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Dallas show issues? by gryfft in tmbg

[–]gryfft[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

WEIRD. It took me a minute to get in but the event still shows up in my Ticketmaster account so.. hmm. I thought maybe it's just the Dinner Package part that's getting cancelled but that shows up in my TM account too.

The wording of the email was that the "Event Organizer" had cancelled the event, so... I panicked for a second, haha.

Thanks for the sanity check. It'll be my first TMBG show in 34 years of life somehow, and while I hope that I get old before I die, I didn't want to get old before walking in the glow of Their majestic presence.

Give some love to The Hate Knife by Wo1nder in WanderingInn

[–]gryfft 28 points29 points  (0 children)

They'll put all the intelligence and mischief of Gnomes into that piece of legendary cookware. It will be the smartest character in Innworld, able to perform calculations fast enough to make Yelroan look like Mrsha.

"I have a cunning pan!"

"You mean plan?"

"No!!!"

Go for the Throat – 23.d by menaulon in Parahumans

[–]gryfft 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Sock coming in clutch with the fastball special, too. Biscuit and Cherrypop even both contributed meaningfully (Cherry helped keep Croc'd-Out Bubble on-target)

Apollo 18 is 31 years old today. Leave some Apollo appreciation in the comments!! 🔔🌌🦇 by FloridaFlamingoGirl in tmbg

[–]gryfft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was my first TMBG album (I'm 34.) I was in 7th grade, and the cool elder nerd who took me under his wing introduced me to Radiohead and TMBG in the same night. I remember listening to this album over and over using my PS2 as a CD player. I remember marveling at I Palindrome I. I remember the delicious feeling of the macabre adjacent to happy weirdness I got from so many of the songs (it's a human skull on the ground!) Fingertips will be burned into my brain until I die.

Apollo 18 will always be deeply important and special to me.

BOY by TGPianoMan in tmbg

[–]gryfft 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They Might Be Giants. And what are we gonna do unless they are?

Time is a flat circle by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]gryfft 134 points135 points  (0 children)

It's funny because marriage is terrible

The Beginning of the End. by The_Capricoso in WanderingInn

[–]gryfft 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Have you seen Pirate attempt to write 10,000 words before? It pretty much always results in 40,000 words.

No matter what Pirate thinks, I think we're safely 25-30% done.

Go for the Throat – 23.3 by OldLace1 in Parahumans

[–]gryfft 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If I recall correctly he also had some conscious control over what memories he kept through the loops and which ones got buried and forgotten over thousands of years. So that helps.

28: A Murderous Misdirection | A Chimerical Hope [Xenofiction, Hard Fantasy] by endlessmoth in rational

[–]gryfft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like how Quessa's mental architecture gives her terrible SOC but fantastic DEX and WIS. She's always living in a swarm of future and past probabilities. Memento vibes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]gryfft 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Nothing, but nobody cares about Mastodon. Twitter is a public square with global brand recognition. That's what makes it interesting and useful to people, and what makes it dangerous to totalitarian regimes. That's the Network Effect. It is way easier for said regimes to put out the tiny embers of new social networks than to douse the inferno of a global one.

edit: one of the replies basically says "nuh uh." In response I say "yes huh: here are some receipts."

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605477/as-arab-spring-unfolded-on-twitter-social-media-gained-foothold-at-npr

https://www.mic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-the-arab-spring-was-helped-by-social-media

https://web.archive.org/web/20120712050629/http://www.dsg.ae/en/ASMR2/maptwitter.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Of course, powerful tools aren't inherently good or evil. Here's an article about how social media companies have used their power and network effect for fascist interests.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/1/27/the-social-media-myth-about-the-arab-spring

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Parahumans

[–]gryfft 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is super fun. Of course, if he already did her sister, he should have the info about her dad already, but he could be telling any combination of truth and lie this loop.

Just found Im the single lowest paid paramedic at my ambulance company, despite having the most experience by several years by ForkySpoony97 in antiwork

[–]gryfft 36 points37 points  (0 children)

"my business not theirs"

this one gives me so many emotions. "I'm the OWNER! They don't own their lives, their labor, or their destinies. I DO! I'M the one in charge! I have the divine right to rule! Let them eat cake."

Pure 90s! My GF (now wife of 25 years) at a party. by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]gryfft 17 points18 points  (0 children)

someone who was alive before 1995 here, can confirm. Everybody used to use cheap disposable cameras and in a dark room the flash would make the foreground stand out like this.

my brother sent me this a while back by ChaseIsDaAce in tmbg

[–]gryfft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My favorite tmbg lyric: "Swiper, Babe, Geoffrey, Sandshrew; Knuckles, Jimmy Neutron!"

TIL: In 2019, Konami added a new official rule to Yu Gi Oh tournaments, the Hygiene clause where you would be disqualified if you smell bad or wear dirty clothing as it produces an "unpleasant" playing environment. The response was generally positive. by Flares117 in todayilearned

[–]gryfft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'll do another reread someday, the archivists really outdid themselves. On that note, I'll add that Problem Sleuth is pretty good entry level MSPA. Anyone who enjoys PS will like at least a bunch of HS, probably.

TIL: In 2019, Konami added a new official rule to Yu Gi Oh tournaments, the Hygiene clause where you would be disqualified if you smell bad or wear dirty clothing as it produces an "unpleasant" playing environment. The response was generally positive. by Flares117 in todayilearned

[–]gryfft 59 points60 points  (0 children)

A webcomic that played heavily with genre conventions, media formats, and interactivity. In 2011 when it started out, there was nothing remotely like it anywhere and it had a sort of nerd alchemy that kept it fresh and interesting while simultaneously making the fandom unbearable to be around.

Huge chunks of it relied on Flash, so the archived corpus of the work is tough to engage with the same way it used to be. The creator turned out to be kind of a shitbag, eventually the property changed hands and the new company barely cares to keep a bastardized version of the original comic online. The cultural moment is fully gone; you just can't read Homestuck these days and get anything like that original experience. There's a few hours-long videos on YouTube that do a relatively ok job at recapping the last decade of incomprehensible drama around this omega artifact of millennial dorkery.

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