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okay i was thinking about this the other day. rb with whether you say asphalt, pavement, blacktop, tarmac, or something else, and which of these words have/haven’t you heard of
so far there have been several kinds of people
i say all of them but tarmac is for airports
i say all of them but blacktop
i say all of them but tarmac
i have not heard of tarmac or blacktop
i say them all but they all mean different things
Are you the "I will eat the good food first and let the bad come last" neurodivergent or the "I will suffer through the bad food first so I can end with the good" neurodivergent?
The Most Tumblr Punchline
I've noted before that my favorite punchline on Tumblr is "hang on, gotta look something up/okay that's funny."
Let me explain why:
It is a way to say "I don't get it" without blaming the joke or the teller.
It is a tacit admission of ignorance without shame or judgement.
It assumes responsibility for acquiring the knowledge the respondent doesn't already have.
It cues other people who Don't Get It to do the look-up themselves, allowing them to get that full impact of Getting It without derailing the post with explanations.
It gives subsequent readers, whether or not THEY got the joke, a little frisson of good feelings when they realize that someone else is now In On The Joke.
It not only makes the original joke funnier, it gets funnier the more often it's used.
people who are like “please stop using incomprehensible words like ‘ontological’ and ‘epistemology’ and ‘teleological’ in the social sciences”..... okay but.... counterpoint..... you could consider, god forbid, learning something
no fr. like i'm studying physics and everyone understands that a term like 'perturbative quantum chromodynamics' serves a specific purpose and that you can break it down even if you haven't encountered it before. and that's a super niche example! like, it comes up if you're thinking about the possibility of quark matter at the center of high-mass neutron stars.
but in the social sciences and humanities, if you use a word that has a precise meaning and is a VERY helpful thing to be able to refer to (e.g. if your field studies the nature of being then you might want a word for "studying the nature of being"), then people will accuse you of incomprehensibility, inaccessibility, and deliberate obfuscation. the problem must be the bad scary elitist writer, not the reader who expects to be able to understand a field they're unfamiliar with without performing a single google search.
maybe an even better example is medicine. we can accept that there's a reason to refer specifically to a pheochromocytoma rather than another type of tumor. why not extend the same benefit of the doubt to other fields?
(the answer is that some people don't have a desire to learn more because it would challenge their feeling that they know everything already. they've decided the social sciences and humanities simply can't know more than their own intuition about the world. and when they encounter difficulty in understanding the ideas of people who literally do this for a living, they decide there's a problem with their communication instead of just looking it up.)
there are genuine barriers to accessibility in academia. massive, massive barriers. this isn't one. i promise if you take two minutes to look up something new to you it will open up the whole world.
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It’s also worth mentioning that this is the guy who posted this:
His name is Jim Sterling and he is a rather… colorful games journalist who actually uses his platform to report on stuff like horrible working conditions, abuse and even stuff like sexual assault in the games industry.
He also raised concerns about the addictive nature of stuff like loot boxes and micro transactions long before anyone else did.
They recently came out as non-binary “gender trash” (his words, not mine) and uses he/they/any pronouns according to his Twitter. Give their videos a look see if you are interested in hearing about workers rights in the creative industry.
we love and appreciate James Stephanie Sterling in this house
i would like to share that they are using exclusively they/them pronouns at this time :-)
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To those unfamiliar with the small, isolationist island nation far off the coast of northeast Asia, the civil unrest occurring in the People's United Kingdoms of Britain might seem shocking. However, this sort of political corruption is par for course in the minor archipelago, where covid still runs rampant and human rights are whittled away every day.
Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"
Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective
Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos
The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities
Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona
we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name
MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch
In Search Of A Flat Earth
Envy
The Commodification of Black Athletes
The Lies Of The Lighthouse
The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity
Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games
Time Loop Nihilism
How Bisexuality Changed Video Games
The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)
Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline
The True Horror Of Midsommar
is this anything
I’m glad ppl on tiktok are doing ok
good lord
YEAH I GOT NOTHING
i don’t understand a single sentence in this and i’m ok with that
I haven’t stopped saying “it’s called quantum jumping, babe”
I would genuinely like to know who to blame for making these children so disconnected from the concept of imagination that they think the simpler explanation for what they’re doing is that they’re projecting their consciousness into one of infinite realities where fictional characters are real.
topical :/
WHY IS IT TOPICAL
Me shouting at my rash ointment
great post everyone
Reddit conservatives being shocked about the GOP being against birth control is certainly something to witness.
They said this all along.
This, but basically with literally everything.
I've been hearing "these people are making my party look so bad!" lately, as if these aren't the inherent beliefs of the party and haven't been their goals for almost the entire time their party has existed.
"Who is voting against this?" the clowns and jokers you elected are!
Because Karl Marx was problematic, we’ll have to abandon his work. Because everyone is problematic, we’ll have to abandon everything. Just reblog memes, describe your privileges, sign petitions you don’t understand for countries you’ll never live in and make sure you continue jacking off to liberal identity politics. Revolutionary work.
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whatis everyones favourite mcc game?? im curious
PSA.
classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here's a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it's unreal
guys if one more person leaves a tag like this on my post im gonna lose my mind. There Are Science Fiction Authors Who Are Not Misogynistic Men
ok i've gotten one too many 'this is why i don't read sci-fi' comments so here's a rec list for the people convinced all science fiction is bad and misogynistic (with something for everyone, hopefully!):
(also, btw, the book links are to the Storygraph, which includes content warnings for each one!)
smth funny and lighthearted about a security robot who'd rather watch TV then do its job? all systems red by martha wells (first novella in the The Murderbot Diaries series, 6 books, ongoing)
a complex, intricate political space opera following a warship AI who's lost (almost) everything? ancillary justice by ann leckie (first in the Imperial Radch trilogy) (fun fact! bc of space linguistics reasons, all characters in this series are referred to with she/her pronouns, making gender a non-factor - it's really cool!)
a dark story about travelling between parallel universes and a woman who is dead in almost every single one? the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (standalone) (SO good, i don't get to recommend it often enough!!!)
a story about grief and letting go, and a unique take on alien invasion? the seep by chana porter (standalone novella)
hey, how abt some dystopian YA, for old times sake? specifically, one with sapphics and sick mechas? try gearbreakers by zoe hana mikuta (first in duology)
or, if you'd prefer something a bit less angsty, YA about a ragtag group of teens and a space heist? the disasters by m. k. england (standalone)
alternate history steampunk that blurs the line btwn science fiction and fantasy? the black god's drums by p. djeli clark (standalone, novella)
a dark gone girl-esque thriller about clones? the echo wife by sarah gailey (standalone)
poetic sapphic romance and time travel? this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar (standalone)
a hopeful utopian future and a human-robot friendship? a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers (novella, first out of two) (this author's got a whole bunch of hopepunk sci-fi novels in general, if that's smth you're looking for!)
africanfuturism, coming-of-age, and cool jellyfish aliens? binti by nnedi okorafor (novella, first in trilogy)
spicy lesbian cyborgs? and shall machines surrender my benjanun sriduangkaew (novella, first in the Machine Mandate series, 6 books)
cosmic horror with an autistic scientist, cyborg angels and AI gods? the outside by ada hoffmann (first in trilogy, 2 books are out)
also, if you're a fan of Janelle Monáe, may i draw your attention to the fact that they've recently come out with a Dirty Computer short story collection, each story co-written with a diff writer?
this list is long enough, but have some more authors (who are not cis men) also worth checking out: rivers solomon, yoon ha lee, charlie jane anders, aliette de bodard, xiran jay zhao, mary robinette kowal, corinne duyvis
and finally, not all older/classic scifi is written by crusty old white guys who hate women!!! some iconic authors i'd particularly recommend looking into are ursula k. le guin, octavia e. butler, samuel r. delany and vonda n. mcintyre 🥰
ID. tags reading:
":| (disappointed face) theres a reason i stopped reading scifi in high school."
"unfortunately why you wont catch me descending farther into the genre than star wars. everyone's like read this and its just misogyny in space. wow so cool but i have that at home."
"yikes. glad i never read scifi novels." End ID.
So
For those who follow me for non-FFXIV reasons, I bring a crumb of internet drama to your door:
As with a lot of MMOs, roleplaying is a big thing. A BIG thing. Another big thing is the modding scene, so you can get your character looking just how you like. Squeenix does not best love mods, but it's broadly a don't-ask-don't-tell situation: as long as your mods don't give you an unfair advantage and you don't rub them in anyone's face, they'll look the other way
Guess what's the explicit direct polar opposite of not rubbing it in anyone's face
Buying four entire billboards in a major US city about it
A roleplay group bought out multiple billboards to advertise an event, and used both a modded screenshot (edit: that apparently uses a datamined unreleased outfit holy shit) and the official game logo on it
This Has Gone Well For Them and last I heard people had been banned temporarily over it pending more severe action, the modding scene is having very real fears that Squeenix will crack down on mod use over it, and apparently the organizers are pitching a hissy on their discord
No one is happy
Apparently there is a standoff happening outside the group's house where people are camped out on magitek armor using the missile emotes
tldr list of what’s known thus far for those that don’t wanna scroll thru all the rb’s, from the top...
guild house is decorated / set up to be a nightclub + erp venue in-game > publicised erp is against game TOS because potential to expose minors to pornographic content etc.
some attendees and/or staff use mods > against TOS
game producer basically says “i can’t stop you from doing it so don’t let me see it and you’re fine” otherwise they get banned faster than they can blink... well now everyone can see it in 2987341987236401923641px
some saying staff are paid real money for working there + real money for erp > against TOS for rmt (real-money trading)
ran a twitch stream donation saying it was for the trevor project + made thousands of $$$$$
there is ONE receipt which has surfaced (that i have seen) that says a donation to TTP was made for $230 ... nowhere near the amount of $$ made during the stream
handful of staff of the rp venue report having no idea where the money went, i.e. “it was just gone one day”
rented billboards (at least two, at least one of which is digital) for at least $1,200/month. probably more in the ballpark of $12,000. bc that’s a number that was circulating (esp in the discord where staff were ragging on people telling them “bad idea” because “you’re just jealous you can’t afford this kind of thing”)
(sus yet over that missing money and expensive advert? ‘cause that’s fraud if it’s a 1:1 flow of money buckos!!!)
on the billboard...
a character in a datamined outfit for the 2022 summer event (obviously against TOS)
a character with a facial mod (against TOS)
square enix watermark (copyright infringement)
final fantasy xiv logo, implicating the game is complicit in the event or otherwise sponsoring/promoting it (copyright infringement, misinformation)
website address (taken down ~4 hour (or less) after the internet became Aware of this)
discord server + user name(s)
staff totally on board with this brainiac idea were 100% certain they wouldn’t get in trouble for anything / continue to state they’ve done nothing wrong
one of the characters featured on the billboard has already been temp banned with possibility of permaban as of the evening of july 5
SE lawyers woke up and found out they’d have the easiest day of their lives
and some fun tidbits...
obviously, people started joining the discord to rubberneck... in light of this, a staff member installed an emote that was a fake trojan -- ultimately harmless but drives antivirus NUTS
threatened to report anyone reacting to posts with clown / skull / nerdface emoji to “local authorities and have you arrested” ... for discord emotes. lmfao. that’s where that copypasta comes from.
a former staff member’s éxpose on twitter
actual news media sites reporting on it
all in all, we in the “find out” phase of fucking around fellas
