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26, cartoon and video game liker.


Occasional NSFW rechosts, ask me to tag if necessary.


You can find art I made under #bvart!


A low resolution website banner depicting a close-up of Xenia, the Linux Fox's face against a red background. To the right is large, bolded text reading "LINUX" accompanied by smaller text underneath reading "the choice of a GNU generation."

A deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of an elderly person's face to the right of white text reading "I'm thinking about those beans" with grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. The background is a photo of baked beans.A deviantART styled stamp containing a screenshot of Mario from Super Mario 64, edited to be giving the viewer a realistic middle fingerA deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of a hairless pet rat next to a toy keyboard with rainbow-colored keysA deviantART style animated pixel stamp featuring cropped artwork of femtanyl's mascot. "FEMTANYL" is spelled out in white pixel letters on the mascot's forehead that individually turn red from left to right in a loop
An 88 by 31 pixel banner of an abstract floating head creature with a liquid eye facing away from the viewer, a closed eye with an eyelash facing towards the viewer, and teardrop-shaped gems coming out of the eyelash. Xhe is accompanied by text reading "Charm will protect you!" and is depicted in front of a purple background.an animated 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with alternating photos of Laura Les and Dylan Brady's faces screaming, sourced from the back cover of the album "10,000 Gec". The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with a crude scrawling of the word "GECS".an animated 88 by 31 button. along the top is text reading "SPONGEHEAD" in a font from Spongebob Squarepants, colored in black and cohost's plum color. below is smaller Spongebob font text reading "prof-badvibes" in green, with one letter at a time in sequence flashing white. To the sides are Incidental Number 7, a background character from Spongebob, and Eggbug, the cohost mascot, colored to resemble Spongebob.an 88 by 31 button of the transgender pride flag against a gray background next to text reading "trans rights now!"
an 88 by 31 button featuring animated pixel art of Reimu Hakurei from the Touhou series against a gray background. she is pictured next to text reading "powered by Reimu."an 88 by 31 animated button. the button starts showing a blue color, but the point of view zooms out to reveal a blue variant of Tux, the Linux penguin, against a gray background. text reading "Linux powered" appears in the banner to the left of Tux.an 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with a photo of Weird Al Yankovich's face. The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with the word 'Yankovic'.an 88 by 31 animated button of the Lapfox Trax logo, which is the word 'LAPFOX' in bold serif font with a cartoon fox's head replacing the 'O'. The logo is in front of a rainbow color-shifting grid
A parody of the "Netscape Now!" 88 by 31 pixel button. To the left is a rotating marijuana leaf, and to the right is text reading "Legalize Now!" along with the letters M and J in the bottom right corner.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a yellow-to-green hue-shifting background. To the left is a cropped piece of clipart showing the top half of a newspaper cartoon-styled individual's face looking at the viewer in a goofy way. The clipart is accompanied by text reading "FREE STUFF" in bolded all capital letters to the right.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting two photographed women looking up and to the right against a white background. Text reading "GAY WOMEN" in bolded all capital letters can be found to the right, with the word "gay" being larger and emphasized.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a sprite of a blinking one-eyed green alien from the Commander Keen games. To the alien's right is text reading "Accursed Farms".
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a rainbow peace symbol to the left of blue text reading "Peace Now!", both against a gray background.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an inverted United States flag with the stars replaced by a 'no' symbol. On top of the flag is black handwritten pixel text reading "ACAB".An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting Super Mario running to the right through a 'window' to the left. To the right is blue text reading "Dave's Videogame Classics".An 88 by 31 pixel banner containing sprites of Kris and Susie from the video game Deltarune. Susie is looking at Kris with a cartoonishly angry expression. Below the two is white text against a black background reading "kris where tf are we."
An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a gray background. To the left is a 'window' showing a sprite of a dove against a black background. The dove is shown flying and being covered up by a red X symbol in two alternating frames. To the right is black-and-gray flashing text reading "DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT" in all-capital letters.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an illustration of Hatsune Miku against a gray background. Miku is blinking her eyes and smiling on alternating frames. To the right is text reading "This site is Miku Approved", with 'Miku' in large, bolded blue letters and 'Approved' flashing rapidly between blue and red.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the transgender pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the blue Sega logo against a white background.
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a screencap of Blender version 1.X, with a classic-styled logo and a wireframe cube in the centerAn 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the words "download SBURB" next to a logo of a minimalist lime-green house separated into segments. The word "SBURB" is rendered in a bold, cartoony, lime-green font.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the lesbian pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting character art of Sonic from the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2 against that game's title screen background.
an 88 by 31 button of the blue-and-orange logo of the Doom video game series to the right of the Doomguy's grinning Heads Up Display face against a gray background.

Thanks to @framebuffer for my profile picture, @candiedreptile for the Charm button, @softwareangel for the Spongehead button!


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gosokkyu
@gosokkyu
Anonymous User asked:

do you have a favorite piece of highly-specific JP player jargon for something? eg. the last hibachi pattern in DDP being named for its resemblance to a fugu sashimi platter

idk how widespread this is, but here's one I was hit with recently that I needed to have explained to me: "terete", which fighting game players were saying whenever a player won with a cinematic super—turns out it's a we-say-this-so-often-we-don't-inflect-anymore derivation of "te ♪re~ ♪tte~ ♪", ie the opening "you wa shock" refrain from Fist of the North Star, which plays in instrumental form whenever you hit a Fatal KO in the Arcsys fighting game


gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

come to think of it, here's an example of a piece of JP terminology that's matriculated to EN circles, to the amusement of some JP folk:

many long-standing Tetris mechanics are commonly referenced via three-letter acronyms: DAS (delayed auto-shift, ie the specifics of how pieces move when the left/right input is held), ARS and SRS (Arika Rotation System/Super Rotation System: different rulesets for how pieces rotate and kick, etc).

One such term is ARE, used to refer to the forced duration between a piece locking and a new piece spawning... but it doesn't stand for anything, it's literally just the JP word "あれ (ah-ray)" written as if it's an initialism, and it's not a word like "abare" that succinctly describes a very specific concept, it's basically just a filler word (akin to "that thing") that people would use offhandedly without explicitly defining what they're talking about, so it's kinda silly that it's jumped the language barrier and not been substituted for something that's at least a little bit descriptive.


gosokkyu
@gosokkyu

a certain TGS panel just gave me the backstory to a certain piece of jargon that I'd occasionally heard/read but never understood out of context: "Tamaki (玉置)", a slang term for safe spots, ie specific areas on the screen where the player will be unable to be hit by enemies/bosses/attacks—it's a reference to the lead singer of the early-'80s rock band Anzen Chitai ("Safety Zone"), and the term was specifically concocted by the magazine Gamest in order to keep publishing strategy info without drawing the attention of certain arcade game makers who didn't want info like safe spots being proliferated, as they saw them as tantamount to bugs and harmful to a game's income. I think I'd just presumed it was the name of some old Xevious player or somethin'.

(Apparently Toaplan was one of the few big arcade devs of the day who approved and actively welcomed articles on strategies like safe spots.)


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in reply to @gosokkyu's post:

For some reason I read あれ not as the vague “that thing” descriptor but as the “surprise/confusion” interjection, like あれ? and I briefly enjoyed the idea of someone being surprised at the duration of time between a piece locking and the next dropping

to be clear i think we can probably blame jagorochi for this one as he invented a bunch of terminology (i.e. DAS was his brainchild even if it is considered official now) when he lived in japan and was one of the first westerners to touch tgm

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