#but at least it’s broad daylight

[urhoneycombwitch]

oh god send help I’m watching a quiet place day one as a baby who can barely handle thrillers

[y-rhywbeth2]

Is anybody else occasionally weirded out by the lack of day-night cycle in BG3? I'm not complaining: it doesn't matter in the slightest, but the fact that time doesn't pass/there's no option to wander around the map in the dark just feels weird in some way. Maybe I'm just used to having them in games.

[stargazerlillian]

Two nervous imps with some bad news to tell their boss. I sense third degree burns in their very near future.😬

(Don't tag as ship)

[lover-of-mine]

Okay, but I've been thinking about this post and all the ways the lightning is for Eddie what the wells was for Buck but right now is downing on me just how similar the circumstances are. It's just a regular old day on the job. Both Eddie and Buck volunteered in to the rescue. Buck has Eddie's line on the well and Eddie has Buck's during that fire. The literal rain at night aspect of it all. The danger being triggered by lightning. The team as audience. The lack of care about their own well-being while trying to reach the other. The way they are both screaming the other's name as they do something that's totally not the logical thing to do at that moment, since there's no way Buck can dig enough to get to Eddie by hand and there's no way Eddie can defy gravity and pull Buck up to him. The helplessness of the way that both of them have to let someone else do something, with Eddie having to lower Buck to Bobby and Buck accepting he needs to wait and use the help of the rest of the LAFD to find Eddie. There's also things like Eddie being the first thing Buck remembers in the coma dream and Buck being in the first memory in Eddie's I need to keep fighting montage. There's also this. The helpless look while Bobby screams out instructions.

And we know the well is pivotal for Eddie in the whole buddie of things since the well triggers the will so Eddie figured something out down there and Buck has to learn something with the lightning as well, so patterns? Maybe?

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

What about Coppernob ships? (Unless it's a spoiler)

There’s nothing to spoil. So far I have no plans to ever ship Coppernob with anyone. 

And engine relationships do exist in the Bird universe – which is not a given in my fics, lol. But Nobby will never ‘get’ this sort of thing. It’s a character arc for him that he becomes less condemnatory and more understanding about others ‘aping human affections’ (this is similar to all his internalized good-engines-don’t bullshit about naming yourself, too). Some of his attitude is because that’s what he was taught, but I also think he’s slow to move beyond it because he’s naturally the vehicular equivalent of acearo. He loves others deeply; that’s the whole series! Just… not in these kind of ways. 

If this does ever change, it will probably be because when I get around to writing his fiercely explosive relationship with Mars – F.R. 44, ex-W.&.F.J.R. 3 (this was back in the 1860s-1880s) – I find that it just runs away with me and turns into “what’s gayer, being gay or whatever these two have going on.” 

[ebbpettier]

i don't believe in the fandom concept of problematic faves (all characters should have at least one Problem, i think, for flavor) but if i did, fiona pitch would have a permanent throne at the very top of my list. i just think she's neato-cheetos.

[transingthoseformers]

segue from a rant on main but

Grimlock being a dinobot in rid15 and basically having to stay completely out of sight of humans was insane. His altmode is inherently slower and more obvious, meaning he legitimately had to stay on base or be directly groundbridged to places in the earlier episodes. Eventually they built him this super unwieldy looking vehicle disguise, but I'm fairly sure one of the others had to tow him behind him (not to mention that if it was a more realistic show this'd be noticed by people immediately. This wayyy puts him in less control of where he can go and how it means he has to heavily rely on the others to get him places. The show likes to play him off as the "slow and dumb one", but seriously it's another part of rid15 that rubs me the wrong way.

[snapbackslide]

ramen dinner with the girls tonight 🤩❤️‍🔥

[mylittleredgirl]

finished season two of twin peaks tonight in the rewatch and it’s still as haunting and inconclusive and bizarre as ever. thanks mr lynch!! how’s annie………… 🪥

[martensite-triangulation]

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[pizzazz-party]

QUESTION inspector ishida is a little old man and it is very possible that the Tokugawa shogunate is less than ten years old present day. So we are only about ten years out of the constant warfare of the Sengoku period. What was Ishida doing during the Sengoku wars.

[airlock]

y'know, I've been hearing about the new Zelda's $70 pricetag a lot -- but I've also been enduring a rough patch at uni, so I haven't been able to do any of the thinking or researching that I'd want to do before throwing my lot in there. regardless, there are two... fragments of points that I've had bouncing around in my head for a while, and I never see anyone getting close to them, so I figured I might as well lob them out to the internet to see if they'll bounce around enough to inspire some completed thoughts in anyone

the first thing: while Nintendo was the one that decided to take the first shot here and now, with a very highly anticipated title in one of its absolute flagship franchises, the matter of fact is that bumping up the Standard AAA Game Pricetag -- and to $70 exactly, even -- has been a talk in the industry for many, many years now. it's not a coincidence, or even just the industry's typical unparodiably vulture-like behavior, that as soon as Nintendo took the first shot, other studios were tripping over themselves to pin their next big releases at $70 as well.

(if you ask someone speaking for the studios, they'll probably tell you that $60 has been a downright generous pricetag for a long while now given how much production costs have soared in that time, and even $70 is still a steal all things considered. a less charitable point of view would invite you to consider why production costs are increasing so much anyway, despite that consumer satisfaction has long stopped increasing proportionally to that metric. is it an oversight, or a decision in the service of someone besides the consumer? that's not a rhetoric question, incidentally -- I did say these aren't finished thoughts.)

the second thing: first worlders have been much worried about what a price hike in games would mean for children, and to that I say: you may have more insight on the present situation if you look to countries where this sort of thing already has or still does happen.

I can say at the very least that, for a solid while here in Brazil -- that solid while having peaked around the 00s -- economic factors made the seemingly reasonable pricetag worldwide an oft-unthinkable one for most consumers (and the few that could actually afford videogames straight-up were still a stingy lot regardless). and what we did about it was... rampant piracy. and I don't just mean downloading shit, I mean that parents were buying their kids the sketchiest disks you can imagine to pop into their PS2s at home that probably weren't 100% the legit article either. owning a completely legitimate copy of any game was seen as some sort of Collector's Edition kind of rarity, even. anyway, I'm not exactly making predictions about how your first-world markets are going to adapt when/if videogames seriously slip out of the average consumer's grasp -- again, unfinished thoughts here -- but if you've been thinking about it, then this kind of thing may be worth studying up on.

[biblicalhorror]

Watching the l word for the first time and it is genuinely stressing me out how bad Jenny is at having an affair

[solradguy]

jesus that sol is pasty as hell, da fuq. he's not the same shade as Ram but I swear whatever plushie fabric japanese manufacterers use has only two tones for skin ever, no in between or darker, common problem I see in a lot of merch 😔

Yeah... The Sol nui doll they did previously is pale as hell too. I think it actually uses the same fabric as the Ky doll's skin? They color-match the rest of their designs for the plushies really well so choosing a lighter color fabric for the skin is definitely a deliberate choice...

[chaiaurchaandni]

muslim graves vandalized with swastika and star of david in germany

Muslim Cemetery Desecration: A Call to Combat Intolerance (bnn.network)

[dayplays]

Declawing is probably an illegal practice in the Sol Dimension.