#just a ton of examples

[w-a-r-r-i-o-r-s]

I understand for the sake of professionalism Falcon Developer (developer of Cattails, previously Falconstar, who also created Untold Tales) privated all of the Warriors videos off of his YouTube channel, but it really does sadden me.

He had three videos from 2019 about the *cancelled online Warriors game back in 2010-2013 and its development, and they're now considered lost media. If anyone has any information about the videos, or the forums (outside of the official one) he visited to get the screenshots of the game's concept art/information about the game itself, I'd appreciate it.

Evidence of the game and its beta testers can be found here.

And the videos can be seen in the "Popular Videos" tab at the bottom here.

*I say "cancelled," but I believe (if I'm remembering correctly, it's been 5 years) in the videos it's mentioned that the company making the game still had rights to it and couldn't give much information on it, implying that it was possibly a very early precursor to the official game on Roblox: Warrior Cats: Ultimate Edition.

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Something that really makes me feel insane about Ashton is the way a solid chunk of their arguments have always been that they’re Just A Guy. They’re nobody. They’re nothing. The gods never paid any attention to me, I don’t matter. I’m not special. And sure, with the information that was available early in the campaign, that was a reasonable conclusion for them to have drawn.

But now? When they know the powers that live inside them, powers that never have been combined before and likely never will be again? When several people have all independently pointed out how unprecedented their existence is? That basis for their argument loses all credibility. How many people on Exandria are walking around day to day with a fragment of a titan and a piece of the Luxon inside them? One. Ashton is a singularly unique being. “I’m nobody, I don’t matter,” bitch you’re the main character in a YA novel, calm down.

[sereg0re]

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[beauty-and-passion]

also yes i think you should talk about dipcifica i love the old man yaoi as much as the next guy but i also will always crave this kind of "coming of age" love story

Glad to comply! Here are my points about why Dipcifica is canon and endgame and everything:

1) Dipper and Pacifica are a walking "enemies to friends to lovers" trope. It literally started with Dipper saying to her face he doesn't like her, what's more clichè than that? When he said it, all I could hear was "We will definitely become a thing in the future".

And guess what? After a while, Dipper changed his mind: now he doesn't think Pacifica is the worst anymore. The next step is admitting she's great, asking her out and becoming a couple.

2) "Northwest Mansion Mystery" is basically a huge Dipcifica manifesto, thanks to the introduction of more tropes like:

the characters are put into nice suits

Pacifica fixes Dipper's clothes like a good wife

these two share an adventure together - which is universally something that would strengthen the bond between two people

their daring escape ends with a hug, given out of a sincere emotional reaction

the hug is followed by some cute awkwardness (especially from Pacifica's side)

Dipper and Pacifica share a heartfelt moment in which she reveals her insecurities, something we can be 99% sure she doesn't usually do. Also because... with whom can she share them? Her parents? Her supposed friends?

Dipper changes his mind about Pacifica after understanding her a bit more (which is always the interlude for the development of romantic feelings)

Pacifica finds the strength to do the right thing, only after Dipper sacrifices himself

the episode ends with them having fun together, laughing and enjoying their time. Also, it's implied they probably spent some time after the party to clean up the mess they made - so who knows? Maybe they shared some more time together and talked a lot more.

I mean... I've seen love stories start with less than that.

3) Dipper and Pacifica have another adventure together in Lost Legends. The formula is similar to Northwest Mansion Mystery: Pacifica has an issue (caused by her shitty parents), Dipper doesn't understand what her problem is, they share a heartfelt moment in which she reveals her weakness, Dipper tells all the right things, they hug, Pacifica does the right thing.

This is another way to reconfirm what the episode in the series already told us: these two have chemistry. They are meant to be. They are a walking enemies to friends to lovers trope - with a side dish of "slow burn" too. And we all love slow-burn stories <3

But this adventure shows us something else: how things have changed since Northwest Mansion Mystery and especially how Dipper's attitude has evolved towards Pacifica. In the episode, he is still very wary of her and makes it clear multiple times that he dislikes her.

Now he says this:

This is basically the Dipcifica equivalent of "I once considered him the center of my life, the sun in my galaxy", only with less toxic old men yaoi and more wholesomeness

it shows how Dipper's attitude is more mature

it implies he can and will develop romantic feelings for her. I mean, look at it: "I've noticed another side of you", "I see the real one and you're more than a pretty face"... gosh, if Pacifica hadn't fallen in love before, she definitely did after that.

it also shows Dipper's growth regarding women: my boy went from making huge, complex plans to talk to them, to lying to get random girls, to saying the truth in such a smooth way. He's great with girls when he doesn't try, he makes me so proud <3

4) Now I know what you think: great points, Bea, but does this couple have Mabel's approval stamp? Billford got it with Mabel calling Bill a clingy ex and telling him to get a crush on someone else's Grunkle. Does Dipcifica have Mabel's approval?

The answer is yes:

Do I have to say anything else? I think Mabel already said anything. Dipper and Pacifica are. A. Thing.

And yes, I know what you might say: they are kids! Sure they are, but that doesn't mean there can't be anything in the future. There is time for them to grow and for these feelings to develop. What we saw in the series and in Lost Legends are the crumbs, the foundation of something bigger that can evolve in the future.

And this is a great foundation because it's plausible and stable. Dipper and Pacifica's interactions never sound forced or out of character: on the contrary, they are built in a way that conciliates both personalities and justifies their changes and evolution.

If we can easily imagine a future for them, it's because their change is organic, it works in the long run - Pacifica can easily become better and better, while she works out her issue and shows the beautiful person she is. And Dipper can easily become more and more aware of what a great girl she is and start to develop deeper feelings for her. It's not impossible to imagine. It works.

And yes, this proves again how well Hirsch developed Gravity Falls and its characters, if we can easily imagine a future for them just out of a few, well-built interactions.

[catenary-chad]

Today on “your ship is actually VERY CANON irl”- Electric Coal (Electra/Porter)

Electric locos are ironically great as coal haulers, they’ve been used on heavy mineral trains since the early 1900s due to their power and being great at climbing hills (and capable of regenerating power going downhill).

For an early British example, the NER EF1

For an extreme example, the Virginian Railway was a notoriously wealthy, hilly coal-hauling route that bought some absurdly large electric locomotives for dragging 9000 ton coal trains through the Appalachians

There were also several coal power plants in the western US that used GE E60 locomotives to haul long, frequent coal trains until they shut down

And as a bonus, a underground mine trains (including coal mines) are usually electric, usually battery powered, due to the flammable conditions and smoke being a problem in enclosed spaces

[bisexualmikisayaka]

there are 100% blind spots in Andor (especially when it comes to race) that the writer’s room just kind of fails at but i think it’s possible that many of the difficulties with this episode (and more we may see in the future, i suspect) come with looming budgetary, timeline, and season constraints. like, gilroy mentioned that there were some monetary constraints and things had to be done cheaper by mid season, and you also have the fact that you now need to get four characters to a reasonable endpoint so that their appearances in future media seem like a logical progression, and also deal with everybody else in your fairly large ensemble cast in the meantime (huge issue with deciding to downsize from five seasons to two).

i think there’s a lot of reasons to critique things like cinta’s death or bix’s miraculous recovery - both of those seem like they should have been given much more weight and screen time rather than being shoehorned in for maximum Plot Twist Energy at the final moment. but there simply is none of that screen time to spare - we have to tie up luthen, kleya, perrin, leida, sculdun, lonnie, deedra, syril, wilmon, partagaz, vel and bix’s story in like six episodes. so like… yeah, of course all the characters are being thrown together in increasingly ridiculous ways, and the relationships that were painstakingly developed earlier are now getting speedrun. i don’t love it either - it leads to writing decisions that have problematic real world implications, as well as decreasing the overall quality of the show - but it at least makes some sort of sense why it’s happening.

[falmerbrook]

I think at least half of my criticisms of ESO’s writing are a result of the game’s attempt to have its cake (have a chronological sequence of events and storylines) and eat it too (make almost all storylines and quests be accessible in any order). Trying to do both at once has just led to them not doing either one very well imo.

They want to have overarching stories that develop over multiple expansions, but because they want players to be able to jump into any expansion in any order, each one's main storyline has to make sense and be somewhat disconnected from the other storylines from different expansions in the same overall arc. Any side quest that relates to the main storyline needs to be understandable without knowing anything about the main storyline. And this makes it feel like the writing is often held back and the dialogue doesn't reflect that I already know what's going on.

On the other hand, they also want any expansion accessible at any time. Overall I actually like that I can go to any zone whenever as long as I own them (I'm not locked out of them until I finish previous ones or something like that) and the difficulty is relatively the same, but from a story perspective it just leads to so much timeline fuckery and, like I said, it feels like it holds them back from having actually solid conflicts and character writing.

So far, of the 2 year-long arcs I've played (Elsweyr and Skyrim), in both the main story of the bigger chapter felt so much better paced, with more tightly woven and coherent narratives/characters, while the DLC felt like we were going on a long tangent in a new conflict that was superficially connected to the story from the chapter (and then a pretty satisfying epilogue tying them together, but I don't think that detracts from my point). At the same time, I'm not sure the DLC stories would've made a lot of sense to me if I hadn't already played through the chapter. They would've been so much better if they weren't stuck making the DLCs their own thing and just embraced having them be the second part of a larger story.

Hell, I know everyone loves the Daedric War arc, but I feel like it almost had the opposite issue, where the overarching narrative felt under-developed in Morrowind and Clockwork City until it was tied together in Summerset (even then, it just wasn't satisfying to me personally. That might just be because I'm not a fan of that story though).

idk if this makes a lot of sense because I'm not good at explaining my thoughts, but it's just an observation I've been having while playing.

[hollowflight-propaganda]

wof fandom when people enjoy fictional toxic relationships because they find them interesting:

[creaturetap]

read a review for arctic eggs (video game) that was like "at first, launching eggs into the stratosphere is funny, but it gets old after a while" which, first of all, is a hysterical thing to read about a game you haven't played and know almost nothing about yet. like what do you mean. you can do that.

anyway now that i have played the game a bit, yes that does happen, and no it has not got old yet.

[beesgav]

I love the way Ishinomori draws characters jumping in place it's incredibly charming

[babycharmander]

[ID: The "missing the point" meme. On the left is a screenshot from the end of Psychonauts 2, showing a closeup of Raz saying "Big deal. Everyone's got something like you." On the right is a person staring at the screenshot and saying, "WOW!! Raz can turn into Maligula!" An arrow pointing from the screenshot and over the person's head reads "Everyone has the capacity to commit atrocities." /end ID]

[wildsaltair]

Ranting in the tags isn’t enough so I’m going to say one more time that just because Maximus isn’t morally gray doesn’t mean he isn’t complex

[variksel]

i dont care for ethan klein nor do i care about the drama going on with him and hasan and idubbz or whatever But . what a cunt ian is for doing creator clash that dirty. starts to feel interesting for me personally when someone that i actually like, like freddie wong, is dragged into it

speaking of, fucking insane props to freddie for having the balls to send a message like that to ian and his gf. and for it being so well-articulated

but i hope hes doing ok, not fun that something like this happened to cc when hes probably got a lot on stake ,, and then, having his messages be leaked like that??? :( really shitty!! though its important to know that idubbz lied about having told the fighters, its probably awful to wish to stay out of a dumbass drama like this and then have his messages be leaked

[fluffyfairyzz]

happy pride month!

heres some screenshots of adopt me being more supportive than a lot of big companies

[doroken]

jon arbuckle is a menace to society

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