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GraniteM

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  • [Need to know more intensifies]

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  • There was a young lady from Venus

    Equipped with the world's largest penis

    She met a Nausicaan

    Who was hung like a hoss'ican

    And said "Let's play Dom-jot between us!"

  • Consumerism

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  • Don't buy clothes to make yourself happy.

    Buy knives to make yourself happy! And then, if you're feeling unhappy, you can go out for a walk with your knife, and find a cool stick, and you can whittle it into a magic wand or a spoon if you want to get really creative, and then you'll feel happy.

  • All in the family: In 2026, a surge of politicians' kids are running for office

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  • We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of one's immediate family from running for office above a certain level. Spouses, children, and siblings are all right out. Exactly where the cutoff is is open to discussion, but presidents and members of congress should be forbidden from trading on their family name for elected office.

  • Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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  • Phil Spector produced some of the best music of the twentieth century, including one of a handful of bearable Christmas albums in existence. Also he's a fucking murderer. So... bit of a mixed bag, there.

  • Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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  • I kind of think that Lovecraft was doing about the least-worst thing he could with his absolutely massive trove of neuroses and phobias, which definitely included racism and xenophobia.

    He was convinced that the universe was chaotic and horrifying and that the only thing we could hold on to for stability was racial purity, and that's pretty fucked up, but he turned those feelings into spooky stories about interdimensional space monsters, which is certainly a lot better than writing political tracts or trying to convince everyone that the Armenians are actually to blame for all of our problems.

    Therapy would have been even better, but writing spooky stories was better than some of the very real alternatives that other people were exploring in the 19-teens and twenties.

  • Supreme Court suggests Trump might use Insurrection Act

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  • Why does "young" Brett already look like an alcoholic in his late fifties?

  • Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives

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  • "Liberal Activist Judge Poisons Local GOP Office"

  • Any RPGs that take into account when you reload a save? Or that break the 4th wall like this?

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  • Hades is a great example of this. You start out as the son of Hades, lord of the underworld. You want to escape his realm, so you try to fight your way out. Along the way, you will die and fail, and you just get sent back down to your father's house, and he gives you a bit of a hard time about how weak and ineffectual you are.

    The plot unfolds as you interact with various gods and other figures in the underworld, over the course of your many attempts. Saving and reloading isn't really a thing, as such, but the plot continues to unfold, even as you die over and over over and over.

    Edit:

    This is a great time for me to rave about how much I love the storytelling in Hades. In a book or in a totally linear game, the story looks like this:

    You start at the beginning, you proceed directly to the end. You have no choices in how the plot progresses. This is fine in a book, and I'm sure there are some games where it works okay, too.

    Most games with "choices" go like this:

    You might make a few choices, but a lot of them either end in a false ending or take you right back to the ending that the writers planned all along. It can give the illusion of meaningful choice, but it can also start to feel hollow once you see where the railroad tracks are.

    Hades works like this:

    All of the characters in the game (and there are a lot of them) have their own linear plot that is unfolding as you play the game, and you are learning about any one of them at any given time. You don't have many meaningful choices to make, but it still reads as a very compelling plot because all of your interactions deepen your relationship with each character in turn. It saves us all from the fake choices that a lot of games stick us with. It's genius.

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  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • Trump admin lawsuit aims to flood DC with AR-15 rifles for 'common use'

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  • xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

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  • Dog names

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  • I'm not actively looking for a Pug / Lhasa Apso mix, but if I ever adopt one I'm definitely going to name it Pablo Pugapso.

  • Believe it or not but the only being to have more temporal violations than Janeway was Pelia.

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  • Don't vex me Frank, or I'll vex your mouth so it won't hold soup!

  • Rosa Scrooge

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  • "You will be haunted," resumed the Ghost, "by three spirits."

    Scrooge's countenance fell, almost as low as the Ghost's had done.

    "Is that the chance and favor that you mentioned, Jacob?" he demanded in a faultering voice.

    "It is."

    "I—I think I'd rather not," said Scrooge.

    "Without their visits," said the Ghost, "you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls one."

    "Couldn't I take 'em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?" hinted Scrooge.

  • What popular belief do you disagree with?

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  • Cynicism isn't inherently more mature than believing that things can be made better. For a lot of people "everything is fucked, nothing matters" is a way of absolving themselves from the responsibility and personal risk involved in actively trying to make the world a better place.

  • Once a wise father said

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  • Goku was burning through a Type II Kardshev civilization's worth of energy. He was hongry. Flavor was definitely secondary.

  • A wish

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  • Pfft