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🚩 Cop

🚩 Beats his kid

🚩 Enabler

🚩 Officer of the law

🚩 Freeloader

🚩 Lost Haruka multiple times

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Need I say more

I fucking hate this guy

Worst character in the LaD series bar none.

#yakuza #roaring #i am officially a #makoto date #hater

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I fucking hate this guy

Worst character in the LaD series bar none.

#yakuza #roaring

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I don't think Lake Mungo is about ghosts

#roaring

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nothing more sobering than realizing you'd been assuming a cover of a song was the original...like oh phew if the wrong person found out about that i couldve been killed

#im still pressed about smth that happened like 6 years ago #i was stocking shelves and the boys are back in town by jon bon jovi was playing over the loudspeaker #and a coworker said #hey ill give you $100 if you can tell me who wrote this song #and i said #oh thats easy its thin lizzys the boys are back in town #and he laughed and said i was wrong #some other guy laughed too #fucker owes me a benjamin

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Yeah I'm judging you and your poly d&d group, not for being poly but for playing d&d

#there are gayer games than d&d yall #roaring

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Uh oh! Spent 3 weeks on DonDoko Island instead of looking for my mom! What will I find waiting for me when I return?

#infinite wealth #roaring

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ROUND 4, BRANCH A

#im sorry but #marielda clears twilight mirage

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bholy fuck the busket seal of approval

#roaring

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we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Yet all fits with what the interior design tries to hide, namely how unerringly peculiar the house is, yet it is not entirely able to do so because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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Reblog for sample size

#i use a bunch of these tbh #and i swap constantly #generally i use paint.net because im a sicko #but if i want to so some graphic design i use inkscape/illustrator #i started using krita recently when i want to actually try using a tablet #honorable mentions are wonderdraft and dungeondraft because sometimes i need to make a map in less than an hour

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Pentiment spoilers because I said something my fiance didn't like

We were talking about how no matter what actions you take and what dialogue you choose, Caspar always dies, physically or spiritually.

Andreas will either kill Caspar is or kill his dream, but either way Andreas will have to carry that weight with him forever.

#pentiment #pentiment spoilers #roaring

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Ryoko Kui's insistence on answering questions most people aren't asking is honesty inspiring and vindicating. It started small with like, how the monsters aren't actually monsters because they're all just animals with instincts and behavior patterns. If it can bleed, you can eat it, etc. Etc.

And then it's "well how do magic users regain mana?" And the answer is "slowly, with food and drink with high magical properties." Marcille eating mandrake roots and drinking magic spirit water to quickly regain lost mana is what I'm here for.

Go a little further and it's "how do you resurrect someone?" And the answer is "carefully, depending on how you do it." Meat for meat, blood for blood, you can substitute as much of either as you want _but watch out_

#dungeon meshi #roaring

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Pickman addressing the note to "Marne and co." Is very funny to me. She does not trust Es, Virtue, or Chine to relay this note to the others.

#sangfielle #friends at the table #fatt #roaring

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oh people are going to be annoying about palworld for a while huh

#roaring

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I genuinely don't understand how anyone can watch any Gundam season and say it's not about how bad war is.

#gundam #roaring

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nothing but respect for the fitgirl repacks person's dedication to Audrey Toutou

#roaring

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#most of my clothes either come second hand or as gifts. #the most expensive piece of clothing i own is a pair of hi-top vans that i bought for like $70 #roaring