#in a way i've never seen before

[dramatic-dolphin]

btw i saw an entire ant colony moving today (idk why, but they were carrying their eggs and all) and they LITERALLY trampled a little path in the grass. like a trail in the woods but infinitely smaller. ant-sized little footpath through the grass. it was incredible to see.

[dilfmobius]

how about a slice of pie?

[caffichai]

Has anyone heard of this game called 'Arknights'? It's kinda obscure, but the character designs slap

Thanks @valence-e for the suggestion!

[beastwhimsy]

I think if he's an immortal cosmic deity he should get cool as flarp powers. to be honest.

[zzoupz]

hhhrngrghgh (me thinkigh)

sparklemouse.

[speakofshinee]

TAEMIN - 'Eternal' Track List ♥︎

[guardian-angle22]

Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) | December 2021

[kithj]

i've been playing veilguard lately and i have to say the dialogue in this game is some of the most frustrating i think i've ever seen in a choice RPG like this. Rook is locked as a friendlier character, which isn't a problem, but this lock out has resulted in a lot of the dialogue lacking in variation.

i chose the "Block it out" option here only for my Rook to say "Block it out. You're safe" but "You're safe" was already its own separate option-- this isn't how you write dialogue choices. again, i don't have an issue with Rook being friendly, but you shouldn't railroad players into certain dialogue.

if they wanted "You're safe" to be the common/reconvening dialogue, then it shouldn't have been made a choice at all. the wheel could have been something like this:

nice: "I'm right here with you."

aggressive: "Block it out."

panicked/confused: "Shit. Talk to me. Please."

-> all reconvene at "You're safe."

and this is a repeated problem. i've favored the aggressive options this entire time (which aren't really aggressive to begin with) but Rook will almost always still wind up saying the nice option instead. another example is early on:

again i chose the more aggressive "Maybe you should have" choice only for Rook to say something along the lines of "Maybe you should have [...] But we have to support each other now." (it's been a minute since i played this part so it may not be exactly word for word but i remember even then at the start of the game being annoyed that she still worked her way back around to saying option 1)

it's not that Rook is friendly, it's that she's literally saying dialogue options that i did not pick. it's fine for there to be a common dialogue repeated across choices/flavor texts, but not when it's the literal choice text itself. it feels like i'm being railroaded with every dialogue.

[lehdenlaulu]

Okay, one more OT3-focused rambling post before I jump into S3.

I got to thinking about the dynamics and the ways each of their "love languages" is expressed thus far because it's really quite fascinating. I mean, not only do we have the dynamic combination of Nice Normal Guy (relatively speaking, of course), Not So Nice Not So Normal Guy, and Very Strange Girl, we also have the individual dynamics of:

Nice Normal Guy + Not So Nice Not So Normal Guy

Nice Normal Guy + Very Strange Girl

Not So Nice Not So Normal Guy + Very Strange Girl

Hardison, as our Nice Normal Guy, naturally tries to express affection to the other two the way any Nice Normal Guy would. And sometimes it lands, but other times... it doesn't. He's in many ways quite extraordinary, but when it comes to being emotionally stable, properly socialized, and trauma-free, I feel like he's been handed the best cards out of the three.

Parker, our beloved Very Strange Girl, is full-on cat-coded on the other hand, so at this point, I feel like the best she knows how to do when it comes to Hardison is try not to run away from a scenario and feelings that are new and unfamiliar to her as a means to express her willingness to give him a chance. And he might not realize it yet, but it's actually big. Very big. Just by sticking around and not shutting down his tentative attempts to court her, she's saying "I like you and I want to try".

And like I said, it's easier with Eliot. Eliot is not Normal™ either, not really. Eliot is Safe. Eliot doesn't have vaguely terrifying expectations. So she will sit on his armrest, and lean on him and poke and jab at him, to let him know she finds him safe and knows he would never hurt her even if she pushes his boundaries.

And because Eliot is also a little bit cat-coded, he does get it. So he allows her into his personal bubble -- and even carefully invades hers right back -- to in turn let her know that he wants her to feel safe and that he likes it that she finds him safe. (Plus, you know, as there's clearly some level of mutual attraction involved, close contact feels nice.) Of course, since Eliot as a polyglot is also able to express this with words... he does: not only does he find a way to verbally say "I would do anything for you" once, but twice. The earnest offer to kill Rand for her is of course the big one, but I keep thinking of "Parker made me do it". You know?

Manly Emotionally Constipated Bro-ness (and late 00's toxic masculinity-laden cultural mores) demands such things to remain unexpressed verbally between two Bros, though, so for now at least Eliot will let his actions speak for him when it comes to Hardison. He'll bitch, he'll grumble, he'll bicker, he'll vehemently deny any mushy feelings (again, "Parker made me do it"), but he'll be there. Hardison's a dude, right? He'll get it.

(...Poor Hardison.)

Anyway, I probably didn't say anything that hasn't been said before a thousand times by now, but eh. Onwards!

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

other people have probably already said this but like. it's been a shockingly nice experience to watch the dungeon meshi fandom go absolutely NUTS over falin. just this unbelievable wellspring of thirsty romantic eye for her, and not only is she chubby in canon, most of the fanart i've seen has skewed towards drawing her even chubbier? i... genuinely do not think i've ever seen that before. i don't think i've ever been in an anime fandom where someone both looks like me and is the subject of such enthusiastic adoration BECAUSE she's fat before.

it's... it's really nice.

[deviousdiesel]

Sometimes I wish people didn't read into the Steam vs Diesel rivalry (or towards any coach/rolling stock for that matter too) as "racism" because even if they are engines, it just feels very reductive to sum it up as easy as "oh so it's a race war between them and they're trying to outlast each other".

Their issues could easily be interpreted as something else like classism, ageism (both young and old) or any kind of social or structural form of discrimination that doesn't have anything to do with race or identity.

[marlynnofmany]

Hey artists, sign your art. When I save a picture because it's beautiful and I want to look at it again later, I'd love to remember who drew it. I save things for years. If I see something else amazing by the same artist later, I'll be delighted!

But if I don't know who drew it, then that's just one more mystery of the internet.

[starcollectorsilas]

Fuck you. *disables your able-bodied and pretty much superhuman character*

[hinotorihime]

i do just want to take a second to express mourning for the victims of the simchat torah massacre last year, and also grief for the betrayal, bigotry, and loss of safety that the jewish community has been experiencing since then.

[chappellrroan]

i am my mom's daughter through & through i have her facial features her smile her tendency to never be able to say no to people if they ask for anything nicely her trait of crying when angry honestly i couldn't care less about myself or anyone at all as long as she's happy & healthy

[skrunksthatwunk]

the land of the gods