Does flight enjoy birds?

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[quietsibilant]

(n.b.: replace all instances of "hope" with "cope".)

[quietsibilant]

what's your favorite phoneme?

@favorite-phoneme-creature

[ɸ] or [ʃ].

[pocket-deer-belly]

every time i think about overwatch's orientalism i go a lil more insane. 5 japanese characters all of which are tied to a very stereotypical mythologized version of japan. they're some of the few explicitly magical characters. all of them are part of clans and lineages and shit. every map that takes place in japan is an orientalist fairy land with idyllic old looking villages with shrines and gates and cobblestone and zero utility poles in sight. this game is so incredibly racist

[pocket-deer-belly]

what's interesting to me is that no other asian characters get this treatment. mei is a climate scientist or something. diva is a gamer. lifeweaver and symmetra are scientist. something about japan specifically makes the overwatch devs get a boner for the image of a permanently ancient magical other, japanese characters are simply not allowed to be contemporary

[cookingwithroxy]

thank fucking god someone else was thinking this too

[diogenesofsin]

I don't know... Torbjorn just so happens to be incredibly short, Scandinavian, and an industrious crafter.

Reinhardt just so happens to be a massive German man who is serious humorless and a literal knight.

Sombra just so happens to be a Mexican criminal with ties to organized crime, a preference for machine pistols (like those popularized in 'drive bys') and a soft spot for poor under privileged persons.

Mercy just so happens to be a Swiss woman who is great at science and healthcare.

Zenyatta is from Nepal and physically designed to be evocative of Buddhist, in addition to being a member of a famously pacifist organization.

Like, Overwatch doesn't do any cultures any favors. They are the most watered down, most stereotyped, most trope-laiden versions of the characters they can be-

because that's the point. You're supposed to be able to read the character at a glance, to understand who and what they are about without reading or watching a single narrative-driven second about them, to feel like you know the character just from hearing their random chirps during gameplay.

[theresponseblog]

I will say that I'm surprised more people don't get upset about how Overwatch's "Mexican" character is a tatted-up MS-13 gangbanger who carries a TEC-9...

[theresponseblog]

It's also funny in retrospect to remember how there was a whole thing about Tracer's victory pose where she stuck her butt out. People were genuinely angry about that and Blizzard actually did change the game in response to that anger.

[quietsibilant]

the reason D.Va is a gamer is that the cultural referents for South Korea these days are all recent. so I'm afraid that's still racist, by your metric.

[deadgenerations]

why are mangaka addicted to tournament arcs. it's like the multiverseslop of animanga

[phaeton-flier]

If you're reading a tournament arc it's because you're reading shonen and if you're reading shonen it's probably Cool Fight Scenes surrounded by Crappy Motivating Plot. A tournament arc cuts out the useless guff that the writer probably sucks at; this is why Ultimate Rock Paper Scissors is the best shonen.

but I want an exploration of character dynamics and themes!

Then why are you reading shonen?

[quietsibilant]

because themes can make the fight scenes better.

[quietsibilant]

which has more dignity?

draft animals

livestock

Voting ended onJun 21

[quietsibilant]

Nature Of Nature’s Art style called Entopic Auscultation based on the imperfections inherent in sensory systems (you can always see your nose, your brain just ignores it; you can always hear your bloodstream, your brain just ignores it, etc.) and “tuning things out”.

[quietsibilant]

the best way to end The Simpsons would be to gradually remove characters as their voice actors die, with no explanation given. until there's only one left.

[quietsibilant]

architecture should use the hexagon more.

[fkingfullmetal]

How the Perception-Reality Feedback Loop Works and How To Use It To Your Benefit And Avoid Delusion

[fruityyamenrunner]

simply perceive reality and make real what you perceive

[quietsibilant]

if it's real, why do I need to make it real?

[quietsibilant]

two of the coolest cities are Venice and Mexico City, and you could almost see them as opposites.

[quietsibilant]

looking for Snake-Cathedral posts from his Cathedral-Snake period. will trade deleted posts of his that only exist in my memory now.

[i-am-a-lesbigwen]

does anyone have that 4chan post about the guy who got like. deradicalised from being an incel because he started taking care of shrimp?

[nyxwoven]

i can't post pictures in replies so here u go

[i-am-a-lesbigwen]

thats the one! thank you!

[ziggy-scardust]

I think of shrimp guy often and I hope he and his shrimp are doing great and if I ever meet him I would love to ask about them

[thathopeyetlives]

He was never radicalized! He didn't deradicalize because he was not radicalized in the first place!

[the-grey-tribe]

That post is from 2018, so the word is used in its original meaning there.

[quietsibilant]

given that he uses it to describe himself, isn't the use ironic, not the way it was originally used? the way people used to use "virgin".

[quietsibilant]

guy who pronounces "octopuses" "octopussies"

[quietsibilant]

alternate universe where France got Jordan and Britain got Syria.

[tchinoquenonai]

trying to find a way to have the Americas be known as "Brasil" in the world of Ich Sé Scadar... with North America being known as "High Brasil" and South America as "Low Brasil", naturally

[fruityyamenrunner]

thoughts at this time?

[quietsibilant]

curl the NW end of Low Brazil upwards a bit so that it at least follows the Mississippi. it shouldn't go into the High Plains.

[fruityyamenrunner]

i drew this with my dick on a phone, PA getting in the way, riding the bus. this is not reddit, you do not have to infer Timelines. there is no Worldbuilding.

[quietsibilant]

it was about geography, not timelines or settlements. the central plains are drier.

[tchinoquenonai]

trying to find a way to have the Americas be known as "Brasil" in the world of Ich Sé Scadar... with North America being known as "High Brasil" and South America as "Low Brasil", naturally

[fruityyamenrunner]

thoughts at this time?

[quietsibilant]

curl the NW end of Low Brazil upwards a bit so that it at least follows the Mississippi. it shouldn't go into the High Plains.

[tchinoquenonai]

sneezing from sunlight always makes me feel like a particularly retarded dhampire. "one fourth undead on my father’s side" type of nonsense. i’d prefer spontaneous combustion to this shit…

[quietsibilant]

the worst part is that it's an actual detriment to aircraft pilots.