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darknessblackness

When you see it

horrorishorrible-deactivated201

i-alwayslikedstrangecharacters

American Horror Story: Coven

criticalrole

woodyium said: So, this is probably a silly question, but… which super power, previously-established in a comic universe or not, would you most like to have and why? (Thanks for inviting the internet to watch your DnD games, btw! 🧡🧡)

Check out the full Answer Time here.

alwaysbewoke

glumshoe

I dreamt that I enrolled in a psychology class but the professor spent the first lecture doing nothing but clicking through a slideshow of photos of beautiful landscapes with C-3PO edited into them, then explaining that adding C-3PO to otherwise serious situations ruined humans’ ability to take them seriously. When we all started laughing at what a pointless lecture this was, she glared at us and announced that our laughter had proved her point.

Then she assigned us our homework - go to funerals and show people sad pictures of the deceased with C-3PO photoshopped in. If they laughed, it meant their ability to feel humor was stronger than their ability to feel grief.

I thought, ‘oh my god my professor is a robot with absolutely no idea how human psychology works’ so I decided to stay in the class and help her figure it out by writing explanations in my essays that would offer nuance and context.

glumshoe

“And now class, I want you to examine the following image.”

“Beautiful, isn’t it? This shot of the Bolivian salt flats is absolutely breathtaking and meets all human standards of ‘beauty’. The warm hues of the clouds contrast pleasantly with the deep azure of the sky, and the perfect mirroring in the water suggests an almost mystical purity. The human brain is nearly overcome with wonder at the natural optical illusion. However, I have photoshopped C-3PO into the image, replacing the boat in the original photo. You all laugh! It is no longer a beautiful photo, but a comical one, because no one respects C-3PO. You see him as a fool, and thus the picture becomes comical! Human brains prioritize humor to the exclusion of all else. Now, I want you all to go out and absolutely ruin some funerals tomorrow.”

glumshoe

ephemeralhorror

why are cyberpunk tabletop things so obsessed with decency and personhood being tied to how many surgeries you haven’t had

ephemeralhorror

“if you have a prosthetic it takes out a part of your soul” like thanks shadowrun

rlyehtaxidermist

in early cyberpunk, the point was more along the lines of “if we integrate technology into our bodies we risk becoming dependent upon the people and institutions who control that technology, who would then use that to enrich themselves at our expense”

unfortunately that was too anti-corporate for American mainstream culture so as cyberpunk moved out of its niche it became “uhhh it eats your soul I guess”

the960writers

tags by @rubyvroom:

#this is important context #if you weren’t around at the time it is easy to miss but #anti-corporate sentiment was pretty much the lynchpin of cyberpunk until there were movies and games making money off it #it was the 1980s you guys #the entire point was that corporations are evil and technology should be used to circumvent them and escape their control over our lives #and not be used to make ourselves into another product #now that the internet is entirely monetized and corporate it’s harder to remember that originally it was synonymous w freedom & independence

Yes, exactly. Cyberpunk is anti-corporations, not anti-body-modification.

uniej

timebattlemage

:( cigarettes in that poor person's pussy...

glumshoe

when I first started wearing a bra I consoled myself about the unwelcome and irrevocable changes to my body with the fact that it meant I could now conceal a knife in my bra