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[diasdelfuego]

one for thirst / one for hunger

[angstics]

Obviously, I spoke of semes... #myblog

[stonesense]

dragon age should have had fishing minigames

[stonesense]

dragon age origins fishing minigame is a cute little one-time interaction with a fisherman at lake calenhad where if you have enough cunning u can catch some kind of fucked up lake monster which comes with a little codex entry elaborating on the rumours about lake calenhad & the circle tower

dragon age 2 fishing minigame is non-existent they just make a joke about how gross kirkwall harbour fish would be to cover up that they didn’t have time to make it. in the files there’s some crazy list of creatures you would have fished out of there and some cut codex entries you would have found with super relevant gallows lore that is now just not in the game and people discourse about whether it’s canon

dragon age inquisition fishing minigame was created when the devs took people's complaints about no fishing minigame in da2 way too seriously and battled with the game engine to make an extremely awkward, unrewarding, and time-consuming system available in like almost every map. people still do it because sitting there and fishing for half an hour is one of the only reliable ways to trigger party banter. some of the mosaics can only be found by fishing

dragon age the veilguard fishing minigame also never made it into the game, despite the fact that the concept art book has like a kind of bizarre amount of work on what all the fish would look like, because the mechanics were planned for when the home base was a submarine and then became unusable. some of the concept fish became in-game models which serve exclusively to provide jokes about cooking

[peanutbutterangelic]

lesbian kantbisons

[danielkahndyke]

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

[danielkahndyke]

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

[ozempicofficial]

[shesnake]

Bound (1996) dir. The Wachowskis

[ceruleanheaven]

all that and i havent killed myself yet i must really love this stupid fucking life

[diasdelfuego]

we just got to the reveal of scott's role as the maroon leader in massau in the watch with my housemate and i will say that his character and story are ones that i appreciated just enough the first time but that really get better with rewatches —same it happens with vane! i think i'm more aware of where the craft strains, of the fact that they wrote the first two seasons as a whole but didn't know if the story would make it past that point, that they only decided to really tackle slavery as the core thread of the story it needed to be when they sat down to write s3, so i'm more predisposed to see the characters they clearly were trying to write in s3 and interpret the first two seasons in a light that favors those later developments. hakeem kae kazim is a very charismatic actor also so i really enjoy paying close attention to his scenes while i want to hit zack mcgowan with bricks very often even though vane is a character i have come to greatly enjoy in rewatches. anyway. i wish season three was a million episodes long.

[diasdelfuego]

another argument in favor of the memory wipe is that every black sails rewatch i get a little more mad at joji's (lack of) writing by rewatch fifty i may actually go and kill steinberg and levine

[diasdelfuego]

i think calling it a lack of writing is letting them get away with it though because the thing about rewatching a show a lot is you get a chance to pay attention to detail so i have been paying attention to the members of the walrus that regularly get meaningul moments and scenes of their own, like dooley and joshua, and joji is very much among the ones that most consistently show up and there is something of a characterization being built around him, the same way there is with, say, muldoon or dobbs, like, joji is an intentionally crafted character and the mysterious silent asian is The Character! deeply annoying but the racist writing does not stop him from serving massive amounts of cunt at all times, even while starving

[diasdelfuego]

i will say i am still intrigued by him even though i know there wasn't much thought put into his character at all because conceptually he's brimming with possibility. i don't think winston chong is japanese? but i am fairly sure joji is meant to be because his swords are, and that would make him quite an anachronistic character, since japanese piracy had been dead for over half a century by 1715 and this was well into the edo period. was he a samurai that left or was forced out? a sailor with dutch merchants? was he not born in japan at all? did he remember romantic tales of their own pirates from the century prior and let them guide him to the account in the caribbean? and since again i know there wasn't much thought put into his character, who's to say he isn't, i don't know, chinese and he just picked up the swords for whatever reason. chinese pirates were closer to military fleets than self-governing enterprises, so could he have gotten in the crosshairs of a well-respected captain and been basically dishonorably discharged, forced out? a romantic tryst, a political misstep! and obviously when i say i wish he wasn't written as a racist charicature i don't mean i wanted to see any of this laid out on the screen, just the same we don't really know any backstory about the other guys i mentioned, i'm talking about like, showing him speaking to somebody in the background 🙄 but if i could trust there was any kind of consideration put into this story, pondering these possibiities would be all that richer.

[diasdelfuego]

another argument in favor of the memory wipe is that every black sails rewatch i get a little more mad at joji's (lack of) writing by rewatch fifty i may actually go and kill steinberg and levine

[diasdelfuego]

i think calling it a lack of writing is letting them get away with it though because the thing about rewatching a show a lot is you get a chance to pay attention to detail so i have been paying attention to the members of the walrus that regularly get meaningul moments and scenes of their own, like dooley and joshua, and joji is very much among the ones that most consistently show up and there is something of a characterization being built around him, the same way there is with, say, muldoon or dobbs, like, joji is an intentionally crafted character and the mysterious silent asian is The Character! deeply annoying but the racist writing does not stop him from serving massive amounts of cunt at all times, even while starving

[diasdelfuego]

ldpdl x hurt

[thewirehbo]

“Ultimately we abandoned that [the idea that unions had a place in an economy] and believed in the idea of trickle-down and the idea of the market economy and the market knows best, to the point where now libertarianism in my country is actually being taken seriously as an intelligent mode of political thought. It’s astonishing to me. But it is. People are saying I don’t need anything but my own ability to earn a profit. I’m not connected to society. I don’t care how the road got built, I don’t care where the firefighter comes from, I don’t care who educates the kids other than my kids. I am me. It’s the triumph of the self. I am me, hear me roar. It’s high time Libertarianism is treated for what it truly is: a childish, sociopathic ideology invented in the halls of academia that has virtually nothing to do with actual human societies. The philosophy has been foisted on the public by billionaires who use the state to enrich themselves but require scared, obedient workers to do the dirty work and accept the ‘natural hierarchy’ of a ‘free society’. The idea that the market will solve such things as environmental concerns, as our racial divides, as our class distinctions, our problems with educating and incorporating one generation of workers into the economy after the other when that economy is changing; the idea that the market is going to heed all of the human concerns and still maximise profit is juvenile. It’s a juvenile notion and it’s still being argued in my country passionately and we’re going down the tubes. And it terrifies me because I’m astonished at how comfortable we are in absolving ourselves of what is basically a moral choice. Are we all in this together or are we all not?”

— david simon, creator of the wire (via auspolfornormalpeople)

[jennaflare]

THK Watch Party NEXT WEEK

Hello hello it is time for the return of the watch party! We will be starting with episode one of The Heart Killers on 6/23 at 5 PM PDT! This is an open invitation and anyone can come join in! We'll be using kosmi again since that (mostly) worked last time and once again I'll be annoying on your dashes with reminders to come join haha. If you've never watched before, COME JOIN!!! I'll be posting a link to the room day-of (~30 min before)! Please let me know if you'd like a reminder~

[kinkydorah]

DELAINEY HAYLES The Vampire Lestat: After Dark Preview Special

[diasdelfuego]

another argument in favor of the memory wipe is that every black sails rewatch i get a little more mad at joji's (lack of) writing by rewatch fifty i may actually go and kill steinberg and levine

[agarthanguide]

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.

[jeffgerstmann]

I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.

Gilman Louie - Wikipedia