There There

It'll be alright...you know... probably...

[fredersen]

NON-freaks dni. This is a freaks only zone

[hallowed-axolotl]

thought about tomodachi life too hard and realized that people being shocked by the lack of filters in a single-player game they own with their own money is actually cartoonishly messed up. we've grown so used to everything being filtered and not being able to do anything even remotely un-family-friendly in single-player games that being able to make the miis say fuck is a monumental occasion. insane.

[codylabs]

Markiplier does on the surface seem like an odd choice for directing and starring in a serious scifi horror movie, but in terms of getting scared at a computer screen and dying badly in space, his resume is remarkably stacked.

[wheelie-sick]

I think there is an inherent injustice in expelling students (particularly minors) from school.

like.

you misbehaved and instead of addressing the underlying issues driving your behavior we are removing your access to education (and therefore cutting you off from a large percentage of possibilities for your future) unless you have parents that are competent at homeschooling, parents with enough money and willingness to send you to private school, or parents willing and able to move to another school district. sucks to suck.

and we all know that the students most likely to misbehave in school are also most likely to be disadvantaged and/or have abusive/neglectful parents. these kids are the least likely to be able to be adequately homeschooled, sent to private school, or moved to another school district. even when these things do happen they don't solve the underlying struggles leading to the behavior.

behavior doesn't happen without cause. you can't solve misbehavior with punishment. setting someone up for failure in life by cutting them off from possibilities for their future is cruel.

[wheelie-sick]

when talking about this a lot of people will bring up "oh well what about rapists who were expelled?" and I have a few things to say about that.

first, a majority of rapists are not expelled (most of them are not even punished- especially if the rape did not occur on school property during school hours) and a majority of students expelled were not expelled for rape.

second, expelling a student for rape does not stop them from raping more people. if you truly believe that expulsion is necessary for rapists I would genuinely love to hear how you think it will protect people from future rape. I absolutely can get behind ensuring that a rapist is not in the same classroom as their victim/s and I can even understand that there may be situations where transferring a rapist to another school may be necessary (not always possible in rural areas). I have yet to hear an argument about full expulsion preventing rape and protecting victims.

a majority of rapes do not happen by random strangers. most rapists know their victims. a rapist being expelled does not get rid of their relationships (platonic and otherwise). those rapists are still fully capable of raping other people- even if they don't rape random strangers. the only way to prevent rape is to dismantle rape culture. in a world where rape culture is still prevalent the solution is not "erase the future of rapists" it's "focus on enacting justice that promotes rehabilitation and empowers victims." erasing someone's future is not justice.

[vrabia]

reviews criticizing the first part of iron lung for being boring are so puzzling because almost all of the writing and acting choices there are made for an audience that doesn't know anything about the original game. i didn't know anything about the original game and within 20 minutes i had all the information i needed so i wouldn't feel confused later. and it wasn't spoon-fed to me.

why's he going around pressing buttons? because the audience needs a basic understanding of how the sub works and, crucially, one of those buttons does an insane amount of heavy lifting in terms of world-building, character dynamics and foreshadowing. i could talk about that button forever.

why's he leafing through old manuals just to throw them away seconds later? because not reading the old manuals is going to cause problems down the line and it also shows that when simon is frustrated and panicky he's not great at giving himself the best chance of survival, i.e. his main goal.

why's he taping things to walls? because once he's calmed down and able to focus it turns out he's clever and quick to figure out how to use the sub's layout and minimal resources to try and complete his mission.

the best technology humanity has left is horribly inefficient and dangerous (and i understand how it works!), the protagonist is smart but anger and frustration make him careless and unable to think several steps ahead. everyone hates him because he unintentionally did something terrible to them. i got all that in 20 seemingly boring minutes, everything paid off later and any ambiguity came from the nature of the genre instead of patchy storytelling.

and that's just it, i get why if you played the game you might think this is dragging, but i haven't and i still felt, idk man, i felt welcome to it. like i just had to pay attention instead of needing to play a game, read a comic book prequel and 3 tie-in novels beforehand for the privilege of enjoying a story. and it was nice. it was nice. i hope more reviewers praising this movie realize the first part isn't boring at all, but a great example of treating your audience with consideration and care.

[hotcrossedfangs]

[shounenchild]

my favorite part of this whole thing tbh

[haleyusesherwords]

[gameraboy2]

Keith Haring for Sesame Street

[playpause]

5 Dancing Men (1993)

[alexandriaocasiocortez]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were at my house party and all they did was stand in the corner and blink in sync with each other. At one point I saw Mary-Kate put a cigarette to her mouth and take a long drag, then Ashley blew out the smoke.

[3liza]

unironically i love this website and the people who post here because like 4% of them are even more pedantic and specialized in their knowledge bases than i am, and they are ALL HATERS. these are my people, sincerely. i support them uncritically even though all of us are REALLY annoying

[ravensloane]

guys i just heard a minecraft cave noise in real life

[quinquangularist]

change your settings to peaceful it'll be ok

[ravensloane]

k hold on

[ravensloane]

where are my parents

[greelin]

the weight this image holds

[greelin]

happy pride month everybody

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

good.store just passed $13,000,000 raised for charity, which is both a lot and an amount that sometimes comes out when billionaires cough really hard.

anyway, why buy your household cleaning supplies, socks, soap, coffee, tea, and more at a regular store that enriches the few when you could buy it at good store and support vulnerable people and ecosystems?

[dajo42]

it’s been ten years

[geniusoflove]

its been 12 years

[shivshivshivvyyy]

13 years

[pinkthinkspalistineshouldbefree]

14 years

[momperlman-deactivated20251022]

15 years

[dammmithardison]

16 years

[fruitsfag]

17 years

[airinyourtires]

loss is an adult today. happy birthday loss.

[homoquartz]

i think there should be an episode of doctor who where the doctor returns to a time when police boxes were common and then forgets where he fucking parked

[bowenoke]

like 2 months ago i saw a single lobster in the grocery store tank that'd somehow lost a rubber band and every other lobster was huddled in the opposite corner of the tank in a big lobster pile (presumably because the freed lobster was an asshole about having a free claw) like. im done with crab in a bucket mentality. You're not even trying to pull everyone else down to get out and climb up yourself, you're just being a dick. Unshackled lobster in a tank mentality

[luulapants]

I will never understand the impulse to put a touch interface in a laptop screen. The screen?? The thing I sneeze on??