In a way I kind of love people talking about gaster in deltarune because he wasn't even in undertale, the whole thing is like a havana syndrome level phantasm but for people who are bad at reading subtext in a video game that isn't very subtle
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In a way I kind of love people talking about gaster in deltarune because he wasn't even in undertale, the whole thing is like a havana syndrome level phantasm but for people who are bad at reading subtext in a video game that isn't very subtle

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I love prezwalski horses, because like you'll see them and it's like "woah... it's blorbo from cave paintings..."
Lascaux's cave paintings (22,000-17,000BCE)
pezeorsky Horse, Chernobyl exclusion zone (2017)
a person that is stupid: "Starfleet Academy is just teenage drama"
I've convinced my best friend who loves teenage dramas to watch SFA with a promise that there would be teenagers having drama (I wanted to trick her into liking Star Trek and watch it with me). she didn't finish the season because there was not enough teenage drama, so. case closed.
elizabeth holmes has been spotted soaking lady fingers in a clear colorless liquid. sources close to the entrepreneur claim she is working to "revolutionize tiramisu" by using just a few drops of coffee diluted in water. early testers described the result as tasting "like shit." undeterred, holmes insists that a breakthrough is imminent. her company, theramisu, is currently valued at $150.

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Lugia chewing undersea cables
I wish they made it even marginally possible to get a job like I’m so fucking sorry I don’t have a rare but also highly demanded skillset, an agreeable disposition, and the ability to survive off of three nickels a week I’m soooo sorry
I need to scream this from the rooftops:
IF YOU CAN’T GET A JOB, IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!!!!! THE SYSTEM IS DEEPLY BROKEN!!!!!!!!
The hiring process has never been great, but in the past couple of years it’s hit rock bottom. Ghost jobs probably outnumber real jobs on job sites. Recruiters and HR use AI which throws out 90% of resumes before a real human being sees them. And most companies are hellbent on holding out for a unicorn candidate- meaning someone who already knows how to do the EXACT role without any training while also accepting entry level wages- instead of investing in new people.
It’s fucking hard out there right now. You are not alone and it’s not your fault if you can’t get hired.
It's what he would've wanted
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If it's not what grovyle would have wanted why is he always getting tied up and restrained in various compromising positions?
In all seriousness though, it's interesting how PMD, the first two in general but Explorers specifically operates on essentially an entirely emotional level. It is minimal plot and all pathos. I've seen people say that about ET. It makes great kids media, that adults can enjoy too and I'm surprised I don't see it more. It's probably hard to pull off.
if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is
"What would you like the Xbox controller to be like?"
I appreciate the 16% of people who thought we would ever get another controller like the N64's. (Game Informer #90, Oct. 2000)
It's funny that the Dreamcast was the actual correct answer. From the ABXY layout, to the memory card slots. People didn't see that one coming.

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okay so everyone it's crucial to remember: the leftists caused kamala to lose. not the millions of people in the country who are not leftists but also didn't vote for her. it's all on the leftists. every time the democratic party loses its because of the leftists, which is why we need to blame the leftists every time.
of course the democrats should also never ever listen to the leftists because the leftists are far too weak and useless to actually swing an election in their favor. the left has no political capital in america, no power, and no ability to actually affect the outcome of the election, so we can ignore them.
and like i was saying the degenerate left stabbed us in the back, they're ubiquitous and all-powerful and that's why the democrats lost in 2024, because of the leftists swinging the election for donald trump and that's why we need to round up the leftists and put them in camps
but also, the leftists literally are nothing, they're nobody, it's just a couple teenagers who never touch grass so we can ignore them, they're totally powerless, don't worry about them.
anyway the leftists all are secretly lizards with slit eyes and forked tongues and all have mind control powers and can force everyone to vote for republicans (but only republicans) and so we need to kill them and beat them with hammers and pour acid on them because every time we fail it's their fault and not ours.
Comprehension Questions:
What was the author of this post trying to convey?
Do you think their intent was literal or satirical? Explain why you think so.
Who do you think this post was meant to criticize?
What specific behavior or behaviors are being critiqued, and why might the author be critical of them?
Additional Bonus Question:
Use an internet search engine and look up the phrase "Continual shifting of rhetorical focus." Try and find the origins and context of that phrase, and explain how you think it might relate to the post.
oh. oh no.
*for context. im playing the decomp pc port 'dusk' that just came out with a modded iso (that i legally obtained by dumping my own copy of course) to play as a linkle. this is probably my 8th or 9th replay of the game. grew up on the wii version. it being unmirrored is a trip lol. (yes i know i can change the mirror mode in the settings. im keeping it off in the settings :)
resources:
fan pc port (requires ur own iso, meaning its legal)
linkle mod
gamecube file tools (used to modify ur iso for the above mod)
kill la kill is one of those things where it's just like. yeah ok there's things to be said about the sexualization of high school girls and the rampant imagery of such a thing in otaku culture and that's probably not a good thing, i get it. i am not going to act like the show was made out of pure benevolent feminism either; there are a lot of bits where trigger very clearly tried to have their cake and eat it too, and while i don't think this is necessarily a bad thing because sexualized art and horny design is just as artistically valid as more strait-laced storytelling, i could not tell someone they're wrong for being made uncomfortable by all of the gratuitous ass shots of satsuki.
but if you change basically any single "problematic" facet of the show i just feel like all the intended themes don't work nearly as well. you can't make the characters not high-schoolers (the fascist imagery of japanese school uniforms is brought up by satsuki herself in the second episode) and you can't make senketsu and junketsu more modest (proud bodily autonomy and free-spirited nudity is thematic empowerment against the fascist antagonistic forces that want to garb themselves in clothing and only use sex as a nonconsensual means of humiliation and control). like it's so embarrassing to say "no dude you don't get it they look like that because of the story" but in kill la kill's case that's entirely it. they can't not look like that or else it's a completely different show thematically! ryuuko and satsuki are some of the best characters ever and are so refreshing for women in any sort of action fiction. please watch kill la kill.
JK Rowling has denied Nazi crimes against trans people on twitter.
People have been calling her a holocaust denier for denying the nazis targeted trans people. Obviously she thinks this because she doesn't believe that trans people really exist, so nothing would convince her, and more attention has been drawn to this by her trying to silence a critic calling her a holocaust denier using legal threats.
So should we call her a holocaust denier? Maybe not. By doing so, it makes it sound like she is denying the holocaust as a whole, (As nazis and people aligned with them are a fan of doing.) That is an easy statement for nazis and terfs to argue with.
However, I would like to propose an alternative. In 2022, German phd student and terf Marie-Luise Vollbrecht pulled the same stunt on twitter that JKR is pulling now, and was accused of "denying nazi crimes." For this, she filed a lawsuit against the people accusing her, and the court ruled against her. It was deemed that she was, in fact, denying nazi crimes.
JKR is a big fan of Motte and Bailey arguments, where you try to hide a hard to defend argument (That she hates trans people and is lobbying to make it illegal to be trans) inside an easy to defend argument, (That she is just trying to protect women and girls you guys, seriously.) She doesn't say what she means, so I think when criticizing her, we should say what we mean.
By calling her a holocaust denier publicly, you open yourself up to "Well she is not denying the holocaust happened, just that trans people were involved." which when it comes to terfs is an argument you can't win because they will never acknowledge trans people even exist as a meaningful political group, and by taking the very specific thing she is doing and generalizing it as holocaust denial, is that not also somewhat of a Motte and Bailey?
But, if you say "She is denying the Nazi crimes against trans people," what argument can be made against that? A german court decided for the first time in 2022 that the nazis were, in fact, targeting trans people as a separate class from gay men, and by denying that fact, you are "denying nazi crimes," and that's an opinion you could defend in a court of law.
Jeffrey Combs with his daughter in Weyoun makeup! Never seen these before, how cute
FUN FACT: You've seen his daughter (Catherine Combs) before.
but thats not his son? kinda feel ripped off
Nope. Although the actor (Matthew Alan) is from the same town as my (found-family) sister, which surely means something

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was Pluto considered a planet for most of your life?
yes (I am more than 40 years old)
no (I am less than 40 years old)
it was exactly half of my life (I was born Jan 28 1987)
[show results]
(pluto reclassification opponents get blocked on sight don't waste your time)
i've mentioned this on my blog before: the people who say bullshit like "Pluto is still a planet in my heart" would not give a flying fuck about Pluto if it hadn't been reclassified.
you are defying change for the sake of defying change. you are the parents who tell their trans kids "i respect that you consider yourself a girl/boy, but you're still my son/daughter."
you disgust me.
we should all get the addresses of massive AI data centres and pick a day and go there with various tools
Those GPUs seem like tempting prizes, but unfortunately you can't game on them. They don't have the APIs. Plenty of ram and SSDs up for grabs though. Those are the real prizes they are denying us.