Doctor Improbabubble

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys
awed-frog

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

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“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

youngnoblewoman

This is fascinating if you’re into math or sociology or computer programming or all of the above.

skeptictankj

Everyone, everywhere, without exception, should play this thing through.

dumgold

Don’t check just this - check out all of Nicky Case’s work. They’re a brilliant creator and I heavily recommend checking out at least one of their projects.  Their website can be found here.

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.

We Become What We Behold - “ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles.“ A short five-minute game about news and media. Warnings for violence, blood, death and stress.

imtoobiforyou

OH MY GOD THIS IS FRICKING AMAIZNG WOW WOW WOW WOW YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YES INTELLECT 

ohnoitstbskyen

binghe-malewife-goals asked:

Any advice to those who are currently worldbuilding? Sometimes, all the information in your head makes it difficult to put all your ideas down on paper and sort through them in an organized manner

[cries in 1000 unfinished concepts and general creator woes, etc. 😔]

ohnoitstbskyen answered:

I mean, I’m a writer of the school that worldbuilding is utterly secondary to a good story. Like, write a good story first and build whatever world around it that the story needs in order to proceed. And if some parts of that worldbuilding ends up inconsistent or has holes in it, eeeeeh, whatever, that’s not really important.

So like if you need your characters to have a way to escape an impossible situation, just decide that teleportation magic exists so their wizard friend can arrive at a dramatic moment and get them all out safely, and it’s a great moment because he’s overcoming his crippling cowardice and putting his friends before himself for the first time in his life even though he spent the entire story up to this point acting like a selfish jerk. What matters is the story beat, and it’s not that important that the existence and function of such magic be established or explained beforehand. Sometimes you can just pull things out of your ass because they’re good or cool or fun, and justify them later (or not at all).

Because I fully sympathize with having way too much worldbuilding information and finding it impossible to keep it all straight, I’ve dug myself into those holes before, and I find it a lot easier to write out a story that works on the dramatic level first, and then build a world that fits the story, rather than try and write a story that fits the world.

That’s just me though.

zenosanalytic
mostlysignssomeportents

“Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav made $246.6 million; Disney’s Bob Iger made $45.9 million; and Paramount Global CEO’s Bob Bakish made $32 million. These individuals make more money per year than almost any entertainment executive before them. Just a small portion of each major CEO’s annual salary could cover the cost of the guilds’ reasonable structural and financial demands, and yet, they say it’s not possible. How could that be? Because it’s not about the money. It’s about power and perception. Almost none of these CEOs built the companies they run. We are not negotiating with Jack Warner or Walt Disney. We’re not even negotiating with the people who enriched these companies, like producer Robert Evans at Paramount in the 1970s. These CEOs are basically people who just work there—and who have contracts that allow them very large amounts of money. And right now, they don’t want anyone to know that. They don’t want anyone to know that they don’t actually build anything. They don’t want anyone to see them capitulate and bend the knee to any degree by making a deal with the writers and actors who build the product they fund and distribute. They don’t want to reasonably negotiate with these artists, because they think it will make them look weak. They think it will make them look like chumps, make them look simply like the employees of these companies that they are.”

— Justine Bateman on the Destruction of the Film Business (via wilwheaton)

dduane

This is absolutely it. All this crap is about nothing but the perceived power that comes with having a big fat paycheck, and (the fear of) losing face.:/

Source: thedailybeast.com
berry-muffin
seite

and then they proceeded to be the worst at their jobs for the next 20 years

sindri42

No no, you don’t get it. Jesse and James are the absolute best there is at their jobs, but they have no idea what their jobs are.

They think that they’re thieves, agents of an elite criminal group led by Giovanni, stealing rare pokemon and advanced technology and such. And there might have been a time this actually was their jobs. In the first season or two, they frequently get angry phone calls about how they’ve fucked everything up, or get their expense account cut off because they have literally never turned a profit on their criminal enterprises and constantly procure and then lose/destroy expensive and elaborate devices.

But then the world came within a hair’s breadth of being destroyed, several times, and Jesse, James, and their weird cat rescued everybody. As terrible as they’ve always been at criminal endeavors of any kind, when the apocalypse approaches and they’re forced to step up, they’re really fucking good at saving the day.

And Giovanni is over here like… if the planet is destroyed, or time/space becomes unrecognizable, or civilization collapses, there’s no way for me to run a profitable criminal enterprise anymore. I need this planet, because it’s where I keep all my stuff. And I don’t pretend to understand the why of it, but these couple of bumbling nutcases that I should have fired years ago seem to be an important component of that? Somehow? So you gotta stop thinking about them in terms of acquisitions and start considering them… loss prevention. As in, even if you waste a million dollars a month on giant cat-faced robots and a vast array of fancy ball gowns and they never turn a profit, they are preventing all of your assets from going away at the same time because of something you can’t do anything about.

And that’s the great secret behind Team Rocket. These guys aren’t thieves, they’re professional superheroes (sponsored by organized crime). Of course, nobody ever bothered to tell them that.

kansascity-marshwiggle

“To protect the world from devastation…”

atopfourthwall

Plus, as is frequently pointed out: Jesse and James are good at every other job EXCEPT Team Rocket. They’re actually smart businesspeople and run successful food and merchandise stands and are great salespeople.

Hell, even in Team Rocket situations where they’re not chasing after Pikachu they’ve done better.

It’s just their Achilles Heel is one damn OP rodent.

computationalcalculator

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Pikachu Proximity Intelligence Chart

silver-tongues-blog

pretty sure giovanni keeps them on so he can commit insurance fraud by giving them tech insured for way more than what was paid for it so when it inevitably gets destroyed he gets a nice check.

bumblebeerror

I’m accepting all of these responses actually

abundantchewtoys

J&J (& Meowth) are field testers, catspaws and urban legend verifiers.

I need this planet because it’s where I keep all my stuff. somehow the cartoon supervillain is more reasonable and forward thinking than most irl CEOs
zenosanalytic
lilsrtgold

asking a trans person if they like astrology is so fucking funny like "hey do you like arbitrary categories that people are sorted into because of the circumstances of their birth" im not sure i do no

i actually think there's some value in personality typing systems i just think astrology is a BAD personality typing system! at least with myers briggs or the MtG colour pie or any of those what x are you type quizzes they're trying to extrapolate from SOMETHING but astrology is a roll of the dice for every person it gets right there's 11 more who'd match another sign better