mugasofer

[mugasofer]

Superpower Ranking Survey

This is a survey to rank generic superpowers with no other context.

Link here!

This should only take about two minutes.

Ideally I would have a large sample size so I can do fun things with numbers and answer questions like "what do people most agree on" and "which power is most divisive".

[mugasofer]

this is literally the only major change to history in the umamusume timeline mentioned or implied

[mugasofer]

Swiss Cheese Mono Font by Heirloom

[mugasofer]

This almost certainly isn't true. Reddit's MaxwellHill was a 40-year-old married man, probably from or at least spent time in Malaysia, and remained somewhat active after Maxwell's arrest.

His account was most likely named after the Malaysian landmark of the same name, not a company her father's company merged with (???).

reddit isn't a real website it's a propaganda outlet. some day we'll find out more than 50% of activity on major subreddits was bots.

the point of reddit is you go on there and see a big number next to gay opinions and a negative number next to correct opinions and lots of people repeating the gay opinions so you feel outnumbered. or if you're impressionable you start believing the gay opinions.

do NOT let anything you see on reddit affect the way you feel or think about anything ever.

[mugasofer]

Up until the Emperor starts throwing lightning, is there *any* indication that *any* Force techniques might be restricted to certain users? Luke choking the guard (and wearing black) is obviously meant as a thematic link to Vader, but telekinesis just seems to be a generic Force thing. Luke, Yoda, and Vader are all levitating stuff in ESB.

[mugasofer]

[mugasofer]

It's not possible for mechanics to "get in the way of the story" in a TTRPG. Whatever outcome the mechanics natively produce *is* the story. There can be a mismatch between the story you want the game to produce and the story the mechanics naturally gravitate towards producing, in which case you should consider playing a different game that actually wants to produce the story you want to experience, but "mechanics getting in the way of the story" is not a thing.

[mugasofer]

That's unironically kind of the idea behind political lesbianism, right?

Type of guy who has become so twisted from age gap discourse that they start arguing that interracial marriage is problematic because of the power imbalance.

[mugasofer]

"um, no, I don't think we live in some sort of fanservice AU where each house has a device you must strip down to use" I say as I confidently step into the shower fully clothed.

[mugasofer]

So Trump's DOJ is suing the state of Washington because WA's new mandated reporting law says that clergy (among many other professions) are legally obligated to report ongoing child abuse if they know about it. And the Christofascists in the Trump regime call that "anti-catholic"

And all I can think of is this iconic post

[mugasofer]

Justification for why they thought they could visit Dinosaur Island without being eaten by dinosaurs? Like, it's shorthand for "we have modern weaponry and dinosaurs aren't actually a big threat" - but also the sort of thing that would be in a small vial that's easily lost or broken to make the plot happen.

(This is assuming the darts didn't just bounce off, which would just be embarrassing.)

I watched the new Jurassic World movie with the family, and I think there was exactly one thing that really stuck out to me: early on, while they're on their way to return to Dinosaur Island, they made this show of getting out some dinosaur neurotoxin and explain that if a dinosaur gets hit with it, it'll die in a matter of seconds. This is the impetus for a bit of conversation on the ethics of dinosaur murder.

They then proceed to lose the dinosaur neurotoxin, and ScarJo has this line about how yeah, they lost some of their tools, and maybe it would have helped and maybe it wouldn't have, but they just have to get it done anyway.

The dinosaur neurotoxin is never mentioned again.

Anton Chekov had this principle you might have heard of where if you put a gun up on the mantle in the first act, you need to have that gun get fired. And so ... what, exactly, is this neurotoxin doing in this movie? Why was this thing included when it could easily have been cut? It would have been painfully easy to cut around, there's no other mention of it, it's not used in other scenes, and even ScarJo's line about missing tools doesn't mention the neurotoxin specifically.

So I imagine there are two things going on here:

The neurotoxin bit is a lead in to the dinosaur ethics bit, so was kept for that purpose. Maybe the neurotoxin did originally feature in the plot somehow, and got cut, but they wanted the characterization stuff, so said "eh, what the hell, we can imply the neurotoxin was lost".

More likely to me, one of the writers had heard some kind of fan theory or CinemaSins ding where someone said, "uh, why are these morons not using neurotoxin or other poisons if they don't have financial incentives to keep the dinos alive like the first and fourth movies". And so the writer on this movie was like, "oh shit, they got me, I didn't think about neurotoxin, I have to answer the neurotoxin question or they're going to roast my ass".

It really seemed like a case of defensive writing to me, someone trying to cover their bases in some way, or metatextual elements intruding into the work, but I can't be entirely sure.

(FWIW TvTropes claims that the neurotoxin darts are used in an early sequence and then fail to penetrate, never to be seen nor heard from again after maybe 20 minutes into the film. Very possible that I missed this, but I would still be left pretty puzzled about the role of the neurotoxin in the film. The underlying theme of failures of control systems, maybe?)

[mugasofer]

Hear y'all like rats.

You can get your rat ass prints also:

[mugasofer]

[mugasofer]

Now in general for any situation you should be looking past the surface and learning the details of the whole thing, really thinking for yourself and forming an opinion rather than relying on who looks like the Real Villain.

But to be honest in any Big Entertainment Corporation vs AI fight you should be calling for Bob Iger to be broken down and the iron in his blood used for new GPUs. Those guys are NOT on your side. They do not want copyright to help the artist, they want as much power over artistic endeavors as they can possibly get. They'd sue you for seeing Mickey Mouse in a dream if they could.

[mugasofer]

no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.