Personal opinions

destiel are on strike i get my news from sword grandma now

The difference between a strike and a boycott is the focus of what is being withheald

In a strike the supply is being withheald because the workers aren’t producing whatever it is.  It works by having the masses demand what the companies cannot produce and therefore, if the company wants to continue providing whatever it is in order to continue making money, they have to listen to worker demands

In a boycott the demand is being withheald because the masses aren’t buying or engaging with whatever it is.  It works because companies, obviously, need to actually sell things in order to function.  The point is to make the company change something about a product in order to appeal to the masses again

That’s why you shouldn’t boycott when a strike is on (unless the union says so) because it kind of cancels out the strike.  If there is no demand then witholding supply is meaningless - again, unless the union says so, since that means they factored it into their industrial action plan and believe it would be beneficial

I know people want to help but the reaction to call for a boycott whenever there’s a strike just kind of…… doesn’t

So now we're talking about fair pay and residuals for actors and writers can we start talking about fairer pay and streaming residuals for musicians. Particularly smaller musicians who are locked in unfair contracts and have no control over the licencing and usage of their music. And session artists who work for one day and receive no residuals, no matter how much revenue the music they created generates. And local "booking agents" who capitalise on the market while giving their artists almost none of the money from their ticket sales.

"I don't like the Jack Harkness test because it means it's okay to fuck Scooby Doo"

yes that's the entire damn point of the Harkness test. The Harkness Test doesn't exist to say you have to fuck Scooby Doo. The Harkness Test exists to say that it is morally/ethically fine for someone to want to fuck Scooby Doo, because Scooby Doo can give informed consent and communicate as such.

the reason you don't like it is because none of you are self-aware enough to realize how incredibly fucking puritan all of you are when it comes to fucking

Tumblr being free is humanity's greatest error.

Then pay me 20$ if you feel so strongly about it

Tumblr is a free website where I am paid $20

Hey tagger are you aware of the existence of any IRL dogs who speak fluent English and solve mysteries? Just curious.

It only just occurred to me that you’re probably supposed to group Steam games by genre or something. I group them like this.

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@aomitois idk if you genuinely wanted a response but i will never pass up an excuse to elaborate on my thoughts, ESPECIALLY about orv

i do see where youre coming from, because yeah, hes not physically strong at all, and he does nearly die all the time. but did you forget all the stuff he did in the beginning? he survived the subway car and KILLED kim namwoon, survived in the belly of a sea monster for 3 days, survived that one scenario with the waves and waves of monsters WITHOUT A GREEN ZONE, destroyed the ultimate throne, defeated TWO disasters (3 if you count the dragon) almost singlehandedly….. yeah he barely survived each time, because he was doing absolutely INSANE shit. theres a reason he becomes a constellation so quickly, and catches the attention of powerful people left and right (yjh, anna croft, the underworld, the dokkaebis…… and thats only the beginning). you dont have to be physically strong to be an overpowered protagonist (in fact, one of the other 3- mob- is distinctly not physically strong). he relied heavily on his skills and his knowledge of ways of survival, but THATS what made him overpowered!

and i say its self aware because this is a CLASSIC overpowered mc isekai setup. like solo leveling for example: weak loser gets transported/transformed and has the chance to get strong. yjh is also a cliche: overpowered regressor works alone and strives singlemindedly toward his goal. and kyrgios: born to a weak race, leaves his home world and transcends his limitations through hard work. anna croft the prophet, and later nirvana the reincarnator. orv is EVERY overpowered mc story. until you find out that its actually completely different from all of those stories, and that kdj ISNT the typical normal-guy-who-gets-strong overpowered protagonist (and thats where the suffering really starts). so in hindsight, yeah, hes not overpowered. but when you first read it youre like “holy fuck this guy is a badass”

and yeah maybe it doesnt fit as well with the other 3 (which is why its a bonus, cause originally this post was just gonna be the first 3) since hes not born with it or on an inhuman level or anything. but i would still consider him op in the beginning

(<-also can’t pass up the opportunity to talk about orv) the stuff he does is amazing yeah!! and more importantly, showing that he has definitely few screws loose

BUT!! he does all that without the power ups that OP transmigrators and other typical protagonists have!! he cheats his way around, finding impossible bugs in the system no one has exploited yet, finding insane solutions that are harder than just fighting.

he KNOWS his way around, and that’s why he makes it everytime. can it be considered a power? knowledge is power, they say. and that’s where our opinions mismatch, i think, cause i see it as separate things

it’s true he has similar journey of weak->strong, but that’s what it is, a journey. he starts off weak. and that’s another reason why he does things the way he does, to become strong enough for his goals.

and i don’t see the journey itself as a mark of being op, neither knowledge as strength measurement,, there are stories where the MC not only already knows the direction of the world (through transmigration or reincarnation), but also starts off with the skills that already put them ahead of everyone else, no matter if it’s physical battle, finding artefacts, or changing the course of the story. and they do it with little struggle. and that’s what i consider op

he’s not one of them. you don’t feel like he’s in control of the situation. all there is at the beginning is anxiety. anxiety. anxiety. will he survive? like the story is about him, so he gotta, but will he? the situation is so hopeless and he doesn’t have the skills or sponsors like others how will he make itttt

@aomitois I’m gonna jump here a little because that last paragraph is pretty interesting to me. I had a really different impression of webtoon KDJ and webnovel KDJ, so at some point I compared them and found that the change in mediums really impacted my impressions.

Most of the webnovel is written in first person from KDJ’s POV, especially early on. KDJ frets about scenario details both in the webnovel and webtoon, but it’s more impactful in the webnovel because you’re sharing a headspace with him; you get to fret and be anxious about all the upcoming scenarios together with him.

The webtoon has been a pretty straightforward and faithful adaptation, but just the fact that you can’t really get into “first person POV” in a drawing the same way you do in the written word means you lose some of that quality time inside KDJ’s mind, so you see his actions differently.

My impression of webnovel KDJ was pretty spot on with yours (Some Guy trying to make it through impossible odds), but when I read the webtoon I see what @biggiedraws says: the moment you pull away from KDJ’s (extremely distorted, not that we know about that at this point) headspace and become a more impartial audience, it’s clear he’s pulling off some crazy shit befitting of “overpowered isekai MC” status. And since we don’t get to see that worrying firsthand, that’s all we see. (also the Reigen-ification of webtoon KDJ really helped push that “overpowered isekai MC thing imo)

Not quite... This story about the reader. Us, ours, WE the reader of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.

There's many signs that point to this.

One most damning thing was the Q & A at the end of ORV on munpia. S&S were clear they wanted to write a story about the reader. The fact that the main character was the reader, and the characters he loved had to break the 4th wall to save him in the Epilogue was the huge unique point.

Han Sooyoung wrote in the original Korean that "this is written for one reader/dokja". It was purposely vague so we would go "is she talking to us?"

How many of us readers would die for their favourite characters, or ship themselves with their favourite characters? The authors Sing and Song memed and joked about our silly habits and determination using KDJ's adventures. They already saw that Joongdok was going to be a thing far earlier than we did.

Even on KDJ's birthday, we got a loving carefully written statement for the community by the community, rather than a birthday story. Instead we get stories about our favourite characters YJH and HSY on their birthdays.

KDJ's soul flew apart into different world lines at the end to all timelines. The soul is the Story, so all of us who read ORV, KDJ's story, received a piece of his soul.

ORV was a story written for us. Yes, it was in KDJ's perspective, but it wasn't solely about KDJ the character alone. It's about our idiosyncrasies as fans of the book, it's about how we'd see all the plotholes and be able to exploit everything if we were in the apocalypse.

That's why KDJ is overpowered. It's because he is us collectively. We always see the craziest loopholes... but maybe only days, months or years later. (In fact I've already seen several loopholes by rereading but that's another matter entirely)

As for whether KDJ is overpowered - hell yeah he is. In the apocalypse narrative where Stories gives Incarnations power, Probability and Status, he was the strongest. Sure KDJ cheated his way around to gain power, but even Star System admitted he was stronger than the 1864th Yoo Joonghyuk halfway through when they asked the strongest guy to sacrifice himself (which is quite impressive since the 1864th has about 50% of his Stories).

KDJ still can't compare to Secretive Plotter or the Architect of the Last False End or even Asmodeus in raw strength DURING the apocalypse, they were quite clear on that. KDJ was still a new Narrative-level Constellation after all.

By the end of ORV though, he had gained the age of roughly 21+ thousand years and omnipotent knowledge as the Most Ancient Dream. So at the end of ORV, he's probably as powerful as the Architect and SP, with the rest of his power scattered to the cosmos (in us).

i actually hope this guy dies like genuinely .

Ugh. Okay, I'm mad because I've seen this kind of shit so often, so let me rant a bit.

2. So, he KNEW it mentally that she is sensitive and genuinely cries a lot.... but decided to accuse her of being fake anyway during a moment of real life sadness? WTF? Is this guy for real?

Why did he marry her then if her crying disturbs him? Does he really not understand his wife that much? The poor wife needs a man who'd hold her gently when she's having an emotional moment, not this fucking robot.

This guy 110% deserved it. Please let the wife find someone more worthy instead, she's absolutely wasting her life with him.

This is not the first time either, the way she acts means this was the straw that broke the camel's back. I've been in this position before. High chance she's had enough of him and nothing he says is going to stop her from leaving. She's emotionally checked out of the relationship. Never let your own relationships reach this point, it's not coming back.

I'm begging you to turn the sound on

We can tell the cat had many springs in its step while hiding all these...

Your daily dose of cat memes

Amen to that little dude

y'know, one thing i don't see get talked about much in regards to asexuality is how it feels to never be 'sexually motivated' by anything

and not just when it comes to advertisements using 'sexy' models to try and sell you stuff, but like. in general

sex as a favor, sex as a bribe, sex in exchange for whatever

casual sex, 'friends with benefits' situations, even simple flirting

it all looks a whole lot different from the perspective of someone who's immune to manipulation via sex appeal, who has virtually no understanding as to why sex would motivate someone to cheat on their partner, etc. etc.

sex is worthless to me

i mean, it's useful as a story element in fiction, but it genuinely perplexes me that sex is such a driving force behind so many aspects of irl society & of people's individual lives, for better or for worse

and that it's so deeply ingrained into how the average person views the world & various situations, because the average person feels sexual attraction, whereas i do not

i think the barrier between aces & allos is actually even deeper than it seems on the surface at times, because it's more than just the grating expectation that everyone must want to 'settle down' and have kids, it's also the fact that the majority of the world is sort of 'in' on a joke that aces will never truly be a part of