Pandorah’s Box

19, she/they I have thoughts Fandom blog: @fandorahsbox

[pandorahsbox]

Hey like 3 people who follow me! Just fyi, I made a new blog for just fandom stuff. @fandorahsbox !

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[lamaison]

Legal Eagle asking "are you covered to have an open flame in the studio?" and a producer worriedly yelling "we're not!" as Ally goes to light a bong they filled with real whiskey is maybe the hardest I have ever laughed at an episode of Game Changer.

[twilanore]

also can we talk about the game design of count the rice?? brilliant

the only challenges that require multiple people are at the beginning and end - at the beginning to allow the players to bounce around there for a bit before they realize they need to go down, and also at the end to ensure that a runaway player has to wait for another to catch up

count the rice itself, of course, can only be played with one player, so that players never actually have to count rice (if you had to wait for a second player at the end, then whoever got closest would win) (this is ofc not accounting for hannah pilkes)

the middle rooms are great too, because they are easy to intentionally fail, and hard to win. the spot the difference rooms are especially good, because you think you understand what it is (spot the difference between the two halves of the room), and this is seemingly confirmed when you successfully loose, but once you come back to try to win, you realize you did not actually fully understand the game. the placement of these is important, too - only players who were intentionally trying to lose got to those rooms. any higher in the sequence, and they might have had a player trying to win reach the rooms first, and then they'd realize the twist

and also the decision to split the rooms up? 2 and 3 in a separate space from 4-8, so players would assume there are only 3 until someone loses enough, subtly hiding the majority of the game from them

ugh just so many little details in the game design here are so perfect and well thought out, game changer is clearly such a labor of love

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

Sorry but it's not complete without...

[homunculus-argument]

If I ever ran a coffee shop or any other such establishment, I'd have a system of employee discount privileges for rewards for good work and special occasions, including getting one for their birthday each year. Not a discount on the product, they get that one anyway, but having one workday where they're granted the power to arbitrarily give any customer a 20% discount with no limit. They can cash it in at any point, not required to work on your birthday in order to get it. It is entirely allowed to decide to use your Discount Privileges three months after your birthday because you woke up in a bad mood and decide to use it for evil. I don't know how you would, but it's allowed anyway.

Once you've announced you're using your discount privileges today, it's out of my hands. You can decide you're giving a discount to all your friends. Give it to everyone who has a cool haircut or nice tattoo. Anyone who looks like they're having a bad day. Rude customer? Nothing prevents you from going "ok everyone here gets a discount except this guy in particular." Fuck that guy.

[homunculus-argument]

If Ratatouille mechanics were real, there would be a whole market of businesses offering the services of operating rats to people who want them, and it'd be like how bees produce honey. People in the rat business would be so exhausted of having to explain over and over again that no, the rats aren't being exploited. If the rats didn't like how they're being treated, they would simply not return. There's no goddamn way to force a rat to be so passionate about playing the saxophone that they'll figure out how to puppeteer a human to do it for them. All that the business does is finding a way to put that specific rat in the hair of someone who's about to go on stage.

[terrie01]

The rats 100% think the businesses are being run for their benefit and worry about the humans being exploited.

[homunculus-argument]

A rat manager who is a rat and deals on their end of the deal is exhausted of having to explain over and over again that look, an average fully grown adult human being is like 200 times your weight, their hands are very fast and they can throw things better than you want to imagine. If one of them things didn't want you in their hair, you're not going to stay there for long. You'd be yote out the window in two seconds flat.

[byjove]

ACTUALLY, MAD RESPECT HE WAS A MACHINE.

[myteetharewhitewithsin]

[raisinchallah]

literally thank god sex isnt real and was just invented by big fiction to emphasize greater social and psychological themes i was getting scared id have to do all that

[liarsblade]

Fanfiction is cool because you get to learn what other people's parents taught them the hymen is like

[liarsblade]

I know that I had somewhat unusually comprehensive sex ed but it still surprises me every time I'm reminded that some people genuinely think that losing your virginity is a capri sun kind of situation.

[grippysockgang-deactivated20230]

You all are the coolest people I vaguely know

[coeurdeverre82]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

every time i encounter the phrase "inspired by the muse" my mental image is of a lady in a toga holding a gun to her hostage's head btw

[earhartsease]

Calliope fucking up the procrastinations

[bookishhermit]

From Oglaf

[guerrillatech]

[reluctantbroodingdads]

So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, without bears. Which is kind of ridiculous except that the fuckers were dead on

[qqueenofhades]

Not to be a *complete* killjoy, but technically (TECHNICALLY), the "bear" (Greek arktos) in "Arctic" does not refer to polar bears, but rather to the constellation Ursa Major or "Great Bear," also known as the Big Dipper, which is prominently visible at northern latitudes and was well known to the Greeks via Ptolemy and earlier astronomers. The fact that there are in fact polar bears at the north pole, and no polar bears at the south pole, is but a happy coincidence, as the Greeks had obviously also not been to the Arctic when they gave it the name. Nonetheless, Bear/No Bear is a delightful way of looking at it either way.

[asfgjfkgjnfkjgnkfjg]

Remember.

TumblrClan is no place for a fox-hearted Twittypet like Elon Musk. 

[mobliterated]

[sadclowncentral]

a beautiful man with long black hair dressed in all white sat next to me on the train back from denmark. i complimented his outfit, and he asked me where the train was going. after i told him, he then pointed at my shirt which says 'catastrophe' and said "oh i know a lot about those." and laughed uproariously.

and then he asked me "do you know about norse mythology?" and i said yes a bit because i read the edda a decade ago, and he said "i met fenrir in denmark" and i said that's probably not good if fenrir is walking around. and he said "oh don't worry about it, vithar will take care of it" and i replied oh but that's ragnarøk, that's still pretty bad for us mortals is it not? and he grinned at me like i said something incredibly funny. and then he ignored me for the rest of the train ride?

[grrrrrrrbarkbarkbark-deactivate]

Bro you meet fucking loki 😭

[tae27]

Oh I love this

[romanceyourdemons]

first attempt at rpf how did i do