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what do we look like, dc punks?

@thecolorplaid / thecolorplaid.tumblr.com

alex, 28, he/they. definitely not a bunch of gnomes in a trenchcoat.
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dungeon yuri

[Image description: Grayscale digital drawing of Marcille from Delicious in Dungeon shaking and gripping her staff with a feral expression. She thinks, "If I go another goddamn minute without seeing her massive fucking jugs I'm going to end up on the news." End ID]

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I am a solo indie dev trying to overcome my anxiety and actually let people know my game exists. It is a cute physics based game where you are the level.

I love making this game with passion and I am so excited to share it with the world, but somehow I need to let the world know. Unfortunately the way steam works is the more wishlists the more visibility, so if you are interested it is super appreciated :)

Wishlist on steam or visit the website to find out more mightymarbles.com

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in 2015 I needed a job really bad for reasons not worth getting into. i was living in ohio for like 6 months & i just applied at every place within a 30 minute drive from me and i got a call from the local Game Stop mere minutes after submitting the online app, which was obviously a red flag but I wasn’t in the position to be picky.

so they tell me when to show up for orientation & I get there the day-of but the store is closed & locked. i text the manager & he says back “oh yeah. i manage two Game Stops and open them alternate days.”

apparently the Game Stop I originally applied to is open Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and the other one is open Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays.

They’re 15 minutes apart. I don’t ask whether it would make sense to just have one store locally that is open daily, bc maybe the guy knows something I don’t.

So I get to the other Game Stop and walk in and it seems like there’s no one working there. There’s just a single woman in there wearing an ankle length leather trench coat. She didn’t greet me when I came in & she’s just browsing.

After ten minutes I ask her if she’s seen any employees and she’s like “oh I’m an employee.” She’s not wearing a name tag on the trench coat.

I tell her I’m here for training and she tells me the manager hasn’t come in yet. “he falls asleep playing xbox all the time but if he’s on live we can try pinging him to wake him up.”

I play Xbox and that absolutely doesn’t sound like a thing you can do in the way she’s describing it but once again maybe she knows something I don’t.

I ask if we have an Xbox that we can use to “ping” him and she says “yeah the one in the back we play on.”

She has an English accent by the way, a very specific & posh one which usually wouldn’t be relevant but we’ll get there.

So before she leads me to the Xbox-in-the-back she goes “oh damn. our internet has actually been down all morning, I forgot. We need to call the provider and have them come out and fix it. Can you do that?”

Can I call an unnamed internet provider and schedule them to come do service at a business where I don’t even technically work yet? Idk. She gives me their number and I call them and they put me on hold.

People are walking in and she’s not greeting them. She keeps browsing and people assume like I did that she’s another customer so they’re coming up to the counter where I’m on hold to ask me for help, and then I have to say I can’t help them and to ask the woman in the trenchcoat, and then she says “we can’t sell you anything. internet’s down.”

this goes on for 30 minutes and every time the store is empty she’s chatting at me and I’m on hold and then a man walks in the door and he says “sorry I fell asleep on live again haahaahaa” so this is the manager and the minute she starts speaking to him she no longer has an English accent which has me confused because it did not sound fake.

It was regionally specific and very natural.

the manager asks what I’m doing and I say I’m on hold with the internet provider and he gives me a thumbs up and walks to the back.

so I ask how long she’s lived in the U.S. and say I’m always interested in the way people can sometimes go in and out of accents and she says “oh I’m American. he asked me to stop doing the accent so I only do it when he’s not here.”

Suddenly I wonder what I’m doing here and I tell her I need to leave and I give no excuse but at this point I don’t feel like I need one? She said okay! See you later.

The manager didn’t contact me and that night I got offered some other retail job I jumped on.

Three months later the Game Stop manager texts me and asks if I can cover a shift in an hour and I say back “I don’t think I work there? I left an hour into my training. And we never spoke again.” And he texts back “hahahaha right on.”

And you may think wow, what a strange experience that all was but recently I have spoken to friends who did work at Game Stop and when I tell them this story they don’t even blink. Nothing I say surprises them. I was at the average Game Stop

the reactions to this post are, predictably, people who have never worked at game stop aghast, and people who have worked at game stop adding their own equally bizarre anecdotes in the tags

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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

Ex foster kids, First Nations people and individuals with mental health issues. Homeless is a reflection of our failure as a society, not of individuals.

This statistic isn’t true. Here are some real stats:

Close to 25% of all people experiencing homelessness in Sacramento County were in foster care at some point before their 18th birthday.
Using data from the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth, a longitudinal study of youths aging out of foster care in 3 Midwestern states, and a bounds approach, we estimated the cumulative percentage of youths who become homeless during the transition to adulthood…Between 31% and 46% of our study participants had been homeless at least once by age 26 years.

It’s grim, but it’s important to be accurate.

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sordidamok

Wow.

You should really listen to the WHOLE thing because this woman does not mince words

I'd like to emphasize the cruelty. Being a worker right now is absolutely shit. Food costs, low wages, shitty work environments, childcare costs. A medical abortion can costs anywhere to $550-$700 in states that border ban states. You have to travel. You need a hotel after driving 8 hrs to a clinic. You need a baby sitter. You need a job that LETS you take time off. You need food! If you're barely making ends meet, this is nearly impossible. If you got the time and money, donate or share an abortion fund in a banned state. These funds and orgs not only pay part of the abortion, many of them are scaling up to support people with travel costs. You can find them or your local fund here: abortionfunds.org

And Democrats stood back and just let this happen because they don't care either. They weighed the option of fixing it immediately versus using it as a campaign slogan, and decided that the lives of women were more valuable when used for a power grab. It's sickening.

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vvvarinn

its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

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alexilulu

Did you intentionally make him Cajun before that screencap or was that baked into the prompt already. I ask only because the eyes as green as the bayou got me good

he's naturally australian so i gave him an upgrade

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flipchild

CRINGE ⚠️ SENSHI CAUGHT IMPROPERLY COILING A ROPE

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  1. weird rake. would it even work for rocking if they're so uniform?
  2. single pin & tension wrench combo??
  3. half-diamond and hook combo? key extractor?
  4. no reason for this shape to exist. that is a tuning fork
  5. snake rake &or a zipper rake
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