#so close and yet so far

[striveattemptfail]

our first roy appearance

and it's for a pic of jason's tinder profile

meaning he's not dating roy

#i wasnt expecting jayroy at all bUT A HO IS ALLOWED TO HOPE #AND NOW THE HOPE IS G O N E RIP #batman: wayne family adventures #wayne family adventures #wfa #red hood #jason todd #arsenal #dc arsenal #roy harper #jayroy #royjay #red arse #jercy liveblogs things #SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR

[waugh-bao]

#so close and yet so far #the rolling stones #voodoo lounge

[myheadphonesareneverloudenough]

in high school, i wore my asexual and aromantic pride pins to class in june and my guidance counsellor was trying so fucking hard to teach herself things in this fuckass small town school so she’d go around and ask students about the flags they wore and she didn’t recognize this green to black one i was wearing. she asked and when i said it was aromantic she goes

“oh! that’s so cute!! i’m a romantic <3”

#so close and yet so far #aromantic #asexual #aroace #j screams

[hamiltonsteele]

In honor of the mashiversary, here’s the worst best response I’ve gotten to my favorite Hinge prompt

#mash #m a s h #m*a*s*h #hinge prompts #mashiversary #so close and yet so far

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Putting a pentagon, hexagon, and heptagon together around a point ALMOST gives you a full 360° (actually 356.571429°)

If I were God, I would have patched this by now.

#geometry #shapes #pentagon #hexagon #heptagon #polygon #360 degrees #360° #so close and yet so far #notes for god #dev patch #patch

[the-likesofus]

my final university assignment is due in six days

current word count: 362/2000

#so close and yet so far #the only thing getting me through this is sam fender albums #meegs tries to finish university pt.2 #meegs says stuff

[jakeperalta]

once again thinking about how I have been campaigning for sabrina to open for taylor since I was referring to "the ts7 tour" and now it's finally happening but not for the shows I'll be at

#so close and yet so far #don't get me wrong I'm sure paramore will be great I've just wanted to see sabrina for soooo long #we could've had it all 😭 #talking

[thelastarchangelaskblog]

Fic Excerpt

“Spell it out to me like I’m five.”

Considering Gabriel had been fully formed even when time as a concept hadn’t been invented yet, that made no sense. “You’re not five.”

“Irrelevant. Pretend I’m a human kid and need small words.”

#fic excerpt #first born #the last archangel #so close and yet so far #michael #gabriel #my writing

[bobbie-robron]

So then we keep talking. Yeah? We work it out. Together. Yeah?

22-Feb-2018

#robron #robert sugden #aaron dingle #in the garage #robron reunion 2.0 #beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time #so close and yet so far #they strung us along to the bitter end of the episode #20180222 #part 4 #robron episodes 2018

[operafantomet]

Same (type of) bodice with three different skirts and two different tiaras: the tale of the doomed Paris production and its costumes

ROW 1: Anne-Marie Suire (left) during fitting in 2016, and Sierra Boggess (middle and right) in what I think is a finished costume - though I’m always a bit in doubt of whether that star layer was indeed meant to be the top layer. Sometimes the silk top layers is dyed and sewn and hangs for a a week or three to “settle in” - maybe that was the case here? But they may also have intended the skirt to be a star galore. It’s definitely the starriest skirt ever. Plus maybe the biggest moon tiara ever.

ROW 2: Clara Verdier donning the skirt in the World Tour revival in 2019-2020. Here it was paired with a World Tour skirt of narrower shape and in a pale pink shade, covered with tiny silver stars. In addition what I suspect is a vintage silver moon tiara from West End.

ROW 3: Caitlin Finnie donning the same bodice and tiara when she took over the alternate spot from Clara Verdier in 2020. But for her they paired it with a very pink skirt. It’s been suggested it’s a new West End skirt without the iridescent underlayer. That might very well be, although the hem is differently tabbed.

(original design by Maria Bjørnson)

#phantom of the opera #star princess #anne marie suire #sierra boggess #clara verdier #caitlin finnie #maria bjørnson #costume nerding #i love the bodice #and dislike all the skirts #so close and yet so far

[steffigraf]

i still think it’s incredibly annoying that i left hong kong just as the hk open started

#watching it fills me with deep seated sorrow #like wtf i was just there come onnnnn #so close and yet so far #tennisms

[criminalskies]

I really thought this app understood me but I was wrong

#so close and yet so far

[commander-frostii]

How do I make my dolls stronger?!

Following up from my previous post about the general ways dolls progress, I’ve gotten considerably further in the story and have faced this question... several times now. There are a lot of ways you can improve your dolls’ strength which means that there’s also a lot to keep track of, but hopefully I can make things a little less confusing for a few other folks!

Rarity. Collect your dolls’ neural fragments and use them to improve the star rating of the dolls you’re using. Rarity increases improve the base stats of your dolls considerably. At three stars every doll gets an ultimate skill which is a significant increase in overall power (especially in Output Terminals), and for every level of rarity above that your ultimate skill gets stronger - as well as some occasional improvements to the doll’s other skills, and to their base stats. Rarity has a pretty significant impact on Dolls’ strength, but getting enough neural fragments (without buying them) takes a long time, so it’s more of a long-term investment than the answer to “how do I beat this chapter?!”

Level & Potential. Obviously higher level dolls are stronger. Every ten levels you’ll have to raise your doll’s potential with “breakthrough widgets” which can be farmed from the resource gathering nodes, but, even if you don’t give them any extra XP, raising potential also gives a small stat boost. So a level 20 doll with 2 potential is stronger than a level 20 doll with 1 potential. Getting from level 30 to level 40 cost me about 15,000 XP, and getting from level 40 to level 50 cost me a little over 50,000 XP, so expect to farm a lot of experience... I’m guessing getting from 50 to 60 will be close to 150,000 or more.

Algorithms. These are basically “equipment” for your dolls. They fit into simple little grids and give your dolls some nudges to their base stats, which can make a surprising difference in their power rating. I think blue-rarity equips will wind up getting outscaled and will be pretty useless, but purple equips can at least be broken down into materials you can use to make orange-rarity equips much later on in the Factory, so don’t feel shy about farming them to kit your dolls out.

Algorithm Efficiency. You can also use the Algorithm Booster items, or unneeded Algorithms, to improve individual doll’s Algorithm Efficiency rating, which provides a multiplicative boost to the simple stats that their equipped algorithms provide.

Skill Levels. You need to progress pretty far into the story (Chapter 4-4) to unlock skill leveling, and your mileage may vary depending on which doll you’re leveling; some dolls’ skills matter much more than others. But if you can’t raise your doll’s potential any higher then skills are a good place to look.

Intimacy. Raising your doll’s intimacy rating gives you more Neural Fragment farming, but at level 40 and above, intimacy ratings above 4 also unlock “intimacy skills”, which - again - give some base stat nudges, and vary between every Doll. As your intimacy rating with a doll gets higher (and their level increases), you can improve these intimacy skills for free, so if you’re sitting on a bunch of gifts and are determined to love one or two of your dolls in particular, this is also a good way to nudge their stats just a little bit.

There are a lot of different resources to keep track of, too; here’s the best ways I’ve found so far to farm those resources. When the first few real events come out we’ll get a better idea of what’s considered rare and what will be easy to come by from events instead.

XP: Resource Gathering missions or the Factory. You also get a pretty decent amount from progressing the story or endless exploration, but it costs a lot of keys; resource gathering is more efficient if you just want as much XP as possible.

Neural Fragments: Resource Gathering missions (10 per day), the Neural Fragment section of the shop, or the Vulnerability Check shop. Buying fragments from the VC shop is somewhat expensive, you can only get 5 for a specific doll per reset, and the selection of fragments changes every day - but every little bit really helps!

Breakthrough Chips: (These are called ‘widgets’ but I’m calling them chips. deal with it) Resource Gathering missions, or the Vulnerability Check shop. With every reset you can get 20 purple chips or 10 orange chips for each class. They’re also pretty expensive but can help you stock up over time if you know there’s a doll you want, and they can help you get enough to push your first few dolls into their last couple breakthroughs.

Algorithms: Resource gathering missions, and as far as I know, that’s it. I think we will get these from events in the future. I haven’t unlocked “Algorithm Reconfiguration” yet (late chapter 4) which may be a way to get or improve algorithms, we’ll see.

Algorithm Boosters: These seem pretty rare! I’ve only seen them as career quest and weekly quest rewards. Be thoughtful about how you use them because they will be quite valuable.

#pnc #neural cloud #project neural cloud #need to try to finish chapter 4 ;-; #I'm at about 13k power right now... #the last node of chapter 4 recommends 15k... #so close and yet so far

[nothing-suspicious-at-all]

Less than 3 chapters plus editing, less than 3 chapters plus editing, less than 3 chapters plus editing.

#so close and yet so far #fanfiction #fanfic writing #writing

[rohirric-hunter]

./shakefist

#lotro #this is a common level 57 supple bow #i need a rare level 59 supple bow #so close and yet so far #shout out to the person who listed it tho please keep listing random bow drops from moria - mirkwood

[rooftops-are-for-towels]

do you ever put your hand up to feel your eyebrow and feel your skull under your skin and go man, i wish i could meet you

#its just a layer away #behind my sight... #so close and yet so far