There’s an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.
A “playable state” would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.
I don’t think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.
Even if you’re not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don’t care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.
SUPPORT BELOW 50% OF THE THRESHOLD IN THESE COUNTRIES:
Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one 🤗 Well what about 2 cunts. They’re both cunts and that’s the dynamic. cunt4cunt.
In the very preliminary stages but I wanna make good on my complaints about pet play hoods and design one I like lol
Covering one of your hands in plastic wrap and duct tape is hard lol. This will need some refinement but I think the idea works for a forced “nya” paw
Hard to photo while holding it on lol but I think this is a good first draft, I like the shape and seam lines and parallel straps for the nose/blindfold (and one more will go below that for muzzle)
This sounded too good to be true, so I did a little bit of fact checking.
Mike Ilitch did in fact pay Rosa Parks’ rent for years, but it wasn’t because she was laid off. She needed a safer place to live after she was assaulted in her own home at the age of 81. He paid her rent from that point onward, for the rest of her life.
One of my favorite things so far in Dracula Daily is finding out Kodak cameras existed in Dracula times. I mean of course they did (the oldest surviving photo is from 1826) but it’s still a brand name today. The first Kodak was from 1888.
Kodak box cameras like this weren’t a tech invention really. Their popularity was from simplifying down to point and shoot, and more importantly taking development and reloading away from the photographer. For $2 ($65 today) you’d send in the whole camera and they’d send you a reloaded one with 100 shots in it.
By the time Dracula came out you could get what we now call a “prosumer” Kodak camera. It had replaceable parts and accessories but you could still just point and shoot. What did photos from this look like? Appropriately spooky!
He gave her softer eyes, bigger breasts, a sweet inviting smile, narrower arms and wrists, and a less emphatic chin. A complacent and Proper Maiden for his smug consumption.
That is NOT what the artist painted.
The artist painted the cleaned image. Thank goodness and highly skilled people that we get to see it.
I’m so mad that the restored version is cropped in the photos there. I badly wanted to see the whole background cleaned. That SKY. SHOW ME IT.
NEVERMIND. The fucker who added boobs and a coy smile also pasted on a whole strip of new canvas at the top and slapped a skyline on there. o_0
i dont have time to write an entire essay on the importance that this has with regards to the potential of the future of couture menswear and ergo the future of fashion for male aligned folks and how this photoset essentially encapsulates a “fuck off” to about a century and some change of utter stagnation in what is acceptable and fashionable for couture menswear but suffice to say i’m crying in the club right now over this
i think this may just be the greatest string of tweets in the history of mankind
TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST I REMEMBER EVERYTHING BUT READING THESE TWEETS AGAIN AFTER SO MANY MONTHS IT ALMOST FEELS SURREAL LIKE “I CANT BELIEVE THIS PERSON IS ME”
happy 9th anniversary to your dildo fiasco chris grawly!
What the fuck those things are real I thought it was just a cartoon
I thought the same thing when I moved to Arizona
Little velociraptor
Lads
ok but roadrunners are so cool, I can seldom think of a bird more velociraptor-like
more people need to know they’re real because look at this, this is some real walking with dinosaurs shit
they have powerful legs allowing them to run up to 20mph and leap to impressive heights with ease
they are extremely swift and fearless, quick enough to take down a sizable rattlesnake and other large prey animals like lizards and mice
they have several unique adaptations to thermoregulate, such as the dark patch of feathers on their back which acts as a solar panel to absorb heat, or its crest that either releases or absorbs heat by exposing its skin
they have these long, stiff tailfeathers that they use as a counterbalance when running, very reminiscent of the rod-like tail of a dromaeosaur
and they are capable of bursts of flight/gliding with incredibly beautiful plumage
I’m genuinely shocked how many people think they’re made up, they are real and they are AWESOME
Got Inscryption thinking it was a rogue like deck builder. Was pleasantly surprised. Have furry Magnifcus (+goobert) because stunted wolf is my favourite card.
just gonna say it, squidward was right about everything
look spongebob is a terrible neighbor and an exhausting person. no one should have to suffer patrick star’s lifelong dedication to ignorance & imperviousness to logic. put them in the same room and that’s an automatic noise ordinance infraction (plus inevitably public property damage). they are lowkey domestic terrorists. squidward is a grump and a snob but at the end of the day he’s a burntnout service worker with a shitty boss who just wants some peace and quiet during his downtime. he asks for so little honestly. all the other characters should be in jail
God isn’t asleep; i cut its growling throat in the midst of its lumbering slumber. no the guards haven’t yet noticed; morrow’s dawn and howling trumpets are not scheduled for another 7 millennia. so come back to bed babe?
as a brazilian i think it’s my duty in life to recommend brazillian indie games so you 🫵 if you’re a rhythm heaven fan give this indie rhythm game a chance and wishlist it on steam
I know this is unrelated from my usual stuff and will most likely blow up, but regarding the recent nintendo direct, WE KIRBY FANS HAVENT HAD A NEW GAME IN ALMOST 3 YEARS WERE GONNA STARVE AAAAAA
i have to physically stop myself from indulging in Rythm Heaven groove and Tomadachi life living the dream stuff because i start tweaking and shaking like a cat stuffed with 20 pounds of cocaine
You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they’re usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don’t see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.
Think about it. In real life, the person that’s bottling up all their emotions is not the one that’s brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it’s that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you’re upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…
…they’ve never actually told you anything about themselves.
Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don’t even realize they’re not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they’re in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don’t want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be “don’t think about it” on endless loop.
Basically, the fictional embodiment of the “this is fine” dog.
for people who can’t watch the video: THE AMYGDALA CHANGES TRADITIONALLY FOUND IN MOTHERS SHOW UP IN ALL PRIMARY CAREGIVERS REGARDLESS OF SEX
Changes in this part of the brain were previously used to previously used to argue that women are the ideal primary caretakers of children in all cases. And apparently, it’s false. The reason they found these changes in women was that women were already the primary caretaker in almost all cases, not because there’s something inherent to women that makes them better parents.
this is big news for SAHF and single dads!
This is also big news for adoptive parents and queer couples! Many people try to argue that adoptive parents aren’t real parents because of biology and blah blah blah. Bigots will also argue this case against queer people. So, to all my traditionalists: it’s not science! It’s bigotry and sexist!
Any any any any ANY claim that insists “female” brains are fundamentally biologically different from “male” brains is ALWAYS bullshit. Every Fucking Time. If it hasn’t been debunked yet, it will be.
Yes! I’m still in the process of playing, so please no spoilers, but yes! It’s a very interesting experience and the art direction is like something I’ve never experienced before.
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