#lets discuss

[stevenrogered]

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[antigrav-boy]

I want to hear theories as to WHY Boimler dyes his hair purple

Is it so he can stand out?

Is it to hide something about his lineage?

Does he just like purple hair?

Was that log entry a cover-up, and he doesn't actually dye it at all?

Is he modelling himself after someone else?

[ceidy-ofthefatui]

please stop hating on Aidlyn

before I continue, I am not speaking on behalf of all Aidlyn shippers, because, like everywhere, there are surely toxic Aidlyn shippers, and I apologise for them.

starting off, since I’ve joined tumblr and Pinterest,

(I’m @SunnysBF on pin btw)

I’ve noticed that ships in the fandom, have evolved, with ships like Taylyn, Tyden, and Ashler growing more popular.

but of course, like more things, this leads to shipping wars.

and since, matter of factly, Aidlyn is the most likely to be canon, from their chemistry in the comic, to posts by the author, it has lead to it being very attacked by other ships.

I’ve seen several occurrences of people calling it “manipulation” and “Stockholm syndrome”, when in actually, if you put in the effort to research this, it is absolutely not, and can be seen as harmful to actual cases of Stockholm syndrome.

Aiden and Ashlyns relationship was never going to start off 100% healthy, a which adds depth to it, without it being seen as toxic.

someone in a post of mine on Pinterest, which I have now deleted, had several death threats and KYS’s sent in reply to their comment, which is truely unfortunate.

I am fine with Shipping other ships, but calling me homophobic for not shipping them is to far, I am a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and it hurts to see people accusing me of being terrible things simply because I like a straight ship more then a gay one.

it must also be noted, that while all safe ships are valid (safe - non incestual, non toxic, non predatory ships) if the only way you can validate your ships is by slandering others, then i have to have some problems with you.

come on guys, remember when SBG was a small, tight nit community, where we’d all stand up for each other..? Let’s bring that back, please, let’s not make SBG a vile community.

thank you for reading, if you made it here? What’s some of your favorite WEBTOON apart from SBG??

[hashtagloveloses]

the fucked up thing about every corporation's executives being like "we are going to use AI and other new technologies to replace you it's inevitable sorry" is that

1) usually experts in AI and these new technologies will tell you that it CANT replace every worker and has its own challenges and requires new and different kinds of workers to make it functional and

2) it is not the fucking technology putting people out of work or ruining how the system functions. it is PEOPLE (executives) making CHOICES to make it that way, and blaming the TECHNOLOGY. moving to adopt new technology in sustainable and realistic ways requires, money, time, and long term investment, which executives just trying to show exponential growth to wall street at the next shareholder meeting for a few years before they take a nice severance package and hop to the next company or retire, don't give a shit enough to do. they see a new toy, a new bauble, that some silicon valley idiot tells them will reduce costs and increase output, they sell the lie to their shareholders, they rinse and repeat. it is CHOICES. BY PEOPLE. NOT THE TECHNOLOGY. it never has been in the history of human innovation.

[dr-spectre]

Hey gamers, I wanna ask y'all a question.

You know how people tend to say that "Splatoon needs to evolve, the games are very similar to each other. They need to go beyond. They need to do something dramatically different. Otherwise, things will go stale."

While I agree with this, i wanna ask you all,

How would you evolve Splatoon? How would you make a hypothetical Splatoon 4 dramatically different from the previous Splatoon games?

[platoniclace]

I haven't really seen anyone talk about this, which could simply mean I'm not chronically online enough, BUT let's point out a particularly chilling parallel I recently noticed in Epic: The Musical.

So, in the Circe Saga, we open up with the lovely song Puppeteer. We've talked about it, we've fawned over it, we all know every word to this song, I'm sure. But as I was listening to it last night (woohoo, statistics homework), a few lines stuck out to me that hadn't really before. Eurylochus is trying to convince Odysseus to just pack up and leave, and Ody replies with,

"Of course I'd like to leave now. Of course I'd like to run. But I can hardly sleep now, knowing everything we've done."

Which, you know, makes sense. Our guys have been at war for 10 whole years, at the conclusion of which our boy Ody drops an infant off a wall. But then, much later, comes 600 Strike (another banger of a song). And what is the exchange at the end of this song?

"After everything you've done, how will you sleep at night?"

"Next to my wife."

Like.

Bro.

That line went hard regardless of literally anything else when I first listened to the song, but now taking in the greater context of the whole musical? The fact that Odysseus himself at one point spoke of how he could hardly sleep because of his actions?? And is now so far off the deep end that it doesn't even cross his mind anymore???

I just about lost my ever-loving MIND last night when it all hit me. Anyways, here's my small contribution to the fandom.

[rueclfer]

rivaling film student character and y/n.....partnered together to make a scrappy avant garde short film.....hanging out outside of class much more than they'd like....always arguing about the artistic vision.....they secretly get tons of footage of one another behind the scenes.....the film slowly loses its original concept......turns into a process montage of them falling in love with each other through the lens.....

[wisteriahyacinth]

Alright, as superman is my new current obsession, i wanna hear people explain the purpose of his underwear outside of the pants. I remember hearing somebody say that they were to make him look silly, show that he's not a threat because in essence that is what and who he is. He fights but he'd much rather help villains if he could. I just kinda wanna start a discussion

[flowerhays]

FIRST GRAIN COOKIE?!

I knew as soon as I saw this new trailer I had to create a post about this, Her past seems to be that she wanted to prevent people from starving but some decided that they would hoard the food she graciously grew and harvested for themselves. I like this backstory, it seems rather interesting! And shows her good nature. Since The Witch Of Light says "A heavy burden For Someone So Young." Is First Grain Cookie the youngest of the 13 witches? I love that the kept elements of her beta design but added stuff too! I love that hat that looks like pieces of corn husk, that was clever.

I'll definitely be drawing her at some point soon, her design is so cute that I practically HAVE to!

[your-worst-boy]

Yall need to look at this article lol...

Me and my partner were losing our minds over how this article was written about fake news as it regards to democrats vs republicans. who shares it more, who has a harder time telling the difference & discerning what's true, etc.

I feel like most of us know the "fake news" MAJORITY is coming from conservatives. But somehow, this article was reporting republicans as having "higher cognitive efficiency than democrats"? Even though BY THEIR OWN REPORTS, democrats were more accurate in determining real from fake news.

In discussion we wondered why they'd use the measurement of "metacognitive efficiency" when really what they're looking for should be their accuracy?

Because what they found was REPUBLICANS KNOW THEYRE WORSE AT IT. They admit that through the prior assessments lol. They say oh no, I know I can't tell the difference & favor republican headlines.

And because of that they were rated with a higher metacognitive efficiency score because...they knew they did bad, and then did bad lol??? We knew that had to be some kind of disingenuous ploy to make republicans look better.

As the note says...when we thought about it, and by chance mentioned "yknow it's like there's a dissonance..." we said oh my god. That's it lmao.

These people intentionally used this backwards measurement, which is a reverse of cognitive dissonance, in an attempt to make the playing field look either even or very close. (That's another thing...they use phrases throughout the WHOLE PAPER that say "dems and reps performed about the same" and then give figures that say the EXACT opposite).

This is just so wild. I need to know other people's response to this lmao.

Oh, and it's from Yale! Home of rich dumbasses and untrustworthy work. Who would've thought.

[corpsedessert]

A rant I did today, sorry if the slides are extremely jumbled up

[modawg]

im bored let’s dissect “alison”

firstly this is what i’m talking abt incase anyone doesn’t know:

this is so far the ONLY news we have abt this character rick hasn’t said anything about it the official pjo show insta/twitter hasn’t said anything abt it this is it

and this is a fan account which is smth i feel like many ppl don’t know; here’s that account

here are some other accounts:

both the actual along with another pretty reparable fan account both have stayed silent abt this which seems a little sus to me

you might be wondering “but mo that original pic has screenshots of interviews/articles!! they have sources!!” this is true however the source has no source lmao

from the article the original post pulls from they simply said “we’ve heard” girl heard what and from who

this article was written by nexus news point which idk abt y’all i’ve never heard of

so i took my ass to twitter

this is the only post i found “but mo it’s verified!!” that’s what i thought i thought “well shit there’s the end of that” but when i was looking at the account i realised three things

rick does not follow this account

who’s that linked in the bio? oh wait is that..is that nexus ???

anyone can pay to buy a verification

here’s the actual pjo account

followed by rick

not verified bc why would they have to when rick literally follows them

has said nothing abt this

after all this i don’t think alison is real im gonna be honest however if she does show up in season 2 i will be apologizing with tears

unlike nexus however i will be tagging my sources and will also be adding that rick hasn’t updated his website since may which is the exact opposite of what he did when he was looking for the cast of season 1

lmk y’all’s thoughts bc this is kinda wack if they just made this shit up LMAOO

[whispersleo]

So uhm I just finished Dragon Age so... NO SPOILERS here! Just want to do a tiny little ramble about the game. Be cautious, really bad english ahead!!!

Like what the fuck was that. Listen I WANT to love this game, really. As a transman I absolutely loved the representation, I think it's really important. But please. After 500+ hours in Baldurs Gate, it's impossible for me to not make comparisons and see the huge, absolutely gigantic, gap in quality between the two scripts. And I know Baldurs has a lot of problems with the script and the writing, It's not perfect, but after all the details it is REALLY GOOD, it is and can be truly beautiful, you can see and hear the beating heart of the game in almost every scene. I'm saying this not only as a Gale enjoyer (please believe me), but you can't tell me that Veilguard has a scene even REMOTELY close to the Gale scene where you contemplate the stars with him. He talks to you about immortality, about love, about dying and death, about suicide, his pain lingering in his voice in every breath, and if you happen to be interested in him, Gale confess his love in a way you can even hear him scared of ruining things (again?). He's scared, paralyzed in fear, regrets, pain, despair, sorrow, and yet he really is brave enough to open his heart completely to you in what is, in my opinion, the best scene in the game. I'm always excited to replay it, I hear him all the way through it every single time, I feel his emotions like they were mine and that is so beautiful and precious to me.

And then Dragon Age: The Veilguard, pales in comparison. This beautiful Gale scene happens in the middle of your journey, where you both still don't know if you can truly wake up for tomorrow. Hells, Gale doesn't even think he can live at all!, and yet he chooses to spend this specific night with you, to kiss you, to adore you. He tells you that he loves you. A lot of people criticize that the companions in Baldurs are too horny for their own good, and that they want to get in your pants too quickly. I get where they're coming from but I can't agree. For me, every company has its own reasons for doing that. Astarion tries to get into your pants because it's his way of surviving, for example. Gale doesn't try to do so until he's literally standing on the edge of a cliff in a desperate and maybe last act of love - if he can't love himself, he'll try to love and live for someone else. I won't go on about the other companions, but they do that because they trust you, because you have earned their trust.

We all know the elephant in the room in Baldurs Gate 3. Wyll. His story, cut short. His content, non-existent in comparison. His romance, with many fewer hours that makes me feel it's not worth it. His mission, not even about him. His character, boring to death (to me).

BUT, man, he's just one of the companions. It's not okay, but the others are amazing, Wyll is -sadly and in comparison- just a detail. In Veilguard, this problem is with EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

They all feel so rushed it's not even funny. As a Lucanis enjoyer (of course I am), I couldn't even get happy for finally getting a kiss from this man and an "I love you". It's just too late for that when it happens. So cold. When it happens, the character -me, as the player- can't even be in the "mood" for it. I hate it. I hate the moment. And I hate I love those puppy brown eyes -as usual, and can't even be excited, hopeful and happy and all the things I truly feel in the Gale scene. I can't. I've been wanting to kiss this man for the past thirty hours and is just too late when it finally happens. I wanted to kiss you before facing the horrors, not after. In Baldurs, you can feel the support of your lover all the way from the half game to it's end and conclusion, you can hear them say they love you if you want, telling you sweet words, greeting you with love and familiarity. The connections you form with the Veilguard characters is rushed, feels extra superficial, and the romance hides behind a poor "slow burn" excuse. This is just writing so fucking shit I've read fanfics at the age of 12 with like thousand of more layers and greaters sex scenes that Veilguard can't have in ANY moment of the script, not just the romance. I'm talking specifically about that because that's where I really felt like the game was freezing me out.

When I finished Baldurs the first time, I felt everything. I cried my eyes out, I laughed, I was so happy- and that was while watching Gale become a god and let Astarion ascend. But it all felt like everything I did (120 hours) was for a reason. It was all FOR this, good or bad choices. I cried when the credits rolled and kept crying when everything went silent. And I started a new playthrough feeling so excited to discover more and more.

Here, I tried to feel that again. To feel like I've saved the day, excited for the future, sad for saying goodbye, and happy for doing so. But I couldn't fake it if you had a gun pointed at my head and told me to smile LOL I was so cold. Just thinking "that's it? It can't be... can it?" And waiting for the game to say HA! Gotcha. But it never came. I watched the credits still trying to connect to something I just watched and finished.

If you're still here, let me tell you: I don't regret buying it.

Sure, the script is like a Marvel movie. A good one (I love superheros), but a Marvel movie still. Like Shang Chi, for example. Man I love that movie. I love the color palette, the characters look like fun, the scenography is amazing, the choreographies are just astounding! But the script. It's a Marvel movie. Characters are saying all the things instead of showing me. They're joking in really bad moments. Sometimes they don't even feel like people, just parrots saying random lines they suddenly remember. The ending it's a big battle that makes all the journey feel less enjoyable and more boring and flat as fuck. But it's really nice and decent entertainment and I'll watch it again if I'm doing the dishes or something.

It's just not great, but that's what Veilguard is for me. I love the colors, I love the character designs, I love all the places you can go, I love the gameplay and the combat experience and I'm excited to try new difficulty levels. But the script is just dog shit. It's entertaining enough to have it like background noise if you are doing something else, and that's it.

All I see is potential wasted. But I want to play it again, maybe as rushed as all the characters are. Just let me keep smashing shit, swinging my axe, and I'm pleased.

Thanks for reading.

[b1mbodoll]

greetings. today i am thinking abt alpha! heeseung

[shimmeringlesbian]

my opinion on proshipping is so complicated man.

one one hand, I'm anti-censorship. I think media should be allowed to depict bad things, and I think fandom media is no exception to that. and banning things is a slippery slope. it leads nowhere good.

on the other hand, I think people creating/consuming media with these "immoral" dynamics need to examine why they're doing it. I think there's a major difference between rape depicted as a major trauma in a character's story vs. rape depicted as a sexy fun experience. both should be allowed to be published online. one of them maybe shouldn't be. but who am I to stop them?

at what point do we draw the line? at what point do we consider scenes of rape/pedophilia/incest to be important? at what point do we consider that they may be intended to arouse people?

I'm not saying we should ban anything. I think ao3, for example, is a fantastic website. I wouldn't change a thing. I just want people to think very critically about the media they create and consume. I think there are some things I STRONGLY believe shouldn't be published. they still are, and that's not changing. it shouldn't change. we just have to use our better judgment and remember that media doesn't exist in a vacuum.