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Taiwan, 2018 Taipei, Taiwan. 台湾 台北市 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

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The Identity V design of the day is:

"Goatman": Dark Cloud (Limited) (S-Tier)!

"Sparks fly, igniting roaring machines that cast a new radiance, replacing the sunlight that illuminates the earth. People believe that the dense clouds above only mask the afterglow of a bygone era."

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AT: i JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, wHY, AT: wE CAN'T DO THIS THE EASY WAY, AG: What good would that do you? AG: Whatever the purpose of this game is, it makes you work hard for it! AG: That way you 8ecome stronger along the way and you are 8etter prepared for whatever's next.

I agree with Vriska, insofar that I do think the game is designed to challenge its Players, through slowly escalating trials. This has been my theory for quite a while, and it’s nice to see the characters are on the same page.

However, I think Vriska has taken this idea, filtered it through her worldview, and come to a very Vriska-like, very incorrect conclusion. She seems to think she needs to help this process along - that she should manually force Tavros to grow stronger, through whatever pain and hardship she can come up with. I’m sure it helps that she wanted to do that to him anyway. 

Absolutely nothing we've seen supports this - indeed, Sgrub is very obviously trying to get the trolls to cooperate, seemingly tricking them into merging their ‘competing’ teams together into one single get-along session. Sgrub’s ‘hardships’ are supposed to come from the game, and the Players are supposed to tackle them together. 

AG: Remem8er when we used to flarp together???????? It was the exact same principle. And that's why you were always outmatched! You were too soft and not well prepared.

Actually, I seem to recall that Tavros never let you win. 

Funny how you seem to ‘forget’ that - particularly when there’s no one around with the guts to correct you.

AG: Nothing comes easy, Tavros. That is why we go through the trials in the 8rooding caverns when we are young. AG: To make sure we are strong when we come out!

Vriska believes that what Alternia put them through was good for them - which is understandable, really. She’s reframed her brutal life as a sick sort of ‘training’, allowing her to pretend that nothing bad ever happened to her. 

It was good. It made her a better, stronger troll.

AG: Do you remem8er the trials, Tavros? AT: nOT VERY WELL, nO, AG: Well, I do, and they were a 8itch. AG: 8ut now that I think a8out it, it would make perfect sense if your trials were really easy 8y some mistake. AG: That is why you are such a soggy phlegm sponge, and why you got picked 8y such a sad, frail little lusus!

And because Tavros didn’t get brutalized, he’s weak. 

Which is a bad thing, of course. His stupid, sweet, caring, frail little lusus did him a disservice, and Vriska isn’t jealous at all. 

AT: mAYBE i SHOULD ASK TINKERBULL ABOUT THIS, AT: hE'S REALLY SMART, nOW THAT HE CAN TALK, AG: No!!!!!!!! AG: You don't need help from your lame 8ull fairy. He is only holding you 8ack.

She’s not j8alous 8t all!!!!!!!!

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Tanker 62 basking in the sunshine at Madras Municipal Airport. ⁣ ⁣ There are  only five Douglas DC-7s currently on the FAA register. Three of them are with Erickson Aero Tanker here in Madras, Oregon. This is N401US, a DC-7B originally delivered in 1954 to United Airlines. Erickson's other DC-7s are also DC-7Bs. ⁣ ⁣ Of the other DC-7s still on the FAA register, there is the DC-7B at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta and a DC-7C in storage in Phoenix Goodyear in Arizona that hasn't flown since 1976 or so. ⁣ ⁣ From what I can tell, Tanker 62 (this aircraft) was active in during the southern Oregon wildfires in 2019, but sat out the 2020 fire season.  I was under the impression that the 2019 fire season was its last. Interestingly the DC-7 has the same retardant capacity as the newer and more capable MD-87s used by Erickson Aero Tanker- about 3000 gallons. ⁣ ⁣ #avgeek #aviation #airlines #aircraft #planeporn #KMDJ #MDJ #S33 #Madras #Oregon #airport #planespotting  #Douglas #DC7  #EricksonAeroTanker #Tanker62 #N401US⁣ ⠀⁣ #instagramaviation #splendid_transport #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography  #flight⠀⁣ #AvGeeksAero #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge #AvGeekNation (at Madras Municipal Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLNXDF8Bv6x/?igshid=1bol38kf06ve8

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Starring: ‘31 Invicta S33 Low Chassis

By Perico001