I'm not dead! Yall, I'm ngl Butterscotch took so long compared to all the cats. Why dogs gotta be built like that. Can't make something vaguely dog shaped and say 'yeah good enough' because then it doesn't look right. Why can't dogs occasionally liquefy like cats do.
Not important in the slightest but everyone needs to know that in Sonic X episode 1, Lupin the 3rd appears as a background character. As you can see this guy has Lupin's facial shape, eyes and hair but he's wearing a piss shirt instead of a dark colored one.
So Lupin the 3rd sort of canonically exists within Sonic the Hedgehog.
This is because TMS produced both anime.
The Brainwashing of Ryuko - A Bloodied Wedding Dress (EP 20)
Trigger Warning // R*pe, sexual assault
Nui stitches Junketsu's life fibers together with the life fibers inside of Ryuko's body. From a metaphorical standpoint, we could argue that this is some acute foreshadowing to Ragyo's control (Junketsu's life fibers) mixing up with Ryuko's memories (her own life fibers), with her past, and with everything she stands for... and eventually overwriting them. Ryuko loses grip, and Ragyo, very deliberately, hits her weakest point during her most psychologically vulnerable state.
Through Junketsu, Ragyo is now able to pry into Ryuko's deepest subconscious. To reach her biggest wishes and desires, her best and worst memories, the core of what makes Ryuko, Ryuko. Now, Ragyo knows all about the deep loneliness of little Ryuko. About the neglect, the bullying - the desire for a damn parent.
And so, Ragyo uses this knowledge to her advantage. Just at a horrifying moment when Ryuko has no idea who she is, what her past truly meant, and what she's really fighting for... Ragyo eagerly barges in to fill those gaps for Ryuko.
She creates an illusion of Ryuko's most desired reality, and plants fake memories in her head - overwriting her real, painful ones. We see images of little Ryuko during important events of her life, such as her birthday, or her first day of school. Images of Ryuko playing outside, and going to her first ever prom. Now, what's common about these fake memories? About the memories she wished she could have had?
Her mom was with her.
In Ryuko's real life, she was abandoned at an orphanage by her father, and never knew her mother. So Ragyo gave her a feigned illusion of what she wanted most of all things; a loving parent to celebrate her birthday with. A parent to cheer her on during her football matches, a parent in the audience to watch her school plays. A parent to hug.
I believe that all of that pain was pictured through a bloodied wedding dress.
Deep down, it truly hurt Ryuko that whenever she'd get married, nobody would be there to walk her down the aisle.
She's so damn strong, but deep down, Ryuko is still an abandoned, scared, lonely child who needed love.
So Ragyo corrupts her head with memories of Ragyo giving her exactly that. And poor Ryuko... poor Ryuko caves.
She is going to fight for her parent who gave her that love, and all those who dare to stand against her...she's going to fight for the life she's always wanted. All according to plan.
As this is established, Ragyo (and Nui joins in too, YIKES) then proceeds to r*pe Ryuko, in the midst of brainwashing her into servitude and dependence using all of these good memories. Why? Why was that necessary, Ragyo? Was the whole overwriting of her memory not enough, did you have to pepper in some lifelong trauma to seal the brainwashing?
Well.. unfortunately, other than just being a disgusting individual who gets a kick out of controlling others, there is one more reason. She is r***ing Ryuko while simultaneously corrupting her mind with all of these joyful memories. And so, she is conditioning Ryuko into associating the r*** with good memories. Ragyo wants Ryuko to believe that all these icky things are part of the happiness Ryuko wants so badly. This also very much explains why a brainwashed Ryuko kissed Nui.
..... (this was written by my cat who walked over my keyboard, so imma just leave it here)
It is implied that this aforementioned event too, is a false memory planted into Ryuko’s head. Still, whether it really happened or not, it was the last straw that truly pushed Ryuko over the edge. Because shortly after this, episode 20 ends and Ryuko fully surrenders to Junketsu’s influence. To evil.
All according to plan.
Having Ideas™ about a building-grid system in a building game
For the past long while I've been bouncing around some ideas in my head for a Space Engineers-style sci-fi building game - in particular, how the whole "building" system actually works. There's like three/four primary elements I'd love to see combined:
Rust-style building grid composed of both cubes and equilateral-triangle prisms, to offer lots of flexibility
Stationeers-style large/small-grid combo, where the small grid is aligned to the edges of the large grid, and large grid is used for structural stuff (walls, floors, etc) while small-grid is used for pipes, wires, furniture, etc
Building off that, using the small grid for making smaller vehicles & such, like in SE
Some sort of node-and-ellipse-based system (think roads in Cities: Skylines) for making long, linear objects (cables, long paths, possibly train tracks & such) that can have freeform curves and connect grids that aren't aligned
However, points 1 and 2 run into some significant trouble when combined - there'd have to be so many contextual variants of things like pipe/wire junctions to accommodate for the small-grid pattern differences between not just the two types of building block, but the places where they meet (not to mention figuring out how that grid would work with the triangular pieces anyway).
I love Star Trek because yes it's a utopian socialist future of science, empathy, and exploration, but they don't just say "one day we stopped arguing and it all just sorta worked out" they very much had genocide, fascism, and WWIII and then afterward, when all the things we're terrified will happen had happened, we still had a chance to be better and we didn't waste it. That's the beauty of it, not that we magically overcame our differences, but that the worst happened and we didn't succumb to nihilism.
“A skyscraper built within your mind will never fall”
[TW: R**e, Sexual Assault]
Satsuki. Satsuki.
Where do I even begin with this analysis.
I could rant all day long about how inspiring Satsuki and this entire statement is.
In short, this is what the phrase means: Her ambition was so much stronger than the obstacles she faced throughout her life.
Now, let’s take a more detailed look at how this ties in with the abuse she has practically been dealing with ever since she was five.
As we all sadly know, Ragyo is a very sick-minded individual who gets off on having complete control over people and making things happen that are against their will. She is obsessed with power. At its tamest, this obsession is shown through her position (CEO of a bestselling clothing company that, unbeknowst to the customers, produces clothing infested with an alien parasite that will slowly consume its wearer). At its heaviest, it extends to sexually abusing her daughter, Satsuki.
Ragyo very deliberately hurts Satsuki, humiliates her, makes her do things against her will, she generally tries to make her as “weak” and uncomfortable as she possibly can - bc she’s SICK and gets a kick out of satsuki’s discomfort >:(
But what I’m trying to say is; even throughout that, Satsuki’s anger, her ambition, her determination was stronger.
Ragyo thinks she is controlling Satsuki, but she is gravely mistaken. Right behind her back, Satsuki orchestrated an entire assassination and Ragyo didn’t suspect it for a second.
Satsuki, with all of her calculated words and actions, made Ragyo believe that she is fully on her side - while secretly raising an army to defeat her.
She had built a skyscraper for herself within her mind, and an academy in reality. Satsuki controlled everything; she got to determine who could come in and who couldn’t, what happens and when, and most importantly...
Satsuki had the power and control to make Ragyo believe whatever SHE wanted her to believe.
And that is why, ultimately, Satsuki always had the upper hand.
Ragyo controlled her body, but she could never control her mind.
And I believe that is one key factor that pulled Satsuki through the abuse every time. Because she knew that no matter what happens, Ragyo can never truly control her. Despite how Ragyo has tried to take away her power, how she bereaved her of her dignity and bodily autonomy, Satsuki was never powerless. She had so much power within her resolve, an aspect of herself that remained unscathed by Ragyo’s influence. This unscathed element Satsuki always held onto, is used metaphorically as a skyscraper. Ultimately, what she says, comes down to this:
You may use me, humiliate me, and beat me down, but you will never own me.
I am my own person, I am in full control of who I am, what I stand for, and what I think. Nothing and no one will ever cloud my mind, not even you. Nothing will ever steer me off my path, and ever distract me from my one and only goal; killing you.