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here you go watcher

Where’s that post about goth anime legs uncle posing in the graveyard. Y’all know the one

God everything about how Ruby fights makes perfect sense now. All her dumbass anime poses and nonsense. Also don’t think I didn’t notice that Aura flicker because I SAW THAT SHIT

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So I haven't really looked into RWBY analysis much. I've heard the FNDM can be... abrasive, especially about this stuff. So, I'm just going to give my POV on this exchange real quick:

I believe this is Pyrrha fatalistically acknowledging the reality of her "destiny". It's like Roman said- "You wanna be a hero? Then play the part and die like every other huntsman in history!"

Pyrrha's goal, her destiny, was to risk her life helping people. And no matter how strong and skilled she became, she would eventually meet her match and get into a fight that she couldn't win, just to protect people. There's a lot of other layers with how she didn't think she could find friends or love or be happy while achieving that goal, but the main gist is that Pyrrha knew going into this fight that death was likely. And she accepts that because it was always going to be the end result of her chosen destiny.

Flip side: Cinder seems to have similar beliefs about destiny as Pyrrha. But Cinder's goal is very different. She wants power. She will lie, manipulate, cheat, steal, murder; she'll do anything to get power. And once she has it, she will use that power to strike back at a anyone she feels has wronged her. Absolute dominion over others. That is Cinder's destiny. And this was destiny fulfilled.

Of course, to add another layer to all that, Pyrrha may well be implying that Cinder's chosen path will have a similar result to her own: Cinder taking on a fight she's unprepared for and losing. Which. Considering Cinder isn't exactly *good* at all those methods I listed out. She almost certainly will.

Also she's the bad guy. Bad guys don't win.

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Right?

I honestly don’t know what to make of this question and this response

Is Pyrrha implying that Cinder is destined to meet her match some day?

Is Cinder saying that she was destined to become the Fall Maiden?

Normally I would analyze further but right now….

I just don’t have it in me

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Me whenever I see a screenshot of conservative Twitter.

“You think me the villain, chosen one? What you call dark magic, I call science. What you call safety is upholding a corrupt monarchy, lying about divine right. I have seen a better world, lived in it! So why do you uphold this glorious lie?”

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Okay, but Anakin was emotionally stunted and got along with droids better than people. R2 is one of his oldest friends, more than even Rex or Ahsoka. Plus he probably thought R2 was either destroyed, deactivated, or memory wiped. But here he is, still kicking and seemingly able to recognize Vader. So when Vader chases after R2, I refuse to believe he does it out of malice or a desire to capture him for the empire.

Just imagine Vader shuffling down the halls shouting (in James Earl Jones’ voice, no less): “Artoo! Artoo Detoo! I just want to talk!”

But because of R2′s screaming and the screams of the people they pass, R2 can’t hear him and the chase continues.

And then at the end, Vader finally gets close enough to be heard and that’s when the building that they’re in starts to collapse.

If we want a fluffier story, we can have both of them end up next to each other afterwards. They hear the sirens of emergency speeders approaching, and they just look at each other like, “We should run.” And they do, together.

And they end up on the roof of some warehouse overlooking the disaster, and they talk. Vader complains about the paperwork that he’ll have to fill out, then reminisces about the old days. They both wish things could go back to the way they were before. Vader talks about the horrifying shit he’s done in service of Palpatine, and R2′s like, Jesus Christ dude. Vader gets all indignant about it, because he doesn’t take pleasure from it- okay, not much pleasure. But then again, pleasure is a rare thing for him these days.

And R2 can then tell Vader that he’s working for a senator from Alderaan who’s a lot like Padme. Also, he’s secretly helping some rebel cells. Vader isn’t surprised, R2 is an agent of chaos. Of course he’s found his way into the center of conflict. R2 also gets indignant, and Vader points out that the building falling over was his fault. “Only mostly,” R2 beeps. They laugh.

And then R2 asks the big question: Vader gave up everything to get what he wanted, and ended up losing everything. Now he’s miserable. So why does he stay where he is?

And Vader just looks at his gloved, mechanical hands. “Where would I go? After all that I have done, there’s nowhere that I wouldn’t be hated. Nowhere I could start over. At least with the Empire, I am respected- feared. I have a purpose. This... this is the only life for me, now.”

And then it’s time for Vader to go. He tells R2 that he’ll ignore what the droid told him about being a rebel, but if R2 gets caught in the future, Vader will not help him.

R2 watches Vader leave, and beeps sadly. “Goodbye, Anakin.”

Sorry, I’m not up to date on the details of Star Wars outside the movies, but was R2-D2, like, Leia’s droid between the Prequels and the Original Trilogy? Whatever the case, I think I might need it to happen in a crack fic. 

Because I’ve suddenly imagined R2-D2 accompanying Leia to her Senate meetings. In reality, it would probably be very dangerous for R2 and Leia. But I think it would be perfect for a crack fic. 

Like, just imagine if Leia and R2 are just strolling around the halls of the Senate, with Leia ranting to R2 about something or other. And then bump into an older Senator by accident. And at first it’s all pleasantries and apologies, but then the older Senator takes one look at R2, turns a color that is not a good color for their people to turn, and then says in utter horror, “IT’S YOU!” 

Because surely there must be older Senators out there from before the Empire, who remember that horrible little nightmare droid who tailed those awful Jedi around and occasionally Senator Amidala. (Like, there must be people out there who witnessed R2 blow up a building or even straight-up kill someone.) 

And Leia’s like, “What? You know my droid?” 

And the Senator’s got a hand over their heart, both to soothe themselves and a little protectively, and says, “My dear, I couldn’t forget that thing if I was dead. That’s the little bastard who set me on fire! Granted, it was an accident and it saved Senator Amidala’s life again, but still. She was far too fond of it! That and that debonair Jedi it belonged to!” 

And Leia lights up immediately because oho, this is interesting. Meanwhile R2 is basically swearing up a storm trying to push her away. And the Senator has an expression on their face like, “Oh, damn, I shouldn’t have said that.” 

Anyway, Leia accidentally figures  out who her parents were because R2 is a memorable asshole that old politicians still see in their nightmares. 

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With a tongue like that, dude must be quite the cunning linguist ;)

Two guys are in a bar complaining how they can’t pick up any woman

When one points at a man sitting alone at the table. “Look at that ugly mug. We are both better looking, have nicer clothes and more money. Yet every night he take a woman home, sometimes two at the same time.” “True that!” agrees his friend, “we try to talk to girls, get them interested in us. He does none of that, he just sits there entire evening, licking his eyebrows.”

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Okay, this one I'll take a stab at. Keeping in mind I haven't read the comics much, my knowledge comes from the movies and mostly the internet.

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Bruce is in bad shape. He's been Batman for two years now, and by all accounts Gotham and her citizens have never been better. But not Bruce.

Every murder. Every robbery. Every theft. They weigh on his mind each second of each day. He can't trust the cops, he can't trust anyone. He takes off in the middle of meetings and skips community events, so focused on the next case that nothing else matters.

Finally, after finding Bruce passed out in front of the Bat-computer for the fifth time in as many days, Alfred gives Bruce an ultimatum. Bruce will see a psychiatrist, or Alfred quits.

Bruce is reluctant at first, but he agrees to his friend's wishes. It's an overcast Tuesday morning- it's Gotham, the mornings are always overcast- when Bruce Wayne shows up at the Arkham Civilian Mental Health Center.

They skip the initial intake- technically it's against the rules, but this is Bruce Wayne. Not only is his trauma a matter of public record... he also makes sizable donations to the Center every year.

They sit Bruce down in the waiting room, all jitters, walking on eggshells. Finally, the therapist comes out. She's young, but confident. Bruce likes the spring of her step and the way her eyes smile behind her reading glasses. Except for the blonde pigtails, she reminded him of his mother.

Doctor Quinzel seems eager to help Bruce. She reminds him that therapy isn't a one-and-done. The trauma is a part of his life, and there's no cure for life. But she can give him tools, ways to cope with that trauma.

They talk for two full hours- longer than a usual session, but Quinzel made an exception in her schedule for Bruce. They don't talk about that night, or his parents, not yet. Instead they talk about the time afterwards. Growing up with Alfred, who was in many ways a father, but in other ways could never be truly enough. But he tried, he was there, and Bruce always appreciated that.

They talk about his school days, when he was small and weak. The other boys would bully him constantly. Bruce got into so many fights...

They talk about the years Bruce spent abroad studying. Bruce can't tell her about the League of Assassins, but he tries. He tells her that he joined a group of fanatics, before realizing who they really were. The parting was... not optimal.

Eventually, however, their time is at an end.Harley schedules Bruce another appointment next week- she'll think about what he's told her and come up with some ideas for treatment. She has hope for him.

And for the first time in a while, Bruce has hope for himself.

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Doctor Harleen Quinzel- please, call me Harley- had never had a patient like Bruce before. He seemed so... together. But under that calm surface was a raging hurricane of emotions, just waiting to make landfall. It showed most in his eyes- they had inside them the same intensity as certain war veterans. The ones who later ended up on the news for shooting up a shopping mall. Or themselves.

Harley didn't think Bruce would end up like those poor souls. At least, she hoped not. With her guidance, he could really turn things around.

But the process was slow. Frustrating, even. Doctor Quinzel loved a challenge, but this one didn't seem to have a solution. She reassigned her other patients. Opted out of Asylum work. Refused to take her payed time off.

Finally, she realized. This puzzle couldn't be solved, because she didn't have all the pieces. Bruce had told her everything about his parents death and the years between then and his not-so-triumphant return to Gotham. But there was something he was holding back in the present.

And when she confronted him, he did not deny it. But he would not tell her his truth. She told him one of her own: Bruce could keep coming to the Center, could keep paying Doctor Quinzel's fees. But until he opened up, the healing could not begin.

Three more visits go by. Three hours of retreading the same ground they had previously. Three hours ending with a pleading request from Harley. Every time, Bruce refused.

There's an incident a couple weeks later. The former district attorney was caught robbing a bank. The Batman was there, and police say the vigilante was shot.

The next day, Bruce comes in with his arm in a sling. An accident, he claims. A malfunctioning Wayne Tech prototype exploded and sent shrapnel into his shoulder.

She believes him.

At first.

But as visits go by, she starts to notice the little things. The slight hitch from bruises all over his body. The scratches on his face that never go past his cheeks. The bandages that always happen to line up with what's in the news report, always with a quick, rehearsed answer.

She can't believe she's thinking it. No way it could be true. But then, what else could it be?

Harley confronts Bruce his next visit. She tells him what she suspects, without ever really giving voice to it. She wants to hear him say it.

And he does.

"I'm Batman."

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Harleen Quinzel first saw the inside of a psychiatrist's office when she was a ten year old girl. By that time, both her parents were six feet under and she'd lived in four different foster homes.. She'd run away from the last one to live with her favorite teacher, but he'd called the cops to take her home instead.

Attachment Disorder, they called it. She easily became obsessed with the first person to show her kindness, or respect, or even their own obsession. Little Harley Quinn needed help.

And she got it. She adored her therapist, became obsessed with that field of study. She loved her like the mommy she never had. When Harley went to medical school, she sent her therapist letters every week. All her papers, too, after they'd been graded.

And finally, she graduated. Harley was so happy! She went back home to tell her mommy what she'd done.

And that bitch told her to buzz off. That woman was obsessed with the bratty little airhead blow up doll that had popped out of her crotch nineteen years ago and hadn't accomplished half of what Harley had. The little tart had her life on a silver platter and wasted it, and this- this pretender of a woman adored her for it. Her! And not Harley!

But not to worry. Doctor Quinzel knew the cure to being a stuck up twat!

Take a blunt object, apply it to the head. Repeat until the patient stops moving. Success!

After giving that special cure to the betrayer and daughter, Harley moved to Gotham. She found work at Arkham, they always needed more doctors there. And eventually, she found a most unusual case.

A man, a young man with an old soul. He was angry and scared and downright paranoid. He was incredible. And he really seemed to like her.

But he had a secret, and she was desperate to find out.

Turned out, he was a lot like her! Dispensing his own brand of justice. She wanted to help.

Bruce took her back to Wayne Manor. He led her to his secret cave. He showed her the costume he'd already prepared. And he gave her a new name.

Robin.

It felt... right.

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I have more but I'm tired now and need to go to bed.

bruce wayne goes to see a psychiatrist about his unresolved trauma and it turns out to be harley quinn

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Yes I can because Set's entire deal is that he fights the literal embodiment of chaos. On a daily basis.

Set, being the God of Evil, is lawful evil.

Set is true chaotic neutral

You can’t change my mind

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Fucking finally found this specific version that I wanted to reblog.

Okay, so here's my interpretation:

The parents are so deathly afraid that their precious angel will grow up to be involved in the Dangerous Anime Plot (tm) that they keep her isolated and shut off from the world. They unintentionally emotionally abuse her to the point where she hates the very concept of her existence, this idea that she was only born because of some vague destiny crap tied to whatever Dangerous Anime Plot (tm) she was/is supposed to be a part of. So, once she reaches adulthood, she strikes out on a quest- to destroy any and all potential sources of Dangerous Anime Plots (tm).

Naturally, there are those who stand against her. But she succeeds! More or less. She destroys every source she could find..

However.

At the end, she gets a glimpse through the fourth wall and she realizes. She's been part of a Dangerous Anime Plot (tm) all along- but she was the villain.

Naturally, she's horrified. And the hero, once he or she finds her, gets it. Cue the follow up story in which the hero and now former villain travel around setting things right, and the girl realizes that trying to prevent Dangerous Anime Plots (tm) is futile because, news flash, everyone is a main character. Everybody is living through their own story. You might as well try to eliminate life.

Something she might've been tempted to do, until the hero helps her to realize that, hey, she survived at least one Dangerous Anime Plot (tm), plus two tragic backstories, and it wasn't all bad. There are still things worth hanging around and living for. So the second half of the story is equal parts healing the universe and healing this girl's psyche with some admittedly non-professional therapy.

Shipping is optional but in spite of much fuel the girl and the hero won't get together at the end of the story. Instead she'll take to wandering the Earth.

Potential season 2/sequel idea: the girl has founded a school for main characters. Her goal is to help them figure out which Dangerous Anime Plot (tm) they're going to follow, and provide them with the support they need to survive and succeed.

do you think anime parents have a baby 

and when they see she has pink hair and blue eyes they just think

“oh no

she’s a main character.”

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Oh, delicious moment here :) it took me a couple watches to really understand. But Hordak isn't being that much of a dick. Catra really did fuck up that badly.

At the end of season 1/beginning of the first episode, they were doing great. The forest had been frozen, brightmoon was on the defensive. And entrapta had built a squadron of advanced robots with the promise of more once the resources were collected.

And catra let all of that go.

She wasted the super-bots on what was essentially a scouting mission, lost all four. And they failed to retrieve the resources to make more. *And* the princesses learned teamwork while fighting the super-bots, allowing them to regrow the forest.

Basically every advantage the horde had gained, gone in one episode.

Oh, and then catra let's herself be captured by the enemy. She gained no clear advantage from it, either. No hostages, no intel, no territory, not even a mass demoralizing. All she did was let slip to the princesses that entrapta was a willing turncoat.

Plus, as we see, catra have basically no thought to the actual management of the fright zone. Their soldiers are now under-equipped, probably malnourished, and probably over-worked too.l

Catra is a terrible leader.

Now, imagine this, instead. Back in episode 1, catra sends 1 of entrapta's super-bots at the princesses, along with a couple squads of lesser bots. While the princesses are fighting those off, catra herself heads for the beacon with a couple normal bots for backup. By the time the princesses finish off the super-bot, catra has escaped with a bunch of first ones' tech. Even if the forest regrows, the horde still have at least 3 super-bots and now the means to make more. Plus whatever else they can glean from the first ones' tech.

Seriously, catra sucks at being a bad guy. She needs to just join the rebellion already.

r - Was squandering our advantage while the Whispering Woods regrew part of your plan? Was letting yourself get captured? Etheria's atmosphere has proved to be a complicating variable in my experiments. I I just removed that variable. Tell me, Force Captain, how is your breathing? Pathetic. Just like everything on this backwards planet. Do you know what the definition of failure is, Force Captain? Failure is when something ceases to serve a purpose. When that happens, it becomes worthless to me. Thus far, your performance has been lacking

Damn!

Ok, lets analyze this.

This guy is a perfectionist, he can´t stand that people fail or depend on external stuff to survive like the air do to Catra, he wants people to be as independent as him and as long as Etheria keeps depending on magic that ‘’evolution’’ won’t happen. Either that or the guy is just a dick and im reading too much into it

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Lol.

But also going to reblog again with a screenshot of how I tagged the first reblog since people don't always look at those and that's where I put my real opinions this time.

Indiana Jones 5

Indy’s granddaughter who grew up listening to her granddad tell stories about his adventures and decides that she wants to be an archeologist.

Mutt like died in a motorcycle accident or something, so we don’t have to deal with him.

It’s set in the late 70’s/early 80’s, and the granddaughter’s friends see a picture of young Indy, and one of the friends makes a joke about Indy looking like Han Solo.

I have no other ideas for the plot or characters, but I really feel like Lucasfilm needs to contact me.

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Wouldn't this just be Lara croft?

Indiana Jones 5

Indy’s granddaughter who grew up listening to her granddad tell stories about his adventures and decides that she wants to be an archeologist.

Mutt like died in a motorcycle accident or something, so we don’t have to deal with him.

It’s set in the late 70’s/early 80’s, and the granddaughter’s friends see a picture of young Indy, and one of the friends makes a joke about Indy looking like Han Solo.

I have no other ideas for the plot or characters, but I really feel like Lucasfilm needs to contact me.

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https://kimcartoon.to

Use the rapidvideo setting. There should be three vertical dots in the lower right corner of the player. Click those and a menu with adownload option should appear.

You need to have adblock disabled, unfortunately. And the ads will probably all be for porn games. But unless your internet is absolute shit you should be able to download everything in a couple hours. That's how I did it, so don't worry about viruses.

...

But if a pop-up appears, get rid of that as soon as possible. Don't click on the ads either. Kimcartoon itself can be trusted, the rest can't.

Aaaaaagh

Sooooo… i forgot to download the season 2 and now i can´t find anywhere to download it.

I could watch it in some site without downloading it but it would be kind of uncomfortable for you guys since the tool bar of the video would appear if i want a complete screenshot of the frame, other option would be to download it but as i said i can´t find anywhere to download it, so i guess it is up to you guys?

(And no, i can´t afford Netflix :/)

I´m open to ideas!

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I present to you, Professor Hulk:

Did everything he was supposed to do.

Tried to do Tony's part, too, before Tony actually decided to start helping.

Was helpful and supportive of the whole group throughout the project.

The only one to complete their final objective without fucking it up in some way (Tony lost the tesseract, Steve had to fight himself, Nebula got captured, Thor got completely sidetracked by his mom, and Hawkeye couldn't save his best friend- though I'm willing to cut him some slack because it was her choice).

Basically is the guy who volunteers for the group presentation, does his absolute best, nails it, but is completely fucked up afterwards anyway.

avengers endgame is just a nod to the college group project experience where everyone kinda fucks around and one person (tony stark) has to do all the actual work to get it done

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This should've happened in Avengers endgamel

Spoilers if you ain't seen the damn movie already

Okay so what if Scott used some of the Pym particles Tony and Steve stole from 1970 to create grenades that could shrink and grow stuff

And then at the climax, before he goes and gets rocket and Rhodey, he spots an ant nest under the ruins of Avengers hq, and he tosses one of the grenades into the nest

And then during the portals scene, in addition to giant man

An *army* of building-sized ants climb out of the ruins to wreck thanos' shit

Controlling ants is Scott's coolest and most under-utilized power. Shoulda happened.

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PAINTING A CONTINENT

gen z culture is a hUNDRED AND FOUR DAYS OF SUMMER VACATION AND SCHOOL COMES ALONG JUST TO END IT

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I FUCKED UP I FUCKED UP!

I didn't realize who we were talking about here

Y'all are right. We should not stan one group of capitalist fucks just for flipping off a second group. Those are the ones we should fear even more because those are the ones that will eat their young, even their own limbs, before they give up and admit they're wrong.

some context for yahoo’s excellent product management that not a lot of people know about:

remember yahoo instant messenger? i’m guessing basically everyone stopped using that after like the early 2000s. but until about two years ago, almost all of the world’s oil trading was conducted through yahoo instant messenger. every day hundreds of millions of barrels, billions of dollars in equity, was traded by a bunch of dudes through yahoo instant messenger. traders and brokers loved that they could be speaking with tons of people at once, and their compliance officers loved that there was a transcript of conversations and deals left behind for auditing and regulatory purposes.

but yahoo decided, perhaps reasonably on the surface, that they did not want to support this service anymore. they wanted to migrate the messaging platform onto something a bit more integrated and 21st century. except their new service was not compatible with any kind of conversation-recording capability, so traders would not be allowed to use it anymore for compliance purposes.

chaos. billion dollar companies all around the world were scrambling. how would they conduct their business? i know this sounds silly, but traders talk to hundreds of people a day, brokers are showing them markets all day long. phones are inefficient and not all are set to record. they explained to yahoo what the compliance issue was. they offered to pay – these companies can afford any kind of subscription necessary. they assured yahoo that a massive pillar of the world’s economy, as fucking insane as it sounds, is actually conducted through their service. just let us use it. (here’s a reuters article about it, and here’s a financial times article on it)

yahoo didn’t change.

now everyone uses something else to trade the world’s oil.

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Wait... Yahoo said "fuck you" to big oil and we're NOT stanning them for it? I thought this website hated capitalists?

some context for yahoo’s excellent product management that not a lot of people know about:

remember yahoo instant messenger? i’m guessing basically everyone stopped using that after like the early 2000s. but until about two years ago, almost all of the world’s oil trading was conducted through yahoo instant messenger. every day hundreds of millions of barrels, billions of dollars in equity, was traded by a bunch of dudes through yahoo instant messenger. traders and brokers loved that they could be speaking with tons of people at once, and their compliance officers loved that there was a transcript of conversations and deals left behind for auditing and regulatory purposes.

but yahoo decided, perhaps reasonably on the surface, that they did not want to support this service anymore. they wanted to migrate the messaging platform onto something a bit more integrated and 21st century. except their new service was not compatible with any kind of conversation-recording capability, so traders would not be allowed to use it anymore for compliance purposes.

chaos. billion dollar companies all around the world were scrambling. how would they conduct their business? i know this sounds silly, but traders talk to hundreds of people a day, brokers are showing them markets all day long. phones are inefficient and not all are set to record. they explained to yahoo what the compliance issue was. they offered to pay – these companies can afford any kind of subscription necessary. they assured yahoo that a massive pillar of the world’s economy, as fucking insane as it sounds, is actually conducted through their service. just let us use it. (here’s a reuters article about it, and here’s a financial times article on it)

yahoo didn’t change.

now everyone uses something else to trade the world’s oil.