#that's a lot

[travelerstakes]

ok, lemme get this straight...

there's a rebel leader everybody thinks is cool. They're not wrong, but she's also a massive zealot

she has a working relationship with the lyctors

she wants God dead

the lyctors also want God dead

two lyctors team up to have a threesome with God to steal his jizz

these lyctors presumably sneak this stolen godly jizz to her in the middle of some unrelated scheme that involves shipping embryos across the galaxy.

this goes wrong, and she needs to handle the human sacrifice baby growing herself

she avoids getting it murdered by naming it after the guy she's been hate fucking for two years so he thinks it's his

This evidently works, because Harrow definitely has been hanging out with Evil Femme Jesus

she ends up dead

baby Gideon, revenant who gives the baby her name and then effs off to do revenant stuff (keep running resistance??)

#tale reads tlt wrong #tale thoughts #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #goodness #That's a lot

[sentistrange]

part 2 with sylvie bc he also speaks latin bc i said so

no part 3 but if i did make it can you guess where the latin would be from

#epithet erased #percival king #percy king #sylvester ashling #sylvie ashling #ramsey murdoch #zora salazar #that's a lot #still not zoramcy pls don't tag #i assume you don't know this latin either so go look it up #or don't idc #zora and ramsey are in pain

[plushchimera]

hello i just love Y'shtola so much

#ffxiv #y'shtola #my art #i love shtola to the point of fan art #that's a lot

[irbcallmefynn]

How the fuck

#10000 likes #tumblr milestone #that's a lot

[gauntletqueen]

wow is superstars really That Bad?? :(

In my opinion, kinda yeah :< (here I go writing a fucking essaybecause just listing complaints as bulletpoints isn't gonna get my thoughts across shafghghaf, this is all based on personal experience and opinion of course!)

(first off, the game uses Denuvo anti-cheat which eats a stupid amount of processing power, slowing down your PC, which is bad because there are better alternatives but SEGA keeps insisting on using this one) On a base level, the game is fine. The characters feel pretty good to control, the graphics are nice, I like that they brought back Fang and introduced Trip whom I love! About half of the soundtrack is very good too! But I just find so many problems that build on that base.

The level design, while fine overall, has a tendency to make you run or jump directly into obstacles a lot, partially because the camera is much to close to the player character. There is just no way to see these obstacles coming until it's already too late, or the enemies will shoot projectiles from off-screen, giving you no warning either. This also means it's harder to see jumps coming, making you fall down a lot. Not necessarily in bottomless pits, but it can be a bit annoying all the same to fall down to a lower route. The game also features several special powers you can activate, and the game wants you to use these at specific moments, but most of these aren't build into the levels fluidly at all. Instead they usually halt the momentum entirely just for a small gimmick that'll be over in a second and, in my experience, never adds anything, aside from the water power which lets you swim freely, which makes for a nice change of pace, but it's only applicable in water stages and using it anywhere else is totally useless. Most of the powers are like that, far too situational, to the point where I kept forgetting they existed unless the game reminded me. I will admit I am just forgetful so maybe this is a me problem.

The game's main selling point, the multiplayer, also makes these problems even worse. The camera seems to choose entirely at random which player it wants to follow, swapping at random as well. The moment a player leaves the screen, they despawn. Given that this game is about running fast, this means that you will despawn constantly. After despawning in this manner, rather than dying, you can press A to respawn next to the surviving player immediately, so it's not the worst, but still incredibly annoying when you can never get into the flow of the game. But it gets worse when one person falls into a bottomless pit, and the camera decides to follow that player. The other player is pushed offscreen, dissapears, and the first player falls to their death, thus killing both. These kinds of problems are a constant and make the multiplayer incredibly frustrating.

The bosses are a big gripe for me as well. In previous Sonic games, Classic especially, if you could hit the boss in their weak spot, you could hurt them. That sounds obvious at first, but a lot of games aren't like that, where you need to wait for a specific attack to leave the boss vulnerable or something. Most bosses in Sonic games don't have that, if you can duck and weave between the boss's attacks and get close enough to land hits quickly, you can really speedrun a boss and feel great about it! In Superstars, bosses can only be hit at certain points, which often isn't visually indicated, causing you to either bounce off of them, or take damage, despite the boss looking no different than when you can hit them. When you hit them, they flash white, indicating their invincibility frames, another common thing for bosses in games, but their invincibility actually lasts much longer than the flashing, which results in the player trying to attack them too early and bouncing off or taking damage again. This already drags bosses out a lot, but on top of that, a lot of bosses take a ton of hits compared to most Sonic games, which, again, breaks the game's momentum. The bosses end up feeling so tedious and long that I started dreading having to fight most of them.

But okay! You can just play the main game in singleplayer! The levels are usually fine and some bosses actually work well! It's not entirely unfun. However, there's more once you beat the main game. (spoilers ahead, though I refrain from talking about specific story elements)

After beating the main story, you unlock a second story. This story is just as long as the previous one, because it's all the same levels, but made harder. This includes the bosses, which were already a pain before, some of which become like torture now.

At this point, the game becomes an endurance challenge, just suffering through harder and harder variants of the same levels and bosses, which, at least in my opinion, stops being fun pretty quickly, since all the earlier issues compound. No new story is learned through this mode either (it's even difficult to understand whether it takes place before or after the main game until the ending which seems like an easy thing to do), so it really just feels tacked on to stretch the game length. and I've been told by a friend that the final boss is so stupidly difficult that it took them like 6 hours to beat. Considering how frustratingly unfun and difficult the game had gotten by the 8th stage, I can believe it! It was, in no small terms, one of the most soulcrushing experiences I've ever had with a video game. It just made me really sad and dejected.

After finally beating it, you unlock a shoddily integrated True Final Boss which comes out of nowhere, and that's a shame because I feel it could've been something neat, and I understand where they were going with it, story-wise, but just needed to be introduced better.

Overall the game has a great basis for a good Sonic game, but ends up getting more and more frustrating and demoralizing as it goes on, and ends up being one of the few games that's actually less fun in multiplayer! Impressive. I really can't say who's at fault here either, since there's so many choices here that I feel can't be due to executive meddling, and it's important to remember that these are the same devs as Balan Wonderworld, Yoshi's New Island and Hey! Pikmin. They don't have the best track record, yknow? Perhaps we'll get a huge patch someday that fixes all of my issues with the game, or maybe the fans will mod it, or maybe not! Whatever! There's better Sonic games to play! Play Mania or 3! Or fan games!!

okay thank you for reading <3

#Oops wow that's uh. #that's a lot #I just kinda wrote the first things that came to mind #if you manage to stay focussed long enough to read it all I am so proud of you and thank you

[the-post-crow]

I wonder how many followers I ha-

#WOW OKAY #THAT'S A LOT

[young-royals-confessions]

I have rewatched Young Royals at least 200 times. Plus all the times I've rewatched favorite parts. I have a problem.

😮

Can anyone steal the Top YR Watcher trophy from anon here? 🏆

#young royals #that's a lot #watching habits

[thepeculiarbird]

Me waking up to 98 notifications on Tumblr.

#that's a lot

[3amclothesmonster]

OH MY GOD

Website btw

#THAT'S A LOT

[wolfsnape]

Vu que Skyblog va fermer, j'ai récupéré toutes les fictions publiées par ma soeur pour un total de 677 PAGES

#that's a lot #wolfie made a statement #books #fanfiction #me and my sister

[booasaur]

how are you downloading Ici tout commence?

From the official site!

First, I use a VPN to get a French IP (or Belgian--I'm not sure which they accept, I just know these two work) so I can access the network's streaming site, TF1+. You should be able to sign up for a free account without issue. This is the page for the season 4 eps:

https://www.tf1.fr/tf1/ici-tout-commence/videos/saison-4

Apparently there are always two eps in advance available for the premium subscribers but I'm not caught up plus I think it'd be a little harder to sign up for an actual paid account so I probably won't be able to do that.

So normally I would use youtube-dl/yt-dlp to download the eps but that won't work here, or at least not without some extra steps, because these are DRMed. This is where it gets a little tricky and the whole process isn't super well documented both because it changes a lot and it makes more sense to teach people to learn how to do it than how to do it and also because, well, the more these methods are spread, the more networks change things up and make things harder.

This thread can help you get started: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/412113-MYTF1-Help-needed-New-DRM-system-can-t-download

The whole forum is quite useful and I've only had to post for help a couple of times, mostly I just search my issue and read through.

That provided command in the second post, that's something to be used in your command line, on Windows in Start you can open that by typing in cmd or PowerShell or just google what you'll need for your computer.

These are the things you'll need to get to run the command:

N_m3u8DL-RE is a tool you can google and download, and also ffmpeg and mp4decrypt. You'll want them in the same folder for convenience. (I think you might need to install python too? If it says you do, then go ahead, lol.)

The way to get the key, this is the most gatekept part, probably. The various streamers out there use different methods of encryption and increasing security levels, and if you read up on it, you'll see stuff about kid and pssh and cdm and L3, it can be overwhelming, but in this case, the things you need are relatively easily accessible.

I'll tell you how to get the pssh and the license URL and you'll be able to use those to get the key. There are several tools you can use them on, one is public and easy, one is private but still easy-ish, and one is pretty complex and not a route I've gone down myself yet (it's the pinned thread in that particular forum). I don't want to link any of them myself, but I'll link to a thread that mentions the easy public one. It does go down at times which is why the hardcore people recommend that last method.

First, before you click on an ep, open up your browser's Developer Tools, usually Ctrl+Shift+i will do the trick. Go over to your Network tab, this shows all the requests your browser makes when you go to a site.

Then click on the episode in the actual browser. You'll see a flood of requests in the Network tab, filter on mpd.

Select the mpd result and the details for it show on the side, click on Preview. Scroll down until you see <!-- Widevine -->. A couple of lines below it, you'll see something like <cenc:pssh>AAA[a bunch of characters]</cenc:pssh>

Grab that whoooole part that starts with AAA, that's the pssh. Go to the Headers detail tab while you're there and grab the Request URL, this is the mpd link we're going to use later.

Now to get the license. Usually you can filter in your Devtools Network tab on license or, in this case, widevine. Since we're already on the Headers detail tab, grab this Request URL now, it should start with https://widevine-proxy-m.prod.p.tf1.fr/proxy?

Now go back to that easy public tool linked in that thread I linked, lol, and just fill in the PSSH and the License. Hit Send and you get a list of three keys at the bottom. I've always gone for the one in the middle and not bothered with all three, but you can try them all.

So at this point, you should be able to fully create and use the command in the first forum link above. If you read the documentation for N_m3u8DL-RE, there are various flags you can use, --save-name "Outputname" will let you name the output what you want, -sv best defaults to the best video quality, -sa best is best audio quality, and so on.

The way to get the subtitle is to turn on subtitles on the video player on the site and to go back to the DevTools box and filter on textstream. Grab the first request, the one that ends with =1000.dash and paste it into a new browser address, and change the .dash to .vtt. That's the subtitle. :) You can use the free tool Subtitle Edit to both convert it to srt, which will let most video players play it with your video, and there's also an Auto-translate option that lets you translate to English. It offers several ways but as I don't have a Google API, I just use the normal "slow" method, it's not that bad.

A second way to get the subtitle is to use the same command as when you're downloading the ep but remove the -M format=mp4 at the end, and instead add -ss 'id="textstream_fra=1000":for=all'

This was all figured out through a LOT of trial and error on my part so please do try your own best if you hit some issues, that's the best way to learn. Also, I just don't want to be the helpdesk on this, lol.

#replies #Anonymous #sent on 20240213 #whew #that's a lot #but for real unless there's a huge error in what I've said just try to troubleshoot your issues on your own :x #there seems to be increased interest in this show...I wish I was in the mood to catch up #unfortch I've stopped on both this and neighbours for now... #I don't want to waste them on the mood I'm in these days #ici tout commence

[skelebab]

The sillies 😭

#i kinda hate drawing sonic with a passion #but i shall prevail 💪💪💪 #art #sonic and tails #miles tails prower #tails the fox #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #ummmmm #that's a lot #but idc #;b

[magicaldreamfox1]

woag sugar daddy au has 12.5k hits

#that's a lot #i mean it's multi chapter so yeah but. still that's a big number #dreamy talks

[spoonietimelordy]

So my blog is 7yo today, apparently.

#7 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #been mutuals with some of you for 7years #that's a lot #charlie is rambling

[goldenpinof]

was just going through your iom tag and didn’t realise how often Dan visits Phil’s family with him. Before Christmas, Kaths birthdays. Phil’s birthdays. I love that they’re so fine with sharing stuff like that and not hiding it like they would’ve done 2013-2016ish. It’s just… obviously such a partner thing (why would you wanna go visit your best friends family when you already live with him and see him all the time anyway) but a partner visiting for special occasions? Makes sense. (Idk how some people still refuse to believe honestly)

Side note iom looks so serene and peaceful no wonder they love going there. And especially as Dan has obviously expressed issues with going back to his hometown/his family at times in the past, so having iom as a place to escape to, going visiting people who knew him and accepted him whilst he still wasn’t out to his own family must’ve been nice 🫶🏻

he has become a part of the Lesters, yeah

#Phil's mom's bdays? really #i don't remember so i'll believe you #that's a lot #answered #the lesters

[kalewebkinz]

Clicking through the Magical Forest casually checking on my Pixie Pod seeds and....

😳

#that's a lot #whoops #webkinz #pixie pod pachinko #magical forest