Pillow Fort of the Random

Organization is too hard.

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[gossamermouse]

this is not a place of honor

[jackviator]

[dinosaurana]

Oh hey post of Ozymandius, good to see you again standing on your feet in a desert where no one remembers you

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[startled-starlings]

⋆˚. ☆ - Hermitcraft text posts pt 2

[renthony]

I can’t remember I ever told y’all about the prank I pulled on my costar the last day of Faire last year, but I’m sad and miss my friends, so I’m gonna tell you again.

Okay so. It’s traditional that on the last day of Faire, the show goes a little off the rails due to the cast’s final-day pranks on each other. Faire management hates it, so we’re not technically supposed to do it, but, like…they never quite manage to stop us.

Anyway, last year, I was playing one of the lead villains. I was the second in command of the viking king, and it took approximately ten seconds for everyone to start shipping our characters. There’s at least one ship every year that gets popular, and that year, it was us. The vibe was 100% “Viking Mom and Viking Dad are getting a Viking Divorce and the berserkers are stuck in the middle of a custody battle.” Like, five minutes after opening gate one day, I had a patron strike up conversation with me about how I needed to get a better man, lmfao.

By the end of the show, my character betrayed the king and joined the Good Guys, and I got this epic showdown with him at the end where I kick his ass and get in a one-liner.

So for my last-day prank, I replaced my usual one-liner by just full-volume screaming, “And the divorce is FINAL!!!!”

The audience, and the rest of the cast, lost their absolute shit.

And @borinquenaqueer​ managed to take a picture of the exact moment of reaction, in which my costar later told me he actually broke character for a split second and didn’t know how to react because he was just caught so off-guard:

[captain-price-returns]

Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online.

Which also means when she posted to try to end the fight rumors between him and Zuck it was actually him.

And when she posted “stop being mean to Elon” it was also him.

[captain-price-returns]

[gunsandfireandshit]

Remember kids, don't post while you're high as fuck on ketamine like Elon

[colubrina]

[nevereverbird]

[beemovieerotica]

ok time to pirate ubisoft games even harder

[the-sera]

This is why everyone must support Stop Killing Games. Look it up, sign the petitions everyone.

[shi1498912]

hmmm... consumer protection laws within some ofthe the EU member states and on EU level are pretty strong. So, what if every gamer in the EU were to go make a complain about Ubisofts EULA to their respective country's Consumer Protection Agency en masse, even if it's already been a year in effect?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

As sera said, check out Stop Killing Games. If you want to do as shi14 says, you're better off joining the coordinated effort that's already done half the job than just randomly complaining on your own without looking in at what everyone else is doing. Timing and coordination matters.

[fallenstarworkshop]

Tangentially related question. And this is going to sound whiny or "some kinda way" but it's not meant that way I promise. I'm just sort of... curious.

There's this Stop Killing Games movement in the European Union (which is GOOD and SHOULD HAPPEN and I hope they SUCCEED WITH PREJUDICE) but. That's the European Union. That's not Australia. Or the USA. Or any number of other places. Will a win there actually affect any of us outside the EU?

Again, I support the movement in the EU and I hope they get their needs and/or demands met. But like... the EU ruling that you can't pull this shit doesn't mean they can't pull this shit here, right? Don't we need a movement here too?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Stop Killing Games is a global movement. It was created and is headed by an American. You're thinking of Stop Destroying Videogames, the EU petition inspired, backed and supported by the Stop Killing Games movement, but not run by them (again, Ross is American and, since he doesn't have EU citizenship, can't do anything with the EU except make encouraging youtube videos and get invited as a foreign guest to speak at Parliament.) Parliament is seeing this issue now as the result of the Stop Destroying Videogames petition; EU Parliament is not, and never has been, the single only focus of the global Stop Killing Games movement.

The reason that most of the momentum related to this issue is in the EU right now is because that's the most important and influential target; EU consumer protections are better and easier to influence than other Western major markets like the USA. Frankly, it doesn't matter where these protections happen so long as it's a market big enough that the developers can't afford to lose it. If Ubisoft can't sell games in any EU country unless they give them an end of life plan and aren't allowed to destroy them, then they have to obey those rules or they lose one of the biggest non-China markets in the world. There are several petitions and soforth targeting the EU directly and various European countries right now, some directly related to the global movement of Stop Killing Games and some completely independent but with similar goals. You can of course start a petition or whatever equivalent exists in other countries, but unless you think we can get regulations in China, they're not going to be nearly as influential as going for the EU. But I'm sure that if someone got one off the ground intheir own non-EU coutnry, the Stop Killing Games supporters in the relevant country would back it.

For anyone interested, Ross talks a lot about the Stop Killing Games movement on his youtube channel:

Accursed Farms

Official channel of Accursed Farms, videos created by Ross Scott. Includes Freeman's Mind, Ross's Game Dungeon, Civil Protection, and more.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#hey the guy behind freeman's mind!#the first in-progress playthrough of any game that i ever saved

Yeah the funny half-life machinima guy is leading one of the biggest consumer rights movements of our age now. I think he might be more surprised than we are.

[mxshrimp]

Tango "it's totally falling tnt, isn't it?"

Etho "no it's not"

Tango "falling, look up"

Scar "whoa what's that?"

Etho "it's actually a tnt minecart :D"

[oh-snapperss]

does this mean etho can be cuteguy now

[panidanya]

yes

[shirahoshiumi]

[oh-snapperss]

IM GONNA THROW UP ARE WE JOKING

[funny-tik-toks]

[cylo]

so enchanted by this fella, i had to draw him

[errorschacha]

The entire point of, OK, my phone really wants to call it Anastasia so I guess we’re doing that? The entire point of Anastasia (as administered by a board-certified Anastasiologist) during sugary. Sugary? Haven’t I suffered enough? The entire point of Anastasia during augury. Jesus Christ. Hold up. You know what, augury is preferable to sugary. Augury is obviously performed by an auger (makes sense if you give it a think) whereas sugary is performed by…? A sugardaddy? NO THANK YOU. Anyway. The entire point of Anastasia is so that you don’t know what music your sturgeon. Fuck right off. Was playing. While you were under. You’re not supposed to wake up from Anastasia and immediately realize you managed to get earwormed by Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” during your sugary.

[masonhawthorne]

I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.

[chestercopperpotz]

I love when I hear about a choice in Shakespeare I've never thought of before. Brilliant

[wovi]

[krispycl0uds]

This one resonated with me

[prokopetz]

“All right, so the vampire’s gravestone is–”

“Cenotaph.”

“What?”

“It’s only a gravestone if it marks the location of a body. A monument honouring someone whose body isn’t present is a cenotaph.”

“I’m… not sure that’s how it works if the body gets up and walks away on its own.“

“There’s precedent for gravestones being reclassified as cenotaphs if the body is later removed and reinterred elsewhere. There’s no rule that says the body itself can’t do the removing.“

“Okay, but the body very much is coming back. That’s kind of what we’re here to accomplish.”

“So it’s a temporary cenotaph.”

“And naturally our greatest concern here is avoiding semantic ambiguity.“

“Semantic ambiguity is how vampires get you.”

[theprofessional-amateur]

Link to original post with all the links

Some very helpful tools, ideas, and ways keep going or get involved

I will add the resource Big Beautiful Boycott as a way of checking businesses to avoid that is not an app

The Big Beautiful Boycott stops funding to those funding fascism. Every dollar is a choice

[sunderwight]

Man that weirdly pretty queercoded villain sure is tenderly cradling the brash hero's unconscious form huh. Gently tilting his head to drip medicine into his mouth. I mean yeah he is saying that this is only because we need to temporarily team up to defeat a word bad guy and the hero isn't allowed to die until they have their epic rematch but uh. Um.

[sunderwight]

Like. The hero's girlfriend is right there. She could definitely be the one gently cradling him and pouring the medicine down his throat.

[sunderwight]

I'm just saying this seems like a weird distribution of uh. Tasks.

[sunderwight]

We have to make the trek up to the King of Destruction's castle and hope the hero wakes up en route because it's going to take us a while to get there, and every minute we wait is another minute while the King of Destruction accumulates the power to destroy the world. Luckily I know how to make a stretcher.

[sunderwight]

We're not using the stretcher. The villain is just carrying the hero in his arms.

[sunderwight]

I tried to offer him the stretcher several times AND suggested he at least sling the hero over his back but he says he doesn't want to impede the medicine taking effect. Is bridal carry really necessary for that...?

[sunderwight]

The hero's girlfriend is staying behind. She says she'll pray for us. I get that she's not really a combatant so it kind of makes sense but... I mean. Just speaking for myself I'd uh. Want to keep one eye on things, y'know?

[sunderwight]

The hero's perverted drunken mentor asked me to keep an eye out for the villain's betrayal in a rare moment of sobriety, but he's also staying behind to help "protect the village". I'm pretty sure that if we fail the King of Destruction will just obliterate the place in an instant though?

[sunderwight]

Starting to think they just don't want to third wheel whatever this is...

[sunderwight]

So looks like it's just me, the villain, the villain's hench goblin, and the unconscious hero marching up to the onyx castle that has wyverns pouring out of it.

[sunderwight]

Worst road trip ever.

[sunderwight]

I volunteered to fight most of the wyverns. I said it was so the villain could conserve his strength for the fight against the King of Destruction, so now it's just me and the hench goblin walking up ahead, trying not to listen to all the flowery stuff the villain keeps saying to the unconscious hero.

[sunderwight]

So awkward. Never thought I'd end up sharing commiserating glances with a hench goblin.

[sunderwight]

This hench goblin's pretty tough. He likes my ration bars too. Kind of nice, normally the others are always just complaining about my rations and how they taste bad. Beggars can't be choosers on the road, though!

[sunderwight]

Actually this trip might not be so bad. Hench goblin's name is Toady, which seems kind of degrading but I don't know enough about goblin culture to say anything. He says he serves the villain because his people owe the guy a big debt for saving their village. I wouldn't have thought that guy was the type to save a village, but goblins do have it pretty rough these days. I can definitely believe a goblin village was in need of saving!

[sunderwight]

The hero doesn't like heading to those parts of the map though. Says there's nothing worth going there for. I don't think he understands how hard some of the greenfolk have it.

[sunderwight]

Toady asked what my "employment contract" was, and I told him that I travel with the hero because he's my friend. He asked if I got paid and when I said no, he said I should "look into a union"...?

[sunderwight]

Got a card for something called the Minion Labor Rights Commission I'm not sure what that is but Toady said he would explain it while we worked.

[sunderwight]

Learning a lot of interesting things on this trip!

[sunderwight]

We made it to the onyx castle where the King of Destruction is. The villain finally put down the hero and started fighting the King while Toady and I dealt with even more wyverns. We had to guard the hero until he woke up, but luckily he opened his eyes right when it seemed like the King of Destruction was gonna turn the villain into paste, and then he dramatically rushed in and deflected the energy blast. Now the hero and villain are fighting back-to-black. Not that I can see much of it, through all the swirling energy blasts and exploding wyverns!

[sunderwight]

Toady said we should retreat. I told him I couldn't just leave my friend to deal with all of that but then a stray blast from the hero's sword broke the ground underneath our feet. We got flung down the mountain but Toady used this magical shield item to keep us from dying. Whew!

[sunderwight]

There was no way we were going to be able to make it back up the mountain again after that, so I prepared Toady a last meal in case that was the end of things for us. When everything started shaking I was afraid it would be, Toady and I were literally clinging to each other, but then the King of Destruction collapsed into all these black motes and his castle crumbled. So I think we're good?

[sunderwight]

The hero and villain made it back. Well, actually the hero made it back, but Toady and I went and found the villain's collapsed form near the crumbled castle and brought him down as well. Finally used the stretcher!

[sunderwight]

Hero scolded me for setting up camp. Says I'm always thinking with my stomach. Normally I just laugh that stuff off but it bothered me more this time for some reason...

[sunderwight]

The villain's still unconscious. Toady and I are carrying him on the stretcher together, the hero wants to get back to his girlfriend and check on the village as soon as possible. I hope none of the wyverns made it that far down, but I'm pretty sure Toady and I got them all when were heading up!

[sunderwight]

Toady is taking the villain further on back to the goblin town, I offered to help him but he says he's going to contact some other goblins to do the work and it'd be against union rules otherwise. Hero wanted to lock the villain in prison, but I pointed out that he helped save the village, so it was probably better to just let them go.

[sunderwight]

Toady gave me a magic crystal. Said I could use it in an emergency to contact him. For some reason I don't want to tell the hero about this. I don't think he'd like it. So I'm keeping it to myself.

[sunderwight]

I gave Toady all the wyvern meat I was able to gather on our way up to the castle. It's all good, I preserved it in my specialty bags. The hero caught me but he just made a joke about wyvern meat constituting a type of biological warfare.

[sunderwight]

I think I'm going to reconsider some stuff. Maybe stop traveling with friends as much.

[sunderwight]

Wonder how I'm supposed to contact the number on this card...?

[mockva]

This guy's illusions are great