GUESS WHO'S CATCHING UP
IT'S ME
Spoilers... kinda? 8 episodes behind?
Anyway I adore Aabria and Christian with all my heart, y'all bring such glorious chaos to the table ♥
HAVE SOME DOODLES OF THE BEBES
I for one, will never forget the name Stockton Rush, or his irresponsible company and idea OceanGate, and OceanGate Expeditions. The amount of money that was sunk into very little research, planning, and safety protocols nearly makes my own mind implode. Just because they’re eliminating evidence that the company ever existed on the internet does not mean we should stop talking about all the other INFINITE possibilities that this money could have went towards….
For instance, a paper-mâché skyscraper to conduct important business in, a motorcycle made entirely of tin foil so the driver and can lift it up and down with ease, or maybe even a pedestrian bridge composed of just a thin layer of canvas so the people can paint on it if they so please. So many good, solid ideas out there… wasted.
it's probably not a surprise to anyone but someone made that stupid fucking submarine in the game Barotrauma:
now you, too, can join 4 of your rich idiot friends and suffocate at the bottom of the ocean
***the disclaimer at the bottom is supposedly a real thing in their waiver for the submarine itself
There are several other mods for the same thing too:
imagine suffering a cold miserable death by yet another failed sea vessel next to the Titanic, and people are making memes and fucking modding your shitty design into a videogame lmao
Signalis OC posting: Sterntaucher
Two birbs diving together~
Look. I have literally no horse in this race when it comes to the WGA/SAG Hollywood strike. I do not watch enough TV or movies to be affected and I’m not a part of the industry. I really haven’t cared.
As a lawyer and orchardist, however, I am now utterly entranced by the fact that some Universal Studios exec thought it was a good idea to cut down city-owned trees in the middle of summer.
There is no way to get around the absolute clusterfuck they have brought down upon themselves.
as an ace attoney fan saul goodman drives me absolutely insane because like. this man is an ace attoney character. a main ace attorney character.
his name is a play on words. he does all his own investigations. he's a funny silly jokes man who makes things hell for the opposition. he has over the top mannerisms. him and kim take turns being each other's weird little girls. he has an emotionally devastating backstory
by every conceivable metric this guy is like. the guy who bothers you and obstructs your investigations for the whole game before becoming the defendant in the final case.
and yet somehow, instead of ending up in the ace attorney universe, where his shenanigans would be rewarded and he'd learn about the power of friendship, he ends up in like? an actual serious crime drama? where he is constantly under threat of arrest or disbarment for his shenanigans. like rip man you would've loved cross examining the witness' pet parrot
me after blowing up a senate member cuz he said he's gonna tax the rich.
its an in game mission actually
The mythology of Cruelty Squad fascinates me. You have many instances of threes. Three triagons (three agonies?) who are each described in three dialogue popups. Three stages of infection: inception, spread, and endemic. Three stages of metabolism: feeding, digestion, and absorption/domination. Three transactions: the requirement of value for greatness, obtaining souls through self-valuation, and conflict and discord emerging in the wake of a world of transactional and capitalist power. Three endings. Three boons: power, metabolism, and financial independence.
Four sub-archons: HR, Technology, Security, and Finance. The textures proclaiming five core values: POWER, STRENGTH, PURITY, VIRTUE, HAPPINESS, PUNISHMENT, with PUNISHMENT in particular being associated with divinity. Abraxas, the Archon who holds dominion over the Archon Grid (the grid of death?); who resembles a flower, which in-game are considered alien life forms—possibly tying back into the first triagon, who perched upon the world taking its share with vascular arms—leaves?—and is the boss of the first ending. Yet the second ending is also obtained from defeating a representative of LIFE. You remove your own LIFE, becoming a creature of DEATH, and obtaining TRANSACTIONAL DOMINATION.
I think one of the reasons why tree law is so popular and people are so enthusiastic about it is because a big, old tree being killed feels so awful. You've got something that took years or decades to get that big, that provides so many benefits, and then it's just...gone and irreplaceable. Of course people are like oh boy, you didn't think that thing was valuable and now the law is gonna come for you and you're gonna regret it.
And it feels like one of the few cases where the rich (not the mega rich, but the regular rich) actually get held to account for their crimes, because the punishment is designed to match the actual damage they do. You cut down a bunch of your neighbor's trees to make your property more valuable? The punishment is basically the cost of your property.
Painted this Dracthuhlu sculpted by Loot Studios for a Secret Santa present.
man the site that used to be full of people horny for the onceler now getting really hyped about tree law is some serious poetic irony