Ordinary World -> Call to adventure -> Refusal of the call -> Rejection of the mentor -> Stay put -> Watch other people do it -> Gratitude -> Have some dinner -> Good night's rest.
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Random pet peeve of mine: when people refer to bleaching your hair as dyeing it. Dyeing adds color, bleaching removes it.
in THIS country we STAND for the FLAG and we KNEEL for what I've been TOLD is actually called the CROSS
Cranky Kong is the original Donkey Kong and the current Donkey Kong is his son, the grown up Donkey Kong Jr. Diddy Kong is a MONKEY and is UNRELATED TO DONKEY KONG. I WILL NOT TOLERATE THE HERETICAL DOCTRINES NOW PREACHED BY NINTENDO.
RE: https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia/116993498393406009 I finished this show and I should probably write about it but I don't know if it's worth it to continue letting it waste my time.
I started watching Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring on the recommendation of Anime Feminist and I... I dunno man. I guess it's stupid for me to judge an anime for being melodramatic but this show makes Dragonball Z seem nuanced.
It's actually pretty easy to get people to say nice things about you when you die. Simply be someone worth mourning.
SO I LOOKED UP THIS MATT CONN GUY AND I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THE ONLY PICTURE ON HIS WIKIPEDIA PAGE.
weird story from me: MidBoss filed for bankruptcy in June, with over $800k in debt and only $2,560 in the bank. weirder still is that Matt Conn appears to have quietly taken charge again, having stepped down in 2018 after accusations of employee abuse.
Listening to a really good podcast done by a young millennial who clearly loves Harry Potter and has a specific method of calling out people who suck but doesn't seem to have ever said anything about Rowling
Okay but seriously how do I pay someone to arrange a specific piece of music for me
Is this poison hemlock? There's a ton where I'm at. (Hairless stem by the way if relevant).
In 1995, retro was 5 years ago. In 2005, retro was 10 years ago. In 2015, retro was 15 years ago. In 2025, retro was 20 years ago.
Kash Patel will never see your mockery but your friends that always look like they just found a time bomb inside their briefcase will. Please remember to be kind.
I feel unbearably called out by this post
Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?
Last year I commissioned an artist as a birthday present to myself. It was not done in time for that birthday and it is becoming increasingly clear that it won't be done for this birthday either.
the number of computer science professors on fedi doing mindless LLM boosterism is pretty fucking depressing
I still think about the post that was like, "I like your tiktok skit, but I noticed you play every role. So do you live during the pleistocene population minimum or...?"
I think if you run for office and then do a bad job we should be legally allowed to kill and eat you Dutch style.