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Aug. 28th, 2025 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariJust saw a person being xenophobic to immigrants on the grounds that “these people are more xenophobic than you.”
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Aug. 26th, 2025 08:46 amfeotakahariI can’t reconcile “managers and subordinates can’t be friends,” “coworkers can be friends,” and “coworkers could become managers someday.” I don’t think I could ever be friends with someone who could one day determine that I don’t have an income anymore.
@Sobqjmv-sphinx dug deeper into “headmate!”
Aug. 25th, 2025 06:11 pmlb_leesobqjmv_sphinx expanded on my research and proved it was used by multiples before DesperateFans! Check it out! https://sobqjmv-sphinx.dreamwidth.org/5620.htmlWe’ve updated our own post adding this note.
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Aug. 25th, 2025 09:23 amfeotakahariThere used to be this thing where critics would get invited to awesome launch parties, under the tacit understanding that they’d stop getting invited if they ever gave a bad review. Sites like Ain’t It Cool News existed just to provide positive review quotes in return for parties. Does that still exist, or has the carrot been replaced entirely with the stick of “give a bad review and you can kiss your banner ads goodbye”?
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Aug. 24th, 2025 04:04 pmfeotakahariVarious magic systems have characters so obsessed with their false worldviews that they can overwrite the real world to match. Character who gets magical powers from his belief in immutable racial categories—
Wait, “Grand Wizard.”
Wait, “Grand Wizard.”
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Aug. 23rd, 2025 03:13 pmfeotakahariToday in WTF did I find on TV Tropes: well, that’s a lot more depressing than I expected.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/CatsAreLiquid
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/CatsAreLiquid
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Aug. 23rd, 2025 07:01 amfeotakahariPart of why I don’t see the appeal of Uma Musume: I’m an Arknights fan, and that game’s cast includes a judge, an architect, a firefighter, a battlefield scavenger . . . I see posts about Uma Musume, and people talk about a runner, a runner, a mad scientist, and a runner.
Soulbonding History: "Destroying your soulbonds is murder" color bar
Aug. 22nd, 2025 02:46 pmlb_leeWhen we joined the soubonding comms on Livejournal in 2007, we often saw the following bar in people's profile pages:
(Color bars of this type were common things on Livejournal at the time; I expect because it wasn't an image and thus didn't require imagehosting, saving bandwidth and work.)
Because it is in danger of being lost, I want to credit the originator of this. I also want to talk about some of the context around it, and why it got made.
( This is a post about death and murder. )
| They're people, friends, lovers. NOT Satan. Destroying your soulbonds is murder. | |||||
(Color bars of this type were common things on Livejournal at the time; I expect because it wasn't an image and thus didn't require imagehosting, saving bandwidth and work.)
Because it is in danger of being lost, I want to credit the originator of this. I also want to talk about some of the context around it, and why it got made.
( This is a post about death and murder. )
