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tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Pretend I quoted the Europe tweet:

Paris, TN has an Eiffel tower. Go adventure there today.

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wizzardstaff
Apr 6, 2018

Zorch! Splat! Pow!

zoux posted:

Mine would be except I blocked the words harper's and harpers the second I saw the first tweet about it. It only mostly worked.

BUCKLE UP CHUCLKE FUCKS

https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1280589216246894592

feeling very concerned for katara rn

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

zoux posted:

Mine would be except I blocked the words harper's and harpers the second I saw the first tweet about it. It only mostly worked.

BUCKLE UP CHUCLKE FUCKS

https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1280589216246894592

This is just basic anatomy. Read a book.

Piss Meridian
Mar 25, 2020

by Pragmatica

zoux posted:

Mine would be except I blocked the words harper's and harpers the second I saw the first tweet about it. It only mostly worked.

BUCKLE UP CHUCLKE FUCKS

https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1280589216246894592

I guess we all knew that Ang fucks

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Not sure if this has already been posted, but it should be. Be sure to read the comments.

https://twitter.com/OliverJia1014/status/1279288292781875205?s=19

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Not sure if this has already been posted, but it should be. Be sure to read the comments.

https://twitter.com/OliverJia1014/status/1279288292781875205?s=19

https://twitter.com/Kinomi_Asahi/status/1280295559530602496

here's the highres chart in case you want to deep dive into the penguin drama

Moon Slayer
Jun 19, 2007

https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1280615206025076736

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
never have i been so vindicated in my general unease with the entire concept of 20th century american musical theater

vvv ahhhh i was thinking the same

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

That's basically the penguin version of Jefferson High School

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



That totally needs extra labelling, like THEATER KIDS, BAND GEEKS and GOTHS.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


EL BROMANCE posted:

That totally needs extra labelling, like THEATER KIDS, BAND GEEKS and GOTHS.

Tag yourself. I'm the blank space a little to the right of 0, 5.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

There appears to be 1 gay guy and 1 bi girl in this whole high school

e: oh and I guess the gay guys bf was bi

minato
Jun 7, 2004

cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.
Taco Defender

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Cleretic posted:

The second guy is literally saying that, if a character can't be heroic, then they are a villain. He literally cannot fathom the concept of a morally grey character.

i mean, looking at the two examples i gave, Kreia can be validly interpreted as either heroic or villainous, basically depending on whether you think her philosophy is sound or not.

meanwhile, in Shin Megami Tensei, Law-Neutral-Chaos explicitly doesn't map to conventional human morality, despite the Judeo-Christian framing, and is more like the Y axis of a political compass without the X. you can make a legit argument for any given side or any given character being good or evil, depending more or less entirely on how you interpret their philosophies and whether you think they're a net good or a net bad for the world.

God of War is actually an almost weirdly good example too (and a good example of how gamers honestly do totally fine with this when it's actually done well), because in the original trilogy, Kratos was not a morally grey character. he was a complete rear end in a top hat. there is no framing that can possibly make him look like anything other than a bloodthirsty monster, and that's fairly explicitly how you're supposed to take him. PS4 God of War then takes this relatively simple giant rear end in a top hat, and introduces actual moral complexity to him; he's older, wiser, and generally somewhat ashamed of how he was, and is attempting to be the best father he can to Atreus. but he's still Kratos; "the best father he can be" is still not especially great, and he has to constantly reckon with the consequences of his actions, which generally drive him further towards the brink of becoming exactly how he used to be.

is he, broadly speaking, The Good Guy? sure. but he's not really a good person. it's completely valid to sympathize with him because he's actively trying to become a different and better person, but it's also completely valid to think his previous actions aren't really something you can come back from and that he'll inevitably just go back to mindless slaughter, and the game doesn't really force you into one viewpoint or another.

i would actually say this is kind of the goal of a well-written morally grey character; if there's only one moral alignment you can read the character as, you've failed to write an actual morally grey character. a villain who doesn't have any sympathetic or heroic traits, where you can't make any kind of argument that they might be kinda right, is not morally grey. a hero who doesn't have any significant flaws, and who is absolutely, definitely correct and on the side of good, is also not morally grey. morally grey characters are the ones where you're not really sure exactly where they land and you can make a solid argument in either direction.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Killmonger had a point.

Woozie66
Sep 8, 2009

I'll wait for the next era

Yeah, the guy WAS joking but that's only clear if you dig into the full replies. But the OP throwing on "why does this have so many more likes" is just thirsty. Nobody liked the original tweet because it wasn't as funny.

Trevor Hale
Dec 8, 2008

What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Woozie66 posted:

Yeah, the guy WAS joking but that's only clear if you dig into the full replies. But the OP throwing on "why does this have so many more likes" is just thirsty. Nobody liked the original tweet because it wasn't as funny.

“Women should get more praise”

*woman screencaps and shares a conversation in such a way as to make a joke, differing from the intent of the original thread that gets many retweet*

“Noooo, not like that.”

SiKboy
Oct 28, 2007

Oh no!😱

WeedlordGoku69 posted:

i mean, looking at the two examples i gave, Kreia can be validly interpreted as either heroic or villainous, basically depending on whether you think her philosophy is sound or not.

meanwhile, in Shin Megami Tensei, Law-Neutral-Chaos explicitly doesn't map to conventional human morality, despite the Judeo-Christian framing, and is more like the Y axis of a political compass without the X. you can make a legit argument for any given side or any given character being good or evil, depending more or less entirely on how you interpret their philosophies and whether you think they're a net good or a net bad for the world.

God of War is actually an almost weirdly good example too (and a good example of how gamers honestly do totally fine with this when it's actually done well), because in the original trilogy, Kratos was not a morally grey character. he was a complete rear end in a top hat. there is no framing that can possibly make him look like anything other than a bloodthirsty monster, and that's fairly explicitly how you're supposed to take him. PS4 God of War then takes this relatively simple giant rear end in a top hat, and introduces actual moral complexity to him; he's older, wiser, and generally somewhat ashamed of how he was, and is attempting to be the best father he can to Atreus. but he's still Kratos; "the best father he can be" is still not especially great, and he has to constantly reckon with the consequences of his actions, which generally drive him further towards the brink of becoming exactly how he used to be.

is he, broadly speaking, The Good Guy? sure. but he's not really a good person. it's completely valid to sympathize with him because he's actively trying to become a different and better person, but it's also completely valid to think his previous actions aren't really something you can come back from and that he'll inevitably just go back to mindless slaughter, and the game doesn't really force you into one viewpoint or another.

i would actually say this is kind of the goal of a well-written morally grey character; if there's only one moral alignment you can read the character as, you've failed to write an actual morally grey character. a villain who doesn't have any sympathetic or heroic traits, where you can't make any kind of argument that they might be kinda right, is not morally grey. a hero who doesn't have any significant flaws, and who is absolutely, definitely correct and on the side of good, is also not morally grey. morally grey characters are the ones where you're not really sure exactly where they land and you can make a solid argument in either direction.

Or, maybe, not everyone is a hero or a villain, and assuming every character who is not one has to be the other is reductive as hell.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

That's basically the penguin version of Jefferson High School



So not a single kid in this highschool was single for the entirety of that six-month span?

Piss Meridian
Mar 25, 2020

by Pragmatica

Absurd Alhazred posted:

So not a single kid in this highschool was single for the entirety of that six-month span?

I think they're just not show

wizzardstaff
Apr 6, 2018

Zorch! Splat! Pow!

Samuringa posted:

here's the highres chart in case you want to deep dive into the penguin drama



There are more human beings represented in this penguin romance chart than I expected there to be.

SiKboy
Oct 28, 2007

Oh no!😱

wizzardstaff posted:

There are more human beings represented in this penguin romance chart than I expected there to be.

Another day volunteering at the Kyoto Aquarium, everyone keeps asking me if they can gently caress the penguins. Buddy, they wont even let me... (puts finger to earpiece) Oh. Huh. Actually go right ahead.

Zvahl
Oct 14, 2005

научный кот

the drama penguin is named tera, she is currently loved by osshii and is in love with shijo who is taken

darkwasthenight
Jan 7, 2011

GENE TRAITOR

Zvahl posted:

the drama penguin is named tera, she is currently loved by osshii and is in love with shijo who is taken

SCANDAL

Actually the really worrying one is the nice lady on the bottom left who not only has a penguin admirer arrow, but also a responding arrow going back with what I can only hope is Japanese for "big Bee Movie fan" attached.

One More Fat Nerd
Apr 13, 2007

Mama’s Lil’ Louie

Nap Ghost

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

That's basically the penguin version of Jefferson High School



Dude who's been averaging a new girl every 3 weeks for 6 months is impressing me, real big dick energy there.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


SiKboy posted:

Another day volunteering at the Kyoto Aquarium, everyone keeps asking me if they can gently caress the penguins. Buddy, they wont even let me... (puts finger to earpiece) Oh. Huh. Actually go right ahead.

:golfclap:

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Absurd Alhazred posted:

So not a single kid in this highschool was single for the entirety of that six-month span?

iirc the study was explicitly about sexual networks and who's loving who, so you had to gently caress to place on the chart

here's the original paper

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/teaching/NetworkedLife/teensex.pdf

quote:

The size of the large component of connected nodes identifies the worst case scenario for potential disease diffusion within the population. While one-third of all students are embedded in small, disjoint dyads and triads, in an 18-month period more than 50% of the students at Jefferson were chained together through romantic and sexual relationships that could have involved the exchange of fluids. Recall that there are many individuals at the end of small branches in the large component who have only one partner. While these adolescents have only had one partner, their risk for contracting an STD may be significantly greater than an individual with multiple partners who is embedded in a smaller, disjoint component. Consequently, STD risk is not simply a matter of number of partners.

imagine being part of the ten percent in this skank-rear end school who didn't gently caress

Mr. Fall Down Terror has a new favorite as of 01:54 on Jul 8, 2020

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1280663118771703809

sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan
Monica is a pro-tier follow

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
Yeah she's a vastly better person than everyone else involved in that entire mess.

https://twitter.com/Malangmoom_/status/1280134384176136193

machine translation of the text is "show off your belly"

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

luxury handset posted:

iirc the study was explicitly about sexual networks and who's loving who, so you had to gently caress to place on the chart

here's the original paper

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/teaching/NetworkedLife/teensex.pdf


imagine being part of the ten percent in this skank-rear end school who didn't gently caress

Sounds like they're the lucky ones. :lofty:

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.
https://twitter.com/hivemindrats/status/1280522953201987584

Moon Slayer
Jun 19, 2007

https://twitter.com/MrHaydenMyers/status/1280695008555745281

Ugato
Apr 9, 2009

We're not?

I can leave the weakness cannot be tolerated one but I need all the rest of these

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004


Fun fact, more recent versions of DOOM and DOOM 2 (like the ones included with Doom3 BFG edition) actually change those graphics, for that reason.

By literally changing two pixels to change + to an arrow pointing up.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Killingyouguy! posted:

There appears to be 1 gay guy and 1 bi girl in this whole high school

e: oh and I guess the gay guys bf was bi

(At least) two bi girls. If you spotted the same one I did, her girlfriend also had a boyfriend. If there's another one I missed then presumably her girlfriend is also either bi or gay.

Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

Phaiston have long avoided the tightly competetive defence sector, but the IRDA Act 2052 has given us the freedom we need to bring out something really special.

https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar


Nap Ghost

Samuringa posted:

https://twitter.com/Kinomi_Asahi/status/1280295559530602496

here's the highres chart in case you want to deep dive into the penguin drama



penguin polycule would be a pretty good username

Organza Quiz
Nov 7, 2009


Tweet just for Australians:

https://twitter.com/doctormcdougall/status/1280792377930600449

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


gently caress you for getting that stuck in my head.

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Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/CathMurphySport/status/1280764345668886530

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