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PlayStation Bad

In just the past two months, Sony has:

Suggested the PS6 *may* cost more than $1000 at launch

Announced the end of all physical PS game releases

While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever

Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types

Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind

Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.

PlayStation does not deserve your patronage any longer. The PS6 must fail. Leave them behind.

ETA: Regarding that first bullet? A Sony spokesperson was asked about reports indicating increasing cost means that the PS6 will logically cost $1000 or more. He simply shrugged it off by saying that Sony can't be expected to eat the rising cost of components. So that wasn't strictly a confirmation, in reality. It was more of a "yeah, that'd be fine if that's the case."

rampaging-robin

I imagine little Knight's scream sounds a lot like the Hollow Knight's, but it's hard to put that into onomatopoeia

fourraccoonsinacoat

I love so much that Arthur's F&F class is a paladin and that it isn't even up for debate.

Arthur is the sort of character who fights because he thinks he has to, not because he wants to. He wants to protect the people he cares about, and so much of his dialogue refrences building places where people can feel at peace—the big country house, the distillery, talking about riding horses/kaithe with Drifter. This man dreams of setting down his sword, picking up an apron, and mashing grains.

Because what Arthur really is, is a shield—someone who puts himself between danger and those who need defending.

rikmach

I dunno if it’s that clear cut- a fighter could meet all those qualifications, especially if they specced into defensive fighting.

kavdragun

Beach Dragon Girl

Water Dragon lady lounging at the beach, enjoyin’ the summertime !

stahsm

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

thatisuseful

Damn, that's useful

fluidstatick

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

watsdaughter

tags by @gallusrostromegalus

awakefor48hours

Legal Sites To Watch Anime Because I Hate CrunchyRoll

Since i hate crunchyroll and a lot of alternative means sites are getting shut down, i'm deciding to share a list of completely legal sites to watch anime (among other shows). i also want to make this clear, this list is NOT a wink, wink, type of list. these are 100% legal, no nonsense attached.

YouTube

Yep, I'm starting off with YouTube because there's a lot of good channels out there that simply have anime available to watch from their distributors. I will say first of all, some of these channels are region locked so unless you live in Asia, I would say you should consider looking into getting a VPN. With that out the way, the channels I use are:

It's Anime powered by REMOW - Their selection includes Kill Blue, Watanare, My Deer Friend Nokotan, Tougen Anki, Hell Teacher, and more.

Muse Asia - A bit of a disclaimer, a lot of Muse Asia's selection is geolocked, so once again, if you don't live in Asia, I recommend getting a VPN. With that out of the way, Muse Asia does have Spy x Family, Frieren, Assassination Classroom, Attack On Titan, That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, DanDaDan, The Devil Is A Part-Timer, Cells At Work, and many more. Currently, there is a limited run of the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood series so if you want to rewatch it, now's your chance.

(I'm gonna be completely honest with you. If you don't live in Asia and you're paying for any streaming service mostly to watch anime, I recommend putting that money towards a VPN instead because look at that selection).

Tubi

I'm bringing up Tubi again because it's great and I love it. For those who don't know, Tubi is a free to use streaming service, and by free to use, I mean 100% free to use, you don't even need to sign up to use it.

The unfortunate parts about Tubi is that it's region locked to only the US and, like other free streaming platforms, Tubi does have ads, they gotta keep their servers up somehow. But it's always worth looking into an ad blocker like uBlock and as usual, a VPN.

Tubi has a really good anime selection. Dare I say better than Netflix. They have Watanare, InuYasha, Ranma 1/2, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon The First Movie, and more.

CineHD

If you're not looking to get a VPN then I'm first going to recommend CineHD. CineHD is really easy to use and has access to a lot of different shows and movies around the world and therefore, anime.

It's really easy to use, just type in the search bar what you're looking for and you should see it (legally). Be that Call of the Night, Gachiakuta, DanDaDan, Dorohedoro, hell even Invincible.

Amasian TV

Next on this list is Amasian TV and, simialr to CineHD, this is a site that allows you to stream movies and tv shows but it's all from Asia, which does include anime among K-dramas and donghua if you're interested in that.

I will say, (when it comes to anime) this isn't as extensive as the other sites but it's still better than nothing and who knows, maybe you'll find something else that's not anime that peaks your interest

that's the list. once again, everything here is 1000% legal. you're not taking money away from anyone and since these are legal, you don't have to worry about them suddenly getting taken down.

cheeseanonioncrisps

Metahuman with super healing powers whose entire job is that once a week they go to a nearby hospital and are put into a medically induced coma for 24 hours while all their organs and blood are harvested, and kept there until they've healed up again.

They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that.

No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.

Every so often the Heroes council will release an official report to the public, and there'll be another bunch of news articles wondering how some unknown super calling themselves 'Meat Factory' somehow consistently holds the record for most lives saved across the city.

cheeseanonioncrisps

It is essential to my vision that they are not at all sanctimonious about this.

Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'.

Part of their employment contract is that they get served the same post-operation vanilla ice cream that they normally hand out on the childrens' ward. Also a sticker. Their overnight bag is covered in stickers.

shinyhappygoth

Okay, Meat Factory is awesome and hilarious, but if they're being harvested for and regenerating absolutely everything, may I suggest an alternative super name: Theseus.

loth-caatgirl

That's the name the hospital has on record for Meat Factory, because hospital administration refused to go forward putting that on their paperwork

rikmach

And yet “Meat Factory” met their standards.

artkett1412

Mad Mew Mew for a friend of mine

fongus-the-ninth

Likely one of the funniest things we will get from the extremely late-to-the-party among us show

rikmach

Fuck, man, he sure is.

carbomcoco

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

carbomcoco

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

aphony-cree

people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited

entity56

"Don't eat all of that sugary food..."

"...You'll gain weight" 🚫

Wrong

Body negative

You need way more calories than a slice of cake to gain even one pound

"...You'll get sick" ✔

Correct

Sugar is good but if you eat too much you get stummy ache :(

Better when eaten in moderation anyway

Prioritizes listening to your body

"...Without me" 👀

Secret third option?

Encourages community

Get sick with someone you love

World's best bonding activity

evilwizard

just a heads up. im gonna do a big curse soon

evilwizard

okay so honestly i wasn’t expecting they’d be able to hide the body for this long

evilwizard

LINDSEY GRAHAM ?

rikmach

Missed. Still, not a bad outcome.

brainstatic

One thing I’m still pissed at Bernie Sanders about is turning a generation against the Democratic Party. Every piece of social progress in the last 80 years, from Social Security to Medicaid to Medicare to integration to the Civil Rights Act to Title IX to Roe v. Wade to labor rights to environmental protections to public health protections to Obamacare to Obergefell, all of it directly or indirectly powered by the engine of change that is the Democratic Party. And then Sanders comes and says this whole apparatus, which he had no hand in building, is corrupt and needs to be completely replaced. Now we have countless young people who think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the same partly because they were told that an engine of change and an anchor of stagnation and oppression are equally bad because they were fed the lie that no one in the Democratic Party does anything to improve their lives.

nyxelestia

Nothing makes me more embarrassed about my age or generation than BernieOrBust/StillJill/NeverHillary supporters who are basically doing the GOP’s work for them and refuse to acknowledge it. As much as I hate the ageist bullshit I see Baby Boomers come up with, I can see why they think so many millenials need to get their head out of the clouds or don’t know how the real world works when I see the way people my age talk about politics. Like, I know it’s bullshit and I still don’t blame baby boomers for getting mad that young people think they know everything. Because fun story: my university campus is very liberal and very politically active, and during the last quarter there most students strongly supported Bernie Sanders…except for most of us in or connected to the Political Science Department (so Poli Sci majors, International Relations majors, certain other ‘bureaucratic’ majors, etc.) We also loved Bernie, but we all pretty bluntly said we were voting for Hillary and thought she’d be the best President. Most of us were pretty blunt about how “as much as we love Bernie’s message of change, we think Hillary can actually accomplish more of it in the real world”. We were basing our decision on our studies of politics, of what kinds of change have and have not worked in history and why. This support for Hillary, even with our love of Bernie, came from a place of deep understanding of how politics work, of why certain policies or political goals fail, and what various political leaders’ real powers and challenges are. We were called “over-educated elites” because of this.

maddie-2022

It’s worth noting that much of our greatest progressive reforms came from LBJ, very much a political insider, and a guy who was kind of slimy in his personal life. He was not a soaring idealist.

And some of the other progressive greats? JFK, FDR, and Teddy Roosevelt all came from long-established political dynasties

I supported Bernie in 2016 (although I did vote for Hillary in the general, and have voted Democrat every two years since), but in hindsight, I think you’re right, attacking the system is not the best move to get real reform done. H. Clinton probably would have done a good job

prismatic-bell

And let’s be real: many of them were assholes. JFK was a serial cheater. FDR–who anyone on this blog for more than five minutes can tell you I love for his social policies–was antisemitic and didn’t challenge racial prejudices that blocked many Black citizens from accessing those wonderful social policies. Teddy Roosevelt was an ardent supporter of, and participant in, American imperialism. LBJ used to talk about his dick to staffers. This is not uncommon, because in spite of the many jokes, politicians are people.

Change does not come from perfect individuals.

Bernie did so much damage.

fairvilejen

Nixon, fucking Nixon, signed the core of the ecologic protection laws.

crinkledmap

I don’t have a problem voting for “political insiders” because *they freaking know how the sausage is made.* I want a goddamned professional in the job. Wanting an “outsider” strikes me like saying, “I don’t want a surgeon that went to some hoity-toity university and is friends with the the department head! I want some guy who learned how to remove appendixes by pulling himself by his bootstraps and learning by trial and error!”