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I've always been vaguely aware that John's battle anthem, "Heir Conditioning", is blatantly name-checking some Touhou soundtrack or other, but I just looked up exactly which Touhou track it's referencing, and... well, given that the person who wrote "Heir Conditioning" did so way back in 2011, all I can say is that's one hell of a called shot.

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feminism never taught me to hate men but it did help me realize that i shouldn’t prioritize them over women & it turns out that alot of men consider that to be hatred lmao.

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i have midterms tomorrow and here i am 

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Touhou 20 coming soon!! Let's celebrate!!💎✨✨

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If Shadowheart is transgender do you think her amnesia means she forgot she has a dick or that she forgot most women dont have dicks

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it's always really funny when someone comes at me over that anti-spotify post because like... I hate to pull this card, but one person in this discussion years of financial documents from releasing and selling music with a big sign on the door that reads "I know you are able to pirate this, I ask that you pay me if you want me to make more" while the other is confidently insisting you can cast a financial killing-curse by listening to music without buying it

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i just wish the frightening ghoul would say something. for once. the silence is more disconcerting than anything it might say

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How is it possible that, in a multiplayer game, a character can be useless in pro gameplay but good in casual gameplay?

sometimes, it's because there are specific aspects of organized team play that are not technically 'inside the game' but render the character useless. for example, bastion from overwatch (pre-his ow2 rework) was a character whose gimmick was being able to do huge amounts of damage at the cost of being unable to move. the spy in team fortress 2 can kill people and then pretend to be them. these are both pretty strong in casual games when nobody is on voice comms, but in pro (or even high-level casual) games where everyone is in a voice chat together and communicating constantly, it's really easy to say "bastion is top right, flank him" or "the spy just got me".

a lot of strategies like this, that rely on surprise or deception (or, in games like league, poor map vision and awareness) get drastically worse the higher level play is, and so the same is true for character who are built around them.

another factor is skill expression -- basically, how many ways you have as a good player to leverage your skill for more impact. characters with extremely high mechanical variance, like widowmaker in overwatch, are going to vary wildly between a good player and a bad player, because the character requires you to consistently get headshots to get any value whatsoever. characters with higher skill expression are inevitably going to get better and better as you climb the ranks, eventually overtaking characters with low skill expression.

so, for example, characters in mobas or shooters who can get guaranteed value without having to aim or land a skillshot or position well have a guaranteed floor of value they're always going to bring to the team, no matter how bad the player playing them is. take junkrat from overwatch, whose primary form of landing damage is spamming bouncing grenades down chokepoints. a bad player is capable of doing this and getting, while not the most possible value from him (there is always going to be some level of skill expression where there is interactivity), a reasonable amount of value from him, whcih makes him disproportionately good in a lobby where everyone is bad but playing a character with a lower skill floor.

and this is good for the game! it is good for brand new players (or casual players who don't care about being good at the game) to have characters they can pick and reliably give their team value no matter how bad they are. it is good to introduce characters who can do insane things if you're really good at the game and give your higher tiers of play more complexity.

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there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

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most stable mutual: if you were a dog, what breed would you be? I'm curious!

💬 golden retriever

💬 gotta be a golden retriever

💬 my friends say I'm a golden retriever

💬💬 You are so beautiful like a golden retriever

mutual #2 going through it down three reblog chains: this is an ender pearl

sanguine girlfriend of mutual #2: how do you navigate your partner's echolalia without being rude? I'm looking for advice on this that's ideally backed more in personal experience than traditional therapy speak, but I'd be willing to hear out any side at this point

howling of the wild winter winds:

mutual in law whose most impactful contribution to the world may well be widely remembered by the numbers of the date on which it happened: if I were a dog, what breed would I be? I'm curious

💬 wolf

💬 gotta be a wolf

💬💬 wolf isn't a dog dipshit

💬💬 you are a tar pot

💬 golden retriefir

well meaning mutual #3 reblogging someone whose url you've been a little curious about: where is beauty in architecture? has it fled the modern world? do we still have the technology for the flying buttress?

musician mutual #8: wait is it bandcamp friday or is everyone releasing their stuff early to fuck with me

mutual in law once removed of mutual #1 who has you blocked for being annoying but you see their posts sometimes: i need that old man reduced to oak splinters or some shit like that. i need him broken in a way that only glue could reconstitute, and never quite the same, but as something wholly new. i need him altered and remade.

musician mutual #5: new album for bandcamp friday!

mutual #2: this is an ender pearl

howling of the wild winter winds:

mutual #2 but accidentally on their gimmick sideblog: this is an ender pearl

howling of the wild winter winds:

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favorite word?

idk

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clicker training her puppy

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I think it would be so funny if there was a show about King Arthur and the knight of the Round Table where a different knight(s) joins the Round Table every episode and it gets to the point where the cast is like 500 people and absolutely no one is acknowledging that there are like 400 people in this court. Like a gratuitous amount of knights. The plot randomly pivots to knight or knights of the week and then back but it’s not an anthology exactly. Some of them die the same day they join, some randomly disappear from the story and others are technically there for the rest of the series but doing fuckall. Occasionally Arthur will be like “Where has Sir Whatever gone?” and everyone will shrug. Very important quest surrounding the major knights you’re expecting and a minor knight no one has seen for 5 seasons randomly joins in. You need a knightly spreadsheet to join in.

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June 5th can't come fast enough

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I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know