For the past few days, I’ve been sitting at my computer trying to write this blog with nothing in my head. It’s not writer’s block, though. You give me a prompt, and I’ll give you 1,500 words minimum — I’ll write a poem three pages long with a beautiful rhyme scheme too. It’s not that I can’t write — it’s just that I’ve never been given so much creative freedom before. I just wish I could have more freedom in other parts of my life too.
I often find myself thinking about the dynamics of teenagers and adults when in reality, I should be doing my algebra homework. Grown folks see us teenagers as kids and treat us as such. We’re obviously annoyed and we try to defend ourselves against them, usually resulting in some sort of punishment. Phone privileges taken, grounded, or even a smack somewhere. I feel like I’m wrongfully persecuted sometimes.
It’s not that we want to be little pricks, we just want to be recognized as real people. Me and my friends see each other as individuals that can take care of ourselves while being respectful and giving a helping hand. I even see that with other teenagers I don’t know. The way they watch their surroundings, use their money, and even being resistant to changes they know is wrong.
When I say teenagers want to be recognized as real people, I’m not saying that all of us are being treated like garbage. What I mean is for us to be taken seriously. Our mental health, our grief, and our insecurities. Whenever I get upset, I don’t want to be called sensitive, emotional, or hormonal — and if I do get upset, I don’t want anyone mad at me for having emotions. That’s so belittling.
When I was 13, I had to process grief — alone. It had hit me like a freight train, no warning, no goodbyes. I had lost my dog who had grown up with me and was my best friend. I’m not sure how I did it, but I got up the very next day and went to school like nothing had happened that Sunday morning. If I cried, I’d be called weak. If I tried to isolate myself, I would be perceived as disrespectful or rude.
This obviously affected my mental health negatively. I was lonely and social media told me everyone was doing better than me. They had more money, clearer skin, healthy/long hair, a nice body, and even the love of their life. Everything I had been wanting or wasn’t even aware that would be essential to me later in life was being presented to me and left me feeling humiliated. I grew insecure, anxious, and easily provoked overtime.
I know the people reading this can definitely relate to the feeling of being insecure or anxious. I know my audience may have been in a situation where they were spoken for or talked at instead of talked to. Which is why I thought of writing this blog.
I’m not trying to bash people with a fully developed frontal lobe but cut us some slack. We’re not asking for a million dollars, we just want full independence, freedom to express ourselves and trust that we’ll be okay on our own. If someone spoke for an adult even though they are capable to talk themselves, the adult would grow frustrated and eventually lash out — it’s no different from people in adolescence.
Before I end this blog, I just wanted to add that I feel like we live in a Peanuts parody — me and other people my age. For those of you who don’t know, I’m sure you’re all familiar with Snoopy and Charlie Brown from your childhoods —The beagle who can literally do anything and his bald-headed owner.
I say that we live in a Peanuts parody because the children are the main characters of the show, not the adults. The kids get to control the atmosphere and plot while the adults are in the background. Speaking of the adults in Peanuts, they sound like trombones or some kind of brass instrument whenever they speak and I think that really supports the point of the show, which is giving kids their own voice, space to exist and time to learn.
In my last post, I had gone on a little rambling of my favorite artists and songs from them. I decided to expand on that section furthermore by dedicating this post to songs and artists I recommend. I will preface this before moving on, my music taste it diverse. A little bit of everything mixed into a pot. So, I don’t believe that all of my recommendations will land well with everyone. Most of my recommendations within this post are within the rowdy realm like metal, screamo, etc ( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀)
Without a further ado, here we go ٩(˶´༥`˶)و
About a year ago, I had dabbled into punk music. Most specifically, d-beat, it’s a music genre that has inspired Crust Punk. For a little bit of background, Crust Punk is a fusion genre between extreme metal and anarcho-punk. Songs within this specific genre contains lyrics of real-life problems and the vocalist’s stance on it. All discussion within songs is primarily anti-capitalism, environmentalism, anarchism, etc. There have also been other discussions like feminism, veganism, and animal rights sung within this genre. D-beat takes its name from a band named Discharge (D-beat means Discharge-beat) I’ll link some songs that fit under this genre.
Drunk with power – Discharge
Police Bastard (covered by Pesti!) – Doom
My Meds Aren’t Working – Dystopia
I also recommend ‘Number One Hypocrite’ by Dystopia (✧∇✧)
Indie holds a piece of my heart (♡ˊ͈ ꒳ ˋ͈) The artist I’ll say I listen to the most within this genre is Alex G or Big Thief, but I also listen to Black Box Recorder a whole lot too. Indie music, also known as independent music, is characterized by creative freedom and a DIY mentality to it. This makes a varying about of musical approaches, lyrics, how they’re sung, the instruments, etc. Here’s my recommendations (✧0✧) Each artist has their own section with songs I’ve selected. I’ll underline the ones I’d recommend the most.
Black Box Recorder – Kidnapping an Heiress, The Art of Driving, Child Psychology
Mitski – Cop Car, Drunk Walk Home (Live version), Last words of a shooting star
Alex G – Hope, I’m not like the other girls (unreleased), Forever
Big Thief – Paul, Not (live), Vampire Empire (Demo)
In my previous blog, I discussed a lot of metal. So, I’ve decided to talk about it furthermore.
My love for metal has been a thing since I was young. Skillet was my first exposure to it when I was 7 years old. It died down, but then in 2023 a friend introduced me to Deftones. Deftones had made me love metal more than I can ever state. I have a collection of merch like shirts and CDs ( ˊᵕˋ )♡ I own almost all albums, but I still have another eight albums to get. I also own some Korn and System of a Down albums along with a Skillet and an Evanescence album. I haven’t been to any concert yet, but I hope to go to one soon.
Scream of The Butterfly – Acid Bath
Duct Taped to a Flagpole – Party Cannon
Tavern – Netherwalker
Misanthropy – Decalius
Absurdism – Glistening
I’m Sorry – I will always remember
Siege Tower – Curta’n Wall
Rabid – Mortician
Mascara – Deftones
I feel like a cornball for liking Screamo, but this genre is so good please trust me ( °ㅁ°) There have been some Screamo songs that have gotten popular, but only for a certain part. It does mess with me a little because there are songs that are genuinely the best songs ever (੭ ;´ ⌂ `;)੭
Metamorphosis – Your Arms Are My Cocoon
let’s get married – Your Arms Are My Cocoon
To Remember – septemberistheonlytimeidontthinkofyou
Everybody tells me nothing – beforeyouleave
San Francisco – IHS
i experienced ego death on an nde thread – foxtails
embers – Dead Butterflies
When We Turn To Dust – noragami
好きです – that same street
I love sharing my favorite genres and specific songs within these genres ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ I hope maybe I’ve added a few songs to your playlist or made you a fan of some of these artists. What do you think of some of these tracks? Do you recommend any songs for me to take a listen to ( •̯́ ^ •̯̀) I’d love to hear what you have to say!
Hey y’all, I’m planning on doing something a little different for these next couple blogs. If you saw my last one, you know that I gave some context on the cult figures. Following that theme, this week’s blog is going to be a part of a story series written by me. (please give any help feedback) I’m going to give you some more of Elijah’s story in a moment. Before I do, I want to say that you will be lost if you didn’t read my prose piece or my last blog. Sorry not sorry cause I’m not forcing you to be here. So, without further ado. Please enjoy.
…As Elijah sets the letter down, a vibration escapes from his phone running on top of his skin. Retrieving it from his pocket, his screen lights up with a picture of his uncle dragging an unconscious Autumn on the ground. Before having time to process the scene in front of him, another message rings out. They’re coordinates; followed by a message from the same number that sent the photo, saying:
Here. Save her.
Autumn! Elijah’s eyes widening as he stares into the blinding light of his phone. Without wasting another minute, he pulls the nearest hoodie over his head, grabbing the car keys from their glass home beside the door. He drives north into the empty night for half an hour or so. The GPS signals the car to take a slight right leading off the smooth pavement and onto a chaotic path cluttered with the forest’s overgrowth.
As Elijah was driving, his phone sang with another unknown message. The text contained detailed instructions. They explained to Elijah that once he pulled off the road to drive for about five minutes. After those few minutes passed, he will see a small opening; there he will find a manchineel tree marked with a red ‘S.’ Elijah was then instructed to park his car under the tree and walk for about two kilometers. Which he did.
Elijah did everything the text told him to with a pounding heart and a tear stained face. He was surrounded by trees, stuck in an unfamiliar place and vulnerable to the world encapsulating him, yet his heart hammered along for another. Dread came and blocked all reason and logic in Elijah’s mind. The last person he held concern for was himself as he ran blindly, the trees morphing into fuzzy blobs of deep greens and browns. His sweat, cold and bitter as it fell from down the nape of his neck; he continued onwards leaving all his hesitation locked within his car, only stopping when his narrow path finally broke into a clearing once more. This glade is bigger than the previous one. It houses a barn that’s caught between the teeth of youth and the jaws of time. Sitting neatly in the center as its dim eave lights create a moat, distinguishing the mysteries of dark from those living in the light.
Relief shoots through Elijah’s heart, slowing the rhyme ever so slightly. This must be it. After catching his breath, Elijah crawls closer and closer to the barn, attempting to invade the innocent light without detection. In this moment, Elijah’s delusions finally dissolve allowing reality and reason to flood over him. His pace comes almost to a stop as he weighs every option.
crack. His blood runs cold.
“Damn it.” A familiar voice says close to Elijah’s ear. Without giving him time to react, the stranger shoves Elijah forwards forcing him into the light. He tries to fight back, but the stranger won’t allow him the opening to strike. Instead he is pinned to the wall with a thud, knocking the remaining air from his lungs.
As they face one another, both pairs of eyes searching the others for answers, the stranger’s confident grapes suddenly falters.
“Elijah?” The stranger cries in disbelief. “No. You’re supposed to be at home. How did they find you?” He adds, thick panic layering each sentence.
“Uncle Riche… where is she?” Elijah pants out angrily. “Where is Autumn?”
If you think about it hard enough, a video game is basically a playable movie. True that this depends on the, but most games have a main plot that they follow and tell a story. Sometimes this story is very straightforward and understandible, and sometimes the story is either not the most important part of the game or is very obscure. The plot of a game must make sense throughout the entire game. Much like a movie where the plot gets lost in the dialogue to the point the movie doesn’t even make sense anymore. A game that is completely random in how they tell the story is not going to be a good cohesive story. This gets lost in translation a bit when creating sequels or off shoots of the first game. Much of the time in the new game the characters might reference someone or something from the previous game. This can be a little confusing if you didn’t play the first game but that’s just a skill issue. But now that we have a base lets dive into the meat of the matter.
The problem with talking about the story of a game rather than the art is that it will be completely different. Take Hollow Knight for example. Though both games have the exact same art design, the stories could not be more different. Where one you’re a tool only used to imprison a plague, in the other you are genuinely trying to do some sort of good instead of putting the world around you right back to the way it was with a new person in the chair. It’s a little hard to explain so I recommend that you go play both of them to get a better understanding. And don’t rage quit. Even if you really want to, don’t do it. But one thing is true. All games have some sort of story. Even if that’s not the main point of the game, they all have one. A good example of this is the Battlefield series. More specifically the newest installment, Battlefield 6.
The main purpose of this game is to have massive, and I mean genuinely giant, cinematic battles with other players. However below all the smoke and fire there is a genuine story of who is fighting. A brief explanation is that the world is in World War 3. NATO has all but collapsed under the involvement of a new made up group called Pax Armata. Created by the CIA, Pax grew to the point where they couldn’t control (or what’s left of it) and WW3 broke out.
While this is the background story to the main game, games like this often have something called a campaign mode. Essentially it acts as a story mode and gives either more of a background to what’s happening or follows a completely different story line that is adjacent to the current story. In the case of battlefield you follow the members of Dagger 1 squadron as they try to cripple Pax as well as learn about the truth of who created the group
This form of story is mostly used in heavy online shooters like Battlefield or Call of Duty. However, most games follow a simple cohesive story that only involves you as the player. Now in some games your role is harder to gauge than in others. Games like hollow knight make the player be in the current event but hide the past of the world you roam in cryptic text and confusing dialogue. But we’ll get to obscure storytelling in a bit. We’ll start off with one of the most popular game franchises in the world. Assassins Creed.
Now the interesting thing about the Assassins Creed series is that most of the games are historically accurate besides the main character. The most recent AC installment was a remake of an old game, and as someone who played and finished that remake I have to say the game was really good. You play as Edward Kenway, a pirate out looking for the next big score that will make him rich. Set during the time of exploration and the American revolution, you will participate in such historical events as the blockade of charles town as well as have conversation with blackbeard. And this is just one of the games. In Assassins Creed unity follows the events of the French revolution. In the game you will meet Napoleon as well as assist the revolutionaries with overthrowing the government. The games also use a lot of physical historical evidence like what structures like the parthenon and certain basilicas looked like. In fact their designs are so detailed that in 2019 when the Notre Dame cathedral burned down, the game creators lent the assets of the cathedral to the people trying to rebuild because the model was so detailed and correct. Even the normal housing is of the style of whatever era you’re in. but that’s not the story. The main interesting part about the AC series story is that you probably know its context before you play. And it’s cool to see people take their own spin on history like that.
So i think the rest of the info is way too much for one blog so this section will be two parts. Who knows what insane ramblings will be next.
Hello everypony, my middle school self would like to formally apologize for the amount of friendship drama I witnessed…and caused
There was this girl I used to be friends with who had a specific way of dealing with conflict..she just ghosted you..in person. You could walk right up to her and start talking, and she would just walk away. This was her solution to literally everything.
That friendship definitely taught me something, though. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become a lot more conscious of how I deal with conflict. I’ve made my own mistakes, obviously. I’ve argued over text. I’ve complained to other friends when I should have just talked to the person involved. I’ve said things while I was angry that probably would have sounded a lot better if I had waited five minutes. I’ve also learned that friendships are going to have uncomfortable moments. What matters is your conflict resolution.
It could be your friend has been acting weird and you have no idea why, you got left out of something, there’s a boy involved, someone said something that bothered you or maybe you don’t even know who is mad and why. Whatever the situation is, here’s what I’ve learned about dealing with it.
First, figure out what you’re trying to say.
You don’t need to write a speech or prepare a ten-page argument. Just know what’s bothering you. Before I talk to them, I think: What happened? Why am I upset? What do I want them to understand? What do I want to happen? If you’re nervous, write it down. Put everything in your notes app. Tell your mom. Talk to someone you trust.
And please, do not have the argument through text. I know it’s easy. You can type out exactly what you want to say, read it seventeen times, and send it without having to look at their face. Sounds amazing. Right? WRONG. If you can, talk face-to-face.. Sit somewhere quiet. Find somewhere you both feel comfortable enough to talk. AND DON’T INVOLVE PEOPLE WHO DON’T NEED TO BE INVOLVED.
Now, I start with the friendship, and not the problem. Before immediately listing everything they’ve done wrong, tell them why you’re having this conversation instead of just dropping them. Something as simple as, “I really care about you, and that’s why I don’t want to just ignore what’s been happening between us.” is usually my go to. That one sentence can completely change their mindset.
You’re not saying, Here is everything I hate about you. You’re saying, Our friendship matters enough to me that I really want to fix this.
There is nothing embarrassing about admitting that something hurt you. When you explain what happened, try to focus on your experience instead of attacking theirs. Instead of saying something like…
“You’ve been treating me like garbage.”
I’d say somethin like…
“I’ve felt really distant from you lately, and I honestly haven’t known what I did wrong.”
Same feeling. Just not as dramatic. And once you’ve said your part, stop talking and let them answer.
This is probably the hardest part for me because I might hear something I don’t agree with. Maybe they misunderstood something. Maybe they’re upset about something completely different. Maybe they have a perspective I never even considered.
You don’t have to immediately defend yourself against every sentence. You can say, “I didn’t realize you felt that way,” or even just, “I need a little time to think about that.”
Finally, don’t make the ending awkward just because the conversation was awkward. You don’t have to walk away with everything magically fixed. Sometimes the best ending is simply agreeing that you’ll both try to communicate better next time. You could say, “Can we just promise that if something is bothering us, we’ll actually say something next time?”
I know this is scary. Confrontation feels so so scary, but it’s a necessary part of growing up. So don’t be too scared to confront a bad friend!
If you know me, then you know I talk about my mom 24/7—whenever I get the chance to bring her up. Not just because I love her more than anyone, but because I appreciate everything she does for me, whether I always tell her that or not. From the start, it’s really only ever been me and her. Sure, we live with my grandparents, but I’ve always gravitated towards her. Having a kid means to make harsh sacrifices and decisions that I never truly took into account until I got older.
Looking back, I wish I’d been more affectionate towards my mommy when I was a kid, but now, I’m trying to make up for that lost time. Just the other day, she got confused when I referred to her as ‘mommy’ instead of ‘mom.’ She wasn’t angry, just wondering why I’d suddenly switched up. I told her it was my way of showing my love, and that she should probably become used to it for the foreseeable future. It’s time I made up for being such a stubborn child.
Now, I could ramble on and on for thousands of words about the woman who singehandedly raised me, but I’d rather just share the important stuff and save everything for another time. In a way, we sort of grew up with one another. That’s not to say she was super young when she had me, but perhaps not fully matured, as you’re not considered ‘mature’ until you’re twenty five. I admire the strength she had to take on the responsibility of raising a child at nineteen, especially when my father slowly started showing how unprepared he was for a baby.
I may not remember my entire childhood, but looking through memories, I know I was loved. Her best friends became my god parents, my uncles and aunts, and I was the first child of her group. I was everyone’s baby. I had plenty of toys and was always in someone’s arms. I was cared for, never wanting for anything. When he moved out with my grandmother and her husband, things changed. She no longer lived so close to her friends and had the help—only the help of two people who’d finished raising their children long ago.
I regret being the reason my mom didn’t finish college and pushed herself through grueling job after grueling job. I told her constantly that once I go to college, I want her to re-enroll, to build a life outside of me—the one she could have had had I not come along. I don’t think she regrets having me, no, she loves me and I know that. I only wish I had not been so hardheaded as a child, so eager to rebel, that she could have had an easy life. That’s what I plan to give her—to work hard and let her put up her feet, to let me take care of and love her the way she has always done to me.
Everything I do is not only for myself, but for her. I one day want her to be able to not slave over a minimum wage job, to be able to rest her aching feet for once in her life. To not have to worry about how to get groceries for the week and still have enough money left over for bills. Basically, the whole point of this rant is to talk to you all about the woman who’s always been there for me, my biggest supporter, and the most caring person I’ve ever met.
Hey guys! Welcome back! Today we are going to talk about the Enlightenment and what it accomplished.
The Enlightenment is a movement that occurred during the 17th and 18th centuries to emphasize reasoning and logic, which challenged the established traditions and authority (the church). These ideals were drafted from the Scientific Revolution. The Enlightenment had many characteristics that we are going to learn about.
Rationalism, reason, is the arbiter of all things.
Cosmology, a new concept of the existence of earth in the universe (earth is NOT the center of the universe).
Secularism, an application of the methods of science to religion and philosophy.
The Scientific Method, consisted of Mathematical Analysis, Experimentation, and Inductive Reasoning.
Utilitarianism, the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Tolerance, meaning everyone can have free ideas and no opinion is worth beating your neighbor over.
Optimism and self-confidence, the belief that man is intrinsically good and the belief in social progress.
Freedom, bringing liberty to all men and making them free to express themselves.
Education of the Masses, this meant that everyone would get an education, not just the rich kids.
Legal Reforms, this means the people were treated with justice and kindness and NOT tortured.
Constitutionalism, there were written constitutions which listed citizens’ rights.
Cosmopolitanism, this means we all belong to the global community.
Later on, down the line an English philosopher by the name of Francis Bacon tagged along. He laid the foundation for the Enlightenment by supporting the idea of empiricism, and the idea that knowledge is power. He also supported separation between faith and reason which was a division of science from religion, enabling independent inquiry.
French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, René Descartes saw man’s ability to reason as the proof of their existence. He wrote “Discourse on Method” in 1637.He rejected all forms of intellectual authority (higher ups telling him what to think) which he used to prove the existence of God.
English philosopher and mathematician, Thomas Hobbes’ political theory portrayed politics as an exact science like geometry. He was an admirer of Galileo Galilei’s (man put on house arrest for telling the truth about the solar system) ideas concerning the nature of the physical and studies of motion. Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” in 1651.
A whole generation later, English philosopher and physician, John Locke developed a completely different notion of the basic nature of humankind, which was seen as innately good. When he witnessed the almost bloodless,” Glorious Revolution” in England he was convinced that people can live together peacefully.
this is a big divert from my last post so think of it as a very emotion driven game review. I’ve been ranting about this for MONTHS and I need to get it out formally.
Forsaken!!! Used to be one of my favorite games before it all went wrong. This place is full of nerds and geeks (I mean this affectionately I’m a nerd too) there’s at least a 50% chance you’ve heard of the game, but on the case you haven’t let me summarize. Forsaken is a Roblox asym “horror” (not really) game that reached its peak around 2025 in both popularity and gameplay only for that to get ruined, but we’ll get into that soon. The game worked in a similar fashion to Dead by Daylight, 1 killer and a team of 3-10 survivors, the objective of the killer being to eliminate all survivors and the objective of the survivors being to survive. Each round lasted approximately 5 minutes, the timer gaining more time when a survivor was eliminated, so the time could go longer than 5 minutes. Generators are placed in various places around the many maps, quick puzzles and once completed reduce the timer. Both survivors and killers each have their own unique kits (some more than others but we’ll get into that later) as well as cosmetic skins. The three categories of survivors are survivalists, sentinels, and supports; survivalists, as the name implies, survive on their own and are generally self sufficient, sentinels disable the killer and protect other survivors, and supports, once again as the name suggest, support other survivors, either with healing or damage protection.
With that rundown you should have a general idea of the game, and now I need to tell you how the game got RUINED!!!! I started playing around February (January? Idk I have a weak memory) of 2025, when it was getting extremely popular, which at the time was a good thing. It had an.. excentric.. fanbase to say the least(which we wont get into), but the game was getting a lot of support, and the developer team was working pretty well!!! There were small issues of devs focusing on cosmetic aspects rather than gameplay, but this didn’t cause too much of an issue.
To understand how it went downhill, you need to understand the core characters in it. The game was in a way an ode to past Roblox culture, being one of the founding fathers of the term “retro slop”, but ignoring that it did a good job at depicting older aspects of the game. If you didn’t grow up on the game you wouldn’t exactly understand the significance of the characters, but I’ll try my best to get the message across. To avoid making this excuse to infodump even longer, I’ll summarize (note from editing Leo this was not a summary omg.) the characters and their significance, starting with some of the most well known, sentinels.
John Shedletsky, one of the founding moderators of Roblox, and likely the reason the epic face gained as much popularity as it did in the late 2000s to early 2010s. His kit consisted of a sword that he could slash the killers with, stunning then for approximately 5 seconds, and 2 pieces of chicken that heal him for 40HP, most survivor have a baseline of 100HP.
Guest1337, or the last guest, the main character of a movie on YouTube “the last guest”. The movie pays tribute to the fact Roblox stopped the guest feature, a placeholder account for those who wanted to test the game before making an account for themselves. It gained a lot of popularity in the community, even earning a higher quality remake almost 10 years later. Guests kit consists of a block, a punch, and a charge. When he charges into a killer he can push them away from other survivors, blocking stops a killer from hitting another survivor, and punching stuns the killer for approximately 7 seconds as well as slowing them when the stun is over. He has a baseline HP of 115.
Chance is an original character to the game, a gambler with lore connecting to multiple different characters, though diving into lore would make this take a year to finish. Their kit is based on luck, needing to flip a coin and landing heads to unlock certain parts of their move set, when tails is landed a 15 second debuff that stacks for every time tails is landed on. Apart from the coin, they have a health randomizer when used can set his health anywhere between 50HP and 150HP, a flintlock pistol that can either stun the killer long range, not go off, or backfire and hurt you, and their final move being a hat fix which resets all stacked debuffs. During the games peak this was the most complicated kit.
Twotime is between survivalists and sentinels. They’re also an original character to the game, though their character represents Robloxes respawn symbol. they can stun the killer but its hard to and for a short time, approximately 3 seconds. Their kit consists of a spawn they place down, a crouch that makes them semi-visible, and a dagger they must stab the killer with to fill up a meter, which when filled allows them to spawn back at the spawn they placed down when killed, but their max health reduces from 120 to 80.
007n7 is a well know old hacker that possessed another identity, c00lkid, who also a killer in the game. 007n7 is a survivalist that can create clones of himself, turning transparent to confuse the killer, as well the ability to teleport across the map, needing 45 seconds without being harmed to complete the teleportation.
Noob, a common ragdoll that was usually used in Roblox games as a placeholder for a real player, becoming his own character in itself. His move set contained the ability to turn invisible, a temporary speed boost, and a temporary immunity at the cost of losing a significant amount of speed.
For the support category the earliest added was Elliot, the mascot of “Work at a Pizza Place”, arguably one of the most well known games on the site. Supports have 80 HP, unlike the others, he has the ability to heal teammates, gaining the ability to use a speed boost once someone’s successfully healed.
Builderman, the mascot of Roblox itself as well as representative of David Bazuki the CEO of Roblox (we HATE David Bazuki on this blog Builderman is his own character separate from him). He could build both turrets and healing stations, turrets slowing and damaging killers and healing stations, as the name implies, heals others.
Dusekkar, representing the moderator Matt Dusek, is also a support. Also considered the most poorly balanced character and the worst to play, but that’s neither here nor there. He’s based on a wizard, his kit protecting others from damage as well as being able to zap killers to slow them down and zapping survivors to boost speed.
Last and not least lies Taph, an original character to the game based around subspace mines, something used across multiple Roblox games in the past. He uses them to disorient killers sight, as well as slowing killers with trip wires.
official art from the game, in order from top row to bottom row: noob, builderman, 007n7, chance, dusekkar, elliot, guest1337, shedletsky, twotime, taph
These are the survivors you need to be aware of for me to explain how this game got RUINED. The killers don’t need as much of an introduction but you do at least need to know who they are soo.. LIGHTING ROUND
C00lkid, as I explained earlier, is the second identity to 007n7 the hacker. 1x1x1x1 is a killer that became the subject to rumors of being a hacker, and They’re treated so in game, but in reality it was an alt account of the moderator Shedletsky. Slasher, formerly known as Jason, was a character featured in an old area 51 Roblox game that was notorious across the community. John Doe was rumored to be a dangerous hacker and spawned many rumors, though he never had any real impact. Lastly and the most recent killer (as far as I need to explain rn), Noli, was an old myth just like john doe, he had little impact but was very known.
Now that I’ve gotten all that out the way, remember how I said the game was an ode the older Roblox community? You can see how almost every character can be tied to something in the past other than 1 that being chance. Since it is its own stand alone game and there have been plenty of games that use mods and myths as their own characters (i.e. Blocktales, save Robloxia, ect) They do have their own personalized lore or backstories to them that’s unique to forsaken, but going into that would make this unbearably long since I’m already at 1.4k words so I wont touch on it to much but I will slightly cover it.
Anyways, every character has something to do with the past, and it did a great job at portraying that. The game wasn’t mind numbingly easy and required skill, but the learning curve wasn’t impossible. Yes, there were try hards that made playing unbearable but that was occasional, and every game was like that. The moves were relatively simple, as I already explained most had 2-3 straight forward moves per kit. I will say the game did already have problems with developers but that’s to be expected with every Roblox game.
Then, comes October. A new killer and survivor had been teased for a while and was set to be released on Halloween with a fall event and several updates. Good news right? WRONG. The developer team had been falling apart since Noli was added in June, especially the balancing team. The part of the game that made the game FAIR. But no one anticipated for it to be that bad, it was the beginning of the end.
Halloween comes around, and the new characters are released, WHAT IS THIS!!!! Veeronica and Guest666 (I will refer to as vee sixer because that’s easier) are a big step in a.. different.. direction. First off they’re already straying from the simpler designs of every other killer and survivor, at least for base designs (I’m not counting skins those aren’t apart of this) and secondly WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE.
Veeronica is a completely original character with NOTHING to do with ANYTHING related to the past or ANY OTHER CHARACTERS FOR THAT MATTER. At least with chance they gave them some lore to connect to other hackers, VEE IS JUST THERE. Sixer was an old myth so I cant dock him points for that, but his design is SO overcomplicated and stuck out from everyone else like a sore thumb, not even to mention their kits. Vee gets like 5 moves. WHY. Sixer was overpowered on release, you could TELL the balancing team was nonexistent. But whatever, it (very slowly) gets resolved.
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Then comes November with Nosferatu, the next killer released. He has the same issue as vee, WHO IS THIS GUY. He, just like the others, was stupidly overpowered and outpaced the other survivors who were stuck with their kits from early in the games development.
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As I said earlier cosmetics were focused on more than the ACTUAL GAME. It was slowly becoming more modernized which I feel betrays the core ideals of what the game was BUILT on, and no I don’t think that games can’t switch things up, I don’t like when it changes WHAT ITS LITERALLY BASED AROUND. I stopped playing around this time, partially because it was going down hill and partially just due to changes in my life that inhibited my free time.
This is just a personal gripe but as someone who LOVED Dusekkar, I hated how neglected he was since he was unpopular, Taph as well. Not even just cosmetically, but with balancing and general gameplay updates, I know they had favorites COUGHSHEDLETSKYCOUGH ahem anyway.
Since the core player base started to dissipate, the game was mainly filled with try hards and people with an embarrassing amount of playtime that took the game way to seriously. It was horrible and I hated trying to play you guys don’t understand how I mourn the game at its peak. It was trash no matter what but it was MY trash in MY dumpster.
Anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk about why I need to touch more grass and why I care too much about nonissues. Honestly this was just an excuse to infodump about an old hyperfixation, I think I might center more of my future blogs around that. Get ready for an infodump about overwatch at some point. Bye bye love you guys! Have an amazing day or night and remember never get attached to any Roblox game it will downhill within 8 months take it from me the guy that had a fixation on Roblox hackers/mods/myths for over a year.
I am a huge fan of horror. It doesn’t matter if it’s psychological, serial killers, supernatural, folktale, etc. I love horror with a burning passion. I have only one complaint though — it’s all so repetitive.
Before I even geek out, I want to define “the perfect horror” in my own definition. Horror is supposed to frighten, disturb, or scare an audience — it has many subdivisions and that’s okay. If it’s psychological horror, I want to see the main character spiral and lose their mind while I’m being scared too. If it’s apocalyptic, I want to see an invasive species take over while I cower in fear too. If I’m not slightly disturbed or scared — I don’t think it did a well enough job. But that’s my opinion as a veteran in this genre.
I’ve watched horror movies and read books since I was in elementary. Recently I’ve found that the jump scares or suspenseful scenes don’t scare me as much as they did years or even months ago. I can predict cliche lines, cues, and even deaths. Some movies or books are a poor excuse for gore while others shouldn’t even be classified as horror to begin with. Even with some of the most popular subgenres of horror — analog horror and Minecraft horror.
Analog horror did me dirty to say the least. I watched Mandela Catalogue right before it blew up. It had me second guessing my own faith for a few months before I became fully grounded in it. Satan himself — deceiving humanity to be their savior while wearing the skin of Gabriel was a bold start. It was so similar to the actual story of the birth of Christ that it messed with my head. To be fair, I watched this when I was way too young — eleven years old to be exact. So of course it damaged me mentally, but I feel like it can still be classified as the perfect horror.
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The Walten Files reminded me of the fear “Five Nights at Freddy’s” gave me when I was even younger. Obelisk, Vita Carnis, Greylock, The Return of the Pumpkin Rabbit, and even The Oldest View, had me shook to my core. There’s so many other series that have had a lasting impact on me. There are also some that didn’t give me the scare I was looking for, but I’m not here to bash or discredit someone’s work. I just want to talk about the perfect horror.
To anybody who loves Minecraft as much as me, we all know horror isn’t new in this game. Especially with a silly Herobrine sighting in every video uploaded in the early 2010s. The “newer” version of Minecraft horror is the player being stalked by a humanoid creature. It stalks, it howls, and then it hits you once or twice in a chase and you’re dead. It was unique and utterly terrifying at first — but so repetitive.
I’ve been obsessed with these horror genres since middle school. So many videos and so many years. Even though I still love a good scare from these subgenres, I’m tired of it.
I’m tired of the horror mods that look identical and do similar methods from the mods before them. I’m tired of some analog horror series not having any real depth to them. Just a quick cash grab or a cheap way to scare people. Why can’t I watch something completely different? In recent videos, the most unique horror mod to come about was the “Long Horse” mod by Lookout2DD.
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The fact that the horse didn’t attack when the player was nearby was already odd, but when it was revealed that the horse is far more superior than the player had me stunned. I saw that the horse had removed the “Save and quit to title” button from the player, it was haunting — not to mention that it could literally see and chase him in spectator mode. And the way it was modeled is what really got me. I don’t know if it’s the eyes, face or the gory sight of its elongated neck, but I hate looking at that thing. The horse lived up to its name of being long necked. Personally, I feel like that Minecraft horror video was perfect.
Again, I’m not here to spew hate to the videos or series that didn’t scare me, I’m just ranting about an issue (that really isn’t an issue, but still an issue) that I have. Thank you to the people who took the time to actually read this!!<333
