accumulating life

oof

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.

Now seems like an appropriate time to bring these cartoons back, with the passing of Texas’ new law requiring the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetal remains. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Trudeau decides to write the sequel.

(Source)

[whatbigotspost]

God. You’ll have to excuse me openly weeping atm. I remember being horrified when that law hit the books here.

I had no idea how much worse it would get in 10 year’s time.

[beardedmrbean]

Congratulations on the cat

[discount-supervillain]

[prokopetz]

The three essential blasphemies of contemporary gaming:

First-person shooters where you gun down angels

RPGs where you kill God at the end

Metroidvanias where you fight the Pope

[chiropterearcanique]

I am not knowledgeable in the noble art of pope fighting and the only game I've played featuring it wasn't a metroidvania, but given the post's phrasing I take it this is a common thing?

[prokopetz]

Blasphemous (2019) is almost certainly responsible for popularising the trope via its final (non-DLC) boss fight (spoilers for the bad ending, if you care), though it's been imitated here and there since. The forthcoming Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World showcases a very promising Pope fight in its latest teaser trailer (skip to 0:38 if you're impatient), and the current demo for Being and Becoming features an excellent fight with an evil nun (gameplay footage – nun at 1:33), so I'm hopeful for a proper Pope fight in the full game.

[reddeckwinner]

Also what are some fps games where you fight angels? The only one that comes to mind is ultrakill. Most other popular entries like the New Blood fps catalogue and classic FPS games like Blood and Doom have you fighting demons pretty exclusively.

Just generally games in the FPS genre are far more often aligned with demon killing as opposed to angels.

[prokopetz]

Doom Eternal (2020), most obviously. Yes, the "angels" are technically alien cyborgs, but the demons in the Doom franchise are technically aliens too, so it counts.

(That one goes the extra mile blasphemy-wise by pulling a sort of reverse Gnostic thing and revealing that its Satan analogue is the true author of Creation, while the usurping demiurge who imprisoned him is theoretically the good guy!)

[prokopetz]

@meandering-monotreme replied:

honestly it's weird that you DON'T fight the pope in silksong

I agree that Silksong is a remarkably Catholic game for presently lacking a Pope fight, but I wouldn't rule it out just yet – Team Cherry have added major boss fights in DLC in the past, and we already have at least one DLC confirmed.

(Granted, Sea of Sorrow doesn't seem like a terribly likely venue for a Pope fight, unless it's... like, a pirate Pope, or something.)

[rincewind87]

You definitely fight angels in Diablo 3. You fight hell demons, then you fight angels.

[prokopetz]

I expected the folks in the notes arguing that Assassin's Creed II is a metroidvania, but "Diablo III is a first-person shooter" is admittedly a new one.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down

[alettertofutureme]

History is not done with us yet my friend

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened

[cafffine]

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

[rheumaticrhetoric]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

And every single Republican in Congress that voted against this infrastructure bill went back to their home states and took credit for the reduced amount of money that ultimately filtered down.

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[socialistexan]

Babe wake up, new all time great image just dropped

[adz]

no caption can possibly make this funnier

[soulsingerinasessionband]

happy birthday ole worm

[adz]

happy birthday ole worm

[frigbob]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: When you walk the Jianghu, be fast (cr 兜里有糖)

[teaboot]

ARE THESE BIRDS❔❔❔

[goth-queen]

[itmeblog]

So the fun part about GenZ slang being almost 100% AAVE is that I have a dictionary from 2001, from before I was old enough to even know how to use a dictionary, right? And this ain't that abridged shit this is the three columns 8 point font, pages made of tissue paper bound into a book that is 4-5 inches thick shit. You follow?

And there are all these reports on how new slang is and how to understand it and getting it wrong. BUT 2001 GOT ME

TWO THOUSAND AND ONE

[1dietcokeinacan]

Daily reminder that economists are useless hacks who should not be listened to under most if not all circumstances

[robotticellis]

i’m just gonna pretend daft punk was in pacific rim. i’m gonna pretend that they pilot a jaeger called electroma bravo and they blast house music with the kaidonovskys and when stacker shows raliegh around the shatterdome he’s like, “that’s thomas and guy-man. french. they never take their helmets off.”

[zombeesknees]

#i would even believe their jaeger was just called ‘daft punk’ tbh   #just for the image of like Battleaxe Triumph or whatever get into trouble and they call back up like ‘deploy Daft Punk!’   #and it had a like a reuters news tickertape display on the outside scrolling like ‘bonjour’   #and then the beat drops and the punching starts