#unhinged rants

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ Presidential speeches from the White House ain't what they used to be. This one should have been from the East Wing.

[bitchboyshakespeare]

I do love that we got a mostly-stage-accurate high quality video of ALW's Phantom of the Opera for the 25th Anniversary in 2011.

My teenage self clung onto that DVD for dear life, and somehow it kept the depression at bay for quite a while.

But 15 years later I'm watching it and wondering "Why is he so goddamn young?!"

Erik should be late 50's AT LEAST

Christine and Raoul are in their 20's yeah. Hadley Frasier played Raoul as a dick but at least he had the look right. Sierra Boggess was absolutely fantastic every time.

But I can't believe I fell for young guy rock star Ramin Karimloo. I mean I was only 16 at the time so I was the target demographic but still. HE WAS ONLY 33. NO.

[missthang4567]

whatever dojo cat said about noses

[tomorrowusa]

Because neither the Democratic Convention nor the virtual roll call had taken place before Biden's withdrawal, he was never the official Democratic nominee for 2024.

On the other hand, Trump IS the official GOP 2024 nominee as of last week's convention. That makes him the oldest person from any major US party to get nominated for president. And if he does get elected, he would be the close equivalent of Joe Biden's age as president during that term.

If any MAGA zombies have been telling you that Biden is too old, you can now officially switch from defense to offense. Kamala Harris is 18.3 years younger than Trump.

Republicans have been in deep denial about Trump having been born in 1946. His unhealthy diet and lifestyle don't do him any good.

His obvious dementia will only worsen.

Donald Trump Dementia Evidence 'Overwhelming,' Says Top Psychiatrist

Most of Trump's cult will vote for him no matter how unhinged and deranged he gets.

The only way to cancel out those votes for dementotarian Trump is to actively support Kamala Harris and not waste votes on impotent third parties which have no chance of winning.

[airanfadh]

The Algorithmic Sludge is Winning, Buy an MP3 PlayerListen. We’ve reached peak internet. My toaster is trying to sell me a subscription to bread, and my fridge just sent me a weekly screen-time report. If I have to look at another optimized feed curated by a machine trying to guess my emotional instability, I am going to walk into the ocean.The only solution? Strategic digital regression. We are bringing back devices that do one thing and do it with zero notifications. Here is why you need to go feral and buy a 2005 iPod Nano:Zero algorithms: You actually have to manually drag and drop files. It’s like digital farming. You own the MP3. Spotify can't delete it because of licensing issues.No doom scrolling potential: You can't scroll a clickwheel to see what your high school rival is doing. It just spins. Beautiful.Pure vibe: Clunky plastic, pixelated UI, and zero notifications from your boss. It's not a detox; it's a strike.Reject modernity, embrace the brick. Let us take back our brains one offline song at a time.

[shoot-u-full-of-luv]

im gonna be an eric singer whore for a second sorry not sorry

i wanna ride his face while he got that catman makeup on 🫣 green black white and red on my thighs WHOOOO-

[yyyyyyayy]

i HATE spam accou ts. spam the market . lower the housing market. i want my own fucking house. i want my own koi fish pond. thst would be so gwurly core.

[mythohumanism]

Ive Got some mario opinions

its actually reductive to view all mario enemies (or any franchise with iterative action) purely through the lens of play or theatre; what this motion towards theatricality is actually underlining is the memetic reinterpretive nature of these characters, as totems of meaning. NOT as fixed quantities with a single, true, underlying narrative we can cleanly uncover and then use as a map for decoding all depictions of the character, and then deeming non-canonical all depictions in conflict with this unnecessarily narrow vision.

I understand the impulse to view mario and othe franchises this way - not only is it simply fun to search for these 'clues' to underlying character, but it is also genuinely enlightening to view media in this way that implies a (single, identifiable, consistent) hidden truth exists that we, the elite fans, can uncover. But there is another profound joy in accepting the opposite - that there is no real single underlying universal truth for us to discover about our favorite mario characters, that they have no Soul. The real power, the actual root of this enjoyment, is the creative process that birthed these characters and worlds, and the people behind these labors.

This is not to say that there is never a case in which there are underlying truths, intentionally put by developers, that actually in fact do lead to an intended revelation. Nor is it to invalidate the joy of such endeavors - but instead I aim to dislodge the common claim packaged with these claims: A claim to objective authority, to the exclusion of other possible readings. Part of the fun of these readings is the lack of a single unique answer being 'objectively' correct. This is not even to say that there is no value in viewing mario( and other iterative) franchises as players taking a stage - in a very real way they are, props to tell a story. But we should not view them as such, but instead use theatre as a lens to approach a metaphorical perspective, not as literal truth.