it's truly insane how much more functional society would be and how much happier everyone would be if every job was perpetually 10% overstaffed (and people who weren't needed could chill and rotate in when needed while still getting paid) instead of 10-50% understaffed but that wouldn't be 'efficient' (in the short term, for shareholders) so fuck everyone I guess
Not me, a former Homestuck, recognizing ALL of these and being all time knife about it.
For those who don't know about the time knife, under the cut:
1. the vast majority of Homestuck's narration is in second person, and the narration often breaks through the fourth wall in similar humerous ways.
2. The alien race called trolls, parodying online trolls, speak in varying forms of 1337speak (leetspeak) with unique typing quirks for each character, with plenty of numbers being used as substitutes for letters. (Terezi uses A=4 E=3 and I=1, for example)
3. The trolls are born as grubs, and go through trials in dark caves before finally reaching the hatchery if they survive. This weeds out weak offspring.
4. Parents contribute genetic material into buckets, and never see or no about their offspring. The entire planet of Alternia consist of ONLY children, imperial drones, and beings called Lusii (singular: lusus) that raise the children. This was done, if I recall, to squash any potential family ties that might lead to community organization and rebellion against the spacefaring empire.
5. Homestuck went on for a VERY long time, starting in 2009, and I think only ending in 2016. Not to mention, aside from the hiatuses? Updates were almost coming out every. Single. Day. There is a LOT of content, a lot of jokes, and a lot of weird cultural references. Sheer probability means homestuck has likely touched on a surprising percentage of things people could say by chance, compared to literally anything else.
6. In Homestuck, there IS a lovely lady called Ms. Paint. She is a Prospitan, which is one of the two types of chess people, with her being based off a white pawn.
7. Gamzee is a stoner clown who is high 24/7 due to constantly eating the slime trolls use as bedding material. When he finally stops eating it, he goes on a murderous rampage (which may be related to corruption from an omniscient character, but I can't recall for sure)
8. A big part of homestuck, and an important part of the game Sburb they are playing, is where they have to breed a ridiculous amount of frogs in order to create the perfect frog. Their predecessors, the trolls, fucked up this process and gave their frog cancer.
9. The trolls contact the human kids through an odd chat client that can reach them through ANY point in their timeline, and one of them- Karkat- originally kept getting blocked... but due to the program being able to reach across space and time, blocking was not effective. There's also time shenanigans that go along really well with this.
10. The ultimate BBEG had been asleep in a green sarcophagus in the depths of space at the edge of the universe. Him waking up was a bad time for EVERYONE.
11. Back to the frogs. Remember the frogs? Sburb basically functions as the universe's reproduction cycle, and the frog that the trolls bred became OUR universe. Karkat gave our universe cancer. The universe is a frog, and Sburb basically transports a select few survivors who play the game away from the apocalypse it causes towards the end of the universe's life cycle, and they create a new one. In completely successful circumstances, they rule over the new universe as gods- but the Trolls got fucked up due to time shenanigans from the human kids' session, and thus blame them and are now hiding in an asteroid belt from this omnipotent god dog thing that also is stab happy and wants to kill everyone.
12. That text is not from the Trolls, but from the Exiles, who use computers they've found in deserted sci-fi machines to communicate directly into the minds of the human kids. These are accurate screenshots. This one, later to be known as The Mayor (all my homies love the mayor), was telling John to stop messaging his friend Rose- who types in purple text in their chat client. All trolls and humans have a specific text color.
13. All the trolls are based off of a zodiac sign each, and even their caste system and blood colors are based off of it. In-universe, their signs became our zodiac BECAUSE they created the universe.
14. Remember the apocalypse at the end of the universe's lifespan? Yeah, playing sburb triggers the apocalypse, which rains down meteors of increasing size that hone in directly on the player's home. They are then in a race against the clock to fulfill the requirements to transport themselves outside the universe so they survive, and play the game proper.
15. Remember the evil alien empire of trolls? The empress, known as Her Imperial Condescension (Condesce or HIC for short) went to the new universe by traveling so fast outside of the previous one as it collapsed she was able to break free of its confines, and was the last survivor other than the trolls that we know, found her way to Earth. She hid herself and began plotting, and uh. She's literally Betty Crocker. The Betty Crocker brand was founded by her, and she's also known as the Batterwitch. In the other timeline, she even takes over Earth and is responsible for global warming in order to terraform (aquaform?) it to be more suitable for HER lusus, which is an eldritch horror of tentacles that needs warm seas or something. I also think she mutated the troll race canonically to destroy the family units? I forget, it's been a loooong time.
AND THAT'S IT!
Really... this isn't even all the accidentally homestuck posts I have seen. Some really good specific examples, though- another one I vaguely remember was like, the infinitely spanning/planet-sized chessboard. That happens in Homestuck, too.
I respect the fuck out of this. The whole site is trying its hardest to go against every selling point the dog robots have as its selling points.
The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.
OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use. This thing? You're not gonna get many people to sympathise with it. The only people who would are monster and-or robot fuckers, and I believe these circles generally understand that a machine cannot be trusted (though of course many would willingly approach it for pervert reasons (positive) knowing full well it's a bad idea).
one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.
see when people try and nitpick me because i call my dog "my dog" when it's technically "the family dog".......well first of all i still call my brother "my brother" and not "the family boy". although maybe that should change. second of all sorry i'm still thinking about the family boy. btw i fell asleep while making this post last night and i think you can tell
Actually fuck it, I will risk putting some extra info on this because it's important for academics to know.
If you get a reject on reports like this: APPEAL.
A lot of academics are afraid to appeal or think that a rebuttal will just get sent back to the same reviewers, but any publisher worth their salt would send this to an advisory board member to adjudicate. It's shit that it needs to be done, because it creates work for authors AND editors and it slows everything down, but it is worth doing if you have a case! Do not let lazy fucks win and ruin your chances!
Do NOT be afraid to say:
- This comment is beyond the scope of the work presented, this work focuses on [x,y,z]
- These additional experiments are not relevant because [insert reason]
- I disagree with this point because [reason]
It's impossible for editors to be exact experts in every manuscript they handle, so rely on reviewers and authors. If there is a fundamental disagreement between author and reviewer, a good publishing house will ensure it is policy that board members are consulted for their expertise (this is what they are for!).
Peer review is a million miles from a perfect system, but good publishers do actually care about trying their best for authors and scientific integrity. I'm not going to pretend that there aren't a lot of dodgy publishing houses out there because there absolutely are, but it's worth pushing back if you get a bullshit report, because a good one WILL get an adjudicator.
Oh - and publishers do blacklist bad reviewers. They just need to know who the bad reviewers are.
Also, only tangentially related, do not be afraid to ask for extensions during a revision period. The publisher does not want to lose your manuscript. They get granted for all kinds of reasons and often you don't even need to provide a reason to get one.
so so crazy to hear the conversation in the US about "if employees get 1 or god forbid two whole weeks of vacation they will all drop their jobs and leave forever" when all my european friends have jobs with like 3+ week minimum vacation time. Some as many as 6. I know of people with 8 weeks of vacation because they're past a certain age.
"is 10 days of vacation time too much" jump off a fuckin bridge you hack journalist
This is about as unrelated as it gets, but I was once on a cooking competition show as background. I had a prep list, and while the contestants were front-stage, I was in the back of the shot, doing the prep list, looking chef-y, alongside some other BG. The prep list was double-duty, it was also making stuff for the contestants to use later, but our main job was just to make the kitchen look busier. I imagine that in most shots I was in, I was at best an out-of-focus blur behind the main shot.
So at the beginning, the contestants are showing off their knife skills and making little fruit sculptures or whatever, IDGAF, and they were being interviewed at the same time. "What does cooking mean to you?" and that kind of stuff.
I . . . was not supposed to be interviewed. I was BG. The interviewer apparently, did not know who was a contestant and who was BG, so they came over to me. And after all of these eloquent long-winded philosophy-and-dream guided answers, they come to me, and go "What is cooking?"
And me, deep in focus on looking professional and getting the prep list done and not listening to the interviews, aware that I'm not supposed to talk or be talked to (I'm not paid for speaking lines!), but also aware I am the focus right now, but also aware that they will cut this out of the televised part and I can relax and shrug him off, but also suddenly aware there's still a live audience and I can't just shrug him off, but also confused because I didn't realize he was fishing for a deep philosophical answer: "Cooking is making food".
Well. I got a laugh out of the live audience, and they must have decided to keep the line because my pay was upgraded from "SSE" (Special Skills Extra) rates to "Speaking" rates.
Fun fact! one of Strelka's puppies was named Pushinka and given to JFK as a gift to help ease Cold War tensions. Pushinka later had puppies of her own and her descendants are still living as of 2024.
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