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"I'm just a swirl" -ice cream cone who uses TikTok

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a few years ago, i made a flowchart for my partner in order to convince them to leave a pathfinder group that was actively making their life worse. today i revised my original chart to convince a friend to leave her d&d group that is actively making her life worse.

here is the chart. i promise its utility is not only with tabletop RPGs but it does have a high hit rate for those

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i think the thing about batman's no kill rule is that it's essentially bruce saying "guilty people don't deserve to be murdered on the street either, actually." and he's not wrong.

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space dragon rizz

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it sounds stupid but nobody talks about how many years of joyful swimming transphobia and dysphoria take away from you

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Trying to figure out anodites

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Some more Dead Pixel Spamton!

Played around some more with the Addisons :) I really like the idea of making them more ‘ad-like’ and sorta predatory, much like irl ads are. They glow like neon signs.

Ignore Pink’s fuckass outfit idk where I was going with it either, might change it later if I find the time and energy heehee

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what ARE your addison thoughts? i know you said spamton isn't one, but do you have any other opinions on them?

what does it mean when noelle kills the pink addison?

after all, they're not a huge character. sure, the music cuts out after you kill them, and it is framed as a horrific thing, but you can still back out of the snowgrave route at any time afterwards. their and the other darkners' deaths are able to be smoothed over quite easily -- too easily. the game merely treats it as though you didn't recruit them. berdly is the only one that snaps noelle out of her trance -- and as well, he is marked as the point of no return, the divergence point of snowgrave. but why?

in the world of deltarune, to be "real" is a metric of power. the more "real" one is within the system of deltarune, the more power one has. we stand at the top as players -- existing on the highest plane of "reality", our reality. the lightners are a level below that -- lines of code and dialogue in the game of deltarune that we play. the darkners exist on the lowest level -- as the lightners are video game characters to us (both literally and figuratively, as mirrors of undertale's cast), the darkners are mere objects to the lightners. it's a system that reflects all the way down. we "determine" the fates of the lightners, and the lightners "determine" the fates of the darkners. of course, each level of reality is still a reality. the darkners are no less of people than the lightners, and the lightners are no less of people than us. but that doesn't mean this power metric exists merely in the characters' own heads, nor is it something simply realizing one's own worth can overcome. it is a real system baked into the world of deltarune, one that exists to oppress and govern the people within it. this "layered reality" and the power dynamics that divide it are tangible, constricting, and horrifying.

in snowgrave, we see this come into play when we kill the darkners. noelle becomes conditioned to see them as "enemies". the snowgrave run is also faster, quicker -- you can "clear" the dark world and get to the coveted, "more real" light world faster that way. even gaster doesn't treat the darkners as important -- ralsei does not get to be "very, very special" like the others. and you can back out of the snowgrave route at any time, so long as you don't kill berdly -- a lightner. someone "more real".

i tend to stay away from connecting undertale to deltarune too much via "plot facts" and the such. taking the darkners to the light world, for example, is not the solution to deltarune's conflict, as it is not a one to one mirror of undertale's. but there are a number of symbolic and thematic ideas that come up in both games. the darkners in deltarune are framed much like the monsters were in undertale -- the "enemy" character type.

but what measure is an "enemy", anyway? don't these "enemies" deserve to be treated like people, too?

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I think gacha games are only not a problem if you either have lots of spending money or aren't susceptible to addiction

But guess what group of people trends to being poor and susceptible to addiction

That's right it's neurodivergent people

It disproportionately targets us

And it's great if you're exempt from that danger. But you also have to look out for those who are not.

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We all learn in school that Ben Franklin did not want the bald eagle to be the national bird bc it steals from other birds but you don't really understand until you watch some nature documentaries and bald eagles are just always stealing everyone elses food, like never do the work themselves just show up and threaten you until you give them the food you caught

which makes them the most perfectly american animal imaginable

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It's still staggering to me that not only did the 75-79 category not exist until our last two presidents, but neither did the 70-74 one.

I think we forget, at time of inauguration, Trump was the oldest person elected President, then Biden beat that 4 year old record in 2021. Then Trump beat that record this year. Reagan had been the oldest, just short of his 70th birthday in 1980.

The next oldest before that died a year into his first term.

Trump in 2017 was 3 years older than George Washington. Not when Washington took office (which he did at age 57), but when he died at age 67. Trump in 2017 was older than 20 Presidents' lifetimes. Biden older than 25. Trump in 2025 is older than Eisenhower at time of death.

Bill Clinton has been out of office for almost 25 years and he's 2 months younger than Trump.

Maybe that's why it feels like time has just not been progressing, because we can't escape these old fucks who refuse to let go of power at everyone else's expense.

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The idea that air conditioning is decadent while heating is normal is one of the most common and interesting instances of the "appeal to tradition" fallacy

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sometimes, i think about how many minecraft servers there could still be running idly despite not having been touched in years. just there, running, until one day they eventually shut down... unbeknownst to anyone, because nobody even knows they were still running in the first place. they were just there, existing, in some odd form of limbo. someone placed the last block, someone died the last death, someone killed the last mob, someone shot the law arrow, someone lotted the last chest, someone tamed the last dog, someone cut down the last tree.... and someone logged on and off for the last time, all without knowing they were gonna be the last person to do it. without knowing that what they, and other people on the server did, would be comlpetely lost to time, with nobody left to tell the story, even with the server still running.

how many would even remember those servers, that just run idly, still up, despite nobody remembering them, if they even existed? how many fond memories would have been created on those servers? how many old servers are still running, despite extremely little to no activity? what was everyone's relationship there? had they made enemies or friends? who were their enemies, their friends, their simple acquaintances....

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