Fandom Was A Mistake

30, radical anarchist, gender atheist, paladin of freedom of information, collective ownership and mutual aid

[beingofpureenergy]

“Why would coco copy the spells in the book without thinking?” YAAAAYY this is a great question that reveals a lot about cocos unique perspective on magic as a result of the world of Witch Hat Atelier. Maybe the most minor spoilers possible ahead. Like, seriously minor. Really it makes perfect sense because as we learn, witches are VERY specific about how magic is presented to the unknowing public. They don’t know how magic works, what spells exist, how it’s used, anything really. They have limited exposure and the majority of it is through tools and useful spells in their lives. So if we think about it from cocos perspective she’s thinking a few things,

1, magic can’t be used on people or living things

2, magic is a helpful tool

3, magic has never hurt me or anyone else

What I think is really important to remember is that witches make sure that magic is not seen as something that could be used as a weapon. They also are even more strict about magic not being used on people. So if we take this into account, coco’s behavior makes perfect sense, she wouldn’t see magic as potentially being dangerous because in her experience it never HAS been.

[beingofpureenergy]

Loving all the comments and additions people have done on this post, full marks across the board for every single one. Have yet to see a bad take in response to this, great work everybody.

Really a lot of people have added such interesting, intelligent, and insightful ideas to this and I love reading through them. Special shout out to specifically all the people relating magic and how coco sees it to fire, you guys are so smart.

[shizukateal]

The thing about the Witch Hat Atelier world is that the magic system sounds great until you realize it's essentially programming and that sobers you up immediately. Sure, maybe you reach the level of skill needed to draw perfect curves, straight lines, and circles without looking down, but after that you still need to be able to logic out which combination of sigils will actually give you the desired effect, and if you misplace a single line it all goes to shit. Add to that the inclusion of effect-altering inks and you start to understand why Olruggio is Like That.

[yukidraws]

“This wind sigil? No idea what it does, but my veggies to soup spell starts a fire if i remove it”

[stealingpotatoes]

pretty sure this is exactly how lessons at qifrey's atelier go

(links // tip jar!)

[cocoagott]

[sapph1r3-eclip5e]

literally them I'm sobbing💔💔

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[ecrivainsolitaire]

It's not AI. Windows is the plague. Go Linux now.

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[wizardarchetypes]

thinking about the time also with some former roommates where one of them half jokingly was like "man i love monday because the kitchen is always spotless because Story cleans it on sunday" and i was like "what are you talking about" and they were like "you deep clean the kitchen every sunday?" and i was like "? no i don't i have absolutely no idea what you mean."

we went back and forth for 30 seconds and it got awkward really fast because it turns out all my other roommates thought i just had a compulsive need or some sort of desire to deep clean the kitchen every sunday and they just left me to it.

when in reality i was meal prepping for the entire week every sunday and when i finished i cleaned up after myself obviously—wiped the counters down, scraped gunk off the stove, scrubbed the sink, and swept the floor.

took me 10 minutes but always left it looking great.

then i didn't use the kitchen the whole rest of the week because i'd just grab my prepped meals in the morning and go out for all-day fieldwork.

but apparently nobody else ever cleaned up after themselves at all when they cooked. like they'd just leave food on the stove and counters and drop shit on the floor etc. and not clean it up so they thought every monday morning the kitchen was "deep cleaned" simply bc there wasn't old food on every surface.

i was like, "...........i've noticed the kitchen is always messy when i use it on sundays but i've always figured someone just used it and didn't get around to cleaning it up yet and i didn't mind because i'm always about to make a mess anyway............y'all just use the kitchen like that all week?"

and one of the guys (very funny, i liked him) looked around and realized I was the only woman* (*closeted at the time) living there and he went "this is really bad, like, optics wise."

[wizardarchetypes]

"I love it when you deep clean"

[oldshrewsburyian]

In the early Middle Ages almost everyone would have had a story about a pig.

Jamie Kreiner, Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West

[negativeresponse]

In the modern age the quantity of stories about pigs is roughly equivalent, but is spread out among fewer people.

Because of this, only about one in four people has any pig stories at all, and on average each of these individuals will have four pig stories. If this pattern continues it is a distinct possibility that in the far future there will be one individual with several billion pig stories, while everyone else has none. The theoretical existence of the so-called "Allpig" has been the subject of many scientific studies, philosophies, and a number of religious cults.

Harold Fuller, Tales of the Allpig

[cryptotheism]

I feel like Squidward is the type of gay man who sexually imprinted on an unrequited crush in his teens and has been chasing it's shadow ever since. Sexually speaking I think it would be difficult for him to be present. It's not that he has trouble being vulnerable, I think he's a vulnerable if tense lover. Like whenever he sleeps with somebody new he can only see them when measured against an ideal he won't allow himself to fully comprehend. Because if he ever looks at it head on, he knows it will never happen perfectly. Like, he has a hard time indulging in his partners fantasies, especially when it clashes with the semiconscious image in his head. So the sex is pleasant but tense and distant.

[cryptotheism]

It wasn't Squilliam. It was some other person that moved schools and vanished before the advent of social media. Squilliam was the NEXT uncomfortable crush, but it formed around the unresolved feelings from the first crush, which is part of why he's feels so bitter towards Squilliam.

[dragongirlsweetie]

it's actually so crazy how much the simpsons would fucking suck if it didn't have any of the simpsons characters. just a bunch of shots of empty houses and streets for half an hour while nothing happens. that would be so badddd lol

[auroroboros1]

yeah that tends to happen when you remove characters from media. without characters its all just background. i guess movies set in scenic locations would still land as kinda nature docs but even then

[dragongirlsweetie]

it only happens with the simpsons

[auroroboros1]

this same criticism could be applied to nearly any media ever.

[dragongirlsweetie]

it's just the simpsons. are you a troll?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Dragon's right, if you remove all the Simpsons characters from Death Note it hardly changes anything

[greatwyrmgold]

Adding more Simpsons characters to Death Note changes some things, but less than you'd think.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Maybe this opinion makes me sound like a bit of a cynical asshole but I sincerely feel like there is a lot of written fiction out there (novels, short stories, fanfics, what have you) that does not exist as written fiction because the author had any particular love, appreciation, or interest for the medium but because writing is the medium that offers the least barriers of entry for a lone artist with no budget.

Like idk this isn't inherently bad but sometimes you can tell when someone *really* wanted this to be a movie or an animated show or w/e and decided to "settle" for the written word instead.

[looknorf]

[foone]

That's a good case. I've got one of those in my office

[sixstringeddestruction]

What drive letter does the 3rd floppy drive get?

[foone]

I can give you four answers to this question. The short answer, the long answer, the historical answer, the actual answer, and the mythbusters recreate-the-myth answer.

short answer:

probably C:, if not D:, but could be anything up to Z:

long answer:

It depends entirely on which version of DOS this machine uses.

Originally DOS assigned all floppy drives first, then hard drives, then network drives. So a system with three floppy drives and one hard drive would get floppy drives A:, B:, C:, hard drive D:

DOS 5.0 (from 1991) changed it, and it now does the first two floppy drives, then the primary partition of hard drives, then all the extra partitions of hard drives, THEN floppy drives from 3 and up.

So a single hard drive machine (assuming it's not partitioned into multiple drives) with three floppy drives, will have floppy drives A:, B:, and D:, with hard drive C:.

historical answer:

It originally worked this way because DOS copied how CP/M did it, and CP/M just assigned the letters A-Z to all drives, without treating hard drives specially (especially because you probably didn't have a hard drive back then)

actual answer:

The floppy drive is A:. This machine only has one floppy drive.

This case has blanking plates for the 3.5" floppy drive bays that look like fake 3.5" floppy drives. I don't know why it does this, it's very weird and confusing, and in this picture they've installed neither of the possible 3.5" floppy drives, so both of those are fake, and only the 5.25" drive is real.

mythbusters recreate-the-myth answer:

I went into 86box and set up an IBM XT with three floppy drives, and installed DOS 3.3 and then DOS 5.0 on it:

Here in DOS 3.3, you can see that our floppy drives got numbered A:, B:, and C:, and the hard drive is D:

But when that same hardware is upgraded to DOS 5.00, the hard drive is C:, and the floppies are A:, B:, and D:

[lazarus-lazuli]

i have no comment this is just the funniest fucking thing i’ve seen all day

[sorcererslittledragon]

@thatlittleegyptologist i think this is your wheelhouse? Whats it say. Is it anygood or is it pure aesthetic.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I’ve already posted something longer on my blog because I was trying to avoid spoiling the fun but (as loud as I can - not reflected on you): THIS IS AI. IT’S NOT HIERATIC (that looks different) IT’S BARELY EVEN CURSIVE HIEROGLYPHS.

Look closely:

Do they really look like hieroglyphs? No.

Do they really form things other than birds? No.

Do they distinct groups that could be words even if you can’t read them? No.

When you spot the same sign on another part of the door, why does it look like the person carving them (because Reddit OP says an exacto knife was used) suddenly forgot a script they are apparently fluent enough in to carve on a toilet door? Because it is AI.

TL;DR: Reddit op was karma farming using AI to generate nonsense “hieratic” onto what is probably a real photo of a toilet door. Because Hieroglyphs in the public consciousness are considered a funny ha ha picture script rather than a real script belonging to a real language capable of literature, people’s brains skip over the obvious faults. If you searched for “hieratic examples” or “cursive hieroglyphs examples” and compared them to the above image, it’d be very quickly apparent that it wasn’t real.

[the-haiku-bot]

Do they distinct groups

that could be words even if

you can’t read them? No.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[ecrivainsolitaire]

And here I was thinking that the clue for AI was that it would take weeks to manually etch this on a bathroom door. Come on guys, there's AI slop but there's also just not understanding the world around it. I bet if you spent less time transvestigating random Reddit posts and more touching grass you wouldn't be so easily tricked by generated images because you'd understand what the real world looks like.

[segamascott]

awesome

[whosurisold]

billions and billions of WASTED taxpayers money

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Not to mention all the dead and maimed-for-life service personel.

[segamascott]

two prime examples of why people hate americans 👍

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Never forget the reason republicans started turning on Trump wasn't because of the fascism, or the kidnapping of innocents on the street, or the two pointless wars, or the repeated attempts to launch WWIII, or the rapes, or the child trafficking, or the destruction of the environment, or the data centres, or the fires, or the pardoning of domestic terrorists, or the recession, or COVID, or literally shouting at the world that he's literally the antichrist.

It was that gas prices got too high.

Scorch the land and start over.

[segamascott]

awesome

[whosurisold]

billions and billions of WASTED taxpayers money

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Not to mention all the dead and maimed-for-life service personel.

[segamascott]

two prime examples of why people hate americans 👍

[onthegreatsea]

lots of people do not seem to be aware that you can use third party websites to download stuff from spotify! no spending ages searching for torrents, just copy the url and pirate it that way

i use spotidownloader but there are lots of sites that do the same thing if u have problems with that one

[onthegreatsea]

this is how i've been fixing and replacing all the broken/corrupted music from my 2010 HDD btw. has made it sooooo easy

[ecrivainsolitaire]

That's when you upload the torrent and pass it on to the universe

[botanyshitposts]

a really funny thing about working with seeds in a day to day capacity is that you really need the seeds to stay in one place at any given moment, and the seeds disagree. so it’s just like, seeds end up on the floor. seeds end up on the desk. seeds appear in the crack between the glass plate of the microscope stage and its surrounding metal casing. seeds are around the dumpster outside. sweeping up seeds, patching up bags of seeds, picking seeds off your clothes and from between keyboard keys, very carefully transferring seeds into containers less likely to cause catastrophe should the seeds breach containment, like it’s just an uphill battle built into the work. almost as if the seeds are hyperevolved to disperse themselves or something