Lair of the Third Strongest Mole

A magical, sparkling land filled with shitposting, anime, video games, other nerd stuff, and crying.

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[masterrainbowcat]

Reblogging in the hopes that this is the cure for someone out there.

[correctopinionhaver]

problematic generation gap relationship: he's a millennial, she's zoomer (they're only 1 year apart in age)

[ratscullion]

@udon-poodles

[udon-poodles]

me and my husband - who is a filthy harry potter mill*nnial and i will never let him forget it, if only he could be as enlightened and chudded out as me, a zoomer

[masterrainbowcat]

Li Shang voice: Can’t believe I was following a zoomer.

[cookingwithroxy]

To build off your post on the Trolley Problem, my personal take is that I think the real reason there's been so much backlash and mockery around it as time goes is for three facts surrounding it:

It's so blatantly just a shallow and useless "thought experiment"/clobber line that has no application to the real world (except one very bad one; more on that in #3), rigging up a ridiculous Looney Tunes-like situation that would never happen or work like that even if you tried to make it real. It is functionally the same as "but what if a dying white child wanted to say the n-word" type nonsense.

It has a very obvious and rigged set of right and wrong answers it wants you to pick so you can either feel smart and righteous (if you're invoking it) or be torn down by your opponents (if they're invoking it). As shown by the people on that post who are just stroking themselves off about saying they'd pull the lever as if it makes them noble.

The attitude that it is ultimately championing once you cut through the bullshit - endorsing the sacrifice of the few to benefit the many - is idiotic and heinous and in real historical practice has only ever been used to weakly justify vile acts, persecution, repression and outright bigotry.

It's so shallow that adding even a hint of moral complexity makes it a nightmare to defend.

Like, who do you allow to die, one person or five? By numbers, one is less bad than five.

But removed from the trolly, you have five billionaires dying of organ failure, and one healthy teen who's organs could, if harvested, keep them alive.

Because that's the thing about moral quandaries like this. They're NEVER simple.

[mapswithoutwyoming]

Starting to think all the backlash to the idea of the trolley problem is just people trying to hide the fact that, deep down, they know they would be too scared to pull the lever.

[astra-the-dragon]

I suppose one of the advantages I've gained from having been in the military is that I went from a suspicion I would have the conviction to make those kinds of calls, an absolute certainty that I do have it. I've held lives in my hands, but thankfully I rose to my training and my convictions. I chose the best of the options I had available to me at the time.

There is nothing shameful about being too afraid of making the decision, in my view. But yeah, it's cowardice to project your anxiety by claiming the philosophical quandary itself is meaningless.

[zaprowsdower27]

No reason to wonder. A ton of people openly bragged about how morally pure they were for not pulling the lever in 2024. They just hate it when you contextualize it like that and insist they were taking a third option to sound less terrible when their actions are 1:1 compared to the thought experiment.

[nitpickspot]

If anything, the reason I reject it is because I consider the thought experiment ITSELF to be cowardly.

All human lives are worth the same amount, and any LOSS of human life is as large a tragedy as any other amount of lost human life. You aren't doing a GOOD thing by condemning one person to die to save four more, you're not even doing a BETTER thing. It might be the more valuable thing in a coldly utilitarian point of view, but from my moral stance death is death. You don't get to compare and contrast your way out of that.

[dappercat123]

You’d be too scared to pull the lever huh?

[darkladynyara]

People hate the trolley problem because it is inherent to the problem that choosing not to act is an active choice. That's why they reject the problem itself rather than making an argument for choosing to not pull the lever. They aren't afraid to pull the lever- they're afraid to admit that their priority is keeping their own hands clean.

[brazenautomaton]

I mean, my objection to the trolley problem is its applicability. In the real world you don't know who is on what track, and everyone is lying to you all the time about the subject.

[cookingwithroxy]

One of the inherent issues with the Trolly Problem is framing. (there are others, like people acting smug over choosing the 'right' answer, which is also what people are doing when saying 'you'd be scared to pull the lever' but that's not what I wanna go in depth on)

If you asked someone 'would you be willing to kill one person to save five others' they would have to parse out the moral complexity. Who's being saved? who's going to die? The Trolly problem sets you in a minor situation where you have little if any time to make that decision and no way to gain any other information. It's a fast moving vehicle on a track and if you had the time to make a choice and think about it you'd have the time to swap the track and then rescue the one person who's at risk!

So the real answer is that most people would be stuck going 'Wait what are you talking about?' miss the window to pull the lever and five people would die! Because time sensitive question!

There's more. There's a LOT more, but again. Just wanted to focus on one point.

[masterrainbowcat]

That’s a good observation and a perfectly reasonable way to look at moral quandaries. But when you get people who apply their dogma to it, or in the case of most of those above Brazen including the OP, treat a moral quandary like a damn fandom, such observations are anathema. Most of the posts in this thread are indistinguishable from a discussion on which ship from Avatar the Last Airbender is better. And that treatment of moral quandaries concerns me a lot more than someone answering differently on one that I would.

Though we also run into the inverse problem about fandom being treated like a moral choice like this hellsite has been doing for decades, but I’m starting to get off-topic.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Learn to articulate how you're feeling without accusing anyone of having bad intentions. You can say "I'm afraid of being alone" without saying "you're just going to leave me like everyone else." You can say "I need some reassurance" without saying "you probably don't love me anymore." You can say "I'm afraid I've hurt your feelings and I'd like to talk it through" without saying "you don't even like me anymore." You can say "I want to spend more time with you" without saying "you've gotten tired of me." You can say "I feel misunderstood" without saying "you always judge me." Try not to let your emotions get the best of you. Have a conversation focused on finding solutions instead of escalating the conflict.

[laterdayze-deactivated20240910]

do you ever look back at your relationship with someone on the internet and just think oh my god i’m so fucking glad i clicked follow they make my life so much better

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

[inthefallofasparrow]

[depsidase]

[masterrainbowcat]

Probably for the best it’s not a shell or carapace, as “Armadillet” would not be pronounceable by half the cast.

[shencomix]

[masterrainbowcat]

Glad the yuri police didn’t off you before you could reveal the secret of wearing pants that are also shoes without ruining both.

[darth-vader]

Starfire, watch as I magically put these gloves on.

[damegreywulf]

Starfire, observe how masterfully I managed to wear a tux with a cape under it and nobody could tell.

[miniskirtarchers-blog]

Starfire, note how I was able to wear this extremely high collar underneath this lower-collared dress shirt without having it peek out in the slightest.

[rakarchive-deactivated20191109]

starfire just stand there just go ahead and stand right there and don’t move i’m showing the fans what they really want to see: me

[princepuma]

STARFIRE my suit didn’t have a back the entire time

[fang11803]

Starfire watch as my tux goes from long sleeved to short. 

[masterrainbowcat]

Tux, observe as I obscure Starfire from view.

[maximumthrill]

VEGETA

[pun-ishment888]

Possible case for Vegeta defeating bugs bunny.

[beardedmrbean]

[masterrainbowcat]

She shot back, right?

[crossroadsbishounen]

I have this picture of sasuke on my phone that chase and I call “safe for work sasuke” and it’s because it’s the tallest picture in my camera roll so whenever he sends me any nsfw stuff when I’m in public I just send sfw sasuke and he takes up the whole screen

[narutoheritageposts]

january 30, 2016

[spacemancharisma]

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY SFW SASUKE

[masterrainbowcat]

Sasuke has been doing a lot of good since converting to Catholicism.

[k-eke]

Be careful princess  🌸

[grotusrinocerose]

[heatandapathy]

I just love that multiple people not only thought “the black one is a princess and those are her bodyguards” but also came to the conclusion “they’re also, obviously, samurai.”

[90ssuperheroes]

Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.

[forgotn1]

Oh! I actually know what made these look so iconic!

The backgrounds for the entire series were done on black paper, a first for any animated show. It's Batman, which means everything is at night and incredibly dark. So, the majority of the backgrounds were going to be black anyways and using black paper would cut down on the time it took to create all of the backgrounds. Adding color over the black paper instead of the traditional method gave it a much more stylized look that helped make it iconic.

It also forced some other creative choices, such as using an airbrush to do all of the background art. During the early testing, they found that using an airbrush was easier to apply paint with than a paintbrush and that it looked better. Airbrushing let them be more experimental with painting techniques, such as the spattery fades you can see in the "Bane" and "Deep Freeze" title cards above or the soft, deeply shadowed face on "the Last Laugh." The overall effect of airbrushing on a black background is a much darker, moodier vibe than could be achieved with a traditional approach.

They cared very deeply about the art of the show and how they were going to create it. It wasn't just about the story or the character. In the words of co-creator Eric Radomski: "As opposed to making shows just to sell toys, we've made quality films."

[masterrainbowcat]

[victusinveritas]

[jackhawksmoor]

[weaselle]

"adventurers are actually more scared of you than you are of them"

"he's literally just doing what an adventurer is supposed to do"

"do you think they think of us as Giant Adventurers?"

"do you know how many other creatures would be infesting our cave if there were no adventurers?"

"how would you like it if you were bumbling along on your little adventurer day, and some giant dragon thing squished you for the crime of being yourself?"

"y'know, so many dragons are grossed out by them, but i think they're fascinating! Did you know some adventurers form symbiotic relationships with small monsters? Some of them even do a simplified form of spellcraft! Like, with actual magic and everything!"