Jay Royals

[tackled]

[johnjamesjacksonthe3rd]

“ So now we will forever part ways “

[kylebonallo]

by Kyle Bonallo

[engineerstyle]

G.O.A.T.

[jonasgrossmann]

craig ellwood… rosen house, los angeles, 1963 @ midcentarc

[meme-theft]

[65-percent-puns]

PLEASE TURN YOUR SOUND ON

[grotesquekaleidoscope]

heS SO ANGRY

[the-three-seconds-warning]

RX-121-2 Gundam TR-1 [Gigantic Arm Unit version] A variant of the RX-121-2 Gundam TR-1 equipped with the arms of the MRX-009 Psyco Gundam. This strange combination allowed the RX-121-2 Gundam to use at the same time its Long Blade Rifle and the arms of the Psycho Gundam that were armed with five-barrel beam cannons.

Sources

[a-world-of-innocence-blog]

Don’t Settle, You Deserve More

Don’t settle for somebody who says the right things, but there’s no passion in their heart or their voice. Don’t settle for things that are recycled, the words written on cards and have been for years. You deserve more than just words, you deserve words with meaning. You deserve organic words, real sentiments, the words that could shake you to your core.

Don’t settle for somebody who doesn’t make you feel alive. Who doesn’t make all the bad times, the time alone, the time where you world was black and grey… if they don’t make it worth it, don’t settle. You deserve more than company, you deserve companionship. You deserve to see the colours, you deserve to feel the fire in your bones, the butterflies in your tummy.

Don’t settle for somebody who says your beautiful and is just looking at your shell. Somebody who sees you just as your outward apperance. Who sees beauty on a surface level. You deserve more than it to be recognised that you LOOK beautiful (and believe me, you do). You deserve somebody to look at your soul and see beauty. Who finds beauty in your mind, your thoughts, your feelings. You deserve to be seen as a work of art both physically and mentally.

Don’t settle for being second best. Don’t settle for somebody who looks at you as a rebound. Who sees you and thinks ‘you’ll do’. A person with wandering eyes and a wandering heart. You deserve more than to be seen as a replacement, a thing to keep them entertained until the real prize comes along. You ARE the prize. Find a person who looks at you and wonders what contest they won, where they went right to get you. What they had done to deserve somebody so perfect for them: who can see other people, admire other people, but their mind never leaves you.

Don’t settle for somebody who will only be seen when you’re paparazzi worthy. Somebody who won’t take that silly selfie, who won’t want to be seen with you when you’re not red carpet ready. Who will hide you from their friends and family when you’re worse for wear. You deserve more than to feel ashamed of. You deserve to feel loved and worshiped even on the days where you’re not looking your best. When you might be in clothes only half a step up from pyjamas, and you’d not make the fashion pages. Somebody who still sees beauty in those moments, who will still think you’re gorgeous, who will hold your hand proudly and kiss you in front of their friends.

Don’t settle for people who will not love and enjoy and cherish every fiber of your being. Who will not fight for you, will not hurt for you, who will break you down and hurt you and damage you in any way. You deserve more: you deserve love. You deserve to be safe. You deserve to feel adored. You deserve the best. You deserve somebody perfect for you.

Don’t settle. You deserve more.

[typicallygaylol]

Late night rant about single life

I like to think that I’m ok and actually happy being single and I really do love enjoying being openly a lesbian and not hiding. But sometimes it’s just like damn I think I’d actually be a good girlfriend (in the least self involved way possible) and it’d be lovely to just meet someone and love them endlessly. Idk I feel like I do want to be in a relationship ya know, but it’s hard when there are literally no other girls who like girls around. So I guess for the time being I’ll just try to love being single, out of the closet and gay as hell. But I mean, still, GIRLS HMU (KIDDING) (but not really) HAHA no one is gonna read this 😂

[sleepykalena]

The whale’s vagina sure is hot af today

[curtains-of-beef]

19 things i learned at 19

1. never be so ignorant to think that your opinion, idea, or socio-political stance is the be all end all, right side. make conversation, not riots. you achieve so much more from having fact-based debates, rather than yelling “special snowflake and racist, trump-loving scum” back and forth. people shouldn’t be automatically deemed wrong or hateful, for having differing veiwpoints. people are so good at talking at people that they have forgotten how to listen. listen, because even the most differing of minds have fallen in love, have had children, have been scared, have cried. there’s something so innocent, when you think about how human everyone is

2. give people time. my mom is such a huge ally, but five years ago i was almost kicked out of my house and sent back to a religious high school, for dating a girl. you’re not the only one growing and learning. patience is a beautiful thing, don’t be so quick to cut ties

3. sometimes you’ll be lonely. really fucking lonely. be your own best friend. love yourself, when you feel no one else loves you. be proud, without claps

4. you are not someone else’s hands in places they shouldn’t be. you are not the mistakes other people have done to you

5. when you’re young and “in love” you think it’s forever. you hold onto people; you keep them in your pockets. you use people as crutches, for validation. my happiness depended so heavily on someone else’s attention that i couldn’t cope well, if that person wasn’t present enough. that’s not a relationship. you aren’t a half fucking star made up of stardust and galaxies wandering through this crazy thing we call life in search for your other half. that doesn’t exist. you are whole. happiness should be autonomous and not a byproduct of having a significant other. a relationship is two people doing their own thing and encouraging each other as they both succeed, independently. don’t romantasize the average cinematic love story. that’s not love. it’s lust. it’s false-fronts. love is so much more than butterflies and electric kisses. it’s work. it’s growth. it’s hard, but damn, are we lucky if we find it

6. other people’s success does not equate to your failures. and odds are, you’re looking at someone else’s life through rose-coloured glasses

7. never play down your passion. the things that make you involuntarily smile are the things worth talking about. shout them. take pride in them. there is nothing more beautiful than passion. what you love is never silly, don’t let someone take that from you

8. no one is responsible for you, but you. no matter what shit you go through. no matter how hard you’re fucked over. at the end of the day, your reactions are on you and you alone. you can spend your life with poor mental health, you can shut down and not care about anything anymore, you can do so many negative things to yourselves and others, because of something that happened to you. but what does that solve? who wins? no matter how fucked a situation is, if you make it out alive fucking live. you’re malleable, not breakable. my mom lost her first child to a still birth when she was so young. she buried a baby at 16 years old. she could’ve killed herself, never had children, taken the copious amounts of meds the doctors wanted to prescribe. but she didn’t. and she says it’s made her a better mom now. and she holds so much value in life. every goddam person has a skeleton in their closet, and thinking yours is wrapped around your neck 24/7 is on you

9. holding grudges aren’t doing you any good. you can never be both content and hold grudges. you must pick the former of the two. not for another person, but for yourself. and, everyone makes mistakes. we’re humans! forgiveness and weakness are not interchangeable

10. believe. believe in magic, in love, in conspiracies. it’s not childish to always wonder. even the most impossible things are wonderful to fantasize

11. being afraid to love is so 2001, emo myspace-user bullshite. take risks. great love stories don’t start within a comfort zone. she should get your heart racing

12. literally every single thing is temporary. life would be so boring, so meaningless if all the good we were ever given stayed. be humble. be grateful. and never think a bad time will last forever. it won’t

13. smile at strangers and talk to the elderly lady on the bus. human connection is so pure, so raw, and society is losing it. we’re all heads-down on phones. and it’s unfortunate, because being a human surrounded by other specific humans in this specific timeframe in this lifetime in this world is such a wild, thrilling concept. get to know someone; make talking to a random person in a waiting room not an awkward thing

14. never stop asking questions. never stop learning. there is something so beautiful and powerful in knowledge. i’ll die happy, if i die with a book in my hand

15. i’m not at a disadvantage, because of my sexual orientation. if you’re not gay, you’re a person of colour, or you’re poor, or you’re “ugly”, or you’re disabled. even if you are the definition of privilege or power or whatever, you go through hard shit too. can’t we all acknowledge that. the world does still have a lot of changing to still do, yes. but, being an angry marginalized individual solves nothing. the people who don’t agree with you, won’t agree while you’re yelling and name calling and throwing hands. don’t play the victim card. it’s so easy to be angry, and i hate hearing “if you aren’t angry, you aren’t woke”. fuck that. i’m sorry, but we have progressed somewhat over the years and living your whole life angry at the world for being dealt the cards you were dealt is an unfortunate way to live

16. going all day without eating isn’t what’s strong. providing nutrients to yourself is strong. getting better is strong. you have a body that can move and can successfully metabolize the things you put into it! go your body that’s awesome! i know your problems shouldn’t be compared to others who “have it worse” but children are literally dying of starvation because they don’t have the option of food. while you sit on thinspiration tumblr blogs kickstarting another starvation period. the amount of privilege you have to just waste food like that is astonishing. life is so amazing on the other end of recovery. and you can’t be mad at yourself for the years you feel you wasted, because you were sick. be grateful you’re alive

17. i see humans but no humanity needs to stop being said. evil in the world shouldn’t trump the good. and there is good

18. you’re not too small or weak. make noise. take space. don’t feel inconvenient or unneeded. you are, needed

19. don’t rush anything worth waiting for. kiss slow. never plan things as though you have a future. you aren’t living ten years down the road. you’re only promised right now. go for what you want, make something beautiful. and if things crash and burn, it was worth the ride

[usodeshou]

There are people with such beautiful minds, their heads full of breathtaking worlds that they’re somehow able to transfer into something tangible for everyone else to experience. A story, told on paper, letters strung together so seemingly effortlessly, touching your soul in all the right ways. On screen, movies and series long and short, video games that let you delve into strange and wonderful places, sending you out on adventures that will enlargen your mind and add to who you are, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, but in any case will tell you something about yourself. Art that, without a single word, understands you, that you look at with a big cosmic yes in your chest and you can’t even quite put your finger on the why, but it doesn’t really matter, because that feeling of finding something that can undo you in all the right ways simply by existing? It’s everything, oh god.

[usodeshou]

There are people with such beautiful minds, their heads full of breathtaking worlds that they’re somehow able to transfer into something tangible for everyone else to experience. A story, told on paper, letters strung together so seemingly effortlessly, touching your soul in all the right ways. On screen, movies and series long and short, video games that let you delve into strange and wonderful places, sending you out on adventures that will enlargen your mind and add to who you are, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, but in any case will tell you something about yourself. Art that, without a single word, understands you, that you look at with a big cosmic yes in your chest and you can’t even quite put your finger on the why, but it doesn’t really matter, because that feeling of finding something that can undo you in all the right ways simply by existing? It’s everything, oh god.

[biggaybunny]

This is really just idle observations but I get this feeling that a lot of gaming companies that got big throughout the 00′s and even into the early 10′s are beginning to flail and suffer because a lot of their go-tos aren’t moving games anymore. Like hardware. Mostly, but not just graphics. First it was the PC market with the move to hi-quality 3d and the introduction of physics engines and ever more specialized toolsets, better textures, etc. Once that was milked, getting console buyers up to the same point was an easy way to extend the same strategy. It feels to me like it’s part of why everyone, everyone is jumping on VR. It’s the same idea, to grab a hold of the latest technology and rely on consumers willing to deal with the resulting products not being perfect, but still on a new level compared to the old stuff (which is exactly what’s happened with gaming technology as a whole throughout the last couple decades). But there’s less trust this time from we the consumers, for a myriad of reasons. And it’s also less important to us, at least some of us. VR doesn’t feel like a continuation of the medium so much as an offshoot, in my opinion. It doesn’t seem right – or at least, to add anything – to a broad collection of popular genres and games.

Mostly though, these companies just don’t listen. They don’t change. They’re quite happy to run themselves in to the ground because they don’t understand that their product has outgrown them. Whether or not video games as a whole are art, they’re a more complex commodity than, say, snack food, or cars, but we’re seeing companies trying to desperately cling to this quasi-industrial notion that as long as they keep putting out newer, sleeker models, and cite enough jargonic specs, we’ll continue to ditch our older models and clamor for what they put out.

[crabdinners]

A random video game rant

Can’t a game just be COMPLETE when I get it? I haven’t dealt with this too much because I steer clear of unfinished trash, but seriously, if a game has a significant day-one patch, there’s no reason the game couldn’t spend another month or so in development. also fucking LOOT BOXES & GODDAMN MICRO-TRANSACTIONS  IN MY ALREADY $60 GAME. this is why I say “fuck microsoft” when it comes to consoles. I know most AAA devs are doing it, but every fucking Xbox exclusive has them, One of the reasons I love my Nintendo Switch is because games on it are complete when you get them & ALL OF IT is mine after the initial transaction. I know some games on the switch are too large to fit on a cart & you gotta download the rest there, on top of the paltry storage on it. but at least it’s better than EA or Ubisoft going “how much money can we get these dumb fucks to give us” I know not all games on other platforms have this practice, but it’s just almost nonexistent on the Switch. Just why can’t I have my games & just PLAY THEM?

[crabdinners]

A Bethesda Fallout v. Skyrim rant no one will care about.

Fallout 3 & skyrim were made in the same engine. & fallout released earlier. So how in the HELL are the menus worse in Skyrim? They’re just slower, like for your status screen, in Fallout 3 you hit a button & you’re at the screen you were at when exiting that menu, & everything else is just a click away. But in skyrim, you hit a button to bring up the status tree screen, you hit one of 4 buttons to access the map, spells, skills, & weapons. why not just have it be in parallel side-by-side menus? Also if you’re on PS3/Xbox360, have fun almost crashing your game just to look at the fucking map. & the shopkeepers are worse, In Fallout, your stuff is on the left & the shop is on the right all in view at the same time. In skyrim, it’s all split up in this bullshit bloated mess where in order to switch from one tab to another, you have to back out, scroll up or down, & then hit a button where you FINALLY get to the other shit. that literally made me depressed (I’m not even kidding)

[argentvagabond]

I have an opinion

First Person Shooters, like CoD and Battlefield and the like need to stop it with paid DLC that just adds a few maps, and maybe some guns or cosmetics. Or at least make them cost a lot less. $15 for that little bit of content is ridiculous.

Single player, story driven games (like Witcher, the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series, that sort of thing), or multiplayer, story driven games I have no problem with them having paid DLC’s. Because those DLC’s actually add worthwhile content, ranging from new gear, to actual meat like more story/quests, and world spaces. They actually add worthwhile stuff to do.

Witcher 3 especially has a good system, because CDPR added a bunch of small, free DLC’s after the game’s launch, and their two big story DLC’s (Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine) are both BIG content additions, particularly Blood and Wine; it was basically another full size game as a DLC, and was priced accordingly. As I recall, both Witcher 3 DLC’s were $20 for tons more hours worth of content.

Season Passes aren’t inherently bad, so long as they’re reasonably priced. $30 should be the average maximum a dev charges for the season pass, assuming they’re releasing the usual amount of post-release content. But $50 for a Season Pass, and all you’re releasing boils down to four packs of 3 maps, a few new guns and a couple ‘factions’, is absolutely ridiculous (I’m looking at you EA).

Tl;Dr for this short post;

FPS shouldn’t charge as much as they do for their map packs, but story driven games (single or multiplayer) are reasonable.

[testosterone-dyke]

Rant time #5

Music and video games are my shit.

I get a lot of shit in my family for being easily distracted by video games, and my brother often criticises my desire to go into the music industry instead of something like engineering like him, but they are my escape.

Last night after the shit that transpired I moved my TV to the foot of my bed, hooked up my GameCube and played Spyro: A New Beginning for a few hours.

Whenever I’m doing homework I listen to music to try to help the anxiety it brings me. I’m also probably the only one in my family who can listen to music and do nothing else for a while.

Even now I have music going, giving me inspiration to write this little thing.

Rant over

[universalhealthcare]

[johnjamesjacksonthe3rd]

Nuff said