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i'm sorry... my stuppiness never ends

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let’s lay flat on our ovoidal mama

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me giving a ted talk to no one about capitalism while washing my face

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idk if ive posted these

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Taski Maiden unemployed icon (more ena dbbq art)

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you haven't met all the people you will love & all the people who will love you.

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It would be really easy to prove that theory that being a serial killer isn't that difficult and that so many of them get away with it for so long because cops are kinda shit at everything but for reasons I hope are obvious I do not want to do that.

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let's 😐 with mama

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Dogweed beetle, they're so pretty!

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Did you know that the Dogwood Leaf Beetle (Calligrapha philadelphica) is a small lil guy native to North America?

Their elytra are beautifully decorated with dots and lines reminiscent of calligraphy, giving them their genus name. Their yellow/white elytra cover striking red wings that they use to fly from dogwood to dogwood.

They aren't much of a pest but do feast on the leaves of dogwood trees and can get out of hand if there are a lot of these beetles and only a few dogwoods.

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The Joker's iconic look is a fun little pop culture fossil. Like, he's not a circus clown or a birthday clown or a rodeo clown or any other kind of clown you might bump into today: he's specifically a vaudeville clown. We don't have those anymore, so that specific type of clown is now just "the Joker".

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Robot that casually claims to have a twelve-inch dick, but admits "I mean, I don't have it with me" any time it's challenged to prove it. It really does own a twelve-inch dick attachment, but never actually uses it – it has it specifically so that when it does this bit it's technically telling the truth.

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Not to be a technical writer on main, but I've been bumping into the idea lately that the only reason explaining yourself in more detail never seems to work is because neurotypical people are misunderstanding you on purpose, or because they have short attention spans, or because they just hate listening to you talk – and sure, occasionally that's even true, but most of the time the problem you're running into is more fundamental.

Every time you add more detail, you're running the risk of tripping over a bad assumption on your part about the listener's prior knowledge, or hitting the tipping point where they become overwhelmed with new information (and remember that you don't know which parts of what you're saying will be new information for them), or making a leap of logic that isn't as self-evident as you think it is, or any of a dozen other potential snags which, by definition, you will not see coming until it's too late to correct course.

Basically, every piece of information you add multiplies the odds of you getting blindsided by some vector of misunderstanding you didn't anticipate, even as it addresses the ones you did anticipate. The point of diminishing returns where continuing to elaborate increases the odds of unexpected miscommunication more than it decreases the odds of expected miscommunication is much nearer than you'd like.

The most effective act of communication is not the one which contains the most possible information, but the one which contains the smallest amount of information it possibly can while still getting its point across. It sucks, but it's the reality of the situation. People far more autistic than you have been trying for hundreds of years to invent a way of communicating which doesn't work this way, without success.

All of which is to say that "getting to the damn point" is legitimately a communication skill, not just an accommodation for people who aren't paying attention. If it's any consolation, it's something neurotypical people struggle with just as much as anyone else – if it was easy, technical writers wouldn't have jobs!

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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Anyway I don't think players actually have to come up with backstories for their characters. They can if they want to and even if they write the dreaded "amnesia" trope in there that makes some people see red it's like whatever. As a GM I think it's always more interesting to find out what your character's deal is through play rather than read about it, and the stuff you'll do in play is probably going to be a lot more dynamic and interesting than anything pre-authored.

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Don’t be rude to whoever has the midnight shift at McDonalds