vaultsixtynine
life is earned through doing puzzles
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vesper, supra-18, she/they. member of the intergalactic dumb bitch alliance. i will never shut up abt my ocs and that is a threat.
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vaultsixtynine · 4 hours ago
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im winning awards for inability to sleep at proper times and in proper places
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vaultsixtynine · 5 hours ago
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early rhu activities include eating raw salmon (no cutting just biting) just grabbt out of the river after hiking her skirts up and wading in. forgetting about utensils. remembering she can't walk away in the middle of a conversation. sniffing people a little too intently/obviously. sitting weird on nearly everything, including stuff not meant to be sat on. taking a nap Just Anywhere. using her mouth to touch/investigate things because she sometimes she forgets she has properly-digited hands again.
please be patient with her she was stuck as a wolf for eight years and is still sometimes in creaturemode - it does steadily and rapidly improve as she realizes she has to like, resocialize herself into society bc she's Stuck Here Now.
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vaultsixtynine · 6 hours ago
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Draugr Encounter
Pre-release image for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Bloodmoon DLC
*Capture credit Unknown* If anyone knows the dev comment below
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vaultsixtynine · 7 hours ago
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the biggest skew of my da magic overhaul (metaphysics and also lore) is that the og setting treats the fade as an infinite source of energy without really uh. expanding on that at all in terms of basic mechanics. and also it completely ignores Why lyrium is what it is and does what it does. yes, yes, titan blood, but Why!!! and why are people even Mages to begin with. and why - okay i'm getting off track a bit but ultimately, the main points:
The Fade is not an infinite well; from where does it replenish? How does this differ from how it was before the Veil? How does this echo broken or diverted systems in the physical world?
What is the difference between a Spirit (general) and a Soul? What happens to you when you die? Are spirits truly only meant to be One Thing, or are they confined to it?
The tension between the physical and intangible and how this is a long, long shadow of the Veil going up and a symptom of both cultural spread of particular ideas and a world with a Very Longterm Problem that's been accepted as a law of reality
The Blight's from somewhere else sorry
The Abyss/Void is different now too
#dwarvesdeservebetter but i'm not sure i'm the best equipped to deal with that beyond broad strokes
and we're changing the shape but not the general shittiness or severity or the ancient elven situation because that's also a wrankle but fundamentally Tied to All The Magic
yes i think i can do this better than longtime game industry lead writers
and i'm doing all of this so my milf elf oc who isn't even a main game protag can do necromancy without it driving me fucking crazy to talk about
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vaultsixtynine · 7 hours ago
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vaultsixtynine · 7 hours ago
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Despite differences between these cases, the ethical narrative used by liberal states to justify war crimes remains remarkably consistent, and dates back centuries. From the early days of European colonization of the New World, colonizing powers justified the genocide and torture of indigenous people by claiming that native peoples’ barbaric nature forced civilized states to resort to such tactics. For example, scholar Daniel Brunstetter explains how, after the American Revolutionary War, defenders of the wars of extermination against Native Americans justified their actions by claiming that Native Americans “did not abide by (European) rules of war but rather waged merciless warfare that ignored all civilized constraints … different standards were justified when dealing with such peoples.”
A similar narrative was used to justify the turn-of-the-20th century U.S. invasion of the Philippines and the use of torture against Filipino soldiers and civilians. When a 1904 Senate Report found evidence of the widespread use of torture by U.S. troops, members of the Roosevelt Administration suggested that torture “might at times be justified by the frequent violations of the rules of ‘civilized warfare’ committed by a ‘barbaric and treacherous’ enemy.” In contrast, U.S. forces were depicted as honorable. As the islands’ colonial governor and later president, William Howard Taft, claimed: “[N]ever had a war been conducted in which more compassion, more restraint, and more generosity had been exhibited than in connection with the American officers in the Philippines.” By blaming the resort to war crimes on the “barbaric” enemy and simultaneously depicting U.S. forces as noble and restrained, this narrative was highly effective in creating impunity for these crimes: No officer or soldier accused of torture in the Philippines served any prison time, and the events in the Philippines have been largely forgotten.
More recently, the same narrative appeared in the Bush Administration’s defense of the invasion of Afghanistan and the torture of terrorism suspects after 9/11. First, the conflict with Al Qaeda was framed as a conflict between “the civil and the savage,” in the words of then Attorney General John Ashcroft. Then, the infamous torture memos, produced by the Office of Legal Counsel, described torture as “abhorrent to American values,” on the one hand, but argued that torture might be necessary “to avoid the greater harm,” on the other. As with the case of U.S. torture in the Philippines, by simultaneously offering a legal defense for the use of torture and portraying the resort to torture as honorably motivated (regardless of its legality), this narrative helped create almost total impunity for the architects and perpetrators of the post-9/11 torture program. In the aftermath of the 2014 Senate Report on the torture program, President Barack Obama, who criticized the use of torture, nonetheless described those involved as nobly motivated: “A lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots.” The Obama administration then blocked all proposals for civil and legal accountability for those involved in the torture program, even rejecting “a South African-style ‘truth and reconciliation’ commission.” [...]
So, defenses of Israel’s tactics that claim that these tactics meet the legal standard of proportionality, despite devastating the civilian population, are legally questionable. But the problem with the “false equivalency” argument and the characterization of Hamas and Hezbollah as existential threats goes beyond the issue of legal plausibility: it rests on, and promotes, a toxic ethical narrative that aims to excuse Israel’s actions even if those tactics are found to be illegal. As with the other cases described above, this characterization of the conflict offers a beguiling and deceptive depiction of Israel’s actions that, paradoxically, construes the violation of the laws of war as evidence of moral courage, even moral goodness.
Like earlier uses of this narrative, the argument that Israel is “forced” to use extreme tactics against Hamas and Hezbollah trades on the idea of “dirty hands” - the idea that, when facing a “lawless” enemy, good people might (“regretfully”) need to do bad things to save lives. But this is not simply a consequentialist “the means justify the ends” argument. Instead, the “dirty hands” in this scenario arises because the good people who are forced to do bad things thereby violate their own moral values. It’s because they have these values that they are good people. So, their willingness to take on the moral burden of “dirty hands” to save lives is evidence of their moral courage, not immorality. And, if it were not for the enemy’s savage nature, they would never have had to make such a moral sacrifice.
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vaultsixtynine · 8 hours ago
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Everyone be careful ok
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vaultsixtynine · 8 hours ago
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epic workplace depressjon where im there forever and then go home ajd sleep
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vaultsixtynine · 8 hours ago
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i think there are astonishingly and disappointingly few people who can use their blood as a whip
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vaultsixtynine · 8 hours ago
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fully sober in the club googling frankenstein 1818 full text
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vaultsixtynine · 9 hours ago
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new dead pooooonnnnyyyyyy
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vaultsixtynine · 9 hours ago
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*trying to call a woman beautiful but i've forgotten how to engage other humans in conversation* girl, you remind me of architecture
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vaultsixtynine · 9 hours ago
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part of the problem solas runs into with rhu is she doesn't fit in his buckets and he doesn't know what to do about that. even the inquisitor fits in his buckets at base level, as polite and diplomatic as lewen acts. but rhu is older, amorphous, and never responds the way a dalish nor a city elf Should act. has acted. in his [checks watch] entire year of experiencing thedas as it is right now. so What Now.
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vaultsixtynine · 9 hours ago
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Simple. Eternal. Beige. (Inquisitor Retexture)
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vaultsixtynine · 9 hours ago
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bill shatner
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vaultsixtynine · 9 hours ago
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I see you've noticed my overhead mural of mushrooms. That's myceiling.
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