assets (Tech Demo) (Trailer) (Assets) (Download)

Mike Shapiro (G-Man's VA) Singing the Blues!

HLA - Lost Radio in the Vault

The HLA Black Mesa Conspiracy Theorist (Many believe this to be Barney's hideout, as Barney was meant to appear in HLA but was cut)

HL2 EP2 Cut Citadel Destruction (Addon is no longer available)

An Unused G-Man Ravenholm Appearance

'Human Science' Pre-Vis (Cut Dr Breen speech from HLA)

Return to Ravenholm (Cancelled Episode 4)

Some forums going over the HL2 2003 Leak (Winamp) (Techspot) (Leak Download)

HL1's 1997 Alpha (Steam) (Project Beta)

Archived Facepunch Forums

Kerry Davis' Door Talk (This was during HLA's development but before the game was announced, and goes through a lot of the tech we'd see in the released game. Back then, HLA was known only in code leaks as 'HLVR'. Remember- HLA had a massive reset in its production!)

Gabe Newell Officially Announces HL3!!11

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OK this is going to be a little long but I need it out of my head so I can function and who knows maybe someone will appreciate the analysis !

Big spoilers for the last two episodes of arcane. You've been warned~

The final of arcane was very beautiful animation wise and does close around two (maybe three) of the storyline started before. But, and that's my problem it completely throw out of the window any and everything about zaun and piltover... in the worst way possible for me.

And that's what we're gonna talk about here.

And now that I know the episode was supposed to be 1h30 instead of 50minutes it makes a lot more sense. Riot, give me at least the storyboard, or the scripts, or the unused voicelines, anything really. Thank you.

So. To put it simply. The entire final is from the point of view of piltover only and yes, that's a problem.

"But Herk, it's a greater evil ! We don't have to discuss about the zaun/piltover situation it's about unification !"

Let's deconstruct that statement shall we ?

First "the greater evil" :

Up until episode 6, Viktor got a thriving and peaceful community going on in a place that was a wasteland before. None of the people here are drones yet (yes they are eerily peaceful, yes it was the beginning of the 'evolution' but at that point they werent yet drones), as proven by vander situation itself :

We clearly see Viktor searching for his personality in the terrible work Singed did on him. And finding him while talking with Sky that this is using is very finite resources but it is worth it.

When warwick says "don't touch my daughter" it's not Viktor talking. It's vander.

He is disagreeing with Singed on using his method and we don't know at that point if people would have died with him if his death hadn't been brutal... which leads me to :

Then Jayce comes around and kills him, starting the chain of events that leads to the final. (Because "you can make me see the glorious evolution is not worth it" becomes "if I murder him it will stop everything." Instead of, i dont know, talking to him and saying "look in my mind". Dumbass.)

We have no clue what could have been (haha) if Jayce had talk to Viktor then. Maybe he could have severed his link with the commune in a gentle way, maybe not. But we don't get to see that. Because jayce jump-start the actual Glorious Evolution.

Now for the "it's about unification" part :

Pilltover has been keeping Zaun under dictatorship for months, wagonning people to prison without as much as a trial (but hey, they didn't use the _worst_ cells yet. Because 10 people in a room with no bed is very human. Fuck you).

Used the "grey" which is basically mustard gas in zaun's street as a way to "keep people safe". Do I really have to say thay it is bullshit or ? (Especially as we see victims of the grey beat up and left IN IT after the enforcers passage !)

And have the confirmation that pilltover is very aware of the gas problem in zaun (even over their enforcers having gas mask instead of. I don't know. Making sure the air is breathable without risk in zaun.)

And all of this for ? Ha yes, allegedly capturing one person. Again, not taking any responsibility in why this person exists in the first place (exploitation for decades > violent repression > murdering her parents > corrupt police making their money with gangs and not caring about it because what consequences? haha we are up they are down).

While using a foreign military to do so.

( "but Cait is grieving!" I don't care. It doesn't justify her putting thousands of people through fascism.)

And we see sevika and zaun trying to defend itself but with limited resources as always and an internal situation extremely messy because of the gangs that are left (chembarons who wouldn't have existed without the corrupted pilltover police doing their bread on it and the council not caring, as ever, just as a reminder).

Now for some details :

In the first two acts we hear "our people"/"our city" to talk solely of piltovians.

Caitlyn and her great "i keep telling myself you're different, but you have the same blood in your veins".

Great to remind us that she does still think people of zaun are not the same breed as her and are filthy to the core by their fucking blood itself no less.

Considering her mother was on the council when the last revolt from zaun happened and so she was part of the people that took the decision to kill all the protesters.. including vi parents. Her statement becomes very ironic on top of being atrocious.

And let's not forget how she forced her into an enforcer costume while saying "I understand your pain"... yeah you don't. Your mom died in a result of the decade of action and inaction of her own council, you're an adult and still have your father. Both vi and jinx parents died trying to get under the heel of their oppressors and when they were children no less. Fuck you.

Jayce and "we build the core of the hexgate in the fissures it's fine" and ekko telling him that they didn't think about zaun water and air supply that go through the fissure and would have been destroyed if the hexgate had a problem.

Because, as always, they don't actually care about the people in zaun.

And bonus point, he doesn't apologize for making the tree and everything else sick. It's just "we didn't thought about that". AGAIN, no ownership of what pilltover is doing to anybody else.

Now that the set is ready let's go back to episodes 8 and 9, through the zaun/pilltover lense.

Jinx is in prison. She does apologize to Cait for her mom.

Cait doesn't even apologize to Vi.

Cait doesn't stop officially the dictatorship or apologize to zaun's people for what she did and left be done to them.

Cait doesn't even take responsibility in giving grace publicly to jinx, no, she let's the responsibility of getting jinx out to vi.

Leaving jinx to be a fugitive still if she actually gets out.

That is NOT owning to one "bad actions". That is being a coward and a hypocrite. And making someone else responsible for whatever happens next (yes she gives vi the choice and leaves her jinx' vendetta in the past gnagnagna, it's still completely self centered and hypocritical).

Jayce, which just murdered a number of people and provoked vander and Isha's deaths, tells people that Viktor is a menace.

For all vi knows he isn't. She saw him help vander and people nobody cared about. There is no reason for her to help here. And there is no reason for zaun people either.

We do not see the inside of zaun, at all.

We get a few people leaving and a few enrolling in the enforcers because... yeah who cares that person beat the shit out of me for month we should fight side by side and die together as one. No. Just no.

For all we know, and is being said to us, Viktor and Noxus want the hexgate. They do not need to do anything to zaun for that. They can literally (and apparently that's what they do) just roll past zaun and go directly to pilltover. The only zaunites we see dead are the ones who fight for pilltover.

Jayce talks solely of pilltover and its "undercity" there is no recognition of zaun or what has been happening for decades.

At least in that scene we see sevika and Scar leave in a :

"Ho yeah ? Noxus that you used against us for all this time is now a menace to you? Tough luck."

"But Herk ! Jayce puts down the barbebwire doors around zaun !!!!"

And that makes it OK? It makes everything before it OK? "I let you out of the camp I made around you so you can fight for me". NO. Just no. Even less considering none of the people who actually took the decision to get the dictatorship running and those gates up owns up to having done it; again.

Side note : it clearly takes a few days between the beginning of ep8 and the actual attack of noxus.

Explain to me why jayce didn't shut down the hexgate at that point, keep using hexteck' weapons and a literal arcane hammer while preaching how bad it is ??!!! That man is stupid but apparently everybody around him is too.

(And Don't tell me "but the hexgate was getting people out" just. Don't. The ships could have just fly away on their own with the hexgate shut down. Come on).

Ekko and jinx have the beginning of a conversation (i love this scene tho) and then we are back with pilltover only.

Fast-forward to the fight and HO WAIT people of zaun arrive "to help" because its a greater evil ! It makes everything fine right ?

No.

And here the details of why for me :

We do not get any closure of the zaunites storylines : Sevika and Scar don't even have a single line together or with jinx and ekko.

Ekko and Scar have been making the tree and their sanctuary one the only safe place of zaun for more than 6 years.

Ekko has been missing for months and we don't even get to see him reunite with the firefights ?? Not even one second ?

Sevika was there for Jinx then Isha during the whole of act 1 and 2 of season 2. But we don't even see them talk or sevika being made aware that Isha is dead.

Yes. Jinx' balloons got elements in honor of Isha and her depression is about that part of her that died with Isha. Sure. And it's very well done _for HER character_.

But what about sevika ? She got a very good arc that kept getting better during the season 2 and suddenly she is a background character that doesn't even deserve to have any feelings?

And it's the same for the firelights. They are here during the fight, we can even spot a few other minor characters of zaun.

But they are props.

They have no feelings or emotions (except angry yelling of fight). You are not here to empathize with them because they don't even exist as characters in that moment.

If you like them already you'll be scared for them (I yelled when I thought sevika would die, not gonna lie) but nothing more.

Jayce and Viktor... very pretty, gay being unable to say I love you and all that BUT ALSO "I'm sure there is still a bit of you in there" / "why do you persist after everything I've done"

I... You KILLED HIM you absolute dumbass of a man. You murdered him and made him lose his humanity THAT HE STILL HAD and then you call to it !?? And then Viktor blames himself

.. I can't even. I know it's because he wants jayce to say he loves him but haaaaaaaaa !!!!

Jayve has always been an idiot but that takes the cake. Most toxic ex ever, Viktor must really love him because for fuck sake xD

Ekko saves the world.

Because jayce is so bad at this and being a self-fulfilling prophecy guy that he condemned the world (like in apparently all realities where that version of the story happens).

Do we see anybody acknowledge it in the aftermath ? Do we see any recognition of a zaunite saving the situation?

Nope.

"The battle of pilltover will long be remember".

Pilltover. Just Pilltover.

Ekko's action or any zaunite's deaths during that war that Pilltover fabricated all through its own action and decisions ?

Erased. Forgotten. Not important in the Grand History. It was only Pilltover all along.

"But Herk. You're unfair, we see the little paper scene at the end ! And sevika becomes a councilor !"

Yeah. We do, and it's still shown in the show that the situation is not actually resolved : just look at the new counsilors' expressions when sevika sits down.

They still think she is beneath them and shouldn't be there... BECAUSE nobody in pilltover acknowledge anything done to zaun. Still.

And I'm glad she is a councilor don't get me wrong. I'm happy we at least get one element for zaun by the end.

But its too little and still with not even a line of dialogue.

Also, why not Ekko or Scar too ?? Sevika was a leader of a certain group in zaun, but Ekko/Scar represent a lot of people too.

So zaun is still not fully there. (And ya know, not too many zaunites come on, one for the show but not too much).

And worse. Nothing is even acknowledged to the public. Listen to the two episodes and notice how nobody say "zaun" in them, it's only undercity/topside and pilltover.

The conflict is totally erased from the narration except for that one dirty look the councilor gives Sevika.

And don't tell me I'm exaggerating because I saw, in less than a week since the final, enough take on how pilltover was absolutely not responsible for anything/zaunites were the sole responsible for their hardships and any act of resistance from them was terrorism (thanks usa), that I know a lot of people sadly took that ending in the most stupidest way possible.

Also, a detail but... Nobody is there to put a paper for Viktor.

He will stay the "Villain" of the story, forever. Because people only got Jayce telling them he was bad and never knowing the actual truth of what happened.

And that's quite disheartening too.

Jayce the piltie was a hero. Viktor the zaunite was a villain. That's it. Who cares Jayce literally provoked Viktor transformation, twice. Who cares the fight happened because of pilltover and their hexteck...

Hell, even then we see Ekko being utterly alone. Thanks for saving the world from a piltovian manufactured war and losing all in the process my guy, nobody said ever in the show.

And Singed, who is a piltovian, gets everything his way while being the absolute worst. Which ya know, forces my respect but also i hate this guy.

Because in case you hadn't realised, even shimmer was made by someone from pilltover ready to sacrifice anyone and first zaunite lives for his goal.

And the final nail in the coffin ? The last sentence of the show.

"But but it's so romantic!!! Its vi saying she's choosing to stay with Cait !!"

Really ? You think saying you're the filth under someone perfect manicure, that no matter how much they wash they can't get out... is romantic ? Damn. I knew about dirty talk but that takes it to another level (this is a joke btw).

But no matter if romantic or not, Cait never apologized to her, zaun or anybody else. She didn't own up to anything she did the entire show.

(And do remember that the whole base of the show happens because of jayce lab having dangerous materials in the middle of town; and because a kiramman was there, the council needed someone guilty from zaun).

What it is on the other hand, is still a comparison between zaun and pilltover.

They are on top, clean, except for the filth that stays under them and they can't get rid of.

And that pisses me off a lot.

Because with those 40 extra minutes we could have had the characterisation of the zaunites.

Sevika learning about Isha.

Ekko reuniting with the firelights.

Zaun actually being shown in danger and why they would help pilltover (where again jayce brings no reason to. Its just his word against everything pilltover put them through).

We could have had just a beginning of acknowledgement from pilltover OR a call out about it not happening by the people of zaun !!!

Ekko calling out Caitlyn (and Vi too honestly) would have been amazing! And a call back to season 1 where she went on about how he should not continue the cycle of violence, the audacity of a bitch I swear.

It could have fixed the problem I have with the ending. And that's really a miss for me...

Even if I did like the episodes in themselves ! They were gorgeous (mind!herald be looking fiiiiine) and the noxus and arcane storylines got finished (arguably the sisters one too). But please gimme what's missing about zaun.

Well. Now that I got it out of my system... I'm gonna go live in ep7 ! XD where my fav characters are all alive and grown up !!! *happy*

Have a good day !!!

Ps : I made a few arcane fancomics centering on the 6years gap between act 1 and act 2 of season 1.

Focusing on claggor, deckard, ekko and the firelights~

Please don't hesitate to take a look if that sounds like something that could interest you ^^

https://www.tumblr.com/lapaduza/767502852257087488/here-comes-a-new-volume-of-my-arcane-au-where?source=share

[selenevassos]

selene + nemea, there's an unused voiceline in returnal where selene talks about having a cat

[animasola86]

Boggarts/Patronus Headcanons

After reading @sunnyrealist's post I was inspired to think about possible Boggart and Patronus options for our boy:

Sebastian's biggest fear

- either losing his sister/seeing her dying/dead or seeing Solomon scolding and yelling at him or ending up all alone (so many dark options for that poor boy, my god! And I'm kind of glad we didn't get to see such a scene... then again, he gets pretty close to seeing his biggest fears come true, yet another reason to GIVE THIS BOY A HUG GODDAMNIT!) On a lighter note: falling into the lake? He mentions that in those unused voicelines...

(A note on Boggarts: what a weird concept imo! I mean, sure, kids usually have easier fears like they're afraid of spiders or bugs or certain animals or their grandma or teachers, i.e. people, and then casting Riddikulus on those things and turning them into something funny would be as easy, but what if you are afraid of heights or losing family members? Would you just feel the fear instead of seeing it? And how would you make that funny? Imagine a safety net below you? Realizing your dead loved one is just sleeping? All a little abstract (and quite macabre to have the whole class witness your lowest point like that). Makes sense to teach that to younger kids whose fears are easier to repel I guess.)

Sebastian's Patronus

- I agree with the HC that it would be a fox (look at @yoshitsuno's art and @cursedonyx (who went a step further and made his animagus form a fox) - I just think it fits. Foxes are sly and cunning, but also playful and mischievous. (And so freaking cute and isn't he too? XD)

Sebastian's happiest memory

- that is a really tough one considering there is not much happiness in his life, at least before he meets MC, so I'd say either meeting or becoming friends with MC or probably seeing that memory with them where he sees Isidora getting rid of her father's pain (what a flare of hope for him that must have been!). Looking at the time before meeting MC, it could also be him becoming the Crossed Wands champion or something other Hogwarts related, maybe hanging out with Anne and Ominis in the Undercroft, but I'd wager that wouldn't be nearly powerful enough to repel a Dementor since those memories would be tainted now.

[ General Sebastian Sallow Headcanons ] [ 🔞 NSFW Sebastian Sallow Headcanons ]

[vanderlindepounder]

RDR fandom LOVES to throw around the word Mischaracterised .

I hate it when people Mischaracterise Micah and turn him into a one-sided villain

I hate it when people Mischaracterise Arthur and turn him into a ruthless killer/relentless do-gooder

I hate it when people Mischaracterise Abigail and make her seem like the worst character in RDR2

I hate it when people Mischaracterise This character . That character .

It's always the same people too, and they're always the most popular characters . People have different understandings of this media.

Some people have played the first game, they understand things like Javier's lack of romantic empathy , in contrast to his attempts in the second game. Or the fact that John is so *caring* for his family, willing to track down the three people who are left, just so his family can live safe.

But some people haven't played the first game . Or they like specific characters and didn't pay too much attention to the rest and is just going off what they Know about others. Or they just simply don't care ! And that's fine too!

People find comfort in some of these guys, they project their own headcanons onto them. They find unused content and love what's been cut. They enjoy projecting THEMSELVES onto a character for whatever reason. They get attached, they move on.

It's not for a fandom to decide whether or not someone's INTERPRETATION of a character is MISCHARACTERISING them. It's up to the fandom to either support a headcanon, or simply scroll past.

No character is one-sided, but not all characters have a million and one different layers that you can't see unless you listened to this scrapped voiceline and the Voice Actor's opinion from game development in 2017.

Let a man enjoy a character in peace!

[internetmisfitsworld]

So far from what I've seen, the reboot doesn't showed or mentioned any implications that Makarov and Yuri were former friends or served together in the army. Hell by the looks of it, Yuri looks much older than Mak.

So I'm guessing in this new timeline, Activision probably won't go with that route anymore.

I noticed that not many people saw how much Yuri truly meant to Makarov. I'll go as far to say that Yuri was the LAST and ONLY shreds of humanity that's left in Makarov. Just a tiny piece.

Now why would I say that Yuri was his last shreds of humanity? I mean surely it's not possible right? After all, this is the same man who shot at him, almost blew him to pieces and literally KILLED him at the end.

Well, here's a few hints that I noticed.

(Long essay here. Because why not.)

(I'm feeling a bit emo over the fact that I'm gonna miss these two bastards dynamics.)

1. 1996 and 2011 flashback

He seemed so happy and content with Yuri during the flashback scene. His little smile when talking about the future of Ultranationalist to him. It seemed so genuine I almost forgot this man is a terrorist lol.

Also, it's kinda wholesome to know that these two were always joined at the hip. First, Pripyat then the whole nuking the US army. Must've been one hell of a duo back then to be picked as second in commands of Zakhaev. Well, either that or Zakhaev didn't have the heart to separate them 🤣 (they both shared one braincell).

Zakhaev: No. Yuri cannot go with you for this mission, Vladimir. He must stay here.

Makarov:

Yuri:

Zakhaev:

Makarov: ☹️

Yuri: ☹️

Zakhaev: 😑

Zakhaev: FINE. BOTH OF YOU GO!

2. No Russian

I wonder why didn't Mak killed Yuri sooner when he found out that Yuri was snitching on him to the FSB. Unless he found out about it on his way to the airport, then there was no reason to kill him at the airport.

I mean, why? Why did it just moments away from committing "the most world changing" act? He could've just killed him at the safehouse? There must've been someone guarding the safehouse, so if he wanted to pull the whole "let him suffer till his last moment" to Yuri, the safest way to do that was at the safehouse. At least his guards will shoot him if he so much as stand on his feet.

It makes me wonder if he was having hesitation? It's this complex feelings of the fact that he doesn't necessarily wants Yuri dead but he also doesn't really care if he lives either. He can't have him in his circle anymore due to his betrayal but it will set a bad example to his men if he lets Yuri live.

But he have to kill him in front of his men, so that they know he's not to be fucked with and he's not going soft. He can't afford any flaws. Especially now that he's the leader.

So the plan was to shoot Yuri in the abdomen area, under the pretense of "let him enjoy his last moment", and then count on him having the strength to crawl his way out of there.

Mind you, there's even an unused voiceline of Mak stopping the other from finishing Yuri off.

"No. Let him enjoy these last moments."

Which is bullshit, not to mention how uncharacteristically careless of him to pull this lol.

Because first of all, he and Yuri had fought side by side before, so he must've known just how far and how much Yuri is willing to push his strength and haul ass. He must've known Yuri's stubborn ass will NOT just lay there dying. He KNOWS Yuri would drag his ass up that elevator, hell even the fucking stairs if he have to, just to survive.

Like Mak, my dude, I know the chance of him catching up with you and shooting your ass was low due to him suffering from blood loss and everything, but still, my man, the risk is THERE.

That is dangerously stupid Mak agagaggaa you damn softie idiot.

But yeah I guess shooting up the airport was not the only successful mission that day. I'm certain he must've, unintentionally and discreetly, let out sigh of relief when he heard Yuri survived.

But also another incoming headache. Because he damn sure knows Yuri's gonna go after him using all the information that he knows about him.

3. Blood Brothers

Prior to this mission, we seen plenty times where Yuri gave intels about Makarov to Price and Soap. Some of those intels even sound... too personal. The kind of intels where you need to know him personally to be able to know that much. And sure enough Soap caught on to that during the Blood Brothers briefing;

Soap: Which vehicle will he be in?

Yuri: They constantly rotate for security. We won't know until he steps out.

Soap: You seem to know a lot about Makarov.

And the silence that followed after that lmao. I'm was dying to know the look on Soap and Yuri's face. I'm guessing Soap was hella suspicious and Yuri was pretending not to exist.

Also, I can imagined Yuri's guilt for not revealing the whole truth of who he was and his relations with Makarov.

Makarov had many "friends", no doubt due to his cold, no-nonsense yet charismatic charm. However, Yuri proved to be one of the only people who can adapt to his ways and doesn't cowered, like other people, from his steely mismatched eyes.

An equal. He was his closest friend. His only, truest friend, to be exact. Blood brothers. Brothers whom once bled together, not cause each other to bleed. Brothers whom once fought side by side, not against each other. Brothers whom once saved each other's lives countless times. Brothers whom suffer together, laugh together. Aight I'm getting emo here I'll stop.

Alright back on the topic. So, he must've known that Price, Yuri, and Soap were gonna assassinate him. He probably had the tower opposite the hotel planted with bombs as security measure but when he looked right at them (as Soap mentioned), his suspicion was confirmed.

It amazed me he chose this method instead of having his men snipe them. Not to mentioned he spoiled the surprise too. The tower that Soap and Yuri was in had huge ass open walls, which easily allows them to jump in time. Yeah they could still die from the high jumps but the survival chance was still there. The only reason Soap died was because of his previous unheal stab wound reopening again.

This man seems to really have a problem to kill his former friend didn't he? Like, how did you failed to kill him TWICE 😭✋️ ??

I'm sure his men at that point was sick of it.

Inner Circle dude: Sir, I think we should just snipe them from a distance. They won't see it coming.

Makarov: No, we're gonna use the bomb. But detonate it after I dramatically announce myself.

Inner Circle dude: But sir, that means they will have the time to jump off and survives?

Makarov: JUST DO AS I SAY.

Inner Circle dude:

He really kept on giving Yuri the chance to live. Even more funny, he still referred Yuri as "my friend" (albeit mockingly so but still).

4. Dust to Dust

Oh this mission breaks my heart in so many ways and reasons. Yuri dying, Price being alone.

But most of all, this moment right here.

This and Pripyat, was one of the two moments where he looks most human. It is a rather... oddly unique sight, seeing the big bad Vladimir Makarov, the monster, the terrorist who coldly slaughtered an airport filled with people,

.....staring so painfully disoriented and conflicted at his dead former friend that he just killed.

No doubt, even before he shot that gun, he's AWARE it was Yuri shooting at him. Because, who else. It's only him and Price. But of course, out of instinct, he reacts anyway.

And after all that adrenaline fades away, only then he truly let it sink in that the person he just shot three times, was Yuri. And fuck does it hurts him alot more than that pain in his stomach.

Mind you, at this point Price has already risen up, on his knees, ready to tackle him, and he STILL didn't turn around. Seconds must've felt like eternity for him. Man was lost in his head.

That's how long this man stares at Yuri's dead body. That's how much Yuri's death affects him to the point he loses his focus on his surrounding. It's like in those few seconds, he was having a hard time taking in the fact that;

a) he just killed his only friend.

b) he really is alone now. he just killed the only person who knows him truly, well before he turn into the monster that he is now.

He snapped out of it at the last minute, and even then he seems hesitant. Not because he was hesitated to kill Price but he was hesitated to live.

He knows he's screwed the moment he turns around. He realized just how much he fucked up for losing his focus. It's like at that point he just gave up on fighting. Yeah I know he still fights back if we were not quick enough to continously strangle him but still he doesn't seem to try hard enough.

For the first time in a long time, he was exhausted. Yuri's death drained him of all the fight he had left in him.

Yuri shooting at Makarov is not the only thing that saves Price. Yeah, it helps distract + weakening Makarov.

But I promise you, if Yuri didn't have any meaningful friendship with Mak and was just another random soldier defected from the Ultranationalist, Price would've been dead. Yeah change my mind.

Look at how fast Makarov's reaction time when Yuri shot at him. Mind you, this man just seconds ago was barely able to STAND UP, holding his stomach in pain, clearly suffered from major injuries in the abdominal areas.

The second that bullet hits his right shoulder, he slumped down for like 1 second, lift that gun up, take his aim, and fired that shit up. So pretty much he won't have a problem to immediately turn around and shoot Price as well.

But since said problem was Yuri, and so, Price got lucky.

And now it seems in the reboot, chances are, we will never get to this again.

(Also, I'm aware that there are people who ships them romantically. Which is perfectly fine. I personally sees them as close friends, like brothers. But hey, even I enjoyed Makayuri contents sometimes. So just letting you know that and I hope people can respect that.)

[trashcatsnark]

You mentioned Hellman calling V "blindly in love" in an unused voiceline, where did you find that?

So, someone on Nexus uploaded an excel file with all of the game's subtitles- I have a copy of it on google drive, that I'll link here-

It shows what every file subtitle is coded under and the id of audio file it's tied to. Hellman in the files is listed under Haru_Kasai, after his early development name and the mission where he talks to V is labeled as q104_08_courier_talks.xml

The exact line is:

You know, this is rather like talking to someone hopelessly in love. Nothing gets through.

And seems to be followed by:

You're letting him push you out of your own body. And you can't even see it as a problem.

While I don't have confirmation of this- this seems to be linked to a version of the game where V could either do the bender before seeing Hellman or Johnny could at least ask them to do the bender before seeing Hellman (As far as I know, personally, this is not possible in the game we got) And when Hellman asks about Johnny trying to take over, V can answer "that he already did and they got over it, lmao. "Yeah, but I didn't let him." or "Yeah and nothing happened."

That said, while I no longer have it on hand- I switched laptops since I exported them. The audio files are in the game as well still. If you unpack the sound archive in the game data and find Hellman's dialogue folder, you can find it under the ID in the excel sheet- "1741635660046200000" if anyone wants to poke around for it themselves

I'm still so salty we didn't get this in the final game, I even shoved into my fic- just please more confirmation that everyone sees the romance coding between Johnny and V

[iamespecter]

Hi Ziku, I'm the person who asked you the question about the mazercise in the VIP novel. First, thank you for responding to my random comment and second, don't worry, I like to see your opinion on these topics.

To give you context, the interactive VIP novel is released for the anniversary of the franchise and it is a canon novel since it happens long before the glamrocks were corrupted and it is the novel where as a glamrock chica fan I wanted to jump off a fifth floor since chica is given a little bit of prominence where the protagonist's little brother is a big fan of chica and I said at last chica will have a role in the boy by the way is called ikki because then I remembered that this is fnaf and that she will never have that honor that is why it was all chica she interacted very little with her fan besides that on top of that the mazercise did not even exist at that time and was never hers because originally that place belonged to monty (secondary character having the attraction of chica and mimi golf) and my heart ended up exploding to see that chica is genuinely the filler of the band overshadowed by roxy and freddy who in that novel does have a role in it again overshadowed by a murdered rabbit with too many fanboys and overshadowed by an alligator who hasn't earned things and everything is handed to him on a silver platter.

I apologize if you sense frustration in my comment. I don't want to do it on your blog or put you in a bad mood, but as a big fan of the chica, I share your frustration :(

sigh. pulling this out now chat

Scott should just hand the rights of Chica to me instead /srs I would be so unstoppable like jesus christ the disrespect!!!!!!

Like. I'm trying so damn hard not to be frustrated at Roxy because she got to be in the limelight during Ruin instead of Chica, because it'd definitely be wrong to pin the blame on her. And I admit, they handled Roxanne pretty good during Ruin..... I liked her characterization; that's why I'm redirecting this frustration at the writers themselves for fucking this writing choice up

CHICA, THE MOST RECURRING CHARACTER IN THE FRANCHISE BESIDES FREDDY. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH POTENTIAL THAT HAS.

ALL THE POSSIBLE. UNTOLD. JUICY LORE. MAN.

The worst part about this is the fact that you can tell during Security Breach, THEY HAD SOMETHING PLANNED FOR HER!!!! STEEL WOOL WANTED TO DO *SOMETHING*!!!!!!!!

SHE HAD A FUCKING SHRINE IN THE TRASH DUMPS, MAN. ON TOP OF CHICA MEMORABILIA BEING SCATTERED IN VARIOUS PLACES ON THE PIZZAPLEX, AND THE CUPCAKE BAKERY. I don't know about you, but I *really* have my suspicions that Chica was supposed to be given a major spotlight in the DLC, but it was retconned because people caught on SO QUICK.

It's like Bendy and the Ink Machine Chapter 5 all over again, where people KNEW Joey Drew was the Ink Demon from the get go, but by the time the reveal was FINALLY going to pay off with Chapter 5; they changed it at the last second for fucking "shock value", then pretending the whole thing was a red herring and "everything was planned from the beginning" ooooooooo!!!!! God I hate when everything is undone for shock value

NOT TO MENTION: SHE DIDN'T EVEN SPEAK UNTIL SHE BEGAN CHASING GREGORY, AND THE WAY SHE SPEAKS IS SO SIMILAR TO VANNY, AND THE UNUSED POSSESSED FREDDY VOICELINES FOR THE BURNTRAP BATTLE.

I'M FUCKING SHAKING and CRYING I'm getting frustrated all over again this is why I don't like talking about what they did to Chica post-Security Breach. Like, I'm certainly not the best theorist, but I can most definitely smell bullshit and know if things aren't exactly adding up.

[ruskatuskapuskasapuska]

So there's those unused voicelines of Alfred snoring and uhh yea. Instant inspiration. (I got lazy with the background)

I just find the idea of him just having the balls (and time) to nap on a night of the hunt really funny :"D

I ended up editing him in some... shenanigans.

And hecc, here's the png (and lineart/ghost of a sketch), feel free to put him in dumb places (credit would be nice if used tho...! :'3c)

[phenikas]

TFTBL Text Files Tutorial

Was asked by @gay-ratcore on how to get into the tales text files so I decided to make a more "thorough" tutorial for anyone else curious.

I say thorough cause tbh this pretty much just scratches the surface of file extraction, there's so much more to it, but extracting text files /is the easiest thing out of the entire thing.

FULL TUTORIAL UNDER CUT

First things first, you need to have the game installed for this to work. Or at least have it somewhere on your computer/hard drive for the software to view the files inside.

Secondly, download the necessary software for exploring said files, it's called "Telltale Explorer" made by the awesome bgbennyboy - download here. It's a helpful tool that will allow you to view not only the text files of the game but some other neat things as well. As soon as you download the software from the website, extract it, then double click on TelltaleExplorer.exe to run it.

You might get a pop-up from your antivirus saying this software might be malicious or something like that. Pretty sure it does that for all files with the .exe format, this one's ok, so you can ignore said warning.

This is what you'll see when you successfully open the explorer. Click on the "Open" tab in the upper left corner and pick the game and episode you want to look through (I've found that most of the time it doesn't matter what you pick, this just a matter simplicity).

Next, a new browser window will open. You'll need to look for the installed game on your PC. For me, the location was in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tales from the Borderlands" and you need to specifically look into the "Archives" folder, where you'll find all of the necessary game files.

As seen in the picture above, each episode is numbered (e.g. episode 1 is 101, episode 2 is 102, etc.) and divided into 5 categories:

ANICHORE - "animations" and "chores" - not viewable in the explorer

DATA - quite literally what it says, it's a mixture of files, here's where you'll find the text files of the unused content

MS - sound effects, mostly environmental, footsteps, gunshots, etc. - playable in the explorer

TXMESH - models and textures - models not viewable, textures only viewable if you have the original version of the game (the one released by Telltale prior to 2019, not the current one published by 2K)

VOICE - audio voicelines - playable in the explorer, however they are not in order

To view the text files, as mentioned before, you need to choose the appropriate episode and the file ending with _data.ttarch2. Unfortunately, at least for me, opening the data file for the first episode causes the explorer to crash (if you are using the current version of the game, if you have the original one, it works perfectly fine). So for the sake of this tutorial, we will open the data file for episode 2.

Next, you'll want to click on the "View" Tab in the upper left corner and choose the ".landb" option. This will show you only text files. And that's pretty much it, you can look at all the text files and read them on the right side of the screen, you can even copy them into your own text block if you want.

If you have any questions regarding other things I've mentioned here or something else regarding the extraction of files or even viewing the textures, feel free to let me know :)

[zeondraws]

... hey remember when I always say I keep finding stuff? I wanted to work on the video but kept digging through the game files.

And now, together with @peace-comes-dropping-slow and @sgiansporran we finally found the files for the voicelines. Found a way to convert them and all that is left to do, is to.. look through 21,925 files and find every interesting bit we need.

There are A LOT of unused voicelines it's insane.

I have to go to bed now, it's 7 in the morning, but I wanted to leave with this Unused Roper one from Marine Control. I wanted to upload it directly on tumblr, but I'll send it through a seperate google drive link. Here:

Goodnight/morning

I have been awake for way too long.