All is cool, all is well

paxamericana:

it’s so cool how the search function on every website, a technology that was essentially perfected over a decade ago, is borderline unusable now

dirtreally:

Now that reddit is metaphorically unusable and twitter is literally unusable you bitches are stuck w these shit ass posts now this is as good as it gets

blatantescapism:

mysteryofwhatxxxx:

A crested eagle tangled up with a snake in battle

the Aztec were right, that is absolutely an omen worth building a city for

thesinglesock:

in a modern AU Link would be Zelda’s only friend with a driver’s license and their chat history would look like this

pandabibble:

leonleonhart:

I’m curious, if you’re interested in a game but can’t/don’t want to play it do you have a usual go to for getting into it anyway?

Watching “let’s play” style playthroughs

Watching a livestream/archive of a stream

Watching cutscene compilations

Watching family/friends play

Waiting until you can absolutely play it yourself

Simply do not consume anything for the game at all

Other (in the tags)

Fanworks and fanfiction only (cursed option)

[ just want to see the stats ]

slightly-ethereal:

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

Healthy relationships are clearly better in real-life but fucked-up ones are way more dramatically interesting in fiction. In much the same way–indeed, in exactly the same way–that feudal monarchy is a hell of a lot of fun in fantasy and historical fiction novels, but complete shit to actually live under.

Feudal monarchy is so hilarious because it’s just like: “What if we based our entire sociopolitical structure on fucked-up family dynamics?”

leviathan-supersystem:

leviathan-supersystem:

dating and relationships are the ultimate “you cringe you lose” compilation

sounds like a joke post but unironically one of the first hurdles to forming healthy happy relationships is to learn to suppress the impulse to go “eww lame” about stuff that partners or potential partners are into.

the chances of meeting someone who isn’t into at least a few things you think are really really lame is very slim, and instead of chasing after the dream of meeting somebody who only, exclusively, likes stuff you also like, it’s better to just like. learn to be more chill about people liking stuff you don’t, and hope that they’ll return the favor and be chill about you liking stuff they don’t.

carpisuns:

the most hurtful thing about the rise of AI art, to me, is that the importance of lived human experience is up for debate.

you could say a lot about the ethical implications of it all and how it negatively impacts actual artists—how their work is being stolen and fed to bots without their permission, how they are losing ownership of their own artistic expression, how they’re are losing their jobs because AI can “replace” them. but people will always find a way to talk their way around it. “if they didn’t want people to use their art, they shouldn’t be posting it online.” “you can’t own an artistic style.” “the generated art piece is not actually their art. it’s not stealing.” and the real clincher: “i don’t know what to tell you. that’s just progress.”

i feel like so many people see this issue through the lens of charlie bucket’s dad getting fired from the toothpaste factory because a machine could place a cap on the tube more efficiently. but making art is not the same as screwing a cap onto a tube of toothpaste. it’s emotional. it’s meaningful. it’s expressive. the end result is informed by the experiences and choices of the creator. and the viewer’s experience is different knowing that a human is behind those choices—that there was real choice involved at all.

you could argue that AI art retains the inherent humanity of art, because it uses samples of real art made by real people—a whole collective pool of representative humanity. but it’s not really the same. it’s just an echo. an illusion. a mimic of life without the spark that actually makes it alive.

when i look at art, i want to think about the human behind it. i want to feel connected to them. i want to ponder their choices and notice their details and appreciate their skills. i want to look at it and feel something, because the artist felt something when they made it.

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rachaeltad:

rachaeltad:

I had a feeling “Rauru was an imperialist” discourse was inevitable and while I haven’t put enough thought into it to make coherent arguments for/against, I’m enjoying it purely because I just don’t like him

Have thought more about this and my takeaway is that yes, TLOZ is a series that juxtaposes good/bad and light/dark, and the Hyrulean Royal Family is a central through-line in that, and yes, that foundation is going to naturally produce a story about the first King of Light and his enemy being the Demon King and YES, it’s a Nintendo game (for babies) and we’re not going to get lengthy lore dumps about Rauru’s thoughts on soft vs hard political power and the sovereignty of nation states

BUT — I still came away from the game uncomfortable with discrete choices that certainly have imperialist undertones, like the apparent Divine Right of Kings (Rauru is literally a demi-god who descended from heaven, lmao) the portrayal of pre-Hyrule Hyrule as untamed or even empty (terra nullius vibes), Ganondorf truly having no character beyond Kill Kill Murder Kill (our enemies are 100% evil and therefore any act against them must be 100% good, etc) and the erasing of the names and faces of the Sages that effectively others them and their people and reinforces the Zonai/Hylians as the dominant group.

None of this to say that your favourite Nintendo game is problematic and certainly NONE of this to say I wanted a complex war epic out of TOTK. I see a lot of defensive counter-critique whenever this kind of discourse pops up that it’s just fiction or it’s not that deep. My counter to that is I think it’s still worth examining what choices have gone into presenting a specific story and what values or belief systems those choices (intentionally or otherwise) perpetuate.

Media critique of that kind is fun, actually, and helps us understand our own values and beliefs while still enjoying the stuff we consume. So yes, I do think Rauru is a bit imperialist based on the tropes that TOTK uses to present him and the Zonai. But he clearly wants to do good, in the end, and his sacrifice is evidence of that.

pvt-tristan-bongo:

Let me put this in a way you’ll understand. Your son, Bakugou Ramirez, got hit by a car and has been “Isekai’d” to the ICU.

1percentcharge:

wolfwoodbignaturals:

[guy who hasnt drawn in a few weeks voice] yeah the world is horrible and life is agony

onlinebeast:

Me golf commentating: These are evil, evil men… they have done wicked deeds to be here today. There are no winners today– Beautiful drive there. Right onto the fairway.

xueyangapologist: