EPICOSITY!!!

Anything pertaining to homestuck, destiny, or the 8billion other interests tat plague my psyche. enjoy!

[garaks-padded-bra]

MINSK

[benchofindigo]

[VD: Fanvid done via drawings of the conversation in Star Trek Deep Space Nine where Jake asks O'Brien where O'Brien's family is going to live on Earth. The other characters offer suggestions - Sisko says New Orleans, Kasidy says Paris, Ezri offers Rio. Worf keeps on saying Minsk and maps/photos of Minsk keep popping up as Worf gets more and more threatening in his suggestion of Minsk ending with him squeezing O'Brien with a final declaration of Minsk. End VD]

[maddiesharafian]

A Blacksmith’s Dream

[thepassenger1-deactivated202512]

5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map“For over 150 years scientists have tried to solve the mystery of a controversial cuneiform clay tablet that indicates the so-called Köfel’s impact event was observed in ancient times. The circular stone-cast tablet was recovered from the 650 BC underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq in the late 19th century. Long thought to be an Assyrian tablet, computer analysis has matched it with the sky above Mesopotamia in 3300 BC and proves it to be of much more ancient Sumerian origin. The tablet is an “Astrolabe,” the earliest known astronomical instrument. It consists of a segmented, disk-shaped star chart with marked units of angle measure inscribed upon the rim.

[prokopetz]

Standard sword and sorcery fantasy film periodically interrupted by cutaways to an in-universe historian from a notional period hundreds of years after the depicted events explaining the film's various historical inaccuracies. There's a recurring tangent about how the film's protagonist is a conflation of three different guys, all of them much weirder than the end product of that conflation.

[prokopetz]

At one point the historian remarks that the film's principal villain probably never existed, but you can tell from their thousand-yard stare that there's some Poe's Orangutan level discourse about that topic.

[beaft]

me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

[drbigsadbabymd-blog]

Used to find the very idea of the Night Lords deeply, painfully cringe and like...yeah there's still a certain amount of goofy ass shit going on there but their entire story is full of pathos.

Like imagine you escape your nightmarish home planet via a highly romanticized job that provides for all of your needs, but you're stuck with a gene-father who's

-basically 9ft Self-Righteous Richard Ramirez

-extremely mentally ill and growing worse by the minute

-filled with nothing but seething contempt for you and your brothers (partly justified as you guys are the fucking worst)

But you're indoctrinated with a combination of Imperium propaganda and trauma bonding to constantly seek your abusive fathers validation, so you carry out his fucked shit on command and become universally reviled for it, including by said father.

Then your father decides to destroy your planet and secede from the Imperium, which you have to go along with. What are you gonna do? Stop your nightmare dad?

Now you and your god awful found family are truly isolated; your only options for companionship are various horrific weirdo Chaos Marines and whichever creepy unstable assholes you got stuck with in your company. Well, also your dad, who is still very much a 9ft tall mentally ill guy who despises you.

Then an already bad situation shits the bed further when you lose the civil war, your dad decides to do suicide by cop and your legion fractures into a hundred scattered companies.

You're pretty much just a goth pirate now, which sounds dope in theory, but absolutely isn't in practice.

Everyone hates you, you're stuck with the fallout of your dead dad's decisions, you can't revert back to normie life due to being a homeless transhuman freak fugitive, you can't ditch these losers to switch to a new legion because the Loyalists will execute you on sight and joining up with Chaos means being enslaved by demons.

You have no plan, no purpose, no central leadership, your people/culture are an endangered species; it's just you and five shithead creeps floating through space until someone finally manages to chop your head off with a power sword.

That's so good, dude.

[zoesupreme]

absolutely nothing has changed in a century

[kaijuno]

[creekfiend]

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar

[orteil42]

Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

[idabbleincrazy]

Reblog if you were born in the 1900's.

[avoiding-claws]

[ghostpalmtechnique]

A fun generational split is those of us old enough for "the 1900s" to mean 1900-1909 and people who use it to mean "the 20th century".

[faithschaffer]

⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐

[kelseyuum]

… he claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book. Tolkien replied on March 18:

“Dear Mr. Gamgee,

It was very kind of you to write. You can imagine my astonishment when I saw your signature! I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the ‘Sam Gamgee’ of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic. So that perhaps you will not be displeased at the coincidence of the name of this imaginary character of supposedly many centuries ago being the same as yours.”

― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Letter 184

He proceeded to send Mr Gamgee a signed copy of all three volumes of the book. However, the incident sparked a nagging worry in Tolkien’s mind, as he recorded in his journal:

“For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed ’S. Gollum’. That would have been more difficult to deal with.“― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

[doubleca5t]

Finally got around to watching Dune and Dune 2 and I gotta say, knowing that the book was written by an environmental scientist in 1965 really explains so much about why it's Like That

[doubleca5t]

Rich white boy fights against the evil empire by "going native" and leading a rebellion of the indigenous people Lawrence of Arabia style while gaining psychic powers from a magical drug that's a crucial part of the indigenous culture is a premise that's so aggressively 60s that I'm honestly shocked those movies turned out as well as they did even with an acclaimed director like Villeneuve at the helm

[coldgoldlazarus]

For everyone asking what Homestuck is about, I think I found a pretty decent and concise way to explain it.

[strawberry-crocodile]

a lot of media purports to tell a coming-of-age story but nothing ive seen has captured the feeling of being 13 and being the oldest youve ever been and the youngest youll ever be like Homestuck

[heartwarminganimals]

It wimdy

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Every quote about Sam Altman by people who are supposedly friendly with him is like “Sam is a sociopath. He’ll do anything in the pursuit of power. He’d lie, steal, kill. He’ll come out on top no matter what it takes. He had no limits. Great guy,”

[eightyonekilograms]

I think once you ascend beyond a certain level of corporate hierarchy, the overwhelming majority of people there are sociopaths. It seems very difficult to reach such a position any other way.

But even grading on that generous curve I think Altman stands out. I remind again that he got kicked out of Y Combinator after trying to Game of Thrones pg and Jessica, and them realizing just soon enough to do it to him first, and that most other businesses he's been at had the same story, except he succeeded.

Even so you can still find tons of people— especially in the AI enthusiasm space— assuming he's basically a benevolent actor, which is just mystifying to me. A supermajority of the OpenAI safety team stood up and quit, he's working 24/7 to eliminate OAI's nonprofit status... I'm not sure what else it would take to convince then.