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(We)Americans have sold out the future in exchange for empty promises of immediate prosperity
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Every new tidbit that comes out about the candy-flavored dashcon seems to boil down to, "The organizers were AI enthusiasts who failed to consider the substantial amount of real-world effort that would be required to turn their initial button-pressing into a quality immersive experience."
This story is one of the most bizarre I've ever come across
#ohkotalks#AND THEN the tickets weren't even cheap like c'mon#i don't think this was some sort of villainous plan to scam people either i've been behind the scenes at many such events#the truly egregiously bad ones were that way because the people in charge made MANY dumb decisions
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The Entity H.C.s
· The Entity is a biological organism similar to a tree, and the killers/survivors are the nutrients feeding its roots as it tries to grow strong enough to break into our realm.
· It doesn't 'watch' like an animal would, and isn't generally aware of what is going on outside of trials. Trials are also one of the only times it 'speaks' coherent thoughts to the killers. Even then, it is less like it is talking to them, and more like they are experiencing what it is feeling, with great clarity.
· Both the survivors and killers are so far beneath it, it doesn’t pay any attention as long as they are performing trials, and not doing anything outside of them to jeopardize the emotional payoff during them. i.e. a killer attacking the campfire area in between trials would get punished, because if the survivors don't have a safe spot, how would they hold onto their hope? Killers can still make it to that area, however.
· It has so many pockets under its control, a person or two wandering through realms they have no business being in, or talking to people they have no business talking to doesn't even blip its radar. Even if it were to notice something happening, it isn't thinking critically about the situation, and if it's not something that requires immediate intervention, it won't react or remember.
· It's possible to draw its attention to you, but it requires a large amount of strong emotion that is VERY noticeable, from a group of people, and out of the ordinary.
The headcanon that the Entity’s “real form” is some kind of tree-like creature was adopted from @raycats; she’s also got the best Herman Carter headcanons around, go check her out!
#dead by daylight#dbd headcanons#the entity#hcsbyohko#ohkotalks#i am not a fan of headcanons where the entity is watching everyone like a helicopter parent#worldbuilding
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Having your art explode with likes and reblogs, and then realizing that your artist's comments are gone so no one who sees that art will have context, or be directed to your headcanon blog where the text that goes with said art can be found, feels..... mmmm bad, Scoob.
#ohkotalks#still waiting to see if it was intentional or not#Tumblr can pull some crap sometimes and you gotta allow for that
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2 dayquil washed down with a tallboy can of watermelon monster @ 7:30 am - the most stereotypical welder's breakfast I have ever consumed
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Tags via @tuna-core
It makes me wonder if both goverments have been acting like this for a long time, and got away with it because there WEREN'T any eyes on them? It's only in the last 10-15 years that technology has spread to the point that huge chunks of the population have internet access/smart phones, but before that, who is going to look when there is nothing to see?
So nowadays we've got a disproportionate amount of wealthy older white men(a demographic stereotypically out of touch with technology and the reach of the internet) in charge that are making decisions like they always have(insert all the shit both countries have done since creation here), blissfully unaware (or at least under-estimating) what people can see this time, and how many people are looking.
[Sky News is Private UK Media]
Washington and London opted to strike Yemen with precision bombs rather than accelerating efforts to end violence in Gaza, where more than 20,000 people have been killed in three months. Regional diplomats say the longer that conflict continues, the less possible it becomes to contain.
The language being used by Biden administration is interesting.
"Iran is a primary - if not the primary - enabler or supporter, sponsor of the Houthis and Iran has been involved operationally in the conduct of these attacks," a Biden administration official said.
They don't talk about Iran directing the attacks against shipping or US military in the region in the way that they might have done not long ago.
They talk about Iran being the "enabler" rather than the puppet master. And that's because they know that the "Iranian proxies" in the Middle East are no longer puppets.
Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza - all are established forces making strategic decisions, aligned with Iranian ideology of course and with Iranian-made weapons, but driven by their own ambitions.[...]
The Houthis have claimed their attacks on shipping are in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
They frame it as an international shipping lane-based protest against what they call a genocide.[...]
But make no mistake, among regional populations, the Houthis are seen, not insignificantly, as having chosen to back support for Gaza with material action.
America and the UK chose military action to try to stop the Houthi missiles. They chose to bomb the world's poorest nation with precision bombs. That's risky and optically awkward, to say the least.
Another course would have been to seek to remove the Houthi pretext by accelerating efforts to end the Gaza conflict and solve the Israel-Palestine question.[...]
The Americans have shown an unwillingness or inability to influence Israeli actions in Gaza.
And for that, they have not just lost credibility among regional leaders. America has lost populations in the Middle East these last few months.[...]
[C]rucially, [senior regional diplomats] say that while Iran doesn't seek to escalate all this into a regional war, it cannot mitigate for potential miscalculation in Lebanon, Yemen or Iraq because the groups operating there are more and more independent.
What's happening how is this in Sky [12 Jan 24]
#irl#ohkotalks#i'm sure they've all got aides and assistants to keep them updated#but secondhand updates about a largely online sentiment from someone probably much younger won't alarm the avg 75 yr old
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Headcanon Preferences
I was talking to @trashyslashers about Dead by Daylight headcanons the other night, and that got me thinking about people having a pretty clear preference for either the fluffy, friendly stuff, or the darker, gritty version. I came to conclude that the fandom tends to fall roughly into one of three types of set-ups for the characters:
Outside of trials, most characters get along, with the killers and survivors interacting freely, often hanging out together in between trials.
Outside of trials, the killers and survivors do not usually interact positively, but each group is largely friends with each other; the killers may or may not have their own campfire as well.
Survivors for the most part are on friendly terms with each other, but killers are not only directly antagonistic towards them, but also (with some possible exceptions) towards each other.
It’s a sliding scale of angst, with the third option definitely being the bleakest, but from what I have seen the most popular is option number two. I get it too, people are interested in the characters, and having the characters interact, and the second type is the “pg-13” to one and three’s “G” and “R” respectively; it’s a middle ground. For me though, the progression from one down to three is also a sliding scale of how interested I am/how much I agree with said headcanons, and the reason for that is because of the genre.
Dead by Daylight is a Horror game; the setting is bleak, the characters have pretty awful backstories, and what lore we have reinforces that every single character is having a bad time. With Horror, there are certain aspects that go hand in hand like an underlying sense of fear and uncertainty, characters trying their best but STILL being affected by the trauma of their circumstances, etc, and when I see media that glosses over all of that my first thought is, this isn’t the same base story anymore. It may use the characters and the setting, but Horror isn’t Horror just because there’s some blood and maybe once in a while there’s a reference to death; Horror for me effects the entire feeling of the work, most crucially the character’s mindsets.
Overall, I like positive stories, but for them to be satisfying here there has to be a struggle to get to that state, the characters need to overcome the things that come from being in the Horror setting; isolation(physical or mental), terror, stress, repression, rage, apathy, basically any negative emotion you can name. A character slowly forming a bond with a person that has lost most of the traits we think of as human, and is actively engaged in murdering a lot of people all the time, is much more enjoyable (and realistic tbh) than a killer immediately being friendly because they are totally healthy, stable people outside of trials.
Maybe it’s me being a picky old edgelord, but I like characters that have a lot of depth to them, and killers in DbD fanon in particular being able to instantly form social bonds and behave like your cool new neighbor? That really flattens them out for me; the survivors and killers are distinct groups of people for clear behavioral reasonings. A lot of interpretations of killers file off the sharp, unpleasant points to their personalities, and leave them soft & bland. Much better if, yeah, they are pretty much in the worst spot of their lives & have the social skills/companionship capacity to show for it, but are capable of healing and BECOMING the functional person you want them to be in the end.
I am a big fan of the “Everyone can be better” rhetoric, and I especially like it when applied to “bad” characters. The Good Place put into words something I have loved as a concept, but not thought about concisely, which is Chidi’s quote that ends,”I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people, and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
You wanna ship a killer and a survivor, or have two killers treat each other like family? Go nuts, heck yeah that sounds awesome!! Heal someone with extended love and affection? Boy I die!! People learn to support and rely on each other, and make things just a little bit better for themselves in the process? YESSIR!! Having it kick off from the start with sunshine and rainbows…. well, let’s just say not my cup of tea.
I like to think about these headcanons similarly to the “oh boy, two cakes” analogy i’m sure most people have seen by now, but with an added “sweetness” factor. When I am consuming fan-content that is set in a piece of horror media, I do not usually want something too sickly-sweet because then, why bother going for Horror in the first place? At the same time, I am a soft loser with a deep love for fluff at heart, and if it’s just straight, bitter angst, I have a hard time stomaching it; but again, since it’s Horror, I prefer it to fall much more toward the bitter/balanced than the sugary. Of the three categories, one and two both fall towards the “too sweet 4 me” end, even if number two is technically in the middle it still Disney-fies the killers more than I enjoy.
At the end of the day though, free cake is free cake?? I just can’t bring myself to eat very much of the sweet stuff before needing to take a breather and have something else.
#dead by daylight#headcanons#dbd headcanons#hcsbyohko#ohkotalks#I needed to word this in a way that made sense both to explain where I stood#but also to organize my thoughts on the subject#because sometimes the best way to figure out how you feel is to try to write it out
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Would it be transparent of me to say I'm accepting sketch requests, but only of select Dead by Daylight characters?
And by select, I predictably mean:
Wraith, Trapper, and Huntress.
#and my ocs of course but I am always down for those#ohkotalks#and Hillbilly but ONLY for Trashyslashers#dead by daylight#FINE OKAY and maybe Doctor as well#it's transparent because I have a type and this selection puts it on display
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The one thing I am not looking forward to about welding school is the 7 am start time. In my perfect world, regular obligations do not exist before 10 am
#ohkotalks#it is 10:30 now and I am just getting out of bed#i have not been a morning person since elementary school when I would get up at 6:55 every Saturday#because Pokemon Indigo League came on at 7 and that gave me enough time to get cereal
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Also recently been very sad about this, but I've reached the Las Vegas part of Horizon FW, and cannot help feel like the art teams went OFF with the most incredibly, DEEPLY considered design directions & then executed them flawlessly, while the writers just??? Idk, tapped copy+paste a bunch and called it a day?
If this is just the nostalgia filter talking, someome tell me, but like?? As one example: Yes I KNOW that the Utaru each carry a pouch of seeds from birth SURE you could argue that it's just their culture 2 b nice & they want Aloy to understand, but on the flipside *I* as the player was rolling my eyes by the 4th(and not final!) time I encountered a slightly scrambled version of the SAME FEW LINES across different quests. And there are more examples that I'm not going to list right now (procrastinating on other tasks), but I do not remember this happening near as badly in the first game! The world seems... shallower, this time around.
Are they thinking that they have to write for players that will not bother to clear all of the missions? It feels cheap to prioritize that demographic, were they maybe meddled with by people paid more than them, in the interest of greed? Were they simply not given enough time? I have no idea, but it makes the pit drop out of my stomach a bit, to keep finding all these small disappointments in a game that I've been looking forward to for years. :( :( :(
#ohkotalks#horizon forbidden west#putting this straight into the tags nobody expect quick responses from me tho I have laundry 2 do#video games
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I got distracted from Yuru Camp by video games and Ranma 1/2 being on freevee, but I think today is a good day for more episodes
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Search function with a functional!, advanced filter-system (in addition to standard search filters like date/complex tags/MA warning etc) that allows for:
▪︎excluding certain blogs from the results (does not require me to block someone whom I might otherwise enjoy seeing more opinions from, but unfortunately hate their art and it dominates a tag)
▪︎being able to save complex searches with multiple filters, to select as presets later
▪︎the ability to, as you scroll down through a tag, mark your place somehow in a way that lets you return to that place again when you return to the same tag. This would be especially nice with a functional, chronological search system because it would finally be fun and easy to get at some of the 2010s era fandom art that I KNOW is still on here just VERY difficult to find without a high degree of luck
Folks, what kind of features do you wish Tumblr would have and it doesn't?
Apart from replicating the Tumblr experience (to a point) I would also love to add some extras
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I am 33 today, yaaayyyy
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That's a wrap on week #1 of welding school!
#ohkotalks#it's so fun but i'm not good at it yet#only burned myself twice too which is pretty good#Welding adventures
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It has been so long since I went on a roadtrip I should go on a roadtrip
#fucking love roadtrips used to average about 2 a year#one time in my early 20s I got enough people to fill two cars together and we drove to pensacola FL from austin TX in one straight push#and we left austin at midnight bcuz a couple of us had to work that day and then and we only stayed two days bcuz a couple of us had to work#ohkotalks#been on LOTS of notably fun roadtrips as an adult now actually now that I think about it
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Ohhhh myy gooood, that's amazing!! I will gird my loins and go see it when the time comes, even though i'm a HILARIOUSLY HUGE WEENIE about horror movies lol
Horror games? Love 'em. Haunted houses? Love 'em. Horror movies?? Absolutely not, I will have a heart attack and die. But for my blorbos, I will be brave
@madameocotillo They just greenlit a DBD movie. Still early on so no details, but though you might like it. https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1631325041039220739?s=20
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