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i honestly don't even care if ive already posted this. look at it again

Ernie Bushmiller kind of predicted the Internet in this early 1950's Fritzi Ritz comic

Earthbound (Nintendo, 1995)

I wish I had more to say about Nancy than “it’s good”, but….it’s good.

alright actually i was dismissing this because i dont really keep up with celebrity beef so most of it goes over my head but after listening kendrick did just release the most scathing diss track in rap history (not an exaggeration, i am speaking entirely non-hyperbolically when i say this).

and, to be clear since kendrick has released several diss tracks in a row over the course of the past few days, i am referring to Meet the Grahams, a song not directed at drake, but is instead Kendrick speaking slowly, softly, and sadly towards Drake's family members over a somber piano about how him being a terrible person has fucked up their lives while also revealing some incredibly direct and personal sexual misconduct allegations in the portion addressed to his mother, Sandra.

this is, like, historically important to rap music and it's kind of astonishing.

update:

i think it's important to recognize Meet the Grahams not as a piece of a dunking campaign, but as a sincerely heartbreaking and terrifyingly stark glimpse into the life of someone who has had predatory, vile behaviors enabled and had enough power to ignore anyone trying to get to him. i don't know that i'm capable of putting it into words, but this one feels a bit too important and sincere to treat as a "drake's funeral" anthem, even in an ironic tone.

that is reserved for the OTHER diss track that he released in the SAME DAY which has a much bouncier and "point and laugh" tone, which will have you going "OOOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOD" in the first 90 seconds, regardless of whether or not you know anything about the beef.

that's this one:

okay FINAL thing i'll say on this:

i think it's extraordinarily impressive how sophisticated Kendrick's execution of this PITCH PERFECT social execution has been, and i don't even think it's over. to quote youtuber and rapper Scru Face Jean here, "[Kendrick is] making it too culturally cool to not like Drake right now," and like. i guess all this is to say, i think it's important to emphasize how major this accomplishment is on a, like, societal level.

to put it into perspective, i saw somebody comment "the beef has finally breached containment" in the tags, and i think that an excellent visual metaphor for what Kendrick's done is, very simply, ripples in the water. to emphasize his point, using his long experience in battle rap and his generational mind for putting societal issues into art (they're going to be talking about him for decades after he's dead, he's that kind of important), he crafted a split multimedia diss LP with such precision that it's created an explosion across mainstreams of media.

he reached into the brain of the zeitgeist and rewrote Drake's public image into exactly what he wanted it to be. even if it's all game (im pretty sure it's definitely not, but if it is) it's GOOD FUCKING GAME.

alright drake lets hear your next song bud :)

as much as i want to continue talking about rap beef, i do not think it is my destiny to be a music blogger. but i will say that Drake's a fucking moron for making his primary attack angle "you're only calling me a pedophile because you were molested as a kid" and then used 10 bars to say "i dont think kids are sexy!!!" in different ways.

saw a grown woman on tiktok snidely calling gen z the christopher columbus generation bc someone’s fifteen year old son ‘thought he’d discovered weezer’. newsflash every generation finds out about the music of the previous generation at some point it comes free with being fifteen. being annoying about music also comes free with being fifteen. a kid saying yeah i’ve just found this band nirvana have you ever heard of them should be a thing of joy

so sad that people got sick of "doomed by the narrative" and decided it was cringe, because fate and free will in fiction has been a major interest of mine for like eight years, but alas so it goes. anything that gets popular is destined to become reviled in short order. it's like some sort of unstoppable, uncompassionate, avaricious cycle of rising and falling and rising again. like whatever happens, no matter the intentions, it will always result in the same tragic ending. you could almost say it was d

From "The Pitfalls of Liberalism" by Kwame Ture

/r/falloutlore is probably the worst subreddit because every discussion there is like, the opposite of worldbuilding. It’s worldunbuilding. There was a post that was like “how do wastelanders know how old they are?” and all the responses were something along the lines of “well The Lore never explicitly states that people use calendars, so most rural [read: uneducated] wastelanders probably have no idea what year it is or how old they are. The ones who have computers know everything perfectly because computers have internal clocks :)”. 

Like, ignoring how insanely and disgustingly classist that is, it doesn’t even make sense? A lot of wastelanders are farmers, who have to know what season it is in order to know when to sow, when to plant, and when to harvest. Most early civilizations would develop some sort of calendar shortly after agriculture as the necessary next step. 

And then, from there, you could speculate about post-war harvest celebrations. How do wastelanders celebrate the end of the harvest season? What sort of rudimentary holidays do they celebrate? We know that Diamond City celebrates Christmas and Halloween, what other old-world holidays are celebrated? There’s so much speculative worldbuilding you could do but they insist on stopping at “akshually The Lore doesn’t say that they have calendars so I don’t think they do :)”

I saw a post on /r/falloutlore this morning wherein a guy “proved” that Necropolis  was actually built upon the ruins of Las Vegas. OP’s proof consisted of looking at the map for Fallout 1, seeing that the icon for Necropolis was closeish to Vegas, and coming to the conclusion that Necropolis was the post-war location of Las Vegas.

This is a rookie mistake, because if you play Fallout: New Vegas (2010) by Obsidian Entertainment, you will see that the city of Las Vegas has become New Vegas, as a subtle nod to the title of the game. 

/r/falloutlore be like: Using the average adult’s running and walking speed, the head bobs of the courier to determine number of steps, the average adult’s gait, and my own data gathered from walking around the Mojave wasteland, I have determined that the desolation of the Great War has actually shrunk the planet by several orders of magnitude. In this post I will

Found my 53yo very-much-not-online father in the kitchen today meticulously arranging cutlery on the countertop and i was like 'what are you doing' and he looked up at me with the world's most shit-eating grin and said "Your mother told me this is how you rick-roll the Youth" and i looked over and it was fucking. Loss.jpg.

i must stress that he's never seen the original comic. My mother simply showed him the shorthand symbol and he memorized it. As far as he is aware this is just a fucking hieroglyph that deals instant psychic damage to everyone under the age of 30

he's not wrong

Still can't get over the fact that Toby Fox dreamed up a game ending, but he decided he wanted to make something a little less ambitious first, so instead he made the most influential indie game of all time

companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn't show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn't actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️

Hannah Montana is fucked up because its entire POINT as a show is that children should be protected from fame and exploitation, but it stars a REAL little girl that's being exploited. Nearly every episode carries the looming threat of Miley being outed as Hannah and losing her peaceful teenage life to the ravages of fame. Her father in the show (played by her own father in real life) wisely protected her from the trauma of fame by making her wear a disguise and live a rather quiet, interview-free life. Meanwhile the REAL Billy Ray Cyrus sold his daughter to Disney Channel when she was 11 and forced her to read dialogue about how terrible it would be to face the public eye. Like... Jesus, dude. The fictional Robby Ray is 10x the father, and it's not even close. (It's also IMMENSELY funny that her dad doesn't use his real name in the show, while she does. Almost like he wanted a bit of a disconnect between his identity and his character. Something Miley didn't get.)

—anakin skywalker, episodes II and III

what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

sometimes i like to acknowledge nuance