Grabador

30s or 40s white male, any pronouns, materialist

[commanderchr1st]

New proposed nation called The Lake where summer has a daily government mandated 4 hour paid "swim break" and a winter 16 hour work week @ $40/hr

[byjove]

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

[byjove]

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

[kropotkindersurprise]

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

[zanmor]

needs some red paint to really finish it off

[t00thpasteface]

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

[t00thpasteface]

i especially chafe at the way "cozy games" just seems like a "woke" way to say "girl games" and conflate certain game mechanics or aesthetics with a non-cis/het/male identity (to equally useless effect from a buyer's pov). gender stereotyping by any other name is still gender stereotyping. i'm not cis het or male, but i've spent decades enjoying pvp shooters and feel bored to tears by cutesy cottagecore farming sims. and i find those pvp shooters very "cozy" to play, too! @_@;

[gabriellelestat]

there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against

[space-feminist]

“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”

(source)

feel like it's related to the phenomenon mitski's discussing here - if women's art is only seen as unfiltered diaristic emotion then of course it can only ever be accidental genius, never created with intention and thought

[zanmor]

History of Byzantium's narrative is truly hindered by the way he delves into and explains so much from the sources. And like the source stuff is great context and really good to have, but it does take the wind out of the sails of telling a story a bit when you spent one hour giving the broad scope of an emperor's rule and how we know about it, and only then get into the various betrayals and civil wars that we already know now he will weather.

I think the simplest fix is:

1. don't allude to the outcome even in passing. I know it's ancient history that anyone can easily look up, but that doesn't change how telling a story works. Tell the narrative a bit more like a soap opera or spme other serialized fiction. The drama and suspense is good in telling the story. "Spoilers" should serve some function, the most obvious to me being "but you don't have to worry too much about this guy as he'll be dead soon." Otherwise someone who really doesn't know might put too much mental energy into someone who is a small player.

2. Do the source work after the narrative. I actually think this would serve the source work better as well since you'd be doing it now that people are familiar with events. You could say "remember how I said this happened? well, it's probably not that simple and here's why." Sometimes the narrative should get into that (or maybe just mention there are two versions and we're going with this one because I think it's more likely. if you want to know about the other one check out a future episode about the sources) but only as it serves the narrative.

To be clear, I want the source work and the long contextual explainer episodes that don't really directly contribute to the narrative. But at the same time I don't want it bogging down and derailing the narrative. I think you can have both, it just needs to be handled differently.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

in general i do really like when the 'boundaries for rules and penalties for breaking the rules' are (correctly) understood as part of 'how the game is played' in competitive games. ppl always get really snippy about this kind of thing but i lay firmly on the side of "the spirit of the rules does not exist, the rules exist as they are enforced". and so anyway i just noticed you forgot your pact trigger earlier and you just tapped out for a spell, so im putting that on the stack now.

[alyrch99]

Actually! This is now the correct enforcement of the rule at competitive REL. Like any other missed trigger, the player is given the opportunity to put it on the stack at the point that they realize it's been missed, though they of course get warned (as does their opponent) for failure to maintain game state. So the correct way to catch your opponent out for forgetting a pact trigger *is* to get them to tap out some mana, then call over a judge and point out their pact trigger, at which point they cannot pay and lose.

[alyrch99]

You can actually see pro tour, magic world cup, and mythic invitational winner Andrea Mengucci do *exactly* this to (also) pro tour, magic world cup, and mythic invitational winner Simon Nielsen (mentioned just to point out even pros mess up, not glaze them for no reason) in this video (timestamped, it happens over the next 2 minutes). The exact situation mentioned in the OP. So Miss vitreous-sight has it entirely correct *and* that's actually the exact advice given by Mengu.

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users are addicted to telling on themselves when precisely 0 people asked for it

[lakemojave]

I for one would be embarrassed as fuck to announce that I have a hard time relating to both real and fictional women, that I find no meaning in black art forms, or that I find trans people of my desired gender invariably unattractive. Like if those were things I believed then even my therapist couldn't get that out of me. And yet.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.

My favorite part is the sink.

Details of a recipe book.

All the details in tiny glass beads.

Love the pie in the oven.

Love this so much.

No wonder it took 5 yrs.

https://whitney.org/collection/works/34855?

[mens-rights-activia]

It blows my mind when people only know me from anemone song and are shocked to see other music by me because it makes me feel insane I’ve been making and consistently posting music in this site for many years since the anemone song? Like damn it’s such a shock to the system that not one other song came up for other people???

[baddywronglegs]

What other animals would benefit from a hammerhead variety?

[zanmor]

woodpecker

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[jollybelieverwonderland]

[alltheprettyancientthings]

Terracotta vase || Greek, Sicilian, Centuripe || 3rd–2nd century BCE

The scene shows a bride surrounded by attendants. The vase was made for the tomb.

Source [the Met]

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[pocket-deer-belly]

transmisogyny genuinely does start eroding your ability to understand extremely basic ideas about feminism, like "outfits are not consent" and "men materially benefit from patriarchy even if they are underprivileged in other areas". you need to actually listen to trans women who point out transmisogynist behavior or you will become jk rowling.

[dogpuppy]

[mandywondering]

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

[dietspam16]

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already