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fuuuuck that is my circus. are those…? yep… those are my monkeys….. goddammit.

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Trying to do a tarot reading but the guy across the table is running mono blue and keeps countering my major arcana.

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look, it's easy, okay? High Fantasy has An Hero whose Destiny is Sword, and Low Fantasy has Some Schmoe whose Job is Sword.

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>listening to nin

>hear a new layer to song ive relistened to over and over

>"wow i cant believe i never noticed this before! i wonder what kind of synth he used. its very forboding in a specific way only nin can achieve"

>pause song to write post praising nin

>the synth specifically keeps playing despite the rest of the song being paused

>look outside window

>garbage truck

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It's a farming sim, but a year is through a war starts up in a faraway land, and half the characters you've been making friends with go off to fight in it. The food you've been making on the farm is heavily taxed, going toward the war effort, and rationing is put in place. A new price administration officer shows up to fix prices and ensure that crops are being produced and delivered for the war effort, rather than frivolous things like wine or tartlets.

At first you understand the price administration officer as a bureaucratic coward and a busybody, the game's villain, but over time, as he regularly visits your farm, you come to understand him as a man who never wanted this. He would rather have been in the war, doing something he sees as noble and honorable. It was his father who got him the job in price administration, and strings were pulled to put him out of the way, far from the front lines. You fall in love, and there's an extended cutscene where you're having sex, but he breaks down crying in the middle of it, and you cry too.

In the third year of the war, he gets called to the front. Too many people have died, and there's no protection for him anymore. The quaint little town has lost more people, not just the able-bodied men, but now the older children as well, the men who are too infirm for the war. The price administration officer promises that he'll write, but you only ever receive a single letter, and it's impossible to know whether he stopped writing, or the letters stopped being delivered, or if he died shortly after reaching the front.

The war ends a year later. Most of the people who left don't come back, and those that do have missing limbs and psychological scars. There is never any further sign of the price administration officer.

At the end of the game, you're graded by how much food you got your farm to produce for this stupid, pointless war whose participants and causes you were always unclear on. This grade is given by the government, and if you do a good job, you get a small, cheaply made medal in honor of your service to the nation.

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Someone hit me with their car and I got isekai'd to a world that's really similar to my old one except in this one my collarbone is mysteriously broken

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Have I ever told the story here about how I accidentally saw Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time while knowing absolutely nothing about the movie at all at 8:10 AM in a literal room filled with theater students who absolutely DID know about it.

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"Oh, Taylor, you're good at multitasking?"

Reverse worm where the Simurgh isekais the Undersiders into regular Wisconsin and forces them to become an Esports team

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I have a cold so that means it's time to post my favorite chemistry paper

Pseudoephedrine, active ingredient of Sudafed®, has long been the most popular nasal decongestant in the United States due to its effectiveness and relatively mild side effects1. In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to obtain psuedoephedine in many states because of its use as a precursor for the illegal drug N-methylamphetamine (also known under various names including crystal meth, meth, ice, etc.). While in the past many stores were able to sell pseudoephedrine, new laws in the United States have restricted sales to pharmacies, with the medicine kept behind the counter. The pharmacies require signatures and examination of government issued ID in order to purchase pseudoephedrine. Because the hours of availability of such pharmacies are often limited, it would be of great interest to have a simple synthesis of pseudoephedrine from reagents which can be more readily procured.

A quick search of several neighborhoods of the United States revealed that while pseudoephedrine is difficult to obtain, N-methylamphetamine can be procured at almost any time on short notice and in quantities sufficient for synthesis of useful amounts of the desired material. Moreover, according to government maintained statistics, N-methylmphetamine is becoming an increasingly attractive starting material for pseudoephedrine, as the availability of N-methylmphetamine has remained high while prices have dropped and purity has increased2. We present here a convenient series of transformations using reagents which can be found in most well stocked organic chemistry laboratories to produce psuedoephedrine from N-methylamphetamine.

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Yes.

We watched the cartoon version of the How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the old one, and when laying out his problems with Grinch, 95% of his complaints are that people are making too much noise.

And you know, I've always been a bit of a Grinch myself, but this is a crazy small scope for Christmas complaints. In his whole opening list of complaints, it's 18 lines about sounds, and 4 lines about the feast, and ... what, no trenchant observations on consumerism and waste? No skewering of the frankly hideous Christmas aesthetic? The light pollution draped over every house? The way the holiday has ballooned past an inflation fetishist's wild dreams to start fill the entire month of December and most of November?

But no, for the Grinch it's all about the sounds. Does the Grinch maybe just have misophonia?

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just one more reboot boys. one more crisis will fix it i promise please just ONE more reboot

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What's the process if you're a superhero and you come out as trans

Do you tell your villains?

Do you keep it a secret so no one can connect Spider-Man with your secret identity for a while? Or do you pop a pronouns pin on your costume and the next time you web up Doctor Octopus and he goes "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME SPIDER-MAN" you go "Spider-Girl actually! I've been figuring out some shit"

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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man

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the natural human lifespan is actually less than 2 days, but many have taken to artificially extending their lives via substances such as food/water

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Thinking about playing some Minecraft again and was looking though some QoL mods when I found this:

Literally the perfect mod concept, I don't think this can ever be beaten.