#chord 1

[ohmerricat]

inspired by fifteen trying to say shit and getting censored by the nanny filter, here’s a complete table of every doctors who and whether or not they use strong language

1 - no

2 - yeah

3 - rarely, but accurately and directly, in a dignified and sarcastic fashion

4 - ABSOLUTELY all the time. the tardis filter barely copes. we’ve all seen the K-9 clip, that’s what the character sounds like without the kids show censorship

5 - no. does he look like a man who swears to you? maybe some esoteric combination of words like fuckadoodle shitnozzles

6 - yes. duh

7 - he doesn’t enjoy it, but occasionally, sparingly, when the situation calls for it

8 - definitely . not too frequently, though. for emphasis, or for a laugh

9 - that man is a working class northerner from the 2000s and a jaded war veteran. draw your own conclusions. he knows elaborate insults you’ve never heard of

10 - cheeky little ‘fuck’ here and there with rose & martha, ALL THE TIME with donna, and swearing like hell when he starts going off the rails in the s4 specials

11 - lol no. well… he’s got an example to set to the companions that he treats like children. he’s a storybook character and he wants to be perceived as an imaginary friend, a kind almost victorian whimsical gentleman in a bowtie, and a person like that wouldn’t use crude language. with river song though? now THAT’S a whole other story

12 - the scene in dark water with the psychic paper tells us everything we need to know. twelve in series 8 was straight up pg13ified malcolm tucker. shuttity-up-up-up without the tardis filter sounds like fuckity-bye. he swears liberally, frequently, unsparingly and unceremoniously, at everyone without distinction, including clara’s students at coal hill. personally i think that’s one hell! of a fucking! bird!

13 - no. she’s all famalam hipster mum cringy kindergarten teacher. it doesn’t fit her ~vibe~. the master makes fun of this trait in the timeless children when he’s goading her about her superiority complex. says it’s such a step down from her previous self, at least that one was honest about his emotions

fugitive - she gives no fucks and takes no shit

14 - yes from time to time, like a normal human being would, nothing excessive. donna does bring it out in him though. his mouthy side

15 - this guy says cunt and serves it

[m39]

Doom WADs’ Roulette Bonus Round: Chord 1

As I mentioned a few days ago, before I’ll tackle the roster of the Cacowards 2005 winners, I’ll do four to five bonus rounds of WADs/maps. While this subseries started with focusing on maps/WADs related to the ones from the main series, I decided that it would be a great idea to extend it to more WADs/maps, particularly the ones reviewed by MtPain27, and to be even more precise, the ones that didn’t end up in the Top 100 WADs of All Time list from 2003, Cacowards, Top 100 Most Memorable Maps list and Top 25 Missed Cacowards list (the two latter ones from 2018) since these will obviously be reviewed in the future.

Now with that out of the way, let’s take a trip back to 1997, with the series I encountered before.          

B8: Chord 1

Main author(s): Malcolm Sailor

Release date: May 15th, 1997 (database upload)

Version played: ???

Required port compatibility: Vanilla

Levels: 1 (MAP25)

Yes, folks. We are going back to the Chord series. I took a look at three installments of this series (NG, G, and 3 to be exact), all of which ended up in the previously mentioned Top 100 WADs of All Time. The first two installments weren’t put on the list because there wasn’t enough space for three of these in the 1997 section. Now it is time for me to find out how it all started. With a truly original title: Chord 1.

small clapping

Chord 1 looks fine. I don’t want to go harsh on this map since it’s the first one in the series and it was released in 1997, but overall, it looks rather standard. Nothing really comes out interesting asides from probably the exit area located outdoors, in front of a building that the author describes as some kind of demonic mansion or some shit.

This map is easy to understand. Sometimes you might get confused and sometimes the backtracking smells of arse, but after my second encounter with the 007 WAD, the map’s gameplay feels like a masterpiece compared to that filth.

Chord 1 is also easy when it comes to enemies. While the author claims that this map is as hard as Doom II on Ultra Violence if played on HMP, it still ended up like a cakewalk. Grabbing both Invun and Berserk at the start to pummel two skeletons never gets old.

And that’s all for Chord 1. Typical map of its time and rather simple, but it has a chance to give you fun while playing it and it gives the potential for future installments (except Chord NG).

The next map on the bonus list is Chord 2, so stick around in a few days.

Bye!

[truebluewhocanoe]

also reeling at the implications of the Doctor having had "his soul torn in half" by bigeneration. like are you gonna elaborate on that orrrrr

[cubbihue]

Indeed, Why did Peri get assigned Dev as his first godchild?

Peri’s assignment was as correct as any other fairy’s assignment!

Which is to say that somewhere, out there, there is a fairy with great experience, a fairy so good at their task that they can handle even the most extreme cases.

And that fairy has been given an “Extreme Case” child whose biggest concern is “Quick Sand”.

As far as the system is concerned, Dev is classified as “Simple”. A perfect beginner’s child for a beginning godparent like Peri!!!

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

Peri's Assignment: [Start] > [Previous] > [END]

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

Fifteen and Ruby, my favourite clingy besties

[oldbookshop]

...and that just makes me hungry for all those delicious songs.

↳ DOCTOR WHO: The Devil's Chord

[clarencewho1963]

Welcome to Doctor Who Series 14! In this series, the Doctor faces some of the most dangerous foes in all of his travels. They are:

* Goblins

* Bogey

* Music

* Capitalism

* The Welsh

* Racist little cunts

* Bird People and King George the Third

Tune in next Saturday to see what horrendous monster the Doctor will face next!

[bowtiesarecool11]

The Devil's Chord

S14 E02

[i-like-media]

[doctor-thedoctor]

tuesday morning thought: what if the new doctor who episodes are in the wrong order?

what if we are seeing them in a different order than they happened in in-universe?

it would explain why everything is happening so fast for ruby, why she got a tardis key on her first trip, why the doctor and ruby seem so familiar already, why they have been traveling for six months by The Devil’s Chord but ruby sees her first alien sky in Boom.

[usernyoom]

02/10/16, Kuala Lumpur. Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen embrace in parc ferme after finishing the F1 Malaysian Grand Prix 2016 in P1 and P2 respectively. Photos by Hazrin Yeob Men Shah & Clive Rose, edited. Inspo.

[dessa-banks]

My notation is... Maestro.

[ohmerricat]

@corallapis

your additions to the ‘they’re-in-a-tv-show’ theory that was already floating around made my jaw drop so here’s two more additions to yours

1. if everything we’re seeing is a pastiche or in-universe version of the tv show “post-2005 doctor who”, then wouldn’t it make sense for there to be a showy, campy master-esque villain that is emphatically NOT the master but effectively magpies their repertoire? they make a song and dance routine of viciousness, they openly flirt with the doctor (“sweetcheeks”) while threatening to kill him and treating the companion as a toy, they PLAY THE SAXON MASTER’S THEME on the piano. except “the master” doesn’t exist in this in-universe show — the doctor refers to the rani, the bishop, god knows what irrelevant time lords but doesn’t mention their best enemy. there’s a koschei-shaped hole in the narrative. who fills it? maestro. a title so close to “master” that italian fans were struggling because that was their official translation of the master’s name in the first place. the entire character is all but screaming “look at me, i’m Not-the-Master”

2. you came up with another intriguing theory — what if the episodes each are based around one essential element of a tv show thematically; i.e. space babies was ‘story’ and the devil’s chord ‘music/soundtrack’. makes me think — what if boom is ‘conflict’ and 73 yards is ‘setting’? throwing that up in the air apropos of nothing, of course, it’s all speculation. but wouldn’t that be cool? every snippet of information i’ve read about 73 yards suggests that it’s incredibly location-focused. folk horror stories can almost always be boiled down to the strained relationship between The Land and the people living on it. the only quote we’ve seen from it so far is fifteen saying “it never ends, the war between the land and sea” — once again, evoking landscape, geography, place. setting. 73 yards is a precise measure of geographical distance. as for boom, we know little about it and i prefer to keep it that way until it’s released, but the hitchcockian vibes promised and the premise itself make me think either ‘conflict’ or ‘suspense’

[pugtor-who]

Can we pleeeeeeease talk about the red sonic screwdriver in The Devil's Chord?? Like, I fully thought my eyesight was going at first

Like?? Hello?? My only guess is that it's the same principle as 11's bowtie/braces/pinstripes or 13's shirt, where blue means "future/sci-fi episode" and red means "historical episode" (I think they were a little bit fast-and-loose with this as time went on).

[suede-moon]

NEW DOCTOR WHO SERIES :

Ep 1: Space Babies ! Sweet message of acceptance and love, fart jokes

Ep2: Colourful outfits, fun high energy villain, funny music

Ep3: Watch and find out if the Doctor explodes and exterminates a whole planet

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

Ruby and and The Doctor being chaotic besties