[adamsmasher]

WE WERE ON JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!

[rouge-the-bat]

thank you for coming to my this #mythis

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[ilions-end]

as someone who is lowkey obsessed with how the odyssey is structured i find this diagram by james redfield very satisfying:

"[A pattern] based on strict alternation. Odysseus faces two kinds of dangers; he may be killed before he gets home, or he may be induced to stop on the way. He faces violence and temptation." (from Redfield's 'The Economic Man')

[truenoodle]

"alas" is a truly S tier english word. fantastic mouthfeel, makes me sound like a world-weary wizard, looks cool when written out. good job to whoever created this word.

[parkayquarts]

im glad we're mostly out of the "girls are so soft uwu" era. it was really hard for me to go through as a girl with a segmented carapace covered in hundreds of tiny barbs

[ivy-michaels]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[ivy-michaels]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[tevruden]

Chromebooks literally *run* Linux already. It’s not a solution to the bigger problem

[o0kawaii0o]

Hero of Time

[valtsv]

"here's my original character, Man Who Sucks But Loves His Daughter Very Much" and it's a guy who worships at the altar of patriarchal violence and the woman he uses as an excuse and an effigy to absolve him

[valtsv]

well i think his daughter should tell him to kill himself

[kosmogrl]

oooh I get it it’s always gonna be because of the environment I grew up in

[aceofpans]

it’s because of the curse

[ayeforscotland]

Going to make a bold claim that the push for IMAX to be the ‘intended viewing’ of certain films contributes to cinemas dying.

[ayeforscotland]

Another unrelated take - if you rebrand British food as ‘Tavern food’ everyone suddenly loves it.

And criticism of food like beans on toast is just classism.

[karrakazz]

everyone is meeting me in the grotto

[karrakazz]

[comet-mirai]

[websitevisitor]

please look at the name of this drink i saw at a boba place the other day

[gorepunkcryptid]

I made a cool as fuck anti-game about trauma. Want to experience a truly miserable time? Have some type 3 fun? Play something that is trying its best to make you stop playing it? Then it's the game for you!

Bite Down or Let Go by Gorepunk

An anti-game about trauma

[shingojira]

the fuck you lookin at keep scrollin

[tsuquilisda]

rebecca black was right. It’s Friday

[prokopetz]

Look, when you see someone talking about a particular bit of tabletop RPG rules tech and your first reaction is "well, that just doesn't sound practical", your first question should be whether you've actually identified a problem, or whether you've merely assumed without justification that every part of the game in question other than the bit you just read about is identical to Dungeons & Dragons.

[prokopetz]

You need to understand that I get "but that doesn't make sense because how would it interact with levelling up" like three times a week.