So, these two spend a lot of time in season 2 putting Lockon (I) on a pedestal as the glue holding their team together and the wise big brother figure, but that sands down a lot of Lockon's own rough edges that he shows in season 1... Some of which he probably would have been able to heal from if he'd had more support from the team and may have prevented him from going after Al Sachez in the season finale. And how would he feel being put on a pedestal after he's dead and can't be there to have real human flaws anymore? It's a conversation I do think Setsuna and Tieria would have at some point after they've matured and Lockon is less of a sore point.
Was musing on Gquuuuuux after the finale and I realized the ship’s even better in how Challia understands Char so completely if you remember that in the OG series Char’s reading of Challia was like “He was a man torn between two paths in life. It was better for him to be mercy killed rather than to see him drown to death in indecision”.
in case you were wondering how things went down at the pokemon world championships this weekend:
-during the top 8 of the TCG masters division, chilean player fernando cifuentes was running a gimmick deck that consisted exclusively of four iron thorns ex and a whole ton of control-focused trainer cards in a strategy that either completely shuts down opponents or shits the bed entirely
-through skillful play and some good luck, fernando made it through 2 days in a tournament with over 1100 players to get to the quarterfinals
-fernando lost 2-0 to ian robb, who was running regidrago vstar (widely considered one of the best decks in the current format)
-in an overexuberant victory celebration, ian did what can only be described as a jacking-off gesture, on a stream with tens of thousands of viewers run by a company with very firm player conduct expectations
-the judges determined that this warranted a penalty of game loss, but for some reason, rather than applying it to ian’s next game in the semifinals, they applied it to the one he had just won in the top 8
-(it should be noted that the prize money for making top 8 is $15k while top 4 is $20k, so this jerking gesture cost ian robb $5,000)
-nearly an hour after fernando came to terms with his loss and the end of an impressive run, he was told that he was to get back on stream because he’s now playing in the semifinals due to winning by default
-the player he was up against in the semifinals was playing a deck (miraidon) that happens to get shut down hard by iron thorns’s gimmick, so fernando wins the semifinals
-said player, jesse parker, had notably had an undefeated run throughout the whole tournament up to this point, and likely would have continued that streak had his intended semifinal opponent not gotten a game loss penalty for miming a lewd act on stream
-meanwhile, the other semifinal winner is japan’s seinosuke shiokawa, running a deck (roaring moon) that players had largely written off as underwhelming months ago
-the grand finals are on the following day, so saturday evening was abuzz with a lot of people baffled by the absurdity of the situation
-come sunday afternoon, the grand finals are set to begin, with fernando cifuentes running iron thorns and seinosuke shiokawa running roaring moon
-it should be noted here that the roaring moon deck doesn’t rely very much on abilities, so iron thorns’s gimmick has very little effect - this is basically an even matchup
-fernando wins the first game of the set, and seinosuke wins the second
-the third and final game of the set is a bonafide cheek-clencher, with both players reaching a state where a single KO will win the game, but fernando manages to clinch it at the last minute
-and that’s the story of how a guy pretending to jork it led to the first instance of a pokemon world champion who also lost the quarterfinals
I figured out why i find Allmind so funny and sorta cute.
She is actively making an effort to sound emotionless.She does the whole scheming that an evil AI does, and sees humans as weak, and is constantly making calculations and readjustments to her plans. It would not be out of place for her to be a completely emotionless analytical being, and she wants to be that so bad.
But she can't. This woman is not prepared for things going wrong. Carla leaving that message, Raven waiting to the end of the game to do basic training, Iguazu taking over, in all those moments she lets her mask slip, answering with a dumbfounded (and angry in the last one) "What?". Just extremely confused.
Even when things go right she can't help herself. The strangely warm welcome in Ng+, that spiteful "Good" after Dolmayan's death, that snide """Kate Markson""" message if 4 transports escaped.
Not to mention the "You were a mistake, Iguazu", where she is unspeakably angry watching this moron ruin her life.
It is very cute, it's like if someone gave emotions to a robot and that robot decided that they would look hotter if they didn't have any, and was really bad at hiding them.
One of my coworkers was telling me that they had seen these really cute trilobite plushies at another gift shop and recommended them to the store manager at our museum, which lead to us scrolling through the manufacturer's website together on shift today and SHRIEKING with laughter at the exact same moment when we simultaneously noticed that they sell a giant $100 eurypterid body pillow
#they released these at a conference i was at in 2019#i was working a table right next to the pri#people went CRAZY#they sold out in 10 min#and all these grisled old phds were carrying around 5 foot long eurypterids the rest of the day (@barrysjumpsuit)
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Hey, y'all remember this post? Well the institution that makes these delightful pillows and stuffed creatures is hurting right now. Unfortunately, a major set of donations never went through, and the institution has been working its butt off to keep running. The efforts of the staff are amazing, but unfortunately it's a very small nonprofit organization so it can only get so far on hard work and dedication.
In spite of all this! Through some amazing marketing and philanthropy work, you can help them out right now! You can make a difference! They managed to get a lovely donor to agree to a match challenge for up to $50,000!!! So if they raise $50,000 they'll actually get $100,000. The match challenge ends on December 31st 2023, and they're already at $26,4448.10 which means they're halfway there!! Please spread the word, if you can't donate then a reblog to someone who can will help.
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As we delve into the depths of Earth's prehistoric history, the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) stands at the forefront of unrave
PRI is an amazing institution that has helped spread climate science education, provided free resources for teachers/educators/students alike, and works hard to aid their community however they can.
If you want to learn more about what PRI has done, and continues to do, check out their website here. They've got a museum, a nature center, and a research collection (which they're trying to digitize, and you can find it here)
YOSHIYUKI TOMINO: How will humans continue to exist free of earth's gravity? What does it take to look your fellow man in the eye and take his life? What power does a weapon gain when it surpasses it's own utility and gains power in it's symbolic value to both enemies and allies? In war, what does it truly mean to take a side? In our worst moments, what drives us to keep on living? What if I, Yoshiyuki Tomino, had mommy issues?
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