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This is a game that knows you sometimes find random abandoned limestone kilns in the middle of the woods.

I'd seen lots of people describe Night in the Woods as being heavily rooted in the experience of growing up in a dying small town in the American Rust Belt, but somehow nobody told my West Virginian ass that it's so Appalachian that I probably live closer to where Mae's house would be than to the nearest IKEA.

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I cannot convey to people who did not grow up being ferried to Pittsburgh to visit the Carnegie Science Center about once a year for most of elementary school what my emotional experience was on realizing that the rich asshole mine boss who bought the town a really nice public library because he started giving lavishly to charity in his old age would literally be Andrew Carnegie.

Hey Mae if your dad can get a day off work we could all go to the National Aviary, it rules-

I'd seen lots of people describe Night in the Woods as being heavily rooted in the experience of growing up in a dying small town in the American Rust Belt, but somehow nobody told my West Virginian ass that it's so Appalachian that I probably live closer to where Mae's house would be than to the nearest IKEA.

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I'd seen lots of people describe Night in the Woods as being heavily rooted in the experience of growing up in a dying small town in the American Rust Belt, but somehow nobody told my West Virginian ass that it's so Appalachian that I probably live closer to where Mae's house would be than to the nearest IKEA.

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@galileosballs

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...So no Cannibalism?

[Check out the trailer and wishlist Mandrake on Steam!]

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I'm working on a research paper in a group project for grad school. One of my teammates used ChatGPT for his part of the project. I can tell because it referenced 2 papers that do not exist.

In H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, the subterranean Morlocks regularly hunt and eat the naive Eloi, the latter of whom have lost the intelligence and spirit possessed by humanity.

Wells does not mention that the first time a Morlock killed and devoured an Eloi, it was in this exact situation, but I'm pretty sure that was implied.

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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All these people reblogging my NNK2 thread and tagging it "WHAT???" have no idea. They haven't seen HALF of my Rolandposting. They don't know his son has daddy issues and thinks his fantasy outfit looks stupid. They don't know he has an awkward smile so gruesome that I cannot believe it wasn't an electoral liability, and that the catboy starts imitating it. They don't know about the time Leander was very seriously explaining that another country relies not on magic, but on a mysterious arcane art known as "science," and Roland's poker face didn't so much as budge. They don't even know about that time he slew a dragon over a grudge against some kids in elementary school. This is like Underappreciated Drac Facts all over again. :::')))

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beatrice motivational posters :) first one was a request that i had so much fun with i decided to do a second one.

based on the neopets motivational & april fools motivational posters thank u to my friend who suggested them!

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It's always a sign of quality in a video game when there are cutscenes dedicated to characters getting into arguments about insect taxonomy.

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@nothingatallnice , I thought you might enjoy the addition of the second half of this post.

This is some sort of scale, but I have no idea what it's measuring.

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what if tomb raiders unleashed an ancient and powerful magical being except the being was just merlin, a real guy who exists and who has a lot of political sway on account of the whole king arthur thing. and he wasn't actually locked up for that long because the actual goal was just to stop him from campaigning against brexit. and what if merlin was such a drama-loving messy bitch that it's actually really difficult to tell who locked him up even aside from the whole brexit thing. this is the plot of martha wells' witch king.

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what IS a pitbull

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Take 40 seconds out of your day to be immersed in the chicken coop

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So I am aware! Hence the asking instead of launching into the long-winded rant. It's just that it is a joke that relies on someone being Wrong on the Internet, and I have a lot of Thoughts about magic in LotR.

Do you actually want an answer on the Boromir thing, because I don't want to launch into a self-important "WELL ACTUALLY" LotR rant unprompted but he was not stupid and I can explain why-

It was a Gag. A Joke, that is. A Jest, if you will :-}