Our words imply we're dangling by our fingertips on the brink of apocalypse, but our actions say we're INCREDIBLY bored, consuming vast quantities of media while scrolling and scrolling endlessly for another uninformed opinion from a random nobody we can all argue or joke about.
I'll say that every company knows they're lowballing us.
Sometimes they'll tell you upfront.
Sometimes they'll hope you won't notice or care.
But I've NEVER heard of something this weird and petty.
I wrote a little program to composite map images from scrolling game footage. There were some tiny speckles at edges that I thought were due to me running off my buffer, but it looks like the original master system Sonic had an off-by-one error with very fast movement.
You could make zombie movies so, so much scarier just by accurately portraying how hard it is to shoot a moving target in the head with a pistol.
There is only a handful of people on earth who can do what you routinely see in zombie movies/shows.
There's no joke here, just something most people forget. ALSO: If you're dealing with an elderly person, there's something like a 1 in 3 chance they're in constant pain, just all the time. Maybe cut them some slack, I don't know
The internet is almost magical in its ability to quickly neutralize any useful term through overuse. Like "gaslighting" used to refer to an extremely specific form of psychological abuse, but social media and bloggers used it to just mean "lying" and now it's useless as a word.
"No, see, it's okay that I destroyed the life of this clearly mentally ill woman by recording her psychological breakdown and uploading it for her worldwide humiliation, because she's a KAREN!"
-an absolute piece of shit who deserves an incredible amount of suffering.
I approached Peter Mayhew to prep him for an on camera interview when I was just starting out and my phone wasn’t on silent when someone I was dating sent me ten texts in a row.
My text alert noise was the Chewbacca sound...
An open letter to J2, Ziff Davis, and IGN concerning the unilateral take down of a post with charitable resources for Palestinian civilians:
https://t.co/E9uSJjdjSL
Never been more proud of the tireless team that's been helping me through life with dick jokes and telling me which Resident Evil games are worth playing since I was wee.
No sarcasm or irony in that statement: I'm smiling so wide I could almost cry. https://t.co/OCbU8i9so0
me, crying, pleading: pls. pLEASE. let me give the government money so they don't send me 2 jail
hrblock: teeheehee!! but first u must answer these riddles three!