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Transition timeline; 99999 days on Aperture Science homebrew œstradiol

POV you used the phrase "transition timeline" on [tumblr] post about 20-year-old video game models

I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.

You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

God this makes me think of this screenshot:

i mean yeah but honey, there are Gen Z people who were around when VHS was still popular, there are gen z people who were alive before the i phone existed

... in a lot of cases, you're correct, but here we are not talking about generation as some sort of personality assessment akin to a horoscope. We are merely talking about how things change with the passage of time. Gen Z is normally understood to be 1997—2012 (Source: Pew Research Center). You are correct on your other two items, given that the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and DVDs were introduced in 1997, marking the start of the decline of VHS popularity, but, and here's the really important thing, neither of those things has anything to do with the proliferation of online ads, nor whether Generation Z is likely to have meaningfully experienced social media without that proliferation.

to be honest, i was having a shitty day yesterday, and i don't stand by what i said upon looking back on it and what you wrote

That's fair. I was mostly just annoyed because this is genuinely a time when invoking generations makes sense, and it's a thing that we really do need to be aware of. Gen Z, which includes my daughter, are pretty inured to hyperpresent ads, and that's a bad thing.

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

omg you can

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

“oh yeah i mean im not diabetic but i dont really know how insulin works and i think its kinda freaky that you gotta poke your finger all the time so im gonna go ahead and say insulin is illegal”