Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

tiny muddy puppy just chillin out

It's incredible the amount of people who use "gaslighting" as a fun quirky word for "lying", who don't realise they're on the level of a 2008 gamerbro going "You got raped in that last match, bro! Triggered much??"

Just read this new article on how 'Capitalism Is Gaslighting You', and this hilarious tweet about 'that time the barrista at Starbucks gaslit me by giving me dairy-free milk in my coffee'

Istg the only difference is it's gone so mainstream that people don't even think they're being edgy anymore. It's just been uncritically appropriated as part of the general lexicon.

Oooh. Spent the past month or so trying to adjust to using eye-tracking for my mouse stuff. Started off with Talon, but it's like the head/eye control are constantly wrestling with each other for control.

Precision Gaze Mouse is way better for it at the moment, I think. It does require 3 programs running at the same time, but immediately more stable to use. and less spontaneous crashing. Very glad I went back and tried the older software, very glad it's still on the web.

Rarely ever do I get the opportunity to say "I found this great music through wrestling"

So I will embrace this opportunity to say TMDK's theme (Young Punks by Mass Lines) is an *excellent* track and has been playing on repeat in my head for a while now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5dz9AytOzU

"You're not really ace, you just drink too much soda."

"You're not really 'immune' to caffeine, you just haven't drank the right coffee yet."

"You know, your heart starts to race, you feel all tingly, your chest feels tight and your thoughts are going a million miles an hour."

[Smiling and nodding politely] Sure, yeah, of course.

Being caffeine-immune and being ace/aro have a surprising amount of cultural parallels

Whenever I read 大学 (big + learning: daigaku, university) my brain just goes "BIIIIIIIIIG LEEAARNIIING" like the MST3k professors

From watching a mix of both this week, I think wuxia films are closer to fantasy-adventure than to kung fu movies, but they get lumped together a lot in Western release because "Chinese film with fights in".

It would be like if Lord Of The Rings was marketed as a HEMA martial arts movie, and got a reception of "There's 5 minutes of cool sword and bow stunts, but then they walk around a forest talking about jewelry for the rest of the film, 1/5"

It's a completely different set of expectations.

Most words: Ok, these two kanji mean that concept. Cool!
Some words: Kanji for this word(v1), Kanji for this word(v2)
Some words: Yeah I got nothing, smells of etymology tbh

Every time it happens in a book, movie or show, my mind returns to this comic.

Gravity is just as much a fundamental part of "our place in nature". We evolved for that, our bodies like it!

But whenever you get "Nope not going into space. That's unnatural!" in SF it's only from backwards sects of pitiable weirdos.

SFF writers, please, just once

Can we overcome cell senesence and it not be a big hand-wringing affair over "Oh! Oh! The very SOUL of humanity! Tis tarnished! Death, it defines life, you see!"

Get lost with that drunk undergrad philosophy schpiel, istg

And on that note

"Necromancy is AGAINST THE LAWS OF LIFE ITSELF! (Healing magic's ok tho)"

Like, yeah, your arm exploded? Buddy, this mage'll magic you up a new one! He's all harmonious! Look, there's birds in his beard and everything.

If it's your brain, though? Nah man, that's Unnatural.

What's wild is that Point Break only came 3 years later, and in that the "off-duty cop who starts a shootout in a building full of hostages during a robbery" is a minor antagonist who causes a tragic bloodbath.

Which feels very pointed and deliberate, like so much of that movie.

It feels like it's ramping up to action films of the 90s, in terms of tone and writing. Things aren't at the point of campyness you'll get in stuff like Total Recall or Demolition Man, but the path to there from here is very clear.

That was weird. Fun movie, very solid structurally. It does not feel like a 2hr 12m movie at all. Bizarre mix of lots of copaganda stuff that really doesn't land in 2023, mixed with the *most* inept cops this side of a Police Academy movie.

Alan Rickman is just amazing, and the entire film hinges on his performance. I love that in a cast of baddies yelling "SCHNELL! 'EE KEELED MEIN BROTHER!!" he is playing a guy named Hans Kruger with the most English accent imaginable.

There was one amazing scene where it looked like it was about to turn into a mistaken identity romcom with Alan Rickman & Bruce Willis, but the cowards veered away from it at the last moment.

Give me that movie, dammit.

These two are at the absolute top of their game, wow.

(Spoilered for spoilers. Gringo Loco vs Hijo de Vikingo, Ring Of Honor 23-4-20)

#wrestling

The kanji radical (smaller parts that make up the kanji characters) for 'strike, hit' is 攵, aka the 'folding chair' radical

This makes me so very happy

If you're in the UK, there'll be a big blaring 10s noise from your phone at 3pm

Turn off Emergency Alerts on your phone before then if you wanna avoid this. I think that should do it? Not 100% whether it turns off all levels of alarm or just the lower ones. >< Sticking mine on airplane mode then as well.

"I need some motivation to learn kanji, this is a lot."
"You mean the written language that is famously good for making puns?"
"Raring to go, I got this"