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ryind · 2 days
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As you can tell I liked Nigel and his terrible roommate situation a lot...
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ryind · 2 days
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#is that the
#the fucking #the dune popcorn bowl. #and a dune (amis) pun #this is very sam #it's a good day to be a critical role fan
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So this is where Essek has been during C3...
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ryind · 2 days
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#i got on a kick of asking chatgpt the names of a bunch of books i read as a kid whose plots I remembered but titles I forgot #and this one was like The Gut Punch Ever #wasnt there like?? #a major character death in book 3?? #anyways I remember being like 13 and crying about that #i miss reading
The feeling of randomly remembering a book series you were hyperfixated on as a kid is so strange. Like what do you mean I am currently experiencing stomach pain because I randomly remembered the Magisterium series
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ryind · 3 days
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VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.
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Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)
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ryind · 3 days
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the chibi saga continues
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i think not drawing chibi shadowgast after drawing chibi Essek and chibi Caleb would have been considered a felony somewhere
tip jar!
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ryind · 8 days
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You really should give it to him
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ryind · 9 days
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Magnus Protocol theory incoming:
Disclaimer: I have only listened to the original podcast once through. Binged it in the span of 2 months while playing Disney Dreamlight Valley (it was a dark time in my life, I cope how I cope). I am still hazy on the finer details and names (Bouchard's, Leitners etc etc.)
But I had a thought around TMP episode 5 and I am more convinced of it now having listened to the latest episode.
I think when Martin and Jon went through the rift, they went to an alternate universe, but also an alternate TIME within the universe.
And in the timeline of the Magnus Protocol as we are listening to it, they are both either older than when we left them, or long dead having lived for years in this current world.
The evidence we have is their voices on the computers. I did initially wonder: "wait, have they been turned into A.I voice programs by the horrors?"
But it's far more likely that they made each recording and put it into this old analogue system that could handle and contain the records without glitching.
Which would mean the Institute (Office of Incident Assessment and Response) as it currently exists could have been established by Jon and Martin, or at least they took part in setting it up in an attempt to prevent what happened in TMA from happening here. Yes, they brought the horrors through, but they can contain them. Keep the records random, screen young people for some kind of study (not sure what that's about yet) and then hire a bunch of casuals to sit around on shifts and catalogue the recordings to feed The Eye. But keep them vague, rotate staff in and out frequently and make sure none of them can become The Archivist to repeat the ritual.
Gwen mentioning time travel study feels important.
The Magnus Insistute was destroyed in this universe, which feels like something Jon and Martin would do, to prevent history from repeating.
Gwen being a Bouchard could be a coincidental throwaway, red herring style, because Elias Bouchard wasn't innately anyone special until the horrors marked him. Gertrude being alive in this universe feels important and is another indicator that history in this world is different than in TMA.
I think we're supposed to think this world is different because it's an alternate universe but I am convinced Jon and Martin made changes to try to fix the timeline.
My question is: Who's watching? We know we only ever hear security footage and people's mobile phones secretly listening to them and in the most recent episode a tape switched on in the burnt down Institute to record Sam and Alice digging around.
We are listening. We are still avatars of The Eye. But I have to wonder if Jon is off somewhere, unable to keep his eyes off things, making sure nothing is going wrong...
Will come back and eat my words if I'm wrong!
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ryind · 10 days
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Expositor.
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ryind · 2 months
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The Emperor narrative is deliciously meta and maybe even intends for the player to examine their own interactions with the game. I did see at least one person on Reddit realize the mindflayer = Player vibes, but I have already been thinking about this for a while, so here is my personal take:
The thing about the Emperor is that he does to you what you as the player do to all the characters of the game.
You fundamentally alter the character's nature by persuasion and manipulation (and by manipulation, I mean having knowledge they do not, and choosing your actions to your own ends based upon that knowledge. Maybe you make them better or worse).
You even manipulate your way into sex and romance. Some of you make moral decisions basically upon whether you think you can get in a character's pants or not. (coughAstarioncough).
You metagame. You know beforehand what could happen, and steer events accordingly.
You are everyone's knight in shining armour...or everyone's manipulative villain.
You hate it when things don't go your way. You do everything you can to steer it to your agenda, and get frustrated when characters don't (or can't) listen.
Even down to the very act of character creation, an avatar or mask that allows you to interact seamlessly in the game environment.
You don't really mean harm. Your motives are self serving, but they are not truly malicious. You cannot change the nature of your own superiority to fictional characters. This is just how you interact with such a world.
You and the Emperor are participating in the exact same methods. He is the closest thing to an actual equal you have in the game.
"You and I are the same." He basically tells you this directly, it just sounds hollow when you are only viewing it through the perspective of the fictional persona you took on.
It's almost hysterical how many players reacted to him with intense hatred.
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ryind · 3 months
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ryind · 5 months
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Whatever gender Roark and Dominique have I want it
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ryind · 5 months
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Does anyone else just define the vibes of a day/week by a piece of media/character/artist
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Today has been such a Laufey day. Two weeks ago? A David Bowie week. Three weeks? Quentin Compson.
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ryind · 6 months
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2023 Annular Eclipse
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I took some pictures of the moon chomping the sun. They are in reverse order for some reason, so please start at the bottom (moon coming in from the top of the sun) and scroll up.
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ryind · 6 months
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ok so like gauging interest here - who would be into an Oppenheimer discord server - specifically for hyperfixating on the characters as well as the irl Manhattan project and the figures around it? Honestly I’d just like ppl to talk to about it and it would literally just be a place to talk about whatever you’d like however you’d like related to the movie!
If you are interested reblog or drop me a DM so I can let you know when the server is made and send you a link!
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ryind · 8 months
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They should invent a way to simultaneously read a fic read a book draw art write watch television listen to music and listen to a podcast
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ryind · 8 months
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thr funniest part of therapy to me is when you first come in and you're exchanging niceties and they say "hello! how are you" and you say "im fine how are you :)" and then 30 seconds later they put on their therapist voice and say "so how are you doing?" and you go well lisa. believe it or not im doing Bad
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