i’m not well versed on the causes, i imagine there’s a lot of factors at play. but do i have a friend who lived in DC for a few years, and talking to him about it was whacky.

i have a specific memory wherein he was just walking around outside while on the phone with me and there was gunfire in the background. i said something like “hey should you be outside right now?” and he, VERY CASUALLY replied “nah that’s a few blocks away, i’ll be fine.”

this is how i learned how to play hearts!

i don’t think we need one?

this too, it’s a lot like singing in that way. anyone can train their vocal control, but some folks just will have a much harder time with it for all sorts of reasons they can’t control. both sides of that “only some people can do it/anyone can do it” coin can be damaging for their own reasons.

i think it’s really important to talk about these things in a frank way, thank you for contributing to the discussion ^^

i wonder if the forums still exist…

e: well the original VERY SERIOUS forum is deffo gone, supposedly they migrated but i can’t find where :c

pour one out for the dead thread, it’s finally dead for real

an air fryer is just a smaller (read: less efficient) convection oven, which is itself basically just an oven with a big fan. it circulates the air and gets a crispier and more even bake than a regular oven.

i think the “air fryer” term is just a marketing fad right now? the moving air is a little similar to the way hot oil would cook, but you’re absolutely right about them not really “frying” anything lmao

“innate talent” is a pervasive idea that undercuts years of work and practice. art is HARD and most people just don’t find the doing part to be fulfilling.

everyone wants to make a masterpiece, but no one is born with some kinda artist-gene that gives them the ability to do so as if by magic. outside of savants at least, but that’s a whole other thing lmao

she originated the alot AND the “clean all the things!/clean ALL the things?” memes, and it feels like hardly anyone even knows about the blog hahahah

ah, fond memories of accidentally forkbombing my middle school computer in the middle of typing class…

FEEL that. i really want a chonky-ass 2000s laptop body with a modern brain

omfg blueglass BETTER play this at GDQ. i miss him so much.

depending on your search terms, they’re cheaper than ever!

i hit shuffle and got avatar & dynamo, atmosphere, and then tech n9ne lmao

oh hey i use that same image for my catch-all hiphop playlist!

i love it, but the folks i send it to seem not to enjoy aesop rock and danny brown in such close proximity 😕

once you die, it’s just meat.

i’ve looked into everything from the logistics of transporting my corpse to tibet for a sky burial, to the legality of having it to fed to wolves on a nature reserve.

the worst/best idea i’ve had so far is to have the reading of my will accompanied by a viewing of the body as it is consumed by scavenger animals, and whoever doesn’t watch forfeits their portion of the will to charity. a “coinage for carnage” exchange, if you will.

ada continues to be the realest MVP

o fuck i do remember mason

i feel like you could argue the FIRST blops game is actually a spinoff series that they never returned to, and that the following sequels are just “regular COD games”. they made a lot of bold choices in both the single and multiplayer, and i don’t think we ever got back to that same level.

e: advanced warfare was biting titanfall, blops 3 was biting advanced warfare. i GUESS blops 2 was the most creative of the sequels, but even then battlefield 2142 came out 6 years prior with basically the exact schtick.

i was still so hopeful, but then subsequent campaigns just started moving further and further into torture porn territory.

i tried to play BO3. iirc literally the first mission includes a scene wherein the player character is overpowered and gets their arms methodically ripped off. complete with PLENTY of horrible “i’m actively dying” screams and cries piped directly into your ears, while you watch a first person view of someone holding you to the ground and ostensibly killing you in the worst way they can think of.

i got sick to my stomach and uninstalled the game. i was actually enjoying the multiplayer prior to that experience. just fucking give the character robot arms, i don’t need a writer’s room to sell “traumatic” in order to care about a game.

like literally can you name a single COD protagonist? they’re faceless puppets that you only care about because you play as them. the forced trauma only serves to make me dislike the devs rather than give a shit about the character.

playing advanced warfare at launch is legitimately in my top 10 best experiences i’ve had with multiplayer. SO MANY PEOPLE were trying to just play it like every other call of duty. but as more folks started experimenting with the new movement options, suddenly firefights would randomly turn into twitch-shooter gameplay with everyone bouncing all over the fucking place.

once metas started getting sorted it turned into that same sweaty slog that every other old multiplayer fps eventually becomes.

i’m blown away that the switch 2 is so beefy. nintendo has been the “lower spec consoles but AMAZING first party games” company for as long as i can remember.