#landlords are the worst

[nando161mando]

There are now over 15 million empty homes in the US, and 650,000 homeless per the very bias official numbers, or 23 houses per person

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

Ain't that the truth.

[puppersfluid8xd]

”landlords r the worst, most leech-like, most vampiric thing out there”

woah woah woah back it up buddy, that’s an insult to leeches and vampires everywhere! What’d leeches and vampires do to deserve being compared to such a horrid thing as landlords??

[arukou-arukou]

Ah yes. The joy of calling in maintenance only for them to say, this isn't our problem. This is the gas company's problem.

And then calling in the gas company only for them to say, this isn't our problem. This is your landlord's problem.

And in the meantime I've had no heat for a week during a fucking polar vortex. (I'm fine. My cat is fine. I live on the fifth floor, so ambient heat keeps me above freezing. It just really sucks in the meantime.)

[petiolata]

Paying my rent always puts me in such an incredibly bad mood. It's like -50 to happiness levels and +100 to rage ones.

[poeticnotpretentious]

Guys guys

Guys

Can someone please please give me a little empty flat or house?

I will pay for it by making it look cute and sending you loads of pictures of my designs.

I might, and hear me out carefully on this, even put a cat in there if you let me!!!!

Please <3

[frogeyedape]

My parents are upset or confused by my lack of desire to rent from them the house I've lived in for over twenty years. My dad who talks with relish of being a slumlord (currently not renting out any property). Just. You make well over 4x as much as me and you want to profit off my needing housing? If I wanted to hate you, sure, it'd be a fine arrangement. Funnily enough, I don't want that.

[nando161mando]

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

friendly reminder that landlords nor real estate companies aren't your friends and that shelter is a basic human right, for the longest time real estate as a form of commerce is riddled to the brim with corruption and speculation that ultimately renders nothing but suffering and despair as they will gladly throw human lives under the bus just for a slight increase in profits. Millions of people are homeless and poverty striken with no way up as the system extracts every penny from the people on the bottom. Nothing short of comprehensive regulations or the dissolution of real estate as a commodity will save us, cause in the end never forget there are more of us than them and if need be their trillion dollar mansions would house dozens easily.

[rotzaprachim]

obviously the “never been to a protest” website has certainly not frequented regional and municipal council meetings or news but I think it would shock them how often the landlords and oppressive business owners and anti homeless freaks are ALSO working class and lower middle class people living on pretty thin margins and that when even the most MODERATE pro homeless or pro minimum wage increase and public housing stuff is introduced it’s often seen as rich elites from out of town forcing shit on US. I’m not saying I agree or that there aren’t REALLY BAD rich people out there but they tend not to be at municipal council meetings and legislation to go after them can be a bit more nuanced or different - after all the really top guys tend to have lawyers and professionals to evade exactly this. But if you want to destroy capitalism you have to understand why it’s bad in the minutiae

[itshomobirb]

. . . <- about to keel over.

landlord did not send me the lease until today. i signed it and have done everything except pay the prorated rent. they wont give me access to the apartment until i pay. however, the amount they're asking for is based off the full rental amount and not based on what should be my portion. i dont know what my portion will exactly be, the housing people haven't told me. emailed the housing people, i get an autoresponse "hey we're closed today! we'll respond next business day (monday) (day after ur supposed to move)." this is funny to me, bc landlord had to send the signed lease over to the housing people and housing people sent me a form earlier today, so like. someone *was* working.

[petiolata]

My head is killing me. It's like a rotten pumpkin that wants to split open and spill its guts everywhere.

(yes im keeping with the fall metaphors.)

Im sure I look like a zombie, but I had to go out into the world and be seen to pay rent. Maybe ppl will just assume i was up til 4am getting blackout drunk like half two-thirds 99% of the neighborhood.

[marshvlovestv]

Video Games I've Experienced So Far This Year 1/23/25

Video games are my favorite thing and all I want to do with my life is experience every game I possibly can. I've moved all this video game journaling over to Backloggd but I should update my Tumblr with it periodically as well. I'm talking about games I've watched someone else play as much as games I've played myself. This entry reads like a vent post but that's just a product of where my mind is right now - any future entries should be more normal.

1000X Resist (watched: Welonz) Welonz is from Hong Kong. She understands what this game is talking about. She explains.

Anthology of the Killer (played) The first game I've found entirely because of glowing Backloggd reviews. I am not in the mental space to grapple with the political themes right now. The horror-comedy is fun.

Arco (played) I like this game a lot, so why do I have nothing at all to say about it?

Astroloco: Worst Contact (watched: ZenBear) A decade-old Let's Play of a shitty indie adventure game. I actually surprisingly enjoyed it.

Balatro (played) I'm starting to realize how abnormally bad I am at this game. I still pick it up from time to time but the draw is getting less strong. My brother and I both got each other Balato-themed gifts for Hanukkah.

Banjo-Kazooie (watched: PlayFrame) I wish I had a game I was this nostalgic for. I wish I had a friendship as strong as the two Dans.

Blasphemous (watched: adricarra) It feels so rare to find a Spanish Let's Player playing a Spanish game with Spanish text and Spanish voiceover. Watching these videos is all I'm using my bachelor's degree in Spanish for.

The Darkside Detective (watched: Kikoskia) The sequel was the first game I ever recorded a Let's Play video of so the series is important to me forever.

Dicey Dungeons (watched: SummerDumber) I wanted to replay this for a while but I think I'll just watch this girl 100% it instead.

Eat Girl (played) Pac-Man is a game everyone is nostalgic for, even if they didn't grow up a gamer. I'm almost never excited to play more arcadey games, but this one has sucked me in.

Guardians of the Galaxy (watched: Welonz) I adored adored adored the story, so much more than I thought I would. I think I'm attached to the game version of these characters now and I can never watch the movies or even read the comics.

Hades II (played) It feels stupid to go for completionism in an Early Access game where the devs could remove or change boons whenever they feel like it, but I'm going for it.

Hero Hours Contract (played) The pixel art is really cute but now that I've been away from it a few weeks I just remember it as a grindfest.

Landlord of the Woods (played) I thought this would help me get my YouTube channel back on track. It did not help.

Lies of P (watched: Quasimofo) Quasi knew next to nothing about Pinocchio going into this game and I'm pretty sure he also didn't know what Italy was.

Love, Ghostie (played) Was completely obsessed with this one for a few days. It's a too-happy, squeaky-clean version of video game romance and I was afraid my friends with edgier tastes would judge me for it. I loved every moment.

Neva (played) I don't know if I can finish this one. If something happens to this wolfie...

Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (watched: PlayFrame) I do not see the appeal of this game. It's fun to watch, but every person I've seen talk about this game has been like "It's life-changing it's incredible" and it just looks like torture to me.

The Secret of Monkey Island (watched: Quasimofo) I made a complainy post about them earlier but damn I love adventure games.

Shipwrecked 64 (watched: Andrew Cunningham and mollystars) This was not part of my usual watching routine, two Deltarune video essayists I watch streamed this and I just wanted something mindless on while I did something else.

Stardew Valley (played) My problem with simulation games is how much restraint I put into it. I'm in the middle of my first fall and all of my crops fit in three little patches and I feel like that's not enough.

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi (watched: GSDBoxer) GSD usually plays RPGs. It was fun to watch him play an adventure game.

Sunless Skies (watched: Laila Dyer) I actually finished this Let's Play this month. It was 143 episodes long and I'd been watching it since July or August.

Wandersong (watched: Kikoskia) A super special game that introduced me to this super special YouTuber.

[dickbaggins]

not my dumbass thinking I can get up for the hvac guy at 8am and then go back to bed cause it’s 10am and no hvac guy