#re logic

[lodgeofthecat]

!!ITS GAME DAY!!

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[fantasylandbitch]

Playlists to Relax and Write to (Part 2)

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I'll update this list when I find more playlists.

[catnamedcala]

this, just this, this is why i love re-logic right here.

Certified chad behavior

[lucabyte]

monologue

[whalemarch]

looking for a ghost story?

[tokutaiseichan]

You guys ever think about how the prophecy was talking about a "new moon" and how MC's almost-canon-name is "Luna"?

By the way, you guys know what happened on September 3rd? MC got cursed and sent to Darkwick as a result. Incidentally, (assuming Tokyo Debunker's story took place in 2024...) September 3rd would also be a night of new moon. 🌑

Coincidence? Perhaps it is... but!

I know this is a reach but what if the prophecy wasn't only talking about the ghouls but also MC?

There's also how MC got placed in / associated with the old Clementia dorm and Clementia is supposedly the Roman goddess of salvation and mercy.

Ringing any bells?

[the-uncursed-one]

Oooh, she’s so pretty!

The Mechanic ⚙️

[psychopomp-namine]

yingdu episode 5 spoilers

ohhh my god this is everything I want from cheng xiaoshi. yes. perfect. sorry, but I'm a cheng xiaoshi whump liker and link click always brings out the best of them in episode 5 of each season.

there's just something cathartic about how when cheng xiaoshi becomes an emotional mess, it's also when he's most disconnected with the people he knows (physically, as he's diving in a photo and his only link to his home timeframe is a disembodied lu guang in his head) but it's also when he's most connected with strangers (when their own personal trauma lines up with his). to me, it's a showcase of empathy and a strange manifestation of his own agency. something about how the disconnect gives him the space to blow up, and the connection heightens it and grants him permission, almost, to express his anger more freely for his own sake and for another person's behalf.

like. listen, okay, I'm gonna ramble now because cheng xiaoshi is my favorite character in this entire show, but listen. sometimes some fans will conflate adjectives to his character that are usually associated with his character archetype, but they aren't necessarily true about him as a character. and I don't mean it in a, "he's not like that because he grows out of those traits" kind of way. I mean it in a, "he was never like that" kind of way.

one of those adjectives, for me, is when people call him immature. he isn't! to me! imo! he's got big emotions, yes, but I personally don't think the presence of big emotions indicates anything about maturity. because you know what? as long as his primary trauma (feelings of abandonment) isn't touched, he is very good at handling interpersonal conflicts, and that's what's interesting to me.

qiao ling hides relevant information from him? he removes himself from the situation to give himself space and sort out his feelings. he tells her he's fine and that he'll be back.

post-earthquake arc? I'll just copy paste what I already said in a previous ask:

what initially got me was when I was first watching S1, I thought the earthquake arc would have devastating effects on [shiguang's] relationship. listen, I didn’t know what I was getting into with link click, but I thought that was expected. it’s ripe for drama! but how do they handle the fight? they put their side business on hold but they still keep being roommates. they still do their day job. they still talk. they’re still upset but they give each other space but not to the point where they can’t stand existing in each other’s spaces. that’s when I realized that oh, they really trust each other. they have a very solid foundation for their relationship that not even the earthquake arc can break. they’re pretty level-headed about this, actually, all things considered? all the doomed yaoi stuff came later, but that’s just the cherry on top. it’s the way they handled conflict and disappointment in S1 that got me.

okay, protect-namine, why go through that whole tangent? BECAUSE! circling back to yingdu episode 5, we finally, finally get to see cheng xiaoshi let out some of his anger. and it's precisely because his primary trauma point was on the table. he can forgive a friend lying, and he can forgive being told not to change the past. because at the end of the day, qiao ling and lu guang stayed. they never left him.

but he cannot handle abandonment. he cannot understand why people leave. he cannot understand why he's been clinging on to false hope this entire time. and more importantly, he cannot understand how someone can be such a hypocrite about it. "a man who'd rather be kind to strangers than face his own son" like fuck man. cheng weimin you fucked up so bad.

it's the disconnect/connect thing again too. thematically, it makes sense. when does cheng xiaoshi blow up? when he's alone, far away from the people that ground him. alone, the feeling he hates the most. he's not even in his own body. he blows up when he's inhabiting a stranger's. he doesn't even get to be angry as cheng xiaoshi.

how fucked up is that. man. I love him so much.

also I'm going crazyyyy over the family themes going on in link click. much to say about the show itself across all seasons (the twins, qiao ling and cheng xiaoshi, even the liu siblings), but for this episode... god. okay this is slight speculation territory now and I'll try to keep this very short, because this is only tangential to the post. but. imagine xia fei getting the good parent figure in cheng weimin that cheng xiaoshi never had. and he doesn't know!! he's bitter inside about his dad and he's having hotpot with xia fei and he doesn't know he was in that school!! fuck that's so good. that's so juicy.

okay, sorry, I have a lot of feelings about cheng xiaoshi. he's my link click blorbo of all time, and I love when he experiences The Horrors™ because it's also when other sides of him gets to shine.

on a brighter note:

VEIN AND CHENG XIAOSHI MEETING AGAIN!!! their greeting was so cute. also omg does xia fei know? that his boss is maybe possibly a cannibal? actually, wait, I don't think I'd be surprised if he does know.

ah and finally. finally:

I've been having many thoughts on how yingdu approaches "friendships" and their transactional nature (mostly with regards to liu xiao) but I mostly thought they're headcanon stuff. but now. I'm so so happy that episode 5 is bringing out more of the quid pro quo theme. liu xiao with the gift giving. wang qing's "friends" (bullies) demanding her to cheat on the exam for them. and now, vein and cheng xiaoshi having a friendly greeting but also exchanging favors. so good. so good. it goes along with how there's so much handshakes and handholding this season (not just with lu guang and cheng xiaoshi, but with cheng xiaoshi and the the antagonist trio too, who have all met him by "helping" him in some way). something something trust and favors. probably something that deserves its own post though, but I wanted to point this out because I am soooo here for that. it's goes hand in hand (ha!) with the whole fraud/lies vs innocence/honesty theme this season, and deals/contracts being an equalizer to the two. very good. very tasty.

edit: ooh they also point to this in the YE6 trailer too. nice, nice. if you knew someone's true colors, would you still be their friend?

man, I love episode 5. it just hits all the stuff I personally wanted to see. the only flaw is that we still haven't seen the older version of wang qing, but yeah I kinda expected that they'll hide her until episode 6. they're giving her the liu xiao treatment from season 2. sigh. really wish she'd keep showing up in S3, we need more female characters in this show 🙏

[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.

[skeletalheartattack]

Valve just published a blog post regarding plans for the first MVM update in twelve years for TF2 (to be released later this year, sometime after August), and it shaping up to be the first MVM update to involve community submissions (excluding Robotic Boogaloo).

[not-poignant]

Michael believes that Gary doesn't need Efnisen and will stay with him forever? Is that why he's acting like a rapist, explaining his actions with his alpha penis?

Hi anon,

I can understand you're feeling pretty heated given everything in a crisis point in the story right now! So I'm just gonna point out some things that might help situate Michael's perspective a bit better:

Hillview Rehabilitation Facility is a rehabilitation facility. It's primary and most central job is to permanently get omegas out of the facility. And so Gary, when he calls Michael the first time, and to a degree the second time, calls him with this in mind.

Of course he's going to think that Gary doesn't need Efnisien. Of course he thinks there's a high chance Efnisien will stay with him forever even if he's been told it's 'only temporary' - especially with the added benefit of something like a claiming bite. This is literally what Hillview does. It rehabilitates omegas temporarily, and then sends them away, forever. That's...Hillview's job.

The fact that they're not doing that with Efnisien, and that he's been placed with the CEO, is actually why Hillview might lose its ability to practice at all. Because that's...literally the job of an ORF, no matter how radical or non-radical it is.

That's why Lucien and Mosk have left. It's why Flitmouse has to pay for Anton, now that Anton's no longer working as a companion (because they're literally just taking up space that could be used for a new omega).

Michael is behaving like someone who understands the function of a rehabilitation facility, who is taking advantage of that. That's...honestly, pretty normal. Just like Gary doesn't know that Michael's a predator, which is why he didn't think to get the address. Michael doesn't know that Gary's bonded strongly with Efnisien, but he does know what Hillview's main function is: rehabilitation facility. To get the omega out permanently, one way or another.

This is further reinforced in their very first phone call, where Gary is specifically looking for advice, which I'm going to post here:

'Listen,' Mike said, 'I'm not in the business of giving you the answers you want, because I think you don't know what you want. But you do have other options, aside from pursuing bonding, or transferring him. You could place him with someone who understands his circumstances in a pairing. There's more alphas out there than you realise who don't want conventional... Well, who don't want what's expected of them. Hell, even I'm someone who no longer looks for omegas. People's tastes change over time, Gary.' 'We do have a waitlist,' Gary said. 'I don't think anyone's suitable, not while they're susceptible to his alpha persuasion.'  ‘There may come a time when they’re not as susceptible,' Mike said. 'Anyway, it's something to think about. Maybe I should add myself to that waitlist of yours one day. Sometimes I think I'm never going to find the right person to settle down with.' 'As a last resort, I'll definitely keep the option of partnering him with someone else in mind.' 

This does not sound like a conversation where Michael's going to walk away thinking: 'Gary is super strongly bonded to this guy and definitely doesn't want him to leave, maybe they're even in love.' Michael's going to walk away from this conversation thinking: If enough time has passed, I'm going to be a good candidate.

And guess what? From Michael's perspective - he is. Gary calls him because it's a last resort, and asks to place Efnisien with him temporarily. The 'temporary' part doesn't both Michael that much, after all, Efnisien's case is a unique case.

Like, there is a logic behind what he believes the world to be at the moment. He's not the reader, he doesn't get to learn everything we learn. That doesn't make him a good person. But it doesn't mean he's a completely illogical one either. There's zero reason for Michael to believe that Gary needs Efnisien, or that Efnisien needs Gary. Gary's dislike of omegas is well-known, Michael doesn't believe Efnisien is truly an alpha (like Gary didn't - that's not rare either), and Gary has only previously called Michael about this to talk about how much of a problem Efnisien is. Even when he calls to get Efnisien out of the facility, it's framed as Efnisien being a problem.

And, the final cherry on that sundae is that Gary doesn't say goodbye, and isn't sentimental towards Efnisien at all, while Michael is there.

Not only does Michael think that Gary isn't strongly bonded to him, Michael thinks there's a high chance Gary actually really doesn't want him there, and just needs some time to change his mind from 'this is temporary' to 'you know what, it's better if this is permanent.' It makes more sense than what actually ended up happening between Gary and Efnisien!

[lodgeofthecat]

Terraria Day One Adventures (I got stabbed?!?)

[shallowseeker]

6x01

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So, he HAS thought about this.

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6x21

The only way for them not to be in danger, logically, is if the two of them not viscerally attached to Dean's head/memories. So, you'd think he'd have asked Cas to remove them from his own memories, too.

(And even that might not be fool-proof.)

But that's clearly not the case because...

[sodrippy]

sorry last thing but multiple people saying grace was racist/inauthentic/etc bc she ran the white store is also insane to me. i read that as having way more to do with the social politics of interacting w whiteness in that era. white women are usually the ones shopping at grocery stores so of course the smarter, more acceptable choice is to have the asian woman running that counter rather than the asian man bc it is less 'threatening' to the white folk. im so sorry but can you guys use your brains for a sec. its about white propriety not about intersectional discord.

[obsidiansynth]

Terraria dev team Re-Logic has donated $100,000 each to the Godot and FNA open source game engines, and will sponsor both projects for $1000 a month in a move condemning the actions of Unity Technologies's monetization plans. Their public statement, which they posted as an image on Twitter, is transcribed within the article below.

[narutoheretic]

thinking this morning and. imo hiruzen letting danzo keep doing his thing despite at least one assassination attempt has nothing to do with them being friends/former friends (except insofar as it gives hiruzen greater insight into what makes danzo tick) it's because hiruzen has a Process to getting things done that strongly resembles the adhd method of 'delay until last-minute panic sets in', except the last-minute panic isn't his it's danzo's.

like how valuable is it that mr. 'i'm just a nice old guy that everyone loves' has on retainer the most stressed control freak who loves to do horrific but 'necessary' shit if it's For The Village. all he needs to do is hem and haw and float stupid ideas until danzo is like jesus fucking CHRIST i cannot handle this and skips asking him to just get the massacre or child experimentation program or whatever done himself, whereupon hiruzen can reap the benefits (no more uchiha) (nice mukoton-using child you got there danzo lemme just yoink him) while wagging his finger at danzo for Doing The Bad Thing. of course one assassination attempt wouldn't make you willing to get rid of this guy! danzo is the stick propping up hiruzen's delicate balance of 'runs the shadiest regime in konoha history but i'm really just a nice guy uwu', if you took it away hiruzen might have to. idk do something himself. that he'd be held responsible for. what a nightmare