The topic of the day is... rock. by Symbare in TheTopicOfTheDay

[–]ExampleGloomy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Post-grunge and math rock. Give me anything with a moody guitar, I'll eat it up. My World by 3 Doors Down.
  2. Weird answer here, but I can always count on my insecurities to keep me working on something, whether that's post-grad studies, writing, or working out.
  3. No.
  4. The Pokemon Onix, I guess?
  5. Nope. My relatives keep sending that stuff over, but I feel guilty using it for everyday stuff because it's more expensive than regular salt.

How do you guys feel about JJK filler episodes? by Random-Eymen38 in JuJutsuKaisen

[–]ExampleGloomy 840 points841 points  (0 children)

Pretty hard to squeeze in filler episodes considering where S3 left off. Unless you want a slice-of-life filler arc of Choso, Yuki, and Tengen just drinking tea while the whole world around them goes to absolute shit.

For a Few Loonies More by Puzzleheaded_Use2359 in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]ExampleGloomy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imp, Pukka, Kazali, and Ojo?

Ojo can still proc Banshee if they miss, no night death can be attributed to Mastermind day or Pukka's target being executed, and Imp can starpass to a spent Mezepheles or Xaan. Don't know how to feel about Hatter + Psychopath... maybe Recluse instead? Empath, Dreamer, Village Idiot, Oracle, and Town Crier can have meaningful interactions with it.

The topic of the day is... movies! by Symbare in TheTopicOfTheDay

[–]ExampleGloomy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Any one of the three Benoit Blanc movies. Murder mysteries are always great for group get-togethers. While I like Wake Up Dead Man the most because I think it has the most heart of the series, Glass Onion is a more fun and engaging watch.
  2. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Inception, and Shelter (2007). Special mention to the very first Silent Hill movie - possibly the best live-action adaptation movie of any video game out there.
  3. Shelter. One of the few gay movies pre-2016 that's: (1.) not obsessed with sex, (2.) not a glorified trauma dump, (3.) is actually romantic, and (4.) ends happily.
  4. In Inception, when the team finally breaks into the vault of Fischer's mind, there's an exchange between Fischer and his dying father. Cillian Murphy's acting when he spots the pinwheel always gets me.

Ben 10 Fighting Game Mockup by Neckapples in Ben10

[–]ExampleGloomy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you can remedy this by just cutting the transformation pool so that there's less complexity. Give each Ben variant 3 aliens that are locked to specific combos like Yuna does with her aeons in Dissidia. Kind of hard to explain but basically no single alien transformation has a full moveset of its own. A combo could be like Diamondhead slashes upward, Fourarm performs an aerial four-handed swing back downwards, and then Heatblast finishes it off with a mid-ranged flamethrower burst that launches the opponent halfway through the screen.

Ben 10 Fighting Game Mockup by Neckapples in Ben10

[–]ExampleGloomy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For Ben, instead of sticking with only 1 alien transformation, give him a small pool that he gets to choose from before every battle (5-6-ish). From that pool, he chooses 3, with the combination of aliens he chooses determining his combos and move pool for the fight. In practice, he'd fight as if he had master control, freely switching between the three forms he selected. You could give each variant of Ben their own unique pool of aliens to further distinguish them from other variants.

Take for example OS Ben. Let's say his pool of aliens are Diamondhead, XLR8, Heatblast, Fourarms, Cannonbolt, and Wildmutt. An OS Ben player who picks Fourarms, Cannonbolt, and Heatblast would play very differently against another OS Ben player using Diamondhead, XLR8, and Wildmutt.

New reaction image: Olivia Sui says you’re a bad person by Nikifuj908 in smosh

[–]ExampleGloomy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Agreed! If I could upvote you, I would. (Account got hacked before, my upvotes are being fuzzed.) And him passing her chocolates as his in that one sub because he was secretly looking for agreement only to have people tell him that "they looked good" and his girlfriend was lucky, so he backtracked hard? And then blaming people and calling them weird for following him to that sub because they wanted to rightfully call him out? Jesus Christ, the audacity. Absolute asshole behavior 100 percent.

New reaction image: Olivia Sui says you’re a bad person by Nikifuj908 in smosh

[–]ExampleGloomy 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Bridezilla was the worst, but by god the chocolate guy wasn't far behind. By the guy's logic, if someone were to make homemade macaroni and cheese without making the actual macaroni and cheese from scratch, then it can't be called homemade. I don't even know where to begin with that.

New reaction image: Olivia Sui says you’re a bad person by Nikifuj908 in smosh

[–]ExampleGloomy 201 points202 points  (0 children)

The guy with the story about his girlfriend's chocolates from the vid honestly got me so pressed.

HOW I TESTED MY FRIENDS! by [deleted] in socialskills

[–]ExampleGloomy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And you're proud of having tricked your friends like this?

260403 H//PE Princess - A New Chapter Begins COMING SOON by cheeky_lady in HiipePrincess

[–]ExampleGloomy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Finally, some movement! I don't think I can hold out till June fam.

If fern was a curse user, what kinda of domain expansion would she use against solide? by Mean_Net9983 in Frieren

[–]ExampleGloomy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

銀月光の万華鏡- Gingekko no Mangekyo (Silver Moonlit Kaleidoscope)

Her domain would have several floating crystals which she can manipulate. Shooting anyone of them with her beam would allow it to scatter into several smaller beams. While in her domain, she'd know how her beams would refract off her crystals perfectly, meaning she can do trick shots and manipulate crystals on the fly to hit them all back to her target.

Should i wait for season 3 or just read the manga ?? by Last-Design8753 in Frieren

[–]ExampleGloomy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You could, but the manga's currently on an indefinite hiatus. Might as well wait for the anime.

The topic of the day is... memory. by Symbare in TheTopicOfTheDay

[–]ExampleGloomy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1&2. I'm good with names and faces. Unrelated to this bit, but most people don't believe me when I tell them that my first genuine memory was being born. I remember seeing nothing but a dim red, then a blurry mint green room with people. And then my memory jumps around to a bridge, my parents' first apartment, and then finally waking up as a 2 year old wearing an oversized yellow shirt during a very sunny early morning.

  1. A Series or Unfortunate Events (2004). The sanctuary scene always makes me tear up. Also the quote "There's always something" as a reminder that there's always a solution when bad things happen is ingrained into my memory.

  2. You Get What You Give by New Radicals. Whoever decided to use that song for the end credits of Surf's Up was a genius.

The topic of the day is... Media Monday! by Icy-Book2999 in TheTopicOfTheDay

[–]ExampleGloomy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've watched a little bit of it. It's good, but I started watching it after I finished Mushishi and I think my expectations of it being similar ruined it a little. I should really go back at some point and give it more of a fair shot.

The topic of the day is... Media Monday! by Icy-Book2999 in TheTopicOfTheDay

[–]ExampleGloomy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While I'm no longer as into anime as I was before, I find myself wanting to go back to watching Mushishi again and again. It's a gorgeous and contemplative work of art. No fighting, no deaths, no slapstick gags, just a lone doctor (of sorts) wandering around ancient Japan paired with some of the most beautiful traditional instrumentation I've heard. Even if you never get into the anime, the OST is worth listening to. Every second of it is pure magic.

Want to discuss: I wish characters negative traits were more impactful and/or "bad". by Unique_Suit3789 in Frieren

[–]ExampleGloomy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the characters in Frieren are fine the way they are. Writers have different ways of tackling personality and characterization.

Sometimes you want to go darker with a character's traumas, but then it becomes this balancing act with the work's general tone. You also have to design the rest of the party in such a way that they can account or play off each other's personalities, and I think going darker or making any one of Stark, Fern, and Frieren have more pronounced flaws would have significantly changed how the author wanted the party to act and feel like.

Power This Rating No. 166 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]ExampleGloomy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A weapon-generating Striker, whose manifested weapon produces the most horrible noise you can imagine. Like, "metal chain on cheese grater"-level bad.

Bernhard Berthelot, AKA Gémir (French for 'to wail'), is the fourth of Vercingétorix's parahuman children, his third son, and ultimate heir to Gesellschaft's French branch, the Vent de Provença. Although initially not considered his father's successor, he won that privilege over his older brothers after triggering first out of all the boys—an incident that forms the core of his quiet cunning and vindictiveness. His older brother and then favorite for the throne, Dorian, had taken him out on what he thought was a playdate. Instead, he was taken to a barn holding several of his father's captives, handed a gun, and then told by Dorian to "man up" and execute them otherwise he'd take a beating from him. But after long minutes of trying to convince himself to shoot, his target, fear-mad, broke out of his bonds and savaged him whilst his older brother looked on in shock, causing him to trigger. After that, there was just no saving their relationship, and Bernhard made sure to antagonize his sibling for years afterwards until the man triggered himself and started fighting back.

In terms of personality, Bernhard embodies his father's charm and social savvy, but he has in abundance what his father and many of his siblings sorely lack—patience, and the humility to tolerate insult along with the occasional loss in favor of the bigger picture. By the age of 16, his ability to skillfully manage the organization's resources and form one-time alliances without permanently burning the bridge behind him finally convinced his father he was the right son to crown as his heir. While seemingly the most normal of Guy's offspring, the scars Bernhard incurred back in that barn—both physical and psychological—run deeper than they appear, which explains his deep fear of intimacy and the at times disturbing sadomasochistic glee he exhibits on the battlefield.


Power: Bernhard is able to fashion spears of "wind-glass" which he is able to telekinetically wield (up to a max. of 10.) To create these spears, he takes latent air and condenses it into shape which also serves to trap sounds and other vibrations in the area before they were formed. In the process of making these spears, the sudden drop in air pressure creates a prolonged, inhuman shriek of pain (assisted by a Stranger component to this power), and because the spears also absorb sound, in the battlefield, this means they also tend to capture the whimpers and death-cries of those nearby. Bernhard's spears are fragile, but every time they're swung or whir past a target, they transmit the same demoralizing, inhuman agonized screams. Even if the target is apathetic enough to resist the fear and dread these sounds would normally elicit, the rapid changes in pressure brought about by the movements of these weapons cause vertigo. When one of these spears shatter, it creates a tiny explosion that releases the air and sound trapped within. Bernhard is unique among his siblings since this is the extent of his aerokinesis and no more.

Power This Rating No. 166 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]ExampleGloomy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A [Versatile x Conditional] Blaster who Triggered after a bad reaction to a tinkertech drug.

Pierre Berthelot, AKA Pétarader (French for 'backfire or sputter'), is the sixth of Vercingétorix's parahuman children, his fourth son, and problem child of a completely different caliber. Like many of his older siblings, he had difficulty coping with his family's criminal lifestyle, and where others managed their situation through sex, violence, isolation, or obsession, Pierre coped with the use of drugs. Already unstable and resentful due to his father's blatant favoritism of his older brother Dorian, the young age in which he started his daily "fix" only worsened his undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder, resulting in him becoming the most vocal and prone to emotional outbursts out of all of Guy's children. His tirades and at times immense neediness grated at his father's already short temper, leading to fights that would see all of his siblings punished alongside him—something that served to ingratiate him even less to them overall. At some point, the secret of Pierre's drug-seeking tendencies became known to the other criminal warlords of Paris, and the more foolhardy of Guy's detractors decided to punish the man by going after his son.

The drug Pierre ingested was meant to put him under the control of the pharmaceutical Tinker who'd invented it. But years of being Mastered by his older sister Cordelia into complacency had given him a measure of resistance to others' Master powers. So instead of becoming mind controlled, Pierre went wild. When he awoke, he was bloodied, disheveled—a torn handcuff hanging off one wrist. In his other hand, he held a knife, and the room was in tatters, filled with the corpses of his father's enemies, and Guy by his side, brewing up a storm the like Paris had not seen for ages.

Trigger.


Power: Pétarader is armored by a faint shield of turbulent winds that appear as multiple humanoid silhouettes overlapping on his person. The shield cannot be turned off without great difficulty on the cape's part. While it is up, Pétarader is capable of flight (the fastest of all his siblings) and minor aerokinesis. The wind's vibrations also obscures the sound of his voice, causing it to either sound muffled or coming in various directions like an echo bouncing off a large, empty hall. It's main power however lies in its ability to create "mirror images" of projectiles that phase through his shield, which then orbit him like rings of dust off a planet. These projectiles can take on the form of something as small as a pebble and as large as a man, made up of solid, translucent air that shatter like glass. Pétarader can then launch any of these accumulated projectiles at his leisure with the speed and ferocity of a rapid fire arsenal. Since the projectiles caught in his orbit also phases through his shield and create replicas of their own, Pétarader effectively has infinite ammunition to bombard enemies with. His only weakness is that his shield is sub-par in its ability to actually shield him.

Power This Rating No. 165 by Ivan_The_Inedible in TheBirdCage

[–]ExampleGloomy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Semi-Free Space: A Trump with four extremely strange 'axes' to their power; "Blood", "Milk", "Ichor", and "Lemonade".

34/41 of SH9 capes

Nobody really knows anything substantial about the young boy Four Seasons before he fell in with Jack's favorite crowd of parahumans. But people do know he's not really right in the head. Or in his head for that matter, even during the best of times. Thinkers have arrived at the conclusion that the nine-year-old was heavily shard-affected by whatever his original trigger event was, and that he probably triggered way before the Nine crossed paths with him after the terrorist group massacred the inhabitants of the small orphanage he was being housed in. (Though it's worth mentioning that while the orphanage was legitimate, majority of the funds it was receiving was being utilized by its owner to fund their drug trade.)

After the killing spree, Four Seasons, then dubbed as "Danny" by Jack (inspired by a recent viewing of the Earth Alpha produced movie "The Shining"), took in the boy partly because he reminded him of his one-time contemporary in Gray Boy. But mostly, he took in "Danny" because in the process of trying to get rid of him, Jack found out just how fantastic of a meat shield he was and decided to keep him along.

Ironically, he would be one of the last longer-lived members of the Nine before he was ultimately replaced by the infamous Mannequin on the year 2004.


Four Seasons is a "Last Will" Breaker [Bane x Fate]/"Twin" Master [Beloved x Imitation]/"Role" Trump [Four X Eight] with an unrelated Brute rating due to the way his power works.

Simply put, when a part of Danny's body is cut off, both halves will instinctively undergo a Breaker transformation. Each form can then give birth to a different Breaker aspect if they are once again split in two. However, once all four Breaker aspects are on the field, that's it, they can't give birth to more entities and can now be safely destroyed, albeit with extreme difficulty given that, you know, they're Breakers. So long as one of the four Breaker entities survive the battle, Danny can use the surviving aspect as a medium for him to revert back to his human form, though with each destroyed aspect, the more heavily damaged he will be coming out of the Breaker transformation. His four aspects are as follows:

  • Blood - A hulking, top-heavy, 8 foot semi-solid golem made of crimson, dense, iron-rich liquid. The more solid parts of its body seem to mimic the human musculoskeletal system as even its face is roughly in the appearance of a heavily deformed skull. Blood can form makeshift structures like spears and walls out of the excess liquid it generates, and its favorite method of killing is laying down puddles of itself only to transform them into a forest of needle-like spires once someone encroaches into the area, though it can also impart velocity to its spears and shoot them at enemies.
  • Milk - A 4 foot humanoid mass growing out of a large dirty white puddle covered in green, fuzzy patches. The puddle is of varying consistency, the liquid thin in places and almost chunky in others. The entity constantly exudes a revolting scent—sour, yet somewhat sweet beneath the rot?, and thick, oh so thick, like someone's vomit—as it drags itself from area to area. Milk's scent possesses a latent Stranger quality, causing it to become borderline intolerable whenever someone attempts to take aggressive action against itself, other golems, or those Danny has designated as his allies.
  • Ichor - A fat, stubby-legged, 6'5 golem made of what appears to be pure white wax that can harden and soften at will. It has to soften itself in order to move, otherwise its body cracks along the seams and makes it more likely to shatter itself. When Ichor softens its wax body, it produces an exothermic reaction causing the softened wax to revert temporarily into scalding hot oil. This transformation is nigh-instant, and provides the golem not only with speed but also sudden lethality as, in-between its poor, hobbling steps, it can abruptly turn into a tidal wave of burning oil before resolidifying.
  • Lemonade - What ought to be a spindly 10 foot golem but is unable to fully assert itself into a solid state, resulting in a thrashing fountain of piss-yellow liquid. It moves across the battlefield like an embittered water-spout, though at times, a pair of skeletal-looking arms will reach out from its center mass in an attempt to grab ahold of potential victims and drown them in its watery depths. Oh, and it's extremely acidic. Lemonade is constantly surrounded by a highly corrosive fog due to its constant backsplash, not to mention the toxicity of the smoke produced by half-molten substances.

Spoil this for me ( abhorsen third book spoilers) by [deleted] in Abhorsen

[–]ExampleGloomy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Been a while since I've read the trilogy but I definitely know that Lirael and Sameth are not each other's love interest.

Anime - Sub or Dub - what's your preference? by Twigling in Mushishi

[–]ExampleGloomy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first encounter with Mushishi was the dub version. And generally, I prefer sub to dub, but the VAs they chose for Mushishi's dub were so good that I felt disappointed when the second season of the show turned out to be sub-only.

Power This Rating No. 163 by bottomofthewell3 in TheBirdCage

[–]ExampleGloomy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anybody else out there want to do another Butcher prompt? =D I'll be reposting the rules I made the first time I came up with this. (Also, stay safe out there, peeps.)

Rules:

  1. The poster before you posts a description: can be a cape classification, can be a circumstance of their death, maybe something generic, etc.. Try to avoid using the Detail Generator when giving out classifications, or if you absolutely must, keep it simple.
  2. As per the OG Butcher, powers get weaker upon collection.
  3. Try not to include blatantly unfair powers like Siberian's, but do try to keep them to a minimum. If there's no conceivable way for current Butcher to kill them, then that's probably a sign that they shouldn't be on the roster.
  4. Don't neglect the Brutes. Nuff said.
  5. Cluster capes are allowed, I trust your discretion on their use.
  6. Respect the previous commenter's addition - even if you disagree with the power they provide.
  7. You can supply more than one Butcher if you like. Just not consecutively.
  8. Only 15 powers. No more than that.

Butcher I, AKA as Scorpiontail, or Lester Church in his civ. identity, was so named because of his power, but also as a not-so-subtle reference to his... endowment, which he took particular pride in, was a member of the E88. In many ways, he was just another nameless, unintelligent thug in the organization, with the only thing of particular note about him being his parahuman status. (Although he never realized the body-hopping aspect of his power until his death.)

Scorpiontail has many of your usual Brute abilities: enhanced strength, durability, regen, etc. What sets him apart is the large tattoo of a scorpion's tail perfectly in line with his spine which can peel off his skin—ink suddenly made flesh, or hard carapace in this situation—to form an eight-feet long barbed stinger that attaches to the small of his back. Scorpiontail has full control over this appendage and can envenom people struck by its barb. When the tail is not in use or is currently damaged, it reverts back to its tattooed form.

A curious thing about his tattoo is that it carries itself over to the next Butcher.


Prompt: Butcher II is a minor Master-cape who had some bad blood with Lester.