new eponymous media test where it fails if a lesbian character is a cop

Protestants are so fucking lame what do you mean the Pope threw a rave?

nothing’s felt real since like 2012

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

they should make a video game where you play as an autistic character and there is a meter that shows you how close to a total meltdown you are due to the overwhelming stimuli and another matter that shows you how much of a weirdo you look like to others and you have to try to balance between having a meltdown and completely masking. and also you’re trying to solve a murder or something

I think it should add challenges but not be game breaking if you decide to sacrifice weird meter for meltdown meter.

Brotherhood of The Orb

I think it's important to remember that every single religion can be twisted for violence and oppression and abuse and control. Yes, including the one that you think can't be. But quickly, before anti-theists start saying that religion is an inherently evil violence accelerant, remember that this is true for any ideology, including anti-theism. Violence and oppression and abuse and control happens wherever there are people who think that those things will help them get what they want.

man having your life even a little bit together will really make you realize how chronically sleep-deprived and poorly fed and under-enriched everyone is and then when they turn to you to implicitly agree that that's just the natural state of existing you feel like the asshole for being like "actually I think you might benefit from eating breakfast regularly and picking up a new hobby"

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

i’m going to start calling american music a-pop. for no reason

obviously the worst trend that came from big games companies trying to emulate TF2's success was microtransactions, but i think a close second is meet-the-team style marketing.

Meet The Team, the series of shorts that introduced each of tf2's 9 classes, helped boost the game's popularity because, at the time, it had never been done before. valve put a lot into defining the unique personalities and artstyle of the characters, so in-character introductions to said characters was a good way to tease the game. Because TF2 was a popular, regularly maintained game and because Gmod and SFM allowed fans to use the characters for whatever they wanted, the mercenaries quickly became monoliths, cementing themselves as recognizeable archetypes across the internet. Valve's dedication to innovation, quality and uniqueness made it so that even someone born less than a decade ago who'd never played TF2 before would recognize Heavy Weapons Guy's face.

Unfortunately the rest of the AAA game publishing space saw this success and immediately tried to replicate it. Overwatch is the only game whose legacy even came close to TF2's, and most of that is based on porn made of the characters in blender. Nobody else has reached that legacy, and to this day marketing for PvP shooters foregoes gameplay trailers and information about what to expect in the game in favor of showing you a 3-minute comedy sketch about how much of a quirky wisecracker [HERO NAME HERE] is.

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pacific rim commentary

i took a few notes from guillermo del toro’s commentary on pacific rim: