#that whole coastline actually is fucking INSANE

[grand-line-shenanigans]

For the girlies who enjoy the caves and the cliffs (it's me, im girlies)

#minecraft #the seed is 5821969180069230989 in bedrock btw #that whole coastline actually is fucking INSANE #there was a whole lush cave ir whatever theyre called (with the moss) #just exposed on the side of the cliff #i got the seed from another tumblr post actually but i dont think i saved that post or id reblog it #i was exploring to fill my map lol #and just. first screenshot right #'woah thats a fucking badass coastline' #screenshot. move along #get to the REALLY big cliffs #'what the FUCK what the fuck HOLY SHIT' #goes absolutely feral insane #(and then i misstepped and fell iff the cliff anf died lmao) #but i love this seed its insane and amazing #rn im working on making a village i found look really nice but im taking screenshots of the coolest natural formations in yhe world while #im exploring. and im gonna go build things in all those places too

[pridewishes]

oh you want autistic infodumping???? oh buddy you GOT it. im gonna go insane

alright so heres where its at. pokemom red/blue. a horrible conglomeration of coding. theres too much in the game thats just nonsense values and that FUCKED up the game.

if youve heard of pokemon youve probably heard of missingno. top of every iceberg video, insane consequences, how could this happen, yadda yadda yadda. its a pretty popular thing. but no ones really interested in how it works because rb is just so fucked up coding wise.

missingno (and subsequently, all other glitch pokemon) are unintended results of what seems to be more than 150 pkmn registered in the game database. now as i said before rb is just a shitshow so somehow if certain steps are taken it reads off the nonsense data from removed pokemon as actual legitimate data. most common way to get missingno in rb w/o hacks is the old man method. it has something to do with the way the game spawns in new pokemon and how that correlates with the catching tutorial since it isnt the player catching, rather it being an npc (the old man is the pkmm catching tutorial in viridian city). by talking to the old man then flying directly to cinnabar island and surfing along the eastern coastline (again, something to do with how the game reads data and the way the shoreline tiles are set up) you have the potential to encounter missingno. im pretty sure the other methods r just hacking

however, there are multiple forms of missingno. this part will be brief but theres the rb sprite, the yellow sprite, the pkmn tower ghost, the kabutop fossil, and the aerodactyl fossil. aside from the glitchy ones, theyre just like npc garbage data

(in order, rb, ghost, aerodactyl, kabutop, yellow)

the encounters are different based on different properties like name values and items but the most common is just rb

now, an important distinction is that the yellow sprite is vastly different from the other. this is because its only from the game yellow. the issue was primarily present in rb, fixed the old man glitch in yellow (not the other methods), and it was resolved entirely in green. yellow missingno has the color scheme of a pikachu rather than the default pallette. encountering a missingno in rb would usually just fuck up your hall of fame and duplicate items. nothing major. in yellow it just fucks your whole game. npcs spawn randomly on screen. your character can duplicate or just disappear entirely. it makes the game nearly unplayable, and thats just assuming it doesnt completely crash it first.

i could probably go on but im getting kinda tired. sorry if this was way longer than you expected or wanted but i saw my opportunity and took it <3

That's so cool!!!! PKMN is a special interest of mine as well but I've never been into the glitches aspect so this is awesome to learn about omg thank u for sharing

#mod 🍒

[gothamdetected-a]

an idiots guide to gotham.

sim, i hear you say, what the hell are you doing? it’s gotham. everyone knows gotham. batman’s hometown. arkham asylum. what more is there to know?

surprisingly, a lot. 

for example, did you know that the it has been described as "Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November." which i think is one of the coolest descriptions of an aesthetic ever. thanks dennis. anyway, there’s a lot more to this city and it’s mad confusing history than first meets the eye, so in true sim fashion, i’m here to whoop dc into shape and attempt to make sense of it all. in the immortal words of coldplay “oh take me back to the start.”

as a geography nerd, i’d like to begin way way back. like continent forming era. star wars’ a long long time ago has got nothing on this. because really, why is gotham so plagued with crime and corruption? why is it perpetually cloudy and gloomy and dark? why is this tiny patch of american coastline continually the stage for insane events while everywhere else around it seems perfectly fine and chilling. 

it’s because of cthulu. 

well, kind of. seriously. apparently trapped beneath the actual earth of gotham is a lovecraftian-esque being who’s been chilling for 40,000 years. yeah, bet you didn’t know that. it even takes to calling itself “doctor gotham” after long enough, but that might just be a writer taking the piss out of dr manhattan, which honestly, im here for. so there’s some ancient slumbering god just poisoning what will become gotham, with it’s “evil essence” or whatever. there is a native american tribe who lives in the area - the miagani. in a croatoan-like fashion, they mysteriously disappear one day: no one knows exactly what happened to them, but there’s speculation of black magic and an insane shaman who goes all caesar on them and tries to develop a tyrannical rule, but they seal him in a cave and flee only to be slaughtered by a neighbouring tribe/a mysterious natural disaster. already this place is giving off the Not Good Vibes.    

some time later a bunch of colonists arrive, one of whom is named hiriam arkham. he tries to build a chapel, but it ends up being the site of a murder and so that idea is abandoned. the colonists later accidentally open the cave and release Deacon Blackfire (nasty shaman man), who is fairly immortal, definitely a shithead, and also becomes a batman adversary and a black lantern corp member/zombie in a few hundred years. fun. the colonists are never seen again. wonder what happened there.   

so the ground keeps being corrupted and drawing the nasties to it. one of these nasties is a norwegian mercenary, captain jon logerquist, who lands there circa 1635 with his crew, feels the heeby jeebies vibe and goes ah yes. this is where i shall settle. utter weirdo. so suddenly we have a city being formed - you guessed it, gotham city, also known simply as gotham. and everything is fairly chill for a while. the city is known to be a hideout for ruffians and smugglers, has a fairly higher proportion of stabbings and burglaries, but other than it being a bit of a lawless wasteland, it’s not, you know, any stranger than other pre-civil war american towns. at some point war for independence ( 1775–1783 ) rolls through, and there’s a fairly large battle that is long and bloody and doesn’t look like is going to be won so the founding fathers decide to do something extra stupid, and summon a bat-demon. yes, literally, a bat-demon. that they think will help them turn the tides of the battle. instead they realise it can’t be controlled, panic a bit, and end up trapping it beneath gotham, nice and snuggled next to fucking cthulu’s cousin. so gotham is now especially Cursed, and also starts gathering a large number of bat colonies in it’s underground cave system, because they’re all coming to worship this demon thing or w/e. 

next step is the civil war ( 1861-1865 ), and this is the first time we get a cobblepot in town - colonel nathan cobblepot to be precise. a couple of generations happen, and the town is growing into a city - at this point five of the families truly “found” gotham as a metropolitan and industrial hub, building bridges to connect the islands and forging the path to gotham as it is today. these five families are the cobblepots, the elliots, the crownes, the kanes and the waynes. these eventually become known as gotham’s oldest lineages, and it’s wealthiest, forming the future of gotham high society. however the cobblepots eventually end with penguin, and thomas elliot gets salty and becomes hush ,and the kanes and waynes decide to start dressing up as bats so it’s more like a cautionary tale than anything. 

around this time (1870), ra’s al ghul builds wonder city beneath gotham’s old town, and around a naturally occurring lazarus pit under the city. wonder tower becomes a spectacle of the gotham skyline, their equivalent to the empire state or big ben. eventually the project is abandoned, especially after mysterious disappearances, rumours of madness and strange sounds of rioting emerging from the nearly completed project. also occurring in this decade is the conversion of arkham manor into the elizabeth arkham sanatorium (which would later become arkham asylum) under the then heir, amadeus arkham. elizabeth commits suicide, a serial killer murders the rest of the family, save amadeus, who then goes mad and begins dabbling in the occult and experimenting on patients, eventually becoming one himself. despite all this, arkham asylum remains open, setting the scene for this to be one of the most tragic and fucked up buildings in america. 

another generation goes by and the wayne family produces solomon wayne, who will eventually become an incredibly important figure to gotham, partly because he is a judge and has a courthouse named after him and all that, but mostly because solomon wayne is the man who hires cyrus pinkney. who? you ask. literally the man responsible for gotham’s fucked up architecture. solomon wayne commissions him to create what he calls “gotham style” around 1890, and pinkney, heavily influenced by both cubist/surrealist design and the gothic revival, is the bastard who ensures everything has a gargoyle slapped on it and that gotham cathedral could literally be home to dracula. every inch of the city is covered in hidden meanings and mysticism, because, if you haven’t already guessed, pinkney was a bit nuts, but solomon wayne seems mighty pleased by this and it does actually boost gotham’s industry and cause people to relocate to it from the surrounding area. pinkney’s final piece de resistance is the statue the lady of gotham (officially named Justice opens her eyes to the world ) in the gotham harbour, yet another new york parallel. 

however as a result of booming capitalism and continued gentrification, gotham develops extreme poverty, with several areas of the city, specifically around the docks, the bowery and the narrows, becoming slums. crime levels continue to rise, and many writers take inspiration from chicago and new york mobs in the 30′s and 40′s, drawing parallels and creating organised crime, mafias and gangs. families like the maronis, falcones and thornes begin to take over the city, shaking down businesses for “protection” developing protsitution and drug running rings, importing weapons etc. gotham becomes seen nationally as a dark foreboding metropolis, where the ultra-rich one percenters drink champagne in their ivory towers while the poor of the city suffer and die. city planners also take this opportunity to go absolutely nuts, and build bomb shelters, underground highways, crazy sewer systems, you name it. after all, no one cares right? it’s gotham. by the time the cold war comes to a head, the city is literally riddled with layers of alleys and tunnels and walkways, all over burdened by the watchful eyes of giant bronze statues and stone grotesques.

then, thomas and martha wayne appear, and really start trying to change the city. they develop philantrophic interests, help to create the monorail, encourage the other wealthy elite of the city to care about the rotting corpse of gotham. change is slow, but it happens. the city starts to brighten up, vaguely, and the waynes become heralded as gotham’s saviours, becoming more than a household name. of course, they get shot, in an alleyway, by joe chill, and that same night batman is born. it takes him like 20 years to actually appear in the city, but boy when he does appear, he goes ham. this isn’t a batman meta tho, so i’ll keep it light on his backstory and involvement. 

batman tackles corruption in the city, purging the gcpd, bringing criminals to justice etc, all while bruce wayne makes his lauded return and begins trying to change things in the same way that his parents did - investing in the city, creating public services, developing grass roots projects in the worst affected areas of gotham. however, this city is quite literally Cursed and it all goes very wrong very quickly. 

first, ra’s al ghul unleashes the clench (also known as Ebola Gulf A virus) into gotham high society, and through the contagion storyline, a LOT of gothamites die. i think it’s like 40% but don’t quote me on that. the whole city is quarantined, but batman manages to save the day! hooray! wrong. the second disaster happens in the cataclysm arc - a 7.6 richter earthquake (although in my professional opinion this should probably be measured using the mercalli scale because you have to take into account the density of population etc in the area, but whatever, dc don’t study earthquakes like i do :/). as a result of these two events happening literally within months of each other, the entire city is declared a “no man’s land” by the US government. most civilians are evacuated, it is cut off from the mainland by destroying bridges and creating a military blockade and left to literally rot. no central government is applicable, no services are available, and very quickly gangs take over, carving up the city between them. imagine the purge but never ending. that’s gotham. huntress and oracle and the remaining scraps of the gcpd try to keep some kind of order, while bruce fucks off to petition the government into not being dicks and fixing the city rather than abandoning it.  eventually, he comes back, batman battles a lot of people, luthor donates enough money to save the city and gotham is rebuilt and repatriated as part of the us. 

then the next big events include: 

• henri ducard as ra’s al ghul tries to cover the city in fear toxin after teaming up with scarecrow. the narrows is especially targeted. 

• steph accidentally starts a gang war after going through batman’s stuff unsupervised. for a while black mask rules gotham.

• hugo strange convinces the gotham city council to let him have old gotham, which he converts into arkham city. eventually wonder tower explodes and the “city” is shut down, cut off from the rest of gotham. 

• scarecrow successfully releases his fear toxin over gotham via the cloudburst system. most civilians have already been evacuated, but the city is thrown into ruin and chaos.   

these are just the biggest points though, and the ones which help to tie film, comics and games together. my favourite part of gotham i haven’t even talked about yet. but i’m gonna. here we go. 

gotham is chronologically removed. 

obviously time progresses there, but there is a immense sense of timelessness. gotham does not move on with the rest of the world. there’s a huge mash of different eras and styles. there are airships in the sky and maglev monorails on the ground, people use typewriters alongside touch screen laptops, buildings are either twisted gothic nightmares or glistening modern skyscrapers. the time frame that should be obvious from the setting is completely ambiguous. and it’s brilliant, because really it means that the time is not important. it could be set anywhere, anywhen. gotham looks almost the same in the 40s as it does in 2020, and it means that batman and these events can be slotted into pretty much any decade. batman can be born in 1939 or 1969 or 1999 and it still all works. it’s a mash up of modern expressionism and constructivism and art deco and gothic revival and surrealism and space-age futurism and industrialism and honest to god i could literally talk about this all day. but i mustnt so i shall stop now.  

basically the tldr here is that i have a fetish for urban decay, gotham was fucked from day 1 due to some bullshit evil god beneath it, and literally house prices must be so low, because who the hell would want to live there. 

#my metas get longer with every day #long post / #\system\directory\hidden.txt ›› META

[dontdoitluke]

We Could Be Heroes - Ch 7

Sky High AU, but instead, it’s a superhero University.

Summary: Emma takes flight and discovers something volatile.

Chapter: 7/?

Word Count: 1,711

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Notes: The boys aren’t in this chapter, sorry! This is a filler to hopefully get me through my block and introduce some important things happening later.

I wanna thank the ladies of the 5sos Angels GC for sticking with me throughout this whole ordeal. It wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for y’all. Thank you, Angels <3

Also, this chapter has a slightly excessive use of the word “fuck”. My bad.

In front of the tallest building on campus, Emma leaned against the cool brick wall and furrowed her eyebrows, the wheel in her mind spinning over and over again. She thought about shifting into a lizard, but then she wouldn’t be able to carry her phone. Perhaps a squirrel? Or a beetle? That was even worse, and she mentally kicked herself for even thinking about it. She could easily shift into a bird, but that was too easy. She wanted a challenge... but she also wanted to save the flying for later.

The spinning mind-wheel slowed to a stop and landed on one of her favorite furry animals.  

Taking her phone out of her pocket, she opened the ring connected to the case and put it between her teeth as she faced the wall to begin her shifting process. The air around her was still as her bones cracked and her skin tingled, adrenaline rushing through her blood like lightning. Her slender hands morphed into tiny rough paws and her spine grew into a long, bushy tail, and soon, her entire body was covered in a thick layer of gray and black fur.

Emma, now fully shifted into a fuzzy raccoon, chittered happily and moved closer to the building.

Raccoons can climb walls, right?

She placed her tiny hand-like paws on the wall and dug her claws into the brick, lifting herself a couple of inches off of the ground to test her grip. It wasn’t as secure as she had hoped, but it would have to do. After all, she did want to be challenged.

Starting off slowly, she began to climb, focusing only on the ledge of the rooftop that seemed miles away. Steadily, she climbed faster, and faster, until she was very nearly running straight up the side of the wall, the phone dangling from her jaws scraping against the brick and concrete. She was nearly there, only a few feet away from the ledge. Once she reached the highest window, she rested her tiny feet against the exterior frame and steadied herself before surging upward, grabbing onto the ledge and dangling for a moment before scrambling up and over onto the rooftop. Her body rolled across the cool concrete as she shifted back into her human form, and she stopped on her back, panting softly.

Emma gingerly removed the phone ring from her teeth and flexed her jaw. Checking the time, she smiled excitedly. 6:42 a.m. Only a few more minutes until sunrise. She stayed still a bit longer to watch the colors around her slowly turning from a deep black to a softer shade of sapphire blue, and when sapphire blue began to take on shades of purple, she stood and moved to tuck her phone into a safe spot behind one of the solar panels scattered along the rooftop.

She brushed the dirt and dust off of her clothes and stepped up onto the ledge of the building, looking out into the colorful horizon in front of her. Then she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and jumped.

Seconds before she hit the ground below her, she quickly shifted mid-air into a bright red finch and spread her wings in flight, her talons barely brushing the blades of grass as she swooped into the air. And just as she rose above the tall university buildings, so did the sun. As usual, her timing was perfect.

For Emma, one of the greatest things about being a shifter was flying. She loved how she felt when she was floating along the wind, her body and her mind feeling weightless and free. It was impossible for her to feel any emotion other than pure joy as she flapped her wings and rose higher and higher into the clouds, feeling the wind on her feathered face. Her favorite thing about flying was taking off right as the sun came up. 

She flew out of the courtyard and toward the coastline, gliding above the waves crashing along the shore to watch as the sun continued to lazily rise, and she continued to fly freely until the sun had fully risen, letting her mind wander off and her mental stress fall to the ground below. Her wings eventually took her back to the university campus where she landed gently on the ledge of the building where she began her flight.

Just as she began to shift back into her human form, the door leading up to the roof flew open violently and a young woman stormed out, followed by another young woman who was struggling to keep up with her. Emma immediately reverted back into full bird form before they could see her, and flew behind a wooden crate to hide. She didn’t normally care if anyone saw her shifting, but the woman angrily stomping onto the concrete roof was Cherice Alistair, and, like most people, Emma preferred to limit her contact with the self-proclaimed Princess of Goldbay.  

“She thinks she’s so fucking special just because she’s a fucking assistant that gets to play Teacher.”

They’re talking about Persey, Emma thought. Jeez, she’s still stuck on that? It's been days.

“What did your dad say?” the companion panted. Emma recognized her as Dee, a lovely rubenesque girl with rich dark skin and a shaved head. She was very quiet, usually, and she was also seemingly the only person who was willing to spend time with Cherice for more than an hour.

“He wouldn’t do shit! He gave me some fucking sob story about how that bitch Persey’s mom was the witch doctor that cured Grandmother and how he holds her entire family to some insane high degree,” Cherice waved her hands furiously, tugging at her thick red locks. “I can’t fucking believe her, acting like she didn’t know who Father was, acting like she didn’t know who I am...”

Inwardly, Emma laughed. It was pretty hilarious to see Cherice so worked up and not getting her way. Dee remained silent and moved to sit down next to a solar panel, groaning as she lowered herself to the ground.

“Like, who fucking cares if some old skank with herbs and crystals and oils inspired him to become a doctor. He would have been a doctor without that influence.”

“I thought your dad originally wanted to be a pilot.”

“Shut the fuck up, that’s irrelevant. He knows his true calling is medicine, just like I know mine is to be the next Mayor.”

Dee looked down and bit her lip, picking at some of the frayed strands on her jeans. “I don’t know, Cher, I’m sure she was just excited to be the teacher and took it too far, I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.”

Cherice slowly turned to face Dee, her face contorted with malice. “Not... not a big deal? That fucking bitch humiliated me in front of the entire class! She treated me like I was some kind of pest to be exterminated! And Father... fucking bastard... is acting like it’s nothing to sneeze at! And now I have to take that from you, too!?”

With every word, she grew more furious, and began to shake with anger.  

“Fuck that! She’s going to fucking pay, every cock sucking pathetic worm that sat in those cheap metal chairs and laughed in my face is going to pay, that lazy so called instructor that allowed that hippie bitch to lead is going to pay, Father is going to pay, they’ll all be fucking sorry!”

She let out a terrifying scream that pierced the sky and threw her hand in front of her as if slapping an invisible person, and every solar panel and HVAC unit in front of her was ripped from the concrete and thrown off of the roof in pieces. Dee scrambled backward and let out a whimper, and Emma squawked and flew up and settled on a far corner away from the flying debris, her tiny bird feet gripping the ledge tightly.  

For a moment, Cherice stood motionless, her eyes wide. She stared at her hands while her mouth hung open in shock. Dee slowly stood and moved closer to her cautiously.  

“Wow, I... didn’t know you could do that.”

“I-I... I didn’t either,” she whispered.  

Running a hand along her bare scalp, Dee took a deep breath and looked at the section of the rooftop that Cherice cleared. Aside from a few wires jutting from the holes they came from, the entire left side was completely bare. She sighed and put her hands carefully on her friend’s shoulders.

“Let’s go back inside, okay? You’re shaking like a leaf and I think you need to process this new power while you calm down. Let’s go grab some muffins. You love muffins, and today is your cheat day, yeah? I bet they have the ones with blueberries AND dark chocolate chips, those are your favorite, right?”

Dee slowly and gently turned the red-head toward the door and lead her to it, continuing to speak comforting words while Cherice mumbled about how everyone was going to pay for their crimes against her, and once the door was shut and Emma was sure that they were gone, she flew to the panel that her phone was hidden behind and shifted back into human form.  

“Thank God,” she sighed. Her phone was safe, and aside from being a little shaken up, she was safe as well. Or so she hoped. Cherice was a firecracker, everyone knew that, but now she has a new power and her anger was fueled to capacity, there’s no telling what she might plan next. She needed to warn her friends as soon as she could in case something actually did happen.

Before standing to exit the building, she spotted a tiny caterpillar inching its way along the brick. Instead of wondering how in the world it got up there, Emma licked her lips hungrily and moved to pick it up with her beak-

Wait, hold the fuck on, she wondered, shaking her head. I’m not a bird anymore... how long did I shift for?

She checked her phone. The time was 9:44 am. She’d stayed shifted an hour and a half too long.

“Ah, fuck.”

#whee wooo #wcbh #5sos #5 seconds of summer #ashton irwin #michael clifford #calum hood #luke hemmings #ficsos #are you guys pumped because i'm pumped #i was blocked for a month and I did not like it one bit #The next chapter will be great #i promise

[fapangel]

Why no ELINT/EW version of the B-2? And why is the Bone still around?

The B-2 doesn’t need that shit. Also, we planned on building hundreds of B-2s, and only bought 21 of them. So, yeah. The B-52, first built in the 1950s, kept itself able to penetrate enemy air defenses in its planned intercontinental bombing mission to the USSR via a variety of DECM/OECM upgrades, air-launched decoys and eventually standoff weapons. Later those would be actual stealthy nuclear cruise missiles to hit their intended targets, but before that, they actually carried two massive fucking turbojet powered nuclear cruise missiles to nuke their way through defending SAM and fighter bases to drop their freefall bombs. I will never stop linking this at every fucking opportunity because it is still the most fucking awesomely insane thing ever. “The Bomber Will Always Get Through, because it’s going to NUKE YOUR IADS FUCKING FLAT, BITCH.” Hoooooooo. The modern incarnation of this is the B-52 carrying the MALD-J and the ALCM (still in service for some reason even after the rather superior and much stealthier AGM-129 ACM has been retired. They’re finally addressing this stupidity, however.) 

The B-2 was meant to sidestep all of that shit by being designed as a stealthed intercontinental bomber from the start. In fact, the new B-21 Raider is going to be closer to the B-2s original concept than the B-2 itself is - because the B-2 was redesigned at some point to be efficient enough at low altitudes to fly nap-of-the-earth, under the radar horizon, just in case its incredible stealthing was overcome by Soviet radar advances. Unlike the B-52, which was built as a big-ass truck - and thus easily adapted for other missions - the B-2 was the first full-out application of a whole new aircraft design paradigm, where penetrating enemy air defenses wasn’t done via weight of defensive firepower (or offensive firepower, by just nuking your way right the fuck through opposing air defenses,) but by not being found at all, period. There’s a reason EW/ELINT missions are usually undertaken by some boring-ass commercial aircraft that was modified to have a shit-load of electronics crammed into it - they’re just trucks. Any fucking truck can do the job - and they do. Witness the Compass Call, the E-3, etc. The B-2 is some hideously expensive, very special ninja shit. 

The B-1B is still around for much the same reason the B-52 is - insane bomb-truck ability. But the Bone is special because it’s a supersonic swing-wing bomber, able to get places in a hurry and survive in less permissive environments than the lumbering B-52. Much like the B-52, its been used to launch airstrikes on Middle Eastern targets from right here in the United States. And (insanely enough) the B-1 can carry just as many smart bombs as the B-52, because the B-52s internal bomb bay has never been wired with the datalinks to use PGMs (though they are FINALLY, FINALLY FUCKING FIXING THAT RETARDATION.) Even after that’s done, however, the Bone will still have the upper hand in simple speed of response - getting to a trouble area in a hustle to put the pain on someone. It gives the USAF a two-hit combo - B-52s for loiter duration and sheer weight of payload, or B-1Bs for still-heavy payload capacity and fast transit/response times, to say nothing of greatly improved survivability (you’ve got to get a lot closer to kill a Mach 1.25 capable aircraft lest it outrun your missiles.) 

And until the B-52s internal weapons bay is upgraded, the B-1B’s effective payload on any mission with smartbombs - which is most of them - will stay the same. And it’s much faster. And smaller. And that’s why the Bone is our big black wang of choice when we want to go helicopter-dicking up and down the North Korean coastline. 

[marionvirginia]

“Fame” – Nav x Travis Scott | Type Beat 2019 | Free Trap Instrumental

“Diablo on the beat, bitch.” Audiences have actually been listening to that four-word manufacturer tag on some of the best songs of the previous numerous years, by musicians like Wifisfuneral, Craig Xen, Smokepurpp, and, of course, Lil Pump. Los Angeles-by-way-of-Florida producer Diablo, 23, has actually worked with every one of these artists as well as even more. Now he’s riding the largest wave of his profession with the approaching launch of Pump’s long-awaited Harverd Failure.

Diablo produced three records on the album–” Dropout,” “ION,” and also the debatable “Shelfs on Shelfs”– as well as videotaped Pump’s vocals on even more. “Shelfs on Shelfs” got some focus recently when Portishead’s Geoff Barrow declared that the track experienced his work from the Destruction soundtrack without authorization. The tune’s content likewise distressed him. Barrow called the track “deeply fucking sexist,” and included that, especially given that he as well as Annihilation co-composer Ben Salisbury both have daughters, “This spunk needs to seriously fuck off.”

Debate or otherwise, Harverd Dropout is the conclusion of a year as well as a fifty percent of Diablo and Pump’s interact. I called Diablo (and his manager Henley, who weighed in with the occasional clarification) to talk about the production of Harverd Failure, why the Florida SoundCloud rap scene was predestined for success, and also what all that fuss over an uncleared sample was about.

In about 12 hrs, Harverd Failure appears. Which tracks did you produce? We were functioning that project for a long, very long time. I would state for virtually a year as well as a half. We made so many tunes, at the very least 70. The final variation [of the album] is the most effective tracks that came out of everything. I videotaped the intro, “Failure.” And also I did “ION,” which is with Smokepurpp. That’s really me and CB [Mix] I additionally did “Shelfs on Shelfs.”

What was that 18-month duration like? What was your process? It was an insane procedure. From videotaping him on a relocating trip bus, which is really chaotic from a producer and also design point of view, to tape-recording him when he was on residence arrest in the garage while it’s truly chilly outside– that was probably among the craziest scenarios. “Drug Addicts,” I keep in mind especially taping him while it was extremely cold in LA. He remained in the garage, he was on home arrest. That was a quite dope experience.

You engineered songs that you didn’t produce? Yeah, I assisted tape the majority of his things.

Tell me about recording Lil Pump’s vocals. Is it various than dealing with various other musicians? What’s dope about taping Pump is that we have really good chemistry, since I’ve been tape-recording him for 2 years. It’s actually very easy at this moment ’cause I understand exactly what he wants. Me and also CB are his major producers, the major people tape-recording him.

He doesn’t actually also like the workshop that much. We do a great deal of residence arrangements or set up anywhere actually that isn’t a workshop. That’s where we make the majority of our hits. We make bed room hits, generally.

Just how do you make up soundproofing if you’re simply recording anywhere you can obtain him most comfortable? People ask me that a lot. As long as we have good setup, we don’t need that much. If you can get a clear vocal, you do not need to videotape in a soundproof room. It all boils down to mixing them later on.

What is an uncommon place that you’ve videotaped Pump? One of the most uncommon one is absolutely the garage while he was on home arrest. Other places? Just random Airbnbs around America. I taped him in the scenic tour bus while the tour bus is relocating. That was really busy when it boiled down to mixing the vocals. My preferred place is my first home. That’s actually where we made “Boss.” That just went platinum, which is rather amazing, just to think that we made that hit in my bedroom.

There’s been some controversy around “Racks on Racks.” Geoff Barrow stated that the track examples his songs from the Annihilation soundtrack without approval. Did you sample that soundtrack? We provided a final variation of the song that did not embody any type of sample. And after that for some reason, Detector Brothers delivered a demonstration variation of the song that they produce, an old variation, that had a placeholder with that example in it. What you men listened to was the old variation of that track for one reason or another. They didn’t submit the last variation to iTunes and all that things. That’s where I believe the whole confusion originated from.

So what happens currently with the track? Which variation made it on the cd? The last variation today you listen to on all the DSPs has no sample in it whatsoever. Not on the YouTube variation, not on any variation– SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify. There is no example in it today.

Exactly how did Geoff listen to the early version? I have no suggestion. I simply saw him tweeting at me every day. [Henley: “The early variation was an accidental upload. That’s how he heard it.”] But it was truly amusing to see him tweeting at me each day. He would certainly tweet some things. I don’t recognize how old he is, yet I think he was perplexed, ’cause he was tweeting that the tune was misogynistic as well as all this things. He resembled, “Oh, there’s rapping regarding titties.” Like, I believe he thought “shelfs” was titties. I’m like, “Man, I don’t understand exactly how old you are, yet it’s not discussing titties. It’s speaking about loan.” I believe there’s a lot of confusion in the entire scenario.

His words were, “The tune is deeply fucking sexist.” That’s not something you concur with? I don’t understand, guy. He’s extremely opinionated. I appreciate the individual a lot, yet also, begun, take a look at Cardi B. She simply won a Grammy for Rap Album of the Year as well as her things isn’t the most deep music. She has some insane things in there. I assume you should appreciate everybody’s songs as well as consider the musician much more prior to you simply start criticizing left and right, you understand?

Do you make beats for Pump differently than you would for various other musicians? Well, yeah. I seem like my beats have their very own personality, and that’s why Pump really admires my design of songs. I do not know any kind of various other manufacturer that actually makes beats like I do, that style of really bass hefty as well as additionally often repetitive. However Lil Pump gets your attention and also it becomes truly helpful for him, ’cause it resembles, “Oh, great, I recognize a dope melody that would go for this.” After that it ends up being a really dope tune.

Do you think the bass hefty element of your beats comes from Florida? Florida has a 35, 40 year history of bass music. Yeah. We most definitely produced this wave of lo-fi heavy bass songs that we weren’t credited on. It’s unusual, ’cause Atlanta gets such big hype, however I feel like Florida didn’t obtain enough love and also press for all these artists that we produced the last number of years. We actually changed the entire SoundCloud game, the whole songs video game. We have all these brand-new rap artists that are certainly affected by us. We created a brand-new style of songs.

A couple of years earlier, you began creating for a bunch of people you recognize from institution or around where you utilized to stay in Florida. And then they all explode around the very same time– people like Wifisfuneral and Smokepurpp as well as Pump. What was that like for you? I think it was destiny. I actually mosted likely to college with Wifisfuneral. He is one of the very first rappers in West Hand Coastline that I linked with to make songs. We went to primary school with each other. We really did not socialize up until in the future, when we were both in secondary school. He intended to tape-record songs as well as I occurred to simply build a studio in my space where I tape-recorded Pump. We wound up working and after that I resembled, “Oh, man, I like hip jump.” He made a lot of beats, 50 beats a month back then.

I wound up linking up with Florida musicians as they were turning up, like Pump. This is back when they all were nothing, like, under 30K [followers] Everybody was simply starting. It’s really insane to see where everyone is. Two years earlier, we were all not doing spunk.

What was Lil Pump like when you individuals first met? Pump is an interesting one, ’cause he’s precisely just how he is currently, but recently he has a crap heap more money. When I satisfied him, I assumed we were the same age and then I discovered that he was 15. I resembled, “What the fuck?” He was already smoking even more Backwoods than I ever could.

You stated the tune “Boss” previously. Are we ever gon na listen to the initial version of “Manager” regarding Obama? Wait, exactly how do you also understand that? That’s so weird.

It’s type of like the original version of “Employer.” That’s when we remained in our bags, making music nonstop. The track is really on YouTube. It’s just called “Obama.” It’s an old version of that design of songs that we were recording at the time. It’s actually funny.

One of the important things you do is scenic tour doing solo DJ sets. What do you like about that? How is that different than being a producer?My initial objective was intending to be a producer/DJ as well as put on my own live shows with my visuals and also my music. Yet I was concentrated on working on my songs initially– working on projects and also stuff. I committed 2 years to dealing with rap songs with as several musicians as I can. Now I’m ended up.

Honestly, I took the majority of my time with Pump, ’cause he videotapes a lot of music. Now there’s a cd appearing. It’s dope, ’cause I can concentrate on my album that I’m producing, which is including Pump, Purpp, a bunch of other musicians.

And after that with the DJing part of it, now I can play online shows, play my songs, as well as highlight these hip hop artists that I’ve collaborated with. That’s actually what I’m attempting to incorporate in the EDM globe.

In 2014 you discussed entering into EDM. That’s a wave you’re on? Yeah. I have songs with Dillon Francis, I have tracks with Alison Wonderland. I have cooperations with a lot of EDM artists. I’m servicing putting them out this year as well as doing even more events and shows.

What’s a Diablo solo set like? Truly intense, actually dope. A great deal of hip hop, a lot of bass hefty music. Right now, I’m virtually finished with touring. It’s been fantastic, the response I’ve been obtaining for my real-time shows. I’m really delighted to simply maintain doing this and construct it larger as well as bigger. I have a great deal more fans than I believed I did.

Any type of potential date on the solo cd? I’m striving March. Now that I’m done concentrating on everyone else’s cd, after I’m done with this scenic tour, I’m back home. Then I’m just calming down, just dealing with this cd as well as finalizing whatever. [Henley: “Let’s call it May, to be much more exact.”] Who are you on excursion with now? Dillon Francis and also Alison Heaven.

How’s that going? It’s going fantastic, guy. We’ve been hitting so many cities, so many large programs. We did a show with 8,000 individuals. That was rather dope. It’s really an enjoyable experience, from doing hip-hop shows as well as festivals to bringing that design to the digital scene.

Anything else you desire people to find out about Diablo? Yeah. I’m just delighted to do my own things and also come to be a solo act, performing at my very own events as well as putting out my album this year. Remain tuned.