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@meigsss

Meigs, they/them I really don’t know what I’m doing at this point

IM BACK BESTIES. AND BETTER THAN EVER

EVERY GAME SHOULD DO THIS OH MY GOD

I’ve seen what the spiders look like when this is turned on, it’s two spheres with some eyes, barely looks like a spider at all

Oh, wow, it’s not even a binary on/off thing, it has five levels decreasing the level of spider detail.

That’s incredible!

I’m laughing at this because the Level 5 not-spider looks like a couple of uncooked biscuits with some red hots for eyes but man, what an awesome tweak. Spiders are swell video game villains, but a lot of people are really scared of them, and they pop up in SO many games…

[ID: A screenshot from the game Grounded. Headline: “Arachnophobia” The textbox says “This game contains spiders that are often much larger than the player. If you are super not okay with that, you can enable Arachnophobia Safe Mode in the Accessibility options. This is a visual-only setting that does not affect gameplay or difficulty.”

Last picture is the screen showing the simplified spider, two orbs for the front and back and two red orbs for eyes. No legs or mouth. /End]

Level 5 spider look like a half-finished squidward portrait

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candidlyautistic

The developers call them Danger Dumplings

Not to sound like an old fart here but my philosophy about video games is like. A kid living out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no internet access for miles should be able to purchase a game from walmart, take that game home, put it in their console, and play the whole game with all of its features and the only thing lack of internet affects is the inability to play online with others. Nothing else. They shouldn't be missing entire chunks of the game becuase they can't download a patch. The game shouldn't be borderline empty or unplayable without a patch.

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trashclown420

Reblog if one of your favorite characters has ever died.

Rest in peace, Mongo from Shrek 2. Your life was fleeting but you will never be forgotten.

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la-laborista-republiko

A lot of people in the replies to this seemingly have no idea what “class” is.

It’s not a set of values or something you automatically earn after college or like some mysterious inherent quality your parents pass down to you. 

(Like, maybe your parents have enough money/assets where they can sustain you through economic insecurity, but let’s be honest…that’s not most people’s situation.)

If you are struggling with bills, if you don’t have savings, if you constantly question even small purchases, if spending a few thousand dollars on a vacation seems like a distant dream…you are not middle class.

And most importantly, saying you are not middle class is not an attack on your character. 

Instead it’s a reminder to fight for your own economic interests, and not to let companies, your boss, or politicians trick you into working against yourself by believing you’re part of the “mythical middle.”

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king-emare

Damn

What’s more, if your first response to “you’re not middle class!” is to treat it like an attack on your character? Then you really need to stop and examine what you think about lower-class people.

Americans like to quote Kurt Vonnegut, that ‘socialism never took root in America because Americans see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.’

What that politely obscures is why Americans see themselves as future rich people: they despise the poor, even if they themselves are poor, and so would rather see themselves as “middle class” rather than ever see themselves as “poor.”

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working-class-worm

I would also like to add on this that if you are paying a mortgage on a home, but it’s a 30 year mortgage…you’re NOT middle class. Sorry!

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twryst

“But by these definitions, almost NOBODY I know in the USA qualifies as middle class?!?!” Yep. Correct. Turns out the result of several decades of a “disappearing middle class” is almost everybody is poor.

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oceans-deep-ice

Oh that is adorable

Bird, delicately approaching the concrete, and then-

the truth is even funnier: that’s a predatory ground bird called a sariema, which are known to prey on other bird’s eggs!

so what’s actually happening here is that this guy thought he’d found an unattended egg smorgasbord, only to get a nasty shock when he tried to actually bust them open…..

so uh yeah we’re basically just watching a bird go “fuck!! FUCK!!!” repeatedly and it’s pretty great. you’re welcome