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So she’s essentially just spellcarving like Falst does but with lightning

Heyy, sorry if I'm missing something very obvious but I don't fully understand what Tess is doing on page 4.18. Is she carving a stone spell into the ceiling with her lightning to get VoidErin to fall to the ground? Because in that case I thought she'd have to use a stone lacrima. Or is she just carving a lightning spell and using it to magnetize Erin to the ground, and the sound effect's color being a blend of lightning and stone is because both magics are at play simultaneously?

The breakdown is as follows:

Step 1: Shape lightning into runes for a Sealing spell.

Step 2: shoot that shit at the ceiling

Void Dragon has already started releasing his hold on Erin at this point, convinced by Tess's argument that he needs her to stop Erin's uncontrolled magic and she won't do it if he doesn't bail. The magic isn't knocking Erin over, he's falling because the Dragon isn't holding him up anymore.

Step 3: Spell brands itself into the rock. No stone magic is required for this, although it would have made things easier for Tess - she's essentially using the lightning to break the rock in extremely precise patterns to spell the runes.

Sealing spells repel all forms of elemental energy, so this breaks the loop on Erin's uncontrolled channeling.

I know writers who take the time to edit their rants before publishing them, and they're all cowards. Fresh off the print, here's my longform view on some of the major takeaways from this presidential election

Medium

5 Theses on the 2024 Presidential Election

So, what happened?

Shortened, my argument is:

Inflation is the primary explanation for Trump's victory

Joe Biden's initial insistence on running is also important

Third party and write-in voters did not decide this election

The Democrats should stop taking voters of color for granted

"Never Trump Republicans" are not a real voting bloc

I have no clue how else to possibly get this message to you, but a channel named Endemion used a clip of your Kaiju video in one of their recent videos and tried to spin a narrative that you were a woke activist who was trying to dig into things too deep to claim that everything was racist when you said that King Kong was very likely an allegory for racist undertones because the film you were talking about was a movie made back in the 1930s. I just don't want a bunch of people to come try to slander your channel

I was just messaging to try to get this message to you, you can delete it if you ever read it

Not sure what you would do with this info, I'm just trying to give you a heads up because I enjoy your videos thoroughly and I don't want somebody bad-mouthing you and siccing their fanbase on you because they found a clip online or took a clip from you and purposefully left out context, and don't care about contacts and just want to use it to further their narratives that everything is ruined because of "those dang woke morons"

Sorry if I made a step too far by contacting you

I appreciate the concern, but there's a number of reasons this doesn't worry me, foremost among them anyone who thinks "woke" is an insult or a dealbreaker is someone who wouldn't last long in our audience who I want nothing to do with anyway. And on the flipside, if someone is so fragile that a cold take about a movie made in the 1930s that everyone from contemporary viewers to Quentin Tarantino thought was allegorically sus is enough to make them flip their lid and park me in their brain rent-free, they'll want nothing to do with me either.

The concern is appreciated, but the fact is I accepted years ago that some people will never like me or what I do, and if they can't manage themselves enough to stay away from the things they hate, that's nobody's problem but theirs.

I've been playing beat saber for exercise some recently and am rapidly realizing that oh. beat saber tracks can be an artform. dance choreography with more restrictions I guess? (except it's one that's like, an experience you, the "dancer," are having while it's happening, unexpected or emergent moves can surprise the "dancer" and I don't know that that happens quite the same way with choreography?)

First thing that got me thinking in this direction was, there's one song called "spinning eternally" that, for one section, uses a combination of notes and obstacles positioned such that the easiest most fluid way to clear it is to spin your hands in circles. It doesn't have to tell you to do it, you just are naturally led to do it by positioning and momentum.

And then, just now, I just did two different fan-made tracks for What's Up Danger (the song from Into the Spiderverse) that both try to make the player move like Spiderman using different but overlapping techniques. They both heavily used those big transparent blocks that you have to move your whole body to avoid, to make you stay light on your feet, juking, ducking, often thwipping out your hands mimicking web swinging.

The first one was I think better as a rhythm game track, fun movements, reasonably balanced difficulty throughout-- but the other more uneven one was using those blocks WAY more, often in the absence of any notes to hit, forcing you to thread the needle or RAPIDLY shift side to side to side to side with the music to avoid them, faster and faster as the song's intensity amped up.

And then the last thing at the very end of the song, no more notes, there's just one huge block in the middle of the stage taking up every inch of horizontal space you might try to dodge into, and stretching out into the last few measures. You can see it coming, it's the same object as the blocks you've been narrowly dodging for the entire length of the song, but this time you cannot avoid it. There's no way around it. You have to go through.

That's. That's art baby!

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this is my favorite adventure time monster battle and one of my top 5 adventure time monsters (its dialog is CRITICAL so you better have sound on)

Oh. Oh….

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say "i would have to advise against that decision, my lord" followed by a crashing sound