Corner Time With the Shoe

I make video games sometimes. But mostly I sit in a corner. 24, she/they, incredibly queer

[sparrowlucero]

ember island players' the boy in the iceberg is satirical anti war agitprop produced under the fire nation's most intense era of media censorship

[sparrowlucero]

the ember island players will be vindicated by history

[txttletale]

i really hate sensitivity advice in ttrpgs thats clearly being written for a table of cishet white abled men

[txttletale]

like okay i understand you are trying to stop grognard gary from making female players miserable with constant sexual assault threats and that's a well intentioned goal but have you accidentally written a 'safety tool' or 'gender in [setting]' subheader that stifles and silences female players who want to reflect on or explore a societal force present in every aspect of their life through their character and play? does your rule or declaration intended to make sure women are comfortable also allow men who are uncomfortable thinking about misogyny to tell them, with all the best liberal intentions, not to bring the vibe down? because frankly there are countless such cases and i find it really frustrating (& ofc the same is true wrt race, disability, sexuality, etc)

[completely-sane-scientist]

[demilypyro]

i love dell shoutout to dell

[dumgumgum]

she was my sister too

[twixie-forever]

i dont think Dess was leaving Kris a bloodied pulp by the roadside but the specific factor "'til you stopped lying" Noelle mentions implies a certain level of overkill

[dunmeshistash]

Izutsumi is aroace, you agree with me, happy pride.

[las-lus]

Watching the new Folding Ideas video and I can't stop thinking that Mr Beast is unsatisfied because he doesn't have a fandom. He is dying to understand where to throw money to make fandom happen. It gives me great pleasure to know that we hold the power to keep mr. Beast miserable

[robotlyra]

When Dan Olson said that Mr Beast's people asked him and a bunch of other youtubers "How do you create fandom", I experienced a moment of terror so visceral that my heart jumped into my throat. But luckily what followed was a thorough reassurance that he would never be able to understand the answer to that question.

The reason WHY Team Beast wants to "create fandom" is because they have an awareness that fandom is something that makes Number Go Up, and they want to have access that sort of loyalty and attention. But fandom isn't really something you create intentionally, it's more of a natural side effect of caring about something a lot, and going about the business of expressing how much you care, and finding community that cares in a similar way. But Mr Beast and his team do not actually care about anything at all, except Number Go Up. Everything Team Beast does is just a random exercise in throwing money at different ideas to see which makes Number Increase More.

Team Beast made chocolate bars because they know their audience of kids likes and buys candy, not because they liked candy or were interested in the process of making good candy. This is how they ended up making a chocolate bar that lacked the pre-sectioned bar shape that any other reputable candy maker has known and utilized for decades.

Team Beast made a reality show, because they know that reality shows are popular, and that Squid Game was a massive cross-cultural phenomenon, not because they care about reality shows, or are interested in telling stories about the limits of human cooperation and integrity in high stress, high rewards situations. This is how they ended up making a reality show with too many people to focus on any sort of interesting individual narratives, filled with elimination challenges that didn't work.

Team Beast is basically going down a checklist of "what activities that have the highest profits/highest level of public awareness associated with them" because they want that Simple Numerical Supremacy that comes from them, not because they care about the actual activities themselves. This also explains why Dan Olson was invited to Team Beast's studios to begin with. They probably only have a vague awareness of him as a guy on youtube with a million subscribers, and a 2 hour documentary about NFTs that is apocryphally regarded as the Film That Ended The Business. They don't actually care about what he or other youtubers consider important. They just want their fandoms.

[mistresssheo]

Tja

Found here 🦋

[translating-german-to-english]

Depending on context:

* well then.

* ain't nothing you can do about it.

* well how about that then.

* you brought that upon yourself dude.

* it is what it is.

* that was completely to be expected.

* told you so.

[translatingpoststogerman]

Je nach Kontext:

* tja.

* tja.

* tja.

* tja.

* tja.

* tja.

* tja.

[dearest-loveliest-elizabeth]

Worst pain

[tuneless]

Lecturing

A short comic about Noelle and Carol

[matriioshkaa]

such a nice young lady. sure hope nothing happens to her

[depsidase]

[headspace-hotel]

[katacala]

Something that gave H.P. Lovecraft nightmares is the work of my favorite artist. In "At the Mountains of Madness" he specifically mentions "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich."

This is what Roerich's paintings look like:

[chaifootsteps]

#hp lovecraft thought penguins were grotesque and horrifying#he was not a difficult man to frighten

[standupbard-deactivated20171201]

i don’t “follow” my favorite bands. i just get pleasantly surprised when i find out that they released an album 2 months ago.

[slightly-awkward-sunshine]

My stepdad is so fucking funny sometimes

[notbop]

in collapsing age civilization, nobody jumps for the bronze

[somie]

You should carry me next