#setup construction

[nintendgirl]

🐾 new controller 🌸💕

#pinkcore #pink aesthetic #pastel pink #controller #ps5 #aliexpress #pink setup #genshin impact #genshin aesthetic #gamercommunity #video games #laptop #setup construction #game girl #Spotify

[pochapal]

so: kumasawa was meant to be suspected but she ultimately did not kill kanon because if she had it wouldn't be spelled out as a theory like this. but kanon was still killed in the boiler room and every other person on rokkenjima has an alibi, and this "impossible" thing was done in a way clearly in accordance with beatrice's plans.

#umineko liveblog #kanon's death was specifically the setup for this kind of confrontation #every suspect needs a plausible reason to be suspicious other than it boiling down to us/them paranoia on class lines #kumasawa needing a convincing narrative to be hated beyond 'that lazy old gossip who is so far beneath us'. a perfect construct #and then i think about all that oddness about kanon's death in the first place. the boy who was killed by fantasy. #what if my makeup theory..........................................................surely not. it couldn't.

[sysig]

Getting up to trouble is his speciality (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #The Captain #Mixed set! :D Lots of singular doodles - one-offs or ones that apply to a few different scenes #The kiss is random tho <3 I still haven't gotten to ZEX showing off his uniform to Zelnick! I want them to!! #Him seeing his Captain in his uniform was so lovely tho <3 I love Big Love and that was so <3 Hehe #Smooch ♥ #ZEX does not eat enough ;; He eats like a bird and it's highly distressing #I actually wrote in my notes that I was surprised he wasn't hurting In The Same entry as when he was experiencing hunger pangs haha #It doesn't help that he tends to talk through meals rather than eat - he's so much more interested in making connections with humans! #As far as metaphors go - killing himself for the sake of trying to bridge that gap - I mean it's apt but ZEX please #I think it was while he was talking to Wally at one point that he framed the War in a very flippant light-hearted way which was funny to me #I don't think that's the descriptor most people would use haha #Swearing <3 <3 VUX terminology <3 <3 #I want a VUX glossary of terms so badly hehe I've been slowly compiling a few here and there :3 Direct translation! The dream ♫ #Him getting stressed enough to swear is very endearing haha ♪ What do you mean I'm endeared by everything he does don't be silly #The next one of me deeply enjoying when he's creepy is not proof of anything! Just because I Happen to also like that!! #I do really love when he's creepy tho agh <3 <3 The mental image of him as The Hunter - casually cornering and capturing his prey <3 #In that instance he was interrupted pretty quickly but the setup was there!! And it was extremely good!!! #I love how huffy he gets as well haha ''All these humans interrupting my seduction attempts >O( ...Wait O|'' lol #And finally an exchange on the board between him and Scarecrow haha so many fun faces around!! #I love him being completely baffled by a non-mechanical construct it just short-circuits his brain haha ♥ #He's so intelligent but there exists things unknowable! #The image of him tapping his pen is so Incredibly cute ah <3 Where did he learn such a thing! Does it translate from his VUX form to this ♪ #Anything everything ♥ Learned or known! It's wonderful

[simply-sithel]

Wanted to play at animating more book monsters. This fellow was made back in 2018 but has been catching my eye lately since I shuffled what & where things live on the shelves last month.

#really need to get the lighting situation under control (the flicker is just from passing clouds) #didn't realize the mirror would look so dirty till I'd snapped all the photos #bits of tape helped keep 'em in place... I want to expand setup though so I can animate a foot 'lifting' #book monster #animated #book body #had hoped to have a sparrow book to animate but am still struggling with the construction #the pages are tan and there's nothing inside it unfortunately #a soulless little cutie

[bellshazes]

there are very few things in minecraft that are truly dependent on time alone; i don't even mean the unit-rate of AFK farms, but things that are exclusively governed by the passage of in-game time, like sugarcane, nether wart, amethyst, etc. the most obvious of these is mob breeding, and the aging up of some but not all mobs. you can increase your cows by 50% each time you breed every five minutes, no less, ditto other mobs. sure, that counter only increments when the mob is in a loaded chunk, but that's almost always trivial.

turtles are doubly governed by time, seeing as they are constrained to 5-minute breeding intervals like all other breedable mobs AND their eggs hatch according to the immovable stubborn slow grind of random ticks. eggs, however, only have a chance of cracking each in-game day they are loaded, and need to crack multiple times to hatch.

Turtle eggs have a chance of cracking during random ticks. Throughout the vast majority of the day, random ticks have a 1/500 chance of causing the egg to crack. There's a small window in the very early morning hours where random ticks have a 100% chance of cracking eggs. This window is defined as the time between celestial angles 0.65 and 0.69, or 03:36 am and 04:33 am on a 24-hour clock. This window lasts 48 seconds in-game. - MC Turtle Mechanics on GitHub

if you are not loading the chunk during this 48-second window during nighttime, you may not get a guaranteed tick. if you skip the night, you will never get a guaranteed tick. other than refusing to sleep (at least until after 04:33 AM) you can not speed up turtles, only slow them down by sleeping and not being close by.

turtle breeding would be deeply, deeply frustrating and despair-inducing if it mattered at all, whatsoever. functionally, if you're farming eggs for various other farms, you only have to suffer gathering enough grown turtles to breed and harvesting those eggs immediately. if you're farming scutes for turtle master potions or scutes, you can do the same as farming eggs but put a hopper minecart under the sand to catch the scutes when the eggs hatch and the turtles grow up, and you're unlikely to need either turtle helmets or turtle master potions in bulk. either way, just set up your area where you spend a lot of time and let it run in the background after actively breeding them.

turtle egg hatching only becomes optimal when you are doing things that are not turtle egg hatching. the question becomes not how to optimize the farm, but what does maximum optimization look like for farms that cannot be traditionally optimized because they're gated by time? you're unlikely to even encounter waste-as-limiter, such as in some high efficiency, low redstone farms that substitute player inventory for hoppers. you have to understand the farm as a piece of a larger passive system composed of all the other separate things you intend to do, and your own rhythms and goals as a player.

#constructing elaborate mc lore on turtles' inherent subjugation to time and the moon #mc meta #stopping here bc it is only the setup and i can't be getting into all that bc i dont have it figured out. #but i think i'll get further if i take each variable that is hard to control for and think about them in sequence #e.g. convenience of travel to certain location-restricted farms; afk-ing time made more productive by attaching time-limited things etc. #minecraft

[fictionadventurer]

While I'm on the subject of plotting and Doctor Who, you know who was great at plot? Steven Moffat. The man is the master of the well-constructed plot, the shorter the story, the better. A multi-series show can go off the rails as he trails off in a million different directions. A full series of a show can have its rough patches and wind up unbalanced. But an individual episode? A masterpiece you could use to teach writing courses. A 4-8 minute minisode? One of the most beautifully constructed gems you've ever seen in your life. His plots are full of intricate internal logic and drawn from character and can highlight some of the loveliest themes because they're built on such a strong framework.

I think a big reason he's so good at plot is that he's a comedy writer. Comedy is nothing but set-up and payoff. Set up a situation. Pay it off in a surprising way. And the link between those two is character. If you set up that Character A has a certain personality trait, then when they encounter a new situation, you have them act according to that personality trait, and all sorts of funny things can result. The payoff makes sense because it was set up. That's also the gift of the running gag. If you mention something in the early part of the story, you can pass over it as useless information. Or as a minor joke that's over now. But at the end of the story, that seemingly minor piece can come back and resolve the whole thing, and it works because it was set up.

A great example of joke-turned-plot is "The Girl in the Fireplace." Plot: A spaceship is linked via a portal in time to 1700s France. The Doctor wanders back and forth between the past and the future. Later on, we see that a horse from the past has also wandered through the portal, and is now on the spaceship. Haha, silly gag, horse on a spaceship, good joke. But later, the portal closes, and the Doctor's trapped on the spaceship while people in the past are going to die. If only he had something large enough to break through. Surprise! He bursts through the barrier on a horse! The same horse from the gag! The joke was the setup for a plot payoff! And there's tons of that kind of thing in his work, plot hidden in jokes and jokes secretly building plot, and lots of plots that aren't about the jokes but always follow that rule of set-up and payoff.

There's just something so satisfying about a puzzle whose pieces all fit together. About a story that's well balanced. Character's great--and he's great at them--but there's something extra special about seeing them in a masterfully constructed plot. And it's been a long time since I've come across a plot that was as satisfying as his could be.

#other other random thought of the day #adventures in writing #steven moffat #this is actually two random thoughts of the day put together #i was going to do a separate post about how sitcoms teach you plot because of set up and payoff #but it wound up weaving in here #but i'll mention in the tags since this also sparked those thoughts #that corner gas has beautifully constructed plots #absurd ones? yes #but built on character and relying on those wonderful setups and payoffs #sitcoms are plot built from character and they're ideal for a really well-constructed plot #they don't have to worry about maintaining a sense of gravitas or drama #you can just take the absurdity to its logical conclusion #which means you can get absurd farce built on air-tight logic #and you rarely get that in drama #also? #other moffat thing that sparked this post? #those series 6 minisodes are divine #two in particular #that one where he talks to amy about changing the past may be the best thing he's ever written #and the day of the doctor minisode? #i have gone on at length about its layers and i could go on longer #it condenses the usual companion intro into two minutes #two! #establishes a character and makes total sense #*while* layering in dialogue that both works in context *and* winks at all the audience expectations around the airing of the minisode #'i'm a doctor. but probably not the one you were expecting' #that is GENIUS right there people! #anyhow we got tag limits now so i'll stop

[hauntingblue]

I

<3

In between arc (kinda) episodes

Pt. 3

#so MOMOS GRANDPA IS ALIVE??? AND PLUTON IS HERE SO ROBIN LIED TO CROCODILE IN ARABASTA! QUEEN #THE NEW ADMIRAL JUST KILLED QUEEN AND MAYBE KING (PLEASE DONT!!) AND IS CALLING FOR A WARSHIP TO KILL LUFFY #oh luffy grabbing kid akdhaksj reluctant friend maker they call him... wdym youre going to kill me... come here lets smush cheeks #luffy is such a humble king.... also why am i crying here thinking how everything is so brautiful (and otsuru is alive) and i have to find #out buggy is a yonkou. what the hell did he do against the marines akdbaisbsks ????? HOW???? #ofc luffy is obvious.... also the admiral could roam arund wano a little and grow some plants all over... it is needed after all... #take a breath.... meditate what you're going to do... #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 1080 #also why is jinbe in there alone??? also i thought pluton was nika but pluton is in wano??? metaphorically yes.... my theory is in shambles #SHANKS???? 'momo and hiyori must have grown' well... recent update actually... #yamato got him!!!! fuck yes!!! #yasopp isnt ready to see usopp???? well boohoo... also why does this guy care about kid... nvm shanks got his arm i forgor xd #so shanks new about the fruit.... bc not even whos who knows... #barto burning shanks flag omg akdhsks #SABO KILLED COBRA???? that has to be a setup.... kuma escaped!!!! sabo is more popular than dragon somehow??? its bc he actually does stuff #MOMO CAN MAKE FIRE?? well kinda... shanks goes for the one piece.... what's in the air??? like you didn't have time before??? #once again i <3 in between arc episodes.... i love getting fed new info.... #nami new sharpshooter usopp step aside... and with one hand only... oh nvm.... it is rigged then #episode 1082 #law and robin ponebesties.... jack gyojin???? also that is such a way to construct a city... wth RED PONEGLYPH!!! 3/4!!! #opening the frontiers frees the weapon.... inch resting also did luffy talk to him??? yamato could hear him because of the king's haki??? #what is up with shank's haki.... jesus christ.... they were just watching lmao luffy can feel shanks omg..... #did he just leave or does he need the poneglyph still??? #episode 1083

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Honestly, Roxy and Vanessa friendship, especially when Vanny and Glitchtrap are a thing, is really interesting to play around with. Roxy has no reason to talk to her and no reason to ever trust her, especially when she knows about Vanny. Vanessa has every reason to tell her to fuck off, to go away and never come back to keep her from getting attached and inevitably caught and virus'd, but can't bring herself to force her away.

Mixing things from my old horse girl Roxy fic with my current setups, Glitchtrap/Vanny and new ideas for their friendship, makes this even more interesting. It puts Roxy in a very vulnerable position, the prime target for manipulation and being taking advantage of, but it also puts her in prime position to give Vanessa hope.

Roxy can tell who's talking to her, she knows when it's Vanessa and she knows when it's Vanny. She's honestly probably the only person that would believe whatever Vanessa says about what she's going through. The illusion disks don't work on her and she can always see them so long as they're in the building. If she figures out the Princess Quest connection? If she starts working on freeing her? Well, Roxy's the first hope she's had in fuck knows how long.

And the thing is, because Roxy can see it all, she has the power to recognise that what's happening to the other animatronics, is what has already happened with Vanessa. Not only that, but Vanessa is an outsider going through it. She knows she can't say anything too important around her, but she's such a lifeline as an outside perspective to her. She can tell her things that Roxy wouldn't otherwise be able to find out about, and has offered suggestions and advice to 'get rid of her' that's actually helped a lot. With how everything is, Vanessa has become one of the few people Roxy can still talk to, even if she has to be careful about what she says with her.

What else is interesting, is the absolute fascination Vanny can have with her. Neither Vanny nor Glitchtrap know what Roxy's deal is. They don't know how she knows who's talking to her. The first time Vanny switched in to try and manipulate her as Vanessa, Roxy asked for her name and it threw them so fucking hard. Roxy vanishes all the time, she mentions things she has no business knowing, she asks about things that have confusing implications, she has higher security clearance than them, she can kill the cameras in an instant, she can't be tracked like the others and weirdly enough, she seems to actually like talking to them. Maybe not Vanny specifically, but Vanessa? Why does she like her so much? Why does she keep coming back? How does she always know where they are? How is she always there to stop them getting up to shit? What's her game and how the hell is she playing it?

She's just different, and Vanny finds it intriguing. She hasn't had many openings to catch Roxy off guard and infect her yet, but she's also never been able to be in control of Vanessa without her knowing. She's clearly been isolated from the majority of the other animatronics for things that Vanny didn't even have a hand in. She keeps sharing little, inconsequential things with Vanessa, and giving her random shit she finds that she thinks she'll like, despite Vanessa trying to push her away. She's openly admitted that she knows what Vanny is trying to do to her and it's somehow still not stopped her. Honestly, she's starting to think she's playing the 'power of friendship' game to try and friendship her way through all of this...

And it would be really funny if she thought it was working. Like Vanny would normally get rid of things Vanessa likes but because Roxy is throwing them both for a fucking loop, she's found herself unable to do it. Vanny fucking hates this horse plushie Roxy very enthusiastically gave Vanessa, but she can't rip it up like she ordinarily would because what the fuck okay?? Why is she like this??? And it's the first time Vanessa has smiled since this all started.

Vanessa is rooting for her. She thinks this is part of her plan. After all, Roxy couldn't possibly actually see her as a friend, right? Vanny's right, it must be part of some master plan to deal with all of this!

And then it's over. The next time Vanessa sees her, Roxy hugs her in tears, thinking the worst had happened after that night. Or if it was Roxy that freed her, she returns to the office, a new horse plushie she found in hand, and is there waiting for her when she clocks in for her shift after a long break away. Turns out, it wasn't part of her plan. She just needed a friend.

#fnaf security breach #do you see what i mean??? roxy is the most BAFFLING animatronic to them #i don't know if Roxy WILL do all of that stuff specifically but i know she would do some of it at least #this is NOT intended as a ship thing but you can interpret it that way if you want #I'm not judgy i don't really care #i just. they're so interesting??? #obviously it's not always possible for roxy to come and see her later on but she could always leave little signs in her office to say hi #that's the thing with the current setup. Roxy is so much more isolated than before #she has the minis of course and she has the construction staff in a way #but dogs and wolves are such social animals that she still feels so lonely #she's been betrayed already and she's hurting and she's angry and so much is happening it's overwhelming #who can blame her for trying to make friends? #AND this could be a really fun parallel to Cassie and another animatronic if it plays out a certain way #if that friendship is what ultimately leads to roxy getting caught? well yeah... parallels my man #very interesting stuff!! i love it all!!! #i am entertained!!! i just think they're neat!!!

[the-crane-and-the-wolf]

Setup Poll

Gonna do a few of these to settle some things on how this is gonna be ran!

#the vote {poll} #on another note {not an ask} #the being {mod post} #under construction {setup} #Yes I'm doing fancy tags fight me over it

[ereborne]

whoops

Spent two hours in a meeting with The Most New Yawk Accents, felt the shape of my mouth physically changing to keep up with them, got out of the meeting and listened to a carefully constructed playlist of George Strait, Randy Travis, and Midland to reset, got called into an unscheduled meeting, spent fifteen minutes expositing unchecked, got a text from the IT rep (the only other overlapping person) after that said ‘lol you sound so diffrent now’

#yapping tag #by 'called into an unscheduled meeting' I mean my zoom ring cut into the howling at the beginning of Chris Ledoux's Call of the Wild #I had to jump directly from laying flat and basking in music times to defending my database setup plans #it was very unfortunate that song is incredible #and actually by 'carefully constructed' I mean I hit random and skipped anything that didn't make me switch breathing patterns #but I think it should still count #I should make a more intentional playlist though #who's actually from Carolina? Darius Rucker and Eric Church and Lee Brice all have songs that talk about it #google says they are all from one of the Carolinas yes and actually so is Randy Travis! bless the man he's a gift #Charlie Daniels of course of course I should've known #Emmylou Harris!! and Aaron Tippin and Don Gibson okay yes I can definitely make a playlist here

[mangobubletea]

i’m so good at standing

#monitoring festival setup and nothing is happening in my corner rn so i’m just like 🧍‍♀️ #feeling real dorky in my construction worker type neon vest and my fancy radio #5 more hours yippee #i love getting paid to stand #ramblings

[causeitsagame]

I've gotten my longtime writing buddy to have the following reactions to my fangan characters / script, so far:

Oh shit

Uh oh

[character] is SUUUUUUUUUCH an asshole

oh NOOOOOOOOOOO

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

She takes zero bullshit, approve

kick his ass, [protag]!

oh SHIT

Lol that big twist setup

Everyone is going to be SO MAD

SO. MAD.

feels like good signs

#fangan stuff #this whole thing started because i wanted to construct a really solid third case setup #and well. i obviously had to design an entire game once i had done that #plot/character/setting/execution/etc. inspo so far: scream saw zero escape your turn to die se7en

[pocketramblr]

Unsure about tumblr etiquette, but I was scrolling through and saw your tags on the LU ages post? OP was talking about the canonical ages of the Links, and is planning to make a seperate one for headcanons later on. (Sorry, just wanted to point that out since you were calling out the people for 'correcting' them)

Oh so the "Canonically…I’m gonna do one that’s my personal Headcannons." didn't mean "canonically...(trailing off because there aren't consistent canon answers) I'm gonna do one (this following list) that's my personal headcannons (because aforementioned canon problem)" it meant "Canonically...(the following ages are:) I'm going to do one (on a separate post) that's my personal headcannons (because etc etc)." I see I see

#my point about people correcting the canon ages with other canon ages is still funny though #gonna be real i probably would not have correctly interpreted the tone of op's setup even on a less brainfried day #the varied ways of punctuation tone is so fun #(genuine. miscommunication aside i love language and construction of meaning I'm sad to be ending my unit on it with my students tomorrow) #anon #pocket talks to people

[backintheblackparade]

Holy crap the foreshadowing in Agents of Shield 1x09 is insane

#agents of shield #the stuff with Skye #the ‘welcome wagon’ #fitz and Simmons getting locked in a closet and yelling to Ward to help them #Simmons and portals to an alien world #it’s actually insane #like seriously the line where skye talks about coworkers being dead and people fearing her and then coming into powers on top of it is like #DAYUM #also the intention setup for What Happened In Bahrain #*intentional #god I miss the good construction of early seasons of shows #aos #coulson staring to groom his heir

[simply-sithel]

Blue Book Head finally finished

#I have *GOT* to get my lighting setup under control... or figure out my camera settings? #book head #bookbinding #book art #little book #animated #book monster #blue #will post more about construction tomorrow #happy to have 'em done finally... been sitting around in pieces for months #feels fantastic in the hand but am so worried about ruining the flocking...

[zationao3]

Take the bull by the horns, ch 6

The one where neither Cas nor Dean expected to meet that hot bar hook-up again but here we are.

Chapter 6

In which Dean freaks out a little, indecent things happen in a kinda public place, and both Dean and Castiel come to conclusions about Things.

#destiel #pining #top cas #bottom dean #CEO cas #construction worker dean #dinner date gone well I would say #talking #about FEELINGS #setup for the endgame #supernatural #ao3 fic