@daiichinobakuda@iiiiwanttolive It's a more general version of the "nice guy" that everyone hates on - the dude who expects women to sleep with him because he's nice. There's this tacit social contract that only one side agreed to. I think both are out of poor social skills out and not malice/entitlement.
@iiiiwanttolive I realized this recently in trying to break out my people-pleasing habits. Ironically, advocating for yourself is LESS selfish than people-pleasing. You're not forcing others into a tacit social contract they're not even aware of.
I don't care what he thinks about video games, Roger Ebert had the ultimate redpill on nerd culture as a whole.
This basically describes every fandom on earth, and once you see it, you can never un-see it.
Lotta Butlerian Jihad/Orange Catholic Bible jokes about the new encyclical, which made me realize that Pope Leo is a 70 year old math major from Chicago, so it feels virtually guaranteed he has in fact read Dune, and probably up through God Emperor of Dune.
One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.
Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.
@bappytweets@rosebudlight She's an actress (she was in Anora) who is definitely some degree of mentally ill and keeps starting weird slapfights with people on Twitter.
@yookaydandy@chaery_fox@ericitaIiano Yeah at the time it felt like Disney was announcing projects for every random Glup Shitto.
"Wait, the deuteragonist of the spin-off movie who died in his only appearance?!"
rewatching Andor and it remains a small miracle that dog-brained Lucasfilm gave Tony Gilroy $600M to make a show about institutional rot, the glacial pace of resistance, and the crushing human toll of a revolution that virtually all of its soldiers will never see the fruits of