funnily enough “two perfect squares” is what I’d call my pop group if I had musical ability and a partner in crime as square as me
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funnily enough “two perfect squares” is what I’d call my pop group if I had musical ability and a partner in crime as square as me
Receiving @argumate posts like:

(The musical, of course, is based on the original script by Erika Moen.)
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“The Postmodern Symbolism of Predatory Birds in Post-Rationalist Mythology”
@mitigatedchaos, with excerpts from WP:ForestWander, WP:Stemonitis, et al. Tumblr Journal of Sociology, 31 Mar 2017. (CC-BY-SA)
collapsedsquid said: What about Criminal Country?
believe it or not, this is actually hot discourse right now:
Taken literally, TuAo means “unrefined, backwards Australia”.
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Wai Ling Yeung, a former Chinese studies professor at Curtin University, points out that many Chinese-Australians use the character for village when referring to suburbs.
“Because of that, many China-based netizens think all Australian cities are like country towns, but this is in fact not what Chinese-Australians mean,” she said.
She contrasts TuAo with humorous slang used by Chinese abroad in other countries, including FuGuo for Britain, meaning “decadent country” — a coded term believed to refer to the UK’s attitudes towards homosexuality.
The US is also sometimes referred to online as MeiDi, meaning “American empire”.

If the Chinese call it an Empire, who am I to disagree? The largest military budget in the world, culture and commerce spreading out over the Earth, a currency used as a reserve everywhere else and as real money by entire foreign countries, and partial responsibility for the growing global obesity epidemic - who is to say that a Republic can’t be an Empire?
Now,
* inhales *
* coughing *
you know what actually nevermind the rest of it
* coughing *
this pipe gimmick was a bad idea
* wheezes *
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
It’s like the tension in MMORPG design: if everyone does the same quest it destroys the logic of the game world to some degree (the bad guy is beaten millions of times!) but if quests have to be unique for each player you can’t share the experience.
* twitches *
Time. The answer is Time.
Set the MMORPG in a world where the timelines are divergent and there are thousands or millions of them, and the world itself is broken into thousands of planes/zones/worlds spread across a vast and diverse cosmos in a state of multiversal war.
The players are warrior-chrononauts, members of various factions in this cosmic war across universes and timelines. Many of the same worlds, however, occur again and again, and thus they have a shared experience of intervening in them. There isn’t just one Space Hitler, there are thousands or millions echoing out into the cosmic void.
Video games are almost perfect for this, since single-player games do the multiple timelines branching thing intuitively just by their structure, with saves and replays!
oh sure you can do that for one game, just gets a bit painful when you have to resort to it for all games.

do you make the drawings yself
(they’re actually really good)
Yeah, I draw the stuff in the #the mitigated exhibition tag. I use my old tablet and CS4.
It’s not my primary specialization. Regular artists, with another thousand hours of practice or more, can do a lot more a lot faster. I could produce some of what others produce as speed paintings or similar, but it would take me about 10-20x as long, possibly longer.
Then again, do I even have a primary specialization?
Anyhow, I recommend that everyone practice drawing a little, as it’s a useful tool for self-expression and communication.
It would be interesting to see other artist takes on the Union Girl character.
Please remind me to not give @mitigatedchaos any formal power if I ever become King of The World or something. Maybe I can bestow a purely ceremonial title like First Lady of The Republic of Cascadia or Vice Antipope. Grand Ideas should be kept in their ivory towers where they belong.
I dreamt I was a superhero could fly etc. but I kept getting captured and killed by gangsters so I got irritated and started pushing a drug decriminalisation slash harm reduction program to destroy their business and I got so bored I woke up so I guess they won this round
First time in years that I’ve drawn something out by hand, scanned (photographed) it, cleaned it up by playing with the contrast, and run it through GNU Image Manip Prog. Forgot how not-shiny it is compared to Photoshop. Path-based layer masks when?
SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now.
