Your church-going, God-worshipping sister adopted a small child and you’re excited to see them. But when you do, the child is a menace. They’re throwing things everywhere, setting furniture on fire with seemingly nothing, chanting in Latin to summon demons, but the weirdest thing is that your sister doesn’t seem to mind.
“You literally adopted the antichrist, Anne. What the fuck.”
“Yeah, I knew when I saw him at the orphanage. I figured if the kid had some decent fucking parenting that we could avoid the whole ‘Revelations’ shite. Nasty business, that.”
George, who’s name has been kindly changed from Damien, approaches his new mother with a huge spider in his hands. It promptly bursts into flames.
“Good job, love. Now go find the rest.” George’s face makes no expression, but his eyes shine when he recieves a pat on the head for his efforts.
As the months go by, George seems to settle down. He adjusts to school, friends, and the positive reinforcement Anne gives him. She encourages the good he does, even though the powers he uses aren’t “good”. When she gets calls from the school, it’s about a rambunctious boy that won’t sit still. Not a destroyer of the world and innocence.
It’s at Christmas dinner, that you let slip your amazement to your mother. How good Anne is for him and how he’s improved a lot. Still summoning hellhounds for games of fetch, though.
“Oh, he’ll forget how to do that when he falls in love the first time,” Your mother laughs, smiling wide.
“How do you know that,” you ask bewildered.
“Because, you did.”
okay so someone please write the story of the family of super-low-key holy warriors who have made it their mission to locate the antichrist in every generation (because when one gets spoiled they try AGAIN) and adopt them and love them into not being the antichrist anymore, thus perpetually delaying the apocalypse
delaying the apocalypse via good parenting I love this
I feel someone’s channelling their inner Neil Gaiman (& Terry Pratchett)
gettin real tired of people pretending that the writers not explaining every little thing in detail is the same thing as a plothole tbh
has to think once while watching something whoa this is bad writing
Most writers are not gigantic nerds like Tolkien who obsessively craft every single detail of their world down to creating whole fucking fictional languages and describing everyone’s diet in detail. And even LOTR doesn’t have completely airtight writing.
It’s one thing to complain about major story points making no goddamn sense and breaking existing lore and it’s another to nitpick pointless shit.
Id also blame binge watching. A lot of people have become acustomed to getting their answers in a few hours and not a few weeks and i think people have forgotten that enigma is a key narrative technique. You don’t get to know everything right away or what’s the point in the story?
Imagine these nerds watching Lost when it was still ongoing.
Every now and then I see a spike in people presenting a particular study on brain sex and debating it as if it has equal validity to the rest of the research on the subject. It very much doesn’t, so here’s a PSA:
‘Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic’ by Joel, et al. (2015) does not disprove neurological sexual dimorphism. It came to dishonest conclusions about its results and has been refuted multiple times by other researchers.
This study was ridiculously sensationalized and (mis)reported in many news outlets when it came out, so you may have seen it presented with a headline like:
If you’re reading anything claiming to debunk the idea of brain sex and see a reference to “Daphna Joel” or “Tel-Aviv University” or “brain mosaic”, that’s a huge red flag.
Joel’s claim is that no brain is truly male or female, and we all have a “mosaic” of masculine and feminine traits. There’s a huge level of variability and overlap in individual male and female brains, and overall we are more alike than we are different – that much is true. But the results of Joel’s study actually did show notable sex differences between male and female brains. In order to make it look like their results did not demonstrate this, they fudged their threshold for measuring sex differences (”internal consistency”) in a way that almost no amount of sex differentiation would be able to meet, allowing them to come to the conclusion that there are no meaningful sex differences in the brain at all.
After this study was published it was quickly refuted not just once, but four times by other scientists in the same journal:
‘Multivariate revisit to “sex beyond the genitalia”’ by Rosenblatt used a multivariate analysis and was able to demonstrate a clear dividing line in Joel’s data between male and female neurology despite the variability across individuals. Fig. 1. has a helpful visual.
‘Yes, there is a female and a male brain: Morphology versus functionality’ by Glezerman took a different approach and rather than challenging Joel’s assertions with other data, he criticized the conclusion with logical reasoning. Logically, based on the already-proven effects of sex hormones on the brain and sex differences in gonadal function (and differences in other organs), the brain is necessarily sex dimorphic regardless of if those differences are visible on a brain scan.
Researchers took issue with it outside of journals, too, allowing them to explain in more plain-English:
An author of one of the above refutations
also wrote a Psychology Today article about how Joel’s “statistical abracadabra” led to a misleading conclusion.
One researcher from Dublin wrote two analyses of it on his neuroscience blog, the first specifically comparing Joel’s study to one from 2013 that had similar results but the opposite conclusion, and the second again exploring the flaw of Joel’s methods and how their conclusion was not an accurate representation of their research.
In more plain-English, but with less weight as they were written by non-scientists:
This trans woman contacted Daphna Joel personally about whether this study disproves the sexual dimorphism that has already been observed in the BSTc in studies on gender & sexual orientation, and what that means about the brains of trans people. Assuming this woman was being honest about their correspondence, Joel backpedalled in her response, claiming that their study did not have certain enough results to have implications for trans people without (their grossly flawed definition of) “internal consistency” also being applied to the trans research. Joel conceded the possibility of gender identity being controlled by sex-dimorphic brain structures despite claiming that there is no male or female brain.
This article points out the inaccuracy of the science reporting on this study and explains how the actual results do not show that there is “no male or female brain” as claimed, but that the conclusion was intentionally written in a way that would play into journalists’ biases and be easy to sensationalize. This one’s much more straightforward in suggesting that Joel published this study with an agenda – I personally think it’s likely but it’s nonetheless a pretty serious accusation to make, so I’ll leave it up to you to take it with a grain of salt and make your own conclusions about Joel’s intentions.
TLDR this study’s conclusion reflects neither its own results nor the general scientific opinion on the subject. It does not disprove the existence of male and female brains. It should not be treated with equal weight as the rest of the research showing sex differences in the brain.
honestly a big indicator of a good game for me is the ability to just chill in it. if you can enjoy yourself just stopping to take in the scenery and listen to the music and ambience, or hanging out on the title screen, or ignoring the main gameplay to go off and screw around picking flowers, or even just mousing over all the menu options for the tactile feedback, chances are it’s a good fucking game
i don’t mean to sound fake deep but the reason 2018 felt so long was because we’re being fed what’s trending at such a rapid rate that we literally can’t remember half of the shit that even happened anymore. “Black Panther came out in February!” Marvel releases so many movies a year that we completely forget about the last movie as soon as a new one comes out and it repeats in a vicious cycle. “Tide Pods/Ugandan Knuckles was in January!” The life span of memes have been rapidly declining for years and it’s gotten to the point where the average lifespan of a meme is about 2 weeks and then the next thing gets popular and then that lasts for 2 weeks and it just keeps going. We’re literally losing our sense of time because of our rapid consumption of media and pop culture.
Making fun of i-am-fish posts for being lighthearted and harmless is embaressing and dookie-brained culture. Youre not funny for mocking people making innocent content.
the fish blog knowingly has pedo apologists and shit ton of racists in their server because their mods cant mod for shit i think its fair to say we’re allowed to take shots at the unfunny cishet bootlicker blog thats stuck in 2010 thanks
lets not forget the fact that she seems to be white and is certainly non-black and is constantly butchering aave and mae for goof points– literally making fun of the way poc talk isn’t innocent content. it would be one thing if she was just saying stuff like “uwu” or “pupper”, but shes not. she’s a racist, unfunny pedo apologist who would rather throw lgbt people under the bus than risk making her straight following uncomfortable
didn’t have to scroll that far honestly
im confused now h
lol it’s called a smear campaign
this is what happened to thomas sanders too just bc they found out he supported aces
also, about the one thing they actually did fuck up and not a server raid being taken out of context?
they literally acknowledged they fucked that up and they are literally trying to be a good person and not blindly defend themself
I feel like Fish should stop talking politics period. They’re a comedy blog first and foremost. And talking politics allows them to be prey to these people.
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