why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?
I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail
everyone else is like "oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave" and I'll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don't even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I'll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot
this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike?
bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do.
what i’m saying is
American author Mark Twain (b. 1835) lurches from his grave only to give you a massive thumbs up and die again
Mark Twain essentially invented the genre of a bystander sent into a time-travel sci-fi plot just to get someone to draw this image for him. And today we can simply search for such a picture. It is a time of wonders
I watched all the Matrix movies on Saturday with some friends and do you think that after the machines agreed to free people from the matrix there were concerted campaigns to ‘win’ people over? Frankly, I think the machines would have an easier time.
Zion: We have big ass cave rave/orgies and an anarchist collective.
Machines: We have tasty wheat and steaks.
Zion: We, uh, we have mechs and hover ships
Machines: If you want rave/orgies have you seen our underground death metal dungeons?
Zion: we, uh, we are in the real world!
Machines: We can program cake to make you orgasm, you can eat as much as you want and not get fat.
i kind of sympathize with Sadeas re: Dalinar in Way of Kings. if I knew a guy who was basically like a rabid dog barely contained on a leash back when we were launching a military coup together and he had a kill count of like 999999999 civilians and then he had a complete mental breakdown and then came back from it like "hey I'm Catholic now and by the way God Is Speaking To Me and told me the apocalypse is coming" well i probably wouldn't want that guy in charge of anything either. to be honest
Yeah Sadeas was a master at the game but didn’t realize that the rules were changing. But then, neither do we.
when I look at western media depictions of Chinese things I always look for gay lions
so lion statues have a male and female lion pair, male lions have a ball to play with and lionesses have a little baby to take care of (lion patriarchy)
Lot of westerners don't know this so they accidentally draw Gay Lions
look at them. love wins
Redeeming cultural ignorance
When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
We are all constantly building the world we live in together. Humans shape reality but it is a group power, not an individual one.
Obsessed with the mental image of Vasher having war flashbacks of all the situations™️ he's ever faced in his life and going "no Adolin we absolutely need to account for a scenario in which you're fighting on a literal tightrope wearing nothing but sweatpants, brids flying all around you, and 15 enemies charging at you"
“Capitalism killed my ability to enjoy social gatherings,” old-man-Hobb replied, but he put his phone away nonetheless.
Me, as reflected in a story written by my daughter. Kids are 4K mirrors sometimes, other times they’re a fun house mirror.
I'm almost done with Wind and Truth, and wanted to animate just a tiny section of my favorite scene!
As I saw it in my mind
The Vorin Church, 1174 (colourised)
I mean have you met the Mormon Church?
