#shout out to the original creator of the hideout!!

[leviiackrman]

SIMS 4 OC BUILDS: League of Villains Hideout

Here we have the undercover base for my devious gal Rin and her partner in crime - Dabi! The upstairs of their base is a ‘bar front’ similar to in the show, while the basement houses all her minions and herself! Original build was found on the gallery, but I updated the lot to suit my own needs!

Lookbooks: Ackermans || Rikihisas || Enatsu || Kyutoku || Olalias || Hatakes || ATLA || Ginnivan || Ishimoto

Builds: Saitama Loft || Sunset Cosy Cabin

Tag list (ask to be added or removed): @carrionsflower @statichvm @risingsh0t @simonxriley @tommyarashikage @kanos @bbrocklesnar @confidentandgood @unholymilf @florbelles @thedeadthree @shellibisshe @roofgeese @aezyrraeshh @faerune @tekehu @jackiesarch @minaharkers @sergeiravenov @carlosoliveiraa @rosenfey @greenecreek @queennymeria @heroofpenamstan @alexxmason @tethrras @jamessunderlandgf @a-treides @solasan @bigbywlf @delzinrowe @fenharel @imogenkol

[lonephantom777]

Page 2 of "Sins of the Fathers"

As Carmelita breaks from cover and opens fire, Penelope's attack drones open fire. However, Carmelita's athleticism, organic reaction time, and sharpshooting skills end up giving her the edge, and Penelope loses contact with her gun-bots.

Quickly realizing that it's time to write off her current hideout and make her escape to another safe house, Penelope charges her newly-hired enforcer with buying her time to get the chopper ready. However, said enforcer hints that a hefty paycheck isn't his only reason for taking such a risky job. Could it be that he has his own agenda...?

CREATOR'S NOTES:

This was actually the first page I made for the comic, back when it was supposed to be just a few pages. As such, I was still getting a handle on things like speech bubble color and how to add spikes to said speech bubble when someone's shouting. I decided to keep it as is as a measuring stick of how far I've come...and also because by the time I was ready to start publishing, I was too burned out to go back and tweak something as minute as that.

CREDITS:

1) Carmelita Fox and Penelope are copyright of Sucker Punch, creators of the Sly Cooper series.

2) The models used for Carmelita and Penelope came from the Patreon page of Warfaremachine. ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/mrwarfaremachine/ )

3 Cerberus/The Enforcer is an Original Character concept of mine, created for fan-adventures in the Sly Cooper series and related toons.

4) The model for Cerberus is pieced together from several model packs by Petruz, purchased via their Gumroad page. The exact models will be revealed alongside Cerberus' new look when it's fully revealed. ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/petruz/ )

5) Penelope's attack drones are based on the ones from Wolfenstein: The New Order (though Penelope herself is NOT a Nazi), found on the Steam Workshop page of martianinferno98. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....archtext=drone )

6) The gunfire from the drones is based on Payday 2's muzzle flash effect, a particle that was found on the Steam Workshop page of Nonhuman. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....t=muzzle+flash )

7) The laptop that Penelope is using came from the Steam Workshop, courtesy of Andr00d. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi...../?id=644429203 )

8) The crates and barrels...are either from Steam Workshop, or native to Source Film Maker. All I know for sure is I'm not the one who made them.

9) The muzzle flash and projectiles from Carmelita's Shock Pistol were created by using different elements of the Power Beam particle effect from Samus' blaster. This was found on the Steam Workshop page of Chaofanatic. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....ext=power+beam )

10) The high-rise building that the action is unfolding in was found on the Steam Workshop, courtesy of Anomi. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....htext=highrise )

[aesarctic]

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

It’s been a while since I’ve written a full-scale review. Sorry, guys!

Read on Goodreads

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

FOR THE SUPER NON-SPOILERY PEOPLE: Ready Player One is definitely a book that I'd read the back cover to. Maybe that's not your thing, but I find that some books are better going in knowing nothing, and some books you need to know a bit about. This is one of the books that I'd definitely read the back-of-the-book-blurb. I can tell you right now that any spoilers you may think are in it aren't actually spoilers. This book is also definitely five-star potential. Don't be put off by my four stars. FOR THE NON-SPOILERY PEOPLE (hidden for the SNSP): Expanding on what I said up there, anything in the back-of-the-book-blurb that you may think is spoilers is said within the first chapter. It's not even labeled "Chapter 1." It's labelled "Chapter 0." You're fine to read it. I really liked the concept of this book, and I when I finished it, I felt accomplished, but I also wanted more. Shout-out to Mark Vaders (mjvaders) on Spotify for a Ready Player One playlist of every song mentioned in the book. That's super cool. https://open.spotify.com/user/mjvaders (The User) https://open.spotify.com/user/mjvader... (The Playlist)

FOR THE SPOILERY PEOPLE: I have five pages of notes, front and back. Let's go. The book opens on chapter 0000. It's a slow introduction, the main points being: 1) The OASIS is a thing 2) The creator, Halliday, died and made a scavenger-hunt-like contest 3) It's been five years, and no one has found the first key. Until now. But the thing is, it gives us the entire video. Why can't we have a summary of the video? It took me a while to get hooked into the book because the video wasn't the most fun to read. I'd also like to note that this was the only time footnotes were used. Why didn't we get more of those? Why were they necessary? Why were they necessary for only that specific chapter? I'd also like to note that there are a lot of sections in this book that reads like a history lesson, and I'm not sure these are necessary. I'll get to that later. I was not alive in the 1980s. In fact, Halliday is two years younger than my mom. There were so many 80s culture references that probably went over my head, but I was surprised at how many I caught and understood. I've watched a few of the movies mentioned (though, I personally am not a StarWars fan), and I've heard some of the music, and I've played a few of the games. Call me cliché, but I always go straight to the Pac-Man machine in arcades. Either that or Skee-ball. My favourite mention, though is at the very end, when they mention Voltron. (Pages 332 and 336 in my paperback copy). June 10th of 2016, a remake of Voltron was created, and I definitely watched it when it came out. Then I watched the 2011 remake, and a good amount of the 1984 original show. The only one I have not watched (and like to pretend doesn't exist) is the 1990s version. Anyway, anyway, I like Voltron. At the beginning, we get this nice glimpse into the real world, featuring Aunt Alice. She took Wade's laptop, and I still don't understand why he didn't scramble to hide it when he heard her coming. He said he had backups, but he also mentioned it was a pain to redownload everything. I would have tried to hide my laptop. One of my favoruite settings in this book was Wade's secret hideout. I love how he rigged it, and I thought that was super cool. I was very upset when he left it. It also confused me when the Sixers didn't realize he was in there? They said they had proof he hadn't left the trailer in three days, and that proof was video, right? How do they not have video of him going to his hideout? Or at least exiting the trailer? They said they saw him enter the trailer, but they didn't see him leave? I predicted that someone would find it, but no one ever did. Props to Wade. I had a hard time imagining the OASIS. I should be imagining real life, since the graphics are that good. I could have at least imagined a Skyrim-looking game. But, nah. I imagined something more like Overwatch. Art3mis. I should have known she'd become a little more important in the story, but as he was ranting about her blog, I literally wrote "I hope she doesn't have a big role" and I did not like her. Aech. I pronounced this as "Ache" at first, but Wade corrected us. I did not follow that. I should have, and I tried, but I still said "Ache" in my head. As someone who gets their name mispronounced a lot, I should have known better, but I did not and I am ashamed. I didn't like Aech at first. Eventually she grew on me, and I was incredibly mad when Wade totally dissed her for Art3mis. Ugh. I hate romance stories like that. I hate romance stories in general, but this one was bad. I hated how Art3mis was set up to be his girlfriend. No thank you. I like the setting for this book--meaning how the Real World was set up and how that affects the OASIS and why the OASIS is used because of it. I mean, I don't fancy the idea of a Great Recession, but it's a cool concept in theory. The copper key was found on page 84. This book has 372 pages. At least, that's what it is in my copy. That seemed really early for me, especially since he immediately knew what the phrase on the copper key meant, and I was worried that the book would have something strange happen at the end after all of the keys and gates were found. Luckily there was nothing wrong at the end (besides an unnecessary romance) and the book was dedicated to the scavenger hunt. Thank the gods. Speaking of immediately knowing what the message on the copper key meant, he described where the first gate was, and it's a game, you know, so my immediate thought was that the game wouldn't be there and someone had stolen it and there'd be some complication. No. Of course, we have to meet Art3mis. Kill me. I like the fact that Wade wasn't the first one to find the temple, though. That's cool. He was just the first one to complete it. "I wanted to propose marriage." --page 93 K I L L M E When he figured out the message on the copper key, Wade says, "I didn't think it would matter which copy of his hometown I went to..." and I thought that it would. I thought that it would totally matter, and he'd have to go through however many worlds looking for the correct game, and the game wouldn't be there, and he'd have to track it down, or something. It was weird reading something that went so right on the first try. He also totally skips out on school, which he had previously mentioned that he needed to attend to not get into trouble. I've attended two high schools, one that requires 24 credits, and the one I'm currently at requires 26. I currently have 24 credits, so theoretically I only need to pass two classes that total up to two credits, right? Wrong. Schools tend to require a certain amount of credits in each subject--I did a research project on this my sophomore year. I still need to take two language arts classes and one science class. Some schools require four credits in language arts, science, and math. Then three in social studies. That's what I've seen most often. How much did he double up to accomplish being able to flake his senior year? You only have a certain about of blocks per semester/trimester, and in today's world we can take more with online classes, but his school is an online school. How did his credit system work? If anyone has any input or corrections to make, please feel free. I don't know everything. Wade mentions that it was a "beautiful Midwestern Day" and as someone who is from the Midwest, I'd like to ask where? Okay, so Wade signs something with the acronym "MTFBWYA" on page 127 of the paperback. I know I'm dense, but what does that stand for? Why is he signing so many contracts and giving people models of his avatar? Doesn't he want to stay as secret as possible? Doesn't that mean not letting people know what you look like? I love Wade and Aech's friendship! At the beginning, anyway. Wade didn't want to tell Aech any of the information, and she was totally chill with that. She understood and they stayed best friends. At that moment, anyway. I'm salty. How did Wade not predict that recording would be prohibited in the place he met with Sorrento? I thought that the comic book stack falling over was a Sixer. I was ever so wrong. If they recreated Ludus to make Ludus II, wouldn't that also have the tomb with the copper key? There's a huge amount of time where Wade didn't mention Art3mis' blog, and I felt that that was a bit out of character. He was checking it all the time before all of this. The next time we get an update on it is after Art3mis dumps him, blocks him, and stops posting on her blog. Speaking of Art3mis, I still think that their friendship and romance developed in a very strange way, and I definitely don't like it. I hate that she replaced Aech. The author made a huge point that we have no idea what Art3mis looked like. I felt as if this was way too built up. Wade is a lot like Frank Zhang from the Heroes of Olympus series, by Rick Riordan. SPOILER: He totally buffs up, and I feel as if it's erasing a bit of diversity in a way. END SPOILER Some points from my notes: -Art3mis is clearly way smarted than Wade -My aesthetic is doing research to play Pac-Man -I love that Aech found the key while Wade was playing Pac-Man I felt as if the trophy place that Wade checked out should have clicked for him a lot sooner. He had that knowledge. He even had the knowledge of Zork. Why didn't he skim through his journal the minute he didn't understand the next clue? That would have gotten him there a lot sooner. This book has a very good balance of dead characters. I appreciate important characters dying. It makes the story interesting. So Wade had that one job, but we never see him going to it after that initial time. What happened there? So Wade makes this entire plan to sneak into the Sixer's place, and readers are left in the dark. It's so weird reading, and a lot of my notes say things like, "This plan had better be good." When Daito died, Shoto handed over that weapon the three of them earned. I knew in that moment that that was probably the entire reason those characters existed, and I was a little upset. I laughed at the phrasing "101 IOI Plaza" There were four people: Wade, Art3mis, Aech, and Shoto. Three people were needed. Obviously someone was going to die. So does "P.S." stand for "postscript?" I was told it was "personal secret." Don't believe everything six-year-olds tell you. Marrow: *appears* Me: HE KNOCKED OVER THE COMIC BOOKS Me: *turns the page* Wade: HE KNOCKED OVER THE COMIC BOOKS Turns out Halliday and Marrow were in a love triangle, and things ended because of it. Ugh. Aech and Wade are friends again, by the way! That's good! And we end things with Art3mis and Wade, and I want to die. So, around the area where Wade was finding the copper key, I was beginning to realize that this book is a lot like The Raven Cycle series, by Maggie Stiefvater. Warning: TRC spoilers from here on out. The Raven Cycle is set up like a scavenger hunt, but complex and very real-worldly. In fact, one of the things I love about TRC is how complex, 3D, and life-like the characters are, and how 3D the plot is, and the settings are set up fantastically. Anyway, the story has a lot of history to it, in a way. One of the main characters, Gansey, is on this hunt for a Welsh king who lived centuries ago. History, right? But we don't get a lot of that history. We get the basics: "There is a dead king somewhere. If we find him, we get a wish." In Ready Player One, there's a dead game maker, and if you can follow the clues, you get the prize of money. It's a really similar plot--I'm not sure I'm conveying how similar it was in my mind. Anyway, in Ready Player One we get a lot of unnecessary history that I felt could be summarized like I just did. Maybe not quite like that because Ernest Cline is writing a book, not an informal review, but you know what I mean. The history wasn't interesting to me--I didn't need to know Halliday's backstory. Not really. I just needed to know that he was rich and someone was going to get that money. By following clues. The history bits really annoyed me, and I'd go on, but I think I've ranted enough. Next I'll get into the character differences and writing styles, and it goes on. Basically I did not need to read all of that history, and I'm citing a different series as my evidence. THANKS FOR READING

[lonephantom777]

Page 2 of "Sins of the Fathers" As Carmelita breaks from cover and opens fire, Penelope's attack drones open fire. However, Carmelita's athleticism, organic reaction time, and sharpshooting skills end up giving her the edge, and Penelope loses contact with her gun-bots. Quickly realizing that it's time to write off her current hideout and make her escape to another safe house, Penelope charges her newly-hired enforcer with buying her time to get the chopper ready. However, said enforcer hints that a hefty paycheck isn't his only reason for taking such a risky job. Could it be that he has his own agenda...? CREATOR'S NOTES: This was actually the first page I made for the comic, back when it was supposed to be just a few pages. As such, I was still getting a handle on things like speech bubble color and how to add spikes to said speech bubble when someone's shouting. I decided to keep it as is as a measuring stick of how far I've come...and also because by the time I was ready to start publishing, I was too burned out to go back and tweak something as minute as that. CREDITS: 1) Carmelita Fox and Penelope are copyright of Sucker Punch, creators of the Sly Cooper series. 2) The models used for Carmelita and Penelope came from the Patreon page of Warfaremachine. ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/mrwarfaremachine/ ) 3 Cerberus/The Enforcer is an Original Character concept of mine, created for fan-adventures in the Sly Cooper series and related toons. 4) The model for Cerberus is pieced together from several model packs by Petruz, purchased via their Gumroad page. The exact models will be revealed alongside Cerberus' new look when it's fully revealed. ( https://www.furaffinity.net/user/petruz/ ) 5) Penelope's attack drones are based on the ones from Wolfenstein: The New Order (though Penelope herself is NOT a Nazi), found on the Steam Workshop page of martianinferno98. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....archtext=drone ) 6) The gunfire from the drones is based on Payday 2's muzzle flash effect, a particle that was found on the Steam Workshop page of Nonhuman. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....t=muzzle+flash ) 7) The laptop that Penelope is using came from the Steam Workshop, courtesy of Andr00d. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi...../?id=644429203 ) 8) The crates and barrels...are either from Steam Workshop, or native to Source Film Maker. All I know for sure is I'm not the one who made them. 9) The muzzle flash and projectiles from Carmelita's Shock Pistol were created by using different elements of the Power Beam particle effect from Samus' blaster. This was found on the Steam Workshop page of Chaofanatic. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....ext=power+beam ) 10) The high-rise building that the action is unfolding in was found on the Steam Workshop, courtesy of Anomi. ( https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfi.....htext=highrise )