#making informed decisions

[fastlane-freedom]

The Four Villains of Decision-Making: Fastlane Freedom

Decision-making is a part of our daily lives, influencing the choices we make and the outcomes we experience. However, making decisions is not always easy and can be filled with challenges. In this blog, we will dive into the world of decision-making and identify four common problems that can make it difficult. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next…

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[kumar-pradeep]

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[ignitesthestxrs]

there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.

and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.

idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.

which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'

*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.

#tlt #the locked tomb #i don't really have an answer lmao this is more #an expression of frustration and discomfort #over the way posts about john gaius seem to have very little connection to the background muir actually gave him #like you cant describe him as an educated leftist bisexual man #without INCLUDING that he is māori #that has an impact! that has weight and importance! #that is a background to every decision he makes #from the meat wall to the nuke to his relationship with the earth #and it also has weight and importance in the decisions that muir makes in writing him #it is not a neutral decision that he's known as john gaius lmao #it's not a neutral decision that the empire is explicitly of roman/latin extraction #it's not even neutral that this is a book about necromancy #it's certainly not a neutral fucking decision that john was at one point a māori man living in the bush #when the nz govt decided to send cops in #like that is a thing that happens here! that is a reference to nz cultural and political events that informs john's character and actions #and with the nature of who john is in the story #informs the narrative as a whole #and i think the tiresome part of this experience is that #in general #americans are not well positioned to understand that something might be being written from outside their experience as a default #like obviously many many americans in online leftist & queer spaces are willing to learn and take on new information #but so much of the conversation starts from a place of having to explain that forests exist to fish

[utilitycaster]

I firmly believe that pre-taping has been, overall, good, and that anyone who claims the stream is different than when it was live is fucking making that shit up because it's indistinguishable, with the singular exception of Sam posting The Full Chetney on Twitter 2 minutes after the end of the stream with an admission that he couldn't figure out Reddit.

#cr spoilers #more generally i have a lot of thoughts re some of the entitlement this past week/early chat like playing backseat producer is NOT cute. #like ok 23 year old with poorly managed depression your ass CANNOT make informed production decisions. #or like. wow. tlovm is not coming out as soon as past seasons? almost like a significant character's VA died and also there was a strike. #but that was also a problem with early lockdown [remember the unironic masque of the red death suggestions] #unfortunately when you have a good show the entitled pricks will arrive to see it #(should add: i have been the 23 yo w/poorly managed depression this is why i'm judging that mindset.)

[elcucurucho]

sometimes characters are wrong. sometimes characters are actively lying to people. sometimes characters are lying to themselves. just because someone says something doesn’t make it fact, it doesn’t even mean they believe it. conflict between what a character says vs does is a huge part of complex characters and dynamics. no one is right 100% of the time, even if they think they are. and that’s interesting!! characters don’t exist to fight over who is the single and number one Most Correct POV, they’re different perspectives in a shared story.

#qsmp #it’s so important to me when people make bad decisions in character #or half informed decisions based on only the info they know #everything is so much more engaging. it adds depth #it’s not about right vs wrong it’s not about morality. it’s about putting the character in a microwave and watching them dance

[pinkysberg]

can't flesh out a WHOLE thought yet but thinking a lot about red dead and how it addresses this idea that desperate people will do things they wouldn't otherwise do. and while most of the van der linde gang is an example of this to a degree, i feel javier is the best of them.

he's in such a desperate position. being in a country that is not his own (that is also actively hostile toward him) because he's actively wanted in his own country is already w pretty hard spot to be in, so naturally he takes to the first person to show him kindness and offer him an opportunity for a marginally more stable position than prior. it's worth noting, though, he clearly had a moral code he was unwilling to break as he doesn't remain with dutch, but what i hear criticized just as often is his decision to work with the mexican government as a hit man. it goes against everything he is.

but when it's work for me or die, take this job or starve, agree to the terms or be shot like a dog or strung up for everyone to watch, it puts you in a pretty desperate position. we can't all be dutch who would sooner rag doll off a cliff side than compromise.

#javier is a survivor making the decisions he needs to survive with the information given to him #i'm an apologist til the day i die #he's a WELL WRITTEN CHARACTER AND I'LL ARGUE IT TIL IM BLUE IN THE FACE #anyway #javier escuella #rdr2 #rdr

[bloodofgrapes]

So this is a comic I’ve wanted to do for a long time because it hits fairly close to home for me, but especially because I think this is foundational to Phoenix and Edgeworth’s relationship: trust. Throughout the games we see that they push and pull one another to get to the bottom of a situation, to discover the truth and do what’s right, even when it’s difficult. While obviously not canon, to me their relationship is so emblematic of kink it’s nearly unavoidable in my depictions of them--Edgeworth may always seem to be the ultimate string pulling master with a thousand tricks up his sleeve, but none of this could happen if he did not totally relinquish control via his unwavering trust in Phoenix.

#art #Phoenix Wright #Miles Edgeworth #Ace Attorney #cw kink #nsft #I debated for a long time whether I would post this comic or not #but honestly I'm tired of feeling like depictions of gay intimacy are bad or will make people uncomfy #and yes for some people that intimacy involves making the informed and consenting decision #to exchange trust this intimately with another human being #on an unrelated note #I've always thought the way AA handled Edgeworth's phobia of earthquakes was really well done #speaking as someone with a capital P phobia #AA was remarkably ahead of its time #grapes comics

[calamitys-child]

My purpose and singular mission in life is to make sure queer and/or neurodivergent kids know that sometimes it really is their parents who are stupid and other adults are on their side. This, unfortunately, does not make me popular with their parents. Gonnae keep doing it though.

#kid was very overwhelmed by the theatre environment and panicking and didnt want to see the show cause it looked scary #and the mum was trying to get me to tell the kid its not scary (no i dont lie to kids i told her there are lots of funny bits but a couple #of maybe scary bits too) #and I told her hey listen the bravest thing you can do is tell people you arent comfortable somewhere. youve done so well to do that #and i gave her a program so she can learn more and make an informed decision if she wants to come another time #and i asked her what her favourite things are and she said science and animals and i told her to try the museum its super fun #and her mum was all 'ugh shes a nightmare she's ~on the spectrum~' #and i went yeah me too. and told the kid this isnt for everyone and she did well to tell me and i hope she likes the museum #and like. her mum yelling at her was making everything worse. talking to her like a person with agency? #got her from full panic attack to actively smiling at me in under 5 minutes #sometimes your parents or guardians are in fact being stupid or rude! neurodivergent adults exist! other people see you and hear what you're #saying and won't be mad! #anyway. now IM very overwhelmed but i really hope that kid remembers this and i hope she has a great day #im going to get a coffee and sit under a tree for a while

[mobgoblin]

As someone who has steadily kept up on almost all Watcher shows and side projects, this backlash really does come down to how out of touch the guys have become, even before making Friday’s announcement.

Ryan and Shane (certainly the biggest draw to the channel) got their start with lower-brow, boyish humor and riffing off each other. Can’t forget the capitalism-critical and “power to the underdog” attitude that resonated with so many fans early on either. Now though, if you watch/listen to Pod Watcher, it’s hard to overlook just how unrelatable they’ve become in recent years. Which is whatever—it’s not like we only consume media in order to intimately relate to hosts/characters—but it does mean they’ve lost something integral from the charm that netted them their initial success.

To add. If you watched their latest season of Too Many Spirits, they weren’t even funny, just trashed and off-putting, lol. Frat-style drinking by a backyard pool and Ryan overhand throwing bones at a neighbor’s dog for barking.

Maybe not as bad for Shane, but the egos have really grown uncomfortably outsized. And at some point I got tired of watching videos based around lavish over-indulgence. Even if Steven’s videos cost less to produce than Ghost Files (I assume), they clearly rub viewers the wrong way on principle alone.

All in all, and not to minimize their hard work in getting out the content that they do, I think the Watcher guys should’ve been much more careful in considering this move and its rollout.

For years, I’ve maintained a Patreon subscription to a separate and unrelated funny-guy trio (for the same monthly price Watcher Streaming is now asking). However. The group I subscribe to is more than situationally-funny-sometimes, and always come across as grounded, emotionally intelligent, and likable people. Which makes me want to see them succeed and help how I can (though I would still be able to access 95% of their content even without subscribing).

So yeah, idk. Steven Lim driving a Tesla and wanting a second one or whatever is kind of just the tip of the iceberg.

#watcher #⬆️ I think this is why people have felt as insulted as they have #I know there are some calling the level of backlash unfair. But………… #I was talking with someone and we almost even wondered if this was actually an exit plan. lmao. #like they know they can’t do it forever so they figure they’d do another couple years juicing their most loyal of fans #before bowing out with a comfortable amount 💰 put away (not to be pessimistic tinfoil hat gang. lololol) #Because it really does seem like poor decision-making #where business model would do very little to gain new viewers #and subscriber base would amount to small-small percentage of current fans #a number that will just dwindle over time #Youtube #I will also say I only sometimes watch Charlie’s stuff but I thought this was a pretty solid and informative summation

[ride-a-dromedary]

My favourite part of Halsin's speech pattern are the deliberate pauses he takes when attempting to search for a word or phrase, but especially when you know he's doing the work to consider what he really wants to say, and then decide how to phrase that thing as delicately as he possibly can.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #He only stammers or uses filler words when he's flustered or seemingly taken aback by the question #and i'm sure halsin has more than once tucked the elvish version of 'that sucks bro' under his tongue #when he's just completely sideswiped by information #there are just very deliberate pauses and they don't sound dramatic they sound natural - like he's genuinely thinking #about what he wants to say #and not emphasizing it #if you think common is his third language down the line you could even argue this is him #sorting through the lexicon to figure something out #you're being stupid becomes 'sometimes...you make decisions that are not entirely...wise'

[thechekhov]

I’ve had some comments on my ‘please vote’ post, asking me to tell them who to vote FOR. Because you’re correct - I did not offer any strategy on specifics. (Because right now, we’re all voting within our own states, and I cannot possibly give you the rundown on EVERY SINGLE PERSON within your county/district.) 

But as someone who probably has at least a few younger people following me who may not have heard this yet, I will say: 

Vote for yourself. 

Don’t simply vote for who your parents praise the most, even if you think you agree politically. Go to https://www.vote411.org/ and look up candidates and read their websites and stances. 

Vote for others. 

Vote not for what would be best only for your well-off parents, but what would also be good for others in your community. You might think ‘why would I care about This Thing, I’m not personally affected by it. I don’t need public transportation, my family has 2 cars!’ Think about who might need that affordable railway. Think about why changes in the law are trying to be made and by whom. 

And last - vote godlessly. 

I know, I know, I’m a withered, jaded old atheist. But listen - I have no issue with faith. If it helps you, if it heals you, or sustains you, that’s swell. 

But remember that you share this country with people who are of various other faiths, and those who are faithless, and that this land was never meant to be a ‘Christian’ nation. 

No single religion owns the USA. Separating church and state is integral to fairness and equity. What you believe in, and how you conduct your personal life is your own business. But pushing the bible, or any other religious doctrine into government never ends well. 

Your relationship between you and your god is private, and should have no effect on how you vote. Voting is about building together a community that works for everyone, not just you. Laws are built not to signal your virtue to a deity, but to help bring about fairness and due process, to balance inevitable harm with available justice. 

#chekhov begs #us politics #usa #religion #idk man i just think that like #based on non religious and very factual statistical evidence #banning abortion is not actually pro life #because it actually ends in more death #literally there are studies and graphs about this #abortion is often a heavy topic and i will not make fun of it or lighten the weight of that decision #but that decision can only be made by a woman who is informed by a neutral and truthful healthcare provider #so lets not leave it up to some random dude who thinks he knows better

[transmasccofee]

Unrequited mikosai hits diff sometimes

#I think its healthier than any other unrequited saiki ship #Cause I don’t think Mikotos feelings would ever affect her too significantly #But they would inform some of her decision making #Yk #i like the idea of her idea of her wondering why shes in love with someone so different #And with so much baggage #But sticking by him bc that sure as hell won’t get in the way of their genuine friendship #But just sometimes being so frustrated in a way she isn’t with anyone else #Shes so well adjusted generally and on top of things #So I like the idea that hes able to push all her buttons without even meaning to

[kaeyachi]

I've seen some people who are saying "Kaeya already chose Mondstadt!"

Sure, we can agree that his heart is with Mondstadt, but his storyline so far isn't leading to a clean-cut decision at all. Something will happen that will make him decide, and that means there will be heavy consequences for either choice.

He could learn vital information that would make deciding hard for him, or he could be forced into doing something he doesn't agree with to keep others safe.

He'd do everything to protect the people he loves and cares for, and if that might mean teaming up with the Abyss or the Tsaritsa? Even if he might get hated for it? Even if it could kill him? He'd do it.

And do not be so quick to think that he doesn't care for his homeland- a nation where time and time again, the narrative of "not all of its citizens deserved getting cursed" and "there might be a cure to the curse" keeps coming back (the cure being known to an Alberich at that, as far as we know of). No matter how he may feel about his father, he is still aware of his responsibilities as an Alberich. He says he doesn't hold much concern now for his birth nation, and yet he has used what he knows in concerning ways ( Windblume letter to Venti that could be perceived as a threat/warning, luring out Dainsleif with his surname)

Basically, what I'm saying is that there is no way it is going to be that easy for him.

#kaeya #kaeya alberich #genshin impact #theyre very confident that hed pick mondstat #that just makes me want him to pick khaenriah even more out of spite lmao #what if the decision isnt even about mondstat vs khaenriah #gi kaeya #hes staying in mondstat as well #he could technically leave any time as an adult if it means the information he knows will not get used against mond #and yet he stays there...maybe for reasons of mondstat being home #but with such an important position? basically 2nd in line to lead the nation? #he is privy to literally everything and beyond that with his intelligence network #thats scary ngl even if we can count him as a weaker character (debatable) #knowledge is power in teyvat #fixed the spelling of mondstadt lmao

[dykemind]

genuinely to the bottom of my soul hate any philosophy that involves a set of rules to follow. You don’t need rules when you have a working understanding of reality and a goal to achieve. Choose practical effectiveness over obedience.

#in short: grow a fucking spine and start making your own informed decisions. own your purpose

[wannabe-f-f-friends]

Jiang Parents: Are you saying that our insults and mistreatment of you now are going to negatively affect your opinions and decision-making skills in the future? Like a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jiang Cheng: Yeah

Jiang Parents: I don't buy it

#jiang cheng #free my man #he makes trauma informed decisions #im actually pretty cool with most of his decisions but ya know #im saying get off his dick #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #talking pancake

[drrav3nb]

KIM YOUNG KWANG as SEO DO YOUNG in EVILIVE (2023)

#it's crazy to see how much do-young has transformed since the first episode #like obviously his wardrobe has improved massively #but his attitude has changed as well #like before he was acting out of anger and like a typical mobster #but slowly he became way more intelligent with his choices #using words to hold power over people and making decisions based off the information he acquires #he doesn't lash out anymore #he waits for the perfect time to strike #he's the perfect predator #also I've notice that a lot of his shots favour the left side of his face #i wonder if that's deliberate because the left also symbolises someone's sinister side and evil nature in some cultures #evilive #evillive #biography of a villain #kim young kwang #seo do young #kdrama #kdramaedit #kdramagifs #kdramadaily #kdramanetwork #korean drama #korean series #genie tv #ena