#red flags copypasta

[xxxanxietybitchxxx]

The date💑 started🆕 📴off📴 so🆘🆘 well. Began my night 🌙 not expecting the fright of my life. She was perfect💯💯 from what😦 I could tell, how could I not 👀see👀 the danger🚸 right▶️ in front of me. "My favorite📑 food 🍘🍘 is fish 🐟." Baby, that's my favorite📑 too. "I 💟love💟 cartoon dogs 🐾." Baby, I love 💓💓 Scooby Doo. Hey girl🙎🙎, what's😦 your favorite📑📑 📽film📽? She said "The best ✨✨ movie🎦 of all, is a 🅰️ masterpiece of 🎨art🎨 called 📲 HUMAN CENTIPEDE, HUMAN CENTIPEDE." I think🤔 that I'm gonna get🉐 murdered tonight. "HUMAN CENTIPEDE, NOT IRONICALLY" She said, "The costume design🎨 was 🅰️a🅰️🅰️ highlight. I like 💖 🇮🇹it🇮🇹 for the plot." Tell me what😦 the plot's about. "German doctor😷😷 sews 3️⃣three3️⃣ 👶people👶 ass to mouth 😦." Cool. "HUMAN CENTIPEDE." Please God, save🔖 me. I think 🤔 that's 🅰️a🅰️ red👺 flag 🇷🇺. I don't want to get🉐 stabbed. She said, "Human centipede is a🅰️ tour de🇩🇪 force." I 🤔think 🤔 'Holy 💩shit💩, I'm gonna be the main course.' 🆓 She said, "I admire the narrative of character🔣🔣 📈growth📈." I try to get🉐🉐 the waiter's 🚏 attention by blinking in Morse Code. "Why are you blinking so🆘🆘 much?" I've got🉐 something in my 😙eye😙. "Here, let me 🉐get🉐 🇮🇹it🇮🇹 out." No thank you, I don't wanna die🎲. "Bonjour, 👨sir 👨 was blinking at me, is this because your 📆date📆 is a🅰️ freak?" No. "Very ✨good✨ then, bon appetit." "Stop hiding behind your silly made up🔺 🆑red🆑 🇨🇳flag🇨🇳. Do not take a 🅰️ chance on🔛🔛 the 👌best👌 relationship you've never 🈶had🈶." Maybe you're right▶️▶️ and I'm looking👀👀 for excuses, my 💚heart's💚 🉐got🉐 bruises but I'm ready to choose this love 💝💝. "You could be my 🌍world🌍🌍, the love❤️ of my life. One day we'll get🉐 married and be husband and wife." With a🅰️ tasteful ceremony 🏆 and the wedding👰 of our dreams! "Only if the wedding's 👰 themed-" Tell me 😦what😦 the theme's gonna be! "HUMAN CENTIPEDE, HUMAN CENTIPEDE" That way↕️↕️ wr could save💾 on 🔛🔛 the catering bill💸. "HUMAN CENTIPEDE, ONLY ONE MOUTH TO FEED." if you are the best 👌👌 man👳, you know the drill. Pucker up🔝. I could finally open👐 myself up🔝 to love💕. "I CAN FINALLY SEW A MOUTH TO A BUTT!" Human centipede. "Human centipede."

#copy pasta #red flags #red flags copypasta #copypasta #human centipede

[patchuvio]

Someone at school recited this copypasta word-for-word to Azrael...

If Az was indiscreet with his reports

#fetus room #the fetus room #original character #massive red flag #do you want to get blacklisted from having a family #cringe #what the actual fuck #this is why you need standards #copypasta #not just a scribble :) #hide your kids

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

Media explainers are a cheap way to become an instant expert on everything from billionaire submarine excursions to hellaciously complex geopolitical conflicts, but On The Media's "Breaking News Consumers' Handbooks" are explainers that help you understand other explainers:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-and-gaza-edition-on-the-media

The latest handbook is an Israel-Gaza edition. It doesn't aim to parse fine distinctions over the definition of "occupation" or identify the source of shell fragments. Rather, it offers seven bullet points' worth of advice on weighing all the other news you hear about the war:

https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2023/Oct/27/BNCH_ISRAEL_GAZA_EDITION_1.pdf

I. "Headlines are obscured by the fog of war"

Headline writers have a hard job under the best of circumstances – trying to snag your interest in a few words. Headlines can't encompass all the nuance of a story, and they are often written by editors, not the writers who produced the story. Between the imperatives for speed and brevity and the broken telephone between editors and writers, it's easy for headlines to go wrong, even when no one is attempting to mislead you. Even reliable outlets will screw up headlines sometimes – and that likelihood goes way up in times like these. You gotta read the story, not just the headline.

II. Know red flags for bullshit

The factually untrue information that spreads furthest tends to originate with a handful of superspreader accounts. Whether these people are Just Wrong or malicious disinfo peddlers, they share a few characteristics that should trip your BS meter and prompt extra scrutiny:

High-frequency posting

Emotionally charged framing

Posts that purport to be summaries or excerpts from news outlets, but do not include links to the original

The phrase "breaking news" (no one has that many scoops)

III. Don't trust screenshots

Screenshots of news stories, tweets, and other social media should come with links to the original. It's just too damned easy to fake a screenshot.

IV. "Know your platform"

It used to be that Twitter got a lot of first-person accounts from people in the thick of crises, while Facebook and Reddit contained commentary and reposts. Today, Twitter is just another aggregator. This time around, there's lots of first-person, real-time reporting coming off Telegram (it runs well on old phones and doesn't chew up batteries). Instagram is widely used in both Israel and the West Bank.

V. "Crisis actors" aren't a thing

People who attribute war images to "crisis actors" are either deluded or lying. There's plenty of ways to distort war news, but paying people to pretend to be grieving family members is essentially unheard of. Any explanation that involves crisis actors is a solid reason to permanently block that source.

VI. There's plenty of ways to verify stuff that smells fishy

TinEye, Yandex and Google Image Search are all good tools for checking "breaking" images and seeing if they're old copypasta ganked from earlier conflicts (or, you know, video-games). The fact that an image doesn't show up in one of these searches doesn't guarantee its authenticity, of course.

VII. Think before you post

Israel-Gaza is the most polluted media pool yet. Don't make it worse.

There's plenty more detail on this (especially on the use of verification tools) in Brooke Gladstone's radio segment:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-gaza-edition

The media environment sucks, and warrants skepticism and caution. But we also need to be skeptical of skepticism itself! As danah boyd started saying all the way back in 2018, weaponized media literacy leads to conspiratorialism:

https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2018/03/09/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you.html

Remember, the biggest peddlers of "fake news" are also the most prolific users of the term. For a lot of these information warriors, the point isn't to get you to believe them – they'll settle for you believing nothing. "Flood the zone with bullshit" is Steve Bannon's go-to tactic, and it's one that his acolytes have picked up and multiplied.

It's important to be a critical thinker, but there's plenty of people who've figured out how to weaponize a critical viewpoint and turn it into nihilism. Remember, the guy who wrote How To Lie With Statistics was a tobacco industry shill who made his living obfuscating the link between smoking and cancer. It's absolutely possible to lie with statistics, but it's also possible to use statistics to know the truth, as Tim Harford explains in his 2021 must-read book The Data Detective:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/04/how-to-truth/#harford

There's a world of difference between being misled and being brainwashed. A lot of today's worry about "disinformation" and "misinformation" has the whiff of a moral panic:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/are-we-having-a-moral-panic-over-misinformation.html

It's possible to have a nuanced view of this subject – to take steps to enure you're not being tricked without equating crude tricks like sticking a fake BBC chyron on a 10-year-old image with unstoppable mind-control:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/#breaking-news

#pluralistic #media literacy #fake news #disinformation #misinformation #israel gaza #gaza #israel #palestine #conspiratorialism #hoaxes #infowar #on the media #breaking news #npr #flood the zone

[psychrodraws]

You know, I've never really liked that the player character is the usually the only one in the entire country to even consider naming their Pokemon. Let's fix that!

Gordon- Named after Gordon Ramsay, of course! Arven seems like he'd watch a lot of cooking shows, after all.

Mignonette- A popular French sauce served with shellfish. Arven's got a bit of a dark sense of humor like that.

Red Hot- Obviously, peppers are pretty hot! It's also two words to reference the two heads- I like to imagine their individual names are literally "Red" and "Hot." Plus, it's a cheeky musical reference, which I love making. :P

Shiitake- Not much to say here.

Saltine- Yeah same.

Buddy- He calls Mabosstiff "Buddy" a ton in the story, and it's exactly what a little kid would name his first pet. If I could choose a SINGLE Pokemon to officially name in-game, it would be this one. It would hold so much meaning, come on James Freak!!!

Scorpio- Distant, cold and aloof. As a bonus, "Scorpio" references Umbreon's long-lost poison typing that no one online ever shuts up about.

Aquarius- Easy going, strong and a bit eccentric. You need to have a strong character to not beat the shit out of Vaporeon copypasta spammers.

Gemini- Quick thinking, social and spontaneous. Normal cats are crazy enough at 4am, imagine a cat imbued with the power of lightning...

Leo- Fearless, protective and a natural leader. Perfect fit for a fierce and physical Pokemon like Flareon! Plus, it's kinda almost like a lion!

Virgo- Practical, intelligent and "down-to-earth." Nails the chill, graceful yet powerful form of Leafeon.

Cassiopeia- Said to represent the queen, sitting on her throne. Penny claims she doesn't play favorites, but, let's be real here- the living trans pride flag is her favorite. I like to imagine "Cassiopeia" was her first chosen name when she came out, but then reeled it back to something a bit easier to pronounce and spell. The struggle...

Alright this one doesn't get a list of explanations for obvious reasons. I was really struggling to figure out what kind of nicknames Nemona would give her Pokemon. Seriously, I was pondering flowers and foods, maybe battle items or strategies? But when I thought about Nemona as a person, as a battler, as a trainer and as a lover of Pokemon...

She's totally that person who gives her Pokemon silly nicknames that don't fit at all once they evolve.

Ortho, Goober, Duncie, Ruffles, Mimo and Quackers. It's perfect.

Hate me all you want for skimping out on these, you know I'm right.

Que-tea, Kokomo (told you,) and Rowley. :P

#psychrothoughts #pokemon sv #arven #nemona #penny #pokemon nicknames #pokemon scarlet and violet

[afniel]

Yo hi there? I’m hoping you dont find this ask strange, weird or whatever you call it 😞 Just wanted to ask a favor if you could possibly check the post I pinned for my cat? Its on this blog, please do check if you have a spare time and reblog/boost it as we badly need help because there’s some kind of a rash on her mouth and im so so worried 😭😭 Im so sorry if I did bother you, just need some help. Please do send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately, please and have good day! 😭🙏🙏🐈

So here's a real common likely scam. Account seems legit at first glance, name makes sense, contents are thematically related, seems like it all checks out. Except as of the time of this reply, this account is a whole 11 hours old, and the only personal posts they've made are asking for money for this cat that might or might not exist.

I'll allow that reverse image search didn't pull up any identical cat photos, but the single photo they supplied doesn't show any kind of oral lesions, or indeed anything specifically wrong with the cat at all. It's just a cat photo. Cute, but not credible.

Asking to only reply privately about what seems to be a public fundraiser is a huge red flag also. Normally if someone asks that, you do it, right? That's been considered Tumblr good manners since the site's inception. However it's shady to go around sending copypasta asks to strangers for money and then essentially asking them to not blow your cover.

The link in their post not only uses PayPal and not something more reputable for fundraising, but it specifically asks you to send it as friends and family to avoid them taking a cut. This also handily avoids almost all of PayPal's built-in scam protection and refund systems.

Checking their pinned post also reveals that someone's already pointed out that it's likely a scam and they didn't even refute it, when it would have been super easy to go, "Sorry it sounded sketchy, here's more detail."

And even if this is still somehow real despite entirely failing the sniff test, and there really is an 11-hour-old account with a sick cat, no pictures of what sounds like it should be a visible ailment, no idea that GoFundMe exists, and parroting an extremely common scam (and let's be real here, I don't believe that to be the case for one moment)...

Don't fucking prey on strangers with this. That's not what we're here for. Like I'm flattered that you think my following is large enough to contain a few suckers but get the fuck on outta here, buddy.

I'm off to report and block this person now and you should do the same.

#scam alert #lol nice try but no

[dteamain]

THE EDIT OF THAT POST Is FOULLL OH M Y GOD RED FUCKING FLAG 🚩🚩🚩🚩

I am giggling just a little tho

one day it will be a copypasta that is my goal

#anon #guyssss thanks for letting me have a little giggle 🙏

[shinydixon]

https://twitter.com/filmwntrs/status/1576651678409175040?t=tTg6aL02O0pIyd0r1P40aw&s=19

I swear some hellcheers are for real

If you so much dislike Steve Harrington do NOT interact with me, you're a walking red flag and you reek of jealousy and biphobia, especially if your fav character is Eddie and you ship Hellcheer. Like don't even get me started, I know what you are

...yes perfect copypasta or whatever you call it 🌚

#pon pon free

[mitaffenartigergeschwendigkeit]

I stole this from a copypasta group.

‘SPIRITUAL' RED FLAGS TO WATCH FOR (AND THEIR MEANINGS):

1: To 'hold space' for someone = To sit and stare at someone with emotional issues for an uncomfortable amount of time, then pat yourself on the back for basically doing nothing while your homie has a breakdown.

2: I'm in transition = I'm unemployed and totally fucking lost, so I have created an identity out of being an opportunist. Maybe you have some trim work for me or food? Or a trade? I do crystal readings!

3: I'm processing a lot of downloads from the Universe = I smoked too much DMT and can’t afford therapy. By pretending that my fragile brain is a sacred record keeper, I receive validation for speaking gibberish.

4: I'm a lightworker/empath = I am depressed and unstable and take zero responsibility for my own self-destructive tendencies, and need to focus on condescending your dark shit to avoid my own. (PS: I'll diagnose you as a narcissist)

5: I am a Reiki Master= I crave human contact, And this makes me feel less insecure than Tinder. I can cross personal physical boundaries with ease if I so choose, depending on what my client looks like, or I can think about random things while getting paid handsomely to hold my hands awkwardly over someone’s body.

6: You have an amazing Aura = I would love to bang you.

7: I am writing a travel blog = I don't want to go home, I no longer fit in: I never have. I don't know where I will end up, but I’d like to get paid to figure it out.

8: I'm not looking for a relationship/ only deep soul connections = I have commitment issues and fear of intimacy so I collect partners with compatible insecurities. I understand you will head off to Thailand soon anyways. “Bread-crumbing my love keeps me safe” is my mantra, while I dip my dick like a candlestick in every Shanti ratchet priestess in town.

9: 'Inner Goddess Within' workshops = An understanding of daddy Issues and a way to overdevelop the masculine side to protect the little girl within. Helping participants to surrender to the bias that all men are shit ( all of this for a nominal fee). The level 2 masterclass will teach you how to galactivate your man’s scrotum chakra enough to make him forget that you pay for bullshit workshops with his harvest money.

10: A guru = Someone who has overstepped the threshold of self-development into supreme egotism and found a niche market. Carries a flute and has a name you can't pronounce (though his driver's license says Steve) and chants words he doesn’t understand. But interesting tattoos...right?

11. A shaman = see above.

12: Worshipping the Beloved = Classic scenario where a cluster B personality type convinces you at a festival that you are their twin flame, lost for centuries in the ether. If you have never been loved by your primary caregivers, this is paradise on earth as your fear of abandonment gets spanked with a mala on the magical, mystery tour of self-deception.

13: In the flow = I never commit to anything, especially plans to do anything with anyone, so that I can completely flake out and not take any responsibility for it; ie I didn’t pay my phone bill this month.

14: Co-creating a retreat/gathering = my borderline personality friends and I have exhausted all other means of making an honest income, and have decided instead to use our social media clout (aka naked buttcheeks) to radically overcharge a too-large group of saps for 2-14 days of mediocre vegan food, awkward group encounters, and real-world-style sexual politics.

15; Substance Free Event = Powder drugs are fine but if you bring alcohol, we’ll judge the shit out of you. Tobacco’s cool if you snort it and call it "ceremony" or roll your own.

16: Speaking My Truth = I reserve the right to be an asshole in this conversation and you must honor it, regardless of how deep my delusion may be. I’ll probably use this phrase every time I don’t want to be called out for my phony bullshit, because it’s all perspective man.

[roosterbox]

Hi there! Sorry if im being too direct its just that I’m trying to reach out for help if it’s okay! My cat is in need of urgent care so I’m trying to raise some funds for her upcoming vet care visit, an ultrasound to be exact. I made a post about it and I pinned it on my blog, hoping that you’d be so kind to help me spread the word, please as every bit of help can get her one step closer to relief. I would truly appreciate it and i pray that all goes well on your end, too! stay safe! By the way, if its possible, try to answer this ask in private or mesage me if fine, reason is that, people might think I "pressured" you to do so, as some people can be weird about these things. 🙏🥹

My first cat scam ask. I’m kind of honored.

Biggest red flags:

the vague copypasta of an ask (that I saw several of when I searched up “cat scam,” some with the EXACT SAME wording)

the fact that other than the ‘pls donate’ post all their reblogs are tagless commentless random fandom reblogs

the blog is like 2 days old

asking me to ‘answer privately’ and to donate on PayPal via ‘friends and family’ on their pinned post. Which is also a very common scam tactic.

Asker, if you really are genuinely looking for vet money help, please consider a different method. One that uses less easily searchable copypasta messages.

Blocking after posting this, fyi.

#answering asks #cat scam #vet bill scam #be careful out there guys

[bleedingheartsandwiltedroses]

(cw: m+m)

I just wanted to say I'm so thankful for having found this. Moth crew really fucked us up as well as messed up our gf for a long time. They would constantly gaslight us and our friends as well as talk down on anything they don't like. I really appreciate you having made the doc and all the updates. It's taken us a long time to get over them, and honestly I still don't think we have. (we never dated but they claimed we were their best friends and the only people who really knew them, dispite us knowing them for not super long). As far as we know they never really were intersex, our main gripe with them, because a lot of what they said felt very copypasta and google results vomit. We're actually physically intersex and it sucks ass. We weren't friends with them for long before Red flags started popping up and we got away.

Anyway. Just saying thanks. If anything new pops up I'm looking forward to finding out

(and if you're not wanting to continue this topic it's ok. Don't feel pressured to post this)

Ofc!! And we actually have info on their intersexism but we are not intersex so I dont feel comfortable posting about it (its also quite NSFW.) You’re definitely on the right track though I will say lol

And as for the best friend thing they did the same thing with is after getting back in contact. We were constantly told they felt safest with us and that they trusted us more than basically anyone.

I’m super sorry you went through that and if you ever need anything (or want what I know on the intersex stuff lol) you can always message!

#sail emotes

[cosmicclownboy]

Yeah I absolutely feel nothing towards Greg they just had to copypasta the heteronormative macho jock shtick they tried with Michael last season onto him. I hated it on Michael and I hate it on Greg. Gone is the soft himbo school teacher and now it's he's a manly man ™ who gets possessive about his crush like he's a boy in a young adult novel presenting red flags. He teaches kids he'd have way more patience and understanding then wanting to mark his territory towards Kyle who he has known since he was a kid.

#I HATE IT SO MUCH

[420technoblazeit]

ranboo is like professional-level good at various american accents . ohh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose bright stars and bright stripes :flag_us: through the perilous flight over the ramparts we watched were so galantly gleaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag :flag_us: was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave over the land o thr free and/c

alkshdglhasdglhasdg once again I FALL FOR COPYPASTAS EVERY TIME 

#420 squeals #passeriformess

[fierifreak]

ok so as a feminist i understand that male redditcels being all "brightly dyed mullets on women and an interest in crystal energies is a red flag" is sexist bc its like "when woman have hobby >:(" BUT as a lesbian they kinda didnt miss. like facts were kinda spoke.

is everyone else getting a bunch of asks today. did i miss some new copypastas

#anon #answered #anyways.

[sorashiro001]

BlueShift's Stream from Other Side of The Screen

POV you are a bored Twitch streamer and decided to scroll through your recommendation stream page on Twitch. 

A Freemanverse Casual-Competitive Gaming AU Oneshot.

You are bored. Not much of your favourite streamers were going live in Twitch and you need your daily entertainment. Sleeping is futile, so you decided to check on your recommendation list. One of the recommended streams caught your eyes immediately with their title.

  Day 1 of attempting to stream peacefully (VetExpert asleep, STFU)

BlueShift (5k viewers)

You remembered BlueShift, he was one of the top 20 AWPer in CSGO and one of the top pro players in NA Region. He then retired from the game to become a streamer after getting benched and replaced by his old teammate but quickly getting another attention when he showed up again in the pro-league scene, this time in R6S. Many of his fans weren't happy with his decision to ditch his old stage, but it was a refreshing starting point for some of his older fans.

Another name in the title also one of the reasons the stream caught your eyes.

VetExpert? That name echoed through your memories, reopening some of them. You remembered how enthusiastic your gaming friends were when you asked them about that name. Apparently, the username belongs to a prodigy at FPS games, from the first Counter-Strike and Call of Duty franchise to their latest ones, pulling out one-tap shots and out-of-box strats. The man also rumoured to be a genius in his academic days, getting his PhD at a very young age in MIT, yet you're confused why he threw his potential away and turned into a pro player instead.

You quickly shook those thoughts out and clicked on the stream, oblivious to the chaos awaiting behind the screen.

"Dagnabit, their Ash is blind as hell."  The familiar southern accented voice filled your ears as you watched the man, currently playing as Smoke, throwing his gas canisters to Bank Garage in Basement and watched as the yellow toxic gas filling up the area widely. Seconds later, Blue got three confirmed kills with his gas. "Poor whoever those two followin' that dumbass."

You could hear a crackling noise from the game's voice chat, this time it's from his squadmate; Hawkeye01.BMesa.  "TOUCH THE FINAL TWO AND YOU ALL DEAD TO ME!!!"

 Damn, he's one loudmouth fella-

And just like that, 4th round finally ended with the final two headshot kills and the game ended in Blue's team victory. You caught a glimpse of the last killcam and stared in awe as Hawk obliterated those last two attackers with Vigil's double-barrel BOSG shotgun in just two headshots. The voice chat erupted in cheers of disbelief or simply laughed along, while Blue chuckled in amusement and Hawk grunted in satisfaction. In the end, Hawk's Vigil stood up in the middle of his team victory screen as the MVP. Blue flashed the scoreboard, and you felt your jaw dropped.

Hawkeye01.BMesa got 17 kills and 0 death, followed by BlueShift.BMesa 3 kills and a single death.

This man got at least 2 aces in the match.

Holy shit, what kind of monster is Hawk-

Even before you finished your thought, a medium brunette-haired man barged into Blue's room and quickly threw himself into the streamer, knocking him out from the chair and let out a pained groan. The screen then shifted from the game's home screen to a full view of his room. The room's size isn't too big nor small, a Black Mesa esports jersey is hanged on the wall right behind him along with posters of his old CSGO team members and a single bed with a blue-orange sheet cover. On top of it, however, you could see another brunette, this time with short messy hair, was sleeping peacefully while wrapping his body in a puffy orange lambda-symbol blanket despite the chaos happening in there. A pair of black square-framed glasses sat on the nightstand beside the bed. You guessed he's VetExpert from the stream title alone.

"Ross, I'm still streamin' here-"  His panicky voice was interrupted by the brunette man's oddly-familiar hysterical laughter. The brunette man stood up tall and fixed his glasses' position, looming over the southern streamer while smirking, full of his ego.

"Who cares?! I beat your highest kills!!!" The man cackled out loud, his rattail-tied brunette hair swayed as he grabbed a beanbag chair and threw it on him.   "You fuckers finally witness my fucking pure fragging skills, unlike those cowards at last time major."

What does this man mean by- oh.

 He's talking about those 17 kills.

 He's that fucker Hawkeye01.

You quickly check the stream chat and witnessing a chaotic clash between two sides. There are the ones that spamming PogChamp and Popcorn emoji, and the others spamming random copypastas to "Ward off Ross' shitshow", while you and (maybe) a handful of people could only type "???" on it. There even Bits spams and multiple donation notifs with its TTS mostly consisting from "Ross get the fuck out, I'm playing Minecraft!" to "GORDOS YOUR BOYFRIEND GOT ATTACKED BY A FUCKING FIEND WAKE UP!"

 ...Wait, who's Gordos?

As if on cue, the short brunette haired man sat upright, rubbing his eyes while yawning widely, and effectively stop the current chaos somehow. Those two froze in their place, eyes staring at the short-haired brunette as he also staring back at them. The freshly-woke up Vet blinked twice before signing something, he points at them and formed his hand to make ASL fingerspelling of O and K with added confused expression. Both men went silent for a moment, then nodded in sync. It seemed to please the sleepy man because he went back to burying himself again inside his puffy blanket. The room went deadly silent, only sound of Blue's CPU fan could be heard.

You thought it was over, but you were wrong. Badly wrong.

From the background, you heard a loud fire alarm noise accompanied by panic screeching and angry screaming, sending both men scrambling out from the room. Between those muffled panic screams from outside the room, you saw another brunette, this time he's way bigger than other brunette men, busting down the door, grabbed Vet out from the bed with his blanket, then put him on his shoulder like a sack and ran out again. White-grayish smokes slowly seeping in through the door and filling the bedroom, successfully getting on your nerve. You quickly opened the chat again and found another two separate sides, this time in betting who's the one cooking and causing the fire (most of the name in the bets were either Dean and Antoine-whoever, you didn't know about them much) and some of them mentioned that they'd called the team's "Administrator" (or as the chat typed; @min. that's one strange username, you thought). As the smoke was getting thicker, you decided to spent your own Bits for the TTS to gain the chaotic chat's attention.

[privatepolar] is giving Bits x500: "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN PLEASE???"

The chat slowly sent fewer messages after that TTS message, saved for the bets and small amount of copypastas, but somehow it raised a red flag inside your brain.

What comes next almost short-circuited your brain cells.

[OwOGamer] is giving Bits x10: "Bet u r a newcomer to this stream. Don't worry dis 1 is milder."

WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY "MILDER"?! THIS ISN'T A SERIOUS THING FOR THEM???

[helpmeimdying] is giving Bits x50: "Yo should we tell them about how gordos obliterated ross with a crowbar?"

WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK?! ISN'T THAT SUPPOSED TO BE ILLEGAL??

[Ashe.R6] is giving Bits x100: "nah lets go with wayne chase tf out of dean for cussing in front of joshie (1/2)"

Oh, this one isn't sound too bad- wait why it's got split into two parts-

[Ashe.R6] is giving Bits x100: "then john tackled wayne to ground along w/ barney and antoine sandwiched them all (2/2)"

...You could feel your sanity slowly draining out the longer you listen to Bits TTS' robotic voice as if to mock you for being the only sane one here. You silently begging to whatever the ones that took your sanity away for a peaceful death.

The last thing you heard in the background was a sound of the fire department's siren as the stream came to a sudden stop.

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The next day, you subscribed to his Twitch channel.

Screw your sanity, you wanted to see more of the mayhem behind BlueShift's stream.

You lightly chuckled to yourself.

You've become the very thing you'd feared, and you don't regret it at all.

#gordon freemanverse #freemanverse comp-cas au #barney calhoun #gordon freeman #freeman's mind #with gorgeous freeman cameo #half life au #half life

[film-masochisme]

Mean Creek (2004)

Directed by Jacob Aaron Estes

Doomsy’s Rating: 72/100

This really was a pleasant surprise. I did fully expect going into this to get some early-2000s indie-schmindy nonsense full of cliched indie rock, ugly handheld indie-spirited camerawork with a lot of mumblecore-inflected, “realistic” teen dialogue. And the presence of Josh Peck in a serious role definitely added to the large presence of red flags at the outset. What I ended up getting was less 2000s indie, and more 1980s indie, which was interesting and refreshing. Basically you got a group of kids in the Pacific Northwest in a town where adolescents do whatever they want, and parents are notably absent either physically or emotionally or both. the group consists of shy, slight Sam (Rory Culkin), his innocent and cautious girlfriend Millie (Carly Schroeder), Sam’s delinquent older brother Rocky (Trevor Morgan) and Rocky’s troubled friends Marty (Scott Mechlowicz) and Clyde (Ryan Kelley). After Sam is beaten up by the neighborhood bully George (the aforementioned Peck), they all get together and plot a childish but still vengeful scheme for retribution. From there on out, the story begins to take shape, carefully building with patient writing.

As the film starts, it does indulge heavily in early 2000s cliches. While not quite as egregious as the more hyperbolic examples above, it does have that edgy teen independent spirit that was rife in Sundance favorites of the period (notable snoozefests in this category include Burr Steers’ debut film Igby Goes Down and Jodie Foster’s shockingly unremarkable The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys). The film goes on and then, right about halfway through, there is a sudden genre shift, and also in tone that is so wildly out of left field that initially it nearly takes your breath away it’s so surprising. Then it stops being an early 2000s version of Stand By Me and it moves right into a deeply sad and haunting second half that reminded me of the underrated film The Stone Boy, a wonderfully tragic drama directed by Christopher Cain. Mean Creek then strikes deep chords with its resonant and moving character development, which puts the characters in a hard situation and forces them to have to figure out the right choice when most of them can barely drive. But it raises some important questions, such as whether foolish ideas of childish thought, that carry consequences far bigger than would be easily comprehensible, are worth more than the momentary gratification. The teens in this film are reliant on each other to survive, and are shown spending very little time, if any, in the company of adults. It’s their codependency that makes their choices that much harder, and causes the inevitable cracks and rifts to form. 

I’m not usually big on 2000s teen movies but my friends and I watched it and I found myself actually rather enjoying it, and when it did move into its tragic denouement I was moved and I did find myself invested and caring about the unfolding circumstances, much more so than I expected. While Jacob Aaron Estes’ direction does have moments of indulgence and the soundtrack choices are EXTREMELY questionable (Wilco?? Eels?? Spoon???? who in the fuck even likes these guys outside of hipster bars in the mid-2000s), the film moved along smoothly, a more succinct and compacted package than one would expect from a debut filmmaker (at 89 minutes, not a second is wasted). The big wow factor was Josh Peck, who gives pathos and layers to what would have in another film been a throwaway or one-note character. I have to admit, there are multiple moments in Peck’s performance that when taken out of context are hilarious and meme-worthy in their own ways. Despite them not proving overtly distracting as the film runs, they are still worth mentioning (one scene involving a particularly vulgar tirade by Peck has become a somewhat infamous copypasta). But aside from that, this is a very good debut film, just a shame the director never capitalized on his talent subsequently.

#film #filmreview #mean creek #jacob aaron estes #rory culkin #ryan kelley #carly schroeder #josh peck #scott mechlowicz #trevor morgan #indie cinema #early 2000s indie #ngl when they played wilco i got hella nauseous tbh #josh peck memes r funny from this movie

[zorilleerrant]

an actual leftist: here’s a known problem in the political sphere, heads up that this post has red flags that might be connected to that problem, and even if it’s not this is the same ideological platform that causes the known problem

a bunch of edgelord kids who think they’re “the real leftists”: *copypasta the op in its entirety while engaging 0 critical thinking skills*

#look i said something