[dduane]

Every now and then you look at an extant image (i.e. the second one in this post) and see an “outtake"—something you’ve inadvertently set up and didn’t think about exploiting. In this case, the streams crossing a bit harder. "Talking shop”…

[docresa]

[theocseason4]

my bad for assuming everyone has critical thinking skills btw

[spritegender]

[cube-cumb3r]

gender envy and calling ppl gender was like just a quirky little injoke between trans zoomers on the internet it was never meant to be this super serious clinical term or trans exclusive experience… “dont call ppl gender if ur cis” do whatever u want its not even a real thing oh my fucking god

[cube-cumb3r]

regardless how can “wow im envious of their specific gender presentation and how theyre perceived by others gender wise” possibly be a trans exclusive experience. ? answer quickly

[wetwareproblem]

I’ll go one further: Can we normalize cis people making ‘that’s my gender’ jokes? Maybe if they learn to take it a little less fucking seriously they’ll start to recognize how ridiculous it is to try to codify every human experience into a gender binary.

[spritegender]

cis people defining their gender for themselves is actually something i seriously encourage. like,,, go on, friend, you don’t have to be trans to enjoy your gender the way that we enjoy ours. deconstructing shitty systems starts by hitting at the base of the tower.

[transgender-rex]

Video Game Idea.

[squidbiscuit]

A game that is marketed as your standard fishing game and for the first 20 minutes or so you catch normal fish like bluegill and bass and what have you. But the further you go into the lake you start to catch fish with mutations and it gets more and more intense until you’re pulling in Eldritch horror monsters and sometimes severed human limbs. You realize you don’t recall how you got to this lake in the first place and the objective becomes to find your way back to shore. You have no real weapons but you can throw the creatures you’ve caught far away from the boat as a means to distract whatever is underneath you, bumping into the boat sometimes.

Additional items for the game.

• A fishing pole with a radar that starts out with just beeps but later includes noises with hidden messages.
• A GPS that displays texts and story elements.
  
• You meet other boaters, all from various backgrounds, countries, and time periods. Some are friendly, others want to sacrifice you to the lake monsters.
  
• You can also take the route of sacrificing others to the lake monster.
• Or you can assemble a party and work to keep them safe.
• The more fucked up looking the fish you catch, the closer you’re getting to a boss fight, which is usually running from something you can only see part of in the water.
  
• ????

And that’s my game idea.

[squidbiscuit]

More details.

• It never stops being a fishing game. You are always fishing and searching for new areas where there is more activity in order to progress the story.
  
• Depending on the choices you make and the amount of mutant fish you consume, you may start to mutate yourself. The fishing pole is part of your arm, you don’t notice it until later. If you consume mostly non-mutated fish and don’t sacrifice to the monsters you can keep the mutations to a minimum.
• You can go full mutant and the boat becomes part of your body as well. This makes the monsters pay less attention to you, but you can no longer befriend or trade items with humans. You can still catch human remains and most of them are carrying items.
• If you stay mostly human you can work to gather as many surviving humans as you find and assemble a fleet. The possibility of one of them turning on you always stands.
• If you’re mutant you gain the ability to capsize yourself and view things under water. This is how you find ultimate monster.
  
• If you’re human you can explore small abandoned docks and islands. These are where you find portals leading to different time periods and countries. You deliver members of your party to these. Only the person who originally belongs there can go through it.

Possible end game situations.

• You find the portal leading back to your world, where you wake up on the river bank. You can catch normal fish before going home, making sure they are all free of mutations (they might not be.)
  
• You join the monster, eventually overtaking it. You gain the ability to open time portals near water. You use lures to draw in humans.

I can’t think of anymore endings right now, I may have ruined the game with these new details so feel free to just enjoy the first part.

[squidbiscuit]

Terrible concept art.
Mini game idea. Compete with members of your party to catch the most fucked up fish. Points awarded based on how many extra body parts it has and if it communicates telepathically with you.

[squidbiscuit]

Added my No-Romo posts to this because I feel they are the most important additions. (I am not a writer or game designer or really capable of making anything so this idea is just wishful thinking at best.)

[squidbiscuit]

Concept art if it was a more stylized, cute game. You would be able to customize your character and your boat. Sorry this became so big I’m tagging it with it’s working title “Lure” for now. I legit expect nothing at all to come from this, I just like to design and concept out things a bit.

[squidbiscuit]

The ultimate ending to the game would be to ignore all plot points and just keep fishing.
Meet a person? Tell them you’re not interested in working with them.
Feel like you’re getting close to a boss monster? Turn the boat a different direction.
Just keep catching and cataloging the fish until you run out of room in your journal. After that the sky opens up and sucks you into it.
You wake up exactly where the game started but the first page of your journal now says “YOU DID A REEL GOOD JOB!” And that’s the ending I would shoot for.

[squidbiscuit]

More shitty concept art! I’m done now. Anything else pertaining to this will have it’s own post. (I ruined it after the first post, I know I did.)

[hyratel]

@hashkivenu

[hashkivenu]

I NEED THIS GAME

[petermorwood]

[catalystofthesoul]

So this is just a PSA, y'all should never sign a contract until you read it. I’m talking in rl right now. I just got through reading my employee handbook/service contract and my bosses slipped in a lot of bullshit like telling me I can’t complain about my job on social media, demanding I work off the clock in the name of good service, expects me to show up on time during inclimate weather, and considered disability or religious accommodation a direct threat to the company.

These are all things I took issue with and brought to my employer for further discussion before signing the contract. Most of my coworkers signed without reading, treating it like an internet terms of service contract.

Tl;dr real life is serious shit, lawyers write contracts to protect your employer FROM YOU, read contracts before you sign them - fucking ARGUE about contracts before you sign them

[lyrslair]

Also important to note, and something my bf has repeated to me many times: a contract is a negotiation until it is signed, and YOU ARE ALLOWED TO AMEND IT. Tech companies often put some bs in there about “we own everything you make while you work for us” which broadly applied also means anything done on your own time. He always ALWAYS does write-in amendments with initial and date to state that they only own things done FOR the company, on company time, because there have been companies that enforced that bullshit when somebody had a personal side project the company decided they wanted to steal. There’s only one company that threw a fit at his attempts to amend it and he considered that a huge red flag and refused to sign, turned down the job.

Never. EVER. Sign shit without reading it. Also: if your prospective employer won’t let you take the thing home to read before you sign it and says you need to sign it then and there THAT IS A RED FLAG. The job I had that turned out to be abusive as shit was like that. Every other job I’ve been able to bring the contract home to my parents to have a more experienced set of eyes on it. It’s also common practice in some fields to have one’s attorney look over it before signing. So never let them tell you that you can’t look over it with someone else. That’s a fat load of shit. For “lower level” jobs they may not accept amendments to the contract but if they won’t even give you the proper time to read it over, they’re trying to pull some bullshit on you and you’re going to regret it if you sign. Even if there’s nothing bad in what you signed it’s an example of how they are going to treat you while you’re there. Take it to heart and run like fucking hell.

[asryakino]

Please also tell your coworkers. Inform others. Tell everyone. Please, for the lovee of everything TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO THESE THINGS.

Companies BANK on the fact you’re not going to read it. Then they slip in shit like ‘you can’t talk about your wages’ because they want you to keep quiet, so thy can pay that guy six bucks, and pay the guy over there fifteen and pay you eight. They want you to accept it all blindly. PLEASE DON’T STAY BLIND.

Yes, I’ve lost out on jobs because I wanted to read it and they didn’t want me to. Or they wanted m to resign and I said no to to the things they added that I pointed out were unfair and borderline illegal. 

Read shit. Tell everyone else to read shit. BE INFORMED. 

[cricketcat9]

Absolutely 100% good advice ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼

Never ever ever sign shit without reading and re-reading it! Take it home, show it to someone more experienced, if you can, show it to a lawyer. A contract is supposed to work for both sides. A company in Toronto tried to make me sign a contract with clause that in event of me leaving the job I will not work in a similar position anywhere in Ontario. Yeah, right, not enforceable in court, dudes, you can’t prevent me from making a living. Read the shit and don’t let them intimidate you. 

[iwrotesomeofitdown]

Hi. I‘m a lawyer. Ask for at least 24 hours before you sign a work contract. You do not have to sign within 30 seconds of the contract hitting the desk. It is absolutely standard procedure. It gives you time to show it to a lawyer or go to a public counselor and have them look it over. In-room signing is another way companies blindside and intimidate you. Don’t be rushed. This is an absolutely normal thing to do. People who try to harangue you or hurry you along are sketchy.

[petermorwood]

Reblog & signal boost.

[abcsofadhd]

[abcsofadhd]

Source: me

[id: 3 tweets by Danny (@ABCsofADHD), reading:

1. I'm excitable. Most, if not all ADHDers are too. Our excitability is often mocked by non ADHDers as childish. But that's the thing.. all kids, ADHD or not are excitable. Meaning non ADHDers 'grow out of it'. Or, they learn to tone it down to avoid being teased too.
2. The excitability has affected me a lot. It got me teased so I "suppressed" it, leading to me being quite depressed. I was suppressing a major part of me for fear of RSD afterall. The excitability came back as I learned to manage my depression. But now, I love it.
3. I wear my heart on my sleeves. It's who I am. I'm giddy and excitable. The childlike (not childish) nature is one of the few things I like about ADHD. I've seen too many 'adults' be miserable, following social norms. So I'd rather be excitable and not miserable.

end id.]

[another-rpg-sideblog]

[thelastinspector]

My favorite phrases as a DM.

[bluering8]

[congenitaldisease]

Tokyo-based artist, Shinji Nakaba crafts tiny intricate skulls out of pearls.

[rudjedet]

[rudjedet]

look I know we all love our shitty copper jokes and those are great and all, but you lot have seriously been sleeping on the absolute menace that is Paneb

among the many crimes of this man, foreman of the workman’s village of Deir el-Medina, is making the men under his authority look after his cow for two months because he was too fucking lazy to do it himself, and then spending his time getting drunk a lot in various places

one of which being the tomb of a pharaoh. on wine stolen from that same tomb. while sat on pharaoh’s own damn sarcophagus because fuck pharaoh, I guess

here, we’ve got receipts (Pap. Salt 124, recto I:11):

man was a fucking trainwreck of drunkenness, violence, and exploitation

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Ea-Nasir wishes he had the sheer staying power and gall of Paneb. Paneb would sell you shitty copper, and convince you that doing him a favour was a great idea, while he went out, got drunk and threw rocks at his fellow villagers.

[rudjedet]

@titleleaf thank you for this valid addition

[retrofair]

1944 Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

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