#bizarro number 1

[greyeisacreativecolor]

I have strange feelings about #Bizarro as a character, mostly because of how disconnected he tends to be from the #supermanfamily. He has so much in common with Conner and Match, but it feels like he's not allowed to explore those stories.

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

Triangle Agency

Y'know I used to be categorized as an anomaly

Genre: Corporate Horror-Comedy

Touchstones: the SCP Foundation, Lobotomy Corporation,

What is this game?: Triangle Agency is an anomalous horror TTRPG about employees at a facility meant to contain strange objects

How's the gameplay?: Triangle Agency distinguishes itself from most games via its rolling system, instead of rolling to do an action, character instead ask the agency to change reality around them to do something, meaning that characters can do basically anything as long as its reasonable, no matter how unlikely. For example, if a character wishes to make a traffic jam to stop a car-themed anomaly, they could simply ask the agency to cause a car accident that was caused because someone slipped on a discarded banana peel! but be careful, overuse of this power can lead to two things: Chaos and Loose Ends When a player rolls poorly, they create Chaos, a powerful metacurrency that the GM can spend to cause trouble and boost the anomaly, putting barriers in the player's paths And when a player causes something that is unexplainable, they create a loose end, someone in some way knows about the agency, and you gotta fix that Character creation functions using the ARC system, Anomaly, Reality, and Competency, to simplify: your character has a supernatural power, a real world identity, and a job in the agency, these all give you different abilities that can help you along the way. The game also has a rigid mission structure which is a little too complex to get into here, but players get rewarded on whether they kill, capture, or fail in containing an anomaly, as well as getting graded on their performance at the end

What's the setting (If any) like?: Triangle Agency has a fairly simple setting, there's a shady agency that's in charge of keeping reality in check, you work for it, and you need to hunt down anomalies. Some extra lore is hinted at, but never outright stated for the most part

What's the tone?: Triangle Agency has an overall goofy vibe, things can go sideways and into bizarro body horror, but it overall has the tone of a horror comedy, think like, Inside Job as a good aesthetic standpoint

Session length: 1-3 hours

Number of Players: 4-5 is realistic

Malleability: Triangle Agency's specifics in its setting can be moved around, but a lot of its lore is baked into the gameplay

Resources: character sheets are available, as well as two modules, both crossovers with other systems

I make fun of artbook TTRPGs a lot, but this is imo the golden standard, its a fun game, with a really cute layout thats still fully readable and interesting, finding the sweet spot of aesthetics and utilitarianism

[everythingismadeofchaos]

Holy shit

The left don't need a 5-year plan. Or a 50-year plan like the Republicans have.

We need a person

We need one person to run for president in 2028

We need a trump

I am 100% serious

We need an insane liberal who will just say whatever the fuck they want, absolutely go after their guns, take flags and the pledge out of schools and leave them wherever we put God when we took him out of schools. Campaign promises. Take God off the money too. Campaign promise. We need somebody who's an absolutely insane libtard and will just say whatever the hell they want whenever they want. Not just pro-choice, but give women control over men's reproductive systems. Let women force their husbands to get vasectomies without their own cooperation, by court order or something. The men literally get no say, that's just a right they do not have. Campaign promise to make this new law a priority.

We need somebody who's obviously really smart, obviously really tuned into what's happening in the moment and what's important, and if handed the throne and the crown and will utterly destroy any chance the Republicans have to ever be back in power ever again. Somebody who has a ton of experience, but somehow isn't a sellout: we're only going to find somebody like that in generation X in the extremely well tattooed section. We need somebody with media credentials who knows what's happening and is willing while holding office as president of the United States to walk around with a sledgehammer in the Civil War museum run by the KKK, on Network TV, all the while yelling “eminent domain” and “manifest destiny” bashing away, surrounded by the secret service. And then pardon themselves for it if that's a crime. This has been a campaign promise, stated directly to camera at a press conference.

Not just somebody in favor of getting rid of the electoral college, somebody in favor of ruining the benefits the Senate gives to low population states by equalizing the numbers of people in each house or something crazy like that. They stacked the court? We stack the legislature. Campaign promise, top priority. Twice a week, batshit new claims of new ideas that will absolutely ruin social media for everyone, every one a campaign promise, every one a top priority.

Then maybe generation X will finally actually do something that actually helps.

This person could literally just punch Nazis in the face, pardon themselves, and then do it to the next nazi, and pardon themselves for that. Maybe bring a pair of presidential boxing gloves, for the occasion, maybe with a little metal in them in a certain way just for effect.

We need a good Trump

A Trump that actually knows what is going on, but also has the power of insane bullshit and obvious but at the same time ambiguous lies and ridiculous nonsense claims

We need a Superman (… -girl? -woman? The metaphor is clumsy) to Trump's Bizarro

Somebody who is the opposite of him in every way except the ways that exploit what he taught us about America

We need to find somebody who absolutely is not diplomatic enough by half to run for president, (“ … are you crazy?”), and then run them and watch the right explode as they lose the popular vote 2 to 1

Someone who can talk to the smart people, but also hang with the idiots like they're at home

^ This has been a fan letter to Janeanne Garofolo. Paste on Tumblr and then find out what she pays attention to and hit her up on there, Bluesky or whatever. Or somebody that knows her. I don't know who her friends are. David Cross? I mean I always assumed so but reality is not the same as their performed character. Anybody who has read to this point, please signal boost this, I want her to see it and I want her to see her fans react to it. Please do not tag it with her name, just see that people see it who are fans of hers and hopefully someone will know how to reach her or how to tell her she got a fan letter. It's important that she know how we feel though so if a lot of people post it where they are too that would be good, You don't have to link to the original I don't care about that screenshots whatever I just want her to see it or a lot of people to see it

Ms. Garofolo, If you see this, I would be a terrible campaign manager or other important person in your campaign but you do have an agent already who can either do that job or help you find somebody and I would be willing to volunteer where I am located passing out leaflets or something. I don't know a whole lot about how that stuff works so I can't be of much help but I could do the regular citizen things in my part of the country, about halfway down the East Coast.

I do travel for work. So I'm not afraid of travel. But it's just that I travel all the time so I can't really be on the road when I'm not working. But you know, whatever you want to do. Anyway.

Miss Garofalo, consider this: If you do not want to run for president, consider it an acting job for charity: an attempt to save the world. If you do not know how to run the country, bring in another person, a close friend who does, as your primary advisor. Make no secret of this. Let people fantasize about whether this person is your secret lover. Maybe sponsor some Russian bots or whatever to create fan sites of racy fanfic or porn involving the two of you. Go absolutely for broke. I'm kind of vanilla so I'm probably under swinging on this pitch.

Oh my God I am so stoned right now, I'm sorry if this is incoherent or poorly written

I'm completely serious about all of this

This weed is great . I'm Right in The Sweet spot almost before you become inarticulate completely. Amazing edible

Got to get this into my tumbler and pass it on to people while I still can

I think I'll #Davidcross

Love you guys. If anybody knows somebody who's into this lady, Janine garofalo, like in her fan club or whatever, please pass it on

Thank you very much. It occurs to me now I should have just searched for her fan club. And sent it to them. Or seen how they get in touch with her when whatever. I mean she must get fan letters. Why am I doing this

I can't remember what's going on

Oh fuck it I don't have the motivation

Bliss you guys. I can't remember what this was about. Oh yeah Janine garofalo. I love you all

@jacktheeldergod2 can you just sanity check this please. Pretty inarticulate

Don't have anybody else right now to ask unfortunately

By the way, Janine garofalo is a Gen X actress and comedian who eventually got into political talk radio media stuff and would be a godsend for the country in the way Trump is a nightmare. I'm trying to do this because I'm trying to save the country. I was at a protest today, and rather than come out of it feeling charged and jazzed I feel terrified. They have trillions of dollars and we have a bunch of slightly Goofy people who have nothing to do in the middle of the day on Wednesday. Today was supposed to be a huge demonstration across the country and I'm afraid to look at the news because my guess is a massive underperformance because of such huge mental paralysis per Marshall mcluhan. The country is dispirited and dismayed.

Shit dude, I I got to finish my video proving that the Republican party is literally just a scam, starting with the two Santa Claus strategy

It's not a real political party man

I'm serious

It doesn't even take special knowledge to figure this out. It's just generally understood trivia

Roe v Wade happened, making abortion legal. Over the next 10 years the Southern Baptists endorsed this position or passed four resolutions in favor of it or agreeing with it or something. I'm not clear. But anyway after the two Santa Claus strategy all of a sudden the whole of Southern baptism is anti-abortion. They did this on purpose, change the rule in the Southern Baptist Church, to make the Republican party the party of Christianity, and they knew it would bring in all the Catholics if the Republicans were anti-abortion. The Bible isn't even anti-abortion. That's just a lie that these people told their own parishioners as if it came from God specifically as a political maneuver.

It's a lot of lying. Trickle down economics. Trickle down economics might as well be called stealing from your grandchildren economics, because both the lie that the money trickles down and the fact that it amounts to essentially stealing from your grandchildren are really just kind of flashy or charismatic little bits of flair or bobbles that decorate the outside of the fact that the whole political party is basically just a big scam. All of this crap, abortion, gay rights, trans rights, anything low budget is just nonsense they don't care about, they're just waving it around cuz it gets people agitated and talking.

They call that the prestige, if you ever saw that movie or know what that means.

Anyway, The Republican party in the United States is just a scam. If anybody other than Jack has read down this far please understand Jack is just 18 years old and he's in Greece so I don't think he knows that much about this or his knowledge goes way back if he's anything like I was when I was his age. Jack, I hope you're doing well. Don't forget to think hard if you want to succeed. Really pay attention to what you're doing and concentrate on what it is and what your goals are and everything. Let your creativity have its way with your brain.

I'm sorry Jack I'm super stoned I hope it didn't suck reading all this

[haikirii]

I just need to talk this in someplace about qsmp fandom. It's SO weird when you're in a fandom that's gotten over a lot of stuff and a lot of issues and then you get into a fandom that's so big that they haven't had those conversations.

Yesterday, there was all the discussion between q!Baghera, q!Bbh, q!Cellbit and q!Elquackity and many people said in Cellbit's chat that "he ruined the lore" by finding the base and interfering with the plan. And because of that, he APOLOGIZED for interrupting even though it was an improvised roleplay and Quackity enjoyed it. And this is so strange to see.

This whole situation and several others involving people not understanding that it's improvised rp is so weird to see. Seeing Cellbit apologizing for that type of situation is strange.

Listen, I come from the Paranormal Order fandom (Cellbit's tabletop rpg) and we've had this conversation about improvised roleplaying SO MANY times that everyone gets it. In the beginning, there were many similar comments treating it as if the rpg was 100% scripted with all the lines scripted and people getting angry for reasons of "ruining the lore". But we got over it, Cellbit mainly because there was a time when he was relentless with boring comments about the rpg in his chat.

And also seeing things like accusing metagaming's number 1 enemy of... metagaming, it's a completely strange and unimaginable situation a few months ago. Like, seriously, if they knew how much Cellbit hates metagaming they would never say that.

Just needed to talk about it somewhere, it has no conclusion or anything like that. It's just... Bizarre to go through these discussions again.

tradução pt-br

Eu apenas preciso falar isso em algum lugar. É TÃO estranho quando você está em um fandom mais fechado que já superou diversas coisas e diversos problemas e então entra em um fandom tão grande que não teve essas conversas.

Ontem, teve todo o embate entre q!Baghera, q!Bbh, q!Cellbit e q!Elquackity e muitas pessoas disseram no chat do Cellbit que "ele arruinou a lore" por ter achado a base e interferido no plano. E por conta disso, ele PEDIU DESCULPA por ter interrompido mesmo que seja um roleplay improvisado e o Quackity tenha gostado. E isso é tão estranho de ver.

Toda essa situação e várias outras que envolvem pessoas não entendendo que é um rp improvisado é tão estranho de ver. Ver o Cellbit pedindo desculpa por um situação dessa é estranho.

Ouçam, eu vim do fandom de Ordem Paranormal (rpg de mesa do Cellbit) e já tivemos essa conversa sobre rp improvisado TANTAS vezes que todo mundo já entendeu. No início, tinham muitos comentários parecidos tratando como se o rpg fosse 100% roteirizado com todas as falas scriptadas e pessoas ficando com raiva por motivos de "estragar a lore". Mas a gente superou isso, o Cellbit principalmente porque teve uma época que ele era implacável com comentários chatos sobre o rpg em seu chat.

E também ver coisas como acusar o inimigo número 1 do metagaming de... metagaming, é uma situação completamente estranha e inimaginável uns meses atrás. Tipo, sério, se soubessem o quanto o Cellbit odeia metagaming nunca falariam isso.

Esse post é mais um desabafo, não tem nenhuma conclusão ou algo assim. É só.... Bizarro passar por essas discussões de novo.

[keeper-not-hero]

Bizarro (or maybe not-so-bizarro) idea: Horde-based TTRPG because I wanna play as the Director:tm:. Enemies are represented by dice (or aything that can track numbers), players are cool player models.

A basic enemy group is represented by a d6+3, a larger group by a d10+5, and a horde by a d100+50. There can (and should be!) multiple of the first two groups, with the Horde being saved for climaxes or finales.

There are also stronger enemies, Disruptors, your Smoker / Witch / Hunter etc type of enemies who *also* get cool models.

I'm torn between players having classes and it being up to items to customize you, because I *do* like leveling up in-games... but as a very rough prototype, no classes, just weapon types and auxiliary items.

Weapons have massive dice (like, a basic pistol being a 1d12) BUT they also, more importantly, have a "base" damage number (oh no, the Pistol's base number is 3! that's so weak!) to represent spraying and praying.

Broad strokes, not finished / put too much thought into: Melees deal damage per-"group"/enemy dice, making them great chaff-clearing weapons but overwhelmed by hordes. Sniper weapons that are great at picking out targets by having massive base damage but can't deal base damage to chaff (so if I shot a sniper into a horde, even if it's total damage is 1d6+40, anything above the 1d10 would go down the drain, to represent what few collat kills you could get). Auto-rifles and burst weapons that deal great dice damage but low base damage (to make them great at horde-clearing but weaker at murdering Disruptors due to RNG), explosives having a radius, etc

Played on a Candyland / Monopoly-esque tile-based board, making a map with a "start" and "exit" that players must reach. Just like in L4D, they start with only tier-0 / tier-1 weapons and must scavenge their way into better gear, with stuff like medkits, explosives, etc also being spread around the map as decided by the GM. The maps have at minimum two "crescendo" events, AKA horde-spawners. Depending on how damage ends up being balanced, it could be one or multiple horde dice to accomodate the usual 4 player party. Crescendos will be explained shortly.

Players have 3 actions + movement a turn, the broadth of 'em all being added later 'cuz I'm not writing a rulebook I'm writing a concept. Each square takes around 3 full movements from all players to cross onto the next one.

These crescendos range from the usual L4D rush to somewhere / hold out X turns to stuff like a proper puzzle, maybe having to backtrack to find a missing key or turn on a generator, having to pick out a specific pod around the map for the keycards / explosives etc.

At the safe house, it can be the end of the game as a one-shot or one out of multiple sessions, with the meta progression occurring through player skills with weapons, activities, and possibly unlocking perks.

For role-playing purposes it might be interesting to dip into Darkest Dungeon 2 and add a relationship mechanic where friendly fire, having to do stuff alone, or a stress-esque mechanic cause conflict or a bond through players, that also mechanically helps them, encouraging group play to buff yourself and others

The DM of course controls the hordes, the pods, the placement of weapons, and can adjust things on the fly juts like the actual game director would. If the players are doing too well, throw an unexpected horde or Boss enemy at 'em. If the players are roughed up, throw some healing.

Could even have NPC survivors as a mechanic and an explanation to how other PCs show up, as well as having ranged "bosses" to take down. Stealth gameplay would also be an interesting idea to try and implement, because I think a lot of people would get a kick of sneaking past a gigantic horde, one bad roll away from being turned into meat.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

I'm in TARTU, ESTONIA! AI, copyright and creative workers' labor rights (TODAY, May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building, Lossi 3, lobby). A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation (TODAY, May 10, 3PM, University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037).

#20yrsago Sony’s entertainment business is killing its electronics business https://memex.craphound.com/2004/05/10/sonys-entertainment-business-is-killing-its-electronics-business/

#20yrsago Pixel-counting can un-redact government docs https://cryptome.org/cia-decrypt.htm

#20yrsago MPAA’s Bizarro-world logic https://web.archive.org/web/20060508195757/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119414,00.html

#20yrsago Stanislaw Lem is cranky! https://web.archive.org/web/20040513235656/http://www.mosnews.com/interview/2004/04/06/lem.shtml

#15yrsago Antifascist collages that made Hitler crazy https://web.archive.org/web/20090513034540/http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Visual-Arts/The-Extraordinary-Anti-Nazi-Photomontages-of-John-Heartfield.702053

#10yrsago Amazon patents taking pictures of stuff on a white background https://www.diyphotography.net/can-close-studio-amazon-patents-photographing-seamless-white/

#5yrsago Delta targets its workers with anti-union apps that push deceptive memes https://memex.craphound.com/2019/05/10/delta-targets-its-workers-with-anti-union-apps-that-push-deceptive-memes/

#5yrsago Ever, an “unlimited photo storage app,” secretly fed its users’ photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/millions-people-uploaded-photos-ever-app-then-company-used-them-n1003371

#5yrsago A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/1/18311548/college-admissions-secrets-myths

#5yrsago Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/why-you-should-back-the-sanders-aoc-plan-to-cap-credit-card-interest-rates-at-15-re-launch-the-postal-savings-bank.html

#5yrsago Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump’s FCC won’t investigate https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/ajit-pai-refuses-to-investigate-frontiers-horrible-telecom-service/

#5yrsago Google mistakenly handed out a reporter’s cellphone number to people searching for Facebook tech support https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmpm43/google-thought-my-phone-number-was-facebooks-and-it-ruined-my-life

#5yrsago After elderly tenant was locked in his apartment by his landlord’s stupid “smart lock,” tenants win right to use actual keys to enter their homes https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/tenants-win-rights-to-physical-keys-over-smart-locks-from-landlords/

#5yrsago Co-founder of Facebook calls for breakup of Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html

#1yrago Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/10/soft-landings/#e2e-r2e

[panic-and-procrastinate-writing]

list of my jason todd story ideas that i might turn into comics:

1. Batman and Robin 1987 - follows jasons robin years, his struggles with going from poverty to suddenly being a rich kid. his struggles with making friends, hes both the rich kid and street rat, and no one likes him. his struggles with being robin and trying to live up to dicks reputation, but also make himself his own person. he also has to stop a mass dissapearance of crime alley kids, before he's next.

2. new outlaw team but it completes jasons version of the justice league - he already got a wonder and a super in artemis and bizarro, he got an arrow in roy, so all thats left is a martian, a speedster, an atlantean and lantern. jasons girl gang. (with a couple enbies) they work stop the "apocalypse"... after they stop the "apocalypse" they work together as team, and family, since they have no one else to depend on.

3. another outlaw team (but could be called something else) - a werewolf and huntsman team up with jason to stop a magic cult in gotham. the huntsman was trained (conditioned) to kill monsters, and the werewolf has a personal stake in the matter. jasons a mix of both, since its his hometurf, but magic is his thing in the batfam. they mostly just fight each other at first, but they go thru developement and become the ride or die boys, saving gotham in the process. they then travel the world and stop magic crimes and stuff from happening.

4. Eldritch gotham and a pyschic work to save Red Hoods life - turns out gotham brought him back to life originally, and the pyschic is her voice now. they work together and solve crimes. (the eldritch gotham could also have a thing to do with the ride or die boys. im happy to put this idea in any comic.)

5. other misc ideas i have that aren't fleshed out - Fixing the isabel and essence plot hole. they need to get out of the blood blade and jason could help? - red hood and ravager duo book, but i'd have to read more about ravager first. - Numbers, i wanna put him in a book bc he's got potential, but idfk what to do with him. maybe with a crimeboss jason and he's the "secretary" >:)

[brazenautomaton]

diablo 4 open beta, huh?

I see people talking about how awesome the rogue is and I couldn’t get it to 15 to apparently unlock her actual mechanics because it felt so miserable. I look at the skill tree and go "Is this it? This can't possibly be it, right?" there is so, so, so much less going on than in D3, the talent tree is such a pain to use, this is like sticking back to the diablo 2 system out of spite except keeping a bunch of other changes predicated on d3's changes like the larger number of buttons with cooldown-oriented abilities -- you want to fucking know what your options are here? you get a left click skill at level 1 and a right click at level 3. left click is a builder, right click is a spender, so you need one of each. rogue has two archery abilities on left click, "homing shot" and "every 3rd cast makes them vulnerable shot." each of those has two upgraded versions: homing shot can ricochet to a second enemy, or increase crit. vulnerable shot can pierce vulnerable enemies or knock back close enemies. for spenders, you have Piercing Shot, Barrage (which is a poor, poor Multi-Shot since they come out in sequence), and Rapid Fire.

This is way less than the number of abilities for a DH in D3 and the DH also had runes gradually unlocked that completely changed the ability, or at least much more than the 2 options here

also d4 is fucking sloooooooow. the dodge maneuver feels so fucking terrible, it's the bizarro universe counterpart of Zagreus's dash, it's just a little scamper where you put your head down a bit and it's on a fucking five second cooldown are you shitting me. they are clearly going for more of a diablo 1 feel, and the moody atmosphere is great, but you can't make diablo 1 with parts from diablo 2 and 3, d1 was a slow descent with claustrophobic conditions and limited resources where you didn't have your ideal legendary build and you had to work with what you got the whole time.

but the most worrying thing is that I saw an interview about the game where the dev said the best thing it was bringing to the table was its incredible story. that's fucking danger will robinson right there.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Nyx the destoyer from the shadows

by KillKid001 Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change... That. Is. Crazy. The first time somebody told me that, I dunno, I thought they were bullshitting me. He was right. And then I started seeing, everywhere I looked, everywhere I looked all these fucking pricks, everywhere I looked, doing the exact same fucking thing... over and over and over and over again thinking 'this time is gonna be different' no, no, no please... This time is gonna be different. That i can promise no more games of cat and mouse the worlds gonna change weather you like it or not. Words: 1474, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Jason Todd, Rose Wilson, Sandra Woosan, Cassandra Cain, Richard Dragon, Slade Wilson, Bruce Wayne, Grant Wilson (DCU), Joseph Wilson (DCU), Dick Grayson, Clark Kent, Donna Troy, All-Caste Members (DCU), Justice League (DCU), Numbers (DCU), Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Duke Thomas, Alfred Pennyworth, The Outlaws (DCU), Eddie Bloomberg, Ben Turner (DCU), Roy Harper, Koriand'r (DCU), Essence (DCU), Waylon Jones, Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, Bizarro (DCU), Jade Nguyen, Mia Dearden, Astrid Arkham Relationships: Jason Todd/Rose Wilson, Cassandra Cain & Jason Todd & Sandra Woosan, Eddie Bloomberg & Jason Todd & Rose Wilson, Jason Todd & Grant Wilson & Joseph Wilson & Rose Wilson & Slade Wilson, Diana (Wonder Woman) & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Donna Troy, Batfamily Members & Jason Todd, sandra woosan & richard dragon & ben turner, Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain Additional Tags: BAMF Jason Todd, Jason Todd-centric, Blood and Injury, Sandra Woosan is Jason Todd's Parent, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Batfamily and Jason Todd Do Not Get Along, Good Parent Slade Wilson via https://ift.tt/O9MuaiW

[noloveforned]

friday always seems like a blur to me between work, home and radio but somehow by the end of the day a radio show full of new music has aired. tune into wlur tonight from 8pm until midnight to see what materializes! if that's inconvenient, you can catch up with last week's show below at your leisure.

no love for ned on wlur – march 17th, 2023 from 10pm-midnight

artist // track // album // label ramones // the job that ate my brain // mondo bizarro // chrysalis the runaways // california paradise // queens of noise // mercury the cool greenhouse // the neoprene ravine // sod's toastie // melodic lumpy and the dumpers // too much slime // collection, 2012-2014 // lumpy fastbacks // a quiet night // a quiet night 7" // no threes the coolies // king of confusion // if you gotta go-go, go-go now- a tribute to the go-go's // sympathy for the record industry lenz // moody michelle // ways to end a day // 1-2-3-4 go! the younger lovers // i can't (kim) deal with it // sugar in my pocket // southpaw the bug club // love for two // green dream in f# // we are busy bodies garden centre // super moon // a moon for digging // kanine sharp pins // bettie wait // turtle rock cassette // hallogallo tapes squilll // scripted lines // daughters of the earth // lost sound tapes black belt eagle scout // nobody // the land, the water, the sky // saddle creek ulaan passerine // light of lights // dawn // worstward antonina nowacka // part one // lamunan // mondoj cole pulice // astral cowpoke // scry cassette // moon glyph benji b, raven bush, theon cross, nubya garcia, tom herbert, shabaka hutchings, nikolaj torp larsen, dave okumu, nick ramm, dan see, tom skinner and martin terefe // raven flies low (single edit) // london brew // concord jazz larry young // sunshine fly away // lawrence of newark // perception tony williams // there comes a time // play or die // moosicus cortex // prélude à go round // troupeau bleu // trad vibes wiki and subjxct five featuring navy blue // one more chance // cold cuts // wikset enterprise boldy james and nicholas craven // scrabble // fair exchange no robbery // near mint yl, starker and no-face // friday night lights // lo.face // circle of patrons demahjiae featuring ovrkast. // lord // lord digital single // (self-released) nappy nina featuring moor mother // stone soup // mourning due // lucidhaus vérité // temporary // love you forever // venice music liberation // move me // liberation // night school say sue me // smothered in hugs // ten ep // damnably nicholas krgovich // cup full // ducks // orindal sierra manhattan featuring jokari // losing // which life, the friends // another cozy slippers // be alone with me // cozy slippers // subjangle the telephone numbers // weird sisters // weird sisters 7" // meritorio

[mcgravin]

One China Policy (ROC edition): "There is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China", because Taiwan holds sovereignty over the mainland.

1436506450-1 Chinas Policy: The US recognizes the sovereign independence of every Chinese person, except for one guy who is a citizen of every other sovereign Chinese person.

Zero Chinas Policy: China does not exist.

Zero Chinas Policy (Bielfeld version): China is part of Bielfeld, Germany. However, Bielfeld does not exist and is instead an illusion propagated by various forces, and therefore China does not exist.

-1 Chinas Policy: Everything outside the borders of China is China; everything inside the borders of China is not China.

i China Policy: China exists in the complex plane.

I Ching Policy: Perform cleromancy using the I Ching to determine how if and how many Chinas exist.

One Anihc Policy: China exists on the cube-shaped planet Htrae in the Bizarro world.

Coastline Paradox China Policy: China exists and has a land border of 22,117 km (13,743 mi) length, and a coastline of an indeterminate length between 2,534.76 km (1,575.03 mi) at the lower bound and infinite length at the upper bound, depending on the length of the measurement legs used to calculate it, due to the fractal curve-like properties inherent in coastlines.

Schrödinger's China Policy: Put all of China in a box with a vial of poison and a single cesium atom. A radiation detector is set to measure the decay of the cesium atom and trigger the release of the poison. China exists in a superposition of states.

Hilbert's Grand China Policy: There is a China with infinite citizens and infinite rooms numbered from one to infinity, each room housing one citizen. Infinite new citizens arrive, so each current citizen moves from room n to room 2n, freeing up space for the new citizens.

Banach-Tarski Two (or more) Chinas Policy: Given a solid China in three-dimensional space, there exists a decomposition of China into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original China.

Suggested Alternatives to the One China Policy

Currently, the policy of the United States on the Taiwan question is that the US recognizes that polities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait hold that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China. In the current tense international climate, it may be useful to considers alternatives to that policy.

Two Chinas Policy: The United States recognizes the independence of Taiwan as a sovereign state, separate from the People's Republic of China.

Three Chinas Policy: The US recognizes Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the mainland as independent states.

Four Chinas Policy: The US recognizes Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and the mainland as independent states.

One China Policy (Retro 1978): The US switches its diplomatic recognition back from the PRC to the ROC.

One China Policy (Retro 1911): The US recognizes the Qing Dynasty as the legitimate government of China and finds some schmuck to play Emperor-in-Exile.

Many Chinas Policy: The US recognizes the sovereign independence of every Chinese province.

Too Many Chinas Policy: Hong Kong makes a perfectly fine city-state, so why not let everyone do that? The US recognizes every Chinese municipality as its own independent state.

1436506450 Chinas Policy: The US recognizes the sovereign independence of every Chinese person.

2^1436506450 Chinas Policy: The US recognizes the sovereign independence of every subset of of the set of all Chinese persons.

2^1436506450-1 Chinas Policy: Same as above, but not including the empty set, because that doesn't even make sense because it's already claimed by Germany.

Infinite Chinas Policy (Countable): The US recognizes that (1) The PRC is a China and (2) for every China c, the successor S(c) is also a China, and (3) for every China c, c != S(c).

Infinite Chinas Policy (Uncountable): The US recognizes that the set C of all Chinas is an ordered field, and that every non-empty subset of C with an upper bound in C has a least upper bound in C.

No Chinas Policy: The United States embraces mereological nihilism and recognizes only atoms and the void.

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Bizarro

“Superman am Bizarro? Bizarro am Superman?” - Bizarro

Aliases:

Superman

Bizarro No. 1

Gender: Male

Height: 6′ 3″

Weight: 345 lbs (156 kg)

Eyes: Black

Hair: Black

Skin: White

Race: Bizarro

Powers:

Bizarro Physiology

Bio-Fission

Weaknesses:

Vulnerability to Blue Kryptonite

Universe: New Earth

Base of Operations: 

Fourtriss uv Bizarro

Bizarro World

Marital Status: Married (Bizarro Lois Lane; wife)

First Appearance: Superman Vol 2 #160 (September, 2000)

Powers

Bizarro Physiology

Superhuman Strength

Superhuman Speed

Invulnerability

Self-Sustenance: Unlike Superman, who relies upon solar radiation in order to tap into his super-powers, Bizarro requires no such external assistance.

Flight

Arctic Vision: Bizarro can emit and release a powerful concentrated amount of cold steam from his eyes, as well as shoot ice beams from them.

Flame-Breath: Bizarro can produce and spray super-heated plasma or lava-like fluid from his mouth through exhalation.

Bio-Fission: While operating within an environment under a blue sun, Bizarro gains the ability to replicate new lifeforms from his own body mass. Using this power, Bizarro populated a cube-shaped planetoid that has become colloquially known as "Bizarro World".

Weaknesses

Vulnerability to Blue Kryptonite: Blue Kryptonite has proven to be fatal to Bizarro. Exposure to blue Kryptonite radiation drains away Bizarro's strength, and prolonged exposure will ultimately kill him.

History

This creature is actually the third being to assume the name of Bizarro. The first was a failed clone of Superman developed by Lex Luthor and a scientist named Doctor Teng. The second Bizarro was another failed clone developed during a time when Luthor was himself dying from a genetically engineered clone plague. This Bizarro however, has nothing at all to do with Lex Luthor.

A few years ago, the Joker managed to acquire for himself the 5th dimensional powers of Mister Mxyzptlk. With this power, he declared himself Emperor and created his own insane version of Superman. Bizarro was intended to imitate the role of Superman, but with the Joker's best interests at heart.

The creature was subsequently captured by the Pokolistanian dictator General Zod, and tortured, apparently just for the pleasure of beating someone who resembles Superman. After escaping from Pokolistan with Superman's help, Bizarro recreates his Jokerworld headquarters, the Graveyard of Solitude, and at erratic intervals emerges to "help" or hinder Superman; the decision as to which being seemingly random, and the same amount of trouble caused either way.

Bizarro was later invited to join the Secret Society of Supervillains. Bizarro challenges Zoom to a race, due to Bizarro's complicated speech patterns, neither Zoom nor Cheetah are sure which end result of the race would convince Bizarro to join. The two race across the planet, Bizarro's erratic zig-zagging path becomes a point of contention with Zoom. When Zoom insults and threatens Bizarro, he is convinced that Zoom is his friend and joins. While with the Society, Bizarro kills the Human Bomb, commenting that he likes the flashes of light that the Bomb's powers produce.

One Year Later

One year later after the events of the Infinite Crisis, Bizarro was held captive by Lex Luthor and has been watching television in a small room for thirteen months. As a result, he is better informed than before.

Afterwards Bizarro leaves Earth to create a home for himself, creating a cube shaped planet, filled with abstract versions of various buildings and locations on Earth. Bizarro found himself lonely, however, He soon realized that under the power of a blue sun he gained a new ability called "Bizarro Vision". He uses his new ability to populate the planet with Bizarros, starting with a Bizarro Lois, that feared and hated him. Attempting to find answers Bizarro abducts Jonathan Kent, and Superman follows in pursuit. With Superman's help, he becomes the new Bizarro World's greatest hero.

Adventures in Space

Sometime later Bizarro mysteriously wound up on Throneworld; Home of Prince Gavyn. In fifteen minutes of confusion, an angry Bizarro defeated half of Throneworld's Imperial Guard before Gavyn stopped Bizarro by befriending him. Gavyn kept Bizarro sedated with food and cartoons until Adam Strange, having learned from the Weird of Bizarro's presence on Throneworld, teleported the two to Hardcore Station to aid his overpowered allies. Bizarro became embroiled in the war between Rann, Thanagar, Lady Styx, and Synnar.

Fun Facts

Bizarro is also known as Bizarro Superman and Bizarro No. 1.

Bizarro wears a chain around his neck with a stone medallion that reads, "Bizarro No. 1". Ironically, this version of the Bizarro is the third being to assume such a name since Crisis on Infinite Earths. In Bizarro-logic however, declaring himself No. 1 makes perfect sense. His costume is the same as Superman's except for the colors, pink instead of red and purple instead of blue, and the "S" logo, which is backwards.

[datasoong47]

The whole Celsius vs Fahrenheit debate is ultimately pretty silly - both are useful scales. It’s really just a matter of which one you’re used to. If you grew up with Fahrenheit, like me, then Celsius’ zero point does feel unnecessarily high, and in climates where temperatures rarely get below 0 F, it does feel convenient to be able to minimize the use of negative numbers. Of course, if I lived in a climate that frequently did drop below 0 F, that would cease to be relevant (or, conversely, if I lived in a warmer climate that rarely got below freezing, too). And, conversely, if you grew up with Celsius, it must seem absurd to use positive numbers to describe below-freezing temperatures

But, those are not the only temperatures scales which have been used in the past. And there are some interesting alternatives that have been used in the past

The weirdest one, in my opinion, is the Delisle scale, which, unlike either of the two currently-used scales, used smaller numbers for hotter temperatures. It was set with 0 as the boiling point of water and 150 as the freezing point of water, thus with a gradation equal to 2/3 of a Celsius degree, or 1.2 Fahrenheit degrees. Apparently Celsius’ original proposal also used this “backwards” notation, setting freezing at 100 and freezing at 0. But it was reversed to the scale we now know

Sir Isaac Newton proposed a scale that, like Celsius, set the freezing point of water at 0. But the boiling point of water was set at 33, making its degree just slightly over 3 Celsius degrees (3.03 repeating to be more precise), or about 5 Fahrenheit degrees (5.45 repeating to be precise), and body temperature at around 12. This, to me, seems like a useful scale. At least for me, that interval represents about the limit of what’s easily distinguishable without a thermometer

The Rømer scale initially had a basis roughly similar to the original basis of Fahrenheit, using 0 for the freezing point of brine, with 60 as the boiling point of water. But noting that the freezing point of water was about 1/8 of the way between those points, it was subsequently redefined with the freezing point of water being 7.5 (1/8 of 60). Thus, there are 52.5 degrees between freezing and boiling, making the interval just slightly less than 2 Celsius (about 1.9), or a bit over 3.4 Fahrenheit, with its zero point being a little higher than Fahrenheit (0 Rømer = about 6.3 F)

And then finally there was the Réaumur scale, which, like Celsius, set the freezing point of water at 0, but used 80 for the boiling point, making a degree Réamur exactly 1.25 Celsius, or 2.25 F

Of these, I rather like Delisle’s bizarro backwards scale. Imagine the temperature scale discourse in a universe where the two major systems were Delisle and Celsius (or Delisle and Fahrenheit for that matter)! Certainly I’m not saying Delisle is a practical system, far from it. But I like its bold reverse scale

I’m also rather fond of Newton’s scale. Celsius and Fahrenheit both, in my opinion, use degrees that are too small for things like describing the weather. Certainly, without looking at a thermometer, I find that I can only estimate the weather to about a 5-degree F range, which fits quite nicely with Newton’s scale

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

Get Me to the Church On Time Pt. 1

Series Summary: It's Dean and Julie's wedding day. What could go wrong?

Chapter Summary: Dean is nervous and stressed about the big day. His friends and family are not helping.

Series Warnings/Explicit 18+: Some show level violence, eventual smut, fluff, smidge of angst. Chapters will have individual warnings.

Chapter Warnings: None, Dean being an anxious bean, fluff.

Pairings: Dean Winchester x OFC (Julie)

Word Count: 991

**I sincerely apologize for putting this series up a second time. For some bizarro reason, Tumblr won't let me edit them, and they don't open properly when I click on them, it's being a giant pain, so I'm hoping if I repost them, I can change what I need and fix the problem. 🤞🏼🤞🏼**

A/N: Dean and Julie are back! Each part will vary between 500+ and 2000+ words. I will be releasing all the parts today, September 15th, as part of my 1K follower celebration! 😊💓

The parts will be released as follows:

Part 1 - 8:00 AM

Part 2 - 10:00 AM

Part 3 - 12:00 PM

Part 4 - 3:00 PM

Part 5 - 6:00 PM ||

*Times are all based on CST*

A/N 2: So, as I stated this mini-series is part of my 1K followers celebration. For the celebration I asked people to send in gif prompts, or requests for me to write, all of which would be posted on my birthday, which is TODAY! 🎉

I only ended up with 6 prompts/requests, so I thought I would mix the prompts in with my own ideas, and I decided to write this little mini-series as well as a (hopefully) special surprise for those who enjoyed Dean and Julie in Green is My Favorite Color.

At 7:00 PM, I will post my last fic for the celebration, the first chapter of my sequel series, I Will Find You in the Dark!

Hope you enjoy my contributions for the day! 😘😘

Both beautiful text dividers, below and at the bottom, were created by @talesmaniac89. 💓 Title card was designed by me.

"What time is it, Sammy?"

"It's one minute and thirty-six seconds from the last time you asked me."

Sam looked up from the game of chess he was playing with Benny. "We're still like twenty minutes away from even leaving for the church, Dean. Relax."

He took out Benny's bishop and then looked back at Dean, a wide, teasing smile on his face. "If she's hung in this long, Julie's not likely to drop you in the last hour."

Dean shot his little brother a look. "You don't know that for sure. Maybe today's the day she finally comes to her senses."

Sam nodded as though he was contemplating that possibility. "Well, we'll just have to wait and see, I guess."

He raised his voice as he looked around the cheap motel room they were waiting in. "Who else wants to get in on this action? Five to one odds that Julie doesn't show up today at the church! Who's betting?"

Benny reached in his pocket, and pulled out a ten. "I'll take that action." Dean scowled at him and Benny just shrugged. "Sorry, Chief, but that pretty lady is just too good for you "

Kevin and Garth stood up and put a few bucks down in favor of Dean being left at the altar.

Dean gave them all a supremely unimpressed look. "Seriously?"

Garth grinned. "Sorry, Amigo, but I've been planning on marrying Julie since we teamed up back in Apocalypse Number One. If she stands you up, maybe I've got a chance."

Everyone laughed, and Dean gave a fake chuckle. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. But you're all gonna feel like crap when she really does come to her senses and I'm left standing there like an idiot."

He turned away, to stare out the window at the empty parking lot. The group of men, (Best Man Sam, Groomsman Benny, and guests Kevin and Garth) began a loud conversation all about the horror stories they'd heard or read, where grooms got left waiting for a runaway bride.

When the teasing ended though, they came, one by one to pound him on the back, and quietly reassure him.

Benny came up first and offered him a sip from his flask, which Dean gladly accepted. "My friend, I watched that little girl fight with every breath in her body to keep you safe, to keep you alive. I watched her nearly die alongside you when you were bleeding into the ground of purgatory."

He thumped Dean's back with his big, meaty hand and smiled with a slightly wistful air. "I'm gonna be out ten bucks, I can promise you that."

Next Kevin came up and stood right in front of him. "You don't notice it because, well, because you're you, but I've seen how Julie watches you, and..."

The young prophet looked down at the floor, a hopeful smile on his face. "Well, let's just say I sure hope someone looks at me like that one day."

Garth slung an arm around Dean's shoulder as they looked out the window together. "I knew from the first minute I met her that I didn't stand a chance with Julie Taylor, in spite of my winning ways and charm. Know how I knew?"

Dean's mouth lifted at the corner. "No, how?"

"We were fighting all them demons together, trying to keep the world spinnin' while the devil tried to take hold of Sam, remember?"

"Vaguely." Dean said, voice thick with sarcasm.

"Well, the group of us, we got to talkin' about you Winchesters, and that girl lit up like a firefly every time your name came up. Course, she was sorta sad too, cause you were bein' a idiot, and wouldn't date her."

Dean scowled at him and Garth shrugged. "Annie told me. God rest her soul. My point is, she's been in love with you as long as I've known her, and I knew I never stood a chance."

He squeezed Dean's shoulders in a sideways hug and moved off.

Sam came to stand silently beside him for a while before he simply said. "Julie has been in love with you for most of her life, Dean. What are the chances she stops that today?"

Dean shrugged and crossed his arms. "Pretty unlikely." He said quietly.

Sam nodded. "Exactly." He pulled his brother into a quick, reluctant hug, pulling back to clap his big hand against the side of Dean's neck.

"You're getting married today, man. I'm so, unbelievably happy for you."

Dean ducked his head, avoiding Sam's earnest and warm expression. But he gave a shy smile and nodded. "Thanks, Sammy."

Dean's smile continued as Sam left with a final pat on his back. They were right, and he knew it, deep down.

Julie loved him more than the air in her lungs. He just never understood why, so it was easy to imagine her waking up one morning and deciding she'd been seeing things in him that weren't there.

A few minutes later Cas opened the door. "All right, everyone, the church is ready, and the bride is there and waiting, so we should go now."

The ragtag group, three hunters, a vampire, one angel and a prophet all clamored to leave at once, sounding like a stampede as they rushed forward. Dean was left alone in the room for minute as they ran out to their vehicles and he took a deep breath.

Cas stuck his head back in the door. "Dean, you have to come with us now. Julie said, and I quote, "Cas, if you don't get Dean to that church on time, I'm gonna see if I can toss an angel into Hell."

He frowned. "Of course, I assume she was speaking metaphorically, since it would be physically impossible for her to lift me up and throw me anywhere. Especially not hell, since she doesn't actually know how-"

"Okay, Cas!" Dean interrupted, grinning. "I'm coming."

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