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every time someone says punk is bad (probably correct but i hate to hear it) you always get some Cunt being like "well yknow i think Green Day had some good songs". like, go away! this isn't even your side and you're letting it down anyway! it's like someone says they don't like fantasy and the no.1 Beast Quest enjoyer rocks up to fight for the cause, it's embarrassing.

txttletale

Do you think taste is like, a linear scale from good to bad? Like do you think people like games you hate (lancer, cassette beasts, yu-gi-oh, et cetera) because they're just unintelligent / gormless or is there an element of subjective experience there?

taste is literally just discernment. i don't think you can have 'bad' taste, or rather, i think 'bad' taste is an absence of taste, an inability to articulate what you enjoy and understand why. but of course i don't think people with no taste in games are 'gormless or unintelligent' -- i have very little/shallow taste in film and music, nearly none in painting, sculpture, photography, and that doesn't make me a moron, just a person with limited time in the world who's made choices about what skills and bases of knowledge to develop. even so, it's perfectly possible for someone to have taste that's at odds with my own--to, for example, love pokemon's type system but not care at all for the narrative of training pets, and so significantly prefer casettebeasts.

also i think you're coming at my blog from a very strange place if you think i 'hate' any of these things just because i have lightly ribbed them or expressed disinterest in them! there is a very strange attitude prevalent on this site that all criticism comes from a place of deep, furious loathing and i have no idea what prompts that

cobaltspartan

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

michaelnordeman

Moose/älg. Vedungsfjällen nature reserve in Dalarna, Sweden (8 June 2021).

think it can safely be said that my past presumption that i would be alright being a complete loner was utter cope. curious how my mood and outlook have improved now i live with my partner and have friends. what else about me is just me telling stories to myself, i wonder?

#well i mean i did live with my mother #tho all due respect to her u can't be counting ur parents...

yesterdaysprint

Harrisburg Telegraph, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1881

elancholia

There should be a Pride flag for Kinsey 1s and it should be slightly but noticeably nicer than all the other ones

dragoncommunion

(letterboxd user reviewing Portal) it's "god forbid women do anything" vibes

(steam user reviewing Kill Bill) Let me make you an analogy. Kill Bill is kind of like cheese. Why? Becausue its good. You like cheese right? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm cheese. Watch this movie. 👍

dragoncommunion

(ogre crossbowman) me going to use bone bolts after run out of poison ones and then me definitely going to rout

bonequest

shovel2-deactivated20151204

I ATE A BIG BAG OF FACTORY REJECT SEEDS UNTIL A HEALTHY FLOWER UNFURLED IN MY CHEST ...

I MISTOOK THE SENSATION FOR LOVE AND DIED.

weepingwidar

Rodrigo Angel Jimenez-Ortega (Mexican-American, 1994) - Paisano a Paisano 1 (2025)

tsarina-anadyomene

Part of the problem is that I kind of believe in Taylor's distinction between deep and shallow people in more or less the way he articulates it. And the problem is that most people, perhaps even especially philosophers are shallow in exactly the way he articulates.

turing-complete-eukaryote

Trying to understand this post, I read some of Charles Taylor's writing, and commentaries on it. My best guess is that Tsarina is referring to the difference between strong evaluation and weak evaluation.

This distinction follows Harry Frankfurt's distinction between first order desires (desires about things) and second order desires (desires about desires).

Weak evaluation is concerned with outcomes (doing something because you feel like it).

Strong evaluation is "concerned with the qualitative worth of different desires." For example, "when I refrain from acting on a given motive — say, spite, or envy — because I consider it base or unworthy."

Source: Taylor, C. (1985). What is human agency? In Philosophical Papers (pp. 15–44). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

tsarina-anadyomene

There is something strange about how people (in certain circles) talk after the wave of "mental health activism" of the 2010s. And it is sometimes like "neurotypical" or "mentally healthy" people are just supposed to have infinite forbearance for mentally ill people. Like take depression for example. It's like you're supposed to just tank a lot of negativity and not say anything. And it seems like when you're depressed you actually do get really insecure and really annoying. Then you get self-aware about this. Then fueling your self-hatred is the sense that you are being clingy and annoying. Which you are. Then you start complaining about how clingy and annoying you are and your "rock" is just supposed to tank that too and not say anything and assure you that everything is fine. They're creating a wonderful world of falsehood for you which is supposed to make you feel better but which is of course so flimsy that you couldn't possibly feel anything other than despair in it. But if the mask slips then they're toxic, they're the problem, they're not supporting you enough. It just seems a rather strange world that we're building for ourselves. It also seems like a completely unreasonable set of expectations to put on another person. And again I wonder if we're destroying ourselves by getting lost further and further in a defective network of concepts.

no-sharks-on-the-sun

have thought about this a lot wrt my experience with """ADHD""" because while i generally like myself and think i am a positive influence on the lives of the people i'm close to, it is undeniable that i have certain issues that create problems at times, and that the closer someone is to me, the more likely they are to have these problems rebound on them in a negative way.

and i am not going to become mopey and self-hating about this (i mean, all that would do is make it worse), but it is something that is A Bummer. but the concept of convincing my partner to lie to me about it... is abhorrent to me. i shouldn't be reassured! i should try to get better! i hope they will love me anyway, that they will give me slack, that when i fall short they will not immediately dump me to the curb. but it's important to me that i try to get better, and i cannot do that if i am not clearsighted about my shortcomings.