anyway while im complaining i think i will also complain about the minecraft movie. we all say the trailers and mocked it fucking relentlessly for looking stupid and like just the biggest fucking cashgrab. and then it came out and everyone went to watch it. seriously???? we cant even boycott a movie that looks like shit. the characters look awfully out of place compared to the backdrop of the movie and i dont care if thats a choice its too fucking ugly to stare at for 90 minutes and everything ive seen about the movie seems like its just “hey look heres a thing you can do in minecraft that jack black knows about” like GODDD why are we doing this
okay but you can really tell the animators and mojang team cared a lot about the project and put genuine hard work into making it. like yeah it was obviously approved as a shameless cash grab for the execs but that doesn’t mean there is zero artistic merit in it
first of all this is an obnoxious comment second of all come ON are you kidding
do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed
This counts before a period too because I’ll suddenly have a big sad out of nowhere before the thing starts even though I got out of chronic crippling depression a few years ago and I’ll start panicking every time “is it back???” but then a few days later the bleeding starts and then I’m like “oh”
This is not a normal part of periods - this sounds like Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and is treatable.
Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department’s desk number, asking me if there was a reason I’d missed my jury summons this morning.
Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like ‘federal’ and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.
When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was “Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?” and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.
So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you’re in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they’re from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.
I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples’ brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person’s brain spits out “Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don’t call about this shit” before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.
The person in this post follows my rule of thumb that protects me from 99.9% of all phone scams, and i’d like to highlight it here
For ANY “important” call you actually think might be real, get the name of the agency or institution involved, (and here is the important part:) look up the phone number to that agency or institution on your own, and call back about it.
If you never use a phone number they give you and always look up the number on your own, they can never scam you. Here’s how it looks.
“hi, i’m from your bank and your account has just been charged, just, so much money, we’re worried it might be fraud.”
“Thank you for letting me know, I’ll call back later, goodbye”
Then i look up my bank’s phone number, and call that number, and tell them i received a call about suspicious activity on my account.
If it’s real, they’ll help me with it, and if it’s not they’ll confirm it’s not true. Either way, i know i’m talking to the actual bank and not a scammer.
This works for ALL phone scammers, no matter how scary or time sensitive they try to tell you it is. If it’s real, something like “i’m driving right now but i’ll call back in a few minutes, no thank you i already have the contact information for your agency/business” is ALWAYS an acceptable answer, at most they will want to give you some kind of a case number before you hang up. The more they resist you calling them back from a number you look up, the more likely they are to be a scam.
It’s important that YOU call the number of the agency/business. Don’t let them “call you back from the main number”, it’s possible to spoof caller IDs including government numbers.
and don’t use google search results, go to the actual agency website
“don’t use google search results, go to the actual agency website”
The amount of people who use Google as their “browser” is scary. I have sat next to someone and watched as they googled a website rather than typing the web address in and just clicked the first thing that popped up, which was a scam site. The top hits on Google are often either sales portals (ads) or scam links! If you have to google a site, look long and hard at the links before you click. The one you want will probably be number 4 or 5, not the first three (those are usually ads). Don’t click anything that says “sponsored” or “ad” next to it!
Yeah I’m free the 22nd and the 22nd and the 20th and the 22nd and the 21st as well as the 20th and the 22nd and the 22nd after that and the three 20ths after that
Something I found hilarious the other day was seeing one of those “I bought this before Elon Musk went insane” bumper stickers, except it wasn’t on a Tesla. It was on the most beat up 20+ year old Toyota Corolla I’ve ever seen that was missing three hubcaps and had no less than seven different dents in the rear bumper. yeah I do not doubt that you bought that one before musk went insane
Computer game where you’re building a tower level by level and the closer you get to heaven the harder it becomes to fight off God.
The health mechanic is “coherence” as he works to confuse the tongues of your workers and you regenerate it by employing linguists to reincorporate the language changes as quickly as possible. If coherence reaches zero then your workers start wars with each other and leave and your tower collapses.
This sign was right below this post just thought you should know
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People in the notes saying “this is Chants of Sennar” have MASSIVELY misunderstood this post. No, this is Stormbridge But Vertical. Chants of Sennar is a translation game. It has absolutely nothing at all in common with what I’m suggesting here. You guys just saw the words “language” and “tower” in a post and brought the “guy who has only seen Boss Baby” vibes.
really it sounds like it’s almost the opposite of Chants of Sennar. Like, they’re both about towers and language but beyond that they’re doing dametrically different things really
Chants of Sennar has no time limits and conflict between a few stealth sections and really cares about language and meaning. Mine is about generating resources fast enough to fight off god with lasers and doesn’t give a shit about language, that’s just the theme of the health bar.
Your children’s show unfortunately has the absolute wrong take on tackling fascism. Yeah the power of friendship angle is showing a dismal lack of understanding of Marxist theory or even intro-level Leninism. Yeah my only two interests are children’s media and online leftist discourse so this is gonna be a problem.
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