#Or like any musical skills at all

[airheadedbisexual]

Sometimes I forget I’m an adult and have my own money. Like what do you mean I can buy that weird guitar lamp on Facebook marketplace???

[midnightdemonhunter]

KURT AND RAM- Kurt leans all of his weight on JD's shoulder, and grins. "Hey, Ram, doesn't the cafeteria have a 'no f*gs allowed' rule?"

JD- "They seem to have an open door policy for assholes, though."

KURT AND RAM- They exchange a look, smiles gone. Ram stands up straighter. "Hold his arms."

[pushing500]

Ever wondered what Mechi would look like in the Sims 2?

Wonder no more! He looks something like...

... This :)

There is a reason he's called Mechi. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Everywhere I go, I find people!!!"

"No, see, it's weird... I think I'm actually from an alternate reality where I have a clone—two clones, actually, but I killed one—and an army of robots that I control with my brain. I'm also royalty, with psychic powers and bionic body parts."

He'll fit right in in Strangetown.

"Anyway, did you know mechanical stuff is cool as hell??"

"You come into MY house, eat MY mac 'n cheese—"

"... it is pretty good mac 'n cheese. I don't blame you."

Hmmm. Despite all the time I spent playing it as a kid, I don't think I ever managed to get an alien baby in Sims 2. Mechi, I'm sorry, but... you might end up being an unwitting test subject for me...

Sims 2 Mechi is a scientist! Doesn't he look dapper in his lil' coat?? I bet he never ties his hair back away from dangerous chemicals and machines. We <3 a man who ignores workplace health and safety rules.

[concerto-roblox]

it's been too many years for this to be relevant anymore but i'm STILL pissed off about heather by conan gray getting popular and the meaning being co-opted into "omg that girl is godly levels of beautiful and i'm just too ugly to compete" :( like. the song is about being gay. it is a song being sung by a man about how the person he likes will never like him back because that person likes women. the reason the singer says he's not as beautiful as heather is because he is not attractive to that person specifically because he's not a woman. are you stupid.

[destructive-delight]

how often do you think nikolai uses his skill to steal things?

depends on whether or not you consider misplacing items the same as stealing them (he only borrowed that telephone pole, it’s not his fault that things got so heated he didn’t get a chance to put it back… there’s so many of them around anyway, who’s gonna miss one? he even left it in a public place, if the city really wants it back so badly, they can send someone out there to get it). he certainly uses it to borrow things without asking and leave them in increasingly absurd places for the owner to find (but dos, why wouldn’t laptop go in the fridge? you’ve been complaining about the cpu overheating all week! the shampoo bottle looks way less lonely between the condiments too. where’s the mouthwash, you ask? well… smash cut to fukuchi experiencing a whole new flavour of hangover). stealing things to keep though? not sure about that.

stealing is such a boring crime anyway, especially if you have the ultimate yoinking device. i think if fyodor puts him up to a (crucial, important, don’t-fuck-it-up-under-any-circumstances) task he will make use of it so as to not unnecessarily sacrifice efficiency, but otherwise if he wants to acquire things for the low low price of free, he’ll do it by way of stupidly elaborate bamboozlements... he'll trick you into giving him what he wants, no criminal activity needed. u know how clowns sometimes involve audience members, make them go along with stupid bits and such? kind of like that. he’s charismatic, confident, dramatic. he's an actor. he has your wallet, your phone and your firstborn before you realize he’s just fucking with you.

[icewindandboringhorror]

"We can get through this by working together, reach out to your friends, community is all we have, a social network will be your security in the world, now is the time to lean on others!"

I do agree, and it's scientifically sound (pretty sure there is data about how people with better social networks live longer and etc) but also....augh..... what about the severe social issues, difficulty to leave the house, physical issues which lead to like zero socialization energy a majority of the time, etc. etc. Social support can be a replacement for structural support, but.. I guess I just wish it didn't have to be. Community is extremely difficult to build, even moreso if you're someone who has issues with social cues or group conversations or even just being around others in the first place. And blah, nuance, of course I'm just complaining or maybe being too negative or maybe misunderstanding, but, I hardly have the energy to brush my hair once every 2 months.. how am I supposed to maintain a wide social network and be active in a Community and Join Groups lol... sometimes it kind of feels like "er.. well if thats my only option then...... ruh roh". It's overwhelming

[videoworm]

Ever since starting to play around with solo-gamedev I've been wanting to be able to make my own music. Which is the one thing most out of my league.

[vimbry-moved]

"nanobots" the song is this deconstructed view of child development and parenthood where it's like, 'wow have you ever thought about how weird producing offspring is. like, it's weird, right! we make these little people and they quickly grow into their own individual personalities with their own lives and autonomy and I've lost all authority and there's so many and you've gotta be responsible for them all the time, what did I do !!!'

but as well as approaching it with this slightly overwhelmed perspective, there's a sort of affectionate optimism in there, too. that even tho the concept's intimidating, there's a sense of wonder in how humans develop and raising them and watching them grow up. hey this kid thing's fun actually, yeah I wish they'd leave me alone sometimes, but look at how cute and resilient they are look at what they can do. and then "replicant" is like jesus parenting a teenager is hard.

[the-everqueen]

articulated something to my therapist today that i think i can expound on for mine own sake here: a recurring thing i've noticed in music dept job postings is a "doubling up" of roles. i.e., the dept *wants* a musicologist to teach the music history courses (general) and maybe some period-specific stuff, but they ALSO *want* someone to teach private lessons in instruments or lead an ensemble or direct the annual opera/theater/big tableau performance. and what they'll do is prioritize someone's ability to do the latter over the former, and then just...give them the music history courses. there's this privileging of "well, YOUR expertise clearly translates into applicable results re: graduating performance or education majors," and inversely a total devaluing of what i do. like of COURSE you need to have been signed by a major label or have performed with an orchestra or taught private lessons at the college level in order to get an applied music role! but you DON'T need a specialized degree to approach history! :) anyone can crack open a textbook and talk at students about what's inside. :) no one needs to develop critical thinking skills re: history and music lit. :) just memorize the dates and practice your audition pieces. :)

[waywardsalt]

everything about bellumbeck makes me go insane. i don’t even know how to express half of it. the way everyone is in mortal danger during that fight. linebeck is forced to try and kill link right after saving his life. the one time he’s actually taking part in a boss battle with link he’s the boss he’s fighting. the way bellum seems to take his time grabbing him. the fact that bellumbeck never really pays any attention to ciela and bellum just grabs and restrains her instead of putting her out of commission or straight up killing her. one of his attacks is a spin attack much like link’s and we can assume that linebeck has probably seen link do a spin attack at some point. the way bellumbeck’s helmet is designed to look vaguely similar to linebeck. if bellumbeck kills you when you have a purple potion it plays the same sting as when a phantom catches and attacks you. this is the second time this link has had a sword fight with another human as his final battle but this time he is effectively fighting alone. of the main cast linebeck is the most detached from the rest of the group and is the only one to be an enemy. bellumbeck’s helmet opens after some attacks and right before he’s defeated. linebeck’s character theme utilizes harpsichord and excludes piano and bellum’s boss theme utilizes piano and excludes harpsichord. bellumbeck’s theme includes both and for the first half and near the end of the song they play the exact same melody at the same time. linebeck is suggested to be unable to fight or properly protect himself in battle for the entire game and then in the final boss in a twisted, awful way he finally gets a chance to be a competent fighter capable of defending himself.     does any of this make sense

[allegorism]

when are we going to move on from natlan. i'm so tired of this nation, just take us to nod krai.

[leatherbookmark]

"I know why you want to return to our world, Meggie! You just miss your boyfriend! But we haven't seen everything of this beautiful world yet!" Mr Mortimer sir your wife was enslaved for working as a scribe disguised as a man. In this world women are punished for learning their fathers' craft and your thirteen years old daughter would be already married if she was born in this world. I know the books are very pretty but Mo your wife is pregnant. I don't think they have c-sections here :(

[rubiatinctorum]

:/ turns out i haven't bothered to learn anything for piano in THREE YEARS oh no................

[beebfreeb]

I am playing Psychonauts again I am on Meat Circus please send me psychic beam to power me up please okay thank you.

[around-your-throat]

the thing that sucks the most is that you will finish the introduction and get half-way through the literature review before realizing the thing you're advocating for is actually just like. a bunch of baseless bullshit