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One of my pet culture theories is that the worldbuilding energy that produced genuinely fresh settings like Star Wars and Star Trek and basically every other 80s nostalgiabait property that Hollywood has bleeding out on the cross these days has now more or less migrated to the video game space. Like that's where interesting mass market genre-fic worldbuilding is going to be happening now, instead of in film

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The Growth of Sauce Cat.

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ALL OF MY TYPO POSTS AND HORRIBLE PUNS ARE GETTING POPULAR AM I CURSED

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Still love these girls (^.^)

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So I do understand the evolutionary reason for the 50/50 sex split but also goddamn what a stroke of luck. Can you imagine the discourse in every reality where it's even slightly different?

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mormons undoubtedly in the top 5 worst things the united states has ever invented which is really saying something

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Imagine if they find Luigi innocent and he has to go through the rest of his life as That Guy Who Got Turbodoxxed That One Time Because Everyone Thought He Was An Assassin.

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I’m so fucking angry I can barely function right now

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Hot take, free to a good home: Anyone who talks about exercising to 'feel the burn' or enjoying working out to the point of failure is engaged in publicly sanctioned and approved of (possibly public) masochism.

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It really is 2003 again Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

Like, all Republicans did was replace Iraq and gay people with Iran and trans people.

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I've made a zine! I'll be posting the individual images for a bit, then one big post with all of them together (plus the pdf download on the off chance anyone wants to print it).

First up is Tiny! He's dead but that's fine. Got his nickname in the War of Eras in Hyrule Warriors, when he was around ten. At the time it was not an ironic nickname, now it is.

Lots of inspirations from @squidknees awesome zines, you should check them out!

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futurama revival seasons got me wondering if it was always this mid

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This isn’t unique to Star Trek of course, but I do think it’s so funny how the normal amount of time it takes to respond to a comm or a hail from someone else is entirely dependent on whose perspective we’re seeing it from. If someone tries to use their combadge to contact someone else and they don’t respond within 2-3 seconds, that’s immediate cause for alarm. If, however, we’re watching a character who receives a communication from someone else, they’ll often finish up whatever they were doing before responding and no one will be alarmed at all. Or sometimes when our protagonist ship hails another ship, they’ll say “no response” approximately three seconds after sending out the hail. But if another ship hails them, they’ll often have a whole little debate before responding. Obviously this is necessary for pacing (who wants a twenty second pause of complete silence waiting for a response in the middle of a scene), but also it’s just one of those fun, charming things about Star Trek that makes no sense whatsoever.

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The Power Fantasy has another interesting meta thing going on with Etienne - he's my favorite character and he gets a lot of criticism from readers, which I think is a bit... unfair. We, as readers, know that "rocks fall; everybody dies" isn't going to happen, because it wouldn't be a satisfying story. But Etienne doesn't know he's in a story, and he knows there are a lot of rocks that could fall which would kill everyone, so he undertakes a lot of manipulations to prevent that which, from the reader perspective, are both unnecessary and likely to be dramatically revealed and lead to messy complications.

But on a Watsonian level, Etienne is totally right! The calculation that his manipulations would be more likely to save the world than end it is correct in a *real universe*, and it's only by virtue of being situated within a story that he will likely be the catalyst for all sorts of terrible things happening. I think the conclusion, then, is clear: Etienne Lux has never done anything wrong in his life.

idk @artbyblastweave you might have interesting things to say on this - i could imagine similar arguments being made about Watchmen as well

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One of the funniest things about Mormonism is that I’m sure Joseph Smith never believed any of the bullshit he said. There are some religions and cults where you have faith the original prophet actually thought they were talking to angels or believed the set of principles they laid out for their followers were for the greater good. Joseph Smith was a dumbass but like PT Barnum he realized a sucker was born every day and he was one step above the average 1830s sucker. He went from making people pay him to look at a rock in a top hat and ‘locate buried treasure’ to receiving lost bits of scripture, through the rock and top hat method. His wife caught him cheating and he said an angel visited him and told him men should be allowed multiple wives and not obeying that would send her to hell. I’m fairly convinced that dude was an atheist. He was on that hustler grindset. Brigham Young might have actually believed some of the shit he said but I don’t think Joseph Smith genuinely had faith in Mormonism or gave a fuck about humanity in the slightest.