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90s kid neurons activated.
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WHAT
OKAY I LOVE THAT
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I just realized that I could share this flash game ad I saved off of MySpace in like 2005 to tumblr.
It’s so important to me. It makes me feel like I’m losing my mind even after 20 years.
this is more y2k than 1000 gifsets
I feel old
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Luminara and the Dark Side
Luminara has in more recent years been getting a bad rap. I’m not all that familiar with Star Wars canon, but from what I gather it has to do with a perceived lack of affection towards others, this is a contrast to her appearance in legends where she was a rather kind woman.
Regardless today I want to talk about an excerpt from the book Medstars a book starring Barriss Offee, another character who’s backstory and personality was wildly changed from the old EU.
There seems to be a common misconception amongst some in the fanbase that the dark side is something which can easily be used, or that if one has good reason to one can slip into dark side techniques for a moment. This couldn’t be farther from the truth as Luminara states to Barriss in the books.
If you remember nothing else from this talk, Barriss, remember this: Power wants to be used. It must be kept under constant vigil, else it will seduce and corrupt you. One moment you’re swatting an annoying training toy; the next you’re paralyzing an offending being’s lungs and choking him to death. You do it because you can. It becomes an end in itself. As a Jedi, you live always on this edge. A single misstep, and you can fall to the dark side. It has happened to many, and it is always a tragedy. As with an addictive drug, it’s too easy to say, ‘I’ll do it just this once.’ That’s not how it works. The only thing that stands between you and the dark side is your own will and discipline. Give in to your anger or your fear, your jealousy or your hate, and the dark side claims you for its own. If that happens,” Master Unduli said, “you will become an enemy to all that the Jedi stand for—and an enemy of all Jedi who hold to the path of right.
Barriss moved to assume the pose. She said, “And have you ever given in to the dark side, Master?”
For a few seconds, there was silence. Then: “Yes. In a moment of weakness and pain, I did. It allowed me to survive when I might have perished otherwise, but that one taste was enough for me to realize I could never do it again. There may come a time when you experience this, Barriss. I hope not, but if ever it happens, you must recognize and resist it.”
“It will feel evil?”
Master Unduli paused in her stretch. She regarded Barriss with what seemed to be great sadness in her eyes. “Oh, no. It will feel better than anything you have ever experienced, better than you would have thought anything could feel. It will feel empowering, fulfilling, satisfying. Worst of all, it will feel right. And therein lies the real danger.”
There does seem to be some sort of disconnect with the fanbase, especially a seeming fascination with grey Jedi. However, we can quite clearly see what the dark side actually is, one cannot find themselves using any aspect of the dark side, without falling to its temptations.
The dark side is like a drug, using it leads to one wanting to use it more, no matter how noble the intentions start at first.
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can we stop promoting the idea that nature has to look beautiful to be good?
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Don't worry! The non-essentials aren't going up in price as much so that means the economy is okay!
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Anonymous asked:
You do of course understand that the reason most people prefer DND 5E is that it's one of the easiest systems to learn? Like I'm sorry it's all well and good to 'break up the cultural monopoly' but I have Dyscalculia and DND is seemingly the only tabletop system that doesn't consistently ask me to do a hefty amount of complex math. I've never given WOTC a penny but the reason I've primarily played 5E over basically everything else is it's the only system that was extremely easy to learn and completely self explanatory. (Also - I like elves and magic and shit.) You roll one dice to see if you can do a thing, you add whatever your plus or minus is, and then roll damage where appropriate. Easy. Meanwhile seemingly everything else is like "Okay so you roll two dice except sometimes it's four and then you take this stat and you divide it by that dice roll and then you add a number equivalent to the day of the week unless it's a leap year then you times that by three and if you get a prime number you can lift that coffee cup." Like have you ever heard of Villains and Vigilantes, for instance? It's fucking insane. Like I'm not saying I don't get why you wanna make this point? But I feel like I have to point out that most people who make indie TTRPG's don't seem to focus on accessibility when designing their systems and they are EXTREMELY intimidating for new players. And often, what people who are big into TTRPG's do is assume that because THEY fully understand this system and how it works, new players will too just as easily. The amount of times I've spoken to a GM, said "This sounds a bit complicated", and they've gone "No no no it's easy" and then described the most complicated set of rules I've ever heard is ridiculous.
Okay it sounds you've had a very narrow range of experiences with RPGs then because D&D 5e is on the higher end of complexity when it comes to RPGs and most indie RPGs are actually a lot less complex than D&D 5e. Like, Villains & Vigilantes is not the median when it comes to RPG complexity. There are systems even lighter than D&D out there. :)
I think D&D being easy to learn has more to do with its cultural dominance and not the actual simplicity of its rules. Quick, someone explain how many spells a character can potentially cast per round.
Seriously, this argument is completely bogus. D&D 5e is not the most popular RPG by virtue of somehow being the easiest RPG to learn. Like it may be easy to learn in the sense that there's a very large community interested in teaching it and it has so much cultural relevance that people roughly know what a game of D&D is supposed to look like without having able to play it.
But that's a result of D&D's cultural dominance. If a game being the easiest to learn would somehow be an indication of its cultural relevance we would live in a paradise on earth where everyone would be playing Mausritter (Mausritter isn't the simplest RPG on the planet either but it's a hell of a lot simpler than D&D 5e).
Might I recommend looking into the Genesys RP System by Fantasy Flight Games?
The skill checks involve almost no math as it uses narrative dice and not numbered dice
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The above is very much true, but it's also worth remembering that, as has been pointed out in a few places, when the show premiered and rose to prominence in the late 80s and early 90s, they were a single-income working class family. They were a lower class family. Homer might have a union job, but it was still a blue collar job with miserly Mr. Burns as a boss.
The show has not even remotely kept up with the realities of home ownership and income. The world has changed so much in 30 years that what was lower class then is downright aspirational now.
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The Fallout show is pretty fun so far. I still have 3 episodes to go. Everytime Lucy said "Okey dokey", this was all I could picture.
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Red Alert 3
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I love that I have this little creature in my house and all she does is walk around looking for a new place to take a nap and stare out the window and throw up on my floor and I’m like I would Die for this creature. she is perfect. and I tell her I love her and in return she has no thoughts whatsoever
I love her so much look at her she’s so cute okay
thank you everyone for loving my beautiful baby girl I told her she was famous on the internet and she just stared at me as her single brain cell bounced around her peanut brain
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“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”
no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it
The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.
The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign
I hate to be like the “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” guy but. there was literally a thing in that book where you had to say “double plus ungood” instead of “bad” because you weren’t supposed to talk about bad things. if you told me ten years ago that “unalive” was a word that George Orwell had coined for Newspeak I would have believed you.
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I hate how very specifically British colonialism overshadows all other imperialism.
Nobody talks about the Ottoman empire, the various shenanigans the Indian and Chinese rulers were up to, the Russian Empire (Russia is still a colonial Empire, btw) hell, even the shit Spain or Portugal did are swept under the rug. Nobody remembers French colonies in Africa or how much of a menace the Dutch used to be.
No, it's all Britain, all the time, baby. The only colonial Empire to ever exist, I guess.
I mean, they did do it bigger and better than anyone else. There's a reason they used to say, "The sun never sets on the British empire". It literally circled the globe, so the sun was always shining on some part of the empire.
Still, you make good points. They definitely weren't the only ones, and definitely not the most brutal.
The Mongol Empire and Russian Empire at their biggest were of a comparable size and the "sun never sets" era lasted for a blink of an eye on a historical scale.
A lot of the people who whine about colonialism also heavily fetishize people who aren't white, so they aren't concerned with any transgressions they might have made.
I see Slavs don't count as white again ths week
They're not wrong tho. The reason people focus on the British Empire is almost entirely because of noble savage bullshit anti-white racism with a touch of fetishizing PoC HEAVILY.
Shit, people wine all day about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade but people don't even acknowledge the Arab Slave Trade that still exists to this day and existed before the Trans-Atlantic, nor the fact that the same can be said about fucking Africa's slave trade. They even shit themselves and scream "racism" whenever anyone brings attention to it. This unwillingness to accept that poc did wrong even extends into "historical movies" (see, the Woman King, or whatever the fuck they called that movie).
A week or two back, I saw someone go "yes, Africa had a slave trade already, but Europeans made it so much worse!"
I'm not sure if that genius even knew about Barbary/Ottoman slaves, who were often taken directly from raids on Christendom.
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Wow that’s good to know
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This technique is so deadly, you can see the exact moment that his soul leaves his body
Yeltsa Kcir. omg
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"Funny you should say that, Mr. Frog, but those coffee grounds we found at the murder... Well, they were Wilkins Coffee. Now see, the thing that bothers me, is that the victim... Well, he didn't drink Wilkins."
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YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT REX SET UP HIS BASE ON THE SAME PLANET FROM THE CLONE WARS MOVIE
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i had an idea
Comic #2 of this series can be found here
I think we need more posts where mario and luigi are actually best friends.
They are def colourblind and think they got matching outfits.