#kill screen

[king-crawler]

Comments from this video: "Wreck-It Ralph" real arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr for San Diego Comic-Con 2012 THE IRL FIX-IT FELIX CABINETS HAVE A KILL SCREEN AND. THAT IS ACTUALLY SO FUCKING COOL!?!??!>>!?!??!?! (Ok it's apparently a FAKE kill screen . but that's still so awesome the cabinet designer even put that in!???!?) Here's a good video showcasing it :] Apparently it takes like 3 hours of gameplay to get to this point... (different video)

[staticevent]

introducing: Kill Screen, a Soul Person created from a love of video games!! his head varieties are based on the bonus fruits from Pac-Man, and change depending on his mood! despite the... Somewhat Intimidating Name he’s very friendly and fun and is here to have a good time and to win

[atwas-gaming]

I'm a few days late on this, but it turns out, Tetris DOES have a kill screen, and a 13-year-old kid found it!

[cringywhitedragon]

Idk why but it’s like super hard to find any records online on Arcade Killscreens for certain games.

Like everywhere you look it’s usually the same games: Pacman, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, and sometimes Galaga since that game is kinda special with its killscreens.

I’ve seen someone on YouTube document one for Black Widow (A vector game, it just crashes) and Bosconian (Insane ship speed but beatable if you have enough lives that just loops back to round 1)

What about other Namco titles that don’t get that much attention (Grobda, Mappy, etc) or didn’t release outside of Japan in the Arcades (Phozon, Dig Dug 2)? And non-Namco titles during the Golden Age/Early 80s (Phoenix, Wizards of Wor, Sinstar, Centepede, etc) if they even have one?

As far as I know, there’s not even a database to document these things either

[sizzlingbarbariansoul]

And theres a news anchor on bbc that is getting tore apart because she tried to shame him saying something like that isnt a life goal while bbc is also cheering on a 16 year ild dart player

No hate to the dart player but i find it more impressive to beat an "unbeatable" game than being the world champ of darts

So apparently the pro-Tetris scene is exploding right now because a 13 year old nerd just reached the game's true killscreen for the first time ever

[tourmaline-dream]

the hand that drops his helm fists gently in her locs, holding her to him as she drags him closer by his cloak, closer, closer, never close enough

....

A rainy kiss for all you lovely people. I know we're having A Time right now but this fandom has been so invigorating to me as an artist and it's full of the coolest and most talented people and I'm happy to be part of it.

(sign the petition if you haven't already!)

[soaked-doors]

sabaody’s been rough but at least my son looks cool

[rosetinted--clouds]

rewatching lotr, as you do, but there's something hitting about Isildur getting killed by three arrows (to the back) while abandoning his men versus Boromir getting killed by three arrows (to the chest) while doing everything to save Merry and Pippin and the influence of the ring over men, idk but my heart did a thing when i noticed it :(

[caramelldansenu]

[deadlydelicious]

sorry but RAY WALKED OUT?!?!

you honestly expect me to believe Raymond Chestnut WALKED OUT on Allison.

[bulbabutt]

sometimes you just need somebody else to point out the obvious. thank goodness for mikey and her gender collecting habit!

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[rainbowtransform]

I want to make something super clear: all of Brennan Lee Mulligan’s battles are to the death. It is kill, or be killed and that extends to the Rat Grinders.

I like them just as much as the next person but I knew they’d die. They’re amazing antagonists and it’s great that we like them but this is their fate. They were doomed the minute they chose Porter, and yes they chose him and to come back.

Lucy didn’t. It was painful but she didn’t.

The others did. They were doomed by the narrative the moment they got the mark on themselves.

[spottedbread]

Anyone else seen those "kill screen" youtube videos?

I find the idea of "kill screens" to be fascinating. not the ones like in pacman, those weird fake videos of people bricking their consoles, not dissimilar to the anti-piracy screens, though i remember hearing about kill screens years ago on youtube. a lot of the most popular videos are from 2 years ago, though, around that same anti-piracy screen craze.

and yet nobody really talks about these, compared to anti-piracy screens, when they're pretty similar, actually.

-An idiot does something stupid (pirates a game, system, ect. or in this case, restarts their console when it's experiencing errors to the point of completely breaking the console)

-Fourth wall break, often violently angry towards the idiot

-The game/console is bricked

-Obviously fake

But there are some differences. In general, kill screens are much longer videos that slowly devolve into chaos, rather than the abrupt glitching and fear that comes from anti-piracy screens. It's interesting to watch, and there's a decent bit of variety in kill screens as well.

It's something I've just noticed while rediscovering the kill screen videos on youtube. if you like anti-piracy screens, I think these will be nice too. except for the loud noises but those are also in anti-piracy screens, so yeah. just wanted to get this out there

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

It’s not that Jason forgot, per se.

But between smuggling a toddler out of the League of Assassins, trekking halfway across the world, and finding a suitable hiding place that’s also child friendly… well, it kind of slipped his mind that he’s supposed to be… dead.

Something that comes back to bite him in the ass when he takes Dami out for some ice cream and just so happens to run into non other than Brucie-fucking-Wayne

[celestialholz]

Live long and fuck in Hondas (or 'why that Vulcan salute is way more significant than you think it is')

Hey. Hey Holz. Did you know Deadpool and Wolverine fucked in the Odyessy? Did you know that they now live in a one-bed with Blind Al? Did you know that -

Yes, friend. I know all of it. And you're all super fucking valid for pointing it out.

... But maybe all of you aren't seasoned Trekkies like me. Maybe not all of you gorgeous people understand the true significance of this.

Or maybe you just want a definitive way to win the argument of "are these two fucking?"

But either way, I'm here to help, and to tell you why, amongst all the absurdly homoerotic text of this film, this moment? Might be the gayest of them all.

Now, we must start by saying that although you wouldn't know it from the bullshit Abrams films, these two:

Are the fathers of gay fanfiction. Spock and Kirk here are the reason you're living in the fantastic timeline where you can write/read men fucking without any other shred of plot and that this is a legitimate and normalised internet experience - everyone say thank you, iconic papas. These guys were so homoerotically coded that even in the 60s, the era of wondrously overdramatic performances of all kinds and fairly prevalent homophobia, The Girlies still took notice, still started mailing each other fics and making zines and being just hugely excited at the thought of these two getting space-married. They are fandom as we know it today's beginning, and seventy years later they're still an enduringly popular ship on AO3. (You should all go and watch Amok Time, by the way. Contains the Honda Odyessy scene of the 60s, except there's weird biology and wrestling and just go and put it on your screens, thank me later. They fucked on that planet.)

Anyway, these two were as close as early colour TV could ever allow two men to be, deepening their *coughs* friendship almost every single episode or film - Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry even gave them a unique word in Spock's Vulcan language, with the meaning of 'friend, brother, lover.' (And if that isn't ringing any Poolverine bells, I'm not actually sure what you want out of this post. Enjoy it anyway, love you.)

... And then we get to 1982's The Wrath of Khan, and to that moment that every iconic screen couple must face - the ol' classic, it's you or me and I won't let it be you.

Sure, the set-up's a little different here - the chamber Spock's in is filled with radiation, and the scene's quieter, softer. And Kirk isn't a mutant so he can't smash his way in, he can just sit there and inwardly die as his emotional support Vulcan does.

... But you get where I'm coming from here. Ryan Reynolds doesn't take a million other potential love scenes from across the cinematic ages - no, he takes this. What is for many the romantic acknowledgement of a whole generation. The humble and desperately sweet beginning of it everything we fans know and love nowadays. The most ambiguously romantic homosexual relationship in television, directly comparative to what is now arguably the most ambiguously romantic homosexual relationship in cinema. And lest we forget, Wade doesn't believe in a fourth wall - this is a conscious choice, both in canon and in the writer's room.

Oh it's so clever and so beautiful a girl could weep. Ryan just introduced the MCU to the gays, just as Kirk and Spock did all those years ago to the masses of the time.

And then there's what it means.

This is the Vulcan salute, created to mean either 'live long and prosper' or 'peace and long life' - it's used more or less interchangeably.

But part of that's irrelevant when you're as immortal as these two.

So we're left with the sentiments of prosperity and peace, given to a man who up to this point can't imagine ever prospering again, is the furthest thing away from being at peace. Wade gives Logan the opportunity to go on, to find the things he's been lacking for so long now - things he has already helped him find. Spock tells Kirk during The Wrath that 'the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,' and that's exactly what Wade's doing here - sacrificing himself for the greater good of his friends and his newly beloved, however much it will hurt them all.

And that's lovely, and poignant, and character-growing, and I think we all would have been content to leave it at that and have our noble sacrifice, however much we would have wept. Kirk goes on to find the remnants of Spock's soul in the next film in the series, to bring him essentially back from the dead because he felt it was more than his own soul's worth not to have done... which, again, ringing a bell anyone?

Because Logan, in not so many words, tells dear Wade to fuck right off, and we get this.

What we've got here is a direct translation of one of cinema's gayest moments, made somehow infinitely more gay. A true achievement here - I genuinely think I spontaneously acquired tetanus in the cinema for a good minute, my jaw dropped so hard on seeing this. The pillars are the same colour as Kirk and Spock's original uniforms, for fuck's sake. I'm dying out here.

What we've done here is create narrative equality. The whole film's kinda done that leading up to this anyway - they're both mentally fucked up men who can't die, who are constantly dying anyway, who are evenly-matched in battle and both enjoy Honda fucking, who have forged a real love even as they piss each other off at every turn.

But here, they place one another in narrative equality for the first time. It's not about a sacrifice, not now, even though they're assuming it is one - it's about what should be done. It's about righting wrongs, being heroes, being together because every option other than that is unacceptable, because neither understands quite how to lose anyone else. They've both made the same choice, and that's not to let the other die alone.

It's about holding hands and loving and never letting go, even if it kills them.

... It's just about the most romantic and gorgeous thing I've ever fucking seen.

There are no more instances of masks, once they're done in this station. They don't need them any longer; they will never need them again.

And that's only emphasised by the parting shot we get of this... almost directly after Vanessa and Wade share a final sweet look.

I don't know, man. It's almost like the true conclusion is hidden behind the acceptable masquerade. Imagine that in the MCU, folks.

They've taken one of the most intimate and sweet moments in screen history, and made even more glorious.

They did The Wrath of Khan better than The Wrath of Khan did it.

And that's... that's gay. That's just about the gayest thing they could ever have done, and I adore it to the smallest pieces.

So remember, the next time your friends disbelieve you... show 'em this. Show them that they redid the very beginnings of slash fandom, and did it better.

(And then you can add on that they now live in a one-bed with their grandma, daughter and dog, and will do for the rest of their lives. Kirk and Spock didn't even get THAT shit.)