On one hand, we are drowning in a consumer society that normalizes itself toward pathology - expected to equate our base human needs with simulacra that resemble but never fulfill those desires. on the other hand, buying 5000 anon chihaya plushies is just the right thing to do

kirby air riders is an amazing game because it's a perfect simulation of what it feels like to be the pinball in a pinball machine

being a somethingawful user looking at the internet today must be like experiencing the worst version of the khalil gibran poem on children

Writing a story is like making a big rube goldberg machine in your attic. this is so funny, dude, i say, hearing my voice reverberating around me. it's gonna be so worth it, i say, as i dust off cobwebs and figure out how the fuck to carry this thing downstairs

And the wiseman said, Listen to my words, ye who would choose Cringe over Content; for where he who posts badly about US politics is free in their cringe, we are the QRTs, spun like a spore, whose content shall foster Engagement and Views. And the people were convinced by his message, and they wept.

all this platforms actual flaws aside, sometimes i see comparisons between that site and this one in ways that feel very psychologically revealing. people have found comfort enough in algoslop that they openly crave for these places to be zoo-like lolcow content mills first and social media second

love finding a project file with a single really normal four bar chord progression that i saved in 2018 for some reason. like finding a message in the bottle but it just says "The"

listening to los thuthanaka. never ever ever pay attention to anyone who says contemporary music is derivative and boring

my new years resolution is to be a little less mentally ill in the ways that make me sad and withdrawn, and a little more mentally ill in the ways that make life worth living. because of this, I will be doing more bad posts on here from now on. Thank you for understanding. Izutsumi

love going home from a con and passing by breezewood, PA. it's like being violently awoken from a wonderful dream, as you're forced back into the fractured, decaying world of humanity

religious experience at magfest this year

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

ten years ago i was watching doug reruns with sam altman, like we often did together. i said it was a tragedy that doug funnie only had one outfit, and that someone should develop a program that would come up with different-colored vests for him to wear. "wait here," sam said. i never saw him again

2024 music chart. yes there is an entire slot in the top half of this chart dedicated to motorbike from geordie greep - the new sound

merry boxing day rat

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for my birthday this year i got more rats

i keep trying to figure out what to post here. old music? shitposts? selfies? i'll figure it out sometime. in the meantime all i'm about is rats