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You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

"The middle class is not our enemy" yeah and the people you need to be convincing of that is the fucking middle class.

Sorry I fucking hate these condescending ass posts. How dare the poor get uppity at people. Meanwhile half of the middle class is voting to eradicate homeless people off the streets.

They're okaying means testing because of racism and are fine with anti-homeless architecture because homeless people are dirty and scary and want candidates who are "tough on crime" I really do mean it. The people you need to convince of that are the middle class.

portal is a silly tech demo with a lot of goofy late 2000s nerd humor but portal is ALSO a psychological comedy-scifi-horror about the intersections of body and identity and capitalism and science and american pop culture and misogyny and medicalization and autonomy and rape. if you even care

portal is ALSO ALSO about being a weird lesbian. but you already knew that

and the craziest thing about it all is that it doesn’t even matter if the devs/writers knew or cared at the time of development what kind of story they would end up telling because the history of western scientific investigation and bio/medical/technical advancement in the 20th century just lends itself to exploration of these themes by its very nature. you literally cannot evoke the imagery of the 20th century american scientific zeitgeist without brushing up against these concepts

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

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

there should be a special heart button you can press that's just for when your friend's tags are really good