Has a Name, Is Very Special

@veryspecialtoaveaname

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madamegemknight

I love Big Dino so much she makes me feel like the main character in a horsegirl movie every time I look at her. yes the mysterious horse Living Character in the very back of the old barn Disney Vault hasn't been ridden by anyone used for years because the last time she had a rider there was a tragic accident SHE COULD KILL PEOPLE, but that's just because her riders the Disney Corporation didn't understand her and tried to suppress her wild spirit...with my beautiful horse death robot I could save the farm in the big horse show have a Living Character in the parks that doesn't flirt with people...

veryspecialtoaveaname

Yet. Big Dino should be the only one allowed to flirt.

People who have an aquatic mobile suit like the gogg as their favorite have their life figured out, those are guys who know what they’re about

veryspecialtoaveaname

Pescatore

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

lilli-sturmreiter

honestly one of the least shitty dove nests ever build, good job

Cute, but I'd never let the shit machine and parasite carrier into my house

veryspecialtoaveaname

So why are you in there?

They have yet to prove my existence

veryspecialtoaveaname

thesuperheroesnetwork

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except the giant green fist doesn't belong to someone else

veryspecialtoaveaname

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

veryspecialtoaveaname

This post smells of bereavement.

found another great pixiv tag today

veryspecialtoaveaname

Man who was a Blackwater Mercenary, 3 times Iraq veteran, who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib, one time Afghanistan veteran, who said he loved it, and got a Nazi tattoo to celebrate it, and was accused a couple months ago of sexual assault and abuse - which the Yankee left were cool with and defended - is also a rapist

I sincerely believe you should go to hell

anonymousmorris

Graham Platner ran on an anti-zionist, universal public healthcare, no foreign interventions, pro labor union, etc.

Susan Collin is running on a pro Israel platform, voted for the original Iraq war, voted for the anti boycott act (the one against bds), and voted for additional ice funding as well as the big beautiful bill.

Ahh yes, the unrepentant vet that happily took 5 tours in Iraq, including 1 as a Blackwater mercenary, and lobbing mortars in population-dense environment, desecrating bodies, among other patently monstrous acts and directly serving to expand the interest of the US and the Settler state, is definitely an Anti-Zionist, who is against US imperialism and interventionism. Trust the war criminal rapist with the SS totenkopf tattoo on this one.

anonymousmorris

So you think Susan Collins is better?

The median american voter btw

anonymousmorris

So you're saying just don't vote?

You make it sound like there's a secret third option that everyone else is too stupid to realize. Good things platner dropped out I guess.

veryspecialtoaveaname

There is, and they are.

anonymousmorris

Which is? I think it's just hoping there'll be a replacement. It would be good if there's a replacement for platner, perhaps from DSA. The original comment that started all this was just saying that Susan seems worse even after it comes out Platner is a rapist. In terms of policy, that's certainly true. In terms of character ... well one of them is a rapist.

veryspecialtoaveaname

Why does it gotta be "hoping"? People are able to actually DO things too, you know.

Man who was a Blackwater Mercenary, 3 times Iraq veteran, who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib, one time Afghanistan veteran, who said he loved it, and got a Nazi tattoo to celebrate it, and was accused a couple months ago of sexual assault and abuse - which the Yankee left were cool with and defended - is also a rapist

I sincerely believe you should go to hell

anonymousmorris

Graham Platner ran on an anti-zionist, universal public healthcare, no foreign interventions, pro labor union, etc.

Susan Collin is running on a pro Israel platform, voted for the original Iraq war, voted for the anti boycott act (the one against bds), and voted for additional ice funding as well as the big beautiful bill.

Ahh yes, the unrepentant vet that happily took 5 tours in Iraq, including 1 as a Blackwater mercenary, and lobbing mortars in population-dense environment, desecrating bodies, among other patently monstrous acts and directly serving to expand the interest of the US and the Settler state, is definitely an Anti-Zionist, who is against US imperialism and interventionism. Trust the war criminal rapist with the SS totenkopf tattoo on this one.

anonymousmorris

So you think Susan Collins is better?

The median american voter btw

anonymousmorris

So you're saying just don't vote?

You make it sound like there's a secret third option that everyone else is too stupid to realize. Good things platner dropped out I guess.

veryspecialtoaveaname

There is, and they are.

lost-but-with-coffee

If limbus was gonna get a live action adaptation who would you want the sinners to be played by?

For the sake of this stupid hypothetical the director who is directing this has never played the game. We’re living in the worst timeline in this hypothetical.

Also to add further to this hypothetical Nicolas Cage is Vergilus

veryspecialtoaveaname

Well, since we're in The Worst Timeline, they're getting Taylor Swift to play Faust.

IDENTITY EMERGES ORGANICALLY FROM ACTION

IF YOU DONT DO ANYTHING YOU ARENT ANYONE. SORRY

catboybiologist

This exact mentality was the mindset shift required to break my egg btw

You recognise a tree by its fruit, if you don't give fruits you're a dying tree

veryspecialtoaveaname

Pretty sure there are trees without fruit that're doing just fine.

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

veryspecialtoaveaname

ALEKS LE ALWAYS VOICING THE HOTTEST GUYS WITH GREEN HAIR

veryspecialtoaveaname

And

unrealized realities chatting + screenshot dump:

smiling serenely at every word of these sentences

it sneaks up on you because her look is relatively understated but nasti lunorey is like really incredibly hot okay you have to understand this. the woman takes off her hard hat sits on the ground and offers you a bite of a ration bar you sincerely thought was an actual brick at first. i would also eat the ration bar out of her hand i'm with you on this one mercia.

she's fucking awesome pt. 1

i know her favorite are the make-your-tongue-bleed sour ones

she tech-upgraded her bone pen and she does fucking dot-matrix incantations. she's fucking awesome pt. 2

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she's fucking awesome pt. 3. this is a woman who watched kristen wright do that and took it to heart.

no...! nasti would never have that much affect...!

cool to see how they met. i love how quick she is to go 'no, i'm just doing what i do. no big expectations.' while kristen is like lmao but you ARE trying to change the fate of the sarkaz girl

she's fucking awesome pt. 4. she's just really cool.

champion-grade 'tell me what arknights is about' image

this is just a really good line. it's also where i'm going to pause the screenshot dumping to talk about a thing i like in this story and in a lot of arknights stories. it's *really really easy* to satirize the US. basically all you have to do is to look at any aspect of it and go 'look.' and you're there, you've reached satire. getting from there to *good* satire that doesn't just deflate like a day-old souffle into Americans Are Just Uniquely Stupid or HaHa Poor People is a lot harder.

this story manages it by 1) having actual respect for ordinary people 2) keeping the satire focused on the things actually worth satirizing (self-sabotage by corporate and government infighting, crass commercialism, the fact that our culture is just saturated with scams) and 3) a thing they do a bunch which i really like where they blend multiple eras of a given nation/set of nations in the storytelling to draw parallels between them, strengthen the aesthetic and speculative sides of their storytelling, and make the points they're making stand out more sharply by taking them out of their original aesthetic context.

in this story for example they're drawing a big bright sharp line between the optimism of early-20th-century attitudes around technology crashing headlong (and being repurposed) into cold war era xenophobia, and turn-of-the-millennium optimism similarly being contorted into militant nationalist sentiment after 9/11, fanned by warhawks and profiteers alike. a whole country of reckless passion all too easily turned toward brutal ends. absurd and flying free.

okay analysis minute is over this was hot.

auuuguhhghuh

yeah my evil and intimidating horse (boss) invented horseshoes in a world where they don't exist. no they don't hurt.

#mumumoments

yeah my evil and intimidating horse (boss) was late to the meeting because he walked from NYC to DC. no we had a car he just wanted to break in his hoof-irons (not a thing (only he does this (evil and intimidating)))

saria's really settling in to being control. so like her to still be planning on making up for the cocktail party they missed because kristen laika'd herself and nearly destroyed the company.

this event was really good! they've still got it when it comes to americana. nasti is really great and i love how all of her analytical professionalism and low affect still comes with this grounding undercurrent of deep care for people. she hears about a bunch of testing staff being let go after a company folds and she scraps a ton of her work to ensure they aren't just left to fend for themselves. one of her horns doesn't grow right and it's probably because she had to pin it down and cover it with bird feathers to pose as a liberi in laterano. she loves her mom. she even gives ranged units +40% ATK and max HP. she can do it all.

veryspecialtoaveaname

Forgot one:

Last words before going in for bottom surgery.

battlecrazed-axe-mage

So

For those who follow me for non-FFXIV reasons, I bring a crumb of internet drama to your door:

As with a lot of MMOs, roleplaying is a big thing. A BIG thing. Another big thing is the modding scene, so you can get your character looking just how you like. Squeenix does not best love mods, but it's broadly a don't-ask-don't-tell situation: as long as your mods don't give you an unfair advantage and you don't rub them in anyone's face, they'll look the other way

Guess what's the explicit direct polar opposite of not rubbing it in anyone's face

Buying four entire billboards in a major US city about it

A roleplay group bought out multiple billboards to advertise an event, and used both a modded screenshot (edit: that apparently uses a datamined unreleased outfit holy shit) and the official game logo on it

This Has Gone Well For Them and last I heard people had been banned temporarily over it pending more severe action, the modding scene is having very real fears that Squeenix will crack down on mod use over it, and apparently the organizers are pitching a hissy on their discord

No one is happy

battlecrazed-axe-mage

Apparently there is a standoff happening outside the group's house where people are camped out on magitek armor using the missile emotes

tldr list of what’s known thus far for those that don’t wanna scroll thru all the rb’s, from the top...

guild house is decorated / set up to be a nightclub + erp venue in-game > publicised erp is against game TOS because potential to expose minors to pornographic content etc.

some attendees and/or staff use mods > against TOS

game producer basically says “i can’t stop you from doing it so don’t let me see it and you’re fine” otherwise they get banned faster than they can blink... well now everyone can see it in 2987341987236401923641px

some saying staff are paid real money for working there + real money for erp > against TOS for rmt (real-money trading)

ran a twitch stream donation saying it was for the trevor project + made thousands of $$$$$

there is ONE receipt which has surfaced (that i have seen) that says a donation to TTP was made for $230 ... nowhere near the amount of $$ made during the stream

handful of staff of the rp venue report having no idea where the money went, i.e. “it was just gone one day”

rented billboards (at least two, at least one of which is digital) for at least $1,200/month. probably more in the ballpark of $12,000. bc that’s a number that was circulating (esp in the discord where staff were ragging on people telling them “bad idea” because “you’re just jealous you can’t afford this kind of thing”)

(sus yet over that missing money and expensive advert? ‘cause that’s fraud if it’s a 1:1 flow of money buckos!!!)

on the billboard...

a character in a datamined outfit for the 2022 summer event (obviously against TOS)

a character with a facial mod (against TOS)

square enix watermark (copyright infringement)

final fantasy xiv logo, implicating the game is complicit in the event or otherwise sponsoring/promoting it (copyright infringement, misinformation)

website address (taken down ~4 hour (or less) after the internet became Aware of this)

discord server + user name(s)

staff totally on board with this brainiac idea were 100% certain they wouldn’t get in trouble for anything / continue to state they’ve done nothing wrong

one of the characters featured on the billboard has already been temp banned with possibility of permaban as of the evening of july 5

SE lawyers woke up and found out they’d have the easiest day of their lives

and some fun tidbits...

obviously, people started joining the discord to rubberneck... in light of this, a staff member installed an emote that was a fake trojan -- ultimately harmless but drives antivirus NUTS

threatened to report anyone reacting to posts with clown / skull / nerdface emoji to “local authorities and have you arrested” ... for discord emotes. lmfao. that’s where that copypasta comes from.

a former staff member’s éxpose on twitter

actual news media sites reporting on it

all in all, we in the “find out” phase of fucking around fellas

What the hell am I'm reading?????

littleghostlyrose

Your guess is as good as mine kjngfbngfbj

big-smiling-monkey

The TL:DR version for non-MMO players is basically this:

Imagine if one of your local nightclubs put up a big billboard in Times Square publicly saying to everyone "Come to our nightclub, we have our own prostitutes and we sell MDMA" and the folks running the place have prior records and some are on parole, and then they're stunned when the cops show up

veryspecialtoaveaname

And the billboard has the Disney Logo on it and the nightclub is called "The House of Mouse"

if March Lorraine jacks you off with the puppet on. is it a blowjob or a handjob

veryspecialtoaveaname

Depends. Blowjob if you cum into the puppet's mouth, handjob if you're blasting rope out the side.

I’ve heard enough out of you. Guards, send him to the gummy bear chamber

veryspecialtoaveaname

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