Gotcha. Q definitely wanted to [whatever the Q equivalent of bang is] Riker. While we’re on the topic of immortal sprites, Kenneth Parcell strikes me as a candidate for “Form Purist / Mindset Agnostic”. He obviously had some kind of twink power over Banks that he was unable to wield effectively.
Is being completely clueless about one’s own twink powers “Mindset Purist” or “Mindset Agnostic”? I feel like the term “twink” implies a certain level of self-ignorance.
The US is not safe. Please do not come here. It doesn’t matter what promises you get from our government. They are not operating in good faith. Don’t send your players here, don’t visit as spectators. Please, do not come here. The US is not safe.
What’s the difference between neutral and agnostic in this context?
Also the only one I recognize is Q but I think that’s on me 🧓
I’m typing this on my Infinity Keyboard while sitting here in my Infinity Pajamas.
I treat it as a real question in medical settings. In some cases it can be helpful information for a provider. Even in the worst case it says “I’m not here for pleasantries, I got problems and I’m here to address them”.
Really though, it depends entirely on the person. With my partner I will try to give the most complete answer I can, with friends and coworkers it depends on how close our relationship is. With strangers it may be a completely perfunctory answer to a completely perfunctory question, especially if I’m not up for defending a non-perfunctory answer, but I like to keep my answers real when I have the spoons for it.
I have about 20 sites bookmarked with just their favicon that are sort of “first order access”, though I use some of them more regularly than others. At random intervals, one will catch my eye and I’ll think “I haven’t used that in a while, I don’t think I need that up there anymore” and I’ll remove it, usually while I’m at it I’ll remove others too. I have about a dozen folders too, these are more long-term storage, e.g. I have one for all my financial institutions (not to brag but I have several student loan servicers 😣), one for network security tools, one for rare media finding tools, etc. These are used less often and they usually get put there after I’ve had to go look them up several times. I tend to keep it well pruned though, I think I have maybe 200 distinct sites bookmarked.
Unrequited love is a hard thing but I imagine unrequited hatred must be worse.
Something I’ve always wondered is why Majora / the mask / the skull kid decided to rob Link, and I think this analysis sheds some light on it. If Majora is a physical representation of unresolved childhood trauma, it makes sense to me that they steal his horse and ocarina: these are precious things, but they are also reminders of his traumatic past. I have felt the contradictory urge to destroy or dispose of things that are precious mementos because they also carry associations with painful memories.
Trauma also emotionally stunts you and can make you appear childish to others even when you feel like an adult, which is why Majora curses him into the form of the Deku child.
I also love how Link learns to come to terms with his trauma. First, he must do what he must to survive, which means getting his ocarina back and getting himself into a position where he isn’t faced with the threat of imminent death, which he does by remembering the song of time. Once he himself is in a safe state, he goes about methodically helping everyone he can find who needs help, and asks for nothing in return. For these deeds he receives masks, memories of good deeds that he has done. Finally, in order to fully self-actualize, he gives these masks freely to the children on the moon.
One of the children on the moon asks Link if he will become a mask salesman. I think a mask salesman, in the context of the game, is someone who has amassed great wisdom but hoards it, only sharing it selectively with those who can offer something of value in return. Instead, Link gives his masks away. Not only that, he gives away every non-transformation mask he has, getting nothing in return (as far as he knows). If he can do this, he learns from the Majora child how to become the Fierce Deity.
I think it’s fascinating and thematically beautiful that Link can defeat Majora without becoming the Fierce Deity. You don’t have to be a Buddha to overcome trauma. But if you can learn to share the wisdom you have gained by your suffering, and ask nothing in return, then the fight becomes much, much easier.
P.S.
Something that occurs to me as I’m writing is that this game also shows Link’s journey experiencing empathy. When he encounters the body of the Deku child, he doesn’t really understand what he’s looking at. By the time he meets the ghost of Darmani, he has acquired the tools he needed to heal himself, and is able to use them to heal Darmani as well. With Mikau, he rescues him from the water, hears his dying wish and honors it, eases his passing, gives him a proper burial, and mourns him. That’s a considerable evolution.
What turned me off of SO entirely is when you actually do google it and the results are all SO posts with “closed as duplicate” and no actual answers :(
The snake fully ate itself.
I have no patience for single-turtle hypothesists. What would it even push against? It doesn’t make sense. Now, if it were an infinite stack of turtles, each pushing against each other an infinitesimal amount, it could generate a constant 9.8m/s^2, so I don’t think we can rule out the many-turtles hypothesis. But I still think the simplest explanation is the most likely, and that is a giant rocket booster.
Unless… a single turtle had four rocket boosters instead of flippers… that could work. Hold on, I need to diagram this out with some red yarn.
Conservationists out here winging for the entire planet ❤️
Also, because we experience gravity, we know there must be a giant thruster on the underside of the earth. I know people love the elegant simplicity of a giant earth coin floating in space but it just doesn’t stand up to basic scrutiny.
I don’t think we are the target demographic.
It turns out spinning things is really useful and boiling fluids is a convenient way to spin things.
Fair question, when I hear “twink” I think of someone young, hot, dumb, and usually masc-coded. Q definitely has some twink braggadocio, but I’d call him a loose fit with my working definition of twink.