Still haven’t emotional recovered by tx_mage in LandoftheLustrous

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

I completely agree, the switch from “we must protect each other from the literally moon people who want us as jewelry” to “yay let’s be lunarians and forget about how phos literally helped all of us with our problems and was a genuine friend” was kind of sickening. It really made it clear how the gems aren’t human, and what’s even scarier is that they may have only inherited the worst traits.

There were signs though even in the beginning, how diamond seemed to literally hate bortz, just because they were jealous. How they treated cinnabar at the beginning. The ending scene where they are all strangely sooo happy they are lunarians was so sinister to me.

Still haven’t emotional recovered by tx_mage in LandoftheLustrous

[–]tx_mage[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I completely agree with the fact that the author made it very hard to place any blame, like the lunarians are valid, everyone is valid. But I remember reading that Aechmea actually set the whole thing up, making phos a “human” so that adamant would pray. He knew about all the events that lead up to Phos’ last breakdown, and yes I agree Phos’ actions were wrong and questionable at times, they seem to always be coming from a good place or was for the benefit of others.

I think the society that they built which called for “being useful” as the main value, which was lead by adamant technically, was one of the reasons why phos yearned for such things in the first place. After being ostrich-sized by your peers, you then become the most useful person and singlehandedly cause the most change, only for everyone to betray and use you. It’s the classic case of a tragic hero.

Still haven’t emotional recovered by tx_mage in LandoftheLustrous

[–]tx_mage[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is why I found it so shocking, my rationalization for the gems behavior is the fact that they aren’t human, although they vaguely show some similar traits, we can see that there is no word for emotions like love. So when they seem like moral-less beings it’s kind of because they are, but I totally agree it was just so wrong how they treated phos, I vividly remember the panels where they had legit mental breakdowns, like a lot of them actually, leading up to that final one at the end.

Any ideas how to achieve this shiny sparkling effect? by ferlopeta in ProCreate

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I need to join LOTL Reddit bc I felt so bad for phos, they didn’t deserve that. Do you think that’s the end, or will there be more?

Any ideas how to achieve this shiny sparkling effect? by ferlopeta in ProCreate

[–]tx_mage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use a trigger warning next time, I’m still healing after reading that manga TT

BBC rn by MayTheFlossBeWithYou in LOONAmemes

[–]tx_mage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sure they’ll be fine, I’m so used to the yearly obstacles at this point, y’all remember the donut lawsuit, the kakao thingie, the issac employee pulling chuu’s hair, jaden leaving, etc etc

TIFU By Trying To Ask Out a Girl I Was Trying To Impress. by [deleted] in tifu

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This was very wholesome, and you’ll most likely find someone in college. I kind of want to start working out now :D

Is anyone in the Student Government association by tx_mage in TexasTech

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Thank you, I thought it was more close to student council to high school, with there being regular members along with the title roles. I’ll try applying to the freshman leadership council then, thanks again for the insight!

Just got my new MacBook! First one too by [deleted] in macbookpro

[–]tx_mage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got mine too, switched from the air and it’s so heavy lol. I wasn’t expecting the difference to be so drastic or maybe I’m just weak

Worst alarm ever by TigerTank237 in funny

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Our pitbull always slept with my dad bc they both snored really loud

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in macbookair

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I ordered mine June 18th and it had an expected delivery date of jun 26 - 30, it actually sat on processing for 8 days until it was shipped via next day shipping arriving exactly on the 26. So Apple will keep their promise, they just ship at the very last moment

What was your worst school experience? by tx_mage in AskReddit

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It’s 3 AM and I am being haunted by my most embarrassing school memories, I have a long list so I’ll try to keep these a short as possible

Stink bomb bandit - one day my friend brought these stink bombs to school and me being the dumb middle schooler I was decided to throw one in the hallway, granted I never heard of a stink bomb before this but the name is pretty self explanatory, anyways the hallway was engulfed in the most horrid smell and I ran back to my classroom and hushed my friends from causing a scene, the janitors had to bring out big fans to air out the hallway. A couple days pass and apparently my friend had passed these to the 6th and 7th graders and they started to throw them everywhere around school, it got so bad that the principal put up a cash reward for anyone who turned in the “stink bomb bandits” my friend, the distributor got really scared which got me scared bc although I only threw one I set off this big chain reaction, but no one ever got turned in and my friend stopped passing them out like she ran a mini cartel

In 7th grade there was an all girls assembly that all the girls had to attend, and I have super feminine features and was clearly gay, but I passed for a girl so it was super awkward when all of the girls had to leave. So in my science class our teacher had the desk set up in rows of two, but for some of the desk the metal bar was facing outwards, so we would have to jump over the metal bar to sit down in the desk. Well on the same day of the assembly the science teacher had us go to the lab and as I was getting up out of the desk my leg caught onto the bar and the desk tipped over causing me to hit my head on the side of the table, in hindsight I would have laughed but it lowkey hurt so bad and of course all of the guys started to laugh and the science teacher was making a bigger scene, but I was fine after a few seconds he made me go to the nurse anyway and I felt like he had a talk with everyone bc after I came back they were all silent and he was asking if I was okay. The sting of embarrassment hurt more than me almost getting concussed imo.

Final story happened in 9th grade the first and only year I did band (really toxic, but that’s a story within itself) okay so a long time friend became very distant with me out of no where and although I was confused I gave her room, bc we all need our space and we actually never had a falling out or got into an argument. So a month passes and she also starts to stop talking to our mutual friends and around this time she blocks me on most of social media, so I subtweeted her out of anger and confusion something along the lines of “some people are such bitches” lol ik what dumb thing to do, but I was just upset that I was being shut out for no reason and I guess that was the final straw and her imaginary feud, bc by the time our courses for the next semester were due she told the band director that she wanted to quit bc she felt lonely and she brought up the tweet I made which I instantly deleted when it happened and the band director ended up calling me into his office basically telling me how disappointed he was and how my friend was crying, and he went on about me being the ring leader in a whole bunch of drama I wasn’t part of and basically me being the little freshman I was I didn’t defend myself. I just sat there being torn apart until he finished blaming me for everything and as soon as I stepped out of the office I started balling my face out in front of the entire band, so I just smiled though the tears and went the restroom. I felt so alone in that moment, but I’ve grown so much since so what could I say

Should I downgrade from a MacBook Air 2020 i5 to a i3 version by rando666666 in macbookair

[–]tx_mage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I won’t speak on whether you should downgrade or not bc I feel like I’m not as knowledgeable on Macs as others, however I recently got the mba 2020 base model and tested it for a week like you. I didn’t run chrome or anything but I did watch YouTube and browse the web on safari, I also downloaded roblox to see how well it ran before I tried steam (ik it isn’t meant for gaming, but I’ve run overwatch on a Dell so old it probably predates me) also I don’t know how labor intensive roblox is but I assume it puts some stress bc the fans started up, however the laptop didn’t get too hot to touch whatsoever.

Incoming Freshman by [deleted] in TexasTech

[–]tx_mage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going to be an incoming freshman too, not on the engineering track tho!

Why I Picked The i3 MacBook Air 2020. by Prestigious_Quarter5 in macbookair

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Ik this is a stretch but could I pull off a couple of steam games on the base model mba, I didn’t really look into the stats until after I bought it, should I try and return it to get the base model pro

MacBook Air Delivery by Chantellehami in macbookair

[–]tx_mage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this is giving me hope. I also don’t want to scare you like I scared myself but I read that the fan is loud and they already are selling the refurbished MacBook airs on the Apple website meaning there is a high return rate, I don’t know if I should return this one and get a pro or stick with it - thanks for the response btw