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Overthinking it since 2015 🔸 linktr.ee/leftoblique

[berensreverie]

“Resurrection”

[prokopetz]

Yes, you've successfully dodged allegations of monarchism by having the heroic princess decide to abolish the monarchy and institute representative democracy in the last five minutes of the game. Bravo.

Now give us the sequel where every prospective heir in a thousand-mile radius comes out of the woodwork claiming she's not allowed to do that and her actions should simply be construed as abdication, five different people declare themselves King, the nation plunges into civil war, and the ex-princess has to ninja around murdering all of her would-be successors in order to make the transition stick.

[leftoblique]

(Responding to tags on @capriccio-ffxiv's post talking about how this is basically just Nanamo's failed attempt at democracy in Ul'Dah)

The "good guy" city-states in FFXIV:

Plutocracy (nominally a monarchy)

Theocratic ethnostate

Dictatorship (formerly: genocidal)

Military junta

Republic (formerly: theocratic ethnostate)

Monarchy

Monarchy (immortal dragon)

...and the game directly deals with the complexities and dark sides of most of these.

I really liked how Nanamo's attempt to change Ul'Dah into a republic failed; it was very clearly a pipe dream given the moneyed interests involved.

[whitager]

does anyone else who lives in the other 54000 square miles of new york feel a burning resentment towards nyc for being the one and only thing people think of when they think of our state or am i just unwell

[whitager]

drive an hour through any other part of new york once and you will see enough farmland to rival ohio. nyc is so so small and such an outlier

[leftoblique]

The population of the NYC metro area is over 20M. The population of New York state is just under 30M.

Even accounting for the portion of the metro in NJ and PA, basically half the people in NY live in NYC.

Upstate is cool af. But as someone who lived in downstate Illinois for ten years, I was never under any illusion that Illinois wasn't basically Chicago plus a bunch of farms and college towns.

[wine-dark-soup]

YoshiP basically said "The update will make everyone look better. Maybe even enough for Magnai to find his Nhaama"

[wine-dark-soup]

you're all beating him up when he's on the ground already

[leftoblique]

The thought that Sadu is the one who will end up with him tho? Like, my boy Heavensflame is already taking Cirina around the back of the yurt. Magnai is at least gonna have to wait his turn.

[winged-mammal]

You say the word "I'll" in the middle of a sentence (eg: "do what you want, I'll be over here). How does it sound?

like "aisle"

like "all"

other

see results

Voting ended onJun 23, 2024

I'm talking casual speech, not purposeful enunciation

[leftoblique]

It's /əɫ/ or even /ɫ̩/.

Not quite "all" but closer to that than "isle" - but certainly heavily reduced.

[thebibliosphere]

It’s 1 am and I can hear one of the neighbors chainsawing a tree.

At least I hope it’s one of the neighbors because the alternative is much more worrisome.

[leftoblique]

If it's not one of your neighbors cutting down their own tree, you know what that means.....?

TREE LAW!

[cryptotheism]

Hades II thinks it's horny on the same level that Dunmeshi is horny. The wise know this to be false.

[cryptotheism]

The true bisexual understands the eroticism of the weird little fat guy. A coward sexualizes only the skinny and hairless.

[rocatex-deactivated20260317]

hades has a wierd little fat guy but hes a big hairy fat guy

[cryptotheism]

But you can't fuck him can you.

[leftoblique]

NOT YET

[eggtempest]

[proteusolm]

Crazy to think that seagulls existed before french fries.

[bluebandedagate-reblogs]

Medieval seagull struggling to fly away with an entire purloined potatoe

[leftoblique]

Seagull stealing an entire potato from some poor Toltec farmer and carrying it all the way across the ocean to drop on some equally sad medieval European's head.

[grimeclown]

"I reported her because she was posting NSFW without mature labels which is against TOS!!!" you'd narc on someone for having their tits out at a gay bar because it's illegal you simply are not trustworthy

[grimeclown]

Defending yourself by saying that censoring the sexuality of trans women is actually morally correct and justified. Actually just makes you look more like a bitch, believe it or not. Especially considering how often the "NSFW posts" in question often amounted to little more than armpit and forcefem jokes

[usernameichoseonawhim]

If they are ACTUALLY posting nsfw (which I define as having boobs/pussy/dick out) without warning, report away! Otherwise you’re a massive jerk for reporting.

[grimeclown]

You'd narc on someone for having their tits out at a gay bar because it's illegal you're simply not trustworthy.

[strawberry-crocodile]

If they are ACTUALLY posting nsfw (which I define as having boobs/pussy/dick out) without warning, block and move on! Otherwise you're a fucking narc

[quasi-normalcy]

Anyways, not that any of you asked, but my verdict on the 'Science Wars' of the 1990s is as follows:

A few humanities people critiqued the sciences without really understanding them well enough to make cogent criticisms

A LOT of scientists attacked humanist critiques of the sciences without really understanding them well enough to make cogent criticisms

The "continental philosophy" style of writing used in these critiques seems designed to make them impenetrable to anyone who doesn't have a Master's degree in culture theory, so misunderstandings were inevitable

The Sokal Hoax is a fun annecdote, but at most it illustrates lackadaisical practices in academic publishing, which subsequent decades have shown to be an issue well beyond the humanities

"Post-modernism" is a stillborn cultural movement with a long afterlife as a snarl word; basically nobody actually wants to be associated with it

Fighting between the sciences and humanities was pointless and prevented both sides from putting up a common front against neoliberal assaults on academia

Richard Dawkins is a cunt

[3liza]

gottmik's gone too hard on the jaw implant, he looks like Mike Mew. looks like a funko pop of himself. you can't just slap volume around like that you have to think about the immediate neighboring anatomy (skinny neck) and how that's going to look (weird in a bad way)

[leftoblique]

I realize that it's his body and he has his own aesthetic ideal, but were I in his position I would simply have gotten jacked and maybe gotten a nose job.

Adding significant muscle in the neck and jaw does almost as much as adding bone from a purely visual standpoint (imo, ymmv ofc).

On the other hand if you wanna look like a Jojo character that's cool too, you do you.

[onenicebugperday]

Abbott’s carpenter bee, Xylocopa abbotti, Apidae

Found in Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by clicque, 2-3 by rckinglet21, and 4-7 by oscarnine

[passionpeachy]

They never bring up bisexual boy with lame ass straight girlfriend. what about her

[leftoblique]

i mean they did also have extensive discourse about straight women dating bisexual men. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did have that discourse

[leftoblique]

I love you all but if you post Mature™ content and don't include tags I can't know whether it's safe to click through in, say, a coffee shop, or on my work computer when I'm not in the office.

Please, for the love of dog, tell me why it would be bad for my boss - or random strangers, or my company's IT department - to see me looking at your post.

[leftoblique]

The problem with "Mature" being a binary state is that what is inappropriate differs significantly for different users and in different environments.

I like Mastodon's cw-first approach to self-censorship; you get to read the nutrition label before you open the box.

[leftoblique]

I love you all but if you post Mature™ content and don't include tags I can't know whether it's safe to click through in, say, a coffee shop, or on my work computer when I'm not in the office.

Please, for the love of dog, tell me why it would be bad for my boss - or random strangers, or my company's IT department - to see me looking at your post.

[ironlily-art]

Hoplites of Aphrodite Areia, these are warrior girls about the concept portrayed badass well trained, yet still girly (also very gay.)

[leftoblique]

From wikipedia:

A related Spartan epithet, "Armed Aphrodite" (Ἀφροδίτη Ἐνόπλιος) was associated with an aetiological myth recorded by Lactantius, who stated that once the Spartan army was away from the city attacking Messene, part of the Messene army launched a counterattack against Sparta that was thwarted by the Spartan women who armed themselves and defended the city. The Spartan army, realizing their city was under siege, returned and assumed that the women were the enemy army until they stripped off their armour to reveal their identities. It is likely that this myth was used to explain the origin of an unknown Spartan festival that functioned similarly to the Argive festival of Hybristica, where women took over the roles of men.