I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.
Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,
to be perfectly honest. i don’t care if it is cheesy or cliched or idealistic. i like stories where the core of it is about kindness, the warmth we can offer others and the gentleness we receive in return. maybe the moral of the story IS love triumphs. it better fucking be
web 2.0 companies that try to frame people using adblockers as greedy freedloaders always conveniently turn their heads when those same “greedy freeloaders” tell them that advertisers are paying to put malicious and predatory ads on their playforms and adblock users are, by in large, using adblockers to protect themselves
the first time i ever saw an adblocker recommended was for people with photosensitive epilepsy getting barraged with “congrats! you won!” style popups nonstop
the first time i ever personally used an adblocker was when deviantart’s excessive ad placement slowed down my household’s shared computer to the point it was unusable and my mom told me to stop using deviantart. so instead i installed an adblocker
and nowadays on Youtube and Facebook you get ads for casinos and alcohol targeted toward addicts and people with bipolar disorder, quack medicine targeted to people with chronic medical conditions, hate speech targeted toward the victims of said hate speech, and horror movie ads with flashing lights targeted toward…everyone.
and of course Google, who serves a majority of these ads, doesn’t actually care to remove any of the dangerous bullshit it shoves in your eyes but will expect you to pay them for it. sorry, i’d just rather not use youtube at that point. you had your chance.
Do not ever listen to a word of shame from a corporation. Their goal is only and always to extract maximum value from consumers.
Piracy, adblocking, data encryption, third-party repair, literally all of these things are, bottom-line, only bad for the corporations’ record-breaking profit line. They are inherently good for the working person.
me wearily opening twitter: please show me just one nice thing for once
twitter: baldur’s gate 3 lets you fuck a bear
me: you know what? good enough
you know for context initially you weren’t able to fuck the bear but people were so horny over the druid npc (who for context in his normal form is an unreasonably jacked and friendly elf) that the studio threw up its hands and said “fuck it you all are calling him a bear let’s make it legit” and then they showed the vampire twink character getting fucked by the bear on stream and got banned. there’s also a toe sucking scene in the game that they used for promotional material. it’s also got some of the best character writing and encounter design in any RPG I’ve ever played.
Sorry I’m late, I got added to the Wild Hunt last night and ran and reveled with them for what felt like 100 years plus a day until I landed the killing blow on a stag with bronze antlers then suddenly woke in my bed, willow leaves in my hair, a nameless song echoing in my ears, and my hands still bloody, so yeah, totally missed my alarm and stuff.
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