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the inquisition dad wars *wwe music starts to play*

Every time someone tries to explain the metaplot of Supernatural to me, it basically ends up sounding like redneck Dragon Ball Z. I’m sure there’s some nuance I’m failing to grasp here.

kazorus-deactivated20190626

Care to elaborate on that?

…I’m not even offended, just absolutely curious. From the stuff I’ve seen and heard about Supernatural I can’t see the connection.

prokopetz

Mostly, I get the impression of a show that doesn’t know how not to escalate.

Every threat’s gotta be quantitatively bigger and badder than the one that came before. Every deus ex machina’s gotta be shinier than the last one. Every season’s gotta end with a massive eleventh-hour powerup for our heroes, only for the next season to raise the stakes enough to put them back in the underdog position.

It’s like, you beat the Devil himself? Well, now you’ve gotta fight the Devil’s cousin Phil, who has conveniently gone entirely unmentioned up until now, but he’s totally twice as evil.

prokopetz

That last paragraph was literally supposed to be the most ridiculous hypothetical example I could think of, and people are messaging me to say “his name was Metatron, not Phil”. I can’t even make fun of this show.

#vinesauce #exinthevatican #vinesauce joel #dark souls

mostlysignssomeportents

Hollow rock turns into a router full of survival info when you build a fire beside it

Keepalive is Aram Bartholl’s fake hollow boulder in the woods of Neuenkirchen, Germany. It conceals a thermoelectric generator that powers a router configured to serve documents related to wilderness survival. The router switches on if the rock is sufficiently warmed, say by a blazing campfire adjacent to it.

It’s based on Piratebox, a standalone Internet router project for file-sharing.

It’s not the only art/artificial boulder project, though: Ed Ruscha claims to have made an artificial boulder called “Rocky II” and hidden it somewhere in the Mojave, where it is visually indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks, making it all but impossible to find.

https://boingboing.net/2016/02/01/hollow-rock-turns-into-a-route.html

argumate

that magic rock in the Mojave is going to confuse the fuck out of our descendants one day.

fruityyamenrunner

probably not. it’s just a rock. most rocks go unregarded

argumate

most rocks aren’t wifi access points!

fruityyamenrunner

you need to regard a rock to find out if it is a wifi access point.

veequoi

w hat the fuck. did the world’s most sadistic text adventure game writer make this rock

You are lost in a woodland clearing. There is a large boulder and a pile of firewood nearby. > check cell phone You open your cell phone to google wilderness survival tips, but you don’t have any service. > make campfire with firewood You could light a fire here, but you’d still be lost. > regard rock It’s a large rock. The underside of the rock appears slightly charred. > light campfire under rock Pretty soon you have a blazing campfire going underneath the boulder. > regard rock The strange boulder, now warmed, has begun to emit a faint mechanical hum. > check cell phone You open your cell phone. There is one wifi network available, named “KeepAlive.” > connect to rock wifi The wifi router opens a webpage full of documents on wilderness survival. > ????? Invalid command. > why Invalid command. > who hides secrets in a magic heat-activated rock Invalid command.

He had ancestors going waaay back - not as far as First Nations, but about as far back as you can go with pasty-faced white people.

my English lit prof on T.S. Elliot

#white people throwing shade #he's funny #t.s. elliot

Interesting

I often wonder if straight male writers “no homo” themselves when writing physical descriptions of their male protagonists.

mellifiedman

the best Straight Male Writer ™ tactic is when, from a male character’s POV, you get something like “____ was probably what women would call handsome,” as though your average Dudely Protagonist is literally incapable of picking a handsome dude out of a lineup

glumshoe

Yeah, the cheat seems to be describing men from a straight woman’s POV. I’m reading ‘Southern Gods’ and literally went 12 chapters without a physical description of the male lead (besides ‘very big’) until he finally comes face to face with the female lead in one of her POV chapters. Apparently, he’s very hot. I spent the first half of the book imagining him as a silverback gorilla in a trenchcoat, and now I’m kind of disappointed to learn that he has perfectly-formed, boyish features.