There's been a poll bracket going on YouTube for a while now about who's the coolest Pokemon Gym Leader and the 2 finalists make sense but put together are fucking hilarious
Yakuza boss vs Greg from Sprint Mobile who will win
Highlights of Genshin Impact Update 4.0 (Very Serious)
1. Paimon's little moustache and glasses combo
2. Childe getting jailed for something he didn't do. Like! My man just arrived. He's definitely done So Many Crimes but he didn't do this one and that's hilarious
3. Neuvillette's giving off sort of awkward older cousin vibes, like the one that brings a book to weddings and eats the same obscure meal every day because its comforting and does a little finger wave whenever he sees someone and I love that because he also handed Childe his ass and manages Focalors like its nothing
4. Garlic Baguette recipe
5. Swimming is not actually Hell On Earth like every other swimming level in every other game I've played
6. The Aquabus Tour Guide either being apathetic or anxious as fuck fits with every sort of public transport role I've ever met in my life
7. Garlic Baguette Recipe
The Traveler being around is probably good for Furina. In Marcel's trial, we see Melus and Silver speculate on why Furina's suddenly taking everything way more seriously--and they think it's either because the Traveler humiliated her, or because she's so embarrassed and horrified by pressing charges against an innocent.
In a way, I feel like the people of Fontaine kinda encourage Furina to act as she does--spoiled and immature, dumping responsibility on Neuvilette and the Oratrice. But she also encourages them to not question the justice system, by struggling so hard to put on a show and save face. It's something of a vicious cycle. The people treat her as a celebrity and only really expect her to amuse and reassure them, not actually DO anything. So she's encouraged to act like a bratty and spoiled child. But the Traveler being around is someone who's NOT impressed or amused by her--and, even better, they're someone she really, really does WANT to impress, who she greatly respects. The Traveler will treat Furina as a person and an Archon, and force her to take responsibility for her people and actions. 'Cause like, she sucks at her job and needs to either take responsibility or find a way to retire like Zhongli. But also I feel like she's probably kinda lonely.
Like. Venti and Zhongli are highly respected and beloved by their people, and are the most proactive and responsible with their roles, at least in the present day. They're also the most oldest of the Archons, so they are the most experienced. It makes sense.
Ei, Nahida, and Furina, though, all seem to be foils of each other to varying extents. While Zhongli and Venti rule their country from behind the scenes, the three younger Archons initially appear to be in positions of power and authority...but aren't really.
Ei has a great deal of power and authority, and is feared or respected by most of her people. But due to her grief over the losses of Makoto and her generals, she has given up responsibility and stopped caring what her people want. She orders Visions be collected and does the war against the Resistance, but she's not really...present, letting the Raiden Shogun and the Tenryou commission run things. She knows the Fatui are in Inazuma apparently, but doesn't seem to care. Only when the Traveler and Yae Miko beat/talk sense into her does she really start to act like a leader and try fixing her mistakes. Up until that point, Ei has been isolating herself.
On the other hand, the Akademiya were grieving Rukkhadevata so much that they forcibly rejected, isolated, and imprisoned Nahida. She did her best to interact with her people and help them when she could, but she wasn't really allowed to rule, and lacked the power and authority she needed to properly lead Sumeru. Largely, Nahida only needed more confidence, and to be believed in--she was already much more mature than Ei or Furina were.
Ei is treated as an Archon, but lacks the maturity of one. Nahida had maturity and a sense of responsibility, but people didn't treat her as an Archon until Rukkhadevata was erased from memory. Furina inherits the worst of both Ei and Nahida's positions and personalities. She lacks the maturity of an Archon, but also no one actually treats her as one. When the Oratrice malfunctions people turn to her for reassurances...but really, the Oratrice seems like way more of a God to them than she ever was. It's not Furina who is the final authority in the Court, it's the Oratrice.
Honestly, Furina might be what would've happened had Nahida lacked the maturity and wisdom she had, and been completely replaced by the Shouki no Kami. Aside from the lochfolk and the Pari, people in Fontaine don't grieve the Lord of Amrita like Rukkhadevata was grieved, but the people replaced their Archon with a machine that tells them comforting lies about how easy and straightforward Justice is, and their Archon helped them do so.
I feel like Furina must be a lonely individual, since she's dismissed by most in her country, and even other Archons likely find her unpleasant, annoying, or immature. She has some growing to do, too, but I hope that by not being impressed by her at all, and instead being blatantly annoyed by her, the Traveler can reach those parts of her.
Caesar was a punk. If it had been me, I woulda seen those assassins coming a mile away. I woulda been like BAM! and knocked the knife outta Cassius's hand with karate. That's what I woulda done.
amateur hour. I would have convinced the assassins to love me and wish me well instead of yearning for my death. I'd do it with my gentle heart and forgiving nature and good ideas and it'd work every time, if it was me instead of Caesar
I woulda learned Kung Fu. I woulda killed them with ki blasts.
Nun chunks, etc.
i worry that someday, furina might actually try and sue venti. Not because venti could be stronger than her, and i'm certainly not worried about venti.
I worry because venti is a bard and bards are known to talk well. Not only will he talk himself out of all charges, he will probably somehow push them all onto furina and the fontaine justice system will need months to figure out what the fuck just happened.
And chief justice neuvillette will not speed up the process. Let the hydro archon learn her lesson as she spends like two months in jail.
Imagine the uproar. The hydro archon, god of justice, in jail. Venti would visit her daily.
Ngl, I was a little disappointed that Kokomi couldn't do the swim jump thing but still my new favourite thing in this game
what i thought furina was going to be like: serious, cold, apathetic, borderline emotionless, harsh
what furina is actually like: girlfail prosecutor
the key to understanding kermit is that line from the original muppet series where lesley anne warren is like "i thought you were the only person here who wasn't crazy" and kermits like "me not crazy? i hired the others" that guy loves chaos. he loves crazy shit, and he loves being the guy who has to handle the crazy shit. he deliberately creates these circumstances! he puts himself in these positions! and then he's like "i cant believe youre making me do this." anyway that frog is more human than any of us
classic behaviour for the manager of a community theatre company.
There's something so UNBEARABLY funny about some 40 yo billionaire being archrivals with a kid. Vlad could so easily just pat Danny on the head, be like "oh yes, of course we're enemies, Daniel. Yes, yes, you've stopped my evil plot. Now run along home, it's past 9:00pm and you should be in bed" but no. He's just as invested as Danny and actively acknowledes that they are bitter rivals. And that's. Just. So funny. It's like if your little niece told you that no, you don't get to be the fairy princess, she's the fairy princess, and you WENT OFF. "That's not fair! You always get to be the fairy princess and until I get a turn, we are ENEMIES." Cracks me up every time.
PLEASE. The sheer number of you who assumed this was about Elon is sending me.
Must... contain... the silly...
Update: fine you can zoomie
[video description: a big orange cat sits inside a large metal pot on a kitchen counter looking around slightly confused and bewildered as two people off screen repeatedly point at him and say ‘little baby man’ over and over again overlapping with one another as they repeat the phrase /end description]
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Rating: Cute
This cat appears to be curious rather than stressed. The cat is probably in the pot for the same reason cats like being in boxes.
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Rating: Not Cute
You’re laughing. That cat is being shot by finger guns and you’re laughing.
Rating: Not Cute
Theyre fucking cooking him
tiny pogging ferret pictures, for you
*to the tune of the TMNT theme*
Tiny Pogging Ferret Pictures ♪