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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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There really is nothing like the self-importance of suburbanites who view their ability to drive to and from a city as paramount and unimpeachable but paying anything like the costs of sprawl as horrid overreach.

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ok i'll bite. who's donald trump

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Its actually hilarious how many things the warden saw in person back when everything was a mystery, and understood mostly fuckall shit nothing because we were busy conscripting. We found Andrastes ashes. We talked to Brother Genitivi. The guy who sold us discount merch is probably the first dwarven mage in centuries (idk). My wife birthed an old god. There's at least 10 centuries-old questions I probably found answers to in the deep roads, but I am just a little man and ultimate cosmic knowledge is not my problem.

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When I was a kid I had a book of like, "fun physics experiments for kids". And one of them was an "experiment" where you hold an object by a string and just by focusing on the direction you wanted it to swing, it would start to move in that direction even without your input. The book of course explained that this was the ideomotor effect, a phenomenon where your thoughts can create minute, unconscious movements in your body.

Then a couple years later I got a fortune-telling kit that included a pendulum. You hold the pendulum over a piece of paper that says "yes" and "no" and ask a question, and whichever way the pendulum moves is the answer.

At which point I was like "hey WAIT a minute", and in hindsight I think that experience explains most things about who I am as a person

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This is the best thing you are likely to read about Rotherham.

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See, Superman, Superman has the fantastic quality of not being set during World War 2 anymore, even if that's around when the property debuted and really built up steam, and therefore the engaging the premise no longer requires you to pointedly ignore certain elephants such as Japanese Internment. Thank you, sliding time scale. Captain America, however

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That's how I played Corvo in Dishonered.

I've invented a new superhero who kills all of his enemies because he thinks that's more ethical from a utilitarian perspective than sending them to prison

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Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man

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Earlier, it was announced [British] civil servants will soon be given access to a set of tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and named "Humphrey" after the scheming official from the classic sitcom Yes, Minister.

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one time a ranger 1 (so not law enforcement) at the state park where i worked was getting rid of a bunch of clothes so he put them all in garbage bags and dropped them off at the bunkhouse where all the seasonal employees lived and he said we could go through them before he donated them and we all took a tshirt or two and then a month later we were throwing a party and I was like "we should all wear his clothes to the party" and he came in and it took him like an hour and five drinks to suddenly be like "wait a minute.................."

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Tumblr users whenever they hear someone aay "unalive"

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So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.

What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.

Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.

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I've invented a new superhero who kills all of his enemies because he thinks that's more ethical from a utilitarian perspective than sending them to prison

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One thing that a lot of other capepunk fiction's worldbuilding has made me appreciate is the extent to which The Protectorate, as an organization, is about as much of a character as any of the actual individual characters. You can ask "What would the Protectorate Do in response to X or Y scenario" and there's enough in the text about their strengths and weaknesses and organizational ethos that you can kludge together a fairly true-to-the-text approximation of the exact way that they'd turn it into a multidepartment buck-passing office-politics-ridden clusterfuck.

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“a penis is Ontologically Evil because it’s technically capable of perpetrating sexual violence” damn, wait till you hear about hands!

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