#and I haven't heard anyone talk about it

[ainsleys-weird-thoughts]

'You Signed Up For This' Maisie is so fucking amazing

"so many blank slates I could build a whole fucking house" (I'm trying (not friends))

"Yeah some people think I'm funny babe don't act so surprised" (I'm trying (not friends))

"It's not like I've been crying, no, there's just smoke in my eyes" (John Hughes movie)

"I'm crying and it's ruining my makeup" (outdoor pool)

"And you just kissed me once and nothing changed at all" (outdoor pool)

"Fell for you and got a bad concussion" (love him I don't)

The entirety of psycho

"When I told you you were funny I lied" (boy)

"I could be a grown up but you know what maybe I release this song instead" (boy)

[deanpinterester]

hello! i haven't seen anyone on my dash talk about Lebanon yet so i thought i'd bring it up in case there are those who don't know:

as of Sept 24th, more than 500 are killed and hundreds more are injured from airstrikes and bombings (CTV article linked here for further reading).

no doubt more info on how to help will come out (or probably already have) but for starters i've donated to Doctors Without Borders / Medicins Sans Frontieres (Canadian website linked but they're available in other countries as well) and hopefully anyone who is able can donate too.

[lafragolina]

just kill me

[demifiendcruithne]

today on digital devil saga 2 is criminally under-researched (aka crui is a nerd about a 20 year old game)

so i finally got the impulse/opportunity to test out something i've been suspecting for a while but have never seen any documentation on: dds2 has some form of STAB* mechanic with elemental spells for playable characters, based on their associated element (the one they resist + the one their unique gun combos use)

*for non-pokemon folk: STAB == same-type attack bonus. so for example, a chimecho (psychic type pokemon) using extrasensory (psychic type move) will deal more damage than a non-psychic-type pokemon with the same special attack against the same target

i have more tests i intend to make when i have spoons (i'm just grinding mantras for the superboss and noticed it while fighting wild narasimha because that hecker disables my berserker ring), but so far i've tested with my three active characters fulfilling the following:

are fighting the exact same narasimha who has no elemental weakness/resistance/etc (savestates were used and run multiple times; the rng is not fixed until a move is actually used, so i could get multiple data points quickly by making a new savestate every time i loaded it to advance the rng)

have 99 magic

are level 99

have no elemental boost or amp skills equipped

have no rings equipped that may affect damage, outside of boosting magic stat to 99 for consistency

use two different dynes; one of their associated element, and one not. the former consistently did more, and with repeated runs i cannot write it off as damage range.

under cut: many images; by virtue of being in endgame, these will have some spoilers for endgame in plain sight. if you're reading this and haven't gotten to the final dungeon, i highly recommend you go do that and come back later. once you've reached the final dungeon, you're safe to check it out.

(but seriously - i can't stop you, but i highly recommend actually. playing this game first. it's great)

if you're reading this, you've either gotten to the final dungeon or don't care about spoilers; in case of the latter, i'll do a quick explanation of our last party member momentarily. i have been a little misleading because they are. very much a BIG spoiler. but first - gale resists force, and does more damage with zandyne than bufudyne; likewise argilla with earth/teradyne/ziodyne.

(bufudyne was a random pick for gale because i had only five for omoikane reasons, but in hindsight it was a good one...)

now - for those unaware, this last party member's name is seraph. they're a fusion of two other party members both of said party members were associated with/resisted ice, and i'm near-certain that they also got the boost to bufu spells (i can check this at some point, i have a backup save right before endgame) the same way gale and argilla do.

but what's seraph's elemental affinities? no weaknesses, no resistances. so what does this mean here?

extra screenshots because the first agidyne was a high roll - literally the highest i've seen on a non-stab unboosted dyne against a narasimha. yet it's still clearly estranged from gale's zandyne and argilla's teradyne.

the other part? seraph's bufudyne does the same as gale's, and the same as argilla's ziodyne and their own agidyne, the same as expected without stab.

i'm not sure what else to say about this thus far besides putting a list of further tests to do eventually / get proper data for:

100s of attempts so it can be statistically analysed better. easy to code the data collection into seraph (my helper program, named after this seraph because. yeah), possibly more difficult to analyse but my partner got me into this game he can deal with the consequences (being asked to do data stuff) :v

including cielo and heat as well, probably after i beat satan and grind them up as a victory lap (in the mantras sense not the internment facility sense)

earlier save reloads for data for serph, sera, and roland - i doubt they'd be any different, but regardless

other elemental spells - both the basic and -la levels, the ma-s, the maxed out mantra ones, and the dances. is the boost approximately consistent?

does it affect combos? i believe it doesn't, same as amp skills and the like (and because i feel like i would have noticed by now), but will get data for both participants initiating

does it affect items? i feel like that's unlikely, but worth trying

is there a 'reverse-stab' for someone's weakness? i don't think so, but i'll get the data for free and if there's a trend i just got to test the ailment damagers for cielo

likewise, is the elemental boost innate like the gun combo elements? almost certainly. but it would be funny if equipping x resist made your x do more damage. and also not really that helpful?

does seraph get a boost on almighty? my first instinct would be yes, purely because of seraph's gun combo doing almighty damage; it's near-useless if you got reincarnate but still worth checking. and if so, does ragnarok behave differently from megido+/last word?

on that note, does seraph resist almighty? i... wouldn't be surprised - status only says no weakness, not no resistance, but almighty resistance tends to be invisible anyway (looking at you, devil survivor 2 that shows everything else) (you're fine just using as an example)

that would be a lot harder to test but if i get a party of seraph / someone with dragon ring / someone else with all maxed stats and just find something with megido+

anything else i might have forgotten

if you hack pyriphlegethon onto heat does it do more damage. i don't think i can test this one but i would. honestly be curious

but yeah. this is pretty cool, maybe i'll check for it in dds1 as well. if anyone else checks any of this out and makes a writeup or anything please ping me i have autistic hyperfocused on jrpg mechanics for over two decades :v

[endlessfuckup]

i can die happy knowing they've seen frozen

[tittyinfinity]

contemplating deleting my blog soon I might make a new blog but idk

[silentreigns]

Not even being dramatic when I say this is the 2nd worst gymnastics scandal after Sydney 2000. The FIG should be ASHAMED of themselves for their handling of this Olympics

[which-star]

Genuinely one of the best books I've had the pleasure to read this summer, loved the banter and silliness AND how the plot twists and turns. In many ways a generic adventure novel but in all ways a great read about platonic love. Give it up to The Witchstone by Henry H Neff everyone

[sarahlancashire]

made a new goodreads account bc i read we have always lived in the castle last night & i need to talk about it and also i want to get Better About Reading so anyway i figured now is a good time to share my external links, if anyone cares you can find me on:

goodreads: lisaswain

letterboxd: rosmullens

spotify

steam: bitchofthewilds

pinterest: withintheshadows

evil elon musk platform (twitter/ x/ whatever the fuck): sapphicpsych

[jamiesinverguenza]

[maddy-ferguson]

talking to new people again is making me realize that (this is gonna sound dramatic) i haven't lived in five years but what i have done is watch a lot of movies and read a bunch of books and believe it or not that actually makes me an interesting conversationalist in some ways (?)

[robindrake93]

AO3 elections are coming up (tomorrow). I have so much homework to do on the candidates tonight. 🫠

[mydaroga]

He was proud, pompous and a bit of a snob; very formal, with immaculate manners. Brian liked to think of himself as a perfect English gentleman. It was a matter of great regret to him that the Beatles received the MBE and he did not. He suffered strong mood swings, from charming and caring to cold and magisterial. He was frequently bad-tempered and temperamental, apologising profusely afterwards. Much of his erratic behaviour stemmed from his homosexuality, the cause of his guilt and insecurity. He spent most of his life concealing his sexual orientation, something that caused him a lot of pain. Homosexuality was illegal in Britain until 1967, the year of his death.

Barry Miles, Many Years From Now

So this is an example of Miles' obvious bias and homophobia coming on strong. Which isn't unlike many other straight male authors of his time. And I'm not saying Brian wasn't difficult at times, no one who loved him even says that. But my question is: how much is this Miles' opinion, and how much is Paul filtered through Miles? Either way, it's allowed to stand. Much like the later accusations of cheating them, which I've never actually seen any of the Beatles themselves level to this degree:

In the case of Lenmac Ltd, John and Paul did actually own the company outright with no outside percentages, but for the most part Brian's arrangements with the Beatles were very unfair, even by prevailing showbiz standards, and the Beatles had only agreed to them because they did not know any better. They had no legal advice on the matter. The expenses deducted from their share of their income were enormous, not least because Brian himself had very refined tastes in hotels, wine and food, all of which the Beatles paid for, not NEMS. By taking 25 per cent of the gross, Brian made at least twice as much as any individual Beatle, and probably a great deal more than that. This arrangement continued until Brian's death and even though he was an avid gambler, it is surprising that he left so little money when he died. It is known that he had Swiss bank accounts so it is possible that Beatles money is still sitting there, gathering interest.

[digitalcockroach]

anyways anybody know how to accept a disturbing truth about your life because you realized 20 years later something you thought almost nothing of at the time was in fact deeply fucked up

[purgefluidz]

7 + 28 + 38 for the ask game ^_^

7: I don't really listen to Drake (I'm a Kendrick guy) but I love Nice for What

28: I don't really have one solid aesthetic but I would say Dead of Night by Orville Peck or Age of Consent by New Order is pretty close!!!

38: EVERYONE GO LISTEN TO RILL RILL BY SLEIGH BELLS RIGHT NOW

[fudge24-7]

I have a confession to make, I had no idea what eurovision was before I learned about what's happening in palestine, am I the only one?