QuiescentCrescent

Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again, and again.

@Critical_Scribe Giant monster battles have lots of moments when they do some attack that takes up half the screen and you just have to wildly sprint in the opposite direction. In comparison mano a mano fights can be much more precise and that makes them feel more skillful to execute.

Because when you’re fighting a humanoid enemy it scratches the part of the mind that has that reflex to “duel”. In that framing, the fight feels more like an expression of skill and shared respect. It’s the Goku vs Vegeta framing of engaging with a powerful rival. Note that I said “feels”, because a lot of these guys have some absolutely BS movesets compared to the massive abominations you fight.

お母さんこの絵良いねって言ってくれた🫶 嬉しい、わたしもすき！

@LindonVoxCaster STAY IN LINE

Can someone give me an update on this guy

@QuetzalPhoenix AAA is dead, but AA and indie are still alive and kicking (you just have to be discerning).

Finding out some Ching Chong company purchased like 15% of FromSoft's parent company and the first thing they want to do is fire Miyazaki and make microtransaction filled mobile games is basically proof that the games industry is dead

@GitaGopinath "A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and [pure meritocracy]."

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

Crazy how getting hit by the moe ray and given a fat butt completely revives an ancientgoons uncgem character like Motoko Kusanagi. You used to only ever see the Major in old guard otaku 3x3s and now she's wobbling all over the timeline.

@tranz_schubert "Blacks are animals" Nuclear indeed.

this is a nuclear level post

Only recently occurred to me that the famous married male self-deprecation springs from the same stem as safe horny, just a different manifestation. “She’s the boss” “My better half” “She’s much smarter than me” all obviously backwards. It’s the same conciliatory litany for the crime of being a straight man, a performance of castration, but instead of apologizing for the male libido it’s hitting a verbal dogeza to demonstrate that you’re a safe husband and father.

If you ever quote tweet with just "Dude." you should probably be shot.

@ortheion Goes without saying that the modern world suffers that same deconstructionist tendency, always eager to prove that everything great was actually mundane or outright fake. Something about this is so seductive to intellectuals.

Goethe actually writes about how modern historical criticism reduces a people’s heroic stories to “mere fables,” even when those stories gave life to a civilization. “If the Romans were great enough to invent such stories, we should at least be great enough to believe them.”

@CookieReturn2 Nah he just draws larger noses in general, it's a quirk he's famous for. Compared to how the standard anime style is barely even drawing them at all.

Both are Japanese one is just Japanese-american Anyways a real mangaka that does this is Nakao urasawa He draws every white character with a big ass nose for no reason

@0x49fa98 Scientific "atheists" btw.

Underdiscussed element of this is that because of DEI initiatives, every half-decent would-be female nurse was instead buoyed up to becoming a doctor, leaving only gossipy black ladies with acrylic nails and dubiously legal hispanic women who can't speak english.

@AustinJtodd What is there to defend? You're going into the cocaine.

Emperors Children fans don't evem defend thier legion, they just look at you like this:

@EmpireEnjoyer3 Post-scarcity and AI singularity, this is the only way forward for the human race.

A real nation would implement a positive eugenics program. Every woman on Mars will have G cups.

@rezich @owenbroadcast You just raise them religious in addition to that, being careful not to overdo it. Shying away from teaching science out of fear of creating an atheist is ceding way too much societal power. You want to set them up to excel in school and obtain a professional future.

@qui_crescent @owenbroadcast Unless properly offset by supplementary material, going all-in on this sort of thing is exactly how one goes about raising the archetypical reddit atheist.

part of the anthroposophical model of early childhood (what waldorf is based on), is that the child begins life in a kind of magic bubble, and that the time spent in this state is essential for their long term spiritual development. you can accidentally rush them out of this stage. the child goes through a process of recapitulating the stages of civilization itself: they eventually go through an egyptian stage, and become fascinated with writing, symbols, and what we think of as the hallmarks of that civilization. later, they go through an antiquity / roman stage, and become fascinated by building, laws (rules), and the things we think of humanity as generally acquiring during that time. later, the medieval, and so on. but at the start, the child is in magic world. this is occasionally referred to as “the garden”, as in the garden of eden, but i just think of it as fairy world, where the boundary between myth, story, imagination, and reality is completely fluid. taking this view puts you at odds with modern parenting in ways that you would not expect. a lot of parenting discussion online is about nutrition, discipline in general, appropriate punishments, homeschooling, giving them tablets - there’s a clear set of basic controversial topics. taking a concern about rushing the child out of this initial state and into the next one too quickly puts you at odds with other less obvious aspects of parenting style. the one i find most interesting is the conception of early childhood and learning itself that i see as flowing downstream from the modern scientific worldview. recently, i was at an aquarium. they have this large cylinder tank that you can walk around and look into. the walls are glass. in the center, there’s a (real) fish that’s huge - easily the biggest fish i’ve ever seen. a girl runs up and says, “wow, that’s a huge fish”. the mom says: “yes, it is a large fish, but just keep in mind that the glass is convex. when glass is bent this way, it makes things inside look bigger. but it is a big fish”. now, the kid asks, “so, it’s not a big fish?”, and the mom says, “well, yes, it is a big fish, but…” and reiterates the explanation about what convex glass is and what it does to your perception. in the modern scientific worldview, part of “becoming wise” is accumulating facts and that are not intuitive, and that undercut empirical perception. becoming educated means knowing these facts and having them at hand to make sure you’re perceiving things accurately - unlike someone uneducated, who wouldn’t know about glass distorting perception, and the finer mechanics of how and why that happens. this means that “passing on wisdom” and being “the wise elder” often amounts to passing on and dispensing these facts. here, the kid is looking at something - but has to be told: “don’t get the wrong idea. i, the wise elder, know something you don’t, and i’ll let you in on the secret.” there’s nothing wrong with this in and of itself, but it’s completely at odds with the world the child is presently inhabiting (in my opinion). the child is just in awe of a large fish. this is a total, magical, all encompassing spiritual experience - but the adult has to step in and take them out of it, to ensure that they’re giving primacy to a scientific perception. the adult, due to their model of what knowledge is, is constantly stepping in to jet pack the child out of their direct perception, into abstractions that have nothing to do with their inner world. once you notice this, you really see it all the time. i’m at the park, and a kid is hitting a log with a stick. it’s making a cool sound. he says, “dad, look at this”, and the dad starts explaining that sound is really vibrations, what vibrations are - bam: smash the eject button. the kid can’t just hear the sound: an adult has to step in and make sure that the experience of hearing the sound is being filtered through this paradigm’s conception of what knowledge, and life, “really” is.

@DraculaeDyke For heresy era, EC also used mastercraft charnabal sabres (most prominently the palatine blades) and Saul Tarvitz's model has him wielding a charnabal broadsword.

night lords have their special homeworld unique chainglaives, deathguard their powerscythes and emperors children have unique power spears, do other legions have their own unique like these or even guns? because rn they are slipping my mind if so and would love to see

@WarsmithDoc I like them but I'm going to keep saying malal.

I might be the biggest (and only) sons of malice fan on here