[athenaselena-deactivated2023110]

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER 😂

[thoughtkick]

“I should like to understand myself properly before it is too late.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[nobrashfestivity]

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豆鼠木彫根付

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod

Edo period (1615–1868)

[toastbutteregg]

[biggaybunny]

I know it's been talked about before but I still don't think it's been emphasized how *fucked* today's internet experience is for children. I didn't know what the word "discourse" was when I was 8, or 10, or even 13. I was too busy playing the nigh-limitless amount of flash games out there on the internet and making sure my neopets were fed. Like I cannot stress enough that if I had free time on the computer, 9 times out of 10 I could go and play a jaunty little game someone had whipped up and put out there for no other reason than that creating games was awesome and easy to do. Or go to some page that existed just to collect memes; you see back then there were more than 4 sites, and you didn't need accounts to visit them. I didn't get targeted ads. I wasn't exposed to any sort of political ideology. I spent a lot of time on the computer but no one site monopolized my time or tried to fucking manipulate me into using it more. The internet was for more than one thing back then, and honestly I don't think enough people realize how much has been stolen from us.

[prokopetz]

I feel like the legal institution of adoption is unreasonably limited by restricting it to parent-child relationships. If me and some random asshole want to legally be second cousins, I think we should just be able to do that.

[mother-sauces]

American urban planning!

[pibblepunk]

When I moved to my city, the shitty car I owned immediately died. Luckily, I thought, the apartment we'd moved to had a bus stop right outside and there were bus stops right down the road from my job, and the city's website even had a convenient little route planner!

4 hours. The trip that took 20 minutes by car would require 4 hours, with multiple changeovers, to do on the bus.

When Americans say "public transportation sucks," it's not because we just hate the concept of public transportation; it's because in most places it exists here, it is deliberately underfunded, underserved, and poorly implemented.

[sculpturesof]

No doesn't exist digitally anymore. It's been replaced by Not Now or Maybe Later or Snooze Tumblr Live for the next 7 days or Sign In To Continue or We'll show you less like this (lie) or Schedule your restart otherwise we force it in 10 minutes. And I hate it all with the heat of the sun.

[theconcealedweapon]

Cops are trained to be bad. Anyone who insists on being good is not welcome.

[denimull]

[shelbygraces]

minecraft is about to get so good

[schuylerpeck]

I don’t want to work a 9-5, I want to go hiking and be in love

[the-subcon10ent]

We may be cut from the same cloth but I was cut with these

[tiixij]

discourse from the year 2043: getting a song stuck in your head is immoral because it takes money away from the artists that would get paid by you were actually listening to it

[prokopetz]

"I wish I could make a game but get other people to do all the art and writing and programming and" you literally can. It's called being the project manager, and all you have to do to get this job is be willing to write all the emails, make all the phone calls, set up and moderate all the group chats, schedule and lead all the meetings, monitor and follow up on all the deadlines, coordinate with all relevant third parties, and personally chase down the answer to every question that anyone might conceivably ask about anything. If that sounds like your idea of a good time, there are any number of projects that would love to have you on board.

[prokopetz]

(If you're thinking "wait, I've seen lots of indie game projects with nobody doing that job", that's one of the primary reasons most indie game projects with team sizes larger than 3–5 people fail. Without a dedicated PM role, the best you can hope for is that one of your team members is an absolute rock star who's able to do full-time PM work on top of their creative role, and if you're very lucky they manage to stick it out for a couple of projects before they burn out and the team falls apart. In a more typical case, everybody wants to be a creative and nobody does the PM work, and then your Kickstarter campaign gets to be the subject of a wildly speculative what-went-wrong video by a YouTube personality who talks like a Sesame Street character.)

[6i]

it takes years to develop your craft. do not romanticize the idea of an ‘overnight success’. be a student. grow organically. get really good. hate your work. start over. find new ways to express the same ideas. the student becomes the master. your time will come.

[becauseofthebowties]

For my 5k Milestone Celebration - Day 1: Favorite character // Smile ↳ Dean Winchester + his cheeky smile 😛

[valquainton]