#probably not well

[talos1111]

Right so I haven’t played in years, but I’ve seen plenty of memes and vids from Rainbow Six Siege that I just have to make a joke from this. The game started pretty grounded, yes the tech was advanced in places, an ADS system that hits grenades, IQ’s gadget that sees electric devices, etc., but all still grounded.

Now we got remote controlled robots, aerial drones, nanomachines, hacking devices/cameras, holograms, it’s getting a bit weirder.

So I’m just imaging a dialogue going

“Right, Grim and Zero can get intel with drone swarms and cameras, Kali, you’ve got your sniper and have the range advantage, Amaru, you’ve got mobility with your grappling hook… what do you bring to the table… Sledge?”

“Hammer”.

[biirbi]

y'know I remembered there's a lincoln character rp blog that is I think @i-love-my-gay-dad. How's that url holding up there.

[revenantghost]

We all know if Ariane and Elster adopted a kid who’s male then Ariane will call him by his name and Elster will use the depths of her imagination to conjure the most creative name ever-Boy-she will call him boy.

Lmao, you aren't wrong

[wishfishy]

These both look super cool, but I was reading the posts on my feed much to fast.

Between that and both synopses mentioning music I made the assumption that these movies were connected, perhaps even two different perspectives of the same event, released at the same time.

I realized my mistake after a re-read (and a cursory google), but it got me thinking.

Imagine that there are two movies set to release on the same day. So far so normal. They have different writers, different directors, ect. The promotional materials, the trailers and posters, present two very different types of film. Maybe one is a comedy and the other a horror. Or a western and a space opera. What is revealed of both plots have nothing to do the other.

Perhaps someone notices that a quick flash of a figure in one trailer looks an awful lot like one of the main actors in the other. That’s weird, but it could just be a coincidence. Or people hear that anyone working on these films is under a strict nda until they release, but whatever.

But as people go see the movies, and then talk about them with their friends or post about them online, there is some confusion about just which movie they are referring to. Hey wait a minute; both of these movies have a very similar plot beats at times. Whoa whoa whoa, that’s not just the same actor that’s the same character from the other movie!

It would not take long for it to be revealed that these two movies are, in fact, two different perspectives on one event. Two faces of the same coin. Maybe the western and the space opera is really one very long film about time travel in two parts, in which it doesn’t matter which you see first. Or the lighthearted comedy about two rivals with invisibility powers was actually really terrifying from their neighbours perspectives.

[ispyspookymansion]

we used to say shrimp heaven now. Do you remember that? and we used to laughhhhh

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[insomniphic]

What's your take on Odysseus's trauma and recovery back in Ithaca?

*looks at all the comics I made*

Lol but really, I realistically expect it to be severely rocky. He’ll have good days, mostly bad days, but what keeps him grounded is of course his family, you know?

But imagine losing your entire fleet under your command...

...only to come back to an entire population of thousands of people, expecting that you will lead them.

What if he fails again?

[ruushes]

i'm sure there's a canon timeline but dao is a springtime game to me

[bedlamsbard]

I personally think it would be extremely funny if The Hunger Games and Mad Max took place in the same universe and America and Australia just dealt with this apocalypse very differently.

[jekyll-hatepage]

I will forever be obsessing over Laios imaging himself as a wolf (a dangerous animal, and one that is [albeit falsely] associated with loneliness) and Marcille imagining him as a cute dog. It shows how negatively he thinks of himself after his fight with Shuro, and how even if he worries now that he's a nuisance to people/can't fit in, NOBODY PERCEIVES HIM THIS WAY. HE'S JUST A SILLY GUY. MARCILLE ASSOCIATES HIM WITH THE DOG BECAUSE HE'S LOYAL AND LOVEABLE.

[respectissexy]

If you are not on Twitter but are interested in what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter, never fear, I am back as your Twitter Correspondent.

So, on Thursday, 4/20, Elon removed all the "legacy verified" blue checks. That means that if you are, say, Taylor Swift or the Pope, and you have a blue checkmark because you have proven you identity and want to avoid being impersonated, that check mark went away unless you paid the $8 to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

The assumption was clearly that, despite all their blustering, when push came to shove the power users would nut up and pay for it, if only to avoid their fans being scammed using their likeness.

That didn't happen. As of 4/21, only weirdo Elon stans had blue checks. Those stans immediately got mad, because they had intended to purchase access to an exclusive club, and all the cool kids left as soon as they arrived.

To make matters worse for Elon, several influential shitposters began posting about #BlockTheBlue, a movement to block all paid Twitter bluechecks, and some even released scripts that would automatically block all bluecheck accounts for you.

However, some people retained their blue checks who swore they hadn't paid for them -- in particular, Stephen King and LeBron James, who had tweeted that they would refuse to pay.

Elon admitted that he had paid for these users' blue checks out of his own pocket. Is he trolling? Is it a weird simp move? Hard to say.

Now, as of 4/22, a whole mess of famous people have bluechecks who aren't paying for them. This seems to be a move to confound the automated Block The Blue scripts. Lil Nas X is tweeting angrily about how he doesn't want his blue check. People are speculating that a new policy has been silently rolled out to automatically assign a blue check to every user with over 1 million followers. Several people have pointed out that this amounts to false endorsement, i.e. implying falsely that a notable person uses or endorses your product without their permission, which is a crime. Blue checks have been posthumously assigned to Anthony Bourdain and Terry Pratchett, whose estates my money is on to be the ones to actually sue.

dril, famous shitposter and Block The Blue promoter, keeps being assigned a blue check as an apparent punishment for crossing Elon, but you can lose your blue check by changing your display name. (It seems really wild to tie the blue check to the display name and not use the username, but it became necessary after the era where all those legacy verified folks unleashed their inner Jaboukie and changed their display names to Elon Musk. As recently as last month a legacy verified user with 100k followers got banned for impersonating JK Rowling apologizing to trans people.) So dril just keeps changing his display name every time they bluecheck him. Elon and dril have been engaged in this game of cat and mouse all day. The "Elon bans dril and we all throw trash at him like New Yorkers defending spiderman" meme will probably come to fruition today or tomorrow.

[marzipanandminutiae]

what's with the weird glorification of smoking that's come back lately

like

I've seen so many posts that paint opposing smoking as some impossibly Loser-ish or puritanical stance and I really don't get it

it makes you, your house, and your clothing stink, destroys your teeth, and gives you lung cancer. opposing it is. Correct. obviously addiction is very complicated and quitting can be hard, but just saying "smoking is gross and harmful as a practice (including vaping)" is True and Right actually

some of you have never grown up hearing about how some beloved family member died a slow, agonized, wasting death of smoking-induced cancer, or watching it firsthand for yourself, and it shows

[newttxt]

a smile so rare, it counts as a disguise :)

[doubledudeski]

pics that make you go "oh I KNOW he eated a trash"

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's just guys night talk! Don't worry about it!

(Read Tiger Tiger and shake this man awake so he can finish that thought!)

[keferon]

Empurata!Prowl tries to actually communicate for the first time

What if he wants to say something but he can’t. What if he has no voice to speak, no face to emote, no hands to write. What if every attempt to communicate a message is essentially a puzzle of wit and creativity and yet, the first thing he goes through all these troubles for. Is to say “I love you”?

Don’t ask me how did they get in this room. I have no idea. They escaped the battlefield somehow haha

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