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The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think
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Oh my god, ART freaking out at the end of Network Effect because Dr. Mensah is coming aboard like: Your mom teammate primary human is going to be here and I need her to approve of me so you’ll move in EVERYONE CLEAN THIS PLACE UP WE CANT LET HER KNOW PEOPLE LIVE HERE
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The end of this is the Best part.
look upon the mighty machines we have built
and the deftness of a caring person behind that machine
Day 723 of reblogging videos of adorable elephants.
It ... it thanked it!
Elephant saved by vaguely elephant-shaped mecha. "Thank you, Iron Elephant!"
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I wish the world worked like it did in the stardew valley universe. If I'm strapped for cash I should be able to go grab some blackberries off the nearest roadside bush and go sell them to a grocery store for a quick ten bucks. I should be able to think "huh I wanna go talk to the wizard today" and then I go talk to the wizard in his wizard tower
And then the wizard transes your gender for $500 in his basement
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I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.
A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.
I think I quote the End of Ze World one and the Charlie the Unicorn ones about the same, especially since my dog is named Charlee, but I voted for End of Ze World cause I enjoy it more and quote many other lines from it much more often than Charlie the Unicorn
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why is it that we only have like two licenses from any mech producer that’s a good guy? For a game where like there are clear good and bad guys (even if who you play isn’t necessarily linked to that) it seems strange to me that the only loot and XP you get is… more benefits from the bad guys
I can tell you the answer, but to do so, we're gonna have to talk about a completely different TTRPG.
If you've read @makapatag's truly excellent Filipino martial arts TTRPG Gubat Banwa (and if you haven't, here it is), you may notice that every single character class description (with one notable exception) ends with one of these babies:
I am not Makapatag, and I cannot write with quite as much grace and eloquence as he can, but I will try:
If you choose to become a Lancer, ask yourself why you mock the name of peace with these weapons of war. You call yourself a saviour, but your steed was forged from the murder of a world. You stride across the sky in a colossus built in your own image, so why are you too cowardly to give it your face? Why do you believe these machines of death can preserve life?
It is important to note that the admonitions in Gubat Banwa are not just there to make you feel bad; they are there as legitimate questions. The Sword Isles have seen so much blood, death and tragedy. Wars are not glorious and killing is not a game. So, knowing all of that, why have you taken up this discipline - no matter how noble and virtuous it might claim to be - to shed more blood, to bring more death, to write more tragedy? What could possibly drive you to this? What need is so great that you must kill?
The thing with Gubat Banwa is that there are legitimate answers to these questions! There are bad people doing bad things, and some of them will not be stopped with words or kindness. Sometimes, as sorrowful as it is, killing is the correct choice to prevent greater suffering and deeper tragedy - but adding less misery and death to the world is still adding some amount of it. Even the most necessary wars will drench the ground in the blood of the innocent.
A sword is a tool meant to kill humans; while it can be used for other things, it is not well-suited to anything other than this. A mech is, in its most basic essence, just a very complicated sword: it's usually used on things larger than a person, but it's still a tool built to kill.
So why have you taken up this path? Humanity was saved from the brink of extinction and has created wondrous technologies like printers, cold fusion and mind-machine interface, and yet you use them to play soldier in a giant metal man. Why do you choose to take up this machine of death, built by the greedy and pitiless? Why do you think these machines can ever make things right?
Because sometimes, despite everything, they can.
Warhammer 40K shows an awful world full of monsters and monstrosity, and in the darkest moments of its history, Lancer's world looked just as bleak, but Lancer's world differs in one crucial way. Warhammer's world has long given up trying to be better, but Lancer's world never did. Lancer's world kept insisting a better world is possible, and it used what tools it had to make it so.
Sometimes the correct choice, no matter how bitter it may seem, is to kill someone. When you need to do this, a sword is a perfectly good choice for the job.
If you find yourself discomforted by the fact that all the people you can buy mechs from are corrupt and immoral - good! You have correctly engaged with the text. You have understood that the sort of people who would make giant walking death machines and sell them for profit are not good people. But you still have a job to do, and you need the correct tools, and those people have them.
Lancer is not a game about a perfect world - it is a game about a deeply flawed and imperfect one that does not let its imperfection stop it from trying. You have to try to make a better world, even with imperfect tools made by unpleasant people.
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all the new god portraits (so far) in hades 2 !!!
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I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:
You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.
These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )
Bad news, @noodelzmop. Arbitration basically means that if you want to sue Discord for whatever reason, the dispute needs to be handled in house. Specifically, in their house. If you don't get this email out, you're basically signing away your right to legal recourse if they do criminally shitty stuff to you, like with the McDonalds app.
I have been told that emailing "I am confirming that as of the date of this email, I am choosing to opt out of binding arbitration to settle disputes with Discord." With the Email you used for your discord account is enough for the notice but take this with a grain of salt as this was not said by a lawyer
reiterating that this only applies to US users
THIRTY DAY LIMIT BTW. I suggest taking sixty seconds to fire off a quick email with op’s recommended text. I have no plans to sue discord but better safe than sorry
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Man, I really wanna run a campaign where IPS-N is the villain. I feel that would be really fun in its own right. Or alternatively, a campaign where IPS-N isn't necessarily the villain, but they are kind of responsible for everything terrible that ends up happening. HA and SSC understandably get a lot of focus in official modules but I'd love to see more of IPS-N's malign influence on the Long Rim or something.
Not only do I agree with this, but there's a thing everyone is missing about IPS-N.
IPS-N are the worst corprostate.
"Now, come on, Vex," people will say. "Harrison Armory are literally descended from SecComm, who were actual fascists! They're nationalistic imperialists! And SSC are creepy, invasive eugenicists who want to pursue a twisted form of capitalist transhumanism that literally makes the rich and beautiful into the Ubermensch! And HORUS... uh, exists!"
That's all true. But here's the thing: all three of those groups have ideologies. They have principles, as twisted and immoral as they are. There are things that Harrison Armory and SSC and HORUS wouldn't do, even if it was profitable. In fact, Harrison Armory's rampant nationalism leads it to do a great number of things that aren't profitable at all (the Barbarossa, for instance). SSC could probably make a lot more money if it sold its mechs at a more affordable price, but it wants only the richest people to have them because it values being a status symbol more than it values absolute wealth.
IPS-N have nothing, believe in nothing. They are motivated solely by the cold calculus of capitalist profit. There is nothing - nothing - IPS-N would not do to make a buck. The scariest mech in the game is not the Lich, not the Genghis, not the Dusk Wing, it's the Caliban - a machine designed by committee to solve an economic problem. The answer was "create a mech specifically designed to be used against unarmed humans."
IPS-N would sell mechs to pirates, then price-gouge you on the mechs you need to defend yourself from them. IPS-N would whip up a fascist coup against a government that refused to sign a contract with them. IPS-N would union-bust with nuclear ordnance. IPS-N would make you work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, if it could get away with it. All of those things that the other corprostates are too proud or too particular to do, IPS-N will do them without a moment's hesitation if it looks like there's money in it.
I think the evil of IPS-N slips under the radar because unlike the cryptofascist nationalism of HA or the Apple-esque technoeugenecist elitism of SSC, IPS-N's evil is so pervasive and banal that it's background noise. They're Amazon, Raytheon, CAT and Boston Dynamics all rolled into one slick package. They don't make industrial machinery, they are the industrial machine.
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my most unpopular stranger things related but not stranger things exclusive opinion is that i am very bored with how almost every story that has paranormal or scifi elements eventually evolves into a story about stopping the end of the world. and i do know that apocalypse media has its enjoyers however i am not one of them and i very rarely choose to consume it so you see why it would exhaust me that so often all my horror shows and podcasts turn into an apocalypse thing
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anyone else seeing weird mysterious failures on Tumblr
yeah but you didnt have to call us out like that
network failures network failures
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the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you
oh. this is a much better standard to live by.
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‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony
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Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation
"He only made this art because he was horny!" ...Yeah, and? You only made a sandwich because you were hungry.
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maybe i’m just a commie but i think people shouldn’t be at risk of homelessness if they’re in between jobs
actually y’know what
this post really brought out the most batshit angry takes i’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. truly depressing lives you people lead. when the white hot turmoil inside you consumes you will you even feel it