Putting the oratory in laboratory

Georgie | she/her | scientist with aspirations of madness

[xenogears]

Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that

[the-lincyclopedia]

Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go the Odyssey?

Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.

[fidgetyhands]

And this doesn't mean you need to read / watch / listen to absolutely everything! (not that that's remotely possible)

It's perfectly reasonable that I have decided, based on ambient cultural information, that Ready Player One will not be my jam and I'm not going to read it. What that means, though, is that I have very little information about Ready Player One. I am not an authority on Ready Player One. If there's a discussion of the character development or worldbuilding or plot structure in Ready Player One, I can listen, but I can't really contribute, because I have not read it and thus am missing quite a lot of information about it.

There are more things in the world that I am not an authority on than there are things that I am an authority on, and that's okay! I should just be honest with myself and others about it.

[bedupolker]

Has anyone else noticed that they do this?

[bedupolker]

aquatic chapter

[ot3]

i think friendslop as a term is soooo fucking funny. ironically mildly derogatory term for something that's only good because you are just doing it to hang out with your friends. im not saying it's a misnomer or anything in fact i think we need to broaden the concept to apply to a lot of non video game stuff retroactively. bowling is highkey friendslop

[ot3]

other notable examples of friendslop:

bar trivia

pontoon boats

ouija boards

[madebykyra]

My sister took more photos of my dress. I am very happy with how this turned out :)))))

Only one more weekend until the Renaissance Faire!!!!

[vedurnan]

New research indicates 2 cups of black tea a day can increase human lifespan by up to ten million years

[kiwi]

as a former escape room host i highly recommend doing an escape room as a first date. its a great way to learn how ppl react under pressure and how well they collaborate with you right off the bat. also more than once ive seen people enter an escape room as a couple and exit broken up LOL its a fantastic litmus test

[kiwi]

sorry to broadcast ur tags but this is also a valuable part of the litmus test! it seems like you learned a lot about how this person makes you feel in their social group. they didn't go out of their way to include you, and neither did their friends. therefore you can come to a pretty good conclusion about how you might feel being part of their life outside of an escape room; someone who doesnt include you or your feelings in a game is likely going to do the same in other situations

[softness-and-shattering]

An experiment with a clear negative outcome is still a successful experiment.

[ehlihr]

adding songs from musicals to character playlists is so stupid like yeah this works just ignore some of that really specific stuff

[fluentisonus]

no eclipse glasses we are experiencing things allegory of the cave style

[sapphling]

try not to unlearn all your shame in case there's something good stuff in there that you can sexualize

[magic-the-girlbossing]

Nigel Farage 'unaware Parliamentary investigation would restart' after by-election - report

As it turns out, Nigel Farage might have wasted most of his summer by spending it fighting with a man wearing a bin on his bonce.

endlessly amused that Farage seems to think he's a Magic: The Gathering card

[magic-the-girlbossing]

blunder of the century: Farage plays Ephemerate into non-targeted removal

[notjudie]

interiors of travelling at night demo

[commonlogicgames]

I know you're not supposed to play favorites, but I am obsessed with writing Anette. Meet her, and others, by supporting The Matter of Being's Kickstarter! We only have a week left, so if you're able to pledge, now is the time! And here's a bonus quote from her dreams:

"Anette never dreams of herself in human form. Instead she is a python pushing through the jungle floor, relishing the leaves that crack and stick to her wet scales. Or sometimes she is a spider, twitching merrily as she splits the belly of her catch. When she spoons out the ripe flavors hidden within, she does not have to imagine how they taste: She recalls them all from memory."

[fabiansociety]

every time i see fan art of murderbot with any kind of decent haircut i quail. it has absolutely the most dogshit half-grown out raggedy not quite bob because every time it needs to disguise itself it adds another two centimeters and thickens its eyebrows. it should always look like it gave itself bangs after the worst most drunken breakup of all time. give that thing a unibrow

[aiden-png]

Loved this take so much I had to draw it. The comments said MB would use long bangs to avoid eye contact and I agree! I hate the sensory experience of getting haircuts and I think murder- autism coded -bot would feel the same. Best solution is to never get a haircut 👌

[doedipus]

Girl with a uniform fetish who is turned on by all things and concepts an equal amount

[sassysnowperson]

Book of Hours is an utterly hilarious videogame, when you think about what the mechanics actually mean in-universe.

You are a librarian! You have taken on management of a Mystical House full of secrets, which you must slowly reveal room by room. But! A catastrophe struck before your arrival, so you gotta clear the rooms out as you go.

Except you're just one person, you gotta go get your neighbors to help out.

Most of the people will charge me money to help out, but the towns blacksmith, my old war-buddy Denzel, he'll help for free.

"Denzeeel!" I pound on his doorway at the break of dawn. "Come up to the big spooky house, why don't you?"

He comes to the house. And I show him the best time. We drink a smoky tea, feast upon rare pears that only bloom in the fae seasons, I gift him some metal and encourage him to look at it's cool magic properties. Dawn to morning to afternoon, we have a wonderful time. And then, as the day grows dark and he's thinking about heading home, I stop him.

"before you go, can you do me a quick favor?" And then I walk them into the basement, through some caves, and point to a room with roughly one billion bats.

"you can clear out roughly a billion bats, right? I really need to get in there."

And then my sweet, long-suffering friend goes into the room filled with roughly a billion bats to clear it out for me. Good man, I think fondly, as he stumbles home to his smithy after.

And then, as night turns to morning, I contemplate the next room, deep in the library's secret prison, burning with an eternal flame of the monstrous prisoner that broke his chains.

"you know who can help me handle this?" I say cheerfully as my skin reddens and cracks as I reach my hand toward the door. "My good friend Denzel!"

[whyenn-reader]

the youtube notification of ''ooohh your video isn't starting up smoothly???? turn off your ad blocker you cunt <3'' is so pathetic to me bc it takes five seconds max. you think i can't wait five seconds? you think i need to give you money because five seconds is too long? i pity your wife.

[bayesic-bitch]

it seems like in bdsm the "rewards" and the "punishments" look very similar. this concerns me a great deal, because it points to a system of misaligned incentives. if we're not careful, it's even possible that a rational actor could deliberately violate regulations, because the penalties for rule violations are in fact incentivized. one shudders to think of the consequences of such an arrangement