wotsukai-leftlmao
i work at an infant daycare and one of our babies right now is notorious for attacking the others. like she'll lock onto a target from the other side of the classroom and speed crawl over to them while breathing really heavily and then when she gets near them she'll either pull them over by their onesies, pull their hair, smack them, or hit them with toys. if you move her away from her victim she'll just chase them down again so we've started implementing "baby jail" where we stick her in a jumper whenever she attacks her classmates. we have a couple of babies now that will straight up start wailing if she gets near them because she's smacked them around so many times. also this isn't entirely relevant to the original post but we call her typhoid mary because her mom keeps bringing her in when she's sick, hence this message i sent to my coworkers a while back
Wild stuff happening with the reddit protest lately
What is happening
they said you want reddit? we'll show you reddit
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Thursday that he wants to bring an end to a user-led protest that has made large parts of the influential website inaccessible this week. Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”
Deep in the article, there’s this nugget:
“I would like subreddits to be able to be businesses if they choose,” he said, adding that’s “another conversation, but I think that’s the next frontier of Reddit.”
When people say “fuck u/spez,” this is Spez. I do not have the sort of imagination that can readily convert the way Reddit communities currently work to “businesses.”
This sounds like making Tumblr the new PDF
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i keep coming back to this r/tf2 comment it’s so good. just every detail.
PLEASE for the love of god read this
The first sentence was a left hook that I almost did not recover from.
The Dollskill brand copywriting bible… we found it…
this is like a clockwork orange but a girl
Have I ever told u about the people my sister ran into when she was working at Rocky Mountain National Park in college?
They thought the rangers put the animals in barns at night and let them out in the daytime.
My sister was like. No. The elk just...live there.
This broke their brains. They couldn't wrap their head around the concept of wild animals that just live in the wild without humans taking care of them.
So I like asking people who work in an educational capacity what the weirdest question they have ever gotten is (I take stupid too, but asking anything is better than making assumptions)
Ranger from Grand Teton had a woman ask her how they trained the bears to get into the boxes at night.
For those of you who have never been camping in Bear Country, every campsite and picnic table in Grand Teton and every other park in the mountain time zone is outfitted with a big metal box with a slightly complicated handle specifically for keeping bears OUT of human food, because otherwise the bears learn humans are VERY easy to bully lots of calories out of and that's how you get bear attacks.
In this woman's defense, they are called and labelled "Bear Boxes"
She apparently didn't hear the second part and said "OH. That makes sense. With all the high-fructose corny syrup they put in everything these days, human food would give them so many cavities and that'd be a lot of expensive dental work for you to give them!"
"...Yeah!" said the ranger, who had neither the time nor emotional fortitude to disabuse this woman of the idea that she lives in a magical world where the park service is well-funded enough to know about and treat the dental issues of wild bears.
Didn't notice the GLARINGLY OBVIOUS change, and was instead desperately looking for the "had to do it to em" guy
"bears repeating" and "time flies" are two kinds of creatures that fill similar ecological niches
This is still one of the greatest things ever made.
happy pride month
I think the long-running fandom argument over whether The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is "grimdark" or not – e.g., yes it is, because it has tropes X, Y and Z, no it isn't, because what it does with those tropes is so deeply silly, etc. – is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what a genre of media is.
Like, yes, genres of media typically have checklists of tropes, but a checklist of tropes isn't what a genre is. A genre of media is a dialogue, consisting of creators borrowing from and responding to and criticising each other. Insofar as it's possible to draw lines between genres at all, those lines are drawn between works that are participating in the conversation and works that aren't.
In this sense, Twilight Princess is absolutely a work of early 2000s dark fantasy – even a conventional one, in some respects. It's participating in the conversation, it's got something to say about it, and it's engaging with the tropes of contemporary dark fantasy in very specific and intentional ways. Those ways happen to be goofy as fuck.
"But doesn't that make it a parody of dark fantasy" no, because it's not particularly making fun of its source material. It's 100% serious in its goofiness. It gives us a story whose central dynamic involves a mute werewolf in a platonic D/s relationship with a goblin catgirl and expects the player to experience genuine pathos for these people, and it frequently succeeds. That it's unhinged doesn't mean it's not sincere.
HAAAAANK! DON'T PREORDER STARFIELD! YOU KNOW IT'S GONNA BE FULL OF BUGS ON DAY ONE! HANK YOU KNOW THEY CAN'T FILL 1000 PLANETS WITH CONTENT IT'S ALL GONNA BE GENERIC MISSIONS! HAAAAAAANK!!!!!!
