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"Guy who acts like you're personally oppressing them when you acknowledge the existence of tabletop RPGs that aren't Dungeons & Dragons" versus "guy who's like 'oh my god, just play a different game', but then their rec list consists exclusively of Dungeons & Dragons clones" – fight!
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if i were a respected british actor with any principles at all i would simply not agree to a project whose earnings will have material consequences for trans people but maybe i'm built differently
another one bites the dust
List of other people who also suck for this reason:
Bill Nighy
Hugh Laurie
James McAvoy
John Lithgow
Katherine Parkinson
Keira Knightley
Kit Harrington
Leo Woodall
Mackenzie Crook
Mathew MacFadyen
Matt Berry
Nick Frost
Paul Whitehouse
Peter Serafinowicz
Riz Ahmed
Shirley Bassey
Simon Armitage
Simon Pegg
Stephen Fry
Stephen Mangan
Warwick Davis
Black Mirror director Ally Pankiw rejected an opportunity to work on HBO's Harry Potter series because of J.K. Rowling's views on gender.
"It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia"
I made a short comic inspired by @weirdalchemy ’s Merge File AU
You can find original AU comic here:
💬 4 🔁 8 ❤️ 61 · Stay with me. · I've seen a lot of people theorize about what would've happened to Pomni if she didn't let go of Jax, and
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Also some bonus doodles:
Doug Jones and Danny DeVito in a buddy comedy about a couple of elderly former henchmen unwillingly dragged out of retirement for one last caper. There's a running gag where they claim to be the original duo that the "one of them is short and fat and the other is tall and thin" trope is based on.
Playing against the trope's conventions (but to the actors' respective strengths), DeVito's character is the talkative one while Jones' character hardly says a word. The former argues that popular media usually has it the other way 'round due to prejudice against short people.
“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.
if u dream of having a garden, of painting murals, cooking or baking for people, researching in a lab, or writing stories, u dream of labor. which is good! we all jus hate having our labor exploited and being underpaid for the value of our work. nobody wants to just sit at home and do NOTHING as quarantine proved! in and of itself labor is fulfilling and contributes to the betterment and advancement of society, too many people are just barred by arbitrary divides (class, education) and unable to perform labor they’d be best suited for, or that type of labor (arts, service industry) is undervalued and underpaid.
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These three places all have about the same population size
(by u/KelVelBurgerGoon)
If you dig into unfounded plagiarism claims, you find quickly that not many are grifts. The vast majority are people who do genuinely feel they were stolen from, and who feel genuine hurt from it...they're just wrong, from the perspective of a neutral observer.
The writer of the 1973 short story "12:01 PM" was not lying when he said Groundhog Day ripped it off, or when he went to lawyers for six months to figure out if he had a case; he spent the rest of his life convinced Groundhog Day stole from him. But the lawyers were right: he would lose, because basically the only similarity between the two stories is the existence of a time loop. "12:01 PM" is a sci-fi story where a man repeats an hour of his life due to a glitch of science; Groundhog Day is a fantasy romcom where a man repeats a day of his life until he becomes a better person with no stated cause for the loop. It would only be plagiarism in a world where you could copyright plots & own the concept of a "time loop"...and in that case there were definitely time loop stories before 1973, so "12:01 PM" would be plagiarism too. And in this world, looking at a story about a time loop & going "I should make my own, totally unique story about a time loop" is not plagiarism, either, it's inspiration (there's no evidence the creators of Groundhog Day ever saw or read "12:01 PM", but it'd be fine if they had). But it wasn't a grift; after all, he didn't sue in the end, it was someone close to his work being unable to look at it objectively. Who can blame him?
Viral plagiarism cases are so often discredited with even cursory research, one glance at legal documents citing ownership of broad genre tropes or shared inspiration or making up absurd comparisons (like The Holdovers one citing a meeting with two old friends as equivalent to the protagonist *seeing a billboard*), but the narrative of a wronged author going up against the man is so powerful and easy to latch onto, even if in practice each case is usually a writer - in some cases the *more* resourced one! - attacking another writer. It undercuts our critical thinking by establishing good and evil from the get, and has people rooting for someone who thinks that they own common storytelling conventions or the lives of historical figures and that someone else needs to be driven out of public life over it
Simply put the majority of viral plagiarism cases are unfounded. Plagiarism does obviously happen, but the type of writer-suing-somebody case you see in the media usually falls apart since...it's just that pattern over and over. But usually, their anger is sincere. It's just wrong.
movies that are like hey this story had to take place SOMEWHERE and we didn’t see YOU offering tax incentives
The Dragon asks if you would like them to make you a cup of coffee?
Those shockingly high “illiteracy” statistics that go around aren’t saying that like 22% of Canadians or 21% of Americans or whatever literally can’t read.
That’s the number of people at level 1 literacy or below. Level 1 literacy is like grade school level. Able to read labels and straightforward instructions and whatnot.
Which is like. Still higher than the ideal for sure, but it’s not like a fifth of adults literally can’t read. They’re just kinda bad at it.
Never thought I’d see an apologist for illiteracy ^. If what’s been said here is to be taken at face value then the statistic for the lowest level of readers is hiding the actual number of people who can’t read even that poorly.
Also, in the US, 22% would be about 72 million. Imagine 72 million people not being able to read better than a third grader or worse. Who the fuck can be apologist about such a massive failing of public policy? Smh.
No level of illiteracy above outliers should be tolerated. Period.
I’m not being an illiteracy apologist. I’m clarifying some terminology.
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the astrology thing is stupid, for sure! and yet... I guess if the user is mentioning their astrological sign, that signals that THEY believe in astrology, and shifts the context to, uh, one where astrology is believed to be real and should be consulted? lol, I guess. seems somewhat different than if the models ASKED users their sign to base their answers on.
yes, if you interact with a doctor or a teacher or a lawyer or a cop they're not just listening to your words (or sometimes not even listening to your words) but influenced by the "thick context" of what you look like, what you sound like, how you're acting, etc. plus of course they have their own ideas of what they want to do in any given situation.
the LLMs don't have any of that, it's words all the way down and every word in the prompt might shift the response in unexpected ways (well, utterly expected ways based on the training corpus and the reinforcement learning they've been put through, the entire point of an LLM is they technically never do anything surprising, but who knows what horrors and far fetched associations lurk in that training data).
they only know what you tell them, so be careful what you tell them!
rocky will not be aboard the eva stratt hate train
I honestly haven’t made a solid opinion on what Rocky thinks of Stratt. It’s probably just as conflicted as Grace. She’s the reason he was able to save Erid, even if inadvertently, but she did also send his best friend on a death mission soooooo
hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit
Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)
man why didn’t they just have this guy fight him off. dude’s huge
i wouldn't fight godzilla if i was this dude's size, for roughly the same reason i wouldn't fight a komodo dragon at the size i currently am
Not even to save New York?
what has new york ever done for me
I lost an argument on Fandom Secrets and am bringing it here instead
The fundamental difference between Internet transphobia and real-life transphobia is that you can’t punch someone through the Internet. So unless you get SWATted, Internet transphobia ends up basically the same as fursecution, anti-fanfiction brigades, and what happened to John Green.
Which doesn’t keep it from being potentially lethal, mind you. I’ve seen someone attempt suicide because of sustained harassment for their allegedly offensive fanart, so of course sustained harassment from transphobes can end horribly.
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i made sailor moon as a bionicle
here she is
So the thing about r/relationships, r/AITA, etc. and similar subreddits is this:
Out of 100 posts that are 99% likely to be bullshit, you will on average have 99 creative writing stories and 1 guy having the worst, weirdest month of his life who is desperate for advice on what to do about his couch eating Brother in law or whatever.
In general the mods there have decided that the tradeoff of 99 people getting up votes for nonsense is worth helping the one person in desperate surreal need. (There are also other benefits; treating all posts as if they are real avoids endless unsolvable arguments in the comments)
But if you share that stuff outside its origin, where none of that upside applies, then I'm going to assume you're a credulous idiot or an attention-seeker. If you make it clear that you're doing it to support some asinine social view, doubly so. Stop sharing that shit, it does not help to be spreading around made up nonsense
This shit is only going to get worse as LLMs get better at producing ragebait, by the way. We are facing a coming tsunami of stories that flatter your worldview and make you feel righteously angry. You need to get into the habit of ignoring things that don't have evidence.
