博麗霊夢 hakurei_reimu

'social media sites are big forums': banning an account shouldn't hide it by default, and the duration of a ban should be public 'this account won't be posting for bit due to this spicy joke I can see' and 'this account suddenly vanished arbitrarily' are very different experiences

My last word on the matter

they're going to keep stripping names from him until he's referred to only by description but they'll still never let him see the inside of a courtroom

burning the commons for a tiny fraction of its value

do u ever think about space oomfie

guy who's furious the british don't say 'wiss'

we've mechanised dreams, and in so doing discovered that such halucinations aren't worth that much.

oh brilliant, just a couple of days after I finished redesigning the parkrun website

it's not surprising or irregular that the real unit price of a commodity has declined over time, particularly one where the costs are overwhelmingly R&D rather than unit manufacturing in an expanding market; conversely the insistence that this is a moral imperative is a little bizarre

I know this isn't what we're talking about but this specific shot makes him look like supermarionation

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

steelmanning steelmanning: "constructing the best possible opposing argument" is a completely normal exercise that you should want to be good at. you do need to have some justification for doing it. people with no or bad justification are probably disguising polemic as intellectual exercise

Lords of the Fallen (the first one)

the back half of apothecary S2 is very bad

to thank you for your constant support i would like to offer you this

please read this thread of fake ads for a magical private military company

When filling out the background of Phantasm Arm a thing I really enjoy is making up fake ads. The loose theme of the thread is 'reading through a magazine you might find in the setting.' This was the first introduction for most people:

confronting creative challenges (too many titles for not enough songs)

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

I shouldn't be surprised that ecofascists have no idea how machine shops work, since ecofascists don't work lol

i think something that has become extremely clear is that the way we communicate with and about each other online has gone way off the deep end. the degree to which folks claim moral superiority yet talk about others with absolute disdain and disregard is not a good indicator of where we are going.

Water is wet, fire is hot and private entities collating government IDs to hastily comply with age verification laws are bad, exhibit #9999.

招き感も猫感も薄いけど今日は招き猫の日だよ！

whenever this quote pops up I'm fascinated by the 'smart founder/scientist' construction, which means to imply deep knowledge while letting 'smart' filter out anyone without the speaker's naive enthusiasm and 'founder' smuggle in people with little actual technical expertise

Some good friends are in a tough situation and could use some help. This is the kind of hole that can be hard to get out of on your own, so please, if you have anything you can spare I'd appreciate it if you gave them your consideration.

'Gee, I can't wait to get into upper bilewater and explore that area!'

basically this, there's a lot of arguments about these that may or may be fine on their own terms but which assume a level of good faith that simply can't be granted until the sitting government and all plausible near-term successors are gone *any* change to bureaucracy is a threat vector right now

remember how politicians and journos just lied and lied and lied about trans healthcare and created the space for doubt by talking constantly about the need for clarity as if the science weren’t settled already

men: if you want a ‘traditional’ woman, do it yourself

Repeatedly saying "brits" here is the tell that would enable James Bond to spot that Starmer is actually a Russian spy, no Englishman talks like this

the immune system is understudied for two specific reasons: 1) our model animal is mus musculus, the mouse. rats are actually more similar: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... that one is a pure historical accident. the other one is that autoimmune diseases mostly impact women (1/n)

Like i know its horrible for so many reasons but the fact that it looks so bloody cheap is really sending me

Lau has been working on these stories combining vibes of 'Ace Combat, Sailor Moon and specifically MGS4' for a long while and they're really remarkable, I've never read anything quite like them. death, ambition and extremely hot people at 10,000 feet. also some very funny disasters

back after The Passenger's release Tom Whyman said bobby western sounded like 'a parody of a mccarthy protagonist name' and after realising the siblings are Alice and Bob I'm tempted to believe it was deliberate

holy

After long fallow period RECORD BREAKER was the first piece of complete, full length fiction I could actually post. There was a bit of irony in making an author's website then losing the drive to post writing, so this was a milestone. Love that it's 10k words of people moving in straight line lol

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

with all due credit to giger, haven't we had enough gigeresque horror? can't we have a oeuvre of beksiński inspired psycho/cosmic horror?

early silksong difficulty is pitched just right, sorry not sorry

it's true that life extension would introduce potential problems with wealth concentration, social stagnation, etc., I just don't think mass murder is an appropriate response to such concerns

it happened to me (made up a guy to get arch at)

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

8 years HRT

I am finding the fact that "is it acceptable and proportional to call for trans women to be assaulted in public" is now a subject of public debate in the UK really very upsetting.

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Hate to say it, but "will this candidate allow me to live with dignity" is an issue people can and should walk over. It's not a pet issue. It's a matter of survival.