weary as the day is long

The avatar franchise is about the lengths white men will go to be allowed to have dreads

Yesterday I overheard a trans woman saying to another "the fourth law of robotics is that the robot has to be gay and trans" and a cis guy nearby going "oh what? I only know the first three" and her repeating "yeah it says the robot has to be gay and trans. Asimov wrote that" and him earnestly saying "whoa I didn't know that!"

[suddenly disillusioned] my illusions..

it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems

like what do you MEAN the number 1 sexiest character trait of all time is just kind of offputting and bad for you in real life. next you'll tell me smoking has consequences other than looking like a mysterious badass

(conspiratorial whisper: but sometimes that leads to attracting someone with similar traits, which then lets you both soften into silly lil guys :D you might also both realise that you're likely on the spectrum and that suddenly ALL THIS makes a lot more sense :P )

They sting. I got ouched by one a couple days ago. The vest is for your protection.

joining the war on pigeons on the side of pigeons

But what you might lack in fingers you'll make up for tenfold in your inevitable pigeon battalion

you really do turn thirty and everything is different and sometimes better. if you're in line for thirty stay in line bro

People act like I'm just being an asshole but man the whole reason I'm so anal about hating gambling mechanics is because I've been down that road and lost a ton of money on games I just stopped playing eventually anyway and it SUCKS and the more you learn about dark pattern design the more you realize that this entire corner of the game industry is just fully focused on screwing vulnerable people out of their money and it's just evil, plain and simple. What do you want from me?? To promote this shit like every other streamer after knowing all that??? I will NOT be complicit in this shit. I'm gonna talk about how bad it is!!! You think that makes me an asshole?????

I studied game design and nothing disillusioned me like this one time I did an internship at a mobile game company because it was so obvious that the team only cared about how to screw as many people out of their money as possible. The only feedback I ever got for my system designs was "okay but how can we make it more addictive?" or "how can we get them to spend?" and shit like that. Nobody there cared about the game being fun. In their minds, a "good" game was a profitable and addictive one. I haven't been able to see these games the same way ever since. It was one of the big reasons I quit being a game designer. Dark pattern design doesn't happen by accident. They know what they're doing. They want to fuck you over.

Knowingly hijacking someone's reward pathways to weaponize them for profit is unambiguously bad. They are manipulating people on purpose with the sole intent of triggering maladaptive & addictive behaviors. They want you to financially harm yourself to enrich them instead. Being a Hater™ is the obvious moral position here.

But remember, you can only blame the vulnerable person that was literally given a purpose-built addiction!

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

Every time I hear a reputable museum tell me that most colonial women died in fires it puts me one step closer to homicide

It's worse than that. Imperforate. Not perforated. At all.

good God so many deaths before 5 yo

Which is also why the average lifespan in the past being lower doesn't mean people aged faster or that people in their 30s were considered old. "Average lifespan" means average, across all ages levels.