I pirate stuff all the time, but if I really like something I'll often buy it as a gift for someone else.

I feel like 'New Sincerity'/Anti-Irony people don't really understand irony. Or have a very narrow understanding. They confuse a specific mode of disassociation with a mode of expression and other uses/contexts for irony. And conflate 'cynicism' in all forms with pessimism.

Why did they surf dracula the entire premise of twisted metal?

I think my problem with that kind of, for lack of a precise term, [heckin wholesome smol bean positivity New Sincerity whimsey]-thing is that I find it fundamentally condescending. Like my preference of affectations or aesthetics makes me a bad person. Like melancholy is just a Bad Dumb Decision.

BREAKING: President Trump puts "he/they" pronouns in bio

fundraiser to pay for an emergency kidney procedure, anything helps we have $16.5k left to raise in under a month to avoid medical debt gofund.me/16ef32cb1

nationalize microsoft, make windows a public utility

Blake's 7 is wild. Halfway into the first episode the evil government uses memory-implants to frame the main guy for doing jimmy savile shit. And that's before he finds a magic spaceship.

An Installer Built to Stand the Test of Time. (A little reference to Civilization's tagine) 📺: Age of Empires: Gold Edition, Ensemble Studios, 1999

We did an episode on this cool, strange movie! Listen in and correct us on what we get wrong about Japan and dunk on me for accidentally saying "oishii". www.patreon.com/posts/133287...

I'll just window out for 5s to get a link Bluesky: okay I'll refresh and delete the post you where making

I also have to once again point out that the same psychological tricks these games use to compel people to keep playing also -directly fuels toxicity-. Overwatch can never be less toxic because the very way the game is structured produces it.

Tch, you say you like Mr. Bean? Well, if you're such a fan, tell me what his first name is. Heh, if you can.

Talking to a Tinder match: "well if vaccines are unnatural then so are condoms" Talking to a Hinge match: "We must preface our trauma-informed loveplay session with a land acknowledgement."

Nicole and Cole have "talk about good movies" privilege

someone somewhere make a posting site that doesn't suck

More weird trends in dating profiles. -Talking about doing everything, from dating to cooking, "intentionally". As if people accidentally make a stir fry dinner for two? -Using "nonchalant" as some kind of pejorative. What the hell is that about?

ever notice that TS Eliot is almost toilets spelled backwards

Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since

i made the clutch move of frotting with you at 1am

A few days ago everybody suddenly started using the word "yap" and referring to themselves as "yappers"

Downgrading my Uber tip from 25% to 20% because they wasted time backing up over their hit & run to “finish them off” instead of just leaving them to bleed out

It's strange how often I look at various prominent 'dissident' ?media figures and find myself asking: Thielbux or Personality Disorder?

Omg, I'd forgotten about this. In Wing Over, whoever did the English localization for the names of pilots to form your team in the Free Mode, they were just like "Oh, stuff it, I'll just use the names of the Spice Girls, X-Files Star Trek, and Scooby-Doo characters, and footballers." 😅

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

ROAD TO EMPRESS! A 'Cinematic Interactive Drama' set in Ancient China. Get ready to learn Chinese buddy youtube.com/live/0R1_kc9...

Sincerely think I might fire up Road to Empress. It's a chinese visual drama game... I saw some of it before and it seems very high quality. Should be good to immerse ourselves/die in/laugh at. Seeya then!

There's so many layers to this, I'm in awe

Anyone have questions about actual play podcasting or making Oddity Roadshow? (As a player, not from Joel's pov since I'm not him lol)

This movie, widely regarded as a masterpiece, actually sucks! (5 minutes later) Harumph, why are you all trying to argue with me just for having an opinion??

This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech

I always thought this was a byproduct of botched surgery and severe dysmorphia. Not really wrong, but it's wild to find out some people *want* to look like that and aren't just deluded and imagining a normal face.

Every cult nerd show from the last 50 years has apparently come back as a podcast you've never heard of with 500 episodes featuring most of the original cast

So doc, how's our baby? (doc looks up from the ultrasound): Looks gay

It's so funny Epstein would just be sitting there thinking "what if time... is a space" and then email that thought to himself so he didn't forget. This is the guy the most rich and powerful people in the world let do child sex trafficking because they thought he was so smart.

Keith Olbermann was with Olivia Nuzzi for four years but they may have shared one or two... let's call them "larry summers".

You yunguns might not remember, but installing a game from optical disk to hard disk used to take a long ass time. Baldur's Gate came on 6 or 7 CDs and it took hours. You had to swap discs so you couldn't just leave it unattended the whole time either.

So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?

Women's sexuality is like the bottom of the Ocean. Vast unmapped territory full of bizarre, unseen and inexplicable horrors. You'll see the most gross, fucked up awful guy and there'll be a woman who's like "I want him to lock me in the trunk of a Pontiac Sunfire"

You can't get arrested for threatening to kill a guy with the same name as you. Haven't the feds heard of Double Jeopardy??

Within a year MarkusJ is somehow going to be responsible for ending Red Scare

How did that Suikoden 1+2 remaster turn out?

If you want to increase fertility, then cut the workweek. For all our technological multiplications of labour power, the average person spends entirely too much time working, and it makes them not want to do anything else.

epstein emails sorts confirms my suspicion that the pedophilia and sex trafficking is just a routine indulgence of the powerful and, potential blackmail aside, incidental to their politics. Their vices aside, the elite are largely what they appear to be & largely believe what they say they believe.

Women & Gays: What are the awful male archetypes and annoying cliches you see on dating apps?

Welcome to British Columbia. Your dating options are: - Woowoo New Ager + aspiring "homesteader" - Has no interests outside hiking - Corpo yuppie striver - Redneck "and proud" - Theyfab tumblrqueer - Redpilled antifeminist - Disney Adult - Compatible tastes/sensibility but has thermonuclear bpd

Whoever invented the phrase "neurospicy" needs to go out like mussolini

russel crowe in this movie just called tom cruise "a younger man"

a rapper named ZX Spectrum