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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 2d

I have only fully completed the achievements on 8 games total on Steam, and I'd happily have that number be 0 instead

Will @will.bearwaves.com · 2d

Games would be better if they didn't have achievements

I'd rather hear socially about a cool thing you managed to do in a game rather than chasing some arbitrary list the dev came up with under protest

It takes the joy away to turn everything into a checklist of stuff to complete

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 3d

Lasagne's back on the menu, boys

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 3d

Dungeons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and dragons and

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 5d

Like, dude, he was 68 years old when he wrote that

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 5d

I always get so pissed off reading Murakami because he settles you in, the mood is great, vibes immaculate, then he drops some of the creepiest, shallow, over-sexualised trash you've ever read and ruins the whole thing

An excerpt from Killing Commendatore by Murakami: "I also had a feeling akin to fear about women with larger than normal breasts. I don't know if that has anything to do with my sister, or the way her breasts were just beginning to develop when she died. Still, I've always been attracted to women with more modest breasts, and every time I see them, every time I touch them, I remember my sister...
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't sexually interested in my sister. I think I was just looking for a certain type of scene. A finite scene, lost and never to return."

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 6d

Right so can we just acknowledge that white pepper tastes and smells like fertiliser and is NOT a substitute for black pepper.
Always makes me gag

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

You should be buying Legos instead, like a proper adult

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 7d

Filling your room with HP merch and telling people you're a ravenclaw officially became creepy 1 year after you left secondary school which statistically, was at least a decade ago now

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 8d

Imagine cancelling a game because you decided to take seriously the racists who were mad about a black character being in AC Shadows

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 9d

These types of restrictions on voting are not unique to Denmark, but it raises the question for me: what % of a tax-paying, legally resident population can be disenfranchised before it stops being a democracy?

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 9d

Permanent residence for non-EU nationalities takes at least 5 years, with language tests and various other requirements, and anecdotal evidence says that even then it can be denied.
Citizenship? Laughable, people live their whole lives fully integrated into Denmark and are never granted it.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 9d

Hey guys, did you know that more than 9% of voting-age residents of Denmark are disenfranchised? In Copenhagen, closer to 20%. That's because they are not Danish citizens.
Some of them can vote in local elections: only if they are EU citizens, or have had permanent residence for more than 4 years.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 10d

If my son asked me for a job I would send him an automated rejection email

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 10d

While it is absolutely valid to criticise the recipients of nepotism, I think it's vital that we make a conscious effort to demonise their benefactors as well: systematically consolidating power without a thought towards competence

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12d

When people spend time on social media smugly and deliberately making strangers angry for no real reason other than to be pedantic, do they realise that they're destroying all of their own credibility or?

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12d

At this point we've definitely crossed the Streisand threshold, where the Streisand Effect is more well-known as a concept than either Barbara herself, or the thing she did to cause the term to be coined in the first place

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12d

The emotion should, of course, be fury that I didn't invite you to share them

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12d

If you don't have an emotional reaction to this image then I don't know if we can be friends

Some of the crispiest mashed potatoes: imagine crushing them between your teeth, the fluffy interior emerging from their brittle shells

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Bearwaves @bearwaves.com · 12d

It’s the spooky season again, so we’ve put the Halloween skins back in the Feud piece store! Get em while they’re, uh, spooky