#Value modeling

[business901-blog]

The post-purchase stage is a crucial phase in the customer journey that begins once a consumer purchases. This stage is not merely the end of a transaction but the start of a new relationship between the brand and the consumer. It involves continuous engagement and communication to enhance the customer experience and foster customer loyalty. By focusing on this phase, businesses can ensure they are not just acquiring customers but retaining them, which is vital for long-term success. 

Article: https://business901.com/blog1/exploring-consumer-preferences-during-the-post-purchase-stage/

[catherine-sketches]

For the people saying that Jayce had no motivation to shot Viktor…

Did you not see the fucked up shit that Jayce is seeing?

My man went into the hexcore and saw horrors beyond his comprehension. He called hextech, HIS DREAM, a curse

When he looks at the people on the commune he sees hollow vessels with people faces and the marks of Viktor’s fingers

Jayce caved Viktor’s chest in because he KNEW that the pretty colors and the art deco architecture was a facade. That whatever Viktor is doing is stripping people from their true selves and leaving behind puppets that play a game called community where no one reacts like a normal person because no matter how good you life in your community is

NO ONE WOULD JUST STAND AND LOOK WHILE THE MAD HAMMER MAN NEARLY DISINTEGRATES WHAT LOOKS LIKE A CHILD TO ASHE

These are Zaunites. They would have curb stomped Jayce to the ground

But they didn’t

They stood there

Because their Machine Herald told them to “Suffer no more”

And what is fear, what is love, if not a form of suffering

[th3e-m4ng0]

i never model faces bc i get Scared easily but i need to get over it so . i did these.. and for panic reasons i will Claim them as Practice !!!

[deoidesign]

Thinking about vampires, death, life, and the space they occupy in between

[kuixotic]

has anyone connected this, does anyone hear me

willpower of steel, fluidity of emotions, knowledge from the past, something like that

[grison-in-space]

no one respects the hypothalamus enough. in this essay I will

[front-facing-pokemon]

[heartru]

my least favourite thing from the watcher discourse has been people saying “WE never asked for higher quality” or “your most popular shows are where you just sit around and talk!!” - babes its likely not what THEY want to do for the rest of eternity lol. they’re allowed to want to grow as creatives and make things they are proud of?

[cushfuddled]

Just saw “proshippers DNI” for a J@yvik group chat and I’m like

1. Thanks for the heads up (I would’ve been tempted to join the chat, but I would’ve worried about someone turning out to be an anti and harassing me)

2. I don’t know if you realize this. But the two characters you ship are in the midst of a divorce so toxic it’s threatening to shred the very sinew of spacetime. One of them literally just shot the other through the chest with a laser beam, if not killing them outright then severing their soul’s last tether to the concept of human connection. I hate to be the one to break it to you, lovelies, but shipping J@yvik does not align you with anti values re: the responsibility of fiction to model healthy relationships and condemn evil acts

[oldedo]

Hard Working Folk. The Satisfaction of Manual Labor, Skilled Work, and Builders of Things that Last.

I have no illusions that manual labor is not hard, tough work. I grew up doing it. Summer vacations were fun-filled trips to Disneyland or far away places. The best we could do was to hope for a 2-3 day trip to an aunt's farm in Oho. Otherwise, it was us working on dad's "projects": digging a hole for a new septic tank; digging a hole to move our outhouse to, plus all the planting, hoeing, harvesting. Then there was the acres of grass to be mowed with a push mower---there was no safe place to use a riding mower on the side of the hill where we lived. Normal for Appalachia. We often were lucky enough to put off house painting and roofing to early fall. You don't wanna do much roofing in the heat of the summer, even the pre-climate change heat.

Later, just out of high school, I started as an auto-body repair apprentice. All the veteran body men had big arms for a reason. But I decided to go into the military for training and ultimately college. The military was great (except for the prohibition on gay sex. You could be gay, but you could not have sex.)

Then I went to university and started a career that required NO physical strength or conditioning unless it waste get my butt used to sitting all day. Any physical stuff was relegated to my own motivation on my time off. While in the States, that was no problem as I still have plenty of heavy chores and labor to do. Plus, I could weight lift and go on long bike rides and races. Then to Japan. Any physical labor in Tokyo I do had been limited to a suitcase or two, or when moving apartments carrying some of the things movers need not bother with. All my physical "labor" is now weight lifting and running. Had to give up cycling because of the danger---real danger---on crowded streets. But the thing I miss most about physical work the lack of something tangible to show from my job. Tens years from now, the results of weeks or months of hard work will likely be invisible to everyone. Things I made or things I built or helped with from all those years ago back home are still there. I can see them. They'll still be there as long as our old place stands. I have the satisfaction of knowing I did that. My brothers and I and my mother can all see it and share in the memories. There seems to be a newfound respect for people in skilled trades in the US, well among some folks, mainly those who never lost it to begin with. The talent, intelligence required, the physical and mental skills are obvious. The talent, intelligence required, the physical and mental skills for planning some nonsense about embarking on a new paradigm is not obvious. One could argue that baffling people with bullsh*t is the most obvious skill required for that.

[mauvefiles]

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[swordsonnet]

when talking about topics like maturity and (self-)infantilisation, it's important to remember that there will always be disabled adults for whom the "normal" benchmarks of adulthood are not attainable or even applicable at all. if you want to be an ally to disabled people, you need to support all of us, not just the ones you find palatable - and that includes people who have "childish" interests, who get very emotional about seemingly trivial things, who aren't able to be independent in the way that adults are expected to be. that doesn't mean that we "need to grow up", or that we're reverting to a childlike state to avoid our responsibilities, or whatever op-ed writers think is wrong with gen z these days. it's just the way we are, and liking plushies or struggling with certain tasks doesn't in fact make us children! disabled adults are still adults, and still deserving of dignity, regardless of whether or not we can live up to the rigid societal norms of what it means to be an adult.

[just444you]

December 7, 2023

Pilates & A stroll on the pier. 🩰

[prolibytherium]

I've got big opinions on dream sequences in writing. Which is mostly that they really shouldn't be there like 90% of the time because they grind the narrative to a halt, but I think they CAN have value. It's just that they tend to be executed in a way that's kind of pointless.

It's mostly that a lot of writers have the sequences be literal 1:1 depictions of the character's anxieties or feelings, or otherwise the absolute most on the nose symbolism possible. And it's not like dreams are NEVER like that, but why bother stopping the narrative to include a full sequence that essentially just repeats information the reader already knows?

If it's established that Character A is scared that Character B will get murdered by Jeff the Killer, and then A has an entire dream sequence of B getting Jeff the Killed and A wakes up sweating like 'Noooooooooo I do not want that to happen noooooo' it's jsut like. Yeah I knew that already?

[mariyekos]

My logic/HC for why Lady dresses the way she does is that she figures any demon who hurts her will be able to hurt her regardless of whether she's wearing armor or not, so she might as well go for something with mobility to keep from getting hit in the first place. No point in wearing something that would restrict movement if a demon claw could tear your leg off whether you're wearing clunky armored pants or some easy-to-move-in shorts!

(Yes I know the real reason is that the devs like sexy minimally-clad women but let's just imagine it's the in-universe explanation okay)