#but i felt like being extra today

[cai-tan]

fairly certain it's real? and fighting game combos have never really been like what you've said?

In standard combo notation, numbers are used to denote control stick positions (because old arcade fighting games don't have analog control sticks, they're switch-based, meaning they only read semi-cardinal directions), and are based off of a keyboard's number pad: 2 is down, 6 is forward, 4 is back, 3 is both down and forward, etc.

Also button inputs are kind of on a per-game basis, usually going off of whatever official documentation the game has; Guilty Gear has [P]unch, [K]ick, [S]lash, and [H]eavy Slash, as well as [D]ust. Anything that involves putting a number next to a button involves pressing that button while the control stick is in that position (think Smash tilts; 6P is just "forward tilt Punch").

However, special attacks are done with "motions", which is a sequence of control stick positions, otherwise annotated by the motion: quarter-circle back (214), half-circle forward (41236), etc. so 41236S is Zato's Shadow Gallery attack (I think???)

I can't actually tell you what -H- or -D- means off the top of my head since GG isn't my realm (more Street Fighter and Under Night) though I could guess it's a hold-input? (usually in UNI we'd annotate it 5[H] )

There's additional denotations for different versions of an attack that's usually a lowercase letter and a period; j.5H would mean "jumping" neutral Heavy, c.2P would be "close" crouching Punch (sometimes attacks are different depending on how close you are to the opponent), etc.

The IAD part is annotating an Instant Air Dash, a motion used in Guilty Gear to very easily perform an "air dash" while also performing another motion or attack at the same time. FRC is probably referring to a type of cancel, probably Roman Cancel, but again I've never gotten into the GG scene all that much.

inb4 you yell nerd at me YEAH I AM ONE CRY ABOUT IT

i play exclusively zato in every guilty gear game but like dont ask me combo shit. i dont know what most zato players are even doing there.

what is this. you are making shit up thisis not real.

[aerequets]

trying to erase the trace of...

[moveslikekeithrichards]

its so hard to talk about how traumatic it is to watch somebody be claimed by dementia without going "well i cant complain because at least i wasnt the one losing my mind (for now)" but that shit fucks you up so much. that ghost is going to haunt me for the rest of my life and all i can do is hope it Stays a ghost

[alagaisia]

Hey if you’re still enjoying and engaging with Harry Potter in any capacity you can unfollow me 😊 please and thank you

Like. I get it. I was super into it as a kid too. I did not have the social context to pick up on the antisemitism or transphobia or sexism or fatphobia or bioessentialism or racism or anything else. I also picked up on surface-level language of Fighting Back Against Evil and ascribed my own values onto what that meant and thought we were all on the same page. I remember when the original kids who grew up with the books started becoming adult fans and picking up on the (blatant!) antisemitism and everybody was still mostly willing to give JKR the benefit of the doubt on it. (“She was writing kids books!” They said. “She didn’t know she was penning a global phenomenon! She picked a common literary trend in European fairy tales (antisemitic caricature) and didn’t examine it closely. It’s a mistake anyone could make,” we said. “She would probably do things differently now. After all, she word-of-god confirmed the vaguest hints she dropped that Dumbledore might be gay,” we said.) There was actually a span of several years where biases inherent in the actual real content of the Harry Potter series were coming to light and even the people pointing them out still seemed mostly to think it was an unfortunate accident.

That time has passed. Years ago! We are long past the first months of “maybe she doesn’t realize this seemingly-feminist tweet she liked was made by a noted TERF” and then “how could she not realize that these many veiled TERF-y things she’s retweeted have implications for the many queer fans of her work” and finally “oh wow okay JKR just dropped an entire transphobic manifesto on twitter. I guess the transphobia was the point.”

Yeah, there were a few months after that where people were still processing and still working through how they felt about Harry Potter and all of its flaws with the context of the now open transphobia of the creator. I was there for that. Remember how I was one of the kids who built it up into something noble and worthwhile based on my own beliefs about what messages it was probably trying to convey? Turns out it wasn’t trying to say any of those things, and when you take the time to examine all of the terrible shit that made its way into the text whether JKR intended it to be there or not, the whole series falls apart. It’s weird to discover that there’s a room in your house that’s rotten to the core, but eventually you figure out you can’t live like that, still going in there and holding your nose and pretending it’s still the same room you thought it was when the termites were only inside of the walls and hadn’t yet started chewing their way through the furniture. Because what’s going to happen is that they are going to infest the rest of your house. If you decide you can ignore transphobia and antisemitism and everything else just because you liked the color of the wallpaper, the rest of your principles are going to crumble too. You get rid of that fucking room. You put those books on a high shelf in the back of your closet behind other outgrown clothes and interests and you move the fuck on.

JKR uses the money made from her transphobic antisemitic children’s books to actively funding hate groups and to lobby for legislation that will and has actually affected the actual lives of trans people in an entire country. We are past the point of grieving something you were wrong about in childhood. Kids are wrong about a lot of stuff. You grow up and you learn new information and you change your behaviors based on it. You have to choose. It is transphobic to pretend there is not transphobia where there is. It is transphobic to support the work of someone who is using those funds to take rights from trans people with every fucking dollar. It is hateful to continue to engage positively with a story that at its very core is rooted in hate and bigotry and prejudice. You can choose to do all of those things but you cannot claim ignorance of them and you cannot choose those things and still pretend that choosing them upholds the values we convinced ourselves that Harry Potter stood for over a decade ago as uninformed children. You cannot choose to do those things and pretend to still support your trans and queer and Jewish neighbors. I do not want you in my neighborhood. Leave.

[bigweldindustries]

got my hands on a flac file of pendulum's napalm and am listening to it through the entirety of my personal hifi system and I could cry and/or bust the fattest fucking nut rn

[theartinmyheart]

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[letbuckfuck]

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[novelmonger]

I feel like all of my time is being stolen away these days because we're remodeling the bathrooms. It doesn't actually require much of me at all, but somehow just having workers in the house and not always knowing where they're going to be and when makes me feel on edge all day. And somehow that precludes me from getting anything done, apparently.

Anyway, I've gotten to chapter 12 of 35 in my punctuation textbook. I was planning to put in a few solid hours of work today, but I didn't do any at all, and I'm not entirely sure why. Feeling rather discouraged, even though a large chunk of the time I spent not doing homework was spent on writing and brainstorming, so it's not like I wasn't being productive. Just productive in a different area than I was expecting. And everything seems to take five times longer than I realize it will.

[perilegs]

ok but has a man ever told you you have a dainty rook piercing area? i don't think so 😌

[fappellmoan]

guys i really dont think i have it in me today.

[halinski]

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[krynutsreal]

one day when I get the confidence I will draw myself with mondo except it will not have the same energy as the drawing I did with taka and I

[gatheryepens]

Week 2 of exams done one more week babyyyy ;)

[orcelito]

Aw fuck I just remembered everything that happened at work today

I better get a DAMNNNN good raise after all this lmao

[bunnyb34r]

Having a cranky day and it's making me crankier that I dont know what's causing it