For The Love Of It All

shirt that says I HATE WHEN CHARACTERS WITH UNUSUAL BEHAVIOURS AND MANNERISMS DUE TO NEUROLOGICAL DIFFERENCES GET "CURED" AND BECOME "NORMAL" on the front and "bye" on the back

the ONLY time I'm fine with this is when the character is STILL unusual after whatever event changed them, just in a different way. bonus points if they're upset about the change. EVEN THEN YOU (pointing my fingers around at no one) ARE ON THHHIIINNNNN ICE

"but why do you hate this? isn't it a good end to a character's arc?" my actual physical neurological structure deviates from the norm in ways that CANNOT be "fixed" and I like it when characters are like me and can still have fulfilling story arcs and loving friends [:

#okay but can I posit also putting Murray in there #she doesn’t have to be with King Gus but I do feel like they need to have some kind of weird platonic thing #and her relationship with Azune doesn’t have to be sexual or romantic either #I just want her to be there too #critical role #cr4

this includes characters who say things that don't make sense, have memory issues, behave irrationally, and more. I'm talking about characters who represent a wide range of neurological differences. not just autism or adhd!

grackleclaw

the human body is an engineering marvel. I sneeze in bright light. if I dont get enough sunlight on my skin I get tired and sad and have to drink a lot of milk to fix it. standing too much hurts, but sitting too much also hurts. if I get a virus, my body will increase its temperature in an attempt to cook it, which also cooks my brain cells. toenails exist. I have to turn the radio down to see better when I drive. there are 17 genes dictating what my hair texture is, but it completely changes when the air is too humid. yawning is contagious. there are more species of bacteria living in my body than there are species of birds in the entire world. every few months I grievously injure my neck by "sleeping on it weird." it took seven million years of human evolution to form me, and now I'm afraid of phone calls.

garashir

hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

lesbiansforboromir

Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

fucxingcuties

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

manuciruja

hey staff what the fuck

villainessbian

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

shrodingers-catgirl

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

pennywords

alexaloraetheris

Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.

#pure decadence

fant-asm4

king augustus valian: bastard son of a noble, raised by commoners, ascended to the throne as the leader of a revolution, knows what it is to struggle, knows what it is to be valiant and good and brave, lost his lover in the revolution he led, feels the weight of responsibility and resents the crown that weighs that responsibility so heavily on his head

lieutenant azune nayar: son of starving peasants, sent into the arms of mercenaries as a boy because being a child soldier was a better fate, abandoned at a crossroads because he was not strong enough, found and adopted by a revolution that would go on to fail, knows what it is to be alone and frightened, knows what it is to be loyal and noble and cunning, needs to be given a task, commands a secret rebellion army, feels the burden of responsibility and craves the approval of those he feels responsible to

i’m just saying…

roycohn

stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged

prof-grace-aspen

Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It's fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn't healthy.

whatsnewalycat

I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this

learning that 5 minute crafts is a russian mafia operation wasn't on my 2026 bingo card but also doesn't really surprise me

jabibi-posting

its what

russian mafia operation

isa-ghost

Hey what

oh. i’m sure its fine and normal that a video investigating the massive bot farm/slop channel shell company connections to the russian mafia and youtube’s own implication by allowing it to continue for profit has mysteriously vanished with no word from op.

#cr spoilers #cr4 #critical role #c4e27

Original (now taken down) video of CHUPPL exposing SoulPublishing and 5 Min Crafts networkAn Exposé of the weirdest channel on the internetG

internet archive link

cl0ckworkpuppet

there is very, very little information on what happened to CHUPPL, but since the video was privated, not deleted, they are likely currently in litigation with TSP. (basically, the 5 minute crafts people did not like their video and decided to press charges.) it is standard and best practice for those who are undergoing a lawsuit, especially a frivolous one, to stay quiet and not reveal information to the public.

we will get word eventually, be it a few months or a few years from now. investigative journalism, especially when the subjects are large corporations who want to remain secretive, is incredibly risky, and often involves abuse of the law to get reporters to shut up. though I can't say for certain this is what happened, it is the most likely scenario.

screechfoxes

CRITICAL ROLE 4.27 Complicated Questions

+ bonus Kattigan reaction:

quiddie

Thaisha x Hal (and Kattigan can watch) 💖

ororium-z

Happy Pride!

rootbeergoddess

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

probablybadrpgideas

Me at all fantasy RPGs:

#I would argue that they are largely subspecies at best given that mixed ‘race’ offspring exist and persist even into an entire new ‘race’#(half elves and half orcs in dnd for example)

I do think it's helpful to remember that most of the USA is way hotter than Europe and that's part of why we like big bevvy so much. We aren't just hedonists, we're also too fucking hot!!

thearcade945

(disclaimer that this post looks like it has History behind it [by which i mean i assume a previous post prompted it] but we haven't seen any context if it exists, sorry if i miss the mark with my comment due to that)

no cause i speak as a european, big beverages started making SO much more sense now that like. well one, shit's getting warmer bc of climate change, and two, our own heat tolerance is getting worse, in no small part because of the meds we're on. and, honestly dude, even if it WAS just hedonism, i basically always end up wanting more beverage when i finish mine, even in large sizes, so like. i'm with y'all on this one, big beverages fuck

For real!! It's all "why do you need a drink that big" but when it's 95F/35C and cloudless sometimes you just gotta replace your blood with two liters of cherry coke.

Oh my god I figured it out. Europeans don't get this because their cities aren't usually car-centric in the way cities in the US and Canada(from what I've heard) are. All that extra asphalt with limited public transit and yes, naturally hotter weather all on it's own, and barely any safe places to walk or rest outside...yeah, we need big drinks guys. It's common fucking sense, you need a gallon of water a day when you're hiking here at the bare minimum, a 2 liter big gulp from Circle K could save your life. I've read too many stories of people dying from dehydration on hikes bcs they figured a liter of water would cover them for two days to pretend big bevvy isn't justified.

I honestly think a lot of the misunderstanding of why Americans are Like That from people in Europe comes down to North America being really fucking weird.

multishipperpirateking

America is really fucking weird you're so right - love the way you've paved over such a massive percentage of your heat-sink natural surfaces becuase of cars. Nobody's doing it like you. But at least you have large beverage

Most of us have reached a point where we're about one bad day away from ripping up the road in front of our house with a sledgehammer so the big bevvy really helps. Emotional regulation in the face of complete societal abandonment is hard but iced coffee? Yay <3 <3

(Though even without ass city planning and car supremacy and global warming some places in the US are just hot enough all on their own that you need big bevvy. No amount of good city planning is going to make it safe to spend a day out at 90F/30C without a big drink. It's always gonna be over 90F in Tucson in the summer. We just got a lot of heat over here, not enough ocean to balance it out.)

Seen a few people make this point and I love the optimism but this would truly be a nightmarishly bad idea. Funny, but extremely bad. Mostly for the same reason people climbing Everest and mountains like that have to wear sunglasses and sunscreen on any exposed skin despite being in some of the coldest climates in the world, white reflects UV radiation. Everyone would be going snowblind all the time, and it would also probably be a lot harder to make out what color the lines are and read street signs. Black makes more sense, but what makes even MORE sense is getting rid of the fucking roads and building trolleys and other forms of public transit that don't need black asphalt under them.

Interestingly tho, this is why it's really common for houses in the desert parts of Arizona to have white roofs.

insanepixels

There ARE solutions to dealing with high temperatures caused by urbanization (that isn't tearing up asphalt, much as I would also like to do that). For example:

Urban/suburban vegetation: any amount of vegetation can aid in lowering the temperature by increasing evapotranspiration rates, especially trees which also provides a canopy, creating shaded areas

Shaded sidewalks/benches: we can't realistically shade the entire sidewalk, both because of scale issues and also sunlight is, in moderation, good for you, but having shaded areas, especially where rest amenities are like benches, can go a long way into making cities/suburbs more accessible in the heat

Shaded parking lots: I haven't seen an example of this irl but I know there's parking lots where the majority of it is shaded using solar panels, which is really just beautifully efficient

Underground paths/walkways: Toronto, for example, has a system of underground tunnels (imaginatively named PATH) which spans about 30 km and connects various office buildings, restaurants, etc. This helps pedestrians avoid the heat AND the cold in the winter, AND rain/inclement weather!

Non-reflective glass: less relevant for suburbs, but non-reflective glass absorbs solar radiation rather than reflecting it towards street level, which helps tremendously in keeping cities with lots of tall glass buildings cool. It does require more cooling within the building to balance it out, though, so it's not a perfect solution

Lots of other solutions like green roofs/walls, designing cities to allow airflow, dedicated vegetated areas/water features within cities (parks), permeable pavements, reflective roofs (as previously mentioned in this post)

The important thing to note is that these solutions are rarely, if ever, universally applicable, but the flip side of that is that at least some of these WILL be applicable no matter where you live, so it's a matter of figuring out which ones work and which don't.

The other important thing to note is that by no means are any of these a replacement for the Big Beverage. No amount of shade will save you from dehydration, it just means that hopefully you take longer to get to that point. The recommended daily intake of water for a person is like... 2 litres. That's a lot of water so you gotta get started. Always Be Hydrating.