#theyre actually advertising it....

[zarnzarn]

WHAT. THE. FUCK. THAT IS A CHILD.

@staff @support is this what y'all fucking advertise now. is your third party cash from ai worth it.

[deoidesign]

when your main characters start dating after years of writing so they finally get to be like this

[aroaceleovaldez]

full on feel like pjo tv s2 is not gonna hold up so they need to drag as much attention to the series as they can by using nico as a sock puppet w tsats2

im fully expecting the show to go the way of the movies. it doesnt help Sea of Monsters is almost unanimously the least favorite book of the first series. People frequently forget it even exists or what happens in it, especially more casual fans.

Heck, just look at how little fanfare the second season has gotten so far as compared to the build up to s1. I wouldn't be surprised if s2 totally flops. It would be a little funny.

[lilywave]

paul matthews, linda monroe, and karen chasity are all siblings actually they told me themselves

[snickerdoodlles]

akdj profit-making monster

bold fucking choice of words for a company that's several hundred million in the red in its yearly income

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ive been unhealthily fixated on kubosai for the past few weeks, i just have no idea how to put it into words. kuboyasu aren and saiki kusuo are in love btw

[mx-misty-eyed]

OFMD AD!!!

[heartscrypt]

second part of this post where i recap interesting things that happen in the cfv ds game ride to victory

- FIRST UP. ALL TIMR FAVE SCENE.. CONFIRMATION THAT KAI VISITS AICHIS SOMETIMES!!!!!!!!! UNPROMPTED AND UNINVITED!!!!!! AND AICHI JUST LETS HIM IN!!!!

sorry i sound like such a rabid fangirl but this is so soso important to me. like i feel actually crazy about the fact that by the time of asia circuit kai now feels comfortable enough just drop by aichis house to cardfight him. the fact that the protag thinks hes joking about visiting aichis house is killing me bc kais like "😐 i'm too busy to make jokes. clearly i am going to his house for real. you can tag along i guess" in response. he is not playing abt this he is so srs. also the rest of the scene is basically you third wheeling kaichi as kai inspects your deck and tells you to fix it with some cards while he fights aichi

- next up is: nagisa making a bento so spicy it literally knocks out kamui COLD.

i didn't get a screenshot of this but nagisa actually asks you to taste the bento and your dialogue options are

1) "wow.... this is a taste i've never had before"

2) "i think it's a little too spicy.."

3) "... it's delicious" (LYING) (YOU ARE A LYING LIAR WHO LIES)

so in conclusion never eat food from nagisa i guess

- miwa being silly and misaki literally Tearing into his ass for it... wtf

for context idk how to translate this but basically miwa was doing the whole Bit he did in ep 38 where he dressed up to play into morikawas Ninja Master M thing (example pic included). like he was doing the voice completely unprompted and everyone was like "what the fuck are you doing. stop that. rn". they just don't understand his silliness....

- jun asks you for help constructing his dark irregulars deck with the new cards he got and before he even gives the cards for you to look at he HAS to give you the disclaimer that all of them are just COINCIDENTALLY sexy ladies and he DID NOT DO THAT INTENTIONALLY so DON'T LAUGH AT HIM HE IS SO SERIOUS!!! HE IS SO /SRS (im laughing at him anyway)

- finally we have aichi comparing the protagonist to himself and saying he wants to support the protagonist because they remind him of a "once-upon-a-time" version of himself 😭😭😭 this isn't funny like the others but it made me go Awww

[emperornero]

the first ever original mouser toys are making me emotional somehow. look at them

[juni-ravenhall]

the FOMO thing in sso is also like, i feel its been getting worse and worse? every event theres now like 5-6 new sets of clothing+tack, or is it more than that?

having to make the emotional and economical decision "do i want to get this limited item before its gone?" can be hard even for just 1 item. like, deciding if youre getting the event horses or not.

but theres like 5 new shirts. 5 new saddles. etc for every type. and you have to make so many decisions, do i want this one, do i want that one, before theyre gone until next year (at which time there will be 5 new sets alongside those 5 previous sets).

it would be different if they added this many new items to the permanent shop bc then there's no FOMO, no real stress. you can look and go "oh cute! i want to get that thing!" without feeling bad and stressed and pressured about it. you can take your time and buy sc for it if you want, but on your terms, when its a good time for you to do that (or for your parents).

many other games like animal crossing pocket camp are also full of really predatory FOMO marketing in the exact same way. its hard for adults to withstand, and its even harder for kids. this isnt something we should just say "oh well" to. its created specifically to manipulate you. its not created in a fair way.

[toytulini]

"why are people mad about AI being pushed on them when they SHOULD be mad about all the privacy erosion??"

1) plenty of us bitches are mad and annoyed about both, actually.

2) the privacy erosion has become the normalized state of existence for the average person for the last 10 fucking years at least, its snuck in, they disguise it as Convenient Features to Help You Shop Better, and thats IF they bother telling you theyre doing it, instead of just opting all your shit in without asking, its so fucking normalized that yeah, a lot of people do not bother to question it, they just sigh in resignation and go, yeah, i guess, do i even have other options? and they do, but theyre an investment of learning and time you dont have capacity for at the moment, or maybe you do but you feel like you dont bc it feels like a bigger hurdle than it is, and computer stuff is already kind of intimidating, cos man, what if you hit the wrong thing and brick your expensive ass machine? easier to just let it data harvest, you guess, it cant be THAT bad, can it? plenty of people live like this, put up with this, seek this out, its easier not to resist the privacy erosion. fucking whatever, i guess. yeah, i guess twitter i mean X, or walmart, or facebook, can just have all of my contact info and my phone number and my birthday and phone contacts and bank information and fuck it, give them my ssn while im at it. less effort later. this is just how tech has been for the last 10 yrs. no one can effectively get rage clicks on this topic anymore bc we all fucking know. it sucks and we know. what do you want me to fucking do about it? i have other shit to deal with more urgently. etc

3)

you cant turn anything on or log onto anything or go anywhere without hearing about whatever new shit theyre throwing AI at for no real reason, no one will fucking Shut Up about AI, and its Annoying, man

[wander-wren]

me: i don’t wanna be a cog in the capitalist machine!! my job doesn’t care about me and i literally don’t get paid enough to care about it!!

the part of me relentlessly scrutinized for being the family fuckup: but,,,,when i do good job customers like me,,,,when i do extra managers think i’m the best,,,,

[todayisafridaynight]

most confusing order history to someone without seven layers of mental illness decaying their brain

[apileofwizardbooks]

when advertisements load before the content im There for i feel a special kind of irritation

[olivegardenfurryaccount]

Saw someone earlier say that Tumblr keeps putting new features in places where people's muscle memory will make them click it by mistake to drive up metrics and make the site more marketable, then fake apologizing and rolling it back when people are understandably upset and this whole 1999 thing they're doing is the perfect proof

On mobile it's right where your feed used to be so folks who got used to swiping to get to the feed are now faced with one specific tag that they can't block (that isn't even that good, you can find better tags with tumblr's shitty "algorithm" or nonexistent search feature)

On the site it's maybe better? Maybe worse?

The 1999 tag is in the same place on the site, but now there's a randomly pulsating thing referencing Y2K for some reason that does not and will not leave

They're pushing on the fucking limits of their users trust once every month or so, without acknowledging that doing that makes all of their users, and I do mean ALL of them, trust them less and less every single time

Partly because every time they try some new shifty marketing scheme a new essay (like this) appears to let people know what staff is trying to pull and just how obvious and underhanded it is

[artemisbarnowl]

I see that subaru story going around again and i think theres a difference between a company that sells a somewhat necessary tool like cars realising that a large part of their existing demographic can be explicitly targeted (paired with better working conditions for their staff who are part of that demographic!), and people slapping a rainbow flag on undeniably unnecessary things like vodka or polyester crochet animals, or doing even less and simply using rainbow colours to market their normal shit and calling it political support