#aside

[gotogull]

It would be funny if the next Kirby game didn’t contain any eldritch cosmic horror, I feel like it would fuck everyone up so bad.

#Kirby #aside

[darkcomedies]

having a reputation at all is surreal. having a reputation where when i auditioned for shits and giggles today and the mere action of pulling a chair up with me led to like two people laughing in anticipation is thrilling.

#sorry if i keep posting about being ~popular~ in my department i just love being alive #and feel seen for the first time in my life. womp womp. #aside

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics: Evil Orange Rump at his 'best'...

1 & 2. The ex-prez continues to rail against constitutional law.

Rump's still set on becoming a corrupt President-for-Life, by the worst ways possible.

Keep an eye on everyone that he planted - err - 'appointed' while he was in office.

These For Reich Republikkkans are there to help him steal another 4 year term...

Yet, even during his many trials he's being treated with kid gloves!

When he 'couldn't' pay his 1st trial's reward, his assets (the dough he's got for the election & his NY buildings) should have been seized & sold!!

Instead, his bond payments were lowered...

Worse, his continued breaking of the judge's gag order, should have seen him in prison!

Yet, once again, his only punishment is to be continually "warned."

How long is this kind of treatment supposed to last?

Does anybody still remember how many people were victims of this con man?

Quite a lot of voters & others are being denied their due justice...

3 to 7. Everything Dumb Don & his enablers do is crooked.

Nothing they say has any legal merit.

All of their promises are of torture & pain - not of proper governance.

They literally care for no one. And , that includes the suffering of their own political cultists.

How many of his followers have been left to rot - when the Rump who would be king had no more need of them?

How many of his own Republikkkans have turned tail against Lord Rump?

And, are now testifying against King Dump?

Wake up, voters!!

You've long been fooled.

Dump the Rump...

Vote Blue & be True - to your Nation.

#political corruption #political cartoons #history #aside #evil orange rump #vote like it matters #cause it does

[zegalba]

Cecilie Bahnsen x Asics: ‘We Are Water’ Spring/Summer 2023

#cecilie bahnsen #aside #details #runway #flower #floral #2023

[gambi-bino]

whitty,,,,

#friday night funkin fanart #friday night funkin #whitty #whitmore #aside

[liketwoswansinbalance]

Does Rafal have Thalassoharpaxophobia? (Google it...)

Note:

This will take a dark turn. Rafal did not appreciate your question.

⸻

[They respond in unison:]

Rhian: Yes. / Rafal: No.

Rafal: [He glares at Rhian.] I don't fear pirates—they just don't sit right with me. Traitors, the whole lot of them!

Rhian: It's a phobia. Own up to it.

Rafal: Do you see me quaking in fear around them? No, I do not. There. That's your answer: I don't have a phobia.

Rhian: Just because you don't expose your fear doesn't mean you don't feel it.

Rafal: I don't have feelings.

Rhian: Not true. It seems you can feel rage perfectly well. And you're a sore loser.

Rafal: Again, you're wrong. I display emotions to my advantage. That doesn't mean they're real.

Rhian: Fair enough. But I still think you have a phobia, as brilliant a liar that you are.

Rafal: [He finally snaps.] It's not a phobia, Rhian!

Rhian: Whatever you say... and yet—how do you explain why you shoo every single pirate away?

Rafal: It's not because of me. It's-it's because of you! Just how do you expect me—us—to do our work when those foul pests are raising hell on School grounds? They're bad influences.

Rhian: And you're not one?

Rafal: I thought this was about them, not me.

Rhian: [stares at his brother in askance]

Rafal: Fine. I'll admit I'm a bad influence, but it's my job to be one. Think of the students. Besides, you're immune to me by this point, so it doesn't matter either way. Pirates are another story. They do affect you.

Rhian: So now you say you care about the students? What next? Another brazen, bald-faced lie?

Rafal: I'm done with this conversation. For the record, I do not have a phobia.

Rhian: No! Come back! It just became interesting!

[Rafal stalks off.]

[Rhian waits for him to be out of hearing range.]

Rhian: He definitely has a phobia.

Rafal: [shouting] You don't get the last word! I do.

Rhian: [shrugs] Petty. He always leaves me. If only he'd associate with pirates. He has a lot in common with them.

[Rafal halts in his tracks and returns suddenly.]

Rafal: If you’re insinuating I was a deserter, I told you that I wouldn't do it again. Hell, I wouldn't have left if I had known all that would come to pass under your authority.

Rhian: Empty words. Hot air. Guff. What more can you expect from Evil incarnate?

Rafal: Rhian. Stop talking to strangers with their invasive questions. We're done here.

Rhian: Farewell 'til next time, my fair, devoted disciples!

Rafal: [sighs heavily. In a strained voice:] Listen here, Rhian. First, they don't like you. Second, they're glutting you with falsehoods, and third, there won't be a next time. I'm washing my hands of this rabblement, pirates included, and you ought to too.

Rhian: Pay him no mind. All, including pirates, are welcome. [He winks.]

Rafal: I will carve out your tongue if you keep jabbering away like a fool.

Rhian: [outraged, as if he were victimized] See what I have to live with?

Rafal: You're crying out into a cold and unsympathetic void. Whatever passive “audience” you believe we have is as hard and unfeeling as the Storian. They love to watch our pain and misery. They laugh and mercilessly mock us as the Storian does. I wish death upon them all. No, worse.

Rhian: Even if that’s true, mind your manners! [then, in a whisper] You know I’ll just die if whoever is out there doesn’t come away with a good impression.

Rafal: Again, I don’t see why you care about those faceless tormentors of ours. [with a stern look:] To anyone reading: we are not your manikins or playthings. Neither Rhian nor I. You are subordinate to me, and inferiors such as yourselves don’t dictate what we do.

Rhian: The question was harmless, Rafal.

Rafal: But was it victimless? Look at us.

Rhian: What about us?

Rafal: [accusatory] They want to see us fight. They're setting us against each other.

Rhian: My sincerest apologies to everyone. He’s not usually like this, as far as tact and diplomacy extend. He, er… woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Rafal: [abrasively] You still can’t see it, can you? Stop talking and they might just leave us alone.

Rhain: They’re probably gone by now, Rafal. You’ve probably driven them off with that cranky disposition.

Rafal: Doubtful. I know they’re out there. And I’ll be waiting.

Rhian: Enough. I—

Rafal: I think that one day, one day, they’ll surface, and on that day...

Rhian: I’d advise you to run for your lives if you care an ounce for your self-preservation.

Rafal: They'll turn up. They’re sadists and masochists. Why do you think they read our tales?

⸻

My answer to this ask would be no.

It's probably just an impassioned hatred of pirates, an aversion. A full-blown phobia just seems extreme and a little unlikely. I don't think Rafal would generalize and discriminate against all pirates as far as fear goes, but, then again, in terms of simple hatred and his low opinion of them as a collective, I think he would hate them indiscriminately. He'd reject them at every turn, from Hook's betrayal and onwards. But, I could understand viewing Rafal as traumatized in some way through Hook, considering Hook's role in their tale.

#school for good and evil #rise of the school for good and evil #rafal #rafal mistral #rhian #rhian mistral #sge #sfgae #the school for good and evil #tsfgae #rotsge #rotsfgae #my post #ask #dialogue #phobia #phobias #thalassoharpaxophobia #meta #awareness of the narrative #aside #soliloquizing #sort of

[tarnishedinquirer]

Person of Interest: Godfrey

Name: Godfrey Title/Alias: Lord Race: Unknown Gender: Male Occupation: Lord of Limgrave (former), Marika's Lord Affiliation: Golden Lineage, Tarnished Notes:

Once ruled over Limgrave from Stormveil

Godrick is his descendant (disputed)

Formed the "Golden Lineage," from which Kenneth Haight also descends.

Defeated the Nameless Revenger at Castle Morne.

Was Marika's Lord

First of the Tarnished

Banished along with his followers, to return after death.

First Elden Lord

#elden ring #elden ring lore #in character #in character blog #in character post #let's play #persons of interest #aside #it's funny how #from a purely in-character perspective #I know basically nothing about him rn #at time of writing #he's mentioned literally twice lol #the picture is wrong #because my character is wrong

[rieindiegames]

You know one of my all time favourite things in IseKai is that, "Oh, oh my goodness!?" moment when the depth of Ceres's cunning comes through. 😂😂😂He really plays the long game with all the pieces.

I sincerely hope all yandere enjoyers, and even those who aren't particular fans of the trope enjoy him.

#isekaichosenthrone #aside #personal

[wiirocku]

Psalm 14:3 (KJV) - They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

#Psalm 14:3 #all #gone #aside #together #become #filthy #none #doeth #good #no #not one

[kadoodles-on-ao3]

I was so close to being done!!!!

(I'll cut this for length and, just in case, Xenoblade spoilers for the beginning of Makna Forest)

I had completely finished most of the audio: figuring out what circumstances it all plays under, organizing it in the table, linking to the correct file, everything. I was working on the temporary- and non-party-members and then all I had to do was write up notes on the unused audio and I'd have been done.

But then. BUT THEN.

Shulk, in the middle of me testing Alvis' battle lines in the Telethia fight, decided to say "We're being pinned down!"

WHAT.

I have played this game (the original and Definitive Edition combined) for at the minimum a couple hundred hours, not to mention all the time I've watched others play through it, and I have NEVER heard him say that line before. N-E-V-E-R.

The very reason I started this project was because a while back I tried looking around to see if anyone had made an exhaustive list on which audio files play and in what situations, and I found a few incomplete sources:

an article on the Xenoblade wiki that only did this for Fiora's lines, and not even all of them at that

three articles on the Xenoseries wiki for Shulk, Reyn, and Fiora's lines, but again not all of them were figured out and a few lines had incorrect criteria for when they played

a section of Xenoblade: The Secret File - Monado Archives listed the transcriptions of each party member's combat audio and put them in loose categories, but it was again incomplete, the sections are pretty vague whereas I want to narrow everything down to the tiniest detail, and even listed unused lines to boot

The Cutting Room Floor had a section for Unused Audio which I found out was, after I tore through every. single. combat. voice. line., both incomplete and listed some audio as unused that I was able to get the game to play

As I made my way through this project these resources were invaluable, extremely helpful in at the very least giving me some kind of jumping-off point to go about figuring out when an audio file plays.

Most of my sources above have no idea when that "We're being pinned down!" line (and the equivalent lines Fiora and Reyn say) plays. It's either not even listed (neither Fiora's Xenoblade wiki article for her used audio and The Cutting Room Floor's Unused Audio article have it listed) or put in the "we have no idea when this plays and might be unused" section (The Xenoseries articles). The only source that has it is the Secret Files book, and after seeing many unused (and confirmed 100% unused lines, such as the lines each character shouts when another dies, which were replaced with the lines spoken by the character who dies in the final game) lines listed there among used ones, combined with me never having heard any of these lines play before (there were a few cases where lines fit all this criteria but I remembered hearing them in-game at some point, and after much testing was able to discover they are used but just have extremely esoteric criteria to play, such as "killing an enemy in a multi-enemy combat situation which is six or more levels below your level," if any one of those criteria are not met this line will not play and even then it will only play sometimes when you do meet all the criteria) I made an educated guess, called these unused, and went on with my day.

But apparently they're not unused.

I think I might be the only person who's ever heard this line said in-game in the history of this game's existence.

And I have to find out when it's supposed to play.

Shulk said it immediately after being revived (meaning this could be a revival line or he just happened to say it right after getting picked up and it has nothing to do with being revived) by a low-health, low-tension Alvis in a multi-enemy combat situation, and the fact that there being no third party member in this fight makes the game think when calling audio that there is a third party member who is just dead (Fiora when by herself can play the "hard-won victory" post-battle lines because the game plays those when party members are dead when a battle ends) means there are 10000 different things this could be.

All the Secret Files tells me is that this line plays when there's a "change in hitpoints," a term it used to refer to both lines that play when enemy HP reaches a certain threshold and when party member HP reaches a certain threshold.

Oh no.

#aside #xenoblade #xenoblade spoilers #xenoblade chronicles spoilers #please help

[hsetau]

This isnt a suggest i just wanna say i love this series so so much, its so good. thank you for making it.

And I love YOU, random citizen!

#aside

[gotogull]

Guess who’s learning how to 3D model and losing their mind

#THERE ARE SO MANY BUTTONS #ILL LEARN THEM ALL OUT OF SPITE #the good kind of going insane #aside #inverse kinimatics my beloved

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics: Inspiring HPL.

1. Irvin S. Cobb - American writer, editor, humorist & columnist hailing from Paducah, Kentucky¹.

He was the highest paid staff reporter on the NY World newspaper².

Irvin would write 60+ books & around 300 short stories.

Some of which were adapted into silent movies. And, 2 of his later tales were actually filmed, by the famed John Ford³, during the 1930s!

2. Cobb's "dark side" (horror works) of the otherwise lighthearted comedian & the story in question.

3 & 4. Comedic frontpieces(?) for books by Cobb. The 2nd even boasts an Abraham Lincoln quote!

5. Cover to Cobb's collection of other authors's short horror tales.

6. Inside art from Fishhead's ending...

1913 Addendum -

Intro: Irvin Cobb's infamous short story "Fishhead" is set in the back- wood bayous of the vast Reelfoot Lake⁴.

Plot: The tale concerns the murder of a local outcast freak by "poor whites."

With its surprise Jaws⁵-like ending, this gruesome work reminds readers of an issue of EC comics⁶!

Criticism: Lovecraft lauded Cobb for, "... Carrying on our (own) spectral tradition is the gifted... humorist, I.S. Cobb, whose works... contain some finely (made) weird (tales)."

Of the plot, Howard stated that, "Fish- head" (is) an early achievement, ... banefully effective in its portrayal of (an) unnatural... hybrid idiot & the strange fish of an isolated lake."

Lovecraft further opined, "It is (my firm) belief... that... few short stories of equal merit have been published anywhere (else)..."

Legacy: Cobb's "Fishhead" is seen as a major influence on Lovecraft's own "Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Robert M. Price⁷ noted that, "What (Howard) found revolting was the idea of interracial marriage (&) of different ethnicities mating, (thus) 'polluting' the (white? human?) gene pool."

Fishhead is supposedly "the son of a Negro father & a halfbreed Indian mother." It's never mentioned what her other half was from...

This is the same premise behind HPL's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Except that Lovecraft calls them Deep Ones & has a whole city that's been 'turned'...

More when we get to this story...

Notes:

1. Paducah, as 1 out of 9 U.S. Creative Cities, is a haven for thinkers, artists & creators!

Architectural Digest recognizes this city's historic district as 1 of the most beautiful main streets in America.

There are 20 downtown blocks listed in the National Register of Historic Places!

Weird Shit: Paducah's nickname is "The Atomic City."

This was because it was once the U.S.'s only uranium plant, making atomic bombs for our Defense Department...

2. The NY World newspaper began (in 1860) as a leading voice for the US Democratic Party.

But, once under Joseph Pulitzer, it became a pioneer in "yellow journalism."

Catching readers's attention with sensational (sex, sport & scandal) news stories.

This raised their circulation past the 1 million mark!!

Best known for being among the 1st to publish daily comic strips.

They actually created "Hogan's Alley", "Everyday Movies", "Little Mary Mix- up" & "Joe Jinks!"

Merged with The NY Telegram in 1931.

Revived - online - in 2011 by Columbia U. But, hasn't had any new content since 2016...

3. John Ford was an American movie director who won Oscars for "The Informer", "The Grapes of Wrath", "How Green Was My Valley" & "The Quiet Man."

The best of his many Westerns are "The Searchers", "Stagecoach" & "My Darling Clementine."

4. Reelfoot Lake is a real lake best known for its shallowness - about 5½ feet on average.

It's located in western Tennessee &, strangely enough, no swimming is allowed there...

The lake is named after an 1800's Chickasaw warrior with a deformed leg...

Reelfoot Bayou, with its cypress trees, flows out of the lake to join the Obion River - which runs straight to the Mississippi.

5. "Jaws" is, of course, director Steven Spielberg's 1st international master- piece.

And it doesn't need any hype, from me, for you to see it again!

97% on Rotten Tomatoes!!

Enough said...

Make it so!

6. E.C. Comics was an American publisher specializing in horror, crime, dark fantasy & sci-fi comicbooks.

William Gaines printed mature tales of war, adventure, satire, etc...

Noted for its stories high quality, shock endings & progressive social awareness.

Among the themes that EC creators touched upon are: racial equality, anti- war sentiments, nuclear disarmament & even early environmentalism!

Sadly, official censorship forced EC to focus on its "Mad" magazine - which became it's greatest success!!

EC has just been revived, by Oni Press, on this past February of 2024!!

Good times guaranteed...

7. R.M. Price is an American biblical scholar, author & an authority on H.P. Lovecraft.

His works include: "Deconstructing Jesus", "The Reason Driven Life", "The New Lovecraftian Circle", "World War Cthulhu", "The Disciples of Cthulhu", "Arkham Detective Agency", "The Da Vinci Fraud", "The Apartheid State in Crisis" & more great stuff!!

Price was the editor of the greatly lamented Crypt of Cthulhu, Midnight Shambler & Eldritch Tales fanzines.

He even edited a whole series of Mythos anthologies for Chaosium.

Today, Price is editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism!

Busy little tentacle, ain't he...

#hpl bio #history #aside #inspiration #weird fiction

[bsmallvoice]

Best line in the Barbie Movie

Note to Movie Production: Margot Robbie was not the right one to cast to make this point.

#barbie #mattel #barbie movie #aside #movie quotations

[dougielombax]

Okay this is getting ridiculous.

(But I’m so glad this is real! This was pitched in a boardroom to execs and they said YES!)

First there’s the fact that you can play Doom on every other game console and their dog.

Which is impressive enough.

But some people take it further.

You can play it on calculators! Oscilloscopes, pregnancy tests, ATM machines, a piano, printers, microwaves, MP3 players, a fucking ULTRASOUND scanning machine, Zune, billboards, those fucking screens what they put in the seats on planes, a Porsche 911, INSIDE OTHER GAMES!!!!!!! (These all actually happened btw!)

People have taught rats to play Doom (and you thought using a mouse was ridiculous (KILL ME!))!

People have played Doom on arcade machines!

People have played Doom using fucking modified TOASTERS as controllers!

And those are only the (actual) examples I can recall!

And now there’s this SHIT!!!!!

Playing Doom on a robotic lawnmower!

(Insert some joke about the Doom Guy becoming Lawnmower Man! *violent puking noises*)

Which I think is hilariously convoluted! But amazing regardless!

but

But.

But!

But!!!

BUT!!!!!

Here’s the REAL question!

Can it run Crysis?????!!!!!!!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #doom #gaming #lawnmower #ign #news #husqvarna #gardening #anti lawn #aside #can it run doom #can it run Crysis #id software #crysis #crytek #tangentially #no context #what #amazing #why though #holy shit #playing doom on everything #automation #lawnmower man #home appliances

[misty-dragon-of-ashton]

...i think i have a problem, lmao.

#pony town #hazy river #minus #misty river #b sides #horrorcello #pibby #aside #b2 remixes #vs hex #hypno's lullaby #arrow funk #long post #dragon's rumblings