Today round ass puppy revealed to me, exhausted, at the end of my rope, that her training wasn't working not because she didn't understand, she did, she did, but instead because treats, chicken, turkey and pork apparently weren't enough motivation. She began obeying every word with startling accuracy as soon as she was offered something else. Doing backflips and stunts with pyrotechnics as prompted for the promise of a pea. A pea. She's a dog. A pea. A pea. A pea. I have to carry peas around now. On my person. Personal peas. 🫛 peas

the semantic drift of the term "liminal" genuinely pisses me off and i know its petty. LIMINAL IS A TRANSITIONAL STAGE BETWEEN TWO STATES- OR. IF WE WANT TO WIDEN THE BOUNDARY HERE. IT COULD BE ON THE VERY EDGE OF BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE. just because something is abandoned doesn't mean its liminal. in fact, that shopping mall was MORE liminal when it was dying off and shutting down outlets every month than it is 5 years later when the space is fully abandoned.

People act like I'm just being an asshole but man the whole reason I'm so anal about hating gambling mechanics is because I've been down that road and lost a ton of money on games I just stopped playing eventually anyway and it SUCKS and the more you learn about dark pattern design the more you realize that this entire corner of the game industry is just fully focused on screwing vulnerable people out of their money and it's just evil, plain and simple. What do you want from me?? To promote this shit like every other streamer after knowing all that??? I will NOT be complicit in this shit. I'm gonna talk about how bad it is!!! You think that makes me an asshole?????

one of my friends is a mobile game designer who's worked for big companies before.

One of the things she's told me she's proud of before, was a time when one of the (older) users of the game she was designing discussed her strategy of drinking extra water to wake up early enough to claim her dailies, and how proud she was that she made a game people liked that much.

Even looking her in the eye and asking "getting 60 year olds to disrupt their sleep schedule by pissing themselves makes you proud?" did not get her to hear herself talk.

I think a lot of people don't comprehend the evil of dark patterns. They handwave it all away by "it's personal decisions people make", even while they see the patterns of behaviour they create on the populace. They read falling into those patterns as focus and grindset, if anything. And for a good number of people, pay-to-win is a *positive* thing.

I think if I were tasked with coming up with a way to make a populace depressed, unhealthy, and insomniac, even without getting them to pay me, I'd be heading towards video games stuffed with dark patterns. And such a video game would also produce profit for me, as it happens.

I studied game design and nothing disillusioned me like this one time I did an internship at a mobile game company because it was so obvious that the team only cared about how to screw as many people out of their money as possible. The only feedback I ever got for my system designs was "okay but how can we make it more addictive?" or "how can we get them to spend?" and shit like that. Nobody there cared about the game being fun. In their minds, a "good" game was a profitable and addictive one. I haven't been able to see these games the same way ever since. It was one of the big reasons I quit being a game designer. Dark pattern design doesn't happen by accident. They know what they're doing. They want to fuck you over.

Do gringos know we're getting US homeland security ads on our local television warning us not to immigrate to the united states illegally and putting the fear of god onto us?? anyways I didn't wanna go to your bitch ass country anyways but the ad makes me so uncomfortable.

Like it's so disturbing and dystopian to have an ad tell you Don't go to our country OR ELSE. if you know someone who has entered our country ask them to turn themselves in to the ICE and leave voluntarily OR ELSE. And it's all just formatted with this creepy off-putting vibe. Honestly if I was a kid that ad would probably leave me traumatized. But sure Canadians and Europeans not wanting to visit the US is the main concern 👍 definitely a prominent target white people 👍

I know in Mexico they've had many of these spots running for a while but this is the one I've been seeing in Argentina

And my rough translation of what it says:

Top reasons for there to be a kneeling knight emoji

- Defending women online

- Offering women support when they are in distress

- Commenting on a woman's selfie

- Offering to kill people bothering your online friend

- Sexual reasons

bigger version if anyone wanted to zoom :]

don’t drink that coffee! there was a labubu in the percolator

pjackk last sighted on pandora attempting to install grindr on a tree

Anyone else think this one feels kinda sexual?

glad this got a sequel

Everyone knows the classic sight of a leek sticking out of the grocery bag. But what if I told you this gentle aromatic was good for more than just her pleasing silhouette?

made this post before 12 pm which means it was basically written by a different person. reading this with fresh eyes what gets me is the unintentional undercurrent of very specifically dated rocks-glass-clinking male chauvinism. It reads like im condescending to Katharine Hepburn

Structurally, Heathcliff in its present form is just shitty referential meme humour where 90% of the time the punchline is "laugh because you recognise this reference", except the memes it's referencing exist only in the author's head, which explains basically everything about why Tumblr is into it.

#I’m sure heathcliff is exceptionally funny to the guy writing heathcliff (via @brawnie)

If you read Heathcliff long enough you start to think you understand the joke because you recognize the self referential stuff. But the stuff it refers to isn't a joke either. So you have to decipher what the joke probably is and then you can try to figure out why the joke is. But there is never any context it's just a fish saying bro. You trace back the bro fish and it starts with a strip that is captioned "he's friends with the dude fish" or some such thing and that's it! The joke refers to a joke that refers to nothing! It's maddening! Heathcliff feels algorithmically generated but every strip is deliberately made by human hands. It forces me to mentally reboot whenever my brain has to start processing it cause I have to go into Heathcliff mode. It's a bad comic. I really like it.

this post is like being handed demonic visions of what hyper latex porn looks like in the cars universe

Another comic based on a favorite post of mine, because what can I say? I love posts

Original post by @cryptotheism

His wrath….disgusts me

BUT HIS DETERMINATION AND SPIRIT BLESSES ME