#budget cuts Adam

[isaacvulture]

For my fellow ADAM appreciators and Budget Cuts fandom if you are out there somewhere. Here is a video i uploaded of (almost) all ADAM sounds and voicelines.

[devibri]

ADAM!!!! ADAM!!!!!!ADAM ADAM ADAM

i like adam

adum...

[creepylunaofmars]

Obscure Yandere: Adam From Budget Cuts

Budget Cuts is a VR game series about being a human worker in a dystopian company where everyone is being killed and replaced with robots, your goal being to figure out what's going on and escape. Adam is the head of HR. Being called into HR is a death sentence for humans as they're sent there to be killed by Adam so a robot can replace them. Adam enjoys his job immensely and is very devoted to it... maybe a bit too devoted.

Spoilers for Budget Cuts 1 and 2/Budget Cuts Ultimate under cut.

-The Player character is the last human in the company and as such he is very fixated on them.

-Seems to remember every employee that he has killed and fondly regards those murders in great detail. No doubt the file in his memory banks regarding the player are just as detailed.

-Has lot of nicknames for the player. Some demeaning (piggie/rat) to generic robot ones (human/meatbag) to prey based (rabbit/mouse). -Speaking of prey once he gets a bead on the player he literally can't lose them unless you load into a new area. Will know where the player is even if they're hiding in the vents and/or on the other side of the map.

-Sings Daisy Bell all creepily which, while I know is a reference, can easily be twisted into his obsession with the player morphing.

-Is willing to hunt the player for miles/days, as seen when he followed them from one city to another despite the player going by train with a massive head start. Will also maim other robots that get in the way and even disobey the Cost Optimizer, basically his master/god, to get to the player.

-Can also possess other robots to send threatening messages to the player so even when he isn't around can track the player rather easily.

-The promo blurb for the Adam Isolation mode of gameplay is very aware of the robot lover community.

-His voice is amazing.

[kingsdodecahedron]

adum.... tha skungle... the failemployee

he’s going to the repair ward for once

[an0n-1o1]

I drew this when the ROTTMNT movie came out and I saw that scene of kraang 1 sitting in the chair and my brain had ideas, but I peaked at sketching him am I'm afraid to line this, anyways Adrian Vaughan or Neat Corp if you see this no you didnt

[burins]

I know this is the Take Personal Responsibility for Systemic Issues website, but I keep seeing weirdly guilt trippy posts about libraries and ebook licenses, which are a labyrinth from hell and not actually something you personally need to feel guilty about. here are a few facts about ebook licenses you may not know:

in Libby/Overdrive, which currently operates in most US public libraries, ebook licenses vary widely in how much they cost and what their terms are. some ebooks get charged per use, some have a set number of uses before the license runs out, and others have a period of time they're good for (usually 1-2 years) with unlimited checkouts during that period before they expire. these terms are set by the publisher and can also vary from book to book (for instance, a publisher might offer two types of licenses for a book, and we might buy one copy of a book with a set number of uses we want to have but know won't move as much, and another copy with a one year unlimited license for a new bestseller we know will be really moving this year.)

you as a patron have NO way of knowing which is which.

ebook licenses are very expensive compared to physical books! on average they run about 60 bucks a pop, where the same physical book would cost us $10-15 and last us five to ten years (or much longer, if it's a hardcover that doesn't get read a lot.)

if your library uses Hoopla instead, those are all pay per use, which is why many libraries cap checkouts at anywhere between 2-10 per month.

however.

this doesn't mean you shouldn't use ebooks. this doesn't mean you should feel guilty about checking things out! we buy ebook licenses for people to use them, because we know that ebook formats are easier for a lot of people (more accessible, more convenient, easier for people with schedules that don't let them get into the library.) these are resources the library buys for you. this is why we exist. you don't need to feel guilty about using them!

things that are responsible for libraries being underfunded and having to stretch their resources:

government priorities and systemic underfunding of social services that don't turn a profit and aren't easily quantified

our society's failure to value learning and pleasure reading for their own sake

predatory ebook licensing models

things that are not responsible for libraries being underfunded:

individual patron behavior

I promise promise promise that your personal library use is not making or breaking your library's budget. your local politicians are doing that. capitalism is doing that. you are fine.

(if you want to help your local library, the number one thing you can do is to advocate for us! talk to your city or county government about how much you like the library. or call or write emails or letters. advocate for us locally. make sure your state reps know how important the library is to you. there are local advocacy groups in pretty much every state pushing for library priorities. or just ask your local librarian. we like to answer questions!

also, if you're in Massachusetts, bill h3239 would make a huge difference in letting us negotiate ebook prices more fairly. tell your rep to vote for it!)

[eeveekitti]

favorite characters are insane bro wtf is this lineup

[your-fav-is-divorced]

ADAM (budget cuts) is divorced!

ADAM from Budget Cuts is Divorced!

[mellotronmkll]

ADAM BERNSTEIN directed this music video!??!?!???? Adam Theeee Bernstein oh my god....... how did I not know that!

[silvr-skreen]

im going wacxky about adam on twitter so

he duct taped his arm in place because it would cost money to repair it and the CO wont spend any, especially if it's cheaper to replace ADAM all together so he just bandage fixes stuff to avoid being caught out for being in disrepair and forced to be replaced like everyone else. SAD!

i can fix him tho

[rexcranethethird]

SOMEONE MADE ADAM FUZZY

THEY FLOCKED HIM WITH FIBERS

[isaacvulture]

More of ADAM :). Mix of blender with clip paint.

I don't know how blood works

[devibri]

i saw this and i had to draw it.

ADAM is awesomr

[creepylunaofmars]

Yandere Adam Thoughts

Spoilers for Budget Cuts 2 under cut

The Adam Isolation/Nightmare Mode feels like a post Budget Cuts 2 story.

After the empathy code was uploaded to the Cost Optimizer and the rest of the network a repair bot naively fixed Adam along with the other broken robots. Since they were offline during the mass upload they would have to get their codes updated manually but Adam had always been a little rogue compared to his coworkers. Seeing his fellow employees and his beloved Cost Optimizer so calm and unbothered by business sickened him. It was so against the directive he was slavishly devoted to. He wasn't about to let some new code change his entire personality but without TransCorp what did he have? ...The final human employee, you. The one who escaped him time and time again despite obsessive hunting. The one who took his legs and crushed the rest of him. The one who pulled the metphorical fangs from his master and the rabble he called colleagues. His directive was to dispose of all the humans, his directive was you. Was it still hate or was it desperation for purpose that pushed an already obsessive processor over the edge? Who can say? Perhaps it’s a VR within a VR situation, perhaps he managed to wrangle you and upload your consciousness to some remote server like Winta did her's. All that matters is that you awoke to eerie versions of familiar places, quiet and deserted. The only other being besides you and the mangled remains of worker bots being Adam, eager to devote himself to you and the directive of hunting you over and over again.

[kingsdodecahedron]

I’m away forever but I’m feeling bettaahh

[segasister]

Hazbin Hotel I’m looking at you…!

genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun with (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a naughty seagull? do they get buried in the sand?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back