#narfsrandomthoughts

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norfair food web (unreadable)

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fuck it. nightmare metroid fanfiction

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"multiple emanations of one cosmic being" is a very old and classic concept in fiction but i have to say, one of the metaphors for it that made the most impression on me still comes from battle for zendikar's story articles... i remember this one sometimes and it makes me happy

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we stand now at the end of a nonsensical american concept, the idea that one could be "socially progressive and economically conservative". this is why the democrats are useless, that description means "person who says being bigoted is bad but will do nothing to change the fundamental elements of society that keep those out of power from being exploited"

every day now i spend pondering how we phrase bigotry as though it's an inbuilt personal element of evil individuals that tarnish a perfect system, rather than a tendency to constant reassert the status quo through the machinery it current provides and protects. we economically privilege a certain idea of marriage and treat children as parents' property. a system that keeps everyone in a state of perpetual precarity where if you lose your source of income you lose everything means that those given the role of controlling income can control who they want

the concept of people accepting that nobles are inherently superior seems insane to us, wouldn't everyone stand up against it? but it's literally the same tendencies as people have now, "noblesse oblige", the idea that nobility followed certain requirements to deserve their position. and so, in turn, if a noble was cruel to those under them, could it not be said that the noble was simply a bad apple in a system that otherwise functioned acceptably? people reinforce whatever world they're in, they accept it, they rationalize it, they defend it as obvious and inarguable

if you do nothing to alter the economic and legal conditions that create power disparities, then all you do is reinforce them. that is how bigotry truly becomes manifest, when people are given power over another's life and death. seek not to alter this and you are only virtue signalling

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i had a sort of strange dream where fantasy towers and floating islands were giant magical creatures that wanted to induce humans to enter them (maybe to live in them?) so they could eat them on an occasional basis.

the towers were kinda like, green solid plates connected by grey connective tissue that could seal up or expand a bit. the one i saw had a bunch of fake "flowers" they would grow near them that would routinely bob their head towards the body and had various colorful patterns on them. they would like. change though. like holographic pokemon cards or a cuttlefish's skin or something. it was like the tower kind of knew what a flower and what a sign and what an usher was but didn't really get that something in the middle was just kind of strange

my family were researching and had investigated a floating island for a while. i thought they couldn't possibly eat enough to sustain themselves but reasoned they would only eat very occasionally and mostly used smth else. kinda like a mix of a bromeliad and a pitcher plant? they generally supported an environment of various inhabitants inside them but like a carnivorous plant they really needed a small amount of a trace vitamin they only got by eating occasionally. i think that for some reason they needed at least some "intelligent" prey or their magic wouldn't work

i think ultimately it was usually not a bad deal to live in one once a map of it was established, but it was good form to let it eat all the corpses b/c otherwise it'd start trying to eat people at random every so often.

floating islands were weirder, i think they were very closely related but they didn't have a stalk. they got wider at the bottom like a round mountain and spent more of their time with plates locked together, whereas towers would often expand and contract based on the day and temp. they would land on a regular basis and then spend time traveling. people would want to take control of them bc they were powerful for movement control. having to feed it people was an acceptable downside for air power

not sure how smart they all were. i got the impression that at the very least they didn't talk, even magically. but i think they had more than instinct. we were pretty sure this tower grew "flowers" b/c it... personally heard... "women like flowers?" from somewhere??? they would just kind of do things like they were trying to keep one step ahead of changing behaviors even in their own lifetimes. so i think they were probably intelligent but they would take a long time to form thoughts and you couldn't really "commune" with one in a systematized way, even if you were a sorcerer. that said if people could control the movement of the islands they probably had some means of manipulating them

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i don't unleash my sonic autism very often but i have a weird sort of sonic autism by modern standards b/c i never played adventure 2 as a child and so i didn't imprint on that. the games i obsessively played were 2, 3, then 1, and then we rented adventure dx once and it made an impression on me.

when i see people putting labyrinth zone in like d and f tier on tier lists im like are you insane. so many people are like "wtf it's slow and you die so this zone is bad" when i earnestly believe the weird points where classic sonic becomes hard and obtuse and kills you are what give it character...

sorry having a Gamer's Madness for no reason LOL im gonna make a level tier list at this point

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in ygo there's a dragonmaid archetype and we had most of them in both humanoid and dragonoid form for years

but there was one that we didn't have a dragon form for and it was very mysterious like hmm what could she be like what is the secret

everyone speculated for years what she would look like well anyway we finally got her dragon form as legacy support and

something about this is so funny to me. she looks so goofy and i dont even know why. her beakie...

my new theory is that she thinks she looks silly in dragon form and so she barely ever transforms and that's why it took so long for her to show up

...anyway to continue their commitment to the bit they added ANOTHER even higher ranked maid with form unknown so check back in in 2030 for when we learn what lady's maid turns into

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i honestly appreciate that this guy has pivoted into talking about how genegineering is the future every day because i think most people who are sort of like mad scientists are like fake as fuck and do boring banal shit like weapons development... but i kinda gotta respect "horrible ethics violation by performing gene modding to try to make children of hiv positive people resistant to hiv" like that's a motivation i get lol. i understand the grind to some degree