David

He/Him - Moderator and occasional Twitch streamer - big ole nerd - "Dave-er" boy

[David @daverboy21]

2k19 is a mess and 2k20 is even worse, but without them I wouldn't have found the community that's been helping keep me sane during the current crisis. And still feeling super lucky that people like my dumb comic book wrestling OCs

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Kitten_Saint @Kitten_of_Artsy]

My Dress-up Dar- Wait, Uzu!
#UzuArts

[Amber Lee Connors @AmberLeeConnors]

Extremely upset @Twitch that my vtuber account that I spent YEARS prepping for got suspended without warning.

What gives??? @TwitchSupport I can’t even access the appeal portal??

[raven @ probably reading yuri manga 🏳️‍🌈 @BloodRaven55]

// maws spoilers

LMAO OF COURSE THEY HAD TO

[Aleks Le | MARK 🐝 in INVINCIBLE VS @AleksLeVO]

daredevil & cyclops’ voice actors learns to bounce on it at the perfect angle 🧐

new vid up now on my channel 👁️💥 #MarvelRivals

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Sandy Petersen, the designer of Doom, Quake, Call of Cthulhu, and Age of Empires, responding on social media to fans asking how to save Blizzard:

"We don't need to save Blizzard. We didn't need to save Microsoft or id Software or Ensemble Studios or Atari. We don't need to save ANY game company. If they die, they die. They will be replaced with new, likely superior game companies. Gaming continues."

The man who helped build the foundations of modern gaming says let the industry's legacy studios die. Is he right?

[David @daverboy21]

@ironmouse No idea if it's in your range, and it's way outside of your usual style, but Last Goodbye by Battle Beast makes me think of you. https://t.co/zIbtP5gOfg

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[WanderingEdgeVT 🗡️ @Wandering_Edge]

>Expedition 33 release
>people find Gen-AI images in it
>”oopsies, they were just placeholders!”

>Crimson Desert releases
>people find Gen-AI images in it
>”oopsies, they were just placeholders!”

>NTE releases
>people find Gen-AI images in it
>”oopsies, those were just placeholders!”

>1666 Amsterdam is announced
>people find Gen-AI images in it
>

[柚鳥ペケ❌/Yutori Peke @PekeIsPeak]

1年前にやったPowerWash Simulatorを起動する
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[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Uncle Iroh voice actor Greg Baldwin criticizes Paramount over the state of the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' franchise

“Paramount doesn’t care about ATLA ... The new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"

"I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted"

"Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely. They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"

"These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism"

"ATLA is a mystery to them."

"They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise."

"Who should lose their jobs to AI? Answer… Studio Executives. Ironically…those cockroaches will be the last to go"

"In conclusion… Fuck you, Paramount"

(via @GregBaldwinIroh)

[Alex Hirsch @_AlexHirsch]

@DiscussingFilm 👀 How much does Cartoon Network cost? What if we threw the BIGGEST bake sale…

[🇵🇸 | WillowTheBirdwatcher | Arcee’s #1 Fan @Dopamine_Fan]

this Datacenter is only 200 meters from the zoo. These things make constant noise & heat the surrounding areas by up to 16 degrees. The Nashville Zoo is home to over 350 species of Leopards, Tigers, Rhinos, Zebras, Giraffes, Alligators, Monkeys, & more. Please sign the petition

[j0nathan @xj0nathan]

Faut absolument que vous sachiez comment Ubisoft a traité cet homme (créateur de Assassin's Creed) comme une merde :

- en 2010 il commençait à dire qu'il voulait réduire la cadence avec les AC et que le fait d'annualiser la licence allait nuire à la qualité des jeux
- quelques mois après il est poussé vers la sortie et démissionne (sûrement harcelé par Ubisoft vous connaissez les méthodes 🥹)
- en 2011 il rejoint THQ qui fondent spécialement pour lui un sous studio et commence a bosser sur 1666 Amsterdam
- en 2013 Ubisoft rachète THQ et vire spécifiquement Patrice, et conservent par la même occasion tous les droits sur sa création 1666 Amsterdam
- en 2016, après 3 ans de bataille juridique acharnée, ils récupèrent les droits sur son jeu
- en 2026, 10 ans après, il nous présente enfin 1666 Amsterdam

[Virtual Signal 🩷💙💜💛 VTuber Girls Band @VIRTUALSIGNALvt]

VIRTUAL SIGNAL'S DEBUT SINGLE IS OUT NOW!!!

"Enough" is a somber yet upbeat rock song about reclaiming that which was taken away from you.

We hope that this song can inspire in you the strength to be who you were meant to be 🩷💙💜💛

Streaming links below ⤵️

[Rafa @Buffito_]

Nada en contra del viejo Kratos, pero creo que todos estamos de acuerdo que se vería mejor si fuera un poco más arreglado.

[Octo 🐙📼 @Octopimp]

On a more positive note, my model has sound effects now 🔊

[Drazker @thebasedknight]

I spent 2 years building a dark fantasy world inside VRChat. Sins of Evarda Season 1 begins tomorrow. This is just a taste. #vrchat