#fee rambles

[surprisinglygoodstaffcanteen]

My new evil hobby is saying "rtd must pay for..." And then saying something he absolutely never did. Bonus points if it has piss all to do with Doccy Who.

Rtd must pay for how late my bus is. He can't keep getting away with this. Smh.

[coffee-obsessed-freak]

Okay, can we talk for a min about the fact that gingerbrave technically knows explicitly WHAT happens to cookies baked in the oven by the witches? Like his whole introduction in the game cookie run: ovenbreak is that he woke up one day, surrounded by non-animated cookie versions of himself, understood that the witches were planning to eat him, and RAN to save his life. And if we’re going off the idea that Gingerbrave happened upon the land of Crispia during his venture to run away from the witches, then are they just — keeping the information about the witches on the down low from them? Because they know for certain that cookies from Crispia downright revere the witches as like, their Gods, right?

Do you think when Gingerbrave found out that what White Lily Cookie saw “that night” were the witches eating non-sentient cookies, that he felt sympathetic to her PTSD? That, yeah, he was there too — it happened to him upon his birth, and he’s been running from it ever since? But why did he never say anything? Do you think he felt compelled to keep it hush-hush because the cookies of Crispia would think of it as heresy? Or do you think it’s because it’s more merciful to keep his silence — that cookies were born to be eaten?

Like can u imagine that the God you revere and pray to, that you send well-wishes to and celebrate, actually made you to sate their hunger? That your flesh is not made your own, that you were never meant to actually be alive? You were not meant to BE? You were just made to be consumed?

Maybe this is my religious trauma speaking to me and my ever-rampant need to project on my fave characters, but God, that is so fucked up. And White Lily can’t even know about — she feels all alone about what she had to witness, about what happened, like she would be labelled insane for even mentioning what she saw — but there are literal COOKIES in her presence, YOUNGER than her, that have witnessed, lived, and RAN from said witches all their lives.

Which one do you think is more fucked up; that one can’t share the horrors she witnessed because everyone else would label her a heretic, or that one can’t confide in the fact that all their life, it has been the ONLY thing they have ever known — and has been the only thing that has kept them alive?

[abisalli]

Can we please talk about how Arcane has so many just absolutely great, well-established female characters?? No show does it like them

[anothersillyfanblog]

Question as a baby Quaker and neurodivergent.

My brain goes on holiday sometimes in meeting and, to be blunt, I get bored? I still want to be there ofc. I know religious guilt is something that we don't practice but it's really hard when you were raised with that toxic mindset.

My question is: what are some good ways to start breaking down ableist standards of what faith is/isn't? A big question ikik but have any of you dealt with this? As well as just any advice in general is welcome please.

[feenick]

Far too many times I've read about big game projects mismanaged, led by guys who have a bad tendency to play the newest released game over the weekend and come in on Monday demanding a new feature be implemented or what's currently there be reworked entirely.

To deal with this sort of behavior - both in and out of game development - I propose a mitigating technique: The Box.

The Box is just that: a box. It could be closed with a slot on top; it could be a glass container; it doesn't even need to be a physical object. If you get an idea in the middle of development that is really cool but has nowhere easy to go, write it down and throw it in The Box. If you prototype something and it doesn't work in your current project but could work somewhere else, put it in The Box. Have a good design that can't go anywhere? Into The Box it goes. Killed a darling? Box time.*

When it comes time to put together a new project, open the box back up and go through what's there. You'll probably find that a lot of what was put into there isn't relevant, or that what seemed like a good idea at the time has been proven wrong with age. But the point of The Box isn't to be a pure depository of ideas.

A lot of time I've found that the act of writing out the thing bouncing around my brain at the time helps quell the idea. There's only so many things that one has time to make, after all, and fresh ideas have a nasty habit of feeling a lot more compelling than ones you've been turning over for months or years. Consider The Box a mindfulness technique as well as a management one - the idea's still there, just out of sight and literally out of mind.

And if you do come back to the idea however long later and it continues to compel you, that's all the better.

*This isn't to say that every new idea conceptualized during a project needs to go in The Box; overly brittle project layouts are about as bad as ones that change constantly. Just be sensible about it; your 3rd person strategy game probably shouldn't morph into a 1st person shooter based on the whims of a project manager walking in one morning.

[kingyu97]

i cannot listen to red velvet's "red flavour" without hearing mark doing the intro in my head

[surprisinglygoodstaffcanteen]

i have a very "look i respect u if u find xyz doctor hot but also ??????? [aroace confusion]" and i mean I'll never shame u folks, horny post all ya like, but

Tom Baker's face sliiiiiiightly scares me.

[surprisinglygoodstaffcanteen]

OH SNAP

happy?? epilepsy awareness month!!!!!!!!!

!!!SEIZURES!!! be (not) upon ye! A reminder that photosensitive* epilepsy is relatively uncommon, that there's so many different types of seizure triggers and multiple different kinds of seizures! Every epileptic is different and our experiences with epilepsy is vary wildly.

Also medication can cause lifelong side effects. Even if they completely stop seizures (which for many people they don't) the invisible impact stays with you every day.

My meds give me brain fog and memory issues, but it's that or seizures innit.

Remember many of us can't drive, struggle to find employment, are impacted by workplace discrimination. And in countries with poor public transport our independence is directly impacted. Epilepsy is more than seizures!

*that said, you still shouldn't buy strobe/flashing light decorations as Christmas approaches. They can cause REAL PHYSICAL HARM.

I think it's obvious I can say a lot more but I'll keep it at that.