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anyway i will always remember my freshman year world history teacher who spent a whole day teaching us about the development of hinduism and its cultural impact and the next day came into class and (basically) said “alright so who guessed that everything i said yesterday was bullshit?”

the thing i took away from this was

when learning about a culture You Are Not A Part Of in a class full of liberals, they will accept everything as fact

if something historical sounds simple and widely agreed upon, especially religion, its probably bullshit

you are not smarter than experts. and experts can fucking lie to you anyway.

american non academics have been and will continue to butcher greek mythology and sell it to you like the bible. please. PLEASE. remember those things can be fun but your bullshit detectors should be on.

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while I do agree with the core idea of pointing out that one big originator of the trope of white haired tragic corruption arc villains in animanga is elric, it does feel like a lot of those discussions undercut their central point by not mentioning that a big part of it is literally just "manga is printed in black and white, and if you don't have the time for hatching or the resources to apply screentone, hair will be either black or white"

if you kinda default to "hair coloured black will appear black" when colouring, then the natural extension of that is more likely than not "hair that's left uncoloured will appear white (or blonde)"

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Look, there's a lot to be said about the contemporary gaming industry's preoccupation with graphics performance, but "no video game needs to run at higher than thirty frames per second" – which is something I've seen come up in a couple of recent trending posts – isn't a terribly supportable assertion.

The notion that sixty frames per second ought to be a baseline performance target isn't a modern one. Most NES games ran at sixty frames per second. This was in 1983 – we're talking about a system with two kilobytes of RAM, and even then, sixty frames per second was considered the gold standard. There's a good reason for that, too: if you go much lower, rapidly moving backgrounds start to give a lot of folks eye strain and vertigo. It's genuinely an accessibility problem.

The idea that thirty frames per second is acceptable didn't gain currency until first-generation 3D consoles like the N64, as a compromise to allow more complex character models and environments within the limited capabilities of early 3D GPUs. If you're characterising the 60fps standard as the product of studios pushing shiny graphics over good technical design, historically speaking you've got it precisely backwards: it's actually the 30fps standard that's the product of prioritising flash and spectacle over user experience.

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when I was a kid I never realized this strip was a parody of some old child safety psas (“it is now 10pm. do you know where your children are?”) and that honestly made it funnier because it looked like calvin was doing this for no reason

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I’m far less interested in fiction where it’s like “This power/ability/prophecy is gender specific but trans inclusive” and for more interested in fiction that just… doesn’t do that

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

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Game Concept: JRPG set in the US but the developers know nothing about America

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(Guy whos never been at risk from systemic violence voice) No i think all violence is bad guys. You know. The cycle of violence. I think both sides are bad!

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daily #24: SANDY THEE SQUIRREL

SpongeBob drill has caused irreparable damage to my psyche WE CAME FROM THE BOTTOM

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(coughing up blood) please... please play the Anthology of the Killer

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kinda sick of all those posts that are like "my ancestors were surviving starvation and the plague meanwhile i get nervous ordering food at restaurants". as if jauffrey the woodworker didn't fumble his conversation with the fine maiden running the fruit stand and then tripped on a pebble as he left in a hurry

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Unless u have at least a slightly more than mild distain for other aspies I don’t believe you have autism I meet another autist and 99% of the time they piss me the fuck off

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Critique is literally the life blood of art for the love of god, listen to me!!!!!