I’m in the woods placing cardboard cutouts of morels in the leaf litter to trick and bamboozle people

I’m about to ruin someone’s whole life

Scamp

tee hee hee hee hee

getting into homestuck in 2023 goodbye everyone

the fuck is going on

the fact that in the month since this post was made their icon has changed to dave strider

the space seed episode of tos where they find khan and the ss botany bay is so funny because right off the bat you have kirk being like "yeah let's get that historian whats-her-name out there, maybe she can be useful for once" and it's like WOAH what's up with the liberal arts hate?? why is kirk being such a bitch to this lady for no reason. then you meet her and she's fucking obsessed with historical strongmen to the point of covering her walls in her own fanart. she lives on a spaceship in a utopian technofuture and she sleeps surrounded by busts of kings on purpose. her vibes are fashy and kirk is right to be a bitch, actually.

then they get to the botany bay and she's immediately driven to distraction by how horny she is for ricardo montalban under a thick layer of extra-dark foundation. sorry i'm gonna compare montalban with and without the makeup because it is SO distracting

also she refers to sikhs in the past tense implying that at some point in the last two hundred years there was a genocide that they're just glossing over. since she also calls them a warrior race it's also possible that she's just racist and somewhere on board the enterprise there are sikh crew members who dislike her as much as kirk does.

anyway you can assume that this is her first actual away mission and she fumbled immediately because she was so hot for khan but it's much funnier if this isn't the first time this has happened. every time they have to interact with a historical earth artifact she gets so horned up thinking about being a tradwife that she's rendered speechless. spock stays polite but kirk can't stand her. by the time kirk found out she was the type of person to paint her own portraits of napoleon and roman emperors to hang in her quarters it was too late to send her back and request literally anyone else. he's supposed to court martial her but offers to let her stay on fashy eugenics planet just so he won't have to keep her on his ship anymore. it's unclear if he lets her take her paintings or jettisons them into space.

can’t get meee! 😈 cAnnot get’uh MEEE~! 😝 ,,this thing is EENdestructible dude ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, AAAARGH *inhale* DE WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!??!??

It doesn't matter if American Christians in power are "doing it wrong" or if actually, Jesus said things that contradict their proclaimed values. What matters is that religious groups should not be in a position to legislate their religious beliefs such that it applies to people not beholden to that religion.

In other words, the argument that "Jesus would hate White Christian Nationalism because the Bible shows he was a radical etc etc" doesn't matter because you are meeting them on their terms. If the Bible did say that Jesus hated abortion/poor people/socialism, it still would not be acceptable for Christians to legislate on that basis.

And yet cultural Christianity has brought us to a point where we'd rather pin the problem on a new subset of Christianity whose issue is that they're misinterpreting original doctrine. Y'all have been saying, “Well, they're not Real Christians” for centuries. This is not a problem of a new sect's formation. This is an issue of separation of church & state. In political/legal contexts, it should not matter what the Bible says or doesn't say, or how anyone interprets it, because the Bible has no place in a courtroom. It's literally that simple.

truly amazing how the tf2 models still look good even though they're made of 3 polygons and a shoelace. this is what stylization can do for you even more so than wind waker

i mean i doubt they're the EASIER option considering they often take a lot more manpower for development, but yeah they're definitely the simplest option if you're a designer and not a programmer. never mind how much the graphics department has to crunch, imagine if you were asked to imagine color contrast in a variety of lighting conditions!

I would call them the easier option for producers, who are the ones making the calls at the end of the day - not only because they don’t have to make design decisions, but because they can more easily measure the number of polygons on a horse’s left nut than decide how well-utilised the same number of polygons are between different stylised designs, and we all know how tech investors love Metrics.

That's true as far as it goes, but there's a little more to it than that. AAA studios have a vested economic interest in promoting the idea that hyper-photorealism is what it means for a game to have good graphics because it allows them to exercise a de facto monopoly on "good graphics".

The single unchallengable advantage that AAA studios have over their independent counterparts is access to labour. You can't guarantee that a game's visuals have a competent aesthetic thesis by throwing person-hours at it, but you can shadow-map every individual wrinkle on the protagonist's horse's nutsack; thus, by defining the quality of a game's graphics purely in terms of whatever is the most labour-intensive to produce – which, for the moment, happens to be hyper-photorealism – one arrives at a situation where only AAA games can be said to have good graphics.

It's that "for the moment" that we need to watch out for, incidentally. There's nothing special about hyper-photorealism other than the fact that it's (presently) extremely labour-intensive to produce. The studios are perfectly capable of playing the same game with other approaches to visual design that make similar labour demands; "stylisation" in itself is no cure. The critical understanding is that these approaches are favoured because they're hugely labour-intensive, which in turn permits the creation of de facto monopolies on their production. The crunch time isn't an incidental by-product of arbitrary aesthetic choices – it's the whole point.

(This is a big part of why I've never been comfortable with the whole "I want games with worse graphics" thing. Yes, we should challenge AAA labour practices; however, by equating "graphics which are less labour-intensive to produce" with "worse graphics", we're allowing the AAA marketing apparatus to define the terms of the discussion.)

This has got to be the worst recipe in this manga yet

"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"

Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn't that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?

Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that's wild

"Wouldn't they recognize him bc he's with Zelda" Everyone interacting with Zelda was like "Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who's building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!"

The orange kitty presented...

And here we have Jadzia playing alien hopscotch.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1, Episode 10

Got to be THE WORST DS9 episode of the series if not the entire ST Canon. And I am a staunch and loyal Niner…

I need to reach my friend!

This echidna, in Australia, had been seeking ants in red earth. by Rod Waddington

Massive Minnesota W read em for yourself

I was planning to drop the items from the linked tweet thread onto this post, but there are SO MANY new bills that it became a wall of text - line after line after line of incredible things Minnesota has enacted in a single session.

I'm.... actually blown away. the political landscape often feels so hopeless, but the DFL pulled themselves together, getting every member on board for these changes - real changes that are going to protect health, keep people out of jail and housed, and improve work conditions massively. this should be a beacon for every other state democratic party - change doesn't have to be incremental. things can get better and they can get better right now. get crackin'.

i love the sonic adventure 2 battle intro cause of that stupid animation knuckles has in it

i can’t find a gif of it can somebody please post it

wait hold on. does it just say kukle.

GERARD DUBOIS Moby Dick

this is legendary because you as you go you see the photo itself and you’re “oh this is some symbolic / surrealist art” and then the TITLE hits you like a shotgun shell

diplet detected

In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.

This is what Vriska and Terezi were doing with John and Dave

angel torres, king cringefail

[ID: Fanart of Angel and O.J from Nope (2022). Angel and O.J look down at Angel's phone, which a bubble shows is open to a quiz titled "My Little Pony Quiz: Why MLP Character Are You?" Angel says seriously, "So I think you're definitely Applejack or maybe Fluttershy-." O.J looks flat and says, "Hm." Angel continues, "But me? Total fucking Rainbow Dash." End ID]

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