#objective choice

[1929crash]

LP Secretary v Social Pressure

AN INFILTRATING MAJORITY CAN OVERCOME RATIONAL THINKING and impose its will with faked unanimity. That was in essence the result of the Solomon Asch experiment measuring how social pressure can change “opinions.” Visualize three lines of different lengths –, —-, ——Display on a card a fourth line: —-. Any fool not totally blind can see that the fourth line matches the middle line of the three. So…

[wojtekaneko]

That's how it went

[snailspng]

Toad/frog netsuke PNGs.

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[incoherentchanting]

this shit is so funny

[gale-force-storm]

Thinking about the fact that, to pull Gale from the stone and get him in the game at all, you have to decide to try to touch an extremely dangerous looking swirling mass of unstable magic. Something that is, objectively, a terrible idea

Like, the options it gives you are to either touch the sigil or leave, and if you leave you just... don't get Gale in the party

You have to take the risk. You have to let your curiosity override your common sense. You have to look at this unstable, possibly dangerous malfunctioning magic sigil and go "...Ok, but what if I poke it?"

In short, to get Gale in your party, you have to do exactly what he would in that situation, and indulge in a moment of reckless curiosity. And I just think that's delightful

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[podcastenthusiast]

Obsessed with them.

[mollysunder]

I know Heimerdinger's Christian Linke's favorite character, and I sort of tolerated it in s1, but now it feels like things are a little too indulgent. Heimerdinger gets to team up with Ekko to launder his reputation through Ekko and the Firelights. Heimerdinger gets the first narrative game and second character teaser in the promotional cycl. Heimerdinger gets to SING A SONG that's included on the s2 Arcane soundtrack (Spin the Wheel).

Maybe I'd be less annoyed if the show at least did more to acknowledge Heimerdinger's failings as a leader, but his character description can't even do that. This is how the official Arcane website describes Heimerdinger:

"Heimerdinger warned the Piltover Council about the dangers of using magic without tangible solutions for safeguarding its use. Learning from his mistakes with Jayce, Heimerdinger inspires Ekko to keep looking for a solution and works with him to solve the problem, instead of just offering advice."

That's not Heimerdinger's main problem! The problem is the fact he's the person most singularly responsible for the state of Zaun and Piltover. It feels like the show and the cast are just dancing around the fact that Heimerdinger technically has the highest body count in the show (Day of Ash, pollution, extreme poverty, etc). The one time someone puts him to task (Jayce), the show makes it seem like Jayce is wrong or overstepped, and yeah he did do it for Viktor's sake, but Jayce was right! Heimerdinger's bad at his job, he shouldn't be in a leadership position if he's a bad leader.

[stealingpotatoes]

I like to imagine that some characters (esp ones that have interactions with surviving jedi) have ‘met a jedi’ before and it was Haja Estree.

I mean within the show’s metanarrative the consensus seems to be that ‘yeah this guy who lies to people and doesn’t actually do magic counts he’s valid’ and I kinda love that for him. Don’t think the rest of the Jedi would though I think Windu would have a ghost hernia.

And statistically someone like Han Solo or Ezra Bridger or Wedge Antilles are much more likely to have met him than any actual other surviving Jedi.

im now imagining haja being both the dareth ninjago of the star wars universe and also being the girls and the gays and coleman meme

[canisalbus]

gothic lolita machete came to me in a dream

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[padmestrilogy]

^ rare clip of a youtuber talking about the acolyte worth unmuting

[knific]

[butchnavi]

if hearing a girl criticize consumerism and beauty/makeup/anti-body hair culture or even just saying they don't like wearing makeup or shaving or performing femininity immediately makes you label them a pick-me maybe that's your own conscience or internalised guilt projecting just sayin'. maybe she isn't the one who thinks you're anti-feminist for wearing makeup (let's face it she most probably doesn't because most people fucking wear makeup) but your visceral defensiveness at someone just existing outside conventional beauty standards says more about you than it probably does about them

[wistfulwatcher]

emily prentiss + leaving and coming back for her family

[vigilskeep]

i have to find something else to do for the next month. thinking about veilguard is NOT a hobby

[thylionheart]

The Odyssey is just Odysseus trying to solve one trolley problem after another and there is never a right answer, my poor man