Count Regal Inkwell

I do believe there is a niche of people into that. Though my view might be skewed by The Algorithm :tm: knowing I like vintage fashion.

My youtube shorts recs are full of chicks trying on their grandmother’s old and well-kept clothes from the 50s~70s.

Made a different comment. Deleted it. Had a better idea:

Those loose, light clothes that people in middle-eastern cultures still wear as traditional clothing. There is a reason they came up with those when they did. Elsewhere in this thread another peep was complaining that men don’t get to show enough skin and specifically citing heat as the reason this annoyed them. I say fool. Showing skin will not save you from the heat, especially as climate change continues to cook the planet. It will, in fact, make it worse.

If we are to survive being cooked alive by the sun, we will need to cover up, as the people who inhabited arid-and-extremely-hot places for centuries have done.

Actually, since the Dune series got an injection of popularity with non sci-fi nerds thanks to the Denis Villeneuve films –

– We could call it “Fremencore”. Integrate some futuristic aesthetic influences so people don’t think it’s cultural appropriation.

A flophouse exclusively inhabited by giant nerds.

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You got any idea how easy it is for those with power to convince a few thousand suckers to defend their evil interests, WHILE genuinely believing they’re doing the right thing? That’s like 90% of content on social media.

SI?

[angry anime fan noises]

Right. Gonna do that with the humidifier

That I need

To make my room bearable during drought season

Or the split AC.

That I also need

To make my room bearable during summer.

Can you see how that would be a problem?

People who make electric devices are putting blinding blue LEDs in a million places they do not and will never belong.

Which one

Blorbos from my friend group’s shared imagination

At least game cutscenes tend to be less mumbly. Even IF the volume of things is all over the place.

TV and Movies? Fuck me, it’s like actors all forgot how to talk and instead just mumble every line.

Same, all my electronics look like abominations of electric tape, it’s the only way I can have them not light up my room at night.

Packaging for supermarket products should have what the product is big and the branding small. Not the other way around.

Oh. Sound mixing on movies/tv shows should be such that voice lines are always perfectly audible even on shitty speakers. Make actors e n u n c i a t e like they did in the 30s. Christopher Nolan has a lot to answer for, turning all of media into mumblecore chief among those things.

As I said in a different thread:

I might be this close to butlerian jihad thought when it comes to AI as an invention

But if it must come to pass, better it be on the back of community owned and controlled models than a couple of megacorps.

I explained my fursona to my therapist.

It was

A fun time.

Your comics are so cute.

Also man. I was part of 1(one) campaign that made it to high level. And it is a bit of a magical experience.

When our crew of sky pirates flew into town everyone immediately knew who they were, local authorities and groups of people were always either trying to court their favour or get rid of them at any cost, they never needed to introduce themselves – They were the Monarchs of the Storm, and their career had started with them causing an entire criminal empire to crumble (specifically because they’d messed with their friends), and only gotten more intense and destructive from there.

Shame one of our players disappeared because of Life :tm: and so we haven’t played in almost a year.

It’s been a millenium since I’ve heard it, as I no longer qualify as young.

But

“You’ll understand when you’re older”

I’m older.

I’m thirty.

The only thing I “understand” is that all the rules are arbitrary as all fuck, society was made up by idiots with giant sticks up their arses, and everyone should go fuck themselves.

The only “progress” I made is that I stopped hating myself for “failing at society” and started hating society for failing so many people.

“Spectacle Fighter”.

In the late aughts, game critic Ben “Yathzee” Croshaw came up with that term to describe games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry, beat-em-up type games where the point is less “can you get through” and more “how high can you get that combo meter? How COOL can you make yourself look while beating up all these fodder enemies?”

A few years later the industry coalesced on an agreed-upon term for this subgenre – And called it “Character Action”.

Yathzee has just accepted defeat and uses the term everyone uses, he has to, he works in games media.

I refuse. Character Action is a dumb, DUMB term because every action game is a character action game, because there is ACTION and CHARACTERS in all of them.

Whereas “Spectacle Fighter” was perfectly descriptive of just WHAT made those games special. You are FIGHTING, and the objective is to LOOK SPECTACULAR.

If you are a teenager and you currently feel like you have failed at being a man/woman/heterosexual/whatever, then there is a 79.8% chance you are some form of LGBTQ. Stop beating yourself up and start exploring instead. You’ll be happy you did.