there was a small child behind us who, when something bad happened to mario, would cry out "no! mario!!" and I'm not kidding it increased my emotional investment in the film by 500%
learning about the "Quadro Tracker", a bomb/drug/person-locating device a bunch of cops & school districts bought in the 90s that turned out to just be a box of dead ants
This is what AI has always been for: people who feel a deep need to say *something* at all times but do not care in the slightest what it is. LinkedIn dorks firehosing tepid spam at each other to pad their stats as the ice caps crumble
I've been public for years about my theory that the male brain universally needs to trick out some kind of rig. This is where you get truck guys, vape guys, mechanical keyboard guys, etc. everyone eventually finds their rig and begins tricking
We need to start framing the weaponization of nostalgia as a class consciousness rallying point. Your childhood wasn't a better time than now because of the gamecube. you can still play gamecube. it was better because you didn't have to sell your weekdays for rent
starting to think the majority of accounts on here are people who posted exactly once in 2010 and then forgot this website exists. what a blissful life they must lead
I need to go to bed but there are, according to how numbers work, a possibly limitless number of blink accounts remaining. if you find anything wild please let me know
I will never grasp why "chuck norris jokes" were so widely popular with kids in the late 00s despite none of us having seen any of his films. we talked about this guy like a folk hero constantly and yet maybe 1 our of 10 middle-schoolers could spot him in a lineup
why is the public timeline a core feature of venmo. i cannot imagine a scenario where I'm so starved for content that I want to see who my roommate from five years ago is splitting a pizza with nowadays
this is an event I think about a lot because it led Cartoon Network to oust their CEO and bring in a new guy who did not like cartoons, which gave rise to the deeply confusing "CN Real" block of the late aughts