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jobsbuster · 9 months ago

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salemoleander · 3 months ago

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Chaos vs. Patronage: How Life Series winners grapple with skill disparity

As the Life Series has gone on and matured into more noticeable patterns, some winners have pivoted to a mentorship/support role to their chosen 'champion'/ a favored player.

Scott spent Limited Life as a duo with Martyn, and then joined a high-skill group in Secret Life that ultimately saw him sacrifice himself trying to get Gem the win. Pearl spent Secret Life with her stated goal being one of her teammates winning, pivoting to support Scar at the end when they'd died. Now in Wild Life, she has outright stated her intent to support Impulse to get the win. (Scar supporting Jimmy in Wild Life may also fit this pattern; we'll get to that.)

In contrast, winners Grian and Martyn² are not sticking to that single-minded attempt to get a player to win, whatever it takes. They will express support for teammates winning, but generally do not take actions that would worsen their own chances of winning/surviving to help a teammate. They aren't playing "meta", which here means putting all their resources into one person.

These two categories of behavior ultimately reflect the Winners' approaches to answering the question of how to balance disparate skill levels in the series cast. (Second half of writing + footnotes under cut.)

Grian has spent game after game altering mechanics & playing with randomization to try to level the playing field without directly intervening against specific players.³ Martyn is invested enough in the narrative/story that making less-than-optimal decisions isn't hard for him or atypical (this is the player who beelines for the Nether every single season).

It seems like Scott and Pearl realized they're very strong players and are interested in nerfing themselves more actively... but they still don't want to throw the match. The compromise there is to put their effort & skill towards helping another player achieve victory.

A case could be argued that Scar is moreso the former group by nature (he's similar to Martyn in his penchant for making entertainingly bad decisions that render nerfing unecessary). However, after witnessing multiple seasons of Scott & Pearl acting as mentors, seeing them compete head-to-head in the game he ultimately won, mentorship now seems like a normalized route to take once you're a winner.⁴

¹ Unsure if BigB in LimL counts? They were a duo, but Scott fomenting Martyn's win seems to be what kicked off Pearl's dedication to support another player.

² Cleo is a winner but they do not fit this analysis for a variety of reasons I don't want to get into. So I won't, bc this is a tumblr post & not an academic paper. Ignore that there are footnotes and an academic-ass title

³ Grian seeing Scott win: "Oh no I've created an unbalanced game. Ok lets randomly assign players together to try to balance things... why has RNG betrayed me?!" RNG does not stop betraying him btw. I have another post in draft about this but it's kind of nuts how dedicated Grian is to Not Rigging The Game Even A Little.

⁴ Incidentally imo this is what will force Grian in the next few games to either end the series, create dual winners/some other atypical win structure, or bust his ass trying to get a second win & break that taboo. Based on his game design so far, he can put up with a bit of interference, but ultimately will not abide "we all do schoolyard tradesies on who gets to win until everyone gets one".

#life series #traffic series #life series meta #idk what to tag this tbh #anyways yes this is technically a player behavioral dichotomy noticeable in non winners to an extent #that has to do with prioritization of entertainment/novelty/story vs raw skill/ gameplay #but it becomes much more evident with winners

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tizzymcwizzy · 8 months ago

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these are my final illustrations for a writing/research class and my topic was on hustle culture and the romanticization of overworking,,

it's okay to be kind to yourself!! your value doesn't come from how productive you are, i promise, you get to determine your own worth, and sometimes it's just not worth hurting yourself to achieve your goals

#it's something i struggle with still #but learning self compassion and to prioritize your health over work is a valuable skill #blah blah blah i can harp on this forever anyway #tw eyestrain #eyestrain #my art #illustration #artists on tumblr #art

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legionofpotatoes · 4 months ago

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star wars outlaws

#star wars outlaws #kay vess #nix #did a brief detour into this game it isn't bad! but certainly lacks in polish for core loops. tutorialization pipelines are ass also #performance - also ass. had to play quality on ps5 for it to have any clarity at all. but the open world is gorgeous #and it certainly nails the very narrow target of horse girl star wars fantasy (ripping across tatooine on a speeder with a little Guy)#nix is everything I love him. modern star wars rarely captivates me but they do know how to do lil guys real well #my photos #star wars #also-also. would be remiss not to mention. never played a game with unregulated scope creep this noticeable before. it's baffling #I KNOW people crunched on this it's in the walls in the floorboards it's everywhere. unmitigated hodge podge of mechanics and pillars #and those pillars are often unbalanced between each other. storytelling payloads are an issue too. there's pre-rendered in-engine cutscenes #real-time in-engine cutscenes. and digic-produced full CG cutscenes. and their placement and prioritization feels insane and inscrutable #like three different teams were working on the game at the same time and never in congress or coordination #it also suffers from the open world 4th and 5th priority narrative payload issues - many secondary and sometimes even primary questgiving #and expository dialogues are in-game zoomed camera lipsync exchanges. or flavor text #on the other hand - surprisingly deft mission design itself? side quests reward either cosmetics or actual unlockable deployable skills #it has fleeting genes of a metroidvania spread across a wide open world in that sense. but only fleeting. the rep system is a smokescreen #and progression in general has a very open and unsatisfying end to it. this game needed less scope and maybe no space stuff at all #the resulting resource allocation adjustment would truly make for a captivating open world adventure. as it stands it feels like #a product of overworked people misusing mismanaged budgets and managing to sprinkle some love into it regardless #games should never be good on the merit of their perceivable seasoning of overwork and passion. that really only bakes a sadness cake

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kindnessoverperfection · 6 months ago

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ADHD really does put everything at equal levels of importance, huh? Like I'll have an email I need to write that'll take maybe 10 minutes, and getting that done will alleviate 6 months of stress. Then I'll notice a sock on the floor I need to put away. Then I'll get the strong conviction that it's up to me to cure cancer. And my brain will tell me that I need to do all of them at once, start and finish them all in the time span of 0 seconds, and my executive dysfunction will throw up its hands and do none of the above.

#adhd #actuallyadhd #executive dysfunction #examples were courtesy of my partner. it made me laugh so hard because i've never heard anything more accurate #i'll read stuff like ''adhd makes it difficult to prioritize things!'' and i never paid that much attention because i was like #''i can easily sort things into categories. it's just the doing them that's the issue.''#but then i realized. that the REASON doing things is an issue is because it's not happening at the conscious logical level #it's happening at a nearly-subconscious rapid fire in-the-moment response time #i've been working a lot on my adhd these past few months & have also been meditating a lot lately and it's been making my awareness more an #more broad and precise #and at this point i'm wondering if this is straight up the cause of my adhd. the brain putting absolutely everything at the same ''URGENT #URGENT URGENT'' level. since i can't do everything in the world at the same time at infinite speed and perfection #i'm thrown into ''freeze mode''. and that's also why we've learned to weaponize fear against ourself as a motivator. because it forces the #task we're trying to do into front view. makes it take priority over everything else we're scared of not doing.#we've been working on a lot of useful coping skills. haven't entirely figured out how to manage this yet but the awareness itself has #been very useful.

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roseluwakcoffee · 1 year ago

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Sometimes I think I write Kyoko too much like a cold, hard detective for being a literal teenager/young adult, but then I remember at the age of 13 years old she canonically doused herself in vodka and threatened to light herself on fire if the killer didn’t reveal themselves

#ig this is what early childhood trauma does to u #no seriously tho every time i remember dr kirigiri exists i get whiplash #'kyoko doesn't have issues'#this girl randomly asked yui if it was weird to prioritize detective work over her mom's death within days of meeting her #and then says she'd feel empty inside if she thought otherwise #not only does she have clear issues she also lacks social skills in most capacities and i love her for it #dr1 #dr kirigiri #kyoko kirigiri

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stars-in-a-jam-jar · 2 months ago

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God Tumblr must be public transportation because you people are Driving Me Insane-- PEEK AND PEAK ARE *TWO DIFFERENT FUCKING WORDS---*

#jammering on #I know #I know literacy is a skill that not everyone prioritizes #BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO **ME!!!**

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blue-thief · 2 months ago

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just watched a high school hip hop/street dance competition and dudee i swear to god one of those teams got robbed of their victory 😭😭

#the judge said he would prioritize team work and chemistry over individual skill #but he chose the team who focused on the leader at the expense of the rest of the team??? 😭😭#valiant posting

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scribefindegil · 2 years ago

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saw a deeply rancid take this morning about how amatonormativity isn’t real (especially in slash fandom contexts, lol) because all mainstream media focuses on platonic relationships so what do we even want. and was tempted to write a big thing breaking down the various prejudices at play in the way society (and thus the media reflecting it) refuses to treat women and queer people and other minorities as Real People deserving of stories, and how this leads to all this media focused on men whose only meaningful relationships are with other men in a way that does nothing but support amatonormativity along with every other status-quo bigotry. but actually i think this sums it up:

Mainstream Media to Aros (& those who believe in their beliefs): You’re platonic because you value friendship. I’m platonic because I hate everyone who isn’t a cishet white man. We are not the same.

#i get that if you are using zero critical thinking skills #it can look like mainstream media loves platonic relationships #(between men)#but it does not #it's just forced itself into that corner because it thinks that men are the only people who can be protagonists #and of course gay people can't be protagonists either #so the people who are allowed to have Rich Inner Lives and Emotions do that with each other #but if you look at any relationship outside of that framework #women who are friends #men and women who are friends #queer people who are friends #family members who are friends #you will immediately see the way that these are de-prioritized in favor of sex & romance #sometimes one bigotry will mask another under certain circumstances #that doesn't mean that the one being masked has ceased to exist

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myinterestsvary-writes · 6 months ago

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you guys gotta stop making me think about ambereve. it’s so fucking good, shut up, ugh

#The way it’ll work so well into eve’s arc of self-discovery and becoming more comfortable with her uniqueness.#With her show design of being pink but having the x over the venus/female sign (despite being an animation error)#Amber not feeling as neglected and having someone with the emotional intelligence and the schedule and skills to prioritize her.#To actively involve her in her life more often as the main thing these girls have in common is the desire to help/community work #Ambereve #I could go on and on #amber bennett #samantha eve wilkins #eve wilkins #atom eve #Invincible #Comics #cartoons #comic books

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sakitenmaenjoyer · 1 year ago

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it's so funny how everyone brings up that tsukasa starved himself for a role, but nobody brings up the fact that he

1) ate the day of the audition to be in top form

2) went out to eat with wxs in part 2 of his card story

#txt #tsukasa tenma #i dont wanna say it wasnt angst tho. bc the first part of his card story was saki and toya worrying about him 💀#and in universe wxs was concerned #but 1) rui trusted tsukasa not to push himself too much/said he'd put a stop to it if it was detrimental #2) tsukasa didnt do that bc of self hatred. he clearly did not like starving himself 💀 dude ordered a steak the moment he could #granted i think tsukasa should keep pushing himself until something goes wrong (but wxs/an adult figure steers him in the right path)#colopale do you hear me #tsukasa has Some self preservations skills atm but if he were to risk his health again ...and it has worse results....#well that could be interesting. but i do think it would lead to a friendly 'woof yeah maybe that wasnt the best' conclusion #as opposed to him prioritizing roles being portrayed as a bad thing #canon talk

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orcelito · 4 days ago

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It feels. So so so good to feel confident in my playing again.

I spent a good hour and a half yesterday working at my new bridge again (so a total of 2.5 hours of sanding) and I think I'm satisfied with it now. The sound is definitely a lot better in general, which is Wonderful!! And I put on one of my new practice mutes today, so I didn't feel quite so self conscious playing with my bow. Bc my playing both sounds better than before and wasn't as loud (due to the mute), so! Not as self conscious!!

The bow was an important thing for practicing today. Prior practices at home, I was just practicing the fingerings and plucking, but when I got to rehearsal I'd still get tripped up by the bowings. So I needed to practice the bowings for this audition video.

Playing here today... I mean I still wasn't perfect, but that's what the practice is for. But my finger agility feels like it's really coming back, nowhere Near as stiff as it was when I started out this semester, AND my bow control was actually pretty damn good!!! So even with the parts I was tripping up on, overall my sound quality was Good, and that's. Such a relief, honestly. I got so out of practice that it kinda felt *wrong* to play, bc the experience just didn't match what I'd known in the past. Too clumsy, too stiff. But after just a few weeks of consistent practice, im starting to feel like my old self again. Starting to feel like I Do have the right to call myself a violinist.

And it's a very, very good feeling.

#speculation nation #stopping playing for now bc it's starting to get a lil late. and even with the mute it's still kinda loud.#dont wanna be that asshole neighbor playing their violin at night lol #but i also got the sections to a point where im. reasonably content with them.#i can play them mostly without error. just slower than i need to play them for the video.#but im gonna practice again tomorrow to focus on speeding that up.#and then on tuesday... after rehearsal im gonna see if i can nab a practice room to film my audition video in #if theyre all full i can film the video at home. but the practice room would be easier :p #regardless. i feel like i can actually do this. i feel like i'll be able to nab a spot in one of the first few stands.#ahhhhhhh im so happy. it feels like something is slotting back into place for me.#i never stopped being a violinist but my body started forgetting. but all it took was a few weeks to wake it back up again...#GAH im gonna get emotional if i think about it too much. just a few weeks to start feeling like im getting my old skill back!!!!!#which is to say. i couldve done this all along. i just never had outside pressure to motivate me into practicing.#combined with my self consciousness at having other people hear me practice... and thus i fell out of practice.#but im not gonna let it get that bad ever again. even if i dont have an orchestra im in i will find pieces to play #play at least once a week or smth idk. i'll have to see.#i have a lot of hobbies and a lot of them end up on the back burner because of this #but violin is one of those core hobbies that are worth it to me to prioritize. and so i shall!!!!!!!

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junewild · 1 month ago

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honestly idek why folks are out here designating specific people or kinds of relationship as “off-limits.” it’s like they don’t even know that desire denied will only grow and devour until it leaves emptiness behind, while desire accepted will ease and soften and become a welcome companion with time

#k talks #’kay has opinions about monogamy again’ & what of it?#i think it’s perfectly fine to be monogamous! joy & love to you #but i think a lot of people are NOT terribly monogamous & only choose monogamy bc they lack the courage & skill to seek a life #perhaps better suited to their needs & desires #whether bc they’re unaware that it’s an option; they haven’t prioritized that courage & skill; or they’re afraid of change & growth #& i don’t blame them. so am i. the pain of staying here & losing out is familiar & feels more manageable than the change of moving forward #but it’s not. ultimately. or at least it never has been in my experience. in the long run #so there it is #do NOT discourse on this post i’ll kill you in real life

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t-u-i-t-c · 4 months ago

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