what to save and throw away?

Juzo-kun a.k.a JK a.k.a matitaelettrica a.k.a 70hz.

[fujokafka]

we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack

[andthelaw]

reblog if you want ppl to send you random lil' asks

[haridraws]

Keep thinking about this Austin Walker post that now lives in my brain. It's a reply to people saying genAI can help creators 'develop concepts' and waste less time on research (x)

. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁ Fuck off and give me the ball . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

[juzo-kun]

Also, plagiarism, considering how these genAI are trained.

[juzo-kun]

I've seen a lot of these "humans are the weird guys of the galaxy" kind of stories and I recalled a scenario. So, humans at last gain FTL drive and start to roam the neigborhood and there are a lot of sentient life on a lot of planets, star trek style. And star trek style a lot of them seems to have origin in the same class (in the cladistic means of the word).

Except humans are the only mammals. Those tall people? Reptiles. These other people? Reptiles. Flying people? Birds, thus originally reptiles. Naga people? Obviously reptiles. The ones that look like turtles? Those too. The dragon-looking ones? Guess!

Basically, everyone on a planet of the same type of Earth seems to be somewhat reptilian in nature. Nearly every single one, with the rare outlier like insect people and yeah, us humans.

And every single one of them is quite wtf at seeing us mammals. Like, big sentient version of those fluffy, rare, small critters that some of them still have on their planets. Some of the most technologically advanced cultures managed to discover how, given more or less the same starting point and a bunch of technobabble, evolution tends to go the same way everywhere.

Until a human scientist talked about that whole meteorite in the cretaceous thing...

[monidoll]

instant loss 2koma

[prokopetz]

The really funny part is that many modern sources that want to gas up Sparta will bring up this specific anecdote, but stop at the "if" and just not mention what happened immediately afterwards.

[elucubrare]

similarly, "μολὼν λαβέ" (come and take them) is a really cool thing to say, made significantly less cool by having them taken

[juzo-kun]

Historian Dr. Bret C. Devereaux made an intensely pedantic (it's in their description after all) and extremely interesting series of articles about how the spartans' fame is quite, uh, misconstrued: This. Isn't. Sparta.

[juzo-kun]

So there's this thing that whenever I switch network on the cellphone Youtube starts to get me some kind of video it didn't before. This time it was the turn of "People from USA commenting on stuff about Europe".

Europe is nearly always treated as an homogeneous entity and not a bunch of countries even more different than, to say, Alaska and Texas and Hawai'i, but usually it's stuff that's fabricated ragebait for the 99% of the times so whatever.

And anyway, I'm not enough in the place to criticize too much, since other than the aforementioned ones and Florida and California and maybe Louisiana my knowledge of USA countries is "somewhat here, I'm not sure"

But this one video had one of the landmarks of my city on the thumbnail, so I watched it. It was a guy from USA playing Geoguessr on Europe.

Mistook Spain and southern Italy. Reasonable.

Photo of a sea harbour: clicked on a obviously landlocked country. ...c'mon, you're not even trying.

Photo with left-side driving cars, blindingly green meadows and a sign with a reasonably known Irish city: clicked on Albania. *flips table*

...and my city wasn't even in the video, umphf.

[juzo-kun]

Age verification?

I wrote my first fanfictions on one of these!

[juzo-kun]

Bah,

I wish the new Marathon having a "ghost" mode/shell for those who can't be arsed to play PvP or PvE and just want to roam around and discover secrets and lore. Anyway I'm on Linux so that is a non starter, I guess.

[juzo-kun]

"Oh, but the combat is the core of the experience!" Well, give me single player, then.

[juzo-kun]

Bah,

I wish the new Marathon having a "ghost" mode/shell for those who can't be arsed to play PvP or PvE and just want to roam around and discover secrets and lore. Anyway I'm on Linux so that is a non starter, I guess.

[niemalsetwas]

protip for when you're feeling helpless or bored: put on the Myst soundtrack and go about your daily routine. suddenly every manual interaction and transition becomes imbued with Potentiality and Gentle Uncanny. excuse me, the dryer stopped and I must descend to the Mysterious Basement to turn dials and buttons upon this Cryptic Machine and solve the puzzle of Socks

[radix-outpost]

Felt like taking yet another pass at Yuriy's armour to try and get it a little closer to the Security Officer's sprites (which is why he suddenly has grey/silver shin guards).

His bomber jacket provides both an extra layer of protection and an easy way to cover up his armour emblem in places where advertising that Durandal is your partner isn't a good idea.

[iapislazuli]

I hate when another car forces you to park terribly but then they leave before you and it’s just like great. Well now my atrocious park job is deprived of context and I look like an asshole

[homunculus-argument]

The paradox of tolerance is only a paradox if you think of tolerance as some sacred and unconditional moral duty. Some ultimate and absolute law with no exceptions, and if you ever slip into the sin of intolerance, you must repent yourself and beg for forgiveness. Yeah no fuck that. Tolerance is a social contract. You're in the game as an equal player for as long as you play by the same rules as everyone else, and if you don't, your ass is fucking out. You're not entitled to the same respect you won't give others.

"Oh so you all tolerate each other just because you tolerate each other, but if I want to destroy you, then all of a sudden you want to destroy me?" Literally yes. That's the gist of it. What's not clicking. This equation is so simple it barely counts as math.

[beka-tiddalik]

"I refuse to sign the social contract if it means I have to be polite to people I don't understand" said the bigot

"Well then you aren't protected by the terms and conditions" says everyone who has signed

[kyraneko]

Tolerance is not a moral precept; it's a peace treaty.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[juzo-kun]

You have to find approximately one million cats on Deep Space Nine. Also, retrogaming.

[juzo-kun]

Sometimes

my fandoms collide in strange ways. In example, the Gallery Theme from URU became the "we're back to Earth" Yamato/Star Blazers's Iscandar Quest soundtrack.

[juzo-kun]

Tackling the player character sprite in Maratoon.

(the last one lacking from this)

[juzo-kun]

Well, well

Seeing a Yamato reference in Kill Six Billions Demons of all the places. (Keeping it not-spoilery just in case.)

[estelles-remade-deactivated2018]

umm i need reassurance that my presence is wanted but i can’t ask for reassurance because that’s really Embarrassing and it wouldn’t feel genuine if i asked for it

[knickknack-hoard]

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted