Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.
Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"
It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.
a dark malignance is growing in my heart, an incredible and violent cruelty, hungry for blood and desperate for satisfaction. the battlefield calls to me. I fear war is the only place i will find my catharsis. *begins whistling a jaunty little marching tune*
Not to be rhe ten millionth person to say “USAmerican President Donald Trump Is An Incoherent Public Speaker Whose Train Of Thought Can Be Best Described As Scat Jazz” but I just remembered that when he talks at international events it is several dozen people’s job to translate what he’s saying and what he intends to say to world leaders in real time
If anyone reading this isn’t fluent enough in English to understand the sentences that man says, please know that he has essentially mixed a number of adjectives and topics together in a hat and is pulling them out at random like a horrible children’s game
Like that waxy jaundiced bitch will straight up be like “J'étais sur internet l'autre jour – internet, la plus grande invention américaine. Et la Chine a “internet aussi. Pas un bon internet, pas comme le mien, j'ai un internet formidable. Les gens me disent : « Donald, ton internet est génial ! » On adore l'internet de Donald. Mais la Chine… Chine, Chine, Chine… Vous savez qu'ils mangent des oiseaux ? C'est terrible. J'adore les oiseaux. La Chine mange des oiseaux. Pas comme nous. Pas comme mes oiseaux. Mais vous savez, c'est comme ça, et c'est terrible. Mais voilà ce que je vais faire : je vais sauver les oiseaux. Je vais sauver internet et sauver les oiseaux. Tous ces magnifiques oiseaux. Pour l'Amérique. Et la Chine va nous détester pour ça. Ils vont nous détester parce qu'on est les meilleurs sur oiseaux”. And people will lose their minds
International translators have had this problem for A While - if they *don't* clean up what he says to sound coherent, they look like they're doing a bad job.
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There was a scandal in Poland because one translator decided to translate him accurately, tone, vocabulary level and word salad tangents and all. Polish conservatives who don't speak English and previously only heard smoothed out translations that sounded coherent and used big words were up in arms about how the translator was "inserting her political agenda", "mocking him", "exaggerating", "purposefully trying to make him look bad" and "incredibly unprofessional". I listened to the translation in question. It was literally just accurate.
5. Sensitive and Controversial Language
Trump’s speeches occasionally contain misogynistic, sexist, or inflammatory language. Japanese interpreter Tsuruta, for example, faced challenges when translating sexualized remarks, ultimately opting for standard terminology to maintain professionalism. Similarly, Chinese translator Kumiko Torikai found certain lewd expressions ethically challenging, ultimately leading to her retirement. Navigating these situations requires skillful balancing of accuracy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity, ensuring that the translation is appropriate without distorting the original intent.
I don't know why the authors of PoliLingua act as if Trump's verbal misogyny and racism wasn't very much part of his "original intent".
it only now dawns on me that millions of people on this planet think Trump is way smarter than he is because translators have neglected to relate his violent speech accurately out of misunderstood politeness. Make the ape sound like a ape
i am terminally A Sucker for characters who have a towering and generally earned ego about their own ability and absolutely no self-worth about themselves as a person at all. intoxicating combo.
inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.
Deltarune theory to end all theories (or probably not), or why Kris is 2 characters from Mother 3 at the same time, tldr just like the flowers, Kris is NOT determined.
The more I'm going back through the game the more obvious it is that Kris's choices don't matter... because they're dead, they DIED on Christmas and literally no one else cares. That's why they hue shift differently compared to everyone else int he dark worlds, and literally start to rot and turn grey without the soul. That's fucking heart breaking man. Now they're just a "puppet" helping Carol- or whoever the knight is to try and bring Dess back. Even more messed up is to think they're finally making friends, got to talk to their crush- and on that note I think that's why they get hesitant in those dialogue options. They don't want to form more attachments because in their own eyes they are already gone. They don't WANT susie to miss them. That's why as much as in chapter 5 you see that Kris is absolutely getting 3rd wheeled so hard but, Kris knows they CAN'T care or make Susie care about them. Kris is trying to make sure everyone else has a happy ending but them. They want their families to be happy again, just without the burden Kris thinks they are.
I think that's how mother 3's story makes sense in relation to deltarune. Sure Kris on a characterization, and even mechanical level IS boney: They're treated like a pet, a side character even in their own story, just full of costumes and gags- even CHECKing is specifically boney's thing. But they're also the masked man, a mere husk of who they used to be, with the soul purpose (haha) of going back to the bunker where they died to "fulfill the prophecy" where they failed with Dess before and on a meta level end/reset the game. Some would almost say that they're.. ACTing- playing the part of "Boney' even if that kid is dead and gone.
I think Dess is fully alive at this point, and desperately trying to actually save EVERYONE from out of bounds on a meta level- hence all the secret bosses being Mother game glitch references. Dess is Lucas, not the masked man, and not the knight. I think Kris is haunted by almost succeeding in fulfilling the prophecy, and almost killing Dess and is desperately trying to make sure Susie and Ralsei are strong enough to stop them and finally put them to rest for good. Kris is not even trying to save themself, Kris wants this to end by them dying so that Dess feels safe enough to come back. Kris sees themself as the disease, the darkness that needs to be banished- and not the soul. That's why the soul they have is not theirs. It doesn't really matter who gave it to them (gaster, friend, carol whatever). What does matter is that Dess is the one who has Kris's soul their actual one, it's how they got out of bounds- they figured out the breadcrumb glitch, Dess figured out they were in a game.
Kris as a character is the idea of suicidal ideation after you lose the ability to do what you loved or live as you want (trans allegories, disability). They answer the question how do you find the DETERMINATION to keep going, and do you? Who or what gives you the determination to keep going- or are you just a puppet going through the motions, doing what "needs" to be done and just barely holding on.
....how and who will help you when you need it most, when your suffering alone and in silence. Will your friends in the darkest of darks see the light in your heart and still pick you up after you fall a thousand times, will they be your determination when you can't do it yourself anymore, when the darkness is too much?
Will Dess succeed in being Kris's determination? the will to keep going, to try again? Kris just like the flowers doesn't embody their attribute, Kris is NOT determined- the only thing Kris is determined to do is FAIL.
End notes with some stuff I'm less sure on....
Carol was fine sacrificing Dess, doesn't want to sacrifice Noelle(?). The fountain Susie makes is a literal computer glitch as Susie isn't meant to be there, let alone making fountains. The program has been running too long since the prophecy wasn't fulfilled the first time(?). That would make Ralsei the horns Kris was wearing while they died, or some kind of plant? It spawned Kris not as they wanted to be but as the perfect child their PARENTS wanted? Are the current edits to the prophecy, Susie being included a result of Dess running around in the code desperately trying to change things? Does Carol know that Dess is oob or does she think Kris is responsible? And do they NEED Noelle who actually in-lore is good at glitch hunting in video games to succeed in saving Kris?.... did Dess kill Kris? was it an accident? Did Dess realize they messed up after getting oob?
I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless
actually as a woman I still think misandry makes you an unpleasant person and if you’re just out there saying shit like “all men should die” or “men’s mental health doesn’t matter” then you’re the type of person I want nothing to do with. also this is not what feminism is about btw, you’re not being a strong girl boss with this ideology, you’re just a bully
-the idea that women are less capable of abuse than men is an extension of the idea that women are weaker than men.
-the refusal to acknowledge men's mental health and emotions as valid things worthy of support comes from the idea that emotions are inherently feminine in nature and having them is, again, a sign of weakness.
-the treatment of men as generic and expendable and women as special contributes to the idea that women should have less representation because we already "have enough" and "don't need more" and we gotta "even the playing field" or some dumb shit, so any need or want for more attention, regardless of reason, is attributed to "pointless attention-seeking".
-all of this puts trans men in an even more uncomfortable position, because either they're made an exception (because they ~aren't really men~ you see) or they're viewed as self-hating misogynists because why else would you "choose" to be the Trash Gender (tm)?
all of these seemingly pro-women anti-men sentiments stem from beliefs produced and enforced by toxic masculinity; as such, misandry is often really just misogyny in disguise.
-the idea that men are inherently terrible only serves to excuse men for being terrible. because, hey, they can't help it, so why bother trying, right? part of holding men accountable for their awful actions is believing they can in fact be better.
-the reason "not all men" is so frustrating to hear is because it's often used in poor faith to derail much needed conversations about toxic masculinity and how it manifests, not because the phrase itself is untrue.
-continuing from the trans men thing, misandry can and does make it harder for trans men to come out, for fear of the aforementioned responses.
-yes, misandry can stem from trauma at the hands of a man. that's understandable, but trauma can reinforce a lot of prejudices, and we all have a responsibility to understand how we come to believe things and mind ourselves accordingly. that doesn't mean you need to hang around men all the time, nor does it mean you're wrong to feel the way you do about what men did to you - it just means recognizing the objective line between fact and feelings, and recognizing that you don't need to conflate the two to validate your feelings. "i am uncomfortable around men because of past experiences shared by a lot of women" is different from "men are all horrible irredeemable pieces of shit and need to die".
small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.
Fun how the bystander effect was coined to cover up how cops are bigoted cowards who let a queer person die and stockholm syndrome was coined to cover that the cops handled a hostage situation so badly the hostages trusted their captors more than the cops.
This is a short project I thought up a little while ago. I saw some people say Asriel's letters to Dess may have been a coping mechanism after her disappearance, and I think that's interesting, so this incorporates that possibility.
I run with the idea that Asriel is similar to Noelle, but instead of wanting to “do something crazy” to break free, he wants something crazy to be forced upon him so he can break free. The forced aspect is so he doesn't have to deal with the accountability of it causing him to be unreachable. I want to explore my characterization of these characters more.
Also I like to think Dess ran away or people think she did.
Wordle is running out of words. Only 2,000 five letter words remain. When that supply is exhausted the Creation shall begin. One day the word will be ZHURM, and all shall get it, and all shall understand it to mean "an ache from suddenly remembering a long-ago friend, who meant something to you once, but whose face you can no longer conjure". The next day the word shall be JOROL, and all will get it, and all will know it means "the melancholy confusion of passing by somewhere where you once could have died". The next day it will be GREFT, and all will understand it to be a small brown bird with white streaks found only in South America, and suddenly, it will appear, in the shrubs of the Atacama desert, in the streets of São Paulo, and all will know that it once was not there, but now, will always be
Perhaps that day, or perhaps the day thereafter, Anthropeum too will have run dry aside from that final octet of the Met's collection: Eight human busts, all weeping, all shaped from self-same sea-green glass despite their origins being centuries and continents apart. Each one will have its style and bearing so carefully distinguished by their sculptors' hands and lips, and yet the golden filigree beneath their eyes and by their lips will make the obvious impossible to deny: Whatever has them weeping, be it in solace or grief or whatever emotion their audience wishes to read into their visages, is something that only the busts themselves are privy to alongside their possible subjects. There will be a silence to the images, I am certain, one that is more silent than the silence which images usually have, and that silence will be the silence shared between people who know for a fact that what they saw was something that was only for them. We may imagine some describing that something to their sculptor, or attempting to, though whatever successes they made are absent from their busts.
Intermixed will be their last Tibetan fabric-painting, and after that, one final brazen sculpture from Benin.
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