#self-acquisition

[hwjegts4w]

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#reauthorized #Decembrist #self-acquisition #witch #diosgenin #lordy #weazen #Giraffidae #yodeling #stercorol #breastbones #evictee #foxie #nonforeign #geomantical #world-contracting #curstness #marginalia #harborage #briolettes

[mirakurutaimu]

can you describe what made giantbomb special, or at least, what made it special to you and your friends? ive always been interested in games journalism (non-business/non-advertising kind), but somehow giantbomb completely passed my radar, and im curious on your thoughts about it!

the golden years of giant bomb (i.e., imo, the jeff/brad/dan/drew at GB West) were just a whole lotta fun. boys had good chemistry, put out a solid podcast discussing video game news. overall just a good time with good folks. also it was founded when jeff was fired for refusing to do a paid review at gamespot (or something along those lines) so they've got that journalistic integrity going for them.

here watch these

#askmi #sadly it was run into the ground by corporate acquisitions #still around today just a bit of a ghost of its former self

[spontaneousglitterbees]

wonder who they're talking to... 🤔

[AU Masterpost]

#TAPP AU adjacent #danganronpa #dr #drv3 #chihiro fujisaki #TAPP AU #Talent Acquisition Pilot Program AU #dr post-game au #dr TAPP AU #dr thh #except I do know and I'm still plotting out how i want to explain it in comic format #think i'm going with she/they for TAPP!Chihiro #given the AU really kicks off during the TAPP incident their post-freshman-year Self Reflection sort of got interrupted- #by the Brain Rewriting Computer perhaps unsurprisingly Rewriting Brains (in ways it wasnt supposed to) #Chihiro was definitely on the rescue squad to get class 79 out of the simulator #Alter Ego was supposed to guide them through orientation after all. then TDR showed up #now that everyone has Escaped (mostly) Alive theyve got bigger things on their plate. namely reaching new acclaim in their field- #and research specialty of choice through what is functionally a cosmic fluke they're still reverse-engineering #if the AI you started writing and didnt finish before break manages to run off and become sapient do you technically owe child support? #asking for a very stressed but also fascinated friend of course

[cogbreath]

ever since my good computer battery died ive only been able to make low quality stuff on my phone so inshallah the new battery arrives soon

original context under cut

#ttcc #prethinker #land acquisition architect #alton s crow #my ocs #if you can believe it this is technically self ship art

[cabinet-toon]

#CABINET TOON #ALTON CROW #LAND ACQUISITION ARCHITECT #SELF SHIP

[moonlit-tulip]

Wholeheartedness, Part 2: Flinch-Elimination

Long ago, being in the presence of wasps made me very nervous. What if they stung me? The swelling would be uncomfortable, and the pain would be inconveniently distracting! This would be a bad outcome; I wanted to avoid it. Thus I would, whenever I noticed a wasp near me, stand still until it went away.

This habit caused me more inconvenience than the two wasp stings I'd received in my life up to that point ever did.

Once I noticed this, I decided: fine. Let's just go get stung by more wasps, then, until I'm inured to it and no longer freeze up when wasps are near.

And thus, having resolved this, I no longer had any need to fear the attacks of wasps. If I were to walk at full speed near one, and it were to respond by stinging me, this would be a step forward along the path to inurement, which would be an acceptable thing to gain in return for the cost in discomfort and inconvenience.

It's an old story. (One I've told before, even.) But the relevant principles don't end with wasp stings.

Currently, I do my web searches via a paid subscription service, rather than free via Google; the results are better, and with how much web-searching I do and how much money I have to spare it's a pretty solidly worthwhile deal. But they offer only a limited number of searches per month complementary with the subscription; if one exceeds that number of searches in a month—200, at my current subscription tier—one will need to either stop searching for the rest of the month or start paying 1.5 cents per search. And when I first subscribed I got very flinchy about trying not to search too much, out of fear of that extra charge. Because 1.5 cents is a cost, and surely I'd rather avoid paying that cost on any given search if I don't have to, right?

But, of course, making substantially less use of web search would be a much larger cost than an extra few dollars a month. (I am, after all, paying them money specifically for the sake of getting more out of my web-searching; searching less would run actively counter to the reasons I subscribe at all.) So I did the natural thing: I decided to deliberately search profligately until I broke the 200-search ceiling and started paying additional marginal money per search, for a couple months, until inured to that experience. It's been going great so far: I haven't yet hit the ceiling, but I sure am no longer flinching away from the searches I want to make.

Or, for a third example, this time one where I actually succeeded in exposing myself to more of the flinch-inducing thing: water bills. I used to flinch away from drinking water, because I knew it'd add on the margins to my house's water bills. This was doing me more harm than good. So I took a few extra baths, compared with what I'd otherwise have taken—together summing up to an amount of water-use that my drinking rates would have taken weeks or months to sum up to, since a bathtub's worth of water is in fact A Lot—and I observed that no great financial disaster ensued as a result, and that was the end of my flinching-from-drinking-water.

Backing off and generalizing, now: sometimes, there are inconveniences whose possibility I flinch from, where the flinches cost far more than the cost of just enduring the inconveniences occasionally. And, under those circumstances, it can often be useful to deliberately overcompensate against the flinch response. To try, not just to suppress the flinch response in each individual instance (which tends to be an attention-demanding and difficult process), but to actively toss myself at the flinch-inducing thing until I'm so thoroughly inured to it that it ceases to produce flinch-responses-in-need-of-suppression in the first place. As long as I'm tossing myself in that direction, the tossing overrides the flinch response. Once I've succeeded sufficiently in the tossing, inurement will override the flinch response. And thus the mental overhead of needing to suppress the response will be eliminated, to my benefit as long as I was correct in my choice of what flinch response to get rid of in the first place.

Because intuitively-appealing steps to avoiding inconveniences can be more inconvenient than the inconveniences being avoided, sometimes. And it's valuable, when that happens, to be able to just stop avoiding them.

#Archive #Self-Improvement #Wholeheartedness #of course this is really a continuum rather than a binary #i no longer avoid stings from individual wasps but i still wouldn't want to get stung by dozens in quick succession #because unlike single stings i expect that that would be more inconvenient than avoiding it is! #so there's an element of careful targeting in exactly which experiences one throws oneself at for inurement-acquisition purposes #(of course as per the prior post there are only finite costs it's worth paying to get one's targeting right) #(as long as one can aim *well enough* even if some of one's moves are wrong it's still better to move more rather than less)

[gemplans]

i just studied french for 2 hours so of course a korean song from 2010 is what's popped into my head now

why am i like this

#i learned korean from 2010-2015 (self taught primarily and then one year of formal class) #french #foreign language #langblr #language acquisition #always mixing up languages dammit #multilingual #korean #gemplans #studyblr #french studyblr #korean studyblr

[quillandink333]

When your f/o recognises your gift for something you’re passionate about and consider yourself somewhat talented in… Like, you already know it’s something that comes more naturally to you than most people, but hearing someone that special speaking so highly of you for it… Especially if they themselves are actively engaging with this thing you love so much and work so hard at… Just hits different yk? 🥺💗

#it’s ok to admit you’re good at stuff guys!! just do it for this imagine at least pls #selfship #self ship #selfship imagine #self ship imagine #proship self ship #proship selfship #proselfship #Kaz has been laying it on so thick about my language acquisition abilities lmao #this is one of my skills I’ll gladly accept praise for any day~ #quillzuma🐍🪶 #my imagine

[rarepears]

fic title game: I thought I was playing dark souls not a dating game!

Shen Yuan found a game installed on his phone called Dark Souls. It clearly was a game based on Airplane's PIDW and he may or may not have gotten sucked into it very quickly, spending most of his days playing around with it.

But...

But...

Why was it turning into a dating game?!

He was just traveling around the wilderness and watching (taming) various beasts and animals. Sure, he ran into a few cultivators and sure, maybe he skipped the tutorial and didn't pay attention to the NPCs he ran into, but wtf is this game doing? Why is he not getting any wives with this "wifebeam" halo that he earned for completing some ultra hard and rare mission and is instead getting pursued by a bunch of (handsome) men-

Good thing this is just a game.

Good thing... right?

[check out other fic ideas in the #made up fic title ask game]

#made up fic title ask game #svsss ideas #svsss #svsss au #shen qingqiu #scumbag self saving system #shen yuan #luo binghe comes bursting out of the game with xinmo in his head and a whole horde of cultivators come toppling out from behind him #shen yuan's accidental harem acquisition #shen yuan's PIDW game turns into a dating sim but the PIDW characters actually fall in love... oh dear au

[birdcatt]

random doodles of Them, just me trying to get a thought or 2 out

#art tag #pokemon mystery dungeon #pmd #pokemon #oc: emerald (pmd) #oc: bronze (pmd) #oc: leaf (pmd) #tbh. leaf is goin thru it #ive converted leafs vulpix partner into Accidental Child Acquisition #shes trying so hard to get this child away. the child keeps following her. she cant keep bringing this baby into life threatening situation #and then they part with hurtful words. i need to refine this arc tho #its sounds meh to me rn until i can iron it out #or rework the vulpix. again. or just delete it from the story #she also has a Thing about being an off colour leafeon. really was just the straw that broke the camels back #she was so excited to evolve and be more like grovyle but then shes winter coloured instead #yk when youre crying but also self aware enough to know its stupid? yeah thats what she did #emerald is Also goin thru it but in a different way. but her story follows the base game plot since shes the actual hero #she has a LOT of doubts and thoughts tho. why did her sister steal a time gear. if leaf is workin with grovyle then did she herself know hi #did she once work with leaf and maybe grovyle to steal the time gears????? why??????? if dusknoir knows grovyle then does he know her? #why is he acting like he doesnt know her. wait grov n leaf r criminals from the future? was that also her? #so on and so forth ykyk #vulpix #alolan vulpix #manaphy #glaceon #raichu #darkrai #flareon

[sercphs]

Sidenote: Fischl still totally fights herself on her mental state.

#das selbst durch die linse .. ooc #U see she may have accepted Nacht as part of herself but that doesn't mean she's happy with herself #In this essay I will explain how Fischl's self-identity crisis and acquisition of her vision ruined her mental well-being permanently-

[jasontoddiefor]

There are less “Shen Yuan gets stuck in a wife” fics than I expected so obviously I’m 2k into the first scene of a a fic—

#shen yuan #scum villian self saving system #svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #but also make it accidental baby acquisition #it’s my fanfic I can decide what tropes to include

[piosplayhouse]

love scum villain because I can say 2 characters accidentally have a biological child platonically using a canon plot device and no one will even blink

#really accidentally biological child acquisition #I love you airplane bros world-building shitfest #svsss #scumbag self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #nhs cumplane child au

[salty-kira]

continuing the train of Orochi adopting every kid he sees; we now have Eri added to the mix

#bnha #bnha oc #tenko shimura #toga himiko #bnha eri #self insert #kirart #he takes in Tenko when he’s 5 himiko when she’s 10 and Eri when she’s 4 haha #accidental baby acquisition #orochi au

[trevsplace]

Food for thought: Depending on one's perspective, public domain is either a rule of acquisition or a rule of relinquishment.

#Steamboat Willie #Rules of Acquisition #Nog #Star Trek #Star Trek Deep Space Nine #self-sealing stem bolts #Stem bolt Willie