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A Good Old-Fashioned Midwestern Apocalypse
As a US East Coaster, I am partial to hurricanes.
As another East Coaster, agreed.
Terrible Character Ideas:
A monk based on a European Christian archetype. They have sworn a sacred oath to defeat the giant snail plaguing the countryside.
A dragonborn desperately trying to convince the party that they’re really an aarakocra with a skin condition that made their feathers fall out.
Your standard horny bard, but they play a washboard.
A sentient hat piloting a mannequin.
A dark elf who’s afraid of the dark, and terrified of spiders.
A peasant farmer who joined the adventure because they’re going through a midlife crisis and want to ~find themself.~
A druid who got involved because they’re the party’s weed dealer.
A werewolf who doesn’t believe in the moon.
op change the title to “Great”
OP are you kidding
THESE ARE AMAZING
what if they were all in the same group tho
The Death of Stalin [2017] Sentence Starters
“Sit down! do not defy me!” “Don’t worry, nobody’s going to get killed,” “I can’t remember who’s alive and who isn’t,” “I miss the Tsar!” “Goodbye, my friend,” “It would be simpler and cheaper if they just drove straight into the river,” “Should we investigate?” “Should you shut the fuck up before you get us both killed?” “Each name you give me is one less bit of you I’ll cut off,” “Grenade, funny, tomato, pocket, funny, horse, slippers, question mark,” “Get my trousers!” “Remain at your stations,” “I think (he’s/she’s/they’re) saying get me a doctor now,” “The room is only seventy-five per cent conscious!” “Are you wearing pyjamas?” “I said you’d be tested, now you’re being tested by a shouty man wearing pyjamas,” “It’s just me here, kneeling in the piss, yeah?” “Too much social climbing, I expect,” “What the fuck are you talking about?” “Fucking Abbot and Costello over there,” “I can’t shut that gabbling idiot up,” “How can you run and plot at the same time?” “There are bears in there,” “I want another opinion!” “You’re not even a person, you’re a testicle, and you are mostly made of hair!” “Don’t you ever, ever humiliate me again,” “I call this meeting to order,” “You’re being obstructionist,” “I can assure you all that I am perfectly capable of doing two things at once,” “You told me, last night, in the bathroom,” “Would you stop with this?” “I’m smiling, but I am very fucking furious,” “You never kiss my hand anymore,” “Did Coco Chanel take a shit on your head?” “A vile crime has been perpetrated!” “You will not take me down!” “Hands up, or I’ll shoot you in the fucking face,” “I’m going to enjoy peeling the skin from your self-satisfied face,” “I want it to go on record that this was not my first course of action,” “This is a travesty!” “I judge you, I judge all of you!” “You are accused of treason,” “Everyone happy?” “I will bury you in history, you hear me?” “You smell like a rendered horse, you burning asshole,” “This is how people get killed,” “Can you ever trust a weak man?”
Data heard how Picard once complained of having to “hand-hold an android” and resolved to never hand-hold Picard.
I will now proceed to make fun of people running in the 2020 election
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020
Nevermind, post cancelled.
Is America ready for its first vegan president?
Special mention: people who accidentally registered themselves twice.
Can you split the vote… with yourself?
There are too many Patricks in this race, including two Patrick Michaels, for an incredible ratio of 2 Michaels to 4 non-Michaels.
There are 22 people with the first name “Michael” running and what I’m saying is that people named Michael need to be oppressed more.
See, PewDiePie isn’t a Nazi, he’s a communist. Checkmate, leftists!
Finally, somebody representing the interests of AOL chat rooms.
Suggested running mate: Sexy Vegan
yo dog I heard you like people over politics, so this person’s running in the people over the politics political party during a political election.
Also their name is “Master Butler”.
Support soda sales: bring back Prohibition!
Step 1: choose one religion for your national party
Step 2: failed step 1
this is why we’re not doing a prediction market for this election.
sometimes i think no one could be sillier or make worse decisions than percival de rolo but then i remember all the ridiculous things done by actual arthurian knight perceval li gallois in various different versions of the story and just, here is a non-exhaustive list:
- forgot his own name
- found a damsel in distress and stole her ring. when asked she described him to her husband as ‘a strange-looking man’, which is an understatement given that he was wearing armour he made himself out of sticks.
- his unbelievably melodramatic response to a guy not wanting to sell him a horse:
- accidentally sold his soul to a demon in a dream. not to avenge the tragic deaths of his parents and his six brothers, or anything similarly heroic. this is the continuing saga of sir perceval trying to obtain a horse. this time he did technically succeed, but the horse the demon gave him was evil and tried to kill him. it took him a while of ‘this is probably fine and not something i need to give any thought to’ before he even noticed.
- was chosen to have the holy grail revealed to him due to the purity of his soul, which involved many extremely bizarre things happening in the court in front of him, and he was just like ‘… okay. anyway i’m going to bed’ (this broke the world for a while because he was supposed to ask.)
- promised his aunt he’d never have sex and did actually manage to keep that promise, but very nearly fucked the actual devil (this is specific to the grail cycle - in the welsh he does try to seduce a girl, but loses interest the moment she returns his affection. lots of women fall in love with him without him being interested or even necessarily noticing, though, which on one occasion results in him being made emperor of constantinople. he seems a bit confused by this, but not as confused as you’d expect, especially given that frankly he just seems a bit confused all the time.)
- found a wild lion, went ‘hey, my buddy yvain has a pet lion, so probably all lions are friendly’ and decided to cuddle it instead of fighting it (again, this is in the grail cycle. in the welsh ‘peredur’ he kills the lion, because it’s an aggressive wild animal and that is the sensible response.)
- got put in jail for being too attractive. kept escaping to go fight wicked knights, but returned and locked himself back up every time he did, because he’s a Man Of Honour.
- lost a game of chess even though he wasn’t even playing against anyone. threw a tantrum and chucked the board in a lake.
- went adventuring to avoid his responsibilities for ~seven years, leaving his sole surviving sister in charge of the castle he was supposed to be looking after, which resulted in her turning up at various points in different stories going ‘hey guys has anyone seen my useless fucking brother’ (but usually nicer - the welsh ‘ystorya seint greal’ gets points for her being super done with the whole thing and spending half the time criticising arthur so harshly that he starts crying)
- in ‘la queste del saint graal’ when she finally finds him we have this beautiful moment
everyone in arthurian romance is super bad at recognising each other but perceval consistently fails to recognise the surviving members of his family and has to be told who they are every single time. the one exception is ‘perlesvaux’, in which he is famous for constantly disguising himself to avoid his responsibilities. in reality this just means keeping his visor down and bearing different heraldry, but i like to imagine him with a fake moustache and doing a variety of accents.
reblogging this to add some great moments from a needlessly archaic translation of ‘perlesvaux’ and from a middle english ‘sir percyvell of gales’
- his sister’s ‘i love him but GOD he’s stupid’
- lancelot: ‘one time he punched me in the face and it was awesome’ gawain: ‘god i wish that were me’
- straight up stabs a dude, doesn’t realise it’ll kill him. this results in the death of his father and brothers. woops.
- woman gets obsessed with him and decides to cut his head off (he’s a little evil magnet)
- kills a dude and doesn’t even realise. keeps talking to the body. tells it ‘don’t go anywhere’.
- finally figures out the guy’s dead, tries to loot the body, rolls a natural one on the investigation check.
- a very accurate footnote from the editor
- NO MERCY PERCEVAL, holy shit
- this one isn’t actually about perceval but what the fuck
memeception
WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME
@caesarianconfection
I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.
But this… This is something else.
The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.
For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?
….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE
it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here
ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)
this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)
“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)
‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)
and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)
which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)
(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)
I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.
average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted
it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics
I was getting a political compass vibe too
tag urself im man door hand hook car gun
This works better than I thought it would.
This was in my senior project
I’m not sorry.
EIGHT MEME COMBO
FATALITY
The anthropologist in me is thrilled and terrified.
memeception
WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME
@caesarianconfection
I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.
But this… This is something else.
The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.
For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?
….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE
it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here
ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)
this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)
“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)
‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)
and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)
which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)
(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)
I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.
average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted
it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics
I was getting a political compass vibe too
tag urself im man door hand hook car gun
This works better than I thought it would.
This was in my senior project
I’m not sorry.
EIGHT MEME COMBO
FATALITY
The anthropologist in me is thrilled and terrified.
sad story
friend did a crappy torrent of norton antivirus, the program successfully detected itself as a threat and deleted itself during a scan
…this is some greek tragedy level shit
Onetime my computer downloaded a virus antivirus program, and to get rid of it I downloaded a second one off the internet cause I was young and dumb. Long story short my computer froze for a month and finally boots back up and I found out that the two virus programs had actually killed each other in a sort of computer virus hunger games.
Trust no one, not even yourself.
USS Alabama BB-60 on shakedown in the Atlantic, January 1943.
I would like to add that US battleships amid the snow and clear blue skies of the North Atlantic in winter is possibly one of the most powerful images ever.
“Can You Beat Breath of the Wild Without Climbing?” exiting the tutorial cave
… do you think the developers of this game see theses sorts of videos and just sigh
The triumph of the indomitable will of the human spirit
AYE AYE CAPTAIN!
AYE AYE CAPTAIN!
CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!
CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!
CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!
Is this gonna be a thing every 4th of July ?
I think I’m in love with the op’s
I will always reblog this every July 4th.
now in 2018
Happy belated 4th, America
D&D adventure concept: it turns out that the Fairy Queen doesn’t actually do anything with the sparkles-in-your-eyes and memories-of-a-summer’s-day and other sundry intangibles and abstractions she’s been scamming mortals out of for the last few centuries.
Whatever she had planned for them didn’t pan out, but she never ordered her minions to stop collecting them; by the time it became clear that the project was a no-go, expectations had already been set, and when you’re the Queen of the Fairies you can’t very well admit to having a bad idea.
She’s just been discretely dumping them down a disused well for hundreds of years, and the resulting effluvium of spoiled virtue and rotten whimsy has begun to contaminate the drinking water of a human village downstream - which is where the player characters come in.
It probably doesn’t help that half the Fae economy is now built around buying the stuff- every goblin market accepts your happiest childhood moment as legal tender for their dubious merchandise, and since the queen’s made it fashionable, there are fairy nobles who specialize in certain ephemera.
(Everyone’s a little worried about the Baron of Autumn, who specializes in bespoke Orphan’s Tears.)
But no one’s gonna admit that they don’t know what all this collecting is for, they just know that it’s valuable to the Queen.
Oh, god, imagine if the faerie realm catches on that the Queen no longer has any use for such things? Imagine the faerie realm undergoing an economic collapse!
I’m not gonna say “player characters start out investigating tainted well, end up being responsible for Fairy Realm’s equivalent of collapse of the gold standard” is specifically where I was going with this, but it’s definitely amongst the several possible outcomes I had in mind.
I’m writing notes so hard right now.
“Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is a war crime.”
Wait it’s a fucking WAR CRIME?!?! I mean that might not be 100% accurate but now I gotta know
holy crap, collective punishment is a war crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Collective_punishments
and according to the exact legal phrasing-
No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
This technically counts, as students are civilians, and thus considered a “protected person”. So yes, collective classroom punishment breaks the fourth Geneva Convention, and she should be rewarded for standing up for human rights and doing her research.
Power-move: accuse your teacher of a war crime using knowledge they supplied you with
Concept: a D&D campaign that takes the game’s “most monsters are intelligent and capable of speech so that high-Charisma PCs can fast-talk them” conceit to its logical conclusion and turns every quest into a courtroom drama. Like, the local innkeeper wants those giant spiders chased out of her basement, but the spiders are claiming adverse possession on the basis that she hasn’t cleaned the place in literal decades, and now you’ve got to figure out how squatter’s rights apply to cave-dwelling arthropods.
Later, those same spiders and the animated skeletons from the town graveyard become embroiled in an acrimonious mineral rights dispute after an expansion to the local catacombs uncovers a vein of mythril. They’re very litigious spiders!
When i was like 13 was allowed to use the internet unrestricted for the first time and i spent a lot of time on Runescape. One of the people i talked to on there was this person who had much higher levels than me in every skill and had, to my perception, a seemingly overflowing amount of game resources. One day i was taking about wishing i could get gold ore to level my smithing and not having access to any and they like “here, you can have this gold that i have” and just gave me this big stack and i was like “i don’t even have anything to offer back”. They told me they didn’t need anything and just wanted to be nice. I said that they didn’t have to and what they told me honestly has stuck with me since, they said “life’s too short to spend it being mean to people” and like it’s such a simple thing to say but combined with their actions and the weight they bore to me at the time was hugely influential on my outlook on life and the way i treat others. I don’t know who that person is but they changed my life that day and I’m so thankful to them.
high level MMO-ers are either the nicest people on earth or the spawn of Satan there is no in between
Runescape was a big part of my formative years for better or worse. Age twelve left me impressionable at best and the free lobster this guy gave me one day just stuck with me. We fished together for days on end and we talked about our parents and stuff. If you’re out there NinjaKirby69 I miss you buddy.
I forgot to type it up yesterday but one of my best experiences didn’t even involve me. It was when my younger sister, Runescape user cooldudetha, crashed the steel market single-handedly out of sheer boredom.
I need to know this story
So if you’re not aware, Runescape has the Grand Exchange, which is basically a global trade market controlled by supply and demand. It’s an incredible system, and deserves a lot of commendation.
Well one day back in…I think Summer between 2010-2012? my younger sister and I had nothing to do but play Runescape in our free time. I did what all aspiring heroes do, I was happy to go out and commit mass goblin murder. My sister was more creative. At first she went to train Smithing in Al Kharid, which is this desert area with easy access to iron, coal, a player bank, and a smelter. So basically she made craploads of steel for hours on end for like a week. But then she realized she had nothing to do with the steel. She could go find a smith with an anvil and train Smithing further, but that was boring since she’d already been grinding forever. So she went to the Grand Exchange and sold it all.
Thousands of units of steel ingots.
And it sold like immediately, since there was always a large amount of people training Smithing at the level they could use steel.
Obviously she became fabulously wealthy and didn’t know what to do with her newfound wealth. But since she spent a lot of time at the Exchange, she knew basically how the market worked. I’m not 100% sure on what the thought process was for her, but she essentially realized a basic economic principle: If she could control the supply and demand for steel she could accelerate her profit margins.
So like any reasonable 12-14 year old, she bought out about twice as much steel as she sold. Flooding the market had almost halved the price, and she now was both the supply and demand. Of course, as a result of some mystery person buying tons of steel, the price went up again. So she went and sold it at the higher price. She spent about another week or two playing Carnegie before it got old and she retired to Lumbridge with fat stacks of gold and the finest armor money could buy (but she couldn’t wear due to low Defense level).
I found out from a friend later who was part of one of the big trade guilds that the big market guilds were all pissed that somehow the steel market had crashed, skyrocketed, then crashed in quick succession for no goddamn reason and all of them had lost thousands of coins in the process.
My favorite thing about this is that it validates my entire Master’s Degree. This. This is how games can develop incidental learning and teach kids valuable lessons. This 12 year girl figured out, and manipulated, a free market economy because she was bored. She was able to recognize, understand and utilize a fundamental principal of economics to entertain herself.
*Insert scene of the Air-Cav bringing in a napalm strike from Apocalypse Now*