#something about stones in glass houses

[terminallyworkingonit]

I wish the Mythbusters were real cause then I could ask them to test if Serena Williams can deflect an RPG with a tennis racket if she swings hard enough.

[fusgia]

what is the point in getting so upset and mad at something inconsequential that you immerse yourself fully into it and post about it All The Time and deliberately search out more things Specifically to get mad at it. do you actually have nothing better to do with your day to day life other than this. there are better and more important things in the world to focus on. like. yknow. things that make you happy.

like if someone makes a bad take or a post you dislike or you see content that upsets you why just willingly continue to look for more things you know will make you mad. its just a bizarre and miserable way to live i think.

[fulcrum-art-fox]

Bad girl Sabine / Good girl Shin.

Gonna assume I got this bc of my “Sabine is a bad influence” post and use it as an excuse to keep talking because honestly I am a big fan of upstanding father Baylan disapproving of the company his daughter is keeping, but unfortunately for him the water is super muddy when you are a very grey not-Jedi. I’m just imagining him numbering his points on his fingers:

“Firstly, she’s a Mandalorian, who are ancient enemies of the Jedi, Shin. Also, she’s training as a Jedi, which we don’t like, Shin. On top of that, she’s an artist, Shin. Her work is still derivative of the pre-exile masters. She’s a bad influence, Shin.”

“Father, we commit murders.”

[lycankeyy]

I'm going to be honest clowning on the new Taylor Swift album's lyrics was funny for like one singular day can we go back to talking about the actual problems with her and her brand now

[bogunicorn]

Being shady in public about people's custom characters in games unprovoked is and was Loser Shit. People post about their PCs because they're having fun. It's not, like, systemically harmful or anything to bag on bland or ugly OCs, nobody's identity is being attacked or anything, obviously, but something can be shitty loser behavior without being bigoted, you know? Becky making a white girl elf with pink hair and a weirdly modded face isn't harming anyone or anything, and if Becky is acting shitty and running her mouth about how much better her OC is than someone else's, her OC is not the thing causing that issue, her stinky attitude is.

Like, man, when people make custom characters, they're just vibing. It's not for you, and nobody's OC is "adding representation" or "taking representation away" in fandom. Your social obligations are how you treat other human beings, not in making custom characters for literally anybody's sake but your own. No other person in fandom "benefits" if I as a white person make a non-white OC and post pictures of them or if I romanced a relatively unpopular character, I didn't do anything with that. I also didn't do anything by making white characters or romancing a popular love interest character, either.

I am all here for harmlessly clowning, especially if it's clowning on some nonsense. But I think fandom also needs to examine why they're so overly invested in what kinds of PCs that strangers on the internet make in their video games, and why they feel the need to feed into some narrative about competition over, like, elves and dwarves and shit.

You're not ~sticking it to the man~ when you make a post that's just "if your OC is boring to me then she's ugly and you're delusional for thinking she's cool" unprompted, you're just acting like you're still in high school. Bitch about other people's ugly OCs in your cunty little group chat like a grownup. You never, ever have to like what other people have made, but "this style of OC is fucking hideous and tacky and I hate it" is, like, an Inside Voice kind of sentiment. Saying it in public where you know that the people you're talking about will see it makes you the one making people feel bad for no good reason.

[kydoesthings1]

gaelio asking ein if he has a girlfriend brother that is an entire gay man

[grimm-the-tiger]

Being childfree is annoying enough as is. Being childfree AND liking traditionally childish things is worse, especially when said things are anti-childfree. Fuck you, I don’t need to justify liking Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang to you. It’s MY goofy nostalgic guilty pleasure. Go find something else about me to nitpick. 

[therosevest]

something that makes me feel guilty is the fact that seeing that persons face rn literally makes me angry. they walked into class and i nearly winced. and in all fairness they were quite kind to me. outside of the several kind of odd red flags. girl whatever. to be quite frank i am a horny bastard and vocal proud etc but few people interest me enough to actually want to hang out with and get to know And i have deep seated intimacy issues so it's like. we really dont have a shot unless the circumstances r exactly right on a full moon perfect thursday of a month etc like. well and tbh i probably would have fucked around with this person but i dont... care... about some big relationship w them.. and i know i could be a relationship girl like eventually i have it in me to have a muse that's what im built for i think idc but not rn... rn i need to hang out with my friends and do my film stuff and have people that maybe wanna make out sometimes is that so much to ask for. for a lesbian at a bar to want to make out perhaps. ** for there to be lesbians at the bars to potentially make out with.

[swimmingferret]

but remember how larian was complaining that in Baldur's Gate 3 people just made the Vault Dweller in their character creation when they gave all those cool variant options for a protag, but at the same time made companions who are just 90% elf or some elf variation with the rest of the 10% being human or Karlach.

[kyogos]

Rngers and their fans still crying about the not penalty 5 days after the match is incredible, i am thriving

[a-concert-just-for-me]

Did tumblr really bully that boss 🐸 guy off this site lmao

[schadenfreudich]

Franz will see a thin white guy with a higher pitched voice and barely any facial hair and think "oh, he's cute"

[wurmholz]

Pet peeve of mine r ppl telling me they'll do something later and then never doing it leaving me to feel like a fool for having gotten my expectations up.

[melancholia-ennui]

That's not... my god you guys are all so desperate to hate on younger people aren't you. That's not what the information we have about this data - which isn't even publicly available(!) - says, nor is it the most plausible explanation.

From the original TechCrunch article that discussed this new announcement:

“In our studies, something like almost 40% of young people, when they’re looking for a place for lunch, they don’t go to Google Maps or Search,” [Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan] continued. “They go to TikTok or Instagram.”

In other words: younger Gen Zers are going to friends (Insta) or parasocial "community" (TikTok) to look for restaurant recommendations, rather than to Google's increasingly unworkable, ad-ridden and bloated search engine. Setting aside the question of parasociality (which is hardly just a problem with "kids these days"!), this is just the internet native equivalent of asking your friend or family member "know any good Thai places in this area?" rather than going to Google first. And that is a good thing to be doing!

Honestly y'all talk about the boomerification of "Gen Z" but it's the boomerification of this website that astounds and horrifies me - y'all will jump on any piece of sloppy corporate propaganda if it gives you a chance to grumble and grump about the "kids these days".

[ID: A tweet by Popbase that reads, "Nearly half of Gen Z is using TikTok and Instagram as a search engine instead of Google, new data shows.". Below the tweet is a pic of a poorly drawn Goomba from Super Mario Bros with text below him that reads "are you out of your fucking mind".]

[ribosomeraisin]

just a tag rant. again

[hxrpooner]

people make fun of angry internet conservatives for not being able to identify obvious satire but i see libs/leftists falling for that shit all the time lately