Just Another Blog

White human male, allowed to ripen for 29 years until rendered inedible. I mostly reblog whatever I feel like.

[charlesoberonn]

How many millions of dollars are on the line in this scenario?

[pidgeon-wilson]

@foxgirlmindcrank leaving absolute gold in the tags

[viralfrog]

[original-character-chaos]

[tenleaguesbeneath]

If you aren't playing Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, then you have no legitimate need for the rules of Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist (WTF 45)

But character generation is done before one begins play (WTF 62)

And the character generation procedures for an RPG are commonly understood as part of the game rules [citation needed]

These three premises add up to a contradiction, where the only two escapes are by asserting that WTF's character creation procedures are not, in fact, rules of WTF but instead something else, perhaps setting elements or norms of play culture, or by coming to the conclusion that it is not possible to legitimately create a WTF character.

[jennamoran]

a more pressing question is whether you were playing WTF when you wrote this post and if not what the heck you thought you were doing using its rules

[tenleaguesbeneath]

That's unknowable without a Wisher involved.

Also making this post was not needful. So legitimate or not, I didn't have need of the WTF rules because I didn't need to make the post.

I'm also not entirely convinced that examining the structure of something qualifies as using it.

[jennamoran]

I'm also not entirely convinced that examining the structure of something qualifies as using it.

More seriously, to address the original claim, legitimacy does not derive from the text of a roleplaying game but rather from the will of the people. It cannot derive from text because nobody can know what a text actually says.

[binghsien]

Are you intending to imply that "the will of the people" is itself legible? If so, how? To whom? Via what method?

[jennamoran]

probably the simplest way is a Knowledge + People roll, but one could also look for which character creation efforts are legitimate and work backwards

[teaboot]

“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

[justlightmeonfire]

I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet

[teaboot]

Also the amulet

[whimsicalmayhem]

Is that you talking? Or the amulet? Are you SURE a new hand doesn't want to touch the beacon?

[teaboot]

The amulet and I are not currently looking for a third

[madeofklay]

I saw this perfectly in my head and had to recreate it

[teaboot]

Holy Shit

[weonsinnombre]

[shieldfoss]

oH RIGHT This was before LotR pioneered cgi for massed crowd behavior

There was so much cool cgi in those movies I just assumed all the clones were too but back then I guess they still couldn’t really be

[chilewithcarnage]

this is so sexy

[luckyladylily]

I wonder what happened to all the agent smith masks

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

I can actually answer this! So the latex/rubber they used, while standard for Hollywood at the time, reacted REALLY BADLY to being doused in pouring water nonstop for an entire day of shooting. They ended up corroding, which caused them to stink really badly and glob together at the seams. The original plan was to hand out masks to various crew members on the final day of shooting as souvenirs, but the sopping wet, melting, rotting rubber got so gross that by the end of that shooting day they’d already thrown most of them out. Somewhere in a landfill are hundreds of disgusting, bloated, slimey Hugo weaving heads fused together into a nightmarish rotting amalgam :)

[roach-works]

it’s what he would have wanted

[helloijustreadyourpost]

"it’s what he would have wanted" is a wild take considering that he was there when this happened.

[joeyclaire]

steven is a really funny character actually. he never went to school. one of his powers is astral projection for no real reason. hes a musical prodigy. he was so traumatized by the end of the show they had to make an entire epilogue series about it. he spent seven years looking like a 3rd grader. he was even bisexual

[joeyclaire]

he went to the center of the earth. he saved the world in flip flops. he broke his bones every day and didnt even notice. he killed someone

[pawpels]

he didn’t have a bellybutton. he actively chose to eat super crispy bits of potato that got left in the deep fryer. he lived in a house but his dad lived in a car within walking distance of his house. he could revive people from the dead. all of his clothes were concert merchandise. he had an outdoor washing machine. he was put on trial for murder. he broke both federal and state child labor laws

[imhereformysciencefriends]

The murder he was on trial for was different than the murder he committed

[hedronalignment]

The murder he went on trial for was a murder his mom committed. The victim of the murder was also his mom.

[joeyclaire]

he plead guilty

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[alarmist-nonsense]

[0v9]

this is what upstairs neighbors have

[that-house]

[helloijustreadyourpost]

The guy sticking his hand in at the end... yikes.

[boringkate]

You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.

[paradigm-adrift]

I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.

Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.

[terramythos]

holy shit this person in the notes

[discodyke-dogthing]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[tieflingkisser]

[rarilee33]

Also on windows 10!! go to typing settings- how ai has helped you- typing insights-off

[stitchthisfiona]

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

[cleolinda]

[cleolinda]

[lotus0kid]

[lotus0kid]

[pomme-poire-peche]

[lotus0kid]

[sashaforthewin]

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i appear to have made mortal nemeses with a pigeon

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tumblr stop rooting for the pigeon

[iamcon-fu-sion]

pick a side

team gaud

team pigeon

Voting ended onJun 1

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

CEASE THIS IMMEDIATELY

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you people are. unkind to me

[d4lifesworld]

You... voted for the pigeon, too?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i know when i'm outmatched

[prokopetz]

The funniest thing in superhero comics is not, in fact, when an outgoing writer on a title decides to break their toys by killing off the lead, and the next writer has to figure out how to bring them back.

The actual funniest thing in superhero comics is when a new writer decides to kill off the lead's entire supporting cast because they wanted to "go in a different direction", and the writer after that has to resurrect like half a dozen random people because that new direction sucked.

[prokopetz]

@pomrania replied:

And like, seriously, "the lead decides to ditch everything and travel the world, only to eventually come back home hat-in-hand because it turns out they canNOT do everything on their own" is WAY funnier and also easier for the next writer to pick up after, so they should be doing THAT instead.

It's my understanding that many writers for the Big Two have developed the habit of killing off established supporting characters they're uninterested in including in their storylines as a sort of pre-emptive defence against potential editorial interference. It's not unheard-of for the editor to stick their oar in and demand that you put more focus on a supporting character who's currently dead, but it's historically rare.

[lcatala]

It's interesting to compare this with French-language comics where often the rights to the series are tied to a publisher who will have different authors work on it over the years, but the rights for secondary characters created by that author remain with the author, which if no agreement is reached can result in an entire roster of secondary characters dropping out of existence with no explanation between two stories as the previous author leaves and takes their characters with them. Thus the series Spirou and Fantasio's most iconic run was that of Franquin (from 1948 to 1968) (the character of Spirou was first created in 1938), who created most of the series's iconic secondary characters, including the marsupilami, their weird monkey-marsupial-like animal companion. Then when Franquin was succeeded by Fournier, none of the secondary characters created by the former could be used, so they just stopped appearing. There was no explanation or even mention of them, the comic was now effectively taking place in a different reality with an entirely new cast of secondary characters that everyone acted as if they were already established. Then after Fournier left in 1980, this happened again with his characters, and so the new authors Nic & Cauvin had to create again a set of secondary characters from scratch and act as if they had been there all along with no acknowledgement of previous characters. However, when Nic & Cauvin left in 1984 and Tome & Janry took over, Dupuis managed to negotiate with Franquin (who was still alive and doing his own stuff) for the right to re-use most of his secondary characters, so at that point the comic reverted, again with no explanation, to the "classic" cast — except for the marsupilami who Franquin wanted to keep the rights of because he had his own standalone series, and would not appear in another Spirou story again except for a one-off in 2016.

[prokopetz]

Randomly encountered family.

[drcuriousvii]

[would-you-punt-them]

I am curious: what do you think made all the Madoka fans want to punt Kyubey? Like, do you have any predictions on what’s gonna happen later in the series?

i kinda assumed he just had an annoying voice or smth

but like??? he's fine??????

he's cute and polite and helpful??

i mean seriously just look at him

[would-you-punt-them]

he belongs in a woodchipper

[flappy-dragon53]

The true madoka magica experience

[madokamagicaheritageposts]

Madoka Magica Heritage Post

[joasakura]

[mollyjames]

A young girl with colorful hair and remarkable intuition recently barged into my office and declared that she's fully aligned with our principles and wishes to join our cause. It so happens I have an experimental mech prototype in development that would be perfect for her, but her upbringing and attitude suggest she knows nothing of the horrors of war, and while she has protagonist potential, because of her gender I suspect she will die early as a component of some tragedy. What should I do?

[fallentitan98]

I mean you can just make another mech prototype right? You didn’t lose the blueprints or anything like that.

If she dies then well that kinda just happens sometimes. Send her family a gift basket, a thank you card, and how their daughter died a hero’s death. Do NOT explain in detail how she actually died, that’s not important and they’re in mourning they don’t want to know.

But if she doesn’t die then you get a 68.5% of getting a hardened mech pilot that’ll push her machine to the extremes and be an amazing ace that new recruits will look up to.

However there is also a small, minor 31.5% she becomes too delusioned to the horrors of war and starts killing everyone in an attempt to bring “peace and prosperity” and to quiet the “voices” in her head that probably aren’t real and she’s just having a horribly prolonged psychological breakdown.

Anyway I say make her the pilot, it’s not like there’s a similar aged young boy that she’s friends with that will witness her possible if statistically unlikely death and grow a deep hatred for your organization and join the other side where he becomes an ace mech pilot.

[mollyjames]

This is good advice. To be safe, I will allocate my top intelligence officer to investigate her personal life and dispose of any possible male compatriats

[pretentiouslimericks]

Counter-proposal: we forcefem the male compatriots.

[mollyjames]

[tsukinoinaba]

this isn't accounting for the possibility that she "dies" in the physical sense, but her mind/soul live on inside of her mech in some way.

in that event, you can expect whomever next pilots the mech to come into some manner of contact with her disembodied spirit, either a) communicating with it while piloting, and a-1) slowly developing a psycho-sexual connection with her, leading to an addiction to being inside of the mech so they can be together, a-2) developing a less fraught but still romantic connection with her, still leading to an increased desire to be inside the mech to be with her, or b) being influenced by her spirit subconsciously and b-1) being subsumed by her spirit as she reincarnates herself by taking possession of the new pilot's body, or b-2) merging their mind with her essence and slowly becoming a new person entirely, formed from a combination of both of their minds melding.

the former set is great fodder for yuri scenarios. in the event of the latter set, this would be a good way to forcefem a "male" pilot. and there's always the chance that the former leads into the latter.

[helloijustreadyourpost]

If you're really concerned about this, try to pick out a pilot of close to the same age on the opposing side (either gender) and convince her to target them specifically in the next battle. If you can get either one of them to damage the other's mech without killing them, you guarantee that both of them will live until nearly the end of the war, one only managing to kill the other in the very final battle (if at all).

There is sadly a risk that she eventually defects to their side (or visa versa). If you want to minimize that risk I'd suggest picking a female rival; if the pair has one pilot of each gender there's a 75% chance that the girl defects.