My Own Little Corner of the World

"There is always a catch, life is a catch! I suggest you catch it."

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[revvethasmythh]

YELLING

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[katebeckets]

In theory, maybe I get the “we’re all just playing with barbies, they’re fictional characters, no interpretation is incorrect because it’s an interpretation” argument. But actually no, not all takes are equally valid. Framing something as an interpretation doesn’t mean it inherently has merit. Some takes are completely incorrect and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material. They just aren’t a reason to harass people or send death threats

[overseer-picard]

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[stonesense]

the way the inquisitor hunts dragons is almost too on-the-nose as an encapsulation of everything wrong with the game thematically

[stonesense]

they had a character say, “mankind blunders through the world, crushing what it does not understand; elves, dragons, magic...the list is endless.” in the game. in the game they said that. in the game where they let you hunt dragons just for sport with no consequences while leading an andrastian army while being the unambiguous good guy. in that game they said that

[tropiyas]

[sheaymin]

sony cutting off physical discs while also implementing a system that doesnt allow you to actually own ur digital games due to that 30 day verification whatever not to mention outside of gaming for the past few years sony has stopped producing on physical formats which is insane because THEY developed nearly every format every company uses( dvd, bluray, cd, etc ) so they have the biggest hand on production leaving a vacuum now that theyve stopped plus being absolutely shady with their digital marketplaces most recent example w/ pulling studio canal conent & the funimation / crunchyroll merger still has missing anime never added back to the app the shut down of multiple studios + the end of destiny 2 despite wanting to focus on live service which is just code for focusing on gta6's online mode & nothing else like adding the years upon years upon years of extra added shady sony horsepiss not just playstation but sony as a whole the fuck am i expected to spend a SINGLE dime with them again

[sheaymin]

adding to the "you dont hate sony enough" they also announced today they are shutting down the ps3 & psvita digital marketplaces so fuck preservation of games for older consoles ig !!

[furryprovocateur]

9/11

[furryprovocateur]

not even joking this is one of the worst possible changes that i could've reasonably conceived of to happen to video games.

[furryprovocateur]

having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.

this is such a staggeringly catastrophic piece of news that i'm shocked it wasn't said by nintendo. congrats to sony for one-upping them in anti-consumer practices.

[loveridden1999]

you can have multiple most gorgeous looking women giving performance of their lifetime in a movie or show yet people will still come out obsessing & wanting to fuck a white man with the personality of a wet cardboard

[loveridden1999]

oh because we were all wondering

[masterqwertster]

Going back through Bolaire's blow up about how the Drowned Men threw a shattered Termina into an afterlife connected box, and:

Occtis clocked Bolaire as part of the Panto

When Bolaire clarifies that he is one of six masks, Occtis goes "Oh! Those masks."

Do all the Tachonis know about the Panto? Or is this something Occtis found on his own by being a nerd?

We were pretty clearly informed when Hal went to the Grey Library that even hints of the Panto aren't all that available even when you know what you're looking for.

So how does Occtis know? Or what does he think he knows to identify Bolaire as those masks?

Hope we get into it in new Seekers Arc.

[samcarter34]

So…if Speak with Dead didn’t work on Thjazi because his soul was elsewhere, and they’ve now figured out where his soul is…do you think it would work if someone cast in on Julien’s shadow?

[samcarter34]

The "I can excuse [insert vast list of moral wrongs here] but I draw the line at incest/incest variant" jokes going around about Primus are, to be clear, funny.

But also, he's entirely in the right to do that. If his daughters are so emotionally dependent and obsessed with each other that just having their kids be cousins is an unacceptable amount of distance, then they are horrible candidates for inheritance.

There's a social contract (if not literal one) between a lordly house and its vassals. Once that having a marriage fall apart because your daughter killed her fiancee won't stand for. And since they're the eldest, I'd imagine that whoever their fiancees were, they weren't lesser sons of their houses.

Like, there is a non-zero chance that part of the reason House Tachonis is in the financial situation it's in is because of Primus having to apologize for Petra and Ryah.

[samcarter34]

A while ago, I made this post pondering about the elves making a single weapon to kill Sylandri as opposed to a group of them like the other weapons, specifically if it meant a lack of consensus among the elves.

And that we know what Sylandri did to them, of course there wasn't. And of course everyone acts so weirdly whenever they see an elf. It's like a ghost suddenly enters the room.

What do you think was going through the mind of the archer that shot Sylandri? Grief, that this act was costing the elves their future? Anger at that she made this the only way to free them? Maybe hope, that she wasn't self centered and spiteful enough to take it to the grave?

[the-littlest-goblin]

I've seen the argument a few times now, made in defense of Bolaire being Like That™: "but it makes it more interesting that Thjazi isn't 100% a good guy!" And to that I'm like,

"Good people can do bad things sometimes" is interesting for the topic of a 5th grade book report. Any level beyond that it's kinda like. the baseline for complexity, and not something a mature story needs to waste time establishing explicitly before diving into deeper realms. Like, sure yes, it is more interesting for Thjazi to be complex than it would be for him to be entirely one-dimensional. But CR is not known for producing one-dimensional characters so what would be actually genuinely interesting is if both story and audience could presume "people are more than one thing" is a basic storytelling postulate and proceed from there.

As for the Bolaire of it all: Bolaire takes the attitude that anyone who had a positive relationship with Thjazi is suffering under a delusion of naive hero-worship and he takes it as his job to disabuse them of that notion. He's not the only one with this perspective—Julien said pretty much exactly that—but he's particularly vocal and insistent about it, to the point of being condescending. Even when he seems to think he's being pragmatic, his arguments against trusting Thjazi posthumously are focused much less on any of the issues at hand and much more so on opining his own suffering, and especially this last episode on getting Thimble (and to some extent Mara) to admit they're wrong about Thjazi. The idea that his cynicism is useful or necessary for the story in order to complicate an otherwise unblemished figure and establish Thjazi as multi-faceted falls apart under close analysis.

Thjazi's legacy is already complicated and loaded with baggage for each individual mourning him. It's especially telling that I've yet to see anyone bring up Azune when making a case for Thjazi's dark side. Azune is only an Arcane Marshall as a service to Thjazi, to be his man on the inside, and living this under cover life is killing him from the inside out! Beyond that: Hal has complicated feelings about how his brother shielded him, Thimble is grappling with her identity beyond being his partner in crime—these are all interesting character arcs which take as postulate that Thjazi was a complicated figure capable of fighting for noble ideals and of causing harm while doing so. If Bolaire's vague references to cruel and dehumanizing treatment (from a character who has repeatedly displayed both those tendencies himself, no less) are seriously meant to balance out our view of Thjazi or prove that everyone else has rose-tinted glasses, then it's pretty sloppy storytelling, and a disservice to the other characters' internal arcs.

Crucially, the most interesting part of Azune or Hal or Thimble's relationship to Thjazi is that they are not about Thjazi. Thjazi is dead, and this is a story about how the people whose lives he impacted continue in his absence. Bolaire's repeated attempts to pull Thjazi off this imagined pedestal are extra frustrating because he recenters the conversation onto the truth of Thjazi's character, placing both the plot and his own character arc in the periphery. Thjazi and Bolaire's history can and should be a means of progressing Bolaire's character arc, yet after the umpteenth reiteration of the same contrarian position Bolaire has held the whole campaign thus far, Taliesin has only made minimal headway into the themes of personhood that he seems to want to explore with this character concept. We're only just reaching the meat of Bolaire's interiority at the end of this episode, and it was more spurned by his interactions with Figment and Demodus than it emerged from his antagonistic history with Thjazi.

[burr-ell]

#it's also like #idk man. there were seven fucking whiteboards during the session zero. we saw the pictures. it was first post in the main tag all week #how did you sit through a session zero with 13 other people and go Only I Perceive The Truth About Thjazi #and genuinely think that this would be like. borne out by the story. it won't. that's not fun nor interesting.

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[therionthropic]

straight up this looks like ai generated gay porn