#math... hard...

[thenickelportrust]

Can we romance any of the super heros? Like red light?

Yes! Some of the ROs have double identities, some of them are heroic, you don't know exactly which ones or who it is (yet) but you'll find out along the way!

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

[multimemes]

[kaiju-krew]

how mothra will stop them from fighting btw

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[aardvaark]

the leverage team would have had a games night… once. everyone cheated so much and in such increasingly extreme ways that all mentions of monopoly are banned in their headquarters (this makes talking about marks who monopolize the market very confusing)

[queenwille]

the fact that people are so comfortable using the word zionist as a slur or ignoring the oct7 massacre or the hostages and still consider themselves as human rights activists simply baffles me

[sysy-studyblr]

wednesday 14/07/2024

today was an absolutely beautiful day

♫ bestfriend - satellite lovers ♫

[brighteuphony]

Gonna bundle these two questions! (ALSO SPICY AT THE BOTTOM)

Sakura had one 'relationship' and that was/is with Aren Uzumaki.

Some backstory:

On their way back from Chiyo's, Saeko, Enji and Sakura were unable to port back in Tea Country- as the civil war came into full effect, and an embargo was placed on all the major ports in an attempt to cripple trade/starve out the big trading cities/ take control of the capital (which was on the coast).

For a few weeks, Sakura and Co. were prisoners on an enemy ship that captured the previous Daimyo's niece, Unami (now heir apparent, given that the rest of her family was murdered).

On their way towards the capital (for a nice public execution), they were boarded by famed Pirate Captain/Smuggler Aren Uzumaki of The Last Sparrow- who took them aboard along with the rest of the spoils.

As the enemy closed all the ports, Sakura realized they would never make it to land for the foreseeable future and offered her services as a healer for the duration of the war in exchange for Saeko, Enji's, and Unami's safety.

Furthermore, Enji helped Unami cut a deal with Aren, in which he was promised legitimacy and exclusive trading contracts with the South under her future rule. Thus, the Last Sparrow became the Command Center for the Civil War for the next eight months.

During that time, Sakura healed, fought, and hassled Aren into teaching her basic strategy, war, and bureaucracy - something the Captain (and Unami) realized she had a good head for. (Sakura would later serve as Unami's consul after the war).

As for Aren, he is extremely intelligent, shrewd, and a powerful fuinjutsu specialist. He's a respected captain and only chose the pirate/smuggler life after the decimation of the Uzumaki clan. When Konoha didn't come to their aid in time during the third war, Aren swore never to be beholden to a shinobi village and took to the seas, denouncing shinobi-hood.

Sakura approached Aren and asked to spend the night with him on the eve of the last battle, and had an on-again, off-again relationship after the war. Aren's first love was the sea, and Sakura never wanted to be second (or third) place in anyone's life ever again, so while they aren't in any official relationship, they do find themselves in each other's arms when they cross paths. (fun fact, Aren calls Sakura 'Wildflower')

When Kankuro was poisoned, The Last Sparrow (legal now!!!) had fortuitously docked at one of Fire Country's port cities. So they could take that to Suna and cut a week off their travel time.

Kakashi was surprised to see that Aren and Sakura knew each other.

He was very unpleasantly surprised to see HOW well they knew each other. He spent a full week seething- as he watched some sleazy Icha-icha knock-off pirate Lothario take advantage of Sakura.

Once again, thank you so much for the lovely words and all the support for this AU!

SPICY UNDER CUT.

[crustaceousfaggot]

I think it's so funny that people are behaving as though all the Disco Elysium spiritual successors are effectively equivalent.

Cause Dark Math's press releases are all along the lines of "We're making a super cool edgy detective RPG. It's gonna be just like Disco Elysium, except with less words and more bullets, because who likes reading, am I right? Anyways, it's gonna be sooo cool and way more fun than Disco Elysium 😎"

And Longdue has said "uhhh yeah we're not really ready to talk about specifics yet. There's probably gonna be some weird psychological dream stuff going on. Idk. It's gonna be fun trust us"

Meanwhile Summer Eternal has hardly done any interviews, and if you read their manifesto and blog entries they're all like "Capitalism and insatiable corporate greed have irrevocably damaged the infant medium of video games. Workers in our field are treated as commodities at best and entirely disposable at worst. We intend to do everything in our power to create an uncompromised, complete, and unapologetic work of art, or we will do down trying. This isn't about making the next Elysium, this is about making something entirely new and revolutionary."

[ryllen]

[deoidesign]

when your main characters start dating after years of writing so they finally get to be like this

[archerdepartures116]

If you hand LQ a Rubix cube during a meeting, he will absent mindlessly solve it. Highly intelligent and detail oriented, just not academically or groupwork minded. He gives dyslexia vibes. You stick him in a situation, he'll find a way out. Sometimes it's brute strength, other times it's him poking things until something happens (this generally depends on how much of a rush he's in). Can you tell I've rotated this man a lot in my head?

I agree with you!! I do not think he is dumb and it makes me really sad when people reduce his entire being to being a meathead haha

he just has a different skillset that isn't academic focused which makes him seem like an outcast. I would say he gives autism but idk

I didn't know what to draw for this ask tbh (my creative steam ran out) but I immediately got flashbacks to my 12th grade math classes when you mentioned academics and uh

..yeah

[yinyuedijun]

honestly I feel like the average tumblr selfshipper (who I've noticed tend to describe themselves as shy or introverted or reserved) doesn't realize how hard they'd be to pull. as a certified fuckboy I can tell you that it so so SOOO much harder to pull a shy person than an extrovert or a flirt HDGLSSJSKJ

[strawberryspence]

im laughing so hard cause i just realized that eddie swooned over the fact that ana taught him math on a date. fast forward a few seasons, he spends a whole episode on season 6 just galavanting around and using buck's newfound mathematical skills. AND then ends the episode by dressing up and going out. platonically or whatever that stare was, edmundo.

[koudelkas]

I promised to dig out my oldsona stuff from 8-10 years ago and here's some of it + some p4-5 if anyone cares haha

[estherax]

So... what do we think about XXX Nightshift? I just saw the trailer and I'm not so sure about it

The user interface, the dialogue box and the skills are carbon copies of Disco Elysium, the only significant difference is the skill portraits (they could be placeholders)

Game description from the trailer is quite something: "Set in 2086, you play a Patrol Op, Dinorah Katz, who is stranded at a luxury Ski resort in Antarctica. This original science-fiction setting lands you in a resort that shouldn’t exist with people that you shouldn’t know with the endless polar night covering a multitude of sins."

The studio being connected to Kaur Kender also raises some questions...

I'm hoping at least one of these "Disco Elysium spiritual successors" will be half as good as the original.... am I being too harsh or are the vibes just off??