Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

"come forth, shades of the dead! curse my name! strike my body! fill my soul with blackest malice!"

and now come the spectres of the council -

"worthless excuse of a jedi! you're nothing but trouble!" "a font of misery, that's what you are!"

"yes, the dearest jedi order. i was the bane of your existence unto the very end!"

and now come the spectres "of the republic" and "of the empire" - both howling in accusation of vader's failure to command them

even almost all the lines of dialog work too!!!!

"why does it fade away?! ...ah. i understand. it feeds on my hate, on my suffering..." SURE SOUNDS LIKE AN EX-SITH-LORD FALLING OFF THE DARK SIDE TEETOTALERS BANDWAGON AND DISCOVERING IT ALL AGAIN. it works perfectly for someone who has tried so hard to be in the light for so long but is remembering the easy, quick destructive power of the dark side

so ffxiv is the first game that really did boss battles with extreme pomp and circumstance that i've ever played

so of course one of the entertaining-questions-to-ask-myself has been "if this character i wrote had a boss battle like an ffxiv primal, what would it look like? how would their story get told this way?"

i had easy answers for most except my pet-au-version of darth vader

then

the tsukuyomi fight dropped

and i was just like "oh. yeah ok it's that but masc" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njYgggITz2g

@Leucrotta trouble with tribbles, hands-down.

because tribbles.

somewhat ironically, someone not immediately stepping down in such a situation shows that they very much need to do so; a person who understands what they have done wrong and wishes for it to not happen again will immediately ensure that they do everything they can so the situation will not occur once more.

an apology standing as incomplete as that - and being glossed over - shows that it's not really much of an apology.

an apology wherein someone acknowledges they sexually harassed someone, and that their status as moderator gave them the power to do so - or at least a big incentive for people to keep quiet about it and not challenge it - is incomplete unless it includes no longer having that power over other people, at least until they can show they have learned and changed.

@InspectorCaracal i think it's more in the constellation of "stereotypical black drinks", eventually on up to "purple drank" - a bit of the 'fried chicken and watermelon' vein of thing?

i'll be honest i'm not sure of the exact particulars but this is mostly because i'm really blithely stupid about stereotypes at the best of times

@zensaiyuki ah there we go, jonestown

i don't know me cults very well

(probably kind of a good thing in the end)

@InspectorCaracal there is definitely a koolaid racist thing going on as well so i don't know if they've intersected now or not? it could very well be racist as well somehow i don't know yet

wait hold on i thought "drank the kool-aid" is in poor taste because it's referencing the Heaven's Gate cult and their ritual mass suicide via poisoned beverages, how is it racist

thing i'm quite pleased about:

the last time i charged my cyborg bits was the day before my surgery (which was the 6th). it's only today that it's yelled at me to charge it again!

so hey, aug 5 - aug 22 on one charge, i'm getting pretty good battery life three years or so out!

is it a good joke?

no absolutely not it's been done into the ground

but y'know sometimes it's just so tempting when they line it all up for you THAT good yknow

apparently people on twitter are debating that a smash brothers tourney is going to have a therapy dog room and i am so, so tempted to rip in there and poke at the salty mcwhiners with "oh i see, it's because they figured a slobbery, affectionate dog grooming you was an upgrade from your usual 'didn't shower for seven weeks', i can see why you may be upset with this outcome" but i'm not gonna i'm gonna just tell the tired old joke here instead

@aradinfinity i should probably find one of such sites someday to post my own art on

it was just such a fucking chore every time i'd get a notification of "soandso fav'd your piece and added it to their gallery!" and you go "oh wow how nice! i'll take a look!" and then you see your meant-to-not-be-horny piece sitting there in a pile that, when taken as a whole, is obviously wank bank. because that's what i get when i dare to draw a woman i suppose. cue indignant gargling

@InspectorCaracal YEP EXACTLY... pyrrhic victory is a fucking great term for that

though of course it's more broad than this specific feeling, but we can probably use that as the base blocks after translating it into german, then we just stick on more and more because german is half language, half lego, and we'll eventually get there

@aradinfinity there's a fucking deluge of it and honestly it's why i stopped using the site almost entirely

there's only so many times a girl can see Luigi's Feet Stamping On A Plate Of Spaghetti While Princess Peach Is Being Fed To Blimp Sizes before she knows what's up. and i would be totally fine if they just admitted it's a fetish thing, ykinmkatok and all that, but way too many people were busy playing the "let's see how many people i can get to believe this is innocent" game

honestly though the loan word we need - again, probably from german - is "the sensation at looking at someone's interest - say, in their DeviantArt favourites - and knowing instantly that, despite the pictures being safe for work in technicality, this is absolutely somebody's wank bank material"

i may say let's just call it DeviantArt because it seems the website is a good 80% people doing the "i'm not touching you, i'm not touching you" approach to following the "no outright porn" rule

we need a word - probably loaned from german - for "the exhausted, pale shade of might-as-well-laugh-to-keep-from-crying feeling when you notice callouts naming someone as doing really ugly shit, and you had clocked this person as suspect or even blocked/muted them weeks ago, so you have a moment of going 'whelp, still got it, i guess'... to give yourself pause from the unrelenting misery of it all"

@twistylittlepassages adding on to the "sincere thank you for putting this together" pile, because sincerely, thank you for putting this together