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@hawkishhoncho
We failed as a society when everyone stopped wearing headphones.
At my parents place with 2 children watching YT on tablets and 2 adults watching tiktoks and reels on their phones and trying not to summon a comically sized Loony Toons hammer out of my back pocket to smash them all.
As a pro athlete, it must be super sad not to want to play as yourself in video games because your player rating is trash.
I mean, I’m sure comparatively it probably makes sense, like the best kf the best will always be the best of the best
This has got me thinking
Would a pro athlete, lets take a swimmer for example, even want to play a game about swimming? And when i say play i mean spend at least 30 hours in it or something, not just a one-off thing for publicity stunt or whatever
Im asking this because personally i wouldnt want to play a game thats basically the same thing as my daily job
And then if we consider they play a game that doesnt reflect their sport.. Well, most video game protagonists have superhuman abilities. Let’s even ignore the classic “jumping 4 times your own height”. And im gonna start with a horrible example but minecraft Steve. This motherfucker can do litetally anything. He can lift an entire planet worth of weight. I recall a video calculating that his walking speed is similar to Usain Bolt’s sprint.
But lets get something more… Human. Gordon Freeman. Hes got impeccable aim and a fucking gun that defies gravity and lets you lift fuck whatever
Idea is theres a pretty narrow amount of games where player rating is THAT trash. Maybe jst hasnt played any game since Wii Sports launched who knows
Do you know how many NFL players talk shit to each other on the sidelines of games about their Madden ratings? There are so many clips of players slipping or getting outrun, and then their teammates joking with them about how Madden is going to lower their speed ranking or whatever other stat after seeing that play. In my experience with college football players, madden is the most likely game for them to play in their free time.
Is it probably limited to players in pro leagues like the NFL, MLB, NBA, FIFA leagues, NHL, etc. that have those type of dedicated games? Yes, but I’m pretty confident that those players do play those games as themselves.
me: BRING OUT THE DEATH RAY!!!
*my henchmen wheel a large glass tank containing a tiny stingray into the room*
captive hero: aww!
me: QUIET! this is the deadliest ray known to man. one milli milli milligram of poison from its sting is enough to stop a grown man's heart in under a minute! and he answers only to me! behold your DOOM!
stingray: *nudges my hand*
me, getting down on my knees in front of the tank so i can look him in the eyes: Mortimer, please. i'm trying to be intimidating here.
you will
I know I’m being an insufferable worldbuilding nerd here, but my basic metric for evaluating media with very inhuman protagonists is “how easily can one offer a complete and coherent account of this media’s plot without ever mentioning the fact that the protagonist is, for example, a talking car?”. The harder it is, the higher it scores.
@hewwbwazew I would LOVE to read this holy shit
I thought for sure the reveal was going to be that his short story was a reskin of Ratatouille, that caught me off guard
Saw a post that said “Not every person you dislike is a narcissist and not every unpleasant experience is trauma” and a lot of you needed to hear that.
Not all conflict is abuse.
and hilariously that is not why it is called that.
It is the circle of the bears cause of ursa major and ursa minor, and the circle without bears cause ya'know opposite part of the sky.
We lucked right into that one....
#so what you’re saying is#the stars dictate whether bears do or do not exist in places
Astrology is real but only for predicting where bears will be
Truly the most brain rot part of the Twitch leak is people being incredulous that:
A) Critical Role makes money
B) It costs money to run the show
People had this idea in their head, reinforced by their “nerdy ass voice actors” line at the start of every episode, that the cast of critical role had their standard day jobs voice acting and directing, and they played dnd on their own time in the evenings just because they enjoyed it, and they happen to film it for us. That was true for the first couple dozen episodes, but it hasn’t been true for years. Critical role is their full time job now, and any other acting or directing work is side gigs to keep the industry from forgetting about them, and to maintain the illusion with their fanbase that they are, first and foremost, voice actors. Seeing these numbers drove home to people that that was an illusion, not the truth, and some people see it as deception and betrayal.
They also suddenly feel a whole lot less sympathy when the cast talks about burnout. Nearly every dnd player has felt the struggle of fitting in dnd around their work/school and their family life, and sympathized with the cast talking about how hard it is to keep making an episode a week for so long. Now, they realize that the cast isn’t having to fit the episodes in around their full time job, losing free time for it, making the one 4.5 hour episode a week is their full time job, along with the setup and management. It makes people feel like while they have to fit dnd into their free time around a 40 hr/wk job, these people only have to play a dnd session a week, doing 5-10 hours of work to collect a full paycheck, and they’re complaining about even doing that much, and true or not, that builds resentment.
Similarly, the revelation that this is not a side gig makes people less understanding about the ad volume. Having 10 minutes of straight ads/sponsorships 2x a show is a lot, but people were cool with it when they thought that that many ads were required to keep the show afloat. Now that it’s revealed that the show is making a huge amount of revenue, people feel like those ads and sponsorships weren’t necessary to keep things afloat, they were greedy.
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the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:
Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how “smooth” sharks really are.
Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because it’s so smooth.
But buddy.
Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims. … In the opposite direction, it feels very rough like sandpaper.
((Here m8 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basics ))
Buddy. It’s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you don’t know how to read?
this post is transcendent
You’re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.
Source: I’M A MARINE BIOLOGIST
No, I’m thinking of sharks.
Source: I’m a superior marine biologist
That desire to troll and play dumb and be unshakably confident in a stupid and absurd position can be funny, until the position you’re defending is that Trump won the election, or that the earth is flat, or that the Jews started a wildfire with a space laser. Saying shit you know to be wrong “as a joke” and refusing to admit otherwise starts as trolling and shit like this post, and then becomes seriously harmful when other people start to believe you instead of the facts and they refuse to be proven wrong just like you did.
CDC: if you’re vaccinated you don’t have to wear a mask anymore!
me: *sets this new recommendation gently on the ground* ah. no thank you
Of course, only believe the scientists and experts when they say something that you agree with and that fits your pre-existing beliefs. /s🙄
I stg, y’all sound exactly like the people who refuse to get the vaccine because they think it’ll give them covid.
If you want to keep wearing one, by all means, go ahead, but accept that it’s for concealment or out of personal paranoia, not because you know better than the experts about safety. Come on now, you’re the side that’s prided itself on listening to the experts and scientists on climate change, covid, lgbt rights, anti-vaxxers, everything, for years. Now you’re going to abandon that and start saying that you can’t trust the experts and scientists to be right? If that’s the case, why should we listen to them on climate change, or vaccines and their lack of relation to autism, or anywhere else? Decide for yourself if you’re going to believe the experts and scientists on what they say about their field, regardless of whether or not it agrees with your current beliefs, or not. If you’re not, you’re no different than someone who denies the existence of global warming.
Black sheeps of the family are usually the ones who see through the others’ bullshit and toxic behaviour
Or are the ones 2ith the toxic behavior that the rest of the family is tired of dealing woth
Yeah, it’s one or the other, but both are well represented. The one homophobe is a black sheep in an accepting family, just like the one lgbt person is the black sheep in a homophobic family. Black sheep just means different, what the rest of the family is like determines if different is good
I feel like people are missing the Very Important reference picture and that's just criminal. Clearly if you look at the dog that inspired the piece, you would understand the inherent validity of the voters' choice.
Low-level diplomatic incidents for your Dungeons & Dragons game:
Two villages on opposite ends of a great valley have become embroiled in a dispute over hunting rights that’s about to boil over into open war. Each community is flat broke and can scarcely field a dozen men-at-arms, but neither can bow out of the approaching confrontation without losing face. Both village leaders attempt to hire the party as a secret weapon; neither is aware that the other has also done so.
The local lord’s contemptible offspring has resolved to slay the dragon that lairs nearby. The townspeople, however, have secretly entered into a mutually beneficial arrangement with the dragon; they would prefer to resolve the situation without revealing the bargain, and ideally also without getting the awful brat killed and thereby sparking a vendetta that would likely result in real dragonslayers entering the fray.
The party is accosted by robed acolytes who declare that one of the party’s number is the Chosen One, destined to defeat their god’s foes. The god in question proves to be a very minor deity whose domain consists of a stream that’s been polluted by a nearby smelting operation. In response, the small god of the hill the mine is sunk into – who benefits from the miners’ propitiation – soon nominates their own Chosen One!
A gang of phantoms haunting the local graveyard have taken to holding nightly festivities so raucous, they’ve been declared a public nuisance. Being spirits, however, they’re immune to any force the townspeople (or the party) can bring to bear, and exorcism has thus far proven fruitless because – metaphysically speaking – they have every right to be there. How do you enforce a noise complaint against immaterial perpetrators?
An enormous sinkhole opens beneath the town courthouse and plunges the building deep underground. Upon investigation, the party discovers not a monstrous incursion, but a Deep Gnome geological expedition that’s become lost due to a math error and ended up much closer to the surface than they thought they were. They don’t really want to hurt anyone, but they also don’t want their mistake to become public!
here are some things I just heard:
a door slamming
someone exclaim “oh, you sneaky bastard”
the sound of a bell jingling down the hallway
someone at the end of the hallway gasping “hello beautiful!!” in that very special I’m-talking-to-an-unexpected-cat voice
some things I heard myself:
a light thud
someone exclaiming “listen here, one of us can see in the dark and it’s not me, so we’re gonna have to figure this out”
a meow
literally every minor sound from the street carries up to us since it’s so narrow, last year this happened:
a deep voice going “HEY”
me immediately concerned, it is dark, what is happening
same deep voice: “WHAT DO YOU HAVE”
the playful jingling of dog tags
“WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR MOUTH”
jingle jingle jingle
If you are someone who likes to watch a lot of cop shows, I want you to ask yourself a few questions.
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate Internal Affairs? Isn’t the job of Internal Affairs to root out the “bad cops”? Isn’t their job to make sure police follow the rules? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic?
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate defense attorneys? Isn’t the defense attorney’s job to protect the rights of all citizens? Isn’t it their job to make sure police follow the law? Isn’t it their job to make sure everyone is treated fairly under the system? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic?
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, get upset when citizens invoke their constitutional rights? Don’t those rights exist to ensure all citizens are treated fairly? Don’t they exist to ensure innocent people are not wrongfully incriminated? Why are citizens who invoke their rights presented as dishonest, untrustworthy, or antagonistic?
To be clear, I’ve watched Brooklyn 99 and enjoyed it. I was watching Elementary the other day. But even when I watch shows I like, I make a mental note every time a cop lies, breaks the law, subverts someone’s basic rights, or just generally acts like an asshole to the people the are meant to serve and protect.
How often are they called out on their behavior? How often are they punished for it? How often is it reinforced as correct by the narrative?
When I tell people to be critical of the media they consume that is what I mean. Not simply calling it terrible and moving on, but actually engaging thoughtfully, asking questions, and forming conclusions about what that media is trying to say to you. Then decide whether you want to keep listening, or if it will be better for you in the long run to move on.
Here I was expecting some “not all bad things that happen to you are your fault” type pep talk and then that last panel just hit me like cold bucket of ridiculousness. I love it.
I just sent this to my husband and his response was “you can’t put a price on that” uh, yeah you can, they just did. 🙄
That’s about $207,000 in the US
What is the point of this? Of course hiring someone to do all of this for you would be expensive. What is the point they’re trying to make? Value your wife more? That’s a legitimate point, but do you really want to put forward the argument that the only reason you should value your wife is because of how valuable a laborer she is? You should value your wife for who she is, not for how much money her housework saves you.
Is this trying to point out that’s it’s not as economically unreasonable as you might think to have only one parent work? Again, could be a defensible point, but they don’t make that argument or compare it to anything. Like, it’s an interesting statistic, but not all that unexpected of one, and I don’t get what they’re trying to say
@hawkishhoncho It’s because a ton of people always tell stay at home moms that they need to find a job or that taking care of children isnt as hard as being a career woman.
That’s one of the more reasonable things they could mean and I agree with them if it is what they’re trying for, but it’s still not a good argument on that topic. The chart assumes that the housewife does everything in the way of housework, and gives a value for that, assuming a working parent does absolutely zero housework. It doesn’t address the value of housework that would be done anyway by working parents in their off time. Yes, I realize that some husbands with stay at home wives probably do zero to help, so that worst case can be assumed reasonably, but if the wife started working, the labor costs wouldn’t increase by the £160,000 the chart says, it would increase by substantially less, because they’d still be doing some of the work described in the chart on their off hours. That makes the number in the chart inaccurate, and unless they show a better one later in their slide show, it allows their opponents to dismiss that number and chart as being meaningless, because it’s not actually how much their household labor costs would increase by if a housewife started working a conventional job.
