hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?

'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters

soooo, guess I can cross buying a bishoujo scale figure off my weeb bucket list

and after a hot water bath and bending her hair to get a little closer to the prototype. The hair was not nearly as out of shape as some of the other copies I’ve seen posted online, thank goodness:

Was able to get this figure a bit under retail and two years after release due to the wide variation in QC, poisoning any hype for this figure, but all in all mine came out pretty okay. The usual culprits of having jank paintwork on the legs/feet was present and there’s a small scuff on her left hip armor, but otherwise I am pretty happy. It was the sculpt that I fell in love with, anyways.

Some interesting variations I noted. One was that the hip tassel metal pieces are of a different shade compared to the rest of the armor. Both are pearlesent but the main armor has a more blue/purple undertone to it. Some of the other pics I’ve seen seem to only use the whiter tassel paint for all the armor so I’m glad I got a figure with the bluer paint.

The other is the mouth paint job. All the other figures seem to have a little triangle of paint in the divot of the mouth, but this one opted to paint the outline of the mouth instead, which has the unfortunate effect of making her mouth look lower on her face than it actually is. It’s not noticeable from afar esp looking at her from a bottom-up angle (as her very tall display pillar would suggest) but was interesting to note.

Safe to say I won’t be buying the others in the set, but maybe I will have enough money, time, and will power to assemble garage kits that are floating around for sale.

Can I just say that as someone who was raised in a firmly working class household by a blue collar parental team… so many people on this website who try to translate blue collar reality into their fantasy worldbuilding are literally insane

I also don’t think a majority of you know what the reality of farming actually is.

Like I get it! I get wanting to take these fun ideas and bend them into magical shapes! But the fact that most of the ~innovative magic~ doesn’t actually… solve a majority of the problems in either industry or agriculture is so telling. It’s not all about increasing productivity or shifting aesthetics! That’s not any different than what the current mode of industry is doing, it’s just doing it with the power of fairy dust instead of fossil fuels.

Magic is supposed to be a boon, but if you still have people hand milking cows who?? Is receiving the boon here?? Automated milking and pasteurisation spells please!! A quicker and less dangerous way, for both person and animal, to dock lambs than having to hold them under one arm and take a sharp knife to their tails with the other! Or even spells to remove the necessity of docking at all, if you insist it’s cruel and not good hygiene practice! A way to check eggs for blood in the yolk before cracking them both because yuck and because it’s prohibited in certain dietary practices! Venting mechanisms for industrial pipe work to prevent bursts! Safe disposal of waste!! WATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS IN URBAN CENTRES!! HOW INHUMANE TO NOT HAVE YOUR SEWAGE SYSTEM MANAGED BY MAGIC IF THAT IS WITHIN YOUR POWER!!

Also, there’s still so often the Mage In A Tower and then just some schlubs who can do magic or whatever, but listen: those schlubs would unionise, and a good union with magic would be REALLY something to see.

Art by u/reachling

Get his ass

If someone cut down whole fucking trees on a property I owned without my permission this would instead be a post about the graphic details of my murder trial (worth it)

okay but? Like.

YES, it WOULD work on me, 100%. At the very least it’d get an “Hey let’s talk first” or “I’m taken but you want a game sometime?” from me.

I’ll unpack this a bit.

Like first of all? The guy has seen and recognized that the woman has interests. And hey, they match his own! So like this is just a small gift - last I checked was a couple years ago but a pack of Magic cards is like $5 - that uses a twist on social conventions to say both “hey I think you’re cute and I’d like to chat” and “this is a thing we could talk about together”? While also not just. Butting in on her game and making a big deal about wanting to get to know her?

Because yes, it’s an interruption, but it’s one that - through the mediator of the store owner - she can more easily say no to. He’s not just getting in her face and starting the conversation while she’s playing the game with her friend. He’s giving her an easy out, saying “I’m gonna be respectful of your time and space.”

As a woman who’s been into a lot of nerd shit, a lot of guys just. *sigh* don’t. do that. 

Additionally, he’s showing his intelligence - social and otherwise - by using the “buy you a drink” social convention and making it not about the alcohol.

As a woman who knows sexual assault statistics and how certain types of men all too often use inebriation to get close to women? As a woman who’s heard stories of how men get angry when they offer a cute woman a drink and she asks for something nonalcoholic? Showing their hands to be the creeps that they are? Nah man, this guy is doing it right.

100% would work on me. This is a man who both thinks I’m worth knowing better and is respectful of my safety, my time, and my agency. And he manages to communicate that in one inexpensive, unpressured, and elegant gesture. Holy shit what an opener.

and then cards fall out of his hat

Playing DMC 3 and listening to devils never cry threw me back to watching dead fantasy 3. What a fun punchy fight, and I usually enjoy the mid range stuff.

God what I would give for a DMC-polished hack and slash RWBY game. There’s just so many little places DMC allows for styling on opponents that I can feel echoed in Monty’s direction of his fight sequences (in particular the Devil Bringer stuff in 4 where you get mini cinematics in boss fights). In my mind’s eye it would def be fun to think about how exactly all the fight mechs could be translated into a video game (sorry but Grimm Eclipse is too bare bones for that).

To that end, thinking about what type of upgrade Gambol Shroud (hinted in BTS that the Shroud sheathe would get an upgrade) would have gotten from a video game perspective… Either something Dust related since you don’t see Blake use Dust until the end of vol 2, or some type of transformation into other ninja-y gear. Or both. Or maybe it would just be some sort of gattai thing where the two would fuse.

Whatever it was, reforging Gambol with that little bit of Ember Cecelia wasn’t it.

So I recently completed yet another run of DMC3 on my way toward the platinum, and I’ve picked up on a particularly sad stinger that I’ve never noticed in the Vergil vs. Mundus scene in the secret/bonus post-credits.

Some background, for starters: Yûji Shimomura was the Movie/Cutscene Director for numerous movies and games including Devil May Cry 3, Devil May Cry 4, and Bayonetta (among others), and is famous for his action sequences and the subtleties he puts in them. Devil May Cry 3, in particular, has a heavy emphasis on body language and gestures to a really (almost) obsessive degree.

Moving on: Going back to that scene, there’s a particular nuance that’s totally missable, especially given how slight it is and the high from the wacky wahoo pizza adventure the player is probably coming down from (especially on a first time playthrough).

When Vergil comes to and Mundus appears, Vergil, predictably, behaves just as arrogantly as ever and boldly remarks “if my father could do it, I should be able to do it too!” It’s very easy to assume he got too cocky and threw himself right into a curb stomp fight. Case closed.

However, if you pay attention during his shit talking (slowed down and brightened up, below), what Vergil does shows this is, to some degree, false bravado:

Vergil discards his sheath before he charges at Mundus. If you’ve paid attention to his fighting style at all, you’d know this is extremely out of character for him. Vergil’s clearly trained as an Eastern swordsman, and his entire fighting style is fast, precise, and elegant, with the Yamato being sheathed again immediately after use.

Weeb jokes aside, his style is based off of the real Iaidō (居合道) martial art - quick, smooth, controlled movements of drawing a blade from its scabbard/saya and striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard. He even uses a traditional stance when he’s preparing to fight Dante again before Nero shows up. An example:

That said, Vergil getting rid of the Yamato’s sheath is both old Eastern swordsman code and a trope (called “throw the sheath away”) - you never, ever throw the sheath of your blade away unless you feel like it’s the last time you can.

In short, despite his attitude, Vergil knew this was a fight he was most likely never going win or come back from. This makes the awareness he has as Nelo Angelo even sadder, and in turn makes V’s absolute, unconcealed revulsion at the sight of the Angelos make even more sense (than it already does) because he is looking at the picture of failure.

Differences between the PS2 version and HD remaster of DMC3. The former has transparency for the hair which the HD remaster doesn't have.