#and theres no mention of that in reload

[killjoy-prince]

They also make me lose my mind

[nomaishuttle]

comparison (new on left old on right)

[imustbenuts]

nuts reading in jp 12 - trimax ch 1 and 2 time HBRBRHBRHBRHBR

last we left off, vash meets wolfwood and i smashed out a bunch of nonsense saying how wolfwood brazenly climbed over one of the walls vash has.

i think more of this happened in trimax ch 1 and 2. there's something going on with the framing here.

being buck naked

so previously in post #10 ive mentioned how meryl and milly stumbling into a half naked vash is him showing them the most open and vulnerable self he has. in trimax ch 1 this happens again

except he isnt half naked this time, hes buck naked and just took some bullets right in front of wolfwood and his ruined salad grub.

theres also this scene where vash talks pretty openly about how he feels about the fifth moon incident. hes scared, and he declares it to wolfwood. buuuut, check out the bubbles ive highlighted here:

i think this might be a problem stemming from DarkHorse's work bc in the JP its actually like this:

❗Vash doesnt say "I chose to retire"❗

Wolfwood says "So ya chose to retire." (more directly: so ya chose to live on the down-low?) the Tell here being the kansai dialect in the bubble.

i dont like nitpicking over translation mistakes. id probably slip up here and there if i did trigun too bc the japanese level in here is higher than what Shounen Jump has. also no hiragana aid in trimax cry

anyway

this then implies wolfwood has sussed out vash pretty well enough for vash to continue spilling more information. i suspect if wolfwood didn't, the conversation miiight have ended right there.

these panels, man. wolfwood is looking with half of his expression covered. meanwhile, vash doesnt meet him and just wants to hide. maaaybe run? idk. interpretations ahoy.

thats a fun dynamic. on another note

that vash in trimax ch 1-2 seems to be using Ore with wolfwood throughout their interaction. i suppose its a continuation of how vash seems to have some trust towards wolfwood, as he did watch him give whats little of his money left towards kids previously.

but if im understanding how nightow is now framing this whole concept correctly, the whole pronoun usage here is to drive home how multi-faceted vash is. that is to say, all of these parts are him, and we as the viewer see it all laid pretty bare.

the characters meanwhile do not, and certainly not wolfwood... yet. though if you wanna interpret the nakedness it might be that the TriGang have seen the rawest part of what drives Vash.

aside, boku is still around. internally when hes reflecting and feeling unsure, Boku is used in this scene:

....hmm 🤔

otherwise hes using Ore and seems pretty resigned to confronting the situation with knives as wolfwood delivers his colt back.

The threat

ok this is fun. so take a look at the last bubble in the JP side. (all EN versions here are from OH)

rubby hands. hey Boku is back. and theres a heart sakldfjasdlf anyway okay so my sloppy/direct translation of all of these would be

I won't give you even a moment to reload. I won't kill you, but I'll entrust you with one request. Soon, I will leave this town. And after! If I find that something happened to my family or this town... I'll have you take all responsibility, okay❤️? "

god this is so good its chilling more of this nightow pls

Whua-?! Protect them from the other thugs. Sweet deal, isn't it?! And hey... Fail, and know that I have every intention to chase you down to the very depths of hell.

HBHRBHBRRBHRBR. so many things going on even in the EN version.

he also says family. i cant find this in the EN version but he does reciprocate the familial feelings Sheryl and Lina has towards him.... ;w; ... hhh.

[freddagrr]

Phantom Thieves MD AU Spoiler

TW: Someone gets shot blood mention, idk what more TW could be added, sorry in advance if theres is no TW that should be here. *Read with caution :)*

"Do you think we can start over?" Doll looked over at her rival, who was in worse shape than she was. "As friends?"

Uzi looked at her expressionless eyes, but could see a small spark in them. She just let out a mocking smile and stood up with difficulty.

"It's never too late to start a new story, i guess." Uzi extended her hand, ready to shake Doll's hand, her face changing to a warmer expression. Finally...she would finally have someone who truly understood what was happening to her-

BANG

Everything happened very quickly.

Doll had the same expression of surprise as she did. Her eyes, full of shock, locked onto hers as her body fell, leaving a dull thud against the stone floor ringing in Uzi's ears.

"Wups, I think I interrupted something" the woman observed the scene with her amber eyes, gun still raised.

"Who would've thought, the two people I hate the most…"

Run

"Ended up coming to me without even trying."

Move

"Come on, wipe that expression off your face, darling, after all…"

Uzi looked over to where Doll was lying, her labored breathing indicating that the shot hadn't killed her, but had left her in worse shape than Uzi herself was in. The sound of the girl moaning in pain as she tried to cover the hemorrhage caused by the shot only made Uzi's heart race even faster. Both where in danger. Then why her body wasnt listening to her to move?!

Her eyes could only stay fixed on her rival, she could feel her breathing was irregular and, despite wanting to scream Doll's name, or V's, or N's, hell, she would even settle for J's, nothing came out. The sound of a gun being reloaded was enough to snap her out of the trance she was in… But it was too late to react to the gun aimed at her head as that person approached her with slow but sure steps.

"You can still be friends in the afterlife, once I'm done with both of you, of course."

AAAND CUT!

Okey so jsjsjjs....I do really like writting, but i stopped it for like...4-5 years ago and kept drawing stuff. Buuuut...I was just writting down ideas and shared with some ppl and they said it was good so jsjsjs...Tehe.

Seriously debating if i should do the AU as a comic or as a fanfic. Like...Debating it bc my first language is not english.

[saphushia]

Oh wait there are mods for wynncraft???? Pray tell! I didn't know 😞

yeah! there's Voices of Wynn, which i mentioned previously, that adds voice acting for quest dialogue (theres a few quests missing voice acting, but it's mostly newly-added or newly updated ones that are missing, understandably), and Wynntils, which adds a lot of basic QoL stuff, better UI, in-game map, spell hotkeys, optional fullbright, better menus, etc- it's basically like an enhancement of the base features present when playing in vanilla.

those are the ones that are specifically made for wynncraft, but the other main ones i like to play with as well are- -Distant Horizons (higher render distance without killing your computer, through rendering distant chunks with less detail) -Equipment Compare (compare the stats of currently equipped items with ones you hover over, though this only works for equipment that goes in the base vanilla equipment slots) -Legendary Tooltips (just makes the frames on tooltips different depending on rarity etc) -Shoulder Surfing Reloaded (improved 3rd person camera, that has the player character off-center from the crosshair, so you can see what you'd clicking on. basically standard 3rd person camera you'd find in other primarily 3rd person games)

I also have a few others that are more optimization/graphics tweaks (which i can also share if u want lmao), but those are the main ones! there's also packs on curseforge made for wynncraft, i just prefer to stick to a smaller custom pack of the ones i specifically want, to keep my load time fast lmao

[marictheirins]

know your enemy fallacy unlocked in my brain so ive played 10hrs of datv after snapping & the review isnt looking good. ive limited spoilers to just one minor one but look at thyne own risk my honest review thus far---

this game is optimized worse than early access bg3, whole environments just dont load or even unload as i run around sometimes stuff not loading for minutes at a time. i have collected loot from chests locked away clearly from places im not meant to be because the damn wall never loaded sooooooooo

dragon age 2: the sequel right down to varric clearly telling the story like he's written it already. this is not a benefit for me, thats a big negative

the prologue is incredibly disappointing after inquisition's MASTER CLASS in how to begin a game. i could literally play by play moment by moment go into why the prologue of inquisition is one of gamings best openings but haha its funny rook beat up people in bar because bad ass teehee

actually the writing overall has taken a step backwards, most quests are uncreatively predictable & the dialogue is flat & lacks any sort of life. its giving MMO quests.

the combat is fun but it doesnt work half the time with the game forgetting the mouse buttons or number buttons exist ive died twice solely because i couldnt actually attack bc the game didnt register i was clicking my mouse or pressing hotkey 1

custom character gets reset at random & i have to reload the game several times for the game to spawn the correct edited character

i would love to care about neve but its hard to give a shit when her voice actress doesnt give a shit about delivering her lines. bellana's actress over acts and thats fine considering her character but these two have scenes together and its soooooooooooo embarrassing to see which actor cared and who wanted a paycheck

actually it feels like 70% of the various cast of npcs are just flatly reading the script & its violently immersion breaking not to mention the game treats the player, the protag, AND the npcs like they are stupid. rook parroting information to a character who parrots it back is not effective or good writing thats just repeating the same words several times so the player doesnt forget, addled by this happens in scenes back to back multiple times about any major plot point which wastes time & paints me, the player, as too stupid to pay attention when i was told the first time

$80 for 40hrs of main story. youre joking. supposedly theres 60-80 overall if you 100% it but the main story can be beat in 40 flat. for eighty goddamn dollars.

so far this has been a mid tier triple a game with dragon age packaging, it took about 4hrs before i actually felt like i was playing a dragon age game vs a copycat styled game. over the shoulder camera sucks im so over this goddamn pov. it plays, looks, & feels like a sony ip in a bad way. god of war last of us resident evil ass controls camera and gameplay.

its jank, the animations glitch & ragdolling just happens, hair textures muck up, again my enVIORNENTS DISAPPEAR. despite running on ultra bc my rig can handle it the textures & some of the models are plain ps3 looking, not nice at all not a loading issue they are just poor assets.

corridor simulator. i sure love that we finally broke free of the curse origins put on da2 where we had repeat maps long hallways & got to never explore bc dai was more open world & while some of the maps were too big we have regressed to going in a straight line, limited exploration, & each widdle level gives you a chest as a pat on the head because we are playing a very pretty platformer :)c $80

why do i have health pots in boss battles, is this a zelda

companion ai is nonexistent & the tab to open the spell / ability menu to tell my companions to do their job is clunky & invasive & in previous games companion ai let the party fend for themselves just fine why does harding have to be told to heal me when any mage in origins 2 or inquisi just already knew because low health trigger

rook is just hawke again. 3 options for dialogue red purple green dont fix it if its not broke i guess but the inquisitor had more options AND the warden had tons of dialogue choices to really flesh out a character. multiple origins are nice but whats the point of these elaborate backgrounds that are constantly mentioned by both rook & npcs if i didnt get to see or play these events. it feels like im playing someone elses character or that rook isnt a player protag its just the character you play vs one you create

f to jump, not spacebar ???? thats not how video games work bioware even you know this because spacebar to jump is the default in inquisition you absolute morons

if you survived this far heres some positives, the first being that i heavily enjoy the legacy characters popping up to support various factions maevaris tilani the bad bitch that you are i gasped when she walked into frame & i could recognize her INSTANTLY which dai failed to do with its legacy cameos like teagan fiona hell even loghain and alistair are uhhhhh not great so im glad we took greater care in making these characters more identifiable

sorry, lucanis hot. im a stupid bitch who likes the crows leave me alone.

it is pretty, i will give it that its a pretty game. the artstyle is a hit or miss tho

i like when rook smiles its the same smile animation the inquisitor had in dai its very cute

transmog is cool ig

u can call solas an asshole within the first hour of the game and that makes up for negative number six bc its my review and i make the rules

im not having fun. like honestly im not. this game is disappointing but im at this point willing to finish the main story at least to get the lore and closure i want from this franchise. this game is this odd thing that doesnt fit in the series & is vastly different from its predecessors in what i see is a detriment. gaider and weeks are VERY different directors and have split this franchise in two for better or worse. while i love dai its not perfect and started the stray away from the formula leading into scary new territory but at least it felt like dragon age. veilguard just feels generic and boring as any EA or ubisoft title out there it feels like a product im aware im playing a product instead of a game. that hurts the most honestly

[everydaydg]

Killer7 got a new update!

Theres the changelog if you wanna check it out.

So... some thoughts on all of this

I am so sad about the ai upscaled FMVs, I would rather have the raw videos from the GC version

Fuck off.

Quick switch being on L2 will take a bit to get used to but the fact the feature has been implemented officially with pads is fantastic!!

DS4 support is really nice

I am a tad sad over the removal of all memory card mentions :(

Jeez never liked these dynamic prompts

Old/New

So generic... the new NMH patch introduced these and blegh... I miss the old icons

To be fair, its less of an issue here considering how prompts only appear there to my knowledge but still

blegh

60FPS RELOAD ANIMATIONS... GOD ITS SO JARRING. ITS REALLY NICE BUT GOD ITS LIKE PLAYING RE4 HD AND NOT HAVING THE SNIPER RIFFLE RELOAD BEING CHOPPY AS HELL

Bugfixes my beloved

Man! the HD font is great! super sharp

Coming out on a friday. classy.

Overall... really nice! still mad over the Ai upscale but someone will hopefuly rip the GC fmvs eventually

[twilightknight17]

with reload coming out in less than a month now (I am so excited. I get to see the little guys again. Ryomina my beloved) is there anything you're hoping for in game or fandom wise? I know i'm excited to see if theres a boom in Ryomina content that i can binge because you got me into the ship. thanks btw.

More content for Ryoji and Ryomina is always a good thing. ^_^

I'm sure that they're not including his P3P social link because the world is cold and cruel, but since they mentioned characters getting side stories or whatever, I hope he gets his own little section where you can still hang out with him. (Screenshot of him sitting at the piano, my beloved.)

As for more specific things... I dunno. I never actually played P3. I'm a movie/youtube playthrough person. So I guess what I'm mostly hoping for is the sort of quality of life things we had in P5. The snazzy battle menus, maybe some changes to Tartarus since I don't know how I feel about the tiredness mechanic, stuff like that.

It would be cool if we got to keep the demon negotiations instead of going back to lesser shadows, but I doubt we'll get that either. XD

(And god, I want to write more Ryomina so bad, but my brain refuses to give me more than like, a single mental image with nothing to go with it. XD)

[lesbiansurge]

June 2023 Brawl Talk

OH FUCK DANI IS IN THE BACKROOMS!!!!!!

more below the cut!

the new brawler this season is Cordelius, a, um..... mushroom, guy...? they say he was a gardener in starr park, but the toxicity of the place drove him mad; now he's stuck there. oh shit thats LORE!!!!!! nothing we didnt already know but wow!!!!

most of his kit isnt a whole lot; his main attack seems a little on the weaker end, but he is very fast to make up for that. on top of that, his super transports himself and whomever he hits to another dimension where they fight... TO THE DEATH!!! however, the odds are most definitely in his favor, as he gains a speed(!) and reload speed boost while his opponent can't use any gadgets or supers.

there's also spore mind cordelius, the tier 70 brawl pass skin, but frankly i dont care about it. blah blah blah another evil tier 70 brawl pass skin. this is like the third one we've gotten so far, right?

this skin (haunted house 8-bit) sucks dookey im not talking about it.

STONE TROLL LOU IS AWESOME THOUGH!!!! but its the power league skin *among us sound effect*

i actually quite like wood spirit chester. the face reminds me of el muneco from guacamelee 2 :) might not go out of my way to get it however.

finally...

ughhhh i could talk about my gripes with this skin now, but i'll save that for another post. tldr its a fun design but its also a big day for annoying people

there are more skins coming in The Summer of Pirates (keeping to the theme of summer of x) but i dont really care for any of them enough to cover here. which is funny considering griff and surge both got skins for this event.

its time for the best fucking part of this brawl talk though DOUG!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hes actually so awesome and looks so fun to play mechanically. plus i looooove hot dogs WAIT THATS WHY HES NAMED DOUG BECAUSE. BECAUSE THE THE THE HOT DOG!!!!!!!!!

mechanically he has a range similar to (maybe a little smaller than?) jacky, but with attacks like byron. that is, they both heal and hurt. there's also a bit of a point-blank mechanic in play where the closer everyone is to doug, the more health they gain/lose. i also noticed that the healing and damage arent 1:1, which actually makes me a little peeved since they refuse to do something similar for byron. but its whatever though (-:

moving on, he is the first brawler in the game that is able to revive others and himself! wait what about 8bit with extra life?? ...anyway, his super functions very similarly to gus, but replace the shield with a revive effect. of course, this revive effect doesnt last forever! i noticed that brawlers dont drop their gems if they get revived though, which sounds like he will be really good in gem grab. maybe. idk.

theres also the obligatory recolor skin draco doug. not much to talk about with that though <3

not to mention skin remodels! dark tide carl, iris tara (now stara), smuggler penny, and phoenix crow!!! wow!!! bonnie is also getting some 29 gem skins, unicorn bonnie and footbonnie (LIKE FOOTBALL. GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER!!!)

finally, the moment some of you have been waiting for...! ARE! BOXES! RETURNING!!!

NO!!!!!!!!

i audibly cheered when they said that. however the mechanics are coming back in their own unique way. its in a way that i feel is a lot less predatory, so im overall happy with this, er... rework...?

introducing starr drops! you earn drops through winning matches (any kind of match counts) that can range from rare to legendary, much like the brawlers. you also get four chances to upgrade these drops, but the chances seem very small. drops can give resources, brawlers, pins, sprays, icons, and even skins! small caveat, only skins purchasable with bling that are not limited can be rewarded.

they also go into some stuff about how this is an overall buff to resource gain. i'll take their word for it :)

some extra stuff! payload is back, but the payloads themselves have no collision (basically meaning you can walk/shoot through them now. like hotzone but the zones move). takedown my beloved and wipeout my despised are back in rotation. quests can now be completed with more than one (but not every) brawler. speaking of quests, premium quests can now be progressed, even if you havent purchased the premium brawl pass. this makes it all the more sweet when you purchase the brawl pass after the beginning of the season :D

finally, paula is going to be leaving the brawl stars team. i wish her all the best <3

[is1of1]

I know I said Vlaakith was unhinged, and she is, but I started yet another playthrough bc I wanted to try The Dark Urge and Monk and.. The Dark Urge is SERIOUSLY nuts lol

When I first encountered Gale, it gave me an option of fantasizing about cutting his hand off, so I saved then picked that.. and it fades to red/black the narrator talking about me fantasizing about it and Gale is like screaming and theres mention of me eating it possibly, and then you snap out of the fantasy and you fucking did chop his hand off and of course, no more Gale!

I reloaded that one bc I want Gales AOE damage but.. its never been easier to Play Evil

I saved Mirkon from the Harpies and then I killed ALL the druids in the emerald grove, and the 2 bears, it went from neutral to red zone and back to neutral after they were all dead and now its Zevlors place for now.

[syrupspinner]

i defeated Disco Elysium

dont worry i bought it before the za/um buyout

i have nothing but good things to say about this game

HOWEVER

i am weak

okay so it takes a lot of energy out of me to play this game. usually i can sit my white ass down and crank out some solid gameplay for 8 hours straight if you dont stop me, ive got high gaming stamina. i remember (very little of) the time i played Dead Cells for 40 hours straight. i can play DE for like.. an hour and a half tops

i dont really know why! i can play emotionally involved games, i can play text-heavy games, and i can play management games without breaking a sweat. theres just something about this game that drains me

again, i love this game. the setting and the presentation and the dialog and the characters and the mystery and the politics its all perfect, no notes.

but like...

okay so. i wake up. the sweet old lady is really into cryptids, and also casually racist. then i talked to the hardie boys, who all expressed their hatred in me in unique ways, which i deserve because im a cop. then one of them kill me. reload save

then i kill myself. reload save

i talk to the bookstore owner who is making her child work in the cold at dawn. i break into the back of her store, haunted by the ghost of business failures. i backtrack to kims car for a flashlight, mindful not to run as he passively made fun of me for it yesterday. theres an ice cream machine i cant use, an empty polar bear fridge, and a half-finished ARG with a password i dont know. i waste money i dont have on a book about The Pale because im desperate to make this poor bastard no longer reliant on booze

then i talk to fucking measurehead. hes the "racial realist" that speaks in all caps and kept telling me to bring my army to war so he can make my "ham sandwich race" extinct, offhandedly mentioning the importance of The Pale

it is noon

i think i just get overwhelmed. theres so many stats and checks that i need to keep track of that i feel my eyes start to get heavy. again, i cannot stress enough that this is not a complaint i have against the game, this is just be recounting my experience with it

speaking of, my build! heres some screenshots of how i shook out in the endgame

for my stats, i tried to have a more speech-focused build early on, and that was a baaaaaaad idea. i spread myself out too evenly and didnt have a crutch stat so i was just kinda mid at everything, especially since i didnt wanna rely on substances. this is a roleplaying game and MY raphael ambrosius costeau is using his erotic self-asphyxiation induced traumatic brain injury as a fresh start!

i uh. probably shouldve said this earlier but i feel its important to stress that im not making any of this up. these are all real things that happen and exist in this game

anyway, as the final demonstration of my playthrough,

woah this reminds me of high school

beyond that, i dunno what else to say. its *Disco Elysium*, i dont think its possible to make a tumblr account without seeing people sing this games praises. please pirate it so you dont give copyright trolls more money

[pics-and-fanfics]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! ITS THAT TIME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really hope y'all like this chapter (ignore the fact I had to reupload it, the formatting was being wonky 😐)

I would absolutely like to thank each and every one of you who has read, skimmed, left a comment, bookmarked, and left kudos!! it means so much to me guys. thank you thank you thank you!!!! (omg as I was typing this I went to check to make sure I didnt miss anything and I reloaded the page and the kudos count went upppppp 😭❤️)

I love you guys!!!!

OKAY OKAY YOU SEE THOSE 2 ASTERISKS??? IF SELF HARM IS AN IFFY TOPIC FOR YOU, I WANT YOU TO STOP THERE, AND SCROLL TO WHERE YOU SEE FOUR ASTERISKS CAUSE AFTER THAT THERES NOT ANOTHER MENTION OF SELF HARM IN THIS CHAPTER!!!

ALSO, IF YOU DONT WANNA READ A 15 YEAR OLD ACCIDENTALLY FINDING A DICK PIC ONLINE SKIP THE WHOLE LAST PART OF THE CHAPTER OK LOVE YOUUUUU!!!!

[rubysparx]

OK OBJECTUMS. reblog with the hottest borderlands guns brand. if you are unfamiliar with the borderlands gun brands please see my moment of insanity below ^_^

Ok so first up is bandit, which is a bad one to start with bc they're basically scrap guns, put together with other parts from other guns (not actually in terms of the game mechanics but lore wise yes)

now listen I'm a pistol guy myself so im used to the low damage but LOVEEE to see that high number on mag size. theyre gorgeous- very colorful and striking. the designs are scratchy, violent, and i love that. also the scope lens is different per brand and nobody ever seems to talk abt that or show it off in screenshots or anything? so ill try to mention those when i remember- the bandit scope lens in tps + 2 has a splatter of purple/magenta rust or paint in the left bottom corner (and along the other edges but harder to see).

now see the thing is Tina Tina's Wonderlands has its own version of each gun brand, theyre fucking gorgeous ofc bc theyre fantasy which gives them really unique designs (some of them are a little ugly tho but that's not the point of this post). but anyway. its incredibly difficult to find information on anything regarding Wonderlands bc its like. super new. so the bandit guns in there are called skuldugger, same kinda stats and concept of put together by scraps. but also HIGHLY ENGINE BASED. i am. so in love with skulduggers theyre so fucking hot. Instead of an absurdly high mag size the mag size is actually infinite but the gun can overheat- so there's your slow reload time that bandit guns usually have but like. different. anyway the cool part is theres a couple of different cool down(reload) animations for when a skuldugger overheats, one of them is literally turning a key and revving the engine of the gun. another one in pouring liquid all over it. its great. its awesome. i love skulduggers. here's a decent pic of the legendary rouge imp i managed to find

ALRIGHT . next up is DAHL which is the violently US american army one, their skins are pretty much all camo.

The simplicity can definitely be very pretty, the dahl pistol grip is actually my favorite pistol grip. Dahl is a huge company that makes way more than just guns, so I personally have little to say regarding them. all you really need to know is they promote their weaponry like the USA does. you get it. its all abt being a nationalist and all that. I have similar feelings toward Dahl that i have towards human guns in halo, they're? fine? i guess. but next to the covenant shit theyre just so nothing. so fucking bland to me. Dahl stands out more tho. anyway in Wonderlands the brand is called Dahlia and instead of the classic camo we seem to see a lot of wood pattern (like jakobs, but we'll get to them soon enough) here's the legendary dahlia receiver (which has the fun cr reference flavor text of "how do you want to do this?")

ALRIGHT NEXT IS HYPERION. Theyre basically the apple/google of the borderlands world, their advertisement pushes the design and moral aspect of using their guns rather than actually showing off the performance. a lot of the times they put down other brands rather than advertise for themself. Their slogan is "when you mean business, you mean hyperion." MONEY is a big big big deal to them. Money and branding. so their guns have a very consistent and deliberate design, but don't preform remarkably.

now like i said im a pistol guy and.. hyperion pistols are just. ugly. i mean yes they are designed to be EXTRA and easily recognizable but i really appreciate being able to see the USE for extra or unusually parts. the pistols have these weird wing-things that move and exist for no reason. I also hate the grip and scope of hyperion pistols which are sellers for me so yk. you can't be mad at me for being so negative act hyperion btw bc theyre the antagonists of like the entire franchise pretty much. anyway the wonderlands equivalent is Hyperius, theyre pretty much the same, they still keep that very angular + aerodynamic design with the themes of yellow and red.

OK JAKOBS EVERYBODY GET EXCITED ITS JAKOBS TIME. you *points* gay person! do you get a lot of Cassidy overwatch and Engineer tf2 on your dash? well I've got great news! Jakobs guns are the object equivalent of looking at images of gay cowboys.

(above is the legendary Maggie pistol, I don't have her yet but.. one day. wow) jakobs is a family owned incredibly fucking old brand that's just as humble and honest as it needs to be. Like i said before i love seeing a high number on that mag size stat- but thats the exact opposite with jakobs, they say "if it took more than one shot, you weren't using a jakobs" so they make up for the low mag size with killer damage. One of my main four i use constantly in tps is a jakobs, the boomacorn, beautiful unique weapon with rainbow + unicorn designs on it. its a shotgun, which is good for a jakobs since you'll be reloading a lot anyway. it also, like the next jakobs I'm gonna talk abt, is elemental which is rare for this brand! The next gun i was gonna talk abt is another pistol (sorry), Zarpedon's Cyber Eagle.. despite being Dahl affiliated, Zarpedon's favorite pistol was jakobs, its got a fantastically unique skin

anyway the wonderlands equivalent is called blackpowder, look no further if you wish to see guns that look like those gay gunslinger assassins in dnd <3 as a note the reload for this cross bow lookin one requires you to actually crank/wind up the circular bits. hot (sorry the other one is low quality, its my own screenshot of a blackpowder pistol i have a little crush on hehe)

alright next up is Maliwan! Remarkable for their dedication to design and elemental damage. Maliwan's dynamic and recognizable shapes and colors are only rivaled by Hyperion (except Maliwan is obviously better for many reasons)

the maliwan barrel is my favorite without a doubt. god.. holding a maliwan sniper? whew,, the color pallet frequently reminds me of nerf and the crazy shapes make me think of toys too, theyre just. so fun to look at. god. have you seen this shit? wow.

the above gun is sex. that gun is literally actually sex. (the whole bit is that its a vibrator) maliwan is pretty much the exact opposite to jakobs in terms of values, wanting to push forward into the future with new and eye catching designs, not settle for classics or "old reliable". They have a lotta passive aggressive digs at Jakobs brand because of this ("Its time you had a gun that evolved with you and didn't feel like a family heirloom.") But theyre right you know, they do make guns that look as good as they preform.. albeit maybe specializing in elemental damage is sort of cheating lol. anyway, maliwan have no equivalent in wonderlands since their defining trait was elemental damage, but most guns in wonderlands are already magic or can be enchanted. so. NEXT! TORGUE!!!! very. um. masculine guns. Torgue doesn't fuck around- theyre a blunt, offensive, no filter, EXPLOSIVE gun brand.

tongue doesnt bother with passive aggressive and just flat out insults other brands by name. while they respect women (hypothetically, as said by mr torgue himself) they still say slurs. not very epic. but the guns have neat designs, its best to get a heavy- yk, a rocket launcher- if you're getting torgue. since mr torgue himself exists as an npc in wonderlands, the brand name doesnt change. The gimmick doesnt either, theyre still insanely high damage explosive weapons. Many of the skins have text on them which gives them something uniquely visually interesting.

OK EVERYBODY GET EXCITED FOR FUCKING REAL THIS TIME ITS TIME FOR MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE GUNS EVER EVER EVR EVER. tediore. now, i know what youre thinking, borderlands nerds- how can i like tediore? well my friend youre right tediore is the walmart of the borderlands guns but i love shoplifting at walmart its epic. anyway i will do my very best to keep this section short (and i will fail)

i mean fucking. hello. look at this goddamn scope. nothing is better

tediore is for everyone! for the common man! the workers! the people who dont have any fucking money! tediore is incredibly inexpensive and plastic looking (read: HOT) the skins are pixel-y and plain. but ofc some legendaries look super cool, like this babymaker (one of my fav skins ever)

god id fucking love to have a tediore irl and just COVER it in stickers.. one day.. ough,, anyway the wonderlands equivalent is feriore, which look fucking AWESOME. and usually the way they explode is special and magical :) like the red smg here (quite possibly my favorite gun in any borderlands thing ever, right next to gwen's other head from tps) is shadowfire- when reloaded shes thrown and explodes in a massive pillar of blood magic (which returns health to you!!) ive used her to destroy Dry'l in a total of 5 minutes and 1 second. Im serious. i started timing it lmao.

alright, last one, vladof. Their gimmick is communist revolution mother russia. and similar to dahl theyre sort of underwhelming in their simplicity and realism. but like tediore they have good logos and patterns (nice wood like jakobs too)

Vladof also have my favorite scope lens! a cute star boxes in your vision, on a square scope (like a tediore scope) that can look really visually appealing imo. In wonderlands the equivalent is Stoker. Which keep that very round barrel and scope theme, very thin and compact

Oh ok cool if I can actually talk about being objectum can we have a conversation about borderlands guns.

[irl-ichi]

i knew the general consensus of the games before ubisofts little break and triumphant return with origins was that they suck and got worse each year and that "rogue is like unity with some of the bugs fixed" so going into unity i was like "haha okay ive played an assassins creed game before 🤪" and like yeah we got entire people missing from cutscenes and floating stuff...the usual. but also.

what the heck

nothing says stealth like an angry void mass

[jelreth]

ok!! so.

frisk (you, the player), has a Determination SOUL, meaning their very being is determined. its them, it's their main,,, character trait, you could say.

because of that determination, frisk is able to save, like in video games. in game these saves are bright, yellow, star/diamond things that are most likely visible only to you/frisk. their are a few fan interpretations of saving I've seen. those arent important currently

loading is the act of returning to your last save point. you reload when you wanna go back and do something, you reload when you die, etc.

resetting is the act of reverting time all the way back to when you fell into the underground, in the ruins, and no one will remember the previous route. you go along the same story, you can choose whether you wanna kill or spare, n all that jazz.

so basically you can stop and start time if you so choose. it's a power that should only fall into the hands of a good person.

take a look at Flowey, who had the ability to do these things before Frisk fell, who's determination overrided whatever it is that let flowey do his time stuff.

now, it's been theorized that sans either 1.) knows about the resets but doesnt remember em, 2.) knows about the resets and remembers em, and 3.) (well, this one just popped in my head) remembers the resets, but chalks em up to nightmares/daydreams.

the third is the less likely option if I'm being honest. not only does it not seem like sans, it's got way less angst potential than the second.

the first one is an interesting one, and does make a little sense. there are many theories that sans used to be a scientist and worked for the previous royal scientist (who's very being was scattered across time and space), W.D. Gaster. I've heard (I have not played the game myself, sadly) that its mentioned/shown somewhere in the game that sans likes to read about space and quantum things. (I'm not sure that's canon). if these things are true, then we have a smart guy who has studied things like timelines (I believe so anyway). it would kind of make sense he knew about the resets, maybe he had a machine that tracked their timelines, I dunno.

(oh, and sans' shortcuts. pretty fuckin sure its teleportation. how can he teleport? no one else has. doesnt make much sense. there are theories on him surviving a fall into the core, others about him being a test subject/experiment.)

now for the second. the majority of the fandom's favorite.

let's say sans remembers and knows about the resets. do you know how awful that'd be? even with pacifist. say, the player/frisk keep doing pacifist over and over. without change. imagine that. being freed from your prison only to wake up back on your shitty mattress. being able to feel the sun on your face after a life of only seeing stone above you. itd be torture, huh?

then there's genocide. Frisk/the player/chara kills everyone. over, and over. leaving sans to watch. his family, his friends. slaughtered in front of his face repeatedly. that's gotta take a toll on your mental health.

keeping all this in mind, what would it be like if sans could reset?

how did he gain the ability?

somehow losing his soul like flowey (wouldnt he be dead?)? gaining enough determination (hed melt, like undyne or the amalgamates*)? fucking around with the broken machine he has in the back of his house (a good idea, but where would he get his parts?**)

*or, we could go with the experiment theory. there the idea he was injected with a small amount of liquid determination by Gaster. DT (determination) isnt good for monsters, though, as they melt. some melting together and forming amalgamates. how would he survive? I've see. something on him possibly also being injected with Justice and Patience (Justice is yellow, patience is light blue. these colors flash in sans' eye.) beforehand that gave him a boost to survive the DT. if this happened maybe the DT did still affect him and drop him down to his current 1 HP, 1 DF, and 1 ATTK.

**alphys. I'm pretty sure its proven in canon that sans and alphys are good friend. alphys is the royal scientist. she might have the parts necessary to repair a broken machine that deals with timelines. she has said herself, in game, that there are alternate timelines.

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so uh.

yeah that was long-

sorry- /gen

that WAS long, holy shit! thats a lot to read ahdasjhasklj

so here’s what i gathered:

loading is going back to the last save point, resetting is restarting the game.

sans knows about the resets and likely knows about timeline shenanigans!

determination kills monsters (except undyne who used it in the genocide route to survive longer, right?) 

sans can probably remember all of the genocide routes, and theres angst potential there!

people who CAN reset: soulless monsters (flowey, unconfirmed others?) beings with determination (theorized) and humans, most of whom have at least a little bit of determination! 

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The Fateful Meeting

Request: “What about Claire x Reader meeting for the first time in the middle of the zombie outbreak? You can choose the circumstances!”

Fandom: Resident Evil

Pairings: Claire Redfield x Birkin!Reader

Warnings: Zombie Outbreak, mention of death (zombies), blood, violence, language. 

A/N:  Thank you to the anon who requested this! I hardly get Claire Redfield requests so it always gets me super happy to get to do these!!! Hope you all enjoy it! The collage was made by me!

        Claire ran from behind one car to another staying low and quiet. Looking around, she lets out a sigh of relief when there aren’t any zombies around her. Sliding down to the ground Claire leans her back against the tire of the car. Huffing a bit, catching her breath Claire looks up at the night sky trying to remember the way to the Police Station.  

Looking around again she heard a can roll away and a groan soon after. Claire slowly moves away before quickly standing up and running in the direction of the Station. “Oh, Fuck!” Almost tripping over her own boots she skids to a stop when the small horde of zombies appear to be blocking the entrance gate. Glancing to her left Claire sees a stray pipe on the ground.

Dodging her way out of a zombie grab Claire quickly picks up the pipe and bashes it against the zombie's exposed skull. Hearing the base of the skull crack she feels the pipe go through piercing its brain making them fall to the ground. Detaching the pipe she swings it down one more time, now on the exposed brain, she sees it turn to nothing but a pink and grey mush on the concrete. 

Wiping at the blood on her cheek Claire lets her guard down for a second before she grips the pipe with both hands she furrows her brows in concentration. Letting out a deep breath she didn’t realize she was holding in. Claire looked at the four maybe five zombies blocking her way to the gate. “Alright...Let’s do this!” Taking a running start Claire swings the pipe left and right, hitting them dead center on their heads either knocking them down or successfully killing them in one hit. 

Sliding over to the gate she makes it in time to lock out the rest that is starting to gather around. Tossing the bloody pipe to the side she looks up at the building and silently hopes that she finds Leon or at least someone else who's alive is in the building right now. 

Opening the front doors to the police station, Claire looks around carefully walking in as the doors start to close behind her. “Anyone here??” Walking down to the front desk she finds a box of ammo and a stray gun. Taking the gun she checks if it's loaded, seeing that it is she checks the ammo to see if its the same as the ones in the gun. Hearing a loud bang Claire jumps and looks around. Quickly putting the ammo in her pocket, she stays quiet waiting for a few seconds if something else will happen. 

“Hello? Is anyone still here?!” Claire looks over at the small desk seeing a laptop. Going over to it she sees there’s a live feed of the building. Hearing another bang she notices it’s coming from her left. Looking for the feed on the left side of the map she finds movement near the west office. Clicking the feed Claire hears the moans and gurgling through the audio. There’s a flash and another bang sound.

Turning the corner you fire off another shot hitting the zombies leg making it fall and successfully slowing it down. Looking up at the camera in the corner of the room you see the little red light blinking signaling that someone’s looking at you through the recording. “Hey! Is someone there?! Please, if someone else is alive in here can you find me?! Im in the hallway between the weapons lockers and West Office!” Hearing banging from the door to the West Office your eyes widen when you see two more of them trying to get to you. Please! I’m looking for my little sister! Whoever you are, I’m going to hide in the dark room thats down this hallway...I don’t have much time!” Getting your gun ready you aim at the zombie at the ground that caught up to you. Firing at it’s head your shoes and part of your jeans et covered in dark sticky blood. Looking back up at the camera you see the red light fade away.  “I really hope they heard me…” Suddenly the door to the West Office bursts open making you run down the hall towards the Dark Room.

Claire watches the video feed turn to static and fade away. Quickly finding the map again, she looks for the Dark Room. “There it is!” Glancing to the side she sees a hunting knife, taking it, Claire takes another look at the map before looking around The Main Hall. “Maybe I can open that gate to get there. The doors themselves look like they’re locked….” Memorizing the path one more time Claire puts the gun in a side pouch. Gripping the handle of the knife she walks over to the taped up electrical box. Cutting away at the tape she opens the little door and presses the button. Hearing the little beep she turns to the gate seeing that its slowing rising. 

Putting away the knife she looks around the room and finds more unused ammo on one of the benches. “Everyone was really in a hurry. Wasn’t this supposed to be a safe place for people to evacuate to?” Putting away the bullets, Claire takes out the gun once more and makes her way to the other door. 

Carefully opening it she its a dark hallway, reaching into her pocket she takes out a small flashlight and shines it at the walls. Slowly making her way to the end of the hall, there’s a radio call coming from a body on the ground thats leaning against the wall. 

Claire could tell the body was fully dead, they weren’t like the others that came back to life. Just as she was about to reach over a sound at the right made her stand up straight again. Seeing feet dangling in mid air Claire notices dry blood soaked into the socks and shoes. Panning the light upwards she sees the body’s only hanging from the persons face that’s split in half from a pipe.

Carefully moving around the body Claire continues her way through the next hallway. Turning to her right she sees double doors, remembering that this is the right way to go she reaches for the doorknob but jumps back when she hears a glass window break. Gripping the gun Claire turns to face the zombie as they’re standing up. “You have got to be kidding me...”  Aiming the gun at the zombie’s head Claire pulls the trigger seeing it burst five shots. The last shot to the head causes it to explode in a mess of blood, chunks of brain and whatever’s left of the eye balls.

Quickly reloading, Claire goes into the room and sees the door she was supposed to go through is chained up. “What the fuck is this...now where-” Stopping herself when she looks to her left and sees a storage box below a broken window. “Well, that works.” walking over to the box she carefully climbs her way up and over the window jumping down into the next room. 

Staying still when she hears banging near by she realizes one of them is banding away one of the vending machines. “I guess they’re still human after all.”  Silently as possible Claire walks past the zombie and sees the West Office and Weapons Locker. “They should be at the end of the next hall I think…” Whispering to herself Claire doesn’t notice theres a zombie right around the corner. 

The zombie notices her first and successfully knocksher down to the ground. Claire groans in pain when her back hits the floor. Keeping the zombies face away from her she gathers all her weight and flips them over so she’s straddling the zombie. Taking out her knife she plunges it into its head twisting it before pulling it out seeing the blood pool as it’s limbs fall to ether side of it. Breathing heavil Claire looks up seeing the zombie from the vending machine making its way towards her now.

Claire quickly gets up almost falling again in the process but she’s able to brush it off and run down the hall. Turning to her right she the Dark Room in the little corner. Sighing in premature relief she runs over to the door opening and closing it behind her. Trying to slow down her breathing Claire’s startled when the lights to the room turn on. Immediately she aims her gun at the switches direction only to find another living person on the other side of the room.

“Are you hurt? Did they bite you? Scratch you?” You looked over at Claire defensive but  if you were being honest you very relieved someone actually heard you.

“No! None of that...though I was close to getting bit but I was able to escape in time.” Claire slightly lowers her gun as she stares back at you. “What about you?”

“No.” You lowered your gun as well. “I’m (Y/n), (Y/n) Birkin.”

“Claire Redfield. You said you were looking for you sister?”

At the mention of your sister your eyes perk up as you walk closer to Claire. “Yes! Have you seen her? Her name’s Sherry she’s  twelve years old.”

Claire sadly shakes her head. “No i’m sorry. You’re the second person I’ve met  who isn’t one of those things.” Claire takes a folded up picture from her pocket and shows it to you. “You haven’t seen this guy around, have you?”

Looking at the photo of Claire with a guy that has his arm around her shoulders. They look like they’re laughing really hard over something. Shaking your head you look over at Claire. “No I’m sorry. Who is he?”

Claire softly smiles at the picture. “That’s my brother Chris. He works here as S.T.A.R.S agent for the R.P.D. I cam here looking for him. I guess you had the same idea with your sister?”

“Ah, yeah...I was coming home from college to surprise Sherry but I came just as this whole thing started getting too out of hand. I immediately went home but Sherry wasn’t there by the time I was able to get in. The only clue I had was the notebook with Sherry’s handwriting on it with the Stations phone number. I guess i just took the chance but I can’t seem to find her anywhere….” Wiping away the tears that start to fall you shake your head. “Sorry for getting emotional…”

Claire gently pats your back and gives you a soft smile. “Don’t be, we’re both on the look out for our siblings. Tell you what. How about we stick together. Get through this and find your sister and my brother.”

Smiling, you look at her and nod. “Yeah, That sounds like a good plan to me. Thank you, Claire”

“Don’t mention it, (Y/n). we’ll get through this, together.” Reaching out her blood stained hand for you to take she laughs a bit seeing yours is also covered in blood when shake her hand.