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Hamlet as a D&D paladin.

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some gems of insight from the reblogs (@aspiring-protagonist​ and @moderndayathena​):

Weren’t you listening? He’s praying. GOES HARD AS FUCK

THIS!! THIS SCENE!!

Everyday I come across people who say ‘oh he was a procrastinator, oh he could have killed his uncle at anytime why didn’t he’

And everyone who says that is Missing. The. Point.

We've lost a lot to the onslaught of enshittification but I can think of none more brazen than Discord getting rid of the send button

Oh, you've typed a message? You've typed a message? Would you like to add a sticker (server stickers available with Nitro Boosts(TM).) Would you like to add an emoji (more custom emojis available with Nitro(TM).) Would you like to send a gift (gift your friend Nitro(TM) for only $9.99 a month.) Would you like to add an app (more apps available in the Nitro Store(TM).)

They got rid of the send message button. On the send messages to my friends app. In order to make room for a 5th button that sells you something. The parody is too bold people will roll their eyes you have to scale it back.

I would like to gently point out that the send button can be enabled or disabled under accessibility,

Also, if you're someone who'd like to customize your discord further, or remove nitro garbage or bypass it, better discord (an open source project) can be used on desktop for a lot of fun results:

Plugin options can entirely replicate nitro stuff, and enhance privacy, such as:

"Fuck those buttons"

"Hey maybe I don't want you to know when I'm typing"

"Fuck the character limit"

"Can I see my friends in a normal manner please"

"I would like navigating discord to be like a powerpoint please"

And many other features that range from helpful to profoundly useless but fun.

Enshittification sucks, but the first step to undoing it is taking control of your experiences and helping others do the same. So hopefully this helps a little?

my kid has started to write stories and like, no lies, they’re funny as fuck

actual dialogue:

“to your battle stations, boys! it’s time to line up and see who’s tall enough for the roller coaster to hell!! some of us may not survive this, but the ones that do will get the ultimate reward.... paid.”

“here’s a penny for your thoughts, and a quarter to not tell me them”

B A B E

“everyone knows those quiet girls. the ones who never say anything at school unless a teacher makes them. the ones who you see every day but don’t know what they sound like when they laugh. lindsey is not one of those girls, but the teacher wishes she was.”

“lindsey was always loud, especially when she was being kind. she didn’t smile at people to make them happier, she screamed all the reasons they shouldn’t be sad. it was hard not to listen.”

i can’t wait to read this book tbh

My Blorbo In Hesh

Your kid is going places

What a great quote from this article on competitive Microsoft Excel

competitive WHAT NOW?

Cass is actually the only bat who doesn't vanish on Gordon while his back is turned. She vanishes on him while he's looking directly at her and he finds this much more alarming.

To the folks saying that Xbox was laughed at when they announced the Xbox One was not going to let you run games without mandatory internet checks every so often and then bullied into NOT doing it...

They did do it back then. They're still doing it now. They just don't tell you up front anymore.

And the company (Sony) that made fun of them at that E3 also started doing it and are still doing it now. They ALSO don't tell you up front.

And Steam does it for a bunch of titles.

And Epic's game services does it too.

And so do all digital distribution platforms.

And so do any/all software that have become "subscription services" too.

This has been going on for 15+ years now, it's been a whole ass war on you NOT actually owning the digital version of the thing you "purchase" and that the company you buy it from has the ability to lock you out of it temporarily or permanently on a whim.

It ain't just a gaming issue, it's a whole Companies Vs The People issue on all fronts.

Like seriously a company, once again, tells you "Yeah that's what this is and what it always has been" and people are acting like this is NEW.

It ain't new, you've just been not informed by the companies doing it to you for the last 15+ years after one company got made fun of for it one time and they learned that telling you made you mad.

So when a different company tells you again and you get mad again - we're just gonna repeating the cycle in infinitum until a real solution is found.

"WE TANKED XBOX FOR LESS THAN THIS!"

We did not tank them.

We did not wreck them.

We did not bully them into submission.

They just said "NEVERMIND" to our faces and then did it anyway without being super obvious about it and are still doing it today.

As someone who took etiquette lessons, politeness is an incredibly effective tool for disarming bigots. You can either force them to reconsider their words/actions by directly and calmly confronting their behavior (by using the rules of society in your favor), or you can dip entirely while they appear to be in the wrong.

Both options are great.

Because the thing is, when bigots pick fights, they are 100% counting on you to get louder than them. Or meaner. They want you to react emotionally and provide fodder for their 'You're Too Emotionally Immature To Understand' cannon.

What they aren't expecting you to do is say one of the following phrases in a polite, concerned tone:

For those of you who'd are spiteful and/or dealing with Fundamentalists/Evangelicals/generally shitty Christians:

And my all time favorite:

"It sounds to me like there are some seriously dark and angry forces at work in your heart."

(Nothing stops a Christian bigot in their tracks faster than implying the Devil is causing their bigotry. But you MUST be calm, polite, and gentle with your tone and wording. It is absolutely fair to twist the rules and play them at their own game, but you gotta play hard.)

TLDR: It's much faster to use etiquette, politeness, and rhetoric reversal when eviscerating idiots online and in person, because they aren't expecting you to weaponize their behaviors back in their direction. Don't get angry, get spitefully polite! :)

I once witnessed a very soft-spoken young Southern man take a hateful older woman’s hands gently in his and say “Sister, I am so sorry that the Devil has carved a home for hatred in your heart. I’ll pray for you.”

It was glorious.

This works with all sorts of inappropriate behavior. I work as the archivist in a public library, so I end up on the reference desk a lot, and sometimes patrons will say or do things that aren't exactly appropriate. When patrons try to hit on me, I put on a teacher voice and calmly ask, "Is that an appropriate question to ask someone at work?" and it shuts them down immediately.

This sort of thing always does the trick.

"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws

So Crawford won. Elon is, as far as I know, still being investigated for ~election crimes~ in Wisconsin. Canada is still investigating Tesla's alleged fraud with rebates. Illinois just elected a bunch of Democrats for local offices. Louisiana rejected a bunch of Republican proposed changes to their state constitution. Cory Booker held the floor of the Senate for 25 hours, breaking the record of racist shitheel Strom Thurmond and in the process, listing out the sins of the Trump administration in the Senate records and delaying their vote for some other Trump asshole. And Speaker of the House Mike Johnson got embarrassed by House Republicans joining Dems in opposing him and threw a baby hissy fit and shut down the House for a week.

We didn't get Florida. But look at all that up there.

Oh and tomorrow, Tesla has to share information about how many cars it actually delivered in the first three months of the year, which unless they fudge the books, is going to be a lower number than they would like, and might make their stock dip some more. Or just drop. Forbes has provided a little graph of their sales.

Edit: and oh shit! Mike Waltz fucked up again and got caught using fucking Gmail for work discussions. Gmail. Because Google never spied on anyone. (He has a government email address.)

Logan is a terrible person whose primary issues (failkids) are entirely self-inflicted.

THAT BEING SAID. If I worked my ass off all my life only to realize that, in my efforts, I have given birth to Wealthy Children, I too would be a massive asshole. Like moreso than I was before

The problem with being a self-made man is that if you have kids they will be rich kids, the worst variety of kid.

This is why every rich person, the moment they realize they will have a child, MUST larp as a poor or working class person for about the first 20 years of that kid's life

And don't hop up my ass about ethics or whatever. If, upon turning 21, my parents had been like, "Sike, hey, we're loaded, we pretended to be struggling financially all your life so you learned the value of hard work and what not. All your student loans are paid off." I would have forgiven them.

Can people stop being funnier than me for like, twenty minutes. Please

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

. . .

If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

Not to start discourse but I will be forever mad that every time I go into the Goncharov tag I see people complaining that they watched the movie expecting a soft queer romcom about pure cinnamon rolls and instead they got a complex and violent film about deeply flawed people where everyone dies.

By all means, engage in fandom however you choose. But don’t blame the source material for not being consistent with some random fanon on tumblr. Kinda wild to get mad that the movie about violent, morally dark grey criminals has violence, crime and moral greyness in it. You know? Also, imho given the time this movie was made, the queer coding was daring; this is NOT an example of queerbaiting.

collection of some of my favourite derek guy (dieworkwear on twitter/the menswear guy) tweets

throwing it back woeful style

! You can make any male character significantly hotter by giving them excessive piercings.

! Bulletholes do count.