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you're an inspiration, pukicho

Is your entire name just a front so people call you puki (pooky) because you dont feel validated by your own partner?

My username predates the nickname pookie. Does the name "doktor schruum" have to do with the fact that physicians keep finding strange fungal infections on your testicles?

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Honestly in my opinion the coolest thing you can do is be kind

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I had a dream that the wall art changed and it completely destroyed my brain.

I'm really fond of Blue Prince, but I'm in late-stage puzzle game mode where I'm just looking at every little bit of artwork and thinking "is this a clue"?

These are billiard balls found in the Parlor Room, and I thought "holy shit, if you translate these into numbers, and then translate those into letters, you could hide a message!"

And this is unfortunately not a message, it's just a random collection of billiard balls, there aren't enough duplicates for all of the vowels you would need.

But imagine if it were something, right? How clever I would feel?

(I am also sick and can feel how much less intelligent I am, so the grasping at straws is real.)

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Blue Prince mansion staff and residents all have ONE lavatory to share between them on any given day AT BEST and if it doesn't come up in the draft I guess everyone just gotta go in the bushes that day

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Heyy (: Are you still running the Tumblr Open? I'm new to Strive and the tournament sounds fun! I wanted to join the Discord so I don't miss the next date, but the link has expired. If you're still accepting new members, could I get a link? Thanks and sorry to bother you!

Yes! https://discord.gg/NkAXmk9s I need to figure out how to make a permanent invite link lol

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Have you been looking at Guilty Gear? In love with the character design of a certain biscuit, but don't want to get creamed by experts? This tournament is SPECIFICALLY for you! I cannot emphasize this enough! If you have never even played the game, I want you to buy it, do the mandatory online tutorial, and come on down! I promise you, no matter how bad you think you'll do, someone else will do exactly as badly as you, and you'll have a great time figuring out what your buttons do together.

Welcome to The Tumblr Open. Saturday 11, 11AM CST. Same time every week.

The Tumblr Open is a non-elimination tournament. That means that even if you get destroyed for four matches in a row, you will still get to play and you will play against people like you. Again, if you have never played the game before, you will eventually be matched against players like you. And, hey, Strive has high damage so you'll get there pretty quick!

The point of this event is not to find out who is the best, it is to get you matches against other people of your skill level. Maybe we can make a finale of the two best players battling it out, but we would do that to build community, not to stroke anyone's ego.

This community is wonderful. It's small enough that we all learn each other's names and get to watch each other grow. It's truly unlike anything I've ever experienced before, and I'm honored to facilitate. We'd love to have you join our little community and share in something we all love!

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Daily Nagoriyuki 02032025

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Have you been looking at Guilty Gear? In love with the character design of a certain biscuit, but don't want to get creamed by experts? This tournament is SPECIFICALLY for you! I cannot emphasize this enough! If you have never even played the game, I want you to buy it, do the mandatory online tutorial, and come on down! I promise you, no matter how bad you think you'll do, someone else will do exactly as badly as you, and you'll have a great time figuring out what your buttons do together.

Welcome to The Tumblr Open. Friday Feb 21, 6PM CST.

The Tumblr Open is a non-elimination tournament. That means that even if you get destroyed for four matches in a row, you will still get to play and you will play against people like you. Again, if you have never played the game before, you will eventually be matched against players like you. And, hey, Strive has high damage so you'll get there pretty quick!

The point of this event is not to find out who is the best, it is to get you matches against other people of your skill level. Maybe we can make a finale of the two best players battling it out, but we would do that to build community, not to stroke anyone's ego.

This community is wonderful. It's wonderful to see all the experienced folks guide the noobs. We'd love to have you join our little community and share in something we all love!

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Hey Christians

What if I stuck my hand into a machine and it shreds it to pieces?

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Have you been looking at Guilty Gear? In love with the character design of a certain biscuit, but don't want to get creamed by experts? This tournament is SPECIFICALLY for you! I cannot emphasize this enough! If you have never even played the game, I want you to buy it, do the mandatory online tutorial, and come on down! I promise you, no matter how bad you think you'll do, someone else will do exactly as badly as you, and you'll have a great time figuring out what your buttons do together.

Welcome to The Tumblr Open. Friday Feb 21, 6PM CST.

The Tumblr Open is a non-elimination tournament. That means that even if you get destroyed for four matches in a row, you will still get to play and you will play against people like you. Again, if you have never played the game before, you will eventually be matched against players like you. And, hey, Strive has high damage so you'll get there pretty quick!

The point of this event is not to find out who is the best, it is to get you matches against other people of your skill level. Maybe we can make a finale of the two best players battling it out, but we would do that to build community, not to stroke anyone's ego.

The first one went very well. It was wonderful to see all the experienced folks guide the noobs. We'd love to have you join our little community and share in something we all love!

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I'm not a fan of Baiken's Strive design. Let's talk about it.

Baiken is a samurai who lost everything, including her right arm and her left eye, to Gears. She wears a constant scowl in combat and fights like a feral animal. Despite this, she is constantly using tools, whether that's her sword or one of many hidden mechanisms, to deliver an unending offense to her enemy that's impossible to block for long. During the events of Strive, she starts to open up as she finds people to care for and be cared for by: once, she was harmed by the world and chose to harm in return, and now she is loved by the world, and chooses to love in return. She's, like, a Mirror of the World. Or something.

So why the boobs?

During the transition from GG +R to Xrd, the game took on a faux-2D aesthetic that Arcsys has used as their claim to fame ever since. As part of this, the game's art style changed from a nearly post-apocalyptic style to one of pure anime. That style was still very 'rock', the core theme of guilty gear, but it was undeniably anime. Baiken's design in +R definitely features her cleavage, but certainly not to such an extent where you don't notice she's an amputee. In Xrd, Baiken's boobs gained a new dimension, consistently reading very clearly no matter the situation. Xrd is just as horny as you'd expect any anime to be, so at least it fits that part of the aesthetic.

To Strive's credit, the key art for Baiken has changed significantly for the better. Compare her Xrd art (left) to her Strive art (right). In Xrd, the first read is on her flowing robes, her cleavage, her massive mound of hair, and her 'broadly pissed' expression. In Strive, we lose the flowing robes and gain a sword held with edge-out. The vibe has gone from "I am broadly pissed at the world" to "I AM GOING TO KILL SOMEONE." Strive's design edges a little too close to 'serial killer' in my opinion, but it's such a stark improvement that it almost makes Xrd's pose look out of character for her.

But why include this part of her design in a game with a much more distinct style? Giovanna, a brand-new character from the same game, has an outfit that also displays her cleavage. However, her neutral stance causes her torso to rotate away from the camera, hiding it almost completely. (I don't know why that's a good fighting stance for her, but we're talking about Baiken here.) Her attacks cause her boobs to read as part of her body instead of as independent physics objects. Dizzy, a character that previously did a magical girl transformation into what can only be described as a BDSM harness, now wears a flowing dress that hardly shows an inch of skin that reflects her newfound control over her abilities. Baiken has grown, too! She's discoving a found family that she can actually care for. Does that change the way she looks or fights? Surely a lifelong warrior such as her would at least make sure they don't get in the way of her vision while fighting-

Baiken's model is almost directly ripped from Xrd.

On the one hand, Baiken's design can be read as "Why would you want to touch these, I am ruled by vengeance and will kill you if you look at me wrong". On another, she can be read as not caring what anyone thinks of her. Personally, I struggle to read a personality at all from her combat frames, though, as all I can see is someone wanting to show off how Xrd's engine can do boobs and someone else porting the model straight into Strive to save on costs.

Would I have wanted them to get rid of her boobs? Absolutely not.

If Baiken covered herself up, she would be bowing to the audience's expectations of her. The core theme of guilty gear is 'rock', and rock stands for relentless self-expression. It is (perhaps unfortunately) very clear that this, whatever it is, is Baiken. I may not understand it, but this is who she is, and she is clearly and consistently expressing it.

That said, I hope her character evolves to a point where she doesn't feel the need to express herself this way.

I want to see the scowl drop off her face and watch her awkwardly flirt with people now that she's learned that life has meaning beyond revenge. That would be clearly expressive of "I want to connect with people and I'm struggling to" and let her keep her sex appeal.

Or she can succumb to revenge, or be betrayed by someone she loves. Show her body absolutely covered with ugly scars, but she's holding herself the exact same way because she never cared what you thought of her, and especially doesn't now. "I have to own my trauma or else it will own me" is a common but unhealthy response to trauma and would make a great darkest hour for her.

Or she can transition. She already exhibits a lot of traditionally (toxic) male traits, and we literally have a character who has gone from expressing the opposite gender to accepting and living it. This would piss off a lot of existing fans of Baiken, but unlike Bridget, there's lots of other big-boobed anime women with interesting characterization underneath in this series so we're not even losing any representation. "I'm finally figuring out who I really am" is something that we don't get from Bridget's animation frames because she skips straight to pure gender euphoria, so there's still characterization space here.

I suck at writing conclusions. Baiken is a character with big boobs. Why? Why does she need the boobs, Daisuke? I get that she needs them, but why? Is it just "fans will buy the dlc therefore we give it to them"? It's cool when you're doing that for underserved communities like with Bridget. Much less cool selling a slightly different flavor of big boob anime woman that 'you, yes you, could totally fix'. Develop her character! Do better.

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I'd vote for you.

If I bought Twitter, here are the things I would implement (in order)

Random Bot Encounters while scrolling. When you lose an encounter, it sends you back to the last checkpoint post

Blue Check Raids (You and five friends doing asynchronous turn-based combat against major Verified Users)

Boss Rebalancing

Every clicked post has a 1:3,000 chance to sort all the characters alphabetically

When a follower likes a post, you get a stat buff (like Dark Souls)

For Metroidvania Day, make everyone's feeds formatted as a Metroidvania where you go between the For You and the Following feed to solve puzzles

Add a sort function to replies to de-incentivize verification abuse and spam farming

More riddles, obviously

On Opposite Day, we all share one communal feed to encourage cooperation, and every like counts for the entire website's active population at the time

For ten dollars, you can pay to have a tweet physically mailed directly to a person instead of sending them a DM or a link.

I hope you believe in my vision for a better social media platform. If you don't, please don't tell me.

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Imagine, if you will, an AU where the dems were the party of bullies and the gop were the party of doing nothing. The dems would constantly be calling shitty people secretly gay and trying to oust them from their communities, and the gop would be praying people get less abortions instead of... gutting women's healthcare.

Sometimes American politics feels unsurmountable and other times it feels like you could widely discredit the President by credibly implying he holds his pens “with a feminine tilt” or something. It’s all very 2007 playground politics.

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Any interest in a Guilty Gear Strive Tumblr tourney? As in 'bracket' not as in 'poll'.

I would ideally like to design it with beginners in mind, a swiss-structure non-eliminiation bracket. That way even if your main strategy is to hope your opponent gets distracted by Testament's idle animation, sure you'll get destroyed for a few games, but then you'll spend most of your time against folks at your level. Then we can let the top players battle it out and all spectate to crown a champion.

Edit: See here for details! https://www.tumblr.com/communities/guilty-gear/post/775285925215354880/have-you-been-looking-at-guilty-gear-in-love-with

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wintsdom no. 1

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Omg guys it’s Bucket from the hit series guilty gear

I also drew Ram & I wanna draw Sol Dadguy later

(PLEASE I NEED MORE GG MUTUALS HI I DONT BITE USUALLY)

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cis man frantically teaches you bridget basics before 'The Town Inside Me' ends. the very basics. very, very basics. basics like:

Dash and press the [S] [H] [H] combo

Keep them out with [P] or [S]

Hold down+back on defense, or use [↓ K] (fast) or [→ ↓ ⬊ P] (invincible)

Grabs beat blocking

don't waste your burst please don't gold burst it's not worth the bit