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Norman Rockwell (American, 1894 - 1978), Wet Paint, 1930, oil on canvas.

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obsessed with this reddit thread 

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It might be nice to be infantilized instead of demonized for once just as a change of pace

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This is like a fire extinguisher catching fire

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i run ttrpg games *very* rarely, just halloween one-offs every couple of years. but! here is the the most fun theatrical trick i've played on my players. it totally got them

this was a story that was going to begin with the players playing themselves, sitting around the table in my living room, and then in-game the living room (and the players) would be transported to another plane

i rigged up a bluetooth speaker next to the window and closed the curtains. about ten minutes after they came in, before the game even began, i began playing rain sounds very quietly over the speaker. every couple of minutes i turned the rain up louder. just as the game began, with the rain at near maximum volume, one of the players even said "wow, it's really coming down out there, it wasn't even raining when we arrived"

🙃

i wrote a creepy verbal ritual the players had to complete as a group to transport the room to another world. right as they finished the ritual, i turned off the lights in the room using a remote and turned off the rain sounds at the same time

it was crazy effective. realistically it only took them a couple of seconds to figure out how I'd managed to turn off the rain, but they all said later on that those few seconds were completely disorientating, even frightening

anyway, i'm still proud of it 💜

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say what you will about my family but that one time my favorite uncle died and i was super sad so they wanted to like bring me out for ice cream to cheer me up but i was super withdrawn and spent all day in my room and when they finally went out to bring me to cheer up ice cream day they entirely forgot to bring my ass and didnt notice till they were back either was pretty damn funny in retrospect

#it's funny in the way that some bits in media are meant to be funny and kinda are #but I always just feel bad for the character it's at the expense of

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the right hairstyle for your face is the one that makes you smile when you see yourself in the mirror btw.

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I think I would thrive in a zoo enclosure

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i love gifs that don’t loop. they had a story to tell and now they’re done

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lord the peasants are so loud today

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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Me: I hate gossip

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ok lets settle it. which laios is getting the best dick rn

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Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

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