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Clydefrog

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Hi Clyde 🙋

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A Fish Aficionado

I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
A proper WW1 game would be amazing.

You sit in a dank trench for weeks, loosing your mind surrounded by the decaying corpses of your fallen comrades, only to get capped by a German sniper when you are having a wizz.

Play again?
Verdun, valiant hearts comes close.

Storm of steel by Ernst Junger is a must read.
 
I’M WAKING UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I FEEL IT IN MY BONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ENOUGH TO MAKE MY SYSTEM GLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TO THE NEW AGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TO THE NEW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This week’s “Emily Hates Her Life” is brought to you from our very own FakeGAFfer, A Fish Afficionado. All of my hate and disgust is directed at him this week. Not because he’s a Saorsie fan, but because this movie literally made me want to commit seppuku. But don’t they all?

I BRING YOU: “The Host”, starring Saorsie Ronan and a bunch of people no one gives a fuck about. Based on a book written by Stephanie Meyer of “Twilight” fame, so you already know this is going to be dire.

Before we begin, I think you should all know a lil bit about me. Picture this: it is the year 2007. A lone high school sophomore, 15 years old, is reading a book. The book is…the very same one this fucking movie is based off of. And the girl…well, the girl had a lapse in judgement when she decided to read it, in hindsight. But she grew up to be beautiful and amazing and just a sweetheart in general, so everything ended up being okay in the end.

It should also be noted that this movie is the exact same length as 50 Shades of Grey. COINCIDENCE?????????????







Do you enjoy sci-fi tales about aliens? Do you enjoy romantic subplots that are fulfilling and leave you wanting more? Are you a CGI connosieur, and enjoy marveling at the technological accomplishments of films and how awesome they can look? If you answered yes to any of these questions…keep looking. This movie doesn’t have any of those things.

The movie starts off with the planet…being at peace or some shit. Because aliens invaded it and took over the minds and bodies of the human race. They all have these creepy silver eyes and there’s even a montage of a bunch of people smiling at the camera :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

CUE….SAORSIE RONAN. Academy Award nominee…….Saorsie Ronan. Why did you get roped into this shit, sugar plum? Anyway, her first scene is her fighting off a bunch of creepy police aliens in white suits. They all have lighters or something that say “PEACE” on it and I’m….this is so dumb. She knocks the fuck out of like four of them in a really fucking awful fight scene and they just stand there…………………………..

I’m gonna skip ahead and get to the point and tell you that she jumps through a fucking window and dies. The end. The movie is over.

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THANK YOU FOR SAVING US FROM HAVING TO SUFFER THROUGH THIS. I mean, I’m sorry that you’re dead…but thank you.



….I lied. Of course she’s not fucking dead. And to top it off, she magically doesn’t have any broken bones or any internal injuries. Bitch….you just jumped out of a window at least ten stories up. How in the fuck………….

The aliens take her to get patched up or whatever and they insert a silver glowing fuzzy centipede into her neck. CUE WANDA. I’m serious. There’s a fucking alien named Wanda. Well her real name is Wanderer but Wanda is the nickname she gets later on (why do I fucking remember this shit from my youth haven’t I suffered enough).

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I bet Japanese schoolgirls really liked this movie…if you’re catchin’ what I’m throwin’.


So basically these aliens wriggle into a host and then totally wipe out the consciousness of whoever’s currently in there (aka humans, in this case), so now there’s a whole planet of these fuckers walking around in what are essentially human husks for aliens. Sounds pretty fucking awesome to me, tbh. I’d let the aliens win.

Apparently Wanda is like some centipede sage, old and wise, and has been through a bunch of different lives and different species across several planets. There are several scenes of Wanda, in Saorsie’s body, walking around in a sparkly dress, and then she starts to go crazy and omg her host is still in there? Who woulda thought that a super powerful or unusual teenager would be the change necessary to destroy the evil currently plaguing their world?

Fun drinking game: take a shot everytime something stupid happens in this movie. Or better yet, drink the whole bottle in one go and pass out before you even make it past the first five minutes. I’d consider that a huge win tbh.

…but I digress. Wanda starts hearing voices and whatever, so she goes and talks to her friendly alien friend (who’s way hotter tbh) and apparently this bitch is a hunter of rebels who are totally against forcible penetration of centipedes into their necks. Kinkshamers are the worst, aren’t they?

But apparently Wanda’s host was one of these rebels, so…they want to use her to get info. Flashback time!

This movie doesn’t really explain a lot of shit. Like, I know I read the book when I was a wee lass but god damn, it’s so fucking all over the place it makes my drunk brain hurt.

Wanda’s host is named Melanie Stryder, which totally sounds like a name a porn star would have, but that’s just me. I’m not going to get into her backstory other than that because no one fucking cares. Her family died and she went on the run is the basic gist of it. Wow, how FUCKING ORIGINAL. I HATE YOU STEPHANIE MEYER FOR MAKING THIS SHIT UP ASDFGDHGFKLDFJADK

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Can you kill me next? Pretty fucking please? I DON’T WANT TO WATCH ANYMORE OF THIS.


Wanda keeps having these internal battles with her host’s consciousness or some shit, and they have some…I dunno, philosophical battle of wits and Wanda feels bad…I don’t really care. I’m already so apathetic to everything this movie does and we’re legit ten minutes in. Buckle on up, kids. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.


Wanda has a dream of Melanie raiding a fridge, and then some guy comes up and pulls his dick out a knife on her and then he makes out with her because she’s human? Are you serious? ALL I HAD TO DO WAS BE HUMAN AND SOMEONE WOULD MAKE OUT WITH ME? I’VE BEEN STRUGGLING ALL THIS TIME FOR NOTHING???????????????????? Anyway this dude straight up chases her and tackles her as she runs away, which isn’t rapey or anything, but what else will get a girl to fall in love with you these days other than sexual assault? He’s all “I’M HUMAN, JUST LIKE YOUUUUUU, I HAVEN’T SPOKEN TO ANOTHER HUMAN IN TWO YEARS OMG LOVE ME” and Melanie is taking none of his shit…except she lowkey is…because hot boy…and YA source material…

This fuckboy’s name is Jared. In case anyone gave a shit (spoiler: I don’t). He’s all “hey wanna make out” and she’s all “sorry can’t gotta go BABYSIT my stupid fucking brother”, and then he offers her a ride on his dick in his truck and the scene is really stupid and corny please kill me.

Wanda wakes up from the dream and is lowkey like “omg I love jared so much” and melanie’s like “bitch he’s mine???” and they scream at each other internally for a bit and Melanie makes Wanda throw a pencil IN ANGER.

Melanie goes “YOU KNOW DEEP DOWN THAT INHABITING HUMANS IS BAD AND WRONG” and Wanda starts to have some serious emotional struggles, which doesn’t really make sense because the world’s at peace? I mean I know aliens are supposed to be bad but I can’t really see the problem with living in a utopia even though your consciousness basically gets erased. That’s what fucking happens when people drink, and that’s ok, so what’s the difference???????????

Flash forward to another flashback (jesus Christ I’m so confused) to Melanie and her brother living with Jared (*swoon*), and he teaches her brother how to fight while Melanie does laundry (what kind of sexist shit…). Anyway Melanie and Jared are sitting on a couch and she’s all “why won’t you kiss meeeeeeeeeeeeee” and so of course because TEEN ROMANCE they make out a lil and I continue to contemplate suicide. There’s about ten minutes of them gazing into each other’s eyes everytime they pretty much do anything, it’s really gross and too heterosexual for me.

So they’re making out and Melanie’s like “pls fuck me thanks” and Jared’s like “No????????” and she basically has to beg him to have sex with her…I mean, I’m not an expert on the Gays™, but I’m getting a red (and green, and blue, and yellow, and purple, and orange, etc.) flag from Jared. And like, I get that guys aren’t all sex mongering whores but….I’ve just got a feeling…..In short, they bang on a couch, teens everywhere go “THIS IS ME??” and cry.

It should be noted that anytime there’s a flashback, it’s actually Wanda remembering parts of Melanie’s life, so…it’s kind of the equivalent of her watching them fuck from across the street with a super high tech pair of binoculars that she bought from a military distributor online.

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GOD, THE MOVIE IS READING MY MIND, ABORT MISSION.


There’s a stupid explanation for how Melanie got caught, something about them shacking up in an abandoned hotel when the BIG BAD ALIEN CENTIPEDES found them, so Melanie did the heroic thing and jumped out a fucking window so they wouldn’t catch the others. No one actually cares, news at 11.

Melanie lets it slip that the rebels are hiding in the desert and she begs Wanda not to tell anyone, and of fucking course, Wanda’s all “omg I love humans now for no reason, or maybe there’s a reason, but the movie hasn’t really fucking explained that considering I just got here like two days ago, so why I would give a fuck is honestly beyond me, but whatevs” and she and Mel become best friends (I’m gonna call her Mel from now on because I’m getting really drunk and typing is hard).

There’s another montage of Wanda getting interrogated by the hunter lady and then suddenly she’s in a swamp????????????????????? And the hunter lady shows up in a chrome fucking car??????????????? The whole scene is about some moral quandary about “do you sympathize with the humans????????????” and so since I don’t care I use the opportunity to get a drink.

Hunter lady goes “omg we’ve almost found Jared” and MelWa (lmao make this stop) loses her fucking shit and they get maced.

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Goodnight sweet prince…ess.


When MelWa (listen, if I have to suffer through this, I’m gonna make it as unbearable as I can for the rest of you as payment) wakes the fuck up, hunter lady is all “we’re gonna find you a new host” and Wanda freaks because she’s lowkey in love with Mel or some shit (girls are great, Wanda, I’m glad you’ve figured that out too). Hunter lady is all “I wanna be inside Mel for a lil bit…to get her memories…yeah….” MelWa escapes by jumping off a balcony (homegirl’s got a death wish I swear…) and asks some guy for his car. He’s deadass like “okay!!!” and they drive off to Texas to find some dude who will supposedly help them escape.

There’s a dancing scene in the rain and it’s too cheesy for me to handle…and then they make out against a wall and I vomit all over my keyboard. Honestly I hate them so much. Mel’s like “are these memories too painful?” and I’m like “they will be when I remember that I watched this shit, but thanks for caring.”

MelWa has more internal struggles in a car because Wanda’s like “WE’RE GOING TO FORTH WORTH” and Mel’s like “WE’RE GOING TO ARIZONA TO BE WITH MY REBEL FRIENDS” (me: “why would you wanna come here??????”) and then they start fighting over the steering wheel and the car DEADASS FLIPS LIKE FOUR TIMES AND I JUST LAUGHED SO HARD. But obvs they’re ok because they’re so special <3

Wanda goes “Will it still work?” and I die inside because she’s so fucking stupid. Anyway Mel’s like “let’s walk through the desert in heels to find my family!” And so, it is done.

Hunter lady somehow finds out where in the desert the rebel base is…and MelWa keeps on walkin’. They collapse under the only tree in the desert and some old dude finds them. It’s Mel’s uncle! Named Jeb! Time for an awkward as fuck family reunion. Because aliens.

A bunch of other people come up to them and are all “kill it” and there’s some really disappointed looks but long story short MelWa goes back with them to their super secret hidey hole. Which is literally a hidey hole, because it’s a giant fucking series of caves.

When they get there Mel sees Jared but he deadass backhands her???????????? And no one bats an eye?????????????????????????? AND ALL BECAUSE OF HIS MAN PAIN™…………………………………….I NEED A BREAK I HATE THIS FUCKING MOVIE BYE.

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…..I’m back. I had to cry a little because I can’t believe you guys would fucking betray me this way. I’m drunk and don’t fucking deserve this torture. It’s like…every week…y’all find some new and special hell for me. I will forever be changed by this. You are all so cruel.

MelWa wakes up for find Jared glooming at her. Mel’s like “you can’t tell them I’m here they’re gonna kill us” and I’m like “THAT WOULD LEGIT SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS IF YOU TOLD THEM?????????????????????” She eats some bread and Jared protects her from some people who wanna kill her. And they say chivalry is dead! Even though…he fucking slapped her unconscious five minutes ago? Sigh.

So there’s this other guy named Ian, and he’s apparently friends with Jared. “Friends.” They watch people through binoculars a lot.

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”Hey Ian.”
“What, Jared?”
“This rock we’re leaning on isn’t the only thing that’s hard. ;)”
“….I’m topping this time.”



Mel’s lil bro peeks at MelWa through a hole in the ceiling (totally not creepy but ok) and they have a heart to heart discussion about how Mel almost died and it’s supposed to be really emotional but I stopped caring like…as soon as this shit started so. Anyway Jared and Ian come back after coming on each other and tell MelWa to stop polluting the minds of innocent children or some shit. Jared’s all “I hate this thing being here” and Ian’s like…lowkey in love with MelWa? Could…could it be? Not…not a mere love triangle, but…but a LOVE SQUARE?

Jared and Ian go out in a truck…MelWa takes a bath…it’s all really boring (well, moreso than it normally is). This shit goes on for about 15 minutes and in those 15 minutes you learn that there’s a giant wheat field in the caves they’re hiding in? What the fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk this is so stupidddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd. MelWa bonds with her bro over some stars and Wanda’s all “Melanie’s special” and I fuckinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy does this shiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttt exiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssstttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt.

Jeb and Wanda have a moment and he’s all “YOU’RE HERE BECAUSE OF LOVE AND I KNOW MEL’S IN THERE” and then the hunter lady gets a helicopter and almost finds them. Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Anyway I need a break because I deadass want to lobotomize myself bye
 
yeah I can't believe that either. I think I would've started crying or punched somebody in the face.
this is just for the first week, right?

well it's...uh...especially bad the first week because they wanna make it as stressful as possible, but they don't really ease up. you just get better. everytime you eat you have to do it the way they're doing it here, but you're less likely to get yelled at because you know what you're doing.
 
well it's...uh...especially bad the first week because they wanna make it as stressful as possible, but they don't really ease up. you just get better. everytime you eat you have to do it the way they're doing it here, but you're less likely to get yelled at because you know what you're doing.

holy shit. is that why you don't eat that much? I'd be scared too lol.
when my ex showed me around a bit everything looked super chill tbh. people were sitting down playing boardgames during breaks and shit. I had no idea it was like this everyday.
 
holy shit. is that why you don't eat that much? I'd be scared too lol.
when my ex showed me around a bit everything looked super chill tbh. people were sitting down playing boardgames during breaks and shit. I had no idea it was like this everyday.

oh no no they make you do that just for basic training lol, I don't do it now.

Now it's super chill and it's like having a regular job, I can eat when I want and what I want. I have my own room and have pretty much a normal life. They just make BMT stressful for training.
 
oh no no they make you do that just for basic training lol, I don't do it now.

Now it's super chill and it's like having a regular job, I can eat when I want and what I want. I have my own room and have pretty much a normal life. They just make BMT stressful for training.

oh that's good. I'm relieved now haha.
 

Jobbs

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"war is coming" the first words uttered in the warcraft trailer

so... how do I become a hollywood screen writer? I think I could do it
 

zeemumu

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"war is coming" the first words uttered in the warcraft trailer

so... how do I become a hollywood screen writer? I think I could do it

Build up some prior experience writing for whatever and throw a little piece of your soul away every time they ask you to write a script for something you know is doomed to fail.
 

marrec

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A proper WW1 game would be amazing.

You sit in a dank trench for weeks, losing your mind surrounded by the decaying corpses of your fallen comrades, only to get capped by a German sniper when you are having a wizz.

Play again?

But trench warfare was just one aspect of one front of WWI :(

I&#8217;m gonna skip ahead and get to the point and tell you that she jumps through a fucking window and dies. The end. The movie is over.

Would have been for the best of everyone :lol
 

Jobbs

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I've been up all night playing video games and bullshitting

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now I'm drawing. I'm designing a badguy. we know he's bad because his helmet looks scary. this is how it's done, assholes

I want to open wy trailer with "Smore is coming" and then someone is making smores by a bonfire
 

zeemumu

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I like video game antagonists who look old and decrepit but are still clearly very strong(pretty much any Souls boss), and antagonists who are your equal on an opposite end of the spectrum(Dark Samus, Lumen Sage, Vorkken, Jetstream Sam, etc.).
 

Jobbs

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I like video game antagonists who look old and decrepit but are still clearly very strong(pretty much any Souls boss), and antagonists who are your equal on an opposite end of the spectrum(Dark Samus, Lumen Sage, Vorkken, Jetstream Sam, etc.).

he's more of an asshole side character... I have VO recorded for him but he just sounds so evil that it's over the top, so I'm making him not talk. instead he just sorta breaths loudly without saying anything. sometimes less is more.

:: editing ::
 

zeemumu

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I don't think I've done anything for personal game design since I started drawing the sprite version of that mummy and splitting his limbs up to make it easier on spriter's skeleton system.

Vorkken's the best, though

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Jobbs

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ugh I hate w101... I tried to like it.. but I hate it

spriter eh? I bought a spine license and I fully intend to learn it once I have the time. I think that's the future for me

anyway the story context for this character is he is hundreds of years old and only being kept alive by his equipment.

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the sketch on the right is where I think im headed for his neutral sprite frame

I communicate that he's mean by having his helmet look scary, and a nice person would never wear a scary helmet. duh

we also see him murder a friendly character midway through the game
 

FloatOn

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Asymmetrical arrrmmmmmssss

This is like the fourth time I've seen you draw something like that. I think it's cool looking but I can't help but to think of akira every time.
 

Jobbs

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Asymmetrical arrrmmmmmssss

This is like the fourth time I've seen you draw something like that. I think it's cool looking but I can't help but to think of akira every time.

Asymmetrical is the best metrical

Fuckers I don't wear makeup to impress you or make you want me, I wear it for me because I like it

and this is absolutely the best reason to wear or not wear anything. I think you yelled at me for this, and while I haven't searched out the quote, I am pretty sure I qualified my statement by saying no one should care what I think and they should do what they want makeup-wise
 
ugh I hate w101... I tried to like it.. but I hate it

spriter eh? I bought a spine license and I fully intend to learn it once I have the time. I think that's the future for me

anyway the story context for this character is he is hundreds of years old and only being kept alive by his equipment.

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the sketch on the right is where I think im headed for his neutral sprite frame

I communicate that he's mean by having his helmet look scary, and a nice person would never wear a scary helmet. duh

we also see him murder a friendly character midway through the game

looks awesome! is there any way to get an overview of pc control settings in the beta? like playing wihtout gamepad? :s maybe I'm just too dense to find it
 

zeemumu

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ugh I hate w101... I tried to like it.. but I hate it

spriter eh? I bought a spine license and I fully intend to learn it once I have the time. I think that's the future for me

anyway the story context for this character is he is hundreds of years old and only being kept alive by his equipment.

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the sketch on the right is where I think im headed for his neutral sprite frame

I communicate that he's mean by having his helmet look scary, and a nice person would never wear a scary helmet. duh

we also see him murder a friendly character midway through the game

His appearance and the way you describe him makes me think of that guy from Hellboy who's full of sand and has to keep winding himself up and has arm blades.
 

Jobbs

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His appearance and the way you describe him makes me think of that guy from Hellboy who's full of sand and has to keep winding himself up.

if I recall that character was just a drone being controlled by someone else, but yeah I guess there are some stylistic similarities

looks awesome! is there any way to get an overview of pc control settings in the beta? like playing wihtout gamepad? :s maybe I'm just too dense to find it

thank you &#10085;

and yeah.. it's not easy to play with keyboard and wasn't designed for it, but it's possible. I play it that way for testing sometimes because I don't feel like reaching for the gamepad, but it's definitely a bit clunky because of the amount of buttons needed.

Keyboard Controls: (Not recommended, but possible)

Z: Jump
E: Interact
X: Fire cannon
D: Fire special weapon

Shift: Hold for diagonal aim mode
F: Cycle weapons

A: Dash left
C: Dash right

Q: Toggle map overlay

Arrows: Movement/aiming

as the game goes on, certain moves require button combinations and it only gets harder hehe
 
I think I've mentioned before how much I hate that shit, guys who are all "I like you better without rabblerabble"

Fuckers I don't wear makeup to impress you or make you want me, I wear it for me because I like it

It's also like just saying "Hey I think you don't look good like that"

Which I don't think anyone who isn't a total dick would ever actually say to someone

Basically our gender is full of garbage, sorry
 
if I recall that character was just a drone being controlled by someone else, but yeah I guess there are some stylistic similarities



thank you &#10085;

and yeah.. it's not easy to play with keyboard and wasn't designed for it, but it's possible. I play it that way for testing sometimes because I don't feel like reaching for the gamepad, but it's definitely a bit clunky because of the amount of buttons needed.



as the game goes on, certain moves require button combinations and it only gets harder hehe
thanks! will try out.
I really need a functioning gamepad sometime soon. most games aren't designed for m+k anymore
 

Jobbs

Banned
It's also like just saying "Hey I think you don't look good like that"

Which I don't think anyone who isn't a total dick would ever actually say to someone

Basically our gender is full of garbage, sorry

I looked up the quote and I wrote it when I was thinking about how I liked HN with minimal makeup like when she gets off work, I wasn't trying to impose my preference on anyone else

thanks! will try out.
I really need a functioning gamepad sometime soon. most games aren't designed for m+k anymore

good luck and remember that demo is A YEAR OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it was honestly designed kind of as being a "console game" even though it's on PC.. it doesn't even use the mouse
 

Xiao Hu

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'You may rub my belly once but then I will bite'

I found the bloody female version of Garfield today. She's so fat I would call her obesed which is astonishing since she's a street cat.


Tonight is beautiful. It's a shame but also a blessing that the Bund is practically dead at night. Shanghai is metropolis on her own.

He was a nazi scientist with a fucked up face.

latest

Ehm, he basically removed his own eyelids, lips, nose and ears to resemble his perverted view of the ideal man...horrific
 
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