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So...vet time OTL Cooper is suddenly peeing everywhere several times a day. I'm still in the job hunting process, and there's no such thing as a cheap vet.
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the recent discourse around "'horrendous' gas prices in the US" reminded me that exchange rates are misleading ! and many people don't realise this. exchange rates do not account for the relative cost of living between countries, and so it doesn't actually show how expensive things *feel* for the average citizen in a real and practical sense.
for example, take the fuel prices as of today, 20 July 2026. with the price from the state of New York (source) converted to litres, and the prices from Europe (source) and South Africa (source) converted to US Dollars at today's exchange rates of $1=€0.88 and $1=R16.51 (per Google)
United States (N.Y.): US$ 4.15 /gallon = US$ 1.09 /ℓ
Germany (average): EUR 2.10 /ℓ = US$ 2.40 /ℓ
Spain (average): EUR 1.54 /ℓ = US$ 1.76 /ℓ
South Africa (coastal): ZAR 25.23 /ℓ = US$ 1.53 /ℓ
and that's where people usually stop. but it doesn't account for the relative cost of living in each country. like yeah, $2.40/ℓ in Germany is objectively higher than $1.53/ℓ in S. Africa, but the average salary (even in low-paying jobs) is much higher in Germany than in S. Africa, so this doesn't really reflect how much of a burden that is, relatively, to the average person
so we need to adjust the rates for PPP (purchasing power parity) of each currency. this takes into account the average cost of groceries, good and services, average salaries and wages and other market factors, etc. I'm using the latest IMF Rates from April 2026 (source)
United States: 1:1 PPP rate = Intl$ 1.09 /ℓ
Germany: 1:0.72 PPP rate = Intl$ 2.92 /ℓ
Spain: 1:0.60 PPP rate = Intl$ 2.56 /ℓ
South Africa: 1:7.49 PPP rate = Intl$ 3.37 /ℓ
notice how Germany and Spain have different PPP rates, despite both using the Euro, because it's based on local cost of living. and how South Africa, like many countries in the global south, has a drastically undervalued currency. which makes things cheap for tourists here, but is Not Great for locals.
and to be clear, this isn't just about fuel and oil and the US war on Iran. the exchange rates are always misleading like this
Do you know HOW much I know about meth at this point in my life
ok. so.
it's very important to me that there's understanding here, ok? i want understanding. i don't want meaningless fandom wank. i don't have shit for ads or deals or whatever the fuck. i am literally just a guy. i have no ad partnership whatever the fuck. i gain nothing from "stirring up controversy"
when i say, "the new warframe chapter shows signs of hitting racist themes," i am not saying
stop enjoying warframe
you're bad if you enjoy warframe
actually you need to kill yourself if you enjoy warframe
please do some sort of ritual suicide in front of me right now to prove that you're divesting yourself from warframe
we're not doing that. we're not doing any of that. i still have friends that play warframe. fuck me in the ass, man, sometimes i still play warframe! sometimes it hits some psychological gameplay shit JUST right in a way that i need
there is literally nothing wrong with playing warframe or enjoying warframe.
all that is separate from talking about and critiquing warframe's story as a larger whole.
ok. are we grown-up enough to accept that the previous is true, and also that we can critique it? do not pass this line if you cannot balance those concepts.
the problem is not "warframe portrayed racism and that's a bad thing and it needs to be cancelled for it!!!" fuck me in the ass, girl, stop talking to fuckin redditors
the problem is "warframe is pulling on some seriously heavy real-life racial symbolism and I'm seeing signs that they're not treating that with the gravity it deserves, which is gonna result in their narrative shitting the bed and ultimately telling a completely different story than what they obviously want to tell"
i don't think that warframe is purposely trying to tell a story about indigenous americans and casinos. i DO think that they're pulling on symbolism associated almost exclusively with indigenous americans and casinos--rebb's own direct quote that they purposely strove for a "rust belt" feeling--without understanding of what that means for the greater narrative. their story is not going to land the way they want it if they keep pulling on symbolism like this, without any kinda building up original story or plot to buffer against Unfortunate Implications.
that unintentional symbolism can 100% absolutely sink your narrative. it can shred your story. it can deep-six otherwise decently-written text.
thaaaaat's the issue. not "DE needs to commit seppuku on livestream for Problematic Writing," but "pulling on these deeply racialized threads without proper respect for the weight they're dealing with will sink their story"
Me, finishing my cocktail: “Man, I should make that post. Really kick the hornet’s nest.”
Pip: “You should. Drinky post time!”
Me: “It’s gonna make people really mad.”
Pip: “Time to hurt some 🎶feeeeeeeliiiiiings🎵~!”
They gotta stop aging Robin up I swear to god. He’s like fully an adult man half the time and it fucking sucks. Make him recognizably a child or don’t bother including him at all. “But it makes people uncomfortable” yeah dude! Because it is! You’re never going to make it okay so make it interesting! Make it mean something! Like Robin is fully just a grooming story. I don’t mean sexually but it’s a narrative about a man convincing himself that his relationship with a kid is so special and unique that the normal boundaries between child and adult can be suspended, that the child’s circumstances and capabilities and needs are so extraordinary that they are rendered a kind of un-child, and that the scale of their eagerness and want counts as consent. Robin’s already traumatized, so what is there to lose?
Everyone wants Batman to be morally complicated so they make him a huge douchebag for no reason but flinch away from the actual parts of his character that are really troubling. The “is it wrong to have Robin?” question is always brought up and then neatly solved in a way that absolves Batman. But like. One of Batman’s most consistent character traits is that he’s able to convince himself of anything no matter how stupid.
Batman is a hyper-intelligent, hyper-powerful Sherlock Holmes character piloted by the ghost of a lonely child. He’s a genius who uses his intelligence to justify acting upon the emotional impulses of an 8 year old with horrific trauma and unmet needs. He uses children for his own emotional gratification and convinces himself that, while it might not be right, it’s not wrong enough to stop doing it.
And, well, many such cases!
Honestly I think the cognitive dissonance of like a 9 a year old Robin does so much more to establish Bruce as a psychologically complicated and morally gray character than any amount of the pointless assholery people just keep piling on to his personality.
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"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.
No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.
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using a pumice stone isn't very butch of you
i need you to know that this is already a top contender for funniest anon message of the year for me
now that the dust of tennocon has settled and we’ve all gotten a chance to process this — is it anything new?
our second cyberpunk city is so much more on-the-nose with its references. There’s literally a two story tall glowing blue hologram. There’s literally ace through king playing cards you’ll be able to buy 1:1 from the merch store in a year or two.
Our new update seems less interested than ever in the things that make it distinct from what it’s copying — in the Tenno, in the Sentients, in the fact these characters are robots at all.
Warframe operates with a base level of abstraction, particularly in Warframe design. Warframe operates with a base level of re-particularization — it’s not “thank God,” it’s “thank Sol,” it’s a “nikana”, not a “katana”, it’s not a “dog,” it’s a “Kubrow”.
Our new Warframe smokes cigarettes and plays poker with 52 cards and dates Joi from Blade Runner 2049. Is that what’s new?
Despite being a clear sequel to the Old Peace, [DE] not only chose to let you play as the protagonist with zero connection or interest to any of the relevant characters or history, they chose to play them on stage. Is that what’s new? Is the Operator being sidelined for the Build-a-Bear Gooner OC anything new?
This cyberpunk city full of alien robots seems markedly less interested in the concept of transhumanism or even the aesthetic of mechanical bodies than Fortuna was.
I want to love this game. I’ve been playing it for so long. It has so much promise and meaning. But I have no love for a world that has no love for itself.
i love the entratis sm
It has all the feelings of that Rust Belt America, but in Tao, with the noirish layer on top. Crime ruling the streets is really one of the most important parts of it.
Ohh, I see...so, who is it that owns the Rust Belt casinos in America, Rebb? What events could have taken place in Rust Belt America to set up a severe economic disparity?
Digital Extremes has not shied away from serious issues. The update explores the theme of addiction — both to The Bloom and to gambling in fashionable establishments. Creative director Ford shared that they consulted the experiences of developers, many of whom have personally encountered the effects of addiction. "Of course, it might be uncomfortable for some, but for us, it's a way to acknowledge the problem instead of ignoring it," Ford explained. "Addiction isn't always a choice; it's often the result of circumstances." This approach makes Tau a more mature project than previous updates.
how are we exploring gambling addiction in a mature, serious way if the casino has cool fun minigames that the players are supposed to want to keep coming back to?
"addiction isn't always a choice" isn't always? isn't always??? bruh...
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Crazy how all of my friends who are critical of the Tau update that are kind, polite, welcoming people have gotten all kinds of rancid shit in the last few days on their inboxes and my bitch ass hasn't gotten a peep.
It's almost like this isn't about the topic of discussion at all and people just go on anon to target those who they feel they can most easily hurt.
You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.
Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?
Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have
