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RoseDelSol/ Charlie; she/her and they/them (I’m still figuring this out myself) I’m way past 18, so if you are a minor coming to my blog, please be aware of that fact! I also don’t filter my post by SFW/ NSFW! I like to talk to people. And I talk a lot. This blog started as a One Piece blog but is now just... a mess of interests, opinions and the hyper fixation of the week.

[artisfaction]

Arcane S2 Texts posts

[rosedelsol]

Remember the Mushu gif.. where he goes “I’m aliiiiive” ?

Yeah… I’m coming back to tumblr just to rant about the Netflix DMC.. adaptation…?

Because goodness grief I’m MAD! I should have just stopped watching after three episodes but jeeez..

Spoiler I guess..

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Now, to be fair

I really liked the Rabbit’s design (until the reveal that he’s some tortured human soul that just wants to help the itty bitty poor demons)

I didn’t hate the artwork

I actually quite liked the.. well.. they’re bit easter eggs… but like.. showing the Kalina Ann (and then underutilising it.. not having Mary having ANY connection to the weapon…) but these little inclusions were FUN and it was fun looking for them. Why the Mega Man cameo though?

Onto the REST

Why, oh WHY did the demons have to get a society with poor downtrodden souls that get victimised by Mundus? Demons are demons. It’s fun to slaughter them in the game because they are inherently and irrevocably EVIL. They. Are. Supposed. To. Be. The. BAD GUYS!!

Why did the story need to have a religious fanatic as the ACTUAL MAIN ANTAGONIST WHEN THE RABBIT WAS RIGHT THERE? What choice was that? Why????

They introduced a compelling and interesting villain by adding the Rabbit (love the design!), especially when they chose to not have him be Mary’s father. And then they absolutely BOTCHED IT by making him into some jaded martyr with a god complex.

I cannot repeat this enough. They added an additional villain by including a religious, purist, colonialist dipshit that then magically invades the demon world and promptly begins a genocide against the (mostly) benign (again wtf) residents. Only to build a giant prison and a massive dig site to extract.. I assume some form of ore, it really doesn’t matter. It’s just so fucking on the nose it’s not even remotely interesting, witty or funny.. nothing about this is entertaining. At best it’s mildly annoying. At worst it’s infuriating and tone deaf to the CURRENT GLOBAL SITUATION WITHOUT ANY FINESSE!!

The music choice is godawful in 90% of cases. Not because I dislike the songs (I actually do like the ORIGINAL soundtracks as well as the songs they used because I’m just that kind of trash Millennial) but the chosen songs & timing was just… No! The fact that they DARED to bring in Bury the Light (and fucking butchered it) at the end is just… the AUDACITY!

How the fck did Vergil just… drop the Nelo Angelo armour which Mundus USES TO CONTROL HIM. And simultaneously he still has ALL MEMORIES KNOWING EXACTLY WHO HE IS? And.. AND HELPS MUNDUS DESPITE THAT KNOWLEDGE!

Why is Dante so.. weak? Don’t get me wrong, it’s ok to balance out a basically insanely OP character.. but Lady had him by the balls most of the season, overpowered or outsmarted him MULTIPLE TIMES and then.. And THEN! He ends up in some cryo chamber lab container in a military facility completely helpless.

I didn’t mind that they gave Lady a more fleshed out background. Heck, I didn’t even mind that they switched Arkham with the Rabbit. At its core, that wasn’t a bad choice. But just as with the Rabbit, they botched the hell out of her character. Just looking at DMC3, Lady grows from meeting Dante. She would never have handed him over to the military. Most of the story sets her up to be this strong, independently thinking power house… and then she just… loses all of that to obey an order? And order which she should have fundamentally disagreed with? But what’s character consistency anyway…

The animation was - not surprisingly - inconsistent as fuck. The lesser demons (the evil variety) were kinda ok. Some of the mini bosses were almost interesting, although it was jarring to see Agni and Rudra with heads….. IT’S THE SWORDS THAT TALK FOR FUCK’S SAKE!! But towards the end? When they actually open the portal to hell (kinda) and all those biiig baaad demons pour forth? They’re so. Boring!!

Honesly, I don’t know where I was/ an going with this.. I’m just pissed I guess.

I wouldn’t have gotten as mad if that stupid VP would have died horribly at the end of the season. Instead they shoehorned in a last minute sneak preview of an additional villain, which means season 2 is going to focus on that asshole instead of murdering the VP.

And while I love the original Vergil, I was never on his side in the games. He’s the bad guy and you feel mostly righteous about defeating him over and over again. After finishing this insult to the DMC franchise I am rooting for MUNDUS just so I can see the VP being ripped to shreds.

On that note.. the VP managed to invade Hell, set up a dig site and a prison… and I guess Mundus just watched him do it while getting his nails painted or something?

Mundus is as close to invincible as you can get from a boss in DMC… but apparently he doesn’t give a shit about the puny humans encroaching on his territory. Make it make sense!!

[arrghigiveup]

TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).

Bonus:

[drst]

These are my people.

[petermorwood]

Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.

In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…

…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…

…even though most writers now use monitor /  keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.

In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.

The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.

The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…

And of course the Save icon is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.

Why it wasn’t a 5¼ floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.

Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.

Graphics and terminology are funny things.

[nehirose]

reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.

[porcupine-girl]

I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.

[catgirlforeskin]

skeumorphism my beloved

[bizships]

It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.

[redcurlzbychoice]

And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)

[windsthroughtunnels]

This elderly woman was one of the leaders of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when she was a student at Columbia University. Today, 56 years later, she returns to the same place and says, "Palestine must be free."

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Holy Shit! So, you have to come up the stairs, then walk the death strip to get to bed. Forget about going to pee in the middle of the night or having too much to drink.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

kinda bums me out to see all these teenagers thinking they're porn addicts or hypersexual because they like to masturbate! @ all the teenagers who are worried about this: this anon masturbated basically daily from ages 12-26. it's fine and normal to be horny especially when you're a teenager.

it's soooo so so sad seeing fucking social media teach kids to armchair diagnose themselves as addicts if they enjoy reading smut or jacking off or even if they're just feeling horny, a profoundly typical feature of being a teenager that is indicative of nothing bad at all. like. good job everyone we did it, we repackaged the protestant fear of sex into pop psychology for gen z and gen alpha.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

in addition to being part of the larger, predictable but miserable backlash against the aggressive and youth-heavy sex positivity push of the 2010s it's also just like. so fucking miserable that teenagers, who already by and large have so little control over their lives, are being taught to be wary and distrustful of masturbation, an act of bodily autonomy and free source of pleasure. like man, come on. kids in this generation are probably never going to have stable jobs or own homes, and they can't even jack off about it?

[mistakescontinuetobemade]

Not to mention: “Porn Addiction” does not exist.

We Must Rely on Good Science in Porn Debate

A response to Dr. Philip Zimbardo's exhortations about the dangers of porn

Everyone needs to stop listening to bullshit puritanical Christian made up conditions.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

this is a very good intro to criticizing the idea of porn addiction and a very accessible read; I really appreciate its addition to the post! I want to highlight this paragraph in particular, which I think is very relevant to many people who fear that they're suffering from some kind of addiction to porn, sex, or masturbation:

Numerous research studies in the past year from authors such as Joshua Grubbs of Case Western and Alexander Stulhofer of Croatia, have consistently confirmed the role of morality and religiosity in the backgrounds of those who identify as sex or porn addicts. Further, those researchers have empirically demonstrated in multiple, replicated studies, that the identity of sex/porn addict is not predicted by sexual frequency. In other words, both of these researchers have demonstrated that sex/porn addicts are not in fact watching more porn or having more sex than anyone else - they just feel worse and more conflicted about the sex they are having.

[syekick-powers]

english's pronunciation rules are absolute bullshit poopoo made up crap but one of my favorite side effects of this in written english specifically is like. altering the spelling of a word in such a way that it's technically pronounced the same. but reads very differently when your eyes go over it in written form. and that sort of dissonance between the proper spelling and the altered spelling producing the same basic sounds in your brain creates an unprecedented level of comedy.

[syekick-powers]

ingredience. creacher. both of these are pronounced essentially exactly the same but the altered spellings are just hilarious for some stupid reason. the english language is a disaster but at least whatever is wrong with it is REALLY funny.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

pakige 📦

[kalira]

smol!

[depsidase]

[theredshoes]

This is privilege. My partner had an "essential job" all through the pandemic. He was not allowed to work from home either. If he'd pulled this he would've been fired.

[alex51324]

Well, yeah. But if people who have enough privilege to take a stand against workplace exploitation do take a stand, that helps slow down the ongoing creep of how much they're allowed to dick you around at work.

Make no mistake, by "not allowed to work from home," this employer meant "you will not be paid for work you do at home," while clearly expecting the employee to do work (such as answering work emails and taking work calls) while at home. (If the employer didn't expect that, then they wouldn't have noticed when the worker stopped doing it.)

If you're expected to respond when the boss summons you outside of work hours, you are on-call. If you're on-call, you should be paid.

Expecting white-collar workers to be on-call for no extra pay is wage theft, no different from if a retail or food service employee is told to, "Clock out before you clean up/close out your station, so you don't go over your hours."

(And yes, this example happens a lot. If it happens to you, in the US, you should report it to the Department of Labor. It's confidential; your employer will never find out it was you who turned them in.)

[pom-seedss]

We need to stop saying anyone who has the power to do absolutely anything is privileged, because it isn't as easy or as clear cut as it seems from the summary. You also don't know how this worked out for the employee! You don't know if they were fired for this! Every worker has power to push back against unfair and illegal working practices. Every worker also takes a huge risk when they push back because workers generally do not have much power on their own.

It is still putting their livelihood on the line to make a point, not just for their position but any other worker in their position.

A lot of folks who do this put their jobs on the line by making this point. Workplace retaliation can still happen even if they can't directly fire you for it. Reduction in hours, meticulously going through your work for any non-dotted is or crossed ts, it's getting your work examined with an extra fine toothed comb so that they can use anything as an excuse to fire you - because if they can't legally fire you for working to rule, they will use every bullshit rule to fire you instead.

I once had a functional ability assessment, which was supposed to protect me from doing things that would injure me further while I was injured at work. But instead, because it said "bending and lifting" were against the FAA, they pressured me to sign something that said if *I* violated the FAA they could fire me (without notice, without pay in lieu of notice et all), because technically I was the one who was violating workplace safety by not following the FAA. I had to duck into the back room and away from any eyes to tie my shoe because they would count it as "bending" and be able to fire me on the spot.

And all I wanted was a chair to sit on while I did cashier work on cement floors with a spinal cord injury and instead they made my life a living hell in the job.

You cannot call a worker taking initial action against unreasonable and/or illegal work practices and call it a privilege. It is not a privilege to be put into the position where you have to take action for your worker rights.

Especially without knowing the outcome of the action. This person could have been fired after taking action for all anyone here knows. No one knows if this person has a safety net, or a support network to catch them. We don't know their situation other than they had had enough of unfair workplace practices.

[radicalurbanista]

you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity

[anarchopuppy]

And fuck the jigsaw puzzle imagery advanced by the eugenicists at Autism Speaks. We’re not a “puzzle” to be “solved“

Half of all people killed by cops have a disability, because cops aren’t trained to recognize or deal with people with disabilities and very few places have people who are trained for those situations easily accessible during emergencies. So the cops come in and do what they’re paid to do - murder anyone who’s inconvenient to the state

[dragon-in-a-fez]

perfect new meme template just dropped

[dragon-in-a-fez]

example usage

[dragon-in-a-fez]

wait I'm not done

[jadeblueafterglow]

"there are too many things to boycott"

yeah there are. and isn't that fucked up? isn't it fucked up that so many companies, restaurants, brands, clothing stores, etc care more about money than people? care more about profit margins than people dying or the planet being poisoned?

[necromancelena]

Die temu ad die

[necromancelena]

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

[chef-boy-ar-girl]

It accidentally is latin

[nickyflowers]

it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to

[nickyflowers]

oh im sorry you're a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa's feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

[redbeardace]

[sunny-s1de-upp]

EVERYONE STAND FOR THE FAG 🫡🫡🫡

[sunny-s1de-upp]

FLAG FLAG I MEANT FLAG

[defilerwyrm]

Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.

Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!

Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!

Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!

Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!

If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!

Absolute degenerate LUNACY

[augustdementhe]

#we loooooove the methodology of a cancer cell

#constant expansion at all costs!! go go go go go!! what do you mean the body has died

^^^^^^^^^^^

[nixcraft]

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

[caroline-vibecheck]

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

[the-composite-doll]

[ID: a screenshot showing instructions on how to remove the Windows Recall & Snapshots]

"Some good news. 1, it’s being slow rolled out at the moment. 2, it’s reportedly really easy to turn off.

Click the Windows button on your keyboard

Open the Settings app and go to Privacy & Security > Recall & Snapshots

Disable the Save Snapshots option

If you already have snapshots taken, you can delete them by clicking the Delete Snapshots

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Quick update on this, after an utterly disastrous reception to this stupid thing, Microsoft has delayed rolling out Recall.

However, you should keep a very close eye on this, as the fuckery is assuredly not over. I recommend keep a watch your updates like a hawk, don't update to Windows 11 if you can avoid it, and disable Copilot.

[shitacademicswrite]

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

No hiding the best part in the tags!