hey everyone my tummy hurts but please don't cry too hard for me. a few tears are fine though.

the garfarious anglerfish

Do we seriously have to skip both ads on YouTube now. Like we press skip on the first then we have to wait five more seconds to press skip on the second. Are you actually fucking kidding me

Before one of you chucklefucks says “get an adblocker” or “download this sketchy software to block ads on phones:” this sucks because companies are doing it, not because there are ways around it. Do not be stupid on my post where I complain.

I am complaining about ads being shoved into everything because it fucking sucks. Smarmy advice will help neither of us

Also on some devices you still get ads regardless. Watching youtube on a TV will get you ads (unless you're using HDMI from a laptop). Also sometimes I need to watch a video at work and I'm not allowed to have ad blockers on my work computer. Have y'all seen how ridiculous it gets on tvs?? Literally had 3 minutes of unskippable ads once and they've become more frequent as well.

Reddit makes dumb decision -> I finally decide to check out Tumblr -> meet cool people on the 196 tag and become mutuals -> I discover one of them lives in Aus too -> I fly like 1000km and we fuck and cuddle

Person leaves reddit. Immediately loose virginity. More at 6.

dang, an actual useful and real "life hack" instead of those insane videos of people doing arts and crafts with a background of copyright free music

@ta2020photography

"Female Northern Harrier performs acrobatic maneuver."

@rfskia this seems like something you would appreciate if you haven't already seen it

@todaysbird

This may be the most perfect video

‘SOMEONE PULL UP IMDB AND LET ME KNOW HOW BAD I JUST F*CKED UP’ = my favorite part

this is hilarious and the picture at the end was cute 💖✨

me: oh man im starving but im not sure what i should make for dinner……

the spirit of a 12th century templar knight that died a horrific death due to torture that started haunting me after i found a sword in the middle of the woods: spaghetti once more, prithee?

me: henry you are brilliant. spaghetti it is

"A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way."

"This artist must be white."

"No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way."

"No woman would ever write women like this."

"This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-"

Nope.

People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren't proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn't from the group in question, actual members of the group who don't fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.

Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn't count as a "valid" expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to "prove" their validity.

If something doesn't resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn't resonate with you. You don't have to like it. But you don't get to decide what it means to someone else.

this is so important

Have you played DALLAS : The Television Rolepalying Game

By James Dunnigan

Playing through scenarios, mostly as a character from Dallas. Seduction is an actual stat (along with Coersion, Persuasion, and Investigation, as well as Power and Luck)

This dumb thing has always been a personal favourite of mine. It was the second tabletop roleplaying game ever to be based on a popular media license (the first, of course, being Star Trek), and features a number of notable game-mechanical innovations for its era, including the earliest known example of a formal "social combat" framework, as well as a rudimentary form of troupe play, in which each player takes on the roles of multiple characters drawn from a common pool.

(Unfortunately, the Venn diagram of prime-time soap opera fans and tabletop RPG players in 1980 had effectively zero overlap. Eighty thousand copies of the game were produced, of which only a few hundred were ever sold; the publisher subsequently went bankrupt.)

Weird part is, given the popularity of social combat games now, this would probably do numbers. Maybe not the biggest numbers, but it wouldn't do bad.

It would probably require considerable adjustment to appeal to modern social RPG fans; the existing rules are both explicitly heteronormative (Seduction rolls only affect characters of the "opposite sex") and sexist (female characters almost universally have lower stat totals than male characters). Still, it definitely has some ideas worth examining.

(These foibles do have their own amusing quirks, though. For example, organisations – which can be taken on as secondary player characters via the aforementioned troupe play rules – lack Seduction-related stats and don't interact with the Seduction mechanics, except for the Senate Investigative Committee, which inexplicably has a Seduction Resist score. How this interacts with the gender restrictions on Seduction targeting is not addressed.)

The advice for playing characters is fascinating.

Yeah, that's a big part of why adjusting the game's baked-in gender politics is more challenging than it might initially appear. Male characters, who tend to have higher stat totals, also tend to be assigned episode-specific victory conditions which require them to attack other men, while female characters, who tend to have lower stat totals, also tend to be assigned episode-specific victory conditions which are more compatible with good alliance-building. It's actually a really interesting and effective game balance mechanism, but the moment you start fucking with it even a little bit you basically end up having to rejig every single published scenario.

Easy. Replace every instance of 'male' with 'alpha', every instance of 'female' with 'omega'.

no other changes needed.

So...do Betas just flip a coin, then?

This is what transitioning feels like

Christmas Movie, but it's from the perspective of Jesus Christ, who sneaks back to Earth, and is immediately confused why everyone is celebrating his birthday in December.

He wanders into a Megachurch on accident, thinking it was a mini mall, and hears an evangelist (who lives in a mansion) taking the Lord's name in Vain to guilt donations out of people. Then he gets arrested for rushing the stage and beating that guy with a whip.

A significant chunk of the movie is just his elaborate escape from prison, wherein he starts a riot upon learning how cruelly the prisoners are treated by a blasphemous carceral system.

The movie ends with him using God Magic on the president of the US, and being formally declared the Anti Christ by the Catholic Church

Troubled grown men doing wife shit in my mind palace