Baby Slut Riker

Your typical hardcore casual frog

[tiktoksformyfriends]

[video by someantics__. caption: Always a tough situation]

[drawsshits-inactive]

anders making straight male gamers uncomfortable is my #aesthetic

[mago-emplumado]

[amanitaphalloides]

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

[amanitaphalloides]

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[dragon-age-tournament]

Dragon Age Fight Club — Group #19 / Match 4 of 6

Cailan Theirin

"People remember the ogre killing him, understandably, but that was in the middle of Ostagar collapsing under a darkspawn horde. Losing to a giant darkspawn brute during a failed major battle is not the same as being useless. Most normal people in Ferelden would not survive long enough to be dramatically picked up by the ogre in the first place."

"if he can spend the entire opening of origins surrounded by grey wardens and still think “yes, this is where i should be,” then he at least has the courage stat maxed. whether the wisdom stat survived character creation is another question."

vs. Raleigh Samson

"he’s a former templar in red lyrium armour with enough raw strength that people compare him to a demon. he has templar training underneath all the red lyrium corruption, so you’re dealing with actual disciplined anti-mage combat experience plus the world’s worst performance-enhancing mineral"

"“as dangerous as any demon, perhaps worse” is wild codex wording for someone we first met looking like he was one second away from passing out"

"if you need a side quest to make his armour less awful before fighting him, maybe he deserves a little respect in the murder poll."

"Probably already lost most of the normal human fear response by Inquisition. He’s too deep in addiction, rage, red lyrium, and Corypheus’ cause to back off because a fight hurts"

Who would win in a fight?

Cailan

Samson

Remaining time: 2 days 21 hours

[fallout-lou-begas]

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

Just saw a news story where they took time to point out that when Tyler Robinson was arrested he was wearing a shirt the same color as the one he wore when Kirk died. Treating it like this was just the most daming evidence. Ah yes the most heinous crime: Outfit Repeating.

[sweatermuppet]

closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator, 1970s

[tiredyke]

[ID: a picture of an article that says, “Hopefully gay liberation will continue to raise confusing issues until the world at large becomes so confused and befuddled about sex and gender and all that people can finally stop worrying if "it's a boy or a girl" and get around to being free to be and to love people.” /end ID]

[escapedaudios]

When I was a little boy, girls used to just do random cartwheels for no reason. Then one day, they stopped. Now that I am a man, no women randomly do cartwheels. This is because society is evil and killed the cartwheel impulse in their soul. They don't even spin horizontally anymore. It's fucked up.

[depsidase]

[earhartsease]

environmental storytelling from some tiktok craze maybe?

or a "Warning: hollywood musicals ahead" sign

[escapedaudios]

When I was a little boy, girls used to just do random cartwheels for no reason. Then one day, they stopped. Now that I am a man, no women randomly do cartwheels. This is because society is evil and killed the cartwheel impulse in their soul. They don't even spin horizontally anymore. It's fucked up.

[kropotkindersurprise]

[self-proclaimed-himejoshi]

So I finally got into "I'm in love with the villainess" thanks to a friend of mine that convinced me and I still cannot believe this is real

And my favorite scene of all:

[hilema]

If we were tectonic plates would you grind against me be honest

[rintezukas]

gamecube was the best designed controller of all time exclusively for the button cluster that gave you easy thumb roll access to all buttons but also gave you the a button as a thumb rest (because it’s the one you press the most) and took into account the frequency with which each button gets pressed in its design rather than doing the stupid diamond design that gives no button priority and rests your thumb in the shitty blank space between buttons

[rintezukas]

The Diamond Button Layout Is The Bleeding Stump Where Form Cut Function’s Head Off

[hunter-rodrigez]

Also, the holes for the thumbsticks are octagon-shaped.

When you push a stick all the way to the edge, it will lock into one of these corners. This helps with stuff like walking in a perfectly straight line or steering all the way to one side, which is great for people who struggle with fine motor skills.

Like young kids, aka the target demographic for the gamecube, for example.

[apollomission8]

I love Carl so much. He wasn't in the book–He's a narrative device so that Grace has a reason to explain his thoughts outloud. He's a stand in. A student for Grace. A person to bounce ideas off of. He's the part of the narration that is filled by the reader in the book. He's us. Carl is there so Grace can take us shopping. So he can show us his theories. So he can work through his hypothesis. Carl is the audience. Carl is you. Carl is me.

[thestuffedalligator]

Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

[thestuffedalligator]

Also it's explicitly stated that the guy's consciousness is still alive and preserved on the alien planet. Jill is told this and then proceeds to defend the alien anyways, ensuring that her husband's brain is stuck in a jar on a desert planet. You love to see it

[melgillman]

Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year!  This one is called THE KING’S FOREST.  cw: blood, violence

[rayj4ck]

How the fuck did you make that last panel say so many things without using any words at all that’s so fucking cool.