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I have created a new religion. Come and join my cult.

Last posted Nov 16, 2024 at 01:24PM EST. Added Feb 17, 2021 at 12:11PM EST
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Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Fool! I was never a part of your flock, for I am no sheep being herded to be culled. The Church of Shirley treats it's members like the men [and women] that they are! They are of free will, unlike your cultists who enslave themselves to an unloving false god!

Hey, be careful of who you call unloving, that's my god who you are talking about and it calls me "pretty" every night before i go to sleep.

Quiet_boi wrote:

Hey, be careful of who you call unloving, that's my god who you are talking about and it calls me "pretty" every night before i go to sleep.

Ludibrium crawls out from behind Quiet_boi's ear with a wild cackle radiating through the air.

"EEEEEEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That was me!!!! I was calling you pretty! Pretty lame!!!"

As quickly as he appeared Ludibrium disappeared with his laughter fading away.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Ludibrium crawls out from behind Quiet_boi's ear with a wild cackle radiating through the air.

"EEEEEEEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That was me!!!! I was calling you pretty! Pretty lame!!!"

As quickly as he appeared Ludibrium disappeared with his laughter fading away.

Hey! Ludibrium! That was kinda gae from you, son! At least kiss me in the forehead like you did the other time!

Quiet_boi wrote:

Hey! Ludibrium! That was kinda gae from you, son! At least kiss me in the forehead like you did the other time!

Ludibrium walks back into sight in a totally normal manner, no laughter and an extremely concerned expression on his face.

"That… wasn't me." He said. Everyone else quickly became concerned because they didn't kiss Quiet_boi on the forehead either.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Ludibrium walks back into sight in a totally normal manner, no laughter and an extremely concerned expression on his face.

"That… wasn't me." He said. Everyone else quickly became concerned because they didn't kiss Quiet_boi on the forehead either.

Uhm, maybe that time it was the Circle.

Last edited Jun 06, 2021 at 12:45PM EDT

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Ludibrium walks back into sight in a totally normal manner, no laughter and an extremely concerned expression on his face.

"That… wasn't me." He said. Everyone else quickly became concerned because they didn't kiss Quiet_boi on the forehead either.



Soup King wrote:



That's rather out of character for Shirley, if I'm going to be honest.

…And consider yourself lucky that I'm a slow worker who's also decided to try and map out a city for my little project to take place in using Cities: Skylines because _I'm not drawing an entire detailed map of a city, making me take more time than if I just went straight into drawing overtime.

Speaking of which, where were you thinking of the Circle Cult's temple being located in a more general sense? I was going to just put it in the middle of a more urbanized area but if y'all were thinking something different, then I'm open to hearing it.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

That's rather out of character for Shirley, if I'm going to be honest.

…And consider yourself lucky that I'm a slow worker who's also decided to try and map out a city for my little project to take place in using Cities: Skylines because _I'm not drawing an entire detailed map of a city, making me take more time than if I just went straight into drawing overtime.

Speaking of which, where were you thinking of the Circle Cult's temple being located in a more general sense? I was going to just put it in the middle of a more urbanized area but if y'all were thinking something different, then I'm open to hearing it.

Honestly, in my head, we're neighbours who end up getting into bizarre feuds and rivalries that just end up escalating catastrophically until we just call a truce and make up later on.

Because of that, the Church's Temple would be within sight of Shirley's Church to make boasting, mocking and counter-charging easier.

So we could whack it in the middle of town or wherever else you think two equally dangerous cults would have their hideouts.

Soup King wrote:

Honestly, in my head, we're neighbours who end up getting into bizarre feuds and rivalries that just end up escalating catastrophically until we just call a truce and make up later on.

Because of that, the Church's Temple would be within sight of Shirley's Church to make boasting, mocking and counter-charging easier.

So we could whack it in the middle of town or wherever else you think two equally dangerous cults would have their hideouts.

Eh, I put the buildings I'm using to represent our churches down the road from each other, there's a single city block separating them, but they're facing each other and you can see one's front door clearly from the other.

It's also in the middle of the city. There's a few other areas I've gotten the roads set up for, but it's not finished yet. I'll probably post a screenshot of the full area once it's finished.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Eh, I put the buildings I'm using to represent our churches down the road from each other, there's a single city block separating them, but they're facing each other and you can see one's front door clearly from the other.

It's also in the middle of the city. There's a few other areas I've gotten the roads set up for, but it's not finished yet. I'll probably post a screenshot of the full area once it's finished.

Wow, it's sounds like you're going all out on this.

Fuck, we need to find a red carpet so you can parade this achievement of yours around the entire office with the style it deserves.

But where will I find one!?

(Like seriously, I don't think I've ever seen a single colour palette carpet for sale in a carpet shop for years, that wasn't a hideous shag-pile.)

Soup King wrote:

Wow, it's sounds like you're going all out on this.

Fuck, we need to find a red carpet so you can parade this achievement of yours around the entire office with the style it deserves.

But where will I find one!?

(Like seriously, I don't think I've ever seen a single colour palette carpet for sale in a carpet shop for years, that wasn't a hideous shag-pile.)

I have a red towel, do you think we could use that if we don't find an affordable red carpet in time?

Quiet_boi wrote:

I have a red towel, do you think we could use that if we don't find an affordable red carpet in time?

Well, I could turn it into a rather fashionable Arab head dress for him, but by the sound of it, what Kaijin's cooking up is so big that we'd have to stretch the towel out so far that it'd only be visible on the atomic level.

Soup King wrote:

Wow, it's sounds like you're going all out on this.

Fuck, we need to find a red carpet so you can parade this achievement of yours around the entire office with the style it deserves.

But where will I find one!?

(Like seriously, I don't think I've ever seen a single colour palette carpet for sale in a carpet shop for years, that wasn't a hideous shag-pile.)

It's just a city in Cities:Skylines that I'm making as a map to help myself keep track of locations and write out stuff easier without my autist hyper-OCD brain getting stuck on weird details like "how did they get there?" and "Wait, where even is this?" It's basically just SimCity, but not ruined by EA. The buildings I'm using for the churches are just assets from the vanilla game modified in the in-game asset editor to be huge and have excessive lighting. It's really nothing but me trying to scratch another creative itch while also trying to actually game on my gaming PC for once.

Although, now that I think about it, I too haven't seen a single rug or carpet in a color remotely close to red either…

Well if we can't find a red carpet then we'll have to go with plan B.
We get the longest non-red coloured carpet that we can find, we chop one of Kaijin's legs and we use the blood to paint the carpet red.
The problem will be dealing with the smell and the stains… And re-attaching Kaijin's leg back on it's place before he dies.

Quiet_boi wrote:

Well if we can't find a red carpet then we'll have to go with plan B.
We get the longest non-red coloured carpet that we can find, we chop one of Kaijin's legs and we use the blood to paint the carpet red.
The problem will be dealing with the smell and the stains… And re-attaching Kaijin's leg back on it's place before he dies.

No, you can't cut off my leg, I'm an American!

My country will start a massive, poorly managed and controversial war against an unworthy opponent in a Third World Country if American blood is spilled! They'll start deploying troops and firing Tomahawk missiles at the thread under the pretense that it's part of the Axis of Evil and offering sanctuary to terrorists if Americans are hurt within it's borders! They'll create a massive power vacuum that plunges KYM into chaos and creates new terrorist groups for decades to come!

Cut off some non-American's leg instead, the Media doesn't care about them!

(This wasn't too political of a joke now, is it?)

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

No, you can't cut off my leg, I'm an American!

My country will start a massive, poorly managed and controversial war against an unworthy opponent in a Third World Country if American blood is spilled! They'll start deploying troops and firing Tomahawk missiles at the thread under the pretense that it's part of the Axis of Evil and offering sanctuary to terrorists if Americans are hurt within it's borders! They'll create a massive power vacuum that plunges KYM into chaos and creates new terrorist groups for decades to come!

Cut off some non-American's leg instead, the Media doesn't care about them!

(This wasn't too political of a joke now, is it?)

Fear not Habibi, we would never consider using your blood.

It would most certainly not be halal, as Allah knows how many pigs you've eaten lately.

(That's perfectly fine by me, it's not even that bad, to be honest.)

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

No, you can't cut off my leg, I'm an American!

My country will start a massive, poorly managed and controversial war against an unworthy opponent in a Third World Country if American blood is spilled! They'll start deploying troops and firing Tomahawk missiles at the thread under the pretense that it's part of the Axis of Evil and offering sanctuary to terrorists if Americans are hurt within it's borders! They'll create a massive power vacuum that plunges KYM into chaos and creates new terrorist groups for decades to come!

Cut off some non-American's leg instead, the Media doesn't care about them!

(This wasn't too political of a joke now, is it?)

So, what you're saying is that i should chop off my own leg? Do you know how hard these things are to re-attach?
I would rather used ID units filled with blood from random people but that wouldn't be kosher.

(That whole joke felt like a flashback to the 2000's, my favourite decade. Good in my books)

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Also, because I forgot to specify, the Circle Cult's temple is the one on the right in the top screenshot on the 3rd row and the Church of Shirley is the one on the left.

Where did you uploaded all of that, dude? Can you pass me the direct links to the images? My phone is too weaksauce to load all of that.

Quiet_boi wrote:

Where did you uploaded all of that, dude? Can you pass me the direct links to the images? My phone is too weaksauce to load all of that.

Individually? I haven't uploaded them like that but I might later if I'm not busy.

Here's a link to the image if the embed isn't working, although remember, it's still a 150 MB image.

And as to where on Earth I uploaded a 150mb image? Newgrounds give it's users 512 MB to dump images to embed onto without actually posting them to your account.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Individually? I haven't uploaded them like that but I might later if I'm not busy.

Here's a link to the image if the embed isn't working, although remember, it's still a 150 MB image.

And as to where on Earth I uploaded a 150mb image? Newgrounds give it's users 512 MB to dump images to embed onto without actually posting them to your account.

Jesus Christ! Reallly?! No wonder Newgrounds has remained alive to this day, no wonder they outlived Flash. That's an MVP move right there.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Individually? I haven't uploaded them like that but I might later if I'm not busy.

Here's a link to the image if the embed isn't working, although remember, it's still a 150 MB image.

And as to where on Earth I uploaded a 150mb image? Newgrounds give it's users 512 MB to dump images to embed onto without actually posting them to your account.

First of all, I am very impressed with the dedication your putting into this. Well done.

Secondly, why is file size 150MB?

There's about a dozen or so images and even if they were PNG's it should really be no more than 50MB; unless you've been a true Mad Lad and capture these in a 1:1 scale.

Thirdly, did you mean for your church to look like a Scientology compound?

You know, you can worship both the Circle and Shirley at the same time; as she is considered as one of the Circle’s Chosen.

Blink three times if they are holding you against your will.

Soup King wrote:

First of all, I am very impressed with the dedication your putting into this. Well done.

Secondly, why is file size 150MB?

There's about a dozen or so images and even if they were PNG's it should really be no more than 50MB; unless you've been a true Mad Lad and capture these in a 1:1 scale.

Thirdly, did you mean for your church to look like a Scientology compound?

You know, you can worship both the Circle and Shirley at the same time; as she is considered as one of the Circle’s Chosen.

Blink three times if they are holding you against your will.

Why is it 150 MB? Because it's a 9-screenshot-wide,10-screenshot-tall .PNG made from 1920×1080 screenshots for grand total resolution of 11519×10800, oh and I just now realized that I forgot to fill in the blank spaces with a solid color, so it's transparent too. But fixing that would only shave about 20 MB off the total filesize.

Wait, if I put it into 8-bit color instead of 24…

I'm a fucking retard, but at least I learned a valuable lesson in managing image filesizes.

And if you're talking about the church with all the gardens, old houses and weird greenhouse skyscrapers, that's the Circle's Temple. Mine is the one with the excessive amounts of Nuclear reactor complexes, the giant obvious gothic villain hideout cathedral and the Military Academy in the back because I got bored and started throwing a bunch of custom assets I made for other stuff into it the flesh it out only to realize that I accidentally created a decent plot explanation for why Kitty Hawk and other things from her time period just show up for no apparent reason. I'm a huge sucker for crazy industrialized designs, so if you ever get confused as to who's area is who's, just check if it has 1. industrial machinery all over the place, 2. Jumbotrons that are displaying a variety of things including green monochrome maps and walls of text to weird animated music videos, 3. excessive amounts of weaponry and vehicles ready to be deployed, then it's probably my area.

Status Update:

It has been five days since Kaijin last spoke, or even moved. At first we thought this was just loading issues due to him running on old hardware, but we are now suspecting he has Blue Screened and may now need to be hard reset.

In the meantime, Number 1 has taught Shirley how to do the Macarena and they are now working on Gangnam Style.

The demons have become quite docile now, as Number 15 has returned and nutted them all in submission.

We have invited Kaijin's girls to join in our nightly card games comprising of myself, Number 2, Number 14, Sam, Quiet Boi and Jaimie, although we are considering banning Castiella due to excessive cheating.

She says she's not looking into the future or reading peoples minds; but you don't just win five games of Blackjack in a row followed by winning 4 games of Uno in a row back to back.

Amusingly, it turns out that Immundusia doesn't know how to wire a plug, so we've spent an hour or so teaching her how to do that this afternoon.

Will update the log in a few days time with a another Status report.

Circulus Vult Licisci

Last edited Jun 19, 2021 at 08:48AM EDT

Eh, I've been busy IRL this week and haven't had too much time to spend on drawing, but I'm getting close to finishing the character sheets I've been working on.

Although, it has just occurred to me that neither of us have much in the way of common footsoldiers that we can use to show of our combat prowess via overly theatrical kills in the middle of larger battles. Should I come up with a height chart for some fodder drone variants based off of Soup King's shitbots? (e.g. Heavy Brawlers types, Flier types, Swarm Fodder Midget types, Fragile Speedster types that die about as quickly as they run, etc.)

I'm mainly asking because I want to pull off awesome looking Glory Kills and Fatalities of sorts, but I don't want to piss anyone in the thread off by blinding, double-amputating and then decapitating their OC at least twice per post, so I'd just use no-name generic redshirts characters instead.

TL;DR: I'll get there, eventually. I'd really prefer that y'all shitpost amongst yourselves while I work to keep the thread alive. And trust me, it'll be great… and painful… for my fingers, not y'all.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Eh, I've been busy IRL this week and haven't had too much time to spend on drawing, but I'm getting close to finishing the character sheets I've been working on.

Although, it has just occurred to me that neither of us have much in the way of common footsoldiers that we can use to show of our combat prowess via overly theatrical kills in the middle of larger battles. Should I come up with a height chart for some fodder drone variants based off of Soup King's shitbots? (e.g. Heavy Brawlers types, Flier types, Swarm Fodder Midget types, Fragile Speedster types that die about as quickly as they run, etc.)

I'm mainly asking because I want to pull off awesome looking Glory Kills and Fatalities of sorts, but I don't want to piss anyone in the thread off by blinding, double-amputating and then decapitating their OC at least twice per post, so I'd just use no-name generic redshirts characters instead.

TL;DR: I'll get there, eventually. I'd really prefer that y'all shitpost amongst yourselves while I work to keep the thread alive. And trust me, it'll be great… and painful… for my fingers, not y'all.

That's the glorious thing about my design.

Literally the only difference between them is the number on their helmet.

It doesn't matter if, let's say, Number 324 get's suplexed into a jet engine, because we can just paint 324 onto one of the ones coming off of the factory line and, tah-dah, he's back.

This means you can have them die in droves and it doesn't matter.

You can also have them pilot various combat craft such as tanks, aircraft and mechas as well.

In my mind, these would look and act a lot like Ork Vehicles.

So you could have a super-duper laser land a direct hit on a main battle tank and have it have no impact on the function of the tank whatsoever; because it turns out the vast majority of the vehicle is purely decorative.

If you can pull it off, a TOG II* transformer would be fucking amazing.

If you need a source of inspiration, you can browse the wide and bewildering amount of Ork Vehicles there are, or just type in Ork Looted into google.

Also, if you're accepting the plasma throwers, you also have to accept the folding steel chairs and a grimy teaspoon as well.

Otherwise we'd be breaking the rules of Chekov's Armory and that's dangerous.

For the Combat variant of the shitbots, you could always do a design reminiscent of the Death Korp Skull Mask:



Last edited Jun 19, 2021 at 05:21PM EDT

Soup King wrote:

That's the glorious thing about my design.

Literally the only difference between them is the number on their helmet.

It doesn't matter if, let's say, Number 324 get's suplexed into a jet engine, because we can just paint 324 onto one of the ones coming off of the factory line and, tah-dah, he's back.

This means you can have them die in droves and it doesn't matter.

You can also have them pilot various combat craft such as tanks, aircraft and mechas as well.

In my mind, these would look and act a lot like Ork Vehicles.

So you could have a super-duper laser land a direct hit on a main battle tank and have it have no impact on the function of the tank whatsoever; because it turns out the vast majority of the vehicle is purely decorative.

If you can pull it off, a TOG II* transformer would be fucking amazing.

If you need a source of inspiration, you can browse the wide and bewildering amount of Ork Vehicles there are, or just type in Ork Looted into google.

Also, if you're accepting the plasma throwers, you also have to accept the folding steel chairs and a grimy teaspoon as well.

Otherwise we'd be breaking the rules of Chekov's Armory and that's dangerous.

For the Combat variant of the shitbots, you could always do a design reminiscent of the Death Korp Skull Mask:



TOG II? As in the tank? As a Transformer? Well I was already thinking of an artillery variant that's basically a super tall, bulky shitbot with no neck, it's head embedded in the top of it's chest as opposed to on top of it's shoulders like normal and a huge artillery gun where it's head should be, so I guess I'll just finally draw that, but with TOG II parts. Also it will probably look like a simplified Bayformers design because that's the iteration of TF that I'm most familiar with and partial to. Although if I'm giving you that, I should probably make a non-shitbot version made out of T-28 Super Heavy Tank parts for my side…

And as for the ideas for units, they are:

-"Swarm Fodder Midgets": Self explanatory name, comically-child-sized shitbots with terribly weak weapons that show up in swarms and then proceed get smashed apart in a single hit without as much ricocheting a round of off the enemy's armor.

-"No strengths, but no weaknesses and painfully average": A not-the-normal shitbot that gets used as a frontline soldier and as the name implies, isn't really good at anything, but isn't especially bad at anything either.

-"Form-Over-Function Melee Specialist": A taller than average, but nowhere near the tallest shitbot that despite having better ranged weapons than the preceding two, still prefers to charge at the enemy and try to recreate a martial arts fight scene from The Matrix on them with mostly bad results. Can resist lighter ranged weapons, but bigger guns will certainly make short work of it.

-"Chargin' Tard (This placeholder name is supposed to be a pun on the Chargin' Targe from TF2, it was funny to me): The same height as the Melee Shitbot, this one just charges into things… and off of them… it only stops charging to change directions and charge at something else. They have guns and actual melee weapons, but they insist on using their elbows to charge into everything. Shrugs off normal-sized and smaller ranged weapons, but heavier guns and explosives usually break it's stride and stumble it.

"Kind of Threatening But Mostly Repetitive Late-Game Enemy Jet Flier": 2nd tallest shitbot variant with fighter jet parts sticking off of it, mainly fights via it's dual autocannons embedded in each arm but despite being fully capable of melee usually opts to fly away if the enemy gets too close to it. Also shows of with VTOL landing entrance that get overused fast. I was thinking of covering it with canards: Canards on it's head, canards on it's wrists that it can use as blades, canards er, horizontal stabilizers on it's ankles for actually flying. Fragile, but good at dodging.

-"Oh God Oh Fuck Actually Really Dangerous Melee dudes": Tied with the Flier for height and equipped with some sort of flail that it's extremely competent at using. Lapses back into melee fanaticism in that it prefers to just try and smash opponents with it's flail, which it can somewhat effectively block ranged weapons with. Usually seen standing on top of a pile of very obviously dead enemy redshirts. Heavier weapons required to damage it, only the highest tier of ranged weapons (appropriately dubbed the anything-goes-tier) can one-shot them.

-"Immovable TOG II Bulky Brute Brawler": Largest shitbot variant of all, prefers to slowly circle strafe opponents with their huge back-mounted cannon. Even if the enemy get to them, they'll just slam their huge fist down on their opponent's skull and begin slowly stepping back, the ground shaking from each step. Practically invulnerable to all ranged weapons and even melee combat needs a mixture of extreme strength and pinpoint precision on a weak spot to do damage, once again only Anything-Goes-Tier weapons are effective against them.

If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears.

And just to note, I'll probably be making equivalents for my side.

Also would you prefer if I adhered to a specific color scheme or is anything fine?

I'll get to this as soon as I finish the remaining character sheets, there's just two left to finish and one's almost done if I could just find a couple hours of peace and quiet. The last one's going to be a bit more work than usual for mildly spoiler-ish reasons.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

TOG II? As in the tank? As a Transformer? Well I was already thinking of an artillery variant that's basically a super tall, bulky shitbot with no neck, it's head embedded in the top of it's chest as opposed to on top of it's shoulders like normal and a huge artillery gun where it's head should be, so I guess I'll just finally draw that, but with TOG II parts. Also it will probably look like a simplified Bayformers design because that's the iteration of TF that I'm most familiar with and partial to. Although if I'm giving you that, I should probably make a non-shitbot version made out of T-28 Super Heavy Tank parts for my side…

And as for the ideas for units, they are:

-"Swarm Fodder Midgets": Self explanatory name, comically-child-sized shitbots with terribly weak weapons that show up in swarms and then proceed get smashed apart in a single hit without as much ricocheting a round of off the enemy's armor.

-"No strengths, but no weaknesses and painfully average": A not-the-normal shitbot that gets used as a frontline soldier and as the name implies, isn't really good at anything, but isn't especially bad at anything either.

-"Form-Over-Function Melee Specialist": A taller than average, but nowhere near the tallest shitbot that despite having better ranged weapons than the preceding two, still prefers to charge at the enemy and try to recreate a martial arts fight scene from The Matrix on them with mostly bad results. Can resist lighter ranged weapons, but bigger guns will certainly make short work of it.

-"Chargin' Tard (This placeholder name is supposed to be a pun on the Chargin' Targe from TF2, it was funny to me): The same height as the Melee Shitbot, this one just charges into things… and off of them… it only stops charging to change directions and charge at something else. They have guns and actual melee weapons, but they insist on using their elbows to charge into everything. Shrugs off normal-sized and smaller ranged weapons, but heavier guns and explosives usually break it's stride and stumble it.

"Kind of Threatening But Mostly Repetitive Late-Game Enemy Jet Flier": 2nd tallest shitbot variant with fighter jet parts sticking off of it, mainly fights via it's dual autocannons embedded in each arm but despite being fully capable of melee usually opts to fly away if the enemy gets too close to it. Also shows of with VTOL landing entrance that get overused fast. I was thinking of covering it with canards: Canards on it's head, canards on it's wrists that it can use as blades, canards er, horizontal stabilizers on it's ankles for actually flying. Fragile, but good at dodging.

-"Oh God Oh Fuck Actually Really Dangerous Melee dudes": Tied with the Flier for height and equipped with some sort of flail that it's extremely competent at using. Lapses back into melee fanaticism in that it prefers to just try and smash opponents with it's flail, which it can somewhat effectively block ranged weapons with. Usually seen standing on top of a pile of very obviously dead enemy redshirts. Heavier weapons required to damage it, only the highest tier of ranged weapons (appropriately dubbed the anything-goes-tier) can one-shot them.

-"Immovable TOG II Bulky Brute Brawler": Largest shitbot variant of all, prefers to slowly circle strafe opponents with their huge back-mounted cannon. Even if the enemy get to them, they'll just slam their huge fist down on their opponent's skull and begin slowly stepping back, the ground shaking from each step. Practically invulnerable to all ranged weapons and even melee combat needs a mixture of extreme strength and pinpoint precision on a weak spot to do damage, once again only Anything-Goes-Tier weapons are effective against them.

If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears.

And just to note, I'll probably be making equivalents for my side.

Also would you prefer if I adhered to a specific color scheme or is anything fine?

I'll get to this as soon as I finish the remaining character sheets, there's just two left to finish and one's almost done if I could just find a couple hours of peace and quiet. The last one's going to be a bit more work than usual for mildly spoiler-ish reasons.

You've basically created a Melee-Focused Ork army, so of course I approve.

Mecha-Grots Ho!

By the way, have you had the chance to look through some of the Ork vehicles yet?

And if you have, are there any that have particularly inspired you?

I haven't had time to look through a whole bunch of them, but I am familiar with the general Ork style thanks to Dawn Of War and the Helsreach SFM movie. Although you should expect some influence from Bionicle and Bayformers, due to those being my two favorite styles of robots. I'll be sure to try and put on as many rivets, jagged plates and red stripes as possible.

Although I did just realize that them being melee-focused is a bit odd as most of my side has a roughly 1:1 ratio of ranged and melee options with characters that even though their weapons are 90% gun, their melee option (even if they only have one) is usually effective enough to make them a "balanced" fighter in a roundabout way.

And just to double check with everyone on their OCs:

-Main Soup King can use guns and Sambo (and a spoon), making him a balanced fighter. His robotic nature makes him physically stronger than the average human, making him one of the strongest fighters on the team.
-Quiet_boi is a jack-of-all-trades-type and can use most weapons, making him also a balanced fighter. I'll probably use the fact that he's relatively smaller than everyone except for the fodder midgets as his advantage, portraying him as agile and frequently narrowly jumping and rolling out of harm's way.
-Sam also sounds like she'd be balanced, but I'm going to point her more towards gun fighting because I feel like your team is a little too biased towards melee. I'll still have her punch and kick some stuff to great effect, but I'm going to have her be more gun-focused.
-Jamie is a flier and I remember him being more biased towards melee with most of his ranged stuff being the wing-feather-knives and occasionally a gun he finds one. Is more reliant on angelic powers (healing, teleportation) than outright combat prowess.
-Olors is also an angelic flier, but with even more insane powers. I don't have much of an appearance for him besides "Winged figure" and "Angelic being" so if you could get a hold of him to see if he has a better description, that'd be great. OK?

NO!! idea what NO!! is or if he's even participating or just here to watch the chaos unfold.

Did I get everything right?

Also, do you have anything specific in mind for a uniform color scheme for the shitbot variants or is whatever fine?

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

I haven't had time to look through a whole bunch of them, but I am familiar with the general Ork style thanks to Dawn Of War and the Helsreach SFM movie. Although you should expect some influence from Bionicle and Bayformers, due to those being my two favorite styles of robots. I'll be sure to try and put on as many rivets, jagged plates and red stripes as possible.

Although I did just realize that them being melee-focused is a bit odd as most of my side has a roughly 1:1 ratio of ranged and melee options with characters that even though their weapons are 90% gun, their melee option (even if they only have one) is usually effective enough to make them a "balanced" fighter in a roundabout way.

And just to double check with everyone on their OCs:

-Main Soup King can use guns and Sambo (and a spoon), making him a balanced fighter. His robotic nature makes him physically stronger than the average human, making him one of the strongest fighters on the team.
-Quiet_boi is a jack-of-all-trades-type and can use most weapons, making him also a balanced fighter. I'll probably use the fact that he's relatively smaller than everyone except for the fodder midgets as his advantage, portraying him as agile and frequently narrowly jumping and rolling out of harm's way.
-Sam also sounds like she'd be balanced, but I'm going to point her more towards gun fighting because I feel like your team is a little too biased towards melee. I'll still have her punch and kick some stuff to great effect, but I'm going to have her be more gun-focused.
-Jamie is a flier and I remember him being more biased towards melee with most of his ranged stuff being the wing-feather-knives and occasionally a gun he finds one. Is more reliant on angelic powers (healing, teleportation) than outright combat prowess.
-Olors is also an angelic flier, but with even more insane powers. I don't have much of an appearance for him besides "Winged figure" and "Angelic being" so if you could get a hold of him to see if he has a better description, that'd be great. OK?

NO!! idea what NO!! is or if he's even participating or just here to watch the chaos unfold.

Did I get everything right?

Also, do you have anything specific in mind for a uniform color scheme for the shitbot variants or is whatever fine?

So I've had a thought on the variants and if it's not too much trouble, could you do the following please.

Swarm Fodder Midgets:

Could you paint a Target on their chests and give them flashing lights, to highlight their role as a distraction please?

Generic Soldier-Bots:

Could you give them Krieger style helmets and skull plates please?

Form-Over-Function Melee Specialist:

Can these wear sunglasses please, and if they speak, can it be in the most Hamiest way you can come up with?

Chargin' Tard:

Could have these be covered in dents and scratches from previous charges?

Flying Robots:

I have no design preference, but when they get taken out, can they just go completely out of control and smash themselves into random things?

I've always found that Jet Pack troops that just go poof when they die to be such a cop out.

Oh God Oh Fuck Actually Really Dangerous Melee dudes:

Could these guys just look really innocuous, so you don't realise how dangerous they are until they actually start fighting?

Maybe have them look like a generic shitbot or soldier bot; but acting slightly more confidently than the rest?

Me and Sam sound fine, but we'll have to wait and see what the other guys think.

If you've gone down the vehicle design route I think you have, there should be a nice contrast between your sleek, futuristic machines and a design philosophy that thinks strapping a seat to a jet engine and turning it on is a valid and well-thought out plan.

My character sounds fine, although, I personally have a preference towards firearms over melee, not that I suck at melee but that I prefer shooting my way out of obstacles while usually melee-ing my way out of things only when I run out of ammo or I'm in a situation that calls for it.
Also, if you could please give me some dual Mini Uzis that would be awesome as I would normally try to just "Tequila in a John Woo film" my way out of things.

Last edited Jun 20, 2021 at 06:12PM EDT

I've come up with actual names for the variants and here's my opinion on your ideas for the individual variants:

Compact drones: I'll be sure to add a heavy-duty offroad truck-style light bar to their chest plates in addition to painting them a bright neon color, but wouldn't a huge Undeserving Circle emblem achieve the same effect as a target instead?

Soldier drones: Sure.

Melee drones: I'll make their eyes a sharp, angular sunglasses shape unless you were thinking of a different style of sunglasses. I was already going to make them vaguely act like overly self-confident pushovers that would totally say something stupid because they think it's cool, so great minds think alike.

Charger drones: It won't be on the height chart, but I'll do it for individual Chargers if I remember to.

Flier drones: I was already going to at least have them dismembered, but now I've realized that I should have them dismembered at the waist, with the torso spiraling out of control into the air. I was also thinking of a death I've nicknamed "engine failure" because they shoot up into the air damaged, only to suddenly lose thrust and slowly flip over and flop into the ground, upon which they explode. They'll also definitely get caught on things while trying to escape and get slung into a wall while flying at 150-200 MPH.

Wrecker drones: Mmm… I dunno man… I was gonna make them tall, bulky and fanatically swinging a flail around constantly. I'm not getting this one too much, it's just not clicking with me…

As for voices I imagined them all having British accents and the usual deepening and distortion associated with big mean robots for obvious reasons, but:

Compact drones have a harmless, "cute-and-cuddly"-sounding voice that would be more appropriate for a character from a children's show than a cheap, compact instrument of war. I was also considering making "Oh no…" a bit of a catchphrase for them.

Soldier drones sound average, aside from having the slightly deepened and distorted robot voice.

Melee drones sound like a generic, young shonen anime protag (but with a British accent) and frequently spout terrible one-liners mixed with the usual stereotypical karate sounds ("Ha!" "Hya!" "Hoo!" "Hrrraaagh!!!" "Take this!")

Charger drones shout everything and if it wasn't for the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, they'd probably scream "WAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!" on more than a few occasions.

Flier drones have a confident, unduly upbeat tone to their voice similar to the Melee drones, but in a more grounded and less delusional manner than the Melee drones' voices. Think more of the young, optimistic main protag of a mainstream live-action TV show.

Wrecker drones, I wasn't think of them talking much, considering that I was going to limit all drones to only spouting one or two generic non-plot-relevant lines and the usual grunts and groans of pain at most, but I imagine the Wrecker drones would have deeper than normal voices and say little more than grunts and groans of pain when hit.

Brawler drones (The TOG IIs) would largely be the same as the Wrecker drones, but even deeper and with the occasional "Nooooooooooo…" upon death.

@Quiet_boi

Mini Uzis, got it.

How do you feel about other guns, namely double-barreled (perhaps even quadruple-barreled) shotguns, break-open 40mm grenade launchers, service rifles and carbines?

To the proposal of other weapons in my personal arsenal i say : Yes, thank you.
I legit hadn't thought about other weapons but I guess that the more the merrier. Lets say that i keep them all in a bottomless bag of holdings that (for some mysterious reason) always gives me exactly what i want while still being compact and easy to carry.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

I've come up with actual names for the variants and here's my opinion on your ideas for the individual variants:

Compact drones: I'll be sure to add a heavy-duty offroad truck-style light bar to their chest plates in addition to painting them a bright neon color, but wouldn't a huge Undeserving Circle emblem achieve the same effect as a target instead?

Soldier drones: Sure.

Melee drones: I'll make their eyes a sharp, angular sunglasses shape unless you were thinking of a different style of sunglasses. I was already going to make them vaguely act like overly self-confident pushovers that would totally say something stupid because they think it's cool, so great minds think alike.

Charger drones: It won't be on the height chart, but I'll do it for individual Chargers if I remember to.

Flier drones: I was already going to at least have them dismembered, but now I've realized that I should have them dismembered at the waist, with the torso spiraling out of control into the air. I was also thinking of a death I've nicknamed "engine failure" because they shoot up into the air damaged, only to suddenly lose thrust and slowly flip over and flop into the ground, upon which they explode. They'll also definitely get caught on things while trying to escape and get slung into a wall while flying at 150-200 MPH.

Wrecker drones: Mmm… I dunno man… I was gonna make them tall, bulky and fanatically swinging a flail around constantly. I'm not getting this one too much, it's just not clicking with me…

As for voices I imagined them all having British accents and the usual deepening and distortion associated with big mean robots for obvious reasons, but:

Compact drones have a harmless, "cute-and-cuddly"-sounding voice that would be more appropriate for a character from a children's show than a cheap, compact instrument of war. I was also considering making "Oh no…" a bit of a catchphrase for them.

Soldier drones sound average, aside from having the slightly deepened and distorted robot voice.

Melee drones sound like a generic, young shonen anime protag (but with a British accent) and frequently spout terrible one-liners mixed with the usual stereotypical karate sounds ("Ha!" "Hya!" "Hoo!" "Hrrraaagh!!!" "Take this!")

Charger drones shout everything and if it wasn't for the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, they'd probably scream "WAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!" on more than a few occasions.

Flier drones have a confident, unduly upbeat tone to their voice similar to the Melee drones, but in a more grounded and less delusional manner than the Melee drones' voices. Think more of the young, optimistic main protag of a mainstream live-action TV show.

Wrecker drones, I wasn't think of them talking much, considering that I was going to limit all drones to only spouting one or two generic non-plot-relevant lines and the usual grunts and groans of pain at most, but I imagine the Wrecker drones would have deeper than normal voices and say little more than grunts and groans of pain when hit.

Brawler drones (The TOG IIs) would largely be the same as the Wrecker drones, but even deeper and with the occasional "Nooooooooooo…" upon death.

@Quiet_boi

Mini Uzis, got it.

How do you feel about other guns, namely double-barreled (perhaps even quadruple-barreled) shotguns, break-open 40mm grenade launchers, service rifles and carbines?

>Compact drones: I'll be sure to add a heavy-duty offroad truck-style light bar to their chest plates in addition to painting them a bright neon color, but wouldn't a huge Undeserving Circle emblem achieve the same effect as a target instead?
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I mean, we could paint what is essentially our universe's version of the Elder Sign onto thousands of robots.

What could possibly go wrong?

Apart from the fabric of reality being torn asunder and everyone joining forces in order to close the rift and stop the apocalypse, whilst learning in the meantime about Friendship, Forgiveness and Tolerance resulting in a feel-good ending for all the family.
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>Compact drones have a harmless, "cute-and-cuddly"-sounding voice that would be more appropriate for a character from a children's show than a cheap, compact instrument of war. I was also considering making "Oh no…" a bit of a catchphrase for them.
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You could have them sounding like the original Worms.

Last edited Jun 26, 2021 at 11:26AM EDT

Status Update

It has been a week since my last status update.

There has still been no movement from Kaijin, so we have moved him into the broom cupboard now, as his blank expression was starting to creep us out.

Despite all of our best efforts, Zoster still has not worked out how to use a toilet, so we have banished him to the garden for the time being.

Number 1 and Shirley had everyone do the Timewarp yesterday evening and the neighbourhood pigeons seem to have taken grave offense to this, as they have not been seen since.

MCC and Kitty got into a debate over whether 5.56 or 7.62 is a better calibre for the average human military small arm and have been firing guns ever since.

So far we cannot prove if this has something to do with the lack of pigeons, but the correlation is definitely there.

Will report back in a few days time with a further update.

All that's left of the character sheets is the drone height charts, after that I'll probably start making actual story-relevant posts.

And as for Kitty, the railgun weapons she utilizes, namely her carbine and the squad automatic weapon like Dusty uses in that one piece of art I posted a while back on my NG utilize a round with a diameter of .335 inches or 8.5mm. There are larger railguns usually utilized by more armored combatants such as the Cosmorines that are chambered for a larger .50 caliber round and the aforementioned 20mm anti-tank revolver as well as the standard handgun round being .45 inches in diameter. Small-arm-sized Laser weapons, regardless of whether they're pistols or rifles, tend to have a barrel diameter of .60 inches or 15.24mm.

Although in the context of 20th/21st century guns, Kitty's carbine is very obviously based off of the M4, M16 and other AR-10/AR-15 derivatives, so she'd probably prefer 5.56 NATO. Although, I'd think Kitty would be a bit too busy right now to be debating that with Circle Cultists.

Finished with all of the character sheets except for the Shirleyist-side drones, I'm going to be busy for a little while so don't expect much over the next few days. But there's a couple more things I'd like to finish before I start.

Here's the Shitbot drones:

I wanted to do more in terms of stripes, checkerboard patterns and spikes, but I kind of fell into a working-trance and accidentally forgot to do it for most of them. Hopefully they're not too bland and basic-looking. I also omitted the Flier's main wings because they'd be too big to fit onto the chart. I didn't hear specific about color schemes, so I just made them different color to make them overly easy to tell apart.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Finished with all of the character sheets except for the Shirleyist-side drones, I'm going to be busy for a little while so don't expect much over the next few days. But there's a couple more things I'd like to finish before I start.

Here's the Shitbot drones:

I wanted to do more in terms of stripes, checkerboard patterns and spikes, but I kind of fell into a working-trance and accidentally forgot to do it for most of them. Hopefully they're not too bland and basic-looking. I also omitted the Flier's main wings because they'd be too big to fit onto the chart. I didn't hear specific about color schemes, so I just made them different color to make them overly easy to tell apart.

I love this.

I was expecting you to just stick different hats on my basic shit-bot models like I normally do; but this is much better. They look it so Orky, it's great.

The Tog II* could be a bit bigger, because I've seen the TOG IRL and, I'm not joking, that thing is almost as large as a bungalow.

It's BEEEEG



Also, I'm contractually obliged to do this. Sorry.

Brother Boi, Find me robots with attitude

Soup King wrote:

I love this.

I was expecting you to just stick different hats on my basic shit-bot models like I normally do; but this is much better. They look it so Orky, it's great.

The Tog II* could be a bit bigger, because I've seen the TOG IRL and, I'm not joking, that thing is almost as large as a bungalow.

It's BEEEEG



Also, I'm contractually obliged to do this. Sorry.

Brother Boi, Find me robots with attitude

I'm working with a somewhat strict height limit so that combat doesn't end up being "why are you shooting, just step on them!" so that's why the TOG II transformer is somehow only 9 feet tall despite the fact that it would have to shrink to under a third of it's vehicle mode's size to become that height. You're probably going to notice some weird issues involving inconsistent sizes and mysterious shrinking in some places.

Quiet_boi wrote:

Once again, I can't see whatever Kaijin posted because of filesize, do you have a direct link to the image Kaijin? For us mobile users,pls?

Here you go.

Although are you sure it's the filesize and not something else causing the problems? This is only 2000×700 at a size of 483 KB, by all means you should be able to see it. Perhaps it's something to do with embedding from Newgrounds that's not working for mobile? Because if it's just the filesize, then how are you browsing the images on the rest of the website?

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

Here you go.

Although are you sure it's the filesize and not something else causing the problems? This is only 2000×700 at a size of 483 KB, by all means you should be able to see it. Perhaps it's something to do with embedding from Newgrounds that's not working for mobile? Because if it's just the filesize, then how are you browsing the images on the rest of the website?

It's probably a Newgrounds issue because my phone only has problems with jfif images on the gallery (i have to open the post and then open the image itself to see what it's all about) DeviantArt cause me no problems, hell, even normal images that come straight from a normal Newgrounds post cause me no issues but here, idk, man.
Soup King's comic took a smear to load but your images from NG don't show up at all.
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Anyway, those are some neat designs, Kaijin. Now I see what you all mean with that ork stylization, they look mean and treatening despite the fact that only the latter two are the most dangerous… Not that they are going to present any issues for you and your OP army…
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Also, have you ever heard of Kisekae2 (A.K.A Kisekaejade)? Because I just found out what that is and I consider that it could be helpful for the design of the more human looking characters for when there's not time to draw them yourself.

Last edited Jun 30, 2021 at 06:52PM EDT

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

I'm working with a somewhat strict height limit so that combat doesn't end up being "why are you shooting, just step on them!" so that's why the TOG II transformer is somehow only 9 feet tall despite the fact that it would have to shrink to under a third of it's vehicle mode's size to become that height. You're probably going to notice some weird issues involving inconsistent sizes and mysterious shrinking in some places.

You could have the TOG II split into three robots, if that makes the height issue any easier.

Soup King wrote:

You could have the TOG II split into three robots, if that makes the height issue any easier.

As much as that would fix the height issue, I've already finished the design and that's not the only place there's going to be weird height issues. It's kind of just going to be a thing that I've just excused a this point due to the fact that this is basically a shitpost.

Kommando_Kaijin wrote:

As much as that would fix the height issue, I've already finished the design and that's not the only place there's going to be weird height issues. It's kind of just going to be a thing that I've just excused a this point due to the fact that this is basically a shitpost.

I wouldn't say that this is a shitpost anymore…
Oh no, it's more than that now….


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It is…. A SUPER SHITPOST!

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