#borderlands enhanced

[katlyntheartist]

I just feel bad for Jack Black, man. It’s clearly obvious that garbage like the Borderlands movie and this upcoming Minecraft movie are only using him because he was so good in the Mario movie so they’re just trying to capitalize off of that without realizing what made Jack Black as Bowser work so well. Jack works as Bowser, he does NOT work as Steve.

I agree. A celebrity cannot carry the back of a poorly written/directed movie, even someone as fun and enjoyable as Jack Black. The performance can enhance the movie, like it did with the Mario movie, but it can't save it. Warner doesn't realize that the Mario movie worked because it was well animated and the script was good (for an Illumination movie).

[gaymars97]

So i’ll just go ahead and drop a few borderlands body temperature headcanons so if youre interested they’re right under the cut ⬇️

- Some siren powers influence the body heat of its user. Trance users tend to have a body temperature way above average, though they still aren’t hotter than Walk users, who are walking furnaces. Lock users and Leech users, on the other hand, both have very low body temperatures.

- This is pushes even further for born sirens (I could go on for whole paragraphs about my headcanon that folks who were born sirens should be special but that’ll be for another post) and sirens who enhance their abilities with eridium frequently. Therefore, Lilith is scorching hot while Maya is freezing cold, and don’t even get me started on the Calypsos. (hyperboles)

- Shift doesn’t have much of an effect on it’s user’s body temperature, however, due to the years of constant exposure to eridium, Angel also has very cold body temperature.

- I don’t really know much about Steele, but seeing her whole « cold » motif, one could assume what my opinion is on that.

- Krieg is the ignition point on the triangle of ignition (hyperbole). Very high body temperature due to the experiments and the constant setting himself on fire thing. (Hot x cold Psyren real)

- Folks from Pandora tend to have body temperature above human average. Also, Salvador has high body temp, even in Pandoran standards.

- Gaige’s is above average (Hot x cold Gaigel also real)

- Axton’s is also hotter than average, although it’s closer to average than Gaige.

- If there is something human/alien under that suit, Zer0’s body temp is significantly below average.

Sorry that’s all from me. I just. Really love the vh2s. And sirens.

Feel free to reblog with your own hcs, i’d love to see em! /nf

[paganimagevault]

The Kargaly/Wusun diadem 2nd C. BCE - 2nd C. CE. Note, Katheryn's article below is much longer and has more info, I just took snips of what I found most interesting. It can be found online.

"According to Chinese archaeologists, the excavated skeletal remains presumed to be Wusun are of the short-headed Europoid Central Asian interfluvial type (Mallory Mair 2000: 93-94). On the basis of six skulls from the last centuries BC/first centuries AD found in Semirechye and presumed to be those of the Wusun, Soviet archaeologists have described them as ranging from primarily Europoid with some Mongoloid admixture to pure Europeans (Mallory Mair 2000: 93-94). Evidence from ancient Chinese texts is contradictory about the appearance of these peoples and only DNA and other types of scientific testing will bring clarity to this issue.

Although gold artefacts and inlay can be found dating from the Late Neolithic through to the Bronze Age in China, it was most prevalent in its borderlands (Bunker 1993: 27-46) until the Qin and Han, when it found preference on a broader scale.

In addition, the lost-wax lost-textile casting technology was developed and used (Bunker 1988: 222-27) in the area adjacent to the very tombs from where the iconography and style of the diadem hails. Observations about the inlay technology used on the diadem are important clues as well. Inlay appeared on Chinese-produced objects almost exclusively where a cell was created into which the stone was placed and adhered with some fixative (Bunker 1993). This is not the technique used to produce the diadem, where the gold was hammered into a matrix-template, then engraved (or chased) on the surface. Many of the cells for inlay were created in the hammering process and after the stones were in place, secured by hammering the bezels surrounding each stone. In addition, there were pierced cells filled from behind with stone and secured with the addition of a gold sheet adhered behind the stone. Items produced using such techniques would probably not have been created in Chinese foundries.

Moreover, gold animal plaques known from earlier Xiongnu tombs (third century BC) use inlay to enhance the natural conformation of the beasts (Figure 5). By placing inlays at the points of movement such as at the haunches of quadrupeds or at the wing joints of birds, the potential of movement and thereby the power of these wild creatures is underscored. Inlays also mark such features as eyes. On the Kargaly diadem, however, circular inlays are used decoratively as a patterned design, still often at the haunches, but also throughout the clouds. They no longer emphasize the natural form or movement of the animals or the clouds, but create an overall pattern. This recommends a later date for the diadem, perhaps late first or second century AD.

But why would such models be used in south-eastern Kazakhstan at this time? This is a unique piece—its style and iconography were nor known before or after in the region. The models for the iconography were taken from types known near Han imperial military outposts in a place where the Chinese hoped their troops could contain barbarian incursions and where peace and stability were difficult to maintain. Those units often included conscripts whose allegiance was opportunistic. The models for diadems (Stark 2012: 134) or for applications to adorn carts or clothing come from further west.

So, was this piece made in the Western Regions, in the territory beyond the Jade Gate of the Great Wall (in present day Gansu) that marked the boundary of Han hegemony, and then carried west? Was it perhaps made as a gift for an embassy to present to a Wusun or Yuezhi leader far outside of Han territory, such as in Wusun? Or, alternatively, was it carried by a regional princess to her place of exile and burial as the partner of one of those 'foreign' leaders?"

-Katheryn Linduff, Immortals in a foreign land: the Kargaly diadem. 2014, Antiquity, Vol 88, issue 339

[joelletwo]

A pun is a figure of language that depends on similarity of sound and disparity of meaning. It matches two sounds that fit perfectly together as aural shapes yet stand insistently, provocatively apart in sense. You perceive homophony and at the same time see the semantic space that separates the two words. Sameness is projected onto difference in a kind of stereoscopy. There is something irresistible in that. Puns appear in all literatures, are apparently as old as language and unfailingly fascinate us. Why? If we had the answer to this question we would know more clearly what the lover is searching for as he moves and reasons through the borderlands of his desire. We do not yet have an answer. Nonetheless we should pay attention to the punning character of the lover’s logic: its structure and its irresistibility have something important to tell us about desire, and about the lover’s search. We have seen how Sokrates makes use of punning language to slip from one sense of oikeios (‘kindred’) to another sense (‘mine’) when in the Lysis he is discussing eros as lack. Sokrates makes no attempt to conceal his wordplay here; indeed, he draws attention to it with an uncommon grammatical usage. He deliberately mixes up reciprocal and reflexive pronouns when he addresses the two philoi, Lysis and Menexenos. That is, when he says to them “… you belong to one another” (221e6) he uses a word for ‘one another’ that more commonly means ‘yourselves’ (hautois).* Sokrates is playing, through words, upon the desires of the young lovers before him. Mix-up of self and other is much more easily achieved in language than in life, but somewhat the same effrontery is involved. Like eros, puns flout the edges of things. Their power to allure and alarm derives from this. Within a pun you see the possibility of grasping a better truth, a truer meaning, than is available from the separate senses of either word. But the glimpse of that enhanced meaning, which flashes past in a pun, is a painful thing. For it is inseparable from your conviction of its impossibility. Words do have edges. So do you.

this section made me genuinely sick to read through before /COMPLIMENT

*directly preceding section that lays out this passage more, cut for fucking length of her paragraphs:

It seems impossible to talk or reason about erotic lack without falling into this punning language. Consider, for example, Plato’s Lysis. In this dialogue Sokrates is attempting to define the Greek word philos, which means both ‘loving’ and ‘loved,’ both ‘friendly’ and ‘dear.’ He takes up the question whether the desire to love or befriend something is ever separable from lack of it. His interlocutors are led to acknowledge that all desire is longing for that which properly belongs to the desirer but has been lost or taken away somehow—no one says how (221e-22a). Puns flash as the reasoning quickens. This part of the discussion depends upon an adroit use of the Greek word oikeios, which means both ‘suitable, related, akin to myself’ and ‘belonging to me, properly mine.’ So Sokrates addresses the two boys who are his interlocutors and says: … Τοῦ οἰκείου δή, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὅ τε ἔρως καὶ ἡ φιλία καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία τυγχάνει οὖσα, ὡς φαίνεται, ὧ Μενέξενέ τε καὶ Λύσι.—Συνεφάτην.—Ὑμεῖς ἄρα εἰ φίλοι ἐστὸν ἀλλήλοις, φύσει πη οἰκεῖοί ἐσθ᾽ ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς. … Desire and love and longing are directed at that which is akin to oneself [tou oikeiou], it seems. So if you two are loving friends [philoi] of one another then in some natural way you belong to one another [oikeioi esth’]. (221e) It is profoundly unjust of Sokrates to slip from one meaning of oikeios to another, as if it were the same thing to recognize in someone else a kindred soul and to claim that soul as your own possession, as if it were perfectly acceptable in love to blur the distinction between yourself and the one you love. All the lover’s reasoning and hopes of happiness are built upon this injustice, this claim, this blurred distinction. So his thought process is continually moving and searching through the borderland of language where puns occur. What is the lover searching for there?

[vintagerpg]

This is B2.5: Caves of the Unknown (2018), an expansion to B2: Keep on the Borderlands produced for North Texas RPGCon 2018. This cave is indicated on the original module map with a notation that DMs could expand it with their own material if they wish. Charley Phipps wished! The main section of this module feels pretty in step with the original, perhaps with just a little more modern zip. There is a nice little werewolf encounter. Then the cave itself (really a cave system, tomb and chapel complex) is split pretty evenly between bugbears and undead, though there is a one-eyed living statue that seems suspiciously familiar…

Mike Badolato contributed details for three smaller cave locations — a bear den, a cave full of spiders and a small bandit encampment. Finally, Thom Wilson penned an alternate version of the original Keep’s lizardfolk encounter, fleshing what was originally a simple fight into a full-fledged side quest.

This is pretty great! Taken all together, it is a significant expansion to an already hefty original that enhances the experience. No small feat!

[general-kalani]

New commission post, this time gifs! Prices can be negotiated but I'm thinking temporarily $5/two gifs.

Icon commission post here, Dinosaur gif commission post here, Writing commission post here, TWD commission post here

Can be in AUD or USD but if you want to negotiate with any of the options below, lmk! Paypal here and Ko-Fi here

This is an ever growing list and if you ask for a specific movie/show/game/etc I'll do my best to get my hands on it.

Options under cut for what can be chosen:

ANCIENT ANIMALS

Dinosaur (2000)

The Land Before Time (1988 movie)

Walking with Monsters

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Beasts

Walking with Cavemen

Walking with Dinosaurs special - Ballad of Big Al

Chased by Dinosaurs (episodes 1 & 2)

Sea Monsters (episodes 1, 2 & 3)

Prehistoric Planet

Planet Dinosaur

Dinosaur Planet

Primeval

Prehistoric Park

MOVIES

The Hunt for Red October

The Mist

Alien Planet

Dog Soldiers

Dragonlance Dragons of Autumn Twilight

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Wing Commander (1999 movie)

SHOWS

Babylon 5

Battletech Cartoon

Bitten

D&D Cartoon

Stargate SG-1

Transformers: Beast Machines

Transformers: Beast Wars

Transformers G1

Transformers the Movie

Transformers Prime

Voltron Vehicle Force

Vox Machina (season 1 only atm)

ANIME - LEIJIVERSE

Cosmo Warrior Zero

Galaxy Express

Gun Frontier

Harlock Saga - The Ring of the Nibelung

Interstellar 5555

Queen Emeraldas

Queen Millennia (might not be high quality)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey

SSX Endless Orbit

Arcadia of my Youth

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013 movie)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Riddle of the Arcadia

ANIME - IRRESPONSIBLE CAPTAIN TYLOR

Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV series

Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA series

ANIME - LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES (original series only)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes series

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Golden Wings

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Overture to a New War

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden

ANIME - MACROSS

Macross 7

Macross Delta

Macross Frontier

Macross Plus

Macross Zero

Robotech

SDF Macross

ANIME - REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA

Revolutionary Girl Utena tv series

Revolutionary Girl Utena movie

ANIME - SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO/STAR BLAZERS (original series and reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Odyssey of the Celestial Ark

Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato I (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato II (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato III (OS)

Arrivederci Yamato

Be Forever Yamato

Final Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato (2013 movie)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato (1977 recap movie)

Yamato - The New Voyage

Yamato: Resurrection

GAMES - FAR CRY (only games I own, sorry!)

Far Cry 3 (Can be modded for Jason in Vaas' place)

Far Cry 4 (Can be modded for Sabal and Pagan to switch places)

Far Cry 5 (Can be heavily modded)

Far Cry: New Dawn

Far Cry 6

GAMES - STAR WARS

KOTOR (I and II)

SWTOR

Star Wars: The Force Unleased (I and II)

Star Wars: Rebellion

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Star Wars: Starfighter

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Classic)

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars: Jedi Knight series (Dark Forces I and II, Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast)

GAMES - BORDERLANDS

Borderlands (GOTY and GOTY Enhanced)

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 3

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

GAMES - MISCELLANEOUS

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

Dead Island (Definitive Edition, can be modded to get rid of lens flares and more)

Dead Island Riptide (Definitive Edition)

Generation Zero

Left 4 Dead 2

Iron Harvest

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion (Can be specific matches, races, etc)

State of Decay (I and II)

Strange Brigade

[1960sdaydream]

I don’t think Wilhelm is dead

In Borderlands 2 one of the early bosses we fight is Wilhelm, a robotically enhanced soldier who the player can kill pretty easily, now I’m not basing my whole theory off of that alone, I’m basing this all off his character models from Borderlands 2, and Borderlands the pre-sequel

Taking a look at his model in pre-sequel we see a scar along his forearm, it’s a pretty nasty scar. But if you look at his bl2 model (screenshot from Man of Low Moral Fiber on yt) you can see there’s no scar. Why would gearbox give Wilhelm a scar he didn’t have in his first appearance?

Now here’s my theory, the Wilhelm we fight in Borderlands 2 is not the same Wilhelm we play in Pre-sequel. It’s a good guess to say the time skip between Pre-Sequel and 2 is about 2 years, there’s no physical way a scar that bad would just disappear in 2 years. So I think that’s the bl2 Wilhelm is either someone wearing a holo disguise like the Jack doppelgänger in bl2 or is a Timothy Lawrence situation where he was surgically changed to look like Wilhelm.

It would also explain why we can kill Wilhelm so easily in bl2. Now I know about the cut line where Jack says he poisoned Wilhelm. But that line was cut for a reason

Now of course this doesn’t have an explanation as to where Wilhelm is but I’m just putting down everything I’ve noticed playing these games. Don’t be afraid to add to or disprove me, I’m just having fun

[ginaraemitchell]

Borderland: Poetry and Words from the Intersection of Masculinity, Race, Bisexuality and Grief  by Ross Victory | Spotlight ~ $25 Gift Card | #LGBTQ Poetry #IndieAuthor @GoddessFish @rossvvictorius @rossvictoryofficial 

Borderland: Poetry and Words from the Intersection of Race, Masculinity, Bisexuality and Grief is a poetry collection by award-winning author, music artist Ross Victory. Borderland explores themes of masculinity, race, bisexuality, and grief. Through narrative prose and free verse, Victory portrays himself as a son, student, teacher, and lover, showcasing joy, agony, identity, enhanced with sprinkles of visceral desire. He challenges societal conformity, reimagining divine love and resilience at the crossroads of hetero- and homonormativity. Borderland: Poetry and Words from the Intersection of Masculinity, Race, Bisexuality and Grief  by Ross Victory | Spotlight ~ $25 Gift Card | #LGBTQ Poetry #IndieAuthor @GoddessFish @rossvvictorius @rossvictoryofficial 

Borderland: Poetry and Words from the Intersection of Masculinity, Race, Bisexuality and Grief  by Ross Victory | Spotlight ~ $25 Gift Card | #LGBTQ Poetry #IndieAuthor @GoddessFish @rossvvictorius @rossvictoryofficial  Borderland: Poetry and Words from the Intersection of Race, Masculinity, Bisexuality, and Grief is a poetry collection by award-winning author and music artist Ross Victory. It…

[miammey]

Okay, hi, my name is Austin and it feels like no one will listen to me when I talk about the Hunting Dog’s fighting styles.

Like, idk what’s about it but just hear me out.

When it comes to Jouno, he’s usually drawn — in my opinion with a sleeper build. Like, not a lot of muscle in my opinion.

So, in that case, I feel like he uses his sword a lot but when it comes to hand to hand combat? I feel like he’s more of a Black Widow type of fighter. Like full body attacks, I feel like during sparring he’s locked Tecchou in a thigh chokehold before while punching his head.

Yes I know technically he probably has a lot of muscle from the enhancement surgeries, but also because’s he’s blind, I feel like he rely on agility and mobility rather than brute strength like Tecchou. Like add some class to it.

Like full body, all the way. Especially that spin move Natasha does?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8q18Lhu/

Like that, he’s done it so many times before. I feel like he also uses his legs a lot, like he’s a bad habit kicker and he honed it to perfection. Like making a bad habit a good weapon.

Now, we all know Tecchou uses his sword a lot. It’s basic instinct since it’s his ability at this point. But when it comes to hand to hand combat? He’s a kick boxer. Like for real throwing hands with a little of Kuina Hikari from Alice in Borderland’s fighting style in the mix. Like, look it up on Youtube and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Teruko.

Ah, Teruko.

She doesn’t have a fighting style.

Let me rephrase that, she has multiple and she can’t pick one or choose. Her fighting style is whatever will take down her opponent faster. Boxing, Tae Kwan Do, Agni Kai, Streetfighting, Black Widow — whatever will take down her opponent, she’s doing it.

Hell, she’ll fuck around and copy their fighting style for shits and giggles.

Now Tachihara is the prime example of “packing heat.”

He brings the gun to the sword fights. He brings the gun to the knife fights because nobody is bulletproof to him. It’s all fun and games, all abilities and whatnot and he’ll forget his ability and just start shooting.

Hand to Hand combat tho? He’s a street fighter. Like, street fighter. Hands up, jacket off, hopping in place and throwing hands and putting people in chokeholds. That’s it, that’s all.

Thank you for reading this through and I hope you have an awesome day!

Ooohh yes yes yes!!! I love hearing about fighting styles, keep talking about it all you want!!! These are awesome and make total sense!!! Idk what a lot of these character’s fighting styles look like, but I get the picture through your explanations

Jouno putting his whole body into it makes a lot of sense, yes he’s fairly muscular but body-type wise he feels like he’s be a bit leaner than characters like Tecchou or Teruko (adult form). I also think that he’d just have more fun in that sense

Tecchou throwing hands is something we need more of, even without his sword this guy’s a menace and I love that

Teruko not sticking to one specific style and going with whatever works in the moment fits her character so well, she’s definitely the type to think on her feet and keep her opponent on their toes

Tachihara being a streetfighter also fits super well, especially with the gangster-personality he has in the Mafia. I also imagine if he does run out of bullets he’d just start smacking people with his gun alongside his fists lol (that’s called pistol whipping, right??)

Anyway, thank you so much for sharing this, Austin!! If you have any more to share I’m absolutely down to listen!!

[whovianwatchingstartrek]

A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 078 - Slave Market Rescue

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 4 Episode 4 - Borderland

We start this one with a cold open on a Klingon War Ship, which picks up two humans, who then precede to kill everyone aboard.

After the intro, we cut to a Starfleet prison, where Archer is visiting someone, specifically a prisoner who is apparently a genius for genetic modification. This guy and archer have the start of pretty interesting philosophical discussion about how inventions can bring both positives and negatives into the world, and the inventor's responsibility over those consiquences.. It's pretty on the nose way to bring an episode's theme into play, but it is an amazing theme to cover. The episode is about genetic engineering, and uses the example of nuclear science as a comparison example, but I'm also kind of reminded of another example in the Haber Process, a chemical process that can be used to make Fertiliser for crops really cheaply, but was also used to produce poison gas in World War 1.

Apparently, the humans who massacred that Klingon ship were genetically enhanced humans stolen by this prisoner. Archer is tasked with finding them, and bringing them back to earth. The Prisoner, his name Arik Soong, brings fantastic energy as a villain. I love his small innocent jabs at everyone, like telling Malcolm he "hasn't been seeing his share of the publicity". The way he delights getting under everyone's skin is just great, and I love that he seems to have some genuine parental love for the Augments. He is a fascinating villain.

It's lovely seeing Enterprise finally fixed up from the Damage the Xindi put in it. T'Pol has now officially joined Starfleet, and it's kinda cute that he got her a gift for signing up. I love the slight redesign that the bridge has received. The blue really makes it look a lot nicer than just the cold grey over the previous seasons had. A lot less utilitarian, and more homely.

While hunting the Augments, Enterprise is hit and Run by an alien group called The Orion Syndicate, apparently slavers, who transport 9 people off of Enterprise, so Enterprise's current mission is diverted to rescue them.

Luckily, Soong has access to the slave market planet, so he and Archer transport down together for the rescue. Archer's plan is to buy out the prisoners, which works for most of the captives, but T'pol was already sold. The plan to save her involved starting a full blown Riot. However during the process Soong attempts an escape of his own. Archer does successfully bring him back to Enterprise however.

Throughout the episode, we keep cutting back to the augments, and while I'm sure the whole power struggle between Malik and Raakin is plot important, I didn't really care much for them at all, at least until the end. Malik's ruthless takeover and murder of Raakin though was great at setting him up as a villain.

During the escape, some Orions open a firefight with Enterprise, but the Augments show up in their Klingon ship. They fight their way through enterprise, take archer hostage all for rescuing Soong, then make their escape.

This episode was a good set up for the coming story arc. We've got a phenomenal pair of villains, an amazing theme to play with and one hell of a cliffhanger. I'm excited for this arc.

Also, just because of how my day worked out, I ended up watching this one with my Partner, who has never watched an episode of Star Trek before and I'm still taking through Doctor Who. His review is that it "wasn't bad"

[dragon-snoots-a-boopin]

Another bad fucking experience and another fucking rant. Neverwinter Night Enhanced Edition has some of the most bullshit in a game I've seen in a while and I played and ranted about Borderlands 1 bullshit recently.

This game has an awful new player experience. Once I get out of tutorials and stuff and are in the city, there are two ways to go. There's the zombie attack area and the prison break area, both of which are quest related. I went the zombie area first and was doing pretty good, though the cultists were on the tough side. Things were fine until the dire fucking spider that kept killing me over and over and over until I loaded a save because I was getting tired of it. I was going to get a henchman but I spent too much on a new helmet and a bow and could not afford one.

So, I decided to go the prison break route and, again, things were fine, minus those gang leader guys but they just take a bit to kill, but things were fine until I got to the fucking devourer. It killed me over and over and over, even after I equipped the +1 dagger I had. Eventually, I did kill it. Then I moved onto another part of the prison where I was met with a sorcerer and like four of those big guys all ganging up on me and killed me over and over that I rage quit and have deleted the game.

Of course, in all this I was looking up stuff to see how to get past these things and most of the answers involved "go get this" "get this item with this on it" "add this enchantment to the weapon" and so on and these are so unhelpful to the first time player because how the hell is a new player supposed to know where any of these things are? Plus, as this is still early in the game, my character was level 3, I think it's highly unfair for them to be throwing these levels of stupidly challenging enemies my way when my character clearly isn't ready for them. I was even playing on easy and having this much of a fucking frustrating time that I honestly am done with this bullshit game. I still am going to try Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and am going to play more of the Neverwinter MMO but, Neverwinter Nights EE is a fucking stupid, unbalanced bullshit game that can die in and stay in 2002.

[combinecremator]

makinng my friends cry by suggesting the borderlands movie is gonna have a post credits scene of handsome jack played by an extremely ai enhanced version of harrison ford

[sharpsuite]

lavender, marigold (either or both)

↳ BOTANICAL HEADCANONS

lavender : how easy is it to gain your muse’s trust ? once their trust is broken , how might one go about mending it ?

GOOD LUCK trying to get Chishiya's trust regardless of if it's the main word or the Borderlands. He is more inclined to trust SKILL or behavior pattern than actually trusting a person outside of potential necessity in a game. But even in those cases, Chishiya targets carefully and picks who he's going to trust with great consideration. Take the Jack of Hearts game. Chishiya picked his partner for that game knowing he who was goodhearted, kind, and gentle - unlike him. Having a level of Chishiya's trust DOESN'T MAKE YOU SAFE. It increases your odds generally, but it's not a guarantee. Because he's selfish, and he doesn't care about life or most people in general. Pair that with his need for control and it makes it hard to get his trust.

Chishiya's trust comes very gradually and in a lot of subtle ways that people don't tend to recognize. You have to treat him like a very wary street cat. Moments to help enhance trust occur mostly in moments that make his trust grow. If you break his trust though, it's virtually impossible to ever regain it. He doesn't take it personally when its games because he's a solo player AS IS, although it could potentially increase that trust. If you break his trust though, there's almost no way to mend it. CHISHIYA is the person who breaks people's trust, having it turned on him would be extremely if not completely impossible to repair. The EXCEPTION to this is if he sees you like a reflection of him, where he can understand it or when he's done worse.

Ann on the other hand is much easier to gain the trust of. She's still very cautious and often seems cold initially, but she warms up rather quickly. Simply talking with her and having valuable or deep conversations is often a very good way to build trust. If you're in a game with her, either HELP with her plan or have a good plan, make it so she knows you are someone she can rely on. THAT'S what is key to gaining trust with Ann. She values connections with others and wants to know that people around her can be relied on. ( Especially in the Borderlands. ) It takes a bit of time, but she tends to be fairly quick to warm up once you express a genuine interest in connecting with her and are shown to be reliable.

If you BREAK her trust, it's a tedious process but not IMPOSSIBLE to regain her trust. But you do essentially start back at the first square depending on what caused it. In some situations she can understand although it will deeply hurt her. But if she doesn't? If it's unnecessary or a case of using her? Straight back to the starting line with a lot of caution in place. You have to really show her that you're genuinely sorry or regret whatever betrayal has occurred to break her trust. She doesn't give up on people very easily, so to have her trust broken is often because of something quite serious. You have to accept that it's going to be a long process to regain that relationship. Fortunately, Ann DOES believe people can change so there is hope.

marigold : is your muse prone to jealousy ? how might they handle envious feelings ?

answered for both HERE! / @samuhelll

[coocoocrazy2004]

Hi, so today I'm going to post about one of my stories!

It's inspired by fallout, borderlands and a few other small things!

My story is:

Daydream in Blue

Daydream in blue takes place in a war ridden futuristic world where large walls were made around important cities, trapping in the population and keeping the ones outside of the walls, out. The people in the walls are treated with luxuries such as new tech, well paid jobs, entertainment and cyber enhancements. If wanted one could join the military, giving the person accessibility to more dangerous enhancements including power chips.

Outside the walls the population had to adapt, moving to trading and precious metals as currency. Not only do the people of the Barrons have to deal with raider gangs but they also have to watch out for failed expirements. Prisoners who had been tested on by the cities and dumped to die, only they didn't die, instead they fused with the metal forced into them and adapted to the chemicals. Becoming monstrosities.

The main character in this flips around as if now. Currently it follows 4 characters who all somehow were affected by the city.

Wes was a government hit man, being the first ever successful subject with cyber enhancements alongside Yhogurt. The two briefly dying and in that time becoming government property. Wes during a hunt in modern day broke out of his mind wipe and finally decided to become free.

Kay was born in the Barrons and was raised close to the cities, taking old limbs, scrapping pre-war technology. Being separated from her family for 3 years only to return home to their corpses. She ran away to a small village, living in a farmhouse a fair distance away and reclaiming an old hospital close to the city for easy travels. In her move she found an old body, claiming it's power chip and implanting it in herself, giving her the ability to teleport.

Samuel was a fairly well known boxer in his city, his speed and strength was pretty much unmatched and was known for less than one minute rounds. Unfortunately his popularity drew in the attention of a large crime leader, during a fight this man and his son came to Samuel and offered him a sponsorship with Lukes Limbs and scrap. He accepted due to not knowing who he was Really making a plan with thinking not much of it at the time. He and the son, Eliott ended up becoming fast friends. Samuel teaching him a few moves and the two sparing for fun. One night during a fight Samuel was ordered by Ernest, Eliotts father, to kill his opponent or his father wouldn't survive the night. Samuel followed through and killed his opponent, the plan being covered up and Samuels reputation becoming mixed. Unfortunately Ernest still went through with killing Samuels father.

Eliott is the son of a large crime boss. His father having ties into the government and running the largest cyber enhancement clinics. His father forcing a power chip into El as proof they were safe to use, unfortunately his chip was defective and caused Eliott to have uncontrollable powers. After finding out about what his father, Ernest did to Samuel, Samuels father and his boxing opponents, Eliott flew into a rage and killed his father and everyone around him. Grabbing Samuel and the two fled.

Yhogurt was the other successful subject for the first Cyber enhancements, also being a hitman before and bing sold to the government alongside Wes. Unfortunately instead of escaping nori, the man who bought the two wiped her brain clear after Wes left. Making her the perfect guard dog. Keeping her on a tight leash as to not cause memories to come back. They do and it was his downfall.

[dragonbma]

THIS JUST CAME ON MY MIND but a rlly neat idea for like vos possession is like…a uo possession if that makes sense??? ITS LIKE THE GUY AND HANDSOME JACK FROM BORDERLANDS, JACK CAN SOMETIMES CONTROL THE GUYS ARM AN ITS JUST A COOL IDEA….‼️‼️

My apologies for such a late response, but this idea is so freaking cool! I had to do some research because I’ve never played Borderlands, but after skimming the wiki I may have to watch some playthroughs. If I’m understanding this type of possession correctly, it’s like an infected cybernetic enhancement- which is similar to the gauntlet since we know Romeo can speak through it and electrocute the wearer to force them into doing whatever. The possibilities of this oml…

For the Possession AU, I wanted Romeo to want a willing champion which is why he doesn’t force Vos into the role (and also why he doesn’t possess Jesse or the gang later after his reveal.) He just wants someone to genuinely be his friend and is distraught when no one wants the position. However, if this were to fit into the AU, I like to think it’s when he snaps and realizes that if he wants a champion, he’s going to have to resort to more drastic measures. Maybe instead of whoever got the clock, he’s just like “I’m done with all of you. I don’t care who got the clock. You ALL cheated. Technically, Vos was the only one who didn’t cheat so he’s the winner and I’m taking him.” Vos is very much not on board with this, but Romeo teleports the gauntlet onto his hand anyway before whisking him off to the Terminal Zone to train. Rip.

OH MY GOSH and then you have to fight him later I just remembered- the freaking jail fight scene. But instead of Petra/Jack needing to be electrocuted to get them to fight, Jesse notices Vos’ eyes are discolored like they were when Romeo was in control. Oh boy more possession time. Jesse keeps trying to talk to Vos while they sword fight, but he can’t snap out of it. Jesse ultimately has to break (not destroy) the gauntlet to sever Romeo’s connection to Vos. The gauntlet is still somewhat intact so before Jesse can shatter it, Romeo snaps the swords away and leaves them all in the Sunshine Institute. Vos still can’t get the gauntlet off as it has curse of binding so maybe Romeo keeps reactivating it every once in a while to mess with the group.

Overall, a REALLY FUN idea to play around with- 👀 may have to draw some doodles for this in the future.

Romeo after Vos begs him to take the gauntlet off his arm ^

[fatehbaz]

[C]oncentration of global wealth and the "extension of hopeless poverties"; [...] the intensification of state repression and the growth of police states; the stratification of peoples [...]; and the production of surplus populations, such as the landless, the homeless, and the imprisoned, who are treated as social "waste." [...] To be unable to transcend [...] the horror [...] of such a world order is what hell means [...]. Without a glimpse of an elsewhere or an otherwise, we’re living in hell. [...] [P]eople [...] are very publicly and very personally rejecting prison as the ideal model of social order. [...] [I]nstincts and impulses are always contained by a system which dominates us so thoroughly that it decides when we can “have an impact” on “restructuring the world,” which is always relegated to the future. [...] Cultivating an instinctual basis for freedom is about identifying the longings that already exist - however muted or marginal [...]. The utopian is not only or merely a "fantasy of" and for "the future [...]." The utopian is a way of conceiving and living in the here and now [...]. [W]e’ve already begun to realize it. Begun to realize it in those scandalous moments when the present wavers [...].

Text by: Avery F. Gordon. “Some Thoughts on the Utopian.” Anthropology & Materialism [Online]. 3. November 2016.

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Something must be done [...]. Haunting is one way in which abusive systems of power make themselves known and their impacts felt in everyday life, especially when they are supposedly over and done with (such as with transatlantic slavery, for instance) or when their oppressive nature is continuously denied (such as with [so-called] free labor or national security). [...] We are not merely reactive subjects but that we are, to use Kodwo Eshun’s word, ‘inaugurating’ ones, and therefore do not need permission [...]. In this, I think, Williams was also right to see that a certain melancholy or what John Berger calls ‘undefeated despair’ is bound to the work of carrying on regardless: to keeping urgent the repair of injustice and the care-taking of the aggrieved and the missing; to keeping urgent the systematic dismantling of the conditions that produce the crises and the misery in the first place [...]. [I]t also involves being or ‘becoming unavailable for servitude’, to use Toni Cade Bambara’s words. […] It’s key to anticipating, inhabiting, making the world you want to live in now, urgently, as if you couldn’t live otherwise […]. To achieve a measure of agency and possibility [...], it is necessary [...] 'to redeem time' [...]. This redemption involves refusing the death sentence and its doom, involves refusing to be treated as if one was never born, fated to a life of abandonment [...].

Text by: Avery F. Gordon. "Some Thoughts on Haunting and Futurity". borderlands 10:2. 2011.

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[T]his context of enhanced militarism and securitisation [...] has led to more widespread social abandonment and more entrenched inequalities [...]. At the same time, there is widespread, daily, active and open political opposition to all this, at the scale at which people can contest it: protecting this group of migrants from [...] confinement and deportation; organising this strike among teachers in this city [...]. And there are also so many people [...] looking for ways to think and live on different - better terms - and doing it in small ways [...]. [W]hat haunts from the past are precisely all those aspirations and actions - small and large, individual and collective - that oppose racial capitalism and empire and live actively other than on those terms of order. [...] Julius Scott called it ‘the common wind.’

Words of Avery F. Gordon. As interviewed by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah, under the title: “Revolutionary Feminisms: Avery F. Gordon.” As transcribed and published online in the Blog section of Verso Books. 2 September 2020.

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The impetus [...] was to challenge the twinned triumphalism of the [...] ‘End of History’ claim and the [...] claim that the political universe had closed shut [after the 1960s] [...]. The other impetus was to pick up [...] those ‘historical alternatives’ that ‘haunt a given society,’ as Herbert Marcuse (1969) wrote; to find the place where, as Patircia Williams (1991) put it, our ‘longings’ are ‘exiled’. [...] [To invoke] [...] ‘the many-headed hydra of the seventeenth-century revolutionary Atlantic’, those slaves, maids, prisoners, pirates, sailors, heretics, indigenous peoples, commoners and so on who challenged the making of the modern world capitalist system [...] [with their] often illegible, illegitimate or trivialized forms of escape, resistance, opposition and alternative ways of life [...]. [Consider] a standpoint and a mindset for living on better terms than we’re offered, for living as if you had the necessity and the freedom to do so, for living in the acknowledgement that, despite the overwhelming power of all the systems of domination which are trying to kill us, they never quite become us. They are, as Cedric J Robinson used to say, only one condition of our existence or being. [...] [L]iving apart [...]; communing; [...] human, debt, labour, knowledge strikes; [...] non-policing [...]: the ways of non-participation in the given order of things are many, varied and hard to summarize. [...] [A] community [...] of not waiting for another world but of being already there.

Text by: Avery F. Gordon, Katherine Hite, and Daniela Jara. “Haunting and thinking from the Utopian margins: Conversation with Avery Gordon.” Memory Studies. 2020.