#no it's not an actual videogame just something that can be made in a game engine

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

Had to throw away a wholeass project I was working on because what I was trying to do wasn't viable in html/js the way I wanted it to be.

I could probably remake it in Unity pretty quick. (As in, over a weekend.) But y'know. Fuck those guys.

So I'm finally attempting to learn Godot because indie game dev is one of my many backup plans for when I inevitably get laid off and this seems like a simple enough project that I can start ramping up on that before trying to make, y'know, a wholeass game. (Even a small wholeass game.)

All this to say I have a Play button in Godot now.

[bluastro-yellow]

I don't know how much legitimacy MBTI with a focus on functions actually has but my friend obsessed with it says I'm ENFP like Harry Du Bois so I'm happy

[devotedlystrangewizard]

the corpse of king minos is very fucking big and Scary but you can parry his punches pretty easily and thats the easiest way i can explain how good ultrakill feels

[tenitchyfingers]

I only understand all these words separately

[nomairuins]

no sims 5 . guys im gonna

[stick2vamp]

Halllo and welcome to the Sebastian Solace fans!!

This interest me, Im in the Welcome home fandom and one of the characters is self-aware so I've wondering if Sebastian is self aware that he know the player is just playing game

What is his reaction? (It's okay if you don't want to- I can request other one- ÚvÚ

That's all and have a lovely Day or Night

𝜗 ˖ ❝ you're not what you seem. ᵕ ♡

— in which sebastian realizes something is off with you, and everything else that's ever known. ✧

↷　 sfw 𓈒 implied sebastian uses you a bit 𓈒 no happy ending 𓈒

When SEBASTIAN figures out that he is nothing more than a character in a videogame, one who has no control over the ending of the story, he is upset for a lack of better words.

It made sense, now that he thought about it. Why his memories of the past were oddly fuzzy as if they weren't truly his, why he never seemed to be unable to find things for his shop, why you kept coming back over and over again.

He's mad both at himself and you and the situation: himself for not realizing sooner, how could he be so stupid? You for never mentioning it to him, although you very well knew. And the situation: because that means everything he went through didn't have to happen, and was made for someone else's enjoyment.

In the midst of his anger, though, he realizes that you are trapped just as much as he is, if not more.

If everything was some game, some story, then that means only certain things had actually been written into existence. The path you followed on your journey, for example, was the only path there could be. Your goal couldn't be anything but getting the crystal.

Maybe he isn't real to you.

But his experiences were real.

His agony was real.

And he was real to himself.

Which is why he began to change things. You couldn't break your character's code, but he could break his. You'd occasionally hear little 'secret' voice lines that haven't ever played before, animations that seemed more lifelike and diverse. You'd see how Sebastian didn't show up just once anymore, no, he showed up frequently.

Yes, once you reached the end, you would be forced back to the beginning. But would he? It wasn't in his code to force him back, was it?

Sebastian began to stick by you more and more, trying to win your favor. It'd be easier to board with you if you grew attached — sympathetic towards him. It'd also be easier for you to give more documents. One of the only things you had control over was when you chose to buy from him. He endlessly looked through the research documents you gave him to see if there was anything about this: but nothing.

And when you finally had the crystal and were waiting for the submarine...

Sebastian swopped in and climbed into the submarine alongside you. You didn't put up a fight—well, you probably couldn't even if you wanted to. Luckily, there were no guards in the chamber, so he wouldn't be spotted until you made it to the surface.

He was finally going to be free again.

This may be a game, but it's his life.

He would finally —

— Sebastian was back in his shop once more.

Right, because games don't load their unused areas, oops!

[bilolli]

Just Dance Care AU!

Ok ok so I thought of a story for this Au but it’s nothing really impactful or full of drama and angst like my other au’s, I wanted to leave this au easy and fun to play around, because, let’s say it. Just Dance and drama in the same sentence makes me laugh. 

story and PNG version under the cut!

(I gave up on Y/n design because I couldn't figure out a general look for them. This is you we are talking about! Draw your own JD fit, I'll draw mine soon XD)

Anyway here’s the story so far: 

Year 2029, videogames industry made a huge step forward and classic consoles and devices were substituted by the new and upgraded VR headsets with full body tracking. It’s something like the NerveGear in Sword Art Online without the kill switch. Some games still require you to actually move your body (like fitness games or sports because yeah, they don’t have a purpose otherwise). 

Y/n wanted to buy the newest VR headset but, while searching for the best offer, they found out FazCo entertainment was hosting a giveaway, the prize? One of their prototypes, a VR meant to be released the next year coinciding with the opening of their first mega pizza plex.

(so the plex doesn’t exist right now). You decide to sign up for the giveaway and after a while you receive an email telling you you won the VR headset and that, to claim it, you need to read and sign a series of NDA policies (understandable, it’s a prototype headset that’s not even in commerce). Some clauses are a little bit concerning but nothing you hadn’t read on other electronics booklets, so you decide to sign. After, like, a day, you have the VR in your hands. 

The box let you know with super saturated and colorful writing, that the VR came with a game pre-installed inside. Uh, that’s why they were giving one away, they wanted a free game tester…but you know what, it’s worth it.

You always liked Just Dance games, they make you think about happy memories of your childhood. This pre-installed game called “Five Dances at Freddy’s” is a close copy of your childhood game with original FazCo songs, characters, environments and also some collaborations with other famous artists. It probably will be the cause of a big copyright infringement report.

There are various ways to play it: story mode, Casual dance, Five Dances, and Just Dance Care.

The first one is similar to the casual dance mode but with little cutscenes between a dance and another to tell a tale, Casual dance is how you can play the collab songs, Five Dances is the multiplayer mode and Just Dance Care is a more uhhhh “hard” way to play the game with all the other modes mixed in it. You stare at the description of the last mode smirking and decide to try it first just to see how far you can get before losing (yes you can lose in hard mode in this Just Dance, but you don’t die, you just have to restart from the beginning). Turns out the FazCo wasn’t kidding when they advertised the new headset as a breakthrough in the world of virtual reality headsets, the thing TRANSPORTED you inside the game itself. 

You almost have a heart attack when you can’t find your VR on your head, but before you can try something you are blocked by two tall individuals who you think are the “tutorial” characters. 

Yadda yadda, tutorial, you can pause the game and exit whenever you need just by opening an hidden menu, you find out your tutorial characters are called Sun and Moon and that you are way worse than you remembered at dancing (damn full body tracking, there is no way you are going to do a cartwheel in the middle of a dance, you still don’t know if your body is inside your home and if you’ll physically feel pain if you fall and you don’t want to find out).

You pass an embarrassingly long time trying to win your first dance battle just to discover it was still the tutorial. 

You try to go on with the story but you fail at the first real battle with a bear character named Freddy. 

And guess what? You have to start again from the tutorial! Y/n is gonna spend A LOT of time with Sun and Moon if this goes on.

[canmom]

Hello! I absolutely love your blog, everything from your festival recounts to animation analysis and programming (one of tumblr's recommended posts was the one where you made your own rasteriser, and I liked your attitude in what I've read so much that I'm gonna attempt to conquer my 3-year-long grudge against using opengl during college and do something similar now that I'm a bit older and have no deadlines :D).

But anyway, I have 2 questions (sorry if there's easily accessible answers, tumblr search is not helping): 1. During your animation nights, does the screen stay black while everyone watches their own video while you provide commentary? I haven't caught any yet but maybe someday! And 2. do you have any youtube channels or just one-off video essays that you like that also cover animation/directors? Or, even programming lol.

Sorry for the long ask have a nice day!

hiii! i'm very touched that you like my dorky eclectic blog <3

For the Animation Nights, I just stream the video over Twitch from local sources on my computer, typically by playing the video in mpv and recording it in OBS. This is obviously not ideal from a video quality perspective, but it's the easiest way to watch video in sync without making everyone download files in advance. Then we all chat in the Twitch chat box (in large part to crack stupid jokes, it's not that highbrow lmao). I've gotten away with it so far!

As for youtube channels, I can recommend...

anime production/history (i.e. sakuga fandom)

SteveM is likely the most sakuga-fan affiliated anituber. He makes long, well-researched and in-depth videos on anime history, usually themed around a particular director or studio.

Pyramid Inu might be my fave anituber - very thoughtful analysis of Gundam, obscure mecha anime and oldschool BL and similar topics. tremendously soothing voice too.

The Canipa Effect does excellent deep dives into the production of specific shows, both western and anime. I appreciate the respect he gives to the Korean animators of shows like AtlA in particular!

Sean Bires's 2013 presentation on sakuga is pretty foundational to this whole subcultural niche, and a great place to get an introduction to the major animator names to know and significant points in the history of anime. unfortunately a couple of the segments got slapped down by copyright but the rest holds up!

animation theory (for animators and aspirants)

I'm going to focus here on resources that are relevant to animation in general, and 2D animation. if I was going to list every Blender channel we'd be here all week :p

New Frame Plus is one of the best channels out there for game animation, describing in tightly edited videos how animation principles work in a game context and analysing the animation of various games. highly recommend

Videogame Animation Study is similar, examining the animation of specific games in detail

the 'twelve principles of animation' (defined by Disney's Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas) remain the standard approach to animation pedagogy; there are various videos on them, but Alan Becker (of Animator vs Animation) has quite a popular series. I haven't actually watched these but many people swear by them! Dermot O'Connor expands the list to 21. Note that some of the terminology can be a little inconsistent between different animators - c.f. 'secondary motion'...

Dong Chang is an animator at Studio NUT, who produces a lot of fantastic, succinct videos on standard techniques in the anime industry, timesheet notations, etc. etc. Studio Bulldog, a small anime studio, are a good complement; they focus more on douga than genga and are generally a bit more traditional.

programming

big topic here, I'm going to focus on game dev and tech art since that's my field. but also some general compsci stuff that's neat

SimonDev - graphics programmer with a bunch of AAA experience, fantastic explanations of advanced optimisations and some of the more counterintuitive aspects of rendering

Acerola - graphics programmer who makes very detailed guides to a variety of effects with a very rapid and funny 'guy that has seen monogatari' editing style. When he's good, he's really good. His video on water is probably the best one I've seen (though I can recommend a couple of others).

TodePond - the most charming, musical videos about recursion and cellular automata you've ever seen. less programming tutorial and more art in themselves.

Ben Eater - known for his breadboard computer series, a fantastic demonstration of how to go from logic gates up to the 6502 with actual hardware. worth watching just for how clean he puts the wires on his breadboards like goddamn man

Sebastian Lague, Useless Game Dev - both do 'coding adventure' style videos where they spend a few weeks on some project and then document it on Youtube, resulting in a huge library of videos about all sorts of fascinating techniques. great to dive into

Freya Holmér - creator of the 'shapes' library, makes videos on mathematical programming, with gorgeously animated vector graphics. Her video on splines is a particular treat.

There are definitely many more channels I can recommend on these subjects, but I'll need to dig into my history a bit - unfortunately I need to rush out right now, but hopefully that should be good to be getting going with!

[the-sinful-voice-witch]

Ok, I'm losing my head right now. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The multiversus crossover game brought to us not only the Powerpuff girls... But THE ROWDYRUFF BOYS AS WELL!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

But... Oh girl... Omg... There's even more for me to even lose my head harder 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃

LOOK AT THIS!!! 👇👇👇

It says Powerpuff girls but is actually one of the rowdyruff boys talking... IS BOOMER!!!! To think a simple videogame line is enough to make go crazy delulu like this... Here comes the delulu twisted romantic mental gymnastics 😍😍😍

So i need an explanation. No really i need one. Why is Boomer saying that? Bubbles didn't see what? WHAT YOU DON'T WANT HER TO SEE?? Multiversus you can't leave me like this!! Did he say that because he was clumsy and doesn't want to look lame in front of her? Did he say that because he was doing something bad and doesn't want to look that bad in front of her? Sorry im just going back when they got their second appearance in the show and Bubbles said: I WANT THE BLONDE, I THINK HE IS CUTE!.... IM DYING OVER HERE I NEED ANSWERS!!!! 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫

Update!! The 3 of them say more shippable stuff KYAAAAAAAAA omg omg omg GO WATCH A VIDEO WITH ALL THE RRB MULTIVERSUS VOICE LINES... IM SCREAMING 😭😭😭😭😭

Im going DELULU!!

also since now they became mainstream thanks to this crossover game i should remind people of other old crossovers as well that are still ongoing and need more love:

FUSIONFALL

The original fusionfall retro and legacy were cancelled i think but i think you can still play the retro. But currently i saw that there's people working on a new version that was going to be renamed: Saturday morning: invasion.

Anyway look at this images from Fusionfall legacies 👇😖

Boomer will be included in Saturday morning invasion too with a different look... So i hope the project succeeds!!🤞🤞🤞

PPGD: POWERPUFF GIRLS THE DOUJINSHI

This is a Halloween special from the webcomic that is still ongoing in snafu-comics.

Needles to say i fell into the deep pit of shipping hard madness after seeing this 😂😂😂 even though i don't need this much, i can go delulu and make up a reason to ship characters out of every insignificant detail, hence the fuss i made over: " I hope Bubbles didn't see that", yeah my blue boy is totally in love 🤪🤪🤪

[rekino2114]

Self aware Monika x reader

Monika note: thanks to the author for adding me and my friends to the masterlist, and to all of you for helping him reach 200 followers. I hope you enjoy this drabble to welcome us featuring me.

Since some of your friends recommend it, you had recently started playing doki doki literature club. It was a great game, and you felt really bad for the girls, but you especially felt connected to one....Monika.

While you didn't approve of what she did, you could understand why she did it. You were really bummed that she didn't have a route, and when talking to her in the classroom, she felt like a real person to you and not a videogame character.

You were kinda embarrassed about your crush on her, but for some reason you felt a genuine connection to Monika, one that made you continue talking to her.

You were doing just that one night when she said something you never heard her say something you never heard her say before.

"How are you y/n?"

What shocked you is that she said y/n, your real name and not the one that you inputted in the game.

"W-what? How does the game know my name?"

"Oh, I took the liberty to look through your computer, and it was there. I hope you don't mind"

"You can hear me?"

"Your computer does have microphones doesn't it?"

You were too stunned to speak and Monika used this occasion to explain that she wasn't some hacker but in fact the "real" Monika.

"This.......is a lot to take in"

"Yeah, that's why I waited until now to talk to you, and because i know I can trust you"

"Why?"

"Because you didn't delete me"

"Uh?"

"I know you know that to continue this game, you need to delete me, and yet you didn't. You continued to talk to me, why?"

"......because I like you and talking to you"

You swear you could see Monika's smile grow exponentially even if it was the same sprite

"That's exactly how I feel, I knew you were special, I love you so much"

"You do?"

"I thought I made it pretty obvious"

"I thought you were programmed to do those things"

"While that is true, you're the only player I actually talked to, aren't you?"

"I guess"

"So do you.....love me too?"

You slightly blushed and thought about it

"I-i think so but I'm still kinda in shock that you're an actual person. I think I need some time to fully take this in"

"That's understandable, I'm still happy that you gave me a chance, I promise you won't regret it, I will find a way to go into your world and finally hug you"

"You're really determined Uh?"

"Of course, I finally found someone who likes me and didn't delete me, I want nothing more than to repay you with my love"

".....t-thank you, that's actually really sweet"

"No problem, my love, I see that it's quite late, I would love to talk to you more but I suggest you go to sleep it's really important for your health"

"Yeah, you're right. Goodnight Monika"

"Goodnight, please remember to close the game before you shut off the computer"

"Yes don't worry"

You did as she said and went to sleep, you thought about everything that happened and smiled slightly, even If she was trapped in a computer, Monika was a real person and she genuinely loved you, and you felt like you loved her too.

[tleeaves]

Folks going "WHAT they made a show about the Fallout franchise?? I've been hearing people say Bethesda messed it up, but I haven't watched it myself, so I'm going to trust the word of other people -- some of which also haven't finished watching it" is driving me insane.

Being a hard core fan of something obviously brings with it a lot of passionate feelings when adaptations come into play. Of course, there's going to be people going "but in 8 episodes of the first ever season they made, they didn't explore Theme C or D, didn't introduce factions E and F and G, and because the source company is notorious for its scams, we and everyone else who's a TRUE fan should hate it".

The Amazon Original series Fallout follows the videogame franchise of the same name. It is a labour of love and you can tell by the attention to detail, the writing, the sets, and YES THE THEMES ARGUE WITH THE WALL. It's clearly fan service. I mean, the very characterisation of Lucy is a deadringer for someone playing a Fallout game for the first time. She embodies the innocent player whose expectations drastically change in a game that breaks your heart over and over again. Of course, she's also the vessel through which we explore a lot of themes, but I'll get to that.

There're some folks arguing that the show retcons the games, and I gotta say... for a website practically built on fandom culture, why are we so violently against the idea of someone basing an adaptation on a franchise that so easily lends itself to new and interesting interpretations? But to be frank, a lot of what AO's Fallout is not that new. We have: naive Vault dweller, sexy traumatised ghoul that people who aren't cowards will thirst over, and pathetic guy from a militaristic faction. We also have: total atomic annihilation, and literally in-world references to the games' lore and worldbuilding constantly (the way I was shaking my sister over seeing Grognark the Barbarian, Sugar Bombs, Cram, Stimpaks, and bags of RadAway was ridiculous). Oh, and the Red Rocket?? Best pal Dogmeat? I'm definitely outing myself as specifically a Fallout 4 player, but that's not the point you should be taking away from this.

The details, the references, and the new characters -- this show is practically SCREAMING "hey look, we did this for the fans, we hope you love it as much as we do". Who cares that the characters are new, they still hold the essence of ones we used to know! And they're still interesting, so goddamn bloody interesting. Their arcs mean so much to the story, and they're told in a genuinely intriguing way. This isn't just any videogame adaptation, this was gold. This sits near Netflix's Arcane: League of Legends level in videogame adaptation. Both series create new plots out of familiar worlds.

Of course, those who've done the work have already figured out AO's Fallout is not a retcon anyway. But even if it was, that shouldn't take away from the fact that this show is actually good. Not even just good, it's great.

Were some references a little shoe-horned in to the themes by the end of the show, such as with "War never changes"? Yes, I thought so. But I love how even with a new plot and characters, they're actually still exploring the same themes and staying true to the games. I've seen folks argue otherwise, but I truly disagree. The way capitalism poisons our world, represented primarily through The American Dream and the atomic age of the 45-50s that promoted the nuclear family dynamic -- it's there. If you think it's glorifying it by leaning so heavily into in the adaptation, I feel like you're not seeing it from the right angle. It's like saying Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck glorifies the American Dream, when both this book and the Fallout franchise are criticisms of it. If you think about it, the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout is a graveyard to the American Dream. This criticism comes from the plots that are built into every Fallout story that I know of. The Vaults are literally constructed to be their own horror story just by their mere existence, what they stand for, what happens in each of them. The whole entire show is about the preservation of the wrong things leading to fucked up worlds and people. The missions of the Vaults are time and again proven to be fruitless, unethical, plain wrong. Lucy is our brainwashed character who believed in the veritable cult she lived in before she found out the truth.

So then consider the Brotherhood of Steel. I really don't think it exists in the story to glorify the military. We see just how much the Brotherhood has brainwashed people like Max (also, anything ominously named something like "the Brotherhood" should raise eyebrows). Personally, I don't like Max, but I am intrigued by his characterisation. I thought the end of his arc was rushed the way he "came good" basically, but [SPOILERS] having him embraced as a knight in the Brotherhood at the end against his will -- finally getting something he always wanted -- and him grimly accepting it from all that we can tell? Him having that destiny forced upon him now that he's swaying? After he defected? If his storyline is meant to be a tragedy, it wouldn't surprise me, because Fallout is rife with tragedies anyway. And a tragedy would also be a criticism of the military. That's what Max's entire arc is. It goes from the microcosm focusing on the cycle of bullying between soldiers to the macro-environment where Max is being forced to continue a cycle of violence against humanity he doesn't want to anymore because a world driven to extremes forces him to choose it to survive (not to mention what a cult and no family would do to his psyche). Let's not forget what the Brotherhood's rules are: humankind is supreme. Mutants, ghouls, synths, and robots are abominations to be hated and destroyed. If you can't draw the parallels to the real world, you need to retake history and literature classes. The Brotherhood is also about preserving the wrong things, like the Vaults (like the Enclave, really). They just came about through different method. The Enclave is capitalism and twisted greed in a world where money barely exists anymore. The Brotherhood is, well, fascism plain and simple.

Are these the only factions in the Fallout franchise? Hell no. But if you're mad about that -- that they're the main ones explored, apart from the NCR -- I think you're missing the point. These themes, these reminders, are highly relevant in the current climate. In fact, I almost think they always will be relevant unless we undergo drastic change. On the surface-level, Fallout seems like the American ideal complete with guns blazing that guys in their basements jerk off to. Under that surface, is a mind-fuck story about almost the entire opposite: it's a deconstruction of American ideals that are held so closely by some, and the way that key notion of freedom gets twisted, and you're shooting a guy in-game because it's more merciful than what the world had in store for him.

I mean, the ghoul's a fucking cowboy from the wild west character he used to play in Hollywood glam and his wife was one of the people who helped blow up America in the name of capitalism and "peace". There are so many layers of this to explore, I'd need several days to try and keep track and go through it all.

The Amazon Prime show is a testament to the Fallout franchise. The message, the themes? They were not messed up or muddled or anything of the sort, in my opinion.

As for Todd Howard, that Bethesda guy, I'm sure there's perfectly valid reasons to hate him. I mean, I've hated people for a lot less valid reasons, and that's valid. We all got our feelings. But the show is about more than just him. My advice is to keep that in mind when you're judging it.

[strangecloud]

I mean no hate or disrespect when I say that Fallout 4 has what is probably the worst story I've seen in a videogame.

I want to preface this with the fact that I enjoy Fallout 4. That game is mad fun. Shooting feels good, exploring is nice, the crafting is very well done. It's a high quality release as far as I'm concerned and I deeply enjoy it. And I don't even mean that it's the worst quality story I've ever seen, but it is a very awkward fit for the game it's in.

The most interesting thing about it is that it's a reversal from Fallout 3. Instead of searching for your dad, you're searching for your son. And there's so much that doesn't really work and is executed poorly on that front.

Remember how Todd made a big deal about how you could name your character something like "Fuckface" and your pet robot would actually refer to you by name? That always seemed weird to me. Not just that it only really works for this one robot, but also that it happens with your player character. I always thought it would work way better if you could name your kid instead, and have that also happen on a slightly larger scale. It's a step in solving one of the main problems in Fallout 4, which is that your family isn't very interesting or fun to care about.

You get to customize both Nate and Nora, and it just feels like a waste to have one of them killed off. If you could meet them and either work alongside or fight against them would have given the relationship so much more dynamism and also reward you for getting invested in your character's family, instead of all of them just being plot devices to deliver a bad twist about your son not being a baby and also the villain.

And you know, in isolation maybe those things don't seem like a problem. The cool thing about games is that you can largely ignore their plots and just engage with them on a mechanical level, but there's so much badgering that the story does to the player in Fallout 4. I've seen worse stories but Fallout 4's is the only one that will not leave me the fuck alone and keeps asking my opinions on things and people and places and factions that I simply don't care about.

When I say it's the worst story it's because it's hard to enjoy and even harder to ignore. It makes me not want to play the game, which no story in any game has ever done before. Which is a shame, because the game is absolutely worth playing but I can't be doing with this writing man.

[frownyalfred]

How much violence do you think Batman should be able to get away with and still remain a hero or vigilante while also not losing his characterization?

There are times where no lives are in immediate danger and he only needs to get information but then he just casually breaks bones, effectively torturing someone. Like in the videogames Telltale Batman or the Arkham games' verse or even the movies and comics where he dishes out way more violence than necessary. That scene where he threatens to crush a guy's head with the Batmobile and actually has the car start rolling over his head, cracking it slightly. Or the interrogation of Eli in the Telltale game where Batman can pretty much brutalize and torture an already frightened criminel if the player so chooses. Or the comics, where he sometimes says he enjoys hurting criminals and sends them to the ER without a second thought.

Also, do his kids know just how brutal Bruce can be on a Tuesday just cause he feels like a criminel deserves it? After a patrol, he'll reprimand them for breaking someone's collarbone or if he thinks they took it too far even though he does that all the time. It's not like the Batkids never do it themselves, but when they do, they're mostly in extremely emotional states and not a cold clinical mindset. One could argue Jason and Cass are exessively violent too but, well, Jason is an anti-hero (or villain) and Cass is still learning how far is too far.

And if the kids didn't know/realise, what would happen if they saw a recording of Batman absolutely dismantling a criminal in a detached sort of way (maybe a rogue maybe not, whatever would be worse ig) and then having to reconcile that that's the man who's like a father to them.

It's a very interesting question, and I suspect you'll get a different answer from everyone you ask.

My take is that it comes down to two things: intention and likelihood. Bruce's line for injury/torture/death sits somewhere between probably won't kill them or cause grievous injury and could cause death or grievous injury.

Throwing a guy off a high-up roof isn't just likely to kill someone, it was likely intended to do so. As we see in Batman Begins, you can throw someone off a (low) roof and not kill them, without the intention of killing them, and without the high likelihood of the act killing them.

Breaking a man's leg for information probably won't kill him, but it could! The break could be done wrong, or heal wrong, and cause a blood clot that killed the man. But was breaking the man's leg intended to kill him? Was it done with full knowledge that the break would likely result in death? Is that something a reasonable individual can even evaluate on their own?

The argument can be made that hitting someone in the head could result in death. So is Bruce risking his no-kill rule on a technicality when he punches people into walls? Does dying from a complicated TBI years later count?

I find the branding example in BVS a fascinating discussion of this point. Bruce doesn't kill the men he brands, but he effectively sets the men up to be killed in prison. Is it the same? Does he intend for the brand to kill the men? Does he have knowledge of the likelihood of death as a result of his brand? Does Lex's meddling actually change any of that when it's revealed later?

The third thing I haven't brought up but that you did is Bruce's enjoyment/active participation in all of this. Does he hurt people because it's effective? Is it ever gratuitous? Is he detached from the suffering he causes, viewing it as a means to an end? Does Gotham play by different rules -- i.e., is torture and grievous bodily injury ever acceptable in Gotham when it wouldn't be in other cities? Is Bruce a man willing to do what it takes at the end of his rope, or is he a man who resorts to violence when there are still other viable options? Somewhere in between?

I do agree that, with the addition of Robins and other family members, the violence likely tones down unless absolutely necessary. Hurting people shouldn't be enjoyable, but it is downright painful for some people (not Bruce) to witness firsthand.

[generic-sonic-fan]

Why the heck E-123 Omega fascinates me so much

Look I'm not going to lie to you the reason I love Omega so much is that his canon writing is actually pretty lazy. They needed a "Heavy" character to pair with Shadow and Rouge so the writers had them stumble into a robot in the basement who's Gamma's half cousin-brother-something.

Hey player, remember that robot who had an arc and turned good in Sonic Adventure? let's just do that but again. don't worry about it don't think about it too hard.

Except the writers got even lazier this time around and his ENTIRE POTENTIAL CHARACTER ARC is summarized in one line by Rouge's dialogue, "You're mad at Eggman for sealing you in this room" (Sonic Heroes, 2003). Gamma's entire character arc, summarized neatly for the player, so they can start the platforming sections as soon as possible. It's videogame writing. It's not supposed to be a literary masterpiece, so it makes sense that they're borrowing on a concept that a fan of the Sonic games would have seen before if they'd payed Sonic Adventure.

Except, in the attempt to be as lazy as possible, they accidentally created a new type of character that hasn't been explored before??

Because Omega is NOT Gamma. Omega couldn't possibly be more different from Gamma! One destroys Eggman robots to bring about peace, the other as an act of war. One is quiet and contemplative, the other loud and brash. One chooses to cease existing, while the other so desperately wants to live. One is gentle and kind, and the other is just so angry.

In a franchise full of themes about the responsibility of creators to not cause harm with or to their creations, it's baffling to me that Omega is just dropped into the narrative and then promptly forgotten about. There's so many implications with Omega that would be fascinating to dig into from a fan perspective!

What made him the way that he is? Why is he so different from Gamma, so furious?

Now that he's out of the basement, how will he learn about the world outside?

How does his perspective of his origin from Eggman color his experiences and beliefs about things?

This guy has never had a friend before. How does he react to that?

How does he, an ex-Eggman robot designed to kill supersonic hedgehogs, interact with Sonic, the person he was likely designed to kill? Moreover, how does Sonic react to him in return?

Does Omega ever get lonely, as the only robot amongst organics?

How does he relate to Shadow, who was also made as a living weapon?

Meanwhile, trying to get him to show vulnerability is like pulling teeth. It takes a herculean effort to get him to show anything other than the front he puts up. Why's he putting up this front? What could get him to let down this front, even if just for a moment?

(for fuck's sake he's a tsundere. This should be at least a popular topic to explore, shouldn't it?)

And look, I understand. The reason that Omega hasn't been explored nearly as much Shadow is because he's been in less games and, when he has been in games, he's written as a one-note comic relief. But. . . so has Knuckles. So has Amy. So has Sonic. So has Rouge. . . the list goes on, yet the fandom lovingly embraces complex fan characterizations for them. But some fans continue to see Omega as a non-character. Which, as I've just explained, is baffling to me, because this guy has so much potential and transformative fan works are a place to explore that potential.

TL;DR: funny gun robot spin in my brain like he's in microwave despite the intentions of the Sonic Heroes writers. hehe. Go vote for Omega in the Team Dark poll.

MLA Citation for Fern:

Sonic Team, "Sonic Heroes". Sega, 3 December 2003, as cited from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6-SWVIr274

@fernsnailz

[nochangeintheplan]

Thank you for saying it— that the yakuza games lately have been more meme-y, I hadn’t been able to put a word to it, but I’d noticed something was off as well and that they haven’t felt the same :/

I don't want to be too much of a hater since I wish to Let People Have fun but lmao. Putting most of my rambling below the cut.

I can't really verbalize it very well myself, but in general, my preference for the wild stuff is more the ridiculousness of the soap opera drama and playing it completely straight. (Even though it's guys on top of a tower tearing their shirts off to pummel each other over their conflicting ideals and symbolic tattoos)

I think post Yakuza 0 they've been increasingly making things goofier to different degrees. I do like silly, and I do like 7- but it's just a different kind of funny/whacky. I was fine enough with it with Ichiban I suppose because he's a different guy, this was a passing-the-torch thing, as well as a clear shift in just how the games work- but I just don't know about it for the Kiryu saga characters. There's a lot of embracing that it's a wild videogame in the more recent installments when the older ones were more trying to resemble yakuza films.

It feels like there's an increased awareness within RGG of their reputation as the crazy-zany studio and its affected some of the charm of the weirdness now that there's an expectation of it. Even the subs seem to reflect this; they always made extra jokes but IW even more so the subs were leaning into comedy even harder than the actual JP language dialogue. Felt like abridged/improv at certain points. I can't pretend like I know what's going on at the studio though, this is just a vibe based on how I've been feelin' for a bit.

TL;DR I like the cinematic over-the-top soap opera energy of the Kiryu Saga and haven't really been into the zany videogame vibes lately. It's clear though that the majority of fans prefer the latter; I hope they have fun w the game genuinely. I hope I can have fun with it too, but for now I'm just :I

[senpai-x-boyfriend]

helloo uhh

Tf do i say

Maybe random facts about characters idk

Actually, not a bad idea, alright then... big CBD characters info dump! Let's start this with...

· • ❝ 〔 Senpai 〕 ❞ • · 

✭ Before the events of Spirit being trapped in the Dating Sim, Senpai always repeated the same school day over and over, that is until the player decides to hop in to play, that's the only time when his school days were different.

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✭ Senpai used to be so confident with his looks and personality, thanks to the default comments people made to him, (these of course were coded dialogues for the NPCs to say to him!)

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✭ When Spirit entered Senpai's body, Senpai started to develop consciousness of the things surrounding him, and this ended up making him doubtful of his world, his friends, and even his own life.

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✭ CBD Senpai's hair was originally identical as the org game Sen's hair, but his hair changed due to the manifestation of Spirit being stuck in his body.

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✭ Sen is capable of seeing beyond the screen of the game, even if the player's TV doesn't have a camera.

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✭ He's the 2cd character in CBD to have the most outfit changes, having a total of 2 new outfits. (His regular school uniform doesn't count sense that's his default outfit from the original game/not design by me)

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✭ As soon as he found out (thanks to Spirit) that his world is just a videogame, he began to break the code of the game and modified to his own desire, and even understood what coding is.

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✭ Even if it doesn't seem like it, he still has anger issues in some ways like the original Sen, but he tries to control them as much as he can. (This will be showcase in a way during the dialogue of the new update!)

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✭ When Senpai was just a fully Ai character, he didn't feel hunger, pain, or need to sleep, but now he feels these from time to time as a side effect of having a human soul stuck with him.

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✭ He knows how to speak various languages thanks to the game giving you the options of changing the dialogue language.

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✭ Senpai was the first one to start developing feelings for Boyfriend, but he just thought these where just feelings of friendship, till he notices how much he wanted to be with Boyfriend not as a friend, but as his partner for how amazing and kind he was with him.

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✭ Sen always flirts with Boyfriend whenever Bf is feeling down or not confident of himself to cheer him up.

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✭ Senpai has in rare occasions flashbacks of what happened to Spirit before being stuck inside him, yet still he doesn't know what those visions are from or from whom.

· • ❝ 〔 Boyfriend 〕 ❞ • · 

✭ Boyfriend was always an "A's" student, but he almost failed his last exam due to a party he attended with other class colleagues to celebrate the end of school and his graduation, but thanks to Pico he managed to pass it sense he help him cheat.

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✭ Despite he's nice and a good person, whenever he needs to get away with something he would act up or try his best to be ignored from the situation, he could have set a house on fire and pretend he's scared or confused about why it happened and get away with it.

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✭ His favorite burgers are "Five guys" he especially loves to deep the fries with the Oreo milkshake they serve.

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✭ Boyfriend met Pico first during the last days of their school year, and latter both together met Girlfriend during a fair that was close to their neighborhood.

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✭ Even tho Boyfriend sees Girlfriend as a cool person and with interesting things surrounding her, he never developed feelings for her, he sees her more of a good friend he can count on whenever he has a struggle that someone he wants to spend their time with as more than friends.

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✭ He enjoys writing music during his free time, he even went to parks to play his music for fun, but sometimes people came up and give him money for his good songs.

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✭ Boyfriend saved Senpais game for his curiosity, sense he found the game when he went to help Girlfriend with a spring cleaning she had to do and found the game, Girlfriend told him to throw it away, but due to where he found it, the facts that the game had "caution" tape around it he got too curious as took it instead.

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✭ When boyfriend managed to get Senpai out of the game with the help of Girlfriend, he was the one who teach Senpai about the real world and how things where different from the game.

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✭ Boyfriend started to develop feelings for Senpai slowly after Sen went out in the rain to take him to the hospital sense Boyfriend had a really bad fever, he thought Senpai was just being a nice friend, but when Senpai went to check him and gave him a hug, he felt something special in the hug and how worried Senpai was for him.

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✭ Boyfriend is the 1st character to have the most outfit changes, having a total of 3. (The date outfit, the Gaming Night outfit, and his regular clothes)

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✭ Boyfriend likes to help senpai reach high stuff Sen cannot reach by climbing onto Senpai's shoulders.

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✭ Boyfriend is pretty aware that his date clothes look a bit childish, he was trying to go for a spring theme but he thinks he failed it, thanks to Senpai telling him they don't look childish and that he loves how pretty he looks for him with the outfit, Boyfriend is now convinced he doesn't look ridiculous at all.

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✭ Boyfriend was the main reason why Senpai and him decided to have children, he always thought of being a dad and having his own daughter or son.

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✭ Whenever Boyfriend's son, Kevin, misbehaves, he grabs any footwear he has and throws it at him, he surprisingly always manages to aim at Kevin's head with no struggle.

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✭ CBD Boyfriend Gaming outfit has a interesting thing about it, the boots he wears with it where stolen by him, he had lots of discount coupons of a gaming store called "Neon Hearts" to buy the shirt, the headphones, and his sleeveless jacket, sadly he didn't had enough discount coupons or money to buy the boots, sense these where 2 pair of boots of the same color, not different, but he wanted one color each, he managed to trick the cashier and ended taking the boots without paying them.

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✭ Senpai and Boyfriend are always saying complements to each other, especially when one of them is sad or doesn't feel confident.

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✭ Both of them enjoy having cuddles sessions, but Senpai is the one that asks for them constantly to Boyfriend.

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✭ CBD Boyfriend is afraid of lighting like the org Bf, but Senpai isn't afraid of it, so whenever there's thunderstorm with lots of lightning he goes and hugs Senpai.

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✭ CBD Boyfriend and CBD Senpai always give smooches to each other, but especially when they see someone who gets mad at them for just minding their business and they get pissed for them being a gay couple.

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✭ Senpai and Boyfriend know how to cook, but Boyfriend is the one who takes the lead when it comes to making dinner for both.

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✭ They both designed Kevin and Seth to have similarities to both of them, sense Kevin and Seth aren't actually humans. (Both being Ai's)

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✭ Boyfriend likes to pull Senpai's tie whenever he wears his school uniform just to kiss him.

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✭ Boyfriend owns a Nintendo Switch, while Senpai has a Nintendo lite, their favorite game to play is Splatoon 2, they don't kill each other if they are in opposite teams during turf wars.

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✭ Boyfriend brought a new TV for Senpai sense the one he had was really old and look "depressing" for Senpai's game.

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✭ They always like sleeping next to each other, so whenever they have to sleep separately for some situation on trips or other circumstance, they have pack up a blanket and their pillows so they sleep on the floor.

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✭ Senpai loves when he hears Boyfriend singing, he describes Boyfriend's voice as an "angel's voice."

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✭ They both have jobs, Senpai works in a coffee shop cleaning, and Boyfriend works as a commission artist.

That's all the facts for the moment about these 2, Pico, Girlfriend, Spirit info will be coming soon! Thanks for reading.