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I would love to do that but I've been informed by the committee that calling him Mr. Skin is deeply upsetting.

It's like how my childhood friend Freddie's parents are, naturally, Mr. and Mrs. Freddie

I say this as someone who loves worldbuilding, but too many people seem to believe that what makes a story good is some imaginary Worldbuilding Score that increases with the level of detail you’ve put into the linguistics and economic systems instead of, like, telling a good story.

genuinely desktop linux will never see mass adoption until some huge mega corporation or future socialist state produces a centralised out of the box version that comes packaged with physical devices. 99% of users do not want to do research on different forks and their strengths they want a box that turns on and shows them the button for the internet

It's great that you're doing a queer interpretation of folklore, but before you do, do you actually know anything at all about folklore?

headcanon that a ferengi tradition is putting your new baby up for sale at a ridiculous price to show how valuable they are to you (everyone has to be polite and not actually buy them or hands will be thrown, people will be sued, etc etc)

I love the idea of Ferengi traditions that are both ha-ha capitalism but also create a functioning culture that’s more than a metaphor.

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

I think some of y'all would really benefit from learning the scope of power of various political offices.

Are you trying to tell me my local schoolboard doesn't have the ability to declare a unilateral ceasefire with iran?

If they try hard enough and are pure of heart... still no.

Everyone with their shit more together than mine is a one-note workerbee who doesn't understand the true meaning of freedom, everyone with their shit less together than mine is a directionless loser who's not going to make it

speaking of hedging, one criticism i always hate that's often levelled against people doing media criticism or analysis is variations on "oh they think all their opinions are correct" yeah i'd hope so--don't understand why someone would hold an opinion they think is wrong! i hate the culture of endlessly qualifying everything you say to mollify an interlocutor who feels like your strongly held opinion is an imposition on their free will and i think nobody ought to bend to it. make your criticisms and points with your fucking chest. if you think you need my permission to disagree with me then you will die my thrall and be buried in my tomb

a lot of people did not graduate from the very basic lesson of "What is a social construct"

Look. You're not obligated to understand the world around you. But if you don't, you will constantly stumble through the world, bewildered and confused.

"erm actually this thing you said you experienced, where doctors treated you wrong, is illegal!!" Do you understand that medical malpractice is a real thing and not just a plot device from House MD. You get that, right. Right??

in general--although i don't think it would actually be worth the functional errata needed to implement this--i think magic would be a better game if it trimmed like 20% of its types. for example, i think every animal type with sub-15 cards that's not plausibly going to get typal support in the forseeable future should just be a 'beast'. capybara, giraffe, varmint (god OTJ was fucking awful)--beasts, the lot of them. also, unicorns should be faerie horses and pegasi should be angel horses, it's ridiculous that you can't build one typal deck synergizing the three types of animals that are all different types of horse

"Whether someone understands it or not, these are the consequences of the political views they're espousing" is a pretty important analysis tool for online movements because quite honestly, over half of everyone engaging in politics online have no foundations for the stuff they're saying and are just saying whatever makes them feel like a member of an in-group.

If your in-group is "the left" you're very much not immune to this. In fact, trying to do left-wing politics without even trying to build a foundational political understanding is a great way to end up as a neo-nazi with a tumblr accent rather than an effective left-wing advocate.