Well.

Another episode of longsuffering older sibling having to deal with annoying younger siblings messing up all their shit. These writers must be completely traumatised by the experience of having younger siblings. But at least these ones aren’t like Polly and actually express some remorse for destroying shit. Apparently making sure that your younger siblings don’t steal your extremely dangerous magic book to do some sort of plastic surgery on themselves is your responsibility as an older sister. That makes sense . But it’s NOT your responsibility to entertain them to keep them from idiotic behaviour. Imo. But I guess that just goes to show I’m a younger sibling.

The funny thing is that I would be Marcy in this scenario but somehow she’s my least favourite. She’s alright. But she’s not getting treated right by the narrative

So first temple is brain. And wisdom (Marcy)

Second temple is heart. I.e. selflessness (Anne)

Disobedient, foolish, impulsive

See? ANNE gets a whole temple episode dedicated to JUST her positive and negative qualities

Selfishness

Pronounced sense of justice

Incredible athletic ability

Lying, thieving

Learning from mistakes

Sacrificing for friends, strangers AND enemies

Empathy AND responsibility

Intelligence AND wisdom

I wonder what Sasha’s will be

Ahh. Impulsive Anne retained some of her power by not fully charging the stone.

Huh…Sasha gives jester toad an out… uncharacteristic….ah she goes back on her word

Sashas positive quality is sheer willpower.

Her vices are always prioritising what she wants and her plans over other people’s wellbeing

Willpower AND consideration…

Lift to enter brah LOL. I guess Sasha just proved that she could do that on sheer power of will. Now I need an amv to that classic for amphibia

How are they gonna charge the damn stone without Sasha. Really sad Sasha isn’t gonna get her trials…

It’s funny….I got it wrong apparently? Sashas first attribute is strength? Nah no way. The temple is just built to goad somebody like her

SASHA!!!!! SHES SO COOL!!! She went to look for Marcy and Anne ofc when she heard they were hanging out without her. Lol. While Marcy doesn’t ever give a fuck about that and Anne is upset about the breakup

They’re lying and leaving out the rebellion

Ok so apparently they switched tacks from season 1 and Sasha is now the strong one

So strength and teamwork?

Man… What the fuck. Sasha was NOT the physically strong one in season 1. They messed up the themes…

SASHA WAS WEARING SUPER HEAVY ARMOUR ALL ALONG AHHAHAHAHAHA

Strength and resistance… Ok…

‘ill get this friendship back under control’ what does that MEAN sasha. She probably doesn’t really know that herself

The way they handle this reconciliation is crazy lol. The conclusion is that Sasha needs to recognise that Anne’s changed? I don’t know if that follows from this episode dude. I mean…Sasha is concerned about being left out and being unimportant to Anne. Anne is concerned about her killing people she loves and her being controlling and bossy

Ok actually this battle of the bands episode is much more clear about the dynamic. Sasha always wanting it her way. Anne not wanting that anymore.

Too bad they never realised that King Andreas is evil.

Honestly like Sasha a lot and what she did wasn’t particularly bad but also understand Anne’s fury

'redesign the political system so this sort of uprising never happens again’? She only realises that now. I wonder whether Marcy is thinking of Democracy.

At least Sasha and Grime know he’s evil now. Too bad they’re breaking him out now

Hmmm Anne did Sasha’s move from season 1. It has no significance

'we were so focused on each other we couldn’t see what was right in front of us’

Actually, you should have listened to Sasha. That was the real lesson. Or 'on ourselves’ is the right term

ANNE GOES BACK HOME WITH HER PLANTER FAMILY??? WHAT??????

And Marcy died. And Sasha is still in Amphibia. Probably gonna lead a resistance. Oh my god.

Anne was willing to let Sasha stay in Amphibia forever tbh. Damn.

THEY ACTUALLY 'KILLED’ MARCY. INCREDIBLE

YESSSS MARCYS GONNA BE AN ANGSTY VAT EXPERIMENT

war-is-bad-girls:

When the two of you are alone, I want you to be a hot couple by @komapus

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Something else Nona got right. The self- evident value of a dog’s life is all that gets you through sometimes

homugabs:

prayer circle for our girl to become a tomato farmer soon

Why did Anne randomly blush at Marcy

Marcy has a very strange talent for getting taken advantage of by the local shitty ruler

Marcy studies anthropology but has no political mind - for stupid reasons (nerd archtype reasons). Anne is a jock so she has never even comprehended the concept of either systems or politics. And Sasha DOES have a political mind but unfortunately she has a dearth of empathy and uses her political mind for ‘winning’ in whatever way possible.

If only one could fuse Anne’s people focused approach to life and strength (in all senses of the word), Marcy’s curiosity and intelligence, and Sasha’s insight. You’d get a supersaiyan girl. If you then fused all their vices which comes down to their specific flavours of selfishness and going overboard… You’d get a girl who’s got no empathy for anyone she does not deem important to herself, manipulating and discarding people without remorse, who cannot recognise when she is being used for others purposes and who is hyperviolent and hedonistic while shrugging off any accountability for her actions.

Kinda love how we’ve gotten an episode in which we realise that Newtopia extracts taxes from farmers via toad overlords and if the toad fails they literally KILL the overlord via assassination. Then we get episodes with super-friendly-lovely-king whos completely innocent and wonderful and fun-loving…. Would love to see Sasha bust down Newtopia"s gates and dethrone that over there king

I LOVE BESSIE. But godDAMN, how cool is a goddamn SPARROW MOUNT.

Marcy’s whole deal makes me feel so irritated lol. But not this episode because I do love her nerding out

Is Polly finally gonna get some comeuppance for always being such a piece of shit to her siblings? Nope. She just learns to take responsibility for a robot which could have killed everyone. I wonder if this show was written by an older sibling. Lots of older siblings. Apparently their conclusion about the experience was: you must forgive your younger siblings for doing all sorts of horrible stuff to you because after all you’re the older kid. Ok. Seems like an awful childhood

Unfortunately the narrative insists on continuing to call burying the music box a betrayal. Dude. Why insist on such a ridiculous thing

STOP IT!! LET ME ENJOY THE FUCKING SHOW

Marcy didn’t even do what she said as reason to stay behind because uhhh she was gonna make weapons and grind and such but all she did was do some temple research

Marcy /Anne dynamic is also not particularly…. Fun

How to test the tile? Literally just tried it with a rock. Who is writing the stakes? Did an important writer/editor leave the writing room or something.

Are they really gonna whine on about burying the music box. Is it a euphemism or something? Has everybody forgotten he did that when they’d only just met? If I were hop hop I’d be like: ya Anne I don’t care about you duh. Let’s move on. I’m pissed on his behalf. He buried. The music box. Not. Threw it in a river. Had it crushed. He buried it. Not even in a deep mine far away. But on his literal property half a metre deep. For literal safekeeping. I need to just get through this …for Sasha

‘when push came to shove, you made a choice’ HED JUST MET YOU. YOU WERE A WEIRD CREATURE FROM ANOTHER WORLD. HES RISKED HIS LIFE AT LEAST TWENTY TIMES SINCE TO SAVE YOUR ACTUAL LIFE!!!!

If this episode had simply been about Marcy learning to not get caught up in her interests so much she endangers people she loves, then this episode would have been really good! Why doesn’t Marcy get the same focus as Sasha…. Just because Sasha has bigger faults doesn’t mean Marcy can’t get focus on hers…

That stone seems to have ABSORBED something in Marcy’s eyes….

But why would the temple be set up with tests for that

Mailfly message ….they keep eating flies ….but this fly ..is a respected part of civilised society…..yoiks lol

Weird how they’re making drama about hop hop lying about burying the box instead of having his contacts look at it. That doesn’t really matter… The problem is that it’s gone

Anne is made out to be a pretty big idiot. Why is she so upset about ONE mostly harmless lie? If the crabs hadnt got the box then there’d been no problem…makes her deeply unsympathetic. Especially because uh. They’re family.

It’s just an excuse to get the story on sprig and Polly’s parents.

IT WASNT FOOLISH TO BURY THE BOX OH MY GOD. He’s let everybody down or whatever….dramatic crying…..why…. The emotion in this completely insanely terribly written

Two weak episodes in a row…

‘i forgive you’ WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT AAAAA I need to delete this episode from my brain

homugabs:

meant to be

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Once again, weird message here. Ivy feels stifled, and her mother forces her to work in her business at somethin that SHE loves but Ivy doesn’t. And then the message is that origami, tablesetting, teasteeping and attention to detail translate perfectly to martial arts proficiency? But she never bothered to tell Ivy or teach her that? When she knew that Ivy is interested in martial arts? Whats the message gonna be here? That Ivy shouldn’t have been frustrated about her mother being a nitpicky perfectionist you-should-be-grateful parent who doesn’t (seem to) care one bit for ivy’s interests ? (Sprig, martial arts, adventure, travelling, bugcatching)

She never even told Ivy that she used to travel. When she knows Ivy wants to TRAVEL.

Like. What the fuck dude. I don’t think that just because it turned out she was secretly training her in martial arts that excuses any of her shitty parenting.

I know it’s a classic in Asian martial arts type ideas but like. Dude.

Moms like: you stupid 10 year old kid where do you think I got the tea and frog China from??? I never told you but you should have deduced.

‘its dangerous out there so be patient’. Which is a weird message when you consider Polly and Sprig have gotten almost eaten 10 times. I mean she’s right but also those two are still alive and love their adventures NOW.

Instant forgiveness for mom even though she never told Ivy she was training her or planning to go travelling with her and drove her crazy.

Sorry. This is the first episode that has TRULY made me go: WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR MESSAGING.

Ideas for non-combat encounters/events

dare-to-dm:

For when you want some variety for your tabletop RPG.  These events will also give your players a chance to use character skills they don’t often have opportunities for.

• Natural Disaster - Have the town the PCs are in catch on fire and see what they do!  Do they cut their losses and run?  Do they heroically try to save trapped townspeople?  What do they do about the aftermath?  Natural disasters are an interesting challenge because there can be lots of danger and drama without necessarily having a villain.  It may also get your PCs to use skills they don’t commonly have a chance to.  You could also try floods, earthquakes, raging storms while at sea, etc.
  
• Powerful Fortress - Put one of your party’s goals in a location where they won’t be able to prevail through combat alone (Example: a fortress where they are vastly outnumbered).  Your players will have to rely on either stealth or guile (or both) to accomplish their goal.  The pacing of such events can be frustrating to some players, but few sessions are as rewarding as a creatively executed heist or infiltration.
  
• Dangerous Crossing - Give them a dangerous physical obstacle to overcome.  A canyon, or a raging river, or quicksand or an old battleground littered with traps and mines.
  
• Festival - Have the PCs encounter a festival or tournament!  With lots of contests! This could be a good opportunity for them to build their fame and fortune (especially if you allow gambling).  Some of my favorite sessions have involved festivals.
  
• Entertainment - Put the PCs in a situation where they have to entertain someone.  What do they come up with?
  
• Letter - Have one of the PCs receive a letter, either from an NPC they’ve dealt with before or from someone involved with their backstory.  This is a good way to make the consequences of their actions seem more real.  You can also use it to introduce new plotlines/sidequests.
  
• Crafting Challenge - Put the PCs in a situation where they need to craft something in order to accomplish their goal.  Maybe they need to make something in order to fix a mechanism?  Or in order to satisfy some local gift-giving custom?  Or they need a forgery?  Maybe as part of an exchange for something else they need?
  
• Lost and Found - Have your PCs discover someone or something that is clearly lost.  Maybe they find an infant in the wilderness.  Or a key with a strange inscription, or some kind of talisman.  Throw in a clue or two to present your players with a tantalizing mystery.  
  
• Inhospitable Wilderness - Have the PCs go somewhere it’s an effort just to survive.  A barren desert, a treacherous swamp with poison gasses, a forest so dense the ground never sees the sun, or even the bottom of the ocean.  Test their endurance and survival skills!
  
• Dinner Party - Have the PCs be summoned to a formal event!  Test them on the battlegrounds of social grace and etiquette!  Even better if it’s in a dangerous environment or an alien culture.
  
• Thief - Have something important stolen from the PCs.  See how they handle it.
  
• Needle in a Haystack - Give the PCs something very difficult to find.  Like a single specific housecat in a sprawling metropolis, or a legendary weapon of which there are many fakes/copies.  
  

Really, if you need any more inspiration, look at your player’s character sheets and see if they’ve invested any points in a skill they haven’t gotten to use much.  Then invent a challenge they could feasibly use that skill for.  If you can’t think of a situation that could be helped by an Appraise, Craft: Calligraphy or Handle Animal check, you need to practice your own creative problem solving skills!

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The Very Basics of Not Killing Your Computer

ms-demeanor:

• AVOID HEAT STRESS

If you have a laptop DO NOT use it on a soft surface like a pillow or on a blanket, it’ll block the vents on your computer and make it get really fucking hot inside.

If you have a desktop you gotta open it up and blow out the dust sometimes.

If you are moving your laptop in a bag turn the laptop off. Don’t put it to sleep, don’t just shut the screen, turn it off, because otherwise it’s in the bag generating heat and there’s nowhere for the heat to go in the bag. OFF. Not sleep. OFF.

• DO NOT DROP

Okay I know that should be obvious but drop damage to your hard drive is bad bad news. Be as careful as you can to set your computer gently on flat surfaces; don’t leave it hanging out on a bed where it can get knocked off, don’t set it on the roof of your car. And yes, just dropping it a couple inches can kill your hard drive or totally shatter your screen.

• DON’T PUT SHIT ON YOUR KEYBOARD

Look I’ve seen four people ruin their laptops because they had a pen on the keyboard and closed the laptop and it fucked up the screen and the keyboard and it sucks so much and you feel awful after it happens because it’s so avoidable just don’t put things on your keyboard and always check that your laptop is clear before you close it.

• PROTECT YOUR PORTS ON YOUR LAPTOP
  

You’ve only got one power jack and a limited number of other inputs on your computer and if they detach from the motherboard you’re fucked. USB ports get damaged because people use them a lot and eventually it weakens the connection and then they just stop working and it sucks. You can get around this with USB ports by using a USB hub to connect things like your keyboard and mouse.

For your power plug you just gotta be careful. Avoid tripping over the cord at all costs, don’t yank the plug out of the computer. It will SUCK VERY MUCH A LOT if you have to buy a new computer because the power port lost contact with the motherboard.

Don’t move your computer with things plugged into it. Take the power cord off before you put your laptop in the bag, take out the USB mouse dongle, do not travel with little nubby bits sticking out of your computer that can easily get caught or get tweaked or snap off inside of the thing.

(I really can’t emphasize enough that most of the “it will cost more than it’s worth to fix this” laptops I see are because of USB ports and power jacks. People don’t seem to know that this isn’t something that can be fixed easily; a broken power jack is a “remove the motherboard and resoldier components” job, not a “plug a new one in in fifteen minutes” job and most computer repair shops aren’t going to solder things for you and if they DO it’s going to be very expensive)

• RESTART YOUR SHIT AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AND JUST LET THE FUCKING UPDATES RUN

You should probably restart more than once a month but whatever. This is actually something that I consider part of reducing heat stress because when your processor is straining to keep up with all the background bullshit that’s running from a program you opened three weeks ago it’s going to use up resources and get hot and look just restart it once in a while.

Also the updates are almost always okay and safe and generally running updates is a good and secure thing to do (though maybe follow a blog dedicated to the OS you run because if there IS a problem with the updates that blog will probably talk about it before the update gets forced on your computer)

• ANTIVIRUS BULLSHIT

Yes you should probably be running an antivirus.

Sophos is free and it’s fine. But don’t pay for it - if you’re using Sophos use the free version.

If you’re looking for something paid and a little more comprehensive I recommend ESET - get the cheap version, renewals cost less than the initial purchase, and feel free to get a multi-year version, the credentials follow your email not the computer so if your computer dies before your license expires you can install the license on a new computer.

DO NOT INSTALL NORTON OR MCAFEE THEY ARE EXPENSIVE BULLSHIT. Kaspersky is whatever. It’s less bullshit than Norton or McAfee but not as good as ESET for about the same cost.

If you think you’ve got a virus run the free version of Malwarebytes and get your shit cleaned.

• KEEP LIQUIDS THE FUCK AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER

Again this should be obvious and yet. But seriously, just make a rule for yourself that drinks aren’t allowed on the same table as your computer and you’ll save yourself a lot of headaches.

• PLUG YOUR COMPUTER INTO A UPS

Okay I fucking hate amazon but here’s a thing you should be using, just search the rest of the internet for “surge protector/UPS” and you’ll find something that isn’t from amazon - APC is a solid brand for this.

Basically you want a fat surge protector that has a little bit of a battery backup and you want to plug your computer (desktop OR laptop) into that instead of into the wall. The benefit of this is twofold:

1) if there’s a power surge the UPS will prevent your computer’s power supply from getting fried and possibly frying parts of your motherboard

2) if there’s a power outage and you’re *at* your computer you’ll have enough time to save what you’re working on before your computer loses power (like, you’ll maybe only have a minute or two on a small UPS but that’s still time to hit CTRL+S and keep from losing work)

At a bare, bare minimum your computer should be plugged into a surge protector but NOT directly into the wall.

• BACK YOUR SHIT UP

[we interrupt this yelling for me to tell you that Western Digital has apparently released their new My Passport line and I’m obligated to inform you that you can get a 2.5″ USB 3.0 backup drive with FIVE FUCKING TERABYTES OF STORAGE for $130. Or you can get 4TB for $93. Or you can get 1TB for $53. basically what I’m saying is that it is not only cheap computer season it is also cheap hard drive season.]

[also if you’re getting a backup drive get western digital not seagate seagate fucking sucks and has a much higher failure rate]

Uh, okay, anyway - Do an image backup of your computer every once in a while so that if you get infected or your hard drive dies or whatever you can just restore from backup and move on like nothing happened.

HERE’S HOW TO DO AN IMAGE BACKUP.

• SAVE YOURSELF THE WEAR AND TEAR

You know what is cheap? USB Keyboards and USB mice. You know what is not cheap? Fixing the touchpad on a laptop or replacing a laptop keyboard.

Get yourself a USB hub, a USB Keyboard and a USB Mouse (wired or wireless, doesn’t matter) and if you’re using your laptop at home plug *that* into your computer.

Also if your keyboard on your laptop breaks it’s fine just to use a USB keyboard instead I promise; if the screen breaks it’s also usually cheaper and easier to get a used or inexpensive monitor than it is to replace the screen. Your laptop is basically just a very small version of whatever bullshit is going on inside a desktop, if the peripherals break but the core components are fine you can just use it like a desktop.

Unless it’s a piece of shit that doesn’t have any USB ports or video out in which case you got ripped off, friend, demand functionality in your devices I’m sorry.

/rant

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anarcho-skamunist:

anarcho-skamunist:

anarcho-skamunist:

I’m so so sick of open world games

Every time a series makes the switch to being open world it’s like. Okay that’s just what you’re gonna have to be from now on huh. Like the Open World is held on such a high pedestal that once you’ve made the switch you’re never going to be allowed to make anything else. Everything just has to homogenize into this one specific gameplay loop of walking the fuck around an open space.

Evil version of myself with bad taste playing an older game with a smaller but more detailed and refined map that acts as its own elaborate puzzle and story telling device and is satisfying to progress through: “I sure do wish I had the player freedom to walk through a field aimlessly so I could find one of six types of collectibles right about now”

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Marcy is very cute. Almost TOO cute.

Sometimes I’m surprised at the messaging in this show a little bit. Like: don’t tell shitty little kids not to cut in line. Or: don’t get upset when your crazy little sister barges in and messes up essentials like driving and food supply. Even when she doesn’t show ANY understanding or remorse about messing those things up.

First time Anne seems to really have mentioned her mother more than in passing.

Wow. These kids truly can be INSUFFERABLE

Incredible. They’re still going: Hmm what would Sasha do? And do it. Sjdjkjfkdjdjg

How and why did Master Marcy get to stay INSIDE the castle. She also kinda got adopted huh

LITERALLY ‘would Sasha do this?’ yeah. So I guess us too. (????)

YOURE SUPPOSED TO UNLEARN SASHA’S PUSHY MANIPULATIVE SHIT

Actually those creatures didn’t seem particularly aggressive OR stopped by mirrors.

THEY STILL DONT GET THAT THEM ALWAYS HAVING TO WRITE THEIR NAMES IN THE BOOK OF LOSERS AND NEVER SASHA WAS NOT A FUNCTION OF SASHA’S BRAVERY BUT OF HER BULLYING

The King is evil as fuck. He really gave a great fuckin performance but damn, 'my ancestors were peaceful explorers who used this artefact to 'visit’ other worlds’. Yeah you are king for a fucking reason. IMPERIAL ARISTOCRAT EXPANSIONISM and you wanna get conquering on other worlds!

In the book, amphibia is centre of five other worlds. Only Earth is not connected.

Marcy is quite….emotionally persuasive here. Hmmmm. What the fuck. Why would Anne need Marcy’s permission to go with the Planters. She still is such a pushover lol. Even Marcy can do it by being a little too reasonable

I am wondering about how much Marcy really knows about the King…

How the fuck is Sprig/Ivy the cutest ship I have EVER seen

There are so many clever little adult jokes in this

Weird how in stories we just accept the reality of death. Sprig never knew his mother because she died..oh well. Sad. But we go: oh well. It’s not like that in real life.

The animation in this is actually brilliant. Also the fwagons 3d ish animation.

'ill do it for sprivy. No way I’m letting that ship sink’ love the nerd meta in this show. Also in marcy

BUT ANNES RIGHT THOUGH THE WAY IVY KEEPS KISSING SPRIG ON THE CHEEK IS SO DAMN ! CUTE!!!

So weird to be ex classmates with and acquaintances with somebody who keeps showing up on my dash.

molenaide:

Stay by my side, forever

who know all it’d take to get me into gundam was lesbians

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