yeah no don't worry babe my slavoj žižek impression is gonna go hard at this dinner party
I simply think lesbians should always have money, a dyke should always have cash to spend on whatever they desire
the difference between fantasy and sci-fi? well there’s a “quest” and then there’s a “mission”
I’ll just lie here a while, by your side, gazing at the stars.
Anonymous asked:
I have a question that’s probably pretty stupid, but I thought I’d ask someone knowledgeable. I know china is nothing like how it’s painted by imperialism, but the “social credit” system that affects people’s lives and privileges is real right? A lot of people online default to it for the argument towards china being terrible in one way or another, and from what I know it seems like a legitimately bad thing used to punish or censor people. Do I have this wrong? I’m sure there’s more to the story
In brief, while the 'social credit system' exists, it's both fairly regional (as lots of things are in China, everywhere is constantly experimenting and trialling different paths), and generally applies only to corporations, and the rich. Western reporting likes to act as though they're talking to fellow rich people, which obfuscates things - when they say 'your social credit score can stop you from getting plane tickets' they mean 'if you've committed acts of embezzlement or corruption you can't get first-class tickets and have to fly economy with everyone else'.
In the vast majority of cases the system is aimed solely at corporations and regards things like not paying social security benefits and the like. China doesn't have a FICO-like credit system as the US does, because most Chinese people aren't debtors. People in China generally don't go into debt to buy things, they save up (because the Chinese economy is based on the sale of production, rather than the sale of debts, like the US economy). Before this system was established there lacked a unified system of punishments for non-criminal corporate violations.
That's why the western businesses, which own the western news outlets, were very upset about this, and painted it as they did. They complain about stricter regulations anywhere, but for China they get to piggyback off of existing sentiment to get people who otherwise would support these types of regulations to oppose them. The 'environmental pollution regulations are tyrannical government overreach' line goes down a lot smoother when people have already bought into a story of 'authoritarianism'.
Here's some reporting from western sources backing this up:
Contrary to common belief, the cities mainly target companies, not individuals. Nonetheless, legal representatives of a violating company are also included in the blacklists to prevent reoffending elsewhere or under a different company. Nationally, about 75 percent of entities targeted by the system end up on blacklists because of court orders they have ignored—the so-called judgment defaulters. The remaining companies are typically collared for severe marketplace violations—for instance, for food safety infringements, environmental damage, or wage arrears.
driving my tesla with my apple goggles on looking to my empty passenger seat hatsuke miku with F cups renders in i smile serenely look back at the road and see the front of a bullet train for .02 seconds
hey who would like to read an almost verbatim email conversation we had with our landlord?
him: the condensation on your windows is unacceptable (author's note: he has not called a flat inspection, he is just hanging around outside our house. no, he doesn't live nearby)
me: i have bought a dehumidifier, it'll arrive next week
him:
My dealer: got some straight gas🔥😛 this strain is called "Le Retour" you'll be zonked out of your gourd💯
YOU: yeah whatever. i don't feel shit.
5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw girl child revolution in the streets
My buddy Kim pacing: the Coalition is lying to us.
Martha Rhodes, ‘His’, from At the Gate
Anonymous asked:
any spare tips for first-time DMs? (can be about anything — or like, what’s something you wish someone told you when you first started DMing?)
yknow how when postgrads reflect on uni and they're like OH my god do the reading. just do the reading just shut up and sit down and do the reading. d&d is very much the same principle. just read the module. just read it over and over and over again. highlight the important bits. just prepare the statblocks and read them over, no AGAIN and then reread the module.
or, if you're homebrewing almost entirely. just write the thing. find every name generator and treasure generator and every other generator you could need and write the thing. steal RUTHLESSLY. if you're not recording it as a podcast or making a profit from it just take from everything. take entire plots of books or movies or tv shows (the more obscure the better, especially if your players haven't read/seen it) and copy the parts you like. do you think you could have written a better adaptation of a niche fantasy novel? fucking PROVE IT. and then PUT YOUR PLAYERS IN CIRCUMSTANCES. read other tabletop systems!! use dmsguild for the love of FUCK use dms guild. pirate other d&d modules (and look back at earlier editions!!! there is some gold in 3.5e). DON'T think you have to come up with theeeeee most unique and original and special d&d world literally no one is paying you to do that and copyrighting is for losers. this is fun times at your dining room table/desk. search "d&d maps" on pinterest or search for unique and rare items for loot, and then base entire campaigns around these set pieces. i ran a 10 or so session campaign around each member of the party fighting someone who owned an artifact or relic that fit each of their builds and then upon gathering these items they fought a ghost council of guild leaders and apotheosised themselves into their place on accident. and it was FUN.
one day i will be able to run a d&d session so tightly plotted that the background music for a section is just the entirety of echoes uninterrupted and at 12 minutes when the shrill sirens come in that's when the edifice and fun is stripped away entirely and the characters all realise they've been dead since the beginning.
hi i have NOT stopped thinking about the hamlet post since i saw it last night.
it’s been said before but fortinbras pov really is the funniest thing. imagine you’re waging war on some country because their old king killed your dad and then you walk into their throne room and there’s 4 dead bodies and one guy who instantly says “i can explain”
hamlet act 5 scene 3 horatio goes to prison
So one of the first professional Shakespeare productions I saw was a NYC Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet. It was set in modern-esque times with a heavy military flavor. So we get to the end, and in comes Fortinbras and his his army; I didn’t realize at the time how rare it is for a production to even have this scene because who doesn’t want to end with grieving Horatio in a tragic tableau, y’know? But so in comes Fortinbras, and Horatio saying he has such a tale of woe to tell him, and Fortinbras says his yeah, sure, I’ll listen. So he gestures Horatio to walk ahead of him, and then turns to his guards and makes almost an off-hand gesture, and the guard Shoots Horatio In The Head And He Falls To The Ground Dead.
Fucked. Me. Up.
