Ruminations of Fandom

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[anexperimentallife]

[clownflower]

So the Nazi Party is merely white people exercising their right to self-determination?

Is that how it goes? Hmmm?

[clownflower]

You can almost feel Piers Morgan’s relief now he that pivot to this Zionist propaganda and not, you know, exercise any real journalism which might anger his Zionist masters.

I see him on TV trying to at least give the pretense of objectivity but his Zionist guests are too far up their own asses to give him anything even slightly resembling credibility.

[clownflower]

It’s LiBeL YUo CaN’t sAY tHaT AboUT Us

[clownflower]

Hey don’t accuse of that that’s libel but also if it’s true you can’t criticize us anyway.

[clownflower]

Do not believe the lies of Zionists.

With these scum, every accusation is an admission.

[clownflower]

See this is a mask-off moment.

No longer can they deny the atrocities.

So instead, they justify them now.

[clownflower]

The depravity of the Zionist crime empire continues.

[clownflower]

NOW WAIT A MINUTE

[clownflower]

Fffgfffff

It’s really over innit?

[clownflower]

Something I just found out

The Japanese kanji for fire is "火", which is read as "hi". However, kanji have multiple readings, and in other words, that kanji is read as "ka". "Ka" is also the pronunciation of the kanji "化", which has meanings including "to change" and "to take the form of". So the reason the Fire Devil transforms people is because of wordplay, same for the Falling Devil's other abilities.

So anyway I'm pretty sure there must be some sort of wordplay involved in Pochita's name and the word "chainsaw" that leads to his unexpected abilities.

[aviculor]

[mollyjames]

If you've ever thought to yourself "I basically know who this person is" about a stranger from reading their posts or watching their youtube videos, I guarantee you're wrong. Yes, even if you've been following them for a long time. Knock it off.

[ajaxgb]

It's possible to know a fictional character purely from the little vignettes in a story because the author has intentionally structured those moments to show every relevant facet of the character. If you finish a story, and there were two scenes where the character was nice and one where they liked rollercoasters, then that's the character! They are nice and they like rollercoasters.

REAL PEOPLE DO NOT WORK LIKE THIS.

Real people posting on social media may appear somewhat similar to a fictional character being revealed scene by scene. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. You are not being shown a curated collection of carefully authored scenes that intentionally build up to a full character! You are seeing a random assortment of moments when the person felt like posting on social media, filtered through imprecise wording, missing context, whether the person slept well the night before, and who knows how many other factors. Real people are orders of magnitude more complicated than fictional characters because they are not designed to be easily understood by an audience! If you try to interpret social media posts as a found-footage story it will lead only to ruin!

[jellazticious]

Yeah lemme put this in main because this bothers me that a handful of followers already done this in different occassions

[askpredetor]

>Morning shift

>Customer is angry that we disabled his card

>calm him down because it is a security measure

>We had to block his card because he spent 5k on Genshin Impact at 4AM and almost drained his entire bank account

>The instant we unblock his card he spends 200 more dollars on Genshin Impact

[deepermadness]

I’ve seen this happen before in Duel Links, Arknights, Fate and now Genshin. The people who indulge like this are called “whales”. Check this out:

He eventually sunk around $1,500 just for a weapon. This is gambling addiction.

[cushfuddled]

Pretty much every big game these days relies on addictive hooks. James Stephanie Sterling did a great video on the way game companies prey on “whales” by filling their games with gambling mechanics. I honestly can’t recommend it enough if you haven’t seen it: 

[despicableplankton]

that video destroyed my mood for a good few days

really made it seem like we’re fucked and there’s no way to do anything to make video games better for people

like we’re all just fucked forever

I know that wasn’t the intention, but holy shit it’s bleak

[sableweiss]

Hey so Genshin Impact and mobile games like Fate Grand Order, Honkai Impact, and Mr. Love Queen’s Choice are great examples of what’s currently got gamers in a chokehold.  This video is really really good.  It forces you to look at the fact that gaming companies are intentionally creating gambling addition to keep you paying hundreds, if not thousands, into an otherwise FREE game.

They are intentionally going after people who have these types of behaviors and exploiting it, and creating it in people who didn’t have it before by making the games look absolutely fucking amazing and giving them just enough to make them want more.

Stay safe ya’ll.  Take a break from games if the urge becomes too much.  Read books, watch tv, paint, craft, skateboard, build a doghouse, knit, play sports, make a game yourself, do literally ANYTHING other than the freaking game because entire teams of people are working their asses off to get you to cave and pay out.

[dappercyborg]

And thank god for James Stephanie Sterling

[clownflower]

Evil will pay. The Nazionists will pay.

[stoptheantisemitism]

The IDF is suddenly accepting Gaza Health Ministry's estimate from years ago can only mean that the death toll is astronomically higher

[themilfking]

The Gaza Health Ministry reported the above numbers in June of 2024 and even then they called out that this was an underestimate.

This is without a doubt a low estimate. We obviously know Israel ramped up the killing. These numbers don't even count the 2nd half of 2024 or all of 2025.

If the IDF is accepting these numbers it's because they're hoping they can push back on the actual death toll

[clownflower]