#synth.solo Tumblr posts

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Unironically I think we need just a more powerful DS again. Dual screens fuck. The amount of creativity and interactivity and cool UI that went into DS games is literally unmatched and like those things were tough as fuck too. Please hear my wish. I get that the switch is technically handheld and thus portable but also no it is not that thang is so delicate and lacks the sophistication of just being able to shut it at a moments notice to pause everything without having to hit a pause menu. Does anyone hear me. Hello. Pokémon ranger.

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All the quick flash frames from side order I could grab, part 2 in reblogs!

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I don't think that the octarian army is necessarily "girls only" but I do think you're given she/her pronouns upon conscription. It's like uniform

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Fuck any other side order information we could get tomorrow I need to know what the pose is

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[ID: the FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic meme, edited to say "people who celebrate game dlc birthdays are annoying pass it on." "Fuck this post and happy birthday octo expansion". The logo is used for octo expansion. End ID]

Fifth anniversary!!! Goddamn!!

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Characters in dungeon meshi immediately after experiencing the most soul rending heartbreaking trauma known to man:

[ID: the Jesse we have to cook meme. End Id]

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So between the fact that you get scored for splats, the heavily customizable loadout, and the way they explicitly said that they wanted to make something you can play "again and again", it looks like a lot of the gameplay could be high score based and that excites me so much like I cannot wait to see what speed runners and high score hunters do to this game it looks SO FUCKING FUN

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I know side order is exciting but I find it really fun there's a front roe new album billboard in booyah base. Everyone has GOT to know about your messy breakup.

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If marina does end up being the side order antagonist I'm on her side. I'm defending her immediately idc If I had to live in Inkopolis with autism for like seven years I think I too would make the torment nexus on accident trying to make things quiet for once

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ISAT truly is the "IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN" game of the year

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Ok so not a mindscape but definetly some fucked up digital prison right, between the phrasing of "got sucked in here", the way higher sci fi elements than normal, the general digital affects,

Sorry for the 144p quality but you see my mind scape right. Like I forgot to get a screenshot of it but eight literally loading in like a hologram too

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Happy fifth anniversary octo expansion!! That shit changed me permanently!!

[ID: a google result showing the release date for splatoon 2 octo Expansion as June 13, 2018. End ID]

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Biggest thing that is going to impact the theorycrafting for side order: THAT IS NOT FUCKING DECA TOWER

The entrance matches this piece of concept art, and notably is very different from the normal open entrance! My bet is on it being a fucked up mindscape.

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Sad she only got one album out before everything went to shit, but what's a girl to do?

This is a fake album cover for my dnd character, Helvia, and her fake band THREAT DISPLAY!!! Context for this piece and Helvia as a whole under the cut because once I start I can't stop talking about her <3

SO the campaign hasn't started yet, but Helvia is my character for a science fiction campaign. She's robot!!! Well I guess that's obvious now. BUT the basic gist: Helvia was manufactured as an industry-controlled and maintained electronic "punk" singer. When the project ended up making no money, everything related to it (including her), was abandoned. Three years later, she wakes up out of stasis with no clue what happened, an insane debt, and a failing memory. You will look at her !! Her full name is Helvia Cardinalis. This is just a genus of mantis it doesn't have any special meaning I just like bugs <3

-she has generated "background" memories of an entire life, but there's no telling which of those are real. I don't actually know which of them are real. My dm does!!! We'll be finding out together!!

-sometimes she uh. Doesn't know basic information. Whenever something she should reasonably know gets brought up I get to roll a flat d20 to do a "memory check", the checks getting harder the older the memory is. When she fails, she gets to lie or change the topic etc because she would rather DIE than admit anything is wrong with her.

-the album cover is kind of an intentionally really poor introduction of her character. She's more silly than anything? The entire project was meticulously micromanaged by the company that made her. The "novelty" and aesthetic of having a construct as their lead took forefront in its advertisement. There were two other members of THREAT DISPLAY!!! But she has no memory of them because they were considered comparatively SO unimportant to advertising and to her that they have gone... forgotten.

-Helvia herself is. A real character alright!!! Based entirely in what a corporation thinks a "cool alternative girl" is, she's impulsive, selfish, and just. So fucking stupid. She's firmly a "might makes right" type of person who was designed to appear counterculture but still ultimately serve and be fine with the status quo as long as it benefits her. She's going to do anything that grants her immediate satisfaction, and is obsessed with maintaining her image as "cool and above it all", even as her body is actively breaking down. She easily falls for flattery.

Notes about the piece: yeah I downloaded and used splatoon fonts for the nonsense text. I think I typed gay sex like twice I'll be real none of it translates to relevant information. I think there's something in there about how I hope it came across as an adequate parody of machine girl album covers (my main inspiration). The composition of the piece itself is meant to feel kind of skeevy and exploitative because well. It is!! It's drawing the fine line between 'wow this is so cool and counterculture of us wow!!!' and fetishistic? Etc etc missing the chestpiece as an analog for putting a woman topless on the cover. There's actually a separate sketch I did as a canonical "mock up" for the design that originally included the other members, treating them like props because they're so unimportant, before they were scrapped from the final design because they were That Unimportant.

Notes on Helvia's design: I pulled from a few sources for this!! Notably I looked at so many pictures of that band Tramp Stamps. Remember Tramp Stamps? I don't. They're like the direct analog I think to her. I also pulled from vocaloid designs!! Impractical, cool, kind of "anime" feel. This comes across most in her hair I think which is just so beautifully impractical. The yellow gloves are so stupid important to me actually they're kind of ugly but it's the only way her name ended up being important: helvia cardinalis (mantis) is Bright Yellow and raises its 'arms' in its threat display, which I wanted to pull from for potential posing of her!! So. Bright stupid yellow gloves <3 they're an easy way to tell her character apart too & mean I don't have to worry about drawing all the nonsense on her arms. The translucent skirt also comes from the mantis, sort of pulled from its wings!! Original concepts for her included synthetic skin rotting away but her design was already more complicated than I normally go for and we ultimately ended up realizing her being openly and visibly a construct was important for her image in her music career so it worked out well! She is at least missing an eyeball :] doesn't affect vision since the mechanics are still in place but I guess she just gets that fun sans glow socket <3 her outfit is meant to look simultaneously cool, vaguely expensive, but also super super cheap?? Overall I'm happy with the fact that she looks both cool and really stupidly impractical in that classic 2000s deviantart oc way <3 it's important to me! Ultimately:

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I love writing splatoon fanfiction because this shit will have me looking at the Wikipedia article for skin

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Inside of my brain rn. Hi