Hey everyone,
Would you consider it gate-keeping to deny a player entry simply because their triggers and expectations would oppose the dynamic of the other players and theme of the game? The other day I was accused of gatekeeping and I did some reflecting but am still unsure. I'll explain the situation:
Myself, my wife, her best friend, and two people we met at our local game shop decided to run a game. The potentially gate-kept person was another random from the shop; now I've seen this person in the shop on multiple occasions, they were non-binary and it's a smallish southern town, and I know folks around here tend to shy away from members of that community so I thought 'why not?" I'd played MTG with them a few times and they were funny and nice overall from what I could tell- Now this game was advertised via flyer/word of mouth at the shop, and I explicitly stated that there would be potential dark and NSFW themes present simply due to the grim-darkesque homebrew setting and it was planned to be a psuedo-evil characters redemption style campaign. Every seemed stoked!
I reserve a room for our session zero and briefly go over the details of the setting and this person initially didn't seem to have any issues, or they simply kept quiet of them, I'm unsure of which it was. Then an hour or so into character creations the player starts stating how they have certain situations that trigger them and such, which again isn't a huge issues, I've dealt with this before to an extent as my wife unfortunately was sexually abused as a child and has certain triggers herself. The main issue with this however, is that these triggers would require the reconstructing of two others players backstories- the players were champs about it and even made small tunes and tweaks to 'clean' their character concepts a bit.
After about 20/30 minutes of polite conversation and revisions being made around the player wasn't satisfied with that and started listing additional triggers and such, admittedly some of which seemed a bit absurd. Orphans trigger you? Seriously? In a grim-dark setting where people die horrible deaths on the daily? *(additional triggers request: they wanted no alcohol consumption, no backstabbing/betrayals, No senseless violence - 100% understand this one, and no mention of their characters sex/gender- again I can get behind it, and no drug/narcotics used mentioned be they magical or not in nature, no male characters assault/harassing their character- done, un
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Hi so I've been seeing this guy "will" 27M for months now. He's so sweet and funny and creative. Fun fact: he drives 2 cars that he adjusted/fixed on his own.
We don't live together but we do meet at my place every weekend. He called and asked what we will be doing on friday and I said I wanted to host a GNI since it was my turn. He asked what the heck was a GNI I said a girls night in and he got quiet then asked if I was being series. I was confused as he started talking about how outdated and sooo 1950s those events are and said that I should stop promoting and advocating for those events as they are sooo toxic and flatout reek of misogyny. I was shocked by his long rant but he said that was his honest opinion. I told him regardless I still plan to host the event after he tried talking me out of it and suggested we go out together. He threw a fit after he suggested bringing his guy friends to join us and I refused since this is not how GNIs work!. He called me a sexist and misogynistic for having a girls night in and making it so obvious instead of being ashamed of myself. He said that my mentality will cause me issues in the future especially if I behave like that in a professional work setting. Let me tell you I was BLOWN AWAY by how he got so worked up like that over me just missing my girls and wanting to spend time with them. We argued some more and he hung up on me after I said I will not stop hosting or being part of GNIs nomatter what he says about it.
I tried to call and apologize for lashing out later but he sent a text saying he was hurt by how I handled our small disagreement and needs time to process what he just found out about my personality. This hurt me but my friendship and the bond I share with my girlfriends is huge and I don'the want to risk years of friendships by no longer being part of our bonding activities.
Aita? For making this my hill to die on like he says?
Years ago when she was 13 and I was 16 I was babysitting my cousin, and at some point she got mad at me and actually tried to stab me through the chest. This was a pretty long time ago, she didn't manage to hurt me, she's gotten therapy, and hasn't acted maliciously towards me in any way since, and I don't hold any kind of grudge against her, but the event still doesn't sit right with me because no one else in my entire family seems to want to acknowledge it as anything out of the ordinary. Nobody talked about it at all for years, and now whenever we do talk about it everyone just laughs it off like it was just two teen girls having a family argument that got a little too heated. Everyone looks at me like I'm the weird one for wanting to acknowledge that it was a literal murder attempt. I think talking about it might just make them uncomfortable, but it kind of hurts that no one seems concerned that I could've been violently stabbed to death.
"The Enemy Improved Himself Today, Did You?" - Combined Military Authority Inspirational Poster
"I told you yesterday, no!" - graffiti at the bottom of the poster.
"WE'RE ON AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR TO HELL!" - unknown, LV-426 Incident, Pre-Glassing
"I might not be able to win, I can make sure I don't lose." - Unknown
"A Terran only knows his true self during hardship and strife, all else is a mask he uses to pretend to be what he is not." - Treana'ad Proverb
"Your blows are as effective as your advertising." - Razor Wit Wendy, The Hamburger Wars.
There was a thick mist on the floor that came up to Natraya's knees as they moved down the hallway, the lemur grinning like he just invented sexual intercourse and was about to inform the galaxy of its methods. On'trak the Tukna'rn was behind her, dragging his thick metal girder that covered in clotted blood and gore.
"...go round and round," the lemur was singing. His voice had a harsh nasal buzz.
Probably because he had two purple crystals from a shard pistol jammed up his nose.
A door whooshed open and a spawn lunged from the other side. The lemur, without looking or breaking stride, popped its head off with a backfist just by lifting it's arm, bent at the elbow, and rotating the shoulder.
The spawn fell back and the door whooshed shut.
"The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish," the lemur kept singing, swinging his arms freely, his fists surrounded by faint misty blue nimbus. He had thin tendrils of blue electricity arcing along his musculature, up and down his spine, and the three red lights at the base of his skull burned defiantly.
Natraya knew she was smiling, a wide crazed smile. Her nose had stopped bleeding and her headache was gone, instead she felt like there was a steady buzzing inside her head. A warm, buzzing feeling that made her spine tingle and her fur feel like it was electrified as it stood on end. She no longer felt like a tiny fur covered live young bearing reptile in a world full of bigger beings that could hurt her whenever they wanted.
"...swish swish swish..."
She'd learned that she could make them die.
She held up the bladearm, which was chipped and scratched now, and licked th
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Chapter 43 – Security
Time on a spaceship moved fast, at least it seemed that way, as the days flowed into each other without clearly defined borders. As their journey had been put on hold for the moment, days and weeks passed, and what should’ve been the date they would arrive at their destination came and went without anything changing about their status.
Behind the scenes, proceedings must’ve been running a mile a minute, with investigations and preparations all happening at the same time to get some clarity on the situation at hand. However, even though she had been very involved up to a point, as a non-military person with basically no clearance, Nia was now left in the dark about most things, only getting brief pointers at most whenever something new was discovered.
And since she couldn’t bare remaining idle, not only for worry about James but also because it would surely drive her crazy to just do nothing for a long amount of time, Nia had decided that she would use her unwilling vacation to make the stay on, and getting used to the human ship and customs for her offworld friends as welcoming as possible.
With a smile on her face, she busied herself by washing off vegetables in the kitchen, while behind her, one of the ship’s cooks worked on getting a meal ready for everybody that couldn’t eat the ship’s usual diet.
“You know, before all this, I would’ve thought that cooking for offworlders would be a fun challenge,” the man suddenly commented out of the blue, and Nia turned her head to look at him in surprise. “But this? This is so dull!”
He straightened himself up, putting down the cuts of meat he was working on for a moment to free his hands so he could gesture with his knife.
“Cuts of meat. Plain, not too well done. No sides, no spices, no condiments, nothing. Just cuts of meat,” he loudly lamented, while seemingly trying to slice up the air in his frustration, making Nia inadvertently take a step away from him, even though she already stood outside of his range of motion. “And on the other side, there’s greens. Greens, greens, greens. I can’t stand it anymore. How can entire species be so tasteless?”
Nia slightly shook her head while loo
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Just wanted to say that maybe I’m tripping but Jenna really… isn’t that bad? Yeah she says little comments sometimes or seems to be a bit more domineering over Angela (sometimes) but also so many friendships have issues near identical to what we see on the podcast. I feel like Jenna gets hate if she breathes a certain way, it’s so hyper specific and intense that ironically Toby Thursday Jenna posts have seemingly turned into the same vibe as Angela judging/ hating Pam/everyone in the actual show! I understand the issues with some things she does but the hatred for her is so intense it might as well be like she’s on a worlds most evil humans list. I just think that there’s far worse people who are celebrities and who have podcasts that are quite literally insufferable. I mean then again, the whole point of Toby Thursday is to complain and criticize to your hearts desire, so I may sound a bit wonky. But the intense pulling apart of every action that Jenna does is so much, It’s almost astonishing how much people judge her. It never really occurred to me, I may notice it at times but I’m like eh, how likely is it that I’ll not find anything wrong with someone I meet/know of? I know we all have our own issues, so I don’t feel like I can really pick her apart. But that’s just my opinion! Feel free to maybe open my eyes a bit more if you feel differently :)
Also, I understand the deep dives can be way to much, but to put into perspective, try listening to the Always Sunny in Philadelphia podcast starring the actors and writers of the show. Each episode they cover an entirely new episode of the show, like Office Ladies does- and they probably spend a total of 5 minutes actually talking about the show and the remaining time going off into the most unrelated (but still funny) tangents. But you seriously get a very small amount of show related content on their podcast, so I feel satisfied after hearing the office ladies for the most part.
Maybe leave your thoughts on why Jenna gets so much lash back/what you think of her? I’m curious!
Hello apes,
Now time for the serious posts.
I love tinfoil theories. I got one date right, let's see if I’m going to be right about March.
Shoutaht u/Badasstrader. Stole my post name you beautiful bastard. I’m reclaiming my time here, BA.
Regardless if it happens in the next week before the end of the year, you all should be mighty excited.
The company is almost completely rebuilt from the ground up and will have something great coming soon. Almost like how a sports team needs a rebuilding year to catapult it to a championship, I feel that was what 2021 was for GameStop. There was that initial sneeze in January, but thank goodness that that pride doth cometh before the fall and SHF have no sense of restraint when it comes to shorting.
The MOASS will happen, but this company needed some time to effectuate its changes first, apes. That is what great companies do and that is how great investors work; they look at the pieces and team that a company is assembling and make their judgment on whether or not to invest according to what the company is doing to win.
Book your tickets apes. No stowaways on a rocket heading to the 420th dimension. DRS is still da wae.
I love you apes. Merry Christmas, peace and goodwill to all of you!
Disclaimer: yadadada not financial advice, This is also but one apes interpretation of history, Please please if you find it welcome, leave a comment telling me where I can expand on something or maybe you could share your own expertise on a particular subject. Crowdsourcing information is the best.
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Now time to REWIND to move forward.
Welcome to decentralization baby.
Hell what is Centralization?
Here’s some definitions before we get started so there is no confusion.
Decentralization: To distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area.
Centralization: to concentrate by placing power and authority in a center or central organization.
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Christopher Columbus set out for an expedition to find a trade route to China on the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria in 1492 and “discovered” the New World by accident. He was sent and financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to find a route overseas to open trade with China. The Spainards also wanted to
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#Alien-Nation Chapter 78 (Award IV)
Amilita led me from the bathrooms, back outside to where the catering was, and true to our prediction, the cameras followed closely, bobbing along as we walked down the front stairs together.
“So what now?”
She said a word I didn’t recognize, not even looking down at me, instead forward as we strode past where the cameras were waiting, and back out into the sun.
“Sorry, what was that word?” I asked politely.
“I’m told it’s like your version of ‘Smile and wave’,” Amilita supplied, stopping at last once we were on the steps, looking out over the enormous grass lawn and the afternoon’s proceedings. I made a quick note that the table of books had been completely picked through. “I think Natalie just ate too much and got nervous. She doesn’t have the…” The Officer searched for words before settling on: “...the toughest constitution. I’m sure she will be fine.”
I forced myself to calm down, and gazed down at my new omni-pad. I wanted nothing more than to run back to the bathroom, to hell with everything else, but… it was kind of true. I wanted to point out how she’d trucked Jordan way back at the track party, but it was true that she was absolutely dwarfed by almost every other Shil’ in attendance. Was she naturally given to panic? How much did I really know about her?
I felt a little warmth in my chest, remembering how she’d held me at the covered bridge.
I know enough.
I spoke the words ‘translate Smile and Wave’ in English into my omni-pad, holding down a button to activate the microphone. I watched it automatically pull up its ‘translation’ feature, and the device pulse in its bright, rainbow colors from the center. The information came up much faster than on the one I’d been given by Talay, and even more impressive, the translation was fully nuanced, rather than a direct series of translations of ‘smile’ ‘and’ ‘wave.’ The middle framed a phonetic sounding for me, with all the little nitty-gritty details of the word’s etymology underneath. This was all way, way more information than I’d had access to before.
I experimentally tried the word out silently a few
... keep reading on reddit ➡My 23M sister F26 recently got married to one of those "It's just a prank, bro." guys. The guy is hysterical, he laughs at any and everything that he lays eyes on. He jokes, teases, makes fun and pulls very very nasty and cruel pranks all the time. It's like he has no filter. Some said he's mentally ill especially after he started telling jokes at his own father's funeral and almost caused my sister to get injured from his "count the stairs" prank.
Me and the family got our fair share of his ridiculous pranking campaign and we've had enough but to him it's not enough apparently, the kids love him and say he's fun so that's one positive thing about him.
The wedding was days ago. Once he learned I was bringing my girlfriend who he teased/pranked couple of times he started making comments about pulling some funny pranks at the wedding. I told him I won't react well and he can do with this info what he well. He just laughed me off hahaha type of laugh then I didn't see him til the wedding.
After the ceremony and while the guests were eating. He saw me and my girlfriend standing talking to several guests and mutual friends and he approached us with a glass of milk in his hand (no idea why he had it) and kept commenting on me and my girlfriend. He "invited" me to propose to her right then so the memory of my proposal will always be overshadowed by his wedding. Then said "relax, just a joke bro!" Then laughed. My girlfriend was standing next to me in her $320 dollar dress when my brother in law pointed to the left and shouted "look! There's a dog over there!" Me, my girlfriend looked to the left and next thing I knew he threw milk from his glass on her dress (it was a blue dress). My girlfriend was so shocked she froze. He started laughing saying "gotcha" I was stunned then I asked the hell he did that for. I lashed out at him as my girlfriend rushed to clean up and I called him obnoxious and mean because he shouldn't have done that . he said he was just messing with us and my girlfriend should feel lucky for being served milk at a wedding. but my girlfriend was being too uptight and couldn't take a joke. She left looking angry and didn't respond to my calls. I was livid. After my argument with my brother in law I left.
The next day I called him and my sister about what happened and told them I'm expecting him to pay $320 for the dress he ruined. He threw a fit saying it was just a prank and my sister said milk doesn't ruin a dress and said an apology should
... keep reading on reddit ➡Title says it all. I am not just becoming like him, I think I am becoming him. My behavioral pattern is such a carbon copy of my father's.
A little background - grew up in a household with domestic abuse. Basically I was made to believe that I am a burden to the family. Only mom was on my side. Only child. My father is a textbook narcissist.
My life right now is at it's lowest. Have been preparing for an exam for a long time, although I am smart enough to crack it, I am messing up just about everything. This got me to reflect upon my self. I have observed the following about myself:
- I am insecure af
- I am a jealous person
- I make tall claims that I can't back up with any legit proof of work
- I have a pathological yearning to be seen as smart, commanding, funny, attractive
- I glorify my achievements in front of others
- I react immediately, rather very emotionally, when somebody disrespects me
- I don't really know how to show my respect towards others
- I lash out at people when I am angry
- I badmouth about my friends and family to other people.
- I hesitate to take responsibility for my own mistakes/ shortcomings.
This is exactly how my father is. He has been doing all of this in front of me, all my life. I think I have subconsciously picked it up and now I have become exactly like him. I am very repulsed by myself.
Now that I have been able to put my thoughts into words, which I was struggling to do for so many years(for lack of insight), I don't know how to take the right path from here. I am feeling very turbulent and also very calm. What should I do to better myself? Any leads, any help or any advice will be greatly appreciated. Please just point me in the right direction from here. Thanks in advance.
Edit: grammar
I was doing a series of cringe moments shown on keeping up and one of them was going to be the viral video of khloe casually dropping the N word..the clip has taken off and I didn’t want to be repetitive so I never posted it but I thought I’d give my opinion. Outside of the fact that the word should have never came out of her mouth let’s look into the fact that her sister just had a horrible experience with her baby but all khloe could focus on was what she would have done or said in the situation which is ehhhh….anyone who’s experienced racism knows it’s not a fun moment, it’s not something you look forward to having an argument about, and it can be downright SCARY. the glee on her face as If she’s been rehearsing reads for a moment like that all of her life was just cringe. There’s nothing funny or fun about the encounter Kim had and it blows me she thought it was cute and appropriate to have a response like that at her adult age. “People call me a n***** lover all day, Idc” yea of course you don’t care, youre not actually facing the challenges of being black..just receiving back lash because you date black men. You’re not a savior to the black community either. Her attitude surrounding black women and men is just creepy to me. I’ve seen comments from users who feel she was just repeating what she’s been called but for me it was everything about the encounter, there was no “what can we do to spread awareness” “how can we prepare our future daughters for encounters like this” it was oh word …i love black dick, who cares. Maybe some dialogue was edited out but in that case why the hell would that be what y’all decided to air??? If this was her first slip up then I’d be more gracious but she never misses a chance to show how tone deaf she is.
22nd of Anael, First month of Snow.
2109 years since the new gods came.
~4:30 AM
I was awoken around an hour ago by a soft popping noise and the sound of someone falling a foot or so to the floor. A cast of 'Flash' stunned my assailant until I had my sword out and at his throat. He looked to be around 19 years or so, wearing mages robes, and a tear stained face. To the best of my memory, our conversation went like this:
Me: What are you doing in my tent?
Him: I want to kill the bastard demon who killed my husband.
Me: Wait, What?
Him: Did I stutter or mumble? Or aren't you the 'Hero'?
Me: Yes...No... Wait! Your husband was killed by a demon? Then join the army.
Him, taking a deep, grief riddled breath: No. You don't seem to understand. Last night, I came back to the demon generals throne room, and found the remains of my husband. No big deal, it's 'just a game'. I jacked out, to talk to him, AND HE WAS DEAD!
Me, looking this man strait in the eyes: A game? You think this is a game? I was reborn here after I died in Chicago in 1987! And YOU THINK THIS IS SOME STUPID GAME?!?!?!
Him: Wait, Huh? What?
Me: Did I mumble or stutter?
Him: But, I'm from 2089...This isn't a Deepdive MMORPG?
ME: Whatever that is, no. This is a real world, with real people, doing REAL THINGS! Now I understand why Master Maxwell hates 'Heros' so much. You're all IDIOTS!
Him, looking like he is about to vomit as tears start falling: NO. No, no, no, no, no... FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! I am going to kill that fucking programmer when I get back home! Tell me we are the only pre-alpha testers for a new game? Cool. Not tell us that it is actually a doorway to an alternate world, not a cool DDVR? No. Suing you for wrongful death isn't enough. Not after what you had me do here.....
Me: ... Um...What now?
Him: Call me Bob. The programmer said that my husband and I should join in on the demon's side, work with them to see how the combat controls work. Even gave us 'new spells' to work on perfecting. <deep sobbing breath> But now I know...Now I know that I wasn't just killing pixel
... keep reading on reddit ➡I see a lot of clueless and out of touch mentors who are upset at sprouts for ruining their precious roulette by trying to actually do content, so I figured I'd make a guide as to WHY these mentors should stop and what sprouts can do to avoid them.
I know this post will probably get downvoted because most of reddit is just level cap mentors who don't actually care about the sprout experience, but it's important for sprouts to know this information.
1) If you only want to mentor normal mode content, there are separate roulettes for that
I see a lot of mentors saying that mentors are only meant to help sprouts through normal mode dungeons/trials/raids. Good news, there are separate queues for that! You can queue for leveling/trial/raid roulettes and help people trying to find parties for those! It's essentially the same as queuing for mentor roulette, but without the extreme trials!
You'll only get a reward the first time in a day, but you're not one of those mentors that only cares about the gil and mount reward, right?
2) Why Duty Finder is the de facto optimal way to find ARR Extreme Trials parties
There are so many ludicrous posts by mentors on reddit talking about how sprouts must use party finder, and they don't even seem to know the basic fact that free trial players can't make party finder listings. For ARR Extreme trials, basically 95% of the people who actually want to do them are free trial sprouts. If a level 80 player gets an ARR Extreme trial for Wondrous Tails, they just solo it unsynced in literally under a minute.
So you practically never see ARR Extreme Trials in PF, and all the sprouts just queue through Duty Finder. You can sit there refreshing all day and never see a party finder listing for the ARR Extreme trial you want.
If these mentors actually cared about the sprout experience and wanted sprouts to use the party finder for ARR Ex, then they'd be hosting PF listings for those Extreme Trials, but instead they just go to reddit to complain.
3) There is no such thing as "Duty Finder Etiquette"
If you see a mentor telling you that it's "duty finder etiquette" not to use the duty finder for extremes, just know that this is a term they made up to try to convince sprouts not to ruin their easy mode mount roulette.
Extreme Mode was explicitly added by the developers to the Duty Finder where they intended it to be used. It's not rude to use a feature the developers put into the game. If anything, it's extremely ru
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^ Mind the screams. "Dan Andrews, that's on your fuckin' hand, you dog."
This was inevitable.
When tyranny and oppression becomes so unbearably stifling to a population (and protest, speech, and government choice are no longer an option) they will begin to lash out.
This is one of the many ways they may chose to do that, regardless of legal implications.
The Australian government has made it repeatedly clear that the lives of less than fully vaccinated people who have failed to properly register are enemies of the state and it's glorious revolution. They are to be savagely punished until they comply or die. This person, unsurprisingly, chose death. This includes the Internment Camps that I have heard idiot Australians attempting to defend. This includes significant amounts of police violence and harassment. This includes personal violence and harassment. This includes the removal of all available economic activity.
This man, correctly, understood that the law serves no purpose in Australia. The state has made a friend-enemy distinction between it's loyalists and dissenters. As Cicero notes, the law falls silent in times of war. As Clausewitz notes, this is because the law does not apply to your enemy, because the law is a moral force, and they are outside of your moral framework. This is why the statement: "They want you broke, they want you homeless, they want your wife dead, your children raped, and they think it's funny." rings so true. That is how you treat a sworn enemy who is outside your moral framework. The Australian state is at war with it's people, and that is why the law fell silent, and that is why this man chose death.
He will not be the last.
To the slaves and the villeins of petty tyrants: this is your fault. In fact, this is what you wanted. You may celebrate his death at your earliest convenience, you may even write a song about it and post it to TikTok. But please spare the rest of us your lecture about how good of a person you are. You are abominable creatures who have chosen, at every opportunity, an illusion of safety for the real sacrifice of Liberty. You did this under the guise of safety, but your only true reason was the opportunity to exert power over
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Half of the Patrol Interceptors died instantly.
Pilots died as they were too shocked to jink when their systems blared missile lock or a well aimed laser punched through cockpits and threw the crew into the void of space.
The only reason Milk and Cookie didn’t share the fate of their compatriots was because a lucky piece of simulated debris was turned to slag by a laser shot, barely keeping them alive as the veteran pilot turned hard, breaking away from an inbound missile while dumping countermeasures.
“All wing leads are down.” Milk reported, sheer bloody experience keeping her voice from wavering. “Tally 8 bandits. Fast movers.”
“All survivors. Focus fire on the 114th!” A voice from the radio called, one of the other surviving Interceptor pilots. “We’ve got ‘em 30 to 8. We can do this!” Her optimism was soon cut short as one of the Edixi pilots blitzed through a makeshift CAP line and turned her plane into scrap.
The Pilot was brilliant, there could be no other way to describe how they flew. Even when moving in a straight line, there were slight bobs and helix fight patterns keeping them from ever truly staying in the defender’s line of fire. Multilock missiles under her wings and a modified main cannon informed the Irish WSO that these were planes built for the sole purpose of dogfighting. She didn’t even see the normal Anti-Shipping missile hanging beneath the fuselage.
And that gave her a plan.
“Cookie, pull us closer to the Carriers. We need the cover and they can’t hit the ships.”
“But the other fleet can.” Cookie shot back, even as he began to dance towards the comforting point defense bubble. Some of the other craft tried to follow, trying to get inside the protective bubble of home plate.
But they didn’t heed Starbuck’s rule in their folly.
They broke contact and dove back towards home in a straight line, making the already easy shots even easier for the Interceptors dashing in and out of their midst. All around them simulated debris, panic and explosions rocked the silence between the stars.
It was almost beautiful, watching these ships detonate and burn from seemingly nothing, the fires from fuel lines licking the void before being consumed by the deepest darkness.
But they couldn’t admire the view for long. There was a fight to win.
... keep reading on reddit ➡Feeling a little homesick and down about the state of Malaysian politics. I feel like they're always trying to pit us against one another so here's a little Malaysian feel-good story about my Pak Cik and I.
When I was 3 my parents introduced this Malay man as Pak Cik to me and told me that the company my father works at had assigned Pak Cik as his driver. He was a slightly stout and short man that at the time to me, seemed unfriendly. My memory is hazy since I was so young then but I remember that I was rather afraid of him. I actually didn't see him around very much until I was 7 and I started going to school. That was the true beginning of what would be an unlikely friendship.
Often it was just me and him in the car as he would pick me up from after school activities, then together we would go pick up my dad from work. He'd always try to make conversation but I wouldn't say much since I was shy. That didn't stop him though. He loved telling me stories about just you know whatever was going on in his life, and most importantly the gossip that was going around amongst the drivers (I lived in a condo then so I had all the hot gossip about the neighbours thanks to him). Funniest thing was that he loved to say that my mother loves to 'popek-popek' but he also in fact loves to talk. I think I was a rather lonely child so I loved just hearing him talk all day.
As cliche as it sounds, my parents were very busy people who didn't have much time for me. That included listening to any of my stories. When I tried telling them something it was always "Dad/Mum is very busy right now. Can you tell me later?" Pak Cik would always whisper "Tak pe, nanti, nanti" and then point between the both of us, as if to say he wanted to hear about my stories. I'm sure it was all not very exciting to him at all, my school drama or my thoughts but it meant so much to me that he wanted to listen. Though I was shy by nature, he was the one that encouraged me to be more inquisitive, to always voice how I felt. In many ways, I felt very invisible, both at school and at home. But, when I was in the car with Pak Cik, he made me feel seen, valid, like what I felt or thought mattered. For a kid, with such low self esteem, he was a god-send.
A funny little tidbit is that I also loved singing as a kid and I must say I was definitely no Mariah Carey and I guess that's why my singing would annoy my parents sometimes, so much so that they would tell me to "please stop singing for a moment."
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We are always talking about Disney princesses and Mirabel who is the next in line is fine and cool but what if Disney decided to create a male gay protagonist?
Here is the scenario i would like to see :
- In search of a boyfriend but he finally learns that being single is alright
I would see the scenario happening in Italy.
Our gay main character is 25-30 years old, he is a good boy, have a nice job, helps others and yet, he can't find love.
The 14th of February (Valentine's day) is coming and he is still single. As he sees the others couples in the streets being happy and being perfect, he starts singing his own Disney Princess song and pray Cupid to bless him with a Valentine.
As he throws a coin in Trevi's fountain and wishes for his valentine, nothing seems to happens at first. Our guy is still alone on the Valentine's day.
But then, a strange and funny fairy comes in his room and tell him that they need his help to save a magic kingdom. The fairy would told him that she was searching for the purest boy of the entire Earth Planet because only him could save the enchanted kingdom.
Our protagonist doesn't have time to agree, he is transported into the magical world where the Villain is a hot sorcerer. He enslaved the entire population of the kingdom with his dark magic.
At first, our MC is going to fall in love with the villain because he is hot and beautiful. The dark mage who is full of himself, laugh and decides to kiss our MC because he loves compliments and because he sees our MC as a nice servant who will do anything for him. The fairy is disappointed because she thought our MC would help her but he was attracted to the great physique of the dark mage.
She told MC that he is superficial and that love is not the only purpose of your life. You shouldn't love someone just because of his looks and because the society wants you to get married or find someone.
As the movie progresses, MC sees the flaws of his partner, the evil actions and realizes that he has been blinded by his craving for a hot boyfriend. He gave up on his morals just because he wanted to be with someone.
He tells the dark mage that their relationship will not work because he can't support evil but he still refuse to kill the dark mage because our MC is a kind heart and want to solve this conflict pacifically.
As the dark mage gets angry and try to lash out his anger, our MC discover the tragic past of the dark mage, a man who is u
... keep reading on reddit ➡Okay so with the movie recently getting released on disney plus the fandom is expanding, here is something I noticed since its release:
Mirabel is surprisingly underrated despite the fact she is a fun, relatable character! not to mention shes our protaganist!! Fanfictions centered around her are pretty hard to come by..
Lusia is also pretty underrated despite the fact she sung a whole song about her relatable trauma (same with mirabel) I dont think ive seen a fanfiction revolved around her yet!
Camilo didnt get much screentime in the offical movie but boy do the fandom treat him like a king! of course there is nothing wrong with that I just think its a bit odd that hes favoured over our main protaganist. Not to mention the fandom treats him like a baby as well as Bruno but ill get to that later, they treat Camilo like an "uwu trauma baby boy uwuwuwuwu depressed underrated baby boy nvn" idolozing trauma thats not brought up around him in the movie, if you want a traumatized character go to Bruno or Mirabel, they seem like they got it bad. Isolotion and never being good enough. Again dont get me wrong im sure camilo had it hard as well as the rest of the family but idolizing trauma isnt fun. Not to mention all the sexulizing around him which is just sick!
Bruno, oh boy Bruno. Bruno is a fan favourite and I can see why. Hes relatable, funny, awkard and just a well written character BUT like Camilio the fandom treat him like a baby.
Isabela, okay so Isabel is a great character but I dont see all the hype in her. She tormented her sister for years and yes she was going through stuff but thats no excuse to lash out of your sister and put her down when she already feels bad about herself. Isabela and Mirabel are so similar in ways! yet the fandom seems to love Isabel, ill never get that nor do i feel the need to.
Thats all I really have, feel free to continue the thread or leave me hate messages, either way my opinion wont change.
Pilot on me!!
Let me just start this by saying this is my own opinion on the movie and it's also a bit of a rant. If you have a different opinion, I respect that. I just really need to write all of this down because it actually hurt me to watch Encanto.
The premise of the movie was really beautiful and sweet, the message about family and all that. But the story felt extremely lacking for what it was trying to tell. I honestly would have changed the entire plot from "they lose their miracle because their family bond is weak, which gets ignored by Abuela" to "they lose their miracle because of expectations and self-doubt that they all bury within them, which gets ignored by Abuela". Let me explain:
Let's start with Mirabel. Love her, amazing girl, somebody protect her. Seriously. Her entire story broke my heart. She didn't get a gift, so her grandmother just dropped her and almost her entire family decided she was basically useless. Shooing her out of the way, telling her she ruins things (looking at you Isabela) and making her feel left out in general. The scene with the family picture being taken in Antonio's new room and they just leave her out? They literally forget she exists because she's "not special". The only people who seem to be on her side are her parents, her mother especially. And yet, Mirabel's inner turmoil about her situation literally only gets one song. Even though it should be way more complicated. She is obviously upset that she has no gift, yet she is in conflict with that feeling when Antonio gets his. She obviously is happy for him, she wants him to have his gift, but she is upset that she doesn't have one. We hardly get this. Instead, she sees the cracks (which gets no explanation as to why she sees them when nobody else yet does) and then sets out to try and "save the miracle", even stating herself that she doesn't know where to start.
But start she does. With Luisa. Luisa, in my opinion, has the most amazing song in the entire movie. It really shows that she is dedicated, hard working, ready to move literal mountains - but scared that she might let people down. Her biggest fear is not being able to lift everything she is handed. And then, she actually does start losing her gift. She can't lift things anymore, she literally cries in her room and yet nobody seems to care! Nobody goes to talk to her, nobody comforts her, nobody questions the ability loss. It's basically ignored. And the reason that Luisa loses her ability is that the miracle
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If this post sounds familiar to you, you may remember that this was a topic previously on /r/HobbyDrama in the sweet Summers of 2020. I specifically remember reading this while on vacation. However, the original author seems to have either deleted their account or taken the post down, so I decided to revive the post. Back when Removeedit worked for Reddit posts I could link to the text itself but that unfortunately seems to have shut down.
Anyway, let's get into this:
> What's Critical Role?
Beginning in early 2015, Critical Role is a live-streamed game of Dungeons and Dragons helmed by several popular voice actors such as Matthew Mercer (Jotaro Kujo, Leon Kennedy, Maximus from Leo the Lion), Travis Willingham (Thor, Roy Mustang, this store owner in Nip/Tuck) and Laura Bailey (Rise from Persona 4, the Female Boss in Saints Row 3/4, Kaine in Nier). If you were an anime fan watching dubs from the mid 2000s to the mid 2010s or you just played a video game, I guarantee you heard at least one of these actors in something. It's a veritable who's-who of big name voice actors.
While recording for Resident Evil 6, Mercer decided to give a birthday present to Liam O'Brien, specifically a one-shot D&D game. This was run in the... controversial... 4th edition version of the game, and presumably after Mercer took a visit to his local exorcist, realized the error of his ways. When O'Brien expressed interest in continuing the game, Mercer agreed and they shifted to Pathfinder. The crew share some stories as they go, with it becoming a frequent thing that gets brought up during convention panels as a fun aside. Back before Vine died it was very common to see the actors making Vines of tabletop moments, and some of the original campaign was preserved through Youtube. The team go by the name Vox Machina- latin for Voice Machine, but initially they operated under the name Super High Intensity Team, or... The SHITS.
I will actually be shocked if they refernece that old name in the cartoon. The party for Campaign 1 consisted of:
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Matt Mercer as DM.
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Marisha Ray as Keyleth, Half-Elf Dru
I was rewatching some of Soyeon and Jintaek's scenes from the earlier eps to try to make sense of their love square situationship lol (also since my first time around I had a tough time with the Korean names). Now upon rewatching with more context, all the drama/feelings/intentions are way way clearer.
I ended up making this Imgur album with screenshots & transcript of their beach walk in ep 6.
It's my favourite scene of them - it's filmed/edited perfectly and is such a quietly romantic, dramatic scene. It represents a turning point in their relationship where SY realizes she could actually be interested in JT and is showing him that, since she realized she had never consciously initiated at all before. Clearly, looking at the cinematography and video editing, the producers were into this too and are using them as their romance story. I don't even watch k-dramas but I feel like this scene could be pulled from one. It was artistic and narrative gold, showing when people are circling each other, trying to understand each other and get together but are hesitant. I know that as "dealing" lmao but not sure how common that slang is.
Anyway I have now spent too much time analyzing them below but they're so intriguing and sweet!!!!! I'm so invested lol.
Scene analysis (following the transcript):
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Their left-right dance around each other (last screenshot) = metaphor for their unsure status. They are uncharacteristically serious, they don't laugh it off or anything even though it's funny. Maybe thinking serious thoughts about each other, lol. Right after this, Soyeon suggests they go for the walk on the beach, so she was probably hyping herself up since we know she gets nervous before heart-to-hearts but know it's best to communicate and hash things out.
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Contrasting two beach walks: at dusk on day 5/6 after a lot has happened between them so quickly vs. daytime on day 1 as strangers, after they just met. Great artistic use of flashback here. Nice that they reminisce on a happy memory for them both. I don't include this in the transcript but she says something like "it's amazing - the ocean, this place" which is probably not at all how they feel about the island anymore, especially at night when it's so dark outside and the day's events are haunting them, lol. But it seemed like they were drawing happiness/strength from that memory to move forward, and the flashback to the sunlight
I was sleeping when she died. Drooling and drifting from one hazy dream to another, blissfully unaware of the struggles that were her last breaths.
I wouldn't have done it if not for what happened to her. For what I did to her.
Was it redemption that I was seeking? Deliverance, perhaps? Or maybe just a good night's sleep. I don't know. I guess I'll never know. My father always used to say that you can never really be a good judge of your own intentions, so you should just stop trying.
I didn't go looking for it. It came to me by pure chance while I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook, rolling an empty bottle of whiskey under my foot, my sweat stale with the stench of its contents. I paused to flex my aching thumb and there it was, the text practically screaming at me -
The Headless Woman Of Kasara Ghat : The Nightmare That Makes Your Dreams Come True!!!
It was the turn of phrase that caught my attention. Just something about that contrasting imagery of dreams and nightmares, of rainbows melting into roiling black skies that resonated with me so suddenly and so deeply that I found myself repeatedly thumbing my phone's screen before I even realised what I was doing.
The link took me to a garbage, ad-riddled website. The kind that has white text slathered on a black background and two pop up ads ready to slap your screen if you dare let your thumb slip. Yet my curiosity made me soldier on. My eyes flew over the text, my heartbeat growing faster and faster the deeper I got into the article.
Have you ever lost someone you loved?
Wish you could talk to them one last time?
Look no further!
The Headless Woman of Kasara Ghat is here to take care of your deepest desires.
Kasara Ghat situated on the Mumbai-Nashik Highway is said to be one of the most haunted stretches of road in India today. It is infamous for having been the site of innumerable fatal accidents over the years and for being used as a dumping ground for multiple murder victims. Needless to say, a lot of restless souls haunt Kasara Ghat.
And chief amongst them, the one that makes the Ghat one of the most dangerous places to visit is the headless woman. Countless travellers have fallen victim to this terrifying woman who stalks this winding hilly road, using the cover of darkness to lure in her prey. Only when she enters the vehicle do the good samaritans realise just what kind of monster they have invited into their abruptly shortened lives.
*But wait, it's not all
... keep reading on reddit ➡For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Do your worst!
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Half of the Patrol Interceptors died instantly.
Pilots died as they were too shocked to jink when their systems blared missile lock or a well aimed laser punched through cockpits and threw the crew into the void of space.
The only reason Milk and Cookie didn’t share the fate of their compatriots was because a lucky piece of simulated debris was turned to slag by a laser shot, barely keeping them alive as the veteran pilot turned hard, breaking away from an inbound missile while dumping countermeasures.
“All wing leads are down.” Milk reported, sheer bloody experience keeping her voice from wavering. “Tally 8 bandits. Fast movers.”
“All survivors. Focus fire on the 114th!” A voice from the radio called, one of the other surviving Interceptor pilots. “We’ve got ‘em 30 to 8. We can do this!” Her optimism was soon cut short as one of the Edixi pilots blitzed through a makeshift CAP line and turned her plane into scrap.
The Pilot was brilliant, there could be no other way to describe how they flew. Even when moving in a straight line, there were slight bobs and helix fight patterns keeping them from ever truly staying in the defender’s line of fire. Multilock missiles under her wings and a modified main cannon informed the Irish WSO that these were planes built for the sole purpose of dogfighting. She didn’t even see the normal Anti-Shipping missile hanging beneath the fuselage.
And that gave her a plan.
“Cookie, pull us closer to the Carriers. We need the cover and they can’t hit the ships.”
“But the other fleet can.” Cookie shot back, even as he began to dance towards the comforting point defense bubble. Some of the other craft tried to follow, trying to get inside the protective bubble of home plate.
But they didn’t heed Starbuck’s rule in their folly.
They broke contact and dove back towards home in a straight line, making the already easy shots even easier for the Interceptors dashing in and out of their midst. All around them simulated debris, panic and explosions rocked the silence between the stars.
It was almost beautiful, watching these ships detonate and burn from seemingly nothing, the fires from fuel lines licking the void before being consumed by the deepest darkness.
But they couldn’t admire the view for long. There was a fight to win.
... keep reading on reddit ➡From what I’ve heard, I’ll be doing a lot of walking as a new CCA. Really beats sitting at home all day in my OP. (I have my own small business) but how do you protect yourself? Dogs, strangers, uneasy feelings/situations. I’m just wondering because where I live I’ll be working in the country and since I’ve lived here I’ve had the N word popped off at me a couple times. (Please don’t try and be funny and pretend like you don’t know what I mean when I say the N word 😂 be serious) anyways, I don’t really lash out or get mad, I just tell myself they are just an older generation that don’t understand that times have change. So I just walk away. Now if someone goes to touch me or hurt me that’s where things might get a bit crazy. Has anyone ever experienced anything similar or felt like they needed to protect themselves In some different kind of way or situation?
The Holland tunnel and the kindergarten comments were vicious.
