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I mean, he’s right. We just let them do it. If he’d like us to take matters into our own hands I’m sure we can oblige.

I love that I put on a white noise video to help me sleep and now my feed is 80% white noise videos

I got to do this once. I look like the type a prosecutor would probably want on a jury and I wasn’t individually asked any questions before being chosen. The case was a non-violent drug offense and it was a wild experience for reasons I won’t get into. Once we got in the jury room it pretty much went like:

“Not guilty.”

“Why not guilty? It’s a pretty clear cut case.”

“I don’t believe the cops.”

“Why don’t you believe the cops?”

“I didn’t find their testimony credible. It didn’t convince me beyond a reasonable doubt.”

“What about the body cam footage? Do you believe that?”

“I didn’t find it convincing.”

“The whole thing is on camera, do you think they faked it all?”

“I suppose that’s a possibility. I just haven’t seen enough evidence to convict.”

“What more evidence could you need?”

“More than this. I’m not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt.”

And around and around we went like that. I was the lone holdout. I have to say, the other jurors were pretty cool about it. Eventually we had to tell the judge we couldn’t reach a verdict on any of the charges and it was declared a mistrial. Totally worth it.

I want to work at the government Office of Whaddya-Need? where people come because they need help training their dog, or they need help moving across the country, or they need a leaking roof patched up, or they need someone to pick their kid up from soccer practice on Friday evenings, or they want to become a librarian and need career guidance, or they have limited mobility and just want someone to take them over to the lake and sit and chat. I want to be the person who helps to figure out how to get them the thing they need. For free of course, because it’s a communist utopia.

As someone who has never cared about Batman or any other superhero but enjoyed all the Arkham games, I think it’s worth it for the Gotham-at-Christmas atmosphere. I often replay it around Christmastime

People should write their info on paper more often. Meet someone on the train, have nice conversation, “this is my stop, here’s my number/insta/tiktok/whateverthekidsusethesedays, hmu if you’d like to continue this over drinks” and leave it at that. It’ll be clear you’ve asked them out, but they don’t have to decide in the moment, they don’t have to reject you to your face, and they don’t have to give you any personal info. You leave them in a position where they only need to take action if they’re interested in talking to you again, and they don’t have to expend any additional energy on you if they’re not interested.

never thought there would be video of this omg thank you so much

Make other characters look straight to the camera and say “wow Witt is so witty, and smart and cunning”

barely related, but my favorite moment from Wonder Woman 1984 is when Diana Wonder Woman and Kristen Wiig Cat Lady go out for drinks and get to know each other. The scene begins with Diana Wonder Woman laughing at something we the audience didn’t get to hear, says to Cat Lady, “you’re so funny 😂,” and the scene moves on. Like, you’ve got talented comedienne Kristen Wiig in your movie and you’re establishing her character, and the writer (writers? I’m not looking it up) couldn’t come up with a single funny thing for her to say? The entire movie is inept on every possible level but for some reason, that moment of ineptitude is the one that lodged itself in my brain.

If someone asks for help and you’re in a position to help, you help them.

It’s especially weird that companies are still like this after seeing the success of a game like Baldurs Gate 3. The runaway hit of the year, and biggest earner on Steam, doesn’t even implement the basic Steam DRM. I tried it. The game launches and runs just fine when Steam isn’t running at all. It’s so messed up how capitalism leads to that (providing good products at fair prices and respecting your audience) being seen as an “unsustainable business model.”

Cole Escola was also in Search Party. He was The Twink who kidnaps Dory in whichever season it was where she got kidnapped. Who wants to talk about what an extremely fun and deeply flawed show Search Party is?

Half-Life: Alyx is the game that shows us just how incredible vr can be. And it’s the game that ruins you for all other vr games because nothing else is anywhere near as good.

Since you mentioned Myst, Cyan published a vr game called The Last Clockwinder. It’s a cozy little game where you solve puzzles using automatons that repeat your own recorded actions. So for example, you record yourself picking up an object and dropping it in a bucket, and then a robot repeats the same actions over and over. Before long you’re creating assembly lines of robots that are all interacting with each other, and are all recordings of you. It’s easier to understand from watching a trailer. Anyway, it has a cute solarpunk(?) aesthetic, some nice casual queerness, and the kind of corny, earnest performances I remember from the Myst games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1755100/The_Last_Clockwinder/

Beat Saber is an obvious good option, but before you spend any money on song packs, check out a site like BEATSAVER. Beat Saber can be modded and there are custom song managers you can use, but you don’t have to bother with all that if you really don’t want to. Downloading the zip file from beatsaver and dropping it into beat saber directory is enough (assuming the custom song didn’t require any mods, some of them do). There are so many good songs on there that rival anything officially released.

Also Blade and Sorcery. It’s rough around the edges, but the implementation of magic is pretty great. Hurling fireballs, using telekinesis to pick up and throw weapons, objects, and enemies, holding a ball of electricity in one hand and using it to imbue the sword you’re holding in your other hand, it’s all very fun. Even if it does make me more motion-sick than just about anything I’ve played in vr.

Fully expecting this to be yet another Rockstar Special, i.e. a technical marvel rendering a painstakingly crafted world, full of boring gameplay, underdeveloped systems, and dull, unlikable characters.

someone already said to my boss “oh they’re getting us all in a room so we’re fish in a barrel?”

I’m having fun with friends online, jeez

this is my favorite suggestion so far

I like the grapefruit seltzer and hate actual grapefruit

I said something about this the other day, and pretty much everything I’m about to say is off the top of my head and not well thought out, but the fact is there are a million places on the internet to be horny. If I want to go put my filthy mind on display, and ogle the delightfully filthy minds of others, it’s a click away. But a place like this, one that’s extremely left-wing and aggressively protective of trans/queer members (at least that’s what it looks like to me from my years of casual browsing) is not as easy to come by. I admit, I find myself wishing this place were a little bit hornier too sometimes. But then I think about how many people have very good reasons to be uncomfortable with that (not that anyone needs whatever I deem a “good” reason), and I think about how easy it can be for my perceived charming, flirty comments to be someone else’s perceived triggering aggression, and I just think… why fuck up a good thing? Especially when, as someone else pointed out, people can and do talk about sex here. From what I’ve seen, there seem to be a few unwritten, unofficial ground-rules that most people are following:

• Minimal or no discussion of the “types” of people we’re horny for.

• Minimal or no directing of horniness towards other users of the site.

• Keeping discussion of sex focused more on oneself. What I like, what I do, not getting into other people’s business.

• Not getting too graphic or explicit with the sex talk, avoiding gory details.

Again, that’s just the way I’ve experienced the site as a casual user, I’m sure other people would have different opinions. It’s hard enough to keep a place like this running smoothly without introducing overt horniness into the mix, and I’m glad that people here manage to keep things mostly respectful without the need for a blanket ban on sexual stuff.