Beachfox

Whenever someone complains about the $80 USD sticker price on new games, some folks like to bring up the fact that many Super Nintendo cartridges were retailing for the same price way back in the 90s.

The subtext of these observations is usually that AAA game prices have been effectively static for thirty years, so really, once you take inflation into account, AAA games are cheaper than ever.

A more pointed observation would be that, in spite of those thirty years of inflation, that $80 price tag has managed to become less affordable to the average gamer in 2025 than it was in 1995, which is an indictment that reaches much further than the AAA gaming industry.

it's really funny how obvious it is that a few of my straight cis male bosses obviously want me to be less of a hot confident fagboy than I am, but they know a) that I'm the kind of nasty lil lefty who knows my rights in the workplace and b) that none of their relatives would do my shitty job for as little as they're paying me and they all hate hiring anyone outside their families, plus I'm really good at my job and I'm the only one in the building, including the property owners and managers, who knows how to work the front door locking system so they can't fire me. so they just make occasional bitchy little comments like "hahaha you know back when I was your age if my boss said to get a haircut I'd be at the barber's on my lunch hour!" and I just go "hahaha wow that sounds like it sucked for you" and then go back to listening to my gay-ass music and sending my snapchat friends funny headlines from the cbc all day in between old ladies flirting with me. which they do a lot because I'm a hot confident fagboy

Can't believe NaNoWriMo just did this, but literally.

People keep asking if this is an April fool's joke and I cannot stress to you enough that it very much is not. The org announced it was closing down yesterday (which is not surprising given all the recent scandals).

I feel like a Jason who doesn't kill shouldn't be using rubber bullets or crowbars, he should be using guns that shoot tranquilizers like that seems like such a more intuitive Jason (especially a Jason who is trying to reconcile with the batfam/Bruce) I don't get why dc writers don't go that direction (I'm kidding, of course. I know why. None of these people has read Batman: The Cult, that's why.)

The lasso's rope would be made of some comic-science-technobabble plant fibers straight from The Green because Swamp Thing/Poison Ivy interwoven with Nth Metal stolen from Bruce's stockpile because Fuck You Dad.

It's conductive to electricity so he can do Nightwing stuff with it, super strong so the writers can completely mangle how mass and inertia work to their hearts' content, has Nth Metal "whatever seemed cool/the plot needed us to do at the time" powers for that little zaz you sometimes need, and could probably be made to channel the powers of the All-Blades if that's still not enough for the current writer.

In fifteen years, a new writer will have Jason's MegaMetalMagic Lasso merge with his nervous system somehow and Jason will spend about 14 months basically being "Batman If He Were Venom/Carnage" before he's retconned back to his old Just Guns version by whoever comes after.

Ten years after that, Red Hood With A Lasso will have kept on appearing in one-offs and side-stories so much he basically becomes an alternate version of Red Hood With A Gun and the two are officially split into separate characters after the next Crisis Retcon.

Gun Jason/Lasso Jason becomes the 4th most popular Batpairing on AO3 within the month.

Some people, when presented with a situation where it's plausibly justifiable to be mean, will choose meanness every single time. And it's sort of subtle, because they can make an argument that they're being reasonable in every individual case, but, in aggregate, they're poisonous, absolutely psychically corrosive to their whole environments. And the attitude is sort of contagious because it always looks strong, even as it weakens and hollows everything it touches — it gives you lots of opportunities to score points, you're always on the offensive, you keep everyone permanently on the back foot. And it makes everyone fucking miserable. You have to look at those situations and say, actually, it's also perfectly plausible and reasonable for you not to be an asshole about this, you're choosing this, and you always choose this.

If being good, kind, or decent were the easy paths, the world would look very very different.

Tagged by @basalting! 💕

writing game: post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

(Hard at work on a Superbat fic 🫡)

Thirteen words 😅 I'll tag a couple people: @dinohunter5904 @buds-and-baubles @beeceit @lena-thinks-too-much if you feel like it! Anyone else who wants to 😊

Lil spoiler for best laid plans

@a-brilliante-mariposa @baambastic @azrail-has-a-vendetta @gothamite-rambler @galaxymagitech @birdieisnotwriting @baambastic @yjcorefourenjoyer @derp-a-la-sheep @snakeredbirdbatkatana

“And so, Dick takes a seat on the throne.”

From Battle for the Crown, which I’m writing for Dick Grayson Anniversary Week!

@sasheneskywalker @glitter-stained @deadbywonderland97 @howtokillavampire @stele3 @violent138 + anyone else who writes stuff and wants to share!

The crying reaches Clark well before he enters the decontamination bays that guard the entry to the Nursery.

(Superman fanfiction being written up now)

@frownyalfred @sarahcmarie @diedialectic @angstyentropy @mentallyunawareofpapaya @bittersweetstargazer @therealbeachfox @vechter @glitter-stained @alfredpennyworththecat @aceofdivinechlorophyll @ everyone else who writes (sorry to my moots I missed, I need caffeine and can't remember who write and who doesn't lmao).

(Crime Alley Kid April Fools crack actively writing as we speak)

(I have absolutely no flipping idea who to tag who hasn't already gotten tagged upstream)

@everyone who wanted an excuse to post their stuff!

This is literally what happened with Y2K.

Computer systems were going to crash/bug out on Jan 1, 2000 when the 2-digit year value in their memory became 00. And it would've been a huge problem. But it was averted because engineers and computer scientists foresaw that issue years in advance, and spent a lot of time and money updating systems to a 4-digit year value.

Listening to experts and working globally to solve problems works.

And god, the amount of -bitching- and -whining- and -doomsaying- coming from Matt Walsh's predecessors about the banning of CFCs at the time. How it was pointless and how much we were loosing and how it wasn't even going to fix the problem and it's just a plot to make life more miserable for everyone who wasn't Them.

It's something that runs through my head every time the Matt Walshes of the world piss and moan about whatever new thing is being moved away from. Lightbulbs, toilets, seatbelts, smoking bans. The same script over and over. And thirty years later, they'll act like the reason the problem that change was meant to fix never materialized was because it never existed, not because we made a change they fought every excruciating inch of the way.

many activists involved the ferguson uprising were mysteriously murdered. at least one activist i know of was murdered after the uprising in louisville. like the united states never ever ever wants an organized movement like the civil rights movement of 50’s-60’s to ever happen again and they’re are more than willing to murder, maim, and disappear people to make that the case.

You know that post that was going around like a year ago. That said something like 'hey you don't need to wear any makeup' and people kept commenting shit like 'yeah just a little eyeliner is enough'. This is how this post feels to me

Learning Magic the Gathering from my partner has been kinda hilarious cuz I find a lot of the cards will be either:

Treznor, the Eternal Flame: *3 paragraphs of text* -> Widely maligned, considered basically useless

Grey Rock: adds 2 mana -> $14,000 per copy, outlawed in 12 countries

why is everyone an oversized circle now

why do social media sites keep changing things that don’t matter for no reason

In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.

Nationality: pussy

this is the funniest fucking medical report i’ve ever seen, like yeah nationality: pussy but also the 69’s?? “cattish”??? “he does alright”???

Imagine you get the info card by itself

His name is General Electric George, Christian name General Electric surname George

This cat is Catholic

Is no one going to mention the adorably monstrous catboy anatomical drawing? Lookit those horrifying cute lil ears!

I've told this story before but the non-negotiable in allyship really reminded me of my gaming group. So one of my best friends is a twin and while I know *her* pretty well I don't really know her brother as well despite knowing him for roughly same length of time. We play videogames together and her brother asked to join us so at some point I took him aside and had The Talk with him because we at that point had a recently out trans fem within the group and she had just barely started hormones and hadn't done any voice training etc so I fully intended to head any trouble off at the pass.

So I basically had the "respect my friend's pronouns or die by my sword" discussion because while he knows I'm a trans guy and had so far been chill, I didn't know if that extended to all trans people.

What I did not expect was for him to pull an uno reverse on me and invite his two trans woman friends to game with us as well and did a "no no, *you* respect *my* friends' pronouns or die by *my* sword".

When I was working at Petco, one of my coworkers came to me having a total panic and anxiety meltdown and when I finally got them to tell me what was going on, the revealed they had sought me out because they were having Transgender Feelings and wanted advice. I ended up giving them my old binders that were too small for me but a perfect fit for them, and one of my roommates gave them their first masc haircut.

A few weeks later a customer speaking Spanish was saying many nasty things about my coworker and reacting with disgust. Another coworker- a cis gay man who speaks fluent Spanish- came to get me first so I could pull the other coworker away while he effectively cussed them out in Spanish. He told us the sparknotes version of the English translation and it was mostly horrifically transphobic drivel. My coworker had responded mostly neutrally to me being trans, but for him to be visibly steamed the rest of the day over my other coworker definitely bumped my respect for him.

And I've talked about how a cis lesbian friend of mine visibly bristles at anyone she even thinks is being shitty to me about being trans to the point of making them splutter and back down.

A cishet woman I am only sort of acquaintances with once caught me wincing at being she/her'd at a trial and asked if that had been happening all day. When I responded the affirmative, she stormed off and I didn't see her the rest of the day. The next day, any time anyone referred to me there was an audible pause before a deliberate choice to choose masc versions.

Another trans woman who is a friend of mine once beat up a bully for calling her trans boyfriend a heshe when they were in schooling together.

It's about holding the line. It's about making the active choice to show up for each other. And it's about linking hands and refusing to budge.

If you cannot hold the line with me by your side, then we are not moving together.

If we do not hang together we will most assuredly hang separately, as the old man said.

The fact that Fountain is pissing off trads over a 100 years later is so fucking funny

As an art major, while I know Fountain is a valid piece of art that accomplished exactly what it set out to do, I also think it’s one of the stupidest things. We have a urinal in a museum display. I have yet to see a work I think is dumber.

The thing I love most about Duchamps urinal piece is that it was so “low cost” in terms of creative labour (compared to say, a large scale oil painting or sculpture for example), but it’s absolutely FULL of rage against the traditionalists and the world at that time and it’s SUCH a statement, it’s like, “oh just a mass manufactured item with a signature” but the reality of it is so many layers of meaning and without understanding the history at the time you don’t get it.

It’s an incredibly clever “fuck you” and I love it

An old professor of mine, an expert in Duchamp who has written several books, has a theory. In part, “Fountain” was a prank, a personal “fuck you” to the organization looking for artworks. It’s importance cannot be overstated, and this importance stems from the fact that “Fountain” is /ridiculous/. It is enraging, it is hilarious, and it is very fascinating.

Aside from Duchamp’s readymades, I love “Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors Even”. Pictured below, the work invokes a complex machine, one my professor spent a great deal of time studying. Eventually, he reached his conclusion. My professor had been pranked. He believes “Bride Stripped Bare” is a joke about masturbation, hidden to all except those study it excessively.

At first blush, Duchamp’s works are stupid. Upon further study, they’re very complex. And, upon true understanding, Duchamp is laughing at you. To me, it seems the closer you come to truly understanding Duchamp, the more he slaps you in the face with a large fish.

Let me rage about “traditionalism revival” here. This is a dogwhistle.

As a lover of art, there are many complex and technically impressive works being created today, which both embrace different artistic traditions and break from them. To ignore those is to ignore contemporary art.

Here, OP is raging against conceptual art, which stimulates thought and challenges tradition. He wants his followers to believe that art has “degenerated”, because the West has “degenerated”. OP is intentionally engaging with fascist ideas of “degenerate art”.

If OP wanted to be accurate, he would seek to restore the Salon System, the Beaux Arts Academy, and classical training in the arts. The collapse of this specific system allowed for Modernism to evolve. Of course, that’s not what OP is talking about. He’s evoking beauty as a moral standard, telling his followers to “restore Western tradition”, to fight against aesthetic “degeneracy” in culture.

(By the way, Duchamp is commenting ON MODERNISM with “Fountain”. Duchamp submitted the work to the Society of Independent Artists’ salon in New York, who would accept any work by any artist, for a small fee. In part, Duchamp is saying, “Is this what you Modernists want? A urinal? Look me in the eyes and prove this is not art.”

If OP dared to use his brain, perhaps he would agree with Duchamp here.)

The thing is that it isn’t even a urinal! It doesn’t match any model manufactured at the time. Also Duchamp was an accomplished ceramicist. It’s likely that he made the sculpture and absolutely everyone is like “I know what a urinal looks like. This is sufficiently urinal-shaped for me to assume it is one without looking at it closely!”

Duchamp had other readymades, like his snow shovel, where if you actually look at the photos, the handle is square and the bowl is way too flimsy. Why would manufacturers make a snow shovel with a squared-off handle? It’s impossible to hold! Duchamp slapped the “readymades” label on all these items and the hoity-toity art people who were so good at looking at things didn’t see it (probably because they’d never had to do labor like shovel snow imo, amongst other things).

Marcel Duchamp. In Advance of the Broken Arm. Museum of Modern Art. (4th Version [Ed.!!!] after lost original of November 1915)

wait what. there… what?!?! IT ISN’T AN ACTUAL URINAL?!? or might not be anyway. what the fuck.

if the dude seriously did that, his troll game is out of everyone’s league except Leader Kibo.

My favorite thing about Fountain (besides the fact it has been pissing off fascists for over a century, natch) is that the original was lost and he made a bunch of official editions to sell to various museums (after the original was lost, possibly on purpose).

And they’re different! If it was a real “readymade” he could have just bought some more at his local hardware store, but no. He changed them in OBVIOUS WAYS.

See the triangle of holes?

Here’s the one from the Tate Modern:

Oh hello, cross-holes. Fancy seeing you here.

SFMOMA’s edition has the triangle holes, but it also has a line of holes at the top that are completely different from either other version.

Here’s one from Moderna Museet. Line and a circular set of holes!

Duchamp definitely intentionally made these different on purpose. It’s a “readymade” but it’s not, really, each of these is a specific custom creation.

It’s not even clear if he made it! He wrote a letter to his sister claiming that a female friend sent it to him, and he just enrolled it in the art exhibit under his own name. There’s also a possibility that that female friend was himself, since he later had a female pseudonym of Rrose Sélav.

This whole piece of art is a fractal troll, and it’s a beautiful one.

art is a creative statement.

sometimes that statement is ‘go fuck yourself’

Art has a message and sometimes that message is "die mad about it."