Ananta

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

my parents divorce has got me thinking a lot about how theres no force out there assuring everybody gets their happy ending. my parents spent 30 years together and as far as i can tell it was never as good as love should be and nothing stopped them from making that choice. theres no force in the world stopping you from throwing away your life. very few choices ruin your whole life at once (i mean. like. doing a murder and getting caught. for example) but if you just keep choosing the path of unhappiness no one stops you. you can keep doing that as long as you like

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

i don't post about it much, since it ended, but Berserk is one of my favorite anime and manga ever. the 1990s soundtrack is some of the best music ever composed

Angry Gamers (capitol G) will look at a new trailer, invent a way cooler and more epic version of it, and then think that cooler and more epic version is Bad, somehow

Man imagine a GTA where you play as a trans woman sex worker forced into increasingly dangerous situations, surviving and slowly thriving through crimes and heists of escalating stakes, slowly overcoming and eventually overthrowing those who wronged you in both the justice system and the criminal underworld

Maybe game studios should have one of these Gamers on their team to torture. The angrier this Gamer gets the further the rest of the team pushes. If this Gamer is violent with rage by the end of a brainstorming session it's considered successful.

They could keep him in a little terrarium

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

reblog this post to help a child break the law

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

you guys do realize memorizing a story doesn't actually preserve it right? it just destroys it entirely and places a perfect copy of it in your brain to be retold at a future performance

It does feel like Arknights is testing the waters with some concepts that would normally be more difficult to portray because of its status as a live service gacha. I think the game has always been fantastic at using the limitations of the format to its advantage in order to fit the story & themes they want to tell in a way that sometimes even strengthens its impact (I talked about this in regards to Civilight Eterna in the past) but it's feeling like they've reached the point where they're clashing with these limits head-on now. They clearly want to write more awful people even among the operators and we're in fact seeing an increase of them, but aside for Eblana they seem to be mostly giving that role to male welfares for now (do they want to see if they can still be popular enough before giving such roles to the operators that are actually going to be in the gacha? do they feel like they can never do that for the six stars so they're getting around it with the free units?) and similarly they're trying to circumvent the big taboo of not killing the playable characters by writing their potential deaths and giving closure to their character arcs through modules (there's at least two cases now and they were both incredible. they're even using these to give us a look into the far future which means they're also avoiding the restriction imposed by the status quo of the "present era" of the story). Hopefully they following this path because it's a lot more interesting - it's already been said in the past but imagine if we actually got an Operator dying of Oripathy, wouldn't it increase the stakes a lot more? Like, there's enough division between the gameplay and the story to do this. We're playing with past and alternate versions of operators already, many of them only joined Rhodes temporarily or were just visitors to the landship and are still in our roster long after they went their way, to keep playing with dead ops wouldn't be that different, it'd be perfectly doable. I think it's idealistic to expect them to actually do things like this (I'm sure the fanbase's reaction would be bad) but every step they take in that direction is a big plus.

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?