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Anyway if you like stealth games and haven't played Thief II: The Metal Age honestly what the fuck go play Thief II: The Metal Age. If you don't have it I will send you the installers from my G.O.G. copy that's how committed I am to you playing Thief II: The Metal Age.

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Are you a big fan of fucking with time signatures? If so do you have any like recommendations for songs like that

I used to do it a lot more often back in the day (e.g. my work on the first Beyond Flesh album), nowadays I mostly stick to 4/4 or 3/4 for most of my music, but sometimes play around with how I count the beats to make it sound more rhythmically complex than it actually is.

The advice I wish someone would have given me bc it would have saved me a lot of frustration when trying to make something actually listenable in odd time signatures is that an easy way you can make any time signature catchy is by counting the subdivisions in groups of 2 and 3. (e.g. if you're working with 5/4 you can count the 8th notes as 3+2+3+2 or 2+3+3+2 etc.)

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I thought this was a doctor who reference and that "this is how you lose the time war" in the tags was a joke about it almost being a french flag right up until the "book" tag

some more of the colourways I made of my timewar pattern!

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Like it's always funny how in this website it's almost always the fanartists and fic writers voicing the most hardcore anti "art theft" stances like buddy you REALLY don't know what you're asking for.

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native queers I love you 2Spirit fags and dykes I love you indigenous genderqueer people I love you third gender people I love you māhū I love you ahhhhhhhh

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I love how dorky the nomai are. They're this ancient, stupidly advanced civilisation so you'd expect them to be all high and mighty, yet you get lines like:

"Also I very much wanted to make a model"

"Hypothesis: there can exist too much lava"

"Science compels us to explode the sun"

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Just watched the new Miniminuteman video on The Great Raft and the consequences of removing it from the river, including the devastation of the local ecosystem leading to disrupting gathering and agricultural practices in the area and starving the Caddo people until they "agreed" to "sell" their land

happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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Reblogging so centaur matthew lillard comes to my house to give me cool rocks

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now. Suffice to say i dont think that relying on the magic 8ball for emotional support is a good idea with good outcomes. but its really funny to hear people be like "people are going to chatgpt instead of a Real Therapist" like a real therapist is basically just a guy lol theyre not that special. do you know how many times ive seen people talk about their therapist like. telling them to go to church, or straight up victim blaming them, or giving them other insnae nonsense advice--i feel like every single person i know who has done a non-neglible amount of therapy has at least one Batshit Insane Therapist story. like at least the magic 8ball cant have you sent to the big torture building if you freak it out too much

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check Blumineck's comment section on youtube, i'm certain you'll find some there https://www.youtube.com/@blumineck

edit: wait he has a tumblr? i may have made a grave error

We have enough knights bitch where are all the combat archer fetishists

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minor point but i do want to say that she wasnt selling them, she was GIVING THEM AWAY which is arguably worse (people she was offering to send them to just had to cover shipping)

if you find a part of a human body (not your own) you shouldn’t keep it in your house for the next 50 years. yeahhhhh. that jawbone is not for youuuuuuuu.

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Hold up

Im sorry

Fucking WHAT?

nobody talk to me about doctor who.

i am. upset about this.

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I would also like to recommend the Deptford Mice trilogy. I probably read it a bit too young cause some of the shit in that series gave me nightmares, but god damn if i didnt enjoy the story

god if you want to love a childrens series that bad go read fucking redwall or something. you can even pick an animal to reduce your whole personality down into there

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Gun Witch Recluse

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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Zeugma nuts, and my literature

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Any chance we can use this to divert some of Joanne's funds from making UK trans peoples lives hell?

Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.

It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:

📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.

✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!

🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.

✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.

Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘

Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.