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no one can reach my level of petty hating about the stupid english title
#ada speaks#after scott made that thread about how the legitimately valid complaints about infinite wealth's loc didn't matter because of sales#i was like. god damn dude. like what a. horrible reality. so i'm voting with my money. i guess.#not that theres ANY FUCKING WAY to make these things known when there's nuance to it that Sales Numbers obviously can't convey#im just another +1 to the jp sales number and i'm fairly sure they count everything as Worldwide due to eng being included in all regions#but !! at least i dont have fucking. pirate yakuza or whatever the hell that english title is sitting on my shelf#and the other really fun thing is that availability of the game in canada is total ass and exclusive to some random online retailer#i cant preorder from....... fucking gamestop?? ok i guess it's amazon jp time. since this is. somehow easier.#anyway. hey sega. can we fucking talk about your english loc team and crunch and simulreleases.#can we maybe like. release a Good product and not a product that Sells.#these games are going to sell regardless because. the GAMES are good#people are going to buy them for The Core Game. and they are going to Put Up With the shitty localization.#im just. man. remember when SoA used to be proud of what they put out there. what a crazy concept.#if you're pointing to sales numbers to Own The Haters idk what to tell you. i think the haters might have a point. just this time.#you can't genuinely defend how undercooked and sloppy it is by explaining specific choices made or being informative#like so many times in the past#so its just.#lol suck it the games still sell#like yeah no shit. obviously??????????? but why in gods name should we have to Settle for a lesser experience#just because corporate wants a Finished product and not a Good one#frustrating <3#god forbid art be anything but a consumable slop product with a Serviceable translation#to me this is one step removed from shipping it without any translation and being like lol just use google translate bro#and when everyone is like ????? what the fuck???? its like well it still sells. so clearly this is what the people want.#boooooooooo
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My new hobby is skimming through seasons of Ninj//ago to induce a fever dream like state in my psychese
#I've always had kinda like....petty beef with ninj//ago just cause like. EVERYONE compares it to monkie kid#When they r just not comparable beyond the surface level observation that its legos#Like ninj//ago contributes to the idea of an Asian monolith and uh. It's annoying to me.#It's also so thematically empty and they just reset shit whenever and it barely has characters. It's not good#Which makes me feel crazy when lmk is SO good. Like so so so good#Let it be known I've seen all that's out of drag//on rising#the first 3 seasons of the og show. And I skimmed through possession seabound and both crystal king parts#Gotta say. Sea Nya slaps like what the hell#Ninj//ago isn't good but that was legitimately like. Awesome#So there are officially 1 and a half episodes that I find thematically banging#I'm always a sucker for there being no good choice but still having to choose. Like I am. What decision can you live with#But Nya losing herself to the Sea? Losing her own breath and inhaling the sea to remove the water out of Jay's lungs?#The fact that she only became the water ninja because her friends needed her which eventually pushed her into this fate#Making it so she couldn't remember who she was or what her loved ones meant to her?#Her convo with nyad was like#duuddeeeeeeeeeee. brooooooo#Like she became eternal and endless. A force of nature but there was still a small part of her that remembered what ''good'' is#The part of her that would save a sailor who had gone overboard even if it went against the natural course of the ocean#Because there is no right or wrong there. Except in the small drop of Nya that was left#Like what the FUCK that's CRAZYYY BRO#Like she literally had to pull herself out of herself (the sea) to keep ''Nya'' together like. oh my god. How the cookie crumbles I guess#ninjago critical#anyways I've been losing my mind about Sea Nya and how nothing else in ninja//go is like it I needed to get it off my chest#sea nya
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someone found a boe at a costco
💥✨HOLY SHIT✨💥

#SKELETON#ask#kamenriderhamo#LEGITIMATELY HOLY FUCK#i have got to find one hundred dollars and fifty dollars.#that so fucking slaps honestly#in terms of instruments that boe would like? honestly? harpsichord. or organ.#i imagine him with good finger dexterity#i love tha piano. i love the sound of an organ and harpsichord so much#thinking about that one song from pacman world 1 for the ps1. the ghost level#well i guess thats every level. its pacman.#that song slaps but its too short. and i listen to it at 1.25x speed because it sounds better that way#but then that just means its even shorter. hell on earth.#also. initially didnt mean to type hot sog. but my fingers slipped and i chose the fate of the hot sog. my burden. perhaps. my blessing.#anyway!!!! thank you so much haam for showing me!!!!!!! wow!!!! boe costs sooo much.#also hi ham :)
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i love bratz as dolls but i fuckin hate mga as a brand. fuckin idiots
#u make it so hard for me to play with my dollies. evil!!#tales from diana#i am like honestly thinking about how many stupid decisions that brand has made in the past year and like#the fact that they have the gall to be snide about their fans' complaints in a little spotify wrapped meme#girl...#U KEEP BEING STUPID!!!!!#i miss the energy they had like 2 years ago#even their repros recently have been getting so obviously worse#who the hell was asking for more babyz. who was doing that?#like if anything bratz babyz were like a kitsch embarrassing piece of toy history to remind ppl#that yeah even though theyre like a millennial girly twitter meme now. bratz was once unambiguously a brand for kids#and they made stupid toys for kids including but not limited to cunty little baby dolls#not to hate on them for existing at the time. hell i even had them as a kid but i didnt like them as much as the real bratz#and the way they did a poll on which line they should reproduce next and tokyo a go go won and they went and made slumber party anyway#probably because it was cheaper i assume!!! and it's like so silly bc like if youre an adult collector brand now... why do you think#that we want dolls in pajamas? theyre cute but that's not as fun to display as like legitimate fashion pieces#and all their legit collector releases being an asbolute mess#kylie being overstocked and flopping and then the manufactured scarcity for the mean girls and karol g releases#that were all bought up by scalpers in 2 seconds and sold on ebay for several times the original price#but mga doesnt care bc it's like oh we can say 'we sold out' 💅 yeah idiots because of BOTS u did nothing to circumvent#all this and their new dolls arent even as good as their old ones. like alwayz bratz... i was really happy for it but i gotta be so for rea#they're fine. they're cute. but they are NOT on the quality of 2000s bratz at all. theyre so obviously cheaper#and we don't even get the second outfits anymore which was such a staple of the fashion mixing-and-matching originally#it's not even the same brand anymore but they wanna act like they're the hottest shit in the world. best thing to ever happen to dolls#oh please. u will never be barbie. u can't put us through all this and expect endless fawning and support#i just wish the secondhand market for bratz were any better but it's actually worse. so. yaaaaaay
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I love hensheng but telling people about its name must have been so awkward. Imagine if someone said "that's a cool sword. What is it called?" and JGY responded with "hating life". I mean, what would you even say to that?
#He was so emo for this#Xy too#Wwx at least had an excuse because suibian was an accident and not that concerning for strangers#I mean a sword should have a concerning name but it's not supposed to make you feel sorry for the owner right?#I desperately want to read the scene of JGY telling LXC and NMJ about what he's naming his sword#LXC is concerned about his mental health and NMJ thinks he's seeking pity#Also.#Immediately after winning the war and getting legitimized I don't think JGY would come up with that name#It's possible that he got it while he was a spy#But imagine if he named it “loving life” at first because hell yeah he just fulfilled his mother's dream#Or at least got close to doing to#But then JGS happened and suddently the name didn't feel suitable#So he renamed it#Or what if there was a ceremony where he was supposed to get his courtesy name and a sword#And was under the impression that he was going to be jin ziyao#He had a fancy poetic name for his sword but once he heard his new name he got overwhelmed by resentment#And said hensheng without considering what other people would think#Because I can't imagine JGS being thrilled about people thinking he was such a bad father that his bastard hated being recognized by him#And let's be honest JGY isn't very good at making snap decisions
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Semi-related to the stuff I post here but anyone else aware of the RIIZE situation? The fact they put him on hiatus just because of a ''dating scandal'' only to finally announce he's coming back TWO DAYS ago and now he's been officially kicked out 'cause Korean fans (mostly girls who are insane and don't view idols as humans) threw a huge fit about it.
As an outsider of the group/fandom I can't speak too much about them but as a k-pop industry anti there's a lot to say about that. It's just so insane to me that in the year 2024, going on 2025, the built-in conception that idols belong to fans, love fans, are dedicated to their fans, and cannot have ACTUAL real love lives without it ruining their entire career is PSYCHOTIC. I cannot stress enough how ABNORMAL and WEIRD that is. I literally do not care to say that at all like if you (general) think it's okay to harass and bully any celebrity, but in this specific case k-pop idols, for doing the most human of things like going out with someone you're a freak, a loser, and you don't deserve to be a fan of anyone.
This idea that fans genuinely believe they have power to control another person's life, because they've been sold that idea by a corporation that makes money off of it, is so fucked up. But what's even worse in this situation is that the company completely threw him under the fucking bus once he lost value in their eyes. They don't care about talent, they don't care about the years of training he put in, they don't care about the relationships and bonds formed between the members that they are now tearing apart, all they wanted to use him for was to sell an image of him to fans, and now that the image has been ''ruined'' to a subset of that fandom, he's worthless to them, so they threw him away.
It's some nasty business. I have so little respect for fans who treat other people like toys, the complete and utter dehumanization of these people just doing a job, and it affects all of them. Like this is not the first and sadly won't be the last a situation like this happens until something about the industry and fan behavior changes.
#Sab talks#remember when Korean TXT fans tried to cancel Taehyun for going to a club?#I fucking do#they were so fucking weird about it#like god forbid a 21 year old guy go and do something most young adults have done#like I'm not even a club person but even I've gone at least once 'cause my friend wanted to for her birthday#it's about the experience and doing something new#hell maybe he actually likes clubbing and now because his fanbase is insane he can't do it#and like that's so sad to me!!!!!!!!!#he should be allowed to do something so normal!!!!!!#but no he literally can't#and I know for a fact that it did legitimate damage to his popularity#Chinese fans still to this day hate Taehyun because if it#it's so fucked up#but at least HYBE/BigHit didn't throw him away like trash because of it#nor did they with the recent shit with Yoongi#I think in this way I might have to actually compliment them and say good for you not abandoning your idols for being human#anyway this got me heated#I just find all this to be insanely gross#text heavy#long post#rant tag
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Doodle I did of my girl Juliet earlier
#keese draws#lobotomy corporation#oc art#not super happy with this but I do enjoy looking at her so I can lower my standards for her#at least I feel like I have a better idea of her general shapes now#I spent hours and hours today on the lob corp grind and I think Im Finally ready to actually move forward with they story#Ive also been thinking abt my nuggets during their lor eras and thats been fun#in particular its been fun to think abt my ogs because half of them are experiencing their crash from finally being free from lob corp hell#and the other half are like frolicking in fields and making friendship bracelets and have made peace with their past and upcoming futures#and that half is the half that are all just godawful people who do not deserve that peace and happiness while the people they actively#traumatized are just left to deal with it#this is mostly abt juliet and loki they both suck I love them sm <3#juliet is the one thats caused more active harm tho since shes that type of boss that will obsess over those she thinks have ~potential~#and once youve caught her attention you are guaranteed to have a horrible time as she will get what she wants out of you no matter what#she doesn't even work on abnormalities anymore just just breaths down ppls necks and fights when need be#loki is very similar in that regard he puts a lot of pressure on his team to provide the results he wants#hes less likely to like. directly psychologically torture those who are under him. but he still isnt a good boss.#hes also more openly rude and disrespectful towards those around him because while neither respect anyone but eachother#loki much more frequently openly states that fact to ppls faces because he feels like everyone around him is wasting his time#now loki actually does legitimately like a few other ppl he works with which is smth that cant rly be said for juliet#but hes also the one whos always on team 'lets murder the newbies for science' so y'know#ding is like his least favorite person here and its like 30% because he specifically accepted her into the info department because he#planned on getting her killed to finish off some research on a tool abno that was being worked on#but she survived the process so now she just like actually works here and he despises her despite the fact that shes rly good at her job#juliet doesn't usually send ger guys to die on purpose but if they do die she doesn't care#she simply feels that if they die early they were weak links anyways#she will still be 'nice' to newbies and to all of her coworkers for that matter but she still has quite the bad reputation regardless#some newbies do fall for her polite act but anyone whos been here for more than like a few days knows that she doesn't give a shit abt them#theyre both doing fine in lor theyre just like we may have lost everything but at least we have eachother :) (mason wants to strangle them)
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rare footage of me sitting in my boss’ office giving her all the campaign tea and ranting about david zaz (derogatory)
#OFMD#RenewOFMD#SaveOFMD#Renew as a crew#It’s making me so 🥺 that she’s legitimately interested to know what’s going on#I’d say she’s INVESTED at this point actually#Like I’ve got projects to do but she was still like ☕️👀#And she’s also very curious to know why the HELL they could cancel it#She doesn’t think it makes any sense either#Which is very good to hear from an outside perspective#She also believes we have a fighting chance because we’re making so much noise#And I’m like MAN I HOPE SO 😭😭😭#SURE DO HOPE SO
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im the number one mickbell fan
#i think about him so much#firstly just because hes funny to me but also because he drives me insane between his similarities & differences with chilchuck and#like. actually just every aspect of his backstory i hate him hes so good i genuinely find him very well written it makes perfect sense why#living where he did for so long and witnessing what he witnessed hed end up being so untrusting of other people hed reject even people#trying to help him very directly and of course he would become borderline codependant to kuro who is probably one of the first people to#both extend genuine trust to mick and also prove himself to be trustworthy as well. i think to mick its legitimately them against the world#everybody else may as well be secondary as long as hes got kuro hell be fine... is any of this coherent#sorry to the normal people if this shows up in tags im too lazy to censor#please let my artblock explode so i can draw 5 million of him#im insane#hymn.txt
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h*zbin’s tackling of sin is so underwhelming… 😪
#Welcome to heaven’s message is so easily applicable to anything in how it approaches the subject#which *could* be a plus for variety - but it winds up losing the weight it deserved#because it dances around actually defining what sin is to it’s world and characters.#“Sin” as a concept has almost always been used as a means of controlling popular habits#leading to deductions of what constitutes as right and wrong that appeals to pre-existing bias you already have.#for example; it’s very popular to cast eve as irrevocably malicious for offering the fruit to adam#There’s an “othering” of eve that isn’t extended as much towards adam - perpetuating a higher standard for women to constantly#observe themselves and eachother — filling in for an omnipresent gaze or else be made into an “eve” - someone who invites her misfortune 😬#There’s an implication of sin as a tool to “legitimize” the angels’ role in gatekeeping* heaven from “sinners”#which could create conflict over how much of original word of god was preserved -if it was tweaked time and time to sustain this narrative#so it no longer makes sense to the younger generation - who would’ve grown up with humanity and known it’s good too …#but it conflicts with how barren it’s worldbuilding is when it intends to contextualize sin.#It’s barely of any consequence to begin with. Just think back on how Hell is often compared to a slightly more hostile earth.#could it be… this is by design … will the show abolish the concept of sin altogether … that would be so funny omg#as usual - if ur a h*zbin fan or hater stumbling upon this - don’t cite my words as gospel 🫥 i’m just rambling my mind off
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Because a monster has never been anything more than a human in a mask. Because a monster breathes, and their heart beats and their brain thinks, and it is the choice, the decision to harm others that makes them a monster. More often than not monsters are people who grew up hurt and terrified and never had the space to process it so they never stopped being scared.
And when you try to stop being a monster you have to acknowledge that you were a monster. That you have been a monster. And what does that mean for you? You, what, just get to get better, now? And what about your victims? They just have to get better too?
And if you want to stop a monster, you have to attack a person, who is terrified and has given up on themselves and is hurting others because of it, but a person none the less.
You don't get to pretend they're just a monster because they hurt someone. I'm not even saying you can't kill them, you just have to mourn them too. You have to recognise this is no dragon, no dark lord, no creature of myth, this is a person who was hurt for so long that they internalised that hurt as correct.
Every movie with a sentient villain is a zombie movie, in a sense. And people walk around as if evil exists. As if the devil has ever been more than the face in the mirror. You don't get to pretend you're better than the monsters because you are blind to their humanity.
The monster is man. It always has been.
And the argument that I see with my stance Is that, I argue that all ‘evil’ stems from a person being actively harmed at some point to a degree where they internalised it, so what was the first thing? What was the first god awful Domino in this chain of anguish?
I think it was nature. People being eaten. People starving. People freezing and drowning and dying everywhere. I think the devil's name is generational trauma, and I think his song is the little fear in your head. The things you think but won't look at for fear that their answer would be too damning.
Everytime you feel that tingle of dread and brush it aside without inspection, that's the devil whispering your name. Because the devil is all of us, on a day worse than today.
(How else would he be in both your mirror and mine?)
#vent#philosophy#the way people understand good and evil makes me fucking insane#there is something so deeply upsetting about online discourse about fucking nonsense that everyone treats as legitimate#the notion that punishing anyone for anything would ever fucking stop them if you didn't kill them is absurd#none of this stupid middle shit#stop dicking around#kill or reform#whats it gonna be#because just punishing them only makes them sneakier and angrier#this goes for absolutely all bad things#without exception#also? fuck all that Christian holier than thou shit. you wanna help? make a real fucking stance on something and fight for it#i dont even care if its for or against the shit i stand for#just make a goddamned CHOICE#none of this 'praying for you' shit.#if you think someones in danger#pick up a weapon or admit you arent actually that invested#snd yes donating can help yoo in certain situations but also separately the way people talk about areas in bad situations riles me to hell#but thats a whole separate rant
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There was an interesting situation at work recently. I'm gonna keep it vague for privacy, but basically the husband of a patient threatened to shoot hospital employees after he perceived they were ignoring his wife's situation. Which, looking at the case, people were like, yeah, this patient was in prolonged discomfort and had delayed care over multiple shifts due to factors that weren't malicious but were careless. Basically, the task that would have helped this patient was classic "third thing on your to do list." It had to be done, but it didn't need to be done urgently. The impact of not doing this task likely wouldn't be felt on your shift. The work of doing this task would require the coordination of a couple different people. Very easy to just keep pushing it back, and because it wasn't an emergency (until it was), it just kept being pushed back.
You could do a root-cause analysis of the whole thing (and we have) to really break down what happened, but ultimately the effect was the same as if the neglect had been malicious. I'm sympathetic to the husband, as were a lot of people in this situation, because, yes, hospital staff dropped the ball in a way that meant the patient was in unnecessary pain and discomfort with delay of care for over a day, despite multiple requests from patient and family to address the situation. The husband reacted emotionally to a situation where he'd felt helpless and ignored. Institutional neglect ground away at him until he verbally snapped.
And the way he snapped was to tell staff, "I'm going to come back with a gun and shoot you all for what you've done." Which is about as explicit a threat as you can get. Does he get to keep visiting the hospital after that? How do we be fair to him, to the patient, and to the staff? He probably didn't mean it. Right? But how do you ignore a statement like that? If he does come back and commit a shooting, how will you justify ignoring his threat? But does one sentence said at an emotional breaking point define him? How much more traumatic are we going to make this hospital stay?
A couple years back, I worked on a floor a few hours after a patient had been escorted away for inappropriate behavior--by the way, you can't imagine how inappropriate the behavior has to be for us to do that. I have never seen another case like this. That patient said he was going to come back with a gun and shoot nurses that he identified by name. This didn't come to pass. Whether that was because the patient didn't mean it or changed his mind or was prevented or simply was not mentally coordinated enough to follow through on the plan, I don't know. I do know that shift fucking sucked. I remember the charge nurse telling me that it wasn't our jobs to die for our patients. If there was shooting, she told me to run.
There was another situation recently involving a patient in restraints. I despise restraints. I think the closest legitimate use for them is in ICUs for stopping delirious patients from ripping out their ventilators, and that should still be a last resort. I discontinue restraints whenever I inherit them, and I am very good at fixing problems before restraint seem like the only solution. Having said that, I work in a hospital that uses restraints, and so I am complicit in their use. Recently I walked into a situation involving restraints with zero context for what was happening, just that there was a security situation involving a patient who had been deemed for some reason to lack capacity to make medical decisions. They were on a court hold and a surrogate med override, which means they cannot refuse certain medications. The whole situation was horrible, and I've spent the days since it happened thinking about every way I personally failed that patient and what to do different next time.
At one point, the patient called one of the nurses a bitch, and the nurse said, "hey cmon, that's not nice," and the patient replied, "if you were in hell, would you call the devil a nice name?" And yeah! Fair! It is insane to expect people who are actively being denied their autonomy to be polite to us as we do it.
Then there was another patient on the behavioral health floor who got put in seclusion. It's so frustrating, by the way, that staff put them in seclusion because it would have been extremely easy to avoid escalating the situation to the point that it got to. But the situation did escalate, and by the time the patient was locked in a seclusion room, they were shouting slurs and kicking the walls. Other patients were scared of the patient even when they were calm because the patient talked endlessly about guns, poisons, bombs, etc. When I checked in with the patient in the seclusion room, they called me a cog in a fascist machine just following orders. And I was like, yeah. Fair.
Another patient: one night when I was charge nurse, I replied to a security situation where a patient trapped a staff member in the room and tried to choke her. The staff member escaped unharmed. She told me later that the patient had been verbally aggressive to her all day, but she hadn't told anyone because she knew he was having a bad day, she didn't want to get him in trouble, and she didn't think anything was actually going to happen. She said, "Patients are mean all the time."
And another case: I had a different patient with the ultimate combination of factors for violent agitation--confused, needed a translator, was hard of hearing so the translator was of little use, in pain, feverish, scared, withdrawing from alcohol, hadn't slept in two days, separated from his caregiver who had also just been hospitalized--the whole shebang. He shouted at us that we were human trafficking him and could not be reoriented to where he actually was or that he was sick. I tried all my usual methods of deescalation, which I am typically very good at. I could not get him to calm down. He had a hospital bed where the headboard pulls out so you can use it as a brace during compressions. He ripped that out and threw it at the window, trying to shatter the glass. At that point, with the permission of his medical surrogate and with help from security, I forcibly gave him IV medication for agitation and withdrawal. He slept all night with a sitter at his bedside to monitor him. I pondered when medication passed over the line into chemical restraint, but I stand by the decisions I made that shift.
Last one: I had a different patient who was dying who had a child with a warrant out for arrest. We didn't know for what, and no one investigated further because no one wanted to find out anything that might prevent this person from visiting his dying parent. Obviously, "warrant for arrest" could mean literally anything, although it was significant enough that security was aware of the situation and wanted us aware as well, but I was struck by how proactively the staff protected his visitation rights and extended him grace. Everyone was very aware of how easily the wrong word could start a process that would result in a parent and child losing the chance to say goodbye to each other.
In the case of the husband who threatened a mass shooting, you'd be surprised how many of the staff advocated for him to keep all visitation rights. After all, the patient wanted him there.
Violence--verbal, physical, active, passive, institutional, direct, inadvertent, malicious--pervades the hospital. It begets itself. You provoke people into violence, and then use that violence to justify why you must do actions that further provoke them. And also people are not helpless victims of circumstance, mindlessly reacting to whatever is the most noxious stimuli. But also we aren't not that. You have to interrupt the cycle somewhere. I think grace is one of the most powerful things we can give each other. I also think people own guns. Institutions have enormous overt and covert power that can feel impossible to resist, and they are made up of people with necks you can wring, and those people are the agents of that unstoppable power, and those people don't have unlimited agency and make choices every day about how and when to exercise it. We'll never solve this. You literally have to think about it forever, each and every time, and honor each success and failure by learning something new for the next inevitable moral dilemma that'll be along any minute now and is probably already here.
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Kids, we know how interest works, right? A while back I made a post about how credit card interest can screw you, but we know how interest can be good for you too, right?
I suspect we don't know about this because on one of the posts I made about it someone said something about how it is evil that money can make money, but you know that's not just for the ultrawealthy, right? That is legitimately something that you can and should take advantage of in some kind of retirement/savings/investment account.
Let us say that you are twenty years old, have no money to put into a savings account, but have a job that pays you well enough that you've got twenty dollars to spare from each paycheck.
Let us say that you put that into a normal savings account; normal savings accounts have an average interest rate of .56 APY. Let us say you are going to be working until you are sixty, and that you will add forty dollars to that account every month (twenty bucks from each paycheck) for a total of $480 per year.
At the end of 40 years you would have about $21.5k.
That's a pretty good chunk of change! twenty thousand dollars is a lifechanging amount of money. But look at the total interest. In forty years you would have accrued only $2300 in interest.
Now, instead, let us imagine that you are a member of a credit union that offers you a free, high-yield savings account with a decent APY. Everything else being the same, but putting that money in an account with a 4% return does this:
Your total contributions that you put in stay the same, but the amount of money you have at the end of forty years more than doubles.
Let's say you have a thousand dollars to put in the account at the beginning and run it again.
Low interest account: you add $1000 at the start and have an extra $1200 at the end.
High interest account: you add $1000 at the start and have an extra $4000 at the end.
There are many, many very stable opportunities for savings that will grow your money. Fifty thousand dollars isn't a retirement plan, but it's a hell of a lot better than what you would have if you just stuck cash in a savings account or if you didn't save any money at all.
I know how hard it can be to save. I know it feels impossible to put money aside, but even if you start with no money and can tuck away five dollars a week you can get a LOT out of that five dollars a week.
This certainly isn't "you can't buy a house because you get coffee at the cafe," but it something that can HELP.
Now, let's suppose you're not twenty. Let's suppose you're in my boat, and you're (almost) forty and you're going to be saving for twenty years. You still don't have a lot of cash, but you know it has less time to grow interest, so you double your contribution and you put in forty dollars for each paycheck for a total of $960 a year.
That is extremely very much not the same thing as putting in forty bucks a month for twenty years. Instead of your interest being nearly one and a half times the amount of your contributions, it is around half.
If you are a young person (honestly even if you are not a young person) and it is in any way possible for you to start putting money into any kind of an investment account, you should do so as soon as humanly possible. The earlier you do it, the more interest you will have and the more money you will end up with when you are nearing retirement age.
This is how individual retirement plans work. This is what a 401K does, but sometimes it does that with matching contributions from your employer (so your employer matches whatever you put into the account up to a certain percentage of your pay). 401K accounts also often have higher APYs than high yield savings accounts, though they have more limitations on how and when the money can be pulled out.
If you are broke as fuck and never learned anything about investing or interest from your family because your family was broke as fuck too, now is the time to learn. r/PersonalFinance is a reasonable resource (and if you ever happen to have a windfall that's the first place I would point you for figuring out how to make the most of it) for learning about this stuff.
Thinking about money sucks! Being afraid you'll never be able to retire sucks! Having to figure out how to save sucks! But there are tools out there that even very fucking broke people can use to make that suck less.
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Aqua fact time did you know dgr was a sp/in of mine for years and I had like a kajillion ocs for it. In general, media with aspects of killing games tends to pique my interest more than other things and I enjoy reading about it even if I don't have the guts to handle actual gore or other things associated with that. (mentioning this for media such as sa.w, nyat so much for dgr since. it's. animated. pepto bismol ass blood. etc etc)
#➳ the fool speaks#I'm a sa.w fan in spirit but nyat actually in any shape or form I'd probably get legitimately traumatized watching any of the movies dude#but rereading the tv tropes pages over and over and over and looking @ posts about it was my OBSESSION for 1-2 months ish last year#i blame my massive interest in aln.st partially on the death game aspect of it (although because it mainly focuses on the character#relationships and the music that's. well. obviously a bigger factor. y'know)#hell i even watched a review of one of those. really gratuitous horror novels. and i mean did it make me paranoid Yes was it also really#intriguing Yes did i manage to un-paranoia myself by imagining my fictional fiance protecting me Also Yes Why Did You Ask That#That's An Oddly Specific Question But Okay#i think that's very silly of me btw. and mature. like maybe it seems childish but fighting a fictional threat w a fictional protection who#i love dearly was actually a good idea on my end. and hey. it worked. wahoo !#anyways i ♡ death game media actually. i can't watch/read like 99% of it but I'm a fan of those in spirit ♡♡♡
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Was trying to figure out what my favorite abnos are and made a tier list to figure it out and realized I like dream of a black swan Way more than I thought I did
#rat rambles#to be clear meh isn't bad just completely neutral eh is slightly bad#most of them are just petty grudges but I do legitimately find child of the galaxy a bit disappointing unfortunately#I really like some of the concepts behind it I just feel like the execution doesnt land#which also applies to several other abnos child of the galaxy just also happens to be built like a doll maker character#bestie has one of my least favorite designs in the entire game I just do not jive with the vibes#the others are mostly just me finding them boring or having gameplay related beef with them#knight of despair would probably be in better graces with me if she wasnt the weakest of a trio where the other two are sick as hell#like Im not the biggest queen of hatred enjoyer in the world but I do rly like her#and king of greed is both sick as hell conceptually and also was my first waw abno#oh and to be clear I am not an old lady voucher shes conceptually very boring but I like her anyways#shes delightful to me and also she has one of my favorite ego gifts#also yes I do in fact like nameless fetus it was my second he abno and also caused me many problems <3#I also just like its logs and feel bad that it's whole gimmick got snatched by censored#I love censored but not cool bestie#little red used to be one of my top faves but as time has gone on Ive become more neutral towards her#I still like her shes just not top favorite anymore#censored would be much higher in my good graces if it weren't for that I have a lot of appreciation for censored#it was my first aleph afterall#but also I enjoy its execution story wise a lot more than I thought I would when first seeing it#generally ~incomprehensible~ horror tends to fall flat often to me as it often feels like the writer going 'just trust me bro it's scary'#but censored actually feels like it Is something y'know? like you're given just enough to make it feel like it is smth that exists and not#just a writer telling you youre supposed to be scared of what is ultimately functionally nothing because they wont yell you shit#also the gameplay of censored is generally quite good asside from the stolen roulette gimmick#but I like nameless fetus a lot and find it massively disappointing that what should have been its big thing was stolen by a bigger fish
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wild how easy it is to forget that you're good at something
#i'm making another sirfetch'd for a friend so i can check the pattern and get process photos so i can SHARE it already#and i can just. see exactly where the issues are while i make it and Know what needs changing and where the change needs to go#and how to mess with further rows to adjust to the fix#and it looks GOOD#and it's WILD because i had legitimately forgotten that. i can do that. i know how to do that.#i know how to look at (some) things and what needs to happen to make it out of yarn#what the hell? who let that happen?#what do you MEAN my multi year long dearth of projects didn't put me back to a beginner?#the life and times of a less than responsible adult
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