If You Lived Here You'd Be Home

Age: 30 Gender: Male.

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[leftcosine]

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

[ultramaddie]

when it happens, there will be a crab rave like no other

[ultramaddie]

every day i ask the crabs “is now the time?”

and every day the crabs sadly reply with a negative

[edgebug]

[piranya]

[edgebug]

[luxiomahariel]

[mrtoptenlist]

In this video, we look at the HOTTEST Yugioh monsters! What do we mean by that? Well, I could just not tell you, but you probably know my sense of humor and are expecting a bunch fire monsters, and you'd be right!

[charlesoberonn]

Art by u/reachling

[schistcity]

overwatch is a silly piece of shit on its best days but its continued insistence that magic is real but only in japan is especially hysterical

[schistcity]

hanzo and genji have haunted their hodgepodge of a narrative since 2016 with unambiguously magic powers in a soft-SF setting that went out of its way to conceptualise bogus technology like hard-light and biotics in order to fit its weirdness into some kind of "science" category. the fact they then didn't extend that consideration to hanzo and genji? they just left them as is? as witches? as fate-touched human vessels of ancient dragon spirits?? if genji wasn't a cyborg they could feasibly be minor sekiro bosses and that's weird dude!! and then kiriko gets released?? and these people had all the years in between ow1 and ow2 to find a way to hand-wave whatever weird shamanistic magic they accidentally let get into the game, and instead they make the only other japanese character a fucking spirit vessel as well. they doubled down. magic IS REAL in overwatch but ONLY on the BEAUTIFUL ISLANDS OF JAPAN, and no it's never ever going to be addressed because overwatch has as much coherent story as a themed puzzle page on the back of a kids cereal box. hysterical.

[lafortis]

this also extends to the ability to wall climb

[schistcity]

overwatch said if you are japanese you can do the following:

contain within you ancient spirit magic with powerful destructive and/or restorative capabilities

parkour

[pmd-stardust]

forgetting the fact that being a buddhist also gives you magic powers

zenyatta is specifically a civilian chassis but he can become invulnerable and throw balls at you

[pmd-stardust]

the point of overwatch is to say shinto-buddhism is the only correct religion i think

[jedi-kat-18]

Tbh I think they should triple down and make Cassidy's Deadeye ability a legit supernatural power he got from a deal with the Devil.

[excentricanthropologist]

[demilypyro]

Marcille is so funny to me. she's such a bait and switch. when we're first introduced to her you see this cute girl who's totally distraught at everything Laios does and you think she's gonna be the tropey token girl in the party who does the healing and stays out of the fights and has to be the designated Team Mom. but that's not Marcille at all. she's only on healing duty because Falin isn't around. she's a frontline attacker and she's constantly thinking about murder and explosions.

dungeon meshi really said "so there's this incredibly powerful black mage whose signature spell is "explode your skull" and she loves necromancy and is wanted in 5 countries. she can heal in a pinch but when she does it, it hurts, because there isn't a gentle bone in her body" and then she looks like this. i love her so much

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

She's also, and this is vitally important as well, such a loser. Powerful necromancer and battle mage sure, but still an absolute and total failgirl loser, and we love that for her

[crabussy]

wow I love to sit crosslegged without moving for several hours straight!

[crabussy]

okay time to straighten my legs man I'm so excited

[crabussy]

I f eel like a suit of armour that was attacked by a welder

[crabussy]

I am nineteen years old

[crabussy]

I am so sorry I just turned 20 I hope you can forgive me

[crabussy]

. yeah okay true I did do that

[stabbydragon]

"Love/sex is what makes us human" Wrong. It's the obsession with rectangles. look around you and count the number of rectangles you see.

[prokopetz]

While it is generally agreed that the folkloric figures of "Link" and "Princess Zelda" are based on real historical individuals, neither those individuals nor their respective myth-cycles were contemporary, being separated in time by nearly two hundred years, with each initially being the protagonist of their own body of tales.

When the two myth-cycles were fused by later chroniclers to produce the combined Link-Zelda cycle which is familiar to audiences today, the figure of Link assumed the role of overall protagonist. Securing Zelda's freedom from captivity is often inserted as a secondary objective into episodes which were originally Link tales, while Link typically subsumes most or all of Zelda's role in episodes which were originally Zelda tales.

In many cases, the Link-Zelda version is the only iteration of a given episode which survives, so determining which tales were originally part of which precursor cycle is not without controversy; however, the repetitive nature of the perils which preclude Zelda's active participation in many episodes – kidnapped, possessed, sealed in enchanted crystal, etc. – may offer some clues.

(The Gamelon saga represents the the largest known body of Zelda tales which are believed to have persisted in more or less their original form. Linguistic analysis suggests that the episode in which Link is revealed to have been trapped in a heretofore-unmentioned magic mirror the entire time is a clumsy interpolation by a later author, inserted to justify the saga's inclusion in the broader Link-Zelda cycle.)

[firefly-factory]

[tobiasdrake]

The very first Legend of Zelda was itself a Zelda legend, hence its title. It was also one of the first to be adapted to the contemporary Link-Zelda structure of the myths. The introduction of Link into this myth was shoddy and introduced a number of inconsistencies.

For example, it's said that Link is a wanderer from afar who rescues Impa from Moblins but when he arrives in Hyrule, he has to take the place of the unarmed and inexperienced Princess Zelda. And so this allegedly experienced warrior who just killed a bunch of Moblins arrives in Hyrule without so much as a sword in hand.

Similarly, the original myth featured Zelda assembling the Triforce of Wisdom, the only force that could stand against the Triforce of Power in Ganon's possession. Because it was the first to be adapted, there were concerns about disempowering Zelda by replacing her entirely with Link. As a result, a strange compromise was struck; One in which Zelda, after assembling the Triforce, then immediately broke it back down into its component pieces and re-hid them for Link to find.

By contrast, The Adventure of Link, true to its name, is the first Link legend. The importing of Zelda into it as the sleeping princess that Link awakens from her long slumber proved to be just as clunky as the importing of Link into The Legend of Zelda. Most notably, the confusing questions raised as to whether Zelda is meant to be the princess Link rescued in his previous adventure or the one he is rescuing in this new one.

Similarly, Zelda's nemesis Ganon is roped into Adventure of Link very awkwardly. Link's nemesis is his own dark shadow, with only a scant few mentions of the idea that Link's defeat will somehow result in Ganon returning... just because.

But the largest and most consequential of adaptations made to The Adventure of Link is the revising of the magic scepter Link uses to awaken the Sleeping Princess into the Triforce of Courage, a modern invention meant to tie Link more closely to Zelda and Ganon's mythos.

And this is where the study of the legends' history becomes rocky, as many scholars consider the very notion that the Triforce of Courage did not exist in the original tales to be downright apocryphal.

[daja-the-hypnokitten]

We also can see the shoehorning of Zelda into Link's Oracle Saga, where instead of having 2 unrelated adventures, Ganon's minions form a superficial bridge between the two stories to introduce peril to Zelda - Zelda's presence or lack thereof has no significant impact on either story

And there are some distinct quirks to the Gamelon cycle that argue for the presence of syncretic merging of the Zelda in the tales we know with a similar legend from another culture. As does the difference between the Triforce of Wisdom, her sometimes status as a Sage, and the Sacred Power/Light Force/etc power that has different names in different legends.

But it's an interesting pairing of a Celestial legend (Zelda) with a Cthonic one (Link) - after all, how many of the stories that clearly are originally Link tales involve another world? I submit as evidence the presence of stories such as Link to the Past and Majora's Mask; even in the Era of Twlight cycle, we see a previous version of Link resurrected as a shade.

On the flip side, the Era of the Sky gives us Zelda as explicitly, canonically a reincarnation of the Goddess Hylia; whether this was part of the original mythos, or an evolution of why she has the Sacred Power of light in her bloodline is unclear to me. But Skyward Sword was clearly, originally, a Zelda story - after all, Link spends the entire tale chasing after Zelda.

[karaloza]

Skyward Sword cannot possibly have been a Zelda tale, because it clearly follows the ur-pattern of the Legend of Link, wherein Link meets three challenges (usually associated with the colors green, red, and blue) and is rewarded with his principal sword, with which he is then able to meet some number of additional challenges before defeating his foe.* However, it is highly likely that in the original iteration, it was Hylia and not Zelda whom Link sought. Skyward Sword has many hallmarks of being a later expression of the Link cycle, including themes of enlightenment and spiritual transcendence that are very different from the simple physical violence of the earlier expressions. Link's quest for Hylia is a quest for the essence of divinity itself.

Current research seems to indicate that the oldest extant version of the Link tale is the one labeled Wind Waker, which clearly dates to the Hylians' Seafaring/Exploration period, before they settled in the land which they named Hyrule (the legend-within-a-legend wherein Hyrule is sunk under the sea can be attributed to a later admixture of elements from other versions of the Link cycle, or other mythologies entirely). There is of course a Zelda figure in Wind Waker, but for the first half of the tale she is identified as Tetra, a very different character indeed! There is speculation that most of the "Zeldas" in confirmed Link stories were actually Tetra, his original female companion, before she was overwritten as Zelda when the two mythologies were merged.

* Linguistic scholars believe "Ganon" to derive from the Hylian root dialect word gann, which simply translates as "enemy" or "opposition." There is no reason to suppose that every instance of "Ganon" or "Ganondorf" in the tales refers to the same entity!

[prokopetz]

While identifying Tetra with Zelda is of course the product of later revision, the revelation that Tetra is herself a princess may not be.

As previously noted, descent into a mystical Underworld – often, but not always, explicitly identified with the realm of the dead – is a common element of Link tales. This descent is frequently paired with an encounter and subsequent rivalry or alliance (often one, then the other) with that realm's queen. In particular, the motif of Link forming an early alliance with a mysterious young woman who later proves to be the Underworld realm's queen-in-exile is not found only here; consider, for example, the (admittedly divisive) Twilight saga. Indeed, if we accept the identification of the Skyward saga's desolate surface realm with such an Underworld, the revelation of Link's childhood sweetheart as a mortal incarnation of the goddess Hylia arguably fits this mould!

(Of course, as the earliest versions of the Wind Waker saga are presently lost, any conclusions regarding exactly how this trope was introduced to the tale are unavoidably speculative. In the absence of further discoveries, whether Tetra was originally simply a young pirate lord who acquired her Underworld-queen attributes in the process of being fused with Zelda, or whether she was already queen-in-exile of a very different Underworld which was later replaced with a fallen Hyrule to justify her identification with Zelda must remain an open question.)

[rlyehtaxidermist]

Ganondorf is consistently depicted with Gerudo features, even when the Gerudo are otherwise featured as allies to Link and/or Zelda. "Ganondorf" likely arose from early Hylian words for the Gerudo, rendered roughly as geldarm or geldman, fused with the aforementioned gann; a plausible intermediate being "ganngeldar".

The Ganondorf figure likely incorporates a number of Gerudo leaders from early Hylian-Gerudo conflicts, who may have been the original antagonists of the Link tales before being fused into the Zelda mythos. The specific epithet Dragmire is recorded as a title claimed by the Gerudo warlord Ludfo after a series of victories against Hylian forces during the Ridgelands War.

While Ganondorf typically transforms wholly into Ganon for a final confrontation, this is likely a latter addition to incorporate the Ganon figure as an abstract "enemy". In earlier tellings, Ganondorf's role likely ended with his defeat and either imprisonment or exile.

Older stories in the cycle cast the Gerudo as monolithic enemies or even inhuman, as the geldarm of A Link to the Past; the emergence of a singular Ganondorf figure is also accompanied by more sympathetic (or at least more human) Gerudo. It's likely a number of these Ganondorf stories were coopted by the Naboorid dynasty after the Gerudo unification to legitimise their rule versus a perceived past wickedness.

[podplease]

Strong Bad got invited to be on Hot Ones but declined because of his dearly held belief that ones should be cold

[vamptits]

they want you to make fried rice

[memser]

who is "they"

[vamptits]

the wok left

[solongandthanksforallthefish42]

how am I supposed to make fried rice if the wok left

[6qubed]

skillet issue

[lesausageperson]

super sentai is like this

[veryberryskye]

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.

[the-stew-goblin]

I shall prepare a stew for the wedding! Extra salt!

[veryberryskye]

wait wait wait stew goblin wait

[peachdelta]

get ready for the wedding

[dorothylarouge]

[funfey]

You are not staying in the tags

[yamada-ryo]

So it turns out the windows 11 'shut down' button no longer shuts down the computer entirely. I know this because task manager snitched on the runtime. So I shut it down and turn the main switch off and guess what happened on the next boot. American Megatrends. How the hell does windows 11 even manage to fuck up shutting down

[yamada-ryo]

Apparently it fucked with my bios settings? Now I can't even run my emulator.

[yamada-ryo]

This shit was NOT set to off before. This OS is a virus that fucks with your system. And not in a good way.

[switch-to-linux]

I have a suggestion

[h-nry]

[aeori-o]

For anyone who has any modern Windows PC: This has actually been broken since Windows 7! Maybe 8, I don't remember, I just remember being the exact same level of horrified as OP when I finally noticed an 'up time' of like three hundred some odd hours on my old PC despite it having been shut off regularly. Anyway.

The usual culprit of Windows not "fully" shutting down is "Fast Start Up" being turned on (which was and is "on" by default, because it does help a slow computer or a computer with a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) start up faster). Anyone with a modern Windows PC running an SSD as your boot drive should turn this off. The computer not fully shutting down can lead to weird compounded errors. So please follow along!

Type "power options" into your search bar and click the result, should look like this:

Which should open this:

Now we're going to back up to "Power Options" by clicking that in the upper bar or hitting "Cancel" on the bottom right. Now you should be here:

On the left hit "Choose what the power buttons do". Now you should be here:

Ignore the power button thing, but if your "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" is still on then turn it off! If yours is also greyed out make sure to hit that little blue thing with the shield near the top that says "Change settings that are currently unavailable" and then turn it off. Remember to hit "Save changes". Now your computer should fully shut off!

If you don't know how to check your "up time" to even know if this is a problem for you the easiest way to check is in the task manager. In the "performance" tab under your CPU at the bottom it will have an "Up time" like this:

(No comment on the SVM mode randomly disabling itself, it may or may not be related to this. I've never made use of and therefore never paid attention to mine and a lot of people aren't going to have it because that's AMD and while it's been more popular lately Intel is still really big out there. AMDs known to be quirky though (I say this as an AMD user) so who even knows what happened there.)

I know the post became memeing on windows but this can cause actual issues on modern hardware so figured I'd hijack in case it helps someone out. (It's something I have forgotten to check in the PCs I've helped friends make recently so I'm now having a "wuh oh" moment wondering if quirks one of them has been exhibiting is related to this.)

[hunter-rodrigez]

Windows 11 suddenly disabled the trackpad and keyboard of my Laptop. Never happened before, turns out it was caused by Quick start, but not the quick-start you set in the bios, but the Quick start hiding behind this:

Why the fuck is this setting so hidden? Quick start doesn't even make the computer boot up any faster, at least not in any noticeable way, and it's notorious for causing a bunch of stupid problems.

[feral-seraph]

Yeah, this was introduced in Windows 8, to make their new fancy OS look better on slower computers (it didn't work). Though I will say that the BIOS settings reverting is more likely to be caused by unplugging your PC from the wall, not a fault of Windows.

When I worked as a computer tech we had a metaphor for this.

"It's like a plumber or a painter not packing up their work at the end of the day, saying "good enough" and coming back to clean up tomorrow." Leaves a mess, and only saves seconds.