Mechtroid

There was a whole here. Now it's a sum.

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[mechtroid]

Some of you may think this is a joke, but no, that's pretty much how it goes. Most immune system cells are born as rabid dogs, and then sent through a corridor of various body cells. If it attacks ANY of them the entire cell line is destroyed. <-- Immune system disorders usually start here.

[totally-kasane-teto]

@ mahari_lab

[prokopetz]

The funniest thing in superhero comics is not, in fact, when an outgoing writer on a title decides to break their toys by killing off the lead, and the next writer has to figure out how to bring them back.

The actual funniest thing in superhero comics is when a new writer decides to kill off the lead's entire supporting cast because they wanted to "go in a different direction", and the writer after that has to resurrect like half a dozen random people because that new direction sucked.

[prokopetz]

@pomrania replied:

And like, seriously, "the lead decides to ditch everything and travel the world, only to eventually come back home hat-in-hand because it turns out they canNOT do everything on their own" is WAY funnier and also easier for the next writer to pick up after, so they should be doing THAT instead.

It's my understanding that many writers for the Big Two have developed the habit of killing off established supporting characters they're uninterested in including in their storylines as a sort of pre-emptive defence against potential editorial interference. It's not unheard-of for the editor to stick their oar in and demand that you put more focus on a supporting character who's currently dead, but it's historically rare.

[lcatala]

It's interesting to compare this with French-language comics where often the rights to the series are tied to a publisher who will have different authors work on it over the years, but the rights for secondary characters created by that author remain with the author, which if no agreement is reached can result in an entire roster of secondary characters dropping out of existence with no explanation between two stories as the previous author leaves and takes their characters with them. Thus the series Spirou and Fantasio's most iconic run was that of Franquin (from 1948 to 1968) (the character of Spirou was first created in 1938), who created most of the series's iconic secondary characters, including the marsupilami, their weird monkey-marsupial-like animal companion. Then when Franquin was succeeded by Fournier, none of the secondary characters created by the former could be used, so they just stopped appearing. There was no explanation or even mention of them, the comic was now effectively taking place in a different reality with an entirely new cast of secondary characters that everyone acted as if they were already established. Then after Fournier left in 1980, this happened again with his characters, and so the new authors Nic & Cauvin had to create again a set of secondary characters from scratch and act as if they had been there all along with no acknowledgement of previous characters. However, when Nic & Cauvin left in 1984 and Tome & Janry took over, Dupuis managed to negotiate with Franquin (who was still alive and doing his own stuff) for the right to re-use most of his secondary characters, so at that point the comic reverted, again with no explanation, to the "classic" cast — except for the marsupilami who Franquin wanted to keep the rights of because he had his own standalone series, and would not appear in another Spirou story again except for a one-off in 2016.

[mechtroid]

Presented without comment.

[benzohoarder]

[figural]

#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

[minothtime]

Basically, a translation could be:

I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard

[liminalweirdo]

translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[slygirlboy]

finally starting to write my book again,,,

[slygirlboy]

the worst part of burnout is that, at least for me, you dont really recover from it, you just get sick of not creating anything so you throw yourself back into it

[mechtroid]

[busty-shackleford]

LOLLLLLLLLLL

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The rest of us who already knew this shit seeing data back it up are SO VALIDATED rn

[mechtroid]

[kuttithevangu]

Often what makes snarky bantering dialogue bad is that it goes on for too long. Snarky banter can be all right if the writer has a sense of comedic timing, but you can’t really have a one-liner followed by a one-liner followed by a one-liner without becoming tedious.

And from a writer’s perspective I understand the temptation to be like I’m sooo funny and clever and these characters are sooo funny and clever and bask in how funny and clever you are, but a single exchange of snarky jabs will give that impression more effectively than a whole scene of dialogue, most of the time.

[propelledbydisaster]

Personally i feel that longer sequences of snappy dialogue work better in some mediums than others - and that writing is not one of the mediums where it works well. As proof, i submit: the subjective experience of reading the script for Some Like It Hot

[mechtroid]

Agreed, Gilmore Girls would make a HORRIBLE book.

[pocketdogs]

bed bug

[mechtroid]

[promethes]

sitting here. unkissed. when will it end

[unholyblissafterdark]

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[fashion-runways]

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[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you have to fight with your pfp are you winning?

yes

no

nobody wins

dead before the battle even starts

barely

I AINT BEATING A KID/AN ANIMAL! >:(

that's a plain color/background bruh

results

Voting ended onMay 8

[perplexingly]

Shoot I just remembered that Christopher Lee did a metal opera about Charlamagne

[sexhaver]

you and 99 other rational (i.e. not making decisions at random) people are placed in individual rooms (such that you can't communicate with each other) with a blue button in front of you. the blue button kills everyone who presses it (including yourself), unless at least 51 people press it, in which case it does nothing. you are under no obligation to press the button and it is impossible to press accidentally. whether you press it or not, you are free to leave after one minute (unless you're dead).

Do you press the button?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 2

[sexhaver]

aw shit, sorry guys, i forgot to add one little detail: instead of just "not pressing the blue button", you have to press a second red button to indicate that you're declining to press the blue button. so just replace "not pressing the blue button" with "pressing a red button" in this scenario and everything else about it is unchanged. that shouldn't have any influence on your decision to press the blue suicide button or not so just treat it as window dressing :)

[sexhaver]

okay now for the punchline: this is, functionally, the literal exact same scenario as this poll:

[mechtroid]

Ironically, by defining all 99 of the other people as rational, pressing the blue button becomes the only correct answer. Assuming all other people are rational, there may or may not be a line of Red/Blue logic RB that leads to the blue button being optimal. Any line of logic that assumes RB exists, RB', should also press the blue button, because if any one rational person assumes RB, then all should press the button just in case, and seeing as all other rational people think the same way, the only reasonable option is to, with entire confidence in your survival, slam down on that blue button.

What does RB stand for?

[sunnysunmedia]

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