[ID 1: a post by user @ lowqualityfacts. It reads,
“CEO: We need to cut costs.
Accountant: okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accomodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.
CEO: I see. Who’s that in the hallway?
Accountant: That’s Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and GrubHub gift cards.
CEO: Fire Greg.”
ID 2: Tags reading, “literally happened this week where I work”. End ID]
hey guys, sorry to have to ask again, but i need some help making it through the rest of the month. my girlfriend’s been sick and has missed a couple days of work, and my bank account is already in the negatives after paying december rent and bills. we also need to worry about January rent; thankfully we have a good habit of paying partial rent each paycheque but because my girlfriend works in schools, from dec 22 to jan 8 she won’t be working her usual position, and as of now she hasn’t found an alternative. our rent goal is $225, and another $225 for groceries to last us until the beginning of january.
i understand the holidays are rough for a lot of us, so if you can’t assist, please boost! thank you for reading 💙
“Way too reliable narrator” where the narrator provides documentation and proof for how they know every detail in the narrative and an estimate of how confident they are in it.
Lewis’s law is an observation she made in 2012 that states “the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.” Lewis has written frequently about misogynist hate directed at women online.
My current plan to recover from my mental and emotional existence is to just go so deep into being insane that I’ll come out sane on the other side. Being a chronic people pleaser plagued with impostor syndrome stretched me too thin, and that leash simply snapped and I am now a completely untethered, unapologetic vermin.
Fuck having impostor syndrome, if I’m not entitled to be here they should’ve barred the doors better. If I’m doing everything wrong because of imaginary rules that nobody told me about, that’s their problem, you should have made your confusing system more idiot-proof.
I’m not here to please everyone and do everything right. I’m here to make bad art, chew on furniture, make people laugh, cook awful food and look at pretty landscapes, and piss off the people who don’t want me to exist. If I have an unseen infinite debt somewhere that I can never pay back, I’m going to keep running that tab until I die. I’m alive purely because the universe is shit at pest control.
i never thought “i’m alive purely bc the universe is shit at pest control” would be my motivation of the day but damn this dude went hard
actually no wait i’m still processing the ending and . the emperor REALLY tried to guilt-trip us into letting him snack on orpheus by saying “i have been your constant salvation…….. your knight in shining armor……….” like DUDE. YEAH NO KIDDING. you LITERALLY showed up as a fake paladin after plumbing my sorcerer’s deepest desires and identifying she had a thing for paladins. apparently. he’s so funny. “sorry about lying to you but consider: i’ve been lying to you”. “how DARE YOU call me out on my lies. did you forget that i have been manipulating your desires since the very beginning? and saved your life? also?”. “ignore the fact i single-handedly forged the evidence and also everything else to prove my point”
wait @asleepinawell YOUR MIND. i need everyone to see this.
it’s always an interesting approach when games take the fact that players aren’t given all the information at once in stories as part of the narrative process to make it the person who is in a position of power over your character is withholding the information to control you. they made the doling out the story aspect of writing into part of the story that meshed with the themes. which was very clever. and letting you design how your “guardian” looked in character creator was such a good idea since it invited you to start forming an attachment to them before you even met them. very mean. I approve
if you’re not cooperative from the get go the emperor shifts into much colder dialogue early on and as soon as you start pushing back gets mad. he plays a friendly, supportive mentor character right up until you say no which is hmm yeah big red flag. also constantly telling you to trust him while withholding information and saying it’s for your own good and you can’t handle it yet
one of the most blatant instances of this is if you refuse to tell him what you spoke about with raphael in act 3 he will invade your mind to find out. (also interesting how that puts the player doing that to other people (especially companions) in a new perspective because boy does it feel invasive)
Having replayed the early chapters a few times, I’m really impressed by both the language and the voice acting the “guardian” uses. Every single line is delivered with a subtle neutral flatness. You can read it as encouraging, or you can read it as threatening, or critical. Every time the guardian appears to you to tell you how vital you are, they always, always emphasize that it’s the tadpole that makes you important. Not you. Not who you are, or what you want, or what you’re capable of. Your parasite. It is powerful. It is special. It’s the worst possible flavor of Chosen One narrative you could get. You were chosen. To be a host to a monster. It was not your choice. And you have no agency.
The biggest, reddest red flag in my initial playthrough came when you finally meet the Emperor face-to-tentacles at the start of Act 3. And I know this doesn’t necessarily happen in every game, (because it didn’t come up for my spouse) but when the Emperor offered me the worm that would induce partial ceremorphosis, the narrator was telling me how much I always wanted this. And all my options were accepting it, a difficult will save to refuse it, or “drop the tadpole and step on it.” Which made it glaringly obvious that my character was being psionically dominated.
The only time the narrator tells you what your character feels normally is in a Dark Urge game, and those are clearly intrusive thoughts. So. Yeah. I got the message here, loud and clear.
I understand the sentiment, but when you write RIP in a sentence please be careful with your presentation, cause I just saw someone sincerely post “Let her RIP 😔” and I immediately pictured them Beyblading their grandma into the fucking stratosphere.
when you have something like fibromyalgia and you tell people how you’re in extreme pain 24/7, the only reply you get is “me too lol” like bro 24/7 unbearable pain that would easily put people in hospital is not “me too lol” i can guarantee you it is not the same as your occasional aches and pains (this doesn’t mean they are less valid)
someone really commented “this is illegal” on a post about blocking weapons shipments to israel…and there was another person saying “finally someone pointed out you could go to jail for this”. i’m losing my fucking mind. there is no legal avenue to stop what the US government is doing and you need to accept that at this point.
if you oppose direct action solely on the basis of its illegality, you are a counterrevolutionary, plain and simple.
it should be 100% legal to go in abandoned buildings. like nobody is using it for anything why can’t i go in
Isn’t this how you get murdered?
no. it’s how you get poisoned by mold or crushed by broken floorboards or whatever but there aren’t murderers just hanging out in every abandoned building like cockroaches
lol imagine if serial killers just spawned from abandoned buildings
They do, but they get poisoned by mold or crushed by broken floorboards or whatever before they can serial kill anyone
maybe I’m just a little freak who likes body hair too much but I do find it annoying when people draw werewolves in a human form and they’re like… clean-shaven pretty boys. If any man should look like something you pulled out of the fucking drain it should be a werewolf. A little body hair isn’t going to bite you I promise. I don’t know a ton about art to be fair but I’m 90% sure you can draw him with dirt under his nails and you won’t throw up.
It is funny. Recently I had a transphobe argue to me, that “well, it is all made up! Animals will still not know that you identify as a man”. Which to me is so funny, because while there has never been extensive research done on this topic, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence showing the exact opposite.
As someone who has done a lot of work with animals, I can tell you, that those animals that for one reason or another like one gender more or less than another often show the same loving or hostile behavior towards people completely depending on the gender the people actually identifies as.
“Sure,” some people might say, “because if you take hormons you gonna smell like the gender to an animal.” But that is the funny part. Animals often act according to that with trans adults who are still in egg mode. Who have not come out yet. And nobody knows why and how they can tell.
But some of the harsher animals with a “gender preference in humans” are like the best trans indicators. You have not admitted to yourself you are a guy? Yeah, this cat is gonna hate you anyways. Because this cat hates men.
Sincerely the guy who got attacked by this one fucking bunny, who didn’t like dudes, several times
I saw a short guy with the largest thighs i’ve ever seen on a man and i audibly said jesus fuck without realizing it and he turned around but didn’t see me and my dick almost flew right off
The coworker next to me was like “what is it with gay men and thighs? i don’t get it” and like you absolutely do not understand janice mind your own fucking business im eating with my eyes
Spotted on a NYPD cop during a #FreePalestine march in NYC.
Why would you praise a cop for advocating “by any means necessary”? Why do you think a NYPD officer would relate to that sediment? This is a violent statement, this isn’t something said by someone who wants peace.
Friend, someone very clearly stuck that sticker on his back like a kick me sign. That’s what we’re laughing at.
ik it’s important for boycott lists to be focused and limited in scale in order to make results more visible and avoid overwhelming consumers, but personally? i am a born hater and i’m always ready for another company to hate on. i don’t need a strategic objective i’ll do it just for the love of the game
These houses are also made of mud with thatched roofs. Locally sourced, abundant materials paired with designs that have stood the test of time MAKE SENSE.
There is a section of humanity who want this strange kind of uniformity across the world. Houses must be made of brieze blocks and have electric air con and gas heating. Same shops everywhere. Cultural homogeneity.
Reject it. This world is diverse and beautiful and humans have found so many diverse and beautiful solutions to our problems! Let’s treasure them.
writing a garbage essay feels like you’re the cow who gave birth to the two headed calf. in the morning, my professor will wrap him in newspaper and dissect him on a cold operating table. but here he is alive, under the pale glow of my computer screen. he is beautiful. there are twice as many logical fallacies as usual.
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