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Hey, game designers! Stop being cowards and make a tabletop JRPG where the damage numbers go into the thousands at least already
you're in luck
In The Time Of Monsters has this beat by an order of magnitude
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you're on a game show hosted by a computer. the computer has been programmed to follow a very specific set of instructions that have nothing to do with influencing your decision. the game show proceeds as follows;
you are presented with 3 doors. behind one door is one million dollars. behind the other 2 doors is a goat that indicates you get nothing. you are asked to pick one of the three doors. let's say you pick door number one (1).
the computer opens door number two (2), and reveals a goat. the computer then offers you this: you can either stay with the door you picked (1) or switch to the unopened door (3).
This is leaving out the crucial rule that the computer specifically chose to open a goat door. If the computer chose randomly and the door just happened to be a goat, that doesn't give you any reason to think switching is a good idea. The key fact here is that the host is eliminating all of the wrong answers but one, which sets the odds that door 3 is the right answer equal to the odds that door 1 isn't the write answer, ie 2 out of 3.
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They're making Hercules She/Hercules. Because of woke.
They're calling She/Hercules They/Themcules. Because of transmisogyny.
@paradoxius stop being funnier than me on my post
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You know how there's IRL movies where the protagonist is some lame loser dude who ends up paired up in a crazy situation with a badass woman with years of experience in [crazy situation] and she trains him and he's way better than her in half the time and is the only one who can defeat the bad guy and also she swoons and falls in love with him and becomes a submissive wife. The Drow from Silk & Dagger would make those movies with the sexes reversed.
Klutzy loser elf who can't pass the Drow test gets isakaied to the surface world where she's underestimated by haughty men and has to have her ass saved repeatedly by the hot badass prince who's secretly a ninja assassin and she's like tongue-hanging-out horny for him but he's prudish and sick of her shit and a little flustered because no one's every appreciated him like that because they're all too intimidated by him but eventually he humors her and starts training her and she's surprisingly good at human martial arts because she's pure of heart or whatever but then he gets captured and she has to start fending for herself and she almost gives up but then she remembers to believe in herself and attacks the evil base with everything she's learned and rescues the prince who's being forced to wear a sexy little outfit he hates by the villain who is an evil Drow who was exiled to the surface and has been taking it over and she rescues the guy who's so so happy to see her and he does less fighting in this part and only against other men because the villain's lieutenants and Drow and the hero has bigger and much more serious fights against them to finally prove herself and she defeats the villain who dies because she's too proud to surrender because even though she's evil she's still a Drow and before she dies she makes it clear that this all constitutes the hero finally passing the Drow test and becoming a Drow and it's cool respect between enemy warriors but then the base is on fire (which is especially dangerous on the surface because of all the wood, as we established earlier) and so they have to run and escape at the last second which probably involves having to hold on to each other and jump and the hero and the prince land safely together and after this everyone is going to love and appreciate the hero forever but for now they're alone and they kiss and the prince realizes that he kinda likes the sexy little outfit
Does NOT pass the reverse bechdel test
Reblogged thydungeongal
You know how there's IRL movies where the protagonist is some lame loser dude who ends up paired up in a crazy situation with a badass woman with years of experience in [crazy situation] and she trains him and he's way better than her in half the time and is the only one who can defeat the bad guy and also she swoons and falls in love with him and becomes a submissive wife. The Drow from Silk & Dagger would make those movies with the sexes reversed.
Klutzy loser elf who can't pass the Drow test gets isakaied to the surface world where she's underestimated by haughty men and has to have her ass saved repeatedly by the hot badass prince who's secretly a ninja assassin and she's like tongue-hanging-out horny for him but he's prudish and sick of her shit and a little flustered because no one's every appreciated him like that because they're all too intimidated by him but eventually he humors her and starts training her and she's surprisingly good at human martial arts because she's pure of heart or whatever but then he gets captured and she has to start fending for herself and she almost gives up but then she remembers to believe in herself and attacks the evil base with everything she's learned and rescues the prince who's being forced to wear a sexy little outfit he hates by the villain who is an evil Drow who was exiled to the surface and has been taking it over and she rescues the guy who's so so happy to see her and he does less fighting in this part and only against other men because the villain's lieutenants and Drow and the hero has bigger and much more serious fights against them to finally prove herself and she defeats the villain who dies because she's too proud to surrender because even though she's evil she's still a Drow and before she dies she makes it clear that this all constitutes the hero finally passing the Drow test and becoming a Drow and it's cool respect between enemy warriors but then the base is on fire (which is especially dangerous on the surface because of all the wood, as we established earlier) and so they have to run and escape at the last second which probably involves having to hold on to each other and jump and the hero and the prince land safely together and after this everyone is going to love and appreciate the hero forever but for now they're alone and they kiss and the prince realizes that he kinda likes the sexy little outfit
Reblogged txttletale
My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix
The first time he showed me this I assumed he was pranking me
Reblogged yamino
society if Animorphs and Harry Potter swapped pop cultural impacts
To be or not– but hold that fatal question: I am advis'd by mem'ry's wisest counsel That jests at dying by oneself do naught, But give a melancholy temp'rament Yet more excess of bile: so speak me thus, I'll take up arms against a sea of troubles By putting 'pon the stage the greatest play That Denmark's royal court has e'er attended
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An ad for your deepest desires :)
You know what I just admire the graphic design on this
It FEELS so much like a real ad I expect to be sold some sort of car tyre or something but it’s just about biting
1000/10 excellent job
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we need more pathetic female characters written by authors who don't hate women
to be clear since this is making the rounds: she has to be an absolute loser in no way that can be pinned on her gender. no "i'm just a girl tee-hee" stuff. straight up just a loser (nondenominational)
addendum: she must be the most important person in the whole narrative
I decided to sit down and concentrate and properly write the list of rules that qualify a character for this role.
- FIRST LAW: This character must be a woman.
- SECOND LAW: This character must be a loser, but not in a way that can be pinned on her gender. Misogynistic response from the audience does disqualify the character.
- THIRD LAW: If the audience does not enjoy this character, then it becomes impossible to enjoy the show/film/book/game altogether. It is not possible to ignore this character, for better or for worse.
- FOURTH LAW: The character must make bad decisions, and not just be a victim of poor circumstances outside of her control. The character can also be a victim of poor circumstances outside of her control, but it has to be primarily her personal choices that deem her a loser.
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it is funny when people act as though no transitional program for family abolition exists when cuba’s family code is right there
replacing the concept of parental custody with parental responsibility alone is like. unthinkable in most places on planet earth. it may seem contradictory that steps towards broadening and expanding what a family “is” is a step towards family abolition, but those steps both create division between strict bioessentialist definitions of the family and enshrines the dignity and personhood of (particularly structurally vulnerable) individuals within a family unit, giving children elderly and disabled persons the right to recourse when their rights are infringed upon by family members
Reblogged batmanisagatewaydrug
really good tiktok
Transcript:
Girl, just do it fat. Don’t wait until you’ve lost enough weight. You’re worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Don’t wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isn’t tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. You’re allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Don’t let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. There’s no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that you’re not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.
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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly
genekellys
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I think about how they used to do trepanation and bloodletting for medicinal purposes and how foolish it seems in hindsight. Like, obviously you need brains to live and you shouldn't cut holes in your skull. Obviously you need blood to live and you shouldn't slice open your flesh. But somehow people still convinced themselves that these approaches with no demonstrable record of making people healthier and which very closely resembled something that everyone knows kills people were the only thing that could help the sick.
And then I wonder if people in the future will look back on today's culture of weight loss and think, "obviously you need fat to live and you should't starve yourself."
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Anonymous asked:
why is the video game violence post silly? seems reasonable that [media form] causes [behavior], but that video games arent exceptional with regards to violence
i think it is simply very silly to start with a big hot-button question and frame yourself as an iconoclast saying what people Don't Want To Say and then to clarify that what you mean by it is something completely different and (within the social circles the post is clearly aimed at) anodyne. like, substituting "do video games cause violence?" for "are cultural products influenced by the society that produces them" isn't, as the op claimed, "rejiggering the question" it is "answering a totally different question with a totally different answer"
But you don't understand—if we:
- take the clearly loaded moral-panic-inflected question of "do video games cause violence?" and
- ignore the fact that under normal circumstances it is understood as meaning "is the medium of video games uniquely responsible for violent crime in the global north?" and
- instead interpret it as meaning "can a cultural product such as a video game have a role in explaining a particular violent act?" and
- take as a premise the reasonable assertion that telling stories about correct use of violence is one way that a dominant culture directs hegemonic violence, ignoring the fact that this requires us to understand video games as (1) not a cause of violence ex nihilo but a factor in who is and isn't targeted by violence, (2) not distinct from other forms of art in this capacity, and (3) part of a system of violent cultural hegemony rather than an external source of violence that threatens said hegemony, all of which contradict the normal assumptions raised by the question, and which taken together implicate the very cultural hegemony that those assumptions are meant to exonerate,
then it's actually a very reasonable point.