#market speculation

[dencyemily]

Critical Crossroads for SUI: Bulls Stage a Comeback as Cryptocurrency Faces Crucial Resistance Level

Renowned crypto analyst Crypto Busy has recently brought the cryptocurrency SUI into the spotlight, shedding light on a critical development that has captured the attention of the cryptocurrency industry. In a comprehensive analysis, Crypto Busy emphasized that SUI is currently navigating a pivotal juncture, confronting a significant resistance level.

The crypto community is now on high alert, closely monitoring SUI's behavior as it approaches this crucial resistance level. The central question at play is whether SUI will overcome the odds and successfully break through this resistance, or if it will face rejection.

Factors Driving SUI's Recent Surge: Beyond Bitcoin in Total Value Locked

SUI's recent ascent positions it among the top crypto gainers, driven by several pivotal factors highlighted by Crypto Busy. A noteworthy achievement for SUI is its elevation beyond Bitcoin in Total Value Locked (TVL), a feat attributed to its backing by Mysten Labs.

According to on-chain data from DefiLlama, a leading DeFi protocol tracking site, SUI currently holds the 13th global rank in TVL. This accomplishment has sparked optimism within the SUI community, fueling a significant surge in the token's price.

In a striking trend, while SUI's Total Value Locked continues to rise, Bitcoin's TVL experiences a gradual decline in tandem with its recent price drop. Data from DefiLlama, dated January 14, unveiled the remarkable development that SUI surpassed Bitcoin in Total Value Locked, marking a significant turning point in the crypto landscape.

SUI's Current Trading Metrics and Market Outlook

As of the latest data, SUI is trading at $1.29, reflecting an 8.22% decrease in price over the past 24 hours. However, the cryptocurrency has witnessed an impressive 52.78% surge in value over the last 7 days. The 24-hour trading volume for SUI stands at $528,078,679.

The global cryptocurrency market is experiencing a robust comeback, with a 0.84% surge in the global market cap within the last 24 hours, reaching a total market capitalization of $1.69 trillion. In the midst of this surge, SUI grapples with a pivotal resistance challenge, adding an extra layer of intrigue to the evolving dynamics of the cryptocurrency industry.

The Anticipation and Future Trajectory of the Cryptocurrency Landscape

As SUI faces this critical resistance challenge, the entire cryptocurrency industry is captivated. Enthusiasts eagerly await unfolding developments that will shape the next chapter in the dynamic realm of digital assets. The palpable anticipation among observers underscores the intricate dynamics and potential shifts that could define the future trajectory of the cryptocurrency landscape. In this fast-evolving space, SUI's journey becomes emblematic of the broader industry's resilience and capacity for transformation.

#Crypto Busy #SUI #resistance level #Total Value Locked #Mysten Labs #global rank #token value #market speculation #crypto community #DefiLlama #Bitcoin #TVL #cryptocurrency bulls #market cap #cryptotale

[revenantghost]

I’ve seen a lot of people on both sides of the fence of how people want Vash’s hair to fall (or not fall lmao) in Tristamp season two, but I think we already have a hint?

This is his corrected bounty poster from the end of episode twelve, from the official Twitter account. And while in ‘98, Vash had clearly outlined sentimental reasons for having his hair the way he does, it’s never stated that he keeps his hair Vash-style in Trimax (which Tristamp is most heavily based off of) for the same reasons. Though you could reasonably draw that line, for sure!

But Vash is and never has been the kind of person to run from his reputation. He could have, at the very least, decided to change the color or style of his coat more than he did, but he didn’t. He could have kept his hair down, but he didn’t. Even down to his boots and his gun--he is who he is, and he’s not running from that anymore, he won’t hide as Eriks. He went back to the very easily recognizable Vash the Stampede we see in the wanted posters.

So while I think that when things are tense and he’s using plant powers, his hair will be full og Vash, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re gonna see this Vash often as well. Could be wrong though! I don’t have a horse in this race because I love them both so much I legitimately can’t decide which I’d rather have lmao

#Trigun #Tristamp #Trigun Stampede #Also from a marketing perspective like #Babygirl Vash has a cult fan following #And Trimax Vash IS EXTREMELY BABYGIRL #Tristamp Vash is known for This Brand of babygirl though #As seen in the Plush (tm) #This is pure speculation though #I'll link the tweet with this image in the comments #In case anyone wants to stare are 'FINAL STAGE' in full dread with me #Trigun Meta #My Trigun Meta

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Not sure if this theory makes any sense at all but I'm starting to believe that there's no time skip between Wally's phone calls and what we see/hear in the show's Media/Merchandise. If we see the Toyland call being made before the Homewarming episode then it would make sense that Wally's expecting Barnaby to come over soon. As well as the Homewarming sketch from the prior update. (I don't know, still kind of brainstorming this perspective)

that theory Does make sense and i've been considering it! the "timeline" is such a nebulous thing right now because we still... don't really know! there are too many variables and too many Maybes for any solid answer.

maybe the reality that the neighbors live in exists outside of time like you say, and like half of me suspects. there's so much reality fuckery already present, but I'm also... unsure of how much merit this holds given what we know / can infer about how time passes in Home. i'm putting this theory on a low shelf to look at but not prioritize

maybe it really has been 50 years, and Barnaby is either still around / Wally is still in contact with him, or Barnaby... isn't there. who knows, maybe Wally was just verbalizing some Wishful Thinking. i mean, Wally is a bit of an unreliable narrator, isn't he? we can't assume that everything he says is entirely accurate or truthful. and i mean, if it's been 50 years it makes sense that Wally would be pushing for connection / to revive WH. who knows how long he's been trying.

hm... i mean. it could be a mix of that and the Outside Of Time theory. who knows, maybe W is receiving calls from different points in the timeline - Wally may have started out just calling, and has just graduated to invading the WH website / getting pushy with the envelopes and media that's been sent to the WHRP. maybe Wally got tired of waiting for W to respond before W was even born. who's to say!

#i mean. idk the emphasis wally puts on Its So Quiet makes my brain tilt its head #it feels like wally breaking composure before he pastes the Facade back on with '-during homewarming' #that and just the way he phrased 'everyones usually so busy so its just me and home for a long while' #Usually so busy. Usually. why not Always? or Is? #usually. #and then the 'its just me and home for a long while' #the phrasing here has Connotations i think! #homebogging #welcome home speculation #wh speculation #OF COURSE. I HAVE TO DEBUNK MYSELF! #what we hear / see from Wally is - ironically - more genuine than the WHRP's or W's recovered media (save the eddie excerpts) #the WH media shows us the ideal homewarming - where everyone is getting into the spirit and spending time together and the like #but then wally could be telling us what homewarming is Really like - lonely. quiet. #WHICH MAKES SENSE THEMATICALLY! and it mirrors how christmas time is. its marketed as this joyful thing that brings people together #when in reality its lonely and stressful. i know i certainly never feel more lonely than i do at that time of year! #so there's just. layers. right now im simultaneously believing in the time discrepancy And them existing outside of time #im leaning on the first one but you know! #BUT!!! IM CONFIDENT THAT THE HOMEWARMING WALLY WAS CALLING FROM WAS NOT THE ONE WE SAW IN THE UPDATE. #wally spoke with enough familiarity about the time of year to make me think 'hes lived through many of these hasnt he' #it could be that time Has passed for the neighbors and its been many homewarmings. #it could be that it Started as what the commercials/update showed us. #but as time passed maybe it became a time where everyone just... Isolates for one reason or another. so now it's just quiet and lonely #im still rolling it all around in my head! many factors and implications to consider w/ this update! #Take All Of This With A Grain Of Salt As Usual!

[embracing-the-ineffable]

Good Omens, staying skeptical, and the mystery and the lie at the heart of Gravity Falls

-Neil Gaiman, 29 June 2023

I recently came across this post by @apathetic-revenant, which goes into extensive detail about a whole secret meta lie generated by Alex Hirsch, creator and head writer of Gravity Falls, midway through the show.

It went like this: the show was very focused on mysteries, codes, ciphers, etc, and early on a character discovered a mysterious journal with an unknown author, and this drove the plot. There were clues placed in the show so that people could solve the journal author's identity, or more probably so that it would all make sense in hindsight after the big reveal. However, the show ended up with a larger-than-expected fandom who started organizing online in a way the creators hadn't expected or planned for, and they were worried everyone would collectively solve the mystery too easily, too soon, and the suspense and appeal of the story gradually unfolding would be lost.

So they took a fake BTS photo that appeared to reveal the journal's author and "leaked" it online. To give it credibility, the show's creator posted "Fuming right now" and then deleted the post soon after, once they were certain it had been seen and screenshots taken. The Gravity Falls fandom then stopped trying to solve the mystery, as they believed the answer had already been revealed. It was a solution "targeted toward delaying that group problem-solving, without actually affecting the experience of any individual person watching the show."

Ok, Good Omens fandom. Are we Gravity Falls all over again? Are we also experiencing meta lies?

Is it possible that Amazon's marketing department has just released a new promotional video about Aziraphale & Crowley's "timeline of interconnectedness" (discussions here and here ) where they honestly:

got several of those timeline dates wrong, including labeling the entirety of seasons 1 and 2 as belonging to the same year?

mixed all the season 1 and 2 clips together so they're completely interconnected and out of the order they were presented to us so far?

didn't consult with Neil Gaiman for even a moment to be sure they had their facts straight? (Or literally anyone else who's spent years working on it? Or even someone who has just watched it once while paying attention?)

didn't understand the way most series tell a story by moving through time in a realistic linear fashion?

When Neil said today that "time is fine" in response to questions about the timeline of interconnectedness video, was he trying to misdirect the fandom away from the mystery that's clearly hidden throughout both seasons (and especially season 2)?

The Good Place seems suddenly more relevant than I'd imagined:

Neil has told us that his Tumblr posts aren't canon. He's also said:

"Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story."

"Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." -Both quotes are from The Sandman [link]

So here's my plea to whichever part of the fandom might read this: Stay Skeptical. It's wonderful to talk to Neil about his characters, the worlds he's created, his writing process, his views on world events, his sense of humor, his kindness, his compassion and empathy, and his good advice & encouragement for the entire range of the human experience. I respect him very much, and I'm thrilled he's here on social media talking to all of us. (Except he doesn't have social media, obviously. He's like Schrödinger's Social Media Neil-cat.)

I'm looking forward to all the surprises I'm certain are in store for us (and Aziraphale and Crowley) in Good Omens season 3. I trust Neil (and Terry!) to deliver our beloved characters to a very satisfying ending. But I don't trust Neil to honestly answer all of our questions on social media - and neither should you.

Especially not when he's already blamed obvious season 2 changes to the Bentley on the "lighting" (as just one example).

With lots of thanks to the members of the @ineffable-detective-agency - including @bbbitchvibbbez, @kimberleyjean, @maufungi, @noneorother, @theastrophysicistnextdoor, and @thebluestgreen for all their excellent fact-checking, ideas, and discussions!

Interested in diving further into all the Good Omens mysteries? I have more posts plus Clues and metas from all over the fandom, here.

#ineffable mystery #stay skeptical #meta lying #writers are liars #we're all detectives in this fandom #ineffable fandom #good omens fandom #good omens #good omens meta #good omens analysis #good omens speculation #good omens theory #neil gaiman #neil gaiman quotes #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #gravity falls #alex hirsch #amazon prime #amazon marketing #good omens season 3 #good omens season 2 #good omens season 1 #aziraphale #crowley #south downs cottage #Schrödinger's Social Media Neil-cat

[c-rowlesblogs]

Re: my “I crave more unpleasant, weird, gross women in fiction” post—

Dear the person who tagged it with something like, “justice will not be served on earth until we have female Beavis and Butthead,” I wish I could kiss you on the mouth

Dear everyone responding with some variation of, “what about both [conventionally hot women AND weird women]?? 😌” or “what about one of both kinds of women and they’re girlfriends?? 😍” I wish I could banish you to the shadow realm

#character design #writing #catie talks #media is loaded with female characters who kick ass or are a lil bit unconventional but still hot and pretty enough to be palatable #for like normie straight people and men #I’m talking about women that are marketability kryptonite #you people all need to read more indie comics and stuff #offbeat speculative fiction and weird indie cartoons and etc

[tainoodles]

I low key kind of bugs me when people say the sims movie can't be about sims lore because "the average person doesn't know about that and it needs to appeal to as many people as possible"

As if there's no way to write it where you could get someone who knows nothing about it to get into it. I don't expect them to write a story where you already have to know everything about it, of course that wouldn't make sense. But I don't see why it's so crazy to think that they could write a story including the goths or the landgraabs or anyone we know and get the average joe think it sounds interesting.

I really don't want "oh wow I'm a sim!" existential crisis movie. It worked for Barbie, but that doesn't mean we have to completely rehash it again when there are so many options for more interesting stuff.

#sims movie #sims movie rant #sims movie speculation #i dunno #i just feel a type of way I guess #so many things have been bad recently #i have lost all faith #and the excuse of marketability to make things boring and safe #text post

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Rent control works

This Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.

On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.

David Roth memorably described the job of neoliberal economists as finding “new ways to say ‘actually, your boss is right.’” Not just your boss: for decades, economists have formed a bulwark against seemingly obvious responses to the most painful parts of our daily lives, from wages to education to health to shelter:

https://popula.com/2023/04/30/yakkin-about-chatgpt-with-david-roth/

How can we solve the student debt crisis? Well, we could cancel student debt and regulate the price of education, either directly or through free state college.

How can we solve America’s heath-debt crisis? We could cancel health debt and create Medicare For All.

How can we solve America’s homelessness crisis? We could build houses and let homeless people live in them.

How can we solve America’s wage-stagnation crisis? We could raise the minimum wage and/or create a federal jobs guarantee.

How can we solve America’s workplace abuse crisis? We could allow workers to unionize.

How can we solve America’s price-gouging greedflation crisis? With price controls and/or windfall taxes.

How can we solve America’s inequality crisis? We could tax billionaires.

How can we solve America’s monopoly crisis? We could break up monopolies.

How can we solve America’s traffic crisis? We could build public transit.

How can we solve America’s carbon crisis? We can regulate carbon emissions.

These answers make sense to everyone except neoliberal economists and people in their thrall. Rather than doing the thing we want, neoliberal economists insist we must unleash “markets” to solve the problems, by “creating incentives.” That may sound like a recipe for a small state, but in practice, “creating incentives” often involves building huge bureaucracies to “keep the incentives aligned” (that is, to prevent private firms from ripping off public agencies).

This is how we get “solutions” that fail catastrophically, like:

Public Service Loan Forgiveness instead of debt cancellation and free college:

https://studentloansherpa.com/likely-ineligible/

The gig economy instead of unions and minimum wages:

https://www.newswise.com/articles/research-reveals-majority-of-gig-economy-workers-are-earning-below-minimum-wage

Interest rate hikes instead of price caps and windfall taxes:

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173371788/the-fed-raises-interest-rates-again-in-what-could-be-its-final-attack-on-inflati

Tax breaks for billionaire philanthropists instead of taxing billionaires:

https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/10/winners-take-all-modern-philanthropy-means-that-giving-some-away-is-more-important-than-how-you-got-it/

Subsidizing Uber instead of building mass transit:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/cities-turn-uber-instead-buses-trains/

Fraud-riddled carbon trading instead of emissions limits:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/27/voluntary-carbon-market/#trust-me

As infuriating as all of this “actually, your boss is right” nonsense is, the most immediate and continuously frustrating aspect of it is the housing crisis, which has engulfed cities all over the world, to the detriment of nearly everyone.

America led the way on screwing up housing. There were two major New Deal/post-war policies that created broad (but imperfect and racially biased) prosperity in America: housing subsidies and labor unions. Of the two, labor unions were the most broadly inclusive, most available across racial and gender lines, and most engaged with civil rights struggles and other progressive causes.

So America declared war on labor unions and told working people that their only path to intergenerational wealth was to buy a home, wait for it to “appreciate,” and sell it on for a profit. This is a disaster. Without unions to provide countervailing force, every part of American life has worsened, with stagnating wages lagging behind skyrocketing expenses for education, health, retirement, and long-term care. For nearly every homeowner, this means that their “most valuable asset” — the roof over their head — must be liquidated to cover debts. Meanwhile, their kids, burdened with six-figure student debt — will have little or nothing left from the sale of the family home with which to cover a downpayment in a hyperinflated market:

https://gen.medium.com/the-rents-too-damned-high-520f958d5ec5

Meanwhile, rent inflation is screaming ahead of other forms of inflation, burdening working people beyond any ability to pay. Giant Wall Street firms have bought up huge swathes of the country’s housing stock, transforming it into overpriced, undermaintained slums that you can be evicted from at the drop of a hat:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/08/wall-street-landlords/#the-new-slumlords

Transforming housing from a human right to an “asset” was always going to end in a failure to build new housing stock and regulate the rental market. It’s reaching a breaking point. “Superstar cities” like New York and San Francisco have long been priced out of the reach of working people, but now they’re becoming unattainable for double-income, childless, college-educated adults in their prime working years:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/15/upshot/migrations-college-super-cities.html

A city that you can’t live in is a failure. A system that can’t provide decent housing is a failure. The “your boss is right, actually” crowd won: we don’t build public housing, we don’t regulate rents, and it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Maybe we could try doing things instead of “aligning incentives?”

Like, how about rent control.

God, you can already hear them squealing! “Price controls artificially distort well-functioning markets, resulting in a mismatch between supply and demand and the creation of the dreaded deadweight loss triangle!”

Rent control “causes widespread shortages, leaving would-be renters high and dry while screwing landlords (the road to hell, so says the orthodox economist, is paved with good intentions).”

That’s been the received wisdom for decades, fed to us by Chicago School economists who are so besotted with their own mathematical models that any mismatch between the models’ predictions and the real world is chalked up to errors in the real world, not the models. It’s pure economism: “If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would I do if I were a horse?’”

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/27/economism/#what-would-i-do-if-i-were-a-horse

But, as Mark Paul writes for The American Prospect, rent control works:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2023-05-16-economists-hate-rent-control/

Rent control doesn’t constrain housing supply:

https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/rent-matters

At least some of the time, rent control expands housing supply:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2007.00334.x

The real risk of rent control is landlords exploiting badly written laws to kick out tenants and convert their units to condos — that’s not a problem with rent control, it’s a problem with eviction law:

https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/DMQ.pdf

Meanwhile, removing rent control doesn’t trigger the predicted increases in housing supply:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119006000635

Rent control might create winners (tenants) and losers (landlords), but it certainly doesn’t make everyone worse off — as the neoliberal doctrine insists it must. Instead, tenants who benefit from rent control have extra money in their pockets to spend on groceries, debt service, vacations, and child-care.

Those happier, more prosperous people, in turn, increase the value of their landlords’ properties, by creating happy, prosperous neighborhoods. Rent control means that when people in a neighborhood increase its value, their landlords can’t kick them out and rent to richer people, capturing all the value the old tenants created.

What is life like under rent control? It’s great. You and your family get to stay put until you’re ready to move on, as do your neighbors. Your kids don’t have to change schools and find new friends. Old people aren’t torn away from communities who care for them:

https://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/landec/v58y1982i1p109-117.html

In Massachusetts, tenants with rent control pay half the rent that their non-rent-controlled neighbors pay:

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/housing%20market%202014.pdf

Rent control doesn’t just make tenants better off, it makes society better off. Rather than money flowing from a neighborhood to landlords, rent control allows the people in a community to invest it there: opening and patronizing businesses.

Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. As the housing crisis worsens, states are finally bringing back rent control. New York has strengthened rent control for the first time in 40 years:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/nyregion/rent-regulation-laws-new-york.html

California has a new statewide rent control law:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/california-rent-control.html

They’re battling against anti-rent-control state laws pushed by ALEC, the right-wing architects of model legislation banning action on climate change, broadband access, and abortion:

https://www.nmhc.org/research-insight/analysis-and-guidance/rent-control-laws-by-state/

But rent control has broad, democratic support. Strong majorities of likely voters support rent control:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/07/metro/new-statewide-poll-shows-strong-support-rent-control/

And there’s a kind of rent control that has near unanimous support: the 30-year fixed mortgage. For the 67% of Americans who live in owner-occupied homes, the existence of the federally-backed (and thus federally subsidized) fixed mortgage means that your monthly shelter costs are fixed for life. What’s more, these costs go down the longer you pay them, as mortgage borrowers refinance when interest rates dip.

We have a two-tier system: if you own a home, then the longer you stay put, the cheaper your “rent” gets. If you rent a home, the longer you stay put, the more expensive your home gets over time.

America needs a shit-ton more housing — regular housing for working people. Mr Market doesn’t want to build it, no matter how many “incentives” we dangle. Maybe it’s time we just did stuff instead of building elaborate Rube Goldberg machines in the hopes of luring the market’s animal sentiments into doing it for us.

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in Toronto, DC, Gaithersburg, Oxford, Hay, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mortgages-are-rent-control/#housing-is-a-human-right-not-an-asset

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#pluralistic #urbanism #weaponized shelter #housing #the rent's too damned high #rent control #economism #neoliberalism #monetarism #mr market #landlord brain #speculation

[arabellaseraphim]

I haven't seen anyone pointing this out yet but I just LOVE this particular detail about Lyney and Lynette that reminds me of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.

***

The Cheshire cat is known as a guide of sorts to Alice on her journey across the Wonderland. And we all know that all of the Characters shown in the Travails Trailer plays a major role in the Archon Quest. Since Lyney and Lynette are Fontaine's Travail representative, I am guessing that some aspects of Cheshire Cat's involvement in Alice in Wonderland could be used as reference in a way throughout the Fontaine Archon Quest. Like the twins plus Freminet being the first to guide the Traveler on how things work in Fontaine and the twins helping the Traveler out through some major happenings throughout the quest alongside their involvement with Arlecchino... 🤔🤔

***

Also, I kind of find this part pretty interesting when I was looking around the gif section

(From Lynette's drip marketing description)

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That's all I could say for now. You have no idea how much I really love them already despite them not being released yet (Note for people sees this in the future: this post is made before Fontaine release). Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

#AraSeraRamblings #genshin impact #genshin fontaine #lyney and lynette #lyney #lynette #fontaine #genshin #alice in wonderland #cheshire cat #this is me speculating about what may happen in the quest #and also me rambling about how much I love their existence even more now that their drip marketing dropped #thank you for coming to my ted talk

[nyaskitten]

Given that the "New Show Rising" site gave us the release date like 50-ish days in advance for both parts 1 and 2 of season 1, for each day we DON'T any update on the counter, assume that season 2 is MORE than 50 days away from the given day you're checking.

#this is all just speculation bc idek if theyre gonna use tje site for s2 #or if lego are gonna be a buncha cucks and not market the show anymore #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #raine's rambles

[lesbiancarat]

actually assuming they don't do any member announcements before the pre-release maybe it's a good strategy to get ppl interested in the music first rather than ppl passing judgements about the group purely on visuals first?

#idk im trying to make sense of their marketing strategy #bc rn it feels like we're not getting any member introdctions at all even though im sure we WILL #could also be a strategy for ppl to stream the pre-release if theyre trying to speculate if a specific person/trainee is in the song #and like i know ppl are gonna pass judgements on visuals regardless bc thats how kpop stans are 🙄 #even though im sure the members are all gonna be like 16-19 year old kids 🙄 #but yall know what im getting at #melia.txt

[averagepsychouser]

I like when factions are evil for no good reason but I do not like having to say that while I loathe the Enclave and Caesar’s Legion they’re my favorite factions

#not my fault they have insane drip #also Ancient Rome? yes baby elementary school me would be going nuts #what are enclave helmets supposed to look like #my friends say they look like wasps I thought they kinda looked like goats #Frank horrigan is the scariest man I’ve ever had the misfortune of fighting #also I like how speculative people get with legion endings #like yas I bet the legion would set up farmers markets and stuff and I bet people speak broken English/Latin #things turning out bad is so much fun to speculate #fallout new vegas #fallout nv #caesar’s legion #fnv #fallout enclave #power armor BABYYYY

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

wondering about Frank and insects but specifically about how it looks like the WH insects are highly stylized, so does Frank even know anything about real butteflies/insects?

& if he saw a real one, would he recognize it? are all of the species names he applies to the WH bugs real, or are they all made up like "Vibrant Eyespot" or "Fluttering Heartwing"?

and then there's the question - does the neighborhood have some of the more 'undesirable' bugs like moths, worms, roaches, spiders? does it have bugs outside of the generic groups of beetles and butterflies? like are there mantids? leafbugs? dragonflies? weevils? or are those too specific/complex/not-cute for the Playfellow Workshop to have included?

and then there's the question of what are the bugs? props? puppets? are they alive or do the neighbors just perceive them as such? Do they even exist outside of art, storybooks, and animated segments? I highly doubt they're alive like the neighbors are, since in the gif of Frank's head spinning, the framed butterflies' wings are moving. which is kind of horrifying if you think about it for more than a second.

just... the critters Frank loves so so so much being a complete fabrication... every piece of knowledge he prides himself on / delights in knowing being utterly Untrue... oof

#by not-cute i mean that most bugs dont sell well as marketable plushies #cute butterflies? round adorable beetles? those fit right in with a vibrant puppet-y world #so it'd make sense if those are the only two bug groups that exist #along with like. caterpillars of course. i can also see bees being a probable candidate for Existing In The World #AGHHHHH THIS HAS BEEN EATING AT ME FOR DAYS NOW #been questioning how the neighbors' consciousness and awareness manifests as well #might make a different post on that since this one has a Topic and id like to Stay On It for once #well. its related. but that deserves its own Pondering #welcome home speculation #i dont know what else to tag this as! #absolutely unprompted #ALSO ALSO are there any animals outside of insects? #does the neighborhood have birdsong but no birds? if one listens real hard to it will they notice it looping? #do they have squirrels? critters in general? is that why wally doesnt know what a rat is? he'd have no reason to. #in his world they simply don't exist. #anyway but i wonder how frank would react to seeing a real butterfly (& insects in general) #the WH ones are gigantic in comparison and overly-colorful and friendly & cutesy #wouldnt it be painful if he was scared of them. if they look too alien. would it be the spongebob butterfly episode all over again #many many thoughts tonight.... #but also.... #what if he tried to frame a real one. expecting it to be Fine and Alive when he pins it bc they always have been #theyve always been perfectly happy fluttering in their frames #but a real one would fucking die. so. yikes #traumatic core memory unlocked! frank frankly has discovered Death

[fission-mailure]

I’m not going to play it to find out how or if it works, because I have taste and also at least a few ethics, but the fact that there’s apparently no morality system in Hogwarts Legacy -- and the game devs keep bringing that up and bragging about it, and going “You can do anything! You can be a dark wizard and cast unforgivable curses! No morality system!” is conceptually just sort of odd.

Not even odd in a ‘I feel like this is hiding some deeper motivation,’ way, just ... from a pure gameplay standpoint actually quite strange.

Because generally speaking, what people like about choices in video games is seeing the ripple effect, right? If you play a ‘good’ character, you want to see the world and characters reflect that, and the same as if you play a ‘bad’ character. Telltale Games built their entire output on ‘[X Character] Will Remember This,’ where choices had concrete effects on the world around you -- and their sales dropped when it became clear that that was wholly illusory and your choices changed nothing. KOTOR is praised in part because how you play the game makes the story split off in a new direction late on, and changes how characters react to you even early on.

Like, that’s why morality systems became popular in games -- they’re not an imposition on players to satisfy some idea of ‘play morally or there will be consequences,’ they’re there because, when well-implemented, they’re an integration of story and gameplay that players find engaging and enjoyable. Players like the idea of rich, vibrant worlds that are affected by the choices they make, because that makes those game worlds feel more real. 

So, bragging about the absence of that game mechanic, especially in a game that is otherwise advertised as basically a Wholly Immersive Hogwarts Simulator, feels very strange to me. Game devs don’t typically go out of their way to make ‘we lack this thing that people enjoy’ a typical part of their marketing, right?

And it’s not as if the PR team for this is new. WarnerBros knows how to market games, they’re actually very good at this, so ... ? I don’t get it, tbh. 

#i actually do have a theory #namely that maybe jkr is more involved in the development and marketing than has been let on #in the same way as her having actually quite a bit of creative control over the movies #and maybe doesn't get that morality systems are a thing people enjoy and not a system of punishment #but i have zero evidence for that theory #so it should be taken as what it is: wild baseless speculation

[onboardsorasora]

I’m so curious about who is on the pr list for enchante or is there even a pr list

I think Josh Allen is definitely on a list that gets him enchante merch all the time, Scotty is probably on it too, George I feel like has to be on it unless he’s in the trenches like the rest of us and buying stuff when it releases

I feel like there's a PR list *now*. Or it's being built. Cause we've seen quite a few of Daniel's friends in pieces from different drops but they're not like (overtly) promoting. For the most part (if they are promoting) then it's been coming off as purely a preferred lifestyle brand by these people

Like Corey has outfits from each drop I feel, and he wears them whenever. But he also does the shoots for them as well so *shrug*

Either way I feel like a lot of people get pieces as gifts, but in terms of gifts for promotion and PR I think they're just pushing into that sphere (where we can see it)

#of course this is just like speculation #cause up until recently i dont think i recall being advertised Enchante #so theyve clearly taken the next step forward with their campaigns and marketing. which more than liekly includes influencers #answered #anonymous

[reasoncourt]

this is so funny to me. like. is he not embarrassed? he went out with a woman who has always written songs about her life and who has never pretended otherwise and who wrote so many love songs about him. and now he wants to stoke the whole misogynistic crazy-ex-girlfriend narrative. there’s undeniably loads of things to criticise taylor swift for but this is so pathetic. grow up 😭😭😭

#sorry rant over #this is just so tired #i’ll be the first to criticise taylor swift but she’s a songwriter who wrote a song #and it’s extremely true that men don’t get the same sort of criticism #how she’s marketed herself and created this intense parasocial relationship with her fans #which encourages speculation into her private life is obviously unique #but that’s an entirely different thing from ‘im so embarrassed she wrote honestly ab her experience of our relationship breakdown’ #like idk. lol. just take it as a compliment #and shut up about the ‘harry styles’ treatment #cause harry styles was always like ‘she writes great songs. if i’m a topic then that’s flattering’ #like my goood #i shouldn’t care this much #but this discourse just frustrates me so badly

[sporkberries]

do you think we will all go to hell when we die?

#I HATE SPECULATIVE MARKETS I HATE SHIT LIKE THIS OHHH MY GOD #american comics video games and now manga will we ever be free #this shit is genuinely perverse to me.