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we're not kids anymore.
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It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!
the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.
“And now we'll get what we want: a burger from the Five Guys restaurant. And if your conscience is bothering you, you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved my entire weekend. And all it cost was one shuttle trip, $13.99, and the diet of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.”
followup caption by @oldmanyellsatcloud
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left this in my drafts by accident @khmara-blog
>have problem
>recognize it as part of my divine punishment
>no problem
Serena's Cozy Game Reviews: Scritchy Scratchy
DEVELOPER: Lunch Money Games PUBLISHER: Funday Games RELEASED: March 18, 2026 DATE OF REVIEW: June 12, 2026 CATEGORIES: Casual, Indie, Simulation PLATFORMS: Steam, itch.io, Apple, Google Play PRICE: $6.99 STEAM DECK COMPATIBILITY: Playable; I had to set up my own keybinds but other than that it worked perfectly. ACCESSIBILITY: They have in-built an accessibility feature where you can click and hold and it scratches tickets for you instead of you having to move your mouse back and forth. This is great; I wouldn’t have been able to play without it! But I also wish they had something similar for machines you have to click multiple times to charge (like the egg timer), because clicking that over and over and over again was painful. On another note, though I’m not colorblind, each symbol was visually distinct enough without colors that I could see someone who has colorblindness might be able to still differentiate between them. That said, some symbols I think are intentionally made hard to differentiate; Scratch My Back’s plastic bag vs jellyfish, The Bomb’s red light vs purple light. FINNICKINESS: At times navigating around symbols you did not want to uncover was nigh impossible, especially with the accessibility feature turned on. It would be nice if the scratching could start where the coin was for this reason, to avoid certain areas? BUGGINESS: I encountered no bugs in my 12 hours. Yay! FREE DEMO?: Yes! And the save carries over. RECOMMEND/DO NOT RECOMMEND?: Recommend! 👍 IF YOU LIKE SCRITCHY SCRATCHY, YOU MIGHT LIKE: For more scratch-offs and way more idling and incrementals, try Scratchers (haven’t played, only watched videos of it). For more dead-end jobs, debt, and death, try Hardspace: Shipbreaker. For more simulation, pixel art, and cat companions, try Meowjiro.
Scritchy Scratchy is a incremental gambling rogue-lite game, and you may be thinking: wait, Serena, none of those words are in the Bible. By which you mean, of course, “that doesn’t really sound like cozy job sim or farming simulator to me”. Which, you know, is absolutely correct. In fact, if someone pitched to me to write my first cozy review on an incremental idler, I would’ve laughed loudly, politely declined, and gone about my day.
But Scritchy Scratchy is simply something special. Something that I would not have gotten to experience or would have given the chance had there not been a free demo up on Steam. I watched half of the video and got the vague picture of the game: you are a dishwasher at a non-descript restaurant, looking for a way out of your money problems, and are introduced through a strange call on the phone to give gambling a try. Your day job changes from scrubbing spaghetti plates clean to scratching tickets with your coin. I thought, What an interesting take on a job sim! And then I added the demo to the library without a second thought.
In general, I don’t tend to enjoy rogue-likes or -lites. I just don’t like resetting progress or feeling like I lost something. It’s very fortunate, indeed, that I didn’t read too much of the Steam page before giving Scritchy Scratchy a go.
As stated, you start at your day job, washing plates. It isn’t long before a call on the phone introduces you to Gambling(TM), and your character decides the $1 to $3 they’re getting per scrubbed plate isn’t putting food on the table, so they start scratching for gold. Very soon you’ll unlock upgrades, and they do make a difference. You can upgrade your luck, your coin’s size, and your coin to be of a stronger material to scratch more difficult coatings on future tickets. These are upgrades you can feel and see affecting your gameplay intimately, immediately. I never felt like I’d wasted money on an upgrade — I always instantly saw the effects of what I’d spent money on.
Soon you’re given the chance to buy things to help automate in the background. Scratch Bot can scratch tickets for you, albeit slowly (at first), but you still have to check each one individually, and load Scratch Bot one by one.
You’re introduced early on to tickets that you can lose money on if you reveal a certain symbol. Unlike other games that offers automation, Scritchy Scratchy early on encourages you to play the game in tandem with your automation. If you throw these tickets into Scratch Bot, you can end up losing money and having to take out a loan. This is a theme that I found even in its latest stage never fully changed. While at times Scritchy Scratchy can absolutely be a second monitor sort of game, there was really no point where I felt like I needed to walk away from or tab out of Scritchy Scratchy for minutes at a time. There was always something to do, if I wanted to, always something to keep me engaged.
And it’s fun, did I mention? Scratching your own cards, watching your money go up, making the decision of if you’re going to go for the Lucky Cat ticket yet or if your luck isn’t high enough to outweigh the chance of getting bogged down by the bad fishbones. You get to make decisions with your money, choose where and how and if to automate, and go for the jackpot (and the super jackpot)!
And then… the Final Chance appeared.
It was a golden ticket, a skull with a halo figure, one to rival all the tickets I’d had before. I saved up all the money I could, bought as many luck upgrades as I could manage before it felt it was getting to a wild degree, and then tried my luck at Final Chance.
And I failed. Three skulls on the ticket. An achievement popped up. I had died.
This is when I learned Scritchy Scratchy was a rogue-lite. My immediate reaction was something like, Oh. I don’t really like rogue-lites, in my head. I used my prestige points on what I felt would be helpful, but I wasn’t sure if I’d keep playing. I was back at the beginning. Washing dishes again. But over the next few days, I couldn’t get Scritchy Scratchy out of my head. The music. The fun I’d had. That strange voice on the telephone. The ticket that killed me. And I decided to pick up the full game and try again.
This time, I unlocked a new catalogue of tickets before I died. And so I did the next time. And the next time. Each time, I was able to unlock new cool gadgets, too. A fan to blow my tickets into my Scratch Bot. A sticky mat to hold back the ones I wanted to keep for myself. A night market to buy cosmetics for my table. A cat that helped me read my tickets. All of space and time in an egg timer, don’t worry about it. And I played. And I played. And I scratched. And Scratch Bot scratched. And Mundo (the cat) checked tickets and briefly bankrupted me and then checked more tickets. And I learned about new numbers I hadn’t known about before.
I’m not going to spoil the full game, or how it ends. I think you should see it for yourself, if you’re interested in Scritchy Scratchy at all. But I thought it was beautifully done, rather chilling, and so fascinating. It kept me hooked and interested the entire time. Simple enough to be a set piece, but complicated enough to give me goosebumps when the credits rolled and make me go… Wait. I want to see the other endings.
This is coming from someone who plays games with multiple branching endings and then doesn’t ever end up doing the other endings. (I’m so sorry, Kate Marsh.)
As much fun as I had with Scritchy Scratchy, though, this game is certainly not one with high replayability, and is about the amount of hours you can put into it. For me, that was 12. Once you know how you like to scratch tickets, and once you’ve gotten all of (or most of) the achievements… you’re done. Maybe now and again you’ll get the scratch for Scritchy Scratchy, but overall, once you’ve accomplished everything there is to accomplish, you’ve… accomplished everything there is to accomplish. But truly, I don’t think that’s an overwhelming issue. The game is $7 off sale (and I happened to snag it on sale). And you can reset your progress at any time, if you really want to do it all over again.
When I was in the throes of my Scritchy Scratchy addiction, however, I simply couldn’t get enough. I watched almost every video on Youtube about it. I played it over and over. I got my wife to play it. It’s so fun, watching people experience everything for the first time, traversing through the highs and the lows, seeing others bankrupt themselves and take loans and what-not. It truly is an enjoyable experience to find your way through and to watch others navigate through!
Though the introduction of luck in early games makes every run a different (and sometimes excitingly harrowing!) experience, the higher your prestige points, the harder it is to truly “fail” a run. This does lead into it being less replayable the longer you play. But as I said, I truly do not think that is a horrible thing.
All in all, Scritchy Scratchy is a wonderfully fun time that I enjoyed greatly for the time I got to play and experience it! I recommend it highly, with the understanding that you’ll get a lot of playtime, but it won’t be a game you’ll be playing for the rest of your life.
Fortuneteller, turning over the Death card: Don't worry. It isn't literal. It simply refers to some form of change. Me: Phew Fortuneteller; turning over the Gets Eaten by the Fortuneteller While Trying to Leave card: That can also mean many things
Why do you have so many croissants, and why did I make nine croissants... What...
In case you hadn't heard this- studies have shown that properly medicating for ADHD correlates with a measurable decrease in all cause mortality. That is- people with adhd who take their medication have a measurably lower risk of dying overall as a result.
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So, you know, it's not JUST a "quality of life" improvement. It's also a *quantity of life* improvement.
So. Take your meds.
Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay
idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr
you could talk about wanting to fuck the space needle on here and people would still call you a poser for insisting on fucking "conventionally attractive architecture" as if that's a coherent, easily-recognizable category
I want to fuck Antoni Gaudi's unbuilt Hotel Attraction skyscraper design
"hear me out" and it's a picture of the most fuckable building you've ever seen. c'mon now.
“hear me out” and it’s the fucking dildopolis
i love creating oc x canon ships i think more people should do them and i think more people should be really, really, really weird about them
Interested ✅️
i tend to avoid discourse because most of it is trite and pointless but just this once i feel like i need to state my opinion: i think everyone should bend to my dark and evil will
finally someone said it
"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.
"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"
"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."
"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."
"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.
"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."
"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."
"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.
"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.
"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."
"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."
"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."
Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.
I hope you like it :]
I took your skull off display because my guests kept saying it looked noticeably gayer than the other skulls
i keep forgetting to post my dumb mabi shitposts
feat. kewna + some italian ones. my bad.
"Great dying"? I think it was pretty bad actually... just a glimpse into my beautiful and empathetic mind...
