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Meredith | (she/her) | 28 | AAA | mostly gaming | animal blog: @fluffydogbutts | icon credit: lichedits

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[unpretty]

using naturalistic fallacies to justify not wearing sunscreen specifically is so wild to me. there's so many animals out there protecting their skin the best they can without thumbs. you think a pig wouldn't wear sunscreen if it could? they have to settle for mud. you're out here in the sun not even wallowing first.

[tlirsgender]

I kinda love how every single transphobe is consumed by abject soul sucking misery ngl. They're always like "nobody likes me :(" yeah LOL. I'm not one for moralizing loneliness a la "miserable people are unhappy because they're evil" but evil people are miserable because they're evil, like, pretty frequently

[tlirsgender]

Especially when they're cis queer people talking about being alienated from the broader community cause they hate trans people too much like yesssss you did it to yourself lmao. The bar for like an acceptable level of transphobia among other lgb's is already pretty high anyway like girl what did you Do

[tlirsgender]

And yknow sometimes when you point this out people will try and make you feel bad about laughing at them like "aw hey you're being pretty callous about these miserable awful evil people suffering :/" Yupppppp I am 💃💯🔥✌🍾

[realmsofgames]

XBOX=PREGNANT

[rukafais]

Come on man

[rukafais]

It is like almost looping around to parody that this is a game about a pregnant woman and her Super Special Child and SHE DOESNT EVEN GET A FUCKING NAME

[ellielol]

i'm still mad they killed E3. if they're gonna release a string of commercials the least they could do to get me to watch is to perform a self-humiliation ritual of their c-suite executives on stage try to seem cool. They don't even wear gamer T-shirt and blazer anymore.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[lokh1]

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this

[queer-as-city-folk]

send this to all the fags in your life

[queer-as-city-folk]

and send this to all the dykes in your life

[charl0ttan]

[homunculus-argument]

Actually the monkeys have unionised. That's their circus now.

[licensedproldier]

[qqchurch]

[funstyle]

the number one rule of being an adult is Dont Think About Anything That Happened In 9th Grade

[moveslikekeithrichards]

the stuffed animal situation is phenomenal these days. you can find any specific arthropod or deep sea fish or microbe etc. used to be back in olden times all you could get was bears and mutants

[stormagedondarklordofall]

[treewizarded]

a BRILLIANT read, and even more incentive for me to make my own wizards trope-defying and excellent.

[roachpatrol]

God it’s fascinating to look at the timestamp on this one and then realize that Pratchett went on to write his Witches Series and Granny Weatherwax, who’s strong and fierce and brilliant and austere and so achingly, bitterly, intensely good. I think Granny Weatherwax would give Gandalf a hard look and Gandalf would remember he had a very urgent appointment three shires away and stroll off really fast. 

[ceruleancynic]

Holy fuck, everybody go read this right now. 

Pratchett is one of the people whose work is not only hilarious, but legitimately brilliant. I learned so much from reading his books. Even this talk is peppered with the kind of thing that makes you snort out loud and get stared at by coworkers: 

No wonder witches were always portrayed as toothless — it was living in a 90,000 calorie house that did it. You’d hear a noise in the night and it’d be the local kids, eating the doorknob.

And he fucking nails the witch/wizard dichotomy. Wizards = wise, powerful, organized, educated; witches = crones who give you warts. The Tiffany Aching series addresses this directly, as do the regular Discworld books focusing on the Lancre witches. Like Roach says, Granny Weatherwax is achingly, bitterly, intensely good, and that’s partly because she’s constantly aware of how easy it would be to be bad. How someone has to do the mucky jobs and help the obnoxious and stupid and never, ever take credit for anything you didn’t do; how the hardest thing is to stay balanced just on the edge between extremes, maintain that equilibrium, do what needs to be done no matter how awful or difficult it may be. Wizards never have to think about this. They just forge straight ahead, eating big dinners and squabbling amongst themselves and taking their power for granted.

[roachpatrol]

Come to think of it, that’s one of the most significant divisions of power in Discworld: the men all gang up into this big elitist mob and loll around indolently, specifically not doing magic. Their magic is so powerful and dangerous that it’s a better use of their time to all keep each other down, all the wizard books basically revolve around ‘Oh no, someone’s doing magic, we’d better stomp them flat and then go home for second breakfast’. They keep the world from turning inside out but not much more than that, and they’re kind of a bunch of assholes about it too. Meanwhile the witches are just grimly slogging along, delivering babies and rousting out vampires and changing compresses, like, they stake out territories and then take care of everyone in it… while everyone still thinks that wizards are respectable and witches are shady. 

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

The line about equal rites killed me, though. The insightful commentary (on the internet no less) here helped buffer that.

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[kyraneko]

It’s the difference between status and value. Who does the necessary work, and who takes the credit. Who the world would actually fall apart without, and who reaps the rewards of being considered important.

There’s gender in it, but shades of poor-and-rich as well.

[singlecrow]

What’s marvellous I think here is that Pratchett’s criticism of Le Guin, on Earthsea, was made in 1985 - and in 1990, she wrote Tehanu, which is a fantastic indictment of the sexism and misogyny of the earlier Earthsea books. Doesn’t meant she saw this, she probably didn’t - her own unease with the earlier Earthsea books was evident in other places - but it’s what Pratchett himself is saying, reality creates fantasy creates reality.

[mific]

Terry being brilliant, and read the comments.

[yun-jin-noona]

I lied, there is no sex. Now put your clothes back on so I can infodump about my Vampire: The Masquerade ocs and how they all know eachother.