DM ME FOR BUG TALES
As much as I enjoyed the spiderverse movies in spite of being burned out on the marvel slop otherwise, I kept getting this weird nausea when they showed all the multiverse Spidermans because I was like “this is the hollowing out of a character into a costume, an interchangeable brand that can be anybody as long as it connects itself to The Property”
I get apprehensive around wasps too but it’s very funny to me how much hatred and distrust these animals are met with because they are able to force you to treat them with a little respect
I think too often “magic” ends up existing in that sort of story as just alternate technology. It can make the dichotomy between them seem like little more than an aesthetic difference, and it’s especially obvious when the magic is highly systematized. A wizard who threatens to shoot fire from his hands, who is loaded up on his mana resource and has great aim with his hand-blasts, seems to me like little more than a person with a fancy gun.
There are some examples of “system” magic that still feels distinct though, like in Earthsea or Discworld, where magic is a tool that interacts with the world like technology, but cannot be manipulated without something special that is difficult to exploit. Discworld’s magic is basically 40k orks, magic that stems from collective belief, which is hard to manufacture inorganically. Earthsea’s magic comes from understanding things deeply, being able to capture the essence of things in a word and then being able to manipulate it. The “magic” ends up being the same hard-to-define relationship between the world and the words we use to break it into pieces. In a way, it’s like technology’s shadow, the same drive to control and understand but in the opposite direction.
Going from 256 triangles to 1024 triangles per model is a big deal that you can immediately see
Going from 10 million triangles to 100 million or whatever is very subtle and nobody notices
oh shit I brought it upon myself
hits blunt It’s about categories man, it’s ontological bro
Are two people who are comfortable with touch but who don’t fuck never going to have full 100 percent closeness with each other? Is sex actually sex without an orgasm? At what amount of friction does it become sex?
Seems like sex isn’t just sex, sex is instead what I’m not having
Daily provider of minimum one (1) cool bug that I found outside
Sorry but this sucks, Haz sucks, it’s stupid, you can detect the same edgelord excitement in his plan as the 14 year old who writes essays for school about torturing and killing Barney but in doing so reveals that he is still very emotionally invested in Barney
I would simply invent and deploy a new type of professional mingler who would go around striking up convos with people leaving marvel movies, prompt them to describe the movie, and adopt that bullying affect of “oh yeah? sounds sick dude, (snickering) 3 hours long huh?”
(streaming services are the problem here, capitalist alienation strikes again)
Someone in another thread said something like “isn’t he the guy who blew up his mom” and I have been laughing at that phrase for days
When the topic isn’t politics he’s fine, not to be a armchair psychologist but I think he brings this stuff up as often as he does because he wants to be proven wrong but is too proud to just ask
every day I tremble at the thought of the local “wearing white t shirts with poop smeared on them” party spreading their dangerous ideology
Look that type of terror is unavoidable, it isn’t the same as believing every village idiot is going to band together to overthrow democracy
(This guy also LOVES Eric Hoffer and quotes True Believers at me a lot I hate it)
Here I am trying to enjoy laughing at sovereign citizen videos with my good chums and the liberal has to start claiming it isn’t funny because he thinks these people represent some kind of unified ideology of people who are dangerous
Liberals are ritualistically terrifying themselves every day, it is not healthy
Shit u right (I was not down with the bizkit)
Matt Christman high pitch cackling at the realization that Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff” music video was filmed on top of the twin towers and aired on Sept. 10th 2001
It’s usually justified to make fun of STEMlords but scientists with highly specific skills are still a vital part of our societal whole (I choose to believe this for my own sake)
I warned you about wet roots dawg, I told you bro
Would this work with a gaming pc