#PHD in bullshit

[areyouwell]

what if... what if MC was there atop the Statue of Liberty with the rest of the team?

and instead of Erik pointing Logan's claws towards himself, he pointed them into you...?

and he had to make a choice between hurting you and saving Marie or keeping you safe and letting Erik enact his plan...

What if Erik forced Logan to choose between saving you or saving Marie?

What if he chooses Marie?

Or worse still...

What if he chooses you?

[lethal-spaceship]

If you dipcifica angst I would lose my marbles

"Nightmares about trying to wash blood off her hands that never comes out" "Recurring nightmares about overhearing a fight between his parents he wasn't supposed to hear"

OKAY CHAT HEAR ME OUT!!! From what we know they both obviously have shit parents. In different ways, yes, but still. And I present to you: BONDING OVER HAVING SIMILAR TRAUMA YEAAHHH Dipper trying to be all tough and mighty and being like "ahh don't mind your stupid parents" while bro has parental issues himself. Probably abandonment issues. I feel like they could really have this "hurt people try to heal together" dynamic with Pacifica trying to unlearn her toxic behaviours, starting a new chapter in her family history and Dipper trying to not cling onto every authority figure in his life and find comfort in people who are on "his level" as well.

[pearlcaddy]

I really need people who don't watch The Try Guys and only know about them from the recent Ned bullshit to appreciate their most recent video.

For the past couple months, they've been releasing a mix of videos that in some cases have been carefully edited around Ned and in others been shot recently without him. There's been some shade sprinkled throughout the newer stuff, and there was this particular gem in a recent video:

[ID: Screenshot from Try Guys 30-Day Meditation Challenge of Keith standing in front of the cover of the Try Guys' book, The Hidden Power of Fucking Up. Normally the cover has a photo of all four Try Guys, but the image of Ned has been replaced with a blank 404 error message.]

In general, their approach has been to throw some shade but ultimately cut around and ignore him.

But now it's Without a Recipe season.

WAR is one of the Try Guys' major series, released during November and December, in which they compete with each other to bake an item without a recipe, usually to disastrous results. Because the videos are long and such a central part of their winter holiday schedule, the videos are filmed months in advance. (Despite how long this post is, I'm a very casual fan, but my understanding is it's shot in the summer?) Which means that these episodes were filmed pre-scandal and that they're very difficult episodes to scrap or reshoot. And, given the camera set-up, it would be almost impossible to completely cut out a participant.

So they went a different direction.

[ID: Screenshot of the title card reading, "The Try Guys: Without a Recipe. Everything is Fine: A Totally Normal Season." Next to the text are images of explosions and a sarcastic hand giving a thumbs up.]

The shade in this episode starts early. Zach has consistently been the weakest baker, but his chyron for this year was unapologetic.

[ID: Screenshot of Zach being interviewed by the camera. At the bottom of the screen is a chryon that reads, "Zach: No longer the 4th best."]

For the most part, the episode cuts around Ned; the audience isn't told what type of Pop-Tart he bakes and we don't see the judges tasting and reviewing his bake. Group shots of the four Try Guys tend to be cropped so that only Keith, Eugene, and Zach are visible.

The time he's made most visible in the background is in these shots:

[ID: Screenshot of Keith in the foreground. Behind him is Ned, seen from the shoulders down. The framing deliberately leaves the text on Ned's shirt visible. It reads, "I love bad ideas," followed by the heart on fire emoji.]

But my favorite parts of the video are when they just replace him. Because, while the rest of the episode plays like a normal episode, there's wild shit happening whenever Ned would have been on screen.

There's one time when the editors wink to a fan theory that they'd used a fake pole to partially edit him out of a shot in a previous video. How? By needlessly covering him with a fake pole instead of cropping him out the way they do with all the other shots from the same camera set-up.

[ID: Screenshot of Zach in the foreground. To his left is a computer-generated image of a large, clearly fake pole over the space where Ned would be.]

Now normally the bakers are split into two pairs and work at side-by-side work stations where they riff off of one another while baking.

[ID: Screenshot of Eugene and Zach in the kitchen baking at separate tables that are arranged side-by-side.]

So at some points in the video, Keith (who is the baker paired with Ned in this episode) is in footage where the Ned half of the screen is replaced with footage of an unused workstation, as below:

But my favorite parts of the video were the ones where they replaced Ned with something that really acknowledged the elephant in the room:

[ID: Screenshot of the same kitchen set-up from before with two tables next to each other. Keith stands at one, looking at the baker at the other table. Ned has been replaced with a computer-generated image of a pink elephant.]

Whenever Ned is (presumably) speaking, the audio is replaced with a loud elephant trumpet.

They commit to the bit so much that, when the judges announce the results, they don't even show us Ned's Pop-Tart.

[ID: Judge Rosanna Pansino holds up a Pop-Tart. A red-and-white paper box of fresh peanuts has been added to the footage, completely shielding the Pop-Tart from view. The peanut box has a cartoon image of an elephant as part of its design.]

Now, they easily could have cut out the announcement of the results, especially since they cut out all of his baking process.

But Ned comes last.

So they leave that part in. As a treat.

When the judge announces the name of the fourth-place baker, instead of saying "Ned," the audio is replaced with her voice saying "Elephant," and when we cut to Ned's reaction?

[ID: Screenshot of the Try Guys clustered together. Ned has been replaced with the pink elephant, who is screaming in protest while the other three Try Guys shrink away from him. The chyron reads, "4th Place: Elephant."

And then true chaos reigns when we get to the announcement of the winner, and there's honestly so much going on that I'll leave the image ID to explain it.

[ID: Screenshot of the Try Guys clustered together again. This time, Ned has been replaced with the body of a dancing man, while his head has been replaced with a terrifying dough face that Keith made earlier in the episode. Behind Ned is a smaller, full-body image of the pink elephant, standing in profile. Sat on the elephant's back is a cut out of the impersonation of Zach from the SNL skit that mocked the Try Guys' infamous What Happened video. Also on the back of the elephant are an image of a bent-over old man and a man in a suit holding a red cloak. I'm either not online enough or not versed in Try Guys' lore enough to understand their significance. The chyron reads, "Winner: Daddy's Favorite," in reference to Keith's victory.]

The whole video is truly, beautifully unhinged and I'm absolutely living for it. I've been wondering how they were going to handle WAR, because it's my favorite series and I knew editing around Ned was going to be a challenge.

Ned was always competitive, particularly on WAR, and I'm absolutely delighted that it turned into 40 minutes of everyone at 2nd Try taking the piss out of him... only for him to come in last place.

[briarrolfe]

Something something fair go

[atissi]

this is a joke. i hated business school.

(conversation with @thesweetestclementine)

[politedemon]

bosses officially pissed me off enough i'm googling how to unionise my workplace lmao

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

I am visiting extended family and experiencing a spectrum of shrimp emotions both positive and negative. Positive because I love them and love spending time with them. Negative for reasons I feel so self conscious about I can’t bring myself to explain them outside of the tags even in my anonymous personal blog. I can’t sleep even though I’m exhausted. every night I’m pacing from anxiety as I try to figure out which parts of me to be honest about and which to conceal for the sake of not? Deeply hurting the people I care about? Even though I haven’t done anything wrong so if they are hurt that’s not on me.

[littlemaple]

the hardest thing about getting a masters is bullshitting your way through the thesis

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[smileystudies]

december 28th 2022 // el 28 de desembre de 2022

a little love note to the region to mark the start of my journey learning valencià

[sharkneto]

How is Migrations rated that highly on Goodreads. Absolutely insufferable book, glad to be done with it.

[victoriademedici]

https://youtube.com/shorts/7RzPl5iFNKM?feature=share

That’s edited by some AI voice generator, I can tell just by listening to it. ​Then I just so happened to stumble across the fake original video with that audio right here and the video of the late Queen here 🥰). You literally could’ve just googled the late Queen saying she doesn’t like Camilla and nothing supporting this audio that came from a fake tiktok video would show up. And if she doesn’t like Camilla, why did she allow the marriage between Camilla and Charles and make it known in her jubilee message that she wanted Camilla to be known as Queen Consort as opposed to Princess Consort or no title?

Even if the late Queen did say this (she didn’t 😍) that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to support Camilla. No one’s opinion of people will always and completely dictate my opinion of them. I respect Camilla’s work, I respect her as a Queen. I respect her initiatives and the attention she gives her patronages along with other charities/organizations that deserve the attention they receive from the monarchy. She’s not my favorite royal or person but I do respect her. Far more than you do, as I can tell you probably call her Cowmilla and say all sorts of ageist things against her. Would you like it if I called you a street rat? Sewer rat maybe? Fugly pick-me bitch? Camilla doesn’t deserve that abuse, Diana wasn’t a saint, they all acted immaturely, none of them were completely right. It’s been a quarter of a century now. Accept that Charles is King, Camilla is Queen Consort, and Diana deserves to rest in peace.

Anon’s Link

[quasi-normalcy]

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[telesilla]

Weird how the fan girl brain never quite turns off.

[shadyfennec]

PhD paper reading sessions in a nutshell

[likeabxrdinflight]

It's one thing when I see licensed professionals posting mental health content on Instagram (not a huge fan but like...you have a degree at least and some professional credibility so...fine whatever) but to see people who are NOT licensed practitioners appropriating psychology terms to promote their "life coaching" or "holistic healing" scams like...get off my screen I hate you and we are not the same