SOFT NEKO REDUX

Example of Tumblr's aging userbase: people complain about prices rising and how things were better in the past and are getting worse all the time (often in spite of contrary evidence!), have often developed a sharp technophobia based on misunderstandings of how technologies work and moral panics about dangers that are not supported by research, and hold strong opinions about the problem being due to moral failings that can be fixed by simply destroying the unvirtuous and showing personal virtue, and also are convinced that the past was both better and also harder, and that kids these days have it too easy (but they feel sorry for them because everything sucks now)

oh its bad back there.

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

horror movie showing a child’s drawing of the monster or ghost or whatever but instead of a little kid and crayons they’re like a preteen and it’s manga style

Microsoft is finally letting you move and resize the taskbar again in Windows 11, along with a slate of other fixes to gradually unfuck the shell they've been ignoring for five years, and I was reading an industry article that mentioned this as a warning sign that they must really be struggling if they're pulling resources away from their cloud AI push to focus on the user experience. Which might be true, but I just love the concept. This is not cute, Microsofts only improve client software when they're very upset!

The tick-tock of "decent Windows version, dogshit Windows version, repeat" is so reliable and has been going on for so long I can't believe Microsoft could possibly be unaware of it. Whatever institutional pressures are causing it must be immense: they've outlived multiple CEOs, multiple industry paradigm shifts, Sinofsky's departure, etc.

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich

this is so true, and as I discover more about myself and my disabilities I’ve been seeing it everywhere. A lot of times it’s even in small things like: picky eaters, kids who have the rolly backpacks, people who ask blunt questions, and people who correct others. those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head (and a lot of these pertain to autistic people, which I am) but you really just start to see it in everything people find annoying or undesirable

callout posts are like "i did something extremely rude to this person & they were annoyed by that. dont you think that means they should lose all of their friends & become socially untouchable & get shot with 1 million guns???"

"This person's actually responding in a really composed and understandable manner given the public harassment campaign I'm putting them through where I call them a child molester for kinda grossing me out. obviously that means they're digging their heels in to the child molestation thing. I'm such a smart and good person, and I actually care about victims and restorative justice. Anyway help me drive them to suicide."

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

but do you play shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less 🤨

the thing about "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding" is that these games exist and are out there and you have to make the conscious choice to seek them out instead of just expecting the big companies to deliver this, because they will not

obviously I think merch artists always need to source their manufacturers in a way that prioritizes local businesses, environmental sustainability and fair labor, that goes without saying. but i think its unfair that people hold poor 20-something self employed artists making anime keychains to afford rent to a higher standard than mega corporations. people will be like "I cant go into artist alleys at cons without being appalled by the plastic and thinking of the supply chain" then go into target and be like "ooh another cool cup for me to put on my shelf and never use"

Technically most moss is outside the international space station