prisoner's dilemma: two collaborators are kept in separate rooms. if both betray the other, they each serve 5 years in prison. if one betrays the other but the other stays silent, the betrayer walks free and the betrayed serves 10 years. if both remain silent, they each serve a lesser charge of 2 years in prison. in short:

have fun!

The fun thing about the prisoner's dilemma -- not this one, but the original -- is that iirc most people did choose 'stay silent.' Even when that didn't seem like the best personal option. What they eventually found when interviewing participants afterwards was that this mostly happens as a result of empathy and mirroring. It's not necessarily that the people making a choice were enormously noble or generous, but human beings tend to assume -- lacking other information -- that other human beings are like them. Meaning that the people making choices assumed, lacking other information, that the other party would make the same choice as them. So, therefore, the best thing to do is to make the choice where both people picking the same thing yields a good result, rather than both people picking the same thing yields a bad result.

"Humans are naturally good" "humans are naturally selfish" both are false. Humans are naturally connected to other humans.

matt, do you hate me ‘cause i’m white?

This is your sign to change your Harry Potter URL. This is your sign to edit your house out of your bio. Trans people are going to see you in their notifs and worry you're a terf or block you. Edit your blog description. Come up with another handle. Thank you.

This clip plays in my head constantly, Trevor is the best.

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New tag!

I'll now be using "loud is what we do" as my general tag for posts addressing the harassment of cast/crew of color being harassed. Loud IS what we do. I really don't know how people can sit and watch a 15 minute between the games of the entire white male cast causing property damage for fun and then complain about poc/woc that AH employs/hosts being loud. Like babe, your racism/sexism is showing.

This blog does NOT stand for harassment of any kind toward any of the cast and crew of Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter or anyone affiliated with them.

Do better.

Anyways, stan Ky Cooke!!!

i can’t with these people lmao

You know, sometimes I’m really glad I still watch Ray’s streams.

the ah boys: “ok we swear next episode it really will be ydyd okay dont be mad audience we’re really gonna do it”

all of us who are enjoying watching them play minecraft together with geoff that we don’t actually care if no one stays perma dead:

Dividing up eras of tumblr

It just occurred to me that I kind of arbitrarily started referring to “first age” “second age” and “third age” tumblr one day because I realized during a discord conversation that it really can be divided up very effectively between a couple major events that changed the fabric of the site’s culture almost overnight, but nobody but me ever refers to them that way, so by way of explanation:

Tag yourself. At which era did you enter this hellsite?

Second age

Third Age

First age. *waves cane*

okay, but the idea of crew medic michael is really funny to me

like this small, blood thirsty, angry cryptid man who wants absolutely nothing to do with anyone or anything, hellbent on the death and destruction of every living thing,,,,, also has a doctor's license. and makes sure everyone's healthy and taking care of themselves. and santizes the entire base weekly to destress. and uses unorthodox medical precedures because he can't work in a hospital anymore. and he's mad about it >:(

grumpy doctor mikey. love him.

Movies not having subtitles is ableist. I don’t care if it’s an old movie, if you can put it on dvd you can add subtitles. The obvious reason, of course, is for the deaf and hard of hearing who absolutely still deserve to enjoy movies. That should be enough reason to add them, but it also helps neurodivergent people or anyone with auditory processing issues, or people who don’t speak the language or don’t speak it well, or even just people whose house is loud. There’s literally no reason not to make them an option and I honestly think they should be mandatory on every dvd release.

I just wanna say that I absolutely LOVE the fact that AH are actually friends outside of their job. Like, when it comes to most gaming groups, they seem to get along but sometimes you can just tell it’s a little forced. However, when it comes to AH, you can feel the love they have for eachother radiating from their videos, and I think that’s sweet.