#either the algorithm *knows*

[spitblaze]

>staff implements a non-optional algorithmic dash

>people find out very quickly the the algorithm isnt very good

>immediately people start gaming the system to make every post the 'rat rat rat' post

>website becomes functionally unusable

>staff takes down algorithmic dash and says it will return

>it never comes back

[asgardian--angels]

mage viktor discourse again on twitter and all i can say in my little corner over here once again is, I don't know why the entire fandom takes it as canon that mage Viktor failed to save every world he manipulated.

Canon does not provide evidence of this. This is fanon speculation. It's a fine headcanon to have, but everyone talks about it like it's canon when it isn't. Canon is ambiguous about the outcome of the timelines mage Viktor altered. The little nods we are given point, in my opinion, towards the opposite conclusion, that he successfully averted destruction.

I've written meta on this before but in summary:

1) 'In all timelines, in all possibilities' is worded precisely, it's not 'out of all timelines'; the implication is that every time, Jayce brings Viktor back from the brink, not just in our timeline. 'Only you' doesn't refer to our timeline's Jayce, it refers to all Jayces. Jayce always brings him home. If Viktor continuously put the fate of each timeline in Jayce's hands and Jayce failed over and over, I don't think he'd say those words. And the way he says them matters. His words are tinged with wonder, not sorrow. As if over and over again, he is shown that Jayce saves him, and it continues to amaze him. He doesn't sound defeated, like this is the next in a long line of Jayces he's sending off to die. The feeling is that Viktor's faith in Jayce has not been misplaced.

2) If mage Viktor doomed every timeline, there would be hundreds (or more) mage Viktors. All running around manipulating timelines. I highly doubt the writers wanted to get into that kind of sticky situation. The tragedy of mage Viktor is that he is singular. Alone. Burdened with the responsibility of the multiverse. The emotional gut punch of his fate is ruined if other timelines led to the same outcome, and from a practical standpoint, having multiple reality-bending omniscient mages would rip apart the fabric of the arcane.

There are other points, such as there being only one corrupted Mercury Hammer and our Jayce is the only one to receive it, and the fact that if mage Viktor is as omniscient as he is implied to be, he could easily step back into other timelines and correct course, because it's highly unlikely he could sit still and watch things go down in flames. But these things can be argued elsewhere.

While I love conversations about mage Viktor's motives and selfishness vs altruism, the writers & artbook have expressed that Jayce and Viktor care greatly about Runeterra and want to fix their mistakes to save it, and that their reconciliation is symbolic of Piltover and Zaun coming together as well. Yes, they make disastrous decisions towards each other, making choices for the other or without the other, which has negative consequences for their relationship and for Runeterra - but I think fandom pushes their selfishness even past what's canon sometimes, as if their entire goal hadn't always been to selflessly help the world around them. Their final reconciliation is about bridging the gap that grew between them - the pain and grief and secrets, betraying themselves and each other - to mutually choose each other openly and honestly. Part of the beauty of their story, as expressed by the creators, is that in their final moments, they chose each other and took responsibility for their actions by sacrificing themselves to end what they started, together - and that choosing each other saved the world. TPTB have stated this - that Jayce and Viktor are the glue holding civilization together, and when they come back to each other, they can restore balance. It's when they're apart, when they hurt each other and miscommunicate, when they abandon their commitment to each other and their dream, that the greater world suffers. Their strife is mirrored in the story-world at large.

Mage Viktor is framed as a solitary penitent figure, damned to an eternity of atoning for his mistakes. He paid the ultimate price and now is forced to live his personal nightmare of exactly what he was trying to avoid for himself with the glorious evolution. The narrative clues we're given point more in the direction that he saves timelines rather than dooms them. If Viktor's actions kept killing Jayce, the very boy he couldn't bear to not save each time, it would undermine these narrative choices. Yes, Viktor couldn't stand to live in a world where he never meets Jayce, so he ensures it keeps happening. But in that same breath, he couldn't bear to see a world where his actions continue to destroy Jayce and destroy Runeterra. His entire arc in s2 is born of his selfless desire to help humanity, help individual people. He would not lightly destroy entire worlds. That's his original grief multiplied a thousandfold, and narratively it would lessen the impact of the one, true loss he did suffer, his own Jayce. It wouldn't make sense for him to be alright with damning other timelines to suffer the same catastrophic tragedy that created him. I mean, maybe I'm delusional here, but is that not the entire point? Because that's what I took away when I watched the show.

As I said, I love discussions about mage Viktor, as there's a lot to play with. All I wish is that the fandom at large would not just assume or accept the Mage Viktor Dooms Every Timeline idea as canon, when there is nothing in the actual canon that confirms this. Maybe people need to just, go back and rewatch the actual episode, to recall how mage Viktor is presented to us, and what it's implied we're supposed to take away from his scenes, and separate that from the layers of headcanon the fandom has constructed.

[darkacademiaarchivist]

I've seen so many Instagram reels recently that boil down to "Well I'm one of the normal gays and not the they / thems" and it's so weird

Example (the audio in the background was the part of bad romance that's "I don't wanna be friends")

And the thing is, it's completely okay if you're just not vibing with someone on a personal level but WHY do people feel the need to post this kind of content... Because you don't even know them (if this even happened) and yeah. I get not wanting to be friends with random people if you know nothing about them but will it kill you to be nice. All the politics and pick me behaviour aside WILL IT KILL YOU TO BE NICE?!!!

i could articulate this further because there just are people you fundamentally don't vibe with but WHY BE A BITCH???

[sexyspacerobotclownlady]

This is the ONLY lyric that appears on screen in the entire visualiser, and I can’t help but feel like that timing was intentional.

This is the video: https://youtu.be/b92lXUi13bU?si=a7k9yAKjQC52-TBL

[bmpmp3]

everyone on earth probably has a hypothetical farming sim in their mind's eye that they daydream about on occasion because of the unfortunate situation that despite there being like a thousand farming games released every minute only like 4 of them are any good. and i think this is fun, i think its good to keep the imagination alive. if i made a farming sim i would bring back rival marriages from the old friends of mineral town. i want to steal someones wife.

[that-starlight-prince]

Well I've said it before but I'll really miss this if it goes away

[onboardsorasora]

Just saw some Marines outside doing something with new recruits and that of course lead me to think about an army bootcamp au

Now disclaimer. Don't come for me. IDK any of these titles. I stopped watching NCIS years ago. Do not take this seriously. This is crack treated like crack. But anyway

Daniel is like a higher ranking officer. He's in charge maybe of intake and like the first few weeks of boot camp. Max is a new recruit. Anyway so they fuck around and find out and have a situationship while boot camp progresses and Daniel is good at not giving Max preferencial treatment or picking on him too much.

Anyway. Max gets in and they're assigned to go to [insert base here] and through the homoeroticism of the military, they fall in love.

We're also suspending our disbelief cause they're openly gay/bi with no repercussions because this is my perfect world.

So they live together because it's economical. And Max is a pilot and Daniel works with the special weapons so they can like get assigned together. Because Christian loves them and he's like a lieutenant with the ear of the secretary general or something.

So some shit hits the fan in [warzone] and they're assigned to go there. Anyway this is waayyy more thought than intended to put into this wayward idea. So war things happen and maybe Max's plane goes down and he ejected into enemy territory and Daniel is like ‘i have to go get him’ and everyone is like ‘you're not built like that tho. You have like seen combat like this.’

And Daniel's like ‘for love, I'm built different.’ and then maybe like Valtteri and Fernando are like ‘kool I'm down let's blow shit up’

And they rescue Max and they're all badasses as they get back to base. And they live happily ever after

[thxrgism]

save me song with 20k spotify plays

[spaydekingcayde]

Tagalog has joined my list of fake languages owing to the fact that I saw a meme in Tagalog on Facebook and in my exhausted delirium thought that it was ai generated

[paintpaintpaintman]

Every day I'm like "I AM GOING TO MAKE SO MUCH AND POST SO MUCH ART SO I CAN GET BIG FOLLOWING!" and then shrimply don't

[segernatural]

two fears:

my mri says something

my mri says nothing

[thehealingsystem]

nate please please please please I am shaking you by the shoulders right now no one needs to do this please you can make a actual thought provoking interesting thumbnail for the song you don't need to appeal to clickbait algorithms anymore you're still letting yourself be bound to it people loved your early original songs for what they were without this. please stop doing this please stop changing thumbnails I am going to cry

[nebero]

So...we are all missing dnf today, right?

[yikesss]

why is no one talking about the alien thing..........

[sparkspropaganda]

I blocked an artist and I still have to see their OC everywhere regardless.... sad