Palworld Has Now Sold An Estimated 30.5 Million Copies
It’s hard to overstate just how big Palworld has become. It might have once been laughingly viewed as a clone of a certain other videogame series, but it has undoubtedly become its own thing.
According to new estimates from Alinea Analytics, Pocketpair’s survival smash has now sold roughly 30.5 million copies across Steam, PlayStation and Xbox following the launch of its long-awaited 1.0 update.…
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
Adding my 2 cents worth that I learned from my time in DBT.
Guilt and shame are NOT the same emotion!
Theyre very similar, but theres a key difference. Guilt comes from an internal source and shame external.
What do I mean? Well, when you feel guilt, its because you've betrayed your own morals. Youve done something you view as bad, and you feel guilty for defying your own moral code.
Shame, however, is external and comes from our individual societies, and has nothing to do with moral codes (in the way guilt does). Shame comes from how OTHERS perceive you. You go to school, and wet yourself, you feel shame because the other kids point and laugh, they think less of you now. You may know it was an accident, and accidents happen, and thats okay! But because other people now think less of you for it, you feel bad.
Not taking away the points of OP, i still agree, just think it might be useful to distinguish between the two emotions because they are not the same.
Tw animal abuse animal torture, like this is genuinely fucking distressing (link to report the account is at the end)
People are insane for defending labgerm. I so rarely ever actually talk about stuff like this but good god how are people defending labgerm? I don't give a shit if plecos are invasive in some places. I believe labgerm intentionally tank breeds them for the purpose of those videos, too. If you can watch something like that and find it funny and not disturbing, then you need serious help. What he's doing can't even be called culling. It isn't humane and it certainly isn't for any greater good. The guy is using hardware to bolt living creatures together, he's injecting different animal semen into them, force filling them with fiberglass, injecting other living creatures (tadpoles) inside of them, and WORSE things.
How the fuck can people go "they're invasive it's not like it matters" ? First of all it does matter because they're living creatures who feel pain. This isn't a pile of invasive eggs you're crushing it isn't a swift end. It's prolonged torture. This is something he is doing for fun, he thinks making these animals suffer is fun. And people are making God damn anime girl designs based on his torture?????? And being like "why are y'all so mad you want him to go to prison? It's just a fish..." Okay so again, living animal. Living animal. Then let's talk about the people in his comments saying the pleco videos are getting boring and he should start doing these things to larger animals like cats, dogs, and rabbits? Fuck you fuck you fuck you god I fucking hate people
Edit and update:
Please help report the account. From what I've seen there are several "reupload" accounts that post lab germ's deleted content too. Lab germ is dubbing over animal torture videos from other accounts on Douyin (Chinese TikTok app). So while we can't report those accounts, we can report the reposts on tiktok
If any harm befalls my son, please remember that I turned to you and implored you for help—whether through a small donation or simply by sharing this post. I have done everything in my power to seek assistance, and I hope my plea does not go unanswered—without a word of support or a gesture of humanity. Your contribution might just be the reason his life is saved.
My son is in urgent need of surgery, and we cannot afford the cost. We need just 500 euros to perform the procedure and give him a chance at treatment.
Something that deeply unnerves me, and likely a lot of my audience too, is how often people bring up the fact that Gooseworx is a trans woman, as if that somehow excuses her behaviors recently with the "nega" jokes and her old, frankly disturbing, tweets.
Marginalized identity is not a shield against accountability. She is still a white person, and being queer does not exempt anyone from perpetuating anti-black racism. This situation alone shows a desperate need for a BASIC understanding of intersectionality.
Being a woman does not erase her white privilege. Being a trans woman does not exempt her from anti-black behavior. Neither is calling those things out misogynist or transphobic.
And even if she weren't white, like the friends she was laughing with, identity defenses still fail: being a POC person doesn't erase anti-blackness when you are not a Black person. Non-black POC people can, and absolutely do, perpetuate anti-black racism.
P.S.
Now that we have heard gangle is revealed be Indian (or black, mixed reporting).. lots of questions as to why exactly your (you, Gooseworx) self insert, Jax, is so comfortable humiliating and harming gangle who is found out to be that in your canon...
Feels like another Vox and Rosie thing with Alastor situation that Viziepop suspiciously of her only black ace character.
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The doctors told us that she urgently needs emergency back surgery. They warned us that the operation must be performed within the next 6 days to prevent her condition from deteriorating further.
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"Isn't She Lovely" is very explicitly a song about Black joy, specifically the joy of Black parenthood. Stevie Wonder's first daughter, whose birth the song is about, is named Aisha, which means "life" and "prosperity". If you need the evidence any clearer, the opening of the song features a newborn's cries, and in the extended version there's a long instrumental section over audio of Stevie giving Aisha a bath.
It doesn't surprise me that "Isn't She Lovely" was used as a coming-out allegory— transitioning can definitely feel like a sort of rebirth— but it saddens me that it was at the expense of the song's Black core. Considering Goose and her track record, this was likely a fully conscious decision and not simply an ignorant misstep.
will never get over the fact that Stolas was 100% willing to die for the guy he cheated on his wife with, rather than live for his own flesh and blood 😭
WHY am i supposed to believe this guy is a good father again???
Sometimes I think this fandom genuinely forgets that this man is almost 40 years old, has a daughter, and is not a child(And no, I'm not saying that all fans are like that, just to be clear).
Stolas fans when people say how much they hate Stella and want her to die, or say that Octavia is in the wrong for not wanting to forgive her neglectful cheating father;
My dreams of becoming a writer and reaching fame through the internet could go to shit if the KOSA law passes. Sure, I am not from the USA nor the UK, but it will expand to my country eventually
Also, there are people with dreams like mine, people whose lives and jobs rely on the internet, and they could go to shit too because the goverment wanted to pretend to be a babysitter
Not just that, our privacy is at risk. Not mine, not yours, OURS. This has been said and repeated multiple times, but they're not trying to protect the children. They're trying to spy on every single one of us. You could always quit using the internet and wait until the KOSA law is removed, but some people can't live without the internet, and you KNOW what this can lead to
I would trust a conspiracy theorist who has never taken a vaccine more than the people ruling over the UK right now. But there's still time
I wish I had a link to stuff that can lead you to stop the KOSA law from happening, but there will be other posts that can help with that
We can still fight for our freedom. We can still stop KOSA
WE NEED TO BE LOUDER
WE CAN'T SUBMIT
WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO RECREATE 1984
FIGHT BACK
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