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commodore 64 snoopy
they should make five nights at snoopys where nothing bad happens and you spend a week with your friend snoopy
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it might stretch or go beyond the limits of the motion shown in the Cars movies, but maybe you can:
open and close the doors
open or slam the boot compartment
turn on or off the inside lights
rotate the outside mirrors
turn on or off the outside lights
puff the airbag when very stressed (it's probably not visible behind the eyes, but maybe the noise can still be heard)
as mention above, use the windshield wipers
use the windshield wiper fluid
make the revving engine noises
have them drive around while talking. e.g. a happy car might do donuts, or a sad car might slump in neutral position and roll where the ground takes them, or slowly reverse. or affectionately use their bumpers to softly bump another car. etc.
Cars Fanfic Author Problems:
“Wait a minute can they even do this they’re freaking cars”
You start to write something about ears or hands and then you remember like “…oh wait-”
getting anxious about putting human food in a scene so you just say oil to make it less conflicting
C A R H U G S …
“THEY’VE GESTURED WITH THEIR TIRES LIKE TEN TIMES ALREADY DO SOMETHING ELSE YOU STUPID VEHICLES LIKE I LOVE YOU BUT PLEASE MAKE IT EASIER FOR ME”
unsure about how to make a scene more dynamic cause the characters can really only just sit there talking to each other
“IS. LIGHTNING. MCQUEEN. OOC. I SWEAR HE’S OOC IN THIS SCENE”
Or, alternatively: “IS ANYONE IN-CHARACTER IN THIS SCENE OH GOD I DON’T KNOW THIS SERIES AT ALL DO I I’M HORRIBLE”
“wait do they even have windshield wipers”
“how far can they stretch their axles out like arms omg this must read so awkward”
when you have to write Mater’s dialogue and you start to say it out loud in the Larry the Cable Guy voice cause good God how do you write that voice properly (i.e. occasional horrid grammar and/or catchphrases)
*incoherent screaming about car anatomy*
“Okay would McQueen really cry here no he’d hold it in- but wait a second wouldn’t it be more powerful if he broke down here- alright listen up here-”
“OKAY IS IT THE ENGINE OR THE BATTERY THAT’S THE HEART I’M SO CONFUSED AND I’M THE ONE WRITING IT”
here's my unasked-for analysis on why your tape enthusiasm post is getting so many responses about bypassing using tape. This is not meant to be an indictment of your writing style, I would hate to dampen that, it's mainly just an explanation of how things have happened this way.
summary: Your enthusiasm for the tape's capabilities was interpreted as something else by certain audiences, who were mainly focused on what they interpreted the post's goals were.
your enthusiasm for some of the capabilities of tape (being able record into digital audio files, pirating things), was interpreted into a goal-oriented thing. people started focusing on the goal of obtaining a digital audio file of pirated audio, and wanted to point out methods they found more efficient of obtaining that goal. This is how they also came to interpret tape as the "middleman", because instead of the endgoal being enjoying using and having the tape, they thought the endgoal was pirating audio into personal digital files. They saw the post as an educational post for those goals and felt the need to point out other methods, instead of a post about showing enthusiasm and educating about the capabilities of tape.
Your enthusiasm with how cool tape is (" here’s the fucking magic. ", "you’re doing gangbusters. You’re cooking with gas. You’re thinking with portals. You’ve won the internet"), reached a mismatch with audiences who did not think tape was that cool, because other methods could achieve the goals of pirating and obtaining a digital file. They did not understand why you were so excited by a form they considered inferior or unwieldy, and interpreted it as thinking maybe you were so excited about tape because it was the only method of achieving directly recorded digital files of pirated audio that you knew of, thinking you were excited about achieving the goals instead of the method, despite that not being the case. By not mentioning Audacity's innate speaker-recording ability, this reinforced their mistaken belief.
soz for writing this unasked-for analysis, i need 2 sleep right now, but i can't sleep until i get stuff out of my head, and 4 some reason, this was sticking in my head.
tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.