#car centrism

[neverendingford]

btw if you can reasonably own a car it's kind of a moral imperative for you to help out people who can't afford to own a vehicle.

obviously within reason: driving a friend an hour away might be more reasonable to you than doing that for a complete stranger, but just because you can ride above the filth and grime doesn't give you the right to pretend it doesn't exist.

give aid where you can.

#I'm using “filth and grime” rhetorically don't crucify me. I'm just thinking about the idea of the rich literally being carried above it all #color says shit #car centrism #class warfare #as much as I fight with my dad about specifics. he gave me an example to follow. stopping for people in the rain. helping out others. #I was driving an hour and a half to visit my parents yesterday and turned around to pick someone up #turns out he's headed to Texas to live with his mom and we chatted for a bit and idk. not virtue signaling but it feels good to help people #I own a car and my coworker can't take the bus home on closing shifts because they don't run that late. #why should she pay for an uber when I can take the fifteen minutes to drive her home? #I can afford a car and she cannot. I don't get to sit by and watch her struggle while I'm comfortable and happy. that's entirely fucked up #anyway. cars are a status symbol. we know that already. shitty urban pavement princess trucks especially #extend that understanding out further. use the privilege to help others. #anyway. Just a thing I think about a lot.

[rebuketheviolent]

"kim kitsuragi doesn't care about anything intensely" get out of my house. did you play the same game i did

#txt #1. tell me you're racist without saying it outright #2. have you seen how unhinged that man is about his car #3. kim cares DEEPLY the vital part of his character is that he finds that cringe about himself #and has had a lot of shit beat out of him by centrism/revachol/being a jackboot for capital

[willowstea]

idina i love the green shirt but why are you taking dirty oil money?????? :'(

Don't support cars

Support public transit

#willow's tea #don't want to comment on insta but this is bugging me #whyyyy???? #car companies are baby evil oil companies fight me #car-centrism has ruined north america

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

#sometimes i get really sad about my life you know? like. really sad about it lmao. for various reasons. #like it would be really cool to be normal. very often i just wish i was normal lmao. #but then i remember meeting this guy while i was homeless&he had everything that i late 20s/early 30s college grad would want #stable&well paying job in the field he actually went to college for #rented part of a banging a duplex that had a yard allowed dogs&was a five minute walk from downtown bar crawl area #had both one of my fave motorcycles-- an r6--&one of my all time dream cars-- a 6speed cts-v. #i presume a dating life from the tampons that were in his bathroom. #&yet. he was miserable from what i could tell lmao. &it was weird bc it was like he didnt realize that #until he met us lmao. i would be more annoyed by that. i was v annoyed by it at the time lmao. the amount of weird jealousy i dealt w while #fucking homeless+sick is disgusting&ill never forgive fucking anyone for it&a part of me will always be dead+rotted bc of it lmao. #but for him it was different in the way of. i could kind of understand it lmao. #he had come from a rough background from what i understand&was a success story. #&yet he clearly felt trapped in his own life. clearly felt like he was surrounded by things he should be more grateful for while none of it #filled the hole in him ppl like him are PROMISED success will fill. being apart of the status quo but on the good end will alleviate. #he had been in one accident&never rode his bike again. when i asked why he lied&told me the bike was unrideable bc he didnt know me lmao #&when i asked if there had been any damage past the obvious dent in the gas tank he got red+quiet+changed the topic. #he worked at some big bank&didnt bother trying to brag bc the one thing he DID know about me is that i am v anti bank+leftist lmao. #he considered himself a leftist too until he talked to me&realized he was actually v centrist in basically every view he had #&that centrism came from a desire to keep his privileges as a cis white straight man-- something that made him openly embarassed. #he used to deal thru college&when i met him he couldnt keep up w one round of dabs w me something that also obviously embarassed him. #he had surrounded himself w ppl just like him&was jarred upon meeting anyone outside of that bubble who wasnt a far right asshole. #&he didnt like what he saw about himself. &that was really obvious. #when we left his place after the brief week we were staying there he was literally in tears about how much he wanted to come. #to help&see where we ended up or whatever idk lmao. i guess im still actively annoyed by it lmao. #but i still get it on some level. when you reach the top&realize youre not fucking happy where do you go from there? #will a house do it? will moving to a different location for your same bullshit job do it? will meeting a girl exactly like you do it? #&when i want to be normal so bad it physically hurts i remember him&i think maybe things arent so bad lmao. #like it could be worse i guess lmao.

[tyrantisterror]

The Terf Queen said more heinous shit and listen I’m trying to channel my anger into writing so something positive can be made of it but it was just... really upsetting this time, I mean she did it two days before my fucking birthday it feels personal I know it’s not but jesus, so I’m going to make a bitchy post after midnight because fuck.

YOU KNOW WHAT SUCKS HARDCORE ABOUT HERBY PORBER?  HOW FUCKING BORING IT MADE WIZARDS.

Look at this.  Look at these fucking characters.  They look like fucking fashion models.  They look like they’re about to walk the goddamn runway.  There’s not an ounce of whimsy or fantastical shit here.  These fuckers look like they’re about to announce the start of Universal’s Dark Universe movie franchise, right down to the unnecessary appearance of Johnny Depp.

Wizards in Henry Pansly’s Adventures in Centrism are, with rare exception, people in mostly regular outfits who occasionally point a stick at things to zap it with a laser.  Everything about them is so... toned down and grounded, as if they’re afraid to let wizards look silly.

But looking silly is what makes wizards fucking awesome.

Look at that fucker, with his extravagant beard and big elaborate bathrobe, floating in fucking space over a dragon rising out of an exploding volcano.  It’s ridiculous, it’s ludicrous, it’s fucking awesome.

Pew pew sticks?  Fuck that!  An unleashed wizard floats on hexagonal geodes while shooting GODDAMN LIGHTNING from his GODDAMN FINGERTIPS!

Even mundane shit is rendered ridiculous and magnificent.  Look at this gaudily dressed son of a bitch as he ponders his orb.  Just hanging out with his cat looking at a cool sphere, no big deal, but the theatrics!  the drama!  It’s positively splendiferous, fuck!

Oh you thought I wouldn’t include some sick Rankin Bass pics while talking about aesthetics in fantasy fiction?  Shame on you, of course I was gonna pull out good ol’ R&B.

We gotta bring it back!  We can’t let this stand!  We can’t let wizards just be guys in vaguely fancy clothes with pew pew sticks!  They gotta be ludicrous and silly and over-the-top!  They need to shoot lightning from their fingers and cackle madly while holding glowing orbs and rising above a mountain into the heavens themselves while dragons fly underfoot burninating the countryside!  We gotta make them FUCKING CAMP!

I want to BEHOLD THE GODDAMN WIZARD!  I want wizards to feel like they belong on the side of a van of some shitty heavy metal band!  I want wizards who reside on black velvet paintings and in crappy pewter sculptures that cost as much as a used car!

I WANNA SEE SOME REAL, QUALITY WIZ BIZ!

[junipvelt]

VN Update

Ok, here's a more in-depth look at the visual novel (still a WIP) since the last post was too short. Bunch of dev stuff + in-progress screenshots below the cut.

CGs so far:

(still working on these + the car one + the bgs ;-;)

Some of the bgs might just be blurry polarized irl photos (kind of like og higurashi), I'm not drawing more backgrounds than I have to.

Graphic design (is my passion):

(the cursor cycles between different pairings and the default anti-centrism ball depending on what you hover over/which screen you're on)

Misc. :

I've got the general story + scenes already mapped out but writing and coding everything might take a while (aiming for a ~10k word script?, currently have 2.5k). Hoping to have something playable by Q2 2024 (This originally said March lol).

QnA

q: how done is it?

a: ~30%

q : plot summary?

a: You (the player but also just Me) fall asleep while studying and hang out w/ the extremists and watch them bicker with each other. It's all a dream,, or is it?? (very clever meta writing)

q: can I help with development? :3

a: I'm hoarding all the creative control, it's all mine. (sorry). Playing it when I finally get around to releasing a build + adding some feedback would already be more than enough help. :]

q: why make this at all?

a: (what no friends does to mf) I thought It'd be fun to work on! I got into centricide around mid-2020 and while I thought I left it behind.. idk my obsession with it is back now I guess. (real answer: authunity. I'm not even joking those two are my only reason for doing any of this.) also I just genuinely like visual novels as a medium (massive weeb).

#centricide #jreg #art tag #ty to everyone who said nice things/typed excited keysmashes in the tags btw i read all of them #any other q's (or if you want to bother me about the project when I inevitability miss my deadline in march) can be sent to my askbox #seriously tho i really like talking about this send some questions in

[beetrootbug]

just saw someone write "the willow project isn't that bad" and they are honestly, a fucking idiot. They claim that an ice age will come and everything will be fine again. I don't know if you know this, THIS IS FIRST TIME IN THE INHABITABLE HISTORY THAT THE POLES ARE LACKING ICE. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FUCKING FROZEN, IT'S JUST THE REST OF THE WORLD THAT HAS DEFROSTED. BUT NO, NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME (that has been recorded at least to my knowledge, don't quote me on this, i'm probably wrong about something) THE POLES ARE MELTING, THEY AREN'T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT BITCH, HOW ARE WE GONNA HAVE AN ICE AGE WHEN THE PLANETS COLDEST SPOTS ARE MELTING??

They claimed that the Willow project is the safest way to drill for resources, which is fucking false, because the native animals AND PEOPLE (THERE ARE NATIVE AMERICANS IN THAT AREA) WILL GET SICK FROM THE GAS. Take this with a pinch of salt, but a friend of mine told me about how apparently there was a gas leak and a bunch of animals died and a few people got sick? But i'm having a hard time finding evidence for that so it could be false. But nonetheless, people and animals will get hurt.

They said how cars produce more gas than the willow, and i'm not sure how true this is, but the whole point of transitioning from fuel cars to electric cars (i don't like these, but that's a different topic) and readily available public transport, is to PHASE OUT the need for fossil fuels, we don't need another fucking mine

the real kicker though is this person ended their comment with "but i don't really like the world so i don't care". This is the most misguided and frankly disheartening thing, it's genuinely the cause and justification of many horrible things. We like to believe that humans are inherently bad, that we just do bad things, that no matter what, our lives will be horrible and many will have to suffer at the hands of a few and there is no point in trying to change. This is not fucking true, and that dogshit mentality is why stuff is staying shit. I don't fucking care if you hate humans, stop allowing that hate to justify horrible shit. People do evil things, and allowing them to get away with it by saying "oh well humans are just evil" is a bloody excuse. Evil is taught, empathy is natural, but due to parenting and living conditions, it is often been removed from a child in order for them to survive. It is not natural for you to not give a shit about people (unless of course you have a mental illness, but even then, there are exceptions), giving a shit about other people is natural, protecting people is natural, wanting to make a better world for our future kids, even if we don't live to see it, is natural.

Humans are shit, but not from nature, rather from nurture.

Anyways the willow project is harmful and so Biden, fuck Biden, fuck centrism, fuck these climate change deniers and fuck America

#fuck america #the willow project #climate change #nature vs nurture #fuck biden #honestly fuck every politician #throw the whole lot out and get a fresh batch! #socialism #of course this stupid comment was from tiktok #fuck tiktok

[gritsandbrits]

Ins & Outs of 2023 💜

I know we're halfway through the year but change doesn't have an expiration date. I've been inspired by seeing lists made by other people so I take a crack at writing my own!

Outs:

Traumadumping/Sending me long rants in my inbox: Now I'm not saying you can't talk to me if something troubles you, I'm always open for a shoulder to cry on. But I am not a therapist. Also, if I'm talking about fandom stuff I don't need textbook long rants about the dangers of white feminism/liberalism/centrism/politics/whatever when I'm talking bout be like, Bratz or Transformers 😅. Half the time it is really not that deep, overly long rants clogs my inbox and honestly, I find them uncomfortable. It seems less like a conversation and more like a grudge post so if your feel that strongly you be better off making your own post. I am just one person!

Calling everything cheugy/ soulless: most of the time cheugy is just a word use to crap on things women likes. Also just because you don't vibe with a certain piece of media doesn't make it soulless, sometimes you don't need long rants or explanations. It's okay to dislike something without putting people down. I personally see this term so much it's becoming as overused as Mary Sue

Respectability Politics: most of the time the people who you work to try to earn respect won't give you that. Some noses need to be broken (metaphorically speaking). It's not being rude you're protecting your space.

Aesthetics: what I mean by this is following trends JUST to follow a trend even if it risks landing you in financial hot water. Or breaking down varied styles based on barebones idea (like there is more to Y2K than a belly shirt and shiny pants). Also not everything needs to be an aesthetic. Speaking of, Shein Hauls. Don't do it! You'd be better off saving on something that's actually worth the money

AI/NFTs: I don't need to explain this one

Beige: Going back to Aesthetic, beige has a connection to it. I know it supposed to give off clean vibes but everything being beige/gray/greige with nary a drop of color in sight just makes me sad :(

Recording People In Public: unless you have permission (or outing a potential Karen) don't do this. You could put someone's life in danger and it's just super rude in general. Getting a popular tiktok isn't worth harming others.

Cringe Culture: I admit I am guilty of participating in it back in my teen years. But now that I know better I realized I was being so sacred and insecure I wanted to be like everyone else...which is being a bully. It made me miss out on fun events and creators I couldve enjoyed if I had taken my head out my ass. Plus I'm not exactly Picasso myself, so who am I to judge. You don't know what an artist is going through sometimes the cringe is their outlet. As long as it's not hurting anyone why should u put people on blast for having fun?

Brand/Studio/Fandom Wars: I think we're at that stage where they have good and bad (and neutral) points. Everything is not always about conflict who makes the better movies/products. I find it reductive and sometimes it gets too far and innocent people end up getting dragged into a war they didn't ask for. Plus artists who work in rival companies/brands do support each other. We can enjoy media without pitting them against each other all the time and honestly it's just obnoxious stan behavior. Looking at you Cartoontwt.

Now it's time for the INs!

Creating for fun&joy: Yes it's okay to be upset if your art or stories aren't getting as much attention as you like, but that doesn't mean no one enjoys it. There's always one or two persons who loves your work! In general it's important to have fun and not let algorithms and "get rich quick" consume you. There is room for fun. Also don't make spite your entire motivation or else you'll end up with a Sonic Omens/ BlueyCapsules scenario. Take it from me: I may hate Cars 2 and Shrek 3 but I love those franchises too much to let interesting ideas go to waste. I have fun with the creating process, making picrews of Gwynn and Rhodanthe and self indulgent stories of my carsona and Finn.

Thinking For Yourself: You do not need to peddle someone else's opinions just bc they're popular. You don't need to jump on bandwagons, you can watch or read media and come up with your own conclusions. Practice Discernment and expand your horizons beyond watching that one review.

Self Inserts/OCs: back to cringe culture what helped me break out of that is making my own OCs. I love making OCs and Self inserts, it helps me get comfortable with designs and writing, everyone has a unique OC and have fun with them. Plus the ships are so cute everyone has a funky selfship or oc x canon

Color/Wearing what works for you: A pop of color helps to make your outfit stand out, and wearing what you want even for a couple of hours helps with your self esteem. Again everything doesn't need to follow an aesthetic or a trend as long as it suits your tastes (and budget)

Buying Products That Work: Don't just buy things just to have them decorate the shelves half the time bc they're cheap & not good for your body. Same with clothes buy something that lasts not because it goes well with a tiktok. Sometimes it's okay to spend a bit more on a product if it truly works for you. Also DIY can be VERY miss (the charcoal & glue peel off masks come to mind) so just get something specifically formulated for you

The Curtains Are PINK! Yes I wrote that in pink 💁 but essentially learn to value critical thinking. Learn to handle - and give - constructive criticism. Yes there are things that aren't that deep but that doesn't mean anything is unworthy of discussion. There's a lot of value in analysing media, and it helps you from hopping on bandwagons of misinformation

Working On yourself: doesn't need to be therapy (btw don't use BetterHelp) it can be anything: writing your feelings out in a diary, making vent art, trying new things, talking to someone you trust, stressballs, fidget toys. 2023 is the year of healing; it is VERY important to know how to FEEL not just shove down your emotions or take it out on someone. We're all adults we have a responsibility to initiate our positive change.

And I guess that's it! That's all I have of my Ins and outs for 2023

#ins and outs #2023 #create for fun and joy #gb asks

[palin-tropos]

my swap!Kim wouldnt be dressing punk. to me swap!Kim is a terrifying mini-Nilsen except for the RCM instead of communism. authoritarian centrism. he was powered by amphetamines until he wiped his brain clean in a car crash.

#it’s a swap of circumstances not personality

[tobiasdrake]

Alright, time to meet our new friend.

Pleasure to meet you. Will I be meeting Wakou Furio and Dotte Furio shortly?

That's okay. Joke's gonna be on them when they find out what I did to Car 1's bathroom sink.

The funny thing about this joke is, the unforeseen shedding of bodily fluids actually did wind up being the key to solving this case.

Yeah, it's almost like their corporate masters are running a feudalist state here and don't recognize the authority of outside influences. My dude, I got here five minutes ago and I already grasp the concept of North Korea Presented By Coca-Cola.

Yeah, I know. Which, as I was talking about during the case, means we still have a headcount error. Zilch and Yuma were both supposed to be on that train, the population of which is supposed to be five. Someone who didn't know about the headcount smuggled their way onboard, and then was killed by Zilch.

One of those corpses shouldn't be on that train. In order of suspicion:

1 - Zange: Dude didn't have a uniform or know about the headcount. 2 - Aphex: Had a uniform, but didn't know about the headcount. 3 - Melami: Uniform and headcount, but only offered that information after Pucci already brought it up. 4 - Pucci: Uniform and headcount, raised the topic of the headcount.

Yakko's promising to explain that later though so I guess it's nothing nefarious. That's fine. I've had a long case and I am bushed.

Yeah, I took some hits from the weird RPG dance-fight that's replaced Non-Stop Debates, which isn't half as cool as Non-Stop Debates. Like, the core gameplay loop is still there, but having a distorted gremlin man screaming insults at you isn't as fun as having a group of characters bicker.

The fundamental protagonist-centrism of Mystery Labyrinths makes them a significant step down from the Class Trials.

In any case, this first mystery was fun. I got a lot of things right but then got distracted and wandered off to chase red herrings. That was tremendously embarrassing. But overall, I thought the train car switcheroo was a clever trick.

Like, there's a bit of Magical Mystery Bullshit to it but the fact that it was premeditated by the company that made and operates the car helps grease the wheels. This wasn't just one guy's murder scheme, but a carefully planned murder scheme in motion from the second the train was boarded.

I liked this. There's room for improvement, and also (ugh) a lot of shit they do with Shinigami in the Mystery Labyrinths is terrible. Kodaka's still being Kodaka about his female characters. But the mystery itself was good and I enjoyed it.

#master detective archives: rain code #drake plays rain code

[akeianova]

watching urban planning videos is so incredibly fucking frustrating. like. all the solutions to car centrism are so easy. and almost universally cheaper than building and maintaining countless needless extraneous roads that also destroy neighborhoods and communities because theyre built solely to accommodate cars instead of people or bikes. and so many places just straight up dont have sidewalks and are straight up inaccessible to people with larger mobility aids like wheelchairs and the like and its so infuriating i hate this shit so bad.

#this is mostly abt america btw #i know there are def more places that arent much better but america is so bad abt it #and i know why its like this too #racism and lobbying by motor companies to increase profits and disenfranchise colored people sure are all over the us and its history #and its so fucking bad #its so frustrating #hate this shit

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Part of my seething hatred for car-centrism in urban design comes from how absolute shit and cringe the sidewalks are where I live.

[gemsofgreece]

There was a Greek guy in the military that went to USA for work and some guys were making fun of him because apparently to them, Greeks don't use cars. The Greek obviously decided to play along like yeah unbelievable right? Until some finally realised that he was being sarcastic.

Χαρά στο κουράγιο του for real because in his case i would react a little more aggressive.

Like Usians go to Greece for vacation obviously to the islands and they think the rest of Greece doesn't have cars?? Don't they visit Athens?? How do these come up with these conclusions even though they are the first country with the largest tourist numbers in Greece.

I doubt these particular Americans have been in many places outside their own country, let alone Greece. It’s a classic case of US centrism, according to such people only USA and 3-4 other countries have cars.

Besides, of course there are cars in the islands too - only a couple Saronic ones which have banned them to not allow a degradation of the natural and architectural environment - so these people have certainly not been in Greece, be it in the islands or elsewhere.

Also actually Americans are not amongst the largest numbers of tourists Greece gets, in fact Greece is now becoming a rising destination for Americans.

#greece #weird us american shit #us centrism #anon #mail

[steveyockey]

[T]here is no official way we can plan our way into traffic safety. The indoctrination of the automobile and fossil fuel industry is too deeply entrenched in many American’s minds…. [T]he inevitable result of this radical, car-based, speed-first, safety-last planning is that people who go out of their ways to travel sustainably get pummeled or killed often enough that cars become a necessity for all.

Well I’m done. As history has frequently demonstrated, if we’re going to get traffic safety, we must fight for it. I’m not going to negotiate my safety or the safety of loved ones with the chamber of commerce, the city council or motorists who think they have a right to drive over every inch of pavement that exists. I’m tired of telling my younger sibling that I don’t want her to ride a bike in Oakland out of fear for her life.

It’s time for people to start forming organizations to protect cyclists, transit riders, pedestrians, and yes — drivers — from car-centrism. I’m not going to spend years writing to city council that I need a crosswalk where I live — I’m just going to paint it now. I’m not going to wait years on hundreds of thousands of dollars for impact studies blocking traffic out of neighborhood streets. We need to just erect the barriers and bike lanes ourselves. Erect the bus benches ourselves. Shrink the streets ourselves. There’s a long history of neighbors taking matters into their own hands. We need to bring tactical urbanism back.

#reading #just some twitter bookmark clearing #piece has been edited since I saved it originally to take out some of the author’s personal experience with injuries caused by cars which #is fully his right but has also made some of the piece scan awkwardly

[allbeendonebefore]

I walked just over 6.5 km today and went through like 5 or 6 parks and I saw more baseball diamonds than public benches I s2g it's insane here. Edmonton's bad for car centrism but like. Victoria is like "you can enjoy the view as long as you keep moving" and my feet are killing meeeee.

#hapo rambles #and i bet you can guess Why #update i got home with a total of 9.9 km

[sunnyuto]

Lowkey I think one of the worst symptoms of car centrism is the way it basically forces drowsy driving. You can make the conscious choice to not drink and drive, not do drugs and drive, not text and drive, but if you’re away from home and have had a long day and the only way to get home is to drive there, you very much have no say in whether or not you are driving tired. Whether it’s because you didn’t get enough sleep, have been awake too long, or haven’t been awake long enough, you’re driving impaired and in the most dangerous way. At least with alcohol or texting, you have the ability to still react and possibly make the outcome less damaging than it would have been, but if you fall asleep at the wheel, that’s it, you’re out, and you have no way of reacting to whatever may happen next.