#fp bellow

[lucyjung]

Don't go.

[illusivewritings]

distanced - yoru x reader

chapter 1: new things

distanced masterlist

synopsis: your childhood best friend, sunwoo, makes you download her favorite game right now. what’s the worst that can happen?

warnings: fem!reader, modern au, college au, cursing, mutual pining, yearning, yoru may be ooc, maybe everyone is ooc tbh, idk what im doing, i’m rly rusty w writing and figuring tumblr out all over again, eventual 18+ content, long distance relationship, online setting, inspired by discord tbh, author is chronically online, not proofread, intentionally lowercase

a/n: i have not written in so long, neither have i written on tumblr in a while… so pls be nice </3 characters may be ooc but i’m very sleepy rn and i’ve had this idea for so long and just needed to get it out!!!! also i will be using jett’s real name, sunwoo :P eventually with other agents too down the line as well

anyway, i hope you pretty people enjoy <3

## fic bellow the cut ##

gaming was never really part of your childhood. sure, dabbling in simple games like minecraft and roblox growing up was a staple; endless nights filled your adolescence with late-night sessions of your childhood friend group within these games. you had to admit though, outdated presently closed-down dress up websites with chatrooms were more your thing back then.

although it wasn’t until recently that your best friend, sunwoo, had become absolutely obsessed with a particular game.

sunwoo’s your best friend. you’d known each other since your roblox late-nights during primary school. she was always your shoulder to cry on, and vice versa. her peppy and quick personality set her out from the others; she was your rock, and you were hers. even after she had moved a few hours away for college, you two kept that bond strong by keeping in touch online.

she was always more outgoing and more of a gamer than you. when you two were younger, you gladly would sit together during lunch hour as she yapped about her favorite piece of media at the moment. in exchange, you would draw her favorite characters from said game. it was enjoyable for the both of you, those simpler times.

though, you never were able to play with her, as much as you wanted to. the best device you had was the ancient family computer that could barely run the two games you could play. you’d rather not risk it catching on fire.

so, sunwoo’s gaming fixations over the years never phased you. you welcomed it, you loved listening to her yap sessions.

“y/n, you need to try this game. please.” she pleaded, her voice crisp coming through the call.

at present time, you now sit at your new pc set up within your dorm room. the first one you’d ever had, all thanks to the lovely sunwoo. she had built it for you when you saved up enough money, the only thing was? you… didn’t know what games to get. at all.

sure, you had minecraft and some digital art software. a rhythm game you barely touched, too. you mostly used your pc for art, as it was always your most beloved hobby. that puts you here now, in a discord call with sunwoo, with her pleading for you to download her new favorite game.

“i dunno, sunnie…” you adjusted your headphones over your ears for better comfort. “i’m really not good at fps games… i’ve never even played any like you, growing up.”

sunwoo sighed dramatically, her mic peaking just a little bit, which made you giggle. “listen, i get that, but y/n i promise- you’ll have fun!” after a pause, she adds: “i can even introduce you to my friends from there!”

you sigh, sunwoo was very persistent. it’s the least you could do for her, considering she built your pc, right?

after another pause, you let out a small laugh. “alright, show me where i can go to download it. what was it called again?”

you can hear her squeal, her mic peaking a bit again; and you giggle at the act. “it’s called valture!” you see her start typing in your guys’ private messages. “i’ll send you the link and show you how to create an account.”

————

you hate to admit it, but it was fun. despite being absolutely cradled by sunwoo the entire time, getting headshot constantly, and being confused at the mechanics— this silly game was fun. the evening was filled with laughs and learning; and you could tell sunwoo couldn’t be more happier.

while sitting in the lobby, sunwoo asked; “would you like to join a server with my friends i met on here?”

you hesitate to speak, only managing a simple ‘um…’ as you debated the incomplex question. being an introvert was damning, but meeting strangers was even more so.

“they’re nice!” she said enthusiastically after sensing your hesitation. “i promise, they won’t care if you’re new. they all just want to have fun, like us.”

you traced over the ‘wasd’ keys on your keyboard, thinking. with how much fun you had, you’d definitely come back online and play again. who’s to say sunnie will be on every time you do play? it would come in handy to meet new people who were open to a total newbie like you.

what’s the worst that could happen?

“yeah, send me the invite.”

you hear the other girl make an enthusiastic noise of excitement once again, as an invite link appeared on your screen. clicking it, you were automatically transitioned to the main channel of the server itself. your eyes darted to the automated welcome message, then to the member list on the left hand side.

“oh wow, there’s not many people in here?” you asked, tilting your head at such a short list. with how outgoing sunnie is, you’d expect her to have more people within the server.

“nope! i told you, not intimidating at all.” she replied. “maybe except yoru and iso… they’re both pretty nasty at the game, you could say.”

as she said this, your mouse hovered over each member with the corresponding names she had mentioned. a person by the username ‘y0ru’ and another by the user ‘isolated.’ this ‘iso’ person was offline, whereas ‘yoru’ was online, with their status displaying that they were on valture. their icon was a character from an anime, but the name escapes you.

“what? like, they’re really good or something?” you quizzed, replying a thank you to the welcome messages you received from two people. one named ‘neonbluu’ and the other ‘gekkonekko.’

sunwoo laughed, hearing a bang on her desk (which presumably was from her slapping her hand on her desk). “really good? y/n, they’re both radiant. like, top five hundred within our region.”

“oh, wow,” is all you could muster. you knew competitive players existed, sunwoo very obviously being one of them. but top five hundred within a region? you furrowed your brows at the thought. that would take so much time, right? “do they… leave the house? go outside?”

she gave a hearty laugh at your question. “oh, sweet little y/n… why don’t we ask, yeah?”

before you could even reply, sunwoo left the call within your private messages. you hadn’t clicked off the server, so you saw immediately where she was; sitting in the server’s only voice chat. your eyes widened, you didn’t want to meet anyone in voice chat right now! sighing, you put your head in your hands. what have i got myself into? you think, until you hear a ping notification.

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jettstorm

@/starphire COME IN VC RIGHT NEEOOOWWW!!!!!

@/y0ru you come too since ur online we can q together w star aka y/n ^_^

also @/everyone @/starphire is my bestie y/n and you all BETTER be nice to her!!!! she’s new to val and fps games in general >_o

neonbluu

why would you make her first fps val

couldn’t even pull up overwatch?? that’s fucked

gekkonekko

no deadass because val is a wasteland

jett’s actually setting this poor girl up 🥀🥀

@/starphire run while you can mama this game is CHEEKS

jettstorm

gekko and neon i’m muting you two for ruining my fun and whimsy

?mute @/neonbluu 2 mins

?mute @/gekkonekko 2 mins

skyespirit

jett’s dictator arc never fails to be more and more apparent each day 💚

jettstorm

ur all actually bullies

i got us all together and i am being targeted 💔

y0ru

shut up and invite me already

or should i get on an alt since ur friend is new?

jettstorm

omggg alt pls bcs i don’t wanna go against sweats in swift 😇😇😇

y0ru

alr

@/starphire welcome btw

cloverfly

OMG I JUST WOKE JP HEYY @/starphire WELCOMEE 💕

fadednights

welcome, starphire.

@/neonbluu answer our dms, my love.

oh, she’s muted. lol.

jettstorm

yeah keep ur lil ass chihuahua in check fade

you too @/deadlocked i cant understand how you two can’t contain that thing

gekkonekko

‘that thing’ is crazy work when she has 2 gfs and i see no hoes on ur hip whatsoever, jett 🥀

jettstorm

?mute @/gekkonekko 2 hours

phoenixashes

LMFAOOOO

gekko just loves lying for fun because what am i if jett has no hoes ☹️

jettstorm

phoenix please keep ur pretty mouth shut rn or i’ll staple it closed ❤️

phoenixashes

yes ma’am

————

you were having trouble keeping up with so much texting. it had been so long since you had been in a friend group, let alone an online one. nonetheless, you muster up the courage to join sunwoo and the yoru person within the server’s vc.

once you joined, sunwoo greeted you with a very energetic; “hiiii y/n!!! this is yoru, our tryhard of the group! yoru, this is my sweet y/n.”

you smiled at her energy, your nerves calming down just by her welcoming and introducing you swiftly to her friend. “hi, yoru, i’m y/n- but you can call me star if it’s easier.”

“hey,” he greeted in a monotone voice. you honestly couldn’t tell if he was annoyed or not. “jett mentions you a lot. she says you’re a good artist.”

you’d be lying to yourself if his voice wasn’t a little cute to you. he had a slight accent, which you made a mental note to ask what other languages he speaks later.

nonetheless, you let out a giggle. “really? sunnie, i didn’t know you were advertising me!”

“hey!” she said, and you can almost see her raise her hands in self defense. “you are very talented, y/n! you deserve more clients.”

you tab back into the game when you notice that another account by the name of ‘not y0ru’ joined your party.

“alright! let’s queue up! yoru, we need to do our best to teach y/n on the game. be patient with her.” sunwoo commanded playfully.

“i’m patient.” yoru quips back.

sunwoo scoffed. “you are so harsh on the people you coach, don’t even.”

“they’re just soft and can’t take criticism.” yoru sighs. “but star won’t have to worry. she’s surprisingly doing well, looking at her career.”

“huh? my what?” you asked, a little taken aback by the compliment from the smooth voice. he probably is saying that to be nice, you think to yourself.

“your career,” he repeated. “it’s one of the icons on the top left, you’ll be able to see your kda for previous games.”

you were entirely confused at what you were looking at. “kda? what is that?” you asked.

“kills, deaths, and assists!” sunwoo chimed in. “kills are how many enemies you got, duh. deaths is obviously how many times you died. you gain an assist if you do high damage to an enemy, but you don’t kill them- a teammate does.”

“ah,” you voice. this was simple enough to read, you thought. you didn’t think your career was anything special. after all, you did have mainly single digit kills and double digit deaths. “i can barely get over three kills, but thank you, yoru.”

“mhm,” was all he said.

and so, after small talk between you, yoru and sunwoo continued, the three of you loaded into a game.

————

“ahh! that’s my last one, guys.” sunwoo said, stretching her back. it would make sense for her to get off, after all it was almost one in the morning in both of your timezones. you would get off, but the day following tonight had nothing for you, since it was the weekend.

“okay, text me when you wake up sunnie,” you said. “let me know if we’re still on for sunday?”

“of course!” sunwoo beamed. “you two have fun without me, i’ll talk to y’all later. goodnight!”

“goodnight,” you and yoru bid goodbye unanimously. with that, sunwoo disconnected from the call, leaving just you and yoru left.

“do you have to get off as well?” yoru asked.

you shook your head as if he could see you. you mentally rolled your eyes at yourself. “no, not now at least. tomorrow i have no classes, just chores. and uh,” you pause, glancing at his anime icon and feeling a lightbulb begin glowing within your head. “watching some anime, probably.”

you were hesitant, as a majority of the time the three of you spent, yoru was really quiet. except for the occasional shit-talk banter with jett or sarcastic quip at a rude teammate. it had mostly been you and sunwoo making conversation and giggling amongst each other at silly plays you’d do.

but luckily, like a fish in water, he took the conversation bait. “which anime are you watching?”

“i’m not sure, honestly,” you reply. “i used to watch a lot when i was younger. ever since graduating high school, i honestly haven’t had the time to watch any.”

you sit on your answer- it felt dry. boring. you wanted to keep talking, the awkward pauses and silences internally killing you. besides, this was a chance to make a new friend outside of sunwoo and your dormmate. you couldn’t mess this up! quickly, you add; “do you have any recommendations?”

you hear him hum and sigh, probably debating his answer. after a minute, he replies; “do you like action or romance?”

“i like both, to be honest,” tapping your chin, you added onward; “although, i do enjoy a good romance.”

“horimiya, then.” yoru answered. “it’s really short, only twelve episodes. i liked it.”

“is that where your icon is from?” you asked, even though the character he had displayed within his icon did not seem like he was from romance… at all.

yoru actually let out a small chuckle. which, you didn’t think he would be capable of considering how he presented his personality for the last few hours. “no, he’s from a different show. have you heard of jujutsu kaisen?”

you felt so out of touch and old. all of these new shows you have never heard of, and you’re only in your early twenties. “uh… would you hate me if i said no?”

“really?” he asked, sounding genuinely surprised. “it’s been out for a while. pretty popular right now.”

you hummed, tabbing out and looking it up on google. “oh, is it more of an action-type of anime?” you asked, as you read the synopsis of the show. “it seems pretty interesting,”

“it is.” he confirms. “if you ever want to watch it, i’d be happy to re-watch with you. it’s my favorite show right now.”

you giggle at the offer, clicking back on discord. “i mean, fuck it, sure. i could use a break from rotting my brain with val.”

“alright,” yoru said, you can hear him clicking on some things through his mic. “would you want to stay here, or…?”

oh, right. you two were in a public call within the server’s vc. almost everyone was online except sunwoo and a few others- but you didn’t have the social battery to meet anyone else. not without sunwoo, at least.

“do you mind calling me in dms?” you asked.

“not at all. give me a sec.”

with a few more clicks heard, and the disconnect sound of him leaving vc, you received a friend request and a pop up receiving a call from ‘y0ru.’

and so, the night finally began.

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a/n: hi! this is my first fic i’m publishing on tumblr, so if u made it this far ilysm ty for reading!! i hope u enjoyed, and have a good day/night <3

[harrisonstories]

So here's something interesting...

The Beatles Derek Taylor Never-Before-Heard Collection of Lost Beatles Recordings: Including the 1967 Kenwood Sessions and John Lennon Private Recordings

This is the track listing from the description:

Tape 1: Unheard Beatles Sgt Pepper Rehearsals from Kenwood late 66 early 67

Run time is 56 minutes, songs include:

Revolution #9, mainly John in many accents, George can be heard, Paul too, Ringo one time, Terry Doran is also heard being interviewed by John, Terry Doran was ‘The Man From The Motor Trade’ on Sgt Pepper, every identical animal sound effect from Good Morning Good Morning is featured throughout, probably pre-dates Pepper and John has the sound effects saved, cockerel, hens, sheep, horse, pigs, cat, dogs etc, the very ones used on Pepper. Sitar drones almost all the way through by George, Piano backdrop also

Track Listing:

That much Control

Monte Carlo rally sound effects Terry Doran is Jack Brabham Formula 1 racer

Cat Feeding Services (Monty Python esque sketch)

A million miles away, John Indian accent Beatles far east tours in 66

Crazy banjo song, JL bellows

I’m aware of the situation monologue

Swing your partners

Lennon.McCartney complaining about the heat

John and George shouting over a very loud backing track

John/Paul counting in 123 testing, JL turns it into a poem.

Dear Prudence very early demo John wrote it way before 1968

British Police are pigs, in an Indian accent

Tape 2: George Harrison With the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Jimmy Page.

15 tracks, 59 minutes George with his Thames Valley muso friends, Jimmy Page, Jon Lord, Joe Brown, Sam Brown, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band (Neil Innes, Legs Larry Smith, Vivian Stanshall) Alvin Lee, all songs written by the Bonzos and George, all recorded at FP.

Track Listing:

George into talk while playing guitar, introducing a new song

Brazil take 1 written for the Handmade films project Brazil (never went to production)

Brazil take 2

Brazil Take 3

Sooty Goes to Hawaii

Mandalay monologue for handmade films production of the same name

Sooty Goes to Hawaii #2

Sooty Goes to Hawaii #3

Operatic Aria sung by Georges father-in-law and Olivia Harrisons dad Zeke Harrison, I doubt that Olivia has heard this

Bullshot theme song for Handmade films completed production.

Hare Krishna chant by everyone

Chant 2

While my Guitar Gently weeps with Jimmy Page on guitar

Same with Alvin Lee on guitar

if I Needed Someone

Tape 3: George with Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band band, all co-written 25.30 mins, 16 tracks

Track Listing:

Intro Legs Larry Smith

Do You Remember

Nothing Ever Changes

Urban Spaceman

Isle of Money (I Love Money)

Can you Groove (George)

There’s a Bright Golden Boil on my Penis

I Like Cesar

Misery Farm

Julie

Danda

When You Gotta Poop

Now You’re Asleep

Telling me The End

Viv Has Gone to Heaven

Mandalay Monologue #2

Tape 4: John Interviews Yoko 1969

Recorded by John in 1969, 45 minutes, John questions Yoko’s motives for being with him, discusses very personal matters, very revealing.

Tape 5: Yoko with Dr. Artur Janov

Yoko’s Primal Scream therapy 1 hr 40 mins, of very personal therapy, Yoko discusses John, music and very personal issues including John’s friendship with George.

Tape 6: “One From The Nursery” Unreleased John Ono Lennon Album

John and Kyoko Cox Tittenhurst Park

Run time is 47 minutes

4 tracks

Lots of John talking and playing acoustic guitar (sounds like his J60E) recorded at Christmas time, Various songs stand out, all written by John & Kyoko

John, I Love You

I Wish You Were my Father.

[iturnlemonadeintolemons]

Drabble—in the death seat

Summary: Caroline's recently turned seventeen, and the one thing she wants to do is learn how to drive. Enlisting Klaus had been first on her list, with him complying readily. However, after a few trips in the passenger seat, Klaus isn't sure he's still so willing. Or: where Caroline wants Klaus to teach her how to drive but she's terrible at it and Klaus is scared she's going to kill him

“Kol!” Klaus yells, getting his keys and sprinting into the living room. “Kol!”

“What?” Kol asks, his eyes fixed on the TV screen.

“Get up, quick, we’re going out.”

“Not now, Nik, I'm almost done with this episode—”

Klaus swipes the remote from his grasp and turns off the TV, throwing the remote to Rebekah, who catches it gleefully. “Oi!” Kol bellows. “I was watching something!”

“You can watch it later.”

“It was important!”

“You were watching Riverdale.”

“Yeah,” Kol says in an exaggerated tone, like Klaus is the one being stupid. “And, apparently, Betty’s mum used to have a tumble with Jughead’s dad in the good old days.” He waggles his eyebrows. “Go, FP. Get some.”

“Don’t be disgusting, Kol,” Rebekah says boredly, engrossed in a rewatch of Gilmore Girls.

Kol makes an offended sound. “Nik, for fuck’s sake…I was watching something!”

“You can watch it later, alright?” Klaus frantically throws Kol his jacket. “Put this on, we’re going out.”

“Where?” Kol asks irritably, shrugging on the jacket.

“I don’t care, anywhere.” Klaus pockets his keys and kicks Kol’s shoes at him, lacing up his own boots. “I have to get out of here.”

“What’s going on?” Rebekah demands.

“Nothing,” Klaus snaps.

“Well, I'm not going anywhere if you don’t tell me,” Kol announces, plopping his behind back on the couch. When Klaus stares at him furiously, Kol takes out his phone without breaking eye contact, and starts playing angry birds.

“Fine!” Klaus snarls.

Read the rest of the chapter here.

[terra-caw-777]

Okay so my beloved ChippyGaming has just posted a very interesting video..

Here's a list of all the 1.4.5 spoilers I can find in this video 😎 I will be covering ALL of them even if it's stuff we've seen before.

(you could just watch the video and see them for yourself but I just wanna make a list because this video is craaazy)

First of all at 0:40 you can see the lil' bugs in the grass! Kinda hard to get a good pic of them bc they're so tiny.

Here's some of them and it seems they can be lots of different colours.

It seems Red is using a new hairstyle? I'm not quite sure. Also I think Red's hair in the thumbnail of the video is slightly different to this one so at least 2 new hairstyles? Probably more tbh.

The player tethering thing is very interesting! Maybe if we ask nicely we could see it in the update... I really like how recall potions/magic mirrors are kinda broken and force the characters to meet at the midpoint between spawn and the other persons location. So they do work if you do it enough times. Idk I think thats cool and I hope if we do get this then they will keep this weird interaction. Then again it might get kinda annoying idk lol. Imagine using a teleportation potion....

Quick stack to nearby chests button has a green and yellow/orange? colouration and there are new stacking techniques? Presumably each different stacking technique will make the button go a different colour.

At 3:16 you can see a new crafting animation?!? The item also glows after being crafted. This could happen when the item is crafted for the first time. Not really sure cus Red says "it's in the works". The animation also changes colour based on the rarity of the item.

The crafting button that switches on the item selector thingy has a yellow highlight and theres a new quick stack button bellow this? Am I crazy or is this new as well?

Slighly different PvP and team buttons. First pic is new (1.4.5) second pic is current (1.4.4.9)

The Door Method will be the new meta in Terraria 1.4.5?!?!

At 4:17 you can see the first example of the new sunlight effects! (also pointed out at 18:13) The trees, clouds and grasses are glowing and you can also see subtle lens flare.

Also there is fps information at the bottom left of Chippy's screen. Idk if that's new but it seems suspicious. Could be because they are playing on a debug version of the game.

There has been arrows added to the item box of this wooden sword. Most likely to indicate that it is an autoswing weapon? Perhaps you will be able to enable autoswing for specific items as well as turning on the accessibility option.

Whenever they are underground there's dirt and stone dust particles falling from the ceiling?? Is this new? I Might be going crazy.

At the world seed part of the world creation menu it says "<Leave Blank For Random>" instead of just showing a random seed. This is probably because of the new secret seed selector.

New @runicpixels background?!?!?! I think I can see some different ones as well but I can't see it very well because they need height adjustment apparently. It could just be this one again though. Maybe a little bit of another one is visable in the thumbnail of the video as well.

Acorn Slingshot!! Uses acorns as ammo and plants trees where the acorns land. The video doesn't show Chippy actually getting it but all he was doing was chopping trees so you probably get it from shaking trees. Possibly when we get this item the acorns will roll or bounce to a viable tree planting location to prevent planting trees too close together.

New Cloud Slime!! It drops cloud blocks and has floaty physics! I think theres also new sprites for cloud blocks?

Cloud platform! They probably prevent fall damage just like their block counterpart.

Okay so at 10:32 a small tree grows but there is a platform right above it and normally that would prevent the tree from growing? right? New tree growing rules?? Maybe...

Guide is immune to zombies?? This could be a multiplayer bug...

At 11:55 the snail does not die when chippy shoots at it.. Immortal snail has been added??

New Dirt Slime!! It drops dirt blocks and hopefully it can also rarely drop the dirtiest block... We absolutely NEED that for the new skyblock seed.

New Dart Trap Slime? It's actually a Black Slime holding a dart trap which is supposed to be pretty rare. It can shoot arrows at you (which are probably poisonous just like regular dart traps) and it drops a dart trap.

Placeable critters! If you hold a critter in your hotbar and right click you can place down a small object along with the critter. The critter will always stay near this small object and cannot be damaged or killed (probably). Apparently when placed like this they stop being NPCs and become projectiles?? Perhaps we can do that projectlile limit exploit thing with these new placeable critters like we can already do with beach balls and flares?

New Granite Slime!! Can't really see it too well in the video because it is getting brutally murdered with fire. It drops granite blocks and seems to spawn anywhere in the cavern layer. The existence of a Granite Slime implies the existence of a Marble Slime....

New vanity item Goat's Tuft! Found in underground gold chests. I'm pretty sure this causes your character to make a goat bleating sound when they are damaged (as observed at 23:05 when Chippy takes damage from the eater of souls)

New 2x3 painting? Looks like just some guy. In the video they find it in a glowing mushroom cabin but it could just be found in underground cabins in general.

New Slush Slime!! It drops slush blocks and it looks very dangerous.. probably fires ice spikes at you and inflicts frostburn debuff.

HUGE NEWS!!!! MUD BALL IS IN THE CRAFTING MENU!!!!! MUD BALL NEEDS NO CRAFTING STATION TO BE CRAFTED!!!!

At 26:58 Red mentions the Mush Boy. Red is refering to the Mushroom Boi! from Dead Cells which is being added into Terraria along with other Dead Cells items and weapons like the Flint and the Killing Deck. Mush Boy is crafted with glowing mushrooms and is apparently an early game summoning weapon.

Okay! I think thats it? If i missed anything FORGIVE ME and let me know so I can add it! If you're reading this thanks for reading all that! (Still thanks if you skipped to the end though lol)

Love u <3

[doom-nerdo-666]

"I've just uploaded my repack of Mortyr, forgotten polish FPS from 1999, on the internet archive. It's the full game with fixes to run on modern systems and optional widescreen patches. Download link on the post bellow"

"Credits of what was used in the repack to make the game run and their respective authors"

[dianacarvalhoyt]

english:

I made a second version of my gameplay preset! It also has only two active effects which means it's super light, doesn't cause FPS drops or lag and makes the game much prettier, that's why I named it gameplay preset! You can download the first version here

ღ Important Info ღ

• This preset was created with the version 5.8.0 of Reshade, but it works in any version

• I recommend you to leave the edge-smoothing activated in your game options

• I recommend downloading shaders & textures from this preset, especially qUINT shaders

• This preset is made to use while you play, but I also made a preset for screenshots that you can download here

• Effects and download available bellow 👇

ღ Effects Used ღ

• FilmicPass

• LumaSharpen

ღ download [sfs] ღ

If you can't download it above, try pasting this link on your browser: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3973160/

You can check my Youtube Channel here ღ

portuguese:

Fiz uma segunda versão do meu preset de gameplay! Também só tem dois efeitos ativos, ou seja, é super leve, não causa queda de FPS nem lag e deixa o jogo bem mais bonito, por isso o nome é gameplay preset! Vocês podem baixar a primeira versão aqui

ღ Informações Importantes ღ

• Esse preset foi criado na versão 5.8.0 do Reshade, mas funciona em qualquer versão

• Aconselho vocês a deixar a suavização de bordas ativada nas opções do jogo

• Recomendo baixarem os shaders & texturas desse preset, especialmente qUINT shaders

• Esse preset é feito para usar enquanto vocês jogam, mas também fiz um preset para screenshots que vocês podem baixar aqui

• Efeitos usados e download disponível em baixo 👇

ღ Efeitos Usados ღ

• FilmicPass

• LumaSharpen

ღ download [sfs] ღ

Se você não conseguir fazer o download acima, tente colar esse link no seu navegador: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3973160/

Vocês podem visitar o meu canal no YouTube aqui ღ

[coolcat101s]

Raw notes from my surface level welcome home dive from last night

Obvious spoilers under the readmore

Welcome home:

Firefly video link https://www.clownillustration.com/4-14-bf

Bottom right of Eddie flowers have an audio link https://www.clownillustration.com/will-2

Bottom left has an audio log as well and the url https://www.clownillustration.com/help

Landing page:

Wally draws home link in it https://www.clownillustration.com/i

The y on the site update is invisible

Y hidden behind the word five in the update

“We always knew it was real, ever since that first itch in the back of our mind. You need to know too now, don’t you? Do you feel it. It’s good that you came back.” Good shit right on the page feels like Lore

About us:

The o is up

Hidden in text: When I unwrapped the first letter, I felt it. I heard it. Open. Open. Open. I want it out. I’m going to get it out.

After the text in the why did you make this website> Does it hurt?

Hidden After do you know how many episodes> The numbers are so hard to read. Sometimes I can’t see them.

The hearts https://www.clownillustration.com/a. Love the eyes stuff omg

Preying mantis at bottom right:

https://www.clownillustration.com/10-14-js it’s another video!

Stickers page

The spider: https://www.clownillustration.com/11-14-jb another video, also I notice it cuts out when they try to say Wally’s name in these interesting

The star flower drawing https://www.clownillustration.com/i-2 another audio with Wally drawings

Weird loopy thing over stickers and under the w

News:

Caterpillar https://www.clownillustration.com/12-14-hb another video the Wally cut out again at the end

“So many guest signatures… So many of them are trying to communicate. What are you telling me for? Do you think I can answer. What are you trying to do to me. I’m closing that guest book, I’m not playing this game anymore. The ringing is enough.” Feels like not the team is that is it Wally? Who is it?

The neighborhood:

Text changed I think:

Home is where the heart is and Welcome Home's residents are the heart of the neighborhood. Even if you don't live there, you're still one of its most important denizens! But don't worry, with the help of this colorful array of neighbors, it'll feel just like home in no time at all! 

Found this eye when I messed up copying the text above I’m not sure where it came from (update!! On desktop hes hidden behind the art banner apparently)

Swirl under home still there

Still has as bellow, as above now works too which it didn’t before I don’t think : https://www.clownillustration.com/as-above here leading to stars that have this https://www.clownillustration.com/soon (he says let me in) and the c on back looks like a 3

Eddie had a bug on his page! https://www.clownillustration.com/8-14-ef

Wally’s page had a flower on his canvas https://www.clownillustration.com/will

Bug on the menu https://www.clownillustration.com/9-14-fp

Media:

All of these are amazing like even the not hidden stuff is so fun

Little rainbow bug thing after the interview: https://www.clownillustration.com/1-14-ph

Merchandising:

Spiral on the last phone photo, repeating  motif is noted

Butterfly: https://www.clownillustration.com/6-14-jf

The playfellow exhibition: big that runs and hides like a little sneaky https://www.clownillustration.com/2-14-sp

House at bottom left https://www.clownillustration.com/understand

Guestbook: in the opening a speech bubble from Wally https://www.clownillustration.com/find

Bug on the opening page https://www.clownillustration.com/13-14-he

Bug on first page https://www.clownillustration.com/7-14-ej

[s2lavander-cakess2]

I just wanted to ask for help manifesting some friendship and love into my life!! Or even self love, luck, positivity!! I described my situation down bellow, if you need context before helping me! (If you want to, of course/nf)

Tomorrow I go back to school!!! I hope I find a/some friend(s) this year!!!! I've been trying to manifest love and friendship into my life, because I'm REALLY lonely :( I've been trying to get more friends recently, going to conventions and just ... Trying my best ig!!

But it's not really working, and my therapist told me that my fp apologizing to me didn't mean that they wanted to continue our relationship, they just wanted to stop feeling guilty. So that really sucks... My other friend doesn't like texting on the phone, etc. so I'm in real need of more friends!! My depression, anxiety and BPD are really kicking my ass, and I've just gotten out of a really bad episode.

So yeah, I just ask you, reading this, that if you're comfortable, send some good energies and luck to me!! I really need it.

[pm-memeteam]

Today marked a significant milestone for our project as we convened for our largest team meeting yet, conducted in person. With meticulous attention to detail, we methodically reviewed each shot, meticulously dissecting and discussing our work. Through collaborative efforts, we compiled a comprehensive list of feedback, addressing areas for improvement and refining our approach for the final push.

Moreover, we finalized the asset list, ensuring that all necessary elements are accounted for as we enter the concluding stages of the project. This collective effort underscores our commitment to excellence and sets the stage for a successful culmination of our endeavours.

We brainstormed some enhancements to enrich our project further. Firstly, we unanimously agreed to introduce drones into several shots. Our team member Nidhi had already prepared a model, which we eagerly integrated into our scenes. These drones will dynamically examine and fly past our duo, adding a dynamic and futuristic element to our visuals.

In addition, we explored ways to emphasize the theme of betrayal more effectively. In one of our shots (sh01), we envisioned incorporating a holographic screen featuring the Witch. As she extends an invitation into the mainframe, her voice glitches out, subtly hinting at her deceit and betrayal towards the duo. This clever narrative twist adds depth and suspense to the storyline, engaging our audience on a deeper level.

Our full notes were as follows:

Gameplay 1 (Hammad/Sai)

Character pushes button instead of taking gun out

FPS hud + FPS weapon from camera view

Environment Modelling/Texturing

Lift starting to move down

Lighting/Volumetrics. If possible, spinning maintenance light

Sh01

Character Anim

Starting position inside structure

Lighting/Volumetrics

Can add buildings to the city, so we maybe see the top of one. If possible, blinking red light on top of it

Drone from nidhi, animating up and examining them

Holographic screen with witch + glitch effect

Sh02

Pyramid. Decreased size. + Texturing

Buildings added.

Lighting/Volumetrics

Beam, electric effect from Nidhi

Sh02 same

smoke/volumetrics if needed. But hopefully everything from sh02 will work for sh03 automatically

drone flying past

Sh03 (Mainframe)

Sh04 Same

sh04

Witch modelling finish.

Witch texturing. (LED's? to make it look more like a life support machine)

Environment Modelling (More details).

Environment Texturing

Lighting/Volumetrics. Could have light coming from bellow, for dramatic/evil effect.

sh05

Changed to split view (top/bottom). Top = closeup of reload. Bottom = closeup of witch

Lighting/Volumetrics

Beam effect from previous shot added

sh06

same changes from sh02

smoke if necessary

camera change from perspective of dron

a few drones flying around

Gameplay end

Platform coming down while turrets power up, shine spotlights at them, getting ready to fire

As firing starts, characters run into cover. As they are running, cut's to gameplay

pillars could open up to reveal turrets (spiderman kingpin ref)

Assetlist

Intro gameplay room Model/Texture

Elevator model with cover

Screen (plane with witch texture)

Drone model (from Nidhi)

Beam effect (from Nidhi)

Pyramid texturing (lower priority)

Pyramid face texturing (lower priority)

Witch Model/Texture

Mainframe room Model/Texture

Animation

Character Pushing Button

sh01, characters subtle look at each other (reacting to the witch), take out weapons

Reloading animation (close up)

sh06 idle animation (lower priority)

Take cover anim/crouch

Sounds

Music 1 (slow/tense/synth)

Music 2 (combat music)

Witch speaking

Turret 1 firing

Turret 2 firing

Reloading sounds (SMG + pistol)

Drone sound

[domers-group8]

Pavel - R&D Render Test

Last week I had done some R&D which I did not write a blog post about after sharing with my team, thus wanted to quickly add it to the record on here. I tested out the process of rendering out a 360 panoramic sequence from unreal in 8K quality, then taking it into Adobe Premiere and downsizing to 4k and exporting. Making sure everything is working correctly and thus eliminating any possible problems early on in this projects development. While also taking note of how long this took my computer. It took me 2 hours and 5 minutes to render 3 minutes of time. (Which is 4319 frames at 24 FPS).

I used a pre-made level for this test. Infinite Blade - Grasslands. Here is the result! (I cut down to only a few seconds, due to the large file size)

(Also, Erik made me aware of some AI tools by NVidia that could be useful to use for downscaling when the time comes, I've yet to test them myself yet).

There were a few issues I ran into, the first being with the shadows on some objects that the camera in scene wasn't facing. However, after closer examination, this did in fact match my scene. The reason was the sun facing the direction of those objects, when seeing the image in it's distorted view I thought there was an issue here but it was just my mind playing tricks on me. The second issue was the sun glints/reflections on the water. It seemed to create large flickering sparkles on the renders that were not present in my scene. I narrowed the issue down to being that the sequencer in unreal is re-loading some or all of the scene assets but was not able to find a quick and easy solution. My lecturer Neil Gallagher said to play with the "warmup" setting under anti aliasing when rendering the sequence, unfortunately this did not fix it. However, I have found a workaround, which is to very slightly increase the roughness of the water shader from 0.0 -> 0.1 (See right image bellow). This seemed to have solved the issue. Lowering the specular could further reduce this problem if needed.

Even though our animation does not have water, I wanted to debug this issue as I could imagine this happening with the windows on our spaceship/vehicle (which will have low roughness as well). Or even some other element that we don't know yet. That's all for now! Cheers.

References

Epic Games. (2015). Infinity Blade: Grass Lands. [Online]. Available at: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/infinity-blade-plain-lands?sessionInvalidated=true [Accessed: 3rd February 2024]

pavelm. (2024). Render test 360 8k to 4k. [Online Video]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2SFOTfVYWk [Accessed 3rd February 2024]

[pleasantlyinsincere]

They expanded on the description and, oh what a bunch of stuff. 😲

Tape 1: Unheard Beatles Sgt Pepper Rehearsals from Kenwood late 66 early 67

Run time is 56 minutes, songs include:

Revolution #9, mainly John in many accents, George can be heard, Paul too, Ringo one time, Terry Doran is also heard being interviewed by John, Terry Doran was ‘The Man From The Motor Trade’ on Sgt Pepper, every identical animal sound effect from Good Morning Good Morning is featured throughout, probably pre-dates Pepper and John has the sound effects saved, cockerel, hens, sheep, horse, pigs, cat, dogs etc, the very ones used on Pepper. Sitar drones almost all the way through by George, Piano backdrop also

Track Listing:

1. That much Control 2. Monte Carlo rally sound effects Terry Doran is Jack Brabham Formula 1 racer 3. Cat Feeding Services (Monty Python esque sketch) 4. A million miles away, John Indian accent Beatles far east tours in 66 5. Crazy banjo song, JL bellows 6. I’m aware of the situation monologue 7. Swing your partners 8. Lennon.McCartney complaining about the heat 9. John and George shouting over a very loud backing track 10. John/Paul counting in 123 testing, JL turns it into a poem. 11. Dear Prudence very early demo John wrote it way before 1968 12. British Police are pigs, in an Indian accent

Tape 2: George Harrison With the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Jimmy Page.

15 tracks, 59 minutes George with his Thames Valley muso friends, Jimmy Page, Jon Lord, Joe Brown, Sam Brown, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band (Neil Innes, Legs Larry Smith, Vivian Stanshall) Alvin Lee, all songs written by the Bonzos and George, all recorded at FP.

Track Listing:

1. George into talk while playing guitar, introducing a new song 2. Brazil take 1 written for the Handmade films project Brazil (never went to production) 3. Brazil take 2 4. Brazil Take 3 5. Sooty Goes to Hawaii 6. Mandalay monologue for handmade films production of the same name 7. Sooty Goes to Hawaii #2 8. Sooty Goes to Hawaii #3 9. Operatic Aria sung by Georges father-in-law and Olivia Harrisons dad Zeke Harrison, I doubt that Olivia has heard this 10. Bullshot theme song for Handmade films completed production. 11. Hare Krishna chant by everyone 12. Chant 2 13. While my Guitar Gently weeps with Jimmy Page on guitar 14. Same with Alvin Lee on guitar 15. if I Needed Someone

Tape 3: George with Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band band, all co-written 25.30 mins, 16 tracks

Track Listing:

1. Intro Legs Larry Smith 2. Do You Remember 3. Nothing Ever Changes 4. Urban Spaceman 5. Isle of Money (I Love Money) 6. Can you Groove (George) 7. There’s a Bright Golden Boil on my Penis 8. I Like Cesar 9. Misery Farm 10. Julie 11. Danda 12. When You Gotta Poop 13. Now You’re Asleep 14. Telling me The End 15. Viv Has Gone to Heaven 16. Mandalay Monologue #2

Tape 4: John Interviews Yoko 1969

Recorded by John in 1969, 45 minutes, John questions Yoko’s motives for being with him, discusses very personal matters, very revealing.

Tape 5: Yoko with Dr. Artur Janov

Yoko’s Primal Scream therapy 1 hr 40 mins, of very personal therapy, Yoko discusses John, music and very personal issues including John’s friendship with George.

Tape 6: “One From The Nursery” Unreleased John Ono Lennon Album

John and Kyoko Cox Tittenhurst Park

Run time is 47 minutes

4 tracks

Lots of John talking and playing acoustic guitar (sounds like his J60E) recorded at Christmas time, Various songs stand out, all written by John & Kyoko

1. John, I Love You 2. I Wish You Were my Father.

According to Derek Taylor, all of the material was edited, banded and mixed for release on Zapple Dec 1969, was shelved.

Of the recent auction lot this is the one thing that I would really like to have. So if Beatles tumblr is wondering what they could pool money on to get me for my birthday...

[lucyjung]

"You've always worked hard."

[starkittensblog]

She found the first shard

Finding pieces AU by @lucyjung

[lucyjung]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa why I found this now?!!! I already saw this on Twitter but it's still looks awesome 😭😭😭😭😭💕💕💕💕

This is from @lucyjung FP au oh stars I love it soooo much ❤️I’ll post this on my Twitter too #FP au