Nova || 25 || Brazilian || She/They Autistic Fairy || Bi Enby
Small Artist that just wants to get better and find their place in the world! Currently obsessed with Genshin Impact and everything Chilumi and Lumiamber. CEO of Chilumiamber.
Not to appropriate boomer culture but I literally am filled with rage every time I see an under-ten child in public on an iPad
there’s nuance to it i think
like as a kid, i’d be able to bust out my gameboy on long drives or in waiting rooms or whatever. and i think that was perfectly okay for my parents to let me do
but also, when i was a toddler, my parents would just plunk me down in front of a tv so that they wouldn’t have to interact (or, god forbid, PLAY) with me. and that was messed up and not good for me.
ipads are fine if they’re being used the first way. kids need to play and be stimulated and sometimes they’re in an environment that can’t provide that, so bringing a bit of portable entertainment is a good idea.
but sometimes it’s used in the second way, but now the tv is PORTABLE. it’s parents finding more efficient ways to automate neglect.
So I enjoy chaotic characters. The more trouble the better. I might just make more of these just for an excuse for destruction. Originally I drew the foul legacy for a reference but then I ended up with this.
Jee, I wonder who Klee is with. Was the nuke a bit much, yes, but it looks funny so I kept it. Since many people liked the comic I decided to continue it. I loved reading what people say, it gives me a good laugh. This will be a little mini series that I will update every Friday. I’ll probably sprinkle some original art in between but as of now genshin has a vice grip on me and I have some ideas for this.
i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.
he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.
it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.
weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it
The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.
Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.
The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.
They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.
ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.
However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.
Think about that.
The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?
it’s really funny to me in all these tumblr sexyman compilations NONE of them include jack frost from rise of the guardians … that dude was all over the place 2012-2015 when rise of the brave tangled dragons (superwholock for people who like cartoons) was big and now … NOTHING. and apparently despite its brief cult status rotg was a cinematic flop so just. wow. her impact. go girl give us nothing
literally WHY do you think jack frost is in the onceler gif instead of another lorax character, a slightly different version of the onceler, or some other contemporary animated sexyman?? remember your herstory
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