#and dissonant

[pixelbumblebee]

I wish I could send some non-typewritten love letters to the music/sound effect department that worked on dead boy detectives. So many of the sudden tonal shifts are carried by carefully placed soundtrack behind the dialogue, without which I don't think they would work as exceptionally as they do.

[abyssaldyke]

It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

[prokopetz]

I love it when farm animals in strategy games have their own little pockets of visibility in the fog of war, because the fog of war is ostensibly a visual abstraction of military intelligence-gathering, which implies that the goat is submitting intel reports.

[ricecakesarentcakes]

it’s actually so fucking insane to me that leftists can hold the belief that white people, due to their socialization in a racist society, are all inherently racist to some degree and need to constantly be checking themselves and doing work to be actively anti-racist.

but those same people would be sending rape and death threats if I said that male people, due to their socialization in a misogynistic society, are all inherently misogynistic to some degree and need to constantly be checking themselves and doing work to be actively feminist, even if they identify as women.

[devilrose]

My piece for @castlevaniaszn - It had to be Harmony of Dissonance for me.

While the short and cold days are still not quite over, take a moment to enjoy a tea break with Juste, Maxim, and Lydie. And as long as the tea is still warm, let's not think too much about what transpired in Dracula's castle...

[aingeal98]

Young Cass adjusting to life with a warm bed and food whenever she wants it after years of uncertainty on the street. Bruce catches her hiding peanut butter and crackers behind a cupboard in the cave and he has to take ten minutes to stare into space because he once caught Jason trying to hide food in that exact same space.

[thethunderthedragonfruit]

really amusing phenomenon i've noticed

[evercelle]

breaking the sky sword.... beauty!!

[valtsv]

i'm a disgusting little centrist when it comes to the was shrue's family real or fake question because to me that matters much less than the way it illustrates the experience of paranoid stress psychosis. like i never want a definitive answer because it just doesn't really matter. do you understand me. like. either way, they experienced that loss and heartbreak. they were confronted with an unflattering portrait of themself as a destructive absence in other people's lives, sacrificing human connection for sociopolitical status. they were exploited and had their mind fucked with and were made vulnerable to manipulation. answering that question makes no difference to the fact that what they experienced was real and horrifying to them. they were vulnerable and someone noticed and took advantage. there is no absolution nor satisfaction to be found in certainty, only further pain and regret. the end outcome is the same.

[takemetodragonstone]

imagine saying this to a nonbinary person and thinking you’re “checking their privilege”

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I genuinely think that any change in behavior starts w telling yourself that your worst days, worst performances, just worst moments in general aren’t who you “truly are.” It’s all about unlearning any thought process that essentially chalks up traits you aren’t proud of to “this is who I really am” “in reality I’m lazy” “in reality I’m just a bad person” bc not only is that never true, but it impedes your efforts to try to do better as well. Anything we struggle with has roots in things like childhood trauma, thoughts you’ve been fed before, your upbringing…. but never that you’re inherently a bad person. What I’m learning this year is that a lot of us doing better & being better & improving really comes down to self-talk—to disavowing the very notion that deep down we’re simply bad.

[inksandpensblog]

The dissonance between Sebastian's narrative role in Pressure's lore and his functional role in Pressure's gameplay mechanics is so compelling to me. He unleashed all the monsters before you got there. He gives you tutorials on how to evade the monsters you've died to. He boasts about massacring the people who sent you and vows to kill more of them. He only attacks you if provoked. He's central to the main expedition's story. His story is a footnote in the main expedition's gameplay progression. He's on the thumbnail, twice. You can technically beat the game without ever meeting him. You're here because of him. Your assignment has nothing to do with him. He needs you to fail. He lets you try again. Everything that hinders your progress can be traced back to him, however indirectly. His involvement in your experience is notably disconnected from the rest of it. He's supposed to be killed on sight. He's not a boss encounter. He's doomed if you beat the game. His encounters all serve to help you beat the game. He's our antagonist. He's just a shopkeep.

[nemfrog]

Apple blossoms. At the dawn the age of chemical insecticides, a photo of pretty flowers accompanies an ad promoting their use . 1941.

Science History Institute

[periwinkla]

Were your hands... always so gentle?

[charseraph]

Gangle and Charsoft paramilitary seedlet.

[diphowell]

So are you saying that the audience gave us a more comfy place to come out?