#nef plays games

[stardroprepublic]

My oc Juniper. Her playthrough is a community run, but she gets married to Gale >3 after a long flirtation with Astarion. Ahem.

#lmfao #I love my mods #ooc tbt #Series // sdv #Nef plays games

[demonxblood]

was no one going to tell me that these are the same genre of character?

#transformers #transformers prime #tfp #tfp starscream #starscream #ratchet and clank #dr nefarious #emperor nefarious #i literally have never played the game but i just spent the last hour or two watching clips of him and him only #i think im in love #dr nef even sounds similar to screamer #im gonna lose my mind

[alteredsilicone]

I love that Tyl Regor is so powerful he makes people reinstall Warframe

#id do the same for my blorbos tbh if i stopped playing the game #nef has had some content #but like if ERGO had a speaking role id be running like an olympic runner ya feel #wf tag

[flamingphoenixfox]

So… I’m obsessed with Warframe. Especially the Solaris. Back in early 2022, I was wandering around Fortuna with the goal of finding and translating text that wasn’t on the wiki yet. That's when I noticed what appears to be hidden text on some of the posters!

If you look closely, you can see it. It’s almost like there are letter indentations in the paper (I've traced some of the indents so they are a little more visible—unsure of accuracy).

Transcription Key: (Printed Text) [Indented/hidden Text] Transcription: Image One: (The Orb Vallis: Fortuna) [Solaris United: Unite ??] Honestly I couldn't figure out all of what was on the same line as Fortuna on the posters. It might just be "United" again or "Unite" and some diamond symbols they use for binary - it's just too difficult to see to say with any certainty. Image Two: The black/dark blue poster at the top of Image Two is the same poster as in Image One. The pink/red poster says (Fortuna) [All workers must log extra time with formsmen/forms.] I don't really know what the last word is. It could be formsmen or forms with a mistaken "n" or something else. There might even be something hidden on the same line as Fortuna with this poster as well. I see hints of stuff, but that could just be my mind playing tricks on me after I've been staring at these for hours. Image Three: (Fortuna: For Sale Tools Weapons Food Supplies) [Solaris United: For Sale Tools Weapons Food Supplies]

These specific words and phrases don’t seem to exist anywhere else, so instead of being a glitch (insert joke about Warframe glitches here), it’s probably intentional - both from a game design perspective and a lore perspective! It's fascinating to consider, given the social environment in which the Solaris are forced to live. Under the control of Nef Anyo and the Corpus, they would have to be very careful with how they pass around information, and secret text would be a great way to do this! I think this is a good example of subtle world-building by DE, and I really appreciate them for that!

Speaking of more world-building—they also have additional signage that hints at other stalls available somewhere in Fortuna:

Transcription: (Kinoko) (Hanaset's Bar) (Aphrodite's Tavern)

I really wish these were places we could visit! Wouldn’t it be nice to order food that offers a temporary buff or rewards standing? You could visit the bar or the tavern and listen to different Solaris pub songs or eavesdrop on new conversations about SU! Access to additional vendors in general would just be great! Like, y’know, a clothing shop for example! (I’m actually working on that particular concept myself, but that’s a topic for a future post lol)

#Warframe #Warframe Screenshots #Fortuna #Solaris United #Vox Solaris #Fox Talks #I had original posted this as a comment on the Solari Language page on the Warframe Fandom Wiki #but I realized I could make a post here since more people are likely to see it and have conversations about it

[terra-drone]

My gripes with Rift Apart

Consider this a review of Rift Apart (PC ver). After playing this game twice on Renegade Legend, I have... opinions. Being a fan of the franchise since Going Command/Locked & Loaded, I admittedly have some strong biases for both the PS2 saga and the Future Trilogy for various reasons. But before I go lambasting this entry into the franchise, a TLDR summary;

Pros:

The game is pretty and well executed on a technical level (for the most part).

The platforming and movement is refined and a step up from previous titles.

Cons:

Quite literally almost everything else.

Also has a propensity for crashing (both freezing and blue screen of death).

Movement & Platforming

One of the core aspects of RaC that I am happy RA got right. The movement is buttery smooth and chain daisying from one platform to the next using wall runs, dashes and rift pulls is excellently designed. The addition of the dash function adds an extra dodge ability that was absent in previous entries although granted we can still use the age-old side jumping while aiming/shooting.

I do wish however that the hoverboots were more integrated into the platforming since most of the time you only ever need it for super long leaps or the timed step puzzles. Something like the jump pads from ACIT would be nice to see paired with the new wall run and dash mechanic. You hardly need to use it outside of Savali and Torren IV and the last part of the Nef Mech fight.

What I wished they truncated however was the glide mechanic the hoverboots had. Given that the hoverboots could both glide and make you go fast, it makes this better than whatever Clank could possibly offer. @erablisme has done a wonderful breakdown on this matter (see here), but essentially having the hoverboots be an upgrade of both the charge boots and fulfilling Clank’s contribution to Ratchet’s mobility (gliding) renders Clank, from a gameplay standpoint, moot. It renders Clank into nothing more than a glorified backpack/exposition device, which beats the entire purpose of the franchise’s own title.

Gameplay

Weapons

The arsenal, while fun to use, is too bloated. A lot of the guns overlap in functionality:

Shotguns: Enforcer, Pixelizer, Void Repulser

Seeker/Turret weapons: Agents of Doom, Bombardier, Mr Fungi

Crowd Control: Topiary Sprinkler, Cold Snap

Grenades: Shatterbomb, Bouncer

Rapid fire: Burst Pistol, Blackhole Storm

Lock-on weapons: Drillhound, Richochet, Buzzsaw, Lightning Rod

Heavy hitter: RYNO, Negatron Collider, Warmonger

Do we really need multiple weapons that do the same thing just with different particle effects?

The level up mechanic, while a staple of RaC games, is frankly outdated by this point and actively hinders the game. If anything, it punishes players for sticking to guns they enjoy once they hit max level. It makes the motivator for using weapons not be its function but rather to chase that arbitrary level cap. Plus, there’s no telling what the level up actually did for a weapon aside from damage buffs.

It’s not like they couldn’t do away with this feature, Deadlocked made the guns increase so many levels it frankly deemphasises them in favour of choosing the best weapon for any given scenario, ItN decreased the max level to 3 (6 on challenge) in favour of more meaningful weapon upgrades, and ACiT had the Constructo weapons and mods (which Deadlocked also had called Omega Mods) that incentivises experimentation on what combos worked best while allowing you to spice things up post max level. Why not tie weapon upgrades to collectibles? They already had the Raritanium collection, sprinkling effect mods for weapons throughout the locations shouldn’t be too difficult. They already did this for the armour system, so why not do it for the weapons too? Heck, why not make all the weapons customisable like the Constructo weapons? It would solve the bloated arsenal problem.

Enemy Design

The enemy design in this game just isn’t great. While it makes sense considering you’re fighting an army so it’s obvious they’re gonna have standardised units, you would think they would spice up their combat stratagem when they know they couldn’t beat our protagonists by throwing the same old shtick over and over. Instead, we keep having to fight the same miniboss Juggernaut over and over and over again. Sometimes there’s two of them! Make it three during the Juice fight!

It’s not a problem with just the Nefarious troopers, it’s an issue across multiple factions too. Across all three factions (Space Pirates, Goons & Nef’s army), they all follow the same formula; 

the one with the gun: Pirate Corsair, Goon, Nef Lasertrooper

the one that does melee: Space Pirate & Shield Pirate, Goon Rusher & Undead Goon, Nef Slugger

the tiny short range/melee swarmer: Cutlassies, Robomutt, Nef Trooper

the vehicle one: Goon Dropship, Nef Dropship

the flying one: Zoom Goon, Nef Sniperbot & Blitztrooper & Sniperbot

the heavy flying one: Vroom Goon, Nef Peacekeeper

the rinse repeat miniboss: Pirate Marauder, Nef Juggernaut

While stylistically different, they don’t differ much from how they shoot/do damage at you. It would have been great if they did some things different from one another. Some really simple fixes;

While I think giving shields to pirates makes little sense, it is some variety at least. Expand on that. Maybe make the Goon Rusher actually rush towards you faster than the others, or make the Nefarious Slugger can do 360 attacks or have more range since it’s a) a robot, and b) basically has the Scorpion Flail for arms. 

Make the Vroom Goons try to ram you instead of just having to avoid the taser things it shoots cuz that’s the exact same thing that the Nefarious Sniperbot does since all you need to do to avoid both attacks is sidestepping it.

Make the Pirate Corsair shoot high damage while the standard Goon does horizontal strafing rapid fire compared to the Nef Trooper’s vertical one

Make the Zoom Goons dodge your attacks, maybe give it a ground pound that opens it up to attack so it's at least somewhat different from the Nef Peacekeeper other than being a slightly squishier variant.

For a game so pretty it is bizarre they couldn’t put more effort into gameplay itself. The repeating minibosses get stale very quickly since once you’ve figured out a tactic that worked, it is rinse and repeat across the whole game.

Two Protagonists, Same Shtick

The gameplay doesn’t differentiate itself between Ratchet and Rivet. They play the exact same way, with the exact same arsenal, and the exact same progression. What is the point of having separate playable protagonists if they’re just gonna end up the same? You could replace Rivet with Ratchet and vice versa for 90% of the game and nothing would change. It would be something if they had separate weapons or separate movement gimmicks that make them distinct, but we didn’t get that for some reason.

Character Issues

The character writing is just abysmal, even when compared to the Future trilogy. While the Future trilogy (and by extension A4O, FFA and ItN) had plenty, and I mean plenty, of plotholes from a worldbuilding standpoint, the character writing was solid and fairly consistent. I cannot say the same for RA. Some examples;

Ratchet(?) & Clank(?)

I can hardly recognise Ratchet as the same character we had over the PS2 and PS3 instalments. He feels more like the 2016 reboot version just haphazardly retconned as the ItN version that RA was supposedly a continuation of. Being afraid of being a washed-up hero was Qwark’s thing, not Ratchet’s. Why would he even care? The man was downright tired of being a hero come ItN. And why is he even worried about meeting the Lombaxes? He saved Polaris multiple times and beat Tachyon, y’know, the reason why they left in the first place? The reason he gave up searching for the Lombaxes was because he had more going on with Talwyn and was assured the Lombaxes would do just fine without him. Why the sudden change of reason? What, is acknowledging Talwyn one too many female characters for Insomniac?

And why would Clank, despite knowing Ratchet not wanting to pursue the Lombaxes, go out of his way to make a whole ass parade about the Dimensionator? If he was just trying to cheer Ratchet up from his fear of being a washed-up hero (which, again, made no sense for his character) he would have just done the parade and given him the Dimensionator in private. The entire premise of Rift Apart hinges on the fact that Clank decides to give Ratchet what can be considered as a WMD since the Lombaxes used the Dimensionator to get rid of the Cragmites in an open public setting. Had he not done this, had he not told Qwark he wanted to surprise Ratchet, Nefarious probably wouldn’t have found out about the new Dimensionator, and the entire game wouldn’t have happened.

Another gripe I have with how Clank was handled was that his Zoni heritage was conveniently forgotten about. They could have tied the Zoni more deeply into the mysticism of the RaC universe and be the reason why he was able to fix the dimensional anomalies, but instead it was tied to Gary and... the Lombaxes. Huh.

Rivet, or as I like to call her, “Furbait”

There is so much missed potential with Rivet. Where to start? Instead of a grizzled, closed-off survivor of a robot dystopia, we just get miss middle-of-the-road, clearly made for pandering, furbait. Design wise, she would have been perfectly serviceable had this NOT been a robot dystopia. The only physical giveaway to show that she was a survivor/rebel fighter was her arm. It is the only thing that shows she’s a rebel fighter survivor. Her suit is well made, her eyelashes are on fleek, her hair is silky smooth, her tail is all fluffy and clean. Nothing about her says she was a survivor. No scars, no dirt, nothing other than the obvious robot arm. It is lazy. Lazy and stupid.

Her personality doesn’t make sense for the universe she supposedly inhabits either. Heck, no one in this franchise fits well in this robot dystopia, tbh. She distrusts robots due to past experience, yet  is chummy with both Clank and Kit (and by some extension, the Zurkons & Pierre) relatively quickly. For someone who should have gone through a lot of adversity, she hardly acts like it. She’s confident, has a lot of friends, and whatever negative aspect she does have (which is just distrust instead of the obvious robot racist she should have been) that would have given her an opportunity to grow as a character is watered down and conveniently forgotten, so she hardly grows as a character, if any.

Ultimately, Rivet boils down to being “What if Ratchet, but a girl?”. There’s work put into trying to make her her own thing, but there’s also the narrative yanking her by the collar to be Ratchet’s other self. She’s the last Lombax in her dimension, she also wonders where the Lombaxes went, and she’s trying to be a hero. At that point, how is she any different than Ratchet? They don’t even differ much personality wise for a version of Ratchet who never met her Clank, so to speak. One would think she would be the spunky RaC1 Ratchet since it was meeting Clank that got Ratchet to grow as a person. Instead she’s just your lovely neighbourhood Rivet, friend to all except robots except the ones she meets I guess. What is the point of having two main characters if they are just gonna end up the same?

Kit

While arguably the better other of the new duo, she has issues as well in the writing department. She had the most growth out of our titular cast, however how she got there is ramshackled at best. 

In comparison to Clank, he was a defective warbot, which made sense why he was small. Kit on the other hand was tailor made by the supposedly competent Emperor Nefarious, so why does she have a cutesy mode? Why does she even have a character crisis from hurting Rivet, for that matter? Stopping rebels was what she was designed to do, and she suddenly gained a conscience from doing her job? If Kit is so effective at what she did, why did Emp Nef stop at making just one of her? Shouldn’t there be multiple Kit models roaming about? She could mow down hordes of newer Nefarious Troopers and Juggernauts, so why didn’t Emp Nef expand on that?

These inconsistencies make Kit as a character start falling apart as soon as you give it more scrutiny than a surface level glance. The writers could have easily solved these issues by just alluding that she might have been an outdated model, or was damaged and abandoned on Savali where Gary and the monks fixed her up and gave her a new purpose — protecting the Archives. Instead of an exterminator, she became a guardian. They could have taught her how to be more “human” as it were, too,  which would tie up nicely to why she regrets her actions in her previous line of work. Instead, they went with the “Oh no, what have I done, I did my job and injured a trespasser, now I’m gonna be a recluse on Savali” route.

She doesn’t gel well with Rivet either because the only one actively having something to overcome was Kit. Had Rivet been written better (having to overcome her prejudices, letting go of her past trauma, solving her trust issues) it could work with Kit growing out of her self doubt and regrets, but it just isn’t there. Plus, there weren't enough scenes of them together to build towards that conflict resolution that would make their friendship more believable. She has more of a relationship with Ratchet than Rivet.

“EmPeRoR” Nefarious

He is boring. Simple as. There is no driving motivation to him other than “conquer everything”. We could have gotten an Ultron (which would make a perfectly sensible callback to the Biobliterator shtick our Nef pulled from UYA) but we just end up with a sassy English bastard with the personality of wet bread. There was no fun interplay between him and our Neffy, anything to make both their personalities shine as they work together or grind against each other, it just sucks.

The Plot(holes)

Imma just list it down.

How does a helmet clearly designed to fit a Lombax head is supposedly “one size fits all”?

How did the fish kid Rivet saved in the intro made it around Nef City in the first place if this was supposedly a robot dystopia that eradicated all squishies? What, was he just having a stroll, taking some fresh dystopian air? Could have made it that this was a fellow rebel she was tasked to save cuz he had some intel that he swiped and Rivet decided to use herself as bait to draw attention away from him so he could get the intel out of there, but no.

On that matter, why do planets like Savali and Torren IV still have organic inhabitants?

What was Skidd trying to achieve by hacking the propaganda blimp? This served no purpose at all narratively since it didn't even turn any robots against the Neffies.

Why was Skidd even in Nef City, for that matter? What was his original mission that he was going undercover for? Busting Rivet out of prison? Couldn’t be, since he made no mention of it.

Why did none of Emp Nef's cronies question our Nef just popping in despite looking clearly different? He’s a whole head shorter and the wrong colour. What, do they not have colour vision?

How did Emp Nef know about the existence of the dimensional map? He barely knew about the Dimensionator so how does that make sense?

If Ratchet already has hoverboots, why couldn’t he dash/sprint with it until he gets to Savali?

Where and when did Rivet get a rift tether?

Where and when did Rivet get a pair of hoverboots?

Wasn’t the Space Pirates/Decadroids designed by Tachyon? Why do they exist in this dimension? Why aren’t they allied with Emp Nef since they too are robots? None of this is explained.

Where did the Lombaxes of Rivet’s dimension disappear to? Did they have a Tachyon-like threat in this dimension too? Did Emp Nef wipe them out? Don’t know, and the game doesn’t bother explaining it cuz Rivet is supposed to be girl Ratchet and nothing beyond that.

Why would Emperor Nefarious announce for the whole galaxy to see where he was going during the finale? Did he lose that much intelligence in the short timeframe we’ve known him? This is the guy who conquered the galaxy?

Why would he leave a portal for our protagonists to conveniently follow him through? 

Where did that telekinetic abilities of him suddenly disappear to?

Where was this dimension’s Lawrence counterpart? That stupid little secretary is so dumb as to not recognise her own boss she couldn’t possibly be the Lawrence replacement.

Environmental Storytelling & Worldbuilding

Environmental storytelling & worldbuilding has never really been Insomniac’s strong suit. RA is pretty and all, but aside from Blizar Prime, none of the other locales did anything different from Ratchet’s dimension. If this was supposed to be a galaxy where Emp Nef has conquered it all, you would think that there’d be more neon, more cyberpunk, more Emp Nef aesthetic, more robots flying about. Instead, we just got the same thing we had from Ratchet’s dimension, just in prettier graphics. It is set dressing with no story to tell. It's a puddle pretending it was an ocean. While I appreciate seeing the graphical glow up the locations got, it’s a missed opportunity to actually show the impact Emp Nef had. 

Take Nefarious City for example;

How was Ratchet able to move around Nef City without raising alarms? This negates the entire point of Rivet needing a robot disguise in the first place.

Why does a static statue in the middle of a city have a terminal that activates a platform that leads to Emp Nef's office in the first place?

On that note, why is an EMPEROR working from an office? Where’s the throne? The grand palace and palisades? The royal guards? If he’s an authoritarian that likes to take control, where’s the giant screen with a hundred monitors that watch every inch of Nef City?

Why does Emp Nef have a tiny four seater shuttle? If he needed to commute planet-side, wouldn’t he have something more posh? More grand? A Rolls Royce of shuttles instead of what can be considered a slightly pricier but still shitty Tesla model? They could have made Ratchet or Rivet have to steal a fighter jet and that would make infinitely more sense than what we got.

The same can be said with the inhabitants of this universe. They only exist to serve as plot devices or to point the protagonists to the next goal rather than actual people. There is no culture, no differing beliefs, nothing to tell you about what they are about or what they do. If all they exist to do is to be exposition devices/mission pointers, what was the point of even making distinct characters? Then again, the Future trilogy suffered the same problem with environmental characters being practically stand-in cardboards so points for consistency, I guess.

Verdict

Essentially, Rift Apart is a creatively bankrupt, designed-by-committee tech demo for Sony Playstation. What used to be a franchise that does satirical commentary on capitalism that later tried to delve into narrative/character driven sci-fi story, has ended up being the most capitalistic-designed entry imaginable. Which is unfortunate because I want to like this game. God, do I want to like it.

Did I enjoy playing it? When it works and doesn't crash on me, sure.

Do I like it enough as an entry to the franchise though? No, no I don't. The gameplay hardly expanded on the RaC formula, and the narrative just killed it for me.

But of course, that's just me. If you enjoyed RA, more power to ya. If you told me to play it again, I'll probably do it. It's just not for me for the long run.

#terra rambles #ratchet and clank #rift apart

[glitches-and-bugs]

Hey! I'm hearing that some anons are beefing in bad ways with some of these kids!

Fucking cut it out! These are kids you're harassing, seriously! It's a game! We're playing with toys! Nobody needs to yell at each other or anything like that!

Can I have a brigade of my kind anons hop about through people like Unskilled, Advancements, Genny, and probably also Select and Nef and some of the lesser known blogs with some kindness? We here at the Garden of Anon can and should bring kindness to everyone.

#garden of anon

[orowyrm]

if i had to pick just one thing ive come up with to become canon to the game it would be a hard tie between making intalya an actual in game character you can interact with who sells bootleg cosmetics or some shit. or lutania etina, frohds ex wife who waits until after he dies to show up and contest nef’s claim to the chairman position sheerly because she thinks he’s a loser and doesn’t want him to be successful. she does not care about politics in the slightest. sitting at her fancy desk glass of wine in hand fully aware of the tenno sabotage happening right now but not really acting to intervene because the guy who owns the power plant we’re about to blow up didn’t hold the door for her the other day, which is just SO RUDE and honestly he’s got it coming. treats ambulas like a little purse dog but absolutely still sics her on us “for enrichment”. “oh tenno it’s okay she’s just PLAYING you know how proxies can be hahaha watch out for those missiles btw”. totally indifferent to the tenno unless we do something that directly bothers her and then she gets SOOO mad and starts calling in air strikes. but OH tenno don’t misunderstand it’s nothing personal !!! just business, you get it. i don’t want to be your enemy at all, but if you don’t stop blowing up my robots im going to have to nuke you from orbit ^_^ those things are so expensive you know???? not that it’s MY money paying for them ahaha” . i need her to be like dog days kela but instead of zooted off industrial fumes she’s just a wine aunt gone mad with power. nobody can stop her because frohd was convinced he could get her back and thus never wrote her out of the will. despite all of this she is probably the most qualified board member to be in charge and the tenno are fighting for their lives to keep anyocorp assassins off her so she can stay in power. i’ve lost the plot of the post im sorry she just means a lot to me

[aqgarts]

I always like to play a game of 'who does this character remind you of' by myself at 12.30 pm on a Sunday night @ 69 Avenue, Joe Mamma's Street, so why not on here? Ima give y'all 5 characters from Warframe and then who they remind me of. But before you see my answers, write down your own in the comments or what not.

Sounds fun?

Good. Gooooodddd.

Ok, 5 characters, letsa go!

1. Teshin

2. Umbra

3. Lotus/Natah/Margulis or however the fuck you spell her name

4. Nef Anyo

5. Daddy- I mean Hunhow

Ok, AQG stupidity below :3

1. Daveed Giggs.

Ha, you thought I would make a Joe Mamma's joke, but no, itsa me, AQG BEING A FUCKIN GENUINE SMART ASS WOOOOOOO

Anyway, Tehsin would slay in Hamilton, don't @ me.

2. Brittany Spears

Tortured artist.

3. Bell, but she has Stockholm Syndrome

Need I say more?

4. Mr Orange president

Loves money, extremely manipulative; capitalism.

5. Mr Bill Nye, the science guy!

Treasure to humanity (to me at least), good father to Natah and Erra + Shadow Stalker has a good and healthy relationship with him.

Stay tuned for the next edition of:

I CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP AT NIGHT

jk, it's actually an acronym called:

WDTCRUO

(Who does this character remind you of?).

#warframe #warframe memes #warframe meme #warframe umbra #wf teshin #wf hunhow #wf stalker #warframe lotus #warframe neff anyo #aqg stupidity #the new war #poor teshin #teshin dax #warframe teshin #teshin #wf excalibur umbra #warframe excalibur umbra #excalibur umbra #umbra excalibur #warframe Hunhow #warframe stalker #shadow stalker #wf lotus #neff anyo #warframe Natah #wf natah

[andr0nap-wf]

Don't quote me on this, but i heard that Albrecht wanted to create an interstellar railway to Tau. And now that gave me a rather unholy thought:

WARFRAME: STAR RAIL (Honkai Star Rail but it's warframe)

Ideas include:

The Operator (in your case Misha) as the Trailblazer, plus a second, maybe Mag inspired operatoe as March 7th.

FORTUNA AS BELOBOG, with a corpus citadel on top. The whole place is run by Nef Anyo.

Also, Ordis as the group mascot, Pom-Pom, and the Murmur as the Atimatter Legion.

As for Albrecht himself, im still not fsr enough into the story to figure him out, but there's gotta be something you could do.

(Also, sorry if i just barged into your ask box talking about a game you've probably never played or know much about, but the thought was so consuming I just had to share. Hope you at least get some amusement out of this!)

yeah idk anything ab honkai star rail since its not my type of game but ppl that play might like this!!

#inbox #chronicler of narrative #im guessing the interstellar railway is a fancanon #probably ritas since they gave al the train autism #extremely funny as a concept ngl

[mediocreomen]

skulduggery pleasant characters : game head cannons

< pls reblog and follow ! >

- [ ] fletcher one hundred percent plays league of legends.

- [ ] he also plays mc but is terrible at pvp. hates servers bc he just wants to

build a strange house and not get murdered the second he spawns

- [ ] skulduggery plays candy crush. he is on a ridiculously high level.

- [ ] val ALWAYS makes fun of him for it but he reminds her she plays those

weird royalty games you get ads for on YouTube ( like fate of the empress)

- [ ] never plays those like cringey love story games ( like episode style games)

but ironically

- [ ] auger, militsa and nef play cats with soup. no questions asked.

- [ ] i feel like auger also plays cooking mama. he gives the vibe.

- [ ] nef is also a little jealous about how high skulduggery’s level is in candy

crush so he tries beating him but doesn’t get the game

- [ ] tanith plays like. marvel future fight. her team is the best possible and

all her characters are on the high ranking list. kinda feel she mains moon

knight

- [ ] omen plays bitlife. pls do not ask why, he just does. he always gets

murdered or dies of something stupid

- [ ] he also plays crossy road. is very bad at crossing the road.

- [ ] dexter loves to sneak in some solitaire, so does skulduggery.

- [ ] saracen definitely plays those like child’s dress up games and makeover

games .

#skulduggery pleasant #skulduggery #dexter vex #i wish dexter would vex ME u know what im saying #saracen rue #tanith low #nefarian serpine #valkyrie cain #omen darkly #ravel would play sims and make versions of everyone and practice killing methods #fuck erskine ravel all my homies hate erskine ravel

[shyfrog-says]

Okay!

I managed to resist Morinth's seduction!

Here's how I did it, because I've seen online a lot of other people either don't know why it's so hard, or they know why it's hard and haven't laid a clear guide for how to manage it:

1. Play either a Paragon or Renegade in Mass Effect 1, and then carry over that character into Mass Effect 2.

2. Whichever one is higher when you start ME2, that is the one you should stick with throughout the game from this point until the last step.

3. Invest as many points as possible in your class talent when leveling up until it's maxed out. This will boost your Paragon and Renegade scores by a substantial amount.

4. Once you get onto the Normandy SR-2, play the game normally - talk to characters, do recruitment missions, whatever you need - but do as few side missions as possible. Main missions and easy along-the-way side missions only. Nothing that will take you to a new area, unless it's a recruitment mission. Along the way, pick as many Paragon options as possible if you're doing Paragon and Renegade if you're doing Renegade.

5. Whenever you're in a hub area - Citadel, Omega, or Illium - wander around talking to people. There are a lot more opportunities to get Paragon/Renegade points than you might think.

6. During cutscenes, don't necessarily trigger the first Paragon/Renegade event that pops up. Sometimes, there's an exchange. Performing a Renegade action could prevent you from gaining Paragon points, and vice versa.

7. After Horizon, recruit Samara first. Then, repeat steps 4, 5, and 6. After recruiting Samara, you should regularly check in on other squadmates to gather their various loyalty missions, but don't do them all yet.

8. Recruit Thane and Tali, repeating step 6 as you do so to unlock more loyalty missions.

9. By the time you have unlocked Grunt's loyalty mission, you should only have to complete one more mission before Samara's loyalty mission will be unlocked. Any mission will do, but I recommend one with high potential Paragon/Renegade points, like Garrus' or Kasumi's loyalty mission.

10. From there, it's just doing Samara's loyalty mission. There are plenty of other tutorials for that, but basically, interact with everything in Nef's room, then talk with the dude just inside the entrance to the VIP area, and when talking with Morinth, go "Music" then "Art" then "Travel" while selecting the bottom left hand dialogue option in between as much as possible.

Should be smooth sailing from there.

#hope this was comprehensive! #honestly playing this way kinda takes the fun out of the game itself but the result is pretty satisfying #hope this helps! #mass effect #mass effect 2 #resisting morinth #morinth #samara

[mechanicalmaniac]

the idea of you play horror games is the funniest shit, Nef. Vorselon sent you FLYING from just appearing behind you and then you got so unsettled by that bird lookin thing that one time. I'd pay big money to watch you play a horror game

YEAH, YEAH, LAUGH ALL YOU WANT. YOU DIDN'T SEE THE WAY THAT THING ON MAGNUS WAS LOOKING AT ME!!

[alteredsilicone]

part of me wants to try elden ring but also...

(looks at frostpunk) afraid of dropping it like 2 hours in when i get too overwhelmed, i don't do well with hard games

#talking to myself #i also kinda wanna return to frostpunk too #there is a dlc and all #maybe i just need to channel my inner nef anyo and become a ruthless ruler of the frozen hellscape #also ages ago i bought a rts game just bc i like the concept... even thoi dont really play rts #im forever cursed by being interested in games which are the types i suck at #but maybe i just need to get over myself and Git Gud #i say and return to wf and genshin bc theyre comfortable and known #blah blah im just rambling

[topknotstrunk]

Review Everything 40 - Barbie

I don't think there's much I can say about this movie that hasn't been said over and over again so I'll boil it down here.

I was expecting the movie to be groundbreaking. People were talking about it as if it had said something that had never been voiced before, had a true revelation in it.

And I can see how that would be true for people who haven't been wading through internet Feminism like I have been for the last decade plus. It's nice that lots of people found a sentiment that they thought was private being voiced, I can see how that would be very powerful for them. For me, it was just the biggest stage these things had most recently been shouted on. But I do recognize that it's important that these sentiments make their way into pop culture, so that they're more accessible.

It's not that I didn't find some moments in the movie deeply touching. I cried when Hari Nef popped on screen the first time. The scene were Barbie sees an old woman for the fist time, that "You're Beautful."/"I know it." Interaction, that's making me tear up as I write this. "What Was I Made For" is a song I've been avoiding listing to since the movie came out because damn does that shit cut deep. I don't know if it's Billie's soft voice reminding me of my mentor and the hours she spent playing When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We All Go, or being just the right age, or being Queer in a world where there aren't life goals laid out for us, or rounding out the last fresh arc of a truly awful experience of getting dumped by someone I thought was my soulmate, but man that song wasn't a gut punch, it was a face slap. Shocking, unexpected, painful, personal.

Like I said, it wasn't as if parts of the movie didn't touch me deeply, but they were balanced out by many conversations I found pat and shallow. "I'm a real woman now, which means I have acquired a vag, which you must apparently have to be a real woman, off to the gyno I go." Ugh.

It was too bad the movie was so binary. I understand that the movie is based on Barbie and in the world of that toy, so far as I know, there are just men and woman, and the movie struggled to balance tackling men's issues on the side of woman's issues. But as a non-binary person the movie saying "being a man is hard, and being a woman is hard" "this is what it's like for a man in our world, and how it's different for a woman" and not having really experienced either of those things? Felt like two people having a conversation that was not meant for me, like I was eavesdropping.

The clothes were really fun. Waiting for the movie was fun too, the marketing was excellent.

Writing this I realize I'm just not the audience this movie was made for. And like, that's okay, but Barbie was really important to me as a kid. The dolls, and the dress up CD game where you could print out clothes after you designed them for the dolls, were one of the earliest things that got me into fashion, something very important to me now.

In Summary: The movie wasn't bad, it just didn't have anything novel to say about the statements the movie rode on, despite a few tear jerker scenes. Very pretty to look at for about half of it, though.

Overall: 6/10

#review everything movies #review everything #review #spoilers #the barbie movie #barbie #fandom #not queued

[tainted-well]

Warframe Story, Act III: Turmoil

TW: If you have already completed all quests and don’t want to dilute impressions from major story events, I suggest doing Act III in this order: 4, 5, 6 & 9, 10 before The Second Dream. It slightly alters the logical chain of events though.

1. The Second Dream. This is where the game story finally picks up the speed beyond us just playing space police in the origins system.

TW: You might already have noticed some strange symbols appearing on your screen at a random. Here is the explanation (look at Mysterious Loading Screen): https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Orokin_Language#Miscellaneous

2. Shadow Debt – again, an event. The story is important for the Acolyte background and story about how Alad called in his favour back from Second dream.

https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-shadow-debt/

Alad’s message: https://youtu.be/johDLwvf57Y

Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/FqJ-7b9_rwM

3. The Silver Grove and Octavia’s Anthem – while not essential story wise, they make sense to be done in this spot.

TW: Both quests lack initial messages when replayed, so you’d have to refer to wiki transcripts.

4. Ambulas Reborn – essentially The quest of Pluto. Pluto has everything still in place but the intro video. GROFIT.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/AVbbOnGczWY?list=PL77Z7WRW-YK-v5laBuY7cyrBDkm0gSRkq

https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-ambulas-reborn/

5. The Deadlock Protocol

I think this is the best moment to place this quest as doing it as early as Venus loses a lot of context of what makes this quest and Parvos important.

6. Divine Will – having absolutely had mucking enough of us interfering with his operations, Nef Anyo goes for the Tenno directly with his Razorback armada.

https://www.orokinarchives.com/divine-will/

Can be skipped tbf, just do the armada when possible.

7. The War Within. Once done go to Cetus and talk to the Quills.

8. The Glast Gambit – essentially, it’s the quest of Neptune. Watch Index tutorial in the codex and do the quest. Once it’s done, the index is open to be used (or you could just ignore that and just go for I before the quest)

9. Rathuum – essentially the quest of Sedna.

https://www.orokinarchives.com/operation-rathuum/

Gameplay wise, everything is still in the game but lacks the intro, mid quest accusation by Kela and ending. Reward for later isn’t in game unfortunately.

Intro: https://youtu.be/WSFXvoo_Zug

Mid: https://youtu.be/Nh6ZqJr8WSc?t=490

Ending: https://youtu.be/Nh6ZqJr8WSc?t=919

10. The Hidden Messages (can be done anytime after unlocking Sedna).

https://youtu.be/WAb0Xr_nwBo

11. Get to the void from Sedna and defeat Corrupted Vor there. After doing Mot Node you unlock Chains of Harrow.

12. Chains of Harrow.

13. TW: Mask of the Revenant (you’d have to be rank 2 with the Quills to get the quest). The quest is not replayable, so here is a YouTube walkthrough:

https://youtu.be/Qngx5uDCzwQ

14. Once done here comes the big challenge from me (optional but makes sense here story wise): defeat an Eidolon, then maybe try your hand at defeating all 3 eidolons. This should prepare you for what’s to come.

15. Apostasy Prologue happens.

After this, defeat Profit taker and Exploiter (those 2 are optional but again, makes sense story wise).

15.1 TW: If you haven’t done The Heart of Deimos quest yet, now it’s the time. The quest is not replayable, so here is the link to a playthrough:

https://youtu.be/0UrvqXEy2cs

16. The Sacrifice.

Links to all posts:

Warframe Story, Introduction

Warframe Story, Act I: Awakening

Warframe Story, Act II: Escalation

Warframe Story, Act III: Turmoil

Warframe Story, Act IV: Prelude to War

#warframe #warframe story

[il0veyoujk]

Rules for the ticklish ones!

This is a tickle related ff, if you are not interested in it, please keep scrolling

Inspired by this post of @tiklart !!

Summary: Nefeli (17) is bored and keeps annoying Namjoon

Warnings: None

Notes: This ff is requested by an anon, I hope you'll like this, nonnie!

Sentence starters: "You have such a cute laugh!"

Situation: Tickle games, playful tickles

Lots of love Nef 💕

Namjoon groaned loudly when another soft kick landed on his shoulder from behind. Flipping through the pages of his book, the young rapper was trying his best not to burst. Nefeli was laying behind him and resting her feet on his shoulders while she was playing with her fingers and hair.

Namjoon, she, and Jimin were staying in tonight due to a rainstorm outside. The electricity was off, hours now and the three of them had nothing to do other than be couch potatoes. Or to be more specific floor potatoes. 

The young lad was sitting on the floor of their living room with a book on his crossed lap while Nefeli was laying behind him with her legs on his shoulders. 

“Quit it, would you?!” Namjoon exclaimed in a high-pitched, annoyed tone when another, gentle kick hit his shoulder. 

Followed by soft, childish giggles, Nefeli wiggled her toes happily next to Namjoon’s ears “Nopity, nope, no!” the high from boredom girl squealed giggling while shaking her feet. It had been almost three hours since the electricity went off, and it had started getting on everyone’s nerves. Which resulted in the young girl being high in the skies and acting like a kid. 

“Uh, you are being annoying, kid” he groaned loudly and turned a page from his Harry Potter book. 

“Nefeli, stop annoying Namjoon” Jimin warned from upstairs while he was reorganizing his closet. I think we all know how many clothes Jimin has... And since he had nothing better to do, he had decided to organize them in a new, different way. 

However, the young girl had none of it. She kept kicking Namjoon’s shoulder like nothing hadn’t been scolded at all. 

The young rapped had started reaching his limit. Like Genshin Impact. Each kick was lowering his patience’s stamina. The socked foot was nudging his shoulder unstoppably.

Until he couldn’t take it anymore. 

“Okay that’s it!” he squealed out of frustration and threw the book he was trying to read all this time aside. He immediately grabbed tightly yet gently one of her ankles, keeping it on his shoulder “You’ve been a brat all this time long! Someone should teach you the rules!” Namjoon used his playfully threatening voice before he attacked the poor, socked soles on hers with his blunt, sharp nails. 

Nefeli didn’t have time to protest or even understand what was happening. Everything happened too fast. But she wasn’t going to do anything to escape either, she was too bored, even if she knew what he was planning on doing. 

However, she couldn’t help the loud shriek that escaped her the very same moment Namjoon’s nails touched her hypersensitive soles. She wasn’t prepared “The rules for wha- AGH NAHAHAHAHAO AHAHAHAHA PLEAHAHAHASE NOT THAHAHAT!” she screamed at the top of her lungs. 

Namjoon’s nails were gliding fastly all over her sole, touching the base of her toes, and drawing circles on her heel. Nefeli was kicking out and trying to thrash out of her grip with all her strength. A wide smile, almost reaching her ears, was letting all the screams and laughter come out and echo the whole house!

The feeling of having so many tiny little bugs running all over her foot was driving her crazy! And yet she couldn’t do anything about it. His grip around her ankle was firm but gentle so she wouldn’t hurt her with his ring, but his fingers were working their ticklish magic on it in the most sensitive way ever.

“Omg are we tickling Nef?! Wait for me!” Jimin yelled from upstairs, followed by a loud thud. I guess some hangers just died. The next thing you near is heavy, fast footsteps getting louder and louder the more they are approaching the two, with the crazy laughter as a background. 

You see, it’s something usual happening in this house that random tickle fights are breaking here and there every single day. Which usually ends up with Nefeli losing it but anyway!

Rushing downstairs, Jimin immediately went above the two, grinning like crazy and stroking a little her hair soothingly yet teasingly “Aw Neffie, you have such a cute laugh! I could hear it from up there” he giggled at her, and the light shade of red that started spreading on her cheeks. 

“This little piggy went to the market” Namjoon suddenly exclaimed, scribbling fastly on Nefeli’s big toe, only to increase the loud laughter. 

A loud gasp escaped the young girl before she fell into even louder laughter, kicking out harder “AHAHAHAHA MY GAHAHAHAD NAHAHAHAHAO AHAHAHAHA PLEAHAHAHASE NAHAHAHAO!” this game was their favorite ever since they all moved in together, but it always drives her insane. 

The two boys exchanged looks of amusement before Jimin grabbed her other foot and started playing with her toes as well “This little piggy stayed home” they both wiggled her second toes with their nails, gliding them down them and wiggling their fingers on the top of them.

“This little piggy had roast beef and this little piggy had none” Namjoon kept the song on as both the boys were scribbling Nefeli’s toes, while she was going crazy in laughter underneath them. 

“AHAHAHAHAHA PLEAHAHAHAHASE DAHAHAHAN’T CONTINUE NOHOHO!” she shrieked at the top of her lungs, knowing pretty well what was going to happen next. But still, she wasn’t prepared for this. She’s never prepared for this. 

Namjoon and Jimin shared a known smirk “And this little piggy...” Namjoon dragged his words to torture his friend a little more “cried wee wee wee all the way home” he exclaimed before they attacked both her soles mercilessly, scribbling and scratching every bit they could get and touching every sensitive nerve on her foot.

“BWAHAHAHAHA NAHAHAHAO AHAHAHA PLEAHAHAHASE!” at this point, Nefeli was in hysterics, kicking out and trying to pull her legs back with all her might. But she was doing nothing. She couldn’t really escape their fingers even if she was trying really hard. His evil fingers were scratching all over her sole, from her heel to the base of her toes unstoppably.

“Okahahay okay, let’s let her rest for a bit” they both agreed on letting Nefeli take a breath. Otherwise, she would have passed out from laughing too hard. 

Panting and all giggly, the young girl was laying there with red cheeks and messy hair from thrashing around like crazy. It was true that she was indeed having fun, but she would never admit it “So what did the little rascal do now?” Jimin giggled, rubbing her ankles soothingly to get rid of the possible ghost tickles. 

“Well, she was being bratty, so I decided I should remind her of the rules” Namjoon turned his head to the side and winked teasingly at her, now playing with her toes like the piano to keep her all giggly and keep the anticipation going. 

Nefeli was once again giggling softly as Namjoon was playing with her toes, holding her forehead and kicking out her legs like crazy. A heavier shade of blush was spreading on her cheeks the moment Jimin called her a little rascal. She couldn’t really stand nicknames, and Jimin and Namjoon knew that pretty well.

 “Oh, the rules!” Jimin exclaimed, immediately pinning her hands above her head in a flash of light and then sitting on them with the biggest, most mischievous, and evil grin she had ever seen.

Wiggling all her toes lightly and scratching softly on them he was making Nefeli not only giggle loudly and squirm around unstoppably but also kick out with her other leg in the air, almost kicking Namjoon on the back “Whahahat ruhuhuhules?!” she squealed as she was kicking out a little more and trying to free herself from their grip. She was completely unaware of what the rules were but what she knew for a fact was that it was going to tickle like hell. 

“The rules for the ticklish ones!” Jimin giggled devilishly, trying to mimic the laugh of an evil witch.

 “There is no comeback, princess. It’s gonna happen” Namjoon chuckled, letting her legs go and sitting on her hips so she wouldn’t roll away.

Nefeli looked up at her friends with scrunched eyebrows of curiosity. She had never heard of them before and she had no idea that people who are ticklish have rules. Yet, the flustering smirks of both the boys were making a strange feeling of butterflies erupt in her stomach. A wide, shy grin was placed on her face, while the blush on her face was redder than it already has ever been. 

“Ahahaw look at you! Already blushing and we haven’t even started yet!” Jimin smiled softly, pinching her red cheek gently, only to increase the shyness with the show of affection. 

However, the affectionate fingers soon turned into wiggly, teasing ones which were threatening to make contact with her exposed armpits. A loud squeal escaped her as she immediately closed her eyes and buried her face in her shoulder, trying to avoid the flustering fingers which were dangerously inching towards her underarms, while giggles were building up in her throat. 

“Aw Neffie, you are so adorable! Too bad your cuteness cannot save you!” Namjoon chuckled, matching his friend’s ones. He was almost touching her now bare, from how much she was stretched, tummy while the smirk on his face could easily be misunderstood with permanent.

The young girl was currently a giggly and shy mess, trying with all the strength she had inside her to squirm out and away from their grip, but she didn’t move further than ten centimeters. She could already feel tingles against her skin which were doing nothing else other than increasing the anticipation “Nohoho pleahahase lemme gohoho!” she squealed in her shoulder, kicking out her knees as much as she could underneath Namjoon. 

“Rule number one!” the oldest friend wasted no time considering in the least Nefeli’s friend before he quickly shot his fingers on her chubby tummy, kneading it like dough “Never annoy or prank your friends!” he smiled widely at the loud giggles and mini screams he had managed to bring to the surface, as he was squeezing the area around her bellybutton. 

“Gah! Nahahahaha ahahahaha okay okay okahahahay pleahahahase nahahahahao ahahahaha!” she squealed loudly, squirming around as much as she could with shut eyes and a wide smile that was reaching up to her ears. 

The giggles were unstoppable and loud. She had of course received them again, but never all stretched out like this. It was at this moment she realized how much tummy tickles actually tickle and she was freaking out a little. However, that was coming out in giggles and to be honest, she didn’t want it to stop. 

“Rule number two!” or maybe she spoke too fast “Never tease your friends!” and before she could understand the soft tingles on her tummy, a wave of ticklish electricity hit her armpits, coming Jimin’s sharp yet gentle nails which were scribbling all over them.

The young girl was laughing screamingly at the top of her lungs while she was trying her best to shoot her arms down. It was a common truth that when someone’s arms were pinned above their head, their armpits were instantly one of their weakest spots, whether this was Nefeli, Jimin, or Namjoon. And no one ever hesitated to use it against each other. The tingling feeling was so intense that the young girl could feel it going up to her forearms and that was making her want to scream in laughter even more. Like a fire of ticklishness was burning all her nerves!

“Ah, I can do this all day!” Jimin exclaimed with a wide, excited smile, before he moved one of his fingers behind her ear, scratching softly “Your laughter is my favorite sound, Neffie!” the young singer laughed along with his friend underneath him, not ceasing his attack on her armpit and ear. 

“BWAHAHAHAHAHA MY GAHAHAHAHAHAD THAT’S MEAHAHAHAN!” she screamed before she once again fell into crazy laughter, wiggling around like a worm to escape their teasy fingers. 

“Rule number three! Never insult or lie to your friends!” Namjoon bent down and blew a hellish long raspberry on Nefeli’s tummy, while he was squeezing her sides unstoppably. Shaking his head a little to add to the feeling, Namjoon didn’t even bother to look up at his friend to check if she was still breathing. He was having fun and he knew she was too! Even if she was laughing her heart out. He even added some mini nibbles on the rim of her belly button to make her annoy their neighbors with her screams more than she already was.

“And rule number four...” Jimin smirked and whispered in her ear teasingly, making sure his hot breath was tickling her ear “You should always admit you are ticklish if you don’t want to face the consequences” he chuckled, blowing hot air in her ear while he sped up his attack on her armpits scribbling them faster than the speed of light. 

At this point, Namjoon and Jimin were attacking some of her weakest spots. Her ears, her armpits, and her sides were so sensitive, and mixed with the nibbles on her tummy were a combination made in hell “AHAHAHAHA PLEAHAHAHASE I AHAHAM SAHAHAHAORRY AHAHAHA!” she shrieked once again, shutting her eyes closed and let the tears roll down her rosy cheeks as the burning in her tummy was increasing. The corners of her lips were aching from how widely she was smiling from the laughter. And of course, her whole torso was on fire. 

“You are so ticklish, aren’t you?” Namjoon chuckled only some centimeters away from her soft tummy “I wonder what happens when I do this!” he exclaimed before he proceeded to nibble on her side. 

His sharp teeth were torturing her sides from the middle of them, down to her hips and then up to her lowest ribs, touching every single ticklish nerve she had there without mercy at all. 

Letting out the loudest shriek she ever had, Nefeli immediately fell into silent laughter. She couldn’t stand the amount of ticklishness her body was receiving at this point. 

“I think she goes on the mute mode” Jimin chuckled, a little worried.

The two lads looked at each other and silently decided to release the young girl and let her calm down. Pulling away, they were shocked to see the speed of how fast she curled up, panting and giggling airily. Exhausted as she was, she didn’t even have the energy to call them ‘meanies’ like she usually does when they finally decide to show her some mercy. 

“I think someone learned their lesson” Jimin giggled, pulling Nefeli onto his lap to cuddle her soothingly. Sliding his hand under her shirt, the young girl flinched and curled up way more, making both boys laugh amused “Don’t worry sweetie, we are done tickling you! Now it’s recovery time! And don’t you even dare pretend you didn’t like it” he kissed her cheek, pushing her head gently on his shoulder and rubbing her tummy softly. 

“You ahahare such meahahanies!” she finally said like she always does, all relaxed and breathing normally but still blushing from what Jimin just said. 

Namjoon and Jimin looked at each other laughing and shook their heads. The young singer got up and ruffled Nefeli’s hair, going upstairs to continue with his closet “Remember the rules, kiddo!” he chuckled as he was going upstairs to his bedroom. 

Once he was out of sight, she looked up at Namjoon with glimmering eyes, blushing softly “That was fun! But don’t tell him!” she whispered, burying her face shyly in the crook of his neck, who only chuckled and leaned back to get comfortable.

“I heard it!” Jimin yelled from upstairs, embarrassing Nefeli once again and making Namjoon laugh before he grabbed his book to keep going with it and cuddling with his friend at the same time. 

#bts #park jimin #bangtan #jeon jungkook #kim taehyung #bangta boys #jung hoseok #kim namjoon #kim seokjin #min yoongi #bts x reader #tickle bts #tickle #bts ticklers #bts tickle #bts x reader tickle #bts reactions #bts tickling #bts tickle reaction #tickle community