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i'm literally begging people to relearn how to use earbuds and headphones. i don't wanna hear your fucking tiktok while im waiting for my flight.

southbreak

100% this.

narrativerehearsal

If someone sat next to you on the bus/in a coffee shop and sang bullshit in your ear all the way home/while you were trying to work you'd be rightfully pissed off.

If you're playing shit on your phone out loud you're just doing the technology equivalent of ranting in a stranger's ear. You're being an ass and you need to fucking stop.

parsonkenny101-deactivated20161

blondeninazenik

All y'all better be reblogging this

sawed-on-shotgun

basically begging people to look at the the onion headed infowars shit theyre putting out this is fucking me up badly

ravenlynclemens

calvin and hobbes

rocktopussy

pomme-poire-peche

"You misspelled Weltanschauung" is one of the funniest punchlines I've ever encountered.

one of my faves

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

kaylmao

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lilacchao

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

and we have pictures of giraffes of the time! what a beautiful gift from such a distant past

tigerdrop

if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are “owed”

sinsbymanka

It’s an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. I’ve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they can’t ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough

thevikingwoman

I agree with OP and Manka so very much.

You have to rest in your own desire to create.

But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.

It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.

And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.

the words used by OP is decouple, and this is important. Nothing wrong wanting engagement. But it cannot be tightly coupled with the drive to create.

dukeofdelirium

It’s really funny to me when I see Aang antis slandering him and claiming the gaang carried him. Ummmm…. if it weren’t for Aang, literally none of the gaang members would have ever become the great benders and nonbenders they grew into. If Aang had not come back to save Katara and Sokka at the very beginning of the show, they would have been cooked. Katara would never have become the greatest waterbender without Aang’s help, because he was the one that opened the door for her to even learn from a master. The same is true for Sokka. He would have never met his master or become a true warrior like he’d wanted. Zuko would have died multiple times over, because it was Aang whom he had to thank for repeatedly saving his life when no one else cared to. Toph would have never even left her parents. The entire earth kingdom would have burned to the ground if Aang hadn’t stopped Ozai, and the world would have ended. Every single character in the gaang would have died during Sozin’s Comet, that is if they didn’t all die well before that point. Let’s not get it twisted 😂 the gaang absolutely helped Aang, but he was carrying everyone to victory. The entire show was all of them going on a life changing trip with Aang. Toph even said exactly what the show was about concerning Aang and the group -> “I think you really did help those kids. You taught them to be free.”

Y’all can hate Aang all you want, and you can make up your dumb AUs where he gets replaced with whatever character is your fav, but the show would fall apart without him. None of these characters would be anything if his character didn’t exist.

gumi-megpoidd

did you have to use that photo for that

gumi-megpoidd

i mean good on them...? still paired with that image thats uh. interesting

gumi-megpoidd

laura-the-swarming

I respect the fuck out of this. The whole site is trying its hardest to go against every selling point the dog robots have as its selling points.

The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.

OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use. This thing? You're not gonna get many people to sympathise with it. The only people who would are monster and-or robot fuckers, and I believe these circles generally understand that a machine cannot be trusted (though of course many would willingly approach it for pervert reasons (positive) knowing full well it's a bad idea).

dingbatblr

oh yeah i saw everyone on tiktok freaking out about "if it can't harm humans why does it come with instructions to kill it" it's a safety feature in case of an emergency or malfunction where it needs to be quickly deactivated. "why is it so big and demonic why does it look like that" it's a safety feature so it can do dangerous labor and so you don't feel bad about killing it. "it was designed not to be able to follow you through doors?? why the fuck would it do that that's scary" it's a safety feature so you can't get cornered or have the person piloting it misuse it. "it doesn't have hands but it can attach CHAINSAWS to its limbs???" it's MADE TO WITHSTAND WILDFIRES IT'S NOT GONNA USE IT ON YOU "this thing gives me such bad vibes i do not trust it" GOOD!!! IT'S A ROBOT!!! IT IS A TOOL!!! IT'S A REALLY BIG AND COMPLICATED MACHINE THAT IS DESIGNED TO GO IN DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS WHICH WOULD MEAN IT COULD POTENTIALLY MALFUNCTION! USE YOUR BRAIN!!!

admittedly i do think that picture of it standing in the doorway with glowing white eyes is like comically frightening but it's SUPPOSED to be so you don't feel bad for it or approach it

once-a-polecat

Dude. As a person who lives in a place subject to both wildfires and earthquakes, this is BADASS.

For the last time!!!

Killing a wizard grants you her powers, but *almost* killing a wizard will make you an enemy for a dozen lifetimes. Bullets can *weaken* a wizard but the Mysterious Forces consider bullets too cringe to actually die from. You need a rock or something to beat her to death with. Yes, I know that sounds dumb. "Don't I need a legendary weapon or something?" Technically, yes. However, you're thinking too linearly. Any weapon that's killed a wizard retroactively becomes legendary. So you only really need to exceed the ambient temporal apathy for a few minutes to be granted an exception.

Note: beating a wizard to death with a rock only works if the wizard is already downed. Even a first day on the job wizard will have rudimentary defenses against such an attack. Unless it's a rock that's already killed a wizard.

Also, I know **most** of you aren't that dumb, but if you kill a wizard with a rock and then sell that rock on eBay....

You know what? I'm having my lunch in 10 minutes. Let's not go into detail. But just.... Don't.

nixcraft

beesmygod

also at the end when they ask you "any questions?" and you can't think of anything: ask about parking. even if you don't have a car.

homeschooledangel

I have an interview today in a couple hours, how did the algorithm know I needed this

faunlord

Btw when they ask if you have questions some actual good options are stuff like “what’s a typical day like in this role” or “is this job open because someone is leaving or is this a new position”

sequintial

Another good question I stole from a reddit post that has really impressed all interviewers (two job offers!) is: "let's say you hire me and in a year you're thinking you made a really great choice. What will I have done to make you think that?"

It gets them talking about what they're looking for in the role, thinking about how you could fit it, and lets you end the interview getting to reiterate how good you would be for the role and how enthusiastic you are for it.

nessataleweaver

If you get the 'tell me about yourself' I've actually had at least one interview where they want to know about you as a person.

It might be worth asking them "Do you mean professionally, to get an idea of my work, or personally to see how I'll fit into the workplace culture?"

iamheavymeta-lll

turing-tested

Sorry am on lsd. Shouldn't have told you 2 eat a sandwich. That is your decision not mine. Sorry

this ask is so awesome. my favorite part is I can't find the other ask they're apologizing for.

rathayibacter

UNLICENSED DRAFT: Which card are you taking? #15

Char Aznable

Deus Ex Machina

Taylor Hebert, "Skitter"

Voting ended onAug 15

These are three cards from my new game UNLICENSED, the pinnacle of slop-tactical trading card game design! You can download the full core set here for zero dollars because could you imagine.

But hey, if you wanna support me making awful decisions like "design a game made entirely of copyright-infringing assets," my legal fund is here.

rathayibacter

TWO WEEKS OF DRAFT!!!! TIME FOR A RECAP!

(for reference, here's the one week check-in!)

somehow yall managed to pick up nine cards this week thanks to two more tied polls. iCarly matched Gojo Satoru beat-for-beat, and it was apparently impossible to decide between a badass murder angel and a unified theory of quantum gravity. cool! let's take a look at this week's haul:

thekindlygrammarfairy

the BFG/Jug Star/Estradiol synergy looks so sick. 14/14/14 seems... Good. I don't know the rules at all lol

rathayibacter

UNLICENSED DRAFT: Which card are you taking? #15

Char Aznable

Deus Ex Machina

Taylor Hebert, "Skitter"

Voting ended onAug 15

These are three cards from my new game UNLICENSED, the pinnacle of slop-tactical trading card game design! You can download the full core set here for zero dollars because could you imagine.

But hey, if you wanna support me making awful decisions like "design a game made entirely of copyright-infringing assets," my legal fund is here.

rathayibacter

TWO WEEKS OF DRAFT!!!! TIME FOR A RECAP!

(for reference, here's the one week check-in!)

somehow yall managed to pick up nine cards this week thanks to two more tied polls. iCarly matched Gojo Satoru beat-for-beat, and it was apparently impossible to decide between a badass murder angel and a unified theory of quantum gravity. cool! let's take a look at this week's haul:

faelapis

sometimes i worry that *i'm* wrong and SU is bad/rushed/blah blah. then i remember whites fragile need to be perfect and ego defense of thinking she's fixing things. i remember how its perfectly mirrored by stevens need to fix others. how its both beautifully symbolic in CYM an made more explicit and heart-rending in future.

yeah that shit rules. white being reformed is great. its the ultimate rebuttal to the ideology that only good/useful/perfect people deserve to live- which is exactly the standard white held herself and everyone else to. it mirrors stevens arc of selfless heroism. it mirrors the toxic, insecure selflessness thats plagued everyone from pearl to jasper to rose about what it means to "deserve" to live it ties into "love like you" of how learning self-love is intertwined with loving others. it ties into how steven can't let go of his hero role until he's confronted by *literally* having his own mind in white's body, hating the idea of being like her yet ironically reacting exactly how she would - "this is someone bad for society, they should be shattered, this is what's best for everyone." trying to hurt her only hurting him. trying to help her helping all of gemkind - from the corrupted gems to dismantling a system that was held up by those exact ideals.

yeah no SU is fantastic. i'm so sad that its reputation is "oh well it wasn't that good, but it had some lgbt+ rep :)" which is just about the most condescending crap ever. i would gladly flip it. i think most cartoons that have come after SU haven't been that interesting, they've just been mostly generic stories with some lgbt+ rep.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Steven Universe and it wasn't after they made the alien invasion plot explicit, the part where everyone says it 'gets good', like you have to wade through the earlier stuff like it's a fucking slog and not some of the best children's television out there. I fell in love with SU in episode 2, at this moment:

"Well done, Steven! You saved most of Beach City!"

Yeah sure, plenty of shows do a silly 'haha things got broke' bit, but this was different. This was bringing home something important that they'd been saying all episode.

This was the episode that introduced the thesis statement of the whole show, and they managed to keep that thesis statement clear throughout the entire thing, all the way to the end: "If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs." Steven Universe is a show about how things are broken, and that's okay. Steven Universe is a show about how people are fucked up, and that's okay. It's not our job to be perfect or condemn everything that isn't; it's our job to say "okay, we've got this fucking mess here, and wallowing in blame and recrimination and shame and self-hatred isn't going to help. How do we move forward?" I had never, ever seen that message committed to in another children's show before Steven Universe, and it's one of the most important things you can tell any kid -- that the mess of their life is normal! That it's okay! We have stuff that sucks and we can move on with that!

Oh, sure, other shows will have a Very Special Episode every now and again where someone makes a bad mistake and has to be 'forgiven', or is unable to do something and has to live with it, or there's a tragedy or whatever. That's not what Steven Universe did. Steven Universe got comfortable with the mess on every level and kept coming back to it, both subtly and overtly. Steven can't save the moon goddess temple, Greg fakes a broken leg to be with his son and psychologically fucks up his magic powers and the other plot of the episode that's acting as a metaphor for the whole thing involves them literally fixing that problem by duct taping over it, the Gems don't know how to raise Steven and make him a false obstacle course to boost his confidence and he has to Uno Reverse their own trick on them and shoulder the responsibility of parenting them instead of the other way around. There's an entire episode that's just Peridot confirming that her people fucked up an area of the Earth so badly that nothing will ever grow there again and this isn't resolved by fixing it, but by other characters saying, "yeah, it's broken and it sucks and we can't stop that. How about we grow a garden literally anywhere else on the planet."

And this is why it confuses the fuck out of me when people bitch about Steven Universe being 'problematic' because things suck. Yeah! That's the entire fucking point of the show! Things are allowed to suck and be broken. "Ooooh it's nazi apologism because he forgave a warlord and she didn't get murdered onscreen or whatever" he didn't forgive her! He convinced her to stop warlording and has an uneasy alliance with her! She's fixing what she broke as best she can, just like every single other character in the show! Her perfectionism and purity and total inability to live with broken things and messy truths and people who are different, sometimes in harmful ways, was the entire problem that the whole show was about! And Steven beat it! Insistence that the Bad Guys get punished or removed and the Pure Good Guys get a clean ending with no moral quandaries is the audience taking Evil White Diamond's position. It's literally being the villain of the show.