Matt Damon explains why they don't make movies like they used to. Pls watch.

This is actually a really good perspective and explains why the MCU is the way it is. It is essentially one-off entertainment without the backup of DVD sales (of course Disney being Disney it is still backed up by massive merchandise and spin off sales). The movie is designed to be “disposable”. The rewatch value is low because it’s not intended to be sold on DVD for people to treasure and rewatch every year at Christmas (or whenever) with family. The idea is to generate hype, through manufacturing controversy or teases or gossip. Keeping spoilers under wrap is integral because the rewatch value is negligible. It hinges on surprise or shock (or wtf value) to entice audiences to give up their money to see it in theatres. It is about spectacle, about being loud and colourful and busy, so that for the first 30 minutes after you walk out your senses are still buzzing and you feel like that was worth your $30 or however much. It takes a while for your brain to come back online after the sensory overload to then try to pick apart the plot, and by that stage it doesn’t matter, you’ve already hyped it up to your friends.

And the story or characterisation doesn’t matter because no one is watching that again to care.

It also explains why streaming services are treating their hosted content and creators as equally disposable, despite that in turn hurting their earnings even more due to backlash...which any VIEWER could have told you, but an in-industry exec or producer in the current environment wouldn’t have considered a factor. Interesting.

Otome game! Tag someone whose tier list you want to see!

This is the most complete one I've found. They included 8 Cybird games: Destined to Love, Midnight Cinderella, Ikemen Sengoku (missing Keiji and Kanetsugu), Ikemen Live, Ikemen Revolution, Ikemen Genjiden, Ikemen Vampire, and Ikemen Prince. I think it's missing only the 3 new princes, Kanetsugu, and Keiji.

Here is mine, as of January 2023 -

:readmore:

💚 So far no one has been able to unthrone Sasuke. Everything about him is perfect for me. His supportive nature, humor, genius intellect, kindness, scientific bent, curiosity, bravery, sweetness, reliability, open-mindedness, understanding nature, resourcefulness, resiliency, loyalty, glasses, and .... he looks equally hot in his lab coat as in his ninja garb.

🩵 If Tears of Themis was included in this tiermaker, Artem Wing would firmly be in "Top Love Interests". WHERE he would fall in the ranking order is less certain, though. This entire section is in constant rotation of who is where, based on my mood swings or hormone horniness at any given moment.

💙 Again, if ToT was included, Vyn Richter would fit here. If I could have added Kanetsugu, he'd be here for certain (I'll wait for his route before I decide to bump him up to the turquoise tier).

💜 I hold strong feelings and connections to these guys, but I simply can't see them as potential lovers. I adore them, I would donate an organ for them, I would spend hours/days/years with them.

🩷 Oof, this category HAD to be made specifically for Mitsuhide. And then I ended up adding a few more curiosities to the collection. These are the mad lads whose stories I NEED to read because I'm so very very intrigued by them and I love how they are written. But there isn't a shred of sexual or physical attraction existing for me (okay...maybe a shred for Seth. And maybe maybe for Mitsuhide). If I could have added Keiji and the new characters from Ikemen Prince, Keith and Gilbert, this would be the best category for them.

❤ This category...? Um, I needed a place to put the dudes who are HAWT🔥 but I think are toxic or crass or just not my cup of tea. If other otome games were included in this list, I would definitely put Soichiro from "7 Hotties All My Husbands" and Rei Shindo from "Several Shades of Sadism". Takasugi would scratch a very particular itch I have if only he wasn't such an uncommunicative jerk! Faust with his glasses, stern expression, scientific curiosity, and high standards is SO MY TYPE, but the game developers decided to have him pretend to be a priest (masquerading as clergy or religious vocation is a squick for me). Those are just a few examples of men who are in that category of "you're so yummy, but you'll give me an upset stomach, so I have to control myself."

💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥

Make your own tiers!

Use the hash tag

#ikemen tiermaker

so we can all see who your husbandos are! 😘

Tagging @ashavazesa @bestbryn @briars7 @dear-mrs-otome @kissmetwicekissmedeadly @lyds323 @mikablazen @otome-obsessed @rosyangel95 @scummy-writes Feel free to play along, but no pressure! 😊

The only sensible way to rank these pretty boys 🤣

Thank you @katriniac for the tag ♥️

(Cis/trans)women aren’t the only ones that can get breast cancer, either.

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omg so we have 1 seeing dog and 1 blind dog and whenever there's a toy they both want, the seeing dog takes it and just...stands very still. immobile. she KNOWS he will try to wrestle it from her but she has figured out that if she does not squeak it, then he will not find it. leading to this.

"god....grant me the strength to not squeak the squeaky toy"

@disasterhimbo

Oh, in many ways iguanas are worse than a jaguar- you can't impulse buy a jaguar at a petco for $40, and if you release it, it doesn't become invasive in Florida.

Ok, so when people think green iguanas, they think of the cute little babies at the pet store being sold for irresponsibly low prices and with bad care guides.

However, they do not stay this way.

An adult Green Iguana is going to end up being 6 feet long. They weigh 20 pounds. They are ARBOREAL and require basking spot at 105F, with UVB. You're looking, minimum, of an 8ft x 12ft enclosure - that's a room in your house, or a custom built outdoor enclosure if you live in an climate where that's even possible, because ideally they shouldn't ever get below 75F. (The electricity alone to maintain an indoor enclosure is... substantial.) Oh, and they do best in 80% humidity. Perfectly fine inside a glass snake tank- a bit of a trick if you're modifying the spare bedroom.

Oh, and feeding them? You better go in on special calcium supplements, or else you're looking at some very bad medical issues.

So, imagine a 20 pound dog, that needs extreme heat, a climbing area, only eats fresh vegetables, and needs routine vitamin supplements and UVB lighting or its bones WILL literally turn to mush.

But are they at least easy to socialize? NO.

These fucking dinosaurs hit lizard puberty and become *very* territorial, especially the males. Oh, but whats the worse they can do? Look at the tail. THE TAIL. The tail that can, and will, whip the shit out of you with if you're in their space and you JUST want to clean their enclosure, because they can't be litterbox trained.

Oh, I mentioned they are ARBOREAL, right? So. Claws. Look at the claws. Not every Iguana becomes a furious 6 foot tree climbing raptor with a knife whip attached to its ass with extremely specific care needs- some of them just become... mostly chill 6 foot tree climbing raptors with a knife tail attached to their ass with extremely specific care needs.

And they are highly invasive. Just. Just wildly invasive.

Are they cool as shit? Absolutely.

Are their care requirements extreme enough that large number of them are very neglected by well meaning owners who impulse bought one because they are irresponsibly cheap, and they overrun reptile rescues (much like Sulcata tortoises. Ugh) and become invasive if they escape or are abandoned? Also yes.

There are much much better lizards out there. (Argentine Tegus! Ackie Monitors! Leachie Geckos!) They are more expensive to buy, but their care tends to be much more manageable and they are less likely to cause an extinction event of local fauna if they escape. If nothing else, the higher price tag and lowered availability means that potential owners are more likely to do their research and not toss one in an old fish tank with some sticks from the back yard until they became a nuisance.

To the people in the notes shocked at how cheap they are- yes, really.

I've been to reptile expos where people are selling them for $20. And sulcata tortoises for like $20. Which is absolutely insane. (Sulcatas may be even worse pets, just for being the third largest tortoise on Earth, the ability to burrow through dry wall, and the fact that they live FOREVER.)

Possums

DELETE CHROME

Update in my ongoing “you need to protect yourself” research:

In June 2020, Google was hit with a $5 billion class action lawsuit (source: Rueters June 2020) accusing them of “illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode.”  That number isn’t arbitrary, either, it’s calculated by charging $5,000 of “damages per user for violations of federal wiretapping and California privacy laws.” Google just settled the case in October 2020. Sort of. (source: Business Insider Oct 2020).

Here is a list of how to find and delete all the data (source: CNET, June 2020) that Chrome grabs from you. Important note: Google owns that data, and yes, they absolutely do attach it to a name and an address, as of 2016 when they quietly slipped that change in. (source: Propublica, Oct 2016). Oh, and in 2019 Chrome made some changes to its permission system (source: the literal Chrome coding team’s blog, Feb 2019), which remove the brower’s ability to block a request before it’s loaded. “For end users, this effectively cripples all non-compliant ad-blocker extensions on Chrome.” (source: Lifehacker, March 2020).

Once you’ve deleted your harvested personal data from everywhere that you can, I personally recommend you then delete Chrome, and any chrome-coded browser such as Vivaldi, Brave, or Microsoft Edge (list of chromium-based browsers, source: ZDNet, Jan 2019).

Yes, yes, there’s a whole argument that just because a browser is chromium-based doesn’t mean it reports directly to Google, but look, Google has made it a high priority to wipe out every non-chromium-based browser coding on the internet (source: Wall Street Journal, 2019) while never making a single peep about all these supposed ‘rivals’ that are just Chrome at the core. Draw your own conclusions.

Further useful links:

Easy way to compare browsers (such as Chromium v TOR) Allows you to pick 2 browsers and see their base code, their owners, some features, settings, etc. Source: Slant.com

How to move from Chrome to another browser. Source: The Verge, Jun 2019.

Here is a truly horrifying list of apps that make it incredibly easy to look up your name, phone number, address, work place, and so on, just by typing in your name. Fortunately, it also tells you how to “opt out” of these “helpful” apps. Did you know the white pages were still around, but in searchable digital form available to anyone with an internet connection? Source: Poynter (website for journalists), Oct 2020

You think this doesn’t matter? This doesn’t apply to you, a nice quiet citizen of whatever country who always obeys the law? May I ask: have you ever searched, read, liked, reblogged, commented on, or otherwise interacted with a post/article/tweet critiquing a current government? Google knows. They know, they have attached that information to your profile, and they can sell it to…well, you don’t know.

Remember:

OMG 🤣🤣🤣

Comte: you seem familiar, have I brought you to 19th century Paris before?

Napoleon: You seem familiar, have I given you a wake-up-kiss before?

Hideyoshi: You seem familiar, have I caught you running in the halls before?

@katriniac @rosyangel95 @lyds323 @briars7 @jaydetorgey

Mitsuhide: You seem familiar, have I teased you mercilessly before?

@mikablazen

Licht: you seem familiar, have I told you 'I hate you' before?

I feel like, we as a society, don't talk enough about people messing up needle felting.

Baby spoonbill doing the i’m hungry dance

Birds building nests in unconventional locations, unknowingly generating breathtaking symbolism and visual art > literally anything hollywood can hope to achieve

walking through the house at 3am with a blanket wrapped around me and immediately forgetting what the fuck i came down to the kitchen for

Concept: A witch cat that’s too fat to fly

Deep Water Prompt #2628

We find her hiding in the junkyard, a child monstrosity, hardly any feathers at all poking through the skin of her strange, round face.

Far Side, Gary Larsen

Mushroom Smaugust 2020 by Xavier Collette

Awww.... 💙💙💙 Now I have warm fuzzies and want to send them on!

Love you all ❤🌷❤!

@lorei-writes (yes, you!), @katriniac, @briars7, @rosyangel95, @lyds323, @jaydetorgey, @injuries-in-dust, @drinkyourjuiceshelby, @delicateikemenmemes, @acrispyapple, @f-dee, @weird-konpeito, @akitsuneswife

Da warm fuzzies!! There is no escape!!! Ahhhhhh!!!!! 🤣💖😈 Now I shall send the fuzzy horde to all of you! *fwomps all the happy feelings, feel free to share or start your own hoard* 😏😉 To those unfortunately tagged, you’re being thought of fondly!! Resistance is futile! 😂💞

@mikablazen @whumpymirages @dangodaifuku @maracujatangerine @eidolan @marinejelly

@briars7 @zai-chan @hideoutpastel 😘♥️

TW/CW: Animal death I read some really sad articles a while ago, a lot of animals are having a really hard time because of this. What do you think?

Webtoon - instagram

I’m

They weren’t here when the deep magic was written

Post is only a year old, these kids gonna learn this year.

I’m laughing at the Indomie reply 

I actually have no idea what that means either, had to search for the answer in replies.