nonstop stream of terrible content

Birdie, she/her. 30s. Pākehā. Suffering from "wizard dysphoria". from Aotearoa but currently misplaced in Australia

[haunted-skitty-doll]

Sorry to post shit I found on reddit but this video has been on my mind for like 3 weeks now

[dogpuppy]

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[icantspellthings]

Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun

[televisionenjoyer]

Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄

[audliminal]

Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!

[irondive]

[thememedaddy]

[mjshortformcjesus]

holy shit have you evver tried this new substance called album in order

[whoarethemoonpeople]

it magically turns songs you don’t like into songs you like!!!

[contemptible-scoundrel]

how it feels to decline when the self-checkout kiosk asks to round up fourteen cents to support homeless veterans

[apricops]

like, obviously Paradox games are 'teaching tools' only in a narrow and specific sense, a lot of things are simplified and streamlined for the purposes of making an entertaining video game, but I'll never forget about how many times I read about the Investiture Controversy and tried to understand it, and I always thought "it's about 'secular versus spiritual authority?' it's all about who gets to give a special ring to bishops? Why was this such a big deal?"

and then I played CKIII and went "ugh, it sucks that the Pope gets to appoint my court chaplain. Council positions are so important for managing my large vassals and keeping them happy, and besides, I have so many capable and learned vassals who would be perfect for the job and the Pope keeps sticking me with these Italian midwits who don't even... OH SHIT THAT'S WHY"

[toskarin]

have you seen the lord of the rings movies? the practical effects look great, but there's also an amazing digital serkis

[wizardpotions]

If your whole personality is being gay to the point of not being able to engage with stories about women and only scanning media for the most yaoiable white boys you are the problem.

[wizardpotions]

This site is so actively anti woman it's actually embarrassing.

[wizardpotions]

If some of you spent half as much time understanding intersectionality as you did talking about your white man of the month we wouldn't be losing all of our trans women

[wizardpotions]

And no, people in the tags Yuri is not the answer to this problem. There is more to stories than shipping and there is more to women in media than shipping.

[wizardpotions]

For the love of god the solution to misogyny is not "well *I* find this type of woman desirable/want to see them kiss eachother/whatever"

Not defining women entirely by their ability to make you feel horny is maybe step one of feminism

[wizardpotions]

THANK YOU

[autisticlittleguy]

"Grace Ryland is Rocky's dog" is such a funny fucking dynamic when you think about it

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

But at the same time... imagine youre one of the first ever cosmonauts to make it into space. Then you meet a 10 year old alien dog who cant do 2+2 without pulling out its calculator. It forgets everything constantly and has to keep notes everywhere, like it basically lives in Memento (2000). Also if it doesnt nap constantly it gets even stupider. And you somehow has to reconcile this with the fact that this dog has a better understanding of physics than your entire civilization does. Like the dog knows how the universe started.

[byurke]

I want to correct something and I want to say up front that I'm not trying to be a buzz kill I just want to gush about what made the book so special to me.

The Eridians are neither more or less technologically advanced than humans. They're just different. The book (and to a lesser extent the film) wants you to know that science isn't a linear "less advanced" to "more advanced" spectrum, but instead is heavily influenced by your environment. The Eridians are blind, and their planet has a thick cloud cover so it makes sense they'd take a while to figure out radiation and relativity (we figured out a lot of stuff by observing cosmic rays.) On the other hand, the Eridians are way better than us at materials science and (iirc) chemistry. It's not explicitly stated in the book but I personally believe they'd be pretty good at fluid mechanics too (among other things.)

This ties into the theme that resonated the most with me: the importance of collaboration. The Hail Mary itself wasn't enough to finish the mission. Grace and Rocky needed to combine their skills and use both Eridian and human technology to save everyone. You see this all throughout the book too. A lot of time is spent in the flashbacks recruiting different people with different skills from all over the planet to build the Hail Mary and plan the mission.

[prokopetz]

I sometimes get pushback when I describe Warhammer 40K Space Marines as eroticised figures, usually on the grounds that canonically, Space Marines can't fuck – then you look at the source material and it's like:

The text frequently dwells on long, luridly detailed lists of the various ways in which Space Marines' bodies have been modified. A disproportionate number of these modifications involve bodily fluids and/or the mouth.

The text tells us that Space Marines' power armour actually makes them less scary to other humans, because the mere sight of a Space Marine's unclothed body causes unenhanced humans to experience primal terror – and sure, you could interpret this as a body horror thing, but it's really not framed that way.

The text tells us that the only way to make a new Space Marine is to cut out part of an existing Space Marine and put it inside you, and that each chapter has a specific guy whose duty is to pick over battlefields and harvest the "gene-seed" of dead Space Marines so that their lineages might carry on.

Frankly, at this point, the fact that they're biomechanically incapable of fucking only makes it more horny.

[tpwrtrmnky]

You don't get MANY pages into Horus Heresy before the first protracted description of one roided-up turbo-beefcake admiring another as they spar in loincloths while covered in glistening oil for what's supposedly ceremonial purposes

[byurke]

Shout out to the girl I know in real life who has described me as "big and tall" on multiple occasions because I'm two inches taller than her and a lil chubby. She simply did not have to do that.

[videolottery]

Someone should make a disco elysium spiritual successor that takes place in a maze and follows a protagonist who has to eat all the dots in the maze whilst avoiding several ghosts

[strawberry-crocodile]

i nominate the invader atv for the award of most american warhammer model. this thing just emits lynyrd skynyrd with its mere presence. literally just a halo warthog. these motherfuckers aren't fighting for the emperah they're fighting for FREEDOM

[strawberry-crocodile]

if i owned one of these i would spend days just swishing it in the air going vroom vroom making it do jumps and shit

[byurke]

I love the Ultramarines they're so boyscout to me. Look they've got their lil assault squad markings on their right pauldrons, and they've got gold trim on their armour so you know they're second company. Papa Guilliman would be proud.

[godblessthesickos]

World historical loser

[drwiltz-official]

[tpwrtrmnky]

people who aren't into miniature painting sometimes go "why not just dip the models in a bucket of paint" and then those of us who Know have to go all "well so the clumping would ruin the details" while trying to resist the urge to bring up the Army Painter bucket of paint you're supposed to dip the models in specifically so it'll clump in the recesses and shade them.