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[iamrootusr]

Out of Context Quotes from a Power Ranger's Horror TTRPG

Yes, you read that correctly. I joined a FATE Accelerated TTRPG, where the campaign premise is "Power Rangers, but Real Consequences".

"No Types of Butler Uniform are Pink with Gold Etching" - Evil DM

"She's not stronger than she is pretty… but she is really damn pretty." - Evil DM

"It's Morphing Time.. I guess." - the (now) Orange Ranger

"YOU HIT ME? I'm going to MURDER you!" - The Villain (Evil DM)

"Kinda a disproportionate response…" - Blue Ranger

"It's kinda like a pointy crutch attached to your face" - Evil DM

"God, are there ever days when you decide to stop being a bitch?" - The Pink Swan Ranger - Me "Yes, the days when you decide to kneel at my feet." - The Villain

"Ok, spend one from your Pool of Mysterious Consequences." - Evil DM

"When I told you to take the stick out of your ass, I didn't mean for you to beat me with it!" - Pink Swan "… Congratulations, you have reached Minor Annoyance status." - Villain (Evil GM) "…that doesn't need to go on the Quote Board." - Evil DM

"I am strong I am tough i am CRYING." - Pink Ranger

Player 3: "AAAAUUUUGGH" Evil DM: "That is an accurate statement."

"I would say my snarking worked to our advantage, because although I have shards of helmet in my face, it allowed you to get the drop on her." - Pink Swan Ranger We're bird-themed power rangers. One of them is Hummingbird themed. "Do I hum when I fly" was misheard as "am I hung when I fly" by the Evil DM.

[kstarlitchaotics]

The daughter of the late Jason David Frank wearing her father's Power Rangers outfit ✨⚡

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the garlic. it beckons you

[thesweetestsupervillains]

It occurs to me that "1920s gangster doing a cooking show while holding you at gunpoint" is an untapped market.

We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.

[iamrootusr]

Out of Context Quotes from a Power Rangers Horror-themed TTRPG Pt. 11

And we're back! Our quote board's filled up again, so here's the latest sillies from the Fate Accelerated Power Rangers horror-themed TTRPG I'm in.

"<grumble grumble fashion noises>" - Sabrina, our Grey Enaurë Ranger

“Are there…” ky why do you make me say these things “MORE bitches?” - Antoine, our White Dove Ranger

"The coolest rangers do violence to their friends," - Sabrina

"I'm not a pez dispenser of knowledge," - Ky, talking about Tommy Oliver.

"Mentor #7 is S(h)ean Connery, He wants us to give it 150 pershent." - Sabrina

"You don't even know what it does! You never loved Pointy Stick the way [she] does!" - The Evil GM

"Congratulations, you have overwhelmed Antarctica." - The Evil GM "Thought too complex, has exceeded three brain cells." - The Evil GM "I knew I should've drawn him with four!" - Sabrina

"Rebel early and often, because wisdom is just mistakes with bandaids~" - Kyra, the Pink Swan/Caladrius Ranger

"We have a hot head fire bruiser archetype, a cold foil to the firy one who seems to have a large amount of skill but less raw talent, a nerdy and slightly pervy tech guy, a empotional center to the team who has weird powers, a “do it all” leader who is pulled in a million different direction and a new person struggling to find their way onto the team dispite them being extreamly inviting who is traumatized by their (not so) mysterious past and compensating through over preforming bluster and confidence." - Antoine

"I'm afraid that her magic is, in fact, OSHA-compliant." - Kyra

"You can do it!" - Sabrina ( Audrey, Red Phoenix Ranger, rolls dice, gets a -3) "You can't do it!" Sabrina, just as cheerily

"Antonie, chill!" <looks at ice around them> "Wrong choice of words, but-!" - Kyra

"I was not expecting to make a Rob backshot joke this session." - Ky "The odds of you talking about Rob getting backshots is low, but never fully zero. I call it the Rob Backshot Theorem." - Audrey

“Chekhov’s licked ferret.” - Audrey

"Oxytocin! Not OxyContin!" - Kyra to Audrey about the right happy chemical

"OK, out of every character I have with you how many of you would be surprised if I OR my character bit the respective big bad?" - Antoine Other players: <various sounds of unsurprise or agreement> "Thank you so very much my dear for defining the principle of FAFO for posterity." - The Evil GM

"do not eat the rock" "...for any definition of eat." "...or rock" - The Evil GM, exasperated with the Avians for accurately portraying teenagers once again.

"If the Power Protects You from Evil, it better also protect you from kicks to the balls. That would just be freaking petty of It." - Evil GM

"Look, a lot of Blues have a pocket dimension. But do any of them have a Glock?"

"This is the time, this is the place, fuck this bitch to her face!" - Kyra "IS THAT A WITCHCRAFT INVOCATION?!" - The Evil GM

"You know, I'm going to do the smart thing, not the dumb thing." - Quinn, our Orange Hummingbird/Simurgh Ranger "Interesting choice." - Audrey, skeptically

"Has Quinn not given you his pamphlet?" - Evil GM

“Ah I see. You’re suffering post-nut clarity by proxy.” - Kyra

"We have spent the last 3 sessions telling you that you are loved and cherished. Get loved and cherished, bitch." - An Ocean Ranger (Bo)

"Heh heh he-BELLCH" - Kyra

"Luckily we won't have another Ice Bitch on our hands, just a regular bitch." - Audrey

"Excellent sitting in a rock soundbite. Moving on~" - The Evil GM "This would be a good time to know ASL." - Kyra "Ah, yes. Because rocks signing is much more plausible than rocks talking." - The Evil GM "Rocks would not have telepathy." - Quinn

“I am presumably carrying something I can set on fire.” - Kyra “You are on a boat!” - Ethan

“I do often try to use spells in creative ways. Sometimes those ways even follow the rules!” - Kyra

"Looming heroically, not homoerotically." - Quinn

"If you beat a dead horse enough times..." - Quinn "It'll eventually stop reading your mind?" - Sabrina "The mind horse is a powerful creature." - Audrey

“Dinner is not a badged event!” - NPC

"This is your circus! We are indeed your monkeys!" - Kyra

"To one sufficiently wise, the greatest division is not that between the Light and the Dark; it is that between the Coffee and the Tea." - The Evil GM

"If mind is still made out of meat instead of magic sparkles, do not mindlink the volcano." - The Evil GM

"Welcome to our Clusterfuck!" - Kyra

"I claim no responsibility for my tags ethical shortcomings" - Ethan

"Hello, your royal quackness." - Kyra

"I have Swords of Damocles hanging all around my head in a circle, but the spot right over my head is free, so if I just don't move I'm fine!" - Ethan

"He's a boomer..." - Audrey, with horror, describing Zordon

"He has object permenance. He can tell if an item's just appeared in front of him." - GM

"Within you are two wolves. One has big fuck you energy. The other has different big fuck you energy. You are a Rebel Ranger." - The Evil GM

[nora-runs-games]

I'm so proud of us ^v^

-orange ranger dab-

[iamrootusr]

We truly are the best little chaos gremlins.

[iamrootusr]

Out of Context Quotes from a Power Rangers Horror-themed TTRPG Pt. 11

And we're back! Our quote board's filled up again, so here's the latest sillies from the Fate Accelerated Power Rangers horror-themed TTRPG I'm in.

"<grumble grumble fashion noises>" - Sabrina, our Grey Enaurë Ranger

“Are there…” ky why do you make me say these things “MORE bitches?” - Antoine, our White Dove Ranger

"The coolest rangers do violence to their friends," - Sabrina

"I'm not a pez dispenser of knowledge," - Ky, talking about Tommy Oliver.

"Mentor #7 is S(h)ean Connery, He wants us to give it 150 pershent." - Sabrina

"You don't even know what it does! You never loved Pointy Stick the way [she] does!" - The Evil GM

"Congratulations, you have overwhelmed Antarctica." - The Evil GM "Thought too complex, has exceeded three brain cells." - The Evil GM "I knew I should've drawn him with four!" - Sabrina

"Rebel early and often, because wisdom is just mistakes with bandaids~" - Kyra, the Pink Swan/Caladrius Ranger

"We have a hot head fire bruiser archetype, a cold foil to the firy one who seems to have a large amount of skill but less raw talent, a nerdy and slightly pervy tech guy, a empotional center to the team who has weird powers, a “do it all” leader who is pulled in a million different direction and a new person struggling to find their way onto the team dispite them being extreamly inviting who is traumatized by their (not so) mysterious past and compensating through over preforming bluster and confidence." - Antoine

"I'm afraid that her magic is, in fact, OSHA-compliant." - Kyra

"You can do it!" - Sabrina ( Audrey, Red Phoenix Ranger, rolls dice, gets a -3) "You can't do it!" Sabrina, just as cheerily

"Antonie, chill!" <looks at ice around them> "Wrong choice of words, but-!" - Kyra

"I was not expecting to make a Rob backshot joke this session." - Ky "The odds of you talking about Rob getting backshots is low, but never fully zero. I call it the Rob Backshot Theorem." - Audrey

“Chekhov’s licked ferret.” - Audrey

"Oxytocin! Not OxyContin!" - Kyra to Audrey about the right happy chemical

"OK, out of every character I have with you how many of you would be surprised if I OR my character bit the respective big bad?" - Antoine Other players: <various sounds of unsurprise or agreement> "Thank you so very much my dear for defining the principle of FAFO for posterity." - The Evil GM

"do not eat the rock" "...for any definition of eat." "...or rock" - The Evil GM, exasperated with the Avians for accurately portraying teenagers once again.

"If the Power Protects You from Evil, it better also protect you from kicks to the balls. That would just be freaking petty of It." - Evil GM

"Look, a lot of Blues have a pocket dimension. But do any of them have a Glock?"

"This is the time, this is the place, fuck this bitch to her face!" - Kyra "IS THAT A WITCHCRAFT INVOCATION?!" - The Evil GM

"You know, I'm going to do the smart thing, not the dumb thing." - Quinn, our Orange Hummingbird/Simurgh Ranger "Interesting choice." - Audrey, skeptically

"Has Quinn not given you his pamphlet?" - Evil GM

“Ah I see. You’re suffering post-nut clarity by proxy.” - Kyra

"We have spent the last 3 sessions telling you that you are loved and cherished. Get loved and cherished, bitch." - An Ocean Ranger (Bo)

"Heh heh he-BELLCH" - Kyra

"Luckily we won't have another Ice Bitch on our hands, just a regular bitch." - Audrey

"Excellent sitting in a rock soundbite. Moving on~" - The Evil GM "This would be a good time to know ASL." - Kyra "Ah, yes. Because rocks signing is much more plausible than rocks talking." - The Evil GM "Rocks would not have telepathy." - Quinn

“I am presumably carrying something I can set on fire.” - Kyra “You are on a boat!” - Ethan

“I do often try to use spells in creative ways. Sometimes those ways even follow the rules!” - Kyra

"Looming heroically, not homoerotically." - Quinn

"If you beat a dead horse enough times..." - Quinn "It'll eventually stop reading your mind?" - Sabrina "The mind horse is a powerful creature." - Audrey

“Dinner is not a badged event!” - NPC

"This is your circus! We are indeed your monkeys!" - Kyra

"To one sufficiently wise, the greatest division is not that between the Light and the Dark; it is that between the Coffee and the Tea." - The Evil GM

"If mind is still made out of meat instead of magic sparkles, do not mindlink the volcano." - The Evil GM

"Welcome to our Clusterfuck!" - Kyra

"I claim no responsibility for my tags ethical shortcomings" - Ethan

"Hello, your royal quackness." - Kyra

"I have Swords of Damocles hanging all around my head in a circle, but the spot right over my head is free, so if I just don't move I'm fine!" - Ethan

"He's a boomer..." - Audrey, with horror, describing Zordon

"He has object permenance. He can tell if an item's just appeared in front of him." - GM

"Within you are two wolves. One has big fuck you energy. The other has different big fuck you energy. You are a Rebel Ranger." - The Evil GM

[herainsorcia]

[fox-bright]

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[your-dads-filing-cabinet]

@/teaboot

[teaboot]

This isn't even a joke it's just what we do

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

[copperbadge]

I was innocently buying a soda and a Kit Kat bar from a snack shop recently when the cashier said, "Oh, a Kit Kat! That's what I named my cat!" and then launched into An Monologue.

Nobody was behind me in line, which seemed to be a good reason for her to treat me to a five minute retelling of the identification, rescue, and argument over initial custody of Kit Kat, who was so small they thought when they first heard him crying for help that he was a bird and not a kitten in a tree, and is now fifteen pounds of "pure, sculpted lardass".

And I didn't mind, precisely, I wasn't bored or anything, but around the time she was bringing me up to speed on Kit Kat's current status it occurred to me that this woman is a cashier in a store that primarily sells candy bars and beverages. People must buy Kit Kat bars from her multiple times a day. Does she do this every time there's nobody in line behind the purchaser? Did I just have that I Own Several Cats And Will Enjoy Your Cat Stories look about me? Was it the first time it occurred to her that she sold the brand of candy bar she named her cat after? Was she new to the job of selling Kit Kat bars?

The idea that every time she sees a Kit Kat bar she is gripped by the urge, Manchurian Candidate style, to retell the story of Kit Kat the Cat, elevates her from a friendly cashier to a deep enigma. Truly there is no knowing the mind of another.

[copperbadge]

IT GETS FUNNIER

I was in the same snack shop, which I'm in, like, once a month, recently. I only recognized her because I spent five minutes listening to this monologue in sincere wonder. But I did recognize her, so as I was buying a soda and a Milky Way bar (this time) I said, without thinking about how this would come across, "Hey, how's Kit Kat?"

She looked genuinely horrified and said, "What...how?"

"Oh fuck!" I blurted. "Sorry! You told me about him last time!"

This is still quite cryptic as responses go but she gave me a frankly frantic look of sudden recognition and said, "He's fine! You bought a Kit Kat! I was unmedicated!"

I did not inform her she is small town famous on Tumblr and instead just said, "Glad you're both doing well!" and we parted as confused and mortified friends.

Gosh she's fun. I hope she's there next time. I want to reenact the Spiderman Pointing meme with her.

[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

[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

[patricia-taxxon]

i love explaining the etymology of the word "rickroll" because the story starts with "ok, so at one point 4chan applied a filter to everyone's posts that changed the word egg to duck"

[maple-cloak]

[wrenanigans]

[croaksac]

grandfather....

[twiststreet]

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

Edited down a long tweet. (x)

[starrieslight]

Here's the link to the actual paper, in case someone wants to read the whole thing

[scribefindegil]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the magic ratio for ganache (a firm one, such as you would use to make truffles or enrobe a cake) is 1 tablespoon of heavy cream per one ounce of chocolate. Chop the chocolate (or use chips), then boil the cream, immediately pour it over the chocolate, and whisk until smooth. People get so impressed whenever I make ganache but it is literally so easy. When it's freshly made you can dip fruit or cookies in it or use it to fill doughnuts, and if you let it cool and harden somewhat you can roll spoonfuls into balls to make truffles or use it as a filling for sandwich cookies. Also if you're feeling gremlinous you can just eat it with a spoon.

[scribefindegil]

Important addendum I discovered last year: the above is the magic ratio specifically if you are using dark chocolate (which I always was because it's my favorite). The process is the same, but for milk chocolate the ratio is 1 tablespoon of heavy cream per 1.5oz of chocolate and for white chocolate it's 1 tablespoon of heavy cream per 2oz of chocolate. This is because milk and white chocolate have less chocolate per chocolate so they behave differently. Now you know. Go forth and make delicious ganaches.

[homunculus-argument]

I think it would be funny to write a murder mystery where not only did every single character involved have an obvious motive to kill this mf, they were actually all attempting to murder him first, but the murder attempts all cancelled each other out all except for one. Two people tried to poison him but the poisons just happen to work as antidotes for each other, and instead of killing him only gave him the shits, and due to having the shits he couldn't go hunting that day like he had planned, foiling the plans of the one who had conditioned his favourite hunting horse to panic and bolt at the cue of a whistle, and the other murder attempt of tampering with his gun so that it would have exploded his whole face off.

The whole mystery isn't about who could have done it or how, but who was the one who got lucky and actually succeeded.

[terriwriting]

Sherlock Holmes and The Case of Perhaps We'd Best Leave This One Alone, Watson. There Appears To Be An Excess Of Armed Maniacs In The Vicinity.

[copperbadge]

When I was in high school a friend of mine would host murder mystery dinners once or twice a year. They were the kind you could buy as a kit -- I don't even know if they exist anymore -- and everyone was assigned (or chose) a character, then received a booklet of clues to share. The idea was to spend an evening in a one-shot LARP designed like an Agatha Christie novel.

I was a year above most of them at school so they threw a "goodbye" murder mystery for me just before graduation, and about 2/3 of the way through the game we all realized that everyone had at least attempted to kill the victim. The game then shifted from "whodunnit" to "who succeeded in dunninit" which we all felt was not only super fun but above the usual level of narrative complexity for those games.

After we solved it, we discovered that the game wasn't from a kit -- the host had written it herself and meticulously printed out the booklets in replica style of the kits. It was the best going-away party I think I could possibly have had.

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[ladyelainehilfur]

real paramedic x golden retriever firefighter AU energy with this