#anonymous evaluation

[dailyhatsune]

im going around tumblr saying what I think people's artstyle tastes like

yours tastes like when you eat a bag of Skittles all at once i love it

-👾

in all seriousness, though, i’m positively fascinated by that description, thank you very much

[momo-de-avis]

People who work in a more corporate setting: how ethical is it for Human Resources to send out a questionnaire to workers who are not contracted and are in fact freelance, that is a self-evaluation questionnarie but also an evaluation of all of your colleagues, INCLUDING your superiors, and the questionnaire in question is not anonymous, and in fact not only do you have to put your email in, you have to put your name? Like, please tell me I am not fucking insane and this is extremely unethical and prone to create a horrific work environment

[kafus]

hi I have a question thats kind of general in terms of gaming. Mastering mechanics or maxing some if not all aspects of certain games is pretty enjoyable to me and obviously I appreciate that about some of the stuff you do, my question is on whether you think mastery most readily comes from actually using guides and online references or people who just do and explore every crevice of everything themselves. I had like a two hour convo with a friend but she couldnt really figure out an answer!

aw i appreciate it lol

tbh i don’t think i can say either way though because… i think both are required, usually? it does also depend on the game some i think, but like, for example i literally only play pokemon pretty much, and it would be ludicrous to re-document everything about pokemon myself, figure out everything about pokemon myself. sites like bulbapedia exist for a reason. that would essentially require the ability to read assembly and do software decomp to be considered a “master” of the game or a mechanic in it, which i just don’t think is reasonable! and knowing how to efficiently find & understand information about niche mechanics online is part of the skill, i think

that being said, reading guides online cannot replace hands-on experience and self-research. obviously if you want to master something you have to actually do it and that’s no different with video games. i think generally if you are really experienced with a game and playing it enough to be considered in some way a “master” of it you will naturally learn more about it or discover new things about it by playing it, including stuff which may not even be easily reference-able online

this ask makes me think of speedrunning and how popular speedgames have community resources and guides, but then when someone gets really acquainted with a speedrun, they may discover new routes or glitches on their own. this is basically how i feel about the topic in general including outside of speedrunning lol

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

Don’t feel like you have to answer this but are you autistic?

Not that I’m aware of :D I do have ADHD though

[the-nysh]

Maybe it's because they're closer in the manga, but I feel that Saitama is more regretful with himself than pissed off with Genos. We didnt' see his face when he kicked Genos out and we didn't see it either in this chapter when he believes that he has nothing to teach Genos. I think since the MA, but specially after the "glowing" spar, he feels kinda bad for not being a good sensei.

Referring to this part in the new chapter? Where Saitama's drawn with his back turned to us?

Even in the wc (where the paneling's similar) I didn't get the impression he was pissed at Genos really, perhaps more upset at the disruptive to downright destructive lengths Genos will go for his sake--still undeterred to remain Very Close by his side (in this case, rudely stealing his neighbor's apartment) when Saitama believes going that far isn't necessary for what little he can offer him in return. :') Perhaps he regrets how it's escalated to this point of no return, while both struggling (failing) to set personal barriers AND for not knowing how best to help Genos... (He definitely felt bad when he noticed Genos feeling down and failed to communicate any proper 'sensei' encouragement.)

If anything, Saitama was getting more pissed at King this ch for effortlessly wiping the floor with him while simultaneously lamenting his own powerlessness + lack of options (as if Saitama's efforts to improve at gaming were getting dismissed as worthless here, and yet, Saitama didn't realize he was kinda dismissing King's real-world efforts to improve with such a flippant 'solution' in response...I had hoped he'd be more receptive to King's problem in the manga, but it seems 'lifting weights' is still the only advice he can say to friends and visiting acquaintances alike...)

But Saitama's dilemma honestly felt like it paralleled King's situation this ch--where both of them feel stuck and unqualified in a role with such high idolized expectations of them (ie falsely being seen as an amazing teacher or strongest superhero), when they believe they have nothing else of value (with no other option) they can offer. In Saitama's case we know there's more he can teach, and already has taught Genos, that goes beyond the realm he thinks he knows. (For example: temperance, humanity, self-preservation, strengthening of the heart.) And in King's case there's more he can do, and already has done as a hero, that goes beyond the realm of becoming physically stronger. (For example: all his bravery to escort or intervene to save lives, from children to fellow heroes to even Garou at the end of his arc - yes I definitely count it as King stepping in and using his reputation to do the right thing!) But alas, does either character even realize this or know what they've already done? welp...

But the biggest thing - if Saitama didn't like Genos or wanted to cut him out of his life entirely, then we would know, the same way he slams the door in the faces of unwanted visitors. (Surprise: not Flash this time as in the wc, but Fubuki.) The difference is that Saitama is still expectant to welcome Genos into his life (literally, his home), and still wants to do activities with him, so that's pretty significant. Even if he feels horribly unfit to be a teacher for him (after all, muscle training is useless to a cyborg) and regrets how he can't help him the way Genos wants, feeling wholly inadequate to match his earnest expectations and seriousness about this.

But you know, somehow I feel...beyond struggling to be a better 'sensei,' what Saitama really values (and prefers) is his companionship, but struggles how best to communicate that (or how to define what he actually wants) with him beyond their usual set routine. Cause he's tried to set more normal 'personal space' boundaries, and it's not like he's said he doesn't want to be his sensei anymore at all either--even privately to himself, and yet...if Saitama didn't feel bound by the roles they've already established, then what other meaningful (or casual) interactions, towards even a different type of relationship, could he gain beyond that instead? Saitama probably hasn't even considered his other options with Genos or worked it out that far yet...

[klanced]

I see where you're coming from, but also blorbo is different to everyone and we all had different experiences. I was in voltron but pidge was my blorbo, not lance, so I rarely saw him. And then I saw Yuuri everywhere whether I wanted to or not. Also, polls are not about accuracy, as much as we might think they should be. Life is a popularity contest. 🩵💙🩵💙🩵

my blorbo rankings contain multitudes. however, i am cognizant enough to recognize two things:

while lance is not my specific blorboest blorbo, i still rank him to be a more iconic blorbo than yuri. and so my vote for lance is still valid.

this poll is about most iconic blorbo. i like keith and allura more than i like lance, but i firmly believe that lance is voltron's most iconic character. i define "iconic" based on the following criteria: a) canon material; b) fandom experience and reaction; and c) impact on outsiders (the "did i see this character everywhere" standard). i heavily value points in the (b) category over points for (a) and (c).

lance's canon material sucks ass. however, the fandom's ability to 1) go crazy over lance anyway, and then 2) ability to extrapolate so heavily, insist on digging so deeply, and create so genuinely is impressive to me. and also incredibly hilarious. this is why i made the toxic iconity argument: i deeply respect the daily battles lance stans fought, both between themselves/the wider voltron fandom, and the constant enduring sisyphus-level uphill battle against the quality of the canon material. lance stans were able to create everything out of veritable nothingness, and i believe that deserves to be commemorated.

[shaanks]

Ohhh why are you mad at Kid? 👀

its not like super serious lajkdfjas it's more like I took a step back into another blorbo's direction and it immediately illuminated like. six compounding things that I found mildly annoying PLUS my brain is for some reason giving him the ex-boyfriend treatment when it does not normally do that on the blorbo rotation lmfaooo

part of it is also like. and I've talked this through in reply threads before and I can concede that some of it is like. Oda needed a way to fridge a couple people and this wasn't the most well-thought-out character moment of all time, but lemme jump under the cut in case of spoilers for the egghead arc for people--

it gets on my nerves that he clearly went through the like 'think things through, choose your steps more carefully, needing help is not a sin, there ARE bigger fish than you out there and pretending there aren't almost got your whole crew killed, revisit point B' character development arc in Wano, and then left Wano and just immediately retconned all that progress and was like. What if I blow up my life and the lives of the people I'm responsible for by trying to aggravate Shanks into killing me again.

Plus--and this is a smaller quibble but it gets on my nerves--he purposefully targets Shanks' subordinate crews with a nuke and he's soooooooooooo giddy and pleased with himself when he thinks he's gonna blow up a bunch of people he knows aren't in his league, all while yelling for Shanks to do something if he dares, and then the second Shanks actually shows up Kid is like DDDDD8 AKAGAMI?!!!?!?! as if he is. Shocked. That trying to kill the people Shanks protects and calling him out actually resulted in a consequence.

I think some of the tl;dr is that I find it especially offensive when people who clearly aren't stupid refuse to learn and act stupid anyway. so he's in blorbo time out with me right now lmfao.

[veliseraptor]

Min Rand?

my original otp!!! ship it

What made you ship it? I think I've talked about this before, but I feel like it's the way in which they feel like they're friends first and foremost. despite the whole ~destined to fall in love~ thing, that feels like more of a choice on both their parts, and while Robert Jordan's writing of romantic relationships sometimes suffers from a lack of development (or a certain tell not show development), he writes friendships very well.

What are your favorite things about the ship? sort of see the above! but I think, yeah, the playfulness of their relationship - by the time min really rolls into rand's life midway through the series, that's something rand is sorely in need of, and min really brings that. and just...they like each other, not just love each other, if that makes sense.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? I don't think this is an unpopular opinion among people who do ship the pairing but more in fandom in general - I feel like there's a lot of "min is just a sexy lamp and doesn't exist as a person outside of her relationship with rand" stuff that goes around, and while it is true that min's character arc does in large part revolve around her relationship with rand I don't think that actually makes her by necessity a weak character without personality of her own.

[whiskey-tango-matcha]

gonna be really honest, im having a bit of a crisis bc of that post that's like oh how do you incorporate yourself into your ocs bc like idk if my ocs are anything like me!!! i don't know who i am!!! not sure im even really a person???

[danthropologie]

also the way helmut is now backtracking the same way he did in AD when he confirmed daniel as a third driver way too early. being all like it's just a bit of testing nothing more basically saying who said it was more when there is literal footage of him saying exactly that 💀

get this man away from the microphones oh my GOD 😭

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[dwtdog]

WAIT DO THEY?? sylvee is a maybe but also bad? oh poor bad if so oof. but yeah they also invited literally uhm itszander the one who makes constant lies about dteam like bad ones. and a bunch of others like that so yeah it will go so well! especially since so many youtubers are going (no one's going because of twitchcon right afterwards which i think will also have no one)

-🐓

twitchcon at least is having like an official minecraft sponsored mcc which looks kind of cool :0 but vidcon is erm. having an anime panel with sapnap on it 🙂‍↕️

[obstinaterixatrix]

🤝 intern woes solidarity. We had one start last week who clearly does not want to be here—doesn't give feedback on what she wants to learn from the experience, doesn't try to engage with the process or ask questions, is just around to get credit for her program. Which, if she wants to waste her time fine I guess, but she Also is straight up afraid of our clients (I work at a homeless shelter) and it's like?? Girl why are you here learning nothing and making our clients uncomfortable. Either treat this learning opportunity as valuable or make someone else babysit you

YIKES!!!!!!! YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S NOT EVEN GIVING NET ZERO GIRL YOU ARE MAKING IT WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am holding your hand.

[leofrith]

Even if its not eternal we will be remembered after our death. Idk if it helps you, it comforts me personally, I hope you too, ceasing to exist isn't so scary when I think about the repercussions of my life carrying on even if I don't exist anymore

what if you're unlikely to be remembered for anything and your life has been nothing but a series of disasters that were ultimately meaningless. 🧍🏻‍♀️

[theduchessofnaxos]

This paper is actually going quite well.

Too bad it's complete bullshit.

[synesindri]

i wish i could say something more intelligent and insightful other than i 100% agree, and would also like to add that collins gives huge bumper from pitch perfect vibes when he's not running around suicidally depressed. looking forward to ur essay tho!! <3

omg. LOVE that comparison. maybe i should also rewatch pitch perfect!!!

tbh i am not certain that i am looking forward to my own essay but i appreciate the vote of confidence <3

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