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Although the 90s saw plenty of Japanese developed first-person shooters, only a few of them reached the PlayStation. Among these was Expert, a Wolfenstein 3D-like shooter where you play as a member of EXPERT, a SWAT team that must ascend and clear out a government building occupied by terrorists.
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Concept: puzzle-centric walking simulator where you’re playing as an archaeologist in a modern-ish milieu that’s notionally situated a thousand years in the future of a stereotypical Soulsborne-type setting. All that skeleton war bullshit happened centuries ago, so you’re in no personal danger, but every single thing you discover is more fucked up than the last. So far you haven’t encountered a single set of remains that suggests a natural death. It should be logistically impossible for there to be this many skulls, given the region’s known population data. You just found an inscription bashed into solid rock that somehow contains five minutes of unskippable laughter.
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Honestly despite my feelings about how the last arc of MHA went down I really love Deku and his story.
I just feel like a lot of the time we get these protagonists whose whole philosophy is it doesn’t matter what you were born as everyone can achieve greatness. But then the series goes on and it turns out that actually it DOES matter because the protagonist has this really great lineage and these really great powers you can only have through birth they were actually born born, predestined if you will, to do this.
But MHA actually sticks to its guns. Midoriya wasn’t revealed to have some great connection to all might that the universe had put in place. He wasn’t defended from some great lineage that makes him uniquely suited to this. Hell All for one didn’t even turn out to be his father, there was no hidden powerful quirk he was always meant to have. He was just Midoriya Izuku a boy who was in the right place at the right time and simply decided to act while the world did nothing. And that’s what really made him a hero.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but I believe him a bit more when he goes anybody can be a hero if you just decide to act
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i caved to peer pressure. this is somehow the first time ive drawn joker in the cop outfit
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the bg of akiras thought bubble says "oh god oh fuck. not again. not again i didn't even do anything AGAIN am i gonna go to juvie oh god sojiro's gonna be so pissed how did this happen again god i fucking hate cops akechis probably thinking about killing someone why does this keep fucking happening to me do i need a days since i was last arrested counter does this count as losing that bet with ann god i FUCKING hate cops does akechi think he's being subtle when he ominously says he'll deal with things i wanna go home why does this keep happening why does this keep happening why d"
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I have finally gotten around to watching The Last of Us (amazing show! surprisingly queer as well!) and now I'm onto the enormous narrative universe of The Walking Dead.
Yes, a zombie apocalypse hyperfixation might be entering the chat. Yes, I am working on a TLOUxSprolden AU drawing
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shadow operatives designs
Mitsuru's SEES uniform made me want to redesign her shadow op outfit. also her admitting that she doesn't dress herself made me think that maybe she'd want shorter hair to take care of it more easily.
Aigis is basically the same I just think it makes sense to hide her feet and not lose the coat entirely
with Minato's I don't think I've seen people design it around his winter coat yet and that's how I always imagine it. idk about his haircut yet let's just say he hasn't been alive for long enough to think about changing it yet or whatever
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Thinking about Tenet again, and I'm actually so unwell about it
Like we don't even know the Protagonist's name but the story is all about him, and none of this could happen without him, and no one even knows his name.
And his 2 most important relationships are 2 people he's destined to lose.
He's never going to see Kat face to face ever again. He loves her. Is it romantic, is it platonic, is it just the act of two people who are treated like nobody seeing each other and feeling seen, idk, but the love is there. And they're never going to see each other again because they can't, because it's what's for the best. He's got too many potential enemies and she has to move on with her life, the safety of her son is her priority, and she can't sustain that if she's hanging around the Protagonist.
Don't even get me started on Neil. Neil, who recruits him. Neil, who is fated to die in order for the mission to be successful, Neil, who has to die to save the world. Neil, who is later/earlier on, recruited by the Protagonist. He has to know that when he sees Neil in the future, when he introduces himself again to a man who doesn't know him but who he knows so well he's haunted by him, that as soon as he recruits him, he's signing his death warrant. And he has no choice because the only options are the fate of the world and Neil, but I'm sure he still hesitates because it's Neil. How many hours do you think he wasted trying to find another solution, trying to find a way for Neil to live, only to fail and have to send him off to death anyway because Neil was right all along and, "What's happened's happened." And their timeline is all out of whack, they've each had their first meetings at different times in different orders. And Neil probably figures it out sometime that he's going to die and the Protagonist has lived through it once, because that's just the dangers of the field they're in. Meanwhile, the Protagonist must be counting down the days until Neil's final mission, until his past self meets Kat and Neil and learns about all of this.
Because it's not bad enough that he has to lose both of them once, he knows that in a way, he's going to lose them both again. At least one more time.
Anyway, I have to go lie down and scream don't mind me
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I'm currently thinking way too hard on this but I have a theory for Poppy Playtime
Stella is the Protagonist
I have this theory because let's all think about this:
She cared a lot for the kids
She was highly unaware of the experimentations (Chapt. 3 VHS)
She's a higher up
I mainly look back to the VHS because Stella was expecting for a adoption file, NOT a experimentation file for the kid that was adopted. Also she was in shock about finding out about what actually goes on in the factory
So maybe Stella, after getting this realization, called in sick as a way to be far away from the factory up until the Hour of Joy
Looks like I'm changing the worker protagonist for Matron in the Playhouse
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