#without irony

[sampilled]

Sometimes I come on here and I see such a bad take that completely simplifies my favourite parts of the show into my most detested fanfic tropes and I get so angry and annoyed

But then I remember I can just watch the real show and that I live in my own beautiful brain and I calm down

[randomnumbers751650]

Beethoven's 9th Symphony lasts for 80 minutes and needs 19 musicians, so is it possible that you put your scientist to work to create a 9th that's 40 minutes long, only needing 9.5 musicians for half the cost? According to AI art, yes. So, you can see the problem.

I honestly do not think “AI will never be as good as human creativity” is a good argument at this point. Like yes, it is true right now, but they’re just going to keep trying to prove it wrong. To me the line is, “Modern AI is built off of PLAGIARISM, UNPAID and UNDERPAID labor.” AI is a labor rights issue, not just for the people who’s labor it would replace, but for the people whose labor was STOLEN for the AI to “create” anything.

[cracklewink]

Harmony Syndrome Part 5/5

The last chapter of my mlp infection AU! Thank you to everyone who followed along. Some final thoughts on my twitter @cracklewink if anyone's interested : )

[rainibao]

EP 6 spoilers

Yang Cheng was fast enough

E-Soul wasn't, again

Edit: more in a reblog

[the-geeky-fangirl]

heartstopper isn't cringe it's just sincere and you guys are weak as fuck

[bucket-of-spiders]

Some high effort high quality very good Ineffable Husbsnds fanart

[shitpostingkats]

One of the best written games I've ever played.

[areyouscaredyet]

SEAVBO ANGST??? LMFAO??

Parkour civilization theory/au where when it changes from parkour to PVP civilization, and everyone has had their memory wiped, Seawatt still remembers the previous world because the resistance potion had lasting effects

fuck my stupid baka life….

[teaboot]

I've always found the idea of using lofty titles like Duke and Deo for baby names hilarious, primarily due to the beautiful image of little baby Warlord smashing mashed peas up his nose at the dinner table, but am I funny enough as an unimpressive 5'3" dumpster-diving transmasc to name myself something as cringingly, lavishly grandiose as "King"?

we shall see

[i-reblog-everything44]

Daisuke: man, captain curly is so cool! He’s got it all figured out. I wish I could be as confident and self assured as him!

Curly: [currently depressed and going through a mid life crisis]

[flat-neines]

There was a missed opportunity in not having the ic disagree with rhysand during the demon baby plot. Especially if you kept how self congratulatory they were about making fun of lucien for caring about tamlin and not "opening his eyes to the truth". Like, imagine that they all vote no because not telling a person about their body is abusive and even if the ic didn't really care about feyre on a personal level, they weren't going let their friend do something so horrible to their partner. Rhysand forces them not to say anything and they have to (reluctantly) go behind their friend's back to not only save feyre's life, but his.

And while they try to find a way to discreetly inform feyre, nesta is the one to reveal it to her, angered by the violation of both thier autonomies. Rhysand, who already hated nesta, finds out and threatens/tries to kill her but the ic close ranks against rhysand for the first time in centuries.

So now rhys is locked in the river house to prevent him from doing anything else and cassian is explaining this to lucien (as they need his help) who's just like:

[mintisbored]

So funny that most fear organizations usually have their people know they are serving something divine that will bring some kind of cosmic concept into the world, meanwhile the entity of having knowledge that wants it's people to know everything has the "You don't have any idea of what's going on at any point unless you work here for like five years and piece the weird shit together yourself" like... Does the eye enjoy watching the employes go down a matpat like spiral or is that just Jonah?

[kenzan-brainrot-mp4]

Hello! The twist ending of PYIH kind of shocked me. 'Twas really foolish of me for thinking that for the entirety of Kiryu's saga, Majima has just that twisted obsession with Kiryu, being a "Mad Dog" and all. I came across your PYIH analysis the other day and it really brought home what they were conveying with the ending.

I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the premise of PYIH. Is the sole purpose of Majima's "filming/documentary(?)" is to rehearse telling it to Kiryu? Because if it had been, that would be even crazier.

Oh, and at this point, is it even reasonable right now to interpret their relationship as platonic or brotherly? What do you think?

YEAHHHHH imo I think yakuza kenzan yakuza 3 (rooftop scene) is where we first truly starting seeing a glimpse of a deeper dynamic between Majima and Kiryu that goes beyond the "weird twisted obsession" reading, and we see more examples of it later as the series goes on (gestures at yakuza 5 and IW) but moments like those were decently subtle/blink-and-you'll-miss-it (not to mention they lessen in frequency also probably in part to Majima's lessening screentime throughout the series), but pyih's ending really goes out of its way to ensure that you actually Know how deep and genuine Majima's feelings are, which I am both extremely appreciative of and Kinda Crazy about

I think the whole documentary thing is interesting. Given the fact that they went out of their way to get the equipment/crew/etc. for the "film version", I would say that the Majima's retelling of his story at the studio and at Kiryu's bedside serve different purposes, and that him telling the story on set was not specifically for Kiryu (what Majima plans to do with the "film version" I'm not completely sure, but I guess for now we can assume it's just a project Majima wanted to do while getting Majima Construction back off the ground?) I'd say the premise of pyih is both to retell Majima's story as he presents it to the "general audience" And Kiryu, hence why the game starts with one and ends with the other. It's the same story to everyone, for the mostpart, and the main difference between the two 'versions' is How he presents it (to the cameras/the players/main audience he puts on the fuckass pirate costume and the theatrics, to Kiryu he tells it to him straight, without the extra show stuff for the cameras. We can Assume the story he tells to each audience is practically identical, considering that the cutscene of him telling it to us in the beginning of the game and him telling it to KIryu at the end of the game use identical lines (cough cough in the Japanese audio), but his tone of voice between the two are notably very different)

Uhhhh shoot I don't know if any of that made sense 💀 Point is I think Majima telling the story of pyih is, in fact, meant for Everyone, it's just that Kiryu gets a sort of special, more authentically told version of it if you will (After all, Majima could've just shown Kiryu the film when it was finally done, but instead he went out of his way to tell it to him personally)

As for the question of "is kazumaji canon now", WOO boy. First of all I actually lowkey want to thank you for asking that question, I've been wanting to post about it for a while now but kept putting it off lol. I mulled over this exact question quite a bit during the week-or-so long time period that I was writing most of my analysis after finishing the game, and, despite the fact that I myself am very vocal about liking kazumaji in a romantic scenario/context, I would not personally call it canon, and I say it is still absolutely reasonable to interpret them as platonic.

While many of the aspects we see in their relationship (especially on Majima's end) such as obsession, devotion, etc. etc. are often associated with romantic interest (Especially in fandom spaces), I don't think they have to be considered specifically romantic. People who have read through my posts may remember a while back that I did an analysis of The Sun at 36.5 wondering if the song was written with the intent to represent Majima's feelings towards Kiryu (for the record this was incorrect and the meaning behind it goes past the scope of the game) and I was going pretty insane about it lol. That's because, had the song been written with that in mind, it would've meant with almost 100% certainly that they would be, in fact, canon, and that would've been Insane. However, this is not the case, and other than that theory I had there's nothing else in the games that would specifically state that either one has Explicitly Romantic feelings towards the other. Do they have a very deep and complex relationship, the likes of which they don't share with many other characters? Definitely. Is it explicitly romantic? I wouldn't say so

The main example I would like to bring up to argue against it would be minedai (*cough* my second favorite yakuza ship I fucking Love Mine Yoshitaka so much he's one of my favorites). I'll link this amazing post with all the examples but essentially, while minedai and kazumaji share many of the same themes in their relationship/dynamic (again, obsession, devotion, you get the drill (can you tell Majima and Mine are two of my favorite characters yet LOL)) the main difference between them is that, with minedai, it is basically outright said Multiple Times in Multiple Sources outside of even Yakuza 3 itself that Mine loved Daigo, with words used Specifically to convey strong romantic connotations, a choice rgg went out of their way to make every single time they wrote about them together. Kazumaji, on the other hand, does not use these kinds of words to describe each other, whether it be in words coming from Kiryu and Majima themselves, or official relationship charts, descriptions, etc.

Can feelings including romance be heavily implied without needing to be explicitly stated? Absolutely, but with the way rgg tends to Very Obviously and Explicitly state when characters Are romantically interested in each other, and also simply because there is still (imo) plenty of room to read kazumaji as Not romantic, I wouldn't say it's canon. And for the record, I wanna reiterate that this is coming from someone who is personally very enthusiastic about kazumaji as a ship, so I'm trying to be purely objective here, and that is my verdict (Also this is just a random aside, but I really don't agree with the people who are (unironically) labelling Kiryu and Majima's relationship as "queerbaiting". but that's a whole other discussion entirely)

Thank you for shooting an ask !!

[maxdibert]

Look it’s not that I absolutely loathe James Potter but he’s written in a way that becomes irrelevant to the plot, he’s a name and a Gringotts vault to Harry, nothing more. Even his little buddies are useless to Harry.

The thing is, James doesn’t matter at all. I mean, James isn’t important to the plot or to Harry. James only matters as a reason for Severus to have issues with Harry. In other words, James only exists to complement Severus’s personal story, which affects Harry. It’s ironic, isn’t it? That there’s always this debate about whether James Potter was better than Severus Snape, when the reality is that James Potter’s very existence in the story wouldn’t exist or hold the slightest relevance without Severus Snape, because he literally exists to give meaning to Snape’s attitude towards Harry.

James could’ve been called Pepito for all it matters, it would’ve made no difference, because when it comes to important things, he did nothing. It’s Lily who casts the ancient magic to protect Harry, it’s Lily who has the chance to run but doesn’t, and because of that unleashes the spell. It’s Lily who carries the bloodline that forces Harry to stay with the Dursleys so the protection charm works, and it’s Lily who influences Snape, who in turn is one of the three indispensable adult characters in the entire story. Lily is the one who haunts the narrative, James is just a background character who could’ve had any story, or not existed at all, and nothing substantial would change. Not even the absence of Sirius or Remus would change anything essential about the story, because they don’t contribute anything fundamentally relevant beyond adding texture or complementing it. James exists solely and exclusively to give Snape a reason to be triggered by Harry. He’s not a piece of Harry’s puzzle , that’s Lily, with the spell that protects him. He’s a piece of Snape’s puzzle. He exists only and exclusively to give Snape depth as a character, and that’s the most ironic and hilarious part of it all when you come across people hating on Snape while idolizing James.

[a-man-in-the-crowd]

my hunger games au shit is making me think a LOT about the will-eulalie dynamic and the passion with which eulalie hates montresor (understandable). i think she hates montresor enough for will and her both honestly ☠️

in her eyes, he goes against every single principle of friendship she has and she wants desperately for will to see that (even if in the process it does nothing to help will's core problem of not having opinions/not being able to express opinions of his own). though, worth noting, while she currently feels that her friends left her behind — montresor came back for will.

she says friends care, and montresor, however little and for how much he sucks otherwise, does care. meanwhile, her friends routinely ignore and condescend her despite otherwise being pretty okay — a behaviour she's accidentally mirrorring towards will by refusing to hear him out on why he thinks monty's his friend and making statements on their friendship with no room for argument, which undermines will's ability to make conclusions himself.

by doing this, she also inadvertently reinforces something monty told will which, based on will's expression in that scene and his behaviour in later scenes, he's internalized. fun!

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Honestly, as a man, if you see a guy who thinks men have it so much harder they are not worth the time. Like, it is impossible to ignore the disproportional suffering of women in DV, the underrepresentation of women in positions of power everywhere, the stories of assault that most women of all ages have faced. It’s like “oh you are finding it hard to get a date?” but women have to deal with if the person on the date is going to threaten their safety.

Exactly! Like it’s okay to talk about some things men face, but doing it as a retort to women’s issues is so so tacky to me. I also think it’s become somewhat of a punchline between guys — like the “bc of woke!!” “bc of feminism!!!” w laughter soundtrack energy wafting off of men like this is so palpable it’s concerning… this is not the counterculture slay you think it is