verdantViridity

An image of several fishing hooks and fishing beads scattered across a white surface. To the right, a pair of scissors is peripherally visible, presumably for the fishing line.

...I have an idea what that pointed tail of hell could be, and it's not FRIEND... #utdr #deltarune

(8/🧵) It damages a company's reputation to become one of the reasons there's more jobseekers and less jobs.

To quote someone else: "You think a senior employee is expensive? Try hiring an amateur."

(7/🧵) And as for the impact on the economy, outsourcing labor to machines only works if the machines are an equal match in competence and maintenance, and only if the employees replaced by automation would also have their income automated.

(6/🧵) Predictive software simply isn't practical as a digital assistant, its practical application is in the sciences– weather forecasts, drug development, etc. Wrong tool, wrong job.

(5/🧵) As an advanced version of autocomplete, it's not designed to authenticate the samples it's homogenizing and/or calculating the average of.

(4/🧵) Both give you more work than you started with, as you would then have to either verify or correct every inaccuracy the software won't catch.

(3/🧵) and again, features like AI overviews are redundant. Anyone who doesn't understand the material won't know what the AI is getting wrong, and anyone who does will know exactly what it's getting wrong.

(2/🧵) Generative AI is, in a lot of ways, the techno-ecological successor to spam. They're disruptive, a hassle to avoid, increasingly obnoxious as they're enabled by default and becoming more difficult to disable (compromising UI functionality as a result),

(1/🧵) I'm not sure I submitted my Discord survey in time before it closed, so I'll just share what might've taken me too long to type:

okay, sinners, it's time to put Santa in the Tomb of Lazarus

nothing has made steampunk hotter than living in the cyberpunk genre

the more fights against shadow crystal bosses I make it through, the more I come to think of dodging each attack as like learning the moves of a dance.

progression become steps, mistakes become trips, until the motions smoothe into poses.

it fits the meta's relationship with the worldbuilding.

whole damn year's been like that time Cans punched Diamond Droog into next week

Dark Sanctuary hits like Hollow Knight, From Now On hits like [S] Descend and Guardian hits like goddamn One-Winged Angel #deltarune #utdr

like, Heart is the soul Aspect, yeah, but deeper than that, it's the Aspect for identity– character, personality, personhood. Mind is the Aspect governing deliberation, and that is the power over Kris and their party that they contain in their Soul.

in practice, Kris serves the Aspect of choice.

Knight of Heart sounds good on paper but in practice Kris Dreemurr is closer to something like a Maid of Mind

a while ago, I was trying to think of a way to help someone remember who's Frankie and who's Andi, and what I landed on were butch Arin Hansen and fem Jonathan Sims

Gerson is the dragon's mentor because Bowser is a tarasque. #deltarune #utdr

so maybe it's fitting that the guy who wrote an adaptation of the prophecy and encouraged Susie to subvert it was a turtle who threw hammers and shells and had the kinda surname you'd expect a bo-bomb to have.

...but Bowser is abnormally big for a koopa, he has horns and spikes, and he breathes fire like the archetypal dragon.

and then I remembered, the tarasque is also unusual for dragon because it's often portrayed with a shell like a turtle's

like, Mario's basically a new twist on the dragonslayer genre. Peach is still the abducted princess, but the knight is instead a plumber, and Bowser's king of the koopas, which are supposed to be turtles or turtle-adjacent...

have you ever been hit with the realization that Bowser is a tarasque

the Undertale 10th anniversary stream confirmed human-monster relationships, which furthers suspicions that Susie could be a hybrid...

if Deltarune confirms that later, I think that pretty much means humans are Dittos.

which is that reproductive viability between #UTDR monsters operates a lot like egg groups in Pokemon.

like, my point is, if you set aside anthropomorphization, the only animal monsters that aren't at least a little chimeric seem to be the dogs, cats and maybe bears.

and my headcanon for the reason accounts for why a lot of children come from parents of similar species.

the goat family has fangs and paws.

the alleygator has a navel and no belly scales, and she can stick her tongue out.

Gerson has teeth.

the bunnies have bald noses.

Jockington... has incisors? and a snout like some kind of crocodilian?

Undyne can blink.

cuz like... that's not a deer nose. and those aren't deer lips. and those definitely aren't deer teeth.

and the Holidays would be far from the first beast monsters to have mixed animal features.

did you know you can draw Noelle with beans if you give her squirrel hands to match her squirrel mouth

...oh I get it now

Ramb

as in ram/lamb.