#theres gotta be good variety

[febuwhump]

Do you think you'll get your friends/the community to help you sort through all the prompts or do you want it to be a one man operation?

oh this is all me babeeyyy

if my housemates are around when I'm doing it I'll ask their opinion occasionally but sorting through the prompts is not as big an undertaking as you might think, or I might expect each year

[telesodalite]

I need to be weirder about the scavengers and cannibalism...

[ssspringroll]

oh what a fun family already

this is just the variants i had sketched up, i think i wanna experiment with these shapes some more tho

[couldtransitionsaveher]

CUCUMBER from CUCUMBER QUEST

JUSTIFICATIONS:

"it'd be cool. i think she'd change her name to bella maybe, its a variety of cucumber so it fits her theming (very important)" - Anonymous

"So theres a lot I could say about her but I’ll focus on this. Gender is kinda a theme in cq, and the expectations of the roles cuco and her sister almond are forced into due to the cycle are very important. (The cycle being this whole repeating heroic quest, that keeps happening through resurrection, immortality, and whatever else)

Its kinda the entire premise that cucumber and almond do not conform to the previous iterations of the heroes. These roles are even more obviously GENDER roles in the prologue. Its this whole thing with almond not being allowed to do what she wants as it doesn’t fit her role in the cycle as “hero’s little sister” and cucumber not being allowed to do what she wants because she’s gotta be the hero! Her father talks about “becoming a man” and its just. A really easy reading.

The expectations of her role in the cycle are to “be a hero” and “to defeat the villains”, ones that wear on her heavily, causing her to kinda shut down in later chapters. She want’s to be strong enough to protect her friends and not have to hurt anyone else to do it.

And you see cucumber and almond are not the only ones who feel like this! nononono, infact A lot of the other characters, specifically, one of the characters who is canonically trans, ALSO FEELS LIKE THIS. she, Rosemaster, is exaused with having to play the villain, she hates is. And due to the nature of the cycle as a repeating event, and her being immortal, meaning she unlike our heroes, experiences this again and again. She doesn’t want to hurt others, she hates the expectations that she sees the nightmare knight (her creator/boss/father figure) has for her, and she just wants this all to be over. I’m not getting too in-depth, this isn’t about her, but you see what i mean?

Cuco’s got all kinds of allegory going on.

Idk if this is a good case but i had fun." - @st4rguy

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[gailsfrog]

Random puzzevisoion rant on todays episode (idk titles lol)

BRUhhHh todays episode was bonkerss- Right off the back we got mr puzzles beeing all goofy then >:C Mario lol the poor guy just needs a freind- anyway mr puzzles with brain rot- and the kids are just crazy- there possesed acting af-

ISTG THIS SCENE MADE NE DIEE HAHAAHA- New smg4 thing. all of the best villans ride goofy ahh cars HAHA-

Bruh Puzzles is real for that tho- just at the thought of the brainrot crap and ppl saying all that STUFF in school my brain cells man- id be mad too puzzles-

MR PUZZLES LOOSING IT- and calling a kid a fat F@#k also mr puzzles new face is giveing me Smiler vibes-

LIKE BRUh- same smile- and creepyness- i was fr so suprised to see that puzzles got a new >:C face.

Then Mr. Puzzles crying/manicaly crazy laugh cry (?) at the end just was so sad- as a big fan of this dam TV its sad to see him like this :/ BUT THE SONG IN THE BACKGROUND IS SOO GOOD- im a huge fan of the oldschool songs or just ones with creepy vibes lol (usualy putting the dimond city radio on from fallout 4 on for older music lol) i typed the lyrics to it in youtube a few times alot of them were weird modern ones :/ but this is the closest one i found lol https://youtu.be/BXR1tZhEcHE :0 idk if it will work for yall if not the video is called Chick Bullock - Hummin' To Myself and it now lives rent free in my music playlist :0

Also MICKY MOUSE!?!?!!??! ither yalls jellous of puzzles fans, hes gonna be like Mr. Yeest from IGBP since smg4 and puzzles are similar like that- SOMETHING CRAZYS GONA HAPPEN- its like a huge ass plot twist like BRUH IS THAT MICKY MOUSE?!?!? LMAO- were ither gonna get an episode next sat abt mr puzzles haveing another reason/going after the SMG4 crew/Leggy and Mario or a wendsday vid thats like Oh BTW ima kill yall in 72 hours theres a carnaval in town or smthn crazy with Micky and Mr pUzlles lmao or were not gong to get WOTFI untuil begining of October :/ because they gotta have time to let people dicide chalanges and enough time to get a ton of them and a large variety/push out the lore/arc episodes for the chalanges

AnYwAyyyyy bak to watching puzzlevision- i might draw puzzles or some other comic idk yet- :)

[weaverpop]

Can I offer a situation?

One of mk's ex's has been harassing him

I would think mk would of apologized to the partners that broke things off cause of how he was acting in the past and for most they forgave him. But there could always be the one who didn't want to forgive or acknowledge his sincere efforts to grow. And then theres of course the ones from relationships where the partner was the problem.

Said ex more maybe two got bitter seeing him happy in a new relationship and with a prince no less, and they start spamming him with abusive messages from a variety of different accounts.

Mk is of course alarmed and pretty distressed but doesn't want to alarm nezha so he does his best to hide it. But it quickly goes from abusive language and attacking his insecurities to straight up threatening to bash him publicly as an abusive partner; sighting his past problematic behavior with some exaggerating details and even straight up making crap up.

It sends mk into an intense depressive episode because he's starting to believe and misremember details. He wants to tell nezha but wants to try to resolve it first and goes to mei first since she's scary good when it comes to find ppl via social media sleuthing skills.

Nezha ends up find out anyway though because the ex got bold and decided to uphold there threat and contacted him directly.

Oh man, why you gotta hurt my heart anon?! (Tw angst, sensitive topics, and bad languages)

Poor Mk. I would imagine this happening early on in the therapy era, where Mk and Nezha are still struggling to get their feet back under them and establish a new (more healthy) normal. Mk be trying to just live his life, until said ex’s contact him. I don’t think it would be the ones where Mk was the toxic one, those are the ones who generally just want to move on. But one of HIS bad exes would def do something drastic.

They would see him rise in the public view already (hero stuff), so to see him so open and public with Nezha, a PRINCE, has them seething. Messaging, spamming, the works. MK’s mental health would take a big hit, and he actually talks either Sandy in therapy about it first.

Sandy is the one to suggest going to Mei, and def about telling the others just in case. Mk does, but wants to maybe tell Nezha after the whole things blown over so as not to worry him. Until said exes contact Nezha.

Nezha, of course, ain’t buying shit. In fact, it only serves to piss him off. Nobody in the mortal realm was really aware of the JE’s passing until Nezha decides to find these exes. You know why they find out?

Because Nezha has them dragged into the streets via guards, and publicly demands to know why they would dare threaten the lover of the next Jade emperor (aka him). Mei has all the evidence against the two, and the mortal police have to beg the prince not to cause an international crisis. The two exes have, at this point, realized the grave miscalculation they’ve made and are panicking just a a tad.

Thankfully Mk shows up and convinces Nezha to let the police handle it. The exes are arrested, and reporters and paparazzi catch Mk soothing Nezha’s anger. Their approval ratings in the public eye EXPLODES after this.

Of course it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Mk still gets stuck it a bit of a rut because of them, and while no other exes have come forth after Nezha’s public display, it doesn’t stop the paranoia. Poor baby’s got a date with more therapy after this. But at least things are smooth sailing right? Not like Nezha’s got any exes to dig up.

Oops, did I say that? I meant Ao Bing has an absolute fit. :)

[musicfranchisetournament]

propaganda under the cut !!

bang dream :

back again apparently there was also no propaganda which.  i thought bandori was more popular, rip. Anyway ive been playing for years and its so fun, all the music is great (mostly, im not a fan of hhw sorry). but genuinely all thw bands arw so good and they've improved a lot over the years, plus the newer bands are awesome. actually how do i do propaganda aside from showing people the music. you just gotta believe me its good. i love roselia and afterglow abd  ras. also prsk fans,  shiho is in this and shes in roselia

LOOK. i get it crashes a lot. i get the gameplay isnt for everyone. i dont care. i will always love bandori. the covers slap and the comms are good and the art style is pretty and i just. love it. lisa best girl

idolm@ster :

This franchise started back in 2005. After 19 years, it's still ongoing with new characters and songs. So many variety of songs. There's the OG idolmaster, dearly stars, cinderella girls, million live, sidem, shinymas, and the most recent, gakumas. You can definitely find a character you like. I'm very thankful for idolmaster.

look at saki hanami. listen to her lil pv intro. listen to fighting my way. look at uhm. ok theres not much content yet for hatsuboshi gakuen but like i love her already idcccc. tbh i was just looking for oc voice claims when i found her but i love her. i know nothing about these games or anime or wtv  maybe i shoukd.

[whywasthissohardtomake]

Now for the second post i thought if while in the car!! This one is more fic & shipping focused (tho not just ship fics) so if that aint ur style, my apologies

this book series is sooooo good for crackships & aus & outsider povs. Weve already gotta a ton of the last one obviously, but we could do more!!

The thing with large diverse casts of characters and an extremely lovable mc is that its ripe for crackships. I feel like i could ship jason with every single person in this entire fucking book & come up with a new dynamic & story. Ive been spoiled by large fandoms where theres those niche writers plugging at obscure ships & ideas & now im part of the obscure fandom!! (I will hopefully do my part but my ability to consistently output writing is shaky at best. 2k in one day & then 0 words for four months. Im that kinda girly. But again nothing til im done.)

but yeah like there is so much potential. Like what if jason stayed in uhh southeast (?) quarry village number 4 and married hyram & they raised his daughter together.

give thadwick the redemption arc i was thought he was going to get & idk he and jason get together

put jason, sophie & belinda in a throuple. Put jason belinda & jory in a throuple. Put jason in polyamorous relationships of all kinds!!

unship related. Mrs landry pov outsider of the aftermath of farrah’s death. Rufus & gary just never coming back. Jason packing up his stuff. Jason coming back to get farrah’s rufus’ & gary’s (i think hes the one who did it or mrs landry sent it over or packed it up for jason to take) seeing that tragedy unfold but from a more distant perspective.

anyway, i love clive/jason & any other ships. I will almost certainly read all 74 fics on ao3 because its 74 & i can make it thru that much. But the potential!! The potential for such a variety but also just more of the same popular stuff that is also good!! (I am trying not to knock any fics because i care so little as long as its well written).

anyway, as always, pls no spoilers!

[maxdanposts]

Introduction time I guess

hello tumblr my beloathed!! I am MaximumDanger, aka Max, aka Jim, an ex-cohoster after the site has been set to explode soon. I personally am not very thrilled by the idea of having to use this site but you gotta do what you gotta do i suppose.

Bit of quick info:

Crimean, minor, speaks RU/ENG + learning german(but horrendous at it), artist person of any/all pronouns. my art is here btw

May do stupid stuff sometimes but not intentionally, if i upset you poke me & i'll try 2 fix my behaviour.

if yer a terf bigot racist or any other variety of such yucky people then get off my 🅱age!!!!! im also a body horror & bugs & gore & etc enjoyer and these will only be tagged in original posts so beware!!

(also additional note i usually dont follow people who post very often(dont wanna flood my feed too much sorry) but if i like yer posts ill just check your blog separately from time to time c:)

Longer version(my interests n shit + other socials):

Media:

The Stanley Parable, The Beginner's Guide & Dr. Langeskov

corru.observer

Knuckle Sandwich(game)

Blame! & Biomega

17776 and its sequel(s)(hoping for the 20021 release)

O Sarilho webcomic(its very good, it has good art character death war crimes gay people trans people nice aliens body horror torture.. generally p cool you can read it here)

VALLONO & ARRILLUM(its an absolute banger the art is absolutely gorgeous please go read it i beg of you)

Bigtop Burger

Half-life

Yuppie psycho(i havent interacted with this thang for a long time but it still has a warm place in my heart c:)

Just stuff in general:

Speculative biology

Biopunk

Biocomputing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teratomas. in my circles im known as the "biocomputing and hairy tumors person".

Microbial cellulose fashion(< this interest is very new and i barely know anything abt it but i like the concept a big lot)

Worldbuilding

Dieselpunk

Robots & other humanoid creachures(usually not androids tho. not a very big fan of androids. unless theyre fucked up then theyre cool)

Artificial Intelligence(not the boring kind) & artificial life(& as such, aliens)(i love foreign conciousness!!!)

Brutalism

Body horror

Dada(its very hard to figure out what dada is about but i read a bit and the ideas seem interesting)

Middle ages & renaissance(i think the aesthetic fucks immensely)(trying to research it a bit too sometimes but very hard 4 me to do)

Bugs!!!!! Fungus!!!! Birdies!!!!! Creachures!!!!!!

Some hobbies i guess:

i do birdwatching sometimes!! enjoyer of looking at living things in general

i . try to do a bit of coding sometimes. im not very good at it. i did however make a lil thingy to add discord emojis to your posts on cohost tho so theres that

i draw, of course

does exercise count as a hobby. idk its something im interested in and that brings me Nice Feelings. very hard to do consistently tho

i like video games. not playing video games. important distinction. i am terrible at video games. i do enjoy analyzing them sometimes to the best of my ability.

You may find me on:

Cohost(rip my beloved💔): https://cohost.org/MaxDanArts

Discord: @maximumdanger

Steam(i do not check it very often poke me in dms if you did something there): https://s.team/dr_furins

art sideblog, once again @maxdanarts

[nora-kano-rokii]

Haikaveh where kaveh is pregnant and when they found out about it he freaks out bc he read stories online where husbands wouldn't like the wives as much after postpartum takes over.

For days after the discovery Kaveh wouldn't eat or sleep as much, so far as to not talk to Haitham as much in fear of provoking anything that'll make Haitham "hate" him even more after the delivery

"Why aren't you eating?"

"Oh I'm just... not that hungry. I ate lunch earlier."

"But we always have lunch together??"

"Well something came up and I gotta change my schedule a bit. Sorry about that."

He'll just lie and lie and keeps on lying.

Kaveh isn't the type to wish anything bad happening on his pregnancy period, but he does severely dread the day of delivery. He'd get anxious and nervous (even more than he usually is) around Haitham and is always thinking about his next lie.

He loves the idea of motherhood. He loves the idea of having a child to take care of. He loves the idea of a happy family because that was something he didn't get as a child and is now more than willing to do anything to give it to his child.

What he doesn't like is the fear of Haitham leaving him if he's not good enough to satisfy his needs. The fear where he'll lose his worth as someone pretty and just end up as someone thats already been "used" and is not "perfect" anymore.

Haitham gets wind of what's going on and approaches him one day.

"Sweetheart."

"Yes?"

"Whats wrong with you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Dont play dumb with me, sunshine. Tell me what's going on."

And then Kaveh will freak out, thinking Haitham already knows about the postpartum fear thing and start crying and begging for Alhaitham to not leave him. He'll do anything, he'll be a good wife and stay with the kids and do all the housechores and stay in shape and-

A simple kiss shut him about for good.

"You don't ever need to be sorry about how you look like after bearing my children."

"But.. I've read stories... and surveys- about how husbands are more displeased with their wives' body image after postpartum-"

"You think I care how you look like?"

Probably not the best thing to say (he should've rephrased it better) as Kaveh starts to tear up again.

"You... you don't think I'm taking care of myself well enough..?"

"No, it's not that. Kaveh, sunshine. I fell in love with you because of your physical image. That was only one of the reasons why."

"You... did not?"

"You thought I would be like some of those freaks that ogles you shamelessly on the side of the road? Of course not."

"But.. you always said that it's absolutely important for me to keep being healthy-"

"Sunshine, healthy does not mean body image. Healthy means you are happy with yourself. Which you are mostly aren't. That's why I told you to be healthier."

Kaveh wells up in tears again as he realizes what Haitham is saying. He kisses Kaveh's forehead and rubs his belly.

"This baby is going to make us a family. Why would I care about how you're going to look like?"

(Again, probably should've rephrased it better)

"Everything will be a marker of your battles. I'd love every stretch mark it'll create. All the cellulites that you worry so much about will be mine to behold." Another kiss to the forehead, "Kaveh, please understand. I love you for just the way you are."

"I did not fall in love with someone who obsesses with their beauty. I fell in love with the Light of Kshahrewar, the person who brights up my day with just a smile. The person who makes me fall in love all over again when they laugh."

"So please. Don't be afraid of our children. I promise that I'll love you no matter how you look"

Kaveh sniffs, "E-even if I were a fungi?"

Haitham sighes and smiles, "You'd be my favorite fungi ever."

-End

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i have not posted in a hot minute GAWD DAYUM anyways hi everyone ive come back with FICS instead of DRAWINGS isnt that COOL theres VARIETY now!! Also this fic was first posted on Twitter as i had a brainrot at 4am so if you're intrested in that please go support me on Twt! Thank you everyone!

[the-art-of-sanshoku]

Thanks @lucksea and friends for providing the prompts, this was challenging but fun to participate in :)

Here's a compilation post of all my tokucember artworks ^^ (you can see them individually in this tag) honestly, still can't quite believe i did all of them and not a single one was late either~ I didn't draw every day since some days i could get 2 done but i did draw almost everyday. Multiple hours at a time even. And did tokuhols at the same time o.o

It was fun to do a lot of variety and show some love to pretty much every toku ive seen :> i forced myself to do a lot of coloring too, which i usually avoid lol. I also did a bunch of painting which ive never really done before outside of a few studies (that hand on day 3 im still very impressed with like wow that was me)

Honestly I'm surprisingly happy with a lot of stuff i made this month even though they were made in one day, just a few hours and a dream. I'd say the average was like 2-3 hours, and the min being maybe 30min and max 5-6 hours? Maybe its because i know of the time constraints im a bit less harsh on them lol. But also i am genuinely impressed too.

Doing all this also really highlights what needs to be worked on- linework is a huge one and ive always known that to be a weakpoint. Also you can tell i love doing chest up portraits because i do not know how legs work orz. Also you can see that i avoid backgrounds... But yeah just means i gotta work on it 👍

Let it be known l will not be making this much in january lol hopefully ill do some proper studying instead of just brute forcing pieces all the time. Surprisingly not burnt out though and its kind of had this effect where i havent made anything today and i feel antsy. Mightve gone too far in one direction...

If i participate next year it will probably be in a more limited fashion this took up a bit too much time but it was fun! And enlightening. And showed i could dedicate the time and motivation to art which i dont think i had the mental/emotional capacity for in like any other year of my life. Also was good for like, making what you feel like and not caring if it flops because who cares theres 30 more posts to do type of thing. (Well may have gotten depressed a handful of times but moved passed it quickly which is the important part >>) Just kind of a good thing for me i guess.

May we have an artful and tokuful 2025 🙏

[everydaydg]

A few Koichi Namiki and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi recommendations!

I finally have a decent excuse to talk about random composers and arrangers again!

Okay, so why these two in particular? well they both formed B-Univ, a short lived succesor of S.S.T. Band

This post isnt really focused or limited by their works as B-Univ. I just wanted to post about some music I enjoy from the two.

Okay! So ill start with a bit of Mitsuyoshi:

"From Loud 2 Low too" - 2009

A sequel to "From Loud 2 Low", this album is mainly comprised by SEGA tracks he had worked on previously along with a few original tracks exclusive to the album.

A bit odd how im starting with the sequel to an album (a compilation album no less) but its SO good. Its two whole discs of some of mitsuyoshi's best!

If you're not too familiar with his work id suggest give this a shot due to the sheer variety of stuff.

LET'S GO AWAY THE VIDEO GAME DAYTONA USA ANNIVERSARY BOX - 2009

Ok I wont beat arround the bush. Mitsuyoshi is mainly known for his work on Daytona USA.

While he didnt compose Daytona 2 or Circuit Edition, hes still the primary vocalist through the series.

He has had a hand in the soundtrack of most entries in one form or another.

Not much to say here. its his most well known work for a reason.

SEGA RALLY 2006 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - 2006

A bit of an underrated game in the Sega Rally series! Most of the main tracks were compossed by Mitsuyoshi.

Great ost! and P dang good game too!!

Koichi Namiki time

I consider Mitsuyoshi's biggest strengh to be his voice

Koichi Namiki's strengh is his guitar.

Cool Rails / Koichi Namiki - 2022

Pretty recent huh

Koichi made his first solo album in 2022! It features a few sega arrangements but its mainly original music by him.

Theres a heavy emphasis on guitars as the main instrument.

It rules

GALAXY FORCE II & THUNDER BLADE ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - 2007

Two of his most notable works in one album.

Koichi and Katsuhiro Hayashi made some great tunes for arcade

Galaxy Force 2 and Thunder Blade are two of my favorite sprite scaling games (mainly due to their fantastic 3DS ports) for a multitude of reasons but one of them is the soundtrack

Great stuff!

and might as well end this post with this

Virtua Racing & Out Runners - 1993

Its mainly composed by mitsuyoshi but koichi is there as the lead guitar.

Fantastic arrangements for the two games and the entirety of the soundtrack to two of my favorite racing games

Really dang great

WORD OF ADVICE: SKIP TRACK 9 OF DISC 1. ITS GENUINELY HORRID- PARABOL 9 SOUNDING ASS

So yeah! thats a few albums and releases I enjoy with music made by these two! I could keep going but I gotta get going myself and I think this is good enough for now!

[syrupspinner]

i just completed bomb rush cyberfunk

the sound that plays when you clear a textbox is the spongebob footstep sound and youll never unhear that now

i love the fuck out of this game. the vibes are literally, not figuratively, everything i couldve ever wanted from a jet set radio successor. a lot of people get caught up in naganuma's music, but jsr had way more variety. the original had rob fucking zombie and future had that yoko ono song about cake or whatever. i feel like they did a excellent job keeping a cohesive vibe while still including a wider variety of songs. characterizing the gangs through their mixtapes is such a fun idea and it was done so well

the gameplay is perfect too, like every little bit is fine-tuned to be exactly what it should be. walking feels like walking and skateboarding feels like skateboarding, the way you turn feels noticeably different but in a lateral way that the game is built to accommodate

level design is phenomenal. built from the ground-up for your combo game without feeling like its forcing you onto a single route. manuals were the perfect addition so you dont feel trapped in what the game provides, and lets you get creative with a levels ingredients.

I dig the dream levels and how they twist the formula. levels are normally pretty open arenas, but these are just linear platforming challenges. it's really cool to see what these physics and moves let you do in a different environment. they're super fun for the plot too, I love the bit where red is like "I can't keep the ladder steady, I'm up here with you". no spoilers but I think it ties in super well to the backstory of the character and shines a light on their thought process - you can't get support from someone if they're on the same level as you because they're too worried about keeping themselves steady.

i love how they did achievements for this game. the only story-related achievement is for beating the final boss, and its totally possible for that to be the first one you unlock. it feels good when youve actually gotta work for the achievements, and it adds so much to the endgame. i had so much fun experimenting with the best place to do the longest manual, going back through all the stages for the pictures of the penguin guy, and just playing around for... the, uh... oh christ those are some high scores. welp, problem for the post game.

not to mention all the collectables you can get! this is the perfect amount of side content, i always get excited when i see a pickup in the distance but i never felt bogged down by the need to collect everything. and slowing down to examine the level and look around for everything is a great way to shake up how you usually play the game without feeling like youre doing something that isnt accounted for design-wise.

also, fucking thank you for the maps, and smart move that you can only get em after the main story beat in that spot. it's a shame they don't show the collectables too, cuz finding the last 2-3 is a total pain without a guide, but I'm just glad there's some mercy in finding the graffiti spots. that one in mataan is a bastard, you know the one

the game's pretty easy, i dont think there was ever a point where i lost and had to retry something, with oooooone exception. the cops are all pretty annoying, especially the turret, but not in a way that makes the game unplayable if you have heat. there are certain platforming sections that gave me trouble, like that one on top of the signpost in varsum hill, and... probably another one im forgetting. its hard to hold on to stuff i struggle with, because its just so fun to do fucking anything in this game. moving back into position and trying a jump again is just part of it, yknow?

but that exception, damn. theres one boss fight that fucked me up. it was the first time i actually died in this game. and the second, third, fifth. heres a hint: youve gotta deflect the projectiles. dont worry, you didnt miss anything, you cant reflect any other projectiles (i dont think there even are any) so there isnt some tutorial you missed. it may seem like youre supposed to get close to the machine and spray it like every other fight in the game and youre just struggling with the hitbox or something, but no youre doing the wrong thing. it may also also seem like the reflected projectiles are designed to miss because they keep just barely avoiding his head, but there youre just doing the right thing the wrong way and need to aim better. not with your camera, but by changing the angle of your player character. it may also also also seem like youre meant to use the deflected projectiles as a chance to stun him and close the gap between the two of you, because since he jumps across the map whenever you get near him, there is going to be a gap. this is also one of team reptile's clever tricks, as the stun is so short you need to dodge the projectiles to get in close (but not too close!) and only then start to reflect them. wow, this is inexplicably misleading for a game thats been really tightly designed until now. you think since i get texts all the time like "dont forget to earn points by doing tricks!" someone could communicate the brand new mechanic to me at some point

another thing with this game and communicating mechanics, nobody explains the secret things that all the different ride styles can do, so thisll be your spinny tip of the day: skateboards can balance on fire hydrants and do a trick to unscrew them and ride them up; bikes can stand in front of those garage doors with bike symbols to open them; and if you manual with the skates you can break glass. yeah i only figured out the bike one on my own. i get this is going for that good ol days vibe where there was just cool hidden shit the game doesnt tell you about, and too its credit you only need to know these if you want 100%, but i found them pretty unintuitive. like, i had my board out and fucked around with a hydrant at one point, and i didnt stumble on the secret, just because theres nothing that flags to me to consider jumping on it. this is obtuse, but not as mood-ruining as the boss fight.

also, this isnt really a complaint, i think im just confused. there are tons of spots that are designed like hidden loading screens? theyre usually transitions between parts of the map, like between the entrance and the wide-open parts of the mall. im not sure why though, because it seems like the game doesnt need them? like theres one in pyramid island separating the lower and upper parts, but... you can fall from the higher part to the lower part without a stutter. theyre both clearly loaded all times youre in the area, and the game isnt shy about loading the levels when you move from one spot to the other. is it just to stop combos from going too long? that seems strange in a game thats like, about combos. again its not a big deal at all i just dont really get it?

oh, i should talk about the plot. no spoilers, but im super into stories about the psychology of the characters, shit like repressed memories and identity. if you didn't know, I'm actually working to become a counselling psychologist, so it's really cool to see how games tackle really mental-based narratives. it's like being a plumber and appreciating the manhole design. the central theme is roots, as in where you come from and how it effects you, and they did a pretty cool job exploring how that would be handled in a sci-fi setting.

the story does a great job of having a protagonist thats important but doesnt feel shoved into the world. a lot of stories have to establish a status quo and then introduce how the protagonist is fucking with it. here, the status quo is already shaken up cuz the streets used to be between the big three, but now theres only one left. the protagonist is born from this distruption and has to work backwards to try and get out of it, all while still embracing the world around him. it really helps players get acclimated without making it feel like a hand-holding isekai

and of course you know im gonna dig the anti-cop through line. i like how there are focal characters within the force to show that while its corrupt on a systemic level, there are still individuals inside that system that arent immoral. and once they conflict with the corruption, their choices are to abandon their morals and assimilate (which is why one of those characters disappear from the narrative, they were faced with the realization but discarded it to become assimilated into the general mass of the police) or to abandon their position and fight against the corruption (the other character doing so to help our heroes survive the oppressive force).

oh, and i also dig how they specifically draw attention to how police think. the chief states that he sees all crime as bad because of the slippery slope fallacy, saying that citizens witnessing that the laws dont matter would encourage more reprehensible criminal activity like homicide or piracy. i can see how someone raised in a system that values order and obedience could develop such a black-and-white thought process, and we see how its propagated through the whole police. i also love how, even without saying it out loud, theres a point to be made about how the police are so overfunded that theyre running out of shit to justify it. yeah sic the swat team on those teenagers, who gives a fuck if youre just treated like an inevitability of society and have more money than god. theyre also so everpresent that theres little pods where i think the fuckers just wait until their inescapable silencer system picks up the slightest hint of disobedience. saying the quiet part quietly, but still saying it.

uhh what else. i also appreciate that we see what a cyberhead looks like before we learn why red is exceptional. thats just good plothole-covering, cuz if that didnt happen, i totally wouldve been like "wait are they all like that?". im trying to be vague but its the thing in the mall chapter

alright lets talk about what youre here for: what it was like to 100% this thing. my process was this: normal casual playthrough of the story, getting pickups i saw along the way and making a point to seek out all the optional characters. the second thing is to go back and tag all the graffiti spots, which you should get out of the way so you dont have to worry about the police later and so you have the rep to unlock all the oldhead-gates. after that, go back through the boroughs a third time and pick up all the pickups i missed. you should use a guide for this, those fuckers are really well hidden. by all means look around first, like i said earlier its fun to take it slow, but it devolves into "where the fuck is the last thing" pretty quickly. if its not fun, why bother, yknow? turn it from a scavenger hunt to geocaching. the fourth step is doing the other gangs' score attack challenges to unlock them as playable. I thought it'd be super hard, but theyre tough but doable if you keep a single combo through the whole thing and do the boost trick. the only thing is if you drop your combo, you gotta march your ass back to the challenger to restart, or get your phone out and wait the timer out, there's no quick restart. it's not THAT big of a deal, but I shouldn't be taking my phone out in the middle of your video game, just saying

then there's the high-score steam achievements. this is bar none the hardest part of the game. unlocking futurism in mataan just takes 5mil points, which you can do in a few minutes. the achievement asks for 16mil, more than triple that. you have unlimited time, that's still a pretty bad leap. the best way to get your score up is to up your multiplier with unique billboards and rail corners, but that only works once per combo. even if you exhaust most of a stage, you're still gonna be pretty short, with the multiplier only getting you to a couple mil. so, what do you do when you have no time limit? find a rail that loops, rubber band your joystick to the side, and go to bed.

...that's what I thought at least. I tried this in mataan and I bottomed out at about 6mil after going grocery shopping. and I gotta walk a kilometer and a half to the store and back, so it was like... a little over an hour. that doesnt sound that impressive but still i didnt wanna just wait. I feel too self-conscious about running up a power bill I split with my roommate to do it overnight, so let's try plan b and just... do it. and yeah, its still the hardest part of the game, but... its still very doable. i dropped my combo like two or three times, but i ended up with 20 million before i even realized it when i went for varsum hill, which is wayyy overshooting. the only problem area was pyramid island, and thats just because i had to march my ass back to the top when i dropped my combo. i totally overblew how much of a pain these would be

i think thats it! with a single 15-minute-or-however-long-that-fight-took exception, and disregarding the post-game optional character missions having no quick restarts, this game is fantastic from beginning to end. i know it sounds like that fight was a huge detraction, and yeah ive got problems with it, but a single blemish cant ruin a whole game. i can see myself loading this up and just fucking around with it even after ive perfected it, which is a HIGH complement from me. its got that same sauce as all the games i played as a kid, where it feels like if you only got one game per year, you could play the fuck out of until that whole time without getting bored. you know the kind of games im talking about, those jrpgs and zelda-like adventure games where it just feels like the game doesnt want you to leave. like yeah there are games where its fun to replay the campaign over and over, and this feels like one of those too dont get me wrong, but it just feels like its giving you so much to play around with, to explore and unlock and even just to fuck around and exist in the world. sure, as an adult it feels kinda nice when a game is short, cuz you know you wont have to be married to it for a year while you balance real-life shit in between the video games, but thats why it being optional is so thoughtful. also 30 hours is a totally healthy length for a game to be completed in

i guess what im saying is that bomb rush cyberfunk knows exactly what its doing. this feels like how a game from the era its paying homage to should feel, how it would be designed with the sensibilities of the time, but without subtracting from what i appreciate about modern titles. if you told me this was a remaster of an OG xbox game that added shit like autosaving, id totally buy it if i didnt know better.

im worried im underselling how much i love this game, so i guess ill just say that i love jet set radio. jsr classic has some of the best vibes in the medium, and future is straight up my favorite retro game of all time. and brc eclipses both of them combined. i would like to apologize to anyone who has any interest in working towards xbox emulation. i fear that interest in the field will somehow decrease even further now that the only xbox game worth emulating that hasnt just been ported to pc has been totally outclassed. good luck trying to top this, sega

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10.04.24

heres that non breath oblige suitcase i mentioned in the last post!! what a silly fella. more rambles under cut ofc

GAHHH I LOVEEEE HIMMMMM sorry i just. WHAT A GUYYYY his hairs really messy cause when this song is aligned with the story he had cut his hair with scissors in the bathroom in the middle of the night because hes got that gender identity crisis swag i fear… fan eventually buys him a haircut tho cause suitcase goes to fan because theres drama in the grand slams!!! uh oh!!!!!!! who. who couldve seen THAT coming!!!!/s

im still trying to come up with what suitcases normal non-depressing songs are like and what songs would even fit that cause most of the songs besides the sad ones that i have decided for them are group songs or duet songs (excluding duets with vocasynths cause those are basically just glorified solos) and that doesnt count. i feel like theyd be pretty calm most of the time but i think having a few more aggressive songs would fit too… hm…

besides non breath oblige, ive assigned him last battle and o light, but im still working on the list, so those are the only ones i think wont change. maybe. and by ‘the list’ i mean the one in my head that i change whenever i need to. im so good at making aus

tbh most of what youll see of this au is gonna seem more like im making fanart. for my own au. if that makes sense because more lore-based stuff is so complicated and has been revised over literal years and could also change whenever i feel like it sooo i dont wanna have anything too set in stone…

i did mention in a previous post that characters are ‘linked’ to vocasynths, but for the life of me i cant decide who suitcase gets!!!! im thinking kafu… idk why… i just feel kafu energy… but ill think about it idk. if you wanna suggest any thats perfectly ok, but i have a mental list of whos linked with who, and although MOST vocasynths are in all sekais (its complicated for a variety of reasons) (because i dont want to put every utau in the sekai or have it be too complicated so each group has a relatively good group of vocasynths per sekai) (more than 6 though. how else am i going to make tetorei yuri real???) (and more vocasynths can be added with certain story beats and stuff but its not common) (and also for whatever reason if the character is the 4th in the unit, like how in pjsk theyre ordered a certain way, like ichika -> saki -> honami -> shiho, the last one’s link is EXCLUSIVE TO THAT SEKAI!!! i dont remember why i made that decision i think it was for reasons with the vocasynths being able to be as-close-to-real-as-they-can-get when exiting phones, like instead of just holograms, but its this whole complicated thing so idk why) (and i havent come up with an order for the grand slams) (which consists of the main four) (aka baseball nickle balloon and suitcase) (so idk how that works yet. oops) i dont want vocasynths that are already linked to other characters in other groups or in the same group to share a link. exception for groups outside of the main ones, like i have some rough concepts of bfdi character groups, who have almost nothing to do with the story excluding one specific character whom i will not name, but like if one from there shares a link with an ii group then idgaf yknow

these are a lot of rambles. jeez. uhhhhhhh i like this au a lot and i havent really shared it with anyone yet so i gotta get my crazy ideas out there yknow

also. for the last post. i nicknamed uminaoshi-fan ‘faoshi’, and nicknamed godish-fan ‘fish’ because i think its funny. they hate each others guts but in a homoerotic way yknow. how did i get here. i know how i got here. but how did i get here. anyway like and retweetblog if you loveeeee fishxfaoshi toxic yaoiii 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

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i dont think theres a definite answer in my mind (me and my brother had a similar debate last night surprisingly enough and agreed that the problem is more in being unable to quantify levels of bad for ranking due to the variety of ways that it would go wrong) but i am surprised killer croc did not make the voting list . hes like. gotta be up there for sure i think . maybe not #1 but hes up there

i didn’t put killer croc on there because i don’t think he smokes weed. no one on this earth knows if he can roll a good joint or not because he doesn’t do it. also i’m not grading based on like “physically able to roll a joint” because otherwise i think the claws might give him an unfair advantage (disadvantage?)

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TRISH PLEASE THERES 40 ROSES HERE🤣😭 instead of giving you 40 sentences from one WIP I’m gonna give you 4 sentences for 10 different ted/rebecca fic WIPs because why not😌 under a read more because it is terribly long lol

1. a little something from my kind of sort of not really Matilda au!!

She’s looking up at Rebecca with wide eyes, glistening with tears. Her eyes remind Rebecca very suddenly of Ted’s. They’re the same warm brown, filled with a hopefulness she has grown to associate with only Ted. One look at the girl’s big, pleading eyes and Rebecca knows, if this was her child she’d never be able to say no to her.

2. from a post canon thing about Ted being depressed in Kansas and Rebecca drunk calling him in the middle of the night

“Move on from who?” The question is out of his mouth before he even has a chance to really think it over and realize exactly how stupid it was to ask that, on a variety of different levels.

Rebecca groans, and he can picture her with her fingertips pressed to her temples.

“This was a mistake. I am not supposed to tell you.”

3. from another post canon thing where Ted starts dreaming about past moments with a Rebecca but through a Very Romantic Lens and he has a tizzy about it

“Good dreams, then?”

He starts to nod his head in agreement before shaking it in a staunch no, only to stop a second after to stare off into space again. His eyes glued to a wall just beyond his phone where Sharon is pulled up on a video call.

4. from rusty swing fic my beloved that I haven’t worked on in Months oh god I’m so sorry rusty swing fic, I’ll come back to you one day

She knows that every time they have a disagreement, whether she bears the brunt of the blame or not, her parents simply wait her out. Let her stew in her displeasure for a few hours, days, weeks. Until they’ve decided — without any input from Rebecca herself — that everything is back to normal.

Sometimes she thinks maybe they can only really hear her when she’s yelling.

5. a little missed connections soulmate au

By the time she’s twenty Rebecca’s heard just about every romantic iteration of a soulmate bond taking place. It’s supposed to be life changing, a moment you can feel throughout your entire body. The stars aligning and a moment of pure magic in an ordinary world.

She supposes it only makes sense that the whole thing would be rather anticlimactic in the end.

6. something from a post s2e6 soulmate au because I like seeing how many soulmate aus I can write without finishing any😌

She wants to cradle his face in her hands and breathe kindness and safety into him. To shine a little flashlight when he’s trapped in the darkest places, waiting with her arms wide open for whenever he’s ready. She wants to warm his hands in hers and help stitch up every wound that lingers on his heart. Even if it should leave her own hands stained and bloody.

7. in which Michelle and Henry assumed Ted & Rebecca were dating. So obviously the only logical reaction is for Ted & Rebecca to pretend to date.

He should be paying attention, he wants to be paying attention. He’d love nothing more than to be able to hear what’s going on, but the ringing won’t stop. It’s a dull but persistent hum clouding over all his senses. The only thoughts rattling through his mind are the words Michelle said just before everything went all fuzzy.

8. from my little combination gala & wedding fic that Henry has wormed his way into out of nowhere

The dark green dress apparently looks like the color of split pea and ham soup, and Henry makes her swear on her morning biscuit delivery that she won’t wear that one. She tries to show it a little support, the color may be unfortunate but the dress is in a cut she absolutely loves. But Henry only shakes his head and says “it’s the worst color of all, Becca, you gotta promise.” And so she does, holding out her pinky finger for Henry to hook his around.

9. excerpt from a little thing that has no plot beyond Rebecca being sexy when she’s bossy

“Can you?” Rebecca’s tongue slips out of the corner of her mouth, wets her lips, and now she’s smirking and fuck. Ted can’t look away. Every thought completely gone, focused entirely on how enticing her lips look.

But Ted’s pretty sure she asked him a question. And he’s never been one to keep a pretty lady waiting, even if his brain is a bit scrambled at the moment.

10. from a weird little fantasy medieval Rebecca as a queen Ted as a baker in town type thing

It isn’t one of the nights where his deepest worries and fears are running through his mind like a hoard of wild horses. It’s a perfectly normal night, after a perfectly normal day. His hands are not trembling, and he takes each breath with remarkable ease. He’s counted sheep, he’s recited recipes in his head, he’s even hummed a lullaby — or five — all to no avail.