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I am utterly captivated by this video series that Taryn Delanie and friends have been making on TikTok
People mistaking fanon as canon irl
you’ve heard of the mortifying ordeal of being known, now get ready for the
imagine if you will, a fairly dry survival crafting game in which you live in a bunker and must periodically venture out to scavenge food, set up turrets for attacking monsters, etc
now, your computer inside the bunker has a game-inside-a-game on it which is a charming farming sim of undeniably greater quality and scope than the survival game you're playing. therefore, the object of the game becomes to keep your bunker secure so you can play the farming game more.
now, once you achieve the highest rating in the farming game, a secret shop inside it unlocks, and one of the novelty items you can purchase is a game console, giving you access to games-inside-a-game-inside-a-game. most of the games for it are typical mobile shovelware, but one of them is a highly polished, extremely brutal precision platformer with amazing level design and production values exceeding that of the survival game and farming sim combined.
it is only at this point that the purpose of this entire contrivance becomes clear: to create the most deranged speedrun community the world has ever seen.
So many green slime/plasm/ooze/pit options, ours for the taking. Mix and match non-Newtonian fluids to your hearts content. Is it the same stuff at different ripeness like bell peppers? Up to you! Or is it all entirely different things that just so happen to look near identical?
But wait there’s more, add in some extra states of matter for flavor, gases like Joker gas or scarecrow fear gas, or heck, banes venom is a liquid isn’t it?
Need plot points? Batman wondering where these teenagers keep coming from and why are we dealing with multiple inter dimensional threats all at once. (Why hasn’t anyone noticed or notified anyone about this?) Why are there two separate species entirely unprotected by the meta protection acts? (How many supernatural secret societies could there be?) Why is there a glowing flying robot with green fire hair chasing those turtles? (Depending on the version of tmnt why are the turtles able to do magic that can hit him back.) Is Constantine at fault for any of this? (Probably.) How did “born and raised in Illinois” Wes Weston even know about the “secret New York sewer” turtles to work on a conspiracy board with Bernard Dowd linking them and Killer croc to the rise of sewer pizza delivery drop off points? (Primarily being used by the homeless with no home address.) Bring in the third party after two of them have already met and try to make the third a tiebreaker for an argument only to end with “Doesn’t matter (nasty burger/bat burger/pizza) is better than both of em” and start a new argument.
You know, there was a Batman and Ninja Turtles cross-over event at one point, and I don't think I've ever seen a three point Convergence between the turtles, batman, and phantom come up in FF ever
.... Okay, so I might have made a ahit oc during my downtime. Based on the idea of "yeah the idea of hat kid being a little space orphan doing a job is sad.... But what if they were separated from their family and needed to get back home instead?"
And what if their worried mother came to the planet they were on, looking for them after they'd JUST LEFT like a month ago?
SOOOOOO HERE'S SUMMER!
I may have gotten carried away with myself on this idea-
Just a simple theoretical discussion ^v^
Wanted to see what he would sound like with MatPat's voice then got. just a tinyyy bit carried away..........
We all know the classic “airheaded Brucie Wayne doesn’t understand the prices of everyday objects because of his wealth” take. We also generally know that even as Bruce Wayne he probably still has a fairly skewed understanding of what counts as affordable due to being in the rich part of the city. Realistically even as Batman he probably objectively knows what the economy of Gotham looks like for the most part but is still a little out of touch due to basically never going into a supermarket.
Now for the twist, what if during those years away training and basically becoming Ryu from Streets, he did end up learning the price of commodities like food and clothes, BUT he only knows it for other countries currency.
Imagine if that knowledge casually translated to Brucie, where he’s giving an interview or he’s on a tv show like jeopardy or family feud, and they ask him some question like “How much do you think it costs to buy 8 apples?” And Brucie Wayne just pulls out some random currency to approximate it. Almost nobody knows what the current exchange rate is between these different currencies off the top of their head and Brucie doesn’t seem to be able to convert it either.
It becomes a whole thing, where anytime someone asks Brucie how much something cheap costs he’ll answer in any other currency besides the U.S. Dollar.
Now imagine if someone decided to specify that his answer needs to be in USD, he just takes a moment stares off into the distance and when they decide to finally ask if he’s alright he just goes “oh no sorry, I just needed to convert it. It’d be about x amount of money USD.” Just completely blowing the concept that yes, Brucie Wayne is capable of converting between these random currency exchange rates off the top of his head, yes he can do math mentally, and yes he knows what the price of these everyday goods are, but only in other countries, thereby proving previous claims, that he was just getting lucky pulling random numbers off the top of his head, were false.
Even more remarkable is sometimes when it’s looked into, the only places with prices as low as Brucie suggests in that particular currency are basically slums which brings up a whole new slew of questions, like “WHY DOES BRUCIE WAYNE SEEM INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE SLUM PRICES OF THIS TINY TOWN IN ANOTHER COUNTRY”
Just adds a whole new dimension of lore to Brucie Wayne that Gothamites could go nuts over.