#fair and balanced

[trump666traitor]

#fox news #fair and balanced #science #trump university #Melania Trump #truth shall set you free #Putins Apprentice

[drmprop]

#fox news #false news #Trump #Dominion #defamation lawsuit #my pillow chief #Laura Ingraham #Sean Hannity #Rupert Murdoch #Tucker Carlson #fair and balanced #Maria Bartiromo #cartoon #voter fraud

[giffypudding]

Fox News has the best viewers

#the simpsons #simpsons #gif #fox news #racists #fox #racist #news channel #fair and balanced #helicopter #newscopter #city

[felicitywilds]

don't mind me, just thinking about how in every other graphic novel cover, the d20 is in the air, bouncing away from them, just out of reach, almost mocking them as it determines their fates. but for the suffering game, taako is on his knees, front and center, pinning it to the ground, umbra staff at the ready. has he got a fuckin' idea for you.

#taz #taz gn #the adventure zone #taz balance #taako #taz gn spoilers #by me #time to FUCKING saute my dudes #i think its fair now to tag this as #top

[jeeaark]

So downside, accidentally had Jurassic park shenanigans spoiled for me, but upside!

Greygold was able to use that foresight to treat Lae'zel to some Turok Fun.

I can only surmise that said foresight is what Greygold occasionally picks up from their reliable scouting familiar raven, Quothe.

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #lae'zel #bg3 fanart #bg3 comic #greygold #The only exaggeration is that Lae'zel didn't even get scratched throughout the entire ordeal pfff #Been drawing a lot of cranky babe #had to balance that out with some cute sillies again #Lae'zel then carries around the head of a bloodthirsty raptor like she just won the biggest teddy bear plushie at the state fair

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

Danny Phantom doesn’t want to be king.

And the Observants also don’t want him to be king.

Frankly, very VERY few people want him to be king, dead or alive.

But opening the sarcophagus, even if it’s closed NOW, disrupted some magic protections. Until those can be fixed, summoning spells need to be answered by SOMEONE. Not all of summons, just like—once a month or so. Because if they don’t let that power outlet happen, all of those summon magics build up and suddenly Pariah Dark reigns again. Answering the summon basically dispels the built up magic, like opening a dam.

Again, Danny doesn’t WANT to do this either, but everyone else involved is a bad choice. He won’t even be named prince, because THEN that implies he COULD be king. He needs a title, of some kind, a position in the court, no matter how tenuous, so he can do the thing. Something where no one in their right or even WRONG mind would think to try to kill him for the position or try to marry him or something equally annoying to deal with.

So.

He becomes the Ghost Court Jester.

He even gets a fancy little outfit upgrade when he’s summoned, all black and white bell hats and shoes, a stupid little ruffle collar and black parachute pants, even face paint with a tiny dot of glowing neon green at the tip of his nose. The works. Better yet, if he hasn’t been ‘unsummoned’, his human form is just the exact same costume with swapped colors. He can change into his normal outfits, but until that circle has been disrupted, the next summon, or the next full or new moon, he’s stuck into the outfit when he first transforms from either form.

The Phantom Jester, which is a title more intimidating than Danny appears to be if we are to be honest, cracks jokes and never, EVER takes the summons seriously.

“Listen, I just had to get my hours in and it’s the last day of the lunar month, you got lucky I came at all.”

“I got the position by virtue of not wanting to go to Time Jail for a crime I technically didn’t commit and technically probably won’t but, well, eyes are the beholder of the grudge or something else equally cryptic to make you mad.”

“Is this a slumber party? … do you have cake? Bummer. Well, enjoy the bleeding walls then.”

“Whether I help you or not is entirely dependent on how well of a run down you can give me on this book I have to read that I have not at all touched.”

“Explain the reason in three sentences or less. I suggest less. And if it’s stupid I’m hitting you—oh you think this circle can contain me? Haha. It won’t.”

“Is that chicken blood? Why?? What did the chickens do to you?”

There are props in his costume but he literally never knows what he’s gonna pull out of his sleeves. Danny can’t even do a balloon animal and knows exactly zero card tricks, which would be more of an issue if the cards weren’t the size of a dinner plate. He barely even juggles and he’s honestly probably just utilizing his rarely-used telekinetic powers, but he does give people flowers if they haven’t been a total jerk. And if those flowers are like, rare and have seeds for propagation, well… he literally wouldn’t know. No, really, he doesn’t. He gets summoned by at least two ecology departments and he has no idea why, I mean, if he had a nickel—

He also had pies and is NOT afraid to use them.

#danny phantom #danny phantom headcanon #I usually do crossover stuff these days #but I deliberately left it out so anyone could chose to do so or not #that said…. could you imagine #there’s so many fandoms where this would just be really fucking funny #rare spell ingredients? super serious situation? life and death in the BALANCE? #and here’s a sassy teenager who isn’t even getting paid for this #you summoned him and now he’s YOUR problem #fair warning he bites #someone calls him a mime and he almost decks them #Mimes and clowns are noble pursuits! #this is like. pun-ishment of some kind

[almondpiglet]

fight 💥💥💥 for mobtober

#what a fair and balanced match up! #i love fighting people less than half my age 😇!!! #my art #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #shimazaki ryou #teruki hanazawa #mobtober

[erzvolnes]

(by your doctor I don't necessarily mean who you think is the best character, or who had the most well-written arc, or even your favourite. More like, which one is the most important to you? Which one comes to mind when you think of 'The Doctor'?)

Feel free to explain your choice in the tags!

#doctor who #im just curious bc 12 is MY doctor #and I've seen a lot of love for 10/14/15 recently for understandable reasons #but im curious what the actual balance is fhbds #including 15 for Fairness even though we haven't seen much of him yet but. he's so fucking cool 👍 #also sorry to my followers for being back in the DW depths again #it won't last forever just let me get it out of my system

[valyrfia]

I have to way I'm a bit surprised by all the hate charles gets and all the support carlos gets

I used to think charles was more popular

I guess when it comes to Fandom he does have a bigger one, but I think general audiences seems to support carlos more

Maybe it's underdog narrative idk. Like charles is constantly called spoiled, brat, whiny etc whenever he says ANYTHING that isn't super nice, while carlos can bitch as much as he want and barely gets called out

Fandom is always a bubble. I'd say the top two drivers in fandom are probably Charles, Max, and Lando because they're the ones that are popular with younger audiences. It's certainly not true outside. Sure, there's an RPF to fandom, but I think it's also worth noting as well if you're in F1 fandom, you're probably a more avid viewer of the sport than most casual fans, so things like Max's current domination are made more interesting by knowing the ins and outs of his journey, and it's easier to reject anti-Charles viewpoints because when you watch a drive like Suzuka in real time and look at the data afterwards, you understand why the past four WDCs think him generational, and why Carlos is a GOOD driver, indisputably, but has a deficit of skill in comparison to Charles which is masked with luck.

Also ultimately, it's a difference in what type of PR sells to different generations as well. Charles has carefully cultivated quite a strong parasocial relationship with a very loyal fanbase mainly comprising of the countries of Italy and Monaco and younger fans–he does this through playing into inside jokes online with his fans, making us feel like we have a 'special' understanding with him by liking certain tweets, or using certain emojis, or using pictures for his instagram that sneakily reflect a piece of online discourse that happened on a race weekend. Carlos has gone for the more traditional media approach of an underdog narrative to gain sympathy, but he doesn't have the same legion of loyal fans as Charles and makes no effort to build the same fan backchannels that Charles does, which is why I think that Charles, ultimately, will win the PR game. The support of traditional media is fickle, but the lecfosi would follow Charles into hell if asked. It's why Charles knows ventures like LEC or his music will succeed, wheras can the same be said for Carlos outside of Spain?

#i am always super wary of those who seek to build parasocial fanbases but i think charles has managed it in a taylor swift way ie quite well #lando also has a parasocial relationship with his fans but i think he manages that one worse #max in a weird way does not want anything to do with parasocial relationships at all but him basically being a child star helped build one #also i think he piggybacks off of lando's and charles' a fair bit #carlos also piggybacks off of lando's but in a weird way the positive effect from that one is balanced out by the negative from charles' #anyway thoughts! #f1 journalism discourse #f1 parasocial PR #charles leclerc #anon #asks

[rathologic]

biggest disconnect in pathologic's reception has kind of always been a divide between "patho is driven by mechanics" and "patho is driven by story" camps where opinions only ever come from one of these extremes... around p1's development and release the developers considered it exclusively a survival challenge sim, not a game marketed for its story (despite story representing a huge fraction of the time and thought put into it). In The Society Of Dead Poets goes into so much detail about this. and it WAS a stunning technical work under the circumstances, but the complex story was what gave the franchise cult appeal, or at least enough so for it to get a sequel... reviews from the period tend to go along the lines of "this game looks and plays like shit but it's extremely thought-provoking". there's a little to be said about the mainstream view of a "Gamer" in 2005 and what they would be interested in marketing-wise not tracking with story games yet; anyway, the one-dimensionality here was consistent with the studio's approach to games as a whole (cf BoneHouse.ppt).

so IPL's perception of their work was what informed p2's priorities, which turned out to be A Way Better Survival Challenge at the expense of things like characters having complex motivations (expansion on this has been omitted; iykyk), and they did an incredible job with that & basically perfected what they had been going for mechanically. which created this weird divide where p2 fans think 1 isn't worth playing because it's less engaging as a gaming experience, and p1 fans (me included, to be clear) see 2's story changes as a spit in the face of everything that made the series work. like, neither of these are fundamentally incorrect, but they refer to completely non-overlapping paradigms of engaging with the material. when hopefully it can be agreed that a Video Game is comprised of Both a narrative aspect and an interactive aspect, and that they need to work together to create the player's transformative experience (again, premise of BoneHouse.ppt).

Anyway. that helps explain a lot of hbomb's stance on the franchise, particularly that he can endorse patho2 without comment as an ostensibly leftist youtuber when even the most cursory playthrough is enough to let players in on its gleeful centering of ecofascism... that game's representation of colonial relations as an unfixable divide employing the racist trope of reciprocal violence, its obsession with maintaining status quo, and its completely tasteless approach to MMIW are all elements of Story and thus all secondary to p2's huge improvements on the survival system. in the same vein, his discussion of p1's changeling's route is limited to the constant reputation decrease and the repeated quests because those are the only mechanical features introduced over the previous routes, even while clararoute text is fundamental to understanding most characters... his video isn't like Bad for getting the interactive experience p1 would present to you, but it sucks for engaging with the story because it's not about the story. and unfortunately, on discussion posting websites, we do usually post about story

#pathologic #I'm so tired. #FAQ: BoneHouse was a presentation given by an IPL writer who will go unnamed here regarding his philosophy to gamedev. ItSODP was a lengthy #interview with the same (there's an EN translation on archive.org; BoneHouse is on the Files section of the archived IPL webpage). #genuinely I do really enjoy p2 as a survival sim and I think the most interesting things done with it (challenge runs) arise purely from #engaging with that half of the gameplay. but there is nothing to talk about w/o the plot it presents to you and that's why hbomb's video #falls so flat to me in applying that same approach to 1; a game fundamentally not balanced in a way that that's a fair take

[lucy-moderatz]

#tv: miss fisher's murder mysteries #mfmmedit #miss fisher's murder mysteries #phryne x jack #i've been reading the veronica speedwell series and thinking a lot about this scene #of having to balance being your own person #and understanding how you and your actions effect others #and how it may not be fair to expect them to just go along with what you want at the expense of their feelings #jack had ever right to want to put distance between himself and phyrne #as much as it may hurt and as rejected as she ends up feeling #he did the right thing for himself #and she needed to know that her choices effect more than just her #things i made

[starheirxero]

OH YEA BTW SINCE THE VAS DECIDED TO GET EXTRA SILLY FOR MGAFS:

Earth's VA clarified (very passionately and consistently) that Earth DID NOT DIE from Bloodmoon that was a MISTAKE from Sun or Moon's VA (I can't remember which 😭), technically the old body died because it was broken beyond repair but she herself was perfectly okay!! So both her and Sun are untouched by the family theme of dying. She was just badly injured!

She also said she wants it to be canon that Earth can do a backflip! :]

KC's VA touched on the question of "why didn't it fight back against Bloodmoon?" and it was simply because it didn't care to 💔

#xero says things #also in a similar vein but it was on tlaes: #apparently the acts of killing old moon and lunar and eclipse w/ the star were to balance things out power wise?? #or at least partially influenced by that #bc they said they kinda let magic get outta hand so they were like. ah. #we gotta nuke some of these characters who either are crazy powerful magic-wise #or crazy powerful function-wise (lunar's nanobody) #so. that's interesting!! #knowing the thinking behind those acts makes me more understanding of it tbh. like yea thats fair. w/ a series like this things can get- #-outta hand so u gotta retcon. oh well. shrug #sun and moon show #the sun and moon show #tsams #mgafs #sams earth #sams killcode #sams kc

[birdchildsnest]

Extremely controversial hot take, but I think that people who HATE Bruce but love the Batkids have probably not read very many Batman or Detective Comics titles. Especially ones that are Bruce's POV. (Particularly the sort of "crime of the week" stories, where Bruce isn't in major crisis.)

Listen, Bruce has ProblemsTM. (And Babygirl, me too.) But DC comics writers have some of the same issues that amateur fanfic writers do. Many don't know how to make their main characters sympathetic without making other characters treat them badly. So we get comics where Bruce is suddenly a lot less human than he is in his own titles for the sake of the development of one of the kids. And if that's your only view of Bruce, you're definitely going to be reading comics like "Who the eff put this man in charge of children?!"

#I'm NOT blaming people for not having read more comics--this is such a weird expensive hobby #there are literally thousands of Batman comics #so canonically Bruce is almost as bad or as good a mentor as you'd like him to be #but I've read a fair bit of Bronze Age comics and that's definitely shaped my view of him as a man who just CARES so much that it hurts him #and is really trying to balance Bruce Wayne and Batman and is aware that he is just human #(I also have OPINIONS about how writers retroactively changed Bruce's relationship with young Dick after Jason's death) #(but that's a post for another time) #Bruce Wayne #DC comics #Batman

[pherre]

kravitz literally wanted to be a conductor and both barry and lup play instruments how come more people weren't incorporating that into their grim reaper squad aesthetic

#to be fair i wasnt doing that either because i just realized #anyway they should play some sort of music as they reap for dramatic effect #its me talking #taz balance

[evelyn-allright]

"THE HEAVY IS DEAD!"

Yes, He Died!

I love this video man, it's such a classic.

It will never not be funny

Based on the video by Delak: https://youtu.be/oiuyhxp4w9I?si=xc_ywI_4ac3PRsWF

#team fortress 2 #tf2 demoman #tf2 medic #tf2 spy #tf2 scout #tf2 fanart #tf2 #tf2 heavy #tf2 sniper #tf2 engineer #tf2 red team #tf2 blu team #valve games #fanart #random crits are fair and balanced #heavy is dead

[yume127]

Every time I remember that Roxas and Ven wear the same wristband—with the only difference being that Roxas’ has black edges and Ven’s has white edges—it reminds me of the Yin and Yang friendship bracelets.

In Chinese philosophy, Yin and Yang are two halves that together complete wholeness. It’s about how different but complementary forces balance each other to achieve a perfect and harmonious balance.

Yin energy is described as receptive, dark, cool, soft, still, and contemplative. It’s usually associated with someone more laid back and calm, and who may be more introverted. This description fits with Roxas’ personality, and—while his light and darkness are balanced—he described himself as “someone from the dark” in the past. Nobodies are also usually associated with darkness.

Yang energy is described as energetic, expansive and warm, and is usually associated with someone more outgoing and high-energy, which fits well with Ventus, who’s also known for having a heart of pure light.

There are various aspects in their stories that directly contrast each other, like the place where they were born (Daybreak Town and Twilight Town), their upbringing (Ventus being protected and kept out from harm’s way, while Roxas had to fight for all his life), their personality (Ventus is more active and impulsive, while Roxas is more passive and contemplative), and so on.

What I find interesting is that the idea of two halves that together become whole is shown in both Ventus’ and Roxas’ stories, but not with each other. Vanitas and Sora are, respectively, their half. Both pairs had to join in order to find some sort of balance or wholeness, but neither of these unions ended up actually being balanced and harmonious. Willingly or unwillingly, there was always one half who was overwhelming the other.

I wonder if, with each other, Roxas and Ventus can actually find that balance and harmony. They can coexist peacefully, after all—Ventus’ existence never threatened Roxas’, or vice versa, because, while they’re connected, they are and always have been separate beings. Most of all, their personalities complement each other very well, and I’m sure they’d get along great if given the chance to interact.

#roxas #ventus #kingdom hearts #kh #roxas and ventus #to be fair i think roxas and sora can probably find balance and harmony in one another post kh3 #if only the universe allowed them to be together for longer than five minutes #but yes #i think i already said it in the past but I think Ven and Roxas would balance and complement each other very well