jasminea.decker

Isn't this basically how Assassin's Creed works?

say you're sent back in a time machine to a past time and place of your choosing, and you get sent back alive with all knowledge gained after a year passes or if you die. where/when do you go? (assume an alternate branch is created so no paradoxes, this is a one-off, you can record on video whatever you see)

interesting, so this is a knowledge gaining exercise, hmm!

the obvious answer would be going back to a time of some special historical significance to discover what really happened, but would that information actually be useful to anyone else? I guess if you could record video and people actually believed it, maybe?

one year isn't very long though! especially if you went back far enough that exact dates and times become a little murky in the historical record, you would probably miss what you were going to see and be left none the wiser as a result.

perhaps an alternative thought experiment would be if we had a timescope of some kind where the clarity emerged proportional to how far you look back, so you could see the dinosaurs clearly enough to sequence their DNA and everything, you could watch the Roman crucifixions in 4K high def, the renaissance would be like an old VHS tape, by the time you get to WWII it would be grainy black and white, and if you tried to scry what was happening somewhere right now you would get nothing but indecipherable swirling static.

would that insight into history change anything? we know so much now that we just disregard and ignore, would it even matter if we knew more? I mean it would be really fucking cool don't get me wrong, but I do think it's noteworthy how little the great cosmological insights of the 20th century actually changed anyone's attitude or approach to life.

Ranma 22/7

okay I'll bite, why is it half a Ranma

This is the first time I'm hearing about this and this is fuckin' crazy if true.

tbh the rat balls article confirms a lot of what i worry about these days which is that no one is actually reading anything. people are just mashing "ok" on things and don't actually care. there's no actual quality control because to turn things down for their quality means turning down money for a submission

It just occurred to me that a reasonably-common euphemism for penis is... "thing". Quite possibly the most semantically-bleached noun in the English language.

Hell yea great food they know IT

Marisa Kirisame

¿Pero que lleva en esa maleta?

What if a cow looked like a blueberry

Leftists like fanservice if and only if it is queer.

i love how since liking anime/fanservice/porn is now hip in chronically online leftist circles they're trying to memory hole that weird period between like 2011 and 2018 where they would screech constantly about how anime was problematic/gross/paedophila or whatever instead of just admitting they were full of shit

A combination of years of bluetooth adapter on my car radio, not watching TV and exclusively watching pirated media and youtube with both adblock and sponsor block has made me completely incapable of tolerating ads for five seconds, holy shit not having the bluetooth adapter switched over to the new car and trying to listen to the radio on the way home from work, commercials the entire drive, how do people do it I'd rather have silence

Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like