The reason they make you do group project at school is as a preventative measure against falling into conspiracy theories as an adult. The vast majority of the population can and will come out of the experience with a much better understanding of just how goddamn impossible it is to make multiple people do what they were supposed to do, everything they were supposed to do, and nothing but what they were supposed to do. You can't make five people do that, and yet billions of people are keeping this supposed machine rolling?

that whole "lol my boyfriend was looking at the wikipedia page for wind!" "my boyfriend was eating sausage reading about sausage!" post bothers me so much why are we once again pretending that something like. BEING CURIOUS ABOUT THE WORLD. is a guy thing. this is "how often do you think about the roman empire" again. this is "boys will be boys! (something silly and cool)" it's girl dinner. only guys read wikipedia or have random thoughts or think about history lol!!! lol!!!!!! what does that imply that girls are interested in

devil may happy :)

Wouldn’t it’ve made more sense to to say devil may smile?

critique my post ever again and devil may angry

The last time I played Puck, the director was a huge freak about not letting us wear shoes on stage because it would "ruin the look", but we all kept eating shit, and instead of just letting us wear skintone dance shoes or something with grip, motherfucker poured Pepsi on the floor so it'd be sticky and we had to schlorp around. I fucking hate you, David.

Why couldn't this have been a one time I dreamt

Coking the stage (mopping it with diluted soda so it's a little sticky) is a legitimate low-budget tactic for slick floors, but he just poured so much Pepsi on the floors that for about a whole week, it was audible.

Maybe the course of true love would run a little fucking smoother if we didn't have to ford your Pepsi river, DAVID.

I would just quit. Fuck people like that. It's easy to walk away

No it's not. Didn't you read the post? There was dried Pepsi everywhere.

The Murderbot Diaries was like here's a person. The person doesn't feel like a person.

The person is starting to believe it's a person, and its pronouns are still it/its. It's uncomfortable with eye contact, it hates being touched, it doesn't like social interaction, it doesn't have great control of it's facial expressions. And the person's friends all know this and respect it, and it can show affection how and when it feels and it's ok if it isn't "normal." It isn't questioned or doubted in its care because of this.

The person processes emotions through media, and uses it to figure out what to do in social situations. It has complicated feelings about what it was meant to be and reconciling that with who it wants to be. It doesn't always feel like a person but it's starting to accept that it is one.

Also it has laser weapons in its arms.

Not sure about the mirror placement honestly

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for @montereybayaquarium 's deep sea december prompts!

completely personal preference obviously but i hate when there's a time travel fix-it and everything goes smoothly and the protagonist is just cool and confident with all their knowledge of the ruined future. nooo shut up. what is even the point if they're not an emotionally traumatized mess frantically trying to fix things and fucking up as they do so, keeping secrets and alienating their loved ones, causing new and interesting problems and barely scraping through to an eventual better ending

My preferred outcome is for them to avoid the problems in the original timeline only to face a whole host of new, unforeseen consequences because reality is fuckin complicated and you can't control all the factors in the world no matter how hard you try <3

i particularly like when they're managing the whole power fantasy handling everything more or less smoothly due to the power of hindsight and having leveled up for like a third of the story, and then get bodied by the unexpected consequences.

The best regressors are at least 50% visibly cracking at the seams because of the situation. 🥰

More seriously, though: the reason this tends to be contentous in fandoms is because there are two very different fantasies at play in the time-travel fix-it genre.

The first is the optimiser's fantasy: figuring out how to run the optimal version of the scenario. This tends to be big with video game mechanic stories because it's not really about people, it's a resource management based thought experiment in story form.

The second is the dramatist's fantasy: going back and dealing with all the trauma and seeking closure. This tends to lean into the Butterfly Effect and have things go wrong, because it is about ✨Drama!✨at heart.

Which is why the two camps often hate each other's stories. 😅

The reconciliation is to have the optimizer require multiple runs during which things go horribly wrong before they can figure out how to groundhog day their way to the optimal scenario. Usually with the caveat that they've optimized this scenario, but reality of course will contain many more once they're out of the loop.

you can't even say "get a job" to people anymore because the market is so bad they'll be like ive applied to 400 jobs over the past 6 months

i shouldve been there during the cambrian explosion... #fomo

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the greedy friendpig: hey can we hang out today

The way that this is just my post put on a picture of Christian Bale for some reason. Okay

THIS CAN’T KEEP HAPPENING!!!!