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Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:
Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need
The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to
You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking
No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)
Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.
Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!
Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.
This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.
I humbly present my pitch for pl vs aa 2: Professor Layton vs. The Great Ace Attorney!
(pls click for better quality idk why it keeps doing this)
In which Professor Layton and Luke (and hopefully Flora bc I love her) suffer time travel shenanigans and end up in the late 1800's following clues in the past to help them unravel a mystery in the present, and joined by Ryunosuke and Susato.
Maybe there's a subplot with Phoenix and Maya in the present trying to uncover clues Professor Layton left them in the past, like through the archeological artifacts in his office or sm.
Bonus:
Without the graphics:
(i wanted to contrast the dark blues and purples of the original, so I did yellow and green. And it's somewhere in Italy or Greece I guess for the light airy architecture instead of the heavy Gothic original. The big statues there as a centerpiece to replace the Grand Archive from the first game.
The upper gallery are characters from the games that I hope some of them would be present but probably not. The lower gallery would be original characters from the game but I just ended up doing random guys.)
The thing is you can have a grassy lawn or even a golf course without it being an ecological disaster, you just have to a: be cool about having the occasional non-grass plant in the mix and b: be willing to live in a climate that supports grass without irrigation.
I always thought that golf as a sport should be adapted to the local native landscape. I think this will encourage regional pride when local golfers completely trounce visitors at Swamp Golf, Desert Golf, Forest Golf, etc. Rich tourists will be pressured to travel extensively to experience all forms of golf, instead of staying in their backyard country club golf courses. Internet discourse will probably somehow get worse but I think this is a small price to pay.
I feel like there's been a lot of misremembering about the Silver Tree and Silent Salt's role in the binding of the beasts. A lot was happening in that time and a lot of it was kind of overshadowed by old man yaoi and silent salt just being cool AF and I personally was enthralled with the Monarch of Sloth at the time, so I wanted to talk about it and especially showcase why I think these two claims are true
Silent Salt betrayed the beasts first, and while it didn't play a role in what went down, it's still notable
Silent Salt acted on biased information for the sealing that was not fully true.
Which really can be boiled down to a main point of
Silent Salt has never seen himself or the other virtues as people but instead as just their virtues.
Please note this is using the English translation, I don't care if it's different in Korean, this is the way they want the story presented in English. This is also not an attack on him, but I find this to be very interesting characterization that gets brushed over.
Silent Salt and His Religious Connections
First I want to establish that as Salt of Solidarity that the devotion he and his followers held for the witches is what would eventually sprout off into the St Pastry Order. This is made pretty clear that the Order considers the Salt lands to be a very holy and important place. Often referring to it as consecrated or holy.
Pastry is FIERCELY protective of it, seeing the ghosts that haunt the lands as defiling intruders and being shocked to learn there are no other devotees here despite the land being seen as a very sacred pilgrimage that Pastry is taking.
White lily also notes the sign of the creators and even finds a fork, further confirming that out of all the Virtues, Salt of Solidarity seems to be the most faithful about their creators with direct references to them in architecture, and while we technically get no confirmation, this along with White Lily specifically saying the Order might have split off from the knights makes a link of devotion and worship towards the witches very blatant. A link the other beasts seemed to have lacked.
It is also noted that Silent Salt near immediately upon losing contact began chasing down any sign of them, finding the Faerie Kingdom in search of guidance. No other Virtue seems this rattled by the loss, while Shadow Milk comes close his instability is less one of faith and more of being given an impossible question that he can't escape. Even at his lowest point, he finds comfort in the idea of entrusting fate to the Witches, even if no one can ever know his own role in using their magic.
It's pretty clear that Silent Salt can be considered the Virtue most aligned with their creators. While the others have a more ambivalent or hostile relation, Silent Salt views them in the highest regard to the end.
Silent Salt's Original Plan
For this part I want to highlight Silent Salt's original plans for the Silver Tree and how in his efforts, betrayed all the other virtues in service to the mission he perceives he has.
It's worth noting this was done in secret with the other Virtues fully unaware so it played no role in the fall. It still shows an interesting pattern of thought on the fact he seemed to have decided on this plan without any other input from other Virtues.
Specifically, the plan to split the Virtues was in the work for a very long time, Elder Fairy and Silent Salt have been working on the tree since they first met after all. We don't know know the exact time span between the witch's vanishing and the fall to corruption, but we know it wasn't an immediate thing and almost certainly could have taken anywhere from decades to centuries.
However, Silent Salt had already kind of written them off from the moment the Witch's vanished. Due to his belief that the Virtues weren't good enough anymore, and a desire to create new Virtues. He viewed the Virtues even BEFORE they fell to have become crooked and distorted due to being attached to such powerful figures and became determined to find a way to make new Virtues.
We know this likely wasn't something the others know about, due to the talks and actions of the other beasts framing the soul jam splitting as a theft or crime against them, and they had no reason to believe Silent Salt had anything to do with the fall. If they had known, it seems likely at least there'd be some comment about the Silver Tree being Silent Salt's idea originally. However there's nothing of the sort.
So very likely this was being done in secrecy, especially as he wouldn't even tell his knights or other cookies he shared solidarity with where he was constantly going on long solo journeys and why.
Silent Salt Devotion to the Mission
For my next part I want to highlight how Silent Salt seems to care a lot about the "mission" that was given to him and the Virtues over anything else. The ancient values mean a great deal to him, and he prioritizes it over everything. Even at the idea of the other Virtues being in danger, he cares purely because of how that would damage the mission and shows no concern for their health or safety
When he believes he has failed his Virtue, he begs Elder Faerie to kill him for his failure. He views himself for his failure as inherently a threat to the safety of cookiekind for what happened. Then when he is made aware the Beasts have turned against their virtues, that is the moment he actually turns against them.
I also would like to mention that, while it was done in obvious poor faith, that the Politician of Deceit did attempt negotiations with him before hand. Negotiations that went absolutely nowhere because Silent Salt took one glance at the letter and tossed it due to being from a Usurper and someone who wants power. Which while he was right that the letter is in bad faith and I cannot stress that enough, it still shows a very black and white single mindedness, as even if the letter was so easily read as a way to seek power. Not replying at all or opening any kind of communication with an enemy who's trying to open up that avenue is still a really bad move.
Even if he never planned to give her what she wanted, from a strategic angle he should have at least tried to get information out of her, especially as he's aware of the turning sentiment against his knights and the growing instability of the nation. Even if he never planned to see her as someone to bargain with or give her anything, slamming it closed and making the only option force was a really bad move. Especially when she could have information on the location of the Fount of Knowledge.
It's this complete and utter cold shoulder of the attempt to negotiate that makes them jump to the next viable option, full out war. Something most of the Usurpers (Overlord of Destruction notwithstanding) wanted to try and avoid.
It's his dismissal of the Usurpers as just average tyrants and not the chosen virtues that leads to them getting the jump on him. Even with how as even he knows conflict is coming, he's still going out to meet with Elder Faerie because he underestimates them. In his inability to get back in time is what leads to the destruction of the order, especially as the Usurpers managed to get their hands on that information that he is gone for prolonged periods of time
Silent Salt heavily defines himself with his Virtue to the point of it as the sole focal point of his existence, even after all the terrors done by the usurpers, he still singles out him and the other virtues as being Other and overly defined by their mission and is only when Elder Faerie directly tells him of their falls does Silent Salt finally turn attention to him.
Elder Fairies Bias
Which leads into an interesting point! Elder Faerie is the main source of information on what happened to Silent Salt. It's through his perspective does Silent Salt hear about what happened, and while he has things right... he got stuff wrong as well. He claims all of them abandoned their virtues of their own accord but... we know that isn't true!
Eternal Sugar genuinely believed she was still fulfilling her duty, she never forsook anything, she just grew into a toxic mindset on the definition of happiness! To her, Sloth and Happiness are identical. Sloth is true happiness, and she wants to give it to everyone.
Mystic Flour did not fall of her own accord, instead it was the direct result of an attack against her that killed her greatest protector with meditations showing her that the only way to avoid the greed of the cookies tormenting her was apathy. She was very much pushed into a corner where she had to defend herself.
While Shadow Milk and Burning Spice could more properly be argued to have forsaken their virtues of their own accords, Eternal Sugar and Mystic Flour on the other hand either did NOT forsake their virtue and it became instead twisted like Eternal Sugar or was pushed into an intense life or death situation while trying to find more answers like Mystic Flour. Elder Faerie is wrong about the nature of the falls, and is colored by his own bias against them. He also says they hid from Silent Salt from behind their fallen virtues but while they did all cut contact, we have no idea why. Which feels odd, you'd think Shadow Milk at least would give SOME kind of taunt? The framing makes it seem more personal then it actually seemed to be.
Things get a bit murky here though because right after he tells Silent Salt this, it enters into a flashback. However, it's impossible to actually... tell how diagetic this is. It's fully possible the Silver Tree is showing these things, as we know it can show things from Elder Faerie witnessing the carnage of the Barren. Especially since we've been seeing lots of flashbacks throughout the story that Silent Salt has not seen. So it's possible this is him being shown what happened to them, or it could just be for the audience. Either way though Silent Salt accepts the narrative of them all willingly falling at face value with no thought about why or how this happened and immediately jumped to the sealing.
In Conclusion
It seems clear that Silent Salt from the start lacked solidarity with the other Virtues, showing little concern for them being missing beyond the danger it would bring to the continent. So focused on the mission to the point of fully defining himself on it, he does not seem to see himself as a normal cookie, but instead only an avatar of his virtue fully.
He also seemed to have spread that vision of seeing himself as only as good as he can give his virtue to the others Virtues. Which we can infer from how he schemed behind their backs to take power from their soul jams to create better virtues. Seeming to show no care for how this will impact them and showing no evidence that any of them know that he has decided that the virtues have become twisted. Instead focusing on how this will aid cookiekind per his mission.
He is solely focused on his perception of his mission and virtue to the point of neglecting other avenues that could have been utilized to avoid tragedy and showing no concern for his own life. While he tries to give solidarity to all, he's very susceptible to a binary good or evil, and accepts the narrative given to him by others.
This extends back into his intense worship of the witches, seeing them as a source of hope even when going to bind himself. He shows a heavy unwavering loyalty and certainty in his creators beyond any other virtue. The devotion his dehumanization of himself and the other virtues stem from comes from blindly following everything the witches say and going to any extreme in what he believes is for the mission he gave them
While this was tempered by his solidarity and attempts to help everyone, his level of faith he had in the witches and he inspired in his followers would eventually split off to create the St Pastry Order, a very dangerous death cult in regards to how blind their devotion to the witches are. An organization that still sees his stronghold as a holy site. Even if it is a worship that has truly twisted out of control, the fact it's starting point was with Silent Salt is very telling about his level of devotion.
TLDR; Silent Salt's blind obedience and othering of himself and the other virtues are big parts of his character and why he makes certain choices. His blind devotion to the idea of his mission as a virtue is a big part of his downfall as he make choices in the name of his mission for the greater good of cookie kind without considering the impacts on on the other virtues. He does not deem himself or the other virtues to be people the same way someone like Elder Faerie is.
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there is a very real tendency of teenagers with anxiety disorders self diagnosing with considerably more stigmatized and impairing mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, DID, personality disorders), but the best response to that isn't to get angry with them for "appropriating" lol. instead you show them coping resources for the problems they're actually having and deemphasize diagnostic categories in general. if an 18 year old is claiming to have alzheimer's, they're probably making an innocent mistake and are in genuine distress. be kind.
Also I think this trend comes, at least in part, from how brushed aside anxiety disorders can be. If your parents and teachers dismiss you with 'oh everyone feels anxious', then inevitably you're going to start thinking that there must be something else going on with you
âYou must feel very scared right now; letâs talk about how to help you personally, tailored to your symptomsâ will always be more helpful than âstop faking (X) for attentionâ. If theyre that desperate for attention or an explanation, something is wrong.
the real question is can the backrooms (2026) be technically categorized as a folk horror film if it's an adaptation of concepts from internet folklore
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So...how much of the bad discourse surrounding Steven Universe is just because people were really hoping that the Gems would beat up Andy DeMayo in "Gem Harvest"?
I was astonished to learn that there was controversy around this episode, because I felt like it was just kind of a normal children's cartoon about getting along with difficult relatives; and then I looked it up and learned that it had the extremely inauspicious timing of airing right after Trump's 2016 victory, and, yeah, okay, I can understand why a children's fantasy about reconciling with your obnoxious conservative relatives and getting them to accept your alternate family structure would play rather poorly at the time.
I think that Rebecca Sugar probably assumed, like most of the world that wasn't my specific flavour of extremely online in 2016, that Clinton would crush Trump and that this episode would maybe help to smooth over divisions; but of course what ended up happening is that an episode about how you should be empathetic towards your bigoted relatives ended up airing just as your bigoted relatives were going around victoriously hate-criming people in the street.
Watching it now, though, it ends up feeling wistful more than anything. Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did? It feels like a pleasant dream.
Steven Universe is fundamentally a power fantasyâbut the fantasy is being able to get through to people and heal things. The power is love instead of strength.
That's it exactly. It was a power fantasy for someone whose fantasy is having the power to create a non-zero sum game scenario where everyone can be happy and anyone can be redeemed.
Which, is that naive? *shrug* Maybe. But it would be nice. There are people in this world who actually can't be redeemed, and some problems I'd rather solve with a molotov cocktail. But maybe we can have a little more redemption and a little more healing than we have right now, and is it really a bad thing to get kids to aspire to that?
being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and theyâre crying and swearing theyâre never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didnât have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.
Bank of England are letting you vote for what animals you want on their new bank notes: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes
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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is âinternationalâ pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isnât our pride, itâs theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that âyou owe your rights to Black trans womenâ is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) MÄori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa donât even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we donât.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. iâm truly sorry that most of you donât see the negative impact your nationâs culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and cultureâs queer history, donât accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.
I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.
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