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[argumate]

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

[mitigatedchaos]

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Anonymous asked:

So, this artist Penelope Umbrico made a collage of the incredibly large number of portraits people had posted to flickr of themselves standing in front of the sunset, and put it up as an exhibit for an art gallery. Unsurprisingly, this apparent tendency for people to take pictures of themselves standing in front of sunsets and posting them to flickr has inspired others to take pictures of themselves in front of the collage, and posting it to flickr.

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.

[mitigatedchaos]

* 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!

[argumate]

oh sure you can do that for one game, just gets a bit painful when you have to resort to it for all games.

[mitigatedchaos]

Ah, but thanks to Death of the Author, I already did.

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[ofurotaro]

うそつきのベロを引っこ抜け

最初にセリフ聞いた時はなんじゃこの娘（ドン引き）だったんですが
一周回って可愛く見えてきました

[mitigatedchaos]

Is this gonna be the new thing now, Ranma? Tongue-pulling?

It’s like the Internet is just rolling random dice to confuse me.

[ranma-official]

>new

Miti doesn’t stay on top of degeneracy I see

[mitigatedchaos]

Admittedly, my subscriptions to Anime Degeneracy Newsletter Online and its supplement ecchi manga Hentai Josei Degene-san lapsed and I didn’t bother to renew them, so

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Am I insufficiently degenerate to qualify as Anime Right in addition to insufficiently right-wing?  What if I got a MAGA hat and wore it backwards?  If I become pure enough, does it loop around and become degeneracy again?

How do I connect to the youth these days with their strange pro/anti-fascist gang signs, - √13 levels of irony, expanding spongebob frog brain political compass memes, and personified animal low-budget waifus?

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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?

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Receiving @argumate posts like:

(The musical, of course, is based on the original script by Erika Moen.)

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[argumate]

the mods are awake, stop posting discourse

[mitigatedchaos]

“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)