#incorrect poi

[julesnichols]

[onceandfuturemoron]

Nobody:

My otps: it's always you. You keep me right.

[chick-with-wifi]

Root: Trust me Shaw: I wouldn't trust you to tie my shoes without stealing the laces Shaw: *does what Root says anyway*

[l-justnoiseinthesystem-l]

Finch: Wow, great work on the Halloween decorations. Where did you get the fake skeletons?

John: Fake?

Shaw: Sometimes I like to place my hands on someone’s cheeks, look into their eyes...

Shaw: ...And violently jerk their head until it snaps.

John: ...That took an unexpected turn.

Root: So did their neck.

Carter: So when are we gonna tell them?

Fusco: Just give them a minute.

John: *Pulling on a door that clearly says push.*

[mellophase]

[ Fun Ghoul is struck, not by a revelation, but by Party Poison's cane. ]

[a-light-case-of-ohno]

Sirius: Yo, is Apollo sleeping or dead? Poi: Hopefully dead, I hated their guts. Armandes: Yeah, so did I. Apollo: Okay first of all, fuck you-

[commander-henrietta]

I am not sure if this is common knowledge and that I am saying already known stuff, but Orrian location names are very much Arabic and I can only assume that is because of Orr being next to the Crystal Desert, which has actual mixes of Arabic elements in many corners of the game. Why do I know this? Because I have an Arab father, and I was raised in the Middle East as a muslim in an Arabic school.

When I was doing map completion yesterday on Henri, I noticed how some points of interests in Orr had ‘Al’ in them, and I immediately assumed it would be gibberish since that is all I find in western made media when it comes to anything ‘exotic’. Bring some sound, put ‘al’ in front of it, and voilà, you have ‘Arabic’ in your media. But no, I reread the names and realized that they actually have a translation, since the team actually written in a way that you can guess how it’s read in Arabic if you’re a native or have experience in native Arabic environments.

I will list all points of interests in Orr that I found that have Arabic and the most likely meant translation (as an Arabic speaker myself):

• Izz-al-Din Sarayi

With the context surrounding Orr’s lore and the Human lore + Charr/Human lore, this can very much be ‘عز الدين صراعي’. It’s a very blotchy sentence since it’s grammatically incorrect, but it basically means ‘I fight with pride for my religion’, ‘I battle with pride for my religion’. It makes sense because Humans are very religious in GW2, and Orr is even more so, while Charr denounce higher power and think Humans for shit. And they had a battle on Orr. BOOM.

• Din al-Jindi

This is a very clear one, words used in Arabic lessons a lot to form simple sentences. ‘دين الجندي’ which means ‘The soldier’s religion’.

• Bakkir Sarayi

Sounds like ‘بكّر صراعي’ or ‘بكير صراعي’, which sounds like ‘Early Battle’ in both. One’s just traditional and the other’s Lebanese dialect.

• Several PoIs in Malchor’s Leap having ‘Bayt’ in them

Which is just like the Grove having ‘House of Caithe’, ‘House of Niamh’ and so on. It’s again, grammatically incorrect, but Bayt means house or home. They even used Arabic names with them, but in wrong order. Still, to me this is like a very big thing.

• Zho'qafa Catacombs area

Sounds like ‘ذو كفه’ which is like ‘with his palms’, or could be with his stance, several different possibilities.

This may seem like a far reach for representation to some people, but these make sense, they mean something, so it can’t be a coincidence. I’m just happy Arabic was acknowledged in some way instead of the fake Arabic they use in media to make it seem ‘exotic’ or made as a parody.

Weeeeooooeeeeooooo

[holodeck-enthusiast]

The Night After

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*after the episode "All Our Yesterdays"*

...

That night, for obvious reasons, Bones found it hard to sleep. Only 3 earth hours left to the beginning of the alpha shift. Bones had already taken a dose of melatonin and it's not working. He refused to fight the thoughts, and was thinking about that another extreme stressful day three of them have had. He embraced the physical and mental pain, something he's actually very good at.

...

Comm chimed, breaking the monotonous humming of the ship's environmental sound.

"Doctor, please accept my apologies for contacting you at this hour. I assume that you were asleep...and this not an emergency...I just.."

Bones noticed the prominent hesitation in Spock's voice. He almost never hesitates. What's got into him again?

"What is it Spock? You feeling unwell?"

"May I come your cabin, Doctor? I need to say something to you and it shouldn't take long"

Bones smiles. "Literally anytime you wish, Spock, you poi.."

He stopped and closed his eyes.

"Yes, of course!".

...

Bones sat up on his bed and commanded the room computer to put on a light. His room is next to Spock's. It took around 45 seconds till Spock came in.

"What is it Spock"

Spock came closer to Bones's bed. Took a small pause before standing straight with his arms behind.

"Doctor, I came here to formally apologise to you for my behaviours in the cave yesterday."

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Bones let out a sigh of relief. He was genuinely concerned of it's a healthy emergency; Spock's assurance usually means nothing when his own health is concerned.

"You were clearly affected Spock! You weren't yourself"- Bones smiled.

"You were severaly unwell" Spock continued "I used extreme physical force TWICE, especially when, in reality, you were helping me..."

Bones definitely hadn't needed this apology, but he realised Spock needed to let it out. He didn't interrupt.

"... Although my psyche went back in time, which apparently I had no control over, I should have known best to adapt to the situation. I am ashamed that I failed to do that, and I thank you for taking the responsibility."

"Thank you, Spock. But then you should also recall that it is probably because of you I am alive right now..."

Spock maintained eye contact in silence.

"...see, Spock...it is not news to both of us that these strange new worlds always do strange new things to our minds. That's the part of it. I was never eager to join this mission and now I'm in it for this long..my life is here!.."

Bones stopped for a moment and stood up from his bed. He walked to Spock and stood face to face.

"Plus I do think I deserved a slap back there!" He laughed. "I always call you names. Never realised it could've affected you that much. This human characteristic is very, you know, common among friends. I forget the fact that you do not realise how close and unhinged I feel around Jim and you."

"You always are unhinged around everybody, doctor" Spock let out a microscopic smile.

Bones laughed finally. "Go to your bed, you..." Again he closed his mouth. He'd need to practice for god's sake!

"..pointy-eared Vulcan?... probably I do not like it because that's actually incorrect."

Bones went back to his bed tiredly. "How come?"

"Firstly, to my great sorrow, I am only a half-vulcan; secondly and most importantly, my ears have prominent curvatures here, it's not technically a 'point'."

Bones yelled "Dammit Spock! Just go to you cabin and let me die in peace for...what...2 and a half hours!"

"Good night, doctor.' Spock let out another microscopic smile and left the cabin.

...

Both of them slept like babies afterwards.

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[0tt3r-star]

Kirby Incorrect Quotes Part 1

Cw for Swearing (mainly Meta Knight) and mention of blood/injury

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Kirby: Poyo.

Meta Knight: Mmhm...

Kirby: Poyo! Poy poy poyo, poyo!

Meta Knigh: Really?

Kirby: Poy po poyo! POYO!

Meta Knight, shocked: Woah, calm down.

King Dedede: ???????

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Bandana Dee watching Meta + Dedede battle: Two bros, fighting in a battle field, no feet apart because they are gay!

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Meta Knight: *gets sliced open in a fight*

Kirby: Meta, you're bleeding out!

Meta Knight, applying pressure: It's fine, just a little scratch.

Kind Dedede, walking over: You can barely stand up right now-

Meta Knight, collapsing: Just a flesh wound-

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Kirby: Is anybody going to eat that?

Bandana Dee: Kirby, that's a lightbulb-

Kirby: *already had it in their mouth*

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Susie: She/Her/Hers

Kirby: They/Them/Theirs

Meta Knight: Fuck/This/Shit

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Some teacher or leader: Your children were in a fight.

King Dedede in a sarcastic tone: That's terrible!

Meta Knight: Did they win?

Kirby, Bandana Dee, and Sailor Dee: Yes.

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Meta Knight: I would destroy the world for you.

Sword/Blade Knight: Okay, can you cook something that's actually safe to eat?

Meta Knight, offended: I already do that, ask something else

King Dedede: Don't die on the battle field?

Meta Knight: Impossible, next question.

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Axe Knight: Is Captain Vul always like this when he loses?

Meta Knight: Oh, yes. You should've been there for the Great Monopoly Tantrum of XXXX, it was hilarious.

Captain Vul: Mace Knight stole the money and we all know it!!!

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Anyone: Ew. What kind of tea is this?

Meta Knight: I boiled gatorade, is that not like tea?

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Waddle Dee: Oh, fiddlesticks.

Meta Knight: Look, I understand this is a tense situation, but let's watch the fucking language.

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Waddle Dee Interviewer: If you got arrested what would be the charges?

Kirby: Theft... But likely accidental!

King Dedede: Disturbing the peace probably.

Bandana Dee: Aggravated assault, 100%

Elfilin: Arson, don't ask why.

Meta Knight: All of the above. Likely in that order.

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[a-tale-never-told]

Important annoucement!

//*Sighs* I didn't want to do this again, but with the state that I'm in, I feel as If I have to at this point.//

//Greetings amazing readers, Mod Sam here. As you can obviously tell by the thumbnail, this is a very important announcement that I have to make. Because I have been thinking this over and I feel like I can't do this to my health anymore.//

//Currently, I'm on a downward spiral of constant paranoia about how I'm treating the blog in general and insecurities about my writing. I had a conversation with Mod Freeze earlier this morning in the DMs about my concerns about doing the ask blog thing and feeling like I killed the story by doing the ask block in the first place. Obviously, this is incorrect as I've received multiple asks this morning about the last story chapter I just uploaded, which eased some of the tension in my head.//

//But at the same time, I feel terrible that I even decided to do it in the first place, as it only just interrupted the flow of the story, and only just disappointed some anons that didn't like the ask block. To be fair, no one likes the ask block. I don't like the ask block either, which puts into question why I even did it in the first place. I just got so paranoid about this fact that I thought that the reason why people didn't send asks related to the other story posts was because of that factor.//

//And that is another significant thing I want to talk about as it's concerning to me and how I write these chapters: I got almost no asks related to the last two posts I made. The only asks that I got from the whole heartfelt moment between Hajime and Natsumi, which I worked my ass off to complete, weren't even related to the moment itself. It was instead related to an ask about fixing Hajime's car, which I answered, and I have gotten 5 asks related to that. Yes, 5 asks had nothing to do with the moment itself and instead were talking about a random ask about Kazuichi. Two of those were basically the same ask back-to-back.//

//Another thing is that I got a few asks related to the moment when Hajime and Natsumi showed up at Hajime's house and Natsumi was giving her peculiar intro. It was only three asks, Three. Obviously, I know this might not be a big deal, but it sets a big precedent about how I'm writing these chapters because I put so much effort and work into making these story chapters after school when I'm tired and I want to lay down on a bed and watch Die Hard. But to see the amount of asks I got for the last two days, and almost no likes on any of these posts sets a question: What am I doing?//

//What exactly am I doing wrong that is preventing my ability to get more asks and likes? Is it the writing? The sense of humor? The worldbuilding? Everything?! I honestly had to think clearly about what's hurting the blog, and most of these mistakes and faults can mostly be attributed to my own shortcomings as a writer. Obviously, I needed to determine a reason as to why this was the case, and I eventually found it in the form of these issues//

//First, the amount of asks and anons. I hate to bring Mod Bubbles, Poi, and Freeze into this, especially Bubbles since he's one of my good friends on this website, and considering the amount of stress and problems he's going through, which I sympathize with completely and I pray that he feels better eventually. But it's just... frustratingly hard to not feel jealous when I see an ASOOT story post or NVPM story blog post and I look at my count and think "What am I even doing?"//

// I completely understand that ASOOT and NVPM have been here far longer than I have, and had extensive time to build their blogs from small story blogs to being almost the gold standard about how to write and do a story blog, and I feel like I can do the same. It's just that even though I try my best a whole lot, I still end up getting a few likes, but obviously more asks. The ask count is truly confusing as it's extremely high on some days, only to turn out next to nothing in the following days. Compared to Bubbles and Poi, who I'm guessing are bringing in asks by the hundreds and people adore their stories a lot.//

//In fact, Mod Freeze! Mod Freeze, a relative newcomer to the Dr story blog community, and someone that I appreciate a whole lot, is pulling in more likes than I do. His most recent story post is sitting at around 12 likes. 12!. Which is significantly a far higher count than mine, almost to the point of Bubble's levels if I'm being honest. I don't quite get it to be honest with you. Mod Freeze has two arcs, compared to my one, which could explain why he's more successful than me, but at the same time, It honestly makes me look like a fool because my average like count for a post is like 4 or 5. And that's the peak of the mountain! I'm starting to lose it, I honestly cannot comprehend what's happening with my head. Like, is the writing of the New Future that good? It is according to my eyes, but do people really don't like my writing? Is that the main issue?//

//Another main issue is the tagging. Now when I tag a post or an ask, I do credit those who send me the asks by using "Anonymous" like everyone else, as well as those who don't go by anonymous, like "Hypergamming999" for example. But when I tag a post with the Danganronpa tag, I put it as "Dr2" or "Dr" like to shorten the sentences. This is incredibly awful because it's giving off the negative impression that I don't really care about the story or Danganronpa at all, which is quite the opposite, I can assure you. It just gives off a terrible look that I look bored and not motivated to do it, which I'm not. The issue is that I'm tired every day from school, and when I finish my assignments, I feel so tired and my brain can't even focus clearly when I make a post, so that's why the writing is so subpar for most of the time.//

// I looked at the tags for ASOOT, for The New Future, and for NVPM and Dr. Suvivor, and they all put the tags with proper pronunciation and how it's very much supposed to look and resemble like how a normal DR tag would look like. But then you look at my tags, and it just screams tired all over the board. ONLY NOW did I actually start putting the Danganronpa tag, but the fact that these sorts of tags have been on my posts for about a month at this point is quite embarrassing when you self-reflect. When you take this long to realize that the way you tag your posts is shitty, lazy, and unimaginative, you know that you've done something wrong as a writer.//

//Speaking of writing, we got the dialogue. I honestly am trying my damm hardest with the dialogue, and I wholeheartedly believe I do amazing when it comes to historical moments, worldbuilding, or emotional and heartfelt moments, but the rest of the dialouge is just so incredibly poor. That scene with Hajime freaking out over the atrocities of the Soviet Stalin era? What was even the point of that conversation at all?! Just to do some more worldbuilding at least? Chiaki saying that they are going to save the world, even though she doesn't know that she is going to save the world? What the fuck is this?//

//I think you get the picture here. The dialogue is so confusing that I almost believe this was done by an amateur who hasn't gotten used to writing, which is me. Sometimes the characters act like themselves, like Fuyuhiko for example. I think I nailed his personality pretty well, and he's possibly one of the characters that I think is written accurately as to how he would behave in a situation like this. Hajime is this too, especially in the serious scenes. That conversation with Natsumi about her insecurities is honestly what I think Hajime could say in a situation like this. But then you get people like Hiroshi and Keiko and even Ibuki in some instances, and they act almost completely different from their original canon selves. It feels like they're not even the same person!.//

//I haven't seen ASOOT Season 2 yet, so that's why Hiroshi and Keiko feel far different from what they would originally do and say. But then, we have Ibuki and she's been relatively calm for the most part throughout the scenes she's in, instead of the hyperactive, cheerful, energized, rockstar girl that she usually is. Not once did Ibuki act like herself in this blog, aside from a few key moments in the plot. Overall, the dialogue is inconsistent in how it's presented, and the execution varies from time to time.

//And YET another issue is the timing. I don't know how the schedule for DR story blogs works officially. Is it on Saturdays? Sundays? Mondays? Because I see most story blogs active on Monday or Wednesday! What's the schedule here, can someone please explain me? I haven't seen Poi's blog yet, so I can't compare her timing to mine, ASOOT seems to upload in the evenings, and Creeper does it in the early mornings, though he is from the UK so I can at least understand why he uploads so early since Uk time schedules are far different here in America. Freeze, I don't know exactly when he updates. I believe he updates on the weekend or whenever he has time to. But these are minuscule little issues compared to the mindboggling upload schedule I have .//

//I upload constantly Every. Single. Day one I finish school and not only does this mean that you see a post from me each day, but also stresses me out quite a lot because I come back from my classes, drained out and exhausted, and then I have to come back, do a post or an ask, and then stop and wait for said anons to come back with more asks. It is painfully exhausting and as of writing this, my arms have gone so numb that I can actually feel the numbness getting to my wrists. Obviously, the answer is to get a better schedule like I said a few weeks ago, but I have not committed to stopping where I should. And that is a mistake that I now have to learn or else I'll continue burning myself out untill I cannot handle it anymore.//

//Another reason is that I want to finish this arc early. Keep in mind that we are at the near end of October by now, and I definitely don't want this to continue into January of next year. But at the same time, my mind and brain are so drained out that I can't even focus on what I'm doing most of the time and it ends up making the posts look disappointing as a result. To have the arc end in January or even February would be incredibly embarrassing for me, as it proves that I can't even finish a single arc without taking months to complete. That's why I try to upload on a daily basis to reduce the time I have, but that has obviously not aged well, so what can I do?.//

//But the single, systematic, significant issue of this entire blog, the one problematic and complicated issue that brings this thing down is, without question, the premise. Now, it's a very interesting premise to be honest. A bunch of ragtag teenagers forms a team to fight back against the forces of pure, sinister sin on this earth that is communism and the Soviet Union, while also trying to change and bring the world out of its stagnation, both technologically, and socially, in order to lead to a better future. That sounds like a pretty amazing premise and an incredibly unique one for a story blog, that is if you ever heard or learned history before.//

//The lack of knowledge of the rest of my fanbase about history is truly what I think holds this entire story down. Obviously, it's not your fault at all, I blame the schools for not making history a mandatory thing, as it's really interesting, I just want to clarify that? But let's be honest: How many anons and story blog anons, out of everyone here know what the Soviet Union is? The Civil Rights Movement? The Cold War? Vietnam? John F Kenndey? The Aztecs? Egypt? Germany? Who here knows a single clue about history or what they're talking about?//

//I think the answer is clear, as while there are several anons that do know about history quite a bit actually, the majority don't know, and that's a massive issue. Given how so few people, especially in the Dr story blog community, know about history other than a few facts, is mindblowing. And I feel like I'm the main person to blame for not teaching you all what I'm talking about before I started the story, as to give you all a better understanding as to what the setting is and what exactly our characters are in right now. I promised all of you that I would explain the events and lore behind everything, but I haven't really done it, didn't I?//

//The fact that we are now at the point where Hajime has to deal with a Stasi agent attacking his family, despite almost everyone not even knowing what the Stasi even god damm is, is so embarrassing and astounding, I can't even fathom why I didn't do a review of this earlier. It would have been so much more easier, wouldn't it? Explantation to the audience is key, especially when it comes to things that people don't know or haven't had a clue is key, as it allows them to clearly understand what's going on, and how they can comprehend what they're listening to and what to do in this case. Clearly, I have failed in this as we're a quarter into this, and people still don't know what's happening.//

//When you fail at even explaining to your audience the fucking premise of the whole story blog and what it actually means, something is clearly wrong with you as a writer, like seriously. To fail at something so simple as explaining a premise to people is a thing that I cannot even put into words, as it's just unbelievable. What is the point of even continuing if people don't know what I'm talking about?//

// *Sighs* I'm not trying to sound constantly negative all the time with these things, I'm really, really not. I don't want to be a Nerderotic or Mauler, because those guys are just pissed off over any conceivable thing that they don't like, and give rather god-awful takes, though the takes are more on Nerderotic's part than Mauler's because he has some decent takes, albeit with questionable ones as well. //

// The point is that I'm so overwhelmed, stressed out, and tired as fuck at this stage, that I just want to finish this post and stop uploading for the day because this is just too much for my mental state to handle. Yet I keep going because I want to see this blog be successful one day. Everything for the past three months has been nothing but constant stress and work for me, and it's reached a point where I need to think and self-reflect on what I'm doing or there's no going back for me.//

// I'm just... *sighs* I can't even say anything other than the fact that I'm sorry for expressing my emotions. I guess I cannot express my feelings on this in a stressed way, can I? I just have to take it, do I? Sorry for having some creativity in my life, and trying to think outside the box! *sighs* To those of you who support me, @a-student-out-of-time @thenewfuture @tired-writer-in-progress @alizachan @spyrkle4, and the rest of you, thank you so much for this support that you guys give me throughout this. I'll be fine, I just... need a minute to catch myself, but I cannot understate how much I value your support and kind advice through this difficult time throughout this, and making this blog a reality. I greatly appreciate your support and wish all happy blessings in the future.//

// I formally apologize if this turned into a vent about my insecurities as a young writer, but I felt like I had to address this at some point because this was going to be an issue, and I felt that if I didn't address this, something worse was going to happen that I would regret wholeheartedly. I'm just... drained out and done with writing this post, and I hope you all can understand why I feel this way and how I want to improve this story blog for the better.//

//This is Mod Sam from A Tale Never Told, signing out. Have a good one and... I'm just so tired and done with doing more posts today. God help my soul...//

[kneedeepincynade]

The truth is more stubborn than Washington lies, and reality can not be distorted forever

The post is machine translated

Translation is at the bottom

The collective is on telegram

🇺🇸 Gli USA e i loro lacchè, tra cui l'Italia, hanno sempre promosso - negli anni - la disgustosa idea «Musulmano = terrorista», ma - per lo Xinjiang, si sono riscoperti "alfieri" dei diritti dei Musulmani, in funzione anti-Cinese 🤡

🇨🇳 Col desiderio di interferire negli affari interni e di voler balcanizzare la Cina, gli USA hanno artificialmente costruito il "Caso dello Xinjiang" - articoli con notizie non dimostrate, notizie scorrette o addirittura inventate di sana pianta, spacciandole per verità 🤮

🌸 Il Collettivo Shaoshan ha trattato questo argomento nel dettaglio, smentendo ogni menzogna anti-Cinese:

🌺 Master-Post sullo Xinjiang 🇨🇳

🤔 Cosa intende l'Occidente quando parla di "disgregazione" della Russia e di Separatismo anti-Cinese mascherato da Democrazia? 🇺🇸

😱 Queste notizie, inoltre, vengono «lanciate» agli utenti Occidentali da persone che non conosco niente della Cina, si spacciano per "esperti di Cina" ma non conoscono neanche una parola di Cinese, sono Asset dell'Impero USA. E le persone, in Occidente, dovrebbero fidarsi di loro? È ridicolo! 😡

⭐️ Il Compagno Liu scrive:

💬 «Chi inquadra la Cina dovrebbe almeno imparare un po' di Cinese, non solo affidarsi all'immaginazione. [...] Il canadese nel video si chiama Lyman Stone, ricercatore presso l'AEI e l'Institute for Family Studies, ed Ex-Economista presso il Dipartimento dell'Agricoltura degli USA, ed è abbastanza sicuro di poter cercare e acquistare su Taobao degli "schiavi uiguri"» 🤦‍♀️

🤔 Fermiamoci un attimo: ma come si fa a dire che si può comprare uno "schiavo uiguro" su un e-commerce?! Qui siamo al livello ridicolo della propaganda sulla DPRK, chi ci crede è un 没有救赎可能的白痴! 😂

💬 Tuttavia, «quando Carl Zha gli ha immediatamente chiesto di cercare e acquistare su Taobao uno schiavo uiguro, ha rifiutato (❗️), dicendo che non sapeva il Cinese e non poteva usare quindi la tastiera Cinese», per poi dire che forse non era Taobao, ma su «altri siti», in pratica è stato smascherato 🤡

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

🇺🇸 The USA and their lackeys, including Italy, have always promoted - over the years - the disgusting idea «Muslim = terrorist», but - for Xinjiang, they have rediscovered the "standard bearers" of Muslim rights, in an anti - Chinese 🤡

🇨🇳 With the desire to interfere in internal affairs and want to balkanize China, the US has artificially constructed the "Xinjiang Case" - articles with unproven news, incorrect news or even fabricated news, passing it off as the truth 🤮

🌸 The Shaoshan Collective covered this topic in detail, denying any anti-Chinese lie:

🌺 Xinjiang Master-Post 🇨🇳

🤔 What does the West mean when it talks about the "breakup" of Russia and anti-Chinese separatism masquerading as Democracy? 🇺🇸

😱 These news are also ′′ launched ′′ to Western users by people who don't know anything about China, posing as ′′ China experts ′′ but don't know a single word of Chinese, they are Assets of the US Empire. And should people in the West trust them? It's ridiculous! 😡

⭐️ Comrade Liu writes:

💬 «Those who frame China should at least learn a little Chinese, not just rely on the imagination. [...] The Canadian in the video is called Lyman Stone, a researcher at the AEI and the Institute for Family Studies, and Ex-Economist at the US Department of Agriculture, and he's pretty sure he can search and buy at Taobao of "Uyghur slaves"» 🤦‍♀️

🤔 Let's stop for a moment: how can you say that you can buy an "Uyghur slave" on an e-commerce?! Here we are at the ridiculous level of DPRK propaganda, whoever believes it is a 没有救赎可能的白痴! 😂

💬 However, "when Carl Zha immediately asked him to search for and buy a Uyghur slave on Taobao, he refused (❗️), saying he didn't know Chinese and therefore couldn't use the Chinese keyboard", to then say that maybe it wasn't Taobao, but on «other sites», it was basically exposed 🤡

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

[julesnichols]

[onceandfuturemoron]

John Reese and Arthur Pendragon: *pushing Harold and Merlin out of the way first thing upon facing danger (mostly behind themselves, shielding them)

John and Arthur: hurt me all you want but touch him and I'll burn you

Merlin and Harold that are basically criminals and very dangerous when they want to be: my boyfriend will destroy you bitch

[flynndesdelca]

For Day 20 (Atlas and P-Body) of @chelltastic’s Portal Drawtober 2023 Challenge. As I’m not really an artist, I chose to write short pieces for the prompts.

This is based around the cut co-op content of GLaDOS sending the testing bots looking for 'artifacts' and them finding a Garfield comic. Most of this was lifted directly from a dream I had about the prompt. Apologies for potential dream logic.

"Consider it a mercy that I have reassembled you before your next mission," GLaDOS advised the two testing bots.  "In order to increase your marginal chances of success, I felt that perhaps a briefing on what you are about to experience will be helpful.  Don't make me regret it." The two stopped playing rock-paper scissors to look up.  Atlas gave a small salute, while P-Body simply nodded in understanding.  "Excellent.  You both seem to be ready.  Let's not waste any more time."

With a slight creak a vital apparatus vent  opened on the ceiling overhead, and a couple of objects clattered out and onto the little table that GLaDOS had set up to give the whole thing a vague air of legitimacy.  They rolled slightly, one of them rolling off the table.  Atlas went to pick it up and held it up, staring at its length.  

"These are pencils," GLaDOS droned dryly.  "What do you think that humans did with these?"

P-Body reached over to pick up the other pencil and turned it around in her hands curiously.  Atlas stared at his as though it was going to grow wings and fly away.  Both were silent as they considered.  Atlas shifted it around in his hand, angling it between his thumb and forefinger with interest.

"Oh, did you figure it out,  Blue? Fifty science poi-" Before she could finish the sentence, Atlas wound up and threw the pencil like a dart.  It flew neatly through the air and bounced off of the chamber wall, clattering to the floor.  GLaDOS remained silent as it rolled across the floor, the air growing heavy with her displeasure.  Atlas, elated at what was perceived as success, did a little dance of joy at having deduced just what a pencil was for.  Then he promptly exploded.  She waited for him to return from the reconstruction station before she continued.  "Creative use of a pencil as a weapon is commendable, but that wasn't what the question was about.  Pencils were used when humans did not wish for their computers to know what they were thinking.  They would write things down on the mashed-up corpses of trees that they murdered in order to keep their secrets from the machines that they used to run their lives.  The pointy end is where the words would come out, while the blunt end is where they would try to erase their mistakes, if such a thing was truly possible.  It isn't, in case you were wondering."

Mechanical claws reached down and plucked the pencils away, only to replace them with  much larger, heavier objects.  "Dropping these down would have been satisfying, but they would likely have broken.  As much fun as getting you to do demeaning tasks like cleaning would be, it would be wasting valuable time.  Now, tell me, what do you think that a human would do with a coffee mug?"

The two bots picked up the objects, turning them around in their hands.  P-Body stared inside of hers, while Atlas stuck a couple fingers through the handle of his, holding it upside down.  Seeing him doing that P-Body mimicked the gesture, then brought the mug down firmly on top of his head with a slight clang.

"Stop trying to impress me by using it as a weapon.  That didn't work when Blue tried it, and even though you're using this in a much more effective way it's still incorrect, Orange," the supercomputer growled.  "The hint is in the opening."

The two stopped hitting each other with the mugs long enough to both turn them and look inside.  P-Body glanced at Atlas, who shrugged, and went back to hitting her with it.

"Okay, the refreshment lesson is over.  I suppose that being mechanical, the idea of putting a liquid into a receptacle for nourishment purposes would be beyond your understanding."  The mechanical claws swooped down to liberate the coffee mugs from the excited bots.  "You two are really making this difficult.  I'm not sure what might be more at your level.  Ah, I know..." A moment later, the vital apparatus vent opened up again with the familiar creak and whoosh.  This time two objects very slowly drifted out, flopping onto the table almost silently.  The two robots stared silently, watching the objects, which did not move any further.

"I mentioned this before," GLaDOS said primly.  "During the pencil lecture, if you were listening.  Consider this to be your pop quiz.  What is this?"

An uncertain silence fell.  P-Body reached out a hand to brush against the thin white rectangle.  It moved slightly beneath her fingers and she startled back, the forceful motion enough to peel it from the surface of the table and send it fluttering.  It settled back down to the table surface and stopped moving.  Atlas reached over to tap it warningly, but it did not move again.  Satisfied, he withdrew his hand, though he kept an eye on it.  P-Body shook her head, making a disapproving noise.

"It's not antagonizing you.  Much like the two of you, it has no sense of self-awareness," GLaDOS groaned.  "If you had a pencil, what would you do with this?"

The two stared at the paper for a while.  P-Body held up her fingers, mimicking the shape of the pencil.  Atlas recalled the brief moment of praise before his abrupt deconstruction and held his hand in the way he had held the pencil.  P-Body shook her head and made a rotating gesture, and Atlas quickly shifted the imaginary pencil in his hand around.  P-Body made swooping gestures with her hands, and Atlas nodded, then he slapped his imaginary-pencil-bearing hand down on the paper.  He started to wave it around on the surface of the table, dragging the paper with him.

"Close enough.  Good job.  Science points for everyone.  I suppose it was Orange's idea, so Orange can have all of them," GLaDOS said with a sigh.  "This is taking a lot longer than I planned, so we are going to cut it short.  The last thing I feel I should prepare you for is perhaps the most disturbing of all.  Brace yourselves, this is as close to Android Hell as you're getting while alive."

The vital apparatus vent overhead whooshed again and this time deposited a single item.  It clattered onto the table and promptly fell over, but it didn't roll away like the pencils had, and it didn't flutter like the paper had.  Perhaps fell wasn't the correct word, as it seemed to right itself after a moment, wobbling up and down slightly before standing itself up completely straight.  Atlas and P-Body stared at it in awe.

"Don't look too closely at it!" GLaDOS hissed.  "Despite its charming caricature, I can assure you that this object is evil.  Perhaps it was intended to be a ward against the mechanical.  While such a notion is highly unscientific, it's unfortunately going to be effective.  You'll need to become acclimatized to this thing’s presence if you are going to succeed."

The two bots looked at each other.  Atlas reached out to touch it, and it shook at the contact, the uppermost part swinging slightly.

"In this form, it is passive," GLaDOS explained warily.  "The festive colours and dapper head-covering are meant to lure you in with a false sense of complacency.  There is nothing fun about this.  You will know when it is on the alert, as it will be moving of its own volition.  Watching you with its beady, unblinking eyes."  A slightly quivering mechanical claw lowered something down next to the offending object, then retracted quickly.  It was a glass of water.  "Blue.  Push the top part down into the water."

Sensing personal danger, Atlas shook his head.

"Fifty science points if you push the top part into the water."

The lure of science points wasn't enough to get him to move.

"How about I don't violently deconstruct you for insubordination?"

That did the trick, and he quickly tipped the top part towards the glass of water.  It obediently bobbed down.  A slight protuberance from the bulbous, behatted top part stuck out far enough to dip into the water.  After a moment the whole thing rocked back up to its resting position, then back down again without having been pushed.  The continued motion surprised the bots, who held up their hands defensively at first, but slowly lowered them as their eyes tracked the movements.  Then they kept watching.  And watching.  The movement of the object as it bobbed back and forth was mesmerizing.  After a moment or two it suddenly dipped back down into the water, and the two bots made little noises of delight.

"That is the opposite reaction you should be having to it!" GLaDOS snapped.  "If you see this thing, and you will, it's a sign that there's something worth finding.  They're trying to protect their secrets with their eternally-watching self-irrigating avian monitoring devices.  Do not let your guard down in the presence of one." She watched the two scamper around in obvious ignorance of the true danger represented by the object in question.  "If you ever kept it up in the first place.  This briefing is over.  Prepare for your first real mission."  

The two testing bots stopped mid-caper.  Atlas held up a hand quickly, making a questioning chirp.

"I said I wouldn't violently deconstruct you for insubordination.  This is transportation.  It's a vital and necessary deconstruction."  To demonstrate, she blew them up, sending their schematics to the reconstruction station closest to their target location.  She didn’t expect them to understand how much more efficient this was, anyway.

A simple trial retrieval first, to see how much they had retained from their briefing.  She had a target in mind already, something she had been wondering about for a while...

[l-justnoiseinthesystem-l]

Finch: The clock is ticking! We don't have time for this asinine tomfoolery!

John: This unmitigated poppycock?

Fusco: Extravagant hogwash!

Finch: Okay, stop.

Root: Can I bother you for a second?

John: You're always bothering me, but go ahead.

John: *gets a text* Oh! It’s Shaw.

Carter, excitedly: Did they get me the stuff?

John: Yeah, they say they got you the clown costume, the power drill, and 12 gallons of blood.

Carter: Wow! Where’d they find 12 gallons of fake blood?

John: You wanted fake blood?

Carter:

John: I’ll go call Shaw.

[murachinchi]

What’s the password for poi for the recent ones please

hi! i try not to give away password answers again now but the hint is in the caption!

if it says incorrect try to type in lowercase and do not add space after the answer