#self-parody

There's something elegant in its lack of pretense. It twists so far into self-parody it wraps all the way back around to become a confession. 

It is ‘the act of playing "Born in the USA" on the 4th of July without having ever paid attention to anything but the chorus’ melted down into jewelry.

It is a Happy Meal prize from a universe where the McDonalds mascot is Ted McNugent.

It is your best defense, your only defense, against the scourge of Communist Wolfpires.

It is the faction Symbol of America... if America was a faction in Warhammer 40K.

It is a monument to our sin at only $39.99 $24.97 with free shipping.

It is... 

well,

laypeople really are trying their best, so I said 'actually I think it's weirder that spoken languages exist'... and my linguist friends already know where this is going.

anyway I just outlined my evolutionary argument (hinging on the descent of the larynx, an adaptation of the respiratory/vocal tract allowing the production of multiple vowels that, incidentally, also keeps adult humans from swallowing and breathing at the same time and therefore causes human's constant choking issues) for a primarily-signed first language(s) hypothesis... to a man I had sent a picture of my butt not six hours prior

I complain that the writing in the Puyo series has been mired too deep in self-parody after !!20th. All the characters have become so one-dimensional and the story has become so stupid.

I feel sad that the only Klug that Westerners know is the sniveling pant-pissing coward from Tris and Tris 2, and not the smart-alec whose confidence is backed by his intellect, yet humbled by his ego, from Fever and Fever 2.

I feel sad that the only Sig that Westerners know is “I dunno, bugs, bugs, I dunno”, not the taciturn, opinionated protag from Fever 2.

Like, for fuck’s sake, all Ringo does these days is recap the story and point out how it’s stupid!

When I play Chronicle and listen to the story, all the characters are so one-dimensional and slow that this is all I can think about:

Puyo Puyo has been so flanderized that all that remains of it is self-parody and irony. And it’s overstaying its welcome.

Can we finally get Puyo Puyo ABC yet? The scrapped Fever 2 sequel that appeared to be more somber and serious in tone, whose only evidence of existence was unused assets in !15th for NDS?

From the files of Sylvia PlathHow unpleasant to meet Mrs. Hughes, Who’s so thoroughly, willfully odd. It’s a wonder Ted happened to choose Such a creature. (He’s rather a god.) Her lipstick is always a mess. She’ll go on for an hour or three About Nazis or bees—as you’d guess, This does not get her asked out to tea. Her headbands aren’t quite comme il faut. (They’re a match for her queer Yankee…

In case you’ve forgotten, Lauren Boebert (R-CO-03) is part of the House Wacko-Bird Caucus which includes the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim “Gym” Jordan, Jody Hice, Madison “History Buff” Cawthorn, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, and Matt “I swear, she said she was 18″ Gaetz – just to give you a partial list. Their unswerving devotion to the Dear Leader is exceeded only by their total lack of attachment to objective reality.