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Dream is such a fucking twat.

AH.

@spacecharlotte-man here @zgmoony

That's pretty darn cool

Were you previously aware...

That Fallout 4's deathclaw, eyebot, sentry bot, and assaultron were all modelled without any concept sketches? The 3D artists would go "straight into ZBrush and [played] around until the creature in the sculpt emerged."

This information was revealed in The Art of Fallout 4. You can check out the full transcript of it here

Lately I've been appreciating Big Bird

I searched the entire Internet for ideas of Stella's demonic form... I only like the naked skull of a bird, I didn't want to draw lots and lots of eyes like vivzipop, because I was already tired of seeing it in every character.

Why are posts from right-wingers so incomprehensible to read? Or are these accounts with the same profile pictures just bots trying to sprinkle urine everywhere like the untrained dogs that they are?

Now I've seen A Quiet Place Day One, an update to my death angel analysis post coming soon!

THE BOARD???

[908 A.D] The temple is uncovered.

[976 A.D] Excavation of the temple begins.

[1000 A.D] First adventurer enters the temple.

[1568 A.D] Last evil is purged from the temple.

after seeing the godawful trailer, I did a reread of the Electric State and i cannot physically understand how the russo brothers did not "see potential" in the story

i'll admit, i underappreciated the writing on my first read! going over it again there is so much richness to the character building and the dread of the atmosphere. There's a vibe that I can only describe as desiccated americana and i love it. The world is rotten and dying, and there is really nothing left to do but go on for going on's sake.

anyway i'm doing a very large essay on Stålenhag's whole body of work, but the Electric State holds a special place in my heart as the first of his books I discovered and the most resonant to me, so i just had to share my thoughts right after the reread.

This is less about the artwork, which i could talk about for ages, and more just a general overview of the story themes specifically!

(Moderate general spoilers? i don't go into much detail, and it's not a story overly reliant on its plot twists anyway)

The hopelessness of The Electric State is rather unique among Simon Stålenhag's works - his other books, set in Sweden, are much more fondly nostalgic, though they of course offer strange horrors of their own - but of a much more physical, immediate level.

The Electric State is different. It takes place in an alternate 90s US even more drowned in consumerism and blind greed than our own. A civilization that is crumbling, not from nuclear war or global crises or meteors, but by its own hand, by capitalism driving itself into the ground. The perfect pleasure machine, the neurocaster headset, leaves people twitching, comatose creatures whose minds lie in vast Silicon Valley servers as their bodies are left to starve.

Michelle does not have the privilege of escapism. She is one of the few left to wander a silent world, an apocalypse without people to see it. She is privy to the horror of watching the inevitable trajectory of a world falling to its death, and feels only recognition that it's probably better this way.

Michelle is never sad about the end of America. She doesn't ever reminisce about how good things used to be, or how we should have "appreciated it while we had it." But she certainly does reminisce.

She has the memory of her foster parents, who derided the government "coddling neurine addicts" like Michelle's mother. She has the memory of her grandfather coughing himself to death in their tiny apartment, irradiated from his lifetime of underpaid work assembling gigantic war drones. She has the memory of her mother overdosing on a drug the government hooked her on during her service in the military. She has the memory of her first and only love, a love which the world hated, how it kept her alive in her foster home of Soest City, and how it was ripped from her by the pastor.

Unlike Stalenhag's other stories, there is no element of nostalgia or quiet undertone of hope. Only disgust for what came before, and quiet fear for what comes next.

The horror of the Convergence, the eldritch machine god hivemind, is not even very relevant to the story - if anything, it's a side plot. When Michelle faces actual danger, it's never from giant robot gods in the mist; it's from cops and hotel clerks, from doomsdayers hoarding guns and a FBI agent hunting her down. She lives in fear of other people, of people who say they want to protect her.

But when she sees the gigantic silent machines wandering through the mists of Oregon, she isn't afraid. It's almost peaceful. The Convergence is beyond understanding. It grew out of the servers where millions of minds seeking oblivion from the world went to escape, and they converged into something unknowably vast who wanders the world in a hundred million thoughtless bodies. It's otherworldly. It does not fear, it does not dream, it does not hope, it does not hate. Maybe that's better.

I was scared. But I also felt something else when that thing stepped out of the mist in front of our car. I can't think of a better word than awe. Like when you suddenly become aware that you've walked into the wrong part of the woods and come face-to-face with a gigantic wild animal. Beyond the grotesque, there was also something else - something majestic.

And in its wake, the citizens of Point Linden, hundreds of people linked together, their neurocasters connected to the oily god in the mist, floated across the ground in front of the car, and they looked almost happy. Calm and peaceful, they moved past the car and formed a single group again behind us, and soon disappeared into the mist again.

Is someone gonna take one for the team and leak Scott Cawthons political donations again

I’m gonna be blunt. We really should be boycotting fnaf.

Scott Cawthon donated to Trump. If you’ve been online since results have been called, you know people are panicking because he’s getting a second term.

as far as I know, he has never owned up to it and tried to do better by his non-white, non-queer fans. He is still making money off the games, the toys, the books, the movie, anything FNAF related.

And we know at least some of that money went into Trump’s pockets.

The fact FNAF isn’t being boycotted like Harry Potter is baffling. We need to do better. Especially if he actually has won the presidency.

i saw someone talk about this new movie trailer the electric state, comparing it negatively to the book. i watched the trailer n then read the book, n yeah wtf. the book is this quiet introspective story about a lonely girl travelling thru this half-collapsed society, where u have to figure out from context cues what happened to make the world like this. the movie trailer is a grey-brown cgi slopfest with robot fights, marvel quips and fucking chris pratt as a character not in the book at all. who wants this. they took actual art n turned it into garbage

learned about the electric state movie. is this how Minecraft fans felt when that trailer released

Leon: The Professional (1994) is a fine film (not a great one), until you learn it's based on writer and director Luc Besson's real life relationship between himself and Maïwenn Le Besco, when he was 32 and she was 15.

It gets even worse when you learn that they only dated when she was 15 because it was the legal age in the country they were in. He met her when she was 12. Besson also has other allegations against him regarding a former assistant.

There are so many nonces in cinema it actually kills it for me.

Luc Besson is directing a new Dracula adaptation? Where have I heard that name before???

Oh, what the fuck

And then from the same article:

Absolute creep. I'm not touching anything he does.

I bet Scott Cawthon is real happy now that his main audience is under threat.

Queer fans of the series who continued/will continue to give him money better not be complaining about how things went over in the USA. You obviously know where your principles stand.

The USA just revealed that they have a lot of suckers.

Would a porn ban in AO3 affect other countries too? Or will AO3 just block explicit works in the USA but let the rest of the world see them?

hey everyone! back up your works on ao3, because project 2025 is probably going into effect. porn will be illegal.

BACK IT UP OFFLINE. the cloud will not save you here.

also, make sure you're current on your vaccines. and that all your ID and documents are up to date. Renew that passport.

because the fda, cdc, and state department are about to go to hell, too.

how are we even in this position again? insanity. pure insanity. but protect yourself, and be ready to protect your vulnerable loved ones. shit is about to get real bad.

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dont make me tap the sign

flat earth is compelling to me, because their whole selling point is that reality is EXACTLY as you see it. just use your eyes bro, you're not moving, there's no curve. but then you look inside and its just endless batshit attempts to explain away basic observations.

BOO

Reblog to scare an inanimate insanity fan

Simon's name doesn't even show up in the trailer 😭

It's so over...

Sigh. Is nothing sacred.

Tales from the Loop was amazing but this is the kind of thing that I don't think lends itself to a film adaptation. Especially not with Crisp Rat, especially especially not one with Crisp Rat directed by the Russos. Tonal change from the book is inevitable I fear.

Crisp Rat infesting another mid looking film, no big surprise there.

Chris Pratt's inclusion in the Electric State movie isn't the sole reason I don't think it looks very good, but it certainly isn't helping either.

I am grieving the state of the film rn 😭

It looks so shit.

heres the thing if you know nothing abt the source material i can get thinking the netflix electric state trailer looks interesting bordering on good. but even just 2 seconds looking at stalenhag's art and that all falls away

Also, I don't think I've played a group of games that fit together as amazingly as the Remedy games? Like, they're different series, but they mesh so well. Not even games in the same series, like Resident Evil or Silent Hill, fit as tightly or nicely as the games in the Remedy universe do

Look how they massacred my boy.

ALSO THEY DIDN'T CREDIT SIMON STALENHAG IN THE TRAILER.

Sigh. Is nothing sacred.

Tales from the Loop was amazing but this is the kind of thing that I don't think lends itself to a film adaptation. Especially not with Crisp Rat, especially especially not one with Crisp Rat directed by the Russos. Tonal change from the book is inevitable I fear.

Haha what the fuck do you mean that allegedly the Philippine government's no longer recognizing medicated ADHD people as a "Person with Disability" and are now barring them from getting disability cards what the fuck

English translation under the image

Original Tweet: Apparently medicated people with ADHD are allegedly no longer allowed to get PWD (Persons with Disability) cards especially since they can cope. Is it really like that it's like if you said "you don't really have diabetes because you have insulin" Reddit Screenshot: i went to the pdao (Persons with Disability Affairs Office) then i gave them my medical certificate. then the staff asked if i can cope [with my ADHD]. i wasn't able to answer quickly then they said that medicated people with adhd who can cope weren't entitled to pwd cards. that's apparently the new rule when applying for pwd cards. i wasn't able to answer anything because what else could i do, right. after that they said to still ask the doctor, it's a good thing the doctor allowed it and the staff even told me that "you're not really entitled to it but we'll allow it for now." i said thank you even passive-aggressively hahahah but in my opinion even if you're medicated, you should still be entitled to get a card. because adhd medication still has a shortage. and symptoms of depression would start manifesting when you don't have medication. it's like they're downplaying the hardships of people with adhd

Like this is just straight up appalling. and to have the GOVERNMENT [allegedly] be the ones doing this kind of shit is disgusting. They're basically saying that if you have medication, that means you don't have the condition anymore which is absurd. It also makes me fear that a lot of people with ADHD who may want to at least try if they could perform better with medication would refuse to take them specifically because they might lose their government benefits. This is disgusting.

A lawyer's advice regarding this issue:

Please keep this in mind and don't let them trample on your rights!

mouthwashing post. jimmy is a raging narcissist and im tired of people trying to give him benefit of the doubt. his inability to see two feet beyond what immediately concerns him dooms everyone on the tulpar, and even in the end, he only really cares about himself.

big list of all his narcisstic bullshit below bc im here to motherfucking prove it (mouthwashing spoilers of course)

most obviously: everything is a personal attack on him. EVERYTHING. you can see it most clearly at the birthday party; while everyone else is understandably freaking out about being laid off, jimmy starts telling curly off and insulting both him and everyone else at the table, as if being laid off is a personal attack on jimmy specifically. it doesn’t matter that anya has nothing to go back to, that swansea’s life is thrown away- jimmy is the ONLY victim here, apparently. curly is personally responsible for getting laid off, in his eyes.

i don’t actually know the words for this but the way he’s constantly going “i have to do EVERYTHING around here”- again, feeling like its a personal attack to be asked anything at all. anya asks him to take care of curly because her entire fucking life is falling apart, its her end of days, but somehow shes the villain for struggling.

also the general antagonization of anya. she’s extremely competent for the hand she was dealt! shes too poor to attend med school yet shes very knoqledgable in medication and wound care! and yeah no shit shes struggling now, someone she cared deeply about is suffering immensely and now the ship is being “run” by a man who assaulted her. no fucking shit shes breaking down. but jimmy makes it clear time and time again that this is somehow her fault, all this shit of “shouldn’t nurses EARN their titles?” while she’s having a mental breakdown.

similarly, swansea being villainized for holding the cryopod for daisuke and killing him. like, i get it, but jimmy’s whole thing of saying he can fix daisuke is… c’mon man. he’s a hero to himself, he “always” fixes things the same way he “fixed” the ship, and he will fix daisuke and claim heroism even though it’s very clear nothing else can be done for him.

“someday you’ll thank me” while forcing curly to eat his own leg. the incredible confidence that he is in the right even when literally torturing someone.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: the final scene with curly burning. jimmy doesn’t earnestly believe he has anything to be sorry for. even when apologizing to curly he says “we can BOTH be heroes!” despite everything, he still thinks he’s in the right. he STILL thinks he’s a hero, because he’s right, he’s ALWAYS right, surely. he can apologize and grovel all he wants but in the end he still thinks he’s the hero of this story; he doesn’t genuinely think he has anything to right, he’s only doing this to be freed of consequence. and/or believes a simple “sorry” is enough, that it can fix completely ruining the lives of four people with his own inferiority complex.

i do think the choice to put curly in the pod instead of himself is the only time he recognizes his own guilt, if any. maybe it’s realizing that he DOES need something more than a simple “sorry” to even begin to try to fix things, maybe it’s that he thinks this will cement him even further as a hero. even then, does this fix anything? all it’s doing is making curly suffer more. is this actually a good thing?

to him, he’s the hero here. he always is. crashing the ship is a heroic thing, putting all his crewmates through hell is a heroic thing. all because something nobody can control is somehow a personal attack on jimmy.

not to mention all the “hallucinations” he has- it’s what he thinks should happen, it’s what he wants to hear. curly still calling him a friend, the dead corpses of his crewmates praising him, even in the final cutscene with curly burning where he says “no, YOU take the pod”. none of it’s real. it’s just what jimmy thinks is “right”. despite everything, he thinks everyone should thank and praise him, because he can do no wrong.

conclusion: jimmy is a narcisstic piece of shit.

I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JIMMY I HATE JI

BASED???? Holy cow, I didn't realize CM Koseman was a bigger G than I thought.

“Man I hated Harry Potter even before JK Rowling showed herself to be what she is. The entirety of the Harry Potter franchise was about conformity and it was about the destruction of the outcast and there’s something just so gimmicky and like it’s one of those hidden evils that society will realize was totally evil like 500 years in the future or something.” -CM Kosemen

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