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This is also why water doesn't splash up when you hold the spoon upside down. The spoon doesn't know of gravity. Up is the direction that it faces. If "soup" is hitting the down part, then you have to route it around to the up part.

A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.

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Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you’re currently wearing.

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Reblogging with the intent of making out of lego someday soon

Since I delisted my portfolio on Artstation due to their support for AI, I am uploading art here from now on. Armbot Bulleteer

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Vienpadsmit

I miss the world before AI image generation

Secondly, I also miss the world where AI image generation was just incoherent blobs and obvious fakes

Thirdly, I miss when I had a spark in my eye

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Despite socks being a protective layer on your feet, clean enough for socks is cleaner than clean enough for bare feet.

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Girl you okay...? You had me worried for a minute. You spaced out for a while in there. Was it... them?? Were you thinking about it? Were you thinking about how "they found each other in the wreckage of optimism, and it took them a decade to decide that hope was not enough to save the Golden Branch from itself. It was in a library, not an armory, where the Apostolosian became the sword and shield of Integrity, a Divine who’d lost its Candidate. Some climb into their Divines, others deploy them across the battlefield, or fight under the blanket of their shadows."

"But Integrity demands intimacy."

"It digs into the flesh of the willing, all metal and promises and penetralia, desperate to create an unbreakable unity. It is afraid, and wounded, and it cannot know the power it gives without seeing it first in the reflection of a Candidate's eyes: the loft, the velocity, the violence. And for the first time in centuries, Integrity doesn’t fear its Candidate. It moves with confidence, in muscle and ambition. It believes in Sokrates Nikon Artemisios."

Girl are you okay? Are you good? Please stop crying.

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I like the intensity of "my brother in christ" and "in the year of our lord", but also don't want to maintain christianity's cultural valence

so for a recent message i looked up Mayan gods and timekeeping, to say "in the tun of Alom 13.0.12?"

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watching a video essay

and y'all?

Al Pacino in heat

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They came in glowing like the weakspot on an enemy robot

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Ai companies when they ask for regulation, they want to be regulated like weapons – considered dangerous and sexy, something governments want. Instead they should be regulated like cigarettes and robot calls – considered a social ill that benefits only the company behind it.

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Latvian fun fact

The word for fertilizing (as a field and not as an egg) translates literaly to crappening. Now, importantly, some might say "manuring" or somesuch. But you're missing the evocative nature of the word. What is manure? When did you learn the word? Definitely not at the same time you learned, shit, poop, dung, crap or even feces. Manure is this sanitised word for a farming substance that let's you distance it in your brain from the fact that it's literal shit.

Mēslošana, the mēsli are right there in the name. You cannot pretend the shitty reality away.

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In fact, even Russia isn't all Russians. It's still an empire with many subject nations that are at the sucking end of the extraction and exploitation pipe. Kalmyk, Chechen, Nogai, Abhaz, Buryat and many other peoples that I can't name off the top of my head did nothing to deserve outsiders reinforcing their erasure.

The thing I noticed a lot of people from non-postsoviet countries don't understand and frankly don't care about is the importance of NOT calling the Soviet Union just Russia and soviet citizens just russians. Because it wasn't just Russia, it was a multicultural state with lots of nationalities in it and after the collapse of the USSR they all finally gained independence. It was not just russians who fought Nazis in the WW2, it was not Russia that were destroyed and exploited by them the most.

You don't call the whole European Union just Germany or France or whatever because it's not, it's a union (that also acts like a union and not like a totalitarian regime that suppresses all the national identities and forces on everyone just one specific identity that it deems to be superior).

By calling USSR Russia people enable and support russian narrative of all the countries that were a part of the Soviet Union being also a part of Russia. Which is not fucking true and is actually the driving force behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

So please be mindful of what you say.

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If I lived a more confrontational life (and a more anglophone one), I would come up with a usecase for calling someone base instead of based.

Because they are of low moral character. And they lack the d.

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So girlie is a fine term for aficionado. But as much as I don't mind being a [subject] girlie, it's also not the preferred term I would reach for. So I saw someone use "birdie". Which is fun and fits their vibe. Not for me, but cool.

And after thinking about it very long and hard (~17 seconds), I think I might be a [subject] entitie.

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Hey, someone made a nice video about games 4 sickos!

I have developed a new name for a not so new concept.

The "Games4Sickos metagenre"

This is the thing that unites all the super-detailed games like Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Aurora 4X, etc. etc. etc.

If a game has an obsessive love for the intricate details of something, it might be considered part of this.

It's a metagenre, because it covers games that (can) play very differently to each other. They tend to skew towards strategy and management, but that's not a necessary part. The only necessary part is complexity and the fun of attaining mastery over it.

Simulators seem like a natural fit, but many games that are [Thing] Simulator simplify things very much. However Microsoft Flight Sim and The Bus seem like standouts that are Games4Sickos.

There is a strong undercurrent of Solo Developer Pursuing Their One Thing, which is a setup that is productive in making Games4Sickos, but again, not strictly the only way to get there.

Also, suggest me some G4S, my distractable brain needs more landing points.