Half traffic cone, half polar bear
Gamer, artist, technically a streamer. Mostly here to lurk and absorb news/memes. May comment from time to time. You can find me on Twitch @BoneheadBruin doing art or streaming alongside my husband and friends.
My 2024 Santa Fe is also up there on annoyingly bright headlights list. So many people flashing their brights at me before I’m forced to unleash Ark of the Covenant by flashing my actual brights back. Even the emergency flashers are so darn bright I feel like I can’t use them at night when I’m unloading groceries because it fully illuminates the entire apartment building in front of me a block away. This can’t be a necessary amount of lumens.
Disagree. It’s just overused and poorly handled. If the story addresses the reasons why the child is neglected such as the father desperately trying to save his son or the future then it can make a good tragedy. Or, if the father was lost in his own work and probably shouldn’t have had his child but that work consumed him then it can be fine as long as it’s not framed as a good thing or that the child must forgive him for seemingly no reason.
The problem is media that screws this trope up and still expects you to forgive the father in the end. Oftentimes writers fail to address why the child couldn’t just join as bonding, or the father is not doing something that important, or the father is just straight up a terrible person and then the writers expect you to turn around and forgive him.
Otherwise it’s a great way to give the child character a prolific character to chase that they themselves don’t know, or create a character torn between two worlds for better and for worse, or create a deadbeat dad character that may or may not be redeemable.
The pineapple pizza discussion always gets me with this. I worked for a pizza company in Portland, Oregon and one of the best foods I’ve ever eaten was a pizza with an oil base, mozzarella, gorgonzola, apple, walnut, and bacon. My partner’s favorite was one they do with peach, brown sugar, and bacon. Off the top of my head theres: Cranberry chicken salad, teriyaki anything, honey ham/turkey/chicken nuggies… BARBECUE. KETCHUP ON BURGERS/HOTDOGS. Meat and sweet together are not this weird foreign concept people pretend it to be.
Yep, was gonna play Marathon until they just never bothered with Linux. Made a dual boot to try the free weekend and it was actually kind of interesting but not enough so that I want to restart my whole PC to play every time.
Apparently the anti-cheat they’re using has even developed a Linux version in the time since Destiny 2 came out but they still opted to be Windows only.
Um, ackshually just this month the creator confirmed the minions never worked for Hitler.
“It drives up the quality by a mile”. That’s the point, you idiot. It drives every single manga good and bad’s quality the exact same mile up the exact same road.
We want unique, creative visuals brought on by human touch and error, not generic generative slop that all promises to be a D+ to C- quality story because you let the damn slopbot drive your creative process for you instead of actually engaging with your own work and skills.
The man then holds up all but one finger and asks “Am I holding up 10 fingers?” to which they respond “No”, “Non”, “No”, “Nein”.
My favorite personal example of this is Langrisser Mobile. Easily my favorite mobile game ever made with tons of depth to character building and strategy with a genuinely engrossing story full of political intrigue in a fantasy setting. And I can never recommend it to anyone.
This is because certain female characters allow you to perform love confessions to them if you max them out. Almost all female characters (for the first few years) are under 16. You can confess your love to the 10 year old girl and she will promise to keep it a secret till she’s old enough. You can also buy a skin for her where her skin is glistening wet, she shakes her ass at the camera, and wears white, see-through-because-they’re-wet stockings. Why.
It’s wild just how pervasive it is in 2D/3DCG Japanese/Chinese media (Langrisser Mobile is a Chinese gacha spinoff of a Japanese game series). Basically every gacha game ever made has you hunting underage girls for sport. And the players are just totally fine with this. Meanwhile, just off of the top of my head there’s almost literally every single anime ever set in a high school, about half of isekai fantasy, almost every modern shonen battle anime – all giving creepshots or sexual harassment scenes about underage girls. It’s genuinely unavoidable.
That’s actually not the case with the newer folding phones. The Z fold 7 is only 10% thicker (8.9mm) when folded than the s25 ultra (8.2mm), for example. The clamshell flips do run a bit wider at 13mm but they’ve really come a long way and I’m sad to see the market for them dying.
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I think something a lot of people miss is the actual scale of the US as a country. My state is pure blue. My local government is mostly tolerable although not as far left as I’d prefer. Rioting here accomplishes nothing because democrats aren’t in control of the government so we’re just trapped along for the ride.
For me to join a protest with a meaningful impact I would need to travel to Washington D.C… For a west-coast American to actually protest at the capitol of America it would be a similar travel scale to an Irishman traveling to Moscow to protest the EU. That trip alone would cost me ~450 euros before fees and before the cost of any food/shelter. It would require that I leave my job if I stayed for more than a week and because I have no job I can’t pay rent so I must surrender my belongings and uproot my family.
This just isn’t achievable for the average person without your life already having entirely collapsed in the first place. The most any of us out here can realistically do is try to throw money and other forms of support at the problem and hope other states can get their shit together.
Invisible anime serial killer spirit with the personality of a school shooter.
I have no idea why we are even pretending servings have anything to do with what you’re supposed to eat. “Popcorn Perfect Butter Blast” has “0 fat, 0 calories” while being literally just oil i.e. pure fat because they divided 150g of it into 450 servings as if the average person i s individually buttering each piece of popcorn. Tictacs are pure sugar and round down to 0 calories and 0 sugar. I’ve seen cookies with 1/2 a cookie for the serving size. Legally they are supposed to reflect “typical consumption patterns” but it’s more like “the smallest portion the FDA will let us get away with”.
And you’d be making a terrible mistake. Yes, 45-64 year olds overwhelmingly turned out for Trump. But, Trump won ALL age groups for male voters. Trump just barely won 45-64 women by 1% and lost all other ages ranges for female voters. (According to a study with 22k participants) Source
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Be the Fat Bear Week you want to see in the world. Make your Fat Bear Weakness your strength.
One other small addition that I didn’t know where to fit is that, as a non-neurotypical gay man, wrapping my life around furries makes it more comfortable to unmask around people. People literally do not bat an eye if I want to gush about Fat Bear Week, or throw out a hear-me-out about that one undead werewolf monster that “kisses” the priest in Castlevania.
I’m a furry because I think anthropomorphic animals are neat. It’s kind of just that simple. Participation as a furry to me is just a minimum of making an avatar (a fursona) and talking to or hanging out with other furries. Honestly, it’s hardly different than modern VTuber obsession – our community just happened to start with early western animation rather than more recent eastern animation.
Furry is a “lifestyle” and can be taken as far as you want it to take it. We are a community you can chill in, a hobby you can participate in as any kind of creative person from artist, to musician, to 3D modeling, to the person developing the extremely complicated sex stuff going on in VRChat, or a kink you can dress up and fuck in. You can either make everything yourself, buy your way in, or it’s honestly totally normal to just hang around artists enough that they end up making things for you when they’re bored – although it’s good manners to actually participate in that person’s area of the community rather than begging for art.
Furry being more of a lifestyle than a hobby means it’s very easy to just include it in your daily rituals. There are hundreds, if not over a thousand furries in the greater Seattle area. I can go to dinner with other furries, I participate in a furry Twitch community, I game online with furries, and I’m currently about to go on a camping trip out in the woods of Washington for an event called Furwood that takes place at an exclusively queer campsite called Triangle Recreation Camp with nearly a hundred people (though many are dropping out due to the expected rainy weather this weekend).
What furries are NOT is:
》“Will Smith”
》Won’t