#onthoughts

[quagmireofword]

When you’re in a pressurecooker you learn to live and let live or somebody will carve you a brand-new mouth just above the Adam’s apple. You learn to make allowances.

“Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King

[chubbyooo]

My onslaught onthoughts :P

warning warning warning big spoilers after the line do not enter ye if you don’t have played the onslaught

so overall it was more or less what I expected a few good moments that made me think yeah I’m stoked but not amazingly amazing or anything

it seemed very clear that this expansion would be an interim one more than anything setting up new plots and developing existing ones and sure enough it was

the missions were fun but nothing we haven’t seen before

I think I would’ve enjoyed a bit more Theron and Lana interaction but the stuff we got was pre good

alright lets go through it bit by bit (this is in the empire story line btw)

So first of all going to the dark council and roasting the shit out of all of them was a blast

no I don’t want my seat back bicc

first Darth Lady loves robots

I did enjoy the savage this kings a moron stuff

seeing Jakarro again was a highlight even if he did kinda break my game

Kyradia very quickly undermined sith lady framing her for the attack being off

legit Kys plan was to systematically weaken the dark council and the republic and she kinda nailed it

Onderon overall was interesting but just another politics plot

Ok Mek-sha

I loved Mek-sha, the aesthetic the design the way they all interacted I knew I’d enjoy the concept

yeah the mysterious guy is clearly scourge duh

Vowrawns apprentice fits him perfectly

also yay more Vowrawn he’s always great

in terms of the actual what goes on plot it’s standard crime stuff which was fine

Ok but when Tau and Kyradia had a stare down I got chills

lastly I’m probably gonna get flak for this but I killed Vowrawn and his apprentice trust me it hurt me too but the plan was to undermine and weaken the council so it’s easier to puppet (rp wise at least in game I’m sure it wasn’t that clever) so I felt I had to. Morally it’s fine cause they evil sith but am sorry Vowrawn but you were in my way

Lastly Corellia

ok first I love that Anri is a gardener It’s just great

second workin with Malgus again I was lookin for the first chance to outsmart him

seeing Tharan again was a laugh especially when they called out the whole Tharan Theron thing

that fight with Tau was dope and the way she won even doper

speaking to the dark council again was interesting considering Kyradia had either undermined or killed about half

although a specter of glitch made vowrawn speak even tho he’d been decapitated

fuk off Acina I aint being your hand I’ll keep my alliance thanks

I’m glad they gave us the decision to keep our alliance

Kyradia fully plans to undermine both factions as best she can

so it was scourge and Kira and I was so worried for a second Vitiate was alive but nah it’s some weird fungus thing

I’m cool with that it’s intriguing and not oh he escaped cause blehhhhhhh

in terms of the scourge stuff I know some people will be furious but I don’t really care enough about scourge to mind

still imma save Satele cause Marr would be mad if I didn’t

lastly I knew Malgus would get free it was only a matter of time 

he gonna kill everyone

as I said overall good but not amazing, some great moments but nothing to scream about

I will say though I’m hyped for whatever content they have like a 50% chance of releasing after this :P (if not I’ll just write my own :D)

[skaterboyfriend]

stardew bachelors: who they were in high school + who they were crushing on

thought this’d be fun and unique. enjoy my takes below the cut:

alex: people may THINK he would’ve been the high school gridball star but he actually was the kid who kept trying to get on the team but wouldn’t quite make it. he was determined though to push through and grow stronger! he finally was qualified physically to get on the jv team in sophomore year but his grades were so bad from him focusing on getting strong that he wasn’t eligible. only when his grandma evelyn saw him struggling, she helped him get his grades up to where he was able to join jv. // again, people may THINK he crushed hard on haley or some other cute cheerleader, but he actually crushed on that loner that sits in the back and wears all black, painted nails and spiked boots, cocky as all hell, because they never once questioned who they were deep down and exuded such a confidence alex wishes he had. 

elliott: he was the big theater nerd. goes all out singing, playing the beast in beauty and the beast for example, his hair long back then too. he was quite popular within the art circle of drama, band, photography, etcetera, but didn’t feel close to anyone, he just was having some fun. he hated writing until he had to read some play scripts and vowed to write much better stories that weren’t so cliched. after writing some really bad plays, he got the hang of it and got the school to produce his short play! // he didn’t really crush on anyone, but he based the main character of his play on the quiet girl that ate her lunch in the library who he tried to make friends but she was just too shy. he liked that she was in her own world and he too tried to be able to be as self-sufficient. thats what kinda prompted him to move out to pelican town and live alone on a beach.

harvey: he was the nerd that would be able to answer every question the teacher posed, but was too shy to raise his hand. he wore sweater vests and corduroys every day, earning lots of insults but he just focused on his studies, his goal to become a doctor always on his top priority. becoming a doctor might’ve stemmed from him constantly getting hurt from bigger bullies though, since he had to see one so regularly he naturally learned a lot about the human body. // he, like elliott, didn’t necessarily like anyone, since he was focused on maintaining good grades to get into a good medical school. there was no one he even found cute, because he was so devoted to studying. he told himself he would save all that relationship business when he was a doctor making 100k a year, then he would have more suitors. 

sam: this one is more obvious- he was the band kid! he was the loud brass player who only played it because the marching band didn’t have room for a guitarist in the pit. but once fall season was over, he played guitar for pep band. he picked up guitar in middle school after seeing an old picture of his dad playing one and taught himself over freshman year, thinking it could get him closer to his dad. this is where he met abigail and sebastian. // he crushed hard on the hot drummer that would take off his shirt during band camp in the summer because it was too damn hot outside. and he might’ve had a chance too until he cut his hair into that style we all know and love, alas the drummer didnt. as soon as the drummer made fun of it, sam ditched him immediately.

sebastian: being in band, he was the mallet player, since he was forced to learn piano by his parents, so he already knew the key placements. also because he didn’t want to march around the field- being in the pit where they don’t move during marching band was much more plausible. he would regularly dip on mallet practice to play keyboard with sam’s band though. // he liked sam ever since he saw him, and even more so with the haircut. that haircut actually prompted sebastian to finally dye his hair, to which sam complimented, causing him to blush furiously. sebastian eventually grew out of it though, high school having such an emotional toll on him he wasn’t feeling ready for more emotions through a relationship.

shane: you thought alex was the sports star? no, this guy was. there’s a dialogue line where shane mentions he played gridball on the varsity team. he was a legend to that high school, people still talk about the guy in the faded picture in the gym as the best damn gridball player the school’s seen. they don’t know what’s become of shane now, but shane was popular in the high school glory days. // he dated many people, no one ever connecting with him though. he doesn’t even remember their names now- they just were a timepass for him. he feels awful knowing that’s how he treated people back then, furthering his own self-hatred in the present.

[poetyca]

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[antoine-roquentin]

For about five years, Mic.com was a place where readers could go to get moral clarity. In the Mic universe, heroes fought for equality against villains who tried to take it away. Every day, there was someone, like plus-size model Ashley Graham, to cheer for, and someone else, like manspreaders, to excoriate. Kim Kardashian annihilated slut shamers, George Takei clapped back at transphobes. “In a Single Tweet, One Man Beautifully Destroys the Hypocrisy of Anti-Muslim Bigotry.” “This Brave Woman's Horrifying Photo Has Become a Viral Rallying Cry Against Sexual Harassment.” “Young Conservative Tries to Mansplain Hijab in Viral Olympic Photo, Gets It All Wrong.” “The Problematic Disney Body Image Trend We're Not Talking About.” “The Very Problematic Reason This Woman Is Taking a Stand Against Leggings.”The site had an unfiltered voice that spoke on behalf of marginalized individuals. Breitbart called it “SJW Central.” “I think a lot of people in today’s day and age want to know, ‘What are we supposed to be outraged about?’” a former Mic staffer who left the site earlier this year told The Outline. “It seemed as if we were trying to position ourselves as, ‘We are the definition of woke, and this is how you break down this narrative or fight the mainstream.’”But after laying off 25 staffers last week, Mic has a new mandate: pivoting to video. According to a memo that was sent to staff, the site’s new mission is “to make Mic the leader in visual journalism.”

In retrospect, it looks like Mic’s commitment to social justice was never that deep — which surprised and disappointed many of the young ideologues who went to work there. (The Outline spoke to 17 current and former staffers who requested anonymity due to nondisclosure agreements.) Mic chanced upon the social justice narrative, discovered it was Facebook gold, and mined away. Now the quarry is nearly dry....

The site started in 2010 as PolicyMic, an evenhanded, forgettable politics website where unpaid contributors posted commentary that could be upvoted by other site members. The PolicyMic origin story was that Chris Altchek, a Goldman Sachs banker who leaned conservative, was always debating his friend Jake Horowitz, a foreign policy columnist for Change.org who leaned liberal. The two had fierce debates about the issues of the day, and they wanted to convert that spirit into a website “to help our generation talk about the issues that really matter,” Horowitz told The New York Observer. The two met in jazz band at the New York prep school Horace Mann; they started the site when they were 23, each having raised $75,000. Altchek contributed his Goldman bonus....

This Facebook-driven success was no accident. Every time Mic had a hit, it would distill that success into a formula and then replicate it until it was dead. Successful “frameworks,” or headlines, that went through this process included “Science Proves TK,” “In One Perfect Tweet TK,” “TK Reveals the One Brutal Truth About TK,” and “TK Celebrity Just Said TK Thing About TK Issue. Here’s why that’s important.” At one point, according to an early staffer who has since left, news writers had to follow a formula with bolded sections, which ensured their stories didn’t leave readers with any questions: The intro. The problem. The context. The takeaway....

In some communications, Horowitz and Altchek emerged as tone-deaf to the diverse staff they had cultivated. In 2015, when a TV news reporter and a cameraman were fatally shot in Virginia during a live broadcast, Horowitz and Altchek ordered pizza for the office and sent an email to staff letting them know that they could take time off if they felt traumatized by the news. In response, a group of employees of color wrote an email pointing out the fact that the site frequently covered shootings of black people by police and those writers had never been offered pizza or a personal day.

The leadership was excited about elevating underrepresented communities, but employees said that Mic had become a content factory. The site had “no plan” for a Trump win on election night, multiple former employees told me, and improvised by pulling queer people and people of color out of the newsroom, putting them in front of a camera, and having them talk about how they felt. In another instance, a former staffer told me about how Horowitz, who served as editor in chief of the site until mid-2015 and is now editor at large, once interrupted a reporter pitching a video about a woman building rooftop gardens in New Orleans: “‘But, is she black? Is she black?’" the former staffer recalled Horowitz asking, “as if the story would be less impactful had the woman doing the work been white or Hispanic or Martian.” When the site was pushing into original comedy, Altchek told multiple staffers that he wanted to make “the next Chappelle Show, except it’s hosted by a trans woman of color.” Multiple former employees brought up the time Altchek introduced a video about the feminist #FreeTheNipple movement at a large staff gathering with a joke implying that the video still would have been excellent even if it hadn’t included boobs: “Titties aside,” he said, it was a great piece.

Altchek’s biggest misstep, however, was a get-out-the-vote effort called #69TheVote, which launched in late 2016. The conceit was that, while 69 million baby boomers and 69 million millennials are eligible to vote, only the former actually do so. “Boomers have always been on top,” the voiceover in the announcement video says. “Sometimes it seems like they're afraid to try new positions. But we're ready to go down on history” — a voice interrupts — “ahem, in history” — “oh right….” The video was widely disavowed by staff members and lambasted by The Washington Post, Gawker, Vice, and others....

Cahill’s suggestions belied his ignorance of reporting and lack of sensitivity to social issues, according to former staffers. Cahill wanted to replicate the success of New York magazine’s cover story with photos of women who had accused Bill Cosby of rape, said the staffer who covered social justice issues, and suggested they “do a similar roundup” with survivors of sexual assault. “‘Maybe campus rape, maybe not...whatever! Just find rape victims and get them to share their stories!’” the staffer recalled in an email, mocking the tone. “I know it wasn't intended to be so… gross. But to me it demonstrated such a complete lack of understanding of how sensitive those stories are, how difficult it is to find dozens of victims willing to go on the record about the trauma they've experienced, the trust a writer has to earn, not to mention the horror of how many Cosby accusers there were… all of it. It showed me he didn't get how any of the work the reporters were doing was done, or that the reason NYMag's story did well had nothing to do with that ‘story template’ playing well.”

While Cahill was remaking the site in Google’s image, Mic hired NPR NewsExecutive Editor Madhulika Sikka to shore up its journalism cred. Sikka was brought in with the hope that serious journalism could help free Mic from its dependence on Facebook — and that her resume could offset the fact that former news director Jared Keller and former managing editor of news Chris Miles were both found to have plagiarized parts of stories. Seven months later, Sikka was out, telling Ad Age that the job “wasn't quite the right fit for me.” Meanwhile, Cahill was promoted to managing editor of editorial operations in January 2016 and then VP of content in June 2016, according to his LinkedIn profile.

During these experiments, Mic continued to bait Facebook readers into getting worked up over everything: Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie, a high school teacher in Oregon who doesn’t believe in rape culture, people with bad opinions onThought Catalog, people using bad hashtags, and Zazzle.com. “Mic trafficked in outrage culture,” a former staffer who left in 2017 said. “A lot of the videos that we would publish would be like, ‘Here is this racist person doing a racist thing in this nondescript southern city somewhere.’ There wouldn’t be any reporting or story around it, just, ‘Look at this person being racist, wow what a terrible racist.’” Mic had already exhausted its outrage vocabulary by the time Trump’s election supercharged civil rights violations.

“It ratchets everything up to 11, to a point where if everything is an outrage, nothing is an outrage,” the staffer who left in 2017 said. “Everything is the biggest deal in the world because you’re trying to create traffic, and it desensitizes us to what are actually huge breaks in social and political norms.”

[ramblingsofanoverthinker]

i’m not who i was 2 years ago but i can’t guarantee my feelings haven’t changed. we’ve both grown, we’ve loved and broke. the truth of the matter is, we’re probably meant to be, but at some other point in time. for now, we will live, we will love and we will see what’s written in the stars because we have a story to tell.

[the3kfreak]

#onthought

Just realized you can serialize a magazine on tumblr.. ^^.

Hmm, maybe i should partner with an artist and they make a comic here.. hehe, or maybe I make my own?

I did at one point want to become an artist/animator. maybe.

Nah.

the3kfreak

[the3kfreak]

#onthought

Watching an anime called Nana.

And wondering what to write about on my blog( Is that a thing? writing that you’re thinking about writing? )

Well, i don’t really have anything to say. I’m not a writer. I’m a thinker.

I’m not a great thinker. Just that i actually contemplate multiple angles, approaches and possibilities that can apply to a particular scenario.I have to, if don’t want to spend 3 weeks debugging some cryptic error in an application.

Well that’s it. If i find myself writing about tech, I’ll take that as my queue to sign out.

Adios.

the3kfreak.

[the3kfreak]

#onthought

7:10 pm and i have to integrate( connect ) my script with ken’s dashboard. which basically means setup my script to insert records into a table of his choice and populate the fields of his choosing

I also have to build the continuous integration( CI ) pipeline for nodejs, after building one for php and python.. uhhhhhh!

Let’s wait and see how this goes.

the3kfreak 

[leadjaonew]

I am fairly positive Gyuri is hinting that she wants another dog. Adventurous one, my wife is. We have an adolescent husky, two babies on the way, and I think I'm taking the hint on this one.

[leadjaonew]

It's been a week. It's been a really good week.

I've yearned to be a father since she told me of a minor scare back after we  got engaged around the beginning of April, but I knew I'd have to wait to finally experience it.

Last week we finally took a pregnancy test. Mostly out of curiosity, not because she was late. Hell, she wasn't even late yet. The results were positive. Which made me kind of jaw drop a bit because we weren't actively trying before dropping the protection with our discussion. So I thought we were a little farther along than we expected.

The doctor we visited earlier in the week confirmed we were expecting a baby and she suspected the same as us, until I saw it for myself on the screen. Two, Two dark spots and the doctor congratulated us on our twins. So now I embark on a new mission in life, to become a great father like mine, if not even better. 

I love my wife more, not because she finally got pregnant, but because I love the two babies growing inside of her and my love for her. Our children. My heart to heart with my father was a nice one the other night before we left for Japan with the tour starting up.

I couldn't ask for more.

This is a sentimental Jinki post. .3.

[leadjaonew]

I have no idea why I am fighting to stay awake. Someone please knock me out.

[leadjaonew]

Making boricha while waiting for the misses to tell me to pick her up -3-

I'm getting wiggly and excited for the ultrasound tonight.

[leadjaonew]

*slowly crawls under the blankets and attacks Gyuri because--

Oh this already sounds bad. Uh...

Well, good for me. Good for her.

Hell. *shrugs* Good for everyone, really.

I--

I am really tired holy hell.