Don't let these shakes go on

The ideal household has three people in it: one who would rather cook for three than ever have to do laundry or dishes, one who would rather do three peoples' dishes than ever have to cook or do laundry, and one who would rather do three peoples' laundry than ever have to cook or wash dishes.

man cannot subsist on live service games and ongoing series alone you have to read or watch or play something that is complete and self-contained and ideally 5+ years old every now and then or you will die badly

Bleeding Kansas

i literally went to college with this guy lmao

parents will be like "We're good parents! We did our best!" while their child is alone in their room, terrified of footsteps, unable to conceptualize being loved by anyone.

parents will literally ruin a child's life a dozen times over and break any hope of ever being seen as a person instead of a burden and instill them with a lifelong aversion to ever taking up space or making noise or using resources or existing and then be like "i know i wasn't perfect but you must understand i did my best" and demand your forgiveness

its not exactly a massively popular take i guess but given the here and there snippets of opinionposting about a certain recent much hyped videogame release i've happened to stumble upon i am baffled by the unexpectedly prominent crowd of people who seem to think that the only two reasons a videogame would ever be difficult are 1. the developers are too stupid to make the game not hard and thus made the game incorrectly or 2. the developers actively want the players to feel bad

i may just be making shit up here but i feel like there is an extra layer of deeply uncharitable scrutiny added when assessing videogames compared to other art forms. i don't know if it's the more direct and explicit demand for "viewer" participation or the culture of treating games as products first and art second, but there seems to be a set of conditions for how a videogame is supposed to make a person feel before it will even be seen as a respectable work worthy of any consideration of artistic merit. difficulty and tedium are only ever thought to be completely arbitrary design choices by some people, things that are disconnected from the work's themes or narrative entirely, and could not possibly contribute to it. basically, gameplay gets treated as an obstacle to experiencing a videogame, rather than as a core part of it. a failure or setback on the player's part is seen as by nature worsening the experience, no death or reset can be a neutral or even positive experience through this lens. A medium whose biggest strength is interactivity is expected to facilitate that interactivity in an universally standardized unchallenging manner, and any deviation from it is seen as at best a failure, and at worst deliberate disdain for the player. it makes me sad, honestly.