#that disk ? is so tiny idk how the players do it

[insufficientlyadvanced]

and also the side effect of completely breaking twitch stream playback because you know there kinda isn't a single video file for a live stream of indefinite length.

i'm bored so i'm gonna talk about hls

a twitch video stream is a whole bunch of tiny video files of like two seconds of video each. there's a server somewhere in idk amsterdam or ohio or something that is constantly writing those files to disk one after another. it also updates a text file that's just all the filenames of the video files. it's a .m3u8 file, like a fucking mp3 playlist or something. the javascript in your browser constantly refreshes the m3u8 file like "did we get a new second of video yet? how about now? how about now?" and then it downloads the new file and manually decodes it and stuffs it into the browser video player element thing. sometimes the .m3u8 file lists a new video file but it's a lie and the browser requests the video segment and some in-between server is like oh yeah it's totally ready. i'm totally gonna send you the first byte any moment now. just hang on. while it frantically calls the other server from above asking for that file that doesn't actually exist yet. this makes it go faster somehow.

idk it kinda blew my mind and/or upset me a little that something as neat sounding as potentially infinitely long live video streams over the internet is just hundreds of tiny files. on a bunch of boring old web servers serving a bunch of files, like they did in the 80s probably. not even special video servers. might as well use ftp. i hate javascript.

on the other hand, if you want to do a thing that records a twitch stream to your computer, it can be a super simple script that just does a bunch of http requests and puts all the files into a directory and doesn't need to worry about anything actually video related, i guess.

[hhuta]

two thoughts re: ur football sideblog: man it's weird seeing black font instead of orange when it's the same theme | and also that dream has similar energy to iirc that hockey time one team's goalies were all out so they had to use the /other team's/ zamboni driver as their goalie(and they WON) (okay update the odds were slightly less pitted against him and maybe he wasn't the leafs' zamboni driver but still cbssports(.)com/nhl/news/zamboni-driver-42-gets-win-as-emergency-goalie-for-canes/ ) -3D

i knoww its so weird bc its so similar! i wanted to choose a different theme but i did not have time to do that before germanys match 💀 so i had to change smth and also match the colours with the sidebar pic and tada. ill leave it like that fkahdj

ALSO THAT ARTICLE ?? HUH !!! omg so unfortunate to lose ur both goalies ???!1!1!!!! the energy really is similar to my dream byeeeee

“That forced Ayres, who's been the emergency goalie in Toronto for about half the games this season and is available to either team, into action for the remainder of game between clubs battling for playoff positioning in the Eastern Conference.”

He could be either teams goalie ! thats so fksjdka also them winning woww oh wow congrats

[esoraluco]

I’ve seen these (1, 2) Spamton Pokemon drawings and thought they were really cool- wasn’t going to do my own, however. But then I thought just how well Spamton fits within the stupid, silly world of Yokai Watch and all the pathetic divorcecore men it has in it.Just had to do it. Tried replicating the YW artwork style for fun and because i like it.

Mor FUN info under the cut + the reason as to why NEO doesn’t seem to have strings

Regular Spamton;

I think his description could be something among the lines of ‘A Yokai born who successful salesmen who lost it all. Now, he puts spam ads everywhere he goes, and inspirits happy salesmen, creating more instances of himself and repeating the cycle.’ Idk how strong he’d be? But he’d have a really annoying ability that can make fights harder. I don’t know what it could be though because I’m too much of a casual to know what abilities are good and which are bad. While it feels to me like Spamton could be a ‘Merican yokai, his rise and fall story is sadly possible in both countries. He’d be found in cities, near dumpsters; or abandonned office buildings. The player could have a quest with the (supposedly) ‘original’ Spamton, who requests a certain disk... 

Spamton Neo;

He’s a (optional) boss yokai. So where are his strings? Only at his shoulders! Because...

He’s a bunraku puppet! Gaster is the omozukai and Mike is the hidarizukai. Meaning Gaster is very well versed with bunraku puppetry, to the extent where he doesn’t have to wear a mask. In-game, yes this would be a lot of models to coordinate but: it’s cool. The End. Also Gaster and Mike would only appear when Spamton Neo’s health is low...  His heart IS his obvious weak point- like Gusty Bones I guess lol. No helping him directly sadly. Unless the player comes back after beating him- then they’d be able to ‘help’ him- by being the next person to puppet him. The cycle is endless and he is aware of it. But he might as well be friends with his new puppeteer now. Like all other bosses, once you befriend him he becomes small like his regular self and Ridiculous. Because as much as I love befriending bosses in YW, their tiny chibi ver will never not be funny to me.

[blazichu]

Okay, since there was a bit of interest, I’m gonna go ahead and post a few of my incomplete WIPs as appropriate.

This first one was going to be titled ‘A CD Drive [Around Town]’ and the basic premise was that Spamton’s sidequest wasn’t completed prior to the chapter’s end, and it ended up as a ‘halfway-possessed’ situation with Spamton and K_K. There’s a little bit of extra content about it here.

(Just a reminder that this is very incomplete, and will jump around/have placeholders in it. It also... just kind of ends.)

--

It was clear within seconds of stepping into the dark world that something was wrong. When they’d left the previous day, the denizens of the computer lab had just been settling in and an air of excitement had buzzed about in town. Today, however, tension hung in the atmosphere, a high, electric hum that set Kris on edge before they had a chance to see what was causing it.

Even from a distance, they could see that someone had blocked off Castle Town’s main entrance, and that both the hasty blockade and brick wall were studded with dozens of shiny semicircles; tiny, glittery bits littered the ground where just as many projectiles had failed to find purchase. As they drew nearer, they realized they recognized what was embedded in the walls: ultra-thin, crispy bagels.

“Ohh, uh oh.” Kris wasn’t exactly surprised to find K_K coming their way, albeit with a strange, staggering gait-- their audible concern only made things more puzzling, “Lightner! I really think you should leave now!”

[Kris approaches, trying to figure out what’s up]

“No, not this way! I still have 300 bagels!”

At the same time they spoke, a different voice crackled through their speakers, “KRIS! KRIS, YOU [[???]], THIS WASNT OUR [[phrase w/ deal in it]].”

Reflexively, Kris took a step back, away from the [idk] booming at them, and reached for their sword-- but, halfway there, changed tracks and felt around in their inventory for Spamton’s disk. It wasn’t there. Hardly a surprise, given the voice projecting from K_K’s chest, but they hadn’t taken it out since receiving it-- had they dropped it, somehow? Had someone stolen it? And how had…?

[line from Spamton]

K_K’s speakers burst to life, producing a [x] shockwave, and the robot in question frantically waved their hands, trying to get Kris’s attention, “Run away, Lightner!”

Despite the contrary sentiment, they advanced, and at their worried record scratch, Kris suddenly understood: it wasn’t just that Spamton had taken over their speakers-- he seemed to have partial control of their body. A sympathetic shudder ran through them, and they took a step back, maintaining the distance between them as they tried to take stock of the situation.

They weaved around a sonic boom and started with the obvious: Spamton was in the disk, and K_K was a CD player. Theoretically, if they could just remove the disk, this would all blow over, but they didn’t know how they’d go about getting that close, or how K_K’s mechanism worked.

They called over, hoping an explanation would be simple enough for them to act on, but the only response they got was a new wave of vitriol from Spamton and a volley of bagels flung in their general direction.

Ducking the wave of baked goods, they offered a short wave in response to the [idk] ��Sorry!”

So that was out for the time being, and it wasn’t like they could brute force it and just rip Spamton out. It was one thing to tear their own invader from their chest, and another entirely to do the same to someone’s face.

Maybe they could signal to Ralsei… somehow and put K_K to sleep. If their body was unconscious, Spamton wouldn’t be able to control it, right? That would give them enough time to figure out how to remove his disk-- a prospect that sounded orders easier than dealing with them as things currently stood.

A broken bagel caught them by surprise as it swung back around, nicking their cheek, and the sudden sting spurred Kris into action. They bolted, running [past] K_K before they could be cornered at the cliffs, and coughed past the impact of one long arm whipping into them.

At a reasonable distance, they turned on their heel and finally drew their sword--

Only to have it tugged roughly from their grasp while something wrapped around their wrist, leaving no room to wiggle free. They might have panicked, had the perpetrators not been immediately visible: on one side, Cap’n, holding the sword like he had no idea what to do with it, and Sweet on the other, hand clamped firmly around their wrist.

“It’s not their fault!” Said the former, as the latter insisted, “Don’t hurt them!”

“I know,” Kris assured them, pressing their free hand down on the flat of their blade so Cap’n didn’t accidentally stab anyone, “Spamton’s pissed at me, and that’s why he’s attacking. He’s in a disk-- do either of you know how to get it out of them?”

“You’ve gotta pull up on their handle to get their CD slot open.”

Sweet, however, got caught up on a different detail, “Are you saying this is all your fault? What’d you do to them?”

----

The instant they stepped into the path between the portal and town, however, a familiar shockwave tore through the air and bit into them, sending them flying into Castle Town’s barricade. K_K seemed to regain control long enough to press a hand to their head and follow the attack to its source--  to Susie, advancing on them with her axe at the ready.

Before Kris had a chance to speak up, Sweet and Cap’n were gone, tripping over one another as they hurried to interpose themselves between K_K and their aggressor, heedless of the danger inherent in getting so close. Kris, as they dashed over, themselves, watched K_K’s free hand reach up, toward the pair, and tremble violently before it dropped back into their lap.

Good job, they couldn’t help but think. Fight it. Don’t let it win.

----

Keenly aware of the looks they were receiving from Cap’n and Sweet, Kris walked up and gave K_K’s handle a single, firm tug; there was a click, and the CD slot between their eyes opened. They tried not to dwell on the fact that those same eyes tracked their movement as they circled around, popped the disk out, and nudged their player shut again.

“Definitely not one of ours.” Cap’n said, somewhat unnecessarily, studying the disk over the top of his glasses.

The statement was met by an excited, “Hey!” as K_K tossed one hand-- the one Cap’n had relinquished as he leaned over-- in the air, “I can hear that!”

[...]

“The little blue boy has a whole buncha cool mp3s. I was gonna sample some for our ne-xt--” They fumbled on the last word-- almost a hiccup-- and slapped a hand over their mouth, looking abruptly from Sweet to Cap’n, who seemed just as alarmed, “I… skipped?”

[...]

“Oh, right. I was looking for the little blue boy, then someone came up behind me and gra-bbed--” They grimaced, one hand hovering, self conscious, near their face, “My handle.”

[...]

“Yeah, you guys do that,” He said, not bothering to hide the fact that he wasn’t paying a bit of attention, “We’re gonna get Cakes patched up.”

The statement was punctuated by Sweet leaning around K_K’s other side to glare at Susie, and a bemused, “But I’m not thirsty?”

[pharaohsparklefists]

Episode 97, part 2: is anyone getting any sleep on this goddamn blimp??

(part 1 is here)

Short answer: no.

Not Anzu, who wakes up in Ryou’s empty room, and not Yugi, who is woken shortly thereafter by Anzu.

And must have been awake at least once since he went to sleep and talked to Yami in Yami’s Soul Room, because the Puzzle is on his bedside locker now:

headcanon: he rolled over in his sleep and hit his head on the Puzzle

Given that the puzzle seems to be about ~12 cm wide and not quite as tall, and the density of gold is 19.3 g/cm^3, the Puzzle, with an estimated volume approaching 500 cm^3 probably weighs around 9 kg (or around 20 lbs for those of you who still haven’t adopted the decimal system of revolutionary France). So (a) how is Yugi even carrying this around on his fucking neck the whole time and (b) I’m surprised he didn’t give himself a black eye trying to sleep with it in his bed in the first place.

(Also please note his hair spikes left spiky indents on his pillow!)

Anzu, to her credit, is genuinely worried about Bakura as a friend, like, he gets overlooked by the writers (and therefore the characters) but the Yugi-tachi really do care about him.

okay even though Yugi’s face here is low-key screaming “why should I care?” like he was really hoping if Anzu knocked on his door in the middle of the goddamn night it wouldn’t be for this shit again

But he gets dressed and OBVIOUSLY puts on his Duel Disk(tm) and they set off..

Meanwhile, in another room of people not getting enough sleep:

Look I know all eyes are on Mokuba here and how sweet it is that Mokuba would try to stay up with his brother and how even sweeter it is that he can’t but doesn’t leave and just falls asleep right there and how sweetest it is that Seto would pause what he was doing to take off his own coat to at least make him comfortable although it would be a lot sweeter if he just took him to fucking bed and went to fucking bed and you just know this happens like every four days jfc Seto sort your shit out but ANYWAY I just want you all to know that the blimp on-screen is 3-D and rotating and this suggests very strongly to me that Kaiba is monitoring the blimp actively while doing his Ra-research (Rasearch?) and honestly that means that the chances are really high that he knows Yamis Malik and Bakura are having a duel to the death on top of his airship and just doesn’t give one single shit about it

What does he give a shit about?

STATISTICS

Not only is Kaiba’s Virus Combo unlikely to work, Kaiba finds out -somefuckinghow since there isn’t THAT much writing on the Ra card - that Ra has a second special ability, wherein

Which is a pretty fuckin good ability, tbh. 

and idk maybe it’s not fair because I’ve seen this show before but I really feel like Someone should have even for a moment considered that this huge-ass deity of almost-unknowable power might have a special ability or two that, even if Someone wasn’t able to use, Someone could have at least prevented his opponent from using for a turn or two since SOMEONE knew full well that his opponent has a Resurrection of the Dead card in his hand right now... *coughBakurahasadeathwishcough*

!!! It was you who stopped!!! Yami Malik has been TRYING to continue this already but you were too busy bitching at your ~partner~!!!

oh whatever

yes, let’s just continue this already!

Yami Malik, in a move that I’m Sure could not have been predicted by even the wisest of sages, says that yes, the ultrapowerful avatar of the gods themselves has more than one Special Ability and that he will now use one that even Original Flavour Malik will be surprised by...

and honestly wtf Malik, how does your mental illness know more about your deck and your keystone Monster than you do? 

Yami Malik admits that even if he uses Resurrection of the Dead on Ra, since Magic Cards only work on God Cards for a single turn before being, one presumes, immolated by the incandescent light and heat of the glory of the all-powerful, Ra will have a brief sojourn back in the world of the living

he says, looking into the camera like he’s on The Office

#thatfeelingwhenyourgodcardreturnstothegraveyardafteronlyoneturn

But never fear, 

he claims, cloakily.

Malik tries not to panic, pointing out that even if Ra does return for a turn, what can it do? It’ll be on the field, 

Bakura may or may not try not to panic, but if he’s trying not to panic, his face tells me he is succeeding about as well at that as he is at playing this card game.

Yami Malik’s face, meanwhile, tells me that the animators need to lay off the drugs

only you and some nerd downstairs with tiny belts on his arms

Yami Malik calms down enough to explain that using this ability, the player

as ATK to Ra. Usually this would be a meh to pretty great kind of deal, but thanks to how the duel has gone so far, with Yami Bakura losing most of his LP (mostly to himself), and Yami Malik not only losing none, but actively gaining more than the same amount again, it’s currently a FUCKING AMAZING deal.

Knowing what kind of absolute and utter geeks even the serial killers on the blimp are, Yugi and Anzu find the Yamis M and B in the very first place they look, the CARD GAME BLIMP DECK PUN INTENDED(tm) 

or rather, they find an ominous purple cloud, which Yami, quickly taking over from Yugi, points out is one of the key giveaways of a Dark Game, and suggests to Anzu,

“um bitch I don’t even HAVE a room your #duelistprivilege is showing” 

Actually what she says is,

“That’s not fair! ... I exclude everyone when there’s an emergency!”

This is an interesting line and I’m trying to think of places where Yami or Yugi would have specifically tried to keep Anzu back. I think Yami does try to put himself between danger and everyone/anyone else, and I think there’s a couple of occasions where the boys generally try to protect Anzu specifically, like in the souls-in-cards game against Yami Bakura. As a non-duelist (generally) and often the only girl, I bet Anzu does get frustrated!

Yami goes on to say that he now knows he’s supposed to obtain his lost memory and says,

#pronouncements-to-later-regret

... wait does that mean that up until this point you were cool with it??

[very-merry-sioux]

A wip that I may or may not finish, because idk if it’s too soon.

An idea I’ve had for AI!Atem since I made the [Artificial Doll] AU.It’s set after my [fic], which I’m not even done, why am I like this.

I realized now that one of the reasons I deleted Play and The Gamer is that I kept trying to keep every chapter in a sequential, episodic kind of order. Like the next chapter should follow a strict timeline. Which worked for a while, but then it really didn’t? Like going back to my fics, most of the ones still up aren’t in a definite timeline. I skip things, I go back, I go forward, I just write in whatever time it’s in, and I guess it works? For me anyways.

I think it’s also why [Tiny and Terrifyingly Cute] will always pop up the most in my AUs, because I post so much random crap that’s set in randomer times and people get it. Like nobody questioned why I suddenly jumped to DOMA, or went back to pre-Duelist Kingdom, or even zipped forward to the YGO GX era. Most just go with it, some even pitch in their own ideas (and ahahaha sorry for the ones who have been unanswered in my ask box, I’m really bad at answering quickly). Like they’re all “yeah, yeah! how about this ???? (shows idea)” and I’m like, that’s great! Have some pain happiness as thanks!!!!

So I’m wondering if I should do that to Artificial Doll? Hopping from one time to another. Like do Artificial Doll and Pinocchio (and other possible stories that could spawn from this) at random intervals. What do you guys think?

@mooguriklaine-art also, I have made more plot for NiceAI!Atem. And more AIs. Guess the AI.

So I’ve been thinking of another story, one I’ve tentatively called Pinocchio in my mind. This is basically post-DSOD, when all the drama has cooled down, as much as it can be when you’re around Seto Kaiba. 

AI!Atem has settled in his digital life, he’s still an important factor in Kaiba’s neural Duel Disk and dimensional hopping (which was an interesting experience for him, he finally attained data from the original other Yuugi). He also has many roles in the current VR game that KC has created: Duel Links. He’s part of security, administration, and is even one of the “NPC”s that players can interact with. Things were finally (relatively) peaceful.

Until he finds a kind of virus program trying to tamper a player’s neural link, which would have been disastrous to the player’s mind if the modifications didn’t follow the installed safety precautions (best scenario: brain damage or coma, worst scenario: death). He tries to catch and deal with the program, but it quickly leaves. Not quickly enough to see it (and it’s peculiar for him that a program even has a complicated digital avatar, most are just represented as simple shapes in his “mind”).

He sees green.

And also an angry young face that looked incredibly familiar, though he couldn’t figure out why.