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@zbogus77 No love for Tavore?

My top 10 Malazan characters: 1. Felisin 2. Ganoes 3. Apsalar 4. Kallor 5. Trull 6. Shadowthrone 7. Karsa 8. Fiddler 9. Rhulad 10. Picker

@djwhatley @stockpiledclay Never heard Samuel Barber's famous composition, Adogy for Strings?

@stockpiledclay This screenshot features all of my favorite things from Zelda: - Jumping using the Jump button on the controller - Collecting coins like in Mario, my favorite Zelda - ADOGY

A lot of hilarious details here, but my favorite is that the X button is apparently used to press the A button

@RAILBREAKMUSIC @Charlygotyou What the fuck are you on about? You absolutely are your meat suit.

@Charlygotyou executive dysfunction not adhd - you are not your meat suit, but you can control it and feel its signals - go get shit done and quit putting the label on like a hat

The most disabling symptom of ADHD is the paralysis. It's the deep, internal shame of knowing exactly what to do... and just sitting there, watching yourself not do it.

@scottsantens UBI/negative income taxes have been supported by a range of radical communists, like Keynes, the Adam Smith Institute, and Milton Friedman.

If I lost a brain cell every time I saw someone claim that Universal Basic Income was communism, I'd have become stupid enough to say it myself. AI is here. Jobs are being automated. And capitalism requires consumers with money to spend. Consider where this is going without UBI.

@Telegraph What possible discourse can be had with these nutters when they can't even imagine that maybe, just maybe, Garfield says these things because he actually believes them?

✍️ "I almost feel sorry for Andrew Garfield. Imagine the impermeable, smug bubble of celebrity group-think you would need to live in to think it’s still fashionable to bash JK Rowling," writes Brendan O'Neill. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@bogwitchbooks Third person *present*. They're not objecting to all third person.

Why do so many people HATE third person POV???

@Maosdong4ever @mwahhpjj Interesting feedback, just one thought though - go fuck yourself

@mwahhpjj You do realize the problem might be YOU, right? I mean, you talk like a whore, and whores are often sexually desensitized, so maybe go explore how much of a whore you are?

your sex life gets infinitely better when you not only stop faking orgasms, but tell men *in the moment* when what they're doing isn't working for you. do it kindly, offer up an alternative, or show them what you like in a sexy manner.

@Bigvadrouiller1 What I love is how Agincourt looms so largely in the British consciousness (good old yew longbows! None of those snooty French knights here!) and 90% of all french people I've asked about it have responded with "the battle of where? The battle of what?"

I think this might be an opportunity to share my perspective on the Battle of Agincourt, as it tends to be oversimplified. There's a very sensitive issue surrounding the battle. Even today, England ultimately decided against using Agincourt as the name for a submarine due to international relations concerns. What really happened? What could have occurred to cause such a large part of the French knighthood and nobility to be massacred? To the point that, years later, Charles VII decided to no longer place his full trust in the knighthood, but rather in anyone who knew how to fight, regardless of nobleman or commoner? One thing is certain: it's incredibly complex, given the number of different sources and especially the chronicles of both sides, which can contradict each other. The same is true for modern works and the numerous debates between the French and English. Several versions exist of what happened, one where the English killed and executed the knights and a large part of the French army out of humiliation. The other version claims that the French knights were arrogant and foolish for charging on horseback into thousands of archers firing ten arrows a minute. Neither is in fact exactly true. Both sides shared a common problem that led to the catastrophe: panic, a natural reaction in any human being, noble or not. Yes, the French army had been arrogant the night before the battle, but by morning this was no longer the case. During the day, they saw that the English army had positioned itself at the narrowest point of the two forests, making it impossible to flank them on horseback, which had been Marshal Boucicaut's plan. But in addition, all the ranged troops (archers and crossbowmen) who were supposed to be in the front line had disappeared. They had been hastily and improvisedly moved to the rear, ultimately rendering them useless. Arguments had broken out among the dukes over which improvised plans to implement. Meanwhile, the English had already traveled 170 km, outnumbered and battling a dysentery epidemic that had already claimed over 1,000 lives during the siege of Harfleur. Having attempted to flee via Calais, they were blocked on the road by the French army and their morale was at rock bottom. It would be a bloodbath if they were to reach Calais. Both sides were in a state of panic on October 25th. Even though the French had numerical superiority, after these accumulated problems, many, including those on foot, lowered their heads, helmets and all, at the sight of the English arrow hail, to avoid being pierced by the visor. Despite armor capable of withstanding the onslaught, the psychological effect of the darkening sky also demoralized them. All had to charge into battle for honor, to die or not, or else a herald would write in his chronicle that such and such a knight bore this coat of arms and fled, and this would enter the annals of his family. For the English, especially the archers, some of whom were without pants due to dysentery, when they ran out of arrows they immediately resorted to hand-to-hand combat, filled with stress and fighting for their survival. After the battle and the successive waves of violence, including that of Duke John I of Alençon which even targeted King Henry V, thousands of prisoners were taken. However, we come to the crucial point: the massacre. What happened? The answer: Lord Ysembart of Agincourt and his army of 600 peasants. Though rarely mentioned, he and the lesser lords are indirectly responsible for it. The local lords near the battlefield, having learned of the French defeat and that thousands had been taken prisoner, decided to seize the opportunity. He and his local army attacked the rearguard of the English army, stealing, looting, and plundering equipment, treasures, and supplies. They even took a precious crown and the king's ceremonial sword. Panic gripped the English and King Henry V. Everything suggested that the French army had anticipated defeat and was seeking reinforcements. From the moment Englishmen rushed from the camp to warn the king of a surprise attack, Henry V suspected revenge in an emergency and ordered the immediate execution of all prisoners, noble or not, keeping only the most important. Few prisoners who had already been moved survived the order, and many Englishmen had refused to execute their prisoners for ransom. The King of England then appointed a nobleman with 200 archers to carry out the executions. When the English army and King Henry V arrived at the camp, everything was ransacked, and the peasants and lords had fled in haste with enormous booty. In the end, Henry V himself admitted to killing a "living bank" because of damn peasants and local lords who gave a false alarm about a counter-attack, or even surviving French rearguard troops who regrouped to attack desperately. This could have brought England a colossal fortune through ransoms for future warfare. Perhaps this is why the invasion of Normandy was only planned two years later. Henry V himself would say that the massacre was carried out according to God's justice anyway, that the French rearguard and the minor lords paid the price for their sins in this act. The chronicles of both sides try to exonerate themselves. The French died for their code of honor in a defeat that had become inevitable, and that it was suicidal. The English fought for their survival and, faced with the need to commit the unthinkable in the heat of the moment. Both sides fought hard, and both made mistakes that led to the catastrophe, which is still debated today. This battle remains one of the greatest tragedies in the History of the Hundred Years' War. Agincourt is not the victory of genius over arrogance, it is the triumph of survival over honor. I hope I've been able to shed some more light on this battle, which, for me, would take an extremely long time to study all the scenarios that unfolded for each warrior. To those who have no grave.

@estherzelda0514 This is what slightly breaks my brain. 30% of teens experiencing neck-grabbing in sex would mildly surprise me, but 30% of teens experiencing actual strangulation...what on earth.

Choking during sex is an incredibly stupid practice. You can get largely the same dominating effect by simply holding someone's neck, which is much less dangerous. One of my least popular opinions is that we need comprehensive and explicit sex/relationship education for children at various points during their development, and this should be standardized and not left up to parents. Too many people are giving themselves brain damage, STDs, or showing up at the ER with glass bottles up their ass. This could easily be corrected with better education that demystifies the whole sex thing. The taboo nature of sex is much to blame for a lot of these injuries, as many are too ashamed to ask for information before attempting something or to seek help when it goes wrong. We are a deeply prudish nation, and perhaps some may think thousands of brain damaged women is a fair price to pay for imposing their own moral hangups on others, but I cannot say I feel the same.

@spacepastiche A-Train living in a Twilight Zone episode was one of the high points of the season, yeah

giving a black man a racist white man's heart has got to be one of the craziest things ashley has ever done oh my days

@benclarkson Who pursues their shadow in Harry Potter?

Rowling stole the idea for a Wizard school, a gifted child who has a facial scar, and the protagonist pursuing their shadow from A Wizard of Earthsea - and I refuse to shut up about it. Earthsea then pivots to refute the hero's quest and throw away Wizards as incel losers.

@trygraptor Dune is arguably the greatest example of fictional epigraphs out there. Absolutely sublime stuff.

in Dune the novel, i like how Princess Irulan’s excerpts are usually these short paragraphs until the middle of Book 2 when she hits you with this unusually long, uncharacteristically personal, chilling story about her father maybe plotting to murder her and her mother

@miffylovesgames @adamndsmith You're calling Le Guin a failed writer? Fucking Le Guin?

@adamndsmith Another failed “writer” 🤣 seething with jealousy at another, actual, writers success.

With the soulless Harry Potter HBO revival, I am reminded of what Ursula Le Guin said about JK Rowling: “Stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited”

@eldivine The speed of light is not a universal constant. Light slows down all the time. c, the maximum speed of anything, is a different thing.

I find it fascinating that the speed of light is the universal constant, and somehow the Bible says that God’s first command was “Let there be light”. Like think about it, if you were Moses trying to invent a religion from your imagination, there was nothing intuitive about that as your starting point 5,000 years ago. Consider that people were thinking the sun revolves around the earth even as late as Middle Ages.

@EscrivaU21 @FBIDirectorKash The massive drop happened *before* trump and kash. He's taking credit for stuff that has nothing to do with him

@SquibbleDeeBop @FBIDirectorKash Look at the projection line. The 125-year low is happening right now under Kash and 47. You really think the cartels weren't terrified the second the election was called?

Leadership matters

@estherzelda0514 @aGuyOnMyPhone What's worse, the Treverrow script actually looked like it was gonna develop the themes of TLJ and tie up the trilogy in a satisfying way. Instead we got the horrible mess that was tRoS

@aGuyOnMyPhone I actually had hope for the end of the trilogy after that movie. 😭😭😭

Fun fact: Lucas liked The Last Jedi, unlike the installments that Abrams directed. The reason is simple, and revealed here—he wanted something new. Further, the crap that the worst and most negative fans pile on Rian Johnson for Luke Skywalker's arc? That was heavily based on Lucas's own original ideas—a broken Luke in self-imposed exile, haunted by a betrayal of a student, cut off from the Force, and acting as a mentor to a young female protagonist only reluctantly. Hottest of takes here, but Rian Johnson was simply one of the best directors we ever had on a mainline Star Wars installment, and the fandom is full of childish idiots that should have been ignored. He has the originality of Lucas, respected his vision, and is innovative and the master of his craft. He managed to get more emotion out of the actors for Rey, Kylo, and Luke than Abrams ever did, and his special effects were interesting and spectacular. The throne room scene in particular was truly great. That more people do not appreciate what Johnson did is because they are philistines. He should have been allowed to direct and write all three installments. Somewhere in an alternative universe, people there got to enjoy a sequel trilogy that wasn't childish and derivative trash. I'm jealous.

@EscrivaU21 @FBIDirectorKash You do know the chart ends in 2025, yeah?

@FBIDirectorKash The chart completely plummets the exact second real leadership takes over federal law enforcement. ​How many rogue, progressive DAs in deep-blue sanctuary cities are absolutely panicking right now because the FBI is actually doing its job again?

@Luke_De_1st @TBKReturns Wait, I thought it was your fee-fees getting hurt? Do you not like it when people call Nazis Nazis?

@SquibbleDeeBop @TBKReturns mudblood is a good alternative if you want. If it eases you fee-fees.

r/CriticalDrinker everybody

@Luke_De_1st @TBKReturns They're arguing about miscegenation and mocking someone as a "mixed mutt", I think the comparison is valid.

@SquibbleDeeBop @TBKReturns Cute, but sentiment still stands.