You know, when they put me in Undiagnosed Autism Class in 3rd grade to do slightly harder math than the other kids, I didn't know people online would still be seethingly jealous of me 15 years later
If you become submissive and defenseless from hearing a phrase as simple as "good girl" or "good boy" or "good dog" then you're an evolutionary weak link. imagine if a bear or mountain lion found out and used this against you
It's dope as fuck that the distance indicators on the scope overlay are *actually to-scale* and not just decoration. i always assumed shooters wouldn't bother
THE AMERICAN DRIVING EXPERIENCE:
- you have to turn left out of this parking lot
- the road is 6 lanes wide with constant traffic
- there are no nearby traffic lights
- the speed limit is 45mph
- the other drivers have no obligation to slow down
- you cannot kill yourself
It's hard to talk to my therapist (who's in her 40s) about my online friendship anxieties because she'll inevitably ask "what's their name?" and I'll have to go "I'm not sure, they've only ever gone by 'radio free urine' so I've just been calling them 'urine' for 3 years"
@Taffybowl
Because people frame the 'gifted kid' experience as if it's a position of privilege that no one has any business complaining about/retroactively criticizing
which I can only read as "damn, you guys still aren't over that?"
Monthly PSA: "boysmell" is the earthy musky pheromonal fragrance that men naturally give off, it is NOT the stink of your slowcooked sweaty nuts in your boxers after 60 hours no shower
@Catter_degen
It's obviously unhealthy to have a chip on one's shoulder about being a 'former gifted kid' when they're like 25
but there's a place and time to discuss "adults told me I'd be Einstein 2 for the first 13 years of my life, then I became mediocre and lost my feeble self-identity"
@itsTomokocchi
Remember when people cried cancel culture when they replaced Tracer's ass-out victory pose with a different one that was more dynamic, more in-character, and actually made her ass look even better
Oh that user identifies as an any/all trans woman and specifically *not* a femboy so I'm sorry if I gave the wrong impression (I still think they're a cop doing an entrapment though)
@sentaisponge
@DlGITALLOVE
The afab part is big to me here too, it seems like the nb archetype is a a slightly gnc afab person or an extremely gnc amab person
I'd like to see recognition of nonbinary people with, like, broad figures and body hair and beards
@SAMOYEDWAVE
If Cybersmith was born into a landowning family in 1500s Europe and expressed all these insane opinions in the form of books and treatises, he'd be remembered as one of the greatest minds of his age
@youlikeconcorde
I was just conveniently autistic in a way that made me good at the super narrow definition of 'achievement' in like, middle school
I know people who were in 'accelerated learning' classes at 10 and 'collaborative education' (sp.ed) classes at 15
@db_witch
I joined one of those servers and tried to join the LSPD and there was 1) a dedicated server-police-matters forum I had to join and 2) an expectation that I spare at least a few days of every single week on their server doing cop stuff
@Catter_degen
Trust me, you'll find no enemy here, I think the whole concept of gifted kids and accelerated learning should be fucking abolished lmao. even when it "works" it's classist
@SAMOYEDCORE
If you jump into molten metal, you actually just bounce around on its surface while going "WOWowowowow!!" and clutching your singed smoking ass
@boltactionbeaut
- you live in a redneck town where people will just barrel through the first few seconds of a red light; doing a U-turn at an intersection is playing with your life
- traffic is just heavy enough for a mid-flow U-turn to always feel unsafe
Why is most Local58-style "analog horror" just some shit like
"GYM SAFETY VIDEO:
1) always have someone spot you!
2) don't over-exert yourself!
3) [cheery instructional muzak cuts out] don't let the Skin Chewers find you"
The original Fursuit Freeman comic (below) is by
@chalicerae
, or surskip on Tumblr! I didn't do my due diligence and didn't hunt around to see who made the original
Please follow him! He deserves the traffic for this art as much as I do
@0kbps
Yeah, I understand that there are people who can benefit from no COVID mentions- I don't like media constantly reminding me of death either
the anti-racism ones are less defensible though and "no matter your opinion" implies some real enlightened centrism on this guy's part lol
@TrashtarA
Roundabouts barely WORK in America because roundabouts require a level of cooperative driving that Americans refuse to do
There's no slowing down or looking out, Yield signs may as well be Stop signs, and a driver won't be caught dead making way for someone merging onto his road
@thinkiamsad
MOBAs are awful for the same reason golf is awful: if you fuck up, it can be like 10 entire minutes of gameplay before you get the opportunity to redeem your fuckup
In golf it's waiting for your next turn, in MOBAs it's waiting on your 100sec respawn and agonizingly slow runback
@MommyMediumDick
I constantly deal with people that are okay with monosexual gays but tell bi/pan people to "just make up your mind"
And people that tacitly accept gender dysphoria as a real thing but write off nonbinary people as being delusional/snowflakes/'just a phase'
I'm not your dad, but speaking as a Hard Drive writer, I don't know that funding Hard Drive on Patreon is worth it
The driving talent on the back end—behind the kickass site I joined in 2019—have peaced out over the years as the site's been (in our view) increasingly mismanaged
@tanisthelesbiab
Literally fucking hate this gimmick burger. first bite is hot melty cheese scalding your mouth and face, and every subsequent bite is eating a dry batter-crust sandwich
I still think the root cause of "puriteenism" is that everyone born after like 2002 was raised online, went through puberty online, and has interpreted the legal/comfort-based guidelines about what porn can be posted on what websites as the Official Rules Of Adult Sexuality
@FUNKePills
@closedcaskett
It's even worse because OW was designed from the ground up to be a Deep Lore Shooter with a huge team of narrative designers, whereas TF2's lore was made up on the spot to justify gameplay updates and was written by like 3 people
@MommyMediumDick
It's so reductive to act like bi people are diet-straight and nb people are diet-cis, just because we can theoretically pass if we want to (the key point being we DON'T want to, really, and it's only because of outside oppression that we feel the need to)
"Open world space exploration engine by Bethesda" might be the first game ever with the potential to glitch so hard that it gives you a real-life injury
@Goffdaddy69
I almost prefer the implication that the popemobile car was either purpose-built to carry the pope, or they happened to be born as a truck with a bulletproof-glass carriage large enough to fit another car and there just happened to be a perfect job lined up for them
@youlikeconcorde
School administration stops glazing you for being clever as soon as you stop being useful for inflating their test scores — and then you get sent to the retard factory
@AlleyCatCore
@AkitaPunk
Yeah this seems like the most obvious grift
join the FBI -> become one of the guys who sells fake drugs online to send teenagers to prison -> ask for real drugs so I can give buyers photo evidence -> free drugs!!!
@GigasvonFurfur
My favorite thing about examining corpses in BG3 is that environmental skeleton corpses have the race "Undead" and type "Skeleton" even if they're just normal dead bodies
How did skinnerbox anime-girl gacha games go from "laughingstock of all mankind" to "something played by dozens of self-aware, intelligent online friends I otherwise respect" in the space of like 18 months
@meatgirI
This movie has enabled Matthew Lillard to voice-act Shaggy for the entire rest of his life because there are like 3 people on earth who can do a halfway-decent Shaggy impression and he was the closest