#potato rants

[potatoqueenpal]

WHY is there racism and misogyny and homophobia in the Redacted Fandom right now?! What is going on?!

Yall it is literally just a bunch of VOICES.

THE LISTENERS CAN BE WHATEVER RACE, BODY TYPE, SEXUALITY SAME WITH THE CHARACTERS IT IS LITERALLY ALL UP TO INTERPRETATION THERE IS NO CANNON DESIGN. SO FUCKING. CHILL THE FUCK OUT.

JESUS CHRIST.

[gunghopotato]

BRO! Was that ending a fucking season 2 teaser???? Fr? On god?! Just like that??! My fucking HEART, BRO!

Such a great show 😫

I cry

Please watch Scavengers Reign, if you haven't already. 10/10

[jokerthepotatouwu]

In celebration of finally finishing RE6 with my friend yesterday, I've decided to share a little something. Presenting...

QUOTES I HAVE SAID/THOUGHT WHILE PLAYING RE6 CHAPTER 5 CHRIS CAMPING AS PIERS

"Wait, am I hitting it?"

"Get the fuck down, bitch!"

"It's so hard to aim like this when it's up there."

"Piers, I know it's hard to control lighting, but please aim a bit better."

"I have to use your screen to see if I'm hitting it because I can't see like this XD"

"How does he still have half an arm left? Bro should have no arm."

"Oh shit, wait, I can heal on my own! That's so cool."

Friend: "Did you just pick up my herb?"

Me: "Yes..."

Friend: "Fucking... Can you at least open inventory?"

Me: "No..."

Friend: "Then why did you pick it up?!"

Me: "I'm sorry it's a reflex by now...! Q∆Q"

"I love how when he's closing the door, the claws go right through it. It's so obvious that Piers wasn't meant to be the one opening doors here XD"

"God damn it, stop dying- oh wait no, that was me, okay."

Friend: *dies because they didn't want to heal they had 5 pills*

Me: "Fucking heal! You had the herbs!"

Friend: "Naw."

"I can't see shit on this TV."

"He looks so goofy when he's healing Chris with his mutated arm like that."

"Captain, get up! I need you to stab this thing when I crack its cocoon- oh wait, I can do it myself."

"Man has no stamina left."

Me: *enters dying stage*

Friend: *heals me with a syringe instead of a pill*

Me: *proceeds to get killed before I can even get up*

"I keep confusing R2 (physical attack) and L2 (slide), I'm sorry!"

"Fucking bombers!"

"That's gay."

~~BONUS QUOTE FROM MY FRIEND AFTER WATCHING PIERS BASICALLY KILL HIMSELF~~

"That's bullshit."

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s crazy how there’s so much misinformation about Food. The thing we need all the time. Arguably the point of getting up each day. Fucking food. You’d think educating our young on this central component of life would be the sort of thing we’d teach them as kids, but nooo, I have to go reading up on zookeeping techniques for keeping and feeding large primates in captivity to get a straight fucking answer about carbon and phosphorus sourcing instead of a bunch of pseudoscience or fatphobia or classism or racism or just good old fashioned taboos! [Chews furniture] HOW DO YOU DEMONIZE THE POTATO

[anxiouspotatorants]

Rory liked Dean but she didn’t love him. She liked going on dates with him. She liked that he’d spend time with her and watch movies with her and get along with her mother. But there was no fire, no matter how much she wanted there to be one. She couldn’t burn like she did for exploring the world and the written word. She couldn’t burn for him.

Rory loved Logan but she didn’t like him. She loved his freedom, his adventurous spirit, his lust for life. She loved how she could let herself go with him, put faith in something dangerous and not shatter. But she didn’t like how cruel he could be to others. She didn’t like how dismissive he was, of responsibilities, of consequences, of people’s hurt. She didn’t really like him.

Rory liked Jess and she loved him. She liked that he liked the same stuff as her, liked that he’d help out his uncle without bragging, and talk with her friends, and throw literary challenges at her because he genuinely wanted her opinion. She loved his honesty, his integrity, how he’d leave her speechless with his gaze and breathless with his kisses. How he looked at her, all of her, and never made her feel like she was lacking. She liked and she loved him. And it scared her shitless.

[batwynn]

I typically have a pretty healthy respect for farmers and their work, especially having lived on and worked on many different farms growing up. I've woken up at 4am to milk cows, feed chickens, chop wood. I've pulled more weeds than you can imagine, tilled rows, and run out in hailstorms to protect crops. But I can't seem to dredge up a drop of respect for the farms around where I live these days. Because these guys don't actually do anything, and yet have a serious attitude about how much of better a person they are because they 'work hard' and 'kids these days don't wanna work' yadda yadda. They've convinced themselves and everyone around them that they work like people used to work on farms. In the field, backs bent, heavy lifting, etc. Except, you know, they don't. Everything is mechanized, and more than half of the year is spent doing nothing at all while the potatoes grow/over the winter. Every step of the planting, watering, spraying, harvesting, and storing process is run by a machine. The tractors don't even need them to direct them for most of the process. I've watched these guys fart around on their phones and pick their noses for 6 hours as the tractor goes back and forth, only waking up enough to turn the thing at the end of the row. For what isn't mechanized, (kale) they hire migrant workers to do the actual work. Meanwhile, these guys drive around in their un-used-for-anything-but-driving pickup trucks, yelling about migrant (non-white) workers and people asking for 'handouts'. Ironic, of course, because every single farm up here gets massive 'handout' from the government for multiple claims of u w u growing pwoblems. These same people will pick apart every single thing that you do 'wrong' because you don't do it the way they do it. (Like have a giant bulldozer to clear their driveway vs a small snow blower) If that wasn't enough, these aren't the neighbors that I grew up with. These same people have the ability to help others, and won't. They pull up to you after 5 months of grueling shoveling and clearing the driveway of snow and say, "Oh we could have done that for you for $40." And then never offer to do it next year. They'll stand outside and crack jokes about how our house is going to burn down because of how we set up the pellet stove, but not offer advice. They'll happily run their generators and settle in during the bomb cyclone that turned off the power for over a week at -60º and not even question if they should check on anyone living around them. They're greedy, selfish, lazy, cruel people and they say the kids are the problem?

[aniseandspearmint]

Part of the reasons the sudden sharp increase in costs of fast food is so terrible, is the food is mostly awful now.

Taco Bell tastes like old cat food smells, and it's NEVER hot anymore.

MacDonalds tastes like it was reheated in the microwave just before you bought it. Burger King is pretty much the same. And Wendy's too.

Checkers joins Taco Bell in the NEVER ACTUALLY HOT team, and Popeyes changed all their recipes to weak ass not actually spicy versions.

Subway has had multiple ingredient scandals, and the bread is like trying to chew a yoga mat.

KFC wants over 30 bucks for a bucket of chicken and sides and their mashed potatoes taste like glue now.

Crystals? The gimmick was tiny tasty burgers CHEAP, now they cost just as much as Wendy's.

Arby's? Dog food to Taco Bells cat food.

In what WORLD are ANY of these places selling something worth even a QUARTER of what they're charging?

[potatoesarecheese]

We need more mute characters in fiction

More mute characters in fiction that aren't infantilized or belittled or, god forbid, fixed. Characters that, instead of learning how to talk "normally" learn to stop hating themselves for being different.

Sure, we have the mute characters that physically can't speak, their throat was damaged, their vocal cords were ripped out, they're deaf. All those reasons are great.

But we need more mute characters that can speak, but actually can't in every way that matters. Characters that should be fine but they're not and they don't know what's wrong with them and they're just stuck feeling horrible all the time.

Characters that are trapped inside of their own heads, wanting to scream and speak and be heard, but also unable to because they are terrified of being perceived. because they shouldn't speak. because they won't speak.

Because they dug themselves into a hole but they have no idea what happened how to get back out of it or even call out for someone else to throw them a rope.

Because their whole society is built around this idea of perfection and how your body is supposed to work and so of course they're struggling. everyone else has baked it into their heads that they're “broken” and “useless” when they're really actually not.

Instead of getting fixed and learning to talk, they find a group of people that are normal about it. That treat them as an entire human being and help them unravel all of those ideas about the "normal" and "correct" way to do things.

We need more mute characters in fiction, because how can you ever even begin to communicate with someone if they don't know how to listen to you?

We need more mute characters in fictions, because it will help us unravel all those ideas about the "normal" and "correct" way to do things

[potatoqueenpal]

So...been about a year now. ...

You know what I just thought off? It's pretty funny but uh. Imagine Hush getting Caelum and making him forget everything and so when he rifts to Freelancer's because it feels familiar but he barley remembers anything and Freelancer kinda breaks down because it means all of Caelums support and love for them is just gone. The early morning baking, the late night study cuddles. All of it is just gone.

And if Caelum doesn't remember how he helped then why did freelancer do it at all? What was the point? Why use was being here if their first friend didn't even remember them.

He doesn't even remember baking cookies together.

Also the whole re-explanation of "I'm fucking your charge" would be funny to me.

[gunghopotato]

So, I recently had only $2.97 in my bank account, and I needed to pay for parking, which was anywhere between 15 to 5 $. I don't like needing to ask people for things, but I was desperate, so I asked my manager if she had any cash on her.

I had this whole speech prepared about why I was broke and why I was asking her, but immediately after I asked, before I could even explain, she hands me like 8 bucks and says "Don't worry about it! That's all I've got on me, though". And Holy shit I could've cried right there, man.

Honestly that was the hottest, most attractive thing anyone has ever done for me, I don't deserve such kindness 🤧

[forevermore05]

Can I just talk about how excited I get when people send me asks? It feels so special and I cannot explain why. It's so exciting when people want to hear MY take. I have many Zutara prompts in my ask box and I am currently working on a fic. But when people send me an ask, it just makes my day. It makes me feel important, but it also helps me to think critically. I love getting asks.

As your potato lord, I demand more asks (please).

[muddthebugg]

I've Pretty Much Finished Wild Kratts and I'm Making It Everybody's Fuckin Problem :]c

Headcannons galore!!

I'd think Koki would be the go-to or "emergency" medic of the group.

Idk, she just vibes like that. Martin would probably be her assistant, or second hand. I don't remember the right phrase (Also, when I say "emergency", I moreso mean "something bad happened and we need someone to stabilize/calm the situation while we head for an actual medic/hospital").

Nobody else is allowed to touch the medical supplies that are in the Tortuga's med wing. Jimmy uses far too much than necessary, Aviva somehow gets grease and oil over all of it, and Chris messes up the system she has set up whenever he tries looking for something that isn't in a place he would expect it to be -

The medical supplies are the only thing Martin keeps organized,, XDD

said this in another post but Jimmy is a top tier pilot

like,, ya boi cannot be matched frfr.

I like to think that Koki largely built the Tortuga, and perhaps programmed the piloting (somewhat unconsciously) off of some very cool game she played when she was younger, or heard about from Jimmy. Or, maybe, they didn't want anybody but Jimmy to be their pilot, so she purposely made it so that the Tortuga would be difficult to pilot to anybody but him >:]c

Chris is his pilot-in-training, and only because one of the last episodes I saw had Chris in the pilot's seat while Jimmy was looking out the windows.

Aside from him, Jimmy doesn't really let anybody else pilot. Especially after the whole thing with Thornsley... ough.

Creature Power Discs use DNA and coding to function

I mean this one seems pretty obvious in the way that the show had progressed from episode 1... still!

Aviva is seen creating Creature Power Discs, or CPDs, either by doing what seems to be ground-up via coding and incorporating certain data points and limits from observations and scans, or from starting with a DNA sample and filling in blanks where applicable.

I would imagine this is also why, as is noticeable through the series, we get different "tiers" of Creature Power Suit Transformations, or CPSTs. Like another post has remarked:

Tier 1 is the Kratt Brothers in a fursuit. Really impressive cosplay they got going on there. Tier 2 is the Kratt Brothers in a sphinx situation, or in a quad-suit. That is a blue/green animal with a human face.... ok then. Tier 3 is the Kratt Brothers turning into blue/green animals. Why is that Very Blue Whale™ looking at me :( . And I swear that green(??) mountain goat just said human words -

There's also the secret fourth tier that didn't seem to be mentioned in the post (probably due to how little it seemed to happen in the show): oh that guy is piloting a mech suit of a whale/squid.

Aside from that, being that she can adjust the details of the suits, it's also why she has to be super careful with parts of the suit programming such as the Mood Stabilizer (or whatever it was she mentioned in the Bass episode).

Too much and ya boi goes fish-brained, not enough and he'll have to learn from scratch how to swim and use any of the most basic bass powers :/ tis a delicate process!!

Martin has a pretty good idea of how to make a CPD

Idk. Why not let him dabble in something else. Helps keep his mind stimulated :]c

And y'know, aside from the whole episode where we saw this happen (theeeee Erminator episode??), he in general could definitely do a thing (with more practice), if allowed to start with a pre-filled template (via using animal DNA to start with). He just has to remember to clear the activation cache so the disc won't have any ghost activations,, XDD

the Creature Power Suits cannot function without touching the animal...

CPS usually needs three things to activate a transformation. As the boys say: "insert animal disc, touch animal, activate animal power!" Disc. Animal. Button.

If you cannot touch the animal, you can use an alternative Point Source DNA, or PSDNA, such as a tooth, antler shed, horn, fur, scale shed, exoskeleton molt... etc. But you cannot activate a transformation without PSDNA.

Lets pretend I know anything about programming and say that the suit samples the PSDNA and stores it into a "data file" that the disc programming reads off of to send modified data back to the suit for it to read out and implement upon activation.

That was a lot of words.

So. CPS cannot function without touching the animal...

...but they can function without CPDs.

It is not recommended. Ever. Unless the wearer is in absolutely dire circumstances.

Thing is?? Like I hc'd, the discs take the data from the PSDNA, goes at it with a red pen like "ehh, don't do that, do this instead, and adjust that, then we're good" and the suit reads that before it activates.

If there is no disc, tho? The suit only has that DNA sequence to go off of. It won't have an error read out, it'll just go "eh, whatever you say, bud" and transform the wearer. Essentially, the wearer goes full animal. Tier 5, so to speak.

It could be that certain aspects of the wearer's personality and/or subconscious remain intact (for angst purposes, ofc), but the longer they remain like that, the worse shit is gonna get. The harder it'll be to bring em back, fully.

That, and it's just really hard to get the wearer to keep still long enough to deactivate. Nevermind if they're a very small, very large, very skittish, or very aggressive animal at the time.

...and perhaps, the discs are all pre-written with a special deactivation code/prompt. Perhaps, because I thought of this just now, if you activate without a disc, the longer you go makes it increasingly harder to do a safe deactivation. To the point where you would kinda sorta maybe need Aviva to take the suit apart while the wearer is still in it -

cough.

...yes i totally have a vague fic idea lined up for this...

the Tasmanian Devil episode could've gone much worse.

:|

that's it.

like!!! just based on the previous point's rant! Coulda gone super horizontal ngl.

Main reason it didn't, according to my unprofessional opinion, is because the T-Devil (was it T-Bone?) bit through both the CPD slot and the activation functions. It damaged both. Chris' brain didn't really have time to be affected by the Tasmanian Devil instincts 100% because his suit was rapidly changing between it and a human form.

Then again!! I know fuckshit about T-Devil behavior, so he may have just been a lil gremlin rather than a menace. Like, that entire episode was Chris advocating for T-Devils just being Lil Guys™ in spite of how they sound like. Y'know. Devils.

you shouldn't hold/touch more than one animal when activating

Literally the Halloween episode. Granted!! Martin's CPS was reactivated while he was holding like. 6 different guys and with the incorrect disc in.

I'm gonna hazard a guess that the processor in the suit got overloaded with all the requests and data sets being sent with at least 5 different PSDNAs... so it was like "fuck it, we ball" and spat out. You know.

I should draw that CPST sometime........

Alternatively!! I believe there was a time they (Chris??) had one CPD inserted and touched an animal related to the CPD he had inserted, but not the same one. So it just sparked, then didn't do anything. Could just be an incompatibility in the data sets that wasn't compensated for. Like how Aviva sometimes programs certain discs from one-species discs to multiple-species discs, so long as it's the same genus/kind or somethn.

I'm pretty sure she's done this before, and without making a new disc.

So there. That's my take ig :]c

[anxiouspotatorants]

Don’t mind me I’m just thinking about how Rory almost destroyed her life and definitely destroyed her sense of self trying to please everyone around her not because they explicitly demanded it of her but because she grew up with a deep rooted unadressed view of her own existence as the destruction of Lorelai and Christopher’s lives, causing her to be constantly mindful of what the world might expect of her and desperately trying to not just meet those demands but a whole lot more no matter the cost because that’s the only way to make up for the fact that she exists and is alive

[millerflintstone]

I have no idea how these little fruit fly things come to be in our house. There's no fruit or veg on the counter. I'm guessing the pipes? Or the 2 plants I haven't killed yet attracted them?

There was one buzzing around my face and coffee. It landed on the inside of the cup and I covered it with my hand and tapped the cup to drown it. Today's coffee sacrifice

We have these night light looking things with sticky tape and I also have window traps. Every summer it's the same thing but I always thought it was produce related.

[communicationnskills]

Sometimes I think the show forgets that Lucy was like... kidnapped by a serial killer and buried alive, and died? And that her best friend that she lived with got murdered? And that her parents don’t approve of her career or life choices so she doesn’t even technically have blood family around? And that she’s also been through like a hundred other things that never get brought up again? Yeah, I think about this a lot

[xylophone888]

personal opinion post: if i EVER have to see an another post unironically insinuating that rincewind has a potato fetish i will boil my neighbors