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Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

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Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games

Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy

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"Hey guys, we know everyone is already is mad at us because we're throwing the book at trans women while letting their harassers roam free, but we've decided to alienate what few of you dumbasses are left by partnering with the planet-burning plagiarism engines everybody hates so robots can steal all of your shit! Wait, why are we losing enormous piles of money?"

Enshittification marches on.

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"Turn-based roguelikes going graphical is bad because old school ASCII user interfaces are so much more transparent and accessible" yeah, I love guessing which of three or four completely different things a given ASCII character represents this time. Having the screen transform unrecognisably between one turn and the next and trying to figure out what the fuck just happened by combing through a log file which somehow manages to be both cryptically terse and exhaustingly verbose at the exact same time is fun and enriching. Being forced to choose between navigating a menu system that puts hyper-specific commands you will literally never use at the top level while nesting commands you'll be using constantly four layers deep, and resorting to non-rebindable hotkeys whose semantic mappings were evidently designed by someone whose native language is Klingon? Genuinely the highlight of my day.

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love reading late 90s/early 2000s scholarship on the potential of the internet. "hey we shouldn't let venture capitalists get in on this" And Then They Did

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one of my favorite things about my job that i can say to people that sounds utterly ridiculous but is technically 100% true is that one of our sea turtles keeps trying to get me to commit a felony on her behalf and gets SUPER cranky when i won’t do it

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Listen, if you interrupt me with a new task while I’m midway through another, you aren’t allowed to be mad when I switch to the new task immediately. You clearly thought the new task was important enough to interrupt me with it!

I am just a little pikmin! You’re the one with the whistle!!

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It was incredibly obvious this was never going to work. People who are on Tumblr are on Tumblr because they want, specifically, whatever it is Tumblr is offering. If they wanted TikTok, they would be on TikTok. Why would they want Tumblr's shitty TikTok wannabe when the real deal is right there?

so apparently its our (users) fault for automattic cutting staff and stopping to focus on tumblr and not.........staff implementing shit updates including catastrophical UI changes which are an accessibility nightmare, censoring trans women, taking down nsfw posts, implementing tumblr live with no way to turn it off and being condescending to the users

no its us not liking those shit updates that are at fault

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to put into context how recent gay marriage being legalized is in the United States: the first three five nights at freddy's games were all released before gay marriage was legalized nationally.

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yeah, people do lie on the internet, however i am so passionate about things that if i lie it will feel like i committed an autistic sin

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Guys I think I got the wrong AC

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Reblog to make it die faster

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The thing I wonder whenever these "nobody did this in the Before Times" posts come out is, do they know that people who were trans or gay always existed, but they kept it to themselves because they were afraid for their safety, usually because of the kind of people who later went on to say "nobody did this shit in the Before Times."

I graduated high school in 99.

There was a student at our school named Wayne.

Wayne was gay. It was obvious. He was unable to stay in the closet even if he wanted to. To make matters worse, he was also Black. From a bullying standpoint, that was not a great combo. Both Black and white students made fun of him relentlessly. He was ostracized from the only community that may have given him protection. Only us theater kids stuck up for him, but not to significant effect.

Wayne was bullied so much that at one point he finally snapped and attacked his bullies with a lunch tray. I was actually seated in perfect line of sight and just sat there chewing my soggy fries in stunned silence. It didn't even seem real as I was witnessing it. The image of him wailing on his main bully as the food on his tray flew off is permanently logged into my long term memory.

The bully he attacked had blood all over his face and went straight to the nurse. Other than superficial cuts, he was not injured.

Before the attack, Wayne went to teachers for help. He went to guidance counselors for help. He went to the principals for help.

He did all of the things you were supposed to do. No one helped him. They wagged a finger at the bullies and warned them to stop.

Wayne's lunch tray melee was the only thing that worked. His bullies stayed far away from him. But a week later Wayne was expelled and the bullies were given no punishment.

So... no.

No one in my school talked about being trans.

Because the only way to survive being openly queer was to bash people with a lunch tray.