#pass interference

[the-football-chick]

Awww c'mon -- starting with the ticky tack penalties already!

[garthnadermemestash]

I hate Taylor Swift. (Ducks bullet)

[k8023]

Inspired by @squad-3's post of a clip from the KC game. Both Joe & Ja'Marr were in a MOOD that day. 🫣

[sunderwight]

Thinking about the weird camaraderie that exists between demons but not angels in GO.

Have we ever seen two angels who are actually friends? Or even friendly to one another? We have met angels with a capacity to be friendly in general, but I think the closest we've come to two angels actually getting along would be Gabriel making a point to laugh at Sandalphon's terrible "can't have a war without War" line in S1.

Most scenes between the angels actually seem to have an undercurrent of absolute hostility. Teeth-clenched teamwork. No wonder it took them so long to notice that Aziraphale wasn't on the same page as the rest of them! The rest of them are barely on the same page as one another, either! When Gabriel goes against the majority vote, no one bats an eye at demoting him and wiping his memory. Michael and Uriel immediately begin vying for his job. The only times we've seen angels team up is when they're working together to bully someone else, like when they're trying to intimidate Aziraphale in S1 or going to the aftermath of the bookshop raid in S2.

Saraqael's overall neutrality towards Muriel is the closest we get to two angels in Heaven getting along, and it's more a lack of hostility than any kind of friendliness. At least until Gabriel loses his memories and Muriel shows up to spy on Aziraphale, and Aziraphale decides to be kind to both of them.

Demons, on the other hand, actually seem to form alliances and even friendships among one another. Hastur and Ligur are awful, but Hastur seems genuinely distraught over Ligur's death, not just fearful of suffering the same fate. Shax and Furfur conspire together and even though the 1940's investigation into Crowley's fraternizing doesn't work out for Furfur, it's not due to any double-crossing on Shax's part. Unlike the angels, who stick almost exclusively to making threats until the Metatron decides to try dangling a carrot at the end of the season, demons actually offer rewards to other demons when trying to work together. Beelzebub offers Crowley a promotion if he can bring them Gabriel, Furfur offers to back Shax up politically if she goes for the Duke position opening, and Crowley successfully stalls Hastur in S1 by pretending everything was a test and he's going to be put in charge of a legion as a reward for passing. They're still not great at socializing, but they're significantly ahead of the angels.

Of course, it's a fact that demons are awful to one another (Eric's treatment is really bad, they throw that random demon into holy water just to test it, "it'd be a funny world if demons went around trusting one another", etc) but they still seem more capable of forming friendships than the angels do.

I think that's because Hell cramps and crowds everyone together to try and increase their suffering and hostility, whereas Heaven isolates angels to decrease the odds of questioning or rebellion. Hell's methods are unpleasant, but it still ends up putting demons together, and some of those demons inevitably forge alliances and make friendships. Because as Crowley and Beelzebub demonstrate, demons are still social creatures with the capacity for love and affection, even if it's strongly discouraged and buried under nine million layers of trauma and a cultural mandate against kindness.

Angels are the same, but isolation makes is harder to form connections than overcrowding. Muriel and Jimbriel are both so eager to make friends, but Muriel's spent the past millennia shut in an empty office, and Gabriel has been distanced from his peers both through his position and also through Heaven's culture of fear and surveillance. He only breaks away from it when he finds something that's stronger than "choosing sides" (stronger than the fear of being rejected by Heaven and Falling, in fact strong enough that Falling seems worth it if he gets to be with someone he loves). Both Muriel and Gabriel are only able to start forming connections when they're away from Heaven.

I just think it's interesting that demons, despite being supposedly devoid of love, have an advantage in forming relationships compared to angels. Angels are supposed to love, but have far fewer opportunities to actually do so. Demons aren't supposed to love, but they make connections anyway.

[quibbs126]

Something that makes me sad is that it doesn’t seem like the more recent Transformers series get any supplementary material to further explore their worlds and characters

Like Animated has the AllSpark Almanac, Prime has a bunch of stuff because it’s part of Aligned, but if you wanted you could probably just say the Covenant of Primus, G1 also is chock full of stuff because there’s so many spin-offs that supposedly take place in the same universe as it, and I mean there’s technically two versions of it between the cartoon and the Marvel comics, and hell even the Bayverse movies had tie-in comics explaining the origins of the war and certain characters, from what I gather

Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, neither Cyberverse nor Earthspark have really had anything outside of the shows themselves to really delve into the details of the world that they can’t get into in the show, and I think that’s a real shame

Earthspark in particular, because I want to know more details about the war and how it started, but the show won’t go into it. And I understand why they might not touch on it, because the point of the show is to explore the post-war situation of the Transformers, but can we not have some sort of guidebook that delves into this history? You could even market it as like, an in-universe guide made by the Autobots, or maybe Alex since he’s very knowledgeable on Cybertronian history, possibly even GHOST but they might be outdated at this rate (and probably biased), to explain to the younger characters the basics on the war

I personally would just really like to get more information on these worlds, and it’s a shame Hasbro doesn’t seem to be giving us that like they would prior

[dailypurpled]

DAILY PURPLED DAY 380 - praying to him for a 5 on my ap calc test

[cementcornfield]

lol nOT the defense fighting each other for the interception

[bambiraptorx]

the Hidden City version of jury duty is basically getting summoned to teach a class for a semester basically btw

[reginrokkr]

𝐗𝐋𝐕. One of the characteristics that the very first humans created by Phanes bear is that they don't possess a gland in their brain whose secreted hormones impede them to see the truth of the world, masked by the encroaching Heavenly Principles, unlike the humans that would come after the War of Vengeance that would prelude the Apocalypse in Teyvat. The same is true to Dain, who was explained that it was of extreme necessity to contain the original laws of the world for a chance at survival in it prior to being tasked to retrieve the Genesis Pearl from the Abyss —not virulent yet as it would later become by the actions of the gods and the arrival of Forbidden Knowledge—.

Soon after his descent to Teyvat, Dain came into contact with the aftereffects of Phanes' doings to the world. Its resentments and hatred turned into darkness, attacking everything in sight and a natural enemy to the humans that have grown used to fight against it as the world in itself that was fabricated as per the Primordial One's design in an attempt to restore it to its origins. To his surprise, he found a dragon who was fighting against this darkness in order to protect what was salvageable of the world. Prior to his descent, Dain was told that the dragons are the worst enemies of the gods and humans alike and that they must be eradicated. But there was a wisdom this dragon displayed that made him question everything he knew: if dragons antagonize everything that is related to the Primordial One, then what is the reason for protecting this world instead?

During the first moments when the world began reacting to the coming of the Forbidden Knowledge and as per the deep sentience of the dragon over that which he had command, he was tainted by the Abyss and a conflict between him and Dain arose, leading to the former's murder.

And before the dragon falls into the chasm that dissolves all things, he will think of the times he once spent with the hero. And at last, he will say: ◜Yes, hatred shall not fill me. I know that you have not seen the sights I have, and that is why you wish to stop me.◞ ◜The star-beasts shall drink the amniotic fluid of the world dry. A hundred years from then, all life on its surface shall be wiped away.◞ ◜I will surely return to save all souls. Ten years, even a hundred years may pass, but I shall be reborn as a new universe.◞

But seeing the dragon's disposition even at Death's doors, in a moment of lucidity devoid of the abyssal influence also made Dain lose something precious to him: he will never again believe in anything that the sum of human knowledge cannot completely grasp and understand. Thus having exposed to the dragon's final revelation followed by what is an unjust death to Dain, one question arose:

What is the truth of this world?

At that moment, sensing that in truth Dain's mind is conflicted and stopped trusting the Heaven's fabricated reality and anticipating that he may become a foe to the Heavenly Principles, his memories regarding Celestia were erased. Thus Dain treaded the world at a loss of what to do, finding other people along the way starting from Sal Vindagnyr who also doubted everything they knew that was relied to them by the Heavenly Envoys and ultimately earning their respect and hopes to guide them away from the godly realm. Ultimately, through Dain's protection and combat skills he guided them far away where the gods' gaze shouldn't reach, putting in between their domain and the Abyss until, at Irminsul's roots a forest basking in moonlight was found and so Khaenri'ah would be founded right there.

Through everyone's efforts, knowledge and practises from their respective places of origins the base of the kingdom was established with Dain as their collectively chosen king. As the Apocalypse continued and more people became affected by the divine's irrational actions, more people would find their way to the moonlight forest or would be found by others who took it on themselves to guide those who had lost their homes and their faith to Khaenri'ah. Nevertheless, at a certain point, Dain fell into a coma due to the chilling pain he felt when the Ley Lines of various places of Teyvat were damaged in the war as an extension of Irminsul's own pain. During his coma, he would experience endless nightmares, all of them related to the events that were transpiring on the surface of Teyvat and the deeds of the Forbidden Knowledge running haywire in their attempts to have access to Irminsul.

After an unknown time has passed, he would wake without any memory: a blank slate. The sky that before was illuminated in the moonglow now tainted with red and a crimson moon hanging ominously over everything and as he investigated further to understand who he is and why he is there, he found out two things: in the modest palace he lived, he encountered that he was an important figure among the people who lived there as per the scriptures and the people now turned their faith on the crimson moon. Finding that this contradicts deeply with what the kingdom was like before he fell into coma and the bad feeling he had about that moon, Dain made no move to reclaim his throne. Instead, he fell into silence and accepted to be regarded as a high noble, his deeds leading him thereafter to become one of the pillars of Khaenri'ah out of a will of protecting the people and see humanity prosper still under the command of the king of the time: Crimson Moon.

But against all odds and despite a shattered memory due to the restructuring of the Ley Lines to fix them, Dain's original moment of losing faith in everything he's known shows itself as later on he becomes father of the Truthseeker art: initially meant to be a sword art to teach coming generations of knights that would later grow into a philosophy of its own.

[evermoredeluxe]

the new heights episode is gonna be sad because of the two losses, but the taylor at game and ryan/hugh/rob section of it all will be fun

[greedychapa]

Summer changes

Hi there!

It's summer (wow!) which means i'm not studying. But this doesn't mean i'll develop my game more often because i want to rest like a normal person.

Before the release of 1st interim i spent every day developing to release it as soon as possible. Now i'll rest more but try to maintain a frequency of one post per week.

I also thought i'll learn javascript to create a web-site for my game and multiplayer based on it. But now i realize more likely i'll just rest: walk outside and play games (maybe even read books!).

Have a nice summer and good luck!

[roscoehamiltons]

throwing tomatoes at mclaren pitwall

[sawbuckplus]

Tapper repeatedly lied about Joe Biden’s mental decline. Should be charged with election interference.

[zozo-01]

what the fuck is the point of pass interference 😭😭😭

[francisjohnpatrickmulcahy]

Smol courtesy message that I'm AFK for probably a couple days, I've got my inevitable Christmas migraine and these get nasty. 😑

Y'all be good, okay? Or at least have fun