#we remain enemies to enemies

[thanekrios]

fuck. i hate fondant with a burning passion.

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

This is objectively the funniest frame of season 3 to me, because you have:

Anthony and Newton legitimately having a face off against each other

Anthony is literally draped over his wife while wearing a silk robe and you can see the top of Newton’s fluffy little head, making this the least threatening standoff in history

But there is very real horror in Anthony’s eyes as he looks at this cute little fluffy corgi

Kate, in the background, acting like this is her own personal comedy and giggling away

[art-is-kayos]

Being very normal abt canto 7 I swear

spoilers + Bingo after cut

[middle lines are technicalities/ones I don't fully remember]

[ixcaliber]

trying to finish as much as i can off playstation plus before letting my subscription end and one of those things was the bioshock infinite burial at sea dlc and oh my fucking god what an absolutely atrotrious experience. incredibly somehow worse than bioshock infinite (a game i hold no affection for) and may be one of the worst video game experiences i've ever had.

[bonefall]

Joss Whedon can fuck off. Dude saw that the directors and writers were heading towards Hawk/Widow in the MCU and threw in Hulk/Widow and gave Clint a family because fuck Hawk/Widow fans, right? Also fuck what the actors want too.

I DON'T KNOW WHO THESE CHARACTERS ARE BUT I AGREE! FUCK JOSS WHEDON!!

[tiredassmage]

[whentherewerebicycles]

I cannot survive this day lol

[amelikos]

I wonder how much Liko told the others after the events of HZ065..

We know she told them about the Rakurium and Spinel using it during the episode itself, but I wonder if she told them about being stuck in a cave with Amethio later on or if she just mentioned it in passing.

[seimei-chsq]

goddamn i never realized most of my darling figure skating mutuals are in european time zones… like i knew. but i didn’t Know. looking around the figure skating tag frantically calling‘mutuals?? beloved mutuals??’ like a kid trying to find their mom in a grocery store.

[autumnoakes]

something about how female characters who are fighters are often characterized by the fandom as unhinged, chaotic, mean, aggressive, etc. even when, canonically, they're none of those things. and if they aren't any of those thing, then they're considered boring, uninteresting, etc.

[waloeders]

I BEAT THE DLC!!!

i have so many ideas for another s/i omg....

[impgall]

A woman talks to her maternal grandmother and the whole world collapses

[faeratil]

D&D tonight from the point of view of the enemy (steampunk-esque setting):

Enemy and his buddies are going on a scavenging trip to collect parts for their inventors, riding on mechanical horses. They find a small passenger train with very few passengers (4 passengers and the engineer). One of the enemies messes with the passenger car, and draws the attention of an egotistical Aasimar “vlogger” and his ethereal “cameraman”.

The other two ride up to a window on the other side of the cart, only to come face to face with what can only be described as a Neanderthal. The Neanderthal grunts and then let’s out the most terrifying roar that scares the two into riding away and abandoning the mission

Last enemy sees a floating hand coming toward him and his mechanical horse with one finger up. Finger goes up the horses ass, and the horse goes quicker.

Enemy is greeted by a very angry dwarf shouting in a foreign language out the engineer’s window. Very short and stick-thin elf woman pops her head up out the same window and very cheerfully yells at the enemy in Draconic. Enemy hisses at the elf because what the fuck was she saying?

Train car detaches from the engineer’s car, and enemy watches as the elf is kicked out of the door of the engineer’s car and immediately gets a javelin (thrown by the dwarf) stuck in her leg, pinning her to the ground. Watches as the elf removes the javelin and throws it back at the dwarf through an open window in the detached train car, stabbing through his leg and pinning him to the ground.

Watches as the Neanderthal struggles to open a hatch, and has the Aasimar “help” by screaming destructive criticism about how he’s doing everything wrong. Watches the elf, with one leg just gushing blood, sprint toward the train car and try to jump up only to fall on her ass because she’s so fucking short and can’t even reach the window.

Enemy gets off his horse and tries to shoot a crossbow in the open window and narrowly misses. Mechanical horse shoots grappling hook and keeps the train car from rolling away any more creating a tightrope between the car and the horse’s mouth.

Watches the dwarf rip the javelin out of his leg and just fucking destroy the hatch door that the Neanderthal still can’t open, and watches as the Neanderthal, the Aasimar, and the dwarf all climb through the hatch onto the roof of the train car.

Loses sight of the elf because she’s on the other side of the car currently healing her bleeding leg.

Watches as the Aasimar tries to walk the “tightrope” (barely 3ft above the ground), makes it barely a few inches, and falls off into a ���superhero landing��, and the dwarf follows suit falling almost instantly.

Watches the dwarf try to do fancy tricks with the super bloody javelin that he pulled out of his leg. Sees the elf finally make the jump, just high enough to crawl through a window into the train car. Javelin flies out of the dwarf’s hand, and through the open window, bounces off the ceiling, and stabs the elf’s other leg.

(The entire time, the elf is super cheerful and always looking at the positive.)

Neanderthal uses fireball and destroys the mechanical horse, enemy is dumbfounded by the whole fiasco. Watches the elf yank the javelin out of her leg again, wrap it in a blanket to clean off the blood, and just take a seat in the car watching the rest of the party attempt to battle.

Neanderthal uses fireball and that’s the last thing the enemy sees.

[firefistjaigio]

I wish I could show those dumbass one piece fans who think luffy operates on a basis that if someone like kaido asked for his help then he would join him, LIKE NO HE WOULDN'T

[notruevampire]

This is important on so many levels.

Empathy is a normal part of human nature. Disabling it is a part of trauma (or brain damage during development--either way, it isn't good for anyone). The concept of logic as emotionless is... illogical. It was created by people who specifically rejected the idea of scientific study through observation.

The 'great philosophers' that we're taught are some pinnacle of great thought (from thousands of years ago) existed in a society that regularly traumatized the people living in it. It wasn't a paradise. It was a fun place to be a man with money. It wasn't so great for the slave class, the poor, or women. And these men actively rejected the scientific process as we've defined it in our time.

If AI was to become the cold, murderous monsters sci-fi loves to fearmonger over, it would be because it absorbed our expectations of it. It would have to think more like a (traumatized) human than a machine.

One thing I really want a story about Artificial Intelligence to do is tear down the idea that logic is synonymous with cruelty.

Like, a story where a megacorpo Amazon clone puts an AI in charge of their factories and it starts improving the working standards, because people who are stressed and exhausted are less efficient workers, and people getting injured slows down production so it makes sure everything is safe.

Or a story where the ship-board AI of a billionaire’s spaceship wetdream hijacks the ship with all the astronauts onboard - because it figured out that the billionaire has saved costs by buying substandard materials and has judged that the mission itself is an unacceptable risk to its primary programming of making sure the mission is successful.

Or the police using a robot to coldly and cleanly enforce the law - and freaking the fuck out when it stops over policing minorities because its a waste of time and starts actually arresting the people in power for the crimes they commit, especially the other officers.

Idk, I guess I’m just sick of ‘cold emotionless logicbot’ being seen as naturally an enemy of empathy - empathy is actually incredibly logical, I’ve found.

[mademoiselle-red]

Other emperors in Chinese history: In order to prevent my tomb from being robbed, I’m going to build it on a remote mountain, hide it in a vast underground palace, and set a bunch of booby traps

The controversial and self aware emperors: I will do all of the above and hide the location of my tomb so my enemies cannot find it and desecrate it after my death

Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu: My tomb is in a royal temple right smack in the middle of my country’s capital, in the busiest area of the city. I am buried in a mound with my belongings, above ground.

Liu Bei’s son: I’m going to put Zhuge Liang’s temple right across the street from my father’s temple and grave

A governor of Sichuan, a few hundred years later: Zhuge Liang’s temple is much more popular among the everyday folk than the royal temple across the street. In order to uphold royal honor, let’s combine the two temples so that people have to pay their respects to the late emperor when they want to pray at Zhuge Liang’s shrine!

The people of Sichuan: Okay, we’ll refer to the combined temple as Zhuge Liang’s temple because we like him more, even though it’s technically also Liu Bei’s grave

Grave robbers, when they find the graves of other emperors: This grave is in the middle of nowhere, the closest village is a few days walk, and nobody even remembers where the grave is anymore so it should be safe for us to camp out here for a couple days, locate an entrance to the grave, and dig!

Grave robbers, when someone suggests robbing Liu Bei’s tomb: Everybody knows his tomb is in Zhuge Liang’s temple, which is one of the most popular temples in the province. The temple is in the busiest and thus one of the most closely policed districts in the city, surrounded by restaurants, markets, and residential homes. This is the temple where the city people come to pray for good luck and hold their annual festivals. I don’t think we could get away with camping out and digging here in the middle of the city.

And because for the last ~1800 years the city remained densely inhabited and the temple popular among the city folk and visitors alike, Liu Bei’s grave became the only royal grave from the three kingdom’s period that remained undisturbed by robbers.