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4 days agoI’ve unironically started using “soz” after seeing it used for gyaru-go in manga all the time
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4·6 days agoHell yes to pop music! For me, it was more thinking metal was “real” music, though. And don’t get me wrong–I authentically enjoyed metal as a teen, and I will still listen to it on occasion now. It’s hard to beat metal if you’re feeling aggressive, and metal can be rhythmically complex and compelling in a way that pop music rarely is. But the things I love most about music are melody, harmony, and danceability as well as general good vibes, and most of those are in short supply in metal, especially the thrash/death metal I was most into. Discovering K-Pop is what brought me back into the fold, and I’m not into any cool niche indie artists or anything (the most indie thing I listen to is Kero Kero Bonito lol), but I enjoy listening to good pop music, appreciating the craftsmanship behind it, and just jamming out.
longstanding department policy
A policy that originated with the Nixon DOJ during Watergate lmao
Damn, beat me to it
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4·8 days agoIdk, I looked at it a little while ago and I think it’s genuinely just a heavy brow + thick eyelashes
Grab a bucket and a mop for this wet ass POTUS
Holy crap it’s real, how have I never heard of this
Is it just me or is Julia Roberts an odd choice for a voiceover-only ad? She’s got an iconic smile, of course, but her voice isn’t particularly recognizable–if you hadn’t told me it was her, I wouldn’t have even realized it was a celebrity. Danny DeVito, she is not.
In India they have poll workers trekking into the mountains so that people can vote but apparently some US states can’t even manage postage, world’s greatest democracy folks
WTF, your mail-in ballot doesn’t have prepaid postage? Does that not constitute a poll tax?
I didn’t watch Dungeon Meshi as it aired–only caught the first few episodes and while it seemed good, it didn’t quite grab me. I was busy marveling at Frieren, but I did continue to download Dungeon Meshi episodes since everyone was singing its praises, even saying it was better than Frieren. I was skeptical, since I absolutely adored Frieren and Dungeon Meshi seemed prosaic by comparison, but…now that I’m about halfway through, I completely get it. Even though both stories are about parties of adventurers in a magical land, they’re pretty different tonally but more importantly in how their stories unfold. I think Dungeon Meshi’s strength that may ultimately give it the edge over Frieren for me is how tightly focused it is on the main story, with no timeskips or anything else to distract from it—each episode picks up right where the last one left off. Now, part of the point of Frieren is how different the titular character experiences time compared to her shorter-lived compatriot, but even so there are things like the testing arc which did feel sort of disjointed from the overall plot and vibe.
Idk, I’m not really good at articulating why I like things, but all that I know is that I am absolutely loving Dungeon Meshi and it’s taking all of my willpower to savor an episode or two per day instead of just bingeing it all. Watching it has made me realize that I’ve gotten too comfortable with watching seasonal slop just out of reflex…there are so many great shows out there that there’s no reason to shovel down garbage just because it’s new garbage.
Oh, and one aspect where it is objectively superior to Frieren is
Spoilers for both Dungeon Meshi and Frieren--I think within the first 1/2 of the first seasons of both?
how it doesn’t take a hard right turn into weird fashy vibes when it comes to an “evil” race. That mini-arc where Frieren talks about how demons (or whatever they’re called), a sapient race, are all biologically predestined to be pure evil and must be eradicated (and is shown to be completely right after receiving pushback from the bleeding-hearts) was jarring as hell. Thankfully it’s only a small part of the show, so it didn’t totally put me off it, but I was pleasantly surprised when the orcs in Dungeon Meshi were shown to be worthy of empathy and have their own motivations beyond blind bloodthirst. Sure, the part where an elf and an orc make peace was a little afterschool-special, but I’ll take that over regurgitating justifications for genocide any day of the week.
Enough gushing about Dungeon Meshi, though! The only two seasonal shows I’m watching are Dandadan and Ao no Hako. The former is incredibly stylish and high octane. Definitely some problematic aspects, especially that first episode (seriously, WTF was the director thinking…), but after the first episode it hasn’t been anything that’s majorly impacted my enjoyment. Ao no Hako is a fairly conventional romance show, I suppose, but it’s executed well and so far has avoided a lot of the things that tend to annoy me (unlikeable/incel MC, creepy fanservice, agonizing misunderstandings). It’s my weekly dose of fluff.
She’s not enough of a
to post here
8·11 days agoI refuse to actually watch the video, but I scrubbed through with it paused, saw “Kamala forever,” and tapped out
Full quote:
She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, “Oh gee, we’ll—let’s send, uh, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
When he’s right, he’s right…but let’s not give him too much credit. Right after the “if it were up to her we’d be in 50 different countries” quote, he says,
You know, it used to be you go to war, “to the victor belong the spoils,” right? In other words if you beat a country you own that country, you take the oil, you… We go to war, we bomb the crap out of it, then we leave. You know, it’s almost like, what are we doing? What, what’s going on we, we bombed the whole Middle East and then we left. What did we get? We got nothing.
More importantly, though, in the midst of his 15 minute rambling answer to Tucker’s question (which was simply “Is it weird for you to see Liz Cheney […] running against you with Kamala Harris?” lmao) we’ve got the obligatory Trump talking about big strong guys (starts at 2:14:26)
I had two people, Secret Service guys, both extremely rough…guys… One was like a karate champion, one was a weightlifter. […talks about how someone accused him of putting them in a chokehold…] to think that I would be taking on two nice young guys, simultaneously!
Dude love his big tough guys, I can’t fault him for that
edit: here’s a transcript if anyone wants to peruse it (much easier to read than the YouTube auto captions that don’t have capitalization or punctuation)
Thanks for all the recs! I knew a few of these, but most of them are new to me. Especially excited to check out that Hobbit one–those one-off videos can be some of the best, since there’s no element of trying to play the algorithm or get something out the door to pay the bills or whatever, just a pure desire to share something cool with the world.
Only other recs I’d toss in are Lowest Percent (haven’t posted in a while, but it’s all high quality stuff) and bad_boot’s one-off commentated video on Enter the Secret Aquarium in 0x A Presses. Oh, and perhaps it’s as obvious as SummoningSalt, but I’d be remiss not to mention Pannenkoek as well.
Oh yeah, gotta plug MartSnack. They’ve only put out two videos in two years and they’re both masterpieces (not exactly speedrunning, but if you’re the kind of nerd who likes speedrunning you’ll probably like their videos).
He’s got some longer videos on his YouTube channel, so maybe those?
Never thought about it until now, but maybe he’s just super photosensitive…this is how I look in any photo taken outside while the sun is out
Transcripts of the images:
Marla Rose’s comment on her post:
Transcript of her post
Okay, so what would you do if a neo-Naz*, white supremacist who called on a holy war against J*ws and is a loud, proud misogynist lives in your town, you are a Jewish feminist and you know his address?
Further, what would you do if friend after friend messaged you with his address and told you that you should pop over since you live in the same town and report what it looks like from outside his home at 1826 S. Home, Berwyn, IL 60402?
Are there boxes potentially possessing dog poo? Are there boxes potentially possessing used menstrual products?
What would you do if it’s a Sunday and you’ve done your work for the day? Pop over there, you would. You’re a good friend, you’re curious as well.
So that is what I did.
I shot a short video, less than two minutes, from the public property of the sidewalk outside this address, noting that there were no boxes. As I did, a woman pulled up in her car, rolled down her window and was like, “Is this where the douchebag lives?” (Paraphrasing.) And I was like, “l think so!” and we laughed about his incel ass for a minute. Then she was like, “You should ring his doorbell and see what he has to say for himself.” (Again, paraphrasing.) And I have one serious weakness. It’s chocolate. Okay, I have two, one more relevant for this situation. I cannot back down from anything that even smacks of a dare. So I figured ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. There were no “no solicitors” signs up and, believe it or not, I would have respected that.
So I rang the doorbell, he immediately swung the door open like he was at damn Waco, sprayed me with a burning liquid (Pepper spray? Mace?) and pushed me down the stairs onto his sidewalk. I rolled into a protective position because I was anticipating kicks or stomps, he grabbed my phone, ran back inside, bolted the door and shut the blinds. Friends, it is dark in there, like a bunker.
I have video. I am holding onto that for evidence.
The woman in the car, probably feeling shitty for encouraging me to do it, called the cops and made a report. She begged me to get in the car with her because she was scared for my safety but I wasn’t going anywhere. Thanks, mysterious friend, for calling the cops because I obviously did not have a phone. We should get tea and talk about old times! You are also my main witness.
Anyway, I gave my full statement to the cop (Fuentes gave one separately and gave “no comment” as his statement) and the cop called an ambulance to check my eyes after being sprayed. (The cop gave me my phone back, which may be damaged after the incel stomped it like Rumpelstiltskin, which is why the pictures are pictures my husband took from my phone, as it’s no longer operational.) The nice EMTs took my vitals in the ambulance, too. I am a little sore on my right side, where I fell, but I’m fine.
Nicky, your little spray is as weak as you are. I hate to tell you to invest in a new brand but I didn’t even need eye wash.
Anyway, the cop, the EMTs and my husband* all asked, “Why did you ring the doorbell?!” kind of incredulously. I don’t know, why not? Again, no “no soliciting” sign and I was showing off for my new friend. Also, I think threatening women and girls everywhere deserves some kind of an explanation.
I want to make it very dear that I am not whining about being pushed down the steps and pepper sprayed by a 26-year-old who then took possession of and possibly broke my phone. I’m 57- years-old and 5’1" so it’s kind of funny that he’s have this melodramatic reaction to me but here we are. I guess thems are the breaks when you’re despised by about half the country and millions overseas as well. lid be touchy as well but, then again, I’m not making r*pe jokes or demeaning bodily autonomy.
I don’t know if he’s done this to others or I was the tipping point, but Fuentes is a little on edge.
So if you wanted to send Nicky a care package but were concerned you might not have the correct address, this is all to say, it is confirmed: 1826 S. Home, Berwyn, IL is the correct address. 💩🩸
* I have forgiven my husband. He made me a nice vegan hot chocolate with mini-marshmallows.
PS - Fuentes is a VEWY fwightened widdew man. Don’t ring the doorbell. He’s a little on edge. Go figure!
PPS - Should I file a police report? Yes, I rang his doorbell (did not hop a fence or anything) but I does that merit assault and property damage?
PPPS - Yes, I know the pictures are blurry. Believe me or don’t believe me. They are pictures my husband took with his phone camera off my phone because there was no way of sending them otherwise.
PPPPS - Please stop telling me to stop by Nick Fuentes’ home at 1826 S. Home, Berwyn. It makes him feel unsafe when people pop over. Imagine being a proud internet troll and being this scared.
Yep. They’re all like that.