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i wish i could see this picture for the first time again

Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).

That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.

So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.

You can’t just breeze over something like “the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha” without at least linking a 20 minute video breakdown of this man’s descent into madness.

Oh is Ogtha not common knowledge? Eight years ago this was posted on reddit:

Two years ago, we got this update on the life of this roachfucker:

TLDR it's a guy who became obsessed with human-sized roaches with human intelligence after reading Kafka in high school, an obsession which eventually came to monopolize his romantic interests (and has sporadically had catastrophic impacts on his life ever since).

what the fuck happened to my post

Cockroach wife syndrome huh.. that was very intelligently put. Hot damn there be stupid fucking men out there

saturday night

Hello beautiful

i dont think i can take this anymore. Pouring more lemon now

she only plays minecraft and spore

I need you to know this comic has Shaped Me to the point that I say I’m going to play my sexy and evil affairs and everyone knows im playing munecraft. My sister will knock on my bedroom door and ask me how goes my evil and sexy affairs and 9 times out of ten I am playing minecraft and she knows.

Fascinating

Zelda Heritage Post

story behind this audio: i was on the tf2 wiki, clicking random page, as one does on a wiki, when i landed on the item called "texas half-pants." this item has a voice line at the top of its wiki page. there is a link that says "click to listen" to this audio clip, which i assumed would bring up an audio player or at least take me to a separate page to listen to the audio in my browser. instead, it automatically downloaded the sound clip to my computer. i was laughing at this, saying, "this is on my computer now, great," and i clicked on the file to open it, thinking it would play it in whatever media player i had set as default. it did play…but apparently my default music player was set to itunes. so it opened itunes, added the clip to my itunes library, played the clip, and THEN started playing the next song in the queue, which was coconut mall from mario kart wii. so this is what i experienced just now.

this is qwilfish, a generation 2 pokemon

im just posting this to say, i have never, in my entire life, seen anyone acknowledge its existence.

not only have i never seen fanart of qwilfish, ive absolutely never seen it mentioned in any kind of pokemon discussion, ever

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I had a friend who honest to god IV bred and trained several Qwilfish. He didn’t tell anyone about them, you found out because  he’d suddenly pull out the Qwilfish team against you when you didn’t expect it.

And every single one of them knew Explosion. All of his Qwilfish were IV bred and EV trained for speed and max damage, they all held choice scarf, and his entire gameplan was to trade KOs with exploding Qwilfish. Their names were ‘So’, ‘I’, ‘herd’, ‘u’, and ‘liek’. The man was an avid mudkip fanatic at the time that joke was relevant, so here you are expecting his last pokemon to be a Mudkip or a Swampert, but no. It’s a Snorlax. Who’s name was ‘QWILFISH’ And his plan from that point out was to stall for ages with Rest, Yawn and Giga Impact. Slowly whittle away at your hitpoints while putting you to sleep with him and retaining his massive HP pool with rest and leftovers. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, this was Gen 4, when the R4 was rampant and everyone knew someone with one, so pokemon with moves they shouldn’t know was pretty common. So once you were down to your last pokemon and on your last legs… His Snorlax also knew Explosion. 250 base damage + stab.

That man was a treasure.

I don’t understand a word of what you’re saying, but this sounds epic and I’m reblogging this for my Pokemon-savvy friends.

I both fear and have feelings for this man.

via @chongoblog

With the actors and writers strike in the U.S., I'm reminded of this tweet from John Cho who got zero payment from a residual check.

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never in all of my years would i have expected to characterize a company’s rebrand as “actively hostile” and “potentially endangering lives” yet here we are

for context, that X sign is dangerously bright, directly faces an entire apartment complex, and to top it all off it fucking strobes

how V broke Coffee in one swift move

someone teach me how to draw bears

Like this

i am a gay man unfortunately. this is still very sweet

this technique will work regardless of sexuality, don’t worry

Tanimura hour babey

Listen. If all you know about Barbie is the movie, you need to know this:

Old dolls really aren't worth that much.

Nope, not even the original dolls from the early 1960s, not unless they are in absolutely pristine condition.

And every second-hand seller is out there ready to take advantage of the idea, held by most people, that "old doll automatically means valuable doll"

"The price being asked on eBay" is NOT the same as "the price the doll is worth"

And, ultimately, dolls are cheerful pieces of plastic. They are not vital to life--if you don't know me, I'll tell you I'm saying this as someone who has had fashion dolls as one of my main hobbies for decades. If you think something seems a bit expensive, it's perfectly OK to pass it by. It's just plastic.

There has always been a problem, especially on eBay, of predatory pricing sought by people who can't even tell the difference between a doll made in the 1960s versus one made in the 1990s that uses a 1960s copyrighted body.

Don't fall for it.

Adding to this PSA because someone at Cosmopolitan magazine fell for this old=valuable blunder. Now it's on the internet for all to see that someone purchased a budget doll ($15 max at time of release) for $200. Ariana Greenblatt was right when she chose that Extra barbie over the Pilot.

And the time of release was, what, about 7 years ago? Old enough not to be on store shelves anymore, but not old enough to be uncommon.

I STRAIGHT UP THOUGHT THIS SAID AUTISM FOR A SECOND

penis ensnare and penis beware,

BECOME ENTOMBED IN MY PENIS LAIR!

this girl ate only purple go-gurt for 10 years of her life and this is what happened.

Slurp on my ‘gurt.

Cause you know its purp.

Put me in the dirt.

Put me in a shirt.