#bubsy theory

[jart-ist]

Secret bosses - Vessel (their name's rejekt) - flower theory - cat/friend or bubsy theory - fakris (this time it's made of plants - redacted - ice-e thing (based off parappa the rapper)

#sprite art #deltarune #concept art #vessel #flower theory #bubsy theory #friend inside me #fakris #redacted #ice-e #parrappa the rapper concept

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Please note that a character currently needs at least 3 submissions to make it into the poll

That said:

Has 3 Submissions or more:

Aang - Avatar: The Last Airbender

Anakin Skywalker - Star Wars

Batman - DC

Bella Swan - Twilight

Bloom Peters - Fate: The Winx Saga

Bojack Horseman - Bojack Horseman

Brambleclaw - Warrior Cats

Clary Fray/Fairchild - Shadowhunters

Coriolanus Snow - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Elsa - Frozen

Evan Hansen - Dear Evan Hansen

Frank Reagan - Blue Bloods

Gregory - FNaF Security Breach

Harry Dresden - The Dresden Files

Harry DuBois - Disco Elysium

Heywood Floyd - Space Odyssey

Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye

Kazuya Kinoshita - Rent-a-Girlfriend

Kiris - On the Emperor's Lap

Mal - Descendants

Peter Pan - Peter Pan

Rand al'Thor - Wheel of Time

Rintaro Okabe - Steins;Gate

Scott McCall - Teen Wolf

Stolas - Helluva Boss

Ted Mosby - How I Met Your Mother

Tim Jackson Drake - DC

Tony Stark - MCU

Walter White - Breaking Bad

Wanda Maximoff - MCU

Xander Harris - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Zoey Redbird - The House of Night

Has 2 Submissions:

Ash Ketchum - Pokemon

Bloom Peters - Winx Club

Claire - Ship It

Dawson Leery - Dawson’s Creek

Duck Dodgers - Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century

Dr Gregory House - House MD

Elizabeth - Bioshock Burial at Sea

Ezra Bridger - Star Wars Rebels

Ferris Bueller - Ferris Bueller's Day off

Feyre Archeron - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Harry Potter - Harry Potter

James Bond - James Bond

Jaune Arc - RWBY

Kyouya Sata - Ookami shoujo to kuro ouji

Netsa Archeron - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Odysseus - The Odyssey

Owen Grady - Jurassic World

Piper - Orange is the new Black

Pucca - Pucca

Quentin Coldwater - The Magicians (books)

Rey - Star Wars

Richard Rahl - Seeker of Truth/Legend of the Seeker

Riley Matthews - Girl Meets World

Robin - Teen Titans Go

Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) - Scum Villain’s Self Saving System

Tom Paris - Star Trek: vVyager

Velma - Velma

Wade Watts - Ready Player One

Has 1 Submission

Achilles - The Iliad

Akiyama Shun - Ryu Ga Gotoku/Yakuza

Alexander Hamilton - Hamilton

Animal Crossing New Horizons' Player Character - Animal Crossing New Horizons

Aquamarin Hoshino - Oshi No Ko

Aragorn - Lord of the Rings

Arek - So This Is Ever After

Artemis Fowl - Artemis Fowl

Arthur Pendragon - BBC Merlin

Ataru Moroboshi - Urusei Yatsura

August Landry - One Last Stop

Ayin - Lobotomy Corporation

Bakugou Katsuki - My Hero Academia

Betty Cooper - Riverdale

Billy Buddy/Dr. Horrible - Dr. Horrible's Sing Along

Blake - Pokemon Adventures Black 2 and White 2

Blitzo - Helluva Boss

Bubsy - Bubsy 3D

Charley Pollard - Doctor Who

Charlie Morningstar - Hazbin Hotel

Choromatsu Matsuno - Osomatsu-san

Colin Bridgerton - Bridgerton

Corrin - Fire Emblem Fates

Cory Matthews - Boy Meets World

Dal - Star Trek Prodigy

Damian Wayne - DC

Daphne Bridgerton - Bridgerton

Data - Star Trek The Next Generation

Dr. Hanna Heath - People of the Book

Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way - My Immortal

Ellison Oswalt - Sinister

Elric of Melniborne - The Elric Saga

Emma Nelson - Degrassi: The Next Generation

Equality 7-2521 - Anthem

Eren Jaegar - Shingeki no Kyojin

Faust - Goethes Faust

Frasier Crane - Frasier

Galadriel Higgins - The Scholomance Trilogy

Geralt of Rivia - The Last Wish, The Witcher books

Go Siwon - A Guy Like You

Gray Wing - Warrior Cats

Haruyuki Arita - Accel World

Homer Simpson - The Simpson

Howard Roark - The Fountainhead

Jaypaw - Warrior Cats

Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek The Next Generation

Jeff Winger - Community

Jim Hopper - Stranger Things

JJ - Cocomelon

Joaquin Monegro - Abel Sánchez

John Proctor - The Crucible

Jughead Jones - Riverdale

Kai - The Witch King

Kang Jinha - A Guy Like You

Katara - Avatar the Last Airbender

Katnis - Hunger Games

Khai - Theory of Love - Thai BL Show

King Arthur - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

Korra - Avatar: Legend of Korra

Koyomi Araragi - The Monogatari series

Kun-chan - Mirai

Kvothe - The Kingkiller Chronicles

Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass

Leroy Jethro Gibbs - NCIS

Lionblaze - Warriors (Power of Three and Omen of the Stars)

Luna - Retro

Luffy - One Piece

Lyn - Fire Emblem

Makoto Naegi - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Mal - Firefly

Manaow - Love Senior

Mark Watney - The Martian

Mary Poppins - Walt Disney's Mary Poppins

Meliodas - Seven Deadly Sins

Merlin - BBC Merlin

Mia - La La Land

Mike Wheeler - Stranger Things

Miyo Sasaki - A Whisker Away

Mordecai - Regular Show

Nick Carraway - The Great Gatsby

Nightheart - Warrior Cats

North Italy - Hetalia

Okajima ""Rock"" Rokuro - Black Lagoon (Anime)

Oscar - Shark Tale

Otis Milburn - Sex Education

Patrick Bateman - American Psycho

Peppa Pig - Peppa Pig

Piper McLean - Heroes of Olympus

Pippa Fitz-Amobi - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Rebecca Bunch - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV show)

Robert Langdon - The Da Vinci Code

Rodion Raskolnikov - Crime and Punishment

Rorschach - Watchmen

Ruby - Max & Ruby

Ryo Saeba - City Hunter

Sabrina Spellman - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Satou Kazuma - Konosuba

Shiori - Six Crimson Cranes

Shiro Emiya - Fate/Stay Night

Shrek - Shrek

Skullduggery Pleasant - Skullduggery Pleasant

Snow Villiers - Final Fantasy 13

Star Butterfly - Star vs The Forces of Evil

Stiles Stilinski - Teen Wolf

Sydney Atherton - The Beetle

Tai Kamiya - Digimon Adventure

Takao - Garden of Words

Tara Webster - Dance Academy

Tarl Cabot - The Gor Chronicles

Violetta - Disney's Violetta

William Afton - FNaF Ultimate Custom Night

Yu/Ai - Final Fantasy Unlimited

Yuri Zhivago - Doctor Zhivago

Yuusaku Godai - Maison Ikkoku

Zack Morris - Saved by the Bell

Available for Resubmission (needs at least 1 resubmission to participate)

Atsuko Kagiri/Akko - Little Witch Academia

Beca Mitchell - Pitch Perfect

Elena Gilbert - Vampire Diaries

Izuku (Deku) Midoriya - Boku no Hero Academia

Katarina Claes - My Next Life as a Villainess

Scott Pilgrim - Scott Pilgrim

Sophie Foster - Keeper of the Lost Cities

The Tenth Doctor - Doctor Who

Wei (Ying) Wuxian - Mo Dao Zu Shi

Currently unavailable for a new Round:

Aelin Ashryver Galathynius/Celaena Sardothien - Throne of Glass

Alex Eagleston - YIIK

Caillou - Caillou

Dean Winchester - Supernatural

Eragon - Eragon/Inheritance Cycle

Erika Shinohara - Ookami shoujo to kuro ouji

Kirito - Sword Art Online

Light Yagami - Death Note

Marinette Dupain-Cheng - Miraculous Ladybug

Naofumi Iwatani - The Rising of the Shield Hero

Peter Griffin - Family guy

Rachel Berry - Glee

Ross Geller - Friends

Tori Vega - Victorious

Victor Frankenstein - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Y/N - Fanfiction

#insufferable protagonist tournament #insufferable protagonist poll

[unforeseen-idiot]

Shovelwarewolf timeline theory

time unspecified: Death is created and put in charge of Purgatory he then begins collecting bad multi-player games. While in purgatory Death begins watching and narrating Ivan's life with his "ASMR voice"

unspecified 2015: Inscape Company hires Ivan Ostril to research video game psychology. While playing Star Fox Adventures a freak lightning storm occurs altering his body chemistry creating the Shovelwarewolf.

2015-October 2016: In order to keep their secret, Inscape keeps Ivan captive having him test horrible licensed games under the guise of looking for a cure. Over the course of many months, Ivan tests games for them, as well as practicing his dry erase board skills, eventually unlocking a more intense form by just looking at Duck dynasty, after playing Ivan reaches his breaking point and attempts escape. An Ivan leaves the virtual realm at this moment and provides directions for the past Ivan before leaving again. This escape ultimately fails as he is recaptured with more security put on him as well as his arm being permanently transformed.

Christmas 2016: Ivan spends two months in this form and is payed a visit from Santa, which does not go well, it is ended with Santa vowing to return.

Sometime in 2017: Inscape ceases testing on Ivan and assigns Susan Ally as his therapist. At some point his arm reverts to normal.

October 2017: Ivan has spent nearly a year without transforming. Inscape begins continuing their testing with Ivan using Susan's lack of game knowledge to give Ivan low quality games from well- reviewed franchises. Ivan mocks his games by dubbing fake voice lines over them. After three days of testing Inscape decides to fire Susan. While melting Duke Nukem in a microwave the company gases Ivan and forces him to play Zelda Wand of Gamelon on CDI. Before beating the game Susan shows up to rescue Ivan, helping him escape to a safe house she had set up for him. Biffalo Bub escapes from a mental facility.

Christmas Eve 2017: Ivan, hiding at the safe-house, remembers Santa's promise and rigs traps for him. After being forced to play Home Alone Susan knocks out Santa and informs Ivan that he has to leave, as the safe house has been compromised. Ivan leaves and Susan states that they won't meet again. An Ivan appears in the safe house from the virtual realm and explains his situation to Susan, after a pep talk he returns to the virtual realm to complete his quest.

Christmas day 2017: Biffalo Bub shows finds Ivan and invites him into his truck, after drugging him Bub locks Ivan in a well in order to use his fur to craft a Bubsy suit.

January 2018: Ivan wakes up in Bub's well and is informed that he has slept for a week. Bub begins forcing Ivan to play infamous games in order to keep his shovelwarewolf form out in order to harvest his fur with the threat of shocking him to death should he not comply. Bub records fun videos with his action figure collection to make fun of Ivan playing his games, at some point Bub films a video of his will should he die. Bub reveals his true plans to Ivan and forces him to play Bubsy 3d on his custom Bubsy console. After destroying the console Bub gives Ivan an ultimatum that he complete and embrace Link the faces of evil to be freed. After beating the game, but not enjoying it Bub does not free Ivan, in a rage he throws the TV at the wall revealing it to be fake. (activates Morgan Freeman voice) the Shovelwarewolf crawled through five hundred yards of terrible games to freedom. Biffalo Bub begins chasing Ivan after escaping and they eventually stop when seeing the ship of the PC master race.

Alternate Universe: ToeJam and Earl are exiled from the PC master race after expressing curiosity in peripherals. They begin searching for a teacher in their space ship.

Alternate Universes January 2018: Bub wearing a black undershirt chases a mega shovelwarewolf after his escape. ToeJam and Earl find Bub and Ivan in the dessert and use their laser to explode Ivan. T and E beam up Biffalo Bub and crown him their leader, Prince Tricky. Bub begins his conquest beaming through universes destroying alternate versions of himself and Ivan to gain life energies to create the power gauntlet. These include a genderbent reality, a reality where the well was near a beach, an apocalypse reality, and an alternate planet reality, Eventually he makes it to our timeline and destroys himself while beaming up Ivan and putting him into stasis.

Unspecified 2018-2019: Ivan is held in stasis for an unspecified amount of time. While in stasis ToeJam and Earl scan his memories and create torturous dreams of him playing the Grinch for PS1 while he is watched by a little girl similar to Susan. At some point Ivan appears from the virtual realm and notices the alien's lack of sophisticated tech. Susan begins her quest to take down Inscape, at some point she leaks their work to the government and shuts them down. After the investigation Susan relocates to the woods to begin her research on a cure for Ivan.

October 2019: Ivan is woken from stasis after over a year by ToeJam and Earl. TJ and E claim to be researcher's from the PC Master Race, trying to find meaning in peripherals, when in reality they are just trying to harness Ivan's rage for Prince Tricky. They have him test multiple peripherals, all followed by Death's end tags, until eventually Prince Tricky and Ivan meet whilst Ivan's attempt to destroy the Steel Battalion mech controller. Eventually Prince Tricky gives a Ivan a fake promise that if he beats two games with the power glove, then he will set him free.

One week later: Ivan, having contemplated Tricky's deal, accepts and inevitably fails. However Tricky reveals that this was what he really wanted. Tricky descends into Ivan's room and reveals his true identity as black undershirt Biffalo Bub. Ivan appears from the virtual realm and steals the gauntlet and beams out, (it is unexplained how the reality is repaired). Bub then explains his plan and reveals the Bubsy gauntlet. Having been powered by life energies, and fueled by Ivan's rage, Bub snaps his fingers and turns every game in the living realm into a Bubsy game to Ivan's horror. Across the world games are transformed into Bubsy-fied versions of themselves, Death has no comment to this.

Christmas/Christmas Eve 2019: Ivan has been sitting in his chamber for two months feeling desolate after Bub's snap, ToeJam, who holds some misgivings against Bub due to missing superman 64, goes to comfort Ivan gifting him a Virtual boy telling him that its games were the only to survive the snap and then reveals the existence of the Virtual Realm, a timeless world where there are only games. This gives Ivan the idea to enter the virtual realm and exit two months prior to destroy the gauntlet.

Virtual realm: Ivan enters the Virtual realm numerous times always failing and ending up in various points in time, until eventually getting it right and claiming the gauntlet.

Christmas/Christmas eve 2019: Ivan exits the virtual realm only to be apprehended by Biffalo Bub having been alerted to ToeJam's betrayal by Earl. Bub decides to kill ToeJam due to her disobedience, and then Earl due to his dislike of tattle tails. Bub then uses his gauntlet to destroy it thus making the Bubsy reality permanent. Ivan then fights Bub eventually biting him and turning Bub into his final form, Biffalo Bubsy. They continue to fight until Bub stabs Ivan with his hidden Resident Evil Chainsaw Controller. Before he dies Ivan manages to send Bub into the Virtual Realm and smashes the console, thus trapping him there forever.

Virtual Realm: Biffalo Bub falls for eternity.

Christmas/Christmas Eve 2019: Prince Tricky's ship crashes on an unknown planet, while Ivan succumbs to his injuries.

Purgatory: Ivan awakens in purgatory and meets Death who has been watching him for a while. Death offers a bet with Ivan stating that if he wins a best out of five match of Shovelware multiplayer games against him. Then he can return to life. If he loses then he must move on to the afterlife. Ivan plays against Death, both of them winning two rounds, and after each one Death provides funny dubbing over the games similarly to how Ivan did in 2017. Eventually Death wins three to two against Ivan. However Ivan is not willing to accept this, and strikes up a new deal, they will play two more rounds making it a best out of seven, if Ivan wins he will be returned to life and have his curse lifted. If Death wins, Ivan will play bad multi player games with him for eternity. Ivan manages to win both games, and is excited at the prospect of freedom. This excitement fades as he finds out that Biffalo Bub's curse is still active outside of the Virtual Realm and Purgatory. Ivan then asks Death if he can reverse it. Death says he can, but if he does that, returns Ivan to life, and erases his curse, then he will be punished by his superiors. Ivan then decides to not have his curse lifted, but have the Bubsy snap be reversed. Death agrees and returns his end of the final deal.

Christmas 2019: Ivan is returned to life at Susan's cabin in the woods, and Susan takes him inside. Ivan awakens and is greeted by Susan who informs him of how she took down the company and has begun work on a cure for his condition. Ivan realizes that with his scientific expertise he can help her develop the cure. Ivan remarks one of his recent one liners as the Shovelwarewolf, before beginning his work. While working Ivan knocks over a glass stating that some things never change, remarking on how he would always manage to break one before playing a game.

thank you for reading this entire timeline, it may not be totally correct, but I took some liberties based on certain lines from characters.

#Howloween #I like making timelines way to much #Shovelwarewolf #Random Encounters

[icharchivist]

Apparently Lucilius is much, much rougher with Bubs in Rising than he is with Belial and even Avabelial

I've seen a theory that he's holding a grudge because Beelzebub always acted like he was better than the archangels that Lucilius created and looked down on them and this is Lucilius' chance to show him that no, he's beneath him in every way

Anyway, congrats to Belial for not getting hated as much as he could be

Maybe Lucilius appreciates him as his creation on some level, even if he's never going to love him as much as Belial wants? And sure, Lucifer is still the favorite, but Belial is still closer to Lucilius than others

Maybe I'm reaching

I'm just soft for the idea of them at least getting to hangout cordially, ig

oh this is so interesting.

it's kinda hilarious for Bubs that he's hated to that level even by his crush, and it's kinda hilarious that out of Belial and Bubs, Lucilius seems to somehow prefer Belial. I think Bubs' pride would never recover.

But i can dig the reasoning here yeah.

Like, the primals remain Lucilius' creations. He may not care for them, not have real affection for them, but they're his research subject, they're the culmunation of his hard work. I think on a selfish level, Lucilius would care more about them, and even without this level, i think Lucilius would be aware that therefore they're the only creatures on this earth who are made with a connection to them.

Lucilius felt alienated from the others Astrals, and while we know he has more in common with Beelzebub than anyone else, neither of them knew they were clones, so Lucilius has no reason to actually think he was this close to Beelzebub. He's another Astrals he is distant with, just one with whom he has more reasons to hang out with. It's completely different from hanging out with creatures he himself put into this world.

So it makes sense Lucilius would actually distances himself even more from Beelzebub. This Alienation is still pretty much blocking him from seeing their similitudes.

but primals are made with his fingerprints all over, so there's a deeper connection here.

And while Lucilius doesn't like Belial all that much, he's still his first creation, and he's still the one person Lucilius could rely on with his plans beforehand. And while he finds Belial's affections annoying, he also knows that Belial is actually working for him and everything.

Lucilius has favorites and i wouldn't say he /likes/ Belial, but it's not about liking him or anything when it comes to the fact he's the primal Lucilius' trust the most on a personal level.

Like, sure he trusted Lucifer on every others levels possible, but he knew Lucifer would never stick with him if he knew the depth of his plans. I doubt he ever had such doubts about Belial.

And sometimes just reliability matters much more than likeability, and it's one thing i think Lucilius can respect about Belial.

It's genuinely nice to see Lucilius be more cordial to Belial in gbvs. It makes for an interesting dynamic to see how their relationship might have been like without the rawness of everything in wmtsb.

and get recked, Bubsy.

#ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #anonymous

[an-overcaffeinated-npc]

Oof editing has tired me out tonight (mostly because I have been distracted most of today by Empire SMP and the Hermitcraft charity Livestream and put it off till afterward)

Shovelwarewolf S4 E5: Power Glove

I want a power glove just to own

Lol the meta joke

One more test (episode 23/31) maybe not....

Do you have a twitch? No silly you stream on YouTube on the channel REPlayed

Although a Shovelwarewolf twitch stream would be.... Interesting

I like how Shovelwarewolf doesn't need to talk about the actual control scene of the games because they are so bad

I like how this show despite being short lengthwise, does follow the tropes of shows like it where the hero is so sort of extraterrestrial creature who exists in their own world for a few seasons then is taken by a person trying to use them for their own benefit then used by a more competent person who achieves their goals and then must grow themselves to achieve a good ending

Heheh AJ said who do you think blew me

The existence of a RE multiverse genuine did start me on the path of totally ignoring that and creating a connected universe theory instead

Biffilo Bub is a better representation for a toxic fan than the killers in the new Scream movie

I wonder if it changes the content of the games or just slaps a Bubsy face and voice on them?

Also this is the closest we will get to Bryan Dechart in a RE musical

The way AJ says inevitable is so funny to me

Imma complain about the lighting again real quick, that shot with Bub laughing as he turn towards space would have been so much better without the flat lighting like image that shot but him in shadows with his face barely visible maybe lit from underneath in a way that blocks out his face that would be so cool and ominous, here he just stands out from the background all weird and unnatural

I'm actually genuinely excited for tomorrow because despite how busy my day is, the virtual boy episode is my favorite episode ever and after that we have the countdown to Halloween and my favorite season so I can't wait to see you all there :)

#randomencounters #random encounters #remusicals #shovelwarewolf #howlween

[foodbin]

#bubsy bobcat #trans girl bubsy #girl bubsy #trans girl #trans theory #fanart

[dinoskar]

i love the theory that tails can be infinite. i like it, but i don’t think it’s true... obviusly is bubsy

#sonic forces #Tails Miles Prower #Infinite #theory #infinite is bubsy and you can't deny it #sonic the hedgehog

[brownmuse]

Erik’s Theory of Happiness: Part I - Chapter III (Preview)

Finals season is here, but that won’t stop me from posting good tings about this story during my semi-hiatus 😌 Here’s a sneak peek to keep y’all fed until December!

Warnings: Vivid depictions of an anxiety attack.

Erik’s head became a carousel of fears spinning out of control, each one pushing him into blackness. His panic started as a thin cellophane, something his fingers could pierce holes in. In another minute his panic transitioned into a deluge of ice water surrounding every limb, creeping higher until it passed his mouth and nose.

Narie hadn’t arrived in months to take him away to Villria, and now, his teddy bear—Mr. Bubsy—had abandoned his side when he was asleep.

Erik moved about the room like there's a hurricane inside him. His brain conducted an energetic symphony, strings and chords performing melodic mayhem.

Mr. Bubsy isn’t here. Mr. Bubsy. isn’t here. Mr. Bubsy isn’t here. Mr. Bubsy isn’t here.

His eyes are wild and when he collapsed onto the wooden floor he started rocking, rocking, rocking; strings of incoherent noises echoing fear. His movements became faster and faster until he exploded into motion again.

I can’t find him. I can’t find—why, why, why did he leave me? What did I do?!

Two in-patient nurses came running frantically into his room, both carrying a caseload of medical paraphernalia filled with syringes and sedation medications. They quickly split their work, one preparing multiple sedative syringes and the other combatting Erik’s extreme anxiety attack—his Opera of the Wasteland.

“Erik, I need you to slow down and breathe for me. Slow down and breathe, sweetheart.”

The nurse tried, but her words simply bounced off Erik like they were hard rain. Amidst his manic whirlwind, he noticed their carelessness at leaving the door open and fought roughly against the nurse before making his bold escape.

Meanwhile, Nurse Joyce took it upon herself to replace Erik’s teddy bear’s missing eye. She weaved love between every hole, threaded cotton dreams back into every crevice of Mr. Bubsy’s tattered eyesight. Yet, her kind deeds were met with resistance once Erik soon saw the repair job. Hysterical sobs, unbridled misery, spilled from his lips and the boy—filled with dream wastelands—began speaking for the first time in cryptic rhyme:

"Into the hole again, we hurried along our way into a once-glorious garden now seeped in dark decay."

Erik would not stop crying until the new eye was removed.

Original Character List: 1 | 2 (release alongside next chapter) 

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#erik killmonger fic #erik killmonger x oc #black panther fanfiction #black panther fanfic

[myfriendpokey]

7 bubsys of the world

1. museum bubsy:

i love bubsy bobcat's ghastly, staring eyes, which look past everything around him, as if he were the dead theologian mentioned in swedenborg - who upon death simply moves without knowing into a new eternal house shaped exactly like his own, but which over time begins to grow dimmer, more transparent, he finds rooms he's never seen before, populated by dead and faceless men, themfurniture and writings fade, until we can only imagine some final increment of ghostliness leads to the awful truth that - - aaah!!

but of course the distance in bubsy's stare comes from a different location, not so much the gulf between the living and the dead as that between the living and the 90s. bubsy looks at us from the depths of a bubsy 3d that NEVER ENDED, that rather than being a temporary and ignoble home for the hovering bubsy spirit (as expressed in various promotional materials) has somehow become the final determining limit for where that spirit can go. bubsy can explore any kind of content, go on any kind of adventure.. once it is re-expressed within the conditions of this mangled polygonal plain..... i think that it's so easy (and so profitable!!) to fall into a sort of idealist conception of videogame history as one of various platonic bogeys (truth! gameplay! mario!) temporarily given shape in base matter before disintegrating to appear in some new form. we don't really think those material expressions have anything to say about their spirits, obviously mario isn't "really" as chunky and polygonal as he is in mario 64, just as videogames as a form can easily be distinguished from any of the various rather sad attempts to embody that form. so it's a real shock to find our credit rescinded and be told, no, this is what you have. bubsy is trapped inside his temporary emblem, inside a world he never made, drifting around haplessly and at last thrust towards that final refuge of the doomed, which is the effort to at least be Cultured.  do his unseeing eyes still register a sense of potential alterity in the artwork he consumes, or just the frozen parody of same?

2. personal bubsy:

interestingly very few of the bubsy fangames try to replicate the protagonist's canon personality at face value, very likely because it's unbearable. but maybe also for other reasons. the bubsy games themselves play with the idea of bubsy as either an actor seperable from the gameworlds he inhabits ("bubsy the bobcat in claws encounters of the furred kind") or as at least possessing a kind of bugs-bunny-ish awareness of an audience (who are all those quips addressed to?). but that's within the games' own conception of themselves as exciting blockbuster product - taking them as failures of one kind or another as it's become standard to do converts bubsy's actorliness from that of the starring attraction to a sort of jobbing z-movie shlub, mired in one contractual dispute after another and forced through a variety of ill-concieved ventures. and i say interestingly because as far as i can see there's little to support this good will or sense of implied interiority - i'm not aware of gex, say, or duke nukem being extended the same kind of escape clause from their own insufferability. maybe the sheer unbelievability of what these games are telling us about themselves, as mediated through some decades of bubsy trash-talk, gives them a plaintive quality.

3. omnipresent bubsy:

i made a bubsy bobcat fangame once because i thought it would be funny to have a fangame for a character nobody actually liked. it got picked up and reposted by a bubsy fanblog a few days later ("Added for the sake of Bubsy completeness... man this looks bad... but you can download it XD".)

4. dialectic bubsy:

to clarify: i made a bubsy bobcat fangame because i wanted to be funny, but i also wanted to be annoying. i was interested in the "indie games" scene (as distinct from the rpg maker one) and in 2009 the public face of that was very much High Designist, minimal, meaningful, squares, grids, programming, Passage, etc..

i was making a game for an experimental gameplay workshop open jam and figured since i lacked all qualification for this style of art i might as well deliberately disqualify myself from it and make something that was sort of ostentatiously mired in the same junky, unreflective commercial culture that stuff was trying to escape.  so it was partly a tease, but not a very dangerous one. bubsy was so visibly, universally reviled within videogame culture that it was hard to imagine any kind of sincere identification with the character taking place - using that franchise therefore meant being able to convert the ickier associations of the fangame format (unoriginal!! un-"challenging"!! made by and for hobbyists and women!!) into more aestheticised, and also more acceptable, forms of disagreeability ("punk" recontextualisation and deliberate badness, etc). so it's a funny ugliness but also one that relies on a sort of shared, unquestioned sense of what's genuinely "un-touchable" in this artsy context, and of course bonding over mutual agreement on what's beyond the pale of acceptable taste is one of the founding rituals of "gamer culture". i'd never played a bubsy game and probably only knew about the franchise from seanbaby or something like that.

what happened next is more interesting. i'd made a game called space funeral, which was popular enough on gamejolt to generate a fairly active fanart tag and even some fangames, a number of fangames all by different authors and with different approaches. and one of the fangame authors ended up playing my own bubsy fangame and decided to re-include bubsy as a character in space funeral 4 as something of a callback to that. i think (forgive me, i only browse the tag) this slowly became the occasion for some drama within "the community". Words Were Said re. furries and the appropriateness of same within this context, bubsy continued gaining more and more of a prominent role in the new fangame, "new bubsy" was also reimagined as a trans sex worker with an extremely prominent chest, these decisions appeared to be contentious, eventually the developer of SF4 declared that they were sick of the fandom, sick of the original game, and going to start a new project based entirely around their new bubsy character.... all of which is well and good and Culture In Action and frankly i stopped having any opinion about space funeral long before the first fangame came out. but what i'm interested in here is bubsy, and specifically the idea of how the deliberate reuse of the bubsy character acts as a way to thematise and re-engage whatever's felt to be awful, unacceptable, within some specific space. in rip van bubsy that means pushing against artgame's more apollonian efforts with a reminder of the garish, lumpen, unsignifying qualities of most actually existing videogames; in space funeral 4, the ironic repurposing and sexlessness of games like rip van bubsy and space funeral is itself critiqued by a sincere / artless / horned-up reusage of the same material which is similarly "unacceptable" within that framework. the travelling figure of bubsy appears as an index of dissent around the format...

5. negative bubsy:

i think it's a known and documented phenomenon that punk music has a weird, recurring affinity for the purest of pure MOR pop - sex pistols, the clash, nirvana all known abba fans, the minutemen covered steely dan, sonic youth the carpenters, madonna floats across michael azerrad's "our band could be your life" as eerily recurring presence and talisman... all of which might just be a catalog of private tastes. but it's also tempting, given that in seperate ways these were all very self-fashioned, ideological, image-alert bands, to take this taste for pure pop as to some extent  deliberate, as maybe part of the same self-fashioning. the very distance of abba from anything approaching punk, noise, art-rock, becomes a reason to like them - they become a kind of model of aesthetic autonomy, serenely detached from any kind of taste or wider expectation - abba are a vantage point from which you can critique punk rock itself. and punks and abba become comrades in their mutual distance from pink floyd("horseshoe theory").

why so many art games about bubsy? there are many perverse or ironic reasons, but i wonder if one of them could be that he occupies something of the same role within the videogames imagination. the idea of a franchise for a character nobody likes turns into an image of art for art's sake. the fact that bubsy is irredeemable from a "meaningful, expressive" perspective makes him useful as a point from which to hypothesize forms of art which deliberately avoid the meaningful or expressive - as in ulillillia's marvellous bubsy 3d videos, which transform the game into a oulipean suite of detached operations.

6. material bubsy:

the recieved idea of the mid-1990s mascot platformer audience is like the old analogy of the pre-revolution french peasant as a man walking up to his nose in water - while the ground is flat, he can persist indefinitely, but come the slightest decrease or pothole he will instantly drown. with the bubsy games as tipping point for the temporary demise of this form. but it's still curious that he was chosen, rather than, say, zool or cool spot, mascots who were "worse" on an objective moral level in that they were literally marketing contrivances to sell snack food to children. the videogames audience is traditionally able to accept any level of ghoulishness of this kind as long as it is presented in an appropriately humble,relateable way - the only sin really punished is that of pride, of getting above your station. so here we have a sort of martyr-bubsy, whose only real crime was not exemplifying videogame industry hubris and cynicism so much as making insufficient effort to cover for it...

well, maybe not, maybe we should honor the "disproportionate" scapegoating of bubsy as a real moment of disgust at the habitual crapness of mass media and avoid that charitable revisionism which is so easily rolled out to brands with the power to outlive many of their critics. but there is a  certain fascination that comes with those games blamed for or associated with some kind of crash, collapse - - like the atari ET game, they can no longer be regarded as "just games" operating within some fixed economic niche, they fall partly out of that niche and into the material world, they temporarily dispel the sensed changelessness of the industry. if ET really did destroy the industry it would be the best videogame ever made. bubsy never acquired this glamour, but it means that within the awful pantheon of named videogame characters he's one of the few which can be identified with any kind of negative drive, which gives him a special affinity for hobbyist games interested in tarrying with that drive.

7. official bubsy:

how many bubsys can you shut up? in 2016 a new, official bubsy game was released for pc and ps4, proving once and for all that that is not dead which can eternal lie, and came with a nauseating press-release-cum-interview with bubsy himself in which he ruminates smugly about his ensuing return to planet earth. the fake interviewer glosses the weird and largely negative history of the franchise (bubsy is a "gaming legend", apparently - i can't see anyone described as a "legend" without thinking of those awful laddish testimonials to the likes of boris johnson and raoul moat); bubsy throws in an unexpected jab at "unauthorized indie pixel games and deeveeart  portraits", suggesting he's at least seen space funeral 4; the overall  tone is that same bullying landlord chumminess of people deposed by scandal who pop up on the chat show circuit five years later with memoir in tow, blandly self-certain about the place they  deserve to keep in public life. whatever human meaning had accrued to the  franchise - in failure, in the way that failure could be used, repurposed, in wider ongoing arguments about culture - is firmly pushed away, in favour of that strangely anonymous recognition-without-history that constitutes ultimate value for any IP.

but it's also hardly unexpected - nothing dies anymore, even those forms whose only interest was in death, and we're of course not restrained by the threatening (litigious?) distinction between authorized and unauthorized versions of the same wretched official culture. better just to see it as yet another fan-bubsy to add to the catalog- a horrible-undead-persistence-under-capitalism bubsy, a bubsy that now signifies as well as everything else the monolithic stupidity by which "authorized" culture attempts to safeguard its possessions. so maybe we will see this new bubsy start to emerge places as well, an all-new emblem of the negative, emerging where you want it least... a bubsy for our time..!!!

[image tags: bubsy visits the james turrell retrospective, bubsy the bobcat in rip van bubsy starring bubsy, space funeral 4, “rabbid better than bubsy” by shinxboy on deviantart, bubsy animated tv show]

#bubsy

[descendant-of-truth]

Pre-Release Sonic Forces Things

“Classic Sonic is back what the heck”

The debate over whether or not it’s Sonic Generations 2

No one knowing the title yet and having to refer to it as Project Sonic 2017

“It’s gotta be good guys, the trailer mentioned Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations and those were great”

“It’s gotta be good or else Sonic will die”

The Wild Mass Guessing about who the new character will be

The never ending jokes about the new character being Bubsy

The theory about the Cutsom Character and the absolute hype when it was confirmed

People trying to figure out what happened to Sonic while Eggman took over the world

“TEAM CHAOTIX IS BACK YOU GUYS”

The “Sonic Forces you to __” meme

“SHADOW, GET OFF THE DANG ROCK”

“METAL SONIC!!! CHAOS!!!”

Absolutely no one caring about Zavok

Infinite showing up for 2 seconds and everyone screaming for the next five months

Theories about Infinite being Tails

Theories about Infinite being the Custom Character

Theories about Infinite being Sonic in some way, shape or form

Just, endless theories about Infinite

The wave of Infinite fanart that dominated the internet

Shipping Infinite with the Cutsom Character (and also everyone else)

The sudden wave of people’s Sonic OCs

“What if the Cutsom Character used to be friends with Infinite”

“INFINITE REDEMPTION ARC”

The theories about why Shadow is working with Infinite

Theories about how Infinite’s power works, including but not limited to:

It’s a reality-bending power

It’s a reality-bending power, but it breaks the fourth wall

It induces hallucinations

The cubes being alternate dimensions that Infinite just throws around like a boss

Theories about Sonic Mania being a prequel to Sonic Forces and the screaming it induced when it was confirmed

“Classic Sonic has no reason to be in this game” and the various opinions stemming from it

The truly endless videos on YouTube complaining about the game before a demo even came out

“I’m worried about Sonic Forces”

“Can you maybe chill”

Classic Sonic being referred to as a “third wheel”

“KNUCKLES IS THE LEADER OF THE RESISTANCE, HIS CHARACTER IS REDEEMED”

“Yes but have you considered that Amy would be a much more logical choice”

Distant cries of “SILVER, MY BOI”

The absolute joy and hype over Shadow’s DLC

“TEAM DARK IS BACK, YOU GUYS”

“LOOKIN FRESH”

Fanfics based on every single theory and then some

Complaints about the demo’s one minute timer

LEAKS, LEAKS EVERYWHERE

People abandoning their computers just to not get spoiled

People spoiling themselves on purpose because they are full of hype and impatience

And last but not least, the “Sonic Forces vs Sonic Mania vs Mario Odyssey” tournament that never really got resolved

#sonic forces #sonic the hedgehog #sonic mania #sonic infinite #sonic forces infinite #modern sonic #classic sonic #custom character #gadget the wolf #buddy the wolf #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #shadow the hedgehog #amy rose #silver the hedgehog #team chaotix #team dark

[detective-columbo]

Dream Diary Jam ChatMemes

Bubsy

Dream Tiddy

Pizza Rolls

“Madotsuki is afraid of carpets”

General Bullshit Yume Nikki Theories

fight me behind the ihop

Bubsy

Kikiyama is all of us

We have disappointed Kikiyama

“Banned”

Banned by someone who isn’t a mod

“That’s my 3rd ban this week” 

Saturn: “@ Saturn - banned”  (3 seconds later) Saturn: “for fucks sake” 

"You earned a bubsy”

“wow!  look at all the people in the jam!” “that’s (number) more people than there are actually in the fandom)”

(that’s 4 people in the fandom)

jokes about stealing trees

“WE SUMMONED BUBSY”

DLC Dream Effects & Areas

this jam was a mistake

Bubsy

#dream diary jam #ddj #saturn talks #good jam

[unforeseen-idiot]

Shovelwarewolf Season 3

Oh boy the season where things got really interesting, an actual antagonist with a face and everything?, a new location for our favorite angry werewolf?, ALIENS! Excellent season in my book and lets get into why.

E.T the Extra-Terrestrial: Great opener, I love the theme of this season being infamously bad games fits well with Biffalo's whole schtick. I love the back and forth they have with each other. I love the scene where Ivan resolves to get out of the pit, fails once and tries again, and then fails a second time and then rages, just felt really real.

Super Man 64: Another great episode, the Martha bit was maybe a little on the nose, but I still find it funny. I love SWW's commitment to this three-hole punch bit, it starts out as a regular SWW threat, but the fact that he keeps building on it slays me. I love SWW's dramatics in this episode. Plus we get more evidence on the Star Fox Adventures theory.

Night Trap: Ah yes, the game that would turn everyone into serial killing rapists according to the government. Solid episode, like the CDI Zelda games, the dialogue makes SWW's quips even better. I love that Biffalo finally acknowledges the whole glass shattering thing, and his random story about eating a run-over waffle. Gotta love SWW's total pettiness with the vase. He also gave a pretty solid "Reason you suck speech" to that weird general guy. Plus this is the first time we've actually seen Ivan playing a game as a human since Mortal Kombat Mythologies just thought it was cool. And of course the ending twist with Bubsy, so good.

Bubsy 3D: Oh my what a terrible game, it actually hurts thinking about playing it. This is a pretty ok episode, its best parts are in the beginning when we get Biffalo's true motives (seriously he wants to take pictures with kids someone stop him) and the ending when he's so pissed about losing his custom Bubsy Playstation. Plus his utter glee at Bubsy is pretty funny. We also get a solid cliffhanger at the end.

Link the Faces of Evil: Oh what an excellent sequel to last season, the dialogue is only funnier with the slam poetry, reused cutscenes, and SQUADALA WE ARE OFF! I love this episode so much it has great one liners and an acknowledgment of Susan (I remember watching the episode and thinking the exact thing when he said it). I also Love the Shawshank tribute and the chase through the dessert that ends with him being abducted, it probably made no sense to people at the time, but it's so freaking funny.

The Grinch: We've now arrived at the season finale, it's pretty good I like the animations for Mr. Wolf. The setup is decent, not revealing too much of the aliens yet while still giving us a plausible way for him to play games (of course his coma dreams involve shovelware). I know it was meant to serve the Grinch parody, but SWW without a lab coat or otherwise just looks wrong. So Cindy Lou Rareware is a neat character, but she reminds me so much of this girl I knew in middle school it's a little jarring. The ending always makes me feel a little hopeless, like dang the guy is just stuck.

Music:

Season 3 Opening: Oh what a great intro. The strings in the beginning and the banjo, folksy style really sell the creepy vibes of Buffalo Bub and the season's setup.

Season 3 Transformation: It's pretty good, I like the guitar in it. It doesn't really do a whole lot but it serves the purpose very well.

Demented Furry: Excellent villain theme for Biffalo. It gives off a great mistrusting and creepy feel that goes great with our Bubsy obsessed hillbilly.

Demented Furry (Choir Version): Same song, but with a slower piano and an awesome sounding choir behind it. Very foreboding.

Live or Die: Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh. This song man. THIS SONG! It goes so freaking hard. The metal guitar riffs, the brass, the synth it all comes together so well. I never paid much attention to it until now and I fell in love. It completely creates a great climatic tension to a very tense scene.

Mr. Wolf: It's a Grinch parody. Does a great job especially when coupled with the animation. The singer is so petty with lines like, "Someone should through you back in a 39 and a half foot hole" like dude that probably traumatized him, lay off.

Couch Gag: This is a pretty good one, just Biffalo Bub being Biffalo Bub and playing with action figures (I feel like AJ improvised these, not in a bad way just that this feels like stuff he'd come up with on the fly). The last one was honestly so real, like you'd think that you'd make your "if you're watching this I'm dead video" a little funny to lighten the mood, but I mean, it would probably just bum me out too.

So ye overall, I love the season, great set, great tension, great villain, and horrible games. It also sets up a very good season coming up.

#shovelwarewolf #howlaween #Idk maybe coulda used more Susan #Biffalo had a great back and forth with Ivan #Like all of our main “people who talk to Ivan before after and while he plays games” have great back and forth in their own unique ways. #Biffalo and Ivan just gave off a great annoying guy and person who just hates and is mildly creeped out by him. #I don't have many stray thoughts #I kinda feel bad they had to destroy a retro tv #I mean it was probably broken beforehand but still sad.

[colorsplash]

hot fresh new sonic forces theory

the bad future world in sonic forces is actually bubsys world and sonic is just there because eggman invaded it

[dinoskar]

I knew it!

#sonic forces #sonic the hedgehog #infinite #bubsy #what could possibly go wrong #theory

[pixelpoppers]

Arnold reminded me why I dislike punishment: I need novelty.

A bit ago I speculated on why different people feel differently about punishment in games, and I have a new theory thanks to Arnold's levels in Bubsy: Paws on Fire!

The short version is that different people have different thresholds for maintaining interest in repetitive content. The long version follows.

As I mentioned before, the Arnold bonus levels in Bubsy: Paws on Fire! are a bit different from the main stages. You're still making your way through a level trying to pick up collectibles and avoid obstacles, but obstacles only reduce your score and don't actually stop you. The levels are also only about thirty seconds long and have no checkpoints. You're guaranteed to get to the end, though it can be quite difficult to get all the collectibles along the way - and if you mess that up, you have to replay the entire level from the start.

I've replayed a lot of Arnold levels in my quest to get every collectible. They're tightly-packed auto-runners that require near-constant maneuvering, none of which is especially difficult on its own - but if you ever hesitate you'll miss a collectible. The challenge is more of mental discipline than twitch reflex skill, since you need to maintain focus for the full length of the level. It's about not letting yourself fall out of the zone even once - which is why it's good that Arnold's levels are so short. Any longer and they'd be exhausting or impossible.

One particular Arnold level (2-8 Crying Saucer) took me far longer than any other (so far - I still have eight Arnold levels left at time of writing). And I'm pretty sure it's because the first part of it was too easy. Most of the level is a simple and gentle pattern, and then the last eight seconds require (what I find to be) the hardest Arnold maneuver to pull off, a handful of times in a row.

The first few times I played this level, I easily nailed most of it and then stumbled at the end. After a bit of practice, I was almost able to do the hard part. I'd miss one or two collectibles each time, but I was closing in on success. And then my performance started getting worse.

The thing is, because there are no checkpoints in Arnold levels, practice means replaying the entire level. You can manually restart levels partway through, but there was no point in doing so here because the hard part was at the end anyway. So every time I retried the eight seconds of hard stuff, I had to play through twenty-two seconds or so of easy stuff. And after a while, I started screwing it up.

The first part of the level was already easy, but soon I basically had it memorized. It didn't register as an engaging challenge or anything surprising. It became harder to pay attention to - my mind would wander and I'd lose focus, and so even though the required movements were simple my timing would falter and I'd miss the collectibles.

It required active effort to stay focused during the easy twenty-two seconds. There was no automatic flow state. I had to work at it. It wasn't rewarding to do this, because I'd already done it several times and it was no longer interesting. But if I didn't do it, then I'd screw up and fail to get all the collectibles even if I nailed the hard part. (Which happened, and was super frustrating.)

But I persevered, and eventually nailed the whole level in a single run. I didn't time it, but I think it took me over half an hour to master this thirty-second level. Other objectively harder levels were much faster because they didn't back-load the difficulty and I had a more consistent level of engagement throughout.

So, I suspect that I have a high novelty requirement to stay engaged with challenges in games. This is part of why I don't replay games much, but also probably most of why I dislike large-scoped punishment - such as when dying to a boss means replaying a level just to get back to it. It quickly becomes boring, which causes my performance to worsen, and then it becomes frustrating as well.

Someone who requires less novelty to stay engaged wouldn't get bored so easily, wouldn't lose their focus, wouldn't start screwing up on stuff that'd previously been easy, and wouldn't get extra frustrated. To such a person, the repeated content is just more practice. I feel like this could explain a lot of the difference I see in how players react to punishment systems.

#gaming #video games #bubsy: paws on fire! #flow #punishment #novelty