It's nice to meet all you. I am she/her, can speak Toki Pona and English (non-natively), and locatable on Reddit as MozartWasARed. The links at https://discord.gg/sEuSSDz6TQ and https://www.deviantart.com/triagonal/art/My-copyright-policy-and-the-impact-it-extends-into-906668443 are pertinent to me.
My two only friends (in the strict sense of the word) famously like to photobomb as one of their hobbies. Including in my own content, sometimes I surprise myself learning how far-reaching they have succeeded with this, I might be reading something that seems like it would come from a foreign country, and there they are.
I have several small ideas that seem like they'd go together in a work of fiction, but there are also so many gaps that seeing it ruins any forward thinking I might have about it.
If stray cats in a town are friendly, that means the community is friendly. If they're timid, beware the people.
Kah-muh-luh as it would be pronounced in her mind. Or Camille, if it was anglicized.
I can relate. Even when I have things I might say, I have nothing to say because I never know what to talk about. If you ask me an open question, even one like "how are you", if history is anything to go by, the indecision would kill the conversation. And conversations about my potential BF, my job, etc. come off like I'm less a family/community member to them, at a family gathering no less. Sometimes one would rather have someone to be silent with.
People asking me if I've tried turning it off and then turning back on again, sometimes while seeming to imply next I should try reversing the polarity, inserting blinker fluid into it, and giving it a good talk like it's a homegrown tomato or something.
Not really dating per se but socialization in general. I never know what to say in a conversation, my mind is just not good at that. And then I spend too long thinking of something to say and people lose interest.
However we want. It's different for everyone of us.
Someone asked to make a rap playlist of a hundred rap tracks by favorite rappers, and me and the other person making it, both wanting to make a statement regarding our respective view on rap as a music genre, snuck in the theme song for the Fresh Prince of Bel Air to see what would happen. The listener didn't even notice until the tenth time listening to it.
The people who want to elect DT are either extremists, cult followers, uninformed / misinformed, or corporate or political anarchists.
Or they just, I don't know, like his particular promises, such as a good economy and war with Palestine.
A whale. They're not particularly aggressive, but their normal motions have the potential to shatter every bone in your body if you approach them wrong, like if you approached them where their tail ends up hitting you. That and I imagine you'd have to be able to swim to approach them in the first place without being terrified, so that rules me out.
Because all they do is roast on the open fire all day while we break our backs doing stuff.
It's because I've triggered a lot of raised eyebrows from people elsewhere who consider it their pilgrimage (because that's how much they are peeved by me) to find me in other places and vandalize/spam my stuff and experience, hence something I often say which itself also gets the same stones thrown at me. Somedays it seems I can't walk to the post office without being showered with phantom disdain.
She is an author, both of video games and of books. She made a game with what many have complained are some very cheap sprite knock-offs of other games, and in the book she later made based on the game, this was alluded to when the first main character encountered by the female protagonist (the one depicted in blue) is described as looking exactly like Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII.
When I went to wish her a happy birthday, I wanted to do it in a cheerful way, so I began drawing the characters, but then realized the arrangement would've been weird without context, so I also drew Sephiroth, another character in Final Fantasy and the villain who Cloud Strife canonically fights, to make it equally perceivable as a Final Fantasy drawing as it would be a drawing of her book/game, even though Sephiroth's existence is only jokingly implied in the book/game.
And then I added a bit of dialogue because that's my thing when I draw stuff like that. The text reads "do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jenova", Jenova being the name of the alien cloned to create Sephiroth in Final Fantasy, thus I was remaking a common pun in the fandom. It was the only thing I could think of that would both fit the situation in the drawing, be enjoyed by the author who also happens to be into spiritual studies (which is a part of how I came to enjoy the author), and need the least amount of explaining to anyone who came across the chalk drawing.
Just a reminder because this seems to be an issue
Unless on usurped or deceptive pretenses, I do not encourage the act of circumventing bans, and other people in charge would say the same.
That said, if someone gives off the vibes that they're in the business of it, it cannot be enforced as if it were an exact science. It can only be dissuaded based on certain definitive details. We kindly ask if you may give the benefit of the doubt, and if people (not us) have the authority to do so, they will act.
Let people higher up take care of these matters. Do not harass people or vent at them over such matters, and report people cautiously, not based on whims. Or as a list of rules once said...
"Remember the human" is as good a rule here as anywhere. Thanking all for their patience.
Has anyone else noticed an explosion of bees lately?
I might as well ask this since I got stung or bit by a bee yesterday during America day.
Last year, when taking strolls, it was rare enough for a bee to swarm around me that I could go whole strolls without it happening sometimes.
This year, they swarm around me everywhere. Everywhere. It's like fighting your way through putty patrollers. They respawn instantly, there's absolutely no lag. Shoo one away and one comes back five seconds later. Sometimes for three hour strolls encompassing six miles.
What the heck happened? Anyone else notice this?
What's the deal with this unknown disfigurement on this possum?
There's a baby possum that's kind enough to be a regular visitor where I am. Poor kid has what appears to be a wound on his/her face, almost like a cleft lip. I am no veterinarian, but a "code of honor" relevant to my hobby here casts a shadow over me and I was wondering what kind of issue the disfigurement represents so I don't feel guilty.
Am I the only one who doesn't really care about graphics?
As video games develop more and more over the years, companies have been making them more and more realistic-looking. I can guess this is related to expectations, but am I the only one who doesn't care about graphics? We could be using the same processing power to store worlds that have as much exploration potential as the Earth itself if we weren't afraid to save on processing power by going back to 8-bit.
There should be a law
I've definitely shared this concept or observation or whatever you want to call it before, but recent events have made me think of it again. I should clarify first that what I base this train of thought on isn't entirely something that clicks for me, something I might not get into expressing, but it definitely makes you or at least me wonder why the implications in the train of thought aren't considered, at least outside my occupation (since I'm in an occupation designed to work around the otherwise neglect of the concept), and I thought of running this by.
Back in the old days, it was common for business people to pay their workers more honestly, as in based on what they thought the worker seemed to deserve. Often the workers would seem underwhelmed. Organized criminals would then step in and say "you'll get more out of us" and so that part of society grew. For some reason, the first thing within the mind of the people in charge, trying to assess everything, was "let's invent this thing, we might call it the minimum wage". Alrighty. So this side thinking, what do we think of it? Something happened, right?
So here is where the train of thought works into the picture. Matters of monetization are just one arena up the sleeve of bad actors. A lot of people feel abruptly socially isolated. When this happens, instinct is often to seek out companions. Social life might be dead or people might be avoidant. Someone I know is in such a situation. Along comes what might be called a bad actor. To them, they might see a potential extension of themselves with freedom of minimal effort. And voila, someone new joins the "bad crowd" or "dysfunctional crowd".
Watching this unfold myself, I think to myself. Places have a "minimum reference point" for the topic of exchange/payment/whatever the word is, so then what does the non-thinking come from to apply this thought to the whole isolation thing mentioned? Anyone here have people they know who were absorbed into a bad part of society when everything seemed dead and thought "well, it's not like anyone else was going to give them what they need"?
TIL the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was actually made after a book adaptation, which means Star Wars hype is technically literary-based in nature
Star Wars: A New Hope, formerly titled Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, is a Legends novel ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster and credited to George Lucas. It adapts the film of the same name, and it was based on the screenplay by Lucas. The novelization was first published on Novembe...
TIL Catwoman canonically has a sidekick
Kitrina Falcone or Catgirl, previously known as Kittyhawk, is the niece of Mario Falcone. Mario abused Kitrina mentally and physically due to her uniqueness. She became Catwoman's sidekick, after befriending Selina Kyle. The first Cat Girl was on the original 60s Batman TV show, years before Batman ...
How is the prom experience for everyone?
It's definitely hard to miss all the people where I live pulling out of driveways in dresses and people taking pictures across all the public areas, it really lets you know it's prom time.
What's your experience with prom (or multiple proms if you went to others too)? How did everyone look? How was it celebrated? Was it good?