if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems
The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "š° No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!
You are an unreliable narrator because your coping mechanisms for your deep-seated trauma forbid you from acknowledging the reality of the situation. I am an unreliable narrator because I sincerely have no idea what the fuck is going on.
Megamind is so funny to me. Several things are easily and beautifully established in the first few scenes of the movie.
Probably the worst crime that Megamind can actually be persecuted for is kidnapping. Some destruction of property. Otherwise, absolutely nobody is actually scared of him. There's no evacuation when he "takes over" (unlike later when Tighten takes over and there's a mass-exodus.)
He has some form of probably legitimate income since he purchases and ships all of his "evil lair" accessories from an outlet store, of all things, in Romania.
He has fans. (Fucking Bernard)
He probably hasn't killed anybody ever. (He told Roxanne to evacuate the Metro Man museum "we're having the walls and ceiling removed")
He purposely mispronounces things. (Says spider correctly initially, and then "corrects" himself.)
He unintentionally mispronounces things. ("Ollo?")
He doesn't know what windows are???? Has to be explained to him, despite his lair having them???? And the jail he was raised in has windows???? And the school he went to had windows????
His alligators (from the alligator pit) are very obviously well-loved and cared for. They have a disco ball, their own room, and piles of toys. They looked like they were having a great time, actually.
I was in Cub Scouts as a kid, and every so often my brain goes "hey, remember how the Boy Scouts have an under-twelve chapter that literally revolves around this weird constructed religion based entirely on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book?", and even though I was there I'm still like "what the fuck".
They made us howl like wolves in the school gymnasium and pretend that all of the chapter's adult helpers were characters from The Jungle Book. When my dad helped out with camp setup I wasn't allowed to acknowledge he was my father ā I had to call him "Hathi" or some shit.
As a former Girl Scout, this is wild. Like, at the camp I went to, counselors went by something other than their given name. So kids would be addressing Pluto or Skeeter or Willow or Augustus. But they could choose almost anything as their camp name (obvious exclusions include profanity - no having the children call you Fucker for the week). However this was just a camp thing and did not apply to the adults actually attached to a troop. I canāt imagine having to call my mom Bagheera or whatever for five or six years.
Oh, yeah, it was 100% a thing outside of camps. To this day I have no idea what my troop leader's real name was ā she was in character as "Akela" full time whenever she was in earshot of the kids.
there was also a (differently-branded) thing where you probably offensively engaged with Native American-type shit. There was a movie starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas about it.
Mm. There was definitely a lot of holding up the Noble Savage as an aspirational ideal in my chapter, too, though it was all filtered through this goofy wolf pack metaphor rather than directly fetishising First Nations people. I'm not sure that that's actually better!
the last person is probably referencing American boy scouts which is remarkably different (their version of ācub scoutsā has animal motifs without the Rudyard Kipling fetish) but having grown up in both, the BSA becomes way more militaristic than the Canadian equivalent as you get older. Being in the scouts in either country is very cult-like, and it was definitely bizarre to crouch in a circle around a fake full moon lamp and scream "DOB DOB DOB" and call someone's dad āRikki-Tikki-Taviā
I enjoy how the responses in the notes are split roughly evenly between "what the fuck, I was in Cub Scouts and it was nothing like that, I think your troop's leaders were just freaks" and "yeah, that sounds about right".
i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights
my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20ā²s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba
Fun story my Great Great Grandma left Germany in the 1920s because she had family in the US and could get citizenship pretty easily and once she was over in the US she then smuggled over 15 jewish families out by forging family documents so now my aunts are currently in the process of trying to tell the real ones from the fake ones because my great gran just died and there are legally over 100 surviving descendants but we know that math is a lil screwy.
Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.
So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:
In the url bar, type in about:config
It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.
One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:
Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.
The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.
Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If Iāve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope Iāve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.
If you were one of todayās lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I wonāt be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply donāt have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.
Infernal Death Blast Of Utter Fiery Desolation And Lamentation To Bring Woe And Destitution Upon All Who Oppose You (does 1d2 fire damage to a single target, half on a successful save)
Visual novel where the central problem is that the narrator is too reliable, and you can only pursue courses of action which conform ā however thin the technicality ā with what they say is happening.
Yes, absolutely; however, critically, we are explicitly not doing a reverse Stanley Parable. The narrator will never break the fourth wall, and will never acknowledge that your interpretation of the narrated actions is anything other than perfectly reasonable; subsequent events will be arranged to make your interpretation reasonable, if necessary. The only sign of the narrator's disapproval is that repeated and egregious malicious compliance will result in future narration becoming increasingly pedantic in its phrasing; this of course completely fails to foreclose on opportunities for interpretive shenanigans.
You could open a cabinet or closet door to grab something or hide, or the cellar door to head downstairs and avoid the knocking. Maybe a kitchen door to tell your mom or sister or whoever that someone is here. Actually, have we even established that the front door entryway is part of the living room? If it's not been established yet then perhaps we can avoid that ever being established, with a little entrance hall either existing or not existing depending on your actions.
Note that the narrator is free to fuck with you right back. For example, if you respond to the narration "hearing a knock from the entryway, you enter the living room and open the door" by opening the boot closet beside the front door, the narrator may well proceed as though the knocking is coming from inside the closet ā they never said it wasn't!
So, I love looking through your game recs, and all of them look so interesting!
The only problem is that I have zero money at the moment, or at least zero that can be spent of games.
I donāt suppose you know any good/enjoyable games that are free or have a demo?
(There is only so much time you can spend doing housework or looking for work and Iāve replayed and replayed the games Iāve already got so many times)
Itās funny you should ask. Folks often ask me how the hell I have thousands of games in my Steam library, and the answer is, well, a substantial chunk of them are free to play. Many of them are very, very bad, but there are exceptions ā Iāve placed links to the 120 or so that Iād actually recommend to other people under the cut.
A lot of these games are quite short (i.e., average playing time in the five to fifteen minute range), but they're free, so really that's good value for your money! Note: owing to the length of this list, I will not be including descriptions or content warnings ā be sure to check the writeups and reviews.
Iāve marked my personal top dozen with asterisks (*). These arenāt necessarily the most approachable or well-constructed titles on this list, mind ā just the ones I had the most fun with.
Agent-00
Alien Squatter
Arc Apellago
Atma
Aurora: A Child's Journey
Becalm
Beneath a Steel Sky
BirdGut
Camp W
Cloud Climber
Court of Ashes
Dead Horizon*
Deepest Sword
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
Doki Doki Literature Club!
Down Ward
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald
Hey just a quick check in- now that musk is like severely imploding on trump and their severed ties
Yall won't forget this part right?
Yall won't forget he's still a massive scumbag right? That he's still a nazi right? That won't get lost in translation right???
(I don't THINK it'll get forgotten but I really want to remind people that just because Musk is now bashing trump for all the shit we've known about him for awhile that we don't forget he was complicit. If anything his bashing and airing out trumps laundry makes it worse, because he KNEW all that and still worked with him.)
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