#take what i say with a grain of salt though

[pitconfirm]

Everybody says lance is a bad driver when he's literally been in a car that falls apart easier than a Jenga tower falls. Like did nobody see the whole steering wheel of the car pop off. Aston Martin is probably gonna be a team to watch out for in 2026 from what im hearing.

Idk how but this turned into a long rant from me about his driving and media perception LOL. tldr I 100% agree; more below the cut:

Honestly I’ve been thinking a lot about the way people have been talking about Lance lately on socmed despite having a really solid run of races. Cause I feel like it was never this consistently bad in the past except when things were at low lows, like the mid-2023 nightmare period where he just wasn’t clicking with the car at all. And I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that there’s been a pretty huge influx of fans who come into F1 only seeing the RPM-style hatred of him, and the jokes on TikTok about there being ‘19 good drivers and Stroll’, and people see this and genuinely think Lance is the worst driver to ever drive.

And it just makes this circlejerk of fans who don’t get that he’s a good racer because they don’t look at anything below the top 5. And then they see Lance in the top 10 in the championship and go “Omg? How did that happen?? I thought he couldn’t drive???”. I even see some newish Lance ‘fans’ sometimes saying “I know he’s a terrible racer but he seems cute 🥺”. But anyone who’s actually been paying attention to the midfield for longer than like. 3 races. can tell you that Lance isn’t the bad driver people pretend he is.

I think he just has a very specific skill set that can really shine in the right car and the right conditions. Like people call him ‘inconsistent’, but even though the 21-22 Aston was slow, he actually had two really solid and consistent years, just didn’t have the points to show for it cause he was always chilling around the p10-11 spots IIRC (but all of this is based on my personal and probably biased memory so… take it with a grain of salt LOL). He’s made some boneheaded mistakes in the past, but they get blown massively out of proportion compared to other drivers. And this year, he’s made fewer mistakes than most of the grid, which is why he’s still up in p10.

I think he’s a mediocre qualifier but a really really solid racer, especially in tricky conditions where others flail (Ann has a really good post here about why that is). I don’t think he’s really meshed with the Aston under the current regs, but I’m hoping the 26 car can give him the right stuff to prove something.

[ethan-elliott]

I would not be surprised if it was! considering keeping people distracted is a key tool in avoiding rebellion (I mean, lore-wise that’s the whole reason SAI exists) it would make sense for the bishops to use something akin to that so that people don’t question Vialism, though whether they’re actually doing that is possible but hard to say. one of the recent FPE letters does come to mind - I don’t remember who it’s between but it’s the one about remembering a bishop rescue them from falling out of a window. They’re reminiscing in a positive way, whereas the person they’re corresponding with absolutely rejects the almost rose-tinted view and basically calls them out on it. Kind of fits in with the idea of looking back on the good moments, on how it felt, and ignoring some of the negatives. (though take that with a HEAVY grain of salt since I do not have experience with addiction - similar things, yes, but not specifically addiction - so that may be a misconception of mine)

If I may throw in a wild reference, I feel like if that was the case it’d be kind of like the whole ‘Everything Is Awesome’ thing in the Lego Movie — it’s distraction and it’s everywhere and constant and that means it’s normal and safe (to the people under its influence) so even if it’s not specifically that they’re actively being drugged, they are reliant on that ‘safety’ and comfort and then they’re less likely to be interested in what’s outside of Dema (vs ‘pressures of a new place’, for instance, since Jumpsuit lives rent free in my head 😅)

With Vignette as well, taking the literal meaning of a vignette and combining it with the blurryface imagery of increasingly encroaching black paint…and if we’re best meant to look at vignette through the lens of addiction then there is definitely the potential for metaphors of relapsing there (which I guess also brings in Backslide and Snap Back)

it definitely has insane potential! and like you say, it’s interesting that it’s just kind of there but then it’s very much there

Are we ready to talk about the sudden plethora of medication/drug references in SAI yet or nah

[faunandfloraas]

The Nobleman or 양반 (yangban): The smiling face represents the bluff and composure that an aristocrat is often known to have. The chin is a separate piece from the top of the mask, and the actors can lean forward and back to make the mask smile or frown as needed.

This monk who abandons his doctrines, or 취발이 (chwibari): Chwibari was originally a monk, but he had no intention of joining the monastic order, so he came down to the world and wanders. Represented with a forehead full of wrinkles and spots.

The widow or, 부네 (Punae/bune): represented to be a widow, or a kisaeng ( a woman who sang, danced, or played an instrument to provide entertainment for company at a drinking party), or a mistress of the Yangban. She has a very small mouth, round cheeks and forehead- giving a general look of happiness good-humor.

[storravoid]

Depends. It would be against a lot of things to fast, if it would cause you harm. [I can't remember the names this late at night lol] I would say that with last year's lesson learned, try to do a smaller fast, maybe 8-10 hours? It's also permitted during fasting to have 1.5 fl oz of water every 9 minutes and "one cheek full" of water every 7 minutes, and it would still be permitted for the fast.

guys my doctor said that im not allowed to fast for yom kippur cos of what happened last year but im seriously considering not listening to her cos i know my limits but i want yalls opinion whether i should ignore her or not

[cementcornfield]

Some Positivity

it's not all sunshine and rainbows, obviously, but there IS an upside. and there IS reason to believe he can achieve at least something close to his ceiling with us.

okay. here's a bunch of tweets lol. then i'm going to attempt to make sense of them.

(i'm avoiding joe g and jake's tweets right now because they are hard core stats/data guys and obviously the stats and data don't look great. but even joe admitted he doesn't think this was a 'set a pick on fire' type thing. it's just very high risk, but also high reward. but if you look at the guys who do a lot of x's and o's analysis of the game, who put the stats in context, you can see some better reasoning for everything.)

starting here with max's tweets. two years ago, not at all coincidentally to when sam started to fall off a cliff, our run defense started to decline RAPIDLY. and this past year, as many awful things as you could say about our run defense, numbers DID improve (yeah there were missed tackles in the secondary. but if you look at the stats, our tackling was actually around average?? it's just our misses happened at the WORST times lol)

but why did our run defense numbers improve when our talent certainly didn't?? because we were focusing almost entirely on stopping the run, at the expense of the pass. if you look at our numbers against derrick henry for instance, we were one of the better teams at stoping him. but in order to do things like that, we used ALL of our resources. "loading the box" etc etc, aka bring all our guys up to stop the run, and leaving pretty much no help for our secondary, which, as max says, KILLS you in the pass game. but it was our only choice, we didn't have anyone talented in our run game (sam declining, dj reader leaving) so it's what we had to do. and it's what went wrong in both of our games against the ravens. (i'm forever haunted by that play where lamar knocks sam down TWICE and then scores oh my god.)

one thing we did do in free agency was pick up a true nose tackle in TJ Slaton. losing DJ the year before was devastating and our young guys did not step up (and honestly weren't true NTs anyway). TJ is a true big guy run stuffer, and he'll take over the job of both jenkins and jackson struggling to stop the run in the center, allowing them to do other things like stop the run in other places/rush the guards/maybe even get after the passer a bit.

and we also got rid of sam (rip. i still love you. but it was for the best. enjoy your marriage to a plumbing heiress ✨). when sam was at his best, he was an edge setting contain guy. he DID get some sacks, but his production was never anywhere close to trey's. his job was to stop the QB from running out of the pocket, aka "contain" the edge. and he just couldn't do it anymore. it's clear that the coaches now see shemar as that dude (and maybe myles still. we'll see). PLUS shemar can also apparently kick inside at times, so that's where we could see some interior pressure (i also just learned ossai can also do this. so that's nice!) and if he does pan out, his traits are wayyyy better than sam, so he could honestly be Sam Hubbard+

now we get to mike sans here, who is THE trenches guy on twitter. i definitely trust his opinion in these kind of things. obviously the lack of production is concerning, but mike thinks that it can at least partly be explained by the scheme/coaching at A&M. his point that nolen (rip. i'll always love you and hate the cardinals now) himself also didn't produce as much when in the same system is something i found pretty compelling.

at A&M, shemar was lined up in such a way that he got most of the double teams (this aligns with what al golden said last night, that when he was coaching at notre dame, his offense was most scared of shemar/they were 'always bitching' about him lol).

pass rush stats are apparently complicated (as all stats are i guess when you look further into them) and according to sans, shemar wasn't given a lot of opportunity to use a lot of his talents. and apparently the coaching staff there doesn't spend much time teaching how to actually rush the passer?? 🤔

now obviously he still could have had a better run defense game, as sans also admits, but he still attributes a lot of that to the system there. obviously our coaching staff must have a plan for shemar in our system that will benefit him the most (you'd hope! at least!)

finally this quote from the post-draft interview last night (where he did come off very likable and sweet)

shemar knows that he didn't finish a lot of the time. he knows where he needs to improve. and he knows he needs to follow trey around like a baby duckling (so you know, like others have said, it's important trey is actually there for training camp!!)

by all accounts he's a high character guy (and again. let's all be grateful they didn't draft mike green. no one did, hilariously.) he's smart, always puts in the effort, and is willing to learn. and he has all the traits to get there. our coaching staff just needs to find a way to get through to him to take him all the way. obviously that's not something lou and the former d-line coach could do (see myles murphy) but! maybe this one staff is the key. obviously they were chosen for their abilities to develop. let's hope they actually can.

[5-pp-man]

as it started becoming clear who he was in a relationship with i was like "oh great. another student teacher thing" but this is like. the first time in an anime that I've seen them explicitly call out the teacher for being a pedo and putting it in a negative light. damn.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

It's taking me ages to write this chapter because every time I look through old VODs / notes to check something, I come across moments like this that make me want to lie down face-first on the floor:

[Context: Pac commits to the idea of taking the Happy Pills so he can create a cure. He's about to write a note to Cellbit to explain his plan.]

Pac: If Cellbit puts himself in this position, it's worse for everyone, because Cellbit is smarter when it comes to coming up with strategic plans, so he is the thinking mind of the Favela Five group, so if he no longer has the mind, he’s not capable of solving this whole problem, you know? But if I put myself in this position to help Cellbit so he can get the cure... You understand? It's better if I'm the bait. Right? I can't- I can't carry things alone guys, I've already lost Mike [...] if I lose Cellbit and I alone had to carry things, I won't be able to. But I think Cellbit can manage better. He is more independent, and he has Roier. He has a husband. I'm trying to– to be lucid here, understand? That's all.

Date: September 11, 2023 || Timestamp: 03:10:10

[epickiya722]

So... Sukuna, Mahito (from what I can see) and Toji is being added to Fortnite...

Question 1: you think that "where you go I go" meme is going to continue? (That is actually one of my least favorite memes.)

Question 2: Why put Toji in the clothes he wore in Shibuya as a default, an outfit that wasn't even his, and not the clothes he is recognized for? (The black tight ass shirt-white training pants combo.) That should be a skin for Toji.

I saw one or two people not like Sukuna in his kimono, but uh... that's the outfit he should be wearing. I'm sorry, look, I don't think he needs to be in other outfit.

One, avoid spoilers, let's do that, folks! (I seen people saying that they should add that other form of Sukuna as a skin and to that I say NO. That would mean making a totally different character model for Sukuna and again SPOILERS! Not everyone has read the freaking manga!)

Two, having him wear the school uniform as a default would be confusing since THAT'S YUJI'S SIGNATURE LOOK! (Did... did people forget that they're two separate characters?)

Three, the kimono is Sukuna's signature look (when not in his OG form.) It would be an injustice not putting him in his kimono, thank you very much. "He would look weird running in that thing!" Just say how you truly feel because that's absolute bullshit. Be honest, what's the real reason you don't want to see Sukuna in a kimono despite the fact he can kick ass in one just fine?

[randomsufff]

Lmao guess who’s replaying Fallout 4…

Funni comic based on my something I’m doing in my Survival run (which I know isn’t that hard but I’m not really a hardcore gamer in the first place so it’s challenging enough lmao). I wanted to try to be in a relationship with all the companions but since you can’t auto save and stuff I decided to just rack up as much charisma bonuses I can via clothing before the final Flirt check (and yes I know I could save if I ask them to talk later and just find a bed but where’s the fun in that?)

So it results in me going “oh hold on-“ *frantically changes into suit and puts on stupid wig and glasses* “Hey I love you- be in a relationship it’s me 👍” and I though it was such a hilarious visual I had to draw it out.

Plus bonus random meme that I kind of made up because the image of this man managing to pull multiple people while spontaneously dressing on the spot into this goofy ass fit (the glasses are so large on the face- like why are they that big 💀💀💀) was so funny to me

[their-name-is-fake]

Hey y’all! Just to give some insight into what we are seeing in the states. This is going to be close, like reaaaaallly close. Kamala would need to win Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin from the looks of it. So, where does that leave us? Who’s to say all three of these states are very volatile. There’s a high chance she loses Michigan ( I mena she fully fumbled it there so it depends on if the people choose to over look that), so that’s already bad news. Georgia would have been a good alternative but gerrymandering needed any chance of that.

There is an ever increasing chance that Trump is able to pull what he did in 2016 so y’all need to be prepared for that.

And even if he doesn’t win there is a high chance there will be riots so

[jonathanbyersphd]

Also I bought the official guide book (because I was bored) and

[theunknowncowboy]

The real crime of Neon White's writing is how blatantly homoerotic White and Yellow are and that I as the player cannot choose to kiss Yellow.

And spoilers

That Neon Yellow gets killed like not even 1/3 of the way into the game. Like fuckin fr? In his dying words he is being gay as shit and you still kill him that early? Fuck off.

[revvethasmythh]

How do you find the writing in veilguard? I won't be able to play it for a while but I'm curious how it holds up because I've heard it reads like a YA novel or that it tells instead of showing. (I'm definitely taking online reviews with a grain of salt.) Is it enjoyable writing, especially the dialogue?

Frankly, the dialogue is fine. It is nothing more "YA novel" than anything done in Inquisition that I can think of--though I do generally take umbrage with any criticism phrased like that simply for being entirely too unspecific to mean anything at all. It implies the dialogue is unsophisticated by invoking a genre that, in actuality, represents a wide variety of writing quality (just like any genre of anything ever). I've read YA novels darker and more sophisticated than some piles of adult books, just as much as vice-versa. It's a lazy critique that tells you nothing. Is all the dialogue utterly fantastic? I mean, probably not but I'm having too much honest fun to waste my time worrying about if something is kind of cliched. My biggest pros for the writing are that a) Rook has an actual personality, and b) I don't have to wade into an empty field for an hour just to hear my companions say one line of dialogue to each other (Inquisition, the game that you were, you gave me such low standards). Your mileage may vary on what you think is good writing or not personally but I think the dialogue is just fine--and, yeah. A grain of salt is good to have with critiques like that. If they can't give clear examples and break down what they mean by that in more depth, I tend to ignore critiques of that variety in favor of my own opinions, which I recommend you do for yourself as well.

[1800titz]

tumblr might be getting shut down fr this timee— DYING. Thoughts??

Tumblr is shutting down and also the world is ending in 2012 LOL

[alaskan-wallflower]

not really qualified to ask this but like…why are yall so insistent on putting the star of david emoji next to kyle’s name whenever you’re trying to separate headcanons for him? like i’ll see ‘stan marsh’ with a dog or smth next to it, ‘kenny mccormick’ with the angel wing, ‘eric cartman’ with a chicken emoji and then it’s just ‘kyle broflovski’ with the star of david emoji. like i guess it’s because he’s the only jewish kid but like…there’s more to him than being jewish. you could put the basketball emoji or smth next to it. like whenever it’s the other boys the emoji next to their name correlates with an interest of theirs and kyle’s is just brought down to his religion and isn’t made to correlate with his interests.

does this even make sense? i’m talking about when people pull shit like this

South Park characters reacting to something or other, can’t be bothered to think of smth legit

🍗❤️Eric Cartman ❤️🍗

cartman is a discord moderator but has never done any wrong blah blah blah

🐕💙 Stan Marsh💙🐕

probably smth angsty or stan being a jock blah blah blah

🧡🪽 Kenny MaCormick 🪽🧡

kenny is the equivalent of glenn quagmire blah blah blah

and then there’s just kyle like

💚✡️ Kyle Broflovski ✡️💚

skipper doesn’t even need to make fun of his fanon because she does that enough already blah blah blah

lole idk. i can’t say much on it like yall gotta take what i say with a grain of salt. i’m not jewish and yes it doesn’t personally affect me, im just asking why people are so insistent on using that specific emoji to represent kyle. like kyle is more than his religion y’know? he likes basketball. he likes debate. he’s smart. try putting an emoji correlating with that in your headcanon headings. like you don’t put crosses next to the rest of the boys’ names, why put a star of david for kyle’s then?

Idk. it’s just a bit confusing to me.

[rose-tinted-vision]

Rewatching this scene had me screaming at Qiu Qingzhi to turn around because!! Look at how sad? lost? Li Bing looks!!!!!

(These two needs to communicate because seriously. Qiu Qingzhi may have ambitions but I don't think he really wanted to leave. And Li Bing doesn't really want to send him away, but the both of them does it anyway thinking that's what the other really wants??

But we wouldn't have a drama if these fools actually talked, so).