Reblogged luna-mistrunner
Please make neil banging out the tunes. Its important for this religious holiday
as you wish :)
i am deeply genuinely heartwarmed to see that some of you apparently had this queued for today. god bless
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The Issue With Heartphials: Magia Exedra
Obligatory "been playing since launch"
When I played Magia Record, I was never able to pull Hanna Sarasa. Don't ask me how, I don't know. Because of this, I never got to play her magical girl story, so I know absolutely nothing about her. This has led to me being utterly confused by the Detective Mitama event.
I have Hanna now. Do you know what good that does me now? Nothing. I've said this before and I'll say it again. I have poured every Heartphial resource into Ashley Taylor. Every material, and she's been on my team for every quest, five times a day. Do you want to know what level Ashley is?
25. Out of 50.
It takes 50 levels to unlock a magical girl's entire story. I'm not even halfway there with one girl. Even if I started pouring everything into Hanna, I would not even be able to get close to unlocking the entire story by the end of the event.
Sure, I could just watch her backstory on YouTube, but that's not the point. I should not have to grind myself into oblivion for one magical girl's backstory while getting absolutely nothing out of it for any of my other characters. It's gotten to the point where I feel like I must be doing something wrong because there's no reason it should be this ridiculous, no way the devs had this massive of an oversight.
I haven't found anything online. It's so inaccessible for new players especially because they don't know these characters, and the only way for them to learn is to... grind their characters to bits? I know it's a grind-heavy game, but heartphial is absolutely a broken system.
If you wanted to get the full context for this event, you would have to get all of these characters to max Heartphial in the past three weeks: -Kokoro Awane -Kako Natsume -Hanna Sarasa -Karin Misono -Felicia Mitsuki -Ren Isuzu
And I only know this because of the transcripts being available.
Reblogged chairteeth
People who don’t play Magia Record/Magia Exedra, explain what’s going on here.
Reblogged gudakko
Reblogged eevee-miscellaneous
Yachiyo Nanami is such a funny character because the writers of Magia Record went “What if a magical girl had to pay taxes?” And just developed her entirely from there
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If you ever think to yourself “I wonder what that YouTuber I used to watch as a kid is doing now” don’t listen to that thought. You should enjoy life and sing wonderful songs.
Raocow has been doing the exact same thing since before YouTube existed to this very day without controversy to my knowledge for an audience of a few hundred so YIPPEE
Reblogged spiritsflame
I don't see people talking about this so today is the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in where the factory owners locked working women and girls inside to "eliminate the risk of theft" (in reality it was too keep them from taking breaks), which resulted in the gruesome deaths of 123 mostly immigrant women and girls and 23 men, many of whom jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor either in a panicked attempt to escape or in order to die quickly. There were reports that some of the workers were on fire already as they jumped.
The eighth floor of the building was able to telephone the tenth floor to warn them about the fire, but the factory on the ninth floor where these women and girls labored had no such communication and such warning.
The factory owners were criminally charged with manslaughter for actions that contributed to the mass deaths but acquitted. However, this tragedy led to mass sympathy to the labor movement, and unions spurred on safety regulations that passed in New York state and eventually the entire country, and activists were able to reduce child labor in the process.
This tragedy is a reminder that has been forgotten in the 110 years since: every safety regulation-- every scrap of paperwork contributing to the hundreds of pages of red tape people like to complain about--every word of it was written in the blood of a laborer.
111th anniversary
They were discouraged from breaks because they were actively trying to unionize, and bosses felt that keeping them from unsupervised contact would prevent them from joining the garment workers' union.
This is why unions are important. This is why today, right now, the biggest companies in America are trying to squash unionization of their laborers and why those workers are fighting so hard to unionize.
@tikkunolamorgtfo did a great write-up a few years ago about the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, and I highly recommend reading it (and anything else you can about the fire). It is painfully relevant still and it's incredibly important women's, Jewish, immigrants', and workers' history.
Reblogged master-apology
Age of Empires 2 should have a fantasy dlc. just a bunch of ahistorical scenarios adding fantastic medieval units. some existing historic campaigns already feature limited supernatural elements so it's not that much of a stretch, plus mapmakers would love it. i know Age of Mythology is a thing i just want to see little prerendered unicorns. arthurian legends cmon. mesoamerican myths. just put whatever in there. werewolves. pixies. chinese hopping vampires. "my liege, a tarasque is threatening our crops!" kickass. kickass. i am speaking directly into your ear now. one expansion. no holds barred. AoE2: Wizards & Mermaids please and thank you
Reblogged strawberryjamsara
It's actually crazy how Kill la Kill shouts at the top of its lungs how it's ABOUT FASCISM right from the get-go and this is like the least discussed aspect of the series, because people are much more interested in arguing about all the nudity. Honnouji Academy is a microcosm of a fascist state. Those who pledge loyalty to the regime and spread its influence are given rewards and a better standard of living, and all the while a lower class is maintained so the upper classes have someone to look down on, distracting them from the system's oppression. The show is not subtle at all about its intermingling of school systems and the military, or how the students take pride in being part of a greater whole. The very first scene of the first episode literally opens on a history lesson about Hitler. It's soooo not subtle.
Exactly!
Reblogged chairteeth
I come from a culture that has no nudity taboo - nudity is not considered inherently sexual, or somehow traumatising to witness. What that means in practice is that there is a clearly drawn line between sexual and non-sexual nudity. There is nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a sexual context, and nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a non-sexual context. However, it is 100% inappropriate to be nude in a situation where it is not obvious from context whether this is sexual or not.
I've seen random kids who briefly escaped from their parents bolt across a public park buck-ass naked after they were playing in the water fountain and their parents were in the middle of changing their kid from wet clothes to dry clothes when the small nudist escaped. Changing your small kid's clothes right there in public is ok because there is obviously nothing sexual about a child whose clothes got wet. But although people will have baby pictures of their kids in the bath or just running around the house like that because sometimes little apes hate clothes for some reason, it's considered common sense to not share those pictures on facebook mom groups and such, because you have no way of knowing who's seeing them, and that blurs the line of context.
It all boils down to the clearly defined context. Bathing nude in the same sauna with five of your co-workers at the office christmas party? Clearly nonsexual, therefore completely fine. Your friend-with-benefits inviting you to come over and opening the door in nothing but a doggy collar and the most porn-scented perfume? Clearly sexual, therefore completely fine. A woman checking her breasts for lumps in the gym lockers just before or after a shower? Clearly non-sexual, therefore completely fine.
But if you went to the bank today and there's some guy who walks in and immediately strips naked, doing his banking business wearing nothing but a deep smile and being clearly very content with this situation, you have no way of telling whether he's getting kicks out of this or not. There is no contextual reason for him to be nude. Therefore, that is inappropriate.
Then you go home and post on tumblr - as one does - going like "there was some dude completely fucking buck-ass naked in the bank today. That was fucking weird and I wish he had not done that." And someone immediately swoops into inform you that actually nudity is not inherently sexual or inappropriate, and there are cultures out there that have no nudity taboo. It's not fair to call somebody a freak for something like that, maybe that guy was just finnish.
Reblogged therosielord
helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!
I think I found the article!
Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.
Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.
It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:
Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.
The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.
Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
I also thought this part was cool :)
PLEASE read this article, this information is incredible for everyone looking to unlearn bioessentialism
Reblogged abundantchewtoys
One of the many problems with using euphemistic language is that the euphemism eventually just becomes the new word for the thing. We can't use "ejaculated" as a dialogue tag anymore because that's just the normal word for nutting. We can't refer to a dialogue as an "intercourse" anymore because that's just the normal word for fucking.
And referring to a construction project as "an erection" is right out. They won't even tee-hee about how you used a word that also means penis; they'll just think you're calling the building a penis and wonder what that's supposed to mean.
That eccentric bisexual mountaineer made roughly the same observation in his novel Moonchild:
This also keeps happening to all the words for "place where you poop". The word "bathroom" is perceived as indelicate even though it literally means "room where you bathe". Likewise the word "toilet", for both the room and the piece of plumbing. I'm not sure I could define the literal meaning of "commode" on a bet.
We've got so many layered euphemisms that when I read Le Guin's The Dispossesed and encountered the wholly non-euphemistic term "shitstool", I was genuinely shocked to realize I had never heard a non-euphemistic term for it before.
You guys don't call it the crapper?
Reblogged chairteeth
When a Touka is on the loose…
Reblogged loreleywrites
It's so, SO important to share success stories like this. I know an actual JPL engineer who doesn't believe in climate change because, "you never hear about acid rain anymore."
He thinks climate change can be lumped in with acid rain and the ozone layer of "things that were overblown and not really important because no one talks about it anymore."
It didn't even occur to him that we actively fixed the problem. Here's the EPA page on acid rainfall.
From the page:
It's also important to talk about success stories tonfuel hope that we can overcome current and future conservation and environmental issues.
Reblogged therosielord
You know, rivers catching on fire used to be a regular occurrence.
Boring, even. Mundane. People just accepted that rivers had oil slicks floating on them that could be lit by somebody throwing their cigarette in the wrong place. Cities had regular protocols in place on what to do when the river caught on fire.
The modern environmentalism movement wasn’t just started by hippies you know. Regular people cared about this stuff because their rivers caught on fire and existing near farms gave them cancer and by the 1970s they weren’t even seeing that much economic benefit from it.
If you don’t live in a world where rivers regularly catch on fire it’s because of stuff like the clean water and air acts. A lot of rivers in the US that in the first half of the 20th century regularly caught on fire are now safe to swim and fish in.
A lot of environmental damage is reversible if we act. We’ve got a lot of success stories like this actually. A lot of formerly endangered species have come back, fish have returned to American rivers, the ozone layer is being restored.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen next with the environment but I hold out at least a little bit of hope. Because rivers used to catch on fire and now for the most part they don’t.