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dune is so funny it literally opens like

CHAPTER 1

“It sucks that I understand Time Cube and as such cannot avoid becoming a genocidal dictator,” young Paul Atreides said to himself. “For me. Moral complexity is such a burden.”

CHAPTER 2

“Heard any good slurs for poor people lately?” asked the Baron Harkonnen homosexually, knocking back another shot of orphan tears.

#your... your mind

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when autism

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Stand alone complex? I find it quite simple,

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I will say it is hard to be nice to people here when so much of casual tumblr vernacular is just… inherently hostile. Some of you genuinely do not seem to understand that there are alternatives to flippantly insulting strangers.

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#all compliments as above but now i am interested in the viability of Pole Opera

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#aH YES #'the hipster's wager' #a classic maneuver #also works for books and poetry

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Reading comments saying how in Deep Space Nine whenever the crew faces a moral dilemma, they often just turn to Garak, and it made me want to make this

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hope is a skill

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https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/71640

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fun fact: Boston Museum of Science calls their evening lecture series “SubSpace”, which would be a totally innocuous math term except for the fact that, to make sure you know these lectures are higher-level and not aimed at their usual audience (kids), they chose to subtitle it “SubSpace: Adult Experiences”

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#this is a legitimate strategy in the greater boston area ngl

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Sorry if messaging you like this is out of pocket, or if your comment about the TV show wasn't meant to be a sort of invitation for interlocution/commentary, but 76 addressed everything that I find frustrating about the Bethesda fallout (particularly 4)'s storytelling and quest choice vs a game like New Vegas and the Interplays, which is really frustrating because it's good RPG content couched in a terrible multiplayer game

ngl if 76 was not a multiplayer game I would be playing it.

#or like if you could friendsonly it and didnt have to pay Subscription Access for features that matter

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Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

#a lot of people seem to think they are in control of/can accurately anticipate others' actions and its weird #like if that was true the social contract and power imbalances would not exist #you might be responsible for your words and actions #and would have to accept you communicated with them and they can communicate back #but you can't have special insight into others based on vibes and you can't 'predict' what they will choose to do

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it's a disappointing thing that the new fallout show will make you want to play fallout, but if you play fallout it's just fallout.

#like it was important in that show that Lucy McLean COULDN'T turboblast through the setting even if she WAS prepared mentally #but bethesda's fallout will never ever say No to you in any meaningful way #i suppose i could play new vegas but you cant just play new vegas every time fallout disappoints you #it will lose itself to that disappointment

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My Star Trek friends, reblog with your favourite most ‘out of context’ Star Trek image

I’ll start:

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