#sadly they're also not really available lol

[shiniestcrow]

Having food stuff from other countries is so much fun especially when you notice differences to things you're used to but never questioned before

[moonliched]

How do you think things might have gone if Sun was the one trapped in the net?

hmm, i know we haven't seen it in the fic yet but i actually picture Sun being more vicious than Moon when frightened or angry. however, he's also quicker to trust and calm down...

so, i think the combination of hunger, the dark, and the cold would have driven Sun to lash out immediately upon meeting Y/N. he'd hiss, thrash, throw rocks, and tear at the water the instant they made any moves, and they would keep their distance as they did with Moon. Sun would quickly realise that Y/N is helping them and that their wariness towards him is slowing them down, so he'd dial back the the aggression. he'd pantomime harmlessness, tucking his hands behind his back, making himself small, chirping at them. it wouldn't really work as the first impression would be hard to shake off, but it would make Y/N's job easier. and they would interpret the extent of Sun's intelligence faster than they did with Moon.

Sun wouldn't like the raw fish Y/N brought them, but as he rarely ventures outside his home and its readily-available supplies, he'd be more susceptible to hunger. he'd grimace and try to be grateful, gingerly nibbling it and trying not to spit. then he'd offer some to Y/N as a peace offering.

Sun routinely speaks in a mix of merspeak and ancient English, unlike Moon who favoured merspeak until he met Y/N. Sun would definitely speak to Y/N at some point, who would immediately flip their lid in excitement but be unable to respond underwater. nevertheless, Sun would grasp that they understood him and be equally as thrilled. he'd ask them a bazillion things and ultimately settle for just rambling at them or sticking to yes/no questions. after the initial excitement, Y/N would wryly decide that this friendly mermaid is a huge drain on their social battery lol

Sun would get super emotional. this alien thing with two tails didn't retaliate when he lashed out at them even though he's trapped and at their mercy! not only that, they're bringing him food (raw, but still), working to free him, and engaging while he talks to them. they even attempt to comfort him when he sadly mentions how frightened he was, how Moon must be going frantic looking for him, how the net hurts. they make muffled noises of sympathy and gently pat him with the longest tool they have.

for all their reckless actions, Y/N is pretty cautious at heart. they'd follow through on their plan to keep Sun's wrist restrained until the last second, handing him the knife and preparing to flee. Sun would realise their plan and gaze at them pleadingly, the knife sagging in his hand. he'd ask them not to run, please, he wants to be friends. it's been so long since he's met someone new, and he must repay them for rescuing him. Moon would love to meet them too!

Sun wouldn't pull the same lure-and-grab trick as Moon, but he would be intensely curious... and desperate for comforting contact. he would try to grasp Y/N's braids, examine their work tools, beckon them closer. he'd say he won't hurt them, he only wants to get a better look, please please please! originally Y/N intended to work their way towards getting closer to Moon so they could snip the worst of the netting, but him pinning them to the floor and ripping apart their bladed pole skewed that strategy. i think Y/N would drop their guard faster with Sun, even though he's clearly very grabby and a little rough. he might cut them accidentally with his claws, but ultimately he'd learn his lesson and take more care.

Sun isn't familiar with the dark waters, so i think he'd fail to grab Y/N when the rumble came. they'd be battered by rocks and injured, but not much more than they were with Moon. they would feel touched by Sun's fluttering panic over their injuries.

Y/N would hesitate, point at the knife and the net, and then beckon him to follow before swimming away.

when a newly-freed Sun surfaces, Y/N would call him from the platform at a safe distance. they'd be able to talk and introduce themselves properly, and Y/N would explain that he doesn't owe them anything because the net belongs to their team, so it's their fault he was trapped in the first place. they would apologise, and Sun would feel somewhat admiring with a healthy dose of 'wtf no that doesn't make it their fault?? are they always like this?' (yes)

i don't remember if i've mentioned this before, but Moon was trapped in the first place because a rumble came along, blasted him down some tunnels while he was exploring near the facility territory, and the lost net was also caught by the current and tangled around him. it snagged on the rocks in the cave where Y/N found him, securing him in place. so the day Y/N freed Moon and left him outside the building, he then had to find his way back home alone🥺

i don't think Sun would be so independent after a stint of being trapped and slowly starving. he'd cling to Y/N and ask them for help to find his way home, and live in the facility territory in the meantime. when they did eventually locate and escort Sun home, they would have formed a bond, with an intense crush on Sun's end. he'd be very eager to offer them hospitality and introduce them to his Moon, oh he's going to love them! a lot :)

they would then be met by a very frantic and disheveled Moon, who is only holding off on grieving Sun because he can't bear to think that he's gone. i think he would be quick to blame Y/N for Sun's absence, and would direct a lot of territorial aggression their way even while he's checking Sun over and clutching him close. but dw, that would be short-lived as Sun explains how Y/N saved him and provided food and shelter until they could escort him home. Moon would still be suspicious for sure, but Y/N's fidgeting excitement to explore the warm environment and open guilt over Sun being trapped would quickly overpower that. and soon he'd get to know them better and grow closer just like Sun is doing now🥰

tadaa! no one dies in this scenario😅

[retributory]

Wait what do you mean Bingge will textually will just rape his wives if they don't want to have sex? I don't remember reading that in the novel but it's been a while. Wouldn't he just find another wife who'd be up to it, since they all apparently always want to get his attention? Also I agree with you, I don't think he actually loves any of his wives, I'm not even sure he even LIKES any of them (except maybe Ning Yingying since they're childhood friends) I mean considering he has at the very least about 90 wives, according to the novel's description ("he had a harem nearing triple digits"), he'd still only have 4 days a year to spend with each wife, and that's not even counting all the work and campaigns that he has to also spend time on. So nevermind loving them, I don't think he really even knows the personality of any of his wives, at most he knows the barest of minimums about them to know how to act and deal with the wives. If he wasn't an overpowered protagonist I'd bet he doesn't even know the name of some of them since he apparently marries anything that breathes. Anyway sorry for the rant SVSSS and Luo Binghe (both Bingmei and Bingge) have got me on a chokehold since I've read the novel and I don't really have anyone I can talk to about it, also pardon my English it's not my first language lol have a good morning/ afternoon/ evening

no worries, your english is fine! in vol 4, shang qinghua says "[He] thought sadly about how under his pen, Luo Binghe had obviously been a peerless stallion who’d pursued only his desire to beep—, and the number of women he’d r—beep—ped had definitely been in the double digits…" ; on top of in vol 3, where shen qingqiu says "The key point was that the r—beep—pe actually wasn’t a successful r—beep—pe. This is way too fucking off. How could that be Luo Binghe? If he wanted to r—beep—pe someone, they would obediently spread their legs themselves, okay?!" (i did not add the beeps those are in the text. ftr. killing me).

i've always taken these passages to mean 1) when bing-ge initially encounters a wife, he'll do whatever he wants anyways (the types of novels that svsss is satirizing feature quite a lot of rape, or if not rape, very dubiously consensual sex, so this can be assumed), and 2) if binghe chooses a wife to have sex with, he's going to anyways. because it (pidw) is a power fantasy novel for cishet men, there's most probably a very small amount of attention, if any at all, given to the consent of the wife characters, so bing-ge probably does, at the least, have really dubiously consensual sex with them on the regular. if they're available, he's not going to be made to wait to find someone else, because he's not doing it just for pleasure, he's doing it to fuel xin mo (and possibly just exact power over someone else).

totally agree with everything else you said - they're really quite objectified to him, and i doubt he keeps track of all of them anyways.

[cbedfordart]

Hey! I’ve been following you for a while and I really love your art, it’s absolutely stunning and I love the way you paint and capture anatomy. I know this is a bit of a broad question but I was wondering if you had any tips on getting better at painting digitally and studying anatomy, maybe more specifically blending, colour picking, and structuring anatomy in a way that looks somewhat realistic?

Thanks and I'm glad you enjoy my work long enough to be following me for this long! I definitely love drawing a naked body that's for sure haha. In terms of tips for getting better there's a few things I can mention but it's going to fall broadly in the general answer of "study", because this is the most sure fire way to be able to understand what it is you're trying to emulate in your art. There are different ways to study, and they teach something slightly different. For example, doing studies from life (live drawing classes) help me understand movement in a way studying from a photograph cant, simply because you're seeing the same model in different poses in real time, you can see how the fat and muscle moves around as they shift to different positions. So they're not technically moving the whole time, but you're still seeing some movement there, and understanding what sticks to what while it rotates and bends. Studying from photographs can help give you time to do some real deep dives and investigate where different bones/muscles sit while someone is in a particular position. There's also the opportunity for understanding how shadows may be formed by the body as typically photographers are more conscious of how the subject may be lit than what may be available in a live drawing class. Beware though, as more things are photoshopped than you realise, not all photos represent reality. Especially glam and fashion photos. It doesn't mean its bad to want to have these effects on your work but just be conscious they might not always be anatomy accurate if that's what you're striving for. I sometimes make a conscious decision to go against what is anatomically correct for a certain effect myself. A book I have been recommending for years for anatomy is Dr. Paul RIcher's "Artistic Anatomy". It's great for understanding muscle structure intimately - it's designed specifically for artists, but with the idea of trying to stylise the diagrams as little as possible for the sake of understanding the human form. There's a lot of great info and detail in here, but beware, there is not a lot of variety in body structure (at least not in the edition I have which is missing female anatomy I think already so I'm not sure what else I don't have in here). So you'll be able to understand function a lot from here but you wont be able to learn a lot about fatter body types sadly.

Colour picking is probably the most difficult for me to explain easily, as I have spent a long time winging it, then studying it, then being really experimental with it. I could write a lot a lot about this but to spare making this post any longer I'll refer to another fun book just for getting started on some frequent and common terms called "Color and Light" by James Gurney.

I also love that he uses like, dinosaurs for everything in here lol. It's a great starting point that can give you some go to ideas that you can then experiment from there. It's not very authoritarian (or at least that's what I feel), and doesn't push anything forward as a hard and fast rule, just showing what affects some colour combinations might instil in someone.

As a whole, I've gotten better at painting digitally by studying traditional painting techniques. They theories are basically transferrable one to one with some few exceptions. I tend to blend my colours by simply using a soft round brush in Photoshop with a low opacity. Much the same way I would with a real canvas, with a large round brush and diluted colour. I hope this answers your questions in some way. I tried to be not too specific only because this answer would be at least another 30k words lol because this is something i think a lot about! I love technique! If I ever stream again, feel free to pop in and ask more questions where I might be able to show some stuff in real time! Not sure when that will happen though!

Also the way i do stuff isn't a "correct" way either. I like painting from imagination so this is how I make that work. Some people like to only work with references for every piece, and that is a completely legit way to create stunning art as well. Good luck!

[picrews-for-rpgs]

Could you guys do a list for gorgon picrews/snake hair picrews?? Pls it's so hard to find a good one

Hi! I am just one singular guy unfortunately lol so sorry this has taken forever to respond to (this also applies to the other 30 messages sitting in my ask box sorry)

Unfortunately I don't know any that would work well for male/masculine characters (though some of the following could work, especially if the character is very young)

Here are some recs that come to mind!

Loserwithanartacc's Picrew by Imakeart

Pros

Additional snakey features including scales and fangs

Disability aid options like wheelchairs

Tons of options for skin details like scars, freckles, tattoos, make up and more

The best in this list for making an adult and/or masculine character (no snakey facial hair though sadly)

Cons

Only one snakey hair option and colour options are quite limited

Clothing options are modern leaning

Two body types but they're very similar and both slim

OC Maker by ShyCustis

Pros

The only one on the list with a chubbier face shape/body type and the ability to make your character look older by adding wrinkles

Additional snakey details including scales, fangs and a forked little tongue

Great choice of fantasy and historical clothing

Cons

The snake hair is only available as one solid colour

Medusa Maker by しいむし

Pros

This picrew is specifically for making gorgons/Medusa so the hair options are amazing

It also has lots of cool snakey eye options

Cons

Only one face shape/body type and it's very small and slender

Clothing is again pretty modern leaning

Really not much in the way of skin details or accessories

No brown skintones (skintones are mostly unnatural ones)

Icon Maker by lulljevic

Pros

A couple of different snake hair options and they come in a bunch of colours, some of which have cool patterns like the two shown above

Pretty decent fantasy and historical clothing options (though nothing Ancient Greek looking surprisingly)

Cons

Only one face shape/body type and it's very small and slender

Doesn't have additional snakey details like scales or slitted eyes

[moodymisty]

I follow you for darksiders, but seeing your wh40k posts, the worms are slowly starting to take over. 😅

I also read one book (sign of faith) that I kind of liked (I like character suffering to end in some merit, but it seems in this universe it's not how I usually imagine/like)...

From your writings I'm starting to take in interest the custodes, Guilliman, Vulkan and Corvus.

Could you recommend some standalone books? I wrote down some from your recent asks to check out, but if you can suggest more I'd be happy!

It's Monday morning where I am, so whishing you a nice week, may your work hours pass quickly!

I apologize in advance for this

I'm going to use amazon links just so you know what I'm referring to for sure, but they're available as ebooks on Black Library as well if you're a charlatan that doesn't like physical books. These are my own personal opinions, please don't burn me alive.

Now, not all of the primarch books are good. But they are good standalone books if you enjoy getting into a particular primarch/legion and how they think. I can vouch for the Konrad Curze one (it's the best one imo), and the Alpharius one. I also see a lot a lot of people that say the Angron one and Lion'el one is good but i haven't personally read them.

There isn't too many Vulkan/Salamander books sadly, I can only think of Tomb of Fire but that's a series. For Corvus, there's the Corvus anthology. You don't have to read HH to follow, it's largely just about Corvus and raven guard specific adventures.

Unfortunately compared to Girlyman, there really isn't much for Vulkan and Corvus. They're largely ignored by BL along with the White Scars.

I know it's not technically a standalone book but Night Lords omnibus is a fucking mandatory read. It's 3 books and you can get the all in one book on amazon for like 20 bucks. Even if you don't like Night Lords/Chaos, the writing alone makes it such a good read.

The Infinite and the Divine is another mandatory read. It's a good break from Space marine content too, since there's so much of it.

I haven't personally read this one so i can't vouch for it, but if you like human/astartes interaction Legacy of Dorn is supposed to be decent.

If you like Guilliman, I highly recommend the Dark Imperium trilogy. Again not a single book, but it's a good series that really shows just how different Guilliman is from his legion now, and how he's having to jump right into fighting a war he had hoped would be long ended by now.

Helsreach is very good. Death korps of Krieg is also supposed to be good, but I can't vouch for it personally.

I'm sure there's so many other books I'm missing. I can't vouch for them all because I've only read a few dozen or so, but these are some of my personal favorites.

Now an added note here: The Horus Heresy books are a nightmare. BUT, you can read them as standalone if you want, because they're less of an coherent storyline and more of a webbed mess of content like Star Wars. If you have a rough idea of the main 'idea' of the Heresy, you can read them solo. In fact many people do just pick and choose the HH books they want to read based on what legion they're interested in. I recommend Betrayer (angron content <3), The first Heretic (Lorgar and his piss kink lol), Fulgrim, Deliverance lost, and Unremembered Empire.

[captainunderkrupp]

some trolls band together theories/notes!! (contains some spoilers for the new trailer!!!)

In the first movie, Creek had chartreuse pants. In the second movie, Hickory had chartreuse skin. They both betrayed a loved one for a leader type person. In this movie, the characters who have chartreuse hair include Clay, Velvet, and Veneer. I can't wait to see if Clay follows the pattern, especially since he seems to be with Viva in the trailer.

The Putt-Putt trolls all seem to be monochrome, besides Clay and Viva. While it would make sense that Clay doesn't share the same color scheme as them, I'm curious about Viva... especially considering Poppy IS monochrome, being pink all over. Give her some properly crazy hair like Viva, and she would fit right in. Poppy also was the main demonstration of camouflage in the first movie, having her hair look like grass and moss to hide from Chef! I really hope they bring that aspect back more, especially since the Putt-Putt trolls at least seem to hide themselves shape wise as golf balls.

Viva asked specifically if Poppy's father was King Peppy. I'm curious why Peppy wouldn't have mentioned Viva at all, because while he is the type to hide or ignore upsetting information, he also cares deeply about his subjects, refusing to leave them behind. He even was very careful about his daughter Poppy in the process of saving his citizens. I theorize that either Viva is lying to Poppy, or she is a half sister, one that either Peppy didn't know about or was switched at birth with Poppy.

Another thing to note: while Viva looks remarkably like Poppy, practically her twin, she doesn't share ANY colors with her father, wheras Poppy shares her hair color with him. Tiny is practically a copy of his own father, and Branch shares his skin color with each of his brothers. Now, they don't share appearance so much with their grandmother, Rosiepuff, except that John Dory perhaps shares her hair color somewhat. However, that has another generation (the parent(s) of the BroZone) to explain differences of color and appearance. Why does Viva look the way she does?

While Velvet and Veneer somewhat fit within the aesthetic of their toony/alien subjects, I think their appearances are being influenced by Floyd's essence, and we'll see a transformation back if they are without it for a period of time.

I'm so curious about Spruce's family, especially his kids. I theorize that the vacation island residents we see are at least some related to him! I also think it would be a neat gag if some of them were in his hair, or he was carrying an egg.

I wonder what the brother's opinions of Branch being with Poppy will be. Will they acknowledge it, or will Branch be spending part of the movie convincing them that yes, this is a real, solid relationship? Especially since boy bands are often known for being forced to maintain the illusion of being "available" for fans, and thus being banned from certain relationships, at least publicly? I'm also thinking about this in the fact that Spruce is married and has given his brothers niblings.

Spruce is definitely gonna yell at JD for dragging Tiny along and not actually protecting him properly like a proper child, and then Tiny is gonna be annoyed that Spruce IS treating him like one lol

Sadly, I'm not sure we're going to be seeing much of the bergens in this movie :( They're just not very present or available in the trailers so far. I do love seeing them again though!!

ok thanks for reading I'll probably update this in an rb when I actually watch the trailer all the way through LOL

[mxbo]

Me yapping about something that happened on TF2 today

I was playing casual TF2 with a friend now that there aren't as many bots (I SUCK like REAL BAD, so no way we're going to community servers, I would get OBLITERATED the second I stepped on one, also a lot of players on community servers dislike F2Ps for existing) and found a player who shares names with my light and it was really awesome

[ID: Meme recreating the interaction. There's me, my bestie, the random player we encountered and batman in the background because he was also there. My bestie says: “OMG! *redacted name*” and I reply: “Voice communication is not available for this account”]

(BTW, me and my bestie are not drawn with specific cosmetics, it's just our OC's/sonas dressed as the classes we were playing lol. Yes, he was pocketing me because I'm just THAT bad)

(BTWBTW, we didn't actually talk with them, just mentioned it in our private call because like it would be super weird to go “hey, you have my love's name”. Super creepy HASHSj. Worst case scenario, they wouldn't believe I actually have a partner and think I'm hitting on them or something. And women and people who pass as feminine because of username/voice already suffer enough on FPS games with people either insulting them or simping for them and not seeing them actual players but objects. Like I'm not risking (potentially) making their day worse ykwim)

Anyway, they had pink cosmetics and I think I shot a rocket at them at some point because I thought they were RED AHSA *insert video about the problem with team recognition*.

[ID: Screenshot of the random player with their name obviously censored not because of them, but because it would reveal my love's name and, like, I haven't consulted if I can just say it in a random Tumblr post AJSAHJ]

There was also a Soldier who had all the batman cosmetics and dominated me because of course JHS (they were super good at rocket jumping). I sadly didn't take a screenshot (THEY WERE SO FAST AND KILLED ME, I COULDN'T TAKE A SCREENSHOT) </3

Also, yeah, I'm a F2P until MY BESTIE DECIDES TO PAY FOR MY FRICKING PREMIUM UEYDEUEHR (hopefully this or next week).

Hate that I'm mute for the time being, tho. Because Valve thought not letting F2P accounts speak would solve the bot crisis for some reason some years ago. SPOILER: It didn't work, it just made the bots more difficult to identify and ruined the experience of a bunch of players (kids, people who can't pay for TF2 like me, and people who just play for fun and don't want to throw money at a corporation, which is completely valid). Thanks, Valve.

But also love the fact I own the title of worst TF2 F2P, like, that way nobody expects anything from me.

My steam profile backs this up btw

[ID: My user says “world's worst tf2 player” and my description “I suck at tf2 it's not even funny”. Also, my pfp is the spongebob crying meme edited to have my OC's hair and Soldier's helmet and says “I PROMISE I'LL DO BETTER” in the funny impact font]

I'm genuinely bad (reason why I play Soldier) BUT I HAVE SO MUCH FUN PLAYING TF2, I LOVE THIS GAME EVEN IF I GET KILLED EVERY X SECONDS (x being equal to the time I take to respawn).

I want to meet more noobs like me and play with them while on a Discord call and learn together (would also help me with my English, probably, if they're not hispanophone).

Or maybe even players who know what they're doing and teach me (but they need to have patience with me because I'm a SLOW learner and barely know how to WASD lmao, my spacial awareness in videogames is just like in real life: 0).

Someone interested? 🤨

No, Rom, nobody's interested, nobody cares LMAO, just go back to making userboxes and stamps and drawings and stuff

[thomasstaples]

Day Six

Happy Sunday! (if you live where I do lol) thanks to all 22 of you are hanging out with me and doing these! they're a lot of fun to think of and I'm glad you're all having a good time answering them!

~soft edition~

whats your go-to comfort movie?

what's your favorite comfort food?

what do you like to do to cheer yourself up?

say three nice things about your appearance

say three nice things about your personality

say three nice things about your intelligence

what brings you peace?

what is a great personal, handmade gift that someone could make you?

what reminds you of home? (it could be your physcial house, but it could also be the feeling of home)

tag someone who makes you smile :)

Favorite comfort movie: probably Revenge of the Sith. Unless I can get away with using a miniseries that is movie length, then it is Over The Garden Wall

Sadly, I can no longer get my favorite comfort food. Walmart uses to sell this really good Buffalo chicken pizza, which had the absolute best Buffalo ranch sauce I've ever had, but they discontinued it. I've tried making my own, and finding something similar, but to no avail.

I usually make myself some hot chocolate to cheer up. I'll start by heating up either milk or water (sometimes half milk half water) Then I add in the hot chocolate packet. Next I'll stir in a heaping spoonful of unsweetened cocoa powder, add in some salt, and either cinnamon or nutmeg depending on how I'm feeling. Then I drink it while reading a book.

1: I look like a tall hobbit. 2: I've been told that I look very welcoming (I don't actually know what this means, but I think it was meant as a compliment) 3: I've never had difficulty growing facial hair (after the age of 13)

1: I can get along with almost everyone. 2: I'm pretty easily entertained. 3: I'm getting better at setting boundaries

All the self compliments are starting to make me really uncomfortable, so I'll sum up this final section, I am reasonably intelligent regarding things I care about.

Can't think of a genuine non cheesy answer, so God and my family.

Food. Food is always a good gift

A reclined chair and a good book

[theanimeawarenessproject]

Rating: GREEN

*Pretty Cure / Futari wa Pretty Cure / ふたりはプリキュア* : Safe to the last episode. No underskirts shots, no sexualization, no sexual jokes made towards anyone, absolutely nothing untoward in that direction. There are some pretty hellish flashing lights but they're always predictable, being within battles/transformations/attacks, but if you're light sensitive, epileptic, or have light triggered migraines, definitely skip past anything to do with the Marble Screw attack. If you're seizure prone, this one may not be for you sadly.

Genres : Action, Magical Girl, Monster of the Week, Henshin Heroes, Shoujo, Fantasy,

Type : TV series

Ran from : Winter release 2004 to 2005, spanning a total of 49 episodes.

Trigger Warnings : Young feminine screams of fear and pain, masculine screams of anger/pain, crying, **flashing lights**, some scenes of animal like creatures getting hurt (no blood), scenes of young girls getting injured (no blood, no broken bones, no serious visible injury), school crushes, very very mild scares, kid safe body horror, mild swears including; hell, damn, crap.

Episode specific triggers : episode 3 features mild themes of student teacher crushes, and students crushing on a teachers assistant. This is never mentioned, hinted at or brought up in any way again after the recap in episode 4.

Extra notes: you could very genuinely watch this with your parents if you wanted to, though as far as I know it might only be available in a subtitled format. Please let me know if this isn't the case.

I also find it very very funny that not a single ball is *ever* blocked by the goalies in the lacrosse games? They even directly call to them multiple times, but never once do we see a ball blocked on screen in the whole show. It's really funny lol

[shinysamurott9]

2024 Games: Mega Man X6 Tweaks

After playing X5’s improvement project, I felt it was only fair that I give X6's a go as well. X6 Tweaks is a sort of like a custom tweaks patcher allowing you to alter several elements of the game to your liking, including how the characters play, certain specific elements of level design, elements of the game’s presentation and a lot of stuff being tracked under the hood.

Before going into that though I feel I should talk about my opinion on base X6.

I hate it.

I really do not like base X6. I have played a majority of the side scrolling Megaman games, not all of them but most of what could be considered main series games and I genuinely feel X6 is the worst Megaman game, of the one's I've played at least, I've heard many bad things about BN4. But with X6 itself I feel like there were a lot of good ideas and some genuinely fun things to mess around with, but between the massively inconsistent difficulty, poor executions of it's ideas like the Nightmare Effects, bad design decisions with things like the secret boss areas and all armour pieces being required to use an armour again and of course it's infamously bad level design. Any good or sensible idea X6 had, is ultimately either undermined, falls over itself or is lamented for being stuck in this game.

So what exactly does Tweaks do to fix these issues?

In short, quite a lot while also adding a number of miscellaneous additions for fun and QoL, but at the same time, not doing much to fix arguably X6's biggest issue.

With my playthroughs, for the overall important changes, I opted to disable the Nightmare Blindness, leaving the other nightmare effects on. Aside from that, I activated incomplete armours, made it so the Exit Stage button was always available, unlocked aerial moves like double jumps and dash, fixed the translation, added the custom mugshot graphics, and tweaked the damage tables to make a few things more tolerable, like the donuts.

These changes did do a lot to make X6 more tolerable which did allow it's better qualities to shine through. The game is a lot more open with your routing, probably at least in part because every stage needs to be revisited anyway. The armours are fantastic, I'd argue they're some of the best armours X ever got and with the updated script, I can at least appreciate what the story was attempting. The script does even have some stuff that is genuinely interesting or funny.

Nightmare Zero actually has lines that read like he is Wily, I genuinely did not know that til now.

MF actually pulled the "I got better" card,cannot believe this.

Zero canonically hates puzzle games lol

They even added unique dialogue for Zero in the intro stage and against Nightmare Zero should you use the cheat to unlock him from the start which is a fantastic touch.

Some other fun additions include letting you change the Ultimate Armour’s palette to any of the three from the PS1 Trilogy as well as a fixed version of the X6 colours to match the portrait and a colour palette for the Legacy Collection Ultimate Armour which I think was updated to make it look better.

Unfortunately, at it's core the game us still X6 and it's main issue, the level design is still very much a problem. Scaravich is still a random layout , leaving the armour, boss portal and heart tank up to RNG. Mijinion still has his really annoying secret area, and his main area still throws literally everything at you, and of course, Heatnix is still just donuts. Would you believe me if I said someone actually told me they thought this was not only fun, but better than an actual level? Course the Gate stages are still just as bad too, but hey you can actually beat them without parts now. Bringing Shadow Armour to Gate is actually a reasonable idea now, as one of the few changes the hack does make to level design is adding a platform to the infamous jump. An air dash for No Armour and Shadow Armour is also available.

Sadly, like X5 Improvement, the hack ultimately does very little to fix the overall level design and the more problematic sections. But to be clear, I can't really blame the hack creators for that as the only real solution would be to just completely scrap the existing levels and completely redesign them from scratch, something well beyond the scope of a rom patch. So overall while it is an improvement over X6, I'd really only recommend it to someone who's familiar with X6, the bullshit it throws at you and the ways you can cheese it.

I'd say it helps the stromg qualities of X6 stand out enough to get B tier, but a pretty low B if I'm honest

[ganby-l]

Recent builds/About Me

Hey everyone! I'm Gabby, but my friends call me ganby.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, I'm new to posting my builds for the Sims 4, so here's a little bit about me!

First off, I'm a 24 year old from Indiana with a lot of time on her hands. I played the Sims as a kid (circa 2008 - TS2/TS3.) Sadly, it was only available to me when I was at my friends house on her trusty old Dell desktop. I fell out of touch with the game until a few years ago. Since then, I have really enjoyed building - specifically kids' rooms - and mainly in the styles of farmhouse, industrial, rustic, and contemporary (maybe a little scandi, idk they all seem to look the same when I'm done lol.)

I am by no means an expert designer or photographer, but I really love creating spaces. As an avid downloader of CC, I decided I wanted to share my builds so that maybe it can help inspire someone else, as so many others have done for me <3 (WCIF FRIENDLY!)

For the past 1-2 years, I strictly got my CC from TSR. This was simply due to the fact I HAD NO IDEA A WHOLE INTERNET FULL OF AMAZING CREATORS EXISTED OUTSIDE OF TSR!!! Since discovering this new world, in just 2 months I have now become a follower/patron of SO many incredible people, some with years full of downloads! I never knew what I was missing.

With that being said, I'm still learning about the community, and I would certainly NOT want to violate any TOU's. I will do my best to abide by them. If you are the creator of any CC used in my builds and would like for me to remove your content, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Enough about me, here's a photo dump of my recent builds:

Teen boy bedroom

Dream Home - Level Renovation The only relevant thing this family told me was they liked yellow...

Another Dream Home Level Renovation I hate renovations in San Myshuno because of the restrictions on deleting build objects, but especially THIS lot. I didn't realize the gig I picked until it was too late. I also am not sure why the ceiling is glitchy :( Here it is anyways.

If you're still here: thanks for stopping by! Feel free to ask any WCIF questions! Also, check out the creators I've tagged in my previous posts, they're great! That's all for now. <3

[pangolinheart]

I was tagged by @irisopranta so here's a little trivia!

Share your wallpaper: It's... just the default MSI wallpaper (I have commitment issues lol.) I could probably use a screenshot or a commission of a suitable dimensions, but meeehhhhh.

My mobile wallpaper is this Dragon Age Tarot-style commission from @needapotion

I've been thinking about changing it, but I'm not sure to what.

The last song you listened to: The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance (I mostly listen to music while driving. Shockingly this song is not on any of my many playlists)

Currently reading: Uuuuhhhh I don't read as much as I should, but when I do I've been bouncing between: The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack by Nate Crowley, which I really enjoy but have been trying to finish for like a year and half (it's not long i'm just lazy). An inventive nautical zombie romp with a dash of social commentary.

Asian Ghost Short Stories: An Anthology of New and Classic Tales. The intersection of folklore, horror, and culture was the topic of both of my undergrad senior papers, though they mostly focused on Japan. I've already read most of the traditional Japanese stories in this book, but I don't know very much about ghosts in other Asian Countries, so it's been an interesting read! I was also drawn to it because it contains translations of new short horror stories by unpublished Asian authors. The Black Bestiary: A Phantasmagoria of Monsters and Myths from the Phillipines by Budjette Tan (Author), David Hontiveros, Kajo Baldisimo (Illustrator), and Bow Guerrero  (Illustrator). See above. This book is really interesting, because it's an illustrated compedium of myths and monsters, but the entries are written from the perspective of modern-day monster hunters recording their experiences in a journal. Apparently it's a sequel to a book called The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo, which I'll have to pick up sometime. The art is very cool. One of the illustrators, Kajo Baldisimo, is the main illustrator of a comic series called Trese that semi-recently received an animated adaptation with audio available in both English and Tagalog. I've been meaning to consume both of these at some point as well.

Last Movie: Uuuuuhhhhhh.... I'm not much of a movie person, so I don't really remember, but I guess maybe Dune?

Craving: Curry and rice (I'll make some the next time everyone else is out of the house >_>)

What are you wearing right now? Black leggings and a sweatshirt with the word "Catnip" over a collage of images of cats and slogans like "Cheap Thrills" in the style of an old-school Reefer Madness poster.

How tall are you: 5'4 (164.56 cm) (People always say "I thought you were taller!" Including someone i worked with in-person for more than a month-and-a-half.)

Piercings: Just the boring regular ear piercings.

Tattoos: None, sadly. See: fear of commitment

Glasses? Contacts? Neither.

Last drink: Ice water (I'm trying to drink more water, but I'd rather gargle metal shavings than drink room-temperature water.)

Last show: Hmm this one was also a while ago. I think it was Dragon Age: Absolution.

Last thing you ate: Pork roast (bleh) and potatoes for dinner.

Favorite color: This is a cop-out but I like lots of colors. I guess maybe green, orange or red? But I also like white, black, most shades of blue (navy can get fucked), purple, yellow, pink, silver/gray, etc.

Current obsession: FFXIV

Unrelated obsession: Dice! I love hand-made ttrpg dice sets! They're so pretty and unique! Sadly, not playing in any actual games has not put a damper on my bankruptcy-inducing dice habit.

Any pets: Two cats (Hansel and Gretel) and a dog (Isabella).

Do you have a crush on anyone? Nah.

Favorite fictional character: This one is really hard... There are probably so many I'm forgetting. The Justice of Toren/Breq from the Imperial Radch series, Matthew Swift from the Matthew Swift series, Alistair from DA:O, Anders, Fenris, and Isabela from DA2. Garrus from Mass Effect. Esteem from FFXIV, Alisaie from FFXIV (though I also really like Haurchefant, Y'shtola, Hilda, Ysayle, and Fordola.)

Honorable mentions to the characters I used to have keychains of on my pen case (I would try to encourage shier, nerdier students to talk to me by watching/playing things that were popular with high schoolers and putting my favorite character from the media on my pen case, which students would get very excited about): Chuuya from Bungo Stray Dogs, Childe from Genshin Impact, and Cu Chulainn from various Fate-related media.

The last place you traveled: Uhhhh I guess my last major trip was to... here (America)! My last "vacation" was to Sapporo (that was right before the pandemic.) I do occasionally take shorter day trips to towns around my area, but the furthest afield I've been recently is Grand Marais in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

I will be in Las Vegas for the FFXIV Fan Expo this summer though!

Tagging: I think everyone I interact with has already been tagged in this, but if you haven't done it and want to here is your unofficial tag!

[vamp-orwave]

You have so many good blorbos! Cam I ask about Lex and Fennel? It seems like they're PCs you're currently playing? What's going on with them? :3c

I thought about this all night and couldn't find a way to convey any of this concisely, so I settled for an info dump haha 🙃

So, Lex was a former troubled teen and high school dropout struggling with depression and homelessness long into her mid 20s. She was just getting back on her feet when her new neighbour, who happened to be a Malkavian, became convinced that she was an inquisition spy. She abducted Lex one night, tied her to a chair, tortured and eventually embraced her.

You could say this was a pretty traumatic event, and as far as Lex is concerned, she's the only vampire around that actually reacts appropriately to having been murdered. As such, she's highly anxious around other kindred, will avoid getting to close to them, can't stand being touched by them, and doesn't do well in restraints.

unLuckily for her, professional help was available! After her sire was put to death by the Camarilla for the unauthorized embrace, she was taken in as a patient of her sire's sire, the Malkavian Primogen of Adelaide, psychologist Dr Philip Hayes, who treated her basically like a pet very well. Like many sires/childer, they had a very contentious but also deeply meaningful relationship until the Anarchs sprung her from his hospital several years ago.

Since then, Lex has;

* Joined her coterie, the therapy group Bloodsuckers Anonymous

* Somewhat reluctantly supported the Anarchs in their war campaign to take the city, mostly through her premonitions and brainstorming

* Slowly become more accustomed to being around other vampires (though she's still always on edge)

* Leaned into dementation and used it to break a Tzimisce's mind

* Really tried her best not to freak out, to mixed results.

Last year was when her arc really came full circle. Her coterie put on a charity concert that was crashed by the Sabbat, and the mass of casualties sent her spiralling. Dr Hayes used the opportunity to lure her back to him, and he blood bonded her under the guise of a new "treatment." She spent a few harrowing weeks navigating her conflicting feelings about safety vs freedom and love vs hate, before her friends rescued her again and blew up Hayes' office, destroying his work.

A few months later, she tracked him down to finish the job with the help of the Anarchs' geriatric war vet Caitiff, John. She confronted Hayes, kept him talking while John snuck in the back, had their first and last therapy session on equal footing where he announced the culmination of his research; to cure the clan's madness, he would have to kill Malkav. Sadly Hayes would never have the opportunity, as John staked him and helped Lex drive a knife through his spine until the final death.

Lex recovered what remains of Hayes' notes and research. She told him, as he died, that she wouldn't let his work be in vain, but she still doesn't quite know whether she was lying. At the very least, if an antediluvian comes to town, she'll be a little more prepared.

That's a lot for one post, so if you still want to know about Fennel, send me a separate ask lol!

[justmaghookit]

8, 15, 19 (lol), and 23 for Donniiiiiie~

Tav Backstory Ask Game

8. Does your Tav have any pets?

Donnie sadly does not have any pets, he always thought it was rather irresponsible to bring a companion pet along on adventuring journys and he didn't really want to train a guard animal. He's always dreamed of befriending a pseudo dragon, that would be his ultimate companion animal. He also really likes dogs, if he see's a dog on the street he WILL point it out.

After having Scratch along during the events of bg3 he really really wants a dog. He sent Scratch off with Shadowheart when she decided to visit the Selunite Temples so she wouldn't be traveling alone. Every time he and Astarion stop in a city while traveling he will stare forlornly at any markets with puppies available for purchase.

Astarion is considering stealing him one, if only to stop his pouting.

15. Do they have any sentimental items?

Donnie still has the blanket his maternal grandmother knitted for him when he was a baby, he doesn't take it with him because he doesn't want it to get damaged. It currently resides with his sister in her home in Respite and whenever he visits he WILL wrap himself up in it and dream of simpler times. Rosie has her own as well, she uses hers as a shawl!

His false horn is also sentimental for him, it was a gift from Fierna after he signed his contract with her a sort of "welcome to the family" gift. It's made of some strange self-repairing alloy and always snaps back into shape after a day if it ever gets damaged. Despite having broken his contract with her she allowed him to keep it, along with a few other things when he left the service of the Hells. He thinks she let him keep them because she excepts him to come back eventually [in some time-lines, she would be correct]

19. Any memories that stick out to you/your Tav about their life pre-tadpole?

The day he took the Archduchess Fierna to the infernal courts, presided over by Archduke Belial, in order to break his contract, and won. Well really it was his sister who found the technicality that got them both out of Hell, but if he had never had the courage to bring his case to court they'd both still be stuck there. This is another one of those splitting points for all my little au's for him. In the canon of bg3 though this is perhaps his most important memory.

23 Share any hcs/anything you want to say about your Tav’s backstory

Fierna gave him free infernal HRT with his contract, she just sort of made it happen by fucking with his biology.

Donnie would consider his greatest secret the fact that he really really likes cute things. Lace doilies, tiny felt animals, silk flower arrangements, anything even remotely frilly and pastel he adores. This does double for lingerie.

His actual deepest secret was that he enjoyed the work he did for Fierna and a part of him misses it. The thrill that comes with condemning a soul is one ahem hell of a drug. He DOESN'T miss the politics though.

When not in his signature Robe of Stars he dresses like a guy from the romantic era

He shaves, because he thinks his facial hair makes him look like a comic villain from a cheap newspaper

Donnie's horn is similar in construct to a giraffe's, called ossicones, its bone inside with a layer of skin and such over it, they're velvety soft to touch.

The broken horn left a nasty scar that goes down close to his eyebrow, he usually covers it with makeup because it makes him self conscious

His tail and his legs from mid-thigh down also have a soft velvet texture to them, from mid-calf down and at the end of his tail his fur gets long and fluffy.

He doesn't have a gag reflex

[dantexxorihara]

Random but was going through my girls phone i know i shouldn't have but I looked and saw a bunch of messages from guys in her dms i don't kno what to do. i really love her what do you think I should do? I'm fucken hurt mann have you ever dealt with cheating or being cheated on??

hmm idk about going through someone phone probably not the best thing to do. But I've never cheated before but I have been cheated on once that I'm aware of. But it could have been more. The thing is when it comes to getting cheated on is theirs nothing you can really do. People are going to do and think what they want. Look at it from this perspective every bad thing or societal immoral action in the history of humans has been justified. People will always justify their actions, but good and bad is actually more grey in reality.

Also realistically with social media being what it is and phones being so readily available. Just assume they're always going to be dudes always in a girl's messages. A lot of women like the attention. People have access to people at all times if they allow it. Never assume a girl is just talking to you even if you are with her because sadly that's just the case. But!! If she truly respect you and care about you she wouldn't entertain it or even put you situation to even have you thinking it could happen. but not likely tbh..

But from what you told me I don't have a lot to go on here but if you're trying to get past it, it's going to be hard. For me I didn't as far as remaining with that person I mean. But if you're going to first thing you have to forgive them, easier said than done I know. Second thing is you have to have good communication going forward. Talking to them to figure what went wrong and what you can do better. which ironically isn't always a luxury with some people. Oddly enough it's also how cheating begins in the first place.

Idk what I did for it to happen lol because.... I mean no one deserves to get cheated on right?? But people think if someone is cheating it's because of something someone did or didn't do in most cases especially as a man which I'm assuming you are. So do a little introspection on yourself. Not in a self victim blaming kind of way. but from the perspective of what did you miss, maybe some red flags on their part. It's easy to get blinded by love.

But they didn't tell me why they did it. Personally for me it doesn't matter the reason why. but you can absolutely get pass it if both people care enough to want to work on things together I suppose. But it depends on what you want with this person in the long run. But it will be hard no matter what your choice is but if the person is worth it than I say go for it.

But I'm sorry it happened to you though. it really sucks but I hope i was able to help you and your situation somewhat.