#these things are MOTHERSHIPS

[swan2swan]

Star Wars nerds will really point at a ship designed to command and direct scores of smaller craft in the midst of pitched three-dimensional warfare while simultaneously relaying communications between ground armies hundreds of miles apart on the planet below whie simultaneously surveying the battle zone around the ship itself and directing its own hundreds of weapons and say “Wow, putting the command center on a tall tower is a ridiculously obvious design flaw.”

#''well that's why they have communications relays and automation and sensors'' there are sensor jammers #ion blasts #one good hit to your sensor towers could blind you if your bridge is deep #the command tower is designed to be an all-or-nothing defensive area #heavy shields lots of guns surrounding it and a penchant for keeping it away from the battlefield #these things are MOTHERSHIPS #keeping the antennae close to the bridge minimizes delay and feedback and interference #meaning maximum synchronization and heightened efficacy #star wars #star destroyers #look #evrery time

[freakartack]

we need the funk we gotta have that funk

#that's required listening by the way i'm not just saying things. mothership connection is the album of all time. anyways #warioware #jimmy t #art

[ihaveanxietybutiwillfightyou]

What Fallout 4 is truly missing:

- a dlc where the sole survivor is kidnapped and is forced to work with a strange group of people to escape

- a dlc where they're kidnapped and have to find their stolen brain/piece of brain

#fallout 4 #sole survivor #fallout 3 #lone wanderer #new vegas #courier six #point lookout #mothership zeta #dead money #old world blues #like why did this keep happening #idk what happens in fallout 1 or 2 but it seems important to keep adding those things in

[bloodoftremere]

E C L I P S E

Episode 3: The Dark Zone

#eclipse mothership rpg #eclipse rpg #mothership rpg #warden #peter #miguel coronado iii #alexander ward #alex ward #i watched episode 3 and i loved it SO much #excuse the shitty gifs there's an issue w the video i think #screencaps were all choppy and froze every once in a while... #this thing took me an entire afternoon lmao #it's fine #i did this for me mainly lmao #tremeregifs #myeclipse

[opha]

i'm trying to wrap my head around why fallout prime bothers me so much more than the slop bethesda has been churning out since they acquired the IP, and... i think it's that with the games, you can at least find distraction in the moment-to-moment from how bad everything is. it's harder to actively apply critical analysis when you're getting shot at.

in the show, what you see is what you get. the moments of good it leads with (mostly the humor and tone and the strong first episode) elevate the bad to be even more jarring and tragic later bc it's so clear that given enough time and effort, it COULD HAVE been good. past the initial hype for fallout 3 before anyone knew what it would become, bethesda has never made anything good enough to disappoint me because i was never hopeful in the first place. i got baited and switched.

#fallout prime #fallout #point lookout and far harbor were good stabs at an original fallout story but they botched far harbor by tying it into the main plot #i don't remember point lookout's plot and i truly and honestly don't want to bc its setting was the ONLY thing that impressed me in fo3 #we don't talk about operation anchorage. or mothership zeta. we can talk about the pitt bc the baby eating mod is funny #btw you should watch tomatoanus's any% baby eating speedrun. it's good

[anisaanisa]

Will you be participating in any of the IY Fandom events this year? (Inu-Spiration, InuSecretSanta, Inuvember, Sugar and Spice Event, etc.)

Hello, anon! I realise you’ve sent this ask to multiple people, so in the interest of your interest check, I’ll answer your question. I tend to keep musings to hashtags, but as my closest friends here know, I’m an opinionated mouthpiece when given the opportunity. So, I’m going to be honest about my feelings here, since you asked in such good faith.

But for future reference – you don’t need to hide. I won’t bite unless asked. Note: These opinions are my own and not a direct reflection of how others may feel, or the coordinators of these events.

Inu-spiration: No. Mystery-bag art isn’t on my Christmas list, and the same goes for writing. When I want to collaborate, I have options, and those options come with people I adore and admire, and afford me the gift of knowledge. Not knowing who/what/when/where/why I’m being paired and the type of work I’ll create is not in my repertoire of a good time, and from personal experience, participants tend to be laden with stress up until the very last moment. In the interest of peace and tranquillity, it’s a no from me.

InuSecretSanta: My calendar quakes. In the interest of peace and time-keeping, it’s a no from me.

Inuvember Mothership (and somehow FC) Bingo: No. And because you forced me into having to read, re-read and make sense of something that doesn’t make sense, I returned the favour – this is going to be longwinded.

Incoherent: I have to read a lot to get to the meat of what this event entails. My brain is flighty, and I tend to skip ANs on a good day – so when I did just that, I was brought to percentages. So, I have to go back up to the top to understand why those are there. And when I read it all, it’s still not very clear what the aim is here – apart from, of course, competition, competition, competition.

Longwinded: Bingo. A game beloved by many, particularly OAPs and children. It usually comprises of a card and a time and place to meet. This event, so far, has come with 2 announcement posts, neither of which is a bingo card, and an edit (which I’ll get into) to the event itself. As per the previous incoherency issues, neither of these announcements have come from the Inuvember page, and have been spread between 2 other blogs. Having to jump through multiple hoops to find information is a PR nightmare, and I’ve already thrown my laptop out the window because I don’t know where to look. The OAPs and children weep, for the adults don't have the answers.

Exclusionary: This one is two-fold, so I’ve broken it down. -Themes: are, at best, exclusionary. Forcing people into rare characters and rare pairs has pushed the majority of the fandom out of participation within the first 2 weeks. On top of that, the original event comprised of an entire week of whump, which is baffling for so many reasons – so by week 3, there are half a dozen people left who might participate. By the time we reach week 4 – the only one that makes a lick of sense for a fandom-wide event – it’s Tropes, which, besties, no… Whump is a Trope. And as a final hoorah, the event has been amended before we’ve even seen a bingo card. If that isn’t fumbling the bag, I don’t know what is. At this point, we have 3 weeks until November, no Bingo card, and very little time to come up with a Hojo Whump story. – Competition: Ain’t my schtick. Leaderboards, as a concept, are not cute. Fandom is an escapist plain, and with the incredibly niche themes and modge-podging that has to be done to earn points/percentages/whatever, all but 2 people have “lost” their chance to place anywhere. To meet any requirements here, you’d have to give yourself over to the toxic productivity that only a handful of people thrive in. We already have a quarterly competition that happens too frequently for a small, dying fandom, so this portion of the event was unnecessary, ill-advised, and just plain whack.

Transparency/Prizes: There are prizes…apparently. There has been no mention of what they are and should have been announced from the word go. I’ve gleaned that this section of the event may have sprouted from Feudal Connection’s input, considering I've spotted they've answered a few concerns already. From personal experience, I have received 2/8 Winners banners promised from that specific event (which I do not feel to/shouldn’t have to chase, and no, I’m not a special case here), have found it to be nothing but an administrative nightmare from the ground up, and can't compute when suggestions for improvement are met with combative resistance to change. With all that being said, I am 1) not surprised this hasn’t been coordinated/planned properly yet and 2) not convinced that they will be worth the hassle of chasing up when/if these promises are met.

Convoluted: From my wading through multiple blogs and posts, I have concluded this is a Mothership event and bears no real affiliation with Inuvember, apart from appearing on a banner and in a tag. Three separate blogs/events conducting one’s brainchild is confusing at best, and I struggle to understand where FC or Inuvember come into this event other than being guilty by association.

TLDR: From my understanding, previous Inuvember events have been this: 30 days of themes for us to celebrate our love for Inuyasha as a fandom, in whatever way we see fit. This is 30 days of competition to see whose Franken-fic comes out on top. Fandom accolades have never been the aim of my game, so you’ll have to find this very, very particular bloodlust elsewhere. Verdict: In the interest of peace and sanity, it’s a no from me.

Sugar and Spice: Probably not, cause it’s too far in the future for me to say for certain what with having no concept of time. In the interest of refusing to believe 2023 is near, it’s a no from me.

Etc: Fandom is supposed to be about fun. And yes, some find competition and Being Number 1 fun. But I’m tired, I have a child to raise, and I just wanna write/draw my silly little grocery store daydreams and delight over them with my friends. I do not care who is the best. I do not care about stretching myself thin for things that do not bring me joy. And you won’t find any HoW tO WiN aT FaNdOm nonsense here. We have snacks – that’s about it.

Hope this helps! 🥰❤

#hashtag just fandom things #inu-spiration #inusecretsanta #inumothership #inu-mothership #feudalconnection #inuvember #inuyasha

[tiwazmannaz]

#duergar #mindflayer #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd #first session of the new year and first session in nearly two months oof #I'm trying to do art for my dnd game that actually helps me improve at the things I want to improve at #instead of backgroundless portraits forever #the party ended up letting themselves be abducted by mindflayers to get into their mothership

[traskomancer]

RPG a Day 21-25

Day 21: Favorite licensed RPG

Free League's Alien RPG, hands down. I can't think of any other licensed games I even play off the top of my head, and the Alien game is very well done. The stress mechanic and 3 act structure go a long way to achieving the feel of the source material.

Day 22: Best secondhand RPG purchase

Not even a purchase but a trade; I swapped a 5e book to @marquisnaberius in exchange for the 2e Unknown Armies core book and the 1e One Shots book. As far as strictly things I've bought, I did get a lot out of my set of core books for D&D 3.5 as a kid despite barely actually playing that particular edition. I was used to 4e and the juxtaposition was interesting. Also, I like the sketchy art style in the PHB.

Day 23: Coolest looking RPG product/book

I'm very partial to games that have a diegetic-ish style, like Monsters and Other Childish Things, the Unknown Armies 3e character sheet, and so on.

I also really like the art and feel of the Mothership scenario Gradient Descent. As far as the coolest art, Over the Edge 2e has some great stuff, though there are many others I could mention. Tales from the Loop is obviously designed around its art to some extent. This is definitely a prompt with a lot of answers.

Day 24: Complex/simple RPG I play

I think D&D 5e is the most complex RPG I feel I fully understand, and I do mean I FULLY understand it. I have half the monster manual and spell lists memorized and can improv anything else I need. It is kind of nice having a system of moderate-to-high complexity at my beck and call. I know there are much more complex systems around, including other editions of D&D, but I don't really want to make the mental investment of learning them. That's not what I enjoy in RPGs these days anyway. If I want crunch I'll play a video game.

As far as the simplest game, Fiasco is basically improv with a little bit of dice prompting for structure. So if you consider improv simple, which I feel is a plausible perspective, then that would count. One page games like Lasers and Feelings and Everyone is John of course also count for this.

Day 25: Unplayed RPG I own

Oh god, so many. I've already mentioned Monsters and Other Childish Things a few times in these prompts. Troika!, Ryuutama, Liminal Horror, Vaesen, The Dee Sanction, Mothership, and Fellowship all also fit this category. And that's to say nothing of all the games I've played once or twice and would love to come back to...

#rpgaday2023 #ttrpg #alien #unknown armies #dnd #Monsters and other childish things #Mothership #over the edge #Tales from the Loop #Fiasco #lasers and feelings #everyone is john #troika! #liminal horror #ryuutama #vaesen #the dee sanction #mothership #fellowship

[gideonthefirst]

man i love ttrpgs....i love my FRIENDS i love my GUY i love beautiful things happening by ACCIDENT

#i. wow. #odette really. that swan mech was falling out of the air and going to crash land and maybe kill people and Definitely destroy people’s homes #and they CAUGHT it and turned around and HURLED it into the mothership....... #and. and. and. yeah maybe a little part of giselle WANTS to be a hero hasn’t every piece of her always been about desperately trying to make #up for. everything. and that was. man #gianna wasn’t there to see it and maybe there wasn’t even anyone there to be saved but #odette and giselle did NOT want to be using these mechs they did NOT want to but. now no one will ever use most of them ever again and #the swan is Destroyed and. they used it Against the mothership and they Caught it.... #and it was an ACCIDENT............. #i really love the moment there is sometimes when you can tell liam’s Locked Into a Story Beat #and their tone of description and voice shifts and like. just the. you see these apartment buildings and how i Could see i Could it all #zoomed out............ #i just. WOW. so many other Big Things happened today but. man. man. #liam i haven’t seen you on tumblr in a while but if you see this i. man do i love playing with you #dnd blogging #campaign: glitterhearts

[bingobongobonko]

a review for ME. total rating. 6/10. good coloring, better understanding of color theory n stuff, no longer strictly sticking to lineart. not enough hassan de ruyter. that is all...

#but in all seriousness just for sillies. wanted to see my progress this year :) its ok i think. i do really want to go back to lineart. #i LOVE coloring i will continue to do so but i also get a huge kick out of B/W sketches and drawings #thats not my final drawing for dec but it is the first so i can techniucally do this #mothership fanart i am about to draw you. i will. give me a few hours. a day even #art year in review #but yeah man. genuinely proud of myself. been doing things i didnt think i'd ever do #comic for one #i am giving you big thumbs up. thank you for sticking around. love you folks lots

[punk-rocking-rose]

the next fallout game needs to be in that area around michigan that we blew up in fallout 3

#from mothership zeta #the death ray thing

[pussy-ache]

this morning there was a radio segment where the hosts called a woman who didn’t want to go on a 5th date with this (clearly unlikeable) man and asked her why she stopped dating him. it was a gross segment from the beginning but then its revealed its cuz the dude is an alien freak supposedly? like i’m trying to figure out if it was scripted. she literally was like “i wanted to stick my salad fork in my eye so he’d shut the fuck up about aliens” and this whole time he was quiet in the background and then he pipes up like “BUT THE GOVERNMENT ADMITTED ALIENS EXIST” and the host is like “well i’m gonna interject here, there was some admittance to UFO sightings that were supposedly confirmed, but that doesn’t mean that ALIENS themselves were confirmed” and then the woman was like “don’t get him started he’ll never shut up you couldn’t pay me to speak to this freak again i HOPE he’s abducted” and then he was like “THE ALIEN RAPTURE IS COMING FOR YOU ALL BUT I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS” or something like that, then started talking about reptiles (antisemitism..?) and then she’s like “i hate this guy so much” and then the phone call got cut completely cuz he starting cursing straight out

#i still can’t figure out if this was a skit or what #i’ve never heard anything like it #my uber driver was like ‘’idk they do this segment a lot. it’s always normal things nothing this crazy’’ and he thought it was real #i’m still absolutely floored by psychotic men #before they even called the woman this alien freak was like ‘’she wouldn’t come back to my mothership with me at the end of our last date’’ #and then the host was lile ‘’but you didn’t ACTUALLY call it your mothership did you? cuz that might be the problem’’ #and there was a really weird awkward silence and he then he was like ‘’well as a JOKE…MAYBE’’ #and this was before she came on and revealed his alien obsession. but i knew based on his awkward silence that he was a weirdo

[strangetown-gaming]

sorry I've been flopping, i was super busy over the weekend, i saw miura ayme and i have no posts ready !!! <3

#just girly things - i have no braincells #too busy having fun and twirling my hair #🛸 mothership communications

[toaarcan]

I’m finding it really hard to view the Titanic submersible nonsense with appropriate gravity because goddamn this was the most avoidably stupid way to die we’ve seen in a while.

Oh it's an untethered, van-sized tube, steered by an off-brand PS3 controller, that navigates via text messages from the mothership, the texts are transmitted by Musky’s satellites, and it has no hatch, instead being bolted together around the occupants from the outside. The CEO of the company considers “safety” an obstacle, and the vehicle is unregulated and unapproved, so you have to sign a waiver that mentions death three times in the first page to board it. Every single one of those points is a reason to not board the thing.

And to top it off, these dipshits decide to name their ACME-ass submersible the Titan, and take it to the most legendary monument to Man’s Hubris on the planet, 3.7 kilometres into the abyss. Like there’s tempting fate, and then there’s this horseshit.

These MFs paid $250000 for a Darwin Award and a starring role in “Worst ways to die” Youtube videos for decades to come.

Don’t weep for the stupid, you’ll be crying all day.

#Titanic #Titanic Submersible #Titanic Submarine #OceanGate

[fircyca]

In Descent, Jonas Quinn risks his life to save SG-1 by swimming into a flooded section of the mothership and releasing the controls allowing our heroes access to the ship's landing bay. “Corin Nemec is able to hold his breath for over a minute-and-a-half, which surprised the hell out of all of us,” laughs producer Peter DeLuise, who also directed the episode. “I was holding my breath while watching him and I couldn't believe how long he was able to stay under the water.” Paul Mullie continues, “Peter shot this take that followed Corin all the way down the corridor. He swam into the room and started playing with these controls. Corin moved a bunch of discs around and then he swam around to the other side and did the same thing. It was one continuous shot and it lasted almost two minutes. We said, 'We have to use this shot. There is no way the audiences are going to believe that he did this unless we show an uninterrupted take. Unfortunately, one of the discs fell out of Corin's hand, so there's a moment in the episode where we had to cut away to do an insert. It's going to look like we tried to strech the scene out so that it would seem more heroic that his character stayed underwater for that long, but, in fact, Corin actually did.” (TV Zone Special #46)

#stargate #stargate sg1 #stargateedit #jonas quinn #mine #*

[found--family]

hmmmmm.. 

#spnwin #spn prequel #dean #when they said they were gonna be faithful to the canon of the mothership we all thought they meant #john not knowing about hunting etc. ngl it makes me queasy to think they're acknowledging dean dying #but they also mentioned spn being a show where things can change (nothing ever really ends) and #we know jensen is keen to resurrect dean and sam in a potential future miniseries or movie #but the pessimist in me thinks they'll still 'respect' canon ie. that terrible ending ie. they'll go back to heaven (prison)