#Use technology to help

[defensive-tactics]

Vacation Safety... use technology to help you

[girls--complex]

I think reincarnation is real and people can be reborn as a dragon, but no one has been good enough of a person in hundreds of years, which is why there’s no dragons anymore

This is true but change is coming

[sea-buns]

captioners you are so valid

[twistedwonderlandobsession]

3:46Pm

Malleus: How to cook?

Malleus: Teach me how to cook

Malleus: How to not set food on fire?

Malleus: What good Dinner?

Malleus: How to cook good dinner

Malleus: How to tell when chicken is cooked?

4:15Pm

Yuu: Malleus I am not Google

Malleus: Oh....

Malleus:....

Malleus: Who is google?

Malleus: How to get onto Google?

Malleus: Where is Google?

[smithsibsceo]

zane and kai bonded in the early seasons by discovering new music together. both didnt really have a great access to it growing up (there was an only an old radio or maybe a scratchy vinyl player in ignacia's library and zane's village had no electricity) so they mainly grew up hearing their respective villages' traditional live music. Hearing those 'end-of-2012-mashup' compilations changed both of their lives

[white-hole-station]

[Headcanon]

The space program took a whole month off of development after Tektite's accident, so that Slate could have the time to perfect their leg. They'd already been working on articulated flaps for in-atmosphere steering for Feldspar's ship - conserves fuel to not use jets for that - and hey, an artificial ankle is just another type of flap to articulate, right?

Gossan wasn't so sure - especially with Slate's full-tilt approach to experimental engineering, at odds with Tektite's trepidation - but all of the founders agreed that the program could wait until their neighbour was back on their feet. And to Slate's credit, Gossan had never seen them show as much sheer methodical focus, before or since. This was somebody's limb here, after all: their ability to move of their own accord, their ability to get out and about in the community and do the things they love, their ability to still feel like their body is their own. Slate was hardly about to phone it in, or risk any wild experiments when it came to Tektite's comfort and requirements.

It took several iterations, and several difficult test walks around the town square gripping Slate's arm, but together the pair of them worked out a final model that's been serving Tektite well to this day.

(...Of course, the dedication and focus that so pleasantly surprised Gossan only made Slate's awkward avoidance of them after their own accident sting even more. Was it really that hard on their poor guilty conscience, to think about doing something similar for a friend, instead of darting their gaze away just short of Gossan's face?)

[mrmanbat]

Brother- I keep on seeing people who think Jason can’t use technology bc he died.

Bro was trained by Batman and is a current vigilante?? He definitely has a better understanding of engineering and technology than most average people.

What I can see is him having no clue what’s going on on social media. Bro doesn’t have the free time and the gap he has in current events is def discouraging him.

Jason has the MySpace account he created pre-crowbar and he still thinks vine exists.

[cameoliob]

Does Eriss have any hobbies outside of sports? Or a favorite subject in school?

OMG HIII THANK YOU FOR ASKINNNGGG I love having an excuse to yap about her omg

So hobby-wise, i really cannot stress how much this girl loves grav ball. I mean it's unnatural. Like Kallus and Zeb have TRIEDDD to get her into other things but she simply yearns for the court

To be fair, though, sports don't take up ALL of her time, and in the handful of hours a week she'll get to herself, she's probably just curling up in bed and reading a book or something (if you're wondering, she prefers thriller novels) In her teens onwards she's not really an extrovert by any means; she does have friends, of course, but you won't be seeing her at any social hours by any means.

Now, I can very easily imagine that Kallus and Zeb would want to instill a love for education in their kid, right? Teach them how to ask questions and find answers based in fact so that they dont make bad, ill infomed descisions that they'll have to reap the consequences of later in life? (cough cough, Kallus, cough cough). Eriss was a pretty naturally inquisitive kid, and I couldn't imagine a world where they wouldn't foster that?

So basically she's an academic fucking weapon if there ever was one. I mean, she's a competitive workaholic (hmmmm I wonder who she got that from hmmmm) who genuinely enjoys school (which, tbh, is a little bit terrifying but i made her like that so ig i cant really nitpick) so it's really a no brainer that she's an academic force of fucking nature

My girl graduates college as the Salutatorian from her graduating class with a bachelors in science for chemical engineering (RAHHHH WOMEN IN STEM RAHHHHH) (and Kallus and Zeb are obviously the proudest parents in the whole galaxy, ofc)

TLDR: Eriss Kallus-Orrelios is a woman in stem who likes grav-ball and thriller novels

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[brekitten]

The Therapist

There's a new therapist at school.

Normally this wouldn't really bother Peter at all, since he's never gone to see a shrink in his life and doesn't ever plan on it, but there's something... off about this woman.

She seems unassuming enough at first glance. Red hair, green eyes, bright red lipstick. But there is something in her eyes, something that Peter can only describe as a predator looking at its next prey, when she looks around the school at all of the teenagers milling about. Heck, even the way she walks makes her seem as if she is a predator stalking her prey.

It could always be some kind of power move, Peter reasons. He's met people like that before, who try to intimidate everyone around them into thinking that they are superior, that they are the apex predator and anyone who dares to cross them would pay for it dearly.

But his Spidey Sense went crazy around her.

He tries to brush it off as paranoia. He'd pulled an all-nighter last night in the lab with Tony because neither of them had been able to sleep, and he hadn't been sleeping well even before that. (Funny, how it had all started the night after he first bumped into the new therapist in the halls.) So his Spidey Sense is probably out of wack because he's tired. Simple as that.

But it seems like everyone in the school is depressed. Even Ned, who can't even muster up the energy and enthusiasm to talk about Legos or Star Wars or even the weather. It worries Peter.

Because it all started when that therapist came to the school.

He can't ignore it forever, he knows that. There is only so long his Spidey Sense can tell him that she is danger danger danger before he finally listens. He has to do something to help everyone.

So he researches.

And he falls into the rabbit hole of ghosts and ectoplasm and secret government organizations and the little, unassuming town of Amity Park, Illinois.

He doesn't sleep that night.

When he comes to school the next morning, Dr. Penelope Spectra looks him dead in the eyes, and smiles.

[kissmefriendly]

Hey… not to show my history nerdiness on side but… in the Victoriocity universe. What kind of technology would Franklin’s 1845 Expedition have had?? Because irl Erebus and Terror didn’t have marine engines. THEY DID NOT HAVE MARINE ENGINES THE ADMIRALTY LITERALLY JUST STUCK SOME LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON THOSE THINGS. The fact they DIDNT blow up before getting stuck in ice is a miracle!

So. Would they still have used train engines for the expedition?? Or would they have had some new technology that was never tested and really fucked up? It wouldn’t change history or anything but, you know, what was happening in Even Greater London?? Personally I think it would have been some new invention or improvement that would have been equally awful but more insane.

[seaglassmelody]

Here's another Veilguard Critique:

I wish there were more opportunities for approval/disapproval, but not in the sense of like "I want to be rude to my companions!"

I like approval/disapproval systems in the sense that they're an additional level of character-building. I think this is something BG3 did very well- small actions, dialogue options, and ways you interact with the world (even when not plot-relevant) trigger minor amounts of approval/disapproval, which very much informed you of the type of people your companions are and what they value.

It doesn't always land- for example, in DAO, Morrigan disapproves if you reject the Tevinter magister's deal to use blood magic to empower you at the cost of the elven slaves he's captured. When you're playing a Tabris Warden, that disapproval strikes a very odd chord because it makes it feel like Morrigan is disapproving of you literally saving your friends, neighbors and FATHER over empowering yourself. Given her line of dialogue beforehand, it's clear she thinks it's interesting from a magical perspective and we know blood magic isn't like. Inherently evil? But the disapproval still feels extra off-putting in that situation.

That's one of the approve/disapprove system shortcomings- it can't always take into account the nuances of player character decisions/backstory and how each player roleplays their MC. This is one of the reasons I think BG3 manages ok- the MASSIVE amount of choices gives it many opportunities to come up, which I think allows for more space for nuance because of the sheer variety of things people are reacting to.

And this is something that I wish Veilguard had a little more of. Not in the same sense as BG3- I don't need my companions having an opinion on every minor decision I make ALL the time or anything- but like. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that's a major chance for companion disapproval is how you decide to deal with the First Warden. I've run into a few small dialogue options that trigger disapproval (one where you joke about Lucanis during the funeral arrangements with Teia, and one in the Taash-Emmrich squabble) but otherwise there's not a lot in there.

I get why the game is the way that it is- it's a hard line to walk with "are there consequences for too much disapproval" and "we need all of the companions to trust Rook as a leader in order for the story to work" and I think they did the best that they could.

It's not a "the game is overly positive" problem for me so much as it is I wish we got a little more insight into what the companions like and dislike with it. It's an extra dimension of character building that I'm not sure the game utilized to its fullest.

[sapphire-to-the-rain]

i can’t breathe

[thatneoncrisis]

really not loving the way intellectually and physically disabled people keep being used as shields against criticism of the way in which companies implement incomplete and dishonest ai

[bmpmp3]

Eleanor Forte Standard Lite Plus.

[sp4ceboo]

hey so i did another thing