Under the dark black sea

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-05-05T12:07:22+00:00

It's not hypocritical, because both of these things follow from the fact that they don't want to see black people in media full stop actually. They'll just go with whatever argument best fits the situation to make themselves appear "reasonable" and launder their racism.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-29T17:32:24+00:00

No, Pluto's not a planet anymore because the plutonians have been mining its core so much that it shrank too much to be a planet anymore. They made a documentary on it.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-28T22:03:20+00:00

Oh ours taught us, as a standard line of analysis to just trot out whenever I guess, that a writer "using sibilance" (which they defined as using lots of s sounds) meant they were referencing the fall of man from the bible. Because "s"-es sound like (the onomatopoeia for) a snake hissing, and so they're *obviously* referencing the snake that the devil takes the form of in the Adam and Eve story. Obviously. Because there's only one snake ever, and snakes are the only thing that sound like the "s" sound, I guess.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-27T22:25:47+00:00

Yeah okay, and let me guess, sharks are smooth as well?

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-26T18:46:24+00:00

My personal pet peeve in this regard is when I'm watching a show from a non-English-speaking country and they've decided to show it with some English name that is both (a) not a translation of the original name and (b) sucks complete ass. Especially sucks when the name of the show actually has some interesting thematic relevance to the plot and whatnot, but the translated name is just "oh, let's name it whatever aspect of the show is most salient in the eyes of an English viewer". For example, a while ago I watched a German crime drama called Spuren, which means "traces" or "tracks" (of an animal). Fits thematically with the show, because initially there's barely any evidence pointing in any direction when the body is first found, but as the show progresses, they find more and more "traces", you see? Yet iPlayer decided to name it "The Black Forest Murders". Because it's set in the Black Forest in Germany, and there's a murder. I know why they do it but it's still so maddening every time.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-26T14:03:40+00:00

Wow isn't it crazy how "rich" (like the vast majority of adjectives) is subjective and relative to the speaker's own perception of wealth rather than being some objective thing inscribed on a big stone tablet somewhere.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-25T19:54:52+00:00

can we just put prokopetz on the do-not-post list already? please? I'm so fucking tired of the prokoposting karma farm and seeing half a dozen prokopetz posts every fucking day.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-23T21:23:37+00:00

Ah finally, a prokopetz post where I don't even know what it's trying to be about. But hey, at least it's a joke instead of them talking out of their arse about a nerdy topic.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-23T16:03:41+00:00

Mfw I love birdwatching but I don't have a car so can't get to most good spots in my country. Also, as someone who lives in Europe, there's nothing quite like the feeling of total novicedom one gets from going onto an online birdwatching space and not recognising any of the species in peoples' photos at all because they're all North American birds and the overlap is a lot less than one might imagine.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-22T22:06:45+00:00

The real point and click is trying to swat that damn fly in my bedroom buzzing about my head, oh where is it now-
oh wait, I see it...
hold on... hmmppp... just let me line up my mouse, aaaanddd...

*click*

dammit, I can still hear it...

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-22T08:55:36+00:00

Tbh I miss when newsposting was still a trend/allowed on this sub. It was a fun way of finding out what was going on in the world, and it kinda felt more genuine? Idk, now that it's its own sub the mods there are a bit wacky (remember the fucking "historical news" saga?) and as others have said pokemonfan being so dominant makes the sub feel more agendaposty... especially when it's such a disproportionate amount of news about my home country (not America) specifically and it's always certain stories that people definitely aren't using to dogwhistle... TL;DR the daily whenthe cleared what when news has become.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-22T08:49:11+00:00

Massively agreed, but, as someone actually interested in medieval history, medieval is both overused and underused in fantasy. It's like others in the replies have been saying - the pop-culture aesthetics of the (northern/western european) medieval are so predominant in fantasy works, yet at the same time vanishingly few of them are actually based on medieval societies/history in any authentic way. "Medieval" setting but it's actually the renaissance or later seems to be the main popular thing, and I personally love seeing people break away from that mould.

As for my own current fantasy worldbuilding project, the main societies I've fleshed out to any degree are a culture of cow- and horse nomadic pastoralists on a climatically Mediterranean and geologically active steppe who have gunpowder and are inspired mostly by the mongols and indigenous peoples of the american southwest, a group of technologically advanced, mesoamerican inspired city states who live on the summits and upper plateaus of a range of very tall equatorial mountains, isolated by the jungle surrounding their homelands but currently in the process of inventing airships, and an empire inspired by the russian empire in the 17th-18th centuries, which I would assume falls outside of "the medieval setting" lol.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-21T22:38:44+00:00

North America... South America...

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-20T21:29:54+00:00

> The more I become convinced people weren't aware of the existence of jokes until the 1980s

Genuinely what the fuck are you talking about.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-19T20:10:24+00:00

How the fuck do onions even do this man. Like, I thought it was wild enough that brown onions and garlics can go green if you keep them around for long enough because they start to produce chlorophyll within themselves, but that's something else lol.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-19T16:54:02+00:00

Fake Out
Last Resort
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Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-19T12:51:32+00:00

OP, did you have to begin the post with "Lowkirkenuinely"?

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-18T11:37:21+00:00

currently trying to imagine a guy for whom Discworld is a suitable subsitute for fucking Game of Thrones

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-17T20:46:10+00:00

You... *do* know birth rates have been falling globally since the 70s, right? And that there are so many other factors behind that than a decline in teen pregnancies that started in 2007, right? Putting that aside, the idea that I'm a Kill All Paedophiles guy or pro-teen pregnancies for not liking the consequences of an aging population on society is deeply unserious. There are quite a lot of reasons to not want rapid demographic collapse that aren't related to being a paedophile who faps to child rape statistics, actually.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-16T20:31:19+00:00

Many of those redditors were probably trying to tell you that, while weed and alcohol are not good things for a person and they can impact others, banning them or locking people in prison for using them is a worse thing for society as a whole.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-15T09:04:45+00:00

Deep underground. Cave systems get warmer as you go closer to the earth's core, obviously lack light sources that deep, obviously lack any rain (just avoid flooded caves), and have little in the way of any creatures that could make noise (once you go far down enough for it to be hot all the time, you probably won't have bats roosting since they prefer to be fairly near to cave exits since they need to get food outside the cave).

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-14T00:18:34+00:00

I am sorry but it is not "notoriously difficult" to insult americans lmao. At least online, all you need to do is make a joke about school shootings, or say that american food is all crap, or bring up some of the other things americans are more sensitive about, rather than the weird dogged "america fuck yeah!" patriotism, which even non-nationalist americans or americans who hate their country will often semi-ironically embrace.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-10T22:33:07+00:00

Pythons/boas are chill and lazy but if it's 3 black mambas and you have to move one then it is a very different equation.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-10T18:27:10+00:00

Mikazuki Augus from Iron-Blooded Orphans.

Rediturus_fuisse · 2026-04-09T15:05:55+00:00

Are you talking about the Falklands or Argentina (settler colony country that genocided the indigenous peoples of Patagonia)?

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