#fascinated by the tidbits

[soratsuart]

My personal theory about To be hero X is that X is so powerful because he managed to do exactly what Lin Ling does in episode 4 but better: he has completely separated his hero persona from his civilian persona, not only in the eyes of people but in his own eyes too.

That's why no one can control him, not the hero agencies, not Queen's rules, not even the trust value, because he has mastered the ability to simply jump between personas as he likes, which is why nothing affects him. You can think whatever of X all you like, but we already saw with Lin Ling that belief won't affect someone if that someone doesn't "exist" at the moment. X can't be affected by belief when he fully believes to be his civilian persona.

I also think this is how he won against Queen as shown last episode and how this image of X being pretty much omnipotent was formed. If you can defeat someone who literally makes the rules of the world despite being a "nobody" then you must be able to control the world itself.

[kybelles]

from new artes, with love / day 6: pragma

enduring love: egeria of akielos

[russell-crowe]

rhod is so annoying (affectionately) because he hides interesting facts in his stories that he will just... never address again. "so when i worked in a sunglasses factory in australia..." im sorry you did what? "my parents used to drop me off in the south of france at a family whose mother was a nudist and that is why i dont like cheese and tomato sandwiches" SORRY? "i was an extra in a movie because i needed money when i came back from travelling for a few years" YEARS!?

[superfluffychickens]

The penalty for naughty roosters who try to jump the fence is that they have to take a mugshot with me! This time it’s Sascha, who was trying to run from Jack when he jumped on top of the run and then made me chase him all around the garage, all while screaming bloody murder. Roosters are so dramatic! Oh well, he’s grown into quite the handsome young man with mighty wattles, although he still has long spindly legs and big pretty brown eyes!

[echthr0s]

okay, Rogue Trader first impressions:

if you're going to have a morality system, my god, at least make it one that makes sense in the context of the universe it's in. Puritan/Heretic is way more interesting than the usual shit

music slaps. hard.

Idira's voice actor is my new fave (Idira herself is also my new fave)

so far, this game features everything I love best about CRPGs old and new, which flattens the shit out of the learning curve and lets me immerse myself in the world instantly

love the UI. zero complaints. very cool

live gameplay reactions: oh shit!!! what is happening!!!!!! omg! what the fuck is that!!! whoa THAT'S a Navigator??? hell yeah!!!! oh shit!!!!! did you see that???? (man, I love playing games for the first time.)

[bonefall]

that one on animals not being sorted into our human understanding of cladistics reminds of how animals were sorted in medieval times. my friend lended me a book on it but its been a hot minute since i read it but the categories were like, quadruped, bird, worm, and fish or something like that (bats were in birds, snakes in worms, etc)

Early England is an inspiration for a lot of Clan Culture! If you look closely, you can even see that the "core" of their philosophy is a soft manoralism and pre-Reformation flavor of early Christianity. I take inspiration from all parts of the Middle Ages since records are so scarce though, lmao

They used "Deer" for any wild quadruped, which over time came to just describe a hart as the favorite wild animal to hunt. Now "hart" has fallen out of use and we call them all deer!

So I do something similar in Clan cat categorization of animals. They see things totally differently than we do, so I try to sort animals based on what's most important to them, not us.

[felixravinstills]

😭

ask game

Thanks, anon! (I love how Felix is somehow not even mentioned in this snippet...)

It was not a moral question to her then. It’s ugly to watch and unbecoming of them to bet on. She’d never liked Festus’ hobby with the dogs. That was something she and Coriolanus had privately agreed on. And yet Festus had been the one to yell at her to feed her tribute. He’d been the one moved when he saw a poor man— boy starving. They’d been teenagers back then. All of them had been boys and girls. Heartless, he’d called her. Clemensia smiles. She grew a heart again, and tore it out all over again for the rebellion.

[high-voltage-rat]

Interesting tidbits I noted from my mechquest archiving today:

Braddock Steele is the last surviving member of an elite secret task force/mercenary group called the Star Strikers. They're stated to be from the planet Celestia, suggesting that's the planet he's from.

There's a model of self-healing mecha quite similar to the Valkyrie line that's developed by Quinn Labs. Given that this is Nurse Helia's last name, we can guess that she's either head of a lab that designs mecha technology on top of all her other duties, or, more probably, she's somehow related to the lab heads and that's the family business. She's even stated to have trained in healing for "humans, aliens and mecha"- and it seems training in "healing" mecha goes along well with the self-healing functions they're designed with.

It hasn't been that long since the last war- there were the Solar Wars of 2086.

Fossilized Dragon's Eyes are sometimes used to focus laser weapons.

Mysterious Johnson is considered a popular fashion guru. He's even designed a "sport-class" mecha, something that prioritizes looks... meaning the uniform he puts the player in during his questline wasn't even a case of obliviousness to it's ugliness. He just did it to us anyway.

Despite being the most laidback of the house leaders, Casca has probably the coldest response to being betrayed in the GEARS games- meanwhile, Jaania seems to be genuinely heartbroken by betrayal.

Magical sign language can be used to cast spells, even at the mecha level. There are apparently specific gestures known by vampire hunters that harm vampires.

Most Drakels have human-like hands and webbed flipper feet, but some have webbed hands as well. This is similar to the equins, some of whom appear to only have two fingers and a thumb, while most have four.

There's a cell, or cellular component, within the nervous system called a magi-fibre. Jaania lists it alongside "neurons" and "dendrites" when describing a visceral feeling. Presumably this is the portion of the nervous system responsible for channeling of mana and performing magic.

[toughpaperround]

Great insights into 'Some Like it Hot'

... and a century of LGBT history and entertainment history. It's setting off serious research binges here for me (never mind making me want to watch the film... Again!)

The video title focuses on Marilyn, but it actually covers a wide spectrum of the cast, crew and beyond. Fascinating as usual, thanks Matt Baume!

[seefasters]

captain's crush on havers in the ghosts book is so cute???-_;!+)

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

This book is a wild ride. One minute it's like OH OKAY SURE:

This disease [hysteria] is apt to produce a similar affection in other girls of the same age who see the attacks. For this reason, hysterical girls should not be sent to large schools, but cured at home. Often a strong mental impression restores them. The anecdote is told of a celebrated surgeon (Boerhaave) who was called to a female seminary where there was a number of hysterical girls. He summoned them together, heated a number of iron instruments before their eyes, and told them that the first one who had a fit should be cauterized down the spine. They all recovered immediately.

The next I'm like, this is actually very reasonable and kind carry on:

Especially at their commencement should the monthly changes be carefully watched. The mother should prepare her daughter's mind betimes for such an expected incident in her life, thus preventing a useless fright, or the employment of injurious means to stop what the child may look upon as an accident. Nor should the maternal care cease here. Such tender sympathy should exist on the one side, such trusting confidence on the other, that the mother should acquaint herself with every detail of each recurring period until the function is thoroughly established. She should inquire into the duration of each epoch, the abundance of the discharge, the presence of pain, and its effects on the general health. She should convince herself that all these do not vary from the standards of health we have previously laid down.

And then the next minute he launches into racial stereotypes. Because of course he does. Absolute roller-coaster of a text.

[jeonsupershy]

watching woozi's commentary live and learning little bts about his process was such a nice throwback. his passion and genuine desire to make music that translates into love and comfort for the members and people that he cherishes is so profound :((

[mugiwara-lucy]

So I’ve started Season 5 of the Drama Queens podcast and I’m at the part where Daphne Zuniga comes in and Daphne Zuniga plays Cuntoria, Brooke’s mom.

Now while I HATE Victoria, I absolutely LOVE Daphne Zuniga and she’s the sweetest; ESPECIALLY with Sophia Bush!

Fun fact; when she came on, ALL the girls were intimidated by her since she was in previous works like Melrose Place and Space Balls!

She thought she was gonna be a supportive, loving mother at first 😂 Poor woman 🤣

As a kid she also worked in a sandwich deli! Imagine VICTORIA DAVIS working in a deli 😂

And Mark Schwann’s lame bitch ass didn’t DARE fuck with her! Haha what a bitch 😈

Also apparently Torrey Devitto (Nanny Carrie) and Daphne were in a movie together where Daphne played Torrey’s mother YEARS before they came onto One Tree Hill!

Like….

🤯

Such a small world…

But ANYWAYS I could listen to Daphne Zuniga forever!!

[angstandhappiness]

INTERESTING 😂

Every time i’ve had to replant anything with serious roots and shake the dirt out i just can’t unsee the parallel

[krshush]

...tunnel in the sea of souls. Tunnel in the SEA of SOULS. OKAY.

[burningcomputerpersona]

you ever look at your wrist and realize you can see the skin above your blood vessels moving up and down in rhythm to your pulse