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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Incidentally I am really unhappy with the Wikipedia image for the Lady of Pain.

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    MsAnthropyMsAnthropy The Lady of Pain Breaks the Rhythm, Breaks the Rhythm, Breaks the Rhythm The City of FlowersRegistered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    I would enjoy Sense8 more if literally any of the main characters were old, fat, disabled, or otherwise not a young hot CW-league star.

    I would watch Sense8 if the Lady of Pain showed up to applause that became screams and then silence.

    Also, if it was set in Sigil and the Great Wheel rather than boring old earth.

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    "The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -- Jack Kirby
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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    A Planescape series would really make for an incredible philosophical action comedy.

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    So I started playing

    "The Silver Case"





    wtf am i getting into?

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Sense8 is fun though because it is a bunch of very attractive diverse people doing cool shit.

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    Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    Rediscovered this just now.

    What did we ever do to deserve Mr. Rogers.

    (spoilered for v-scroll)
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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    edited May 2018
    Like, it is a show doing a damn good job mainstreaming trans relationships. It doesnt need to check every box on the diversity rainbow to be doing good work.

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    simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    So I've never gotten my driver's license, for reasons that are a combination of laziness and a lack of need since most of my adult life I've lived in places with decent public transport infrastructure and/or friends who do drive

    HOWEVER simonwaifu made it clear a while ba l that she would Greatly Appreciate her future husband learning how to drive so I've been taking lessons for a couple of months now

    Today I've got to do the "Hazard Perception Test" at the driving test place (computer test where you watch videos and determine if/when it is necessary to slow down or safe to do stuff like overtake/turn right), which will then let me take my full drivers license test in two weeks

    now all I need is a salary and I'll be an Adult??

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Like, it is a show doing a damn good job mainstreaming trans relationships. It doesnt need to check every box on the diversity rainbow to be doing good work.

    ... And some of them take their clothes off, right

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    Like, it is a show doing a damn good job mainstreaming trans relationships. It doesnt need to check every box on the diversity rainbow to be doing good work.

    ... And some of them take their clothes off, right

    almost all of them!

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Rediscovered this just now.

    What did we ever do to deserve Mr. Rogers.

    (spoilered for v-scroll)
    1ws0zR0.png

    Yeah. I wasn't in the right geographical or chronological location to experience Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

    But that man was a net plus for humanity.

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    A Planescape series would really make for an incredible philosophical action comedy.

    ??

    ??????

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    simon remember whenever there's a hazard while you're driving the car, if you go fast enough you'll pass right through it without anyone getting hurt

    That's just physics

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    PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    ppups why you quittin caffeine

    I hate being dependent. I have some time before job where I don't have to see people so quitting for two days and then drinking less is the plan

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    edited May 2018
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    simon remember whenever there's a hazard while you're driving the car, if you go fast enough you'll pass right through it without anyone getting hurt

    That's just physics

    yeah, its called frame skipping. reality only moves at 60 frames a second, so you can get between the frames of reality if you are fast enough.

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Like, it is a show doing a damn good job mainstreaming trans relationships. It doesnt need to check every box on the diversity rainbow to be doing good work.

    It isn't that I want it to check boxes on the diversity rainbow. It's more that, for a show that is about people connecting to one another, I find the main cast alienating.

    The trans hacker girl is the only character I relate to at all.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    custom license plate that says NOCLIP

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Feral wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    Like, it is a show doing a damn good job mainstreaming trans relationships. It doesnt need to check every box on the diversity rainbow to be doing good work.

    It isn't that I want it to check boxes on the diversity rainbow. It's more that, for a show that is about people connecting to one another, I find the main cast alienating.

    The trans hacker girl is the only character I relate to at all.

    Every one of them is vulnerable in some way while also being exceptional in others.

    Not all of the cast speaks to me, but they are all very similar while coming from vastly different backgrounds.

    Van Damn is amongst my favorites.

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    FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
    custom license plate that says NOCLIP

    IDKFA

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Sad I had to leave without getting to finish Billions tonight

    Fuck this earth

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
    custom license plate that says NOCLIP

    I'd like a plate that reads YAHYAHYAHYAHYAH.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I liked korean punchy lady and african taxi man

    but I couldn't get past how like every frame was extremely boring to look at so I didn't manage to stick with it at all

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    I also adore the gay mexican actor and his non conventional relationship with the love of his life and the girl who enjoys being part of their family.

    That whole story has been cool.

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    simonwolf wrote: »
    custom license plate that says NOCLIP

    IDKFA

    Oddjob


    Fuck his short bullshit

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    korean punchy lady is also super baller, and I love when she steps in and makes one of her team become a karate master.

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    OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I do often have trouble feeling represented- as a mentally ill, a Jew, whatever- because all of tv is so beautiful. Probably doesn’t help that you have the fat creepy pedophile with a scar or whatever. Damn you baron harkonnen

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    Sense8 writers in 5 years: “The boring German guy was born with a harelip or a third nut or something”

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Okay that was a pretty bad abortive attempt to quit caffeine cold turkey. Maybe I will taper over a longer time period? Usually I prefer getting things over with but I'm not sure I've ever been this dependent before

    Caffeine is a right bastard. I've heard some health professionals comment that caffeine and sugar are harder to quit than smoking.

    In my experience this may be true because after 9 weeks of neither, I was able to hold off on smoking again but the first thing I did when I graduated from basic was buy a Red Bull.

    i am lucky that i don't have too much of a psychological addiction*, it's just physical

    *this is tricky to say because especially when I am not dependent caffeine is fuckin' magical and I want it for the positive effects so it is psychologically difficult to only have it 4 days a week which is ideal for not getting dependent again. But I don't think I would struggle really to go 30 or 60 days without on a dare or something. After day 3 it would be pretty easy to stay in the groove.

    When I went from far, far too much caffeine (700mg avg, a few days I'd top 1g) to under 200mg daily I had flu symptoms for about 2 months. They were mild in comparison to the real thing, but I had body aches, nausea, and a headache even with caffeine intake.

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    edited May 2018
    I feel lots of shows celebrate mentally ill people who use their issues to power their capabilities and careers.

    House was mentally ill as fuck, amazing doctor.

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    So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    I feel lots of shows celebrate mentally ill people who use their issues to power their capabilities and careers.

    House was mentally ill as fuck, amazing doctor.

    Er celebrate might not be the right word there.

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    jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    I feel lots of shows celebrate mentally ill people who use their issues to power their capabilities and careers.

    House was mentally ill as fuck, amazing doctor.

    Yeah but having an actual mental illness isn't a gateway into being a savant, and most mental illnesses shown on tv are removed from reality.

    I don't see how my anxiety or panic disorder makes things easier day to day, and I can't leverage it in a positive light. Same with my depression.

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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    A Planescape series would really make for an incredible philosophical action comedy.

    ??

    ??????

    Planescape is full of absurd hilarity and violence.

    I mean Modrons. Modrons.

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    KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    I really hate those clickbait articles on the internet.

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Okay friends, I am going to sleep - my counterpart has been out cold for a while now >_>

    Good night, be good to yourself, to each other, and to our planet <3

    And celebrate Narwhal maybe!

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    IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »
    I really hate those clickbait articles on the internet.

    So... everything that isn't porn?

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    syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    edited May 2018
    So It Goes wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    I feel lots of shows celebrate mentally ill people who use their issues to power their capabilities and careers.

    House was mentally ill as fuck, amazing doctor.

    Er celebrate might not be the right word there.

    I mean, yeah... I get that.

    TV tends to show mentally unwell people in two lights... homeless or wildly successful with some hangups and nothing inbetween.

    As someone not fully put together in the traditional sense, shows where smart but socially challenged folks succeeded gave me hope, and I just ignored that he was a drug addict who drove a car into his boss' thanksgiving dinner.

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    OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2018
    syndalis wrote: »
    I feel lots of shows celebrate mentally ill people who use their issues to power their capabilities and careers.

    House was mentally ill as fuck, amazing doctor.

    He’s also good looking and chart breakingly brilliant

    I get for some people, they crave representation as empowerment, with superheroes or models of their color or beliefs. That’s not what I mean. I’m not looking to be empowered by seeing people with my problems or non mainstream traits be amazing despite them. I’m looking to see people who are like me (including: not brilliant, not good looking), period. Which is far less common, since when it isn’t super-empower time these traits often code as crazy and offputting

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    No-QuarterNo-Quarter Nothing To Fear But Fear ItselfRegistered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    I feel lots of shows celebrate exploit mentally ill people who use their issues to power their capabilities and careers.

    House was mentally ill as fuck, amazing doctor.

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    I feel lots of shows celebrate mentally ill people who use their issues to power their capabilities and careers.

    House was mentally ill as fuck, amazing doctor.

    Symmetra from Overwatch, The Accountant, The Good Doctor - the list of autistic protagonists is definitely growing in the last few years.

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    AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    That Mr. Rogers thing made me tear up.

    He/Him | "A boat is always safest in the harbor, but that’s not why we build boats." | "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." - Suletta Mercury, G-Witch
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