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I Need Him. ok

ive only played like 5 minutes of urbz but the first thing i did was max my relationship with him

sadly we cant flirt becasue the game hates the gays 😞 BUT i can still flirt with misty.... misty.. 😻😻😻

he looks like a stupid cat here. is that a ginger thing OHMY GODOD 😻😻😻⁉️😘

#the sims #the urbz #others' art

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smashes my current interest together with my old interest (aka yet another "what Dungeon Meshi but Gamers?" AU)

Once when I was a child I had a complete crying meltdown over Creatures, because the manual insisted that the complicated AI of the Norns made them truly alive and 10-year-old me was freaked out at the idea of being solely responsible for making sure these real animals wouldn't die. The funny part was that this was the Playstation version of Creatures, which has no biochemistry and very basic AI compared to the PC/Mac games where players actually were debating whether or not it was true artificial life. A PSX manual gave me existential dread and it wasn't even telling the truth.

Anyway, kid!Marcille would also have a meltdown over the Creatures series, especially if she had the computer games and got to see how vastly different some breeds' lifespans are. Like in C2 where you have Norns that live for around 5 hours and Norns that live for 10, both of which are vastly more than Ettins who don't even live for 1.5 hours (and usually less due to radiation or starvation).

Lucky for her, having the computer version means she could download modified genomes made by other players that make creatures live longer or even outright remove certain death triggers. However I think she'd have more fun learning to read and edit the genomes herself, to get a better understanding of how the game works and how to change it to suit her own tastes. And because she could pretend she's one of the mysterious ancient Shee who created the Norns, Grendels, and Ettins and then vanished, leaving behind relics of their old society.

(Speaking of Grendels, she would unfortunately dislike them because they're the Designated Evil Species and she'd hate how they harass and attack her Norns. I think she'd also pity them though, because they get sick a lot and have short lifespans. Likely she'd just end up downloading/creating a genome without the aggression towards Norns. Ettins she'd like except for in C3 when they dismantle her meticulously-placed gadget setups, so she might mod out their hoarding compulsions too. Both of them would of course also live for however long her Norns would live.)

Also. While standard creatures' lifespans are counted in hours, if you modify the half-lives in the genome editor you can increase it to centuries. Or even just over a millennium if you set the half-lives to their max length (assuming you also leave the old age death trigger at its vanilla value).

and I like to think that elven Creatures players would pass around copies of what they consider a template genome that's appropriate to their own lifespans. Something that would make their creatures live for weeks or months of continuous play. I also like to think the Creatures DS Warp is still active in this AU because of the hilarious frustration when these long-lived Norns travel to worlds run by short-lived players whose Norns have vanilla lifespans, and vice versa.

(Most of the time in Creatures, offspring of parents with different lifespans will just have one or the other, but there's a chance the genes cross over right in the middle of the various age triggers and cause unstable aging rates. Like a Norn that goes through the childhood stages in hours but then has a very extended adulthood. Or a days-long childhood followed by suddenly dropping dead of old age once the vanilla adulthood genes kick in. Or, if the child has one parent's half-life decay rate and the other parent's age triggers, all sorts of odd things could happen. I once had hybrid Norns who lived for 20 hours and would die of organ failure before reaching the old age threshold!)

(Now that I think of it, Marcille would absolutely hate fast-agers. The first time she watches a creature hatch, turn old, and die in just one brief minute of life, she would be sobbing for days. One of the first things she'd learn to mod out would be mutations that cause the Ageing/Life chemical to decrease unusually fast.)

On a lighter note, while I don't know what her favorite designs would be I think she'd love choosing cute breeds to use in her world. Once she figured out how to give her creatures the comfortable life she wants them to have I can see her redirecting all her gene-editing efforts into changing color expressions. She might even learn to sprite or model her own custom designs.

#creatures #creatures games #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon spoilers #(not directly but the Implications are there) #(later tags will be more direct about spoilers) #anyway all the PC Creatures games are on Steam and Docking Station is free #Caveat One: Creatures 2 does not run well on modern systems (though the Steam release is trying to fix that) #Caveat Two: The Creatures series was made during the 'spanking is acceptable' era so uh. #No sugarcoating it: Physical abuse is used as discipline. #(unless it's Creatures Village where they replaced slapping with a water spray) #I made a mod for C3/DS that just uses buttons instead of the hand; it was released for the CCSF 2023 community event but #I should re-release it here too someday. I should also revisit my slap-disabler mod and see if I can make it easy to install. #but that's a task for Future Me and not Present Me #anyway Sissel/Thistle is also a Creatures player but he cares more about micromanaging his population than caring for them #he removes not just their death triggers but also their drive to eat and sleep. they're permanently happy zombies basically #he doesn't make peace with Grendels and Ettins he just puts them in the airlock #he gets involved in the Creatures Abuse discourse and somehow makes everyone mad #however he is also a very prolific modder who has made all sorts of interesting animals and metarooms; ppl in the fandom respect his skills #and he does truly care about his vision of a utopian world for his favorite Norns #idk if any other dunmeshi character would play Creatures. Milsiril might like it? #Kabru wouldn't play but he'd get a kick out of reading the many ethical debates and drama between fans #everyone else I feel might be put off by the game's very slow pace or by the complexities of raising creatures #anyway hey I haven't posted on tumblr for months; I am sorry and this WILL happen again #Eventually i will remember how to Create Things #that is also a task for Future Me

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twitter is so funny can this be a new copy pasta

#this person actually DID read the entirety of the story. HOWEVER. #they decided that the dialogue as given is 100% lies and that Team Star tricked everyone by crying foul and pinning the blame on others #(you might recall this is exactly what happened to Team Star in canon) #(but according to this person the unseen characters really WERE bullied out of school by team star) #other fun takes: Declaring your intent to fight off anyone in self defense is not something Good Guys say! #Bullies also never run away from a fight! That proves Team Star were the real villains in that backstory interaction! #(except they. also ran away afterwards. They literally left school for over a year.) #and also making bases where they fight off intruders with their huge monster trucks is Literal Terrorism #Amazing! If you deliberately misread the story it turns out anyone can be a villain! #like they then go on to praise SM Lusamine for being a good villain #but i bet if I deliberately misread the story too I could find a way to pin the blame on her kids instead #like “oh they are so ungrateful! they stole vital scientific research and then Gladion joined a gang that forced people out of their homes" #“when Lusamine disowned her kids she was just cutting manipulative people out of her life and embracing her found family (Nihilego)” #something like that! it really is just that easy to say whatever the fuck you want to “prove” you're right #not a fun take: they diagnose Eri with narcissism solely to demonize her which is just fucking rancid and ableist #and their evidence is... she cried that one time when you questioned Team Star's motives???? that's it. #(Giacomo's the power tripper bc supposedly he abused his authority as student council prez. and Ortega's the Rick Brat) #(i don't think they said which ones the other two were but trying to solve this feels like validating this ridiculous take) #anyway. the point is. lmfao. #pokemon #pokemon sv spoilers

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your bed is probably as happy to see you as you are to see it. ‘here comes the warmth slab’ it thinks

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Toucan discovers a traffic cam. video

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❅ a very merry almost christmas ❅

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I HAVE WAITED ALL YEAR TO POST THIS

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Happy Holidays! The Smith family held their annual Christmas party for family and friends:

Credits:

Circe and Loki: @wi-fu @to-fu

Jenny and PT9: Capricornsims

Lazlo, Vidcund, and Don: @proudhimbodonlothario

Dina and Brandi: @jules-cant-build

Annie and Virginya: @budgieflitter

Nervous and Pascal: @kneesofpoultry

Thank you guys for participating in this collab!! It was very fun to put this together with you! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

EDIT: I forgot to add tags !! Y'all Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🎄

#the sims 2 #others' art #oh this is amazing!

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#queue #post this image to give a chud a heart attack

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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, it is possible for Mario to accidentally lock himself in a fridge forever.

If, during the investigation portion of Overlook Tower, Mario opens the doors of the fridge in the restaurant kitchen and jumps inside before the doors close, there will be no way for him to get back out as the door interaction prompt does not appear while Mario is inside.

Note Mario's silhouette inside the fridge, attempting fruitlessly to escape. The only way to continue playing is to reset the game.

Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: twitter.com user "Zakubinator3000"

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Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

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A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here's preventing you lot from making it worse.

Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one's way out of consequences.

What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.

Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the "hero" or the one who cheers them up.

What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.

Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one's own narrative.

What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.

Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.

It is not: Your rubbish ex that cheated on you.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

-Xanthe

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Look at this wikipedia article and tell me..

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#queue #oh hey that's my patron saint #i think #this would be real nice to have around when i've lost my SD cards #put baby jesus in a drawer until i get them back

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When you think the lots you build for your stories aren't realistic enough, remember that Maxis tried to pretend refrigerators were school lockers and built a church that looks like the shed where Mary gave birth to Jesus

#queue #I know I've reblogged the highschool hallway pic before #but i forgot how the veronaville album looked too lol

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Hey, I know it's fun to make fun of Henry Kissinger. But you know what's even more fun? Donating to organizations that help undo some of the damage that Kissinger inflicted on various countries. Here's a couple of links!

Cambodian Children's Fund (I donated $50 to this one- that's enough feed 26 families by providing 5 kilograms of rice each month!)

FAFG (This is a charity that helps Guatemalans find loved ones who disappeared during the Guatemalan Civil War.)

The Halo Trust (This charity is dedicated to removing landmines in Angola. Since 1994, they've destroyed nearly 100,000 landmines!)

Children of Vietnam (This charity helps impoverished Vietnamese families.)

TECHO-Chile (A really great charity that focuses on housing and community-based projects in the slums of Chile)