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#so thats the roadblock

soft-cheek · 2 years

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Its library card sign up month which means it's my moral obligation as a library staff member to tell yall you Really need a library card if you can they literally will save you so much money in the long run even if you're not in it for books most libraries these days keep an up to date movie selection and have free audio book services and have other items that can be checked out too

I mean if you live in the state of georgia and have a library card in good standing you can just fucking go to the atlanta zoo for free. Like you can just do that all you have to do is check out a dvd and return it a day later that's literally it and then you and a couple people now have free zoo passes

#pines also has a ton of other museum and state park passes you can just check out #and a lot of pines libraries even have video games you can just fet a video game for free for a week #stupid posts #anyway thats me done im just passionate about this #unfortunately fines are still a thing in georgia so i guess that is still a roadblock #some libraries are cool and got rid of them but unfortunately mine still does fines

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kideternity · 6 days

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Watched Shin Kamen Rider today as somebody who’s never seen any Kamen Rider show before but always vaguely wanted to get into it and the main message I got from Shin Kamen Rider was that Grasshoppers are really cool and underrated

Okay I'll stop being silly now. I really liked it ^_^ it was a really fun movie. Im not sure how like, Faithful it is to any of the previous Kamen Rider shows or like how lore accurate it is Again Ive never watched Kamen Rider before so for all I know actual Kamen heads think it’s the worst most baby bitch taste thing ever but I really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the costume design- it was very fast paced / pacing and plot is not very I feel like. I suppose MEANT to be super linear or easily cohesive. It took me I think the first 30 minutes to like Truly Get into it / Get used to the pacing and plot, same with the cinematography, though once I got used to it I did really enjoy the sort of dramatic weird cinematography and plot etc it had going on. The soundtrack was very cool and in general the movie felt like very loving of the aesthetics etc it was based off, like a lot of the hamminess felt Explicitly Deliberate as a labour of affection idk I might be talking out of my ass here. The ending left me with a nice fuzzy warm feeling in my antly heart. Idk. I liked it!

Anyways. Grasshoppers are really cool.

#dinu yells into the void #dinu yells in the void #kamen rider #im very endeared to ichimoji. he was very cutesies to me.#if theres ever a shin kr sequel w him ill defo watch #one of my mutuals sent me a big like. colleciton of the kamen rider mangas #and i plan to read through all of them #because my biggest roadblock with kamen rider and general japanese superhero stuff is just that like #i cant fuckinf watch it 😭 it makes me feel physically ill my body and mind werent built for audiovisual media #only specific tv shows and movies have i been able to brave without feeling sick afterwards #so thats always why ive defaulted to manga and comic books. just so much more accessible to me #i am unsure what the fan perception of the mangas is but im hoping theyre good #i like these bug guys

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gutsfics · 8 months

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suddenly overtaken w the desire to try and make HWU into a choices style visual novel. but i musnt bc i havent worked on thefucking. Avalon rewrite since i posted chappy 1 like last year

#thats a bit of a lie i tried working on the next chapter but i keep hitting roadblocks in it #im really really really trying to kill the Perfect in my head but its so hard i need all my fics to be my magnum opus every time i write

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blueskiesofsaturn · 1 year

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eh screw it i'm not holding onto this anymore Part 1 of don't worry about it Part 2 -> Rambling under the cut

~~~ Hi! this has been a funny little thing I've been working on for...

Oh. The file says February on it. Well then. Anywho this is something thats a bit longer than my other stuff, a short story if you will! With a planned ending that we'll hopefully reach if I don't burn out before then haha oh boy Truthfully I would have posted this a MONTH ago if it weren't for the fact that this first little part was giving me so much trouble. I had actually almost finished it save for basically the last two panels, but I'd gotten a lot, and I mean a LOT more confident drawing and writing these idiots in the other comics I made in the meantime. I was at the verge of just scrapping this whole part, but after getting bullied by my friends telling me my art and writing was good anyways and realizing in my hubris that this part had set up necessary context for later I gave in. The rest of the story is worth it to me and I didn't want this to to be the roadblock anymore. Anyways TLDR the rest are probably going to be a slightly different style. And better. Not that anyone would have probably cared but I felt like everyone should know about my struggle.

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rottmnt donnie #fancomic #fanart #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #myart #disaster twins #tmnt once in a blue moon

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jemmo · 4 months

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Making sense of love for love's sake: the game

Despite all the things i absolutely adore about how the plot unravels and expands in love by love's sake, upon first watch, there's some things i couldn't piece together, which @lurkingshan echoes in their post:

'The way the author was messing with Myungha and forcing cruel choices on him really does not track with a desire to help him find happiness.'

And to preface, this is not something i fully get yet either. I think i'll need a good month and a sizeable reading list of relevant resources to understand just what/who this author/sunbae is and what his role is and how he is associated with myungha. But as always with the best shows for meta (aka bad buddy), as a plot unfolds, you can always find a better understanding by looking backwards and re-contextualising what you've already seen. so i watched ep 1, specifically the scene between myungha and his sunbae at the bar. And i will talk about how everything said in this scene has a whole new meaning now we know the full story, but for now i wanna focus on that question that they keep coming back to; "Then... will you change it for him?".

When you watch the show for the first time, your brain follows the simplest, most obvious version of the story you're being told, one where myungha has been pulled into the world of his sunbae's novel that's being turned into a game and given the opportunity to fix the thing he didn't like about it; making yeowoon happy, and thus you just think the rules of the game are imposed by the author, and so when these cruel choices first come up, you see them as the difficult roadblocks that are nevertheless necessary to any kind of game, forcing the player to make an impossible choice so that the game can continue in a certain direction and its only after that you learn whether it was the right choice or not, or there is no right choice, it simply changes the game you are playing.

And when its revealed what this game actually is, at first i tried to interpret these cruel choices, namely the choice between yeonwoon and myungha's grandma, and at best i could come up with the concept of this being a choice between staying stuck to the past aka choosing his grandma, even though he knows that choice doesn't mean she's safe bc he knows the future where he loses here, its an inevitability, but thats the small happiness he knew before it was taken away and thus that happiness is known and safe, theres no risk, versus choosing to pursue a new happiness, a love of yeowoon and thus himself, which he doesn't know, he hasn't experienced yet, and could be risky. Its a happiness that isn't guaranteed like his grandma, but its a happiness that looks to the future and has hope in it that he can find a new happiness to pursue despite what has happened in his past.

And that fits nice, okayish. But then i watched ep 1 and heard that question "Then... will you change it for him?" And watching through the rest of the eps, we come back to this scene at the bar and each time we get a new run up to the author asking this question, either new dialogue is added or we hear a different piece of the conversation entirely. It starts at the beginning of ep 1 as:

"Because Cha Yeowoon is the only one who's miserable." "It can't be helped that some people's lives are like that" "The fact that some people are destined to live that kind of life is what's vile."

Then a bit later in ep 1 we go back and its expanded.

"It can't be helped that some people's lives are like that" "The fact that some people are destined to live that kind of life is what's vile." "Why? Do you think you'd write it differently?" "Yes, definately. Someone like Cha Yeowoon, or someone like me with an awful life, can also be happy."

And then all the way on in ep 6, we get this new dialogue.

"I don't like talking about destiny." "Why?" "Because it means everything is predestined." "Then do you not believe in fate?" "Fate and destiny are the same. My grandma likes to say that. She said life is like a written book, and how you'll live and die are written in it. (...)I don't like things like this. Even if fate is already destined, I think it can still be changed. Otherwise, there's no point in trying." "Really? Then Myungha..."

And while we don't hear the author ask the same question, I feel like him getting cut off like that insinuates that the conversation leads to that same ending point. All that is to say, every time we hear this question being asked, its like we learn more and more about what this whole thing is, what the game is, what myungha is saying he will do by agreeing to do what the author asks. And every time, we see myungha being more defiant against the idea of yeowoon being resigned to his miserable ending. He starts off thinking that kind of life is destined, and while it's miserable, its not something he can fight. Then he says he'd want to write the story differently, bc yeowoon, or even him, could be happy. He challenges the idea that yeowoon, and thus himself, is fated to be miserable, and opens up the possibility for happiness for them both, but doesn't yet have the means or resolve to do it, its like he knows its possible on a fundamental level, but doesn't see it as something he can actually achieve. But then we circle back to the idea of destiny and books, both of which came up in the previous quote, and seems incredibly pertinent seen as this whole thing is about a novel this author has written. Myungha talks about how he hates the idea that life is a book where everything written is predestined to happen, from the moment you live to the moment you die. He says "Even if fate is already destined, I think it can still be changed. Otherwise, there's no point in trying." That vile way of life he described before that he said was destined, he is now saying it can be changed, and that possibility is now something he's holding onto, its what he sees hope in so that he can keep trying, bc now he finally is trying, he has the resolve, he's trying to realise this thing, this impossibility of rewriting the life he thought was destined through the way he loves yeowoon.

And coming back to those cruel choices, given this fresh context, it made me think. bc this isn't actually a game that myungha has been put into where the rules are dictated by an author completely separate from him. He said himself, he'd rewrite it, he'd change things for yeowoon. And when you start to think of it less as him fighting against a rigid, removed system and more like him being a character in a story he is trying to rewrite himself, that has both the author and his own limitations, or just his own if you're in the school of thought that the author is some figment or part of myungha himself or his conciousness, then you can start to see where these cruel choices might come from. They could be myungha, the author making edits to this new story, imposing his own doubts and limitations on himself. When he says he has to pick between Yeowoon and his grandma, what if that's the new author myungha seeing this story unfold and thinking no this isn't right, he can't have it all, i'm not deserving of this much happiness.

And what makes me like this idea even more is that when we get that second choice between ending after 14 days or getting 100 days back at the cost of resetting Yeowoon's affection to 0, that whole conversation happens in what I think the bar actually is which is this frozen moment in time where myungha is in the water with this extension of a voice in his head that is talking through these things. That conversation in itself needs its own post, but when you look at it both as a decision to break up or not or a decision to hold onto life or not, you can see how the author is just this soundboard relaying the decisions myungha is going through in his head. The author's voice is his own, weighing up his decisions. And if he is the author here, it only reinforces that the person making the rules of this game is him. You can even extend it further to the idea of the debuffs, where he puts in place this thing that makes it so he causes harm to yeowoon when he's around, and its only by garnering affection that he can prevent it. He gives himself a reason from the get go to stay away from yeowoon and reason it as him doing it for yeowoon's safety, when in fact the only way to make yeowoon safe is to increase his affection, which he can only do by being near him. Its a system that at first gives myungha a reason to stay away aka not like himself, but ultimately says the only way you're going to make yeowoon like you, or the only way you can like yourself, is if you accept risk. And that in itself screams to me of a myungha writing in these game systems that are trying to encourage his own-self love while falling at the hurdle of his own lack of self-worth.

The idea is still messy in my head even for me, but i just really like the idea that myungha could be trying to fix this thing both as a character and game master, and that both these versions of him have these flaws that manifest in their different ways to cause the events we see. It kinda is the definition of being your own worst enemy, the idea that in order to work towards loving yourself, the biggest obstacle you have to encounter is yourself, bc we are the ones holding ourselves back, making all these rules that make it harder to like ourselves and pursue our own happiness. The voices in our head telling us that we aren't good enough and aren't deserving are our own, and while the things that happen to us can inform what they say, we're the one's reinforcing those words. And what this show teaches us is that, if we're the one holding that pen all along, we can choose to change what those words are. If we make the rules, you don't have to create a game with concrete ultimatums, you can create a game where rules don't control you. Instead, you make the decisions, and you can make the ones that make you happy.

#wow look at me writing actual kinda thought out meta #also something something about how the pen being in his pocket wasnt a pen given to him by the author its a pen that was his the whole time #look even if this isnt the right interpretation as intended by the author i just kinda adore this headcanon ive come up with and i cant wai #to rewatch the show again through this lens and see if it holds up #i just adore the idea of this whole thing being this manifestation of a flawed doubtful person trying to navigate through their own messy #nonsensical thoughts to find their own happiness #bc yes thats what triggered me thinking of this whole thing. me seeing that post and thinking yeah that doesnt make sense7 #but then again when you tell yourself things an put your own mental blocks in the way they dont make sense either but you still have to fin #the ways to work around them in order to find happiness #like those things dont go away we just find the loopholes or the ways to overcome them that mean we can be happy #the game is your own mind - deal with your own existential crisis as you wish #anyway this is only part 1 in what i hope will be a very extensive meta analysis of this show - stay tuned #love for love's sake

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archie-sunshine · 2 months

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How long did it take Pandora to believe Jak he wasn't an Ai? Like I know the world is made by your friend so not sure how well you can answer this one but.

Is true sapient ai not a thing? I know in other posts you said a lot of other bots were running around with other purposes outside fighting (i would guess like, maids, personal assistants, nannies etc) but you also mentioned with Pandora's robot fucking habits the more simple the ai the more she liked it.

Lol I'm just super curious if at first she thought someone *actually* managed to hack her pc, then maybe thought she stumbled upon some illegal level advanced ai (know some sci-fi worlds outlaw sapient ai to avoid the whole issues that usually causes) until she finally believed this conscious on a drive he was a human despite remembering basically nothing about his human life and using media to make references to who he was.

GREAT QUESTION i've thought extensively about this actually

SO! greater worldbuilding questions I may not be the best at answering, however from what I understand, sapient AI is ABSOLUTELY a thing in this world. Androids, and robots sometimes get built with that kind of ai, and(I think, @pinkanonwrites can confirm or deny) it certainly exists in silicon based life forms, and sentient alien robot species that appear in pink's world.

There ARE also body guards and other androids like that from what i've seen, and so hyper complex AI is absolutely around. In the main campaign we've met sapient robot body guards that like. have off time and play magic the gathering and stuff(ingo and eres my loves).

BUT!

Pandora absolutely initially thought she might have been hacked, and she might have thought he was an ai. She initially was just taking a peek under the hood at what was in the processor, and when she found it was mostly a bunch of random files, most of which were corrupted in some way, she was going to just wipe the hard drive.

And it didn't really matter if it was an AI. because she'd never seen a computer virus beg not to die like JAK did.

Was it cheesy? sure. Was it stupid of her to keep him? absolutely.

If this was a prank or a dupe or an attempted hack, they were certainly going for it in terms of production value, considering the drive had footage of a person's entire life from the moment he began to form memories to a hard roadblock of corrupted files.

don't worry, she hasn't seen everything thats in there, just skimming it was a bit much for her.

She honestly didn't start fully believing he wasn't an ai until she put him in her bot and saw how odd his code meshed with a body.

#archie answers #my art #my requests #tw horror #tw psychological horror #freaky stuff right there tbh #oc lore #my ocs #JAK #Pandora #circua prime #circua

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