The Salt Den

One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.

a lot of you think intersectionality means that privilege and marginalization cancel out like pemdas

It is incredibly telling that there isnt a massive anti-oneyplays fandom despite Smiling Friends being an equally popular show among tumblr queers and those guys actually doing everything gooseworx has been accused of and more "She joked about being the next Shadman!" wow that's crazy. Chris O'Neil housed Shadman and actively defended all the vile shit he did on twitter, including lolicon of real actual children. Why is nobody talking about this. Where is the anti oneyplays fan club. Or anti GameGrumps. Or (and this is a hot one) anti Dropout. Why is there only a hate club for the tranny. Why are the hate clubs only ever for the trannies? But of course, "DNI if you make it about her being trans, thats totally not why she became our target"

Arin Hanson def get some of that and more often than not it's because he refused to be an asshole in lockstep with the rest of the Newsground bully squad, it's actually quite fun. "Wow I can't believe you're criticizing Newsground when that's where you got your start" and him having to go yes I grew out of that. You guys are assholes.

I can't even track the EU law that triggered the whole thing because believe it or not, EU laws misinterpreted as meaning "all websites will have to ban pictures" are a dime a dozen, but suffice to say it's the law that marked the beginning of all websites actually bothering you about consent when before they went straight ahead and stole shit from you, and I remember at the time I had started a NG account because either Tumblr or Twitter were being dumb. NG's pop up around that time pretty much framed this as Europeans hating freedom, and it was so dumb and crass I deleted my account with a message telling them to fuck off.

honestly I hate “can you pet the dog?!?” not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of “can you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loop” and that very quickly fell away to being “well now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or they’re going to get letters”

One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any “click button to see cute animation” would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet

Just checking in to see how we're all doin'. Hope y'all are hanging in there and keepin' 'em kissin'. <3

If Spider-Gwen had a bi flag on her wall there wouldn’t be any debate as to whether or not she was really bi

"but I didnt learn about the usa's wrongs in school 😢 we don't know anything cause they didn't teach us anything 😢" well no one in my school in india told me that our country is a regionally hegemonic war criminal you're just entitled and insultingly uncurious

in fact they told us completely propagandised nonsense about how pre colonial hindu kingdoms were extremely peaceful but were forced to defend themselves against regular invasions solely by muslims. this is something v easily contradicted by the foundational story of ashoka's turn to buddhist dhamma being the brutality of the kalinga war.

the point being made is school, everywhere in the world is a deeply political project and is marshalled for the purpose of nation building. you're not going to hear about the sins of your nation in any serious way at school most anywhere in the world, and expecting that it should have betrays a certain lack of uhh, street smarts. its for children and run by the govt.

*flies past*

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

i’ll be real, kitten, daddy needs multiple wealthy and powerful folks to die in a painful, drawn-out, and generationally humiliating manner

Just saw some dimwit dungeontuber claim that old-school D&D is crunchier than 5e because you track torches and rations and I think sometimes homicide is justified.

@machveil !!!

The sheer filth at the end; worthy of ISIHAC; true legend.

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence