The Mercator Chadjection and the Virgin Conformal
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The Mercator Chadjection and the Virgin Conformal
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
Rudy Giuliani furiously mashing "9-11" on a keypad? How is that different from any other day
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
This is nice. This made me feel a lil something.
"Classic Sonic vs Classic Shadow." Disney, Walt. Pen and ink, 1935.
Brent Spiner: "please just let me do an occasional role that isn't the emotionless robot man" TNG writers: "okay but each time we're gonna put you in just the weirdest fuckin shirts"
It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead
the celebrity wedding announcements just keep coming
look, this hasn't aged gracefully and it's not exactly criterion cinema, but this grainy VHS moment was permanently burned into my childhood brain
come on everybody if we keep refreshing we can make it happen
drop some MARITAL ART
I cannot stress enough that these are not conspiracy theories, suspicions, or assumptions. It's been thoroughly proven that the feds and Chicago PD used a paid informant to plan out the raid in order to execute him because his coalition uniting minorities scared the motherfuckers.
"I had never seen anyone virtue-signal so gracefully." In the newest satirical video from Zeteo's Frank Cappello, Cory Booker’s fake political consultant explains how the high-profile Democrat's "performances" are actually his entire strategy. Subscribe at zeteo.com to support our work.
holy shit are we experiencing the trappings of a developed nation with actual urban planning for a moment here
every fucking day its a new headline about China being an actual modern country with a future, buried among 20 stories about Americans being afraid to ride a train and debating which childhood diseases are the most patriotic to die from
I'll never understand the alchemical wizardy that transformed this man from unheard-of bland chief nobody to forgettable bland chief today "I'll keep being white and reading the prompter, and history will remember the name Speaker Mike Jones" he says to himself in the mirror
"all these people have been offered homes and said no so actually it's a kindness to send armed enforcers to throw away their few possessions" bro save your bandwidth and our screens and just say "homelessness is a choice" like the rest of your kind always has
that is every white Jesus I've ever seen
I don’t know what you’re talking about my Raiden shirt looks great
Me?? I have to do it? Ok then…
I mean we did it to that guy who fumbled the blockade of naboo but that was a while ago
oh god just give me a matching winamp skin, an animated mouse cursor, and some custom AOL login wav files
the fact that they're sending cops with trash bags instead of social workers with packing boxes tells us everything we need to know
If those people are transitioned and housed, why would these encampments exist to be bulldozed? If they were transitioned and housed, these would be abandoned. If they were transitioned and housed, this initiative wouldn't even need to happen. But it is, and you are supporting it.
i'm now a KWCIMBY (kowloon walled city in my back yard)
"pragmata cannot be a mega man game because Capcom is actually making it"
I never knew what "hype man Palpatine in your corner" sounded like until today
"four and a half vulcans" really deserved to be the worst episode of the season for how disjointedly awful it was, yet "what is starfleet" robbed that crown and wasn't even a fun kind of bad like, I want my historically bad episodes to be MST3K fodder, not morally repugnant
like it's almost transparently placed here on the fulcrum of either the Worst Good Film or the Best Bad Film and I need answers
VI is true big-brain S-tier and I support its top position, certainly but explain the brutal snub of TMP please???
IS THIS WHY I HAVEN'T SEEN STARDUST MEMORY ANYWHERE IN A DECADE
earlier marvel movies were much more realistic, like how the original Iron Man (2008) features a scene of Jim Cramer giving people investment advice that proves disastrously wrong
don't need to, RFKs voice alone is making my body want to burst into flames and collapse
parasite eve reboot ARG going too far
hits the nail on the head. just a bad episode that is actually rotting before our eyes, getting worse with every retrospect. it's a childish story about handing criticism, except the criticism is cartoonishly dumb and nonsensical, because the showrunners can't even grasp what's bring criticized.
The whole episode was like a lazy reaffirmation of the laziest neoliberalism; "The systems of authority are just fine, stop asking questions you silly little kids"
the amazing, meaningful message of Star Trek Strange New Worlds is, increasingly, "look how amazing and meaningful our message is"
Y’ALL
I like that they spell out the couples pricing for people who can't calculate what two of something is
why are you even posting here man, you aren't even achieving the statistically inevitable one or two sycophantic QRTs anymore it's just coming across as a public humiliation kink at this point
adjusted for inflation
as a kid I thought Donald Trump was a fictional character because of berke breathed
I don't know if you can describe a VHS tape as "dog-eared" but the one we taped off TV at first airing was pretty haggard by the time I was in my 20s and found a DVD. What a magnificent oddity.
a....camera?
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
YOUR ADVOCACY SHOULDN'T BE AN EASTER EGG
is there an established word for the point in an actors popularity where yes, we still like her, and yes, she's really really great, but it's starting to get tiring seeing her in everything? unrelated but apparently the blade runner sequel with Michelle Yeoh is still happening
if every vote you don't like is a "protest" and every abstention is holding out for a "dream candidate" then boy, its an airtight system of excuses for Dems being forever entitled to votes for nothing.
another false equivalency using flowery, inventive phrases. how many people hold out for a "dream candidate?" if they did, would they actually be "protest voting" for third party candidates that you despise? these voters were transparent about their priorities and picked candidates that fit.
It'll never be the fault of the Dem party that flushes every campaign on the assumption that we simply have no choice. It's always the fault of the voters who didn't do the mandatory thing of mentally tuning out for 3.99 years at a time between showing up to punch a card and go home.
by your logic a vote for any other candidate is a "protest" and not a vote, and we really are just an enforced two-party sham. you're just surrounded by fascists and silly protestors, and you're the only sane citizen in the room by writ of pushing the one and only button placed in front of you?
"protest vote" is such a fascinating concept. so we do not have a choice? we are obligated to vote for democrats that don't want our support? are we voting constituents? or are we just livestock staging a hunger strike because we don't like the slop in our trough, as you're saying?
This all feels like somebody took a literal toy Magic 8 Ball and said "this is our bible. this is our future. we are going to pivot the entire economy towards this no matter what" instead of a cool language tool, this is a fucking existential nightmare. awesome.
Nobody called it "hallucinations" back then because the thought *never fucking occurred to us* that people were going to aggressively use it for real life answers! It was a fucking predictive chatbot! It suggested bonkers story twists for a deliberately psychedelic serial!
GPT was a deliberate gimmick, but it was used for bouncing ideas for a serialized suspense story and its wild, weird prior was great for "what could happen next" inspiration. It was heavily re-rolled, curated, and direct text was rarely used. The weirdness was the point, and it was great for that.
a really frustrating thing about AI mania and my own contempt for it is the fact that I was using ChatGPT YEARS ago... and I really liked it. Before they hit the mainstream, I was involved in a writing project that used GPT2 and early GPT3 as a supplementary tool, and I stand by its use. 🧵
man it's really easy to remember a glowing, revisionist history of these events when you didn't actively keep up while they were happening for the record, that "two state solution" comment was early in her campaign and EXTREMELY motivating for people until she backtracked all the way to "no change"
I would never subsidize nauseating fetishes such as these
For the right type of obsessive compulsive person, this entire thread is the best and worst parts of being seen, understood, and ruthlessly tormented
Hey are you Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli? because you just painted a comprehensive picture of hell
a quesadilla is six fucking dollars and you're still rolling the dice on them remembering all the ingredients and cutting it into plausible slices
My kids asked for Taco Bell, and I was like, it’s cheaper to get the ingredients and make it at home. About Taco Bell. Feels bad, man.
I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*
S-VIDEO GANG S-VIDEO GANG
CEO on LinkedIn: "I don't screen for credentials, I screen for passion. I don't look at degrees, I look at dedication. I don't see prior experience, I see positive potential." Candidate: "Amazing! And what does your outsourced HR software filter for?" CEO: "Oh credentials, degrees and experience."
is there anything culturally endemic to being a white person in America besides your relationship with brands? "my family has a wealth of maritime traditions and recipes due to our seafaring history" "neat. I'm really into Harry Potter and Oreos"
really fingering on the pulse or however they say it
is it weird that I really LIKE this cluttered hud though- like it's so much display info that it's no longer cinematic design, it's approaching immersive sim territory. as in, the hud is actually dieegetic to the player character. the soft equivalent to operating the steel battalion controller.
We need to return to fandoms basically being worshippers of Crom — knowing their religion comes with no benefits and their requests will not be answered.
the Houston PD just officially provided this handy reference to when it's okay to use deadly force when protecting yourself or others from police impersonators
I’m sorry or you’re welcome
It was a time of incredible upheaval for classical Sega kids but also it was a magazine cover of Sonic doing a fit check in high heels
I've been bitching about the junk lighting and color in MGS Delta all year and smoothbrains just kept saying "lol this boomer wants his piss filter back" oh yeah, this looks just great. why even hire artists and cinematographers anymore? just eat the slop in your trough, consumers
as a generic whitebread guy I'm in no place to guess at his motives, so somebody help me understand why anybody non-white signs up for the warrantless brown-skinned-person-hunting gestapo? does this man do this every day and just think "obviously they'll never do this to ME" somehow?
I think that these details in TNG and DS9 kind of laid a groundwork for potential criticism that the UFP was (or had become) a peace-at-any-cost utopian state that would passively sacrifice fringe citizens rather than rock the boat. Disputes over the romulan treaty kind of raise similar questions.
the shows do suggest that they were victims of a (disavowed) state-funded and armed campaign by cardassians even before the federation ceded the territory, so it would be fair to assume they see the federation as refusing to support them and then eventually telling them to abandon their homes.
I was bewildered by those graphic adjectives for a moment before I remembered that you guys had big weird Dreamcast boxes
This is the adventure where Kira and Dax would have fallen in love except Kira is already married to her one true love, committing violence against totalitarians
Why even for an instant did you entertain the idea of getting rid of the CD towers That's where the Dreamcast games go
Yeah, it brought up the word in a totally logical context and then... just moved on? Fucking baffling.
team cherry is like "there wasn't any development hell. we just took seven years. you can wait." incredible. unparalleled. more of this.
When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.
the screenwriter saw the word "colonizer" for the first time last year ran with it
this is the positivity I need to see in the news
DEMS: democracy is in jeopardy! you have to vote and we have to protect the will of the voters! ALSO DEMS: no not like that you fucking morons, here let me fix this for you
"I didn't have media literacy as a child and therefore nobody did"
When even a Supreme Court justice is using the term “Calvinball” it feels like we can drop the pretense that laws are real
Instructions unclear, bought $3000 in bulk wholesale shampoo products
The Democratic party is once again content to scam and disenfranchise its constituents. Whether it's the smug abuse of its own primaries, The tacit collaboration with the right wing interests, or the entire false campaigns of conmen like Fetterman and Sinema. Dem establishment hates its voters.
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
my wife has taken to calling this "good vibes liberalism". the people who are happy to agree that all the bad things are bad, but gosh, they'd really rather you just talk about something more pleasant instead of being so darn negative! these people go to marches but not protests, if you get me
I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.
James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...
