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[redshift-corridor]

in my defense, I am not known to make sensible decisions after midnight

[loregoddess]

Okay, I was cleaning out some of my drafts and found some screenshots I'd taken when I was rewatching Octo2 to write the Solistia timeline, and here's a neat detail I uncovered that wasn't related to the timeline:

the very first scene in Agnea's Ch1 mirrors the very final scene of the Epilogue almost 1:1 (more or less NPCs show up in the Epilogue depending on how many Side Stories were completed, here I have a screenshot from a 100% playthrough, so all possible NPCs are present; also while some of the far-back NPCs can be made out like Juvah, Ori's model isn't present in the Ch1 version, likely to avoid spoiling *vaguely gestures* all that).

It's just...such an insane little thing to have added, since there is no "canon" starting character, and Agnea's story seems the most disconnected to the Vide background plot, but like, starting with her story means ending with a basically perfect mirror and realization of Agnea's "dream". Like you could make an argument for any of the traveler's to be the "best" starting character, but this is admittedly an extremely poetic way to bookend the entire story.

[the-big-mood]

These two giant turtles have been fighting each other for more than 120 years.

According to the zoo, one turtle stole the other’s food 120 years ago, and since that day they became enemies.

There hasn’t been a single day where they don’t fight for 2–3 minutes😂

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I love when people whose first languages have grammatical gender use the wrong pronoun in English. "this river is so green because he is fed by glaciers" aw the river is Just A Little Guy. your version of my language is better

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[unyieldingsilence]

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[ravioliet]

"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[rockshitty]

There's a layer of playing dnd that's really just getting together with your friends and hanging out. It's an excuse to sit at a table with people you otherwise don't see very often, for 4-6 hours, every week or so. That's not available in most social settings. But I also want to play dnd while I'm here.

So thank you for showing me the collection of tiktoks you've saved since last week. If you will look to your left, there's a nefarious plot happening that I would like to be involved with.

Yes your boss is a shithead. He was a shithead last week and the week before, too. You know who else is a shithead? The cult leader we're trying to kill. We rolled initiative five minutes ago, while you were telling me about your boss.

[rockshitty]

Yeah man I wanna hang out. I love hanging out with you. But we're playing dnd right now, because the people who are capable of planning a get together wanted to play dnd and you asked if you could join. If you wanna plan something else that isn't dnd you can do that and I might come. Maybe not. Life is like that. But like we're playing dnd right now. So if you want to come to dnd night to hang out with us it would be really cool if you would play dnd at the dnd night you asked if you could join.

Stop showing me tiktoks.

[prokopetz]

A thing about the lack of institutional continuity in indie video game development is that everybody is figuring everything out from first principles every single time, and if you've been around the block enough times you start to recognise common technical fuckups on sight. "Oh, this game's scrolling is all juddery because they anchored the camera directly to a physics object with no smoothing and their physics frame rate doesn't divide evenly into their screen frame rate – classic rookie mistake" sounds like it ought to be an unhinged thought to have, and yet.

[dukeofriven]

Go to enough amateur theatre and eventually you'll watch floor-mounted backlights clumsily turn off mid-way through fading-in on a cue for half the show and just find yourself muttering "ah, yes, taped their gel right to the instrument again I see. Probably started to smoke about twenty minutes into Act One if they're using standard duct tape."

[kaiasky]

its terrible for any number of reasons, but i think if we invent immortality there should be an extreme sport called civilizational speedrunning where teams of 20 go into the wilderness somewhere and try and be the fastest build the first internal combustion engine. i bet you could get it down to like 3 years tops

[biggestzam]

The real trick is to eat seed heavy food before the speedrun starts so your first poops are halfway to agriculture already

[kaiasky]

i want you on my team holy shit

[trainwreck-of-thoughts]

No no no, see, a puppet obtains power at the expense of agency, a doll obtains meaning at the expense of agency, and a plushie obtains unconditional love at the expense of agency. The thing currently mauling you was already powerful and self-actualized when I brought it under my sway, so when you beg me to 'call off my puppet' you should really be saying plushie instead. Try again, m'kay?

[trainwreck-of-thoughts]

Someone tagged this "dog = plushie?" and then deleted the reblog immediately but I would like to congratulate them on being the only one to see my vision.

[catasters]

[toastbutteregg]

[phantomrose96]

I think it's funny world-building how like, so at the center of Life we've got Water. Arguably The most important resource. Colorless transparent substance that molds to any container and we die without it and quickly. And all organic functions of society hinge on its availability. Could fight a ton of wars over this thing.

And well beyond organic life, modern society's great human invention is the Electronic Magic. Our greatest minds invented the Electronic Magic and it sends information around the world instantly. Our infrastructure our economy our modern life, minute by minute by minute, hinges on utilizing the great Lighting Technology.

BUT ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ DO NOT. DO NOT EVER. get the magical Elixir Substance of Life and Living and Healing, Water, IN the Electronic Device. The water keeps you alive critically but it KILLS the Electronic Device instantly and catastrophically. This Says something.

[tokyoproxy]

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous