#( V; SEASON 10. )

[neurotic-sinkhole]

oh boy another hermitcraft court case. watched it and my brain exploded like a cuboom firework. the things i've seen as a real life judicial aid and law school student will never compare to the trial.

so here is my analysis of said case:

- glad the judge kept the plaintiff going first! he is right, the defense doesnt know what case to argue against without knowing the case to begin with

- while i love the addition of a jury, typically juries are selected before either side makes a single argument. theres also a whole jury selection process that takes a while, but seeing how one side chose to not prepare anything (which is a real defense i've seen used in a real case before) maybe this was for the better lol

- also, to my knowledge most of the jury (in some way) was a part of the case - i mean the defense even brought this up. the jury was never going to be impartial. however, what confused me more was the usage of "hermitcraft" in the overarching hermitcraft v mumbo case. this verbiage implies not just beef or xb, but the whole server are claiming harm from mumbo's actions.

- furthermore, outside the courthouse there was a banner boasting "xb vs mumbo" but bdubs said "hermitcraft vs mumbo" so i'm going with the words of the judge and what would be on the theoretical court record. this continues to make me wonder what "hermitcraft" classifies as. is it a sovereign nation? is it a state? is it a confederacy of hermits? if hermitcraft, in this specific case, entailed the server as a nation then this should have been a criminal case.

- i need to stop thinking about this aspect of the case or else my brain will explode but i desperately hope for some case law defining this in the future.

- similar to the zombiecleo v docm77 case, defense's lack of witnessess was alarming. defense having only one witness in comparison to the plaintiff's three is severely unbalanced, it only gave the defense a third of the oppurtunity to prove mumbo's innocence (not that they were claiming mumbo didn't commit the actions accused of him)

- i appreciate the judge not allowing for party reps/witnesses to act as agents of the case (objecting, arguing, ect). when bdubs asked jevin where his bar card was i actually felt tears welling in my eyes from laughter.

- the plaintiff's case did a good job in throwing a lot of stuff at the defense. however, i feel they spread themselves too thin with having so many elements to the case (vandalism, noise pollution, enviromental pollution, lost wages, ect), and if they had focused on one or two aspects their case would have been much stronger

- specifically i think they should have focused on the enviromental damage perspective. the other "charges" focused too much on the social ramifications of actions taken by both mumbo and "hermitcraft"

- as for the defense, i think they could have completely gone with the defense of "freedom of expression".

- every single charge could have been easily knocked aside with this defense. it would play to bdubs' (american) brain's inherent obsession with freedom of speech, protest, assembly- just the first amendment overall. oh, the bricks? that was a protest. it is mumbo's right to protest against actions he does not agree with. the noise? the "toxic" enviroment? that's mumbo's expressed creative thoughts. it's his own individual style. he's expressing his own thoughts.

- i think the defense was right on about the train of the food prices too high, but they focused on it too much.

- i also appreciated their use of their singular witness in cub- it is absolutely right to point out there are no written peramiters for zones of builds and such.

overall i think this trial was slightly more on par with a traditional american trial than previous tall claims court cases!! i think bdubs' judgement was just. and most importantly, i can't wait for more cases to analyse (:

[yayforocs]

Episode 23 - Castle Larders

[saym0-0]

hes jamming out

[pitypartypoisonn]

shoutout to when i caught a mending book in mcci hole in the wall in less catches that it took grian to catch in survival /silly

[sadpanda]

Homelander TRUST that you will be dealt with

[mo-ok]

top 10 sentai blacks yes its important that Junichi Haruta is here twice

[bbyboybucket]

Shrinking better get Emmy noms this year

[shannonsketches]

Do you have a Ganondorf pov for the fealty swearing scene when he sees link and Zelda through the window?

SO!! Yes and No, and I'm so so sorry because you activated my trap card and this is one of my favorite things and I need to talk about how great this scene is in terms of narrative design.

So, in OoT, that is (as far as I know) not a scene of him pledging fealty. It was referenced in that scene in TotK, but in OoT, Zelda's dialogue indicates that he's already sworn allegiance to her father by then, and she's warned her father about her dreams, which he does not believe.

But in terms of narrative it is so economical and successful in introducing the villain and very subtly setting up your expectations for him. He's on screen for what, ten seconds? But between that and Zelda's dialogue, that very short scene tells us, the player, the two key factors:

1 - Because he's already sworn fealty, he is at the castle for an audience with the king, and if he is walking into the chamber when you arrive in the garden, it means Ganondorf got to Hyrule just before we, the player, did, which sets up the recurring story point that Ganondorf is always one step ahead of you.

2 - Him looking over at the window tells us, the audience, that he can see us. He doesn't know who Link is, as a person, in the game, but as the player, he's aware of us, and he will continue to be perfectly aware of us and exactly what we're doing throughout the remainder of the game, to the point that he uses it against us.

And I know this is absolutely NOT what you asked but I love narrative design so much, and when it comes to establishing things very quickly, this is one of my favorite scenes to reference, because as long-winded as the legend explainers are, they set up Ganondorf's mechanic within the narrative so quickly and effectively, and I just love it to death.

But I will have to draw both his fealty scene and his pov of the window scene separately at some point, yes lol

[lycheelovescomics]

need people to pick up some modicum of critical thinking and wonder that maybe, it's possible, that the show is critiquing how it's always the same two men's dreams that come into conflict about how to move forward vs or with the rest of humanity ... and that maybe, just maybe, the answer could be (surprise!!) a secret third or even fourth option that doesn't include them?

because ororo did tell jean that they ought to believe not in a dream or for their gifts/powers... but in each other 👀

[skitskatdacat63]

2005 Chinese Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso(ft. Flavio Briatore)

[imminent-danger-came]

Part of me, deep deep down, wonders if we still may have a scene of MK on his knees versus his friends a la 4x07

[slythernnn]

Gpoy

[milleroptimism]

Thinking about those three years where Sarah was single. Thinking about how she spent two of those years having such a low opinion of herself ("Every relationship I've had blows up in my fucking face one way or another--- it's me. I'm the problem. I need to stop") that she went out to bars/clubs/etc. every night with the intention of finding someone to go to her motel room with, and she always succeeded because look at her. As long as they used protection (a lot of them complained but she never budged) they could do whatever they fucking wanted she just wanted to FEEL SOMETHING again. Fuck the numbness out of her. It didn't work. She'd cry, beg the strangers to tell her they loved her, no matter what happened she just kept... feeling nothing. Empty. Then season 12 came along and she realized she needed to get her head out of her ass and go back to the restaurant.

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i hate kevin ball. i’m disinterested in veronica fisher. they fucked up svetlana’s whole character by creating the throuple. the end.

[snivy1245]

"I would do anything to make Riley smile" babygirl you have no idea

[blackjack-15]

the love scene lighting is back with marcus glazing the cake XD personal pet peeve with all people glazing cakes but man does it look like it wastes a lot of that glaze...it's cinematic but i'm like...i'll eat the extra choco stuff if no one wants it...don't just pour it all out....

mikey's spaghetti as family is a nice touch. even if carmy does find it underseasoned and gloopy XD

wait the top of the cans says KBL, like KBL from Mikey's notebook??

WHY IS THERE CASH IN THE TOMATOES MIKEY

oh my land is that what the 'payments' to KBL were was he hiding cash in the tomato cans, is that why he took the money from Cicero

wait didn't carmy throw one away in the pilot gosh dangit

my gosh. one last gift from Mikey, huh?

i mean he prolly should have just paid debts with that but like...land sakes

SYD

she came in person huh yeah she was never gonna permanently quit

best meal she ever ate, remember?

tina's joy at seeing her, marcus' lack of surprise,

and carmy staring at her, leaning on the counter for support, money forgotten, breathing in and out deeply

"quit f//kin around, grab a can opener!" oh richie. see, these two don't need any apologies, they're just that combative -- it's a give and take situation, and neither is the type to give or take apologies in the first place

carmy you're still staring baby boy. your mouth is hanging open too

she's staring back, looking a little guilty and afraid (which i'll take what i can get there's not time for a Big Discussion left in the season)

...carmy hon did you just see syd and immediately propose

i mean propose making a new restaurant but still. that's a proposal

and they're back on the same page, speaking their own language, the only two people in the room.

THE BEAR IS COMING. great name for restaurant, from a story perspective...yeah, he's opened the cage, the bear is definitely coming

let's see what happens when it does