#it's like a tier system yeah

[butwhatifidothis]

okay. but riddle me this. it's wrong for dimitri to want revenge on the person whom he believes is responsible for his trauma and the subsequent disasters that befell both faerghus and duscur - which, even if she didn't do it personally, was done FOR HER BENEFIT EXPLICITLY... but when edelgard revenge kills TWSITD it's like, yas queen slay? weird.

Lot of it has to do with how they frame Dimitri's vengeance vs Edelgard's. Dimitri's vengeance is bad because it's against the "wrong target," while Edelgard's... isn't typically framed as vengeance.

Given how I've consistently seen edelstans portray Dimitri's vengeance, they tend to focus most of their energy going on about how Dimitri's vengeance is bad because it's against the "wrong" person - not that it intrinsically tends to drive people to a destructive path for both themselves and others, but that it's aimed in the wrong direction. Just look at how Fleche's similar quest for vengeance is treated by the exact same group of people; she's justified in getting her vengeance, her vengeance is "rightful," despite it also leading her down a path of singularly focusing on vengeance at the dismissal of all else just like it does Dimitri when he stays on his path of vengeance. Hers is directed in the "right" direction, meaning it is okay and even right of her to have.

(This is ignoring how if Fleche is right in wanting vengeance against Dimitri despite him not being the one to actually kill Randolph, then Dimitri is damn sure right to want vengeance against Edelgard despite her not actually committing the Tragedy. Dimitri pushed Byleth into killing Randolph as a mercy kill; the desire to assist Edelgard later on down the line has TWS conspire and commit the Tragedy. If Dimitri being the cause of Randolph's death rather than him being the one to outright kill him makes Fleche in the right to want to kill him, then Edelgard being the cause of the Tragedy's happening rather than her being the one to outright commit it would make Dimitri right in wanting to kill her. It shouldn't matter that Dimitri is technically wrong in why he wants vengeance, since it doesn't matter to them that Fleche is technically wrong in why she wants vengeance.)

(it also ignores that yeah edelgard literally is complicit in the tragedy by hiding it for years just so her allies don't get ratted out lmao so yeah)

Now look how both of those things compare to Edelgard's vengeance and how it's framed by edelstans. She, unlike either Dimitri or Fleche, is above such base and narrow-minded pursuits such as revenge - she is doing what she is doing not out of selfish vengeance, but out of heroic altruism. She may have been wronged, yes, but she has moved past the want to relieve herself of that pain and now all that she wants to do is prevent others from ever going through what she went through. And if she could, she would help Dimitri and Fleche move on from their vengeance just as she has moved on from hers, even if she's "rejected" by them (like Dimitri), because she's just a sweetie pie like that.

Now, this kiiiiinda ignores the fact that Edelgard literally does want vengeance for what was done to her family, or at least it can easily be argued that's she wants. She frames it as "doing it for their sakes" which is literally also how Dimitri and Fleche basically frame their vengeance, as doing it for the sake of those killed. But acknowledging that Edelgard is doing what she's doing even partially for revenge doesn't make her as uwu special and better than the poor lost souls that she gives guidance to. So instead of saying that Edelgard could even arguably be motivated partially by vengeance (as well as being a violent imperialist lol) they make her completely selfless. She has to be the hero of the story, out to help and save as many people as possible, motivated by nothing more than a want to help others.

And it also ignores how Dimitri wants revenge not for himself, but because he genuinely thinks that is what the dead want him to do. It ignores that the entire reason Dimitri gets so consumed with vengeance is because of his empathy and want to help others morphing into something destructive and deadly - he can't have those good traits, because those are good traits and Dimitri must be the villain to Edelgard's heroism. It ignores how Fleche is wrong in her quest for vengeance, and that regardless of who actually killed Randolph she was wrong to let herself be so overwhelmed with the need for vengeance just like Dimitri - she is directing her hatred towards Dimitri, The Villain, and thus she must be right in doing so.

It, either deliberately or not, ignores so much of what the game is telling, because the focus for edelstans first and foremost is to make Edelgard out to be the best and most morally upstanding character in the game. They have a conclusion they want to be true, and then work backwards from there to make everything fit into place. And then when others don't perform the gymnastics required to come to those conclusions they belittle and mock those people for not "understanding the game" as much as they do. Annoying as shit lmao

[fortune-maiden]

ToD really feels like a different game once you reach Moreau

Suddenly! Character moments! Stakes! A dungeon that is actually pretty fun and puzzle based instead of 4-dimensional maze corridors! Johnny!

[garpond]

message to all kids without paypal who wish they could buy commissions one day you will become an adult with a job and paypal and you can in fact buy the commissions and it will be wonderful but watch out

[lusalemaart]

Comm for my brother. Love wins.

[headphonemouse]

I love reading something and unintentionally absorbing the author's niche hyperfixation at the same time

[queen-mabs-revenge]

yES ok so doc rang me back and apparently i can get referred into the public track for adult ADHD care which has the benefit of being

public

local

which ok like my current prescribing psych is like functionally fine but my god the extortionate rates esp bc i'm a whole country away and everything is via email and teleconferencing? but i was kind of forced to go private bc there literally were no public adult adhd options in the fucking country two years ago lmao

if going private means affordability and actually having a local system to tap into oh baby now we're cooking with gas

[phoenixcatch7]

Yes yes yes!

Svsss is, maybe ironically, one of the healthiest fandoms I've ever been in (and I've been in MANY). It's huge, it's creative, there's no ship wars or antis (we know better 🤭), there's genuine enthusiasm that doesn't turn against critical readings of the plot. There's sincerity, there's cringe is dead, everyone respects the canon themes (mostly lmao).

And the amount of ships and the acceptance of them! I've never seen any other fandom treat asexuality and aromanticism with such respect. Even when the other side of the spectrum is the wildest, most disrespectful smut. And it's a rare fandom indeed where you'll see 'I tried to write smut but then the characters started having feelings so I changed the rating'. Even breaking out the crack ship polys doesn't get people in the comments angrily protesting characterisation. It's not just any fandom I enjoy rare pairs for! Personally I like moshangbingqiu, qiliu, lingmingying, and of course xiaozhu.

And the sheer variety of fics and comics! Some fandoms can get stuck and start spinning their wheels, but svsss fandom keeps coming out with the coolest stuff! There's so many ways to change around the characters to make it fresh! Sy is such a good wildcard it's insane. Sqh is optional content and great to play off. Lbh is perfect for basically any role from impoverished barista to emperor of the world, and if you want something more malicious there's lbg. For meta or cosmic or eldritch horror or video game aesthetic or general deus ex machina chaos you've got the system, the half finished cq makes for top tier world building. The many wives and their plots are perfect for basically anything you want to happen, the modern world is ripe for interdimensional shenanigans (or just modern aus). Crossovers abound!

I once read a fic where bingqiu fought a pikachu. It wasn't a crossover. Sqq went 'ugh airplane stop ripping off popular franchises!' and off they went quite happily XD! 'ugh airplane' is a common justification and the fandom makes very good use of it lmao. But it's seriously so easy to incorporate elements of just about anything you could possibly want! Xenomorphs. Stardew valley. Furry bait. A gun.

The potential for unhinged crack and devastating angst is something special.

And don't get me started on the art!! It's all gorgeous!! The scenery, the artifacts, the swords, the robes, the character designs, just the QUALITY in general is so high. Comics, everything from visual gags to sob stories!

Like, even mdzs or tgcf doesn't have the chill level we have. For fandoms they're pretty good but it's just not at the same level as svsss.

Literally the svsss fandom is a top tier sandbox filled with top tier fans, and I think that's in no small part because of how unhinged the canon can be lmao.

This has probably been said before but the svsss fandom is just so fun.

First, the fics! Oh look another shen yuan disciple au? Oh but binghe is his shixiong? Read and kudosed! Oh another shen yuan disciple au? But shen jiu is his shidi??? Devoured! Oh another shen yuan peak lord au? With shen jiu AND binghe as his disciples? Oof guess I gotta clear my calendar. Demonic shen yuan? I better see some monster fucking! Shen jiu gets reborn again? Well- and on and on and on and on.

And the ships of course! Yeah I ship bingqiu! But also bingliushen, liushen, bingliu, bingjiu, qijiu, jiuyuan, zhushen, qijiushen, tianjiu, moshang, cumplane, mingling, and of course, bing(mei)bing(ge)qiu!

Usually in other fandoms there are only one or two pairings I feel the urge to gnaw on. In svsss though, it literally depends on the fucking day.

[raven]

here with unsolicited opinions about the video game post thing. i don't really have any problem with innovation in the video games industry, but i do think that optimization has been completely abandoned in favor of pushing out games with heavy content and no regard for how that game might run. there is virtually no reason for new CoD games to require an SSD and be 128 gb (not including future updates) while also including you to download Warzone (an additional 125gb). this is just poor optimization. another good example is cyberpunk 2077, whose optimization was so abysmal that steam offered refunds on launch because it was literally unplayable. innovation imo does not mean that we should completely stop optimizing video games & put the onus on the player base to spend additional money upgrading their pc constantly to keep up with games coming out.

totally understand this and i do agree that optimization is a huge issue. but i dont think this is always tied to optimization. baldurs gate 3 was massive and i think its kinda fair to need a sdd for that one (as someone who played with and without an sdd. game is huge). and none of the following stuff i am about to say matters but idk we should kill poorly made video games and i also do not gaf about realism at all, but thats also why i play a lot of older games. and like.. idk i was mad about the new dragon age not running well on my computer, but... There's 3 other, BETTER dragon age games i could be playing, and countless other games i could be playing that i know nothing about. why play cod when you can play a 20 year old game that had a huge impact on the game industry as a whole. why play elden ring when you can play dark souls*

*note this bitch played elden ring and not dark souls so yeah i understand wanting to play newer games but also if it didnt work on my computer i likely would have just played something else**

**i have been wanting to play bloodborne for almost 10 years now but i dont have a playstation so i cant, which is kind of the same "spending money to play a game" issue, but i just play other games instead. So i guess i do put my money where my mouth is here

P.S. why play metal gear solid 3 snake eater which you can emulate with possibly poor performance or buy on steam, when theres a free*** roblox version on roblox

*** i think its free but idk i havent played it.

[gaysie]

i don’t know if this blowing up anywhere besides science twitter but a paper got peer reviewed and published in a frontiers journal (which are known as like mid tier but still reputable) that has this massive AI generated rat penis figure and some other nonsensical AI figures and yeah it probably speaks to how the peer review system is broken and the process of sharing and vetting science is doomed etc but also it’s SOOOO funny to me to see people so dramatic like “if someone had a shred of courage and integrity” about big penis rat

[naylor]

As a non-Catholic can you at least tell me what are the current capital sins for reference?

jdndjanxnnanx

lust. greed. sloth. gluttony. pride. wrath. envy

i think you guys call them deadly sins

[rubyrhythmposts-archive]

fuck you game oh my god

[dedmerath]

Hell is NOT Forever! a Hazbin Hotel Fan game

Hi! I'm Merath, and I'm developing a HH fan game, where you play as a brand new Sinner Adam in a quest to redeem himself and find his place inside the hotel.

What kind of game is it?

This is an exploration game mixed with relationship development! Explore the hotel, avoid death, find collectibles and talk to the Hotel Cast to learn more about them and unlocking new rooms and guests. Fulfill character request, learn their secrets and get them to like you (?) and forgive you. (Yeah, you heard right).

See that GREY HEART? Get the characters from grey, to blue, green, yellow and RED and unlock their friendship.

Will there be romance in the game?

Romance is a Patreon Support Tier. We are not selling the game, it will be free! But we need support to create it and keep working on it, so, we will have support tiers that will unlock cool features, like romance and more!

Also: Romance will not be forced as a "MAX LEVEL" relationship, you should be able to choose between romance and further your friendship!

How many possible relationships will there be?

All we can get. For now, Adam can have his little harem like:

Angel, Alastor, Charlie, Husk, Lucifer, Nifty, Vaggie.

There are some more characters there that for now are NPC only. But might get their own heart in the future. And we plan to add more characters to the hotel, like Lute, Pentious, Mammon...etc. Again, if we get the support.

(Also, we include all ships, except maybe Cain.)

Will there be mini-games?

Yes. Support tiers. We are thinking cooking mini-game, drinking...?

I dunno, Adam likes it tough.

He can also take a relaxing bath!

When will the game be ready?

The beta is under development! So, we hope soon. (And I say we but its all a one person effort, so be patient, haha!)

Where can I support the making of the game?

Here on patreon! Thank you very much! =D Hope you all enjoy my content! If you have a question just ask!

Estará el juego en español también?

Si, el juego contara con idioma español.

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Patreon Support Tiers:

The more monthly support we get, the more extras we can work on!

Collectibles System (Collect stuff to unlock prizes)

Friendship System (Befriend the cast up to "Friends")

Trophies/Achievements (Unlock cool trophies for Adam's room)

Extra Room: Bathhouse (Make Adam take a relaxing bath)

Bathhouse System (Make Adam take a bath with others)

Regrets System. (Be hunted by the shadows of your past, who will try to kill you on sight!)

Kitchen (Give Adam a place to cook food for others!)

Crafting System (Craft gifts and stuff for Adam’s room)

[roses-r-rosie3]

X-Mas list presentation

Batfam x M!Reader

Summary: instead of making a regular Christmas wishlist, the reader decides to make a whole presentation

Quote: “That is all Family! So open up your hearts and your wallets for me this holiday season”

✁ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

“Why are you here?” Duke asked Jason.

“Same reason why you’re here, y/n wanted us to all meet up in the living room for some announcement” Jason sighed.

After everyone was in the room, you pulled out your computer and connected it to the Tv, which made everyone confused.

“Hello family, I know you must be wondering why you’re all here” you said.

“Yes”

“Yup”

“Mhm”

“Yeah”

“Can I go back to my game now?”

“Last year you guys totally fucked up Christmas, so this year I put together an entire presentation to tell you guys what I want specifically” you smiled.

Everyone in the room let out an audible sigh/groan. It was known by everyone in the family that you were very dramatic from time to time (24/7). But they never thought you would get this extra!

“Is that really what you called us here for?” Damian grumbled.

“Would you shut up for a second?” You snapped.

“Y/n I don’t think that’s how you should be talking to your little bro-”

“Anyways, Here’s the things you should keep in mind when you’re thinking about what kind of gift you will provide for me this year” you said as you interrupted Bruce from his lecture.

“First of all, I’m the only one who knows how to reset the Wi-Fi, and yeah that’s threat” you threatened.

That certainly got everyone’s attention.

“Secondly, if you don’t get me what I want I will get a sugar daddy, I don’t even care what you guys are going to say, I’ve had so many offers for sugar daddies that it’s unreal. The perks of being son of Bruce Wayne I guess” you said.

“Y/n, you do know that Bruce is rich right?” Jason asked.

“Not the point” you mumbled.

“And third if I don’t get what I want, I will also sell my feet pics online like I did last year” you said calmly.

“YOU WHAT?!” Bruce shouted

“Calm down, I only ended up making about 1 million from it” you sighed.

“ONLY?!” Dick gasped.

“I created a three tier system of different gifting levels, basically, the levels equivocate to how much you love me and how much money you have” you explained.

“Level one is the ‘I’m going to need therapy level’ which is only four to seven gifts. I would probably go into a depressive spiral, actually not probably, I definitely would be depressed” you said.

“Would you stop being so overdramati-”

“I’M NOT DONE YET” you said as you interrupted Tim.

“What would that mean for us? You may ask. It would mean that you would have to pay for my therapy. And the money that you guys spent on therapy would have been basically wasted, you could’ve bought me a whole bunch of gifts right now and avoided the situation” you smiled.

“I think that he’s lost his mind” Bruce whispered to Stephanie.

“You think?!” Stephanie whisper yelled.

“Level two is the ‘You’re getting warmer package’ This basically if you love me- Bruce can you stop whispering to Stephanie” you scolded.

“As I was saying… Level two is eight to fifteen gifts, which is basically equivalent to you texting me happy birthday” you continued.

“Level three is the ‘You’re sleighing it’ level. And if you remember, you guys were just a bit off the mark of hitting this because you guys only got me twenty three gifts. And in order to reach ‘You’re slaying it’ you have to get me twenty five or more gifts, I think this is totally do-able for you guys, especially because you can just use Bruce’s card if you guys are running low on money” you said.

“I have tons ideas for you guys and this whole slideshow is already in your email so you guys can look at it and reference it at any time” you smiled.

Everyone quickly checked their phones to see that you indeed emailed them your whole presentation.

“That is all Family! So open up your hearts and your wallets for me this holiday season” you smiled before leaving the room.

“Yeah he had definitely lost his mind” They all said in synchronization.

“I HEARD THAT!”

[canmom]

"don't post links to pirate sites" as a security through obscurity strategy seems... weak. if a pirate site is so obscure that almost nobody can find it, it's also essentially pointless.

but yes, if a pirate site is common knowledge, the feds will be working on destroying it. so the idea is i assume to achieve an intermediate level of obscurity, where you have to have a certain amount of talent for asking the right people or searching the right things to find it. but... whatever capacity for research you are asking people to have on that front, the feds are equally capable of it, and they have a whole lot more time on their hands for tracking down pirate sites! security through obscurity is a losing game for piracy. the perfect sweet spot where people can find your pirate resource but the feds cannot is something of a mirage.

if not that, than what?

the current piracy system involves a few different tiers of accessibility, and various components that are more or less decentralised.

torrents are the most resilient tech because to stamp out a torrent (with DHT enabled) you have to suppress every seed. so, you have big public torrent trackers like TPB; these are well known and rely on hopping domains and redundancy for security. the ratio of seeds to leeches tends to be low, but the number of users is large enough that there will be at least a few seeds out there for most stuff. torrent clients have gotten a lot better at seeding strategies that take into account your seed ratio and what's currently available in the swarm, so if you just leave everything on seed and open your torrent client fairly often (use a VPN though lol), you don't really need to think about it.

then you have private trackers; these operate on an invite basis. the problem with this is that when the pool of users is so small, the odds of a given seed being online are also small. to prevent torrents dying, they gamify it: you get points for seeding and if you don't have enough points you can't download anything until you seed more. to help people get back in the game there will be 'freeleech' events. being active on a private tracker takes a bit of work.

and of course you have to get in in the first place, which tends to require a proven track record of seeding on other private trackers, and some kind of interview with the operators. getting involved in private trackers is a much bigger ask, you have to figure out where to get your foot in the door, and work your way up to the more insular trackers. it's like a mini subculture. it's valuable, but not scalable.

at the top level of inaccessibility is the warez scene. this is a whole subject that i'm not even gonna get into, go read wikipedia. historically this is where the files actually come from, before getting distributed on public trackers, usenet etc. but good luck getting in there lmao, they are understandably quite paranoid.

of course, for stuff to get on pirate sites you need somebody to go the effort of ripping and encoding it. this is where a major point of failure exists. when RarBG went down recently, the biggest loss was not the existing archive of torrent links, which can be backed up - it was that they were very active at converting scene releases into torrents with a decent balance of file size and quality, which then filter out into the various public trackers. that is much harder to replace! but what killed RarBG wasn't even suppression by authorities - according to their statement, it was a bunch of the admins getting covid or dying or fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war, which made the whole operation impossible to continue. so despite the thousands of people who download RarBG torrents, this single point of failure was overstressed and broke.

as far as the ethics of spreading links to pirate sites go... if it's something like a mega drive, yeah, the chances of a takedown are pretty high if it gets noticed! no question. but those things are by nature short-lived; if you want to use that for archival you're building on sand. there's also databases like emuparadise, but there was no saving that through obscurity, it just took Nintendo a minute to bring the case.

in this kind of centralised case, the clock is ticking from day 1. what we want is to maximise the number of people who are able to save copies while it's up, and then some of those people can put it up again somewhere else and keep the authorities playing whack-a-mole. (for a small collection of files, a sensible measure would be to make a torrent and a mega drive side by side, so that people can download the mega drive and then add the torrent to their client to seed if it gets nuked.)

as for torrent sites, the thing is that torrents rely for effectiveness on a swarm that is either very large or very responsible about seeding. if it's a public tracker, it has to be well known or it's pointless. instead of security through obscurity, the form of security for these sites is try to make the resource itself hard to take down - operating the tracker/archive in countries that don't have copyright treaties, maintaining mirrors, and of course distributing as many seeds as possible so the torrent can stay alive even if the site goes down.

the major problem with a dead torrent site is discoverability. if it's harder to find the torrent, fewer people will download it, the existing seeds will gradually go offline, and of course you can't download a torrent that you don't know exists. and while you could imagine a system of broadcasting metadata about a torrent (title, encoding etc.) in a DHT-like way but that would be so vulnerable to fakes and spam. maybe some kind of cryptographically signed 'this torrent is good' declaration is possible? I know certain torrent clients tout discovery features, but honestly I don't know how well they work. I'm sure there are projects that are way ahead of the game than me on this question.

but yeah anyway trying to browbeat people into not sharing links to pirate media is 1. futile, by the time you see it the cat is out of the bag 2. not a sustainable strategy for security. if you wanna lecture people, 'use a VPN and seed your torrents' is evergreen ;p

[transandrobroism]

“Acktually, trans men oppress cis women on account of them being men” okay. Who was the last trans man doctor you had. The last trans man nurse, PA, NP? The last trans man professor. Teacher. Senator. Governor. Idk about you but I know a LOT more cis women cops than trans man cops. The last trans man lawyer. Judge. Scientist. Engineer. Author. Artist. Millionaire. Billionaire.

The two trans men in ‘positions of power’ over others I’ve ever seen have been bottom tier management positions, AKA the “first line of defense” and the person who’s supposed to absorb all the shitty behavior of everyone while having no real power themselves without consulting someone higher up on the management ladder. So much institutional power we just OOZE privilege.

yeah i think the key thing here is that trans people in general are a marginalised minority group. none of us have unfettered access to institutional power. all of us are blocked from full access to societal power structures because we are trans. this is why it's important to talk about intra-community issues in terms of lateral aggression rather than systems of oppression.

i think it's important to acknowledge that on an interpersonal level, all of us can sometimes find ourselves in positions where we have some power over other people. and when that happens we need to be mindful of how we use that power, and not let prejudice or bias lead us to abusing that power to harm people. but that goes for everyone regardless of gender (or any other aspect of their identity). having the power at a micro-level to make someone's life difficult is very different to having access to institutional power structures.

but i do think this "trans men are oppressing cis women because they're men" idea trades on a very radfem worldview that sees misogynistic oppression as an inevitable consequence of men existing. therefore it's never necessary to substantiate that claim with evidence - the statement is considered self-evidently true. you are a man, therefore you oppress women. it's an attitude that views the oppression of women as a core part of masculinity. therefore there's no need to prove it with specifics. you can just shove all men into the "Oppressor Class" and call it a day. acting like trans men oppress cis women just by existing as men is transradfeminism and it's just as flawed and reductive as the terfy rad-feminism that came before it.

[syxnewt]

I feel like my top creators thing has GOT to be skewed. I watched parkour and pvp civ sure but I watched like way more Kurtis Conner than that and he didn't even place?? Manly checks out cuz i almost always at least click on his videos but everyone else is so weird

YouTube made a "gaming recap" and it's completely dead silent which was funny but i learned some things about myself. Like that I need to watch significantly less youtube

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BTW. WHAT DO YOU MEAN. NINE TIMES AS MUCH????

Bonus image i guess. I sure watched that video at some point. You don't know if i would jump for the beef though and honestly i resent the assumption