#outer wilds tribute

[kokowray]

peace :)

[nordeva]

Travelers 🌌🚀

Outer Wilds tribute featuring my dear friends daerok_bot and TicoTheCat.

Playing this game with them is now one of my core memories for 2024 💙

[kuwdora]

Saturday Morning Vid Recs - Video Games

@poetikat ! So you like video games. WELL! I come bearing video game recs from around the Internet, deep into old vidshows of yester-vidding fandom-year, and my bookmarks and recs posts. There’s always way more video game vids out there, esp on AO3 - search for your video game fandom and the Fanvids tag and see what comes up in your results.

Some of these vids date back a decade or more and some are very recent. They’re all awesome and so interesting to watch.

Video Game Vids!

America by @beccatoria. Mass Affect: Andromeda. #colonialism

Hard Times by absternr. Portal. I laughed and cried. Gonna make you wonder why you even try.

Riverside by milly. Tomb Raider (2013). I see how everything is torn in the river deep", Lara PoV. Vid for the 2013 Tomb Raider game.

River by milly. Tomb Raider (2018) This is so fucking gorgeous. Stand and deliver. / Made for VividCon Challenge "Full Circle" in 2018, a sequel/parallel to "Riverside". Reverse Dance by @aurumcalendula. Dishonored. A great character vignette! Billie through the years.

Pop Galaxy by AbsoluteDestiny. Super Mario Galaxy. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. I’m really in love with the use of the camera angles from the game, and this pop medley is very much a banger of 2013. It’s so much fun.

Scream and Shout by @rhoboat77. Assassin’s Creed. I’m forever screaming about how awesome this vid is in my head but now I share it with everyone. Forever shouting because rhoboat captured all of the game footage!! To make THIS VID. The skill and talent and sheer fucking perseverance to perform some of these actions in the game specifically for this vid. Everything is permitted.

Pop That Lock by @kuwdora. Final Fantasy VII: Remake. Cloud/everyone. Final Fantasy + Adam Lambert = my groove. You got the key to your release, so pop that lock until you’re lighter than air.

D U S K by niyalune. Outer Wildes. This game is gorgeous and this vid is so fucking beautiful and full of wonder and heart "The universe is, and we are."

We’re Here Because We’re Here by violace. Journey 2012. We're here because we're here. Maybe it's really that simple.

Brother (Last Ride) by @kuwdora. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The wolves of Kaer Morhen. I captured all my own game footage for this vid! A first for me. We face the fire together, brothers 'til the end. Never Seen The Light of Day by violace. Bioshock Infinite. This character study really takes you on Elizabeth's journey! Amazing song choice and what a game. And the truth shall set you free. -- A tribute to Elizabeth.

Birds, Birds, Birds by bironic. Wingspan. Tabletop game play, video game, trailers. Bironic has done it again and created something so incredible and something I haven’t seen before and inspired me and struck everyone full of awe and love. I got birdies, dawg.

9 to 5 by @eruthros. Lego Star Wars. This is so damn cute! It's a tough life for a clone trooper or stormtrooper.

One Foot by @kuwdora. Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. Cal Kestis my beloved. Taking this one step at a time.

Start Wearing Purple by @findmeinthealps Mythic Quest. Not a video game per se but about the people who make them. Poppy Li and Iann Grimm. Hot messes who end up making some great and terrible choices along the way. All your sanity and wits, they will all vanish, I promise.

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry by @marahsarie. Outer Wildes. This vid!! is so cute!! and wonderful!! All my friends and all the loose ends and this love of mine, 'cause I'm running out of time.

Anything For Love (Including That) by caramarie Mass Effect/Dragon Age. Thanks for the terrible romantic choices, Bioware.

For more video game vids:

Vidding community on dreamwidth - see the games tag: dishonored, carmen san diego,resident evil and more.

Vividcon Database: 2013 Video Games Vidshow

Spring Equinox 2013 theme: Game On! which includes video games (and sports game themes)

Vidding Discord: ask for recs from more vidders!

Previous Saturday Morning Vid Recs:

Women!

Space and Robots

Animals

Follow the tags to keep up with recs this summer:

#saturday morning vid recs

#kuwdora vid recs

#kuwdora recs

A helpful guide I wrote:

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[theficpusher]

Good boy by 28sunflowers | E | 2768 Harry is startled out of his thoughts by the needle going over one of his ribs. Thankfully, he catches himself and manages to stay still, but accidentally lets out a whimper at the unexpected stronger burn. He exhales slowly when Louis takes the gun off his skin, trying to remain calm. “Good boy,” Louis tells him automatically, giving him a pat to the hip.

Soft Wings by kingsofeverything | G | 4375 Harry is a Dolly Parton fan who wants to get a tattoo in tribute to her. Louis is the tattoo artist.

take your whole life then you put a line through it by sunflower_lwt | M | 5332 an AU with trans harry, an all-knowing cousin, and tattoo artist louis.

lemongrass and sleep by moonshinelouis | E | 5370 Louis is a tattoo artist and Harry wants a rose tattoo.

I See Your Colours and I'm Dying of Thirst by taking_sweet_time | nr | 6244 Harry asks Louis for a tattoo, but forgets to mention that he's got a little bit of a... problem when it comes getting inked. Shenanigans ensue. Or, a very dumb fic about Harry's fucking whale (maybe) tattoo.

Makes Me Feel Alive by hazzahtomlinson | E | 8372 Louis hated when people came in to get tattooed and couldn’t sit still— bunch of fucking squares is what they were. If only that had been the issue for his newest client.

A Simple Twisted Fate by Cyantific | E | 18125 Global rock star Harry Styles has some time to kill between tour dates and stumbles into a Doncaster tattoo shop with a desire for some new ink. He has a few other desires as well, but those he must keep to himself. Louis Tomlinson, owner of Twisted Fate Tattoos, has seen enough of the tabloids and thinks he knows everything there is to know about this world-famous rock star, and he’s not impressed. Harry may be one of the world's biggest stars known for a lavish lifestyle, crazy parties and entourages of women wherever he goes, but he’s more than just what his image and wild reputation suggests. Things take an interesting turn when Louis finds out he’s been helping satisfy Harry’s voracious pain kink. Bet he'd love to know that not only is Louis a gifted tattoo artist, but an experienced Dom as well. Perhaps they both have something to learn from each other, if only Louis would give Harry a chance. Maybe their paths crossing was more than just a twist of fate, but the universe’s plan all along.

Necessity is the mother of invention by words_of_my_own | E | 87502 Louis is the owner of a couple of tattoo studios that are not for tattooing purposes only. Harry works as a policeofficer and infiltrator, currently on a case that really only should be straight forward. What happens when things aren't what they seem, morals come into play, and when you fall in love with the one person you just shouldn't?

no hand on the reign by tempolarriefics | E | 137051 Then, he sees it. His eyes lock on the tattoo and he sucks in a sharp breath, unable to look away. His brain screeches to a halt, and not just because of the sight that is a half-naked Harry. There, on Harry’s outer arm, is an intricate tattoo of a large ship. A large ship which perfectly complements the compass tattoo hidden on Louis’ own forearm. “It’s that one.” Louis breathes, reaching out a shaky finger to point to the ship on Harry’s left outer arm. “You’re sure?” Harry asks. Louis nods. He’s never been more sure of anything in his life. He has found his soulmate. Or, a twist on a soulmate au where louis is a newly independent tattoo artist and harry just wants his soulmate tattoo removed. Of course, they're soulmates.

[evalka]

Come Around, my tribute to Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye

emotional stuff under the cut

A few years ago, I spoiled this game front-to-back for myself within a matter of hours. As much as I want to regret that now, I wouldn't have it any other way.

That experience taught me that missing out on things is okay, that your experiences are just as meaningful even if they're not what you're told is proper.

For the barely-functioning recently-out trans girl I was, this was exactly what I needed to learn and, honestly, given where I was, I think that saved my life.

Now, this game lives in my mind every day. Its community has become my friends and one or two even my partners. The philosophies woven into the narrative are woven too into my life and I'm finally, properly, living.

Outer Wilds, as funny as it is to say, I don't think I could ever forget you.

[mapleverser]

NEW SITE UPDATE!! 5 PART MINISERIES :333

it’s a lil tribute to outer wilds that takes place entirely in mapleverse. ideally it works out and makes sense if you’ve never played outer wilds. it took 2 months to write this 😭

[samisha99]

Outer Wilds Main Menu in A Hat in Time.

Very rough set up but I wanna make something as a tribute to a game that I've fallen in love with.

If you haven't played it yet, I highly recommend it! ❤

[blackjackkent]

question brought up by listening to Breaking Benjamin and realizing i haven't added any new songs to my library in, uh.... a While. what are your favorite songs by them?

also bc i'm obsessed with these songs, i highly recommend Godhunter by The Aviators and Beautiful Is Boring by BONES UK. Godhunter gives me big DnD campaign vibes and Beautiful Is Boring is heavily tied to Bloodborne for me bc of a fantastic amv someone did on here. ALSO speaking of video games i'm obsessed with. Outer Wilds. 1, listen to Travelers from the ost (absolutely gorgeous song imo) and then 2, listen to A Terrible Fate from the ost. it's phenomenal in the complete opposite direction. oh god and also ABZÛ, that soundtrack is gorgeous, it's by Austin Wintory who also did Journey

okay i'm gonna go now before i start recommending literally all the osts i listen to lmao

also pls give Alonzo scritches for me

Ooooooooooh! Thanks for the recommendations! Godhunter in particular really slaps! I love hard-driving songs that also focus heavily on melody (one of the things that appeals to me with Breaking Benjamin). I'll definitely check out those two OSTs also; I love video game soundtracks as a work background. :D

My personal favorite video game OST is the Hollow Knight soundtrack, which IMO basically doesn't miss. (Though particularly shoutout to the theme for my boy the Dung Defender.) I'm also a big fan of the Guild Wars 2 raid soundtrack, particularly the theme for the Twin Largos.

To answer your original question, though - I love a lot of BB's songs (they form a very high percentage of my shuffle playlist), but these ones are probably my top favorites:

Failure

Anthem of the Angels

Dance With the Devil

Dear Agony

Into the Nothing

Unknown Soldier

Wish I May

Until the End

Blow Me Away

Forget It

Away

Believe

Also, shameless self-promotion since you mentioned liking AMVs - I'm still very proud of this set of AMVs I did quite a long time ago (a decade ago, oh God) during the depth of my Mass Effect obsession, using some of my other favorite Breaking Benjamin songs:

Mass Effect 2 ("I Will Not Bow")

Mass Effect 3 ("Breathe")

Citadel DLC ("Can't Hold Us") - Pentatonix, not Breaking Benjamin, but I also love how this one turned out. XD

Omega Tribute ("Breakdown")

Mass Effect 1 ("Had Enough")

One of these days I wanna do some BG3 vids in this style but who knows if I'll ever have the time, lol.

[unhonestlymirror]

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I am begging you, please stop using Himaruya's creation as "canon". We have history for this.

The reason why Ukrainians and Belaruthians usually don't say anything is because we are really damn tired of explaining the most obvious to us things over and over. Unfortunately, if we don't do that, there will be more and more people who genuinely believe in things like on this screen.

"Muscovy, on the other hand, grew out of the share of Yuri Dolgorukiy - "Suzdal Valley", or the Volodymyr-Suzdal Principality , located in the basin of the Oka River , the upper reaches of the Volga and its tributaries - Sheksna and Kostroma . The main cities of the Suzdal Forest were Suzdal , Rostov , and Vladimir . The earliest inhabitants of this region were the Finno-Ugric tribes, some of which were later conquered by the boyars of Dolgorukiy Long-armed"

"The ancient history of the Scandinavians often mentions two Finnish countries, free and independent: Kyrialandia, which stretched from the Gulf of Finland to the White Sea and included modern M. Karamzin Olonetska and part of the Arkhangelsk province, and Biarmia, which covered the space from the Northern Dvina and the White Sea to the Pechora River".

"That Moscow is a Finnish word and that the future capital of Great Russia was, using colonization terms, a “fortified trading post” in the Finnish country, everyone knows this, as well as the fact that the surroundings of Moscow were extremely densely populated even in prehistoric times, so depict the emergence of this city how the settlement by "cultural Slavs" of a completely wild place is possible only by ignoring everyone, again, well-known archaeological data. - Pokrovskiy M.N. "The emergence of the Muscovite state and the "Great Russian nationality"— historical science and class struggle. Historiographic essays, critical articles, and notes." Edition 1. [archived on 11 December 2019 at the wayback machine]/ Pokrovsky M. N.— M.—L.: Sotsekgiz, 1933— P. 267—284.

It's a russian source that they most likely used for exusing the attempt to occupy Finland in 1939-1940 . Finland has nothing to do with russia.

"Ukrainian historian N. D. Polonska-Vasylenko claimed that "In the territory remote from the centre of the state of Ukrainians - Kyivan Rus' - on the basis of not only a non-Ukrainian, but even a non-Slavic people in the 12th century - the foundations of the state organization were laid, which slowly began to assume not only a leading role in the history of Ukraine, but also to claim its historical heritage and even the name Rus, although it had no rights to that heritage or to the name Russia" . This is what the Russian historian Vasyl Klyuchevskiy wrote about the ancestors of the Russians (so-called "Great Russians"): "The first separate principalities into which, starting from the 12th century, Kyivan Rus was divided, were also not ethnically homogeneous. In the northeast of Russia, as a result of the subjugation of the Finnish tribes, a new ethnic group was formed, which in the 19th century was called the Great Russians"

"During the 11th and 14th centuries, a huge state populated by numerous non-Slavic ethnic groups arose in the northwest around the territory of the Novgorod lands. The inner circle of Finno-speaking tribes in the north — Karels, Votyaks, Izhorts (Ingras) and Veps — was governed directly from Novgorod, the outer circle was subject to weak indirect tribute authority. Finno-speaking Lapps in the Far North and further in the northeast also Finno-speaking Zyryans and Permians, Ugromov Ostyaks and Voguls, as well as Samoyeds belonged here."

"The emergence of Muscovy in the second half of the 13th century was facilitated by Mengu-Timur, Feodora Sartakivna, and Peter Ordynskyi. The 16-year-old son of Alexander Nevsky became the first prince of Moscow." - Alexander Nevsky, just another occupier who wasn't loved by people of Novgorod at all and became "Saint" in russia XV century, when a great historiographical myth about this prince began to take shape.

Prince Alexander really succeeded in intrigues against his own brothers and neighbouring princes. "Andriy Yaroslavovych (brother of Alexander. - V.B.), becoming the Prince of Volodymyr (Grand Duke. - V.B.), concluded an alliance with the strong prince of Southern Rus (Kyivan Rus; with such tricks they try to convince us that there was another Rus - V.B.) Danylo Romanovych Halytsky, marrying his daughter, and trying to conduct politics independent of the Golden Horde. But in 1252, Batyi organized military actions against Andriy and Danylo. Against the Galician prince, Batyi sent an army of Kuremsa, which did not succeed, and against Andrii - an army under the command of Nevryuy, which ravaged the outskirts of Pereyaslavl. In the same year, even before Nevryu's campaign (pay special attention to this fact! - V.B.), Alexander went to Batyi, received a label for the Volodymyr Grand Duchy, and after returning settled in Volodymyr. From 1252 until his death in 1263, Alexander (Nevsky. - V.B.) was the Grand Duke of Volodymyr." / "Batkivshchyna" magazine #11, 1993, p. 29./

"...it was Alexander's collaborationism towards the Mongols, his betrayal of the brothers Andriy and Yaroslav in 1252, that caused the Golden Horde to establish a yoke in Rus." / "Batkivshchyna" magazine No. 11, 1993, p. 30./

"The population of the Moscow principality grew rapidly due to the flow of colonizers: the southern, from the lands of Vyatichi and the Kyiv region, and the western, from the Polatsk, Novgorod, and Smalensk lands, as well as immigrants from Western Tartary. The incoming population mixed with the Finnish tribes - Meri and Muroma - who had long lived in these lands." Alberto Campenze, in a letter to Pope Clement VII around 1523-1534, wrote about the Moscow principality (Moscovia) that it was inhabited by various peoples: Yugras, Karelians, Pechorans, Vogulychis, Cheremis

In 1493, Ivan III independently added to his grand ducal domain a prefix - "all of Rus," which was not found in the Moscow princes in older documents and was not recognized by other monarchs.

"In all this [built by Ivan III] - in church and secular buildings, in the names and dedications of churches, in inscriptions or chronicles about the construction - there is almost no hint or even allusion of Kyiv's heritage. The temples, with some details of the Italian Renaissance, are generally modelled after Russian Upper Volga cities such as Vladimir and Suzdal, but not Kyiv. There is neither the Tithe Church, nor Borysoglibska, nor even St. Sophia (as in Novgorod and Polatsk) - despite the fact that Ivan's second wife, who obviously put a lot of effort into creating a new image of the capital, was named Sophia (Zoya). As for the gates of the Moscow Kremlin, not only were none of them named after the famous Kyiv gates (especially the Golden Gate), but the inscription on the main one was not written in Cyrillic, but in Latin! A hundred years later, Boris Godunov, in accordance with his grandiose plan to renew the capital, partially rebuilt the Kremlin and added a bell tower, and again, the same striking absence of Kyiv reminiscences. These people have never even thought about Kyiv." - Edward Keenan. Russian historical myths [Archived August 9, 2019 at the Wayback Machine]. Kyiv: "Krytyka", 2001.— 284 p.— P. 8-9

"The rise of Muscovy began under the vassalage of Ivan III, who conquered, either by force or by agreements, the lands surrounding the Muscovite principality: the largest trade center, Veliky Novgorod, was taken thanks to a crusade organized in alliance with the Tatars, the main slogan of which was: "force Novgorodians to appoint archbishops in Moscow" (the Novgorodians sent ambassadors to the canonical Metropolitan of Kyiv to consecrate an archbishop for them), as well as the principalities of Tver, Rostov, Yaroslavl and Ryazan."

"His policy was continued by his son Vasyl III (1505-1533) and grandson Ivan IV the Terrible (1533-1584), and later by representatives of the Godunov dynasty (descendants of the Chetov princes of the Golden Horde)."

British historian Norman Davis in his own work "Europe. History" describes the process of the appearance of the ethnonym "Russia" in Muscovy:

Muscovite princes rose from darkness to shining heights within two centuries after the Mongol invasion.

First, by combining conquest and bribery, they brought under their control numerous principalities of the Rurikovichs around the Volodymyr-Suzdal land. In 1364, they appropriated the hereditary title of Grand Dukes of Volodymyr.

Secondly, enjoying the favor of the khan of the Golden Horde, the Moscow princes received a label that gave them the right to be the main collector of tribute for the Tatars, they were responsible for the payments and debts of the rest of the princes. Ivan I (ruled 1325-1340), known as Kalita, spent most of his reign not in Moscow, but on the way to Sarai.

Third, by generously endowing the Orthodox Church, the Moscow princes added an aura of piety to their political power. In 1300, the Metropolitan of Kyiv moved his seat (residence) from Kyiv to Volodymyr nad Klyazma, and in 1308 to Moscow. Monasteries founded in forest forests were new centers of trade and territorial expansion.

Muscovites gained strength but were still vassals [of the Golden Horde]. It was at that time that Muscovites began to call their state by the Greek word "Russia," which meant "Rus," and called themselves Russians. These Muscovites never owned Kyiv, but the lack of grounds did not prevent them from considering Moscow the only legal heir to Kyiv lands. It was their speech that became the basis of the modern Russian language.

"Another strange and still unnoticed manifestation of the interruption of tradition or historical amnesia can be seen from the names that the Moscow nobility gave to their children. It is worth talking about the importance of this act for any culture, its symbolic meaning, cultural conditioning, and subjection to fashion. Historical sources from the time of Ivan the Terrible have preserved the names of thousands of men from the upper class. In terms of uniformity, they did not differ from names in other societies. The ten most common names covered 70% of the people, and the rest were rare. The most popular were the names of the rulers of the Moscow dynasty — Ivan (20%) and Vasiliy (10%). Nothing unexpected. What is really surprising if you adhere to traditional ideas about this culture is the almost complete absence of specifically Kyivan names. Among the almost three thousand names in the digit books of Ivan's time, there are no Igors, Svyatoslavs, Mstislavs, less than 1% of the Volodymyr and only three of Gleb. The Moscow courtier of Ivan's time would rather be called Temir or Bulgak than Volodymyr, Gleb or Vsevolod". - Edward Keenan. Russian historical myths. Kyiv: "Krytyka", 2001. — 284 p. — p. 9

The very fact that Russia, having received its name no earlier than the 18th century, claimed the historical heritage of Russia, created seven hundred years earlier, gave Karl Marx the reason to assert in his work "Exposure of the Diplomatic History of the 18th Century":

«The bloody mire of Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is but a metamorphosis of Muscovy».

At the same time, the names "Russia" and "Russian" of Greek origin "literate people began to introduce into the book language" from the 16th century. - Historical grammar of the Russian language, compiled by Ө. Буслаевымъ. Fifth edition. Etymology.— M., 1881.— P. 5.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 09/10/2023

skrillex tribute 2023

Season 7 Featured on: siivagunner's highest quality rips: volume

Ripped by UUN4

Look, I'll say it a thousand times - I am the LAST person you should go to in terms of actually comprehending and understanding music history and current trends. Most of what I know about what's considered good music and bad music comes from osmosis, and most of *that* comes from SiIvaGunner! But one thing I've known ever since the good ol' days of 2016ish YouTube, and the age of Montage Parodies, is that dubstep is fucking hilarious.

And I don't say that to belittle or mock the genre - like a lot of SiIva's backlog, dubstep music to be has the perfect blend of being inherently funny whilst also being really enjoyable to listen to. SiIva has been poking fun of dubstep music, particularly Skrillex music like Bangarang, since early on in Season 1, but there's been so many instances over the channel's life actually showing how to utilize the music for actual bangers. skrillex tribute 2023, too, uses Bangarang as its source, and is practically a ground-up instrument swap of the original Plant Kingdom (Act 1) theme to great effect. The tropical sound of Sonic Rush Adventure's soundtrack may at first seem like an odd choice for getting the dubstep treatment, but Plant Kingdom in particular fits the choice so perfectly - its a track that's entirely built on a repeating ukulele riff, which the Bangarang intro is a shockingly good as a substitute for. That single choice kind of lets the rest of the rip just run wild - so many Bangarang elements and samples are sprinkled throughout the rip, with only hints of the original track remaining, but it all melds together as so unmistakably "skrillex" thanks purely to that repeating riff.

Its a bizarre rip and a recent favorite, as I only recently listened through the album it features on. It simultaneously feels completely at odds with what the original track wants to do, yet fits the original song's energy and overall progression perfectly - it fits and doesn't fit at the same time. As one wise commenter says:

"My inner ear hates this, but my outer ear loves this. The dub-step-duality of Skrill."

[dunebrainrotmtg]

MTG x Dune Crossover

View the entire deck on Archidekt! [link]

Main Deck

Anointed Procession: Updated Art (no name change)

Arcane Signet: Atreides Ducal Signet

Baru, Wurmspeaker: Paul Muad'dib Usul, Wormrider

Canyon Jerboa: Muad'dib, Desert Mouse

Courser of Kruphix: Spice Harvester

Desert Nomads: Fremen

Desert of the Fervent: Updated Art (no name change)

Desert of the Indomitable: Updated Art (no name change)

Desert of the True: Updated Art (no name change)

Elvish Piper: Gurney Halleck, Balliset Warrior

Emeria Angel: Sietch Tabr Sayyadina

Enlightened Tutor: Bene Gesserit

Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds: Paul Muad'dib Atreides

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand: Stilgar, Naib of Seitch Tabr

Idol of Oblivion: Updated Art of Salusan Bull Head (no name change)

Impact Tremors: Fremen Thumper

Jetmir, Nexus of Revels: Paul, Lisan al Gaib

Lifegift: Spice Melange

Lotus Cobra: Lotus Nahya

Maja, Bretagard Protector: Duncan Idaho

Map the Frontier: Cultivating Desert Power

Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization: Paul, Kwisatz Haderach

Parallel Lives: Updated Art (no name change)

Queen Allenal of Ruadach: Lady Jessica, Mother of Paul

Radha, Heart of Keld: Chani Sihaya Kynes

Rampaging Baloths: Rampaging Salusan Bulls

Retreat to Emeria: Retreat to Seitch Tabr

Soul Warden: Sihaya, Desert Spring Tears

Tireless Provisioner: Shadout Mapes

Tireless Tracker: Thuwir Hawat

Tribute to the World Tree: Tribute to the Missionaria Protectiva

Tunneling Geopede: Wormsign

Warleader's Call: Voice from the Outer World

Worldspine Wurm: Shai-Hulud, Grandfather of the Desert

Maybeboard

Azusa's Many Journeys: Paul's Many Journeys

Blackblade Reforged: Crysknife, Tooth of Shai-Hulud

King Darien XLVIII: Duke Leto Atredies, Father of Paul

Mother of Runes: Lady Jessica, Reverend Mother

Retreat to Kazandu: Retreat to Cave of Birds

Sandblast: Spice Blow

Trailblazer's Boots: Stillsuit Boots

Wall of Omens: Shield Wall of Arrakeen

Zendikar's Roil: Desert Djinn

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

I have this WIP setting about mechas which I am not being hyperfixated about but I do kinda like. It is unnamed for now but here's the introduction:

Alright so some work on the Mecha Project

The entire story is happening on an Earth-like planet. Turns out, biology is pretty rigid and Earth ain't such a unique snowflake as we thought.

Into the faaar g'damn future we send a stasis ship there, and arrive to a peaceful, unpopulated by sentient life planet. Name's pending but I think of something like New [insert name].

The planet is ruled by the United Sol Alliance (USA, on purpose) and is now beginning to build an eco-friendly high-tech civilization. Generations have passed but, due to a part of the huge information tanks being damaged, a part of Earth history and a lot of physics/inventions catalogues are lost, thus rendering humans on the new planet a bit uneducated on some matters.

The three continents of the planet are populated and everything is pretty much utopian. Clean air, alien life is quite similar to Earth's (four legs, fur, skin, general biology), trees also use chlorophyll but are toxic due to other not so pleasant chemicals, though it ain't much of a problem.

Then the Invasion began.

From outer space, unpredicted, came hard to spot ships with little to no electronics or energetic signature. Crashing on the surface, they started letting out the Kaiju.

These creatures are called just that - Kaiju - in tribute to the old Earth fiction. The thing though is that they aren't natural creatures; Engineered by some other species, they are living war machines meant to consume genetics of other species and use them for creation of new and newer lifeforms. This Kaiju Horde instantly becomes a threat to the human colony.

The first months of the invasion things were only heating up. Some human cities were destroyed, population slain. In return, alien motherships were targeted by hardcore artillery. But while humans were great in the distanced combat, easily sniping down huge beasts with absolutely wild railgun tech, they were helpless up close.

The kaiju could easily scale the distance between them and the human forces, beginning bloodshed in close quarters combat. Huge, muscular beasts perfected to destroy any creature or tech, they succeeded in putting down entire platoons of the USA (actually I might rethink that name).

Then there came a solution, seemingly out of nowhere. During one of the fights, a construction worker beat the beast to pulp using a non-battle mech meant for moving weights. Instantly labeled hero, the dude inspired the human forces to start the creation of war mechs.

So the arming race began. The mechs were slow as shit when on manual control, so they had to invest into neural linking. The PHIL link (Personal Helmet Infolink) was created and was truly still a complete mess. It was sensitive to any thought of the user, may you think of lemons or steamed hams, the helmet would try to interpret commands even when it doesn't have to and had bad lag which proved lethal.

Next went the RING, AMP-1 and AMP-2 links. Those were proven superior to both PHIL and manual.

The mech tech itself improved over the years. Beginning with bulky hardbodies, it evolved into sleek and agile softbodies which were highly capable of close quarter combat. Sooner or later, the profession of a mech pilot became very useful and high-paying.

For now, the human colonies on the three continents are split, but the times are a bit more easy on the front. The kaiju motherships (which act as factories) are far in the land, in the sectors beyond reach, and fortifications are built to hold them back.

That's attabout it. Here's a repost of the link and mech types:

MECH TYPES Softbody S Armored Softbody AS Clam C Hardbody H Semisoftbody SS

LINK TYPES RING (Redirecting Implanted Neural Gate) AMP-1 (Amputee Mech Personel Type 1) AMP-2 (Amputee Mech Personel Type 2) PHIL (Personal Helmet Infolink) Manual

An interesting parameter in mechs is the (neural) feedback.

It is the proprioception of the driver with the mech, the feeling of the mech's body and where it's bodyparts are. Manual mechs have no proprioception, so do the PHIL ones on the older models (new models at least provide a projection of the mech's pose for the driver to reference from).

RING has the best feedback sensitivity meaning the driver with a RING link make best DES and SPD (speed) builds. AMP-1 and AMP-2 are both roughly equal in feedback sensitivity, with AMP-2 being bit better due  to larger portions of the driver's limbs being "phantom", thus linked with the mech. PHIL is completely dogshit in providing feedback as mentioned before, and manual is equal to sitting in a tank and wondering what was that noise that just hit the left side of the hull. Yet feedback isn't tied to the link type but the mech type.

A hardbody mech has little to no feedback. It does count the angles under which the joints are bent and all that but those sensors can be easily broken, giving wrong info or none at all.

A softbody mech is best in providing feedback. Literally having a neural mesh that has sensitivity and allows the drivers to feel "touch", it also provides best proprioception and agility.

Other mech types are varying in feedback providing.

[notasingleclue20]

TF2に狂い、SFMをすげえ見た

前置き

これは好きなSFMおよびファン制作アニメーションリストです。TF2のコミュニティの愛、深い。

・SFM？ Source FilmmakerというValveが公開してる映像作成ソフト（？）の略。Youtubeとかで[SFM]と入っているのは、このソフトを使って作られたファンアニメーションの総称らしい。 TF2、Valve作品以外でも3Dモデルが存在するゲームのキャラクターをアニメーションする際に使っている人は多い。エッチなのも多いらしい。 とても使いづらいと聞くけど、それでもものすごい数の作品がある。

・TF2って… Team Fortress 2というFree to Playな所謂ヒーローシューターゲーム。Steamでなんと無料です。宣伝。 古いゲームでもうあんまり更新されてないけど未だにアクティブプレーヤー人数は多く、コミュニティが活気。

Meet the Team

公式の全9クラス（＋サンドヴィッチ）の紹介動画のプレイリスト、クオリティ高く、ともかく印象に残る。 正直ゲームを知らなくても何度か見た記憶があり、ともかく知名度がすごいし、無意味にScoutのセリフを覚えてしまう。 全部見たらExpiration Date（賞味期限切れ/時間切れ）を見るとみんなに愛着が益々湧く。そしてこれにはなんと日本語字幕がある…。

Emesis Blue

切って離せない、というかこの作品を見てTF2をはじめた。ファン制作のホラーSFM映画。 Twitterで延々と呟いているのですが、元々死生観の感じられる作品がすごく好きで、あんなにカオスで命の軽い世界観の作品を基に、その命の軽さ・リスポンというゲームメカニック、Mann兄弟の（言っちゃえば）自分勝手な理由で戦争を続ける為にMercたちを雇用しているという設定を逆手にとって、ここまでホラーとして秀逸な切り口を入れられているのが本当にすごいし、TF2を知らない自分がのめりこんでしまったくらい映像としてよくできてました。 ここからloreを学んだ後に見直してデモソルの関係性とか、パイロに焼かれるスパイとか、殺し合う赤ヘビメディとかに大きな感情を抱いたという結果です

Lil' Guardian Pyro

Emesis Blue見た後ゲームをインストールしてbot相手にトレーニングしてるときに見て、は～カワイイんだけど…ってなった。ともかくカワイイし、Pyro/Engieの関係性がやっぱとても良い。みんなちっちゃいね。

Team Fortress Guilty Gear OP Parody

（やったことも見たこともないのだけど）ｷﾞﾙﾃｨｷﾞｱのOPパロらしく、ムチャクチャかっこよくてループして見ていた。War!のコミック読んでデモ…ソル…ってなってるときに見たので二人のショットが多くて泣いてしまいそうでした。SpyがScoutが死んでピエタ構図になっているコミックのコマがすごく好きなので、そこが入っていて嬉しい。Jarateのとこで笑っちゃうしバトルエンジのガンスリンガーが映るところがすげえ好きです。

Tribute

またリスポンメカニックをテーマに、友達がいなくなってしまったMercの悲しみが丁寧に静かに描かれててジワ…ときました。展開と見せ方が上手。

TF2: Revenge

テーマ的にはTributeに近く、友達がいなくなっちゃったMercの悲しみ…からの復讐を描くSFM。このSFMのパイロの描かれ方がともかく好きで、全て燃やした後になんにも残らない虚しさが切ない

Demoman's Dilemma 

この方（The Wingletさん）のSFMは全部クオリティが高いのだけれど、これは私欲で入れてます。デモマンがマジで呂律ゼロになるのがいつ聞いても笑えるので好きです。

Hiking Trip [SFM]

こちらもWingletさんの作品。短いほのぼの（？）ハイキングするよ♪という中でハプニングが起きて、Mercy Killing（「安らかに逝かせてやろう…」）をするかしないかみたいな話なんですが、それに加えてOuter Wildsの音楽が流れるのが好きです。

Story of a Sentry

EngieとSentry Gunのお話。二人が親子みたいなのが素直に可愛い。EngieをやってSentryカンカンやってると、このSFMのエンジの気持ちはすごくよく分かる。俺のセントリーに手を出さんでくれ。

Lil’ Pootis - Season 1 [Episodes 1-7]

こちらはSFMではなく手描きアニメーションなのですが、ともかくみんなカワイイし愛を感じる…。 Heavyの”Put this dispenser here!”（「ディスペンサーここに置いてくれ！」）というセリフが英語だとPootisに聞こえるのでmeme化しているのが、Heavyの鳥頭Cosmeticをベースに鳥のキャラクターにした…アニメーション……？（説明が難しい） Pootis以外にもSpy Crub、MedicのArchimedesなども出てきていて、ワイヤワイヤしていてほっこりする。 手描きアニメーションだとMeet the Amazing Teamシリーズも好き。

～～～～～～～～～～～～～～

Tumblrだと10個までしかビデオを貼れませんでした。以下も大好きです。

・End of the Line すごく有名所…？そうなのだけれど、クオリティが高く、最初から最後まで画がとてもキレイ。それぞれのMercたちの描かれ方も丁寧で、1映像作品として起承転結していてキレイに終わる。ヘビメディがかっこよい。

・Mann Swap HeavyとScoutが入れ替わっちゃった☆？！みたいな短いストーリーで起承転結がキレイで、モデルはとくに変更ないのに表情と動きでそれぞれのキャラクターが入れ替わってることを描くアニメーション能力がすごい…

・Pootis Engage //EXTREME 海外memeだらけで勢いがすごい、中々テンションが高くて置いてかれそうになる、けど好きです。使われてるのはSFMではなくて別のソフトなのかな…。

・Keep Going, Buddy [SFM] なんだかうまくいかない…なScoutの描かれ方にすごい親近感。お父さんみたいなEngieも大好きで、最後の終わり方もすごく良かったです。

・Creation of Mimi-Sentry [SFM] Engieのセントリーガンを女の子に擬人化したMimi-SentryとEngieのお話。Mimi自体は賛否両論だったらしいけど、エンジとミミが親子的な描かれ方がしているのは個人的にすごくすき。アクションシーンもかっこよい。

・Jolly Rancher こちらはGMod（SFMではない）アニメーションなのだけれど、この方の作品はなんか好きで見ちゃうしGMod特有の謎の……フィーバードリーム的な…癖になる感じというか……混沌とした安寧……

・Buff Fortress 2 [SFM] サムネからしてアレなんですけど大好きなので何回もみてます

[catmillers]

127th HUNGER GAMES – Victor – Catarina Miller

"Stay the fuck back," Cat panted out, she was run ragged, her body tired from the running – she didn’t have much left  in her. The boy from four and the girl from two kept up their approach. They were the final three left and they wanted to take out the last pathetic outer district obstacle. She didn’t have any weapons, the best thing in her hand was a brick she’d salvaged from a small construction site in the town. “I fuckin’ mean it,” Cat swore, eyes wild. She thought about Eugene; about home what was her home without him? If she made it out of any of this, would anyone back home really have missed her? Would they look at her as a killer. She wasn’t a killer. She hadn’t hurt anyone. Cat was a runner her entire life – she ran from Eugene, tried to run from the games, she would’ve run from herself if it had been possible. 

“Aw, she means it,” The girl from two cooed out, cocking her head to the side, twirling a knife between 

her fingers.   

“Give her a chance, c’mon it’ll be funny,” The boy said with a sneer, “I’ll give you a chance, throw it,” He held his arms out to his side, puffing his chest out to Cat.  Like an idiot, Cat threw the brick, missing the career

by a foot, the brick cracking just in front of him.

 “Oh fuck,” She exclaimed and then took off, the pair she hadn’t bothered to learn the names of in hot pursuit. She turned down the street, her body aching with pain as she sprinted.

“Get back here, bitch!” The boy shouted, gaining on 

Cat, “We’ll make it quick, c’mon, just give up!”

“Fuck off!” Cat shouted, chancing a glance over her shoulder. Cat stumbled, falling onto her face, tripping over a crack in  the sidewalk. Quickly, she tried to pull herself up to her feet only to

be snatched up by her hair. 

The boy laughed, raising his sword above his head and then suddenly, a tear formed in the world around them –  bright green lines of ones and zeroes warped between the two Tributes forcing them apart. Cat scrambled backward as she fell on her ass, her body thrummed, buzzing as if she’d been stung or shocked by Eugene’s shitty computer back in Six. She looked up watching the rift between the careers and herself form bigger and bigger. It was a risk, but they were hunting her. She ran into the lines of coding, weaving beteween them like it was brush from a forest at home. Cat’s chest rose and fell with effort,her breathing loud and ragged as she looked around the world with wild eyes. This was a code. She knew this, Cat’s hands busied themselves as she came to stop, moving the numbers around as fast as she could think.With a final movement, a door popped open, a bright white light her guiding beacon. She moved for the door.

Through the door, Cat’s eyes popped open, her body lurching forward. Something was on her head, goggles or a mask, and she tore it away, ignoring the searing pain that followed afterward. She was in a small room, tiled floor, a mass of wires leading to the walls, she was sat in a chair, wires upon wires attached to her body; on her arms, her temples, and her chest. A knife sat in the middle of the tiled floor surrounded by twenty-three other chairs, empty save for two. Her hunters, the Careers, unmoving, comatose even. Cat’s hands found the wires, pulling at them tearing skin from her forearms, and ripping a hole in her temples, thrashing for freedom. Blood poured from her face and trickled down her arms but she didn’t care she needed to end this.

She stumbled out of the chair, falling onto her knees, body giving a last push of energy. She found purchase on the knife and chose her first target. The boy. Unsteadily, she made her way back to her feet and stumbled over to him. Cat considered her own humanity for a moment, would Eugene hate her for doing this if she was still around? No. No. He’d understand. And that was enough. 

Cat drove the knife into the boy’s chest and then into his throat, the soft underside up through his mouth. And then she did it again, just to make sure. A digitized cannon sounded, signifying she’d ended one of her combatants. She moved for the other, her blood mixing with that of the boy’s. This time when she sank her knife into the girl she kept going, again, and again, and again, not relenting even after the cannon had sounded long before. Her throat hurt, feeling a tearing and ripping at it and that’s when she realized she had been screaming, she had been crying. Tears mixed with the blood trailing down her face, washing away some of the sins of her actions. 

She stood back, the knife falling from her hand, lower lip quivering. She turned and looked around the room. She was the winner. She was it. Cat ran a hand down her face, collecting herself and incidentally wiping more of the blood onto her pale skin. 

“Like to go home now.”

[dawn-of-worlds]

Glass Steppes

Corobel uses Shape Land and Shape Climate, -5.

The Sky loves reflective things, and so he loves Erland's great lake; but water and glass alone cannot give tribute to his glory, cannot turn their faces toward the sun, cannot strain to reach the unreachable. Just beneath the surface, there lies a land of vast skies.

He pours radiance into the water, and one third effervesces into rainbow-threaded mist; and he moves mountains, and another third drains toward the southern sea in a great river. Life blooms with uncanny and unnatural speed in the unveiled lands as the charism of light suffuses the mineral bounty of the molten deeps.

Hence, the Glass Steppes of Incarien. Here, plains of grass and flowers mingle with fields upon fields of black glass, vitrified forests, many-hued geothermal pools, crystal kopjes, quills of cthonic metal, and soaring basalt colonnades. The land is broken by some very deep lake-systems and many shallow ones, as well as wetlands and forested valleys throughout, taiga in the north, redwoods along the northwest coast, deserts of fluting wind-carved rock in the southwest, and a great river draining southward.

Things you may find in the Glass Steppes:

Vast herds of elk and buffalo, meerkat-mounds, moss, fields of lupine, columbine, poppy, thick with bees; beaver-dammed lakes, wild proto-horses, forested river-valleys; herds of mammoths, ground-sloths, and terror-birds.

Grass: Mirror-grass, feeding on its own reflection in the obsidian plains. Grass that lacerates legs and drinks blood. Grass that feeds on sound, swallowing thunderclaps, craning itself towards movement. Grass taller than men. Mossfields reaching chest-high beneath lichen-encrusted mountains. Grey ash-grass whose seeds are wind-blown sparks, burning what they encounter into more ash-grass.

Vitrified forests.

The Gardens of the Sky: Fields of flowers (not quite sunflowers, nor daisies, nor clovers) whose too-vivid color reflects the sky, and retains a shadow of its power. The various appearances of the Sky-Flowers, and their supernatural effects, will be described forthwith.

Geothermal pools, hot springs, geysers; sulfurous and many-colored, each a world unto itself, strange sui generis biospheres. And the macaques.

Plains dotted with crystals, high as redwoods, which grew in the Old Lake under the influence of starlight. When one breaks, the sound is unbearably--sometimes lethally--beautiful. Some have a structure so perfect that the starlight remains within, imprisoned or enraptured. They leak a gentle glow with a half-life of millennia. (Spirits of the other tribes of light may suffer (do they suffer?) the same fate.)

Pumice-stones of such immaculate purity that they maintain a neutral buoyancy in air.

Iron-jawed, fire-bellied, metal-eating termites in towering castles of regurgitated iron.

Groves of water-lilies, too stubborn or too perfect to subside and die when the waters rushed out. Lilypads block the sun.

Geodes, once large enough to swallow ships, now broken open and half buried, form glades and hollows of amethyst and chalcedony.

Coral-like reefs of predatory, many-colored, hard-shelled colonial flowers; some examples feed on the lesser sprites of fire. Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds dart in and out like clownfish. The honey is divine, but the bees are dangerous.

Eusocial colonial hummingbirds; their honey grants understanding of the avian Ur-Song.

Stripped skeletons animated by overmighty plants, flowers blooming from empty eyes.

Pillars of black basalt; home, in future ages, to anchorites, now perches for birds of prey large enough to carry off stags.

Good, black earth, unnaturally fecund; plant a finger, and a man may grow. Do not spill blood here. Don't even think about it.

Fields of fallen stars. They carry with them some of the weightlessness of the outer voids.

Former islands; hill-ranges, flower-drenched, refugia from the two floods, each with a proud and defensive genius loci.

Bogs of preternatural preservative power; hunger, anger, fear, and joy, orphaned from bodies, perdure here, and take on new forms under the animating influence of starlight.

Great crows with hidden nests of gold and gems, feeding on beauty itself. They seek the starkest, bleakest places, to maximize the gradient down which beauty flows.

Redwood forests, each tree binding a spirit of sublime antiquity like pearls around sand. When the World came and Nothing burned, they crawled here to die like beached whales, and found a kind of immortality.

Taiga; dense and intractable, creaking like voices in the wind; the wood burns hotter and more tenaciously than any other earthly substance, even underwater.

Great lakes, perhaps bottomless; there is always a glimmering in the depths, a beckoning of buried light. And the voices, of course, but that goes without saying. The storms are too terrible for words.

Great lakes, shallow, mirror-flat, glass-bottomed, where mirages and fire-spirits dance as they did when the lake was new. Every lake in the Glass Steppes is, in a mysterious sort of way, connected to every other one, for the subterranean unity of Erland cannot be so easily broken, and mirrors have a tendency to be doors.

Spines, coils, and mushroom-plates of freestanding native metal; occasional pulses of light move across the surface, and they creak and sing in the sun.

Vivid canyons, colored strata stacked like bolts of cloth.

[evalka]

just spent like 50 hours on an outer wilds tribute video only for youtube to cockblock it entirely

either no art for ages or tonnes, we'll see