"Downtown St.Polype"

[bogleech]

I've had this conversation 4 times this week but characters in stories aren't SUPPOSED to be bluntly verbally confronted by other characters about their bad behavior.

I get that a lot of people naturally have difficulty with non-literal communication but in *serious* storytelling, the morality of the characters is supposed to be "addressed" symbolically and wordlessly. If a character is mean, and then gets eaten by a dinosaur, that *is* supposed to be enough acknowledgement that they were an asshole. The author, their god, metered out karma.

I scrapped a much longer post about this but it's only mostly in kid's media, and frankly only recently, that characters explain in words what was right or wrong about one another's actions, and that only happens because Disney Channel forces the writers to shoehorn that in against their will. Writers expect you to be smart enough to already know right from wrong, and the "justice" experienced by characters is often expected to be partially or completely meta.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"

the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.

[greatwhiteheat]

Enrique Gomez De Molina

[chimeride]

Untitled, the 267th Known One.

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Not gonna say it'll happen soon but one of these days we'll just see Trump fall asleep on live TV and just. Never wake up. He'll die peacefully in his sleep and it will be televized

It's absolutely amazing how his entire entourage pretends like his "dying peacefully in his sleep" mode wasn't fully engaged

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

[nonetoon]

I need to get back to drawing freaky little cryptid guys I think

[nonetoon]

His name is Possum please be nice 2 him

[cheaphalloweencostume]

yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes

“there’s that penny again, pa!”

[secreteggplantbaby]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[bogleech]

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Just watched a Youtube essay about the 'Alien' franchise ("Why Weyland-Yutani Wanted the Xenomorph So Badly") that argues that Ripley's quest is not just against Evil or Capitalism, but ultimately against the very impulse to Get The Alien.

She might be "morally correct" through and through, but the uncomfortable truth is that her goodness is about closing a door forever. She wants to kill the predatory alien body horror pregnancy brood parasite and for humanity to keep it as far away as fucking possible. She doesn't care about what secrets it holds or whatever could be gained or learned from capturing it, she cares about the immediate and horrific harm it does to human beings.

And again, as the essay argues, that IS objectively good of her. But if we accept that, we also have to accept that there is such a thing as a categorical No when it comes to exploring the universe and other lifeforms in particular. You don't capture the alien, you don't study it, you don't even LOOK at it, you JUST kill it, is the idea. Can you agree with the hero, and disagree with the evil corporation, as HARD as you should? And if you can, can you appreciate the tragedy of having to close that door forever?

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

[teaboot]

"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen

[bogleech]

We should fix this and start saying "stupible"

[nonrandomduck]

Manic spider grill with a girl-failure side blog

[bonbonandfang]

I chibified an assortment of AH characters!

[sanktpolypenbourg]

You know what, I feel I really made up my mind. You guys can do World History without me, I'll just try to survive whatever you come up with

[sanktpolypenbourg]

I kinda worked on the implicit hypothesis that the world would be a better place if everyone tried to keep every angle of every issue in mind at all times and simultaneously and with good faith, but part of my Growing Up is that nobody can fucking do that and you're best off sticking to a handful of things in front of you. Like you actively got to make yourself dumber in some ways to not go crazy or die of exhaustion. That explains a lot about WHY the world is as it is, by the way. You pick a lane and/or try to stay out of trouble and I am starting to think that's the only way to live as an adult at all

[starlightomatic]

i know its good to expose yourself to different perspectives but sometimes i see a take so bad i just unfollow whoever put it on my dash. in this case there was just so much nuance this person was missing, and they were being callously cruel about a group of people i don’t think they really understand or care about, and also fundamentally misunderstanding their detractors’ points… and it’s like yeah, i could construct a strong rebuttal, but i don’t want to. for one i don’t feel like it, for another i know they won’t be capable to taking in what i’m saying and will just double down and it’ll turn into a fight. i’d rather do puzzles and take walks and pet a cat. frankly i would rather bedrot. if you’re so certain this is a correct take then that’s fine but byeeeeeeeee

[sanktpolypenbourg]

You have to admire how all the worst people in the world are destroying civilization in a way that is juuuust gradual and business-as-usual enough that there will be no fucking reckoning

On my worst days I daydream of, say, Trump, doing something to the American people that is abrupt and horrible enough that everyone goes Shit we need new Nuremberg Trials and maybe some polished international projects and reconsider some things in general

But the "strongmen" of our age have truly perfected the art of enshittification. Might still get the same number of people killed, probably more, but it doesn't slip into that oh so crucial "we REALLY gotta do something about them" slot.

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Generally speaking sometimes with people making RTS and RTS mods it might be a handicap if they're too good at the game. They are proud of their craft and/or feel self-conscious vis à vis the esports superclick champions so they feel they must make everything fast and punishing.

When you start a game, you start slow and educational, you don't pick folks up at champions level.

That's what classic rts games almost always did, up to teaching you how to click with a mouse. Experienced players might find it embarrasing, like "I'm not a baaaaby anymore", but they forget that this is not a "I'm a big serious grown-up gamer" contest. This is about getting to know a game and dive into its world. All your great classics probably were not enjoyable to you because they yelled "You are in E-SPORTS now, maggot" at you as soon as you booted it up .

As a designer, you might be proud of beautiful elaborate tech trees, but campaigns and such are an excellent occasion to make almost each unit and structure meaningful and interesting by devoting *time* and breathing space to try it out and learn its place in gameplay and lore. Not give you a million options on a 2 minute time sensitive mission.