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[thegranddewru]

Seems to be the new standard language with all privacy policies these days.

"Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content."

They own your voice - why? AI purposes maybe? They can remove metadata and all attribution to you in any way? Maybe this has been there the whole time, I actually only signed up recently.

Like, I know there's an aspect of "what the hell do we even do about it" but also how the fuck is this okay?

[firefly-party]

Temporary support drummer!Steve :D pls full view!

close ups under cut! ↓

[tuherrus]

have never before related as much to a way a celebrity dresses

[sunderwight]

Alicent's approach to motherhood is a lot like the kingsguard approach to knighthood, when you really think about it.

In ASOIAF when Jaime gets knighted as a teenager, there are strong parallels to a maiden being deflowered. The cloak, like a wedding cloak, and the blood spilled on the white, like the virgin blood spilled on a wedding bed sheet, and how Jaime is all starry-eyed and hopeful right before the whole myth of knighthood comes crashing down into cold, ugly reality, and etc.

I think Alicent has that going on but just with a different romanticized social role. Her path to honor and nobility had to involve becoming a mother and conducting herself in a certain way, because of her place in society. Even if she hadn't married a king, she'd have been married off to someone, and been expected to produce heirs and to raise them for him. Motherhood is presented as this noble pursuit for women in her society. But in the hard light of reality, it's not nearly as glamorous or morally concise of a lifestyle as it purports to be. She'll put herself between her kids and threats, just like a knight defending his liege, but we never see her actively enjoy motherhood and she clearly struggles to connect with her kids on an interpersonal level. Just like how Jaime got knighted ridiculously young, Alicent got married ridiculously young. Just like Jaime struggled between doing the morally correct thing vs doing "his duty", Alicent struggles between doing what she wants and doing what's expected of her as a mother.

It's all about the way that restrictive social roles make people miserable.

[mellotronmkll]

obsessed with these evasive answers from an MSN interview with Linnell in 2003

[recurring-polynya]

Today I learned that there this theme park in Japan called Nijigen no Mori that has a lot of pop culture themed stuff, like, it's got a replica of the Hokage Mount Rushmore from Naruto and you can zipline into Godzilla's mouth, whatever, it's obviously lit, and right now they are doing an event called Bleach: The Nightwalk Warfare where you can pretend to be a Sternritter and run around in the wood, I don' t care, that's not important to me, what is important to me is this:

[A great menu is] Mayuri Kurotsuchi Hamburger Steak Omelette Rice Plate [It looks radiant]

It's a sunflower Mayuri hamburger omurice. A sunflower. Mayuri. hamburger. omurice. With Vienna sausage garnish.

Here is some truly effervescent copy from the website:

Can you sense its overwhelming presence? This omelet rice and hamburger plate is inspired by Kurotsuchi Mayuri who went to battle against the "Invisible Empire (Wandenreich)". It is a very satisfying plate with plenty of chicken rice, hamburger on top, salad and sausage, but the visual impact that transcends all of that is outstanding.

Look at it. This is the peak of culinary art. I hope Kubo himself has eaten one.

[devildom-moss]

(Horny) Solomon testing MC's patience

Solomon: MC, how about I call you my little 24-hour landfill?

MC: Excuse me?

Solomon: For they way I’m always down to put my junk in you and dump a load in you.

MC: Leave. Now. Get out.

Solomon: Wait, maybe I could be your little fracking site?

MC: You could just stop talking.

Solomon: Because I would love for you to drill me and pump me full until I’m left empty and degraded.

MC: Are you sure it’s not because you’re ethically suspect? Now, please, just leave.

Solomon: Please, MC? I just want to be your e-waste.

MC: You know what, I actually want to hear this one before I kick you out.

Solomon: Because I want you to use me until I’m spent or damaged and then have a hard time getting rid of me.

MC, pulling out their D.D.D.: We’re going to skip right to the getting rid of you part. I’m calling Diavolo.

Diavolo: MC, how nice to hear from you. Is there something I can help you with?

MC: Yeahhh. Solomon is going to require a temporary living situation for a few days while I think of reasons why I shouldn’t cut his tongue out.

Solomon: I gave you one last night.

Diavolo: I see. Of course. I’ll take care of everything, my roller-coaster.

MC: I’m not being emotionally unstable. Solomon’s being a pervert!

Diavolo: Oh, no, I just meant that whenever I ride you, you make me scream and feel like my head is in the clouds.

MC: Fuck you both-

Diavolo and Solomon: You do.

MC: I’m telling Barbatos.

Diavolo: Wait! No. I’m sorry. I thought that was human-world flirting. Solomon taught me. He showed me a clip about a strap-on and a-

MC: I don’t need to hear the rest.

Solomon: You know what, I will show myself the door. I’m sure Asmo will let me crash with him for a few days.

-- Later that day --

Barbatos: I’m very ashamed of you, Young Master. How could you do such a thing?

Diavolo: I suppose that attempt at flirting was a bit crude. Maybe MC isn’t fond of dirty talk in general.

Barbatos: Goodness no. They use dirty talk on me all the time - it’s not usually so… heavy-handed, though. I meant that I am ashamed of you for listening to Solomon. Frankly speaking, your courting already requires work. It won’t do to tarnish your skills. It would be a shame if Lucifer was no longer the only one leaving you read, My Lord.

[fisheito]

NoooOOOOOOO MORVAY NOT AGAIN!!! Two haloween s?? When will you be freee!! 💦💦💦

MR FATHER PLE AXSSE

[sysig]

what if you drew the cutest little mettaton. possibly shitty despot king mettaton looking sooo cute on his throne. or adorable shy ghostie mettaton. or literally any mettaton. what then.

Day 9 - Teeny Tiny Tyrant

[carlyraejepsans]

If you are going to make a game here’s some things that might be helpful!

Game engines:

Godot: very new dev friendly and it’s free. Has its own programming language (GDscript) but also supports C#. It’s best for 2D games but it can do 3D also.

Unity: I don’t even know if I should be recommending Unity. It has caused me much pain and the suffering. But Unity has an incredible amount of guides and tutorials. And once you get the hang of something it’s hard to get caught on the same thing again. It also has a great Visual Studio integration and uses C#. I will warn you the unity animator is where all dreams go to die. It’s a tedious process but you can probably get some plugins to help with that.

Unreal: Don’t use it unless you’re building a very large or very detailed 3D game. It also uses C++ which is hell.

Renpy: Made for visual novels but has support for small mini games. It only supports Python iirc. Basically if you’re making a VN it’s renpy all the way otherwise you should look elsewhere.

What to learn: Game design and how to act as your own game designer. As a designer you need to know if a part of your game isn’t meshing with the rest of it and be willing to give up that part if needed. Also sound design is very important as well. If you want to make your own sounds audacity is perfect for recording and cutting up your clips. If you want to find sound effects I recommend freesound.org and the YouTube royalty free music database.

Sadly I can’t recommend a lot of places to learn this stuff because I’m taking Game Development in Uni. So most of my info comes from my lectures and stuff. One of my game design textbooks is pretty good but it’s around $40 CAD. It’s called the game designers playbook by Samantha Stahlke and Pejman Mirza-Babaei if you’re interested (fun fact there’s a photo of Toriel in there)

Anyway sorry for dumping this large ask on you I’m just really passionate about game design and I like to see other people get into it.

please do not apologize I'd never heard half of this stuff so this is super useful!! I've seen some godot tutorials on YouTube although so far I've played around with RPG maker MV (it was on sale. very very fiddly interface, i had trouble getting around it) and gamemaker, which recently became free for non-commercial use (a lot more approachable on first impact but like i said, haven't really done anything substantial in either yet).

mostly, I'm still in the super vague stage. I've got an idea for the main story conflict, the protagonist and their foil, the general aesthetic i want to go for (likely 2D graphics, but it would be cool to make like. small cutscenes in low-poly 3D) but not much else. haven't exactly decided on the gameplay either! it's gonna necessarily be rpg-esque, but I'm not much of a fan of classic turn-based combat so. I'm gonna check out other games and see if i can frankenstein anything cooler :P

[trickstersaint]

Hi! I've just stumbled across your 'patron saint'-quiz and I love it! 🖤 The way you put the answers to the questions is flawless, especially the 'heart'-question and the afterlife-question, not to mention the results! One gets the impression that you really put your heart in this quiz. My results are eerily fitting - same for a friend who I made take your quiz as well.👍 I'm wondering whether it is possible to read the other result texts somewhere as well? (Or would I have to play through the quiz again with some different educated guesses?) Thanks for creating this quiz and all the best for you. 🫂 Enjoy the day/night 🤗

hi!!!! so glad you like the quiz!!!! i definitely had a lot of fun making it, and it's been really fun seeing people's reactions to it too :)

happy to share the other results! putting them below <3

[wasp-jar]

WASPS ARE CHILL ASF JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!

[veidelon]

There was one picture I took of John at Paul's house when he was half-dressing, putting on his shirt. And he hated it. He said, "Look, Dezo, you say you want clean-cut pictures of us, so why do you use this? I look like a tramp!" I replied, "Yes, but your face... I never saw you look so human as on this picture." And it's possible that this word "human" made him think, because eventually he loved that picture most, much better than the rest of the portraits. After that he always said, "Why didn't you get the rest of the shirt in the picture?"

John Lennon, Dezo Hoffmann

[cathodic-clairvoyant]

Oh hi there transfem discussing her experience in the trans community i just had a quick question about your post

What does tme mean?

Oh okay i see i understand, thank you.

What does transmisogyny mean?

Ah I see, I get it.

What's a trans woman?

Oof scary. One last question.

What's a woman?

Thank you for being my own personal google (not like you had anything better to do right?) and derailing the point of your post for my own personal education. I will now add nothing of value to this post in return. Bye bye!

[sneakystorms]

One reason to vote i haven't personally seen mentioned (at least not phrased this way) is that even IF both candidates had the same exact genocide-enabling policies regarding israel, and only differed on domestic policy, one would still present a better fighting chance for palestine because like. A population with better healthcare, less poverty risk, stronger unions, higher wages and better protection for protesters will be more capable of protest.

A person who has to work multiple jobs to stay afloat is less likely to care and to protest about palestine than one who has to work less. A person who has to be a full time caretaker for an elderly or disabled family member with no financial support is less likely to educate themselves, to care and to protest than one who has the support they need. A person who already cares about and protests their country's insufficient climate policies will be more likely to take the time to protest Israel's genocide if there's fewer pieces of bad climate legislation to occupy their attention.

On the whole, a population that's healthier, more secure and less oppressed by its government doesn't inherently, entirely become complacent and self satisfied - many people in it will have the time, energy and safety to pay attention to the injustices elsewhere in the world and try their best to do something about them

[lavenoon]

No shit, sherlock

@naffeclipse You know this one but now that the chapter is posted I can also post this one <3 *Disclaimer: This was based on a pre-editing snippet and also I needed a shitpost to cope with the pain that would be coming. More totally normal behavior to follow later, probably