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damseldove-deactivated20240910

RB if you want people to send you depraved DMs<333

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naughtyandnicerpmemes

Reblog if you're bored and you want anons.

Or non-anons. Whatever works for you!

baddyzarc

If you wanna know the state of Yugioh TCG collecting in the wake of Overframes in the core game…

baddyzarc

The situation is so funny man

Basically, Mr grifter announced that he might be getting into the collecting side of yugioh, which would lead to the scalping hell that now plagues the Pokémon and One Piece TCGs

As a joke, MBTYugioh gave them pointers on what to “invest in”, recommending some of the WORST shit products that this game released in the years

He then followed up with a tongue-in-cheek, clearly trolling video recommending shit like Legendary Duelists sets, Duelist of Deep and Synchro Storm, and the Platinum cards, and exclusive COINS before ending the video with “Don’t invest in yugioh. You will lose money due to this game’s reprint policies”

Like, it was very obvious for anyone with half-a-brain cell and is familiar with Yugioh that the video is a joke

BUT a bunch of scalping bots took the video at face value and bought out these doodoo, worthless products immediately after his fuckass video came out

Now they’re sitting on unsellable trash. 100% deserved, I hope everyone whose trying to grift this game like Pokémon loses their money

themainspoon

Yu-Gi-Oh fans really saw the scalpers coming and said "You've activated my trap card".

invinciblerodent

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

askrobouteguilliman40k

This meme ages like a fine wine every year that passes.

sunnylilpup

EMERGENCY PLS HELP!!!!!!!!

hi so I’m currently stranded and can’t get home!!! could anyone please please spare £10/£15 so I can get some form of taxi!! my ko-fi is here PayPal in dms. I’m sorry I’m just so stuck and scared

captorations

hi this is your reminder that andy weir, author of the martian and project hail mary, is a fucking idiot

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you're allowed to like whatever you want i guess, and it's cool if the movie adaptations suck way less. but seriously please be aware that this man is reciting classic anti-intellectual anti-literacy conservative talking points. like, literally including the old "star trek is too political" one. not to mention that he thinks it's possible to produce rhetorically null stories, which it isn't. worse, he thinks that's ideal. absolute disgrace to the profession of writing

durnesque-esque

Well this is a fucking disappointment.

But also... what do you mean you put no political or social commentary into your stories? Like, dude, have you read your own stuff? In the Martian, where the Chinese scientists understand that if they communicate directly with NASA to offer the Taiyang Shen, it is because they understand that if it goes through their government first, it will never happen. That is political and social commentary.

The negotiation of getting a Chinese astronaut on the next mission in return is political and social commentary.

There is explicit discussion in Project Hail Mary about how bad things will get on earth because the rich and powerful will horde food and resources and wars will be started over both. There is discussion of how the Saharan Desert will be paved to farm astrophage, but if the world survives this may give African nations the wealth and power that has long been stolen from them. That is social and political commentary.

None of this even gets into the layers of commentary in The Egg.

So either Andy Weir is an idiot who doesn't have the self-reflection to understand his own writing or someone else is writing what he's passing off as his own.

Bro, maybe you're not writing with an agenda to change somone's mind intentionally, but honestly if you were an ounce smarter, you'd see that what I guess you've accidentally?? managed to create and just shut up and ride of the wave of sci-fi hopecore: dreams of a world where global cooperation is possible.

That is political and social commentary and it's a good thing.

I guess 10,000 monkeys and a typewriter for Shakespeare or 1 Andy Weir to make 3 accidental hopecores?

iszyjfry

Love having consent to send mutuals nsfw content. Reblog if your mutuals have consent to send you nsfw content.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

huh. so i just found out "Torment Nexus" was invented for that one specific meme. i genuinely thought it was from an Orson Scott Welles novel. my ignorance is an unending source of surprise and delight

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

um. Orson Wells. H.G. Scott Welles. H. George Orson Orwell. Philip Bradbury. stop making me keep track of white men names

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

in my defense all of these are separate individuals famous within classic sci-fi circles:

H.G. Wells

George Orwell

(George) Orson Welles

Orson Scott Card

at some point this is not my burden

wizard-of-interesting-failure

the names of classic sci-fi authors appear to have amalgamated into a nexus of some kind. one that is tormenting you, perhaps.

lamignonette

thoms-music-and-misc

Rats

zandergb

astromechapunk

This is how it's done:

cilceon

And this is how you homage it:

everydayconman

Literally less than a year ago we were adding cool spins to it like “Sliding Up Tokyo Tower” how did we downgrade so hard?

crimsoncadmium

We even got live action slide

bellatrixmelody

The slide in the first post bothers the fuck out of me because he’s using his right leg to slide on the ground.

So, I ride a motorcycle and I know at least the theory of doing a power slide (still cool but you don’t slide nearly so much and you need a pretty light bike to do it most of the time). You have to lock the back wheel until your back wheel looses grip on the road and then turn sharply to the left. Rear wheel slides and the front wheel turns.

But how do you lock the back wheel you might ask? Well with your rear break of course.

WHICH IS UNIVERSALLY UNDER YOUR RIGHT FOOT! How the FUCK is he locking the back wheel, with his shifter on his left foot??? Not possible. The creators of Akira knew it, and so did everyone that homaged it. The post above gets it right even if he’s likely on a slider and being pulled back.

vespertinecat

This is why I love tumblr. Where else could I find gifs of back to back tribute references and a perfect explanation of why the above doesn't work and how you would need to do everything to ideally execute to move in question? Thank you for explaining, fellow tumblr friend.

recursivewitch

I've never read Homestuck but there's a type of media that I call "a Homestuck" and I think it's a useful categorization. The main criteria are:

long enough that the time investment is a serious barrier to entry

irrevocably changes your personality

brings something genuinely unique to the table. there is no real substitute for reading/playing/watching it in its entirety

Fate/Stay Night is a Homestuck. Worm is a Homestuck. When They Cry is a Homestuck.

Undertale has cultural impact similar to a Homestuck at first glance, but the fact that it's a pretty short and accessible game means that you don't get the particular mix of sunk cost fallacy and an intimate experience with a piece of media that results in you needing to connect with others who have already put in the time investment. You can buy your friends Undertale and expect them to play it if they're not too busy; telling a friend to read Homestuck is giving them a quest that, if accepted, will spark an odyssey. to read someone's Homestuck is an act of love without true equivalent.

i-draws-dinosaurs

Star Wars has three types of guy: Fump Geezgo from the Womflee system, Stabba Badguyman, and Chris

i-draws-dinosaurs

Happy May the 4th to this, somehow my most popular original post of all time! In celebration here's some more examples of the Guy Types:

Wam Lufba the Yuzzum, Morally Evil, and Wade

redstonedust

c'est la cucaracha........

eightstainedglass

Hehee reuploding because staff got to it last time~

You know you want some!! <333

whydoiexsistinthisplane

Hey. you. yes you. the follower that gets really nervous about potentially being seen as creepy for just sending nudes randomly. This is me, giving you 100% clear, full consent to send me anything you want. No jokes, no "haha i didn't mean it like that."

What i mean with this is if you consent to showing your parts, i consent to having them in my dms, where i will promptly drool over you because i am a whore.