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I cannot emphasize enough that you not only COULD, it was ENCOURAGED. Blank video tapes for recording whatever you wanted were available everywhere and it was hard to miss the record button on the machines. They also deliberately designed stuff like VHS players that you could tell when to start recording things - as a kid I'd tell the player to record the cartoon channel beginning at 6 or 7 and then sleep in and watch the tape later - and then they would tell you how to do it in the owner's manual, this was no secret. You were SUPPOSED TO record shows you wanted to keep or that you wouldn't be home for to watch later.

ilove when someone posts about an issue that's supposedly plaguing society and it's painfully obvious that said issue is not a thing that matters if youre not on tiktok

i reposted this take earlier but i've been sitting on that teaser trailer for the minecraft movie for a bit and (unlike Sonic) i don't actually think the art direction or isekai element is the problem

the problem isn't that the animals are totally in the uncanny valley, it's that an executive decided to make the minecraft movie into a lowbrow comedy and told the animators to make the animals pull grotesque faces. the problem isn't that most of the protagonists are from IRL, or even that they're juxtaposing humans against a CGI background, it's that an executive decided to make the minecraft movie into a lowbrow comedy, and told the scriptwriters to make the main characters react with incredulity and exasperation at the world of minecraft

imagine how good your life would be if you had a 26yo nurning annintant by your nide.

when i got my medical certificate i very confidently answered the question "what do you do if a person becomes unconscious?" with "remove from the room immediately" only to be met with puzzled silence by the instructor and that's when i learned that the deeply ingrained nautical fear and grim reality of seamen and their rescuers asphyxiating in enclosed spaces due to build up of toxic gas or especially lack of oxygen does not translate to land.

This is why you don’t crawl down random caves, abandoned mines, or big drain pipes or whatever in the spirit of adventure. I’ve seen maintenance crews in storm drains (Which should already be somewhat ventilated) use a special air pump that circulates fresh air down to where they are working.

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared

This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

Show up at work like hi boss sorry I'm late my I was helping my mother track down one specific 90s dungeon crawler for the purposes of obtaining a muffin recipe the developer hid in the files

I'M MAKING THE MUFFINS

Taste review: Make the video game muffins oh my GOD.

The social attitude regarding age is consistently getting weirder. You’re not ‘pushing 30’ you’re just in your late 20s. 30 is not old and neither is 40 while I’m at it. Growing older is an enormous privilege and displaying that age is a gorgeous component of life. Spending your days trying to reverse that grace breeds an eternally wasted life.