Honking Big Garbage Pile

raul-volp2:

That Ghibli inspired 5e book that I saw some people commenting sparked a lot of thoughts in my mind, but most of it is how we are filled with books with a lot of surface level inspirations that dont make a full critical analysis of what they are referencing and end up being not even a good homage but fail to unuderstand their inspiration, like saying that they are a cozy game but fill the rules with stat blocks and loot. It also always coming back to this nature of ttrpg in general to use pre estabilished systems that most of the time dont work with the fiction they have in mind, because that system itself is created with another fiction in mind. But the first thing that comes to my mind is that those products dont strive to be engaging and fun, is just to generate profit quick using a system that is very marketable, a visual style that is generally adored and you can post how you reach your ks money in 10 seconds.
It is a pattern not uncommon not only in ttrpg but game in general, something is popular or becomes popular and there is a lot of copycat, but with the tabletop rpg scene tradition of using srds, specially the OGL because it’s tied to Dnd and it’s big popularity, we see more of it, or at least a version that I don’t want to call lazy, but focuesd on only generating buzz and sales on Kickstarter.

13:02 26 Jul 2023 || 595

lungthief:

lungthief:
after my fall out boy concert i told my mom that they played my second favorite fall out boy song of all time (headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet) and she asked what the song was called (it’s called headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet) so i immediately answered “headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet” and she turned to me and said “there’s no way that’s the name of the song” which gave me the incredible privilege of saying “alexa play ‘headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet’ by fall out boy” to which the alexa responded “NOW PLAYING ‘HEADFIRST SLIDE INTO COOPERSTOWN ON A BAD BET’ BY FALL OUT BOY” and my mother promptly walked out of the room
joined the ranks of oppa homeless style and homestuck cop for playing a song for my mother, more at 11

13:00 26 Jul 2023 || 3862

r-tawen:

lesbianmichelmishina:
sottopressione1:
Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989
“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”
part of kayapó’s speech during this event
also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:
It baffles me how this sort of “large dam project funded by some foreign entity, backed by tone-deaf government officials, opposed by indigenous peoples” seems to keep happening all over, and governments around the world don’t ever seem to learn anything from it.
In the Philippines we had Apo Macli-ing Dulag, who was one of the most prominent indigenous leaders opposing the construction of the Chico River Dam in the 1970s, under the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
He was eventually assassinated in his home by military forces in 1980.
As for his words (from the Martial Law Museum website):
In the aftermath of his death, the dam project was abandoned.
Also, the son of the dictator who had Macli-ing Dulag killed has recently maneuvered his way into getting elected president, which means stories like this are at risk of being erased and forgotten. The Marcoses aren’t strangers to historical revisionism, which they employ time and time again with their methods ranging from casual and consistent denial of their various crimes to large-scale use of propaganda machines and social media troll farms.
I worry sometimes that stories of indigenous resistance like that of Macli-ing Dulag will be erased in the process of whitewashing history for political gain, but then I see stories like that of Tuira Kayapó above floating around the internet.
It’s a nice reminder that- even if these stories don’t make it to the history books for whatever reason- there will always be another story out there that will resonate, where someone can see Kayapó and think “Hey, that reminds me of Dulag”, or maybe the water-protectors of Standing Rock, or whoever else might come to mind who stood up to protect indigenous land from encroachment.
If at some point we end up with nothing else, we will still have that unified, collective, resonant memory to remind us of the kinds of victories these powerful people would rather we strike from our history books. Through that, in one way among a multitude of defiances, we will never forget.

12:44 26 Jul 2023 || 28701

madame-helen:

12:08 26 Jul 2023 || 5537

tazmiilly:

me: does it always have to be that serious
the part of my brain that controls the imagery, symbolism, and themes department: yes

12:08 26 Jul 2023 || 30056

alphabetcompletionist:

alphabetcompletionist:
salsasodapop:
snaxle:
sentence-structurer:
snaxle:
punctuation-completionist:
snaxle:
snaxle:
i am not calling twitter fucking x
im deadnaming that shit
0/21
i feel like im in 5th grade being graded on a english grammar test all over again this is so fucked up
[pronoun] [verb] [adverb] [verb] [noun] [adverb] [letter]
[contraction ([pronoun] and [verb]) ] [verb] [determiner] [noun]
[number]/[number]
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you are doing some cocomelon shit to me
@alphabetcompletionist
nah i’m staying out of this
okay one of you is wrong

12:05 26 Jul 2023 || 43115

kettlequills:

oh so when BARBIE wants to stop being a doll and interact with the real world as a real person, it’s fine and fun and great, but when I, charles “chucky” lee ray,

10:52 26 Jul 2023 || 28888

gomi-chandesu:

ydrill:
I genuinely love all those comments on this video
Would like to formally apologize to the animation team behind the OG scooby doo. I thought this shit was just cheap animation, they really did just dance like that back then.

22:05 25 Jul 2023 || 159882