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As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses
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I just want to remind everyone that is your civic duty to jailbreak your Nintendo consoles and pirate every Nintendo property until the heat death of the universe.
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PS: for entertainment purposes only, of course
PPS: actual Washington Post quote
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https://youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk?si=L052GrLnQaHlAr0e
I’m having a spirited debate and need a larger sample size
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get your power then reblog and tell everyone in the tags!
Note: Powers only work with enthusiastic consent!
#being on the trans website and wanting to be a shapeshifter means some people assume I'm trans or make egg comments#but really it's just that I'm old and figure that most versions of shapeshifting would also fix my back#plus let's be honest it's way more broadly useful than the other options in this case
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Iain M Banks: What is a weapon? What does it mean to use a weapon? Can a person be a weapon? Is there a difference between using a weapon and being a weapon? Is this difference meaningful? What kind of person would choose to be a weapon?
Also Iain M Banks: Here's a sapient starship with a scat fetish.
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#I remember having the guy version#where your combed hair feels like a plastic helmet#absolute LEGO style hair
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"You'd rather open the cell and then go out drinking"
"Listen I know you're trying to do the Jedi mind trick thing."
"Ah. Shit. Worth a try."
"Yeah. And I mean. Honestly you're not wrong. I really would rather just let you go and fuck off to the bar."
"..."
"Fuck it, you know what? Can you just make sure to kill my supervisor on the way out? Speaking of, hang on and let me get you your light saber."
obi wan kenobi + force suggestion
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Yeah it only remotely makes sense if you believe a bunch of other wildly suspect or implausible things. There's this big chain of IF this is true and IF this is true and... and multiple links in that chain are ridiculous.
But people can explain each step in a way that SOUNDS like it's reasonable and do so with such unearned confidence that I get why some folks have found themselves nodding along. Philosophy and logic and stuff is actually very interesting and complex and that means you can accidentally come to some really wild wrong ideas in a way that feels real.
Anyway, if anyone is worried about Roko's Basilisk just say "it doesn't matter, you're just a Boltzmann Brain anyway."
Rory Blank
@BoneJail
People losing their jobs to ai is awful but I don’t think enough attention is being paid to the fact that some of the core proponents of it literally believe that one day a neopet will be so powerful it will be god and they need to build it or they’ll be sent to computer hell
Rory Blank
@BoneJail
Every time you read something about what Elon is doing, or read something about Peter Thiel and the "dark enlightenment" or whatever, it's important to remember that at the core, the people at the top are afraid that they're going to be tortured by a bonzi buddy for all eternity
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I've been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender because why not and I'm losing my mind at Zuko's proper introduction. I don't know if it's hindsight, shifting characterizations, or just me not watching this in a long time, but this was amazing.
We start off showing he's an impatient and very angry kid. Reasonable, and the sort of flaw we might expect to see in a villain. Kinda funny that he expects to go up against an adult and fully 4-Element realized Avatar, but the kid is desperate and Iroh clearly expects his nephew to get the banishment-denial kicked out of him.
What's important here, though, is Zuko's introduction to the Southern Water Tribe.
Here, we have a very intimidating entrance where his entire ship just sails through the ice right up to the village's front door. It's quite ominous and this is our first proper introduction to how the Fire Nation interacts with a foreign people.
Sokka charges, I'm assuming fully prepared to die, and Zuko casually knocks him out of the way. Okay, so clearly the Water Tribe are entirely outgunned.
He asks "Where are you hiding him?" and the people of the Water Tribe go silent. I assume they're either just too scared to talk or actually protecting Aang.
Whatever the case, it's important to note that the Southern Water Tribe know the terror the Fire Nation can inflict. We have a whole episode dedicated to tracking down a division of raiders.
Sokka was able to not only identify the ash-mixed snow as signs of an incoming attack, but estimate how many ships the amount of ash measures to. These are a people who have experience being terrorized and are probably expecting something terrible to happen.
And then, after they don't answer, Zuko grabs Gran-Gran. There was a horror sting to it, and everything the tribe knows about the Fire Nation suggests that Zuko is about to threaten or straight up hurt her to get answers. Classic "terrorize the elderly" bad guy stuff.
And then...
He goes "He's (the Avatar) be about this age and is a master of all four elements!?" and lets her go.
And all of a sudden, the tension that was built up is shattered as Zuko went "I know, I'll give them a reference for the person I'm looking for because clearly they're confused and I wasn't specific enough."
This went from a show of villainy to a show of Zuko being totally socially awkward and misreading the situation entirely. Not helping is that when he does try to menace them a moment later, his fire is slow and angled quite safely.
It still worked on the Water Tribe because they're understandably scared, but all I could think of is that this was the equivalent of a playground bully trying to make someone flinch with that fake-out lunge thing.
Because the fact-and something we'll come to learn-is that Zuko is TERRIBLE at being a Fire Nation oppressor. He's capable of doing morally dubious things and is a competent fighter. But he's lousy at terrorizing people and cruelty-that's kind of the point of his banishment.
And while we can see the story paint this picture of Zuko's true character as the story goes on with hints of good and conflicting loyalties, here we get to see just how bad he is at being "the bad guys".
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Rory Blank
@BoneJail
People losing their jobs to ai is awful but I don’t think enough attention is being paid to the fact that some of the core proponents of it literally believe that one day a neopet will be so powerful it will be god and they need to build it or they’ll be sent to computer hell
Rory Blank
@BoneJail
Every time you read something about what Elon is doing, or read something about Peter Thiel and the "dark enlightenment" or whatever, it's important to remember that at the core, the people at the top are afraid that they're going to be tortured by a bonzi buddy for all eternity
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Overall this is pretty close, with a few surprises. Honestly there's just such a huge difference between what you want in a show or podcast vs what works in a normal long term game that it's a hard call for some of them.
Note that this is NOT about who you like to watch as entertainment, who you would want to have as a DM, who you'd like to meet the most, etc. Pick as if they're just some regular person you happen to know and you'll have to play through a campaign with them week after week.
Sorry if your favorite person isn't on here but there was exactly enough slots for all the people that have done three or more seasons. For anyone curious the ones that were on two seasons and therefore got left off are Mike Trapp, Lily Du, Ify Nwadiwe, Danielle Radford, and Carlos Luna. There are too many to list that were on just one.
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