the internet is, primarily, a tool that enables you to freely encounter certain types of people that you would only otherwise see at a rural Walmart at 3am

sort of don't understand what's going on with that show Euphoria. it seems like the only people who watch it are hatewatching it? which makes me think it's a GoT season 8 situation. afair everyone who was hatewatching it then was doing so because they either loved the books or loved the first few seasons, which from what I have observed was never the case with Euphoria, everyone who watches it says it was like this from day 1. also this isn't a "so bad it's good" situation because people talk about the writers/showrunners like they were on that island on all levels except physical. is there an implicit understanding here that you do this out of stan loyalty to Zendaya that my autistic ass doesn't get? she seems like a nice lady but idk if it's worth the cortisol

importantly you’re allowed to like bad things. or even things that are just not especially good. you don’t really need a reason to like them, you can just say “it’s fun” which is unassailable tbh. unfortunately like 1% of people who like things that kind of aren’t amazingly critically acclaimed get really defensive and try to argue that it’s actually peak. this fucks up the whole ecosystem because if you’re someone who likes, idk, rewatching old seasons of Jersey Shore bc it’s camp someone will get on your case that you clearly, obviously are a troglodyte with peasant brain. because they assumed you were about to say it was peak before they interrupted you. this is based off an experience of seeing someone (unrelated) call something else (again, unrelated) peak. anyway keep in mind when someone is trying to instigate a media slapfight that a shocking amount of this is people pretending the other person is the guy they made up in their head to get mad at.

should I throw a birthday party for when my ebay account is old enough to vote

there were some video game console price increases this week so people are posting late cycle gamecube sale prices, gonna have to bust out the inflation adjusted gaming costs chart again soon i fear

it’s one of the best feelings in the world to be able to say “so glad that is not my problem anymore.” like, imagine with everything going on and you had to deal with that shit. but you don’t have to, because it is not your problem anymore #blessings

someone is on bsky yelling at Rocz from WTYP about how window air conditioning units are an unreasonable expense for them in a city with such poorly insulated homes such as Philly and… they’re a FFXIV fandomite who just got back from a Japan trip where they bought a shitload of fanmerch. Great, let’s all lose our minds together

developing an enlightened centrist opinion that the vibecession is real, and also there’s about to be a real material recession, and that these two ‘cessions are mostly unrelated to each other