#cops fighting dinosaurs

[benbamboozled]

I just…HOW can you say that someone is more cop THAN THE GUY WHO WAS LITERALLY IN-CANON an ACTUAL COP???

#OKAY I’M SORRY THAT’S ALL I’LL SAY ABOUT IT. #harrumph. #everyone is entitled to their opinions…even if they’re bad. #maybe it’s just not a great idea to throw around ‘so-and-so is a cop’ when that has a whole lot of RL baggage behind it… #…and is reductive both of the RL issues and characters in general. #this is honestly why I try (keyword TRY) to keep discussions of RL systemic problems out of my goofy comic nonsense. #because like you just…cannot with anything involved in a comic about ‘one of the good ones’ cops… #and good-guy vigilantes without any kind of actual accountability. #where THE GOOD GUY is a billionaire who expends a not inconsiderable amount of resources on militarized equipment… #to ‘fight crime’ in a ‘war on crime’ that will never actually get solved. #like—if we wanna get ‘real’…WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN is a valid question! #BUT I DON’T *WANT* TO GET REAL! (i want to turn people into dinosaurs!) #okay no really THAT is all I will say about it.

[chaoticladyfire]

Things I screamed about in ATSV (spoilers)

-Got to rewatch the film so I’m just going to add the colours changing to warmer tones when Gwen hugs her father. Not even ten minutes in and I was already crying.

-Realised that we missed the Gwen-Vulture fight BUT got to see Jessica Drew enter the scene like a bad ass in her bad ass bike and hearing the audience collectively say ‘me too’ when Gwen asked if Jessica could adopt her. 

-Screaming OSCAR ISAAC when Miguel spoke

-Lyla. Just Lyla.

- ‘Do you say anything other than no?’ ‘No-YES!’ more of miguel and jessica pls

-The Spot’s introduction. I didn’t see any promotional stuff, teasers or even trailers before watching this film so I had no idea who or what the The Spot was which was great because he really went from villain of the week to villain of the movie. And they clearly had a great time choreographing the fight scenes with him

-Miles’ heating up the beef patty while the spot and the convenience store man argue

-Miles patting the spot’s with a ‘good cow’ text

-Gwen and Miles both having to deepen their voices to avoid being recognised by their respective cop dads

-Miles saying that he can get two cakes when the counsellor says you can’t have your cake and eat it too and then bringing two cakes for his father’s party and neither of them saying what he wanted to convey. 

-Rio and Jeff scolding an annoyed miles but instantly smiling when a relative hugs them what an universal experience 

-Gwen teasing Miles for drawing her in his notebook almost obsessively but also breaking the biggest rule to spend time with him knowing the consequences. 

-As they went to talk, my friend leaned over and said ‘yeah I bet they will talk’ and when they only talked he groaned very loudly at which point I had to remind him Miles was only 15 

-Watching Jeff talk to Spiderman about his son not knowing his son is spiderman

-The DJ increasing the volume when Miles’ parents started scolding him in the middle of the party (the real mvp of the movie actually) 

-JK Simmons cameo that no one seems to be talking about??? Embarrassingly enough I had to literally scream into my friend’s ear for most of the people to realise it was indeed JK Simmons

-Just the entire Mumbattan scene. It was so exciting to see my city be represented like that, still a bit cliched in my opinion but not like Slumdog so obviously they have updated their views. Everything from the traffic gag to Pav’s rant about chai tea had the theatre howling. Also the detail of the thought boxes (?) and sounds being written in Hindi 

-Screaming DANIEL KALUUYA

-My friend and I are huge fans of the UK punk scene (her for the ideologies and myself for the music and fashion) so Hobie was a dream come true. He was already super cool with his guitar and mohawk costume but when he revealed his face it was just so amazing

-Gayatri is every indian’s dream girl with her modern shirt-flannel and jeans combo mixed with bangles and piercings I really wish we get to see more of her in the next movie. Anyway there was a lot of wolf-whistling and hooting for her and Pav

-Also Pavitr literally means pure I don’t know if they did that on purpose or not but I love it

-His pet name being Pav cured my soul

-’This is the most emotional I have seen him’ and Captain Singh has no emotions at all

-I want to see how they came up with so many spider designs because each was so unique and immediately endearing. My friend who is also a big dinosaur fan screamed DINOSAUR 

-Kind of obsessed with how detailed Ben Reilly’s arms are they did not need to go that hard with it

-Tom Holland’s Spider-Man being referred to as ‘the little nerd’ by Miguel

-When everyone was making puns about the Spot my friend leaned over and said ‘i wonder which hole the spot prefers’ it is a miracle we are still friends actually

-The Donald Grover cameo!!!

-Peter B Parker having a cute little baby with the love of his life is what he deserves

-Miguel O Hara is one step away from becoming a Batman-Spiderman 

-Hobie’s admiration for Mayday being the avatar of chaos Spider-baby

-Screaming ANDY SAMBERG

-I think they saw the appreciation for the art style in the previous film and then trebled it for this film and I cannot thank them enough for it

-Peter complaining about how Miguel breaks the Spiderman tradition of being funny and witty and Miguel being the first anomaly 

-Every scene with the Spot is very unnerving because as I said, you watch him transform from this joker to a literal void of vengeance and it is every bit of terrifying

-Miguel is a man suffering from the destruction of an entire universe because of his selfish actions and forcing that anomaly narrative on a fifteen year old boy who became a spiderman on accident and doesn’t want his father to die because of that. Unlike the Spot, who isn’t even human anymore, Miguel is drowning in grief and guilt and trying to ignore it by holding the weight of the spider-verse on his shoulder. I hated him so much for making a boy go through that but then I just couldn’t in the end. 

-Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire cameo!!! Hopefully we’ll get a fun Tom Holland one too in the next movie.

-’Let me guess, he died?’ being a therapist for Spider Men must be a fairly boring job after a few patients.

-I just loved the absolute of wrongness of the scene where Miles returns ‘home’. The rain and darkness. I didn’t really think about Rio asking Miles what happened to his hair because I thought she was referring to the rain (although of course she wouldn’t ask him why his hair was wet when it was obviously raining outside) but realised something was wrong when he didn’t know about comic con but she did because in the first film there’s a joke about Peter B Parker explaining the concept to Miles. 

- This movie is not good for my father related issues

-The glaring neon welcome sign when the gang end up in Earth 42

-How did Uncle Aaron get even scarier? 

-Miles being the Prowler is honestly a great twist I saw it coming but still felt the shock of the reveal

-Prowler Miles having an accented voice meaning his father probably died when he was young and he only had his mom growing up

-Can’t wait for the original spider team to return for the third film seeing as they brought back Spider-Man Noir and Spider Ham and Peni Parker

-Screaming WHAT when the ‘to be continued’ appeared because that cliffhanger is absolutely destructive. All that adrenaline and excitement just popped. I’m still oscillating between being impressed and being disappointed. 

I probably skipped over a lot of other scenes because these were the most memorable and I only watched the film once (unfortunate) but I can’t wait for the movie to hit streaming services and watch it again and again for all the other details I missed. Ill probably keep adding things as I remember

#across the spiderverse #atsv #miles morales #gwen stacy #hobie #pavitr #miguel o'hara #jessica drew #peter b parker #the ultimate spiderman #spiderman #spiderman noir #spider ham #rio morales #prowler

[bloopy-writes]

More Haikyuu headcanons

Bokuto and Tsukishima actually text each other quite often because it turns out they both like dinosaurs and other nature documentaries so they recommend stuff to each other and comment on what they liked

Oikawa and iwaizumi don’t have a secret handshake but they’ve convinced everyone they do and enjoy watching the rest of the team go crazy trying to figure out what it is

Daichi thought that he’d be getting the most trouble from Tanaka or noya when he became a cop but actually the biggest troublemaker was suga

Hinata can rap really good and kageyama can beatbox

Atsumu and osamu text each other every day even if they know they’re gonna see each other soon because they can’t imagine not immediately sharing news with their twin

Sakusas favorite teammate is bokuto

Akaashi and Kenma have a code word for “my captain is about to do something stupid and will drag your captain into it so brace yourself”

The fukurodani third years have actually gotten into fights with other schools if they hear them trash talking their captain cuz bokuto may be a handful but he is their handful

#bloopy’s headcanons #haikyuu headcanons #hinata shouyou #kageyama tobio #oikawa tooru #iwaizumi hajime #bokuto koutarou #tsukishima kei #akaashi keiji #miya atsumu #miya osamu #miya twins

[thebisexualdogdad]

Summer road trip with the batfam (batfam x GN!reader)

● so Bruce rented an RV for the batfam to go on a three month coast to coast road trip

● no crime fighting, just family time

● with you, Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Barbara, Duke, Cass, Stephanie and of course Haley and Ace it was a bit of a tight squeeze

● Alfred was back at home taking a much needed work free staycation

● Kate was also invited but she refused to be stuck in an RV with ten other people all summer, she and Alfred are happy having breakfast together once a week

● Bruce drives the entire time with Damian as his navigator

● mostly because Damian and Jason would kill each other if they weren't separated

● Jason has purposely instigated fights with Damian by eating his snacks clearly labeled 'Damian' on them

● and sometimes Jason gets accused when it was actually Cass who took Damians snacks

● Barbara has every kind of first aid or bug repellent you can think of

● you stop to go kayaking and she pulls six different kinds of sunscreen out of her bag

● Cass is the one delegated to documenting the trip

● and she takes her job very seriously

● she never not has her camera in her hands either taking pictures or videos

● Stephanie "no Cass we do not need photos of the gas station bathroom"

● and she has photos of everyone sleeping in weird positions on the rv

● and a video of Jason snoring to prove to him that he does in fact snore

● you all take turns on where you guys sleep

● there's one queen sized bed in the back that fits three and the two couches turn into a bed that fits another three and the rest are in sleeping bags on the floor

● Ace and Haley however always sleep cuddling someone in the nice comfy queen bed

● Tim has researched every single place you guys are stopping at

● Bruce thought it would be fun to just wing it and see what happens

● but Tim would not let that happen, he has the entire trip planned out down to what towns you would need to stop in for gas

● places everyone requested to go that Tim denied

● Bruce: the world's biggest ball of yarn because it's a classic road trip must see

● Dick: the corn palace

● Jason: vegas

● Damian: probably like a sword museum in the middle of nowhere that he somehow knows has an authentic ancient sword the museum thinks is a replica

● Barbara: the mothman museum

● Stephanie: Roswell

● Duke: the first taco bell

● Cass: dinosaur world

● you do stop at multiple national parks

● going hiking and swimming in little lakes with their own waterfalls

● Jason tries to sneak a snake he finds back onto the RV

● Duke "Oh no, absolutely not, get that thing out of here"

● Damian "you afraid of a little old snake Thomas?"

● Duke "that thing is not little, it is a deadly creature and I do not want it anywhere near me!"

● the RV breaks down outside a town in Wyoming with no cell service

● you all argue about who has to walk the five miles into town to get help

● Bruce and Dick are the two that end up having to do it

● when they return Damian has Tim in a headlock and Cass is taking video of it

● the random guy with the tow truck they brought back "uhh are they okay"

● Bruce "Oh yeah this is normal for them"

● you and Stephanie ended up breaking the no crime fighting rule when you went into a convenience store for more snacks and walked right into a robbery in action

● you two kicked their asses with ease, tied them up for the cops and bought your snacks like nothing happened

● Barbara back at the RV "Y/N is that blood on your face?"

● "nope don't worry about it!"

● Dick brings lots of board games to play while on the road

● Tim and Damian go way too hard trying to win which you have to play mediator for before they try to throw each other out the moving RV

● Jason still loses even though he cheats

● and Stephanie pretends not to know the rules just to mess with Tim and Damian

● you also stop at a bunch of campgrounds, telling ghost stories and having s'mores around a fire

● Barbara "has anyone seen Jason?"

● Dick "I'm pretty sure he said something about being excited to finally cross off peeing in the woods off his bucket list"

● Duke "he has the weirdest bucket list"

● a lot of you are big readers so there's books packed everywhere

● Duke "ooh we should have a book club"

● Jason "absolutely not you're lucky I even participate in Grayson's lame board games"

● Damian "for once I actually agree with Todd"

● you guys finally make it to the west coast and you all stumble out of the RV

● Tim "thank God this trip is finally over"

● Bruce "Tim we are only half way, we still have another month of driving back to Gotham"

● Stephanie "I should have stayed home with Alfred"

#dc imagine #bruce wayne imagine #dick grayson imagine #jason todd imagine #tim drake imagine #damian wayne imagine #barbara gordon imagine #stephanie brown imagine #Cassandra cain imagine #duke thomas imagine #x gender neutral reader #headcanons #batfam x reader #bruce wayne x reader #dick grayson x reader #jason todd x reader #damian wayne x reader #tim drake x reader #barbara gordon x reader #stephanie brown x reader #Cassandra cain x reader #duke thomas x reader

[starpeace]

here for the mandalorian rant ☕️

um well the first episode of the brand new season of disney+’s flagship star wars show was entirely... filler. the dialogue was incredibly bad, not even written badly but as if no-one had written it at all. entirely flat and devoid of life, in a show with a faceless protagonist whose dialogue literally has to carry all the weight. din continues to have no opinions, no emotion and nothing to say

as for the plot, what even happened in this episode? we open with the mandalorian covert ritually giving a child their helmet, but this is not explored at all, it’s only there to be interrupted with a giant monster fight for absolutely no reason, as if this show has been written by six-year-old me livening up clicking my barbies together by grabbing my toy dinosaurs. din has conversations with the armourer and bo-katan purely to rehash the information we’ve already been given, partly because half of it was in a bad show the casual audience won’t have watched. neither of these characters is doing anything.

din visits greef karga, who is now discount lando “gone respectable” but instead of having personality he’s just really into gentrification and this is presented completely uncritically. din, a character most charming for being the beaten up mercenary underdog of the galaxy, suddenly hates pirates and disorder (well, hates would imply he shows emotion—dislikes pirates and disorder? is mildly perturbed by pirates and disorder?), and pals around with high magistrates who offer him a position as a cop/landed gentry (they actually use the words “landed gentry”). there’s a couple of meaningless unfunny comic relief scenes because this is all that grogu is here for now, complete with a reference to, of all things, the rise of skywalker. in what is apparently the main plot of the episode, which is, i repeat, the first episode of the brand new season, din takes up a fetch quest to get a random droid part for an absolutely laughable reason that does nothing but completely negate a character arc from season 1 and everything we have been shown since, just reminding you that not even death will be allowed to have emotion or narrative weight, or prevent disney from dragging back onto your screen anything that will sell. he doesn’t actually do this fetch quest, btw, he just gets given it, because apparently we have to do multiple episodes of this

did i get everything? was that the whole episode? oh wait there was the fight with the pirates in space. i forgot it because there was zero tension. those pirates also earlier wanted to... have a drink in a school with greef, i guess, in a completely baffling scene? i can’t imagine there was any point to this pirate bit except to put fight scenes into this filler episode and force the visual effects people to carry the entire lumbering weight of this show. one has to assume that otherwise the pirates would have had personalities or motivations. oh, also purrgils appeared in this episode, because this is the Star Wars Cinematic Universe, and you’d better watch all the interconnected shows so all your beloved characters can eventually come together to swap lifeless quips on screen, just like you always wanted.

a droid drops a statue’s head on top of a murder droid to stop it, purely so din can say, “now that’s using your head.” if you were wondering what i meant about the dialogue.

i don’t even need to get into the politics of the story they’re telling. i don’t need to humiliate it further by comparing it to andor. it’s just bad to watch on a basic technical fundamental level, and it’s not headed anywhere better, because they will be churning out this story for cash forever with no goal or meaning, under circumstances where i cannot seriously even imagine caring about star wars anymore. hope this helps!

#the mandalorian spoilers #the mandalorian #yeah i’ll main tag this i don’t care about anything

[thecreaturecodex]

Arstron

Image accessed from the Ultraman Wiki here

[Return of Ultraman is the third Ultraman series, the fourth in the Ultra series altogether, and the first that establishes any sort of continuity between one-off cameos. If the original Ultraman is the toku version of Green Lantern (space cop gives power to human fighter pilot), Ultraman Jack is the toku Spider-man before the actual toku Spider-Man. Hideki Go is thrilled to get powers and rapidly goes too far with them, and has to learn that with great power comes great responsibility. Plus, the series has as much of a focus on his home life as it does on his monster-fighting antics, and Ultraman Jack often loses fights and has to regroup and rethink his approach before winning.

Arstron here (referred to as Earthtron in English before Tsubaraya made official Romanizations for their many many kaiju) was the first kaijur that Ultraman Jack fought, and it's one of his most iconic opponents. Arstron has reappeared in multiple Ultra Series, has a lot of toys, and even appears in the opening credits of the next series, Ultraman Ace. Not bad for most transparent Godzilla knockoff of the franchise not actually made from an old Godzilla costume.]

Arstron CR 21 CN Magical Beast This creature resembles an oversized, slightly humanoid dinosaur, its arms short and legs massive. Rows of low plates grow along its spine, and it has a huge crescent horn growing from its forehead.

An arstron is an enormous burrowing predator that superficially resembles a theropod dinosaur. They spend most of their lives underground, hunting other large subterranean creatures like purple worms and supplementing their diet with organic minerals like coal and oil. Arstrons are territorial and belligerent, and the movement of dragons, kaiju or other enormous and powerful monsters through their territories may provoke them to go on violent rampages. Arstrons enjoy combat, and their rare interactions with other members of their species are typically sparring matches.

Arstrons care little for stealth, and they are pursuit hunters rather than ambush predators. Their burrowing is often felt in the form of small tremors before the monsters emerge to the surface. Arstrons prefer to use their breath weapons and spit fireballs in order to hunt—animals, monsters and humanoids killed by the flames are eaten carbonized, and arstrons typically char their food before consuming it. They use their teeth, claws, tails and scything horn primarily when fighting an enemy that is fire resistant and/or large enough to fight back. An arstron can launch itself into a frenzy similar to a barbarian’s rage, and if anything survives that onslaught, the arstron is likely to burrow back below ground and try to flee.

Arstron               CR 21 XP 409,600 CN Colossal magical beast (earth) Init +5; Senses darkvision 120 ft., light sensitivity, low-light vision, Perception +27, tremorsense 120 ft.

Defense AC 37, touch 3, flat-footed 36 (-8 size, +1 Dex, +34 natural) hp 400 (32d10+224) Fort +25, Ref +21, Will +16 DR 10/-; Immune energy drain, fear; Resist acid 30, fire 30 Defensive Abilities shake it off

Offense Speed 60 ft., burrow 40 ft. Melee bite +39 (4d6+15), 2 claws +39 (2d8+15), gore +39 (4d8+15), tail slap +37 (2d8+7) Space 30 ft.; Reach 30 ft. Special Attacks bolide blast, breath weapon (240 ft. line, 32d6 fire, Ref DC 33 half, 1d4 rounds), frenzy, maximize breath weapon

Statistics Str 40, Dex 13, Con 25, Int 4, Wis 19, Cha 14 Base Atk +32; CMB +55; CMD 66 Feats Awesome Blow, Blind-fight, Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Critical Focus, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (gore), Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Multiattack, Power Attack, Staggering Critical, Stand Still, Stunning Critical Skills Climb +24, Perception +27, Swim +24 Languages Terran (cannot speak)

Ecology Environment any mountains or hills and underground Organization solitary or pair Treasure incidental

Special Attacks Bolide Blast (Su) As a standard action, an arstron can spit a fireball to a range of 500 feet. When it reaches its intended destination, the fireball explodes in a 40 foot radius, dealing 16d6 points of fire damage (Reflex DC 33 halves). An arstron can use this ability at will. Frenzy (Ex) An arstron can enter a state of frenzy as a swift action on its turn, gaining a +2 bonus to attack and melee damage rolls, a +2 bonus to Will saves, 2 temporary hit points per HD (64 for a typical specimen) and a -2 penalty to Armor Class. An arstron’s frenzy lasts for 1 minute, whereupon it is fatigued for 10 minutes. An arstron can enter a frenzy at will, but cannot do so when fatigued or exhausted. Maximize Breath Weapon (Ex) By spending a full round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, an arstron can deal maximum damage with its breath weapon. When it does so, the recharge for its breath weapon defaults to 4 rounds. Shake It Off (Ex) Whenever an arstron fails a saving throw against a paralyzing, petrifaction, polymorph or immobilizing effect (including binding and temporal stasis, but not imprisonment), it can attempt a new saving throw at the end of its turn to remove the effect. Doing so takes no action. An arstron can attempt a new save to end the effect as often as it wishes, but can attempt to remove only one such effect per round.

#arstron #earthtron #kaiju #ultraman #ultramonster #return of ultraman #godzilla #pathfinder 1e #pathfinder rpg

[paxesoterica]

Sooo, I decided to take advantage of the Steam sale and get myself Super Robot Wars 30 as a Christmas present.

So far, I'm playing as a teenage girl who dresses like a butterfly while delivering lines like, "...covered in scars, blind to the future, just like me...", and the most normal person I've recruited is the OG super robot pilot, Kouji Kabuto of Mazinger fame.

The other recruits so far have included a 4th-grader detective and his sentient giant robot cop buddy, 5 teenagers and their pet robot who pilot a larger combining robot and live in a lab with a top shaped like a magnet, and a kid who fuses with a virtual energy entity on an old computer to transform into a giant superhero who fights kaiju (...Gridman's a little weird y'all).

Out of the dinosaur-like mecha, magnet-shaped crimebots, space revolutionaries, and actual kaiju the team has fought, the most sinister enemy has been a pink-haired high school girl (whom we haven't defeated yet), and now I'm currently in the middle of a mission that involves sentient giant robots having an existential crisis over their inability to combine with each other.

Amazing.

#videogames #super robot wars 30 #mecha #srw #cannot wait until they announce a srw game with suletta mercury in it

[rhysintherain]

Gossip in the city of Baldur's Gate must be completely unhinged.

How are you going to explain to your neighbors that you watched 2 dinosaurs, a vampire, and a cleric of Selune fight a pack of doppelgangers at the wine festival?

And that's assuming the rude automaton cops, giant brain quakes, and roving packs of garden variety only-come-out-at-night vampires are normal.

#baldur's gate 3 #skye and jaheira are starting shit again (or maybe still?) #and shadowheart basically goes wherever skye goes #astarion's only here to steal shit #which is laughably easy when everyone's attention is on the dinosaurs and doppelgangers

[drama-glob]

Incorrect Helluva Boss Quotes

Blitz (Holding up a piece of paper): I have here the most perfect plan to take out our current target.

Moxxie (Grabs paper and looks at it): Uh sir, this is a drawing of cops fighting dinosaurs.

Blitz (Quirks an eyebrow): That’s odd. They should be working together.

___________________________________________________________

(Fizzarolli and Asmodeus seating on the couch together)

Fizzarolli (Looks serious): I’ve done some soul searching and was thinking, what if we wound up on the lamb and had to go somewhere like the desert or something, way far away from civilization; no cell phones, no water, just us and we’re lost, never to be heard from again.

Asmodeus (Nods solemnly): That would suck.

Fizzarolli (Nods in agreement): It sure would. Then I started thinking, if that’s us, death and starvation imminent...how long would you want me to wait before I ate you?

Asmodeus (-_-): I won’t dignify that with an answer Fizz.

#blitz #helluva boss blitz #moxxie #helluva boss moxxie #fizzarolli #fizzmodeus #asmodeus #ozzie #fizzarozzie #helluva boss ozzie #helluva boss fizzarolli #helluva boss asmodeus #incorrect quotes #incorrect helluva boss quotes #funny #XD #helluva boss #vivziepop #psych #the grim adventures of billy and mandy #is that last question really so bad?

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for lying to somebody I'm interested in?

I (at the time 21F) am a cop who consistently chases after a thief who comes from a long line of thieves, back from even the time of the dinosaurs. Though, he does fight for justice, and so do I. I've help him take down ancient common enemies, and he's helped me get away when it was revealed who I was working for was corrupted. We both fight for justice, just on opposite sides of the law.

Long story short, he got hurt pretty bad and got amnesia, or at least I thought he did. And I knew he was into me, and I am into him. So instead of finally arresting him, I lied saying he was my police partner when he asked who he was.

Turns out he was faking amnesia, and I only learned years after we've been working together that he was faking it, and I caught him stealing an artifact from ancient Japan.

A lot of people are saying that he's the A for faking amnesia, but AITA for lying to him?

#aita #am i the asshole #unreality

[perilegs]

my dad is so funny, he's not afraid to get his teeth kicked in, he's deathly afraid of the dentist, he used to do nothing but get in fights when he was my age, he doesn't swear, he's so claustrophobic he can't get an mri and the only open model of an mri machine in this country is owned by some school who won't agree to use it on anyone but people researching stuff for it, i know this bc my dad called them and asked about it bc he is genuinely incapable of feeling shame about anything ever, his fave sport used to be boxing and then everything and now all he does is disc golf, i've witnessed food crimes some could only dream of bc my dad mixes any food bc "it all gets mixed up in the stomach anyways," he won't eat anything that's fallen to the floor, he's so allergic to cats he almost developed asthma, he has a cat and will let both her and my cat rub their little faces on his face as much as they please, he genuinely believes in a lot of ufo sightings, we used to have inflatable alien toys growing up, he taught me to hold a playstation controller before i learned how to talk he used to play all sorts of video games but he doesn't play anything outside of cod anymore, he doesn't understand a lot of things but he knows he doesn't need to and he's an ally, he's allergic to seafood but yearly ends up in situations where some place he's visiting has put fish in the weirdest of dishes, he didn't have any education besides middle school until his 50s but he had a good job due to how good he is at talking to people, i can't go anywhere with him bc he knows half the town so it takes ages for him to catch up with people, he knows a guy for everything, he remembers the names of like 3 of my friends and always makes the exact same jokes about them every time they come up in conversation, he's never in his entire life yelled or even raised his voice at me and one time in kindergarden some child attacked me when dad was picking me up and his reflexes were too quick so he instinctively hit the child with a backpack he was holding and the child flew across the room and my dad was ready to get charged with something but literally no one there cared about that, he got drafted but got out due to having stomach problems, he believes in the supernatural, all the older cops in my hometown hate him, i have no idea what crimes he's committed in his youth considering one of his friends who used to play dinosaurs with me when i was a kid got shot and killed over something drug related and i don't think that's any of my business, he's the most average middle aged small city man ever, i'm pretty sure he's autistic and some of his teachers even picked up on that when he was in elementary school but they did nothing about it so everyone just forgot it, he started smoking in 3rd grade but stopped when i was born, people often tell me a lot of things about me start making sense when they meet my dad, he's weird but not even remotely special bc that's what half the dads in his area are like. everything about him can be explained by saying he was born in the 70s

#this started off with me thinking about the mri thing bc that's so funny but hey have a lore dump #leevi talks

[xolta]

Arcade Recommendations

Xolta's big ass arcade game recommendations list

Beat em ups: Alien vs. Predator Armored Warriors Finale fight Volince fight Teenage mutant Ninja turtles: turtles in time The Punisher Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara Battle Circuit Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder The Simpsons X-Men Night slayers Gauntlet Legends Guantlet Dark Legacy Golden Axe

Fighting: Killer Instinct 1&2 Marvel Super Heroes Marvel Vs. Capcom 1&2 Mortal Kombat 1-3 Samurai Shodown Super Street Fighter II: Turbo The King of Fighters 2000 Virtua Fighter 1&2 X-Men Vs. Street Fighter Red Earth Dark Stalkers Soul Blade/edge Soul caliber The Last Blade Street Fighter Alpha 3 Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Monster Maulers Primal rage X-Men: Children of the Atom

Light Gun: Rail chase House of the dead 1-3 Virtual cop CarnEvil Jurassic park: the lost world Point Blank Crypt Killer Alien 3: The Gun The Ocean Hunter Time Crisis 1&2 Beast Busters Jurassic Park

Platformers: Bubble Bobble Magic Sword Donkey Kong Donkey kong jr Mario Bros vs Ballon fight vs super mario bros Strider Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa Dig Dug Congo bongo Joust Q bert Frogger

Racing: Cruis'n Blast Cruis'n Usa F zero Ax Daytona USA 1&2 Super hang on Out run Out runners Virtua Racing Star Wars Episode 1: Racer Crazy Taxi Sega Rally Championship 1&2 Hydro Thunder Mario Kart Arcade GP 1&2 Alpine Racer outrun 2(2006) Manx TT Super Bike Aqua jet

Shoot em ups: Centipede Millipede Galaga In The Hunt Space Harrier Defender Moon patrol Zero wing Robotron: 2084 Sinistar Star Wars Trilogy Arcade Asteroids

Run and gun: Metal slug(series) Sunset riders Mystic Warriors Mercs Nitro Ball Shock Troopers Smash T.V. Berzerk Frenzy

Maze: Pacman Mrs. pacman Lady bug Mr. Do!

Ball rollan: Marbel madness Super monkey ball

Sports: NBA Jam NFL Blitz

Others:

Pinball

skiball

wack mole

Air hockey

#Arcade games #arcade #retro games #retro #gaming #videogames #video games #xolta

[purpleturtle9000]

*slowly edges in under your door like a piece of wayward paper*

Hiiii today I come with gifts of dino stickers (and Clever Girl questions/comments bc I FINALLY beat my adhd into submission to read it >:3) (also I don’t know jackshit about bayverse so my apologies for any goofs)

What made you choose raptors? Also I love horse raptor girl Raph and would kill for him he’s good boy and deserves to keep his buddies

I am choosing to believe they didn’t like Casey bc Acab they can smell the cop on him XD

Were the raptors genetically modified in any way? Cus they seem incredibly intelligent, although that could just be the training and their natural state bc bird Smort af

Okay I think that’s all I got (for now) but also if there’s anything I didn’t ask that you wanna ramble about PLEASE DO I am in love with the Dino’s and their turtle friends :3

*flutters off in a breeze*

I will be putting stickers everywhere immediately, thank you!

I choose raptors because they were my favourite in Jurassic Park from the very beginning. Also I've had a Utahraptor OC for nearly a decade, and Raptor Red is one of my favourite books. So when the idea came of a dinosaur fic, there was truly no question in my mind that it was going to be raptors instead of anything else.

Also anything bigger than Utahraptor would have been an absolute nightmare, logistically speaking. It would take a lot more work to feed, be harder to house, might not have fit on the plane in the first place, and that's even without accounting for there being four of them. Having some big dino like Rexy would be all fun and games until she realises she can fit a whole ninja turtle in her mouth!

Raptor girl Raph is an absolute delight and I support him and Sierra in all their nonsense. (Donnie doesn't, because he's the only one with any real sense, but tbh that's his problem and I have nothing to do with it.) They're going to have a great time terrorising the local bad guys, and probably also the local wildlife.

Casey being a cop is such a stupid decision in Bayverse, it's like the only thing that really gets me 😒 The girls can smell the ACAB now lmao, new canon developing right here. Also Casey is a stranger, and they've always been territorial. Plus Raph is kinda passive-aggressive at Casey and Sierra picks up on that as regular aggression (and by extension, so do the rest of the girls).

The raptors were not modified! They are very smart though, cause bird is Smort af. Parrots can do shit you would not expect from an adult and I love them for it but also sometimes stop that you over-intelligent little shits! Also they have been trained pretty much their entire lives, so they have a baseline for human interaction that can also be applied to turtles.

Also part of their intelligence is based on observations of crocodiles in captivity! Cause they're smarter than you would expect, I got a bunch of books to try to research their behaviour, and I have a whole new appreciation for them.

Okay so obviously there's a lot of things to love in the fic itself, but I also really loved writing the care guide. At first it was just going to be a reference doc for myself, but then I decided to write it as a kind of 'in-universe' thing, from Donnie's POV.

About 90% of the raptor lore is based on what's been observed (and published) about birds of prey and crocodilians. Besides the physical stuff, which is based on fossil records (and some assumptions based on fossil records). Side note, why is it so hard to access some of the academic papers? Let me read!

And a few of my favourite lines from the lore doc:

Sierra shows the same body language when biting the top of Raph’s shell as she does when playing with her sisters. She seems to consider this a form of play as well, and for reasons beyond my comprehension, Raph agrees with her.

The vast majority of aggressive behaviour happens in fights over food, or in an attempt to frighten away things that frighten them. Such things include a loose dog, a butterfly, a plastic bag, and a smoking car engine (the latter also frightened Leo and Mikey).

I have never seen nest squabbles turn violent, unlike our most recent fight for the tv remote.

As shown by Raph and Sierra, to my and Leo’s displeasure, a raptor can pick a meatball from an open palm without injuring the palm.

Raph insists Sierra would attempt to predate a moose if she saw one, as she is, to quote him, ‘braver than Vin Diesel’. I hope he is wrong about her behaviour but assume he is not.

When Raph suggested providing them with a live lobster for enrichment, it locked its claws onto Tango’s lower leg and now all four regard lobsters with suspicion and occasional alarm calls.

Quebec in particular loves liver and will knock Leo over if he’s holding a sheep liver, a habit I have fortunately been able to record for further evaluation.

#raph deserves to be able to be unhinged about something cause i love him <3 #donnie does not deserve to be this worried over man-eating dinosaurs but i love him too <3 #fic: clever girl

[friendshipstates]

(The Zi-o Campaign)

(I mentioned this in another post a while back, but I was thinking about the Zi-o Rewrite Campaign.

In my version of Zi-o, we had done away with the whole demon king angle. Instead, Zi-o, Geiz, Tsukuyomi, Woz and a fifth rider, Thirteen, were time cops, working to keep the Timejackers from altering the history of the Kamen Riders.

The major differences in the characters were as follows.

Zi-o: Tokiwa Sougo is a temporal echo. There were other Zi-o's on the Time Protection Bureau before him, including several alternates. This particular Sougo was pulled from time just before he would have died as a result of the a battle between the Gokaigers and one of Basco's mechs.

Geiz: A remnant of a war in the future, where Earth's forces are thinned out by the alien army, and thus they use a "Revive" system to clone fallen soldiers. Geiz was on his fourth such "life" when he was recruited.

Tsukuyomi: Amnesiac, running from a destructive force. She was later revealed to be the daughter of Tsukasa and Natsumi, and the amnesia was her choice to keep her father's home dimension safe from the Timejackers.

Woz: The future descendant of Doctor Emmet Brown. The First Woz was the tech guy for the Bureau, and the one who designed all the Ridewatches. White Woz, however, was an echo from a timeline where the Bureau fell during an assault by Another Ryuki Riders.

Thirteen: Leo Riske, Grandson of Nogami Ryoutarou and a hero known as Setback, one of the unluckiest men alive.

During their adventures in time the team stopped the Timejackers from: Destroying the ferry from Agito

Monetizing the Rider War(An event that also led to a major shift in the Gaim timeline and caused Hojo Emu to retire from medicine in the Ex-aid timeline)

Using Orphnochs as the sacrifice for the White Wizard's Second Sabbat

Giving Clock Up technology to Banno

Using the Rouse Cards as prisons for the Legendary Riders

They also had to fight Another versions of various other heroes, including Kamen Riders Gai, Vulcan, and Rogue; Gokaisilver and Dekamaster were also anothered.

In the second half of the story, the Timejackers successfully infiltrated the timebase, and sent the team back in time, forcing them to deal with anothered Dinosaur Sentai and their mecha.

It was in this time that the team learned the true identities of two other members of their organization.

G Den-o was revealed to be Kaoru Ichijou.

And their commanding officer, Commander Yusa, was revealed to be Sakurai Yuuto.

During the second half of the story, the Riders had to work with a bunch of other Toei heroes, with the main allies being the Go-busters and the Happiness Charge Pretty Cure.

In the end, they learned why Schwartz was trying to alter Rider history. He had been chosen to be the one to bring an end to the Rider War. However, his fate was to be an unsung hero. Nobody would know his name, nobody would even know that he was involved. His ego couldn't take that kind of rejection and he lashed out against all Riders in time.

The campaign ended with Sougo becoming the apprentice to Sailor Pluto, Tsukuyomi following in her father's footsteps by traveling the worlds in a curio shop, alongside her girlfriend, an Orphnoch/Ringed Wizard calling herself Warlock. Geiz' future war never happened, leaving him as the sole survivor of a non-existent event, and Woz kept designing gear for Riders.

The one time Ohma Zi-o showed up, Geiz defeated him, saying "You might be Zi-o, but there is only one Tokiwa Sougo!"

#Tabletop Rider Campaigns #This game was a huge success #Many of the people who did guest voices for this campaign became full-fledged players in my next one #Which was a power rangers version of To-Q-Ger called Rainbow Express

[aviculor]

Twitter is not a safe place to critique pokemon designs, so I'm going to dump a lot of my thoughts here.

Spidops. It's not a bad idea, like a black ops special agent ogre-faced spider. But the execution of its design needed a bit more oomph. The bouncy ball of thread -> kevlar vest idea would make more sense if Spidops' vest was its silk rather than a pattern that looks more like it's wearing an apron. It's not even black to make it look more like a stereotypical covert assassin. There's also a seamstress motif happening at the same time where its abdomen is a spool of thread and it has the aforementioned "apron", but there's not enough synergy between these concepts and it just looks confusing and unfinished as a result. Like they had two separate ideas for a new spider pokemon and ended up mashing them together to save space for their three dog lines. Of course, a lot of this could just be me having high standards and expectations because I want there to be a "perfect" spider pokemon. If I came up with my own take on a Tarountula evo, I would have made it a jorogumo wearing its own silk as a dress. Which is a concept I already had, it was sitting in my list for over a year because I couldn't get its design off the ground. You can dig through my "fakemon ideas" tag for proof. I'm actually ashamed of myself for that.

Slither Wing is another very...interesting pokemon to me. It's a dinosaur-like 'kaijuu' akin to what was common in Gen 1. It could easily have been our first bug/dragon, but instead it's a bug/fighting. I like it a lot, but I don't quite understand why it's fighting type or why its name is that. It doesn't slither, it has feet that it stands up on. Its wings don't slither either, it's not as if they're weird tentacles that resemble Larvesta's horns. Which is a strange thing to say, but having slithering wings that it punches you with would have at least justified it being a fighting type called "Slither Wing". The way Khu described it in his leaks, I was expecting a neotenous caterpillar-like creature, like some horrible flightless moth with tiny vestigial wings. Which is a pretty spicy idea, and one I should take for myself since by all rights it is my thought that I thunk.

Even though I would have preferred a more standard toothed chest for our first genuine rpg-style mimic pokemon, I'll admit it would be a cop-out to strip Gimmighoul of what makes it unique from all the other mimic monsters out there. But Gholdengo. Gholdengo does not look like a mass of coins, it looks like Cinna Mon the old Apple Jacks mascot. It looks like a shiny string cheese man. I get that it would have been difficult to properly render a humanoid stack of coins in a way that would remain easy to draw, but they could have just not done that and gone in another direction. You know what would have been neat? If it was a genie made of loose coins floating out from the chest like it was a lamp. It is still a ghost type after all, and collecting 999 coins to evolve Gimmighoul is basically having a wish that gets granted.

All of the future paradox pokemon being robots is something of a shame since we could have gotten some real speculative evolution happening. But that is a wholly deliberate choice that I do respect. It kind of is more fitting in Violet than in Scarlet where you see a Donphan with spikes and fur and everyone's like "is that thing even a pokemon!?". But in both cases, they could have pushed the envelope even more with separating the paradox from the "original". Take Iron Jugulis for example- it's just a robotic Hydreigon. You want to know one example of what they could have done? Bring back the tank treads from Hydreigon's early concept stage. I also think it would have been cool if its wings were like spider legs, but at that point it would be a bit hard to call it a flying type. Granted, I'm 99% sure we haven't gotten the full story about paradox pokemon anyway, but there's a reason I find myself liking fan takes on the concept more than the actual ones we got.

I don't have any quarrel with Tatsugiri, but I think it would have been interesting if instead of a little guppy fish it was based on a tongue louse...or even better, a liver fluke. It would have still looked like a piece of nigiri, and being a parasitic animal would have meshed perfectly with its relationship to Dondozo. Plus, humans can get infected by Clonorchis by eating raw fish. The thematics would have been very interwoven.

I don't hate Quaquavel, it's not my thing but no starter ever really is. I'm not going to furiously scribble it out and suggest a "cooler" ducky man that abandons the original intent and inspiration behind it. That's not what any of this is about. But I bring Quaquavel up because when I look at Quaxwell, I feel as if there was a missed opportunity for a ballerina swan. Swan Lake and such. Like, it's pretty much low-hanging fruit right there for you to pick.

Pawmi's evolutions...I mean, obviously they deliberately wanted it to barely change, but there's no practical reason behind it. It's not even like Palafin who is a superhero with a "civilian identity". They just made Pawmi stand up and get scruffier. It doesn't even have any visual connection to a defibrillator, which is the whole point behind it knowing Revival Blessing.

As I said, I'm not typing all this because I want to scrap certain pokemon or rob them of their original design processes. I just think some of them could have used a couple last-minute tweaks to improve synergy, or they otherwise gave me ideas that I could potentially use for my own fakemon using the same general concept. For instance, I'm not a fan of Tandemaus and Maushold, but I can still respect their existence and the thought that was put behind them. With them, I think they need more visual interest. Something as small as making their mouths visible when closed or giving the "shirt" and "pants" some contrast so they're actually visible. And when they evolve into Maushold, do just a tiny baby bit of change to the "parent" duo. I don't know, like a mustache on one and a hair bun on the other or something. I don't get why "it looks the same when it evolves" is such a running theme in Paldea.

Bellibolt could have afforded to look more frog-like, closer to the beta Politoed that inspired it. Basing it on a real species would have been ideal. But at bare minimum, if I was allowed to make just one singular tweak, I'd make the false eyes have their "pupils" at the edge of the bumps, dilated and staring off into space. You know, like Iono's Magnemite hairclips? They just look too much like its actual eyes imo. I know that's the point, but the illusion is too convincing and it becomes distracting. I'm also not in love with how they rendered the plasma ball belly when it lights up.

Wugtrio threw out a subtle differences between Wiglett and Diglett: where Wiglett's face is positioned on its head. It would have been neat if Wugtrio had some more differences from Dugtrio the way Toedscruel does from Tentacruel, but the face thing actually almost bothers me. They need to be at the end of the bodies which need to be curved forward.

Glimmet and Glimmora have some great thought and aesthetic behind them, but I'm honestly not a fan of Glimmet's body shape which people have compared to a bike horn or a rubber chicken. If it was up to me, I would have configured it like Yokomon from Digimon- the bulb being the actual core of its body. Maybe the flower on top would even be just a bud rather than a full bloom. As for Glimmora, some people believe it's partially based on the Passiflora, so its flower could have been a lot more elaborate even if you kept Glimmora as just a floating head. Although personally I think this would have been a great opportunity to make a pokemon based on a sessile invertebrate like an anemone, sea sponge (ie a glass sponge or ping pong tree), or feather duster worm. The existing "flower made of toxic minerals" theme would remain perfectly intact, but the designs would have been given a more focused direction. Coral or barnacles would be good choices too, even though there are already pokemon based on them. A Bryozoan would also fit the bill, but there isn't as much brand recognition so to speak.

#pokemon analysis #fakemon design #fakemon ideas

[grnolan]

A Non-Exhaustive List of Stuff to Watch During the Strike

Everybody has a backlog of things to watch, but for everyone who is like me and routinely looks at that backlog and goes "but none of those hundred things sound interesting right now", here are some recommendations.

If You Have…

NETFLIX

Avatar The Last Airbender: Animated/Fantasy; 3 seasons; A teenage chosen one reawakens 100 years into the war he’s meant to stop. If you somehow are on Tumblr and haven’t seen this show, give it a try now.

Cunk on Earth: Documentary; 1 season; A very serious documentary that very seriously tells the story of the history of human progress.

Glow Up (2019): Competition; 4 seasons; Aspiring makeup artists compete for opportunities in the industry.

Nailed It! (2018): Competition; 7 seasons; Nicole Byer and Jacques Torres laugh with people who are not bakers as they try to bake extremely complicated desserts in less time than professionals could do it.

Wynonna Earp (2016): Western Horror; 4 seasons; The cursed descendant of famous lawman Wyatt Earp hunts demons in a small Canadian town alongside her (canonically bisexual) little sister, a US Marshall, an immortal Doc Holliday, and a (canonically lesbian) local cop.

HULU

Domino Masters (2022): Competition; 1 season; A competition show where teams build Rube Goldberg devices primarily focusing on dominos.

Holey Moley (2019): Competition; 3 seasons; Increasingly ridiculous mini golf holes where the ball can go into a water hazard but the people go in much more frequently.

Lego Masters (2020): Competition; 3 seasons; Teams of two build complex Lego designs based on each week’s theme.

Primeval (2007): Sci-Fi; 5 seasons; British scientists and government officials discover fluctuating portals to various time periods, which release dinosaurs and other creatures into the modern day. You’ll watch the first season and go “idk why this is considered good” and then all the other seasons will happen.

DISNEY PLUS

DuckTales (2017): Animated/Adventure Comedy; 3 seasons; A reboot of the 80s show of the same name, but with better character development and better treatment of its female characters.

The Owl House (2020): Animated/Horror Comedy; 3 seasons; An Afro Latina human girl is on her way to summer camp to be taught “normalcy” when she goes through a portal and finds herself in the Demon Realm. She decides that it’s way better than camp and stays. Friendship, family, love, and PTSD ensue.

MAX

Baking Championships: The Baking Championships (Kids Baking Championship, Halloween Baking Championship, Holiday Baking Championship, Spring Baking Champion Championship) are all a nice heartwarming fun time.

The Great Pottery Throw Down (2015): Competition; 5 seasons; You know how chill and fun GBBO is? Imagine that but with pottery.

CRUNCHYROLL

RWBY (2013): Animated/Fantasy; 9 seasons; A group of girls join a school to train for hunting monsters and fighting crime with cool weapons that are usually some sort of melee weapon and also a gun. The animation gets better with every season.

NO STREAMING SERVICES

Board Game Club: An ongoing series on the No Rolls Barred YouTube page; a bunch of people get together and play board games. This probably sounds like it would be boring but it is absolutely fantastic.

Critical Role: YouTube; 2 completed campaigns, 1 ongoing; A group of voice actor friends get together to play Dungeons and Dragons. Increasingly well-produced over time.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: 100 episodes; An adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that takes place entirely over vlogs. Very funny, handles the confines of a vlog setting fairly well, and Ashley Clements (Lizzie) is fabulous.

Video Game YouTubers: Particularly Let’s Plays, speedruns, and challenges. I personally enjoy Pokemon challenges like by FlygonHG, and Super Mario Odyssey Hide and Seek by a bunch of different Mario streamers is great fun.