King of Nothingness
going out with, probably, a metastatic brain tumour, telling everyone and himself he was being born again as a superman, a tragic but really fucking AMERICAN🦅🇺🇲 end to one of Tumblr's strangely quiet and respected pillars
rip @kontextmaschine
What a terrible day for rain
japanese game dev in the 90s: hey dude can you make some music for our game about anime girls getting fucked sloppy style
guy who's about to push the PC-98 sound card to its absolute limit and create the most heartachingly beautiful music you've ever heard: Yeah okay
Look, I know it's funny to say the PC-98 eroge had a stellar soundtrack for 'just an eroge'. But that is extremely dismissive of what YU-NO is and how it shaped the landscape of future releases in the era. Like we're talking about a game with time travel that lets you set down checkpoints in time, so you can collect items across multiple timelines and solve a series of mysteries. It's a story so long and complicated, it had been in Kanno's mind and developing for over a decade. It's a story that doesn't even properly work as a show or movie, it has to be a game. This title was extremely influential to how the sci-fi genre evolved in the adventure game medium of this era in japan. Titles like Steins;Gate wouldn't exist in nearly the same fashion, KEY works would be entirely different, other adventure game producing companies started trying to push themselves to match YU-NO's high production values. I'm sorry but you can be funny without being dismissive of something that had a huge cultural impact on a medium of storytelling.
It was 117°F in my city last weekend. We at the radio discovered that when that’s how it is just in the air, the reflection of the antenna dish causes way higher temperature just about where the delicate stuff is. Our antenna melted, then the power went out, and with it the WiFi.
The above pic is pretty much actual footage of what it looked like.
Something people who don't pilot mechs don't get:
You can't just jump into someone else's mech and pilot it even if you are licensed for the same equipment that the other mech's pilot uses.
First of all, every pilot has the buttons, switches, etc. set up based on personal preferences. None of us use the default controls.
Second, you don't want to get in the cockpit because the other guy probably jacks off in there all the time and doesn't sterilize the cockpit half as well as they ought to
This is just another classic example of pilotcentric framing. Yes, we know the guy who jacks off in the control module (”cockpit”? Hello? You wish you were qualified pilot something with a cockpit, ground-pounder) doesn’t sterilize (or even wipe) after himself.
You know who does do all the cleaning? The ground crew. The guys you stompies are happy to chalk up as “acceptable collateral” during a materiel raid.
So, no, go ahead and hop right in and take ‘er out for a spin. Trust me, the ground crew has already been forced under threat of starvation to clean up whatever mess the latest in a long and venerable line of “newest idiot to get hired to pilot the Armored Coffin Mk VII” managed to leave behind. In fact, if you crash and blow the thing into a billion smouldering pieces, that’s one less thing for maintenance to have to polish, sanitize, hose, and tidy up.
p.s. do your ground crews a favor and stop fucking the diagnostics port. I know you idiots think that every roughly cylindrical hole is a goal but the next idiot who complains his gyro isn’t working properly while an “unidentified substance” oozes out of the only thing that can possibly help us figure out what the fuck he did to his poor mech, is heading on his next sortie armed with a road flare and a life vest.
Hey you know what sucks is everything google has ever done.
What happened during Smash Brothers stays in Smash Brothers.
Haruhi Suzumiya drawn by Hiroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal)
drew baobhan sith cause she's my first lv 100 servant since at least 2018 🥺
Let's all go to McDonald's and ask if they have the White Gilgamesh. The spirit of Enkidu will rise up from the underworld and with his rage rend the sky in two, cause mountains to shiver away in fear, dry up the canals and marshes, and split the earth into a thousand canyons!
loving disco elysium so far
Isn't there supposed to be a dead guy here
Ironically, Buddhism was also used by the state for the psychological conditioning of its armies. The Chinese cult of filial piety had had a chilling effect on martial ardor. It laid upon every man a heavy obligation to return his body intact upon his death and thus to show gratitude to his parents who had given it to him; there was the further teaching that the only immortality a man could expect was the honor paid him by his descendants in the family graveyard and ancestral temple. Warriors thus had a horror of a disfiguring death in battle and of burial far from home. The Chinese Buddhist conception of a soul brought with it a new notion of immortality, and the Sui and T’ang dynasties made a practice of building battlefield temples at the scenes of major engagements and endowing perpetual services for the repose of the souls of the war dead and their ultimate salvation.
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inventing the notion of a soul is putting a finger on the scales and tipping them towards infinity, justifying all manner of weirdness.
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I’m sorry this is buck wild. Dude she made you a cake for your birthday. There was some vanilla icing in it. Not even just vanilla icing. Grow the fuck up.
I think this is a bad framing - "you want something specific -> someone offers to make it for you -> it's not exactly what you requested" is like, a reasonable thing to be disappointed about.
What's weird to me is the rest of this - he assumes that she made the modification because it wasn't fancy enough? That's an odd assumption to make.
My assumption would be she just happens to make chocolate cakes that way and it was a miscommunication about exactly what he wanted, but then it's strange that she reacted by saying that he likes vanilla icing (as if she was aware it wasn't exactly what he asked for). And all of this is a bad conversation to have in front of her kids.
Idk in general I feel like most AITA posts like this don't really have enough info to make any real judgements and most voters make a lot of assumptions (see: the number of people in the notes assuming he's autistic, which is certainly possible but by no means certain)
suffering from terminally contrarianism—on twitter everyone was acting like the boyfriend was evil and i was kinda on his side but here with everyone acting like the girlfriend made a mistake and now feel like she’s justified-ish
it's super polarizing! i've seen several people in the notes insist that this proves that one side or the other is abusive, i think mostly because they relate their own experiences to one or the other.
i think what makes this really tricky is the question of proportionality - this is objectively an extremely minor disagreement, so the question of who's in the right comes entirely down to how you read between the lines.
I'm going to be anti-girlfriend but for one specific reason. He asked for what he wanted, let her know what he liked, she made something he didn't want, he finished everything except the part he hadn't wanted, and when asked why he explained 'this isn't what I wanted'.
There is nothing specifically unreasonable about what he did. He's a picky eater, but that's about it.
What she did was to get upset at him for doing so, kicked him out, told him that he'd embarrassed her in front of her kids and stopped replying to him.
Basically she'd wanted to make the cake 'special' for him. And when he didn't give her the positive reaction she'd expected for her extra effort, she felt so upset that she blamed him for the scenario, and from the wording is basically ghosting him.
and as somebody with ADHD and pretty simple desires I utterly understand his position here. He asked for a simple thing and got mildly upset that he wasn't given the simple thing he wanted. She kicked him out of her house for not being grateful enough.
I feel like anyone who's coming down against the boyfriend is either just doing the #TeamGirl thing and siding blindly with the woman, or was not really paying attention to the story, because if we take the OP's retelling as true, then
this shit right here is what we in the business like to call an asshole move. She offers to make the cake for him, but she doesn't really want to make it for him. She wants to make it for her to get praise from him. If she's a competent baker, and OP gives us every reason to think she is, then it's not a tremendously difficult request to fulfill. She fucks it up because she isn't thinking about him, she's thinking about "Oh, look at this very special thing that I am doing!"
Like, seriously, this is pretty straightforward-- she makes the cake for his birthday, but doesn't actually listen to what he wants, then makes it about her. Generally speaking, if you screw something up while trying to help someone, you apologize, you don't get defensive about your contribution. His response only seems excessive if you completely skip over every detail of the story, and he was absolutely correct. She offered to provide something that he could've gotten elsewhere, and intentionally didn't do it correctly, then got angry at him for not liking her intentional fuckery. That would, in fact, be grounds to get a refund in any sane business.
Like, what do we have to do to get tumblr to read this properly? Is it the whole "boyfriend" thing? Do we need to unnecessarily change the details? "I (black), had a birthday yesterday and my (white) coworker..."? This isn't exactly a profound moral ambiguity.
Ame chan from Needy Girl Overdose ^^
