dude i love bad yuri. you telling me there’s an element of violent psychosexual obsession? sign me da hell up

NOTHING! IT'S POWERED BY PURE MAGIC!

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"The Space Command is a product of mechanical engineering rather than electrical. By pressing a button on the remote, you set off a spring-loaded hammer that strikes a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency. Each button has a different length rod, thus a different high-frequency tone, which triggers a circuit connected to a microphone in the television to finish the command. " (https://boingboing.net/2023/08/03/the-magic-of-the-original-zenith-remote-control.html)

yeah it's great.

Traditional (1970s-2010s) IR remotes are flashlights Modern smart remotes are radios The Zenith Space Command is a glockenspiel

The fun thing about rice is that saying anything at all about how to cook rice will, with absolute 100% reliability, prompt someone to a. accuse you of being American, and b. confidently assert that only Americans do something which is in fact globally widespread. I once had someone tell me to my face that only Americans cook rice with butter.

Periodic Table of the Polycules, by u/aprilarcus on Reddit

i have to wonder every time i use the rain spell in Fields of Mistria... does the rain JUST cover my farm, or... does the whole town think some weird shit is goin on. and if so. are they mad @ me.

i asked the bartender to split a twenty into fives but she gave me five four dollar bills & when i asked where & how she got four dollar bills she said “i am completely insensitive to your curiosity”

explodes into a million tiny bits for enrichment

Hey so I slapped you pretty hard and then you smiled... is that normal for you?

the way i thought onceler meant “incel who has had sex once”

I wish more fantasy settings had the stuff discworld does. I don't mean the big themes, although I do wish more books had those too. I mean fantasy settings where there are newspapers, birth control, pizza, vibrators, crisps, unions, dog biscuits, fan clubs... just normal stuff that turns up when you have a lot of people in one place. A lot of fantasy seems to take the view that you won't have any of this stuff if you've got magic, but why wouldn't you? Some fantasy settings don't even have pencils. And what about toilet paper? Food that isn't enormous, elaborate feasts? Literacy rates? Pop culture? It feels like Ankh-Morpork in particular is just ticking over as usual when we're not looking and that it really does have a million people in it. And yet sometimes other fantasy just... doesn't bother with any of this stuff at all.

Yes, this! Ancient Rome had take out. Ancient Sumerians had complaint letters about folks who shorted them on substandard copper. People wrote stupid graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. There were children who doodled dogs in the edges of their books as far back as children had books. The monks illuminated manuscripts had cat paw prints where they got into the ink. People have been people for all of history and sure, there are grand sweeping empires, but inside the empires are little stories about the actor who messed up his line in Orestes.

Discworld Heritage Post

This kind of detail does so much to help a world feel real and large.

In real-world cities, there are fifty people on the bus with you. You pass hundreds of people on the sidewalk. You blow your nose, buy batteries, step around puddles, are late for work, check the mailbox, wiggle your door key a little to the left on humid days, decide whether today is cold enough for your winter coat, and so on. Real life has lots of people and lots of mundanity in it even when you are doing big important things. Even when you are living in big important times! And while stubbed toes aren't always part of interesting stories, a world that isn't large and real enough to hold stubbed toes is less interesting.

they should invent new gender affirming surgery to give me sharp teeth and venomous saliva. i think if i bite a girl hard enough she should lose motor function for like, 20 minutes minimum

estrogen is a ploy by big women to sell more women

everyone say thank you big women

thank you big women

you’re welcome

having lunch and someone's watching cnc videoes loud as fuck style so i'm just here chewing my food while there's sounds of water jetting and steel screeching in the back

Me reading "CNC": Consensual non-consent

Me reading "water jetting and steel screeching": oh so it's really niche consensual non-consent

what was your middle school/highschool lgbtqia+ identity. ill start i was a ftm asexual biromantic then gay agender tmasc. now im normal (<-lying)