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[figurecollection]

[bigevilcamillo]

I <3 Gundam women

[gundamfight]

[amalgamasreal]

I've always loved how it's just sorta implied that Mr. Ral from Gundam Build Fighters really is just an isekai'd Ramba Ral who somehow got migrated to the Build Fighter universe.

Like it makes you wonder, do all the dead UC characters end up here? Cause even Char, Haman, and Mineva make an appearance:

OOOOOOR, since we now know after GQuuuuuuX that alternate UC universes are a thing thanks to Lalah trying to build a world where Char is happy, is this maybe one of her attempts?

[ohm2449314]

[qqchurch]

[sunlight-shunlight]

i had been crying about this on discord for a little while bc it's so wild, but. here is a Veilguard Development Lore :')

[corseque]

"maybe being the lead writer of a fairly dark fantasy game is not the ideal role for someone who gets stressed out by conflict in fiction"

yeah I can't stop thinking about this either, ever since I first read it. There's so much going on. I read the first chapter of this book, and the tension that was so unbearable in it was "main character's uncle dies and main character's father talks about maybe keeping the inheritance from her" - that's the stressful plot point that couldn't be handled.

I had some people upset with me years ago about suggesting (and grimly sticking to my gut) that maybe the writers of the video game had something to do with the deeply different writing tone and scope and depth of the video game (experienced subjectively by many people). none of the many interviews since then with the head writer talking about comfort in fiction have proven me wrong at all. I cannot imagine the situation where they would willingly add a distressing conflict where it wasn't already there, or fight to include a darker tone. They said "we're going to proudly do this our way and it's not going to be the same as if Gaider was there to lead" and called it a day. And I think they genuinely still don't understand what happened because the tone genuinely pleased them.

[sandetigerrr]

If anyone needs a copy of this book, I can happily send you a PDF copy so you can make a value judgement for yourself. I will say that I read the first few chapters after seeing this post and it is literally so mild. Like. Mind-boggling levels of weenie hut jr stuff. Between posts like this, the Escapism panel and the Empires panel it's clear that there was a major disconnect between the lead writer and the actual subject matter of the series, and it's just bizarre to me that we're supposed to pretend that there isn't.

[giveherswords]

[transgenderization]

i fucking hate maid training theres so much to remememeber

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

If this passes, I hope the DOJ goes after the state reps. And I hope SCOTUS tears it to shreds.

This is a hostile takeover and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

That we live in a culture that is so soft on crime to even ask this amazes me.

[gearboxpraexology]

Parents denied and accused OP of trying to start trouble, perp was “well liked in the community”

The child had no future, it was just a question of whether a portion of your tax dollars will go to waste on a scholarship before they start going to waste on food stamps.

[kaelio]

[friendshapedhole]

Every graduate program I applied to in the last 6 years and every public school job I’ve applied to in the last 2 has required me to submit, on top of a normal cover letter or personal essay, an additional secondary letter asking me to attest to how I intend to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion as an educator.

It’s always fairly clear on the application that a statement like “I don’t intend to promote them” or “those values are nice but it’s not really part of my job duties to promote them” would be completely unacceptable, and even a boilerplate statement like “I will always strive to treat every student the same, regardless of their race, nationality, or religion” would probably be viewed negatively.

Also this image—

always captioned to negatively contrast “equality” with “equity”—has been featured at least once in the materials of every single Education course I’ve taken as part of my teacher certification. Every single one. And I’ve taken five so far.

I don’t really like conservatives at all. But I can’t help but pity them. You’re literally required to submit to an ideological test where you must renounce their beliefs, if you want to go into academia or education.

[barryogg]

You know the Dawkins-era talking point about how everyone's an atheist, some are just atheist about one more god that others?

Well it seems to me, comrade, that you've correctly identified some idiocies that exist in the contemporary lefty-progressive cluster. And the main difference between us and you is just that we identified quite a few more.

[tokimeki-horseshoe]

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[enbyfication]

im not saying we shouldn't be calling out hypocrisy but i do think it's important to be aware of what i call the Two Different Guys Fallacy. and that's that whenever you're thinking to yourself, oh how come X group claim they want this thing but also support that other incompatible thing. take a moment to stop and consider whether it could just be Two Different Guys that think each thing

[edgar-allan-possum]

Also known as the Goomba Fallacy

[wh40kartwork]

Sanguinary Priest