Little does he realize that I have on my discourse-proof vest.

Puthykraken got dithintegrated by the dithcourthe

Holy shit, that bird made Skyrim.

honestly my hot take is that as someone with carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands games should add options to reduce mashing whenever possible please god

okay. imagine you really really like kart racers. now imagine you have a pain in one of the joints in your thumb. now imagine trying to play a game you like but you have to hold down the same button for almost 100% of your playtime. even though the games are pretty much universally designed around constantly accelerating. and they do not suffer a single bit from just designing the game with built-in auto-acceleration.

yes it's fucking bad do you think i was complaining about this for no reason?

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe adding an auto-accelerate option was one of the best things about that game. I don't always use it, but I am so glad it's there for the days when my hands are bad.

How to Ride a Werewolf

Now remember, a lady rides sidesaddle, NOT astride. Your mother would be in hysterics at the very idea that a daughter of hers would ride a werewolf astride! Why, next you’ll be showing ankle…

That’s not how you ride a werewolf ill show you how to ride a werewolf !!

the year 80,085 is even worse

For years, I'd offer the pickle spear that came with my meal to my wife. She always assumed it was because I didn't like pickles.

Last year I revealed to her that, actually, I really like pickles, but the joy I get from making her happy by giving her my pickle is infinitely better than any enjoyment I'd get from eating it myself.

I still offer her the pickle spear. She says she doesn't want me to go without a pickle if I want a pickle. I remind her that making her happy is worth not having a pickle.

I am being so serious when I say: if you have the financial and time privilege to get a group of friends together and make an indie project, PLEASE do. Indie games, indie animations, indie comics etc etc

the art industries are kind of in the shitter. It’s not so much because of AI (though that doesn’t help) but because studios just aren’t hiring people and funding projects anymore. People who’ve been in the industry for decades are finding themselves struggling, and once you have a mortgage or kids it’s harder to do something as risky as making something on your own.

completing projects is hard. it takes a lot of time and effort, and most people can’t afford it. so if you CAN afford to make art, even at the risk of no financial gain, I strongly encourage you to be as resilient as you can. We’re at a point where these industries are not going to turn around by themselves, and waiting for jobs to open up again in order to get experience and portfolio work might not be realistic.

people have been making art and telling stories longgggg before we were getting paid for it, and people aren’t going to stop just because no one has hired them to do so.

for everyone else: support indie artists when you can!!!! That person who made that cool indie game or youtube animation or webcomic might be doing this full time! your support might be the only reason they’re able to keep doing it.

and if you have already started an indie project: you’re so brave and I’m very proud of you!!! in fact, drop a link to it in the reblogs if you want! 👇

We’re working on turning my radio play into an animated comic. The easiest way to support the show is to watch it on Youtube.

It’s about a superhero and her girlfriend saving the world together and standing up to a super powered jerk name Captain Valiant. It’s cute, charming, funny as hell, and the drama/angst will have you on the edge of your seat. Give it a listen.

once again stating that "dude" being gender-neutral is a North American English regional dialect variation (like people calling carbonated beverages "soda," "pop," "cola," or "coke" depends on where in the US or Canada you are). Specifically, Dude is strictly gender-neutral in Southern & Central California, and I *think* Hawai'i, as an outgrowth of surf culture (think Bill & Ted's very exaggerated 80s LA stoner/surfer dialect)

Dude is MASCULINE in much of the Southwest, Plains, & Midwest when you get into and over the Rocky Mountains, because *there* it's from cowboy culture/slang.

East Coast is weird because we got it from surf culture migrating to Florida & the Carolinas, but it kinda leans masculine, but it also kinda doesn't & depends on where you are.

Which is a long-winded way of saying -- Southern Californians especially are genuine when they're flummoxed by being told that "dude" is masculine, because in their dialect it genuinely isn't. It's also hard for them to stop because they say it almost on reflex, like a filler word.

HOWEVER, if 'dude' makes someone uncomfortable because in THEIR dialect it has other connotations, stop using it! That is polite! Or at least make a strong effort. I know it is very hard not to just spout out "aw bummer dude"

(Similarly, "Hon" in Baltimore and iirc Philly dialect is also completely gender neutral, but I get when people get uncomfy / feel misgendered when I say "aw hon I'm sorry")

Yeah, hon is gender-neutral in Philly. But you still don't use it if people don't like it.

Raised along the mountain region and dude being cowboy slang, while true, is not today's standard, hasn't been that way for a long time due to cultural influence from, you guessed it, southern California. Both in terms of pop culture and the biggest offender being they keep leaving socal to gawk at my mountains.

I'm just as flummoxed over the dude thing not being gender neutral, that's how I was raised, dude was for everyone and dudette got you made fun of for trying to use it (thank the OG TMNT movie for that one).

It's more that a lot of transfemme people feel actively misgendered by it, and if they do, they'd generally just like people to choose a different word rather than use dudette. It can get really upsetting that people (and I'm not saying this is you) feel like they should argue this to death rather than just say, "Oh yeah, totally, sorry about that!" & choosing another word.

A long time ago, someone pointed out (and I acknowledge it's a bit shitty, but I do feel it gets a point across) that if you approached a cishet guy on the street and asked him if he sleeps with dudes, the gender-neutral aspect of the word immediately evaporates.

I don't like being called Dude. I hate it, in fact. Usually if someone calls me Dude and I ask them not to, they respect it. Unless - unless! - they're from southern California. For some reason SoCal folk cannot just take the request and instead launch into a lengthy diatribe about how the word is actually gender-neutral, and how they call everybody dude, and how the word "dudette" isn't real. I've had the Good Burger song sung at me more than once when asking not to be called Dude.

I live in SoCal. Whenever someone calls me Dude, I have to weigh the discomfort of being called Dude with the frustration of having That Conversation every single time. It's exhausting, and I have come to loathe the word as a result.

thank you doraemon <333

had to make the inverse situation of this. lets give it up for time blindness yayyy

What, no Install Wizard?

the fact that so often ppl are told to read shakespeare rather than watch it is so weird. like yeah sure reading it can help u get the language and stuff. but it’s meant to be watched. imagine your favorite movie or tv show episode. and then imagine how much less fun and interesting it would be if u just read the script instead of watching it. Shakespeare meant for his works to be watched and performed not read. not saying u can’t get something out of reading them obviously. just saying the way it’s taught and presented to ppl is often fundamentally flawed. 

frankenstein: *looks into the camera like she's on the office*