#just with. less funding.

[indianajonessadhats]

And now for something completely different. Here's a nice video about the art of sound editing, which starts off with a nice little intro regarding the Wilhelm scream; I'm sure you're all familiar.

JUST KIDDING.

This is a sad hat.

This is a different sad hat.

Courtesy, of. well.

Yeah, just watch the video.

#don't know if i feel proud or dismayed by all the props/collectibles i see there #HOWEVER can't judge too hard. i also have this problem in my house #just with. less funding. #this could go on a bad jackets list i suppose too. whip is hard to tell but looks questionable #idk. maybe a 4 plait? #indiana jones #hats #with all my sincerest apologies to ben burtt here #IN HONOR OF THE HOUSE SALE AND HIM PURGING HIS TREASURE ROOM; #I AM TAKING THIS OUT OF THE DRAFTS FOLDER #lmao

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt. #but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.) #seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this. #the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later? #that is not cute. it is Alarming. #no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses... #anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you. #obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

[patzweigz]

okay not to come of as a hater for a second but i'm thinking about this again and kind of want to get the thought out...

is it just me or is the way people discuss pilots online a little... odd? don't get me wrong, it's honestly really cool to see people get so hyped up and invested in something based on the pilot alone, but from how some people discuss them it belies a bit of a misunderstand of what a pilot is supposed to be and do.

a pilot is a proof of concept for something, not the finished product. this is most evident with pilots produced the traditional route, where the final series may be wildly different from the initial pitch (the first one that comes to mind is the gravity falls pilot, although it's still pretty similar to what we did end up getting).

so it's... i'm a little concerned for the inevitable fallout when a popular pilot becomes a series that's different from it's initial pitch, i suppose

#like i really enjoyed the amazing digital circus pilot #and im excited to see how it changes and grows... but it seems like somewhere along the line #there came this false impression that a pilot HAS to be the template for a show #as opposed to the first 'complete' version of what an episode has the POTENTIAL to be #i remember noting a lot of odd discussion too when the lackadaisy pilot dropped... #and again dont get me wrong VERY EXCITING and LOTS to talk about even before the series was funded #but i remember the discussion centering around the pilot in a way that was like... treating it as if it were the finished product #less like a test run and more like a full short film? #idk i just worry someone somewhere will get in a kerfuffle and i hope it doesnt happen #jonnie's thoughts

[svampira]

if you've seen me post this already no you did naut anyways human elias

#ok i posted this yesterday then deleted it cause it looked kind of bad #i fixed it and its cuter now👍 #not going in the tags this time #backstory time he was basically a cartoonishly evil jock but people just went along w it cause he was hot and had a celebrity mom #kind of guy to take highschool football way too fucking seriously. WAY TOO SERIOUSLY #ough his eyes look so weird here. whatever back to teen show antagonist backstory #idk i feel like he was just a nightmare to be around. whats worse than a tiktoker. a tiktoker quarterback whos obscenely rich and cant face #any consequences cause his dad funded the school #he got normaler after he graduated but got murdered less than a year after. sorry. at least he gets to finally murder people when hes undea #i feel like 90% of what was wrong with him as a teen was because he wasnt allowed to kill people during football matches but rest assured #he def tried #the way i draw him i feel it gives more cheerleader but his dex is way too low. maybe he was in his freshman year then jumped to 6 #*6.3 when he was like 16 and got forced into the football team #hes 6.4 when he dies at 19 #word dump OVER. maybe i should fix my toyhouse #/elias #scarabocchi

[lobotomizedlady]

not trying to get involved in voting/abstaining from voting disk horse as I really don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do but it's wild that anyone is surprised that so many ppl are tapping out on the presidential election when our choices are: the pedophilic dementia patient now known as genocide joe, or the wildly unpredictable racist rapist narcissistic nationalist billionaire. HOW are these our only choices. it's such a fucking outrage & whoever wins I hope someone pulls on oswald

#like. ok yes bidens domestic policies will be less harmful than trumps. but he is quite literally funding a literal genocide rn #& if ppl hold their nose to vote for him anyways the dems will continue to think they can throw the worst candidates possible & still rely #on their voter base to just go for ''the lesser of two evils.'' like at a certain point when do we just start shooting them #i know i sound like one of those firebomb a walmart ppl who do not in fact go out & firebomb a walmart but GOD #my post

[salvadorbonaparte]

Moving to the US still feels surreal and there are days where I'm certainly anxious about the election and the gun violence and the general state of the country and even just the far awayness but I also know that I can't let anxiety rule my life

#I was anxious before going to England and Spain and Ireland too #The main difference is that I have to cross all of the Atlantic this time instead of just the channel #I speak the language and I know a lot about the country through pop culture osmosis friends and paying attention in school #I'm a white western European and thus have the privilege of not being perceived as an 'immigrant' #And I'm moving to a region known to be very liberal #And it's not like bad things can't happen outside the US #UK politics are an absolute disgrace and have been getting worse for years #I live in a city that certainly has its fair share of violence although it's more likely to be stabbings here #At the other unis I applied for I actually would have received less funding with probably an even higher cost of living #Like I know Massachusetts is expensive but have you ever seen London????

[beannary]

OUGH MY SISTER JUST LICKED ME

#bean babbles #go fund me to put down my sister #killing her would mean I get licked less #she licked me because I didn’t share my water with her #because she just kissed her boyfriend #I didn’t want fucking cooties to touch me water glass #what am I? some sort of weirdo creep???

[sergle]

I saw a lil while ago you comparing prices of reductions between states and wanted to ask if you had considered getting a reduction in canada? The usd could go a lot farther for similar results potentially!

(Sorry dont want to offer unsolicited advice if you *have* thought of this!)

OUGH I don't know... I have thought about this! one could say that I have Considered it! The main thing is like. I've already landed on a surgeon in the states that I have good feelings about, and starting the Surgeon Search�� again is. a lot. especially when All Of Canada is free game. Looking through a surgeon's portfolio of before/after pics is actually lowkey traumatizing when you do it for hours lol 😭 some of the bad jobs may or may not have made me cry. AS FOR MONEY- I definitely assume I'd save some if I got the surgery done somewhere else? Canada or otherwise? But it also kind of scares me to think about combining my First Major Surgery with my First Time Leaving The United States. Just a whole lot of stuff I don't know how to do

#I have thought about it and I haven't COMPLETELY ruled it out but I have. like. mostly ruled it out #I've also thought about going to Australia. idk #I don't even know where I'd START. the surgeon search itself is a scary thing to do #sergle answers #I won't brush off the idea completely but yeah #also if I got fully funded for the ballpark amount that I need in the states #(which. I may not get fully funded. that may be a pipe dream) #but if I get fully funded and then I pivot to a surgeon that costs WAY LESS MONEY. #I would kind of feel like I scammed people #bc then what. I just have 5k left For Moi? 10k? that I just keepsies #I don't know man

[switchcase]

Why must I be up everyone's ass all the time. Why can't we just do what we're supposed to do and then I can leave you the hell alone.

#.log #texting emailing calling all these motherfuckers that should just be doing their jobs 😭 #yesterday at the MRI place the guy Almost just did a normal cervical without flex/ext and I had to remind him #And the CD copy of the scans they gave me Only have the normal cervical w/o flex/ext #so now not only did I have to remind him in person but I gotta call the place and be like hey can you actually make sure #the flexion and extension results are sent to the radiologist and Not Just normal cervical #On top of having to call/txt/email both the ATP and the funding person at the wheelchair place #Just fucking!!! Do the job!!!!!!!!!! You won't be annoyed. I won't be annoyed. There's less talking. Things get done

[rithmeres]

genuinely these panels are going to make me ugly cry

#i'm not back for real yet i think i want to stay away longer. i'm just here to put more things in the queue and answer messages #i really enjoyed trimax vol 4 idk something about it was less miserable than 1-3 #might have been the first volume that i wasn't grimacing the entire time i read it. or maybe i'm just desensitized now. #unironically this prayer is soooo beautiful to me. give us this day our daily bread. not bread for the week not bread for a year #just enough for today. #lately when i've been praying it just looks like #please for the love of god please please please please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPL #things are not looking good for the community house.. lots bureaucracy with the city. and the church that funded us is falling apart #i don't know what i'm going to do if we get shut down it's the one thing in my life that's worth anything #all those kids... where are they going to go. who is going to help them. where is the neighborhood going to get their food. #in two days it will be the anniversary of [REDACTED] and i am so so so scared #just sat in my room today and fruitlessly scrolled thru jobs im not qualified for & tried not to think about thinking about killing myself #i don't WANT to kill myself i don't want to think about it i hate thinking about killing myself i will never ever kill myself or even try #but there is a demon or perhaps a ghost or evil wizard that tells me there's an easy way everything can go away. and it's A STUPID. BITCH. #please do not reply to this post i know you all mean well but i just don't think i can handle it. #talking about it i mean. and hearing people say nice but empty things. #i just wish i had someone to sit next to me. #personal #i don't want to go to church tomorrow :( it all feels so fake and i do not ever feel fed.

[thefirstknife]

While I 100% agree that if people aren't having fun they should take a step back/quit, I don't like the "if you're not having fun just go find another game" argument because it's so often used to shut down actual legitimate criticism from people who are otherwise enjoying the game but want genuine problems to be addressed. (I've seen it, for example, when people try to bring up bigotry in games and suggest maybe making some changes to remove it. I always get wary when I see people say it now.)

Oh yeah absolutely. There's real criticism that we have to be able to point out and discuss. A lot of the times people use this for any minor criticism someone has and I agree, that's often a way to shut down the conversation. Criticism in general is supposed to come from a place of love: you love something and you want to see it be better.

Unfortunately, in this case, when the community turns into ONLY negativity and criticism, it's kinda hard to believe they care about the game anymore. If people still had some positive stuff to engage with and were enjoying the game but had issues, then sure. But most of the negativity online right now is just purely rage bait. Bungie apparently has no redeeming qualities, and Destiny is dead. Misinformation is spreading about everything: all devs abandoned Destiny to work on Marathon (claim with no source that's accepted as fact and makes no sense: Destiny is the only game making them money, they can't abandon it before Marathon is out. Like, logically), monetisation is the worst in the industry (I genuinely don't believe that they play other games if they think that Destiny's monetisation is the worst in the industry), Bungie is maliciously banning people for fun (????) but also Bungie isn't banning people enough, Bungie is maliciously making server issues and didn't develop a "fix server" button in their office, game development is easy and Bungie is just lazy and the devs don't want to tell us anything because they're evil, Destiny is falling apart and nobody is playing anymore (just trust me bro), and most recent one which is possibly the most baffling of all - Bungie Foundation is a scam to write off taxes. Yes, that is currently discourse (which apparently gets recycled every year). Bungie Foundation, a charity organisation that's been going on for 13 years and is an independent registered organisation, is a scam. This is where we're at with the community mentality. And there's even more.

When we're at this point, it's truly something else. Like, if they believe conspiracy theories about Bungie and think Bungie is scamming them, maybe they just shouldn't play the game anymore. Why are they still here if they think this is all a scam? I would drop the game if I believed any of this so strongly.

Normal people having criticism and all is perfectly fine however! I did my fair share especially recently about the season pass pricing changes which I called a predatory practice and still believe it is. There's a lot more stuff to complain about while still enjoying the game and not basing your entire online existence and personality on hating Bungie. If they've got nothing else to do besides sitting on twitter shitting on Bungie, maybe it's time to move on.

I've also had my suspicions about the motives for hardcore Bungie hate after the incidents involving transphobic attacks on Bungie devs following the LF showcase, as well as all the crap about Nimbus and their VA. Given the recent developments about the general anti-LGBT+ mentality, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a contingent of people who are focusing on Bungie more than anyone else for how outspoken they are in their support for LGBT+ causes. Like, not to do some big reach or something but it's fairly curious that gamers online are adopting the anti-LGBT+ sentiments while Bungie is aggressively supportive. It just rubs me the wrong way that the one company that's committed to this and has been for years before most other companies jumped on the bandwagon is the one that they're choosing to paint as the worst villain. And the LGBT+ support isn't even all, as Bungie has other initiatives where they actively support women's right, reproductive rights, poc rights, disability rights and so on). I don't know, I've been a part of the gaming community for a long time and while there's been massive changes since the early days (and since gamergate days), the issues of bigotry in gaming remain. It feels particularly suspicious to, out of ALL companies, single out Bungie which invests in charities and progressive causes. Like, in the grand scheme of things, every corpo is robbing me blind, I know that, I have to give money to corpos to live on this Earth, so I at least want to give it to a corpo that considers me to be a human being and funds causes that promote my rights, instead of wanting me dead.

Ironically, all of this weird hate makes it harder to have actual normal criticism. It just gets drowned and lost in the sea of exaggerated bullshit and lies and conspiracies perpetuated by people who just don't seem to like the game anymore. At the end of the day, it's a video game. Whatever criticism we have, if it gets to the point where we just can't handle the state of the game, the best way to show it is to simply stop playing. A deluge of harassment on twitter will not bring about meaningful change nor will it adequately convey our criticism to anyone. If they truly want some changes, they would do this criticism in a way that matters, instead of creating a horde of angry gamers who will latch onto every lie and create a hate bandwagon.

#destiny 2 #bungie #long post #ask #i def agree with the premise of the ask btw. if that isn't clear #not all criticism is just meaningless rage #unfortunately it's harder than ever to parse through the bullshit to find it #and like. if this leads to less monetisation or something. sure. I'd like that too #but the methods being employed here are literally only hurting community managers devs and the community itself #the marketing board of execs at bungie who decided on monetisation aren't reading twitter comments #going at bungie won't solve the problems of capitalism #you gotta join a different cause to do that my working class siblings #check a discussion on the industry from thiccest_yosh on twitter (he's a bungie dev) #he specifically called out monetisation ruining art as well as misinformation and rage being spread by CCs #refreshing to see this being said directly and publicly by someone who works in the industry #and one more note on the bigotry stuff that made me bitter about aztecross and his stupid video the most #aztecross played supported and promoted hogshit legacy. this big 'anti-corpo warrior' #funding one of the biggest bigots in the world who actively works on trying to kill as many people as possible. totally fine i guess #'it's just a video game.' but with bungie it's life and death apparently #it makes me super bitter and suspicious. especially given how many CCs were in on misgendering characters #i dont trust any of these people. they're a business and when the business is bigotry they gladly participate

[sastiel-is-my-serotonin]

Going to try a new method,

Paypal

Cash.app

Gofund.me

If you want to help an indigenous queer person, and their family, those links look awfully clickable.

#Maybe the less I say the more likely people are going to help?? #I don't know I'm just tired of long paragraphs that get ignored #emergency fund #signal boooooost #financial aid

[hairtusk]

btw the education system for disabled, neurodivergent and mentally ill students in england is so sub-par it makes me want to scream and cry every single day at work

#i'm trying my best but i can only be in one place at once #dear god we desperately need funding. and reforms. and more specialised schools. #i'm trying not to form attachments to students so it hurts less when the system fails them #but a particular group of girls have a place in my heart and i'm trying to protect them as best i can #and make the miserable miserable miserable experience they're having in education just a little bit brighter #it's so difficult. so so so difficult.

[july-19th-club]

always makes me so bummed and sad when new patrons come in and they ask like "how many are we allowed to get" like. because i know some libraries actually do have a borrowing limit but the only time i ever was subjected to one myself was in elementary school. at the school library. and none of the public libraries in my county system have one or ever have and it's like. these people have been to places where the free book distributor set a cap on distributing free books. and they don't know that at our house you can take home as many as you're willing to return! they don't know! they think we're stingy!!

#we're not a very wealthy or large library either #and our satellite branches further out in the county are even smaller and less-funded #any one of us would have a perfectly valid reason to HAVE a checkout limit #but we never have and i'm glad of that bc it would be such a bummer . it makes me bummed out just thinking about it #in what free society do we deny the people the right to stuff as many words or concepts into their faces as they possibly can #q

[thelivingautomaton]

the predoctoral fellowship i resubmitted in the fall not only didn't get funded, but in fact got even worse reviews than the first submission, except literally all of the reviewers' critiques were unrelated to the actual scientific merit or value of the work i was proposing. anyway i am feeling very poorly and very stupid today and hate everybody and everything, &c

#grad school tag #anyway STEM research in academia is a clownshow. and brother i'm one of the freaks in white facepaint #it might aggravate me less if i didn't know as much now about how much funding is just dependent on insider baseball bullshit #or if i didn't know that other labs in the department are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for projects that are absolute nonsense #or if i felt like more than 1.4% of the millions of dollars my institution is sitting on went towards developing trainees as scientists #(DEEP BREATH) okay it's cool it's fine i'm over it. whatever

[santicazorla]

omg nico hulkenbergs wife is a crochet girly

#some of the shit she makes is so ugly but i just made the ugliest vest ever so i’m not judging #i love my ugly vest to be clear #but i have no leg to stand on to judge ugly crochet #she’s living my dream fr tho #rich husband funding her craft addiction #she sells pieces i should do that but no one would buy the things if i priced them like that HAHA #but honestly she’s real for it this shit takes ages #ACTUALLY i just looked a bit more and the biggest size she goes up to is a uk 12 💀💀💀💀 #she said U TOO FAT FOR THIS #if i was rich and just crocheted all day without having to rely on a hideous desk job to feed and house myself #YOU BET MY CROCHET BUSINESS WOULD BE SIZE INCLUSIVE #it’s actually a big problem in general for a lot of the crochet brands out there #i mean it is in society but also i’ve seen SO many pattern makers that will say range of sizes and the range is size tiny to bit less tiny #so anyway i’ve come back round and i AM judging her crochet but not bc it’s ugly (even tho some of it is)