#cs olympics

[astrodances]

Olympics prompt

So I may end up regretting this, taking a long time, or maybe not even following through (fair warning XD), but I like learning about different Olympic sports, so, in an effort to do so, I thought of a prompt idea:

give me a character (or two) [for a fandom I know] + an Olympic sport, and I'll try to draw or write something for it! 😄⚽️🏊🏃🥇

[venusinmyrrh]

working title: royce’s quarter

sabrina royce is one of the fastest rising stars in tennis, a cultural phenomenon, and widely considered to be the next greatest player of all time. both her coach, the legendary robert royce, and her training partner, his brother damien, believe that she’s the golden girl they’ve been looking for— but between her tumultuous marriage to one, her decade-long love affair with the other, and the constant pressures of stardom, sabrina’s about to find out just how much she has to burn.

“blood makes the grass grow a little greener.”

[nevalizona]

UGH NOOOOOOO GRRRRRRR

WHY DID HE HAVE TO GET GOLD

Why did HE HAVE TO GET A MEDAL GRRRRR

[canadachronicles]

Fit for the Queen!!

It would be nice if it lasted more than one night, though. Christine Sinclair Place has a nice ring to it, and she certainly deserves it, eh?

[voguewoozi]

can gabe saporta just stop talking please

[jnkgrnde]

athena willing to let annabeth die js cs she butthurt girl how is poseidon outta all ppl beating u in the deadbeat parent olympics?

[da-saturn-system]

petition to make corpse paint removal an olympic sport cs i am FIGHTING for my LIFE rn

[rabidline]

2023 ONE PIECE ON ICE: THE CAST (SO FAR) - ALABASTA KINGDOM ARC

SHOMA UNO as MONKEY D. LUFFY 2018 Olympic Silver Medalist, 2022 Olympic Bronze Medalist 2022, 2023 World Champion 2019 Four Continents Champion, 2022 Grand Prix Final Champion Japanese National Champion (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) NOBUNARI ODA as USOPP 2006 Four Continents Champion, 2008 Japanese National Champion Grand Prix Final Silver Medalist (2009, 2010), Grand Prix Final Bronze Medalist (2006, 2013) RINKA WATANABE as TONY TONY CHOPPER 2022 Skate Canada Gold Medalist, 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy Gold Medalist 2022 Grand Prix Final 4th Place, 2023 Worlds 10th Place MARIN HONDA as PRINCESS NEFELTARI VIVI 2016 World Junior Champion, 2017 World Junior Silver Medalist KAZUKI TOMONO as KOZA 2022 Four Continents Silver Medalist, 2018 Worlds 5th Place 2022, 2023 Worlds 6th Place 2022 Japanese National Bronze Medalist TAKAHITO MURA as SIR CROCODILE 2014 Four Continents Champion, 2011 Asian Winter Games Silver Medalist Japanese National Bronze Medalist (2008, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017) RIKA HONGO as MR. 2 BON CLAY 2015, 2016 Four Continents Bronze Medalist, 2014 Rostelecom Cup Gold Medalist 2014 Japanese National Silver Medalist PRINCE ICE WORLD TEAM

[satinechristian]

WIP Ask Game! I was tagged by @the-sparkling-diamond-satine

Prompt: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

yours for the weekend (dimya)

yeehaw out of order (dmitry/anya/marfa)

yeehaw bed sharing (dmitry/anya/marfa)

whirlwind romance i guess (dimya)

vegas plane (cs)

vegas passport (cs)

vegas paris (cs)

vegas old house (cs)

vegas morning after (cs)

vegas morning sex (cs)

vegas light bondage (cs)

vegas more roadtrip sex (cs)

vegas breakdown (cs)

tlm au (dimya)

so it goes (dmitry/anya/marfa)

skating au (dimya)

so it goes sick (dmitry/anya/marfa)

so it goes parents weekend (dmitry/anya/marfa)

so it goes idk (dmitry/anya/marfa)

sick henry (hennat- next to normal)

prom (hennat- n2n)

poly threesome (christian/arabia/satine)

poly sarabia (christian/arabia/satine)

poly cs (christian/arabia/satine)

new romantics quarantine (dimya)

not writing detective dimya (dimya)

musical theater dimya (dimya)

mr name (cs)

mr michael (cs)

mr cuddles (cs)

midnight rain caught (cs)

midnight rain blurt. (cs)

memphis two weeks (dimya)

memphis regression (dimya)

love anya tongue (dimya)

love anya dead brad (dimya)

island (anya/marfa)

influencers zidlers party (cs)

influencers piano bench (cs)

hitchhikers car sex (dimya)

hitchhikers scene one (dimya)

fwb baseball (dimya)

cs supernatural awkwardness (cs)

cs juliette bedtime (cs)

creloise (cressida/eloise)

influencer dress (cs)

cs supernatural (cs)

figure skating olympics (dimya)

mr series (cs)

shakespeare ily (cs)

Tagging @elysabeththequeene and anyone else that wants to do it i think beatrice tagged everyone lol

[dr-jem-nutcase]

MvA h/cs

Cooked up some movie & TV h/cs...cuz I can

Overall

before the timeline of the movie, the monsters had a TV on occasions. This was a rare treat which lasted until the TV set broke on its own and couldn't be repaired or got destroyed

the monsters' rec area was like the hand-me-downs central; anything the staff didn't want or need anymore went to the monsters, from those playing cards to radios to whatever. It usually came from the trash heap for Dr C's meals

the 2000s brought a little variety as a lot of people at the base made the transition to DVDs and threw out their VCR sets and cassette tapes

after the post-freedom upgrade, the base set up on-demand entertainment for the monsters

for every streaming site, every monster has their own accounts. Except for Link & Butterflysaurus (or B) who share accounts

they can all agree on sit-coms and comedies, believe it or not, some film noir or some off-the-wall random movie

depending on the sport, they all like watching a good game

Susan

down for most anything anyone wants to watch

likes period and mid-century romance/dramas like Downton Abbey, Bridgerton, Call The Midwife, Mad Men, and anything based off Jane Austen's books

was a Twilight fan back in her teens and now cringes at those memories of being on Team Edward

chic flicks: Legally Blonde, Pretty Woman, The Notebook, Mamma Mia!, Audrey Hepburn movies. Titanic and Moulin Rouge! are both fully capable of making her cry almost every time. This is a very good reason why she has her own streaming accounts

can make it through most horror movies but doesn't really enjoy them

roots for all sports teams from Cali

the only monster most willing to watch whatever BOB wants to watch

liked watching cooking shows and DIY tutorials when she was small. She'll still watch them sometimes inspite of the fact she can't easily cook or pull off most DIYs

BOB

the kids' page on streaming sites & YouTube Kids all the way!

has the kid's tendency to watch the same thing over and over again and never get sick of it

the other monsters can't watch adult films and shows with him. He'll ask questions like, what's going on during a bedroom scene or "What's a [enter any profanity of your choice here]?". He's also a parrot who will mindlessly repeat a single swear word he only heard once

sometimes you'll find him watching random stuff like a Malaysian talk show or a Julia Child cooking tutorial or some abstract silent film

you know those kids' shows that interact with the audience, like Mr. Rogers, Blues Clues, & Dora the Explorer? Yeah, he REALLY gets into them

had a kids tablet for about two weeks but then accidentally ate it. Monger hasn't had the heart to give him another one

Dr C

his pastimes include lab experiments, reading books and science papers, playing chess (via a computer versus the CPU/another player online because no one at the base wants to play), and other mentally/intellectually stimulating activities, so he'll watch something if he wants and/or needs a mental break

the other monsters tried getting him into Big Bang Theory. To everyone's surprise, he didn't care for it

has BritBox

when he's chilling, he'll watch vintage/vintage-style musical movies, particularly with good dance numbers like Singin' In The Rain. One of his heroes in dance is Gene Kelly; Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers would've been on his list, but he hasn't had a skilled dance partner offhand since his college days

likes videos like Ted Talks and Infographics Show (YouTube). He may be the most brilliant man in the world but he knows there's always more to learn

his YouTube subscriptions include dance groups and science lecturers from around the world

doesn't care much for most sports but he'll gladly watch polo and a lot of the Olympics. Tried to pass the time by reading a book during a football game once, and Link said, "Doc, if you don't put that book down, I'll throw you and that thing in the trash!". Never again

Link

as mentioned in an earlier H/C post of mine, he's a closeted shonen anime fan and he'll watch anything but One Piece

football is his favorite sport to watch. He watches it when he can

NEVER misses Super Bowl Sunday. Or at least to the best of his ability. He was very disappointed when one of his missions happened on Super Bowl Sunday

also likes WWE

martial arts: always and forever, baby!

has watched both Luca and The Shape of Water. He doesn't mind them but he got pretty annoyed when people made comparisons between him and the Amphibian Man or the sea monsters. BOB was like, "Hey, Link! Why don't YOU turn into a human when you leave your tank?"

was into superhero movies and TV series in the 2010s but jumped off the bandwagon when he thought they were being overdone. Though he still likes Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool, and anything with Wolverine

thinks Star Wars, Harry Potter, and most other popular sci-fi/fantasy franchises are just for kids and nerds

doesn't care much for romances or most cartoons either

if something scares him or makes him cry, he'll try to hide it

it took him a while to be able to watch anything with Shrek after being mistaken for Shrek in the Halloween special

[a/n: I can also see him being a gamer]

Insecto/B

likes sports no thanks to Link

will watch most anything Link watches

likes some anime, particularly Sailor Moon for whatever reason

likes cartoon shows meant for older kids

doesn't like horror movies, has a hard time settling down or going to sleep after watching one

avoids animal/nature programs as some of them can be quite traumatizing

every now and then she'll be caught watching something with BOB like Bluey

Monger

watches the news every day

knows better than to believe everything he sees

watches a little M*A*S*H before bedtime at least twice a week

every now and then watches stuff like All in the Family just cuz he likes the comedic but logical political tension among the main characters

still has analog cable (antenna and all) at the farm

hates I Love Lucy because his wife had it on TV more than anything else

likes war films and a number of films about World War II. There's a few he won't watch tho because he thinks they're either badly made, too sentimental, or too depressing

likes comedies from the 1950s-60s

The President

likes watching himself on TV and videos online

likes talking smack to opposing politicians when watching videos of them, like, "In your dreams, bucko! Not while I'm large and in charge!"

comedies, comedies, comedies...and game shows

Simpsons fanboy

has an appreciation for daytime TV: long-running soap operas, talk shows hosted by middle-aged women, Judge Judy, Dr. Phil, etc.

considers the family sitting in front of the TV together as quality family time and sit-coms as an American staple

can't watch foreign language films with English subtitles. He eventually gets bored and falls asleep

as mentioned in an earlier H/C post, he doesn't trust biopics one bit. After finding out over half of The Greatest Showman was fictional, he lost faith in any portrayals of history both on screen and stage

Derek

liked watching famous news reporters and weather-folk as role models when he was a kid and as inspiration when he became a weatherman

took Susan and other girls he dated to the movies

if not at the movies, he and Susan would curl up on a sofa and watch something together, going back and forth between what he likes and what she likes

likes most sports, except basketball

Ted Talks, late night talk shows, and popular sit-coms

watches whatever catches his attention on Hulu and Max

had a very hard time watching anything with the monsters. Still does but it's not as hard anymore

Invisible Man

went to a few drive-in theaters with his wife on dates before and after they got married

Andy Griffith and Red Skelton were some of his favorite shows

yet he enjoyed some of the heavier and less lighthearted films, like Streetcar Named Desire. If he cried, he tried to not let anyone know

not much of a cinema-goer but he enjoyed taking his two older kids

liked what little he saw of The Carol Burnett Show while in prison

if he saw Mel Brooks' films, he would've loved them

von Wolfmann (my OC, a German wolfman and past monster, at Area 5X 1960-65)

having lived much of his 70+-year life away from society, he probably had no idea what TV & cinema were, let alone knew they existed

The Cyberian (my OC, a Soviet Russian cyborg and past monster, at Area 5X 1981-85)

TV became a bit of a staple in the Soviet Russian home over time, so there was a handful of shows that she liked throughout her life

she liked going to the movies with her dad/grandparents as a kid and teenager, a special treat

didn't like anything based off books. "Just read the book." She said. "No pictures but they're a lot more interesting than THIS sad piece of work"

thought period pieces were boring. More than once she fell asleep watching them

grew up with black-and-white TV, so she was excited the first time she saw color TV

learned some of her English from what little TV the monsters had and learned a bit about the USA and the world outside the USSR

probably would've been the only monster to have been a big fan of Star Wars and/or Star Trek

[zechleton]

A Brief and Depressing History of ESWC

Quick disclaimer. I originally started writing this as a script for some kind of video essay or something like that. I kinda chickened out in the end, and also I know very little about making videos, so here it is as 2.5k word essay instead.

Unless you’re old like me, you might not know that Esports World Cup is actually heading into its third decade of existence. Things have changed considerably in the 21 years since its first event in 2003, not least its ownership, but the entity known as ESWC is not, strictly speaking, new.

What I don’t want to do today is get into the sports washing issue. Plenty of others have covered that already and it’s too complicated a topic to try and squeeze into this piece. Suffice to say, while I’m undecided on where I stand, I fully understand why people many of you will be giving this event a miss.

Today I want to delve into the roller-coaster history of a tournament organiser that is near and dear to my heart. In 2005 I attended my first international event as a journalist – the third ever ESWC finals in Paris. I was awestruck by the entire week, from being in a foreign city alone for the first time to the fact that my nerdy hobby could really host an event of this size. Looking back at photos of the venue, the latter part of that seems particularly quaint. Although the stage was extremely cool, I reckon there were maybe a couple of thousand spectators at most.

Still, in 2005 that was huge. The main competitor at the time, Cyber Athlete Professional League (CPL), pretty much just didn’t have an in-person spectatorship at all to begin with and when they did try to attract fans, results were mixed. Back then, Esports was a far cry from AR pop groups performing opening ceremonies for a stadium of thousands and a stream viewership in the millions. World Cyber Games (WCG), which is theoretically still in existence but hasn’t run a tournament since 2020,was the closest thing to a modern event. It had Olympics-style branding, an opening ceremony and even its own theme song, but its viewership paled in comparison to today’s events. ESWC, in the early 2000’s, was a moderately large fish in pretty small pond.

Despite many changes down the years, one thing that has remained the same about under the new regime is the multi-game format. When I went to Paris in 2005, I mostly covered Warcraft 3 despite being on GotFrag’s staff as a Counter-Strike writer at the time. There was also Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Pro Evolution Soccer and more. CS was definitely The Main Event, but every game had its final played on the main stage. Every game had its moment in the spotlight. ESWC was even ahead of the curve in having a women’s CS tournament, and I remember my American colleagues being hyped for Girls Got Game making an American CS double, with Complexity winning the men’s event.

Looking back, I wonder how much of this was out of necessity. With so much less money coming into esports in its early days, perhaps it made more financial sense to host multiple games in one venue, in order to maximize both viewership and participation while only needing to pay for one venue. It’s no coincidence that most tournaments back in the day were attached to other attractions. Dreamhack, obviously, was always attached to a BYOC event, but other organises did similar things. Even as late as 2010, I remember wading through thousands of people, past the hundreds of booths that made up CeBIT to reach the ESL IEM stage.

Fun aside: this was the event where Azael became a “literal world champion,” after winning the World of Warcraft tournament with Evil Geniuses. I will never not cringe when I think about how inappropriately quickly I leapt on him and his teammates to ask for an interview after the game. I didn’t even wait for them to finish celebrating their victory. Azael, reasonably, told me to give them a minute. I have never watched any of my interviews from this event, and I don’t think SK’s site has them hosted any more – what a pity.

By the way, if this sounds weird now, that’s because it was. I had a press pass, sure, but I was sitting in the crowd of a couple of hundred people and simply wandered up to the stage without needing to show it to anyone.

I went back to ESWC in 2006, solely as a WC3 guy now. Ironically, I barely recall the WC3 final at all, but the MIBR vs Fnatic CS final turned out to be a banger. To those of us on the outside, ESWC seemed to be tootling along just nicely but capitalism demands growth and “tootling along” was never going to be enough in the long run.

That was my last in-person event for a few years. I left GotFrag a few months after it got bought by Major League Gaming in 2007. Similarly, ESWC soldiered on as-is for a while, but the organisers had to switch things up. They changed formats in 2008, moving to something closer to the IEM and Blast Pro series formats we know today but this would only last one year. In 2009, under the weight of a global financial crisis, ESWC closed its doors for, erm, like a year.

They weren’t the only casualty, and Counter-Strike’s love-hate relationship with CPL ended in early 2008. An official statement read “The current fragmentation of the sport, a crowded field of competing leagues, and the current economic climate have prompted the CPL to suspend its pro-tournament operations.” Matthieu Dallon, founder of ESWC, echoed this sentiment in an interview with Fragster.de (https://complexity.gg/matthieu-dallon-interviewed-on-eswc-bankruptcy/ not the og link): “We have contacted several dozen of potential partners, big and small brands. We always received the same answer: Our stock value is in free fall, the sales decline, we are going to lose money this quarter, nobody knows when all will restart, so we have to reduce all our marketing and communication budgets, we have to target our direct consumers, and we have to cut all special budgets as sponsoring or alternate advertising.”

Other leagues such as ESL and Dreamhack hung on, changed their models and adapted. They became hosts and organisers for the likes of Blizzard and Valve, eventually becoming more of a media company than a league. But when ESWC returned in 2010, it more-or-less picked up where it left off: multiple games (including WC3, surprisingly) and a spectacular venue in Disneyland Paris.

In 2011, my beloved WC3 was replaced by Starcraft II and ESWC attached itself to Paris Games Week. This meant a change of season. Until now, ESWC had always been a summer spectacle. Paris Games Week took place in late October – presumably to give Parisians something to do indoors during the miserable weather.

Still, the event continued to be a fairly important part of the esports calendar. We still hadn’t quite reached the era of The Major and there was plenty of room at the table for competition. Although my own interest in many of the included titles was waning during this period, ESWC looked to be going strong. They took the move to CS:GO and DOTA2 in their stride and added more and more -Mania games. ESWC had always been one of the strongest proponents of Trackmania, but they even added Shootmania for a few years towards the end. Remember Shootmania? Kinda? Yeah, same.

It wasn’t until 2014 that things started to get silly. Call of Duty gets top billing on the official ESWC page for that year. This is the first time that anything other than Counter-Strike sits atop the list of champions, which is a subtle but important change. But okay, people like COD, whatever. It made sense to add another popular FPS game.

Just Dance, though? I think this is where ESWC’s reliance on other parties started to become an issue. Just Dance is an Ubisoft game, developed by Ubisoft Paris specifically. ESWC always had strong ties to its home country of France and while Ubisoft’s Trackmania series made a lot of sense as a competitive game, dancing, just kinda doesn’t. Well, I guess it did go on to be part of the Olympic Series, so joke’s on me, right?

Okay, maybe that’s a bit rude. If you like Just Dance then that’s great. I watched the highlights for this video and everybody looked like they were having a great time. But after so many years of pining for mainstream acceptance, the fact that the Olympics chose a dancing game that a lot of esports fans had never even heard of (myself included), instead of CS or a MOBA of some kind was absurd. Viewers thought so, too – all 800 of them. Yeah, according to esports charts (https://escharts.com/tournaments/other/olympic-esport-series-finals-just-dance) the peak viewership for Just Dance at the Olympics was 777 people.

Look, I’m not suggesting that ESWC immediately shrunk in 2015 because of Just dance and Call of Duty, but they played their part. From the outside looking in, their seems to have been a lack of direction and these two games were part of that. Or rather, there was a direction, but that direction was advertising Ubisoft products. ESWC spread itself too thin at a time when single-title leagues and tournaments were quickly becoming the norm.

ESWC did try its hand at this in 2015, running a COD-only tournament in May and a CS-only event in July (though they do deserve credit for continuing to support female Counter-Strike), but in October they were back to their Olympics-style approach. The list of games at the final event of 2015 paints a picture: FIFA, Women’s LoL (but no men), Trackmania, Shootmania and Just Dance. You might generously call it an eclectic mix, but I’d argue it’s a collection of games nobody else wanted.

ESWC’s website lists a highlight for every year. Usually it’s an iconic moment of game play, sometimes it’s the first use of a game on such a big stage. Tellingly, in 2015, they list the creation of France Esports. Sure, this was a big deal (probably), and it was headed up by Matthieu Dallon of ESWC, but this comes across as a tacit admission that nothing important happened at their own tournaments during that whole year.

In 2016, the spiral into irrelevancy was well underway. Another COD tournament in May was followed by a downsized October tournament. CS was back on the menu, but the list of entrants paints an ugly picture. Alternate Attax beat LDLC in the final – two teams who, in 2016, had no business being in an international final. They did have players who would go onto bigger things, but Attax has never qualified for a Major, before or since. They earned their victory, but it came against a very weak field.

Even more damning, though, is the fourth and final game on the list for that year: Clash Royale. The shark had well and truly been jumped. You can never recover your credibility after you take money from mobile games.

ESWC stumbled on for a few more years after that, but the list of titles became more and more muddled while the CS tournament became populated by fewer and fewer big names. ESWC Africa took place in December of 2018 – a Counter-Strike only tournament that was the last thing ESWC ever ran. While it was cool to see organisers creating tournaments outside of the usual esports hotbeds, it’s no surprise that ESWC disappeared shortly after that.

But the universe had a different fate in mind for ESWC. In 2024, it is being brought back to life in a hideous experiment, worthy of any Gothic Horror. It will return as a shell of its former self, bathed in riches it never had in its previous life, but devoid of all the glory and all the good will it had created over the years.

And yet, ESWC being bought out is nothing new. Behind the scenes, ownership changed several times of the years. Even the name was switched to Esports World Convention at some point – a fact I only learned during my research for this piece. Starting out as an expansion of Ligarena’s domestic LAN tournaments in France, Games-Solution bought the brand in 2009. They passed things onto Oxent in 2011 until Oxent itself was bought out by Webedia in 2016.

What is particularly interesting here is that Matthieu Dallon was in charge of Oxent, too. Despite the bankruptcy of his previous company, he clearly wanted to make his dream of an esports Olympics a reality. He could have easily disappeared into some or other other mundane business and I assume he would have had offers to join other esports organisations, but we chose to resurrect ESWC instead.

And then he sold it to Webedia.

Webedia is a lot of things. A kind of smorgasbord of “online stuff,” featuring typically, deliberately nebulous “Web3” concepts such as “Content Production,” “IP Development” and “Brand Partnership.” If you rolled your eyes at any or all of these phrases, you’re not alone. Essentially, their main role seems to be managing streamers and talent but their reach goes much wider than that. Indeed, esports is only the third entry on their “Webedia Networks” page, below Movies and Gaming. This is the company behind LFL’s broadcasts, however, so they do remain relevant in the esports community, at least in France.

Oh, and they shill NFTs because of course they do.

Is it a coincidence that the year ESWC became part of a larger media empire is the same year they moved into mobile gaming? Probably not. Mobile games, whatever you think of them, do make a lot of money. There’s an Always Sunny scene for every occasion, isn’t there? What do companies like Webedia make? Money, Charlie, they make money.

Still, it’s clear in retrospect that this was the beginning of the end for ESWC. What had started out in 2003 as a passion project based on a love of esports had turned into just another media asset. Viewed in that light, it’s almost sort of fitting that it has now become a sportswashing project – a sad but common arc in today’s hyper-capitalist world. Anything with positive emotional attachment can and will be commodified, either for money or PR, or, more commonly, both. Yes, I’m looking at you, football.

I remember when I first started writing about esports, people always talked about “going mainstream” as though it was a good thing. As though being popular and making money was what made something legitimate or worthwhile. The closer we got to that goal, the worse it seemed to me. ESWC’s fate – a once-loved institution of a small community turned into a heartless advertising entity for an oil state – is about as damning an indictment of that as you could wish to find. The delicious irony in all of this is that ESWC will lose money, and this is by design, but it will also lose the legitimacy it once had. Nobody who used to love ESWC in the early 2000’s will care about its new zombie form and many of them will boycott it, myself included.

ESWC died years ago as far as I’m concerned. The event by the same name later this year is nothing but the reanimated corpse of something that used to be great. The only DNA the two share is their scattergun approach to game selection, but even this is a perversion of the original goal. The old ESWC had to cast its net wide in order to make ends meet. The new monstrosity is just willing to throw money at anything that will buy its owners some positive publicity – a drop in the ocean of its owner’s obscene wealth.

[hotarutranslations]

Sawayaka Goro-san~~

Evening

Goro-san from the Sawayaka family! Happy birthday!

I visited the birthday event! Its been 4 years since I've been a guest! Its the same cycle as the olympics!

I was quite looking forward to it, staying light like, I wonder what we'll do~~

Wow, it was too funny the whole time, I laughed too much😂

Overlaying my timeline, Over Goro-san's timeline,

Like, meanwhile Goro-san was.. We made a timeline like that, Both Goro-san and Keita-san, Joined Upfront when I was 3 years old, They're great seniors…😕😕

Its scary to be a guest at their event…😕😕

Goro-san was standing the whole time, and I was sitting…😕😕

Excuse me…😕😕

These 2 could be more pompous() but they are not at all, they always play around a lot, thank you very much as always

With the overlapping timeline, The day I released my photobook Goro was.. just that, Was a mystery to me being asked to look back on my photobook! lol

I thought I was the only guest, Celebrating Goro-san,

Somehow,

Um,

Suzuki Keita-san!!

He appeared like, surprise lolololololol, It was really wonderful surprise lolololololol It was a good surprise lolololololol

Ishida was bursting out in surprise lolol at the appearance

I'm still only doing the full stomach side jump, I thought, what is that? but,

(a fitness tes where you eat a piece of candy for each repetitive horizontal jump)

Since I really like persimmon peas, I'm glad I was able to eat a lot🤤 lololol

After that, I rehearsed with my proper blue t-shirt🕺

Really, it was super fun!

Although its at the frequency of the olympics, I'll come back whenever I'm called✌🏻

Congratulations Okami-san!

Thank you very much for the ceremonial pitch, at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi⚾️

Play▶️List

Debut song 48th Pyoko Pyoko Ultra~

I danced a lot on my own..

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Hello! Station #531 I also talk about my graduation in this video

📺TV Tokyo "Premier MelodiX!" September 9th (Mon) 2:50~3:20AM Morning Musume '24 will be performing🤍 …and there will also be a talk🤍

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[kharmii]

watching the news surrounding the 0l!mp!cs fills me with disgust but also with hope. The voices of frustration and resistance against this nonsense are getting louder and louder and more and more frustrated. And at the same time the usual deflection of throwing around insultes like confetti looses more and more it's meaning.

There is still a long way to go... but the winds of change are here. Normalcy is taken over again. And future generations will look at the history books thinking: "TF happened back then? How could insanity rule the whole western world like that??" (just like we are looking back at events less than a century ago and wonder how could all of this happen?)

With enough indoctrination everything is possible...

The Olympics debacle was so badly received I did not see one post glorifying it or even mentioning it here on Tumblr. Not one. It's true there's a push back. At least there are people admitting there's a vocal minority pushing weird stuff as a norm:

Speaking of weird stuff, the new order going out to the mainstream media is to push more the idea that conservative social norms are weirrrd now. Matt Walsh did a montage showing it:

I've had this psyop being pulled on me my whole life, and it hasn't worked. The oft spoken of coworkers have pushed it the most. I'm weirrrrrd for not indulging in the same ruinous self-destructive bad decision making as the rest of them, starting when they were younger into that 'forever in college' party lifestyle and culminating into the day they all went in a big group to get that experimental Covid vaccine. They can sneer at me all they want, but I wouldn't be any one of them for a million dollars, especially since I'd be likely to die from comorbidity of being grotesquely overweight before I could enjoy it all.

It helps I'm only hearing it from Matt Walsh because I don't take in mainstream news or watch much television outside of the few episodes of anime per day, like Black Clover or My Hero Academia. One must curate their media experience same as internet.

And future generations will look at the history books thinking: "TF happened back then? How could insanity rule the whole western world like that??"

Hopefully it will end up that way. The alternative is the end of Western civilization due to suicidal left-wing insanity.

A couple more:

The thing with drag queens.....is anybody else sick of them? -Or is it just me? I'm sick to death of drag queens for the same reason I'm sick of furries and trans people. -Like maybe they were fun and campy for a minute, but then the most obnoxious people on earth had to start injecting them into every damn thing until you can't get away from them.

Let's make 2025 the year people finally get sick of drag queens, trannies, monster fucking and stupid furry bullshit. Autistic people...stop being into trans and go back to being into trains. If someone isn't into trains, they might still be interested in hearing infodumping about railroads, but nobody is interested in hearing about all the boring-as-shit made-up gender 'science' being spewed on Tumblr 24/7.

[disfordevineaux]

Just read your fic 'a simple mission' and BY GOD. holy crap. This is?? My favourite cs fic I've ever read?? Legitimately. I don't have a ao3 acc, so hopefully you won't mind me dumping my thoughts here:

I ADORE how you showed devineaux is when he's not, infact, chasing carmen around clearly at his wits end- but in fact right smack bam in his element!! Seeing him displayed as actually strong, intelligent, fast and *especially* intimidating!! it's,, addicting to read,,

I do like how zack notes this outloud, how hes alot more scary in close, claustrophobic quarters. As much I do love his usually goofy self, cool and professional devineaux is,,, um.,well.😳you know.

Throughout the whole time reading I had this huge grin on my face- props to you dude!!

I am 1009% fine w you telling me your thoughts through inbox. I love them and want to eat them w milk like one does w some delicious cereal at 3am. That is quite literally so sweet of you to say. I am beyond happy to know that you enjoyed it so much. Literally, weeping on the floor and rolling around in it. They are all my loves and I adore them all and I hold them in my hands sweetly like a delicate dew drop. I distinctly remember writing that fic so long ago and I defo feel like it still holds up today.

So many fics rag on Chase so much and forget to note his clear abilities, he is incredibly skilled and intelligent (if stemming from obsession) in what he does if incredibly frazzled at times. Like dude found VILE Island? On his own? With ONLY Interpol resources?? Absolute feral slay behaviour from Devineaux. It's not his fault that he is French. It happens to the best of us.

I definitely feel like alot of people would underestimate him until he's running to you at full speed like an olympic athlete and by then, well, it's too late you are a goner.

And, professional in his element Devineaux = 💅❤️‍🔥

[deeisace]

.......

Hm.

Looking through my nana's boxes of letters and photos

First box is letters my great grandad kept from his friend in Australia (lots of complaining about Man U, and him being proud of his son Peter who was an Australian Olympic rower in the 90s, so far as I can tell), and postcards from my grandparents to him and from my uncle Pete and his first wife, from various times they went travelling, and photos from the 1940s-1990s (including my great grandad's wedding on Valentine's Day 1942, Butlins-style holidays in the 50s, my grandparents' wedding in England in the 60s (they married actually in Zambia, first, if I remember), my dad's christening in 1973, and one of me as a baby with my nan in '96

My Nana Ban's bus pass from 1982, as well, which I think is the last one she had, my great grandad's passport, his bowls club card, buncha stuff

Then, the second box is a few newspapers (Grandad Ted's death notice, a funny one that's my uncle Pete's car dealership ad from like the 70s), and then photo albums

Second little one, I picked up, cs it wr red, tucked at the back, and it's holiday photos, my Nana Ban and her sister in their 20s, on holiday with a buncha mystery people

Then, at the end, a portrait photo of a man in a nazi uniform. No chance of reading the writing on the back, the pencil has faded, and the pen is scrawly and in German

Except that there's a small bit, in pencil in English, "Airman" - dad looked up the uniform, and he was Luftwaffe

Then I looked back, and there's a group photo - my Nana Ban, her sister, two of their friends, posing for a funny photo with a man, and two men sat in a car - I didn't look closely, the first time, but it becomes very clear that the man posing is in a Nazi army uniform, and the men sat in the car are of a higher ranking, in what dad said was a Nazi staff car

It's captioned on the back "oh boy who is it?" - the man they're posing with is laughing, holding his head sideways

There was a photograph, too, of a grave, which gives slight clue to the date - Johann Oebels, 1884-1937 - so the holiday to Ostend and then Aachen must have been post his death, whoever he was. One of the photos has a "Frau Oebels" in it.

Dad says, he thinks that what must've happened, is that one of Ban and Kitty's friends married a German between the wars, and they went to visit her

Very big shock, to see

[samelite]

Sam coupé demo head

https://youtu.be/zsjTpFR0oYQ?si=KS09f7S5spGJ1tER

100mhz 6502

http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/

8mhz enterprise Stefan Drissen mod player

https://youtu.be/eNet1CQtnCc

Loadzx cantanhade portugal

https://loadzx.com/hall_of_thanks/

Top kapi

https://youtube.com/shorts/QkhqfBe3QZU?feature=share

Vector graphics zx spectrum

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=1024

Spectra 2x2 attributes

http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/Spectrum/Spectra/SpectraInterface.htm

ZX prism only 32kb video ram

http://zxprism.blogspot.com/

Ula+

https://sites.google.com/site/ulaplus/home

Velesoft interlaced speccy!ula+ spectra

https://youtu.be/GzTj4vCp-cs

Speccy girls aloud animation

https://www.ys3.org/2008/02/04/behind-the-scenes-with-girls-aloud/

Spectranet streaming video !ula+ spectra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooi9rpx6ECM&t=36s

Youbinrickrolled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i5bG2oZQNE

Velesoft dma for speccy n sam

https://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm

Byte delight zx  hd pi0 not quadcore

https://www.bytedelight.com/?product_cat=videoaudio

Sam coupé Anton Javorcek Full Screen demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDe1U7A7yGk

C64 quad core !super cpu

https://youtu.be/QYsrmndXzWE

C64 super cpu wolfenstein

https://youtu.be/6xBVxqsD0uk

Cpc+ gx4k ghostsngoblins

https://youtu.be/begnxQ6KqYw

Cpc+ gx4k sonic 1 level

https://youtu.be/WStLxy-Zacg

Atari video streaming

https://youtu.be/TJ9RllBv1pg

Cpc with vdp9990 symbios

https://youtu.be/plQf9_7zPSA

Atari emulating zx spectrum

https://youtu.be/3HsveNrEWgk

Quad core pi0 Can we use these in byte delight zx HDMI?

https://hackaday.com/2021/10/27/new-raspberry-pi-zero-2-upgrades-to-quad-core-processor/

https://m.aliexpress.com/i/1005003201834305.html

C64 raspberry pie doom not interlaced

https://youtu.be/zAla_RtPECE?si=0ZN9HFo4eOFeFYtW

Hscrecruit

0. Galaxian

https://youtu.be/XhYVcwhSWjI

1. Robotron

https://youtu.be/l800GL6NQPY

2. Joust

https://youtu.be/BWoiLNri0OM

3. Galaga

https://youtu.be/dvjapcHsqXY

4. Phoenix

https://youtu.be/EwlhQziQ-kw

5. space  Firebird nintendo

https://youtu.be/k0MSz55Ct-0

5.5 juno first

https://youtu.be/abYqxh6QDQw

6. Asteroids

https://youtu.be/_TKiRvGfw3Q

7. Track n field hyper olympics

https://youtu.be/ozcE8qzTdHo

8. Nemesis

https://youtu.be/_sicx5em-V0

9. 1942

https://youtu.be/Em7UwOOBvlA

10. Flying shark

https://youtu.be/_1iyUU9sPaY

11. Slapfight cpc+

https://youtu.be/Rl4pelWVnhI

12 Chase h.q cpc

https://youtu.be/yTnfoJYyAYE

13 ghosts n goblins cpc+

https://youtu.be/uhZCmrDL4pY

Cbm128dp

1. Revs

https://youtu.be/JPaeFSxV_tw

2. Last ninj

https://youtu.be/CWmqoEdjKR4

3. Paradroid

https://youtu.be/OEam-zQgWcU

4. Dropzone

https://youtu.be/VSJ5Iuv-0gU