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cow-legs · 2 months

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What are some of your favorite videogames? ♡ ♡ ♡

(extremely long post incoming lol turns out i have a lot of things to say on this subject)

usually i have too hard of a time trying to remember anything i like to have answers for questions like these but thankfully for this one i have answers prepared since this is something i try to think about a lot

realistically if i had to pick one single "favorite videogame" above the rest itd probably just, like, ocarina of time & majora's mask (i'm considering them to be one videogame because i said so, it;s a package deal), just on account of how much of an impact they had on me from an early age combined with just how often i Still go back to revisit them in one way or another, but this is just about the most basic boring answer a person can have for this question unfortunately

thankfully you asked for some of my favorites instead of just one so i can unveil my Actual list of favorites instead of the one that only holds the top spot by technicality and not because i actually like it "the most". all of my favorite games have such a range in style and quality it's hard to really compare them in any meaningful way

anyway

crypt worlds, space funeral, and off-peak are all pretty different games made by very different people but i usually group them together when talking about stuff like this since collectively finding them all back in the day at roughly the same time kind of shaped my perception of indie games as a whole which probably gave me a very weird and skewed perception of the media but who gives a shit really it's a perception i hold dear. (they weren't the first indie games i ever saw of course but they were the most personally impactful ones that made me go "holy shit, this is awesome, you can do literally whatever you want")

they've pretty heavily influenced my own games, too. there have been multiple times i've started a project and then days later realized "wait shit this is just space funeral again. i'm just making space funeral again but slightly to the left. fuuuck" which is a pretty good problem to have i think.

anyway,

gadget: invention, travel, and adventure is an old point and click game i found a few years ago that struck me by just how unique feeling its atmosphere is. strange looking people turn to you and say even stranger sounding things, the soundtrack feels like its having a nervous breakdown, the main character is given so few meaningful decisions/actions (read: basically none) by the people around them that it can barely be considered a game at all…it is a very fascinating experience, and one that i think back to a lot

i like Your Turn To Die a lot and am very excited to see how it ends, though i feel like i don't have too much to say on it here. one of those games that has me going "oh man i should draw more fanart for that one of these days" every time i'm reminded of it only to then remember that i Can't Fucking Draw right now lmao

myhouse.wad is something that extremely deserves to go on this list but a large part of my brain is telling me not to just because somewhere along the line i fucked up and became allergic to anything that has ever recently become popular & trendy on youtube because i don't want to look like a poser even though literally no one but me cares about where i hear about these things so i can only bring myself to include it if i also state that i played it BEFORE it was cool &all the streamers started covering it like some kind of shameful hipster. but for real though its awesome, very inspiring stuff. i wish my brain did not force me to want to distance myself from it for literally no good reason. fucking ocarina of time is on this list why is this the thing that makes you afraid of looking like a normie

i have a lot of appreciation for myst in a kind of "i've never played more than 5 minutes of this nor have i even bothered to watch a playthrough of it but i understand what you have done for me and the games i love that came after you" kind of way. i have purchased 3 different copies of it over the years as well as a copy of riven and i don't intend on playing any of them anytime soon. great game, probably. i wouldn't know.

i like a lot of kitty horrorshow's games but i don't really know what my favorite would be. lethargy hill is probably the one i think about most often though.

i like (the steam version of) dwarf fortress a lot and have been trying to play it more often. it is very funny having 80 hours in a game and still not feeling like you understand half the mechanics in it. figuring it out as i go along has been fun though. in a similar vein i also like elden ring a lot and despite being at over 160 hours on that one i still haven't beaten it. i need to get back to it before the dlc comes out but i stopped playing for so long that most of my muscle memory is gone…

for something much more recent than all of the above, absolutely perfect specimen is something really incredible that gave me a lot of stuff to think about, though it can be a little hard to recommend since it's extremely 18+ and has a whole big list of content warnings you definitely need to take heed of. extremely interesting work though, i like it a lot.

i'm running out of things to list off and should probably stop just for the sake of time even if there is more shit that deserves mentioning so i'll just end it off with CLONE ON NET YAROZE BABYYYYYY LET'S FUCKIN GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💯💪🙌💥💯💯

#asks #i like videogames. huge fan of em

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talenlee · 3 months

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Game Pile: Ouendan (Video)

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February is Smooch Month, a month dedicated to considering media that falls under the heading of smoochy. Things that are about relationships, forming relationships, building or deepening relationships, and things where a romantic relationship is important. This presents challenges because it might not surprise you, but in videogames, despite their breadth of content, haven’t done as much with this element of human interaction as you might think. Oh, there are a lot of games about romance, and a lot of them handle it in a linear or systemic way I dislike a lot. For all sorts of common cultural reasons you might be familiar with, romance in videogames tends to be about an agent pursuing an object and getting it. Super Mario Bros and onwards. Or Donkey Kong if you want.

None of this is to say that ‘all games that try to be about romance are bad,’ but there are a lot of games that are more or less replicating the same basic idea, existing in a binary between a language maze or an entirely unrelated linear story. What’s more, often romances aren’t depicted as if they express a relationship as an interested interaction between two parties who both want something. And this is pretty strange when you consider how much art has been made on this idea and how many forms that art has taken.

Like pop music.

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is a game whose name you don’t have to shout but come on, you should want to, you should be shouting in your heart, that is the original progenitor of a game you might have heard of called Elite Beat Agents. It’s a rhythm game on the NDS and 3DS, so the unique interface of the console presented designers with new(ish) opportunities to make a type of rhythm game. You tap the screen in time and place to correspond with the flow and movement of the music, and that’s kind of it.

(In a lot of ways, Ouendan as a game is a thing that benefits immensely from the material realities of what the DS is.)

If you know what a rhythm game is, you probably can work out how to play Ouendan in just a few minutes, even across the language barrier for non-Japanese speakers. In fact, it was that accessibility in part that led to the game being picked up in the west, and enjoyed so much we got a American localised version of the same game, Elite Beat Agents. This was in fact so much of a thing that at the end of the credits for Ouendan 2, there’s a thank you note in English. That approachability is only part of the reason why you can play Ouendan without literacy, though; another element is that the NDS doesn’t have region locking, so you can just buy a Japanese copy, jam it in your Belgian NDS (I assume you have one of those) and it’s going to work, rather than requiring you to pay distributors in your country. This meant that this game, in all the ways it’s very Japanese is available for you to experience without changing anything about what it is, its cultural framework, and its visions of what it wants to say in a story told through its particular framing device.

Because that framing device, to a common western audience member like me, seems at first impression to be bananas. In Ouendan, you are finding people who need help, then helping them. What kind of people? Well, you might help a kid with their university entrance exams. You might inspire a noodle shop cook to get over his problems with a stray cat. You might bring back the dead for one last dance. You might help a kid avoid wetting the bed in his sleep, or fight a virus or help Cleopatra build the pyramids. The first game culminates in the Ouendan saving the world from an asteroid strike through the power of rock and roll.

What’s important about this, though, is that in each of these stories, you aren’t playing the people who the story is about. You’re playing cheerleaders.

And you may be visualising something from your own perspective, and yes, you can unlock those, those are an option, but in Ouendan, you are not playing a western style cheerleader squat. You’re playing an Ouendan troupe: Which is to say, heavily masculine, disciplined cheer leaders who do ferocious poses, stomps, claps, whistles and shouts. This is a proud, established style of cheerleading in Japan. Manly cheerleading. In Ouendan, you play Ouendan who are more specifically, school toughs wearing gakuran and with all the signifiers of delinquents.

These roaming bands of goons find people who need help, burst into the scene in sometimes wildly inappropriate ways, and cheer them on to do their best. You are not competing for the exams; you want the person who is competing for the exams to know they can do their best. You are not capturing the bank robber, you are encouraging the horse to capture the bank robber because you believe in them.

It’s a great game.

It comes to my mind so often when I think about trying to find games for Smooch Month. Games about relationships, about expressing the forming and maintaining of a relationship in some way that doesn’t end when the characters express interest in them? They’re pretty rare. I could find more games about rescuing a dog than I could find about working with a partner!

(Don’t mention It Takes Two to me.)

That’s why I came back to this classic rhythm game, OSU! TATAKAE! OUENDAN!

There are some love stories in Ouendan. There’s a classic one where an Office Lady wants to date the Office Hunk (did you know sometimes those can be boys?) and the culmination of their story is her getting his attention in a literal Cinderella ref, backed by the probably somewhat culturally insensitive Koi no Dansu Saito. There’s also the story in Over the Distance, which is about a ghost coming back from heaven to apologise to his wife for the fight they had just before he died. It’s nice that there’s this bookending between these two types of relationship stages – a beginning and, sadly, an end.

It’s not the one that makes me think of Ouendan! in smooch month though. Melody, one of the early levels, is set in a Matsuri festival, where the person we’re helping wants to Win At Doing The Festival race, because that will get him respect and get the permission of a girl’s crappy dad to marry her. So far so Mario, woman as prize, right?

Now I pulled deep to find this game because I think this successfully breaks a lot of my problems with videogame romances. First, you don’t control the agents in the romance; you’re not the boy or the girl, and your relationship to the other has nothing to do with how well you play the game. These two characters are into each other, and their reactions to how well you play is how well you get them towards a goal they both want (where they want to get married). You want to do well, because you want them to have their chance to get married (and you get a rewarding tish sound). They are dating. They are in love, and they are being obstructed by her dad in this one instance. The girl isn’t the reward and the guy isn’t your character – she’s one of the participants. Your victory is not Him Getting Something, it’s Them getting what they want, because they set up a game event.

It’s a sweet story, it’s about something nice, and in amongst all these games I’ve been digging through to find just a romance that didn’t make me clutch my insides. Like you can read the dad as doing a thing that implies ownership of his daughter’s options for marriage, but even then he gets involved after the boy racer says that he’ll propose when he wins. In that case, it almost looks like the father is in on the game, because he wants the Matsuri competition to be a competition.

What’s more, everyone thinks he’s being a dick — strangers get involved and join in and help our protagonists. He goes from carrying the Matsuri on his own, and then, inspired by that, school kids and old folks and tourists all join in on the race. If you succeed, then the father in law is super happy because he sees it as a good omen for their marriage! It’s not ‘you shall not marry my daughter,’ it’s ‘well, do a proper Matsuri race then.’ At the very end, he’s not grumbling that this man stole his daughter from him; he’s joyfully attending their wedding.

And you know what happens when you fail?

They don’t get married and you failed. That’s it. She doesn’t leave him. The relationship is not contingent on the Matsuri race, just the father blessing them here. They were in a relationship beforehand, and there’s no reason that ends. The story doesn’t need to make this event the contingent requirement for the romance.

And that’s nice!

It can be a big story moment for these two, where you get to show up and encourage them to their best. It’s not told as if this is the make-or-break, it’s not told as if this

Incidentally, I did consider doing this with Elite Beat Agents instead, because, you know, it’s slightly more available and didn’t get a sequel. Thing is, it’s uh, it’s not got a story like this one in it. The closest we get to this song is Queen’s I Was Born To Love You, which shows us Leonardo Da Vinci harrassing Mona Lisa until she agrees to pose for him as a model, which is so much worse as a story.

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just-an-enby-lemon · 1 year

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I honestly didn't think Batman was that bad in Arkham Asylum, did something change?

It's complicated. For once Batman in the Arkham games do not kill, he is against killing and he won't let other people kill either, even the worst of his rogues. The thing is even from the start he has a huge peoblem: he doesn't think systemic change is his responsability and therefor while knowing the system is bad keeps playing the classical game of beating the rogues to an inch of their lifes and throwing them in Arkham and hoping the problem solves itself somehow. He does not realizes how he is making the system worse. How as a citizen of Gotham improving the system IS his responsability and how his power as both a vigilante and a bilionare shows that he could be decissive if he wanted to.

Another problem is that he is a huge enforcer of working alone. He is afraid of hurting his allies and keeps alienating them wich is bad for everyone. He is a good person but a deeply flawed one who realises only some of his flaws while seeing others where they don't exist.

Another thing is Arkham is a videogame. The gameplay kindda helps you ignore Batman excesive violence because you are playing as Batman and therefor the player disconect when deep on the emotion of a boss fight helps you to ignore details that you probably wouldn't in a cartoon or comic book. I never played the games only watched gameplays and a lot of times - specially with Riddler - I noticed very tragic undertones on the dialogues during a fight that the youtuber playing was to focused on not dying to process (and I think it helps to infer that in this situation the same would go for Bruce, he doesn't really understand the cries for help because they come from people who are threatning his life). Not only that but Riddler is really annoying and catching all his trophies specially in Knight (it's 400!!) is really taxing so a lot of the times the players (and we have to assume Batman) are so done with Riddler that seeing Batman beat him while he very likely has flashbacks of his father is satisfactory (see any coment section of this scenes and most people will be soo happy someone finally shut Riddler up and beat him down to care). So that helps in not noticing when Bruce is not being the most heroic person.

Not only that but in Knight in particular Bruce truly is worse. He is infected with the Joker virus during a huge part of the game and dealing with missplaced guilt over Joker's death (and having Joker halucinations isn't helping) between that the revelations over the Arkham Knight being Jason and the fear toxin he truly isn't in his right mind what may explain his conclusion that Gotham needs someone else who is darker than Batman instead of needing less violence and to break some cycles. Bruce mental health while not on Eddie or even Oswald or Havey levels deteriorated during the Arkham games as well and that made him a worse person and he sees it but takes all the wrong conclusions (it is very frustrating to see him almost getting the points).

Basically Arkham Bruce is a complex characther and that refletcs on how Gotham corrupts and how - even if it may not have been the game intention - what Gotham needs is systemic change and to Gotham to be connected to hope and light than fear and darkness. In the end either by the death of Batman or the hinted true end of Bruce truly becaming a worse darker hero who uses Crane's fear toxin as a weapon the Arkham games are a tragic story and Gotham will continue being a corrupt pitfall for a long time.

#i have a lot of feelings about this games #i love them a lot but also it's a tragedy #the arkham seires is a tragedy #there is very little hope in it #the characthers will not get better #gotham and arkham truly ruined them all #and I think more people should talk about the games as a tragedy #batman #arkhamverse #batman arkham games

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super-kristuff · 1 year

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So, I’ve been really into Magic lately, and I went to tournament yesterday and lost. And like, it has really put me in a bad mood?

Like, I’ve been trying to think sit and think about it, because honestly, it has put me in a really bad mood, which makes me think I’m really upset about something bigger. So, I’m trying to write it down to help think about it.

Currently, I think the biggest thing that is bothering me is that I was wrong. I was really hopeful and really excited to play in the tournament. My school had a snow day, and I spent most of the day planning my deck, swapping out cards, and building something that I felt was really impressive. And like, I’m not bothered that I lost. I’m bothered that I lost badly. I don’t think I made any kind of impactful play throughout the entire four hour tournament. In game three, my teammate asked me if I had ever played the deck before.

And like, I think I’ve been really trying to get into Magic in order to socialize. I just don’t know people in the area, and I really want to get out and do things. So like, even though my teammate was really cool and I don’t really think they were bummed out, I think I’m worried that doing badly in the game means I’m doing badly at socializing?

Idk. I also think it’s tied into how I view myself. Because like, I am very upset that I was wrong. That, this was one of the rare times where I had the time, motivation, and resources to build something and show it off, and in the end, it wasn’t impressive at all. Like, I did it! I built the thing! I put all of my efforts into building the deck, and for it to perform the way it did suggests that my problem with creating things isn’t time, motivation, or resources, but instead the problem is that it’s me making it.

And like, I’ve been struggling with months at work to make engaging and fun classes that are also informative. And like, I also haven’t made any videogames in months? Like, I built that visual novel structure, and I was like, cool, if I just write a story and make some art, I’ll have a really impressive video game. So like, not being able to build a good deck for a game makes me feel like I can’t build anything.

And like, I was feeling kind of positive after writing the social paragraph. Like, writing it out and thinking about it, I like to believe in people. I am starting to get to know the people that play magic, and I kind of trust that they are cool and were interested in the things I was doing even if they didn’t pan out.

But then the self paragraph brought me back down. Like, I can’t just be like, “oh, my perception was wrong again. I’m actually great at everything, and I just need to change my perspective in regards to how I view myself.” Because the deck didn’t perform. I very much have evidence that I wasn’t able to make the thing.

And so, I think I’m caught up in analyzing where things went wrong. Trying to pick out the bad cards and replace them with other, more viable cards. And it’s stopping me from moving on? Like, I’m worried that my mindset of “it is always possible to improve myself and get better” is what’s making me feel bad. But, I feel giving that up means I’ll stop improving.

And I want to improve so I can make the things I want to make. So, maybe I interpret moving on as giving up?

Idk. I feel better now. I’m starting to get lost in all the layers of self-abstraction, so I think I’ll just do something else for a while. Maybe I’ll cook something? Or just watch YouTube videos. More likely the later.

Anyway, I hope anyone reading this is having a wonderful day.

#vent #rant #ok additional thoughts #I was thinking about whether I should actually post this #and like I don’t know if I want or don’t want my friends to see this #and like I think I want to post it so they can see it and think about me #but I don’t want to message them because I don’t really want to talk about it #and like maybe that’s a problem #maybe I need to be more open with my friends and actually talk to other people #instead of speaking into a bubble #but like I also feel this serves a purpose of letting me clear my thoughts #which I don’t feel talking does #idk I’m done now #bye

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mabeysomeclasspecting · 2 years

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Hi! I don't know if you're going to see this ask, but I decided to make another one since the last one that I made was at 3am and I was more sleep deprived at that moment. So maybe this one might have some more clearer ideas to these questions! (Also, the other one is not too old, so you can use it to help classpect me if you want. Also Thank you!)

Emoji:🕴️👻🐉

What are your interests/hobbies?

I have some interests, some of them were introduced to me by my friends and others were to impress other people but turning out to be genuinely interested in it. Anyways, some of my interests are playing videogames (In the PC and in Nintendo consoles), drawing (traditionally and digitally), Yu-Gi-Oh!, Doing some origami stuff, cooking and baking, hearing music (although it is an assortment of genres, it's mostly videogame OST or remixes), Watching YouTube videos, most of them are memes, but I also watch random documentaries and find random interests in the internet to tell fun facts to my friends. Apparently I also do like to psychoanalyze people as well and go to a long tangent about it.

How do you see yourself?

Well, I see myself as myself, as another human being living in this world, one who wants to learn everything but also doesn't want to go too insane with information. No matter if I do good things or change this world, what matters for me is how I'll enjoy and adjust to life and how I learn and become a better person to myself.

How do you think others see you?

Apparently people admires me. Most people sees me as a nice person who they can rely on. However, they might probably see me as a socially anxious person who tells maybe a bit too much. Or I can be too silent, idk. Some people perceive me as weird but that's okay because I understand that it's just part of who I am.

How do you interact with your friends?

First of all, I love my friends. I try to be there for them however I can. In order to show that I care about them, I either show them a silly meme about the interests/things that they might like, talk to them or go in a long ramble with them, play games with them or hear them vent. I want to show them that I'm still there for them.

What’s important to you? (Specific people, ideas, morals, objects, ect.)

For now, what's important for me is to finish university and get my bachelor's in Computer Science, after that, I'll be able to get a job and pay for my necessities. But, when it comes to my whole life, my friends and family are very important to me and I try to live my life.

Describe the ideal you, what kind of person do you strive to be?

I am already happy with who I am. The idea of an "ideal me" always changes. But there are a few things tha I would change that would make me better, like procrastination and not being able to defend myself or learning what I wanted to say at the time a day later and realizing that I am too late. Also, I do have an internal feeling that people are making fun of me for being weird, but I am learning how to deal with that. Overall, I do feel pretty "ideal" even though I do have some problems with myself.

Thank you!!

Hello! Thank you for your patience :)

From this I'd say you're pretty solidly Heart!

For Classes, consider Mage, Seer, and Sylph. Personally, I'm leaning towards Mage of Heart for you!

I hope this is helpful!!

#asks #requests #homestuck #classpect #classpecting #mage of heart #mage #heart

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jimmycarterghostland · 16 days

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We need more genuinely smart characters in fiction. Unfortunately, you can only write a character who is as smart as you are, or dumber than you are. There's a lot of fiction out there with "smart" characters being written by people with average or low intelligence.

I'm tired of the way smart people are portrayed in fiction. They can solve complex math problems, and they know a bunch of different facts. But when it comes to having genuine cleverness, there is none. I hate that. Where are the real smart characters? The ones who use logic to solve their problems? The ones who do things that make the viewer or reader go "Wow, that's actually pretty smart!"

Wherever they are, we need more of them.

I'm pretty logical. I have a very rational brain. I knew that when I would watch people on YouTube play videogames, and I would mentally choose the option most of the players didn't make. The smart option. Like in Man of Medan(SPOILERS FOR THAT VIDEOGAME AHEAD) the bad guy Junior is freaking out about the gas that makes people hallucinate terrifying monsters. Junior has a gun, and he has a few of the heroes held at gunpoint. Obviously, if you tell him the gas is real and causes people to see monsters, he can ignore the hallucinations, because he would know it's all fake. That's the option I would have picked if I had played the game. The YouTubers I watched refused to tell Junior the gas was real, and doing that ends up making Junior kill one of the heroes. Meanwhile, the option I would have chosen would've prevented that from happening. Intelligent people don't think like most people.

Another example is when I would watch YouTubers play Detroit: Become Human. Markus's owner, Carl, starts having problems with his heart because his son, Leo, is attacking Markus. I noticed Carl's problem got worse the more Leo attacked Markus. Obviously, if you defend yourself against Leo, he will stop being able to attack Markus, which will result in Carl being okay again. Because the stress of seeing Leo hurting Markus is no longer there. I would have chosen the Defend Against Leo option if I had been playing. Most of the YouTubers I watched didn't choose that option. Meanwhile, that's the option that leads to Carl surviving. If you let Leo keep hurting Markus, the stress will kill Carl.

Another clever thing I did was finding the time period I bookmarked a certain topic. With internet bookmarks, there's no way to know what date you made them. So I figured I should go to my phone's downloaded images to see if I had anything there involving the topic. I knew downloaded images and videos on my phone include the dates. I went to one of the downloaded images involving the topic, and that's how I found out the period of time I was researching the topic. It was clever. Being smart means you can think outside the box like that on your own, without anyone telling you what you should do.

I'm saying all of this because I'm confident of my ability to write smart characters, and I want to see more characters like that in fiction, so I try to include some clever characters in my own works.

Smart people perceive things most people wouldn't notice. That's how they end up coming to logical conclusions about something.

I remember seeing a scene of Better Call Saul on YouTube once. The character Mike needs to kill a hidden gunman on the opposite side of the wall he's standing near. There's a man sitting in a chair who can see both men, but the man in the chair is an ally to Mike. The chair guy raises his hands to signal to Mike how high up he needs to aim his gun so he can shoot the hidden gunman through the head, through the wall. That scene was brilliant. I can tell Mike is a smart character written by smart people. You can't write clever characters without being clever yourself.

Another example of a smart fictional character is Tyrion in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. In one book, he uses the canary trap technique. It's a tool of espionage. It involves giving different versions of a sensitive document to different suspects to see which version gets leaked. Tyrion wants to find Cersei's spy. He tells different people different versions of his plan, and the one that Cersei confronts him about is how Tyrion realizes who her spy is. Because Tyrion knows which plan he informed the spy of. Another example of a canary trap is giving a few photographs each a unique watermark, then sending them to people. If one of them gets leaked, the unique watermark will let you know which person sent it.

If you want to write smart characters, researching tools of espionage will help. And so will studying fictional characters who are genuinely smart. Smart as in clever, the type of characters who actually think rationally. Most fictional smart characters are fake smart. Having high intelligence doesn't mean you know a lot of random facts and can solve complex math problems. None of that means anything if you can't solve any of your problems in a rational way. The characters I mentioned earlier, Tyrion and Mike, were put in certain situations and they used their genuine cleverness to help them out.

Regardless, writing smart characters means you need to be smart yourself. Having high intelligence is a constant. Your clever characters need to think rationally all the time, because that's the way their brains work. If you're not smart yourself, don't bother with trying to write smart characters. You won't succeed.

But if you are a smart person who creates fiction(books, television shows, etc.) please make your smart characters actually be smart. The world needs more genuinely clever characters.

#smart #character rant #fiction #characters #intelligent #lonewolfshayu

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mysticdragon3md3 · 9 months

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Just some headcanon ideas.

4:57 AM 8/6/2023

Ever since I "watched" Nimona, I've been headcanoning what happens next. Like a lot of YouTube reactors, I want to see the questions posed by the first movie, get answered by a second movie: what's beyond the wall, who succeeded the queen, how has The Institute changed, is there no longer an Institute, how have knights changed, etc. But I also want to see stuff from the comics, get incorporated into the next movie. Like Ballister being a brilliant scientist, who figured out how magic works in their world. I want to see Meredith Blitzmeyer being Ballister's science friend, and them getting caught up in doing lots of science together. I want to see Bal being majorly hyperfixated, when he gets his mind onto a science problem or new equipment.

What I tend to want to see is Ambrosius and Nimona hanging out and being friends. They have this similar playfulness. I could totally see Ambrosius indulging in being a little more mischievious than usual, with Nimona. I have a feeling he did a lot of mischievious stuff that he used to often pull Bal into.

Specifically, I've been headcanoning that Bal and Blitzmeyer get so into sciencing, that there's no room to give attention to Ambrosius or Nimona. So Ambrosius and Nimona storm off, jealous of Blitzmeyer, occupying Bal, and they go get ice cream while they wait for all their sciencing to calm down. Maybe they iron out their relationship, by bonding over be jealous of science and Blitzmeyere preoccupying Bal's attention away from them. But then they decide to have some fun. Maybe taking advantage of Ambrosius's celebrity status, maybe his wealth, and Nimona's shape-shifting. Maybe they play pranks on fans chasing him for autographs. Maybe they just lead them on a chase and see how many times they can trick them into the wrong directions. Nimona confuses the crowds by doubling has him at the same time. They hide behind corners and have good laughs about it, while struggling to muffle their laughter whenever the hyper fans run by. Ambrosius treats her out for more ice cream and snacks. Maybe they go to an arcade. ...But then a lot of the videogames are about "killing monsters". So they stick to more carnival like games, like coin toss. But it makes Nimona nostalgic for the game she first played with Gloreth. Maybe Nimona tells Ambrosius about Gloreth. Maybe he reassures her that if he inherited anything of Gloreth, enough to make something in their personalities similar, he would guess that Gloreth didn't want to perpetuate the monster-slayer myth, but felt pressured by her society to double-down as a "monster slayer", for fear of being persecuted herself, for associating with "a monster". It's a common story in "Claymore" by Norihiro Yagi. Once the "monster" is gone, people start being suspicious of whomever was closest in contact to the monster, whether that be survivors of the monster's attack or anyone nearby. They start wondering if you're a monster too, if you've been "infected" somehow, then they start persecuting you the same as a monster. Gloreth probably had to play the "monster slaying knight" image to the extreme, to protect her family. She probably regretted and hated it for the rest of her life. Maybe that's where Ambrosius inherited his repression tendencies from. Maybe Nimona will mention that she notices he doesn't seem repressed around Boss/Ballister. That will divert Ambrosius's line of thinking away from dwelling on any notions of inherited guilt or being reminded of his own personal sins to feel guilty for. So instead, he'll reply that Bal does make him feel free from needing to hide his real feelings. Then maybe Nimona can agree that Ballister's sincerity makes her feel similarly more comfortable, capping off the scene with another note of bonding between them. Then they go back to the lab where Ballister and Blitzmeyer are done with the experimenting phase of science, and are now into the phase of "we're so excited about this, we have to recap the entire process to anyone who will listen". So Ambrosius and Nimona happily listen to Bal being a huge nerd, more focused on his attention on them, than on the science he's actually talking about. lol

#headcanons #wishlists #pinkfluidnf #ambrbalnf

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dreamxglowsquid · 4 years

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anyone else have the problem where the better they get at a videogame, the less streamers/youtubers they can watch play the game... cause watching ppl who are worse than u is annoying

#or am i just a dick lol #for minecraft i mostly just watch dream techno grian and etho #but i look away when grian does parkour or when dream does building HFVSHSJZ #NOT saying im better than them at those things i just- uh.. u know theres moments .. u know?!?!#this happens to me all the time tho like i watch a youtuber play a game and i love it so i buy the game #but then after playing i watch the youtuber again and im like oh my GOD what are u doing u IDIOT HOW ARE U SO BAD AT THIS GAME #like i dont watch him now and i didnt rly back then but when m*rkiplier played satisfactory??? cringEEE #anyway pls let me know if u have this problem too #wanna know im not alone #mcyt #gaming #videogames #txt #idk what to tag this lol #minecraft #i guess...

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sometipsygnostalgic · 2 years

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Just finished Homestuck? Here's what to do next.

A tumblr repost of something I just made for the Homestuck Reddit.

The Reddit version is going to be the one I update. It may get reposted by a HS Reddit Admin if they want to use it.

EDIT: Reddit version has been taken down and will be replaced this weekend.

Put in any further recommendations in the comments below and I may add them to the main post.

Problem Sleuth - The MS Paint Adventure that Hussie completed before Homestuck. It's 1000 pages, and the only actually high effort adventure he made before his colossal webcomic.

Homestuck but in its original format

The Unofficial Homestuck Collection - This is the go to for all original Homestuck content. They reworked all the flashes so you can see them in their original crisp HD rather than compressed Youtube or the really awful VIZ flashes. Also has the in-comic videogames as they originally were!!!

Contains lost music and other media by the original teams that worked on Homestuck. Look at it, it's worth your time, especially if you want to do a reread.

Homestuck.net is a fandom archive of all sorts of HS stuff, full of official resources and fan content and lost Homestuck media.

Followup material

The Homestuck Epilogues - "Post-canon" splinter that takes place after the main timeline. Written by members of WhatPumpkin. Be warned - this is not a serious work and if you expect it to be an amazing sequel to Homestuck, you'll be disappointed. It's also, rightfully, got a million content warnings.

Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon - Comic sequel to the Homestuck Epilogues. Was put on indefinite hiatus last year.

Homestuck Patreon Content - There was some content posted on the Homestuck Patreon which is available on homestuck.net.

Supplementary official content

Paradox space - A bunch of comics made by creators like KC Green and Zack Morrison which were posted 3-5 times a week between 13th April 2014 and 13th April 2015. Comes in hardback, but is out of print and extremely pricey to get second hand.

Vrisky 8usiness - A comic about Vriska getting her robot arm by Andrew Hussie that was only posted in the hardback version of Paradox Space 2, which is now too overpriced to buy.

The VIZ Collection - VIZ Media printed books of Homestuck acts 1-5 (finishing a little before Cascade) which contains page-by-page commentary from Andrew Hussie.

The VIZ Collection Commentary - if you just want the commentary from Hussie and don't want to shell £300 on books.

Homestuck 2.0 - Was originally going to be a Youtube video series hosted by Dante Basco. Was cancelled abruptly before it took off, but this video is still fun to watch. "Step on my neck tadpole mom!"

Video games

Hiveswap - A point-and-click visual novel which follows Joey Claire, the neglected daughter of Grandpa Harley, as she finds herself in Alternia long before the events of Sburb. A prequel to Homestuck which has 2 parts right now and is unfortunately on hold again.

Friendsim - A "friendship" simulator where you play as MSPA Reader and meet all the trolls from Hiveswap act 2, perhaps having some timeline fuckery and existential crises along the way. Can be played separately from reading epilogues/HS^2.

Pesterquest - A followup to Friendsim where you befriend the main 20 kids from Homestuck itself. WARNING: This one does contain HS Epilogue and HS^2 spoilers.

Official Music

Official Bandcamp - Official way to buy high quality HS Music. Used to have the albums split up properly, was condensed some time after the VIZ Takeover for unknown reasons.

The Unofficial Homestuck Collection - Once again this contains all of the music.

Unofficial Team Music

The Baby is You - Toby Fox creates something utterly insane.

STRIIFE/Strife 2 - Unofficial Homestuck album by former Homestuck musician Tensei

Let me know if any more exists outside of LOFAM.

The Homestuck Fan Musicians/Land of Fans and Music

The LOFAM collection - Dozens of albums and hundreds of songs. The four LOFAM albums are of their highest quality. LOFAM was a major recruitment pool for the official Homestuck music team. You should absolutely give it a listen, especially their latest major release, LOFAM 4.

Cool and New Music Team - A collection of shitposty music made to honor the SBAHJ-style fan story Cool and New Webcomic. Some of it is actually good.

"Let's Read Homestuck" - Voice acted video version of Homestuck

VOXUS/Let's Read Homestuck - Currently ends at some point before the Retcon. Still ongoing. Fully voice acted with different actors for each character, as well as tons of effort to make it entertaining to watch.

Some significant fan content

[s] Rex Duodecim Angulus - An epic 8-minute collaborative fan animation of the Trolls defeating their Black King.

A Brief History of Homestuck - 2 hour long video by Sarah Z explaining the massive fan hype of Homestuck, its history over the past 12 years, and some investigative work into what happened with Hiveswap.

Homestuck Sent Me a Legal Threat, and Then it Got Worse - The followup video where Sarah does further investigation into WhatPumpkin's downfall after they threatened to sue her for the first video.

You can't fight the Homestuck - A Rite of Passage.

Octopimp Collection - Octopimp was a Homestuck fan who voice acted a bunch of fan comics drawn by other artists. It's old as hell, but very fun.

Karkalicious - A short, absolutely legendary video where Karkat sings about how much people want to suck his dick. You're welcome.

Cool and New Webcomic - A shitpost version of Homestuck, with many twists and turns. Has many flashes, a dedicated fanbase and tons of fan music.

Act Omega - A fan continuation diverging just after act 7 which uses flash animations. Notable for its high quality art.

Double Death of the Author- A fan continuation diverging just after John does the Windy Thing. A fix-it fic by someone who didn't like the retcon. Notable for being, well, complete.

A 143 page fan comic of Hiveswap act 2 made for the Hiveswap Comics Contest.

Fan Communities

The Homestuck Discord - a 20,000 member discord full of Homestuck fans.

MS Paint Fan Adventures - a website where you can make your own Homestuck fanventures, which has thousands and thousands of fanstories on it!

And that's it for now.

#homestuck #problem sleuth #umspaf

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june2734 · 3 years

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The Short Lived Golden Age of Nerdy Web Shows

There was a time between the years of, let's say, 2007 to 2015 that I like to call the golden age of nerdy web shows. It consisted of a lot of small low to no budget productions that had a lot of heart, the kind you just don't see very often anymore for some reason. Many of these show have found a dedicated home on streaming services like The Fantasy Network, some have even gained enough steam to be featured on big name services like Netflix and Amazon like The Guild and LARPs The series respectively. I'm not exactly sure why the web show trend died out so hard, maybe the crowds just aren't there for them anymore like they use to be with some many pieces of high budget productions on streaming services vying for their attention. Every once and a while I'll jump onto Google to try and find new web shows that have that same heart and feel but rarely if ever do I come up with anything. As far as I can tell the only place new nerdy low to mid budget web shows or films gets any attention is at GenCon or small streaming services like The Fantasy Network. Who knows if there will ever be another nerdy heartfelt web show created that captures the spirit of those old series I hold so dear to my heart, but regardless if it happens or not I'd like to bring some attention to a few of my favorites. They may be old by the standards of the internet and maybe even cheesy by today's standards, but I really think they were something special and if you give them a shot maybe you'll think so too. If you have any others that you think would fit in with shows like this feel free to let me know.

The Gamers: Hands Of Fate

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment use to be one of my favorite channels for nerdy fantasy related content back in the day. You could always see the quality and passion that they put into every piece of content they out out on their channel. They're still around today but they've shifted their focus to other ventures such as the ever popular trend of live streaming table top games rather then making scripted content. That being said their old stuff is still well worth a watch and The Gamers series, particularly The Gamers: Hands of Fate, is some of their best work they’ve ever put out. The series centers around a group of table top gamers(the same that can be found in most of the other The Gamers creations by ZOE), particularly the character by the name of Cass, as he steps into the world of one extremely popular card game hopes of impressing a woman who's a huge fan of it. But this is seemingly simple premise is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this series. The show also features a secondary narrative that involves the characters that actually exist in the card game as as the players decisions in the real world effect their lives and leads one character, Buckstahue(not sure if I’m spelling that right), in particular to start questioning what mysterious forces are controlling their lives. The show is a real treat filled with twists and turns I never saw coming, it's fascinating seeing how the real world actions of this card game effects the card characters lives as well as question if and when Buckstahue will figure out what strings control her actions. The stories surrounding the other characters in the party might not be as engaging but they are by no means a weak point of the series either, many of their subplots are engaging in their own rights and pay off certain character moments established in proper The Gamers creations. If this peaks your interest then the series can still be found on Zombie Orpheus's Youtube channel or as a movie on The Fantasy Network. ZOE had pivoted more towards live streaming as opposed to the scripted content of their past but I'd love to see more content from The Gamers one day. Source

LARPs The Series

LARPs The Series first premiered at GenCon 2014 and took home the award for Best Independent Series. The year after it was picked up by Geek and Sundry as a part of a push for more scripted content on the channel which was where I and many others first got a chance to watch it. When the short trailer for popped up on the G&S channel everything about it screamed that I was absolutely going to love it, and I wasn’t wrong. The series centers around a 4 man party of larpers (AKA Live Action Role Players) by the names of Will, Brittany, Arthur and Sam and their DM (Dungeon Master) Evan as we follow their lives in and out of the game. The show is surprisingly heartfelt and sympathetic towards the characters involved in this often misunderstood and mocked hobby as it shows how larping enriches their often turbulent lives and connects them all as friends on a deep and meaningful level. These characters felt real and you really rooted for them as they deal with, work, relationships and the many other hurtles of adult life as they wait eagerly to gear up for whatever peril might befall them in their next campaign session. The show was also pretty hilarious, seeing them play out classic predicaments that any party, whether they be larpers or table top roleplayers, have experienced such as one player trying to roll to kill a tavern owner or romances between PCs were always a joy to watch unfold. Another thing that most will notice right away is how the production value and direction are surprisingly astounding as well, especially in season 2. I was shocked by just how much quality was put into the show from the costumes and sets as well as from a writing standpoint. If you're interested in checking out the show then it can be found on Amazon Prime but they can also still be viewed for free on YouTube or in The Fantasy Network. Beanduck, the production company behind LARPs The series, is working towards a funding campaign in hopes of earning enough to produce a third season so if you have any spare change you might want to toss it their way in support. Regardless if you decide to help or not, LARPs The Series is a show that I think any nerdy individual will enjoy. Source

Glitch

Glitch was another show produced by the team over at Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, but it never seemed to get the same kind of love as many of their other productions. The concept was brilliant: What if one day you woke up and found out your life operated on the logic of video games? Well this is the predicament that a programing temp nicknamed Glitch finds himself in. Most episodes of the show centered around particular game mechanics causing problems in his and his friends lives and how he tries to figure out ways to work around or fix problems they've created. Glitch, Wyatt and Samus were all fantastic characters and it was always fun seeing Glitch trying to work through some real world problem with game logic like trying to flirt with a woman he likes using a conversation wheel like in Mass Effect or figuring out how to "defeat" his boss at work who he see's as an actual game boss. Another thing I liked about the show was how the characters really felt like real people I knew, they played games on the couch, debated about which Sci-Fi starship captains were the best, and they grilled each other in nerdy ways while working in slang from their favorite bits of nerd culture into their daily vocabulary. I always hoped that ZOE would eventually put out a second season but unfortunately for whatever reason that never became a reality. Now days the channel that originally hosted Glitch has changed their name to Burger Orchard and rarely if ever uploads anything, but luckily those original episodes of Glitch can still be found on their. Give it a watch, it's short but sweet and if you really enjoyed the show a lot there are little companion shorts that can also be found on the channel. Source

The Street Fighter

The Game Station was an early find for me back in my early college days, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I shaved away many hours watching all kinds of gaming related content on that channel instead of studying for exams. One production, created by one of the channels founders Layne Pavoggi, which came out in late 2011 and was a cut above much their already fantastic content was a short lived series was called The Street Fighter. The series centered around a single dad by the name of Phil who has just lost his job and decides to take up a short career as a professional Street Fighter player to provide for his son as well as keep his mind off of the stressful and highly competitive job market. This a real underdog story that’s extremely reminiscent of old sports 80s films where the protagonist has everything working against them, with that being said you might think that such a trope filled narrative would make things a little predictable and you wouldn’t be wrong but there’s still plenty to love since this concept has really never been explored with videogame to my knowledge. Phil is a guy you’d be hard pressed not to warm up to, especially when you see him interacting with his preteen son Ryan or his best friend/semi love interest Camile (played by former All That star and all around spectacular person Lisa Foiles). Seeing him trying to make his way into the job market, taking odd jobs here and there just to try and get by while also playing Street Fighter to destress and become better for the sake of winning a competition for money to support his son really makes to root for him through all of it. One aspect of the show that I really this is fantastic is how it feels truly authentic to the FGC (Fighting Game Community) when it comes to talking about all of the technical aspects of play Street Fighter on a competitive level. There are moments when Phil goes into detail about his “bread and butter” combos or talks about different strategies when it comes to taking on different characters compared to his main. The show was short lived but it can still be found on The Game Stations channel, if you’re looking for a heartfelt underdog story then I highly recommend giving The Street Fighter a shot. Source

Versus Valerie

Versus Valerie is a bit of series finale for a fictional character created by Hannah Spear for the character more commonly known as the Sexy Nerd Girl on her YouTube channel. Even if you didn't watch the characters vlogs over the years leading up to the web series I still think you'll find something to enjoy in this extremely charming show. It centers around Valerie Lapomme, the titular Sexy Nerd Girl, as she lives life hanging out with with her best friend Guy, shopping for comic books, going on dates, vlogging, and trying to make something of herself as a mid 20 something living in Toronto. The brilliant thing about this series is how each episode is structured like or makes homage to popular shows, films and games such as Star Wars, Doctor Who, Memento, and The Matrix just to name a few. On top of that the show is surprisingly well produced and written for something that spawned from a fictional vlog series, Valarie and Guy are much more fleshed out and all the characters including them have some really fantastic character arcs and moments in the show. Valerie’s awkwardness and extremely nerdy imagination felt embracingly relatable to me personally since I often imagine different situations in my life in relation to my own nerdy fandoms. What I was often taken aback by when I first watched the show years ago was just how enjoyable all of the episodes were in their own special way, and the pay off of it all really feels like a proper satisfying ending to the strange and imaginative journey we’ve been on with Valerie. If it peaks your interest at all then you can still find the full series on the Veruse Valerie YouTube channel as well as some of the vlogs prior to the series on the Sexy Nerd Girl channel as well. It’s well worth a viewing and aside from the fantastic lead characters of Guy and Valerie the show also managed to grab Mark Meer as a supporting character, aka the voice of COMMANDER MOTHER F^*$(^% SHEPARD BABY!!! Source

#Web Shows #geek and sundry #Zombie Orpheus Entertainment #LARPs the series #table top rpg #larping #web series #a few of my favorite things

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mooifyourecows · 3 years

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hi moo how’s it going? drinking water? how’s your video games going? pets? partner? idk just checking

it’s goin, babe. it’s goin.

i’m tryna get the courage up to submit my daisugazine application so, ya kno, no water for me yet, only coffee and anxiety

i hyperfixated on playing Hades these past few weeks and I’m kinda burnt out on that now and am taking a break from videogames (other than stardew valley) BUT the other day I watched a youtube video where the dude was playing sims 4 and i just remembered that i have sims 4 on my xbox but i never actually started a game on it and now i’m thinkin thoughts about that so we will see if I toss responsibility to the wind and spent 36 hours straight on that bad boy this week.

the problem is that i have bad eyes and my glasses are old (have an appointment this next thursday and i’m gonna PUKE) so i have to sit in my desk chair in front of the TV to play videogames on it. like seriously man how come the Switch doesn’t have Sims on it??? that’s like the most perfect console to have it??? i could just sit there on my couch while Futurama plays on the TV, building mansions and making my story OC’s and then trap them in windowless rooms to see which one will starve to death first MAN what a missed opportunity, someone get Nintendo America on the phone, i have beef with them

the pets are annoying as ever but gotta love em for it ammiright

my partner is a good boy who has never done anything wrong in his life. he told his parents that we were moving to illinois and they were predictably terrible about it. gonna miss them (just kidding, they hate me with a burning passion and the feeling is very mutual, farewell forever ya dumb bastards)

anyway, there’s a little bit of oversharing for ya, hope ya enjoy it 🤙🖤

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narwalbby · 4 years

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assassination classroom babies dealing with quarantine headcanons ✨

Lizzie You’re literally my favorite person on this Platform, Thank you so much for all your support, I don’t deserve this 🤧💕

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AssClass Quarantine Headcanons:

Class E:

This is the worst that could possibly happen to Nagisa. Poor boy has to stay with his damn Psycho Mom and she won’t let him go out ever. Korosensei secretly Checks on him every two days tho, just to make sure she doesn’t do anything too bad

Kirara secretly misses her Classmates (mostly the Terasaka Squad), but she uses her free time to learn new spells and to explore her hobbies a little deeper

since Itona only owns that Garage of his dad Terasaka has offered him to stay at his house

The Terasaka Squad does Videochats per Zoom every now and then, but it‘s so chaotic Kirara sometimes just leaves shhshs

Karma uses his time to either study, play Videogames or think of new ways to kill Korosensei

He never sleeps. Karma doesn’t know sleep

Now that his parents also have to stay home, he finally talks about them and how he feels neglected by them. It was a heartwarming Conversation and everything‘s a little better now

The Girls have an own Groupchat and have weekly Zoom Meetings, where they talk about how they’ve been doing and stuff

Sumire opened up a YouTube channel, where she shows people how she cooks all kinds of food! She‘s semi popular! (All thanks to Mimura and his Filming Skills)

Sugaya tries out new stuff with art. He made a sculpture, he drew with oil paint, tried out many cartoon styles and also pointed with Acrylic paint

His mom thinks about selling some of his pictures but he refuses (Never steal my mans art 😤)

Kayano feels very lonely without her Classmates and her Sister. She eats tons of Ice Cream and eventually gets over Nagisa!

She also watches a lot of Netflix in that Time, she stays up till 4AM Binge watching her favorite Series all over again

Takebayashi and Fuwa accidentally called each other but ended up talking for over two hours about Anime and Manga

They eventually bonded over this and now recommend each other the newest Manga and Animes (I love these two sm shshsh✨)

Okuda gets much more confident

She stopped braiding her hair and eventually even dyed it in a different color

When Karma and her had a Videochat with Nagisa both of them almost choked to death

Yoshida is so bored that he just rides on their private ground with his motorcycle, but after some time he just looses the fun in it

Muramatsu is tired of cooking Ramen and tries out some of Sumire‘s recipes! He‘s not a perfect cook, but he improves day to day! (Underrated Characters are superior, change my mind🍜💞)

Megu and Isogai Check on the others daily, like the responsible Class Preps they are! They make sure no one is sick and everyone is comfortable at home

Well, you see, Okajima would just watch Porn. I wish I could go deeper, but everytime I think about him it’s just... Porn.

Oh, but he misses his Classmates a lot. He looks at some photographs he made, and probably cries about it later

Maehara is bored to death since he can’t date any girls, but he and Isogai chat almost every day and he plays some video games with the others

Sugino practices a little Baseball in his Garden and accidentally breaks his Neighbours Window

Yup. They ain’t happy about it!

Hinano excercises a lot, just like Kimura does

Kimura has some days where he takes a walk or just runs a little while listening to music, it really relaxes him a lot and helps him to deal with the whole situation

Chiba and Hayami also Videochat very often, just like everyone else

Chiba once pinned his hair back, because he was doing some of Korosensei‘s Tasks, and Hayami just stared at him and almost started to cry

(I mean can you blame her, his eyes are beautiful 🥺)

Hinano reads a lot about bugs and Animals, and she also watches a lot of documentaries!

She also saved a little squirrel that almost starved to death in her garden, and she named him Squirrel-sensei, in honor of Korosensei

Rio doesn’t known what to do, so she just Chops her hair off

But it’s fine, short hair really suits her, and she loves it either way, she was just bored

For Kanzaki... she would probably sit in her room and play videogames with the boys

She once rage quitted and yelled

Maehara was so traumatized that he didn’t play games for 3 solid days

Big 5:

Gakushu hates being Quarantined with his father, but well, what can he do?

He does a lot of unnecessary extra work, but other than that he just thinks

About Class E, about his father, about his friends and about himself

He secretly loves watching Theories and Myths, so that’s probably what he does on weekends

Ren has no idea what to do, so he just calls his friends and they talk about basically everything

He also tried out nail polish, but it just wasn’t for him, so he immediately rubbed it off

Okay this one is canon and you can’t change my mind: Natsuhiko remembers every. Single. Word. From the Shrek Series.

He was done with all of his school work and he ended up watching it all over again until he memorized everything

Teppei doesn’t do much except homework, but he mumbled to himself a lot

It was a habit before the pandemic, but it has gotten worse

He also watches Documentaries and ends up watching some about the dumbest topics, for example Otters or something

Seo is depressed, because he and his family can’t travel to LA anymore (rich kid problems 🙄)

Teachers:

Like I already said, Korosensei checks up on each one of his student, and he gives them a lot of extra work to do

Only because he cares about them and their education of course

He‘ll try to find a way to still somehow teach them, but he hasn’t found one yet

Korosensei also could travel the world, but he doesn’t do it because he says it’s a bad example for his students

None of them really care tho

Irina basically begs Karasuma to let her be quarantined with him, but he just refuses like the stern type of guy he is

Karasuma does a lot of paperwork and avoids texts or calls from Irina

Irina gets mad at Karasuma a lot and shoves chocolate up her mouth and cries over him

Other than that, she orders many new clothes and tries out different styles and aesthetics

Her favorite so far is Cottagecore

Gakuho isn’t to fond of him and his son being quarantined together

They only eat breakfast, lunch and dinner together, and that’s it. Nothing else happening here

He tries his best to care for his school of course, but he somehow also wishes to make things right with Gakushu

He knows that it’s probably too late, so he just doesn’t say anything and remains going school work and correcting exams

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Ahhhh I Hope this is Fine, it’s very Long but I‘m sure you don’t mind 👀

@kaidasen

#assassination classroom headcanons #assassination classroom #karma akabane #nagisa shiota #kaede kayano #okuda manami #korosensei #irina jelavic #tadaomi kurama #rio nakamura #hiroto maehara #yuuma isogai #gakushuu asano

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aquagirl555 · 3 years

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uuuugh, only problem with super popular old nes titles is nobody makes a proper walkthrough/guide video of it WITH commentary ABOUT THE GAME and not about your whole childhood, bullshitting with your co host, or just not commentating on the game itself

I was raised poor and had a dad who hated video games. I’ve never played the Castlevania series. So i watch youtube playthroughs of videogames i can’t play for one reason or another, but wanna see them be played but also learn the story, learn the game mechanics, the secrets

so the first two games i was able to find decent walkthroughs, complete, with commentary about the games themselves, but then look for a decent walkthrough/guide for Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and what do i find? nothing but silent walkthroughs and people just talking about whatever with the game going on in the background. with summaries being all ‘don’t need to say a thing you all know this’ WELL I DON”T!

I never even really HEARD of the castlevania series except in passing until i decided to watch teh netflix show, i’ve always been more into pokemon and sonic, and whatever cheap ps2 game i could buy for myself in 2012 as my parents certainly weren’t gonna buy me any games, had to come out of my own pocket

I’m new, i know very little, i wanna watch the games in order, i don’t want every playthrough to be ‘well as you know so i’m not going to more detail’ and i’m like ‘NO I DON”T KNOW” I don’t know squat

Please, Castlevania fandom, please tell me there is at least ONE playthrough of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse where there is commentary about the game, the story, the mechanics, the extra little secrets, and shows off the different routs that apparently exists and didn’t know till I was hunting for walkthroughs and got things like ‘Alucard path, best path’, ‘Grant path’, ‘Syth path’, ‘Longplay’,

even typing in “Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse all routes with commentary" into YouTube is giving me a bunch of silent playthroughs, or people talking, but not properly commentating on it.

#Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse #castlevania #video game #walkthrough #guide #full game #100%#help #castlevania fandom

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blucmoon · 3 years

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━ ☾ ⊹ ( bang chan, cis male , he/him ) say hello to HWA YOHAN / CHANCE HWA, the TWENTY FOUR YEAR OLD that seems to have a lot in his hands with HIS job as a STREAMER AND CONTENT CREATOR! beyond that, they seemed RELIABLE AND PASSIONATE upon first glance. i heard someone say they’re sort of SELF-CONSCIOUS AND CAUTIOUS though. HE seems to live in a 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA. anything else to add? oh, yeah! he also USED TO BE A PROFESSIONAL GAMER PART OF SEOUL DYNASTY (OWL) UNTIL HE GOT KICKED OUT.

basic information

― full name: hwa yohan / chance hwa ― nicknames: yohwa ― age: twenty four ― date of birth: october 3rd, 1996 ― birthplace: cheonan, south korea. ―hometown: sydney, australia ― current location: seoul, south korea ― living arrangements: 2 bedroom apartment ― ethnicity: korean ― nationality: dual, korean (natural born) and australian (naturalized) ― gender: cis male ― pronouns: he / him ― orientation: demiromantic, heterosexual. ― religion: atheist ― occupation: streamer ― language(s) spoken: korean (fluent), english (fluent) ―accent: heavy australian accent

physical appearance

― faceclaim: bang chan / christopher bang of stray kids. ― hair: naturally brown, though he often dyes to a variety of colors, mostly black and blue. right now, it’s a purple color that’s already fading. ― eye colour: coffee brown ― height: 171cm ― weight: 56kg ― tattoos: none at the moment. ― piercings: lobe and upper lobe on both ears. anti-tragus, orbital and rook on the left one. double helix on the right one. ― clothing style: regularly techwear when he goes out and athleisure at home.

personality

― label: the cynical ― positive traits: attentive, dependable, reliable, passionate, brave, energetic, honest, humorous, clever, versatile, truthful, affectionate, sociable ― negative traits: self-conscious, cautious, opinionated, arrogant, detached, critical, tactless, stubborn, loud, quick-tempered, harsh, unfiltered, cynical, restless, ambitious, ― hobbies: baking, collecting enamel pins and funkos, jigsaw puzzles, skateboarding, reading, listening to music, curating playlists when he has time, learning origami. ― habits: obsessively organising, borrowing books and rarely ever returning them (he forgets who they belong to ok), really bad road rage, awful at keeping track of time, people watching, always wears a black ring on his left index finger, always hugs something when sleeping, gets easily impressed by things, quotes movies and shows in regular conversations, knuckle cracking, snacking between meals, eye rolling without noticing, squinting when concentrated, crossing his arms over his chest, running hands through his hair, slouching, rolling his shoulders. ― zodiac sign: sun libra, moon gemini, ascendant libra. ― mbti: infp-t “the mediator” ― enneagram: 8w7 “the nonconformist”. ― temperament: melancholic ― hogwarts house: ravenclaw ― moral alignment: chaotic neutral ― primary vice: greed ― primary virtue: diligence ― element: air

trivia:

― he’s played all kind of games and his twitch channel was created 9 years ago (whew) and it currently has over 5 million subscribers. currently, he streams mostly genshin impact, valorant, league of legends, overwatch, spider-man: miles morales, cyberpunk 2077 and the witcher iii. every now and then he makes charity streams. he also makes special lives with other gamers and figures where they play games like among us, minecraft, fortnite (though he absolutely hates it), party animals, fall guys and other party games.

― despite the rumours around him and his parents, he’s never talked about them to the media. it’s not like chance hides the information, after all it’s online, but he swerves questions about them and pretty much decides to not say anything about them just to avoid controversy. his parents didn’t mind until last year the company they worked at offered him a sponsorship and yohan turned it down. it’s safe to say they were pretty hurt over this and they haven’t talked much recently.

― yohan is, in his words, the biggest fan of spiderman (not really) but he’s his favorite heroe of all times and he collects everything and anything that has him in it. his biggest collection is funko pops with over 30+ figurines. he collects funkos of various other interests of him as well as enamel pins.

― lowkey a weeb. he likes watching anime in his spare time and if he likes it too much, he’d buy the manga and read it as well. his latest obsessions are kimetsu no yaiba, boku no hero academia, haikyu and jujutsu kaisen.

― won’t ever admit this out loud, but almost every ghibli movie makes him cry his eyes out, even when he’s watched the same one over and over again. he prefers to watch these on his own. his favorite one is grave of the fireflies.

― it took him a while to get used to korean culture, a part of him is still trying to. luckily, his family would speak in korean in their household most of the time and this helped him not struggle as much when it came to the language. his streams are most of the time in english to cater to a bigger audience, but recently he’s got himself a small team of an editor and a translator that’s helped him add subtitles to the videos he uploads in youtube.

― his current setup is completely sponsored except for a few extra things he’s bought himself and he has minimal experience when it comes to builds, though he’s really interested in learning and has recently researched more about the whole topic, hoping to get his first custom build by the end of the year.

― has terrible road rage and this is the reason why he doesn’t own a car or a driving license, even being in the backseat makes him anxious and would much rather prefer to use the bus, a bike or his skateboard to commute between places. taxis and other rides are his last option, if he’s quite honest.

― as a neighbour, he’s polite and tries to be mindful just to avoid needless problems. the first thing he did was soundproof his office in order to not disrupt others, but sometimes this doesn’t work as well due to how loud he can be. chance will try to greet every neighbour he encounters either with a wave or a simple nod.

― loves dogs but doesn’t feel he’s responsible enough to take care of one yet, though he will certainly volunteer to pet-sit his friends’ dogs.

background:

born in cheonan, south korea to two very affectionate parents and an older sister, yohan was the name given to the first boy of the hwa’s; a small loving family who moved to australia two years after his birth.

the reason for this is that his mom was promoted to become the director of a renowned gaming company that was opening its new headquarters in sydney. his father is a software engineer specialised in videogames development who works under the same company.

his sister is a graphic designer and she, too, is currently working with them in the multimedia and design area. she’s almost 7 years older than him and ever since they were kids, she took a protective role over yohan.

it was easy for yohan to get really invested in videogames from a young age, after all, his parents would often bring home their newest releases as well as games from other various companies (his father liked to play a lot as well and he himself was a fan of many games, mostly the nintendo classics).

fast forward to his teenage years; he was actually good at school, not the best, but definitely did good enough to not worry his parents with his grades. sports always piqued his interest. he was part of the basketball team and would use his skateboard often to get to school (which would earn him earfuls from the teachers saying how dangerous it was.) other than that, he was an active member in the gaming club (shocking, i know).

at 14 he got his first close up at what esports were like after participating in a tournament of counter strike, junior division. his team (which was made up by members from the gaming club) won and he got to watch matches from other divisions, only growing more and more fascinated about the whole thing. the idea of becoming a professional gamer didn’t seem so far fetched then.

around late 2011, the same year twitch started as what it is, yohan found the platform and immediately grew curious about it. it was fascinating to watch other people play, thus it didn’t take him long to start his own channel under the username “chance” right after he turned 15. it took him a while to find his own pace there, not quite sure of what to say or how to act. eventually, he saw that the less reserved and cautious he was, the more people watched and liked his stream, so from then on, he stopped worrying about what ifs and what people would think about him.

this is a double edged sword: as his popularity grows, he becomes more and more brutally honest and less mindful of the consequences his words and actions could have. whereas he quickly became one of the public’s favorites, he was also viewed as someone potentially problematic that could bring a bad reputation to the community, though this only seemed to be a prejudice from other gamers and public figures.

he doesn’t care, however, and chance was pretty dead set on keep doing his thing. he was also really active in tournaments, either small or big, and other teams would often reach out for him to fill in. he rarely ever turned down an opportunity and even though they didn’t always win, participating was more than enough for him to gain the favor of the audience.

when he was 18, a formal contract to be part of the chiefs esports club (a recently founded professional club with teams competing in counter-strike: global offensive and league of legends based in australia) was presented to him and of course he signed.

between his streams, which had become a tri-weekly kind of deal, and the “training” with his teammates the rest of the days, it was clear that yohan wasn’t in the slightest interested to pursue a higher education, and honestly his parents didn’t complain about it as he was already doing well on his own. nonetheless, his sister was concerned and pushed him to at least take a couple of online classes (which he did, but mostly to learn how to edit videos and understand audio aspects to improve the quality of his streams.)

around this time, nasty rumours about his parents buying his way into the club were spread which earned him the dislike of some of his teammates. it was the first time yohan ever encountered a situation like that but thanks to the management, he was able to move past that. the oceanic pro league was founded in 2015, a professional league of legends competition, and the chiefs esports club participated and won. this helped the rumours around him disperse for he proved his skills were what put him into the team. sadly, he left the club a year later.

for the next couple of years, he focused on his stream and growing his community. yohan was invited to different events, tournaments and other collaborations during this time and he was always excited for them. he even decided to create a youtube channel to upload highlights and vlogs.

then, the overwatch league was announced (chance quickly became addicted to this game and even reached top 500 in competitive) and he was contacted by the seoul team (seoul dynasty) to become part of their team for the inaugural season. like that, at 21, yohan packed his bags and moved to south korea.

between 2017 and 2019, he was part of the team as dps. he had to change his schedule yet again to stream only on the weekends and with some restrictions his contract established (like not talking about the team or the league live). some of his fans voiced their dislike for this new attitude of his, which yohan brushed with a roll of the eyes and a joke.

however, before the 2020 season started and the team was on break, chance was one day streaming and offhandedly said a comment about another player in the league which he had a match with. this caused a really big commotion online and several pro-gamers were rubbed the wrong way about his words (to this day, he still doesn’t know what was so wrong about calling out someone t-bagging him in a pro game) and his reputation was admittedly tarnished. the seoul dynasty’s management team decided that it was better to let him go.

that’s how last year, chance moved into his current apartment after looking online for a new place to live.

in the present, he streams 5 days a week a variety of games and his schedule varies, some days he goes live in the mornings and other days really late at night. he has a steady income from various sponsorships as well as the monetization of his youtube channel, which he updates twice a week.

#INFO.TXT #CHANCE.EXE #LOC.SEOUL

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sailorxstar · 4 years

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youtube

Marking “Not For Kids” Doesn’t Protect You - COPPA Update

SPREAD THIS AROUND LIKE WILDFIRE. NO ONE SEEMS TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS.

I don’t usually post about serious stuff, but this is a big deal. Like as big a deal as Article 13.

What Chad says in this video about people not really understanding the nature of this COPPA update is true; I also thought it was just a new YouTube rule, but it’s so much more.

Here are major highlights from the video, in case you want don’t want to watch (though I highly recommend you do, it’s worth it to learn more):

The FTC is revising the COPPA laws which are basically the laws that regulate content children may consume. In relation to YouTube, this is not just about content that is marked as suitable for children. IT’S FOR ANYTHING THAT A CHILD MAY ON THEIR OWN DECIDE TO WATCH.

Content creators on YouTube will be able to mark their video as for children or not. HOWEVER, if a video is marked as ‘not for children’, but an FTC official (not a YouTube worker, A GOVERNMENT WORKER) decides that it could appeal to children, the creator is liable for that violation and will be fined.

If a video is marked as ‘for children’ and follows all the rules, it’s fine. HOWEVER, YouTube has instated new limitations on these videos. Subscribers will not get a notification of it posting, comments will be disabled, you won’t be able to search for that video, it will not appear in the suggested/recommended area on YouTube’s homepage (which is how many content creators grow their viewer base), and there will be no targeted ads, making the video revenue drop by 90%.

That last part is the major issue here. Content creators won’t be able to make money, in an age where being a YouTuber finally is a viable career. THIS IS RUINING CAREERS FOR CONTENT CREATORS THE SAME WAY ARTICLE 13 WAS FOR ARTISTS.

Chad talks about video game channels and toy collectors, and those are definitely highly at risk channels, but based on the vague language of this law, this is also going to wind up affecting any channels that have anything to do with fandoms that children might also be a part of. Harry Potter, Marvel, Pokemon, Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, the list goes on. Those are just some examples of things that I personally watch videos about on YouTube. It makes up the majority of my favorite content creators.

This law is going to affect so much more content than toy or let’s play videos. It’s going to affect theory videos (Game Theory, SuperCarlinBrothers), videos that talk about animation or fandom history (SaberSpark), cosplayers (The Mischief Managers anyone?), parody-makers, people who make animation (I’m thinking of Hazbin Hotel right now), people who cover music from cartoons/movies/games. ANYTHING THAT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE APPEAL TO A CHILD IS AT RISK.

It isn’t fair that adults who happen to enjoy a certain piece of media and have made a career using that media as a base will now be punished because children may also enjoy that media. BUT THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN STILL DO.

The FTC is allowing public comment until December 9th. COMMENT AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY NEED TO CHANGE THE LANGUAGE OF THIS LAW. Don’t be rude, of course, but make sure you’re clear on why this law is a problem and how badly it will affect so many people who are obviously not trying to target an audience of children. The language of the law is too vague. Adults can enjoy cartoons, toys, and videogames as well, and want to be able to freely express opinions, make tributes, and share with fellow fans in mature, child-free ways. Just because we like something children also like DOESN’T MEAN WE WANT CHILDREN TO WATCH OUR VIDEOS.

Go to this link to post your comment: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FTC-2019-0054-0001

Go to this link to sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/youtubers-and-viewers-unite-against-ftc-regulation

AND SHARE THIS POST PLEASE IF YOU FOLLOW ANY YOUTUBERS THAT TALK ABOUT FANDOMS/GAMES/TOYS!!!!!!!

#youtube #harry potter #disney #nickelodeon #cartoon network #steven universe #marvel #pokemon #minecraft #zelda #mario #nintendo

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