#representational modes

[in-sightjournal]

Ask A Genius 1020: Multimodality and Many Sensory

Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: I think Coursera and AI Trends mentioned modalities, and they were using a term we’ve been using for longer, multimodality. They were referencing text, image, YouTube, and other coherent forms of media, but I do not mean that. I am referring to dragging…

[0rmtz]

Slight redesign

[annabelle4]

[a-little-revolution]

for rating dwarf characters: Edna Mode (the incredibles) vs O'Hare (the lorax)? I always found it odd that they had the same hairstyle but Edna is awesome whole O'Hare seems like awful representation

Hello! I've rated Edna Mode here, but I'm happy to discuss these two characters together!

I gave Edna Mode (The Incredibles, 2004 and 2018) a 10/10 and that still stands! I absolutely adore her and feel she slays the scene in these films - she's successful, complex, confident - and we see her to be very well rounded in the second film. She plays a vital role in not only the journey of the main characters but for all the super heroes of their world - she provides the very costumes and gadgets they need day to day. She may not be a very big character, but she's a very big deal.

Comparison has for sure been drawn between Edna Mode and O'Hare from The Lorax (2012) as they are both clearly little people and follow the same racially ambiguous/vaguely Asian archetype.

However, they couldn't be more different. I would give O'Hare a 0/10. Where Edna's success comes from innovation and creativity, O'Hare uses violence and coercion to get what he wants. He is most unlikable, and yet another example of "tiny man syndrome" in animation, wherein a little person in power rules with cruelty (not unlike Lord Farquaad of Shrek fame). When you make the only little person on the film the villain, you allow the audience to sit comfortably in the belief that only people who do not look like them are the problem. You alienate an entire group of people.

[dna-d2]

Okay one more thing about the new Nintendo stuff and I'm done, I promise

(i may not keep this promise)

But I'm calling out for a victory celebration of one thing in particular

WE GOT LEFT-HANDED LINK BACK, BAY-BEEEEEEEEEE

[do-u-know-this-autisticcharacter]

Do You Know This (non-canon) Autistic Character?

Propaganda:

She has a special interest in baking and sweets, particularly the science behind them. She tends to infodump a lot about her interests and idols, which puts people off and she tends to struggle with making friends as a result. She’s also got very bad social anxiety and doesn’t work well when put in front of an audience. Also there’s a scene early on where she does the autism raptor hands.

Any other details:

She’s a magical girl, which is why she has two names shown, the second name is her magical girl name.

[savroseline]

The ACE king who was worth waiting years for 💜🖤🤍

[sillyslayer6]

genshin fandom are HEAVILY sleeping on audhd ajax childe tartaglia

(headcanons in the read more!)

i meaaaan;

stimming - he likes making stuff out of water and fidgeting with them, especially if he's bored; spinning water weapons (like he does in one of his idle animations), making little water creatures (he probably makes them fight), mimicking things around him/in his mind out of water - he messes with his cape as a stim (like in that other idle animation) - him just repeating something just because he likes saying it, like 'coco goat' or some word zhongli taught him impulsivity - THE most impulsive guy ever - impulsive to the point where he'll just throw himself into danger because he has free will - will see some big horrifying monster, think 'i wonder if i could take that' (in a fight), then will attack unless someone stops him - constantly gets himself into trouble because he reacts before he thinks - i headcanon that him using foul legacy against the traveler was him genuinely losing his shit and wasn't planned

(and he probably just laid on the roof of the golden house like 'owww ouagh owww' until the battle with osial was done... also zhongli was watching liyue defend itself on a nearby mountain, like how a worried mother might watch her kids cook for the first time, and just happened to see the orange cat on the roof) hyperactivity - has a brain that never stops - ultra instincts adhd, like rick riordan says - if he ever stops moving, he'll die - complains if he has to stay still - probably fidgets non-stop - the tsaritsa is an ally and has plenty of random crap to fiddle with on harbinger coats socializing - canonically the odd one out among his peers (granted, his peers are all scheming goth people) - i swear he (canonically) constantly misses social cues and takes things literally... - he misses social cues more than he misses crits - blunt and straightforward, and prefers that way of communicating - headcanon that zhongli lying to him actually hurt his feelings and his reaction was genuine... (and that reaction is a little too relatable, as someone who's neurodivergent... 😔🤨) - this is probably an english-only thing, but his little 'haha' in stressful circumstances is him masking/coping with the situation and doing a brain reset, or just his default 'how the fuck am i meant to react to that' response (citation: I DO THAT!!) - somehow masks and unmasks at the same time, like how he's wearing his literal mask on his head - will just come out with the most profound and deep truths, this jumpscares people (especially ones who think he's a total dumbass) - childe unmasking is just him with no expression, doing things in almost complete silence, even before the abyss he brought the vibe to the function that neurotypicals hate - ^ he'll never unmask around his fellow harbingers because he doesn't like them but also he likes annoying them hyperfixations/special interests - easy 'he's obsessed with battle' connection, c'mannn - and easy 'he's got an interest in weaponry', duhhhh - but imagine him just being able to identify any fish, too. - hyperfixated on liyue history, cuisine and culture during his stay there, probably kept getting zhongli to talk about whatever he was hyperfixating on that week (btw zhongli's autistic too, it's because he's hot, sorry i don't make the rules) - picks up 1 million hobbies and hyperfixates on them either for a week or until he's mastered them (the one week ones get shelved until he masters them) nerfed by celestia, AKA idk what to title this section - i just can't see childe being able to sit there and finish paperwork like a regular guy - northland bank managers fear him (he hands in paperwork one minute before the deadline) - pulcinella probably handles his important harbinger documents because childe lost too many of them - exchanged his quick moving and dodging in battle for a weekly sacrifice (he trips over something or breaks things through clumsiness; him and lynette are comrades in arms for breaking machines) - his sleep schedule is that he doesn't have one - he turns into some hunter-gatherer eater, unless someone with a normal routine is around, then he follows them and has regular meals at regular times (as opposed to him cooking borscht at 11AM

[enbyfrogz]

hot take: i don’t ship f!jesse or m!jesse with anyone.

i ship enby!jesse with characters to make it 100000x more awesome!

[sunflowermp4]

before anyone crucifies me disclaimer i love that hbo ER show however i think their intended messaging about fatphobia and transphobia might resonate a lot more truthfully if they actually had doctors in the main cast who are fat and/or trans

[abbysthighs]

This bitch is so fucking gay.

[kil9]

people who are like "kris deltarune uses exclusively they/them pronouns which implies they could be nonbinary" sound so fucking stupid thats like saying "toriel uses exclusively she/her implying she might be a woman"

[girl4music]

At the finale for Season 2 of ‘Person of Interest’. The Machine has a virus in it so it’s malfunctioning and possibly shutting itself down. Maybe I am wrong about The Machine transferring its intelligence to the dog. But you have to admit there’s correlations.

Finch can’t do a repair or restore because he cannot control it. He is completely locked out of being able to access it. This is why you always have a back door:

You can’t rely on technology all the time no matter how smart and sophisticated it may be. It’s not built to last. I mean neither are we - but at least we know it.

And now Root’s asking to team up and pitch in.

Also, I am hella impressed on the amount of preparation and research they do for this show. Have you seen props? All the information they create to back up their plot. It’s an extremely well-written show. I mean I’m not looking but I’m very certain I would find very few discrepancies in every episode’s plotline because it’s just that well thought out and organized.

[themoonshoes]

ok my review of wilds now that im done w the low rank story and almost done with hr

i feel like. this was not as bad as people were making it sound LMAO like ive been playing these games for over a decade just WAITING for them to acknowledge ancient civilization stuff and the equal dragon weapon and like. CRUMBSSS of the ethics of the hunting guild and stuff and this got pretty close to scratching that itch! was the story perfect? hell no! it got pretty weird with some of the characterization of the indigenous villages in a pretty 'oh we have no idea what weapons are! what is this hunting monsters' and like ok come on be real with me right now. i like the twist of the guardians (even though i wish they'd given at least one elder dragon for us to hunt post-story, but i get that that didn't work for the story they were telling) and the concept of the dragon torch being sort of an energy well for the wyverians to create their technologies and stuff that's cool. zoh shia was cool and freakey and ok it was a fatalis reskin but im also not convinced we'll never see it again also considering we dont get an armor set for it (which i understand the knee-jerk reaction to get mad about, and it IS annoying, but obviously the dev team isn't done with it.). i actually also like having my hunter be voiced even though i was like what do you mean im playing monster hunter and picking dialogue options!!!! it's a characterization of your hunter that really does make you feel like That Guy imo, like yeah hell yea im gonna go kill this nuke of a dragon. there are story aspects that i wish they'd spent a little more time on—who is authorizing me to hunt, specifically? in early game when you go to hunt a monster you haven't gotten a quest for, alma tells you repeatedly that you don't have authorization, but what would be the downside to me continuing the hunt? it would force another gameplay mechanic to include some kind of bounty or karma system, but there's already in universe checks and balances for the guild hunters (guild knights), so it's weird that they'd include that detail for what seems like nothing.

as far as gameplay aspects go—it's insane to me that some of the seikret mobility options were the default. like no game ever has you just auto move towards your target by default. that should have either been an option you choose at the start of the game, or you should have had to choose it once you get into the game. i mostly use glaive and light bowgun and those both feel great; i actually love what they've done with the glaive even though i still feel like it's a slower weapon than it used to be, but the new combos feel really good to do and it doesn't feel like i'm just mindlessly button mashing as much. the balancing for the hunts feels slightly skewed easy, maybe a little tailored for people who have never played a mh game before, but that also has been the MO since world (including rise, which was an easy game for babies), so i didn't expect anything else, but like. i didn't even notice that i didn't have access to powercharm or the armorcharm until i got the latter as a quest reward lol. so idk maybe the expansion and g-rank will add a little more challenge but i'm fine with it where it is i guess. i wish the roster was bigger it's kind of a lame lineup lol but that's what post-release updates are for i guess. i was saying that once the expansion comes out and all title updates have hit it has the potential to be one of the best mh games out there, just with the potential it already has. (which, and this is a conversation for a different post, but games are so Big now, and require so much dev time, that it doesn't surprise me they announced title update content before launch. it tells me that it'll be a while before g-rank though which. ok.)

so tldr—not my favorite monster hunter game (yet!), but it's definitely not the worst. the high i got from entering suja for the first time and saying out loud to myself oh We Are Doing This Aren't We paired with the "by my own authorization" line is enough to make me sink 100+ hours into this idk! bitch i love monster hunter!

[sapphiccyranodebergerac]

kate whetherall is my soul sister in the adhd department

can’t stop moving?

over-prepared for everything?

likes to run places just for vibes?

talks very fast?

has to be doing something at all times?

owns a bucket?

slight rage issues?

extremely slay?

she’s just like me fr

[windwaver]