#tanking just hits diff

[noxtivagus]

i'm so sleepy but i'm just thinking abt ffxiv again

[lenreli]

Quite surprised I beat him this time, considering I was planning to fight him a lot more. Oh well. Least I've learned to parry some of his fire combo.

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

head in my hands im trying to come up w prinzhes headcanons but i literally cannot because prinz is like. a pink and less tragic and less headache-inducing version of tesilid.

they're both very gentlemanly, they both can fight, if someone is unfair to them they're more likely to smile and try to smooth it over than to fight back. if hestio is going to find prinz attractive then he'd have found tesilid attractive too, but if he isn't nursing a massive crush on tesilid by the time he meets prinz then it means that tesilid gave him so much blood pressure problems that they're no longer his type.

so anyway in conclusion teshes solos- wait what? how did this turn into teshes propaganda

[dailyoyo]

all that said. despite so much of this stuff being heavily future-based. i find og jsr more fun to actually Play LMAO

[kremlin]

I do computer work but it's not very hard and kind of boring. How do I get to do hard computer work? Do I have to go to grad school?

hi i tend to miss these because of slipshod ublock custom filters im too birdbrained to fix.

i worked for a large american technology company which sold business machines internationally for close to a decade until laid off in successful accounting fraud scheme a few years ago. started as developer, erm, pardon me, i started as

junior developer

which is a role similar to routinely-executed court jester and human meatwave conscript meant to soak up enemy bullets to cause exhaustion of enemy bullet supply and finally guy that comes in big gross truck with a pump and a tank and a big hose used to suck the shit+piss out of portable toilet/malfunctioning sewer etc. this is for when you are 20 years old or so and they hit you with this work to calm your ass down a bit. my case was cloud bullshit on ancient rickety php stack. 5% keystrokes/clicks are php, 95% remainder is jira and other members of the axis of evil. LOT of dick sucking and butt fucking. Going into men's bathroom and making eye contact with cubicle neighbor before entering stall and fearlessly making disgusting noises. microwaving fish lunch thrice daily. you get the idea. meager paycheck but six figures takehome technically

next is staff dev, wait, god damn fucking tumblr, you can't adjust fonts mid-paragraph, and Big Text is just another type of font, in case you wanted Big Specific font. fucking fuck hold on. next step is

staff developer

no effective change besides greatly increased workload (click those motherfucking jira buttons!! suffer coworker's asinine bad-faith code review comments that HE AND HE ALONE must manually accept your responses to, on HIS time, before you are allowed to click the jira buttons that start the human meat sausage factory to get your 20 line maximum change into an RC and then release and then push candidate and then prod push!! pay raise one thousand dollars annually (lol). Emails. Now you deal with project manager too. speculate as to what sorts of grievous head injuries that man must suffer daily to describe his logic. his job is like the guy from office space that brings documents from one desk to another but he randomly reorders the words on the page in-flight. make plausibly-deniable wife fucking jokes about his wife in earshot. you're almost at the top of the suffering function. next is, no fucking cute font this time, senior developer, sounds cool right, lol, lmao, "senior" "developer" is like "tallest" "midgit".

no pay increase no workload increase but now manager emails you about extremely, extremely personal issues he's facing and also makes his most difficult problems from his boss your problems. one week will pass and then they will hit you with the "we're considering you for a team lead position". answer:

NO

answer no as this is the prescribed path, you take that role, you are maxxed out in workload, you are dealing with forty employee's worth of bullshit, another one thousand dollarinos a year raise, employer has solved efficiency problem with your sanity and burnout as variables. you're supposed to quit or kill yourself within seconds of hitting 30 y/o. don't fall for tricks. say "NO" in a creative way such as "i have tabulated some data and made it into excel pie chart quantifying diff. departments work output and am considering sending it to whoever Dave is, the guy that is one or two or three report levels over your boss' head, you know, his boss' boss' boss or whatever. or say "you are harassing me sexually, racistly" that kind of shit. make threat clearly.

was worth mentioning before, throughout all of this make as many friends and as much of a splash for yourself as possible as its time to trade on that goodwill, tell your boss you want an open relationship and you're going to fuck and suck other managers, and then find the good one with the good team of old fucking geriatric guys who could never be fooled into working more than a reasonable amount daily and also can kill people with their minds since they have been sitting on the bleeding edge of computing since 1969. their boss will usually be, suspiciously, one report rank higher than everyone else. e.g. their boss has a whole other boss + his reports under him. usually small team. go to their boss, say, hi, look at me, look at my beautiful plumage and captivating mating dance, please hire me, pleassseee. his team will say no, they will say things like "I don't know about that kiddo", "That guy seems like a candy-ass", they will read your papers and look at you in the eyes and say it is not compelling, the boss will kind of hire you anyway. if he doesn't you're fucked. if he does you're now a

STAFF ENGINEER

for fifteen minutes and then

ADVISORY/SENIOR/SPECIAL ENGINEER

and the suffering is over. no code minimal jira + squad of gremlin zerglings under your boss whom you can rank-pull and delegate bullshit to, they will be mostly suckers, take advantage of this. 80% of keystrokes/clicks will be in production of beautiful wonderful lovely .docx and .xlsx's, what a godsend, only in an emergency are you allowed to fuck with your zergling's code, usually in a cool way with bullshit procedure removed.

i worked on high performance computing shit. "what the fuck do you mean 2PB or so in and out a day on flash memory", "what the fuck do you mean special infiniband intel MPI library on CD-R stored in Craig's filing cabinet???". Meetings with company people: webcams off, responses optional, snideness allowed. Meetings with client: you must have your dress shirt starched and white glove the shit out of those motherfuckers. timezones = skill issue. i don't care where germany is, i don't give a shit, wake up at 3am for a 20m meeting i take on the toilet or while eating a boiled lobster complete with cracker + lobster bib. customers countable on one hand, invoices to customers not countable with 32 bits. no fucking mistakes ever allowed except for like whitepaper drafts, you cannot fuck the pumpkin on this one, your actual job relies on your ability to hit a button and suck down a week's worth of compute and millions of dollars, boiling swimming pool's worth of TDP, one mistake that leads result data to being able to be characterized as flawed and your balls are getting ripped off. Quarterly IRL meetings = normiepilled normiemaxxing. Dress sharp. leave at 5pm on the dot, go to bar with Old Fucker coworkers, drink wrecklessly with them, have a blast, let them give you a tour of a lab you are absolutely 100% not allowed to be inside, buildings that have posted weight limits per sq. ft. exceeding 250lbs, such a blast. every paycheck a FORTUNE every dinner a banquet every meeting an email every keystroke life or death. you get to meet /lib/doug mofos too one of whom i wrote a very poor kind of poem thing about. thats about it. hope this helps

[princesschimchim1325]

Love for Geppie?????? Thank God, he deserves that love!!!

I'm here to drop off like a thought/cute headcanon of like my fave trope ever!

Gepard usually stays in the frontlines, usually taking in all the damage and aggro for his soldiers (I know that's his role even in game/being the tank and all but every time he gets hit and he like screams I wince hhhh) so imagine a reader who is in charge of like taking care of the wounded soldiers so she's had more than enough times dealt with Gepard (so she knows him but he doesn't quite know her yet) already.

One day, the camp had been ambushed by a bunch of Fragmentum monsters and the main force is too busy with the Frontlines so reader here, despite being a healer, had to step up as technically the only one at that time who walked a Path and can heal whoever is left to be able to fight back and give the wounded time to escape. Gepard manages to make it back in time and give enough support so they all make it out. But he was already so wounded so reader takes special care of the Captain.

By the time he wakes up, reader has been in charge of his health exclusively, being the one to nurse him back to help (partially in thanks for saving her but also because she felt the most responsible for some of his aggravated wounds) and the way she treats him slowly has him go head over heels for her. Even after she no longer needed to take care of him extensively, Gepard finds himself spending his excess free time by her tent, just chatting and getting to know her better.

By the time he realizes that he has fallen in love with his caretaker, they were very close friends and he's gotten to know her a lot.

(Yes I'm a sucker for the Florence Nightingale effect/trope and yes I will die on a hill putting this trope on my fave charas and reader asdfjgktiejdkdo)

You're right and u should say it. I noticed that Geppie def doesnt get as much attention and love as much as the other guys 😔 I love the other guys too but Geppie is my number one in HSR.

I actually have an oc who hails from a diff world and is part of the express and she was once a nurse during the war in her world. So this ask is sooo perfect xksksksml this is too perfect I'm def making a one shot about this fr

The nurse/healer x injured warrior/soldier trope will forever be dear to me, like it is sooo romantic and sweet. Fr, Gepard is a wholeass unit and tank of a man xjnskwmskw

But every now and then, a shield becomes a bit too chipped to ignore and this is very true to Gepard whenever he becomes injured. Ohh yes the capable healer being the only fighter in a camp and then Gepard bulldozing in like the knight in shining armor he is despite being injured himself is just 👌 and then he just passes out in healer reader's arms nnggg

Him being naked from the waist up and waking up to reader's tiddies right up his face bc she's wrapping bandages around him and he just splutters, not knowing where he can look 😭

This became a normal occurence in the duration she nursed him back to health bc of his injuries, like the areas he cant reach like his back, needed to be tended by a professional.

Him noticing the difference in their hands 😭 his are scarred and calloused while hers are soft and dextrous 🥺

And when he's fully recovered, he still goes to her, making an excuse that it's for check ups until there's no more excuses, they just spend time together and he always looks forward to their tea time, and she does too. She's always flustered and smiley whenever her favorite patient is around.

They're idiots in love and everybody in the camp knows it, except the two people who are in love 💀

But, at one point, nightingale reader works herself to the bone to the point of collapsing and when Gepard hears of it, he rushes to her, for once letting his men take care of the frontlines.

And this time, when she wakes up, he's right next to her, holding her hand. She gets a scolding from him and when she objects that he often overworks himself too, he gets frustrated and he just pulls her for a kiss 😩

I could go on about Nightingale reader and Gepard but I'll just have to save that for the oneshot 😏

[solipseismic]

this is so stupid but i deespise it when unskilled players drop an ez in the game chat. shut your junkrat 1k bronze ass had less damage than the enemy zenyatta (me) ass "ive just been shooting random shots into the sky the entire game and hoping they'd hit the other team" "ggez" "dps diff" headass UP. i'm SICK and TIRED and our tank picked DOOMFIST. and we held on the POINT. i don't want to HEAR IT.

[waterbearable]

YALL i need to excitedly ramble abt the house of hope under the cut

god DAMN god damn what a fight holy shit!!!!! like. what a perfect fuckin way to cap all my shit off before endgame. i think a lot of the lead-up with stealing the hammer was also pretty fuckin great (i went in largely unspoiled outside of the understanding that Raphael is a Boss and He Sings Or Something). i love hope with all my fucking soul and i was not expecting her to be there and such an integral part. i'll have to see if i can take a diff approach w haarlep next time bc i did just kill him askldjfasjf, but once i stole the hammer it actually felt fuckin tense and stressful! like an ongoing escape! my party comp was wink+laezel+astarion+karlach which i think was a RIDICULOUS advantage for me. split the party for the actual hammer-stealing so astarion was the one to pick it up and RUN(fly) out of there. the fucking HELLFIRE BALLS. TERRIFYING TO DEAL WITH. you realize that 'hm there's no point to getting stuck fighting here' so you just run!!!

alright the actual raphael fight. fucking the boss music is so. so good. it's deeply satisfying to finally get to kill this motherfucker. i could tell that the fight was Hard but i think i went in w a smart party comp for once/got EXTREMELY lucky by convincing yurgir to fight with the group (yurgir's not exactly the hardest hitter when he's supporting you but damn, can't imagine having to fight him and all the other cambions that pop up). the soul pillars were cool and i think i was equipped to Deal with them after experiencing how the cazador fight worked? but honestly i was expecting to TPK a few times before finally getting it, and that didn't happen :0 like i think i have underestimated previously the sheer hitting power of a very martial group, even though i didn't get any bonus fire dmg from karlach. i did however get to make her a Fuckin Giant (went through the ansur fight so i got the giantslayer greatsword. chefs kiss.) just slicing her way through shit. tbh tho lae'zel remains mvp, she's not as much of a tank as karlach but the way i've specced her she gets more chances to hit than karlach and hits almost as hard. astarion continues to be my special guy for staying the Fuc out the way and sniping.

wink didn't get to do a lot of flashy shit, in part bc of how i've built them i think? they're mainly useful for AOE,psychic dmg, and condition-altering, but cloudkill wasn't really useful w how much close up fighting needed to be done. BUT i think they were deeply necessary to keep a TPK from happening--i mostly just had them using eldritch blast to focus on the pillars and leaving all their spell slots to counterspell raphael's incinerates/other nasty spells. tbh, it worked most of the time! wink also has psionic backlash which comes in Clutch (raphael's actual final attack was some fuckin hellfire 6th level bullshit that downed lae'zel once it hit and had a wide aoe, but bc i'd whittled him down low enough psionic backlash as a reaction was enough for his attack to insta-doom him) (sidenote: didn't do it here but i also love having 2 party members w counterspell+one that has psionic backlash bc you can cancel the spell AND punish them for casting it buahahaha)

hellfire is a FUCK and i think that raphael has some really powerful attacks that had i brought a diff party comp/had a diff tav the party would have been very wiped multiple times. i would LOVE to play this fight in tactician/honor mode bc while i could tell this was meant to be a challenge and while i will aBSOLUTELY leave it for last every time, i don't think it was the hardest fight i've had in act 3! fighting cazador was pretty rough tbh (and viconia but that was mostly due to how many motherfuckers were in that room).

(related sidenote: they don't actually need to do anything about this but i think. something could be done to make gortash seem a more formidable foe--or maybe that's the point, that he's a politics guy with widespread power rather than being a deeply powerful being himself. idk it's been a bit since i fought him but i would not consider his battle particularly difficult, at least when i hit it, i don't think i had even hit lvl 12 at that point. like i think from a challenge standpoint at minimum orin holds her own alongside the other late-stage bosses in a way that gort...doesn't, to me? the steel watch are Scary to deal with when hostile but idk. i'll have to think about it. if he's not as mechanically terror-inducing then he really should have an additional more roleplay/discovery focused quest that's hard to just High Persuasion your way out of.)

[coa4]

man i can't take melatonin anymore i just woke up from the most exhausting and weird stream of dreams in my life.

1. two old friends of mine reached out to hang out again and we did and it was fun except one of them wound not look at or acknowledge me at all, at the function in the car etc

2. all i remember about this one was being at school and having a full heart to heart conversation with my old english teacher. she apologized for always being late after i told her that i struggle with that as an adult, as if it was her fault. we looked out the window and saw an ugly dog and laughed

3. i got a new job and moved into a room rented from someone i worked with. i was always either late to work or just not showing up or id look at the time and my phones clock would be weird. i would also just leave work and go home. my manager was my one of old gms from canes

4. one time after going home i was watching something with a coworker (and a character i like died and i looked at him and screamed) and a fishtank exploded so i was running around throwing them into another tank, but it was cold and not cycled and the fish kept jumping out so i was trying to find an actually set up tank to throw them in that wasn't immediately too hot. there were fish chillin on the ground. the hallway was a combination of my grandmas house and my old school.

5. manager (diff canes manager) came home with a new coworker/roommate as i was collecting fish and we hit it off and gave each other cookies. i was late again, so while she was telling me a story i went into my room with the door propped to hear her. she watched victorville tiktoks and i was like you know victorville!? my pants wouldn't fit because i was putting them on over my pajamas and i had a cookie in my pocket

a. at some point there were zombies and we were in a graveyard trying to warn someone about it except we couldn't step on the graves because that would wake them up, and if we got too close they'd growl/there would be a warning sound . there was a two headed horse that got revived on purpose by... something not human, like, a cat or a dog. there was another horse. i think it busting through a door is what caused the fish tank to explode

im still tired and i slept for like 9 hours

[thekaijudude]

So, just curious but, if the 6 Ultra Brothers all fought Greeza, then how would that play out? Like, how would the fight go and who would come out on top and all?

That is a very good qn tbh

And this is one of the examples where the immense and vast power scale of the Ultra canon becomes an issue. Because based on what we've seen of him, he literally only has 2 weaknesses as said before:

1. X-lugger

2. Belial-related genome (Reiblood by proxy)

Both of which literally have been so scarely explored in canon that they're not even worth preparing for most ultras. X literally had the X lugger for no reason and Geed, by sheer luck was around in Z.

And Geed mentioned the actual way to defeat Greeza was to remove the space needle literally within Greeza itself and use it to seal Greeza itself, but in order to do so, one must literally allow him to be absorbed in the first place. But then once you're even in it, even a movie tier GR couldn't even move within the immense gravity/pressure.

And so, based on what we've seen of him, he's essentially game over for anyone at New Gen Level (at least up till movie forms)

He has abilities that literally zero-diffs (because he can absorb them and grow stronger from it) any standard kaiju and even absorb mid New Gen Level Ultras (albeit it takes a far substantial amount of time to absorb GR than the potentially tens to hundreds of kaiju from Japan Xio HQ, which means volumes of how an Ultra is that much stronger than an average kaiju btw, but I digress)

But from Z, we now know that Greeza isn't as physically untouchable as we saw in X. In X, Exceed X amd Cyber Gomora basically couldn't even touch him. However in Z, Greeza fought against a higher tiered Ultra, that being GR, which by my estimates, should be around New Gen Movie level. Even AE and Five King could touch him. Then later, DRC as well, albeit he did 0 damage to Greeza until he got hold on essentially both of his weaknesses at the same time, Reiblood-genome fused with the space needle, the Beliarok

So this suggests that Greeza's passive hax ability of space distortion only works up till a certain extent. As once he's up against opponents or multiple opponents with a higher dps, he can still be touched, albeit we saw still with 0 actual damage even tho their dps bypasses his passive

But now that there's a way for ultras to be able to touch him, all we know at this point is that Greeza can't even be phased by at the most a movie level ultra like GR. But we haven't seen him go up against higher tiers or even fusions.

A pure duo fusion like Ruebe would definitely hit harder than GR and also be able to bypass his dps, would Ruebe be able to actually damage Greeza physically just based on his physical prowess? Or even higher tiered movie forms like EXBSA, OT or even Gruebe? Even UF technically is also in the question as he hits harder and faster as seen in his movie via his Giga Finalizer.

And as mentioned in my previous ask, an Ultra Brother level ultra is at least 1000x stronger than an average New Gen Super Form. Can Greeza tank a physical attack from an Ultra Brother the same way as he did with GR or DRC?

Probably not as this was actually hinted by Geed in Z.

The very fact that Geed even had the information of Greeza's only "vanilla" weakness of the space needle and all that suggests that either without resorting to GR, his other similarly tiered forms like RMM or UF was still able to get the job done before against another Greeza (albeit because he has the Belial genes) or, he got this information from somewhere else. We know that Geed has some contact with the LoL so someone there could've provided him with this information.

The second possibility suggests that stronger M78 Ultras can and have literally just gone within Greeza and retrieved the space needle without the X lugger/Belial genes (aka the "vanilla" way) and this was literally a viable tactic against Greeza for them

Also, we saw that DRC, with his low tiered super form strength of 135 000t but coupled with his high tiered super form acceleration ability was able to severely stun Greeza (albeit 0 damage but Greeza can't even feel pain in the first place cause its technically not even a living thing, sort of like Choju where they feel pain but 0 fear as explained by Ace, so they just continue trudging on after soaking up hits)

So I think u can imagine what a blow from an Ultra Brother level ultra whom is at least 1000x stronger would do to Greeza. And based on the first hint with Geed knowing about Greeza's vanilla weakness, I think it's safe to assume that while GR can even move within Greeza, an Ultra Brother level ultra probably could easily move within it. Or just use Ultra Psychokinesis to literally rip the space needle out of it easily without even purposely being absorbed by Greeza considering we saw just how OP the ability is when used by Ultra Brothers like Seven and Jack

So yeah, considering the Ultra Brothers are so much stronger than the New Gen thus far, and based on the little tidbits of information gathered here and there across 2 series, anyone on that level could probably defeat Greeza.

Thanks for the question!

[everydaydg]

It is my eternal goal to be the best Fantasy Zone 2 16c player or at least be comparable to a good player by achieving a 4+ loop (or at least beating the game on max diff.)

A bit of an explanation of what makes this special and a bit of my planing behind how I play the game

To start my main release of the game is the 3DS due its implementation of analog control and widescreen

I have done some runs on the arcade version before and its def doable but I simply prefer the wider view and analog (it actually brings and incredibly useful technique).

Ive made it to a third loop a few times on arcade but sadly kept dying on it (two clears is not half bad).

So

Loop = 1 Clear

The game lets you clear the game as many times as you can as it resets after beating evil Opa-Opa

The game takes all your lives and it converts them into score and the game increases the difficulty by 1 (max of 5, usually I start out at 3), the increase in difficulty brings faster bullets and more enemy spawns (which means more bullets)

Its also worth keeping in mind that the price inflation between runs stays, if you bought the laser beam twice it will increase in price slight. the game will keep the increased price for the second run.

so those are the main things to keep in mind. now onto my usual loadouts for each stage

Base Build = Jet Engine/Turbo Engine, Twin Shot, Double Big Bombs

When possible/necesary: Laser, 3 Way, Wide, Twin Big Shot

to tank one hit and have a higher damage output... mostly the former. they are all relatively cheap options too.

Loadout/Changes to loadout per stage:

Stage 1 = Jet Engine + Double Bombs (not enought gold for engine, big bombs not selectable on stage 1)

Stage 2 = Heavy Bomb

Stage 3 = Fire Bomb/Heavy Bomb (I usually replace heavy bomb with fire bomb in advance to prepare for stage 4)

Stage 4, 5 and 6= Same set up as stage 3 (stage 5 prefferable with 7 way shot... theres no real advantage from using it lol, I just like using it when I can. You can save your cash on that)

Stage 7 = Laser + Fire Bomb

If you can tell, fire bomb is the best bomb in the entire game.

it does HUGE damage, can be used as many times as you want, its useful for nearly all bosses.

Even on the boss rush the quick kill on the round 2 boss can be neglected in order to just stay with fire bombs

The boss rush is kinda just keeping fire bomb and sometimes equiping laser.

Super important note if you are shooting for constant bright endings... dont buy drop tears when the boss rush starts. Kill yourself with a nenon on the prelude to the final boss and THEN buy it... do buy a laser shot there too, it helps with the nenons and if you are fast enought it can do big damage to evil opa.

So yeah thats the usual idea. I do tend to buy guns for the sake of it at times... I never need fire shot but its always fun to use hehe.

Regarding the price increasing per purchase

There are some things that are always affordadble (which is why loops in this game are even possible- I genuinelly refuse to believe someone can casualy beat the game with small wings)

Stuff like the jet engine always staying at a comfy 1000g is a huge help.

Wide Beam is always an affordable choise. Due to me never buying triple bombs (unless I die on a late stage), I often find them a great tool for second-third loops.

Oh yeah real quick, regarding that technique I mentioned that was introduced on the 3DS ver. you can move backwards while shooting foward. If you move your circle pad slightly back you can just move backwards without changing directions, this makes the stage 1 and 3 bosses a complete breeze with bomb and shot spam.

I could go on and on in more detail about certain things about the game but at a certain point you just have to figure things out yourself... and im a bit tired of typing, its kinda late.

Good luck.

[zwei-rhunen]

battled a snail tonight (70 A-rank)

i was going to try to help heal with my 65 AST but someone else joined with a much higher healer, so i was just "oh awesome, i'll be tank then!"

slowly lost aggro throughout the fight, despite me desperately hitting provoke every 30secs as soon as it was on cooldown, me over here like "???????"

and then remembering about my level (since all my jobs are scattered at diff levels everywhere now)

>oh shit, what level am i

>mfw its not 65 as i had assumed. it's at..... level 60..... :')

>not me, crying big fat salty tears as i chased the snail's tail like an annoying dog, my littol tinfoil axe just >ding!ding!ding!< 'ing and bouncing harmlessly off it's titanium-hard shell :')

it was funny bc i was fighting back for aggro for the longest time, and then someone else joined as a higher tank so they were able to rescue the healers from being relentlessly targeted lol

then the tank: "trying to dump the stupid aggro so i can dps lol"

and me over here like "me using provoke every 30 secs D:" just so they know i'm really really trying to get this snail's attention!!!! LOL

but it eventually died so turned out well

[rawrmeansilyindinosawr]

MICKEY MOUSEY clubHAUSE!!!

I KEEP HEARIN MUNCHIN N MUNCHIN N LIL PAW PAWS RUNNIN AROUND IN MI ROOM N IN THA LIVING ROOM WHEN NO ONE IS DOIN ANYTHUNG N ITZ SCARIIIIIIIII. IDK WHERE DA FUG WE LEF THA RAT TRAP LAST TIME WE CAUGHT A LIL MICKEY MOUSEY MITSKY POOP BUTT I KANNOT MF SLEEP IN PEACE KNOWIN THEY HERE. I AM SO [RATIONALLY] SCARED IMA WAKE UP N ONE IS GONNA B IN MY MOUTFH. TELL MEH IF IM BEING RAT-IONALL. ALSO THE CRICKETS FUK RLY RLY LOUD AT NITE N IM SCARED OF THE BIRDS I KANT SEE OUTSIDE MY WINDOW THT SOUND LIKE THEY R SCREAMING OL YELLAAAAAHH. I KANT HEAR PHEOBE BRIDGERZ OVER THEM.

Finally went to the bins in LIC. thought id hav to fight ppl there cuz TIff told me sOme bitch pulled some shoes out of their hand they found first but it wuz quite EMPTY when i got there!!!!!!!!!! i found a Rly kute brand new ralph lauren polo tank and GW leather red n black high heel boots. ALL for like 2 buckz!!!!! idk why i thought id b successful in finding anna bolina [my iphone autocorrected anna bolina to anna bologna n i thot tht wuz kinda funnie] tanks or zip dressez there but whatevzz, walking around for an hour and a half in circlez around tha bins were rly theraputic . the7 train so wobbly n packed n sociologically fascinating. ppl r counting their hundreds openly , couples r so intertwined , holding each other still while the subway carts shake our bones ... i wasnt even wearing platformz but i felt so fragile even whilst being held together by tha rat race rat packed lil LIC 7 Train. LIC so quiet i wonder if and when i get a slower pace of life ill maybe settle here cuz it's so neighborhoody n it's a still an easy ferry ride to the city . i wuld luv to live alone again n feel the ability to host more ppl comfortably / hav my own independent space for my own artistic pursuits as a multidisciplinary artist .......

ST EAZY n ZILLOW

PLZ B KIND 2 MEH.

ihope i kan get on sum pandemic monkey pox rent stabilized deal LMAO. mi rent in bev hills for my own place wuz like 1300 but studios in NYC are like 1700 . like wtf lolzz. Mind u i was paying like 100 every 6 months for a fuckin parking pass just to park my car in my area n also like 100 in utilities on top of tht a month but tht was do-able w/ my income n i kant imagine having to make like 40x the rent amount now in NYC n with my Average credit score now i just don kno .

BUTTTTT. igot a nannying job in UES n also passed tha first round of interviewzz with The Children's Institute of Fashion Arts to b a sewing instructor / fashion design teacher ;] EXCITED. i hav no teaching credentialzz but i was a tutor thruout high school n was a socialworker for kiddozz during covid n had to meet their teachers / drive them to skool to get their laptopz ….. during my junior yr in college i had my sociology internship where i taught art to unhoused children for the summer. i think tht makes me more than qualified TBH butttttt.

Ur laughing w a stranger outside of substance abuse skate park at an after after party talkin ab naming our children after diff types of cheeze, like Baby feta andbaby swiss and baby parm n baby colby Jac . Whenever i decide to hav children i will name them meunster. Or swizz.

LADYGUNN wuz fun w many cute musicians, stylists, designers, photographerzz modelzz n HOTTIES . giving advice ab seeking/sugar bby lyfe n getting advice on how to succeed in tha fashion world blah blah... mucho tired pullin up tho cuz NYFW castingzz have been extremely exhausting but i made it past tha 2nd round for danielsleatherzz n got scouted by MAMA KITTYYY who shuld hit me up for a show as well... TRYNA STAY BOOKED AF.

i luv being able to complain ab the stupid modeling industry with other cute models but also laugh about how fun it is at tha same time n be encouraging n hype each other up when we all do our lil runway walk IT SO KUTE n supportive n MODELING IS SO MUCH FUCKING MORE THAN MODELING. its art, community, FASHION which is SOFT POWER... A LIL EXCERPT I WROTE AB IT 4 SKOOL RECENTLYY.

"fashion is soft power, a form of communication . During the french revolution people wore the jewelry of the high priestesses n priests while redistributing wealth. with wealth comes influence , with wealth comes power. fashion attests to that. '

and the redistribution of wealth is something i always found endearing in my religious studies and 'wrestle' with God per say, i enjoyed the reading of the laws. and That every 7 years there would be a sabbath / rest period for labor. and every 50 years [ year of jubilee ] they would rotate class statuses. jesus also taught to create safety nets for the poor, fashion encompasses society n its growths and highs n lows. jesus emphasized nurturing all class statues thru clothing them, feeding them, housing them.

CHARLIXCX JUSTDISCOVERED CROCS 2 DAYS AGO [09/05/22] AND I YAM WAITING 4 THEM TO DROP A SONG AB IT ASAP ALSO MET A GURL NAMED NELLY THIS WK N NOW I FEEL GUILTY CALLING PPL THT AS A TOXIC WAY TO TEASE PPL.

Nowadayz is so kute to lay against tha speakers n rly rly rly feel the music surge into ur palms and thru ur body. why do the deepest convos happen on the nowadayz dance floor. standing in front of the DJ booth holding each other so close screaming in each otherz ears loud enough to hear over the music but tender 3nough to not b offended. yR friend r on molly anD we lay outside finding the orion constellation in the string-lightz. its funnie to laugh ab but the truth comes to surface thti haven't seen constellations or stars 4 far 2 long.... growing up in SGV i wuz surrounded by mountains ... waking up willingly at like 5am everymorning just to walk around alone . watch the sunrise n leave poems 4 my forbidden crush [they were a pASTORS KID and i wuz this scene goth bitch wiff an antieyebrow piercing] in the little tunnel / bridge under the mall down tha st from mi house. id sneak into the arboretum n write poems next to the cherry treez and see the peacocks every single day . arcadia was such a jdugmental n superficial fake town. but we sure housed all tha god damn peacocks in LA. it wuz our town's lil slogan in animal form i guess, if u hurt one u could deadass do time in jail.

[lost the rest of this on my old tumblr SADDDDDD] ...

-RENNY

[nibeul]

hi okay so i’ve been following along ur redesigned tbb ref sheets and i Need to Know why u drew their bodies that way

bc when i see them i think of this photo set (that was done in the 90s? i think?) that’s of all these US female olympians from different sports and it’s showing us that different body types are good at different things. the purpose of the photos was to show that these women are at the peak of athleticism and how much they weigh doesn’t matter.

i rly hope this doesn’t sound creepy but i keep thinking abt how u drew hunters thighs and it makes me curious if u did that on purpose bc u hc him as a rly fast runner (for example) or if u just arbitrarily decided to give them diff body types

don’t worry, you’re not creepy at all! the short answer to your question is yes, the body types I gave them was very intentional.

To elaborate more, I’m just going to go through and give explanations for each

Crosshair: Crosshair has a very thin, box-like shape because he’s a marksman. He doesn’t see a whole lot of upfront action, and being lithe allows him to get around quicker/fit into spaces that he needs to in order to get an edge. There isn’t much need for him to build muscle mass because normally he’s on the outskirts of a battle or providing overwatch. He doesn’t have a lot of body fat but he doesn’t have a lot of muscle either, so he’s pretty light too. 

Tech: Tech is kind of similar to Crosshair except that he’s more toned since he does get more upfront action. That being said, he doesn’t rely on brute strength and tends to hop around a lot (also a note to what I HC his “defect” to be), using his speed and agility to his advantage instead. I think he’s efficient when it comes to CQB, and he has enough muscle that he can throw a nasty punch or kick but not so much that he can rely on it to take hits. 

Hunter: I actually did draw Hunter’s legs like that with the idea that he’s pretty fast! I think that he has a lot of endurance, and I think he can put a lot of power into a singular kick (I think I picked up on this while watching the arc in season 7, actually). He’s more muscular in comparison to Tech and Crosshair because he can rely on his strength to push through, and his fighting style actually revolves around that. Also, I HC that his gear might be a bit heavier. 

Echo: Echo is like, the happy medium between Hunter and Tech. He was probably more like Hunter before he was nearly killed (because ARC gear is heavier, so it makes sense that he would build up a decent amount of muscle mass from hauling it around), though he lost a lot of his weight thanks to captivity, so regaining that is going to take a bit. Like Hunter, I do think that he had a more upfront fighting style, though because of his injuries, he’s probably dialed it back a bit into something more like Tech’s.

Wrecker: Lastly with Wrecker, he’s basically the tank. I think his is pretty self explanatory, though I did give him some chub because I think he deserves it and also because having him maintain a Dorito shape just doesn’t feel.. realistic? Like, fat does help with absorbing impact from blows and such, so I feel like it makes sense for him to have some fat instead of just being all muscle, especially with his nature as a tank. He takes the hits because he can, and his fat helps him do that

I started thinking about this when drawing them because I wanted to try different body types and make them distinguishable, so that is a summarization of my thought process! 

[cmescapade]

“Tucked Tank” - EP05 Bro Tank Mesh Edit

this was sitting in my drafts for 3 weeks bc i forgot i didn’t hit schedule/queue w/e the button was 

i liked this tank when it came out bc it was just as baggy as the raggedy ones i wear all the time, but i also wanted it partially tucked in bc sometimes i do that w mine, then my mom tells me its ugly n i should change my shirt but she’ll tolerate it bc im at home n im not going anywhere

at least thats what i tell her when i walk my dog lookin like a homeless man

Originally made for personal use. 🎽

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heres a diff angle of it if u think martin’s hand placement is suspicious, bc i think that sometimes when i look at cc previews

i would’ve used this but i like seeing my simbs smiling since im always sitting in front of my computer w my resting bitch face

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[galionne-vibin]

Posting this little step by step in hopes it can help out friends just starting out with SAI and also in case anyone is curious as to my art process. This isn’t really a guide but more of a “this is how I do it and if it can help you that’s great” kind of thing.

Also before you open this, be warned: VERY LONG POST UNDER THE CUT

Step 1: Sketching

I have 2 tools I use for sketching: first is a custom brush that has a rough and papery texture and second is the basic pen tool (with a few tweaks). Which tool I use depends entirely on my mood of the day. (Feel free to copy my settings if you’d like! This goes for this entire step-by step.)

Step 2: Lineart (New layer above the sketch)

Again I have two tools for lineart, but this time there’s an actual difference! The first one I use mostly for quick sketches ; like doodling characters or other silly art. It’s a second custom brush with a rough texture (sometimes it looks a bit thin so I duplicate the layer and merge it down again to make it thicker). The second one is, again, the basic pen tool. This one looks much cleaner and smoother but also takes longer to get done, so I only use it for big pieces that will get fully shaded, have lighting, etc.

Step 3: Coloring (New layer between the sketch and lineart)

Oh boy, my favorite! I’ve come up with a few shortcuts for this one to make things easier.

First, on the lineart layer I select everything that isn’t to be colored/around the character with the wand tool. In this case I didn’t close off the lineart so it’s selecting areas that I’ll have to fill in later. My art style includes a thick lineart, but if it was thinner I’d have to play around with the ‘color diff.’ setting of the wand tool.

After that I increment the selection about 3 to 5 times depending on the thickness of the lineart (I use this function a lot so I tied it to the W key), then invert it so only the inside of the lineart is selected. The incrementation is to make sure I don’t have any pixels outside the lineart selected.

Fill everything in with the bucket tool on a new layer UNDER the lineart layer (the lineart layer is always at the top up until the last step) then hit ‘clear selection’ and fill in the missing colors using the pen tool (the best tool) if there are any.

After that I hit ‘preserve opacity’ so I won’t be able to draw outside of what’s already on the layer…

And start coloring (on the same layer)! Again using the pen tool.

If their are any extra details to be added that aren’t surrounded by a lineart (markings, tattoos, patterns, etc.) I add a new layer above the base color layer and hit ‘clipping group’. This means I can’t draw outside of what’s already drawn on the layer underneath the one I’m working on (in this case the base color).

Step 4: Shading (On a new layer just under the lineart)

On a new layer, hit ‘clipping group’ (if multiple clipped layers are stacked on top of each other, they all clip to the closest layer that isn’t clipped to anything- in this case the base color) and add all that nice shading. With the pen tool. The pen tool has holy powers and is second only to our Lord and Savior Dino-Tank.

I like to do everything in one color ; you can use dark grey but I’d recommend something colorful like orange, purple or blue.

Time to use the magic that is ‘layer modes’! Switch the layer mode to ‘shade’ and lower the opacity until everything looks good to you! Magic!

This technique does have a few flaws ; especially when working with darker colors where the shading might look too dark. In that case hit ‘preserve opacity’ and change the colors to something that works better (usually by shading dark areas with a very light color).

Step 5: Lighting (New layer above the shading layer)

Add a new layer, hit ‘clipping group’ and use a light color (I used pure white, but depending on the lighting you could use light blue, light pink, etc.) to add hightlights.

Change the layer mode to ‘luminosity’ and lower the opacity until it looks good to you.

Step 6: Finishing touches & Exporting

Almost done! Now add a layer above the lineart (*gasp*) and add some little extras. Blushy cheeks are a must for a good boy such as Pegassa.

Finally, untick any lauer you don't want visible in the final art (like the sketch layer) and export your piece with the desired settings! I always export in PNG. If you haven’t added a background, 24ppp will give you a solid white background while 32ppp will give you a transparent background.

And voilà! Two very good boys ready to go!