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Watched the first two episodes of Chainsmoking Cat. My thoughts, boiled down:
Damn this bitch is doing way better than I was doing at my worst.
Do not watch the first episode while eating unless you've already thrown up today.
Everyone who's been losing their shit over what a horrible disgusting thing this show is must be sheltered as hell.
EVERYONE. GET MORE IN LOVE WITH YOUR FRIENDS NOW. FRIENDSHIP IS ALL WE HAVE ON THIS MISERABLE BALL OF DIRT FLOATING THROUGH SPACE. TELL YOUR FRIENDS YOU LOVE THEM!!!!!
Ω ΠΑΝΤΕΣ, ΝΥΝ ΜΑΛΛΟΝ ΦΙΛΕΙΤΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΦΙΛΟΥΣ. Η ΓΑΡ ΦΙΛΙΑ ΜΟΝΟΝ ΗΜΙΝ ΥΠΑΡΧΕΙ ΕΠΙ ΤΑΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΤΑΛΑΙΠΩΡΟΥ ΓΗΣ, ΤΗΣ ΔΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΙΘΕΡΟΣ ΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΗΣ. ΛΕΓΕΤΕ ΤΟΙΣ ΦΙΛΟΙΣ ΟΤΙ ΦΙΛΕΙΤΕ ΑΥΤΟΥΣ!!!!!
OMNES. IAM NVNC SODALES VESTROS MAGIS BENE VELITIS. AMICITIAM VNAM MISERO IN HOC ORBE TELLVRIS PER CAELVM VOLANTI HABEMVS. SODALIBVS VOS EOS BENE VELLE DICITE!!!!!
Heartbreaking: the worst type of person you know made an excellent point
Heartbreaking: the worst
type of person you know made
an excellent point
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
req'd by @doilydestroyer
burn that bridge baybeeee
text: I can't make things better... So I might as well make them worse
this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects
“why did i start this list” pleaseeeeeee this is so funny
his descriptions were extremely on-point, and frankly inspiring when writing a hurt/comfort scene
Instagram poets could never!
For those who want it, here is the entire list:
Anyways, dude's 1,000% a huge masochist. Nobody just describes pain like this unless they're enjoying it.
Trevor has had a busy night of Dinner and WARK! (Beverley is Spherical)
did you throw up while watching it
no, fortunately I already had thrown up today.
Sometime in the past week I dunked my Trusty Everyday Water Bottle into the gross gunky dish soaking water in the sink so I'd be forced to wash it before I keep drinking from it, since otherwise those things will eventually start growing mould. So I figured that I'll have to wash it if I want to keep drinking water and staying properly hydrated, which I enjoy doing.
Instead I ended up simply not drinking water. I made the mistake of leaving the house in a hoodie - didn't even spend all that long in direct sunlight, just walked to the bins to throw out a trash bag and some cardboard recycling, and to the car - and managed to speedrun myself some heat stroke symptoms.
I got myself a gatorade while we were shopping for groceries, consumed the entire thing while on the car ride home (my boyfriend drives, I wasn't behind the wheel in that state) and threw up the entire thing while walking from the parking lot to the door. I'm pretty sure i heard some sort of an "achievement unlocked" ping after I managed to hit every single storm drain thingy on the yard.
Anyway once we got home I took a cold shower and now I'm fine.
Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6
but only once.
Some Yu-Gi-Oh! bullshit right there
SOOO if you've not been made aware yet, tumblr has added a 'comments' section to your blog, where, if made visible, others can see the comments/replies you've left on posts.
if that's NOT something you want people to see, make sure you private it!
you can make it private in your blog settings, under replies like so:
if that’s NOT something
you want people to see, make
sure you private it!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles re
great article about Crunchyroll being a terrible company
wish i had some snappy paragraphs that i could post to demonstrate the article, but it's too long and the point is spread across it so much that there's no easy way to convey it. the only choice is to read it yourself
here's my best attempt to get the key points (still long, but shorter than the article at least):
crunchyroll is getting rid of typesetting in their subs. they're going from the good, modern subbing standard (aegisub/ass) - which lets you position, motion-track, and color code text anywhere on the screen - to one worse than what they had 16 years ago (back when their renderer couldn't handle anything fancier than 9-position placement and overlapping text). the one they're moving to (ttml) doesn't let you do any special formatting, just plain text at the top or bottom of the screen. they're doing it because a) they have exclusive licensing rights to a lot of anime, so there's no competition b) they want to make money off of sublicensing to netflix and amazon, but netflix and amazon use the garbage subbing standard c) sony bought crunchyroll a while back and put funimation in charge, and funimation has never given a shit about anime
for a while they were paying their subbers to convert their good subs to the netflix/amazon shitty ones, but they have decided that instead of paying to make good quality subs for their own platform and shitty ones for netflix/amazon (or demanding that netflix/amazon update their subbing standards in order to sublicense the shows, so that everyone has the good ones), they're just going to stop bothering to make the quality subs at all. worse, it seems like they're going through their backlog and converting shows that used to have good subs over to the bad ones.
the article has a TON of examples of shows that would be seriously impacted by this change. two of my faves it mentions are kill la kill (which makes HEAVY use of onscreen text for its punchiness and humor) and komi-san can't communicate (have you tried watching the netflix subs of this? they make the show literally unwatchable. the whole premise of the show is that komi has selective mutism and talks by writing things down, and the netflix subs just... didn't bother subbing any of the text. whole entire key conversations become extended shots of characters scribbling back and forth while you have no way to know what they're saying). some others it doesn't mention that i immediately thought of were shoujo kageki revue starlight (color-coded subs along both the side and the bottom come in clutch for tracking the revue duets simultaneously with the duet dialog) and yuuki yuuna wa yuusha de aru (you need motion-tracked subs for any on-screen group chat conversation to be readable, and yuyuyu has a bunch). and the article's got a bunch more examples from shows i don't know as much about. probably you can think of some of your own faves that this would ruin worst of all, the english fansubbing community has cratered since crunchyroll came on the scene. there's a lot more anime coming out each season, and audiences are used to day-of simulcast, and most of the really good fansubbers went pro or retired and not a lot of new ones have stepped up. so even torrenting or streaming bootlegs won't be viable for getting the speed, quality, and coverage of subs we're used to these days.
the article exhorts you to kick up a fuss - spread the word, complain on social media - and to cancel your crunchyroll account and give "subtitle quality" as your reason. it cites how back in 2017, crunchyroll tried to reduce their video quality, got slammed by their users, and rolled back the change. unfortunately, the sony/funimation takeover happened since then and that leadership doesn't seem to care at all about the quality of their product or what the fans think, so i don't expect them to respond to anything but a credible threat to their bottom line. so, maybe, if we can make a big enough dent in their subscription numbers, then they'll pay attention
and the article doesn't say this, but i'd add: complain to netflix and amazon, as well. any anime you see on those platforms, report the subs and say the quality makes the show unwatchable. consider canceling your subscriptions to those platforms as well, and citing the awful subtitle quality in your reasons, if the main thing you use them for is anime
and consider getting into fansubbing! aegisub is free and you can learn how to use it! if you know japanese, you can help out with translation. and even if you don't, fansubbing groups can always use help with timing, typesetting, encoding, quality control, etc. try joining the discord for kaleido-subs and saying you want to get involved! (or even good job! media or novaworks - they're not releasing subs anymore, but the discords are still active and would be happy to help new people learn the ropes!)
it's actually so crazy how much the simpsons would fucking suck if it didn't have any of the simpsons characters. just a bunch of shots of empty houses and streets for half an hour while nothing happens. that would be so badddd lol
yeah that tends to happen when you remove characters from media. without characters its all just background. i guess movies set in scenic locations would still land as kinda nature docs but even then
it only happens with the simpsons
this same criticism could be applied to nearly any media ever.
it's just the simpsons. are you a troll?
Dragon's right, if you remove all the Simpsons characters from Death Note it hardly changes anything
Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.
Oh wow a piece of lgbt history..
(Sylvia speech (1:02-5:14) Controversial speech at June 24,1973 Gay Pride Rally at Washington Square Park NYC . Sylvia Rivera was introduced
since OP link is dead
new link here with transcript
[Transcript: An audio clip of Sylvia Rivera giving her speech to a crowd, who can be heard at the start before she begins her speech, sa
official anti terf post
Y’all Better Quiet Down, for anyone that wants it
I did that job once.
What are your pronouns and would you like to join my union
we stan Rose Tyler on 925 days left
So. For those of you who didn't pay attention to the details of the legal spat between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, allow me to give you some details of the finest legal comedy of a generation.
Krafton CEO looks at the hype surrounding Subnautica 2, goes over the contract between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, realizes he'll have to pay out bonuses and freaks out because shelling out those bonuses will make him look like a pushover.
CEO goes to his legal department, asks them to come up with a plan to weasel out of paying bonuses. Legal tells him the contract is iron-clad and to accept the loss.
CEO refuses to take the loss, asks ChatGPT for a plan. ChatGPT says the exact same thing the legal department did.
CEO demands a plan from ChatGPT, which dutifully spits out a plan at this point because clearly the CEO is a goddamn idiot.
CEO deletes the chat logs, failing to understand that 'delete' doesn't permanently remove things.
CEO follows plan, and is surprised when Unknown Worlds sues for breach of contract despite being told by both humans and an LLM that is exactly what would happen.
Court does not go well for Krafton's legal department. It comes out that after ignoring the sound legal advice of human beings, the CEO went to ChatGPT and asked for a plan. When asked for the logs by the court, Krafton's legal team states they were deleted, thus that it's simply herersay. Judge goes "Oh, that's okay, we'll have our IT folks recover them." Krafton's legal team is astounded that's even possible.
The chat logs are recovered. It comes out that even ChatGPT was in agreement with Krafton's legal department, and only spat out a plan after being asked a second time.
The judge, now thoroughly done with the stupidity of Krafton's CEO at this point, rules in favor of Unknown Worlds. Her ruling doesn't simply undo the scheme, but effectively leaves all control over Subnautica 2's development in the hands of Unknown Worlds, including the early access release date, reducing Krafton to just publishing out of contractual obligation. Krafton must also return all social media platforms for Unknown Worlds and Subnautica 2 to Unknown Worlds' control. Financial damages will be determined at a later date.
Krafton proceeds to violate the court order in less than 72 hours by trying to set an early access release date before returning Unknown Worlds' social media platforms.
Summary: In trying not to look like a pushover, Krafton's CEO now looks like a complete idiot who's going to have to fork over bonuses, plus court-mandated damages, plus whatever comes out of violating the court's orders. Krafton's legal department may as well come to court dressed as clowns after this. I suspect Unknown Worlds might buy the rights to Subnautica back after all this and either relegate Krafton to just publishing or find a different publisher for future games altogether.
An update:
Subnautica 2’s Legal Troubles End With Bonuses And CEO’s Exit
After a year of litigation that resulted in the firing and rehiring of Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill, the Korean publisher Krafton Inc. has agreed to pay the entire Subnautica 2 team bonuses in three annual installments.
According to a July 1 Bloomberg report, Krafton Inc. and Unknown Worlds Entertainment have reached a "legal settlement" with the Subnautica 2 studio's CEO Ted Gill and its co-founders. As part of the agreement, Gill has resigned, stating that the two companies–Krafton and Unknown Worlds–are searching for a new CEO outside the companies.
excellent news on 925 days left!
So. For those of you who didn't pay attention to the details of the legal spat between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, allow me to give you some details of the finest legal comedy of a generation.
Krafton CEO looks at the hype surrounding Subnautica 2, goes over the contract between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, realizes he'll have to pay out bonuses and freaks out because shelling out those bonuses will make him look like a pushover.
CEO goes to his legal department, asks them to come up with a plan to weasel out of paying bonuses. Legal tells him the contract is iron-clad and to accept the loss.
CEO refuses to take the loss, asks ChatGPT for a plan. ChatGPT says the exact same thing the legal department did.
CEO demands a plan from ChatGPT, which dutifully spits out a plan at this point because clearly the CEO is a goddamn idiot.
CEO deletes the chat logs, failing to understand that 'delete' doesn't permanently remove things.
CEO follows plan, and is surprised when Unknown Worlds sues for breach of contract despite being told by both humans and an LLM that is exactly what would happen.
Court does not go well for Krafton's legal department. It comes out that after ignoring the sound legal advice of human beings, the CEO went to ChatGPT and asked for a plan. When asked for the logs by the court, Krafton's legal team states they were deleted, thus that it's simply herersay. Judge goes "Oh, that's okay, we'll have our IT folks recover them." Krafton's legal team is astounded that's even possible.
The chat logs are recovered. It comes out that even ChatGPT was in agreement with Krafton's legal department, and only spat out a plan after being asked a second time.
The judge, now thoroughly done with the stupidity of Krafton's CEO at this point, rules in favor of Unknown Worlds. Her ruling doesn't simply undo the scheme, but effectively leaves all control over Subnautica 2's development in the hands of Unknown Worlds, including the early access release date, reducing Krafton to just publishing out of contractual obligation. Krafton must also return all social media platforms for Unknown Worlds and Subnautica 2 to Unknown Worlds' control. Financial damages will be determined at a later date.
Krafton proceeds to violate the court order in less than 72 hours by trying to set an early access release date before returning Unknown Worlds' social media platforms.
Summary: In trying not to look like a pushover, Krafton's CEO now looks like a complete idiot who's going to have to fork over bonuses, plus court-mandated damages, plus whatever comes out of violating the court's orders. Krafton's legal department may as well come to court dressed as clowns after this. I suspect Unknown Worlds might buy the rights to Subnautica back after all this and either relegate Krafton to just publishing or find a different publisher for future games altogether.
An update:
Subnautica 2’s Legal Troubles End With Bonuses And CEO’s Exit
After a year of litigation that resulted in the firing and rehiring of Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill, the Korean publisher Krafton Inc. has agreed to pay the entire Subnautica 2 team bonuses in three annual installments.
According to a July 1 Bloomberg report, Krafton Inc. and Unknown Worlds Entertainment have reached a "legal settlement" with the Subnautica 2 studio's CEO Ted Gill and its co-founders. As part of the agreement, Gill has resigned, stating that the two companies–Krafton and Unknown Worlds–are searching for a new CEO outside the companies.
excellent news on 925 days left!
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