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i'm finally getting caught up on cr4 e31 and man. the clear influences of the player's real life culture in their characters (and in the worldbuilding in brennan's case) is amazing and adds such a richness. like thaisha is so clearly influenced by like. black american folk culture Especially with the orcish revolutionaries. idk if liam is irish but he's at least running with a lot of the irish american working class stuff brennan injected into the world in terms of the hal and the culture of the round. and azune's whole bit about not having anyone to speak his native language to and his disconnect to his own identity (diaspora narrative). i Love when real world cultures are reflected in fiction it's so good.

Coca Cola flavored Oreos taste like if you could eat clipart

I think they add an important element of randomness to the environment. My father in law bought 6 or 7 boxes of the Selena Gomez Oreos so he could set a Selena Gomez Oreo alarm to go off mid workday and then say to his coworkers, "Oh, my Selena Gomez Oreo alarm is going off!" and unearth from his locker his 6 or 7 boxes of Selena Gomez Oreos so he and his coworkers could distribute them around the neonatal ICU ward where they work. He said it livened up an otherwise extremely dreary day.

Here's the thing: these are simply marketing tactics of predatory capitalism. Kraft manages to sell cheap, adulterated, imitation food at max profits despite the slop of it all because they've engineered an addictive consumer experience from the time you walk into the aisle space they've bought up in the market to the hyperpalatable product that never truly fills you up like real food would. The plethora of options, including the rotating, strange or niche, is by design there to flood you with a false sense of choice and empowerment. Anything to draw attention, engagement, and sales. In the age of social media taste testing and viral trends, they don't even need to try as hard anymore! Consumers promote the products for free. Kind of like this post. Anyways a wall full of a dozen options of slop is not freedom. It's a scary indication to the contrary. Well-studied psychological tactics of powerful and destructive companies such as these need to put us on higher alert.

this is wrong

Yeah, she could’ve done this in her standard Sailor Moon form. Super form is overkill, really.

Sailor Moon is stronger than Goku. I don’t make the rules. Fight me about it.

I’m on a still active forum, with a solid vs debate scene. Sailor Moon vs. the God-Emperor of Mankind from 40k is one of the most treasured threads there, as Sailor Moon trashed the guy.

19 pages straight of debate over Sailor Moon vs. God-Emperor of Mankind, in which every time a 40k fan desperately brings up a new point, it immediately gets negated by another one of Sailor Moon’s powers

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you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

I keep getting this Etsy ad where this person says, "My personal style wouldn't be what it is without self-expression," and every time, I'm floored by what an absolute nothing sentence that is.

fun thing about advertising data is that last night i found out that while me and a thin friend have been listening to the same podcast only i have been getting bombarded by glp-1 ads during it lmao

I hate when king arthur has all these fussy little steps in the instructions and you're like "no way do these fussy little steps matter" but you try it and they do. they matter so much.

I thought you meant Camelot quests and I was like "that's fair, 'never pick a four leaf clover on the last Wednesday of the month' IS a fussy little step that shouldn't matter" but then I was like "wait isn't that also a flour company"

nooo I am not a beleaguered knight of the round table I am making elaborate focaccia 😭

"I hate when King Arthur has all these fussy little steps" -- Camelot cleaning staff, probably

jk Rowling needs to be tried in a court and have her assets seized and searched and her wealth confiscated and redistributed while shes on the way to prison

Reblogging solely because I love how @daughterofstories words this.

Disney is doing crazy things in the japanese mobile game sphere rn