it's a Portal reference, I swear

I'm not a bot, I just think the url is retro | adult she/her | I collect little dumb ideas (affectionate) that I think are funny, with the more-than-occassional currently consumed media thrown in (disco elysium, portal, persona, csm etc). I've had this blog for about 9 years but started using it normally in 2022 as a Succession blog and Portal is still my fave game | (btw if I liked some of your danganronpa stuff out of the blue, it was meant to be from my @thatstroubling sideblog ;)

[pansyfemme]

*seductively* would you.. be interested in doing a unfunny bit with me sometime.. just the two of us..

[hymnism]

[thegentlemanstar]

this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is

are you usamerican

yes

no

some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)

Voting ended onJun 5

[omercifulheaves]

Chainsaw Man Vol. 24

Art by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Edit: Found a higher res version.

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

[podcastwizard]

NO DAD, air brushing unlicensed images of spongebob smoking weed on to t-shirts and selling them at a boardwalk was YOUR DREAM. i'm going to be a PROJECT MANAGER.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[creatingblackcharacters]

And what is it we just talked about in book club?? THIS.

[squeakitties]

steam big picture mode was designed to be clicked on by accident two or three times per year

[captain-price-returns]

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

Del Monte Foods shuttered its Modesto and Hughson cannery plants in April. 

[hawaiianprintshirt-deactivated2]

[syn4k]

burning text gif maker

heart locket gif maker

minecraft advancement maker

minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

image to 3d effect gif

vaporwave image generator

microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

you're welcome

[mmelete]

[carby]

[animentality]

[fox-moblin]

Wouldn’t leave my mind sorry

[weepingwidar]

Liu Xiaodong (Chinese, 1963) - Winter is Gone (2017)

[night-the-starfish]

Hunter and prey, markers on paper.

[positivelyqueer]

[ID: traditional marker illustration of grey heron with background of swimming minnows. Minnows are green brown. Where they intersect with body of heron, they become simplistic and white with blue outlines. /end ID]

[lightningbuster]

It’s funny how sacabambaspis is like the funniest looking animal in every hypothetical except for that one picture that makes me feel like I’m about to be killed

[lakesbian]

[thehollowestknight]

[awkwardinot]

[queenoftheantz]

The cats Im catsitting! Part 1

They are like kid cartoon antagonists: one is big, smart loud and dominant (but clumsy), and the other is kind, zero braincells, and gets bossed around a lot