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In the big-con games the steps are these:
1. Locating and investigating a well-to-do victim. (Putting the mark up).
2. Gaining the victim's confidence. (Playing the con for him.)
3. Steering him to meet the insideman. (Roping the mark.)
4. Permitting the insideman to show him how he can make a large amount of money dishonestly. (Telling him the tale).
5. Allowing the victim to make a substantial profit. (Giving him the convincer.)
6. Determining exactly how much he will invest. (Giving him the breakdown.)
7. Sending him home for this amount of money (Putting him on the send.)
8. Playing him against the big store and fleecing him. (Taking off the touch.)
9. Getting him out of the way as quietly as possible. (Blowing him off.)
10. Forestalling action by the law. (Putting in the fix.)
-The Big Con, David W. Maurer
#There isn't really an interest in con games on here but#confidence games#con men#scams#The Big Con#swindlers#grifters
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this place is so fruity
#ive had this in my drafts for MONTHS#im not really that confident in how the pose looks so I settled on stopping here#I wish I got to see them interact more but it was so exciting to see Franziska being nicer and a little conscientious since the last game#i knw the main idea in the games is to help ppl we barely know and go thru all this trouble than just dismiss it bc we dont think#its worth the effort but theres also the way this shapes how characters interact and develop relationships with each other#even though i know maya and franziska are like strangers to each other given how theyve barely talked to each other in canon#using what the game tells me abt them and thinking abt how they would interact in a believable way than what they already have#is something i really appreciate abt the ace attorney series. in canon these guys only ever have a reason to interact bc of#circumstances that force them to. canon is a suggestion to me and if smth fanon feels believable to me i could not care less#aa#ace attorney#doodles#my art#myart#franmaya#maya fey#franziska von karma
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will is so fucking intelligent its actually insane. i never realized that he suspected seizure after his first case of sleep walking. immediately after that he's in hannibal kitchen theorizing about physical disease. its so heart breaking to see the way he feels so sure of the problem from the start but lacks the confidence to take action when his support system doesn't see eye to eye with him. how many times in his life has he known something with aching clarity, only to be denied by those around him that doubt, dislike, or infantilize him? 
#the confidence he gains in season 2+3 is such a fucking game changer#i once saw this beautiful hannibal edit that called clarice genius and will ''very smart'' and it pissed me off soooo bad😭😭😭😭#yes he is gifted and his disorder helps his understanding of other people but that man is amazingly book smart. dont play w me.............#ash is mentally ill#hannibal#hannibal nbc#hannibal s1#will graham#hannibal series#hannibal season 1#coquiles
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apollo’s confidence in court: oh my god i’m the worst lawyer ever my client is going to go to JAIL because i can’t even do my JOB
apollo’s confidence outside of court: i’m the only smart one here, i’m the most normal guy in the world and NO ONE is doing it like i am, investigations are EASY, klavier gavin wants me carnally
#ace attorney#apollo justice#klavier gavin#klapollo#ace attorney incorrect quotes#the last one isn’t even his confidence tbh it’s just a fact#he says it like he doesn’t ALSO want klavier gavin carnally though which he does#alternatively:#apollo at klavier in court: *sweats* he’s so hot and competent#apollo at klavier outside of court: um…hello….you are kind of really nice🥺👉👈#disgusting#im obsessed with them#preordered the new trilogy of three games i already own today😌#$60 of my very hard earned money right into that#and i cant even regret it im SO excited#all the extrassssss#PLEASE go look at the aa twitter account to see the art extras btw#they’re SO fun#apollo justice trilogy really being about 75% of my will to live rn
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congrats to zerxus ilerez for shooting back up to the top of the “exandria’s sexiest and most likely to fall for a pyramid scheme” ranks. liliana temult, please turn your sash and crown in at the podium.
#tlovm spoilers#critical role#pyramid scheme here meaning ‘confidence game playing on your hopes for the future#and relying on you perpetuating it on others in a self replicating style’#I’m not sure either of them would be up for a business based pyramid scheme they lack the entrepreneurial obsession
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strength and nobility
#this vignette lives in my head rent fucking free. it haunts me something abt it reworks my brain chemistry#its not even a diasom vignette but it HITS its sat w me since i first saw it early on in playing the game. it ruins me. theres AUGHH#theres something so palpable in the energy of it. the confidence mal has in him as the king of heartslabyul#bestowing the rose so he exudes the majesty he already holds within. the unwavering belief in saving the group and mal's guards#AUGHHHH MY BRAIN MY BRAIN!!!!!!! looking at riddle's journey thru book 1 and seeing this as the next step of his char? RUINS ME#sorry. imemotional#twst#twisted wonderland#malleus draconia#riddle rosehearts#mallerido#suntails
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Black Swan, upon peeking into her memories: Never mind- I'm outta here! Nope! Nope! Abort mission! Oh crap! Too much information!!!
Acheron: *enjoying dancing*
#cioccolatodorima#my drawings#anime#drawing#manga#game#hsr#honkai star rail#acheron#black swan#parody#jjk#fanart#shitpost#acheron really plucked off her feathers and cooked her#black swan was like lets poke and find out#she was so confident to be able to handle it. but got traumatized instead#anime style#im cackling because someone called it domain expansion infinite trauma on my post on twitter haha
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heres your highly requested fluff you fucking animals
#this is all youre getting now SCRAM. we're back to the socratic dialogues after this#anyway this whole game was about how family can be a hodge-podge of whatever you want idk why people keep nuclear-family-itising isafrin#im not accusing anyone of anything i just think its odd that we're not just immediately making that family unit 8 people big minimum#with zero deliniation between the roles shared between 'birth parents' and the other ones. just seems odd to draw those lines#mirabelle isabeau and loop fight for the title of mother: GO#anyway claps my hands together these are the extents of my thoughts here i dont do fankids thats too far into the future for me.#way too many variables. cant extrapolate shit. aint my wheelhouse. this is just here for the joke that loop is a walking baby sensory video#isiloop#sloopis#isat#isat spoilers#isat loop#isat siffrin#isat isabeau#doodlebyte#i think so confidently calling loop a sensitive insecure fucker gets to merit the spoilers tag. and also idk man it just feels it in nature
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(breathing into a paper bag) FRALIO....
can't believe they gave us another guy. oh my god. so I guess Kelka is more, uhhh, more OOO then, and Fralio is Ankh? not that it matters too much, although they do seem to be doing something with the connected Riders so. who knows. anything goes! or if I may, anything gOOOes! god. of course they're the Ambition parallel. of course they are. oh my god.
fortunately there's nothing else they can throw at me right now that could possibly --
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
#art#ride kamens#ride kamens spoilers#OKAY i am caught up through show my cards so i feel more confident about going into main story part 2#unless there's some absolutely wacky lore thrown into the fun rollerblades event WHO KNOWS AT THIS POINT#extra excited for these guys now! can't wait to meet them properly :D#gosh though i am so afraid for jou in part 2#he's grown on me so much and i can't help but think getting backstory so soon is an ominous sign#especially for a wisdom guy i mean COME ON#i'm getting kiriya vibes and i don't like where this is heading#on the one hand if they legit kill off a character in their joseimuke gacha game...i mean. respect.#but also i want jou to be okay :(#i want everyone to be okay except maybe taiten because what is even going on with him#me yesterday: oh i don't think he's straight-up evil :) now let me just finish up the space event...#taiten: let's talk about plan DOMINATE PLANET#damnit taiten#tangentially i do think it would be EXTREMELY funny if the whole soun thing was a fakeout and murakumo was just some other dude entirely#soun's soft spot for uryuu and dislike for taiten is entirely coincidental#(probably based around the fact that taiten is INCREDIBLY evil) (or is he) (i mean yes)#he's multilayered he doesn't need a narrative reason to have opinions about other characters what are you his MOM
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yes i’m drawing 15-years-later ib AU comics 12 years post release date. what about it.
#ib#mary ib#ib garry#ib spoilers#ib game#ib AU#ok but what if though#mary over-confident until she realizes the paintings don’t listen to her anymore#garry like “i’m going to tell them the truth and explain the situation”#and then meets them and immediately crumbles#“HI JUST A NORMAL GALLERY ATTENDEE TRYING TO ESCAPE”#ib is suspicious of both of them the whole time#garry because suspicious nervous man who she feels like she’s met before#and mary because she can tell her sister’s hiding something#oh yeah and garry thinks mary doesn’t remember anything#(she does)
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The foot race. A pay-off game now obsolete which preceded the modern big-con games. The outside man posed as the disgruntled secretary of a millionaire (the insideman) who fancied runners and bet heavily on them. The secretary offered to double-cross his employer, fix the race, and share the profits with the mark. The racer who was "fixed" to win collapsed, a "doctor" pronounced him dead, and the mark lost heavily.
-The Big Con, David W. Maurer
#editor's note: 'modern big-con games' are also obsolete this book was written in the 50s#confidence games#con men#scams#swindlers#The Big Con
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stargazing
#shukita#yusuke kitagawa#ren amamiya#akira kurusu#morgana#persona 5#p5r#my art#hi the shukita planetarium date was the best hangout event and had the best room decoration in the game#in my playthrough of p5r yusuke was actually the first confidant i maxed out LOL#so enamored by yusuke he’s so insanely funny#and so so sweet#i hung out with him A Lot#my favorite part of p5r was that every other day during in game summer i got to spend time with yusuke and lovingly feed him curry
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30 minute Lucanis doodle for no other reason than I wanted to draw him covered in blood.
#my art#now that I’ve finished can say with confidence: love this guy#The Treviso Stabber. the Fumbler of vyrantium#dragon age the veilguard#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age veilguard#datv#da4#cw blood#dragon age#BioWare#video games
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maybe peeta flirted with katniss before the games and she was just too oblivious to notice it
but i love the idea that peeta realized that he was being sent to his death with the girl that he has loved almost his entire life and just decided to give it his fucking all
#and damn he really did#he seems too confident tho to have never tried anything before#everlark#peeniss#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#thg#the hunger games#mine
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this dialogue with akechi is set up the same way as the dialogue you get with all ur lady confidants right before you date them Do you know how funny that is. “I need to give him a serious answer…” as if he’s just proposed to you on the streets of kichijoji
#persona 5#persona 5 royal#p5r#akeshu#shuake#akechi goro#i love this stupid game#you can pry it from my cold stiff trembling hands#when this scene happened it made me giggle quite a bit because it’s#set up the same way as one of haru’s confidant events where she’s like#“t-takakura-san said i like you omg why would he say that!!!’#and you’re warned to choose your word carefully#so it was very funny to hang out with akechi and have him pull out his homo-tron 3000 mega blaster#is that too much.
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He misses his dad.. 🥺
#I saw another fanart that made me cry so hard I threw up so I felt like I needed to hurt people too#I also haven't stopped thinking about how sad Tomura probably was when Kurogiri got captured#that was his REAL dad 😤#I would've loved to get more time with the league showing everyone's feelings and reactions with the losses and grief#like they kinda zoomed past everyone's reactions to losing Compress and Kurogiri#I hate what Horikoshi did to the villains I'll curse him until my last breath#anyways#I had to play a round of smash with my Fiance to get that screenshot for the tv lol#we debated for a while on who they'd pick for characters#I feel confident in our picks tho#Tomura would tell Kurogiri to pick that version of Kirby bc it looks like him 🥺#kurogiri would not be good at video games#but he would definitely try#Yeah I cried at least 6 times drawing this fyi#anyways sorry for rambling I'm just back on my bullshit#enjoy the food#my art#bnha#mha#my hero academia#shigaraki tomura#tenko shimura#shiggy#bnha shigaraki#mha shigaraki#kurogiri#league of villains
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