#sf next gen

[grown-up-sally-face]

A nice ref of Baby. Started this ages ago, finished it now while I took a break from school.

[yourpalsalamander]

VOTE FOR ASHA!!!!!!!!! PLEASE THIS TOOK AN ENTIRE DAY!!

@kingprinceleo the MOUSE

SHOUT OUT TO THE VOICE ACTOR I DID NOT PAY 🔥🔥💥💥🦅🦅💪💪

@sonic-fankid-showdown

[scorbuslove]

JON AND BEN

BEN AND JON

pov: albus takes scorpius on a date on muggle london and they take pictures in a photo booth :)

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[anachronisims]

Catch You on the Flippity Flop!

a TS2 traits expansion

by @anachronisims (sufficeittosay) and @cityof2morrow

Part 1: New Traits!

What you get: 16 new trait object files for your personality diversity pleasure. Most of them are opposites of existing 3t2 traits that didn't already have them. One is just because :)

Big Spender (opposite of Frugal)

Black Thumb (opposite of Green Thumb)

Can't Carry a Tune (opposite of Virtuoso)

Climate Denier (opposite of Eco-Friendly)

Difficulty Reading (opposite of Bookworm)

Dislikes Animals (opposite of Animal Lover)

Dislikes Cats (opposite of Cat Person)

Dislikes Dogs (opposite of Dog Person)

Dreamer* (the intersection of Ambitious and Absent-Minded)

Generous (opposite of Mooch)

Homebody (opposite of Adventurous)

Minimalist (opposite of Gatherer)

Nudist (opposite of Never Nude)

Slow Learner (opposite of Genius)

Sweet Tooth (just because)

Terrible Cook (Natural Cook)

(*) I know @lilbabydilljr released a Dreamer trait already as part of the hidden/scrapped TS3 traits collection, but I wanted to change the flavor text and concept of it. My spouseman is a real dreamer-content-to-dream and I felt the TS3 scrapped version was too close to Ambitious. So @cityof2morrow made a different icon for it, and changed the GUID as well because Dill's conflicts with HB's simlife goggles. However, the file name is the same as Dill's and will overwrite it.

ETA: These are traits objects that WILL appear in your catalog in Gen/Misc. They are NOT added to the traits collection file as I don't use it. Feel free to do so yourself, of course.

What's coming next: Updates to existing traits mods that are plausibly affected by these traits (plus some personal preference tuning). Check out the to-do list here. Suggestions welcome and encouraged! Anyone who would like early access as a beta tester, please let us know!

Credits: @hexagonal-bipyramid for the original 3t2 Traits Project, @moocha-muses whose Dylan's Black Thumb got me thinking about this becoming realer than flavor text, and the whole inspiring TS2 simblr community whose appetite for traits mods keeps me going!

Download at SFS

Updated Feb 18 2024 at 245 EST (US) to fix an issue with thumbnails/catalog appearance.

[elinorasims]

Build | Anchorpoint Arcade/Comics | San Sequoia

DOWNLOAD TRAY FILES (SFS) >> GALLERY: ELIWILS Info, floor plans, and lot tour under the cut :3

Lot Size | 30 x 20 Type | Residential / Small Business Value | Furnished 228,873 ; Unfurnished 45,535 Beds | 1 Baths | 1

CC | No Packs | Unrestricted "Anchorpoint Arcade is the hottest teen spot in town - offering next-gen gaming and entertainment, refreshments, and two lanes of bowling. The second floor also operates as a small business selling comics and collectibles, including an e-sports room and LARP room for both budding and experienced geeks and gamers. A cosy apartment sits on top offering accommodation for a single sim or couple." Floor Plans

Lot Tour

[nightmarerodent]

I want some version of the Kombat Kids in the next game. I want them to be so unapologetically gen Z it gives everyone else in the room whiplash. Cass has nicknames for everyone and stealing snacks from Takeda. Jacqui doing the boys nails while they talk battle tactics and talk shit about the champions crew. Jin being both amused and grossed out by all the sex jokes. Give us a new and improved SF squad!

[thatonetwig]

Vocaloid/Vocal Synth songs for some of my favorite robots from movies.

Ron (Ron's Gone Wrong):

• Telecaster B-Boy - すりぃ (feat. Kagamine Len)

• Calc. - JimmyThumb-P (feat. Hatsune Miku)

• Nonsense and Me - RIProducer (feat. Kasane Teto)

• Relayouter - 稲葉曇 (feat. Kaai Yuki)

• Nonsense Bungaku - Eve (feat. Hatsune Miku)

7723 (Next Gen)

• Afterglow - JimmyThumb-P (feat. Megurine Luka)

• Hello/How are you? - Nanou (feat. Hatsune Miku)

• Our 16bit Wars - sasakure.UK (feat. GUMI)

• Fixer - ぬゆり (feat. flower)

• YY - 23.exe (feat. Hatsune Miku)

Giant (The Iron Giant):

• Tell Your World - livetune (feat. Hatsune Miku)

• Rainy Snowdrop - Re:nG (feat. KAITO)

• Alien Alien - Nayutalien (feat. Hatsune Miku)

• Superhero - Guiano (feat. IA)

• Marshall Maximizer - Hiiragi Magnetite (feat. KAFU)

Baymax (Big Hero 6):

• Decode - Niki (feat. ARSLOID)

• Lost Umbrella - 稲葉曇 (feat. Kaai Yuki)

• HIBANA - DECO*27 (feat. Hatsune Miku)

• Dopamine Machine - Ferry (feat. Big AL)

• Magical Doctor - MARETU (feat. Hatsune Miku)

Robot (Robot Dreams):

• Rain and Petra - バルーン (feat. flower)

• Sentimental LoveHeart - なつめ千秋 (feat. GUMI)

• MUG SHOT - Tonbo (feat. SF-A2 Miki)

• Though the Cherry Blossoms Bloom Again - LamazeP (feat. Tohoku Zunko)

• Because You're Here - PinocchioP (feat. Hatsune Miku)

Now... some songs revolving around the ships I have for all of them!

Giant x 7723

• Flyway - halyosy (feat. Kagamine Len and KAITO)

• Happy Hour - OSTER project (feat. MEIKO, KAITO, and Megurine Luka

• Last Score - せきこみごはん (feat. Hatsune Miku)

Ron x Baymax:

• Future EVE - sasakure.UK (feat. Hatsune Miku)

• Happy Synthesizer - EasyPop (feat. GUMI and Megurine Luka)

• sweety glitch - gaburyu and nyankobrq (feat. Hatsune Miku)

Dog x Robot:

• Metronome - CircusP (feat. SF-A2 Miki)

• Daybreak Frontline - Orangestar (feat. IA)

• Do not go - Sōta (feat. Kaai Yuki)

And that's it for now! I hope these songs were fitting for these characters and the ships! Happy listening!

[rigbeesknees]

Edition changes are mostly difficult because of the way attention and hype cycles work in later ttrpg communities. As Starfinder prepares for it's second edition, I'm both excited and a bit... Annoyed. There are still Starfinder 1E releases remaining, including Mechageddon (which I worked on!). I also know I have a deep backlist of SF1E adventures I haven't touched, including a home campaign I want to run via Discord that focuses on an influencer marketing firm that sends influencers on various PR tours. SF1E has a year of wrap up content based on the announced schedule. The playtest isn't scheduled to start until next August.

However, I'm already getting the feeling that people are ready to leave the system behind solely due to the announcement. Now, I think SF's 3.5-based system has some issues due to the age of its base mechanics. However, until Gen Con, the play community was trucking along. If the announcement hasn't happened, I feel like I would see continued interest around the upcoming releases.... Instead of the feeling of them being suddenly deflated.

I think there's a real tangle of relationships between the community around play, the companies that make games, and people who end up in-between these spaces (often the people making the games, since I know I'm in that gap of fan and professional!).

[laf-outloud]

So Jared isn’t going to SF next year. It is right around his birthday, If he never says he’ll go he won’t be accused of canceling.

I just think it’s telling who he doesn’t want to spend his birthday around.

(I don’t think it’s filming because of the strikes, so he wouldn’t know if he’s filming)

https://www.creationent.com/cal/ce_sf/index.htm

I saw that Jared wasn't listed. I don't know that I'd attribute his current absence as a way to avoid people around his birthday (though it would be a decent side-effect).

For all we know, he may already have other plans. I know he and Gen typically take a vacation together around July. Or maybe his plans are tentative and he doesn't want to commit quite yet, or maybe he's pulling back on doing all of Creation's SPN conventions and wants to continue to branch out to regional conventions. There are a number of possible reasons for his absence from the listing, but unless/until we learn more, I don't see a need to read into it beyond he's not on the announcement and may not be going.

[claire-starsword]

Shining Force Pre Release Coverage Part 2

"Claire didn't you just say you didn't have time to look at this now" didn't I also say recently I have no self control? Exactly. Also there's not much new so I might as well just get it out of the way.

Part 1 here

This time we'll be looking at recently scanned volumes of another magazine, Mega Drive Fan. Scans are here and here. Also despite the obvious enthusiasm I sure am busy lately so I won't be pointing out everything, I'm here more for translations as you can see the pictures yourself.

November 1991

okay I lied I need to start with the most important pictures

Meow

They owe me this so bad.

Also it has its tail up like in the final unused version, I don't know what's the deal with that footage I showed at the end of the previous post.

We get a better scan of Max's beta portrait. He has no Egress, which I think I have already pointed out in the previous post, I don't know it was a big post okay. He has a short sword with a weird icon, and two iconless items (the placeholders seem to be showing the item's index): the Hex Whip from Shining in the Darkness, and, uh,

"Ring of Infidelity".

Care to explain, Max???

According to my searching this isn't any carry over from SiTD, but I haven't played that in japanese yet so, grain of salt here. I was gonna say, why is a likely joke item so early in the game, and then I remembered the bunny girl in SFII so yeah, this is regular SF dev behavior.

[Edit: I'm reviewing this now and I might have misread the ring's name, it seems like the うわき (infidelity) is directly applied as an adjective so Infidel/Cheater/Fickle Ring would be better translations, which matches the japanese name for the Hex Whip, which is something like Fickle/Whimsical/Moody Whip, but with a different word that has no "cheating on your partner" connotations as far as I know. So maaaybe it's just implying the ring is cursed and does effects of its own, but by all my searching うわき is still far, far more associated with these cheating connotations at least nowadays, so either the word's usage changed a lot in the past decades or it's still a cheeky joke name]

Also, in the previous post I was clearly too taken by Mae's smile to do my job and didn't talk about the items there, so let's talk about them, or rather it, now. Max and Mae in those screenshots have the inventory full of item index 9, "Old Medical Herb". Perhaps there was some sort of expiring mechanic for the herbs. Max also has the same Short Sword and Mae has a Bronze Lance with a sword icon.

In the final version, the indexes 7, 8, and 9 became the Legs of Haste, Turbo Pepper, and Bread of Life respectively.

The item shop has a different sign. Also it seems to be just an item shop, while in final Guardiana the item and weapon shops are combined, with two sellers.

The other magazine showed yet another item shop and sign, either these are actually different towns, or different builds, which actually they sure are given the next picture.

I have been long looking for you... I have heard of the situation. Please, you must let me join you.

While both magazine issues are from the same month, here we have Arthur portrait for this character instead of Varios, and more than that, he is joining the team, there's even another screenshot in the magazine with the "has joined the force" message. Given that this is Arthur's map sprite, and Mae has been described since the start as having a dead father, I feel this is the intended version. Perhaps Varios' portrait was done first and used as placeholder?

Also I need to correct something from the previous post. This isn't a generic NPC sprite, it's just Arthur's knight sprite. The generic centaur NPC sprites are... Arthur's paladin sprite. Like, the exact same sprite. I never looked too close so I assumed there had to be some small difference, but no, they can reuse whatever sprites they want.

Arthur is not given a profile in any of these magazines so it does feel he started as a very generic recruit. Very funny considering he's now the specialest most magical centaur in the block.

Character profiles this month don't have much so I won't translate them in full. Max is referred to as capable of using magic. Lowe is again referred to as a dwarf even though the magazine points out how similar he is to Milo, and wonders if he's an ancestor of him. No mention of Mae's personality, Gort mentioned as an old servant of hers again. Hans' bio states many elves who live in forests choose bows as their weapon because they have excellent vision. This a regular fantasy thing but I don't remember seeing it in Shining content before.

There's one battle screenshot where Max has less HP and is named Hans so I feel his battle sprite wasn't done at this point. Also I didn't bring attention to it in the previous post but a lot of these battle scenes have misnamed enemies as well, it seems this skeleton was a placeholder for a lot.

December 1991

Again Max has his final portrait at this point. He has 99MP and Blaze and Heal 4, Heal having a placeholder icon. He carries the Sword of Darkness, which has a different icon, the Power Ring, and the Forbidden Box, a well documented debug item.

Nothing new in character profiles, Guntz is again referred to as a beastman, Tao is again referred to as a forest elf unlike the others. I will again bring up that the term is used for Nigel in Landstalker, and Tao and Princess Lara there have basically the same art. Does this mean something? Likely no.

Also something I failed to notice in the previous post: at this point, Tao's shoulder gems are miscolored in her portrait. Her art is already done so I assume it's a small mistake.

Enemy descriptions are mostly the same, and again the Mimic shows up.

Again there's a section dedicated to Yogurt, which is mostly the same. It specifies he eats bugs besides berries, and says he "understand human speech, but can't (won't) talk". In the JP version he does say only a single sentence, "I don't get it", so perhaps this was dropped, or he is learning.

It is also said that he's kinda popular with the force members, especially the girls, but again no one could make him a pet. We then get doodles of his secret events, and yes different doodles than last time.

January 1992

This issue gives a good look into the beta menu icons. I won't show them all here, but the icon for putting characters on the active team shows a centaur which, really gets what the game's about i guess.

There's a screenshot with Earnest's portrait but the name is actually Vankar, perhaps his portrait wasn't done yet. Or these guys changed names during production.

On the screens showing off battle graphics, Hans has Diane's palette. That is to say, the exact same palette but pink hair.

Also not to get distracted but I took a quick look at the editor and yes, despite being one of the first characters, the archer sprites are index 9 in the data, preceded by Gong and Khris, and more curiously, Guntz and Domingo, who are at index 3 and 5 respectively.

February 1992

This one was already scanned in Sega Retro and is actually how I started looking into these things. The new scans are likely better quality though, they're really good.

March 1992

The game's released, but unlike the other magazine, early build material still slipped into this one.

"Am I being of service to you? Since I'm fighting to the ends of my MP..."

Tao had this goofy, less immersive line at HQ (remember to compare it to the final JP one, the english version is its own beast). Curiously, the GBA version changed her first line back to a question. Note also that she still has the wrong portrait here.

Veeeery small detail but there's a screenshot of the Rune Knight at the first battle talking only to goblins as opposed to goblins and dwarves. Coupled with all the screenshots we see from this battle it's safe to say the dwarves were a late addition.

Finally, minister Ward had his own portrait.

[grown-up-sally-face]

Tried to redesign Jessica/give her colors.

Can't tell if my computer is messing with my eyes, or what lol. Had to change her hair to a darker shade bc the dye made her hair look washed out lol.

[yourpalsalamander]

VOTE TEAM ASHA!!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLE

@sonic-fankid-showdown

[takeariskao3]

I’m manifesting a chapter update this week…

🔮

What’s closer to being completed:

1) AG

2) TPFY

3) SF

4) tpfy next gen

I was going to give you another option (none of the above) but I need you to think positively!

already gone has a chapter outline and some scenes drafted…

the path from you is all sorted out in my head now i just need to make the edits in the doc…

spring fever has a vagueish vibe but that one i need to be in a certain ……. mindset for (horny.)

next gen isnt happening in 2023 or if it is it’ll just be more of the random epilogues…

at this point… your best bet is to root for the path from you 👀

[theknightlywolfe]

Everything I read about it now that the run is done just makes Secret Invasion feel like a rushed ego project.

If the whole point of the last slate of movies was to introduce the next gen of heroes (Shang Chi, Kate Bishop, Yelena, etc) then it would have made sense to intro the "new Nick Fury". As in, Maria Hill. Who, in the comics, takes over SHIELD and becomes director. Also, in the comics, does a fair amount of stuff in the Secret Invasion storylines.

Really, why not? Is Sharon as The Power Broker and Val too many powerful women for the MCU? Is it not a proper MCU project if a woman doesn't die (did killing Soren off screen not meet that quota?)?

This very easily could have been the "Fury, you're too hurt to do this now, it's time to let someone else handle it" show that Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Quantumania were.

We also never got payoff on what, exactly, Nick and Maria were doing when they got dusted. Because clearly at some point after Ultron Maria left SI to work directly for Nick again and right before being dusted they talk about getting in contact with "control". And she's still working with (quietly former) CIA agent Ross outside of the US at the beginning of Secret Invasion, with the gadgets of organization, and is still on duty enough to go AWOL but not publicly enough that Talos and Soren can't casually impersonate them without issue.

Speaking of, how the hell does Maria Hill move around the world without being recognized. From the released SHIELD files, as an exec at Stark Industries, as the office face of the Avengers. To say nothing of all the congressional hearings she had to be at because she didn't have the cover of faking her death like Fury did.

Seriously, this could have been the set up for the new, improved SHIELD with Maria at the head, smaller but openly in existence, still the boots on the ground to SWORD's super specialized focus.

Because there is no Avengers organization anymore, Damage Control can't handle it and is too locally focused, and do they honestly think we're going to accept the Thunderbolts as the new guardians of Earth? (And does that read as just a pandering to fans project to anyone else?). What's the point of a new generation of heroes to team up when there is no mechanism to get them teamed up? Do they really think we're going to believe Fury wandering around recruiting new Avengers after how insensitive and incompetent they made him seem in Secret Invasion? Is there really going to be some big bad that draws Baby Ant and Shang Chi from SF and Bishop from NY and Yelena from anywhere in the world to wherever while conveniently not having to deal with their respective travel times? Or is that why Wong is still around? Magic portal travel.

It all feels like the sacrifice of trailing plot points and future coherence (much like the post credits of WandaVision was tossed out the window for Multiverse) for masturbatory indulgence and an over full release schedule.

[cagedchoices]

FALLOUT AU - TIMELINE.

A (mostly) complete timeline of major events that occur within Caleb’s Fallout AU. Because the brainrot has a hold of me and won’t let go. 🫣

2035

February 2nd - Caleb Nichols is born.

2043

March 20th - Caleb’s mother abandons him during lunch at a diner due to undiagnosed mental illness and goes missing.

At 8 years old, and with no other known relatives to look after him, Caleb is placed with a foster family.

September 25th - Caleb’s mother is found and institutionalized to be treated for schizophrenia.

2052

July 4th - Caleb breaks his arm during an alcohol-involved car accident.

Energy Crisis shocks the United States.

Resource Wars begin worldwide.

United Nations collapses into ruin as countries withdraw to prepare for war.

2053

New Plague emerges in US, killing tens of thousands of people afflicted.

ZAX 1.0 computer first goes online, developed by Vault-Tec.

2054

US government sanctions Project Safehouse (Vault construction) to begin.

December 22nd - Caleb enlists in the US Army.

2055

Caleb enters Basic Training.

DELOS documents Caleb’s actions during a classified military training operation.

Caleb’s combat unit is deployed to provide Humanitarian Aid in the European Commonwealth.

West Tek establishes a research facility in California to work on a cure for the New Plague.

2059

Caleb’s standard enlistment term ends, he renews for another term.

Anchorage Front Line established to protect Trans-Alaskan pipeline.

2060

May 9th - Caleb is injured in an attack and pulled from active duty.

European Commonwealth collapses into European Civil War.

May 11th - Caleb returns home to Los Angeles.

US Energy Crisis worsens.

2062

New Plague continues to spread despite government containment efforts, fueling national paranoia.

2063

Majority of Vault Construction completed, with some exceptions.

2065

DELOS Inc. and its subsidiary, DELOS Destinations, are purchased by Vault-Tec.

June - Hot Summer, a nuclear reactor in New York City nearly suffers a supercritical event and catastrophic meltdown due to extreme energy demand. Power-rationing is implemented in response.

2066

US Military conducts test of next-gen nuclear weapon.

June - US ends trade talks, designates oil reserves and production for domestic use.

December - Sino-American War begins.

2070

Caleb meets and quickly falls in love with Uwade, marrying her.

Frankie Nichols, Caleb’s daughter, is born.

2076

January - Canada is officially annexed to the US.

Canadian riots are forcibly shut down, protestors executed without trial.

2077

January 10th - Battle of Anchorage Ends

DELOS, under orders from Vault-Tec, shuts down their theme parks due to low attendance records, but secretly continues their immortality project research.

October 16th - Caleb Nichols is Kidnapped.

October 23rd - The Great War Begins & Ends.

2077-2288 = 211 years elapsed

Over 2,500+ synth/host copies of Caleb are printed and subsequently destroyed, until a copy with complete fidelity to the original is achieved. (Build No. 2,532)

2288

Caleb No. 2,532 escapes to the surface, finding himself lost in what remains of San Francisco.

Caleb spends almost no time sticking around SF and immediately begins traveling south toward Los Angeles, now known as the Boneyard.

2296-2297

Events of Fallout (TV) Season 1.

Assuming Caleb is still alive at this point…it becomes pretty obvious to most people that he’s not aging as he should be.

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