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*deposits a creature into your hands*

What does it look like? What will you all do together?

OH IM SO GLAD U ASKED

I have this lil baby in the barrel just in case God wants to give me a freebie

It’s called a Plom and you can pet it in any direction

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Seeing lots of people misunderstanding the livestream. I’m not opposed to any ship, I support all ships, but I do insist on understanding the text correctly, so here we are.

Aglaea said that Nikador failed in love and then fought his rival. As in, the rival for his love’s affections. She did not say that Nikador was in love with his rival, nor that he fought with his love.

I think there is a case to be made in Eurypon and Gorgo’s story. There’s precedent for Mydei to follow in their footsteps of combat-as-love-language. But this quote by Aglaea isn’t support of any specific ship. This quote is just evidence of Kremnoans being capable of romance.

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I thought the answer was 200k, tricking aside.

The problem with Mydei’s answer is that after you borrowed 200k, you didn’t keep it in your pocket. You exchanged it for the dromas. This second transaction (bought a dromas for 200k) is neutral on both sides, no further debt was incurred by anyone, and the transaction is complete. Only the first transaction (borrowed 200k and need to pay it back at some point) is still open.

Some things that amused me about Mydei

1.) He has a hard time with math (lol)

2.) He is actually quite poetic and even called out to Verax Leo for trying to assume him as a brute.

And now look at him, gazing at the city on the rooftop.

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mydei baking :D

as soon as the livestream started and we saw that mydei bakes, I was shot violently with inspiration, so here's mydei with some fresh cookies

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Happy Valentine's❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Something I imagine the revival might reference

Ok now with the hundreds of bonus/alternatives I made lol Bonus 1:

Bonus 2:

Bonus 3:

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First, a specific note. The study mentioned that birth city was randomly generated on the randomized charts, but could happen to match the person’s actual birth city. I believe that this could be a giveaway. If I saw 5 charts to choose from, and the cities were Chicago, Chicago, NYC, LA, and SF… could Chicago have been rolled twice on 2 decoy charts by chance? Sure, but my feeling is, it’s more likely that Chicago showed up twice due to one of them being the real person’s birthplace. So I’d pick one of the Chicago charts. (Haven’t done the math on this.) edit: have since done the math on this. I was mistaken. Assuming pool of 100 cities: 1*(4C1*1*99*98*97) ways to get Chicago, Chicago, X, Y, Z from the person being from Chicago. 99*(4C2*1*1*98*97) ways to get that list from the person being from one of the other 99 cities. Works out to 2/5 chance of being from Chicago, or 1/5 for each multiple choice option. Math is only for the case of AABCD (one city is repeated twice and the other 3 options are unique).

On that note, could I do better than random chance just by picking the most populous city out of the 5 chart options? For example if 98 people came from NYC and 2 people came from Juneau, I’d guess NYC for everyone and be 98% accurate.

This probably didn’t come up with only 12 people’s charts. But with more charts, better make sure any birth city is equally likely in the test data set. For example if you have 100 charts, don’t make 50 of them be from NYC.

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This is interesting. I read the whole thing and one of the things they pointed out is, while 152 is a solid sample size for participants, 12 is a small sample size for questions.

In other words, for some people their personality is nothing like what astrology would predict. And for other people it happens to match up by chance. The example the write-up uses is “people born in February are more empathetic” (this is not something astrologers actually believe, just a made-up example).

So let’s pretend that “February births are empathetic” is a widespread belief. Say you grab 12 people’s charts, and 2 of them were born in February. You might get lucky or unlucky, and both of them happen to be empathetic just by chance. So going off that belief, you get those 2 correct, and 2 out of 12 is a big deal. That alone could be enough to push the astrologers to be more accurate than random guessing would be.

But if you grabbed 1200 charts, you’d get about 100 February ones, and they wouldn’t all be empathetic people by chance. They’d be more representative of the population. And then, choosing based on “Feb births are empathetic” wouldn’t help.

I realize that making a participant answer 1200 questions would be ridiculous and unreasonable. How about choosing 12 charts randomly, and anyone who gets over half or so correct goes in for a larger test of 100 charts? Then the 12-chart version is like a screening. If you get a low score, you are definitely not a “real” astrologer. If you get a high score, you may be a real astrologer or you may have gotten lucky on the screening, so you go in for a more comprehensive test.

I do believe there should be a small better-than-randomness result. I don’t think astrology is real, but I think a lot of people are aware of it, or believe in it, or do it for fun. I think that hearing “Feb births are empathetic” may affect how you see yourself, especially if you believe in astrology. Or someone who believes in it may repeat it to their Feb-born child.

I also think there may be a small correlation between birth city and personality or mannerisms/wording used in answering the survey questions. For example if you were born in NYC, maybe you lived there for at least part of your life, and that may show up in how you answered the survey questions. Making the survey multiple-choice would help some but not completely. I do believe that your environment/culture affects your outlook and personality, and if you got very large samples, I’d expect this to show up!

Astrology doesn't seem to work.

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Back on my hsr bullshit.

So Aglaea and Anaxa. Aglaea has been trying so hard to keep the people's faith in the Titans in Okhema, to the point where our existence as trailblazers threatens to upend people's faith. She tries very hard to keep the faith alive, and it's present everywhere in the city, from the set dressing to the NPC dialogue to how Daimonis was pursued by guards for disrupting it.

In the original trailer, Anaxa was described as having the knowledge to refute faith. Anaxa knows either key information, or perhaps how to phrase it, to turn the tides of public opinion against the Titans. Anaxa threatens everything that Aglaea has been working for, and the prophecy has told her this.

I'd like to know what this means for the story, but I can only speculate.

So there is the interpretation that it is a warning - if you want to keep the people's faith, keep Anaxagoras away from Okhema. There is also the interpretation that it is an inevitability, and that because Anaxa is a Chrysos Heir, he will have to get involved, thereby bringing the end of the age of faith and a fundamental shift in how things proceed from that point onwards.

The people can't be lied to forever. Eventually they will have to choose between having faith in their Titans and dying with them, or turning their backs on the Titans and risking it all for the miracle of genesis. Does your faith mean more to you than your life? The lives of your family, your friends, your neighbours?

I can understand why Aglaea wants to keep the faith, because this will start a conflict that won't end until the death of all of the Chrysos Heirs or the Titans. Many people won't be able to come to terms with it. They will decry the Heirs, and they will no longer have such support in their mission. This is probably also where Caenis comes in, as an assassin of previous Chrysos Heirs.

The Chrysos Heirs in Okhema are not yet strong enough to weather the public's opinion on their true mission, and so they must be kept in the dark. When it is time to bring it to light, when the Heirs are closer to finishing their goal, it will be Anaxagoras the Foolish that will be the piece on the board to reveal it.

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filter turns harbinger into cat during fatui meeting

i love thinking about the harbingers doing mundane office stuff. and also technologically illiterate hag scara

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Hail Doofania! Is one of my favourite episodes because it shows how much of their identities and worldview teenagers attach to their clothing.

That’s why when Vanessa and Candace accidentally switch clothing, the other characters’ story arcs flip too.

There’s the obvious matter of Phineas and Ferb building an -inator, and saying how it will “cover the entire Tri-State area” with a rainbow.

Then there’s Doof building something ridiculously large that Vanessa considers “proof” to finally “bust” her dad for being evil.

Then there’s the entire thing disappearing indirectly because of Phineas and Ferb’s -inator; it caused a fisherman to get distracted and blow Doofania’s inner tube out.

There’s also the more subtle matter of Perry’s collar, which is essentially a trap that prevents him from doing what he needs to do.

Ultimately, Perry is the one who destroys Phineas and Ferb’s -inator by hitting the self-destruct button, with the boys questioning why they put in a self-destruct button in the first place- something that happens with Doof quite often.

There’s also the parallel of Doof saying “Look at who decided to show up”, which is basically a version of “There you are Perry”

What I found relatively more interesting was that the boys’ goal was fundamentally misguided, as Isabella meant that she’d never seen a unicorn before, not a rainbow.

This is an interesting parallel, which I think points towards Doof’s mission to take over the Tri-State area being misguided, and that what he actually wants is love and acceptance.

Another equally interesting observation is when Vanessa complains to her friend about her clothes being switched, saying “how many evil scientists’ daughters do you see...”, but being cut off by seeing that her father was up to something.

This is something that we usually see Candace do- complaining on the phone when she suddenly sees her brothers doing something bustable.

But what intrigues me is that Vanessa associates her clothing with being an evil scientist’s daughter, that she perhaps felt it was more appropriate to be goth if her father was already “evil”.

This hints towards how closely interlinked our identities are with our parents’, especially when we’re younger.

We also see Candace becoming more overtly confident with herself, something that is not usually seen, and implies that wearing different clothing makes her feel different too.

Overall, it’s an episode with a lot of fun and introspection and I love it.

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Sound on!

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Guys, let's make a sandwich. I'll start:

Bread

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Don't forget, Trump was the one who tried to ban TikTok in his first term, and Republicans voted to pass the TikTok Ban Bill.

He didn't save it. He just flipflopped when he realised it made him look bad with young people.

And now TikTok are sucking up to Trump and effectively acting as an ad section for him.

Don't fall for it.

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i had a dream with a strange hsr&undertale crossover and now bossturine-mettaton lives in my head rent free

... it's a hard beat on a hard drive 🕺

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First Penacony’s dream pool and now this. They really like getting into water fully clothed and I wince a bit every time

Amphoreus bath… they didnt take their clothes off in game :(

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Love this close read! I hadn’t noticed the one-word answers, thanks for pointing it out! I like the emphasis on Phainon’s tendency to blather his every passing thought out loud. It’s one of those key things that makes his dialogue sound like him 💖 Really appreciate that you didn’t stop at the obvious interpretation (“hey hot body”) and found one that feels more true to Phainon (trying to make conversation by questioning if he bathes ever).

A Closer Look at the Phaidei Memory

I've seen so many people talking about this scene with Phainon and Mydei and making fun of how blatantly obvious Phainon is about his... respect for Mydei's... conspicuous body, but one thing I feel like a lot of people missed (or at least I haven't seen anyone discussing) is that this memory seems to come from very early on in their acquaintance.

Looking at it closely, it's clear that the two aren't particularly familiar with each other yet in this memory sequence. For one, Phainon questions things that he should easily know if he was well-acquainted with Mydei already.

First, very comically: "Do you even bathe, bro?"

And second, Phainon questions why Mydei isn't immune to the black tide:

This suggests that, up to the point of this memory, Phainon had not been in enough battles with Mydei (or at least close enough to Mydei) to see him be affected by the black tide. Apparently, this memory-Phainon-and-Mydei don't have years of rushing into battle side-by-side to defend Okhema yet.

It's also hilariously clear that the Phainon in this memory has absolutely no idea how to talk to Mydei.

Breaking this scene down, it's literally Phainon just trying really hard to strike up conversation, doing his best to try to crack the tough exterior and get Mydei to actually interact with him. He jumps around through topics rapidly--the baths, the black tide, their personal sparring--looking for anything that will catch Mydei's attention.

Meanwhile, we can tell that Mydei is not particularly familiar or comfortable with Phainon yet because his dialogue is so different from any of his other scenes in the game. Although Mydei is obviously not the game's biggest yapper, he does always have full sentences to contribute to other conversations and banters readily with Phainon whenever he's baited into it.

In this memory, he instead starts off polite but also completely aloof:

This is the exact sort of response you'd have to a vague acquaintance coming up and trying to talk to you like you're best friends. Phainon skipped at least four steps of familiarity here, and Mydei is obviously at a loss for why the conversation is even happening.

He responds by blatantly stonewalling, answering Phainon's (slightly pathetic) attempts to start an actual conversation in nothing but single word answers:

You can even see Phainon recognize how bad he's failing half way through the conversation, which prompts him to vocally declare that he's going to make a complete topic switch:

And this time, it works!

When Phainon brings up their personal duel or spar, whichever it was, finally, finally Mydei caves and engages in the conversation with him:

Which prompts Phainon to laugh (in relief? lol) and flat out crow about how he's finally cracked the code and figured out how to get Mydei to notice him:

Poor Mydei, however, did not seem to realize his slight display of interest was going to lead him into a full conversation, and he responds to Phainon's blatant invitation to keep talking with a confused:

Witness Mydei accidentally turning down Phainon's request for a date in real time.

The only thing that complicates the situation is what Phainon says late in the memory: that they've battled "all this time." However, looking at his earlier comments, this last statement may just be in a general sense, as in "two Chrysos Heirs who have been fighting the titans for years," especially as the rest of the line "How do you train? Would you consider teaching me?" once again indicates a lack of close familiarity.

(It's also possible this line is just poorly translated in English, and was actually meant to refer to their legendary ten-day-long duel: "We battled all that time, yet I never saw you fatigued." Given the rest of the lines in the memory, I think "dodgy translation" honestly makes the most sense here, and would also just have really funny implications: Phainon and Mydei didn't fall in love at first sight; they fell in comically-long-duel at first sight. Okay, maybe for Phainon it was both.)

Phainon's earlier statements in the memory make it clear that he isn't very experienced with fighting Mydei specifically, with the overall implication of the dialogue being that they've just had their first duel against each other recently:

So anyway, where I am going with all this?

I know a lot of people got distracted by Phainon's (accidental?) pass at Mydei in the first line, but I think taking a step back and looking at the scene as a whole, in context, makes it even more hilarious and off-the-cuff:

Phainon and Mydei aren't well-acquainted in this scene.

Phainon literally walked up on a guy he barely knows and the first words that fell out of his mouth were "Dan Nicky your bobbies." "I would know that body anywhere."

Even Mydei was weirded out at first!

Like, Phainon has absolute foot-in-mouth syndrome around his new "friend." He spends the whole conversation narrating his own attempts to communicate ("Ah, I see I am unwanted. Instead of leaving, I shall try another tactic. Is it working yet?" and "Yes, yes, yes, it worked!") like this is a remotely normal thing to do around a person you're not even close with yet.

You can see his puppy tail wagging. He wants to be friends with Mydei so bad.

He is actively making up excuses to try to get Mydei to spend time with him here--first the comment about "Yay, you're here!" at the baths like he expects them to bathe together, then the whole "Why don't we go somewhere and have a long conversation about the insights we gained from rolling around in the dirt together?" to finally just flat out asking Mydei to train with him.

It's so charmingly earnest, straightforward, and even a bit awkward that I think this scene is really under-rated by the fans. It's not just another example of Phainon commenting on Mydei's muscles--it's a glimpse into what they were like before they were close and just how much Phainon wanted to connect to Mydei, how willing he was to explore to discover exactly what Mydei would be interested in so that he could seize that common ground between them.

Really a masterclass in showing us fans characterization right on the cusp of changing, and for showcasing both Phainon's charming audacity and Mydei's surprisingly-reserved-around-strangers behavior.

And, since we know the future that memory-Phainon-and-Mydei are headed toward... we also know it worked! Mydei is smiling by the end of the conversation! He and Phainon are going to become vitriolic best buds--er, rivals--and Phainon is going to get all the spars he wants.

Persistence pays off!