Norton Scrod

Vaguely man-shaped object with a host of fetishes

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[colinscrod]

I HATE that YouTube cranked up the commercials to not only be unskippable for 60 seconds but interrupt more and more frequently until $20 for the ad-free tier (last time I checked) starts to look reasonable.

[artbyblastweave]

Easily the most annoying kind of vampire in the world are the ones where you finally corner the fuckers and when you're going in with the stake they start spouting off sociology 101 bullshit to try and weasel out of it. "Oh, no ethical consumption under capitalism," "oh, the rich are the real vampires if you think about it-" yeah, yeah, you ate like fifty homeless people, asshole. Hold still

[dialectrician]

Okay but if you aren't a vegetarian your case against vampires is actually pretty weak.

[artbyblastweave]

I SAID HOLD STILL

[colinscrod]

Or they go the other way. “Is not your ‘capitalism’ based on the obligations of the weak to the strong? As an aristocrat, haven’t I contributed more to the common good than a few hobos? After all, while I may not pay taxes, my charitable donations obviously outweigh any eccentricities of mine!”

“Yeah, you’re not making this decision any harder for me.”

[memorycycle]

first thing id do as a skeleton is drink red wine from a goblet and have it spill out everywhere . second thing id do is play my ribs like a xylophone

[colinscrod]

First thing I intend to do if I get shot is to calmly get up, walk to the nearest water fountain and drink and have water spray out of the bullet holes.

[avinthecoffee]

Oopsie never posted these!! A combination of “Alarm Clock Jeeves” and “RoboJeeves” by @bad-facsimile !!

The two suit designs reflect the “sir”/“madam” variants of the Jeeves clock!!

[colinscrod]

Reminds me of Stephen Fry’s OTHER iconic role from the original BBC production of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy;

Marvin the Paranoid Android

[depsidase]

[cilantrhoes]

[itsbeeugaymers]

can I reblog for both?

[six-sox]

I’m reblogging for both

[colinscrod]

Hey, does anyone have an invite link for the Trans Boxing discord server?

[colinscrod]

I call myself “queer” because explaining my actual identity takes three paragraphs plus asterisks and footnotes.

[ringsidechoir]

Nyla Rose vs Dark Sheik vs Gisele Shaw (c) for the NWA World Women's Television Championship. T4T Wrestling, 7/3/26 | 📸 allelbows on twitter and instagram

[saywhat-politics]

The same Republicans who were hysterical when asked to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID19 have no problem wearing masks to spread their White Nationalist Christian hatred.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It's a pity that the Covid pandemic didn't exterminate more of these cattle

[ralfmaximus]

They wore these in 100F degree heat, too.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Hopefully a few of them die of heat stroke

If the current heat wave can thin out the herd and delete some of the surplus population, so much the better

[colinscrod]

Uh, you understand that heat deaths will be almost entirely inflicted on the homeless and very poor who can’t afford AC, right? Was that the “surplus population” you’re talking about?

It’s not a good look to quote Ebenezer Scrooge, mate.

[onthegreatsea]

the removal of physical media is not the inevitable progression of improving tech, its like the removal of the 3.5mm jack: purely a result of profit physical games still account for about 1/5th of all sales of video games

but by only selling digital games sony can be the ultimate arbiter of their price. they can stop you lending games and force another sale instead. they can stop the sale of second hand games and keep prices artificially high. they can set any price they want and that will be your only option.

[colinscrod]

Remember the fan freakout when Rockstar announced there’d be no physical disc even in the retail release? Remember how 50 million fanboys pre ordered ANYWAY?

That was the camel’s nose in the tent folks (or perhaps another part of the camel’s anatomy); that feeding frenzy was the industry’s answer to whether gamers would tolerate an $80 standard edition and no actual ownership of the game.

[videogamesincolor]

It's wild of Rockstar to ask us for $80, minimum, without showing a GTA 6 gameplay trailer

I really didn't think they'd open pre-orders without a new trailer, but here we are.

When Rockstar announced that GTA 6 preorders would begin this week, everyone started speculating that a new trailer must finally be imminent. After years of leaks and delays, the developer must be planning to finally show at least a little actual Vice City gameplay. But preorders are live and there's no trailer in sight. Nada. It's wild for Rockstar to be asking us for a minimum $80 to preorder a game it hasn't actually shown any gameplay for, right? I know it's been over four years since the triple-A class of game started going for $70, and Nintendo's already been asking for $80, but it sure does chafe seeing GTA 6 preorders start at $80, and obnoxiously lock some gameplay behind a $100 "Ultimate Edition" right from the jump. The insult on top of injury is that Rockstar hasn't even shown us the game.

[colinscrod]

Honestly, the pre-order feeding frenzy for a game with NO DISC on release astonishes me. There’s no reason as of now to buy a physical copy at all (though I’m seeing elsewhere Rockstar is releasing physical disc copies in December, to avoid leaks and early releases). (And I agree with this! Shipping a disc a week early is just BEGGING for a ton of copies to go “missing” somewhere along the supply lines.)

My point is, there’s no reason to even imagine that stores will run out of copies, duh. So why freak out NOW?! I’m pre-ordering in September or October, when I’ll actually have money.

Same reasoning goes for the Ultimate edition. The upgrade will be available at any time, it’s not like the standard edition is broken, so what’s your fucking hurry?

[colinscrod]

And now it turns out that in all probability there will NEVER be a physical release. Clearly Sony was just waiting to see how fans would react to the Rockstar announcement, and took tens of millions of pre-orders as a cue that no one would truly fight back; And most of us won’t; we’ll bitch and moan online and swear to boycott, but the majority won’t be able to resist lure of the Next Shiny Object.

[colinscrod]

Is it all right to talk about Toy Story 5 a bit late? Because the scenes of Bonnie and Blaze playing together made me cry, they reminded so hard of me and my childhood friend Mark Howry and how we’d first build a landscape in the sandbox or make one inside with blocks, then take all our toys and enact all these complicated little dramas for hours and hours, seems like every other day.

Then puberty hit and I turned into a creepy little monster and it seemed I was always trying to fight and wrestle with him because I didn’t know how to love another boy and didn’t know how boys were supposed to express that.

He was maybe the purest child I’ve ever met, and it breaks my heart that I’ll never find him again.

[twitchy-witchy-they-them]

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☆ Art by Frances Cannon (they/them) ☆

[colinscrod]

I finally discovered “There is a happy land, far far away” is actually a Christian spiritual. I always thought it had something to do with Krazy Kat. And he only sang the first line.

[videogamesincolor]

It's wild of Rockstar to ask us for $80, minimum, without showing a GTA 6 gameplay trailer

I really didn't think they'd open pre-orders without a new trailer, but here we are.

When Rockstar announced that GTA 6 preorders would begin this week, everyone started speculating that a new trailer must finally be imminent. After years of leaks and delays, the developer must be planning to finally show at least a little actual Vice City gameplay. But preorders are live and there's no trailer in sight. Nada. It's wild for Rockstar to be asking us for a minimum $80 to preorder a game it hasn't actually shown any gameplay for, right? I know it's been over four years since the triple-A class of game started going for $70, and Nintendo's already been asking for $80, but it sure does chafe seeing GTA 6 preorders start at $80, and obnoxiously lock some gameplay behind a $100 "Ultimate Edition" right from the jump. The insult on top of injury is that Rockstar hasn't even shown us the game.

[colinscrod]

Honestly, the pre-order feeding frenzy for a game with NO DISC on release astonishes me. There’s no reason as of now to buy a physical copy at all (though I’m seeing elsewhere Rockstar is releasing physical disc copies in December, to avoid leaks and early releases). (And I agree with this! Shipping a disc a week early is just BEGGING for a ton of copies to go “missing” somewhere along the supply lines.)

My point is, there’s no reason to even imagine that stores will run out of copies, duh. So why freak out NOW?! I’m pre-ordering in September or October, when I’ll actually have money.

Same reasoning goes for the Ultimate edition. The upgrade will be available at any time, it’s not like the standard edition is broken, so what’s your fucking hurry?