Mostly reblogs yo. I don't play World of Tanks as much as I used to, although if I know you and you'd like to platoon I'm down. I also enjoy miscellaneous other games such as X-Com (and its derivatives) and TF2.
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
i’m sorry you guys, but if a certain ship becoming endgame in a cartoon meant for children is enough to make your entire mental state deteriorate – if it flings you into depression, if it makes you want to call in from work/school, if it makes you have panic/anxiety attacks, if it prevents you from being able to function – you seriously need to take a step back and either see a therapist or stop watching the show.
content creators aren’t responsible for your mental health issues just because they made a decision in regards to their content that you happened not to like.
i feel like counter-trolling is an essential skill that kids online aren’t learning and it’s kinda worrying
like back in my day, the day of online forums, learning how to trick someone in to getting themselves banned was an essential skill. if you could tell someone was a chud, you would ask them short, leading questions and watch them get frustrated and post longer and longer rants until they said something that would catch a mod’s attention and get them banned and/or at least publicly humiliated.
and guess what? that’s the exact same tactics the alt-right use now. these people are exclusively acting in bad faith. every interaction these people post online is done with the intention of getting someone to respond to them so they can screenshot the massive paragraphs of text and laugh
so, what’s the solution?
dare ‘em to post dick pics.
don’t acknowledge the content of the stuff they post. if you see someone trying to engage you in bad faith just dare them to post pictures of their penis until they either get frustrated and leave or get frustrated and do it. either way they lose.
this is the tactic used by the fans of a podcast (that i haven’t listened to) called the Chapo Trap House, and 4chan’s /pol/ users fucking HATE them. they hate Chapo Trap House and think they’re crazy because Chapo Trap House fans refuse to engage in meaningful debate and repeatedly demand dick pics. they get frustrated and leave. it works.
all the alexa/google home shit feels like a dystopian nightmare and everytime someone mentions having one in their home i have a sudden urge to break into thier house and destroy it
Armageddon is one of the few DVDs I didn’t sell because Ben Affleck on the commentary track is relentless. Below is the clip of the commentary from where this tidbit of trivia came from. Please take a moment to witness the magic.
I hate this idea people have that if a parent walks in and turns off the tv while their kids are watching or playing something it’s evidence of some unhealthy attachment or addiction to technology if they get pissed off. If you walk up and slap a book out of my hand while I’m reading I’m going to have the same reaction, fuck off you’re not making some great social commentary you’re just being an ass hole.
If you slap a sandwich out of my hands and I get pissed it doesn’t mean I’m addicted to eating it just means I was enjoying something and then you had to be an asshole lmao
So yes, Zuko’s character development was amazing but we CANNOT ignore the fact that Sokka went from a sexist dudebro to someone who liVEs on respect women juice
suki whipped that man into shape and it was so fun to watch
Sokka is so fucking important and his character development is super underrated. It is shown several times that Sokka is a sexist Dudebro because the patriarchy that exists in the Southern, and even bigger extent, the Northern Water Tribes, doesn’t value woman as equal to men (sound familiar?).
Women are expected to stay home and take care of the house work and do ‘women’s’ jobs like sewing and cooking and healing. That’s what Sokka grows up learning and observing - of course he absorbs and internalized that. Like the rest of the main characters of Atla, he is a child when the series starts, so he’s mimicking what he’s seen and learned. Just like younger teenage boys in the real world.
And then? Then he gets to travel, he learns about other cultures, he sees the woman he’s with and the women in these other places thriving. They aren’t staying home. His sister becomes a water-bending master, Toph is a wrestling champ and no one better tell her what to do, and yes, Suki and her team can kick his ass six ways from Sunday.
And Sokka grows. His thinking changes and evolves with all this new information. He realizes he was wrong, he apologizes, he changes his attitude and his behavior. And this was and is so fucking important - Sokka’s storyline was aimed at boys who were coming into their own and atla decided to show them how heroes treat women. They said look, this is how the good guys behave. Sokka was wrong, the society that raised him was wrong, and you have the power to learn and overcome and be better.
Sokka is so fucking important and I will die on this hill.
shockingly, it’s possible to create clothing for female characters that looks clearly feminine but not overly sexy or revealing. it’s even possible to make it efficient clothing that she could fight in. i know, take your time.
