For my entire life, people have shouted "google has gotten worse!!!" and I've fully believed them to be wrong every time. Google got better at some things and worse at others, but it was always the best search engine.
Now I literally can't find basic information on Google.
Rick and Morty pisses me off because this was one of the coolest scenes in all of television, and then everyone on the show simultaneously decided "actually serialized content is stupid" and made that the shows identity for like 3 years
This is the first time I've ever had to concede that, yeah, Google is doing a shit fucking job at finding the stuff I'm searching. For the first time I'm bringing myself to use stuff like DuckDuckGo just to find simple links
This was legitimately a fucking awesome callback and way to tie in previous events of the show, it was a surprising twist but one that had every seed planted to make it make sense narratively, and then they said "that sucked, let's make incest jokes for the next 3 seasons"
Rick and Morty sucks but it tricks you by having one cool idea in a blue moon during the first two seasons and then it calls you a fucking moron for ever thinking those cool parts were cool. Laugh at the awful man's two voices.
@GreatCheshire
Okay but this is the funniest theoretical i have EVER seen. Imagine booting up a CoD game and you have a slider that changes it so you're either dropping drone strikes on civilians, or you're an upstart socialist revolution in your country. There's still gun skins.
I think adult fans of kids media often lose sight of what that media is trying/meant to do. Even when kids media is handling complex matters it's done through the lens of children and I think it's important to keep that in mind
"hahaha people who say scott pilgrim is just like them fr have no media literacy he's a bad person!!!" STOP!! Scott Pilgrim is ABOUT facing the stupid shitty things we do as we're growing out of our early 20s. We are ALL like Scott Pilgrim fr. It is YOU who fails media literacy!!
Hi! ADHD is trending, and it's probably cause of the dream video.
I have ADHD. And yknow what, I'll admit, it's a lot worse than people give it credit for. I can confidently call it debilitating at times. But you know what doesn't help? Throwing out your meds. here's why.
I've seen some people get weirdly defensive at the suggestion that Zelda is an immersive sim now.
Why? It fits literally every definition. It's a big systems-driven open world with encounters designed around player creativity, emergent design and a variety of interaction verbs.
i really like how bobs burgers keeps a vibe that everything crass the kids say feels like stuff they picked up from people around them. They always give it the right amount of comedic punch to imply they dont really know what they're talking about and it's a cute way to write it
I wish people weren't so ready and willing to out trans folks as being trans. Like, I get it, trans rights and all, but some trans people don't want that to be a primary part of their public identity. This goes triple for people who have an online audience
7 months since TotK released and I gotta say: It's fucking insane to me that the master sword wasn't used as an infinite durability weapon with 0 damage that you could use to fuse stuff to, with the fused items breaking but not the sword itself
oh hey huniepop 2 is out.
quick reminder that the devs are racist and transphobic and whenever they get called on their shit they just pull the "it's just horny jokes" card, or actively antagonize the people calling them out.
The Tr*mp Administration has made a ruling which revokes the protection of transgender people all over the US in regards to healthcare. Lambda Legal plans to focus their efforts to put a stop to this. Join us tomorrow to donate to their cause.
This rules! No matter what the movie's actual quality ends up being, this is a cool opportunity for an indie game developer, as well as an awesome new frontier for Markiplier. I really like this.
@GreatCheshire
My grandpa can go to the pharmacy and pick up my Controlled Substance ADHD Medication for me but this guy won't let you pick up a sonic game. This gamestop employee literally more strict than the war on drugs
Every fucking 2 years i swear to god they try and enact ANOTHER bill themed around "kids safety" that is just trying to make the internet an objectively less safe place
We now have a total of 62 co-sponsors—Democrats & Republicans—for the Kids Online Safety Act. This overwhelming bipartisan support mirrors the powerful calls from young people & parents who want Congress to take action & finally hold Big Tech accountable.
Listen man I understand that adventure time and steven universe and gravity falls were all great and groundbreaking but sometimes kids shows are just kids shows and that's okay. Not every show has to get elevated to that status. Sometimes its just a bad 3D netflix cartoon.
dark souls elitism sucks btw. My first entry into dark souls was ruined because i was made to feel bad for even considering dex as a stat. Literally play how you want to play, the game supports multiple playstyles for a reason
Nintendo should port mother 3 to the west but just do a really dogshit translation. Just full of typos, jokes lost in translation, certain NPCs aren't even translated, the works. Just run it through Google translate and drop it on the e shop
Seeing a lot of people playing Ready Or Not lately and just a reminder that the game used to have both a school shooting map as well as a map based on the fucking Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. The devs are alt-right weirdos and you should not touch that fucking game.
I feel like the weirdest conversational faux pas is that it's considered rude during an apology to explain your reasoning behind the actions you took when they hurt someone. I kinda wish we could just be able to say "it's not an excuse, it's an explanation"
Like sonic for example. Sonic is cool as fuck. But as soon as you start critiquing it through an adult lens it becomes "cringe" or starts to make little sense, but the key to enjoying sonic is accepting he's just a cool fuckin speedy hedgehog and that's all he needs to be
why does every video game animated movie need to do this whole fish out of water thing. why does mario not know what the mushroom kingdom came from. did he actually just come from brooklyn
Scott Pilgrim isn't about pointing at Scott and saying "this guy fucking sucks, nobody should be this guy," it's about saying "when you're heading into your 20s it's time to grow tf up and reconcile with the wrong you've done and the people you've hurt" OKAY!!!
if you've never tried new vegas: It's a real masterpiece genuinely. there was a modding revolution 2 years ago that unlocked the limitations of the game's animations and it's seriously turned into a modern wonder. Details in thread!
People read "we designed link to be androgynous" and think Nintendo is smashing the gender binary as if that wasn't a decision made by an old man who still believes in "Games for Boys" and "Games for Girls"
Forget about "oh how will mbmbam survive," this is about archiving an extremely culturally significant landmark on the internet. Yahoo answers was important to me, and to so many of my peers. It's an outlook onto how the internet existed in its era. Burning it all away hurts.
REALEST POLL TIME:
IS THE HOLE IN THE HALF LIFE MED STATION FOR A SUIT CABLE CONNECTION, OR FOR GORDON TO STICK HIS FINGER IN TO HEAL?
POLL IN REPLY. RETWEET FOR MAXIMUM SURVEY SAMPLE SIZE
at least E3 wasn't pretending that it WASN'T just an expo devoted entirely to advertising. the game awards needs to stop pretending it's about celebrating gaming. all they're doing is using the framing of "awards" to drum up an audience to sell ads to. That's all.
Every medication you will ever take has side effects. It's just how it is. Your doctor is AWARE of this. The thing about meds is it's just a guessing game to see WHICH side effects are the least problematic for you. If your meds are messing with you, talk to your doctor.
The reactions to the
#CancelCanadaDay
trending tag simply go to show the intense ignorance Canadians have for the failings of this country. We've fallen for our own repeated lie that we're the best country in the world, which we routinely mock americans for.
So as expected, Discord's crumbling management is the culprit behind their deteriorating platform especially due to repeated recent hires of ex-Meta managers. A deliberate shift to social media that's lead to hostile work conditions and poor communication.
@plazynoodles
No totally like, I feel like the reason the wimpy kid books caught on so hard was cause of stuff like this. I think every kid has gone through this stage when trying to process the concept of, like, the complicated morality of lying while also being a massive 12 year old smartass
For anyone who doesn't know Gabe Newell (yes, of Valve) has been working on brain computer interfacing for quite some time now and, in a recent interview, is laying the groundwork for some supervillain shit
Y'all wanted half life 3 so bad he's gonna make it REAL
@troubledmn
But how else am I supposed to prove that I'm a morally upright individual without having all my consumer products directly influence and dictate my individuality ://////
In the source code of Super Mario Bros., the goal pole is referred to by a variety of misspelled names, including "gorl pole", "goul flag", "gole pole", or simply "girl". In addition, Bowser's axe, another smaller object that marks a goal, is referred to as a "smorl girl".
I was not aware, until recently, that when you preview a youtube video by hovering over it with your cursor, it ADDS that video to your watch history, thus using it to generate future recommended videos. I exclusively used the feature to check if i was interested in a video
tfw you create a seamless and believable way to transition your spiderman character away from the flaws you built into him in earlier installments and towards a more faithful and thematically resonant interpretation of the character for the future
Then change your mind idk
3. Executive dysfunction is not being lazy, it's a literal painful experience and inability to do things you know you have to do
4. You don't grow out of ADHD, you just experience the symptoms differently as you age
5. ADD isnt a thing anymore. it's all just ADHD.
doing captioning myself this week for the FF7Remake finale edit and im feeling very suddenly sympathetic to everyone who has ever had to put hours into transcribing my shit. i don't know how they do it without immediately ghosting me afterward.
I miss the days when people on the internet went exclusively by their usernames. When it was totally normal to call someone Crumb cause their username was something like AppleCrumble.
Hey while we're here, let's get a few more bits of misinformation out of the way:
1. ADHD is not a kid's disorder
2. Hyperactivity is probably the least problematic side effect of ADHD, people just cite it as the main one because it's the most outwardly noticeable
Every time someone says "graphics are good enough we dont need to improve them anymore" I think about the fact that we literally can't regularly portray things as simple and core to the human experience as hugging
Hey does anyone else get a random blast of tinnitus, but just in one ear? Like that ear will briefly go mostly deaf and ring super loud, and then it fades and everything is normal again? Happens to me like once every 3 months or so
Hbomberguy is probably the king of long form content on YouTube rn. Not necessarily because his videos are the *best* (they are VERY good though!!) but because he has MASTERED pacing. Too many long form videos need some serious script preening.
people who mod female scientists into half life are missing the point. the resonance cascade happened BECAUSE there was no women in STEM. black mesa is a boys club. "Boys will be boys" refers to walter chewing on xen crystals on a dare.
I sent this to my mom and asked what she thought of it to get one of those funny text message conversations for clout but instead she called me, -- CALLED ME -- to tell me she "wasn't impressed with it" and doesn't understand why any mom would be against catboys.