Transformers has a lot of quotable lines, especially from the animated movie, but “I’ve heard it said that we only gain wisdom through suffering, and tonight I intend to make you very wise” is so fucking raw and needs more appreciation
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#Transformers #quotes #violence cw #I assume someone has already added this to that thread of surprisingly good quotes
At work we use a service called Matterport, which lets you take a high resolution spherical camera and laser ranging system into a space and map it out as a 3D model that you can virtually walk around in. You can tag things too, so you can say “proposed device installation site” or “manager’s desk” or “8-basket deep-fryer” (we mostly work with fast food places at the moment).
I obviously can’t show you a work site but here’s a publicly available scan of the TACC supercomputer, which I visited a couple years back. You can get a pretty good sense of the space, even take measurements, which I’ve used to say “oh we need a 30m cable to connect this sensor to the sensor hub.” which is way more convenient than having to terminate cables on site.
I went to a site I have never been to on Saturday, but I had walked through it on my computer and it was /weird/. I knew where everything was, and I knew what all the things were. Came in the side door, turned towards the store room, felt as though I’d been there a dozen times. Didn’t have to ask anyone “hey do you know where that thing we installed is set up?” because it was all tagged in the model. Extremely strange sensation.
I can imagine something like this being very useful for hazardous work training and preparation, especially if you coupled it with some VR bullshit.
Ok, so theres like 14 tugboats working on the Ever Given now and the tide is coming in. They MIGHT be able to refloat her today.
As a hilarious side note, THIS apparently happened on a highway in china this morning, which SEEMS like a joke but is apparently real:
in the spirit realm, an evergreen tree has fallen and blocked the River of Life; the material realm will be forced to echo and reenact this higher reality in various ways until the problem is rectified at the source
#Ever Given #oh my god #(I looked it up and this is apparently a real thing that really happened at that real timestamp) #(also: they’ve made *some* progress on unsticking the Ever Given but they’ve still got a ways to go)
Hmm, this is kind of hard, because I’ve been into hypno since before I knew what sexuality even was, I memorized the NLP bit in Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (I still remember the “I’ll be wearing a <> tie. Pay attention to that. There’s a hundred and one ways this can go wrong, and the police could tie one of us up.”). Even my first dream that I realized was sexual several years after the fact involved hypnosis!
Some ideas as to why I’m into it: I’m a very individual person, being near people, interacting with them, etc., is not *natural* to me, I often have a thing running when I’m with people wondering “am I having quite a fun time? if not, how do I extricate myself?”
But unfortunately, I’m not able to take care of my desires just by myself, so I entangle myself with other people, so hypno/mc is a way to patch these contradictions to just directly move them into ways that I prefer, rather than having to do something so annoying as ~communicating~
There’s another aspect of direct power that I like, which is imposing either temporary restrictions or modifications that are too powerful for most people to be able to do directly to themselves, changing their perceived body, or ability to speak normally, or cognitive capacity
>>I memorized the NLP bit in Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Huh, it’s interesting that that stuck with you. If you’d asked me for a list of top MC moments in Artemis Fowl, that would not even have made the list. Didn’t strike me as salient at all.
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>>Even my first dream that I realized was sexual several years after the fact involved hypnosis!
Mine was about being assimilated by the Borg. I was kind of disturbed at first by how much I enjoyed it, but I got used to it after a while.
(It might have helped that the delay was shorter: it was maybe a few months afterward that I stumbled across some hypno-fetish stuff on TV Tropes, reevaluated my entire life through this new lens, and went “…well *that* explains a lot”.)
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>>But unfortunately, I’m not able to take care of my desires just by myself
I *mostly* can (it helps a lot to be ace), but sometimes I just desperately want to drift off to sleep in the arms of someone I love and trust and I’m still not sure what to do about that.
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#and yes it *is* that time of the month again and I *am* feeling lonely #so I’m digging this post out of the pile of [Tumblr tabs to think about maybe responding to] #(it’s not *that* big a pile) #(I only have eleven tabs open in total across all sites) #it helps to be able to talk #reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me
Hmm, this is kind of hard, because I’ve been into hypno since before I knew what sexuality even was, I memorized the NLP bit in Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (I still remember the “I’ll be wearing a <> tie. Pay attention to that. There’s a hundred and one ways this can go wrong, and the police could tie one of us up.”). Even my first dream that I realized was sexual several years after the fact involved hypnosis!
Some ideas as to why I’m into it: I’m a very individual person, being near people, interacting with them, etc., is not *natural* to me, I often have a thing running when I’m with people wondering “am I having quite a fun time? if not, how do I extricate myself?”
But unfortunately, I’m not able to take care of my desires just by myself, so I entangle myself with other people, so hypno/mc is a way to patch these contradictions to just directly move them into ways that I prefer, rather than having to do something so annoying as ~communicating~
There’s another aspect of direct power that I like, which is imposing either temporary restrictions or modifications that are too powerful for most people to be able to do directly to themselves, changing their perceived body, or ability to speak normally, or cognitive capacity
#”may your Wikipedia link turn blue” as an alternate form of ”may you live in interesting times” #Ever Given #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #today in Apocalypse Memes
Brinens and Things 