omg happy birthday

the facist clown over the ocean shifted the overton window too far and now everyone is hopping to that tune even though they can see how bad it's all falling apart 🙃

tbf bans like this are not about helping anyone, not even the kids. a social media ban for kids does nothing for the profound isolation and alienation that modern life enforces on the kids. they pretty much can't exist in public, where do they go?

it's all about being *seen* to be doing something.

like see what's happening in the UK right now, that's basically the same thing they're gonna implement here

the burden of enforcement will fall on the sites rather than the people, which means we'll likely lose access to a bunch of sites or have our identities stolen bc internet companies have repeatedly shown they can't keep the data secure (and tbh, are probably just selling it)

i really wish that whole plotline had just had a "hey i can afford to pay you. here's the money" option where you could just do the rest of it as sidequests. that would've improved the entire thing a bunch even if there was no fixing taunie/urbain's nepobaby behaviour

i had taunie and i was sick of her shit like a 1/3rd of the way into the game

OH BOY I'M IN DEBT FOR A MILLION DOLLARS. OH WELL! GOOD BYE.

me, standing there with 4 million dollars in my pocket bc i'm making a killing in the royale: ...come back. i can just fucking bail you out ffs--

oh god this would've been so funny 🤣 if only

like i'm being a little mean i actually like that the plot went that way, it's funny when there are consequences for ignoring the result when you settle something with a battle

real

i also love that one plot point where he refuses to concede he is not the strongest mega evolution user and ends up triggering the apocalypse. like buddy i could've told you the person you were looking for half a game ago bc i saw the resemblence the first time you were both in the room +

djkghsd oh no

i mean that's fair i just. i had to do everything. everything. the moment the !s came up i needed to go do them

that being said the fact that they had tutorial content popping up right before endgame was something. buddy you should've taught me about protect/detect 40 levels ago-- /j

i finished the side quests before i finished the plot. watching some of the people on youtube shiny hunting with their maps lit up is like. what. did you even play the game

my response to this would be like "sounds like it isn't, have a nice day" bc i'm mean

i had a split family growing up, and casey was more present in my life than my own bio father. it's honestly devastating to lose him so young (comparitively, grandpa lived into his 90s).

if you read this far, thank you. i love you. take care of yourselves, for me.