I’m going to sound very old and very tired here for a second, but iIt is so dystopian to me to have ads on my computer.
Ads used to be on the internet. And that’s that. The things that were installed on my computer did not show me ads.
And that goes even beyond the questionable practice that free versions of programs such as Avira now show you lil ads in the corner of your screen like once a day.
You used to have free games on your computer.
I was in the mood to play a game again, a very rare mood for me, and I opened the game center for the… first time since I had this version of Windows (as I said; very rare mood).
And there’s ads. You play the “free” games that live on your computer and there are ads left and right and beneath it and between levels there is just a 20 second ad break.
You can go premium to no longer have ads.
That’s dystopian to me.
When things that used to be fully free and just part of something are now riddled with ads and to get the ad free experience that, again, used to just be the experience, you have to pay.
And it’s not even a one-time-payment.
Back in the day, you used to pay for something and then you owned it. You used to pay for a program or a game, and you owned a physical CD that you put in your computer to install the thing and it was just yours. It belonged to you, because you paid for it.
Now everything is a per month subscription, which is just so sinister because many look like oh, that’s not that much money! Sure, I’ll pay 1,99€/month to play games ad free. Every single month sums up, and it sums to a lot over the years though, for something that used to be free. (And I’ve complained about subscriptions before, in the context of Adobe, which isn’t just dystopian anymore, it’s actually plain evil to demand 25,99€/month to use a singular program, that you can now no longer buy to actually own.)
And I know - I know - you can find free games online to download or play in browser (already did that for mahjong) - but I’m talking about the principle here. The principle of getting ads on your computer, directly, and to have to pay to no longer have ads and use something that had been a part of the Windows experience since… forever.
excited werewolf who thumps their fuckass tail against the ground and knocks shit off tables and knocks people over with it because they’re so happy to see you. if you even care.
I’m still working my way through the game but I saw that the Bishops were siblings and so the inevitable happened. Just a doodle for now(because I couldn’t help myself) while I get a better feel for these guys personaities and designs.
“gen alpha is so cooked they don’t use cds” is the new “gen z don’t know what a vhs is” which is the new “millennials don’t know what a rotary phone is” which is the new “gen x don’t listen to the radio enough fuck television” which is the new “boomers listen to the radio too much read a book” which is the new “generation ???? read too much go work in the factories” which is the new “generation ???????? work in the factories too much go work in the fields” which is the new “kids should stop working in the fields and start hunting their food” which is the new “grug baby stupid. grug baby eat rocks. grug throw baby away”
“gen alpha is so cooked they don’t use cds” is the new “gen z don’t know what a vhs is” which is the new “millennials don’t know what a rotary phone is” which is the new “gen x don’t listen to the radio enough fuck television” which is the new “boomers listen to the radio too much read a book” which is the new “generation ???? read too much go work in the factories” which is the new “generation ???????? work in the factories too much go work in the fields” which is the new “kids should stop working in the fields and start hunting their food” which is the new “grug baby stupid. grug baby eat rocks. grug throw baby away”
Chappel Roan is right btw, asking random people for photos and hugs is not normal, and it is absolutely not normal to get angry if said random person tells you no. Can’t believe people are arguing about that, touch grass and look at a tree or something
ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.
“someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts” or maybe i’m in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i’m not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.
“I won’t perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed” is going straight into my permanent storage holy shit
Everyone makes fun of the fandom bitches but every once in a while they drop “Tom Nook and Crazy Redd are divorced” and we all go “Yes. Of course. Absolutely.”
It’s so funny when even the most jaded haterly mfers on this website quietly nod and go “You’re right. I do think Bowser is a present father figure to his kids.”
no i don’t want to use your ai assistant. no i don’t want your ai search results. no i don’t want your ai summary of reviews. no i don’t want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don’t want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don’t want ai to write my paper. no i don’t want ai to make my art. no i don’t want ai to edit my pictures. no i don’t want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don’t want ai to analyze my data. i don’t want it i don’t want it i don’t want it i don’t fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt
depressed steampunk guy: like nothing makes me happy anymore i feel like my fantastical flying contraption just ran out of coal
do you think steam just magically comes out of nowhere im so sick of these people who dont understand steampunk it makes me want to get into my submersible bathysphere and never reemerge
Not actually trying to be mean cause I get it, its all good but.
Man everyone ever needs to shut the up down because steam is water vapor and smoke is what TF comes out of burning stuff machines I want to eat a car about this aharg
the coal boils the water. which makes the steam. nobody is saying smoke is steam.
Why do we constantly have to have “humans get transported to another world” storylines when it comes to live action adaptations? Why can’t it just be in-media-res? Why can’t the Minecraft movie follow the novelization where a guy randomly awakens in Minecraft with no idea who he is and just needs to learn how to survive… you know… LIKE HOW THE GAME IS. Why do we gotta bring people from outside the game world into Minecraft? Why do they look human but everything else is a CGI nightmare? You couldn’t pull a Detective Pikachu and just set your god damn plot IN Minecraft from the start?
And most importantly …
WHY CAN’T THE WHOLE MOVIE JUST BE ANIMATED? You’re already animating like 95% of the film already, just fucking make an animated film.
I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don’t want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they’re heading to the funeral, but usually they just don’t want to talk about it and that’s fine. But I always treat the flight like it’s a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that’s never enough, that’s whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a “Seriously??” And that’s my in! Now I can say “Why, what’s your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let’s see it.” And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it’s always super funny, so I laugh, and that’s where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I’m like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you’re going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.
Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said “What did the ghost say to the other ghost?” And I said “What?” “Nothing. Ghosts aren’t real.”
I’m literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job
My roommate and his girlfriend got in the shower together and they’re… Talking about politics?
I was expecting to hear “OH GOD, HARDER,” not “George Washington was entirely correct in his prediction of what distinct parties would do to politics as a whole.”
Nope nevermind, there it is, apparently political debate is just their form of foreplay
My roommate and his girlfriend got in the shower together and they’re… Talking about politics?
I was expecting to hear “OH GOD, HARDER,” not “George Washington was entirely correct in his prediction of what distinct parties would do to politics as a whole.”
Nope nevermind, there it is, apparently political debate is just their form of foreplay
