#anyways some exp!! ->

[sitizelter]

La fin d'une époque.

[moeblob]

I love Chris so much you guys.

[driftingballoons]

Hey man good for you

[wackywatchdotcom]

something about ragatha since that post has been a hit is the fact that i do really think like 70%+ of her day is just.... filled with compulsions

like. people pleasing doesnt necessarily have to come from ocd but w the way i read her its related. that she is very obsessed with people liking her and will do as many Nice things as she can reasonably do or else theyre gonna HATE her. that shes concerned abt their safety so shes gonna keep an eye on anyone she can because what if smth bad happens and its too much for them to handle???

and i think these two obsessions are also interconnected (i need people to like me, i need people to be safe, if im around people i can make sure theyre ok, if they like me i can keep them safe, if theyre alive then i can make sure they dont hate me, if they dont hate me then i can keep them from abstracting, etc) (add some moral ocd in there too she feels like she has that. and more!)

and w reassurance seeking? ragatha is absolutely like. notttttt good at avoiding it. and bc cast members seem to be a little put off by the way she ALREADY checks in on them i geeet the feeling that the way she seeks reassurance is like. she knows how to covertly seek reassurance

[filet-o-feelings]

What is the worst food texture and why does it have to be yogurt?

[setaflow]

My DM from my D&D group has been working overtime trying to get me to watch Fantasy High from Dropout saying it was really good and a great way to watch a streamed D&D campaign, and I've been putting it off this whole time because I have the loosest attention span for streamed D&D campaigns. Unfortunately literally nothing in the world is more boring to me than watching a bunch of people sit around a table and talk if I'm not an active participant in the conversation ya girl needs visuals.

But earlier this week I started a new crochet project and wanted something in the background, so I said "fuck it"-- I put it on my TV and listened/watched while I worked.

I'll give my DM credit. Fantasy High absolutely does fucking slap. I'm kinda kicking myself for not trying it out earlier lmao.

[crest-of-gautier]

got the badges for gone fission evp 400 + evp 600 yesterday! .52 gal, l-3 nozzlenose, dread wringer, and squiffer make for quite the synergistic team!

my peak was EVP 810 (appx 300-310% HL). my high score of 151 eggs was obtained somewhere in evp 300...? i'm pretty satisfied with how it went, even if i didn't get HLM or 9s.

some thoughts/reflections on good freelancing teams/traits to develop when trying to rank up in evp under the cut:

i think grinding this rotation was pretty fun- all of the weapons have excellent mobility and i think they cover for each other really well! the l-3 was not my favorite weapon going into it but i think i really enjoyed the accuracy and mobility of it, so it's a bit more favorable for me now :)

i ended up reaching a skill wall in EVP 760-780 where i could not get past wave 2 or 3 (usually for quota related reasons, the quota is BRUTAL! we'd miss it by like 4-5 ish... ofc this partially relates to how well bosses are handled).

the grind for evp was a mix of freelance and grouping up (freelance for 230 -> 440s, grouping up for 440 - 750~, and then testing myself in freelance for that last bit).

i enjoyed the bits of freelance i did, and from my playtime i think these were some of the key traits/practices that indicate "good salmon run skills" to me:

players that know their weapons role(s) and target the appropriate salmonid (but also being willing to break that when priority targets haven't been taken care of)

knowing when a teammate needs help (with a boss or being revived) or when the teammate has a situation under control (e.g. someone's already on the fishstick, you can do something else)

proactive use of specials when problem targets appear, preferably with no overlap (e.g. tri-strike and inkjet activated on the same flyfishes is not the best)

using specials like booyah bomb, triple splashdown, and reefslider to clear basket area in the last 30 seconds to help eggs get in (especially important past evp 600)

teams that paint the walls first thing (especially whoever had the dread wringer). all interior walls for fission can be painted within the first 10 seconds imo

forwarding eggs closer to the basket after splatting static bosses (throwing one egg, and then swimming up with one)

players with good judgment; knowing when to lure (mostly for initial boss spawns), and knowing when to leave the big shot cannon

being able to figure out which directions snatchers come from and what eggs they can help you collect

i think these practices all stem from having good awareness and being able to collect information about the shift. it helps with making snappy quick-fire decisions, and it just gets more important the higher up in EVP you go. camera positioning/control is essential for this (you can't figure out where bosses/teammates are if your back is turned to them).

for me, every 7-10 seconds, i like to rotate my camera around to the opposite side of where i'm currently looking to make sure there isn't any bosses i'm missing. i'm hardly in one place longer than 5-10 seconds and i try to always be on the move. the spawn direction where salmonids come from are always changing, so it's essential to rotate around the map proactively rather than reactively. i think this also helps a lot with shotcalling in groups too (since you can be someone else's pair of eyes).

other than boss spawns/teammate locations (for revives), i think it's also important to notice when certain bosses haven't been taken care of for prolonged periods of time too, so that a special can be popped. to me it's usually a sign that someone whose ill equipped to deal with that boss has been forced to deal with them because the people with the "right" weapon are focused on something else... (no fault to them, of course, everyone has different priorities and you can't always communicate clearly in freelance)

in situations where squiffers were chased by a pack of scrappers, perhaps a booyah bomb or splashdown can be popped to help if you don't have the time to stun and splat them manually. maybe the fish sticks were left unattended by the shooters, so a triple inkstrike or a crab/inkjet shot can help clear them out.

awareness also extends to meeting quota, which imo involves paying attention to the timer + where eggs are located. i find that it's nice to check in with the timer/quota at 50s and 30s respectively so that you can start forwarding eggs closer to basket. and when everyone's going crazy about quota not being met i try to make sure i'm not overstepping anyone else's egg pile so that no one goes "wait no thats the egg that i wanted to pick up fuck i have to go back and get a different one."

i think this is why sometimes playing in groups is easier. if you have more sets of eyes that you can communicate with, it alleviates the need to have awareness of "everything" (provided that you can comms effectively). someone can be attuned to different things (e.g. my friend always tells us where snatchers come from and if they're good, i'm personally attuned to where people need to be revived, etc.). you also know what specials you have access to, unlike in freelance where you're not sure what others have until they use them.

the other part of completing shifts successfully (to me) is being mechanically sound with your movement, mostly in regards to how you use the terrain (walls) to get around the map and escape situations. the more you play a map the more you'll figure out how you can move around on it.

some examples, using the location callouts from salmonrun.ink: there were a few times i'd go on the harbor but i could escape any salmonids in the bridge area by climbing the walls there and squidrolling out as needed. sometimes on high tide i would swim from the perch to the left plat.

sub-strafing is also good to know too, especially when you want to rapidly collect the basket eggs at the end. i still need to integrate it into other parts of my gameplay, but it's helpful!

uh. this was way longer than intended because i have WAY too many thoughts about salmon run. TL;DR: The key to succeeding your shifts is having good awareness which comes from good information collecting practices, and having the mechanical skill to act on that awareness without hesitation.

there's definitely a lot that goes on in sensory overload the game™, so it will take time to build these muscles and reaction times. i think while at every rank of salmon run you may face a wall of "i'm overwhelmed by the bosses," the exact fix needed to get past it usually varies, so it's important to figure out what information you were missing or what actions you could've taken (more efficient movement or special usage, usually).

or if you're struggling with quota, try to practice forwarding eggs or take a look where snatchers come from (even if people splat them, it's still a good practice 2 develop for later evp. source: i don't fucking do it and it's biting me in the ass)

and most importantly, recognize when you're in the midst of a loss streak/skill wall, so that you can take a break and focus on other things that energize you! even if there's a certain goal you want to meet, grinding for higher levels of EVP and getting better at the game can be a very exhausting process. you can always come back to the grind later, whether if it's after a 30 minute break, or just a different rotation!

[soft-serve-soymilk]

WE DID IT GUYS I beat my first pokemon game!! I can add it to my list of series I’ve played now <3

It was the world’s MOST clutch victory at the final boss. 0 healing items, 4 fainted pokemon, Coconut the Chandelure clinging on for dear life and my beloved Archeops newly revived at 50% HP.

I tried acrobatics because it has never failed me ever, and there was just a SLIVER of red left on that health bar. Now, I knew I was fucked because lil Archie, being a flying type, is not exactly a great matchup against Eelektross. And with Defeatist….

Of course the eel was getting the STAB damage. With bated breath I contemplated if this was the end… but the RECOIL DAMAGE. THE RECOIL DID THE JOB 😭😂

And I won ✨

[felikatze]

oh wow i do NOT like conquest chapter 15. this map in revelations is much better for sure

[seraymerichateblog]

i made fun of this mercy saying she was like -1 teammate bc her positioning and prioritization sucked and she joined voice chat just to bitch at me then continued in text chat after her confidence or w/e ran out LOL babygirl your eboyfriend duo can’t carry your bad gamesense forever

[ev-n-learning]

I suspect my time with czech is coming to an end soon...

I have six and a half units to go, and with the dramatic decrease in unit content, it will probably only take me a few months to finish them! By the end of the year at most, but more than likely before then.

...sooo I need to pick a new dabble language from the list. And maybe resolve to finish it a bit faster than 1&¾ of a year, LOL. I have other things i wanna learn...!!

Anyways, there's 11 languages on the list and i don't think a single one of them is slavic, so it's gonna be a bit of a struggle no matter what i do, haha. Add in at least 4 new writing systems*...

*one of these is japanese and i still don't really want to learn it. Hmmmm.

[deep-sea-anemone]

Baby boy is Heeerrrreee!!

Happy birthday! It's his special day <3.

[junipaca]

sometimes I miss reading fic freely but I don’t miss liking one’s writing and then getting bombed with “what the fuck” when looking at one’s page yk? it’s a wish wash thing

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <3

[trans-yllz]

the tower: upheaval, disaster, chaos, trauma, change

anemone (petals): forsaken, withering hopes, sickness

jacobs ladder: rupture

marigolds (petals): funeral flower, grief, connection between life and death, sorrow

the tower is, notoriously, about upheaval. it is a life being turned upside down, crisis, trauma. and not only does wei wuxian's fall into the burial mounds visually mirror the traditional imagery of a person falling from a tower, but symbolically, that event is one of the most traumatic things to ever happen to wei wuxian. it absolutely uproots his life, to the point that after he emerges from the burial mounds, the whole show is almost a different genre. the loss of his core and the three months he spent in the burial mounds noticeably change his character more than any other event in the story, aside from maybe his resurrection

the depiction of his golden core in this card resembles how it looks in the hanged man as well as how it will look in the star and judgement. this card is not only referencing his golden core in how it exists as a gift, but also the way it dissipates. he's falling across the sky like a shooting star about to go out

I included golden core imagery in this card for two reasons: 1, the loss of wei wuxians golden core right before being thrown into the burial mounds is integral to the trauma of that experience, even tho the burial mounds itself has nothing to do with the loss of his core, its the experiences back to back that form such a disastrous event in his life, and 2, I truly believe that even if wei wuxian had not given his core to jiang cheng, it would have been taken by wen zhuliu regardless. being thrown into the burial mounds would have Always gone hand in hand with losing his core, regardless of how it was taken

the flowers/petals being positioned as sort of a halo around him further the imagery of rupture or explosion

xvi. the tower

id in alt / cql major arcana cards

[godblooded]

time to overwatch after I get rid of my fucking kitchen table that’s twelve times the size of my kitchen.