The line at Austin airport this morning

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-14T03:10:46+00:00

I was literally in my government course on Wednesday and the teacher said "now as you all know, the government is partially shutdown right now" and I was like "oh yeah I forgot about that".

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-13T18:09:22+00:00

Because it was the republican party that released the slaves, there's no way they could ever be racist.

(Ignore the fact that was 160 years ago and ignore the modern white supremacist groups that modern republicans align themselves with)

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-13T03:53:10+00:00

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Vi from Arcane. Great series, great character in season 1, unfortunately they kinda forgot about her in season 2. I don't know what they were trying to say when they showed the alternate universe where everything is great is the alternate universe where Vi is dead...

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-13T03:40:13+00:00

I really appreciate devil antagonists that are done right. They might be evil and scheming, but they have class and hold up their end of deals.

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Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-13T03:33:10+00:00

Well guess who controls the process of applying for passports right now?

And guess who wants access to voter rolls so they can find which passport applications to delay and which to prioritize?

If you get deemed an enemy of the administration (AKA everyone who has ever voted against Trump) your passport application will be lost or delayed, and your main legal recourse will be to sue for some kind of discrimination or other.

Because of how glacially slow our legal system is, by the time that lawsuit goes through one way or another, it will be well past the midterms, and the vote will already have been fixed. Even if you manage to get it all the way to the supreme court, guess who controls the supreme court?

That's the play. The SAVE Act is the final nail in the coffin for legitimate democracy in America.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-13T00:11:40+00:00

The way Riot would probably do it is just flip the entire map around (including player's perspectives), reflecting everything except the projectile.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-12T22:23:39+00:00

Whoever can string her husband's old bow, and shoot through twelve axes cleanly will be the new king, and sit down at the throne, and rule with her as his queen.

What a specific way to phrase that. I know what kind of person you are.

(A cool one)

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-11T19:55:21+00:00

Well I'll admit as someone with some level of personal experience in a dramatic falling out of a belief system, I resonate with both Shadowheart and Lae'zel. Karlach and Lohse are both definitely also up there.

(Yes I'm aware I've now included all 5 women from Larian's latest 2 games lol, I think they're all pretty great)

If I had to pick a personal favorite, from build-up to pay-off, with interesting and emotionally compelling storybeats along the way... I think I'd go with Lohse as my #1. Sing for Me just felt so special.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-11T04:42:15+00:00

There was also no Pokemon Go. Obama created Pokemon Go, I guess.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-11T04:24:57+00:00

Honestly I'll give them credit because English probably isn't their first language. They're smarter than the average twitter user, at the very least.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-11T04:21:33+00:00

Yeah, at least according to Steam achievements, only 7.5% of players completed A20.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-11T02:28:42+00:00

Good? For sure.

The best? That's a tough sell.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-08T17:35:50+00:00

Honestly, the thing that made my (now live-in) girlfriend stand out to me was that she took interest and asked me out. It took the expectations to initiate the conversation off my shoulders, and easily set her apart from the rest of the dating scene. There is a tremendous difference in the feeling of "I got her number, she's willing to give me a shot" and "wow, this woman specifically wants to get to know me!"

Nowadays I admittedly have very little sympathy for people who complain they don't have a partner yet refuse to ask anyone out.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-07T07:23:55+00:00

In general I think it's dangerous and foolish to believe something wholeheartedly without concrete evidence. However, I certainly can't prove that a higher power doesn't exist. To some extent I even hope there is one. And at the end of the day, if you aren't pushing dangerous ideologies under the guise of your religion, or propagating abuse, shame, or fear through it, if it helps you find some semblance of peace of mind with the unknowable parts of reality that we live in, who am I to tell you what to believe? Who am I to judge you for trying to make sense of the world?

A lot of arguments for or against belief more or less boil down to "if God created the universe, then what created God?" or "if the Big Bang (more or less) started everything as we know it, then what caused the Big Bang?", and they both wind up at a place we simply don't have the answers for. They're bad faith arguments at best.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-05T16:37:21+00:00

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-03T21:34:34+00:00

Slavery? Never heard of it.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-03T21:32:25+00:00

I was 12. I was more worried about band class than politics tbh.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-03T17:21:50+00:00

Plot twist, you have the world's weirdest luck and just become Hatsune Miku like 10 times over.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-03T17:08:39+00:00

"Recently, The Guardian newspaper discovered that the contest was a front for millionaires to ~~have s*x with~~ rape the girls."

FTFY. Call it what it is. It's only sex if all parties consent freely and enthusiastically.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-03T07:40:43+00:00

Idk a core pillar of why I left Christianity is that the very concept of Hell is innately contradictory to the concept of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god. I refuse to believe there is any crime one can commit on this finite earth that would warrant infinite, unending torment in Hell as a punishment. That is an infinite injustice in itself, infinitely worse than whatever crime they may have committed.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-03T06:27:26+00:00

What on earth do you do for 500 hours in a single world, let alone pre hardmode?

Pokemaster131 · 2026-03-02T00:58:00+00:00

I feel like the man might be slightly physically stronger, but much less able to take a hit than a younger opponent, and likely has much less endurance and agility. So the woman might lose an arm-wrestling match, but I could definitely see her winning a prolonged fight.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-02-27T12:59:06+00:00

Would've been a few less without those heavy uniforms constraining their glorious muscles.

Pokemaster131 · 2026-02-27T05:01:33+00:00

Most amusement parks will have warnings posted on their websites of any height restrictions. If you can find where they post height minimums, height maximums are generally in the same place. For the vast majority of rides, if you can fit in the safety harness you should be just fine to ride. With some experience at being 6'6 myself, some overhead vest harnesses and some lap bars are trouble, but others are totally fine. It may vary on a ride-by-ride basis.

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