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fuck it. i needed to take a break from this website anyway, and the current crowd who has found the 'don't embrace your heritage actually' post are a good extra reason

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Sigma, this isn’t about RETVRN This is about preserving the positive parts of your culture.

Sorry, "reject modernity embrace tradition" isn't about RETVRN? What?

Is your argument really "people are chanting a reactionary slogan and pretending it's a positive leftist message, but that's fine, because they're not chanting this other specific reactionary slogan, which is what would really be beyond the pale"?

Which reactionary slogans are we supposed to interpret as reactionary slogans these days? Should I be giving the benefit of the doubt to the next person who talks about securing the existence of their people and a future for their children, as long as they are very careful not to include the word 'white'?

Stop swallowing the fucking poison.

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i think on some level 'market manipulation of memecoins' just feels like a fake crime to me. like talking about murder when someone kills your character in a videogame. presumably i guess one of those videogames where people spend thousands of dollars in lootboxes or something.

like yeah i'm sure it was very upsetting to lose that but it seems to me the real problem here is that you're spending too much money on lootboxes

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it's not! like i said, not opposites

'fenestrate' and 'defenestrate' are both verbs but they are not opposites. if you fenestrate someone and then defenestrate them they will not end up the same as before, they will end up seriously injured in two different ways.

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'fenestrate' and 'defenestrate' are both verbs but they are not opposites. if you fenestrate someone and then defenestrate them they will not end up the same as before, they will end up seriously injured in two different ways.

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US defaultism is insane yesterday l said on a discord server “it’s winter but I’m not cold. whyyy...” and they responded “dude it’s summer. it’s july” and then proceeded to DOUBLE DOWN when I explained that they were thinking of the wrong hemisphere

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wow i came across a post with filtered terms that I filtered out because those posts are usually annoying, and it, turns out, after clicking on the post anyway and reading it. the post was annoying

who could possibly have seen that one coming

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oh yeah btw for those not in the loop wildbows in talks to sell the worm IP to one direction

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i really like the quadrupedal thing they did with swampert in gen 6, which is why it's so disappointing that mega swampert kinda sucks, design-wise. went from really intimidating frog to boring bodybuilder

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they might also not have a phrase with the meaning of 'french braid' if nobody braids their hair that way. which i also haven't decided. but anyway y'all get the point

This is not why I made that specific choice, but as it turns out deciding that the fantasy setting in which the story takes place has a creator god who was, effectively, looking at Earth and saying 'hey that looks neat, I am going to do something like that' solves a lot of unnecessary worldbuilding rumination points.

"Why did this biosphere evolve so many of the same animals as Earth, including humans?" it didn't, someone looked at Earth life and copied it over

"Does it make sense geologically that there would be mountains in this specific location?" irrelevant question, planet wasn't the result of geological processes, someone literally put the mountains there cause they wanted to.

it's convenient because the whole point of this project was 'stop getting stuck on worldbuilding questions and have fun telling a story' and it is a really useful shortcut to get my brain into the right mindset

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anyway the reason this post exists is because i was trying to explain the reason it really bothers me when people respond to my 'ghosts don't exist' posts with 'what's the harm in believing in ghosts' with an extended metaphor but then I thought "well, maybe I'm weird about this and this extended metaphor will not actually land at all"

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When I travel, it's usually to the country's capital but then sometimes I meet citizens of this country in different circumstances and they say they've never been there. I'm not judging because some capitals are far away and expensive but I'm wondering...

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well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?

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i also made the translation convention explicit, rather than rely on people naturally understanding that it should be happening, which would hopefully forestall arguments like "why do they have the word 'lesbian' if they don't have the isle of lesbos" (they don't have that word, they have a different word with a similar meaning. there is a specific person translating all the dialogue into English)

i mean i haven't decided if they do have a word with that meaning, they have a different understanding of sexuality. but in principle.

again, avoiding arguments about translation is not why i did that, but it might be a happy side effect. if y'know people who don't understand translation convention ever read my work.

This is not why I made that specific choice, but as it turns out deciding that the fantasy setting in which the story takes place has a creator god who was, effectively, looking at Earth and saying 'hey that looks neat, I am going to do something like that' solves a lot of unnecessary worldbuilding rumination points.

"Why did this biosphere evolve so many of the same animals as Earth, including humans?" it didn't, someone looked at Earth life and copied it over

"Does it make sense geologically that there would be mountains in this specific location?" irrelevant question, planet wasn't the result of geological processes, someone literally put the mountains there cause they wanted to.

it's convenient because the whole point of this project was 'stop getting stuck on worldbuilding questions and have fun telling a story' and it is a really useful shortcut to get my brain into the right mindset

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may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

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This is not why I made that specific choice, but as it turns out deciding that the fantasy setting in which the story takes place has a creator god who was, effectively, looking at Earth and saying 'hey that looks neat, I am going to do something like that' solves a lot of unnecessary worldbuilding rumination points.

"Why did this biosphere evolve so many of the same animals as Earth, including humans?" it didn't, someone looked at Earth life and copied it over

"Does it make sense geologically that there would be mountains in this specific location?" irrelevant question, planet wasn't the result of geological processes, someone literally put the mountains there cause they wanted to.

it's convenient because the whole point of this project was 'stop getting stuck on worldbuilding questions and have fun telling a story' and it is a really useful shortcut to get my brain into the right mindset

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If you want to search the outline of a PDF (i.e. chapter headers and subheaders and so on) in Evince*, the hotkey is ctrl+L. You can also do that by typing into the page number box and pressing enter, and by right-clicking into the outline box and selecting the "Search in the outline..." option, but if you want to do it without using the mouse, you can use the above keyboard shortcut, ctrl+L.

This information is, for some unaccountable reason, very hard to find on the internet. Google's AI, for instance, told me there was no such hotkey. Which, yeah, AI does that, but maybe it wouldn't if it was easy to find a website that had the information in my first sentence.

Strictly speaking ctrl+L is the hotkey to input a page number, but as stated above if you type into the page number box and press enter, that searches the outline. There is not, to my knowledge, any hotkey that opens the same box you get if you right-click and pick "Search in the outline...", which has slightly different properties. But ctrl+L serves my purposes and it might serve yours, too.

*Evince is the default PDF viewer in Ubuntu, you might also know it as Document Viewer.