we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.

im literally always thinking about this funny little bart animation

remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word "females" so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em 'smilies' not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:

because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women

Often it feels like US art and entertainment is obsessed with tokenizing Chinese experiences because what’s promoted is always one of the following narratives:

- ‘I hate my parents because they are strict and want me to get all As (so original) wow I’m so jealous of enlightened western culture where they don’t make you do that’

- ‘celebrating Lunar New Year. We’re all going to wear budget red qipao with a dragon on it and lion dance or eat mooncakes or some shit’

- ‘I feel insecure about my eyes :(((‘

But of course, if you step outside of this and reference our rich 4000 years of history, particularly the violent, religious or sensitive parts, they suddenly don’t know anything about it and don’t consider it marketable. Or maybe they’ll be upset that they need to learn about alien things that don’t take place in the US and call it communist, who knows

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this gag from tails gets trolled occupies permanent real estate in my brain because it has no right being this good

NICOS!

CRT-TV Drums. The sound is produced by catching static electricity from a CRT with the hands and sending electrical signals through the body to a guitar amplifier📺

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ブラウン管ドラム。ブラウン管テレビの静電気を手でキャッチして身体を通して電気信号をギターアンプに送ることで音を鳴らす📺

Played by Ei Wada

Created by Ei Wada x Rinichi Washimi x Nicos Orchest-Lab

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Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace

Yes it’s called the mammalian diving response and it’s also why doing face masks and taking a shower is soothing. Our amphibian ancestors used this mechanism to slow down the heartbeat and lower body temperature so as not to waste calories while swimming (which is very calorie intensive). It makes you feel safe because predators are less likely to get you in water than on land. The fish brain is alive and well in all of us.

It’s literally activated by putting water on the face.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768097/

My amphibian ancestors gave me the instinct to dissociate in the shower for hours on end

This is really funny timing for me, waiting for a lab to start where we will be testing this exact thing.

Update: one of my friends immediately near flat lined on the heart monitor so… Might be a whale of some kind?

Christ.

the student said, "i'm reading a zen buddhist cookbook. with no recipes." and the teacher replied, "ah, dogen's instructions for the cook, written in 1237?" "yeah," said the student, "it's saying not to let rats fall into the rice pot"

letting rats fall into the rice pot violates the buddhist concept of nonviolence, ahimsa. and this is one of the more dauntingly advanced cookbooks i've ever seen

ingredients: 1 grain of dust.

step 1 turn the Wheel of Reality within the grain of dust

lame ass gadgetjob

I had a friend over once who had a panic attack bc my living room at the time had these mirror artworks my mom used to be obsessed with making where she’d buy hundreds of tiny palm sized mirrors and cover the walls with them and the girl I was hanging out with was fidgeting and overheating and started crying bc my house had “too many portals” so the energy in here was powerfully charged by what she called “a highway of souls from other realms” so she ran out and collapsed on the lawn exasperated and had to be driven home

it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby

I’ve been listening to the people in the apartment below me have arguments for two years now and I still can’t figure out what language they’re speaking. The best I can narrow it down is like if Portuguese and Hebrew had a baby. Is that a common pidgin combination

I just listened to a clip of this and jesus christ you fucking got it. there are like 3500 people in the whole united states who speak this and two of them are in a very fraught marriage four feet below me

All this excitement aside, I'm frankly just happy that Silksong is real and still being worked on so I really don't care when it comes out

Also my stance is still that Team Cherry should shadowdrop it on launch day, turn off their phones and immediately go on vacation

Op I hope you don’t mind this addition but. In regards to my previous tags , I made a meme

CORRECT

#Team cherry isn't valve you can't leave your fanbase in the dark for years on end regarding a game that you announced so early.#If you're gonna delay it announce that. Tell people what the hell is happening

#true#but also their marketing has been absolutely terrible#the wait was never the issue#but the way their marketing team has handled this was poor and unfortunate and slightly unprofessional

I'm gonna blow your mind with this, folks in the tags, but I think people have been super brainrotted by big studios having hype trains for their releases. I don't think a dev's job is to do marketing. A dev's job is to fucking develop.

You know what I think is good practice? Not putting a release date until you're absolutely and totally sure you can meet it instead of putting a release date and having to crunch to meet it OR move it repeatedly, which will disappoint people anyway. The time to do marketing campaigns, ideally, is AFTER the game is done and you're trying to convince people to buy and play it.

tl;dr I don't fucking care about the marketing who gives a shit about marketing

All this excitement aside, I'm frankly just happy that Silksong is real and still being worked on so I really don't care when it comes out

Also my stance is still that Team Cherry should shadowdrop it on launch day, turn off their phones and immediately go on vacation

Op I hope you don’t mind this addition but. In regards to my previous tags , I made a meme

CORRECT

#Team cherry isn't valve you can't leave your fanbase in the dark for years on end regarding a game that you announced so early.#If you're gonna delay it announce that. Tell people what the hell is happening

#true#but also their marketing has been absolutely terrible#the wait was never the issue#but the way their marketing team has handled this was poor and unfortunate and slightly unprofessional

I'm gonna blow your mind with this, folks in the tags, but I think people have been super brainrotted by big studios having hype trains for their releases. I don't think a dev's job is to do marketing. A dev's job is to fucking develop.

You know what I think is good practice? Not putting a release date until you're absolutely and totally sure you can meet it instead of putting a release date and having to crunch to meet it OR move it repeatedly, which will disappoint people anyway. The time to do marketing campaigns, ideally, is AFTER the game is done and you're trying to convince people to buy and play it.

tl;dr I don't fucking care about the marketing who gives a shit about marketing