So glad I'm out of that Gathering, it's bonkers over there

Screenshot of a chrome browser with a pop-up suggesting the user download Chrome. Perfectly engineered, just as all the gods intended

Well done Chrome, you've suggested I download you while using you. No notes.

I'm not autistic, but I do have a favourite seat on the tram

Preach 💜

Wild that someone who is supposed to love their child unconditionally can't do the bare fucking minimum :(

I'm really sorry they're unable to accept the real you. That's their loss for sure 💜

Ergghh :(

I'm so over trying to read subtext, of craving a healthy parental relationship

And you're spot on - if they did give a single shit about anything other than themselves, they'd have been building bridges, rather than this watery half-hearted symptom of whatever is their current fuck-up

Why do parents with whom you've expressly gone non-contact insist on trying the weasel their way back into your life??

Seems they'll take anything but a hint

By the time we die, how many fucking days will we have spent waiting for Cloudflare to accept our humanity???

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good tacos near me

"1 2 3, yo knock on some wood, for
good luck, I like my rhymes atrocious
Supercalafragilisticexpialidocious"

I loved lockdown 😞

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Just finished the fourth Paladin book by @tkingfisher.com - def a convert to the genre, via the Can't Spell Treason without Tea series, (another literal banger) by Rebecca Thorn - am up for recommendations if anyone has?

I used to be in the Magic: the Gathering community - we used to joke that "if WotC put 100$ bills in packs, players would complain about how they were folded"

Literally no pleasing some people 😒

Thank you for sery_bot and for all the work you put in - it's a marvellous, game-changing product 💜

My daughter was born with club feet (bilateral talipes)

During the pregnancy, we also had to do a psych assessment for Reasons, and during the chat we were asked if we had ideas for names. I straight-faced said "Talipes sounds lovely"

That got a few notes made on the clipboard 😂

(to the tune of 'Detachable Penis')

🎵 Unskippable Cutsceen 🎶

Thank you 💜

Dear Clever People, please never stop finding new quirks on Sisyphus, I adore them all 💜

My hiding spot for chocolate eggs still has the packets from last year 😂 maybe by next year I'll have cleared the out, they're starting to pile up

What's it called when you don't finish a game or a book or whatever, 'cause you really enjoyed it and don't want it to be over??

I tried to boot up Long Dark and just ... couldn't?

Stupid brain

Desperate to find a third place 😭 I'm going to have a crack at VRChat - hopefully it goes better than my first BBS login

A screenshot from the video game Slay The Spire 2, focussed on the character of The Ironborn, a grey-green skinned warrior in bronze armour. The characters buffs are overflowing with goodness and they have a shield of 154

Bit sad there was no fanfare for beating A10 in SlayTheSpire2, but that was vastly offset by how good if felt to finally get the Barricade deck ticking over

Strolled past The Queen, and knocked the Doorkeeper over in short strides too. Good times

Snow Game!!!

So pumped

A snip from the game Slay The Spire 2, showing one option from a random encounter, where the "bad" choice is to remove a useless, blank card from your deck. Rejoice!!

🎶there is a god, they love me very much 🎶

Have already had our higher-ups dig their heels in, saying they will not be relaxing our WFH requirements. Pretty tone deaf, imho

I think part of my disfunction is that I assume everything is a test of some sort - deeply flawed, over-thinking :(

I need to learn that I can simply be, I don't need to 'measure up' to some fanciful ideal

Watching PorcelainMaid and Miss Lala today was inspiring, almost got me to boot up my model again. I cleaned the kids bedroom instead, and am counting it as a win 🏆

And a win is also the opposite of my efforts in Slay The Spire today 😭 I did not slay 😞