martymartinloki:

salkryn:

It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique

Thank you for posting this.  I was arguing with a relative who had taken the “I don’t think you should NOT make cakes for gays, but why not just go to a vendor that will happily sell to you” stance and I couldn’t quite explain why this was still a bad idea.  This sums it up perfectly and correctly. 

Source: solitaryfossil

thevoidfish:

tazdelightful:

brushstrokebauble:

Things we know:

• Griffin uploaded a demo of Game Maker studio 2 with Pat to Polygon, where he shows off two mostly functional games that he designed himself and programmed in about 30 hours

• Griffin uploaded the Adventure Zone as a filler episode for MBMBAM when Justin was on parental leave.

• In the Adventure Zone, when Griffin first started composing original tracks, he prefaced it with “I’m just starting out, so I’m not good at it…” These soundtracks raised over $10,000 for charity.

What I’m saying is that Griffin could basically make Undertale 2 over a weekend if he was bored. I’m not sure I can comprehend that level of power

This reminds me of Clint’s foreword in The Adventure Zine where he mentions that Griffin taught himself to read at 2 ½ years old because he would watch his brothers read Final Fantasy dialogue out loud and…

Everything about Griffin just make so much sense

God gave Griffin anxiety because otherwise he would be unstoppable

rockportltd:

The thing about monster factory is that it really just unlocks that primal part of me that wants to get my brother and his copy of oblivion and just like, go ham together in character creation. Like just make a fucked up dude and Go. Fucking. Hog. Wild. like I really think that it’s one of the greatest pleasures on earth, to have a friend or sibling and some body sliders and to go ham on that thing together

miamaroo:

Okay, so like, here’s the facts. Lucretia had to figure out new lives for Magnus, Taako, and Merle with only the ability to take away information via the Voidfish.

As we know, Taako just got hooked up with his show, feesibly without any further erasing needed. I headcanon that the original Merle from Faerun died as a baby, so Lucretia only had to erase the fact that he died to place her Merle with this plane’s version of his family.

But Magnus insists that he was born and raised in Raven’s Roost. And as far as we know, no one ever questioned him on it. So how can Lucretia give him a lifetime at Raven’s Roost if she can only erase something?

The answer: she erased the fact that he’s a stranger. Maybe she wrote down “Magnus Burnsides is not from around here” onto a piece of paper and threw it into the tank without really thinking it through. Because now it’s not just the people of Raven’s Roost who is pretty sure Magnus Burnsides has been here his entire life even though evidence suggests otherwise. everyone in Faerun has this vague sense that Magnus Burnsides has been a vaguely familiar face in these parts for a long time, even if they can’t quite place why.

Magnus tells a barkeeper in Bradybuck that this is his first time here and the barkeeper doesn’t say anything, but they’re pretty sure Magnus has been stopping through here their entire life. Maybe they’re wrong, but either way his familiarity makes him easy to talk to, if not downright comforting to be around.

What I’m trying to get at is that one of the stranger side effects of the voidfish’s static is Magnus’s rustic hospitality.