apparently my grandma was reading an article and saw an ad for a set of dishes that looked familiar so she clicked it and it brought her to my mom's ebay listing of the dishes grandma gave her

it's not so weird when ppl haven't played undertale because for as normal as gaming is, from casual to intense as a hobby today, it's still just a hobby. not everyone engages with it. however if you DO game and you still haven't played undertale i'm always blown the hell away. what do you mean? it's like $10 and it's the most influential indie game of our generation! it takes less than 6 hours if you're fast about it. what?? hell, watch it, if you can't play it. this is the Age of Let's Plays

it's 2024. if fear of being "the undertale kid" still somehow grips your soul and prevents you from playing a game that's only crime was being too loved by too many people, it's time to make an effort to get over it. the funny skeletons are waiting for you dude

this is so fucking funny

i can't stop thinking about this. this kind of shit is not like milsim plane nerds with their own super-expensive desktop cockpit recreations. that kind of hardware makes sense to exist.

this does not. they're playing world of tanks which is like the "call of duty" of tank games (casual, players only slightly bad-smelling). it also doesn't have support for tank peripherals. no game does. no trainers do afaik. which means that (assuming this isn't just a video editing) all of that shit they are fucking with translates into mouse/keyboard inputs that the game understands. that's weird/hard and perplexing, uh, and considering that "tank peripherals" aren't a thing that exist i can only guess they built them theirselves

which is fucking hilarious because why are they so good. why does the fucking cannon breech have a little dry ice smoke effect when the breech opens like they just shot a shell. what. manual turret traverse crank?? did they build a fucking ready rack!! they're even using the correct phraseology which means one of these mofos read a PDF file

in a technicolour dream, i found myself walking with the dead. they lent me their old coats to keep me warm.

salmon run as a turn-based strategy game

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH !!!!

happy pride to all my aspecs and arospecs out there

happy pride to asexuals

happy pride to aromantics

happy pride to aplatonics

happy pride to aroaces

happy pride to alloaces

happy pride to alloaros

happy pride to het aces/aros

happy pride to demi romantics/sexuals

happy pride to grey romantics/sexuals

happy pride to ace/arospecs in platonic, romantic, and/or sexual relationships, or relationships that dont fit into any of those categories

happy pride to ace/arospecs who aren't in relationships and never want to be

happy pride to people who use microlables to describe their ace/arospec identity

we are all valid and we belong in this community no matter what anyone says. we deserve pride too.

Polyamorous relationships are not for everyone. Monogamous relationships are not for everyone. Romantic relationships are not for everyone!!! We are all different people with different needs, maybe just stop trying to condense the human experience into a homogenous gray monolith!!! aaaaaaaa

And at different stages of your life, different things may be for you ✨️

Doorbell rang so my dad went off to get it, and when he came back and I asked who it was he just said "Ugh 😒 Just some Round Table nonsense" & I'm like "?????? Round Table as in King Arthur's Round Table??" "Yeah :/" The goddamn Knights Templar were at our front door and you just sent them away???

The trans-inclusive Knights Templar were at our front door and you just turned them away??

THIS COMMENT IS MAKING ME CRY LAUGHING HELPP

My prof was like 'yeah there was this experiment where they like made a casino for rats with mini slot machines n everything and made those rats into gambling addicts it was so cool' n i looked up the article n hes the lead fucking researcher

at risk of sounding just fully out of touch with the common man I do fully forget a lot of the time that other women like for serious wear bras and do makeup daily and shave on the reg for real. like that's so silly that's only in movies. but no it's real. I see a hairless leg and get jumpscared.

transphobes I can't stop you from reblogging this but I despise you.

this happens to me every time i look for that one tiger poem and i’m like NO google i don’t want WILLIAM BLAKE i’m looking for THE TIGER by NAEL, AGE 6

i don't even have good screenshots for this 😭😭😭

my favorite blocks people. . .

So, the NDA signed by producers of The Apprentice just expired, and one of them has published a tell-all article. Most of the article is about how they used standard reality-TV tricks to portray Trump as being wealthy and intelligent, when in reality he was, and is, a deeply indebted buffoon.

The money shot, however, comes when Trump and the producers are preparing for climax of the final episode, when the winner will be decided.

Per the FCC's rules for game shows, producers could not be involved in deciding who would be fired each week, or who would ultimately win: it had to be Trump's decision alone, like contestants and viewers were told it was. The producers could, and did, give him a presentation about the strengths and weaknesses of the contestants each time he had to make a decision. These were recorded, in case questions ever arose about whether the producers had crossed the line.

So, for the final episode, there were two contestants remaining. Both were men, one white, the other Black. They'd both done well in the final challenge of the competition. As the producers were summarizing the points for an against each candidate, this happened:

In the finished program, Trump chose the white contestant as the winner.

(Four years later, Trump would propagate the baseless conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a native-born US citizen and therefore had not legitimately won the presidency.)

The article also describes how women working on the production faced discrimination based on whether or not Trump wanted to look at them while they did their jobs:

And there's a third anecdote where he pressures a woman producer to break the FCC rules, while being casually misogynistic toward a contestant:

This information is pretty unlikely to persuade anyone who wasn't already persuaded by any of the other things Trump has done and said, which would for anyone else be a career-defining scandal. But it is a useful reminder of who we're dealing with.

(Link is to Slate, an x-number-of-free-articles-a-month site, but the incognito window trick works.)

Important update to this story:

This journalist has a plan for how to get the boardroom tape of Trump discriminating against Kwame Jackson on the basis of his race, while referring to him by the n-word. (Note: the producer who wrote the original story says he thinks the tapes are not recoverable, but he doesn't say why he thinks that.)

First, this journalist has traced where the tapes would be: the production company has changed hands since then, but now belongs to Jeff Bezos/the Amazon conglomerate.

Secondly, he has checked with the FCC, and what the producer described in his article would be illegal game-show fixing--the exact thing that the producers were trying to avoid being accused of, when they decided to record these sessions.

Thirdly, he has ascertained that either the FCC itself, or the Senate committee that oversees the FCC, could demand these tapes--because of the game-show fixing, not the the specific word--and even subpoena them if they are not produced.

So, if you think it might be beneficial for the public to see a tape of Donald Trump saying the N-word while committing a crime, you can reach out to either the FCC, or the Senate Commerce Committee to say so!

The chair of the Senate Commerce Committee is Maria Cantwell, she is a Democrat out of Washington, and here's her website.

Here is the FCC's contact page, and here's a list of the Senate Commerce Committee members. If you happen to be a constituent of one of them, they'd be a great person to reach out to about your recent but intense commitment to uprooting racism in game shows!

(Another Slate article; the incognito window trick still works.)

i can't imagine a world in which i haven't put this video on my page

"it's time to surface, (unintelligible, possibly "back to people), the vacation is over. oh blyat, a grenade. what sort of moron keeps the...-boom-"

Can't help but appreciate how well the body language translates through VR.

The frantic head turning while looking for a place to stash the grenade, the double take as they realize the drawer they chose was FULL of grenades, and the "WTF" hand gesture as they point in disbelief at the drawer full of grenades? Chef's kiss.

POV you’re Wile E Coyote

Happy pride and merry yurimas