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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 1d

Opposite of the He-Man guy at Mattel who took out-of-market tiger tooling and said "Put a fucking saddle on it"

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 1d

Hoes AND opps

Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!

Good ol' Charlie Brown... Yes, sir!

Good ol' Charlie Brown...

How I hate him!

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen enough books and enough social media posts from authors promoting themselves through the valorization of reading that I don't find this controversial at all. Shit, I welcome seeing it

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 3d

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 4d

An artfully presented game can still hold my attention, but there's still an awareness in the back of my head that what I want is for the game to do a better job of lying to me

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 4d

Much of my suspension of disbelief about video games left and never came back once it occurred to me that their main function is providing an artificial sense of accomplishment

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 10d

Abba's music is hella hetero but at least they have lyrics about sad stuff like marital separation and going to work

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 12d

(flipping to the beginning of The Great Gatsby after reading the finishing line) We ARE borne back ceaselessly into the past

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 15d

Your average famous stand-up comedian probably lives in fear of a day in the future when they'll have to cough up a huge cash settlement

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 18d

It may unfortunately be AI-generated. The closest thing I can find to a source is this TikTok, which labels it as such—though I can't tell for sure whether it's an AI-generated extrapolation from a real photo or if the whole thing's fake. www.tiktok.com/@namesurname...

#DakotaJohnson #DakotaJohnsonFans #DakotaJohnsonStyle #FiftyShadesOfGrey #MadameWeb #RedCarpetStyle #FashionIcon 👠🎬💫

TikTok video by Name&Surname

www.tiktok.com

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 18d

I think Sam is referring to the distressed string sound that rises in pitch, holds for a couple of seconds, then keeps repeating. If I have the right cue, that one is heard 1:00 into "Half Speed Orchestra 3 (Windom Earle's Motif)"

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 18d

I know it can be heard briefly as a musical transition in the "Dark Mood Woods/Red Room" track from Twin Peaks Music: Season Two Music and More—I'm not sure where or if it's located in the Archives

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · 22d

Are you comfortable and angry, Gretchen?

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy birthday!

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Sep 3

Self-serious action films are just vehicles for cardio routines that keep beloved actors alive through heart attacks

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 30

Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 29

AIPAC approaches journalism with all the integrity of cartoon characters who tell you how to gamble

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 26

Fucked up considering that grinding, milling, extracting, etc. are technological developments that make nutrient absorption *easier*

We didn't have to "evolve" with the technology to benefit from it. If anything, *we* applied selective pressure on technology to make it suit us

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Be gay all by yourself" is saying more than I think it meant to

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 15

Trevelyan has activated the antenna control console!

Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 14

Took a minute to read Boyne's letter. Ignoring the substance of it for just one moment—he writes like dogshit!

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 14

I may not have the details down perfectly, but I understand that he googled "how to dye clothing" while writing a book; Breath of the Wild has a clothes-dyeing mechanic using different items for different colors that players have documented, and he unthinkingly yanked the results and put them in

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 13

He fixes the cable?

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Inanimate Carbon Ron @sixiestick.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Beatle(s)

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