Games and fun.

I mostly just lurk and repost cool stuff I read on civil rights blogs. Also I will probably talk a lot about games.

[unpretty]

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

[guyalice]

I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.

[froginakettle]

[hotcocoachia]

I fucking love him

[jaynavajasso]

i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it 

[iamtypinglike98madmen-deactivat]

He also jabs racists in the eye!

[tumblunni]

I love the justice grandpa of fists

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[thebois]

oooooommmYYYYYYYGOOOODDD

[giiiins-blog]

anyway i love this skin

[fallcaesar]

Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“MUST BRING PRESENTS TO GOOD CHILDREN”

“Yes good”

“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”

“Wait no”

“EAT THEM”

“sasha no”

[tolkientrash]

@burstofhope the Christmas tiger is watching

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

She is making a list

It is not easy with her paws but she is making it

[breelandwalker]

-immediately buys raw steaks for Santa Claws-

[cailleachwitch-blog]

Sasha is both Santa and Krampus

[pigeonstalking]

oh………. it’s the jólaköttur

[chonce]

#NotMyPresident

[thesylverlining]

choncegiving:

The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days.

What does this mean?

Right now, the presidential election results are only a PROJECTION of the election outcome. They are PRELIMINARY RESULTS. A candidate still needs to earn 270 electoral votes to win. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more than 50% of the voters wanted her for president. The electoral college shouldn’t guarantee an override of the public’s opinion– and it doesn’t have to.

There are 21 states that do NOT restrict which candidate the electors vote for. Out of these 21, Hillary lost the following:

As you can see, these states are worth 166 electoral votes. As it currently stands, Hillary Clinton is projected to receive 232 votes. Trump is projected to win 306. This means that 37 votes need to be taken away from Trump to bring him down to 269. Hillary Clinton needs 38 votes ADDED to win 270. These electoral voters can also abstain, which means that they can refuse to vote for either candidate. If 37 of the voters within these states abstain then no candidate will have reached the required 270. In this case, the vote would be taken to the House.

Trump won Pennsylvania, a state that typically votes blue, by less than 100,000 votes. While it is highly unlikely to get all 20 electoral voters to cross party lines and vote democrat, it also isn’t impossible to convince a few of them to be “faithless electors.” We only need to convince 38 out of the 166. That is 23%. There are SIXTEEN states we need to focus our attention on.

A move like this would be unprecedented. However, as we all saw on November 8th, odds don’t guarantee reality. Trump had a less than 20% chance of winning, yet given the circumstances, enough people came together and made it happen. We can make this happen. 

Ask yourself this: What do we have left to lose? We can stay complacent and accept that this country will be run by a racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, ablest bigot, or we can at least try. 

How?

SPREAD THE WORD. Trend #NotMyPresident to let people know that we do not accept being led by a man who does not care about our wellbeing. Email your professors, email the dean of your colleges. The last thing a university wants is negative press. Millenials can take a stand, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the only ones. Church-led events helped bring a lot of disillusioned voters to the polls. Spread the word in any way possible, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even in person. Stage a peaceful protest. Hand out flyers. Let the people around you know that you don’t accept this man as your leader when he won’t even accept you as a citizen with your designated rights.

These 166 people need to face the consequences of electing this man. 

Do this for the people who couldn’t vote. Do this for the people who live in the very real fear of being deported. Do this for the people who will have to face the rise in hate crimes. Do this for the people who have a very real possibility of losing their rights. Do this for the people who will no longer be able to afford necessities. 

[peaceuptoesdown]

@theminky – just gonna leave this right here for LJ……

Credit @thesanityclause

[halcyon-autumn]

@berniethewise

[gloucestertea-deactivated202406]

@31-radical

[meeshay]

@jessipalooza

[blazepress]

Family gathering.

[spiroandthelacktones]

MOOOOOM, AUNT CAROL IS HEEEEEERE

[mercenaryflower-deactivated2024]

Aunt Carol is fucking ripped.

[bugpicnic-deactivated20170417]

reblog if you love aunt carol

[saltymantears]

Look, Dragon Age Inquisition is great and all, but when are they going to implement a DLC where me, Yvette Montilyet, Cullen’s sister Mia and Leliana finally have enough time to spare to have a day off in Orlais where we gather valuable blackmail material on Cullen and Josephine and treat ourselves to anything that isnt nailed down because I’m basically the president of Thedas?

[saltymantears]

I get so irrationally upset when bad things happen to my friends and they don’t want to talk about it. Like it’s a totally valid desire but here I am like “I have literally no other helpful moves to make LET ME BE YOUR FEELINGS DUMPSTER.”

[saltymantears]

My show opens in two days but Im home sick today with probably the flu. I never go anywhere except rehearsals so where did I get sick from??

Having no life should protect me from these sorts of discomforts.

[saltymantears]

I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve watched Tiger and Bunny.

Literally every other anime I’ve ever seen in my life would have played panel one off as a homophobic joke normalizing the discomfort Seymour causes heterosexual men, but it doesn’t phase Kotetsu in the slightest. He trusts his friend, appreciates him, knows that this comment is coming from a place of concern and just laughs back in turn.

There should be more jokes where the heterosexual friend is just plain comfortable with their homosexual and bisexual friends. Why do I not see this more often?

[justonemango]

okay except Kotetsu isn’t heterosexual

[saltymantears]

I’ve gotten this comment from a lot of people so I just wanted to state for the record that in my own personal headcanon Kotetsu is bisexual, but this scene has a very different character depending on how you interpret his sexuality: Typically in media only heterosexuality is treated as normal, and all other preferences are treated as deviant. Saying that Kotetsu is bisexual and this is why he’s comfortable with Seymour doesn’t make either of them “normal” and it ignores any responsibility heterosexual people also have to be accepting of others. So even if Kotetsu is bisexual, what I’d really like is to see more heterosexual characters following his lead here.

[paxamericana]

[f1rstperson]

Glad to see my lifelong disinterest in golf is paying off

[princekarkat]

let me tell you about golf

i grew up in a little desert valley called Tucson, Arizona, where it only rains 2 inches a year on average. the majority of the city’s water is pumped from an underground aquifer, which took millions of years to fill. one of the biggest conservation efforts in our city was for water, naturally, and i spent a lot of time learning about low flow toilets and 5 minute showers. i learned that filling your sink basin and washing your dishes in that water is less costly than running the tap. i learned that it only takes 2 days without water on the desert for someone to die

the city was sinking as the aquifer drained. neighborhoods fell into flood zones that didnt exist 10 years ago

there’s a road called Golf Links in the city and it is lined with golf courses. miles of green grass where grass doesn’t grow, in a valley where it doesn’t rain. why? because the rich white retirees who moved there to stop the aching in their joints decided they should also get to play golf. meanwhile our public schools taught small children like me that taking long showers would kill the world

let the golf industry burn

[ralfmaximus]

There are 15,500+ golf courses in the United States alone. 

Each one consumes ~312,000 gallons of water per day.

That consumption is equivalent to 55+ million humans per day in the United States… roughly 1/6 the entire population.

We simply cannot sustain this frivolity, especially for something 99% of us will never use.

[zooophagous]

Destroy golf courses and plant wild grasses and butterfly bushes in their place.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This was literally the plot of an actual movie that got made though okay

there is legitimately a movie out there about people who want to destroy golf at all costs

[sanguineheavens]

The thing that really gets me is that this is another problem caused by globalizing something that started in a really specific place. Like, there are golf courses in Scotland that don’t water their grass and that are mostly composed of naturally occurring grasses and plants? Places where people have been playing golf for 500 years. And because it is always raining in Scotland, they’re relatively healthy and no one really complains? Of course, if you want to play the game somewhere that doesn’t have, on average, 250 days of rainfall a year, you have a problem. (Which isn’t to say there aren’t plenty of BAD golf courses here, too, but… Like, there are legitimately golf courses that are just “Some people made holes in a field. Balls were hit at them.  Nearby, other people admired nature.”) Golf is like a really early and abiding example of one of those super food crazes.  There was no problem with this thing existing until EVERYONE EVERYWHERE had to do it in defiance of logic and moderation.

[saltymantears]

Look, say what you will about Golf, but can we please talk about how we’re killing Crowfunding? There are MILLIONS of crows living below the poverty line in this country, and I for one think we need to get out of the private sector’s way and let them fund these young industrialists.

[left-reminders]

If you would go out of your way to argue how easy it is for capital to automate away jobs when labor costs become too high, then you should probably know that you’re giving all kinds of credibility to those of us who advocate fully-automated luxury communism. I mean, think about it: you’re arguing that so much of human labor ISN’T NECESSARY because said jobs can be done by machines, and yet you STILL want the bulk of humanity to pointlessly scrape by laboring for the capitalist class, receiving meager wages to buy the shit they helped generate in the first place. The above billboard is a THREAT. Let’s not mince words – that billboard is bourgeois propaganda designed to turn the working class against each other and against the broader goals of resource democratization. “If you fight for a basic livable wage, just know that you’re easily replaceable, peon!”

This is what leftists mean when they say that capitalism is an economic system filled to the brim with tensions and contradictions; it’s also what they mean when they say that capitalism inevitably produces its own gravediggers. Automation is one of those gravediggers, and it’s a major one at that. As more and more jobs become automated in the coming decades, the working class will face widespread dispossession, ramping up revolutionary class consciousness in the process. At that point, capitalism will either focus on generating more superfluous jobs for people to work or set about instituting a universal basic income – regardless, the point is to keep enough scraps flowing downward so that people don’t call for a broader system change. In this way, capitalism’s ruling class can maintain control over the wealth-producing means of production and imperialist capital accumulation can continue unrestrained.

For these reasons, “more jobs” and universal basic incomes are not enough. We need to democratize the broader social infrastructure and eliminate the profit system. If you recognize how possible it is to automate away human labor, then you should defenestrate yourself out of the Overton Window and use some political imagination – cut out the unnecessary jobs, automate all the labor you can, produce for human need rather than elite profit, and you end up with drastically reduced working hours and bountiful leisure time. This is the essence of fully-automated luxury communism – the natural conclusion of the conditions that capitalism set in motion.

Be wary of automation in the present climate, but always trace it back to the class struggle. Robots taking our jobs SHOULD be cause for celebration; why should we treat these potential liberators as harbingers of dispossession? Technological advancements are pushing us exponentially towards a de facto post-scarcity world, where everyone’s needs can be comfortably met alongside their desires for community and leisure and entertainment, and yet we’re held back by Empire’s insistence on keeping the means of production hoarded under the command of a superfluous ruling class. As long as we are divided into capitalists and workers, humanity will never know full liberation.

[thehikingastronomer]

TL;DR: automating jobs will eventually get rid of working for profit, cut down the class system, and give everybody time to focus on whatever they want to do.

[mysticalmoonstone-deactivated20]

Exactly, with automation will actually come more jobs and better paying jobs to manage those technologist. Technology always statistically creates more jobs than it destroys.

[left-reminders]

Okay but that’s also what we want to avoid. It’s not about resigning ourselves to HAVING to work a job just so we can access resources – it should be about determining what jobs are actually necessary for meeting people’s needs and for the maintenance of society, what jobs can be automated away, and how to properly transition towards a system that produces for need rather than for profit (and hopefully eventually reaching a point of abundant post-scarcity that money itself could be feasibly abolished from there), all accomplished by democratic control of the means of production and the infrastructure. I’m sick of this liberal discourse that keeps shifting all these radical developments in technology back towards the status quo, where the wealth-producing machines are still controlled by elites and where we have to just keep inventing new jobs for people to work so they can access resources. If feudalism couldn’t cope with the advancements in technology that eventually made feudal relations obsolete, then capitalism won’t be able to cope with the coming advancements in technology as well, try as it might – scarcity will have to be enforced (more so than it is now), more pointless jobs will be created, and politicians will opt for redistributive universal basic incomes in an attempt to stabilize the whole thing. We need to seize the opportunity to put the exponentially-increasing reach of technology to work for the benefit of humanity, not just for human benefit when it’s convenient to capitalists.

[saltymantears]

So this post reminded me of something from my childhood, and I couldn’t place what, until I remembered this joke from the Jetsons:

Now in the show this is obviously a statement about how easy Mr Jetson has it in the future’s workforce, but it more effectively highlights the absurdity of a capitalist system once technology has become able to automate entry-level labor: no one NEEDS Mr Jetson to do anything, but because his value in society is entirely based on income and thus employment, they need to FABRICATE a role for him to fill. In reality the only human necessary to keep the plant running is (maybe) Mr. Spacely, but goodness knows we can’t let EVERYONE enjoy an upper-middle class income in management, so they give him a bunch of useless peons to boss around all day.

The capitalist system the Jetsons live in finds THIS absurd future preferable to a system where everyone’s basic needs are met using the massive surplus generated by a fully automated workforce. The people who paid for the billboard in the original post above are even LESS sympathetic, as they’d apparently blame US for “making” them fire 90% of their employees in order to remain competitive. What a grand system, this capitalism.

[rein-hearts]

reblog if you love Reinhardt with all of your Reinheart

[saltymantears]

Look at what I got after three hours of failing to play a decent Reinhardt last night.

[saltymantears]

Every other Overwatch veteran on Gibralter map: "I am torn between feelings of nostalgia and intense regret, seeing this place again.”

Reinhardt: “I remember being posted here... it was good for my tan.”

[yagithegoat]

teahouse waiter