#incorrect dotae

[cumyongie]

Taeyong meeting Doyoung for the first time: Oh you have to meet Jaehyunnie he's my little baby he's so cute he'll be here soon I can't wait for you to meet him he's the sweetest-

Doyoung:

[lilyrennifer]

Taeyong: So, what's Doyoung’s type?

Jaehyun: Brown eyes, kind, oblivious, good sense of humor, dog lover. 🐶

Taeyong: Sounds kind of like me. 🤔 Too bad we're just friends.

Jaehyun: Did I mention oblivious?

Taeyong: Yeah, why? 🤨

Jaehyun: Okay, just making sure. 😑

[uncommonincorrectquotes]

A: I Still think it's your fault. B: why? A: just because A: otherwise A: it is my fault A: and I don't like that.

[blueishspace]

Hero, Villain God 72

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*Pearl's pov*

You end up leading Grian to one of the more secluded areas of the park, under a big willow tree. You might have the ability to hide whatever you say from others but it's always an extra risk.

Having this conversation right now is not what you wanted to do today, at the same time if you were to run from him Grian would never take you seriously again. Not that he does anyway.

"So...nice garden..."

You look back to him. Small talk? Really? At a time like this?

"It's city property, not mine. Appreciate the solarpunk aesthetic it has going on."

"I have no idea what that is."

"You wouldn't... Now mate, I thought you wanted an explanation."

"I do, you just went silent. Felt akward."

"Don't pretend you did it for my sake mate"

"Now, we both know I would never."

Right. Sure. You sigh, you aren't exactly ready for this conversation.

"As you know me Scott amd Cleo have been roomates for a while. You can probably guess that livong together Scott involved me in my fair share of his ...theories. And at least at first I helped him."

"At first?"

"I'm getting there, don't rush me."

"Ok ok, I'm sorry"

He better be but, knowing him, he really isn't.

"You aren't. Anyway, you know me Grian, you know me enough to tell that it didn't take long for us to find out the truth. At the time it was actually pretty hard to connect the dota since Sheriff was still mostly out of public eye but we still found enough."

Grian inclines his head, you have to look away from his eyes...they are unsettling like this... after a while.

"And it went wrong?"

"It wasn't immediate, just more theories but... He started to spiral."

"Betrayal?"

"It's not that easy, the Jimmy he was going to marry wouldn't leave and his sister was even less likely to. That's what he claimws at least. So if the govermnent could control them so easily, what else could it do? One thing Scott hates is not being in control."

"So you mind controlled him yourself? Wow, guess he wasn't paranoid enough."

"It wasn't just him completely, stuff happened, Scarlet took over for a while, then there was a whole thing with powdered snow-"

"-What-"

"Don't question it... It ended with Scott almost blowing himself up. So I purged their memories of the whole thing and made sure it wouldn't happen again. Scott finding out the truth was part of it, It was what started it in the first place, so I made sure it wouldn't happen again."

Grian claps his hands in a slow applause, you don't appreciate sarcasm.

"Trough mind control? I remember someone here saying something about not messing with their friends mind before."

This is totally different, doesn't he see that?

"It was an emergency...and It's like not even full mind control, just strong suggestion."

"Ah yes, completely different."

You can't deal with him like this, he's purposely trying to bait you at this point. That or he's extremely oblivious.

"It is. His choices are still his."

"Are they? If he makes them on incorrect knowledge?. . . Manipulated knowledge?"

He did not just say that.

"I wonder how many times i can tell him before it falls apart and he breaks."

Nevermind what he said earlier, what does he think he's accomplishing?

"I would love to see a repeat of that powdered snow thing you were talking about"

You grab him by the hem of his sweater before you can even think about it. It stings, you really thought he was starting to understand.

"You won't."

You continue to hold him up...he doesn't seem particularly bothered.

"Are you going to stop me if I try?"

This-

"I will not let you mess this up, you think that you are so powerful and all but I will stop you."

"... There's a reason you called the groupchat "winners" when nobody here won anything, there's a reason this select group of gods and mortals are so interconnected with eachother. There's a reason that BigB guy asked me about cookies. Why you called it powdered snow and not snow. You see it don't you?"

You harshly drop him onto the floor and step away, you told him what you needed to tell him anyway.

"I will stop you If I must".

His face shifts.

"Hypocrisy doesn't look good on you-"

You punch him in the face, It's very cathartic.

"Shut up."

"... Fine, I guess I was pushing a bit far"

"You were"

You turn to leave, to walk away from him but you feel a force stopping you.

"Wait-"

You turn towards him once more with a raised brow, what does he wants now? His expression is completely different now, almost thoughtful.

"What?"

"Are you ever going to let him know the truth?"

Ah. Well, you won't tell him everything but...

"I will. I just need to deal with some of the hero association's ...dealings first. I have a feeling he won't fall apart then."

You turn again and this time you walk away.

[phaeton-flier]

tagged by @sabakos

named after anyone? A passed-on family member, but only for the first letter

last time I cried? Some weeks ago, I think? I'm not sure what about, I suspect my medication makes it harder to cry

kids? I like the idea of them, but it would be a major change in my life and I might mess them up. Also I'm not entirely sure antinatalism is incorrect; there's a nonzero chance of making someone who would've preferred not existing in the first place. Does that outbalance everyone else?

sports? Did Taekwondo from 11-18, taught for the last 3 years of it. Only sport I ever really liked or excelled at.

sarcasm? occasionally

first thing I notice about something? What it ought to be used for?

eye color? Green

scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings, I'm a weenie in scary movies, unless the focus is on more abstract ideas or horrors I can enjoy.

talents? Good at math/games?

place of birth? Florida

hobbies? DOTA, learning makeup, dance, reading, math (not as much as I feel I should)

pets? None at the moment

height? 5'6"

favorite school subject? Math. I was good at it.

dream job? Chief Quant of tinkering with little research and models and everyone respects my knowledge

tagging @tommyssupercoolblog @self-loving-vampire @thirteen-jades @lumsel

[dianight]

It's very interesting to see others' perspectives when it comes to pvp, because my own "journey" has been pretty wild.

I used to play a lot of Quake live. For like ~5 years, during 2 of those 8+ hours almost everyday. School -> Quake -> sleep -> repeat 5 days a week, sometimes even on weekends. Eventually reduced the hours and the days; and the breaks where I would not play would get longer and longer. It happens.

Best way to put it, most players would embody might makes right. If player A is better than player B, player A is always right. Many times it was clear who was better, a few times there would be a 1v1 or perhaps a damage competition on team modes. There was a sort of hierarchy where pro players>>>>old q3 players>good players>everyone else.

Pure elitism, and I loved it. I was 15 (?) when I started playing, I got really really good and all these older dudes were impressed. Not like any big event changed how I thought, but over time I realized that way of measuring people is a bit fucked up. I enjoyed playing with many "lower skill" players not to stomp but because we got along. I actually tried to not be as much of an asshole as many others were. Banter and all that hypercompetitive attitude is way behind me now. What these days people call toxic, I suppose.

Later on I played starcraft 2. I had played brood war with my friends, I met a couple semi pros who were friends of a relative of a friend, they were way too good and we were kids who had no idea how to play anything other than big game hunters and turtle. Fun times.

When sc2 released, I played ladder very seriously (terran). Like watch replays and practice and test BOs and all that. My micro was terrible but I understood that what wins games is macro, so I abused mmm and learned how to play mid/late with mech. Learned a couple cheeses, tried a few ideas that were actually really good (blue flame hellion rush vZ was so cool) and played a lot.

The vibes of 1v1 in sc2 where way more honourable(?) compared to quake. GL&HF was literally automatic, to not type it meant that I was the worst kind of imbecile. Sure some people raged at me, but many others would GG into surrender or GG, compliment you and surrender. Very little hatemail, a lot of lovemail.

I was in university at the time, so way less time. After the diablo 3 fiasco, decided blizzard was done and there was no point in being so invested in sc2. Moved on, played other games, more multiplayer coop with friends. And dayz.

For years after I stopped playing dayz, I'd have dreams were it was a factor somehow. Maybe we were in cherno. Maybe there were firefights. Maybe zombies appear. Maybe just some running through woods. Maybe some walking through a road.

According to steam, I played dayz for ~240 hours. It feels like way more. Until then, no other game I'd played combined so many things. It was a survival game, a zombie game. But also a pvp game with other players. But sometimes you'd talk to people so no reason to fight. Also a base building game (with mods). A horror game too. A running simulator, as me and my friends put it.

I got many stories but that'd be too much of a tangent. Point being, I was used to pvp in a controlled enviroment. Maybe ffa, ctf or tdm, even duels in quake. Almost exclusively 1v1 on sc2. And then just open world pvp.

Thing is, I had played a few mmos before. Played metin2 with friends for a bit. Didn't like it much but it's the "playing with friends" part that matters. Tried wow for a bit. Didn't dislike it, but it was boring. The pvp part that I was promised was like, super bad. Back to the elitism of quake. Pve was somehow even worse.

This was around the time when mobas (I'll use this term, very incorrect) were getting massive. Tried dota2, was ok. Tried lol, it was like a kids version. Got a few friends to try dota with me. Good times.

It was around this time when I had some sort of epiphany. This was what "toxic" was. People raging, complaining, insulting each other. For no particular reason. It was somehow new to me. It's one thing to get antagonized because you beat someone in 1v1, or because they are upset you used some cheese, or because you were taunting them (guilty, I was young ok).

But this was a totally new level. I assume most people who've played these games understand.

This might seem exaggeration, or a straight up lie (I don't lie): in ~5000 hours over almost 10 years, I have only raged in 1 game of dota2. We were losing pretty badly and I kept doing my best, but my team could not follow up a single time. I was playing with a friend and I got very frustrated over voice call, but even then I would not think to shout at my teammates. A girl's gotta vent ok?

Anyways, things happen, and me and my friend stopped playing dota (nothing to do with that 1 game, just life). I stayed off pvp games completely, save for ds2/ds3 invasions. It's not pvp in my mind, more like trolling to have some laughs.

So once more, I love hearing/reading about other people's experiences because they are always so different. I find it really cool how others approach these things.

[welcometomymaddness]

helluva boss viewers, I’m curious, what’re your stances on “death of the author”? This is a debate concerning whether a piece of media’s creator’s intentions & understanding of the media is the correct reading of it or whether the creator’s reading is one of many, with no special “rightness” just because it’s the creator’s.

for example say there’s a story about trees. The author meant it as a anti-deforestation piece but certain language choices allow readers to see it as pro-deforestation. Are they incorrect? Is there a correct at all? That kinda thing.

[nyx-the-blazing-dragon]

So, I'm seeing some blatantly incorrect info on this post and while I don't think the people spreading it are doing so with malicious intent it's annoying me specifically enough to talk about some of it

Everything past the parenthesis in this reblog is incorrect. Valve did NOT hire Second Face Software (The dev team behind Revolution), nor did they have any hand in it's creation. This was 100% fanmade. This one rubs me the wrong way because it (again, likely unintentionally/accidentally) wrongfully assigns credit and. kind of downplays the amount of work these indie devs put into this thing? Valve hasn't done jack nor shit worth talking about with the Portal IP (or most of their IPs other than Counter-Strike, Dota or Half Life) for a WHILE now

While there are an abundance of Portal mods already out, the implication (at least, to my eye) that Revolution isn't worth talking about because of that is kind of funny to me, just a bit. Also, this is completely fucking pedantic but that '50 of them' figure, if we're talking purely mods that have received Steam releases, is way off

The second point is the worse one, to me at least. Strata Source, the fanmade engine branch that Revolution operates on, is not made with leaked code. It's made with OFFICIALLY LICENSED code. If it was made with leaked code, Valve would've likely canned the project in it's entirety long ago, and DEFINITELY would not have allowed the hosting of mods made with it on Steam.

Anyways that's my rant quota for the year lol sorry

*vibrates at a frequency to shatter glass*

[diorjeonghan]

[DoTae fighting]

Taeyong, yelling: a part of being a mature adult is listening to your hyung!!

Doyoung, yelling back: a part of being me is ignoring you and doing what I want!!

[cosmiclatte28]

convo

Doyoung: I’m so bored.

Taeyong: Ooh, why don’t we play question/answer?

Doyoung: What’s that?

Taeyong: A game I learned at camp. I ask you a question and you answer it and then you ask me a question and I answer it. And we just keep going.

Doyoung: That’s called a conversation.

[kazuha-pista-badam]

Taeyong: Doyoung! My face is on fire!

Doyoung: Taeyong! Are you ok?!

Taeyong: Oh yes, I'm fine. I just said that to make sure you'd come in here quickly.

Doyoung: But your face is on fire.

Taeyong: Yes. It's much faster than shaving.

[cumyongie]

Taeyong: Am I right?

Doyoung: I'm almost certain you're not, but to be fair, I wasn't really listening.

[enchantingearthquakecollectionus]

taeyong: what's your worst habit?

doyoung: i'm very vague.

taeyong: care to explain?

doyoung: no.

[talluvx]

Taeyong: How do I get rid of the bags under my eyes?

Doyoung: Have you considered getting a good night’s rest?

Taeyong: Unrealistic, blocked.

[0x1mina]

haechan : i think i just ended a four year relationship.

jeno : oh hyuck, i’m so sorry. are you okay?

haechan : hm? oh yeah i’m fine, it wasn’t my relationship.

[ taeyong and doyoung fighting across the room ]

[httpkiiimjw]

Doyoung: I'm way too hot right now. Why is the sun beating down on me like this?

Taeyong: Don't worry Doyoung! My love will protect you!

Doyoung: How the fuck is that going to help? That will make everything worse!

Jungwoo*jokingly*: Don't worry Doyoung! My love will protect you!

Doyoung: Thank you, I love you too!

Taeyong: ACCEPT MY LOVE.