She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
Well ladies and gentlemen and horrors beyond our comprehension I have bad news.
KOSA may be coming back.
Last time on dragon ball z KOSA passed senate and is now in the house of representatives. It was basically sidelined but now it’s picking up speed again.
They say “in theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they’re not”. That’s how you know we’re in practice. If we were in theory, the saying would be “in theory, theory and theory are the same, and they are”. Pretty useless saying. So that’s how you know we’re in practice.
oh yeah i had a fucked up dream about animal crossing where they released a new game and one of the features that was added in response to the criticism that the villagers were too bland in new horizons was that each villager had a personal quest you could do to learn more about them as individuals and it would usually be something pretty heartfelt but simple bevause there’s like 400 of those cunts to account for. but i was doing gaston’s quest and his quest was that he needed to have a drink delivered to him as fast as possible. like you literally only had 10 seconds to find him to deliver him this drink. if you delivered it in time he would just be like “oh thanks i really needed that” and all would be good. but if you failed to find him in time the next time you interacted with him he would literally fucking kill himself by drinking bleach in front of you with the game screen turning to static and then showing close ups of him slowly dying and choking and in agony. and them for the next day everybody would be “shame what happened to gaston :(” but would never comment on what the fuck happened and would move on the day after that. tje game would act like he just moved away. i’ve never even had gaston in any of my animal crossing towns in any of the games so idek why my dream singled him out to have this fucked up event?? i have no opinions on this guy i forget he exists most of the time??? and he fucking looks like this
told my flatmate about my dream and he said “i hope he becomes one of your favourites because of this so you will always be reminded of him viscerally dying in front of you” ??????? DUDE???????
[quote] “it doesn’t Matter that chilchuck is a grown man in his 30s, that he’s middle aged by half-foot standards, that he has adult aged children, that he’s a divorced alcoholic that runs a union, that he dresses and acts like a grown adult, Or that dungeon meshi explicitly addresses the infantilization that smaller fantasy races receive despite being fully autonomous adults in the writing (that chilchuck is specifically a Commentary on a very common fantasy trope).
chilchuck is Short and his eyes and ears are Big so if you’re attracted to him then that’s basically the same as being attracted to a child. having a fantasy race where the grown adults are tiny and have big eyes and big ears is just another version of the 1000 year old loli excuse.” [unquote]
My throats fucked but I like inhaled toothpaste and my throat seized up and I couldn’t breathe worst part is I spat toothpaste everywhere trying to get it out of my mouth and my throat is like fuzzy now?? Water did not help honey tea might
Dude I was dry heaving into a sink barely breathing and my brain went “this is gonna make a sick ass tumblr story”
did you know theres a automatic clutch in helicopters that connects the blades driveshaft to the engines driveshaft made of tiny little bones that sit diagonally at rest but when the engine starts spinning it the centrifugal force makes them point toward the blades driveshaft and engage with it allowing the engines rotation to transfer to the blades and when the engine fails or starts spinning slower than the blades are spinning the clutch automatically disengages purely thru the physics of the bones inside of it not having the force needed to bite down meaning the blades will continue spinning without getting slowed down by a malfunctioning engine and theres a way u can land a helicopter whos engines failed by nosediving on purpose so that all the air rushing past makes the blades naturally start spinning and then pulling up at the last moment to get the now sped up blades pointed at the ground again to make a cushion of air to land safely with and did u know each blade on the helicopter rotates freely on its own on a ball joint like they dont all just move around as a single unit theyre literally all doing their own unique pivots and shit to get the helicopter to move in any possible direction
In the name of scientific advancement, clinical education and fiscal expediency, the bodies of the destitute in the Dallas-Fort Worth region have been routinely collected from hospital beds, nursing homes and homeless encampments and used for training or research without their consent — and often without the approval of any survivors, an NBC News investigation found.
Before its sudden shuttering last week, the Health Science Center’s body business flourished.
On paper, the arrangements with Dallas and Tarrant counties offered a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem: Local medical examiners and coroners nationwide bear the considerable costs of burying or cremating tens of thousands of unclaimed bodies each year. Disproportionately Black, male, mentally ill and homeless, these are individuals whose family members often cannot be easily reached, or whose relatives cannot or will not pay for cremation or burial.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center used some of these bodies to teach medical students. Others, like Honey’s, were parceled out to for-profit medical training and technology companies — including industry giants like Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific and Medtronic — that rely on human remains to develop products and teach doctors how to use them. The Health Science Center advertised the bodies as being of “the highest quality found anywhere in the U.S.”
…
A half-century ago, it was common for U.S. medical schools to use unclaimed bodies, and doing so remains legal in most of the country, including Texas. Many programs have halted the practice in recent years, though, and some states, including Hawaii, Minnesota and Vermont, have flatly prohibited it — part of an evolution of medical ethics that has called on anatomists to treat human specimens with the same dignity shown to living patients.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center charged in the opposite direction.
Through public records requests, NBC News obtained thousands of pages of government records and data documenting the acquisition, dissection and distribution of unclaimed bodies by the center over a five-year period.
An analysis of the material reveals repeated failures by death investigators in Dallas and Tarrant counties — and by the center — to contact family members who were reachable before declaring a body unclaimed. Reporters examined dozens of cases and identified 12 in which families learned weeks, months or years later that a relative had been provided to the medical school, leaving many survivors angry and traumatized.
Five of those families found out what happened from NBC News. Reporters used public records databases, ancestry websites and social media searches to locate and reach them within just a few days, even though county and center officials said they had been unable to find any survivors.
In one case, a man learned of his stepmother’s death and transfer to the center after a real estate agent called about selling her house. In another, Dallas County marked a man’s body as unclaimed and gave it to the Health Science Center, even as his loved ones filed a missing person report and actively searched for him.
…
“What they’re doing is uncomfortably close to grave-robbing,” [Bioethicist Eli Shupe] said.
Shupe was alluding to the dark history, long before voluntary body-donation programs, when U.S. medical schools turned to “resurrectionists,” or “body snatchers,” who dug up the graves of poor and formerly enslaved people. To curb this ghastly 19th-century practice, states adopted laws giving schools authority to use unclaimed bodies for student training and experiments.
Many of those laws remain on the books, but the medical community has largely moved beyond them. Last year, the American Association for Anatomy released guidelines for human body donation stating that “programs should not accept unclaimed or unidentified individuals into their programs as a matter of justice.”
…
After publishing a newspaper essay criticizing the practice, she brought her concerns directly to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court at a meeting last year, asking officials to consider the message being sent to marginalized residents and people of color.
“How does it look,” she said, “when a Black body is dissected with nobody’s permission at all, simply because they died poor?”
“who were reachable before declaring a body unclaimed”
they didn’t even fucking GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO CLAIM THEIR DEAD
It is absolutely equivalent to grave robbing. As bad as grave robbing. Just without the “middleman” bit of burying them first, because they want to dodge the expense, that’s the point.
It’s especially disgusting because these people would overwhelmingly have been disadvantaged in terms of getting health care while they were alive. To then be used as a teaching aid and have the very effects of that lack of care turned into an educational opportunity for a profession that, itself, is rife with discrimination against the poor, POC, the unhoused, the unhealthy, the disabled, the mentally ill, those with substance use problems, perpetuating the cycle that might have failed the person in the first place and contributed to their demise…. Yeah. Also, a lot of people are victims of medical abuse and probably would be upset, like me, at the idea of this happening to them. I’m already a walking crime scene, ffs, don’t make that worse.
Also, this? If I wanted to donate my body for education or research (I don’t and my paperwork reflects this) this would make me reluctant because even though I might be willing, I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with a place that does this, even if I were dead. I literally would not be caught dead supporting them.
And while *I* know how the organ donation process works for transplants and am not worried about coming to harm because I am a donor (please please learn about it and become a donor, please), a lot of people don’t trust the process and are misinformed, and you can’t tell me this sort of shit is not going to affect those fears. It’s the same sort of callousness.
It also gives HUGE motive for those same companies to lobby *against* social assistance programs.
If it’s more expensive to ethically source voluntarily donated remains than it is to buy a congressman who can shut down mental health access and homeless shelters so they can scoop up society’s most vulnerable as they fall by the wayside, I don’t think we’d be surprised to see things go that way.
Protectibe the sanctity of human bodies isn’t *just* a matter of practicality and efficiency. It’s also a foundational step in ensuring the sanctity of the *living*.
In the name of scientific advancement, clinical education and fiscal expediency, the bodies of the destitute in the Dallas-Fort Worth region have been routinely collected from hospital beds, nursing homes and homeless encampments and used for training or research without their consent — and often without the approval of any survivors, an NBC News investigation found.
Before its sudden shuttering last week, the Health Science Center’s body business flourished.
On paper, the arrangements with Dallas and Tarrant counties offered a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem: Local medical examiners and coroners nationwide bear the considerable costs of burying or cremating tens of thousands of unclaimed bodies each year. Disproportionately Black, male, mentally ill and homeless, these are individuals whose family members often cannot be easily reached, or whose relatives cannot or will not pay for cremation or burial.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center used some of these bodies to teach medical students. Others, like Honey’s, were parceled out to for-profit medical training and technology companies — including industry giants like Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific and Medtronic — that rely on human remains to develop products and teach doctors how to use them. The Health Science Center advertised the bodies as being of “the highest quality found anywhere in the U.S.”
…
A half-century ago, it was common for U.S. medical schools to use unclaimed bodies, and doing so remains legal in most of the country, including Texas. Many programs have halted the practice in recent years, though, and some states, including Hawaii, Minnesota and Vermont, have flatly prohibited it — part of an evolution of medical ethics that has called on anatomists to treat human specimens with the same dignity shown to living patients.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center charged in the opposite direction.
Through public records requests, NBC News obtained thousands of pages of government records and data documenting the acquisition, dissection and distribution of unclaimed bodies by the center over a five-year period.
An analysis of the material reveals repeated failures by death investigators in Dallas and Tarrant counties — and by the center — to contact family members who were reachable before declaring a body unclaimed. Reporters examined dozens of cases and identified 12 in which families learned weeks, months or years later that a relative had been provided to the medical school, leaving many survivors angry and traumatized.
Five of those families found out what happened from NBC News. Reporters used public records databases, ancestry websites and social media searches to locate and reach them within just a few days, even though county and center officials said they had been unable to find any survivors.
In one case, a man learned of his stepmother’s death and transfer to the center after a real estate agent called about selling her house. In another, Dallas County marked a man’s body as unclaimed and gave it to the Health Science Center, even as his loved ones filed a missing person report and actively searched for him.
…
“What they’re doing is uncomfortably close to grave-robbing,” [Bioethicist Eli Shupe] said.
Shupe was alluding to the dark history, long before voluntary body-donation programs, when U.S. medical schools turned to “resurrectionists,” or “body snatchers,” who dug up the graves of poor and formerly enslaved people. To curb this ghastly 19th-century practice, states adopted laws giving schools authority to use unclaimed bodies for student training and experiments.
Many of those laws remain on the books, but the medical community has largely moved beyond them. Last year, the American Association for Anatomy released guidelines for human body donation stating that “programs should not accept unclaimed or unidentified individuals into their programs as a matter of justice.”
…
After publishing a newspaper essay criticizing the practice, she brought her concerns directly to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court at a meeting last year, asking officials to consider the message being sent to marginalized residents and people of color.
“How does it look,” she said, “when a Black body is dissected with nobody’s permission at all, simply because they died poor?”
“who were reachable before declaring a body unclaimed”
they didn’t even fucking GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO CLAIM THEIR DEAD
It is absolutely equivalent to grave robbing. As bad as grave robbing. Just without the “middleman” bit of burying them first, because they want to dodge the expense, that’s the point.
It’s especially disgusting because these people would overwhelmingly have been disadvantaged in terms of getting health care while they were alive. To then be used as a teaching aid and have the very effects of that lack of care turned into an educational opportunity for a profession that, itself, is rife with discrimination against the poor, POC, the unhoused, the unhealthy, the disabled, the mentally ill, those with substance use problems, perpetuating the cycle that might have failed the person in the first place and contributed to their demise…. Yeah. Also, a lot of people are victims of medical abuse and probably would be upset, like me, at the idea of this happening to them. I’m already a walking crime scene, ffs, don’t make that worse.
Also, this? If I wanted to donate my body for education or research (I don’t and my paperwork reflects this) this would make me reluctant because even though I might be willing, I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with a place that does this, even if I were dead. I literally would not be caught dead supporting them.
And while *I* know how the organ donation process works for transplants and am not worried about coming to harm because I am a donor (please please learn about it and become a donor, please), a lot of people don’t trust the process and are misinformed, and you can’t tell me this sort of shit is not going to affect those fears. It’s the same sort of callousness.
It also gives HUGE motive for those same companies to lobby *against* social assistance programs.
If it’s more expensive to ethically source voluntarily donated remains than it is to buy a congressman who can shut down mental health access and homeless shelters so they can scoop up society’s most vulnerable as they fall by the wayside, I don’t think we’d be surprised to see things go that way.
Protectibe the sanctity of human bodies isn’t *just* a matter of practicality and efficiency. It’s also a foundational step in ensuring the sanctity of the *living*.
A friend once told me that when they are struggling with getting laundry done, she pretends it is her sworn duty to smuggle the young prince out of the castle to safety, disguised in a laundry hamper.
Now, when I am struggling with hygiene, I pretend I am part of a village with an annual festival, and I get one day a year to spend luxuriously at a bathhouse in preparation.
What my friend imparted on me was the skill of turning mundane tasks into fantastical adventures to make them more compelling and bearable.
So next time you need to go on a mental health walk, maybe consider doing reconnaissance for a secret underground organisation.
Next time cooking is too much of a chore, consider you ability to turn space station rations into a feast to the delight of your crewmates.
Originally i had leshy undergo the same thought process as kallamar and heket but cmon. Come on. Look at that guy. do you really think anything goes on in his head other than dancing fruits and cocomelon
Also Bonus! Lamb doesn’t know how to read any of their minds in the same room
oh yeah i had a fucked up dream about animal crossing where they released a new game and one of the features that was added in response to the criticism that the villagers were too bland in new horizons was that each villager had a personal quest you could do to learn more about them as individuals and it would usually be something pretty heartfelt but simple bevause there’s like 400 of those cunts to account for. but i was doing gaston’s quest and his quest was that he needed to have a drink delivered to him as fast as possible. like you literally only had 10 seconds to find him to deliver him this drink. if you delivered it in time he would just be like “oh thanks i really needed that” and all would be good. but if you failed to find him in time the next time you interacted with him he would literally fucking kill himself by drinking bleach in front of you with the game screen turning to static and then showing close ups of him slowly dying and choking and in agony. and them for the next day everybody would be “shame what happened to gaston :(” but would never comment on what the fuck happened and would move on the day after that. tje game would act like he just moved away. i’ve never even had gaston in any of my animal crossing towns in any of the games so idek why my dream singled him out to have this fucked up event?? i have no opinions on this guy i forget he exists most of the time??? and he fucking looks like this
told my flatmate about my dream and he said “i hope he becomes one of your favourites because of this so you will always be reminded of him viscerally dying in front of you” ??????? DUDE???????
You know how when you shine a laser at a helicopter the cockpit blares with alarms because it thinks a missile is locking on? Turns out they don’t take the implants out of mech pilots that function similarly once they’re discharged. Shine a laser at your mech pilot gf and watch her freak the fuck out.
I’m obsessed with this interaction. Al screaming “WHAT?”, the host’s tone of voice, “do you play the accor deen?”, Al realizing this guy has no fucking idea what he’s talking about,
Everyone knows Goncharov. Martin Scorsese’s 1973 film is a cult classic, a true masterpiece of cinema. To celebrate its upcoming 50th anniversary, you, an office drone working at a major media corporation, have to create a pitch for a 2023 remake. It’s an amazing opportunity that could launch your career. There’s just one problem.
You haven’t seen Goncharov.
Unable to turn down your corporate overlords, you and an indecisive colleague throw together a story based solely on information you can quickly find or invent.
How will you reimagine the greatest mafia movie ever made and what will you do to turn your ideas into reality?
ALT
Creating Goncharov is a surreal interactive fiction game created for Autumn Chen’s Goncharov game jam. This game was written and coded by Albie. For more games by Albie, click here.
Still working my way through finals Hell, but just released a small update. Includes:
Snowball fight sequence (opportunity to hang out with Al more and learn their dog’s name and/or kick Al’s ass in epic snowy battle)
A few new endings (for the “bitter” routes, these were actually in the game, there was just a typo that kept them from activating, should be fixed now)
Some minor spelling/coding errors
Hope you enjoy it! Thank for all of the positive feedback so far, wish I had more time to interact with/respond to it (I just have to make it through these next few days)
it’s 9/11 which means it’s time for the annual reminder the US imperialism, racism, and islamophobia considers the lives of 3000 usamericans to be more important than over 4.5 million lives that were lost in the war on terror. that number of course does not include the thousands of lives lost to racist and islamophobic hate crimes within usamerica
never forget the lives lost to imperialism, racism, and islamophobia across the globe
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
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