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my ancestors seeing me shrug off a diarrhea session

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"came back wrong" but it's from a nap

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Ways to Improve Online (White-People) Recipes

If it asks for garlic, add that much ginger, and twice that much garlic.

If it asks for cinnamon, add 1 1/2 times as much cinnamon, and a small amount of nutmeg. If the MAIN flavour is cinnamon, also add a small amount of cloves and allspice.

If it asks for vanilla, also add a SMALL amount of almond extract. (Usually up to a few drops.)

If it asks for onions, also add some garlic, but add it 1 minute before you're either done cooking, or you add liquid

If the spices are pretty much only oregano or parsley, add both, as well as a small to medium amount of basil, thyme, summer savory, tarragon, and/or marjoram (the earlier two are great in beef, chicken and tomato dishes, while the others are good with pork, chicken, most vegetables, and pretty much anything else you can think of with a 'lighter' flavour)

if it asks for cheddar or mozzarella cheese, also add a bit of feta and parmesan

Don't be afraid of flavour!

(EDIT: I'm Canadian, and white)

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Weird when you first start paying attention to animal noises and realize they don't actually sound like the words we use

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The Mask Keeper is Renoir's Counterpart for Visage *Spoilers ahead!*

To start, each Axon that Renoir has painted of his family members has, seemingly, had a metaphorical counterpart to himself and how he views himself in relation to that family member: with the Reacher he's the green orphelin, always trying to construct ways for Alicia to fly, with Sirene, he's the Tisseur, a being entranced and always in service to her, spinning her dress so that she can continue to dance and mesmerize. We don't know if he had a counterpart with the Hauler as likely Simon killed him dead just as hard as Clea's Axon. But with Visages, it's a little less clear, as the Expedition comes to the conclusion that the real axon is the Mask Keeper following the defeat of Visages, but I raise you this instead:

-The Mask Keeper isn't the Axon of Verso, he's Renoir's counterpart-

To begin, I'd like to talk about what an Axon seems to represent, because the decision to call them 'Axons' in the first place is very interesting. An Axon mainly refers to the structure found in Neurons, nerve cells, which connects the main cell body to the terminal synapses which interact with other neurons, it looks like this:

But, what does this structure have to do with the Axons found in the game? It could be because, like the axon of a nerve cell, it connects Renoir's view of his family members into the canvas. Clea quite brutally severs that connection into the canvas by directly killing her own Axon via Simon, and it's implied that she doesn't directly ever return to the canvas afterwards, that connection between the painted and real world has been cut, for her. Another interesting factoid- the origin of Axon comes from the Greek word axōn meaning axis, in reference to the midline of the body upon which it turns, the line upon which one would flip an image to mirror it.

"But we get the chroma needed for the barrier breaker by defeating the Mask Keeper, not Visages" you might ask, but I think that Visage isn't as powerful because, similar to Clea's Axon, the connection is one-sided, Real Verso is dead so this mirror has no subject and thus no substance. There are a couple reasons why I think the Mask Keeper isn't the "real" representation of Verso, but I think narratively it is the 'axon'. I'll start with this reason:

Mask Keeper's Demeanor and Dialogue

This is the first thing that gave me pause, because something he says during the fight is something I wouldn't associate with a representation of Verso, this line in particular->

The fact that he calls the expedition "Child" seemed very strange to me, something that I wouldn't associate with anything representing Verso, no matter who painted it, because it's so... paternal, but also old? Then I looked through some more dialogue he says during the fight and this jumped out ->

Because this is almost word-for-word what the second unknown Journal entry says, which is implied to be Renoir speaking to Verso

Mask Keeper also only comes out after Visages is defeated, almost as vengeance for him. Which, we know that Clea wants to free Renoir from the canvas in order to wage war together against the writers, in recompense for Verso's death, implying that, were he not preoccupied in the canvas he would be seeking revenge along with Clea. Aline did also paint him as very protective after all, how much of that was true to life?

We meet Mask Keeper almost immediately after the first flag on Visage island. He invites us in to meet Visages in his "chambers", on behalf of Visages, almost like a loyal retainer or butler. This behavior is similar to the other depictions of Renoir with the other axons, that he is in service to his family, that he lives to help and "serve" them, in particular maybe this depiction is how he felt in Verso's life, leading opportunity to him, inviting offers and fielding discussions, trying to lead him to maybe take up a more active role in painting, rather than music. Speaking of, my next point for why the Mask Keeper is Renoir's counterpart is that Visages is unequivocally representative of Verso, like there is no doubt about that, which only gives the option that, according to the pattern, Renoir's counterpart is Mask Keeper because he's the only other named boss enemy.

Visages Design and Behavior

Visages design is very interesting because, mainly, I think Renoir managed to depict him (Verso) quite accurately. One mechanic of the fight that I didn't get to see, because I killed him too fast I guess, is that if Visages attacks with all his available masks, he just straight up dies, you don't even have to get his health bar all the way down, he just falls over. It's very funny, and also like, very poignant, like geez.

Like he just gives up. But this is also interesting because it gives us a good look at his model, and it's weird. Mainly because, despite being the "stronger" axon according to Verso, Visages looks worn and damaged while Sirene the "weaker" axon looks pristine. Parts of Visages seem to be crumbling and breaking apart, especially around the end of his body there. His middle mask is crumbling and has holes and cracks everywhere ->

Considering how pristine all the other axons and Renoir's counterparts are, I don't think this is deliberate on his part. I think Visages is crumbling because it's a mirror without a subject, with Verso dead, there isn't any real subject for it to be about except for Renoir's own memories and of Verso, which might be fading or untrue. Its subject is an unreliable source and unlike the other axons, it doesn't have the opinions of its real counterpart to solidify it, no matter if that representation is accurate or not having that animosity makes an artwork more real. It's this inaccuracy, with its crumbling facade, that makes the Mask Keeper the more accurate depiction, and thus the actual "axon", with the concentration of Chroma to prove it.

Another point as to Visages being Verso's representation is that Visages is summoned in Renoir's final boss fight, not the Mask Keeper. Renoir paints all his family members as larger than life, because that's how highly he thinks of them, it's quite sweet, and it's why they are all so dang tall. Visages fits with the rest of the axons a lot more than the Mask Keeper does from a design perspective for sure.

Well that's all I got. I heard that initial dialogue from Mask Keeper and just thought, "Wait a minute..." and everything spiraled from there. Hope this makes sense to you guys? I'd love to hear some more thoughts if anyone has any, because the axons are really interesting to me!

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Quote of the day

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Reason #13668893+316i why we are in this mess.

Democrats passed the affordable care act, passed the infrastructure bill, got rid of junk fees, lowered prescription costs, gave civil rights, protections, forgave student loans, etc.

Everything the republicans are doing is undoing the work of democrats. Yall would rather sit there on your flat asses and make these weakass centrist takes than actually have the courage to face what is happening with clarity.

But yall let these false ideas spread and become the common thought and you allow the fascist to creep in. The american apathy and aversion to the truth is why we are here!

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can anyone tell me the watch order for every movie ever so i can understand all references and homages

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Komodo Dragon

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this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world 

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Art by Shuhao jiang

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I'm with a problem... I want to draw Blue Prince everydyay... I'm creating a freacking book about it and a lot of sketches ;-;

But I love to draw Simon -w-

⚠️SEMI-SPOILERS

Actually if you havent played until this part you wont understand those two sketches... but anyway major spoilers drawings I wont be posting to preserve other players experience.

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Why do robins lay blue eggs? It seems kinda counterintuitive to have brightly visible eggs that are easily seen by predators.

it's so they can recognize their own eggs!

a predator really won't be able to see the eggs in the first place unless it's already found the nest, meaning it's going to find those eggs anyway at that point, so robins made their eggs a brilliant sky blue as an adaptation against brood parasitism.

brood parasitism can be a major concern for songbirds, because it means that parent birds will raise an unrelated species instead of their own offspring, and this may be the only breeding season they get if they're unlucky.

(note that cowbirds and cuckoos are NOT EVIL, this is just nature!)

BUT BACK TO ROBINS:

one of these is a cowbird egg, can you tell which?

SO CAN THE ROBINS. that little sucker is getting yeetus the fetus'd as soon as mom or dad returns from foraging and finds a weird little not-blue egg in the nest.

which is just another reason why robins are so successful! we're knee deep in these suckers every spring and summer because they are in fact, VERY good at being birds.

bop bop.

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So thrilled that game with so much love for Art and Creation rekindled my own

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I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.