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Pokemon Paintings made by Michelle Coffee

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Damn it… It was so close!

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This sort of shit is just sickening, man. Too much competitive toxicity and unfriendly players in that game...

Annemunition, a variety streamer who plays games like Rainbow Six, PUBG, God of War, and Overwatch, was playing Rainbow Six in her off time last week, away from the sometimes pressurized environment of her Twitch channel. The people she was playing with had no idea who she was, but they knew she was a woman, and that’s all they needed to know. Over the course of several rounds, they laid into her with a series of increasingly vile insults, calling her everything from “gamer girl” to “tranny bitch.” She continued to play like normal, dying in some rounds and clutching others for her team. When she did well, one guy said she stole his kill. When she did poorly, they used that to justify their attacks. “We’re not being like this because we don’t like women,” said one of the men. “We’re being like this because you’re shit, by the way.”

“Are you playing the right video game, miss?” the same man said later. “This isn’t like League Of Legends where you can just flash your titties on stream. It takes skill.”

“I hope you die,” another man said immediately afterward.

Annemunition kept her cool and finished the game. Then she decided to make an example of the people involved. She posted a video of the incident to her Twitter.

“‘Why don’t you use voice chat?’ ‘Why can’t I find a girlfriend who plays video games?’ ‘Why do you mute people who ask you if you’re a girl?’ Gee, I dunno,” she wrote.

The response was huge. As of now, the video has over half a million views and nearly 2,000 comments, some of which share similar online horror stories. Annemunition told Kotaku in an email that she posted the video to make a point. This is hardly the first time this kind of thing has happened to her, she said, and if it’d been during a stream, she would’ve just muted them. Since she was on her own, though, she decided to see how the situation would play out if she did nothing except make useful comments and help her team.

“As you saw in the video, that’s all it took for them to devolve into toxicity,” she said. “While I understand everyone, of all genders and backgrounds, can often be the subject of toxicity online, I really feel like people underestimate just how bad it can be for women or people who are recognized as ‘other’ over voice comms.”

She added that streamers often feel a pressure to just roll with the punches when it comes to verbal harassment or other serious issues, but she worries about the kind of example that sets.

“I feel like there are a lot of expectations for streamers not to complain about anything ever and that we should just be positive and ‘good vibes’ only,” she said. “When these types of things happen, I just think about all the young people (boys and girls) who experience this type of abuse online and don’t have the tools to stand up for themselves other than to mute people and pretend everything is fine.”

After Annemunition posted the video, one of the players who’d given her gallons of shit tried to apologize. In a sense. “I am extremely sorry for the way you feel, ” he wrote in a tweet from an account that’s since been deleted. “[K]now that the words I used were meaningless and have no substance.”Annemunition, a popular Twitch streamer with over 300,000 followers, was just trying to be a decent teammate and call shots in Rainbow Six Siege. Then, over voice chat, came the questions: “Are you a man or a female?” And the accusations: “You stole my fucking content. You’re shit at the game. Get out.”

“I appreciate that you want to apologize,” Annemunition wrote back. “But man, you went HARD just because you heard a woman’s voice… You called me a ‘fucking tranny bitch’ and told me to kill myself. Over nothing. All I did was exist.” However, she went on to write that she sincerely hopes the guy learns from this and wants to better himself.

“I don’t necessarily want to crucify people when I feel like there’s the potential for them to walk away from the situation thinking ‘Wow, I messed up. I said something really awful and it came back to bite me. I won’t do that again,’” she told Kotaku, explaining why she chose to respond so kindly to an apology that was dodgy at best. “I wanted him to understand the gravity of his actions and the fact that words can be hurtful and that your actions have consequences.”

In online games, she continued, people can tell others to kill themselves and face no real repercussions—or at least, not the sort of repercussions that’d convince them to cork it for more than a handful of matches. Meanwhile, the people being harassed are encouraged—both by their peers and the way many games’ reporting systems work—to just shrug it off in the moment, no matter how much it’s worming under their skin and writhing around.

“Gamers have learned that they can do these things without blowback because the solution so many people suggest is just to mute them and move on,” Annemunition said.

That’s why she decided to post the video, risking even more harassment from eager-to-pounce internet mobs in the process. If nobody creates consequences for this sort of thing that are immediate and consistent, yet also impactful in a way that’ll encourage them to learn rather than doubling down, nothing will change.

“I’m just sick of sweeping this behavior under the rug and pretending it’s all fine and dandy,” she said. “It’s easy to sweep things under the rug; it’s hard to ask people to be better. Especially when so many people are just resigned to accepting the fact that online gaming and toxicity go hand-in-hand.”

“Maybe that makes me a naive fool,” she added, “but I refuse to accept that we can’t treat each other with a little more kindness.”

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i need some luck lmao

It really works! Wow!

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SMASH

apparently Gigalith is RIPPED and also a lot of people think it’s hot

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Wow... we’re having spaceships in no time I guess...

the universe: okay, you’re a human. I gave you free will and a conscious mind, so you’re free to do whatever you want. So what do you wanna do?

human: GO FAST

the universe: well, you’re a perfect pursuit predator but if that’s the way you want to evolve, go ahead.

human, climbing on a horse: GO FAST

the universe: wait what

human, inventing the carriage, the car and the bullet train: GO FASTER

the universe: I IMPLORE YOU TO STOP

human, trying to figure out lightspeed travel: FAS T ER

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Ugh... utterly disgraceful. It’s rather pathetic of that school board president, and really shows what he actually cares about- Money. No wonder teachers are diagnosed with stress and depression, because it’s people like this who suck out everything from the very people trying to ensure the next generation have a future.

Teacher removed from public education meeting in handcuffs after asking why superintendents get raises but teachers don't

Deyshia Hargrave is an English teacher at Rene Rost Middle Schools in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana; on Monday night, she attended a special meeting of the local school board and, when called upon comment period, politely asked why the board superintendants had voted themselves a raise while the teachers in the school district have been subjected to a long-term pay-freeze.

The superintendent ruled her question out of order and then a deputy Abbeville city marshal who works in the parish schools dragged her out of the room, put her in handcuffs and threw her to the floor while chanting “stop resisting.”

The board of education says it won’t press charges against her. However, the city is holding her on charges of “remaining after being forbidden” and “resisting an officer.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/09/abbeville-city-marshal.html

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what’s the probable mood for december?

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Is that you, @setheverman ?

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Thank you for taking me down good memory street.

god i loved iron giant and treasure planet.

the signs as underrated animated films

Aries -  Meet The Robinsons

Taurus - Treasure Planet

Gemini - The Black Cauldron

Cancer -  The Iron Giant

Leo - The Road to El Dorado

Virgo - Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Libra - Brother Bear

Scorpio - The Rescuers Down Under

Sagittarius - Anastasia

Capricorn - Balto

Aquarius - Ferngully

Pisces - Oliver & Company

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fight me. i’ll do it.

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Reblog for happy cat.

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>Brony conventions (if you can’t tell, I’m joking)

Seriously though, this is is beautiful to watch, seeing everyone have a good time.

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yey cool day for me

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Just so there’s no confusion: Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer emailed Vladimir Putin’s personal spokesman? Seeking help from the Kremlin on a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow? During the presidential campaign?     Yes, this really happened. While most attention was rightly focused on the devastating flood in Houston, there was quite a bit of news on the Russia front — all of it, from President Trump’s perspective, quite bad.     The revelations begin with a Trump business associate named Felix Sater . A Russian émigré who bragged about his Kremlin connections, Sater was a principal figure in development of the Trump Soho hotel and condominium project in lower Manhattan. Sater wrote a series of emails to Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, touting the Moscow Trump Tower project as a way to help Trump win the presidency.     In November 2015 — five months after Trump had entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination — Sater wrote to Cohen that he had “arranged” for Trump’s daughter Ivanka, during a 2006 visit to Moscow, “to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin.”   The email went on, “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without stupidity or greed getting in the way. I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this.”

The bad news about ‘this Russia thing’ keeps pouring in for Trump

So Trump was lying when he tweeted, shortly before his inauguration, that “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” The truth is that in October 2015, on the same day he participated in a GOP candidates’ debate, he signed a letter of intent for the Moscow Trump Tower project.

(via wilwheaton)

Grabs popcorn

This is definitely going to be an interesting show.

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Why is “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid.” Good?  (1/how many i want to create)

I’m pretty sure this title explains it all. Either way, I noticed more and more people adopting character portraits of the characters in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid to a point it intrigued my interest. I took a little judgemental look, thinking it was just some sort of “fan service”- a lure designed to bring in someone’s fetishes over a bullshit story. Well, I’ve got news for you.

I was SOO fucking wrong about that judgement.

Let's break it down.

Oh, there's going to be some spoilers ahead. Click read more at your own disgression, but I HIGHLY recommend you actually go watch it instead. It's only 13 episodes (for now).

In short, Kobayashi's Dragon Maid starts with Kobayashi, one of our main protagonists getting ready for work. She goes to the door and...

She opens her door. Holy fuck there's a fucking dragon at the door. This introduces our next protagonist, Tohru in a very cute maid oufit. After a tense situation, and because of a drunk night (aswell as Kobayashi thinking they're in a dream), they fired Tohru before it even started... until she realised it was no dream (and that she was late to work so she needed to get there quickly. Tohru is a dragon, and she takes this as being rehired).

This kicks off the series, which is filled with humourous (although sometimes particularly naughty refferences) and begins a story of finding friendship, love and tackling ideas of Society, true friendship and loyalty. We see that dragons are taught that "Humans are evil", but due to Tohru's code and how she was raised, she will repay any favours (which is partially her reason for becoming a maid). We start to see how Tohru reacts, her responses to a completely new world, and how she starts to affect Kobayashi.

Later, we see that Tohru is buying shopping supplies in the marketplace, and makes a good appearance. During this, we see a thief steal a woman's purse, and with the consent of Kobayashi (aslong as she doesn't reveal that she is a dragon), Tohru stop the thief with blinding speed. This is an important part for later in the script. Tohru stands just above the person she just knocked out, with a crowd in the market staring at her. We see that Kobayashi becomes extremely worried for Tohru, but it works out in the end. The market praise Tohru for her good deeds, and so we continue (I'm pointing this out because it'll be useful later- it's even reflected back by the creators in a later scene)

We later see Kanna Kamui, a child who came from the other world. Without power and energy, and at her most weakest, Kobayashi decides to let them stay, and the three begin to start a friendship in Kobayashi's small apartment. Kanna kind of hovers around, and Kobayashi acts as their guardian, due to Kanna also being a child.

Stuff happens to progress the story, they move house to a bigger apartment, and Kobayashi asks Kanna if they want to go to school. Kanna agrees to go, and so Kobayashi and Tohru start to prepare her for it.

Kobayashi and Tohru are then buying supplies for Kanna to go to school. While they're finishing up the list, when buying her P.E. Kit, we see a scene where Tohru comments of the lack of choice, saying "They all seem the same." in the shop, with Kobayashi replying back "That's fine. Everyone should be wearing the same thing.", which peaks Tohru's curiosity, asking "Why's that?" At this part, Kobayashi explains that it is "to reduces differences", which Tohru asks what happens "when you're different", which Kobayashi points out it can get you singled out quickly, if you're not like the others- if you're not what everyone calls being 'normal'. We then see reflections of Tohru's memories back at the market she was buying supplies from, where the criminal was knocked out. The creators are refering to Society's judgement of people- that to be equal, we must be doing what is considered 'normal' in that Society. (We also see Tohru dislikes this, with Kobayashi also agreeing, which is also the creators' response to that way of thinking.) Kobayashi also states that this happens because "everyone's afraid of things that are different". Fear is a good motivator to enforce a safe enviroment where people are less likely to be killed, but overtime, this also creates an agreed way of thinking of how everyone should live, which is how we start losing what's unique about us just because we are afraid, which the creators are picking out on this scene.

This conversation is disrupted by Kanna, who is obviously really hating this discussion as we can make a presumption that Kanna is happy as she is, and the conversation has made her fear that Kobayashi might change her identity to fit into school. Kobayashi understands this, and apologises to Kanna, saying that she will do no such thing to Kanna, and this rests Kanna's worries, as she visibly shows it.

In the 4th episode, Kanna has started school, and Kobayashi asks Tohru to look out for Kanna (presumably because she is worried about her being "eliminated" by the others). In the scene where Kanna is asked to solve maths problems, we see Tohru's ideas of the human education system, saying it is "an inefficient way to learn", and that "putting them in different classes based on their abilities would help them grow faster". Although only a short scene, this is actually a comment on Society's education system from the creators. In truth, the education system IS bad, despite how much a country brags about their "statistics" 'n stuff. If the results are so good, why do education companies say it "keeps failing" and that they have solutions, by creating new resources, more tests and harder work for the students for the schools to buy? Simple. There's no business to be made in creating success for the students, as they wouldn't need to update resources as regularly, and there'd be no money made and in fact, they don't really care if the resources does or doesn't help students- the resources the schools buy is what generates the education companies money. It's simply a business that exploits our naivety and thoughts that the reports and the amazingly high grades of multiple students actually does help (which it can do sometimes, but One, most of the knowledge doesn't help another or multiple students' goals and two, that's not the main goal of education companies, despite how much they'll say that they care about the students- it's all for money and I literally pointed out the evidence for it). We really should pay attention and care for how the future of our students are being built. (And you're hearing this from a Year 11 student.)

Four episodes in, and it is most powerful four episodes to an Anime I've ever seen. These creators are able to use the characters to portray their thoughts, while keeping the style, setting and everything else interesting.You can see why I like this Anime soo much.

We then see Saiwaka Reno, who is one of the lesser (but still important and very adorable protagonists) who goes to (un)subtley flirt with Kanna. She catches onto this, as we see in her thought processes. She, herself stands out and is eliminated by the other students, and Kanna sees this. Probably remembering the conversation bewteen Tohru and Kobayashi in the sports shop, she goes to create a situation. Seeing that Saiwaka does like Kanna, but can't show it exactly because the others would poke her further, Kanna creates a situation where Saiwaka would look like a good person, inorder to build a friendship as well as help Saiwaka's reputation, an act of kindness which Saiwaka might or might not of caught on.

For now, I'm tired, so I'll post more later.

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this hurts it’s so true.

Would have to say “Social anxiety” (I absolutely hate going outside and school because I’m not like the rest of ‘em) and “Stress” (Being around anyone I don’t know or have had bad times with keeps me on edge with past events, and school itself is all hassle and most of it is just... useless and riddled with lies of “success”).

Im trying to prove a point to my mum

Repost if school has caused:

Anxiety Depression Suicidal thoughts Social anxiety Eating disorders Self harm Stress