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there are some ships out there that do not speak to me personally but i am an understander for. like i see what you are seeing. it just doesn't personally intrigue me. but i support you. you're right. we don't need to fight, let us hold hands.

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Murderbot has extracted clients from a 9% survivable situation. It consistently extracts people from absolute bullshit alive and intact. There has to be at least one person in the company that is losing their mind about specifically Murderbot turning out to be rogue and being sold off

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Dan Erickson: "I had been working on the script for a while. As I was writing the initial pilot I was, you know, literally working a series of office jobs. I had just gotten to LA and sort of found on Craigslist the first office job that I could find, which was at this door factory. Just a factory that makes and repairs and ships doors and gates throughout the greater Los Angeles area." [...] Adam Scott: "So then you're at the door factory, and is that where you first, like, put pen to paper and started thinking about Severance?" Dan Erickson: "Yeah, yeah. [...] I always hesitate a little bit to tell this story, because I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, because I was very grateful for that job and the people there were very nice and treated me very kindly. But it was the last thing in the world I wanted to be doing, and I think everybody there knew that. And so I was just walking into work one day, it was 9am, and I literally just had the thought, like, 'God, what if I could jump ahead and suddenly it would be 5:00 and I would have done the day's work but I wouldn't have to experience it, I could just cut out that eight hours.'"

-- The Severance Podcast, S1E1: Good News About Hell

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people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy that’s not how this works

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Part of my Christmas gift to my lovely gf, thehauntedboy. I’m so thankful for you darling! 

Happy New Year friends!

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I love him so much

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They didn’t always get along….

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Gideon Nav lookalike contest in my room next Saturday at 11 pm

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Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

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no one ever warns you about this about adulthood but no one tells you how important surfaces become to you. like it's a perpetual struggle to get enough surfaces in your life and then in turn keeping those surfaces clean

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

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It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"

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His ass is not listening

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do you think harrow also deleted the word griddle from her brain. do you think like one single time augustine asked if everyone would like something cooked on the Flat Top and his mouth looks wrong but harrow hasn’t slept in days so she just lets it go

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from the digital sketchbook