Okay it's kind of funny that the media company with the biggest reputation for aggressively defending its copyrighted works is now going to actively sabotage any further attempts by the company to make these characters unique and worth paying money to see

Hey remember when certain left-ish pundits on here spent days indignantly insisting that the noble US Troops would never follow illegal orders?

People got really upset at that one article earlier this year that was critical of the "cozy game" genre. Anyway, here's a Steam reviewer arguing that seeing a Muslim goes against the purpose of a cozy game

There's still time for GenAI to take the crown, but as of right now, the "gig economy" apps are the most evil Silicon Valley "innovations" in existence. Constantly squeezing customers and drivers in such an opaque way as to drive each group to blame the other instead of the SV shitheads themselves

Apparently the Bills stock their coaches' box with Moxie soda. That must be their secret

Spain aired a split-screen showing scenes of destruction in Gaza alongside Israel’s Eurovision performance, underscoring why the Spanish broadcaster withdrew after the competition refused to allow a vote on excluding Israel. Video: Trita Parsi via X (X: @tparsi, @tparsi.bsky.social)

this has become a very important video to me

My shortform algorithms are about as insulated from right wing nonsense as the companies will allow, but I keep getting surprised by accounts that don't usually dabble in this stuff posting about these theories. This type of intrigue is right up the alley of the know-nothing portion of the maga tent

This is basically how I've been attempting to use my depression against my anxiety recently

It'd be a little easier to make money off these apps if I didn't have to spend like an hour every day on the phone with support to prevent them from nuking my metrics over errors that are 100% their fault. It's hard to describe the rage and humiliation that comes from working for a fucking app

Had a delivery earlier today to a house with two big beautiful dogs and two sweet pretty kitties. Feeling blessed

Well well well, though the battlefield has changed and the reaper’s cold blade has taken for me, it would seem that the fly has stumbled once again into my web. Struggle all you like, list off the many JRPGs you’ve played, it matters not, you merely bind yourself in my silk all the more.

Remember, poor people are to blame for losing our homes and families for "not living within our means," but once you make 6 figures you are entitled to live in the wealthiest neighborhoods with the finest cars and private schools, and if you don't have much left over it's society's fault

Started watching The Chair Company, and already feel like I'm going to need to re-watch. So many densely-packed scenes, where you miss two jokes while reeling from the first one you see

Strong floor, no ceiling, strong walls, no windows

There's a point with some of these "cancelled" people where continuing to avoid them becomes less about what they did (I watch/listen to all sorts of media created by monstrous people, we all have our own lines) and more about this constant lecturing about how mean and unfair we're all being to them

Caught in a depression/shame loop today. It's so goddamn frustrating being like this

Started watching "Carol & The End of the World" and I don't think I've ever related more to a protagonist in my life

unbelievable behavior from everyone involved here - Nuzzi for doing catch and kill, Lizza for sitting on this shit so he can sell newsletter subscriptions, RFK for existing

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the subsequent apologetics of it from people I used to respect, forced me to rethink my stance on certain things and gave me more respect for those who could condemn an imperial invasion plainly. A lot of that respect has been stripped away in recent weeks

I think what's freaking me out the most about the holidays this year is that I don't think there's anyone left in my family who isn't sick of my shit

lmao

I just discovered a game show I would dominate.

These past few days have really really sucked. Last holiday season kicked off me fucking up bad enough to lose everything I'd built, again, and now I'm entering this holiday season still not having recovered from the last one

From ages 4, 8, and 12 respectively:

Not to say they aren't trying, of course: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/d...

As long as I've been in the workforce, driving people's food to them has always been an avenue for people who are generally unemployable elsewhere

Girls night!!! #deer 🦌

Maybe I should try self-medicating ADHD with coffee, does that work at all

Every couple weeks I check around for free/sliding-scale psychiatrists in my region and hit the wave of hopelessness when I can't find anything. Need to climb out of the pit before I can get a ladder that will get me out of the pit

Anyone remember that cease fire? "Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"

Ritalin used to be OTC? And I can't even afford to see a psychiatrist who may or may not believe me wanting that class of drug is just me being a lazy degenerate who doesn't "deserve" them or whatever

Compelling argument for detournement here.

Today was fuckin rough. It's really tough to toe that line with my family between being open with them about what's going on with me and not wanting to scare the shit out of them and/or have them institutionalize me

If you were to write a satire about the American Christianity-themed lifestyle brand and who it serves, the David Brooks conversion story would be considered too heavy-handed and on-the-nose

Checking in on MechaHitler

This guy Christopher Svochak travels the country harassing Muslims for content, and stormed a University of South Florida student prayer group this week. USF is refusing to comment or offer anything in the way of support (CW Islamophobic harassment) www.instagram.com/msa.usf/p/DR...

It's so funny that one of the main techniques used by 988 hotlines is basically "I'm giving you a homework assignment to be alive for the next 48 hours" and it actually works a lot of the time

One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

First they came 2

Dap me up, Pim #smilingfriends #adultswim #fanart

So are AI image generators no longer capable of producing art in any style other than hyper-glossy 3D renders or the thing they're calling "Ghibli style?" Or are the people who make these so creatively bankrupt that they can't even think to have it make anything in any other style?

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

The one silver lining of untreated ADHD is that it can blunt the effects of other brain problems by making it that much harder to go through with certain self-destructive actions

Morning.