#big city small world

[dilanensemble]

Stay tuned for today's CBC radio's Big City Small World show, it's on air at 5:05 PM.👇🏿👇🏿

Erroll Nazareth will play my piece "Viyan" from My Sunset-Land Rojava album to mention the upcoming Fundraiser on Tuesday, October 24.

[dearduende]

I see you

at a ramen spot

I’m with my family

and you’re with friends

and I see you

but do you see me

seeing your broad back

and your beanie across the room

I blush and freeze and look away

and do you look back

or do you also turn away

peeking over your shoulder

at my table across this space

two planets in orbit

crossing paths in this

tiny universe of a big city

near colliding but only in passing

the gravitational pull cooled

but still so strong up close.

I want to walk up

and say: excuse me,

you dropped something.

only to see your stomach drop

and your jaw drop

and to feel your eyes

fall on my body again

hold me in the heat of your stare

your breath on my neck

your hands in my hair

feel you moan in my ear.

but eclipse season has passed

and we’re just missing each other

again, passing in the street,

on a bus or a train,

on social media at odd hours,

on my brain just when I thought

I’d moved on and yet

here you are again.

[canonicallyanxious]

i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????

[toonsforkicks22]

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[fizzytoo]

i miss the snow. i miss laying in the snow and listening to the snowflakes softly hit the ground. i miss when the sun is just coming up and watching the snow fall in the light of the street lamps. i miss when it’s too cold to go outside and the whole world feels quiet

[delta-hexagon]

GOOGLE MAPS BLURRED THE FACE ON THE ICECREAM BOY STATUE IN MY CITY I CANT HANDLE THIS

[pepprs]

no because this is fucking CRAZY for me. and connects exactly to the post i was going to make after i finished cleaning the kitchen which im making rn instead lol. it’s CRAZY how much having things to look forward to like traveling and seeing a musical like.. make me happy. how much listening to my favorite songs matters for my sense of self. how i still know the words no matter how long it’s been since i last heard them. it’s CRAZY. i have been swallowed by depression and stasis for so fucking long and have forgotten so much of myself and experience every day as scraping by and being miserable but even the smallest little joys have the power to bring me back. buying golden oreos at the campus food store. doodling a cat when i want to doodle a cat. taking a walk outside even when there’s work to do. it’s CRAZY!!!!!!!! i heal myself by indulging myself. maybe there is hope for me.

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

effie fired :(

BUT SHES HIRED BY ANOTHER COMPANY AND STARTS HER OWN BRANCH IN TORONTO <333333333333333333333

[sagaschan]

If I were to add on to that rant a little more

[dailyeca]

why dont u like cars eca

what's there to like about em.

[erigold13261]

NSR canon lore ask! Why do you think citizens of Vinyl City seem to be not too interested in the revolution or politics in general? We don’t get people who are scared of B2J or NSR except Mia, and although we do have the city all messed up due to hooligans in the last act, there doesn’t seem to be anything else going on. Maybe we aren’t getting the whole picture… hmmmmmmm

Pretty sure we do get graffitti and NPCs talking about the revolution around beating Sayu or Yinu, not just right at the end, but I may be wrong on that!

We definitely have media coverage because of Tataiana's speeches, Zam's radio, and the Newscaster. So people ARE obviously interested in the revolution itself. Enough that there are people calling into a new radio show that doesn't have a big following just to get to talk to B2J.

But to answer your question a bit more. It is because we only see a part of the city.

Vinyl City is HUGE. It has to be. It is the music capital of the WORLD and hosts 5 MEGASTARS that provide a lot of power (like NSR is a power company, they have to be at least providing to other cities/towns nearby, not just the main city itself). So you have to keep that in mind when looking at the surrounding of the game.

We only get to see small parts of the city. Little pockets that are HIGHLY pro-edm as they take place right outside the megastars' venues/galleries/homes. So of course it will either be harder to vandalize those areas (or for them to STAY vandalized as they would quickly get cleaned) or people are too scared to show support for rock in those areas.

If you just look at Dream Fever, and I think Metro Division, you can see that there is a LOT of space under the floor/stairs. Vinyl City is not just a flat city, but it has layers above and below it. It has it's own flying cars and multiple highways (for regular and flying cars). It has houses and businesses on all different height levels. So really are just seeing a FRACTION of the city itself.

Because of this, and the fact that we are in very pro-edm areas, of course people are not talking about the revolution much. They trust Tatiana and NSR. There's no reason to give attention to something that will be over quickly. Or at least that is what many people thought.

Of course once it looks like NSR is going to fall that rock-supporters are going to come out en masse and start messing up the place with a lot more freedom. They have nothing to fear anymore. People who are pro-edm aren't going to SAY they are pro-edm a lot of the time. Not when the face of the Rock Revolution are beating the shit out of kid's pianos and war veterans.

I'm not surprised a lot of people aren't talking about the revolution. You are playing as Mayday and Zuke. The people CAUSING the revolution. Unless you support the Rock Revolution you aren't really going to be calling those two out, especially when they always have their weapons on them.

Though I do guess we should have more Mias in the game then, more fearful people. But that might be because these people are starting to see the flaws of NSR. They can still like EDM but not like NSR. So they support B2J as they fight but not enough to jump ship from EDM to Rock, which is what most would feel they would have to do to support B2J.

It's a very tricky situation given the NPCs we have. They almost all seem to love NSR/EDM, but also don't talk about the politics much. This could also be the fact that society in Vinyl City just doesn't talk about politics in public. There are many countries/societies that try to keep those things out of the common public. You talk with your friends about that stuff, not two randos who happily chat with you for for like 20 minutes (and even if you did know B2J, again, why would you tell the face of the Rock Revolution that you don't support them?).

Because we do get NPCs that do support B2J, like Yiruk and Gigi, and others who oppose them openly like Mia (and kinda Zed and Kayane?). But the one that does fully tell them to basically fuck off is absolutely afraid of B2J. Mia is part of NSR, and B2J have no problem going after NSR people. At least that is probably what is being said internally to keep direct employees in line.

Even the people who do support B2J don't seem to be super actively supporting them. They aren't sending in advice or giving them an actual helping hand, not like Kliff is (but we know he has ulterior motives). So they are just as inactive as the anti-rockers who do nothing to actually stop B2J.

Um, I am losing my train of thought and can't remember what else I was going to say about the support vs. the opposition of NPCs.

Anyway, I do think we aren't getting the whole picture. But that is BECAUSE we are playing as B2J, we don't see the whole city, politics are probably not discussed with strangers, and most of the areas we do visit are very pro-edm leading many anti-edm/pro-rock people to stay away from those areas.

I'm sure if we could play the game from an NPCs perspective, or get more interactions from them when not being May or Zuke, we could get more information out of them and see what they truly think of the Revolution. But that is just not something that can happen right now.

Like Tatiana even states that people/B2J are trying to pressure her to step down. She says how B2J have influenced the votes/people. So obviously there are things going on behind the scenes/outside the scope of the game play.

But it is all implied because having the game tell us AND show us this is just bad game design. You want to usually do one or the other, not both. It allows for more nuance and cleaner message to get across without a bunch of fluff/filler (not that filler is bad, especially in a story based game, but too much of it can hinder game play/storytelling).

So just from a game design point of view, not showing every single person who adamantly supports or opposes the revolution is a good thing. I do think we could have gotten a few more of them, but having Mia and Kliff as the extremes of both ends is good enough. It's better than repeatedly beating the message over the audiences' heads I guess.

Basically, just believe the game when they say there are supporters/opposers to the revolution. You can't always go into super precise details, so taking the word of the game is usually good enough. (Not using this as an excuse for stories that have massive plot holes or bad story writing, but not being able to show every tiny detail when a lot of it is implied or even explicitly SAID is fine to just take the word of the game on this matter).

[first-full-moon]

as a quasi-country girl, I can always tell when a city person is trying to write about being lost in the woods/far away from civilization because they'll write things like, "the house was at least two miles away from anything else."

and im here like . . . . in farming communities you'll be TEN miles away from the next house, easily. I'm not even going to get into getting lost in the woods.

[mycological-mariner]

Pros of trying to get a job in a small town: establishments will literally just print out “HELP WANTED. INQUIRE INSIDE (or leave number at bar)” and tape it to the front window and you just can.

Cons of getting a job in a small town:

If you don’t get the job, literally everyone will know and you can never go to that bar again

[mishkakagehishka]

i find it interesting that you'd live in the midwest, actually! you'd be so far from the sea... what makes that area appealing to you? (genuine curiosity btw)

I was thinking about somewhere way up northwest (bc california seems scary and southeast seems scary too), and i did think about "oh i'd be so far from the sea,,," but you know,,,

What appeals to me is the idea of "plains" tho, i don't think i've ever seen proper plains. I grew up around a mountainous region, myself, and i wanna see what small towns in the plains are like. + i hear there's proper snow in the midwest :]

[oatbugs]

we feel too big for our own good

[ranger-kellyn]

one of these days i'll write a fic that REALLY goes into all my little headcanons surrounding pokemon battles in the city and other little worldbuilding ideas i have but never really have the time to go into