#Route News

[auckie]

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1765391777580912958?s=20

PLEASE GD IF YOU LOVE AND WANT TRAINS

[networkthoughts]

Akasa Air to start operations to Kuwait from Aug 23

Mumbai headquartered Akasa Air will launch its fifth international destination – Kuwait, from Aug 23, 2024. The airline operates to Doha, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Jeddah. The airline will operate its MAX 8 aircraft, daily as per the below timings. QP571 BOM1950 – 2200KWIQP572 KWI2300 – 0535(+1)BOM As per media reports, India and Kuwait have 12,000 weekly seats each side as per the current…

[pinacoladamatata]

blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....

[muffinlance]

I'm barely to the massacre and I can already tell I'm going to be screaming at every this-makes-no-sense decision made by the writers (your temple is under violent attack, and you evacuate the kids... to a barely enclosed corner in a prominent temple room? Instead of to the hundreds of sky bison that were highlighted as flying in earlier? Why?) (And Aang left to clear his head and think instead of to run from his duties? That's such a less compelling plot arc?) (And the show had him briefly monologue about being a goofy kid who loves pies and his friends instead of using the extended temple scene to show any of that? Didn't want to pay more child actors, did you, Netflix?)

Yeah I'm just. Going to be screaming at the screen instead of enjoying this. Different decisions aren't necessarily bad, but when those decisions seem to be in the direction of "show a man burning alive before we even get to the on-screen massacre" this is just... not the show for me.

[genshin-impact-updates]

Natlan Preview Teaser - Saurian Wanderings | Genshin Impact

Natlan is a nation where humans and Saurians live together.

You may have heard of this already, but seeing is believing.

[myrkulitescourge]

i'm surprised i haven't seen any text posts yet about the Unsubtle Differences between astarion’s tiefling party/high approval forest scene and the one you get after the goblin party.

there’s something so terribly interesting about how the conversation afterward plays out depending on which variation you pursue.

like, most people have seen the tiefling party version by now. astarion basking in the sunlight the morning after, playing off most of what tav says with relative ease, even when they ask about his scars and he tells them about cazador. his cadence is smooth and composed, his smile almost friendly, even though you know, as the viewer, he’s playing a game of manipulation at this point. the only real crack in his demeanor is if tav notices that cazador’s “poem” was written in infernal, which, understandably, startles him.

but recently i watched the goblin party version of this same scene, and everything reads so differently. unlike at the tiefling party, it’s still the middle of the night when astarion tries to leave, thinking tav is asleep—almost immediately after the act, in fact. when tav does speak to him, he’s visibly nervous, halting and stammering in the middle of lines delivered unflinchingly in the other version of the scene. he gestures broadly and fidgets more while talking, his smile comes and goes. there’s even some of his distinctive high pitched, fake laughter sprinkled throughout the exchange, almost identical to later scenes where he's very, very obviously uncomfortable (like if raphael mocks him and magics off astarion's shirt to show the party his scars in act 2, or when confronting the gur children in their cell in act 3, etc etc).

siding with the goblins represents something deeply familiar to astarion, a level of cruelty he's more than familiar with and embraces likely because cruelty and duplicity, to him, go hand-in-hand with the power and freedom he craves so badly—but he won't stay the night with this tav, even if he approves of their actions. no, in this case, he'll keep to what's familiar and attempt to leave them in the forest under the cover of the very same darkness he resents having been cast into by cazador. when he gets caught, it sets him on edge, and everything he says becomes such a blatant lie to save face that tav would have to be completely oblivious not to see through him, or maybe just not care enough to.

but if tav saves the refugees? challenges his worldview and comes out victorious? oh, he'll complain of the poor rewards for his trouble at the party and whine about it being boring, but he decides to stay with tav through the night while they're asleep and on past dawn. he takes a moment to enjoy the morning sunlight, returned to his life after two centuries without. the same is true if you have high enough approval that he asks before the party, in which case, you've almost certainly hit his biggest approval gains: trusting him and supporting his safety. maybe he doesn't trip over his words when he speaks because, well, maybe this is someone he doesn't have to worry about. someone who's already more than proven themselves a foolish, heroic sort with a bleeding heart or otherwise demonstrated that they're already in his corner. in other words, not a threat—at least not to him.

does any of this make sense. i wanna study this guy under a microscope.

[blacktabbygames]

Pristine Cut Update:

Beating the "Slay the Princess is not a horror game" allegations.

Not beating the "Slay the Princess is pretentious" allegations.

[ghirahimbo]

evil time loop escape conditions where you can't get out until you've fuucked up your life in the most spectacular way possible, confident that the next night will reset the slate as usual.

instead, the next day comes.

[spittyfishy]

Duchess has just such a pretty design, I love her 🦢💜

[nukbody]

@dead-finch-420 threatened me only 40% so i better take my chances, but being completely honest having look at those old sketches made me just wanna redraw them all so here we are

[plein-air-on-gorkhon]

let's try some lineart this time, i said, it'll make the painting easier, i said *dies*

[lacquerheadd]

Try not to smile so wide, baby. You might break your mouth.

[networkthoughts]

Understanding Aviation: Building connections - Air India’s Delhi Coimbatore flight

Starting June 02, 2024; Air India launched a new flight between Delhi and Coimbatore, a route which has traditionally served as a single flight number via Chennai, operating Delhi – Chennai – Coimbatore (AI429) and Coimbatore – Chennai – Delhi (AI 539). It also remained the only non IndiGo flight between Chennai and Coimbatore, with the market leader operating seven daily between Chennai – the…

[karykca]

fractured

[ansonmountdaily]

First Look | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3

Source: Official clip - July 27 2024

[earfgoddesss]

he's doing his little thang! his little pose