When I was a kid, my dad's friend kept the litter box on the walk-in porch. It smelled absolutely awful in there. I resolved to never get a cat. As a teenager, I hated when friends smoked weed because "it smells like cat litter." Didn't connect the dots until my 20s (also, i love my two cats).

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

It's awful that in my lifetime we've gone from a society that generally believed life would get better in the future into one that generally believes life will only get worse. The shift explains much of our current political, social, and cultural reality and makes me terrified as a parent.

CROW ON MST3K: He makes Ted Danson look like Gavin MacLeod! ME AT 13 YEARS OLD: haha

name your top 15 tv shows ever, gut instinct only adventure time bobs burgers my so called life freaks and geeks seinfeld twin peaks star trek tng as told by ginger the office monster x-files steven universe twilight zone flcl invader zim

people are so desperate to feel part of something bigger than themselves they'll invent an imaginary demographic they're a part of.

If LLMs had emerged at the same time as actually profitable technology (internet, smart phone, etc.) they would be treated like the scam they are, but instead the LLMs showed up during a lull for new technology and are able to bill itself as the only ground floor in town, so idiots keep hopping on.

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

evelynn's obscene ranking of narrative mediums 1 film 2 novel 3 console game 4 long form journalism 5 indie game 6 short story 7 broadcast television 8 poetry --- do not go further --- 9 streaming television 10 youtube video 11 mobile game 12 long form review [i make these] 13 short form video

People are so weird about eating meat. I wish those experiencing dissonance about it could just say "yeah, it's fucked up to eat meat, but I'm going to do it anyway because I don't care" instead of jumping through a million hoops to try to justify it.

Oh wow really

The easiest to spot indicator that someone is an asshole is if they utter the word "IQ" about anything at all.

When evaluating a series of games, some reviewers consider each game within its historical context and others do analysis of each game in a vacuum (meaning, by the contextual standards of the exact time the reviewer lives in). The latter group write worthless drivel and I hate reading/watching it.

every now and then you see a Sonic fan insinuate that Mario 64 is bad and you realize that some people just can’t be helped. they’ve been immersed in horseshit for so long that they don’t know what anything else looks like

Were good games not allowed to compete?

If there is an afterlife, I hope every US citizen who placed a vote for Donald Trump will have to feel the guilt of every dead Iranian. I also hope every Republican official in the house, senate, and this administration will have to explain their cowardice to every person who died for it.

donald trump and benjamin netanyahu are the most evil people alive today. there’s no competition. they need to be stopped immediately

we (u.s.) are evil. full stop. fucking hate the leaders of this country.

”it’s a kids ______” is a reprehensible defense of any media. We should have the most scrutiny for media made for children, which should be as thoughtfully, artfully, and purposefully created and promoted as possible.

watching minions rise of gru in black and white with no sound except the nutcracker suite and its actually pretty good

showing my preschool aged kids the passion of the Christ for movie night so i can explain to them why the library is closed today

Like most parents, I want my give kids my kids the best parts of my childhood, which is why I've got 1000 hours of Maury on VHS to play every sick day

man i really killed it with this essay huh aftermath.site/the-new-game...

The Japanese language barrier helps their perception that the stuff they like is just toys because they don’t have to read statements from the creatives or see how people in Japan talk about the art itself, and any evidence that could prove this mindset wrong can simply be blamed on woke translators

my latest dumb parenting decision: the kids weren't learning to ride bikes because at the first sign of difficulty they'd put their feet on the ground. I told them both if they crashed with their feet on the pedals I'd give them 10 skittles I'm now out 20 skittles and they're solid bike riders 😊

Watched Hoppers. Is actually good. Wrote a way too long review of what's wrong with contemporary animation. letterboxd.com/evelynn_k/fi...

i will reveal games in the order of games I feel the most embarrassment about

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo... we are the most evil country on earth

The difference between a 90 minute movie and 2 hour movie is 60 minutes.

The US government is a terrorist organization.

i like when everyone shares what they love

Just ate my homemade marinara sauce with garlic naan and I am kicking myself for not having done it ten years ago.

Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

I absolutely despise that Americans don't care how many people we kill in our wars, only how many soldiers we lose. It's likely more Iraqis died each month of our occupation than how many US soldiers died in total. Their lives matter as much as (or more than!) the lives of US soldiers.

Killing a rival head of state does not make a country more secure, democratic, or stable. It leads to chaos, infighting, and famine at best, genocide and civil war at worst. This will lead to millions losing their homes, descending into poverty, or dying.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

And whether or not the case was based on lies, US congress passed an authorization for the Iraq war. Fuck all wars, and fuck all illegal wars.

top 10 games of the 2020s so far 10. balatro 9. mewgenics 8. silksong 7. citizen sleeper 2 6. ufo50 5. venineth 4. ultrakill 3. consume me 2. half life alyx 1. before your eyes

Majora's Mask Wind Waker Wand of Gamelon

Am I the only one deliberately making a gay cat house in Mewgenics?

The goal of transition is not to become your hyperfixation character. It’s to become a version of your mom that might stand to have a better relationship with being a woman

Kaki King has some fantastic long titled songs I might pick on another day, but gosh this track always hits hard (If it even counts as a double title!)

Conversation with my (black) 3 yo daughter: "Do you have skin?" "Yeah" "Are you white?" "Yeah" "Your skin looks like a taco [a soft shell tortilla]." My kids have license to make fun of my skin color for the rest of their lives 😅

i didn't like tom goes to the mayor when i was 13 years old and I will never forgive that teenage bitch for her bad taste. set me back 20 years at least

Consume Me is by far the best game I played from last year.

i'm in this alongside many cool people !!