you ever think about how everyone in kart racers drives cars that look like them? wouldn't you like to drive a car that looks like you?

maybe i am just a dumb ass who is bad at reading but honestly? moby dick is way harder than dark souls

they always phrase it as a necessary evil but also they need you to tell them that it's not an evil at all and that in fact they are actually very cool and sexy for doing it. and also it is ableist to not tell them this

can the it follows sex monster hop on an airplane or could you like, move to new zealand and be safe for a couple years while it trudges through the pacific

there's a move in yakuza 8 called Essence of Puppy Playtime that summons three golden retrievers and every time I use it I think "go my psionic boo boo bears!"

been playing a fallen london style cyberpunk life sim sorta thing on and off, a lot of the mechanics are about like establishing yourself as a small time crime boss, putting together crews and muscling out rivals, keep imagining my character as transsexual cyberpunk tony soprano

they're puttin chemicals in the water that're makin the friggin bugs catholic

"cat ears, fairies" alright they're going so broad that there's a kind of pervert horseshoe theory going on here where any normal person is going to look at some of the stuff they're considering sexual and just say "get your mind out of the gutter man"

you cannot be categorically opposed to political violence unless you are an anarchist and even then it's nearly impossible and patently utopian

This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games. A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.

had no problem with this then i saw the treadmill screening is only open to influencers and now i think that if they fall behind they should be shot for real

my hot take is that sex is infinitely more mutable than gender

centrist dems trying to do sister souljah when in the mind of every conservative THEY'RE sister souljah. a bunch of dumbasses essentially throwing themselves under the bus and telling the public "actually republicans are right, we ARE all a bunch of annoying out of touch lunatics"

trump has been in office for 6 months and every centrist online is talking like it's september 2028 and gavin newsom is the nominee what the fuck is going on

the craziest thing about the M&S story to me from the jump was that even if trans women were men that'd be completely ordinary interaction to have with a man "an employee i perceive as male approached me in the women's section!" yeah dog all sorts of people are allowed all over the store

i'm sayin all the time that a lot of gamers seem to think that if you die in a videogame it hurts you in real life somehow but this has gotta be the most extreme example yet

saw that my town has a CEBL basketball team with a dumb name and an insane logo and decided to become a minor league sports guy

i wish the frasier manga was real

even if nothing else good comes of all this, stripe call center employees getting so sick of dealing with this shit they're just like "yeah we're fuckin homophobic now happy?" and then stripe's executives being like "no! no!!" is very funny

just learned peter thiel is gay and, damn man the current nazis even have an ernst rohm? why's EVERYTHING gotta rhyme like that

cuomo seems to be running a campaign mainly designed to appeal to people in other states who hate NYC and new yorkers generally. and ideologically i get why but i'm not really sure how one intends to win an NYC mayoral race with such a campaign

we're approaching the "two billionaires on a desert island trade a rock back and forth, achieving record high gdp-per-capita" hypothetical just being the actual US economy

i have to talk to one of the apparent 4% of americans who are heliocentric flat earthers

all of my grunglers have become trans women. please message me if you are a grungler or have one i can borrow, i need a new one

it's crazy that whenever hitting kids comes up a few people will be like "obviously it's bad and making a habit of it is unacceptable but parenting is hard and nobody's perfect and sometimes people at the end of their rope do regrettable things"

i care more about women's sports than any fucking transphobe and honestly i'd love to see exactly one trans woman dominate one sport. i'd love to have a trans woman to root for while watching women's mma or basketball

covid sucks for many reasons and one is that 5 years on i still find it much harder to simply enjoy public transit than i used to

charisma is no substitute for good policy, so to an extent i do get being suspicious of charisma, but so many elected dems lack both style AND substance and many who vote in dem primaries seem to view both as not only suspicious but uncouth

"demanding your best general commit seppuku because he lost a battle that nobody on earth would have stood a chance of winning" ass behavior still happening

the parallels between the everglades concentration camp and buchenwald (specifically buchenwald) are so numerous and specific it almost feels like the universe playing a cruel joke. and i worry in 50+ years if you say "everglades" everyone's first thought will be the camp

Mad Max 1 depicts a mostly-functioning society that is only just beginning to collapse. Fury Road is at most 20 years later and Immortan Joe is certainly over 40. Conclusion: Immortan Joe had a more or less normal childhood, went to public school, watched Looney Tunes, then became Immortan Joe

i need to see a 1980s Golf GTI technical

compuner

lone outliers and stuff like the weirdo australia cluster aside this gives me the impression that -most- americans think the middle east extends all the way to italy?

i had a dream that i was friends with john belushi, who was not dead, and i was showing him a bunch of drawings kiri made, but somehow the folder also contained an image of a little goblin creature with a giant muscular penis it was using as a sledgehammer. this caused john belushi to scamper off

it's fun how it's mainly republicans who like to bring up how many hardline racists were democrats before the 60s. like you'd think "the two parties are mostly defined today by how they reacted to the civil rights act of 1964" isn't something they'd wanna constantly remind everyone, and yet

weird little aside but i feel like among the political commentariat and like, middle class people in general in the US, there's this weird assumption that "jeans that look to be in ok condition and fit reasonably well" = "$500 designer jeans"

liam o'briam

misty quigly (yellowjackets) and vriska serket (homestuck) are exactly the same character

do you think when i'm in my 70s i'll look at a subaru impreza or mazda rx7 the way an old guy now would look at a car from 1963

a million thinkpieces about "why hispanics are flocking to trump" when the entire answer was "florida cubans have always been generally conservative?" pundits and strategists and weirdos online all acting like ted cruz voting R signifies some radical shift in racial dynamics

the real secret reason basically everywhere online that isn't owned by nazis is a "left wing echo chamber" is that people from countries besides the US use the internet and a lot of "left wing" views in the US poll at 98.7% everywhere else

"sorry boss i can't come into work today the cops are saying they'll arrest anyone who goes outside. yeah no shit you're short staffed"

the other day i went to pick up a pizza and parked outside i saw a 1958 corvette and i was like "holy shit that's the coolest thing i've ever seen." that's the whole story i guess

i guess i'm a compatibilist on the question of free will vs determinism. i have heard it said that compatibilism consists solely of redefining free will to suit its needs, but like, that iself kinda requires you to define free will as "the ability to surprise an omniscient being"

the kind of review that's like "absolutely amazing restaurant, great service, incredible food, had my first date with my wife here. she divorced me and now i'm sad. one star"

the weird thing is speech-to-text has been really good for a few years now. definitely required human proofreading for anything important but on a first pass it was, frankly, better than humans 99% of the time back in 2020. then recently they've somehow shitted it up with LLM stuff