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Pre-ordering the PlayStation 5 was one of the hardest things Alex had ever done. Who knew that fighting with scalpers and bots would be so hard? The tigress had to sneak away at work to refresh the website over and over as hands on her wristwatch crept closer and closer to 11 AM; the time when the floodgates keeping everyone from entering the order page was scheduled to open.
Once the clock struck 11, the dreaded time when McDonald’s stopped serving breakfast, Alex sped through the ordering process, entered her delivery address and credit card information, and chewed on a claw as the spinning wheel above the words “Processing Payment” spun like a hamster wheel with the most energetic of hamsters inside it. When the symbol disappeared and the website went blank for a moment, Alex almost screamed, thinking that the website pooped out on her, but after a few seconds of very violently stomping her foot against the floor of the breakroom, the page turned into a green checkmark and an order confirmation was delivered into her inbox with a satisfying ding.
The tigress pumped her fist into the air and silently celebrated. She hopped up and down, almost bumping into the coffee machine that she was standing beside. After a few jumps, she stopped, looked at her phone again to make sure she read it right and then squealed out loud as she struggled to contain her excitement.
The tigress had never sweat so much from standing in one place before; beads of sweat ran down her forehead, face, and even her back. Her hands got clammy, too, which made keeping her phone in her hand a lot harder. But now it was done; her PS5 was secured. She let out a sigh, slipped her phone back into her pocket, and wiped her sweaty palms on her jeans. She then went back to work, although she was incredibly unfocused, her mind thinking about the things she could do and the games she could play with her shiny new router-shaped gaming console set to arrive at her doorstep the next day.
She got very little work done that day, luckily, she was pretty good at making herself look like she was good at her job. How else was she able to keep an office job with her only prior experience being in a waitressing position?
The honeymoon phase with her PS5 was amazing; the new games that came with it like Spider-Man Miles Morales, Demon Souls Remake, and Sackboy were fun, the DualSense controller fascinated her to no end, and just owning one during the launch period felt like a flex on everyone else who had trouble securing one against scalpers, bots, and a worldwide chip shortage caused by you-know-what. (Cough cough.) But it’s called a “honeymoon phase” for a reason; the excitement over her new console eventually died down after a few months as she finished all the games that there were to play. Eventually, her beloved marvel of Japanese technology sat on her IKEA TV shelf, collecting dust alongside its fellow Japanese friend that met a similar fate after she was done with Animal Crossing; her Nintendo Switch.
That was until June 2021.
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was the PS5 game that the tigress found herself hyped about most. Having been a long-time fan of the game since the first installment back on the PlayStation 2, her excitement was part nostalgia, part hype caused by all the cute fan art of the new Lombax character being introduced with the sequel. And while for the most part, Alex refrained from pre-ordering games, she couldn’t help herself. With her pre-order locked in, she waited a whole 11 days into June before the mailman dropped the parcel at her door early in the morning.
Alex had a recurring weekday alarm set for her to wake up at 8 AM that she forgot to turn off after she put in her sick leave late last night. Normally, she would have complained, days off were meant for sleeping in after all, but with it being a game launch day, she was more than happy to roll out of her bed, grab her phone, and check the tracking number on her game.
‘Delivered’ was plastered at the very top of her delivery tracking app, which had the sleepy and bed-headed tigress excited. A jolt of energy shot through her veins out of nowhere. She quickly grabbed her sweater from its cute pile on the floor and zoomed through her apartment toward her front door, where she opened up her door to find a cute little box right on the floor as she pulled it inward. She picked it up and ran back into her apartment. She slammed the door a little too hard behind her that some of her keys that hung on the wall got knocked to the floor. She turned over her shoulder to very quickly investigate the source of the sound, but when she saw it was something so inconsequential, she continued running her way to her bedroom where her TV and PS5 were waiting for her.
Alex ripped open the parcel as soon as she entered her bedroom. Using her immense tiger strength, she tore the cardboard apart from its tight packing tape seals without any trouble. She dumped the contents of the box onto her bed and out of it came a disc copy of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, along with what made her extra comfortable with pre-ordering the game in the age of bad games left and right; a Rivet plushie.
The plushie was adorable and was what made the box she received much larger than what she would have expected. It was big. Alex picked up the plushie before even giving any attention to the game disc. She took the plushie out of its plastic wrapping, brought it up to her face for a closer look, then gave it a big sniff. She closed her eyes, let out a huge sigh, wiggled her nose, and smiled. “Mmm, made in China.” She cooed as she set the plushie down and turned her attention to the game disc laying face-down on the bed. She picked it up and took a moment to read the text on the box, before she sliced through the plastic seal with a claw, popped open the case, and slid the disc into her PS5.
After grabbing one of the seven controllers she had (don’t ask), the tigress hopped onto the bed, sat the Rivet plushie up so it was sitting next to her, and waited for the game to boot up. She could barely contain her excitement as the game loaded up to the start screen within a matter of seconds. Her feet thumped against her carpeted floor as she mashed her finger on the X button to start the game. She couldn’t wait to get started.
But before she could, she was presented with a prompt to pick the difficulty. Easy, Normal, or Hard. With a scoff and a shrug of her shoulders, she highlighted “Hard” and pressed X with confidence spread across her face. She was a seasoned gamer, having played games like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege, League of Legends, and even CS:GO, how hard could hard mode on a game like Ratchet & Clank be?
Right?
“You have to be FUCKING kidding me. I HAD him RIGHT FUCKING THERE. What do you MEAN I can’t use A WALL as COVER? It’s a FUCKING WALL!” the tigress was mad. She had died to the same enemy for what was probably the twelfth time in a row, now. Whenever she thought she had memorized the AI enemy’s patterns, the moment she respawned, she discovered that the enemy switched to an entirely different tactic that had her dying again, again, and again. Her hands were sweaty, the controller in her hand slippery, and her tail was all fuzzed up as it flickered and swayed behind her to show her dissatisfaction. She was on the verge of throwing her controller across the room multiple times, but luckily the price tag of the DualSense popped into her head every time she got ready to flick her wrist and stopped her just in the nick of time.
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Once the clock struck 11, the dreaded time when McDonald’s stopped serving breakfast, Alex sped through the ordering process, entered her delivery address and credit card information, and chewed on a claw as the spinning wheel above the words “Processing Payment” spun like a hamster wheel with the most energetic of hamsters inside it. When the symbol disappeared and the website went blank for a moment, Alex almost screamed, thinking that the website pooped out on her, but after a few seconds of very violently stomping her foot against the floor of the breakroom, the page turned into a green checkmark and an order confirmation was delivered into her inbox with a satisfying ding.
The tigress pumped her fist into the air and silently celebrated. She hopped up and down, almost bumping into the coffee machine that she was standing beside. After a few jumps, she stopped, looked at her phone again to make sure she read it right and then squealed out loud as she struggled to contain her excitement.
The tigress had never sweat so much from standing in one place before; beads of sweat ran down her forehead, face, and even her back. Her hands got clammy, too, which made keeping her phone in her hand a lot harder. But now it was done; her PS5 was secured. She let out a sigh, slipped her phone back into her pocket, and wiped her sweaty palms on her jeans. She then went back to work, although she was incredibly unfocused, her mind thinking about the things she could do and the games she could play with her shiny new router-shaped gaming console set to arrive at her doorstep the next day.
She got very little work done that day, luckily, she was pretty good at making herself look like she was good at her job. How else was she able to keep an office job with her only prior experience being in a waitressing position?
The honeymoon phase with her PS5 was amazing; the new games that came with it like Spider-Man Miles Morales, Demon Souls Remake, and Sackboy were fun, the DualSense controller fascinated her to no end, and just owning one during the launch period felt like a flex on everyone else who had trouble securing one against scalpers, bots, and a worldwide chip shortage caused by you-know-what. (Cough cough.) But it’s called a “honeymoon phase” for a reason; the excitement over her new console eventually died down after a few months as she finished all the games that there were to play. Eventually, her beloved marvel of Japanese technology sat on her IKEA TV shelf, collecting dust alongside its fellow Japanese friend that met a similar fate after she was done with Animal Crossing; her Nintendo Switch.
That was until June 2021.
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was the PS5 game that the tigress found herself hyped about most. Having been a long-time fan of the game since the first installment back on the PlayStation 2, her excitement was part nostalgia, part hype caused by all the cute fan art of the new Lombax character being introduced with the sequel. And while for the most part, Alex refrained from pre-ordering games, she couldn’t help herself. With her pre-order locked in, she waited a whole 11 days into June before the mailman dropped the parcel at her door early in the morning.
Alex had a recurring weekday alarm set for her to wake up at 8 AM that she forgot to turn off after she put in her sick leave late last night. Normally, she would have complained, days off were meant for sleeping in after all, but with it being a game launch day, she was more than happy to roll out of her bed, grab her phone, and check the tracking number on her game.
‘Delivered’ was plastered at the very top of her delivery tracking app, which had the sleepy and bed-headed tigress excited. A jolt of energy shot through her veins out of nowhere. She quickly grabbed her sweater from its cute pile on the floor and zoomed through her apartment toward her front door, where she opened up her door to find a cute little box right on the floor as she pulled it inward. She picked it up and ran back into her apartment. She slammed the door a little too hard behind her that some of her keys that hung on the wall got knocked to the floor. She turned over her shoulder to very quickly investigate the source of the sound, but when she saw it was something so inconsequential, she continued running her way to her bedroom where her TV and PS5 were waiting for her.
Alex ripped open the parcel as soon as she entered her bedroom. Using her immense tiger strength, she tore the cardboard apart from its tight packing tape seals without any trouble. She dumped the contents of the box onto her bed and out of it came a disc copy of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, along with what made her extra comfortable with pre-ordering the game in the age of bad games left and right; a Rivet plushie.
The plushie was adorable and was what made the box she received much larger than what she would have expected. It was big. Alex picked up the plushie before even giving any attention to the game disc. She took the plushie out of its plastic wrapping, brought it up to her face for a closer look, then gave it a big sniff. She closed her eyes, let out a huge sigh, wiggled her nose, and smiled. “Mmm, made in China.” She cooed as she set the plushie down and turned her attention to the game disc laying face-down on the bed. She picked it up and took a moment to read the text on the box, before she sliced through the plastic seal with a claw, popped open the case, and slid the disc into her PS5.
After grabbing one of the seven controllers she had (don’t ask), the tigress hopped onto the bed, sat the Rivet plushie up so it was sitting next to her, and waited for the game to boot up. She could barely contain her excitement as the game loaded up to the start screen within a matter of seconds. Her feet thumped against her carpeted floor as she mashed her finger on the X button to start the game. She couldn’t wait to get started.
But before she could, she was presented with a prompt to pick the difficulty. Easy, Normal, or Hard. With a scoff and a shrug of her shoulders, she highlighted “Hard” and pressed X with confidence spread across her face. She was a seasoned gamer, having played games like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege, League of Legends, and even CS:GO, how hard could hard mode on a game like Ratchet & Clank be?
Right?
“You have to be FUCKING kidding me. I HAD him RIGHT FUCKING THERE. What do you MEAN I can’t use A WALL as COVER? It’s a FUCKING WALL!” the tigress was mad. She had died to the same enemy for what was probably the twelfth time in a row, now. Whenever she thought she had memorized the AI enemy’s patterns, the moment she respawned, she discovered that the enemy switched to an entirely different tactic that had her dying again, again, and again. Her hands were sweaty, the controller in her hand slippery, and her tail was all fuzzed up as it flickered and swayed behind her to show her dissatisfaction. She was on the verge of throwing her controller across the room multiple times, but luckily the price tag of the DualSense popped into her head every time she got ready to flick her wrist and stopped her just in the nick of time.
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Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Tiger
Size 1796 x 2052px
File Size 2.92 MB
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Dem freaking so huggable and kissable beans make me go crazy XD Alex is one of those few who can make me wanna worship her feet without wearing tights for that hypno effect. Makes me wanna be her little sub and be made to worship her beautiful body XD Sorry for sounding creepy XD
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