#this is version 2 because the old one was glitching ://

[digiflora]

𝐆𝐈𝐀 -> she/her, eighteen. isfp. aka @gialovee

cancer ❊ taurus ☾ libra ↑

ar 58 clorinde main ; tbl 66 boothill main ; ul 33 calcharo main

( 🪷 ) number one alhaitham dickrider ; avid luocha lover ; jjk dilf hunter with a special interest in higuruma ; obsessed with calcharo

(๑>◡<๑) 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒 -> genshin. navia, alhaitham, chiori, the fatui harbingers, wriothesley, xianyun. hsr. luocha, blade, sampo, black swan, acheron, hanya, boothill. jjk. choso, higuruma, nanami, toji. wuwa. calcharo, camellya, jinhsi, aalto. + others. jason todd, simon (ghost) riley, optimus prime (I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT), masked men in general, rust cohle

໒꒰ྀིᵔ ᵕ ᵔ ꒱ྀི১ 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐒 -> pink. hot men when they keep their mouths shut. cute figurines and trinkets that i can put in my room. scrolling thru pinterest. nature. the ocean (if my feet can touch the bottom). sanrio (HEAVY on pompompurin and hello kitty). lifting weights. sleeping. swan lake. journalling. baking and crocheting and other grandma activities. presson nails. papas donuteria. aot. salty food. freshly made bed + severe thunderstorm warning combo. angels. vampires. writing au's <3. (the) smashing pumpkins. crystal castles. beach house. blood orange. tom hardy's myspace era. muji candles.

૮꒰ྀི⸝⸝> . <⸝⸝꒱ྀིა 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐒 -> fake people. the audacity of men. not having 1 trillion dollars in my bank account. losing 50/50s. exams. gloomy rainy days. being too warm. feeling like i'm not making any progress. dsmp. zionists 👎. writing formal emails/letters. doing the work to get my fucking degree. networking.

ദ്ദി（• ˕ •マ.ᐟ 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 ...

( rearranging my room )

watching -> nana

reading -> becoming supernatural by dr joe dispenza

listening to -> colors by chenayder & mavi

writing -> nothing can come between us

(๑>؂•̀๑) 𝐔𝐏𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐒

... there's no release, i feel you in my dreams ⟡ aventurine, 22/06

... moonlight on the river ⟡ welt, 14/06

... house of balloons ⟡ blade, 11/06

... wanna get drunk n nasty ⟡ hsr, 08/06

... how they help you during exam season ⟡ hsr, 30/05

[long-live-astronerd-ghost-king]

DP×DC prompt. Pre-Dead on main. Soulmate Au.

Do clones have soulmates? And evil (depressed) future versions of yourself? Only phamily is allowed to know.

~~~~

Jason wasn’t particularly thrilled to have a soulmate. Of course, it was a rare phenomenon many wanted. But the presence of the tattoo did not guarantee a meeting with the fate promised man. The tattoo was more a clue than a commitment, according to Jason. Meeting a street rat like him would be a good way to form a brotherhood, but that doesn’t mean he could trust a stranger completely just because fate says so.

After he became Robin, owning a soulmate became undesirable. Jason once again made sure that it was best that they never meet. It would be safer for his human. Or rather, so Jason thought, until his inscription suddenly darkened and disappeared. Died. His solmate died, and there was nothing he could do. He knew it could happen, but somehow it hurt anyway. One person has only one soulmate for life. And he wasted his chance by not even trying to find his one.

He didn’t even have time to meet someone for whom fate has chosen this line:

Hoc est vivere bis, vita posse priore frui.

(It is to live twice, when you can enjoy recalling your former life)

And Now it didn’t matter. Would they be lovers, best friends, family? What kind of person was the one whom the universe associated with this quote?Jason is not meant to know.

~~~~~~

Todd was suffering from nightmares. No, to be more specific, he was experiencing a completely different life in a dream. A few days earlier, he had hallucinations in which his surroundings seemed to change the appearance of different eras for a few seconds. Strange glitch. Jason blamed the sleep deprivation that Red Robin must have given him through bite. But Robin didn’t know who the hell Red Robin was.

The search for a biological mother, death and resurrection. His work as a crime lord. His madness and envy to the red robin. It was so strange. Life in Gotham never allowed him to be a naive child like the idiots of Metropolis but those dream memories made him grow up to fast again. In an attempt to wash away this nightmare and this blood, Jason stands under a cold shower at five o'clock in the morning. And then he notices that his mark has changed. It looks like a tree crown now.

On top of the old grey line a neon-green quotes lit up in latin, but now Jason can read them without a dictionary:

1)Death pursues the man even as he flees from it.

2) Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you.

3) There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

When B tries to pat him on the shoulder after the patrol, Robin dodges. Too much has happened, or rather, too much should happen. These dreams are too real to be the result of fear toxin damage or something else. The feeling of betrayal and fear that comes when he just thinks about the damn clown is too intense. And now he's too weak to fight him. He doesn't have his gang or a more mature body, or even the confidence in Batman that allowed Robin to fly without a doubt.

~~~~~

~You can't love anyone, 'cause that would mean you had a heart~

If you were loved by a man when he was alive, then the love of a ghost will be for you either a blessing or a curse. And if the spirit is not at rest because of his hatred for man, then there is no special sense to put up with the dead. They can hardly change their attitude. They don’t think critically. Maddie and Jack expound this theory on career day for Danny’s classmates. And they don’t understand why their boy looks at the presentation with horror.

Danny was fond of the quote on his wrist. It gave him hope many times even in the darkest of times.

~Fortis est ut mors dilectio / Love is strong as death~

Danny never listened to his parents' theories before. But what if they’re right? What if the ghosts of nature are just good liars and his ghost half convinced his human half that he’s still capable of emotion? Were these just residual memories of affection about family and friends that forced him to stay in Amity Park? Was it just his ghost obsession that told him a man behind his mark was important?

For the first time, when Jazz summons all the Phantoms to a weekly meeting, Danny does not seek excuses, but brings the matter up for a discussion.

Truly, it's no surprise to him that Dan’s tattoo is invariable. But it’s a bit of a surprise that Dani shares special human with them. Well, as ghosts, they have zero chance of actually spending their "lives" with the person behind words, so there’s no reason to be jealous of each other.

A lot of soulmates live their lives without each other, and it's not a tragedy. Or so Danny and Dani thought. Until Dan sarcastically notes during a family therapy session in Jazz’s room that their soulmate will not live to be fifteen either.

Their feelings or their absence will wait. Their soul mate is now in real danger, and this is far more important than the existential crisis of a few pieces of ectoplasm. This is the main problem. Jazz doesn’t agree, but honestly, the older sister has always been a bore. Danny panics and Dani also bursts into tears when Dan just shrugs his shoulders.

Danny: So you know who is our soulmate is, right? Dan: Of course I do. And I know the grave won’t hold him forever. Dani: So how is he..going to die? Dan: Murdered. By the Joker. I studied the case. Asked Vlad to still it for me. That was the beginning of the end, I think. So many broken bones and so much blood, and then the explosion. Not the best way to die. The only thing I regret is that I didn't stop playing the hero and kill that damn clown before it happened. It would solve so many problems. And why didn't I throw a temper tantrum a couple of days earlier instead of trying to get rid of my emotions first?

Danny: True. That shit didn't work anyway. Dan: Shut up. Dani: I was hoping that our soulmate would be happy even without us. Does this really have to happen? Isn't there anything we can do? Dan: Ask your time freak. But in my experience, anything connected to Phantom just doesn’t get a happy ending.

~~~~~~They say that time's supposed to heal ya, but I ain't done much healing~~~~~~

Jazz is not surprised when after breakfast with her siblings she's asked to leave so they can talk to themselves alone. Dan: Well, shoot. What else do you want to know? Danny: Like you didn’t figure it out. All right. When you asked Vlad to separate your human half from ghost half, whether you really wanted to get rid of human emotions or.. Dan: Or did I try to kill myself? You are me. You must know the answer. Nobody's left. Could you live with the shame of not being able to save them? Dani: Um, that vile monster who made all this happen with out soulmate, it was still exist in your timeline? Dan: Yes. And Batman too. Even after Jason's death he didn’t get rid of the damn clown.

Danny: You were supposed to be there for him. Dan: I know. Dani: Did you at least avenge him? Dan: I tried. But his paranoid furry dad, with his backup plans for backup plans, was always getting in my way. Dani: Batman? Our soulmate is Robin? Danny: Come on, you terrorized the entire Amity Park, don’t tell me you’re scared of a man in a bat suit. You couldn't get rid of one person under bat's nose? Seriously? We're such a disgrace, man. Dan: Oh please, don’t be ridiculous. Danny: So why not? Dan: Because Batman is his father, like I said. You know how I work. Even if I had only come for Joker, there would be no guarantee that I wouldn't end up getting into a fight with this vigilante as well. Even if the bastard deserved a good beating, it would still be awkward if our soulmate returned to the world of the living and it turned out that this was not what he wanted, right? Danny: How thOughTfuL.

Dan:...I think I told you to shut up.

Danny: Yeah, yeah. So, what’s the plan? Dan: You do realize that if I go to Gotham, I won’t spare Joker or anyone who will try to hurt our bird? Danny: Well, if Сlockwork has a problem with it he should say it to my face. I’m not asking you to hold back. Not this time. Joker is not just a random guy or a ghost who can be talked out of his ideas. Better nip the problem in the bud. Dani: Yeah. We are ghost, so it's our nature to protect what belongs to us. And we are selfish because we are humans. We can’t hide it, well, from ourself, right? Danny: Um, right, but we think you should stay. It's too dangerous. Dani: But he's my soulmate too! Even if he doesn't get to know either of us, I also want to do something to help him. Someone has to serve as a distraction or be ready to help. I'm coming too. It's not up for discussion.

Dan: Just let her. She's just as stubborn as we are. We'll spend more time on pointless arguments than on the mission itself.

Danny: I hate it when you're right.

Dani: Now, should we tell Jazz about our weekend or? Danny: Good question.

~~~~~~ Jazz: Where are you guys going? Danny: To commit murder. Nothing brings families together faster, you know? Want to come with us? Jazz: Haha, very funny. Take me a burger on the way home. Dani: Okay. Dan: Oh, she's gonna kill us.

[deepdreamnights]

Vidu 2.0 - First Reactions

I am in the Vidu Artist's program, so I've had a chance to play with version 2.0 before the official launch on the 15th. What I'm working with is a pre-launch build, and has improved day-to-day, so this may not reflect the final release.

I haven't yet had a chance to give it the full paces-run-through it deserves, but here's some early samples, and early thoughts. (Converted to GIF because you can only upload one video per post.)

The short version is that everything has been incrementally improved: Better coherence, better prompt responsiveness, better motion, and way, way better speed. Without doing exact time-tests it's say it's at least 25% the time to generate a video of the same dimensions.

While there's still some of the "smudge-blurring" that you got with 1-1.5, it happens less frequently, and is more mitigated with an image/animation that match.

Motion varies gen-by-gen, but impressive results seem to be the norm.

While his sticks are somewhat flexible at full framerate, the cat drummer's cymbal hit struck me as particularly nice.

Control and Coherence

While the roar may not seem particularly impressive, roars, howls, and other emotional outbursts didn't work well in previous versions. Aunt Acid's fumes and drips are are particularly fun, and while it still has problems with her tail, PteroDarla's crest and wings are actually working the way they should (after a number of attempts).

For a long time, I've wanted the last shot of the TMax opener to be Max starting with a zoom-in on the eye going out to a roar and pose. While this isn't quite where I want it, 2.0 is the first time I've gotten him to go through the whole sequence. Which is promising.

Weird Stuff Works

What remains impressive about Vidu is how well it handles concepts and characters that are off-the-beaten-path. Hailuo just released a character consistency feature that only works with humans, but here...

Here's my friend Cole's OC, the Waffler (Intergalactic Bounty-Hunter.) He's one unbalanced breakfast. He's also rather resistant gen AI replication because he's an SD space man with a waffle for head, a very specific waffle for a head turned at a 45 degree angle. Vidu 1.0 wasn't able to work with him, almost always giving him a mouth or rotating his waffle, if not completely glitching out. 2.0 is much better to handle it.

The numerous dino-anthros above are all in the "Tricky for AI" box. If I was into doing what could be gened easily, however, I'd just be pumping out an endless parade of pillowy waifus.

In my defense, I classify SexBomb as more of a 'strifu'. This particular one was an attempt to see if a toony image prompt could be rendered live-action with text prompting. Long story short it can't, but it can produce some interesting effects like the faux-posterized background.

I've had AI gen close to her costume before, but it never adds the fuse or does the boob-window right, and here we are.

One of my old bits of Transformers fanart of the Pretender Monster Icepick served as the character model for the one on the right.

Fantastical Creatures in general are a lot easier to execute in this version as well.

And... Action!

Motion is a lot more natural this time around.

Weapons fire (though sometimes a bit literal) tends to come out of the barrel semi-consistently now, characters can fight the waves without melting themselves and...

A giant rubber monster can eat your protagonist (if you're lucky.)

Quirks and Flaws

Nothing is perfect, and all AI you see is curated. So lets talk areas to be improved.

A lot of stuff presently generates with multilingual gibberish captions sometimes, which I expect is an early model bug. Versions 2-3 of Midjourney would have similar artifacts, and that sort of thing isn't hard to correct for.

There are still issues with blurring/smudging, especially with things like tail-tips, hands, and any motion the robot doesn't quite get.

Sometimes stuff shapechanges or appears that ought not to, like the knight's floppy second blade.

Or speed gets off requiring being fixed in post.

And stuff just goes dumb sometimes, which one should expect (and in my estimation, desire) from any generative system, artificial or analogue. Should the water go on the fire rather than the firemen? Yes. Do I regret this gen? No.

One quirk of the system is how it resolves incongruous multi-prompts. I've been accustomed to Midjourney, which, when generating an image must blend everything requested. You can put two completely different backgrounds in as image prompts and it will blend them into something new and wacky.

Vidu resolves problems like having two background images at once by taking advantage of the 4th dimension. Confuse the robot too much and it will just cut/fade from one idea to the next.

And then there's stuff that just happens, like, a shot being perfect except a painted (and thus ought to be static) background object animating beautifully (going retro is a path wrought with irony) and the robot deciding it'd rather do CG-style than 2d.

And while it doesn't show up great in the gif of Max at the construction site there, 2.0 is more vulnerable to interpreting bad transparency-clipping as part of the character design, so be careful if you're using transparent PNGs.

Also, if you slap a character and a background together without elaborating on the setting with the text prompt, it will often slap the background back there as a static backdrop and produce a very "greenscreen-y" effect.

Rather than laden this post down with more animated GIFs, I'll be setting up a batch of them as posts for the upcoming days. At least, that's the plan.

[alvfr]

Out of the Spider-Verse (and into Gotham)

a/n: so let's hear what nightwing has to say about things, shall we? (eventual) paring: dick grayson/reader rating: m (swearing)/sfw cw: spider-woman!reader who never stops talking, no use of y/n, superhero violence

summary: For years, you have been the one and only Spider-Woman of your world. However, after being recruited to the multiversal Spider-Society, you learn that there's a version of you in every other universe too. At least that's what you thought until something goes wrong and you end up in a world with plenty of superheroes, but no Spider-Man. You're stranded, alone and glitching. You need to find this world's Spider-Man and restore your link to the Spider-Verse before you disintegrate completely - easier said than done with both a local detective and a hot vigilante on your tail.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Nightwing flew through the night sky with the city that never slept somewhere below him. He sped across rooftops on foot and soared between buildings aided by the grappling hook and ropes. Normally, he would have gone by motorcycle, but he knew he would not have time to stash it somewhere afterward. Besides, every time he kicked off into the air, he got to cherish the few seconds of weightlessness where he could close his eyes and pretend he was back at the circus before gravity forced him into action again. Everything seemed simpler up here, away from the hubbub and smog, and he would have appreciated it more if he had not been on the clock.

With its sprawling 330 square miles, Nightwing still figured he knew every single rooftop in Gotham like the back of his hand, and he made good speed toward the Bowery even on foot. It used to be the main commercial district in Old Gotham and consisted mostly of decayed art-deco high-rises and shopping centers. Plenty of crooks and crannies to blend in with the shadows, something that came in handy as the Bowery was now mostly known for its high crime rate and impoverished population. People only lived there because they could not afford to leave.

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[jesterkoops]

What are they planning re: reintegration

I am trying to wrap my mind around how reintegration was used this season, and why they might have decided to initiate it but not complete it.

If reintegration was only meant to be dangled in front of i!Mark as a bargaining chip, a potential way-out to convince him to help o!Mark by reassuring him his life won't end, then there was no real need to have Mark actually go through the procedure this season. The fact that it was an option should have been enough of a promise to drive the narrative in the way it did.

If they had to do it this season despite it playing no real role in the story other than a few flashes, this means a) there is something about next season that would preclude Mark from getting the procedure done then and, b) it will be important to drive the plot forward next season.

Point a is easy to explain. Logistically, since they knew all along that it was going to end with i!Mark choosing to stay with Helly on the severed floor, it would be physically impossible for Mark to be reintegrated next season. And, even if o!Mark managed to get himself back out, he would have no incentive to reintegrate once Gemma is out and his innie 'betrayed him'. So if it is necessary to move the plot forward next season, they needed to initiate the procedure this season. And given Mark has initiated reintegration but has not completed it, it means what's important for the plot is for Mark to have flashes but not experience full reintegration.

How these flashes might come into play depend on how long we will maintain i!Mark's POV (from Dan's statements is sounds like at least in the early episodes Mark and Helly will try to stay on the severed floor, so it will be his POV) before seeing o!Mark again, and on how early on these flashes will start again. It may be that iMark won't experience any and o!Mark will, or they both will.

From iMark's POV, the flashes will either be in the form of glitches where o!Mark briefly "awakens" on the severed floor or o!Mark memories. The most obvious scenario most people will envision is i!Mark starting to have flashes of Gemma, and possibly feel the love o!Mark feels for Gemma. But I can't help but feel that, while it makes logical sense, I'm not sure it makes narrative sense given i!Mark having no feelings for Gemma was a huge plot point and deciding factor this season and the fact that his choosing Helly is about more than just love. Helly is a symbol of his identity, his choices, his agency. If he now gets hijacked by his outie's feelings, and they drive him to go back on his choice and get out, then all of this detracts from that choice and that ending because it implies some sort of dominance of the o!Mark's feelings on his own. And I'd be surprised if that's the route they go down.

Also, it doesn't seem like the flashes come with feelings just yet, given how we've seen o!Mark react to the flashes of having sex with "Heleny". They seem to be more about a transfer of information, and very minimal emotion. That is probably why they haven't had Mark fully reintegrate yet. They did not want the feelings to spill over just yet, just the information? So if it is more about transferring information, then the question is: who would benefit more from gaining access to information about the other's world to drive the plot forward? I would guess o!Mark, since a) he is the one who has to reckon with creating this other version of himself and b) gaining information about the inside might help him free himself next season like he thought it would help free Gemma this season.

Lastly, the longer iMark stays on the severed floor and extends his experience of life with Helly, the messier the full integration is going to be once it's completed (if it ever is). i!Mark worried about being overwhelmed by o!Mark but, already, if we assume Helly's been on the severed floor for 1-2 months and i!Mark is 2 years old this is, percentage wise, almost as long as Gemma and Mark were married (4 years) in o!Mark's life (~40). Add to that however long they'll have together on that floor and it might even overtake o!Mark's experience. Which could explain why they held off on full reintegration. If the whole point is having o!Mark face the consequences of having created a new consciousness for his emotional convenience, then it is important that they chikhai bardo each other on even ground, and that o!Mark cannot easily dominate and control iMark's influence. So I wonder if it will be i!Mark that goes ahead with the full reintegration at some point, once he feels more confident that he's not just going to be absorbed by o!Mark's consciousness?

That is, assuming full reintegration is still on the table. I also wonder if, much like all the theories about Gemma being a clone, or a vessel for Kier's consciousness, only for her to turn out to be alive and herself, the full reintegration that we are all obsessing with is not really where this story is ultimately going?

[aquatark]

My previous post made me realize that not a lot of people here are aware of Endless Ocean's bowmouth guitarfish glitch fiasco, which I think is a shame because 1) it's an interesting look into this game's history, and 2) I find it really funny... long-winded explanation incoming!

So! you see this guy?

You can place him in the game's aquarium, right? I bet if you've played the game, you've done it without even thinking twice!

...Well, in the initial Japanese release of Endless Ocean (known over there as Forever Blue), you couldn't. In fact, attempting to place this little scrimbly in the aquarium crashes your game.

Now this isn't too bad, since you can just press the reset button and continue your game normally, right? well... if you happen to leave the aquarium and save the game after having opened the creature placing menu, selecting a bowmouth guitarfish, and then closing the menu without placing anything... then congrats! you can never use the aquarium again, because it autoplaces whatever you left in that menu on your next visit! :D

In case you're wondering what this looks like in action, this video taken around the game's launch showcases it well, while also using the game's MP3 playback feature to put some anime music in the background, which I think adds to the experience:

So... how does this happen? How could something like this make it into the final game?

Turns out, this is due to how Endless Ocean categorizes creatures internally. Each creature in the game falls into a category, depending on the movements and behaviors the developers wanted to give them. For example, "migrate" type creatures follow a set of coordinate points creating a route around a stage, whereas "swim" type creatures simply swim around the area in which they are placed within a certain radius. Think of a whale shark's movements versus that of a butterflyfish - they have very different AI telling them how to behave.

Now, trying to load a creature of one type as a creature of another... does not make the game happy, to put it lightly. It doesn't know how to handle the request, and so crashes to prevent further weirdness from ensuing. There is only one byte (literally the second smallest unit of digital information storage you could use) per creature responsible for telling the game what type to load the creature as, and this includes when placing creatures in the aquarium. A slip of the keyboard caused a dev to type the wrong number in this byte, making it attempt to spawn bowmouth guitarfish placed in the aquarium as "swim" type rather than their correct "migrate" type. Literally one wrong number caused the game to crash, and for ears to bleed across Japan.

Since the aquarium is unlocked so early in the game, people discovered this on day one, in their first play session... and since Endless Ocean was a launch game for the Wii in Japan, that's even worse. It's not exactly a great look for your brand new console to have a game break so bad you can't use a mechanic anymore. And Wii game crashes are not pretty. So, Nintendo put out a statement on the day of release, notifying people of the problem, how to avoid it, and saying that a recall would be put in place. A week later, they released another statement, which stated people could apply to have their games replaced with an updated version, which would be mailed to them free of charge, by either phoning in or filling out an application online. This service continued up until 2020, over ten years after release! They really didn't want any copies of the broken version around... good thing we have archives of it!

The updated version even has different box art, with an added blue bar at the bottom, showcased in this incredibly crunchy image:

I love picturing Nintendo executives freaking out after a humble diving game causes such a mess they have to print the game again, losing them a lot of money and causing the game to get a lot of negative press...

I've seen old forum threads talking about the game as if it's garbage before it even came out internationally, because this situation was pretty much the only major news coming out about it. Can't have helped sales, at least...

Anyway, the game was patched to fix this glitch, along with a few other minor tweaks, and it was this version of the game that got translated worldwide. Japanese fans love joking about the whole ordeal, and I can see why! For example, on the bowmouth guitarfish's Niconico Pedia page (for which the closest equivalent in English would be something like Know Your Meme), this is recounted comedically as "...probably the most notable moment for the bowmouth guitarfish in the history of the internet", which is probably true! There's even image macros about it!

So yeah. The bowmouth guitarfish's reputation was forever tainted, and some Nintendo execs to this day probably wince when they see one.

tl;dr - A developer for Endless Ocean typed one number wrong in the code, making the game explode if you place a bowmouth guitarfish in the aquarium. Nintendo had to recall the game, and that specific fish has lived on in infamy among Japanese fans ever since.

Next time you use the aquarium, try putting a bowmouth guitarfish in there, and be grateful you can at all!

[darkqueenhelba]

Infold just doubled down on the new storyline.

At 2:56 am EST on May 9th I logged into my PS5 for white noise and in the 3 hours since I had logged in for the Fashion show around 11:30 est they had completely changed out the background game on the PS5 Home Screen. This is the new one:

This is completely different from what was here only a few hours before. The old had been there since the beginning of the game and not changed.

Even logging into the PS app shows new pictures highlighting Infold doubling down on the new storyline.

The first picture shows from the recently played/trophy count list shows the old picture but when you click on it for a product description you now get the second picture when it just used to be a bigger version of the first.

The vibe you get from both pictures is worlds apart. Bright colors vs moody purples. Height & Depth vs near Singular Plane. Momo on the adventure with us vs No Momo.

I know a lot of people were hoping for Infold to acknowledge and go back to the original opening of the game. (If only because it’s a better tutorial) But 10 days after the disastrous launch of 1.5 they decided to change the Home Screen on PS5 to reflect the new story. All while still leaving many bugs and glitches that are causing tons of PS5 players not to be able to play the game. This is not a direction I think many players want the game to go in and shows how out of touch the company is with the fan base.

Anyways because I had to figure out how to get pictures from my PS5 to the app to my phone to make this post… Here’s the 2 pictures I took during the Day 1 tutorial of Infinity Nikki.

Dress of Reunion and Silver Chained-up Ena… you are missed.

Goodbye “The Coziest Open-World Game” (because that’s been removed when you google the game) and hello what now feels generic multiverse where nothing truly matters. Goodbye Infinity Nikki. You didn’t even make it to your 5th month anniversary.

[ii-darkfic-confessions]

I've kinda been dumping old au ideas here for anyone to take but I'm reclaiming the one cobs kidnapping contestants to experiment on them (The one with him taking Taco cause of her materialising tea)

It's not an entirely original idea but I'm taking my version back even tho I don't think ayone took it anyways

I kind of want to expand on it more and I might make a fic of it once I'm done with Secret Phantoms

I think that it could be an alternative to the season 2 finale, instead of contestants being deleted they just dissapeared (teleported to meeple hq or fucking meeple labs idk)

Cobs is fascinated by MePhone's creations, not only has he created life but he's created useful life with powers and abilities that he's planning to contain or replicate

Maybe he also wants the contestants because he believes they have part of the shimmer egg/energy infused with them and he might also want to study their coding

This time the MeLife has nothing to do with this, Cobs just invented teleportation and this is how he's using it lmao. He takes Pickle, OJ and Nickel as trial runs (although he has particular interest in OJ's programmed victory) after that the kidnappings are out of order/unrelated to the deaths in the show :)

Eventually he loses interest in them, any attempts of containing or recreating abilities just don't work and the coding that holds their existence is outdated and hardly staying together, it's a miracle the contestants haven't lagged so bad they glitched out of existence but he finds entertainment in having MePhone witness and assist the experiments and studys, most of which are painful to the contestants. Especially when he digs into their coding.

But he finds alternative uses aswell, Lightbulb is forced the generate power to the whole facility with her electricity constantly being stimulated by the machinery she us trapped in. Test Tube is tortured and threatened into helping Cobs, she directly helps him in his tests and studies of the others. OJ and Paintbrush got off "lucky", they are still experimented on but not as often and their tasks are envied by the others, Paintbrush forced to constantly paint portraits of Cobs and meeple related things and OJ helps manage meeple finances.

Uhhh... thats all a got so far. I made up most of this om the spot and I'm a little tipsy rn (HAPPY NEW YEAR :3) so if this is a bit all over the place, I'm sorry 😞

Very very intriguing. Cobs would definitely make MePhone watch whatever horrible things he does to his contestants. And happy belated new year!

[arobotjester]

Talking about Murder Drones in general and episode 8 below the cut. Spoilers ahead.

I'm having a hard time with coping. The spot in my brain between grieving a real life person and a media + it's characters overlaps. I know I can just rewatch the episodes, but to me, it's like how yes you can look at a photo of somebody you've lost, but it's just not the same. I'm neurodivergent and 99.9% chance autistic (diagnosis is expensive) but I just know my brain handles some things at a much higher scale like in this situation.

It hurts knowing we will never see them say new things, go through different stuff, and live their lives. I know there is a potential for Uzi and N to return like Glitch said in the description of episode 8/in the comments, but it's most likely just Glitch Inn shorts/merch stuff. Which, yes, it's fine. I'm grateful to see them at all, but yeah.

I think it's pretty obvious my favorite character of all time is Cyn. I don't know if they'll use Uzi's new or old version if they do decide to bring them back for whatever. If you saw the after credits scene, then you know Cyn is now sharing Uzi's body- in a way. So yeah, I guess she is still there, but I wonder if they'll even use her again.

(Cyn and Solver may have been separate at one point, but it's of my opinion that Cyn is either doing this all herself to follow the Solver's plan or that the two of them are pretty much 1 entity now. The reason I believe the tail is Cyn anyway is because the black hole/NULL that Uzi ate came from Cyn's heart. That is her essence.)

I do plan on writing a post episode 8 fanfic aka my own season 2 tho

TLDR: I'm sad Murder Drones ended, and it's hard to cope.

I might delete this later on but blargh

[derekscorner]

Despite how fascinating the concept is I often forget that Type Moon's version of Earth has "layers" to it. Something I haven't really talked about since my posts on the FGO anime and movies.

For those shows (or even other Fate series) it's often put in broad terms. You have the modern human world and you have the "reverse side of the world".

The "reverse side" is a plane of existence all the gods, dragons, fae, and other beings escaped too as the "age of gods" came to an end. However, as I learned from Lost Belt 2 today, the earth actually has multiple layers.

Many "textures" or it may be more accurate to say that it "used too".

Take this break down Da Vinci and Goredolf are giving in these shots here. The way they word it makes it sound like the 9 Realms (possibly more since the exact number is actually debated IRL) were a type of pocket dimension.

Or, going with their terminology, it was a "texture". Ancient Scandinavia was wrapped up in multiple textures that encompassed the Nordic world as fashioned by Odin after he slew Ymir.

And before you ask, the Abrahamic God does exist in Fate. So yes, THE GOD, is real in Type-Moon however so were the pagan gods. The key difference there is that the pagan gods evolved alongside a civilization.

It's true that human belief and worship can alter or even birth something in Fate but everything that is later known as a god, hero, or monster was a real thing at some point.

A great example of this is Sasaki Kojiro. Although he himself admits he's a fabricated heroic spirit he also does explain that either his blade, a rival to Musashi, or a man who could cut a swallow did exist. It's entirely possible all three did. What makes Sasaki a fabrication is that he's a spirit born from the amalgamation of those legends into one myth.

Or, as another example, take these very images I'm using.

In the Fate universe Ragnarok DID happen. However, it correlated with a real world event of an eruption of Mt Katla. The real and the mythological are intertwined because the physical and the metaphysical shared the same space in the Age of Gods.

Earth was a tapestry of magic that shaped the world alongside it's human inhabitants. And when that age came an end the metaphysical became a separate plane detached from the physical world.

Yet, even then, the mythical beings aren't necessarily gone. Even beings that should be dead like Odin still influence a few events in FGO from that plane.

And before you ask how that's possible, do keep in mind that the Greek gods were once alien space ships that found earth. Ships that were destroyed by another alien entity (the white titan) and then appeared later as the Greek Olympians.

What's the point of this rambling? None. I just wanted to talk about a fascinating concept. You don't see it too often.

Perhaps the best example I could give that many would understand in 2025 is the UG and RG from TWEWY. The universe is also comprised of "planes" however the angels of that series compare it to a radio.

You "tune" to a plane with the UG being below the RG. The "underground" and "realground". There's also the space between where noise exist and higher planes where angels reside. Hell, even parallel worlds can be "tuned" into for higher beings.

Of course, the Counterforce (or possibly a higher power) in Type-Moon has a very hard lock-down on that type of travel. Worlds that lead nowhere are "pruned" while exceptions like female Musashi or Chaldea are viewed as threats or glitches.

Humanity also tends to limit its own access since the physical world is shaped by how well they understand it. The more science progresses the more magic will fade further isolating the modern human era from the other "textures" and worlds of their universe.

Hi there, thanks for reading. Hopefully I eased your boredom a tad. If you're still wanting more then perhaps you could help me out. I have a tagging system to organize my tumblr due to how old it is but it doesn't seem to work on android.

So I'll link my fate ramblings here: Fated Rantings

If it works for you then by all means let me know or if it doesn't that's fine. Heck, it's fine if it does work but ya forget to tell me.

Either way, bye~

[repurposedmeatlocker]

I've recently gotten really into this genre of ARG that is based around classic nostalgic late 2000 and early 2010 video games. These don't seem to get half as much attention outside of their dedicated communities and I find it a real shame, because if anything I connect more to the timeframe these supposedly take place in comparison to other nostalgic types of video game horror ARGs based on early 2000 and 90s platform video games.

Thought I would list a few of these out. Most of them seem to be incomplete/abandoned unfortunately, but who knows. I really like the stuff that is built up here and hopefully more people start to consider exploring it in a more fleshed-out manner!

Old Minecraft Reuploads - This series hasn't been updated in 2 years, which is super unfortunate because it probably has to be my favorite of the approaches to this format! It is so effectively frightening without depending on any obtuse jumpscares. A majority of its eeriness comes from the ambiance already displayed in early Minecraft games. If you are familiar enough with playing them, you can kind of get the gist that something isn't right here. The immersion is super effective too. I'm not a fan of ARG's that hammer in their fictional and "otherworldly" elements too heavily. It takes me out a bit. All the glitches and discrepancies here feel like things that could actually happen, which makes it more scary! The last episode is especially frightening from the acting of the player alone. I never thought I could actually read fear in a faceless and voiceless screen recording, but it is SO impressive what evoked here. It is sad to me that I haven't heard much about this until now, and that it appears to be inactive. For what it's worth I would love for it to get more attention, even if just to see what is already there!

Gunslingerpro2009 and BadwaterVideos2009 - These two are not connected in any way, but they explore similar subject matter, so I feel it is appropriate to put them together. The format these base themselves on are classic TF2 gmod videos/animations. With the twist though that the ragdolls used in the game are sentient and being tortured/mistreated by the player/uploader. It is a cool concept I am surprised hasn't been played around with more with this genre. Absolutely recommended if you are a fan of that era of gmod content and psychological horror.

gmod9fan reuploads - This one kind of ends in a whimper and I don't think it is being continued (last update was 4 years ago), but the ideas being explored here are interesting. I think of the gmod ARGs it is the one that felt the most "scary" to me. Mostly just creepy stuff happening on someone's old gmod videos.

Classic GM Videos - I'm not the most invested in this one, but it feels worth mentioning nonetheless, and actually appears to be actively continuing compared to a majority of these. I would say my biggest complaint is the narrative that appear to be built here kind of fluctuates and doesn't have a strong amount of focus between the uploads. There is a sense that the creator is still figuring out what they want to say, but the Bob and Bill stuff is really captivating to me enough to keep an eye on it.

Minecraft Alpha 1.0.16 Versions - Still watching this, but it kind of appears to be an account under the pretense of uploading videos of a non-existent variant of Alpha 1.0.16. It feels a bit like a Herobrine-centered ARG, so if you are into that subject it could be fun.

Anyway, just thought I would find a way to bring some of these more into the spotlight since I find the approach really unique and fun. Not that I have a huge audience or anything, but anything to get the word out. I think the effort put into them deserve way more attention. Also, if you know of any other ARG's that fit this bill PLEASE feel free to let me know. I love this stuff.

[alanaartdream]

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After reading the Danny Phantom a glitch in time I was in the mood to try to sketch Danny with his Friends Tucker and Sam

And then being as yeah Sam and Tucker did get to join Danny in the nicktoons unite game (heck you can play as Sam in the 2nd game witch is the island game as well as in the toy bots one that came after that ) so they did meet Timmy Turner so had to draw that in

And then had to draw my Fairy Timmy with the nicktoons talking with Sam being as he has met them in the games

Now for years I’ve seen maybe 1-2 artists keep the nicktoons unite fandom alive but most of the time the focus was only on the 1st game not on the other 3 in the series so didn’t see and Sam or Tucker getting added into the lineup (witch is a crying shame because Sam was quite awesome in the games; you could even play as her in at least 2 of the games (not sure about the globs of doom one where they took Timmy Turner out and had invader zim & dib as well as some villains join the team in that one; but then Timmy could and would’ve wished them out of trouble like he does for Jimmy Timmy power hour episodes so the game development team must of not wanting to deal with that tricky story plot )

Like now they’re adding in Jenny XJ9 from my teenage robot life and El Tigre tiger boy but forget to add in Sam and Tucker???

Heck Sammy squirrel; Patrick Sat and Squidward were apart of the Nicktoons unite team up for a lot of the games (also didn’t help that nicktoons started to focus more on SpongeBob Square pants more by the last of the games)

Think you could play as Sammy squirrel in the games too

But then maybe their version of nicktoons unite games aus they like to make Danny have darker life or less supportive friends/ family so maybe that’s why they don’t add them but are adding in Jenny Xj9 and tiger boy before adding in any of Danny’s friends and SpongeBob’s friends or they didn’t know the others games?

Enithr way the games have a order to them apparently (I didn’t know what the order was until some YouTube/ google searches later)

So probably just lack of information as to why it’s this way (( I mean I don’t wanna stop people having their own takes on things I love when people are creative and do their own things))

Just seems odd to not add the other characters that made it into the team or how tragic they make Danny’s life seem in their aus when honestly Danny got a very good supporting network of friends/ family & allies who helps him deal with ghosts and being half ghost (in fact he’s a bit of a adorable dork not really something I’d say is depressing gloomy or something tragic in their life)

Making me think they mixed Timmy turner’s tragic life story with Danny’s being as Danny’s the ghost boy with ghost powers they want to make him tragic when really Timmy’s one with only Wanda Cosmo poof/peri and Fairy world to help him deal with his crazy dumb neglectful parents who forget to feed him and leave him with a abusing awful babysitter; don’t really care to teach him anything and don’t care he’s dealing with awful bullies and a crazy teacher who just wants to fail him all the time to get at his fairies AND he’s only 10 years old and has to deal with all of that without any support whatsoever (if he didn’t have fairies/wanda Cosmo & poof) he’d be a dead ghost child Danny & his friends might’ve had to deal with honestly

Heck because they both been created by butch jerkman the creator once said he was planning on making them cousins (like distant cousins) at one point but gave up on the idea witch probably explains why they do look a little alike

So like Danny has a lot to deal with with the ghost and his own school bullies but his family & friends love and support him

Heck like Jimmy Danny with help of his friend Tucker & Sam after all the ghosts they’re dealing with and how emotion is a driving force for ghosts in his world would pick up Timmy only acts snarky/ sassy to protect himself and is honestly a pretty good kid his life back in his world is pretty bad any nicktoons character who’s life might be a little like Timmy’s is maybe Dib’s from invader Zim but the movie changed how Dib’s father is like (if you’d seen the invader Zim’s cartoon show boy dib has some pretty dark moments and thankfully the show doesn’t gloss over those dark moments like fairly odd parents original show use to like to do )

I mean probably overthinking things here it’s just my opinion after looking into things more and enjoying the shows and stuff

Because lately where I use to love how those artist been keeping nicktoons unite fandom going for such a long time; it’s as I go back and enjoy Danny phantom/ fairly odd parents and the nicktoons unite games that it feels like the characterising of these characters feels a bit off now

It’s still good just something is missing or don’t match up

[lo5trand0mz-111]

} BLOG RAN BY : @p0t4t0ismultif4nd0m {

/ You stumble upon a pirated version of the old roblox game that you used to play, so you decided to investigate it. Opening it, you find that the menu's glitched, the "games" and "avatar" button unable to be clicked except for that one button, \

\ The demo button. \

\ So out of curiousity, you clicked it. Spawning into the demo, it loaded the happy home map except it was a bit darker. When you were about to move, an "NPC" appeared infront of you. \

[ ??? ] : oh. hi.

[ ??? ] : welcome, i guess.

\ The odd looking NPC would greet you, for a split second, you could've SWORE you saw the screen glitch out. \

# [ R U L E S . ] #

- 1 . NO N$FW/18+!!!,

- 2 . DO NOT INTERACT : P3D0$, Z00$, WEIRDOS, TRANSPHOBES, ISLAMPHOBICS, ETC ETC..

[ YOU MAY INTERACT IF YOU'RE A CHARACTER FROM A GAME, SERIES, SHOW OR AN OC OR SOMETHING.... ]

[ ALL KINDS OF ASKS ARE ALLOWED! BUT ABSOLUTELY NO SLURS, PLEASE. ]

[ ??? ] : oh yeah, sorry for not introducing myself.

[ ??? ] : you may call me 1nvad3r.. hahahhahh..

[ LO5TRAND0MZ_111 ] : I wasn't expecting anyone at all...

[ LO5TRAND0MZ_111 ] : sorry for the mess.

/ The NPC would say, though you didn't know what mess they meant because there weren't any at all. /

[ LO5TRAND0MZ_111 ] : well, what are ypu waiting for? are you... gonna leave? like the others?

.....

well, good luck deciding?

[jojo-ker06]

A little "Wishing on a Star" Update:

So you might (or not, actually, since that post wasn't seen by anyone because of a glitch) remember when I posted all the outfits of my villians.

If not (which will most likely be the case,) let me show you:

The younger versions (seen in the prolouge)

Present Version (Act 1)

Present Version (Act 2)

Well, I decided to re-design their main outfits for both act 1 and 2, since their outfits are pretty bland if you compare them with Asha and Orion.

Here are their Act 1 outfits, a bit more detailed and still with the lighter white-blue theme. I will show you the Act 2 outfits a different time, since I really want them to look evil and get it to look perfect.

Magnifico will still have his staff/scepter, but I might redesign that too, that's why it's not included in the new drawings.

(Since this change happened today, the storyboards that I already drew (the ones of the prolouge) still include their 'old' outfits)

I hope you like them!

[aotopmha]

I caved and watched an entire playthrough of Sonic X Shadow Generations. Both sides.

Sonic Generations just looks like the same old fun and honestly, not being re-released as a broken mess is what I wanted for it the most and that's exactly what it seems to be.

They somehow struck the (almost) perfect balance between edgy and heartfelt for Shadow Generations. (I think him getting the powers the way he does is just on the brink of overdone edge, but the package is more sincere than edgy, so I'm cool with it.)

I feel like in the case of Shadow's character, you have to go fully sincere for it to work at all because of the archetype he is. I think this is why I liked him in Sonic Adventure 2, at least.

Don't earn the dark elements or put in the character work and combine this with basically zero levity and you have shallow, tedious melodrama on your hands, which is the issue with Sonic 06.

(I think Shadow's story in 06 actually had the least of it, but Sonic's and Silver's absolutely suffered from weightless melodrama the most in my eyes.)

Lean too much into emphasising how dark and cool you are and you become childish, which was the issue with Shadow The Hedgehog.

Shadow fits inside the Vegeta archtype, specifically more leaning into post-redemption Vegeta.

Distant and stoic on the surface, but deep down good-hearted and a softie for the people he cares about.

All of this aside, though, Shadow Generations looks like a polished, consistent and complete package.

I think the entire playthrough I watched only had 2-3 instances of true glitches.

All of the elements making it up are unified: there are no strange discrepancies in music, the visuals have flavour and a consistent style they're going for all the way through and from start to finish, the story is a complete whole.

They basically have the open world of Frontiers without the pop-in, the fantastic level design of the Generations stages and a further refined version of the power-up system introduced via Wisps back in Colours (latest variation of which was in Superstars), but outfitted for Shadow.

And all I can say is that I think they should flesh out all of the characters exactly like this. I at least want to see this treatment for Tails, Amy and Knuckles. I think Blaze is my own big wish for cool 3D gameplay in this style because I think it just has the potential to be incredibly fun.

Keep Sonic as a template as with Shadow, but give them abilities fitting to their characters, making them variations of Sonic (which the best playable versions of them have basically been since the start).

My big worry here is the lesson they might take away from Shadow Generations, which is to keep shoving Shadow into everything without ryhme and reason now because that's just what "people like" now.

I can easily see his character and gameplay style eventually fall victim to poor implementation (and on the side, writing), just like the end point of all cool and successful Sonic gameplay styles: Adventure gameplay, Modern Sonic, Classic Sonic and the Wisps, to name a few.

I hope the lesson is to do cool stuff like this with all characters, maybe go back to doing multiple stories with multiple gameplay styles with solid effort put into all of them, not make the franchise consist entirely of Shadow games.

Maybe make Shadow one of several gameplay styles next to Sonic in the next game and even use what they've done here to further refine Sonic's gameplay?

To me it really stood out how smoothly some of Shadow's abilities seemed to work.

Above all, I know this game skyrocketed on my list of to-gets after seeing some of those levels.

Circumstances in the past few days actually also maybe have made it possible for me to get it earlier than I thought, but it's still pretty pricey for me currently.

Eventually, for sure, though.

The impressions are so much better than I ever thought they would be and the game just looks so much better from footage than I ever thought it would.

[tattered-bah]

weirdest request to probably get at first but like, sonice.exe but, cutesy? brash? Like he's not the original version but a starting out one who's still getting his grasp on things and isn't behaving like an exe "right" is the vibe(personally because idk if this is like a fragment or something or our brains trying to latch so it'd be helpful!) Level 3 maybe but any level is fine! thank you in advance(even if you can't do it!) and have a nice timezone! - lovely

“the void welcomes Sonic.exe.”

we hope this is to your liking! please know the headmate may not come out exactly as described! we were excited to do this one so we ended up doing it tonight instead hehe

name: sonic, exe, error, program, virus, file, glitch

pronouns: he/him/his/himself, it/its/itself, they/them/theirs/themself, h3/h1m/h1s/h1mself, error/errors/errorself, glitch/glitchs/glitchself, broken/brokens/brokenself, file/files/fileself, 💽/💽s/💽self, cute/cutes/cuteself, silly/sillys/sillyself

orientation: unlabeled

gender: glitchgender, errorgender, glitchmasc, xenogender, gamegender

age: ageless

species: computer virus / hedgehog

role: absorber, mood booster, anxiety holder

source: creepypasta

faceclaim:

link 1, link 2

signoff: 🦔

likes: old consoles, ransomware, romance movies

dislikes: dark colors, slasher movies, salty food

kins: viruskin, computerkin

aesthetic:

personality: exe is a very kind-hearted but brash individual, always saying what's on his mind but never knowing how exactly to say it, so he often comes off as blunt or aggressive even though he absolutely means well. he is also often anxious and unsure of himself, enjoying things that would typically be unconventional for him (romance, pastel colors, etc)

traits: stimming via shaking his hands and fists, likes to wear rings

interests: visual novels, rpgs, rhythm games