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Adastra Playthrough Masterpost (or APM for short)
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imagine you are a sheep. Imagine you are the smartest sheep in the entire world and yet your understanding of the world is so small. Imagine you are the wisest sheep in the flock and you carry the memory of everyone who came before so everyone else can be happy. Imagine being a winter lamb and dying for your flock. Imagine you are a good shepherd so loved by his flock that your sheep would do anything, even defy who they are, in order to avenge you.
and then imagine you are a brett goldstein ram and you finally have a reason for bashing. Bet that felt so good.
My webcomic turned 14-years-old this weekend. Happy Birthday Ava's Demon 😊❤️🔥
people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target
What... What movie is this.
ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500
i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady
peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it
dont do this
I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.
it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.
tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.
do not do this.
Unanimous consensus: Do not do this
Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this
Rip to y'all, but I'm built different. Trying this tonight
Best I can do with what I have (I'm at work rn)
Oh that is a... fascinating smell
Don't do this
Alright now I’m curious
Didn't have strips so I made what I call battery acid cereal
Don't do this
World Heritage Post
You know that whole "how do we mark nuclear waste sites in a way that people of the future will actually listen, given that heartfelt warnings just increase curiosity"?
It would help tremendously if any of them DESCRIBED the experience.
They're too traumatized to say more.
Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost
The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”
The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit
‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago
The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved
The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)
While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass
I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On
Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies
Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.
Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:
Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs
Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion
Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks
Excuse me please post ancient erotica link
hey it’s not my fault people keep reblogging the version without it!
If I "have to" be okay with harassment of others because they're "bad people" so I can be considered a "good person", then I don't want to be good. Hope this helps.
I wonder if this post will take off. Not because I do or don't want it to happen, but I wonder when it'll reach a certain type of people.
By a certain type, I mean those who I was talking about in the first place. Or folks who otherwise do this and claim they don't. And then prove to be hypocrites.
Do they know?
Context:
There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:
“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”
“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”
Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP
I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:
Gameoverse cast be like:
A cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea - Or my thoughts on the Good Omens S3 "The Finale"
So I watched it.
And I know about The CircumstancesTM. The allegations, the possible cancellation, etc.
The fact that we got this 90 min movie is a miracle on itself, and we could've just ended up in a forever unsolved cliffhanger (not unlike what happened with poor American Gods).
But man I cannot help but feel disappointed. Not by the ending - or at least not just by the ending.
Amongst it all, you can see all the potential. And that is perhaps the source of the disappointment.
What could've been.
The murders and the Book of Life, Jesus getting lost and reconnecting with humanity, Aza and Crowley's reconciliation. You can see how it could've been more, a longer story, had time and resources been available.
But instead we just get a murder mystery that is blatantly obvious form the moment Michael assigns Muriel to investigate. Her motivations are largely still undeveloped, even if S2 made her ambitious to higher stations, also coming off as an exceedingly shallow motivation.
The Jesus subplot is actually quite charming and enjoyable, but due pacing and constraints it is entirely pointless. You could cut it out and the only meaningful thing that would change is Aza's reason to go back to Earth (and to Crowley). And the scene of his death, were all the people he had reached out just go about vanishing as if it were just a mild inconvenience has absolutely no emotional impact at all.
God and Satan being there at the end of the universe also hinted at something more that was probably cut, and their banter and relationship leaves to be desired. Also quite disappointing is how at the end the writers walk back what they had laid out on S1 (and kinda S2) on how, for all His(Her?) Grand Ineffable Plan, free will was in fact a thing that God allowed the universe to have. Now God has it all planned out, and has the last word on everything that happens.
The ending is quite divisive, as I have already seen, and while I appreciate the concept of two souls so devoted and in love to each other that they would find themselves even in a universe in which they weren't even meant to exist, the fact that the price is, quite literally, Everything that ever was, is and would've been... Is it worth it? Is it them? Or is it just something that, like the quote I pretend to be the title of this opinion piece, it just looks but isn't really like them?
I don't want to end up in a wholly negative note, there were good things. The humor, as always, is top notch. From Muriel figuring out who the killer is by virtue of realizing that she was an incompetent investigator (and true to form, almost everyone else had already figured it out), that plays in the middle of that lunch scene rife hilarious characters overacting their grievances towards the duo.
Aza choosing fucking crosswords as a challenge.
The gold medal is however, for the Aziraphale's infiltration of Hell. You just know how much fun Michael Sheen was having with it all. Probably the highlight of the episode.
I don't hate what I got. Yes I wish, there had been a proper developed season, but in spite of my disappointment I have enjoyed "The Finale". Warts and all.
I was talking to a rad-adj guy, and I mentioned that I keep a certain opinion to myself IRL, or anywhere that is associated with my IRL name, in order to not run afoul of overzealous Discord mods or Codes of Conduct. These opinions are opinions like
Depression Quest wasn't just not a good "game", it also wasn't even good art, or effective activism, or even mediocre as "writing" (as in literature). The treatment of depression in Depression Quest is shallow and reductive.
Schools cannot teach critical thinking as a separate skill. It's not like reading or throwing a ball. You cannot drill your critical thinking by thinking critically about one topic to get better at thinking critically across domains. This is not specific to critical thinking, it's a failure mode of education approaches fashionable in the US, and this failure mode also happens with "finding the main idea of a non-fiction text" or "interpreting symbolism in short stories" or "appreciating poetry".
Tweeting at Greta Thunberg is not how Andrew Tate got got. It was just good old-fashioned police work. Give the Romanian police some credit!
You should not roll your eyes at the deaths per watt-hour statistic that includes people falling off roofs while installing solar panels. These people are dead! The fact that they died in an uncool way falling off roofs doesn't mean that they are any less dead. Imagine we mandated ALARA for solar panels, with mandatory railings and safety harnesses! When it comes to nuclear, activists always talk about disposal/long term waste storage, and about uranium mining. We should do the same with coal. By the same reasoning, we should include the human cost of mining rare earth minerals, and the human cost of disposing of old panels in the statistic about solar. Solar probably still comes out on top or near it, but we should be honest.
The "Lady Macbeth Effect" failed to replicate because it's one of these bullshit social priming studies, and the whole thing is bunk. Trying to explain why it worked with these undergrads but not with those undergrads is special pleading and failure to correct for multiple comparisons. It's at best a fluke.
As I was talking to the guy about REDACTED COMMUNITY A, I explained that after a major schism in OTHER REDACTED COMMUNITY B over milquetoast political opinions, and a blow-up in REDACTED COMMUNITY C, I didn't want my opinions about education and critical thinking to be weaponised. I explained how in COMMUNITY D, there was one guy who had certain social justice opinions, and he got power and started to ban people who disagreed, and then he started to ban people who agreed with his opinions but still associated with the people he had banned.
And then, after I had explained all that, he said "Yeah, but it's not like you can't post about this under your real name. It's not like people actually ever look at your personal twitter when you make a pull request and decide to prosecute you based on the Code of Conduct."
Except yes, they do. I had just explained it.
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