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From what I could gather, your government may be a shitstorm at the moment, but thank God that doesn't stop the heritage thing.
I won't let such a silly thing like the collapse of the German Government stop me from my full-time job of reblogging posts on a failing social media site.
#not a heritage post#ask#also. as things currently are they don't affect me at all#or any citizen really#we're gonna have new elections in spring#and depending on how that goes I will either post the image of Layton celebrating with a party popper#or post the image of Layton dead on the ground
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"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.
#i dont think you realize how repelling you and your politics are to everyone else#you get all of your validation for how Smart You Are from your friends and ignore any kind of feedback that suggests you should#change or do something differently. thats the only reason you're so convinced average people will go along with you bc you keep getting#affirmation from the people who ALREADY agree with you- but you have NO IDEA how to bridge the gap between people who agree#with you and disagree with you. you're horrible at convincing people of your side of things outside of straight up guilt tripping them#or bullying them like a highschooler. im sorry but the tools you learned to survive with as a kid aren't gonna help you in this situation.#the ONLY THING you can come up with to bridge that gap is a bloody revolution. thats how bad you are at this.#and you're also so bad at this and unimaginative that you dont even realize how THAT might not even be enough.#you cant imagine ANY kind of avenue to getting people to change AT ALL outside of blood and fire. and thats why people call you#an authoritarian.#i'll be honest- i really do think the world would be a better place if we did incremental change under a democratic president who wont#set the world on fire vs the godkingemperor republican WHO WONT EVEN LISTEN TO YOU AT ALL EVER AND MIGHT KILL YOU#FOR PUTTING UP A STINK. idk if you noticed but if that evil fuck gets into office we are severely outnumbered if he gets police#n shit to go after his own citizens. letting trump win is making this battle so much harder than it needs to be.#you are choosing trying to fix the world while its exploding vs trying to fix it before it explodes at all.#what is this like a procrastination thing? you wanna wait till the last minute to try? idfgi. wtf is wrong with you#throwing minority lives away to prove a point. and then you try to tell me you care. gtfoh.#accelerationists should never be taken seriously.
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fake ep idea + doodles
#i was thinking abt how funny it would be if there was a shiftythrifting blog equivalent in lmk. and half the stuff on there is#submitted by wukong. so i thought a yard sale ep would be funny lol#basically the hoard becomes problem one way or another and wukong figures the best way to get rid of his junk is thru ebay#somehow ends up selling world ending artifacts to random megapolis citizens so mk mei and redson have to scramble to find em#purposely meant to mirror the weekly shenanigans s1-2 style eps that are really goofy (dumpling ep noodles ep etc)#but it gets darker and darker because MK is not fucking ok after that whole thing with the scroll and some unchecked identity crisis#for me id want him to kind of. freak tf out because they have to find MULTIPLE chaos inducing items that could end the world while trying t#be sillygoofy and funny about it. so hes trying to mask his panic with âohhh guys its just like the good ol days ^_^ remember that ^_^â#ESPECIALLY after that whole thing with the ink scroll. also mei doesnt buy any of it and is worried for him the whole time#as for the B plot it could be monkey king also trying to be very relaxed abt selling 4000 years worth of stuff and tang getting all huffy#like âthese are priceless artifacts that could help us learn so much about the past!! wtf man!!!â#and maybe it reveals smth like wukong not wanting to hold on anymore bc his past weighs him down. and theyre all reminders#i think azure mentioned that wukong is sentimental (idk if that was genuine or lying to mk) so that could be touched on to#so basically. the theme would be some sort of conversation abt nostalgia. i think. im not a writer so its very fuzzy in my head#if anyone wants to add on or include their own spin on it feel free. also included undercut redson as a treat somewhere in there#myart#lego monkie kid#monkie kid#lmk red son#lmk mei#lmk MK#lmk xiaotian#lmk xiaojiao#lmk sun wukong#lmk swk#doodles#lmk tang#lmk pigsy#lmk traffic light trio#yard sale ep
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targeting civilians. murdering them, raping them, torturing them, and then desecrating their bodies. annihilating entire families. kidnapping babies as young as 6 months and Holocaust survivors as old as 100. shooting down attendees at a rave that was for peace. this is not freedom fighting. this is not liberation. and this will certainly not free palestine.
all this does is cause more suffering for both israelis and palestinians. all this causes is war and death and atrocities.
it is terrorism. if you try to justify it, you are supporting terrorism.
#jumblr#jewish#israel#peace#what's heart breaking is most in gaza have been polled in favor of increasing ties with israel#what's heart breaking is how many people are showing how deeply seeded their antisemitism is#and i'm sure i'll get hate for this but what's really heart breaking is how little people seem to understand#israel is not a colonial construct#the jewish people are indigenous to israel#israel is SUCCESSFUL decolonialization#there is no occupation in gaza#that has not been any israelis or jews in gaza since 2005#the blockade only went up in 2007 when Hamas took over and began terrorizing israeli citizens#if this was about the blockage there would be the same thing happening in egypt#it's not about the blockage#Hamas's charter declares that their goal is not to ~free palestine~ but to murder all jews#this is antisemitism#this is what the nazis did#if you think for a second you would have stood up to the nazis#but justified what is happening right now#you're wrong and you're an antisemite
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Hi! Can you explain what really the power of foresight was with Faramir? I read the books earlier this year and I don't really quite understand it. He could predict the future? Like he would see it in his dreams? But how did he found out from Gollum that he was taking frodo and sam to cirith ungol and that he had committed murder before?
No problem, it's one of my favorite topics!
The concise explanation: I think Faramir's foresight/aftersight in terms of visions is a largely separate "power" from his ability to bring his strength of mind and will to bear on other people and animals, and to resist outside influence. The visions seem more a matter of broad sensitivity, something Faramir doesn't appear to have much if any control over. The second power is (in our terms) essentially a form of direct telepathy, limited in some ways but still very powerful, and I think this second ability is what Faramir is using with Gollum.
The really long version:
In my opinion, Faramir (or Denethor, Aragorn, etc) doesn't necessarily read thoughts like a book, particularly not with a mind as resistant as Gollum's. Faramir describes Gollum's mind in particular as dark and closed, it seems unusually soâ
"There are locked doors and closed windows in your mind, and dark rooms behind them," said Faramir.
Still, Gollum is unable to entirely block Faramir's abilities. In LOTR, it does not seem that Gollum can fully block powerful mental abilities such as Faramir's, though his toughness and hostility does limit what Faramir can see. (Unfinished Tales, incidentally, suggests iirc that Denethor's combination of "great mental powers" and his right to use the Anor-stone allowed him to telepathically get the better of Saruman through their palantĂri, a similar but greater feat.) I imagine that this is roughly similar to, but scaled down from, Galadriel's telepathic inquiries of even someone as reluctant to have her in his mind as Boromir, given that Faramir is able to still see some things in Gollum's mind, if with more difficulty than usual.
(WRT Boromir ... ngl, if I was the human buffer between Denethor and Faramir, I would also not be thrilled about sudden telepathic intrusions from basically anyone, much less someone I had little reason to trust.)
Disclaimer: a few years after LOTR's publication, Tolkien tried to systematize how this vague mystical telepathy stuff really works. One idea he had among many, iirc, was that no unwilling person's mind could be "read" the ways that Gollum's is throughout LOTR. IMO that can't really be reconciled w/ numerous significant interactions in LOTR where resistance to mental intrusion or domination is clearly variable between individuals and affected by personal qualities like strength of will, basic resilience, the effort put into opposition, supernatural powers, etc. And these attempts at resistance are unsuccessful or only partially successful on many occasions in LOTR (the Mouth of Sauron, for one example, is a NĂșmenĂłrean sorcerer in the book who can't really contend with Aragorn on a telepathic level). So I, personally, tend to avoid using the terminology and rationales from that later systematized explanation when discussing LOTR. And in general, I think Tolkien's later attempts to convert the mystical, mysterious wonder of Middle-earth into something more "hard magic" or even scientific was a failed idea on a par with Teleporno. Others differ!
In any case, when Gollum "unwillingly" looks at Faramir while being questioned, the creepy light drains from his eyes and he shrinks back while Faramir concludes he's being honest on that specific occasion. Gollum experiences physical pain when he does try to lie to Faramirâ
"It is called Cirith Ungol." Gollum hissed sharply and began muttering to himself. "Is not that its name?" said Faramir turning to him. "No!" said Gollum, and then he squealed, as if something had stabbed him.
I don't think this is a deliberate punishment from Faramirâthat wouldn't be like him at allâand I don't think it's the Ring, but simply a natural consequence of what Faramir is. Later, Gandalf says of Faramir's father:
"He can perceive, if he bends his will thither, much of what is passing in the minds of men ... It is difficult to deceive him, and dangerous to try."
So, IMO, Faramir's quick realization that Gollum is a murderer doesn't come from any vision of the future or past involving Gollumâthat is, it's not a deduction from some event he's seen. Faramir does not literally foresee Gollum's trick at Cirith Ungol. His warning would be more specific in that case, I think. What he sees seems to be less detailed but more direct and, well, mystical. Faramir likely doesn't know who exactly Gollum murdered or why or what any of the circumstances were. Rather, Gollum's murderousness and malice are visible conditions of his soul to Faramir's sight. Faramir doesn't foresee the particulars of Gollum's betrayalâbut he can see in Gollum's mind that he is keeping something back. Faramir says of Gollum:
"I do not think you are holden to go to Cirith Ungol, of which he has told you less than he knows. That much I perceived clearly in his mind."
Meanwhile, in a letter written shortly before the publication of LOTR, Tolkien said of Faramir's ancestors:
They became thus in appearance, and even in powers of mind, hardly distinguishable from the Elves
So these abilities aren't that strange in that context. Faramir by chance (or "chance") is, like his father, almost purely an ancient NĂșmenĂłrean type despite living millennia after the destruction of NĂșmenor (that destruction is the main reason "NĂșmenĂłreanness" is fading throughout the age Faramir lives in). Even less ultra-NĂșmenĂłrean members of Denethor's family are still consistently inheriting characteristics from their distant ancestor Elros, Elrond's brother, while Faramir and Denethor independently strike Sam and Pippin as peculiarly akin to Gandalf, a literal Maia like their ancestress Melian:
âAh well, sir,â said Sam, âyou [Faramir] said my master had an elvish air; and that was good and true. But I can say this: you have an air too, sir, that reminds me of, ofâwell, Gandalf, of wizards.â
He [Denethor] turned his dark eyes on Gandalf, and now Pippin saw a likeness between the two, and he felt the strain between them, almost as if he saw a line of smouldering fire drawn from eye to eye, that might suddenly burst into flame.
Meanwhile, Faramir's mother's family is believed to be part Elvish, a belief immediately confirmed when Legolas meets Faramir's maternal uncle:
At length they came to the Prince Imrahil, and Legolas looked at him and bowed low; for he saw that here indeed was one who had elven-blood in his veins. "Hail, lord!" he [Legolas] said. "It is long since the people of Nimrodel left the woodlands of LĂłrien, and yet still one may see that not all sailed from Amrothâs haven west over water."
In addition to that, Faramir's men believe he's under some specific personal blessing or charm as well as the NĂșmenĂłrean/Elvish/Maia throwback qualities. It's also mentioned by different groups of soldiers that Faramir can exercise some power of command over animals as well as people. Beregond describes Faramir getting his horse to run towards five NazgĂ»l in real time:
"They will make the Gate. No! the horses are running mad. Look! the men are thrown; they are running on foot. No, one is still up, but he rides back to the others. That will be the Captain [Faramir]: he can master both beasts and men."
Then, during the later retreat of Faramir's men across the Pelennor:
At last, less than a mile from the City, a more ordered mass of men came into view, marching not running, still holding together. The watchers held their breath. "Faramir must be there," they said. "He can govern man and beast."
Tolkien said of the ancient NĂșmenĂłreans:
But nearly all women could ride horses, treating them honourably, and housing them more nobly than any other of their domestic animals. The stables of a great man were often as large and as fair to look upon as his own house. Both men and women rode horses for pleasure ⊠and in ceremony of state both men and women of rank, even queens, would ride, on horseback amid their escorts or retinues ⊠The NĂșmenĂłreans trained their horses to hear and understand calls (by voice or whistling) from great distances; and also, where there was great love between men or women and their favorite steeds, they could (or so it is said in ancient tales) summon them at need by their thought alone. So it was also with their dogs.
Likely the same NĂșmenĂłrean abilities were used for evil by Queen BerĂșthiel against her cats. In an interview with Daphne Castell, Tolkien said:
She [BerĂșthiel] was one of these people who loathe cats, but cats will jump on them and follow them aboutâyou know how sometimes they pursue people who hate them? I have a friend like that. Iâm afraid she took to torturing them for amusement, but she kept some and used themâtrained them to go on evil errands by night, to spy on her enemies or terrify them.
The more formal version of the BerĂșthiel lore recurs in Unfinished Tales:
She had nine black cats and one white, her slaves, with whom she conversed, or read their memories, setting them to discover all the dark secrets of Gondor, so that she knew those things "that men wish most to keep hidden," setting the white cat to spy upon the black, and tormenting them.
Faramir, by contrast, has a strong aversion to harming/killing animals for any reason other than genuine need, but apparently quite similar basic abilities. He typically uses these abilities to try to compassionately understand other people or gather necessary information, rather than for domination or provoking fear. Even so, Faramir does seem to use his mental powers pretty much all the time with no attempt to conceal what he's doingâhe says some pretty outlandish things to Frodo and Sam as if they're very ordinary, but it doesn't seem that most people he knows can do all these things. This stuff is ordinary to him because it flows out of his fundamental being, not because it's common.
It's not clear how much fine control he has, interestingly. This is more headcanon perhaps, but I don't feel like it's completely under his control, even while it's much more controlled than things like Faramir's vision of Boromir's funeral boat, his frequent, repeated dreams of NĂșmenor's destruction, the Ring riddle dream he received multiple times, or even his suspiciously specific "guess" of what passed between Galadriel and Boromir in LothlĂłrien. Yet his more everyday mental powers do seem to involve some measure of deliberate effort in a lot of the instances we see, given the differing degrees of difficulty and strain we see with the powers he and Denethor exhibit more frequently and consistently.
This is is also interesting wrt Ăowyn, because Tolkien describes Faramir's perception of her as "clear sight" (which I suspect is just Tolkien's preferred parlance for "clairvoyance"). Faramir perceives a lot more of what's going on with Ăowyn than I think he had materially observable evidence forâbut does not see everything that's going on with her by any means. He seems to understand basically everything about her feelings for Aragorn, more than Ăowyn herself does, but does not know if she loves him [Faramir].
I'm guessing that it's more difficult to "see" this way when it's directly personal (one of the tragedies of his and Denethor's relationship is that their shared mental powers do not enable either to realize how much they love each other). But it also doesn't seem like he's trying to overcome Ăowyn's mental resistance the way he was with Gollum, and possibly Frodo and Samâhe does handle it a bit differently when it's not a matter of critical military urgency. With Ăowyn, he sees what his abilities make clear to him, is interested enough to seek out Merry (and also perceive more than Merry says, because Faramir has never been a normal person one day in his life) but doesn't seem to really push either of them.
So I tend to imagine that with someone like Faramir, Denethor, Aragorn etc, we're usually seeing a relatively passive, natural form of low-grade telepathy that simply derives from their fundamental nature and personalities (as we see in Faramir with Ăowyn, possibly Faramir with Aragorn). That can be kicked up to more powerful, forceful telepathy via active exertion of the will (as described by Gandalf wrt Denethor's ability to "bend[] his will thither" to see what passes in others' minds, and seen with Faramir vs Gollum, Aragorn vs the Mouth of Sauron, more subtly Faramir vs Denethor). At a high point of strain this can be done very aggressively or defensively (Denethor vs Gandalf, Denethor vs Saruman, Denethor vs Sauron seriously is there a Maia that man won't fight, Faramir vs the Black Breath given his completely unique symptoms that Aragorn attributes to his "staunch will", possibly Aragorn vs the Black Breath in a healing capacity...).
Anyway, I hope these massive walls of text are helpful or interesting! Thanks for the ask :)
#honestly hilarious that first age men straight-up lie to the fĂ«anorians and nobody has any idea#gollum says a one-word falsehood to faramir and starts screaming. some people are just made different i guess#(more seriously i think these abilities are so different between lotr and the silm because of narrative structure and functions#faramir and denethor aren't insignificant but are placed in such a way that their abilities support lotr's structural integrity#rather than breaking the logic of the story the way really-good-at-telepathy fĂ«anorians would#...hence the awkwardness of finding something for galadriel and celeborn to be doing lmao. the real problem children of tolkien lore!#aragorn /is/ central enough to cause problems but his abilities are less specifically focused on telepathy so it works#i bet random citizens of pelargir felt that berĂșthiel's very faramir-ish abilities were absolutely OP though#...justice for gondorian cats honestly. i know tolkien was weird about feline life but i choose to believe faramir is a friend to cats)#anghraine babbles#legendarium blogging#legendarium fanwank#anon replies#respuestas#faramir#jewel of the seashore#hĂșrinionath#denethor#smĂ©agol#lord of the rings#jrr tolkien#anghraine's meta#long post#the letters of jrr tolkien#nature of middle earth#berĂșthiel#anghraine's headcanons#Ă©owyn
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In your, Ani comes to the future AU. in regard to the pod racing who is dumb enough to talk shit to Vader all 6 feet 8 inches of him.
if you have a survival instinct, you move off tatooine IMMEDIATELY. everything on that planet is trying to kill you and if you're scared of ANYTHING it will succeed! so the only people left there are the people insane enough to chat gas to the scariest man in the galaxy <3
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Your post about yandere! small town is absolutely delicious đ Please tell us more about them!!!
I'm glad you like it, thank you so much!
So to begin with, a little bit about the town itself. There is only one road in and out of town and it is several turns off the highway. The only people who come into town on a regular basis are truck drivers delivering goods to the local shops. There is almost nothing in town to appeal to regular tourists except for camping under the stars as a way to get away from the modern world. You may encounter some people taking advantage of this isolated society to run from their past out there.
Despite having a relatively small population, the town itself is rather large as the wilderness is technically incorporated since around 15% of people living in cabins out there. The rest is a densely packed downtown, with shops branching off Main Street and roads leading to residential districts. Of course, your neighborhood is one of the densest (and most expensive) with many hastily built apartments surrounding you.
The nearest city is almost an hour away by car. Since regular civilization is so far away, most produce and dairy come from local farms. However, most citizens will still make a trip to the city every once in a while to get non grocery items like medicine and hygiene products at a cheaper price since local stores have much higher prices (for everyone but you). People may try to gain favor with you by bringing you things from the big city that you canât find in town.Â
There is a church in town that later became the community center when no one used it. If you yourself are religious and want to practice in a house of worship, other townsfolk will join you but it won't get used beyond that. You may or may not notice that people only practice said religion while youâre present and that there arenât followers of other beliefs in town. Little do you know, the church/community center has an underground floor kept completely hidden from you. This is where the temple dedicated to you resides. Here, there are paintings of you and random things that have been stolen from you, along with benches and an altar for citizens to worship and pray to you.Â
Living within the church are your most dedicated disciples. These people devote themselves to tending to your shrine, taking a vow to never leave once initiated (the only exception is if you wanted to invite them out- they would never deny you anything). They will also punish sinners (anyone who doesnât respect you enough or tries to take you out of town) and keep the church free of fighting as it is considered holy ground, never to be tainted by spilled blood. They are well respected among the community and enjoy special privileges. For instance, since they never leave and canât encounter you in public, the little time they do get to spend with you is never interrupted. They also get free information about you from brokers and have access to a live feed of your whereabouts from the librarian.
#iâm really bad with naming things so let me know if you have any suggestions for what to name the town or citizens#yandere town#yandere scenarios#yandere imagines#yandere x reader#yandere headcanons#my writing
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claire should be allowed to engage in psychological warfare against hunt. and my god if she isn't the greatest psyop of them all
#okay so this works this way: she stands next to him. she's in his vicinity#thatâs step 1 of psychological warfare. her mere presence disturbs him#step 2 is being really stupid on purpose. just say the most ludicrous thing that comes to mind#but there's sophistication. not any ludicrous thought but something tailored for him. she can't just say the earth is flat you know#on spot she'll come up with 5 reasons why citizen kane is overrated sth like that. she knows he needs to be engaged. sth he can't ignore#step 3 after he gets very angry very fast over something very trivial (because he will) she doubles down HARD#and she does it with a moue and very confused as to why heâs answering this way. has she done anything? why is he so angry at her?:(#step 4 is to overuse his title. two reasons for this: remind him of propriety and because she's really weird#step 5 is to observe how long he takes to notice sheâs messing with him. then she writes it down because sheâs conducting an experiment#<- this is different from the times when they actually argue. this is done for entertainment purposes. she does this when sheâs bored#when claire is really really bored she raises her hand in class#to be fair it's his fault for indulging her. unknowingly. but he is indulging her. you should never indulge claire swanson#bonus step 6 she does The Face#this is how her first two years in hollywood u are like by the way
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June was the only woman older than Katara and Suki to show up and help the Gaang in the finale and I think thatâs ridiculous. We could have seen Yagoda and the Herbalist in the White Lotus (and Miyuki!! She has a cute miniature lotus collar). Perhaps even Haruâs mom showing up somewhere?? IDK the lack of older ladies as respected guides and teachers is irksome and until further notice Iâm headcanoning out of spite that they were there we just didnât see their scenes but they were there dammit
#atla meta#look I love the old men#they are such blorbos#but Yagoda and Hama as teachers?#they really got the short end of the stick#Yagoda gets forgotten even when Katara becomes a successful healer bc Katara didn't want to go to her class therefore the class sucked#which is ass#and then Hama was a victim of the Fire Nation who began harming citizens and forced Katara to learn a perverse sub-bending ability#don't get me wrong I love the ideas for bloodbending especially the thought of it as a medical aid but the way it was introduced#and forcing Katara to learn it the way she did was traumatic to her#We get barely any lady teachers older than the girls in the Gaang and that's really sad#and this sort of ties into Ursa's lack of complete character and the lack of guiding maternal figures#and how there's hardly any mention of the wives and mothers in the FN royal family and their characters#whoops I'm starting to ramble
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So Israel spent the last month lying and making up fake self-victimising stories and expect us to believe that they didn't kill their own hostage, showed tunnels in Sweden and said they were under Al Shifa, put their own laptops with labels and passed them off as belonging to Hamas somehow fully charged with no passwords, showing us the days of the week poster and saying it was a list of Hamas people, lining up weapons neatly against a wall and ughhh I can keep listing the kindergarten level setups they've done to convince impressionable people but please use your brains.
#they've been stumbling over their own lies for a while now#and they're really desperate after losing control of the narrative this past month#i don't get the weapons thing though#why is it ok that you have billions in weapons from thr US and every one of your citizens is armed but the people you are oppressing can't#can't have any#even tho i know the stuff they showed belonged to IDF#why should everyone react in shock even if it did belong to Hamas?#palestine#israel#free palestine#gaza#gaza strip#middle east#free gaza#fuck israel
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guys hear me out would painis cupcake pay taxes? Because heâs not like mega insane like ass pancakes I think heâd pay his taxes in my professional opinion.
#I also had a conversation with my friend about if he had to wear a suit why would he#We discussed for a very long while(6 minutes) and the discussion was very enlightening#Slowly turning painis into a functional human in societyâŠ#Except you know he eats people that isnât really stuff normal people do#this is a joke btw#I think he would pay his taxes but if the tax people are rude to him he wouldnât#I think it really depends#Does he even have any taxes to pay? Because he doesnât have a job I assume so he doesnât have any money#But theoretically if heâs like working for another freak and heâs getting paid or something#Idk guys I might be going a little bit bonkers⊠heâs helping me get out of art block at least#Oh I hope all these tags donât accidentally show up in another tag that would be bad Iâve seen that happen#Iâve already typed so much though#Itâd be funny if there was painis angst because I wouldnât be able to take it seriously because his name is penis basically#Why am I only saying painis Iâm going to tag him anyway#Painis cupcake#there#alright anyways painis cupcake angst would be fucking hilarious imo#My professional opinion#Mmhmmm Iâm a professional in being stupid#My friends will call me spedpool on hallowen#I took 2 yardsticks in stem and I pretended to be said guy in the red suit I donât want to tag him because I donât want someone to#Find this unhinged rant about painis cupcake that got way off track woah#Ok continuing on the painis rant#I canât draw him with pencil for some reason he looks so weird#I can draw soldeir just fine with pencil probably even better than online but whenever I try to draw painis he looks like a pile of dog shi#A moist pile the kind that would make steam if itâs cold outside#I feel like it he tried painis cupcake would really be a great functional citizen#Oh wow I wrote a lot my bad
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kinda funny how cities skylines has this cutesy fun vibe but you are basically a dictator in it and the citizens ask for prisons and cops even if you build a perfect city while Frostpunk 2 has this stressfull dark mood but there is a council you have to convince to vote for your ideas and you can have things like equal pay for everyone, ubi, support for disabled people, etc
#you know like... even if c.s. doesnt present itself as a game with politics everything has politics in it#sure it lets me make some environment friendly decisions but i cant make a city without any cars or solve housing issues with lowering the#cost of housing. but i can lower the cost for schools or waste management#some decisions were made there on what is and is not possible#ok fp2 has crime as a problem and one of the anwers to it is to have a secret police lol but the tone there is different#... yeah i can lower the taxes on houses but even if i really lower them sometimes the citizens still cant afford it
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So far, Calcinidae Bay has:
A public primary & secondary school
A sports field
One public library
A spa
A cinema
One hotel/restaurant (somewhat fancy)
A city hall
A water park
A mall (supermarket, tech store, chain restaurant, chain cafe, jewellery, newsagency, clothing)
A train station
A small organic store/cafe
A pawn shop with an apartment upstairs
One apartment lot with 4 individual flats
10~ residential lots
The Kitstop (important)
What do you think I should prioritise next? đ€ I'd love to build a park/playground but I really want those to fit into the surrounding lots & suburbs, so I can't really build them until I've built said lots, LOL.
What would YOU build next?
#I wanna do an apartment building but that's really just for my own amusement#I'm trying to identify what this town actually NEEDS and feelin kinda stumped#I guess my heart says it should probably be a clinic/pharmacy but I'm wondering what else#Calcinidae Bay#no idea is too silly or too mundane I wanna hear what you would do in my position#when I get to this stage in BaCCs I also get kinda lost on where to go next lol#actually it really needs a more generic cafe bc the ones we have are kinda niche#and a restaurant#looking at this is so funny. like mayor! mayor! our citizens are dying and we don't have any sort of medical centre!#i hear you. build a water park
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how do you start sth like this even?..
uhm, hi, so; recently i picked up this video game, i bought it cause i really loved another game its creators made and i wanted to check out their previous work. i'm talking about citizen sleeper (which this post isnt about but this is totally an amazing experience!!!) and jump over the age's first game;
in other waters
its a game about Ellery Vas, a xenobiologist in their dive suit following the tracks of Minae, a former work colleague and friend, onto an exoplanet (which btw is a real planet, but â as far as i know â isn't filled with water and life) and discovering what happened there.
however, your (the player's) point of view is not that of either one of these two friends, but instead that of the supporting AI inside the dive suit (kinda like siri but cool bc its you).
and this is where my adoration for this game comes from:
all you get to see is a user interface.
the mesmerizing wide depths of the ocean, the new species you discover in these foreign waters, the multiple suns that never set because of the tidally locked orbit of the planet,
you get to see none of it.
all you get, is a navigation interface on a map consisting of vague shapes in three, maybe four, colors max at a time;
the AI's POV.
and yet, the game still manages to deliver its environments and story convincingly.
shallow waters feel shallow, depths feel deep, hazardous areas feel toxic, life feels alive, Ellery feels like a person, a scientist who's working together with you to find out what happened to their friend, and to the life on this planet, and you feel responsible for your human.
i'll leave you with a few more screenshots, maybe you'll see what i mean:
apart from the obvious (the colors) it's also the interactions with Ellery that make this game feel so;; alive
they describe the world to you, though not always directly, sometimes you have to read their diary entries, their research notes, their coments on landmarks.
as you explore and scan and sample the different life forms around you, you unlock taxonomy entries for different species, and completing research on each of them will unlock a sketch of the life form from Ellery
(spoiler ahead i guess; just one example)
you end up caring for them because they are your eyes, your window into the real (well, as real as video games get) world, and yet, the only way you can communicate with them is occasionally answer yes or no to a question.
or is it? because i felt that through my actions in the game i was showing them i cared, and i that wanted to help. the entire game felt like a conversation between me and this somewhat lost scientist. when they thanked me for helping them out and looking after them, it feels heartfelt and appropriate; not cold and out of nowhere because "we need a bonding moment"
also, the soundtrack and sound design of this game just create the perfect atmosphere:
so, tldr, i am amazed by how jump over the age conveys this foreign environment, makes me care for their characters, and tells their story convincingly, all with nothing but a few colored lines n blobs, a bit of text, and a wonderful soundtrack.
tldr^2: in other waters is an amazing video game.
thanks for reading if u made it this far âč3
- Lu
#video games#in other waters#jump over the age#citizen sleeper#game design#i really love this game#it's not dethroning any of my favorites any time soon but the time i've spent with it felt 100% worthwhile and i enjoyed it!!!#Spotify
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#N posts stuff#roll20#citizen doctor abraham mehermblur#dnd chaos#brennan lee mulligan#fighting for my Life trying to make these on ezgif i NEED to [download] photoshop#cannot figure out how to make the captions look good on this site#but i can't believe i can't find any gifs of this character like he Rocks#or really anything from these like. one shots they're Delightful#i love the chaotic undead miss frizzle energy brennan started bringing to this character in the 2nd round lol
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eddie boi was at the peak of "him being interesting in any way, shape or form" when he was feeding on baddies & he did more for the sake of humanity than the Cullen & Denali âšïžecological disasterâšïž clans put together đ„°đ§ââïžđ©ž
#the *vegetarian* vamps mean well but they're literally worse for the natural world#who is carlisle to decide what creatures don't have souls#he bends the damn rules all the time#he also is worth billions of dollars#is he using any of this to help humanity? lmao nah#yeah he's a doctor#it's just too bad he can't openly use his vampire abilities to do MORE#but I don't necessarily blame him for that since i agree with the volturi in that vamps need to be secret to be safe#how the cullens & denalis aren't obvious is beyond me#so i agree with the headcanon that nearby humans have an idea what they are but don't really care lol#pretty sure they're both cults & that's none of my business - nearby citizens probably lmao#twilight#twilight saga#new moon#eclipse#breaking dawn#twilight renaissance#edward cullen#carlisle cullen#esme cullen#alice cullen#jasper hale#rosalie hale#emmett cullen#bella swan#the vegetarian vamps are more like humans than they think & I don't mean that as a compliment#i'm in a love hate relationship with this media lmfao#today i'm choosing hate đ
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