#optimization isnt

[deoidesign]

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

[dragonroilz]

ror but the characters are vaguely medieval

[shokupanda]

🍊 updated my sona to have facial hair and glasses and an overall more accurate build so it looks more like me :3

[reddorkredemption]

It makes me sad when people say that Jack 'became everything his parents feared in the end' and 'everyone's sacrifices were wasted on him'. Because it's so defeatist and not necessarily true. ( I also hate the victim-blamey undertone of the 'Jack wasted everyone's sacrifices' claim but that's a whole other discussion… )

The ending of rdr1 is very open-ended-- it's ultimately up to the player what Jack becomes. Yet so many people treat it like a 100% hopeless tragedy, like he's just a lost cause. As if people who've gone through trauma/hardship at a young age are incapable of ever finding happiness or living a normal life again.

He's only 19. His life has just started. Why do y'all wanna act like it's already over?

As far as we know, killing Ross is the only bad thing he did. And I don't think that killing the man who caused the death of your entire family = becoming an outlaw who robs and kills indiscriminately. Plus, it's important to note that the game implies that he does get away with killing Ross.

I've played as Jack a ton to 100% rdr1, and he isn't all doom and gloom like people seem to think he is. I feel like all of his positive traits and potential just get completely erased in favor of angst, and it's sad. :(

I like to think that Jack has a redemption arc of his own after killing Ross because his personality-- his love for and desire to please his departed family-- really lends itself to that. But obviously not through the tired old 'redemption through death' trope. I think he redeems himself by struggling past his hardships and living in spite of them.

One of the most important parts of Jack's character for me is that, despite all their similarities, he is not John. And I think his story should ultimately reflect that.

[fagmaster69696969]

dandy world team creators be like "Main/Research Run!!! Btw you can't play as 80% of the characters"

[ceefra]

the eggs are all alive and the parents tried to get them to pose all cute <3

[ace-apple]

i mean this in the nicest slash lighthearted way possible but i love when ppl fall for the ccs trolling when talking abt the status of their cubitos. like youre actually believing them??? lol. lmao even

[atthebell]

the thing to me about the doied stuff, and this is only partially because i hate angst so i wouldn't be that interested in it lingering, is that if it weren't for the entire shitshow that the server had already become and then worsened into, i don't think it would've taken qcellbit very long at all to figure out it wasn't actually roier. i think he would've figured it out pretty damn fast on his own, and then with pepito's help would've really been like "hey, that's not adding up," and would've gotten to the bottom of it immediately. like i'm not trying to be optimistic atp i truly think that would've been solved very quickly and we would've gotten our beautiful reunion.

but because of purgatory in the first place and then cellbit taking breaks and then the reset (where ccs were told not to do lore heavy stuff and then literally weren't able to regardless), we didn't get any of it. cellbit had to shrug off pepito's attempts at pushing him in the right direction because the admins weren't ready for it/wouldn't allow it (and because he and roier both didn't feel up for heavy rp stuff at the time), and roier never got saved and cellbit never came back to the server at all before the final event. so i think it's a bit unfair to be like "cellbit always said he'd recognize an imposter roier and then he didn't!!!!" when in point of fact he literally could not do so within rp. he had to keep his mouth shut and not get suspicious about any differences, and roier himself was barely ever rping anything differently anyway (and said so explicitly). so what we got was a whole lot of nothing, not through either of their faults (and i don't want to blame anyone other than higher ups and broader communication issues for the choices made here).

idk it just rubs me the wrong way when people ignore meta reasons for things when they really are important for this kind of stuff within the narrative. like, it's not cellbit's fault either that his murder arc got cut short and never got a conclusion-- that was directly because of purgatory! despite him being told literally days beforehand that he could keep going with the arc and get to do all the stuff he planned! it's not baghera's fault that her federation experiment stuff got dropped completely!!! it's not antoine or charlie or max or pol's faults that their shit got ruined! it's not any rper's fault that they were not communicated with appropriately/plans were abruptly changed on them and therefore they couldn't execute any of their planned lore. it's where the cards fell, because of decisions out of their control, and that blows and means there's no canonical closure, but that doesn't mean that like. qcellbit canonically failed to recognize someone else in his husband's skin. it just means that cellboier didn't get to do what they had planned (like four times over, tbc, because they had stuff planned before the eggs went missing, before purgatory, before the reset, and then even after the reset) and the story never got to be finished. which is depressing and disappointing but it feels inaccurate to frame the characters themselves as at fault.

[thelittlespanielthatcould]

found a very cool park with a very cool dog

[volfoss]

First time doing a jumbo muffin w/o explicit package instructions for the time so um. Good god I'm a little scared about it....

[deadwooddross]

i find comparing my characters to larger existing media to be lukewarm most of the time, incredibly baffling other times, generally I never much mind but SOMETIMES people manage to laser pinpoint an exact influence of a char and those times. i am delighted this has happened twice, Margot (Mindy, dishonored) and Umami (Thistle man, Alice Isnt dead), congratulations to those repliers/anons, you got it in one! ...well, three times, if you include Thavu (naruto, but split in half with...you’ll have to guess)

[windupaidoneus]

really funny to me that ppl perceive emets solus body at like 60s. he looks blatantly younger than varis or like, the same age. varis is 46

[marsixm]

finally got to see my coworker again after almost 2 weeks and he confirmed i cant trust most of the ppl at this job and they b talking shit which sucks but also is a relief bc none of the ppl mentioned surprised me, so i do feel like i can trust my senses at least a little, and it reminded me Honestly? to stop giving so much of a fuck about this job. i will show up and do my work good and have nice social interactions with Some of these people. but i dont have to care this much lmao. it just sucks and is sad because it is so hard being the only trans person, one of the only gay people, and one of the few visually Different/alternative people in a place, and also being autistic and never feeling like u can fully trust that you're good with people and theyre not secretly lying and actually hate u... in addition to rehashing something super fucked up that was said to me a week ago by someone i considered one of my favorite people at work that i honestly still havent processed fully! bc it was extremely fucked up!

[thekidsarentalright]

the smiley/frowny face + so much (for) stardust lyrics that represent it

[slythereen]

you know I sometimes wish charles adopted a little bit of max attitude with the media and and public

I just feel like he gives too much of himself and they always saying horrible things about him

maybe I wish he step back a little

Maybe more like kimi, just communicating the basic.

Even the way he talks after race, always making sure to praise carlos and ferrari and say good things. We don't see max doing this with checo, he's just don't give a shit!

And I have the impression ferrari and Carlos don't have the same energy with him, so why he keeps giving?

charles is a better person than me for sure. like, sometimes i'm astonished we're the same age (well, he's turning 26 soon so he's more like a year older) because i would not even PRETEND to have that much grace and self-control. i would LOVE to see more sassy charles in the media and it would warm my soul to see him taking some pointers from max "he's got a lot of personality but personality is what keeps this sport interesting" verstappen.

unfortunately i just don't think charles is... like that? aside from the insane PR training they put him through, he's also just genuinely really nice. i definitely think his "media image" is nicer than he actually is at heart, but tbh i'm not sure how much evil villain era he's got in him, you know? it's what i like about him, as much it makes me SO sad when i see him treated like this by the media and ferrari and That Man.

i also think that charles (with all that PR training) knows what he's doing, too. like. being so sweet and kind is clearly natural to him, but it's also one of his major selling points and what makes him so lovable to many in this sport. he knows, optics wise, that (even when ferrari wrongs him) never speaking an ill word about them in public goes a long way with sponsors and fans, probably. i think it's probably 85% genuine all-consuming love and 15% clever marketing strategy that keeps him from acting out more.

still. every day i wish to see him go feral on main. it would be amazing, and i would love him for it, but i love him a lot precisely because he probably won't.

[bitegore]

someone who is not me has definitely said this before but im coming to think that the existence of power is bad. Like. in a super fundamental way. Power requires someone to be subjugated to someone else's . well, power, lol, authority or control or whatever, because the construction of power is that someone can force or coerce or threaten someone else into doing something they otherwise wouldn't do by application of some consequence or another. even the soft power of 'this person is wise and knows a lot' is a construction where ignoring that person or not listening to them leads to some potential negative consequence, so we obey this wiser and older person for their ability to steer us clear of some imagined dark future mired in suffering; things only get harder from there really. But by like dint of existing in the same space as another person tehress nothing that necessarily subjugates someone else until we start playing power games and using power as a method of organizing the social group.

and like we live in a very power-centric world (obviously) so it's hard to concieve of the world without structures of power in the same kind of way it's hard to concieve of a world without, like, language or the cultural idea of the color blue or whatever, where it's this ingrained logic that just straight up Is part of how the world is run (to us, right now) but we live in a world where we have had problems that existed for millenia that we are killing, one piece at a time, like we are gods who can just turn our backs on cholera and infant mortality and widespread poor crop yield that produces famine and so on (if we choose to, which broadly we have made exclusively available on an exchange-for-money basis because this world is still running entirely on power) so i have to choose to believe that one day we will be able to turn our back on the idea of Forcing someone to do something as the only way to make any headway in society or to allow civilization to function and we will be living in a world miles better for it