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✨one morning i caught the sandman before it could depart ⏳

phenomenal gift by my partner @cringemoth of an encounter between the pilgrim in fragments and that mercurial thing which directs your dreams, nightmares and crusty morning eyes

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literally nothing and i genuinely mean absolutely nothing in this world quite encompasses corporate detachment from the consumer quite like peggle_2_ode_to_joy.gif

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upon its release to the xbox live arcade in 2009, peggle was THE top selling game for two solid weeks. within a month, more than 100,000 players were on the leaderboards. before it got to live arcade, it had been downloaded 50 million times.

and when it released for ios? holy fuck were they DROWNING in money. when they took a weekend to put the game on sale for a dollar, down from five, a couple months after release, they made as much in that one weekend as they did since its release. it was among the top paid apps for weeks.

with critics, peggle was among some of the top downloadable, mobile, and general best games of all time at the time of its release in 2007 and onwards, and it only shot up in popularity as they made it more accessible to more people. and this was in a time before candy crush.

the thing about simple addictive puzzle games is that they make you feel competent, confident, smart, and cool for being good at them. not everybody can learn how to aim in a shooter or the best strategy in an rpg. but anybodys grandmother or baby brother can play a simple puzzle game, and the nature of these games and the way they make you feel only makes you want to play more and more.

however very very fucking few people who play simple puzzle games that you can master on the toilet would be going to E3 in the early 2010s. remember in 2012 when every ~hardcore gamer~ would screech about ‘fake gamers’ who only play candy crush? thats what peggle was. it was THE crack mobile game from the pre-candycrush era.

no one who was excited about peggle was going to E3. the hundreds of thousands of people who played peggle were not the type of people who would consider going to (or even giving a shit about) E3.

but it sold like hot cakes, and candy crush was churning out content like a madman, and EA owned popcap now, so because the game sold amazingly, and because they wanted to keep cashing in on it, and because corporate drones who controlled the scripts didnt comprehend that their consumerbase isnt one homogeneous mass, they decided to announce peggle 2 at E3 2013.

but not just “oh by the way peggle 2”, no. peggle sold like skyrim, it sold like black ops, clearly they should be saving the best for last, they should announce it like it was the craziest most incredible announcement of the night!

thus:

but in all honesty it doesnt quite have the same impact without hearing ode to joy overtop of the deafening silence of the crowd. so heres a link too. timeless.

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syrnyj

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wherestoriescomefrom

why did you people come up with russian names for what is supposed to be a movie set in italy. what was the thought process here. why does she sound like she walked out of a tolstoy novel

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an insane response, but i can't fight this. carry on

wherestoriescomefrom

im being hunted for sport in the notes

transsexualgriffith

i love sibling estrangement as horror. Only one person in the entire world has been through what youve been through and they deny it . Awesome

seren-starlight

Unoriginal sin. Derivative sin

nanalineni

I love how varied and universally weird the circumstances for making lifelong friendships are. Here's this guy I accidentally messaged once and I could not imagine my life without them now. Here's this girl I was so scared of when I met her, I would kill for her and remind her to rest on the regular. Here's this other guy we have so much in common we used to joke we were the same person in different timelines. It took us years to meet in person and I attended his wedding. There are also people who entered my life in absolutely unremarkable ways but changed it forever for the better. It's wonderful how easy it is to find people to love.

nanalineni

This is the best post I have ever written, read the notes and be blessed by loving your friends magic

evilvillain123456789

a pit of dread forms in your stomach as you parse my "evil baby on board" decal and realize you have a moral duty to rear end my vehicle as hard as you can

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Claudio Bottero

transhuman-priestess

So I just saw a post about this and I don’t wanna put OP on blast, but the reason that “when are we going to leave” never gets you a straight answer is that most people (both autistic and allistic!) don’t enter a social event (i.e. a party or dinner) with a pre-arranged schedule.

It’s very much a “play it by ear” sort of thing. Yes, I understand that’s frustrating, but this is one of those things where the neurotypicals aren’t doing shit just to fuck with you, and you’re actually being kind of rude to expect people to structure their social time like that.

medievaljournalist

wait here while my manservant fetches the anti-elf rifle

autogynophelia

I've increasingly been encountering cis "allies" saying they're replacing "woman" in their vocabulary with "AFAB" to be more inclusive of transmascs, e.g. if they're talking about people who get sexually harassed by men. I used to think this was a well-meaning position born of ignorance, but I've discovered that you press them on whether they think transfems get sexually harassed by men, amazingly they will often admit that they know they do. You then ask them to reconsider why they refer to "AFABs", and they just repeat that they want to be inclusive of transmascs.

The only way their contradictory behaviour makes sense is if they understand that transfems are marginalised in much the same ways as cis women, but they just don't care about it. Their solidarity does not extend to us.

undeadtransfeminist

I get harassed for even wearing eyeliner outside and people are very comfortable commenting "that's a boy!" whenever I do ANYTHING to dress feminine. I've had male hawkers corner me in public to hit on me while trying to sell me their products while around my TME exes and nothing was done, not even from my partners at the time.

I get proselytized to, stared at, catcalled, pretty much every which way for the daring proposition of existing as a woman who has been through masculinizing puberty. These are not included or even considered when so called allies use agab language to exclude the experiences of trans women and transmisogyny because they don't view us as people.

#agab language #is a scourge