#favourite canary in the coalmine

[ghostshipglamour]

He’s not getting out

(Batik shadow blue 46)

[tainbocuailnge]

my favourite metric for evaluating gacha games is the eizen scale. eizen is a character from the game tales of berseria who is essentially cursed to always lose the coinflip, which means that "can eizen play this game and not have a horrendous time" is a very easy way to determine how "generous" any given digital casino actually is and how robust its rng safety nets are. for purposes of the eizen scale this is how eizen's luck works:

1) eizen has the worst possible luck that statistics allow for. if he flips a coin a million times he will get tails a million times. if he has a 99.9% crit chance he will not crit. if resource gathering involves random drops he will always get the lowest possible amount of drops. he will roll the worst most useless possible result from the gacha every time. eizen's only path to obtaining anything useful in the game is through guarantees, handouts, and pity mechanics. going by his actual canon luck the game would crash repeatedly the moment he hits pity and then his account gets banned for suspicious activity before he gets to see the result but for purposes of the eizen scale we assume the game itself works properly.

2) eizen’s bad luck does not affect his friends’ luck, and he often relies on his friends to push through his bad luck. you can get caught in the fallout of eizen's bad luck if you throw your lot in with his (like going on a sea voyage with him and inevitably getting caught in a storm), but just having him around doesn’t keep you from getting heads on your own coin flip. this means ease of access to luckier friends’ resources is one of the metrics on the eizen scale. combined with point 1, if a game for example has a support unit system that shows you a random selection with no guarantee that at least one of those will be your friends, it's completely useless to him because it will only show him randos with trash units.

3) eizen’s bad luck does not affect the choices other people make. this means the game’s content release schedule will not contort itself into ridiculous patterns just to deny eizen the chance to obtain game resources, because its run by people who have other goals than making eizen specifically suck at their game.

some video games are fundamentally unplayable to eizen because the core gameplay premise is about performing and then working around feats of rng, like roguelikes for example, so a bad eizen score is not necessarily a bad game. but this man is the canary in the coalmine of exploitative monetisation, and if he can't play the game then maybe you shouldn't either

[hptx7777]

I drew these yesterday out of pure boredom (Inspired by mostly Genshin’s TCG but I also did my own celestial title/tarot cards thing so I don’t confuse myself XD, I then added songs that I thought would for them, I had more thoughts with some more than others.

I’ll try and add more songs for Scott and Scar ^^

Ouroboros; The wolf • Joel

•Sleeping Giants (Crane Wives)

•Killer Queen (Mad Tsai)

•Take me to war (Crane Wives)

•Alien Blues (Vundabar)

•Portrait of a blank slate (Lovejoy)

•Partners in crime (Set it off)

Starborn; The preservation • Scott

•Unravelling (Crane Wives)

Canary; The fallen • Jimmy

•Canary in a coalmine (Crane Wives)

•Unravelling (Crane Wives)

•Easier (Crane Wives)

•Partners in Crime (Set it off)

•The well (Crane Wives)

Moon; The Hunt • Pearl

•I ain’t done (Crane Wives)

•W.I.T.C.H (Devon Cole)

•Killer Queen (Mad Tsai)

•I love you like an alcoholic (The Taxpayers)

•Alien Blues (Vundabar)

Sheep in wolfs clothing; The Butterfly • Lizzie

•Pity party (Melanie Martinez)

•Volta (Crane Wives)

•I ain’t done (Crane Wives)

•October (Crane Wives)

•Shallow River (Crane Wives)

Sun; The Watcher • Grian

•Tongues & Teeth (Crane Wives)

•Icarus (Crane Wives)

•Steady Steady (Crane Wives)

•Glacier House (Crane Wives)

•Partners in crime (Set it off)

•Hayloft 2 (Mother Mother)

I remembered the title wrong lol

Scar; The trader • Scar

•Friends on the other side (Princess and the frog)

•Curses (Crane Wives)

•Killer Queen (Queen)

•Metaphor (Crane Wives)

And my favourite part, linking songs /j

Joel+Grian+Jimmy: Partners in Crime

•Bad boys Bad boys!!

Scar+Joel: Killer Queen (Queen) (Mad Tsai)

•Magical Mountain and just,, being the villains in different ways in their respective seasons

Pearl+Joel: Alien Blues (Vundabar)

•Lonely reds who were outcasted and turned insane as a result, unhinged and mad crazy. Also lone wolves (Figuratively and literally) “I only talk to dogs because they don’t understand me” is literally 3rd life Joel and Double Life Pearl

Scott+Jimmy: Unravelling (Crane Wives)

•I’m not a Flower Husbands fan but this song feels just right for them ‘I once loved a ….’ ‘But now my love is gone’ is just,, so fitting

Grian+Scar: Icarus, Tongues & Teeth, Glacier House, Steady Steady (All Crane Wives)

•It’s just Desert Duo, these songs are only in Grian’s thing since Grian’s the one that vocalises his frustrations

[br3adtoasty]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

DGDJSHXJ TY QUINN! but 5 songs… lets see…

Loveit? - bizｘZERA feat. LOLUET this song is so addicting tbh

Nise Kao - yama [Thai ver.] the original is already really good but i really like the use of the thai words here!

Lament of Orpheus - Hades guess who’s been playing hades 🙄🙄 but srsly i love the somber tone of the song and god bless darren korb’s vocals 🙏😭

Kissme Shot - Nyquist! such an underrated song made by an underrated vocaloid producer! the tuning’s so good and sounds very human…

Canary In a Coalmine - The Crane Wives lastly who am i if not a the crane wives stan /j LOVE ALL THEIR SONGS THIS ONE JUST HITS DIFFERENT YOU GUYS SHOULD CHECK THEM OUT

[leadandblood]

Hodgson for the bingo pls

Thank youu <33 My favourite coalmine canary *squeezes him like a stress toy*

[lil-melody-moon]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

I'm someone's favorite, omg ;u;

For the 5 songs it would be:

A Quick One While He's Away - The Who (recent earworm)

Synchronicity I - The Police

Brand New Cadillac - The Clash

Canary In A Coalmine - The Police

When A Blind Man Cries - Deep Purple

[codgod-moved]

“‘there’s my favourite harbinger of death, the canary in the coalmine!’ i don’t know what that means” jhvjxh

[murobrown]

Thank you so much for the tag @whitedeadflower ♥😊

Name/nickname: Alica

Gender: Female

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Favourite bands/groups: The Beatles, Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Blur, Slaves, Cage The Elephant, Gorillaz, Interpol, Weezer...

Favourite solo artists: Elliott Smith, Miles Kane, Oren Lavie, Boy Pablo, Jake Bugg, Jamie T, Mac DeMarco...

Song stuck in my head: Canary In A Coalmine by The Police

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Favourite song: Currently Midnight Surprise by Lightspeed Champion, it’s been my favorite for few years now

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[mrrightandmrbubble]

1/13/16

three songs that come up when you put your phone on shuffle 

Live - ‘I Walk The Line’

The Police - ‘Canary In A Coalmine’

The Sundays - ‘Wild Horses’

three songs you want at your funeral

Oasis - ‘Don’t Go Back In Anger’

Fleetwood Mac - ‘Seven Wonders’

Foo Fighters - ‘Home’ (originally it was ‘Over And Out’ but it wouldn’t be right)

three favourite songs for sex 

The Coasters - ‘Down In Mexico’

The Phenomenal Handclap Band - ‘Dim The Lights’

The Presets - ‘Cookie’

Cheers!

[somebodyhelpthenotdeadfreds]

Okay what was your favourite line?

Hmmm, favorite line...

There are so many, let’s do a list!

Tell your new canary about her coalmine before you drop her in here blindly.

Does it hurt more to know that someone was lying to you, or to know that they were lying and wake up in a hospital bed still believing them anyway?

"Oh, are you ever to Lecter's taste, if you'll excuse the phrase, Miss Starling. He has quite a fondness for pretty brunettes," he said in such a sleazy tone that she wanted to take a shower.

“You’re right. The teacup is never going to gather itself again. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use glue and just put the damn thing back together yourself.”

Will dreamt of falling off the cliff over and over, into a sea foaming with milk.

“Going up?” Will asks, peering over the top of his sunglasses, eyes full of mischief.

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