#civil disk horse

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

obsessed w james somerton saying that he blacked out every time he failed to cite his sources like he’s the dr jekyll/mr hyde of plagiarism

[inconclusionray]

If I see one more "poor Izzy was in an abusive relationship for twenty years :'(" take I'm going to set this pirate ship on fire.

[peonycats]

Chinese people: maybe dont draw us like ( \ / ) it’s kinda racist

Others: oh yeah? What about the CCP??? What about the millions lost to Chinese communism??

Chinese people: ???

[hoasens]

i think ppl should be aware there’s a big separation of niches within the fandom and certain discourse may just apply within the person’s own space even if it also happens in your own niche. (i know this is a bit vague bc i don’t wanna involve other people who don’t want any more problems their way it’s just my personal observation. further details in tags)

[otatma]

regarding the 'immortality until the snail reaches you' shitpost:

it's an intrinsically trolling disk horse. if you accept the deal, you're instantly killed.

why?

well, exegetically, it's because it's a fantasy roleplaying scenario where the gamemaster hates immortality and hates you for wanting it. basically rounds to your classic hateful djinn wishgranter, the kind who reads anything and everything in bad faith, and as laterally as needed towards ends that harm you.

and diegetically, it's because any attempt to contain the snail, no matter how layered or misdirected, counts the same as an interaction. which is what makes you die.

it's interpreted in this bizarre way because if it wasn't, the "use gloves to place snail in sealed terrarium, now we have a phylactery" solution would exist. which would not please the hateful djinn.

so, with that GM interpreting the rules, you die the moment you enter the snail's light cone, because that is the most literal and hateful interpretation of 'interact' in that context.

and everything existing on a planet is within a fraction of a light second from everything else on that planet.

cross referencing these two viewpoints against each other is what really highlights what a pure rules lawyering exercise this is.

okay? got all that? I tried to keep it concise.

this is why, even though I earnestly crave immortality, I loathe the immortality-snail disk horse.

it's basically just that one venomous cursed meme where the end goal of the exercise is not thinking about it, and not talking about it when you do think about it. but crunchier.

[rotzaprachim]

Next person who gives me a fuck you op but zombie is appropriate for Halloween actually cause war is scary response is getting blocked but even more maybe. Screenshotted and added to a reblog

[master-gatherer]

Doing various state mandated company sexual harassment trainings has got me thinking about our favorite inappropriate workplace relationship.

Namely about how some people who don't like Kaidan as a romance will make him out to be abusive and pushy, that he's creeping on FemShep (this is all about mass effect 1's romance you see), and that people who like him don't understand what a toxic and abusive person he is (🙄🙄🙄)

And the misreading aside, they seem to always forget that if anyone is liable for that relationship going sideways, it's Shepard. And I'm not talking about Horizon.

She's the commanding officer, his superior. That's part of why he's so hesitant to move forward. He KNOWS it's against regs, and for good reason. There is a power imbalance there on her part. If they get found out it would ruin her career. It's her ass on the line, not his.

And if his advances were out of line and if he did keep pushing, she'd be well within her rights as his commander to have him transferred or even discharged.

Granted a lot of that has to do with the way ME1's romance system is set up (every time I play I have to actively turn Liara down, and if you roll a gay or ace broshep most conversations with Liara or Ashley turn into a scene from that cartoon Chowder ("I'M NOT YOUR BOYFRIEND")). There's not a good way to be clear you're not interested (in any of the romances) without sounding like a dick. But idk, sometimes turning someone down makes you sound like a dick. Everyone is a bit of a dick sometimes, especially when enforcing boundaries, it's just the way of the world.

But Kaidan isn't a creeper or toxic or whatever the fuck because he has a crush on his CO. If anything, SHEPARD is the toxic creeper for pursuing a relationship with a subordinate (and I say that as someone with terminal shenko brainrot).

Idk, I just think it's interesting how some people will paint FemShep (and it's always femshep- funny that 🤨) as being put upon and helpless against a guy who is so damn hesitant that you practically have to be staring Armageddon in the face for him to say "I love you."

[insideline]

watching closely at the way people speak about the rumoured protest at silverstone

[luna-rainbow]

hi, different anon. i wanted to add to the thoughts but i'm shy. i assumed bucky's rules were set up because his moral compass was skewed by his time with hydra (not necessarily in a way that makes him a bad person, just in ways that alters his perspective on what situations need force and who maybr deserves rough treatment). we saw clearly in the series that bucky doesn't mind breaking the law or hurting people he considers bad, he is also impulsive and self-destructive. i always assumed the rules were given as actually needed guidance to help him face former-hydra associates.

Hello Shy Anon:

There was no indication, up until TFATWS, that Bucky was ever impulsive, or “doesn’t mind breaking the law”. He stayed under cover for 2 whole years while Steve, Hydra, and everyone else who wanted the Winter Soldier (and there were plenty, judging by Zemo’s auction) were hunting for him. The only story that characterises him as that is TFATWS which is the very series that treats him like he had agency as the Winter Soldier.

The “doesn’t mind hurting people who he thinks is bad” is kinda the defining trait of every MCU superhero so I’m not sure why Bucky specifically needed rules to stop him from doing that — except, of course, the narrative didn’t believe he was a hero until he had the magic boat-fixing scene that fixed his trauma and apparently his wonky moral compass too.

Also, the only action that comes across as impulsive is him breaking Zemo out of jail, which already makes no logical sense for Bucky to do and I’ve already talked about it at length 20 times before so I’m not going to again. Him hacking the car then calling the police to arrest the Hydra senator was highly premeditated and not an example of impulsiveness.

Sorry if I am sounding cranky, anon, but a lot of these have been discussed ad nauseum in the 12 months after the series’ release and I’m not keen to retread the issues and attract fresh disk horse. If you read the post I linked in that ask, I talked about the narrative intent in rewriting Bucky to be aggressive and volatile. The story didn’t know how to handle him except “Winter Soldier bad, he needs a (Black) found family to fix him” while ignoring the fact that he already had the same friggin arc in Civil War to Black Panther.

Also why was he being sent to face former Hydra associates on his own as part of his amends when Raynor called him a civilian?

[radqueer-takes]

ig I'm more rq-neutral so I hope its ok if I say: yea I don't really get or really agree with being transids (yet?) but fr I don't argue about it precisely because most of the anti-transid arguments are rebottled terf or transmed stuff. maybe I'd get more into the disk horse if there were any original ideas

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[liesmyth]

I love Cam and Pal and am a CamPal romance truther and it's for that exact specific reason that I hate the sixth with my entire chest. Honestly I think if you're going to make an imperialism or patriarchy argument like people do with Jod (I agree with you on that front, by the way) the sixth is actually the one it'd be easiest to do that with. Like their entire military is dedicated to having children with residents of the shepherd planets and then taking them to be raised in the house. Once saw someone say it wasn't eugenics because they're trying to diversify their gene pool not limit it and I feel like people just don't get that, in canon, they are using their military as a positive eugenics campaign. Also telling someone they can only have kids with two other people because there can't be a drop of relation between them is eugenics. Any attempt to obtain favorable reproductive outcomes through systemic control of who is reproducing and how within an adult population is eugenics! Idk I know this is a stupid hill to die on; it's just something I'm very sensitive to because I'm from the appalachian mountain region in the US, and negative eugenics campaigns from the early 20th century that promoted the stupid cousin-fucking hillbilly narrative about the region people still use today. Also, people don't seem to realize that the enormous social taboo on cousin marriage that exists in western society now is the result of early 20th century eugenics campaigns. This got very off track but I hate the institution of the sixth with an insane and disproportionate passion and honestly would have said "good for her" if BOE killed the oversight body. Also I don't care what authorial intent was to your average non-fandom reader (and I would posit to most fandom readers on first read!) their relationship reads as romantic and at that point intent becomes irrelevant. I needed to make this opinion public but I also need to stay alive so I've dumped it in your ask box. Sorry.

Ship Disk Horse disclaimer: I'm not Appalachian but I do have second cousin marriage very close in my family tree (small town Italy!) and I agree that the incest argument around Cam and Pal is weird. BUT you can't control what people find squicky, and I'm not very fond of the argument "X is actually perfectly okay IRL" to support shipping discourse. I get why you'd take it personally, but that's a super slippery slope IME.

On to the Sixth! I actually think they all employ vat wombs (unless it's for science) and their strategy is to fuck members of other Houses, not the occupied planets. There doesn't seem to be many (or at all) relationships between Houses and non-Houses people.

I don't think we know Enough about the Sixth to say they're unequivocally bad and I'm hesitant to bring up eugenics OR reproductive autonomy, because I don't feel comfortable comparing sff worldbuilding to RL systems of oppression.

That said, the Sixth's commitment to the gene pool thing leaves leaves me very ???? because it seems to be a strategy they have employed for thousands of years with no visible results. The consanguinity tables get narrower. It doesn't seem to give them a "boost" over the other Houses. So why do they stick with it? Gives me a very similar vibe to the Seventh's commitment to their ideal that cancer strengthens a necromancer despite no actual proofs. I think it's just the Sixth's manifestation of the underlying theme that the Houses are basically a zombie civilization, constantly stagnant.

I'm also wondering WTF happened to all those Cohort people when the Sixth seceded. Do they think their friends and families died in the solar flare?

Anyway! I appreciate you sending this ask but I'm going to make it non rebloggable for my sanity :D

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

just saw somebody fully unironically in the year of our lord 2024 propose that “the only way to fix racism is to have everyone live separately where their ethnic features naturally occur” as like, a woke take. What Is Wrong With You

[gravityofforteana]

*Operation Trojan Horse*

Keel: Whatever "it" is, it is often inimical (tending to obstruct or harm. ~Joe) to the human race, & the manifestations range from childish mischief to acts of horrifying destruction. The phenomenon has driven many people mad; but it has also produced miraculous cures.

A cosmic system of checks & balances seems to be an actual fact. There are now well-documented cases of people being seriously injured, even killed, by flying saucers. But there are equally well-documented events in which the mysterious objects and their enterprising occupants have interceded directly in human affairs and thwarted disaster. Many flying saucers seem to be nothing more than a disguise for some hidden phenomenon. They are like Trojan horses descending into our forests & farm fields, promising salvation and offering us the splendor of some great super-civilization in the sky.

But while the statuesque long-haired “Venusians” have been chatting benignly with isolated traveling salesmen and farm wives, a multitude of shimmering lights & metallic disks have been silently busying themselves in the forests of Canada, the Outback country of Australia, and the swamps of Michigan. Before we can find any answers, we must first find the right questions to ask. We must understand the exact nature of these visitors, and of ourselves.

I also believe that this same phenomenon is flexible to an unbelievable degree. It can create and manipulate matter through electromagnetic fields above and below the range of our perceptions and our own technical equipment. The phenomenon is mostly invisible to us because it consists of energy rather than solid earthly matter. It is guided by a great intelligence and has concentrated itself in the areas of magnetic faults throughout history. It makes itself visible to us from time to time by manipulating patterns of frequency. It can take any form it desires, ranging from the shapes of airplanes to gigantic cylindrical spaceships. It can manifest itself into seemingly living entities ranging from little green men to awesome one-eyed giants. But none of these configurations is its true form. The UFO sighting data confirm this theory, but we lack the necessary technology to prove it conclusively.

There are thousands of microscopic life forms in a drop of water. You can’t see them, feel them, or taste them because they are too small. A teenaged boy with a cheap microscope can peer into that drop of water and invade the privacy of those microbes. But the microbes don’t know he is there. They swim about in their liquid environment totally unaware that their tiny world is actually an insignificant part of a much larger, and very different, whole. Our world may also be part of something bigger, something beyond our senses and abilities to comprehend. That bigger something is undoubtedly made of energies, too. But energies of a different frequency, forming atoms radically different from the atoms of our own world. These energies could coexist with us and even share the same space without our becoming acutely aware of them. The evidence we have outlined in this book does clearly point to this unperceived coexistence, and now we must come to terms with "it" or "them" or the Great Whatzit in the sky.

This intelligence is able to manipulate energy. It can, quite literally, manipulate any kind of object into existence on our plane.

Let us assume that UFOs exist at frequencies beyond visible light but that they can adjust their frequency and descend the electromagnetic spectrum - just as you can turn the dial of your radio and move a variable condenser up and down the scale of radio frequencies.

When a UFO’s frequency nears that of visible light, it would first appear as a purplish blob of violet. As it moves farther down the scale, it would seem to change to blue, and then to cyan (bluish green). In our chapter on meteors we note that they most often appear as bluish-green objects. I have therefore classified that section of the color spectrum as the UFO entry field. When the objects begin to move into our spatial and time coordinates, they gear down from the higher frequencies, passing progressively from ultraviolet to violet to bluish green. When they stabilize within our dimensions, they radiate energy on all frequencies and become a glaring white.

In the white condition the object can traverse distances visibly, but radical maneuvers of ascent or descent require it to alter its frequencies again, and this process produces new color changes. In the majority of all landing reports, the objects were said to have turned orange (red and yellow) or red before descending. When they settle to the ground they "solidify," and the light dims or goes out altogether. On takeoff, they begin to glow red again. Sometimes they reportedly turn a brilliant red and vanish. Other times they shift through all of the colors of the spectrum, turn white, and fly off into the night sky until they look like just another star.

Because the color red is so closely associated with the landing and takeoff processes, I term this end of the color spectrum the UFO departure field. The great mass of observational data fully supports these hypotheses. Our glowing objects change color, size, and form, and this fact indicates that they are comprised of energy which can be manipulated to temporarily simulate terrestrial matter. Such energies must be somehow collected together at the invisible frequencies, and then frequency changes are brought about to 'lower' them into the visible spectrum. Once they become visible, they can then organize themselves into atoms and produce any desired form. Barney and Betty Hill, the couple who were allegedly taken aboard a UFO in New Hampshire in 1961, first observed a brilliant moving “star.” As it drew closer, the brilliance faded and it became a seemingly material flying saucer occupied by small men in uniforms. Brazil’s Villa-Boas, who claimed he was taken aboard a UFO in 1957, first saw a reddish object which then became a grounded saucer. When it took off again, the object first surrounded itself with a red glow. The glow intensified, and the reddish object sailed off into the stars.

Those who have tried to investigate the UFO phenomenon in purely physical terms have speculated on the possible mechanics of such objects. The general consensus has been that the UFOs utilize an antigravity device which surrounds them with a magnetic field, and this magnetism ionizes the nitrogen in the air around the object, causing it to glow. On the surface, this has seemed like a plausible theory. But in reality it is not workable.

A tremendous amount of magnetism would be required to produce the magnetic effects blamed on the objects, such as the stalling of automobiles. The Ford Motor Company, working with the UFO-investigating group @ Colorado U., discovered that simple magnetism could not stall an auto engine encased in the protective steel body of a car. A field strong enough to accomplish this would also be strong enough to bend the car itself & possibly affect the passengers as well.

There have been many bewildering accounts of shell-like objects with no visible means of propulsion, no signs of any kinds of technology. Contactee Reinhold Schmidt’s German-speaking ufonauts, who invited him aboard their saucer in Nebraska in 1957, didn’t walk but glided across the floor of their spaceship as if they were on roller skates. Other sober and baffled witnesses have described how the UFO occupants seemed to fly from the ground to their waiting saucers. Still others have claimed that the ufonauts simply walked through the sides of their craft like ghosts.

In story after story we have testimonial proof that the objects and their occupants are not made of normal substances. The hard (seemingly solid) objects are another problem. Bullets have been fired at them and have ricocheted off. They sometimes leave imprints on the ground where they land. If they are the product of a superior intelligence with an advanced technology, they seem to be suffering from faulty workmanship.

Since 1896 there have been hundreds of reports in which lone witnesses have stumbled onto grounded hard objects being repaired by their pilots. In flight, they have an astounding habit of losing pieces of metal. They seem to be ill-made, always falling apart, frequently exploding in midair. There are so many of these incidents that we must wonder if they aren’t really deliberate. Maybe they are meant to foster the belief that the objects are real and mechanical.

In the foregoing I have tried to demonstrate how the soft objects seem to be directly related to the electromagnetic spectrum. This is hardly a new theory. Not only have the occultists, spiritualists, and religionists been telling us about frequencies, vibrations, and the color spectrum for centuries, but modern researchers such as Dr. Meade Layne worked all of this out years ago.

Dr. Layne evolved a theory of mat' and 'demat; (materialization and dematerialization) of extradimensional objects. His findings were privately published and not very widely circulated. Others, such as British ufologist Harold T. Wilkins, also worked this out and published books about it in the early 1950s. But the spectrum theory lacks the strong emotional appeal of the extraterrestrial thesis.

There is a rather curious entry in Project Blue Book Report No. 14 (1955) on page 295. In the section showing how various sightings are classified, "number 8 in Code 79-80 Final Identification is "Electromagnetic Phenomenon." This is crossed out (the report was reproduced by photo offset), and the now well-known classification of "Unknown" was substituted."

[sunriseverse]

honestly i think, watching the attempts to separate wwx from other characters as ultimately more moral by some arbitrary value of the given op, it feels very……..bear with me but like. New Age Fan-ish if that makes sense? back when i got into fandom for the first time about a decade ago it was mostly in spaces dominated by older fans (usually in their thirties or older, though there was the occasional twenty-something college student (and some younger fans too, but they generally were not open about their age)) and while discourse did happen i genuinely do not remember it being so blatantly anti-canon. like, these days i’ll see someone say with full confidence a take that is fully contradicted by canon but they insist canon supports their point and they get incredibly angry at anyone who tries to engage them in a level conversation about their misconceptions. and i honestly think it has a lot to do with (tumblr) fandom generally being comprised of people who are both newer fans and younger fans—so not only do they not have life experience to give them a bit more perspective, they don’t even have the benefit of having been in fandom spaces for long enough or around older, longer-engaged fans for enough for their instinctive belief that their views on canon and characters are inherently better than other peoples’ to be changed or challenged. also, there’s a marked change from generally civil discussion about interpretation and theory and characterisation—that is, metaanalysis in general, as a collaborative staple of fandom—to a much more reactionary, incendiary version of Disk Horse that i have noticed becoming more and more popular as fans are more and more introduced to fandom not through forum and “old” style fandom websites but rather platforms like tumblr, tiktok, and so forth that tend to be by nature more prone to reactionary discourse.

[estirose]

More mistakes I made in My Time at Sandrock (early access)

Some of these are slightly spoilery for the new missions, so cutting.

Don't be afraid to spend those data disks with Qi. Keep some for surprise missions, yes, but you should go for a steady stream of blueprints (this is like Portia). Don't be me and discover I have to wait 6 days for the intermediate tailoring machine in a currently late-game mission. You don't have to build anything, mind you, just have them handy.

Build a ton of storage. Save up some money if you can and pick up a big storage from the Mysterious Man if you can. You will be accumulating a lot of stuff!

Make two of each type of the common machine and upgrade them. This will save you moments of "my one civil processor is busy". (This does not include specialty machines like the blender, cooking station, etc; just the main ones.)

Elsie will give you a baby yakmel at the end of one mission. You do not need to build it a home. The barn is huge and if you have a garden/lots of machines/a larger than starting home, you will find yourself squashed for space. It's far more worth it to build a stable and get a horse.

The forging machine is not required for any mission as far as I can tell, but if you anticipate getting into a lot of combat it may be worth building as it's the only way you'll get upgraded weapons.

Build dew collectors, even if you don't think you need them. Yes, you can buy water at Water World, but it's much nicer to just be able to make your own.

Be sure to buy the home editing kit if you add a 2nd floor to your house. The default staircase tends to be in exactly the wrong place!

[terrimix]

Suitcase fusion core not starting

Soon after, Albert Einstein developed his theory of mass-energy equivalence, best expressed in his famous formula E=mc2 in 1920 Sir Arthur Eddington proposed that the sun could be producing energy, as expressed by Einstein’s work, by and merging hydrogen atoms to create helium and thus giving out heat and light – essentially, nuclear fusion energy production. In 1904, Ernest Rutherford suggested that radioactive decay may be responsible for our sun’s output. It wasn’t until the 20th century, after the discovery of radioactivity, that we figured out nuclear fusion science. Over the next two thousand years or so, scientists and philosophers the world over-in the Mediterranean, in the Middle East, in Asia, and in Europe-learned more and more about the sun, but it wasn’t until the beginning of the modern scientific era in the 19th century that we had the tools to start tackling one of the biggest questions in the world: Where does all the sun’s energy come from? Discovering Nuclear Fusion Power The sun is, in fact, 147 million kilometers away from the Earth at the closest point in our orbit and 153 million kilometers at the farthest point. People did not like being told this.Īround the same time, Erastothenes of Cyrene, the Greek mathematician renowned for calculating the circumference of the Earth with astonishing precision, also calculated the distance from the sun to the Earth as being about 150 million kilometers (about 94 million miles). Around the same time, another Greek astronomer and philosopher, Anaxagoras, suggested that the sun was not, in fact, the chariot of Helios and was instead a giant ball of flaming metal that orbited the Earth. The first person in recorded history to say that our world revolves around the sun, literally and not just metaphorically, was the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, who lived during the 3rd century BC. From the North-West pediment of the temple of Athena in Ilion (Troy). Relief showing Helios, sun god in the Greco-Roman mythology. *And you would be correct, because it does. You might say, in fact, that our world revolves around the sun.* The sun gives us heat and light, our changing seasons, and makes all life and civilization on Earth possible. Many religions, ancient and modern, see the radiant, blinding disk in the sky as an icon of divine beings such as Aten, Utu, Tonatiuh, Sol Invictus, Ameratsu, Surya, etc. Ancient Egyptians venerated it as the god Ra, who sailed across the sky in a celestial boat as one might sail down the Nile ancient Greeks worshiped it as Helios, who drove a chariot from horizon to horizon pulled by flaming horses. Since the dawn of time, humanity has stood in awe of our sun. To answer “how nuclear fusion works,” perhaps we should first ask, “how does the sun work?” This is a false-color image of the Sun observed in the extreme ultraviolet region of the spectrum. The Sun photographed at 304 angstroms by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA 304) of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).