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Insanely bad advice, especially considering teachers can and will jump straight to "this is fucked up and demonic" with zero provocation. My third grade teacher told my parents I was Disturbed because i was drawing pokemon on my homework lmao. Thankfully everyone thought she was an idiot
So the "advice" doled out in this column makes me INCREDIBLY fucking angry as a former kid who was repeatedly taken to task by teachers for "inappropriate" drawings, culminating in a 9th-grade suspension spurred by Columbine paranoia and residual Satanic Panic. Arionne here says that was JUSTIFIED.
a spectacle of fascism as Trump demands Ilhan Omar resign and says Democrats have conceded her seat, and the 20-something dude bros behind him leap up and start cheering
It's a grim moment when "scam to get investment cash" is actually the best case scenario, as the alternative is bio-engineered murder dogs. This is the company that stuck a couple of genes into a wolf and claimed (/were reported to have claimed) to have recreated the prehistoric dire wolf
*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation
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"A documentary is when something is true and the more true something is the better of a documentary it becomes" seems like a genuine opinion a shocking number of people hold. they are of course wrong
i thought it would be a positive thing for a mainstream movie to teach audiences concepts like “it is impossible to capture pure truth on camera” but it seems like a lot of people really do not want to learn the lesson
graphics beyond the ps4 were a mistake. none of this shit is sustainable anymore. every single Big Game costs one billion dollars to make and has to make 5 billion to be profitable and it also costs $100 nobody has and also needs to have an infinite postgame and also is forgotten in a week
Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
I'm so glad someone else is saying this because i felt CRAZY reading that post. Does OP think that when you play Sonic the Hedgehog you're puppeteering the body of an unwilling Sonic the Hedgehog
"ok but she's not the monster of the movie, she's the victim" SHE'S BOTH! She's having her body puppeteered and that body is running around murdering people. Would you say this about Jason Voorhees? The girl from the Ring???
The ADL finally chimes in… with one very short post:
"The term 'Shylock' is rooted in a longstanding antisemitic stereotype. Regardless of intent, its use can reinforce harmful tropes about Jews and normalize language that has long been used to target the Jewish community."
someone shattered my car window to go through my shit (and ultimately stole nothing) but the repairs, which were supposed to be completed within 2 days, have now been delayed twice. It will have been a full week. i fucking hate these people i fucking hate these people i fucking hate these people i f
"the part arrived damaged so we need to order a new one" sure "the third party vendor we ordered from also received a damaged part" hey are you fucking lying to me? do you think i'm a fucking idiot? why does it take 48 hours to receive the new part? DO YOU KNOW I HAVE A LIFE
the new castlevania is pretty good so far (even if it does largely feel like Prince of Persia: the lost crown) but the story is...quite bad. in content and presentation. To the point that I genuinely wish they hadn't bothered to include cinematics
every cinematic in this game is either a) in-game cinematic where the camera zooms and pans over assets that were never meant to be viewed close up, at half the framerate of the rest of the game, or b) "animated" cinematic where they just pan over a 90% static image with like 1 visual effect
also there's just too many characters. every time you beat a boss you capture them like a pokemon and they all chime in for every cutscene and it almost feels like a gag. It feels like the venture bros escape from the house of mummies episode
all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever
The university noted that fraternities are not “Recognized Student Organizations” at UChicago and therefore have no formal affiliation with the school. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
biggest selling point of the ocarina of time remake so far is that they seem to have completely done away with that enemy behavior where you just have to kind of stand around until they decide to expose their weak points. nobody wants to talk about how much of an OoT playthrough is spent Standing
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Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
the funniest part is he asked for n64 bomberman, we booted up 64, and then he was like "oh not that one the one with the good song" so he was 100% thinking about redial (but bought 64 and 2nd attack alongside hero anyway)
After twenty years and countless viewings, I finally wrote about SPEED RACER and the glorious impossibility of reaching for infinity.
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i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo
Good morning. Heres my favorite commission from the batch I did in the hotel room last night.
I feel like someone mentioned Rumiko Takahashi yesterday and it came out in the face.
Willow Wilson on Captain Marvel with Rachel Stott. “I told her no more five issue stories,” says Wacker. “You have as long as you need.”
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made the mistake of reading Hickman's Midnight X-Men #1 before reading the other two (Spider-Man, Fantastic Four). Not because it was bad, it was a complete banger, but because the other two were so middling that I was like "THIS is your bold new creative vision?"
Hickman has done something that feels familiar and fresh, putting the characters we know into an interesting new context and taking his time revealing that context to the reader. Older material informs upon new material. It's more than just a Grimdark AU. MSM and MFF...feel like Grimdark AUs lol
Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are officially sister networks for the first time in HISTORY.
The two networks now share a parent company following today’s completed merger to form Skydance.