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[valtsv]

tagging/content warning systems for media are often mocked outside of fanfic which is kind of too bad because i do think it'd be a really interesting vector of literary analysis to examine what the author or publisher thinks they should be informing their audience about vs. the actual content of the media in question

[valtsv]

tagging my work devoid of any explicit sexual content as "dubcon" and sitting back to watch people fight over what i could have meant by this like i'm a roman emperor watching gladiators being devoured by lions in the coliseum

[prokopetz]

Concept: conservationist metroidvania where the only way to get the best ending is to avoid killing any of the endangered local wildlife, which gets progressively harder throughout the game because each mobility upgrade creates new ways to accidentally explode critters.

[prokopetz]

This post has received the expected range of pissing-on-the-poor responses (e.g., people ignoring the particulars of the proposed scenario and assuming that I just don't know what a pacifist run is, or that I'm falsely claiming to have invented the idea, or that I'm unaware of other metroidvanias which have implemented pacifist runs in the past, etc.), but I've gotta admit I'm a little bit fascinated by the one that was like "this is just Pikmin".

[rlyehtaxidermist]

I feel like the particulars of the scenario aren't obviously distinguishable from a pacifist run because people underestimate the impact of developers being actively adversarial to a pacifist run. Most people's video game experience is limited to games that the developers want a wide audience to complete!

Yes, most games have pacifist runs, some even with official support, but it's rarely a major focus of development or mechanics. You may think the devs of a particular game are out to get you - I can assure you they are not. But they could be.

I'm imagining stuff like it being possible to kill something underneath the platform you're running across if you use the wrong dash mechanic - if you go too slowly, the platform falls and crushes it, if you go too fast, the explosions caused by your big stompy feet crush it instead. (And of course, the hitboxes are always slightly larger and longer-lasting than the effects.)

[prokopetz]

You need to picture a game where every single mobility upgrade has the same potential for accidentally fragging random wildlife as Metroid's screw attack. The high jump boots cause you to emit a damaging plume of superheated exhaust every single time you jump. There's a ubiquitous species of frugivorous quasi-simians that think your bombs look delicious and will steal and eat them (and then blow up) if you set one within their line of sight. The upgrade that gives you immunity to environmental damage takes the form of a shimmering force field that attracts small birds and fries them like a bug zapper.

[prokopetz]

The stealth upgrade lets you bypass certain large predators, but conversely, there are prey species where if you decloak within a certain radius of them, they have a heart attack and die of surprise.

[prokopetz]

The upgrade that confers knockback immunity is better to avoid entirely in the conservationist run unless you're also going for 100% because it causes creatures with ramming attacks to take potentially lethal contact damage as they slam into your immovable bulk.

[froxictog]

[prokopetz]

There's a biome which contains lurking subterranean ambush predators which die if they attack you and miss, obliging you to make careful use of your scan visor to detect and avoid triggering them.

The following biome introduces a species of improbably radiation-sensitive rodent that explodes when scanned.

[7thgenbotulist]

The conservationist run isn’t exactly a pacifist either, because there is another half of it aside from “don’t kill any local wildlife,” and that is “exterminate all harmfully invasive wildlife.” Leave even one non-native species alive and you get the “irreversible ecosystem damage” ending.

Which is why the next biome introduces a local crab that will die in one shot, alongside an invasive one that looks almost exactly the same.

[strawbeb]

it’s not ‘talking to myself’ it’s called a soliloquy you fuck

[pizza-glory]

This took me so long vro

[yo-its-matt]

Visit Original Link

[natalieironside]

Cursed firearm concept:

.22 rimfire caseless

[natalieironside]

Multibarrel rotary autocannon firing 10,000 RPM of .22 caseless

[storyweavingspider]

Had an accidentally hilarious interaction with another Black woman my age and her mom at an event today.

She complimented me on my jewelry and said it looked very spidery, and I thanked her and said it is, which is fitting since my name is Anonsee.

She asks what language it is and if it means spider, and I tell her it’s mainly Akan tribe but also heavily through Black diaspora, and that a lot of other Black folks tend to know the name because they grew up with Anansi Tales as kids. She says she’s never heard of them and doesn’t think she read them as a kid.

At this point her mom walks up, and she turns to her mom and asks “Hey mom, are you familiar with the name Anansi?” and the mom goes “Of course! I read those stories to you as a kid!” and the daughter hits her with the “Really? I don’t remember that at all!!”

Cue the mother looking absolutely SCANDALIZED and going “I have a book full of them that I used to read out of to my students! Im reading some to you when we get home later.” and the mom was also absolutely tickled pink to learn my name was Anonsee, she lit up so happily it was so sweet 😭

Bringing Anansi back to our people a step at a time by getting moms to read his stories to their adult daughters I guess 😮‍💨🥹

[lavitts]

This reads like something Anansi would do. Pretend to be some jewelry on a lady with a similar name to his to engineer an encounter where his story spreads.

[skyscrapersanddandelions]

kids of color, you’re allowed to get a bitey when a white friend does something racist. literally 0 percent of people of color are obligated to be nice and palatable for white people. holding your tongue in the name of kindness doesn’t really do much in regards to stuff like this because white people are going to see you calling out their own racism as unkind anyways. white people, if a person of color comes off as aggressive while calling you out for racism, just fucking listen to them. they’re not coming from nowhere, and believe it or not: they know more about racism than you do! shocker, i know. just thickskin it, because it’s really not about you.

[pjharvey]

we have to start running a massive PSA campaign to young gay people so everyone understands there is a difference between being a dom and being a top and between being a sub and being a bottom. and also that sometimes you are neither a sub nor a bottom and you're just like shy. we need to be handing out flyers we need ads at every train station spreading the word

[somechubbynerd]

What a completely inconsequential color palette

Goals: Be so feminine that you forget ever being a man.

[dadith]

this is specifically after that poe quest

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

youtube link

Women's Pro Baseball League

Our time is now. The inaugural season of the WPBL begins August 1st, 2026.

website

[butch-ragh-barkrock]

I think this is so cool and it's awesome they're streaming games for free! I also think it's incredible that this picture is the one they used to advertise the opening day. It's like those videos where someone threatens the camera while their partner shows off their collection of rocks they found.

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[wizardarchetypes]

i was like 'it's weird the way everyone is doing free pr for the catholic church rn just bc the pr for the new pope has already been that good' and someone was like 'wait? why don't you like the pope? did something happen?' i feel insane i'm not exaggerating i didn't even know what to say?? 'did something happen?' yes the last 2 thousand years of global history, and no, going back 2,000 years in catholic history is not dramatic because it's remained consistently that bad throughout and in fact i do think the church should answer for every single century of its sins while all of its assets are returned to the people from which they were stolen and its global power is dissolved.

[zyxalyx-deactivated20250925]

[kat4884]

the gooners

they’re everywhere

[felixcloud6288]

Dat's right boss. Now just tell us what ya need and we'll get it done boss.

[quadtator-lawful-evil]

who needs ta sleep with da fishes boss

[bananapudding752]

sorry bawss, I was too busy searchin up da anime girls boss. real pretty.

[felixcloud6288]

Forget dem anime goils. Dere only temporary. But da boss is forever. Right boss?

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t g t’ at' gt . t t at a a ' gt t . ta t a a, a t ac a a g . a tt. gt a g. ta. t a . gt ?

Closest match: Oeneis jutta genome assembly, chromosome: 18 Common name: Jutta Arctic

(image source)

[felixcloud6288]

Da boss got turned into a butterfly!!

[pfaugh]

Wadda bea-utiful transformation, boss. goes to show youse gotta preciate the lil things in life

[hraeiou]

ay boss congrats on da metamoiphosis

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving