#thinks abt this post every day of my life

[suntails]

I’m going to paint you a picture of modern communication, and how it is fundamentally broken.

Let’s look at one friend. You chat pretty much everyday, and mostly talk to this person on twitter and discord, with occasional tumblr DMs. That’s three places you talk. But that’s actually not true, because you also have each other’s priv twitters and talk there as well. That’s four. Now account for, let’s say, one post reply per account per person, in addition to your DMs. That’s eight. But that’s ALSO not true, because not only do you talk in discord DMs with each other, but you’re in a friend group server as well! And you talk in those channels together! That’s nine.

This is one friend.

Now look around you. How many friends, how many mutuals are you in contact with. A few, a handful, a dozen, more? How many accounts per person do you have, how many places can you send each other posts, devolve into separate topics and conversations? How many people text you as well. Friends, family, coworkers? What do you do day to day around catching up, what IRL commitments will rip you away long enough to let the pile build again?

I can’t do it. I cannot live an actual life in the real world and balance this much interaction, it’s crushing. I reply to a friend’s post because I’m interested in the subject, I want to have a discussion! I WANT to talk about it with them, but I immediately kick myself for adding another conversation to the pile. Day by day, I ignore messages for hours on end and watch mountains pile around me, to reply en masse at the end of the night to let the cycle repeat. I wake up to six discord DMs and as I clear the third, the first replies back again.

We weren’t meant to have thirty simultaneous conversations. We weren’t. And you know in your bones that the number isn’t an exaggeration.

[ninjasmudge]

people really will say shit like 'the fic i found hasn't updated in a whole month so i think its been abandoned which is a shame, i wanted to read more' like where do you even get the nerve

[3amsnek]

new icon time bc the moment we hit double digits on the halloween countdown my brain genuinely straight up forgot it was still summer

[crescentfool]

going to keep this vague on purpose but playing reload has reactivated brain chemicals in me that i forgot i had.

i think i'd want to make a more thought out post later, but i think my favorite thing about reload (aside from seeing minato in full HD glory) is how much it's made me think about video games as a storytelling medium- specifically with what mechanics and game design imply for characters.

there's a lot of quality of life features added to reload that help players easily enter a flow state and get immersed in the gameplay (most notable with tartarus)! which is so dope! reload has been such a nice blend of the mechanics from both FES and portable and it feels like a love letter to persona 3 fans.

there are definitely mechanics i miss from FES (minato's ability to wield multiple weapons being one of them). i can't deny that FES has some dated mechanics that don't necessarily feel fun for the player experience... but!

i think i mostly miss things from FES because i feel like so much of minato's characterization (for me) was informed by the gameplay experience and mechanics (e.g. fatigue system). obviously there's still other ways you can put together his personality (his dialogue responses), but i think game mechanics are a bit part of it, for me.

but in spite of that, i think reload is a really nice introduction to persona 3, it's so much more accessible and has a bunch of things to help make it more fun :) so far i think i'd recommend it to people :D

[toastsnaffler]

yeah I'm not gonna talk abt it am I...

[claudiablogger]

god i hope lestat is put through the fucking wringer in s3 god knows i need more catharsis. seeing him killed wasn't enough i need it to happen to me and the next best thing is subjecting him to the Horrors . it's bad to project onto fictional characters etc etc let me have this

[kagamine-rin]

me every day @ the person that gave this url to me in like 2016

[seventh-district]

several days and 15 thousand words later, i am relieved to report that the suffocating urge to Write Something has been sated and no longer has me in a chokehold

[tkbrokkoli]

i think a thing im v passionate abt is music. or rather, listening to music. i listen to it when i work, when i drive, when i clean, when i walk. i spend several hours every day listening to music. once during a trip i didn't have the time to listen to music for several days and when i finally turned on some music it felt like the world was suddenly filled w more color and life. i once was so overwhelmed w awe and beauty listening to a song for the first time that it caused me to have a panic attack. in, like, a good way, like, wow, look at that song, it touched me so deeply that i lost control of my body for a moment. i sometimes get teary eyes or goosebumps when listening to music. i listen to the same song for hours on repeat. i don't know anything abt making music btw. i took guitar lessons for some time but im not talented or good at it and it took too much effort to continue. i love the sounds a guitar makes though. i also don't remember any music theory. i have a friend who's naturally talented at playing the guitar but they didn't enjoy it but even after years of not having picked up a guitar they can still play songs at birthday parties. i think it's funny that they are naturally good at it but they hate doing it and i love it but im not good at it at all.

[sucrose-soymilk]

hadn’t really regressed in a While and i didn’t realize how much i missed/dareisay needed it until i had the free time and ability to do so over the last few days and i have to say. i’m feeling a bit better

[upsidedowngrass]

talk to me about ur liam thoughts hello

OF COURSE i need to talk about liam at least once a day or i explode

ive been spending a lot of time trying to like COMPLETELY figure out his personality bc its so subtle (WHICH is certainly at least somewhat intentional) and so far its like. every time i rewatch one i find AANOTHER aspect of his personality i didnt notice

for example this guy does NOT seem confrontational by nature. like many times in s1 when airy is fucking things up liam is like. um no thanks :) . it rly looks like his go-to in stressful situations is to wait things out, and the only reason he starts to deviate from this is bc it v much starts to be clear that this situation is Not smth he can wait out. his interacts w bryce and airy in s2 VERY much come across as like... this is not his usual pace and that alone is a key factor in him being So Extremely Stressed. he wants to get the others out as fast as possible and the fact that thats NOT smth he can simply wait out is NOT helping. hes confrontational as a last resort and a last resort only

(side note that the only times he seems to get verbally pissed off w ppl is when theyre being hypocritical, ignoring key details, etc. thatperson has also mentioned him being very practical? and i think thats accurate. like i think if someone asked him abt the trolley problem hed end up begrudgingly picking to save the group of ppl; he would LOVE if everyone is saved, but i think under stress/extreme conditions he sometimes relies on a very Autism sense of Numerically, What Is The Most Beneficial Outcome?)

im also?? working on a far too indepth essay post (it is currently at 659 words) and like. the post is specifically regarding Why He Acts How He Does In Ep 18, and?? i have to go back over it again to check, but the topic of Him Being Angry is a factor but not the main point so since im tqalking abt his personality rn ill put it here, is that??? he does NOT get mad easily. even when he argues w bryce im p sure its bc bryce has a more emotional response to things than he does (important note, that bryce was very good at talking to oscar while liam wasnt!! despite them often being seen like pessimistic logical person and optimistic emotional person, im pretty sure its the OPPOSITE, it simply looks the other way bc the situation highlights their personalities in a Very Interesting Way) and liam is stressed so he does NOT rly Get It. i dont think hes even angry at bryce half of the time during most of the arguments. liam seems to naturally say many things that could be taken as being rude to say wo them being intended as such and i think that extends to arguing. i think during aarguments he is simply Loud bc "ahhhh people need to LISTEN to me and volume does that" though i need to keep looking into this more so this interpretation of liam is potentially subject to change

[arolesbianism]

I'm starting to see ppl talk abt updating their artfight pages and at first I was like what why it's still months away and then it hit me that by months it was two months and now I'm just silently sweating as my anual side project to remake the eternal gales refs and give them all icons comes back to haunt me

[munchboxart]

hello!! sorry if this is a weird question, but do you happen to have any advice on how to reach 999 in salm? i keep seeming to get stuck in a loop around 400-500 and i honestly have no idea what i could work on to improve T wT

This ended up being pretty long whoops. The first 4 paragraphs are on advice if you think you've got a good understanding on map awareness and junk. The rest are kind of a brief summarization on your own mindset for SR grinding. I'd be happy to expand on it if you'd like further clarification though this post is long enough as it is @_@

The best option, but also the most inconsistent, is finding a team to grind with is the best choice. You can find Discord servers dedicated for this. I usually suggest the Reddit SR server, but the quality of players there are... questionable, but you can find a group there fast since it's a huge server.

The other option is learning all the tech that's available for SR. I again suggest joining the Reddit SR server as they also have the best resources on learning everything you need to know and learn about SR.

Also, comp and map are relatively what's going to make your grind a heavenly ride or a rollercoaster straight to hell. You need a good understanding of weapon roles on SR in order to judge whether it's a good weapon comp (or just ask people on SR servers). Typically what a good comp looks like is a good balance between high dps and range. And for good maps, my ranking for best to worst map (in terms of ease) is Gone Fission, Sockeye, Spawning Grounds and Marooner's Bay. If you don't care about what map it's on, go for Fission, as it's the best map to deal with Glowflies + it's pretty good all around.

(Not necessary to read) Usually shooters like Splattershot/Sploosh and range that one shots or deals fast damage like Charger/Squiffer and Splatling (debatable). Though specific weapons like Explo and Dynamo that have great properties (Explo being able to deal with Flyfish and Mudmouths, while Dynamo can roll over every Salmonid) can also greatly help, as long as the other weapons are fast to compensate for it's slowness.

Lastly, if you're dead-set on doing it on freelance, all I can say is you better have a cleared schedule because you're going to need 2 days (basically the full rotation including time for sleep) to grind it out, because at BEST, it'll take 7-9 hours to get to 999, and considering how bad freelance is at the low end of EVP.... You'll usually finish on the 2nd day of the rotation.

Otherwise, if you've done all this, all you really have to work on is yourself. Learn to understand the situations you're going to be in and have a good understanding of map control and bosses. Learn about luring and whether your teammates are doing that at the start of the wave (sitting back, but you usually find them at higher EVPs). Have a good understanding what your weapon role is. Take out bosses that do global attacks (i.e. Flyfish, Stingers, Big Shots, etc) if your weapon can do that job (or pop a special that can deal with numerous of them). Or clear lessers or bosses that take up your turf (cough Fish Stick) if your weapon does that better, all the while juggling the job of clocking in eggs.

Staying alive and doing as much work as possible (turfing ink and walls for your teammates before the wave starts, clearing out lessers before they start to overwhelm you all, taking out bosses based on priority and luring, and of course, clocking in eggs) is your priority. If you keep dying then learn to judge situations on whether or not you're going to get yourself killed.

Creators like Hazmy makes dedicated SR videos on teaching you this kind of stuff, while Reyko keeps updates on tech for SR (though, usually for overfishing, but it's still useful, and also includes tech that comes from the JP side).

Anyways, good luck! You get better freelancers at the end of the grind, i.e. ~800 EVP just letting you know, so there is hope.

[sunsrefuge]

BY THE WAAYYYY im not dead just still settling into my new place w tres!! ;w; work has me tired but im doing okay!!

[pepprs]

being m*rried would fix me. goodbye

[rosemary-bells]

reading ranwan fics has me constantly giggling and kicking my feet. which is kind of awkward when i’m reading through some of the most like heart-wrenching stuff but hey. that’s ranwan for ya.