Latest Posts by kbonwhobeebos - Page 3

is this why i like fungi so much wtf

theyre in a polycule

Isle Unto Thyself from Hawaii Part II

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

reminder to self to write the astarion eating oil paint fic

does anyone else feel violated every time they see an old spice ad because if i see any more unsolicited toes im killing someone

some lethal company doodles i did last night while I was dead and while people were selling scrap/enabling gambling addictions (the one w the crown and the monocle is me btw)

i just tried to show a gaggle of ipad minecraft brain-rotted kids (ie my younger sister and her friends) a dantdm mod review from 11 years ago (specifically the tiny blocks one) and they didnt even have the attention span to watch it. they clicked off after three minutes because they can't handle someone not doing something loud and attention grabbing every other minute. these kids are fucked

so i bought myself Tavern Talk for my birthday and I just got to (no clue what day) when Fable say's they'll always come back to the inn and i just had the mental image of a bartender at one of these taverns who befriends a party of adventurers and then after years and years they suddenly disappear and are found dead and then they realize why all the other bartenders seem so distant from everyone so thats FUN

some subnautica doodles from the last month-ish (including the original sketch of that riley w/ stalker egg one :D)

i just realized there's gotta be some connection between me being obsessed with octonauts as a kid and now being obsessed with subnautica and my ideal career being doing fucked up cool mad scientist ocean stuff

does anyone else thank chatgpt once theyre done or is that just me

i didn't say it was good, i said it has bewitched me body and soul

SPOILERS FOR SLIME RANCHER 2!!!!!

so ive been OBSESSIVELY playing Slime Rancher 2 since I got it a few weeks ago and I finished the actual (released) lore maybe a week ago and OH BOY OH BOY DO I HAVE THEORIES!!! So. To put it simply (and because I think it sounds funny without any initial context) I think Gigi is the future daughter of Hobson and Thora who traveled back in time to destroy the Prismacore.

There's more to it. but i think its very funny to say it like that right off the bat

Evidence Time: -Mochi says that the fireflies you find around Rainbow Island are way too advanced and that they're impossible with current technology. (Time travel implications. It's believable that all the other ranchers we talk to would be kind of like an extended family for Thora and Hobson's kid, so Mochi being an "aunt" for them isn't unbelievable. What I'm getting at is that Maybe Mochi gave the kid some of her tech.) -Gigi says that her childhood feels like a different lifetime. This could just be her saying that after showing the Prismacore to the unnamed company (that I have hatefully dubbed Alterra) makes this current time feel so distant from her childhood, but I feel like one of Gigi's dialogues is something about her feeling like all her memories are playing all at once/out of order/shit like that. (Possible symptom of Prismacore time travel?) -Gigi mentions that her mother was upset she never got to meet her grandma. This is important because Thora looks like an older woman. It makes sense that she never would've met her grandmother if her mother is Thora's age (I'd guess mid 50's-mid 60's) -Gigi has literally fused with part of the Prismacore. Her memories and the possibility of her traveling through time could be a prisma-disruption made manifest by her desire to go back in time to fix the mistake of showing the Prismacore to Alterra -There is also mentions of Gigi growing up on the Far, Far Range on a ranch with her mother and father. The only child we know of who could have grown up (or will grow up as of now) on the Far, Far Range is Thora and Hobson's child. Counter-Evidence Time: -Gigi says that she is what caused the Glass Desert to become a desert. If I'm remembering correctly from the first game, Hobson arrived at the Glass Desert after it became a desert. Unless Gigi time-traveled to the Far, Far Past (ba-dum-tssss) before Hobson and Thora even got together, this doesn't make sense. Or maybe she's from an alternate timeline? -Gigi implies that her parents didn't truly believe in her, or encourage her to do what she wanted. I could chock that up to her being an unreliable narrator, but that's just a shitty excuse. Thora and Hobson don't seem like the type of people to discourage their child from their dreams.

Yeah that's it. That's all I got rattling around in my skull about this. That and the theory that Gigi will disappear (at least from the past) with the destruction of the Prismacore. Because clearly the game is leading up to the destruction of the Prismacore. And then, after she fades out and says her goodbyes to Beatrix, we get a message from Thora and Hobson about their newborn daughter, Gigi.

i got a lil silly again and grgrgrhgrhfrghfrghfgrgrhfgghhhgrrrr ryley

are we just not supposed to question why the aurora had a shit ton of submersibles on it that dont seem to have any kind of other use outside of the water (such as like an actual spaceship) and then conveniently crashed on an entirely ocean planet

Edit: I now know that skimming the non-audio logs is not sufficient for lore purposes

based on a doodle i did in class. might come back and add a background but wabam. ryley robinson

the minecraft movie but instead of the god awful cgi theyre using its all done like a mid 2010s minecraft roleplay video

This fanart is now the reason I wanna fuck Ryley.

ryley robinson hc moment

This made me laugh for like a solid 5 minutes it should not be that fucking funny oh my god

rly robnobsnob from snubauticar

He does magic tricks for his pet fish

17? distracting asks !!!

Ryley Mf Robinson genuinely makes me ill

Theres like jack shit we know definitively abt him, but the little bits of personality from his equip animations and the logs of the crew from the Aurora are fucking sick as hell

I genuinely can't remember if he's part of the repair crew, or engineering, etc cuz I havent played in a bit, but the fact he fucking zaps himself with the repair tool is insane. Like u don't just do that shit unless u already know how to handle one

Also I think him being an engineer/repair staff matches up with my playstyle of fucking around, finding out, and having to repair my goddamn ship and base every tuesday

The fact that he goes to an alian world and SURVIVES when everyone else had succumbed to the sickness is fucking cool as hell. And that he was only able to by listening to the logs and messages from the people before is also like. GODDAMN that's sad as shit. That the only people who have been in ur situation are fucking DEAD is horrifying

Also I've got a lot of hcs for this guy based on the fact that I think he's an engineer. Idk im thinking that he originally had big dreams in engineering different sick as hell ships, before he was put on as repair staff

Also nonverbal autistic ryley let's fucking go

so i was originally gonna make a post about how i was reading the pda entry for the eyeye and how it says that the Alpha Peeper may have been the first thing on 4546B to evolve eyes and how "oh eyes are really complex structures so theres no way they evolved more than once. i mean warm-bloodedness only evolved like twice in mammals and birds so the Alpha Peeper could be the LUCA of 4546B" but then I google it to make sure.

gang. the LOWEST estimate I found was that eyes evolved 8 times independently of eachother. the HIGHEST was something like 1600?????? so thats what this post is about now theres so many different times eyes evolved holy shit

am i the only one who didnt know "I saved the town" is from a longer animation???????? bc i just found that shit out in the last twenty minutes and i want to commit HORRIBLE THINGS

can someone explain to me why all ads for AIDS treatment/awareness has to have some shirtless guy making an ahegao face with massive tits. Like why does it have to be borderline softcore porn

did anyone else catch this while the stream was breaking

twinks should be allowed to initiate divorce

is it normal to have 2 oc's that are just like alternate versions of eachother but they were both born from the same thing? like basically identical.

the best example of this (other than mine) that i can think of is beta Xiao and ingame Xiao and i remember before Xiao was called Atlus in game some fics called beta Xiao Atlus and he was a diiiiiick. Like still prettyboy but an asshole but the main reason im saying this is bc i cemented the lastname for one of my oc's recently and that really diferientiated him between his beta and his current.

Viktor Sweeney was the original and inspired by this cunty vampire i made in a picrew on a whim and went "shit hes actually really hot" so i give him a whole personality and hes a DICK which was the intention because ooo hot sexy vampire. Main difference (other than personality) is that og Viktor was the son of irish imigrants who came to the US in the early 1900's and was very 20's-30's styled. he also lived in the great lakes area which i cant explain why but it just feels right to place him there

and now hes Viktor Soulier (shoutout to my pookie wookie who came up w his lastname <333) and hes just. wet. like a sopping wet cat who got stuck in the shower and accepted their fate. He's also France and has an actual partner instead of just a random y/n situation?? and they have lore??? Cecil doesnt really have a beta version though so fuck them rn

but like is divergent evolution oc's a thing that happens to anybody else???

i dunno if anybody else gets this but i just dont trust electric cars?? like not because "oh electric car bad!" but because I keep seeing some that dont have faces

like this (what comes up when I look up "electric car without grill" or "without face"). It just feels sinister. And the ones I'm seeing around me (i dont know what kind of car they are bc im not a car person in the slightest) are even worse.

cybertrucks dont come off as sinister because the entire thing just looks stupid and nothing like an actual car but these electric cars without mouths just bother me. its like the uncanny valley for cars

so i got Carmilla for crisis right? anyways OH MY GOD it is SO much raunchier than I expected?????? like yeah i knew it was the Lesbian Vampire Novel but it was also written in 1871-1872?????? i was expecting a lot of implied stuff, but Carmilla is just flat out getting handsy w/ Laura and calling her pet names and they deadass make out??? good shit. great shit

im so fucking GRRRYYYFFYYFFFUFUUFUFUUFUFUFFRRGFRRGRGRGGHHHH I NEED SUBNAUTICA 2 TO OPEN EARLY ACCESS IM GONNA LOSE IT IT JUST SAYS 2025 BUT I NEED IT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

I need to roam and explore and scan fish and the only way to really continue the series is to focus on the Precursors instead of Alterra bc fuck Alterra am I right gang and like I would fuck SO HARD with finding more shit out about Architects and their culture and maybe hold on this is coming to me as I type what if the new planet is in the same system as 4546B and all the planets in that system are water planets or some shit? What if. and hear me out. if its not this game and they make more. what if we're on the Architect homeworld???? actually going feral rn at all the possibilities. gonna have to be locked in a padded room until early access if i keep thinking about it

Let's speculate about Architect Society!

I think there are some misinterpretations about how Precursor society works. It makes sense considering how vague a lot of the canon information is, but let me provide some of my perspective and interpretations on what we get in canon.

Architect society definitely deserves more speculation beyond just characterizing them as a race only focused on progress. The current information we have about how Architects operate is underrated in terms of how interesting it is. They definitely aren't a stereotypical hive mind. How Precursors perceive themselves is different from how they actually appear to function. AL-AN's answers don't lack bias. He is an unreliable narrator and often withholds information, so it's crucial to look deeper into the information given and to read between the lines. Especially as not everything is explicitly stated.

Architects exist as a collective—data points in a network—but people often forget that they do not only strive for efficiency. What they do is try to optimize themselves to perform tasks in the most efficient way possible. They strive to achieve and progress their society. This doesn’t mean that they lack culture. They are certainly more streamlined and orderly than humans, but they do have cultural aspects that impact the way they view things.

Some examples of Architect culture:

Architects produce art as seen by the statue in the Koppa mining site and the statue in the Deep Lilypad Caves Body Cache. Even the alien carving from the first game is an example of Precursors producing art with subjectivity.

Architects cultivate plants in greenhouses even though they do not need to eat. Also, of course, they have the Ancient Ornamental Plants that they cultivate for aesthetic purposes.

They hold pride in maintaining and improving a vessel for a long time. If a storage medium gets damaged, they wouldn’t opt to immediately make another vessel—even if it would be the most efficient.

They don’t all use the most popular format for their bodies; there are certain Architects that opt for different styles of storage medium.

Architects consider it rude to duplicate themselves.

All of their technology has similar aesthetic characteristics and design.

Precursors are cybernetic and composed of biotechnological components, yet they start out life as organic beings. They choose to incorporate biological tissues in their vessels suggesting they hold some sort of social ties to being organics. They actively make the choice to incorporate organic components.

Precursors potentially carry some nostalgia for their pre-civilized bodies, considering they model their vessels after them.

Architects have a concept of prestige. AL-AN is noted as the lead scientist for the Kharaa research project.

They have special training for certain young Architects and a Temple of Research that they are inducted into if they are distinct enough from other broodlings.

So, Precursors do not necessarily always do what is the most practical. They can and do practice certain things for subjective reasons. They have emotions that influence their actions. These emotions may not equate to human emotional behavior, but they certainly have them. AL-AN himself expresses shame many times.

While Precursors are a hive mind, they aren’t entirely unfamiliar with the concept of an individual. AL-AN merely says that they don’t see themselves as distinct. However, it is acknowledged at many points that a mind within the collective can have its own traits. Perspectives that either come with a body or ideas and needs that a mind has. They are able to act autonomously. The biggest example is AL-AN himself ignoring the network.

Though a mind having its own ideas doesn’t negate Architects being a collective. Especially when those minds work in conjunction with thousands of other minds to support the needs of the whole. AL-AN is just a very rare case where an Architect gets the opportunity to act as an individual. Even then, AL-AN expresses that being disconnected from the network is lonely and uncomfortable. Aiming to regain connection despite what he did in the past. AL-AN only uses the singular because he's present with Robin.

Precursors being so advanced makes things a little more complicated when trying to discern aspects of their species. We can't push human ideals onto a race so separate from us. Architects—being connected by the mind—do not have the same social structures as humans, so it's unfair to anthropomorphize them with our standards. We can only speculate on how they might work. Just because one mind can have differing traits doesn’t seem to make them distinct enough to classify as singular (within their species’ definition anyway). I'd love for there to eventually be more information given to us about their society.

Besides, all of this isn’t even considering the many unused voice lines that remain in the files that I’d love to go over…

Subnautica: Below Zero is a story about loss, trust, and hope.

After finishing my most recent playthrough of Below Zero, while I was constructing AL-AN's vessel, I realized that there are some pretty major parallels between AL-AN and Sam that I think might tie in more to the story than previously thought. I had always felt Sam and AL-AN's stories were unusually disconnected. Still, after giving a little more thought, I think the parallels play a vital role in Robin's decision to go along with constructing AL-AN's vessel.

Both Sam and AL-AN caused terrible accidents by attempting to solve an issue in a way they thought would be best. They work under a very similar archetype in which a typically composed and rule-following character is stressed due to external pressures. Pushed into taking action. Sam caused Parvan's death and her own by disobeying orders from Alterra and trying to exterminate the last of the Kharaa. AL-AN caused the Kharaa to escape in the first place by doing a similar insubordinate action. Ignoring the directive from his network.

They not only both caused accidents resulting in deaths, but both revolved around ignoring a higher order involving the Kharaa bacterium. Doing something they thought would make a difference under extreme pressure. Irrational thinking ultimately causing disaster.

If you complete Sam's storyline first, it will lead you, the player, into be more open with feeling sympathetic towards AL-AN despite him manipulating Robin. Mostly because it is obvious he is extremely ashamed and is dealing with the sorrow of (potentially) losing his entire species. Though also because it is reminiscent of Sam.

But it is not just you who sympathizes with AL-AN; it is Robin herself as well.

Robin is dealing with a similar sorrow of losing her sister—who was everything to her—because Sam did what she thought would be right. She shares things with AL-AN, assuring him even when she is unsure of him. She knows he is going through his own hardships. Deciding to promote hope even in a time where it seems unlikely. After AL-AN admits to Kharaa getting out on his watch, Robin understands to a degree and offers to help AL-AN because she couldn’t help Sam.

AL-AN himself most likely understands this.

AL-AN begins to open up and trust Robin after she shares the Emily Dickinson poem. After she has this interaction with him, he often attempts to be more understanding with her. He is choosing to imitate Robin's hope. He does not fully understand human social customs, but he can recognize when Robin is conflicted about Sam's death. Even trying in his own way to comfort her. He is dealing with loss as well. Even if he doesn't outwardly show vulnerability until they talk in the Fabrication Facility.

AL-AN knows Robin is going through loss as well. The person she lost did something similar to him, and yet she does not blame Sam. Grief does not go away, but the wound gets smaller over time. She is relieved to get closure to Sam's story even if it still hurts.

If they hadn’t had the conversation about closure after Robin finished Sam's work via curing the Frozen Leviathan, then AL-AN probably wouldn't have revealed what he did at all. He didn’t have to, but he did because they had developed trust. He is, of course, reluctant when doing so, as he is afraid he won’t get his autonomy, yet he does despite it being illogical. Acknowledging his actions even when he predicted she’d be angry. Despite his shame, he chooses to place trust in Robin even when it could result in her pulling away. He trusts that she won't.

Below Zero is such a good story about loss and learning how to cope with that loss despite it still hurting. Learning to trust even when the odds of the circumstances are against you. It is a story about hope.

I adore this game so much