cindy

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they/them, migratory bird, secretary bird lover, love movies (especially horror) and games (especially... no true definition) I also have writings and stuff at bloomedwings.com

Gameplay of StarFox 64. The Arwing, a sleek ship, flies behind another spaceship and utterly decimates it. The pilot, a monkey named Andrew, says "We'll make sure you'll never reach Andross!" before immediately screaming and then being cut off (as Fox is about to say his own piece)
A gif of CW from Influencer, a calm and smug looking tan skinned woman with a distinct dark birthmark and shoulder length dark hair. She sits with one arm behind her head, calmly staring at something as she takes a sip from a teacup.
Picture of Honey Revenge on stage. A dark skinned woman with purple braided hair wearing a leather corset-ish dress with fishnets sings into a microphone, while a dark skinned man with an afro, glasses, and t-shirt plays guitar. The stage is bathed in purple light.
[All pictures are from Tomodachi Life, a game with sometimes hyper realistic photos and very simplistic cartoon characters] A bunch of Miis surround Cloud Strife (a light skinned man with blue eyes that have a cat glint to them, wearing a red birthday hat on his spiky blond hair) for his birthday, saying "Congrats!" The Miis from left to right are... CW (horror film Influencer): a tan skinned woman with a distinct dark birthmark on her face, holding a keytar Espeon (Pokemon): a pink furred cat thing with a red gem in their forehead Madeline (Celeste): a red haired woman with a stripey shirt Sheena (a PC I played in a TTRPG): a slightly dark skinned woman with a goggled helmet and a guitar Gerard Way (the person): a light skinned man with smoothed down red hair with spiky bangs My kid (my kid): a little blond boy in a chef's hat Hunter (The Owl House): a young boy with slightly long white hair with a singed end
A shot of Tomodachi Life where a Mii based on Milly from Baten Kaitos Origins plays with maracas. She is a medium height light skinned girl with brown hair, set with messy bangs but braided tightly in the back. She has turquoise earrings and purple butterfly wings on her back, as well as short shorts, a maroon jacket, and boots. Her room has walls and objects of sweets and desserts (iykyk) and also fruit on the floor.
A billboard for a massage parlor that says Life Is Hard, Book A Massage Underneath (the important part) says Knot Now, Not Later Then below that "massage by maddie taylor"
A picture of the dumb blue puppet YouTuber Arlo with a thumbnail showing his dollar section Muppet face over the headline "physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles" and his title/headline is "Gaming news doesn't get worse than this" And buddy. Buddy.
A clip from 868-BACK. The Hacker, a yellow smiley face with blue spider legs, is near the bottom left of a 6x6 grid. They use .slash, a move that cuts across diagonally, to move cleanly through two enemies and two portals and land right on the exit, at which point text and voiceover declares "SERVER HACKED"
A 3x3 grid showing "9 Steam Games I Want To Spread". The games are... Kingsvein (a figure riding a dragon faces a castle) RKGK (a young woman flies with magenta paint over a city with a teal background) Let's! Revolution! (Three figures stand against a garish purple castle) The Spirit Lift (a wolf with glowing yellow eyes hovers over a hand of cards) Scarmonde (a pixelized gate with a horned skull over it) Death Howl (a woman with empty white eyes holds out a hand wreathed in blue fire) Nidus (psychedelic coloring of a wasp and flower) Missile Command Delta (three silhouetted figures stand in front of a crimson computer array) Into The Restless Ruins (a woman with flowing red hair faces the giant smiling face of another woman on the horizon)
A grey man in a grey suit talks to a little yellow man with a huge smile, while a dark skinned woman with red dyed dreads in a ponytail stands nearby. The grey man says "um hello, it's nice to meet you. I'm Mr. Serling." The little yellow guy responds "it's nice to meet you, Mr. Serling. I'm Pac-Man!"
A screenshot of Next Fest with the text TRADITIONAL ROGUELIKE VAMES: BECAUSE YOU'VE PLAYED GAMES TAGGED WITH TRADITIONAL ROGUELIKE, and it shows a game called DORTS A DARTS ROGUELIKE. Unsurprisingly upon clicking the page to confirm, it is not, in fact, a traditional roguelike.
Alvis from Xenoblade Chronicles. He looks like a young man with shoulder length silver hair, medium tone skin, and a purple bomber jacket. He is holding his hand up a little bit.
Madeline Celeste and Hornet Silksong walking and talking while slightly blushing. Status indicates they're Sweethearts for 1 day, each falling in love with another, and a subhead says "Ooo, looks like they're on a date!"
The Mii editor from Tomodachi Life Living The Dream, featuring Celeste (from Madeline). She is a slightly wide and slightly tall red haired woman and her sliders are set so that her voice makes the same sort of talking noise from her game.
The Hacker from 868-BACK with a word bubble implying they're saying this They also have the fractal scarf on, due to selling out to BASILISK PRAISE TO THEE O WORM
A screenshot of 868-BACK where the smiley face hacker has done a series of actions - x trojan flane dial flame dial flame loop loop loop loop loop x loop - and the board is just covered in fire, red siphoned spaces, and still a number of enemies
A clip of the Yugioh moment/meme where the Pharaoh holds up a card that is about to blast Kaiba into nothing. The picture on the card is edited to have a screenclip from 868-BACK of the Scrip box with 9: _clear in the top slot, ready to go. It has a nuclear symbol by it. There is also a _gravity below. Also the Hacker's symbol, a smiling face with sunglasses and a flower, sits on the card.
Text from Critical Distance, one link/article is highlighted (denoted in brackets) Critical Chaser We’re closing out the week with some fun treats for on-line sickos. [868-BACK Review: A Revisit For The Net Of Now | Bloomed Wings Blog It’s a review : ) ] A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS | CD-ROM Journal Misty De Méo unpacks a wondrous time capsule of early-90s client-server possibility.
Savagery from Monster Train 2. It is a mostly orange sort of centaur with clawed feet. Its head is a three-eyed human skull with deer antlers. It has plates of red armor lined with white fur, with arrows and a broken spear lodged into it. It is also holding a curved axe.
A screenshot from Zero Parades For Dead Spies of a beer item. It is titled Perro Pale and is represented by a brown bottle with blue labeling. Listed as Type: Drug and Carrying: 0. Text below reads: The most popular beer in the Developed World, called 'dog water' by both its devotees and detractors. Tastes the way your piss might taste after a day of drinking a better beer.
Calvin from Calvin And Hobbes, a small kid with spiky hair, walking while saying "who writes these dumb things anyway?" His shirt and face are scratched, and stars and dust bits are coming off of him.
A map of various roads and routes, pulled out and suspended above a car dashboard. Various colors and patterns indicate what types of road they are, and symbols on towns show what shopping and necessities are therein.
An island map with one green state connected to two red ones. There are then five greyed out ones. The red and grey states have star and lightning bolt markers indicating rewards.
A map screen of parchment with a tree slightly etched on the back. A green haired woman stands on a space and many routes with glowing enemies, campfires, and arrows stand before her.
A map of a frozen hellish area called The Waxen Arches, where a train engine sits at the top with two rails to choochoose from.
Text reads: In one New Vegas quest, I helped smuggle out a sex worker to be with her exiled boyfriend. I had the option to do the job for the sex worker for free, and did so. But when the boyfriend thanked me for doing basically all the work he was too lazy or cowardly to do, I extorted him for another 300 caps. Everyone walked away happy and I felt like I was actively choosing how I wanted to interact with the world. The Courier is a friend to the poor, sex workers, and generally cool people. He’s the devil throwing a wrench in your spoke to anyone who wants to use him for their own gain. It’s giving the world texture. I’m giving life to the game. I’m having a blast.
I've noticed a disturbing trend with EA lately: Its games seem to be more and more devoid of soul or personality. Sure, the production values are some of the best in the business, but can you think of a single memorable character or story line from a recent EA game? I couldn't wait for Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, until I found out that the game is lacking in story and has character interaction with B-rate copycats of the real fellowship. Need for Speed Underground 2 has street lingo that sounds like it was written by a bunch of suits sitting around an executive table, and GoldenEye: Rogue Agent hypes up the concept of being a bad guy but doesn't go anywhere with it. With efforts like this, it'sno wonder the mainstream doesn't view the medium as art. -Jonathan B. Nerdy blues Every so often, a girl gamer writes in complaining about guys drooling over hot digital women with unrealistic proportions waltzing around in scandalous outfits. Then they call us guy gamers "pathetic nerds" and "geeks who can't get dates." I'm writing to tell these females to cut these geeks some slack! Chances are, these guys tried getting dates before but fell flat when girls turned them down and rubbed their supposed nerdiness in their face. They play these games not just for fun, but because these game girls are exciting to look at and don't look down their noses at the lonely males gawking at them. So, the next time a geeky-looking guy asks you on a date, you can decline if you wish-just don't humiliate them. It's your fault these male gamers turn out the way they do! Chris M. Hear that girls? Your harsh, social rejection of nerds is only creating more awkward, socially inept nerds. Can't you see? It's a vicious cycle!
Sour Patch Kids, sour coated gummies that look like people. One is red, another yellow, and a third is green.
Buster Baxter, an anthropomorphic white rabbit from the cartoon Arthur, sitting at a computer and saying "you really think [BELIAL PRINCE OF LIES] would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
A chart for bosses, with Gimmick and Mettle on the X, Flow and Obstacle on the Y. All the bosses from Majora's Mask are on it. Gimmick/Flow has Goht Gimmick/Obstacle has Twinmold Balanced/Flow has Majora's Incarnation Balanced/Obstacle has Majora's Mask Mettle/Flow has Majora's Wrath Mettle/Obstacle has Odalwa, King Igos du Ikana, and Gyorg
A graph chart. The X axis goes from Gimmick to Mettle, the Y goes from Flow to Obstacle.
Panels from the comic Maus, where the Holocaust prisoners are depicted as mice and pigs and the Nazis/Germans are cats. Narrated by Spiegelman's father. Panel 1: one mouse pleads in front of an officer Narrator: On our appels it was one old guy there, always he was complaining. The mouse: I don't belong here with all these Yids and Polacks! I'm a *German* like you! Panel 2: just the mouse pleading and crying Mouse: I have medals from the Kaiser. My *son* is a German soldier! Narrator: only they hit him and they laughed. Panel 3: the same shot as Panel 2 but faded and now the crying person is shown as a cat. Spiegelman and his father are actually shown at the bottom. Art: Was he *really* a German? Father: Who knows - it was German prisoners also. But for the Germans this guy was *Jewish*!
Phantom from Hollow Knight: Silksong. They are a black bug wearing frayed grey clothes. They have a sort of broken head that thus resembles spiky hair, and their white mask is similarly cracked. They're holding a long bronze pin in their hands.
96. "At its current rate of decline, humanity is doomed. The disease you call despair already consumes you from within." Game: Chrono Trigger (1995) Character: Robo
A video of two white cartoon people (Paula, a mom with purple hair and perpetually lidded eyes, and Brendan, her red haired son) sitting at a table having a conversation. Paula: what were you saying? Brendan: move the flowers P: no before that B: this meatloaf is dry P: before that B: this is meatloaf?! P: before that B: this fish is dry
Edit of a Pokemon meme where a tall man with long white hair and a dirty orange beanie is hunched over in sadness. He is holding Neil Banging Out The Tunes, a hairless rat with a rainbow toy piano in front of him. Text at the bottom reads: "It's been 20 years...."
A screenshot from Pokopia. Ditto (who looks like a white human child with purple hair, glasses, a black punk outfit, and purple backpack) stands talking to a Cyndaquil (a small sort of fire mouse with tan underbelly and dull blue back with orange spots). They are next to concrete pipes, pink tall grass, and a Leppa Berry (fruits that look like apples) tree. Cyndaquil says: "You got me a gaming PC? Whoa, cool! I'm gonna check it out!"
A screenshot from 30 Rock of a blonde white woman looking, smiling almost condescendingly, at a man. Edited text below (edited parts in brackets) reads: "Jack... [not seeing art as political] *is* [political]!"
A sick bronze red spaceship called rhe Superdreadnought Salvadora. It is composed of trapezoids and triangles giving it a flared triangle shape. A monkey commander at the bottom of the screen says "ONE ship?! What an insult. Ready the main cannons! Destroy that little pest!"
An edit of a Dril tweet reading (edited text in brackets) turning a big dial taht says [transphobia] on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
It is deliciously designed in so many ways where I can find a strat that feels broken, a clear path to victory, and then the penultimate or final fight completely outplays me. Hell, the game has added in a ton of handy tools to help the player, such as an undo button to completely start over a turn and even the ability to start an entire battle over. And yet I have conceded defeat with a smile when I can see I just built my deck wrong over the whole course of play, that no matter what the shuffle and draw is, no matter how many different ways I try to replay the fight, that those Assassin enemies with Sweep are going to obliterate my glass cannon backline and I have no reliable spells to clear them.
Machoke - a burly purple Pokemon in a black speedo - standing on a bird perch and facing a microphone, with arms spread wide
Magmar, a red and yellow firey lizard pokemon that stands on two legs, with the duck mask over its face
To use Luigi's Mansion as a further example, an average player's experience is going to be exploring, getting lost, and maybe not getting all the Boos. A player's knowledge of where everything is in that game is going to cut the playtime in half - itself, already an impressive feat. But then, a fast player isn't necessarily going to get every single piece of treasure, which means they won't get the best mansion. Yet to get the best mansion, the player must also get all 50 Boos on top of the required portrait ghosts. And still, there's one more challenge - getting the different tiers of frame for the ghosts, which range from Bronze to Platinum in the 3DS remake. Do you see where I'm coming from here? It's modular. The game, as a work of art, is so self-sufficient, it doesn't need the stock-standard difficulty modes right out of the gate. To be good at it is - most likely - not the same way another player is going to be good at it. It's a short game, but there are multiple avenues to improve upon depending on your focus. 
9 games in a grid: World of Warcraft, Majora's Mask, Sin And Punishment, Fable II, Final Fantasy V, Baten Kaitos, Baten Kaitos Origins, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Celeste ... for the record, yeah, it's cause: played as girl troll shaman, horrific painful transformations, this game is gender, got transed in the basement of Castle Fairfax, Faris, who are you really?, no really like you can never know, especially when are our bodies like actually our bodies, and (last but not least) duh.
Plain text reading: Final Fantasy V-VIII (4) Zelda 1, MM, LBW, ST, SS, BotW (6) Mario 3, 64, 3D World, Odyssey (4) Metroid Prime, Prime 2 (2) Smash Brawl, Ultimate (2) Star Fox 64, Zero (2) Kirby Robobot, Epic Yarn (2) Pokemon Silver, X, Z-A (3) Mario Party 2 Paper Mario Mario Kart DD/8/World (3)
A grid of games showing Civilization II, Pharaoh, Super Smash Bros, Pokemon Gold, Adventure, The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, Final Fantasy VI, Sin and Punishment Star Successor, Celeste
Kurt Russell (a white man with shoulder length brown hair) sitting at a desk, recording into a mic with a glass and bottle of liquor by him. He says "Nobody trusts anybody now. And we're all very tired."
A shot from Hollow Knight Silksong of Hornet taking damage right as the big title Hunter's March comes up for the area.
An event in The Spirit Lift, with Briar, Garnet, and Maria as the team. Text on the side reads: RENOWNED FAMILY A moment of shut-eye rejuvenates wonders... Garnet: I am rather tired. Briar: Want to be cuddle buddies? +15 Health
A Steam recommendation page saying that I should play Kingdom Come: Deliverance II since I recently played Relooted.