#adjust//adapt

[unbfacts]

One reason humans find it so hard to achieve happiness is due to "prevalence-induced concept change" — as life improves and bad experiences decrease, your brain starts making less severe experiences feel worse than they would have before.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Reuse, recycle.

[dunmeshistash]

Mr Meshi, did Mithrun always have no sense of direction? (I thought it might be a side effect of what the demon did to him)

Great question, it's implied his "unique" sense of direction is a result of how his mindset was affected after being a Dungeon Lord, Kabru theorizes that when he finds the secret passage after getting rid of the hipogriff

I think the implication is rather than not having a sense of direction he's moving in a way that made sense in his own Dungeon without thinking about it.

Idk if that makes sense for anyone else but you know when you've been playing one game for so long that when you play a different game with a different way of doing things you get confused for a bit and keep trying to move/do things how you did in the other game? Just me? ok

[thestarlightforge]

The government didn’t bomb the gay parts of Seattle. They left an infection to kill them all

Ohhh Craig Mazin, when I catch you 😭💚

[likeawildanimal]

getting the extra context about laila and jean’s dire shopping trip from tsc where laila was actually pissed off on jean’s behalf that the ravens kept him from even understanding the basics of the value of money left me speechless. of course we assumed a lot of the tension was wrapped up in jean’s rigidity with his wardrobe choices, but now the mutual frustration between them has more depth. laila’s fury about yet another valuable skill that was toxically held from jean. and jean’s irritation about one more aspect of functioning in the real world he has to add to his plate to learn

[sir-adamus]

it's always been kind of interesting that Winter is one of the only major characters without a named weapon (even in the World of RWBY book they're just called Winter's Swords), which could feed into how she sees herself as a machine - her self-worth only extending as far as she can be useful, she doesn't see the weapon as a part of herself but just a tool

this is also illustrated by her losing the smaller sword during the fight over Mantle in volume 7, and come volume 8 it's evidently been replaced (because good luck finding a small sword when there's other shit going on); again, an illustration of how ultimately everyone and everything is replaceable in Ironwood's machine

[peliginspeaks]

Standing at a rainy cold bus stop and thinking about recipe books in the Neath. Battered old things from the Surface that perhaps sat in a cupboard for a good few years until their owners accepted that they couldn't afford the import on those ingredients now, and started crossing them out and replacing them with mushrooms, lichen powders, and the less dubious local meats. Glossy-covered ones titled in looping script, printed on something not quite unlike typical paper, trying to call on the tradition and elegance of a sunlit kitchen and not quite getting all the way there. Books that embrace the Neath entirely, with indexed guides to avoiding toxic ingredient lookalikes and descriptive flavour profiles entirely without comparison to Surface fare. I want to peek inside a PC's cupboards. let me see their recipes.

[quotelr]

Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.

Debasish Mridha

[melorambles]

had an unfortunate moment where i remembered how much the studios made the hobbit movies deviate from the books. Like, it's supposed to be a straight forward treasure hunt. You could read this to a kid, a chapter a night. There is moral complexity, but it's mostly in the category of 'hey, is it appropriate to risk waking up a dragon in exchange for treasure, when it's not us the dragon would go after? also, theoretically, if we, maybe, invaded a dragon's hoard, and it woke up and, coincidently, burned down a nearby town, would we owe reparations?' (now I'm imagining the reddit AITAH)

I know there's some discussion and speculation and excuses that well, the Hobbit as we know it was never the 'real' version anyway. It's the version Bilbo watered down to tell the kids in the Shire. But Bilbo would arguably have already been biased towards the dwarves in his version; he spent months travelling with them and getting to know them. The movie - which has events and conversations Bilbo isn't present for - is more even more favorable to the dwarves than Bilbo's own version. I have to think of the movies as the dwarf propaganda version of the Hobbit, because I remember so clearly Thranduil's line in the book about never wanting to go to war over gold and he got done so dirty in the movies. Except, you know who would have been told an extremely dwarf favorable version of the story?

Gimli.

The Hobbit movies could be the story as it was told to Gimli. It's an honorable quest to reclaim their homeland, not a treasure hunt at all. Bilbo is convinced to come along by their extremely moving songs of their homeland, definitely not the spite of being told he'd be useless. Of course all the elves were strange at best (serving salad in Rivendell - which is weird, elves have a god of the hunt and a history of great hunters, among which Elrond's sons could technically be counted, but that's not relevant right now) and actively hostile normally (Thranduil, though they imply he had his reasons, he's still an antagonist for them to face off with. In the book he does lock them up, but he has them brought food first thing. No mention of that in the movies.).

I don't know how to explain Legolas' presence in this version, or the thing with Tauriel. (None of that vibed with me for reasons I am happy to rant about elsewhere.) Maybe Merry or Pippin asks Gimli his version of the story and he's throwing in some outrageous story elements to try and mess with Legolas.

[riverbends]

…Jack Abbot might possibly have a panic attack if someone set off fireworks at a Diwali party. But I don’t know what to make of the line about “without [her father] walking [her] down the line”, maybe that’s implying she’s from a Christian background, not just her making a comparison to the patient’s situation. So maybe no panic attacks to be had.

IT IS SO FUNNY IMAGINING HOW HE’D REACT AT SOUTH ASIAN EVENTS AND FUNCTIONS😭😭 but yeah i mean whether she’s hindu or christian or *insert any other religion*, i think jack would have to prepare himself for any south asian event and it would amuse the fuck out of samira, watching her old man deal with hoards of aunties and children ohmygod. i’m sri lankan so i’m actually not entirely sure how indian events would play out but there are obviously many similarities so i have a pretty good idea

[shannonsketches]

anyway i just constantly think about how bulma's dad has had a very successful habit of housing and rehabilitating stray animals all her life and it makes a lot of sense that she would know how to fearlessly and carefully handle something dangerous that is puffing up and hissing at her when it feels cornered

[volvolts]

i do kinda love the implication that the only reason why the grimwalkers keep betraying belos is because they have caleb's Good Noodle genes as opposed to just being decent normal people going "dude what the fuck is wrong with you" whenever they learn that belos wants to kill people

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

~ Dick Winters

[soullessjack]

photoshop keeps crashing and burning but i managed to pull this singular guy from the wreckage

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[thanakite]

The choice to make Jayce the founder and creator of Hextech in Arcane is probably the change that confuses me the most

Like I've never played League of Legends and probably never will (video games strain my hands too much), but like why make that choice when in the games Hextech was apparently around long before he was even born and that results in many people having items or weapons that run on Hextech and even people with Hextech limbs or Hextech inside them

Yet within Arcane none of that is the case besides from a select few because it is new technology plus it is being highly protected to not let it reach that point

Jayce could have had an obsession with Hextech without being the founder/creator and that could have led to inventions like the Hexgates and such

And yes, I get that it being a new technology led to the ending we got in season 2, but why was that change decided on and implemented in the first place? Yes it would have led to a different ending, but why was that the ending they chose to go with if it doesn't really have a lot to do with the canon of the games?

Wish I knew the answer to that, as it's likely to itch at my brain

[enquiringangel]

Hearing Nero’s voice come out of Dante is still weird

And hearing a Vergil not voiced by Dan Southworth is even weirder…