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ArtFight Attack I did some time ago on @aedensolus and their friend!!!!

These three places all have about the same population size

so they were trying to figure out if children use syntactic knowledge to learn new vocabulary, specifically in this case they were researching two year olds. with verbs, some are done to a person ("x hit y") and some only have a doer ("x laughed"), and they wanted to see if these different sentence structures had an effect on how toddlers learn.

they got some grad students, put one in a rabbit costume and one in a duck costume. they had the rabbit repeatedly push the duck into a crouching position using their left hand. at the same time, both the rabbit and the duck were moving their right hands in a repetitive circling motion. they had a bunch of two years olds watch this. with half of the kids, they said "the rabbit is gorping the duck!" and with the other half, they said "the rabbit and duck are gorping!" afterwards, they showed two videos at the same time to the kids, one with the rabbit pushing the duck down but no circling motion, and one with both making the circling motion but no pushing. then they said "where's gorping now? find gorping!" and the kids who had heard the first statement would consistently look towards the video of the pushing motion, while the kids who heard the second statement would consistently look towards the video of the circling motion.

...most likely an eye vibe match, too

Genuinely.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders ALSO served in the wars.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

don’t take up too much space

be friendly

don’t try too hard

keep smiling

don’t overdo it

stand straight

focus

match the energy

apologise

when you’re uncomfortable

your kindness

mistaken for weakness

nothing you do

quite right

they see where you’re heading

the ones who’d rather

steal the light

One of the least comprehended things about autism is masking, masking consists in an adaptative phenomenon that autistic people develop to live and adapt to an allistic (non-autistic) society, we can think about it as a way of camouflage, a way in which autistic people supress some of their natural behaviours. For allistic people or people that doesn’t understand it, this may sound like a great mechanism, because it allows autistic people to look “normal”, but it really is not. Masking it’s  harmful, and it can lead to another things that are really horrible stuff, and the worst thing, most of the time it isn’t really conscious, and unmasking it’s really difficult journey, but today I am not going to talk about that, actually, I am going to explain one of comorbidities of autism that it's extremely related to masking, the coke bottle effect.

For those who don’t now, let’s explain the coke bottle effect in a really simple way imagine an autistic person as a coke bottle, as they day goes on they’re going to get shaken, and if they don’t stim or make any of their normal mechanisms to regulate because of masking, so they don’t let our any of this pressure because they feel like they can’t, not at that moment, not at that place, so the second they feel safe enough to react everything explodes. The whole content of the coke bottle it’s released, instead of relaxing because they’re in a safe space they just release all of the tension and pressure that they have been accumulating all day long, while before for the people that were with them everything look normal, they didn’t look or act eny different, for everyone they’re fine, but in the interior everything just keeps adding pressure that is waiting to release.

The word ‘panic’ stems from Greek mythology. It’s derived from the name of the god of shepherds, Pan, who would get really angry and start shouting any time someone woke him up from his midday nap.

The majority of them, from what I've gathered, had left during the development of Fuga 2 or after its launch and before development on 3 had started. This explains why 3 felt so much different than the first two, from the game design (and why this game was so buggy and unstable) to the writing (plot, world building, lore and character interactions) and even how the game itself functions. I'd need to actually read through the credits to see exactly who all is different to say more on that matter though.

After learning this though, I ended up with a sinking feeling of dread about the future of the series. Like, I've already voiced how I feel about the Fuga trilogy and how it's a departure from what I, and a lot of people, enjoyed about the series. The darker, more mature tone, the much more linear and limited gameplay and a focus on making new more convoluted lore instead of fully fleshing out and expanding upon existing lore, giving us more questions with little to no answers. That last bit is especially relevant with the third game, the one that would have been developed after the majority/all of the departures. It just kinda feels like Little Tail Bronx is going to become something completely different and we're not gonna be able to see the original vision, that future of the series that everyone wanted to see after Solatorobo. I really hope that I'm wrong, but with EVERYTHING about Fuga 3's character secrets and everything teased for the next game, it 100% feels like the series is taking a turn towards something different. Not necessarily bad, just.... different.

I'm still hopeful for more great and unique stories being made in the Little Tail Bronx universe, whether it be the possibility of a Strelka Stories concept being revived or a proper sequel set after Solatorobo, it would be so cool to see this series thrive, but I really hope that any future installments have the right level of care and passion behind as the previous entries have had.