#I love the simulated high of it

[jaerie]

Visiting some old friends

[waterghostype]

crusty kid

[postmakerkiwi]

🧊 Crystal Glacier Expedition - Neon Cave Tour ❄️

This extensive cave system circling underneath the center of the glacier is home to several large pools of subzero waters, brightly illuminated from below. Try not to lose sight of the guide, but if you do, just watch your step and follow the sound of crunching snow from the group's steady march.

photos by CatbatQuartet

[thegreatyin]

upon reflection several months later i have to admit. bg3 doesn't have the greatest story ever. but is it still really good and really enjoyable and really top tier? hell yeah brother

[bethanyeliseart]

I finally read the Rogue One novelization, and I'd like to have words with Mr. Alexander Freed about my emotional well-being after finishing this book.

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

I'm finally putting time into Outer Worlds, I got it on release and then again when the switch port came out but I only ever got about as far as Monarch bc I kept getting distracted and putting it down

And I am SO glad I'm finally getting to sink in because. There's two games I've ever felt able to truly and accurately rp as Sunny, without having to compromise or feeling funneled in a certain direction, VtMB and New Vegas. Makes total sense that this is the third

[dead-mushro0m]

I never post my art so here’s a draw of my OC form when I was 11

[psijay]

god help me but I think I want to start another simblr.

[allonnotion]

Hunger Games: Taylor Swift Edition

this is bound to get the swifties made, so i'ma let the chaos speak for itself

and the winner is...

placements:

should I do this again?

simulator link

masterlist

[madbiscuitlady]

A crime. A tragedy even. 😔

Look at him. His lip is all wibbly and everything.

Stede Bartholomew Bonnet, what are you even doing?! What could be so important?!

[steveyockey]

To be aware you might be trans but unwilling to do anything about it is to create endlessly bigger boxes within which to contain yourself. When you are a child, that box might encompass only yourself and your parents. By the time you are a gainfully employed adult, that box will contain multitudes, and the thought of disrupting it will grow ever more unthinkable. So you cease to think of yourself as a person on some level; you think not of what you want but what everybody expects from you. You do your best not to make waves, and you apologize, if only implicitly, for existing. You stop being real and start being a construct, and eventually, you decide the construct is just who you are, and you swaddle yourself up in it, and maybe you die there. There is still time until there isn’t.

This reading of TV Glow’s deliberately anticlimactic, noncathartic ending cuts against the transition narrative you typically see in movies and TV, in which a trans person self-accepts, transitions, and lives a happier life. Owen gets trapped in a space where he knows what he must do to live an authentic life but simply refuses to take those steps because, well, burying yourself alive is a terrifying thing to do. The transition narrative posits a trans existence as, effectively, a binary switch between “man” and “woman” that gets flipped one way or another, but to make our lives so binary is to miss how trans existences possess an inherent liminality.

Humans’ lives unfold in a constant state of becoming until death, but trans people are uniquely keyed in to what this means thanks to the simple fact of our identities. You can get lost in that liminality, too, forever trapped in a midnight realm of your own making, stuck between what you believe is true (I am a nice man with a good family and a good job, and I love my life) and what you know, deep in your most terrified heart of hearts, is real (I am a girl suffocating in a box).

And yet if you want to read the film as being about the dangerous allure of nostalgia, you’re not wrong. I Saw the TV Glow totally supports that interpretation, too! But in tempting you with that reading, the film creates a trap for cis viewers that will be all too familiar to trans viewers. Somewhere in the middle of Maddy’s story about The Pink Opaque being real, you will make a choice between “This kid has lost it!” and “No. Go with her, Owen,” and in asking you to make that choice, TV Glow is simulating the act of self-accepting a trans identity.

See, the grimmer read of the film’s ending truly is a nihilistic one. It leaves no hope, no potential for growth, no exit. Yet you must actively choose to read that ending as nihilistic. If you are cis and the end of I Saw the TV Glow left you with a gnawing sense of dissatisfaction, a weird but hard-to-pin-down feeling that something had broken, and a melancholy bordering on horror — congratulations, this movie gave you contact-high gender dysphoria.

In an infinite number of possible universes, there is at least one where I am still living “as a man,” embracing my fictionality, avoiding looking at how much more raw and real I feel when I “pretend” to be a woman. I think about that guy sometimes. I hope he’s okay.

Consider, then, my cis reader, that TV Glow is for both you and me, but it is maybe most of all for him. I hope he sees it. I hope he breaks down crying in the bathroom afterward. I hope he, after so many years locked inside himself, hears the promise of more life through the hiss of TV static.

Emily St. James, “I Saw the TV Glow’s Ending Is Full of Hope, If You Want It to Be,” Vulture. June 4, 2024.

[prokopetz]

I love it when retro games are conspicuously much shittier than what they're ostensibly emulating. Like, no, the N64's textures weren't that low-resolution. CRT televisions didn't look like that unless they had a busted timing circuit. The simulated rounding error on those vertices is about an order of magnitude too high if this is supposed to be PS1 style. It's physically impossible for a VHS tape to do that. It's fantastic.

[madeinkorea-blbambeyond]

OUR DATING SIM depicts a story of high school unrequited first love for Lee Wan

However for Shin Ki Tae it depicts regret at a lost chance at first love due to his initial reaction of surprise or rejection (as Wan saw it)

7 Years Pass before the two reunite. Which one changed the most.

Lee Wan (High School) Lee Wan (Adult)

Shin Ki Tae (High School) Shin Ki Tae (Adult)

[neilphen]

good day :]

[existentialcrisis-24-7]

Ranking of fnaf games that no one asked for from someone who has only played the demos (/hasn’t finished the game):

Fnaf 1, fnaf 3, Security Breach, Help Wanted, Pizza Sim, Sister Location, Fnaf 2, UCN, fnaf 4

I do not care for AR enough to rank.

[calumsash]

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