rampaging-poet

[rhymewithrachel]

watching twilight and I keep making myself laugh imagining if it was just alucard or any other vampire instead of Edward. POV nausferatu goes to ur school

[markovchaingang]

your know the romantasy booktokers are poseurs because if they really wanted to date a billionaire all it would take is consistently retweeting elon musk's cringe chuddy memes and saying some conservative-redditor coded shit in his replies for a few months

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

crucially the billionaire in the fantasy is attractive and not actively unpleasant to be around

[phaeton-flier]

There's also that a big part of these fantasies is being effortlessly beautiful and desired; the fantasy is attracting billionaires by being yourself, not by making active attempts at bagging a billionaire. (That's dirty gold digger behavior!)

Part of the fantasy is simultaneously having access to all of the wealth and power of the billionaire and being able to reject it, and him, if he isn't also A Good Person, or whatever

[phaeton-flier]

playing in the original format yugioh, and man is this game so pure. just a bunch of chuuni monsters and a dream. no, no, they're not good.

[galileosballs]

I like how in every other JRPG the villain is, like, a 4000 year old wizard, or a god, or a semi-literal evil concept from the dawn of time, and in Tales of the Abyss it's just a guy who's 27

[galileosballs]

For the record, this is one of the best things about a very good game. Weave your complex political, magical, and personal stakes together well enough and you too can have a villain who's just a guy who's 27.

[thefeminineurge]

[the-world-annealing]

"This pope did a good thing so he's good" "You fool you useful idiot popes are always bad" - I think both of you people would really benefit from this concept called 'value over replacement'

[argumate]

pope good relative to other popes, still bad compared with non-popes.

[phaeton-flier]

See also: US presidents, actually just about every major political leader really,

[argumate]

Taylor Swift should date Barack Obama, for the drama

[argumate]

they could double date with Trudeau and Katy Perry

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[cameoappearance]

You ARE lost, my bus friend. That is a BC Transit bus and a bus stop in Vancouver, the one (1) city in the province whose transit system isn't part of BC Transit.

[revcleo]

One of my friends who knows about this bus says it's a privately owned bus owned by a transphobe?

[cameoappearance]

Well, that's unfortunate. Do you have any more details?

I guess it would explain why it doesn't have any actual BC Transit logos on it? Just the stripes.

[prokopetz]

We've had gacha RPGs about libraries and pharmaceutical companies as paramilitary organisations – I feel like the next obvious unexplored frontier is public transit. The player takes on the role of a route planning director for a puzzlingly well armed quasi-governmental transit agency. All of your agents have bus driver aesthetic.

[prokopetz]

You'd think providing free public transit would be a no brainer in terms of maintaining good relations with existing nation-states, but in practice a lot of them hate you because you provide bus service to places people aren't supposed to be able to leave. There's a whole quest line about keeping Route 666 to Hell up and running.

[pachelbelsheadcanon]

That route must cost a lot in road maintenance since you have to repave it using good intentions instead of asphalt.

[prokopetz]

You're working for an organisation that's willing to fight demons to keep a bus route open. Good intentions are not in short supply!

[prokopetz]

Inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons adventure premise #137: Diplomatic mission to a kobold warren culminating in a personal audience with what appears to be a shitty cardboard puppet made up to resemble a dragon, but is in fact a real dragon that just looks like that.

[prokopetz]

It occurs to me that Mina the Hollower's setting might best be described as an abortive soulslike milieu, in that you show up just when things are starting to get bad, and – in the standard ending – proceed to kill King Big Sad Guy just before he's able to successfully do the Flame Thing.

(Heck, you even have to fight Hell Fuck Castle's steward, the terrible HorseDog – or, rather, TurtleCat – at one point. It's very conscious of the forms of the genre!)

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of people were raised being told that things are bad with no explanation as to why they’re bad and I don’t think I know enough about psychology to make any big statements about that

but anyways I think a lot of people see cheating on your partner as bad because they were just told that sex outside of your partner is bad or something but really cheating on your partner is bad because you had an agreement based on trust with them and you broke that trust so like why should they trust you with anything else now

[what-even-is-thiss]

The thing about taboos related to sex as well is that there’s a lot of diseases that can be transmitted through sex and in a world without condoms or antibiotics or super effective birth control it kind of makes sense to discourage people from sleeping around a lot because like. Abstinence only sex education is stupid but if you choose abstinence for yourself it is in fact very effective at preventing disease and pregnancy.

And if you have sex with someone other than your partner without telling them, well, then you’ve just exposed them to whatever diseases that other person might’ve been exposed to. That’s a risk they didn’t consent to.

But see explaining this to people makes too much sense I guess. Instead a lot of people are just like “sex bad” with no elaboration as to why they might be telling you that.

[what-even-is-thiss]

As a Wesleyan, sometimes the only way I can handle the things people say about "all Protestants" is by intentionally narrowing the definition. You're not a Protestant unless your church traces a direct line back to the Protestant Reformation. ...but then at least half of the things people say about "all Protestants" is true of Calvinists but not Lutherans.

As a Lutheran, yeah. Again, I’ve seen a lot of people assume that Protestants don’t drink. I used to go to Bible study group at a bar sometimes.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Shoutout to the woman who used to let me drink out of her flask full of peach flavored vodka at the bar during Bible study before I turned 21 so I wouldn’t feel left out. God bless her wherever she is.

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

[sistersorrow]

The ship would be peak if the fandom was actually shipping those two characters and not lookalikes in cosplay with completely different personalities

[argumate]

Two big banks have slashed their house price forecasts. The numbers are hair-raising

The signs are difficult to ignore: an avalanche of sellers, increasing levels of stale stock sitting on property portal shelves, and auction

ANZ expects home prices in Australia’s two biggest cities to fall about 8 per cent this year. “But that weakness is spreading across the country, and we are forecasting price falls in all the capitals next year,” its economists warn.

NAB says the falls across the eight capital cities will be driven by 6-7 per cent drops in Sydney and Melbourne house prices, and a material slowing in the mid-sized capitals.

To the extent economists see a recovery in prices in 2028, it is on the back of the expectation that interest rates will be falling and that Donald Trump won’t launch another sentiment-crushing conflict.

You can’t really bank on either of those conditions.

Australian renters looking to buy might finally catch a break

How do I explain to you people that interracial relationships are okay

Not every white person dating a POC is fetishizing. White people can be respectful and responsible when it comes to culture and relationships and not everyone has bad intentions.

Asian people can date Black people without you saying shit like “your kids will be so pretty” they’re not dating for pretty kids. They’re dating bc they like each other.

Someone can dress their partner in clothing from their culture if they want. Someone can take their partner to cultural events if they want.

People in relationships can share cultures, experiences and love without it being toxic or skin deep.

Their partner isn’t culturally appropriating. Their partner is being shown the ultimate form of love, bc their partner trusts them and loves them enough to share their history and heritage.

Yeah, dating someone from your culture is nice bc you automatically have similar experiences. But you’re not limited to dating people with the same experiences. Loving someone is sharing and growing and being together.

Interracial relationships aren’t always toxic, and some of y’all need to stop projecting onto other people.

[spoonoftar]

👆 THIS 👆 👏👏👏

[the-real-gingakid]

Calling ineterracial relationships toxic or fetishizing just seem like anti race mixing or racism with extra steps

[skyhon]

This reminded me of this

[sistersorrow]

This outfit is 100% Karen approved!

[prokopetz]

In spite of being the trope namer, the Backrooms are of course not the origin of the "person wanders into a liminal space underlying normal reality which resembles an empty yet inescapable version of some mundane environment, and where there might or might not be a Creature What's Gonna Getcha" genre of horror. This basic premise existed for decades before 4chan got its hands on it – though in the absence of a popular "standard formula", many prior examples contain only some of its central features, so their classification is often arguable.

Which brings us to the topic of today's dumb argument: is Stephen King's The Langoliers (1990) a Backrooms?