#ranty

[nyancrimew]

epic games and songtradr need to fucking die and give the bandcamp union ownership of bandcamp, i am so done with capitalism ruining art. let the artists and workers own the platforms we depend on. bandcamp is like MADE to be worker and community owned. bandcamp is MADE to be a cooperative. yet it is being used as a gotcha in a legal case by epic and as a toy by some vc backed shitty exploitative startup.

#bandcamp #ranty

[futurebird]

Please don't forget the ants!

STOP STOP STOP Stop, making festive "bug print" fabrics, quilt patterns, children's books and drawings that include "mix of bugs" but don't contain a single ANT.

I know how you artists are. You never skip the butterfly because of the colors. You never skip the beetle because of the ... shape. You never skip a centipede or millipede because of the legs. You never skip the spider because of the LORE. But ants are "boring" --right? NO WRONG

Ants are everything. Ants are the most successful members of the most successful group of land animals on the planet!

A nature drawing without ants is like a forest without leaves. Like night sky... without any stars. Do not forget the ants. Know the ants have not forgotten you!

#ants #antposting #insects #ant #invertebrates #bugs #bugblr #antblr #ranty #kinda ranty #ranty rant #I just want to buy some bug print fabric to line my pencil case and ... so many don't have any ants!

[notarealwelder]

The next textbook author who writes a proof longer than 3 nontrivial sentences and does not sketch the structure of the proof in advance, I'll fucking strangle.

You are not here to discharge your obligations to a proof checker! You are here to impart the ability to generate this bullshit! Separate your proof steps! Name techniques you used to produce these and intuitions that let you guess they'd be helpful! Learn how to write a memorable narrative, you fuckhead!

#i might be an entitled brat who wants to learn math with as little thinking as possible AND I AM RIGHT #my issues with mathematical education let me show you these #math #posts #ranty

[ari-leah-arts]

This is a little ranty/venty but I think I'm done with the Star Wars fandom. Just fed up. And I'm shocked that it's the Imperial corner that did me in.

I'm not sticking around to be told I'm "abusive" or "passive agressive" when I enforce my boundaries. On my work no less!

I'll still draw Star Wars (which lets be honest, that's all a lot of ppl care about). But I'm out of all the servers I was in. I'll just stick to the one I own, thx.

#ari talks #done #just done #venty #ranty #ari rants

[island-in-the-shadows]

Really just read a 103,242 word Ed and Stede fic that left me in the emotional TRENCHES. Then I go search for a palate cleanser and then someone named a different fic after that LOVELY letter and I got hit by the 2x4 reminder of it. At 1am. Fuck me I guess.

I mean Stede really wrote to his man: "We wrote our names on each other in permanent ink." Like, WHAT. I am unwell.

#ranty #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #either way these gays are trying to murder me jfc

[latenightjamaa]

THEY SHOULD REALLY INCREASE THE TIME LIMIT ON NEW YEAR"S FORTUNE DUE TO ALL OF THIS FKEN LAG. MAYBE MAKE THE TIME LIMIT FIVE MINUTES???

#animal jam #jamblr #animal jam classic #aj classic #ranty #kinda #i gues

[unkillable-ouroboros]

Please tell me there is someone as fucking insane about p03 as I am. I can't be the only one. I CAN'T. never in my life has my mentally ill ass clinged onto something like how I'm clinging onto p03. please help.

#ranty #inscryption

[felrend]

I find it so funny that I'm seeing reviewers praise GOWR with how well done the side quests are yet those same reviewers never bothered with the side quests for Horizon Forbidden West. They main lined the game and had such strong opinions about Aloy because they didn't bother to dive in to her story properly. THEN when they actually took the time with the whole game, their tune changed.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm utterly happy that God of War is getting such high compliments. The team deserves it and it's getting me very excited to play next week.

I just think that reviewers need to actually take their time with every game they are being given codes for. Whether that's HFW, Cult of the Lamb, Stray, Elden Ring or God of War. You shouldn't pick and choose what you deiced to focus on for a video game if you aren't going to review it fairly.

#video games #horizon forbidden west #god of war #god of war ragnorak #playstation #sony #sony santa monica #guerrilla #reviews #they should be fair #doesn't matter what game is next #you can't just review bomb something #because you aren't excited for it #gotta give them all a fair chance #ranty

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Organization, Self-discipline, Distractability, and a Rant

A friend of mine re-posted this tweet. I am quite certain that because of this friend’s (VERY REAL) struggles there was a feeling of being seen and validated. And that’s a valid point of view. If something comforts you in your struggles, that’s valid, no kidding. And this article might annoy you. Scroll on by. I’m not wanting to dump on what keeps you going. Times are rough enough. Seriously…

My initial reaction before logic kicked in was nearly incandescent rage. Which led to this rabbit hole as I tried to deal with it.

Why did a little meme make me so mad?

So, remember how it took me thirty years to vacuum a closet? I could have as easily said it took me thirty years to pay my bills or cook a meal or several other things.

Oh sure, I’m organized now. I’m talking “color-coded boxes when it is time to move” level of organization, ‘kay? But even though other people don’t see it, I still remember being shamed in fourth grade because of the desk cubby crammed full of books and papers, and being asked, “You’re so smart, how come you can’t–” about So. Many. Things.

I didn’t become organized by ignoring reality

I am not naturally organized. I am not naturally industrious, and I am not naturally all that productive. I’d call myself lazy, but that invites a lecture from anyone who loves me about being too hard on myself.

I did, at some point, need to accept certain realities. Not paying bills can land one in court. Disorganization can be a big problem in one’s professional life. In my own case, I also have a big problem with depression, so I cannot count day to day being on the ball and thinking clearly. (I mean, really, this rant was because of an initial reaction of NOT thinking clearly)

So, shooting for some damn Platonic Form of “Organized and Disciplined” in my case is a recipe for failure. I’m going to bet it is for you, too.

If your plan has no way to account for delays and failure points, it’s a wish, not a plan. There used to be a fashion in self-development on YouTube to have The Perfect Morning Routine. You know, get up, do twenty minutes of yoga, make yourself the perfect nutritionally-balanced breakfast, read some Improving Literature, and bike to work… that kind of thing. To tell on myself, yeah, I’m trying to get in more stretching and yeah, I use a yoga app for that. My general idea is that I’ll get up and do twenty minutes of yoga (stop laughing at me) and then do my day. I did not, in fact, get right up and do that. It’s almost ten in the morning, I’ve been up since six, and I’m here writing this incredibly detailed rant and not getting in that stretching. So I’m failing, right? Wrong.

“Imperfectly Perfect” has a lot going for it My goal for the month is to get in ten minutes of yoga a day as an average measured over a month. I’ll throw in a few minutes today at some point. Probably after I write this. While an organized person looks like they’re doing things in a strict way and in a specific order, that may not be entirely the case. Sure, you have to show up at the dentist at a specific time, or take your meds before you eat or something. But what time you do your writing or wash your dishes has a lot more wiggle room. Let it have that wiggle room and let goals that don’t need to be exact be inexact.

“Good Enough” and “Perfect” are two different things. Good enough is better than Perfect. Bed making… I’ve heard people say that bed-making is too much trouble. When I hear that, I almost always presume another choke point — bed against the wall makes making it a pain in the ass, depression makes it hard to get OUT of bed, never mind making it, things like that. But… If the only time you make your bed is when you have the energy to make it neatly enough you won’t be yelled at on Parris Island, you have absolutely confused “Perfect” and “Good Enough.”

I took that picture thirty seconds before I wrote this. I did no adjustments on the bed. It’s just how I made it this morning. I woke up this morning cranky and wanting to punch Humanity in the mouth. So, not motivated. This meets my personal definition for good enough. It’s made. I’m dressed and doing my day.

Good. Enough.

Defining Good Enough will help you. What is “Good Enough” in your life?Ignoring real issues of executive function will set you up for failure.

Are you distractable? I am. In fact, this article is a prime example of distractability for me. I haven’t written what I plan to do for the day in my Bullet Journal and haven’t done most of my Wednesday morning chores. I got ranty and just had to sit down and write this. That yoga I was going to do? That planning out the day I (usually) do? Obviously not happening right now as I ranty, ranty, rant.

But my life is set up to account for things like this. I accept and plan for the fact that stuff like this happens! I have a means to track what needs to be done that won’t let the genuinely important and urgent things fall through the cracks. Even though I am currently caught up in the glorious dopamine hit of ranting, those things that need to be done are quietly sitting in their places, waiting for my attention.

Thing is, it’s more than just a to-do list. It’s setting up your life to account for how your brain works.

That might mean storing your extra sheets under your mattress so you will immediately re-make the bed when you wash your sheets, or hanging a mask on the back of your door so you don’t forget to put then thing on before you leave your apartment. (Yeah, I know, that looked oddly specific, didn’t it?)Being organized and disciplined is a skill. Mastering skills take time.

Think of anything you know how to do — playing an instrument, cooking a meal, writing fiction, driving, whatever.You might have wanted to master it overnight. But if you actually developed the skill instead of stopping the activity, you probably put in a lot of time and effort. You probably had failures that made you wince at yourself.

Learning the skill of organization is no different.

I know that saying it took me thirty years of solid work to get organized seems like hyperbole. It’s not. It was really that difficult for me.

Which is, I know, why images like the above set me off a little. I know the intention is to make people feel better about a mutual struggle.

But it also makes me feel like in the common cultural mind, my life’s work was mostly a waste of time.

#ranty #organization

[idioticsnow]

Paintbrush and bot suck, their only purpose is to be representation of nonbinary/ppl under the nonbinary umbrella thingy,its so annoying to want to see paintbrush, a character that you like,then you see "HAHAHAHA!!!! NONBINARY HEHEHEHE IM NOT GIR OR BOI HAHAH" like shut up,other then that they're just angry,and it's fine for that but that and being nonbinary is their only personality,and bot is just mid,they arent interesting and again,theyre only personality is not being a boy or girl/identifying with who you were meant to be,and its okay to relate to paintbrush and/or bot,its totally fine,but im just saying paintbrush and bot need more personality.

#inanimate insanity #inanimate insanity rant #rant #ranty #ii #ii rant #ii paintbrush #ii bot #inanimate insanity paintbrush #inanimate insanity bot

[radio-ghost-cooks]

can't believe i need to say this in the year of our lord Hatsune Miku 2024, but stop giving people shit abt their clothes

one person's "dressed in the dark" is another person's favorite outfit

"it's just a black t-shirt and jeans" okay but what cut what fit what fabric what size

my white shirt from uniqlo fits entirely differently from my white shirt from target because they are made entirely differently

my favorite outfit is my white uniqlo shirt and my wide leg green cargos, bc my target shirt looks and feels different and it doesn't match my vibe

and for the love of Apollo stop giving people shit for dressing like a "basic white girl/boy" it's still a valid clothing style and it still makes people happy so how abt u shut the fuck up

#tumblr stop glorifying alternative styles challenge #guess what #no one style is better than another #sorry not everyone likes to wear band shirts and thrifted silk skirts #sorry #ranty #rant post #but this genuinely annoys me

[darlingdearest0]

but what if I WANT to grow strawberries in my sanctuary from the apocalypse with the one I love who saved me from my loneliness, exploding with joy at the taste of strawberries, dying in each other's arms after years of love but NO

#tlou #the last of us #bill and frank #ranty #i'm being emo because of the zombie show #why is the zombie show reminding me that i'm human #i did not sign up for this i signed up for ZOMBIES and PEDRO PASCAL

[secretside-blog]

you know that laying in bed at night feeling when you're about to sleep and just read a post and think to yourself like yes, I am Bisexual and I am genderqueer and I am probably aro/ace. Like maybe that never dreaming of a white wedding and only ever wanting to live with my friends and alway feeling uncomfortable kissing in public and wanting to wear the cool boy clothes was actually a thing.

And I know when I leave the house tomorrow morning I will question if this is all real or if I'm maybe just a woman who likes to wear man's jeans because of the pockets. And man's deodorant because it lasts longer. And man's hoodies because they're more oversized. If I only cut my hair short because it's easier to maintain. If it's even worth the fuzz to tell anyone how I feel. Or if I simply imagine these things when I'm laying in bed right before I go to sleep.

#ranty #queer #genderqueer #aro/ace #bisexual #ugh don't look at me

[zarithial]

the ambient music of Half-Life

 There’s something about the ambient music of Half-Life (not counting Alyx for this) that is so... oppressive, depressing and haunting. 

much of it I think can be attributed to how Kelly Bailey uses dark and otherworldly synths and dull droning sounds to perfectly capture the reality of the half life universe in music

I think a few of the songs that capture this the best are Lab Practicum, Nectarium, Suppression Field, Nepal monastery and Dark Interval. which I will briefly go into detail about what the songs encapsulate and the emotions they inspire, at least for me. Lab Practicum is a hauntingly beautiful song that plays while traversing the underside of a bridge during the Highway 17 chapter. This track gives the player (and Gordon) time to breathe and reflect on what has transpired as this is one of the few moments of downtime.

This song is nostalgic, tragic, ghostly in tone and its perfect for this moment in time, a break in the action but still you must be cautious or slip into what remains of the waters below or fall victim to the creatures laying in wait up ahead.

Nectarium is alien, strange and imposing like an environment you can’t quite understand before fading into a distant and almost familiar melody. It plays as a vortigaunt harvests larvae to save Alyx’s life, its daunting and instils a sense of dread and a bit of urgency as if its saying you’re not meant to be here. this place is alien to you and this world but it is home for others and sacred to yet more.

Suppression Field is i feel the most oppressive song in half life, it is a slow suffocating song that fades in and out like fading consciousness. as it plays you meet your first rebel ally in the ruined playground and move into the almost completely destroyed city. it encapsulates the sheer power of the combine to level a majority of the city in response of the uprising and the choking nature of the titular suppression field, completely preventing humans from reproducing and make them subservient.

Nepal Monastery is true to its name, a foreboding track comprised mainly of the few non-synth or electronic instruments featured in the soundtracks and a droning synth. you hear this as you hear the tentacles in blast pit for the first time, in a way the test silo has become a sort of monastery for the creatures.

I don’t have much more to say on this song but it is incredibly unique for the soundtrack with minimal distortion making it one of the most haunting tracks at the same time.

Dark Interval.

It is the last thing you hear in episode 2.

13 years of silence and decay.

A song that embodies the slow atrophy of humanity in this world.

Haunting, Ghostly, Powerful.

This song encapsulates everything that makes Half-Life so... atmospheric, the people, the story, its all a slow decay. 

and while it plays, you hear nothing else but Alyx grieve over the loss of her father.

The tragic end of a story that will never be finished and the end of a beloved character.

Dark Interval *is* Half-Life to me, and that dark, sorrowful yet slightly hopeful tone is everything that the games represent. But that’s just my opinion.

Thanks for reading, have a good day or night.

Bye.

#long post #half life #half-life #music talk #ranty

[saspitite]

i actually fucking hate that i have to check several times if the image i searched up is AI or not.

and yes, i did make sure to block as many prominent AI websites as i could from my browser, but this shit has gotten to the point where i've seen AI casually used on completely unrelated websites, whether intentionally or not. and on fucking articles too. you know how sick to my stomach i get when i'm trying to do research on a specific animal and this article, which i thought was genuinely well researched, is filled with "references" that are clearly just generated slop.

like. this isn't going to fucking benefit anybody.

say what you want about the technical improvements AI images have gone through over the past few years, it's basically a fact that it won't ever get to the point of true accuracy. not in my lifetime, anyway. even if it looks more polished than the Lovecraftian elder-vomit we were looking at in 2021, it still very clearly makes a lot of genuine errors. in this case, it's hard for me to find photos of certain animals at times because the results are filled with insidious AI generated images that might look okay at first, but then you look closer and realize that the anatomy is completely off. that it's feeding you false information.

like, that sucks so fucking much. i actually liked the internet because it served as a place to find all sorts of information about the world when i wasn't able to go to the library for a book or two. now it feels like im constantly dodging shitty half rendered bullets that actually look more like beetles when you look closer at them

#sas says #ranty

[uhhhhmanda]

I went back on antidepressants in 2018 and it's been wild watching my passions return. It was a few years before I was really interested in reading again (I used to read more than 100 books a year and I've just now worked my way back up to about 40) and I've only just started to dip my toe back into fiction. But one of my earliest interests -- gardening -- may finally be back this year! Instead of being pissed off about the state of my beds (and my knees) I've started sourcing solutions (instead of a $100 wheeled metal garden cart with a seat I got a $10 plastic stepstool from the hardware store, Asian auntie-style) and moving plants! Every sunny day sees me out in the dirt again!

#ranty #depression #recovery #i'm overhauling the herb garden AGAIN #and moving all the struggling plants out of the big front bed that has transitioned from sunny to shady #i FUCKING HATE mowing so I'm going to cover the front lawn with stones or gravel and put a little bistro set out there #the dogs will be able to see me but NOT JUMP ON ME while i have my tea/coffee #might delete idk #but dude it's AMAZING what a single daffodil or viola can do for one's mood