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YOU ARE THE REASON
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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(Chanting) ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient c
CAN WE STILL EAT THE FUCKING BOG BUTTER?
Fellas we’ve got ourselves 2 outta 3 ingredience for a legendary Grilled Cheese
Grilled cheese!!!!
HELL YEA BAYBEE WE DONE IT !! GOD HERSELF GONNA GRILL US A CHEESE
Tonight we dine like kings
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Absolutely no one should join this website now it’s just a playground for those of us who started when we were 13 and put in the work to have a giant network of weirdos …. everyone else you didn’t have the foresight
i feel like theres a thousand ways this could be a seinfeld subplot
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i love these questions okay
1. what colors are in your room?
2. who was your favorite school teacher?
3. what are some passions of yours?
4. when you drink coffee, do you like it black or with cream and sugar?
5. are you self-conscious about anything? if so, what?
6. do you have any tips for self-love?
7. do you have any stuffed animals? Do you name them?
8. do you like drawing or painting more?
9. how do you sleep?
10. what are some things that always make you smile?
11. living in the city, mountains, small town, or out in the middle of nowhere?
12. what's your dream house?
13. how many pets do you wish to have?
14. have you ever dyed your hair? do you want to? what color?
15. what's your opinion on keeping a diary?
16. what's your opinion on keeping an art journal?
17. any art tips?
18. talk about a moment where time stopped
19. do you keep playlists for your music?
20. is there anyone out there that you trust with your life?
21. are you your number one priority?
22. do you always type correctly or do you make millions of typos?
23. recommend some music!!
24. are your nails perfectly painted, chipped, or plain?
25. do you believe in wishing on a shooting star?
26. did you see the eclipse? describe it!!
27. tell us what you love about nature
28. who are you? describe yourself!
29. what type of music do you like, and why?
30. what's your favorite clothing store? why do you love it so much?
31. thrift stores or name brand stores?
32. do you like wearing your s.o clothes?
33. when did you start tumblr? why did you decide to?
34. what's your face care routine?
35. freckles or dimples?
36. name something you think should be banned from the universe
37. tell us something you did as a kid that you loved
38. mom or dad?
39. do you buy expensive things just for the aesthetic or do you actually use everything you buy?
40. tell us about something you're strongly opinionated about
41. do you take peoples advice or do you have to figure things out yourself?
42. bra or no bra?
43. would you rather be cute or comfy?
44. tell us about a moment in your life where everything went just perfect
45. do you believe in anything? aliens? god? bigfoot?
46. how much water do you drink a day?
47. how do you feel about your natural hair?
48. what does the sky look like right now? clear? cloudy? pink? blue? rainy?
49. would you be a prince or a king? princess or a queen?
50. tell us about your favorite outfit!
51. name a few things you love about yourself
52. are you open-minded?
53. do you judge? could someone come to you in any situation they're in and you not judge them?
54. do you like planning ahead?
55. tell us how you feel about school
56. talk about your first pet
57. chocolate or strawberry milk?
58. were you/are you in a fandom? if so, what?
59. spotify, pandora, or itunes?
60. favorite disney princess movie?
61. favorite disney movie
62. what's a subject that you think people don't talk about enough?
63. how long does it take you to let your phone update?
64. describe the fifth picture on your phone!
65. favorite movie and why?
66. do you watch studio ghibli? what's the first one you saw? what's your favorite one?
67. you're home alone. describe how the setting is. music? what kind of music? tv on? what show?
68. how often do you say "i love you"?
69. do you have any weird things you obsess over?
70. do you like being single or do you wish you had a partner?
71. what's the last drink you had?
72. talk about the easiest person to talk to
73. give us some of your favorite blogs!
74. if you could have one wish, what would it be?
75. do you sing in the shower?
76. how often do you shave? or do you wax? or do you not shave?
77. tell us about a habit you wish you could stop
78. do you listen to your own advice?
79. do you love yourself? if not, are you trying to?
80. tell us about your favorite halloween!! what did you dress up as? did you get a lot of candy?
81. first memory that pops in your head, talk about it.
82. how are you? what are you feeling? how has your week gone?
83. rant.
84. do you worry about something a lot? if so, what?
85. do you think long distance works?
86. would you date someone younger than you? older than you?
87. name some people you'd love to meet
88. what were some things you were scared of as a kid?
89. tell us about your favorite birthday
90. how is high school?
91. tell us the worst pick-up line you've ever heard
92. every been groped or catcalled? how'd it make you feel? what did you do?
93. opinion of feminism?
94. tell us about a time you got embarrassed
95. ever had a pregnancy scare? tell us about it!
96. tell us about your best friend
97. what's your opinion on planning your life out?
98. describe what you think afterlife is like
99. talking on the phone or texting?
100. how do you feel about the way most teachers treat students?
101. what's a word you use more than others?
me whenever a song I like comes on.
I have a client who communicates exclusively via Microsoft Word.
If she has something to tell me, I’ll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That’s where she writes her message.
Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does so via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.
But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL (“W… W… W… dot…”) and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.
I was so fascinated I didn’t even say anything.
man it’s amazing how microsoft managed to completely fuck themselves out of the best position they could possibly have been in in the gaming industry
like, back in 2008, “Xbox” was synonymous with “video games.” you didn’t say “wanna come over and play video games,” you said “wanna come over and play xbox”
then the xbone incident happened and that just fuckin’ flew out the window. like, almost overnight all of their brand recognition and loyalty just dropped. it’s wild.
tbh that’s more a reflection on the consumers than anything
video games is a business where most of the base will ditch you the moment one thing doesn’t happen one minute after it’s said it was supposed to be done
companies may fuck up, but there’s really no loyalty or general logic anymore. it’s just “what’s the most perfect thing I can get at this moment in time” and “if it isn’t 110% perfect, fuck it all”
I feel like you’re underestimating the power of console brand loyalty, as well as how severely Microsoft fucked up with the announcement and launch of the Xbox One. (If anything is a powerful testament to the power of brand loyalty, for instance, it’s the never ending Nintendo apologia even during the low days of the WiiU.)
Deep brand loyalty has been ingrained into videogame culture since the days of the SNES and the Genesis. An entire generation of marketing was built on taking potshots across the road at the other company, trying to make them look bad while making yourself look cool. Things got a bit muddied when the aborted Nintendo+Sony deal resulted in Sony entering the console market on their own in earnest, but the folding of Sega and Nintendo’s refusal to stop doing their own thing (the graphical prowess of the Gamecube was kneecapped by their insistence on using weird proprietary discs based on mini-DVDs) meant that we eventually wound up once again with a heated two-horse race between Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s new Xbox. PS2 had the library advantage, but Xbox had superior hardware and much better online support, not to mention Halo.
The tension between the two only grew stronger in the following generation, where Sony fell into the same trap that Nintendo did (weird proprietary hardware in the form of the Cell Processor that wound up scaring developers away) and lost ground to the Xbox 360, with Nintendo not even pretending to compete on account of going for the grandma audience with the Wii. This left the core console market as a two-sided affair, which is the perfect recipe for an “us versus them” brand war. The Blu-Ray/HD-DVD format war also factored into a strengthening of the battle lines, as did the general perceived demographics of the consoles. The PS3 was the Japanese anime game device, whereas the Xbox 360 was the American multiplayer shooter platform. You either picked one or the other, and brand loyalty shitposting hit an all-time high, with arguments about consoles exploding or having no games on them.
As much as I love the PS3, there’s no denying that the Xbox 360 was the clear winner in the North American market. The only reasons the PS3 didn’t crash and burn with its disastrous price and lack of library were because it got Metal Gear Solid 4 and because the early Xbox 360s had a catastrophic overheat failure rate, which made the expensive PS3 a slightly more appealing option once word of the overheats got out. By the time Microsoft ironed out the hardware problems, the PS3 had finally gotten more games on it, but it still wasn’t enough to defeat the 360 in terms of sheer popularity. 360 was easier to develop for and had the killer app of Halo 3, and the rest is history.
The Kinect is partially to blame for Xbox’s downfall, but not just for existing. The Kinect circa Xbox 360 wasn’t a massive success, but neither was the PS3′s Move controller+EyeToy setup. It was a case of both companies experimenting with motion controls after the Wii struck gold, but doing it too little and too late. Where the problems hit was when Kinect was included as a mandatory part of the Xbox One. In theory this was a good idea for developers since they could count on the Kinect being part of every unit and thus develop for it more confidently, but this backfired due to the Kinect itself being unpopular with the Xbox’s core demographic and inflating the price of the Xbox One, making it $100 more expensive than it would be without. On its own, this would have been an awkward handicap, but not insurmountable. The biggest shot in the foot for Microsoft was that they paired it with absolutely anti-consumer policies.
When the Xbox One was announced, the plan was that it had to be always-online to work, and wouldn’t support used games. Always online is a tall order for some customers (especially those with data caps), and always online with a mandatory camera+microphone device is extra skeezy. The used-games lockout was also very anti-consumer, since it would also potentially prevent you from sharing games with your friends. The real kicker though was when consumers asked about an offline option for the Xbox One, they were told that Microsoft already had a product for people who couldn’t have a constant internet connection: The Xbox 360. They essentially told all their customers to fuck off and stick with the old hardware if they didn’t want to be constantly online. The fact that marketing focused more on TV apps, sports, and media box stuff instead of gaming only further seemed to tell the core gaming audience to piss off.
The sum of all this is that Microsoft was announcing a console that was more expensive than it needed to be to accommodate a peripheral that the core audience didn’t want, all the while seeming to actively antagonize the core gaming audience who would buy it in the first place. That’s enough to give people pause about where their loyalties lie.
The final nail in the coffin was Sony’s response to Microsoft’s tone-deaf announcement. Having been humbled down from their high-horse during the PS3 days and eager to regain ground, the PS4′s announcement was pretty much a direct “take that” at Microsoft. Their console was announced at a price $100 below the Xbox One with no mandatory motion bullshit, and their presentation on how to share games on the PS4 was a simple 3 second demonstration of physically passing the disc from one person to another. There was no used games lockout, no always online bullshit, and no wasting time on sports and TV to the detriment of games. Hardware wasn’t a limitation either, since both the PS4 and Xbox One were based on x86 PC architecture and had more or less comparable specs. Microsoft couldn’t even rely on Halo to move consoles because the IP got handed over to 343 Industries, who proceeded to shit on the lore and alienate Halo fans. It could also be argued that the popularity of multiplayer shooters had given way to what we now know as the Soulsborne genre, and PS4 had Bloodborne as its killer app for added incentive.
As one might expect, the combined effect of Microsoft pushing their audience away and Sony eagerly pulling them in resulted in many people flipping to PS4, leaving Xbox One in the dust. While Microsoft eventually realized the error of their ways and tried to reverse course by axing the Kinect and disabling always-online via a patch (ironic considering you need internet to download a patch in the first place), the damage had already been done and they lost loads of market share.
To add insult to injury, Microsoft since then seems to have been intent on digging their grave even further. While Halo has lost the draw it used to have, Microsoft still had some tantalizing exclusives up its sleeve, such as the Remake and Remaster of the cult hit Phantom Dust, Crackdown 3, Cuphead, and the Platinum-developed Scalebound. Microsoft evidently decided this gave them too much of a chance to recover, so they cancelled the Phantom Dust Remake after sabotaging it with changing goalposts (reports say they cancelled it BEFORE announcing it publicly, which is extra baffling), released the Remaster for free on Windows 10 (probably to get people to upgrade to Windows 10, which was facing its own consumer crisis), released Cuphead on Steam instead of as an Xbox exclusive after a long status of being MIA and presumed cancelled, left Crackdown 3 also MIA, and most terrible of all cancelled Scalebound and ended their partnership with Platinum only to later announce it was un-cancelled and being developed internally by what we can only assume is a much less capable mercenary crew of devs frankensteining together the existing assets into some kind of shambling mess.
The Xbox One’s downfall isn’t just consumers being fickle, impatient, or impossible to please. This is quite possibly an example of full on corporate suicide, where a company completely out of touch with what their core demographic wants proceeds to push that demographic away, and burn any possible bridges back for good measure.
This is an amazing in-depth look at the dive that Microsoft has taken over the past few years, but what baffles me the most (in the best way, I assure you), is the fact that this was pulling the receipts on everything Microsoft fucked up on, to prove the last guy wrong, in a very well-structured and down-to-earth manner that engaged me. Moontouched-moogle just shot out an essay on a whim whereas I can’t do that with a week’s worth of planning.
10 Reasons Why Deep Thinkers Have A Difficult Time Falling In Love
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Believe it or not deep thinkers rationalize their feelings. They don’t let themselves feel without analyzing every potential action. And sometimes they don’t let themselves even feel something sincere because they don’t want to hurt the ones they love. They’re idealists at heart and extremely intelligent and highly intuitive people that are difficult to decipher.
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