To me the cover looks like it was designed to provoke and be “controversial” and I guess it’s working. She’s got an album to sell and people are talking about her, so put a point in her (and her corporate backers’) column.

This will not be the most helpful comment but hopefully it can calm the bad thoughts a little. My partner (amab, nb, femme) is experiencing something similar to what you describe and somehow the way their hair looks in photos is so much “worse” than how it actually looks irl. “Your hair only looks that thin in photos,” is not particularly comforting when they’re spiraling from seeing a picture of themself, but it’s still true. I can see why they spiral, I can see what they’re seeing in the photos, but it doesn’t match up to what I’m seeing on the person standing in front of me. I’m not lying to make them feel better.

So I’m sorry you’re dealing with this, I see how rough it has been on my partner and it’s just really shitty. Your post immediately made me think of them, so I’d advise not to trust the photos too much. Ten bucks says the photos aren’t showing you what the people around you are actually seeing. I hope you’re able to get this dealt with soon and without too much trouble.

ah, well that is good to know. i’ll take that into consideration when I encounter her takes in the future

So what’s the deal with this lady? Because I follow her, not that closely, and her stuff seems pretty fine and good. But also I rarely see anyone, even on the left, sharing her stuff. Makes me worry I missed a memo and she’s super transphobic or something.

I get why they didn’t want to repeat the slow burn of TMA but I still much preferred it to TMP’s “here’s ten characters and a framing device right from the jump”

You’re probably aware already but the sequel series to Magnus Archives is out. It’s alright. Not grabbing me the same way the original did but enjoyable enough when I’m out walking the dog.

The actions your character takes (picking up objects, looting bodies, crafting, etc.) are realistically slow for the most part. Embrace it. A lot of people hate it but for me I think it’s a game that was intentionally designed to be taken slowly and is better for it.

Don’t try to experiment or find novel solutions during missions, just do exactly what the game tells you. It’s an open world until you’re in a mission, at which point you’re forced onto a very narrow path. Feels like the developers didn’t want you to think or get creative, they wanted you to control your character as if he’s an actor in a movie performing a role. There’s a single case that I know of where you can successfully go “off-script” but by the time you get there the game will have trained you to strictly follow its orders, so you probably won’t find it.

I don’t know about you, but for me I loved the early hours of the game when money was scarce. I felt like I really had to make decisions between upgrading my ammo pouch, or saving up to buy a varmint rifle so I could get perfect pelts, or upgrading the camp so I could swap horses there. Unfortunately I soon found my first gold bar and sold it for a ton of money, after which money was almost a complete non-factor. If you enjoy games where resources are scarce and you have to make tough decisions, avoid selling high-value items. It’s way too easy to become extremely wealthy. In addition, this ability to get rich quick really clashes with the game’s storyline, creating some noticeable narrative incoherence.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy your time with it. It’s by far the worst game I’ve ever loved.

Dammit I knew proton wasn’t super special I just didn’t want all my eggs in the google basket. I guess I have to move to tuta now but I’ve still got more than a year left on my proton sub

Yeah I watched it in three or four sittings, but only because I had obligations. I absolutely could have sat through all four hours in one go.

Jenny Nicholson’s video about the failed Disney World Star Wars LARP hotel is four hours long and when it’s over you’ll wish it was longer.

did he pee his pants?

There are so many missions where 47 can successfully escape by just leaving the area and walking down the street (or, in at least one case, riding a bike out of the area). 47 is the CEO Eliminator for sure

Since they’re only allowing one keffiyeh per order, anyone know if they will cancel my orders if I wait in the line multiple times to buy multiple keffiyehs? Wanted to buy three as gifts

Serious question: has American Dad been good at any point past its 9th or 10th season? I loved the show up until it moved to TBS, which is apparently around the time one of the showrunners left, but after that the quality drop was very noticeable. I think being on basic cable hurt them because they didn’t have to come up with creative ways to say obscene and vulgar things, they could just say the things. I think the censorship of network tv was making the show funnier.

good to know, I realize now it’s been quite a few years since I’ve used it and I didn’t know that

The best way to see them all for free is annualcreditreport.com. It’s jointly operated by Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion to comply with some federal law that says they each have to give you a free report every year. You only get one of each annually, so if you want to keep tabs on your credit more frequently you can get one now from Experian, wait four months, get one from Equifax, wait four months, get one from TransUnion and repeat.

To be clear, this is the app you’d use on a macbook or imac or whatever they call their desktop computers these days. It’s not the app for iphone or ipad

To me, Biden seemed certain to lose, while with Kamala it could go either way. In no way is she a worse candidate than Biden. I think we should all be deeply invested in Kamala winning the election. Not because I want to see Trump lose, though I do. Not because I want to see Kamala win, which I don’t really. What I want, what I think we all want, is to see Hillary Clinton looking on as another woman becomes the first woman president. Not just that, I want to see Kamala win easily, just to make it clear to Hillary that she, personally, was the problem in 2016. No one thinks Kamala is an impressive candidate, so if her mediocre ass beats Trump with a comfortable margin, it’ll more or less settle the argument as to who was responsible for Trump’s victory.

To be clear, I haven’t lost sight of the fact that a Harris presidency would basically just be the Biden presidency with more awkward laughter. We’re not going to get a good president this time around, or maybe ever. I’m aware that I’m doing something similar to the republican rank-and-file who know their candidates won’t do anything to help them, but will at least make the people they don’t like suffer. We should all be protesting, agitating, and organizing for something better, but with the understanding that organizing is almost certainly not getting us a better candidate this cycle, let’s try and find joy where we can. In this case, in schadenfreude.

and here I was thinking the joke was to give them literal maids or maidens or something

he apparently posted this from the hospital after a seizure, according to his wife

https://x.com/ambercrollo/status/1812866538397139334

sorry for the twitter link i don’t know how to use the alternatives