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making fiends fanart in 2024. WHAT!!!!!!

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Happy Halloween! 🎃👻👽

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I maybe it's I'm going insane do to to recent events but i have become completely disillusioned about the cyberpunk movement being truly "punk", given it ended up giving us moldbug, nick land, Elon Musk and the modern culture of silicon valley. I could be wrong though. i just can't help but think overwise.

Cyberpunk was never a social movement; anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is selling something. There's an argument to be made that it was, at one time, a legitimate artistic and literary counterculture, but if so, it's one that had largely exhausted its cultural relevance by the early 1990s, and it's been running on pure vibes ever since. This isn't to say that there haven't been individual works in the last thirty years of cyberpunk media that are worth examining, of course, but as a genre? It's not accidental that contemporary cyberpunk has mutated into an exercise in 1980s retrofuturism – that's about the last time cyberpunk literature as a whole had anything interesting to say.

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HAPPY SPOOKYDAY WITH THE MARCHING BAND! 💀🎸🎶🎹 #ソ

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apateu apateu

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I don't think I've ever shared this story before but I desperately need to

So my family- Me, two of my parents, and my swarm of brothers- were out for a day in the city, right? And we came across this juggling busker dressed as Darth Vader

And all my brothers LOVE star wars, so of course we stop

And Vader says something during his performance, right? And one of my brothers- maybe about seven years old at the time- asks what's wrong with his voice. Because he doesn't have the classic Vader voice.

And the buskers says- in what I assume was his best impression- "My voice modulator has been compromised"

And my brother- who is, again, about seven years old- stone-faced and without even a HINT of amusement- tells him, "You have failed me for the last time" and raises his hand to force-choke the guy

Dude fucking CHOKES and falls to the ground. No hesitation. Drops everything. Full-on Shakespeare performance. Apologizes to my brother like he's fucking Palpatine

And my brother doesn't laugh. Just nods solemnly to this grown ass man while we all lose it, and then "lets him go".

And then we leave, the moment cemented into the family lore forever

Anyhoe God bless you juggling Darth Vader, may the force be with you

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What do you mean the average person doesnt know what a soundfont is???

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eclectic taste (not to be confused with good taste) is the only thing you actually need to be a good artist. i don't care if you like the right things, i literally only care abt the multitude of experiences and practices you have ingested.

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So earlier I was thinking about how murder investigations in the Matoran Universe must have been hellish, since proving a murder even took place would be all but impossible unless there were direct eyewitnesses, given that the bodies of the victims would disappear as they were teleported up to the Red Star, provided their brain was not destroyed beyond repair.

But then I remembered that we have a canonical example of a murder investigation: Lhikan and Nidhiki's investigation into the three Matoran murdered by Tuyet. And that raised a new question, because very clearly, there were bodies there to be found and examined.

So why didn't the bodies of the Matoran Tuyet murdered go to the Red Star?

I could understand why the first victim, a Ta-Matoran who Tuyet dumped molten protodermis on, might not have been teleported. If his head was completely melted, there would be nothing left of his AI for the Kestora to retrieve, fair enough. But the second and third victims were a Le-Matoran she pushed off a building, and a Ga-Matoran she drowned (Tuyet had a sense of irony it seems. Charming.) and neither of those should have been able to cause enough damage to prevent the teleportation.

So is there a delay or a cooldown period between the moment of death and the Red Star's systems bringing in the body? If so, how long does it take (Lhikan asking Tuyet when she found the body of the drowned Ga-Matoran suggests it is possible for a corpse to remain for hours, even a whole day) and why would there be one in the first place? Not transporting the body immediately upon death just leaves opportunities for it to be damaged further, endangering or even preventing the revival process.

The answer to all of this is of course that The Many Deaths of Toa Tuyet was written and published in 2007, well before Greg even had the idea for the Red Star's function. But now the two have to coexist in the canon, and the former throws a considerable wrench into the latter.

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why is it so comforting to know that even in 40/50s lesbians will always have the most unhinged lesbian drama

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Literally:

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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

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'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do

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The history lesson continues.

In other news, a huge thank you to all of you who’ve already grabbed the Moggie plushie! It hasn’t been a day and we’re nearly funded already, so thanks for the terrific start, you rule! Enjoy the weekend, talk more soon.