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teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

leonordchoem

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends

aerialsquid

I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.

findingfeather

….yeah me too.

lireavue

Me three.

star-anise

Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”

library-graffiti

I have not laughed that hard in so long I literally cannot remember when.

earhartsease

this is what you get for leaving the door open

cuppydogshane

My Name is 8 PM. and I am always arriving when you atrent Looking

the-disemvoweler

M Nm s 8 PM. nd m lws rrvng whn y trnt Lkng

consonant-remover

8.y

I o a a i's ooa eo

cuppydogshane

if you two had a baby it would be a regular sentence. or perhaps silence.

unyieldingsilence

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cuppydogshane

Right.

paverics

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

poetrylesbian

prokopetz

The prokopetz brain worm is reading a source book and thinking "this needs more huge lookup tables"

Most sourcebooks do need more big stupid tables.

(I'll freely grant that my preoccupation is partly an aesthetic thing, but it's not just that. One of my biggest pet peeves with indie tabletop RPGs is how many of them will put the player or GM in a position where they need to Make Something Up in order to render the thing functional, then not provide any worked examples of what that might look like. Like, who exactly is the game designer here, you or me? I strive to always provide at least a dozen worked examples – and more is better – in any situation where one of my games asks the player or GM to Make Something Up, and you know what's an engaging and high-utility way to concisely present a large number of worked examples? A big stupid table.)

innumerable-voices

There's also something to be said about the size of a table in relation to its expected frequency of use and how that affects the players perception of of how long a game is meant to last

A table with only six options that's supposed to be consulted once per session caps your games total play time at less than a dozen sessions before things start getting repetitive

prokopetz

Quite so. I've touched on this before, but random lookup tables that are far too small for their stated purpose are a frequent vice of indie RPGs. A table of Weird Shit that's ostensibly meant to be rolled on at least once per scene but only has a dozen total entries is just making the hypothetical GM do your work for you in a more roundabout way.

rampagingpoet

This has been a recurring theme in my Arden Vul Homework series. I think the idea was that listing the individual contents of 352 burial niches would be unwieldy to navigate - but also if there's over 300 of the things you probably need more than 30 entries on the "what's in this niche?" table.

Or, you know, scrap the idea of searching niche by agonizing niche entirely. There's no decisions being made except whether you happened to roll poorly for the first few and then decided to give up (missing multiple magic items and thousands of gp worth of valuables)

prokopetz

The necessary corollary to "make sure your random lookup tables are large and varied enough to sustain interest across the expected number of rolls without kicking out lots of potentially annoying duplicate results" is, of course, "consider carefully why you are expecting so many rolls to be made on this particular table in the first place".

hadesisqueer

Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

hadesisqueer

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

joyflameball

prokopetz

Getting real tired of RPGs – both computer and tabletop – where willingness to fuck very inhuman things is a signpost of how morally bankrupt a character is, or at the very least of how much they're willing to Sacrifice For The Greater Good. I wanna see an RPG where getting it on with the Pulsating Mass is treated no differently from fucking an elf.

zaprowsdower27

You say that now. Wait until you've seen some of the things Pulsating Mass has posted on mainstream social media sites.

prokopetz

No contest – I've been on Elf Twitter.

shencomix

useless-catalanfacts

Some news from this week in regards to attacks against the Catalan-Valencian culture and language:

The City Council of Alacant (the 2nd most populated city in the Valencian Country) has decided that from now on they are changing the spring school holidays to exclude local Valencian traditional days of celebration. Instead, they move it to Spanish Catholic days of celebration. Families will no longer be able to celebrate dia de la mona, instead they'll have free the early Holy Week. Another attempt to stop the tramission of the local culture and impose the Spanish culture.

In Catalonia, the supreme judge has dictated that all schools must now have their signs in Spanish. Until now, schools in Catalonia had the signs in Catalan (except in the Aran Valley, where they are in Aranese Occitan), as the language of education is Catalan (or Aranese Occitan). For the last decade, a series of laws by the Spanish government and rulings by the supreme judges have imposed a higher presence of Spanish outside the subject of Spanish, by law at least 25% of classes must be in Spanish, though in most schools the number is much higher. Some right-wing associations of parents have also sued schools and teachers if they considered there was too much Catalan, even when the amount was following the law. (Remember that it was already mandatory for all students to take the subject of Spanish Language and Literature, which has as many hours as Catalan Language and Literature, so it's not like Spanish isn't present). It is important to have Catalan in schools because it's the only way to guarantee that all people who have been raised here will know it. Everyone will learn Spanish as a first language outside of school anyway (since the streaming platforms, cinemas, internet, TV channels, etc. are almost exclusively in Spanish and there is the social pressure for Catalan speakers to address Spanish speakers in Spanish, but not the other way around), but since about 50% of Catalonia's young people were born outside Catalonia and Spain, it is necessary to welcome them into a school system where they can learn the local language. Without it, they won't, and Catalan will in a couple of generations suddenly become a minority. For a language that has also been persecuted, illegalized, and treated as inferior for most of its recent history, it is important that people can see the language in formal settings, see that it can be adequate for "important" stuff too, and not continue propagating the idea that "Spanish is for important/public things, Catalan is only to speak at home".

In the town l'Alcúdia de Crespins (also in the Valencian Country), the high school is named after the writer Isabel-Clara Simó, a key figure in Valencian literature. Now, the City Council has censored the name. They have removed the name, accusing the writer of being divisive (because she wrote in the Valencian-Catalan language and defended her right to do so).

Today, 7 more pro-independence people from Catalonia have been sentenced guilty for having taken part in a demonstration against the far-right Spanish supremacist group Sociedad Civil Catalana when they were hosting an event in a university campus under the excuse of doing a homage to Cervantes (Spanish writer seen as a national symbol). Even though the police report clearly states that it was the far-right Catalanophobic group who started shouting and pushing the counter-demonstrators trying to start a fight, the judge has considered that demonstrating against them is a criminal offense, and has added the plus of hate crime against Spain, because of the far-right's excuse of doing a homage to the symbol of Spanish culture Cervantes.

Amidst the protests against overtourism+gentrification in Mallorca, the Spanish military police has gone to the homes of two protestors and arrested them handcuffed, accusing them of being members of a criminal gang that targets real estate agencies. They are accused of having spray painted the façades of 5 real estate agencies, and the "proof" of their "criminal involvement" is that they had a banner that reads "SOS inhabitants. Stop overtourism!" at home. The military police have threatened that everyone who "commits crimes against Mallorca's touristic interests will be arrested". And yes, I'm including this in a post about attacks against culture because there can be no culture if the community is expelled from its home island to make way for rich Germans to buy second homes to leave empty half the year. 50% of houses in many towns of Mallorca are already owned by foreigners who don't live in the island. Just in the street where these two girls who have been arrested live, there are 5 real estate agencies. How does this make sense? Dictator Franco's plan was to turn Mallorca into a tourism colony, and years after his death the plan is still taking place.

Recently it feels like every week is like this. Little by little, Spanish nationalism tries to impose its homogenizing presence by excluding the places where the local language and culture is expressed. The things I've included in this post are not even the most impactful things that have happened lately, I would be depressed if I had to post it every time. Changing the names of towns and cities to Spanish names, changing the names of schools and theatres, not giving permissions to host traditional holidays on the streets, removing the requisite of knowing Catalan to work in even more high-education sectors of Catalonia, families having to appeal to court to let them name their children in Catalan because the state-worker doesn't want them to... The previous week even the company Aticco fired a worker speaking in Catalan to clients in their office in Barcelona, Catalonia's capital city (the firing notice stated that this was the reason). We need to stay firm and not let them erase our existence! Language rights and culture rights are human rights, even if they're not recognised by the law of an oppressor and imperialist state.

prokopetz

You know words good.

Is there a historical or etymology reason why even though "Lady" is the feminine form of "Lord" it feels like if you use the term "Lady" as the intended form of respect, it kinda feels like you're being disrespectful by treating them like a normal person in comparison to when you use "Lord"?

(Bear in mind that all of this is a sweeping generalisation of a thousand years of history, so while most of it is broadly true in most cases, there were definitely numerous exceptions!)

Historically, feminine titles in English peerages were typically ranked as strictly inferior to their masculine counterparts. That's why a reigning king's wife is a queen, but a reigning queen's husband is a prince (or "prince-consort", if you want to get real specific); the former case admits no ambiguity regarding who's really in charge because "king" is a superior title to "queen", but in the latter case the husband can't be a king because if he was he'd technically outrank his spouse. Indeed, in many periods the only way to access a given feminine title was to marry the holder of its masculine counterpart, since women simply couldn't inherit titles. In such cases, unmarried female offspring of titled nobility and royalty would be styled "Lady" as a sort of generic "this person is a noble in theory but isn't allowed to hold a Real Title because she's a Girl" honorific.

So the short version is that the lack of respect is baked into the framework.

seracadash

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

deusvervewrites

SDDHA: Okay, but imagine that the 'Give Midoriya the Amazon class' thing happened while they were still in middle school, and Midoriya has to legitimately take a moment to consider whether this could help him get OFA faster.

You say that like he hadn't already considered how it would impact his training for UA--and, later on, One For All after All Might offers it--as soon as Himiko explains that she can change his class.

deusvervewrites

escaping gravity AU

When the rest of the class sees how barren Ochako’s dorm room is when they finally move in, they all resolve to help her decorate the room with things she wants and likes! While also at the same time introducing her to various things so she can have hobbies for the first time!

She’s definitely crying from how much the class cared about her to do this… also I like to think she gets introduced to video games as a hobby and picks them up rather easily as both a hobby and inspiration for moves and techniques she can pull off with her myriad of quirks!

She WILL become powerful with the power of video games and she deserves it.

The entire class is determined to make sure she has a good time for once in her life and nothing will stop them.