#take some rich persons money

[philsdrivinglicence]

Thinking about how we know dan and phil (or at least phil) are considerate of their neighbors while filming in hotels. But in this last video dan was full on YELLING and phil said nothing. Meaning they are confident that they are far enough away from other people they can act out of pocket and not get yelled at.

Life isn't fair I wanna win at capitalism by accidentally creating an entertainment empire with my barely legally twink bf and then blow ££££ on extravagant holidays but Phil Lester got there first.

[wahbegan]

Something something Batman is a billionaire fascist discourse ignores the fact that Batman has his roots in the hardboiled detective story, which thematically was written at a time when trust in the police was at a catastrophic low and as such mainly deals with private detectives kinda extralegally cracking cases that the cops are either not solving or actively obstructing and his conflict with the police has remained a fairly consistent point in most of his stories outside the Golden Age of Comics, Commissioner Gordon is the exception not the rule something something

[icewindandboringhorror]

currently at That Point which occurs once every few months where one briefly begins pacing around the house teary eyed contemplating selling their own organs or becoming an online scammer or getting on anxiety meds so you can bear the risk taking required to be a hitman or so on and so forth.... why must everything so Expensive... Surely all would be healed in life if only I had one big plate of lasagna and a simple loan of $40,000 ... auoughhh....

[zooweemama143]

last rb had me thinking of how lame bif would actually be as a person

[prolibytherium]

The assumption that modern (read: abstract) artists are all or mostly rich people whose wealth, free time, and social mobility is solely responsible for allowing them to paint Line On Canvas or etc and therefore the "I could do that" sentiment is like rooted in class struggle or whatever is funny to me

I don't disagree that part of the "I could do that" impulse is sometimes about seeing the (TINY minority) of that art that actually sells for more money than you make in a year, having the impression that it's low effort low skill garbage, and feeling frustration in that, but it's just not accurate to think modern (abstract, which is what people mean) art is Like That in any capacity that any other art form is not

[medicinemane]

At least I could disable the suggestions but just... I'm sick of it, I'm sick of companies trying to think for me

I'd rather be miserable but doing shit my own way than placid and glass eyed and just taking whatever companies tell me to

Like... literally just asking what I get out of writing a post on tumblr... zero suggestions, just letting me say whatever dumb stuff comes to my head

[forcebookish]

one of the things that has me nonstop thinking about topmew is that they're actually a very unique type of couple in fiction but not in real life. in most fiction, people are always falling in love by accident. they meet, circumstances put them together, they're caught by surprise when they fall in love. but though both top and mew had never been in love before and didn't totally know what to expect, it wasn't a complete shock. they met through a mutual friend, they found each other attractive and interesting, so they decided to date. they fell in love because they went on dates and did romantic things together on purpose. i think neither of them expected to fall so hard, but still, the point of dating is to see if you're compatible and fall in love and maybe build a life together. and that's what they did.

i don't think that makes them boring, i think that makes them relatable! i think that makes them stand out from other fictional couples! you know, people claimed they wanted more realistic BLs, but for some reason when topmew came along, a ship based on a real life gay couple, they didn't like them?

[irlnikeiyomiuri]

i had ONE decent interaction with another person and now i want to ask my friends to come hang out. however, i literally never left my house once covid started, and the few friends/acquaintances i chatted with, as soon as i saw them on person, i very strongly disliked them.

i have one friend.

[navree]

god grant me the serenity not to vaguepost about a reply to a post about the memery of the ides of march

[snekdood]

Im never even really upset about losing the things people steal from me, im always more upset that they feel the need to do that and all the deception and destruction of trust that goes along with it. Its genuinely upsetting for me, and so far, none of the shit anyones stolen from me has been for like. An actual justified reason. At least steal some fuckin food or something.

[icewindandboringhorror]

If you became super rich and could design your own house, but could only add THREE unnecessary/random/expensive home additions (like how people will have bowling alleys, movie theatres, closets with museums of shoes, car display rooms, spa rooms, wine cellars, etc. in their mansions) - what three would you choose?

[super-powerful-queen-reyna]

K just gonna put folklore, evermore, midnights and the tortured poets department right there

[citizen-zero]

WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

[thenwethrowitonthefire]

Our previous-prime-minister-now-head-of-navo currently keeps saying that we should prepare for war which might break out between now and the next 5 years.

[faolonfiendrender]

The strangest pay negotiation in history

Minerva stormed into Colin's "Office", really it was a broom closet on the HMS Sinks Repeatedly, but it was where they had reserved to do business onboard the ship.

"These weren't the terms we agreed to!"

"I fail to see the problem, you all got an extra share's equivalent to split"

"We've been over this before, you are not allowed to take no pay whatzoever, it is right in the charter that all employees,-" said Minerva, the nautical Z coming out in the rat's exasperation

"You see, there it is, I'm not an employee, I'm simply the chair."

"-Including the chairman of the company, are entitled to at least one share of the half of the company's profits not dedicated to expanding the arsenal. Simply put, you give us the whole company, we are in violation of the charter, the highest bidder repossesses the whole thing."

"Okay, new plan, non-officers get 1000 shares, officers get 2000, I get 1"

"You get shot more than most of us who work as shock troops, no. The deal we negotiated was Chairman gets 1 share, non-officers get 2, Officers get 4, Tommy gets 8 on account of getting shot so much and needing more money to survive, injured rats get an extra 4 shares. Now, we are going with that deal, which is still frankly bizarre, and you are going to stop writing yourself out of the pay scheme since legally speaking you have to be paid."

"Alright, alright, but who wrote that clause into the charter?"

"I did, I looked at the duties a chairman is expected to perform and came to the conclusion that the chairman was a managerial position in all this whose job title should in fact be quartermaster-commander. Now, you will take at least some wages for processing the requisition forms because working for no pay sets a bad example in a mercenary company."

"So we're done here?"

"Nope there's also the small matter of your back pay"

Colin groaned at that

[praise-suns-and-chill]

I don't get how the Zelda games are supposed to be good.

Or how they "inspired a genre"???

They were fairly basic "Damsel in Distress male hero saves Princess from evil foreigner" kinda games. Mario already did that.

And then it turned into just slightly above average open world games with some traversal mechanics.

But how is that good? Is that all that's needed to be good these days? Not even an attempt at character writing really, I sure haven't seen anything about that in all these years and well, you do play a mute that doesn't even have gender selection. Something Pokemon did literal decades ago because they realised "Oh hey, you're playing a mute. Why not let people pick which sprite they prefer, not like we need to pay for voice actors and it makes much effort, really".

But then people would get to choose between normal and Linkle and Zeld or something that sounds like a Chinese knockoff, and people would realise just how much they don't give a shit because hey, this is still just a corporation. They don't care about you. There isn't any soul here. It's all just "straight guy saves girl from evil guy, maybe has some character simp for the characterless mute".

I just don't get it.