I think those fancomics where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is transgender are cute and fun but I also think it's a deep misunderstanding of Calvin's character to think he would transition into a heterosexual normie who goes to her high school reunion. That girl would have neopronouns and fang implants
I know it's like 2 weeks too late to change it but I'm so mad I didn't realize that the band would obviously be called "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS". I walk the road of shame
So anyone else have many MANY thoughts on Warframe:tau after tennocon.
Just gonna wordvomit a bit.
the Lotus flashback and a glimpse of the "deal she did", the Drifter being the one to go in the pool to get her back and talk to Wally, also baby Natah was adorable.
the tau system flyby showing at least 3 pretty different planets and many moons (what happened on the first one to destroy it)
AND THEN ALBERT, is he the same albert we've been chasing or a different, did he go back in time twice then forward to stay in tau cause he has aged alot and when did he go there. Also hate to say it but glow up, i get it Loid he looks good and i dont think Loid would last any time being angry before going "damn why he look so good".
i really like the new...frame? and the implications of his creation and that there were others (clones or different chimeras?)
But the biggest thing is Tau itself and the sentients.
I want to know what happened? Like we know the war and the orokin and stuff but it's so interesting how these mysterious biotech robots have turned to that.
But it also makes sense.
They had the start of some kinda culture and civilisation in the Old peace and that was just a seed cultivated by the Orokin, rip that out in the war and they had nothing, no history no culture a very fresh sence of self from the bloom that was now being exterminated and a large fear of the hivemind(which we know little of exept for the need for orders and work).
i can imagine that when the cut the connection to the old system they just went "what now" while still feeling that rage and fear.
Now bloom is talked like a drug cause thats what it is, they need it to be people, and the Hivemind seems to have adapted to infect with the "rain" and i can only imagine the bloom is not like the original and what happened is the same thats happening to the Grineer.
Constant cloning of old stock is rotting it plus theres problably purities to the bloom stock and now you got drug empire.
It's so facinating that the Sentients left alone with this created a cyberpunk-ish world but that's just one planet, is there another where the hivemind is the dominant and we have more the type of sentient that we fight here in the sol system.
And seeing how Tau is what about the new war sentients, why did they come back? Are they another Faction, was it old grudges, to get back Natah or did they just want to leave Tau.
I want to hear Tau sentients talk about the war and Erra, do they know what happened, do they know about Ballas. Or was the war just some action of an fringe faction of old school sentients who couldn't leave the old system alone.
Do they even care.
Gheez i havent even talked about Adis, him being alive is good but thats what he became. The thought then is Wally tricking him with that memory, or are they tricking US with our memory. Was the light given or taken, either way the way to fight Wally is with love and hopefully forgiveness.
So I knew this was gonna hurt, it's a Jade shadows sequel so of course it's gonna hurt a bit, hell those feather diary entries still hit hard.
And at the beginning it was cool, cool music, Hunhow's still in the picture and stuff is setting up.
When we needed help i thought Drifter cause they're the (un)official therapeutic unfucker.
Then Umbra was revealed after so long, still playing that...darn song, and i realised
OH....this is gonna HURT hurt.
And then I got the chair from the top rope.
It's good, not great, it's rushed in parts, would love more of the futures and the protos and just everything but I get why they do it and it's still there for future stuff.
There are bugs, the after story content has some issues but it's ok.
But it's still one of the best stories so far, i rarely tear up from game story stuff but this got me. If I replayed it now I would be a puddle.
Realizing it's story of three dads, two who are broken and grieve how they "failed" their children, now helping this broken shadow mend a future that could and has and IS happening.
Then Hunhow...does what he does. I was so sure he was gonna pull some sacrifice stuff like this in Tau for Lotus.
The only think that kept me from actually breaking down was the sudden cooking game.
StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.
The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."
The Useless Web
Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)
Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."
Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."
In case anyone isn't aware, connections like that are literally called 'illegal' techniques in LEGO parlance.
Illegal building techniques are ones that aren't allowed in official LEGO sets, which always use building techniques designed for and intended by LEGO. The reason they're called illegal is because they stress the blocks in a way they weren't intended for, causing various kinds of material failure overtime.
As an example, the blocks in the example above slowly deform over time because, slowly warping until they don't connect very well to other blocks or each other.
So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.
I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.
Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.
(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)
(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)
Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period
You can research what people actually said in history!
In 1726, when William Brown was on trial for attempted sodomy in London, he didn't say "I was born this way", he said, "“I think there is no crime in making what use I please of my own body”.
In the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen didn't say, "A woman can do anything a man can do!", she said, God created men and women with different humours and having too much of the male elements will throw society out of balance.
In the 1860s, Millicent Garrett Fawcett didn't say, "Women are just as smart as men", she said, Men get to vote no matter how dumb they are.
In the 1850s, William Craft didn't say, "Africans are just as smart as Europeans and it's bigoted to say otherwise", he said that Africans have thick skulls “to defend the brain from the tropical climate in which he lived. If God had not given them thick skulls their brains would probably have become very much like those of many scientific gentlemen of the present day”
I genuinely like how all of those examples are killer quotes but also represent something that may be considered unkind or overly religious or oddly phrased or straight up untrue today. Excellent job picking them out @sourjen .
Also, let's note how the things these people said were not meant to be one-liners, newspaper-selling soundbites. Some were on trial, some were writing essays/books on issues that interested them, some were philosophers and political thinkers of their day.
And some of them were regular people who still didn't talk like we do today, they were eloquent even if uneducated. They had complex thoughts that might not "vibe" with modern instagram-post type motos, but they made their mark on history.
