Well now I’m curious what other things you’d like to see Mecha games explore.
What, exactly, is being “explored” by being a BattleTech Heartbreaker?
Mekton Zeta lets you build a planet sized living mecha that can transform into a sexy anime waifu. Or an attack helicopter.
Can any Critrole bloggers help me find an old Geek and Sundry video? It features Taliesin and Travis playing a game with two other people.
At some point during the game, Travis says that he once went to a Renaissance Fair with Tal and upon seeing him, a very busty woman cried out "LORD TALIESIN!" and immediately started kissing him. Tal looks mildly embarrassed that Travis is airing this out.
Please help me, I need it for science
WGA's asking people interested in all the tree law fun to also sign this petition about a god damned bitch of an unsatisfactory situation on another street on the Same FUCKING lot. NBC Universal (whose CEO is Mike Cavanagh just btw in case Ron Pearlman is listening) has started a construction project that completely removed the sidewalks from five different gates, in two cases forcing pedestrians to literally walk into oncoming traffic. In addition to being an ADA violation, it's just flat out despicably evil of them and WGA's asking for public support on this issue.
Can you link where you saw the WGA asking people to sign this?
Fair question! Sure thing! Legit great instinct to make sure! Here's the tweet I got it from:
ALTIt's both described and linked so that you can be sure it's the real deal, and if you click through you can see it's in response to Kenneth Mejia's tweet about investigating Universal for the Tree Law stuff, hence the specific connection I cite at the start of the post
This is true I think, everyone just has very normal and even-minded thoughts and opinions about transfeminine sexuality
No honestly I think it's REALLY important that people see this. Literally the exact same post, sans trans people, and it didn't get flagged.
hey remember how tumblr *just* had to settle with NYC’s human rights commission for discriminating against LGBTQ people in your implementation of the NSFW ban? We do.
Hey @staff. This is a perfect example of why collapsed reblogs is such a bad idea. Seeing the full thread, you go like this:
😮 ooh, that's cool
😀 "they're free," hehe!
🤣 "16 cents," perfection!!
I have achieved joy, I feel positive feelings toward Tumblr, I want to engage, I want to stay, my eyeballs land on more ads, you make more money, everyone wins! 🎉
Seeing the collapsed thread, you go like this:
😮 ooh, that's cool
😐 "16 cents"? yes, that's literally what the pic shows, not sure why you felt the need to say that
There is no motivation for me to uncollapse the reblog chain—it looks like a boring conversation about the denominations of coins. And even if I do uncollapse it, you've ruined the joke by showing me the punchline before the setup. I am sad, Tumblr is boring, I go elsewhere to entertain myself, I see less ads, you make less money, everyone loses. 😥
Reblog chains are the best thing about Tumblr. They are your unique super power. They are the thing that makes people screenshot Tumblr and share it around. Why on earth would you kneecap them??
I don't know exactly how you plan to implement this. Give people the option to keep them collapsed if there truly are people who are annoyed by how long they can get (you already have a version of this feature), but don't collapse them for everyone or new users by default. Please. It will make Tumblr so much more boring.
they can't do a best world flag bracket because Bhutan would destroy every other country and it would be too embarrassing
look at that shit it's got a dragon on it nobody could beat that
wales
my dragon could beat the shit out of your dragon
my dragon literally has orbs :/
BUT WHAT IF THEY LOVE EACH OTHER HUH
[IMAGE ID: an ms paint drawing of the Bhutan flag dragon giving a kiss to the wales flag dragon on the snoot END ID]
@becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys I feel like this might interest you :3
(insert "there you go again pitting two bad bitches against each other for no reason" meme)
Mozambique has an AK 47 on it.
meanwhile homes have gone from “something you can mortgage for a few months salary” to “an unascertainable dream out of reach of most people”
whetstonefires asked:
hey hey hey brawl. write the spiderman fic where anti-mutant bigots think jj is one of them because of how he is about spider-man and he experiences no personal insight whatsoever in reaction to this but is so offended he dedicates the front cover of the Bugle to spotlighting the X-Men for like three days straight and peter is keysmash feelings. do iiiiit i want to read.
brawltogethernow answered:
Because you sent this more than a month after you pitched it, I was briefly like, “This sounds so familiar. I didn’t propose this…right…?;;” Anyway I finally assembled myself, here you go.<3
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The Daily Bugle didn’t take walk-ins.
Three men knocked on J. Jonah Jameson’s office door. One was young and tall and pale. One was middle-aged, short, and approximately dumpling-shaped. The third had a waxed, curly mustache, which completely distracted from all his other features.
JJJ himself threw open the door and glowered at them. “Who the hell are you people supposed to be?” he barked.
The short one crinkled his eyes up in a winning grin. “We hate people like Spider-Man.”
The Daily Bugle didn’t take walk-ins…theoretically.
Jonah’s forbidding countenance melted at once into perfect amicability. “Well, why didn’t you say so? Come in, friends!”
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Peter sidled into the Bugle bullpen. He did not strictly work there right then, but no one ever revoked his keycard.
He wove his way to Betty Brant’s desk and stole the remains of her bagel off her plate. “What’s the news, beautiful?”
Betty predicted her old ex’s carb crimes and waved a hand around to intercept him, but missed completely because her gaze was fixed on her boss’s office door, her eyes alight as she worried the end of her pen distractedly between her teeth.
“Jonah’s with some guys,” she said. “I’m pretty sure they’re HAM.”
“Jonah’s finally getting better deli meat for the breakroom?” Why did that sound familiar?
Betty gestured abstractly with the pen. “Not ham, like meat. HAM, like meatheads. It’s one of those armchair extremist movements Twitter keeps pretending they don’t know how to ban.”
“That narrows it down.”
“It’s short for… Rats. Something militia?”
Peter twitched abortively for the door.
Betty reached over and smacked his arm without taking her eyes off Jonah’s office. “Honestly, Peter,” she said, “you haven’t changed since we were teenagers. It’s not a real militia. Don’t go anywhere.”
He would sense it if they were armed, right? Right?
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Jonah stuck a cigar in his mouth. He chewed it. He was trying to quit.
“–so nice to see a man in your position who cares about the important things,” the short one was saying. He seemed to be the main mouthpiece.
Jonah’s mustache quivered pleasantly.
“About upholding accountability for people dragging down our community.”
“Yeah, yeah,” agreed Jonah, succumbing to autopilot and lighting a preemptive celebratory cigar.
“People who don’t know what ‘neighborhood’ means.”
“EXACTLY,” exclaimed Jonah, smacking his hand on his desk.
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Blazing Saddles [1974]
Goddddddddddddd Cleavon Little was cute. Fuckin’ hell look at him.
i love watching wilder’s eyes in this scene - he’s watching every fucking muscle twitch, every micro-expression. he isn’t gonna drop that “morons” until he KNOWS he’s got him.
my god, they were both so good.
“you know… morons” was not in the script. All the points to Gene Wilder for getting Cleavon Little to corpse that hard on camera. Also props to Mel Brooks for leaving that take in the movie.
Blazing Saddles is what happened when Mel Brooks (Jewish WW2 vet) and Richard Pryor (Black man who grew up in shittiest conditions possible) got in a room, decided to throw their collective fucks out a window and see how many groups they could piss off in two hours.
This.
All true, but there’s something else worth talking about:
Brooks and Pryor knew EXACTLY how far to go, and where to stop. Brooks has talked about this–he would happily show a Black man escaping the noose, but not one being lynched.
There are important limits to this sort of comedy, a delicate balancing act of how to strike for maximum effect but not to punch down. And a lot of people who are saying “you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” don’t get that.
extremely good video on this exact subject
“So . . . is this Ekaterin another passing fancy?" The Count hesitated, his eyes crinkling. "Or is she the one who will love my son forever and fiercely—hold his household and estates with integrity—stand beside him through danger, and dearth, and death—and guide my grandchildren's hands when they light my funeral offering?"
Miles paused in momentary admiration of his father's ability to deliver lines like that. It put him in mind of the way a combat drop shuttle delivered pinpoint incendiaries. "That would be . . . that would be Column B, sir. All of the above." He swallowed. "I hope. If I don't fumble it again.”
Aral!
(And yes I just skipped reposting ALL of the Honour v Reputation speech just for this bit. The grandchild hunger. Aral has it)
Aral Vorkosigan uses words the way that snipers use bullets.
Excellent Point
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“Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now.
Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?
We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologised for before the next bad idea comes down the pike.
OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality.
All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end user eat the cost.
I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made.
I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.”
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Oh my god Wisconsin's governor just used a line item veto to secure school funding increases every year through 2425. He struck out a line so it now reads "through the 2023-2425 school year". He's allowed to do this lol
Coastal Dems: now we can't go too far now haha, we can't. We've got to be reasonable, you know, also eight of us might defect to the Republicans if you're mean to us
Midwest Dems in control of no legislative bodies:
If this is true, this is the worst fucking precedent of all time. Imagine what the fucking GOP could do with this shit if they get the Wisconsin governorship.
Imagine sponsoring a bill to secure marriage rights for LGBTQ+ people and finding out that they used this sort of strategy so it now reads, “The rights of gay and lesbian people to marry shall not be infringed.”
This has to be struck down. There’s no other choice.
