And I get the sense, from a lot of this heckin whimsey sincerity stuff, the strong implication, that there's something *wrong* with me that needs to be *fixed* if I'm not all in on it. That I'm deep down just refusing to choose happiness and light. Yeah, I resent that. No shit.

I'm not a nihilist or a pessimist, but believe me, I remember trying to talk-out and by nice to my cruelest interlocutors and they just interpreted as weakness and doubled down on their cruelty. Deep down I *am* a sentimental sappy dope, but sap tastes phony without a bit of bitter on the palatte

"You just gotta open your third googly eye and embrace silly guy smol bean heckin whimsey! Hug all your problems away! Just choose to be happy and everything will be great and your grandpa will stop being homophobic."

Fuck you, man.

Just finished Everything Everywhere All at Once and in the third act it felt like the movie was pre-emptively lecturing me for not enjoying it's tumblr comic reddit old spice whimiscal sense of humor, or for finding neat-and-tidy mega-happy-endings to feel a bit fake or hollow.

Like cynicism (not at all synonymous with pessimism or nihilism) isn't a healthy response to a world in which sentimentality and naivete aren't constantly weaponized against you by everything from Nigerian Prince Emails and the Greeting Card Industry to big business and fascistic politicians.

Do you even know what sights are?

How do most libs to some extent understand the war on drugs has been a catastrophic failure but in the age of 3D printing they’re like how about we try that again but with magazines and gun frames?

Also laws like permit to purchase or gun insurance is often used as another form of pay walling civil rights into a privilege for the wealthy/well connected which tracks with the history of gun control in our country mostly being rooted in classism & racism.

Beyond Citadel

This is why the only good indie game of last year was made by a mentally insane Japanese man

Every day I wake up and am saddened by Portland not being flattened by a natural disaster or mass firebombing campaign during the night

Not really Seattle, more so Portland

Checking admin chat on discord to find out there's drama from everyone trying to fuck on eachother

What, you didnt want your Discord turning into people meeting and fucking in flyover country?

Time to break your fucking legs with sledgehammers.