There Is Only One Sonic.

I feel like people see me as a dog they wish they could put down (remembers we’re supposed to be over the dog motif) i feel like someone’s hamster that’ll be flushed down the toilet

normalize loving yourself for no reason

My problem with your argument against free will is that it in no way argues against free will. Instead it only argues in favor of predetermination. I agree that people's decisions would be the same no matter what, if no alteration was made to the world, it would turn out the same way that it has, the same would go for the future too. But the thing is, this in no way disproves free will. People still make all their own choices, have their own thoughts, and all have their own will. The only thing that this argues in terms of people's choices is that they aren't random or arbitrary, instead, people make choices, and if you were to replay the scenario, they would still do that. The main point of your argument is that the future will always turn out the same, but this would only really mean anything substantial if you already knew how the future would turn out, which you don't, thus meaning that all you've really said is that people make choices, and those choices lead to the outcome, which is pretty fucking obvious. And you might argue that, no, because the aforementioned choices are always the same, and thus the outcome is always the same, however, this would only really matter if you were to be going through life a second time, which you aren't, these predetermined choices are being made right now, people decide the choices themselves, and the outcome is based on the choices that they are making right now, it isn't as if someone else is deciding everything for us, we make the choices. And the outcomes haven't happened yet, they don't even exist yet, there are choices yet to be made that will affect them. Okay, all I'm saying is, your argument only matters if you're a time traveler, in which case you would then fuck with the so called predetermined timeline. It seems to me you make this argument to support a future that you believe will happen, thus the argument mainly being in favor of predetermination, but of course, the future you have in mind doesn't really hold much ground, because of course, it being just another aspect of your mind, of your own will so to say, one that affects the actions you take and things you say. All in all, the moment I heard your argument, I thought it was the stupidest shit I'd ever heard you say, and I consider you a pretty smart person. And so I've been thinking about it a lot and ended up here, rambling on about it. Anyways I'm not sure this will convince you, but I hope it influences your thinking, at least a little.

i assume this is in referral to me. because im self-centered. so i will respond as if it was referring to me! if it wasn't, kill me with a double barrel, will you? i believe predetermination and free will cannot exist simultaneously. if everything is predetermined, we have no free will. my argument is in favor of predetermination and, therefore, against free will. the people are still making their choices. the people are still having their thoughts. the people are still at fault for their actions. the people are still their own people with their own thought and their own feelings and should suffer from their consequences! this is true, i believe the lack of free will can still exist with this. i would've always been abused and i would've always been your friend, given a duplicate universe existed where everything was the exact same. i also agree that it really only matters when you know the future, and nobody knows the future, and so... to me, at least, it does not matter if you or i have free will or not. my lack of care extends beyond this as well; since i was young, i've had delusions of being the only real person and everything around me being imaginary (brain in a vat idea, so to speak), and even if that was or was not true, i would not care. because, to me, free will and predetermination and reality does not entirely matter. what matters is how you feel and what you do. even if how you feel and what you do would've always been the same, that does not invalidate it, you know? i know that part of why i brought up this argument was in a very dark time for me. truly, i do not know my future. i can act like it. i can act like i'll die before 20 or i'll go to college, but the actions between now and that future will affect me and my thoughts and my actions. and those actions will form new connections in my brain or whatever and impact how i act and how i think... i lose it when it gets too science-y, just a tad. i suppose my argument is weak because it is simply not an argument i care for too heavily anymore. i've had this same idea since my childhood, that free will isn't real and everything would always be the same, and i've learned how to value things despite that! anyways, i don't think free will and predetermination can exist simultaneously, so i argue in favor of predetermination because that inherently eliminates free will. i also don't think the lack of free will devalues anything. for me, it just helps me reflect on my own and other's actions. i would've always been hurt by people because those people would've always responded the same to treatment in their past and the way i treated them and all of that, and so instead of deciding them to be horrible people and leaving it at that, i can decide they are horrible people and also see why they are horrible people, because the actions of people (who were likely hurt) hurt them... does that make sense? prolly not

"Play toys with me or you're gay"

I don't think I've ever been this misread in my life. Not in like a bad way it's just music but still. Headcannon me however you want ig.

why did you waterboard me. also i have no idea what that further contradiction is

i dont think it does. i look at you and go "god SHE probably makes weird porn" and thats like all you do the only thing that i guessed that was wrong is that i thought you were insufferably miserable and like you are sometimes but not to the degree i originally believed

Bro I make the most tame softcore porn ever and I also have weird ocs

still porn still weird you have a weird art style so you make weird porn and have weird ocs

I feel like you've lost the point you were trying to make

i mean i disagree it still returns to youre weird i would think youre weird but your music taste isnt as weird or obscure as i really expected and so it contradicts. but i dont konw !

Not to dig up a dead horse but I looked up alien blues and it's fucking vundabar? God all you people are the same you all listen to the same fucking music. what's next? You listening to a bit of Glaive? A few songs by waterparks? Ts pmo ong

i say alien blues in the shallow niche popular way. like everybody fucking knows alien blues. nobody actually gaf about vundabar. but everybody knows fucking alien blues everyone who considers themself alt or anything knows alien blues. i believed you to be one of those people who find playlists on your youtube recommended called some shit like "POV: You're hating yourself again... | Vent Playlist" ok? vundabar doesn't matter it doesn't matter that it's vundabar hell the artist doesn't matter at all the context and the time period matters. u wouldnt get it if you werent 2020 youtube playlist kid like me. faggot

Oh my god I was just looking to see how much a copy of Hamlet would be through Barnes and Noble and PEOPLE ARE ROLEPLAYING WARRIOR CATS IN THE REVIEWS??????

ok i was VERY involved in the. b&n reviews warrior cats roleplay scene when i was like 10-12. the first two books of the series were general hubs where ppl would post ads for their clans and other groups. there was a huge percy jackson community i remember participating in too. it worked through search results, eg. riverclan might be under the search result “rivers”. book 1 was rules and a “map”, book 2 might be the main area, book 3 the medicine cats tent, etc. there was also usually a book where ppl would post lengthy descriptions of their character(s). it was a rlly bizarre little corner of the internet jdksj also it was impossible to find any real reviews of any of the warrior cats books bc of it

this is unironically kind of cool

I rbed this silently but I think I've gotta answer some questions now. I was a big part of this whole thing and the reason we didn't use forums was because 90% of us didn't have normal internet access. Barnes and Noble had an e-reader that could connect to the internet and reach their digital store, which was great for those of us with controlling parents who only let us read books.

I want to go back in time and write my doctoral dissertation on this

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

We jailbreaking browsers now lmao

uh lil rant but something I've been noticing with non black queer comic artists is their weird writing towards their black or at least brown/dark skin characters. I saw a comic yesterday that portrayed a black queer character as someone desperate to fuck a white character that was infodumping to them, pretending to listen to them. it felt fucking weird seeing that but I realized a lot of non black queer writers and artists don't view black characters that reflect people with actual autonomy or complexities but rather props and punchlines for the white or non black characters. it feels both racist and colorist and it hurts to see.

its why I have no real interests in a majority of queer stories made by white queers because they kinda do some bullshit like this. I'm aware writers have blindspots but these writers actively exclude or avoid black people in their writers room or art, and when they do it's genuinely the most craziest shit I've seen. it feels passionless, it feels like a "here nigga damn here's your rep" moment. ugh.