#take it as an achievement

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[mindfulstudyquest]

me every three seconds when i'm not in the mood for studying:

#academia #college #education #note taking #school #student #study aesthetic #study blog #study inspiration #study motivation #academic validation #chaotic academia #light academia #dark academia #university student #architecture student #study notes #study tips #studyblr #studyinspo #studyspo #self improvement #gilmore girls #rory gilmore #study like rory gilmore #goals #academic achievement #quotes #rory gilmore quotes

[monarchisms]

#michael jones #achievement hunter #rooster teeth #roosterteeth #just a few minutes ago i was wondering how michael and lindsay were taking the news #and then i immediately saw this #dogbark

[zipsunz]

universally loved 💐

here's a version with all of the senders labelled!

#omori #omori sunny #omori spoilers #my art #sunny who has always thought that all he does is take #never giving anything back... a deep-seated insecurity omori readily throws in his face #but just in the span of three days he made an impact on so many people's lives. all from just listening and doing little errands. #even at his absolute lowest sunny still yearned for human connection and a sense of belonging #and there's smth incredibly bittersweet abt the achievement being named after what basil thought hero was most of all #the person sunny looked up to as much as his own sister #i just really like sunny 🥹

[shitpostingkats]

Alabasta Ace is so funny.

Like the strawhats keep commenting that Ace is so polite and restrained compared to Luffy but like. This dude drags himself out of the ocean just to thank them for looking after his brother and offer to help wash dishes. Mans asks "Are these guys bothering you?" and proceeds to blow up an entire fleet with his bare hands. He trips over himself to make sure all of Luffy's crew likes him and no, really, you don't mind that he's a weirdo???? That we, I mean he, are feral little insane guys who take up space and emotional labor and are kind hard to handle? Really???? Cool cool cool hey just a reminder I can help out with anything that needs doing. I got lost in the desert but donnut worry in the 0.6 seconds since you last saw me I have somehow acquired water and provisions for several weeks. Don't ask me how!

Peak oldest sibling behavior.

#'Ace is trying to flirt with Sanji' <<< Weak take. Simple. Out of character. #'Ace immediately clocks Sanji as the domestic provider and tries to endear himself to the guy responsible for feeding his little bro. #At All Costs.' <<< Strong take. Breathtaking. Absolutely something he would do. #Ace cleaning his plate ever meal and carefully putting everything away: I am going to get a good job in taking up space :) #Something that is normal to want :) And possible to achieve :) #I'm just saying Alabasta Ace is clearly insane. #And so used to constantly having to provide for Luffy. #Oh? Buddy? Were you raised in an environment where resources were scarce and you felt you had to 'earn' the right to be cared for??? #Are you used to working yourself to the bone to make sure you and your brothers weren't considered 'too annoying' or 'not worth the effort' #Are you scared of requiring care and being a burden on those who love you??? Huh??? Little buddy??????? #one piece #op #portgas d ace #portgas d. ace

[ghoulbats]

#rip sweet beast #i spent half my life with you that’s kinda crazy #taking the news really well though guys i am definitely not binge watching a ton of old videos it’s fine i’m cool #credit to my creative director jess batsareimagining #my inspo in life and memes <3 #achievement hunter

[chelsiegeorgia]

I then spend the next half hour levelling him up 

#I love when you stop moving and all the koco you've collected just materialise around you #sonic the hedgehog #sonic frontiers #sonic frontiers spoilers #sonic #seriously why does it take elder koco so long to level you up #i just wanna go faster old man! #I've almost finished my 100% playthrough #just gotta get one more achievement #get phantom rush 50 times #this is the first sonic game I've ever S ranked every level #I'm so proud #just gotta get through bullet hell then I'm home free #art #fanart #doodles

[berlingotesque]

hello hello!!

i just wanted to say that i love your art, and that your art and painting style is beautiful. not to mention the way you imagine the characters. and i confess that i'm in love with your sammy lawrence, because he's so handsome and serious

and i really can't describe how i feel about your sammy lawrence. he is simply perfect!!

Aww thank you so much anon !! ;; I'm so glad you like my art and painting style 💖 Also Sammy is one of the characters I draw most easily and frequently, so I'm glad you like his design so much <3

As a gift for all these kind compliments, here’s a little doodle of the perfect boy :)

#thank you so much for taking the time to tell me all this anon <3 #it really brightened my day #it’s always a pleasure to see people simping for my Sammy ahah #really big artist goal achieved #sammy lawrence #batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #ask response #berlingot’s asks

[liyv]

is this what you wanted?

#bsd spoilers #bsd #dazai osamu #art tag #tw blood #tw injury #ohhhhhhhhhhhh 109 made me so crazy ive been chewing on bricks all month #like we have the old setup thats like: 1. dazai wants to die and 2. chuuya wants to kill him but in truth its now more like #1. dazai wants to live hes trying to live and 2. chuuya could never of his own volition harm dazai #& then 109 takes them at their worse & takes away all of their power & agency & story up until now #& gives them EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT #but its not true! we've moved past this ending! #so now we get 1. what they want(ed) isnt something they couldve ever achieved by their own will (SAD) & #2. maybe now they realize they want for smth else? (HOPEFUL) & their arc goes from there #<- completely delusional btw. #bungou stray dogs

[carlyraejepsans]

hibiscia!!! Sorry if youve explained before but is there something specific about reset-remember fics that you hate? I don't really like them either but for me it's just because I feel like a lot of authors type sans in very ooc ways

They're completely antithetical to Sans' character arc for the sake of cheap and easy angst. The nature of his brand of cosmic horror isn't in reliving his life again and again, that's Flowey's. Sans knows OF the anomaly, knows that it's manipulating time and knows it's a threat to the entire universe, but he doesn't know how or why, because he doesn't remember.

And that's crucial! him being mostly in the dark in spite of the MANY warning signs about us... because it's in that doubt that he remains hopeful. YES we could potentially end the world... but what if we don't? yes we have unimaginable power over everyone else and we can bring back time, but what if we're just.... sad? he needs that gap in his knowledge so he can take a leap of faith across it, it's his entire character arc in the pacifist run. sans THINKS he's given up, he wants to have given up, he chose to do it because there's a comfort in that. in contenting yourself with good food and bad laughs. there's peace. but he hasn't given up, not really. on himself? maybe. but not in us.

there's no way to have that arc if he remembers resets.

#this is also why i don't like post pacifist sans angst where he worries about resets. unless there's like a Reason for frisk to reset #kinda like sam did in UG with the incident with the blasters #because ppl take his lines during the NM fight as a given without considering that... it's the fucking NM run? lol #he's talking about reaching the surface from the point of view of a sans who's only ever been antagonized by the anomaly #ie reaching the surface meant through asgore's plan being successful #pacifist achieves that in a scenario where he actively befriends and loves and cares about the anomaly. he trusts us!! #it would feel unfair to his friend if he were convinced they were going to shit on their happy ending. that's a really shitty thing to thin #it's actually sth i wanted to handle in dv. having a kid REALLY fucks with his paranoia. it's irrational but understandable #that doesn't stop him from feeling guilty towards frisk for worrying about it. or feeling worried at all #undertale #sans #answered asks #metanalysis

[mikakuna]

can you imagine how both the gotham rogues and jason must've felt during the events of gotham war?

here all the rogues are, people who've hurt and killed thousands. a lot of them barely show regret for their actions and are repeat offenders. they're considered the worst of the worst by gotham's citizens. yet here comes batman, a man who strongly believes in rehabilitation and endless chances for all criminals. every time he puts the rogues in prison, he doesn't talk to them like they're animals and ensures they know he believes in them becoming better.

but then they hear about what batman did to the red hood- how he took away red hood's autonomy and completely violated his rights. they hear about how batman made it so that red hood only feels crippling fear when he feels adrenaline- that batman is doing it for red hood's own good.

and they wonder what batman sees in the red hood to see someone beyond rehabilitation. they wonder how batman believes in people like them, people who repeatedly kill indiscriminately, if he only sees the worst in the red hood, someone they know who doesn't hurt others like they do.

imagine how jason feels, realizing that he is the one person batman doesn't believe in rehabilitation for. that batman considers him more of a problem than his other rogues- that he's the one who needs his autonomy taken away compared to someone like the joker.

#genuinely think gotham war is so stupid #on one side i can maybe see batman taking away jason's autonomy bc of his personal feelings being involved and him essentially #just wanting his son back #even using a fucked up method to achieve that #but on the other side it's kinda ooc for batman to do something like this #i just think gotham war events must've been the biggest shock for the rogues #jason todd #red hood #batman #dc #gotham rogues #gotham war #bruce wayne

[craniumknight]

watching @mushrium play outer wilds

#===[ #◒ #▦ #▨ #△ #]=== #craniumknight art #[2024] #outer wilds #this is when they were trying to get the take + heal 1000 dmg achievement #we are achievement hunters !!!! #chert my fav lil egg #in my doodle era #(I'm too busy to draw fr sobbing) #I actually drew this months ago and forgot to post it #oops!

[alexiethymia]

With the reveal that Aduo didn’t actually want to be the mother of the nation, looks like we now have a concrete path to a happy ending for Jinshi.

Though I actually really want to see him as the Emperor one day (at least for a time), it would be thematically appropriate if Jinshi takes not after the Emperor, but after Gaoshun and becomes the retainer of the future Emperor.

#knh spoilers #kusuriya no hitorigoto #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #aduo #maomao #looking at gaoshun and taomei #it does solve everything #jinshi would still be able to be close to the seat of power #and do good for the nation #in guiding the future emperor the same way gaoshun guided him #since he’s not power hungry he would have the emperor’s interests (not just as the leader of the nation) but as a family member at heart #and at the same time he wouldn’t be pressured to take in more than one spouse #maomao would be free to explore the nation as she pleases #the history of the owner of the jade plaque with the favored son of a former emperor #abdicating and eventually being given a name #seems to be foreshadowing for what will happen even if Jinshi’s true heritage does get out #I’m sure factions will try to use him as a piece #but in the same vein that maomao decided her own fate herself #it would make sense for Jinshi to achieve what he wants to do regardless of the circumstances of his birth #and it would be sweet if he took after his foster father #win win solution for everyone really #yeah ok I’ll be fine even if jinshi doesn’t become emperor as long as he becomes retainer #maomao would be better leading medical reforms rather than be an empress too #it would also be subversion of the usual chosen one will lead tropes #yeah no how about the secret prince becomes the mentor instead

[canonkiller]

do you consider your self made?

#my art #self portrait of sorts #been musing a lot on disability recently and how being relatively freshly unable to do Most Things has changed my perspective on things #for a long time growing up i was fixated on the idea of being An Impact On The World yknow? mainly the next Big Writer #(and that it would be sooo impressive that everyone would make my books bestsellers when i was only 12 because it was That Good) #and i mean. obviously that didnt work out as originally planned because i was 12 and learning. but I've felt a lot like #I've kind of built my sense of self on those big achievements. even if they were only big to me. and a lot of them #are now out of reach or very difficult to reach. and it's been a lot to. recontextualize #to take what ive been told my whole life and ignore it in favor of just being being enough. #things will happen as they happen. i havent earned anything by suffering but it hasnt ended the world either #im here doing what i Can do for as long as I'm able to do it. and thats all i need to be for now #just making sure that i Do do the things i can do rather than assume i can do them later #anyways. love you #cw: #top nudity #artistic nudity #the dreaded ambiguously presenting nipple #if you put any pro weight loss eating disorder shit on here ill kill you btw #my body is sexy because im in it and im still alive. not because its struggling to stay that way #lindwormposting

[serialunaliver]

me who likes fitting things together and organizing them when someone says "who the fuck would prefer bagging items to cashiering at a grocery store"

#i've made such great bagging achievements I want to take a picture of the end result #especially with boxes and cans

[spineless-lobster]

WHY AREN’T WE HAVING SPACE SEX?!

#IM BEING DEAD SERIOUS #THOSE ASTRONAUTS BETTER BE BUTT FUCKING FREAKNASTY STYLE #GUYS WE AS HUMANS HAVE ACHIEVED SO MUCH WHY AREN’T WE FUCKING IN SPACE???? #IMAGINE FUCKING ON THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!! #(that would probably be impossible but the thought is cool) #I never want to have sex but if I had the chance to fuck in space I WOULD TAKE IT!!!!!!! #nasa fucking get on this already #space #astronauts #nasa