what is your most controversial video game hot take? 🎮🎮🎮
Games over 10 years old should be free
if you have an in game store, micro transactions, or loot boxes, ur game should be free.
Ganondorf should and will have sex with every gay man ever
Emulation of any game or game system that is out of production should be fully legal
Reblog if you’re asexual/ace spec, support aces and/or just really love glow-in-the-dark stars ✨ 💫
Pls reblog for a larger sample size
Your daily dose of cat memes
Nyachiel, the Purred Angel.
Idk I’m just curious. Please reblog if you want
I want this to be an actual poll, so I'm gonna need a REALLY big sample size, so do ANYTHING you can to get this around! Reblog it! Kung-pow-penis me, if you have to! Wreck my notifications! Just do ANYTHING!
HOLY SHIT
94.2%
ocarina of time: adulthood
AUUUUUGH! That’s... that’s amazing. It hit me RIGHT in the feels! This is absolutely beautiful and I am shaking my fist at you right now.
That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science
Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?
SEA IS FOR COOKIE!
please leave
what perfection this is
girls who learned all their vocab from books and are now constantly embarrassing themselves by pronouncing words slightly wrong in conversation
The way i have to think for a full minute before saying either "automaton" or "banal" 😅
Until I was 15 years old I pronounced "misled" as "myzilled" 🤦♀️
It offends me to correctly pronounce “buried.” 🤦🏻♀️
Scions. I said it completely wrong for years.
Cadre.
Mahogany
Apoplexy
Chasm
Macabre.
Unique.
Fatigue
Reprise
Epitome
Calliope
bourgeois
sanguine
encore
budget
quay
Nostalgia
Charybdis
Meloncholy
Ennui
Gauge
Comrade
Facade
Indignant
Subtle.
Patina. Fuck, I still have trouble with it!. I keep reminding myself it’s pronounced with the same vowels as Athena. (Bloody sculptor.)
I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.
IT’S FINALLY PRIDE MONTH, TIME TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN.
wait im curious
this is excluding special circumstances (after going swimming, after doing a hairstyle with lots of product, before/after getting your hair done, etc)!
Americans will measure in anything except the metric system
So apparently this is just this guy's thing
Average american unwilling to measure using metric system factoid actually a statistical error. Measurements Georg who refuses to use metric system on 10,000 posts a month is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Okay, but I don’t know what five kilograms looks like. I don’t know how long five kilometers is, and I don’t honestly know how long five miles is, not immediately. But a corgi? I can see that in my head PERFECTLY.
I’ll cop to being, at best, a casual anime fan and an incidental nintendo fan like some sort of goose that got lost on migration and decided to stay for the catchy musical score but I’ve had a thought that’s been making me laugh for like 20 min now:
Replacing any Shonen Protagonist with Legend of Zelda’s Protagonist Horrible Klepto Gremlin and Professional Fightboy, Link.
Doesn’t matter which link beyond “what’s funniest in this particular scenario”. Maybe a specific Link, maybe an amalgamation of all Links into a superpowered multidimensional agent of Chaos. A HyperLink, if you will.
Then plop that bad boy down into the start of any Shonen anime and watch it go completely off the rails.
shounen anime is all well and good, but have you considered the following?
1. Link is, apparently, Literate. This is a tremendous surprise to me.
2. You, my good personage, are a GENIUS, becuase somehow Link “Adeventure Is My Middle Name” McStabbington somehow screw up every shonen anime but stays weirdly on-track for shoujo. For instance:
So apparently there’s a new Leg of Zeg game out and Link got an engineering degree while I wasn’t looking. Good for him! Let’s talk more Anime:
-A mysterious broadcast signal from the moon turns all humans on earth into stone! Several thousand years later, veteran Time Traveler Link pops out of his stone cocoon, decides that ‘doing it the long way’ sucks, and stomps off to rebuild civilization using random garbage and looney tunes physics.
-A terrible new form of space weapon called a “Mobile Suit” has been created- these child-controlled behemoths cut swathes of destruction as they wage a territorial space war, impervious to all but the most powerful weapons, and that one kid carrying a frankly improbable number of explosives and a smartphone that can manipulate inertia and electromegnetism (??), riding around on what appears to be a rocket-powered tractor.
-While out at summer camp Child of Destiny Link is suddenly transported to the Digital World, where an adorable little blob of an animal declares itself Link’s Digimon Partner! No stranger to having a Weird, Loud little critter following him around, Link is slightly perplexed when the fat orb wants to fight the enormous monster on his behalf. Silly Digimon- that’s HIS job! Grappling hooks his ass up to Devimon’s castle and beats him to death with a tennis racket he found on the way.
-A mysterious book called a DEATHNOTE falls out of the sky in front of Link, who carefully reads the rules, and shrugs, because if he REALLY needs someone dead, He’s going to want to do it in person, and Link has never given a shit about the police. He’s gonna hang onto this book, because it looks like an important quest item, and Ryuk languishes in Links Inventory for the rest of the Series.
-The barbaric battles where legendary and historical figures are summoned to fight on behalf of Mages known as the Grail Wars are rudely interrupted when Link sees Iskandar, assumes it’s Ganon AGAIN, and beats his way through the lineup to get to him, even besting Gilgamesh by putting the king’s inventory skills to shame.
-Salt Middle School gets a new transfer student and Shigeo Kageyama is initially distraught by his teacher assigning HIM to show the New Kid around, but turns out, Link ALSO enjoys Milk, long amicable silences and complaining about getting into stupid battles with the multiverse’s most magically overpowered and emotionally constipated Dumb asses. It’s nice, to have a reliatively uncomplicated friendship for once.
*Cackles like a horrible Hyrulean Cucco/Goose Hybrid*
As a long-time Zelda nerd, steeped in lore, (seriously, the first NES game I ever played was the first Legend of Zelda,) I ABSOLUTELY approve these headcanons. And add my own, if you don’t mind...
- Mysterious mute transfer student winds up at prestigious Gekkoukan High School, moves into the dorms, and proceeds to: traumatize the teachers, who are not used to being outweirded; traumatize the chairman, who is not used to being pegged as a wanna-be Yiga on sight; traumatize his fellow SEES members, who have never seen anyone beat the hell out of a Full Moon Shadow with nothing but a bokken and The Power of Spinning; and traumatize Erebus, the personification of the Death Urge, because honestly, it’s just Demise again, except that Erebus doesn’t hatch from a giant avocado.
-Mysterious mute transfer student winds up at backwoods Inaba High School, moves in with his uncle, and proceeds to befriend every motherfucker in town (side quest!), investigate a serial murder case, and gently Beat The Curse out of an ancient goddess.
-Mysterious mute transfer student winds up at prestigious, but very fucked up Shuujin High, after being sued for assault. (Lawsuits are a new experience for a dude from a land where the justice system consists of a princess and her bunch of useless guards.) He then proceeds to assemble a ragtag team of misfits, dive into the world of the unconscious, and beat the entitlement out of a bunch of assholes, before dealing with a cursed item that makes Ganondorf look humble and balanced.
I feel like I’m exposing myself a little bit with this bc my introduction to fic is soo random I think, but whatever your answer please tell me the story! I wanna know haha
The fact that quizilla is not an option here makes me feel ELDERLY
I remember when there was a character limit on quiz-fics questions and we accepted the answers to them didn’t MATTER
Uh-huh...it's quizilla that makes you feel elderly.
*looks at older fandom like she's on The Office*
I was going to say I Googled it but I don't think Google was the prime search engine at that point...Maybe I looked up Ronin Warriors on Dogpile.com. Or Yahoo. Fanfiction.net existed, but it was fan-run websites through Angelfire that got me into fanfic. Stumbled across it looking for more material from Japan, I think, just little 12 year old me and a computer...
"The internet" didn't exist in a modern-recognizable form yet. My unsuspecting 7th-grade English teacher had us do a creative writing exercise and then trade with a random classmate for critique. I should mention that he hadn't told us about that part ahead of time, and also that it should be obvious from just that that he was not equipped to handle what was about to happen.
I wrote a fanfic of Andre Norton's Beastmaster series, because my parents let me watch the baffling 1982 movie adaptation at way too young an age and I lost my tiny tweenager mind when I discovered that a) they were also books and b) the local library system had them. The novels followed the adventures of a demobbed special forces soldier named Hosteen Storm on a human-colonized alien planet.
The boy I traded with had written a fanfic of The X-Men, haphazardly available on the magazine rack at the local grocery stores and as a Saturday morning cartoon. Unsurprisingly, it prominently featured the mutant Ororo Munroe, aka Storm.
I was vaguely aware of the X-Men as a thing. My surprise critique partner was not even slightly aware of the 1959 science fiction novel or its 1962 sequel.
We gave each other the most useless writing feedback in the history of useless writing feedback.
I can't remember exactly what I wrote for him, but I'm sure 99% of my points would have been answered by having watched more than one and a half episodes of the show, because his story otherwise seemed very straightforward--superheroes did superhero things with their superhero powers, and Sentinels, which I vaguely recalled being the evil mutant-hating robots that were just allowed to fucking run around unattended, tried to kill them. It probably would have been a banger if I hadn't been so in the dark on the source material that I somehow arrived at the conclusion that Danger Room was a heretofore unguessed-at and cartoonishly overpowered X-Man that the whole team ganged up on for obscure superhero reasons.
What he wrote for me was short, sweet, and to the point: He corrected all my hes for Storm to shes and then informed me that Storm did not talk to animals, she controlled the weather, and that she lived at the X-Mansion, not in the desert, and that there were no aliens in the X-Men*.
When we read each other's feedback, we accepted it with all the grace of 7th graders being given an unexpected critique on a mandatory assignment from a classmate we didn't know well or particularly like who was also possibly the biggest dumbass on the face of the planet for not knowing that Storm was a weather-controlling girl/not realizing that this story was about a completely different goddamn character.
Him: The X-Men are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby and writer/editor Stan Lee, the team first appearing in The X-Men #1 (September 1963).[1] Although initially cancelled in 1970 due to low sales, following its 1975 revival and subsequent direction under writer Chris Claremont--
Me:
The teacher: By Talos, this can't be happening!
There were blood-feuds being born in other corners of the room as feral children ripped into each other over beloved original work, but that I think he at least understood. There wasn't a serious teacher shortage at the time, so I assume the guy teaching our English class had sat through at least one undergraduate creative writing class with critique sessions. People being mean, missing the point entirely, or taking fair critique way too personally were things he'd presumably witnessed at some point.
I don't think he'd ever seen two people get into a passionate and mutually-incomprehensible argument about genetically-altered lifeforms, psionic bonds, and weather-control powers. He definitely had no idea how to moderate that argument, and I suspect all he heard was us making nerd-child noises at each other at a steadily rising pitch and volume, like tree-frogs competing for territory after a hard rain.
Anyway, nobody in the room knew what "fanfic" was, but that didn't stop us from inflicting it on each other in person, for a grade.
*I like to think his love of the series was long-lasting and deep enough for him to feel a pang of remorse at how wrong he'd been on this point when he hit the storyline where not only were there aliens in the X-Men, but Professor X fucked one of them.
I wrote a fanfic about the Cat From Outer Space when I was six, but I'm pretty sure I learned it was a thing from people talking about fanzines in the various columns of Asimov's magazine back in the 80's... and then I discovered Usenet and started actually reading it.
VOTE GILVEK THEY ARE SO HOMOEROTICALLY EXES. they broke up when they were 7 because gil betrayed tarvek and sent him away from the one place he'd been happy his whole life back to live with his family who assassinate each other and want to take over the continent with mind control. then they went to college together where Gil was a libertine penmy dreadful hero and Tarvek was a socialite super villain. And now they have the same girlfriend.
And they so blatantly still care about each other and FUCKING HATE that fact.
oh boy throbbing tooth pain out of nowhere
this is bad
I’m hoping it relates to my habit of unknowingly clenching my jaw while at my computer so I’m just gonna
… not …
today
The tooth pain is moving around my mouth, which is very exciting because it means that it IS pressure from jaw clenching and not, like, a future root canal. I already have a mouth guard for grinding my teeth at night (why does my jaw torment me? We just don't know), so I'm gonna try, like, chewing gum during the day or whatever to keep my jaw from unconsciously tensing. It's part of the AuDHD hyperfocus, I think.
As such, I have a perfume update post (not a massive deep dive) to post soon, and I'm working on a recap of a short Varney chapter. We had a lot going on in my family this week, maybe that's why I was clenching a lot.
I AM REALLY HOPING I am not also having a long covid flare with some concurrent muscle aches and fatigue this week, but like. That sounds about right. I see enough of my mutuals Going Through It on a regular basis that, like—I know y'all get it. It just sucks because you sit there and go, I'm gonna do things different this time. I'm gonna fight through it, I'm gonna get things done, I'm gonna stay out there writing, and then your body is like
no ♥️
I have AuDHD and do the jaw clenching thing too, complete with mouthguard. gum does help me, so... good luck?
