The Kurosawa classic "Seven Samurai" is three and a half hours long. This rate of 2 Samurai per hour(2S/hr) could only be challenged by Kenji Mizoguchi's 47 Ronin (12.65 Ronin per an Hour[R/hr]).
Unfortunately, film science is still unable to decide the objectively better film. As any attempt at establishing a stable exchange rate of Ronin to Samurai inevitably dissolves into honor duels.
Fool. You cannot duel a ronin with honor, for they have none. A samurai kills a ronin like a farmer kills a rabid beast, with mercy and disgust that would not be reciprocated by such a base creature.
New guy unlocked: blorpy
A character is your blorpy if they are
-incredibly likeable, funny, or otherwise a showstopper. A blorpy does not need to be nice or good, but must above all else be someone you want to see more of.
-Newly introduced but feels familiar. A comforting and grounding presence to the fandom. The one guy everyone can agree on.
-Most importantly, a blorpy is not allowed to be happy or receive nice things. His role is to be loved and then be removed, be it through death or constant suffering with no permitted relief. Ideally, he is killed suddenly and with great drama and feeling, or is otherwise exiled from play.
Notable blorpies in history:
-Ophelia
-Prometheus
-The Communist Manifesto
-Tim Stoker
-Oi Mobbu
estradiolivia asked:
hey what do you think about the Mansus from Cultist Simulator?
is it a real concept in occultism or just game bs?
cryptotheism answered:
It’s straight up the astral plane. Like it’s the contemporary occult concept of the astral plane with very few embellishments. Even the ways you access it in game are not that far off from occult practices that I myself have used. Stop sleeping long enough and you see shit.
CultSim and the upcoming Book of Hours both rely heavily on actual real-world European occult history and texts to base its writings
Medieval monk who just wrote the first Beastiary: "So you know how there's beasts? Well check this out-"
Medieval abbot who is checking the medieval monk who just wrote the first Beastiary’s illumination: “Brother Thomas I cannot help but notice that you have a lot of very large snails in here doing things like jousting with knights. Can you explain?”
You can be a Christian and a witch it's not even that hard. If witchcraft is a sin then what did Jesus die for?
There has always been witchcraft in the history of Christianity. The dogmatic term is “prophets” and “miracles” rather than “witches” and “spells”.
i just remembered when i was in high school one of the dudes in my class got pulled up for writing potato and spelling it funny on an exam desk alongside his name, because the new Irish teacher thought he was being racist towards her, but it turned out he’d written that like three years prior to her even teaching at our school. i remember at the time we all thought she was joking, but like, she actually started to look like she was going to start crying, and it was like, surreal. also the student was chinese and she was white. so like. extreme surreal moment
hi parakeet speaking adjacent to irish americans (irish traveller/romani) she was actually pretty entirely justified in that fear and anxiety especially depending on her age and her family history. irish have a history of being literally oppressed be it from brits or from americans. Its a matter if xenophobia rather than racism but just because someone is white or white passing doesnt mean they have no grounds or history to genuinely experience similar things
Mutuals can summon me but frankly my combat utility is d tier at best and my voice lines are forgettable.
Mutuals can summon me but frankly even though my drop rates are SSS+ Special Banner, I only get used and have fans because my art has me completely naked and showing full dick and balls and all my combat sounds are loud moans
Knight who seeks to get injured in combat so she can be tenderly held by her Lady but she keeps absolutely killing it out there and she's too honorable to throw a fight
Anonymous asked:
Hey I saw your response to a different anon about tarot and I just wanted to say that many many many Romani who actually grew up with the traditions agree that white people shouldn't be using tarot. The history of tarot was indeed started as playing cards but Roma are the only ones who divined from it. There is still much descrimination today for doing traditional practices and seeing white girls living their dream doing tarot is extremely disrespectful. Seeing you call it racist for someone to call out CA was absolutely revolting. Please do not spread the hateful misinformation you are. Please listen to real Roma
normal-horoscopes answered:
Alright, I’m breaking character for this one because it involves me personally.
Again, as far as I know, saying tarot is endemic to romani culture is akin to saying moneylending is endemic to jewish culture.
As far as I am aware, the roma are not the only people to divine with tarot cards, and they did not invent the practice.
And again, the author of this blog is ethnically Romani. Although I am fairly isolated from the culture, I have access to people who aren’t. When I asked my culturally romani family members about this, they said they had never heard of this concept.
Now, that doesn’t inherently mean I am correct. I am completely open to the fact that I may be wrong about this. However, it does mean that I am going to have to ask for proof beyond “I saw some people say this somewhere“ because as far as I know, the earliest citation for romani people using tarot for divination people is from Elphias Levi’s Key of Mysteries (1861), and the earliest citation for divinatory tarot as we know it was from by Jean-Baptiste Alliette in approximately 1780, when he and Antoine Court published a guide for performing cartomancy with the Tarot of Marseilles.
Additionally, philosopher and tarot historian Michael Dummett noted, in his book The Game of Tarot. “it was only in the 1780s, when the practice of fortune-telling with regular playing cards had been well established for at least two decades, that anyone began to use the tarot pack for cartomancy.”
So, If you have a primary source on tarot being used for divination by romani people prior to 1780, I’ll have to reconsider.
“please listen to actual roma”
also breaking character for this because I’m also Roma: all of this is correct and literally the first things you’ll find in google, the history of tarot is VERY much known and catalogued, all of this is very easily and readily found.
the idea that tarot is appropriating Romani culture is horrendously reductivist and racist, equating our past and our history to nothing more than ‘spooky wooky occult fortunetellers’. The reason so many Roma used the tarot in history was because it was a way to make money on the road when we were legally denied the rights to property and settlement, and a card deck is portable as shit. Our history is one of making do with what was available to us, not one of some Mystical Otherworldly Expertise or whatever. Think for 2 seconds the racial ramifications of 'tarot is closed to Romani’, please.
I just heard back from NARA about my FOIA request.
If I'm not misreading this, NARA approved of my request to be important enough to warrant expedited response. They only approve claims of expedited processing, legally, when the response involves "exceptional need or urgency", such as imminent threat to life or safety to yourself or others, or the loss of substantial due process rights.
About soy sauce. I guess I was right when I said this was never just about soy sauce from the very beginning. But it's a little weird seeing how official this has all gotten in just a weekend.
Looking back at how I worded part of my request for expedited processing.
“[A Business Insider video with 6.3m views] demonstrates a reasonable assumption that the general public would be interested in more information on such an important piece of this history and how an American foreigner relates to it.”
I had no idea how right I was when I claimed that. In the words of Alice Isn’t Dead: “I thought history didn’t apply to me.”
