Bro what the fuck is that thing and why’s it doing a jig
A lenticular cloud is a cloud that moves up a mountain and gets caught in an air current called mountain waves that exist only going up a mountain which causes it to have an unusual shape, they are the cause of most UFO sightings :D
We often talk about “ludonarrative dissonance” in terms of morality and situations like “the story says violence is bad, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to kill things” but my actual fave version of it is “the story says you have a very serious plot-relevant time-sensitive thing to do, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to buzz off into the world and search for collectibles for five weeks”
i find post appocalypse as escapist fantasy to be fascinating. like most people logically know a zombie outbreak would not, in fact, be a good thing for humanity at large. however sometimes u can tell the people writing it find the idea of total societal collapse to be kinda appealing? no rent or deadlines. you loot soup cans from the grocery store and your biggest issue is something you can shoot in the face with a gun. and you pretend you’re a badass who totally knows how to grow food from scratch and wouldn’t die of preventable diseases 2 months in. i get it man. i understand.
I’ve been chewing on this too lately and I think it’s like…
A lot of us have a wide variety of fantasies that we know, in reality, wouldn’t be fun. Would in fact suck extremely badly. From ‘dating a hot mobster’ to ‘dying for glory on the battlefield’, that’s why they’re fantasies.
unfortunately the ‘zombie apocalypse’ fantasy is one a certain small segment takes way too seriously as both a Possible and Desired outcome and i fear this is actively motivating their voting choices
can we please appreciate their t-shirt though holy
[ID: A photo of Mayor Owen Hurcum, a person with bright green hair. They are smiling and holding up a white mug with a rainbow symbol on it. They are in a black t-shirt that reads, in white letters, THEY/THEM/THE MAYOR]
While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.
It’s never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.
One of which being they take screenshots from what you’re watching and send them to third parties to identify it.
Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn’t a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??
Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?
To some people acceptance of queer people is contingent on the idea that we were born this way. That our existence must be tolerated because we didn’t choose to be this way.
Others on the other hand can’t accept us for who we are and think that we must have chosen to be this way, and because no one should ever choose to live as queer we must be by definition bad people.
But both of those points of view presuppose the idea that if someone were to choose to live queer it would be bad. Which is something I wholeheartedly reject.
I don’t know if I was always a trans woman. I don’t know if I actually became a trans woman as a sum of all of my lived experiences. It doesn’t matter. Being a trans woman is good. My being a trans woman should not be contingent on me being a victim of circumstance. Being a trans woman is cool as hell.
