"people can just not comply with management" there's a lesson here :V

look i will 100% dunk on shitty romance or YA but i will not dunk on them for being into dangerous men or power imbalances or even having a rape fetish. that is the tool of the enemy, we do not use it. we make fun of them for being bad writers and having a range of influences a millimeter wide

periodic reminder that ABA (applied behavioral analysis, still the predominant and most-recommended "treatment" for autism in the United States) and conversion therapy were invented by the same guy and represent essentially the same practice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Iva...

yeah it's like, i'm sympathetic but 90% of this will literally never fucking happen and the remaining 10% would require massive reforms and improvements to an education system that is currently being dismantled for political reasons

it's hysterical what an own-goal the New World of Darkness was. to this day i don't think i've ever met anyone who wasn't already a fan who understands that VtR and MtAw are not new editions of VtM and MtA.

team rocket origin story

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

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aside from everything else wrong with this these losers took an entire page to make an argument that boils down to "imagine, as an initial premise, that i'm already correct"

Disney's entire approach to art is basically a mathematical formula where they try to figure out the exact set of measurable qualities that will allow them to reach every market simultaneously while not actually SAYING anything because that would drive some market off

going to the ontologist to get my annual being checkup

Officer Jenny does it in the anime!

worth noting that the shape a lot of these complaints take is basically "my kid individuated, which is the most profound betrayal imaginable" — if you obsessively say this about a normie kid growing up, a lot of people start questioning your mental health, but here a cultural script provides cover

Fuck. I genuinely think Psyduck's design might have been inspired by Tetsuo Shima in Akira. Headaches caused by uncontrolled psychic powers. I can't believe I never saw it before. Inside you there are two very autistic wolves.

i love video games but i also genuinely believe this attitude is video games' fault

I remain vindicated in not only relentlessly criticizing Harris for the last five years, but actively telling her to go fuck herself

Nobody touch me, I'm experiencing positive feelings 😭

Chasca's design doesn't really appeal to me at all but holy shit they made a character who can actually just FLY

yeah but that's worse. like i don't care for (most) discrete difficulty modifiers to begin with, but being able to make a game "harder" by purposefully ignoring in-game incentives is closer to a refusal to engage with it on its own terms than anything

wait what did Disney do now

this quest about how jetpacks replacing fantasy-pterodactyl riding is bad because the inventor using pterodactyl corpse bits to make the technology falls pretty flat in a game where you murder 10,000 dinosaurs to get enough weapon upgrades materials lol

"my name is Ozymandias, podcaster of podcasters, look on my clout ye mighty and despair"

Me in December 2024 referencing my work from earlier in 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...

Natlan side content is a LOT better than the main story, damn. Also a great deal darker, I guess Genshin's doing that "the really easily-accessed stuff is kid-friendly and as soon as you get off the beaten track it's time for genocide and child neglect" thing again

CDC expanding five second rule to five minutes

Happy Birthday to the King: Hidetaka Miyazaki

Nice

every young girl in Genshin is a horrible chaos gremlin who wants to bomb the moon and every adult woman is an overworked office lady with no concept of saying "no" to obligations. you kind of begin to wonder how the anime life cycle works

this is a style of poetry i absolutely cannot stand as a rule and i'm still forced to admit this is pretty good

i hope they make Marionette and Pulonia playable (this game desperately needs a Big Guy who isn't just "boy band singer but tall") but Harbingers don't exactly have a great track record on that front lol

i'm so sick of genshin endgame shit being designed to force you off your good teams man

"we can agree to disagree that my wife isn't smart" is an incredible sentiment

This is because most consoles have what is called a "Usable State Buffer for Command Performance". Gearbox has been advocating for larger buffers for years. If you want learn more you can Google "Randy Pitchford USB CP".

as a guy who by choice mostly runs D&D But Better In Like 3-4 Esoteric Ways it's incredible to me how many people are just straight-up NOT CAPABLE of making the distinction and can't tell that Monte Cook is unimaginative even within that field

holy larp

yeah a lot of it is just nerds cargo culting the stuff they love. like i'll go to bat for Nasu (himself, anyways, I don't give a shit about the larger Fate franchise) because he builds this elaborate legalistic framework for magic to illustrate that mages are a bunch of corrupt, abusive lawyers lol

going to take some liberties Event Horizon Zero Dawn Silksong of the South The Men Who Stare at Goat Simulator

Albert Einstein called it in 1949: "private capitalists inevitably control...the main sources of information... It is thus extremely difficult...for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." monthlyreview.org/articles/why...

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.

i'm old enough to remember when THIS EXACT THING was used as a horror story in anti-Chinese propaganda

walking up to a stick bug like "lol. fucking casual"

this is beautiful and it speaks solely to how brain-poisoned i am but all i can see is a quest giver exclamation point over (I assume) Liu Bei's head

what joker called it Delicious in Dungeon and not "Stick a Fork In It, It's Dungeon!"

going out and assassinating someone over it is, uh, mostly just a really elaborate form of suicide, but at the same time i think what we're seeing here is that the fascism is started to affect relatively "normal" (or at least politically disengaged) people and they don't care for it

i love how the unifying trait of nearly every European character in Genshin is "holy shit they can drink SO MUCH fucking booze"