#sure. why not.

[libraryleopard]

the biggest plot twist in saltburn was actually when oliver was lying on the grave and he started taking off his shirt and i was like "oh god he's going to take off his pants isn't he" and then he only took off his shirt and i was like "oh phew" and then as soon as i relaxed he actually took off his pants. true emotional roller coaster right there.

#does make me wonder what the nudity clause for this film looked like #'full frontal nudity will be expected for several scenes including one where the actor has sex with a pile of dirt' #sure. why not. #saltburn spoillers #saltburn #movies #lulu speaks #lulu watches things #lulu watches saltburn #if it's not clear i called like all the other twists lol

[nymdraws]

learning csp with some scribbles of These Guys

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #kimharry #sure. why not. #fan #2023 #sorry about one of these just being the same kim a million times i was testing brushes. #ALSO 'the pockets open funny' is a reference to one of my fav disco oneshots #neon orange/ruddy brown by eusuchia on ao3!!! its a quick read ~4k words and it changed my brain chemistry forever lmao #oh also i guess i should tag #emeto tw #maybe? jic #and #alcohol mention

[basementpotato]

🧡

#sure. why not. #jennifer says things #phan

[fuckabledragonoftheday]

Today's fuckable dragon of the day is...

"THE S IS FOR SUCKS" DRAGON from STRONG BAD E-MAIL

#sure. why not. #anonymous #the s is for sucks dragon #strong bad email #dragon of the day

[starfleetwitch]

Lads... It's tickling me something fierce that this was the only backed up photo from the phone that got stollen... Like... YEARS worth of memories gone but this THIS remains. JFC.

#Sure. why not. #berena #jemma redgrave #bernie wolfe #serena campbell #catherine russell #the phone was just like shall we restore your shit and i got so excited but no #it was just something from that one time i was having feels over a fucking nose boop

[endverse]

#iwtvedit #vctvedit #iwtv #iwtv amc #interview with the vampire #lestat #lestat de lioncourt #gmine #sure. why not.

[spockvarietyhour]

#Blade Runner #Blade Runner 2099 #sure. why not.

[sodaflood]

i need to stop doing art dumps on tumblr

#gasa4 #gasa4sc #get a snack at 4am #pizza person #cashier #player #kyu #dummy #sighing bowing head putting up the white flag #cashpizza #SURE. WHY NOT.

[primeministerofantarctica]

okay funniest aroace experience is consuming a piece of media, going on tumblr, and seeing everyone talk about the iNcReDiBlY ObViOuS shipping tension you did NOT pick up on at all

#astra rambles #personal #/lh #SURE. why not.

[crehador]

they are making sanrio ikemen gijinkas???

#SURE. WHY NOT. #badtz-maru one looks like he would be voiced by exactly who he is voiced by

[laurajameskinney]

some rp blog rb'd my kurt catholicism post .?

#gg og #ok. #sure. why not.

[marnz]

applying to long shot jobs like

#currently #sure. why not.

[badidvideas]

Survivors can shoot each other in duos

.

#sure. why not.

[gamebunny-advance]

Power from the People (NSR Theory and Speculation)

I was thinking about the convo we had about why B2J don't literally die from being attacked by the NSR artists, and how it's likely because the power/magic of being artists is what makes them more resilient. In the original theory, the only real support I had for this idea was an unsourced anecdote that devs said that the artists are powerful due to artistry being a source of power in this universe, but it wasn't supported by anything in-game. However, I recently realized that there actually is something in-game that supports this: the upgrade system.

NSR's upgrade system trades "fans" earned from defeating megastars for new abilities.

So the game equates fan support to literal power: it's only through fan support that B2J can unlock their full potential. There is a similar correlation in the Megastars in that their power is proportional to their popularity. Arguably, since Tatiana once ruled the entire city with The Goolings at some point, this rule even applies to her as the final boss, and most powerful member of NSR.

That said, I do wonder how much of any given artist's ability is linked to their fan support. Like, if someone is inarguably talented but is unknown to the greater public, would they still have the same abilities as the megastars? Can talent only get you so far if you don't have the reach or connections to get support?

I mean, B2J can get upgrades through fan support, but you can technically go through the entire game without buying a single one and the amount of fans you have doesn't provide any kind of passive buff, ergo B2J start the game already strong enough to take down Tatiana. In fact, they start the game strong enough to take down DJSS without any fan support since May considers Kliff their first fan, but he doesn't get involved until after DJSS is defeated, so if the artistry = power theory is also true, then fan support may not be necessary at all for an artist to have extraordinary power and the fans are just an extra buff.

But, if fan support isn't linked to power, but is instead linked to special abilities, then why does Tatiana still have time/fire powers if she *doesn't have an active fanbase anymore? Did her abilities stay even if the fans aren't actually there to support her, or is the support from her staff enough to still give her all those abilities since she's still a talented guitarist at her core? Or do all her political supporters count as "fans" that she can draw power from? Is it both? Are Mayday and Kliff's admiration of her still giving her power? If power comes from any kind of support, then does a person even need to be an "artist" to get the kind of power buff that we see the artists getting? If enough people get convinced that Amal is a real unicorn, will he eventually be able to preform miracles? Does this example not even work, since he's technically participating in a performing art by acting as a unicorn to begin with?

There are just so many interesting questions to be asked about this…

*Since you still gain fans and a platinum record from beating Tatiana, she may actually have an active fanbase which would render the rest of the speculation moot, but the entire framing and mechanics of Tatiana's fight are so weird and don't fit into the pre-establish mold, that I have a hard time parsing any useful information from analyzing her boss battle. I dunno what's real, what's metaphorical, what's just there because this is a video game, and it doesn't make sense to just abandon the pre-established systems for this one fight.

#gbunny writes #nsr #game theory #should I add character tags? #it's not really about them. it's about the systems but... #sure. why not. #B2J #mayday #zuke #tatiana #on the topic of my footnote #that's part of why i don't have any real theories/evidence for other theories from her battle #i just don't understand what's going on in it #where are the keys coming from? #is that something b2j is doing? #is it a conscious effort or is it related to her time powers? #kliff seems to know about how this works so is he the real source of it? #speaking of time powers did she always have them? #was it her strong will to erase the past what manifested these powers? #if she always had the time powers did she do freaky sh*t with it? #Whose records is she hitting us with? #is the trade-off for her time powers is that she's aging rapidly? #because kliff is supposedly older than her but imo looks just as young as other adults in the cast while tatiana is very weathered #do i just think that because she has so many cracks in her skin because she's a rock #and if that texture weren't there she would look her age? #it's things like that #there's too many questions that i can't answer and i'm here to provide answers when possible #though if y'all have answers to any of these questions #either from the post proper or these tags #feel free to let me know~

[rahleeyah]

Is it just me or did the ending of the case part feel weird and rushed? Like they spent the whole episode fighting for the case and having witness disasters and then oop they killed Duarte (brutally… honestly that’s the kind of thing we used to yell at lettuce for that was horrific) and Papa suddenly WANTS to be in jail and he admires Liv or something like… help me make sense of that cause I can’t 🤔

Yeah I kept saying last night in the gc that the ending made no sense. I'm sure they just ran out of time and had to put something in there but like. Papa was about to get out. Why the fuck would he voluntarily spend the rest of his life in jail? And he's not going after Olivia any more bc she's such a good mom??? Excuse?? Why would Olivia believe him when he says Noah is safe now??? Like. That was wild the math is not mathing

#anonymous #e.o asks #s.vu #Olivia Benson such a baddie a gang leader voluntarily puts himself in prison and calls off his crusade to kill her #just bc he likes her so much #sure. why not.

[exeggcute]

adventures in linkedin:

(1) a good-for-nothing recruiter hit me up for a job as a "founding copywriter" at some local and scientifically dubious fitness company. which like, one, no. two, I have dabbled in copywriting and am honestly very good at it but I am a technical writer by trade. so I ignore it and then a day later the recruiter messages me AGAIN to ask if I got their first message. I know there are lots of recruiters who actually place people in good gigs but nine out of ten recruiters I've interacted with are on this level of being so desperate and incompetent that they'll just search for anyone in my city with 'writer' in their job title. and that's not a lot of people.

(2) one of my nice coworkers is going through some sort of product manager training (and liveblogging it) and it's exactly like watching someone who got bitten by a zombie start to slowly transform into a shambling nightmare creature. possibly related to this is that she now has "cyber goddess" in her linkedin description and has also gotten certified as a licensed hypnotist but in like a business coach way. despite this I'm still looking forward to working with her as a PM (assuming she doesn't leave our company after she get trained and assuming I stick around after I come back from leave) because our other PMs are somehow more insane than that

#me wondering why there's no women PMs and then I take a glimpse into the world of women PMs and it's girlboss hypnotherapy #sure. why not.