#fucking nerds

[half-gobbled-piece-of-toast]

the gifted and talented program was the precursor for ap student humor it’s an evil pipeline

[academiccuntback]

i honestly think this is the closest we get to htdc phone sex. there's just too much cognitive dissonance involved in their arrangement rn. they can't reconcile where they are in their lives with being Together, as much as they want to. like in the phone call, mike is physically removed from his house, his current life when talking to will. which is the only reason he initiates the conversation that he really wants to have. meanwhile will is tied to his circumstance- being at work, his moral obligations prevent him from engaging in the conversation that mike (and him, really) really wants to have. just as they do in this arrangement. but they end up steering dangerously close regardless because they simply cannot help it

[omercifulheaves]

Jesus H. Christ, still seeing nerds throwing fits over Anita Sarkeesian in 2026.

For real, I don't think anything has laid bare what a bunch of thin skinned little punk asses gamers are more than the fact they saw a woman doing a bunch of basic, toothless Feminism 101 critiques of video games that never got deeper than "Gee, this Titty Ninja V game is kinda sexist!" or "what if we made a video game where the princess rescued herself!" and proceeded to have such an apocalyptic shit hemorrhage over it, they're still talking about a mediocre lib critic like she's The Goddamn Anti-Christ more than a decade later.

The irony is, and I've mentioned this before, if this bunch of babies hadn't gone on a ten year plus rage pissing about her, I don't think Sarkeesian would have been nearly as notable and do think her criticism would have gotten criticized way more. She's so clearly of that particular Modern Lib style of critic that wants all art to be A Manifesto They Agree With (shock of shocks, she loved Don't Look Up) instead of...you know, art made by people...that while not falling out of vogue has gotten more than it's share of pushback these past few years. But nope, she was the person who made all the shitty little gamer nerds Mad so therefore she must be Good and anyone who criticizes her or her takes are just chuds. (Which of course meant she didn't have to listen to criticism or grow as one.)

Her moment passed years ago you weirdos. Move on. You're reminding me of Olds I knew who still got worked up over Dennis Rodman in the the 2010s. Shit says more about you than anything.

(Ngl, would actually be interested in seeing actual good faith criticism of Sarkeesians work but I don't want to have to dig through all the fascist nerd bellowing to find it.)

[victusinveritas]

Ah yes, showing some disarmament like where in Reykjavik and it's 1986. Perfect when trying to find a date. (*It might be, depending on what your date is into.)

[postcardsfromheapside]

I'm seeing a pattern.

What's the trope where you meet a character and he's affable enough but kind of a giant dork and REALLY into his job, and he somehow ropes you into Doing Things For Him, and you're fine with it because it does also help the team/community in the end, but you're going about your business (and literally crushing on other characters in the meantime).

And then they do/give you something innocuous (and convenient to furthering plot or game mechanics) related to their Thing - that Thing they're really into. And BAM. Now they're The One.

Anyway.

[polkadockrock]

Modern dreams in an ancient land (SVSSS x Anthropocene Reviewed)

So basically just cumplane having/talking about modern shit in ancient China cause they were raised in a modern society and they shaped them to the bone, and for all human adaptiveness, you gotta miss shit you grew up with.

Xiang Fei and Shen Yuan go out on their travels during Shen Yuans widow arc and invent Scratch and Sniff Stickers, Dr Pepper (and other sodas), Modern guilty pleasure stuffed animals that they both claim they're way too old for and totally aren't for them, tiny air conditioners, board games from the modern world like Monopoly, probably somehow making a newsletter for them and the odd strangers they meet on their journeys cause "It's good to know what's happening out in the world", and contemplating dinosaurs, or the old convenience and inconvenience of the internet, or talking about their cities both where they were from and where they wanted to go, and everything that makes them 2 men from the 21 century, China.

Just two losers who Didn't Sign Up For This Shit losing themselves in nostalgia and getting to pretend that they're back home for a few weeks at a time, even though they have fully adapted to their new lives in PIDW. It's nice to reminisce with the only person in the world who can Get It™.

[holy-havoc]

Yeah. I got a book too.

It’s called the Kama Sutra.

And it has pictures.