Brooke’s Chill Space

Here is where I chill. 22, she/her naarm/melbourne

[apocalypsegay]

[rhinco]

i understand that it's unreasonable to expect a band on world tour to play in every country in the world but i do think they should only be allowed to call it a world tour if they play in every continent. we need to make it embarrassing to say world tour and then not even step foot in africa

[valtsv]

my problem is if i enjoy something enough i will be nitpicking. i Will have things to say about where and how it failed. out of nothing but love straight from my heart. unfortunately this often makes me indistinguishable from a hater who has never experienced joy or kindness. such is the amateur critic's burden.

[valtsv]

all of my favourite things are like beautiful racehorses that trip over their own feet a hundred times. but they get back up again. and goddamn, you should see them run.

[chortlebot]

before someone screenshots this and posts it elsewhere this is me

[clawcakes]

PREV TRUTH NUKE

[curioscurio]

aragorn seeing a scared little boy that knows hes going to die fighting 10,000 roided up monsters and trying to give him a pep talk. swinging THE most shitass busted up sword in all of helms deep and giving it back to the kid and going "this is a good sword." knowing full well that sword was so ass it couldn't cut butter. kingly behavior. he would make a good lesbian.

[mousidy]

insane how many of you will just assume that a trans woman has a penis, and that it wouldn't be something she might have any dysphoria about

[mousidy]

[captain-price-returns]

[iamjaynaemarie]

Dangers of working on a set.

That’s what I said.

[seawitchkaraoke]

Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up  ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.

But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.

[mikkeneko]

[ithinkitsdashing]

#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore

[ophidahlia]

Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity

[ackee]

sigh. i miss everyone's ocs. can everyone update me on what their ocs are doing rn. or if you've made new ocs in my absence. thank you

[ackee]

"oh this must be for OP's close mutuals/followers" wronggggg. i'm nosy about everyone's ocs. so lets hear it !

[brookek31]

like. The google search LLM isn’t just bad in the ways every other LLM is. It’s worse. Somehow downright the worst, least competent one is the one that gets constantly shoved in everyone’s face

[pollsforadults]

You get transported into the universe of the last media you consumed. How are you doing?

This is better than my real life

I'm doing well

I'm doing fine

I'm not having a good time

I'm absolutely cooked

There is nothing different about this universe and my own

Voting ended onMay 29

[jewfrogs]

the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is

[jewfrogs]

Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but it’s only less christianocentric in that it doesn’t overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. you’re still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into “the period before jesus” and “the period after jesus”. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now it’s easier to ignore because you’ve draped it in a “secular”, “modern” veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.

[iamemeraldfox]

Okay now I need a point in history that could be a benchmark to start counting the years from, and would be a common point for most of the world

What year would it be today?

[sarah-ankh]

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time.

The system by which every computer in existence now keeps count of the passing seconds.

And I mean that literally. To a computer system "now" is a number that represents the total number ov seconds that have passed since midnight on the 1st of January, 1960.

1960/01/01 00:00:01 is literally the beginning of time as far as a computer is concerned.

This would be the year 66UTC

[telewrenevision]

I like this idea but if we changed it now then next year would be the year 67 which would make a lot of people angry

[stillstarling]

I would be all for this. But I also want to point out that not everyone uses AD or CE. Or the Christian year counting system at all. Currently in Thailand the year is 2569. Because they use the buddhist year. Yeah I see the christian year on some stuff here, mainly like imports or things to be exported etc. But documents, car registrations, etc? All use the buddhist year. So yeah idk. Maybe we dont need to universalize the year? Maybe each culture can count years how they prefer. Thailand is a majority buddhist country with buddhism as the national religion. So using the buddhiist year makes sense. A secular country? They could use the UTC year, or stay with whatever year method has been historically used there, or decide to count from their current governments formation, or whatever. It really doesn't matter too much. We already have different timezones, different years would be fine.

Tangentially related, I think it's very weird that we separate different timezones so that "7pm" has roughly the same amount of light whether you are in asia or africa or the americas. BUT we don't flip the months for the southern hemisphere? January is summer there. If we cared about labelling the same time experiences the same way, we should switch our months. otherwise we should get rid of timezones. thoughts?

[brookek31]

Hi, I’m in the southern hemisphere. I kinda think that would be more trouble than it’s worth, particularly given what a season entails isn’t universal - really Australia might be better served by switching to Indigenous Australian constructions of seasons, for example. This means that months are already to an extent divorced from seasonal cycles - weather-wise, January means something different in Scotland, Thailand, and California, despite those all being in the northern hemisphere. I don’t see it as much different that January weather where I live is different to that for northerners. On a calendar scale, it’s much more convenient to be able to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand when that is than to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand what the weather might vaguely resemble. Besides, there are generally better ways to describe weather than stating the month - e.g. ‘cold and rainy’ is more helpful than ‘January’. On the other hand, as annoying as time zone conversions are for online discussions, if the person you’re talking too says what time it is for them it’s much easier to intuitively understand ‘11pm’ than ‘Bangkok Midday’; this also extends to travelling - this way if you’re going overseas you don’t have to acclimatise to the clocks saying 5am at sunset.

[stillstarling]

You seem to have missed my entire point. Which is that the seasons being switched would only feel unintuitive and confusing because the system we currently have is what we are used to. Not because it's based in logic of what's easiest in the long run. Same applies to timezones. You only think "bangkok midday" would be unintuitive because you aren't used to it yet. That's not an argument based on what systems would actually be logically the simplest for people. But rather an argument based in tradition. Which the OP of this post was also making a point against keeping things the same purely because of tradition.

[brookek31]

I’m not purely saying it’d be unintuitive because of tradition, I do mention genuine reasons one approach is more intuitive than another absent that. e.g. which option involves remembering more or less information, which option has more variability between places that use it. I don’t want to go too deep restating my points but for example I said that ‘January weather’ already means something different in different places within the hemisphere whereas ‘January 9th’ means the same day to everyone using the Gregorian calendar (plus or minus timezones) - which at least on a civil basis is most of the world, though it wouldn’t need to be.

[stillstarling]

yeaaah... again you have completely missed my point. My point is not that we should change the months. my point is that having different timezones follows the same logic as having different months would. thus my point was actually anti-timezone not pro-month changes. Saying that it's silly we apply traditional logic only in some places and not others. But you defended both the existing systems, on the grounds of that's how it exists right now and traditionally.

[brookek31]

I mean. I think you’re wrong there too, and not on the grounds of ‘defending tradition’. As I explained, I don’t think the two situations are equivalent. I think there are material reasons having no time zones would be materially less convenient.

But also to be honest the existing way of counting hours is decently more grounded in reality than that around BCE/CE. If you’re using 24 hour time, throughout the course of the day you’re counting up from a low number to a high number, and then it resets overnight (I don’t particularly like 12 hour time for this reason too). Solar noon happens (roughly) halfway through the day, whereas in your system that would only happen for one place. The cycle resets when people are unlikely to be doing business, whereas your system would lose that functionality. I know you don’t like basing it on ‘tradition’ but I think the tradition kinda has a reason for existing here

Of course I’m not a fan of absolutely everything that’s done with politically determined time zones

[stillstarling]

[brookek31]

okay well that’s a little rude? you asked for thoughts and I wanted to give you thoughts and I feel like you’ve just been hostile about it? I’m sorry if I’m misreading your tone here but idk what you want me to say here

[jewfrogs]

the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is

[jewfrogs]

Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but it’s only less christianocentric in that it doesn’t overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. you’re still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into “the period before jesus” and “the period after jesus”. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now it’s easier to ignore because you’ve draped it in a “secular”, “modern” veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.

[iamemeraldfox]

Okay now I need a point in history that could be a benchmark to start counting the years from, and would be a common point for most of the world

What year would it be today?

[sarah-ankh]

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time.

The system by which every computer in existence now keeps count of the passing seconds.

And I mean that literally. To a computer system "now" is a number that represents the total number ov seconds that have passed since midnight on the 1st of January, 1960.

1960/01/01 00:00:01 is literally the beginning of time as far as a computer is concerned.

This would be the year 66UTC

[telewrenevision]

I like this idea but if we changed it now then next year would be the year 67 which would make a lot of people angry

[stillstarling]

I would be all for this. But I also want to point out that not everyone uses AD or CE. Or the Christian year counting system at all. Currently in Thailand the year is 2569. Because they use the buddhist year. Yeah I see the christian year on some stuff here, mainly like imports or things to be exported etc. But documents, car registrations, etc? All use the buddhist year. So yeah idk. Maybe we dont need to universalize the year? Maybe each culture can count years how they prefer. Thailand is a majority buddhist country with buddhism as the national religion. So using the buddhiist year makes sense. A secular country? They could use the UTC year, or stay with whatever year method has been historically used there, or decide to count from their current governments formation, or whatever. It really doesn't matter too much. We already have different timezones, different years would be fine.

Tangentially related, I think it's very weird that we separate different timezones so that "7pm" has roughly the same amount of light whether you are in asia or africa or the americas. BUT we don't flip the months for the southern hemisphere? January is summer there. If we cared about labelling the same time experiences the same way, we should switch our months. otherwise we should get rid of timezones. thoughts?

[brookek31]

Hi, I’m in the southern hemisphere. I kinda think that would be more trouble than it’s worth, particularly given what a season entails isn’t universal - really Australia might be better served by switching to Indigenous Australian constructions of seasons, for example. This means that months are already to an extent divorced from seasonal cycles - weather-wise, January means something different in Scotland, Thailand, and California, despite those all being in the northern hemisphere. I don’t see it as much different that January weather where I live is different to that for northerners. On a calendar scale, it’s much more convenient to be able to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand when that is than to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand what the weather might vaguely resemble. Besides, there are generally better ways to describe weather than stating the month - e.g. ‘cold and rainy’ is more helpful than ‘January’. On the other hand, as annoying as time zone conversions are for online discussions, if the person you’re talking too says what time it is for them it’s much easier to intuitively understand ‘11pm’ than ‘Bangkok Midday’; this also extends to travelling - this way if you’re going overseas you don’t have to acclimatise to the clocks saying 5am at sunset.

[stillstarling]

You seem to have missed my entire point. Which is that the seasons being switched would only feel unintuitive and confusing because the system we currently have is what we are used to. Not because it's based in logic of what's easiest in the long run. Same applies to timezones. You only think "bangkok midday" would be unintuitive because you aren't used to it yet. That's not an argument based on what systems would actually be logically the simplest for people. But rather an argument based in tradition. Which the OP of this post was also making a point against keeping things the same purely because of tradition.

[brookek31]

I’m not purely saying it’d be unintuitive because of tradition, I do mention genuine reasons one approach is more intuitive than another absent that. e.g. which option involves remembering more or less information, which option has more variability between places that use it. I don’t want to go too deep restating my points but for example I said that ‘January weather’ already means something different in different places within the hemisphere whereas ‘January 9th’ means the same day to everyone using the Gregorian calendar (plus or minus timezones) - which at least on a civil basis is most of the world, though it wouldn’t need to be.

[stillstarling]

yeaaah... again you have completely missed my point. My point is not that we should change the months. my point is that having different timezones follows the same logic as having different months would. thus my point was actually anti-timezone not pro-month changes. Saying that it's silly we apply traditional logic only in some places and not others. But you defended both the existing systems, on the grounds of that's how it exists right now and traditionally.

[brookek31]

I mean. I think you’re wrong there too, and not on the grounds of ‘defending tradition’. As I explained, I don’t think the two situations are equivalent. I think there are material reasons having no time zones would be materially less convenient.

But also to be honest the existing way of counting hours is decently more grounded in reality than that around BCE/CE. If you’re using 24 hour time, throughout the course of the day you’re counting up from a low number to a high number, and then it resets overnight (I don’t particularly like 12 hour time for this reason too). Solar noon happens (roughly) halfway through the day, whereas in your system that would only happen for one place. The cycle resets when people are unlikely to be doing business, whereas your system would lose that functionality. I know you don’t like basing it on ‘tradition’ but I think the tradition kinda has a reason for existing here

Of course I’m not a fan of absolutely everything that’s done with politically determined time zones

[jewfrogs]

the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is

[jewfrogs]

Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but it’s only less christianocentric in that it doesn’t overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. you’re still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into “the period before jesus” and “the period after jesus”. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now it’s easier to ignore because you’ve draped it in a “secular”, “modern” veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.

[iamemeraldfox]

Okay now I need a point in history that could be a benchmark to start counting the years from, and would be a common point for most of the world

What year would it be today?

[sarah-ankh]

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time.

The system by which every computer in existence now keeps count of the passing seconds.

And I mean that literally. To a computer system "now" is a number that represents the total number ov seconds that have passed since midnight on the 1st of January, 1960.

1960/01/01 00:00:01 is literally the beginning of time as far as a computer is concerned.

This would be the year 66UTC

[telewrenevision]

I like this idea but if we changed it now then next year would be the year 67 which would make a lot of people angry

[stillstarling]

I would be all for this. But I also want to point out that not everyone uses AD or CE. Or the Christian year counting system at all. Currently in Thailand the year is 2569. Because they use the buddhist year. Yeah I see the christian year on some stuff here, mainly like imports or things to be exported etc. But documents, car registrations, etc? All use the buddhist year. So yeah idk. Maybe we dont need to universalize the year? Maybe each culture can count years how they prefer. Thailand is a majority buddhist country with buddhism as the national religion. So using the buddhiist year makes sense. A secular country? They could use the UTC year, or stay with whatever year method has been historically used there, or decide to count from their current governments formation, or whatever. It really doesn't matter too much. We already have different timezones, different years would be fine.

Tangentially related, I think it's very weird that we separate different timezones so that "7pm" has roughly the same amount of light whether you are in asia or africa or the americas. BUT we don't flip the months for the southern hemisphere? January is summer there. If we cared about labelling the same time experiences the same way, we should switch our months. otherwise we should get rid of timezones. thoughts?

[brookek31]

Hi, I’m in the southern hemisphere. I kinda think that would be more trouble than it’s worth, particularly given what a season entails isn’t universal - really Australia might be better served by switching to Indigenous Australian constructions of seasons, for example. This means that months are already to an extent divorced from seasonal cycles - weather-wise, January means something different in Scotland, Thailand, and California, despite those all being in the northern hemisphere. I don’t see it as much different that January weather where I live is different to that for northerners. On a calendar scale, it’s much more convenient to be able to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand when that is than to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand what the weather might vaguely resemble. Besides, there are generally better ways to describe weather than stating the month - e.g. ‘cold and rainy’ is more helpful than ‘January’. On the other hand, as annoying as time zone conversions are for online discussions, if the person you’re talking too says what time it is for them it’s much easier to intuitively understand ‘11pm’ than ‘Bangkok Midday’; this also extends to travelling - this way if you’re going overseas you don’t have to acclimatise to the clocks saying 5am at sunset.

[stillstarling]

You seem to have missed my entire point. Which is that the seasons being switched would only feel unintuitive and confusing because the system we currently have is what we are used to. Not because it's based in logic of what's easiest in the long run. Same applies to timezones. You only think "bangkok midday" would be unintuitive because you aren't used to it yet. That's not an argument based on what systems would actually be logically the simplest for people. But rather an argument based in tradition. Which the OP of this post was also making a point against keeping things the same purely because of tradition.

[brookek31]

I’m not purely saying it’d be unintuitive because of tradition, I do mention genuine reasons one approach is more intuitive than another absent that. e.g. which option involves remembering more or less information, which option has more variability between places that use it. I don’t want to go too deep restating my points but for example I said that ‘January weather’ already means something different in different places within the hemisphere whereas ‘January 9th’ means the same day to everyone using the Gregorian calendar (plus or minus timezones) - which at least on a civil basis is most of the world, though it wouldn’t need to be.

[jewfrogs]

the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is

[jewfrogs]

Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but it’s only less christianocentric in that it doesn’t overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. you’re still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into “the period before jesus” and “the period after jesus”. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now it’s easier to ignore because you’ve draped it in a “secular”, “modern” veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.

[iamemeraldfox]

Okay now I need a point in history that could be a benchmark to start counting the years from, and would be a common point for most of the world

What year would it be today?

[sarah-ankh]

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time.

The system by which every computer in existence now keeps count of the passing seconds.

And I mean that literally. To a computer system "now" is a number that represents the total number ov seconds that have passed since midnight on the 1st of January, 1960.

1960/01/01 00:00:01 is literally the beginning of time as far as a computer is concerned.

This would be the year 66UTC

[telewrenevision]

I like this idea but if we changed it now then next year would be the year 67 which would make a lot of people angry

[stillstarling]

I would be all for this. But I also want to point out that not everyone uses AD or CE. Or the Christian year counting system at all. Currently in Thailand the year is 2569. Because they use the buddhist year. Yeah I see the christian year on some stuff here, mainly like imports or things to be exported etc. But documents, car registrations, etc? All use the buddhist year. So yeah idk. Maybe we dont need to universalize the year? Maybe each culture can count years how they prefer. Thailand is a majority buddhist country with buddhism as the national religion. So using the buddhiist year makes sense. A secular country? They could use the UTC year, or stay with whatever year method has been historically used there, or decide to count from their current governments formation, or whatever. It really doesn't matter too much. We already have different timezones, different years would be fine.

Tangentially related, I think it's very weird that we separate different timezones so that "7pm" has roughly the same amount of light whether you are in asia or africa or the americas. BUT we don't flip the months for the southern hemisphere? January is summer there. If we cared about labelling the same time experiences the same way, we should switch our months. otherwise we should get rid of timezones. thoughts?

[brookek31]

Hi, I’m in the southern hemisphere. I kinda think that would be more trouble than it’s worth, particularly given what a season entails isn’t universal - really Australia might be better served by switching to Indigenous Australian constructions of seasons, for example. This means that months are already to an extent divorced from seasonal cycles - weather-wise, January means something different in Scotland, Thailand, and California, despite those all being in the northern hemisphere. I don’t see it as much different that January weather where I live is different to that for northerners. On a calendar scale, it’s much more convenient to be able to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand when that is than to say ‘January 9th’ and have everyone understand what the weather might vaguely resemble. Besides, there are generally better ways to describe weather than stating the month - e.g. ‘cold and rainy’ is more helpful than ‘January’. On the other hand, as annoying as time zone conversions are for online discussions, if the person you’re talking too says what time it is for them it’s much easier to intuitively understand ‘11pm’ than ‘Bangkok Midday’; this also extends to travelling - this way if you’re going overseas you don’t have to acclimatise to the clocks saying 5am at sunset.

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

And that they're somehow better than everyone else for being aware of the scam.

[desolationlesbian]

its so crazy that "Crusader" and "Inquisitor" are so casually accepted archetypes in fantasy media. if you go hey it's fucked up that pathfinder and a bunch of other RPGs have "Inquisitor" as a player class then people act like you're delirious. "if you want a dex build for your next campaign have you thought about rolling up a Racist Torture Squad Member?" what in the goddamn hell are you talking about

[icantspellthings]

Whenever people ask me "why don't you know xyz, it's so popular" well see it's because

[icantspellthings]

I literally live in south east asia

[that-stone-butch]

'you can tell op is african' based on a mercator style projection map is so funny

[brookek31]

literally where else do you centre a map, if you don’t want to cut a continental landmass in half you have a choice of Europe/Africa to cut along the Pacific or East Asia/Australia to cut along the Atlantic. The latter cuts less Pacific countries in half so I prefer it but still, I don’t see how a choice of one of two viable projections can tell you anything