Update from yesterday's post on needing help with my rent, thank you to everyone who has helped! I'm very close now, just 60 bucks away! I'm in awe at everyone's generosity and kindness, thank you to everyone who bumped the thread too! You're the kinds of people who would defend and aid a stranger from losing shelter - you're real heroes of the working class. I'm so grateful to share this world with you.
Thank you for your solidarity!
I'll never be able to think about Blizzard or any of their games again without thinking of that hilarious horrifying story of one of their employees stealing a coworker's breast milk from the fridge. Like, it's so disgusting and perverse and invasive, it actually loops back around to being a little funny. It sounds like a dumb Nick Mullen bit, like how is that real? How pathetic and weird do you have to be to do something like that? Actual freak shit, actual freak behavior. Imagine being that poor fucking woman, just knowing for the rest of your life that the milk your body worked so hard to produce to feed your beloved child, an ancient primal mammalian biological tradition between mother and child going back millions of years, some fucking anonymous bozo compsci grad who wears pre-faded superhero tees from target stole it and... did who knows god what with it. Drank it? Jacked off with it? Who fucking knows?! And she just has to live with that now?!
as much as I enjoyed Overwatch at its height, I can't see it or WoW or anything else Blizzard related without remembering
"oh yeah, the fucking tiddy milk guys. the mommy's milker thieves. the grown toddlers who stole some lady's milk."
like its so absurd that its hilarious. what an absolute embarrassment and disgrace that they didn't use any company resources to find out who this loser was and name and shame him - they're a massive company, you can't tell me those fuckers didn't have security cameras in their office. And if they didn't, well they pretty fucking clearly need cameras to supervise their gamer staff from stealing each other's precious bodily fluids.
I mean, I know Fallout's social commentary and heavy-handed attempts at poignancy is pretty on the nose in terms of the desolate mid-century american wasteland practically screaming at you "THIS IDEOLOGY AND LIFESTYLE LEADS TO DEATH AND ANNIHILATION", but I'd say that Fallout is as much as celebration of 50s/60s americana as it is a critique of it. Like, yes, it's literally post-apocalyptic, but its making constant adoring allusions to sci-fi drive-in B movies, midcentury pop culture, and pulp fiction. There's a real unironic love and appreciation for that era of America on display in Fallout, much to my chagrin, even as someone who can deeply share that cultural reverence. Sometimes I feel like it goes down the "wow wasn't the 60s cool and wacky?!" route a little bit too much at times, especially these days. Its like, yeah, but if you're not further deconstructing it in some way or using it to make an interesting point, it feels a little hollow. Fallout is at its best (in my view) when it's able to perform as a simultaneous celebration and deconstruction of Americana. I think it disarms people who might not be willing to accept a critique of America otherwise.
its more impressive when you remember elohim didnt have any RJ45 crimping tools, dude was just winging it.
No, she is a Toon, like Roger Rabbit style. thats her in the comic, carrying her iconic "women voters" bag
update from yesterday's post - I got my paycheck and now know exactly how much I need to safely make rent, I'm just $180 away. Then I can settle my anxiety, work this new job, and finally unclench my jaw. Any help would mean a lot. Even if you can't help, thank you for your solidarity and love
"I see... and what makes you think I was joking about abolishing bedtime?"
When I was a child, my scratch-a-liberal family would give me endless shit about putting ketchup on my eggs. Because it's "gross" to them - never mind what I thought tasted good as a stupid idiot child. I was told it was childish and to outgrow it if I wanted to be taken seriously, and so I did. For the first time in about 20 years I had an egg and cheese sandwich with ketchup on it. They were wrong. They were such absolute fools. Ketchup on eggs is god tier, as good if not better than sriracha. Little pigeon was 100% right about her own taste and I wish I could tell her that.
I know this probably wasn't your main point OP, but it's weird how people assign such moral and cultural value around someone putting a sweet vinegary vegetable paste on their food. "Oh no, the optics!" Absolutely unhinged, not materialist, and frankly embarrassing for any grown-ass adult to pass judgment on someone else's food tastes. Unless it's Mayo, that stuff is nasty - I don't like it on my food and therefore nobody else should be allowed to have it without feeling shame.
Also, who the fuck are these french chefs? Are we sure they aren't clowns? Mimes perhaps? It's my understanding that roughly 30% of France's population is now Mimes.
Thank you!
vote with your erection, gamers.
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your indie video game failed because it didn't give 20 million clones of this adult toddler a chub
Please take the dunce cap off her, that's not very nice! :kitty-cri: :cri:
You are a smart and beautiful owl, I believe you will succeed in your studies if you try again!
bump amber whataboutism volcel police