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pomrania · 19 hours

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Can I get some anti-lawn people to weigh in on the issue of ticks? Because people who mow their lawn too damn often, they're always like "durr hurr not mowing a lawn means ticks", and then they look horribly smug when I don't have a response to that. All I know for positive about lawns is a) they look stupid when they're mowed and b) I hate the sound of lawnmowers, neither of which is accepted as a counter-argument.

#no fandom #not a reblog

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coldgoldlazarus · 3 days

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Back on my "Kriken are an extreme ofshoot or attempted weapon of the Alimbics" bullshit again

#not a reblog #metroid #metroid prime hunters #Prime 4 is prolly gonna be Sylux's moment #but Hunters could easily be Trace's #wanna write this but I don't need another giant project

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textbook-dinner · 2 days

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screw it *android-ifies your ritsu*

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logorrhea5mip · 4 months

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#not a reblog #politics #margaret thatcher #scotland #political memes

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thepossumsaretakingover · 7 months

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I’d like to casually remind everyone of this moment

#simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #adventure time #not a reblog

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acarinarium · 3 months

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Do you ever just think about sturddlefish? I do

#Sturddlefish #Sturgeon #Paddlefish #Fish #Today I bring you this. Tomorrow? Who knows #How tf do you tag stuff so people will actually see it #Chordata #Actinopterygii #Acipenseriformes #Acipenseridae #Polyodontidae #Silly #Not a reblog #Aquatic

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saltedcaramelchaos · 4 months

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Reasons Skizzleman should be on Hermitcraft season 10:

Please

He said in the Imp and Skizz podcast that he and his wife have been talking about how he can’t do this forever, “this” being having a full time job and being an mcyt at the same time.

Please

Joining HC would immediately give him a boost that would be an awesome transition to full time content creation!

Please

He’s interacted with most of the hermits at this point, heck he’s known Impulse since high school and Zed and Tango for like ten years, and he has amazing chemistry with like all the hermits lol

PLEASE

As @theminecraftbee said, it’s been a while since more of a “vibe guy” has joined the hermits’ ranks. Skizz is like the most supportive guy ever and his vibes just fit, y’know?

PLEASE HE’D BE SO GOOD I’m convinced they’ve tried to invite him and he’s been like no I don’t have enough time.

They’ve pretty much teased it a lot lol, at this point if he Doesn’t join we’re all gonna be sad

#Skizzleman #Hermitcraft #Not a reblog #Also as Second said… no pressure on ccs or anything #Honestly this was meant to be more of a funny post than a real pitch #if he does join im gonna lose it

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kim-poce · 1 year

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The advice of "every word has to advance the plot" is so wild like why are you starving it. If story is craving some good scene that doesn't advance the plot but it's cool and you want it to happen, do it. Feed your story so it can grow strong.

#not whump #not a reblog #writers things

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goodafternoonhumans · 2 months

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Hey, here are a bunch of internet archive links for artists:

Dozens of Artbooks from Disney movies to Spiderverse

The Illusion of life: Described as "The Animator's Bible."

How to draw comics the marvel way: I know so many artists who started with this

I still need to find "Fundamentals of character design" and "How to draw people" by Jeff Mellem. Those are two I've actually read and recommend to everyone who asks me about my art.

#not a reblog #art ref #internet archive #art books #art references #art reference

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i-don-t-know-what-im-doing · 5 months

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Love how 14 saw his new tardis and immediately got the zoomies

#tardis #doctor #doctor who #the doctor #fourteenth doctor #David tennant #the star beast #doctor who spoilers #spoilers #star beast #the star beast spoilers #star beast spoilers #not a reblog

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bisexual-coala · 4 months

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Happy anniversary to the bisexual queens korrasami who paved the way for sapphic couples!

#korrasami #the first screenshot is an all time mood #happy korrasami day!!#korra #asami sato #legend of korra #not a reblog

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pomrania · 1 day

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Could They Survive Investigating Kira?

To clarify, this is about the Kira murders from Death Note, not the other manga/anime which has a serial murderer named Kira who kills via supernatural means. Insert "two nickels" meme here.

@couldtheycatchkira asks if a given character could catch Kira, and would they survive. Here, I'm focusing on the second part, and how to consider it. I've broken it down into four major questions:

Are they capable of dying (and staying dead)?

Are they capable of being killed by the Death Note?

Would Kira be able to kill them?

Would Kira choose to kill them?

1. Are they capable of dying (and staying dead)?

If a character cannot die, cannot be killed by any method whatsoever, won't even die from old age, then they survive investigating Kira; they survive ANY circumstance. You don't need to look at any further question, in order to get your answer (although you might choose to, just for enjoyment purposes).

Under this category, I'd also include characters with explicit good luck and/or uncanny ability to survive situations that should have killed them, where they're theoretically capable of dying, but circumstances arrange themselves such that it never actually happens. Not to be confused with "protagonist immortality", where a character survives because if they died the story would be over; this is a character who basically has indirect immortality as a superpower. Or they could fall under the category of "God's favourite chew-toy", where some higher (or lower) power simply won't let them die or stay dead.

Conversely, is the character capable of SURVIVING? In other words, how inherently doomed are they? If they were in a story where "character death" is a possibility, are they a character who's guaranteed to die? Note that this is distinct from being "doomed by the narrative", because that's doomed by ONE PARTICULAR narrative, and "getting Kira-murdered while investigating" might or might not fit their narrative doom.

This is also where I raise the issue of resurrection, and limited immortality. If a character dies but comes back to life, then they count as "surviving"; they need to STAY dead, in order to count as "does not survive". And if they're generally immortal (or at least unkillable), but can be killed under certain specific circumstances, then the question moves to "would Kira be able to figure out, and create, those circumstances".

2. Are they capable of being killed by the Death Note?

If they're immune to Kira's only real weapon, then they won't be killed by Kira; and unless they're otherwise doomed (see above), they'd survive.

Some characters, while capable of dying, outrank shinigami, or have connections that equate to such. The Death Note wouldn't work on them, for similar reasons as how an employee can't fire the head of their company.

Then there's non-human characters. This can be tricky, because in the world of Death Note, there's humans and there's shinigami, and the Note explicitly works on humans but not shinigami. To keep things fun and interesting, I'd say that any type of sapient mortal counts as a potential Death Note victim in the same way "human" does, because otherwise it gets boring; blanket immunity should be reserved for characters who specifically have it.

As for non-sapient and/or non-mortal characters… I don't have any overarching advice for them, except maybe see if you get a definitive answer in the next questions, and if not then you can use "might or might not be able to be killed by the Death Note" as a tie-breaker.

I think this is also the level to look at "characters who couldn't die from a heart attack". The Death Note CAN kill via other methods, but "heart attack" is the default. For this, you need to consider if Kira would REALIZE that simply writing the character's name down (to give them a heart attack) wouldn't suffice, and if he'd be able to figure out a method that WOULD work; but that shades into the next question.

3. Would Kira be able to kill them?

There's two major categories to this question; the issues Kira ran into in his story, and issues we get from characters who aren't "baseline human". I'll start with the second category.

Some characters have unorthodox death requirements, like non-human biology (or equivalent processes if non-biological), or limited immortality. Would Kira be able to figure out that he needs to do something different to kill them, and would he be able to figure out WHAT he needs to do?

Then, the "standard" issues, and what people first think of when they consider "would this character survive investigating Kira". In order for Kira to be able to kill someone, he first needs to know that they exist; then, their full name and how to spell it, and what their face looks like. If he doesn't have all three of those, then that character is safe from being Kira-murdered (but might still die in other ways).

4. Would Kira choose to kill them?

This factor seems to get neglected a lot, judging from the amount of times I've seen "lol they're a public figure, they'll die immediately". But Kira doesn't kill everyone whose identity he knows, because otherwise he'd be easy to locate, as the epicentre of mass death.

First, does the character fit his normal victim profile? If so, then he tries to kill them (which might or might not succeed, as detailed in the previous three questions), even if he doesn't know that they're investigating him.

Next, does he consider them a potential threat? If he doesn't know the character is even INVESTIGATING him, or if he thinks they're incompetent as an investigator, or if he believes he's sufficiently outsmarted them, then they're not a threat, and he has no reason to kill them.

Finally, does he have a reason NOT to kill them? Does he believe they should be left alive, on their own merits; or, more commonly, does he feel that they'd pose more of a threat to him dead than alive? For example, this could be them having information that would get sent out automatically upon their death, or being in a situation where suspicion would fall on him specifically if they die in an unnatural manner.

#filler tag #original content #not a reblog

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coldgoldlazarus · 2 days

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I think part of the reason I'm so affectionate toward Hunters is just how off-the-wall it feels. "Let's just throw up all the crazy, cool ideas we have and see what sticks" kind of energy. Metroid has always had its own particular vibe, sitting in this weird tension between Retrofuture Biological/Eldritch Space Horror and Hype Super Robot Anime. Hunters is still kinda doing some of that, but also kinda not.

Most typical multiplayer first-person shooters at the time, meanwhile, were in their Brown Is Real phase, along with an overabundance of Iraq War Jingoism. Even Halo, much as I do appreciate it for being... less that than the rest, still had undercurrents if you look at the subtext any amount. So Hunters, being a more multiplayer-focused shooter, could easily have gone that direction too if so inclined. But nope, not that either.

I don't know how to really describe it, honestly. The designs, if anything, remind me of like, Ben 10 aliens or Buzz Lightyear or Jetix almost. There is just this very distinctly Early Aughts Saturday Morning Action Cartoon vibe to these characters and their backgrounds that you didn't see anywhere else in games, and just don't see anywhere period now. It's definitely still Metroid, especially with the main stuff with the Alimbics and Gorea, but it's also doing its own thing. And for how different it was from other shooters, Hunters also feels like it couldn't have been made any other time than exactly when it was.

The Prime Trilogy is already responsible for broadening the scope and adding a ton of worldbuilding. And then Hunters, this obscure spinoff on hardware much too limited for its ambition, tosses out all these crazy things in the span of some character bios that could fit on the back of an action figure blister pack, and refuses to elaborate further. And I think that's part of the vibe right there - action figures. They feel like action figures for some weird Jetix cartoon, and I adore that so so much.