#is a symptom of a larger issue

[fruity-hub-blog]

You know that whole "those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it" thing?

This really is starting to look like TruePhan vs AntiPhan 2.

So maybe everyone should brush up on why that was such a disaster before we irradiate the Phandom for another 10 years.

I'm a cockroach here, but goddamn, even cockroaches get tired of being bombarded after a while.

[lucabyte]

Where are people getting 8-12 for Siffrin from????? Like even without the timing of the Island, SASAP Siffrin canonically drinks wine and I’m pretty sure there’s a bathroom convo that implies he’s gone out drinking with the party before, like that rouge is a Grown Adult 100% (and also if Siffrin Was somehow 8-12 I don’t think they would’ve written their interactions with Isabeau like that since he’s also written to be at least mid 20s or so and has a job)

8-12 as in 8-12 when they left the island, not during game events. You misread the tags on this one.

(said tags were based on seeing poll results where the overwhelming, while not Majority, mode/most frequent answer was 8-12, with a not insubstantial number of people answering 5-9??)

(ive repeated my own thoughts on this matter a number of times, but mostly it comes down to disagreeing with 'refusing to eat vegetables is a childish reason to run away' since it's stated in text that they were Joking at the time (reads to me like a teenage 'ohh my god stop telling me what to doooo', which is also supported by adrienne's own word of god that they were a teen/that its based on their own teenage anecdote), and the logic that an unnacompanied child is likely to be taken in and taken care of, where a mid-teen or older is more likely to be assumed to be okay when Wandering Around On Their Own, Homeless. Which to me lines up far more with Siffrin's in-game behaviour of latching onto small kindnesses, etc. I know a lost child is a sad concept but extend that kind of empathy to teens too?? A lost teen ends up in such a tragic place of 'too old to be seen as needing protection' and 'still too young to be alone like that'. you dont need to make them younger to make it more tragic! if anything losing MORE of their adolesence is scarier... So I'm on team 15-18 myself. Because uh. Numbers. 30/25 minus 10/15 is still more likely to be on the higher side. And thats assuming that people would say 'about a decade' when referring to a variance as high as 5 extra years. (remember too that nille has to be able to be old enough to remember the island's disappearence and she's mira's age of early 20s. Mathsssss))

(although i have seen some WILD poll results with at least a few people pegging sif's in-game age as low as 19-23 which still boggles the mind given how frequently they're reiterated to be the second oldest in the party next to odile and the. literal wiki page that states their age to be mid-to-late 20s. I have No idea where people are getting that outside of 1. not paying attention 2. infantilisation 3. being on the younger end themselves and not really being able to visualise an older person (than them. 30 isnt old) having the kinds of mental struggles that siffrin has, and due to relating to them pulling the presumed age closer to their own)

[harrenhalyuri]

ok i wanna whine and bitch and moan a little about personal stuff

sat down to do some quick research so i could get started on a wip i outlined and man.... i felt my entire desire to write just evaporate in a second because the thought "eh why bother" popped up

i know that's bullshit. i know i'm fully capable of putting down 2-3k words a night like i was doing between september 2023 and feb 2024. i just don't feel like it right now

but the thing is. i can't have peace either because i'm thinking 24/7 about the story(stories*) i want to work on so i'm just stuck in this understimulation hell in which i lack the energy to create but my brain just won't shut the fuck up about it <3 and when i DO make something it's either too little or not good enough for me so right now it feels like writing as a hobby is heading in the same direction as drawing for me, which is "this activity is tiring and brings little to no joy anymore therefore i won't do it"

[sanctamater]

"games might soon be 100$ for a new release" canadian, austrailian, kiwis and other players:

[collaredkittyboy]

Okay non horny post, I got those Bluetooth light bulbs that change color that you control from your phone and it's the best purchase ever

I can have amazing lighting for pics and I can switch to all kinds of mood lighting while laying in bed and even color changing modes that are customizable

The downsides are I need to be connected to wifi for me to control them and also I'm pretty sure even when I turn them off in the app they're still using electricity, but also I don't need to get up to turn off or on the lights so I'm happy with it

[finelinens1994]

[im-still-a-robot]

Are all my fellow minecraft lovers aware of the movie in the works?

[yngai]

i hope RE4R separate ways starts with ada sipping a mojito on the beach as she's rudely interrupted by an organization liaison who offers her the spain operation & she takes off her sunglasses, frowns & downs the rest of her drink, just as a fun contrast to leon's little edgy monologue about his really bad time under military service

[jacksmusesdrv3]

There’s a way to handle the Hat Discourse(tm) and it’s this: stop assuming that characters are their appearances and acknowledge the game’s context. You do not need to downgrade the meaning of such a thing to ‘something Ouma took without thinking about it’ for it to, you know, not represent him as a person.

Besides that Ouma is presented in game as pretending to be a villain, as a means to an end, he very likely has to deal with actual dystopia and fascism in his real life if he ‘roleplays as the villain’ even in DICE. It could be a game if you want, but consider that this group was presented as having a strict No Kill rule, stuff you’ll see in groups such as resistance or other dangerous missions organisations that warrant confronting the possibility of killing. Basic common sense suggests that clown troupes do not need a No Kill rule because that is not the case there- take Rui Kamishiro from Project Sekai for instance, he pulls a whole lot of dangerous stunts, ones that could be a danger to life, but he’s a performer so he’s not going to implement ‘no killing’- because no shit, what kind of performer even considers killing as part of an act??

Look. I’m getting so, so tired of people acting as if using a surface level read of things will just evaporate the discourse on it. No. It won’t, and frankly that is the attitude that only makes the issue a hundred thousand times more frustrating. The whole thing becomes this nebula that everyone’s too afraid to talk about, which is not a sustainable way to handle this matter at all, especially when everyone and their dog is forcing the view that Ouma’s group are clowns.

[yorktaylor]

i just took way too long way too hot of a shower and i feel worse

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

the thing is, sometimes you know the idea of a canon mate is right stupid, but on the other hand, i'm a guy based off a character who thrives in community, so i dont know what to tell you

[can-of-pringles]

I swear if I do this MRI for basically nothing I'm going to be so mad

[pluurankeli]

Current world provides endless distractions but it’s entirely on you to find some reason why you actually want to live in this world, and I think this has lead at least some people to believe the distractions ARE the thing you’re supposed to live for

[emeraldmew]

I don't know if it's burnout or what but honestly I think I'm just more tired than I am scared right now.

[akuma-tenshi]

i joined a discord server with an age limit recently and i'm constantly on edge like "oh god oh fuck they're gonna find out i'm secretly not old enough to be here" even though i'm literally twenty years old. i'm two years above the age limit. i'm literally older than multiple people there. but sure i'm not supposed to be here bc i say shit like blorbo and brain chemistry and have they / them pronouns. fucking hell

[imethirdperson]

The reactionary shift carried in liberal language that's been taking place in this website these last three years would be so horrifying if it wasn't also so damn funny