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Staying over at her GF's place for the first time 🌃

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Capitalism is a parasite. Capitalists have no new ideas, only more plunder of labor value.

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the adults in your life all your childhood telling you to cooperate with your friends and be nice and do things to be nice suddenly turn into the worst people when you do those same things and extol those values as an adult

then again maybe that’s the right wing radicalization going on

being a little kid was so funny bc you could literally just say somethint like “I think everybody should get along and share :-)” and all the adults in your life would go oh GODDDD STUUUPIIIIDD!!!!!!!! STUPID FUCKING KID ALERT!! Don’t uou know when you grow up you have to face the Government Mandated 100000 Wild boar Attack

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Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.

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It’s hard to decide what my absolute favorite part of brbavrai was.

But what I’ll never forget is sitting there still awestruck over the spirit bomb ending, and then the music swells in as Walter says “I guess I broke bad”

And then I was hit by a new comedy truck of 🎶What a Breaking Bad World 🎶

The belly laugh I let out at “ I see fans on YouTube saying What did they do? Are they still making Half Life 2” will never leave my memory.

As much as I love hlvrai, brbavrai will always be the stream that fucking tricked me and the surprise of it all made the jokes hit even harder.

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(homemade beer forum help thread)

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Unsolicited addition: it was ok?

I mean it wasn’t bad. I’ve been invested on and off in the franchise since it came out, was glad it was lore light honestly and was doing its own thing -god knows the fnaf lore needed a reboot- but MAN it’s like. Honestly painfully average.

Dunno if it was just bc I watched it in the evening or I was having a bad focus day, but I swear it all kinda blended together in terms of content at the actual Freddy’s location.

I dislike the sequel baiting tbh. It’s almost certainly getting one but it genuinely kinda ruins the impact of the ending to me.

just finished the fnaf movie. as someone who never played the games and never really wanted to, i dont have much to say really? it was fun and my little brother who loves fnaf seemed to enjoy it. only thing i have to say about it is that it seemed sooo unserious. idk. idk something about it was just not serious. which is fine, but the issue is it felt like they wanted it to be serious.

if it were me, i wouldve had very little to do with actual lore in this movie, just like the first game. definitely put some hints in there for eagle eyed fnaf fans, but i wouldve kept it really serious, and stuck to how the first game played, yknow, like, before the animatronics were humanised, and they were nust things that wanted to kill you. but also, something like that would be very VERY difficult to do well, itd be a huge risk, im having trouble describing the idea, itd be even worse filming it. so i think they did good

i did miss like the first 20 minutes i think but thats ok i kind of got it all very quickly

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i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

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In October I bought the Modiphius Fallout Wasteland Warfare Hoover Dam Bundle + Starter Set. In that time out of about 36 minis I have assembled 8

Of that eight I broke -or in one case trimmed to much peg pending a fix on my end- three models, one I repaired, two remain in limbo of if I want to fix…

I don’t enjoy building these things. I don’t want to paint. I want to get them built and give the game at least a go or two before I decide if I like it or if these will be p nice display pieces.

I can’t get past both my anxieties of ruining more and the sheer fact that I just

Don’t like building them. Day one, I put together five. It took six hours. Both due to interruptions and perhaps a bit too cautious waiting for superglue to dry.

Regardless. I did not enjoy the majority of the building only feel small satisfaction when I was done and could put the assembled minis into a safe space so they don’t get ruined.

Why do people enjoy this?

I don’t have good hands. My hands aren’t shaky but I just don’t have the control over them that it feels like you need to get things aligned even with just dry fitting.

Two handed poses are out of the question of even finding satisfying to make.

One model the barrel of their weapon snapped because while getting things fit just right it snapped off during the superglue pressing phase and rip I guess they have a sawn of barrel now. Fuck me.

And I fucking HATE the one legged poses with a passion. They’re all one legged so there’s more pressure on that one leg standing up to being pressed at almost certainly an odd angle due to the reason for the post almost certainly being a dynamic pose.

And whoops 2/3 of the broken models I have broke at the leg bc I had to press them as just the right angle to stand at the required post whilst also not getting my fingers stuck to the model.

And people tell me *I’m* doing it wrong. I followed all the guides. I just don’t have the dexterity.

I would gladly pay extra for pre assembled models. I like how these things look. I just wish I didn’t have to put them together :/

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I think one thing we need to address in the US if we want to de-stigmatize multi-generational households that include ADULTS from multiple generations, is that parents need to learn how to have adult relationships with their offspring.

Should my daughter deign to live with me when she's an adult she will not be my some vassal that has to obey my household rules. She graduates into being a peer in setting and managing the boundaries, cleanliness and appearance of our home.

Too many parents want to have relationships with grown ass adults in which the parents maintain control and authority, and in which they leverage money and history to get their way from an adult who, very reasonably, wants to be able to make choices and have influence. And then those parents wonder why their kids keep their distance!

But then people act like I've lost it because I let my 5 year old pick the color of paint in her room- a room I seldom spend time in except to take care of her, and a room in which I want her to be comfortable and happy.

I'm not gonna let her choose a paint color for the kitchen right now, because she's capricious and bad at negotiating so we can pick a color we all like. But when she's an adult, if she's still living here? Why shouldn't she get to influence her environment?

People like to have agency. We limit the agency of children because they make choices without the full ability to understand the results (sorry baby, you are gonna get vaccinated for pollio even if you don't like it. You don't understand pollio).

But limiting an adults choices in their own home, just because you don't think that home should be a real home for them because it's just for you, is kind of an asshole move, to me.

No need to argue with me if you disagree. You can have your own opinion.

But I couldn't treat my kid that way, and I have seen enough to know that not every parent treats their adult children like permanently incompetent interlopers.

I didn't just buy this house for ME. I bought it for MY FAMILY. My baby is my family, and she will be no matter how old she gets.

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GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE

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for anyone who wasnt there for the wayneradiotv stream last night:

the announcement trailer transitioned into a breaking bad logo and theme song

breaking bad roleplay happens

for the next two hours half the chat is "wow i cant believe they would trick is like this "when half life 2" "are they seriously not gonna do it" "watch this is gonna all be a dream"

breaking bad roleplay continues. some notable things are the various theme songs/ringtones that the characters have and the breaking bad poster that roams around

yes they are re-enacting an abridged version of the whole show

by the 4 hour mark the viewer count has dropped by about 8000 (correction! i thought the peak view count was higher it was more like 3000) since the stream started

walter white has to charge up an energy beam and the whole chat is sending "\o/" in support (i did too)

breaking bad themed cover of "what a wonderful world" as the credits roll

ACTUAL hl2vrai trailer announces it will be here in 2024/2025

chat is going even more insane

ends with a cameo video of dean norris (hank from the show) telling wayne congrats for breaking the bad but because benry wasnt in the trailer wayne is FINISHED

stream ends

in conclusion: You ruined me cause you smoked that mario shit

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holy shit they had this one in the oven for a WHILE huh. good for them

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YOU WANT THE TRUTH?

THERE IS NO HLVRAI2

I LIED

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Spoilers for Fallout 4, both plot side lore and companion lore.

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I really dislike Piper. Her introduction and her general demeanor -plus the stupid Blue nickname- give off vibes of Bethesda wanting players to like her and doesn’t really lend to a -to me- organic fondness for them.

But that isn’t my main issue.

Mmm main issue is a massive distaste for Publick Occurences, her reporting style, her stirring up paranoia and indirectly serving to get a man killed. The first introduction we have is learning the mayor of Diamond city -who for the record IS an asshole and detailed below arguably a stopped clock case of being correct- kicked her out for stirring the pot and making false accusations towards him. Now, on the surface is painted to make the player sympathetic to Piper because I mean, freedom of the press is p unambiguous and I agree with that.

But if you actually read the Synthetic Truth article, it in essence describes and interviews a massacre that occurred in Diamond City when a synth about 60 years prior went haywire and shot up the place. The context for this? An indirect but undeniable accusation McDonough -the mayor- is a Synth, not just by the framing of what made her write the story but by describing McDonough’s actions that day very robotically and even saying he sat in the same seat the synth sat in prior to the attack.

Is this just framing? Sure. Is it possible Piper didn’t mean it? No. She very clearly thinks McDonough’s not who he says he is and used the article to stoke paranoia.

Furthermore. When you finish the game in any ending that isn’t the Institute’s, you’ll have a quest that in essence reveals that *yes* McDonough is a synth. He was working for the institute the entire time. Piper was right. The paranoia fermented is correct.

I hate this.

frankly I always thought the fact Piper in my eyes at least could be seen as responsible for the paranoia due to her paper was bullshit and made me dislike her as soon as I finally read the article. And the worst part?

There’s an encounter at some point after you arrive at Diamond city where two brothers are arguing, one has a gun pointed at the other, threatening to kill him. The brother holding the gun is inevitably shot down by the guards and his brother is left to mourn.

Neither men are synths. The one threatening the other was provoked by paranoia. Perhaps because he’d been led to believe his brother was acting differently, perhaps he didn’t remember something right, maybe he sat in the wrong stool and ate noodles too perfectly.

But honestly, it all boils down to the fact the commonwealth’s cities are paranoid. But Diamond city, in my eyes, feels the most paranoid. It has a trader who discriminated against even suspected synths, guards openly talk about thinking people they knew were synths, Nick Valentine apparently gets plenty of bigoted remarks from the citizenry…

And the only paper in town stokes that paranoia.

Like. Aaa. There’s an interesting discussion that the game just doesn’t get into honestly. I really want to see how Piper would react to a friend questioning their tactics in journalism over a presumed enemy. But unfortunately the writers didn’t want to see it through.

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US labor is learning they have more value and more power with each union strike.

Collective bargaining and worker solidarity are the antidote to corporate tyranny and worker exploitation.

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i think the thing that is specifically bothering me about the conversation about the new hbomberguy video ("live your life in a way so that hbomberguy doesn't tear into you for 3 hours", "hbomberguy has figured out how to death note someone through video essays", "oh new hbomberguy video [incredibly dense paragraphs of text] i now despise james somerton") is that it really feels like people aren't paying attention to what hbomberguy was actually saying. like, as much as he wanted to make people aware of the plagiarism issue, he also very explicitly did not like the fact that he might even remotely have a financial incentive to make those sorts of videos. and rather than the last video, which was a "get mad about this" call to action, hbomberguy spent this whole video sympathizing with the people who were directly out indirectly affected, and wanted the focus of people's attention to be on uplifting small queer creators

but also, negativity drives engagement so i guess it's to be expected.