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Had a dream where Johnny from “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.
Happy late pride month to Joanie, the best that’s ever been 🏳️⚧️
Joanie recently changed her name to Jolene because “it’s funnier”, she says
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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.
But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?
My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.
A few months later
All hail the High Warden of Gondor.
Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.
Every time I see this post I’m obligated to reblog and make it your problem too!
This is actually my ragebait specifically to talk about AtlA Korra. I'm like, lightning bending is this symbolic art that can only be achieved by cleaving yourself from humanity and morals (thus is evil and why Zuko can't do it), and then the intro to the show has some ding dong lightning bending into a diode when you would be much better off using coal to boil water and spin an electromagnet.
This is actually my ragebait specifically to talk about AtlA Korra. I'm like, lightning bending is this symbolic art that can only be achieved by cleaving yourself from humanity and morals (thus is evil and why Zuko can't do it), and then the intro to the show has some ding dong lightning bending into a diode when you would be much better off using coal to boil water and spin an electromagnet.
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The parachute study is actually a wonderful piece of art because it demonstrates so succinctly the kind of situation where randomized controlled trials are not the gold standard of evidence, and in fact reach misleading conclusions.
Because you can't recruit people to willingly jump out of mid-flight passenger planes for science, you redesign the study to engineer a scenario where the risk to the control group is minimsed. The plane is landed.
And then, because you've removed the main reason to use a parachute, you find that parachutes have "no effect" on mortality or injury.
The constraints of performing an ethical RCT guarantee this result. A result that we obviously know is dangerously wrong to extrapolate to the real-life uses of parachutes.
Now here's the thing: The people insisting that "evidence-based medicine" says we need RCTs of trans healthcare know this is what they're doing. It's extremely well established that you can abuse these "standards" to engineer incorrect results.
SEGM and their ilk are doing this on purpose because they know it's an effective way to dress up science denial in a veneer of scientific rigor.
I keep noticing parallels between how guitar players talk about theory and how TTRPG players talk about learning systems. "It'll stifle my improvisation" buddy you play the same 3 licks over and over.
I would love to know more about what you are talking about. Don't talk to many guitar people.
it's genuinely kind of shocking when you think about how, despite the sheer number of rpgs that theoretically feature (or at least borrow iconography of) the swordsman who uses a normal sword in one hand and nothing in the other, how few actually mechanically encourage you to do this ever
the mechanical reason for it is kinda obvious, because whether you look at it as an issue of fairness to other builds or not is largely incidental to the root issue of a "dead slot" that isn't explained by the weapon taking both hands, so eventually something usually ends up in that slot just to make sure it's not empty, but still
I see the point people are making about this being somewhat rare in real life as well, and I agree, but I'd also point out that one of the answers to what you'd have in your other hand provided by computer rpgs is very often "a second, full-sized sword"
I think there is an interesting problem here between the relationship between tabletop and computer RPGs. Older TTRPGs often state clear disadvantages to having the off-hand occupied, and they provided relatively minimal benefit to holding items like another weapon or a shield. Like, a shield generally provided +1 AC in D&D, and in AD&D 2nd, the best bonus you could get is like +3 after a lot of investment. Using the off-hand to engage with the environment, grapple opponents, use utility items, and perform funny manuevers (like grabbing poeple's weapons and other items), are often not considered or not feasible to apply to a video game. My darling BG1/2 falls for this trap because, in that game, there is relatively few reasons to use only 1 weapon in hand despite being able to invest into a fighting style to boost it, slightly. Getting, at most, a +2 AC and a +1 Crit Adjustsment is not great compared to being able to hold a magical shield or a magical weapon. Additionally, you don't need a free hand to use items like potions or wands in BG1/2, there's no grapple, you can't yoink items from enemies' hands, etc. So there is basically no reason to do this.
Video games take the fetures that are easiest to apply to a computer, and then video games feed back into tabletop games. Maximizing a free off-hand requires a game that is both really interested in combat but also does not have enough stacking factors to make that free hand completely dead weight. So games like PbtA are not crunchy enough to care whether the Character has a weapon in each hand or not, but 3.5 is so crunchy that you're basically throwing if you are not maximizing every possible part of a character that can hold another magic item for your build (as a martial-focused character). The bleed in philosophy from Tank, Support, DPS also influences tabletop games where characters have "roles" in combat (even if they are not these three). These were not exactly a thing in the past. In the past, characters did not have roles so much as they had features which somtimes synergized into a clear vision during combat, but combat was also not the sole vector of game balance consideration. Thieves in games in and off of D&D were utility characters in the old days that could resolve environmental challenges without magic. Now, they are often designed to be "DPS" or a similar "role."
Anyway, the increased focus on numbers, builds, and roles in both computer and tabletop RPGs makes the humble free-hand an increasingly vestigial element of design philosophy from an older age.
I live a very balanced life of noticing things nobody else does and not noticing the things that literally everybody notices
isn't it fun how quality standards just do not apply to AI?
I just had to call a customer service hotline - but now they put you through to an AI. I had a pretty simple request, a simple piece of information to be relayed to a responsible party. But the AI couldn't do that, so we went in circles (drip-drop goes the water~) until I finally got put through to an actual human person employee, who took my message and e-mailed the person and that was it.
BUT what's interesting is: I got the announcement "Your call might be recorded, please stay in the line to evaluate this conversation-" between my "conversation" with the AI and before I got put through to the human employee. Not before talking to the AI. Before talking to the actual person. Mind you, the AI failed this pretty simple task and went in circles and was useless. The employee was friendly and immediately helped me, no problem. But I can only evaluate her, not the crap AI.
Any negative evaluation on my part would reflect poorly on the person who helped me, so obviously I give a positive evaluation - but that also means that from the perspective of the company, customer satisfaction remains constant ("yay AI was a success!") OR it gets worse for the human employees when people take out their frustration with the AI on them. Pisses me off.
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So Kylian got brutalized and insulted by the Paraguayans for 100 minutes straight but somehow he's an arrogant asshole for wanting to celebrate his win instead of shaking hands with that piece of shit? And isn't it funny that no one has a problem with that man throwing the ball at Kylian when it's objectively a much more disrespectful thing to do...
If the roles were reversed they would've said Kylian was an arrogant asshole resorting to violence because he can't handle rejection but since it's that white man being agressive they found a way to victimize him instead
Well. It's the Fourth Of July. Again.
For those of you who aren't familiar, I live in an exceptionally flammable part of the United States, and despite the fact that every goddamn year multiple parts of my state catch fire, destroy homes and kill people, the local assholes insist on getting drunk and setting fire to a bunch of illegal explosives anyway. In 2023, God granted me a Miracle that prevented my house from burning down.
Last year, I had to resort to Psychological and Chemical Warfare to keep the patriotic arsonists at bay.
This year is apparently An Important Birthday for the clusterfuck we have the nerve to call a nation, so despite the fact there is so much smoke in the air that the sun has literally been blood red for the last week, the pyrotechnic fetishists are out in force.
Last year, I hit upon the concept that if my neighbors were going to act like problem animals, it would make sense to use the management techniques on them that you might use on say, a Bear that was doing serious property damage. Thusly, I created The Stench, a nontoxic but FOUL smelling concoction that I could discretely spray around the flammable gatherings and render the area extremely uncomfortable to occupy for the rest of the night, forcing them to give up or move on.
If this seems harsh: There is no story from 2024 because a grass fire was started by fireworks less than 12 miles from me and the high winds put me in the evacuation zone in under an hour. Over fifty people lost their homes. Errant fireworks burning my house down is a very real possibility, and I pay the price in anxiety and insurance premiums.
The Stench is noxious but harmless, and also very effective at building a buffer zone around my home. But sneaking up to parties on foot in this heat is both exhausting and nerve-wracking. There have to be more effective ways to do this
-And there is! It involves Weeds and Business Cards :)
Well. It's not quite an hour into July 5th. I am very tired, may have destroyed my sense of smell, and am not sure if I'm proud of or VERY disappointed in my fellow citizens.
On one hand: FAR fewer fireworks parties this year!
- Only nine to last year's thirteen - three of them had the good sense to be firing their recreational explosives out over the local reservoir - That's far from foolproof - and really bad for the fish - also y'all are RIGHT NEXT to where the Bald Eagles are nesting - but congratulations on at least attempting some risk mitigation!
On the other hand.
Here's an idea about why kids are so anxious and depressed all the time...the environments kids are in most of the time are very stressful and don't fulfill their needs for play, rest, proper variety of foods, positive social opportunities, and freedom from fear pain punishment etc
Like everyone with any basic understanding of animal welfare knows that if you put an animal in an enclosure that is too crowded, without hiding spots, with no freedom to move around, no ability to avoid harsh and stressful stimuli, and scare it by shouting at it and punishing it, the animal will become stressed and start chewing its own fur off or hurting itself or become sick or unable to eat...
But we expect human children to grow up in these conditions and literally blame them when they develop the exact type of problems that any creature under those conditions would
The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes
And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles
This is Peak Yuri media and I hope my beautiful feral daughters love each other forever
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used to live in a college town that was huge on sports. 80% of small talk was sportsball and so i developed an Evil Habit: whenever the conversation inevitably turned to the upcoming Big Game i would act excited and then confused. I would earnestly insist they had the details wrong. "the game next Saturday? don't you mean the Thursday after? playing against the [predator species]? no we're playing against the [other predator species]." And so on. i would draw this argument out for as long as feasibly possible, until eventually someone would pull out their phone to prove to me my wrongness. At which point I would squint exaggerated at the screen, slap my forehead in an eureka moment, and exclaim "oh you meant the MEN'S team!!! are they doing a game? that's nice."
oh good tags:
#i have the rare joy of living in an area where the college team people care most about is women #but that also makes interacting with anyone not from here on the subject feel very odd #like wdym you only watch the men’s version of the sport. wdym you treat that as the default?? we root for our girls here
Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy
Damn, that's useful
Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!
tags by @gallusrostromegalus
OH HELL THE FUCK YES
