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nukenai · 1 year
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I’m still struggling to name my Chinchilla and going through my other pets, their names have absolutely no rhyme or reason and come from everywhere
Striker - soccer term and also just a cool word Lucas - video game character Allister - also video game character Nova - like stars, because she’s yellow Tycho - an astronomer, because Nova is stars Huxley - was first called Hux like from Star Wars but is legitimately named after Huxley Prescott from Rescue Bots because I think the name is hilarious and overly dramatic for a lizard Atari - came with the name and I kept it because it’s adorable. video games. Richard & Sable - Frog gays from video game Mallow - Not really a frog but still a funny joke, from video game Gubz - the in-universe Star Wars pseudonym of a composer for Star Wars things Rain - like from Spirit (she came with her name and I kept it) Rogue - from the Rogue Shadow, a Star Wars spaceship from a game I didn’t play
Then the majority of my mice are/were food.
The most recurring theme is Star Wars. but otherwise it’s just insanity.
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teetlestansecond · 1 year
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welcome to another meme monday (that’s a day late this week rip) where i take my favorite memes and tiktoks from this week and turn them into incorrect quotes ft. my ocs
april: pets love eating meat-flavored cereal with no milk
rhys: dog food doesn’t taste like meat tbh
april:
april: it’s not for you, king.
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donnie: people who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? are you a returning customer to sweeney todd?? lmao it grows back, fools.
talise: this is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep’s soul is stored in the wool. so sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that’s gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.
donnie: wh
donnie: what.
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raph: what’s html stand for?
talise: hot topic my liege
artemisia: hit the mario luigi
vinny: how to make layout (of page on the web)
atari: hey there my love
rhys: hurting tens of millions of lizards
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leo: i may be a fucking idiot but at least i can understand donald duck
artemisia: like. verbally or emotionally?
vinny: carnally
leo: stop being funnier than me
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vinny: i’m gonna make you a soup
rhys: i don’t wanna be a soup
vinny:
vinny: i realize i may have worded this wrong
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leo: can’t wait ‘till gender is extinct so baby showers will have banners like “it’s a gemini!”
talise: why would you celebrate your child being a gemini?
leo: not a celebration. a warning.
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april: women in STEM
vinny: women in BRANCH
atari: women in TREE
talise: women in BUSH (both kinds)
artemisia: women in FOREST CLEARING
april: we’re everywhere these woods are ours
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vinny: you ever get so tired you start seeing spiders?
leo: me after i take 17 benadryl and start seeing the hat man
raph: THE WHO??
leo:
leo: oh this is not a safe space suddenly
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rhys: isn’t soup really bad?
donnie: oh i’ve never felt so violent take it back
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vinny: high chance we are in the evil dimension guys
donnie: no shit, dumbass
vinny: i am going to nibble off your ligaments
mikey: no one in the nice dimension would say stuff like this
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cnmains · 2 years
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Shufflepuck game
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#Shufflepuck game crack#
Since then it has been surpassed with the detailed colour graphics of the 16-bit microcomputers (and VGA DOS of course). The game began life in black and white on the Macintosh computers in 1988. Looks like we're staying here a little longer (unless you use the menu options to enlarge the size of your paddle). You'll need major reflexes to score one point let alone the fifteen needed to win. This man holds nothing back and pummels you without mercy. Perhaps that is key to beating him.īy far the hardest opponent is not the pig-faced General called Eneg Doowtrop or the pug-faced Vietnam veteran named Vinnie the Dweeb but the owner of the establishment Biff Raunch. He seems to instantly know where your puck is going and returns it with the same amount of force without any attempt at changing the angle. Even if you do catch it, good luck scoring against her! The grim-reaper get-up of Nerual Ttoille, on the other hand, is equally tricky. Pay attention to the sound she makes to figure out where she's sending the puck. Princess Bejin serves not with her paddle but with her mind. Other opponents have an unfair advantage. Lexan Smythe-Worthington, the lush lizard with a constant martini in his hand tries his best to hold steady but gets progressively worse the more alcohol he consumes. Visine Orb, the gremlin with eyes like a bush baby is even more skittish, but his serves will more often than not send the puck bouncing wildly on the sides of the table making them harder to hit than expected. Some are incredibly easy, such as the Skip Feenet the bespectacled weeney who holds his paddle with a weak trembling grip.
#Shufflepuck game crack#
All 9 opponents have their own personality and playstyles that you'll need to crack in order to win. Stranded in an intergalactic dive bar, you play against all of the miscreants in order to gain their trust and make your way back home. This game of air-hockey with a heavy sci-fi theme sparked my imagination as I battled fantastical 16-bit foes with nowt but a mouse and quick reflexes. One of the few games that got constant play on my trusty Atari ST was Shufflepuck Cafe (1989 Broderbund).
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lanxiousinsomniacl · 4 years
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FELLOW BEARDIE OWNERS. PLEASE HELP ME.
Hi so I've had a bearded dragon since January and he's about 4-6 months old. I haven't had tons of time for him, because of school, work, theater, and now the pandemic, yet im trying hard to change that. Now that i have much more time im trying to bond with him and give him more of my attention. He's been at my grandmas this past month, as i was at my fathers, however i plan on bringing him to my dads next weekend since ill be official moved in.
What are some good ways to bond with him? Also, is there anything wrong with his set up? He seems happy with it, but the internet hasn't helped me much on whether or not it's proper for him.
Here is his set up:
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One last thing, is he getting overweight? I know beardies are a little plump, yet im worried i might over feed him. Should i change what im feeding him? I give him mealworms twice a day and romain once with one of his meals.
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I want to ensure he's a happy, heathy little boy, im just struggling to do so without the proper info.
Thank you so much!
(Also if anyone cares his name is Atari)
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rompstompchomp · 6 years
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The Evolution of Lizzie through the Rampage Game Series Part 1
Rampage (Arcade, 1986)
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First concept art for Lizzie for initial game pitch.
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Lizzie art from marquee.
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Lizzie sprite art from start screen.
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Character Select Portrait
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Lizzie’s Human Form portrait from first level loading screen.
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Player Character Sprite
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Lizzie changing back to human form sprite.
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Lizzie second stage changing back sprite.
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Rampage (Atari Lynx, 1990)
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Lizzie sprite art from start screen.
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Character Select Profile
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adventure-ambience · 7 years
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Dark alley thug passing the time awaiting his next victim.
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Tagged by @the-musical-cc
1. What are four of your favourite albums of all time? 1) Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head - White Zombie, 2) Shogun - Trivium, 3) Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal - Periphery, 3) Obsolete - Fear Factory, 4) Pelagial (Instrumental) - The Ocean. There are so many albums that I love that this was a really difficult choice for me 2. What was your first video game? Pinball (Atari) 3. What’s one language you’d like to learn but haven’t already? Mandarin 4. Dogs or cats? I don’t really have a preference, I prefer lizards 5. Unpopular opinion about a book/game/film/TV show? Continuity is not a fucking suggestion! 6. Do you like chocolate? In small amounts 7. If you had an unlimited budget for clothes, what would you wear? Classic Tripp/cybergoth/cyberpunk 8. Is there one season of a certain show, or one film in a series, etc, you just don’t like? Season 9 of Scrubs 9. Underrated gem of any media? St. Anger - Metallica 10. Which character would you hug and which would you punch? Hug: Deadpool; Punch: Frank Gallagher
Tagging: Whoever feels like doing this
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In a Human!AU set in the modern times, what would C.B and Dinah work as respectively. How would they live, would they have pets? What's their *human* wedding like? Location, cake, dress, suit etc
Thanks lofe 🥺🖤
Damn AUs are not my strongest suit (the cop!AU is a miracle) but I’ll try!
Dinah would be a cook at a little food corner-thingy, like maybe as a part of a community centre, the kind of place where it’s perfectly normal for the cook to serve and interact with their guests too. She actually graduated from culinary school with top marks, but her nerves got the better of her at any cooking audition at fancy restaurants so she eventually ended up here. She likes it, though, less pressure and more socialising than high-end restaurants.
C.B. I guess would be a sort of handyman, maybe at the same centre as Dee, the person who fixes everything from leaks to computers to the sound equipment on the weekly pub quiz to the bulletin board and centre newspaper. He’s capable of much more than he’s asked for, but due to bad luck in life he never got the chance to study or anything, and he remains at this kind of jobs.
The guests/customers/inhabitants of the centre would love both of them, but also take both of them for granted considering both of them are working below their level actually. Especially C.B. does a lot more than his job description out of boredom, and it sometimes frustrates him when people underestimate him or his Dee.
They would probably live in a small apartment in the city, which Dinah made homely by decorating it with lots of little trinkets and throw pillows and stuff. Most of the things in the house are hers, but C.B. does have a little tower of outdated audio/video equipment (including but not limited to a Betamax player, a laserdisc player, a pick-up and an Atari 2600) that is his pride and joy.
In her free time Dinah likes to bake, read, or crochet, while C.B. is tinkering away with old computer parts. Sometimes Dinah joins him to play a classic video game, and he will help her in the kitchen occasionally. They both like playing board or card games together. C.B. never leaves the house without the first scarf she ever made for him, even if it’s a bit wonky, no matter if it’s summer.
They might have a cat or a couple of bunnies (a compromise since Dinah wanted a dog and C.B. did not), and I could see C.B. having a little terrarium with lizards or small turtles or smth. Sadly chimkens are hard to keep in a city apartment ;-;
They got married in a small, intimate ceremony, just close family and friends. Dinah wore a simple but beautiful dress, C.B. wanted to just wear jeans and a band shirt but she made him wear a suit. They would've had an outdoor wedding, pretty laid-back and casual (also because funds were a little tight). Dinah's friend Buffy who she met at culinary school made the cake, it was very delicate and pretty with white icing and flowers but a shocking red velvet centre.
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aion-rsa · 3 years
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Godzilla Singular Point: The Weird History of Jet Jaguar
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The latest take on Toho’s iconic, building-crushing lizard comes in the form of Godzilla Singular Point, an anime series now available in dubbed form on Netflix. Taking place in the not-too-distant future, this reimagining of the King of Monsters involves a group of human characters becoming aware – through rather bizarre ways – of a coming apocalyptic event. Now the only thing that can save them is a behemoth out to punch monsters and look out for the little guy.
No, not Godzilla. He’s actually the apocalyptic event. No, our hero is none other than Jet Jaguar.
Yes, it’s finally time for Jet Jaguar to get his due.
A concept nearly 50 years old at this point, Jet Jaguar is one of those characters who was initially doomed to fail, but lives on due to nostalgia and the golden notion of, “I realize most people hated that thing from my childhood, but I bet I could make it good!” At best, he was a rad addition to the Godzilla mythos. At worst, he was a dumb idea from a dumb movie. For the most part, he’s remembered as something goofy that gets laughed at, despite having some genuine earnestness.
Jet Jaguar was created from both a fan contest and a corporate game of telephone. Back in 1972, to jump on the bandwagon of tokusatsu giant superhero/robot shows, Toho asked fans to design their own superhero design. The winner was a half-man/half-bird robot with a lengthy neck resembling a stack of rings named Red Alone. The concept was turned into a full-on rubber costume, but they changed the color scheme, which upset the young winner. They later decided to just scrap the whole thing, keep the color scheme, and make their own new design. And so, Jet Jaguar was born.
The superhero made an entire one movie appearance in 1973’s Godzilla vs. Megalon. As the urban legend goes, this was initially intended to be a standalone Jet Jaguar movie that the studio just didn’t have faith in towards the end and they hastily threw in Godzilla and recurring Godzilla villain Gigan. While the claim is dubious and unproven, it certainly is easy to understand where the allegations come from.
Everything about the movie feels rushed. As the last-minute replacement for another Godzilla film that didn’t pan out, filming took several weeks and production was a mere six months. Even the Godzilla costume was whipped up in record time. As for the story, outside of the intro, the preexisting elements (Godzilla and Gigan) aren’t thrown in until about 2/3 into the movie. Up until that point, it feels like a Jet Jaguar vs. Megalon movie with the production team hitting the panic button.
The plot of Godzilla vs. Megalon is that a scientist Goro Ibuki is working on a robot called Jet Jaguar, along with his little brother Rokuro and his best friend Hiroshi. They get wrapped up in a plot involving a group of beings from Atlantis-But-Not-Really, who are annoyed at all the nuclear bomb tests going on in their neck of the woods. They steal Jet Jaguar and use him to guide their insect god Megalon to different cities for the sake of smashing them up and punishing humanity.
Goro and friends get their hands on Jet Jaguar’s controls and use him to lead Godzilla to where Megalon is. Then the Seatopians call some alien friends for a solid and have them send in Gigan. Jet Jaguar is able to break away from all control and becomes fully sentient, as well as revealing the ability to turn into a giant. It becomes a big tag team battle, mostly remembered for Godzilla doing the silliest dropkick you’ve ever seen, followed by a second one for good measure.
The villains escape, Jet Jaguar and Godzilla shake hands, they go their separate ways, and Jet Jaguar reunites with the humans heroes after shrinking back down. He gets his own snazzy theme song to close things out.
In Japan, the movie wasn’t all that successful. As the thirteenth title in the Godzilla series, it brought in the worst returns yet. Between public burnout and the movie’s lack of quality, it just wasn’t grabbing people. That said, it came out at just the right time in the United States. Released in 1976, it came out months before the anticipated King Kong remake. The American movie poster for the movie even bit on the King Kong poster by featuring Godzilla and Megalon duking it out while each standing on a different Twin Tower, even though the movie at no point took place in the States.
A year later, the movie would be cut down into 48 minutes so they could broadcast it on NBC in prime time, across an hour with commercials. The only reason I mention this at all is because it was hosted by John Belushi wearing a Godzilla costume, which is sadly somewhere in the abyss of golden lost media.
Getting back to Jet Jaguar – the topic of this article – I feel the need to bring up Germany’s handling of the movie’s translation. Rather than call him “Jet Jaguar,” they referred to him as “King Kong.” I mean…sure, why not. Even weirder, when the next two movies introduced fellow giant robot MechaGodzilla, Germany once again referred to the robot as “King Kong.” Guys, I know what you’re going for here, but it doesn’t work that way.
Anyway, Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla and Terror of MechaGodzilla followed Godzilla vs. Megalon and closed off the classic Showa Era of Godzilla movies. Not only did Japan need to rest Godzilla as a concept for nearly a decade, but this also meant that whenever Godzilla would come back, it was going to be some kind of reboot or new “only the first movie counts” installment. Jet Jaguar was never high on the list to be brought back, especially since MechaGodzilla completely overshadowed him.
He would at least get a little more exposure in 1991 when Godzilla vs. Megalon was featured in the second season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. While much of the episode is spent making fun of one of the Seatopians for looking like Oscar Wilde, they toss plenty of jokes at Jet Jaguar. Most memorably, they “translate” Jet Jaguar’s ending theme, which notes that his mother never loved him and he looks a lot like Jack Nicholson.
Due to rights issues, Godzilla vs. Megalon is one of the few MST3K episodes that is no longer legally available for viewing. This does make the original MST3K Collection Volume 10 box set (which included Godzilla vs. Megalon as one of the four movies) a collector’s item, as it was later discontinued and rereleased with The Giant Gila Monster taking its spot.
A stranger use of Jet Jaguar comes in the form of Certain Distant Suns’ music video for “Bitter” in 1995. While there’s not much of a narrative outside of the band playing, footage of Godzilla vs. Megalon being shown, and a few shots of guys walking around in Megalon and Jet Jaguar costumes, I really insist you give the video a look due to the ending. It certainly goes in a direction I wasn’t expecting.
In 1997, Jet Jaguar made his next official appearance in another frankly bizarre spectacle. In Japan, a series called Godzilla Island appeared on TV in three-minute increments. While it only lasted a year, there were a whopping 256 episodes, meaning almost 13 hours of footage. If you’ve never heard of Godzilla Island, you might be thinking, “Wow, almost 13 hours of Godzilla stuff? Why isn’t this more well known?”
Well, it probably has a lot to do with the fact that instead of using guys in rubber suits, the kaiju action was done with action figures. Yikes.
Not only did Jet Jaguar show up during these adventures, but they gave him the 90s superhero action figure treatment. Much like how they released as many figures of Batman as possible for different crime-fighting scenarios, Godzilla Island gave us Silver Jet Jaguar, Medical Jet Jaguar, and even Fireman Jet Jaguar. Collect them all!
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In the early 2000s, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee was released for the GameCube and Xbox under the Atari brand. It was a fighting game featuring various characters from Godzilla lore and though Atari wanted to include Jet Jaguar, Toho refused. Still, at least Megalon was included in the game. There would be two sequels in the form of Godzilla: Save the Earth and Godzilla: Unleashed. FINALLY, Jet Jaguar was playable, because if there’s anything you can count on, it’s scraping the bottom of the barrel when you’re working on multiple installments of a nostalgic who’s who project.
He’d also return in 2014’s Godzilla game for PlayStation 3 and 4. The producer of the game didn’t even plan on putting him in there, but he saw that the programmers already were working on him and just shrugged it off. There was a special trick to summoning Jet Jaguar as a boss character. By ending up in three different Godzilla vs. Jet Jaguar scenarios and winning all three times, you would then unlock a special cutscene of the two shaking hands while a confused military woman would wonder about their history.
Around the mid-2010s, IDW Publishing was all about releasing a bunch of comics with the Godzilla license. Their mainline series was Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth, which went on for 25 issues. Early on, Jet Jaguar appeared out of nowhere during a fight between Godzilla and the team of Gigan and Orga. In human size, Jet Jaguar flew into Orga’s mouth, then expanded into giant size, causing the beast to explode. Especially awesome was that it came with the cliffhanger text, “Next: PUNCH! PUNCH! PUNCH!” a reference to Jet Jaguar’s theme song from the movie.
Jet Jaguar showed up regularly in the series, coming off as Godzilla’s designated driver friend and handler. What I mean is that he seemed to be out to protect Godzilla, but that meant having to keep his violent ally on task (ie. pointing out that Gigan was nearby to stop Godzilla from attacking Jet Jaguar) and throwing punches when the situation absolutely called for it.
This continuity played up Jet Jaguar as more enigmatic than anything, as although he was mechanical, the only human character who knew his origins was killed off before it could be explained. Even one of the invading alien villains saw him on a screen and basically went, “Oh crap. It’s THIS guy!” Regardless, he still came off as a total badass, winning fights against Godzilla, Gigan (the chainsaw-hand version), and Destroyah.
Then again, at one point he needed to be saved by the 1998 American Godzilla, which at least proved as a reminder to the robot hero that there are Toho characters far more hated than him.
Toho started using Jet Jaguar again, albeit in sillier ways. In 2019, as an April Fool’s Day prank, they put up a teaser on YouTube for a Jet Jaguar movie. They also had him appear a few times on Godziban, a Godzilla web series for kids that, once again, used dolls and action figures to tell its stories.
Now Jet Jaguar is a major part of Godzilla Singular Point. To get into specifics on the plot would be like explaining advanced calculus, but to keep on-topic, Jet Jaguar is the creation of Goro Otaki as both a way to ward off monstrous threats and as a company mascot. Considering King Kong’s role in King Kong vs. Godzilla was “kidnapped to be a company mascot,” maybe the Germans were onto something with the rename.
Anyway, this version of Jet Jaguar is more mechanical in appearance instead of having to rely on making him look like a human in a costume. Jet Jaguar is there to protect the heroes from the endless supply of monsters, usually taking some extensive damage. Still, the robot gets rebuilt stronger and stronger and becomes advanced enough to become self-aware and speak in…well, the voice of a teenage girl.
I don’t know, I guess I just figured he’d sound like Astro Guy from King of the Monsters.
There’s a big hard-to-explain twist, but the main thing to know is that Jet Jaguar becomes a full-on badass by the end of the series, turns out to be a huge key to the plot, and has a completely kickass showdown with Godzilla. In a way, Jet Jaguar’s journey in Singular Point is a lot like in real life, going from a lame idea that appealed to kids and gradually being understood as a respected part of the Godzilla mythos. Something initially representative of the worst of the franchise, proven to be something genuinely cool in the right hands.
Now it’s time for America to return the favor. Once again, timing is on Jet Jaguar’s side. The Monsterverse was on its way to the graveyard after the box office intake of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, but Godzilla vs. Kong came out at just the right time in the tail end of the pandemic to be a big success and keep the series going a little bit longer. There aren’t too many names in the toybox left to pull out, but at this point, Gigan and Jet Jaguar have to be high on the list.
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Godzilla Singular Point is available to stream on Netflix now.
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hasturlavista · 4 years
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i am barely even on here anymore actually posting stuff again, but...
20 questions
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rules: answer 20 questions then tag 10 people who you want to get to know better. since i don’t have much people i am friends with on here or i mostly forgot, i’ll just tag a few that come to my mind first
name: paul, pavlo (ukranian version of my name people irl barely use because everyone is so used to “paul”)
pronouns: they/them or he/him
nickname: paddy (just a thing from a friend that i loved so i proudly use it all the time. ned dennehy called me this once... ;-;)
zodiac sign: leo
height: around 160 cm. shortie squaaad
languages: english, russian, ukrainian, spanish and polish to a certain degree
nationality: ukrainian
fav season: autumn
fav flower: don’t have one
fav scent: bread that just got pulled out of the oven
fav color: shades of red
fav animal: tree frogs! toads! lizards!
fav fictional character: *inhale* hastur and ligur (good omens), morpheus, delirium and matthew (the sandman), charlie strong and johnny dogs (peaky blinders), paddy, beau, kirstie and charlie (glitch), carl mckenna (broken), jareth (labyrinth), thomas jerome newton (the man who fell to earth), doc brown (back to the future) ,harry hart (kingsman), kicks (animal crossing), retsuko (aggretsuko), yoshikage kira and higashikata josuke (jjba), carlo boreal (his dark materials), murdoc and noodle (gorillaz), jojo and captain k (jojo rabbit), pretty much all of wes anderson’s lead characters (zero and gustave from “grand budapest”, atari from “isle of dogs”, sam from “moonrise kindgom”, the list goes on..) dustin and steve (stranger things but s3 doesn’t count) and most importantly, paddington bear. that was a mouthful.
coffee, tea or hot chocolate: hot chocolate.. only if it’s well-made. otherwise, tea
average sleep hours: about 6-7 i’d say?
dog or cat person: i have a fear of both, so.. probably neither.
number of blankets i sleep with: 3-4
dream trip: a trip across ireland since i’ve never been there before!
blog established: 2018 or so?
followers: 724. slowly falling...
random fact: me and the director bong joon-ho share the same personality type (infp)
tagging: @meltingpenguins @living-sparkle-apple @gallifreytreeflower @liliemsharpe @sad-boi-times
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obscuritory · 5 years
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Hello! Once in a while, I like to post to introduce this whole thing to new followers.
This Tumblr is part of The Obscuritory, my blog project where I look at unknown, unusual computer games and software from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s and talk about related issues like game preservation.
When we talk about the history of games, there’s usually a lot of focus on Nintendo, Atari, Doom, and other famous names, but there’s so much more than that! There’s all the weird games, the homemade experiments, the fangames, the knockoffs and bargain bin titles, multimedia showcases, educational software, home productivity programs, and everything messy that falls outside the lines.
My goal is to re-explore all that and see what we’ve left on the table. What original concepts were out there? What perspectives have been written out? What unique, odd game was misunderstood? When we expand the possibilities of what the history of games can mean, it could make gaming more curious and accepting.
Here on Tumblr, I usually post screenshots or tidbits. On the main blog, I write longer articles about these games. A few sample posts that I’m proud of:
Knights of the Crystallion, an ambitious “cultural simulation” game
An interview with Muriel Tramis, a Martinican developer who made games about the memory of colonialism in the French Caribbean
Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse, a mindbogglingly huge interactive book that goes down a rabbit hole of metafiction
Millennium Auction, an auction game with a rocky development history that started when a theoretical physics PhD opened a game studio
Eyewitness Virtual Reality Earth Quest, a virtual museum of earth science with a hands-on arts and crafts section
The Frogs of War, based on a programmer’s nightmare about lizard people who live in an asteroid
Thoughts about emulation and “the access barrier” 
Last summer, we played Control Monger, a team-based multiplayer shooter that’s been offline over for a decade
popol maya, a Japanese adventure game connecting spirituality and dance
An extended look at SimHealth, a poorly received serious game spinoff of SimCity, and a conversation with SimHealth director John Hiles
Aaargh! Condor, a game with a name that speaks for itself 
By day, I’m a librarian/archivist. I’m @ItsTheShadsy on Twitter, where I mostly tweet about chickens and tea.
Thanks for following and coming along on this weird journey!
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lanxiousinsomniacl · 4 years
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So it is around 4 am and my lizard started attacking the back of his cage for some reason, until i realized a stink bug was crawling on the wall. To appease the beardie god I had to crush the bastard bug to death and then give Atari a treat worm so he thinks i gave him the bug he wanted.
Being a dad is weird.
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temmie-loony · 6 years
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Karivarry when they were kids
Kara
Kara was an eloquent kid, having grown up in a family that was composed of a scientist and a judicator
She often sneaked off to her Uncle Jor-El’s house so she could see little baby Kal-El and play with him
But she never needed to sneak out; Lara and Jor-El were more than happy to have Kara over
It wasn’t like Zor-El and Alura were that strict about her leaving the house either
It almost always felt like she had a lot of expectations placed on her because her family was filled with people with high-ranking positions.
But then Krypton exploded and she ended up on Earth
Everything was strange on Earth
Popcorn was fascinating, and so were the tiny white crystals called salt
Birds were terrifying
Horses were weird
Manner of clothing was very different but fun
Technology was archaic
Being an only child, it was hard to acclimate to life on Earth with a sister her age after having lost her planet and her people, after seeing her now fully grown formerly baby cousin, and after slowly gaining godlike powers
Poise and eloquence thrown out the window, she and Alex hated each other
Until Alex almost died, she got a real good perspective on what family was
They were inseparable after that
She and Alex pushed their beds together; the room didn’t look good at all with their beds in the center like that but they didn’t care
Their high school didn’t like the Danvers sisters so they stuck together ‘cause you only need at least one friend to make it through high school
When things got bad with her, like a panic attack or a nightmare, Alex would guide her downstairs and put in their Wizard of Oz VHS tape, no questions asked
When she graduated high school, she greatly missed her mom and dad but she found a new life here on Earth
Where Alex stood next to her, diplomas in their grasp
Where Eliza, Clark and Lois stood in the audience, clapping as loud as they possibly could (well, human normal for Clark)
Oliver
Oliver was spoiled
He had an Atari, NES, a Gameboy and a Sega
He had boxes full of Legos that were mostly just stowed in their boxes since he never had the patience to just sit down and build something
He’d often go back to playing video games or head outside to play with Tommy
When he was ten, Thea was born
He vowed to be the best big brother ever
Even at a young age, he felt the pressure and expectations of being the son of a billionaire
He tried his best to ignore it
How?
By being as douche-y and far removed from those expectations as possible
He started drinking at the age of fourteen
He got into drugs at sixteen
He lost his virginity at seventeen
His home would basically be the club ‘cause he was always there
But there were moments when he wasn’t a complete dick
They mostly revolve around Thea
When it was Thea’s fifth birthday party, he decided not to go sneak off to drink and play tea party with her when none of her “friends” came
Up until she was seven, the only way for Thea to stop crying was for him to do the Irish jig. If that didn’t work, he’d just get her a lollipop then stay with her for about an hour to watch Blue’s Clues
Thea loved Pokemon growing up so he learned to play one song from the game on the piano; it was the theme of Littleroot town to remind her that she can always go to him whenever she’s having a rough time
Before leaving with Robert on the Queen’s Gambit, he played the song to coax her out of her room so he could say goodbye
Barry
Barry grew up in a home that always played Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies
He always preferred Gene Kelly 
He loved singing
His mom always said he was a good singer
But then she was murdered and his father was wrongfully incarcerated for it
He stopped singing because it always reminded him of his mom
Iris was a bad ass from day one they met
They met with her punching Tony’s face when he called Barry a curse ‘cause his mommy died, his dad was a murderer and his foster parent is the detective that arrested his dad
Joe took him in
He hated Joe but only because that meant his dad really was taken away and his mom is dead
But Joe didn’t give up on him
Joe tried playing catch with him but Barry broke down because it was what he and his dad did all the time
So Joe tried a different tactic and started teaching him how to fight
Barry hated every minute of it but eventually learned to just deal
Iris always whooped his ass
He defends himself by saying she’d been boxing since she was six
He loved animals
Dogs, cats, bunnies, hamsters, red pandas, rats, snakes, lizards, iguanas, turtles, tortoises, tarantulas, birds, scorpions, ants and a hell lot more
One time, Joe almost had a heart attack when Iris and Barry brought home a snake they got from the pet store
They returned it the next day
They SOMEHOW settled on getting him a Chilean Rose tarantula
He named the little critter MJ
He loved Joe and Iris
Like family
‘Cause they are family
(for that anon that asked for karivarry kids headcanons and @greyspell)
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oxnardsreblogs · 5 years
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The Banana Hammock, Part 3
Haha oh! I finally read through this third story submission! owo It’s much naughtier and takes a turn, you did a good job! More Fox in and out of undies is always nice~
Oxnard took a deep breath and said, “This hero Fox defended Lylat countless times against enemies near and far! And for that we must thank him. And we must show our *support*…” Pepper and Peppy pulled Fox’s legs a bit apart and then pushed his hip forward. After a moment, the two turned Fox around. Before Fox could ask why this was done, Oxnard continued, “… and that we are all *behind* him…” the two made Fox squat and show his bottom to the audience. “…and that is why, ladies and gentlemen…” Fox’s head was now bent downwards, so it was between his legs, while his bottom was up high. “…you should be taking more photos!” Fox was turned back around. Oxnard continued, “I think we can do a trivia contest. It’s just Mr. McCloud, and it’ll be nice and easy…” “You can’t have that stage by yourself, Star Fox!” cried a loud, bellowing voice. Wolf O'Donnell, wearing only his trademark eyepatch and black boxer briefs, jumped onto the stage, arms crossed, scowling. The hamster noticed that the wolf was a bit bigger down there than Fox, and perhaps a bit more gifted in his shorts than Peppy. “I-I didn’t invite you!” said the general. “And aren’t you a wanted criminal?” “I invited myself, thank you very much,” Wolf said. “And the cops got too much to do!” Pepper looked at his phone and realized that the statute of limitations on Star Wolf just ran out! “Wolf, can you please don’t drag our rivalry into this?” Fox asked. “I’m trying to have fun tonight.” “Request denied, pup!” Fox sighed and said, “Okay. Well, we’re gonna have to do things the hard way! I suppose it’s going to be a contest.” “I can answer trivia questions better than you, pup! Just you wait!” Leon Powalski, perched at another table, eyed the confrontation, eyes darting back and forth. He was in a lacey black thong leaving little to the imagination. Sounding a bit excited, he said, “You see that, Panther? He’ll outmauever the competition and tear it into pieces with his super, duper sharp claws!” Panther Caruso, who had been busy hickeying some bunny rabbit lady in a thong but with no bra, sighed and said, “I’ve told you already you seem to be torn over this shredder and shreddee stuff. It’s getting old…” Panther’s pink bikini showed that he was about as gifted as Peppy, and this, along with his suave Latin aura, was why the bunny lady was all over him. “I-I sure am torn about it! Eehehehehe!” “Okay. Let me be direct here. I know you’re gay for Wolf, so you might as well come out to him after this is over.” “Why wait?” said the chameleon, now clearly slobbering. Oxnard said, “Okay! Uhm, a change of plans, I see! Well, then.” After a deep breath, he said, “The challenge is: You outlast your opponent in a trivia contest! There are three rounds! The first person to get the question wins the round! Two out of three means you win! If you do that, you get… ten thousand dollars!” The dollar signs appeared in Fox’s eyes. “You lose, and you have to lose the undies for the rest of the night! Now… challenge accepted?” Fox and Wolf looked at each other. The lupine suddenly shook wolf’s hands, and the lupine in turn slapped his back. Their eyes matched one another’s. “Okay, then! Let’s go!” cried the hamster. Oxnard cried, “Round One!"  He got out of a slip of paper: "Okay then! What was Super Mario Bros. 2 renamed to?” “Super Mario Bros. 2? What’s that?” cried Fox. A few bursts of laughter came from the audience. “Uhm… Super Mario Brothers?” Now the laughter was even stronger. Fox’s friends in the back all looked disappointed, and Falco slapped his face. Slippy was all panicking, and Krystal clasped her hands. Oxnard said, “You lost the question, Mr. McCloud! And you… what’s your name?” “Wolf O'Donnell.” “What’s your answer?” “Super Mario Bros. USA!” he cried. “I know about those old human video games from Earth!” “One round for Wolf O'Donnell!” cried Oxnard. Leon was rah-rahing while Panther sighed and continued to ogle the girl he met. “Now the loser of each round has to make themselves look like a fool!” The hamster got out a banana and peeled it for Fox. The vulpine was about to bite it when the hamster said, “No, Mr. McCloud! You lick and suck the banana first!” The catcalls and jeers made Fox grimace. How dare they make him look like a fool! “Name the video game that was the biggest symbol of the crash of 1983, and one only on an Atari console? Mr. O'Donnell first!” “Atari Pacman!” he blurted. “Hic!” Seems like he jumped the gun. “Wrong,” said the hamster. “Pacman’s on many consoles!” “What!?” “You lose, Mr. O'Donnell! Now, Mr. McCloud…” Fox stammered a bit: But there was some magazine he read once that there was some economic disaster on Earth (in fact it was minor, but…), and the Cornerian magazine noted that the game had a certain space theme, based on a movie… which Fox had happened to watch. “E. T.!” he cried. Oxnard’s mouth formed an “O-shape”. “Well, would you look at that! Mr. McCloud wins!” cried Oxnard. Fox’s friends cheered, while Leon was silent. Wolf this time had to suck on the banana. He grimaced and his eyes were red with fury. Oxnard cried, “Round Three! What was the name of the game that inspired Resident Evil! For this round, if you get the question wrong, you lose, period! If both of you lose, you get no money and both of you have to lose the undies! Whoever answers first goes first!” Wolf blurted, “Resident Evil Zero?” Oxnard frowned and looked at Wolf. “Not a good guess at all!” the hamster cried. Wolf growled and stomped on the floor. Then the hamster turned to Fox. “Mr. McCloud…” He didn’t know. The vulpine was frozen still, afraid of making a mistake. Oxxy held out his hand. Three, two, one, and he would lose. Three… “I believe in you, Fox!” cried Slippy, now unafraid to show his true body, warts and all. Two… “You can do it!” cried Falco, holding out a jug of beer. Katt got hers out too and cried, “Do it! Do it!” One… “Go get ‘em!” cried Krystal as she took her bra and panties off. The aphrodisiac jolted some energy into Fox. Something came to mind… something he really wanted. “A Sweet Home!” Fox cried. Oxnard blinked, and his jaw went open, like a cat enthralled with catnip. “Oh my! It’s indeed Sweet Home. I guess you win!” cried Oxnard. “I don’t know how you knew that!” “Face it tiger, you’ve won the jackpot!” cried a brown wolf, clearly intoxicated from beer, in black panties but no bra. She was well-endowed. There were plenty of empty bottles at her table, and she drank them all. “Fuxie, please don’t be so loud!” cried an orange yoshi, seated next to her, who was wearing green briefs. His bulge was a bit on the small side, like Fox’s. She laughed heartily before saying, “Nishi, he’d been jerking off with his honey in public. I saw every fiery moment of it and he’s all fine with what’s happening! I ain’t lowerin’ my volume.” “It’s rude to talk about him like that!” said the agitated dinosaur. “Don’t be coy. I saw you were watchin’ 'em too, and you were all touchin’ yourself as well, Buster Brown.” Nishi lowered his eyes and blushed, before withdrawing and sipping his wine. Wolf grimaced as the hamster had his hands out. After giving away his boxer-briefs, he stormed off in a huff, only to find a slender, eager chameleon embracing him. Leon planted a kiss… and Wolf kissed back with force. The two made out, as the crowd cheered, for a minute. The chameleon then withdrew and got out his long lizard tongue. Wolf gasped as he saw where the tongue was going. The space pirate groaned and panted as he was being pleasured, and the crescendo of cheers from the audience grew and grew. Before he knew it, the pleasure stopped, and he had a bottle of jelly placed in his palm. Leon, who had given him the bottle, was on his fours, his lace off, his butt out prominently. The cheers grew louder and louder. First Wolf, sensing something in his teammmate, smacked Leon’s behind with his hand, once, then twice, causing a welt, and Leon moaned in joy, getting his heartfelt desire. Then Wolf got the jelly and… “Oh god, Krys!” cried Fox. There she was, her ample breasts presented, her hair radiant and beautiful, her lips full and wide, her teeth bright, her eyes lusting after him. First she planted a kiss and began ogling him. The hurried breathing intensified as he began to caress her breasts. The bold Fox then got out his tongue and began to lick them. She shoved his face into her chest as he kept licking. It was like a lollipop for a crazy straight guy, and the moaning and panting egged him on. After a moment she shoved him off, and he landed on his butt. She quickly tore off his briefs and saw that he was quite excited. The swelling and the redness invited her tongue, and she licked and sucked. Fox gasped and groaned for a brief moment, but it ended before he could burst. She then went on her fours, and her eyes told him: Come on in! And so both Wolf and Fox were having at it with their sweethearts, in front of a crowd, and they all were cool with it! “This is too much even for me!” cried the hamster, who was covering his eyes! “Oh, my virgin eyes!” cried General Pepper. “This has got to be rated XXX!” cried the hamster. “Or R-18!” cried the general. “Well he’s doin’ a barrel roll on her at least!” said Peppy. “That’s not funny,” said Pepper. And when it ended, each couple was panting and moaning. Krystal gave a smooch to her honey, and for a moment it was just the two of them, nobody else. The crowd was just irrelevant background noise. “Did we-” Fox asked. “Hmm?” Krystal said. “Conceive?” “Oh,” she said. She looked down and her face looked a bit weathered for a moment. “Maybe we did this time?” “Let’s hope!” The two did a pinky swear, not caring that they were nude and covered in their own fluids. “Buddy, I think it’s time to go home,” Falco said. Now Peppy, Slippy, Falco, and Katt were standing around the two. Fox looked down and saw that Krystal had snapped his underwear in half. —- Fuxie cried, “Take three!” Fox had gotten the money, of course, which helped pay off some debts, but didn’t make him especially wealthy. However he also found a job offer. In between missions, he agreed to be an underwear model for Fuxie’s company, which just happened to be the brand he wore that night. Without the benefit of alcohol, Fox was a lot less courageous, and it was common for him to blush and grimace. But since he already had sex in front of other people in Oxnard’s club, he wasn’t really in a position to reject any of Fuxie’s wild proposals. To be fair, she just had him be in standard-issue white briefs, rather than thongs or anything crazy, but his face was in all the advertising and it was a little hard to get used to people recognizing him on the subway or getting unsolicited phone numbers from random strangers, even though he made it clear he had a girlfriend already. All the poses he did and all the fruit he had to show himself with were so embarrassing! “You gotta spread the legs a little! Show your butt! There you go!” she cried. Behind her was Oxnard, big smile, buck teeth out, all happy that he’s getting to see all the good stuff. Gaydar was there too, slobbering, but Nishi was holding him back, preventing him from ruining the take. Having said that, Fox was clearly uninterested in all of the attention from strangers. He had a lady to tend to. When Fox came home (wearing clothes, of course!), he saw the opened packet of a pregnancy kit. He read the instructions carefully and realized that Krystal was in the bathroom in her bra and panties, reading a kit she had just used. She handed it to him, and he saw the symbols unmistakeably. “Fox, I’m-I’m!” - The two embraced, and they were eager to move forward into the future. They were to have a son. –END–
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Alisia Dragoon - Genesis | Mega Drive Já jogou esse game? Deixe seu ❤️ e comenta ai😃👍 - Alisia Dragoon é a protagonista feminina deste jogo de plataforma em ritmo acelerado. Alisia deve destruir um demônio do mal e vingar a morte de seus pais em oito estágios. Ela tem apenas uma arma para eliminar inimigos: magia do trovão. Essa mágica é automática e pode rastrear vários alvos. No entanto, sua missão não é tarefa fácil, pois os níveis são carregados de monstros inspirados em fantasia. O uso da magia trovão reduz um medidor mágico, o que significa que você geralmente precisa esperar que ela seja recarregada. Uma vez totalmente carregada, a Alisia pode desencadear uma enorme explosão de raios na tela. Durante o jogo, você pode melhorar sua mágica pegando poções. Existem também quatro monstros que acompanham Alisia: Dragon Frye, Ball O'Fire, Thunder Raven e Boomerang Lizard. Cada um tem habilidades diferentes, decidindo qual, se houver, usar em uma determinada situação faz parte do desafio. Esses monstros, como a própria Alisia, são totalmente atualizáveis ​​com power-ups. Eles também podem morrer se forem enfraquecidos demais, forçando você a procurar um poder renovador. Você pode pausar o jogo e selecionar seu companheiro a qualquer momento. - #megadrive #genesis #sega #segagenesis #segamegadrive #segaforever #mastersystem #retrogaming #japan #segasaturn #gamegear #retro #retrogames #videogames #tectoy #gaming #retrogame #games #retrogamer #nostalgia #jogosantigos #90s #oldgames #alisiadragoon #alisia #snes #nintendo #supernintendo #playstation #atari https://www.instagram.com/p/CANRqzAAyMn/?igshid=7wh6vls77y39
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profoundpaul · 4 years
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NPR Crosses the Line: Compares President Trump to Mussolini, Lets Guest Link Him to KKK
It was almost as if NPR were running an anti-fundraising drive, trying to alienate anyone to the right of Clarence Darrow. I mean, goodness knows they’ve already tried their hardest. Quite frankly, I’m assuming liberals tune in for the same reasons I owned albums from bands with names like the Jesus Lizard and Atari Teenage…
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