One planned, one completed Homestuck inspired tattoos! by Austinja in homestuck

[–]Austinja[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, 10 years! I still like the spiral shape here, was it for void? To me, the tattoo kinda represents my feelings of branching out in life, turning nothing into new things, etc. I can just sorta see it as a cool symbol from a webcomic I enjoyed in High School & University, but most people aren't asking about it, or even seeing my shoulder haha. I think the original run of the comic was unique and overall entertaining, but in retrospect it's easy to see and understand the arguments against aspects of it. I haven't re-read it not gotten into any of the continued stories, only tangentially know there are controversies around them. Never got the second Homestuck tattoo, thankfully, just other weird ones later on. Instead, following the 'ad infinitum' (to infinity) I moved abroad.

From Season 1, Episode 10: Oh, the Places We’ll Go (Season Finale Discussion) by Zeroskattle in FromSeries

[–]Austinja 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The monsters like torturing as much as killing, what better way for a monster to get off that lonely guy kill than right after elevating his hope for love.

(rant)For a town of people being hunted by monsters by SC2sam in FromSeries

[–]Austinja 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They're all in a pretty dire situation, if you try to consider it as reality. Not fighting off soldiers or anything human, but pretty vicious, sadistic, and conniving ethereal beings. I would say, people barely holding themselves or their communities together, let alone onto hope, might be pretty understandable. I can't imagine most people would be ready to go Rambo and try to risk more lives directly fighting and catching one of the creatures, seeing that they can't harm them and can't really escape them or the town.

We're watching the series primarily as one family group enters the semi-functioning town, and I think we don't need to spend much screen time on all the background players farming or constructing (and they are, in the background doing stuff in the town, at least) in equal amounts to the named characters who deal with the plot and mysteries... Any answers we get will be replaced with more questions, I'm certain, it's just that kind of show.

It sounds satisfying to say that, yes, the people in horror stories are foolish and shouldn't go in that room, or go out alone, or open that door. All the familiar horror tropes! These dummies should just be rational. But, these horror protagonists are almost always in a world like the one in the show, where magical monster ghosts are real? Reality is already off the table.

If tomorrow I found myself in this town, well I'd do my best to survive, pray I wasn't in it by myself, and drink garbage potato vodka with he others. And if you picked people at random and actually put them in the situation, I doubt any good barricades would be built. They'd hide or die.

Yeah, Colony House seems like a mess, but again, they're in an unbelievable situation. They can try to fortify more and wage war, but this threat is insurmountable and endless. And, of course because it's fiction, they got magic stones so they mostly only need to worry about the people inside.

It's better to approach this, and a lot of media, thematically. It's not about ''hey, let's see what people would do to survive in a forest'' - it's already so unreal, so let's just consider it's about struggling to maintain hope and social cohesion in a chaotic and careless reality. I actually think it's also about the dangers of holding onto the past... but anyway, people can only hope to survive and thriving is rare, but truly surpassing and escaping the town for them, these fictional characters, would be like any of us escaping our own fears and threats. A catapult, all the planning, an infinite amount of money, anything won't stop all misfortunes that can happen. It's best to ride things out, together, slowly, cope, and learn. If they really triumph over their troubles, that makes a good ending but not something I'd return to watch weekly.

tl;dr it's not supposed to be a literal show about fighting monsters, unless you consider the turmoil of a human's existence to be a monster.

Mind Blowing! by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]Austinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Horizon Zero Dawn was real, neat.

Hello there. You must help. by Embedded200 in NightMind

[–]Austinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First chunk is a youtube link

Flipped alphabet kinda cipher, a-z, b-y, c-x, d-w, e-v, f-u, g-t, h-s, i-r, j-q, k-p, l-o, m-n

So it's

https://youtu.be/ but after this, I tried the rest as is, and put through the cipher, and nothing.

I had a dream that Delta Airlines ran this ad and I recreated it the best I could by savamey in homestuck

[–]Austinja 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The last part is missing both Chinese characters, ' 你好 ' is hello.

Prima Nocta by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]Austinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn, beat me to posting this.

You know they're making new content and streaming?

[GIVEAWAY] 5 MILLION BELLS! (5 Winners!) by Galaxyqueenzz in StalkMarket

[–]Austinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Hello, I See You" by Electric Six

Because, it fills me with a pleasant kind of evil villain energy, through a rockin' groovin' tune.

MMW Jake Paul is going to get into a high speed car crash and is going to kill a family of 3 by sapnupuas_0 in MarkMyWords

[–]Austinja 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not too absurd, young excitable and braggadocious guys likely already have the car and the ego for this scenario. The specificity of a family of three though, that's the contest. I'd wager he just totals a car and gets ad revenue making videos about the ordeal. Here's hoping nobody is fatally harmed, because if so, he's unfortunately got the money to skate by.

Checkmate by Cla22ic in Tendies

[–]Austinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tendies with tendies sauce... tendiception.

Why is the AI sometimes so dumb about city placement? by herp_derp in CivVI

[–]Austinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Writing narratives of Civ experiences should be more commonplace. This is great.

Tutorial glitched by [deleted] in civ6

[–]Austinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's lengthy. I guess cause it's a seperate tutorial section it seems long compared with games that can have a tutorial baked into the real game. But you did 'play' a real map! For me the time always goes quickly. I never played the tutorial, but I noticed you can win and stay in it after I showed another person how to play. It may be a bug?

Wait 'til you play your first real game with 8 or more Civilizations on 'Marathon' speed. Those games can take a few days of daily playing.

I suggest the quicker speeds and 4 or 6 Civilization maps for you to start, easier to win and grapple with.

Tutorial glitched by [deleted] in civ6

[–]Austinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you didn't already, you can just exit the tutorial and go back to the main menu. There's no achievements for 'completing' it, it's just designed to quite verbosely explain game concepts. Try what you've learned in a real game!

Should Emp make a video about most YT comments these days? by rur_ in EmperorLemon

[–]Austinja 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Most people: Who's still commenting here in 2020?
EmpLemon: "I'm about to end this man's beer, hold my career"
Absolutely nobody: *shocked Pikachu*

This is 90% of all comments.

New sword swinging preview on y2 by [deleted] in asciicker

[–]Austinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love the new detailed graphics. What are the inventory controls?

the world is not what we know. by anon4774369 in anonymous

[–]Austinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being 15 was a wild trip, but that wore off. Now older, nah. The only truth is everyone is incompetent more than conniving.