Miscellaneous half-thoughts and magic systems

why are towels expensive. that’s a rectangle

*only uses dollar coins to disrupt the rectangle economy*

wtf are you talking about, they didn't "deplete" the nature of their country, they cultivated their wilderness over centuries into some of the most idyllic pastoral landscapes in the entire world. And they did such a good job of it that the phrase "English countryside" is now synonymous with beauty and serenity and peacefulness. They didn't destroy their country's nature, they became its caretaker, they're right to be proud of it. All you're doing is pretending that the only kind of nature that should count is whatever is completely untouched by human hands.

don't understand why people market their VNs based on playtime instead of word count. arent all of them less than 5 minutes if you hold ctrl

Steam description that advertises over 5 hours of reading gameplay "if you read as fast as our lead artist, who's a freak".

over six months of riveting gameplay if you leave it open on another monitor as you get distracted by various feeds and DMs every five lines

Umineko is a visual novel that takes over 100 hours to complete because fan culture encourages you to live-blog the whole thing.

we are NOT bringing 4chan incel terminology to this site, take that "foid" out of your post and go wash your blog out with soap

the memeification of fascism is a proven method of perpetuating and instilling it in other people. Layers of irony will not protect you once you adopt racist, sexist, ableist, transphobic terminology into your lexicon. you'll be acknowledging and nursing the mindsets and connotations borne of those words.

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

“Pillars and crossbeams can be used to ram down a wall, but not to plug a hole, for this requires a different kind of tool. A great stallion can gallop a thousand miles in a day, but it cannot catch mice as well as a cat, for that requires a different kind of skill. Kites and owls can catch a flea or discern the tip of a hair on a dark night, but in the daytime they are blinded and cannot even make out a mountain range, for that requires a different inborn nature. So if someone says, ‘Why don’t we make only rightness our master and eliminate wrongness, make only order our master and eliminate disorder?’ this is someone who has not yet understood the coherence of heaven and earth and the realities of the ten thousand things. That would be like taking heaven alone as your master and eliminating earth, or taking yin alone as your master and eliminating yang—an obvious impossibility. If someone nonetheless insists on talking this way, he is either a fool or a swindler.” - Zhuangzi 17, Autumn Waters

trans. Brook Ziporyn. spoken by a sea god named Ruo as part of their response to a river god’s asking “where is the standard that can divide the more from the less valuable, the great from the small?”

there's this little fairy in my house that likes to make out with other fairies right where I can see because it knows it pisses me off and I can't fucking do anything about it because they're a protected species

friend who went to bed is a type of dead wife