I know Charles got a 10 in the Aramco rankings, but they have been so off the mark for years that it dilutes everything when they rate a driver well. I don't post Aramco rankings, because they really don't inform anything useful in my opinion. They are never clear about how they arrive at these rankings, so like slapping a number on a performance really is just not helpful? Like the 10s they have given in recent years have been wildly different. What gets a 10? We still don't know. So what does a 10 mean? Not much.
I don't know, I know some people like ranking things, but when the number is just made up with like no real units for the scale it just doesn't make sense to me, especially when the numbers don't align with previously similar drives from other drivers.
I am convinced they get the numbers from divining the tyre tracks in the pitlane after the race.
I am happy that they are recognizing Charles' performance, but coming from these people who have been really off in previous ratings what does it really mean?
To be clear Charles always 16/10 in my garage.
And that is all I have to say about Aramco rankings.
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— bias tag game *ੈ✩‧₊˚
rules: you're going to pick 10 of your biases (or as many biases as you have and then fill in the rest of the spots with idols you like) and number them 1-10. then answer the questions below! try not to look at the questions before you make your list! (thanku @irlvernon for the tag ^^)
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yena's bias list:
joshua
taehyun
beomgyu
minghao
dokyeom
jimin
seonghwa
junhui
lee know
sunghoon
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1. between 7 and 5, who did you bias first?
jimin!! i was an army first before i was anything else, and he literally forever has some sort of grip on my heart
2. between 2 and 6, who are you more attached to?
that's SO HARD omg even tho i literally numbered them in order of greatest favour,,, gonna say beomgyu tho. bc if any of them were to go thru something life-threatening, i think i'd be The Most terrified if it were beomgyu
3. if you were to spend the day with either 3 or 1, who would you choose and what would you do?
mfing first place JOSHUA ofc??? i'm gonna take him to the amusement park and play kiss marry kill with the random people we see in the queues
4. what is your favorite physical feature about 9?
his eyes :((( but i just have a thing for eyes tbh
5. what is your favorite part of 6's personality?
endlessly loving. jimin's just always, always has so much love to offer the world, even when the world has so little love to offer him in return.
6. if you were to tell 8 anything you wanted, what would you tell them?
i'd tell junhui that i hope he knows how important he is, to countless people. because he is, and he's adored by so many, and he deserves to know that he has those people rooting for him, no matter what he does.
7. between 1 and 2, whose closet would you raid?
joshua bc i'm sorry taehyun but my guy gets maybe a 3 in fashion sense
8. what is a style that you want to see 3 try?
nhhgghgh can i ask him to keep wolfcut grunge emo boy forever
9. between 5 and 4, who are you closer to in height?
minghao,,,, only bc dokyeom is actually a fucking giant. we need to talk about that more often tbh
10. between 10 and 9, whose music do you like the best?
sunghoon! enha's music is literally always just so good and rlly it took me a while to get into skz's music bc most of their stuff just really isn't my style
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tagging (no pressure!): @etherealyoungk @blue-jisungs @idubiluv @slytherinshua @mirxzii @selenicives @weird-bookworm @rubywonu @wheeboo @ylliris-hanniehae @wonwoonlight @boosari @hannyoontify @jeonwonwoo and anyone else who would like to do this <3
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THANK YOU for that post regarding Leicester waging war on the Central Church, actually, because I thought something just wasn't clicking for me as I was playing the route. It's like--in order to make waging war make sense, they had to frame the Central Church as unimportant so they wouldn't lose something important when they killed Rhea. But then. If the Central Church is so unimportant, there's no way they're so evil and corrupt and pervasive that they have to be uprooted with violence. I thought my brain was really just turned off but turns out this route was really just written that poorly??dflgkdj
No cuz like that's. The exact problem, you hit the nail on the head.
Claude can't be straight up evil, and thus can't be portrayed as doing something that's actually that bad - it's clear that they're tryin' to portray him as a guy just trying to get by as best he can for his own people. But herein lies the conundrum: if the Central Church is important to the people of Fodlan (both on a personal level and a pragmatic one), and Rhea is the leader of the Central Church and is the one doing all of these good things for everyone, and Claude is trying to get rid of it and kill her, then he's clearly doing something objectively wrong. So it has to be the case that the Church isn't that important to his people then - now he can retain being a good guy trying the best for his people.
But. Then. If it's so unimportant that literally no one gives a shit about taking it down - they're not rioting nor are they rallying, they're legit described as "calm" - then the Central Church is clearly not that impactful to Leicester. The people of which Claude is supposed to be doing all of this for. Their complete nonreaction to the declaration of war - starkly different from the Empire, who needed actual propaganda to even be remotely calmed, and to the Kingdom whose nobility and people place high value in the Central Church's existence - should tell Claude and everyone else that they're barking up the wrong tree.
The game can not decide whether it wants to portray the Church as something bad or not to save its life. Dimitri takes it in only for pragmatic purposes, Claude wants to take it down, Edelgard wants to take it down, all this shit gets flung at it, and then you fuckin' pan the camera over to them and the Church is pickin' daisies and making flower crowns for lil' kids. There is no justification ever given as to why the Church is constantly looked at with a side-eye by literally everyone; 3Hopes doesn't have WC to make Rhea look sus, so why does everyone... act like they've been through WC? 3Hopes wanted to have its cake and eat it too, and it impacted just about every single character.
I'm just confounded that Claude - Mr. Curious, Mr. I-Want-All-The-Answers, someone who is open-minded enough to see the merit of being positively compared to Rhea and who wanted to hear her side of things despite everything - is drowning in evidence that points directly to the Church not being guilty of pretty much everything he accused of it, and he just... well, even saying that he ignores it gives the writing too much credit, at least in this specific instance. These facts are ignored by the narrative itself. No one brings these facts up. No one notices this, even when they're actively talking about it. It's like the writers didn't even notice this when writing it out. The closest this instance gets to being "acknowledged" is in Claude's support with Dimitri (where he does just flat out ignore Dimitri's points, because why write Claude when you can just write EdeIgard instead lmao), and even then it never brings up any of this. Just mind-boggling
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