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starlight-time-machine · 5 months ago

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Week in Review

08/18/2024 – 08/24/2024

Sunday

Week 28 of missing Cipher Academy

UNDEAD UNLUCK PEAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Ruin coming back to ruin the day is another callback moment, but it’s so gratifying to see Fuuko react entirely different this time around – it really shows just how much she’s grown. In general, Fuuko’s just so kickass in this chapter…AND THE TITLE DROP WITH ANDY COMING BACK AHHHHHHHHHHH

SpyFam was literally a nothing chapter lol not to be a slice of life complainer but. Even the slice of life elements of it weren’t interesting to read.

Nui ni Koishite ii Desu ka?: I haven’t read a lot of straight romance manga…I’m just not big into the genre, I think… But I felt strangely compelled by this one when I saw a plot description on Twitter, and I surprisingly really enjoyed reading it. I think I just like romances where the main leads are forced into a situation where they have to help each other out/keep a mutual secret (such as Fruits Basket). I like the comedy that arises from their absurd situation, I like that the girl is a little unsettling about her love of plushies, and I like that due to the nature of the curse, the guy has to be invested in making the girl happy. God, if this manga had come out like ten years ago, it would’ve gotten the 60 chapter run it deserved rather than the rushed 2 volume run we got here… The romance progressed quickly, which was nice, but I would’ve really loved to see them either develop the romantic build up more or explore their life as a couple afterwards, especially in regards to each other’s families (we haven’t seen the girl’s family at all)… I haven’t read the ending yet so there’s still a bit to go, but I mourn for what could have been. Now I’m gonna have to be the weirdo championing for this shoujo manga that literally like only ten people outside of Japan have read…

Monday

Umm

Tuesday

REVUE STARLIGHT EL DORADO HAS FINALLY ARRIVED I have work to do but I couldn’t help myself and played through a route…the Kaoruko and Maya route is sooo funny and cute, and seeing Ayasa reach new heights in her voice acting as Salvatore was a real highlight. I was, admittedly, a little disappointed in the overarching story: I was hoping Judy would be more of a menace like they were priming her to be, and I can’t believe they didn’t even show us the KaoMaya corporate bonding retreat… The most this route did was give Class B more of a spotlight, but even then they were kind of just reaffirming their intentions without going through much of a real arc. El Dorado was fun, and the music was great, but it being truncated also left me wanting more. (And this is unfair to El Dorado, but Salvatore’s backstory was so similar to Ouyang’s from She Who Became the Sun that I was expecting a similar arc trajectory, only to be somewhat let down when it wasn’t as brutal as SWBTS lol. But maybe that’ll be different in the full version of El Dorado.)

Watched the Make Some Noise episode with Brennan, Jacob, and Lou and goddd it was so funny. The three of them have great energy together.

Wednesday

Umm

Thursday

Read through both volumes of Until I Love Myself, and it was a pretty well told and moving memoir. I appreciated the care that the mangaka put towards depicting the differences in other people’s experiences and how they may have gaps in their own knowledge, but their commitment to connecting with others is inspiring to see. I would give it a 7/10 overall.

Friday

I picked up Potion Permit again. I had bought it in like 2023 and played the shit out of it, but seeing that the dev team was still constantly pushing out pretty major updates, I wanted to wait until it was more complete to play it again. Fast forward to now, where my friend got Fields of Mistria on early access and streamed it to me because I was also interested in the game…it’s cute looking, but I think the issue with a lot of indie games is that their art direction is gorgeous but their writing suffers. And considering how I only play farming sims if there’s a Love Interest I want to date, and how none of Mistria’s options really interest me right now (and the lack of multiplayer)…I probably won’t pick it up in the future. But seeing the various items you can collect and running around doing tasks made me nostalgic for Potion Permit, hence the return of my potion madness. More on it when this gaming binge session ends.

Saturday

Potion Permit’s got me in a vice grip. It’s undeniably a mediocre game, but there’s something about it that really compels me. People have called it grindy and unfinished, and that much is true, but I love grinding the resources and fighting the creatures and doing my little tasks around town in the most efficient way possible and levelling up my bonds with the villagers. I think I just like the conceit of being an apothecary more than being a farmer – I love making potions and supplying them and doing little puzzles as a break away from the regular gameplay. Writing wise it definitely struggles a little, as most of the bond stories aren’t that deep or engaging (Matheo’s romance path is like the only one that has any real chemistry). I feel like there’s an outline of a personality for each character, but their dialogue writing just doesn’t do those personalities justice (the writing voices aren’t strong, and sometimes there are grammatical oddities that make things sound off). Also there’s just way too many characters. Did we really need two sets of “doubles”? And have all four of their names start with D??? Despite of all my gripes, however, I can get sucked into playing this game for hours on end…I’m probably going to go until I max rank everyone’s bond levels and then consider the game complete lol. 7/10.

#week in review #2024

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balleater · 3 years ago

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i love patia giving maya the sphere not only because of the implications it has about giving her all the memories stored in it to preserve that knowledge and all that, but also because she just handed a reskinned staff of power to a child and i for one would Love to see how that goes down.

#critical role #patia por'co #maya agrupnin #exu calamity #let! brennan! play! maya!

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pablolf · 8 years ago

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TUCKER I had written for Dave 12 years ago, so I had a personal stake in trying to make that show go well because I had promised Dave that it would. The night of the election was crazy. Like most of America, I expected Hillary to win. Dave and I had even talked through some sketches with that assumption. There was a lot of talk about Trump starting his own TV network if he lost, and so one of them was a preview of what that might be like. Dave was going to play Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke, who had his own show. But by 1 a.m., it looked like Trump had won. I was watching with Leslie Jones and Dave. A lot of people in the office were shocked, many were upset, but Dave and Leslie just kind of shrugged. They were like, "That's what happens." That attitude was the inspiration for the election night sketch. [Poking fun at overconfident Hillary supporters, surprise guest Chris Rock cautioned white liberals against celebrating too early.] LESLIE JONES, CASTMEMBER The sketch was just so real and honest because that's pretty much how I am when I'm around my white friends. It's like we've been living in this world forever, and you all just woke up to it. NEAL BRENNAN, GUEST WRITER The first draft of that election night sketch was less racial. Dave was just at the party. We did a read-through, and he was like, "Just make this blacker." On Thursday or Friday, he asked Chris to come by, so we wrote Chris into it. CHRIS ROCK, GUEST STAR Honestly, I'm always there for Dave and for Lorne. I met Lorne Michaels in '91, and I haven't been broke since. But I thought it was important for me and Dave to be seen together. When I was a kid, outside of Harlem Nights, I never saw Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor together or Richard and [Bill] Cosby together. When people get together and team up, it's usually when their power has diminished. COLIN JOST, CASTMEMBER The day after the election got extremely sad and very disorienting. People didn't know what to write. No one was feeling very funny. STRONG I saw Kate in the hallway, and we hugged and sobbed. KENT SUBLETTE, WRITER Before the read-through [on Wednesday afternoon], Lorne gave us this pep talk: "The world's not going to end tomorrow." As crazy as things are, he's right. "Half the country voted for Trump, and our show's for those people as well. It's not just for people who didn't want him to be president." Lorne also reminded us that "we're professionals and we have to do our job, and that's what we're going to do." BRENNAN Then Dave read a poem that someone had texted him — I think it was [written by] Maya Angelou. Kate got emotional. It was a pretty charged environment. Higgins told me that in all of his years at the show, he had never seen Lorne give a preamble like that. JOST He'll talk to us as a group every week in some way, but usually it's a very short: "Go out there and get them." He was just reassuring people on a broader historical level that America had been through things like this, that the show had been through things like this. It was also really good having Chappelle there that week because he's so comedy-minded that his perspective was, "Why wouldn't you want to use this opportunity for comedy? Isn't that why we are doing comedy?" KENWARD Kate was always going to sing a song [for the cold open as Hillary]. One of the ideas was having her sing "Imagine," but then Lorne suggested "Hallelujah." Leonard Cohen had just died, and he'd been a big thing for Lorne growing up in Canada. SCHNEIDER Kate went down to the floor at one or two in the morning on Friday night. They were still building sets, and she was like, "Let me just go play it for you guys and see if it feels right." We all got choked up, and we thought there was no way she's going to get through it without crying. MCKINNON It was very emotional. On an extremely personal level, I had been playing this person for a year and a half, and I grew so attached to her as a person. That song so perfectly encapsulated what I wanted to say.

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marcusssanderson · 6 years ago

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50 Trust Quotes Honoring Confidence, Belief and Faith

The “trust quotes” collection below will help you appreciate the fundamental role it plays in life.

Trust is essential to life. It plays an important role in all aspects of our lives.

Whether in leadership, relationships, business, marriage, or at the workplace; trust holds our world together. It allows us to live and work together, to depend on each other, and to flourish.

Without trust, life becomes intolerable. You can’t have any meaningful relationships without trust. No organisation can achieve success in the absence of trust.

Trust is one of the most precious things in the world. Although life isn’t perfect and some people aren’t trustworthy, we should all make an effort to cultivate, earn, and build it.

To celebrate the important role of trust in our lives, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking trust quotes, trust sayings, and trust proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Trust quotes honoring confidence, belief and faith

1.) ”To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” – George MacDonald

2.) ”If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.” – Selena Gomez

3.) ”Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.” – Eminem

4.) ”Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.” – Brennan Manning

5.) ”To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” – Alan W. Watts

6.) ”Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.” – Seth Godin

7.) ”You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.” – Anton Chekhov

8.) ”A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.” – Cardinal De Retz

9.) ”I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

10.)” None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” – Paulo Coelho

Trust quotes celebrating its role in our lives

11.) ”Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.” – Brandon Cox

12.) ”Trust is involved in all the basic elements of a healthy relationship: namely, love (respect and consideration for another person), communication, commitment and honesty.” – Harold Duarte-Bernhardt

13.) ”Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” – Warren Bennis

14.) ”Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” – Frank Sonnenberg

15.) ”He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.” – Lao Tzu

16.)” We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” – Walter Anderson

17.)” The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers

18.) ”When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.” – Blaine Lee

19.) ”When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” – Stephen R. Covey

20.) ”Self-trust is the first secret of success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust quotes to help you keep it at the forefront of everything you do

21.) ”Trust is what we do each day, when we get out of our bed and put our clothes on. It is the thing that makes it possible for us to keep putting one foot in front of the other.” – Iyanla Vanzant

22.)” With high trust, success comes faster, better, and at lower cost.” – David Neeleman

23.)” Learn to trust yourself, block your negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts and you’ll have energy to spare.” – Bryan Cohen

24.)” Faith begins very small and only grows as we learn to trust the person or item in which we put our faith.” – Dr. A.G. Walp

25.)” Highly successful performers in business and in sports show a level of trust and understanding that separates them from their competition.” – Pete Carroll

26.)” If a person cannot keep her word on a small matter, it is for sure she cannot be trusted with things that really count.” – John Buttrick

27.)” When a person has integrity you can trust what they say and that they live according to their values.” – Jodi Flynn

28.)” Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.” – Tim Mason

29.)” People want to be around those who are up, lively, and happy, all things that engender trust.” Robin Jones

30.)” Three strong attributes, which characterize a person, are hope, trust and a sense of charity.” – M.K. Soni

Trust quotes to help you cultivate, earn and build it

31.) ”Few delights can equal the mere presence of one who we trust utterly.” – George Mac Donald

32.) ”Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.” – Robert. C. Solomon

33.) ”Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” – Jesus Christ

34.) ”If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar

35.) ”Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” – Lawrence Welk

36.) ”I trust you: That’s huge. That’s truth. That’s real love. Everyone uses ‘I love you’ so loosely.” – Justin Chatwin

37.) ”Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.” – Gary Hamel

38.) ”Three things you should never break: promise, trust, and someone’s heart.” – Anonymous

39.) ”Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” – Eric Sevareid

40.) ”All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” – J.M. Barrie

Other trust quotes quotes to inspire and teach

41.) ”The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway

42.) ”Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare

43.)” Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock

44.)” I’ve only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don’t trust my head, I don’t trust my heart, I trust my gut.” – Bryan Adams

45.)” How do you build trust? Trust is earned when everyone’s interests are considered and respected. Communication is the key to do this.” – Sheri Levit

46.)” Trust enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner’s hand, knowing they will be handled with care.” – Carl S. Avery

47.) ”I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” – Maya Angelou

48.)” Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of.” – Bob Vanourek

49.) ”Relationships are about trust. If you have to play detective, then it’s time to move on.” – Anonymous

50.) ”Trust is always earned, never given.” – R. Williams

Which of these trust resonated with you best?

Any successful relationship – whether in business, leadership, with family, or with friends – relies on a level of trust that must be earned.

Trust is fundamental to life. It makes our lives more pleasant and less stressful. Hopefully, the above quotes will help you build and keep trust at the forefront of everything you do.

Did you enjoy the trust quotes above? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

The post 50 Trust Quotes Honoring Confidence, Belief and Faith appeared first on Everyday Power Blog.

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thegloober · 6 years ago

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The Emmys Awarded with Terrible Reviews and the Worst Ratings Ever

The Emmys came and went with a whimper and a marriage proposal on Monday night, leaving most television critics disappointed in just about everything: the hosts, the writing and the winners.

FX’s critically acclaimed spy series “The Americans” never won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in its flawless six-year run, and “Killing Eve” star Sandra Oh did not make history as the first actress of Asian descent to take home the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. (But at least she made history simply by being nominated.)

Actually, even Oscars telecast director Glenn Weiss’s successful proposal to his girlfriend got slammed by the ladies of “The View,” so there was very little everyone could collectively delight in.

But before we get into all of the reasons critics hated this year’s ceremony, a few exceptions to this generality: Henry Winkler finally winning an Emmy for his performance in HBO comedy “Barry,” Regina King winning a trophy for her Netflix limited series “Seven Seconds,” comedian Hannah Gadsby hilariously presenting an award to a winner who wasn’t around to accept it, and a fun sketch handing out “reparation Emmys” to prominent black entertainers from the past.

The rest was generally met with a shrug, culminating in a landslide of bad reviews and news about all-time low ratings landing online Tuesday morning. Deadline reported only 10.172 million viewers tuned in — an 11 percent decrease from last year, which also set a new low at the time.

“The real problem was simply a preponderance of bad ideas and feeble writing, typified by a recurring series of skits featuring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen as bored and clueless Emmys ‘experts’ that set back the alt-comedy cause by decades,” The New York Times critic Mike Hale wrote, also dinging the producers for having popular animated characters Rick and Morty ask “How do you think ‘Atlanta’’s doing?” after the FX comedy had lost in five of its six categories.

As TooFab noted in our coverage, we expected more from hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che — the “Saturday Night Live” head writers who co-anchor “Weekend Update.” And we weren’t alone.

Vulture critic Jen Chaney described their performance as “more listless than I expected them to be” and complained they “somehow managed to suck the funny out of Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen, which is a thing I did not think was possible.”

“Every time two people walked out to present an award, I thought, ‘Why didn’t they ask them to host this thing instead?'” Chaney continued. “Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan? Would have been better. Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson? Also a stronger choice. Connie Britton and Eric Bana? Look, I don’t know if they have comedic chemistry, but I am willing to find out. Also, even though they didn’t present anything, I will sign any petition necessary to get Keri Russell, who was robbed of an Emmy for ‘The Americans,’ and Matthew Rhys, who was not, to co-host this sucker next year.”

In one of the more brutal reviews, Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield described the show as “toothless, flaccid, cramped and tedious.”

“What can you say about a show-biz gala where the highlight is Betty White picking up a lifetime achievement award? Or the guy who directed the Oscars dropping to his knees to ask his girlfriend to marry him? All you can really say is it was the Emmys —- now and always, the dorky underling of the glitzy award shows,” he wrote. “Bumping it to a Monday night is just a polite way of saying ‘Yeah, we got nothing’ —- kind of like bringing in hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che to do agonizingly bland ‘Weekend Update’ schtick. ‘Jesus Christ Superstar Live’ might have turned John Legend into an EGOT winner, but not even he could raise this ceremony from the dead.”

Ouch.

Hollywood Reporter critic Daniel Fienberg piled on the hosts, too, noting they “did a flat monologue and essentially vanished, confirming pre-show suspicions that the ‘Weekend Update’ anchors were ill-matched to the event.”

He also thought the new format for handing out awards made for awkward presentations, which are normally opportunities for writers and performers to liven up the evening with short and sweet hits.

“For the most part, presenters were shoehorned in as part of a rarely attempted innovation in show structure. Categories were introduced and clips were played and then presenters came out. Getting clips in always benefits awards shows, and I’m sure there’s some way that this improved show efficiency, but it left presenters doing banter between the reading of nominee names and the announcement of winners, a major momentum suck,” Fienberg wrote. “When the presenters didn’t have funny things to do, the result was both peculiar and awkward, like, why did they bother having Eric Bana come out onstage at all if he was just going to say “They make the news funny” and leave?”

Kevin Fallon’s Daily Beast review was bluntly headline, “The Emmys Telecast Was a Cringe-Worthy, Tone-Deaf Embarrassment.”

“From lackluster hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che to an unearned demand to be applauded for meager steps toward diversity and inclusion, this was the worst award show in years,” the critic wrote at the top of his blistering review, criticizing the show for relishing in the Emmys most diverse and inclusive group of nominees ever, then making viewers wait 75 minutes for a person of color to win anything.

“It was a show that treated its progress in nomination diversity as a finish line, expecting the telecast to function as a victory lap, cheering for a job well done when it should have fired a starting gun for the work just getting started,” Fallon wrote. “Most confusingly, however, is how the show opened with what was supposed to be a self-aware joke about the fallacy of that exact attitude, the one it then seemed intent on parading around like a proud peacock.”

April Reign, the activist who sparked the #OscarSoWhite movement, also complained the Emmys weren’t truly as diverse as the show was touting. Read her Twitter thoughts below, complete with fun GIFs and memes.

Let’s talk a bit more about what “diversity” is and isn’t, and whether that should be the goal. Last night, @TheEmmys Chairman/CEO Hayma Washington encouraged everyone to give themselves a round of applause for diversity. But… why? pic.twitter.com/wTzU9siKQh