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I don't understand how i keep being surprised when people say the quiet Part Out loud when it comes to their bigotry

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what reading the financial times does

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the thing that kinda befuddles me, as a non-new yorker who does not follow new york city or state politics, is why cuomo of all people is the one centrist dems chose to throw all their weight behind. like. genuinely, what was the thinking there?? and the guy even has shooters, people who seem genuinely upset he lost instead of just shrugging and going "yeah, he was a bad candidate for a lot of reasons." i genuinely do not understand these people's politics. is it because they just hate mamdani that much? but even if you did, why is cuomo your guy??

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I just came up with a really inconvenient, possibly unplayable four-player game: The Evil Advisor

All you need is a completely normal chess board and a deck of cards that you can somehow divide into an even amount of cards that mean "yes" or "no". Out of the four players, only two need to know how to play chess - those play the role of advisor. The other two play as rulers. At the start of the game, both advisors pull a random card from the deck, which dictates whether their goal is to win the game, or lose it. They keep their respective card, showing it to nobody else.

The rulers, who ultimately choose where to move the pieces, always aim to win the chess game, and also know that the advisor may or may not be on their side, and don't know whether to trust the advisor or not.

If the ruler wins the chess game, they win the whole game. An advisor only wins if they reach their own goal - if an advisor's goal was to lose, but the ruler wins, the advisor loses, and vice versa.

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did some math based on adventurer's bible stuff about average sizes of tallmen & half-foots & the canon heights of the characters and. chilchuck is the half-foot equivalent of 6'5

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Light World class pic ☀️

Wireframe:

Solid View:

Raw Render (without comp):

Wooo its finally done peeps! At last, here's the Deltarune Light World group render featuring Alphys's whole class! It's sort of a counterpart to my Dark World group render from a couple days ago. I also added some comp to improve the lighting and reused an old bg (some of you might remember which anim that's from hehe).

From left to right: Susie, Kris, Berdly, Noelle, Alphys, Jockington, Temmie, Catti, Monster Kid and Snowy!

These models were a ton of work to make but overall I'm really happy with how this turned out. The only light world model missing here is Rudy... I didn't know how to add him here since this was supposed to be a class pic of sorts, but maybe I'll make a designated render for him one day, since I really like his character even though he doesn't get a lot of screentime in-game. Oh, also first look at Deltarune Alphys!! Since I already made her rig for my Undertale animation, I just had to model her Deltarune clothes and bind em to the rig with an extra switch.

Anyways, feel free to use this as a wallpaper if you want!

Here's a link to the full resolution should the resolution be crushed by Tumblr.

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my three favorite things are the oxford comma, irony, and missed opportunities

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The tragic thing is Iran’s had four or five major popular uprisings in the last decade or so, the brutal crushing of which had drained much of what remained of the Islamic Republic’s internal legitimacy.

But that’s probably all done for the foreseeable future. Iranians have a “rally around the flag” effect when they’re attacked by foreign powers just like any other country would.

I hope it’s short-lived, and Iranians go back to hating their government and fighting for its overthrow soon. But if it’s not and they don’t, it’s easy to understand why. Israel just killed about the same number of Iranian civilians (somewhere between 500 and 1000) as were killed by the government in the violent repression of the last major uprising in 2022-23.

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I noticed that a lot of people missed a small reference WB made about Jack Slash

So Jack Slash is obviously and purposely a Joker reference, meant to play into the fact that despite just being a homicidal clown, Joker is treated as a big bad player in the cape game (I personally find that incredibly dumb moment of him being so “crazy” that he is immune to Martian Manhunter mind powers to be the most memorable).

In Jack’s case, despite having a generally mid power (can project the edge of his blades as far as he can see), the fact that his Shard can boss other Shards around means that he’s always on top and cannot be defeated by Parahumans in a fight, so they need to use normal humans to defeat him.

The Joker and Jack Slash stuff is all well and good… until you remember there are 2 Jack Slashes.

Some of you might know what I mean, but for those who don’t, Eden’s/Contessa’s Interlude gave us an alternate timeline that shows us a heroic Jack Slash:

- Interlude 29 Worm

The Black Knight is Jack Slash, a member of the Wardens.

Jack Slash is a Dark Knight. A caped crusader with peak human skills that lets him hang with the big leagues.

He’s fucking Batman.

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Look there are cases where this is true but also if you say this is an aggrieved tone because you fell for an obvious bit I do kind of feel contempt for you. Just take the L.

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pepper tries to woo peach…..bonus episode

highlights include peach’s “….anyway” and pepper looking to me for moral support.

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Have you heard the tale of the queen of thieves?

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That's the thing about Deltarune, isn't it? The dark worlds are the escapism that fiction brings with it. They are, in some way, 'not real', but they allow for challenges, difficult as they may seem, to be overcome with a good afternoon of effort.

The light world, by contrast, is mundane reality, where people's problems aren't simply the set-up for them Learning a Lesson, but actually legitimate flaws that lead them to mess up in those perfectly mundane ways that people do to each other all the time.

Alphys is an insecure young woman having to fill the shoes of a legend in her teaching job, without the knowledge or experience to recognise that the teenager acting out is desperate to be seen and heard and supported.

It's unfair to say that Alphys is responsible for messing Susie up as much as she is, because this is the mundane world and that's not how it works, but she had opportunities to help that she missed or was too nervous to take.

And that's just really sad.

I could NEVER be one of those ppl complaining about the classic undertale characters being “irrelevant” in deltarune. I find the way deltarune highlights each of their flaws through their much more mundane lives so fascinating