turboshitnerd asked: no, you're a bright green talking horse from now on
*google image searches for bright green horse to use as new avatar*
turboshitnerd replied to your video “I have drank enough that I am now contractually required to make a…”
man why would that be the only movie you see in a year. i only saw those out of fan obligation, not because i wanted to see a good movie. there must have been better movies around then
For some reason I saw all the Harry Potter movies in theaters. I don’t see many movies in theaters and usually what drags me out to them is the sense that they’ll look cool in a way that will make the big screen worth it. And with Harry Potter I figured I had to see all of the movies after the fourth one eventually, because I hadn’t read the books, and I had to at least get a Cliff’s Notes version of this thing that was a formative cultural experience for my generation. So the combination of “it’ll look cool” and “I’ll have to see it anyway” was enough to make me see the HP movies whenever they came out, I guess
turboshitnerd asked: i know on the whole the post/argument wasnt really about this, but being like "people say its because we're racist/sexist but my friends Aren't Like That!" isn't very helpful coming from a straight white guy who probably hasn't really taken the time to read or understand the literature on "social justice" so to speak... like... for instance, it's totally possible that you and your science friends are probably casually racist/sexist and you don't know that "counts" as racism/sexism
It’s true, although at the same time I can’t really blaming someone for wanting to prove that they and their friends are less rather than more evil. I mean, wanting it doesn’t make it true, but it’s an understandable thing to want, especially given that most people feel like their friends are very much not evil
(I sometimes have to remind myself of stuff like this, because I have this particular thing where I have a low enough opinion of myself a lot of the time that I kind of like being told negative things about myself because it’s like “oh, you think I suck too? Great, we agree! We have so much in common!” But in perspective, this is not a universal trait, nor one I should necessarily try to encourage)
THIS LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS FROM THE 80’S AND 90’S ADS THAT TEREZI WAS ALWAYS DRAWING OVER
you are not the only one to have thought so, friend
turboshitnerd replied to your post:I think one of the best examples of something getting the weirdness thing right, where it doesnt feel forced at all, is probably EarthBound and I think the key is that it has its own internal logic apart from “boy, isn’t this weird”? like, the whole thing is the western world as seen through the eyes of the east and then even further distorted through the eyes of a child
You need to finish that game, it’s worth it. I mean I technically only got up to the boss then gave up and watched the ending on youtube but… *shrugs*
I think the reason I’ve never gone back to it is that I remember it being really frustratingly difficult. But that’s probably just because I was really bad at RPGs when I was a kid.
(I remember there was one boss in Chrono Cross who I must have fought something like 100 times before beating, which I imagine was not the intended or typical experience. I think that game made it hard to be “underlevelled” per se but I must have been doing something very wrong)
turboshitnerd asked: i dont follow anyone in that group so i dont know for sure but i dont feel like the intent is to actually pressure any specific cis men into identifying differently to be part of the Cool Club, but just trying to send encouragement to people who might benefit from it but havent thought about gender stuff before. but i know that you being you thats not so easy to ignore esp. considering how the posts are worded at times. but i dont think they would want you to feel PRESSURED.
That may not be the intention but I think if you followed these people you’d see what I mean?
Because you follow them for other reasons and then you see what feel like 50 posts a day about “men are shit! it’s really easy not to be shit! just don’t be a man! it’s so easy! [random male celebrity] should decide not to be a man! why would you ever be a man when it’s so easy to not be one and instantly become wonderful instead of shit!”
It’s the incessantness of this, not even any one of the posts. One gets the message within a few days or something but then the posts just keep COMING. I can’t really convey what this is like if you haven’t followed the people in question. Part of this is me being me but part of it is also them being them
What are its effects?
I talked about that a bit here – anti-anxiety in lower doses, puts you to sleep in higher doses (it doesn’t do either for me anymore because I have a tolerance, I just feel really anxious and unhappy if I stop taking it)
turboshitnerd replied to your post: If you didn’t think “guy who writes gi…
every blogging persona you have is “guy who writes giant boring walls of text” (JK I LOVE YOU AND YOUR TEXT WALLS)
To be completely honest I think this is part of why I dislike text messaging: I type slowly on the phone and that makes it hard to be as long-winded as I naturally am
(Also part of why I hate twitter of course)
i just realized one of your tags doesnt track properly cause it has a hyphen in it. that has nothing to do with this post
I realized that a while ago but haven’t really wanted to change it because it wouldn’t solve the problem of all the old posts that still wouldn’t track
It’s a shame :/
turboshitnerd replied to your post: While I’ve still got an excuse to Darg…
Oh, I didn’t realize you were the one who made the “three years of Homestuck in five minutes” video, I like that one
Yep! Part of the motivation for making that video – beyond the fact that I really did want to see what it would look like to use the frames as an animation – was that I wanted to inflict on many other people my intense, semi-arbitrary association between Homestuck and “The Walk.” In this, I seem to have succeeded
(I listened to that song on repeat almost unbrokenly through both reads of HS, and it has 531 plays in iTunes as a consequence. Some of it is doubtlessly just the power of association but there are a lot of things about it that work well as an HS song, like the feel of a methodical mechanical build toward some sort of chaotic breakdown, or the lyrics about falling in love against your best judgment which seems to mirror a lot of people’s experience reading HS at first. The latter segments of the song also have this great kind of feeling of resigned inevitability that really fits Act 5 well.)
(About half of the Youtube commenters who weigh in on the issue seem to agree with me, and the other half post some “recommendation” about muting the audio and putting on some other song they like to “fix” the video, which is kind of rude but what do I expect from Youtube commenters)