ObsidianCreates

Favored nickname is Sid! This is a real mish-mash blog, no theme to be seen lol. Any pronouns are good by me but I do like Xey/Xem and Xe/Xir the most lol. I mostly reblog and do fanfic, on here it's tagged "My Attempts At Fanfic" but I also have an AO3 under the same username. I also do makeup under a "Sid Does Makeup" tag. :D

[obsidiancreates]

Enjoy this picture of Pineapple

[assiraphales]

its always the tiny gay cowboy and his tiny gay roman boyfriend, never the bi cowboy and his bi cowboy/martial artist boyfriend. owen wilson didn’t play a fruity western boy TWICE to be disrespected like that 

[assiraphales]

no bc I’m being serious! we’ve been way too quiet about them for way too long!!!!!!

[assiraphales]

pls watch these (shanghai noon and shanghai knights) and give these romantic besties ur love! it’s literally a western romcom

[assiraphales]

valid valid valid valid

[rummigumi]

Hot take where Gotham's 'curse' is really just pollution and it's lingering effects because, yeah, people posioned for generations by lead, arsenic, etc. are more likely to be violent and aggressive (along with a whole slew of other health problems)

[saltedbruises]

"Ed, what the fuck are you doing?"

[spaceless-time]

i don't understand US tv ratings, uhhh why is Oswald allowed to call Fish explicitly a "bitch" when he's doing the secret sharing game with Maroni, but he's not allowed to fully say "fuck" for a funny bit in s5, like???

You can have violence (god this show is violent and gory when it wants to be) but having characters fully swear more than once is too much.

Actually Maroni also called Oz a "son of a bitch" in s1 as well so is it just "fuck" they have a problem with orrrr

Its episodes bounced around being 12/13+, 15+, and 18+ when i watched it on prime the first time which was very funny. No you can't watch this story arc, you're 15 and its episodes are rated 18 sorryyyy xD

[obsidiancreates]

Basically Fuck is considered The Biggest And Worst Of The Cuss Words to people making the raitings brvause it has a sexual connection and sex is considered more horrific and unacceptable than severe gorey violence. The only TV Station or Channel or whatever the fuck they'recalled, when those were more prominent than streaming services as in Gotham’s time, that really allows characters to say Fuck freely is like HBO and I guess FX. Kike, Bitch is considered aort of a Mild Teenage Cuss in terms of Show Rating Standards, Shit is pushing it, Fuck is flat-out Only If You're A Grown Adult Preferably In Your 40's.

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

[deramin2]

I hope Rian Johnson gets to make as many Benoit Blanc movies as there are Agatha Christie adaptations and more. I hope Daniel Craig gets to play the dapper, enigmatic, theater gay detective Benoit Blanc until he physically can't act anymore. And I hope that role far overshadows playing James Bond for years as his artistic legacy.

Johnson is the first writer in a long time to understand that the the serial detective archetype is a trickster spirit who takes power from the violently corrupt, and gives it to a common person who has passed his tests to prove they're good of heart and would use those resources to improve the world.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[audarcy]

Really glad randall xkcd made that "experts often misjudge the average layperson's knowledge of their field" comic bc my prior touchstone for easily conveying the same idea to people was this other xkcd

and now i no longer have to confuse people by saying shit like "i think we're having a joe biden mayonnaise moment here"

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASE ADDED!

"I think we're having a Joe Biden mayonnaise moment here." [For use when saying something common to you but baffling to anyone outside of your area of expertise.]

[kosmogrl]

well yes!

[teaboot]

I’m sorry, you don’t know WHY??

[howtotrainyourpotato]

this tag is too glorious not to include

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASES ADDED!

"Alliance to destroy Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick"

"Shalt I procure thee a list milord"

[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[maidthings]

girls are asking me to "touch the demon inside of them." chill I haven't even had breakfast yet

[digi-log-conversation]

girls are asking me to "touch the brea st

[maidthings]

Unsentence mix my post at once foul harlot.

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASE ADDED!

"Unsentence mix my post at once foul harlot."

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[pirateprincessjess]

The term Micro-transaction such is bullshit.

If I go spend 20 dollars at a restaurant we wouldn’t call it a micro-transaction, but if I spent the same amount of money in a video game then it is a micro-transaction?

It’s a bullshit term to try and normalize nickel and dimming people

[ohnoitstbskyen]

It's such a weird relic, that term. If I recall correctly, it originated with independent creators attempting to figure out monetization schemes that would work for small websites. Scott McCloud used to propose this idea as a way to fund webcomics outside of the old systems of syndication or advertising revenue. Webcomic artists could sell each page of their comic for a fee as low as a couple of cents, and make a profit on sheer volume.

Then they made their way to video games. And it used to be that they presented a reasonably comprehensible bargain:

You get to play a full-featured videogame for free, in return for which the game will occasionally advertise a premium cosmetic or unlock of some kind, for prices like $.99 or a couple of dollars. This was considered slightly annoying, especially in the mobile gaming space, but the trade-off was clear. Free game, paid optional content for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

The absolute maximal price you'd pay for a League of Legends skin was about $30, and those skins were considered an absolutely outrageous expense for totally dedicated League of Legends lifers, and were expected to be the absolute peak of technical possible quality. And those were still mocked as ridiculous expenses for weirdos, the sort of thing that no normal or average player should ever be expected to blow money on.

Bethesda was mocked for MONTHS for trying to sell $2.50 horse armor cosmetics in Oblivion. Microtransactions? In a premium product? In a sixty dollar game? Absolutely unacceptable! That was a breaking of the bargain!

But Bethesda's transgression was the thin end of a wedge. More and more of those post-launch monetizations started creeping into premium products, and by sheer erosion, by sheer slow grinding normalization, they started to multiply and the prices started to creep up and up and up, and day 1 DLC became normal, and ultimate and premium editions and super ultimate exclusive digital deluxe collector's editions and battle passes and lootboxes and... yeah.

It used to be a... not amazing, but at least a reasonably fair bargain. A transparent bargain. You get to play a game for free, and the price you pay instead is the soft pressure of microtransactions—actually micro transactions—being advertised to you.

But the line has to go up. The number needs to get bigger. The center could not hold.

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[kereeachan]

Another thing that contributed to this was "announcing DLC before the game is out" used to be SUPER enraging to people, since it almost always meant to them that you INTENTIONALLY carved something out of the base game to sell to them separately for extra money. Now Launch Day DLC is ubiquitous, when it previous provoked nothing but outrage. Because people still bought it anyway, so the companies decided it was ok.

[hotvampireadjacent]

https://twitter.com/birdtickler/status/1552657242909904897?s=21&t=q4JEDIALmV-cAjcoEOypdw

[littlemisspipebomb]

ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn't realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The funniest part is that the inspector was watching the whole time, and once the ball stopped he left without saying anything. Park management just shut it down then and there.

[baronfulmen]

"The ball cleared a small hill, briefly going airborne, then zipped right across Route 94, the two-lane road splitting the park. Cars honked and slammed on their brakes. If there had been opposing traffic, Frank would have become part of a real-life game of Pong, volleying from one bumper to another.

Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.

Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.

We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."

I don't know that this beats the teeth story, but it's pretty great.

[rutobuka2]

they're composing songs before travelling to The Shire! 🎼

[deandros]

Im bawling