having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.
this is such a staggeringly catastrophic piece of news that i'm shocked it wasn't said by nintendo. congrats to sony for one-upping them in anti-consumer practices.
hi guys my home country was just hit by devastating earthquakes causing horrible building collapses in major cities. the government, police, and emergency forces have been completely absent for any and all rescue efforts. for days its been civilians digging their loved ones out of rubble. the government is now blocking access to certain collapse zones and halting aid efforts- so we are needing to work twice as hard and need even more resources since the govt is failing us so badly.
anything you have helps. Donation centers and benefits are cropping up around the world- i know NYC, DC, Chicago, Toronto and Miami and many others all have donation hubs and drives happening in the next few days. Physical donations are a great way to help and offers immediate and material support. Look into whats going on in a city near you!!!
If you can only contribute financially:
International Red Cross: Venezuela Earthquake Appeal
Sun Risas Foundation: On-the-ground rescue fund
If you speak Spanish, you can remotely volunteer as a language interpreter for non-spanish speaking-rescuers
Coordinación de intérpretes voluntarios para brigadas de rescate internacionales.
AND LASTLY If you happen to be a hands-on person who does well in emergency situations located in south america/willing to travel, we're needing people badly- look into how you can volunteer with an organization to get in and start helping from the ground. lots of rescue missions are dispatching from colombia right now.
still not too late to help: survivors can be found up to several weeks after the quakes & many survivors are left unhoused and injured in need of support. so please keep reblogging & donating & volunteering! it all helps
the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form
People sad about missing yuri day: depending on your time zone, you may not have! Yuri Day is June 25. Be sure to celebrate by (! main quest) reading yuri and (! side quest) kissing a girl
Was inspired by the wonderful post by @hailed-marys so me and @sam-i-am-27 got possessed by the demons and came out with this.
HC list under the cut
* Astrophage is more like a virus that either alters people, causing them to commit crimes or violent acts, or a power that supervillains are starting to use.
* Grace is still a middle school teacher who got bitten by the spider, obviously.
* Adrian is the one who stitched up the suit (the Aunt May of this universe).
* He has all the perks of a normal Spider-Man, but he's still Grace, so he's incredibly clumsy. He does have a super-strong spider sense, and that's what saves him 100% of the time, but he absolutely does not have the agility. When adrenaline kicks in, he can do anything, but otherwise he'll trip over the most ridiculous things.
* He was wearing his yellow raincoat the first time he saved someone, so now he wears it over his suit (along with his white Converse).
* The spider was discovered by SHIELD (which is undercover as a scientific research facility that Grace works for part-time). After the original test subjects (who were only able to survive the spider mutations if they possessed a specific gene) were killed in an attack, Eva delivered the spider to Grace so he could be bitten before other villains got their hands on that power. (My boy gets unwillingly turned into a savior in every universe.)
* Simon is still an ex-convict who, in exchange for his freedom, is asked by the evil company of the day to test a series of mines infected by what appears to be blood from a meteorite (which eventually turns out to be the symbiote Ellie!).
* At first, they wanted to kill each other, but they end up becoming besties.
But when I say the “wholesome and funny” YouTube short I have been handed of students surprise showing their teachers 10+ year old photos of themselves and most them were emo/goth in some way and every single one now has medium brown beach waves and is wearing head to toe beige and immediately screams and hides the photo like it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world is a hallmark of a deeply insidious tendency to associate socially acceptable WASPy aesthetics with maturity and responsibility and perpetuates the idea that everyone grows up, “gets right” and becomes the most digestible unobtrusive heterosexual I’m “taking it too seriously”
“It’s not that serious” oh but it issssss because every day we perpetuate the idea that non-conformity of any kind to the white straight middle class standard is inherently immature and gets “left behind” when someone becomes a socially acceptable adult
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