[blackjame]

[loish]

A gift for Beanie, one of my incredible discord moderators! They requested something with critters and something spaced themed, so it naturally followed that I had to draw space raccoons.

[psychotic-gerard]

listening to a man break up with his partner on the train and the first sentence I heard was "I just don't appreciate you cheating on me six different times, once with my own father."

[noah-wyles]

[prinnay]

North Star - Polaris -

[spicynooobles]

Wow, so pretty 🤩

[keicrocker]

SE.01 EP.14 13

Swap AU by @silkoodles !

inspired by this post!

[vexonair]

Summer's Start

[spicynooobles]

*Deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!

[simkaye]

Uhh yeah we gotta double my hamster prescription or I’m gonna lose it

[steampunktendencies]

Old Pencil Sharpener in Action

[abz-j-harding]

God do I want one of these gorgeous machines.

[qsycomplainsalot]

those are so extra

[spicynooobles]

I would be breaking my pencil in class all the time to use one.

[goodlouse]

don’t forget your pills!

[lakevida]

nothing makes me feel more well adjusted than hearing about the problems that straight people in the periphery of my life are always having

[lakevida]

my aunt's new guy broke into my ex uncle's garage and filled his bowling balls with caulk

[mothric]

[stuckinapril]

Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

[stuckinapril]

She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

[mintedwitcher]

read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

[pocketss]

widehead

[spicynooobles]

Crowd control is stressful!

[demilypyro]

People act like I'm just being an asshole but man the whole reason I'm so anal about hating gambling mechanics is because I've been down that road and lost a ton of money on games I just stopped playing eventually anyway and it SUCKS and the more you learn about dark pattern design the more you realize that this entire corner of the game industry is just fully focused on screwing vulnerable people out of their money and it's just evil, plain and simple. What do you want from me?? To promote this shit like every other streamer after knowing all that??? I will NOT be complicit in this shit. I'm gonna talk about how bad it is!!! You think that makes me an asshole?????

[esoteric-merit]

one of my friends is a mobile game designer who's worked for big companies before.

One of the things she's told me she's proud of before, was a time when one of the (older) users of the game she was designing discussed her strategy of drinking extra water to wake up early enough to claim her dailies, and how proud she was that she made a game people liked that much.

Even looking her in the eye and asking "getting 60 year olds to disrupt their sleep schedule by pissing themselves makes you proud?" did not get her to hear herself talk.

I think a lot of people don't comprehend the evil of dark patterns. They handwave it all away by "it's personal decisions people make", even while they see the patterns of behaviour they create on the populace. They read falling into those patterns as focus and grindset, if anything. And for a good number of people, pay-to-win is a *positive* thing.

I think if I were tasked with coming up with a way to make a populace depressed, unhealthy, and insomniac, even without getting them to pay me, I'd be heading towards video games stuffed with dark patterns. And such a video game would also produce profit for me, as it happens.

[demilypyro]

I studied game design and nothing disillusioned me like this one time I did an internship at a mobile game company because it was so obvious that the team only cared about how to screw as many people out of their money as possible. The only feedback I ever got for my system designs was "okay but how can we make it more addictive?" or "how can we get them to spend?" and shit like that. Nobody there cared about the game being fun. In their minds, a "good" game was a profitable and addictive one. I haven't been able to see these games the same way ever since. It was one of the big reasons I quit being a game designer. Dark pattern design doesn't happen by accident. They know what they're doing. They want to fuck you over.

[feefal]

You died! Choose your next reincarnation.

Remember, amount of karma farmed during lifetime will vary depending on chosen form.

[feefal]

new options unlocked!! choose your time-loop purgatory

[meawbin]

Redraw old comic Fanbox | Weebly | Heylink | Etsy

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

my favorite thing right now is how mad the official french language people are that parts of african languages are getting mixed into french

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

a huge percentage of the world's french speakers are in africa, and language evolves, so there's a lot of african phrases and speech patterns being incoorperated into french. the french language academy is losing their shit because european french people pick up african french from social media and are ruining the fancy shmancy purity of the language. it's hilarious

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

the best part of this post is the french people responding with rants about how much they fucking loath l'académie française