The Suit of Amour

Vital - A powerful wavetable synth, my personal favorite VST synth, very easy to figure out creating new synth sounds, with the help of the plenty of tutorials that are out there for the plug-in. (There are paid versions but they are completely unnecessary to get 99% of the features of the plug-in.)

Synth1 - A classic piece of synthesizer software.

Pendulate - An interesting, chaotic synth that you can make weird little sounds with.

Native Instruments' free plug-ins - Various cool VSTs, including the Komplete Start pack.

The Free Orchestra - A set of orchestral instruments for Kontakt Player (see previous link).

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover - More orchestral stuff! This one has its own player so you don't have to download a separate VST to use it if you don't want to.

Magical 8bit Plug - A chiptune plug-in, intended for producing sounds like that of 8-bit systems like the NES and Master System.

Genny - A synth VST made to emulate the soundchip of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

MT Power Drum Kit - A nice rock n' roll style drum kit plug-in.

This guy's weird VST collection - 6.4 gigabytes of weird VSTs, including some you might know, like Delay Lama and MeowSynth!

sforzando - A free player for soundfont files.

Musical Artifacts - A resource I mainly use to find soundfonts, on which you can find other various things as well.

Kilohearts Essentials - 30 effect VSTs including reverb, delay, compression, pitch shifting, transient shaping, ring modulation, phase distortion, and more.

Xfer's freeware VSTs - Exactly what it says on the tin, including the one and only OTT compressor.

Illformed - The good ol' dblue Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop.

Hysteresis and Fracture - Two interesting glitch effects, one being a delay and the other being a buffer.

Codec - A cool digital audio degradation effect.

Le Phonk - A slick distortion plug-in.

MAIM - An effect that mimics the sound of MP3 compression.

Soundly Shape it and Place it - One is simply an equalizer VST, the other is an effect that emulates a speaker (ex: a radio) and a space (ex: a cave).

Fresh Air - An effect that adds high end information to your sounds, to provide brightness.

ValhallaSupermassive - A combo reverb and delay plug-in that sounds quite big.

UnplugRed - A collection of various interesting VSTs, most of which have free versions.

Chowdhury DSP - I can't personally speak for all of these but their tape model effect is great for some lo-fi style effects.

TAL-Chorus-LX - A thick sounding chorus, good for "retro" sounds too.

Polyverse Wider - A great effect for widening sounds up, really simple too with only two controls.

Freesound - A good audio file resource, mainly for foley recordings.

Cymbatics Dubstep Starter Pack - A little sample pack with some good drum and synth samples.

fishmonger drum kit - A pack of samples from the album 'fishmonger' by Underscores!

WangleLine's sample packs - Free samples put out by my awesome mutual WangleLine!

aaand I might as well include this set of drums I made awhile back :P

I have it as one of my keyboard themes and I wanna find the original image since my phone got wiped and I'm trying to at least recover my favorite pictures

"How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it" GREAT question.

To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear's Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that's about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.

And it's only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits...

(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)

...that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be "driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out. You will concede that's rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world...

...and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck...

...only for the ropes to snap...

...and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.

(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)

Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.

Or at least the wrecking ball.

But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.

Still, I feel it's criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)

Wait NO-

Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.

Or at least, given that buried it wasn't...

...to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat...

...and be fueled up.

"be fueled up", pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.

Look at that thing, you say.

Let's be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that's not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.

And again, you are right.

The battery was disconnected.

Sorted that, tho

"You can't be serious." Oh darling I sure can! "Well the presenters can't then" no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It's at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!

or those of you that at least have oc's touched by the neathbow

im adding a touch of neathbow anatomy to portia and need to know, how did your blorbos gain their neathbow soaked bits, eyes, hands, whatever. i want to hear it cause you all have really interesting takes.

tagging those who i know have characters like that. there is probably more so tell me about them

Ever since, he's got a highly dodgy effect on memory, both his own and others'. Like he can't directly control it, but you're likely to forget he's even in the room without a reminder. He also DRILLED through the bone to get back limited vision - keeps his gross scarred eye holes covered generally but if you look at them it's PROBABLY a blast of full amnesia to the face lol. Lawd what a Creature lmao

When Alacrity was little she had this annoying little habit of unscrewing panels and wandering around the ductwork and pipework of the vault. It is half of the reason she's as savvy a mechanic as she is, however she did once become trapped in a quickly filling overflow area which lead to a lifelong fear of fast moving deep water.

Been seeing some posts circulating about popular websites/apps and wanted to make my own version. These are apps I’m way too addicted to. Am I missing any?

Edit: Sorry for all the time I’ve taken away from your life.

Love Nikki- my favorite dress-up game

CharacterHub- make beautiful wikis for your characters and art

Date My Music by the Shelf app- find out how dateable you are based on your Spotify

Hangout.fm- music with your friends, ultimate music discovery engine

Ellipsus- because f*ck google docs

Hinge Cheater - check if your boyfriend is still on Hinge

Shroomy - Therapy but from a talking mushroom

Party In My Dorm - college simulation game!

Terrarium - build the ultimate garden empire

Rise - really helpful self-care sleep routine

Breathwrk - this app will help you get rid of social anxiety

Phone Case DIY - design your phone case

Idle Human - build a human from scratch. for reals.

Pocket Styler - build a dream closet you want

Stadium Live - sports, games, and friends - all in one

Dragon Mania Legends - breed the cutest dragons

Sweatcoin - you can literally walk and get paid

BitLife - a life simulator

Fabulous - best daily routine planner