aabicus – The Daily SPUF

In Which aabicus Writes Nude Articles

December 21, 2022December 10, 2022 Medic 0 Comments aabicus, modding, mods, nude

While aabicus has written over 600 articles for the Daily SPUF, he has also done something very interesting. Over the years, aabicus has managed to get consistent views on the many articles he has written about nudity in video games. Nothing sexual, just nude. Nude Male Mods We’ll start off this article, as I also included it in the previous article showcasing aabicus’s hard work. Finding male nude mods is actually genuinely challenging. While a female character can get away with just a line, male characters need to deal with jiggle physics and additional models. After all, there’s a dick… [Continue Reading]

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In Which aabicus Writes Articles

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Medic 1 Comment aabicus, aabicus is the greatest, retrospective

While it’s mainly me who manages the Daily SPUF these days, we can’t forget about the genius who originally came up with the Daily SPUF. The idea was simple. Instead of complaining in various forums and being off-topic, people from the old Steam Powered User Forums could instead write their articles here, whether they were off-topic or not. Thanks to aabicus’s early dedication, lots of people posted articles, and we would probably not be here if aabicus hadn’t worked hard on the site. Even when I took over as chief editor and webmaster for the Daily SPUF, aabicus has been… [Continue Reading]

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The Making of a Demoman

July 21, 2020July 24, 2020 aabicus 0 Comments aabicus, cosmetics, demoman, Filler, Team Fortress 2

Three years ago I indulged in a full article about my Medic cosmetic loadout, since it had remained remarkably consistent throughout the years and each piece held a lot of sentimental value to me. But only recently did I realize that there’s a fair amount of personal history in my Demoman loadout as well, considering I’ve been offclassing him for almost as long. Much like with Medic, my first few years were spent playing completely cosmetic-free; I was so addicted to stats I couldn’t fathom caring about something that didn’t change the actual gameplay in any way. It also took… [Continue Reading]

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The Medical Necessity lore nobody asked for

March 15, 2020March 8, 2020 aabicus 0 Comments aabicus, Filler, history, medical necessity, roleplaying, soldiers

Remember Medical Necessity? It was a game development project where I had my first ill-fated experience as a project manager. In the end, we got canceled due to lack of progress during the first quarter of production. The only surviving product is the purchasable sprite sheet on itch.io. The design document and production wiki note that the default names for the player’s allied soldiers are Homer, Berenson, Collins, and Cunningham. And while digging through a lifetime of old boxes preparing for my move to Portland, I found the original action figures those names came from. Their plastic has gone gummy and… [Continue Reading]

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My Early Years in Videography

March 14, 2020May 27, 2020 aabicus 0 Comments aabicus, history, The SPUF of Legend, video

Today’s article is very self-indulgent, so apologies in advance. I’m just in something of a self-reflective mood because yesterday I chewed through a lifetime of old storage boxes in one evening. I didn’t really have a choice. The Goodwill van was coming in the morning, and lord knows I didn’t want the donatables sitting around for another two weeks before the next time they’d swing by. But I’m honestly glad they spurred my hand and made me sift through it all, because I found a bunch of diamonds in the rough. Old things I’d long lost and never thought I’d… [Continue Reading]

Spinda and Charmander hugging for warmth

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4 Pokemon Who Never Found a Home

February 24, 2020December 27, 2020 aabicus 0 Comments aabicus, charmander, Filler, history, magikarp, pikachu, pokemon

While I only started writing articles about Pokemon when Pokemon GO was released, I’ve been playing the core games since 2009 when my boyfriend gifted his copy of FireRed to me. The single best part of Pokemon is how it eases the player into falling in love with their own personal monsters, and subtly guides you to create a unique team that will wind up completely different to everyone else’s. Pokemon has also gone above-and-beyond at making sure players can always port their beloved teams forward through new generations of the games. Through features like PokeTransfer, Pal Park, and Pokemon… [Continue Reading]

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The Way it Was: A Week of Looking Back

July 15, 2019July 12, 2019 aabicus 0 Comments aabicus, lack of updates, retrospective, Team Fortress 2

Hi everyone! aabicus here, and you may have noticed these days that I’ve been pretty much invisible on the SPUF side of things. My last article was in February (still haven’t caught a shiny Rattata…) and the SPUF of Legend‘s last video was 3 months ago. (That should change soon, though! Got another one in the final editing phase.) My main excuse, unfortunately, is money. In a nutshell, after graduating college I co-founded a gaming studio but got written out of the contract at the last minute. Without a backup lined up, I had to leave my apartment for financial… [Continue Reading]

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aabicus at College: An Update

December 28, 2017January 20, 2018 aabicus 0 Comments aabicus, college, design, medical necessity, real life, recap, spuf of legend

Hi everyone! I’ve been almost completely silent on both the forums and this blog, and I apologize for that, but as I mentioned in this video, I’ve been attending a Master’s program in Game Design, and it’s been loads of work. Luckily it’s been amazing and enjoyable work, and I’ve just wrapped up my first (and supposedly the busiest) quarter. It has been so great getting to explore so many different elements of game design in an academic setting! This article is basically a compilation of what I’ve been doing the last four months, and a bit of discussion on… [Continue Reading]

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The Making of a Medic

June 5, 2017July 26, 2018 aabicus 0 Comments aabicus, cosmetics, Filler, medic, Team Fortress 2

As I mentioned in a previous article, I am very particular with the cosmetics I chose for my Medic wardrobe. As a matter of fact, I can walk through my old screenshots and watch my outfit evolve as the various parts came together and at no point have I removed a piece. So I thought I might dedicate an article to each piece of the most beloved outfit I’ve ever owned in a video game. In college I made my first video game purchase ever; I bought The Orange Box and the Half Life Anthology pack in honor of finally getting a desktop.… [Continue Reading]

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On Sounding Like an Idiot while Explaining Things

February 20, 2017March 9, 2017 Medic 1 Comment aabicus, fun, newbie, warframe

So the other day, I helped aabicus complete Vor’s Prize, the tutorial quest of Warframe. We played for about three hours, getting aabicus to Mastery Rank 1 and unlocking Venus as a place he can visit. From what I heard, aabicus enjoyed himself, and as I thought, he very much liked the game’s mobility, accessible to all Warframes no matter what you use. But as I slowly explained everything, I realised how 1. I had never noticed some things and 2. I sounded like an idiot when I thought about what I had just said. On the not-noticing side of… [Continue Reading]

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