the tension between the genuine cleverness of the joke and the incompetence implied by putting it on two-sentence horror is what makes this for me
i wish i could see this picture for the first time again
Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).
That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.
So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.
You can’t just breeze over something like “the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha” without at least linking a 20 minute video breakdown of this man’s descent into madness.
Oh is Ogtha not common knowledge? Eight years ago this was posted on reddit:
Two years ago, we got this update on the life of this roachfucker:
TLDR it's a guy who became obsessed with human-sized roaches with human intelligence after reading Kafka in high school, an obsession which eventually came to monopolize his romantic interests (and has sporadically had catastrophic impacts on his life ever since).
what the fuck happened to my post
adorno came for you fandom brained bitches years ago
I'm so sorry... I think you might be lost
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brb going outside to wistfully observe the reflections of the shop lights in the wet streets
thats what im fucking talking about
good post, op
If you've ever wanted to feel like you belong to a secret society, with the conspiratorial plans and the covert meetings and the knowing glances at the other people who part of it and all, consider trying to unionize your workplace.
You'll see a flyer in the break room and go to a meeting at a union hall and you'll be like, hm, I didn't expect to see that person here, but there they are, and then you'll see them at work the next day, and you won't say anything, but you'll both know. You'll know.
And then comes the day when you throw off the veil of secrecy and wear the signs of your order openly! Let everyone heed the call! A new day is coming, and the old powers will be overthrown!
And then you win.
Thinking about how many musical tragedies feature the narrative almost as a character of its own. Like a force within the story, divided from the characters. Out of their control at times.
Orpheus had to turn around, that’s just how it goes. That’s the way the story is told.
Tony had to go and get himself killed. Of course he did. He’s Romeo. The story wills it so.
Jesus must die. No matter how much he wanted to live, no matter how much the people around him wanted him to live. It’s his role to die.
Alison can’t go back and change the events of that last car ride with her father. It’s set in stone, there in the past where it will always remain.
And then there are musicals like Once On This Island and Ride The Cyclone that embrace the role of inevitability in their stories and find joy anyway.
And then on the exact opposite side of the spectrum there’s the radical freedom from the narrative that’s seen in Into The Woods. The narrator is dead and now the story is no one’s but the characters. And there’s the lack of protection that comes with that, the chaos and confusion. But it’s theirs and it’s tragic but they make the best with it.
Those themes of Inevitability vs. Freedom and the meta understanding of story within a story. I can’t seem to get enough.
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got switched to dry food today. fuck my fucking life
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just got into bed. had a tough day napping. sooooo tired can't wait to sleep
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whgere my balls
Apparently neopets not only managed to ditch the NFT bros, but with the closure of the Jumpstart brand weeks ago, neopets is now completely independent for the first time since the early 2000′s, got millions in a new investment deal and are currently installing a flash simulator so that all their games and animations work again.
DASHBOARD UNFUCKER V1.0
as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter's. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site's actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.
HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.
here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:
and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn't received the update:
it's hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it's also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it's a good fix.
the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit "create new script", and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.
every time i see slur discourse i think about this post
A male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece. ✨
I present: Gay Crab
A small crab the size of a large crab
I'm back on antidepressants, could I ask you for the most round, the most perfect bear ears? Thanks
we applaud you for seeking help and hope the medication helps you feel better friend 💙
