#blobule

[hev-mark-iv]

[ https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th ]

Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 and much like last year, Valve has put together an anniversary update to celebrate!

Major additions include a multitude of graphical updates, Steam Workshop support, and Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two are now playable through Half-Life 2's main menu! Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is now playable through the Extras menu.

In addition, a new documentary focused around the development of Half-Life 2 (which showcases some footage from Half-Life 2: Episode Three as well as cut enemies from Half-Life 2 such as the blobulator) has also been released. (Runtime: 2:01:18)

Included in the anniversary celebrations, several E3 showcases - including the infamous "Free TVs" demo from the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference - have been uploaded in their entirety.

In terms of deals, Half-Life 2 as well as its episodes are now free to own on Steam until November 18th!

Also:

- Half-Life is $0.99

- Half-Life: Blue Shift is $0.74

- Half-Life: Opposing Force is $0.74

- Half-Life: Alyx is $20.39

- Black Mesa is $4.99

Happy anniversary, Half-Life 2!

[kottkrig]

last anon made me imagine a forsaken essentially botoxing with fromaldehyde to keep their fleshy luster . pro necro-cosmetologists where sometimes all the sloughing and raisinifying of skin just makes you walk out of your botched fromaldehyde appointment with a giant blobule on your head or some shit

I think about cosmetic surgery scene among the undead sometimes there's SO much you can do

And they walk out looking bloated and a little clammy and with their skin re-stretched tightly over their face...

[time-to-time-talk]

Apparently (according to Horikoshi), Tokoyami’s head is not covered in feathers, but is instead covered in hair… 

I hate this

You're gonna tell me, Horikoshi, that the guy with a bird head has no feathers????

THIS GUY HAS NO FEATHERS????

On top of that, he has human teeth which is so odd to me. (The red around his neck being a choker feels wrong too)

These are some of my personal thoughts on Tokoyami’s design. (I guess they are head canons)

With the fact that people with mutant quirks are born with their quirks, this means that Tokoyami's mother birthed a kid that had a beak; when baby birds are born, the beak is soft, so it’s not like it was a horrible struggle (I can only imagine that Koda’s mother needed a c-section to get a fucking rock out of her womb). 

I’d like to say now, my idea of him straight up having a genuine bird head attached to a human body wouldn’t be the prettiest image. Crows (which I will say is the type of bird that Tokoyami is) are hatched without feathers and just look kinda blobuler with vague reminiscence of a bird (thanksgiving turkey, type of shit). Within the first week, feathers begin to grow.

(Silly looking guy^^)

This means that when he was born, Tokoyami had a whack ass little, bird-like, featherless head, and, after a bit of time, his face started to get a blotchy covering of pin feathers… Again, not the prettiest image, but I much prefer this idea than the thought of him having a hair covered face.

Besides, with this idea, imagine how fluffy he was as a kid when his feathers first grew in 😊

Then there was the thing I was saying about his human teeth.. I just don’t like how it looks.

If his head is completely bird like, that means he has no teeth. If he has no teeth, however, that means he can’t chew his food properly… This leads to the introduction of him probably needing a gizzard (basically a bird's form of teeth. It mushes the food up in a way the beak can’t), which thusly introduces the idea that he would eat some rocks and grit and shit (to make the gizzard’s mushing more effective), and that's just a kinda funny image to me (tho, it does mess with my idea that his head is a minor mutation that doesn’t affect him much).

Someone: Hey Tokoyami, you want an apple?

Tokoyami, having recently gotten rid of (🤮) previous grit after it had gotten to smooth: Do you have any rocks?

The other person, confused and vaguely concerned: … no?

Tokoyami: hmm… I’ll have to pass on the apple for now then.

Dark Shadow: I’ll have it! 

(I doubt DS lives by the same bird like regulations as Tokoyami)

[i-have-41-protons]

Words that may or may not, but probably will, appear in chapter 11 of I Love (Hearing) You (Talk):

Sniggeldunk

Blobulous

Not me just thinking up random words

[treyatem]

walk cycle i just finished today 🏃(ft. the blobulous tem)

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Hooligon (again) Debut: Super Paper Mario

That's right! After Mod Chikako and Mod F Boy gave their respective namesakes New Posts, it was only a matter of time that I'd give Hooligon the same treatment. It only took... over a year and a half! Yippee! Good things come to those who wait, and are made by those who procrastinate. Those are words of wisdom that will last you a lifetime!

As you can see in the image above, Hooligon is. Well. It just is! I can't tell you what this is supposed to be! This is easily one of the most abstract enemy designs in the entire Mario franchise, and I love it for precisely that reason. Even by the standards of Super Paper Mario, a game FULL of some of the series' strangest enemies, Hooligon is still weird! I don't know if I can confidently claim Hooligon as the Weirdest Mario Enemy, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the top 10.

I can tell you one thing that Hooligon is, and that's a rascal! I mean, the name should be the obvious sign -- Hooligon is a hooligan! Its catch card description states that it loves to wreak havoc in the depths of space, and that they blend into their habitat, waiting to attack... If you go to space, watch out! You might get Hooligon Jumpscared!

This is especially true if you end up in the Whoa Zone, which I assume is their natural habitat. They also appear on Planet Blobule, in Castle Bleck, and in the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials, but I figure the abstract enemy made of green squares is probably from the abstract place also made of green squares. If they're blending into their habitat, then this seems to be the habitat they'd be blending into!

In particular, there's just one room in the Whoa Zone full of Hooligons, with them covering every single surface. There's no escape! Not even in the third dimension, as Hooligons are one of the very few enemies in this game to be three-dimensional! If you're ever feeling down, remember: you have as many dimensions as a weird polygonal snake-type thing in Super Paper Mario (2007)! That always manages to cheer me up.

Hooligons are relatives of the red Eeligon, as an RPG like Super Paper Mario needs to give as many enemies color variations as possible to pad out its bestiary. I'm not complaining! It gives me more to talk about!

For instance, I think "Eeligon" is a funny name. Not as funny as Hooligon, but I appreciate that the localizers decided that this thing is an eel. I guess it's long, and it swims around in space, but that's about where the similarities end. Then again, if starfish and jellyfish can be fish, then sure, why can't Eeligon be an eel? I can't think of anything else it would be.

As discussed in the original post, unlike most color variations, Hooligon and Eeligon are differentiated by their behavior, rather than their health or strength. They have the exact same stats, but Eeligons are swimmers, while Hooligons are hoppers! That being said, for both of them, you need to aim for the head to deal any damage. If you hit their tails, you'll just remove one of their many square segments.

In their Catch Card description, Eeligons are described as having big egos. I don't have anything else to say on that point, I just figured you should know that.

Interestingly enough, despite the fact that Hooligon can be encountered first, appears more frequently, and has the better name, Hooligon is treated as an Eeligon variant, and not the other way around. Hooligon appears after Eeligon in the list of Catch Cards, the variant in the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials is named Dark Eeligon despite having Hooligon behavior, and in Japanese, Eeligon is Furēgon, while Hooligon is Furēgon Plus!

There's not much more to say about these guys. They only appeared in one game, and that's probably the only appearance they're ever gonna get. That being said, I appreciate them a lot. I mean, why wouldn't I? There's a reason I'm Mod Hooligon! Either way, I hope I was able to share some of that appreciation with you. :) Have a nice day

[muffin-snakes-art]

I love how Kirby is just a squishy n bouncy little blob in your art

Actually i love how bouncy your art is in general but ESPECIALLY kirby. It’s all so cute

Thank you sm !! I must draw Kirby as blobulous as possible every time

[leafboy-the-great]

Sometimes you just gotta blobulate on the floor

[freakoutgirl]

*want to be pretty* *remembers that prettiness is an evil concept* *blobulates*

[rancid-rotten-slobs]

Luis was a well known duelist but not for why you'd expect. He did want to be a strong duelist but thanks to his cards, it was rather difficult. His signature card was Dark Magician Girl and, whilst most were normal, his was...strange. She was blobulous, fat, slobby, gassy and disgusting. Though what made it worse was that he could actually talk to it and it could talk to him...and it never had anything useful to say.

"BWOOOOOOOOORP! Luis... Can we get burgers today? I'm starving! It feels like I haven't eaten in hours!" Magi whined as she floated around her master with her massive jiggly belly on full display as she whined and complained for a good meal. Luis was one of the few duelists blessed with the ability to see duel spirits unfortunate he just happened to make a connection with a joke reprint of the dark magician girl. A simple gag card gave birth to a brand new duel spirit albeit a very lazy and slobby one.

[brazenautomaton]

Say more on the antimemetics division ending? I dont know what you mean by the Goku thing (I read the whole series of stories very fast recently, and haven't watched any dragonball but know a decent amount about it through osmosis)

Goku has nothing to do with it and that's the point,

read more cut

so the guy Adam gets all the way to the super vault where what's his face is hiding, right, and he's like "Ah, I'm a blob now! I have the machine! I've been waiting for the key to the super meme that can defeat 3125! Even though memes are ideas I will not explain this idea! But oh no, you don't have the key to the super meme! Only Marion did!"

So Adam is injected with a science fiction drug that brings her back in his mind, and she becomes the super meme. She ascends, beats 3125 with a fight that is more like doing math than a fight, and goes off to become a star looking down on us.

None of these things have anything to do with the traits of the characters we've seen or the ideas that have been present in the story. This meme, this idea that is so powerful it defeats 3125, is handwaved away in a summation. Adam doesn't get back Marion because he was connected to her, knew her, was affected by her even without his memory, or anything that made his character traits relevant. He got her back by being injected with a science fiction drug. Marion doesn't defeat 3125 by showing off anything about her personality -- she doesn't beat it by, say, inserting herself in with no memories because you're as good as you get on your first day. She doesn't cynically and bluntly deconstruct the logical flaws in its composition the way she has so many other things. She doesn't reveal she realized something about what she'd been doing to set this up without remembering it. There isn't even a call back to any of the other stories where she learns something and then someone dies and she has to amnesticize herself and the whole thing is pointless. The thing she does to win has nothing to do with anything that she is, or anything in the story. The story just tells us she can be the core of the super meme, and then she beats it, and it's like doing math, and there is no detail, and it is not linked to anything we know or saw, and then she vanishes to be a star.

Now imagine this. Adam gets to the secret vault with Doctor Blobulous. And Doctor Blobulous says "I have a way to ascend a meme up high enough to beat 3125, but I need the core of the idea that can beat 3125! You aren't the one who has it, but someone does!" And he injects Adam with the science fiction drug, and Adam sees Goku. From Dragonball. And Goku rises up into space to fight 3125, and he shoots it with the biggest energy blast ever, and 3125 is blasted into the Sun and dies, and Goku flies off to the galaxy to save other planets in danger.

That ending makes exactly as much sense as the real one. It has exactly as much to do with the preceding story as the real one. In fact, it would be slightly more valid, because Goku is the idea of a hero for a lot of people on this planet, and Marion isn't, and Goku represents an ideal to them, and Marion doesn't, and Goku solves problems by flying into space and blasting, and Marion doesn't.

[dualityxfman]

Don’t question why the punisher is in a pink nun costume. He holds up a worse sparkly pink cowboy outfit

❛ I’m not going alone to the Barbie movie, Livio. I got ya a perfect outfit to match Spikes and I. ❜

Livio stood there -stunlocked- by the grotesque sight before him. How was he suppose to act when Nico was just standing there, being swallowed by some hot pink blobulous entity. And why, more importantly, in the hell was Nico holding up a skimpy outfit for HIM to wear.

Sigh. Of all the things in the world Nico could have given him.

" No. "

...and within the same breath, Livio snatches the horrific outfit in his hands and tucked the hat underneath his arm before heading towards his room to change.

" Happy? "

[ame-abandon]

(OOC) i finished my trainer card i was makin (:

and down here is all the info there really is to know abt him (yes, this is just me irl as a pokemon trainer) (also those extra slots are there because some point along this journey sci will get two new buddies)

ame is a pokemon lover, born in sinnoh and relocated to galar when sci turned 16. he identifies as a genderling and uses sci/he pronouns. he is the leader of team abandon, a small group of pokemon trainers that help domesticated pokemon that were released by their trainers.

he owns a male gengar named "puddin", a ditto named "blobulous", a female leavanny named "kali", a male shiny drifloon named "butters", a female appletun named "crust", a female dreepy named "drip", a male sliggoo named "gooby", and a male dusclops named "dj moe".

(mention of a kinda gory scene warning) during his residence in stark mountain, a fatal earthquake sent sce tumbling down the cliffside, his eye getting mangled in the process. the scratch familys house was destroyed, and they decided to move to galar.

ever since sci read the story of the gengar that was left behind by its trainer (the thing that inspired the creation of team abandon), he grew a strong love for ghost types.

okay i think that's all i have to say

[seisho99]

round

they love me 4 my blobulous shapes. win

[scom7]

more beasts for the pile.

the wader looking for water bulbs, the blobulous aquatic predator and not quite magnemite and a terrible jelly :)

[sillyrabbot]

This beard is out of control right now… time to shave it and get cotton mouth from eating Link’s pathetic Blobulator energy bars