*sighs and resets "days since last tirade about an extremely obscure subject in a group chat because someone was wrong on the internet about a video game" counter to zero*

A sample of other subjects I have held court about as a consequence of people on Gamepress and Wikia being wrong about this one same game:

Also.

(Luckily, because of this last one I reread The Waste Land, which caused me to fall down a rabbit hole of chasing literary references such that I am still 8 tabs deep in Arthuriana instead of making the mistake of looking at Gamepress.)

Almost tempted not to block this pornbot because apparently it empathizes with my pain. Also:

Oops

Got another one, presumably because as of two days ago I also have to add

My suffering is unending.

If anyone was wondering, the best fix she nearly got banned for is that the lyrics for a character theme song have had the word "prostrate" typo'd as "prostate" since 2021.

Update: I have now also been banned because they've decided said friend was a "vandal" because she thought it was stupid that they're captioning random pictures of anime boys with Bible quotes, and they think I am her sockpuppet because I put back two of her corrections with detailed bird identification notes because I spent an hour digging up the correct species, but they are absolutely insistent that this

is a blue jay

Which, to be fair, is exactly what I expected, given the previous posts in this thread.

Anyway, I guess we can now both say we at least tried to fix the fucking thing, and I can go back to pointing and laughing at their wildly incorrect plot summaries.

*sighs and resets "days since last tirade about an extremely obscure subject in a group chat because someone was wrong on the internet about a video game" counter to zero*

A sample of other subjects I have held court about as a consequence of people on Gamepress and Wikia being wrong about this one same game:

Also.

(Luckily, because of this last one I reread The Waste Land, which caused me to fall down a rabbit hole of chasing literary references such that I am still 8 tabs deep in Arthuriana instead of making the mistake of looking at Gamepress.)

Almost tempted not to block this pornbot because apparently it empathizes with my pain. Also:

Oops

Got another one, presumably because as of two days ago I also have to add

My suffering is unending.

If anyone was wondering, the best fix she nearly got banned for is that the lyrics for a character theme song have had the word "prostrate" typo'd as "prostate" since 2021.

*sighs and resets "days since last tirade about an extremely obscure subject in a group chat because someone was wrong on the internet about a video game" counter to zero*

A sample of other subjects I have held court about as a consequence of people on Gamepress and Wikia being wrong about this one same game:

Also.

(Luckily, because of this last one I reread The Waste Land, which caused me to fall down a rabbit hole of chasing literary references such that I am still 8 tabs deep in Arthuriana instead of making the mistake of looking at Gamepress.)

Almost tempted not to block this pornbot because apparently it empathizes with my pain. Also:

Oops

Got another one, presumably because as of two days ago I also have to add

My suffering is unending.

Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

Good points. Wait what was that first thing

“rich in folklore, dubious science, and what many today would consider utter nonsense”

@a-book-of-creatures have you seen this one before?

Jacques Houllier (1577) De Morbis Internis.

Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

Good points. Wait what was that first thing

“rich in folklore, dubious science, and what many today would consider utter nonsense”

@a-book-of-creatures have you seen this one before?

got told at lunch "you feel like Tumblr Incarnate" and i had to tell them i've been here for 13 years and counting. i was here three years before dashcon happened. i saw the mishapocalypse. i survived the gigapause. i've been here longer than the shoelaces post. i've been here since it was hipsters versus fandom and i played both sides extensively by overdoing the sepia filters on everything and making my own flashing galaxy gif edits for my fandom posts. i'm every tumblr. it's all in me

Oh ancient one what wisdom do you hold?

Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games

They are piloting a Jaeger together in my imagination

Realized I have a naked rat and a small piano

Here's Harry banging out the tunes, April 13th 2023

Cesium-133, let it be. Cesium-134, let it be even more.

Periodic Table Regions [Explained]

Transcript

[A periodic table with regions labeled.]

[Hydrogen:] Slightly fancy protons [Lithium and Beryllium:] Weird dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 3-4:] Regular dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 5-7:] Ends in a number, let it slumber ends in a letter, not much better [Left side of the transition metals group:] Boring alloy metals Probably critical to the spark plug industry or something (but one of them is radioactive so stay on your toes) [Most of the top row of the transition metals + aluminum:] Regular metals [Below the rightmost "regular metals" - the "ordinary metals" and some transition metals:] Weird metals [The platinum group:] $$$$ [Boron:] Boron (fool's carbon) [Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus:] You are here [The Halogens:] Safety goggles required [Noble Gases:] Lawful neutral [Iodine and Radon:] Very specific health problems [Ordinary metals and metalloids - Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium, Thallium, Lead, Bismuth, Polonium] Murder weapons [Astatine and Period 7 from Rutherfordium onwards:] Don't bother learning their names - they're not staying long [Lanthanides and Actinides:] Whoever figures out a better way to fit these up there gets the next Nobel Prize

reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

PLEASE read this

bankston is my HERO he’s tearing these people apart

damn

HE LEFT

????

oh my god

KILL HIM

he is DONE.

HELP ME .

wow. ok.

genuinely first two pages he says that he thinks ben’s lawyer is the one who is actually suing him and admits he has no clue what the lawsuit is about .

doing a reread now this is so cunty

goddamn .

fun fact: the Mr. Bankston here is Mark Bankston, the same lawyer who absolutely ruined Alex Jones during the Sandy Hook trial.

If yinz weren't reading parenting magazines and newspapers in the early 2000s you'll have no idea how much time the world spent blowing proverbial smoke up JKR's proverbial ass. She was routinely credited with solving a crisis in child literacy (the existence of which was never proved to my satisfaction). Harry Potter was read in schools. Libraries used it as the foundation of their summer reading programs. Literally every other fantasy book aimed at children was marketed as 'if your kid loved Harry Potter, they'll love this!', including books that were published decades before Harry Potter. Her philanthropy was legendary. She was, quite possibly, the most well-liked woman in the whole world.

I know that psychoanalyzing JKR isn't really the point, and that this is a task best left to the scathing oscarbait biopic that will inevitably be released about 10 years after her death. But I also think that this should be a cautionary tale to all of us. If you take a person whose prose clearly indicates that they're not thinking very hard about stuff, and then tell them that they're a world-saving genius for it, you bet your ass that they're never going to think hard about stuff ever again.

To be extremely clear: none of this is exculpatory. I do see JKR's life as a kind of tragedy, but in the sense that so many tragedies take people with very ordinary flaws and turn them into monsters. At any point she could have prevented herself from becoming what she became, the tragedy is that she didn't.

There's an argument to be made that there's a direct connection to how she got radicalized, too. After over a decade of me having to see "Mad about Harry? Try Diana!" on the back of every Diana Wynne Jones book I ever looked at, which drove me nuts even when I was 8, she put out her first non-HP book in 2012 and... nobody liked it. It was a bestseller, and then promptly became one of the most returned books in history. And then she wrote another book under a pseudonym in 2013, and... nobody bought it. It was only successful when her pseudonym was outed. And then when she started doing what (a loud minority of) HP fans had been clamoring for and giving more and more random authorial loredumps on Pottermore, she started getting more and more pushback and criticism for all sorts of reasons- she started turning into a punchline for stuff like Wizard Poopscourse (2015), and then 2016 brought the Pottermore stuff about other wizard schools that sparked a lot of genuine anger for being, uh, super racist. And that period, 2015-2016, is when she started liking and retweeting TERF accounts. And that made a lot of lefty fans' opinions of her drop even more, but the transphobes weren't criticizing her. They were still saying the sort of things about how she was the savior of feminism that the press used to coo about, because they were excited to have a new friend. And I also don't want to sound like I'm going, "it's the fault of those MEANIEFACES who WEREN'T NICE ENOUGH when they said the racist thing was racist"- she just spent ten years basically never getting any criticism or pushback from anyone about anything ever, and now people weren't treating her like an untouchable god anymore. Give it a few years, and now here we are.

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"Autistic characters in popular media are always robots or aliens" I mean, that's just not true. Autistic characters in popular media in fact span a wide range of backgrounds, including (but not limited to):

I’ve met most of these people and they are autistic. By the way

Bracken in castle dialogue:

Me, the Official Rolandposting Consultant: "Try asking him if that memory ghost in the DLC talking about health care means he was building more hospitals. It'll drive him nuts. 20% chance he dodges the question, 40% chance he says no and changes the subject, but 30% chance he launches into his stump speech on autopilot. The last 10%, he starts to launch into the stump speech, then he realizes he doesn't have to be diplomatic for the first time in thirty years and you get one of the saltiest, most absurdly technical rants you've ever heard outside of interdepartmental slapfights at Broadleaf about programming best practices."

It's been over a month and a half since I made this post and I'm still occasionally thinking about a pink-haired anime engineer who had to be dissuaded from putting rocket boosters in her leg accidentally triggering an incomprehensible 40-minute lecture on short-staffing, evergreen drug patents, and vertically-integrated monopolies and smiling to myself.