#probably overthinking but whatever

[kumakuma-circus]

i continue to be confused by p4au's story because i would ASSUME that if any one story is canon it's yu's. they logically can't ALL be canon, the events contradict each other.

but that can't actually be the case because rise's episode p4 chapters continuously bring up fuuka. who doesn't show up in yu's post-cliffhanger. i only did yu and aigis' but of those she only had any role in aigis'.

everything else does seem to be going with yu's as the canon one though? for the most part at least (teddie still calling labrys labby-chan and saying he's her knight kinda contradicts that, namely).

idk i think my best logic is that (dumb comparison when i've never actually played the game but) it's a sonic adventure 1 situation. all the events being shown happened, the exacts just differ between different stories due to biases.

though that would probably require the "present" (since all the narration is past tense) to be fairly far off since some things are completely absent from different stories (e.g. yu fights aigis in his story but aigis never even meets yu in hers until the announcement room).

i love this game so far but i am. so fucking confused by some of this-

[xxplastic-cubexx]

we been here before move along now

[crystallizsch]

before may kills me with more twst updates i need to get this out of my system

i refuse to end this month without (making an attempt to) giving jamil’s luxe couture justice

[midnight--sadness]

was the formating for the liveblog too annoying?

idk if i should keep having it all connected to the same main one through reblogs or if i should make separate posts for each thought i have.

if it's reblogging the main one, the posts will be rlly long and i know no one likes to scroll through it to see their dash...

what do u guys think?

[fakecrfan]

So How Long Can We Continue Using Robots as a Metaphor?

Last year, the best film I saw was The Wild Robot, but I felt pretty uncomfortable about it, in a way I don't think was intentional on the movie's part. It wasn't a huge deal, and I wouldn't say it was "problematic" but there was an underlying tension, so I may as well talk about it six months later.

The movie was about parental bonding, relationships, community, and nature. The movie used the relationship of a robot to a gosling that imprints upon her as its emotional heart, where this bond challenges the robot to take on a parental role and "overcome her programming" with the power of love.

This is all a wonderful metaphor for parenthood, and how it has the capability of transforming the parent. But... well... should we be using a robot to tell this sort of story?

Robots are kind of... real now. They have specific designs and limitations, and there aren't any that operate on the level of autonomy that Roz in the movie has... but we're getting really, really, close to being able to make that kind of robot. Should we really be setting people up for the expectation that robots could like... love them? Isn't it kind of weird that we are making all of these stories about robots entirely disconnected from the reality of how they operate in the world? Doesn't that set up false expectations? Isn't it going to fuck up how we interact with them?

Imagine if we did this to something else. Let's say, nurses. Imagine if there were hundreds of movies about nurses but here is the twist! None of these movies have anything to do how nurses do their job IRL. Instead, nurse movies are largely metaphors. Most of them involve nurses falling in romantic love with their patients, or taking on a motherly role, or there are some where they feel intense hatred for their patients and become serial killers.

The people making these movies have never interacted with a nurse in their entire life, though. They also haven't interview anyone who knows things about how nurses are trained. Let's say they're from a culture that for whatever reason doesn't have nurses, they have limited healthcare roles. But they hear about them being a thing in another country and get ideas about what nurses could be like, so they make all these movies and it becomes a genre staple. Nurses, despite not existing in this culture at all, become a regular trope that people use to project their ideas about motherhood and romantic love and hatred and whether humans are good or evil, and such.

And then, one day, a bunch of nurses come over from another country to NoNurseLand because of some mutual aid program. Things are changing, and now what was once NoNurseLand is gonna have a lot of nurses! The whole system shifts so that now people have to interact with nurses a lot! In that case, hasn't the ability of these people to interact with these nurses and see them for what they are (agents with a specific job that are there to help them but not have a deep emotional relationship with them) kind of been fucked with in advance?

Anyway, that's what I feel like we're doing with robot movies.

[sodafrog13]

i think some people have too much audacity on this website, is all i'll say

[98wingwing]

eepy sketch

[milolovesbmc]

There's an angel on the roof

[centaursquizzical]

giggling . im still thinking about. if droids without plating are naked then is C-3PO walking around in a crop top …

[cel-aerion]

Me in a post two days ago: "It seems to me that [X character] was the programming guy, and [Y character] was the robotics guy."

RE in a YouTube interview that streamed yesterday: "We liked to say that like one of them was, like, the tech guy who did all, like, the hardware, and one of them was more of the software kind of guy who, like, did all the coding and stuff."

Me watching this interview: *nearly chokes on my drink because VALIDATED*

[javierduffy]

the best part about drawing characters that i'm not unhealthily obsessed with is that i don't care if i don't draw them well

[junos-cacophony]

zubin being on social media again means something & i don’t like what it’s implying

[sebille]

cracks knuckles time for me to be annoying. HOW did Zenos even know that he could "burn through the candle of his life"? Does he mean that he just depleted himself of aether or what? I feel like you'd faint way before you die if you did that?

[sklorpee]

Stupid ass pico's school thingy

I only thought about this shit recently but what if there was some weird religious undertones in Picos School nobody noticed?? like what he fuck did Cassandra get so pissed over apples specifically?? Why is Pico the only one who's eaten an apple??? Is there some weird Eden type shit going on??? What if the reason he was spared in the shooting was cuz he ate the dumbass apple??!? was he being punished for it???!?!? IS CASSANDRA SATAN?!? (/hj) IS THE APPLE A METAPHOR?!?! AM I STUPID?!??!?!? (yeah)

also this is some kickass AU material ngl lmao /hj

[the-bineapple]

not sure why I do this but I realized I tend to share random stuff about myself and just like Whatever Is On My Mind to people I like so if I'm ever rambling about something that is irrelevant to you I'm sorry, it's just bc I feel comfortable with you and also like you as a person and this is apparently my go-to way of showing that. I'm not very good at shutting up

that's why I post random stuff on here, too - it's for all my fabulous mutuals whom I adore <3

[galaxygorl-does-stuff]

small problem. it’s hard to choose which character to focus on because they’re all traumatized