2022 is Gonna Be A Hell Of A Year

24/Male/Passionate about Superheroes , Videogames, Animation. I tag Discourse, Long Posts, Awesome Art/Animation/Cosplay and almost all Series and Mediums. Request TWs.

[bestieboomdrive]

Kamen Rider Revice: Lovekov quickly surpasses Vice in popularity.

[teaboot]

MY MOM SAW A CYBERTRUCK IN HER CITY SO SHE CALLED TO TELL ME ABOUT "THE UGLY CAR SOME GUY WELDED TOGETHER" ADFFHGYJGUHGHGGHGGHGGHHGHGG

[teaboot]

SHE THOUGHT HE MADE IT IN HIS GARAGE

[bestieboomdrive]

Elon Musk wishing on a monkey’s paw:

“I wanna be like Tony Stark.”

Your Mom:

“Did someone build that car in cave? With a box of scraps?!?

[robothyena]

We need to talk about the character designs in Wildstar.

We need to talk about the character designs in all science fiction and fantasy franchises that feature non-humans.

Wildstar is a science-fiction MMO currently in beta, developed by Carbine Studios. The general thrust of Wildstar is…

[robothyenawasteland]

I went big on this one.

[mistah-oso]

YES BECAUSE YOUR'E A RACIST.

Benevolent sexism is, in the short term, seemingly positive attitudes that put women up on pedestals. These attitudes suggest that women are warmer, more moral, more ethical, more refined, and more cultured, but also fragile and in need of protection from men, often by men. This type of sexism is seen as good and socially acceptable, including in many feminist spaces. This is what separates me from a lot of feminists, including gender-critical feminists like JK Rowling. There is this belief that men are just different from women and that men are dangerous, so women need to be protected from men. This often means being protected out of public spaces, including business and civics.

Benevolent sexism is a big reason we don’t have gender parity in politics. Studies have shown that benevolent sexism actually boosts male entrepreneurs’ chances with startup funding. It doesn’t necessarily hurt women, but it does give men an advantage. I don’t know what the difference is there; the data is very clear that there’s no detrimental impact on women, but men get a boost. I don’t know how, comparatively, it’s any different, but anyway, that’s not the point here. We don’t need to know that; we just need to know it’s not good. Putting women up on pedestals is not good, and whether the language is, “women are better than men” or “men are inferior to women,” it isn’t good. It is not good for men; it is not good for women; it is not good for anybody because it’s sexist.

Benevolent sexism also polices depictions of women in media in a way that claims to stop “objectification” or “sexualization,” but those who do this are hypocrites on their best days and self-appointed protectors of people who didn’t ask for protection. They enforce a narrative that any depiction of female sexuality is inherently negative, thereby stripping away the agency and empowerment of women who choose to express their sexuality. This approach is not about respecting women but about controlling them and perpetuating the idea that women need to be protected from themselves and others. This form of censorship doesn’t challenge sexism; it reinforces the notion that women are delicate and must be shielded, which is a patronizing and ultimately sexist stance.

[mistah-oso]

even MTG cards. holy shit. we’re more racist for making these changes.

Orcs were never racist. WIZARDS OF THE COAST.

Instead of moving forward we are moving backward. Into a Neurosis of political correctness that is far more racist than anything before.

Please help us undo the damage you caused

[bestieboomdrive]

Let me get this straight… you guys think Orcs are supposed to be allegories for Mexicans now, because… in an image where a dozen Orcs are all sporting radically different articles of clothing(and grey skin) one of them is wearing a poncho and another is shirtless… in the desert?

Wearing hats… in the desert?

Riding horses… in a medieval fantasy?

Do you guys ever worry that you are perfectly willing to believe incredibly dumb lies simply because it comes from someone who signals they have the exact same political and cultural biases as you?

[69l6-deactivated20260112]

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

Housing hostages inside civilian homes does not make saving them genocide, nor a massacre, nor mass murder.

And you are being INSANELY antisemitic calling it Holocaust. That is a SPECIFIC EVENT, not a label you get to apply to whatever you want.

Y'all can't complain about colonization and Jews supposedly stealing words from Arabs and then turn around and steal words.

[bestieboomdrive]

Your logic is backwards.

Just because Israel pretends hostages are inside a building does not make the act of bombing that building and killing every man, woman, and child inside “saving hostages”.

If you want the Holocaust to be known as a singular event in history, perhaps you should not be replicating it.

[tamamita]

Man, this is obnoxious

[tamamita]

[kalichnikov]

[realpokemon]

Who's better dressed, Laurantis or Leavanny?

WHY the FUCK are we pitting two bad bitches against each other

[askrikkaiandhyotei]

I think you're the person in the toku fandom with the biggest amount of reach. I hope you don't mind I'm using you as a megaphone for this one as this needs to be addressed. https://www.reddit.com/r/KamenRider/comments/14r4f89/spoiler_regarding_a_post_about_keiwas_actor_ryuga/

So apparently, Keiwa's character is so controversial, his actor, Ryuga Sato, is being harassed on both twitter and instagram. The comment section also reveals that he's getting death threats because of this.

I kind of want this to get the maximum amount of reach possible.

(I don't have a lot of reach in the toku community. So I hope you don't mind)

I don’t! I know people who’ll reblog!

@bestieboomdrive @iristial

[tm-pix]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

2080 prediction: there will be self-identified "snow deniers" who claim snow never actually existed and was made up by climate change activists

[rylandsgrace]

[bestieboomdrive]

FFXIV Raid Boss:

[liberalsarecool]

Look at every city. The nicest buildings are usually the post office and the library.

We need libraries. They are a reflection of our society. Cops do not need more money, especially at the expense of libraries.

Eric Adams will never feel shame. He is drawn to decisions that are horrible for society.

[the-inevitable-minor-fires]

The New York Public Library has saved exponentially more lives than the New York Police Department. Fuck all the way off with your fascist mayor.

[cypress-punk]

Ichirou Mizuki has passed away at age 74. Guy is a legend of the anime theme song space. Founded Jam Project, one of my all favorite bands of all time, and is one of those voices that's beyond iconic. Rest in Peace king.

Here are a just a few of his songs. If you like mecha anime at all this guy probably did at least one of your favorite openings.

[azuremist]

Hey, do y’all remember how Tencent said they were developing faceID AI to identify people in riots, and then they suddenly created an AI art generator to turn your selfies into anime?

Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?

Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?

Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of freelance translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because companies didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?

Do y’all know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?

Just wondering.

[veeranger]

every time a bridget player beats me in a set i drive to chick fil a and buy a large combo

[veeranger]

[nemmica]

I met a baby the other day who taught me that kids aren’t learning the thumb-and-pinky-out gesture for “phone” anymore. She puts her flat, open palm up to her ear and babbles into it, simulating a flat and rectangular smartphone.

[marzipanandminutiae]

It’s so interesting that a lot of seemingly obsolete hand motions still exist, though

very few people wear wristwatches, but tapping one’s wrist is still a nearly universal gesture for “what time is it?” or “hurry up”

I used classic corded phones for only a very brief time in my life (before we got those more rectangular-shaped cordless ones for my parents’ landline) and first saw a car without power windows when I was in college, and yet I’ve always used the pinky-and-thumb gesture for “call me” and the circling-fist gesture for “roll down your window.” I’m 24, so my childhood was the late 90s and early 2000s, but I still use gestures that indicate technology either gone or on its way out when I began forming reliable memories

it also makes me wonder how people indicated time or hurrying before wristwatches. did they somehow pantomime a pocket watch? what gestures have we lost as technology marches on? and since video didn’t exist for most of human history, how might we learn what they were? like the contents of the third Georgian spice jar or the location of Punt, nobody would think to write any of it down

I just love history so much

[datasoong47]

The ASL sign for phone is based on the pinky-and-thumb gesture. Presumably that will continue on for a while, with future generations seeing it as an arbitrary sign.

And then there are words like “rewind” that no longer make literal sense. Filmmakers still use “cut” long after actual physical film that can be cut fell out of use. We talk about cutting and pasting on computers and use a floppy disc icon for “save”.

Fossilized metaphors are the best.

[bestieboomdrive]

When will:

Finally die?

[doubleca5t]

lmao so Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of that giant crypto exchange that just collapsed was apparently famous for playing League of Legends during business calls which was impressive to venture capitalists for some??? reason so in an effort to add insult to injury someone dug up his ranking in League and found out that he's actually really bad at it and, just to rub salt in the would, that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of all people is *significantly* better than him

this all made even better by AOC's contribution to the thread

[afloweroutofstone]

SBF secretly played League of Legends during a virtual pitch to a venture capital firm, and they all still fell for his bullshit