#advertising aside

[nebula-gray]

battle network 5's microserver incident is so intriguing to me because like... on the surface, it's really silly. dr. regal's ultimate plan for a world of evil is to make every extremely pissed off, and it leads to some really funny dialogue.

and i've noticed that people have a hard time taking it seriously, which is fair because... look at it. it's not taking itself seriously. but if you stop and think about it, it's terrifying.

everyone is so caught up in their own emotions, society can no longer function. people want to destroy things, start fights with other people, stop working, and all around cause chaos. in a world where almost every problem is solved through netbattling, people are resorting to physical violence. imagine how quickly things would fall apart if everyone was like this, how soon people would die if no one could cooperate.

and the thing is, battle network couldn't possibly show the real consequences of a scenario like this. it would quickly become too dark for a game aimed at children, and wouldn't mesh with the tone of the series. i understand why they went the silly route, and i'm glad they did so.

unfortunately, i think it leads to people taking the plot and the villain less seriously. dr. regal is already hated by a lot of people, and i truly believe this is due to bad writing rather than a flaw in his own plan. like, if soulnet had worked and people were like this forever, it would be disastrous. way scarier than a typical take-over-the-world plot, because you're directly manipulating people's emotions to make them suffer. and the only reason lan and megaman can fight back is because they have literal plot armor. if not for that, there would be no fighting back, no fixing this. it's scarily effective, and it makes me sad that no one seems to give regal credit for this.

i just... i love battle network 5, and the microserver incident is so interesting to think about. i hope i can get people to look at it in a different light the next time they play.

[aroaceleovaldez]

just read the plot summary for Wrath of the Triple Goddess and. wow this is. painful this just sounds painful to read.

Why is Grover the incompetent inciting incident character? That is not his narrative role ever, really. That's like, the fanon conceptualization of his character where he's reduced down to comedic relief and nothing more. He's mostly exposition and support. Why not have the inciting incident be something about Annabeth's hubris - something that has gotten the gang into situations tons of times before in a way that doesn't put down any of the characters? Heck you could have even tied it into some Sea of Monsters stuff, like Circe having told Annabeth that she'd make a good sorceress. That'd be perfect for how this book literally just exists to be advertising for s2 of PJOTV. Or maybe call-back to Percy's introduction, where he talks about how he doesn't try to cause problems but problems tend to find him. Or use the established personalities of Hecate's animal companions from HoO, since we know they have attitudes. Just what are you even doing here????

[baking-cha05]

Dark cacao spare this dude

He just got defeated by an ancient he doesn't need to go through this again 😞

[aibouart]

is it puritan brain of me to be too afraid to share links/acc names for my NSFW content despite this being a SFW acc and me saying "no minors allowed" or is there a genuine problem w me sharing it on my SFW platform(s) (where I know minors can be around) cuz my art is SFW and stuff?? is it irresponsible of me to share knowing that they could see it, even if i preface saying i don't want them going there at all?? do i just let the accs find their own audience and people might find it's my stuff ?? cuz i don't know a way to let my adult audience know who might be interested without risking that

this is /gen btw idk if these thoughts are exaggerated and from purity culture or legit concerns, i struggle a lot w this even if it might seem obvious to people so please don't tell me i should just know ;__;b i want other's opinions on it so i can better inform my own.

is there another way to share w/o asking users to DM me cuz i think that's too involved and i'd rather just not mention it at all if i have to vet every person and make people DM me.......... too much work for something i update maybe once every 4 months at best.........

i have never shared the accs outside just DMing my friends abt it so i genuinely don't know what the general consensus is on sharing. please let me know..!! ;o;;b

i am not planning to share any of that content on here ofc, i won't be changing my SFW accounts to mixed content out of nowhere.

[lacquerheadd]

Next time you're bleedin' to death, just think: Dr. Zed!

[icewindandboringhorror]

I'm so heavily anti-advertising that all pitches sound goofy silly to me/I can never take them seriously, so I have no idea how I'll manage to to advertise my game even if I do finally finish it soon-ish lol...

[mossyflowers]

I can't do this anymore just take it. Take the ace combat art. I'm going to explode

[sage3m5]

Ay Sage should I go ahead and buy myself Great God Grove? How much do you recommend it?

Oh boy oh boy, i recommend it very much!!

I've been loving LimboLane's stuff since Smile 4 Me and this new game did NOT disappoint. More fun game mechanics and sick stylized art. Especially as a queer american artist, the game really speaks to my current struggles. Yknow: community, censorship, "faschy vibes" as one character puts it.... And also the characters r cute as hell and super funny :] What more could you want from a game.

[sanchoyoscribbles]

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(this is a silly craft I did back in october! I thought posting her for a fake black friday ad would be funny :3 she's about 6 inches tall! I have the full process of making her posted on kofi for members, if you'd like to see, the link to my kofi is in my pinned post ^_^)

[bleue-flora]

if a therapist came to the dsmp to treat the characthers they would need therapy after doing it probably

[context]

You and @piscespixiewastaken think alike it seems.

Indeed they would. In fact, this point actually pushed me to ask my sister-in-law, who is a therapist/counselor about it just out of curiosity. 

Here’s what I learned:

Despite what my counselor said, not all therapists were required in school to do counseling themselves to get certified. Some counselors have actually never even been to therapy themselves (not sure how I feel about that to be honest… not to deter people from going to therapy - please do if you are able) something my sister-in-law didn’t seem to be a big fan of.

When asked if she felt like she needed counseling after/because of a specific client she said that yes that can definitely be the case. She noted that empathy fatigue is often common after listening to people all day, which makes sense and that would be a common reason for some needed personal counseling. As expected, while she hasn’t had to deal with a lot of it, she did note that dealing with people with antisocial behavior disorders (ie narcissistic, histrionic… think sociopath disorders) can be especially taxing.

Given that the dsmp is a group of povs of the same story and events, I was curious on whether she often found herself taking sides when she does couples counseling. She said that there can be an initial bias at first when the base facts are presented to her, which is something she often has to check herself on, but that actually she finds that usually there is truth and wrongdoing on both sides and there is no true ‘bad guy.’ Though she did add that she has not dealt with any relationships involving more intense abuse especially relating to antisocial behavior disorders. In other words, the couples she sees likely came willingly and are sound enough in mind on both sides to want to fix the problems, if that makes sense.

So in other words, there are, much to my surprise, counselors who do not go (may not have gone) to therapy themselves, but that doesn’t make it healthy and considering the characters in the dsmp it would likely be recommended that this counselor also see someone. I will say though the implication that people in the dsmp are more problematic then real world people are is perhaps an underestimation of irl mental illness. Just because the dsmp members wear armor and carry around weapons doesn't make them more troublesome than people irl, though perhaps that is me viewing it from their world standards which I assume the therapist would be from. In either case, whether the therapist was from the realm of Minecraft world circumstances or more irl, I do imagine they being either inhumanly sane and not need a therapist of their own, or they get together with another therapist and perhaps drink over all the dsmp insanity. And whether they would be inclined to take sides I think is hard to say since there are definitely some characters who need a psych ward. Anyways… hope you enjoyed my info dump. :)

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Answering your tags in the children’s rights post, no, not where I attended school (US public school). I wasn’t even aware the UN made a document about it until now, which is unsurprising for the US but nonetheless aggravating

every day I learn something more horrifying about the US education system.

I'm pretty sure we read the children's rights when I was in grade 5 here in Australia? so I would've been 8 or 9 or so. I have no idea if this was standardised so really idk what I'm surprised about. but man that was something that built a foundation of autonomy for me as a kid that I could fall back on when I was scared... I have the right to safety. I have the right to xyz. seems important I think.

[borgeslabyrinth]

Am I having a fucking stroke????

[ultraphobic]

Vamp - The Rich Don't Rock (1989)

Please don't repost gifs anywhere without linking to original post thank you <3

[vimbry-moved]

I need to be careful not to cross the grouch horizon as I age, because I went shopping in town the other day and saw a store front that had "coming soon 👀" on it. like that actual emoji, and thought.... hg... and then a second later, I saw a food place that had a small screen to the side of it playing a tiktok of I guess someone making a burrito? or something there, and I just caught a caption of them messing it up or something that said "omg they're gonna judge me 😩" and thought hhhhuuughhh... and then I just laughed at my own responses bc like ok grandpa this is not that big a deal

[sonnet-of-anarchy]

I love the national consensus that inflation is hereby measured in Freddos, and all references to capitalist alterations or the modern stock market shall be made in accordance with a small, frog-shaped chocolate bar in the seventies.

[vonlipvig]

steam reccommendations are so funny. this is how i see suzerain, btw.