Could we not?

[petefoxshend-deactivated2018062]

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

[greyramblings]

“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?

[evilnicegirl]

i was abandoned as a baby & raised by a wild pack of cigarettes

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[tagfer]

cell phone doesn't like water because it is a combination of the other three elements. it is a rock (earth) that we fill with lightning (fire) that can control radio waves (air). if it contained water too, it would be too perfect; it would be like a god. to prevent this, the universe kills the would be uniter-of-the-elements. it's basic science.

[heronbrew]

Hey op google what LCD stands for

[tagfer]

i took an oath in third grade to never do drugs

[sharkchunks]

Spice World (1997, Bob Spiers)

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Thinking about that annoying comment someone left on @thydungeongal 's post about character death as a failure state in D&D and like. How legitimately bizarre it is to me that D&D play culture has arrived at the place of considering that a GM should by default work under the assumption that the rest of the table doesn't "consent" to the possibility of characters dying unless they've explicitly had a talk about it and decided otherwise.

Like idk I think by agreeing to play a game where the mechanics explicitly say "characters die at 0hp / -10hp / 3 failed death saves" (depending on edition) you *are* agreeing to character death unless explicitly stated otherwise.

[greatwyrmgold]

I think this logic would be more patently absurd if applied to literally any other game mechanic. "I don't consent to attack rolls hitting if they equal the target's AC." "I don't consent to needing a full action to drink a potion." "I don't consent to leveling up."

The problem, I think, is that people (or at least that one annoying commenter) don't recognize death as "a mechanic". They recognize it as "a story beat" because they've been told D&D is a collaborative storytelling engine, and can't recognize the game design purpose of death because they don't think about TRPGs as having game design.

[tenleaguesbeneath]

this combination of expecting the DM to get affirmative agreement from players to allow certain game-mechanical states to happen is really interesting when juxtaposed with the strong tendency among D&D players to refuse to play any other game.

like, I know we're talking about different phenomena, but now I'm imagining a player (making up a guy) who is adamantly against learning any game that excludes character death from the states the game mechanics are capable of outputting, but despite their insistence on playing a game where the mechanics for the primary situation the game's character creation mechanics are concerned with describing your character's ability to act in can kill their character, they consider it a consent violation on the DM's part if that happens.

there's gotta be some overlap between these incredibly common D&Dysfunctions.

[thydungeongal]

I think that is definitely a factor at play here: having game mechanics happen to characters without player consent is a consent violation. The mere suggestion that this is not a good way to engage with the game and that there are games without those mechanics is pretty much the same as gatekeeping. D&D has to be the game for everyone, even players who don't want their characters to take damage in dungeons, and if you're not willing to make D&D that game for them you're not only gatekeeping but also violating people's consent.

And as always, what this means is more work for the GM.

(there is also what @anim-ttrpgs said: to many people D&D is not actually supposed to be a challenge game. Instead the challenge is supposed to be some smoke and mirrors that the GM is always bound by a code of honor to make sure the player characters get through. Which, what do you know, means more work for the GM!)

[zybilna]

Really funny when people sound like an unironic version of this dndcirclejerk post

[riverofmolecules]

true allyship

[sartorialadventure]

2000-year-old sapphire ring presumably belonging to Roman emperor Caligula, thought to depict his fourth wife Caesonia

[cecile-palmer-blog]

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”

—

Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said fuck that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(via bansheewhale)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

someone new in my replies implying only white people watch movies made more than 15 years ago because thats roughly when all movies stopped being racist. just spreading the word

[cheaphalloweencostume]

does anyone else smell burning toast

[charl0ttan]

dog i gotta move like yesterday

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[nariarts]

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

[shadow-manor]

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

[shadow-manor]

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

[shadow-manor]

If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.

You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

[avaricesstuff]

She's being sued for $1. The ability to Pick your Battles is a very important skill.

A dog that barks only occasionally draws attention. A dog that barks at everything becomes part of the background noise. A Drag Queen getting sued for a single dollar because she deliberately copied the branding of a pre-established company is not a hill worth dying on.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I hope she kills the CEO

[sailor-kaiju]

She’s being sued for a dollar

AND

Her performing name, and all of her business and reputation built up and themed to that user name.

A theme that, despite the tongue and cheek bit of merchandise (which isn’t likely legally close enough ANYWAY but would solidly be covered under fair use parody law) is solidly matching her mission.

Patagonia does not own the name Patagonia, nor do they own the idea of mountains with stripes of color behind them.

To use the CocaCola analogy this is MUCH closer to something like Nuka-cola from Fallout (or any other of the dozens of parody coke’s in fiction…but that STILL isn’t a reasonable analogy because Nuka Cola is a major company mimicking another company, not a single (charity) performer naming herself after an area of the world that is not trademarked.

That “You must defend your trademark” thing is not some handwave that they must grind out everything even close to the line, or else no company ever would have a trademark, and almost every major company on earth has been parodied 100 times. Not only does Disney still have their copy rights…they don’t actually even defend them as much as people think. I’m not defending them, but for example the famous daycare story was specifically because the day care was right by Disney world and WAS trying to low key present it’s self as and profit off of Disney. (Which still they could probably chill about but actually IS going into cokacola ditch water territory.)

There is no way Pattie Gonia existing is in any reasonable way affecting Patagonia’s profits or public image.

But they have better lawyers, so even thought this isn’t at all the aim of the laws, they’ll likely ground her art.

[omgthatdress]

ily, menswear guy

[teaboot]

“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

[justlightmeonfire]

I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet

[teaboot]

Also the amulet

[whimsicalmayhem]

Is that you talking? Or the amulet? Are you SURE a new hand doesn't want to touch the beacon?

[teaboot]

The amulet and I are not currently looking for a third

[enkephalinpilled]

in order to preserve my internet privacy i’ll have to start feeding everyone misinformation about myself. i don’t eat. i don’t sleep. i don’t breathe. i don’t blink. i don’t have “blood”

[teaboot]

unfortunately, classifying all points as definitively false also presents your audience with data. you gotta present a mix of unverifiable information in a broad range of veracity. I don't have blood. I DO have teeth. How many teeth? 53. I subsist primarily on synthesized potassium compounds and sleep in my closet three nights a year