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I... I don't socialize enough to have pronouns... Not a bad artist, a bad writer. get out of here, this is my safe space

[squeakitties]

[necromosss]

As the person who got their R keyboard broken and the world mocked me for being forced to use the uwu language as replacement

My condolences

[commodore-64]

put that back

[delfegor]

#homestuck

[cerastes]

If I lost a race and was then expected to be a backup dancer for the winner, I would detonate the bomb vest.

[cerastes]

This is my OC, Umabomber, and she has a really good Skill that triggers when she doesn’t finish 1st.

[maidthings]

[gh0ulsh4rk]

@sleepy-crypt1d

[qqchurch]

[qqchurch]

what

[running-with-toast]

nothing will top The Big Phone

[wretcheddollthings]

my fav is the fact that the japanese kanji for "horse" is different

(art source for second pic)

[thebestpartofwakingup]

My roommate and I have been playing the app game and have been ruminating on like, the implications of the rights and portrayals of horse girls (all of whom, in game, are high schoolers) given that they are all racers and we haven’t yet found a reference to a single “horse” who was ever NOT a racer (there are plenty with non-racing hobbies and even some with non-racing jobs — but they’re all “retired” racers.)

But Statue of Liberty being a horsegirl does raise some interesting questions and possibilities

[delfegor]

So at the time I fight the knight I already have finish both chapter 3 and 4 including the fight with the unnamed old man Gerson, after failing to discover the hidden content on chapter 3. I did this in a second playthrough to have two main file saves, one without all the moss, eggs and SHADOWS CRYSTALS and one with all of them, mostly because not having that content unlock the moment before fighting the chapter Boss like in chapter 1, 2 was kind of dragging my game experience, I was walking on circles trying to get it all when in reality I couldn't and I would have to start a new game.

So, when I did all the hidden and got the shadow mantle I got to fight the knight, I really enjoyed how hard it was, it really felt like a final boss you encounter in the middle of the game (which is basically it), but because I did this on a second playthrough I thought the fight would be an endurance battle, were the boss keeps throwing new attacks I have to survive until something happens, which I thought was going to be the arrival of Undine, because at the end of chapter 3 she appears just before the knight gets her, so it just make sense to me, but after around my 50th attempt I was really starting to get really mad because the battle was genuinely getting way to long, so I reluctantly search a guide to see how much would it take, and then with a bit of research I fount out that the win condition was actually getting the boss to 80% of its total life.

During the whole battle I didn't attack, only defend, because I was doing really low damage, and in every single other instance in the game when you fight a really hard boss it usually ends with the boss this one just gets its life up, and I was already really struggling, I had all my revive mints, the revive dust, an inventory full of deluxe dinners, and yet it just felt impossible, and then with the change of win condition it just felt even worse, the only descent amount of damage I could deal was with Susie rude buster, and with Kris attack only when Susie and Ralsei were down for some reason, but Susie and and Ralsei basically die with a -999 health if you are touch by any of the knight's attack, and without them I didn't have any way of sustain to give Kris which if didn't use its turn to attack only would drag the battle for even longer...

At the end I give up, I was tired I was mad, I just wanted to see what changes it would have in the story, (other reason I was really mad it was because apparently if you get the shadow mantle before the egg then you can't get the egg anymore because the screen for the egg puzzle is turn off for some ungod reason, and it just happens I commit the sin of saving after beating the shadow mantle boss) so I just downloaded cheat engine and did the fight with a speed hack, reducing the knight attack speed to around 50%, 60%, and then use rude buster, I defeated the knight after like 3 attempts I reach the win condition of get the knight to 80% HP and then the cutscene appear, and I'm not joking, its the fucking same ending as when the you are immediately defeated by the knight in the normal ending, the only thing that changes is the fact that it drops the shadow crystal, but apart from that its the same fucking cutscene, nothing changes, after hours battling the knight nothing changes.

I doubt it would happen but I really wish this battle is fixed, which what I propose is just to do it an endurance battle at the start, like, until the "multiple red slashed where you have to do a circle around to not die", the next attack should be something impossible to dodge, but then have Undine appear, and the turn Kris soul into a color, which I think what could fit is a different kind of shield than the one the unnamed old man Gerson gives you. Something like where at the cost of TP you can block an attack, so the player needs to defend constantly to generate TP and then differentiate the attacks it can dodge and the one it cannot, that meanwhile we have undine is attacking, and then we play what happens normally, the knight drops the shadow crystal and then it obliterates us. This keeps the internal consistence with the rest of difficult bosses and it gives you the reward of fighting side at side with Undine,

Anyway, too much text, any thoughts in my opinion?

[izzythedemigod]

I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

[delfegor]

#me when I when I me when

[what-even-is-thiss]

Man I know that elder scrolls is a stupid series and all that but I really think they did concepts like orcs and dark elves mostly correct. More correct than a lot of franchises I’ve seen anyways.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think dnd took until like this year to properly update drow and orcs or something? Like fantasy as a whole has a hard time shaking off this idea of evil races.

The elder scrolls approach to these guys from the beginning though has been that their cultures are just really different from the other cultures around them.

Like you can hang out in orc strongholds in Skyrim and spend the whole game around dark elves in Morrowind and they’re just regular people that have kind of extreme cultural norms. Dark elves are kind of rude to you when they first meet you but like in the way certain cultures are rude to outsiders at first until they get to know them. Orcs are rough around the edges but they’re smart and have a proud culture and if you can hold your own in a fight they’ll respect you.

And you see these people can blend pretty well into other societies. They join faiths their ancestors didn’t practice, they have jobs that people of their race wouldn’t stereotypically have, they have opinions about what other people assume about them, they have their own wrong assumptions about other cultures.

There’s this understanding somewhere in these games that people are shaped by their cultures but you also can’t predict how an individual will behave based on the culture that they came from. And I like that.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Listen, I love the elder scrolls. It is deep and wide and beautiful. It is also filled with cheese though.

[catbotphoebe]

TES worldbuilding does something I haven't really seen any other fantasy universe do, it foregoes a clear cut and thoroughly explained cosmology in favor of actually different religious interpretations of its universe. There's a basic outline to be gleamed from the overlap between the various theologies, but there's no definitive answer to a lot of questions.

Are Masser and Secunda normal moons? Are they holes in reality through which the light of Aetherius shines? Are they the sundered corpse of the demiurge? Are they normal moons but there's a secret third moon that only comes out during a double eclipse and *that* one is Lorkhan's body? They fought a war about this.

[rubyandice]

I think the fact that utter silliness and ridiculous notions can coexist with conplex ideological flaws and layers upon layers of behavioural patterns and anomalies makes of TES something far from simply realistic or simply stupid. It is the most realistic exploration of the paradoxes of our reality without directly quoting them. A potential vast source to learn, without the consequences of learning all of this in the real world.

[io00w00oi]

Elder Scrolls is one of the best fantasy settings I've ever experienced to be completely honest, to the point where a lot of other fantasy settings feel like a pale imitation. That and I initially got the games because you could play as anthropomorphic cats or lizards and that alone is totally something I love. Normally Beastfolk are not playable and depicted as a enemy, but Elder Scrolls doesn't do that, they just go and have their beastfolk as actual normal people. As a furry, its refreshing and awesome really, The Elder Scrolls handles non-human races the best out of any fantasy setting I have ever seen.

[superectojazzmage]

I think it says a lot that my biggest gripe about Elder Scrolls as a series is that the incredible lore and worldbuilding is all too often not really reflected by the gameplay proper. Like, you read all the in-game books and Obscure Texts and so on and you get this stunning image painted of an extremely unique and fleshed out fantasy world with insanely cool ideas but than you play the games and outside of Morrowind and Redguard you really won't really see any of that unique lore played out properly.

Pelinal Whitestrake is - according to every bit of lore about him - a gay time-traveling war robot who hates elves to the point of psychosis and hangs out with a winged man-bull. That's the hypest shit! But than you see him actually come up in Oblivion and he's portrayed as just a generic heroic knight with nothing especially weird about him.

Notoriously, in every entry prior to Oblivion, Cyrodil was described and depicted as a Meso/South American-influenced dense jungle land. That's so cool and Mesoamerica/South America influences are woefully underdone in fantasy. But than you actually go to the place in Oblivion and Bethesda deliberately dumbed it down into a hyper-generic medieval Europe fairy tale setting.

The list goes on. It's a shame because the times where the weird lore actually makes it into the games proper (Morrowind, Redguard, Shivering Isles, parts of Skyrim and ESO, etc.) are always REALLY awesome and usually the most beloved parts of the series, far moreso than the neutered stuff. And, like, some of it IS deliberate as part of the aforementioned realistically messy worldbuilding, that whole idea that many of the books contained biased or incorrect information, and that's fine. But not when it means that basically everything cool and unique about the setting gets dismissed as transcription errors.

[io00w00oi]

Oh yeah that's a understandable critique of the games, that past Morrowind the games don't really engage with the weird lore.

Personally it doesn't bother me too much, but that's because I kind of like the generic European fantasy vibe oblivion has going for it (Skyrim's Viking aesthetic doesn't really hit the same for me), I love reading the lore texts occasionally though. My favorites are the books you need to collect for the 'find out what happened to the Dwemer quest' in Morrowind, then its Breathing Water, and other books that give glimpses into whatever TES's magic system is like outside of gameplay.

[camilleflyingrotten]

[arnaerr]

Happy Oblivion Remastered everyone ✨ some of my fav artworks on the occasion

prints ✦ patreon

[zanmor]

so you're telling me the pope dies and the gates to oblivion open again?

[grezzirossi]

Some Marvel Rivals doodies and sillies (Don't solo heal as Adam eh eheh)

[wokefrogvirus]

elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.

trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.

trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.

trump blamed the dc plane crash on dei.

trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.

trump ordered the pentagon to cancel celebration of mlk jr. day, black history month, women's history month, holocaust remembrance day, asian american pacific islander heritage month, lgbtq+ pride month, juneteenth, women's equality day, national hispanic heritage month, national disability employment awarenessmonth, and national american indian heritage month.

trump proposed removing all palestinians from gaza, turning the area into a vacation resort called “riviera of the middle east”.

trump posted an ai generated video showing what he hopes to turn palestine into, with a large golden statue of himself in the middle of it.

trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.

trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.

trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.

when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.

trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.

trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.

trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.

trump changed denali back to mount mckinley.

trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.

trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.

trump has discussed introducing a “gold card”, which would allow the wealthiest people to buy us citizenship for $5 million usd.

trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.

trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.

trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.

trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.

trump has threatened to invade panama to claim the panama canal.

trump withdrew from the paris climate act.

trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.

trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.

trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.

multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.

trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.

trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.

trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.

trump has told all schools and universities that they have two weeks to end all diversity initiatives, or he will cut federal funding. (as of feb 19, 2025)

trump fired the staff of the federal aviation association after a deadly plane crash in dc.

trump has fired the heads of the tsa and coast guard, and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee.

the supreme court weakened the clean water act's limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.

the official white house twitter account posted an “illegal alien deportation” asmr video where they did closeups of chains and the sound of ankle chains hitting the metal stairs of the airplanes deportees were being loaded onto.

on truth social, trump posted, “LONG LIVE THE KING!”.

at CPAC, a republican group called the “third term project” held a rally to support changing the constitution so trump can run for a third term. on their posters, they’re photoshopping his face onto julius caesar’s, seemingly forgetting what happened to julius caesar.

the trump administration paused health communications to prevent the fda from announcing food recalls.

republicans on tiktok are recreating elon’s salute to prove that it “wasn’t a nazi salute”, and they’re either doing it completely wrong because they know if they replicate it then it will actually be a salute, or they’re doing the proper salute and posting it online.

google and apple maps now display the gulf of mexico as “gulf of america”.

rfk jr. wants to ban SSRIs and put everyone on them into labor camps.

andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.

the us senate confirmed russell vought, one of the main authors of project 2025, will lead the white house budget office.

nancy mace repeatedly used the t-slur during a congressional meeting, three times were out of spite.

andy biggs introduced a bill to abolish osha and completely eliminate federal workplace safety protections.

georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.

florida republican anna paulina luna has introduced a bill to add trump to mount rushmore.

new york republican claudia tenney introduced a bill to make trump’s birthday a federal holiday.

west virginia republican delegate lisa white has introduced house bill 2712, which would remove rape and incest as exceptions for abortion, even for minors. you can call her at (304) 340- 3274 or email her at [email protected] and let her know your opinion on that.

there is a bill named the SAVE act which would require americans to provide their birth certificate, passport, or other citizenship documents every time they vote, and would require the last name on their driver’s license to match that of their birth certificate. this would prevent married women who have changed their last name from voting.

bill h.r.1161, which is available publicly on congress.gov, would authorize trump to enter into negotiations to acquire greenland and to rename it to "red, white, and blueland".

six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives are also considering filing similar resolutions.

a bill to ban the mRNA vaccine has passed out of the house committee.

amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.

the cdc has removed their hiv prevention page.

the united states state department has officially changed its “travelers with special conditions” page which previously said “lgbtqi+ travelers” to “lgb travelers”, completely getting rid of the tqi+.

every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.

hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.

EDIT: i removed the “trump refused to swear on the bible” point because it was being taken as me being an offended christian. i’m not christian, im agnostic. the reason i included it in the first place is because he’s the first president in history to ever refuse to swear on ANYTHING. meanwhile his “conservative christian” followers had no issue with this, and decided to continue to scramble for excuses instead of admitting he may not be as religious as he claims he is. i figured taking that point out entirely is probably better than filling this with an explanation in the middle of the other important issues.

[rizses-lecso]

a felénél abbahagytam, mert nem bírtam tovább olvasni ezt a borzalmas katalógust

[delfegor]

It just keeps going and going and going and holy fuck its been what? Two months out of 4 years?

[davidaugust]

[docdust]

Empathy

[davidaugust]

[velinxi]

Dvattra doodle dump

[tzikeh]

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

While Christmas Day is the last day anyone should ask for you to spend more money, I'm asking you to spend more money. A dollar. Five dollars. Whatever you've got. Elon Musk wants to own Wikipedia - one of the last reliable sources out there, and the only one not owned by a billionaire or corporation.

If you can't donate, this message isn't for you and you should not feel bad.

If you can donate to Wikipedia to keep it out of Musk's filthy, blood-stained hands, please do.

Here's the donations page.

[ikibli]

Just donated 10 dollars. That's all it takes, if enough people do it.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

I know I shouldn't have googled him after all these years but it's no surprise Sgnörvu owns a cybertruck and trades crypto now:

That slimy asshole, some eldritch beings get everything handed to them in life.

[delfegor]

The only thing I can say about all this debacle is that if we aren't able to find peaceful solutions, we will end up with violent ones.

Viva la revolución.