Stuff and Things

That's it. Those are your options. Homelessness doesn't go away based on "crime crackdowns." You will imprison the unhoused, and when they are free, they will be unhoused again. Or they will die in prison.

When you burn encampments or force people out without their stuff, they remain unhoused or freeze to death.

After working with the unhoused, it's become abundantly clear that those who don't want to support them instead want them dead.

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

- A video of a man eating a rock with lava on it. Clearly that must have something to do with the game? No? It's a game about defending a castle from invaders?

- Let's show you the saddest most depressing situation a mother and child could possibly be in. That'll make you want to play this... matching game?

- Here's the grossest bodyhorror you've ever seen that somehow we're allowed to show as an ad. It's also a matching game.

- Let's show you this big buff dude who is somehow getting beaten up by a grandma because he's the worst person you've ever met. Also you play as him. He's literally named Crook.

- Watch as this person plays the easiest puzzle you've seen worse than anyone could ever do it.

- Tired of all those gambling apps? Try OUR gambling app!!

- The king's going to be crushed to death! Better play bejewelled about it!

Another lady gets out of a car behind her, looks evilly at her, shuts part of the first lady's dress into the car door, and the car zooms off impossibly fast, tearing the fancy dress off the fist lady (who is wearing a slip or something underneath, so she's not naked).

And, as if something like that wouldn't be a huge scandal on the red carpet, second lady then pushes first lady down, and steps on her hand. And then walks off with a guy in a tux down the red carpet.

And of course it 's one of those makeover/dressup games, so it switches to that for the first lady.

A woman catches the well-developed newborn, and the mom panda dies. The woman and her young daughter take the baby panda to a shack in the middle of the snowstorm.

"Well, the best thing to happen to me this year is downloading this new match game!"

And then the body explodes into a million rats???? Somehow???

Plague doctor runs away.

Somehow that advertises an arrow game!

What do the pigeon, snake, melon, or outrageous prices have to do with this arrow game? Glad you asked!

Bro, my dad is so impressed with my sports betting app bro. NO WAY bro show me how to sports betting bro!!

Also:

what does that look like

Ok. So what if it is? What then?

"Well, they're just pandering to make more money!"

Ok. So what if they are? Lots of companies do that.

"Well I don't like it."