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#touhou

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you think sakuya is like that because she was forced(?) to spend centuries(?) with the scarlets or was she always normal

#touhou

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and come to think of it, why are the Romans almost always acted with an English accent? They were literally Italian

I'm always glad to have things where American accents are minimal or not present, especially in fantasy, but why is it almost always upper-class English instead? Where's the stories about, I dunno, the fantasyland where Scots is the standard? French? Romanian? Indian?

#okay 'literally' is slightly too strong because. yknow. the intellectual bankruptcy of retrojection onto the past #they literally lived in what is now Italy and literall spoke an ancestor of the language that is now Italian

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I'm always glad to have things where American accents are minimal or not present, especially in fantasy, but why is it almost always upper-class English instead? Where's the stories about, I dunno, the fantasyland where Scots is the standard? French? Romanian? Indian?

#well. indivisible is more or less close enough to that last one. i guess.

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there's something funny about how in movies the reason the bad guys beat the legal system is usually loopholes and corrupt lawyers

which certainly is how the cops would tell it

but my (mostly second-hand) experience has been that it's mostly because the cops go "the laws that are meant to protect innocent people from us don't apply this time because we know this person's guilty!" and then they commit a bunch of crimes to get evidence that then can't be used. Because they committed a bunch of crimes to get it. Or they just didn't get any useful evidence at all and think that they can convince a judge/jury that someone's guilty because, uh, they were walking around at night or something - and when the prosecutors inevitably discard the whole thing because there's no case, the cops convince themselves that it's corruption.

#loopholes also *mostly* don't work #there are still actual human beings deciding these things #if you put some bizarre literalist pseudolegal bullshit before a judge odds are they just go 'fuck you. guilty.' #I suppose it's also possible that things are just different in that lawless hellhole south of the border. you know. In the US

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probably shitty worldbuilding idea: fantasy world that keeps going

#actually already part of a thing I've been thinking about #it's just such a captivating idea

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#ace attorney

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Steven Moffat doesn't get enough credit for how memetically powerful the weeping angels were. That creature concept just broke out of a Doctor Who bottle episode and took over the world. It was everywhere after Blink.

Make a staring contest a monster, brilliant

#doctor who

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been listening to Japanese TV in the background for immersion practice and got Quebec jumpscared by some old mystery drama

#I clicked over to see what was going on and after needing a second to process what I was seeing #I went 'wait does that scene shift subtitle thing say Quebec' and then the french started

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#loz

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every time I see a new Japanese learner's brain breaking as they try to understand verb conjugation, I'm more and more thankful that my professor went "this isn't how the textbook does it, but we're going to be learning the dictionary forms first, you'll thank me later"

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last night was fun

had to update my internet browser for the first time in two years, found out that I hate what they're doing with it, looked for hours, found a way to roll back my browser two years, somehow kept the thing I updated to get

this is not sustainable, and in fact I'm probably already in danger from the lack of security updates, but inertia's a bitch

#I'm already doing research into potential alternatives at least #did you know that Firefox also tracks you? that most of Mozilla's funding comes from Google? #that Mozilla had significant layoffs while at the same time upping the CEO's salary? #I'm still looking. is what I'm saying.

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

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#the dragon the hero and the courier

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I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

#history

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Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes

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[...] says that he has recieved permission [...] [emphasis mine]

lmao even the press release doesn't trust Mastema's word

#shin megami tensei #smtv #mastema smt #smtvv #shin megami tensei v #shin megami tensei v vengeance