#EXCEPT THIS WAS NOT TACTICAL

[atlasascending]

Catching up on CR and my god. My fucking god. Of all the *stupid* things to do

#critical role #c3 e77 #this is the most 😬 moment of the show since that one bit in c1 when Sam moved closer to vecna and Marisha was like wtf dude #EXCEPT THIS WAS NOT TACTICAL #MATT WARNED HIM A THOUSAND TIMES #we could have had it all #callowmoore #I think it’s the nonchalance #kind of rubbing me the wrong way #I think it’s a believable character move #but I also think game mechanics-wise it’s pretty crap #he’s either going to be too OP or he’ll have to get nerfed #when we could have had an awesome fearne moment #and then we could have actually had the very narratively satisfying discovery of how Ashton’s earth shard would awaken in response #not even in a shipping way #just would have been fucking cool #oh well #guess I’ll just watch the next episodes and hope Matt makes it work!

[captainjonnitkessler]

The "radical leftists" on this site who talk constantly about the importance of solidarity and kindness and compassion and then immediately tell anyone who disagrees with them to kill themselves are going to be devastated when they learn how much of actual union organizing involves talking to people whose politics you find incredibly repugnant and meeting them where they're at in order to find common ground

#so weird that none of the organizing lectures I've been to have advocated for suicide baiting as a tactic #can't imagine why that would be #turns out 'worker solidarity except for anyone who i deem not radical enough' isn't actually solidarity

[ahaura]

something something when the facade of western "democracy" continues to crumble, liberals are faced with the choice of either abandoning the systems that facilitate genocide, theft, exploitation, racism, etc. or resort to old habits that do nothing to seriously challenge or dismantle said systems... inevitably many will fall back on focusing on optics/aesthetics and hyper-individualizing their approach to combat their feelings of helplessness etc. and/or to avoid confronting the systems in place that have led to this moment (which they are most comfortable in, because liberalism never truly changes the systems in place)

the problem is not, never has been, and never will be the *tone* or *conduct* of palestinians (in occupied palestine or the diaspora); the obstacles in the way of peace&liberation are not from palestinians or palestinian resistance but the continuation of colonialism, the maintenance of which is inherently violent and oppressive. the people responsible for the genocide going into its 4th month are not palestinians who liberals want to tone police but the u.s. empire and its glorified military base settler colony, whose existence is founded + depends upon the genocide and ethnic cleansing of palestinians.

#in other words. liberals shut UP. #tone policing the ones whose people are being subjected to genocide is just #straight up racist. and fucking shitty. and stupid. and not going to fix anything. #this has already been said but idk it just breaks my brain #liberals w a genuine interest in justice and change may be having their world views shattered right now #but i PROMISE that resorting to tactics typical of liberalism (focusing on optics rather than actual substance and structural change) #is not going to get u anywhere except for needlessly harrassing the ppl suffering the most right now (palestinians).

[rochenn]

Clone armor must have crazy thermoregulation if they're running around in full bodysuit and plating no matter the climate or humidity. We're being robbed of sweaty dudes in light fatigues trudging through the jungle with their sleeves rolled up :/

#tcw #same goes for the jedi. they should get more tactical clothing too #only exception i've seen is cold weather gear 😔😔

[undead-knick-knack]

No I don't think she will 😌

#she's gonna cycle thru all manipulation tactics before considering apologizing to orym #critical role #critrole #critrole memes #bells hells #bell's hells #ashton greymoore #laudna #ashton was probably the closest to holding laudna accountable (except for orym of course) #apology #apologize #sorry #marge simpson #cr spoilers #cr memes #cr shitpost #courtesy of me #cr campaign three #crit role #critrole meme #cr3 #cr c3

[silusvesuius]

nightmare

#my art #he dusn't know how to show physical affection so if he does it;s just death grip on talvas' knee or petting him really roughly and it - #- doesn't even feel pleasant (he's experiencing cute aggression except he actually wants him to die) #and everyone thinks it's some kinda disciplinary or intimidation tactic :( guys he's trying to be Nice and you're making him feel Bad ugh

[ffxiii-et-al]

[Conversation while Clive, Jill, and Joshua ride chocobos together]

Jill: Do you think that we ought to think of a name for each of Ambrosia's companions?

Clive: Perhaps we should.

Joshua: I already know what mine is called.

Jill: You've got a name for her already, Joshua?

Joshua: I do.

Clive: And?

Joshua: Her name is ‘Kweh’.

Clive: [with distain] You've named your Chocobo “Kweh”?

Joshua: [Looking proud and mischievous] I certainly did not. I asked her what her name was and that was her reply.

Jill: [charmed laughter] You're adorable, Joshua.

Clive: [Long suffering sigh™]

#Joshua Rosfield #Chocobo #incorrect ff16 #Clive Rosfield #jill warrick #final fantasy xvi #final fantasy 16 #ff16 #ffxvi #bonus dialogue #Joshua rizzfield #the man will flirt with anyone #and has a surplus of stupid jokes to disarm people #it's a survival tactic for him #if people like you they do what you want #and he literally cannot turn it off #clive does not know how to cope with his brother's dumb jokes #Jill loves it #as does everyone else #except Jote #she and Clive are the same there #mine #lol #extra dialogue #ff16 chocobo

[fandomsonly]

the only time I accept someone calling Shen Qingqiu (Yuan) an idiot is when they realize this genius tactician's EQ is in the negatives

#svsss #shen qingqiu #one other exception: when SY the genius tactician thinks throwing a cat is a wise tactical choice #like he sees ppl fighting and is like 'let's use the cat' and then runs in #specifically to help his disciple doubleslap a bitch #which the doubleslap is fine? but using a cat? as your secret entrance? i'm crying?

[otaku553]

The passage of time

#ocs #wee hoo they return! #got talking with some friends about oc lore and so yeah here they are #my friend asked if they moved to New York in the second pic ;v; #the answer is no they just got promoted and are all sad and not communicating properly with each other #I love the idea of the xieran being cot’s moral backbone because neither of them care that strongly about other people lmao #also love cot carrying all of his gremlin energy into adulthood #except now with 10x the devious and sly underhanded tactics #thinking a lot about the passage of time after starting aa4

[beedreamscape]

When Asmodeus said to Zerxus he'd protect him from fae this *points to Fearne getting her hand kissed by Teven* is what he meant

Not (just) because they're dangerous, but because they charming--- Stop flirting with the changeling! No, do not kiss the satyr's hand--- Don't let that eladrin touch your cheek, this is my last warning! Oh they're taking off their pants, I'm gonna rip their face off...

#this is why he asked the whole Feywild to steer clear of the calamity #instead of world domination. theyd be fucking and flirting #cr asmodeus #zerxus #fearne #teven klask #cr stuff #exu calamity #the tempting is a tactic not meant to be acted upon #except... #critical role #rambles

[tora-the-cat]

one of the funniest things about Itachi and Sasuke is that they are BOTH so 'I love it when people play mind games with me. I will kill us both <3' coded likkkke!!

His FATHER spent Itachi's whole life grooming him to lead a coup and become the first Uchiha Hokage, and Itachi spent every second he could undermining that and then eventually has no choice but to kill him! Danzo (and Hiruzen) backed Itachi into a corner and made him do the unthinkable, so Itachi made a 10 year plan for his own death and fully intended to murder Danzo if he ever tried to pull some shit with Sauske village be damned, and THEN Sasuke finding out about the whole situaiton IS what killed Danzo in the end, and it WASN'T EVEN PART OF ITACHI'S PLAN!! Obito got so angry at this 6 year old for being an optimist and a pacifist that he killed his teammates and then actively assisted the kid in an ethnic cleansing to break Itachi's spirit and make him an ideal pawn for the Akatsuki, and Itachi just! Got super depressed (again, 10 year death plan) and hated his guts and starts dissociating whenever Obito talks!! He delays the Akatsuki's plans by years because Obito is now nervous to directly attack Konoha while Itachi's still breathing! and he's STILL spying for Konoha and Obito is either willfully ignorant because he thinks Itachi is a lame party pooper or too scared to do anything about it!!

And Sasuke???? SASUKE!!! Spends his ENTIRE LIFE under the thumb of people who think they know him and how to manipulate him and are wrong EVERY TIME! Orochimaru thinks his thirst for power is so all consuming that he doesn't care about himself or anything else outside of killing Itachi and is thus incapable of independant scheming or betrayal, and he gets KILLED FOR IT! Obito makes the SAME damn mistake he made with Itachi and underestimates Sasuke because he thinks that he's so broken by his brother's fate that he's suseptible to any and all suggestion, and Sasuke doesn't give a FUCK about ANYTHING besides his own plans anymore, and is absolutely just going to do whatever he thinks is right until it inevitably kills him, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised it Obito was on his hitlist- and, at the end of the day, Obito DOES end up dead!! Gaara tries to empathize but is still learning empathy so instead Sasuke just feels like his LITERAL GENOCIDE is being trivialized, and ALMOST dies for it! Danzo assumes he's just another corrupted wayward Uchiha, and gets KILLED FOR IT! Kakashi thinks that Sasuke is Just Like Him For Real and thus he knows that Sasuke is beyond saving and must die, and gets ALMOST killed for it and then proven WRONG!! Literally ALL of the fucking HOKAGE try to plea for Konoha's legitimacy and lie like DOGS using all of their politician plays of why Sasuke should Stop, and he calls bullshit on all of it anyway! Sasuke spent his entire young life getting passed around like a hot potatoe between men projecting their own trauma onto him and convincing themselves that they know his every move because they once were him, but NO ONE has EVER been doing it like Sasuke and none of them accounted for the fact that he's so scared of everything and full of love and never wrong and not afraid of death or any of them and they've been dead since Sasuke decided they were annoying!!

Naruto and Sakura were only able to get through to him at ALL because Naruto lacks the decorum to be manipulative and thus Sasuke can engage with his bullheaded arguments without feeling actively hunted (like he HAS BEEN his WHOLE LIFE) and Sakura actually DOES understand him and his motivations and his soul in it's entirety because she spent their adolescence studying him like a bug, so she can meet him EXACTLY where he's at. The only person in the world who ever successfully manipulated Sasuke was Itachi, which makes sense considering he mastered the art of it FIRST!!

#uchiha itachi #uchiha sasuke #sasuke uchiha #itachi uchiha #the only person who ever successfully manipulated Itachi without suffering any concequences was arguably Shisui #who employed the genius tactics of 1. being an actual literal GOD of manipulation and teeheeing #and 2. killing himself before Itachi could ask any questions. this is not a critique btw I love shisui <3 <3 #not a typo btw. Sasuke is afraid of just about everything EXCEPT death and men who tell him what to do. hope this helps

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#this is exactly how Dante delivers that line except for the voice crack #shenanigans #dragon ball #dragon ball z #vegeta #over 9000 #devil may cry #featuring dante from the devil may cry series #bathos #old memes #fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak memes stronger #I made a version of this years ago but I remade it because I couldn't edit an image description onto the post

[siliconcat]

rip to Sanae in that ZUN’s hakurei favoritism always leads to her always getting the short end of the stick as a playable character. babygirl your shot type is complete ass

#except for th18 in which her bomb is a tactical nuke. everything else kinda sucks tho

[elena-fishr]

I cannot get over how she is looking at him

#GIRL #i build affinity with no one except her okay✨ #dragons dogma #valenfield #srry I don’t want to clog the valenfield tag with my dd2 clips but I can’t let this one go #Especially cuz she blushing talking about sound strategy and defensive tactics lol

[grogumaximus]

#they are humans after all #but max making mistakes from pressure? the same 23 y.o max fighting for his first title against literally the statistical goat? that max? #But honestly when did max make a mistake due to him being under pressure? #Maybe at jeddah 2021 quali n his lockup in singapore 2022 but what else? His last 4 races in 2021? They weren't mistakes #they were clearly deliberate verstaliban tactics he couldn't fight lewis with merc being much faster he would've risked a penalty/dsq #n not regretting losing the championship at the end it was just verstaliban verstalibaning fr n we saw it this year n we saw it last year #even against mick in Silverstone n this is what max said about it #“it was a good battle. I was like 'well he had to know to back off otherwise we are both out' Luckily he is smart enough to.” #lol he got cooked for this but it was verstaliban not pressure n that's my point #“carlos in singapore” old man bffr redbull fucked up their setup n everyone knows that they were the 4th fastest car that weekend #n no don't bring up his hungary n his spain mistakes in 2022 as pressure mistakes they were just mistakes due to gust of wind n wet weather #n guess what he won both of these races #This year he almost lost it at the front when he was like 15s+ from the rest n giggled about it was that from pressure? #no if it happened then it would've been just a mistake #I honestly don't remember anyone excuses max's mistakes are due to him pushing over the limit or he's driving an understeery car that #puts him under pressure as well if he made a mistake then he was a bozo n simply a mistake #(except for jeddah which was a rare mistake from being under pressure n we called it a bottle) #I dont wanna go there but he set up his team when his team n drivers make mistakes without even a title pressure #oof i had to let it out #max verstappen

[heyclickadee]

I notice they aren’t doing the, “Let’s give most of the season’s episodes to influencers,” marketing tactic this season. As far as we know.

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #bad batch spoilers #in a weird way I sort of think it worked to get people hyped #but gosh was that a bizarre tactic #the WHOLE SEASON except SPOILERS AT THE END