fortnite

[evanonline]

i'll keep you appraised of what happens in fortnite if you want



right now it's slime homer

[Tristi]

someone's got to thank you for your service

[amos]

What's next? Slime Maggie, Slime Lisa, Slime Bart and Slime Marge?

[evanonline]

Yeah actually. and slime flanders.

context is that these are the prestige skins for getting everything on the battle pass and then continuing to get more levels. this is the flanders of a true gamer.

i have actually liked this fortnite season a lot, the springfield map is fun. buuuut it's kind of nuts that they made a whole-ass map to only use for one month? feels, uh. wasteful.

[lynnedrum]

it's so incredibly maddening to me how they disney vault all this shit. simpson's hit and run 2 is out but you better act fast!!!

[evanonline]

they surely gotta see how well this is doing and go for a new simpsons game in the style of hit & run, right...? at least a remake...??

the craziest part of this being time-limited is that the interest this puts on the simpsons is going to go nowhere. there is no more meaningful followup to this? i guess there doesn't NEED to be something to crosspromote but it is just interesting. i guess the logic was to follow up a halloween event with a treehouse of horror bit to lead into the simpsons season. with a new movie due out in 2027, it also might be another situation like when the disney channel aired fish fact segments to plant the idea of fish being cool into the minds of kids a year before finding nemo came out.

also they dropped tyler the creator in the middle of the simpsons season so he is forever going to be labeled as such. he's a simpson now.

[Wascie]

Thank you this is a public service.

[evanonline]

Fortnite report. Homer looks really fucked up in a few emotes. He's really not enjoying doing the Palpatine lightning fingers.



Also when he does the Miku Miku Beam he can't properly count to three because his four-fingered hand isn't rigged for it.

Speaking of Miku, they added a new Miku jam track. You can play these in the Rock Band gamemode they have Harmonix on now, but more importantly you and your gang can do impromptu Fuser sets midgame in a regular-ass game of Fortnite. (One time we got a win and dropped a Gangnam Style / Never Gonna Give You Up mashup on the losers.)

However, to get this new Miku song, you have to... "Earn XP in Tycoon Creator-made Islands in a party with friends".



"Tycoon Creator-Made Islands" are essentially just reskinned cookie clicker type idle games that are all over Fortnite's "creative mode" elements. It's part of Fortnite's desperate attempt at Robloxxing themselves. My friend group has a favorite Tycoon Creator-Made Island which I believe we're going to have to hit up this weekend if we can pull ourselves away from Air Riders.



The rights-holders to Care Bears paid someone to make an official Care Bears Fortnite mode. However, it is not actually officially sanctioned by Fortnite or anything. McDonald's actually did something similar with the WcDonald's anime promotional shit they were doing a while ago. In a world where everything is in Fortnite, it is deeply, extremely funny that Care Bears and McDonald's felt the need to cut the line, to... not much effect. I don't think anyone cares about Care Bears Tycoon except me and my gang.

[evanonline]

A few Fortnite updates.



Last week of Simpsons. They gave everyone a loading screen you can equip that looks like macro fetish art. This is because they're doing a bigass Ready Player One type thing this weekend where Gigantic Homer, Godzilla, King Kong, the Rebel Alliance, the Power Rangers, the Ninja Turtles, the K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Uma Thurman as she appeared in Kill Bill and probably more, are all going to show up to kill the current bad guy of Fortnite. Who is of course named "The Dark Presence." We all care about this a lot.



Very, very egregiously, "Homer in his underwear" is a different skin from the regular, normal Homer on the battle pass, rather than an alternate style of Homer. Underwear Homer is a separate thing you have to pay $15 for. I don't think anyone is going to do this.

Weirdly, they've kind of already moved on from promoting the Simpsons Fortnite stuff at all even though it is still ongoing and what is actually in the game. Partially because they have Stranger Things shit to push. And when I say shit I do mean these kids look like ass in Fortnite form. You guys were not meant to be in Fortnite I am so sorry.



But the real reason they're backing off on Simpsons stuff is because they're promoting the NEXT season, which is regular but will feature a lot of Kill Bill content. To the point that they had a whole exclusive preview event for the next Fortnite season, hosted entirely at a theater owned by Quentin Tarantino, and attended mostly by Hollywood celebrities.



As far as I know, it is not actually very clear what the fuck they showed any of those people at the theater, but we've seen glimpses of the new map that will be replacing Springfield Island and we know that this time the storm is going to be in shapes other than circles, and Marty McFly will also be there in addition to all the Kill Bill shit. They're gonna give you Yuki from Kill Bill as a free skin if you log in next week and there's going to be something called "Yuki's Revenge: The Lost Chapter" but it's not clear if this is... something that will be IN Fortnite? Is the ENTIRE next chapter a Kill Bill thing? That... happens to also have Marty McFly? Is this going to be some sort of sub-component, or like a new temporary game mode? It's part of something called "Fortnite After Dark", is this going to be like, Fortnite with blood and sex for adults only??? They are including the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill as a car, I guess. Except, it's the Meow Wagon now, guys. That's fine.




(They've got all this money but they can't spring for an entire Pussy Wagon. Just one tenth of a Pussy Wagon.)

According to this image that leaked from the weird private event, I guess it's going to be Hollywood themed, but... how the fuck do you make it "Hollywood themed" aside from doing what Fortnite already does and shoving intellectual properties into it?? How's that any different???



Capital F Fortnite Fans seem hyped for all this but uh. This seems like a mess, to me.

A lot has been said about Fortnite being crossover slop, and it's true, but it's held together by the fact that the game itself is genuinely very fun to play. That's what keeps me staying on the ride - it's a good-ass video game to me. However, a lot of their worst seasons have been when the game seems confused about what the fuck it's actually trying to... BE. The gameplay is almost definitely going to fall to the wayside while they try to figure out how to... appease Quentin Tarantino, in Fortnite. It really needs to be said that the circumstances of this game are insane.

Buy Underwear Homer for Fifteen Dollars.

[carly rae jetfuel]

i sincerely appreciate these updates and thank you for them

15 dollar underwear fortnite homer