#or a fucking thought

[slutdge]

could you imagine trying to navigate this bar drunk, this is the 9th circle of hell

[baalzebufo]

so the book of bill is pretty good

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[cosmiiqueer]

can we like, have adaptations made by people who care about the thing they're adapting

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[aroacedavestrider]

people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

[traumszenario]

[aarabbella]

[jaythelay]

One thing I'll give commercials from my time period is they made shows feel longer.

The entire Naruto arc when they go in the woods and later have a tournament felt like the longest movie I had to watch in chunks as a small child. Watch it today and it's rather short in comparison with less happening.

I wonder if my mind filled in blanks by going "certainly more happened that I can't remember" and I think the answer was commercials.

I remember counting the amount there was go from 9 to 12. By the time I was 9, I stopped watching TV entirely, not even streaming services, at most piracy of anime. These days that's the norm, but I assure you even as a kid, ads were frustrating enough I went to a different source without them, and when they poorly implemented ads, I was basically forced to use adblock.

All this to say, we got better content these days solely due to the formatting being far more pro-art than before. Watching Bleach of old and the netflix series is kinda insane, they really had to stretch using that format and it was not for the better imo. This isn't a "new is always better" just a "pro-artist formats makes better products for consumers."

Yes I know how anime production works and making time berween chapters. That's not the point. Art was not tied to advertising in any true degree for online content for an incredibly long time.

These days, the reason people get upset with sponsors and the ever growing number of intrusive and general ads, is because it's witnessing content suffer for the sake of advertising again. I sincerely don't get why these companies don't understand their methods are worse for the wor- they know, point is that they could spend a quarter or less than they are now for the same outcome. Sure we all know that raid legend game, but really, at what cost to us the consumer? To the artist's work and credibility?

Sponsors and advertisements are fine, make money bro let's go, but it's when it tramp stamps your work and I need Another extension for sponsorblocking, that's when I start feeling like I did nearly 2 decades now, rather frustrated with the format.

The difference is that I can find creators that don't have tramp stamps. So, we're still in the green, but I worry how long we'll be allowed to enjoy this format at this rate.

This isn't a hate piece for anything. Not a plea for change. Just an acknowledgement of changing times.

If ya ask me we as average people and average artists are losing ground daily, and not coming together is killing us, it really needs to stop being a fad/trend, a "we gotta fight this one war and then peace" no more half-decadely SOPA battles, we really need to come together as a collective with a religion we always strongly consider and fight for.

The Internet Truly Should Be Treated as it's own Country. One we all live in. Because jesus fucking christ, we're fucked without it. Just completely, absurdly, fucked. We can't come together without it. And sure, we suck at coming together in general, but that's changing.

Straight up, actual change happens that didn't in my time. I strongly believe as time goes on, we'll keep collecting enough information and second hand experiences to collectively grow critical thinking. That yes, there's a plethora of issues to focus on to keep that reality from slipping away, but is entirely possible, so long as we leave shit alone until we the people write the laws surrounding it.

As it is now, a battle against Internet Archive is a war against you and me, and without the excitement or immediete responsibilities it may seem silly, but much like anything in life, if you don't play this silly game of politics, you're bound to lose and cost games your friends and family can't afford to lose.

Anyways fuck advertising like holy shit. You wake up, look at a poster, see the logo, sit up, look at your TV, see a logo, get up, walk to your front door passing by hundreds maybe thousands of little advertisements, go outside, and see a mcdonald's bag, or polar pop cup in the road as you grab your mail, which is all spam and advertisements, go back inside, sit down on your computer (with logos everywhere) just to see Windows 11 has advertisements in the fucking corners. God help us.

[mlm-blues]

“lmao imagine liking men” OK!!! ON IT BOSS 🫡🫡🫡 it’s beautiful here

[daincrediblegg]

OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[emotionaleating]

when someone doesn’t wanna tell me what i did wrong and suddenly i’m 8 years old wondering what i did to make my mom mad again