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@memnus@octodon.social if purple docs exist I need them.

@kinsey in most universes I tend to assume that spaceships represent an incredible concentration of wealth. They're big, complex, highly-engineered, and safety-critical.

I want to pause for a moment and appreciate that the music in The Adventure Zone: Dust is an absolutely perfect match for the tone of the story.

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

The Last Jedi 

@Rosemary relating to stuff not in the story itself, but to how the audience engages with the story.

The Last Jedi 

The more I think about that movie the more I realize that almost everything in it can be read as metatextual critique of a whole lot of Star Wars fans.

This is ESPECIALLY true of Luke's arc.

Wait, actually, isn't this an explicit metageographical feature of Downwarp?

A+ layers-blending.

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One thing that's absolutely fascinating to me about tabletop RPGs (especially low-prep ones) is how we build these whole realities together which just evaporate the instant we stop looking at them.

very tangentially uspol adjacent, question 

@Rosemary Yeah media literacy is a skill that's barely taught if at all, which is kind of tragic imo.

very tangentially uspol adjacent, question 

@Rosemary ehhh. I think something bland-ass like NPR would be a lot better for that.

One of the functions of propaganda is to incite.

very tangentially uspol adjacent, question 

@Rosemary I mentally have them in the category of "too partisan to be useful for anything but propaganda", personally.

But yeah, there's no such thing as a neutral source. There's always an implicit framing and a choice of what facts to include and omit, and how to present them.

sext 

@sev@octodon.social :thumbs_up_paw_nx40:​

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