u gotta be hedonistic about vegetables. they're not good boy food that u eat to prove you're mature, they're the food that you can shovel into your mouth at 5 am without getting nauseous

The problem with games that try to adapt the DND experience is that they never have a dialogue option that lets me call the closest paladin a sniveling daddy's boy in a tin can

I want to arrive in Ye Olde Fantasy Town and immediately get the option to tell the first cop I see to suck his own ass

It also doesn’t let you immediately hit on the biggest orc woman in the room. Inaccurate.

Disco Elysium

RED ALERT RED ALERT

RTgame is making a tumblr account

NO WAY!!!

He's my favorite twitch streamer!

the drift king is coming

He does not realise that although he may jest, he is already a certified Tumblr Sexymsn and has been for some time now.

FACTS! I’m 20 years old and I know so many people my age and older who are not only virgins, but haven’t even had their first kiss. And that’s totally normal. Also Nick and Charlie have only been dating for like 2 months?? That’s a perfectly normal progression for a relationship, Euphoria and Riverdale have just rotted people’s brains so hard that they’ve forgotten about normal, tame teenagers

Bruh of the people I knew in secondary school like 2/3rds are virgins to this day.

This got me dying

who paid for this study bruh

it’‘s literally seasoning.  that’s it. that’s what make food taste good.

Bro it’s more complex than just ‘ey they used seasoning’ 

It’s HOW they used seasoning, compared to other areas of the world. 

Indian seasoning does this neat color wheel of flavor, fitting a bunch of spices that are very DIFFERENT from each other, to create a huge range of complex flavor. 

Meanwhile in Italy for instance, they tend to use flavors that are SIMILAR. For instance, Basil and Oregano, or Sweet fish with Sweet wine. It makes foods less likely to contrast weirdly in your mouth, and it’s the basis of why fancy european people pair red wines with steak and white wines with chicken. Savory with Savory, Light with Light.   

But the Indian food steps it up a notch. The research is definitely worth a read. 

well yes, spices need to not just complement the food but contrast against each other. to get maximum flavour when cooking indian food:

1. use whole spices, dry roast small quantities of individual spices together and then grind them to a powder. balance is what you’re looking for, not just chucking in handfuls of seasonings willy nilly because quantity does not equal flavour when it comes to spicing indian food. 

2. whole spices go in the oil first. always. also everything gets fried on its own before it’s chucked into the sauce/curry. even the curry base is started off by frying onions/ginger/garlic/tomatoes or any combination thereof. basically…FRY THAT SHIT. i don’t know of any regional cuisine in india that uses stock for simmering. frying everything individually is how we add flavour instead.  

3. indian food needs to be cooked long and slow for the flavours to really merge. don’t skimp on the cooking time if you can because that makes a huge difference. 

This was so enlightening

I feel a need to mention that the researchers for this study are NOT white, as stated above. They’re Indian. It’s Indian people saying “why does our cuisine work and taste so vastly different than anywhere else in the world?” To quote from the article:

“Researchers Anupam Jaina, Rakhi N Kb, and Ganesh Bagler from the Indian Institute for Technology in Jodhpur ran a fine-tooth comb through TarlaDalal.com—a recipe database of more than 17,000 dishes that self-identifies as “India’s #1 food site”—in attempts to decode the magic of your chicken tikka masala or aloo gobi.”

There’s a major misunderstanding in how a lot of people understand science. There’s this idea that there’s a frontier of stuff we don’t know and a big block of stuff we do. Their first reaction is to scoff because we already “know” that Indian food “uses spices” and that’s why it tastes good. Why waste time re-treading that ground to come to the conclusion you already have?

In reality, the frontiers of knowledge are everywhere. Most of what gets studied is common everyday stuff because we generally have a good grip on what stuff does but the holes are in the “how it does it”. And we don’t know anything to perfect certainty, only degrees of relative certainty, and in varying levels of precision. 

The person who says the Earth is flat isn’t making a terribly large miscalculation of the curviture of the Earth, and on a local scale it may not impact their day to day life, but they are still wrong. The person who says the Earth is round is also wrong, but the model is off from reality significantly less. The one who says the planet is an oblate spheroid futher brings the model into precision, but ultiamtely, the only perfect 1:1 model of the planet, is the planet. 

Every measurement is going to have a margin of error. Doesn’t mean we should just stop at the sphere, or even the oblate spheroid.

#i think about this post like#every time i have indian#and the ‘white people don’t understand spices!’ bs#when it was indian people going ‘why is our food so much more baller amazing than everyone else’s??’

it’s so reductive! “indian food tastes good because of Basic Non-White Knowledge that spices exist, there couldn’t possibly be anything else special about it” - what an example of shitting on the people they act like they’re supporting!

We literally still have *no idea* how to make Maple syrup without Maple trees.

The tree does something fucking magical with compounds and mixtures and whatever the fuck with it’s sap we humans are unable to figure out.

It’s why all the fake maple syrup doesn’t taste right. We can’t fucking mimic what the trees do.

We’re able to grow literal MEAT IN A PETRI DISH and yet tree blood is beyond us.

cc: @petermorwood :)

If any god exists out there in the universe and wants my undying faith, all they have to do is send a giant panda to pull open one specific guy and eat all his intestines while he watches. That should be fairly simple.

I think I found the person I was put on this earth to slay in battle.

So there's dozens of people who have been arguing with this guy and can't stop because it's so morbidly fascinating how little he understands anything he's talking about outside the Economics Degree he's always proudly citing and the turn this has now taken is that at one point days ago I said diversity is always better than homogenization, right, and he thought he came up with some brilliant catch-22 by asking me if I thought slavery was a form of cultural diversity.

Now, he is not pro-slavery, not at all, he thinks it's as evil as everyone else does, but by just saying no, I don’t think slavery adds to diversity, I have caused him to start arguing with multiple people (notice the “22 others” in that reply line) that it does. It’s all his attempt at a trick, see, he thinks he’s being some diabolical puppet master and he’ll get someone to finally say “oh no! Slavery is bad diversity then! Just like the existence of carnivorous animals!!!” But he cannot accept people just saying they don't see it that way. I feel bad that I started him down this route because he seems oblivious to the fact that he now just looks to passersby like rabid pro-slavery is his main thing in life.

The thing that people like that don't understand is that if all the predators and parasites were to cease existing, it would ultimately lead to the extinction of untold thousands of species of herbivores, birds, insects, plants... nature is violent, if it wasn't violent, the rabbits would have eaten themselves and others into extinction by now.

compulsory abledness also (partially) explains why disability aids are forced onto some people and denied from others

prosthetic limbs are forced onto amputees whether they want them or not because the goal is to make disabled people look as abled as possible. whereas, all sorts of people who would benefit from mobility aids are often denied them until it’s a “last resort” because! you guessed it! the goal is to make us look as abled as possible

neither person in this situation is privileged. it’s just that the same harmful phenomenon impacts different groups in different ways

fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely

The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this

The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.

Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.

This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.

Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.

I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.

Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.

what if the answer to the fermi paradox is that life cant exist without a moon like luna

I got a serious beef with the Fermi paradox. There is no Fermi paradox. There stopped being a Fermi paradox once the first radio telescopes went up, and we began to get a true sense of the sheer scale of the universe.

Space is big, empty, and loud. Sunspots can cause enough interference to affect global communications. We’re not even loud enough to talk over our own sun. On our own planet. We can barely communicate with Voyager, and we know exactly where it is and what its signal sounds like.

The Fermi paradox is like doubting the existence of Belfast, because you stood on a windy New York beach shouting towards it and didn’t get an answer.

The anti-remote propaganda is driven by companies mad that their remote employees are happier, making the other in-person employees question why they too shouldn't have good options and good mental health, too.

We’re winning.

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

HELL YEAH FUCK HIM UP YOUR HONOR

Well, Fire fighter dude certainly didn’t hold back on his thoughts.

*turns a perfect 180 degrees so that my cutting board-flat ass is facing you* *i walk away with feminine swagger but masculine contempt*

My very unpopular opinion apparently:

Straight cis perisex able-bodied neurotypical people using aids designed for disabled people (I.e weighted blankets, grabby claw, sock holder, etc), going to therapists occasionally to keep up their mental health, using fidget toys, choosing to call their bf/gf their partner, using pronouns besides the ones associated with their gender just because they like it, and doing a million other small things that make us fitting in and being accepted a little bit easier is in fact exactly the type of support these communities need, and will ultimately help us so much more than gatekeeping ever fuckin will

Houston put someone on trial for feeding the homeless and jury calls bullshit

The state had to prove to a jury that feeding the homeless is a criminal act and in doing so, probably convinced a few members of the jury to sign up for food not bombs lol.

i think a lot of devs are having the same thought of “lets make harvest moon again” that concerned ape did when he made stardew valley but they forgot the part where he made it good

Copying recent trends for the sake of chasing success doesn't work. Find something old. Something you enjoy. Find several things, even. Let them stew in your mind. Let them marinate. Come up with new ideas. Think of ways to remix old ones. And once there's a gap in the market for a type of game that A: isn't so common anymore and B: You enjoy and understand, That's when you plop a new game out. And that's when the truth can come out: this whole time you were actually doing everything so you could attract a big fan base on tumblr of people who will invent alternate universes and alternate versions of existing characters in insane, interconnected fanfics until you can finally realise your true, true dream: CREATING A TUMBLR SEXYMAN!

... what was i talking about

TIL The Double Empathy Problem theory suggests social difficulties experienced by autistic people when interacting with non-autistic people are due to reciprocal differences, not an inherent deficiency, most autistic people are able to display good social reciprocity with most other autistic people

via reddit.com

okay but the BEST part of the first study discussed (conducted by an autistic person!) Is that it shows that while easy, calm, mutual communication and social interaction is often more natural between two autistic people than it is between an autistic person and a non-autistic person, it is ALSO like this when an autistic person encounters a non-autistic person who imitates the autistic individual’s behaviours- neurotypical parents copying autistic children’s play, for example, apparently receive more positive engagement from their child- which is SERIOUSLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and VERY VERY GOOD because it is, once again, scientific evidence that bullshit like aversion therapy and enforced conformance and FUCKING “quiet hands” aren’t “”“”“solutions to the autism problem”“”“” and that “”“”“problems”“”“ with autism don’t stem from BEING autistic, but rather, from how NON AUSTISTIC PEOPLE TREAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE.

IE, once again, there is nothing bad or wrong about being autistic

As my mom put it when she got sick of listening to acquaintance “A” whine about how autistic person “B” they both knew ‘really lacks communication skills’ and ‘doesn’t really understand other people’ (B has excellent but specific communication skills, and merely refuses to engage in ‘polite’ but ultimately unhelpful social behavior), and how frustrating it was for A, as a 'professional communications advisior’ and self-described empath, to work with B:

“Well if YOU’RE so goddamn good at communication and empathy, why don’t YOU learn to how to communicate and empathize with HER instead?”

I think that the worst and most dangerous misconception people have about fascism is that it's this sort of turbocharged "Beast Mode" that countries can go into to increase their production, win wars, and make the trains run on time, and that the primary objections to it centre on whether the "obvious" increase in efficiency that fascism offers is worth the loss of freedom and lives. But in reality fascist regimes like to put up a *façade* of strength and efficiency, even as they practice corruption on a scale unimaginable in democracies and even as the public interest is hollowed out by parasitical opportunists. There is no trade-off; fascism is a grift all the way down.

#'uuhhh hitler built the autobahn' yeah and so did many other countries without being one of the worst things to happen to the world

The whole ‘hitler build the Autobahn’ thing is such a good example because is IS fascist propaganda.

The concept of the autobahn existed in Germany before the nazis came to power and several had already been build. The idea that building those roads somehow helped the economy or created jobs is mostly overinflated propaganda. And let’s not forget that the nazis left the entire country in ruins. Once they were done there weren’t even any cars to drive on the autobahn (they were open to cyclists at the end of the war) and the entire country was in ruins.

And that is the really important point. Fascism is inherently destructive.

Even if you (for some deranged reason) agreed with the idea that the German people were somehow special and chosen to rule over the world. The nazis absolutely fucked the German people over. They didn’t just destroy their enemies, they destroyed the people they were supposedly leading into a glorious future.

Fascism is a death cult.

Somehow the many fascist dictatorships in Latin America succeeded only in making their countries into grossly corrupt colonial vassals of the US. Weird!

There's so much racism implicit in the assumption that fascism, particularly German fascism, is good for productivity. What about Spain and Italy! If fascism is so great, then why was Spain a stagnant backwater for 50 years? Why was Italy, innovators of modern fascism, a complete and utter embarrassment for the 20 years they decided to give it a go.

No one who genuinely believes the myths of productivity holds these countries up as an example. It's only industrious Germany where they're willing to overlook the clear and obvious failures of fascism.

Why might that be?

I dislike in video games the way that government structures, and the way they affect your game in grand strategy games and 4x games is so wildly out of touch with what they're like irl. It is a private dream of mine to make a grand strategy game where being a dictatorship causes your dictator to make random laws based on their personal whims that you have zero control over and cannot easily undo. Or where extreme centralization makes outlying areas of your nation shittier. Or where corruption isn't just a number that you magically get rid of instantly. A game where you actually get to experience what trying to steer a dictatorship would be like, since... the dictator isn't going to be the one who understands the game mechanics.

A underrated narrative surrounding Barbenheimer is that they released a new Haunted Mansion movie a week after it. Yes, in July. It is mysteriously not doing well

I just learned that The Haunted Mansion movie had a higher budget than Barbie OR Oppenheimer. And it made around thirty million. Worldwide. Incredible

Due to my terrible curse of curiosity, I have learned that this movie stars Jared Leto in a role that's mostly CGI and where his voice is processed until it's unrecognizable. Clearly vital he had to be cast

Also, it features copious product placement, to the extent that during a scene where a character describes how his wife died, he makes sure to note that she died on her way to Baskin-Robbins

Amazing. How didn't this dethrone Barbenheimer

Wh... what?