#assault suits

[siryl]

Scanned from Wolverine (1988 series) #71.  Art by Tom DuBois.

[aardwolfpack]

Cybernator fanart by Guido Marinelli.

[kasperl-ruprecht]

Cybernator aka Assaults Suits Valken got a new release on the Nintendo Switch. Shame I don't have a Switch to check it out. Which is a damn shame because all the extra stuff they’re including in the new release sounds pretty cool. Hopefully there’ll be a Steam port or someone might “liberate” that extra content.

Before anyone asks, the Valken and the Leynos here are from the Video Game Robotics toy line, an offshoot of the Shooting Game Historica line by Yujin.

[starry-bi-sky]

*points at bruce and danny in 'late at night when the nightingale sings'* THESE TWO MFERS MEAN SO MUCH TO MEEEE

no thoughts head empty just these two socially inept fools finding family in one another. like yes you go you funky little death omens stole that one from a comment on the fic, so if you see this you know who you are, discover that family isn't only tied in blood.

bUT onto less mushy stuff: these two being shenaniganizers; tomfools. Bruce realized that Danny didn't actually know he was Bruce Wayne and instead of going "oh actually im bruce wayne" he went; "hrm... how long can i keep this going until he realizes...."

like. i think they deserve to be the sillies. just utter goobers the both of them. like, danny makes the wittiest side comments, dry quips, under his breath towards Bruce while they're out in public (Danny covering his face with a face mask) and Bruce is trying not to laugh. Meanwhile if Bruce makes one sly comment about someone to Danny, Danny's gonna collapse with laughter.

Bruce plays straightman in most of their bits, he has the best fucking poker face. But also I firmly believe he does actually enjoy Danny's puns. Look me in the eyes- look me in the eyes. Try and tell me that a man that willingly agrees to call a car "the batmobile" even after his eight year old ward grows up (thus negating the need to go along with his antics) doesn't enjoy a good, well-placed pun. Look me in the eyes and try to tell me that. That's right you can't.

He's gonna spit out a well-placed pun in the driest, most boring Batman Voice Ever one day while he's getting ready for patrol, and Danny's gonna fucking die of laughter. He's gonna lose his mind. Bruce is going to have a half-dead sickly teenager laughing his lungs out in the chair. That's a new core memory right there, every time Danny thinks about that he's gonna start giggling.

just!!! these two making each other laugh! That's so important to me. So so much. I nEED Danny to get Bruce to smile and laugh and I need Bruce to make Danny do the same. Danny's all snark and sass and Bruce is all deadpan and dry quips. Do you all see my vision.

[brodorokihousuke]

why did no one tell me this fucker’s original name was “little medium big”, bro who named you that

[posthumanwanderings]

[befickleforever]

Imagine being a victim of sexual assault by a very famous author, making the choice to come forward despite all fears, and then seeing people online decide that you’ve lied or there’s ’more to the story’ because they love the author so ‘believe victims’ doesn’t apply in this scenario. Then imagine having to live with that.

[sexhaver]

just came up with the single most evil concept for an EDH deck. commander is this dude:

the 99 would be mostly unplayable shit with literally 0 wincons, but notably includes the following creatures:

(the Serpent and Dandân represent the 14 total creatures in the game that straight up kill themselves the moment their controller controls no Islands, so you would have a total of 17 creatures with text boxes like this)

crucially, you need to INSIST that everyone else at the table takes a look at your cool new decklist before playing. this is where the actual gameplay happens: if they realize what you're trying to do, they will shut that shit down immediately by banning the deck; if they glance over it and go "huh seems weak" they fully deserve what they get.

the gameplan goes as follows:

get one of your 17 conditionally suicidal creatures onto the field

cast your commander

at the beginning of your end step, put two +1/+1 counters on the suicidal creature and donate it to an opponent without any of the relevant lands/colored permanents/etc.

ask if anyone has removal for the shitty creature. your opponents will probably chuckle at this - why would they remove a creature that's about to sacrifice itself?

announce that because the creature is trying to sacrifice itself based on a state-based trigger but isn't allowed to sacrifice itself due to its own static ability, it is creating an infinite loop of state-based actions that can only be ended by directly removing the creature in question. ask if anyone has removal again

"no? looks like it's a draw then :)"

dodge the table being thrown at you

[catboy-draws]

More of the design

Now, lemme talk about my ideas here

Okay so, he doesn't have a mouth, he cannot speak as himself. He can only speak as a conduit, reciting the horrors others are experiencing. (I do think he could use that to speak a bit, by borrowing the words, but it'd be hard.) Which, combined with a body that has not moved for a while while suspended mid-air, leaves it (he/it pronouns BECAUSE) rather vulnerable.

His head is a void, it leaks an inky substance that is not ink. You could put your entire arm into it. The thing is, though, that can hurt him. It's where its mind is, the memories, the remains of self. You can KNOW HIM when you do that, you can mess stuff up, but you can also be gentle. This is why the assault tag is under this, because well, that is kind of what the second drawing is.

Also, his halo thing reacts according to his emotions. Stress, anxiety, fear etc. make it collapse into itself a bit. Anger, shock etc. make it do the opposite.

And yes, the one being petted IS purring

[gundamfight]

[aherdofbees]

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Endless Adventure In Teyvat: Fontaine Edition - Genshin Impact (3/3)

[beachytablecloth]

the suits fandom, as a whole, tends to accept jessica but reject rachel and even donna, and at first i thought it was just royal family worshippers hating on meghan markle, but now i realize that (in addition to that) it’s also this: jessica does not ever act stereotypically “feminine”; even gina torres herself has joked that jessica is written like a cis straight white man. and this is not at ALL to take away from jessica’s character—because we fucking stan her—but it is to say that rachel and donna are hated on because they fit more traditionally the idea of “women”. for example, often reacting emotionally, crying, acting “”””irrational””””….. but the funniest part about it all is that all three main male characters (harvey, mike, louis) are often the most irrational, reactive, emotional, cocky, selfish, and toxic characters…. yet donna and rachel are the only ones hated on for acting that way. interesting.

[sakucrossing]

Naruto ladies + tattoos

via おいちぃ牛乳 on picrew

[arcadebroke]

[laurarolla]

So, funny sort of good news, bad news thing about Armored Hunter Gunhound EX. Well, a couple little thoughts and things I want to mention regarding how much... uh, "fun" I'm having with the game.

The bad parts so far are not insignificant. First off, the game is delisted, so you can't buy it even if you want it. I already owned it so I could download and play it, but if you want to try it yourself, you need to look somewhere other than Steam. Second, I cannot seem to wrap my head around these controls very well at all. It's a PSP indie/doujin game, so it's designed for a D-pad and 8 buttons total. This works, but it's janky and I'm not handling it well at all. Third, new equipment is unlocked by getting lots of total points, and you lose all your points on continuing from a checkpoint, so that means default weapons would be something I'd basically be stuck with (except the Shield that's unlocked by beating the tutorial) if it weren't for some of the good news.

The good bits each counter one of the previously mentioned bad bits. First, while the game is delisted, it has also been released as open source, and its main inspiration, Assualt Suits Leynos, is available in an HD remaster on Steam or in its original release on the Switch Online Genesis games (localized as Target Earth). Second, the game seems pretty short, so I'll power through it regardless of my issues since I'm pretty sure that I won't hit a completely insurmountable brick wall to just finishing. It won't be a high skill playthrough but it will get done. Lastly, I found a glitch that lets me very easily (but somewhat slowly) get free points to add to the total score and unlock all the weapons. Funny enough, this also means that if I take the time to do exactly that, I'll have all the achievement for this game as well since they are tied to the score total and completing the tutorial. Very strange choice.

So far, my basic thoughts are that I love the aesthetic, really hate how rough the controls feel, and am kinda indifferent toward most of the rest of the game. All well, they can't all be winners. Maybe I'll have a better opinion when the campaign is all finished up.