Magic: The Anti-Swag

He/Him. Feminist. I stream relatively often, usually Overwatch or Magic: The Gathering. Background done by Crazedarcanist, who is one of my best friends.

[sparkonoid]

Working on a terrarium (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buz_7GLhgg5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kh4hb1bdvbe

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

Every single one of these headlines sure is something

[dunmertitty]

this is one of mine

[downwithneocolonialism]

[mckitterick]

Updates:

“Where Are They Now? A Year Later, Mixed Fortunes For Panama Papers Line-Up.”

“Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption, was killed in a car bomb.”

[tiddiebaby-deactivated20210816]

i will never be over this

[garrettauthor]

This made me so fucking angry I have to inflict it on all of you.

[thyrell]

what’s the punchline here

[thyrell]

wait

[thyrell]

[gahdamnpunk]

“I hate the Police” 💀💀

[sam-keeper]

So can we talk about the absolutely stunning duplicity going on here?

[lettucekitty]

…that’s cheating!

[arokanjitatsumi-deactivated2014]

HOLY SHIT

[fandomsandfeminism]

That is some DELIBERATELY EVIL data representation. Where is the super villain that designed this fucking graph?

[bogleech]

“Okay murders spiked by like well over 1000% but if we turn the graph THIS way, it’s like they went DOWN! HOORAYYYY!!!”

[nautilusopus]

i’m gonna use my hacking powers to do an all pyjama run in pokemon y

[nautilusopus]

Mission parameters set.

Fuck that noise.

YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM

[nautilusopus]

God this is gonna suck when I get to Frost Cavern. 

Still holding on tight to that 3DS I don’t have and couldn’t figure out how to get back. Our mom’s probably holding it hostage.

Haha I’m never going back in there in case the game notices I’m not wearing the default outfit and forces me into actual clothes again. 

[nautilusopus]

Oh hey, do you want to see how it resolved the issue of not having a full render model?

The short answer is it didn’t.

[nautilusopus]

Every now and then notes for this float past my dash and I’m forcibly reminded that I had to stop because I got trapped behind Nurse Joy’s counter and couldn’t figure out how to leave the Pokémon Center because the camera clipped through the floor into PokéHell.

[dabuttershutter]

wh

who’s this..?

[nautilusopus]

don’t even worry about it he’s fine

it’s fine

[unclefather]

[maloql-deactivated20190131]

[glumshoe]

Shoutout to the person who once messaged me “do you support maps” and kindly did not screenshot my answer and add it to a callout post when I said something like “oh yeah, I appreciate cartography”.

[aunclesquishy]

#It also stands for Multi Animator Project and yes people did harass animators over this confusion

yikes

[glumshoe]

who is responsible for picking this terrible acronym???

[glumshoe]

anyway I think people should stop saying “MAPs” and just say “pedophiles” because “MAPs” is stupid and confusing and unnecessary, and that’s what I have to say on the matter

[sparkonoid]

MAPS is also the multidisciplinary association for psychedelic studies

[juxtp0se]

did U GUYS KNOW, that the way stores get the balloons off of the ceiling is with ANOTHER balloon, w tape on the top??? and they just dont cut the string so it’s like super long and u gotta aim it right n reel it in. i just found that out today when i DID IT and it’s been the best working day of my life i had a blast blowing up balloons and fetching some off the ceiling. i had so much power? and NO ONE ELSE in my department likes that job so now it’s MY job when need be

[goddamnshinyrock]

omg so I work at a museum and one of our buildings has a) very high ceilings and b) a bizarrely sensitive alarm system that will go off if anything touches the ceiling. Because of this, helium balloons are considered public enemy #1 and are strictly forbidden from entering the museum. But just in case an illicit balloon is successfully smuggled in, the museum has acquired a fucking b.b. gun for the express purpose of shooting down rogue balloons.

[fer8girl]

lawful good vs chaotic good

[nyanguardparty]

chaotic evil

[hausmensch]

Oh, your movie has representation? Does it have gay, existentialist krill? Hmm????

[hausmensch]

PLAYED BY BRAD PITT AND MATT DAMON?????????????

[wrook]

[softypyro]

[harmlesslyobsessed]

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

okay i just had a bad epiphany but corporate interest’s influence on the internet is going to become so much stronger now that generations that are internet naturalized have grown up and starting working as “social media consultants”. advertising is going to become so much more subtle, manipulate your behavior to a greater extent, and completely pervade every aspect of our lives the more we rely on the internet for everything from entertainment to social validation. 

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

what im saying is its scary that corporate twitter accounts are getting good at twitter. to have the same avenue a human would to express themself. its like, an extreme anthromorphism of a brand, and that brand representing a corporate interest, and successfully passing itself off as a sentient entity on twitter, thats really weird to me.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

like this is so fucked up. it doesnt immediately read as an advertisement, conceptually it executes the levels of irony and deconstruction that usually make for successful memes in this genre or whatever. its almost subverting itself, but ultimately it still succeeds as an advertisement. it makes me sick. for every misfire of corporations trying to relate (pepsi protest commercial), theres another company getting better at it

[radailurophiles]

okay but like my thing about this is… who is actually eating at these places because shit like this? yeah it’s funny but i never go to wendy’s because a meme, if i go to wendy’s it’s because i want a gross burger and a frosty, same with taco bell and mcdonald’s and wherever the fuck.

i really think that you’re blowing this out of proportion and having very little faith in people’s ability to decide what they want for themselves. it’s just not that deep.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

It’s not about the effectiveness of the ads in question, but their complete omnipresence in every aspect and moment of life, and how bizarre and sophisticated the mechanations of advertising have become. If people don’t call attention to these things, they become normal.

[sausaged-rat]

The effectiveness of marketing isnt one-to-one, like, “ad says burger is good, I think burger is good, I eat burger.” That was 50 years ago. Y'all, since then these multi-million dollar corporations have been hiring psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists to study how best to get under consumer skin and theyve figured out it’s not about making you WANT a burger,

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

(hey also if you want dozens of terrifying examples of what I mean, just type ‘brand identity schema’ into Google like I just did and take a gander at all those scholarly articles discussing how best to acquire consumers, like we’re a fucking commodity)

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

one time i said i didn’t like the wendys twitter and got called classist for hating retail employees 

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

install ublock origin. on mobile, block every promoted tweet you see. don’t let them convince you that this shit is normal.

[lostinspaceandmeaning]

[momworries]

Yo how is it that these porn bots are not blurred or even censored … but everyone else is🤔

[goldnpoc]

plot twist: the porn bots are the staff

[raeazure]

the porn was coming from inside the house

[beyonceremix-deactivated2020050]

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]