anyone remember when the combination kfc/long john silvers in my hometown just fucking exploded one night

i do not ghost purposely i just have no idea what to say ever

and i have no concept of passage of time

Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret, Vincent van Gogh, 1886

I used to hang out with fire dancers. My friends picked up on it very quickly. Stuff like this, happening in a huge backyard at night with fireflies, really did seem like magic. One friend loved doing figure eight patterns.

Can.. can people make aus for cartoon poppy playtime..

Like all the toys live in a neighborhood or sum..

Cartoon au, based off who framed Roger Rabbit lmao

I once wrote a 1500 word essay on something I'd forgotten to read in the 40 minutes before class. Including the time it took to read the thing I'd forgotten to read.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Imagine what you can do if you learn to bullshit like I can bullshit.

For my senior year of AP English, I was assigned reading over Easter break. We were instructed to read The Old Man And The Sea, and save the rest of the short stories in the book for the first week back.

Unfortunately, what I heard was "read everything BUT The Old Man And The Sea."

Double unfortunately: the first day back was a test, on The Old Man And The Sea. Which I had read exactly zero words of. It was, notably, a short essay test. It wasn't multiple choice or fill in the blank. It was designed to require deliberate answers from scratch, entirely out of your own head, with nothing to go on BUT what was in your head.

And in the course of about 45 minutes, I was able to use the questions of the test itself to piece together a vague enough sense of how the story went to bullshit my way through other questions. I gave wide, thematic answers that were extremely light on details, since I did not know any of them, and did not even know this test would be happening until it was in front of me. An essay test for an AP-level English class.

I had a starting point of zero information, and an essay test about the thing I was supposed to have read.

I bullshitted my way to a B+ on it.

On a test I should have gotten a ZERO on.

It's been 16 years since I took that test.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing about The Old Man And The Sea.

But you better fucking believe I still know how to bullshit, and when someone is trying to bullshit me.

The power and utility of knowing how bullshit works CANNOT be overstated. It is one of the most important skills you can ever have.

My favorite part of this is the little “Yet I’m still failing” at the bottom of the screencap. It’s not yet occurred to you to change something you’re doing? Maybe try not using ChatGPT?

POV: you save your pals from mad scientists but you are dying

It confuses me that Kevin is often viewed as a teenager when the game seems to imply that he’s not too much older than Jack

Like first of all in the report where we meet Joseph, Joeseph sounds like he’s around eight or something, and he acts that age with how he easily trusts that the scientists suddenly snatched Kevin because he was ‘sick’

Secondly the phrase “the gentle voices lie” just seems like something a younger kid would say. Also in the tape where Doey kills Jack’s parents, the way he describes what the scientists do (“they lie, and they poke, and they hurt”) feels like how a younger kid would describe it too

In the report where Kevin’s behavioral issues are actually talked about, it’s stated he attacks his friends during intense play, I find the phrasing here important because you could infer his age range from it, I don’t think the word play would be used when describing the behavioral issues a teenager has, it just sorta feels more like how someone would describe the issues of a kid either elementary or middle school aged

I might just be reading too much into all of this but I do feel like Kevins not much older than Jack, I headcanon he’s around ten but idk

Thats actually really cool

It's really a Digital Lich- it's corpse is being resurrected over and over via arcane rituals.

:)