#sorta like a rube goldberg machine

[zvaigzdelasas]

Convos about whether AI art is "art" are not only boring, but also tend to blur the line between a human interacting with AI to make art, vs an AI "making art by itself", which necessarily implies the AI having Agency & a Sense of Actuality outside of its training data

[headingalaxys-spicy]

Yo! Gotta say it dude

I love your writing, headcanons n AUs, trust me whenever I got the chance to catch a look on this phone screen I hop on tumblr and read smth from u fr, thank u for saving me and lot of ppl who follow ur acc from boredom and other things.

Buuuuut I also got a little request here, ofc if u don't mind,

So I'm sorta obsessed with 2p'hetalia , especially with 2p Russia(and ig that's obvious lol), can ya write some more about Viktor braginsky(2p russia), like literally anything you want.. I just wanna read anything about that man 😩🤌🏼 - ash the salad🥗💜

Again thank you <3

Honestly, I love having my ask box open. The majority of y’all are giving me the will to live sometimes. I hope this does not disappoint. Enjoy! :) 

2p Russia during Spooky Season Headcannons

He’s likely written down plot 5,769 to torment and kill 2p America in one of the many journals he keeps. [Al pranked Viktor again by egging his house, teepeeing it, and also having a well-covered pitfall that Viktor fell into and broke his arm] 

“I’ve had enough of this bullshit. Stupid American has to pay piper.” 

Viktor either likes to serve his Karma cold like the ice tundra he was born into, or he’ll make a Rube Goldberg-like machine that seems to have an anti-climactic end, only to have it be devastating. The delayed devastation will be something that fucks all up Al so much to where he will have to reincarnate his entire body, not to mention the fucking recovery time will be a month or so. [For perspective, it takes at least 24 hours-78 hours (usually) for any nation to recover if they’ve been fatally injured]

Night owl. Viktor enjoys the solace of the night. This works for him since being around too many people or just people, in general, annoys and drains him. Since it’s Fall, sunlight is far more scarce. Viktor will also enjoy strolls through the forest under the guidance of the moonlight if, for whatever reason, he’s unable to sleep or concentrate on any task he needs to complete or a hobby of his. 

Viktor loves going to movie theatres when they’re mostly empty. He goes to see the yearly installment of whatever popular horror movie is out. On occasion, he will be impressed by a breakout masterpiece or some film director's magnum opus, which will make him want to rewatch a movie. [By rewatch, I mean it’s background noise for him while he knits, does chores, or cooks.] 

Viktor knows of the best-hidden libraries and bookshops and the best Halloween displays for the top books of the season. He likes to pick his top 5 and read through them to see which ones are the best and rank them in his journals. 

The dude can carve some intricate pumpkins. I’m talking about hyperrealistic-looking monsters from Russian folklore. Viktor even carves other things such as ghoulish faces, eyes, and ghosts [that somehow he made to look translucent with just a candle and his X-ACTO knife.] These will be the main decorations that adorn his house.  

Some of his other favorite decorations are spiders and their webs. 

He will always dress as the Grim Reaper because he has bright scarlet eyes, a menacing demeanor, and a terrifying aura. Plus, with the hood obscuring half of his face…. Yeah, his citizens know full well he’s not to be fucked with. [unless you really just give no fucks and don’t have a vested interest in having a quality of life or…being alive] 

In the bar Viktor frequents, the owner had cut a deal with him: Be here in Sept & Oct dressed as the Grim Reaper and let people trouble him for a picture, and he gets paid in any Vodka he can drink for the night, his own special place in the bar that won’t be crowded by people, and fifty Rubes per hour. To Viktor, it's not a bad deal. The owner even had a scythe commissioned to be made with Sterling Silver to make sure he could look as accurate as the Grim Reaper as possible. 

On the actual day of Halloween in the morning [3:33 am], he’ll throw a dart at the map of his nation and where it lands will be where he seeks out a mystic babushka to get his fortune read.

[bullshit-bulltrue]

☆ hawk talk 8/21/23 ☆

um so not gonna say a lot bc i woke up like two minutes ago to blow my nose and i already want to go back to sleep bc oversleeping is my disease now

so my apologies if this is like bad and short

i'm just very tired and woke up In the middle of the night and wanted to do something

um okay science!!

i had a sore throat this morning and i still had it during science so i wasn't that awake

BUT

Mr. E asked what a rube goldberg machine was and my hand darted up so fast and it was lowkey such a xander hawthorne moment <3

and when i answer questions, my science class doesn't all turn their heads to me !!

it really helps my anxiety when people aren't looking directly at my face during public speaking

many turned their bodies and/or ears to me but there was no eye contact

ik it seems miniscule to them, but i really appreciate it

oh and this bitch doesn't wanna work on the part of the project i told her to do

like i already did the writing portion so in order for everyone to do something,, her and emers need to do the drawing

and the bitch was shit at it

but it won't bring my grade down or anything bc if u don't do anything in the group, (her idea of doing smth is "giving the idea in the first place") u don't get any credit

so then i got to math

lanie came up to me and gave back my copy of the outsiders that i lent her. she said she like the book !!

um and then we had to do these state mandated tests

that wasn't actually as difficult as i thought it would be??

it was cool

and then on my way to lunch ben comes up from behind me and is like

b: i didn't know you had split lunch?

m: yeah on even days i have first lunch

b: huh i looked and hadn't seen you in the cafeteria

m: *chuckles* oh yeah i've seen you

*kinda longish pause*

b: where do you sit?

m: wherever there's room 🤷‍♀️

b: i sit way in the back near-

m: near the bathrooms?

b: yeah (think i might've freaked him out a little bc apparently observing people since i have no friends at first lunch is weird ig??)

b: this uh one guy i sit with at lunch is cool and all but *groans and kinda paused bc he's annoyed* makes the CORNIEST JOKES like i think he's cool and all but LIKE- *cuts himself off* (and then he sorta rambled a lil, It was cute)

so we ended up sitting across from each other on that corner table and it was nice

didn't talk much since there was a group of girls on the left of me in a conversation with him for a bit and i didn't wanna interrupt

so i just observed and i tried not to observe too much so yeah

but everytime they were done talking to him we kept showing each other these tiktoks

AND HE SHOWED ME A FEW CAT TIKTOKS SO I THINK HE MIGHR BE AN ENJ9YER OF GATITOS ✨️✨️

CNRJFJRHGJRJGHRHHJFJFJ

..okay i am calm now.

so then we said our goodbyes anddd yeah

OH MY GOD SO THE GIRL NEXT TO ME IN BROADCAST IS ASIAN-LATINA AND I LOVE HER

THERE'S A TOKEN GRINGA AT EVERY TABLE I SIT IN IN ALL MY CLASSES AND I'M SO GLAD SHE ISN'Y ANOTHER ONE

SO ME AND THE GUY ACROSS FROM ME ARE MEXICAN AND SHE (HER NAME IS RY) IS DOMINICAN SO HELL YEAH

and then wr have the token gringa who gets mad we call her that because she's "part german and russian"

like bitch you white

sucks for you

(yes, ik, russia is technically part of asia but she said a very low percentage so yeah we call her gringa)

ANYWAY

ME AND RY WERE LITERALLY ON THE CLASSROOM FUCKING FLOOR DYING BC WE STARTED TALKING BOUT OUR DADS AND HISPANIC CULTURE AND EVERYTHING

and then class ended :(

OH AND WE HAD TO DO A RECORDING OF THE LINCH MENU AND I RECORDED SO MUCH HALLWAY TEA 👀 👀

and THEN class ended :(

and then we got to color a little project in science lab bc my teacher is lovely and she adores me <3

[maletofujoshi]

Komi-San is a really funny show. I don’t understand why people are so horny about it though like… it’s a gag comedy about a girl with a communication disorder trying to make 100 friends (where in every character is interestingly quirky, keeping shit fresh). like. the romance elements of it aren’t even what the show is centred around, which is the frantic energy of just hanging out, as stuff gets increasingly chaotic. as different characters are introduced, it almost has like a Rube Goldberg machine vibe, and like. on its own merits, it’s a really good comedy/gag anime, but it seems like that sorta just gets overlooked because people think the main character is hot.

[gyftbox]

considering just how long ralsei was left waiting in castletown, it’s maybe not so surprising that the area became so heavily imbued with his magic. this effect was only amplified by the near by presence of the dark fountain, and the prince’s family ties to said shadowy geyser. ralsei’s castle has become somewhat of a extension of himself, and it definitely shows, both magically and otherwise/in spirit, so! tl;dr, under the cut will be hcs related to the castle itself, the goings on inside, etc etc.

>to start this out i wanna explain a lil more abt how his soul magic/‘imagination’ magic works. basically, as i mentioned in this hc, ralsei’s soul magic isn’t like he can just, think of s/t crazy, and make it happen. it’s more a passive thing, powered by his own belief/hope/wonder he finds in the world around him. >and, bc ralsei doesn’t. realize that he’s the one affecting/creating these things, there is a sense of randomness to the castle. he never knows what to expect, but he doesn’t consider that a bad thing, he finds enjoyment in the thrill of adventure, after all! and, tbh; thats kinda why its Like That™ in the 1st place? it’s a subconscious attempt @ staving off the effects of prolong -ed isolation, a makeshift fix for an abandoned childs boredom/loneliness. >(this is also why hes able to find his way around the castle with ease despite it’s mixed up nature.)

>the castle seems impossibly bigger on the inside, ofc the outer shell is a looming figure in of itself, bc, well. it’s a castle. however the point still stands, bc the inside almost seems never-ending, and ever-changing, at that, bc… >his magic changes a lot the castle’s interior itself, randomly creating new, strange rooms to explore, most of which don’t even seem possible. these rooms vary in size, from smaller, more cramped spaces, to places bigger then a football field, the contents inside can be anything, rlly!–

>from a dark forest that honest to god makes you feel like you’re outside, though you know you can’t possibly be. w/ fanged plants and pretty crystals twinkling much like fairy lights, w/ tree swings that hang impossibly from above. >to a room completely made out of patchwork and knitted yarn, w/ weird art stuffs and childish looking statues, and a small pond made of water colors, the rocks/lily pads to jump across are instead, large colorful buttons.

>there’s more minor oddities too, such as: staircases that don’t make sense/seem to move every so often, meaning sometimes you end up upside down or walking down sideways on a wall.   >new doors and hallways that definitely didn’t exist a moment before/pop up out of nowhere, a number of secret passages and tunnels to use as shortcuts. >random puzzle areas and maze-like sections scatter -ed around the place, similar to the ruins in UT, etc etc!

>another layer of the what/how @ his castle, is the fact the general vibe of the place is also effected heavily by rals’ own mental/emotional state. >meaning, say he’s having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the place will. be a lot less lively then usual, not as bright/with colors dulled, colder somehow, etc etc. >and, if the opposite is true, if he’s instead, doing alright/feeling happy/excited, the castle be as it normally is, lively and colorful and forever in motion, filled with song/general goings on, warm in that homey/cozy sorta way, etc etc. >there’s ofc, lots of states inbetween, but! y'get the idea.

>tho, there’s some things that aren’t so magically inclined, like how a lot of the castle runs on a series of weird rube goldberg type machines, built by ralsei himself. bc. even w/ all the free time in the world, upkeep for an entire magical castle + the dark fountain itself is a lot for just one (1) lil prince! >so, hes went and automated a lot of the more repetitive work to help lighten the load. while they’re kinda arts and crafts looking, lots of popsicle sticks and glitter glue; they’re still surprisingly complicated and generally pretty reliable.

>as well, any rooms usually left untouched by the daily magical shifts (certain hallways, the main entrance, rals’ room, the library, the kitchen, etc etc) are us -ually covered in other cutesy decorations, glitter/confetti and stickers, etc etc. >some of the inanimate objects in ralsei’s castle are ‘alive’ albeit in a subdued sense, they’re able to move/react, mostly. empty suits of knights armor, stuff in the kitchen, statues, paintings, bookcases, clocks, doors. not everything in the castle, of course. but again, y’get the idea, i think!

>all this aside tho, the v highest floors and parts of the roof of the castle are burnt from the knight’s attack, and so those floors are the few areas not messed w/ in any way. >which is partly bc he doesn’t wanna be up there, considering; oof, but also bc its where the dark fountain is situated. anything below those top floors is game, tho.

>so, yeah! 2 wrap this up: ralsei, ofc, has some seriously bad memories tied to his castle, and thats. rlly part of the reason his magic has settled so heavily into its bricks, tbh. he doesn’t want castle town to be something he fears, or something he solely associates with those bad events. it was his + his families home, and he still considers it such, even after everything. >he doesn’t want it to be something that just. makes him sad™, so all the stuff w/ the castle, the ever changing layout, how it became a home to the strange creatures that fill the halls, the childish display of candy colors and clashing designs, is basically just. a type of stubbornity?

>tl;dr it’s him looking at the ruins of a castle he no longer knew, and digging his heels in, making it so it’s not just another thing the knight took from him, etc etc.

[kaibutsushidousha]

what yugioh decks you could see the dr characters having?

This ask frustrates me immensely because I had to stop to think about things I would have known from the top of my head if were asked this 3-4 years ago. Thankfully, I still remembered most of my 2017 headcanons, to my own surprise. If any of the answers don’t sound too up-to-date, that’s why.

Naegi claims to always like the most popular thing because he’s that normal, so he would use an all-time fan-favorite deck, like Lightsworn or Blackwing.

Maizono would play Shinobirds because it combines both her Tsuru no Ongaeshi and her Tanabata motifs. It’s perfect, honestly. The only way this deck could be more “made for her” is if they were idols.

Kuwata plays whatever is on the meta. The punk rock identity he presents in-game is an aesthetic he developed because his cute hairdresser said she was into musicians, indicating his sense of self is not deeply rooted enough to stick to a fixed deck or theme.

Fujisaki would use a Cyberse deck. A Yusaku deck sounds like a good basic option, but really, I think any Cyberse deck fits.

Oowada, leader of the Crazy Diamonds, would use Gem Knights. His more old-fashioned brother Daiya could use Diamond Dude Turbo. 

Ishimaru defines his entire life on his belief that effort should be reward more so than competence, so he would use Zushin, a deck that requires a very unreasonable amount of effort, and unlike Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, rewards somewhat accordingly.

Since we somehow still don’t have a mahou shoujo deck, Yamada would play Super Quantum. Sky Striker is another reasonably otaku option, but Super Quantum has the giant mechas matching the Justice Robo he created.

Celes plays Vampires. That’s the aesthetics she canonically would kill to live by.

Sakura plays Gouki because that and Dinowrestler somehow are the only dedicated martial arts decks to this day, and Gouki being onis match her stage name being Ogre.

Mukuro would play Igknights because her obsession with guns is intense enough to let her ignore her obsession with her sister. 

Junko is already covered in the Shirogane section of the 2017 V3 post.

There are no detective decks (the closest we got is S-Force, which is portrayed as enemies to the Time Thiefs) and Kirigiri sorta refuses to have any identity outside of being a detective, so I guess she would uphold the Kirigiri family’s creed of fairness and neutrality by always facing her opponent with the same type of deck they’re using.

Togami and his impostor play whatever is on the meta because Togami cares about winning more than he cares about self-expression.

I didn’t want to give Asahina a water deck because swimming is just the sport she’s the best at, and what she actually likes is sports and athletes in general. A U.A. deck would fit her, but it would fit Nidai a lot better, so I’m out of sport options. She gets Mermail.

Hagakure is the guy who ignored his debt with the yakuza to buy Ooparts. He would unquestionably play Chronomalies and I don’t like this because I played a lot of Chronomalies back in my YGO days.

Fukawa is the writer who made Japan develop a fisherman fetish, so she’d play a Umi deck. Geno plays Frightfurs for obvious reasons.

Hinata plays whatever is on the meta because this is the guy who was so desperate to win that he practically paid to get himself replaced by someone more capable.

Hanamura plays Suships because it’s the fanciest food deck available.

Koizumi plays Rank 6 because, in the absence of the C/C/C archetype, Force Focus is the closest we have to a camera card.

Peko plays Shiranui because it’s a deck of samurai with no being moved by the spirit of a sword instead of any will of their own, and coincidentally is also the name of the school she and Sakura attended.

Hiyoko plays Madolche because cute pastry.

Mioda could play Romin’s deck in a Rush Duel setting, but in a normal Yugioh setting, I got nothing too good. Evil Twin fits her aesthetic, I guess.

Tsumiki would play Bad Reaction to Simochi. The deck's main monster is an evil nurse and the entire concept of the deck is using healing effects to hurt.

Nidai gets U.A. Self-explanatory.

Tanaka gets Tanukis because it’s a relatively powerful deck that uses only small beasts. The name thing is merely coincidence.

Komaeda uses Arcana Force and regularly wins with it, in a way no one else can.

Human Nanami would play B.E.S. because haha video game reference, I guess. NWP Nanami should play a Cyberse deck like Fujisaki. She’s the SHSL because she plays to win, so she should go with @ignester or Salamangreat (I have no idea what the strongest Cyberse deck is).

Souda would play either Sky Striker because a blondie in a mechsuit is the sexiest thing he can imagine, or any of the many heavy machinery archetypes, like Trains or Infinitracks.

Sonia would play Invoked due to her interest in the occult. I wish there were some onmyouji deck to combine her loves for the occult and for Japan, but in the absence of that, that’s what I’m going with. Mayakashi doesn’t feel occult enough.

Both Kuzuryuu and Owari play dragon spam. The former because his live is bound by the legacy of the Kuzuryuu family and their name means “nine-headed dragon”, and the latter because that’s a deck where you don’t need to think hard, just spam beatsticks and do big damage.

As for updates on the old V3 post:

Akamatsu gets a better option in Doremichord. It requiring the set of being a Pendulum deck fits Akamatsu’s taste for Rube-Goldberg machines.

Sky Striker is a decent option for Shirogane because it’s clothes giving a girl power, but I’ll stick to my Nekroz idea because it’s Yugioh cards cosplaying Yugioh card.

Toujou plays Dragon Maids. Very self-explanatory.

[dustedmagazine]

Terrine — Cheat Days (Bruit Direct)

Cheat Days by TERRINE

Operating under the moniker Terrine, Claire Gapenne has assembled a meandering Rube Goldberg machine of slackerly weirdness in Cheat Days. DIY basement techno seems to be an occasional, distant reference point. Yet no genre or any other kind of coherent musical form receives much investment, and one gets the sense that’s kind of the point. Apropos of its name, Cheat Days feels… not particularly committed. 

Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “Bouscule,” for example, clatters like a Pole track played with kitchen implements until nightmarish, bit-crushed vocal samples drop. Similarly, on “Banabila Dub,” a resolute cowbell is quickly joined by blown-out machine sounds that would fit in on a Container record if they were in time with each other. Elsewhere, rhythms and atmospheres unfold with less regard for musical norms. Opener “Annette Thollot” begins the album with lackadaisical musique concrete, a synth stabbing listlessly as repitched vocals spiral out of control before a cut to party conversation, then buzzing insects implying… the outdoors?  “Grand Pas” goes from metal percussion — yes, probably more cowbell — to out-of-tune (nothing so intentional as “detuned”) piano, resolving into a muted, bleating murk.  

Stateside, a release like Cheat Days wouldn’t be out of place on noise cassette labels that achieved critical nods in the 2000s, like Hanson Records or American Tapes. The album would stand out from much of that scene, though, by its low decibels and blasé attitude. Noise that aims for bombast or transcendence via sustained distortion has to sorta try, even in spite of itself. Whereas much aggressive American noise yells (somewhat disingenuously) “fuck everything,” Gapenne states plainly: “Meh. Here are some sounds.” The outcome is spare, oddly approachable – fun, even?  

Nothing to prove.  No one to impress.  Just one person, an afternoon (not much longer than that, one hopes), and a few quasi-working tools.  

Peter Taber

[fantroll-purgatory]

Chromia

@time-is-still-a-waste

First: Beforus!

Name: Chromia Kybayze. Chromia, comes from the word chrome, that sometimes is associated with time (Her main theme), and is also a type of metal. Kybayze, is a more fancy way of her original name (being Kyba).

Chromia has more than 6 letters, so we’ll have to find a way to chop that down. Khroma, maybe? Kybayze has the same problem on top of not having a meaning. What if we used Kyanol instead? Kyanol is an alternate name for Aniline, one of the first things used in the creating of pigments, plastics, and dyes, and a common feature in oldtimey alchemy, the predecessor of Chemistry. 

Khroma Kyanol also has alliteration AND both chrome and aniline are used in leather, so I think it’s good. 

Age: 9 sweeps.

Strife Specibus: Pistolkind! She mostly wields flintlock pistols, to fit with her steampunky theme! She also occasionally wields various varieties of handcrafted potions. Her most commonly used one, is a potion of a chemical akin to greek fire. Incredibly hard to put out.

If you wanted to like, magically combine these two under one strife specibus, you could say like… Sulfurkind. Since Gunpowder uses sulfur and it’s speculated that there’s sulfur in Greek fire? It gives her a really flexible modus- if something’s sulfury, she can put it to use.

Fetch Modus: Stop-clock! To obtain her items, Chromia will have to stop the watch at a certain point, to obtain her items. Each item can be stored on a particular time (ie. She’d store a book at 3am). When she wants to obtain it, she starts the timer, and stops it when the seconds goes past that particular time.

Nice!

Blood color: She’s a Bronze Blood! However, she has also sometimes been seen as an Indigo.

Symbol and meaning: Due to her being a time player, and a derse,she’d be a Tauries! 

Trolltag: ancientAnatomy

That’s interesting, but if you want to go with a steampunk theme it’s kind of off base… Maybe industrialAlchedemic? Industrial being a reference to the industrial steam-powered era that dominates the steampunk aesthetic, and Alchedemic being a combination of Alchemic and Academic. 

Quirk: She doesn’t change any of her letters, however, she does add her signature goggles to her emoticons, in the form of a B. ie B:) and also has a tendency to refer to people by colours, that she associates them with.

I like that! Simple quirks are good n refreshing.

Special Abilities (if any): She has no particular abilities, except the ones granted to her by her God Tier.

Brownbloods are said to have a sorta natural connection with animals, but we’ll say hers is very, very, very weak. Animals just like… like her slightly more than average.

Lusus: Chromia’s lusus, is quite an interesting one. She has a  large bookworm. They both get on quite well, and Chromia has been known to curl up with her worm.. mother.. thing. She has, however, dressed her Lusus up a bit with a few of her own items. Who ever saw a giant bookworm in a bowtie?

Personality: Chromia, is for lack of a better term, eccentric. She has a slight case of hoarding, and collects any and every interesting thing she comes across. Often coming off as quite cold and rude, to most she is often avoided. However, this is quite far from the truth, as she is just quite bad at socializing. She often tries to get people to be her “test subjects” just so she can have somebody to talk to. When people get to know her, she has quite a sarcastic personality, but is more than willing to put herself in harms way to save someone. When it comes to people she dislikes, she hides it well, until they are vulnerable, and then she strikes.

She has a slightly.. mad professor aesthetic going on, and has been known to mildly intimidate people by cackling at random times. This does, unfortunately get her in quite a fair bit of trouble, as cackling during serious conversations is not good for anyones health. Chromia enjoys being referred to as “Professor”, despite not really being a teacher. Or a professor of anything.

Lastly, Chromia has a very particular flaw. She has a deep fear of failing. She has a tendency to absorb herself into her work, and strive for the very best, despite knowing she’ll never get there. She’ll never let people know of this, of course, and covers her own self doubt by making herself sound smarter, using fancy terms to seem more important.

I love this… Though with the steampunk aesthetic, there’s definitely some stuff you could lean into to beef up some of these things. Like her being really fascinating by the past instead of looking around herself and at the people in her life. Fixating on her interests and her aesthetic and her performative self instead of being open and engaging with others- as you said with her being bad at communicating and trying to make excuses to talk. 

Also being fascinated by OLD questions- since she’s steampunk, I feel like alchemy is something she needs on top of Chemistry. Fixative on those age old questions, how do we cure disease? How do we extend a lifetime? Part of the Time condition is that these characters either need to learn to fight or are Always Fighting. Always struggling against Something. For her, she’s fighting against failure, aaand in some ways probably against time. The ultimate failure would be to die before you publish your works, before you get over that hurdle, before you even have a Chance to make it, so trying to tackle those old alchemic questions becomes really fascinating for a character who fears Not Succeeding. 

Interests: She has a deep love, and almost obsession with science. Specifically, Chemistry. She also loves reading and writing her own stories. She has been known to make her own characters, and often gets overly attached to them. 

I Love That. If she’s steampunk you ought to make her like steam-based tech a lot too. I know that’s under science technically speaking, but it’s of Particular Note. OH man could I recommend her hive being a thermal airship? 

Since Brownbloods are known for their love of creature comforts, maybe you could have her be sneakily into fashion, too? It’s not Scientific and Professional, so she doesn’t like to explicitly acknowledge it, but we can get it out there in her Look.

Maybe she could also like a few more niche things. Like Rube Goldberg Machines. And fiction about automatons (If only because when I hear steampunk the first thing I think is Steam Powered Giraffes). 

Title: She’s a Witch of Time! 

The active changer of Time… I think that suits so well all of what I talked about above. She’s someone who wants to actively change things, wants to change the timeline, change the state. She’ll change the course of history if she can! Her inverse would be Seer of Space and Space is Heavily associated with science, so her having a good ol’ understanding of the scientific nature of the universe will help her in changing the flow of time.

Land: I can’t think of one!

Land of Cogs and Rewind

A giant web of interconnected cities floats above the molten planet, harnessing the heat below to keep the clockwork buildings suspended in the sky. But the machinery’s been ticking for too long and it’s starting to creak. Something goes wrong. The head below gets hotter and suddenly all the pipes burst. The city falls out of the sky, towards the lava, and before everyone can fall in… everything resets. Khroma is back where she started. This happens every 24 hours. The planet is stuck in a loop of destruction and Khroma has to figure out how to save the planet, save the consorts, and set everything on a better timeline’s path.

Dream Planet: She’s a Derse dreamer! Due to her constant urge to change the world around her, Derse just seems to fit her the best. She’s never pleased with what she has, and always strives to make all of her tests just a step better. To prove herself.

Appearance: Chromia, is a very tall for her blood caste. She has adapted an almost steampunky style over the years, often wearing a long bronze tailcoat, kneehigh cog covered boots and a pair of copper tinted goggles. She has quite long black hair, that’s quite messy due to her not brushing it much. Chromia also has a tendency to wear bronze lipstick, when around other people. She wears her blood colour with pride. 

Design!: 

Goggles: I edited them from BurningQuantumCola’s base! I put some silver detailing and a cog design on as well. 

Horns&Hair: I used horns in the shape of the symbol and tried to make her hair nice and wild like you wanted. 

Face: I edited her eyes from Kanaya’s, but made them narrower and more smirky as well as giving her curled up eyelashes. I gave her brown mascara, of course, for that bronze pride. Her lips are also brown and she is smirky and toothy. 

Outfit: Okay, so there’s not quite an overcoat, but I gave her a white shirt with her symbol on it and a nice overalls skirt in bronze with lots of silver buttons. I thought it carried nice steampunk vibes and also made her look a bit like a fun high school science teacher. 

Boots: I edited them from Horrus’ shoes! Black boots with some leather detail, silver gears and some buckle guards!

She’s a whole lot of fun. Thank you for sharing!

-CD

[dahniwitchoflight]

some quick classpect thoughts about Hiveswap before I go to work

so for Xefros and Jude, they are both either Page or Bard

I know for me the immediate click thing for each of them was Bard for Jude and Page for Xefros

but now I’m thinking it might actually be the other way around

for one, Jude’s aspect is Light, and how does he interact with Light?

He tries really really hard to be GOOD at Light, and he is good at Light! It’s just his talents can be somewhat unappreciated by others, and yes he bungles things up sometimes, he’s still learning, but he has that passionate conviction that keeps him from wallowing in despair just because someone might have rolled their eyes at him or called him wrong once, he absolutely brushes that off and goes headfirst into the Light once again, always getting up to try again and to keep trying again

that’s extremely Page-like behavior, especially early Page (just think of early Tavros and early Jake, you can see the similarity right?)

second, Xefros’s aspect is Time, and how does he interact with Time?

He also, tries to be good at managing Time, but he also comes off as viewing his schedule as this big life changing problem that definitely won’t fix itself before it causes him harm, and his reaction to that always ends up being “I’m sure everything will be fine and just sorta work itself out :)))” and everytime he broaches a topic that discusess his own mortality, he does seem very avoidant of the possibility, like, oh, well, I guess Dammek taking up all my time in this rebellion stuff sure isn’t letting me get Time to practice for my eventual trials, where I’ll be killed if I don’t pass them. and then he ends the thought, not really willing to dwell on the reasons behind that happening (he can’t make boundaries/choices when it comes to his own Time) or really deal with the actual consequences of his Time being managed, or really destroyed in such a way. Like most Bards, it’s this great looming huge problem for them that he doesn’t know what to do with, he still likes parts of it, but Xefros is almost definitely heading for a crisis of Time if this keeps holding up yknow?

and Jude never really felt like he was heading for any sort of personal crisis about Light (the exception being if his life work of conspiracies turned out totally wrong, but they didn’t, that just isn’t his path)

But also Xefros does not have that Page-like initial confidence, he has a lot of bravado and fake confidence, and he is much much more avoidant of aspect than a Page would be, even a fake confident Page would drown themselves in their Aspect in order to keep up the facade, not avoid it

so yeah, I’m thinking Xefros is a Bard of Time (and honestly the whole butlering/servant thing, keep spaces clean and neat and tidy is probably a nice subtle little nod to a Maid of Space subrole and how being kept in that kind of role, either by society or by Dammek, just isn’t healthy for him)

and then Jude is a Page of Light, honestly it just really lines up with everything about him so far, especially the whole Pages/Knights as Application of their Aspects

everything he does with Light is some kind of rube goldberg machine of a puzzle (the marbles/light reflection puzzle he set up) or of him connecting dots of info (literally all the writing is on the wall for this one) and trying to use them together to make a greater theory, and in this case his subrole of Thief/Relocation of Void is instead used to support him

[kaedekisaragi]

Kaede Kisaragi Watches The Flash S4E03 - Luck Be A Lady

Were you listening to me, Barry? Or were you looking at the meta in the red dress?

We open to The Thinker as he dictates about "Subject 02", one Rebecca Sharpe. Three weeks ago. She goes by Becky, and dislikes when people mispell her names. And she is very much a geek, for all intents and purposes: she is not assertive enough to make the jitters barista give her no milk, and she gets home to find her boyfriend cheating on her and postpones her righteous anger to go to the bathroom due to said milk. As Thinker describes her... She's a defeatist. That the whole world conspires against her. Perfect victim to manipulate, yes? She enters a bus full of familiar looking people... Like Kilgore... And a bright light explodes just outside their bus as we cut into the credits.

Present. Barry and Cisco, calling out to each other, in middle of a brutal, vicious battle, hopelessly wondering where is Caitlin... Only to then both be killed brutally by little kids in the Laser Tag arena. And be called old men. Sucky kids. The gang all sits down for snacks, Cecile apologizing for not inviting them for dinner, but squeaky pipes on West house like to be heard. For the last 18 years, apparently, as Joe sticks up for his home's personality. Iris and Barry celebrate a couple's decision to break up, which frees up their wedding venue, and Iris moves in and scores the deposit. All lovely and in sync, like a cute couple. But suddenly, a breach alert!

Harry pops out! Harry party! Wally is not amused, because he was ready for date night with Jessie. Harry delivers a... cube? It plays a bit of message from Jessie, but shorts out (shoddy atlantean plastic, I tell you)... So, that's a Breakup cube. It records a message, plays music, and puts out a tissue for the person who got kicked in the butt. Ouch. Harry being left to very, VERY clumsily explain his own daughter's decision to break up (or go on a break, for you Friends people) because Wally is busy filling in for Barry (ouch, how long ago was their last date?) and she needs to work on her own stuff. Cisco's says it best:

Flash rushes off to deal with a bank robbery, and Caitlin points at Harry and tells him that they are NOT done, to his clueless confusion. And here we rejoin Becky Sharpe, whose voice remains somewhat nasal, but she now has stupid luck, since as she walks, a domino effect of rube goldberg proportions explodes as everyone around her knocks something or tumbles over something... Letting her enter the bank and grab whatever cash she wants without any worry. As she returns to her Uber to leave and Flash is right on top of her... He slips violently as a large barrel of marbles spills over and causes him to fall. At the lab, they ID becky, because CCPD has records of every single unlucky stuff that happened to her (even the time her cat got burgled by a cat burglar). Harry is firm on not believing in 'luck', preferring to use technobabble. Cisco reveals he did not take out all the tech from barry's suit (he left some sensors in, sue him). Cisco and Harry go off argue on who can calibrate a satellite better, while Iris goes get a package at the loft and Joe goes home to Cecile.

Cecile called the plumber. He says it'll be 15k for the whole house plumbing. Which... Cecile uses as an argument to try and convince Joe to sell the West home. She does have a valid point in that they are an empty nest, they don't need such a big house. He says he'll think about it. Meanwhile, Iris tries out her wedding dress, only for Barry to glimpse at it for a second... And to compound the bad luck, their chosen venue burned down, and the other venue has been spoken for. Well, they still got six weeks, that's like, 5 episodes away... right?

Becky enjoys her kobe beef, and one remark from her is enough to send her ex-bf into a piling hot soup bowl in front of his squeeze. Thinker's assistant has no idea why his plan involves Becky. Thinker says she's formidable, but her powers capricious and in need of observation. Cisco and Harry continue to squabble like a married couple over the Dark matter sensor... Barry arrives with them, as they reach the exact spot where Becky got her powers... Which is where Barry emerged from the speed force, RIGHT ON TOP OF A BUS! THE BUS BECKY AND THE OTHERS WERE IN! HOLY LIGHTNING BOLT STRIKES TWICE, BATMAN!

Cisco and Harry squabble on the lab, as the team takes in the fact WE created the metas this season. Harry apparently feels Cisco should've called him for help before opening the speed force, and they just go off each to their own side in typical bratty manner. But before anything can happen, Joe gets a call from Cecile and ORDERS Barry to take him there. Because the West house is full of leaks now. Barry shuts down the water, but this is beginning to get ridiculous. Barry and Joe discuss the idea of selling the house, and Joe doesn't want to let go of his memories of his kids in this house. Cisco locates Becky at Jitters, so Barry goes there in civilian form. He tries to gently tell her how powers can be overwhelming... But she makes it pretty sure that she is not interested, saying she's tired of being given the bad hand at life... And she need only express a slight annoyance at Barry attempting to hold her hand for Barry to witness a LOT of things ready to go wrong inside Jitters if he stands in her way. She is positive that the world is finally 'fixing' its mistake and making HER the one lucky and everyone else unlucky. And due to that, she doesn't care that she's ruining everyone's life in the process... And Barry can't even go after her, because the mere intent makes things nearly go insane wrong around him. Seriously, a baby carriage near a nailgun? Seriously?

The team is down in the dumps. They can't get close to Hazard (thank you Cisco), and they created her, and they all feel they are cursed since the house is about to break apart, Jessie dumped Wally, and Barry and Iris? Well... Iris just called Barry over to a church for an impromptu marriage... RIGHT AFTER A FUNERAL SERVICE LMAO Seriously, they are REALLY gonna be married, of course they are... Until the priest gets an allergic reaction to the cinnamon incense the mischievous altar boy put on. Seriously.

Harry is doing his calculations, gets pissed, tosses the breakup box, and gets hit in his own head, to Cisco's amusement. Harry, as it turns out, has spent the summer assembling a team for Jessie (but no, they're not Jessie and the Quicksters). And now he's bitter because she kicked him out of the team, too much stiffness cramping their millenial style. But soon the alarms go off: Becky's power field is expanding to affect more of the city (making Cecile slip while Joe's stuck with a jammed door). AND A GOOSE GETS SUCKED INTO A PLANE ENGINE AND IT EXPLODES, WHAT?!? All because Becky's exerting Newton's Third Law in extreme levels, going to her casino to get rich without dying. 37 snake eyes? Really? And not a single security officer to toss her out? AND THEN THE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR TURNS ON AND IT'S GONNA EXPLODE! SERIOUSLY, HOW THE FUCK?!? IN FOUR MINUTES, EVEN!

Flash runs to the casino. The plane tries to go for a water landing. Joe breaks the doorhandle. Flash finds Hazard, but slips on coins and ends up CUFFING HIMSELF, SERIOUSLY, HOW?!? Harry gets zapped by short circuit on the circuitry of the pipeline. Flash gets up, but someone sees him, tumbles into another person, setting off the fire alarm. Joe gets in the house, but Cecile and him get trapped when a beam falls down blocking the door. Shit is all hitting all fans... But Harry gets a sudden spark of brilliancy, telling Cisco to LET the particle accelerator explode...

IT EXPLODES, THE ENERGY HITTING HER AND CANCELLING HER POWER, MAKING HER LOSE AT THE SLOT MACHINE! And award of the episode goes to co-pilot of the plan, who did not panic ONCE in this whole absurdity! Flash arrests Hazard.

Harry kinda sorta apologizes. Cisco takes what he can get. Cisco invites Harry to stay, because he's family, and he has a get-out-of-jackass-jail-free card. Harry is made to admit he has no friends, being too busy looking after Jessie to make his own life. Cisco wants to help him with that. No bro hugs, though. At the lab, Harry has identified the bus from satellite scans, confirming that... we have 12 metas. They got this by the balls...

...Until Wally points out NOBODY noticed he wasn't around. Because he went to Earth-2 to talk to Jessie... She confirmed it. She has to take care of herself... And Wally realizes he does too. He's leaving Central for a while. Barry supports him, saying all heroes lead their own paths. If he has to go, he has to go. Wally promises Joe he'll never lose him. And if he needs him, he'll come running. Literally. Tearful goodbye to our Kid Flash. Harry, in turn, realizes the possibility of the guy behind the Samuroid being behind the new metas.

Thinker's assistant knows Team Flash has the number of targets, and says they might be smarter than he credits them. But he's smarter... HAVING THE SAMUROID HEAD AS A CAMERA IN THE LAB!

Stinger. Joe returns home to find Cecile plastering the wall. But Joe has decided it: time to sell the house. Get one with a dishwasher, jacuzzi... Possibly space for his record collection too? Buuuuut... Cecile changed her mind. Because she heard what he said about getting the best place to raise his kids... And it just struck a chord with her. Because...

She's pregnant.

Faces of Joe West, meet thy winner.

So glad to have Harry Wells back :) Of all the three Wellses, I think he's my favorite. Especially since he and Cisco get along much better than Cisco and HR did. Plus, unlike HR, Harry actually does bring an extra genius into the fold. I do feel it was very harsh the way they broke up Wally and Jessie, but I guess it's also realistic, since they're both young and young people do crazy stuff, I guess?

No clue yet on the Thinker's plan. But it DOES make a lot of sense that the team made new metas with their bringing Flash back. It doesn't, however, explain yet how the Thinker is so smart. Oh well, we take the answers we can get.

ALSO, A THIRD WEST IS COMING INTO THIS HOUSE! LET'S HAVE A WEST PARTY, PEOPLE!!! POST YOUR FAVORITE JOE WEST SCREENCAPS!!!

[halloweenfor]

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[colleentmaria7-blog]

Time Podcast Reaction

I thought it was really interesting how the podcast explained the “history” of time and how time became uniform through the creation of the railroads. I never even thought about how time became what we perceive it as today. In actuality time is what we as a society make it to be, we make it tangible because we have to in order to maintain our daily traditions(we had to make time constant to even have daily traditions). Exploring what time is and what time can be is truly fascinating since time feels like such a factual and concrete concept. But in reality it is not concrete at all, we make it concrete by measuring it is seconds, minutes, hours, years ect. The exploration and the measurement of time throughout cultures is also fascinating, in the podcast they mention “clocks” such as listening to the birds in order to determine what time it is or measuring time through a scent calendar. In the context of art I think investigating how time can be a medium is something I wish to further investigate. Specifically how temporary everything can be and how to make temporary things permanent through video and photography. For example the creation of a rube goldberg machine is a temporary object. But through video the image and motion of it becomes permanent. Within my own personal work I did a series of paintings (12 in total) all on the same canvas. I was trying to convey a theme of temporality and impermanence. At the same time however, all the layers of the painting were documented with a camera. So a sorta paradox is created through the use of the camera. In the future I want to explore these same themes through sculpture and photography.

[murasaki-murasame]

Danganronpa V3 Liveblog Part 2 [Chapter 1 - Daily Life]

Yeah I may as well put the rest of this under a read-more right from the start since I wanna get right into spoilers.

Just to jump right to the end of what I played because it’s the elephant in the room, I called Rantarou being the first death before the game even came out in Japan. But I think everyone did. It was really obvious that either he was going to survive for most/all of the game, or be killed off immediately to troll everyone because he’s set up as being so mysterious and presumably plot-important. I’m not really angry about it, but it’s just kinda funny that I called this nearly a year in advance. Thankfully the rest of the game should be less predictable than this, since this was the only real thing I confidently predicted back then. Also for the record I had no actual, genuine idea about this in advance, it was just a guess of mine.

It’s weird that in the demo version they had him [and Keebo] sit out of the trial, when he ended up not surviving long enough to take part in a trial in the main game.

Either way, it’s at least kinda amusing that he died immediately when he felt so similar to Komaeda. Obviously it’s still lame to see him die so soon, but at least his character played out differently to Komaeda.

[Also for the record I’m hoping that Kokichi saying ‘my dearest Rantarou’ was just him making an inappropriate joke, because hoo boy it was bad enough when DR3 ended with the Bury Your Gays trope. I’d be genuinely angry if this game STARTED with it. I’m pretty sure it’s just a joke, but it does remind me that Kokichi/Rantarou was actually a relatively popular crack ship in the fandom, at least back before the game came out in Japan]

I stopped playing directly when the investigation officially started [so technically I played a few minutes of the Deadly Life segment but that was because the game didn’t let me save for a while], so I can’t exactly speculate much about the case, and I don’t want to. I’ll save that for after I play the investigation, since I’ll actually have proper clues to work with then. I know that the investigation part will probably be a lot shorter than this part, but I want to take a break between it and the trial so that I get a chance to sit down and post some speculation before I go through the trial and figure out what happened. So my next post might be a bit short. Maybe. Knowing me, it probably won’t be.

Since I was scared this would happen, I tried to talk to him as much as possible, but I only managed to have one actual scene with him. I also had one with Shuichi. Now that Rantarou’s out the way, I guess Shuichi will be the person I prioritize most in free time events. Not sure who else I’d go with. I’m kinda curious about Keebo since his backstory seems interesting, but I dunno. I kinda want to see what Kokichi’s deal is, but part of me also feels like he’s probably gonna stick around for a long time so I’m less inclined to prioritize him. Maybe I should talk to Maki more, since she seems like the type who I’ll need to really get to know before I see more sides to them.

Overall, I was sorta surprised by how much I really liked this part. I mean, I’m a big fan of the series in general, but I’ve been a bit worried about whether or not I’d actually enjoy this game and it’s cast. Thankfully those fears are getting dissipated. I was also afraid that it’d feel too similar to the first two games, but there’s enough different things happening that it’s enjoyable.

One of the things that surprised me most was the motive. Or, well, motives. I did not expect the stakes to get so high that quickly. The whole idea of ‘the first murder will happen consequence-free’ is actually really interesting, and an effective way of motivating a murder. But it definitely makes Monokuma seem way more desperate than he used to be. Especially when, like a day after the first motive, he was like ‘oh and if nobody dies soon, you all die’. At that point he’s literally forcing people’s hands, more or less. Which isn’t a criticism, really. It’s an interesting approach to take. Especially since nobody ended up actually using that motive to kill. The whole part where nobody outed themselves as being Rantarou’s killer, and Monokuma announced that they’d hold a class trial in that case, was really intriguing. It’s really making it hard to guess at the culprit’s motive.

On a similar sort of note, I was not expecting the part where Ryoma suggested that somebody murder him so they could escape and find help. I thought at first that he’d just generally suggest the idea of someone going through with murdering someone, but I probably should have expected him to be all self-sacrificial, given his attitude. I said it last time, but I REALLY like Ryoma as a character thus far.

I said I wouldn’t speculate much about the murder, but lol I can’t help myself now that I’ve seen the body. I can only make vague judgments about it, though. Like how it seems pretty obvious that Rantarou wasn’t directly murdered by someone, but instead somebody probably set a metal ball on the bookcase so that it’d roll off and hit his head when it opened. Maybe that’s just my first guess because Kaede already brought up the idea of Rube Goldberg machines earlier in the chapter. It’d also explain how the murder will remain mysterious even with photographic evidence. There probably wasn’t anyone else in the room. I assume that Monokuma would still consider the identity of the hypothetical ball-placer to be the culprit, so then the big mystery is figuring out who did that, when there’s presumably no evidence. But then again the ball could have only, in this scenario, been placed on the bookcase after the equipment was set up, otherwise Shuichi would have noticed it at the time, or the alarm would have gone off. Unless he’s the killer, which I’m really doubting.

Ignoring the option of Shuichi being the killer, he and Kaede at least have alibis. I don’t know if anyone else would have. I’ve kinda forgotten if the equipment got placed early in the morning, or right before those two hid in the classroom, so I’m not sure what time frame to work with for this one, in terms of figuring out alibis.

I feel like the seven people who went to the game room are probably being set up as people who all have mutually-verified alibis, at least. Which leaves like seven other people.

Oh well, I won’t think about it too hard until I finish the investigation.

On the topic of Shuichi, I also really like him as a character. I liked him after the prologue, but learning a bit more of his story made me like him even more. He’s a really interesting take on a detective character. I’m glad he’s not just another Kirigiri. I can really get why he feels so uncomfortable about the idea of pursuing the truth, when he ended up exposing someone who did a revenge-killing for sympathetic reasons.

I also just really like his dynamic with Kaede. They’re just adorable and mutually supportive and I love it. I’m not gonna lie, I kinda low-key ship them already. I have low standards for this sorta thing, lol.

Kaede’s also pretty interesting as a protagonist, especially in terms of how people react to her. It was kinda sad seeing everyone [well, nearly everyone] hate her for being optimistic and leader-y and wanting everyone to keep trying to escape. Considering how it’s already giving her confidence issues, I wonder if that’ll be an ongoing thing, with most of the cast not wanting to be bossed around by her. I couldn’t really blame them after how the Death Road of Despair part went, but they still took it too far.

Also on that note, fuck the Death Road of Despair. That was so awful to experience. Considering how the story played out, I imagine that the game was genuinely rigged against you, and it sure as hell felt like it. I hope that if this game ever shows up again in a less evil context, the controls aren’t so weirdly floaty and hard to control. I kinda wish I could have recorded the way my reaction to it went from ‘oh this sounds simple, just run and rump’ to ‘wait the fuck why is everyone dead’ in ten seconds.

Anyway, I’m really enjoying seeing more of the characters, and seeing them start to form their own dynamics and stuff. It’s only just starting, but it’s already interesting to watch unfold. I’m especially surprised by how Tenko pretty much immediately got a crush on Himiko and is now just following her around and acting so excited about the idea of magic. It’s really endearing me to her.

This part also continued to reaffirm my love for Gonta. He’s an incredibly sweet boy who doesn’t deserve the death that he’s presumably going to experience. He tries his best.

I’m happy that Kaito is at least trying to be on Kaede’s side. He’s a good dude thus far.

Conversely, I probably should have expected that Maki would be rude and unsociable. I’ll probably still try and spend free time with her and get to know her, though. It makes me feel like there’s something really interesting under her cold exterior that I’d never get to see if I just avoided her.

Angie’s kinda starting to creep me out, which I wasn’t expecting. Like, the blood sacrifice joke was one thing, but now she’s talking about happily accepting imminent death because Atua will welcome her into his kingdom, or Atua punishing liars, and stuff. But then again she also unironically says bye-onara and that makes me really like her.

I guess I may as well comment on Rantarou’s character in general, since this might be my last time to. I wish I could have gotten to know him better, but the one event I had with him didn’t tell me much. I’m still not sure what to make of him. He’s also kinda creepy, but I still like him. I’m not gonna deny that most of my bias toward him is still because I love [most of] his design, though. I wonder if we’ll ever learn what his talent was, since that’s still a mystery. Maybe it’ll be a plot point during the trial. I’m also curious about the fact that he seemed to have some memories related to the Ultimate Hunt, which is still suspicious to me in general as a concept. I really can’t help but feel like this game is set in some future post-DR3 where the rest of society decided to criminalize talent or something. Or they had a grudge against the whole Ultimate Initiative, and Hope’s Peak Academy, and thus they decided to hunt down everyone related to it, or something. Who knows.

I’m really surprised by the fact that none of the characters have said anything about the implication of them being criminals, with how they’re in an academy for Gifted Juveniles. You’d think that’d raise some questions from them.

Also, I wonder if everyone’s labs are going to be actual places we can at least see on the map. I think thus far we can only see Kaede’s and Miu’s rooms. Maybe the rest will open up as time goes on. On the note of their labs, I should check and see if I can go to Kaede’s one now. I kinda forgot to check it out. I think I tried to check once but the plot was railroading me elsewhere and I forgot about it after that.

Oh, and before I forget, I didn’t miss that one line from one of the Monokubs where they were obviously teasing at what’s going on in the big picture, but basically blotting out the important info. I can’t quite remember exactly what he said, though, but I remember it seeming immediately important.

And also, on the note of Monokuma, that one Monokuma Theater joking about the idea of getting confused about what happened and in what part of a long-running franchise really felt like a self-deprecating joke about how long this series has gotten. [Also the Yokai Watch reference was pretty hilarious]

I guess that’s all I have to say for now. I’ll probably just play the investigation part tomorrow, even if it might be kinda short, and then I’ll do the trial the day after. I don’t really have any predictions about who the killer is, other than that Shuichi seems really damn suspicious right about now.

[deadeyeddeadinside]

Why Gravity is better than Interstellar

Interstellar is a bad movie for most of the movie, a movie that retroactively kills itself and it's own message.

They're both, visually, very good.

Interstellar is a 4/10 movie where the world has been ravaged by a global warming analogue. The environment has become unsustainable, and humanity is slowly dying. They are forced to live in dustbowl conditions until, luckily, one day a man's floor sand tells him where to find NORAD. So he goes, and NASA is there. And at NASA they tell him that they are trying to solve the problem by looking elsewhere. So they sent some people to space, on essentially one way trips to see if the planet they land on is any good for colonizing. What a great idea, right? Anyway, it's got this dumb faux documentary framing device they just drop real quick like they just forget I guess? Or maybe it's in their longer but point is it makes no sense in the scale of the story they tell but whatever. So they get there, and there's a bunch of visual effects as three star trek episodes happen, one of which is good. The good part of the movie, they go to an ice planet that is completely uninhabitable, and they find Dr Hugh Mann, one of the astronauts. Etc, turns out he faked his readings to make it seem like his planet was habitable because he's a coward, he wanted to be the special hero, at any cost. Then he dies because he forgets how astronauting works. So there was that. Earlier, they went to a planet where time dilation happened, and so, like, why even go there? Oh right its so that his family can be dead of old age tragically after he's been there for five minutes. Earth was on it's last legs, right? Whatever. Then, the ending we find out there's always a man, there's always a lighthouse, there's always a city at the edge of forever, as he 2001s his way straight through spacetime to come out at the point at the beginning of the movie right behind a bookcase, where he pushes off some books to show his daughter, who thought he abandoned her or whatever for, you know, trying to save humanity, yeah, she thought he didn't love them but turns out he did thanks book dad.

But the worst part to me is then she just sorta solves the problem. Like, hooray, I saved the planet. And that's a bad message. Because the message at the beginning is, like, we can't just deny this bad stuff because it's convenient, we, collectively, have to look towards the future and into the inconvenient truth. And we should be working together for that goal. But then at the end, just a person solved the problem. A government person who realized the fifth element was love and all her equations made sense finally. Thanks again, government, for saving my life so I didn't have to learn anything about single-use plastics or whatever.

So there's that.

It's just another pseudo-deep by the numbers tasty treat easy to flush piece of crap Nolan movie that you like when you watch it but if you even think about it for a second it sucks. It's a fake movie that is a trick. It wants to be 2001 so hard it bums me out.

Gravity is a pretty good movie. Like, 6/10. It's a novelty movie, more in line with the Poseidon Adventure or something, sure, but it's still interesting. It still has more actual substance than Interstellar does, which is negative amounts of substance. It's a disaster movie about scorched space and whatnot, with cool atmospheric isolation and rising to the occasion to survive, I mean, I'm not saying it's any more complicated than Hatchet, but that's still something. And it relies on pwetty set pieces but like Interstellar fucking doesn't? Come on. It's a tighter movie, that understood what it wanted to be much better, and simpler is not necessarily a bad thing, a lever is less likely to break than a Rube Goldberg machine, which I think is a fair way to describe the pseudo-complicated yet actually simple story of this, and every single Christopher Nolan movie ever, who I didn't actually hate until just now holy shit every movie just flashed through my memory and none of them are good not even the ones I liked what a hack, at least the Gravity director's limited resume isn't just 15 movies with the same flaws.

This has been your stream of consciousness movie review I don't feel like editing or reading it again because I'm so annoyed still and I never won't be. I have more points but don’t feel like going on so eat shit.

[finandjake47]

I don't trust jump cuts

Like in dominó videos or Rube Goldberg machines videos. It's super sketchy and yeah it can make a better shot(S) it's like... how do we know for sure this is one attempt? Especially since like.. you can do different shots of the same reaction that are still but just... make it sorta like split screen-ish? Like have the second shot include a bit of the first shot but just enough to make certain it's the same time frame reference or whatever