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I’m BACK, and somehow I’m a WORSE PERSON than before :)

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oh no i will lose my !

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Becarfulwhatyouwishfor

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I know theres some good or interesting stuff in boruto. But i feel like it would ahve been for faithful to the original premise and finale of naruto if boruto was a low stakes sports anime.

In alot of ways naruto’s generation did reform they system and bring an era of peace. But its just child soldiers going to war at 16 instead of 13. And new threats keep appearing that only naruto and sasuke (not the main characters) can deal with.

But what if they has let the victory at the end of shippuden stand, there was lasting peace, no more children killing eachother? Sports anime

Boruto is still the spoiled son of the hero, still struggles to get his absent dads attention, but instead of training to join the ninja army hes training to join a “chunin” level fighting circut or ninja Olympics.

Im not even saying you should remove all the world ending conflicts and aliens, but make them breao the norm and force the peaceful generation of athletes to fight for what they have.

And then naruto and sasuke couldn’t fix every problem, since the main trio is a genin level team in a genin bracket.

(And sasuke training boruto is a secret tactic to get him strong for the real world alien threat since Naruto neglected to train him)

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[sevcon-iii]

But that's not a cat

[the-official-goose-god]

yes it is

[maryland-officially]

I've seen this fucking post 8 times

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And you’ll see it again

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FUCK THIS IS LIKE THE 12TH TIME

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So uhhh

Keep going then?

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@maryland-officially

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............whhhyyy

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@maryland-officially

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I will never be free of this post

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Why is this ostrich so pink? Is it part flamingo?

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[homunculus-argument]

Having played enough magic the gathering with random strangers digitally, at this point the only thing I don't understand about this game is how tf do people play this game irl face-to-face with each other without rampant wanton violence breaking out.

This mf had me ON A FIRING LINE with me having ZERO CREATURES on board and they had enough untapped cards to KILL ME TWICE OVER and instead of just attacking at me in the face THEY KEPT OVERTHINKING for so long that I had to kill myself just to end the game. Imagine being in ancient Rome, thrown into the gladiator ring, knowing that the only way you'll leave this stage is in pieces once the beast you're pitted against has torn you apart.

And the gate to the opposite side of the arena opens and out comes A FUCKING SLUG. God damnit fuck.

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immortality has its perks and its downsides. You’ve lived long enough to see society crumble, and rebuild itself twice now. Experienced countless languages and cultures.

The handful of times you regret your decision is when youve ended up imprisoned. Usually, you can wait out a sentence but it’s quite boring. And when a culture swings towards tyranny and life imprisonment becomes more common it’s a little harder to explain a way why you aren’t aging.

Your current captures have taken up a pseudo Roman aesthetic (though with modern concrete), and have been hosting public trials by combat for those in prison. For you it’s just something due to break up the monotony, get ragdolled around an arena for a few minutes by a bear or armored dude before you miraculously survive and get re-imprisoned or released.

“I hope it isnt another big cat.” You think as your dropped into the grey arena. “Theyre are starting to get endangered and I’d feel bad if I have to…”

No

…

It cant be.

…

How could the have even found it?!

On the other side of the arena, just barely visible in the mid day sun

The f*%&ing snail.

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The more I learn about the Star Wars history and the feud between Mandalorian and the Jedi/sith along with the different iterations of the republic and empire, the more I understand that there will never be peace between these factions. They won’t necessarily be fighting at all times and they may come to truces or cease-fires, but there is no way for both of these facts to keep existing as they are with their connections to their history and have any justified peace or unity.

I ask for some grace because I’m newer to deep Star Wars lore.

But if I were a Mandalorian, I would never in my life trust a representative of the republic or Jedi ever again.

Not knowing the ancient ancient history. Not knowing what started the conflict. Just knowing about the clone wars itself, and the siege of Mandalor is enough to make me never trust a Jedi again if I was a Mandalorian.

Because they laid siege to their planet with a clone army of in infamous Mandalorian (who was themselves a descendants of famous Mandalorian leadership) wearing bastardized Mandalorian style armor led by Jedi generals, all of which was orchestrated by an evil force user in control of the Jedi order.

Like it’s crazy, but I’m trying to put this in more real world-ish terms to capture its absurdity.

Imagine it’s a couple hundred years in the future and the British empire is a thing again, but it’s good this time they swear. But they also still have a royal family (jedi order) and they claim the royal family is not in control BUT They’re doing a lot of royal family adjacent stuff.

And then in response to America, (doing some questionable things that it probably shouldn’t be doing) the new British empire mounts a full scale invasion in the American continent. And not only is this invasion being led by members of the royal family. But the entire invading force are the bastardized (and enslaved) clones of Donald Trump Junior and Hunter Biden. All of the soldiers are wielding Temu quality offbrand American style assault rifles, and stars and stripes covered plate armor, but the stars and stripes are in the wrong colors.

British apologists may say “oh the clone army was actually a secret ploy by the evil Prime Minister.” But that Prime Minister is also a secret member of the royal family who just abdicated the throne is on bad terms with his siblings.

And then the Americans lose. And then in 20 or 30 years, everyone talks to and about the Americans like they’re being unreasonable for not trusting members of the British royal family because “oh it was actually ruled by an evil parliament”, and “it was also so long ago”.

Don’t care. We don’t need to fight a war over it every minute, but, don’t trust’em. Can’t trust the Jedi not if I’m a Mandalorian.

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Understandable reasons your high power character (dbz, superheros, anime in jeneral) becomes weak to bullets when they aren’t usually:

Strong skin/aura doesn’t negate force. And forced concentrated in a small area would either throw them back or maybe break bones beneath the skin.

Bullets and other physical projectiles are different than energy based attacks and again much smaller than fists and kicks. Ki or magic or plasma is good at deflecting kei magic and plasma, but not so good at stopping tiny bits of shrapnel that don’t just get incinerated by proximity.

And the classic, the Superman argument. Their bulletproof to the point where it would bounce off of them. But then I could hit someone nearby who isn’t bulletproof. So it’s better to dodge or catch the bullets if you can. And that way, if a character who should be bulletproof, but can toggle their power on and off ever gets shot (krillin), they can just say they took it intentionally so they didn’t ricochet and hit someone who would actually die from that kind of injury.

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Bad reasons to make your characters suddenly weak to bullets.

They havent trained in a while.

The bullets are magical (without setup or payoff)

They were tired/injured so their indestructibility just wore off i guess.

[redstonedust]

people love to see a character in a suit and go ''oh he would be such a tumblr sexyman back in the day" but i feel like we need to give tumblr sexyman more credit for their variety. never forget that sans undertale ruled so many fans hearts. thats literally a short fat(?) skeleton in shorts and slippers. you cannot pigeonhole the sexyman into just one genre of man. do not forget yourself.

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Big Boned and Proud

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Two Wizards reading the common law pamphlets about curses and hexes:

1: So i get why bloodline curses are super restricted, but why does it jump from misdemeanor too felony if you dont specify a generation?

2: oh, that parts in the forward to historical hexes. Guess a couple thousand years ago a bunch of witches really overused bloodline curses, but they didn’t think much about how genetics spread and families intertwine. And since they never wore off their curses technically effect… everyone now.

1: wait, so we’ve all been cursed for our entire lives and not known it? Why hasn’t someone done something?!

2: I think there were whole departments in some colleges looking into breaking ancient curses. But it’d be pretty hard if you don’t know where people are buried. Plus the curses are all kind of minor and once they get spread out that much they just seem normal.

1: Oh.. so what kind of curses are they.

2: they aren’t all listed out here, but one it mentioned said “when thine name is spoken by thine enemy, thou shall sob and cough and choke and croak.”

1: Sob and choke… hiccup?

2:yep

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Asking for writing advice as someone in their 20s.

What were some staple technologies from the late 80s and early 90s?

And I don’t just mean how clunky or expensive were certain items. I mean what would’ve been considered new or high-tech and what were fads that maybe didn’t stick around but were the rage?

What’s the cool thing you want in your pocket or in your home? What’s the new bit of tech that’s changing how your job works?

 Are there any gadgets or gimmicks that are over blown nowadays? Like did people actually use pagers? Is there anything we talk a lot about now? That was never actually used by most people?

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[wolchefant]

this is what it feels like to be insane

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This is a clip you see at the end of a horror game when it revealed your purgatory after a horrible accident.

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The thing about the Triforce of courage that I think botw and totk capture well is, links role as courage isn’t just a convenient queue. Good luck the ending. It is an embodiment of his role in the story.

Sometimes link is an unrivaled warrior with skill that can only be dreamed of by other warriors. Sometimes he’s a kid with a stick.

Regardless of the equipment link has he is going to be there and he’s going to be fighting. He might not always be winning, but he will always be fighting.

The master sword is tied the link not because it is the source of his power but because it just so happens to be the perfect weapon to counter the evil he has to fight. If link couldn’t get the master sword, he’d be swinging a mop handle at Gannon.

He will make use of any and every tool at his disposal to do what he has to do. So in a way all the players who build war crime machines in totk are embodying the force of courage.

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Every incarnation, Gannon expects link and he expects the master sword.

He never seems to expect the boomerang.

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The thing about the Triforce of courage that I think botw and totk capture well is, links role as courage isn’t just a convenient key to unlock the ending. It is an embodiment of his role in the story.

Sometimes link is an unrivaled warrior with skill that can only be dreamed of by other warriors. Sometimes he’s a kid with a stick.

Regardless of the equipment link has he is going to be there and he’s going to be fighting. He might not always be winning, but he will always be fighting.

The master sword is tied the link not because it is the source of his power but because it just so happens to be the perfect weapon to counter the evil he has to fight. If link couldn’t get the master sword, he’d be swinging a mop handle at Gannon.

He will make use of any and every tool at his disposal to do what he has to do. So in a way all the players who build war crime machines in totk are embodying the force of courage.

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I have facial hair. Decently thick hair above my lip, along with patchy hair on my cheeks and chin, and thicker hair be beneath my chin and down my neck.

But I’ve never thought of myself as a a person who “has “facial hair or has a mustache or a beard.

I sort of see myself and always think of myself as someone who’s clean shaven, or just needs to shave.

I’m someone who’s behind on shaving not someone who doesn’t shave.



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Obviously, book bands and book burnings are terrible than and now.

But i think in our modern era, the removal or destruction of reliable digital sorces of information, for both science history and healthcare, is closer in spirit and effect to the Nazi book burnings than the current book bans.

In modern day, most book bans just drive up the popularity of those books on the market, but the destruction of online resources that were free and accessible to everyone actually reduces that information‘s ability to be learned.

 I don’t have a point here I’m just. Processing.

A lot of the links on the cdc’s website don’t go anywhere anymore. They haven’t been removed just. Dead.

Instead of the forward on those pages is pseudoscience that would be disproven by the articles they linked to.

Its just so.. inelegant.



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I understand that in the Star Wars lore, the color of your Lightsaber has official or traditional meanings. But because of this, I feel like, especially if you’re fighting other force users or former Jedi, you should probably change that up as a tactic.

You can’t do anything about the red light sabers since that just happens at some point when you become a Sith. But if green and blue are the signify someone who’s focused on force powers versus dueling, maybe just swap colors at some point?

The green light saber is supposed to signify someone who has focused on certain light saber forms and the development of their force powers so when fighting them, you should try to disrupt their concentration and put things in more of a physical duel. But if I’m a blue Lightsaber user with a green Lightsaber, I want you to close the distance so I can punch you in the face. Same swapping green for blue.

And I know having so much of my attention focused on how to deceive and overpower my opponent would probably make that lightsaber turn red anyway, but I still feel like someone should’ve done this at some point.