On Grasswatching

My tumblr, because other people had tumblrs that I wanted to follow.

[satelliteduster]

i can’t get over the fact that if you were to have more than two arms you’d need more than two pectoral muscles to accommodate them

can’t make this shit up folks

[bastardbisexual]

[yousoseelie]

Counterargument, sweet back muscles

[cromodinamica]

* OH SHIT

[weiwei-uplink]

i am. very normal. yes. very. definitely not gripping my arm so hard it’s about to draw blood

[slipshodsliver]

@demilypyro

[bogleech]

I'm glad shyguys, snifits, bob ombs, pokeys and ninjis endured but it's sad the original main characters of doki doki panic were buried and forgotten

If there's anything too stereotypical about their designs it can't be anything that hard to tweak, and how many games ever had a mom and dad adventuring together?? Adventuring together with their son and his girlfriend, too?! That's SO wholesome?!! This should have kept evolving as a series alongside Mario. They should make a new massive 3d one, and then we could see Wart again.

[slipshodsliver]

From what I understand, those characters don't belong to Nintendo. They were licensed from Fuji Television, who wanted a tie-in game for their Dream Factory event. So presumably once the event was done Fuji TV didn't feel the need to use the characters further.

[demilypyro]

i'm happy if in a day i do one chore, a single social thing, and my job

[slipshodsliver]

It would be funny if one day they just gave every meat-source Pokemon Filet Away. Replace the potential questions of eating Pokemon with Pokemon just walking around with meat skeleton bodies.

[demilypyro]

if I'm the 1% then things truly are in shambles

[demilypyro]

hrm. I suppose so..... but Talia Bhatt is still here, right? and Penny Snapcube? Abigail Philosophytube?

[slipshodsliver]

These three?

[slipshodsliver]

I used to be mp122984. I picked that name in computer class because I was told to choose something easy to remember for an email. I changed it since for obvious reasons. But I kind of need it for this.

To everyone who ever let me into their lives.

I'm sorry.

I get the hypocrisy of reaching out, knowing now that my reach is only choking vine and poisoned thorn, and in hindsight, it probably has been for years. You'd think an apology would simply hurt, that reminding the people I hurt that I existed would hurt them again. I can’t argue against that. All I can say is that I'm selfish. That the containment has broken.

There hasn't been much good about me to share. I didn't learn to care about people or extrinsic motivation until it was far too late. So I rewarded the people who showed me kindness with vented sorrow and self-loathing. I was and continue to be selfish and demanding unless I clamp down on myself. So many people showed me so much kindness and gave me so many chances, and I pissed them away. I'm sorry. I pray that whatever injuries I've inflicted and inflict on you have healed and that you are in a better place now. On the one hand, it's deeply narcissistic to suppose that karma itself inflicted pain against people for knowing me, despite the appearance of that pattern. But it gives me hope that things are better for those who escaped.

I don't want to say self-fulfilling prophecy. It's not self-fulfilling when something, when someone is inherently toxic in the ways I have been. I call it full disclosure, but I guess there's not much need for that either these days.

I don't know where to go from here. Whatever I have left rots because I have nothing left to grow it with. I can't reach out anymore to form anything new because, as I said, choking vine and poisoned thorn. I write ugly stories in part because it's hard to imagine people staying around the true me for long unless coercion is involved (and partly because my fetishes honestly do reflect badly on me as a person). I mask contentment in discord groups so I don't spew my own bile again, and even then, I'm not always good at it. To those I have shown hypocritical impatience, I'm sorry.

I did this. Not "autism" or "adhd" or whatever are actual problems other people have. I drove almost everyone away, and now almost no one is left to hear this. But I say it because even now I'm selfish enough to think it matters.

I'm sorry.

[prokopetz]

Top 5 innovative new games for Q1 2025

Roguelike deckbuilder

Roguelike deckbuilder

Roguelike deckbuilder with tower defence elements

Tactical roguelike deckbuilder, whatever that means

Roguelike deckbuilder

[prokopetz]

@jb-artist-wonders replied:

….Decklike Roguebuilder?

Closely related to the roguedeck likebuilder and the roguebuild deckliker, one presumes.

[weasel-words]

Pictured: Roguebuild Deckliker

[slipshodsliver]

Clearly this is a Deckbuild Rogueliker.

[vamptits]

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

[halberdbooks]

Yeah

[demilypyro]

"Out of nowhere" DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM

[slipshodsliver]

Personally I was very happy to learn about the comic from Demily's post. Thank you!

[prokopetz]

I think my favourite subtle joke in Slay the Princess is how the Voice of the Smitten loudly insists they're all about pure devotion and courtly love, then in all of their spotlight chapters the Princess has visibly bigger boobs. Like, we see you, buddy.

[slipshodsliver]

From "The Fury of A Shattered Mirror":

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Trivial: Success] - If you were to look up the word 'Princess' in a dictionary, this is the image that would appear next to it, minus the chain.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Challenging: Success] - ...Are her tits bigger?

THE NARRATOR - Oh, for the love of -

VOICE OF THE HERO - Is that really what we're gonna be focusing on, here?

VOLITION - Oh my *god*, please don't get into this now --

VOICE OF THE SMITTEN - Now hold on just a second - while I certainly understand the visage of our beloved to be absolutely captivating, that is no way to speak about a fine lady such as herself!

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - No, all of you shut the *fuck* up. This is literally my *JOB*, and I'm gonna fucking do it, all of you pansy asses be damned.

This is what you notice when you look at her: her breasts are *bigger* than last time. Eyes, Special-Eyes, back me up on this one.

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Medium: Success] - ...I wasn't going to say anything. But yes, you think so.

VISUAL CALCULUS [Challenging: Failure] - It could just be the dress, pushing them up, but you can't be sure from this distance.

[irrevocablecondition]

💙 USA 💙

national suicide prevention

national domestic violence hotline

national sexual abuse hotline

trans lifeline and resources

💙INTERNATIONAL💙

list of suicide hotlines by country

domestic violence hotlines and resources by country

sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country

international trans resources

[slipshodsliver]

Is there a point to asking if anyone is left out there if you have nothing of worth to say to those who would answer?

[catgurltreats]

The Dark Game Awards. We have categories

Biggest day 1 patch

This probably could have been a movie

Proof that indie games aren't inherently more artistic

Most playable asset flip

Most gambling addicts created

[deepdoughbeast]

~ Most obvious DLC that shouldn't have been DLC

~ Most layoffs after game succeeded

~ Most crunchtimed game development

~ Shortest Game to Remaster of Game cycle

[slipshodsliver]

~ Most Minimalist Viable Product ~ In Memoriam: Games that have both premiered and been canceled since the last Dark Game Awards. ~ Best "Failed to Meet Company Expectations" Game ~ Cookie-Cutter Game Genre of the Year

[prokopetz]

Trapped in an endless cycle of resolving to write your own fanfic about your excruciatingly specific kink because nobody else fucking is, only to discover each time the work is complete that, in the process of writing it, it's become so familiar to you that you can't jerk off to it.

[slipshodsliver]

(And because it's excruciatingly specific, no one else does either.)

[prokopetz]

Ways your fortified points-of-light fantasy city with no discernible agricultural base supports itself that aren't "they eat the monsters":

There's no farmland spreading below the city's mountain fastness because all of the crops are above. Most of the mountain's surface area below the permanent snowline is taken up by a series of colossal hydroponic terraces fed by seasonal meltwater from the snow pack above. (Don't ask who built the terraces.)

The city's famed heaven-piercing towers are aviaries for millions upon untold millions of fruit and seed eating birds, which forage the surrounding countryside by day and roost there at night; their meat and eggs form the community's staple diet. In order to fend off ecological depletion, crack teams of combat-trained wilderness maintenance experts venture forth daily, escorting great cartloads of birdshit on targeted fertilising missions (though in truth they hardly need their swords, as the smell keeps the monsters at bay).

Those weird caverns that seem to be present under every random shed and outhouse are all connected. That's why the giant mutant rats in the basement of the local inn are such a big deal – they're not just annoying the guests, they're also obstructing the community's principal trade route!

For Reasons, the city's population is only about ten percent of its carrying capacity. The city's interior green spaces are presently sufficient for food production, and its citizens take turns dressing up as soldiers and manning the walls once a week to create the illusion of a robust military presence. Unfortunately, the ruse can't last forever, as they lack the manpower to maintain their crumbling infrastructure, nor will they be able to defend themselves when – not if, but when – the neighbouring city-states figure it out.

There's actually plenty of conventional farmland; it's just that the entire campaign takes place south of the city, and the farms are all to the north. Why don't the farms expand southward to claim the clearly arable land? Well, there's a funny story about that...

[slipshodsliver]

Marcille, Izutsumi, Senshi, Chilchuck, and Laios.

[peoplegettingkindamadatfood]

[bogleech]

I thought this was a big barbeque pork rib but it's a "pizza?!"

[slipshodsliver]

Apparently. from: https://americadomani.com/red-strips-are-rhode-islands-answer-to-pizza/ "There’s a secret pizza style found only in Rhode Island. Known as a pizza strip, red strip, or bakery pizza, this hyper-local flatbread pizza leads to quite the controversy since it’s topped with nothing but a thick layer of tomato sauce. That’s right—a pizza made without any cheese.  

The cheese-less pizza looks a bit naked when compared to nearby New Haven-style pies. The dough is thicker than New Haven and New York pizzas, but somewhat thinner than New York Sicilian slices. And if the lack of cheese wasn't too surprising, the way the strips are served still might be: pizza strips are meant to be eaten cold. 

The sheets of dough are baked up and topped with sauce before slicing into rectangles. But this simplicity is exactly why it was popular. Since it didn't have cheese, the pizza strips could be stored at room temperature making them readily available as an all-day snack. "

[prokopetz]

I'm not saying Canadian truth-in-advertising laws are perfect, but I just got a promotional email with five separate footnoted disclaimers in the space of as many sentences, and it's kind of fun to see exactly how they plan to screw you over clearly outlined in bulleted list format.

[esoteric-merit]

I still get business-to-business emails for a certain industry, and I often get both the American-directed and Canadian-directed emails. Now, truth in advertising doesn't exactly apply to B2B advertising, but it did change what precedents were set with relation to fraud. And now and again, you do get two wildly different emails, mostly of the variety where some claims just . . . don't appear in the Canadian version of the email. Rows missing off comparison tables and the like. My holy grail, should I ever receive it, will be when the Canadian version simply makes no claims whatsoever.

[prokopetz]

I think my favourite example that I've encountered of promotional claims varying by jurisdiction is a breakfast cereal where the front of the American packaging says it contains 22 essential vitamins and minerals, but the front of the Canadian packaging for the exact same cereal with the exact same listed ingredients only says it contains 9 essential vitamins and minerals.

[mapswithoutwyoming]

I'd be willing to bet it has something to do with specific requirements that need to be satisfied for "contains X" claims that are stricter or more well-defined in Canada but I like to imagine that 13 vitamins and minerals are essential in America but optional bonus vitamins and minerals in Canada

[nowhereman313]

The hard truth here is that those vitamins and minerals are included in the American cereal, but unfortunately the Canadian market is rife with microtransactions and Day-One DLC.

[prokopetz]

I'm very carefully not allowing myself to think about how you'd actually implement microtransactions for breakfast cereal, because if I do I'll be thinking about it for days.

[slipshodsliver]

Breakfast cereal is a classic Minimum Viable Product. Everything else - Milk, fruit, berries, etc., - is the dlc.