Terrible, Beautiful Sparks in Space

Talk shit get bit. ey/em they/them Ao3 link

[prokopetz]

Oh, wait, roguelike when talking about games means similar to this one specific thing called Rogue and not having features and protagonist somewhat related to the fantasy rogue class of character skill preference

That clarifies many things.

(With reference to this post there.)

If you really want to blow your mind, look up the origin of the genre name "adventure game" some time.

[discar]

Come on, you can't just leave us hanging on that one.

[prokopetz]

For those disinclined to spend thirty seconds skimming a Wikipedia article, the term "adventure game" is another video game genre name taken from the title of one of that genre's founding texts: it originated to describe games in the style of 1976's Colossal Cave Adventure, whose name was often abbreviated simply as Adventure.

Colossal Cave Adventure is an early form of parser-driven interactive fiction, in which the player moves through a grid of rooms solving inventory-based puzzles by typing VERB THE NOUN style commands. When later examples of the type began to introduced graphical, often mouse-driven GUIs to replace or supplement the command prompt, the nomenclature fissioned into "text adventures" to describe the classic style, and "point and click adventure games" to describe the newer one. "Text adventure" remains in use today as a (somewhat outmoded) term for parser-driven interactive fiction; "point and click adventure game", conversely, is rarely used in everyday conversation, as it's now the dominant strand of the genre, and folks just assume that's what you mean when you say "adventure game" unless otherwise specified.

(Meanwhile, a third branch of the nomenclature, "action adventure", split off to describe games which retained Colossal Cave Adventure's basic framework of moving through a grid of rooms solving inventory-based puzzles, but added traps and monsters which the player must evade in real time. You may recognise this description as one to which the original NES Legend of Zelda answers; for this reason, games in the mode of the Legend of Zelda franchise are to this day classified in the English-speaking world as "action-adventures".)

[writingdose]

this used to be a common knowledge

via AO3Tikli 2022

[omegaversereloaded]

southern american politicians will be like "m'name's buck bingo and i'm a hard worker...... just like y'all" and he's an private school + ivy league educated guy actually named buckley beaumont carlisle who was born into a family who owned slaves and still profits from it to this day. and people eat that shit up.

[omegaversereloaded]

last night i went on a crazy wikidive lol

[omegaversereloaded]

i was going to ask what other versions of this exist in other countries lmao

[punkrorschach]

it is... unfortunate to see trans people go through their own version of "all boys are stupid/all girls have cooties" after they come out. take my hand. you dont have to act like a cis person to validate your gender.

[punkrorschach]

this is something a ten year old girl or perhaps jk rowling would say.

[natalieironside]

There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.

[natalieironside]

Like ppl will say things to me like "But that's Against The Law 😱" or "but they Broke The Law 😱" like sinners in the hands of an angry God and idk what to do w/ that

[natalieironside]

"But [action] is A Crime and if someone does [action] then they'll be a Criminal who Broke The Law! But what about The Law?"

[bark-barkley]

I WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS

[softwetmoss]

And also occasionally by pufferfish

[unwell-radio-transmissions]

was plan make new tote bag 4 aac go on wheelchair. Thought 'would be cool if design like computer keyboard' because fun silly have Radio's words in. Next thought 'if be computer keyboard could use as low tech AAC. Should then probably have yes/no symbols.' Then plan got out of control and now want 2 embroidery low tech AAC board for fashion (silly) and practical use.

not will rush make, just enough have project work on.

[unwell-radio-transmissions]

[ID: canvas bag with low tech AAC symbols and words embroidered on. Examples include feelings, 'lift' and 'toilet'. On reverse side is embroidered computer keyboard, yes/no symbols and words 'please', 'thank you' and 'sorry.' /end ID]

3 half months to finish, very very happy with result. Bag good and sturdy. Take bit of figuring out to make. Strap piece wrap all way around bag so more support for heavy AAC. Strap long enough for wear cross body.

full list of symbols & words: - happy, sad, tired, surprised or anxious, angry or frustrated, overwhelmed. - safe, unsafe. - too loud, too bright, too many people, too many choices. - lift, toilet. - love, stop - i need, to lie down, help, space, to leave, company. - I don't understand, please explain what's happening.

these are for communicate with strangers who not know sign or when body brain too tired for effective signing and as alternative to electronic AAC.

[chongoblog]

It’s fun to use contractions inappropriately, but it’s hard to explain why that’s

[lunarthesugarglider]

thats a common interest we've

[chongoblog]

Yeah, but people get annoyed by it, like when you throw soda cans in the trash can’t the recycle bin

[beaft]

worst part of getting into the traditional folk music scene is that you will hear a song in the wild and fall in love with it, and when you try to find it online you discover that there are 900 different cover versions and the only non-terrible one is a recording of a church hall concert filmed in 2002 on someone's nokia

[nenastrology]

light was such a loser cuz he didnt just google the 100 richest people and start writing down names

[wyrmzone]

how would you feel if you woke up tomorrow and find out exactly 100 of the world’s richest people died of heart attacks at exactly noon universal time. can you imagine the theories. light is absolutely a loser for not doing this

[jotaillustrator]

[exigencelost]

[ID: Reply from elumind that says: “Do the richest one every week and see next in line lose their shit and try to get rid of the money. I think of this almost daily.” /end ID.]

The notes on this are wild because people are legit passionately arguing about why this wouldn’t work. No one said it would work. They said he’s a loser for not doing it.

[athingofvikings]

There has to be a *pattern* to it, though, to really get their attention. Like it has to be the same time of day, the same day, each week.

[hazeldomain]

The first one stands up and draws a massive A on the nearest wall before dropping dead. 

Exactly one week later, Thursday at 3:13 PM, the next one looks up, blank-faced, and uses a car key to scratch the word ‘CAMEL’ into the side of their car. There are memes. 

The week after that, in the middle of an interview, the third victim turns to the camera and says ‘THROUGH.’ He drops dead. 

The man who writes “EYE” is in a private underground bunker. Enough radiation shielding to survive a direct nuclear strike. There are fifteen guards posted at the door- surveillance confirms not one of them left their post. 

By the time “NEEDLE” is scratched into the upholstery of a private yacht, people are starting to give money away. 

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Like most of us I’ve thought extensively on this since I first saw Death Note and came to the conclusion that the most likely reaction would be people creating more byzantine ways of keeping hold of their resources while not technically counting them as personal resources and not technically being so rich. With enough shell companies, fake charities, and resources stashed in secret or illegal places or the bank accounts of relatives, people could keep most of what they have while dropping right off any list of wealthiest people. The wealthy are often experts at this for tax fraud reasons. Light’s response, of course, would be to start taking these things into account, seeking out hackers and accountants and various other experts to keep track of the actual wealthiest, and the wealthy (many of whom would be willing to risk their lives to stay that way) would use the dying as a metric for what the mysterious killer was using to score wealth and try to find ever more secret methods of resource hoarding. An accountancy arms race would be underway.

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea. I’m saying it would make a fantastic Death Note rewrite. Instead of Light making stupid mistakes against L, he could actually put his genius to work in Death Note: The Accountancy Wars.

[yteicosanievilew]

“this makes me personally uncomfortable”, “this seems in poor taste”, “this is somehow harmful but presumably because you’re misinformed” and “this is actively malicious” are all different things. remember that

[lapetitsyrene]

I should be allowed into every museum's archives actually

[ostolero]

incredible line in a product review:

The only reason I took one star off is its not for me personally---I want something very specific to me and I'm a little princess.

[ostolero]

[dndspellgifs]

LRRSA (lesser restoration-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)

LoHRSA (lay on hands-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)

[sapphling]

when talking about efforts to forcibly institutionalize or otherwise wield psychiatric violence against trans people you should be conceptualizing these things not as misuses or perversions of originally well-meaning and necessary processes but instead as natural extensions of the continuum of violence represented by the psychiatric system. this is not a power that psychiatric doctors should hold over anyone, and so long as they do it will continue to disproportionately impact vulnerable groups in devastating ways

[oqmemphis]

tier list of international radiotelephony spelling alphabet letters by how well they work as personal names

S - hell yeah

Echo - shades of Greek mythology, interesting and distinct while also being an actual name that some people have

November - @postoctobrist is the reason why I am making this list

Sierra - from the Spanish for "mountain range", falls under the same distinct-but-reasonable category as Echo

A - perfectly reasonable names

Charlie

India

Juliet*

Oscar

Romeo*

Victor

*these names are cool but be warned that if you choose one you will get the same three Shakespeare jokes for the rest of time

B - sure I guess

Delta - I have never heard of anyone with this name but I think it could work?

Mike - deeply boring name, try and be more imaginative. (the only reason Charlie isn't down here is that I know a couple of Charlies and they're lovely)

Zulu - probably don't name yourself this if you're white

C - I am really curious how you're gonna make these work

Bravo - I feel like this has the cadence and feel of a name, but it's definitely out there

Lima - people named after cities are not that common, but I guess if Paris can be a name then so can this

Papa - not sure this works as a legal name but it's definitely plausible as a nickname within a very specific in-group

Quebec - see Lima

D - maybe salvageable somehow?

Foxtrot - pretty odd, but you could shorten it to Fox and it's kinda reasonable

Tango - another dance, but even harder to make work than Foxtrot

Whisky - occupies a similar nickname space as Papa, with the extra downside that it makes you sound like an alcoholic

X-Ray - "Ray" on its own is fine but randomly shoving Xs at the start of things is something that basically only Elon Musk does

Yankee - it's not completely insane as a name but it has enough unpleasant connotations that I wouldn't recommend it

F - do not under any circumstances use these

Alpha - if someone introduces themself to me as "Alpha" I will immediately cover my drink

Golf - all issues with the sport aside, I just think this is a really ugly sequence of phonemes

Hotel - you are not a Monopoly token

Kilo - usually units of measurement are named after people, not the other way round

Uniform - too on-the-nose even for a badly written dystopia novel

[manny-jacinto]

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