A good old post-apocalypse is always fun and interesting, but we’re sleeping on post-post-apocalypse way more than we should be and I find that disappointing
The world as we know it, gone, destroyed, wiped away. But we endured all the same, and from the rubble and ashes new civilisations form, new flora and fauna evolve, life is made anew. A world forever changed, the slate wiped clean, the horrors eased. Now it’s time to see what the world will do when it has the chance to reform
You know when you’re in a medieval setting with it’s whimsical magic system, multiple species and whatnot? And one time the protagonists go and find this magic golem or ancient artifact or super powerful spell and you go wait a minute that’s not a golem, that’s a robot, and that’s not an ancient artifact, it’s a computer, and that’s not a spell, that an ATOMIC BOMB.
It dawns on you that this is not the past, it’s the future.
And there’s a muted horror about it, knowing that in that story all of mankind’s achievements and history are erased and none of our descendants recognize it for what it is, makes you realize nothing is eternal, all is ephemeral and will be slowly be buried by time.
So anyway post-post-apocalyptic world is where it’s at, wizard with machine gun go brrr.
This pretty much nails the fundamental premise of Horizon Zero Dawn. You get dropped in this weird schizo-tech primitive future world and you, as Aloy, find out a metric shitload about what actually happened to make the world the way it was.
(No dw there are no nukes in HZD, but a lot of the other contextual reframing talked about here does definitely apply)
Reading all the HZD found texts, listening to the ancient recordings you encounter is just, wow. So much world building. It’s a technological horror story. Most of it left to your imagination.
My god, what the Ancients endured in their final hours. It is tragic and horrifying. There were moments when I had to put the controller down and pause to think about what I’d just heard.
I was in a shop where someone was clearly watching the two towers in the background and I recognised it by sound alone after 2 seconds which makes me sound insane to an average person. and I could actually explain it very easily but of course trying to explain it with “well I only recognised it so fast because this specific version of the lorien theme only plays during the battle at helm’s deep” does nothing to make me sound less insane
Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.
this reply is killing me
Our bodies adapted the same response to disease that Japanese honeybees use against Japaneae giant hornets: Biologically cook it to death.
The problem is that our bodies aren’t well designed for this, while the bees are, and instead we just cook ourselves instead.
What I’m saying is that colonies of bees are smarter than our biology. Yet another strike against creationism and intelligent design. If any god designed a perfect creature, it was a Japanese bee god. We’re just pale imitations.
Confirmed: Our white blood cells are just worse honeybees. Thanks, science side of tumblr!
I’m so glad that things like survivorship bias and statistical outliers became memes I wish more critical thinking skills would become widely-understood this way, I’m not kidding let’s get on this
”Turtles are showing up full of straws” “Nobody was trans when I was your age” “Why does everyone have allergies now” “Our ancestors survived without vaccines” “My grandma never had an income or driver’s license and THEY were married for decades” “I’m saving the rest of my medication for later cause I feel better now”
Look at the plane until you understand
My momma used to tell us not to fear the noises we heard in the woods at night because if something designed to kill us wanted to kill us then we wouldn’t hear it coming and at the time it was horrifying and unsettling but now I wish we all had heard that at least once growing up
Someone wanna provide context for the non-SDV people?
Saw this in the notes and figured I’d step in!
So, for non-SDV players, in most farming sims you can get married to certain characters and have children with them, however this is typically a permanent choice that can’t be undone, so if you want to marry someone else or not have kids you would have to start over with a fresh save.
But SDV is different. The game has a witch’s hut you can eventually unlock that lets you use…black magic, basically, to soft-reset marriage/children choices without starting over. There’s a divorce option so you can ditch your spouse, but that’s the only normal one. It also adds an option to turn your children into doves to get rid of them, hence OP saying they “birded” their kids. You’re not…technically killing them…but only barely.
(It also adds an option to mind-wipe your previous spouse so they don’t remember being married to you and thus don’t hate you, and you can even remarry them then if you want, but I don’t think that was needed for this, just figured it was sinister enough to warrant a mention.)
All that to say, the reddit OP married a character, progressed to the point that they had a child with them, and then used black magic to “kill” the child and divorce their spouse before moving on to the next marriage candidate and doing the same, over and over until they had gone through all twelve marriage candidates, resulting in a collection of twelve “dead” children.
Which, I must agree, is some uniquely unhinged behavior indeed.
Which, I must agree,
is some uniquely unhinged
behavior indeed.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Okay, but who is joja
Joja is essentially Walmart. You can either try to revitalize the town by going the community route and help local businesses and people thrive or you can sell the town to Jojacorp who will put the locals out of business and sell you way cheaper and shittier stuff
“I may use black magic to be a serial child murderer, but at least I’m not a capitalist”
THE WIGGLES JUST RELEASED A SONG CALLED “WE’RE FRIENDS OF DOROTHY”??????
okayyyyyyy
For context:
When the Wiggles first started touring the US, there was one question they were asked again and again. “People were coming up and saying, ‘Oh, so you’re friends of Dorothy?’” veteran Wiggle Anthony Field says. “I didn’t even know the other meaning – I went, ‘Yeah, we are!’” Field (the OG blue Wiggle) thought Americans were referring to Dorothy, the affable green and yellow dinosaur and longtime fixture of the Wiggles’ songs and live shows. They were, of course, really making a sly reference to the queer code slang term for a gay man. But when Field eventually figured this out, it gave him an idea for a song. On Friday, when Australia’s best-known children’s entertainers release their 63rd album (yes, really), audiences will finally get to hear Friends of Dorothy. It’s a collaboration with Orville Peck, the modern country songwriter known for his face masks, cowboy hats – and being an out-and-proud gay man. The Wiggles nervously took the idea for Friends of Dorothy to Peck on Zoom. To their delight, Peck, who has a young nephew who loves the band, jumped at the chance. “Orville was so happy to do it,” Field says. “And he’s a friend of Dorothy’s as well!” (x)
Dolly Parton is also on the album doing a collaboration as well :)
Twitter made the Jewish lady that posted this delete it for “threatening violence.”
Her followers spent the rest of the day tweeting this. Trolls couldn’t keep up.
Coming from someone who studies the Holocaust and the history surrounding it, It is important to remember that Nazis were human, not monsters.
It’s important because if we dehumanize them we create a level of separation between us and them. It’s important because if we create that level of removal, we start ignoring the subtle signs of antisemitism because “Oh, well they’re just a normal human, not a monster, i’m sure it’ll be alright.” It’s important because when we create that level of removal, they come back in waves. It’s important because when you create that level of separation, you get the problems that we have now.
There is a very simple set of brain equations involved when we dehumanize the enemy, and it goes something like this:
“Nazis are monsters” “I would not be friends with a monster”
The CORRECT conclusion is “I cannot be friends with Nazis”
BUT PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING THE COROLLARY “None of my friends are Nazis” “…even that one guy who keeps posting ‘ironic’ Pepe memes, who never really grew out of his 4Chan /pol/ phase, and who keeps trying to have really intense conversations with me about ‘globalists’. But he’s my friend! I’ve known him forever! He doesn’t REALLY believe any of that stuff. He’s just kind of an asshole, and we love him anyway.”
This is a very bad corollary. It is an extraordinarily dangerous corollary. When we sincerely believe that we would not be friends with bad people, we ignore the signs that our friends are bad people.
(Friendly note: you can replace “Nazi” above with “sexual predator” or “racist” or “abuser”. Same hat, pretty much. There are very real reasons not to dehumanize the enemy, and they have nothing to do with the enemy’s right to humanity, and everything to do with the enemy’s ability to sneak past our lines wearing a nice-person mask.)
I’m reblogging this to my main blog because it is extremely fucking important.
doing anything with technology these days is an unending cycle of going no i do not want to use AI. im not interested in setting up copilot. I do not want help building my site. I would like my autocorrect to make sense again. I do not want AI generated search suggestions. no. nope. still not. die
I thought you were the coolest trans artist boy dyke ever but I just learned you do not like grits. heartbreaking. I will find it in me to overcome this but I must first embark on a grand journey of self discovery.
(jingles away sadly in my jester's outfit. You see on my back a sign. My life thus far has been sponsored by Big Grits)
The funniest hyperfixations have gotta be the ones where you watch something and go “this thing is cute. I like it. not sure if Id call it a favorite of mine but its definitely enjoyable at least” and then cut to a month later and its completely overtaken your life
