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[sugarmint-dreams]

Small shop update! ✦ Made these microfiber cloths for cleaning glasses/phones/tablet screens, etc! Comes with a pouch for safekeeping! :)

[webdiggerxxx]

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[magicalshopping]

♡ Handmade Kuromi & My Melody Inspired Bracelets ♡

These are available on my Mercari shop! They're individually listed but can be bundled together. If these sell I can definitely make more! <3

[silvermoon424]

Which has the best design? Pure Heart Crystals or Star Seeds?

I think Pure Heart Crystals are objectively the better design, but I still have a soft spot for Star Seeds!

[trashmuis]

GUESS WHO FOUND A CHICKEN????🐔❤

[twosides--samecoin]

X6-88 thoughts/Overthinking Bethesda's writing:

I've side-eyed a handful of X6-88's statements ("Greed and materialism don't exist in the Institute.", "In the Institute, mental disorders are a thing of the past.") and wonder about the veracity of those claims.

I'd ask him to define what a "mental disorder" is. The World Health Organization says a mental disorder is a "clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotional regulation, or behaviour". Surely in emulating human life, the Institute understands mental disorders are kind of two sides of an evolutionary coin.

After all, in humans, anxiety is a survival response.

It's 98798745 BC. The wind shifts through tall grass. Something rustled in the grass yesterday and then it popped out and ate your hunting partner. For the rest of your life, you get a little freaked when the tall grass moves. It's 2024. You get chest pangs and feel annoyed when your mom's number shows up on your cell phone, because her pattern of behaviour is to ask a lot of uncomfortable, invasive questions and she frequently derides your life choices. You let it go to voicemail, because that's the one way of figuring out what she actually wants without having to endure too much bullshit to learn the purpose of her call. That's anxiety.

If you want a Synth to have authentic feelings such as worry or a "gut feeling" that gives them pause (and the Institute does want their Synths to assimilate with humans in 2288), that means even a series of zeroes and ones telling the Synth to pause before walking off a cliff needs to be interpreted and expressed to the outside world as anxiety. I wonder how many Synths were deemed defective because the Institute basically trained their self-aware AI to have anxiety disorders?

And hey, X6 contradicts the statement, whether he knows it or not: "I recommend a mental health examination when you return to the Institute."

X6, what's the purpose of a mental health examination? Who gets selected for one? Why would someone be recommended to take one? What happens when the assessment is conducted? What kind of data is expected from something called a mental health examination? Yes or no, is it fair to say mental disorders could be detected with such a test? Is a mental health examination routine for humans and Synths? Because lemme tell you buddy the existence of the mental health examination tells me the opposite of "mental health disorders are a thing of the past".

If escapee synths can harbour trauma, perhaps X6 views that phenomena as a defective unit. Or believes "runners" should be anxious, because they're in trouble. Could also be he's hearing one set of truths and he isn't privy to data that would show otherwise. Part of his mission might be to tell the Sole Survivor certain things about the Institute to further convince the SoSu to succeed Father's leadership. Maybe it's a 'perfect world' belief, or what he chooses to tell himself; if one wears the affect the party line expects of them, it becomes a hell of a lot easier to ignore feelings of doubt.

X6 doubts very little about the Institute, except when the Sole Survivor causes him to doubt their appointment as Father's successor.

One of my journalism profs said "Science is a knife fight". Academia would love you to think it's all for the greater good, but many big science scandals of the 20th/21st century were greed-driven.

"Materialism" must also be quantified and defined. You might hear, "They're so materialistic," normally framed as an insult-observation toward someone we perceive as valuing physical goods above all else.

"Materialism" is a philosophical thought that centers around the assertion that all things - ideas, expression, products, actions, you name it - have causal relationships with matter.

Matter can be literally anything. Your stomach grumbled because your body is sending you signals to indicate it needs fuel. The dog barks because wants to alert you to something. You cry because it's the body's response to releasing stress. You have memories because of a network of synapses and neurons that the brain developed to retain information.

It's basically a boring way of saying, "Things happen because Stuff exists, and Stuff exists because Things happen". Marx and Engels based their writings on the relationship and interactions between Stuff & Things. The worker gets a job at the factory because they need money to pay the landlord. The factory exists to produce Stuff. The factory cannot produce Stuff without the labour of the worker. Conditions at the factory can make it hard for workers to produce Stuff. Labour movements exist because workers can withhold their labour if working conditions fail them. And so on!

I think it's ontologically untrue to say the Institute isn't materialistic; one reason they made synths (among others) was because they needed materials. Gen 1/2s scavenged the Commonwealth and carried out experiments. SRB Coursers like X6-88 go to the surface to recover escaped Synths that they view as property.

The Institute is materialistic, not because they're all concerned with designer bags or whatever the fuck X6 was referring to by saying they weren't greedy/materialistic, but because they absolutely do have a causal relationship where the collection of matter, human or otherwise, directly influences their ability to continue their research.

Anyway I don't think he's a liar per se, I just think he's inhaling the Institute's Costco pack of Capri Suns like they're fucking oxygen tanks

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Oh my god, I'm an adult, I can take MYSELF to the American Girl Doll store

[mydollsaregay]

after having finished caroline’s books, i was feeling wistful about almost certainly never being able to find some of her cooler items, such as her little embroidered map, for a reasonable price. naturally, i googled it to find some pictures, and i was quite shocked by what i found!

my favorite grey market seller has apparently been selling it for months???? (according to the dates on the reviews)

anyway, i jumped on that *right* away. it’s about five dollars. the shipping is also about five dollars, but the seller does free shipping for orders over $25, and i never have any trouble meeting that threshold lol

here’s a clickable link, so, if you’re interested, you don’t have to go googling the seller’s (admittedly sketchy sounding) name: link

[akkivee]

like we all know saburo stole ichiro’s entire tdd flow lol but i also think jiro did a little as well by matching that jacket we’ve only seen ichiro wear like four times total lmao

[grave-st0ned]

dolltism be damned pt 2

[cherripossum]

my shop is now open for preorders!

PREORDERS OF: Cat Argenti and Boothill charms

Cat March 7th, Stelle, and Dan Heng charms

Felicia charms (choose between A,B,C, and/or D)

please check out my store and if there's any questions feel free to ask me via message or email!

[gateway-2000]

faerie or elf fantasy cosplay earrings.

every purchase goes to help a disabled intersex trans lesbian pay for its necessities such as rent, bills, transportation, food, cleaning supplies, etc.

[celestialsquirrelshop]

Our roster of chromatic dragons has grown by one big bad-tempered buddy! Introducing the stormy BLUE Roll Initiative hard enamel pin--up in our shop now! 💙

[magicalshopping]

♡ Heart Shaped Batwing Backpack from Kuru Store ♡

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

thinking of writing a zombies au where there was a very similar zombie apocalypse in a different town but instead of lime soda, it was lemon