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I have discovered the truth about chainmail bikinis, and it is imperative those wearing such armor do not think about it too hard or they may inadvertently cross the line between Sexy Hero and Homicidal Pervert.
This four panel comic presents a much more interesting exploration in to the impacts of the kind of magic that would facilitate bikini armor than novel, movie, graphic novel or video game I have ever stumbled across.
Though I have long held that if the argument is the armor is unnecessary/ornamental etc then the heroine would be more inclined to wear something comfy (like pajamas) or even go nude, I had not considered the homicidal pervert angle.
I hearby move that this should be licensed for use in every textbook on fantasy worldbuilding.
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Why weren't TTRPGs popularized centuries before video games? Large scale printing for complex rulebooks needed the printing press, but even then, it wouldn't justify taking off as late as the second half of the 20th century
A lot of it boils down to dumb luck. Hobbies resembling modern tabletop RPGs have come and gone before, but none of the ones that came before Dungeons & Dragons ever managed to blow up into a broader cultural phenomenon.
For example, tabletop American baseball simulators that use rules tech very similar to that of modern indie tabletop RPGs – complete with d66 rolls and Big Stupid Tables full of increasingly improbable random events – have been around since the 1880s, and by the mid 20th Century, dedicated players were using them to simulate entire virtual leagues in a way that would be instantly recognisable to modern indie RPG fans as a form of solo journalling RPG. Robert Coover's 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., dramatises the hobby in a way that strikingly pre-figures the later Satanic Panic's fearmongering about D&D players becoming so immersed in the game that they lose touch with reality – pre-dating D&D itself by over five years.
It never went anywhere from there. Such games still exist, but the hobby remains insular to this day; it just never stumbled into the right combination of time and place to grow beyond its roots. And it's not even the first time a niche hobby had approached something like modern tabletop RPGs and just never taken that final step. We can speculate about the whys and wherefores, but ultimately, a lot of it – ironically, given the subject matter – boils down to a cosmic roll of the dice.
(One of my favourite counterfactuals is speculating what the modern tabletop roleplaying hobby would look like in a world where it kicked off half a century early by growing out of tabletop American baseball simulators in the 1920s rather than historical wargames in the 1970s. Imagine!)
A curious question: do you think there's anything in the demographic argument? That the reason TTRPGs broke through with D&D was because the Baby Boomersin thr US were the youth demographic, and that demographic just happened to get big enough to move from niche to industry?
Although now I think about it, maybe it's just that D&D came out during the hegemonic reign of the US? I mean, it's all almost certainly still "luck", but I am curious if you have any thoughts on what that luck actually represented...
Made a new poster! :)

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Spot the difference (HARD)
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Okay and the left one?
“You never reply to messages” I am just one person okay I am understaffed
hey do you mind grabbing joseph's coat for him? yeah its the red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and blue one
the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds
#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)
it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers
Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.
Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.
There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"
I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.
There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.
when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.
sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought
I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk
I am being perceived.
every three to five days there's a new big scary AI story and when you look into it it's always that the AI generated a piece of text that closely resembled its training data, but in a new situation because someone put it in a new situation. just the most dog bites man shit of all time. it's been three years
billionaire gets into the most boring special interest of all time and entire population has to pretend it's revolutionary at barely metaphorical gunpoint. I honestly resent every brain cell I've spent on this shit that could have been spent on like 16th century weaving methods
it seems to be taboo to say this even among the very critical but like. AI is the most boring thing to happen in my entire life. like of course it is causing major events that you have to be concerned with in order to protect yourself and be a knowledgeable participant in society but the fact that I have to spend my time, my brain power, knowing things about the statistically likely text machine? unforgivable. can we please have an energy crisis or something so that I have to know the exact inner workings of six different kinds of solar panel instead, please, I need a break, I need to let my brain run around in the field like a sheepdog instead being shackled in the dank grey twilight of the transformer mines
if ten thousand guys can write posts like "of course there are massive externalities, but we must also consider that AI has made life somewhat more convenient for me personally" surely I too can be forgiven for posting that of course there are massive externalities, but we must also consider that AI has made life super boring and annoying for me personally

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“but shrouded black figures are scary!” not when ur muslim. its the funniest fucking thing. this is labeled on pinterest under shit like “classic horror” “scary phone wallpaper”
but that LITERALLY just looks like a niqabi or someone in a jilbab. Like Look at this pic of me (from a self photoshoot, now w/o the dramatic lighting and dark background)
or this pic of me
or this pic of me
like its so funny i can’t be scared of shrouded figures it just looks like me.
if i saw this i would just be like “Assalam alaikum sister, dope sword you got there”
I mean I think a part of the ‘scary background’ bit is the thing where the individual in question is staring directly at the viewer from a foggy pond in a dense forest. And also the literal burning halo
sounds like a normal Friday night. if a sister wants to go on a walk in the evening who am i to stop her. if she has a burning halo that’s the will of god.
this is what every mental health conversation on this god forsaken website sounds like to me.
I'm not so sure this is the base cause tho. I think the fact that indie artists are accessible and engageable and corporations are not means that we treat indie artists as reasonable agents to request change, thus we can engage with them on our terms, and treat soulless megacorporations as forces of nature, deity-level intelligences for whom the only option for compelling change is engaging them on their terms.
Thus, we place incredible burdens on indie artists because they're people and should know better, and place no burden at all on soulless megacorporations, because they're not people, so any turn towards people-like behaviour has to be actively and financially supported or they'll never learn.

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Please stop being nonbinary too. God only created one gender. You must conform to that.
THERES ONLY ONE NOW?????
They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard
Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex