i consider making and spreading “i’m just a girl” “girl math” “girlfailure” content and rhetoric to be a form of misogynistic hate speech. like what else can you call repeatedly linking womanhood to failure and stupidity
Can you just call yourself a dumbass and be done with it
Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡
- In 2014, the developers at Monolith Productions created Shadow of Mordor, a Tolkien game, where you played as a random ranger (the guys Aragorn ran with for a while) who gains the power to revive from death by Celebrimbor.
- The game featured a brilliant game mechanic called the Nemesis system. If an orc killed you, not only would that orc remember you, they’d be promoted within Sauron’s army gaining new abilities and commanding their own squads. If you defeated an orc but failed to kill him, that orc would remember you and seek personal revenge. Some promoted orcs would gain rivalries with others and infighting could occur.
- Shadow of Mordor became famous for the Nemesis system, as players saw the rest of the action game as a distraction from the real game: operating from the shadows to build the career of their favorite orc nemesis and create a true archenemy to have a proper showdown with. Sabotaging other orcs, purposely dying to their nemesis to hone the ultimate enemy, etc.
- Shadow of Mordor was a resounding success. Monolith returned 3 years later with Shadow of War, featuring an even more complex Nemesis system that allowed players to recruit and train their own orc army and even send them to infiltrate Sauron’s orc army. Enemy orcs with experience vs the player also start learning the player’s habits and attempt to counter them in battle.
- Shadow of War wasn’t received as well as Mordor, but the improved Nemesis system carried the game. At the time, many were convinced the Nemesis system would be a major step forward for enemy AI in games when more developers would learn how to replicate it.
- That doesn’t happen, because parent company Warner Bros filed a patent for the Nemesis system in 2016, two years after Mordor, and was granted the patent in 2021, making it legally risky for other game developers to attempt to create their own Nemesis system equivalent.
one of my top ten french behaviors is that i find it deeply jarring to see croissants (as a whole) be considered as “pastries”. a Pastry is an éclair or perhaps a millefeuille or lemon tart or macaron. it is colorful and sugary and generally dainty (not always) or indulgent (not always). croissants (including chocolate/almond croissants) are Not! Pastries. but carmine, you cry! what are they then? VIENNOISERIES. like wien. you know. the city. we stole them from the austrians like a william years ago. no yeah no it Is a stupid name. still not a Pastry however,
the humble Croissant will sate you in a pleasant but ultimately useful way. it is an Efficient and Unexpensive helpmate for hungry children after school and lovers who want to treat their beloved to a breakfast deserving of the name after a beautiful night and tired grownups who want to find a Reliable and Unexpensive reason not to Kill Themselves and get them through the day.
the frivolous Pastry will be bought and consumed by Relatively Moneyed Workers on their Company-Subsidized Lunch Break, Families who visit their In-Laws on Sundays, and Lovers wishing to Court their Beloved in an Ambitious and Elegant Manner,
still amazes me that by season 45 or whatever, Supernatural was being exclusively watched by delusionally hopeful women with flamingo-salinity tolerance for bad writing and the creators still couldn’t pander to them because maybe there was 1 straight guy out there still accidentally watching it
It’s been long enough for me to reveal the incredibly funny thing about this post, which was I was trying to think of a way to launder a cool flamingo fact into something I thought Tumblr would re-blog. i don’t care about the show. at all.
I’ve actually been thinking about drawing my own sign forever (since I’m a regular protest goer) but I feel like countryhumans in public would get me stoned.
There was a Venezuelan flag that said Adiós Amigo one time btw
hdsh fair also HAVE YOU SEEN THE STOJANE JEL BLOKIRAS ONE IT KILLED ME
I THINK I HAVE have you seen that the guy that goes like DRAGANEEEEE NE RADIŠ ŠTA SAM TI REKAO was at a blockade
@dekulakization protest sign post reminded me of this its so you and your countryhumans coded
YAYYYY TRUEEEEEEEEEEEE
Lore drop I know the guy who’s partially responsible for the diplomatic ties between DPRK and Serbia 😋 North Korean pin drop!
NO FUCKING WAY YOU LUCKY BASTARD THAT IS SO COOL OMG OMG
Dude when you come to Serbia boot up kupujem prodajem…peak website the DPRK ones came in a bundle that my friend got me for 200 din and there was like five bajillion pins inside. Almost all of the Soviet ones (that’s the first picture) are from the SAME bag
Just spent over an hour on a customer support line talking to half a dozen different people across five separate transfers, and the final resolution was that they were unable to help me because at some point in that process I’d somehow been transferred to their Australian branch. I didn’t even know they had an Australian branch.
I wonder if they just transfer everyone they don’t want to deal with to Australia.
it’s time to create a fake distinction between squashed and squished where one of them is along a horizontal plane and one of them is along a vertical one and seeing how far i can take it
squished is the vertical one. and a helpful mnemonic is that i is a very narrow letter. because it got squished
This post legitimately knocked me out of a doomscroll. Had to put down my phone and everything and stare at a wall.
I really do regret my inaction the most. Every time. All of my future problems are always caused by things I failed to do in the present. And every time, I get so mad at past Me for not even trying because I’m so afraid to fail.
Like. Damn. Didn’t expect pixel art of some planets to hit me so hard.
Like. Damn. Didn’t expect
pixel art of some planets
to hit me so hard.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Lore-unfriendly companion who forcibly exits the menu screen to complain that they’re bored if you spend more than five seconds reading an item description.
Lore-unfriendly companion who puts a real-time limit on NPC dialogue trees because if you try to explore every branch they’ll wander off and accidentally cause some sort of incident. No other character is able to act in real time during dialogue in this fashion.
Lore-unfriendly companion whose presence in your party prevents you from ever finding out what the game’s plot is about because the principal villain hates them so much they skip their monologue and fight on sight. What happened between them is never explained.
Lore-unfriendly companion who accidentally shoots the tutorial fairy while fiddling with their gun.
Lore-unfriendly companion that will constantly go “who the fuck is that guy?” to the DLC exclusive team mate
>be me >have anxiety disorder >first day of biology class >“break into groups” >fuck my stupid baka life >he gives us a paper with a list of terms on it >“everyone pick one to research and we’ll talk abt it thursday (casual) (dont get scared)” >gets scared >see one that looks cool >someone else takes it >see another that looks cool >someone else takes it >most of the rest of the terms are latin scientific names >dont know what they mean >choose least threatening one (it looked familiar) >professor asks which we chose >i say mine >he asks if i know what it means >immediately i think its something bad bc why else would he ask if i knew what it was (he had also asked other ppl who chose scientific terms. btw) >“i think so?” >class over >leave >making up worst possible scenarios in my head >what if its something embarrassing. like what if its an std. and i have to talk abt it in front of the class. what if its like. pseudoscience that my professor believes in for some reason. and ive trapped myself into sharing pseudoscience even though im ideologically opposed to it. what if >finish walking to library >sit down >pull out phone >hands shaking >google mus musculus >House mice.
Let us discuss house mice and how cool they are
Love those little guys. Will never forget that house mouse I found crawling up the outside wall of my middle school. We were 3 floors up and there were no other open windows bellow
MAN 1 (in a high pitched, whiny voice) Look what you’ve done to my peonies!
WOMAN (angrily) They’re marigolds!
MAN 2 God! I think she’s right! They are marigolds!
MAN 1 I may not know my flowers, but I know a (yells in her direction) bitch when I see one!
It’s back!
I looked this up because I had to know what it’s from. It’s a film called The Gay Deceivers (1969), and it’s about two straight men who, seeking to avoid the draft, claim to be gay, but then have to keep up the pretense when the army places them under surveillance.
The man in the red cardigan in the clip was played by Michael Greer, who was openly gay himself - unusual for the time. He actually worked closely with the director and rewrote much of the film’s dialogue to reduce the homophobia and make it more realistic. As a result it’s quite progressive for its time, having a gay character, played by a gay man, living in a happy same-sex relationship, which is more than a lot of media offers us today.
all demographics and time periods and geography taken fully into consideration, some people were just born to lose
was thinking of this guy when i made this post. invented the two most environmentally damaging chemicals in history and then got polio and immediately killed himself with a contraption
“one-man environmental disaster”
they called that man an organism
as bad as your worst day has ever been, do you have a wikipedia article saying you “possess an instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny”
The Internet: hello naughty children it’s Discourse time
character: *is actually 100% evil*
The Internet: defense squad uwu
character: *is actually, truly, for once 100% good*
The Internet: um actually in issue 9374 page 297 line 2 they said something that the villain also said way back in issue 27, so sorry sweaty but they’re actually a bad guy
I have a lot of gripes with the admin culture of discord users but easily the worst thing is the proliferation of channels. You do not need that many channels. You are 100 people. Entire IRC networks have fewer channels than this. Show some restraint.
You, discord admin. Every day, find the channel that hasn’t been used for the longest time, kick everyone in it, hide it, and keep doing this until someone notices. Congratulations.
I have a limited number of channels and the discord has responded by creating an endless twisted network of threads
They have a thread dedicated to keeping track of the threads
they truly crave a forum don’t they
We used to have it all
it’s so weird because forum backends like phpBB are still right there to be used, if people would pull their fingers out and write better anti spam plugins for them - like the same forum software we were merrily using 14 years ago is available to us so easily still
i cant stress enough that forums DO exist if you know where to look, and if they dont exist for what you want go make them!