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THE OFFICIAL SOOTY TWITTER HAS GONE BACK TO USING THE HASHTAG #CosTootyPooSmesh WHEN PROMOTING NEW MERCH. NATURE IS HEALING
For those of you who don’t know your Sooty lore, this is a reference to an iconic episode of Sooty & Co from the 90s, in which Sweep is tasked with putting together a banner reading “Come To Sooty’s Shop”, but unfortunately is basically illiterate and puts the letters in the wrong order every time until they eventually give up and just hang up his final attempt anyway:
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‘Tough on crime’ should mean proactive policies, not reactionary punishments.
This is “Defund the Police” means. Resources can be used elsewhere with greater benefits.
UBI alongside living wages would be incredibly useful, as well.
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I know it’s not the worst thing about capitalism. But I do think there’s something really *bad* about the fact that between lack of leisure time, lack of disposable income, and “hustle culture” mindset that for many, many, many people the primary/only way they are able to express their creativity and artistic aesthetics is through consumer culture. Buying stuff and displaying that stuff.
When like…making stuff. Drawing, painting, weaving, crafting, sketching is like, baked deep deep into our bones as humans.
But I know so many adults who haven’t like…drawn a picture since they were children.
“Ugh my drawings look like a 10 year old did them.”
“When did you stop drawing for fun?”
“…when I was like 10.”
Never mind that art doesn’t have to be good to be fun.
“Art doesn’t have to be good to be fun” is the one of the things that keeps me happy writing, no matter if it doesn’t feel like I’m getting better. But also… “Art doesn’t have to be good to be exactly what the person who sees it needs.”
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Every contemporary video game RPG wants to give me a party of emotionally dysfunctional weirdos and then bends over backwards to ensure that none of my interpersonal decisions cause any intractable conflicts or have any lasting consequences, which just feels wrong to me – like the latter is actively undermining the former. I want to see an RPG that goes full early 90s dating sim. I want an RPG where organising my party composition is like that logic puzzle about getting a fox and a duck across a river.
I want an RPG where who you leave out of your party is as important as who you bring along because specific NPCs can’t be left unsupervised together. Do you understand? I want there to be a non-zero chance of returning to headquarters after a successful mission to discover that certain people have been getting along too well and now the building is on fire.
So, you want an RPG where your companions can party when they’re not in the party?
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people not realizing the extreme rarity of captive walruses is k i l l i n g me dear god. Just any old zoo does not have them! They are hard to transport, hard to care for, and hardly ever successfully breed in captivity so zoos only get them when an injured or orphaned individual gets picked up by a rescue in the arctic and is deemed unreleasable. That’s not a frequent occurrence! This isn’t a tiger king situation with backyard breeders all over the place!
Since people are reblogging this vent without the numbers I put on my other post, here they are again, to give the “extreme rarity” statement context,
There are only three zoos with walruses in north america with 13 total animals; WORLDWIDE the captive walrus count is no more than 133 animals, across only 53 facilities (most in Asia) in 13 countries.
By contrast, there are currently an estimated 15,000 elephants in captivity worldwide, with 556 of them across more than 155 facilities in north america alone. If an elephant knocked on my door I would have a LOT fewer questions. But question was specifically about walrus, not any large animal.
dear diary, today I got compared to Qanon for pointing out facts about walruses,,,
…The… The question wasn’t if walruses or fairies are more realistic. It was which was more likely to knock on your door. And that is a vastly different question.
“Maybe it swam” - We know the range of Walruses. Unless you’re around the latitude of Iceland it’s dead before it reaches your coastline.
Walruses are more realistic than fairies. They’re real, fairies aren’t. But… Walruses aren’t going to come knocking, we know how they work. We know how they operate. We know where they’re found and what they do. There are parameters for which Walruses exist within and knocking on my front door isn’t part of them. We understand Walruses. You know how the phrase “When pigs fly” exists for “that will never happen?” That’s less impossible than a Walrus knocking on my door, because a Pig can fly if you strap it to a helicopter for some ungodly reason (I dunno, maybe it’s getting an air-lift to a vet?). I can conceive situations for which a pig would be in flight. I can’t conceive of a situation in which a Walrus would be knocking on my door.
By comparison, something I know doesn’t exist turning out to exist is more likely than a Walrus knocking on my door.
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Fourth-wall-breaking video game setting whose inhabitants are aware that only cutscene death is permanent, and have thus developed an elaborate system of customs and taboos to avoid accidentally triggering cutscenes in their daily lives. People have some intrinsic knowledge of whether the cutscene flag has been set, but they don’t necessarily know why, nor are they automatically aware of whether they’re one of the focus characters or whether they just happen to be in the vicinity, allowing for a wide variety of murder-mystery bullshit.
I would love to see someone tackle meta-bullshit from an evolutionary biology angle. This is the exact kind of sense that could arise from the evolutionary pressure of cutscene death permanence.
“Oh, I’m not a princess. I evolved pink hair and a dress because my species primarily lays eggs in the safety of Dark Overlord towers”
“My deathsound.wav evolved to be as upsetting as possible to encourage save scumming to keep me alive”
What is your meta bullshit video game ecological niche?
Spawn Camping Apex Predator
Overzealous Tutorial NPC Obligate Parasite
Out of Bounds Extremophile
Pathetic Lil’ Guy Fishing For Buffs in the Patch
Auto-update Nocturnal Feeder
Batesian Mimicry By Looking Scary Reaaallly Far From The Last Checkpoint
Arbitrary Code Execution Ecosystem Engineer
Mimic
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I think the tags on my “do you people not realize how rare walruses are in captivity” post has illuminated for me the true source the the debate: most people voting walrus don’t believe in fairies but are fairy agnostic, while the people voting fairy are staunch fairy atheists. And that’s why many of them are getting so worked up, they don’t recognize agnosticism as a position one CAN have on fairies, so they seem to think everyone voting walrus is a True Fairy Believer™, which is certainly not the case from what I’ve seen.
I’m not even fairy agnostic - I believe they don’t exist. Maybe not a staunch atheist - I acknowledge it’s possible I’m wrong - but… Yeah, I’m happy to put them into the mythical creature bucket that I don’t need to worry about because they don’t exist.
…I still voted Walrus because me being wrong about fairies not existing feels more likely than the sheer quantity of things I’d need to be wrong about for a Walrus to knock on my door.
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One thing that’s likely not visible to all younger queers is that little kids shows have gotten radically queerer in the last 10 years.
I’m not just talking about Owl House, Kippo etc, much as I love them.
I mean like stuff for kindergardners.
Characters in Strawberry Shortcake and Superhero Girls and more have gay parents just unremarkably in the background. That was unthinkable 15 years ago.
But the thing that shocks me utterly is the casual inclusion of nonbinary characters.
Dee and Friends in Oz, Polly Pocket, Craig of the Creek…it seems like half the shows my daughter watches have nonbinary characters just seamlessly included. Not even a Very Special Episode. Just…here’s the scarecrow in charge of scarecrow village who uses they/them pronouns that everyone just uses without comment.
I was almost 30 before I found the word nonbinary. For my kid to just grow up with this is astonishing.
Conservatives are so mad because it’s INCREDIBLY hard to just put this kind of inclusion back away. Once something is normal, and clearly not causing anything bad to happen, it’s hard to convince people to be scared of it.
Fantastic.
I’m old enough to remember the anger from some quarters at Mr Ratburn’s wedding in Arthur (and I vaguely recall there being some conservative backlash against And Tango Makes Three when it released). So it’s great to hear the genie is out of the bottle in this prominent a way.
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