My favorite part of playing Deep Rock Rogue Core in EA is that it’s such early days that I and others are still trying to figure out what synergies with the different weapons, class abilities, “not perks” and the different upgrades and bio boosters and whatnot.
So you’ll have games where your build replies on something you don’t remember getting but now every time you fire off your drone as falconer, suddenly you and every enemy in a 30ft radius starts exploding with electricity.
Imagine humans go to Mars. They start terraforming and building a civilization. So, ofc, the Earthbound gods have to send some of their own over there to help with that because you can’t just let them be alone
I imagine they send the most minor of deities, but that’s fine, because even small divine blessings go a long way. Water gods—even if they’re just over springs or drizzles—are held in high regard. You need a breeze deity to help oxygenate the planet. You probably need some form of death god because we are going to lose people in the pursuit to terraform, and we need those people to know their afterlife is covered. We need two moons gods because there’s two moons, and I guess we can share the same sun god as the people on Earth
But also, those gods are going to look so different because across pantheons, gods often reflect the people and/or animals of that culture. The people of terraformed Mars are modern astronauts, and the animals are few and far between. Odds are, those gods are going to look hella technological, at least if they want to garner the people’s worship
People shit on The Mandalorian a lot but it 100% is responsible for the resurgence of puppetry and practical effects in a lot of creature design and i think we owe it to Jon Faverau for making that choice and to Werner Herzog for pushing him to do it.
#Werner belted out “I VOULD LIKE TO SEE DA BABY” and that was it#Sold on the barrel
No but the baby yoda puppet was originally a placeholder to be replaced largely by CGI and Werner Herzog more or less threated to kill jon faverau if he didn't keep the puppet
I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things
my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say
I feel like Emoji responses are one of the last steps of meditation zen. Where you’ve successfully stopped pop up thoughts and ideas from interrupting your calm and you see and process emotions and things in the world with the barest of emotions.
Coworker: “Alright I’ll you Monday! Going camping this weekend!”
I love it when a story has a reveal that we don't know the significance of and the characters who discover it don't know the significance of, but when they report it to a different character who is well-versed in stuff related to the reveal, that character gets absolutely terrified
Especially if we normally don't see them even mildly anxious
Watching the ep where they introduce the concept of friends to the misfits class and I have thoughts.
Idk why this didn't occur to me earlier bc i did read the manga, but it actually does make more sense for shinyuu to be translated as best friends over soulmates. Especially considering the way iruma explained it to everyone and their reactions. Best friends really is just friends but closer, whereas soulmates is completely different from best friends (ofc your best friends can be your soulmates). Best friends is a relationship that is often assumed to be inherently platonic within itself. Obviously you can hold that platonic relationship alongside a romantic relationship for the same person, but the best friend title is generally interpreted as platonic. Meanwhile, soulmate is a much broader term, despite it being often interpreted as romantic. Soulmate generally implies someone(s) who is destined for you, regardless of what kind of relation it is (platonic, romantic, queerplatonic, secret third thing). However, it is usually used for romance. And demons do in fact seem to have a concept of romance considering what we've seen so far. Referring to Pursons comment and the others' support of it, i don't think they would have acted like that if they had heard possibly romantic implications. As well as the fact that it was compared to being friends, two different kinds of relationships versus different levels of a similar kind of relationship. As much as it breaks my heart to say this, best friend is a much more accurate translation of shinyuu than soulmate. I will forever be a love trio soulmate truther though. Maybe we can get another scene where they confirm it with a different word that's closer to soulmates and better encapsulates that vague undefined dynamic than shinyuu 💔. Maybe after the reunion? As a treat? For all the pain the arcs caused?
Forgot for a sec but it really fascinated me how iruma narrowed down the definition of friend so much bc despite the fact that friend generally encapsulates the platonic relationship, it is very broad in regard to levels. Friend can be used to refer to anybody from an acquaintance you dont hate to someone you've known and been incredibly close with for years. Maybe it's bc he's talking to the misfits class who he is in fact close with, but to define the entirety of the term friend using that margin is... an interesting choice. It probably was for the sake of iruma characterization but im too lazy to think abt that rn. Maybe it's bc he never had proper relations growing up like no proper parents no friends not even any parental figures. Most he probably got was the occasional nice person at his workplaces. So his view of relationships isnt that developed? If anyone wants to try then don't leave it in the tags. Actually rb with a comment or make your own post.
Going to post this old photo that really shows the breath of friendship that the Japanese language classifies.
My question is, if these levels of friendship/companionship to demon society then what other terms might be missing? Is the next step for the series to eventually establish “nakama” in 100 chapters?
this is like the opposite of that "wizard vs artificer" post. the one that goes, like, "oh, you've just been summoning from the plane of water! I thought you had to combine hydrogen and oxygen, that's so much easier".
and I like that. because different methods will work for different people. sometimes you find it easier to start up physics and sometimes you find it easier to tear open the layers of reality.
But what about the Pixel People? Digital Circus and Dungeon Crawler Carl
(Spoilers for TADC and DDC below the thrashing)
So The Amazing Digital Circus just ended yesterday and I’m sick. So all I can do is sit, be sick, and think about this ending.
In a nutshell, TADC is fairly straightforward. Humans wake up in a weird digital world, missing memories and put into strange cartoon bodies. A seemingly all power AI named Cain controls their world and builds “Adventures” for them to go on. But! If the humans get a little too #traumatized then they turn into massive shadow monsters with dozens of eyes and rampage and then get banished to a “basement”.
The episodic series follows a newly arrived character Pomni and how she adjusts to the crazy circumstances.
We learn about the history and dynamics of the others, how people have coped, who they were outside of the circus and several escape attempts.
In the last episode… a lot comes out. We learn that all the characters are old defunct brain scans that Cain found and animated. There’s no escape. There’s no where to go. They’re stuck there…
…
And they killed Cain.
The resolution covers… a lot. But to skip to the end, the way things end are simple: Cain stops trying to control the humans. The humans stop trying to escape and they focus on supporting each other and their interests. Happily ever after…
…
Except for one group.
The NPCs.
A large part of the horror of the circus is how Cain seemingly creates life on a whim. NPC’s are introduced, befriended and then deleted. Their personal autonomy and intelligence overwritten without a care.
And their… not a part of this ending. The montage of the “happy ending” how’s the humans, show Cain making peace with each other, having fun, supporting each other. The closest we get is a really interesting interwction between Cain and the moon.
“I didn’t program you to love me…”
“I know.”
And that’s it. The show ignores the NPCs, the implications and the morality of their existence. Like the Droids of Star Wars they’re in this weird in between state of being people/non-people depending on the whim of the writer of the episode.
Then… there’s Dungeon Crawler Carl.
No I’m not going to explain that gif. Or even try to explain the book series.
BUT! DCC has NPC’s as well. They fit a similar space as Digital Circus’s NPCs. pseudo life forms that either do or do not matter depending on who’s interacting with them. But as the books go on, the NPC’s… matter. They fight back. Push back. They’re still at the whims of the people who are more “real” than them. But they fight. They argue. Their suffering is seen, acknowledged and they fight back.
They even win.
And I think that’s whats missing from the Amazing Digital Circus’s ending. The reconciliation and justice for the most disenfranchised and forgotten characters. People whose entire existence was a 1 note joke and they’re still here.
I remember one video essay when ChatGPT came out had a critique that part of allure of “Artificial Intelligence” was, at its core, a version of ethical slavery. A thinking, reactive mind to do the work that the one with power wants complete. With no thought or consideration for the well-being of those minds.
By not condemning or holding space for the conversation you simply uphold the norms of ignorance. Their not a part of the ending because to the show, their not real people.
Just as a general PSA for anyone who hasn’t seen a broadway musical/hasn’t see that much theater in your life.
Take advantage of the Hadestown theatrical recording coming out JULY 24th. IMO Hadestown is the best “introduction” to modern musicals. The music, the stage craft, and the Greek Classic story with a twist gives you a bit of everything that modern musicals can offer.
Musicals are also one of the less accessible mediums of storytelling just because of the resources needed and the time constraint of each musicals your schedule. Listening to the soundtrack doesn’t capture the experience, watching boot leg recordings doesn’t capture the experience.
Heck even seeing a version made for movie theaters doesn’t capture the experience. But it’s close enough that if you like what you see, then you’d probably enjoy making the time to go se a musical.
I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.
I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.
And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?
I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.
Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.
Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.
Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.
And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.
Yeah, yeah, Cassandra Clare got her start writing fanfic, old news.
Rebecca Thorne wrote She-Ra fanfic before writing Tomes & Tea.
Matt Dinniman wrote GI Joe and Transformers crossover fanfic before writing Dungeon Crawler Carl.
Pierce Brown wrote Greek Mythology fanfic before writing Red Rising.
Andy Weir wrote Ready Player One fanfic that later got canonized by Ernest Cline before writing The Martian.
Fanfic has never been, and will never be inferior to published works, and writing one does not discredit or devalue the quality of your work when writing another.
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