#release order you know

[stealingpotatoes]

hands you all this cal to announce i’ve FINALLY finished fallen order (by which i mean i finally picked it up again after those couple hours i played a few months ago and then finished the whole game in 2 days lol)

#cal kestis #bd 1 #jedi fallen order #jfo #star wars #my doods #anyway HOLY CRAP YOU MEAN STAR WARS WAS ALLOWED TO BE GOOD BEFORE ANDOR (2022-)??????????????? AND I DIDNT KNOW?? #i love cal i loved the story i love how cinematic and amazing it looked good lord #i don't think i've ever played a game which gets such an amazing sense of scale across #like all the great temples or fallen starships were just Wow #like bracca ALONE gobsmacked me. seeing all these things i grew up watching in tcw as wreckage was like Ough Wow and THEY FELT SO HUGE #im just. wow!! #and THAT FINAL MISSION HUH. MOST FEAR INSPIRING VIDEOGAME ENCOUNTER EVER #my only criticisms are the awkward navigation/ level design in some areas and maybe the ending felt a bit lackluster somehow #i say somehow bc i dont get how lol #the reason im making this post past midnight is bc i got off work at 10pm and then immediately had to finish it LOL #anyway big heart emojis im very happy i sat down and actually played it finally #i want jedi survivor now LOL unfortunately it costs money and i have a rule i never buy games in release year lol #tbh i never rlly buy games til they're £20 or less

[girlkisserr]

wouldn't it be funny if you had to fist fight your boyfriend in the tower

#10x funnier if you saw my ''i miss my boyfriend'' post back when the trailer first released #little did i fuckign know i guess #||lost kin doodles #splatoon #side order #side order spoilers #//hotaru #//kosuke

[mipexch]

the animators did such a good job with these scenes. this show is charmingly refreshing & really well done. even if it isn’t renewed id still be happy with everything we got. netflix judges renewal value based on viewership, if you want it to come back, stream this shit!!!!!!!! boards for this sequence - posted by the storyboard artists

#for a kids cartoon i fucking loved this show #i dont care if it isnt accurate to the game i LOVED it #mainly the animation. bro cmon cmon. cmon #i know a majority of the people who follow me are completely uninterested in this show but even having it play in a seperate muted tab- #-helps wonders. love you guys and i can only hope we get more seasons #season 1-3 was ordered as ONE batch and then promoted and released as three. just hoping that doesnt happen again. one long season 1 bro #sorry for all the cuphead show posting im incredibly fixated on animation and this show just did it for me #the cuphead show #king dice #the devil #ms chalice #cuphead

[bleue-flora]

There has been a lot of discussion regarding c!Quackity, c!Tommy and c!Dream recently, a good portion stemming from the recent video circling around, where it is depicted that c!Tommy not only knew of c!Quackity’s torture but approved.

But while I could write an essay about it (ok yea I did…but) instead I want to shift the focus a bit, away from the same debates we keep having year after year. Because I think we’ve become too focused on the characters themselves over the audience's perception of them and too focused on morality, justification, and right and wrong in a story where everyone is morally questionable. Because at the end of the day it isn’t whether c!Dream or c!Tommy were actually right or justified, it is about - Who you root for and why. It is about (you) the audience's perception of the characters, not the characters’ perceptions of each other. Sure, c!Tommy himself feels justified in hurting c!Dream but do you believe he was.

With that thought in mind I found myself reading a 24 page research paper last night on a psychological study that looked at what an audience defines as the hero and villain. Why they are naturally pulled to like certain characters and hate others. What the audience’s classification of morality in regard to the characters of fiction where the conditions of morality are often not defined. One of the things shown in the data and line up to real life is that at the end of the day, heroes and villains are not defined on true purity and morality itself. If they were, action heroes and anti-heroes wouldn’t be successful and enticing. And yet, anti-heroes are some of the most beloved characters. In fact, I for one am typically drawn to violent anti-heroes, some of which are the heroes despite being perhaps sadistic murderers and torturers. But if the audience doesn’t simply define hero and villain as ‘good’ and ‘evil’ then what is pulling us toward taking one side over the other.

The answer is actually more complex than you might think. According to this paper, the first thing taken into consideration in a viewer’s appeal or unappeal of a character has to do with what the viewer considers “appropriate behavior.” Simply put, “appropriateness” is basically a social judgment which serves to approve or disapprove of a character’s behavior. This can be based on many things, such as cultural norms, societal code of conduct, your personal morals or experiences. And I think this is key, because I for one see stealing and griefing when I play Minecraft as seriously hurtful things to do (even though you can always rebuild). To the point that if you blow up the house I spent hours building or take my items it can ruin the fun for me entirely. So my definition of the appropriateness of such behavior might differ from people who take those things much more light-heartedly, causing me to disapprove of c!Tommy more than they would for that behavior.

Even further, when it comes to determining their appropriateness of behavior as in whether we tend to approve or disapprove of them we can look at moral domains, which spark our moral intuition instead of simply categorizing everything into ‘good’ or ‘bad’ since not even our subconscious brain is always so black and white. In the research I read, they looked at two sets of domains (aka sets of relating attributes used to measure and compare): The person-perception domains of Warmth (tolerant, friendly, warm, polite, gentle, trustworthy), Competence (intelligence, cleverness, opposite of stupidity, efficiency) and Duplicity (mad, tormented, violent, and tragic), which help to measure our perception of morality in characters as well as the five moral domains of MFT - harm/care (concerned with the suffering of others and empathy), fairness/reciprocity (related to justice), authority/respect (related to hierarchy and dominance), ingroup/loyalty (common good and punitiveness toward outsiders), purity/sanctity (concerned with contamination). According to the research behind these domains, we, the viewer, evaluate characters immediately and without cognitive deliberation. In other words, when characters fulfill domains it sticks with us and when they violate domains it can send out major red flags to us as soon as it happens without us thinking about it, not later in more considerate retrospect. So then, it makes sense that now as we debate we struggle to find common ground because our judgment was made ages ago and it's hard to reason with our already defined moral intuition.

As such, since I started getting into the dsmp first by watching all of the recordings of previous streams in order in this one playlist then going onto watching all of the blueberrytv videos (at the time of course), which edit the streams to allow you to see things from multiple perspectives. Therefore, I watched things from the very beginning, back when it was just c!George and c!Dream goofing off and dying in the nether. So, my intuitive judgment of c!Dream involves him building the community house, always trying to keep the peace between his friends, exploring the world so he can bring back all the types for wood for people to build with, building the prime path to connect everyone's houses together to make for easier travel, rebuilding Tubbo’s house after c!Tommy burned it down, helping c!Ponk when people kept burning down his house. These are just some of the moments I suspect helped to form my evaluation of him. Showing him as being very empathetic and caring, being loyal to his friends and accepting of new people, being a mediator and trying to keep things fair between his friends, fulfilling at least 3 (since he kinda is the authority that is hard to classify) of the moral domains. The streams also depicted the characteristics with warmth as well as competence and intelligence. So immediately my perceptive moral intuition deemed him the hero. As he fulfilled the warmth and competence domains of the one method and most of the domains of the other method without violating them in an obvious enough manner for me to remember at this moment (These are by no means the only reasons why I’d be inclined to root for c!Dream but that's beside the point).

On the other hand, my introduction to c!Tommy was him immediately breaking the three rules, by going around taking down donator’s signs, griefing, stealing, claiming things and property as his, trying to kill people until he ends up being banned. So he hurt others and causes harm, he is invited to join and have fun but fails to reciprocate that by going about and messing things up, he immediately disrespects everyone and defies authority by breaking the rules, hard to say on loyalty though (as mentioned above) him burning down c!Tubbo’s, his best friend, house doesn’t give me the impression of loyalty, concerning purity he scams and lies, is obsessed (though hardly the only one) with male genitalia (which I personally find unsavory) and is disrespectful towards women so definitely failing in the purity and sanctity domain as well. In regards to warmth, I wouldn’t say so, nor particularly competent, though certainly meeting the more violent and aggressive elements of duplicity. So in other words, in just his first few streams he has violated every moral domain, while also not meeting the warmth or competence but meeting duplicity. So immediately my impression of him is to dislike and disprove as my moral intuition labels him as a villain.

In other words, perhaps our affinity for characters and perception of their morality has less to do with actual legal or other measurements of morality but more of what our initial impression was that formed our judgment from the very start. Because at the end of the day, I feel like the discussion needs to be less about whether this character or that character is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ because their motivation or trauma justifies their behavior and more about what qualities do you appreciate about the character. At the end of the day, it's fiction and you should be able to love or hate whatever character you want regardless of morality or right & wrong. It’s your opinion and I don’t see other fandoms shaming and bashing other people for liking a certain character that others dislike and/or the protagonist dislikes meaning therefore they are bad so how can you like them. But in the same way, I should also be able to hate a character without being bashed for not being empathetic to their trauma… Anyways I think the idea that we all see characters as justified and innocent in our own way is cool, especially in respect to the dsmp which is told from all angles, and that’s what I set out to learn more about and share with you. Hopefully, you have enjoyed my findings and I made sense (…..and if it didn’t, you are always welcome to ask or add on :D), sorry for the length I’m beginning to realize conciseness is not my strong suit…

I hope with this interesting angle, we can lean away from discussions on legal, moral, crime, trauma and more towards questions of preference and characteristics and personal perception - Why do you root for them? What was your introduction to the characters? How do you think that impacted your viewpoint on the story? Has your viewpoint ever changed? What do you think helped define your definition of ‘appropriateness’?… etc <3 <3

#dsmp analysis #don’t mind be doing research as a hobby lol… psychology is fascinating… apparently there is a different research paper about villians #which derived the warmth competence and duplicity domains… so I may need to read that ;)…… #at somepoint I want to go through every dsmp character and define them as character types -villain hero anti-hero anti-villain…etc #I think it’d be interesting to see where the actual pieces fall based on traits versus just people declaring it doe themselves XD #c!dream #dsmp #dreblr #dream smp #dsmp dream #did someone order an essay? #nope?….oops lol XD #c!dream and c!tommy #c!tommy #dsmpblr #character analysis #(shhh… but if you want me to release the essay I wrote on c!Tommy then ya know…… I will….. >;] #this is fine

[breakfastteatime]

In the temple, Cal loves acrobatics classes and finds ways to get onto the beams in every session. He likes the challenge of twisting and flipping and still landing on his feet. Sometimes it's better than meditation at working out the excess energy. He's not sure why his instructor always looks at him like he's a punishment inflicted upon her by the Force itself. Maybe it's because he hasn't mastered swinging from the high bar to her satisfaction yet? He will, when the beams get too boring.

As a Padawan, it doesn't take him long to find a suitable replacement for the Temple's gymnasium. The Brave has gigantic cargo bays with girders marking out different areas. Sure, these beams are higher than the ones in the Temple, but he's not worried. It's good to work his way back and forth across them when he's full of nervous energy and can't sleep.

(Jaro wonders why Cal's instructor left a note for him in the handover document with a single sentence: 'good luck with this one'. For a moment, Jaro worried Cal might not be particularly acrobatic. Then he finds him turning backflips, twists and layouts in the cargo bay on the support beams high above - without any safety nets.

He opts to requisition some crash mats.)

#star wars jedi: fallen order #jfo headcanon #cal kestis #jaro tapal #hi yes i am watching tons of old gymnastics #just picturing baby cal on the beam is delighting me #also YES MY MOST RIDICULOUS COMPLAINT ABOUT SURVIVOR IS CAL DOESN'T DO COOL MOVES WHEN YOU SWING ON BARS #I wanted him to do some BIG releases #like epke zonderland #seriously if you don't know him you gotta watch his high bar from london 2012 #mindblowing #lolz so much for me taking today off from writing

[aheathen-conceivably]

Happy horse pack release day, darlings! 🐎

Well, despite the runaround I gave you all, I may have known for quite a while that we were going West. More specifically, I knew that we were going to the American Southwest to make Antoine’s cowboy dreams come true and weather the storms of the 1930s.

So whatever anyone says I will forever and always believe this pack was released at exactly this time for Antoine and all of our Darlingtons. We’ve still got a couple of posts left of the 1920s next week but for now, please have this snippet of the yeehaw Antoine days to come.

(In another moment of serendipity, I actually took this screenie a while back to test @moon-simmers marvelous new upcoming collection that I cannot wait to use on our 1930s gentlemen. So my many thanks to you Matt! 😘)

#now you know why I said no sleep until horse pack #I had to make the yeehaw Antoine announcement in time for the release date #and in order to do that he had to propose #just about burnt myself out to get here #but the cowboy hat? #worth it #and let me just say when horses were announced it took every fiber of my being not to spam the dash with excitement and ruin this whole plo #antoine duplanchier extra #ts4 historical #Darlington extras #sims 4 historical

[nero-neptune]

“Good movies are always better when you watch them with someone.” - Ed Chigliak (Northern Exposure)

#if there's anything to know about ed it's that his love of films and filmmaking is a MAJOR defining aspect of his personality #you may claim to love movies but i doubt you love movies as much as ed does #and i've said it once and i'll say it again: he would kill it on letterboxd #the movies mentioned in the pic in order are: #good morning vietnam #the seventh seal #alice doesn't live here anymore #indiana jones: raiders of the lost ark #the lion of winter #ordinary people #who's afraid of virginia woolf? #taxi driver #ed chigliak #my art #and yes. yes i did draw all those vhs tape spines #i specifically looked for movies that were 1) mentioned in the show by ed or implied that ed owns #2) had a version released in the up to the early 90s (so it's conceivable he had that in his collection) #and 3) had text or images that would be visible behind his body and chair #artists on tumblr #northern exposure

[aquaristintern]

going off of what dwreader and ghostfoolish have been saying better than i can:

why do people think louis will still be a believable victim and it won't be racist if the show just has armand mess with louis's memories regarding 1x05 and how claudia died, and also be controlling him throughout the entire interview/relationship? like not only does it paint victims of abuse as unreliable and unstable, therefore not be trusted with anything*, but it also, just, shifts most if not all the blame from a white man to a poc? we've asking this the entire time, but they still don't have an answer for that.

*like statistically speaking victims of abuses' memories might be muddled/repressed from the trauma, so even though they know the abuse happened, people will use the fact that they might not be able to describe an entire fight in specific detail, or got some dates mixed up, or did not speak up sooner, to paint them as mentally ill liars, or even abusers themselves. which is why i think giving louis false memories in 1x05 is still victim blaming in a way, because it encourages the trend of victims not being believed.

#iwtv discourse #fandom racism #yeah like i'm fully confident the creators are smart and can write their show better than i can but #if these little hints and teasing turns out to be a red herring like it did for 1x07 then it regardless might have #encouraged some of the audience to initally just disregard EVERYTHING louis says in season 1 and think he has no agency #which goes against their original statement of not jumping ahead and letting the tale seduce you you know? #i really just want to enjoy the ride and see where the show takes us and love all the stuff we've been given lately it's just #i keep being reminded these fans exist if i'm not careful where i look lol #i do get marketing is a thing and maybe they think they constantly need to tease SOMETHING #a shocking reveal or a revisit promising something more in order to get more seasons seeing as it's so easy for shows to be cancelled now #but like every time new content is released it also brings out the racism

[miramisaki]

36(???) days until Charlie...

#mira draws stuff #fate charlemagne #charlemagne #fgo #fate grand order #fate extella link #charlemagne countdown #sorry for the relatively small ratio of Charlie to picture today I realized it was 11 p.m. and went oH CRAP #so smol Crane Game AU Charlie strikes again #the class work and the existential ennui have been kicking my butt #hopefully I'll feel up to drawing something more detailed soon... #thank you to those of you who've put well wishes in your reblog tags I see them and I love you #and for those who missed my post about it like forty(?) days ago I do know we'll be getting charlie earlier than my countdown predicts #but changing the numbering when we don't have an official release date would be too confusing #so I'm waiting until we have proper confirmation of the release date before updating the countdown number #prayer circle for Traum on May 10

[robotspock]

TREKKIES. i am watching all the shows in release order so i don’t miss any references/easter eggs. can i skip ahead and watch prodigy? i’m nearing s4 of voy and s6 of ds9. from my understanding it’s a small group of people not associated with the federation but janeway is in it (as a hologram i believe?) i want to catch every detail so i would really appreciate it if someone let me know 🙏🙏

#by all the shows i hope you all know i mean just trek ones #not every show ever release in order #star trek #star trek prodigy

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Hannibal Lecter would not last five minutes in a Columbo episode but good god I would love to see it

#send tweet #(cuz columbo COOKS!! he would KNOW THE MEAT IS PEOPLE!! agghhh1!!) #hannibal nbc #hannibal lecter #VERSUS #COLUMBO #release the cracken #columbo: gee those are some big hands you got there sir if you don't mind me saying #oh and just one more thing doc #how d'you fit those banana bunches into a chest cavity? #hannibal: what #columbo: I just meant when you're cooking? with bananas? and you put them in the chest cavity of the animal you're cooking? for flavour? #y'know like one of those fruit-with-meat dishes? #my wife she does a great duck a l'orange #also: hannibal would break the fourth wall in order to murder the mad theremin player responsible for the soundtrack

[age-of-moonknight]

“Soldier,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #3.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Vengeance of the Moon Knight #Vengeance of the Moon Knight vol. 2 #Vengeance of the Moon Knight 2024 #Moon Knight comics #latest release #Soldier #8-Ball #Jeff Hagees #I’m so proud of him #and not just because I think he looks great in the gloves #but because the discomfort is palpable #him having to grow beyond the «simply following orders» mentality his name implies and put himself out there #speaks to the sort of potential that others may see in him that he himself can’t #or would simply prefer to not have to develop and just stay in a valuable (comfortable?) support role #which you know what understandable #(also peek the blacked out tattoo/cover-up #every so often I’m reminded of how much I love the «reformed extremist/racist» archetype and I’m so glad Soldier seems resistant to dying #which seems to be the unfortunate fate for most such characters I’ve encountered recently)

[ace-and-ranty]

Here is my cultural shock of the day: it wasn't until I started working for an American company that I learned people expected to pay for their online purchases only once the product shipped.

A demand that I found patently absurd the first time I encountered it, because never once, in my whole life, has online shopping worked that way for me.

#I was like... 'Yeah of course we took your money? You made a purchase?' #'You pay first. THEN we package and ship things.' #cannot imagine how business only charge at the moment of shipping. #isn't that a logistical nightmare? #there are costs associated with packaging things. You need labor and packing supplies. #and there are costs associated with processing payments!! processing payments is hard!! #I know many online platforms don't release the money to the vendor until things are delivered #but I still PAY when I PLACE the order #wild!!

[sonknuxadow]

im generally not a fan of the idea of any of the early 2000s sonic games being remastered because i think those games not having the most updated looking graphics or the best voice acting ever is part of the charm i dont want them to be changed to look and sound exactly like every other sonic game thats come out in the past 14 years

#leave sonic heroes ALONEEEE #also when it comes to character voices i tend to prefer the voices from either back then or from the 4kids cast #we do not need those older games with perfectly good voice casts being downgraded like that come on #(no hate to the current cast though theyre just doing their jobs and i do like a lot of the voices. most just arent my favorite) #though when they remastered colors they didnt re record the voice acting #and when they made an animated short to go along with it they brought back tails' va from back then #so maybe they would try to avoid recasting everybody #some recasts would be unavoidable though if they tried to record any new stuff for it #because for colors only 1 voice actor was different from the current cast but for heroes its 13 different characters #and also eggmans va from back then died unfortunately. and tails and charmy were voiced by actual kids who are much older now #but its mostly just a few specific performances that i dont want recorded over by newer voices i like a lot less #i dont know why they have to remaster the 3d games in order to re release them anyway .. #why cant you just make a port with minimal changes #again this is assuming that the sonic heroes remaster rumors are even true . which im assuming theyre not im just talking hypothetically

[ansy-tea]

Y'all ever stopped listening to your favorite bands for about 2 years for reasons you don't even know yourself. Maybe it's because you're busy. Maybe it's because you thought you've acquired new tastes. You really don't know. But then suddenly you listened to one song of theirs again and now you're sobbing over how good the songwriting was? And now that you're not a dumb High Schooler without much experience you understand the lyrics even more?

Anyways that's me with Fall Out Boy right now lmao. It's high time I listen to their new album later.

#incoherent rambles #ansy-stalks #confession: would yall kill me if my fave album of theirs is MANIA hAHAHAHHA— #LISTEN #NONE OF THE SONGS WERE A MISS— lord i remember how people criticized that album in its release and how fans are worried about the dubstep-y #vibe (me too cuz “yo idk much about music but how will andy & joe do this live im sorry im dumb 😭”) #then again none of their songs in their wholeass discography is a fricking miss anyways /absolutely biased #even their covers are fun to listen like I Wanna Be Like You??? That sht is on repeat lmao. I Wann Dance With Somebody?? good sht dawg #I think my second fave album is either Folie & Save Rock and Roll? Just cuz Folie is my vibe and SRAR were all dhxjkwjfiaokeixiw <33 #Every fan loves Infinity On High for sure— Golden & ILALWTWIATTGYO (me & you) makes me sob every time #broooo the raw ass line of “I saw God crying at the reflection of my enemies and all the lovers with no time for me” #and “the best way to make it through with hearts & wrists intact is to realize two of the three ain't bad. aaaIIINT BAAAAAADDD—” #for folie a deux there's not a damm instance where I did not feel sadness over What A Catch Donnie. Dawg. The way Elton John sings his part #too bro 😭😭😭😭 #AND HOLYYY SHT THE AFTER(LIFE) OF A PARTY PHCCKKK I FORGOT HOW THAT NEVER FAILS TO MAKE ME HOLD IT IN HSJDJKSOSID #i would skip that song cuz it makes me so sad sometimes 😭😭😭😭 #OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT LET ME RETHINK MY ORDER OF FAVE ALBUMS HAHAHAHHAHA #“I'm a stitch away from making it AND A SCAR AWAY FROM FALLING APART. APART. BLOOD CELLS PIXELATE AND EEEYEESS DILATE- KISS AWAY THE TEARS #AND KILLS ON THE MOUTH OF AAAALLLL. MY FRIIIEEENDS—“ PHHHHCCKCKKKSIEOS 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #JDJAI WAIT AND THE ENTIRETY OF SOPHOMORE SLUMP #OKAY I NEED TO STFU IN THESE TAGS HAHAHAHAHHA #okay to defend my MANIA adoration (do people still hate this album? hope not). ***Bishop's knife trick.*** #“I'm sifting through the sand.Looking for pieces of broken hourglass.Trying to get it all back—put it back together—As if the time #had never passed. I know I should walk away but I just want to let you break my brain and I can't seem to get a grip. no. no matter how I #live with it. thESE ARE THE LAST—“ #I'm sorry. the delivery is just too delicious. #MANIA is a fricking mixbag of weirdly mainstream inspirational songs- to suddenly; drugs- to actually being unhinged- to one of the saddest #“im tryina redeem myself” song(s) (heaven's gate- church- and bishop's) #okay i really need to shut up 😭 #aight. i will stop.

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

as everyone else finishes their pre-fionna-and-cake rewatches here’s my two cents: you SHOULD watch wizard city LAST because it’s best watched through the together again tears

#yeah yeah yeah together again is the last episode. I know. but you need something stupid to lighten up after that #and what better way than to (squints at writing on hand) watch pepermint butler torment his child self until that kid kills several adults #it hits different after together again. it’s such a whiplash. it’s delightful. that’s how it’s meant to be experienced #while you’re so sad and raw cuz finn and jake are together again🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭 and then it’s like Hullo! I’m Song Wizard;) #meanwhile you’re still hugging your knees like ok song wizard 🥺 I just got my soul ripped out can u help maybe this episode will fix me #it won’t #it will only confuse you but hey it’s pretty #atimers #<- goes there. usually I’m scared to tag things as that. but this can go in that tag hi #adventure time #not art #like when you just watch it separate it’s Different. it’s Not the Same. but in the release/dvd order? after together again ? AUGH #special #this was gonna go on main and everything but I got shy