just a bunch of random junk

[trollprincess]

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

[columboscreens]

[prokopetz]

“So let me get this straight. We’re here to rescue a princess.”

“That’s right.”

“At the request of a princess.”

“Right again.”

“And you, who will be leading the expedition, are also a princess.”

“You’re very perceptive.”

“How big is your royal family, again?“

“We don’t have one.”

“But–“

“We overthrew our monarchy centuries ago, but we kept most of the titles around. The rank of ‘princess’ is held by the directors in charge of various civil service branches.“

“Huh. And the princess we’re rescuing today is in charge of…?”

“Public sanitation.”

“The Lord of Death’s Dominion kidnapped your public sanitation director?”

“We think he’s a little confused.”

[armed-with-knitting-needles]

I laughed too hard not to reblog this.

[teaboot]

I mean. If your goal is to cause maximum death, letting trash, sewage, tainted water, and biohazardous waste pile up in a populated area with zero oversight is a pretty efficient way to go about it

[prokopetz]

See, the idea that taking out the appointed head of the government department in charge of public sanitation oversight would cause the day-to-day business of public sanitation to immediately cease is exactly the sort of confusion we’re talking about here.

[bringingsaxyback]

My favorite part of FMA brotherhood is that before and after the commercial breaks they say “FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST” except since netflix doesn’t have commercial breaks it’s just “fullmetal alchemist FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST”

[prizedshirleytemple]

[voyaging-too]

Austin Walker's new TTRPG is fascinating to me. Realis is built on a strange core mechanic where characters advance by becoming more specialized, and unlike in the average game where specialist skills are added on top of generic skills, here there's a serious trade-off. A weak ability to win fights grows into a medium ability to win swordfights grows into a powerful ability to win swordfights against royal guards. A weak ability to track prey grows into a medium ability to track prey at night grows into a powerful ability to track prey at night on the tundra. Austen talks about how this is partially inspired by Berserk's changes over decades, and how this will encourage players to start with simplistic, archetypal characters, and mold them over time and through play, into something more unique and specific both in gameplay and storytelling terms.

But also this game's core mechanic is literally just about aging, about the beauties and tragedies of aging and hopefully getting good at one thing but losing the chance of getting good at a hundred other things, mastering your life but letting go of other possibilities. Heavy.

[prokopetz]

I think we need to go further actually. Which ttrpg is the best at producing gm burnout?

(With respect to this post here.)

That's a fairly tricky question. As outlined in the linked thread, D&D5E is more prone to produce GM burnout than many systems which are objectively more demanding of the GM's time, energy and skill because of its toxic culture of play. There just aren't a lot of other tabletop RPGs that have both the ubiquity and the right kind of perverse incentives built into their play culture to pull that off – indeed, many of the smaller indie titles lack discernible cultures of play altogether, owing to how fragmented their respective fanbases are – and it's hard to produce GM burnout on the strength of a game's rules alone, because rules alone have no power to compel anyone to do anything. You've gotta get the GM trapped in a dysfunctional social contract to truly fuck them up.

Back in the pre-2000s era, I might have said RIFTS, but these days? It probably is genuinely D&D.

[alpharaposa]

Rifts is a great choice, but I gotta mention GURPS just because it's the only system that I played that caused burnout in the players, too.

But as you mentioned, that was back in the early 2000s.

[prokopetz]

Yeah, GURPS is a great example of a game that used to have a high burnout rate due to a toxic culture of play, but the read I get these days – and I grant that this is an outsider's perspective – is that the GURPS community has mellowed out a lot about insisting that GURPS is genuinely universal, so you don't get nearly as many GMs melting their brains trying to jam clearly unsuitable premises into it now.

[gardengnosticator]

the fact that George "let's murder everyone in the middle east" bush Jr is getting rehabilitated in the public mind as just a bumbling incoherent buffoon and not the bloodthirsty neoconservative warhawk he was and still is is proof that Trump is only like two future presidencies away from being seen in pop culture as a wacky jokester

[hypokeimena]

#Mocking stupid shit w said was a pressure release for being so angry about the horrible shit he was doing #Don't get that turned around. (via @screambirdscreaming)

[cuuno-moved]

does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?

[cuuno-moved]

like theyre in the water and they’re staring off to the side and there’s something so very wrong about it and they’re bending over and trailing along like deer in the headlights but you can’t see what they’re staring at which might make it even scarier

[cuuno-moved]

like this

[cuuno-moved]

I FUCKING FOUND IT.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

beach day beach day

[cuuno-moved]

[cuuno-moved]

by the way, the artist is olivia steen (website linked above) and apparently, her other works are just as breathtakingly eerie

look at this!!! it’s cool as hell!!

[2cupsoforangejuce]

I thought the last one was very familiar to me and turns out it’s painted over a photo of john lennon !

and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo

[estacium]

Not going to lie the first picture like the ghost on the water It kinda is referenced on the one picture where the Beatles are in Miami for the Help! shooting I dont have the picture but it really looks like! Especially the bending ghost resembles Ringo and The other Picture where the ghost is sitting down I also remember so much remember that that picture is Brian Epstein sitting I also don’t have the picture cause I cant fine IT aaaaa HAHAH

[george-actual-harrison]

Now THIS is some fucking forbidden fandom lore lmao

[talking-perfectly-loud]

[talking-perfectly-loud]

ETA THIS IS THE ONE!!!!

[drivenalphabitchpaulmccartney]

[egberts]

what is the POOOOIINNTTTT in turning off reblogs to a good and popular post. I wanna reblog that. it was funny. it's my god given right to reblog. that feature was meant to use from the jump so people didn't reblog your personal shit. yall are just being mean when you see a post start to resonate and then you PULL THE TABLECLOTHHHHH

[undeadhousewife]

Op has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

[egberts]

this is like a vicious siren's call, leading me to a beautiful yet incredibly predictable death

[unclefather]

[theglasscat]

this image is probably the most accurate visual representation of the United States education system

[bolcseszgoblin]

Oh boy.

Do I have a story for you…

So this is the iconic and beloved clock of Moszkva square in Budapest, Hungary. Or more precisely it was.

It was a very popular meeting point for generations.

„2pm on Moszkva, under the clock?” „sure” It was in the middle of the square, so you could see each other pretty easily from anywhere.

When they „renovated” (rebuilt) and renamed the square that is now called Széll Kálmán tér (only by youngsters and tourists who don’t know any better - it will remain for a lot of us „the Moszkva”) the old clock was removed.

So. Removing the clock was very controversial, but it had to go, because someone dreamed about a new shiny one. Here it is. New, and weird and DIGITAL.

The problem is, it stopped working. For days. (you see, fixing it was time-consuming…) And they came and fix it. But it broke down in a couple of days again and again, so the lovely people around helped to fix it. Some of the best solutions:

Graffity: ?Is this a clock? No" and Where is the old clock? Furthermore, on the clock it states that it shows the right time.

An artistic rendition:

But my favorite one is where people got enough of the breaking down abomination, and the heartless people taking down the actually working clocks (it is a very busy square with a lot of public transport connections), and things escalated quickly:

I think this is the most of them we had taped on at once.

The papers state: In memoriam of the unknown time. Rest in Peace

So… I guess, Hungarians do.

[servals-dank-meme-machine]

Image from a bygone age

[transmechanicus]

Kakashi came on short notice from a meeting with the Board of Accounting

[umbralundertaker]

Thats literally fucking naruto what is your problem

[runcibility]

(x)

[biggaybunny]

Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?

[lady-inkyrius]

Posting hole

[lady-inkyrius]

Lol

[metastablephysicist]

yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.

[mythopoeticlicense]

I bet you'd need some high quality copper for that huh?

[6qubed]

not again you mesopotamian son of a bitch

[heavenslittlemachine-deactivate]

it's been almost a decade and so far no feminist thought has been able to provide an adequate response to the simon question

[heavenslittlemachine-deactivate]

the simon question

[endlessmazin]

BeacoNNNundruM

[cryptotheism]

I love that story about showing anime shipgirls to the actual crew of the USS Iowa. That feels like a universal sailor trait. Imagine going back in time to show a bunch of Roman sailors an anime girl version of their trireme. They would go nuts for it.

[cryptotheism]

"Admiral Yi Sun-Sin, in commemoration for your victory, we have drawn this woodblock print of your turtle ships, reimagined as chicks with D-cups and huge canons."

[decayingdarlings]

Here's a screenshot of the story for those curious

[animentality]