As much as we complain about the problems with our universal healthcare systems, It is important that you know that those are only a small fraction as problematic as not having a universal healthcare system at all. Long wait times for non-emergency care are nothing compared to getting a 100.000€ overinflated bill afterwards that I have no hopes of ever paying
happy that we’re raising awareness but you can’t make a post about this without mentioning that they collaborated for the sole reason of combining their last names like this
Big fan of all those other purple links and how “Associated prime” is untouched.
Environmental storytelling
To all the programmers out there. See, math can be fun!
“Ur mom gae lol” - Homophobic connotations and kind of overdone
“In 15 years I will invent time travel and travel back in time to have steamy passionate sex with your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother and birth the child that will eventually lead to you. Your blood has always been mine and will be forevermore. You cannot escape me even in death, fool.” - Creative, suggestive, has a storyline, will leave your foes shaking in their gamer chairs
Oh my god I just remembered last night’s dream. I was a concubine at an ancient Chinese emperor’s court, and he decided to make all of the concubines hotdogs, but his hotdogs SUCKED it was like the tiniest sausage and a mountain of toppings, and I was the only one who didn’t force myself to eat it so he sentenced me to death
These isekai gimmick stories are getting put of hand
I, A Chicagoan, Was Reincarnated Into A Chinese Emperor’s Court; But His Hotdogs Are Trash ! !
In My Second Life, I Will Use My Hotdog Making Skills to Escape The Bad Ending !
“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
the runes are actually stylized Russian writing so here’s a translation!
In the year 2016, on the 7th day of may, on this place, a skilled warrior Ulf with his spear struck down a dragon from the skies.
hate when I wanna talk to a person but I don’t really have anything to say. but I yearn for the connection. can’t just message someone like, hi I have nothing in particular to say but you’re fun and cool and I would like to have a conversation
i do something I call “leaving the door open” where I try to engage in like. Optional small talk. Fun or interesting observations, half-formed jokes. It gives people the option to engage and signals you’re open to having a conversation without making it particularly urgent. Saying “hey” forces the other person to come up with an actual topic, and “how are you” conversations can get repetitive or in some cases unfun. Sometimes people don’t want to reflect on how they are, or maybe they reflected but don’t need a response to it, for any variety of valid reasons. By focusing on mundane topics you signal that your friendship is evolved enough that you no longer feel the need to talk exclusively about a shared interest, a generally un-intimate set of topics, and can rather talk about your lives, which offers a deeper sense of connection. The downside is that many people were taught to communicate in this way, and don’t or cannot express their confusion on a new way of communicating in direct questions, so sometimes the response is “why are you telling me this?” That sucks! But it can’t be helped. Healthy long distance friendships require a healthy diet of shared interest, interest in the other person as an individual, and weird mundane shit. Without those things, they tend to wither, and not everyone is capable of willing to feed them what they need. But leaving the door open is a great first step!
I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here’s an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.
I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don’t want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.
It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you “just don’t spend money, it’s easy” you can send them this
Oh thank god, I lost my link to dark pattern some time ago and I thought I would never find it again.
damn girl are you a wild animal being held in captivity 😍 because you are just pacing around rooms nonstop and taking eye contact as a sign of agression
we feel, if you can believe it, bad about taking these books just to shit on them, and we are no strangers to superiority complexes as defense mechanisms, but like you can’t just flat out say “anyone who judges your Spiritual Journey is just a big jealous asshole who’s insecure because they’re not enlightened enough”. if for no other reason, because it makes you sound like the party who’s wildly insecure
i led an all-ages hike today for our local Pride organization (which was great!) & there was a 6-year-old on the hike who was super engaged in all my little Naturalist spiels until the very end nearly two hours into the hike as we approached the end of the trail & he became tired and a little over it. I fell to the back to make sure we had everyone & he was at the end of the line with his mom and he stopped suddenly in the middle of the trail and put out his little arm so I bumped into it and I stopped and he said “you can’t come with us.” I said, “you’re leaving me here?!” He said, “you’re for the forest.” I said, “what have I done to you today to deserve this abandonment,” and he said, “it’s not like that.” I said, “oh, like I shouldn’t take it personally?” And he said, verbatim, “yeah, like…don’t make it a thing.”
I’m only able to tell you all this because his mom, in her infinite mercy, told him to keep walking and let me go. I’d still be in that forest.
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