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foxykatie425 · 11 months

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#jedi survivor #cal kestis #nightsister merrin #merrical #jedha #funny #meme #drake and josh #idk why this popped into my head #but it was too funny not to make #this took so much longer than it should have

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sunnythesecond · 1 year

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Oh man you wouldn't BELIEVE the parasocial relationship I have with this character

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ricalleyn85 · 3 months

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X-Men Children of the Atom Player Select/Win Portrait of Iceman from The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards from 1992.

Also from The Marvel X-Men Collection, Book Two of Three, 1993. Artwork by Jim Lee and Paul Mounts.

#marvel comics #capcom #fighting games #90s #iceman #bobby drake #x men comics #x men cartoon #x men children of the atom #cal dodd #fox kids

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your-nanas-house · 2 years

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♡ Quick smut stories ♡

Choose a character I write for and a number (from 50 to 300) and I'll write a short smut story.

♡ Characters: Cameron Monaghan, Cal Kestis, Jerome Valeska, Jeremiah Valeska, James Walker, Theseus Scamander, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Older!Damian Wayne, Peter Parker, Cassandra Cain, Selina Kyle, Dano!Riddler, maybe Chris Decker (?)

♡ Words: 50 to 300

#Cameron Monaghan smut #Cal Kestis smut #jerome valeska smut #jeremiah valeska smut #James Walker smut #theseus scamander smut #bruce wayne smut #dick grayson smut #jason todd smut #tim drake smut #damian wayne smut #cassandra cain smut #Peter parker smut #selina kyle smut #dano!riddler smut #Chris Decker smut

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an-aussie-button-masher · 3 months

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Here's How it's Done - Five of the Best-Made Tutorial Levels

What’s the most boring part of any video game, the part most players tend to skip? That’s right, the tutorial level. They’re always full of boring text box pop-ups, spelling out all the different buttons and controls and slowing the game’s opening down to a crawl - it’s almost like the game is teaching the player how to read more than how to play! At least, that’s the case with most games. Sometimes, developers try spicing it up a little, adding a bit of excitement and interest to the first level. It can come in the form of an engaging narrative intro, cool action, interesting locations and scenery, less linear pacing, and so on. There are plenty of tricks to keep that first level interesting; you could consider these games as a tutorial on how to do good tutorials! I’ve collected a handful of games that really hit the ground running with interesting and enjoyable openings - have a look for yourself! Press [Keep reading] to continue.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 How many games teach you how to play by immediately throwing you into a gargantuan, multi-phase boss battle? Spider-Man 2 does, and it’s equal parts tutorial and showcase of how powerful the PS5 can really be. Swinging into action, the Spider-Men cross the river besides Manhattan into Brooklyn to battle the latest villain of the week: the swirling, skyscraper-sized walking desert known as Sandman. The massive boss fight puts the opening action of the previous games to shame, as well as cleverly working in the tutorial amongst the story of the fight. Seamlessly switching between playing as Peter Parker and Miles Morales, the game runs through the basics of combat and mobility - swing into the fight, battle sandy clones summoned by Sandman, dodge the sandy giants’ attacks, and so on. A particularly impressive moment is when Sandman grabs Miles and flings him across almost the entire horizontal length of the map, only for Miles to slingshot himself right back - all within five seconds, no loading or slow environment generation to be seen! Peter and Miles make use of plenty of new, untested gadgets throughout the fight, such as the new Web Wings to glide on the wind and Peter’s mechanical spider-limbs popping out of his suit, learning how to use them alongside the player in an epic cinematic battle between the two Spider-Men and the largest enemy seen in the series yet!

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves The Uncharted series is known for its’ engaging narratives, but Among Thieves is a particular standout for being a great early example of how cinematic games can really get by throwing the player straight into the action. After the player presses “Start”, Nathan Drake wakes up with a bullet hole in his gut, sitting sideways in a busted-up train car dangling over a sheer cliff. In a desperate climb to safety as the train falls to pieces around Nate, the player will quickly learn the basics of parkour and movement that you’ll be using for the entire game - or plummet to their death in the beautiful albeit deadly scenery. After a quick flashback that hints at how this adventure started out, it’s back to surviving in the frozen, flaming wreckage Nate has somehow ended up in. Finally, Nate uncovers a mysterious artefact in the wreckage, presumably the source of all this fuss for the entire adventure - and it’s time for another flashback, all the way to the beginning for the story to really get started. It’s an expert combination of cinematic storytelling and intrigue (just how did Nate get into this mess?) with intense action and control tutorials that flow naturally alongside the plot - all the way back in 2009!

Jedi: Fallen Order Leaping and climbing across a dangerous scrapyard full of old derelict Republic cruisers, while the Empire’s spy droids and TIE Fighters constantly drone overhead - just another day on the job for Cal Kestis. As the game opens with breathtaking vistas of a vast, grim, rainy planet littered with familiar giant ships, Cal hides his Jedi training as he picks his way across the treacherous worksite. All the jumping, climbing and parkour you’ll be doing is taught very early on - the Empire sure doesn’t seem to care about workplace safety, but Cal (and the player) easily clambers across the machinery like it was a giant playground. Of course, the inevitable workplace hazard occurs as the ship Cal and his buddy Prauf are standing on falls apart, sending them sliding to their likely doom until Cal reaches out his hand and you get the coolest tutorial prompt in any video game: [RB] Use the Force. His Jedi powers revealed, the Empire quickly catches on and suddenly, Cal is fighting through a speeding train armed with a humming lightsaber and the power of the Force, effortlessly slicing through countless Stormtroopers in his path. After that taste of how strong Cal is against the cannon fodder, the player is pitted against a dreaded Inquisitor in a literally unwinnable fight before a mysterious new ship comes to your rescue - and the journey begins.

DOOM (2016) As a soft reboot of the longstanding DOOM franchise, DOOM (2016)’s opening instantly tells you exactly who the Doom Slayer is. Waking up buck-naked and chained to a bloody tomb in a laboratory, surrounded by shambling demons, what does Doomguy do? Snap the chains on his wrists, grab the nearest unfortunate demon by the face and smash it to pieces, leap to his feet, snatch up a stray pistol and aim it right at the next demon - and now the player is in control. Once you’ve cleared the lab, it’s time to grab your armour and get to work doing what Doomguy does best. Quickly, you’re shown just enough exposition to know who the important characters are and why things might be all demonic right now, but not so much that it slows down your path of annihilation. Doomguy even throws away a monitor trying to give lore, as if to say “I’m not here to listen to dialogue, I’m here to blast demons!” Through bloodstained halls and surrounded by hellish shrieking, the player sets off clearing out the first building of demons, given only the most absolutely necessary control tutorials. Finally, as the thumping main theme builds in your ears, Doomguy gives his trusty shotgun a pump as he steps onto the surface of Mars, ready to rip and tear.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild All these openings are fairly straightforward, but how about something a little less linear? In Breath of the Wild, the tutorial “level” is a wide-open sandbox by itself, allowing the player to explore the Great Plateau they find themselves waking up on at their own pace, in more or less whatever order they like. After you’ve left the cave you awaken in with your few belongings, the first thing you see is an old man walking away in the distance; the game’s way of telling the player exactly where to go and who to speak to, all without a single “go here” arrow. The tutorial’s open nature gives a sense of just how much freedom the player will have in the rest of the game - you can do whatever missions you like in whatever order you choose, or just wander around and enjoy the scenery at your leisure. Across the plateau, you’ll notice various shrines around you, each one granting a new power that you’ll use for the entire game, and none of them require any other shrines to be completed first. You’ll quickly learn the basics as you pick your way across the plateau - climbing trees and hills to gather resources, fighting off the handful of foes in your way, and so on with very little direct hand-holding from the game. It’s a great example of how easy it is to learn by messing around and doing things yourself, rather than reading constant button prompts and objective markers.

There’s a thousand different ways to teach a player how to play - and of course, some ways are much more intuitive and entertaining than others. Now that you’ve learned a few different kinds of good video game tutorials, you’ll probably never look at a games’ first level the same way again. Are there any other games you’ve played that did a great job showing you the ropes? Let me know! Feedback, reblogs and likes are much appreciated! Thanks for reading!

An Aussie Button-Masher

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arwainian · 2 years

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i think that tim drake should own really stupid looking merch, including this In Universe shirt that exists

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#tim drake #artwainian #dc #batfam #robin dc #cal reads comics

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fandomtrxsh19 · 1 year

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Trilla and Cal:*stuck in a prison cell*

Trilla: Cal

Cal: What

Trilla wheres the door hole

Cal:It goes right there. See I drew it with magic marker

Trilla: You were supposed to cut it with your lightsaber

Cal: Dude, I'm gonna!

Trilla:Really?

Cal: Yes!

Trilla:Well, go get your lightsaber

Cal: Ok. I will

Cal: *goes to drawn on door, hits it*

Cal:I see the problem

Trilla: OH DO YOU!

Cal:Look, how do we get out of here?

#star wars jedi fallen order #jedi fallen order #incorrect fallen order quotes #source: drake and josh #trilla suduri #cal kestis

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fantasticgothicpeachsludge · 7 months

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Curse you brain worms for making me ship characters that rarely even exist in the same FanFiction let alone have a conversation or exist in the same room

#what the fuck is happening in my brain #I’m STILL not over Ahkmenrah and Michael Afton #I’ve ship Tommy shepherd and Tim drake for years because of an au #Tim drake and Michael Afton :(#cal kestis and cassian andor #:(#moonknight and Batman #that one actually has works #I’m really stuck on cal and cassian right now

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sassylavellen · 2 years

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A portrait of me and characters from games I’ve played for YouTube/Twitch

Included:

Leliana - Dragon Age: Origins

Aloy - Horizon: Forbidden West

Cat - Stray

Sora - Kingdom Hearts

Nathan Drake - Uncharted

Byleth - Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Luigi - (Mario Bros but specifically this is the one time I played as him in Death Road to Canada)

Peter Parker - Spider-Man PS4

Cal Kestis and BD-1 - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Jesse Faden - Control

Sonic - Sonic Adventure

Alix Shepard - Mass Effect

Princess Daisy - Mario Bros

Sophie Douglas - The Sims 4

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skegulium · 10 months

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commenting on twitter drama on tumblr, but i gotta say -

people really need to start separating out personal grievances from actually predatory/toxic behavior, because it's fascinating watching people try to drag out 'oh this dude was busy and not crazy enthusiastic about being on our podcast' as something to tack on to other drama to say that he's just as bad as this stalker said he is. insane. absolutely stupid insanity!

and i see this a lot in just... a lot of situations, even if it's not weird callout posts but in small friend groups, the scenario of 'this person was weird/made a bad impression once, so therefore they're a bad person overall' is all too common. like i've got people i don't want to interact with because of their shit ass impressions, not because they did anything actually cancellable, but because they were such insurmountable dickwads that i never want to see them or their associates. i can name like 5 of them right now.

but to try to use it as a base to cancel someone?? mannn. get something more substantive. everyone's a dick sometimes. i've been a dick. you've been a dick. someone has a shit perception of who we are as people and will never want to interact with us again, and that's fine. none of that is as bad as being a sex pest, or a pedo, or a nazi or a terf. if you're going to make grandiose statements about a dude, at least make it worth our time.

#ooc cal #qreviews should have better business practices with his employees but for the most part the dude's always been upfront with being new and #overwhelmed with his new popularity from his meme vids. and he's talked extensively about only being known about the icarly/victorious guy #and how it haunts him #so people leaning into it by having him on a drake and josh podcast and then being surprised when he's not putting his whole pussy into it #is headache inducing.#this isn't touching on the actual drama he's responding to with his stalker #which i'm still lolling over him putting out full logs of the ones she's cropped

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nuadha-airgeadlamh · 1 year

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i loved the books series Tunnels as a wee preteen and am now in the process of reading it and oh my god? these books were so intense? just in deeper there’s mass executions of coprolites by firing squad, state-funded breeding centers for coprolites? the humanoid specimens dissected and preserved in jars that are blown up in a later scene and strewn across the floor ‘like fish’? humans covered in boils suffering from experimental viruses screaming to be let out of their cells? not to mention the other stuff i remember faintly from the later books, like everything to do with Martha. no wonder these books permanently altered my brain chemistry. macrodosing on horror through my middle grade novels at age ten…

#tunnels #deeper #will burrows #cal burrows #drake and elliot were my heroes #legendary book series

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arkham-moth · 1 year

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Just some of my favourite games I’ve played, are they anyone else’s?

I cannot express how much I love the horizon games 🧡💙

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your-nanas-house · 1 year

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Santa's BAG 12/13-12/25

Hi Y/n!

This is a new event, it's from today till Christmas.

You have to send your letters to "Santa" (aka me) and share your wish. It can be anything: smut, fluff, angst and it can be with any character you want.

I don't judge so don't be afraid to share. 😌 *pinky promise* (I will tell you if I'm uncomfortable with it)

If you don't have any idea you can maybe think at something that you would like to receive from that character at Christmas or even better you can ASK your character...they will of course answer in the story I will write and you will discover your personal gift. 😉

The characters are the ones I write for.

P.s. if you want me to write them all down again, I can try to do that.

Taglist:

@gabile18 , @mrsfullbuster500 , @rex-ray , @elizamalfoyy, @eovjjj , @monkeyking-and-liuer-mate , @jeremiah-va1eska , @gothamchic16, @rabbiteggz , @dieg0brandos-wife , @rottenecstasy , @lazyexcuse , @teh-vampire-bunny , @lobotomy-lover

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dreameh17 · 11 months

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so… my tim drake/peter parker dimensional travel fic series is 100% becoming tim drake/peter parker/cal kestis??? whoops???

help???

#peter parker #tim drake #cal kestis #series: a million dreams (ao3)#in my defence #yeah no defending that one #it happened against my will and now i think it’s cute lmao #spider man #red robin #marvel #dc #batman #star wars #star wars jedi fallen order #it is set before survivor tho

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ilikestuff69 · 2 years

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My Top 10 Video Games So Far

(Disclaimer: I haven’t played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Assassin’s Creed Unity, or Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain yet)

Honorable Mentions: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Far Cry 5, Fallout 4, Last of Us, & Telltale’s The Walking Dead

10: Assassin’s Creed Origins

9: Uncharted 4

8: Detroit Become Human

7: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

6: Spider-Man

5: God of War

4: Assassin’s Creed Black Flag

3: Minecraft

2: The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild

1: Red Dead Redemption 2

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two-baes · 2 years

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Finally worked out what to do in my AU about the two Tims (ie: the Actual Tim Drake, and the n52 "Tim Drake [Redacted]")

SO, since—similarly to the n52!Kon, n52!Tim is technically an entirely separate person from the REAL Tim Drake, I decided that (once again similarly with Kon) the real Tim went missing from the universe for a bit, so it created the other Tim as a sort of place holder (literally that was the case with the Kons). Just kind of, manifested him into existence, then popped him into the Tim-shaped-space the universe had.

Later, after real!Tim gets found, or restored or... whatever—after he's returned to his rightful place in the universe, rather than cease to be, other Tim continues to just kind of exist too—since by all accounts he is a uniquely separate person and not a TRUE double of Tim Drake—as kind of...an anomaly??? a paradox??? I'm still hashing stuff out, but that is the gist of it. (Basically, real!Tim being restored causes like, overlapping memories for people who knew Both Tims, cause they get back all the ones of Real!Tim, but still retain all the ones of Other!Tim. Look if DC can do this with Infinite Frontier restoring all the canons, I can do it w/ Tims. Don't question it.)

aNYWAYS on to, making it easier to tell these Tims apart in my verse. In canon n52!Tim's name is given as: Timothy (first name) Drake (middle name), with his real last name never being revealed (remember he becomes 'Tim Drake' when he enters witness protection, dropping his mystery real last name, and subbing in for it with his middle name). I picked 'Corcoran', since 'Cal Corcoran' was the name Futures End!Tim(who'd be a future version of n52!Tim since FE was n52) used.

NOW, I'ma be honest, it is pretty unrealistic and unlikely that witness protection would give someone a new identity that is their REAL first name with their REAL middle name to replace their real last name. I feel at most, they would allow you to keep one OR the other, but not BOTH? Like, it's literally your name just, sans your original last name. lmfao??? Not a very good new identity. SO, instead I let him keep neither name. I let him keep the last: 'Corcoran', and from there I bring things full circle by changing his first name to Calvin to give us 'Cal Corcoran'.

So tl;dr, on earth 7s, my equivalent of n52!Tim never ran around under the name of 'Tim Drake' — He went from Tim(Drake as his middle name still) Corcoran, to Calvin Corcoran. So, he still gets to start out as a Tim, whilst still having his own unique identity. (Also canonically, witsec reduced his age by two years. I decided to keep that canon to my verse to further help to distinguish and establish him as a unique person/character from Real!Tim.)

ALSO I renamed them both. No Red Robins here! 'Redwing' (after a red-winged blackbird) for real!Tim, and 'Scarlet Tanager' for Cal! Also uthernet suit was best Tim suit so that is the one my Tim shall wear.

#my art #earth 7777777 #my batfam au #tim drake #cal corcoran #as I will henceforth be referring to n52!tim as in my verse from hereon out

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