when my local friendgroup hit our late 20’s/early 30’s we all metamorphosed into ancient romans and/or redwall characters bc now whenever we have ‘get togethers’ ppl are always bringing over cheeses and crusty breads and cured meats and olives and grapes and ales etc
the ancients were wrong about many things but they were absolutely right about snacking plates
i just think people should be able to navigate difficulties in their personal life without having the threat of homelessness or starvation or destitution hanging over their heads the whole time
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sometimes i just think about Overwatch and just get sad
Like, you drop the most inescapably popular and influential shooter of an entire generation, with a cast overflowing with some of the most instantly iconic characters we’ve ever seen, that captures a fanbase which is so eager to learn about any aspect of these characters that they start willfully lapping up character trailers and ARGs as though those are good forms of storytelling for games in order to get just the vaguest taste of what this world offers,
And then proceed to single-handedly fumble the bag so bad that the primary legacy the game can claim to have is using that promise of a story to bait-and-switch it’s fans into buying an incomplete sequel that was rushed into production because you punished a Hearthstone player for being pro-democracy, being the final needle to pop the e-sports speculator bubble there by financially draining nearly every competitive gaming scene to the brink of bankruptcy (at best), and having indirectly lead to advancements in 3D animation because your game effectively has it’s own category on pornhub. Oh, also, you alienated the director of the game so hard that he leaves the company and seemingly retires from the entire gaming industry.
Only a room full of the most cynical and dollar horny suits imaginable could fuck this up so bad. I’m not even mad at this point. Just saddened on behalf of everyone on the dev team who actually gave a shit and embarrassed on behalf of the lootbox blinded execs who didn’t.
why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs
like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it
Learning languages is SO FUN right up until you need to learn conjugation and then suddenly it turns sour real fucking fast
I have the exact opposite issue where I’m so keyed in to systems and structures that I could probably tell you about Latin conjugations and declensions despite having only barely learned them in high school, but my memory is so bad that I struggle hard with vocabulary and can barely tell you any words in Spanish, a language I spent two years studying in college.
“they should teach media literacy in schools” english class “they should teach students how to spot misinformation” it’s english class “they should teach kids critical thinking” it’s called english class
To be fair, my English classes in school were largely filled with rote reading literature to pass standardized tests and writing essays to pass standardized tests without much teaching of the skills themselves. We also barely learned any grammar ever outside of basically elementary school grammar. Every year teachers would say “you should know this already” or “you’ll learn this next year”.
love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with “what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???” like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking
I’ll never forget the teachers I had growing up who despised “yeah” with a vengeance and absolutely fought with me over its use. Like….. Yeah I still say that though.
