#a bad strategy

[night-triumphantt]

This is rlly stupid but I’ve been sitting on it for a while now, and, I think the world deserves to know how stupid my son is LOLLL (@infamous-if)

[lotus-pear]

the dialogue choices in this game should be more diabolical

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[codacheetah]

Your Memory of Touch meta strategy is absolutely hilarious by the way.

Gamer strats

[ilk-insolence]

Raph Is A Great Strategist

Numerous times in the show Raph has shown to have a preference for straightforwardly punching his problems away rather than think up a more complex solution. Like how his immediate fix to getting Mayhem out of the mirror in Mystic Library was to punch everything in the bathroom but the mirror. However, when Raph understands the situation requires more in depth strategy, he’s shown to be an incredibly capable tactician.

(long post ahead!)

In nearly all the plot heavy episodes like Shadow of Evil, Many Unhappy Returns, and the season finales, Raph gets moments where he’s highlighted for his strategic thinking. In Insane in the Mama Train, he’s the one who figures out which eyeball-button goes to the front car with the dark armor, because “‘it was the only button [the Foot Clan] didn’t want me to press!’” [21:05]. He’s also the one who came up with the scheme to defeat all the (known) combatants in the train, with Leo specifically attributing Raph as the deviser during their mind meld [19:46]. In Many Unhappy Returns, after spending a single night waylaying the Shredder, Raph formulated a plan using all the tricks the team learned, seamlessly transitioning the mystic collar Leo acquired into it [19:53], to defeating the Shredder. Additionally, he’s repeatedly called for a retreat during fights, like in Shadow of Evil, Shreddy or Not (Finale pt 2), and the movie, when he can tactically recognize that a battle couldn’t be won. Each time, the show/movie implied that that was the right call, for the family to lose the fight but win the war.

And it’s not just that Raph is good at strategy when he’s pushed to be more serious; the show characterizes him as passionate about creating plans, he enjoys doing it. Literally in the first episode, Mystic Mayhem, after the turtles’ initial plan failed of getting Splinter out of the living room to touch his Do-Not-Touch Cabinet, Raph immediately started devising a new plan that involved “ten chickens [and] a gallon of rubber cement” [9:35]. It was convoluted, sure, and they didn’t end up using it, but it was inventive and the opposite of reluctant. This is also shown in Bug Busters, where Raph planned out dousing Mikey in honey to attract the oozequitoes [2:52]; Snow Day, with the idea to freeze Ghost Bear like in Jupiter Jim Pluto Vacation 4; and Raph’s Ride-Along (and also Bad Hair Day), where Mind Raph created multiple schemes to get the criminals arrested. The show wouldn’t have made Raph be so creative with his plans if they were trying to characterize him as someone who didn’t like strategizing.

So does why Raph do stupid shit sometimes where he doesn’t think things through at all? Well, even though Raph is good at strategy and enjoys doing it, it’s clear his immediate impulse is still “punch the problem in the face”. In fact, all the turtle boys contain the fascinating dichotomy of being incredibly smart in some areas, and the dumbest teenagers alive in others. Just look at Donnie. It’s also how Raph is a loving protective older brother, and the guy who shoved Leo into a wall so hard he disappeared in one frame for shits and giggles (The Mutant Menace x). None of this means that Raph is bad at strategy though.

tldr: Yeah, Raph has a lot of dumb and, frankly, insane moments in the show, but he’s still an incredible tactician who’s plans consistently saved his family and sometimes the world. He's a great strategist.

[mamawasatesttube]

"the bats could take down supers despite the supers being way more powerful than them because they are weak to kryptonite!!!" oh really? mhm, right, that's nice. hey, do you know what the bats are weak to? here is a brief, nonexhaustive list: bullets, bombs, swords, crossbow bolts, arrows, crowbars, bombs, grenades, being slammed into pavement at high velocities, drowning, asphyxiation, and i haven't even gotten into the frost breath, laser eyes, ttk in one case, etc. ...

[eobe]

Artful ARC trooper strategies #1

Beware of the links to fill context (and art) gaps 😎

Echo has been pondering over something since he got cuddle attacked while waiting for his cybernetics, not able to escape. (It was so much fun 🤩 An absolutely unforeseen escalated art collab – check this out here!)

Crosshair doesn't like it (we noticed hehe 😁 look here <-) 💀

An artful ARC trooper is quite dangerous and oh, when Echo has this little smirk full of mischief it's almost scary. This man is up to no good.

It might have something to do with this comfy sweater we know from gorgeous @astral-veil art (<-)

Better to observe this...

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with @foxwithadarkside 🫶

[txttletale]

i think your insulin argument is kind of incoherent; "it's bad for diabetics' lives to be at the mercy of the people who make insulin"; sure, but this is just as true under the current system. if the people responsible for manufacturing insulin go on strike or just don't show up to work or whatever, there won't be more insulin. and while it sucks for one person to be at the complete mercy of another, your system doesn't really... eliminate that*? it just shifts the power over the diabetic / other diabled person's life from the manufacturer/worker(s) to the central planner, and additionally it necessarily gives the central planner the authority to compel work from the manufacturer, and how any-kind-of-marxist is your system if the government is allowed/supposed to break strikes. hell, this was the justification for biden recently entering strike-breaking legislation on railroad workers! you think none of the trains that would've stopped if those workers went on strike could've been carrying insulin to diabetics.

*until we get to post-scarcity and post-mortality i don't think we can eliminate any and all situations in which one's life is completely at the mercy of another (surgery exists, just as a really basic example), i just think that it's disingenuous to say this particular danger is eliminated under your system, or would be worse by switching to anarchist modes of work organization

there is an obvious difference between a system in which the producers of medication have a formal and enforceable obligation to provide it to those who need it and one where they are simply assumed to out of nebulous 'goodwill'. one of these will necessarily have channels of recourse and accountability and one of them has nothing.

all these arguments are always so focused in maximizing the 'freedom' of the pharmacist that they give no consideration to offering the disabled the freedom of being alive!

[the-force-awakens]

Still not used to this life or death situation stuff. That's good, 'cause I'm not either. You never get used to it.

[pucksandpower]

Are you normal or do you daydream about what Charles Leclerc could be achieving if he was actually on a competent team?

[foxwithadarkside]

Artful ARC trooper strategies #2

New day, new prey. But it's not exactly clear who the prey is.

Wrecker doesn’t take long to give hugs.

Collab with @eobe (precious creature) My and Eo's vibes go beyond our DMs. @the-bi-space-ace on the other side of the Holonet just posted ours Artful ARC trooper strategies #2 thoughts without knowing it. Check it out

Keep applauding to @astral-veil

Artful ARC trooper strategies #1

Spamming today. Oh, well

[xia0ming56]

Been playin hades and i stumbled upon DR STRANGE??????

^^full body vers :

Did the hades artstyle trend but w dr strange :DDD

[huggywuggysuppy]

Notes on Scott’s Wild Life 3 POV

In summary: our gaslight king controlling the narrative as usual, what an icon.

Scott has very economical editing, having one of the shorter POVs, yet takes care to include several instances of being nice to Pearl (noticed this when he left in giving Pearl food, both at the beginning and when they were building the new castle together). However, he left out the session routine of chastising Impulse and Pearl for picking fights with Gem/Joel (seen in Pearl’s POV), only including warning a freshly yellow Pearl to not try to kill them.

Scott doesn’t die this episode. Notably, his main contributions to base building are simply moving materials from one chest to the other — a very safe activity when being pursued by a snail. Gem and Joel who also avoided snail death built in a wide open area, and the other no-snail-deaths generally forgoed building and dangerous activity altogether (although, RIP Lizzie for surviving mining only to be Skizz’d). All this to say: Scott wasn’t playing sweaty, he still took risks, but they were very small and calculated.

Scott doesn’t include a lot of the Spanners antagonizing GGGG. Partly because they failed and it’s not very interesting to just see Scott looking at the dirt for Mumbo and Grian digging, or warily watching Skizz from 15 blocks sway. But I also think he’s building a villain narrative for Pearl and Impulse and having other groups wrong GGGG would upset that balance. Though, this point is my most tinfoil hat theory.

Scott, Cleo, and Impulse half-heartedly warn Etho of an approaching creeper, sort of totally 100% causing his death. They all celebrate, Cleo and Impulse both breaking into delighted cackles, however Scott calls Impulse out on taking more glee from Etho’s death than the other two. He’s taking care to point out any villainous behavior in Impulse/Pearl, justifying his own negative behavior towards them and painting himself as a long suffering yet loyal teammate. He does this every season, and I eat it up every time — although he’s particularly negative towards Imp and Pearl compared to, say, Martyn.

Related, Scott is stressing how put together and connected GGGG is. He’s complimenting all of them and turning to the camera to gloat about how they’re not gonna fall apart. This session didn’t leave a lot of room for Impulse and Pearl to prove him wrong, but even then he’s doing the prep work to make it their fault if/when the divorce happens. This is made easier by his reputation as a good and loyal teammate combined with Impulse’s and especially Pearl’s fandom reputation as instigators. (And to an extent, yes, they are both consciously approaching WL with a “cause problems on purpose” mission.)

But I can’t ignore every time Scott badmouths their decisions to other people and denounces their actions as suspicious/villainous. That sort of behavior only makes him look better instead of strengthening his whole team: if he really believed in GGGG, he’d be lying on their behalf and definitely not calling them out for picking fights. Just as Cleo didn’t back up Pearl when she tried to poison Gem, Scott is actively making his teammates look worse. And I fear he might get away with it.

I love Smajor and watch his perspective as a fan! I think he intentionally plays “the social game” like this: partly to make it more interesting, and partly because he enjoys the chaos. And really, who doesn’t?

[bookwyrminspiration]

I’m a really well adjusted individual if you just ignore everything wrong with me

[voidedjuice]

Doodling my own girls again to regenerate my energy

Reintroducing this duo of misfortunate ladies, Ethel the dangerous things researcher and Katie the worrier

[lewishamiltonstuff]

So relevant for today's race.