#or any combination of the above

[tilly-tittle]

The fandom has (probably) conjured up at least 30 different ways the War (of which has been a constant power struggle for upwards of 4 billion years) ends and most of them involve Optimus dealing with (read getting with) his mostly-like-Ex-and-the-army’s-worst-kept-secret-but-swears-against-it nemesis who is the Warlord in charge of the world enemy faction

There’s is a strong belief in making love and not war

Further proof that the fandom is cooking: Earthspark

It’s literally “the war ended we can get married again” now they’re acting like an old married couple as if their initial divorce didn’t cause the death of millions (I say this lovingly)

we need more divorcebaiting. how strongly can canon imply (without technically outright stating) that these two characters are bitterly, acrimoniously divorced? essential we explore this

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

STANDARD OP FOR NIGHTMARES: - 1 - FIND YOUR REDS - 2 - GET THEM YAPPING - 3 - GET BACK TO SLEEP

RVB Rarepair week day 6: THE MORE THE MERRIER

I love polyam ships so much, i love the diversity that having multiple ppl in one messy relationship (healthy or otherwise) gives for dynamics and situations and just! its fun!!! i had a hard time picking the poly ship for this

Locpeznut x Tuckingnut (god thats,, certainly a name isnt it)

Sometimes you gotta share your Reds

[kindaorangey]

makes my eye twitch when people apply dynamics to danstat/armandaniel that canonically apply to danlou

[hexcrystals]

anyway haha someone promise me i’m gonna be okay

[bmpmp3]

ive already mentioned before my disdain for "cozy game" style marketing despite how much i end up enjoying a lot of games that are described that way, but I'm really gonna need promotion and journalism to stop describing any game that's not like a running and gunning fighty game a "cozy game" because they're gonna imply that horror puzzle platformer game is like, low stakes and chill despite it very much being not the case. i also dont care for implication that game genres that typically require less fast reflexes and fine motor skills like puzzles, text adventures, walking sims, etc gotta be "cozy" automatically. long time fans of hidden object games etc do NOT want a low stakes story about finding a lost cat or some bullshit they are adults and they want DRAMA and MURDER. the term cozy in games marketing has tooooo much baggage and i feel like im being patronized. i need the games industry to STOP

[transmechanicus]

Woke up from my little power outage nap and couldn’t even manage to eat a full box of macked cheese, grad school will fuck you up for life kids, do it at your own risk.

[glitteringcrab]

Nip this in the bud (part 4)

Man I feel kinda dumb.

I kept trying to make sense of this phrase of the creators:

“There are parts of us that might cost us the things that we really want. There is an implicit choice there, where Evil Morty is giving Rick a decision where you can either stay here and beat the shit out of this guy until he’s dead, which is what you supposedly have always wanted, and while you’re doing that, that’s gonna be the reason why I’m walking away with the power to destroy everything you ever cared about.”

because I thought Rick C-137 was not initially aware that Eyepatch Morty had gotten the weapon plans, and had to be informed of it by Rick Prime who is, of course, untrustworthy.

Plus, you know, Eyepatch Morty stayed behind long enough to confirm to Rick C-137 that he got the weapon plans so really, where is the "choice"? What "decision"? As far as I could tell Eyepatch Morty made all the decisions for him.

Then I realized I was an idiot lol.

The show left us (or at least me) with the impression that Eyepatch Morty was afraid of being wiped out of existence by the Omega Device:

And I'm sure this fear indeed factored in his decision to participate in the Prime hunt, true, but...

...he had suggested from the very beginning that he was interested in the weapon itself:

(...I just forgot about it, heh)

Given that we know and that Rick C-137 knows that Eyepatch Morty was in the habit of stealing memories from Ricks, it becomes extremely obvious that when Eyepatch Morty presented to Rick C-137 Rick Prime on a platter, he had already gotten what he wanted:

(Of course, Rick Prime did not all know all that, so as far as he was concerned he likely did not expect his attempt to turn Rick C-137 against Eyepatch Morty would yield any short-term results so I think my previous assumption that Rick Prime aimed for delayed revenge probably still stands)

But yeah. I now get the "choice" part. Even without Rick Prime's input, Rick C-137 would totally assume that Eyepatch Morty already possessed the weapon plans, and Eyepatch Morty knew Rick C-137 would know he has the weapon plans...

...aaaaand Rick C-137 still prioritized killing Rick Prime over ensuring his family was safe from dying forever (I still think part of it, even a small one, was because he had just fought alongside Eyepatch Morty and because Eyepatch Morty had just saved his life. Or at least I hope so. It would be extremely underhanded of Rick to turn against him after all that).

As for Eyepatch Morty sticking long enough afterwards, making it possible, in theory, to get attacked, since with Rick Prime gone Rick C-137 was now free to follow the next set of priorities?

1. Eyepatch Morty might have been able to guess that Rick C-137's mental state after killing Rick Prime would leave no room for another battle.

2. He might be confident in his ability to escape in a moment's notice with a portal.

3. Aforementioned debt due to Rick C-137 having his life saved by him.

One final thing:

Since he knew that Rick C-137 could make an educated guess that he as of now possessed the weapon plans, his "threat" takes a completely different spin (maybe):

While he is, indeed, confirming that he got the weapon plans (and providing proof of it) I think Rick C-137 did not need that confirmation. I think if he exited that control room to find Eyepatch Morty gone, he would have assumed he got the weapon plans and skedaddled to safety just the same. He'd know his life and his family's lives might once again be at risk in the future and that he might one day be forced to do something about it.

So is it so much that Eyepatch Morty is threatening Rick C-137 to "stay away or else"...

...or is it that he's trying to placate him?

"Don't worry, I won't even build this unless you force me to. So stay away."

He's trying to reassure Rick that he won't kill him out of spite nor his family for the lulz the way Rick Prime did. He's trying to convince Rick to not try to pre-emptively hunt him down.

Plus if my theory that Eyepatch Morty is physically unable to fire the weapon against Ricks himself is correct, his options with the Omega Device are a lot more limited. He might be able to manipulate someone else to fire it in his stead, but that would probably take time to stage. Threatening to fire it is one of the best uses he can get out of the Omega Device, so he does precisely that. In this scenario, placating Rick is also very important because EM won't be able to use the weapon defensively if an angry Rick C-137 teleports at his doorstep. So he has to hit that spot where Rick C-137 is wary of him but not constantly terrified of him, and he goes for exactly that.

Interesting that Rick Prime tried to upset this balancing act and to push Rick C-137 firmly towards the "terrified" option.

(Man even with the strongest weapon in the world Eyepatch Morty still seems scared to me. Or maybe he ain't scared at all because of how successful he is in balancing everything, but I still feel like he's a lot more on the defensive than I initially thought)

[storekn1fe]

literally the more i think about this weeks episode the more and more i dislike it.

[yeonban]

Tsun recommended me a manga bc the main guy is "Tobiascore" and I can't believe how true that is. ADJSAHDSAGHDSAJDASHDJK the MOST Tobiascore caps are under the cut for those curious! (but do bear in mind that g.ore in various forms is present underneath too since some panels include it!)

[themxtleycrew]

"Icons only" for Franziska whenever Larry Butz is around

[[Send "Icons only" and something for my muse to react to]]

[superexplosive]

The "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy / damn" meme but with different arrangements of Robo, Alan, Doctor Dinosaur, Jenkins, Lovecraft, Houdini, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Charles Fort, Wong Kei-ying, Annie Oakley, Westinghouse, Jack Tarot, Nightingale, The Flying She-Devils, Science Team Super Five, Doc Holiday, Bass Reeves, and Phil.

[playground-boys-phighting]

Boombox, how many playlists do you have at this point?

And Skate, do you ever decorate your board or do you prefer to just get a bunch of different ones? :0

Uhhh. Yes! :]

I'd sometimes like to decorate my boards y'know? I don't have enough' cash to even buy a new one, but! I'm saving quite alot for one! Maybe..

[tozlittle]

tbh re: from that poll i cannot even imagine how some of those characters would survive girl irving and hodgson are not making it out even with miracles and bridgen did kill himself when something happened to peglar. and dundy is dundy

[longeyelashedtragedy]

i feel really sad. just squashed under the heavy weight of sadness

[omarwolaeth]

Might be strange sounding, but the card reveals/banlists always come in 2 different perspectives for me, irrelevant of which banlist I'm playing under; because I write fics, I have to contend with the banlist at times (a majority of the time it's based on the sort of half-tcg, half-ocg Master Duel banlist with Anime Specific Additions.)

So when new cards come out I have to judge them not only by what I can figure out from their effects and traits (combined with what's currently meta, and if there's anything that wants to play the new cards, whilst being mindful of banlist differences), I also have the joy of internally discussing the value of a deck when its in a fictional setting.

I don't think anyone normally thinks about if a deck's theme is strong enough to tie a character to it, let alone if a deck's theme is too strong and tying a character to it is like Akihiko Sanada's obsession with protein in anything that isn't mainline persona (Like the Q games.)

Also makes engines less appealing.

[ocdhuacheng]

What is going on in ur little dog brain pochita…….