In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
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SPN, they dint sexualize/gay the leads til the after season 5, apparently it was due to Fanfiction, thats what the new writers did, if you notice it got pretty cringey and wierd around 6 and7, and some of season 8, they mostly continued it after those seasons. many fans dint like the sudden change in characthers, and then the ones that did became a little psycho(threatened 1 of the actors so she woulndt return to the show, and acted all wierd on those comi-con meetings.
- the_artic_one@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
Mycology is full of them which are mostly the result of genetic sequencing and the good old “where do you draw the line between species” question but a recent and high visibility one is the Collybia shift.
Before genetic testing, Collybia was a genus characterized by smallish pale-spored mushrooms with convex caps, no ring, and gills which are broadly attached to the stem (the simplest shape the average person would imagine for a mushroom), this became one of the classic “statures” of mushrooms “Collybioid”. As we sequenced Collybia species, they were slowly moved into other Collybioid genera like Collybiopsis and Gymnopus. Eventually this resulted in most of the Collybioid mushrooms being moved out of Collybia, leaving only the earliest-discovered mushrooms in the genus which were tiny parasitic mushrooms that weren’t really Collybioid at all.
Here’s an average “Collybioid” mushroom Gymnopus sp.
Then things got worse, a recent paper did a study on genus Clitocybe which is another genus which has a classic stature named after it, “Clitocyboid” which refers to smallish pale-spored, funnel-shaped, mushrooms with gills that run down the stem. This paper discovered that nearly everything we had been calling “Clitocybe” actually belonged in Collybia meaning that most mushrooms in Collybia are now Clitocyboid instead of Collybioid. This has resulted utter chaos which has some mycologists considering invoking the “common usage” rules in taxonomy to put the new Collybias back into Clitocybe to make things less confusing. This chaos has been compounded by the fact that iNaturalist has already accepted this name change, but only for the mushrooms explicitly studied in the paper and not their known relatives which has resulted in the Blewits being split between Collybia and Lepista (which itself was a recent name change from Clitocybe that everyone was still adjusting too).
Average nondescript Clitocyboid (no ID because these are nearly impossible):
A Blewit, AKA Clitocybe/Lepista/Collybia nuda:
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Cooking:
Aioli is made with oil and no egg. If it includes egg, it is a mayonnaise.
Many people just call everything “aioli” these days, even if it’s technically a mayonnaise.
- chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 months
In my experience, people will put garlic in mayo and call it aioli.
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It is absolutely an aioli. You just have to de-emulsify it, separate out the egg, and then emulsify the non-mayonnaise ingredients. It’s not like it’s chemistry or entropy or whatever.
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I can’t believe people still argue over whether or not Balrogs have wings when the text unambiguously says they do. You can have wings and also have a shadow that looks like wings.
His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings. ...suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall...Like two vast wings but then he explicitly says its wings were spread, clearly stating it has wings. To be the most generous you could try to say the wings are made of shadows, but based on the text they’re clearly still wings.
Yes, Balrogs have wings.
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he establishes a simile in one sentence and reuses it further on. common writing trick.
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He says they have wings. As I said, if you want to take that they are made of shadows you can, but they have wings.
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not in the passage you quoted, no. i know he was meticulous about translation notes, is there anything in those?
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In that same passage we also get “Gandalf flew down the stairs”. Explicit, unambiguous evidence that Gandalfs have wings.
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True! There was a period where I swore PF was better than 5E but then Draw Steel started posting their early system versions and I realized I was arguing for a couple of degrees of difference when the real improvement was an entirely new way of thinking.
Draw Steel isn’t for everyone or every group or especially every genre/playstyle, but I think it should force everyone playing generic fantasy style hero games like 5E and PF and 13th Age, etc to reexamine the lineage of games we’ve been used to.
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It’s a different genre but I also appreciate Call of Cthulhu’s mechanics. Roll-under is a bit weird but I appreciate that you’re rolling against your own skills rather than some number set by the DM side of things. The DM just has to decide if it’s normal, hard, or very hard difficulty.
As far as a complete paradigm shift, Alice Is Missing is a fantastic game. The difficulty lies in finding three other people who can play a serious RPG about a missing child in a small town.
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Lancer has been my Draw Steel. That and I love the setting and giant mechs :D
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Star Trek (Voyager): Was it murder to split Tuvix back into Tuvok and Neelix?
I’ve got a long and complex possible solution to offer regarding this ethical clusterfuck, and I’m willing to elaborate if someone’s interested to hear it.
Edit (possible solution): Voyager’s database should include the Enterprise D’s information regarding Riker’s duplication incident. While Voyager’s crew already found a way to separate Tuvix, they could’ve searched for a possibility to repeat that process and then split back the copy Tuvix a few milliseconds into the original Tuvok and Neelix before said copy became self-aware.
- crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
The longest and most complex solutions are usually right (yes, please share).
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they did it again LTD. anyways, janeway practically groomed 7 of 9, not in a sexual way but trying to mold her into a daughter she never had.
she did mentor her, but she also kidnapped her, hence the grooming/molding in her ideal image.
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She didn’t kidnap her, she rescued her from her actual kidnappers though.
Like, it’s somewhat nuanced, but seven has been neurologically modified by a group that killed her parents and uses her as a weapon. I can’t really see the makeshift therapy that janeway performs to try to refamiliarize seven with humanity as grooming.
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in VX circles there’s been a debate for at least 20 years whether it’s better to use copper or aluminium foil to isolate duractance attenuators. obviously aluminium is more of a nuisance because you have to add ridges to the foil, but it’s a lot cheaper. where it gets annoying is when the copper purists start talking about “ripple current” and “second laplacian instabilities” and “metallic saponification”. like bitch, you are not running anywhere close to that kind of linearity on your shitty little taped-together Gravitias-5. or 4.9, i guess. pfft. just get a hobby knife and crease that aluminium.
anyway i recently started a VX community at !deltahunters@feddit.nu, swing by.
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I’m impressed with how far you took this. I saw the YT video linked further down several months ago and I was well into it before I realized it was a joke.
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Furry Fandom:
How we represent ourselves as a fandom.
Some groups want the fandom to be more clean and family friendly. Some want it to remain weird and not always as family friendly as it currently is.
Some are more okay with using things like cheap plastic animal masks as bases for fursuit heads. Some people don’t want that type of stuff and would rather see bases be either hand made or use something like a sports helmet or mask to build the base around.
Some are okay with us becoming more mainstream and companies like Netflix taking a little more interest in us. Others want corporations to stay away from us.
As for me, you can guess my stance just by the fact of me being here on Lemmy. I’d rather see a base use something not quite as corporate as a cheap plastic junk mask as a base. I would also rather keep our fandom a little less sanitized and more weird to keep the corpos from coming in and turning our fandom into a heavily censored industry.
- Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish1 month
You need to chlorinate those who want it to be “family friendly”
Its sex and fetishes, and that’s perfectly ok. kids do not need to be involved.
