theghostslim - The Lonely Poolshark’s Things

Largely abandoned yet again, just like Slim. Mostly just use it to post my more raw thoughts.

[cortexreaver]

🍋‍🟩hold up lime emoji ?when did this happen 🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩 this changes everything straight up🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩

[lacm-ac]

Mmmm lime

[wonderful-emoji]

If anyone is curious about the technically of this, I'm going to break it down in layman terms:

There's two ways Unicode can display emojis, the first is to put it in as a new Unicode symbol, and this pretty much takes the same amount of work and storage space as putting another letter in the Unicode system

Or they can just stick two emojis together with a third blank joining designation emoji (know as a Zero-width joiner or ZWJ) and have them display a third image when everything is correctly strung together, witch takes far less space in the Unicode system

One of the few times you can tell from a glance if an emoji is internally a ZWJ combo or not is if you are on a system that is not up to date on Unicode updates, where the new symbols will either display as a blank or X'ed out square (known informally as tofu), or as the internal ZWJ emoji combo depending on how it's in the system

The Lime emoji was from the 2023 Emoji 15.1 update, so any systems not up to date from before 2023 will display the ZWJ sequence of Lemon and Green instead of the lime emoji

[theghostslim]

hottest set of clothing ive ever seen is a sports bra and dolphin shorts and chucks

[theghostslim]

sometimes I get a nasty brain worm where I don’t think I have experienced enough pain to make good art. Or if I have experienced enough pain, I haven’t experienced the “right” pain and to that end, I’ll never make a good piece of art. I know it’s a brain worm and not real, but still, I feel it when I experience really good art.

[nohoperadio]

I said yep, what a concep, I could use a little fuel mysep

I said yup, what a concup, I could use a little fuel mysup

I said yeah, what a conceah, I could use a little fuel myseah

I said yes, what a conces, I could use a little fuel myses

[leofwines-deactivated20250831]

thos video is killinh me

[theghostslim]

call on meeeeeee baby

[packs-pngs]

[chainsaw-headache]

i love 'bumfuck' as an intensifier

Middle of bumfuck nowhere....... cus Yeah we're really lost... anal sex style 😞

[theghostslim]

if i was a girl, not many things would change honestly.

[angelicguy]

[miscellaneous-marios]

[wizardpig]

[ikurko]

last happy moments before the scary

[ikurko]

[opendirectories]

[jeffgerstmann]

[sebmal]

this is why he can only show up every 25 minutes (visitation rules)

[theghostslim]

The World As A Match

Strike it on the side of the box,

watch it burn

down.

Gracefully,

it is perfect,

An engine that

Chews the wood without

Mess, or fuss, or splinters.

Watch it burn

Down

To your fingertips.

Watch as the flame

Graces

Your fingernail, and

Blackens it.

Watch it,

You can’t stop,

You will watch,

Hypnotized,

As it burns.

I know I will,

I’ll numb the nip of the fire

With all the usuals.

And the wound won’t heal

But I won’t feel it,

And that’s all that matters right?

But a time fast approaches

Where I will smell my nails

And all I’ll smell is

The sulfur of match smoke.

[3liza]

i have got to get my father to sit down and focus and actually watch some portion of HLVRAI before he dies. im constantly haunted by the knowledge that all this incredibly innovative, completely grassroots improvisational theater--which is frankly some of the most cutting edge "new media" that currently exists and gets zero credit from academia or the larger art world for it because you have to be an exact 50/50 hybrid of annoying shakespeare college guy and annoying extremely online guy to understand what's even going on--is happening ON TWITCH for an audience of people who, while appreciative, are only experiencing it in the context of it being a "[a joke about a] video game stream". there should be regular columns in the New Yorker about stuff like Jerma's Dollhouse stream, one of the most well-known pieces of performance art in the classical sense that currently exists. it just bugs me. i dont know what to do about it. i used to be able to get paid to write really long articles about stuff like this in Kotaku and Wired etc but there's no readership for that either, and there wasn't then. no matter who im trying to explain how groundbreaking this stuff is to, they will need like a 30 minute preamble about either the world history of live theater traditions, or why the joke a gnome just said originated on the Something Awful forums in 2004 and why it matters.

of the two types of annoying guy you have to be to get this particular angle on this medium, the theater people are the ones who are going to get more out of it with much less explanation, but when you spec out of academia you lose touch with that peer group except for the other dilettantes, who are extremely few and far between. there's nothing anyone can do about this except vaguely plan on writing a book someday

[3liza]

for the first time ever in human history we are experiencing as an audience an improvised, live, ensemble theater production from the first person perspective of one of the actors. there should be a new paper about this on Academia.edu every week!!! its a big deal!!

[3liza]

me trying to explain to a theater person why someone is trying to distract Gordon and keep his field of view pointed a certain way while they delete the Lanky Kong prop they just spawned behind him by accident: its like that scene in A Night At The Opera where Harpo climbs the matte paintings during Il trovatore and drops the Potemkin(?) backdrop behind the Anvil Chorus

them: ohhh i get it. lmao

me trying to explain to the average twitch viewer why they keep calling the Vortigaunts "Vonneguts": so first up have you ever read "a book"?

them: no