I Should Write More

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

disgustedly throws youtube autodubbing onto the pyre pile

you’ll never believe what I am choosing to start reading now, for the first time ever, in the year of 2K25

I actually started playing Earthbound sometime last year and so far it’s been a very similar experience, in that I’ve made fun of people comparing every single RPG ever made to Earthbound for almost ten years, but then actually playing it was just a constant stream of “oh my god, I’ve played SO MANY GAMES in my life that are all just directly lifting THIS EXACT BIT”

been trying to work out whether the time travel bullshit elements of Homestuck are Closed Loop (events are recursive, you can’t “change” the future because everything that would affect the past or future has already happened) or Open Loop (events branch into timelines, and actions taken can create entirely new timelines over old ones) and every page I read is introducing the slowly more horrifying idea that it might somehow be both of them at once

this series presents an incredibly intriguing form of the “how does christmas as a holiday exist in fictional works where Jesus Christ obviously wouldn’t exist” thought experiment by portraying a world in which all of the practices and paraphernalia of Juggalos exist but the Insane Clown Posse just doesn’t

the very first piece of info about Vriska we learn being that she has like twelve different character sheets and endless pages of campaign ideas for different TTRPGs that no one she knows wants to run with her is a stroke of genius; it’s a look into her psyche that explains literally everything else she does from that point on

why did not one of you motherfuckers tell me that Megalovania was originally written in the Mega Man X soundfont. every song on planet earth should be written in the Mega Man X soundfont

something I really appreciate about the trolls is how deeply rooted they each are in being different archetypes of Forum People, like I know for a fact the author KNEW and HATED some of these motherfuckers in real life. no other comic is out here asking questions like “what if that one furry RP blogger who absolutely positively will not stop posting in character no matter the context AND that racist weirdo who gets into thread-clogging arguments all the time because he types every argument like a Final Fantasy villain were bestieeeeeeeees <3”

#truly bradley has such contempt for mustang it's very funny#and part of this contempt is rooted in the fact that like. they're both puppets. they're not technically opposed#mustang is wrong when he thinks bradley is his nemesis#bradley's nemesis is indeed scar#not just bc bradley genocided his people#but because bradley is 'wrath' and wrath is scar's fatal flaw that he must overcome#(wow i should write a fic about thisOH WAIT-)#you'd think this means Father is mustang's nemesis.#WRONG AGAIN!#father is hohenheim's nemesis - obviously.#then who is mustang's nemesis? is it truth?#no! truth is ed's nemesis.#mustang's nemesis is: GRUMMAN!#and grumman fucking wins by a landslide#AS FORETOLD by their original chess game where grumman obliterated him#thank you and goodnight - via @parkersgeorg