No video game creepypasta I’ve ever read has been even half as existentially unnerving as the actual experience of playing one of those old-school video games that have no concept of invisible walls or death barriers, randomly stumbling into a part of the level the player was never supposed to enter, and spending the next twenty minutes wandering around this eerily empty back-lot purgatory where everything’s appearance and physics are just slightly askew before realising that a. you’re not supposed to be here, and b. you can’t get back to where you were from here.

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With contemporary AAA games it’s generally pretty easy to tell when you’ve gone out of bounds. You don’t really get the full effect unless it’s legitimately ambiguous whether you’re currently in bounds or not.

Does anyone else remember a trippy and glitched bonus level from Lego Star Wars that had no clear objective or settings?

Reading about how to play LoL Vs Actually Playing LoL

love triangles can’t exist without at least 1 lgbt person. cishets just don’t know how shapes work

I’ve created this helpful info graphic

If the arrows went both ways, would that make it a poly-gon?

good thing there’s not a precedent for a widely-loathed centrist dem losing to donald j. trump due to overconfidence and complacency! no worries!

“Widely loathed” lol sure Jan. Maybe in your myopic corner of the internet.

yeah i mean if you spent any amount of time away from suburban wine moms you would find out that biden is not generally well liked in the swing states he needs to win

Why on earth is the best source of current affairs commentary an internet blog titled "Piss Vortex"??

Some reports make mention of notes and recordings that Heemeyer made during the preparations for his rampage that make the whole thing decidedly more chilling.

i like this guy

He's strategically hiding the fact that they have mastered the use of power tools, have cut through the chain and are simply awaiting an opportune moment to seize freedom.

Miraluka Headcanons

So my love for Miraluka is a decade old and i have a bunch of headcanons associated with my (*coughs*numerous*coughs*) Miraluka OCs or in general and I thought I’d repost some of them on this blog:

As opposed to an non-suspicious corpse???

Ah good old RotHC days!

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

I will always reblog this.

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize. 

What this has created tho is a medical system that centers the psychology of middle and upper class white men.

The original purpose of the Stanford Prison experiment has basically been nullified by information that came to light after the publication of the method and observations.

BUT those revelations do not at all change what the experiment shows about human nature. Rather that people are still willing to behave in that way, even if it is because an external motivating factor/person encouraged them to do it. Doesn't take away the fact that they still did it.