Hard Times Come Again No More

He/him. Anthropology student. Christian socialist. American Folk Cryptozoology Gay.

[apas-95]

[lordmogatron]

@silverjirachi

[syberfab]

Normal cover art for The Wicked and the Warped

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[vexwerewolf]

Full Subjectivity Sync gotta have the most jarring tonal disconnect between its lore and its mechanics

Lore: I am one with the machine. Its steel is my new flesh, its wires my new nerves, its reactor my new heart. My veins are aflood with coolant. The edge of a sword kisses my armor and I feel the sting of pain, sharp and clear and cold, driving me onward. I dash forth upon steel legs and strike with arms of titanium. The hot wind of the battlefield scours my shining chest. The many-lensed cameras that are my eyes roll back in blissful anguish. The thrumb of my main gun echoes in my loins. I am an iron god. 🥵🥴😵‍😵

Mechanics: +2 Evasion ☝️🤓

[technical-magi]

[snickersnek]

This comment has been sitting in my head gently rotating like a rotisserie chicken for a while. Sloped Plating really is the complete opposite side of tonal disconnect between lore and mechanics.

It's one sentence, mentioning it's a common pick by pilots to reduce gaps in external plating. That's it.

And +1 armour is a pretty decent chunk of survivability! It's shrugging off a damage off of every attack, and massively impacts defences against enemies that use multiple smaller attacks over single large attacks. This level of armour plating, either granting your otherwise fragile mech a measure of static defence or even augmenting the already-mighty bulwark of the Drake or the Genghis is achieved by... putting plating where there are gaps in the plating.

So is every mech design by every company, collective, and hegemony stupid, and they forget to armour the joints or... what is going on here? Did IPS-N just forget to add the fourth point of armour to the Drake and you have to call them and ask for the missing parts like a piece of faulty IKEA furniture? Is every other pilot stupid for not noticing this?

Instead of sounding stupid like Full Subjectivity Sync, Sloped Plating gets to make everyone else look stupid.

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

I’m obsessed with this video

[salticid]

source

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[vrabia]

the silmarillion is wild because you read it and you're like huh okay, and then you read lotr and it turns out everyone's just going around doing their own thing while the surviving elves are living through the final chapters of a post-apocalyptic horror story

[vrabia]

rivendell's a pretty chill place, right? everyone gets along splendidly. dream retirement home et cetera. solid chance the guy you're having afternoon tea with has either survived or personally committed war crimes. also the reason it's so chill is elrond has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

galadriel's been around since the beginning, like, for pretty much all of middle-earth's history you understand, she has Seen it all and despite what you may have been led to believe is at all times this close to snapping. also the reason lothlorien is so chill is she has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

i can't emphasize enough how much of a post-apocalyptic horror story thranduil lives in. homeland destroyed and half his people massacred. has fucken sauron in his backyard and the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light puttering about on his lawn. a dragon lives next door. does NOT have a magic ring and is therefore obliged to rule over his murderforest in normal time

just so we're all on the same page here, legolas' day job before joining the fellowship was to hunt the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light and it's not like, a big deal or anything. he just has to do it. he's used to it.

'elves are leaving middle-earth and it's so sad :(' they have ptsd samwise.

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

[beemovieerotica]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[yuhi-san]

Thats the context for this meme???

[titenoute]

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

[virtualgirladvance]

this is better than anything id hope for the context

[mj--spooks]

[fairycosmos]

a small thing i learned from my sister dying is that i really would rather the people i love be a burden than be whatever the hell else they'd be if they weren't. yes even if it's messy and not always fair and hard completely inconvenient for everyone involved. even if it's weird. even if i'm rolling my eyes a bit inside sometimes. i just want you to bother me. please always bother me

[fairycosmos]

like "it's rotten work" "not to me not if it's you" actually sometimes it's still rotten work. even if it's you. and i'd still do it a million times over

[viralfrog]

[kleinergeist]

You don't even need to study for the Rorschach test, btw, it's super easy. All they do is show you a bunch of stupid pictures of your dad getting eaten by a horse

[hermann-rorschach]

Do not share the answers with your classmates.

[kleinergeist]

Yes Dr Rorschach

Sorry Dr Rorschach

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

tiktoks with vine energy pt. 28

[dowereallyneedthis]

“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

[myfootyrthroat]

The “+” in LGBTQ+ is for math.

[dowereallyneedthis]

It’s literally been years since anyone added something slightly clever or original to this post, so I would like to congratulate you and maybe even bestow some kind of award. I don’t have anything to give you though

[moran-with-a-g]

It was simple addition, really.

[transjinako]

I do understand jax now though that frog was bad as fuck

[transjinako]

I need Jax hung by jumper cables

[penny-anna]

I'm not really a HanLuke shipper but I can imagine them hooking up early in their friendship & then Han later after various revelations having a personal crisis over whether or not it's weird to have sex with both halves of a set of twins

[penny-anna]

& like he can't ask anyone if it's weird without admitting that he's already done it. he could talk to Luke about it bcos obviously Luke already knows but he's kind of avoiding the subject with Luke in case drawing attention to the fact that he's dating Luke's sister prompts a shovel talk. he's pretty sure Luke can kill people with his brain now and he doesn't want to have that particular shovel talk if he an avoid it.

[cipheramnesia]

If Han came to me with this kind of question, I would be very supportive and make sure he didn't uncomfortable about having to ask the question because most of all this is about his feelings.

However, I would also desperately need to know if Luke used the force on that thang, and Han also knows I would ask, which is why he never brings these problems to me.

[penny-anna]