[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.

[bunateeblogging]

These fucks crying about how hogwarts legacy simply needed to be played due the "crushing weight" of their childhood nostalgias and special interests are fucking liars and shouldnt be trusted.

These people clearly didn't give a flying fuck about the fantastic beast movies, or that cursed child bullshit thing because those movies fucking bombed and I don't think I've heard anyone say shit about cursed child that wasn't part of some longform review of why HP sucks. They've either misguided themselves into believing they """need""" it or they're fucking liars, and the real reason is because trans and jewish people specifically told them they shouldn't fuck with legacy and that activated the tantrum mode in their brains because they were "told what to do" and now suddenly hogwarts legacy was an overwhelming success for sales.

I'm already seeing the same people gearing up to say the exact same dumb fuck pleas of "no but im in house gurgledweeb at heart forever 🥺" about the upcoming TV show and this time they aren't even hiding JKs direct involvement. There's no pussyfooting around it anymore, any semblence of support you give to this series directly emboldens her and her followers, and she will without a doubt use the money and support to spread inhumane bullshit that will get trans people killed. Stop being fucking entitled and read new shit.

[becherdireinen]

bastille is correct. how AM i gonna be an optimist about this?

[shangheists]

well if you close your eyes

[stupidshounenshowcase]

[aromanticduck]

Not all construction work is equally enjoyable. For example, enlarging a drilled hole is boring, but fastening pieces of metal together is riveting.

[marzipanandminutiae]

this joke would get the exact same reaction in 1870 that it gets in 2021 and I love that about it

[plumknodel]

no more catboys. catmen . 28 yr old washed up depressed catman downing his 5th whiskey glass and his cat ears twitch depressedly

[lekosis]

And then he pushes the empty glass forlornly off the counter

[saltybiowarefantears]

EVERY GAME SHOULD DO THIS OH MY GOD

[tygermama]

I’ve seen what the spiders look like when this is turned on, it’s two spheres with some eyes, barely looks like a spider at all

[jabberwockypie]

Oh, wow, it’s not even a binary on/off thing, it has five levels decreasing the level of spider detail.

That’s incredible!

[naamahdarling]

I’m laughing at this because the Level 5 not-spider looks like a couple of uncooked biscuits with some red hots for eyes but man, what an awesome tweak. Spiders are swell video game villains, but a lot of people are really scared of them, and they pop up in SO many games…

[red-umbrella-811]

Behold!

[atombombtom]

my favorite version of this is satisfactory which, i am not joking right now, turns the spider alien models into flat cat jpegs

in my heart i believe this to be canon and the right way to play

[senilthesynth]

the satisfactory one removes the arachnophobia and replaces it with something more terrifying (to me personally) and it’s great

[notchristianbale]

As of 12/8/21, Kellogg's has broken off negotiations with their striking union workers and is electing to permanently replace the strikers. So needless to say, don't support strike breaking: don't buy Kellogg's products. Besides breakfast cereals, Kellogg's makes Cheez-Its, Pringles, and owns Kashi. I'm sure there's more that I'm not aware of, so if the hive mind wants to add to the list, please do.

TL;DR Don't buy Kellogg's products

[joematar]

https://bctgm.org/2021/10/08/5-ways-to-support-the-kelloggstrike/

[beaniebaneenie]

Y’all have GOT to start actually reading what the strikers WANT you to do.

Kellogg’s is so big that “don’t buy their products” is virtually impossible, not to mention not possible for many individuals and families who can’t afford anything else. Not to mention that it is not a strategy the union is asking you to use.

That’s right- the union and the strikers are NOT asking for a boycott.

(If demand for products keeps going at its usual rate, but there is no one creating a supply, that creates building pressure on the Company to actually be forced to listen to the union in order to be able to meet the demand.)

According to the link above, here are the union’s ACTUAL requests:

Sign their petition.

Join a picket line or drop off food/supplies at one.

Send a solidarity letter.

Donate to a Strike Fund.

Help spread the word on social media.

Notice how “don’t buy Kellogg’s products” is NOWHERE on this list.

The link above does include things like a link to the petition, lists of picket lines in need of support, address lists to send support letters, and links to Strike Funds that need help.

The boilerplate “don’t buy their stuff” doesn’t help anyone, and doesn’t help the union or the strikers. In fact, it’s sometimes the opposite- if enough people go around claiming that the strikers want a boycott, the company can use that at the negotiating table to say that the strikers are in “bad faith”, and refuse to talk, or worse, try to use it to fire them.

Whenever there is a strike, find out what that PARTICULAR union wants as help. Now, it might actually be a boycott. But the union & the strikers will tell you that. I know this goes against popular preconceived notions about “what a strike is” and “how a strike works”, but in most cases, it will NOT be a boycott.

And in this case of the Kellogg’s strike, it is definitely not.

Keep buying the products. It’s putting pressure on Kellogg’s that a solution needs to be found.

Donate to Strike Funds, write letters of support, drop off food at picket lines. Make posts on social media about how reprehensible you think it is that the company would rather hire scabs than listen to their employees and treat them with dignity.

The best way to support any strike is to listen to what the strikers want you to do, and then do that.

Obligatory plug for the IWW union, “Industrial Workers of the World”, iww.org

You do not have to be an industrial worker to join it, or even employed at all. If you have a union to join, go for it! Or check out this one too. Unions are a great power- if they weren’t, companies and corporations wouldn’t be fighting against them tooth and nail.

#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever

[funnytwittertweets]

[sindri42]

Bees choose to live in the box where they know damn well that a large fraction of the honey will periodically be removed, instead of simply leaving that place like they are perfectly able to do, because the human box comes with an invulnerable titan to guard them against all threats. The bees consider the payment offered to this colossal mercenary to be a pretty good deal.

[intjint]

Bees know about supply and demand

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Protection money

[stitch-n-time]

Protection honey

[wilwheaton]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: be fucking kind, patient, gentle, and tip generously. These workers are doing their best to support themselves during incredibly difficult times. Don’t be a dick to them.

[projectd0lphin-deactivated20221]

i feel like now is a good time to remind everyone that chris pratt is a creepy republican fundementalist christian that goes to a notoriously homophobic megachurch

[lynati]

And that he is NOT the characters he has played. He is NOT secretly a fun, goofy, great guy deep down inside; those are just masks he wore for a couple jobs.

[ewyy]

pls love yourself and stop pre-ordering aaa games

[mrphish21]

this is a joke but people in the notes are missing the point, so id like to try to explain something… I’m in the games industry, i know a lot of people who worked/work in triple a company positions.

preordering a game does *not* say “i trust this dev and they deserve my money to use to make the game that much better”

what it says is “hey boardroom, i will throw money at anything with this logo, even before i know what the game is like”

that boardroom sees that trend. they see theyve made their money back within 2 months of the game being announced… so the next time a lead comes to them and says “we would like to make this game, heres a budget and a timeline” the execs say “well last time we gave you 100 bucks and a full month, but your fans dont really /care/ what game you make, as long as it has our brand. so heres 75 bucks and 3 weeks. make it marketable”

this means more “pre-order exclusives” like cosmetics or different art, filler stuff that a side team can pump out in hours. every store, every platform will have their own version.

pre-orders do nothing but incentivise the shitty money-sponge practices we all hate in games. the point of a pre-order used to be to ensure you got your physical copy, but with most games being digital license anyway, that worry is unrealistic.

However when you wait for reviews, what you show that boardroom is “what we put out actually matters. if we make a shit game, we get shit sales. when we only give a team 2 weeks and a fiver we get shit reviews.”

so… love yourself, stop pre-ordering triple a games.

[ewyy]

It definitely wasn’t a joke and this is a very good addition to my post, thank you!! You explained really well what I didn’t feel like doing with my one sentence post 🙏

[nobody-knose--archive]

evil fonts. HELL vetica. CRIMES new roman. IMPACT (fatal). MAL ibri. arial

[lgbt-tiktoks]

[catchymemes]

Local council called out on Twitter

[missanthropicprinciple]

Maximum levels of petty.

[rubyvroom]

What’s so awful and hope-eroding about the pandemic at this point is how consistently the value of life is cheapened before our eyes. The number of deaths go up. We are appalled and scared. The number of deaths go down, we talk about the economy. Hospital wards are full to bursting. The number of deaths go up. That number isn’t as scary as it was. We can get through that. The number goes down. It’s not zero. It’s hundreds and thousands, but it’s less than before and there are profits to be made. The number goes up. We’ve seen worse. The numbers go by. We don’t blink an eye anymore. They’re just numbers. The profits go up and the deaths go up and it’s business as usual. People are dying. People are always dying. It doesn’t make your stomach drop anymore. The number goes down. The economy goes down. Add another covid booster shot, make the numbers go the right way. My neighbor gets evicted because he can’t work anymore due to Covid side effects. Make him a number. People live out of their cars. But they didn’t die, don’t count them. Restaurants are open. Shops are open. People are dying. It’s not scary anymore. 526 Covid deaths yesterday. That’s not so bad. This is normal. It’s all numbers. 4.5 million dead around the world. How many is that? Is that a lot? I don’t know anymore. I feel sick.

[dajo42]

a few weeks ago i was playing smash ultimate and my brother was like “you play with final smash on?” and i was like, yeah, my dude, i play the ridiculous cartoon character fighting game where byleth and captain olimar can brawl to the death in green hill zone and funnily enough i dont turn off the magic floating ball that lets them do the biggest silly bullshit. im playing this game in the kitchen

[dajo42]

“you play with ITEMS???” like YES its literally the silliest game possible by design, if i wasnt supposed to play as isabelle and spend the entire time assembling a giant gun to blast bowser off the side of palutena’s temple it wouldn’t be a fucking option

[reginaldqueribundus]

why would you buy a game where you can make Donkey Kong beat Solid Snake to death with a flower on the back of a giant turtle and then…not do that